Entomological News

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OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

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VOLUME III, 1892

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVJSORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. Bi AKI .

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALM K i

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' PHILADELPHIA .
ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIEN
LOGAN SQUARE.

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INDEX TO VOLUME III.

GENERAL ENTOMOLOGY.

Abundance of insects . . 16, 17
Agricultural Exper't Sta'ns. . 152
Alaska, insects in . . 74, 139, 256

Analytic Keys 121

Angus Collection . . . . 60, 97

Cholera and flies 210

Colorado, Ento'y of 136, 202, 246

Deformities 166

Doings of Societies 22, 47, 72, 103,

128, 164, 190, 239.
Economic Entomology 97, 119, 122,

123, 152, iSr, 206, 209, 229, 261.
Editorials 41, 93,95, 118, 152, 165,

179, 205, 228, 260.

Edwards (Hy.) Collection . . 62

Entomological Literature 19, 42, 64,

71, 98, 123, 157, 183, 212, 235, 265.

Greenland, insects in . . . . 263

Incidents of work 119

Jamesburg, N. J., insects at. . 36

Mailing insects 41

Mexico, entomologizing in in, 131

Migration 234

Mimicry 208, 233

Mt. Washington, Ent'g on 232, 243
Newspaper Entomology . .120
Notes and News 15, 38, 60, 93, 119

154, 180, 209, 232, 263.
Obituary.

Bates, H. W 72

Bunker, R 104

Hurmeister, H. C. C. ." . .191

Dohrn, C. A 192

Resistance to cyanide . . . 16

Variation 25

Winter insects 40

ARACHNIDA.

Atypidce 147

New N. Am. species 163, 216,

Theraphosida- 147

Tholyphonus giganteus ... 47

COLEOPTERA.

Aspathinns ovatus 24

Hei'ibidinm, To collect . . .155
Blapstinus coronadensis n. sp. 242
Jj ruth us alhoscntellatns . . . 253
California, C. of . . . i^.jii
Carabus neinora/is .... 60

Cicindcla 25

Coccinellida; in California . . 143
Cazliodes acephalics .... 253
•Corymbites ll'cidtii \\. sp. .
Crioceris iz-punctatus . . .207

Cychrus 6, 61

Dorcas parallelus 73

Eleodes inter nipla n. sp. . .241
A'/w/.v colitmbiensis n. sp. . . s.j
Jamesburg, N. J., C. at . . . 37

Leplinns testaceus 96

Macrodactylus subspinosns 122, 156

Mianis hispiduliis 25,;

New N. Am. species 12, 13, 21, 46,

51, 70, 84, 102, 127, 163, 189, 241,

268.

l\ he .\-tdins ii

A'. intiTineiiins n. sp. . . . 13
R. trogasteroidesn. sp. . . . 12

Rose chafer 122.

Seym nns lophanllue n. sp. . . 51
Strawberry weevil .... 262

T/ii>iol>ii<s u. sp -"51

Time of flight of Scarabaeids . -M

f 7/i s /a/n.^ n. sp

of • olor markings .

DIPTERA.
vanderwulpi &, s|>.

11

INDEX.

Atrophopalpus n. gen. . . .130
A. angusticornis n. sp. . . - 131
Blepharipcza nigrisquamis n.

sp So

Cholera and flies 210

Criorhinia coquilletti n. sp. . 145
Dalinaunia ritiosa n. sp. . . 150
Deformities in Tachinidse . .166
Gastrophilns iiasalis .... 227
Hcematobia serrata .... 206

Horn fly 206, 261

Jamesburg, N. J., D. at . . . 37
Loewia globosa n. sp. . . . 129
Merisns in Eur. and Am. . . 97
Miltogramma decisa n. sp. . Si
Myothyria vanderwitlpi n. sp. 131
New N. Am. species 47, 69, So, 102,

127, 129, 146, 163, 189, 216, 239,

268.
Pachyophthahnls floridensis n.

sp So

Pseudohystricia e.vilis n. sp. . 146
Syrphidce, synonymy of . . . 145
Tachinida;, New N. A. 80, 129, 146

Throat bot 227

Trichobins ditgesii .... 177

HEMIPTERA.

Acanthia pipistrelli .... 154

Centrodontus n. gen 201

Efticocephalus schwarziin, sp. 191

Gargara atlas n. sp no

Jamaica, H. from 59

Membracidas, Studies in N. A.

108, 200.
New N. Am. species 102, 108, 163,

189, 191, 200, 239.

Platycotis niinax n. sp. . . . 109
J'otnia usixfa/is n. sp. . . .no
Pnbli/ia Incinctura n. sp. . . 200
Stictocephala gillettei n. sp. . 108
Stictofn-lta niannorata n. sp. . 201

S. nova n. sp no

Telanioiia rilcyi \\. sp. . . .108

HYMENOPTERA.

Amniophila gryplnis .... 47

Animophila, Habits of ... 85

Andricus celliihirins n. sp. . . 247

A.frequens n. sp 247

Aiithophora 61

Ants, Slave-making . . . .178

Ant, strength of 259

Astiphroninia pectoralis n. sp. 107

Bombus fervidus 181

Crabro excavatus n. sp. . . . 10

C. nitidinervis n. sp 9

Cynipidas, Colorado .... 246

Cynips Q-globulus 104

Formicidse from Jamaica . . 226

Fossorial H., new 170

Hexaplasta zigzag . . . 61

Jamaica, Formicidae from . . 226

Jamesburg, N. J., H. at . . . 36

Larradas 89, 138

Larropsis n. gen 90

Liris cox alls n. sp. . . . 90, 138
New N. Am. species 9, 22, 29, 47,

69, 90. 104, 107, 127, 163, 170, 189.

197, 216, 239, 247.

Odynerns aidrichi n. sp. . . 197

Ophionids, Two new .... 105

Plan iccps p/a>ia tus n. sp. . . 171
Plesiophthalmus paniscoides n.

sp 107

Pseudagenia blaisdelli n. sp. . 171

Slave-making ants 178

Sph<zrophthalmus antliracina

n. sp 172

Sphc.v ( Priononyx) fcmtgi-

neits n. sp 170

Tachytes 263

Thynniis ccilifornicus n. sp. . 104

Xy/ocopa, Calif, species of . . 17

7. t- thus s lo s son cr n. sp. . . . 29

LEPIDOPTERA.

Adirondacks, L. of .... 87

Africa, new Xeptis from . . 24*

Anthocharis gknutia .... 240

. li»i n. gi'ii 258

. /. noctitifornns n. sp. . . . 258

. \rclia iiihu'ii n. sp 257

.... 218

JNDEX.

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A. charic/ca 49

Arkansas L 13

Arzama obliquata larva . 195, 217

Attacus cynthia, Intrd. in U. S. 193

( \illimorpha 52

Calocampa briicei n. sp. . . . 252

Calosaturnia mendocino . . 165

Calpodes ethlins 78

Catocala insolabilis .... 180

C. near Pittsburg, Pa. ... 168

Cithcronia scpnlcralis . 165, 232

Colias hecla 49

•Cossus brucei 165

Crambidia pallida 245

Danais archippus, swarms of . 234

Dasychira gronlandica ... 49

Datana ininisira 129

Drasteria erichto 63

Elementary Entomology 35, 53, 82,

114, 172, 198, 220.

Elliot Collection 97

Erebia. soft a 255

Erebus odor a 16

Felder Collection 154

Franconia, N. H., L. of . . . 155 ;

dlorcria ari~onensis .... 165

G/itp/iisia quinquelinea n. sp. . 158

G rapta v-albnm 239

Gunning for butterflies . . .211

Hulst Collection 38

Hydrcecia media/is, senilis,

nniuioda n. sp 251

Hyperchiria painina .... 165

H. zcphyrea 165

Hypoprcpia niiniafa .... 246

lihthyura bifiria 5

Is a fcxinla I

Larva hunting in Winter. 195, 217

Limacodidae i, 38, 62

Liincnitis arthcinis .... 17

Lotna sayi 23

Long-lived basket maker, A . 49

Lophopteryx elegans .... iSo

Mameslra fuscolutea n. sp. . 250

Mclitara dcntata, eggs of . . 208

Mimicry in moths 233

pha initchellii ... 49

biafra n. var. cuntin-

nata 249

A', uit'hriiira, ini.vophyt's, ni('n-

bule n. sp 249

New N. Am. species 22, 46, 69, KO.

158, 162, 174, 1 88, 216, 222, 250.
Nociua flavotincla n. sp. . . 252
Noctuidae, synonyms of . . . 16

Oiketicus abbotii 49

Oncocnemis in Colorado . . 136

O. extranea n. sp 251

O. nigrocaput n. sp 250

Pachylia Jicus, larva .... 4

Patnphila aaroiii 49

Carolina n. sp 222

errans n. sp. . . . 174, 175
leonardns n. sp. . . 209, 240

viaiiataaqiia 77

massasoit var. suffiisa . . 15

zabnlon 49

Papilio cresphontes .... 240

mylotes 105

polydainas 105

sinon 105

rcridroma nigra \\. sp. . . . 252
rieronia apposita n. sp. . . . 252
Protoparce cingulata . . . .217
Ptcrophora inclshciincrii . . i^
/ \ntiiifis a fa/a a fa . . . .232
l\ancora slrigata n. sp. . . . 25.;

Sphinx rustic a 193

Suggestions to Lepidopterists . 121
Thymelicus poweshiek . . . 232
Yentuivsonu.- Initterllics . 232, 264
Vosemitt.', coll. butt«:rt]u-s in .

MYRIAPODA.

Nc\v X. Am. spt-cii-s ....

NEUROPTERA.

Albania colKvtioii ....
Nc\\- N. Am. species . <><>. i
Odonata of Maiiu- . . . 8, 91,
" of Massarlui-ii-Us .

I \intala liytnauca

IVathcmis triniacii/afa . . .

Sonmtochlora r.'./AV/// . . ,

Tetragoneuria cynosura . . .

IV

White ants, Ravages of . .

ORTHOPTERA.

Crickets, oviposition of . 261

Mantis Carolina 47

New N. Am. species . .69, 189
()(-canthns, species of ... 33
Orc/ic/iiniiin, change of name in 264

THYSANURA.

Smynthurusb-maculatan.sv. . 169
Tcmplclonia anicricana n. sp. . 57

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOL. III.

Aaron, C. 15., . . .264

Aaron, S. F., 4°

Ashmead, W. H., 105

Banks, N., . . • J47

Bergroth, E ]54

Blaisdell, F. E., . 51, '43- 24'
Blatchley, W. S., . . . m, 131

Brendel, E., l J

Bruce. D., l6, ^6

Bruner, L, . . . • ... 264
Calvert, P. P. (see 228), . . 264
Cockerell, T. D. A., . . 4, 78, 202

Coquillett. D. W., 150

Daggett, F. S., i?

Dunnington, F. P. 259

Dyar, H. G., 5, 3°. 62' l68> J75, 180,

245-

Ehrman, G. A., 168

Fisher, E. R., 209

Fox, W. J., 9, 17, 36, 59, ^S, 170,

i S3, 197, 226.

Gillette, C. P 246

Coding, F. W., . . . 108, 200
Hamilton, J., . . %. . . .253

Hart, C. A., 33

Harvey, F. 1 57, 91, Il6> l69

Hitchings, E. F., . . . . 39
1 1. .Hand, \Y. I-, 248

INDEX.

• 233

Horn, G. H., . . . 25, 60, 73
Johnson, C. W., . . . -37-59
Kellicott, D. S., . . . 18, 123

Kellicott, W. E. iSo

Kunze, R. E., . 97, i95> 217, 263
Laurent, P., . . . . 15, 37, 77

Mason, J. T 52

McKnight, C. S., . . 87

McLachlan, R., . . . 259

Mofifat, J. A., . 1 6

Morse, A. P., 121

Morton, Miss E. L., i

Neumoegen, B. 258

Nolan, E. J 195

Ottolengui, R.., . . 223, 232. 243.
Patton, W. H., 61, 89, 97, 104, 181

Pilate, G. R., 209

Robertson, C., . . . . . 263
Rowley, R. R., . . 13

Ryder, J. A., ... 210

Sharp. Miss A. M., . ,120

Skinner, H 174-222

Slingerland, M. V., 63

Slosson, Mrs. A. T., . 49- J55- 257
Smith, J. B., 1 6, 35, 38, 53, 62, 82,

94, 114, 156, 172, 198, 206, 220,

229, 250, 261.

Strecker, H., ... 39, 2l8, 255
Troop,].,. • 122

Tough, J., -63

Townsend, C. H. T., 71, 80, 129,

146, 1 66, 177, 227, 234.
\Yadsworth, Miss M.,
Walton, L. B., . . . 155

Webster, F. M 232, 234

Weed, H. E., . . . .119
\\Vnx.el, H. W., . 61

Wickham, H. F., . . 6, 139, 256
Willard, H. G., . . 232
Williston, S. W., . . -85, [45
Wright, \Y. G., 74

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. JANUARY, 1892. No. i.

CONTENTS:

Morton — Notes from New Windsor i

Cockerell — Note on the Larva of Pa-

chilia ficus 4

Dyar — Preparatory stages of Ichthyura

bifiria 5

Wickham — Note on Cychrus 6

Wadsworth — Second Additions and

Corrections to the list of Dragonflies 8

Fox — Hymenopterological Notes 9

Brendel — Rhexidius n

Rowley — Notes on Ark. Lepidoptera.... 13

Notes and News 15

Entomological Literature 19

Doings of Societies 22

NOTES FROM NEW WINDSOR.

EMILY L. MORTON, New Windsor, N. Y.
ISA TEXTULA H.-S.

Reading the last number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (October)
I noticed a short paragraph by Mr. Dyar on the genus Isa. Dr.
A. S. Packard having identified a small Limacodes for me as Isa
textula, and as the moth seems but little known, I have written
•a short account of the species, which I have raised from the eggs
and back again through all its changes.

Isa textula is a small moth nine-tenths of an inch in expanse,
of a very satiny texture, with long fringes to all the wings, the
color a pale wood color as light as white pine; on some specimens
there is a faint indication of a t. p. and t. a. line broken and ex-
tending only half across the forewings, but in many specimens
this is entirely wanting. The eggs are laid singly, scattered
about, and, like most of the Limacodes eggs which I have seen,
are without form, looking like tiny drops of gelatine, or coagu-
lated dew, invisible to the naked eye on the leaves, but on white
paper having a slightly yellowish tinge, increasing with the growth
of the larva within, but nothing more than a tiny, irregular shin-
ing speck on the leaves, and hatch in from eight to ten days.

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The young larva when first hatched are also almost invisible,
and, even after the first moult, look only like a small, colorless
aphis on the leaf. The third moult shows a lilac mark in the
centre of the dorsum increasing with the growth, until the last
moult, when it resembles a rude maltese cross, of a pinkish or
purplish brown, surrounded by a yellow border with a central
square dot on the elipse-shaped pea-green larva.

The food-plants are the chestnuts, both horse and Castania,
visca, English and wild cherry, oak, basswood, and probably
other trees, as most of the Limacodes are very general feeders.
On wild cherry the larvae take from eight to ten weeks to come
to their growth; on chestnut a somewhat shorter period, but it
depends on what may be the heat or cold more than the food-
plant. I have usually fed the larva on wild cherry, as it is not
infested with aphides, and during the long period of growth from
egg to cocoon it does not require so much time and attention to
keep the food-plant clean and sweet. The larvae spin their co-
coons about September 5th to 2oth, a small, roundish, brown,
pod-like cocoon, with the usual lid of the Limacodes, and the
moths hatch the following season from the 8th to the 25th of July,
almost always in the afternoon, and remain hanging from the lid
or side of the cage, until between half past eight or nine o'clock
in the evening, when the males begin to seek their mates. Isa
textula hangs with its abdomen curled over its back after the
manner of Pterophora diversilineata.

Reading recently a number of the English monthly, " The En-
tomologist's Record," I was greatly interested in an account of
"assembling," and never having seen the process described be-
fore in any of our journals, I will describe my method, which I
hope may prove of interest, as the habits of the Limacodes seem
to be so little known. I use a large gauze-wire cage about 20 x
15 inches, and 1 8 or 20 inches high, a door in the front and back,
and painted a dark red or green, and place the newly-hatched
female textula therein. About 8.30 P.M. I station myself by the
cage with a glass tumbler and piece of pasteboard and watch for
the males to come. If the Limacodes is a common one, like E.
stimulea, P. fraterna, or .S. inornata, there will usually be a score
or more of males suddenly appearing, fluttering about the cage,
always settling on the top or side, where the 9 is resting, hust-
ling each other with their wings and endeavoring to reach the

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

coveted 9 inside the gauze. Now, if you want specimens, y<>u
catch them by putting the tumbler over them slipping the paste-
board under and transfer them to the cyanide bottle, but if you
want fertile eggs you shake the males from the glass into the
cage by the door opposite the lightest part of the horizon. After
the female has once paired no more males will be attracted, so
you must make up your mind beforehand whether it is specimens
or eggs you most desire. I never use a light if breeding is my
object, as there are scarcely any moths that will mate where a
light is used; this is the reason the cage is painted a dark color,
as you can see even in a very dim light the pale colored wings
of the tiny males as they flutter around and over the dark gauze.
Isa textula is a rare moth here, and I have rarely seen more than
three males attracted in one evening; a dark, still, warm evening
is always better for assembling, but even if it blows quite freshly
some of the Limacodes will be attracted provided your cage is a
little sheltered by trees or shrubbery, on the side from which the
wind is coming. With some of the Bombycidae and Sphingidae,
you may keep your cage in the house; in an open window, but I
have never had any success with the Limacodes unless the cage
was in an open space away from the house. I do not see how
Sisyrosea inornata, however small, could ever be mistaken for
Isa texhda, being a very differently constructed Limacodes, a
very much slenderer and lighter built insect, the thorax only one-
tenth of an inch across while in inornata it measures half as much
again, and the abdomen of inornata is fully twice the size of that
of textula. I think it probable / textula has been confounded
with Limacodes flexuosa, but Dr. Packard has also identified tliis
for me, and my specimens are darker colored with shorter fringes,
narrower wings, the primaries more produced at the apex, espe-
cially in the 9 . The larva of S. inornata, Dr. Packard says in
his "Forest Insects," was first described in the Harris Corre-
spondence; it is one of the most beautiful of the Limacodes, but
though I have repeatedly had the eggs from captive frmak-s, I
have never yet succeeded in rearing more than two or three Ian .1
back again to the pupa. I, however, know its whole history, and
will some day write it out for the readers of K\ i o.\tm.o<;irAi.
NEWS. The larva bears not the slightest resemblance to that of
Isa textula.

4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Note on the Larva of Pachylia ficus (L.)

By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Kingston, Jamaica.

Pachylia ficus (Linn.) — Length about So mm. Head shiny jet-black,
except the mouth parts, which are pale greenish. Thoracic shield dull
black; the short caudal horn and the anal plates are black. Spiracles
blackish. Body: back dull red, sides and under part dull pale bluish
green, the two colors sharply denned; with a pale red longitudinal line
near the lower edge of the red color on each side. On each of the last
eight segments is an obscure narrow whitish oblique line on the green
sides, crossing the spiracles. Legs pale bluish green, like the underside;
sides of body wrinkled.

Food-plant, Ficus sp.

Described from a mature specimen about to pupate, found in
Kingston, July 21, 1891. The moth emerged August i3th.
Another mature larva, also found in Kingston, was brought to
me by Anna Ashburn on the 2d of September.

The larva of this species is glaucous-green, whitish above, with
a narrow yellow stripe on each side; until shortly before it changes
to a pupa, when it assumes the very different coloration described
above. This change of color is almost certainly protective, the
red back being less conspicuous than whitish or green, as the
larva crawls about in search of a suitable spot to pupate in.

In Weismann's "Studies in the Theory of Descent," p. 232,
there is a foot-note by Prof. Meldola, in which this change is de-
scribed from Burmeister. This account does not quite agree with
the Jamaica larva, and if in South America the larva really changes
after the third stage, and lives on the tree and feeds after assum-
ing the red coloration, it apparently affords an instance in which
a phase of color has arisen as protective at larval maturity, and
has become so strong in the organization of the insect as to ap-
pear in some districts earlier in the life of the larva than is actually
of use. It would be a curious case if it could be shown that this
character had first appeared as useful, and had at length become
injurious by reason of its excessive development! However, it
is not so in Jamaica, and if the account of Burmeister' s larva is
correct, it may still be that there are some special conditions of
environment in the district where it was found, that render the
red useful not only at pupating time, but also on the tree. This
might be the case, for example, if it fed on a tree whose leaves
turned red at a certain time.

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PREPARATORY STAGES OF ICHTHYURA BIFIRIA Hy. Echv.
By HARRISON G. DYAR, New York.

Egg. — Hemispherical or slightly conoidal, the base flat, but
rounded at its edges; smooth under a lens, but under the micro-
scope, covered with numerous, crowded, shallow depressions,
which form by their edges narrow, roundedly, hexagonal reticu-
lations. The color is dark gray before the egg hatches. Diam-
eter 7 mm.

First stage. — Head shining black, labrum pale; width 35 mm.
Body slightly flattened, whitish, cervical shield black; a few pale
hairs; joints 5 and 12 are slightly enlarged dorsally; the lateral
region, and joints 5, 7 and 12 dorsally are wine-red. Thoracic
feet large, pale; the abdominal normal, all used in walking.
Length 2.5 mm. The larva hatches by eating a round hole in
the vertex of the egg, leaving the rest of the shell untouched.
It lives, singly, in a shelter constructed by spinning two or more
leaves together.

Second stage. — Head black and shining, the central suture
deep; width 6.5 mm. Body flattened, pale whitish yellow, with
narrow triplicate dorsal, and very broad lateral bands of dull
wine color, as are also the humps on joints 5 and 12. Cervical
shield and anal plate black; venter dull greenish; legs black.

Third stage. — Head flat in front, slightly bilobed, brownish
black, but paler centrally around the clypeus; a few dark hairs;
width 1.4 mm. Body pale yellow, joints 5 and 12 a trifle dorsal
line, broad lateral and confused triple subventral lines, all dark
brown. Cervical shield and anal plate blackish; scattered pale
hairs arise from smooth, low, round tubercles, concolorous with
the markings.

Fourth stage. — Head pale brown, shaded with black in Inmt;
jaws and ocelli black; a white shade on each side of the clyprus;
width 2.6 mm. Body as before, but the lateral band is faintly
divided by a double yellowish line, and joint 13 is nearly all
yellowish. The round, smooth, piliferous tubercles are distinctly
yellow in the yellow markings. Cervical shield small, bisrctol.
pale brown; anal plate not distinguishable. Hair whitish, l>»th
from body and head. As the stage advances the colors become
quite pale, and the appearance is much chun^-d; humps (.11
joints 5 and 12 very slight, dark purple. <'.n>und color \\luti-h

6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

gray, becoming pale purple, a triplicate dark purple dorsal line,
the central one most distinct, the others broader and diffuse. All
these lines are more or less broken into mottlings. A similar
stigma tal line with some purple mottlings subventrally; venter
paler; spiracles black. The piliferous tubercles are normal in
arrangement, much as the warts in Halesidota, row (4) small,
posteriorly to the spiracles, row (7) apparently absent. The head
is held out flat, as in Gluphisia.

Cocoon. — Composed of several leaves spun together and lined
with threads.

Pupa. — Nearly cylindrical, flattened a little ventrally, gradually
tapering posteriorly, but of nearly even width, no part enlarged;
last abdominal segments rounded, cremaster long and slender,
terminating in a knob that, under the microscope, is seen to con-
sist of a row of radiating, strongly recurved hooks, which hold
firmly to the silk of the cocoon. Color dark red-brown, the
thorax and cases nearly black. Length n mm.; width 3.5 mm.

Food-plant. — Willow (Salix').

Larvae from Yosemite Valley, Cal. These larvae had but four
stages, and there are two broods in a year.

Ichthyura bifiria, as well as / brucei Hy. Edw. , must come
very near to /. vau Fitch, if they are not merely western forms
of it, but the larva of / van is still unknown, so that it is impos-
sible to compare the early stages.

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A NOTE ON CYCHRUS.

By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa.

' ' Arizona has not, to my knowledge, furnished even a speci-
men of Cychride;" (Dr. Horn, in Notes on the Biologia Cen-
trali-Americana, monthly Proc. of Ent. Sec. A. N. S. June,
1886, p. ix.) During the Summer of 1890, while in the Final
Mountains, about eighty miles from Tucson, my friend and com-
panion, Dr. E. D. Peters, took four or five specimens of a Cy-
chrns (^Scaphinotus), which I thought to be Snowii Lee., near a
little spring. Later in the day a search by myself resulted in the
finding of another specimen.

Our knowledge of the distribution of Cychrns has been won-
derfully extended during the thirteen years that had elapsed since

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the publication by Dr. Horn of his Synopsis in the " Transactions
of the American Entomological Society." At that time but three
species of the division Sphtzroderus were known, all from the
Atlantic region, none of them ranging farther south than North
Carolina. Since then the labors of Mr. Ricksecker have re-
sulted in the discovery of two more species (relictus and regu-
laris) from the Spokane River region of Washington, both ot
these having been also taken by myself at Cceur d'Alene, Idaho,
in company with the third western species only lately described
by Dr. Horn (" Ent. Am." vol. vi, p. 71) as Merkelii. This
shows Sph&roderus to be northern rather than northeastern in its
distribution, an equal number of species having been found on
each side of the continent, "none, however, being southern forms.

Scaphinotus, as is shown by the first paragraph, extends into
Arizona besides covering in its distribution the region assigned
to it by Dr. Horn, in his paper cited, from New York south to
North Carolina and thence west to Colorado a range afterwards
extended some distance southwards by the discovery of C.
{Scaphinotus} Snowii in New Mexico.

Doubtless, the division Pemphus will remain characteristic of
the north Pacific coast fauna, though Brennus supposed, until
lately, to be confined to the coast fauna proper, has been shown
by me (ENT. NEWS, vol. i, p. 33) to inhabit parts of Montana.
The species recorded, C. marginatus, has heretofore been reported
only from the stretch of coast from Oregon to Alaska, and its
occurrence in Montana is of great interest, adding, as it does,
another species to those common to the great central chain ol
mountains and the far north. During the glacial epoch, or ju-t
following it, this species probably inhabited the stretch of country
from the Rockies to the coast, but the gradual northward retreat
of the face of the glaciated area so changed the climate of this
intervening region that marginatus was unable to retain its place.
The Montana form already shows some minor differences from
those found on the coast, and only time seems needed to dillrr-
entiate it as a distinct species.

Until the discovery of C. Rickseckeri, the species of Cychrus
proper were limited in our fauna to two strictly Pacific forms,
angitlatus and tuberculatus, and one from Utah, C. Hcmphillii;
but the first-mentioned insect is reported by Mr. Ricksrckrr, in
a letter to me, to occur as far east as Clark's Ford, Mont. , though

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I believe the centre of its distribution to be the Cceur d'Alene
district of Idaho, where I took it on my visit in 1889. C. tuber-
culatus, reported from Vancouver Island, occurs also in the main-
land at Portland, Oreg. , and Tacoma, Wash., but is still rare.

A perusal of these lines will show that in this genus every one
of the divisions, except Pemphus, which contains but a single
species, has been found to have a distribution much wider than
that known to science when last written up, and I await further
developments with a great deal of interest. Cannot some of the
readers of ENT. NEWS furnish -us with more notes on geographical
distribution ? Too little attention seems to have been paid this
part of our science, and it is something in which every one can

help.

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Second Additions and Corrections to the list of Dragonflies
(Odonata) of Manchester, Kennebec County, Maine.

BY MISS MATTIE WADSWORTH.
(See ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, vol. i, pp. 36, 55, and vol. ii, p. n.)
5a. Amphiagrion saucium Burm.

1891, June 24, one 9 in road.
6c. Enallag-ma cyathigerum Charp. race annexum Hag.

1891, June 1 6, one $ in meadow.
6d. Enallagma exsulans Hag.

1891, June 26, one £ near Lake Cobbosseecontee.
6e. Nehalennia Irene Hag.

1891, June 9, one 9 in road, near meadow; June 15, three
9 9 in woods; June 19, one 9 in woods.
24a. Macromia illinoiensis Walsh.

1891, July 10, one 9 near brook.

32. This species called " Cordulia cynosura variety," in vol. ii, p. 11, is C.

(Tetragoneuria) spinigera Selys.

All taken in 1891 have been identified, as all others have been,
by Mr. PhiHp P. Calvert, of Philadelphia.

During the seasons of 1890 and 1891, additional specimens
have been taken of several species noted as quite rare in the pre-
ceding lists. These are mentioned below.
6n. Enallagma ebrium Hag.

1891, June 16, two £ £ in meadow.
66. Enallagma civile Hag.
1891, June 26, two $ 1 , one 9 near Lake Cobbosseecontee.

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13. JEschna (Basiaeschna) Janata Say.

1890, June 21, one £ taken near brook. 1891, June 5 to 15,
seven 9 9 . six £ £ taken near woods; June 15, a & devouring
a 9 GompJms exilis was taken.

17. Gomphus parvulus Selys.

1891, June 25, one 9 near brook.

25. Epitheca (Somatochlora) Walshii Scud.

1891, July 30, one £ in meadow near brook; August 5, one
seen flying.

26. Epitheca (Somatochlora) forcipata Scud.

1890, Aug. 14, one £ in meadow.

28. Cordulia (Somatochlora) lepida Selys.

1891, June, one £ ; June 26, one 9 by roadside.

29. Cordulia (Somatochlora) libera Selys.

1890, June 19, one £ in woods. 1891, June 5 to 30, quite
common in and near woods.

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HYMENOPTEROLOGICAL NOTES.-H.

By WM. J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

Crabro nitidiventris n. sp.

9. — Black, shining; first two joints of the antennae entirely, line on pro-
thorax above, broadest laterally, tubercles, an elongated spot behind them,
dot on tegulze, spot at base of wing, line on the basal half of the scutel-
lum, two transverse spots on the upper surface of the metathorax, the
apex of anterior and medial femora, the tibiae and tarsi, and a large
macula on each side of segments 2-5, all yellow, the extreme apex of the
posterior tibiae and the apical tarsal joints, brownish. Head quadrate;
clypeus, front behind the antennae, and the posterior orbits witli bright
silvery pubescence, most dense on the former; head clothed with pale
fuscous hairs, finely and sparsely punctured, the punctures on the cheeks
very delicate, strongest on the front; vertex depressed, with a stn.n-,
pear-shaped pit on each side near the top of inner eye margin; trtmtal
impressed line deep; clypeus feebly carinated medially, the anterior m.ir-
gin armed with three teeth, which are widely separated; apical halt of
mandibles ferrugineus, the apex bidentate; scape of antenna- narrow
longer than the first three joints of the flagellum united, second joint ,.|
the flagellum nearly three times as long as the preceding one, and about
two and a half times longer than the succeeding one. Thorax aiul
sparsely clothed with pale fuscous pubescence, pertaining t« i sih ery 01
pleurae and pectus; the thorax with fine, separated punctures, very line on
the pleura;; prothorax slightly emarginate above; postscutellum part.
by an impressed line; metathorax with two transverse enclosures on the

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upper surface, the medial sulcus very strongly marked, and is deepest
basally and on the posterior face, all the sulci marked with strong fovese,
the posterior face with the lateral edges marked with a series of rugae,
before the apex there are several very strong, transverse striae; the top
of the metapleurce marked by a series of strong foveae, which form an
angle at about the middle; wings hyaline, tinged with brownish along the
costa, nervures brown, the stigma black. Abdomen glabrous, sparsely
clothed with pale fuscous hairs, most dense beneath and on segments 4-
6 above; last segment above with a longitudinal, medial carina, which
does not extend beyond the middle. Length n — 12 mm.

Two specimens, Camden County, N. J., July 5, 1891, and Il-
linois (coll. Amer. Ent. Soc.). The specimen from Illinois has
the middle clypeal tooth indistinct. Related to C, obsciirus and
C. contiguus.

Crabro excavatus n. sp.

9. — Black; head transversely quadrate; front subopaque, with fine and
exceedingly close punctures; near the inner orbits, before the anterior
ocellus, there is a short, oblique sulcus; vertex shining, with deep sepa-
rated punctures; face very narrow in the region of the antennae, the space
between the eyes at this place is a little broader than the length of the
third antennal joint; clypeus well carinated, the anterior margin entire,
rounded out; antennas short, the third joint about two and a half times
longer than the second, and is a little longer than the two following joints
united; the ocelli situated in slight, but distinct, depressions; mandibles
strongly bidentate at apex. Prothorax emarginate medially; dorsulum
with very strong punctures, the punctures confluent anteriorly; scutellum
and postscutellum with strong, separated punctures, those on the post-
scutellum feeblest; metathorax roughened, with a strong medial sulcus,
which extends to about the middle, where it is interrupted by a transverse
ridge, the posterior face rugose, depressed medially; mesopleurae rugose;
wings subhyaline, nervures blackish. Abdomen shining, the segments
depressed at base and apex, with distinct, separated punctures, beneath
segments 2-5 smooth, with the exception of a series of strong punctures,
which extend from side to side at about the middle; the last segment
above strongly excavated; mandibles, except base and apex, prothorax
above, tubercles, an elongated oblique spot on the mesopleurae beneath
the tegulae, scutellum and two spots on the dorsulum at the anterior-lateral
angles of the scutellum, the postscutellum, legs, the tarsi lighter, the first
abdominal segment above, except the apical margin, which is black, the
second above and beneath, except apical portion, all reddish brown;*
scape and following two antennal joints, and a large, ovate spot on the
second abdominal segment, situated at about the middle, yellow; head

* This may be due to being left too long in the cyanide bottle, but as part of the antem.ae
and two spots on the abdomen are yellow, it is probable that it is the natural color.

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and thorax above clothed with short, erect, fuscous hairs; the clypeus,
face, cheeks and thorax beneath with silvery pubescence. Length 9 — 10
mm.

cf . — Differs from the female as follows: joints five and six of the an-
tennas roundly emarginate beneath, the seventh joint slightly so; the third
antennal joint very slightly, if any, longer than the fourth; the metanotum
with eight or nine strong ridges, which extend from the base to the trans-
verse ridge; wings darker along the costa. Abdomen strongly punctured,
the punctures closer than in the female, the first segment, except the base
and apex, and a transverse fascia on segments 2-5 above, reddish brown,
the fascia on the third segment narrowest; beneath the abdomen is fun-h-
and rather closely punctured. Length 9 mm.

Described from two females and one male specimens. Col-
lected by Mr. Chas. W. Johnson, in Florida, in the vicinity of
St. Augustine.

(To be continued.)

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RHEXIDIUS.

BY EMIL BRENDEL, M. D.

This genus belongs to the second group of the tribe Trichonyni
according to the arrangement of Mr. Achille Raffray, the first
group having the posterior coxse distant and the first ventral seg-
ment large, including the genera Trichonyx and Amauronyx,
while the remaining genera, or the second group, have the pos-
terior coxse contiguous, or nearly so, and (the first ventral seg-
ment very short, in some hardly visible. Among the latter group
my attention is called to the genera Trogastcr, Rhexidius, Oropns
and Prorhexiics.

Trogaster is characterized by having the first ventral segment
visible (according to Mr. Raffray), while in the others it is said
to be invisible, except as a button between the coxae. But this,
according to my investigation, does not apply to Rhexidius and
Oropus, on which, by lifting the femur it can be traced to tin-
sides of the abdomen, where it is even more vnsible than in tin-
middle. Thus the difference between the four genera is ratlin-
inconspicuous.

With the genus Trogastcr I am not acquainted, but by the
description of Dr. D. Sharp, it should have an analogous I'.uni
with Oropus and Rhexidius, and Capt. Casey indicated to in<
the differences: the pronotum having the lateral spinou^ tul».

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nearer the middle, the frontal sulcus not reaching the occipital
foveae and having different forms of the antennae in the sexes.

The only difference between Oropus and Rhexidius lies in the
possession of a minute spinous tubercle at the sides of the pro-
notum in a line with the lateral foveae. The length of the second
ventral segment, which ought to be measured at the sides, not in
the middle, where commonly intubation takes place, is larger,
but in length not much more than subequal to the third and
fourth ventrals; therefore Prorhexius is identical with Rhexidius.

Now I will describe a new species of Rhexidius which makes
the difference between the other two genera very doubtful, and
perhaps brings them very near to Trogaster.

Rhexidius trogasteroides n. sp.

<3\ — The forms of the several parts of the body is exactly like Oropus;
uniformly reddish brown. Length 1.66 mm. Head and prothorax granu-
lated (as in Rhexidius granulosus), elytra densely punctured, abdominal
dorsum nearly smooth. The head very transverse, though less so than
in R. granulosus, occiput triangularly impressed at its base, occipital
fovese large, near the eyes and in a line with the anterior part of the eyes;
the frontal ridge and the subjacent arcuated sulcus limited half way be-
tween foveae and the supra-antennal swelling, the sulcus ending in a deep
puncture just in front of the respective fovea (Trogaster). Antennae as
long as the head and half of the prothorax; joint i as thick as the width
of the eye, cylindrical, longer than wide; 2 globular, two-thirds as thick
as the first; 3 and 4 equal, rounded, somewhat transverse, much smaller;
5 projecting inside in form of a wedge, half as long outside, and three
times as wide as the fourth; 6 as wide as 5, inflated inside, here as long
as the first joint, and outside at the insertion as long as second; 7-10
gradually increasing in width, transverse, trapezoidal, together as long as
the second, third and fourth conjointed; 7 as wide as the second; the loth,
or the base of the last joint as wide as the first; n as long as the four
preceding, and beyond the middle more than twice as wide as the first
joint ( Trogaster). Palpi as in Oropus. Prothorax as in Rhexidius in
sculpture, but the median sulcus has a deeper place in the anterior third,
and the sides are rounded anterior to the line of the foveae, here sud-
denly forming a sharp edge with a very short emargination producing a
tubercle similar to Oropus, except that the tubercle is not as sharply
pointed. Elytra as in Oropus, with four basal punctures. and the respec-
tive lines, the third longer than the second, the fourth short and recurrent.
Abdomen as in Oropus, with the dorsal border punctured, the penultimate
ventral with a transverse impressed line; 9 unknown.

Three specimens were discovered on Chestnut Ridge, Pa., by
P. Jerome Schmitt, who deserves great honor as a circumspect
entomologist.

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A comment as to the generic differences is unnecessary, but
there are two more specimens, £ and 9 , which were discovered
in Franklin County, Pa., by my friend, H. Ulke, who kindly
loaned them to me a year ago; they are in his cabinet, and may
bring these genera still nearer together.

Rhexidius intermedius n. sp.

Uniformly brown. Length of $ 1.5 mm.; $ 1.66 mm.

$ . — Head as transverse as in Oropus, somewhat punctulate. Antennae,
without the last joint, as long as the width of the head, the last joint as
long as the first and second together. Eyes very much smaller than in
Oropus; occiput perpendicularly declining toward the neck in an angu-
lated line from the sides to the middle of the base. Prothorax little wider
than the head with a twice interrupted median sulcus and a straight trans-
verse sulcus, which is triangularly dilated in the middle, ending in pubes-
cent foveae laterally situated inside of a slightly ovate depression, the base
strongly punctured, the disc slightly uneven, impunctate; no crenulation
or a spine at the sides. Elytra as in Oropus. Abdomen at the base in
the middle depressed, the depression divided by a short carina; the bor-
ders of the first visible segment divergent; the first three visible segments
equal, one-quarter of their width long, fourth and fifth shorter; ventrals
nearly equal in length.

<$. — Has the ninth and tenth joints of the antennas shorter, more trans-
verse, and the last longer than in the female. Head, prothorax and elytra,
more visibly punctulate. Eyes somewhat larger. Prothorax with the
median sulcus not interrupted, but abbreviated in the anterior third. Ab-
domen as in the female, but the junction of the fourth and fifth segments
transversely impressed.

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NOTES ON ARKANSAS LEPIDOPTERA.

By R. R. ROWLEY, Fort Smith, Ark.

Five hundred miles to the southwest of Curryville, Mo., where
the writer has spent half a score of years in the study of Ento-
mology and Geology of a most interesting region, is the " Bor-
der City," Fort Smith, Ark. A residence here since the middle
of September has given him but limited opportunity to niter into
the study of nature, but he could not, if he wished, close his eyes
on the fairy-like creatures that flit from blossom to blossom in this
city of flowers. The first finds. were two splendid larvae of that
magnificent moth, Citheroniaregalis, on a persirnmon tree, whirr,
from indications, a number of other caterpillars had been feeding;
t\vo larvae of Eacles imperialis on maple; two of Ccratomia

14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

amyntor and one of Telea polyphemus on elm; larvae and cocoons
of Actias luna on pecan, and one wandering caterpillar of Dei-
lephila lineata. A fine pupa of Macrosila cingulata was found in
a sweet-potato patch and several ragged images, brought to the
class-room by pupils, indicate an abundance of this beautiful moth.

The first butterflies noticed were Neonympha sosybius, flitting
aimlessly about the streets, and occasional specimens of Papilio
philenor and Limenitis iirsula. While Colias eurytheme was
quite common, C. philodice, Pieris protodice and P. rapes seemed
much less abundant.

In October, Callidryas eubule, Terias nicippe, T. lisa, Na-
thalis iole, Euptoieta claudia, Phyciodcs phaon, Pamphila huron,
P. phylceus and Pyrgus tessclata were plentiful, the first two spe-
cies at cultivated flowers and the others at the blossoms of He-
lenium tenuifolium, a thrifty weed about the streets and roads
here.

Three fine examples of Colias ctzsonia were taken at flowers,
one Grapta inter rogationis in the woods, one Paphia troglodyta
at mud, four Junonia ccenia by the roadside and on flowers, sev-
eral specimens of Pyrameis cardui, one P. huntera, two Erisia
texana, a few Phyciodes tharos and a number of Danais archippus
on Helenium tenuifolium blossoms.

A single 9 Agraulis vanilla was taken on Geranium flowers in
the shade, about five o'clock P.M., late in October. One dark
specimen of Pyrgus, probably a variety of Tesselata, was cap-
tured November yth. The last butterflies seen, were Terias lisa,
T. nicippe, Pyrgus tesselata and Nathalis iole on the i6th of
September. Spring and Summer will doubtless add many more
species to this list. The food-plant of Iole here is probably
Helenium temiifoliiim.

For assistance in the identification of a few of the species men-
tioned above, the writer is indebted to Mr. Wm. H. Edwards, of
Coalburgh, and Dr. Henry Skinner, of Philadelphia.

For the determination of a plant to Prof. Geo. Vasey, of
Washington, D. C.

" An electric insect killer is the latest novelty in that line. It is formed
by a cover of wire> gauze, which is placed over a lighted candle. The
gauze is an electric circuit, and when insects touch it they are killed."

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ciated by entomological workers.

A NEW VARIETY OF PAMPHILA. — Paitiphila »iassasoit, var. suffusa
Laurent. The describing of the many variations of Lepidoptera caught
in the field is of value as well as of interest to the entomological world,
but the attaching thereto of a name to burden our already over-crowded
catalogues, seems to me to be little less than an entomological sin, but
where the form described teems in numbers, or is known as a local varia-
tion, I think the same should be given an appropriate name. In the
Pamphilas, particularly, there are several such forms or variations occur-
ring among the species found around Philadelphia. One of tlu-sc. l\un-
phila massasoit, var. suffusa, makes its appearance about July 4th. It is

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found in low meadow- or swamp-lands. The variation consists principally
in the yellow markings of the under surface of the posterior wings being
almost obliterated by a suffusion of dark brown, while the under surface
of the anterior wings is of a uniform dark brown, the light colored margin
found in the normal form being entirely wanting. About one in every
ten specimens caught will be found to be snffusa; the variation is gener-
ally found among the males, but also occurs in the females, but more
sparingly where it occurs in the females. The insect is without the usual
yellow spots on the upper surface of the wings. — PHILIP LAURENT, Phila.

SYNONYMS OF NOCTUID^E. — Mr. W. H. Patton has given in ENTOMO-
LOGICAL NEWS, vol. ii, p. 206, a synonym of ^Homohadena infixa Wlk."
which requires correction. I have seen Walker's type, in the British Mu-
seum, and find it exactly like the type of Mr. Grote's H. kappa, which is
also in the British Museum. H. incomitata and H. badistriga are both
as good species as are usually found in the Noctuidae, and come at exactly
opposite ends of the synoptic table in my revision of the species (Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, 399). Harvey's type is not rubbed, and I have seen
any number of specimens just like it. That Xylophasia infixa Wlk.
probably referred to a species of Homohadena I indicated in my revision
of Xylophasia (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, 446), but was not able to fix it
positively. It would be interesting to know upon what Mr. Patton bases
his synonymy. — JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

Prof. KELLICOTT'S " Note on Exceptions" brought vividly to my mind
the number of interesting varieties of Caberodes confusaria that had es-
caped from my collecting-bottle by its remarkable powers of resisting the
action of cyanide. I have often sought for an explanation, but without
definite results. In my observations, Hymenoptera and Diptera are the
most sensitive to the fumes of cyanide, which I have thought might arise
from their nervous activity producing rapid respiration. Water beetles as
a rule are slow to yield to its influence, which is probably the result of
their having a supply of pure air under their elytra which would last
for a while. Newly-hatched beetles may remain for a whole day in a
strong bottle and revive again when exposed to the air, the result of
their partially dormant condition. Caberodes confusaria is an active in-
sect, and therefore ought to breathe rapidly, and so get the full benefit of
the poison, but in its case neither the principle nor the poison works satis-
factorily.— I. ALSTON MOFFAT, London, Ontario.

I THINK a "wave" of Erebus odora must have struck Colorado this
Summer. I have occasionally met with this species in the State before,
but not more than one example in a season. This year, however, was a
notable exception; one day last June I took one on the sidewalk at Colo-
rado Springs; the same evening I found one on the platform at Canon
City Depot. The next morning I reached Salida just at daybreak; during
the two days I stayed there I took about a dozen pretty fair examples.
These were resting on the lamp-posts, or on the ground close by. It was

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quite a rainy time in this part of Colorado, and I saw fragments of a good
many in the mud. The lamp trimmer told me they had been quite a
nuisance for more than a week, flying into houses and stores where tliere
was a bright light, in many instances causing alarm (lie called them hats).
On my return from southwest Colorado, two weeks later, our train stopped
at Salida at 9 A.M. ; during the "twenty minutes for refreshments" I looked
round under the lamps. In a coal-box, near one, were two battered ex-
amples of E. odora, but on the lamp-post, about seven feet from the
ground, was a specimen of the silken, gray beauty zoiobia, the first I had
seen alive. I have visited this district many times in the last seven years,
and my late friend, W. S. Foster, a keen collector, resided there tuo
years, yet we never saw either species there before, and I feel pretty cer-
tain that their occurrence this year is something unusual.

DAVID BRUCEj Brockport, N. V.

A SPECIMEN of Xylocopa. received from Mr. H. F. Wickham, bearing
the label Fort Yuma, Cal., turns out to be the Cuban A"", cubaccola Lucas.
To the best of my knowledge, this species has not been recorded from
any other locality, although it occurs, probably, in Mexico. The following
table will assist in determining the California!! species of Xylocopa:
Abdomen bottle-green, bronzed ; front in $ with a strong projection.
Length 22 — 25 mm. . . . californica Cr.

Abdomen bronze-purple ; frontal projection almost obsolete, having the
appearance of a faint tubercle. Length 18 mm. . purpurea Cr.
Entirely black 9 \ c? °f cubaccola entirely fulvous, with fulvous pubes-
cence; e? of orpifex with the face and clypeus yellowish.
Ventral abdominal segments strongly carinated ; clypeus with the
punctures becoming somewhat obsolete medially; rf" fulvous.
Length 9 cf 18—23 mm. . . . cubaecola Luc.

Ventral segments of the abdomen faintly carinated ; clypeus equally
punctured throughout; <$ with the thorax clothed with pale pu-
bescence. Length 9 c? 17— i S mm. . . orpifex Sm.

WILLIAM J. Fox.

WHILE on a trout fishing trip on the Nepigon River last July we broke
camp some forty miles up river, after three days' of showery weather, and,
with birch-bark canoes, started for Red Rock, the 1 [udson I'.ay Company'-
post at the mouth of the river. There are a number of rapids around
which canoes and camp equipage must be carried, and at whirl) tin- dil-
ferent meals are usually cooked, while the Indians are making the port
On July 1 4th, a hot day following the rains, we were p»rtaging around
Cameron Pool and rapids, when one of the party, who had descended
the higher land to the bank of a little creek, came rushing back with an
ordinary fish landing-net containing ten fluttering Lii'it
he had caught with one stroke. Of coin were mined, but the

entomologist of the party, upon investigation, found the ashes, where
camp fires had been made upon the banks of the creek, completely cov-

18 ENToMoLocicAL NEWS. [jariuafy,

iered with this beautiful butterfly, one space of about four and a half feet
in diameter being entirely hid by a gorgeous coloring of purple, black
and white, which shone beautifully in the bright sun. The first stroke of
the net disturbed them, but 47 specimens were taken as they hovered
about without moving from the spot, and over 100 were taken within a
space of 30 feet square. They seemed to be attracted by the brine or
water thrown from the pans after freshening bacon and salt pork at the
camp fires. Paddling down the creek we passed another congregation
of like proportions, but we had a forty-mile canoe voyage to complete by
ten o'clock that night in order to catch a steamer at Port Arthur, so they
were not disturbed. It is not often an entomologist stumbles upon a sight
so beautiful. — FRANK S. DAGGETT, Duluth, Minn.

Perophora mclshcimerii. — This elegant case bearing larva was taken
at Sugar Grove, O., September 26th, feeding on oak. The single larva
examined differs from that described by Harris in the absence of the an-
tenna-like appendages at the side of the head; this is also characterized
by Packard in "Forest Insects." It is also slenderer than others de'
scribed, nor are the "spiracles so situated as to be visible from above,'-
except the last pair. The prothoracic segment is not dark like the head,
but concolorous with the whole anterior third, i.e., pale brown with diffuse
lateral stripes. The case, too, whilst of the same general type as that
figured by Harris, is a more finished piece of architecture. One side, the
floor, is elliptical and plane; the opposing piece, the roof, is also elliptical,
but both longer and wider and cut with the mid-vein in the longer diam-
eter, so that when the edges of the two are sewn together it arches up,
forming a roof; the mid-vein thus forms the ridge of the roof; this also
projects at the ends constituting the verandas over the round openings.
The dimensions are: length, 28 mm.; width, 8mm.; height, 6mm.; di-
ameter of openings, 4 mm.

I have not seen the artificer at work. It would certainly be interesting
to observe how, with the simple tools at his disposal, so wonderful a house
is built. I imagine that the plan of procedure is about as follows: two
closely parallel leaves are selected; these are spun together along the
elliptical outline of the finished product, the plane one being first strength-
ened by a silken lining; then by cutting away the leaves about the outside
the case is set free. — D. S. K.

Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers.

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1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ig

Entomological Literature.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Nov. 2, 1891. — The lateral eyes
of spiders, by K. Kishinouye, figs. On the anatomy of the male sexual
organs of the Honey Bee, by G. Koschewnikoff.

TRAVAUX ET MEMOIRES DBS FACULTES DE LILLE. I, No. 4, 1891. — The
wax of Bees (analysis and adulterations), by A. and P. Buisine.

LE NATURALISTE (Paris), Nov. r, 1891. — Protective resemblance in Eu-
ropean Lepidoptera, by F. Plateau; figs. Description of new Lepidop-
tera,* by P. Dognin; Lafajana n. gen. Development of Hydrophilns
piceus, by L. Planet; figs. — Dec. i, 1891. — Diagnoses of new Lepidop-
tera,* by P. Dognin. Habits and metamorphoses of Corczbus amethys-
tinus Oliv., by Capt. Xambeu.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Oct. 3, '91.
— Two new species and a new genus of African Lepidoptera,* by F. J.
M. Heylaerts; Gymnelema n. gen. Melanges Entomologiques: VII.
Diagnoses of Coleoptera from the Congo,* by A. Duvivier; Djabiria,
Phrynctoides n. gen. Dichotomous table to aid in determining the Bel-
gian species of Coleoptera Heteromera (last part), by L. Coucke. Enu-
meration of the Hemiptera of Belgium, by E. Coubeaux; Heteroptera.
Papilio tnachaon var. marginalis, by M. Robbe.

NOTES ON CALOSPASTA Lee., by G. H. Horn, M.D. (reprint from Proc.
Amer. Philos. Soc. xxix, pp. 99-102), Oct. 27, 1891. A synoptic table of
the species is given. C. histrionica, C. morrisoni, S. Cal., n. sp.

REVUE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE L'OUEST, 4, October, 1891,
Paris. — General considerations on the classification of the Acarines, fol-
lowed by an attempt at a new classification, by Dr. Trouessart (to be con-
tinued).

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), Nov. 20, 1891.— Or-
ganization of a thoracic ganglion in some Coleoptera of the tribe Melo-
lonthina, by A. Binet. A peculiar Acariasis on Paduan fowls produced
by a new Acarine species, Lophopies patavinus, by P. Megnin; figs. On
the intermediate host of Echinorhynchus gig as in America, by C. W.
Stiles \_Lachnosterna\.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xvii, 21, November, 1891.
— Some remarks on the German species of Calathus* by C. YcrhoHl.
List of a collection of Coleoptera from Cordoba in Argentina, by Dr.
Frenzel. On doubtful species of Rhizotrogus, a clear answer to Hen 1 •:.
Brenske, by Dr. G. Kraatz.— No. 22, November, 1891 .--A new contribu-
tion to the knowledge of the German Saldcc* by C. VerhoefT. Dipt* ru
collected by Herr F. Grabowsky in Hartz Mountains, by V. von K order-
* Contains new species other than North American.

2o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

New Singing Cicada; from Cameroon collected by Dr. Paul Preuss,* by
Dr. F. Karsch; Trisiiiarcha, Nablistes. n. gen.

DENKSCHRIFTEN DER KAISERLICHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENS-
CHAFTEN. MATHEMATISCH-NATURWISSENSC.HAFTLICIIE CLASSE, Ivii.
Wien, 1890 (1891). — Comparative Studies on the Germ-band (Keimstreif)
of Insects, by V. Graber; 12 plates, 38 figures.

ERGAENZUNGSHEFT ZUM 68. JAHRESBERICHT DER SCHLESISCHEN GE-
SELLSCHAFT FUR VATERLANDiscHE CULTUR. Breslau, 1890 (1891). — Con-
tributions to the knowledge of the European Zoocecidae and their distri-
bution, by G. Hieronymus.

VERHANDLUNGEN DES NATURHISTORISCHEN VEREINS DER PREUS-
SISCHE RHEINLANDE, WESTFALENS UND DES REG.-BEZIRKS OSNABRUECK.
xlviii, i. Bonn, 1891. — Biological Aphorisms on some Hymenoptera, Dip-
tera and Coleoptera, by C. Verhoeff; 3 plates.

OFVERSIGT AF FINSKA VETENSKAPS-SOCIETETENS FORHANDLINGAR,
xxxii, 1889-90. Helsingsfors, 1890 (1891?). — Contributions to the know-
ledge of the Coleopterous Fauna of Southwestern Siberia — Curculionidae,*
by J. Faust

BERICHTE DER NATURFOKSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT zu FREIBURG I.
B., v, i. Freiburg I. B., 1890 (1891). — On reproduction of the Diplopods
(Chilognatha), by O. von Rath; i plate.

AXTI DELLA R. ACCADEMIA DELLE SCIENZE DI TORINO, XXVI, 2, 1890-

91. — The European species of the genus Chiysotoxum Meig.,* by Dr. E.
Giglio-Tos; i plate.

JAHRBUCHER DES NASSAUISCHEN VEREINS FUR NATURKUNDE, 44. Jahr-
gang. Wiesbaden, 1891. — Observations on the manner of living and de-
velopment'history of some indigenous species of beetles, by Dr. Budde-
berg. Macrolepidoptera of the lower Rhine country, 2d part, by A. Fuchs.
Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Japan, 2d supplement, by H. von Schoen-
feldt.

LA NATURALEZA, 2d series, II, i. Mexico, 1891. — Description of indig-
enous Coleoptera, by Dr. D. Eugenio Duges (for new species, see post)\
2 plates.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 2d series'
III, i. Sept. i, 1891. — Description of the larva of Dascy/lus darhisonii
Lee., and a record of its life-history, by J. J. Rivers; i plate. New species
of Scarabseidae, id (see post).

BULLETIN OF THE BUFFALO SOCIETY OK NATURAL SCIENCES, v, 3, 'gr.
—List of the Macrolepidoptera of Buffalo and vicinity, by Edw. P. Van
Duzee.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 21

LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA OF BOREAL AMERICA, by John II. Smith, as-
sisted by Henry Skinner, M.D., Geo. D. Hulst, Ph. D., C. H. Fernald,
Ph. D., C. V. Riley, Ph. D. Philadelphia, Amer. Ent. Soc. 1891, 124 pp.,
6020 species listed.

CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A MONOGRAPH OF THE NOCTUID.K OF TEM-
PERATE NORTH AMERICA. — Revision of the species of Mann.-stra, by John
B. Smith (from Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. xiv, pp. 197-276, pi. viii-xi), Wash-
ington, 1891 (for new species, see post).

DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW CYNIPID/E IN THE COLLECTION OF THE ILLI-
NOIS STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY, by C. P. Gillette, is«.,i ;
i plate (see post).

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, I, i, Kingston, November,
1891. — Notes on the transformations of some Jamaica Lepidoptera, by T.
D. A. Cockerell.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

COLEOPTERA.

Calospasta histrionica Horn, Proc. Amer. Pliilos. Soc. \.\i.\, p. 100, San
Diego, Cal. C. morrisoni, p. 102, So. California.

Biiprestis jimenezi Duges, La Naturaleza, 2cl series, II, p. 7, fig. 10,
Jalapa.

Melanophila nigra Duges, 1. c., p. 8, rig. II, Tupataro ( Guanajuato).

Acmczodera moesta Duges, 1. c., p. n, fig. 17, Guanajuato. A.jncn
p. 14, fig. 20, Acapulco. A. sinalocnsis, p. 14, fig. 21, Motag,-, SinaKa.

Chrysobothris sobrina Duges, 1. c., p. 19, Guanajuato. C. arinala, \>.
19, fig. 29, Chiapas. C. i^nofa, p. 20, fig. 30. Tupataro, Guanajuato.

Agrilus albofasciatus Duges, 1. c., p. 23, fig. 35, Guanajuato.
Borrei, p. 24, fig. 36, id. A. Sa/Ifi, p. 24, fig. 37, id.
p. 26, fig. 39, id. A.parviis, p. 26, fig. 60, id. A. hiniaci ?. p.
40, id. A.fossulatus, p. 27, fig. 41, id. . /. xcxnutculatu f, p. 27. ''.-
id. A. rnbrovittatus, p. 28, fig. 44, id. A'. ca/i^i>n>s r, p.
Tupataro. A. 'igneosigiiadis, p. 29, fig. 47, id. • !'•

30, fig. 48, id. A. tHpatarcnsis, p. 31, fig. 59- "'• '• I'- •

fig. 51, id. A. A'cririnansi, p. 3-', fig. V, "'• '• I'- 3'i

53, Guanajuato. A. tarrascus, p. 33, fig. 54, Michoacan.
p. 33, fig. 55, Guanajuato. A. naints, p. 33, tig. 56, Tupataro.
inhieHS, p. 34, fig. 57, id. A. nonts, p. 34, fig- 5s, i(1-
fig- 59, id-

22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Taphrocerus leoni Duges, 1. c., p. 35, fig. 61, Siloa, Guanajuato, Mi-
choacan. T. Kerremansi, p. 35, fig. 62, Tupataro.

Brachys chapusi Duges, 1. c., p. 36, fig. 63, Tupataro. B. hexagonalis,
p. 36, fig. 64, Guanajuato.

Lygirus Bryanti Rivers, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2), III, p. 97, Lower
California.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Carphoxera n. gen. (Acidalinoe) Riley, Insect Life, iv, p. 112. C.
ptelearia, p. 112.

Maniestra delerminata Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv, p. 209, Col.
M. desperala, p. 221, Me., N. H., Cal. M. invalida, p. 225, Cal. M.
u~scripta, p. 228, Cal. M. quadrata, p. 248, Cal. M. circumcincta, p.
253, Cal. M. longiclava, p. 265, Col. M. orbiculata, p. 266, Col.

HYMENOPTERA.

Diastrophus scutellaris Gillette, Bull. 111. State Lab., N. H. ?, p. 192,
111. Antistrophus silphii, p. 192, 111. A. laciniatus, p. 194, 111. A. ntfits,
p. 195, 111. A. minor, p. 196. A. bicolor, p. 197, 111. Acraspis coni-
pressus, p. 197, Iowa. Dryophanta lanata, p. 198, Iowa. Chilasphis
ferrugineus, p. 200, Iowa. Aulax bicolor, p. 201, 111. Synergus mag-
nus, p. 202, Mich. S. villosus, p. 202, Iowa. Coptereucoila inarginata,
p. 203, 111. Eucoila "j-spinosa, p. 204, 111. Eucoilidea ritjipes, p. 205.

Doings of Societies.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
OF PHILADELPHIA. — A regular meeting was held in the Hall, Oct. 22, '91,
Director Geo. H. Horn, M.D., presiding. Meeting called to order at
8.20 P.M. Members present: Martindale, Laurent, Ridings, Horn and
Skinner. Associates: Fox and Liebeck. The Publication Committee
reported favorably on papers No. 255 and 256, entitled " Notes on North
American Tachinidae, sens, str., with Descriptions of New Genera and
Species," by C. H. Tyler Townsend, and "Random Studies in North
American Coleoptera," by Geo. H. Horn, M.D. Paper 257 was presented
for publication. Mr. Nathan Banks, of Washington, D. C., was duly
elected an Associate of the Section. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

A regular meeting was held in the Hall, Nov. 25, 1891. The meeting
was called to order at 8.20 P.M. In the absence of the Director, Mr. Blake
presided. Members present: Messrs. Ridings, Laurent, Blake, Skinner
and Welles. Associates: Calvert, Nell and Haimbach. The report of
the Executive Committee was read and received. A number of American
and European Odonata were presented by Mr. Calvert; also the Jamaican
Odonata collected by Mr. Wm. J. Fox. Donations to the library were

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23

read. The Publication Committee reported favorably on a paper entitled
"A Revision of the North American species of Phlepsius" by Ed\v. P.
Van Duzee. Papers Nos. 258, 259 and 260, were presented for publication.

Mr. Calvert stated that in the Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xvii, p. 33, 1890,
he had first described the supposed female of Sor,ia!ochlora Walshii Scud. ,
remarking then that it was much like the female of S. forcipata Scud.,
specimens of which he had not then seen. During; the Summer of 1891
he had received the female and three males of forcipata from Prof. F. L.
Harvey, at Orono, Me. A comparison of the females of Walshii and
forcipata showed that the former was distinct. He knew of no evidence
that the female Walshii was other than he had described it to be. Miss
Wadsvvorth took a second male of Walshii at Manchester, Me., during
the season of 1891; the first male which she had taken was now in Mr.
Calvert's collection.

Dr. Skinner, Mr. Ridings and Mr. Laurent, were appointed a committee
to make nominations for the coming year. Mr. Ridings moved that, when
the Section adjourn, it adjourn to meet on the second Monday in De-
cember. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

A regular meeting was held in the Hall, Dec. 14, 1891, Director Geo.
H. Horn, M.D., presided. Members present: Messrs. Horn, Welles,
Martindale and Ridings. Associates: Calvert, Fox and Johnson. In the
absence of the Recorder, owing to sickness, Mr. J. H. Ridings acted as
such. The reports of the Treasurer and of the Joint Committee on K.\-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS were read. The committee on nominations named
the following to serve as officers for the ensuing year: Director, Geo. H.
Horn, M.D.; Vice-Director, Isaac C. Martindale; Recorder, Henry Skin-
ner, M.D.; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson; Conservator, Henry Skinner, M.D.;
Publication Committee: J. H. Ridings and Philip Laurent. On motion, the
Recorder was directed to cast a ballot for the Section, and the above were-
declared elected. J. H. RIDINGS, Recorder, pro ton.

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, November 5, 1891.-
Messrs. Theo. Gill and C. W. Stiles were elected active members of the
Society, and Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, of Port Hope, Canada, and Prof. H.
A. Morgan, of Baton Rouge, La., corresponding members.

Under short notes, etc., Mr. Schwarz exhibited some fine and complete
examples of the galleries made by Hylesinus sericeu s in the bark of .lines
menziesii from the Wahsatch Mountains of Utah. These galleries closely
resemble those made by the species of Scolytus.

The Secretary read a note by Mr. Wm. D. Richardson, of Fredericks-
burg, Va., corresponding member of the Society, on the life-history <>f
Loma Sayi. The food-plant of this species is Commolyna rirghiica; tin.-
eggs are laid singly on the leaves, and the larvae usually bore in the flower
stalks, ejecting their fcces from the entrance hole of the burn.w. Dis-
cussed by Mr. Schwarz.

24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Dr. Marx exhibited two remarkable spiders occurring in our fauna: (i)
a representative of the South American genus Nops characterized by hav-
ing but two eyes; (2) a puzzling species, the affinities of which he pointed
out. It resembles an Epeira, but is altogether different in characters.

Mr. Schwarz read a paper on the time of flight in Scarabceid beetles, in
which he related an observation made last June by Mr. H. C. Hubbard
and himself concerning an undescribed species of Lachnosterna which
flies before sunset in the alpine regions of Utah. He added remarks on
the flying habits of other species of Lachnosterna and of Scarabaeid bee-
tles in general. It appears that in this family the unity in habit regarding
the time of flight is generally maintained so far as genera are concerned,
and that there are comparatively few exceptions to this rule.

Mr. Schwarz also exhibited a species of the family Monommidas col-
lected on Key West and at Biscayne Bay, Fla., and stated that after a
careful study he has come to the conclusion that it is identical with Aspa-
f /lines ovatns Champion recently described from Central America, which
adds a new genus to our fauna. Discussed by Messrs. Marlatt, Howard,
Mann and Schwarz.

Mr. Howard read a paper on the " Habits of Molittobia," suggested by
Mr. Ashmead's communication at the proceeding meeting. He gave a
comprehensive review of the literature, showing all of the hosts of this
genus of parasites, proving that it is both parasitic and hyperparasitic.
He added an account of the rearing of M. pelopczi Ashm. from dipterous
puparia found in Pelopaeus cells by Mr. A. N. Caudell. Discussed by
Mr. Ashmead.

Mr. Banks read a paper entitled "A new genus of Phalangiidse from
North America," in which, under the name Caddo nov. gen. agilis n. sp.,
he described a peculiar Phalangid collected in woods near the seashore
on Long Island. Figures representing the peculiar features of the insect
were exhibited.

Dr. Marx gave some remarks on the geographical distribution of spiders,
and stated that the Drassidae, formerly supposed to be boreal in habitat,
were now found to occur in the tropics in abundance, and that in fact we
have not a single family that is entirely northern in range. In the Attidse,
however, certain genera may prove to be altogether boreal, but the family
is not well worked up. C. L. MARLATT,

Recording Sccrclarv.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NKWS for December was maili'd December 2, 1891.

ENT. NEWS. Vol. III.

PI. I.

CICINDELA.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. FEBRUARY, 1892. No. 2.

CONTENTS:

Horn — Variations of Color-markings in

Coleoptera 25

Fox — Hymenopterological Notes 29

Smith — Elementary Entomology 35

Insects collected at Jamesburg, N. J.,
July 4, 1891 36

Dyar— Collecting Butterflies in the Yo- ; Notes and News 38

Semite Valley 30

Hart — On the species of O^canthus 33

Entomological Literature 42

Doings of Societies 47

Variations of Color-markings in Coleoptera.

By GEO. H. HORN, M.D.

Recently the subject of variation in coloration has been dis-
cussed before the Society of American Naturalists with the view
of eliciting an expression of opinion as to whether color variation
proceeded in a regular course, or was hap-hazard and accidental.

My observations have been that variation proceeds in regular
lines, easily demonstrable with sufficient material, produced by
external influences which are at present but partly understood.

There is probably no branch of zoology better fitted to illus-
trate this point than Entomology, from the abundance of species
and the frequent occurrence of genera with large numlxTs of
species in which a greater or less similarity of marking is ob>< r
vable.

As a beginning, in the illustration of this subject, it is brst to
select a genus well known to all collectors by the numbers of spe-
cies possible in most- collections. Cicmdela has therefore bcni
chosen.

Any one in glancing over his series will perceive that there is
a great similarity of marking between many species. This simi-

26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

larity, which may be considered as the type of marking and illus-
trated by fig. i of the plate, representing vnlgaris is the under-
lying pattern from which all the forms observed in our Cicindelae
have been derived.

Before going further it is well to present the following propo-
sitions that the argument and the illustrations may be understood.

i. — The type of marking is the same in all our species.

2. — Assuming a well marked species as a central type the
markings vary,

«, by a progressive spreading of the white.

b, by a gradual thinning or absorption of the white.

c, by a fragmentation of the markings.

d, by linear supplementary extension.

3. — Many species are practically invariable. These fall in two
series.

a, those of the normal type, as vulgaris, hirticoUis and tenui-

signata.

b, those in which some modification of the type has become

permanent, probably through isolation, as marginipennis,
togala and lemniscata.

4. — Those species which vary do so in one direction only.
That is, supposing a species begins typically with markings
similar to vulgaris, the variation may be either in the direction
of thickening and increase of white as in hyperborea, generosa
and others, or in the direction of thinning or fragmentation of
the white with perhaps an entire loss of markings as in h<zmor-
rhagica, splendida, or obsoleta.

The first two propositions must be considered as applying to
the species of the genus collectively, the last two to the species
separately.

The accompanying plate has been prepared to illustrate these
propositions. It must, however, be understood that, in tracing
the derivations from the typical, it is not possible to use one spe-
cies as these modifications go on gradually through a number of
species, one sometimes beginning where another ends.

In the plate fig. i represents vulgaris, which is a fairly typical
species, following through generosa (2-3), pamphila (4), hyper-
borea var. (5), togata (6), gratiosa (7), canosa (8), we finally
arrive at a perfectly white elytron as seen in some varieties of
dorsalis.

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Following in the other direction through tenuisignata (9),
marginipennis (10), Hentzii (n), sexguttata (12), heemorrJiagica
(13), and splendida van (14), it will be observed that through a
gradual thinning or absorption of the markings, or by their
fragmentation and obliteration we arrive at the opposite result of
elytra without any white markings whatever, as in many forms
of obsoleta, scutellaris, pimdulata and hczmorrhagica.

Those species which vary from the type in having the markings
broken into spots, as iz-guttata or Hentzii, may lose the spots
by a gradual decrease of size, so that they all seem to disappear
nearly at the same time, or the spots may disappear successively,
those on the disc being the first to go, while the marginal spots
remain.

From our series it would be difficult to say which spot is the
most persistent, but it is probably the apical lunule, as there are
more with entirely dark elytra with slight traces of this spot than
with any other, as shown in abdominalis z\\& punctulata.

Forms like lemniscata (16) seem very far removed from the
type, but many forms of imperfecia (15) show how the markings
gradually leave the margin and tend by fusion to form a vitta at
first somewhat oblique, but finally becoming nearly median.

The last two figures on the plate represent the markings of
Gabbii (17) and Saulcyi (18), in which the ends of the bands or
lunules are greatly prolonged. The latter form, which represents
dorsalis as well, is but rarely seen so perfectly marked, the ten-
dency being toward a greater extension of the white. The other
species is scarcely variable, although equally a coast form.

Those species which retain a permanent divergence from the
normal standard, such as togata (6) or lemniscata (16), are doubt-
less descendants from a normal type which has varied, and in
which a variety has become isolated and perpetuated itself.

One result of an examination of my species with ideas here
explained has been the discovery that C. lunalonga Schaupp is
merely a variety of pusilla with markings a little better defined.
Specimens before me establish the lead very distinctly.

In view of all the facts here presented the question mi-lit be
asked, why do some species vary while others do not ? \Yhilc
this matter is worthy of some thought, it is not pos>il>K' to ^ive
a satisfactory answer. Some species doubtless vary from climatic
causes. A notable instance will be seen in hui/ion-lhi^ica, which

28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

extends from San Diego and Yuma in California northward to
the head-waters of the Yellowstone, passing through about all
possible varieties of climate and habitat, from sea-coast to 'moun-
tain. On the other hand hirticollis occurs from Hudson's Bay
to Arizona without variation, and the specimens of lepida from
the New Jersey shore are not separable from those found in Ne-
braska. It seems hardly possible to make any generalizations
on the subject. Doubtless the coast species vary to a greater
extent taking them collectively than do the inland species, but it
is impossible to go further in speculation as too many exceptions
arise on all sides.

The subject of variation might be considered at much greater
length with profit and more fully illustrated, but the desire to
bring the article within NEWS limits has caused me to be brief.

The figures have been drawn to illustrate markings only, and
no regard has been had to the form of the elytra, which varies
considerably, and would introduce an element not pertinent at
this time.

Should the method of thought which gave rise to the preceding
remarks produce in some others thoughts as to the possibilities
of variation, not only in color, but almost equally in form and
sculpture there would be less 'synonymy to be corrected and a
more truly scientific basis established for species.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE.

i. — C. vulgaris 10. — C. marginipennis

2 . — C. generosa 1 1 . — C. Hentzii

3. — C. generosa 12. — C. sexguttata

4. — C. pamphila 13. — C. h&morrhagia

5. — C. limbata || 14. — C. splendida

6. — C. togata 15. — C. imperfecta

7. — C. gratiosa 1 6. — C. lemniscata
8. — C. canosa 17. — C. Gabbii

9. — C. tenuisignata 18. — C. Saulcyi

A writer in Engineering says "that in sinking plumb lines down shafts
the accuracy of the work is often seriously impaired by spiders attaching
their webs to the lines and drawing them toward the walls, often with
sufficient tension to introduce material errors in the position of the plumb
bobs."

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 29

HYMENOPTEROLOGICAL NOTES.-III.

By WM. J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

(Continued from page n, vol. iii.)

Galliopsis abdominalis Cress.

A variety of this species occurs rather commonly in Gloucester
County, N. J. It differs from typical abdominalis as follows : the
thorax, with the exception of the tubercles and tegulae, is entirely
black; the abdomen has the base of the first segment above and
base of the second only, reddish fulvous, the apical margins of
segments i — 5, broadly testaceous; the male has the abdomen
reddish fulvous, the segments each with a black fascia.

Numerous females and several males taken in Gloucester Co.,
N. J., from August i6th to September gth, 1891.

Epeolus pusillus Cress.

E. pusillus Cr., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. vol. ii, p. 398, 9.

The male of this insect, which has hitherto been undescribed,
differs from the female by its smaller size; the clypeus being cov-
ered with pale pubescence; the eyes more strongly converging
towards the mouth; the antennae, first three joints excepted,
testaceous beneath; tip of the abdomen reddish; nervures and
stigma testaceous; the antennae are shorter and stouter. Length
6 mm.

A male and female of this species taken in Gloucester County,
N. J., August 1 6th and September 5th.

Epeolus compactus Cress.

This species has only been recorded from Texas, Colorado,
Nevada, California. I have a specimen taken in Camden County,
N. J., during May.

Melissodes fimbriata Cress.

A male specimen of this insect was taken at Cape May, N. J.,
on June i4th. It has only been recorded from Texas.

Zethus Slossonae n. sp.

9- — Black, a spot on each side of the clypeus, two transverse elongate
spots behind the base of the antennae, a dot in the eye nnargination, |>»s-
terior orbits, line on the collar, much narrowed and slightly interrupted
medially, a large spot at the top of the mesopleunr, two small spots mi
the scutelluni and postscntellum, two large ones on the posterior face <>f
the metathorax, an irregular line on the apical margin of the petiole,
which extends up a little way along the sides, line on anterior femora
behind, and the middle tibiae, more or less, all yellow; the scape and fol-

30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

lowing two antennal joints, the mandibles, except apex, the tegulae, the
legs, except the posterior femora medially and the coxae, reddish brown;
clypeus rounded laterally, with sparse, shallow, punctures, its anterior
margin armed with three widely separated teeth, the middle tooth largest;
just above the antennae there is a strong, transverse ridge; the antennae
are situated just beneath each end of this ridge, and are therefore widely
separated; front with very large, deep, in some places confluent punctures,
the punctures becoming less strong on the vertex and are sparse and
shallow on the cheeks. Thorax punctured as on the front, on the sides
and beneath with silvery-sericeous pile; scutellum with an impressed line,
the punctures sparse; postscutellum with the posterior margin produced
into a strong angle; metathorax subopaque, with a medial impressed line,
with a few oblique, widely separated striations towards the sides, the
metapleurae with indistinct, shallow punctures; wings fuscous, with a vio-
laceous reflection, which is especially strong on the apical portion, brown-
ish along the costa, stigma yellowish, nervures black, second submarginal
cell very narrow at the top, the third submarginal cell broader above than
beneath; legs clothed with silvery pile. Abdomen clothed with sericeous
pile, the petiole much swollen medially, and is contracted before the apex,
a little broader than high, and with large, sparse, punctures above, the
pedicle of the second segment takes up less than a quarter of the seg-
ment, the base of the pedicle black; the remainder of the abdomen
claret-brown, shining, smooth above, beneath with large, sparse punctures.
<3\ — Differs from the female as follows: the clypeus is entirely yellow,
the medial tooth not so large; the third antennal joint black, and is more
than a third longer than the fourth, joints 10-12 reddish, the hook black;
the eye emargination is narrower; the medial impressed line of the scu-
tellum is stronger; the legs without any trace of yellow; the second sub-
marginal cell is broader above than in the female. Length 9cT J6 mm.

Three specimens, one female, two males. Collected by Mrs.
Annie Trumbull Slosson, near Punta Gorda, So. Florida. It is
most closely allied to Z. azteca S., from which it differs by the
transverse ridge behind the antennae. It differs from Z. Poeyi
S. , from Cuba, by the toothed clypeus and the shorter pedicle of
the second abdominal segment.

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Collecting Butterflies in the Yosemite Valley.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

My wife and I spent four months of last year in the Yosemite
Valley, Cal., to enjoy the grand scenery and the pure air of the
Sierra Nevada and make collections of the Lepidoptera of that
region, and it has occurred to me that some notes of our expe-
riences might interest the readers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 31

The valley, as may be seen from a map, is situated on the west
slope of the Sierra Nevada, and through it the north branch of
the Merced River flows. The general course of the river is
southwesterly at this point and it plunges over two falls called the
Nevada and Vernal to a depth of about 3000 feet below the gen-
eral level of the surrounding country and flows, with but slight
descent, for a distance of five miles between nearly vertical walls
which are, on an average, a mile apart. This canon is the Yose-
mite Valley, and its level floor would be covered with fine trees
and shrubs were it not for the work which is being done by those
in charge of the valley, who, I am sorry to say, have already
succeeded in spoiling the once picturesque beauty of Mirror
Lake by means of a dam and Other improvements (?).

Lepidoptera were abundant during the first part of our stay,
more especially the butterflies; we found but few moths. Later
in the season they became much less common, and it was more
and more difficult to obtain larvae as nearly all the small plants
died by reason of the dry season which set in soon after we ar-
rived. We collected forty-nine species of butterflies, but not all
were found on the floor of the valley. Papilio nitulns and P.
eurymedon were common, but P. indra, which is a true mountain
species, and occurred about the edge of the valley at an altitude
of 7000 feet above the sea, was seldom seen there, although a
few examples wandered down. Neophasia mcnapia was common
towards the end of Summer flying slowly about the tops of the
Pinus ponderosa, or alighting on flowers. Picris beckcrii and
P. sisymbrii were found in considerable abundance on the summit
of Cloud's Rest, a peak 10,000 feet high, overlooking the vall'-v.
but I did not see them elsewhere. Several species of Antho-
charis occurred, but not in the valley proper. A. lanceolate \\ as
found on the talus at different altitudes, but they did not appear
in the valley, and it is surprising how closely they confined them-
selves to the rocks, as if aware that the marbled colors ot the
lower surface of their wings were only fitted to harmonize with
the gray granite of the broken rocks. The ubiquitous Colias
eurytheme was to be seen all Summer, and I captured one male
specimen of C. behrii\ to which I shall again refer, /lit /tin's
archippns was not uncommon, and two eggs of this speeie.s were
found on a wild gooseberry bush, where they had ITCH laid ap-
parently by accident (there was no milkweed mar). The lar\\e

32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

that hatched from them refused gooseberry, and would certainly
have died had I not supplied them with their ancestral food. Of
Argynnis, three species occurred, A. epithore in the Spring,
followed by what is probably A. monticola, though there seemed
to be two very closely allied forms, perhaps only varieties, in one
of which the marginal spots on the lower side of hind wings were
narrower than in the other and sometimes slightly touched with
silver. Both these forms were taken in coitu and always with a
mate of the same form. A. leto appeared still later, the first male
being seen July loth, and first female July 2ist.

Of the other species captured, I will notice only the most in-
teresting. Lemonias virgulti was common in the Summer on
flowers and sage brush bushes, more especially on the talus around
the valley and above Vernal Fall.

Thecla grunus occurred in swarms around the live oak trees
{Quercus chrysolepis} first appearing about July ist and continu-
ing all Summer. The full grown larvae were found in abundance
on young shoots of this tree about the first of June. Pyrgus
ericelorum was seen on only one day when we captured several
examples feeding on the flowers of the Pussy's Paws (Spraguea
umbellata), but saw none afterward, though we went to the same
place the next day.

About the middle of September, after nearly all my larvae had
stopped feeding, we took a trip to the high Sierras to climb Mt.
Lyell, a peak 13,000 feet high. We left Yosemite on hore-back
with Mr. J. B. Lembert, as guide, who owned a small farm at
Soda Springs, high in the mountains, near the head of the Tuo-
lumne River before the place was included in the National Park.
On September 2oth we made the ascent of the peak, and when
about a quarter of the way up on a spur of the mountain over-
looking the end of the glacier, a specimen of Colias bchrii was
started up which I succeeded in capturing. No more were seen
that day as the weather soon became threatening, and by the
time we reached the top of the glacier, the clouds had begun to
float in over the peaks. On another day, September 22d, we
went to some mountain meadows, 10,000 feet high, where Mr.
Lembert had formerly seen some of the " little green butterflies"
(C behrii), but met with no success, and were obliged to return
almost immediately in a dense snow storm.

When we returned to the vnlley after a day's ride from Soda

1892.]

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

33

Springs, I found that most of the larvae, which had not ceased
feeding when I left and which I had tied out in bags on their
food-plants, had been cut off and destroyed by a crazy Indian,
called " Loco" by the children of the valley. This made a rather
disastrous ending to an otherwise quite successful collecting
season.

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ON THE SPECIES OF OECANTHUS Sen.
By CHAS. A. HART, Champaign, 111.

Although the snowy, or tree cricket is commonly referred to
.as (Ecanthus niveus, there are three or four species quite com-
mon and widely distributed, one of which, CE. fascialus, is in
this State (Illinois) more abundant than niveus. I have just had
occasion to examine a large series of specimens in the collection
of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History including all
the species yet recorded from Illinois. After a fairly satisfactory
assortment of the specimens with the aid of the characters indi-
cated by Prof. Jerome McNeill in " Psyche," vol. vi, p. 6, I noted

that the coloration of the antennae
in each species had a perfectly dis-
tinct and invariable pattern of its
own in all specimens examined.
This character is not affected by
sex, and seems to be the most re-
liable and ready means of separa-
ting the species. Some of these
changes of pattern were noticed
by Dr. Fitch in his description of
CEcanthus niveus (Third Report
on Insects of N. Y. p. 95) as char-
acterizing varieties of that spcri<-,
but the specific identity of these
forms seems now wll established.
CE. bif>nnctiifns De G. has the
apex of the- scape prolonged be-

[EXPLANATION OF cur.J
Basal joints of antenna; of O-.canthiis,
under surface. (The difference in the su-
tures is due to the changing appearance neath forming an acute blackish
of the sutural membrane in different po-
sitions of the antennae) i and z, fZ./oj- tooth. The lore \\ings are CO

ciatHS ; 3, CE. bipunctatus ; 4, CE. niveus:
5, CE. angustipennis ; 6, CE. latipennis.

jointly marked with a fuSGOUS spot
near middle, and .1 lartM- basal spot.
CE. fascia/us Fitch, presents an extraordinary range in depth

34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

of color, without, however, any actual change of pattern. In
the palest specimens, approaching niveus in color, the scape has
on its under surface an inner black longitudinal line, straight, or
with the basal end turned slightly outward. Exterior to this and
near the apex of the joint is a black dot. The second joint has
a similar pattern. The flagellum is luteous or olivaceous, never
annulated with darker wings exteriorly as in angustipennis and
niveus, though the sutures are often slightly paler. The legs
vary correspondingly from pale greenish to black. As the color
deepens, the outer dot in the antennae coalesces with the end of
the line, forming Dr. Fitch's var. b. The lines also thicken, the
dot enlarges, the black extends around the apex, and from the
dot toward the base, until the antenna becomes entirely black.
This species has strong hind tibial spines, the last joint of the
maxillary palpus is clavate, and the fore wings in the male are
wider than in angustipennis.

In CE. angustipennis Fitch, the scape has on its under side a
longitudinal black vitta, the basal end of which curves distinctly
inward; the second joint has a black oval spot beneath. The
flagellum is pale, the outer part annulated with brownish at the
tips of alternate joints. This species is also known by the very
narrow fore wings of the male and the weak spines of the hind
tibia.

Our palest species is niveus DeG. , which is almost colorless,
but in all specimens seen possesses a nearly circular black spot
on the under side of the first and second joints. The flagellum
is pale, usually annulated as in anguslipennis. The tibial spurs
are as \r\fasciatus, and the fore wings are moderately broad.

Our largest species, CE. latipennis Riley, lacks any distinct
markings on the first two joints. The flagellum is decidedly
suffused with reddish brown basally, but the outer portion is not
annulate with darker. The male has the fore wings slightly wider
proportionally than in niveus.

Pasciatus was very abundant this fall along the roadsides;
niveus and ang^lstipennis were taken this Summer at sugar in the
evenings; our specimens of latipennis are all from the southern
part of the State.

"I wish I was human," said the centipede. "It would ruin you," re-
turned the cricket; "just think of having to buy shoes for yourself."-
York Herald.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35

ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

All the Heterocera are commonly termed moths, and moths as
distinguished from butterflies rarely have a distinctly clubbed an-
tennae, and do not usually carry the wings upright, the upper
surfaces opposed, when at rest. In some of our Geometridae the
wings are sometimes carried butterfly fashion, but here there is
no trace of a club to the antennae, and where the antennae might
be called clavate, the posture of the wings is distinctly decum-
bent. The term " heterocera" means variously horned, and, in-
deed, all kinds of variation in antennal structure is found in the
series, save that in American forms there is no distinctly clavate
type represented. The terms expressive of antennal modifica-
tions are best explained when the necessity for their use arises.

Perhaps the most important character for the higher divisions
is found in the venation, and under our present system a know-
ledge of this is absolutely essential to a proper understanding of
relationships, or to enable an insect to be referred to its proper
family. Experience brings a certain knowledge of superficial
appearances which serves to place most specimens,' but even ex-
perienced lepidopterists have been not infrequently misled by
trusting too much to such appearances. Wings can be prepared
for the study of venation in various ways. On larger moths a
deft operator can remove enough of the scales with a camel's-hair
brush to enable him to make out the course of all veins readily.
Smaller moths, where the wings are for temporary use only, can
be soaked for a few minutes in carbolic acid, which will render all
but the veins transparent. The wings may be afterward thrown
away or mounted in balsam without further preparation. \Yhnv
permanent specimens are desired the wings are first placed in
alcohol a few moments to extract grease, then placed in a satu-
rated solution of chloride of lime until all color disappears. They
are then washed in clean water, dried, and are ready t<> mount
on cards with gum, on slides with balsam, or in any other way
fancy dictates. Where rapid bleaching is desired, a drop or two
of hydrochloric acid to the chloride of lime solution will lil» rate
chlorine gas and cause an almost instantaneous bleaching.
will also cause an odor that will drive well disposed persons out

36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

•of the room, and will further, unless watched carefully, eat into
the membrane of the more delicate wings. My practice, when I
want rapid results, is to get the wings into the lime solution, set
the dish on the window-sill outside, drop in my acid, and close
the window until chemical action ceases. The wings are then
ready for study. It is by no means necessary to go through this
process with every new form. When the general course of the
veins is known a few scales removed on the underside, at the
right spot, determines the matter. Where a wing is mounted in
balsam after bleaching, great care must be exercised lest weak
veins be rendered so transparent that they are overlooked, and
folds must not be mistaken for veins. A fold is often much more
•distinct than a vein, but looks solid, with irregular edges, while
a true vein has clean cut edges and is a tube. For forty years
even the best European students had mistaken a fold for a vein
in some Zygcznidce until I pointed out the error, and on the other
hand I was caught napping and failed to see a true vein in Cera-
thosia because made too transparent in balsam.

If I have been somewhat diffuse on the subject of preparing
wings for study, it is only because in venation we have the key
to the present classification, and without it determination of
family is guess work, more or less correct according to the expe-
rience of the guesser.

In a normal heterogeneous wing the primaries have 12, rarely
13, the secondaries 8 veins. On the secondaries the number may
t>e increased to twelve or reduced to four, and it is in the secon-
daries that we find some of our most useful characters.

In the next paper the usual type of venation will be figured
and described.

o

Some of the Insects collected at Jamesburg, N. J., July 4, 1891.

HYMENOPTERA.

By W. J. Fox.
(The rarer species.)

Elis 4-notata Trypoxylon tridentatum

Pompilus fuscipennis Odynerus birenimaculatus

Pompilus virginicus

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

DIPTERA.
By C. W. JOHNSON.

Pachyrrhina incurva Argyramaeba analis

Tipula fasciata Geron macropterus

Chrysops vittatus Psilocephala albifrons

univittatus pictipennis

callidus Psilopus scobinator
niger " patibulatus

fallax Syrphus americana

flavidus Sphaerophoria cylindrica

obsoletus Eristalis dimidiata

Therioplectes trispilus Mesograpta geminata

Leptogaster favillaceus Platychirus hypoboreus

Stichopogon trifasciata Xylota anthereas

Dasyllis tergissa Rivellia conjuncta

flavicollis Tephronota humilis

Erax furax Colobata antennipennis

Proctacanthus rufus Lauxania obscura

Bombylius atriceps Trypeta bella

sp. Sapromyza compedita
Anthrax lateralis

COLEOPTERA.

By PHILIP LAURENT.

(Those species marked f were quite common.)

Cicindela punctulataf Podabrus rugulosusf

Gyrinus lugens ? f Telephorus scitulusf

Dineutes vittatusf Collops 4-maculata

Coccinella g-notataf Onthophagus hecatef

Scymnus terminatus Serica trociformis

Melanotus cribulosus ? Anomala lucicolaf
Limonius basillaris oblivia

Agrilus ruricollis Strigoderma pygmaea

Brachys aerosa Chlamys polycocca

Lucidota atra ? f Cryptocephalus venustusf
Pyropyga nigricans f congestus

decipiens Pachybrachys binotatus
Photuris pennsylvanica atomarius

Chauliognathus marginatusf Chrysochus auratusf

38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

Paria 4-notata Cistela sericea

" aterrima Mordella scutellarisf

Graphops pubescens Macrobasis unicolorf

Colaspis flavida Eugnamptus angustatusf

costipennis (rare) Pterocolus ovatus

Diabrotica i2-punctataf Lsemosaccus plagiatus

Haltica foliacea ? Centrinus scutellum-album

Dibolia aerea Eurymycter fasciatus (rare)
Odontota dorsalis

Notes and.

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ON a Continental forty-five dollar bill, issued on the i4th of January,
J779) is represented an apiary in which two beehives are visible, and bees
.are seen swarming about. The motto is " Sic floret Respublica — thus
flourishes the Republic." It conveys the simple lesson that by industry
and frugality the Republic would prosper. — Harpers Monthly.

Dr. GEO. D. HULST has donated his collection of Lepidoptera to Rut-
gers College. He will retain for the present the families in which he is
working, but everything else goes to the college. The collection is one
of the richest in Catoca/a, and contains a very large number of types in
the Geometridae and Pyralidina. There are nearly 2500 named species
and much undetermined material, some yet undescribed. — J. B. SMITH.

FOOD-PLANTS OF LIMACODID^;. — So far as I have observed, the larvae
of moths of this family feed on the leaves of nearly all, if not all, decidu-
ous trees and shrubs, and readily change from one food-plant to another.
This is in accord with the observations of Dr. Kunze (ENT. NEWS, vol. ii,
p. 208) on Parasa chloris, as it will be noticed that all the plants mentioned
are deciduous trees, except the Bayberry (Myrica ccrifera), which is a
shrub. — HARRISON G. DYAR.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39

"I HAVE never looked at this lovely thing (Papilio marchandii} with
its delicate form and brilliant hue, without my thoughts reverting to the
long past builders of the temples and altars of Palenque and Copan; the
butterfly flitted through the tropical groves in their day, as now, but the
inhabitants of the old dead cities have passed away, their names, their
history unknown! Birds, reptiles and insects now alone tenant the forest
where once stood the populous cities, the kings and priests of which, with
their slaves, sycophants, long ages ago have gone to rest; naught remains
of their past greatness but the moss-coated and time-worn ruins of altar
and idol, and the frail, golden butterfly hovers, suspended in mid-air, over
the monster face of some fallen dagon, which far back beyond even ' the
night of time,' received its meed of human sacrifice; in imagination, we
can see the temples restored, the long train of devotees, all the para-
phernalia of pagan worship, we can hear the sound of music, the shrieks
of the agonized prisoner about to be offered as a propitiation to some
monstrous conception of barbaric superstition; but all now is hushed;
priest, cacique and victim alike, are gone, fallen are the idols, giant trees
grasp with their roots the ruins of the temples, and creeping vines and
gorgeous flowers mingle with the sculpture of the marvelous shrines;
scarce a sound is heard save the rustling of some snake gliding stealthily
to its hole, or shimmering lizard running over leaf or twig." (Lepidoptera,
Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, H. STRECKER.)

LIST OF DRAGONFLIES taken at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass.,
during the seasons of '89 and '90.

1. Calopteryx czquabilis Say 21. Cordulegaster macnlatus Sdys

2. Argia putrida Hag. 22. Macrouiia illinocnsis Walsh

3. Isch ultra vcrticalis Say 23. Cordnlia seiniaqnca Hurm.

4. Enallagma Hageni Walsh 24. princeps Hag.

5. civile Hag. 25. cynosura Say

6. " signatnm Hag. 26. Libcllula e.viista Say

7. Nehalennia irene Hag. 27. quadrimaculata L.

8. Lestes hamata (Hag. 1862) 28. pitlchclla Dru.

9. " rectangularis Say 29. quadruplet Say

10. " vigilax Hag. 30. inccsta \ lag.

11. " nngniculata Hag. 31. Celithcmis cponina Dru.

12. " .forcipata Ramb. 32. clisa Hag.

13. Anax junius Dru. 33. Platheinis irimaculata De Geer

14. sEschna Janata .Say 34. Mesothemis simplicicollis Say

15. " coHstricta Say 35. longipcnnis Uurm.

16. " verticalis Hag. 36. LeucorhiniaproximaCaAv.

17. " herosYsb. 37. Dipla.v costifcra \ 'liler

18. Neuraschna vinosa Say 38. rubicundiila Say

19. Complins e.vilis Selys 39. scinicincia Say

20. " spinosus Selys 40. Perithemis domitia Dm.
They were identified by Miss Wadsworth, of Hallowell.

E. F. HITCH INGS, Bucksport, M<-.

40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,.

THE most beautiful as well as pleasing emblem among the Egyptians
was exhibited under the character of Psyche — the Soul. This was origi-
nally no other than a butterfly, but it afterwards was represented as a
lovely female child with the beautiful wings of that insect. The butterfly,
after its first and second stages as an egg and larva, lies for a season in a
manner dead, and is enclosed in a sort of coffin. In this state it remains
a shorter or longer period; but at last bursting its bonds, it comes out
with new life, and in the most beautiful attire. The Egyptians thought
this a very proper picture of the soul of man, and of the immortality to
which it aspired. But they made it more particularly an emblem of Osiris,
who having been confined in an oak or coffin, and in a state of death, at
last quitted his prison and enjoyed a renewal of life. This symbol passed
over to the Greeks and Romans, who also considered the butterfly as the
symbol of Zephyr. — Cowan, Curious Facts.

WINTER INSECTS. — On a Winter day,, when the sere landscape is enli-
vened by an unclouded sun, let his genial rays tempt the reader to a stroll
in the Pennsylvania woods. He may be cheered by no bird song; no
plants except a few evergreen leaves may brighten his path, but insect life
will be there to welcome him.

Those merriest of dancers, the gnats, come forth from the moist earth
at the call of the sun. Mosquito-like, they have passed their immature
life in the water, and the cases of the little wrigglers are ready to burst
open and liberate the winged insects whenever the sun peeps forth from
the clouds. This may occur on a sunny day, even when the temperature
of the air is far below the freezing point.

Arctic explorers tell us that as far North as they have gone, away up in
the icy fields of Greenland, even where there is no vegetation, these gnats,
or species so closely resembling them that only naturalists can detect the
difference, are found dancing on wing in the sunlight or clinging to the
sides of boats and sledges.

As we continue our walk through the Winter woods we turn over a log
and find crawling about beneath it small, black beetles, a few tough-
skinned, hard-headed grubs, and now and then a spider. If the sun
shines brightly, even though snow may lie deep on the ground, wasps will
be tempted forth from crevices of bark in which they have lain dormant
with the cold, and after becoming thoroughly warmed they will take wing
through the woods.

A butterfly known as the Mourning Cloak, richly dressed in brown and
blue velvet, bordered with gold, comes forth from its snug retreat when
the Winter sun is bright and wings his way through the woods as gayly
as he would in mid-summer. His hiding-place has been in the wind-cracks
of an old chestnut tree or a bunch of clinging leaves. He may be seen
flitting about even when the snow lies several inches deep. Far off in the
Rocky Mountains and among the Alps of Switzerland butterflies of various,
species may often be seen flying over the snow and glacier ice.

If we displace the rustling leaves that cover the ground in the woods-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 4!

we notice now and then a large black beetle running quickly from under
our feet. If snow is on the ground we shall not see him, but in its ab-
sence we shall find him even on the coldest day. He evidently knows
where to hide himself when the unwelcome snow and ice appear.

This torpor of insects is a very different condition from the hibernation
of warm-blooded animals, such as the bear and the marmot. In the latter
a slow and feeble circulation and respiration are kept up, and the creature
lives on the fat that had been stored up in its body before the Winter
sleep came on.

Different insects are affected by cold in very different degrees. Many,
like the common house-fly, become torpid before the temperature falls to
the freezing point. Long before frost comes they succumb to the mod-
erate cold of autumn. There is no doubt that severely cold Winters are
attended with great loss of insect life, which in a milder season would
have survived. — S. F. A. in Philadelphia Times.

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natura
Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Insects have been named for W. W. Newcomb, Henry C. Denslow,
Geo. Miller, D. S. Harris, W. M. Hill, J. H. Talmage, J. H. Bomberger.

ON SENDING INSECTS BY MAIL OR EXPRESS.

We receive so many insects in a broken condition, especially those sent
to the NEWS for determination, that we think a few words on packing and
transportation will be appropriate. We also think we should receive some
reward for our trouble in naming and not be compelled to drop the speci-
mens in the waste basket. Never send pinned or spread specimens by mail
in a single box without an outer cover. Have the box which is to contain
your specimens as light in weight as is consistent with strength; a good
plan is to glue little square uprights in each corner of the box and it will
then stand much pressure. Have the bottom of the box lined with quarter
inch cork and drive the pins well in; should one heavy specimen loos< n
it will ruin all the rest. I lave the si/e of box proportionate to the number
of your specimens, and pin them in as closely as you can without injury.
This box should then be placed in a larger one and the spare brtween
the two filled with some springy material such as hay, cotton, e\celsi«>r
packing, etc., loosely packed in. Don't use an outer box without having
sufficient space between it and the inner, as it is a waste of time and nn >ne\-

42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

as it will be useless. Don't pack the springy material so tightly between
the two that it is useless as a preventive of jarring. Don't have them
come in contact on one side or on the bottom. If the specimens are
many and the box large, send by express. Small packages may be sent
in comparative safety by packing the box containing your specimens in a
large amount of excelsior cotton, etc., loosely around the box and then
making into a bundle by enclosing the whole with hardware paper or other
strong and heavy paper; in this way the postage on the heavy outer box
is saved. It is a good plan to always put a nice layer of raw cotton over
the cork, but never put this over the top of the specimens. When send-
ing Coleoptera with heavy bodies, or moths, always secure the body by a
wisp of cotton, which should be put on as follows: Take a wisp the re-
quired length and tease it out about one-half inch in width; run the pin
through on end and give it a couple turns around the pin so that it holds
tightly and lies close to the place where the pin issues from the thorax,
then bring it around the end of the abdomen and then fasten to the pin
above by a couple of turns. If the bodies are very large, as in the
Sphinges, a pin should be placed on either side to prevent them swinging
around on the pin. Always remember if one becomes loose it ruins
many, and that "one fine, faultless specimen is worth no end of trash."
Neuroptera Odonata should always have a bristle passed through the ab-
domen into the thorax when fresh, otherwise they are almost always broken
oft in transportation. Always put your name and full address on the box.

Entomological Literature.

HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP (London), December, 1891. — An intro-
duction to the study of British Diptera, E. Brunetti, figs. European but-
terflies, R. B. P.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (London), December,
1891. — On the structure of the ocelli of Lithobius, V. Willem.

MONOGRAPH OF ORIENTAL CICADID^E by W. L. Distant. Part iv, pp.
73-96, pis. 7-9.* London, Calcutta, Berlin, September, 1891.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Nov. 7, '91.
— Causeries Odonatologiques, No. 5: Two new groups of Agrionina
from Madagascar, Nesolestes and Nesocncuiis* E. deSelys Longchamps.
Note on Amara convexior Steph. or confitnia Thorn., A. P. de Borre.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, December, 1891. — List of writings of the
late Henry Edwards, W. Beutenmiiller. [This list does not contain Mr.
Edwards' paper " Inguromorpha Slossonii Hy. Edw.," published in ENT.
NKVVS, vol. ii, pp. 71-72, April, 1891, and which was probably the last
he ever wrote.] A catalogue of the Thysanoura of North America, A.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 43

D. Macgillivray. The genus Packardia G. & R., H. G. Dyar. I tescrip-
tions of some butterfly larvae from Yosemite— iv., id. ( >n Cutocn/n /// A///.V
and C.fratercu/a, A. R. Grote. On some British Columbia Cok-<>ptrr,i,
Rev. J. H. Keen. Notes.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xvii, 23, December, 1891.—
On the capture and preparation of Gallflies, E. H. Ruebsaamen. On a
Syrphus developing on Cirsimn* C. Verhoeff. Rhizotrogits atcr and
fiiscus, a reply to Dr. Kraatz, E. Brenske. No. 24, December. On Ger-
man Psocidae, H. Tetens.

MlTTHEILUNGEN DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN GESKLL-

SCHAFT. viii, 8, Schaffhausen, December, 1891. — Some new Orthoptera,*
A. Pictet and H. deSaussure; Phannacus n. gen.; two new species of
Gryllacris are described from "America!" Description of some new
Snout Beetles,* Dr. G. Stierlin. Description of an unpublished species
of the genus Anaspis Geoffroy,* M. Guillebeau. Coleoptera Helvetia?,
pp. 225-256, Dr. G. Stierlin.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST (London), November, 1891. — Tortrix done/ana
Carpenter, R. South. The Diamond-back moth (Plntella crucifenini»i\,
]. Arkle. Captures at the electric light, R. Adkin. Notes on the syn-
onymy of noctuid moths, A. G. Butler (includes some N. American spe-
cies). Coleoptera collected by Mr. Pratt on the upper Yang-tsze-kiang,
and on the borders of Tibet, 2d notice,* H. W. Bates.— December, 1891.
Early stages of Argyrolepia maritimana Guen., G. Elisha, i pi. Insect
pigments, T. D. A. Cockerell. Rearing Limenitis sibyl/a and Pararge
egeria, }. H. Fowler. Cure for the ravages of the larvae of Ncniatus
ribesii and Abraxas grossiilanata, }. N. Still. Reunion between the
same moths, R. Adkin. — January, 1892. Mr. Butler's notes on synonymy
of North American Noctuidae, J. B. Smith. Local British lists, notes and
captures.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), November, '91.
—Entomological notes from Port Darwin, J. J. Walker. Note on three
Australian Carabidae,* H. W. Bates; Eitrylychntis n. g. Sexual charac-
ters in the palpi of Mordellistena abdonrinalis F., G. C. Champion. N< >u s
on the British species of Haltica, }. Edwards. Further remarks on the
genus Eugaster Serville,* W. F. Kirby. Life-history of //r/>.v//V/V.v > n-
berata, N. M. Richardson. Addition to the list of British Ik-mipUTa, V..
Saunders. An earlier name for Tiuagina bctitlu-, II. T. Stainton. Mi-
cropteryx caledoniella: another new species, probablyfrom birch, ':: A. !•'.
Griffith. Notes on Enpcecilia sodaliana Haw. (auiandana II. S. i, with
description of the larva, W. G. Sheldon. Some new, etc., Lepitloptera
from Chili, \V. Bartlett-Calvert.— December, 1891. Life-history of Pin-
fella aiunt latclla Curt., N. M. Richardson. A new genus of HisU-i i.la-,
G. Lewis; Epiechinns. An Asiatic /'.vnV/u/A/.v i /'.v. Innnana n. sji.i. I\.
McLachlan. A new species of Alenrodes* J. \\'. I )nugl.is, ti-s.

* Contains new species other than North American.

44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

tated list of British Tachinidae, R. H. Meade. Change of habit induced
by local conditions, R. McLachlan. — January, 1892. Stylopized bees, R.
C. L. Perkins. Neuroptera observed in the Channel Islands in Septem-
ber, 1891, R. McLachlan. Two new British Hemiptera, E. Saunders.
On a toad killed by the larvae of blow-flies, L. G. Guthrie. Observations
on Coccidse, A. C. F. Morgan. Double-broodedness: whether influenced
by the state of the food-plant?, F. Merrifield. Local British lists, notes
and captures.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxii, 5, Buenos
Aires, November, 1891. — New Hymenoptera of the Argentine and Uru-
guayan faunas,* Dr. C. Berg (continued); Procleticus, Lobepomis n. gen.
Argentine Dipterology (Syrphidse),* F. L. Arribalzaga (continued).

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA by F. Moore. Part viii, London, 1891, pp. 153-
176, pis. 57-64.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGEK (Leipzig), Dec. 14, 1891. — Remarkable de-
velopment of Lucilia sylvanim Meig., G. Duncker. — December 28th.
The reproduction of Peripatus Lcuckartii Sanger, A. Dendy. On the
embryology of insects, N. Cholodkovsky. Observations on the successive
coloring, etc., of the pupal wing cases of Vanessa urticez and lo, Dr. F.
Urech.

DIE TAGFALTER-RHUPALOCERA, von Georg Semper (Reisen im Ar-
chipel der Philippinen von Dr. C. Semper. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaft-
liche Resultate, v, 6) Wiesbaden, 1891,* pp. 239-270, pis. 39-46.

MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH CICAD/E OR TETTIGID.E, G. B. Buckton.
Part vii,* London and New York, Macmillan & Co., July, 1891. Vol. ii,
pp. 97-128, pis. 59-68.

DIE SPINNEN AMERIKAS— BRASILIANISCHE SPINNEN von Graf. E.
Keyserling nach dessen Tode herausgegeben von Dr. George Marx.
Dritter Band. Niirnberg, 1891. Verlag von Bauer & Raspe (Emil
Kuester), 278 pp., 10 pis. Ten new genera and many new species are
described in this volume which treats of the Territelariae.

LEHRBUCH DER VERGLEICHENDEN ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE DER
WIRBELLOSEN THIERE von Dr. E. Korschelt und Dr. K. Heider. Spe-
cieller Theil. Zweites Heft. Mit 315 Abbildungen im text, Jena. Verlag
von Gustav Fischer, 1891, pp. 309-908. This textbook of Comparative
Development-histories of Invertebrate Animals has been very favorably
reviewed by Prof. E. Ray Lankester (" Nature," Dec. 17, 1891), who states
that an English translation is in preparation. This second number of the
special part treats of the Crustacea, Pakeostraca, Arachnoidea, Penta-
stomida, Pantopoda, Onychophora, Myriopoda and Insecta, and concludes
with general statements on the Arthropoda. The Insecta occupy pp.
761-890. To each of the above eight groups a chapter is devoted in which

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 45

the respective subgroups are discussed as regards their i, Embryonal
development; 2, Metamorphoses; 3, Parthenogenesis, Paedogenesis and
Heterogony; and 4, Summary of the group.

ATTI DELLA SOCIETA TOSCANA Di SciENZE NATURALI, vii. Processi
verbal!. 10 May, 1891. List of the Cicindelidae and Carabidce collected
near Livorno by Sign. N. Stoecklin and Dr. C. Lopez, C. Lopez. Con-
tribution to the study of the digestive tube of Arthropoda — Histologiral
and physiological researches on the digestive tube of Orthoptera, O.
Visart.

OREGON AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin No. 14, En-
tomology, F. L. Washburn, Corvallis, Or., 1891.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1891, Part
III, Oct. i, 1891. — On the Lycaenidse of the Solomon Islands,* H. H.
Druce, 2 pis. On an interesting example of protective mimicry dismv-
ered by Mr. W. L. Sclater in British Guiana, E. B. Poulton, i pi.

HIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part xcvii, November, 1891. — Co-
leoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 345-360, G. C. Champion, pis. xiv, xv; pt. 3,
pp. 137-168,1 D. Sharp; vol. vi, pt. i, supplement, pp. 273-280^ M. C.
Jacoby. Hymenoptera: vol. ii, pp. 153-176, P. Cameron, pi. x. Lepid-
optera-Heterocera: vol. ii, pp. 9-24, H. Druce.

SOCIETE LINNEENNE ou NORD DE LA FRANCE (Amiens), 231, Septem-
ber, 1891. — Entomological notes [Hymenoptera], L. Carpentier.

ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD (London), ii, 12, Dec. 15, 1891. — Contains
usual numerous notes on variations and captures of British insects.

BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA, W. H. Edwards, 3d series, part xii,
1891. — Contains Papilio americus, zolicaon, Chionobas U/ileri, vamna.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE (6), x, u- Tri-
mestre, Aug. 8, 1890. — Descriptions of new or little-known Microkpidop-
tera,* A. Constant, i pi. Lepidoptera from the voyage of M. Ch. Allaud
to Assinie, West Africa, in 1886,* P. Mabille, 2 pis. Descriptions of four
new Lepidoptera,* id., Parnia n. gen. Formicida; from the voyage of M.
E.Simon to Venezuela, 1 887-88,* C. Emery. On Arachnids from Temen, i
E. Simon. Arachnids from the expedition of Comte S. Teleki in eastern
equatorial Africa in 1887-88,* id. Arachnids from the Marian Isk-s from
M. A. Marche,*f id. Bulletin of Proceedings. — 2e Trimestre, Nov. 26,
1890. Orthoptera from the voyage of M. E. Simon to \Vmvnela, *t '•
Bolivar, figs. Hemiptera-Homoptera from the same,* L. Lethirm.
Contributions to the Indo-Chinese fauna (ColeopU-ra),*t J. Bourgeois.
Description of the larva of Jtntomoscelis adonidis. Pall, and tin- nymph
of Quedius tristis Grav., P. Lesne, figs. Malachida? of Europe and
neighboring countries, E. Abeille de Perrin, 4 pis. (continued in the next

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new

46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

two Trimestres). New or little-known Diptera, J. M. F. Bigot (Doli-
chopodi)*f. Bulletin*-)-: Olfactiou in Lepidoptera, S. Alpheraky and in
36 Trimestre. — 36 Trimestre, Feb. 25, 1891. Pselaphidae from the voyage
of M. E. Simon to Venezuela, *f A. Raffray. Essay on the classification
of Pyralidae,* E. L. Ragonot (continued in 4e Trimestre), 5 pis. Bulletin*!.
—46 Trimestre, June, 1891. Supplementary note on the Coleoptera of
Obock,* L. Fairmaire. Chrysomelidse from the voyage of M. Ch. Allaud
to Assinie,* E. Allard. Bulletin.*!

THE LIFE-HISTORY OF SPALGIS S-SIGNATA HOLL. by W. J. Holland
(" Psyche," January, 1892, pp. 201-203, i pi.

ATTI BELLA SOCIETA VfiNETO-TRENTINA DI SCIENZE NATURALI RESI-

DENTE IN PADOVA, 1891. — Araneids of Lesina, G. Castelli. New species
of Phytoptus* G. Canestrini.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE ZOOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE (Paris), xvi, 7, July,
1891. An error of sense in some insects of the family Dytiscidae, X.
Raspail.

IL NATURALISTASICILIANO (Palermo), ix, i, October, 1891. — On Sicilian
Orthoptera, G. Riggio.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECPS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Copteodes Candida Wright, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2), iii, p. 34, S. W.
Calif.

New species of Geometridae, H. Druce, Biol. Centr. Amer. pt. xcvii.

Ulophora, U. Groteii, N. Car., p. vii; Glyptocera (type consobrinella Z.)
p. vii; Laodainia (type fcecella Z.), p. vii; Lcetilia (type coccidivora
Comst.), p. viii, new genera of Phycitidae, Ragonot, Bull. Soc. Ent.
France, 1890.

New genera and species of Pyralidae, Ragonot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France,
1890, pp. 435-546.

COLEOPTERA.

In Biologia Centrali-Americana, pt. xcvii (see ante), new species of
Mordillistena and Rhipidophoridae are described by G. C. Champion, of
Rhyncophora by Dr. D. Sharp, of Phytophaga by M. Jacoby.

Chevrolati Grouvellei, Croissandeau Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1890, p.
clvi, Mex.

Temnochilodes, T. Dugesi, Leveille, Bull. Socr. Ent. France, 1890, p.
clxxxiii, Morelia, Mex.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47

HYMENOPTERA.

New species of Crabronidae and Pompilidae, P. Cameron, Biol. Centr.-
Amer. pt. xcvii.

DIPTERA.

New genera and species of Dolichopodi, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France,
1890, pp. 261-296.

Doings of Societies.

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 1891. — Under
short notes Mr. Howard recorded the capturing on the window-sill of his
residence, November i6th, an active female of J\ fa/it 'is (Stagnionnuttis}
Carolina Burm., thus giving a record of occurrence later than that previ-
ously recorded by Mr. Lugger, viz., November nth.

Dr. Marx read a paper entitled " Life-history of Tholyphonus giganteus
Lucas," in which, after dwelling on the importance of even fragmentary
records of the history of little known or rare animals, he gave an account
of his having kept in confinement the young of this arachnid for over a
year. The specimen came from Florida to Prof. Riley, and was, when
received, in its first stage and newly hatched. It fed readily on roaches
and refused flies. A description was given of the first stage and also after
the first skin had been cast, which did not occur for over a year.

Discussed by Messrs. Mann, Marx, Test, Ashmead, Schwarz, Howard,
Banks and Marlatt.

Mr. Pergande presented a note on the " Peculiar Habits of Ammophila
gryphus Smith." A very interesting description was given of the actions
of a female of this insect about the site of a completed and closed bur-
row, in which later examinations showed that she had deposited the full
grown larva of Heterocampa (sub-albicans Grt.) inanteo Doub., having
first deposited an egg about mid-way of the body of the host larva. A
figure was exhibited showing the larva with the egg in situ together with
the specimen itself and an example of the Ammophila.

Discussed by Messrs. Fox, Ashmead, Schwar/ and Marlatt.
Mr. Linell presented a note on the N. A. species of Valgus, in whirl],
after a reference to the bibliography of the three N. A. species of the
genus, a table for their separation was given. Discussed by Mr. Schwarz.
Mr. Banks gave some notes on Prodidomits nifus Hent/, a spider which
has not been seen since Hentz's time. His remarks comprised a refer-
ence to the bibliography of the species, a statement of its relationship
and characteristics together with a careful description based on immature
specimens found in a drawer among loose papers last Summer. I >is-
cussed by Messrs. Fox, Gill, Marx, Howard and others.

48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

Mr. Chittenden presented by title a paper on " Food-habits of Chryso-
melidse."

Mr. Schwarz called attention to a statement by Dr. M. Busgen (in the
latter's work on the honey-dew of Aphids) to the effect that the honey-
dew is not secreted from the nectaries as hitherto supposed, but ejected
from the anus. He also referred to an interesting work recently pub-
lished by C. A. Piepers on migratory movements of butterflies on the
island of Java, and gave a brief resume" of the author's explanation of
these phenomena which are comparable to the nuptial flight observed in
other insects.

January 7, 1892. — Election of officers for 1892 resulted as follows :

President, C. V. Riley; First Vice-President, C. L. Marlatt; Second
Vice-President, Wm. H. Ashmead; Treasurer, E. A. Schwarz; Recording
Secretary, Nathan Banks; Additional members of Executive Committee,
Wm. H. Fox, Geo. Marx and B. E. Fernow.

The retiring President, Dr. Marx, delivered his annual address on "An
Introduction to a Monograph of the American Ticks (Ixodidae)." In an
introductory chapter the author drew attention to the absence of mono-
graphic works which would attract and facilitate the work of the begin-
ners in Arachno ogical studies, and also the inherent difficulties in the
obscurity of many of the classificatory characters. He pointed out the
nature and extent of the work already done in the various groups of
Arachnida and followed with a reference to the bibliography of the writings
both foreign and American on the ticks of this country.

A full chapter on the morphology of ticks followed, and also extended
notes on the biology of these parasites in which personal observations
were recounted, showing that ticks are not necessarily parasitic on warm-
blooded animals, but may reach full growth, and in fact complete the
cycle of their existence on a strictly vegetable diet, and also that ticks,
after being gorged with blood, may revert to vegetable food. The address
was discussed by various members.

C. L. MARLATT, Recording Secretary.

ERRATA.

Vol. II, p. 102, line 17 from bottom for not read but.

" " line 15 from bottom for at most read almost.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. MARCH, 1892. No. 3.

CONTENTS:

Slosson — A Long-lived Basket Maker... 49

Johnson and Fox — List of Hemiptera

Blaisdell— A new species of Coleoptera collected in Jamaica 59

from California 51 j Notes and News 60

Mason — Notes on Callimorpha 52 Entomological Literature 64

Smith— Elementary Entomology 53 Review 71

Harvey — An American species of Tem-

pletonia 57

Plate II represents some butterflies and moths selected to test
this method of illustration. The dark Hesperids in the centre
row do not show up very well, as they needed a longer exposure
than the remainder to bring out sufficient detail for proper iden-
tification. Some of the species represented are from Greenland,
and will be discussed in a paper to appear in the Proceedings of
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The list of
species is as follows : i, Dasychira gronlandica 9 ; 2, D. gron-
landica £ ; 3, D. gronlandica £ var. (this species has never
been in any of our American lists); 4, Colias heda var. pallida,
nom. in litt. ; 5, Pamphila zabulon £ upper side; 6, same, under
side; 7, Pamphila Aaroni £ ; 8, same, under side; 9, Argvnnis
chariclea var. gronlandica; 10, same, underside; n, Neonympha.
Mitchelli; 1 2, same, under side.

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A LONG-LIVED BASKET MAKER.
By ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON, New York City.

In the early part of February, 1890, at Punta Gorda, Fla., I
found a half finished "basket" of Oikcticus Abbotii Grt. The
larva was still at work, and I took him with his uncompleted
log-cabin to my room at the hotel. There, in a glass tumbler

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50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

covered with a bit of mosquito netting- and supplied with food
and building materials, he lived and throve during the rest of my
stay there. His food-plant was oak, but I have found this species
upon so many different trees, shrubs and herbs, that it may be
considered omnivorous. He ate freely and worked busily at the
construction of his home. He was not particular as to the sort
of building material, using bits of dried leaves, small twigs or
leaf petioles indiscriminately. When I left Punta Gorda I carried
the larva and case with me, going to Ormond and other parts of
Florida. Early in April I returned to New York. The larva
was then full grown and its case apparently finished. I could
procure no oak leaves at that early season, so tried various other
things, house plants of different kinds, and the dried leaves found
in boxes of pressed figs. Of all these the larva ate sparingly,
but enough to keep him alive and well. About the middle of
May I went to Franconia, N. H., and of course took my case
bearer along. He had, some days before I left home, suspended
his basket from the mosquito netting at top of tumbler and been
perfectly quiescent since. The journey by train and carriage did
not disturb him, nor did he show any sign of life for several weeks
after arriving in the mountains, I thought him dead or trans-
formed, but made no examination. Under these conditions I
ceased to cater for him, and he was entirely without access to food
for some weeks. One day in June I took off the netting which
covered the glass and forget to replace it. When I returned an
hour later and took up the piece of netting the basket had dis-
appeared. Every one in the house was questioned, but no in-
formation obtained, and I finally gave my Oikcticus up as lost.
That evening my eye was suddenly caught by a dark spot on the
white window curtain and there was my basket fastened neatly
by a strong silken cord, and hanging quietly. From that time
the life of Oiketiais was a series of surprises, and the unexpected
was always happening. For weeks he would remain utterly
motionless within his hanging case, then he would crawl down
to some dried leaves at bottom of the glass, bite off, one after
another, large semi-circular pieces and fasten them irregularly to
his basket Only at long intervals did he ever eat a particle as
far as I could see, though constantly supplied with fresh food.
In this \\ay he spent the whole Summer. He traveled with me
from place to place, was on the summit of Mt. Washington for

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several days, went to the Thousand Islands and Montreal and
returned to New York in October.

In the latter part of January I went again to Florida, and Oi-
keticus accompanied me. He had shown no sign of life for nearly
a month, and even the return to his native place did not at first
revive him. But in a few days I saw him crawling about, and
occasionally nibbling at a piece of dry leaf. Fresh food he
scarcely ever tasted. Again I returned North, and again my
larva came with me; after this he refused all food, but crawled
about his glass prison, and from time to time added a bit of deco-
ration to his house. Then he became quite motionless, and thus
remained, hanging from the netting for some six weeks. In that
state I carried him once more to Franconia. On a cold morning
in early May, among the northern hills, his lagging, prolonged,
creeping existence terminated, and he flew out a fine winged
imago, nearly fifteen months from the day I first found him in
southern Florida.

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A NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA FROM CALIFORNIA.

By F. E. BLAISDELL, M.D., Coronado, Cal.

Scyniuus lophanthae n. sp. — Oval, slightly elongate, punctulate, pubes-
cent. Head, pronotum, and entire under surface rufo-testaceous. Mouth
parts piceous. Pronotum with a faint discal cloud occupying central por-
tion, reaching quite to apical border; sides parallel in posterior half, ar-
cuate anteriorly with apical angles slightly rounded. Elytra black, with
a strong metallic lustre; pubescence dual, consisting of blackish, erect
and recumbent flavo-cinereous hairs. Abdomen rather thickly set with
semi- recumbent hairs.

Female. — Under parts testaceous. Length 2.2 mm.; width 1.7 mm.

Hab. — San Diego. There is considerable variation in the dis-
tinctness of the pronotal cloud, it may be absent or very decided.
In many specimens examined the sternal and central abdominal
areas were quite dark; as a rule the color is lighter in tin- female.
My attention was first attracted to this very interesting species by
Wm. Vortriede, gardener in charge of the parks at Con>nad<>.
He had observed them feeding upon the San Jose Scale (.-/.</>/<//-
otus perniciosus) infesting the Acacia lophctnthct. Subsequent
observation fully confirmed his statements. The scale was ex-
ceedingly abundant, as was also the beetle in all stages of de-
velopment.

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NOTES ON CALLIMORPHA.

By J. T. MASON, Houston, Texas.

During the past season I learned something new, to me, about
Callimorphia LeContei* which may be of interest to some of
your readers, and if it is not out of place here, I would like to
suggest that if collectors would give their various experiences in
the field in non technical language, so that we unscientific readers
can understand and profit by it, it would prove both interesting
and instructive. I was anxious to get as many varieties of Le-
Contei this season as possible for my own collection. I have
over seventy, no two exactly alike, and I knew of a place in the
suburbs of this city, not more than four acres in extent, where I
had last year caught a large number, but all of the lemon variety.
I was anxious to find the white, and a friend told me that the
white came out first, and that I had missed the first brood last
year; I had made a note of the date, and I commenced watching
the place three weeks before the time I had set for their appear-
ance; they showed up on time, but were all lemon as before. I
caught what I wanted and then went to see my friend; he told
me that he had caught his white ones at the Crosstimbers, some
six or seven miles from town. The following day I drove down
to the place and made a thorough search, but failed to find a
single specimen. Towards evening I turned homeward, discour-
aged. In crossing the prairie the road passes through a few
scattered pines, and while driving through them I saw one cross
the road, a pure white one; I caught it and searched around
there, but found no more. I had not driven over two hundred
yards when another crossed in front of me, also white. I got
out and searched again, and found them in quantities. Now I
come to the. peculiar feature: while the first were all lemon, so
these were all white. Idid not find, out of possibly a thousand
caught, one single lemon one, notwithstanding that a few days
afterwards I found another lot of lemon on this same prairie no-t
over one mile distant from the latter, and there was no white
amongst them. Now the question I ask myself is, why do the
two colors keep separate? they are undoubtedly the same moth.
Here are two separate colonies within a mile of each other, on

* The two insects herein mentioned are C suffusa Smith and C. lactata Smith, which are
probably forms of Colona Hbn. = Clymene Esp. — ED.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 53

the open prairie, absolutely no barrier between them, why do
they not mingle ? I caught among the lemons some that appeared
to be pure white, but when compared with the white, of the
white variety, they are a cream-white, and readily distinguished.
I note still another peculiarity. I have, as I said before, over
seventy with no two exactly like. We will take say the lemon,
we have the fully marked upper wings and the markings de-
crease gradually until we come to the pure white, or rather
cream upper wing and lemon under wing, and then the all cream,
both upper and under; the same is true of the white variety, ex-
cept that the pure white are by far the most plentiful. Still in all
this large variety of markings or parts of them if continued
would make the perfect pattern, as a friend remarked while look-
ing at them, that they looked as if the wing originally was white
and the color afterwards stenciled on, the feebly marked repre-
senting where the brush was full of coloring matter, and clown
through all the degrees of dashes and dots until finally we come
to the one without a mark.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

In examining the denuded wings, one of the first things noticed
is, that more supporting veins reach the outer margin than reach
the base; that while a very few trunks extend from the base to
the margin of the wing, two large trunks start from the base, but
rarely extend beyond two-thirds of the distance to the outer mar-
gin, giving off at that point a variable number of branches. These
main trunks that reach the base are called veins, whether or no
they reach the margin as well. The branches, which reach the
margin, but do not reach the base, are called venules. rieginning
at the anterior edge of the primaries we find a vein close to the
thickened front margin, extending from the base to tin- margin
always before the tip of the wing. This is the costal vein; it is
almost universally present, is never branched in my experience,
and has no modifications of systematic value save that there may
'be a cross branch extending between it and the costa. Next below
the costal vein at base is the subcostal, running parallel and some-

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

[March,

times very close to the costal, but rarely extending much beyond
the middle of the wing. This vein gives off, normally, six
branches, which are called the subcostal venules. Of these, one
or two usually separate from the main trunk before the end, and
the others are grouped at the tip. Sometimes, to facilitate this
grouping, a cell is formed around which the branches start, and
this, when present, is termed the accessory cell, marked a in the
figure. Sometimes, instead of all the branches reaching either
the vein or the accessory cell, a stalk may be sent out, which in
turn branches. So in the figure, branches 8 and 9 are from a
stalk out of the tip of the accessory cell; 6, 7 and 10 are out of
the accessory cell, while 1 1 is out of the subcostal itself. The
accessory cell is present in comparatively few families only, and
its presence or absence is of systematic value. The arrangement
of the subcostal venules is also used in classification, and quite
frequently some of them are wanting.

Below the subcostal at base is the median vein running parallel
to, but more or less diverging from the subcostal, and extending

usually about as far into the wing. The space between the sub-
costal and median veins is called the median cell. Quite usually
a slender transverse veinlet extends from the tip of one to the tip

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of the other, and the cell is then said to be closed, as in the figure.
When this transverse veinlet is wanting, the cell is said to be
open. The median vein gives rise to four branches — the median
venules — the first of them usually some distance before the tip,
the others, grouped more or less closely, from the end. The
arrangement of these veins is of systematic value, and especially
the position of the last of the branches, marked 5 in the figure.
This sometimes severs connection with the series to which it
belongs and arises, apparently out of the cross-vein; or, where
there is no distinct cross-vein out of the tissue itself, and it is then
called the independent. Sometimes it is nearer to 6 than to 4,
but never becomes one of the subcostal series; sometimes it is
altogether wanting, and it is one of the most valuable from the
systematic standpoint of the venules of the primaries.

Below the median vein at base is the submedian, extending par-
allel with the hinder or inner margin to the anal angle. It is
rarely absent, and never branches. It sometimes becomes forked
at the base, and this furcation is given great systematic value.
It is one of the distinctive characters of the Noctuidae, and its
absence Ivould be sufficient in most cases to exclude a species not
so characterized; sometimes a supplementary vein will be present
running parallel with the submedian, and between it and the
median. This is the second submedian, and its presence charac-
terizes a small number of families.

This makes the normal 12, or exceptional 13 veins of the pri-
mary. For convenience they are numbered as they reach the
margin, beginning at the anal angle. The submedian is number
i, the second submedian is ia; veins 2 to 5, inclusive, are median
branches; veins 6 to u, inclusive, are subcostal branches, and
vein 12 is the costal. The numbers are more convenient to use
in descriptive work, and, as the plan is so uniform, it is quite as
accurate and scientific.

Beginning at the base of secondaries, along the anterior margin
we find first the costal vein, usually reaching quite close to the
tip of the wing. This affords good characters. Sometimes it i>
entirely wanting; sometimes it is connected with the subcostal \<\-
a cross-vein; sometimes it does not reach the I>;IM- at all, 1-ut
unites with the subcostal, and sometimes it unites and separates
again, forming a small cell at the base as in the figure.

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Below the costal is the subcostal vein running- parallel with it
a variable distance and then forking at the tip, never into more
than two branches. One of these branches may also be obsolete,
and there may then be a single vein running from base to outer
margin.

Below the subcostal at base starts the median vein, and this in
its branchings is exactly like the corresponding vein of the pri-
maries. The median cell is also formed in the same way, and
may also be either open or closed. As in the 'primaries, vein 5,
the last branch of the median, is very variable in position, and
furnishes good characters. Below the median there may be one,
two or three submedian veins, and these furnish bases for large
divisions. The Tortricids and Pyralids, for instance, all have
three internal or submedian veins, while the macros rarely have
more than two. Sometimes one or the other of these veins forks
at the base, and this also is a good character. Counting all the
median veins as one, the secondaries have eight veins, the sub-
costal system being little developed as compared with the prima-
ries. Here also the numbering system is most generally used,
the numbers in the figure being those generally adopted.

At the base of the secondaries next the primaries, there is fre-
quently a spine or spur, which fits into a more or less evident
loop on the under side of the primaries, and serves to hold the
wings together. This is called the frenelum or frenum. There
is a curious sexual modification in this structure. In the males
it is always a single spine only. In the female it is never simple,
but there are two. three, or even four weaker spines, or even a
little bunch of stiff hair only.

The above is the typical venation to which all modifications
found in the Lepidoptera may be reduced. A few aberrant types
only, like the Hepialidae and Psychidae, will need special explana-
tion.

(To be continued.)

A St. Louis physician states that he has discovered peculiar microscop-
ical insects in cigarettes. This may account for the wormy look so many
ot" their consumers wear. — }]ras]iington Post.

A canary with a swollen hind toe was brought to a bird fancier recently,
and he pronounced the trouble poisoning from a mosquito bite. He said
the thing was not uncommon. — .\<T. ' York Situ.

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AN AMERICAN SPECIES OF TEMPLETONIA.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Maine.

Templetonia americana n. sp.

Mr. Macgillivray, in his recent catalogue of the Thysanourons
of North America (Can. Ent. December, 1891), makes no men-
tion of the occurrence of Templetonia in America. Having
studied a species of this genus the first season that is quite com-
mon about Orono, Me., we record the following observations
upon it :

Generic characters in every particular as recorded by Lubbock (Mom >-
graph Collembola and Thysanoura p. 142).

Specific characters. — Silver}7 white, sometimes pale, brownish or rusty
color, laid on in spots and streaks; a delicate pink reflection, especially
from young specimens; clothed with silvery iridescent scales; eye patches
very small, pale brown. Head nearly round, somewhat pointed in front,
broadest behind and somewhat longer than broad. Antenna; white, five
jointed, basal joint short, about one-fourth the length of the second;
terminal joint nearly or quite as long as the third and fourth together,
slender, and, in mature specimens, composed of seventeen sub-joints, the
basal and terminal sub-joints each one-fifth the total length of the joint;
the middle three-fifths composed of fifteen nearly equal sub-joints; in
younger specimens the terminal joint seems shorter and composed of
fewer sub-joints. Body elliptical and rounded anteriorly, widest at the
fifth segment; first, fifth and sixth segments long, third segment short.
Legs white, rather long; larger claw long and slender; elater long, basal
joint four-fifths the total length. Thoracic collar of numerous bowed,
club-shaped hairs; similar ones on the head, and a dense tuft of hairs
projecting forward between the antennae and reaching to the third joint;
scattered long hairs on the segments of the body.

Measurements. — Total length 1.65.; head, .345 mm. long, .292 mm.
broad; antennas, .718 mm.; length of the joints in the ratio of 1-4-5-6-1 1 ;
elater, .8mm.; basal joint, .367 mm.; claw, .046111111. long; segments of
the body in the ratio of 15-10-6-10-15-13-7-3 in one specimen, and in
another 11-6-2-6-8-15-5-2.

The above measurements were made from the largest specimens seen,

Remarks. — This is a smaller species than T. crystalline MiilK-r.
The largest ones we saw did not measure over 1.65 mm., while
the majority were never over 1.5 mm., and many less. I.ul>l»>< k
gives the length of T. crystillina Muller as two and a quarter
millimetres. Our specimens are not obovate, but more elliptical
oblong, and widest at the fifth segment. The- antenna- of Lul>-
bock's species as figured in his monograph are considerable im .1 -<•

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[March,

than half the length of the body and head, and quite slender.
In this species the antennae are thick and about equal to or less
than half the length of the body and head. The terminal joints
of the antennas as shown in Lubbock's figure are made up of
fully twenty-Jive sub-joints of about equal length; while this spe-
cies has in the largest specimens only seventeen joints and a less
number in smaller ones, while the basal and terminal sub-joints
are as long as described above.

Some of our specimens when alive showed traces of rusty
streaks and spots, but after being in alcohol for three months
there is no evidence of the reddish spots said to develop under

Fig. 2.

Fig. 3.

such conditions upon T. crystallina. Balsam specimens are a
beautiful pink color. The movements of this species are sluggish,
and though provided with a well developed spring it does not
seem disposed to use it, unless absolutely necessary.

We have not examined T. crystallina. Muller, but the smaller
size, shorter, thicker antennae with fewer sub-joints to the terminal

[1892. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 59

segment, the more elliptical form of the body and the fact that it
does not develop red spots in alcohol, would seem to separate
this form from that species. Figs, i, 2 and 3 represent the dorsal,
ventral and side view of a young specimen i.i mm. long, magni-
fied forty-five times; i and 2 show the general form of the body,
somewhat too broad, and the terminal joints of the antemue in
all the cuts have fewer sub-joints than occur in adult specimens,
and the short basal or fifth joint to the antenna does not show.
The figures were made for the writer from line specimens by Mr.
J. H. Emeston, of Boston, Mass.

Found under boards at several places on the college campus at
Orono, also in abundance in the writer's garden in potato hills,
about the tubers affected by potato scab and potato rot. Some-
times nearly a dozen would be found on a single tuber in the de-
pressions made by the scab. Associated with Iratonia tricolor,
Lipura ambulous, Lepidacyrtis mctallicns, Tomocerus plumbeus
and an undetermined Achorutes. Many specimens examined
during September, October and November, '91, by F. L. Harvey.

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List of Hemiptera Collected in Jamaica, W. I.

By C. W. JOHNSON and WM. J. Fox.

The following Hemiptera were collected in Jamaica during
April and May, 1891. Most of the species were obtained at
Kingston, Morant Bay, and Port Antonio; those of common
occurrence are indicated by an asterisk (*). We are indebted
to the kindness of Prof. P. R. Uhler for the determination of the
species, which have been placed either in the collection oi the
American Entomological Society, or the Wagner Free Institute
of Philadelphia.

Sephina maculata* Dallas, Leptoglossus stigma Herbst, Anasa
bcllator Fab., A. scorbiitica Fab., Accratodes bijida:- Say, . /.
meditabunda Fab., Nezara marginala Bv., A<i/ms ni^crriiints
Dallas, Proxy s victor* Fab. , Thyanta perditor* Fab. , ( \itorliiutlia
gtittrita Fab., Euchistus crenator* Fab., Mormidca pict
Stal, Zicca t&niola Dallas, Alydns pallctccns Stal, Lygaw i-
color Fab. (var.), L. pulchcllns^ Fab., L. aulicus Fal>. , I., san-
darachatus* Say, Dysdercus mini its** Say, D.andrece* Linn., /'
sanguinarius Stal, Zc/us rubidit^- St. Farg., Harmosifs ncbit-

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losus Stal, Corizus sidce* Fab., Megaccelum rubrinerva Dist.,
Lygus sp. , Corimelcena minutd* Uhler, Plagiognathus indis-
tinctus* Uhler (MS.), Pycnoderes insignis Rent., Collatia expli-
cata* Uhler, Salda humilis Say (var. ), Rhogovelia collaris*
Burm., Parmera bilobata Say, P. parvula Dallas, Geocoris dis-
paratus Uhler (MS.), Tettigonia herbidd* Guer., T. flaviceps
Riley, T. robusta* Sign., T. robusta* Sign, (var.), T. n. sp. ?,
Agallia n. sp. ?, Ormenis pallescens Stal, Dascalia acuta Uhler
(MS.), Paroristes humilis* Uhler (MS.), Bothriocerus sp., Copi-
cerus thoracicus Guer. , Centrotus havanensis Guer. (var.), Ophi-
derma scutellatus* Uhler (MS.).

Notes and.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

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Mr. JAMES ANGUS, of West Farms, New York City, has presented his
fine collection of insects to the American Museum of Natural History.

TRANSACTIONS of American Entomological Society. — Of volume xix
(1892) twenty-four pages have been printed, containing " Studies in Chryso-
melidas," by Dr. G. H. Horn, and the first pages of "A Study of Amara,
s. g. Celia," also by Dr. Horn. This volume promises to be an unusually
good one, and we propose to notice the progress made from month to
month.

CARABUS NEMORALIS Miill. — In the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 126,
I made mention of having seen a specimen of C. hortensis Fab. ( == ne-
moralis Mull.} in the cabinet of Mr. A. Murray, of London, with the label
Hudson's Bay. Being unwilling on the evidence of one not very well
authenticated specimen to admit the species to our lists, no other record
than that above recorded has been made. In December last I received

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through the kindness of Mr. Henry S. Harbeck, of New York City, two
specimens of this species with the following information, which I tran-
scribe: "While on a business trip to St. Johns, N. B., in April and .May,
1890, Mr. C. B. Riker, of Maplewood, N. J., devoted his leisure time to
collecting Coleoptera, and among his captures were fourteen Carabits
nemoralis, which, as you say, is the first authentic case of its occurrence
in North America. He says that the beetles were quite common and
those that he took were collected in less than an hour." From this it is
evident that nemoralis is fairly naturalized in America, and should now
be added to our list and placed after limbatits. — G. H. HORN.

HEXAPLASTA ZIGZAG (Riley). — Although first made known as a native
of the cotton-growing States, this insect is a familiar inhabitant of New
England, being found during the first warm days of Spring upon the dan-
delion blossoms, and in July upon windows in company with two species
of Phora. The radial cell varies in being either open or closed. The
disc of the scutellum is convex. — YV. H. PATTON, Hartford, Conn

NOTE ON CYCHRUS. — In the January number of ENT. NEWS, Mr. H.
F. Wickham gives a note on the geographical distribution of Cychrus,
which is very interesting, and an invitation to the readers thereof to fur-
nish more notes on geographical distribution. This brings to my mind a
little incident which may be of interest to the readers. In the early part
of Spring, 1890, while collecting on an island, situated on the beautiful
sandy New Jersey coast, I was pleasantly surprised by the capture of
Cychrus clevatus Fab. I did not expect to find the genus inhabiting this
locality. Although carefully searching I could only find the one. The
next day, about one-half mile from where I found the first, I had the re-
ward of capturing the second. The specimens differ very much from
those found on the mainland proper, as they are minus that beautiful lustre,
and the thorax is not so well developed, in all they resemble somewhat
more the Pacific coast fauna. As these are the only specimens of Cychrus
that I know of as having been found on the New Jersey coast, it is very
interesting, and I should be pleased to hear if other species have been
found inhabiting the islands along the coast. — H. \Y. WKNZEL, Phila.

Mrs. A. T. SLOSSON by this time has probably started on a trip t<> the
Southwest, taking in Louisiana, Texas, and perhaps Mexico. We suppose
that many bugs in those regions will have to deliver up some of their
interesting secrets.

THE Anthophora described by me in Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. v, is . /.
Ha/s/iii ?. I took A. Stni//iii in Kansas in iSSi, and have rovivnl
specimens of it from California, riistotrichia Mora \vitx, is a synonym of
Ant/i flphora; it differs merely in the individual aberration of the venation
described by me in Anthophora and Clisodon.— \Y. H. Patton, Hartford. Ct.

62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

THE following has been extracted from a circular which has been sent
to entomologists and others. We hope the collection may be obtained
and provision made for its preservation: " Dear Sir, — An effort upon the
part of a few professional and personal friends of the late Harry Edwards,
to purchase and present to the American Museum of Natural History (of
the city of New York) his magnificent Entomological Collection, has met
with so much encouragement that the Committee in charge ventures to
call your attention to the matter. A number of gentlemen have already
subscribed one hundred (|ioo) dollars each towards the sum required,
fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars, and it is hoped that you will be willing
to contribute a similar amount. The object of the movement is not only
to secure for the city of New York a treasure of inestimable value, but to
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York City."

IN a letter from Mr. W. F. Kirby, of the British Museum, the following
may interest the readers of the NEWS, premising that everybody knows
that Mr. Kirby is at work on a catalogue of the Heterocera of the world.
" My first volume (Sphinges and Bombyces) will run to about £00 pages,
and include, I think, 28 families, some of them numbering over 200 genera.
All but four are now in the printer's hands, so that I hope the publication
of the book will not be much longer delayed." * * * "I have relegated
the Sesiidae to the neighborhood of the micro-lepidoptera. I doubt if
you have any Heterogymdae in America. Heterogynis is a small Euro-
pean genus with males like Procris, but with apterous females." Mr.
Kirby's book, when published, will form one of the most useful assistants
the working entomologist can have. — JOHN B. SMITH.

A BIT OF HISTORY. — Miss Morton's very interesting notes in the Jan-
uary number of ENT. NEWS show that there is some confusion among the
names of the smaller Limacodidae, and it may be interesting to briefly go
over the literature of these forms. In 1854, Herrich-Schaffer published
three figures as Limacodes texula, L. pallida, and L. flavula. In 1864,
Packard erroneously identified a specimen in the Harris collection as L.
t ex tula, and, believing it separable from the genus Limacodes, created
the genus Isa for it. In the same year he also described Heterogenea
shurtleffii, and made the genus Tortricidia for Herrich-Schaffer's species
pallida and flavula. In 1866, Grote & Robinson described Limacodes
iiioniata, and in 1876, Grote created the genus Sisyrosea for it. Finally,
in 1880, Grote described the species Limacodes cczsonia and L.fle.vuosa.
Now, as far as I know, there are but four species for all these names. The
larva of the first one was figured in Harris' "Entomological Correspon-
dence," and has been described by Mr. Hulst and by myself. The moth

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was first described as inornafa, but is the species for which the genus ha
was made, and should be known as Isa inornafa. The larva of the second
is unknown. It is Heterogenea shurtleffii, of which c&sonia Grt. is a
variety. The larva of the third is also unknown. It is the textula of
Herrich-Schaffer (not of Packard), and was redescribed by Grote as
flexuosa. It should be known as Heterogenea textu/a. The larva of
the fourth species is the one described by Miss Morton. It has also been
described by myself, and should be known as Tortricidia pallida H.-S.
T. flavula is only a variety of it, and represents the form without marks
on the wings which Miss Morton describes. These species are correctly
arranged in Prof. Smith's new List. — H. G. DVAR.

DRASTERIA ERICHTO.— Has this noctuid been satisfactorily identified
since Guenee"'s description of a single female in 1852 ? Some of our col-
lections, I am aware, contain specimens labeled erichto, that were deter-
mined by Mr. Grote. However, specimens of our eastern Drasteria
sent to Mr. Grote just before he left this country, and also those sent to
Prof. Smith since he became our recognized authority on the Noctuids,
have all been referred to erechtea. In 1873, Mr. Grote, in Bull. Buffalo
Soc. Nat. Sci. i, p. 155, admitted that he could not separate the two spe-
cies except in size, referring the specimens of the smaller Spring brood to
erichto. Of two specimens, a $ and 9 , in the University collection de-
termined by Mr. Grote as erichto, the 9 proves to be an erechtea. I pre-
sume other collections contain similar specimens. Recently Prof. Smith
wrote me that he had not tried to identify erichto and had not the slightest
doubt that erichto is the same as erechtea. During the past year I have
bred what I believe to be erichto. I thought I was breeding erechtea, but
recent study and comparisons of my bred specimens and a large series
of Drasteria caught in trap-lanterns has shown that \ve have two species
of Drasteria in our eastern fauna, both about equally common I think,
and differing considerably structurally and rather closely grading into each
other in markings. The structural differences are marked and very con-
stant. The genitalia of the males and the seventh abdominal segment
of the females differ strikingly in size and form. I find that the species
are easily separable by these characters and typical strongly marked speci-
mens of either sex may be quite readily identified by the markings on the
front wings. I hope soon to be able to illustrate some of these differences,
but I desire to make further observations upon the range of variability of
erechtea. — M. V. SLINGERLAND, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, X. V.

A PLEA FOR THE COLLECTOR. — Prof. J. B. Smith's list of "The Lepid-
optera of Boreal America" came to hand a short time ago, ami lias
afforded me a great deal of pleasure and instruction. If I understand it
aright, this is the first complete list of the kind that has lu-.'ii published
in this country, and I am sure that 1'rof. Smith and tin- other learned gen-
tlemen who were associated with him in getting it up have -i\vn students
of this department of Entomology a work that may be relied upon as

64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

being as near complete and correct as can be got at present. Bearing in
mind the article entitled "Rocks," which appeared in the NEWS some
time ago, would not this list be a good foundation for a descriptive work
on the Lepidoptera of North America ? Could not the gentlemen who
got up this list be induced to publish a work, in monthly parts, containing
descriptions and plates of the Heterocera at least, if subscribers enough
could be got to ensure them against financial loss ? We already have
good works on the Butterflies, and they might, therefore, be left out, as
also the very small moths. The plates, of course, could not be colored,
except at a great cost, but plates such as have been appearing in the
NEWS, with a description attached, are every bit as good. A great many
who study this subject are business men who have not the time and skill
to identify their specimens without the help of plates, and I take it their
number would become legion compared to what it is now if such a work
could be got at a moderate cost. It may be objected that such a work,
when finished, would be incomplete on account of the new species that
are being constantly discovered, but if we were to wait ten or even twenty
years, the same objection would still hold good. In Europe, where the
Lepidoptera have been studied for a great number of years, new species
are still being discovered, and in spite of that a new work on the Lepid-
optera of Great Britain is just being commenced in London. If you will
kindly give this a place in the NEWS it may be the means of helping to
make such a work as I suggest a possibility at least, if not a probability
of the near future. — JAMES TOUGH, Chicago, 111.

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
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tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society;
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Entomological Literature.

NEUNZEHNTER JAHRESBERICHT DES WESTFAELISCHEN PROVINZIAL-
VEREINS FUR WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST FUR 1890. Muenster, 1891.—
Observations on the occurrence of melanism among the macrolepidoptera
of the vicinity of Dortmund, K. Meinheit.

LA NATURE (Paris), Dec. 26, 1891.— Influence of artificial lights on in-
sects, G. A. Poujade; figs.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 65

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Division of Entomology. Bul-
letin No. 24. — The Boll worm of cotton. A report of progress in a sup-
plementary investigation of this insect. Made under the direction of the
Entomologist by F. W. Mally, Washington, iSgr, 50 pp. Hcliolhis aniii-
gera Hiib.

REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), Dec. 26, 1891. — Insects destructive to
forests according to M. A. S. Packard, anon. A means of destroying
grasshoppers according to M. Decaux, anon.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Dec. 5, '91.
— Heterocera exotica, new genus and species from the Dutch East Indie
F. J. M. Heylaerts; Gnophrioides n. gen. Melanges Entomologiqiu-s:
VIII. Diagnoses of Coleoptera from the Congo,* A. Duvivier. Notes on
indigenous Coleoptera malacoderma, E. Rousseau. Additions and anno-
tations to the lists of indigenous Larnellicorn and Carnivorous Coleoptera,
A. P. de Borre.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINXEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (2),
vi, i. Sydney, Sept. 9, 1891. — Notes on a small collection of Hymenop-
tera from Narrabri, N. S. W., \V. \Y '. Froggatt. Description of a new
species of Tortricidce,* J. H. Durrani. Stray notes on Lepidoptera, A.
SO. lliff.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Jan., 1892. — Can insects survive freezing?
H. H. Lyman. Descriptions of some butterfly larvaj from Yosemite (v),
and the life-history of Callidryas eubitle, H. G. Dyar. Revision of the
Bombylid genus Epacuws (Lcptochihis), 1). \V. Coquillett. Hctccriihi
americana [in Ontario], |. A. Moflfat. Canadian Cialls and their occu-
pants— Aulax nabali N. S., W. Brodie. Entomology for Beginners, No.
i, J. Fletcher. An explan ition, A. R. Grote. MeUttea phaston, /<•/;•<>-
phora silaceala, J. A. Moffat. Prof. J. B. Smith's list of Lepidoptera, ( '..
H. French. Larva of Anccryx fasciata Swains., T. D. A. Cockerell.—
February, 1892. — Entomology for Beginners No. 2, J. Fletcher. Two
new Orthoptera from Indiana, \V. S. Blatchley. Some Indiana Acridid.r
II, id. Further notes on Gelechia galleediplopappi, and description of a
new species of I>racon, Rev. T. \V. Fyles. Notes on tin- life-history of
Agallia sanguinolenta Prov., H. Osliorn and II. A. Gnssard. On the
Orthopterous fauna of Iowa, II. Osborn. How the female of (\n-<vcia
semiferana protects her egg clusters, C. P. Gillette. Notes on Coleoptera
No. 9, Dr. J. Hamilton. Notes on the Aegeridae of central Ohio, 1 >. S.
Kellicott.

ANNALEN DESK. K. NATURHISTORISCHKN HOFMUSI-:UMS, \i. .;, 4. \\'ien.
1891. — To the knowledge of the Hymenopterous genus 1'lrilanthns I'aln.
(sens lat.),"-' F. F. Kohl. Bumble-bee Studies, A. Handlirscli, figs. African
Lepidoptera of the k. k. Natnrhistorisclie Hofinuseum,* A. !•'. Kogeiihot. -i .
i pi. •

* Contains new species other than North A inn i< an.
3*

66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP (London), January, 1892. — Famous
collecting grounds for Dragonflies [by W. H. Bath].

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1891,
pt. iv, December, 1891. — New species of Heterocera from the Khasia
Hills,* Col. C. Svvinhoe, i pi., Kalmina micronissa, Anthyperythra (War-
ren MS.), n. gen. On some cases of Dimorphism and Polymorphism
among Palaearctic Lepidoptera, S. Alpheraky. Effect of change of climate
upon the emergence of certain species of Lepidoptera, G. F. Mathew.
Descriptions of new species of holophthalmous Ascalaphidae,* R. Mc-
Lachlan; Campylophlebia n. gen. Descriptions of four new species of
the genus Fulgora* W. L. Distant, i pi. On the South American spe-
cies of Diabrotica, appendix, C. J. Gahan.

INSECT LIFE, iv, 5, 6, December, 1891. — Wheat and Grass Sawflies, C.
V. Riley and C. L. Marlatt, figs. The importation of a Hessian Fly para-
site from Europe, S. A. Forbes. The origin and development of para-
sitism among the Sarcoptidse, H. Garman. Origin and development of
the parasitic habit in Mallophaga and Pediculidae, H. Osborn. The use
of grape bags by a paper-making wasp, Mary E. Murtfeldt. The methods
of pupation among the Chalcididse, L. O. Howard, figs. Notes on grass
insects in Washington, D. C., H. Osborn. An interesting aquatic bug.
Hominivorous habits of the screw worm in St. Louis, Mary E. Murtfeldt.
Another spider egg parasite, L. O. Howard.

BRITISH NATURALIST (London), January, 1892. — Portrait and sketch of
Lord Walsingham. Notes and lists of captures of British insects.

NEUE ODONATEN VON ECUADOR,* von Dr. F. Karsch (Reprint from
Societas Entomologica vi, 14-16) Neuragrion n. gen.

BULLETIN OF THE ILLINOIS STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HIS-
TORY, vol. iii, art. xii. — Sixth contribution to a knowledge of a life-history
of certain little known Aphididae, C. M. Weed. — Vol. iv, art. i. Bacteria
normal to digestive organs of Hemiptera, S. A. Forbes.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZooLOGiEliii, 3, Leipzig, 1891.
-The development of the female sexual organs of Phyllodroinia (Blatla)
gertnanica L., R. Heymons, 3 pis.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1, 303, London, Jan. S, 1892.—
A new mode of respiration in the Myriapoda, F. G. Sinclair.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), 49, January, 1892.
—Notes on Longicorn Coleoptera of the group Cerambycin:e, with de-
scriptions of new genera and species,* C. J. Gahan. On some Japanese
species of ParoiiKtl/ts* G. Lewis. Descriptions of two new genera of
Scorpions, with notes upon some species of Pa/ain/i<rns*-\ R. I. Pocock,
i pi. Description of a new trap-door spider from Ceylon,* id.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 67

WIENER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITUNG, xi, i, }anuary, 1892.— On the
pretended present decline of Entomology, E. Reitter. Analytical revision

of the European species of the Tenthredinid — genus Schizocera Latr.,*
F. W. Konow. A new Leptis from Switzerland,* T. Becker. Colenp-
terological notes,* E. Reitter.

REVISTA DEL MUSEO DE LA PLATA, I, La Plata, 1890-91.— Argentine
Dipterology [Culicidce], F. L. Arribalzaga.

STUDIES FROM THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES OF THE OWENS COL-
LEGE II, Manchester, England, 1890. — The pupal stage of Cnlex, Dr. C.
H. Hurst, i pi.

REVUE BIOLOGIQUE DU NORD DE LA FRANCE, iv, 4, January, 1892.—
Study on some galls from Syria [Acarocecidae],* Dr. H. Fockeu, figs.

NOTES FROM THE LEYDEN MUSEUM, xiii, 3, July, 1891. — Description of
a new Curculionid,* W. Roelofs, i pi. New genus and species of the
group of Oxyopisthen* id. A new genus of Calandrinae, C. Ritsema Cz.
A new species of Rhyncophorus * id. Two new species of the genus
Helota from Borneo,* id. Synopsis and alphabetical list of the described
species of the Coleopterous genus Helota McL., id. Polyctcsis i^crro/a,
a new species of Buprestidae,* K. M. Heller. Contributions to the know-
ledge of the family Brenthidae,* Dr. A. Senna. On the Ceylon Cetonikku
collected by J. Z. Kannegieter,* J. R. H. N. van de Poll and J. Z. Kanne-
gieter. A new species of the Longicorn genus Neopharsalia v. d. Poll,*
J. Z. Kannegieter. Four new species of Gyrinidce of the genus Orccto-
gyrns* M. Regimbart. — No. 4, October, 1891. Two new species of the
Lucanoid genus Cyclommatus Parry, C. Ritsema Cz. A new Oriental
species of the Coleopterous genus Chelonarium* id. Further contribu-
tions to the knowlege of the Helota species of Burma,* id. Loniotropa
vellerialis, new species of Pyralidae,* P. C. T. Snellen. Description <>\
nine new Elateridae from the Leyden Museum,* E. Candeze.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xviii, i, Berlin, January, 1892. — De-
scription of some new varieties of butterflies from Bucovina and the \ i-
cinity,* C. von Hormuzaki. On some rare Tracheata from Rheinlancl, C.
Verhoeff. Five new African Mantodea,* Dr. F. Karsch; l\n'lyIopL
n. gen. Some biological fragments, C. Yerhoeff.

ZOE, ii, 4, Jan. 12, 1892. — Some biological peculiarities of the l'liylli>\
and a method of utilizing them for the protection of vineyards, H. H. l.dir.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSIKAUX, \i\.
Adelaide, July, 1891.— Description of a new species of Co
Tepper, i pi. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, \vilh de-scrip!
of new genera and species,*f Rev. T. Blackburn. Descriptions •
Australian Lepidoptera,* E. Meyrick; Momopohi n. gen.

* Contains new species other than North Anui ic:m. t Contai:

68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

DIE KAEFKR VON MITTELEUROPA. — Die Kaefer der oesterreichisch-
ungarischen Monarchic, Deutschlands, der Schweiz, sowie des franzoes-
ischen und italienischen Alpengebietes, Bearbeitet von Luclwig Gangl-
bauer. Erster Band. Familienreihe Caraboidea. Wien, Carl Gerold's
Sohn, 1892, 557 pp., 55 woodcuts.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin
33, Entomological Division, Ithaca, N. Y., November, 1891. — Wireworms,
J. H. Comstock and M. V. Slingerband; figs.

NOTES UPON THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOME AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA
by W. J. Holland (from Psyche, vi, pp. 213-216, pi. 5).

ARCHIVES DE ZOOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE KT GENERALE (2), ix,
4, Paris. — Note on the Pantopod genera Phoxichilus Latr. and Tanisty-
him Miers, W. Schimkewitsch.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT (Erlangen), Dec. 31, 1891. — The amitotic
nuclear division in Arthropoda, H. E. Ziegler and O. von Rath. — Jan. 15,
1892. Contribution to the anatomy and embryology of the PhalangicUe,
V. Faussek.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Jan. n, 1892. — On sense organs
in the palpi and first pair of legs of Solpugidae, Dr. P. Bertkau, fig.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), Jan. 9, 1892. — The
wandering cricket (Schistocera peregrina Oliv.) and its cryptogamic para-
site (Lachnidium acridioruin), E. A. Giard.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST (London), February, 1892. — The past wet Summer
and its probable effect upon the development of Lepidoptera, R. Adkin.
Evolution of colors in the Vanesscz, W. W. Smith. Evolution of insect
colors, F. H. P. Coste. Us^ of the hairs of Acronycta alni, M. Fitz-
Gibbon. Notes on British insects, etc.

BOLLETINO DEI MuSEI DI ZOOLOGIA ED ANATOMIA COMPARATA DEI. LA

R. UNIVERSITA DI TORINO, 108, Sept. 20, 1891. — Diagnoses of four new
genera of Diptera, Dr. E. Giglio-Tos.

UNTERSUCHUNGEN UEBER GLATTE UND VOLLKOMMEN QUERSTREIFTE
MUSKELN DER ARTHROPODEN von Dr. Julius Vosseler, Tubingen, 1891,
H. Laupp, pp. xii, 150, 6 plates.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), February, '92.
—A new genus and species of Aleurodidae,* A. C. F. Morgan, T pi.;
Aleiirodicus n. g. Description of three new species of the genus riia-
naens Macleay,* B. G. Nevinson. Annotated list of British TurliinuU\
R. 1-1. Mcadr. Stylopized bees, F. V. Theobald. Oviposition of .Me/a
viridclla, T. A. Chapman. On the rearing of I'achctra Iciiiopluca from
the egg, VV. R. Jeffrey. Notes, etc.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 69

BULLETIN OK THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE Zool.ocv AT HARVARD

COLLEGE, xxii, 3, Cambridge, January, 1892. — Amitosis in the embryonal
envelops of the scorpion, H. P. Johnson, 3 plates.

MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE KXPKKIMKNT
STATION, Bulletin No. 17. — Insects injurious to stored grain, H. E. \Vi--d.
December, 1891.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIKTY, .\\iii, 4,
September-December, 1891. — The species of Agri/iis of Boreal America,
G. H. Horn, M. D., i pi. On a collection of Hymenoptera made in
Jamaica during April, 1891, W. J. Fox. Notes on North American
Tachinidae sens. sir. with descriptions of new genera and species, C. H.
Tyler Townsend.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

NEUROPTERA.
Ptynx furciger McLachlan, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., '91, p. 509. \\\/..

LEPIDOPTERA.
Albuna modes/a Kellicott, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 46. Ohio.

HYMENOPTERA.

Aulax nabali Brodie, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 13. Ontario.

Cephus occidentalis Riley and Marlatt, Insect Life, iv, p. 177. Cala.

Acoloides emertonii Howard, Insect Life, iv, p. 202.

Bracon furtivus Fyles, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 35.

Pompilus propinquus Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, p. 339; /'. iciico-
pitypnrcits, p. 339; Salius opacifrons, p. 340; A^cuiii fompirsMi. p. 340;
Planiccps euferalis, p. 341; Epeolits mfoc/ypetts, p. 344; M,\^iiclnlc Mar-
tindafei, p. 344; M. multidens, p. 345; M. pcdalis, p. 347; all from Jamaica.

ORTHOPTERA.

Xiphidium Scuddcri Blatchley, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 26. Indiana.
ApHhcs Mc.\\-illi Blatchley, 1. c. p. 27. Indiana.
Pezottetti.r hoosieri Blatchley, 1. c. p. 31. Indiana.

DIPTERA.

Jtcrisinyia n. Ren., Stratiomyida.-, (iiglio-Tos, l'>i>ll. Mus. /.mil. Anat.
Comp. Aniv. Torino, vi, ioS, p. 2, lig. Type lift i^ aincrii ana Bell.ndi.

ti/iopa/osyrp/i/ts, p. 3, 1'igs. ; Onu-^asyrp/it/s, p. 4, tigs.; M^miifpo
p. 5, figs., n. gen. Syrphida-, C.iglio-Tos, 1. c. Types to be hereaftei
described.

yo ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

Epacmus concinnus, pellncidus, fumosus Coquillet, Can. Ent. xxiv, p.
9. California.

Tachinidas: Siphoplagia n. gen., Townsend, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii,
p. 349; S. anomala, p. 350, N. Mex. Goniochceta n. gen., p. 351; G. pla-
gioides, p. 352, N. Mex Tachina spinosula, p. 353, 111. Pachyophthal-
nius anrifrons, p. 354, 111. Miltogramma flavicornis, p. 355, 111. M.
argentifrons, p. 357, 111. M. cinerascens, p. 358, 111. Masicera nigrita,
p. 358, 111. M. sordicolor p. 359, 111. Hypertrophocera n. gen., p. 360;
H. parvipes, p. 361, N. Mex. Aphria ocypterata, p. 361, S. Dak., Minn.?
Exorista ciliata, p. 363, 111. Laccoprosopa n. gen., p. 365; L. sarcopha-
gitia, p. 366, 111. Frontinaacroglossoides, p. 367, 111. Siphona illinoensis,
p. 368, 111. Phasioclista n. gen., p. 369; P. inctallica, p. 370, 111., S. Fla.
Ennyomma n. gen., p. 371; E. clistoides, p. 371, 111. Clytia flava, p. 372,
111. Atrophopoda n. gen., p. 373; A. singularis, p. 374, 111. Epigrymia
n. gen., p. 375; E. po/ita, p. 376, Va. Drepanoglossa n. gen., p. 377; D.
lucens, p. 378, N. Mex. Ceratomyiella n. gen., p. 379; C. conica, p. 380,
111. Leucostoma atra, p. 380, 111. Vanderwulpia n. gen., p. 381; V.
atrophopodoides, p. 381, N. Mex.

COLEOPTERA.

Phanceus Flohri Nevinson, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), iii,, p. 33. Jalapa, Mex.
Agrilus. — Synoptic table of species and twenty-one new species de-
scribed, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, 4.

BITTEN BY A TARANTULA. — Bridgeport, July 2oth. As Louis Pastine,
a fruit dealer of Main Street, was moving a bunch of banannas at his store,
Saturday, a huge tarantula jumped out and stung him on the thumb of
the left hand. Pastine ran to the office of Dr. C. W. Fitch, who has lived
in Central America, and is an expert on the tarantula. Before he reached
the doctor's office the thumb had swollen to twice its natural size. Mr.
Pastine says that immediately after the sting the most excruciating pains
shot through his arm and both sides. In a moment the pains had pene-
trated even to his liver, which was seriously affected. Dr. Fitch cauter-
ized the wound, and expects that Mr. Pastine will recover. The Doctor
says that the tarantula's bite is not very dangerous, except when it is in
an excited condition, and that the one which bit Mr. Pastine was in a
rather torpid state. During his fifteen years in Central America he was
bitten twenty times by them. He knew how to treat the sting, and at-
tended to it immediately, which is essential. "If," said the Doctor, " you
can imagine yourself suffering a pain one hundred times as intense as a
wasp sting, you can realize what it is to be bitten by a tarantula. To test
the ferocity of the spider, I once cut a round hole in the centre of a news-
paper and placed the tarantula in the hole. Then I set fire to the paper,
and the insect finding itself hemmed in on all sides, threw its tail over,
and stinging itself on the back died instantly."

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RKVI EW.

DIE ZVVEIFLUGLER DES KAISERLICHEN MUSEUMS ZU WlEN, V. VORAR-
BEITEN ZU EINER MONOGRAPHIE DER MUSCARIA SCHIZOMETOPA (EXCLU-
SIVE ANTHOMYID.E). PART II. By Prof. Dr. Friedrich Brauer and J.
Edlen v. Bergenstamm. Wien, 1891. — I am indebted to the authors for
a copy of the above work, which has recently been published. It consists
of 140 quarto pages (no plates), and is in continuation of their work begun
in Part I, under same title, and published in 1889.* About 100 new genera
are erected, and not quite as many new species, these being entirely ad-
ditional, be it understood, to the new genera and species published in
Part I. One can only deplore the lack of order, uniformity and comprehen-
siveness displayed in the body of the work, which consists entirely of
corrections and additions to be interpolated at designated intervals
throughout Part I. The genera of other authors have been mercilessly
used. Mr. v. d. Wulp's recent genera (published in the Biol. C.-A.) are
torn to pieces bodily, and patched up from other quarters. The authors
are to be complimented on presenting at the end of their work a syste-
matic list of all the groups, genera and species which they have proposed
in Parts I and II. This is put in very comprehensive form, and is followed
by a still more convenient index of specific names leading to the genera
in which the authors have placed the species, and designating the genera
to which the latter were originally referred by their describers. The ruth-
less deposition of genera, in which the authors indulge, should not be
countenanced. Echinomyia is decapitated, and Tachina installed in its
place. Eutachina is created to fill the vacancy thus left by Tachina.
Numerous new genera are erected on trivial or insufficiently designated
grounds, at the expense of former well-to-do ones; or genera long ago
abandoned are raised from a condition of comparative obscurity, and
made to supplant those which have long been in use. Why the generic
term Latreillia should be preferred to Belvosia, when both were described
on adjoining pages by the same author in 1830, is beyond explanation, and
especially when we consider the time-honored usage of Belvosia, and the
fact that Latreillia was proposed by Roux, in 1827, for a genus of Crus-
tacea. The name Metopodia is applied to a new genus; this is apt to
become confused with Mctopodus Am. Serv. (Hem.) or witli Mctafiodius
Westvv. (Hem.) If the genus be a valid one, I would propose the use of
the term NEOMETAPODIA for it. As nearly as I can form an opinion,
without actually cataloging and classifying all the names, the new -CIICIM
and species proposed (usually insufficiently characterized) are divided
geographically as follows: N. Am. gen. 25, spp. 17; So. Am. gen. i\ spp.
18; Extra Am. gen. 59, spp. 61. If the authors would present full descrip-
tions, properly and systematically arranged, of their neu -I-IK r.i and spe-
cies, their work would be much more comprehensive and productive «{
good. As it is, their labors can scarcely be appreciated by one who lias not
access to the collections in the Museum in Vienna. — C. 1 1. T. Tc >u -\si -ND.

* For a notice thereof by Dr. Williston, sec ENT. NEWS, vol. i, p. 77.- I '

72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

A REGULAR MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL, SECTION OF THE A.
N. S. was held at the Hall Jan. 28, 1892. Dr. Horn, Director, presiding.
Dr. Horn donated to the cabinet a number of Mexican Coleoptera. Mr.
Calvert presented the second installment of European Odonata, number-
ing 29 specimens. Mr. Nell presented a specimen of Odonata new to the
collection. Mr. Martindale called attention to a paper by Dr. W. J. Hol-
land on a peculiar Lycsenid chrysalis from Africa, which had a Simian
aspect. Dr. Horn mentioned a paper he had recently written, on some
variations in the markings of Coleoptera, and spoke of some interesting-
points brought out. Dr. Skinner exhibited a pair of Parnassius sininthens
showing interesting variation from the normal. Mr. Martindale spoke of
a method of preparing naphthalin cones by heating the head of a pin and
thrusting it into the fused balls to be obtained at the druggists'; they are
clean, leave no debris, and cost about five cents per hundred. Mr. Cal-
vert stated that the dragonfly presented by Mr. Nell was GouipJius dilita-
tus, and was caught in the streets of the city in May, 1891; it is a Southern
species, and he had never heard of its being found before in this locality.

OBITUARY

HENRY WALTER BATES, F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc., died in London, Febru-
ary ijth. In this death England loses one of her ablest entomologists.
Beginning in 1848 his entomological contributions have been continued,
with interruption only during his long sojourn on the Amazons, until very
recently. His studies were limited to the Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera, and
to three large and difficult families of Coleoptera: Carabidae, Scarabaeidae
and Cerambycidae, in all of which he had accumulated much material,
especially rich in Amazon species. His industry and ability are well
shown in the volumes with their supplements in the " Biologia Centrali-
Americana" on his favorite families. His narrative of his sojourn on the
Amazons is filled with notes showing his acuteness of observation in the
field. For many years he has filled the position of Assistant Secretary
of the Royal Geographical Society. Those who knew him personally will
mourn the loss of a cultured man, a kind friend, and a genhil companion.

ERRATA.

On page 5, line 9, for 35 mm. read .35 mm.

5, line 18, for 6.5 mm. read .65 mm.

5, line 24, insert a comma (,) after joints 5 and 12.

5, line 24, for trifle, read triple.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NKWS for February, was mailed January 29, 1892.

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ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. APRIL, 1892. No. 4.

CONTENTS:

Horn — Dorcus parallelus 73

Wright— In Alaska 74

Laurent — Preparatory stages of Pam-

phila manataaqua 77

Cockerell— Notes on the life-history of

Calpodes ethlius 78

Townsend — New N. Am. Tachinidse.... 80

Smith — Elementary Entomology. 82

Angell — Two n. sp. of Coleoptera 84

Williston— Notes on the habits of Am-

mophila 85

McKnight — Lepidoptera of the Adiron-
dack Region 87

Patton — Notes upon Larradae 89

Harvey — Odonata of Maine 91

Notes and News 93

Entomological Literature 98

Doings of Societies 103

Dorcus parallelus Say.
By GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

The plate forming the frontispiece of this number has been
prepared from material which, for the most- part, belongs to the
American Entomological Society. The reasons for presenting it
are : to settle finally the relationship existing between the names
parallelus, costatus and brevis, now in our lists — to illustrate the
possibilities of variation in form and sculpture, and, finally, to
ascertain by experiment the adaptability of the various photo-
plate processes for illustrations taken from the objects themseh < 5.
Periodically the question is discussed, what is Dorcus brci-it, and
is it distinct from parallelus f It need hardly be said that this
question arises principally among those young in experience and
with small series, although species are frequently deseribed as
new with far less claim to distinctness than the extreme specimens
on the upper row. D. brevisis founded on males of full develop-
ment, broad thorax and smooth surface. The first t\v<> \\^\\
accurately represent Say's idea. As a rule the males have quite
a smooth thorax, while the females are rather closely punn
In the brevis form the elytra are also quite smooth, but the trausi-

74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

tion from this to the striate sculpture is gradual, and can readily
be traced even in the plate. D . costatus, although merely a cata-
logue name, is based on those females in which three of the in-
tervals on each elytron are a little wider and more prominent, as
faintly shown on the fifth figure in the second row. The terminal
figure is an exceptionally small female collected by Mr. Henry
Wenzel. The six specimens on the upper row and two on the
lower are males, as will be known by the more prominent mandi-
bles with a tooth on the upper side. Regarding the possibilities
of variation, the plate shows for itself, although far less than the
specimens themselves, and Dorcus parallelns is by no means a
good species for the illustration of varietal possibilities. The
use of any photographic method usually causes a loss of some
detail, but when form alone is to be illustrated more accurate
results for comparison can be obtained.

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IN ALASKA.

By W. G. WRIGHT, San Bernardino, Cal.

One might suppose that a trip to Alaska would afford an ento-
mologist abundant material for collecting, and that he might
write a book about what he saw through his entomological glasses,
and experienced in pursuit of his pet hobby. But having made
the trip, I am obliged to say that the results, both actual and
theoretical, were very meagre.

To begin with, the country from the Strait of San Juan de Fuca
to Yakatat Bay is all of a piece. The ground is all solid rock,
if I may so speak, islands and mainland alike, and the channels
through which the steamer sails most of the way are mere cracks
in the hard, black rock, some of them so deep that it is imprac-
ticable to anchor in them. How a tree can manage to find
root-hold upon such solid rock is a continual mystery, but they
do, and the whole country, whether level 'or side-hill (and most
of it is tilted up an angle frequently acute), is covered with the
same endless ranks of sombre fir trees, the very sight of which
at length becomes a weariness; and the trees, with horizontal
limbs down to the ground, come clear down to the water's edge,
so that a landing becomes a difficulty. The Japan current, or
some other cause, gives to Sitka about the same temperature as

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at Victoria. To that current the whole coast from Yakatat Bay
to the Columbia River owes a liberal allowance of fog and misty
rain, more at the North and less at the South, but otherwise the
thousand miles of northing from Puget Sound gives no notable
climatic difference. Therefore, it is easy to see that, with the
same geological formation, the same flora, and the same climate,
the same fauna must prevail; and so I have found it. So far as
my insect captures are determined I did not get a specimen in
Alaska but what is found about Puget Sound in greater abun-
dance than in Alaska. One Pieris, from Sitka, bears another
name from those of Puget Sound, but I regard it as the same
species; I will "lump" that much. The country inland is well-
nigh impenetrable, being, as I have said, mostly up edgewise,
and sometimes almost to the perpendicular, and densely wooded;
and underneath, a network of fallen trees thickly covered with
sphagnum or moss, which apparently never gets dried out, be-
cause of the rain and the dense shade. Five miles a day is good
traveling through these thickets. There are no clearings or
ranches, or farms; no room for a butterfly to stretch its wings.
In Coleoptera it is as bad. I got one Cychms marginatus at
Metlakahtla, and one at Loring, and a pair of C. angnsticollis at
Junean, but nothing of interest anywhere.

Wrangel is a green spot in my memory, because there I got
my first Alaskan butterflies. To be sure they were only a com-
mon Pieris, but it is noteworthy to get any butterflies in such a
rainy country. These poor Pierids were nearly starved by the
long season of rain, and were crawling about upon an umbel of
daucus trying to feed; they could not fly, because of the rain, so
I picked them off the flowers with my fingers, and took them in
out of the wet. Numbers of little geometrid moths were flying
about, but I had no net out in the rain, so I did not get them.
I met here, by chance the usual way, an eastern naturalist who
was skinning birds. He told me that he had seen in the vicinity
one specimen of Limenitis Lorquini. From that item we may
set down Fort Wrangel as the northern limit of that species.

About the town of Junean I caught a lot of Pierids, of the
same old species, but no other butterfly was seen. Then I fol-
lowed a mining road out into the country as far as time would
permit, but found nothing else. By the roadside lay some pine
blocks left by the axe-men. Under one of these I found the tine

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pair of C. angusticollis before spoken of, but no other beetles
worth naming.

Chillkat is the most northern of all the stopping places on this
Alaskan route; it is close to the 6oth degree of North latitude.
Here is a narrow grassy border along a moraine, and at the shore
line, and I forthwith went ashore with my net. A half dozen
Pierids were taken and then came a lull. Presently I began to
sweep the grass for beetles, and lo ! some Pterophoridae. So I
spent most of the time in getting that little thing, of which there
seemed to be several species. This was the most unexpected
find of the whole trip.

At Sitka I remained sixteen days, seven of which were mostly
sunny, a remarkable thing, as the people told me, as sunny days
are exceptional there. One species of Pieris was common about
the streets, P. Bryoncs. One gentleman excited my curiosity by
saying that the real Japan silk-worm moth was found there, and
so one day he showed me the " moth" flying about his cabbage
plants; it was this Pieris. I was also informed that this same
butterfly was found all along the vast chain of Aleutian Islands,
nearly to Siberia, in great numbers; that it feeds on honey-dew,
which is found on the leaves and twigs of Alder bushes, and that
he had seen the bushes white from the abundance of the butterfly;
all of which is credible. But about Sitka I found butterflies very
scarce. Beside this Pieris, I got only one other species, Chryso.
helloides, small in size, and almost black. The female, especially,
was so dark I could hardly believe it was that species, but the
male was rather more like the Southern form, and showed the
violet gloss faintly \_Chrys.florus? — ED.]

Near Sitka, a few miles back, is a mountain, Mt. Verstovia,
3600 feet high. One fine day I climbed this mountain to above
timber line; here, at 3500 feet altitude, to see if a Parnasshts or
a Chionobas could not be found. Upon the alpine slopes above
timber line was a most lovely butterfly place. Some old snow-
banks yet remained here and there, but on many of the drier
slopes grass and flowers grew luxuriantly, and the air was so
mild, and the sun shone so delightfully, that it seemed as if there
must be a dozen Parnassius in sight at any moment, but not one
did I see; not a butterfly of any color. I never felt so disgusted
and discouraged in my life before. I just gave a big growl of
displeasure, and threw down my net and other butterfly traps in

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anger, and went off to a snow-bank and ate snow, and tried to
eat the waxen white blossoms of a heather which grew all about;
but it all didn't pay, so I came back to where the guide was
lolling on a dry bank by a spring, and ate lunch with him instead.
After that I felt better, but not to this day have I regained my
serenity of mind as to the outcome of that day's work. Every
thing was so favorable, so promising, and the possibilities so
great, and not even one poor little butterfly to bless myself with;
it was too bad.

North of the great chain of Aleutian Islands, about Norton
Sound, and even north of Bering Strait, and under the icy zone
of the Arctic Circle, at Kotzebue Sound, it appears that more
butterflies are found than at Sitka, because the islands deflect the
Japan current to the east and south, so that the more northern
regions mentioned are more free from the fog and rain than Sitka
is. But even Kotzebue Sound is not a good field for the ento-
mologist, and if any enthusiast should desire to go there, my
advice would be, " don't."

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Preparatory Stages of Pamphila manataaqua.

By PHILIP LAURENT, Phila., Pa.

On June 24, 1891, I secured two female Pamphila manataaqna ,
which I placed in a small cage containing a piece of grass sod;
during the night nine eggs were laid. The eggs are hemispher-
ical in shape, excepting that the apex is somewhat flattened. In
color the eggs are of an opaque-white with a greenish tinge.
When observed with the naked eye the egg appears to be smooth,
but observed through a glass of ordinary power it will be seen
that the egg is covered with minute depressions. On July sth
the young larvae emerged from the egg. The larvae are slender
and more cylindrical than those of most Pamphila. In color
they are the same as the egg, excepting the head, which is of a
dark brown color. The head, when observed through a strong
glass, is found to have a corrugated appearance. On the ii| .pel-
part of first segment immediately back of the head, a narrow
band of dark brown is observed. July 25th: Larva- are now
about a half inch in length; the body is of a dark or oil-gn en
color, while the head still remains brown, but of a lighter .shade
than when first observed.

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August 2d: Larvae are now about three-quarters of an inch in
length. On examining the larvae with a strong glass, it will be
seen that the larvae are covered with numerous irregular spots of
a dark lavender color; the body is also seen to be thinly covered
with hair, that on the sides of larvae being somewhat longer than
that on the top.

August 1 3th: Larvae are now full grown, and are about one
inch in length. In appearance there has been but little change
since August 2d, excepting in the fore feet, which are now dark
brown instead of light brown.

August 1 4th: The first larva changed to chrysalis to-day. The
chrysalis is of a greenish white color, the space occupied by head
and thorax, and wing-cases being somewhat darker than the ab-
domen. The eye space is very prominent; the tongue case is of
a light brown color and extends almost to the tip of abdomen.
The chrysalis is fastened among the grass stalks, and is dusted
over with a white silky powder.

Aug. 2Oth: The last of the larvae changed to a chrysalis to-day.

•August 2gth: The first imago emerged to-day a male.

August 3oth: Another male appeared.

September ist, two males; September 2d, one female; Septem-
ber 3d, one male. The others are probably dead.

At no time was I able to discover the exact time of moulting,
or could I ever find any of the remains of cast-off larva skins; it
may be that the larvae devour the cast-off skins, but of this I am
not certain, so much of their life is spent in the little grass houses
that they construct for themselves, that it is hard to keep an eye
on them at all times. I thought perhaps the moulting took place
within these houses, but was never able to find any cast-oft skins

within them.

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Notes on the Life-history of Calpodes ethlius.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Kingston, Jamaica.

Mr. Scudder, in his "Butterflies of New England," p. 1750,
gives an interesting account of this species; a description of the
mature larva and pupa has also been published by the present
writer in the "Journal of the Institute of Jamaica," No. i, p.
29. Mr. I. I. Bowrey has kindly supplied me with eggs found
on Canna in his garden in Kingston, from which I have obtained

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the young larvae. Very many of the eggs never produce larva-,
but fall victims to a small hymenopterous parasite. This was
first observed by Mr. Bowrey, and is specially interesting, because
hitherto no parasite of C. ethlius seems to have been recorded.
I have not very carefully examined these egg parasites, but they
are evidently of the genus Trichogramma, or closely allied thereto.
A specimen, compared with Riley's figure of T. pretiosa, has a
broader head, and the thorax is larger in proportion to the ab-
domen (my specimen is probably a male); the upper wings are
apparently more truncate, and the lower seem more slender.
With the Trichogramma I found a broken specimen of a different
Chalcid, with a broad abdomen about a third longer than wide,
a thorax much the same size and shape, wings stretching con-
siderably beyond the tip of the abdomen, submarginal vein
rather stout, marginal curved away from the costa, stigmal long,
with a distinct, though small knob, last pair of legs very long,
stretching beyond the tips of closed wings. These notes, al-
though so fragmentary, may serve for comparison with parasites
of C. ethlius that may be found elsewhere. Certainly, these egg
parasites do much towards keeping down the Canna butterfly in
Jamaica. The Trichogramma is the important one; whether the
other species is common remains to be seen. Eggs of C. ethlius
brought to me by Mr. Bowrey on Oct. 24, 1891, were laid singly
on a leaf of Canna* They are, as stated by Dr. WittfiVM,
plainly visible. The egg is rounded, in section forming rather
more than half a circle, smooth, shiny, opaque, with fine im-
pressed microscopic punctures or lines, but no ribs. Diameter
\]^ mm., color white, with a purple-gray tinge, especially aboVe.
The egg-shell is white after the exclusion of the larva,
lately-hatched larva is 4 mm. long, and rests on the underside of
the leaf, near the edge, which it bends by spinning a transv<
thread 4 mm. long. It is pale green (Scudder says pale yellowish
brown) with a black shiny head, which has a deep longitudinal
sulcus on the crown. Thoracic shield black; body with onlv a
few very short and inconspicuous hairs. Thesha]"- is rylindnral,
with a large head; different from P. zabulon as figured by Fren.-h.
On November 30! the larva was 13 mm. long, cylindrical, looking

* On the same leaf I found the eggs of an unknown moth; these are smaller, and laid
in a group of eighty or more, very regularly in rows. f<|iiidi*tant, n«> tw<« t^s t.. tailing,
They have about twenty-four well-marked ribs. The larva: proved to be l.i,,|,mi;
tuids. but the imago was not reared.

80 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

quite like a Pyralid. Head now brown instead of black, but the
narrow thoracic shield black; body pale glaucous-green; dorsal
vessel showing as a darkish line. Each segment has several
transverse grooved striae or wrinkles dorsally. There is very
little variation in the imago so far as Jamaican examples are con-
cerned. In a series obtained by Mr. Bowrey I find the expanse
varying from 53 to 61 mm. The largest vitreous spot on the
fore-wing is often subquadrate, as described by Scudder, but
often elongate, considerably longer than broad. Mr. Scudder
calls this "The Brazilian Skipper," but the Canna butterfly, or
Canna Skipper, would be a more appropriate name.

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NEW NORTH AMERICAN TACWNiD/E.
By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

The following are descriptions of South Florida and Jamaica
forms, collected respectively by Mr. Charles Robertson, of Car-
linville, III, and Mr. Charles W. Johnson, of the Wagner Insti-
tute, Philadelphia.

Blepharipeza nigrisquamis n. sp. <$. — Eyes brown; frontal vitta blackish
brown; face, cheeks, and sides of front silvery white pollinose, darker in
some lights; facial ridges bristly half way up, sides of face bare, except
for descending frontal bristles; antennae and arista black, third antennal
joint about three times as long as the somewhat elongate second ; pro-
boscis black, labella large, brown; palpi rather stout, bristly, rufous,
blackish at base; occiput silvery, gray-hairy. Thorax purplish black,
faintly silvery pollinose, with four narrow black vittae interrupted at suture,
the outer pair more so than the inner pair; scutellum black, very bristly.
Abdomen wholly dense black, with a bluish or purplish reflection, thickly
set with macrochaetae. Legs black, claws and pulvilli a little elongate,
pulvilli tawny. Wings grayish hyaline, broadly and abruptly black at
base; tegulae and alulae black, halteres brownish. Length of body, 9 mm.;
of wing, nearly 9 mm.

Described from one specimen; Portland, Jamaica, April (C.
W. Johnson). This species differs from B. leucophrys in its
smaller size, blacker bases of wings, and somewhat stouter palpi.

Pachyophthalmus floridensis n. sp. J1 •— Eyes brown; frontal vitta nearly
black, velvety, narrow, about one-third width of front, front about one-
fifth width of head; frontal bristles in double row; sides of front, face,
and cheeks silvery whitish, with slight brassy tinge on front; vibrissae dis-
tinct, decussate; antenna; black, third joint hardly one and a half times
as long as second, arista black; proboscis brownish, palpi blackish; oc-
ciput cinereous. Thorax and scutellum silvery cinereous, with three broad

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black vittae, which are continued over scutellum. Abdomen shining black,
anal segment rufous, whole abdomen clouded with silvery cinereous, giv-
ing the appearance of three broad, irregular, blackish vittee, interrupted
at the sutures; first two segments with a lateral pair and a median mar-
ginal pair of macrochsetae, third and anal with a marginal row. Legs
black, femora silvery cinereous, claws and pulvilli short. Wings slightly
grayish, nearly hyaline; tegulae whitish, halteres light brownish. Length
of body, 5 mm.; of wing, 4 mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

Miltogramma decisa n. sp. $ . — Eyes reddish brown; front brassy golden;
less than one-third width of head, the frontal vitta nearly obsolete in front;
two orbital bristles; face and cheeks pure silvery white; antennae pale
rufous, third joint one and a half times as long as second, arista blackish;
vibrissae distinct, decussate; proboscis black, palpi rufous (so far as can be
seen); occiput cinereous, short and sparsely bristly. Thorax cinereous,
silvery pollinose, with three narrow median vittae and a heavier outside
one; scutellum more or less cinereous. Abdomen shining black, first
segment on sides and second segment entirely, except triangle in middle,
rufous; bases of segments two to four silvery white pollinose; first seg-
ment without macrochsetae, second with a median marginal pair, third
with a lateral pair and a median marginal pair, and with a marginal row.
Legs black, front femora silvery on outside, claws and pulvilli very short.
Wings grayish hyaline, tegulse white, halteres brownish. Length of body,
4^ mm.; of wing, 3^ mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

Anisia vanderwulpi n. sp. tf (?).— Eyes cinnamon brown; frontal vitta
velvet blackish brown; sides of front and orbital margins of occiput brassy
golden; two orbital bristles; face and cheeks silvery white; antenna- ru-
fous, the third joint brownish distally and on front edge, arista brownish;
proboscis brownish, short, fleshy, labella large, pale tawny, palpi pale
tawny; occiput silvery, gray-hairy below. Thorax silvery white pollinose,
with four blackish vittae, the outer ones heavier and interrupted at suture,
humeri and pleune silvery white ; scutellum silvery white pollinose.
domen black, more or less silvery white pollinose, but particularly so at
bases of segments and more broadly on vertex, terminal portion of anal
segment pale rufous; first two segments with a lateral macrochaeta- and a
median marginal pair, the second segment with a median discal pair also;
third with a median discal pair, and a marginal row of about ten; anal
segment with a marginal and discal row of about eight, those in discal
row strongest. Legs black, coxa? and distal inferior half <>f f.-ni..ra light
rufous, femora more or less silvery; claws and pulvilli short, pulvilli
whitish. Wings grayish hyaline, tegulae transparent like isinglass, halteres
yellow. Length of body, 6 mm.; of wing, 5/2 nun.

Described from one specimen ; Portland, Jamaica (C.

Johnson).

(To be continued.)

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The first of the Heterocerous families is the Sphingidae. This
family comprises moths of rather large size, the thorax robust,
the abdomen elongate and tapering in most cases, and usually
considerably exceeding the anal angle of the secondaries. The
head is well developed as a rule, and the antennae are usually
fusiform and more or less prismatic; that is to say, they are
rather thicker in the middle and taper both to base and tip, more
so toward the tip, which is generally furnished with a little re-
curved hook. The prismatic shape is usually quite marked in
the species, and is a peculiarity of the family. The primaries,
or fore-wings, are rather long and narrow in most cases, often
more or less evidently lanceolate, the secondaries or hind wings
proportionately quite small and narrow. As a whole, the wings
are small, compared with the bulk of the insect. The venation
throughout the family is quite constant. The primaries may
have eleven or twelve veins, according as 9 is, or is not branched
near its tip. The entire subcostal series is crowded closely to the
costa, so that it is difficult to follow the course of all after vein 7.
Vein 5 is nearly midway between 4 and 6, and the cell is closed
in those species known to me. Vein i, the submedian or internal
vein, is furcate at base.

On the secondaries the costal and subcostal arise independently
from the base and run separately to their termination, joined,
however, near the base by an oblique cross-vein, which is char-
acteristic of the family. Here also vein 5 is from near the middle
of the cross-vein, and there are two internal veins.

The larvae of the Sphingidae are as easily recognizable as the
images by the curved spine or horn on the top of the terminal
segment. In the species in which this horn is wanting there is
a shiny tubercle or knob, occupying the position of the more
usual process. The pupation is subterranean in most cases.

Compact as is the family in general appearance and main struc-
tural features, it divides readily into a number of well marked
subfamilies.

The Macroglossinae are easily distinguished by the rather ob-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 83

viously clubbed tip of the antenna. They retain their prismatic
form and the little recurved hook, but are not fusiform. This
subfamily contains the clear-winged forms, Hemaris, and a small
series of opaque-winged species which have short, broad fore-
tibiae, armed at tip with long stout claws, Lepiscsia. The species
are largely diurnal in habit, flying swiftly in the bright sunshine
and hovering over the flowers, on the nectar of which they feed.
The tongue is well developed, and often nearly as long as the
insect itself.

The Chcerocampinae have the antennae more or less distinctly
fusiform, and the tongue well developed, often longer than the
body. There is a tendency to a bright, banded maculation, the
abdomen is often tufted, and the fore-wings have the outer margin
sinuate or angulate. In Enyo the thorax also is crested. It is
in this family that the larvae often have a knob or tubercle instead
of the usual horn. Many of the species are diurnal, as in the
preceding subfamily, and they are often as swift of flight.

Th^ Sphinginae all have fusiform antennae, and usually a long
tongue. In some of our species this organ is from six to eight
inches in length, and from that it dwindles until it becomes obso-
lete in Ellenia. The fore-wings are narrow and lanceolate, and
the markings are longitudinally strigose, not banded. They are
usually crepuscular, flying at twilight, and from their darting-
motions and their habit of hovering over the food-plant, the term
" Hawk Moths" has been derived.

The Smerinthinae are quite different in many respects. The
tongue is obsolete, unless for feeding in all forms, the antennae
are often serrated, and sometimes pectinated, and the primaries
are often quite broad and usually angulated or dentate. In Cres-
sonia the male antennae have two branches to each joint, as in
the Saturniidae.

A brief statement of subfamily differences is as follows .

Antennae distinctly clubbed at tip ... . Macroglossinae.

Antennae not distinctly clubbed, usually fusiform.
Tongue long and strong.

Primaries with outer margin sinuate or angulate . Chcerocampiuae.
Primaries with outer margin even . \ Sphinginae.

Tongue weak and short.

Primaries with outer margin even \ Sphinginae.

Primaries angulated or dentate . . Smerinthinae.

84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

TWO NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA.

By G. W. J. ANGELL.

Corymbites Weidtii sp. nov. — Elongate oval, dark metallic bronze, with
greenish or crimson lustre; third joint of antennae shorter and narrower
than fourth. Head strongly and densely punctate, with an occipital fovea.
Thorax very convex and distinctly, but not closely punctured; anterior
angles broadly rounded, sides sinuate, posterior angles strongly produced
and divergent. Elytra at base s-lightly narrower than thorax; one-half
longer than wide, greatest width anterior to apical third; sides regularly
curved to apex, margin distinct and rather strongly reflexed posteriorly;
striae regular and distinct, more deeply impressed at base; intervals irregu-
larly, rather densely punctured, punctures confluent or linear, giving a
strigate appearance in some lights. Abdominal segments shining golden
green, punctate; punctures rather dense at sides, sparse at middle.

cf . — Ventral segments more coarsely punctured; third and fourth seg-
ments with large, but rather shallow foveae near elytral margin.

$. — Ventral segments more finely punctured; a small but deep fovea
on either side of third ventral near posterior angles of segment. Length
ii mm.

Cascade Range, British Columbia; altitude 7000 feet. This
species, by the structure of the antennae, naturally falls into Group
III of Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vol. iii, p. 319). It is
one of the many interesting captures of Mr. J. C. Weidt.

Elmis COlumbiensis sp. nov.— Elongate oval, shining black, sparsely
pubescent. Thorax subquadrate, slightly wider than long, narrowed at
front; arcuate and divergent to middle, then subparallel to base, which is
strongly sinuate and slightly emarginate at middle; disc sparsely, but dis-
tinctly punctured, more densely toward margin; basal lines attaining the
middle and limited by two densely punctured foveas on either side of
impressed median channel. Elytra at base slightly wider than thorax,
hutneri rounded, sides subparallel to apical third, then slightly sinuate
and convergent to apex, which is broadly rounded and subtruncate.
Elytral striae deeply impressed, punctures large and rather distinct, inter-
vals very feebly and finely punctate; fifth, sixth and seventh intervals
costate. Elytral margin slightly testaceous; ventral segments feebly, but
densely punctate, rather densely pubescent at sides. Legs dark testa-
ceous, finely and lightly punctured. Length 2.6 mm.

Eraser River Valley, British Columbia; Mr. C. J. Weidt.

A truly dainty sportsman he,

The fields he never tries;
He takes scent bottles 'neath a tree

And squirts at butterflies. — New York Herald.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 85

NOTE ON THE HABITS OF AMMOPHILA.

By S. W. WILLISTON, Lawrence, Kans.

Even the casual observer, to whom all insects are bugs, cannot
help but be struck by the great diversity and number of the fos-
sorial Hymenoptera of the plains. Water is often inaccessible,
trees there are few or none, and only in places is the vegetation
at all abundant. A much larger proportion of insects, hence,
find it necessary to live or breed in holes in the ground, than is
the case in more favored localities. Especially is this the case
with the Hymenoptera, great numbers and many species of which
thus breed in excavations made by themselves.

While packing specimens on an open space, uncovered by
buffalo grass, in the extreme western part of Kansas, the early
part of last July, the attention of a friend and myself was attracted
by the numerous wasps that were constantly alighting upon the
ground. The hard, smooth, baked surface showed no indications
of disturbance, and it was not till we had attentively watched the
insects did we learn what they were doing. The wasp is a very
slender one, more than an inch in length, with a slender, pedicel-
late abdomen; it is known to entomologists as Ammophila Yar-
rowi Cres. They were so numerous that one was distracted by
their very multiplicity, but, by singling out different individuals,
we were enabled to verify each detail of their operations. An
insect, alighting, ran about on the smooth, hard surface till it had
found a suitable spot to begin its excavation, which was made
about a quarter of an inch in diameter, nearly vertical, and car-
ried to a depth of about four inches, as was shown by opening a
number of them. The earth, as removed, was formed into a
rounded pellet and carefully carried to the neighboring grass ami
dropped. For the first half of an inch or so the hole was made
of a slightly greater diameter. When the excavation had been
carried to the required depth, the wasp, after a survey of the
premises, flying away, soon returned with a large pebble in its
mandibles, which it carefully deposited within the opening; then,
standing over the entrance upon her four posterior feet, she I
say she, for it was evident that they were all females) rapidly and
most amusingly scraped the dust with her two trout feet, " hand
over hand," back beneath her, till she hail tilled the hole above
the stone to the top. The operation so far was remarkable

86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

enough, but the next procedure was more so. When she had
heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction, she again flew away and
immediately returned with a smaller pebble, perhaps an eighth
of an inch in diameter, and then standing more nearly erect, with
the front feet folded beneath her, she pressed down the dust all
over and about the opening, smoothing off the surface, and ac-
companying the action with a peculiar rasping sound. After all
this was done, and she spent several minutes each time in thus
stamping 'the earth so that only a keen eye could detect any
abrasion of the surface, she laid aside the little pebble and flew
away to be gone some minutes. Soon, however, she comes back
with a heavy flight, scarcely able to sustain the soft green larva,
as long as herself, that she brings. The larva is laid upon the
ground, a little to one side, when, going to the spot where she
had industriously labored, by a few rapid strokes she throws out
the dust and withdraws the stone cover, laying it aside. Next,
the larva is dragged down the hole, where the wasp remains for
a few minutes, afterwards returning and closing up the entrance
precisely as before. This, we thought, was the end, and sup-
posed that the wasp would now be off about her other affairs, but
not so; soon she returns with another larva, precisely like the
first, and the whole operation is again repeated. And not only
the second time, but again and again, till four or five of the larvae
have been stored up for the sustainment of her future offspring.
Once, while a wasp had gone down the hole with a larva, my
friend quietly removed the door stone that she had placed by the
entrance. Returning, she looked about for her door, but not
finding it, apparently mistrusted the honesty of a neighbor, which
had just descended, leaving her own door temptingly near. She
purloined this pebble, and was making off with it, when the
rightful owner appeared and gave chase, compelling her to re-
linquish it.

The things that struck us as most remarkable was the unerring
judgment in the selection of a pebble of precisely the right size
to fit the entrance, and the use of the small pebble in smoothing
down and packing the soil over the opening, together with the
instinct that taught them to remove every evidence that the earth
had been disturbed.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 87

Lepidoptera of the Adirondack Region of the State of New York.

By CHAS. S. MCKNIGHT, Saratoga Springs, N. V.

The late W. W. Hill, of Albany, .N. Y., made extensive col-
lections of Lepidoptera in Lewis County in this State, and lists
of his captures are to be found in several publications.*

In addition to those therein enumerated I would add the fol-
lowing species taken by myself at Saranac Lake, Franklin Co.,
N. Y. ; elevation, 1500-1600 feet. Light and sugar were both
employed. In the early Spring, while the ground was still cov-
ered with snow, many of the hibernating forms were taken in
sugar camps at rest on the trees or from the sap pails.

Thyreus Abbotii Swains., light, July. Sphinx kalmiae 5". & A.,
light, July. S. drupiferarum >S. & A., light, June. S. gordius
Cram., light, July. S. luscitiosa Cram., rare, July. Ellema
coniferarum S. & A., larvae, September. Alypia octomaculata
Hbn., bred, June. A. Langtonii Coup., rare, June. Eudryas
grata Fab., light, July. Clemensia albata Pack., light, June.
Lithosia Candida Hy. Edw., light, July. Crocata brevicornis
Walk., light, July. C. rubicundaria Hbn., light, July. Arctia
virguncula Kby., light, July. Adoneta spinuloides H. S., light,
June. Ichthyura inclusa Hbn., light, June. Gluphisia trilineata
Pack., rare, light, July. Notodonta stragula Grt., light, June.
Phcesia rimosa Pack., rare, light, July. Ccelodarys biguttata
Pack., light, July. Lophopteryx elegans Strk. ,f S , light, June.
Heterocampa manteo Donb., rare, light, June. H. biundata
Walk., light, June. H. cinerea Pack. , light, June. Samia ce-
cropia Linn., bred, June. Telea polyphemus Cram., bred,
June.

* Thirteenth Annual Report of the N. Y. State Museum of Natural History, 1879.
Seventh Annual Report on the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region of the

State of New York, Colvin — Albany, iSSo.
" Papilio," iii, p. 27.

t Determined by H. Strecker. In Prof. J. B. Smith's "Check List," 1891, .\
notaria Hy. Edw. (described in " Entomologica Americana," i, p. 17) taken in Colorado
by David Bruce, is given as a synonym of the above. In the Colorado spr< minis the pri-
maries are described as being of an "even mouse color." In the Adiron mple
they are suffused from base to subterminal space and below apex, with Linwiiish nun,
darkest along the costa and gradually fading toward the outer margin into the color of
the western form. I am unaware of any previous report of the capture of this spei
the east.

88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

NOCTUID^:.

Leptina Doubledayi Gin., light, June. L. ophthalmica Gm.,
light, June. Demas flavicornis Smith, light, June. Momophana
Comstockii Grt. , light, May 19. Agrotis attenta Grt. , light,
July. A. ochrogaster Gn., sugar, July and August. A. cine-
reomaculata Morr., sugar, July and August. A. lubricans Gn.,
sugar, August. A. velleripennis Grt. , sugar, August. A. al-
ternata Grl. , sugar, August. A. badinodis Grt. , sugar, July
and August. A. catharina Grt. , sugar, August. A. salicarum
Walk., at sap, April. Barathra curialis Smith, light, June.
Hadena ducta Grt. , sugar, July. H. nmbrina Gn. , sugar, Au-
gust. H. fractilinea Grt. , sugar, August. H. impulsa Gn.,
sugar, August. Oligia arna Gn., sugar, August. Dipterygia
scabriuscula Linn., sugar, August. Tricholita semiaperta Morr.,
sugar, August. Helotropha reniformis var. atra Grt. , sugar,
June. Arzama diffusa Grt., sugar, June. Platysenta atriciliata
Grt., sugar, July. Taeniocampa alia, sap pails and sugar, April
and September. T. subterminata, sap pails and sugar, April and
September. T. peredia, sugar, September. Homoglaea hircina
Morr., sugar, April. Himella thecata Morr., sugar, September.
Scopelosoma Pettiti Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and Septem-
ber. S. Morrisoni Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and Septem-
ber. S. devia Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and September.
S. Walkerii Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and September. S.
lidus Gn., April and September. Scoliopteryx libatrix Linn.,
sugar, June. Xylina Bethunei G.&R., sap pails, April. X.
laticineria Grt., sap pails, April. X. fagina Alorr., sap pails,
April. X. Thaxteri Grt., sap pails, April. Morrisonia vomerina
Grt., sugar, June. Calocampa curvimacula Morr., sap pails,
April. C. cineritia Morr., sap pails, April. C. cineritia var.
thoracica Put. — Cram., April. Crambodes talidiformis Gn., sugar,
July. Aletia argillacea Hbn., sugar, July. Abrostola urentis
Gn., sugar, August. Plusia striatella Grt., light, July. Alaria
florida Gn., light, July. Erastria apicosa Harv., sugar, July.
Eucliclia cuspidia Hbn., sugar, June. Syneda graphica Hbn.,
light, July. S. adumbrata Behr.. light, July. Homoptera var.
lunata Dm., sugar, August. H. unilineata Grt., sugar, August.
H. Woodii Grt., sugar, September. Catocala gracilis Edw.,
sugar, August. C. retecta Grt., sugar, August. C. antinympha

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 89

Hbn., sugar, August. C. piatrix Crt., sugar, August. Parthenos
nubilis Him., sugar, August. Pseudanthrcecia coracias c;>i.,
sugar, September. Argillophora furcilla Grt., sugar, September.
Homopyralis discalis Grt., sugar, August. Pangrapta decoralis
Hbn., sugar, June. Pityolita pedipalalis Gn., light, July. 1'lii-
lometra longilabris Grf., light, July. Megachyta lituralis Hbn.,
light, July. Spargaloma sexpunctata Grt., light, July. Capis
curvata Grt., light, July. Herminia morbidalis Gn., light, Au-
gust. H. petrealis Grt., light, August. Renia restrictalis Grt.,
light, June. Heterogramma rurigena Grt., light, June. Bomo-
locha baltimoralis Gn., light, June. B. bigugalis Walk., light,
June. B. albalinealis Walk., light, July. Tortricodes bifidalis

Grt., light, June.

GEOMETRIDyE.

Eudropia effectaria Walk., June. Boarmia crepuscularia Tr.,
June. Therina eudropiaria G.&R., May. T. semimendaria
Walk., May. Lobophora vernata Pack. , May. L. anguilineata
Grt., May. Chcerodes climataria 6". & A., June. Aplodes
latiaria Pack., June. Orthofidonia exornata Walk., June. Me-
tanema carnaria Pack., June. M. inatomaria Gn., June. Cabe-
rodes confusaria Hbn., June. Corycia semiclarata Walk., May.
Azelina hubnerata Gn., June. Acidalia inductata Gn., June. Pla-
godis alcovlaria Gn., June. Fidonia notataria Walk., June.
Petrophora populata L., May.

By a comparison of these lists it will be evident that this region
affords a rich field for collecting. Many additional species, and
possibly new forms, may yet be discovered, especially when we
consider that the insect fauna of the mountainous portion is still

practically unknown.

o

NOTES UPON LARRAD/E.

By WM. HAMPTON PATTON, Hartford, Conn.

LIRIS.

This genus, founded upon a male type with peculiar tai>i, muv
be characterized as follows: Mandibles not dentate without, but
with a shallow median notch; 9 mandibles dentate within. $
mandibles not dentate within. Marginal cell pointed, not appen-
diculate, reaching as far as third submarginal cell. Ocelli ami
metathorax as in Tachytes.

4*

90 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

Liris coxalis n. sp. — Clypeus rounded and somewhat produced at apex;
fore coxae of male separated by two slender processes of prosternum, of
female contiguous. Length about one inch; Florida. Black; mandibles,
except apical third, tawny; tarsi, at least in the middle, brown. Face with
tawny pile; posterior tibia; of 9 and anal valve of 9 with brown hairs,
anal valve of $ silvery; thorax and first segment with pale hairs; $ apex
of segments one and two, $ apex of segments one, two and three, silvery.
Tegulae and wings pale ferruginous, apical third fusco-violaceous. Re-
sembles Tachytes elongatus Cr. in coloration, and is but little longer.

TACHYSPHEX.

Represented in this country by Larra analis Fab. ; it is scarcely
a distinct genus. It differs from Larra only in the hind ocelli
being oval, and the metathorax resembling Lyroda. Other sec-
tions of Larra and Tachytes have as good a claim to a generic
"name.

LARROPSIS n. gen.

LARROPSIS TENUICORNIS {Larrada tenuicornis Smith) Type.
Second submarginal cell petiolate. Resembles Ammosphecidium
in many characters, but differs in many others. I have taken this
species in Connecticut and upon the calyx nectar-glands of Te-
coma in Virginia.

LYRODA SUBITA Say. — This species is peculiar for its non-fos-
sorial tarsi, and may belong to Didineis (nee Alyson}. 'Its
method of carrying Nemobius, which it catches to feed its young,
is interesting. It holds the cricket by clasping the base of the
antennae between its mandibles and clypeus, the minute teeth here
preventing the antenna from slipping — this explains the use of the
teeth on clypeus.

BOTHYNOSTETHUS = PlSONITUS Shkd. = SlLAON PicC.

Tachytes ccelebs Pttn. \s £ of T. ABDOMINALIS.

Larra divisa Pttn. is 9 of L. ^ETHIOPS Cress.

TACHYTES MANDIBULARIS Pttn. — This species is common in
Hartford, forming hillocks, three or four inches in height and the
same in breadth of base, upon sidewalks and lawns about Sep-
tember first. It stores up Xiphidium for its brood.

Equatorial Africa promises another treasure to civilization. It is a much
scented plant, the branches of which carried about the persons will
frighten away mosquitoes. — Philadelphia Record.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 91

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ODONATA OF MAINE.-II.

Specimens taken near Orono, Penobscot County, Me., 1891.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

(Continued from Vol. II, Nos. 3 and 4, 1891.)

Tribe L— AGRIONINA.
Subfamily i. — CALOPTERYGINA.

1. Calopteryx maculata Beauvois. — Though very abundant
last year, was very scarce this season. Specimens were taken,
June 1 3th, in swamps in deep woods, but we visited the locality
about the same date where they were abundant last season, but
took none. Can it be that this species requires more than one
season to transform?

2. C. tequabilis Say. — This species seems to be scarce; took a
single specimen June i3th.

Subfamily 2. — AGRIONINA.

4. Argia putrida Hagen. — Specimens taken June 2Oth, over
roads.

6. Ischnura verticalis Say. — Taken June I3th, but no orange
forms observed until July 22d, when they were common, but were
not observed mating.

8. Enallagma Hageni Walsh. — Taken June I3th and 2oth,
and July 22d.

39. Enallagma signatum Hag. — July 23, 1891, Chemo Stream
near the lake; quite abundant. As many as fifty seen in patches
of Juncus and over lily pods. We were botanizing with some
friends, and had time to take only five specimens. We went to
the locality July 28th, and not a single specimen could be found.
There had been a heavy rain between the dates. Hagen gives
the habitat of this species as Georgia and Louisiana.* Mr. Cul-
vert writes that it occurs about Philadelphia, Pa. To find it abun-
dant so far North is certainly interesting.

40. Enallagma pollutum Hag. — July 23, 1891, Chemo Stream
with the above, but not so abundant. Several seen, however,
but only three taken. On July 28th a single specimen was seen
and taken. This species is recorded only from Florida i I tagen,
1861, p. 84) so far as we know. To find this southern species so
far North, and no intermediate localities, is, indeed, remarkable.

* Baron deSelys (1876) adds Maryland and Illinois.— 1'. 1'. C.

Q2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

Tribe II.— /ESCHNINA.
Subfamily 3. — yEscHNiNA.

17. sEschna {Basics schna) Janata Say. — Reported from Col-
lege collection, but taken this season, July 6th and I2th, Orono
and Chemo Stream.

41. sEschna (Fonscolombia) vinosa Say. — July i2th and 28th,
two females taken on window-screen in the evening. They seemed
to be attracted by the light.

Subfamily 4. — GOMPHINA.

22. Gomphus exilis Selys. — Reported from College collection,
but taken this season in abundance at Orono along the border
of woods, June 2Oth.

23. Gomphus spinosus Selys. — Reported from College collec-
tion, but taken June I5th this season at Orono over a swamp.

42. Gomphus brevis Selys. — June 2oth; border of woods, £
and 9 • One specimen, £ , differs from the type by being larger;
absence of the small tooth at the rear of the eye near the occiput;
the pterostigma dark brown instead of pale yellow, and the an-
terior femora entirely black instead of yellow below on the mid-
dle. Mr. Calvert, to whom the specimens were referred, says:
" They differ somewhat from the original description, but as this
was drawn up from a single $ from Schoharie, N. Y. , and a
single 9 (with the last 7 abdominal segments wanting) from
Port Neuf, Canada, the differences are perhaps only those of in-
dividuals." There is a single £ of this species in the collection
of the late Anson Allen, of Orono, Me., but the exact locality is
not given. This species is closely related to the following species
which was taken along with it and G. exilis the same day at the
same locality.

43. Gomphus abbreviatus Hagen. — June 2oth, back of college
woods. Several males and females; associated with the above.
Orono, Me.

44. Cordulegaster maculatus Selys. — June nth. Very abun-
dant over Sunk Haze Stream, Greenfield, Me. The specimens
were nearly all males, only one female was taken. They were fol-
lowing the stream up and down, and by our wading to the middle
in a shallow place, were readily taken.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 93

45. Cordulegaster (Zortena) diastatops Selj-s. — A single $ of
this species is in the collection of the late Mr. Anson Allen, of
Orono, Me.', and was taken in the vicinity of Orono.

(To be continued.)

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work is stolen, and that it could be far more profitably spent if \\«- con-
sidered pecuniary reward. We depend on you to see that it is not love's
labor lost. — ED.

DURING the year 1890 an idea originated among the members of the
Feldman Collecting Club which we think is destined to intluence the future
of entomology in this country and bear good fruit. The idea referred to
was the excursion planned for the fourth of July, iSgo. at Jamesburg, N.
J., at which place the members of the entomological societies of 1'hila-

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delphia, Brooklyn and New York met. Two of these excursions have
been held, and accounts of them have been published in the ENTOMO-
LOGICAL NEWS and "Canadian Entomologist." Every entomologist
knows what a stimulus it is to find some one else as interested in the study
as himself, and what additional pleasure it is to have a companion on a
collecting trip, with whom we can compare notes and show our inter-
esting captures; and there is also a generous rivalry which induces us
to put forth our best endeavors. At Jamesburg, students and collectors
who had corresponded or known of each other for years, had the pleas-
ure of becoming more intimately acquainted and a hearty hand-shake,
and a pleasant chat and a comparing of notes was seen on all sides. Now
what we propose, is to carry this idea farther and organize a National
Association, to be composed of the different State organizations. The
objects of such an association would be the encouragement of entomo-
logical studies, to bring about the acquaintance of those interested in
entomology in each State, for the purpose of studying geographical dis-
tribution of insects, purposes of exchange, social collecting or field meet-
ings, and for mutual encouragement. An annual dinner might be given
and papers read and discussed by the members. Much progress has
lately been made in entomology in this country, and its importance as a
study is being more fully recognized as time goes by. We hope soon to
see such an organization formed in every State and Territory in the Union,
with its president, treasurer and s cretary. The NEWS will be much
pleased to hear of any State taking the initiative, and will gladly publish
the name of its officers and members. Some time ago a prominent ento-
mologist from a Western State visited us, and, in talking over matters of
mutual interest, we found that he did not know of half those interested
in entomology in his own State. Now, it should be the duty of the State
secretary of the organization to keep a complete list of all entomologists
in the State, with their addresses and order or orders in which they are
interested, and send a printed copy to each member, and from time to
time notify them of additional names. This article is only in the way of
a suggestion, and many other interesting outcomes of the plan may appear
and details carried out later on. — ED.

ROCKS. — An entomological friend, to whom I once sent a letter bristling
with questions, replied, after a long silence, in explanation: " Remember
it is about 999 times easier to ask questions than to answer them !" The
questions and problems suggested by Messrs. Mason and Tough in EN-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS, are easily asked or stated, but there the simplicity
ends.

In an old country like Europe, where there is a large population, with
many that are interested in Entomology, illustrated works such as those
suggested are feasible, and are in existence. In some cases wealthy
amateurs publish expensive works, beautifully illustrated, without hope
or expectation of return; while in others, the comparative cheapness of
reproductive methods allows of publications at a reasonable price, with a

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 95

less sumptuous illustration. In our country the number of those inter-
ested is so small, that publication must be at a loss even if the illustrati« >ns
be of the least expensive character consistent with accuracy and definition.
Photography will do much, but there are many species, especially among
the moths, in which it can give us an outline, and in which it fails to give
shades or even contrasts of color where the two colors affect the plate
similarly. The orthochromatic plates help somewhat, but do not solve
the problem entirely.

I think I can safely say that all of my colleagues in the work on the
" List" would be willing to contribute to publications such as suggested,
could they be ensured against financial loss — recompense they would not
expect. I know of at least two monographic works that cannot be issued in
the shape in which they were planned, simply because of the cost and
the absolute hopelessness of getting back the outlay. No publisher will
touch them, except at the authors' expense, and the authors are not
wealthy. But, after all, are the "Rocks" so formidable, and would the
illustrations really do much to advance the study of Entomology? Mr.
Meyrick is opposed to all illustration of species because he thinks the
figures will be used to identify specimens without recourse to the text for
a knowledge of characters. While I do not agree with him fully, I think
there is no reasonable cause for complaint where monographic works on
a family are at hand, even if not illustrated. Of course it means study,
but no one who is really interested will shirk study. That interest which
goes only to the collection of specimens and naming them by pictures,
without any further object, is scarcely worthy of much attention. We
have books enough for those who want to study, and never have- there
been so many papers of a monographic character issued, as in the tew
years last past. The fact that our fauna is incompletely known is no ob-
jection to monographic work. A very serious trouble, however, which
is really the greatest " Rock," is the fact that the publications that do
exist, are usually not accessible, except in large cities, and often not then.
Yet, even this trouble is gradually disappearing, and the newer puMii a-
tions, on which ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS keeps its readers posted, largely
render reference to older and more rare works unnecessary. .Meanwhile,
I will suggest that there is scarcely a specialist who will not gladly name
for the collector such material as is sent him, or who will not give what
aid is in his power to the young student. Finally, I will make a definite
proposition: If three hundred and fifty subscribers could be obtained tor
a monograph of the Noctuidie to be issued in monthly parts, each pan to
cost fifty cents, and to be illustrated by at least one quarto plate uitli
necessary descriptive matter, I would agree to prepare such a work
Number of parts not stated. — JOHN B. SMII n.

THE special bulletin of the Massachusetts Agricultural College just
issued contains an interesting account of the gypsy moth, Oanria
by Prof. C. H. Fernald. The State of Mass.irhu-.etts is making a
fight against this most destructive insect. Two years ago the State ap-

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propriated $50,000 for this work; last year $50,000, and it has lately ap-
propriated $75,000 for the work of the coming year. They are doing
everything possible to disseminate a knowledge of this insect among the
people, having published a special report, with colored figures, of the
insect in its various stages. Prof. Fernald, in his interesting account, says
that there is a statement in the second volume of the "American Ento-
mologist," published in 1870, "that only a year ago the larva of a certain
Owlet moth (H. dispar), which is a great pest in Europe, both to fruit and
forest trees, was accidentally introduced by a Massachusetts entomologist
into New England." He then gives an interesting account of its distri-
bution, food-plants, enemies, how to destroy them, etc. This method of
introduction should be a warning to entomologists. We have had sent
to us from foreign countries living injurious insects packed in paste-board
boxes which were partly crushed in the mails and in the best possible
condition for naturalization.

Mr. CHAS. DURY, in vol. xiv, p. 183 of the " Cincinnati Journal of Natu-
ral History," gives an interesting account of the inhabitants of a field
mouse nest: " I went to an old orchard, and under the first log rolled over
I discovered a nest, and secured a mouse as she rushed out. She proved
to be the 'short-tailed meadow shrew,' Blarina brevicanda (Say). I
lifted the nest into the sifting-net and sifted it over a sheet of white paper,
and was overwhelmed at the result. The fine debris was a jumping,
crawling mass of insect life: beetles, fleas, ticks and larvae. There were
over a hundred large, vicious-looking fleas, most energetic biters. How
the mouse could live in such a den is a mystery. There were 107 Lep-
tinits testaceus. The other beetles associated with the Leptinus were
Staphylimdae, or ' rove' beetles of species new to me."

Mr. THOS. E. BEAN contemplates collecting during the Summer of 1892
on the mountains of the central range in the vicinity of Laggan and
Hector (Can. Pacif. Railway), at summit of Kicking Horse Pass, and in
the most accessible part of the Bow Valley. He will give particular at-
tention to alpine work, and collect all orders of insects.

IN the March number of the NEWS, on page 70, there appeared a short
article put in by the printer to fill out the page, and he neglected to label
it "Newspaper Entomology." This describes a most curious hybrid
insect (probably hybrid between a tarantula and a scorpion) which stings
and bites with one end and stings with its tail at the other. If it were not
stated that the insect was a spider we would think the Doctor specialist
who treated the sting or bite, had a scorpion in his mind. It is very
doubtful whether a scorpion can sting itself in the back as the sting points
the wrong way for this manoeuver. We see many curious insects de-
scribed in the daily press, and one we described in the NEWS turned out
to be a new genus and species (Electricia totnfooleryt'nsis}, vol. ii, p. 54.

Mr. Pun. IP LAURKNT, of Philadelphia, thinks of going to Colorado on
a collecting trip, during the coming season.

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Prof. C. H. FERNALD is writing a descriptive work on the Microlepid-
optera, to be entitled " Manual of the Microlepidoptera of N. America "
This will be a very important contribution to the subject, and should
greatly increase the number of persons interested in this department of
Lepidoptera. Prof. Fernald will be his own publisher.

TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892).
—Pages 25-40 inclusive, have been printed since our last issue, containing
the conclusion of Dr. Horn's " Study of Amara, s. g. Celia," and the first
pages of his " Random Studies of North American Coleoptera."

PREVENTION OF THE PEACH YELLOWS AND ROSETTE, AS CAUSED BY
THE YELLOW$ MITE. — The Peach Yellows is caused by the mite firiobia
pratensis, as noted by me in ENT. NEWS for December, 1891. Its orange-
colored eggs cover the bark in Winter. The mite is also destructive to
grass and clover, as noted in "Insect Life" for September, 1890. The
Peach Rosette is an after effect of the Yellows, hence the cause is the
same. Trees rarely live more than a year after the mites attack them.
The mites are classed among those that spin silk, and are readily trans-
ported from tree to tree by the wind carrying them upon their silken webs.
It has been recommended to root up infested trees, and New York
State has a law requiring it, but the discovery of the cause of the Yellows
will require a modification of the law, as other remedies may be easily
applied. Carbolic soap washed upon the trunks and twigs in Winter will
readily destroy the mite eggs, and whitewash similarly applied will also
be a good preventative. A spraying of kerosene emulsion, or of pyre-
thrum in solution, upon the affected trees would also destroy the mites.
An investigation of the hatching of the eggs in Spring is needed. The
orange-colored mites in contrast with the green of the leaves produces
the yellow tint giving rise to the name of the disease. — W. H. PATTON.

PASSENGERS on the Ninth Avenue elevated road, New York, h.i\<
watched for the past three years a sightly pile slowly growing into shape
in Manhattan Square. Those who did not know already what the build-
ing was, easily learned from their neighbors that it was the new addition
to the Museum of Natural History. On the fifth floor will be arran.u* >1
the ethnological and entomological collections. The recent additions to
the latter ar<" many. Among them are the Elliot collection of N'eu York
butterflies, presented by the widow of Mason S. Elliot, of Brooklyn. It
contains 30,000 specimens. Her husband's collection of 10,000 volumes
of natural history was part of the gift. The Angus collection of 14,000
moths and butterflies is another new exhibit. Of Catocake alone, Mr.
James Angus informed me that there were over noo specimens, the lal><>r
of forty years' collecting, and that he never took any at su^.tr.

U. E. KIN/.E.

MERISUS IN EUROPE AND IN AMERICA. — It seems pn.lubk- that the
importation of the European parasite of the Hessian Fly will result a>
unfortunately as did Prof. Riley's introduction, some years ago, of the

98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

European Apanteles parasitic on the cabbage butterfly. In the latter case
the only result was the discovery that the insect had been well known in
America for fifty years past. So with the Hferisus, there are no specific
characters to separate nigripes from our well-known M. destructor (Say)
and all the species referred to this genus in this country are synonyms.
In fact the genus contains but one species. The subgenus Homoporus
was founded upon dessicated or worn specimens, and the other subgenus
named by Thomson was similarly founded upon imperfectly developed
individuals. I have bred M. destructor Say from the chrysalids of Orgyia
leucostigma at Hartford; an hitherto unknown host for the species, afford-
ing- the peculiarity of many (often up to 100) flies emerging from one pupa,
whereas in the Hessian Fly each pupa affords room for but.one parasite-

WM. H. PATTON, Hartford, Conn.

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editorj
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Insects have been named for W. W. Newcomb, W. E. Longley, Geo.
Miller, D. S. Harris, W. M. Hill, H. Caracciolo, H. C. Denslow, A. A.
Wright, H. E. Weed, W. Metcalfe, A. Sheriff, Frank H. Johnson, A. G.
Weeks, Jr.

Entomological Literature.

To those who can master the German language there is no work pub"
lished in recent years which will give greater assistance to the student of
Coleoptera than the " Coleoptera of Middle and Southern Europe," by
Dr. L. Ganglbauer. The work is filled with useful tables, and abundantly
illustrated by well-executed wood-cuts of details, which will be found
extremely useful. It would be difficult to make any adverse criticism,
except that based on purely personal opinion, and to this extent his method
of separating the tribes of Carabidae seems not that which will enable the
student to make the most certain progress. The first volume, containing
the Cicindelidae, Carabidce and Dysticidre, is all that has thus far appeared.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 99

ACTA SOCIETATIS PRO FAUNA ET FLORA FENNICA, VI, Helsingfors

1889-90. — Enumeration of the Brachelytrous Coleoptera of Finland: II.
Pselaphidse and Clavigeridse,* J. Sahlberg (1889).

SCHRIFTEN DES NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN YKKKIXS FUR SCHLEE-

wic-HoLSTEiN, viii, 2, Kiel, 1891. — Contributions to the insect fauna of
Schleswig-Holstein, iv, v, W. Wuestnei.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), Jan. 29, 1892.— On a
Stratyomid Dipter (Beris vallata Forster) imitating a Tenthrid (Athalia
auaiilafa Fabr.), A. Giard. The wandering cricket (Schistocerca /V/r-
grina Ohr.) and its changes of color, J. K. d'Herculais. — Feb. 5, 1892.—
On a hemipter-heteropter (ffalticus minutus Renter) which ravages the
arachid plantations in Cochin China, A. Giard. — Feb. 20, 1892. — Struc-
ture of an abdominal ganglion of Mclolontha, A. Binet.

LE NATURALISTS (Paris), Feb. i, 1892. — Papi/io machaon L. and its
different varieties, L. Austaut. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera,* P.
Dognin. — Feb. 15, 1892. — The woody cecids of Rnbus, E. Halle, figs.
Deformities observed in Coleoptera, L. Planet, figs. — March i, 1892.—
Descriptions of new Lepidoptera,* P. Dognin.

TERMESZETRAJZI FUZETEK xiv, Budapest, 1891. — Exotic Myriapoda in
the zoological collection of the University of Heidelberg,* Dr. E. v.
Daday, i pi. New Tenthredinidse and Siricidae,* A. Mocsary.

ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, vi, 1-4, New York,
1891. — Coleopterological notices, T. L. Casey.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xviii, 2, January, 1892.—
New Histeridas (Coleoptera),* J. Schmidt. On the occurrence of halo-
philous Saldae'm Lorraine, J. J. Kieffer. — 3. February, 1892. Notes on the
beetle fauna of Brunswick, Dr. K. M. Heller. Ichneumonid and Try-
phonid studies, Dr. Kriechbaumer. The Zoocecidai of Lorraine iii, J. ].
Kieffer.

OUTLINES OF ENTOMOLOGY. — Prepared for the use of farmers and hor-
ticulturists, at the request oi the secretary of the State Hoard of Agricul-
ture and the State Horticultural Society of Missouri. By Mary K. Mm t-
felclt, Kirkwood, Missouri. Jefferson City, Mo. Tribune Printing Co.,
State printers and binders, 1891. Pp. ii, 132, iii, 48 wood-cuts. Tin's ele-
mentary work describes the structure of insects in general, after which
each order is separately considered as regards its various groups with
their chief characteristics and habits.

A List of some of the catalogues and local lists of North American '
leoptera.— I. (A-G) II. (H-P) III. (R-Z) T-y John Hamilton ami Samuel
Henshaw (Psyche, October, December, 1891; January. 1892).

* Contains new species other than North American.

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BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS (8), iii, 4, 1891.—
Contributions to the embryogeny of the Chalcidians, preliminary note, L.
F. Henneguy, figs.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Feb. i, 1892. — To the knowledge
of the biological relations between host and parasitic bee-larva?, C. Ver-
hoeff. On the American Intermediate Host of Echinorhynchus gigas,
C. \V. Stiles \_Lachnosterna\. — Feb. 15, 1892. — Self-mutilation among
grasshoppers, F. Werner. To the knowledge of cone-lice (Lac /inns'), N.
Cholodkovsky.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), ix, 50, February,
1892. — Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidas contained in
the British Museum collection,* W. Warren.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Jan. 8, 1892.
[misprinted 1891] New species of Heterocera from the Dutch East In-
dies,* F. J. M. Heylaerts. The Coccinellidas of Chota-Nagpore,*| J.
Weise. List of the Hemiptera of Belgium: II. Homoptera, E. Coubeaux.

SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST on the Noxious
and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois. By S. A. Forbes, Spring-
field, 111., 1891. Pp. 90, 36, ix. , 7 pis. i portrait of Wm. LeBaron.

REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE DU BOURBONNAIS II, 2, Moulins, February, 1892,
Bittacus tipularius, R. Martin.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xix, i.
Philadelphia, Feb., 1892. — Studies in Chrysomelidae, G. H. Horn, M.D.

BRITISH NATURALIST (London), February, 1892. — Portrait of H. T.
Stainton. Preliminary list of Hymenoptera-Aculeata of Lancaster and
Cheshire, W. Gardner. Dragonflies, F. Milton.

ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS. By A. S. Packard, M.D., Ph.D. Third
edition. Revised. New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1890. Pp. xvi, 367.
273 figs.

ENTOMOLOGISK TIDSKRIFT (Stockholm), xii, i, 2, 1891. — New Brazilian
species of scorpions, *t T. Thorell, i pi. New Longicorn Coleoptera,*f
C. Aurivillius, figs.; and papers in Swedish on Scandinavian insects.

PROCEEDINGS U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM xiv, SSi, Washington, 1892.—
The biology of the Hymenopterous insects of the family Chalcididae, L.
O. Howard.

SPECIAL RRPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Boston,
1892. — On the work of extermination of the Ocneria dispar or gypsy
moth by C. H. Fernald, 26 pp. 6 pi.

ATTI D. REALE ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI (Rome), Rendiconti, Jan. 17,
1892. — On Termite societies, B. Grassi.

* Contains new species other than North American. + Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NF.US.

IOI

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA (Kingston), i, 2, Feb., 1892.—
A Tachinid bred from Protoparce Jainaicetisis Bull, in Jamaica, C. H.
Tyler Tovvnsend. A first contribution to the entomology of Bath. Jamaica,
T. D. A. Cockerell. The larva of Danais Jainaicoisis Bates, C. B. Taylor.

IOWA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin Xo. 15.— Des
Moines, November, 1891. Reports on injurious insects, H. Osborn and
H. A. Gossard.

ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), March, 1892. — On
the origin of ants' nests, W. W. Smith. Notes on the synonymy of sev-
eral West-African Lycaenidae, H. H. Druce. Another addition to the
British fleas, E. Saunders. Synonymical notes on Cynipida- and For-
micidae, P. Cameron. Migrations and new localities of some Coccids,
W. M. Maskell. Annotated list of British Tachiniidae,* R. H. Meade.
Neuroptera of the Channel Islands, W. A. Luff, R. McLachlan. The
butterflies of Rawal Pindi and the Murree Hills (Punjab), N. Manders.
Notes.

MEMORIAS v REVISTA DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIKICA " Antonio Alzate,"
v, 3 and 4, Mexico, 1892. — General protective resemblance in the Mexican
Lepidoptera of the genus Ithoinia, Prof. A. L. Herrera.

COMPPE RENDU. ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES (Paris), Feb. 22, 1892.—
Structure of the larval nervous system of Straliomys strigosa, F. Hen-
neguy and A. Binet.

YERHANDLUNGEN DER K. K. .ZOOL.-BOTAN. GESELLSCHAFT IN \Yn N,
xli, 3, 1891. — New Termitophilous insects, with a review on Termite
guests,*! E. Wasmann, i pi. — 4, 1891. On the grasshopper swarms in
Algeria, Dr. C. B. v. Wattenwyl. Descriptions of new varieties of Bom-
bycidae from Syria, A. Rogenhofer. Swimming butterflies, Dr. S. Klem-
ensiewicz.

BULLETIN OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION OF THE UNI-
VERSITY of Tennessee, iv, 3, July, 1891, Knoxville, Tenn. — The true bugs
or Heteroptera of Tennessee, H. E. Summers, figs.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, March, 1892. — Miscellaneous notes on but-
terflies, larvae, etc., \V. H. Edwards. I\wipliila inanitoha Scud, an.l its
varieties, H. H. Lyman. New species of Pyralidce, G. I). Hulst. Notes
on N. American Tachinidas, etc., v, C. H. T. Tovvnsend. Getting but-
terfly eggs, W. G. Wright. Amblyoponc pallipcs Hald., W. H. Harrin- 1< >n.
' THE ENTOMOLOGIST (London), March, 1892. — Ephestia kuhniella R.
Adkin. Entomological pins, Dr. D. Sharp. Arcl'ui i -a/a, }. Arkk-. Notes
on the synonymy of Noctuid moths, A. < >. Butler. Coleoptera fnmi Cen-
tral China and the Korea,* Rev. H. S. Gorham. Notes, etc.

SITZUNGS-BERICHT D. GESELLSCHAFT NATUKF«)RSCMI-.NI>MS FKKUNDE
zu BERLIN, Jan. 19, 1892. — Insect remains from the peat strata of Klinge,
H. Schaeff.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

MYRIAPODA.

Spirostreptus flavocingulatus Daday, Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek xiv, p.
137, tab. vii, fig. 4, Calif. Rachis calif ornicus, p. 142, tab. vii, fig. 12,
Calif. Scolopendra viridi/imbata, p. 148, N. Am.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Pyralidae: Monocona n. gen. Warren, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p.
173. M. rubralis id., p. 174, Calif. Minwschinia n. gen. p. 174; type
Botys thalialis Wlk. Noctnelia flavifimbrialis, p. 174, Calif. Aporodes
versicolor, p. 175, Washington. Pyransta cocci ttia, p. 176, Calif. Sylly-
thria snbricalis, p. 177, Calif. Myelois fructetella Hulst, Can. Ent. xxiv,
p. 59, Ariz., Tex. M. elegantella, p. 59, Washington. M. texanella, p.
60, Tex. M. leucophaeella, p. 60, Iowa. Acrobasis cirroferella, p. 60,
Tex. Salebria levigatella, p. 61, Mass., Wis. >S. purpurella p. 61, N.
Mex. Zophodia bella, p. 61, Mass. Ocala n. gen. p. 61. O. dryadella,
p. 61, Fla. Diviana nymphaeella, p. 62, Fla. Chipeta n. gen., p. 62. C.
perlepidella, p. 62, Fla. Lipographis subosseella, p. 62, Bahamas, W. I.
Paralipsa decorella, p. 63, N. Y., Ont. Loxostege baccatalis, p. 63, Tex.

Papilio Hollandii Edwards, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 50, Col.

HEMIPTERA.

Halticus Uhleriior H. minutus Popenoe (preoc.), Giard, C. R. Soc.
Biol. Paris (n. s.), iv, p. Si.

Aspidiotus articulatus Cockerell, Journ. Ins. Jam. i, p. 54, Jamaica,
Barbadoes.

COLEOPTERA.

Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vi, pp. 9-214, desoribes 3 n. sp. of Cu-
cujidse; i n. sp. Elateridae; 3 Scarabasidse; 6 n. gen., 46 n. sp. Cerambyc-
idae; 2 n. gen., 54 n. sp. Cistellidae; i n. gen., 7 n. sp. Meloidaa; 28 n. sp.
Curculionidae; from all parts of U. S.

Euryscopa pusilla Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 16, Tex. E. snb-
filis p. 17, Calif. Amara Belfragei, p. 19, Tex. Saxinis politula, spccn-
lifera p. 10, Calif. Coscinoptera seininiida, p. 13, Ariz.

DIPTERA.

Masicera protoparcis Townsend, Journ. Ins. Jam. i, p. 70, Jamaica.

Blepharipcza exul Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 64, N. H. Conia
saga.v, p. 65, Iowa. Pseudogonia ruficauda, p. 66, S. Dak. Plagia
aurifrons, p. 67, Pa. Trixia gillettei, p. 68, Col. Milfogramma katisoisis,
p. 68, Kan. Mctopia Luggeri, p. 69, Minn. Thryptocera americana,
p. 69, D. C.

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Doings of Societies.

A REGULAR MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES was held February 25th. Meeting
called to order at 8.30 P.M., Dr. Horn, director, presiding. Members
present: Ridings, Skinner, Martindale. Associates: Calvert, Johnson,
Nell and Fox. Mr. Calvert presented the third lot of European Odonata,
twelve specimens of Gomphits, which makes the representation of
this genus pretty full. Dr. Horn presented thirty-six specimens of
Coleoptera from Mexico, being lot No. 2. Specimen of Triptogon
occidentalis presented by H. Skinner. Fifteen species of Tachinidce;
twenty-one specimens by C. H. Tyler Townsend. These are type-
specimens, and will make a valuable addition to the collection of
Diptera. Mr. Calvert exhibited drawings representing the neuration in
his new genus of dragonflies, Ortholestes and two allied genera of Agrio-
nina. He pointed out the generic differences as shown by variation in
the neuration. It was also stated that Dr. Karsch had recently described
a new genus of AGRIONINA, Neuragrion from Ecuador, and the speaker
pointed out the characters on which the genus was based. The capture
of a specimen of Pantala flavescens was reported from Fairmount Park.
Dr. Horn spoke of the mechanism of the veins in NEUROPTERA, in refer-
ence to their utility in flight, and in regard to the strength of the wing.
The subject was further discussed by Messrs. Horn, Calvert and Martin-
dale. The director announced the death of Henry Walter Bates on Feb-
ruary lyth. Messrs. C. YV. Johnson and Charles Liebeck were proposed
for membership. HENRY SKINNKK,

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1892. — Under
the head of short notes, Mr. Ashmead made some interesting remarks
on Eunotus, a peculiar chalcid genus, new to the United States. It was
his opinion that it belonged to the subfamily Apheliniiue. Dr. Stiles
noted a report that a man in Germany had been bitten by the common
house fly and died within twenty-tour hours. Much discussion folio-
throwing considerable discredit upon the story. Mr. Hanks exhibited a
male specimen of Loxosceles which had but six developed legs. 1 >r.
Marx exhibited a peculiar Theridid spicier which had extremely Ion-
mandibles. Dr. Stiles made some instructive remarks on a liver-fluke
story that was circulating in certain papers. According to this story tin-
young stages of the liver-fluke were passed in the house-lly. wln-ivas they
are passed in snails. Mr. Mally read a paper on "An Insectivorous Prim-
rose." He drew attention to the fact that (F.uotlicra spcciota raptured a
small Dipterous insect upon its gummy style and stigma. Hut one species
was seen trapped. As the insect could not be eaten by tin- plant the
author thought that the insects must, in some way, aid the t'-i tili/ation , ,f
ovules. Discussed bv Messrs. Ashmead, Test, Srhwarx. .Marx, H«nvard,
Stiles and Marlatt. Mr. Howard contributed an important paper <>n

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"Spider Parasites," being a complete revision of our knowledge of these
interesting insects, both European and American. Lists and breeding
notes were given and specimens exhibited. He also called attention to
the habits of Manfispa and some Acroceridce, which, in Europe, are
known to be parasitic on spiders. Discussed by Messrs. Ashmead, Mar-
latt, Test, Schwarz, Fox and Marx. Dr. Stiles made a few remarks on
the various Nematode genera parasitic on spiders. Dr. Marx made a few
additions to his paper on ticks. Prof. Summers was invited to speak,
and made some instructive remarks on collecting and labeling.

NATHAN BANKS,

Recording Secretary.

CYNIPS Q-GLOBULUS Fitch. — The galls of this species I have found upon
the European oak, Q. pedunculata, planted in Hartford, Conn. From
them I have reared a small inquilinous Cynipid and a species of Callimome.

WM. H. PATTON.

THYNNUS IN CALIFORNIA. — This genus has not hitherto been found
north of the Equator in either hemisphere, nor has any of the family
Thynnidae. A specimen received from Dr. F. E. Blaisdell from Poway,
San Diego County, Cal., is the first intimation of its occurrence in North
America. It is a small black species with hyaline wings, and may be
named Thynnus calif ornicus. — W. H. PATTON.

OBITUARY

ROBERT BUNKER died at his home in Rochester, N. Y., March 6th,
aged seventy-one years. He was a native of Columbia County, New York.
When five years of age his parents removed to Rochester and took up
their residence on the site where he died. Mr. Bunker was a cooper by
occupation, but spent all his spare time making entomological collections
and a few years ago presented his collection to the Academy of Science
at Rochester, of which institution he was a charter member. He con-
tributed occasional papers to the "Canadian Entomologist," and to EN-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS; these showed that he was an acute observer of
insect life. He was, personally, a man of strong traits of character; up-
right and honorable in every relation of life; broad-minded, yet positive
in hir, opinions: genial and courteous in his intercourse with friends and
neighbors. His death will be sincerely mourned by his entomological
friends, and by the community in which he lived.

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VOL. in. MAY, 1892. No. 5.

CONTENTS:

Ashmead— Two new and Remarkable

Ophionids ••• 105

Coding— Studies in N. A. Membracidse 108
Blatchley — Entomologizing in Mexico., in
Smith— Elementary Entomology 114

Harvey — Odonata of Maine 116

Editorial. 118

Notes and News 119

Entomological Literature 123

Doings of Societies.... 128

Our illustration this month represents three species '.of Papilio
which are visitors to our fauna, and for which collectors should
be on the lookout. Papilio poly damas has been found on the In-
dian River, Florida, arid P. sinon has also been found 'in southern
Florida. P. myloles\s said to have been taken in southern Cali-
fornia. Polydamas and sinon are West Indian species, and the
home of mylotes is in Central America. The $ mylotes is of a
rich black, and the spots on the superior wings are bright green;
those on the inferiors are carmine. The spots on the superiors
of the 9 are cream color, and those on the inferiors of a lighter
shade of carmine than in the £ . P. polydamas is dark bottle-
green, with light green, spots on inferiors, and the spots on the
superiors are cream color with a tinge of green. The negative
was kindly made for the NEWS by Dr. Benjamin Sharp of the
Academy. — ED.

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TWO NEW AND REMARKABLE OPHIONIDS.

By WM. H. ASHMEAD.

In 1868, Dr. Arnold Forster, of Aachen, published a remark-
able work entitled, "Synopsis der Fnmilk-n uud Gattungen d<-r
Ichneumonen," in which no less than 36 familii ^ and 522 -ciu-ra
were recognized.

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The work evidently took years of patient labor and research,
and it has been too long neglected by European and American
writers on these insects, as it contains excellent tables and hints
and ideas on the classification of this difficult group, which, it
•worked out thoroughly, would undoubtedly aid materially in ad-
vancing a systematic knowledge of these insects. In separating
the Ichneumons into so many families and genera, Forster prob-
ably went to the extreme, and this may account for the little value
placed on the work by his contemporaries, but from the little
study I have as yet given to his work, I am fully convinced that
many of his so-called families will hold good, with some modifi-
cation, as Tribes, in the sense of LeConte and Horn.

His family 2oth, or the Mesochoroidae for instance, will form a
natural tribe, Mesochorini, in the subfamily Ophioninae, distin-
guished by the large, rhomboidal areolet, and by the two promi-
nent projecting anal styles in the males.

I have been led to these views by a somewhat careful study
of some of the families characterized in his work, and by the
discovery of two remarkable male insects that for a long time
baffled me in placing — one in the National Museum and the other
in my own collection — but which I find, with the aid of Forster' s
tables, belong to two new genera briefly characterized in his work.

In describing these two insects I have deemed it advisable to
give below not only a table of the genera of this tribe, but a full
generic description of these two imperfectly known genera, so
that other students may easily recognize them.

Tribe MESOCHORINI.
Table of Genera.

Vertex narrowed, lateral ocelli close to the margin of the eye ; claws

pectinate G. i. Plesiophthalmus Forster.

Vertex not narrowed, lateral ocelli distant from the margin of the eye.
Claws pectinate; first abdominal segment with lateral carinae extending
backward from the spiracles; transverse median nervure in hind
wing broken . . . . G. 2. Astiphromma Forster.

Claws simple; first abdominal segment without lateral carina?; trans-
verse median nervure in hind wing not broken.

G. 3. Mesochorus Grav.

Plesiophthalmus Forster. — Head transverse, not wider than the thorax
across the wings, antero-posteriorly thin; the frons foveated; clypeus not
separated; ocelli large, prominent, the laterals close to the eye margin;

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eyes large, narrowed oblong, reaching almost to the base of the mandi-
bles, sinuated within opposite the base of the antennae; mandibles oblong,
bidentate at tip; maxillary palpi long, 5-jointed, the second joint swollen
two-thirds the length of the third, the following joints slender, cylindrical,
the third and fifth about equal in length, the fourth a little longer; labial
palpi 4-jointed; metathorax completely areolated, with linear spiracles;
areolet in front wing large, rhomboidal, subpetiolate; the second and
third discoidal cells about equal in length, the second abscissa of the cu-
bital nervure strongly curved upwards; transverse median nervure in hind
wing broken below the middle; tibial spurs i, 2, 2, large, those on the
middle and hind tibiae subequal; claws strongly pectinate.

P. paniscoides sp. nov. rj\ — Length 13 mm. Pale yellow ferruginous,
polished, impunctured; the head above the insertion of the antennae and
the cheeks, the last two abdominal segments and the two long anal styles
black; antenna? as long as the body, slender, tapering and involuted at
tips, pale at base, but becoming fuscous toward tips; the first flagellar
joint is the longest, the following subequal. Thorax very slightly trilobed
anteriorly, but the parapsidal furrows not distinctly impressed; scutellum
convex, connected with a mesonotal ridge or carina at the sides, but with
a transverse fovea at base; metathorax smooth, but distinctly areolated.
Legs very long and slender. Wings clear hyaline, iridescent, the stigma
and venation pale yellowish; the stigma is lanceolate, with the radius
springing from a little before the middle. Abdomen slender, subclavate,
subcompressed beneath at tip, twice the length of the thorax; petiole
long, slender or subclavate, the spiracles situated at the middle; second
segment a little shorter than the petiole; third, two-thirds the length of
the second; the following segments subequal.

Hab. — Massachusetts. Type in coll. Ashmead.
Described from a single specimen received from Mr. Samuel
Henshaw, and labeled as having been collected by ' ' Bowditch."

Astiphromma Forster.— Head very broadly transverse, the frons deeply
impressed, the clypeus not separated; ocelli large, close together in a
triangle, the laterals their width from the eye margin; eyes large, ohltmg-
oval, extending to the base of the mandibles; mandibles stout, bidentate
at tips; maxillary palpi very long, 5-jointed, the second joint clavate, the
third the longest joint, the following subequal; labial palpi .|-j»>int<-d, tin-
second joint the shortest and stoutest, the last the longest; metatlu>ra\
with a median and a posterior area; areolet of wings large, subsessil.
rhomboidal; the second and third discoidal cells equal in length; the s. mud
abscissa of the discoidal nervure strongly curved upwards and nut broken
by a "stump of a vein" at the middle; tibial spurs i, 2, 2, large and equal;
claws pectinate.

A. pectoralis sp. nov. JV— Length 7 mm. I '.lack, shining, impunrtmvd;
scape and pedicel beneath, tlu- face and mandibles, except the teeth, yel-
low; palpi and tegukc white, prothorax and meso- and in.-u-pleura- pale

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ferruginous. Legs pale ferruginous, the anterior and middle coxae and
trochanters luteous or white; posterior legs more or less distinctly red,
the apex of the tibia;, spurs, and tips of the tarsal joints, fuscous or black.
Abdomen black, the extreme apical edge of the second and third seg-
ments white; ventral segments 2 to 4 pale ferruginous, the extreme apical
edges of the following segments whitish; spiracles of first segment small,
round, placed at the middle; the two anal styles a little longer than the
second tarsal joint, black. Wings hyaline iridescent; the stigma large,
subtriangular, brown, the other nervures paler brown.

Hab . — Texas. Type in National Museum.
Described from a single specimen in the National Museum,
donated by Dr. C. V. Riley.

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Studies in North American Membracidae.— I.

By F. W. CODING, M.D., Rutland, 111.

STICTOCEPHALA Stal.

Stictocephala gillettei n. sp. 9- — Convex in front; on each side a lateral
carina posteriorly, uniting far back of middle; superior surface of pro-
thorax nearly flat; apex extends almost to tip of tegmina, very slender,
strongly curved downward and triquetrous; along posterior half of carina
is an impressed line. Head reticulate with yellow, apex hairy; a semi-
circular line with termini each side of apex; just above eyes on prothorax
a scar; ocelli equidistant from each other and the eyes. Prothorax very
coarsely punctured, grass-green; tegmina glassy-green, second and third
apical cells subequal, fourth nearly as long as the two; all of tegmina
more or less punctured, base coriaceous. Chest brownish green, hairy;
femora green, covered with coarse hairs; tibiae light brown, tarsi light
brown, tips black. Abdomen green, ovipositor fuscous. Length 7 mm.

Hab. — Colorado. Described from one 9 presented by Prof.
C. P. Gillette, in whose honor this beautiful species is named.
It may be readily separated from its congeners by the depressed,
extended form, lateral carinae extending nearly to apex; no semi-
circular lateral impressions, and long, very slender, strongly
curved downward apex, and deep grass-green color.

TELAMONA Fitch.

Telaniona rileyi n. sp. — Similar in size and form to coqnillctti God'g;
the markings are less prominent, lateral horns much less produced.

$. — Greenish yellow, marked with ferruginous lines, punctured. Head
greenish yellow, lightly punctured. Prothorax yellowish green, mottled
with ferruginous, and a number of ferruginous, longitudinal, elevated

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lines; dorsal carina percurrent, a deeply impressed dot on each side of its
base; dorsal crest somewhat elevated, much compressed, strongly com-
pressed anteriorly at base and posteriorly behind middle, the highest
point of crest at beginning of posterior third, from which point it gradu-
ally slopes anteriorly in a gentle curve continuous with anterior third of
prothorax, posteriorly sloping for a short distance, then forming an obtuse
angle; at the base another obtuse angle is formed, from which the median
carina curves gently to the apex; lateral angles a little prominent; tegmina
with basal half coriaceous, apical half subcoriaceous, a brown spot at
apex. Chest below is dark yellow, coxae piceous. Legs yellow and hairy
Abdomen yellow. Length 6 mm.

Hab. — Mario County, Cal.

Described from one £ from Dr. Riley, who has so kindly
favored me with much valuable material from the National collec-
tion (type in collection of F. W. G.).

This species resembles coquilletti; the dorsal crest is reclined,
while in that species it is upright.

Telamona mexicana Stal. (?) $.

In the material sent to me recently from the National Museum
by Dr. Riley, for determination, is a $ member of this genus,
which agrees very closely with the description of mexicana 9
in Bid. Memb. K. p. 249, No. i. It differs, however, in the ab-
sence of the brown spot on tegmina, and the legs are immaculate
yellow, tips of tarsi piceous; dorsal crest nearly thrice as long as
high at base.

I believe this to be the £ of mexicana; if it should prove to
be undescribed it may be called pnlchra. Length 7 mm.

Hab. — California ?

PLATYCOTIS Stal.

Platycotis minax n. sp. ?. — Pale yellow, densely punctured, very much
depressed, appearing broad and flat. Head bright yellow, with a longi-
tudinal median carina. Prothorax light yellow, a transverse linear im-
pression just back of base on each side of carina, the impression almost
a fascia; anterior horn extending upward and forward, much compressed,
anterior edge nearly straight, posterior ed.^e convex and brown; on each
side of horn two or three lateral canna- extending from base to apex;
horn about two and a half times as long as broad; at posterior base is an
obtuse angle, behind which is a slight convexity, thence straight to apex,
which does not reach tip of abdomen; tegmina subcoriaceous, extend far
beyond tip of abdomen, light yellow, veins darker; below yellow. Length
to apex of tegmina 5 mm.; including anterior horn 6.5 mm.

Hab. — California.

Described from one 9 presented by Dr. Riley.

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POTNIA Stal.

Potnia asodalis n. sp. <j\ — Dirty yellow, prothorax gibbous anteriorly,
gibbosity greenish. Head yellow, sculptured. Prothorax yellowish an-
teriorly near the base; median carina percurrent, nearly obsolete poste-
riorly; on each side of carina near the base two large brown punctures;
in front, superiorly a large gibbosity occupying about one-half of protho-
rax, greenish; median carina at this point very prominent and brown; on
each side, behind lateral angles a large impression, above which is a
second small gibbosity; apex obtuse, not reaching tip of abdomen; punc-
tured; tegmina with basal half coriaceous veins; apex extends beyond
tip of abdomen; below yellow; tibiae spined. Abdomen yellow. Length
5 mm.

Hab. — Mario County, Cal.

Described from one £ presented by Dr. Riley (type in collec-
tion F. W. G.).

STICTOPELTA* Stal.

Stictopelta nova n. sp. $. — Very near to cruenta Burm. Head bright
yellow; ocelli dark brown. Prothorax convex, with base yellow; just
above base on each side of obsolete median line a broad, irregular, trans-
verse, shining black line; from base of tegmina posteriorly the lateral
borders are white, apex brown, otherwise green and shining; tegmina
vitreous, veins of corium black; below yellow; tibiae with outer surface
brown; tarsi brown. Abdomen yellow. Length 6.5 mm.

9. — Differs from $ only in having a broad semi-circular band of a little
darker green than ground color, anteriorly, the convexity of which is
forward, broken in four spots, the bases of this arched band being above
the lateral angles, which are slightly produced.

Hab. — San Bernardino County, Cal. Described from two ex-
amples.

These were presented to me by Dr. Riley.

GAROARA Am. et Serv.

Gargara atlas n. sp. <$. — Head black, a yellow spot below each eye;
eyes yellow. Prothorax ferruginous, base broadly piceous; median carina
percurrent, above shoulders a very large irregular gibbosity, posteriorly
long and narrow; tegmina opaque, clouded with piceous; a large light
yellow (white?) spot at base of tegmina, and one on the external border
near apex; below black; femora black, base ferruginous; tibiae and tarsi
ferruginous, tips of latter black. Length 3 mm.

Hab. — Kern County, Cal.

Described from two examples from Dr. Riley.

* Stictopelta is one of Dr. Ftal's subgenera of Darnis. I consider it of sufficient value
to be recognized as a distinct genus.

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This species is very near to variegata Sign, from Calabar, both
having a prominent lobe on the prothorax anteriorly, which may
place them in a new genus. In atlas the tegmina are not vitreous,
and have a whitish band near the base; also smaller.

Duplicates of all the new species described in the foregoing
paper, excepting Stictocephala riridis, may be examined under
the above names in the National collection. I am deeply indebted
to Dr. Riley for his kindness in allowing me the privilege of
studying the duplicate material in the National collection.

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ENTOMOLOGIZING IN MEXICO.

By W. S. BLATCHLEY, Terre Haute, Ind.

He who would see in the shortest possible time insect life in all
its phases, from the few depauperate forms which dwell in the
barren regions bordering the realms of perpetual snow to the
countless thousands which bask in the genial warmth and amidst
the luxurious vegetation of a tropical clime, should visit Mexico.

In less than a week one can pass on foot from the summit of
Pico Orizaba, 18,000 and better feet in air, where the mercury
marks daily throughout the year many degrees below the freezing
point, to the level of the sea at Vera Cruz, where the mean an-
nual temperature is above 80 degrees. In this journey the num-
ber and size of the insects met with would be increasing at every
onward step, and, if carefully collected, the series would at the
end represent forms from every zone on earth.

It was not my good fortune, while a member of the recent
Scoville expedition to Mexico, to make this journey, but I col-
lected in various localities from the height of 2500 feet at Cordoba
to the lower limit of snow on the mountain. On account of a
press of other duties no special work has as yet been done with
the insects taken, and, in the present article, I propose to give
some of my experience while collecting; to mention some of the
most pecular and bizarre forms taken, and to note in a general
way the results of the trip.

In the beginning, let me say that, whoever visits Mexico to
collect insects should, unless he be a millionaire, take all necessary
material with him, for, in the town of 15,000 inhabitants where
we made our headquarters for two weeks, chloroform was one

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dollar per ounce; a cheap pine handle for a net cost twenty-five
cents; empty cigar boxes were ten cents each; potassium cyanide
could not be purchased, except by a special permit from the
mayor, while the native alcohol was too weak to do anything but
put on a temporary drunk the specimens immersed in it.

It was the late afternoon of the 2oth of July when our party
of four, after a long ride of over 3100 miles, passed down the
slope of the Mexican railway and entered Orizaba, one of the
most charming of the smaller cities of Mexico, situated as it is in
a little valley in a semi-tropical region 4000 feet above sea level,
and surrounded on every side by lofty mountains. Our hopes
were high for the real work of the party, namely, the collecting
of the different forms of animal and plant life of the region was
to begin on the morrow. Those hopes were somewhat dampened,
however, by the information that the rainy season was but well
begun, and that the chances were that it would rain every day
for a month or longer.

The first insect seen, after we had found a hotel where English
was spoken and had washed some of the dust and cinders of the
journey from us, was a handsome male of Dynastes tityus Linn,
which the landlord, who was in high good humor at getting the
four of us for the modest sum of fourteen dollars each per week
to partake of his hospitality, brought alive to me. He assured
me that his brother, who resides at Mexico City and has the
largest collection of Coleoptera in the country, had sold,scores
of them in Europe for five dollars a pair, but when I informed
him that the same species is found frequently in Kentucky, and
at times in southern Indiana, he seemed somewhat taken back.
However, he graciously presented it to me and volunteered to
accompany me after the seven o'clock dinner for a stroll about
the electric lights, where, he assured me, numerous specimens of
tityus, as well as of many other large beetles, were to be found.

When we set out to visit the lights the rain was falling in a
steady shower; but few insects were flying, and they were mostly
the smaller moths. A half dozen or more large brown beetles,
a species of Xyloryctes which I afterwards found to be very com-
mon were, however, taken from the ground beneath the lights,
and a few earwigs from the walls of the houses from which the
light was reflected.

On the morrow, as soon as our breakfast of bread and coffee,

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all one ever gets for that meal in Mexico, was despatched, I sallied
forth net in hand, and, coming to the outskirts of the city entered
an unfenced garden containing about half an acre and began
operations. The first insects seen were many of the half-grown
young of a gigantic grasshopper, Rhomalea sp. ? black in color
and in life streaked on the sides with bright crimson. They
seemed to be a social sort of creature, as thirty or forty of them
would be found feeding together on a single stalk of corn in much
the same manner as the larvae of certain of our moths feed in
communities or droves. Unlike the young grasshoppers of this
country they were very sluggish in their action, being easily cap-
tured with the fingers. After scooping up a number of them,
together with many of the young and adults of a large Hemip-
teran, Sagotylus confluentiis Say, which were making a meal on
the leaves of a gourd-vine, I gave my attention to the butterflies,
and passed the morning in that one garden, securing about seventy
specimens, representing half that number of species of those at-
tractive insects for which I was primarily in search.

And right here let me say that during that whole morning, yes,
during the whole of my collecting in Mexico, I was impressed
with a feeling which probably comes to every collector in a strange
country — a feeling of being lost among such a multitude of forms
of which one is actually in search, but knows but little about.
After a naturalist has been in one locality for some time he be-
comes familiar with the different forms of life about him; knows,
for example, most of the plants, birds and insects, if not by name
at least by association. He thus becomes able to detect in an
instant anything which is new or rare, and a certain thrill of de-
light comes to him when such a form is seen. But in a country
where everything is new, where one may pick up the most com-
mon species thinking it to be rare, or, happening upon a small
group of something rare, take some of them and let the rest
alone believing them to be common, and afterwards, when too
late, find out and regret the mistake; in such a locality the col-
lecting, to me, loses a certain degree of its charm.

Numerous as are the insects in a tropical country, it is impos-
sible for one person in a short time to make anything like a thor-
ough collection in all the orders, even in a restricted locality.
Lepidoptera and Orthoptera were what I wanted especially, and
of them I collected every species I could find. I also took such

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Coleoptera and Hemiptera as came readily to hand, while of the
Diptera, Hymenoptera and Neuroptera, I took scarcely any,
although large numbers of each of those orders were seen.

Of the diurnal Lepidoptera, or butterflies, over 600 specimens,
representing 85 species, were taken in the eleven days spent in
the vicinity of Orizaba. During that time it rained two whole
and seven half days, so that the facilities for collecting them were
none of the best. Of these but eight are found in Indiana,
namely, Papilo turnus; three species of Pyrameis, two ot which,
atalanta and cardui, are cosmopolitan; the handsome Callidryas
eubule, which is very rare in this State; Junonia coenia, also a rare
species with us; Terias lisa and Ancyloxypha numitor, the latter
being, there as here, the smallest and one of the most abundant
of the Hesperidae.

During one forenoon I took 168 specimens, over forty species
from a single field near the outskirts of the city. It was filled
with brilliant flowers, and the margin, where occasional clumps
of bright red flowers grew, was a favorite lurking place for many
of the larger and rarer kinds. One of the most striking species,
on account of its size as well as its so-called ' ' protective mimicry,
was a large and handsome Callidryas light yellow above and of
a greenish hue beneath, which, when resting with folded wings,
could scarcely be distinguished from a leaf so closely did the
color and the prominent veins on the underside resemble those
of a leaf.

(To be continued.)

ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

Following the Sphingidae in our catalogues and lists come the
Sesiidee. They were originally included with the clear winged
Sphinges on superficial characters, and, though long since sepa-
rated from them, are yet, as a rule, placed next to them. In
fact, except for the superficial resemblance, there is nothing war-
ranting any close association of the two families. So far as I am
aware the larvae of the Sesiidae are borers, living in roots, stems
and trunks of vines, shrubs and trees, sometimes maturing two

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broods in one season more usually annual, and rather more rarely
passing more than one year in the larva state.

The images have moderately long antennae, gradually and va-
riably thickened medially, more slender apically, the tips often
with a brush of hair. Rarely they are setaceous, or thread like.
In the male they are often furnished with lateral tufts of bristles
and sometimes with lamellae or pectinations. The head is vari-
ably developed, usually quite small; ocelli present; tongue vary-
ing from a well developed organ to a mere rudiment. The latter
character is of great importance in the systematic study of the
family. The thorax is usually robust and quite closely scaled.
The abdomen is long and comparatively slender in most cases,
often brightly banded. The wings are narrow, the primaries
longer than, but not so broad as the secondaries. They are
wholly or in part transparent as a rule, and this, combined with
the bright, banded maculation, gives them a wasp-like appearance
that may be protective.

The venation is distinctive, and of a low type. The median
cell is well develpped, and all, or nearly all, the veins arise from
it separately. The internal vein is wanting, or forms the internal
margin itself. In the secondaries we have a very similar type of
venation; but here the costal vein is missing, and there may be
two or three internal or free veins. Vein 5 is often absent as well.

The legs, as a whole, are well developed, the posterior often
markedly longer than the others, while the anterior are actually,
as well as relatively, short without being weak.

The sexes sometimes differ quite markedly, not only in size,
but in color and maculation, and it is not unlikely that some of
our numerous species represent sexes of others. In habit the
insects are diurnal as a rule, but have been occasionally attracted
to light. The characters of most of the American genera have
been given by me in " Entomologica Americana," iv, 9-13.

Somewhat allied to the Sesiidae, in habit and appearance, are
the Thyridae. The relation between the two is superficial merely,
and vanishes on study. They are small and stout, with long,
strong tongue, large, projecting, bristly palpi and spindle-formed
antennae, the basal joint much enlarged. In the male they are
singly pectinated. The ocelli are wanting. Thorax robust, ab-
domen conic and comparatively short. The legs are stout, clothed
with long, stiff hair, middle tibiae with one, posterior with two

Il6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

pairs of spurs. The wings are usually quite short and broad,
small in comparison to the robust appearance of the insect, and
with an irregular outer margin.

The primaries are 12-veined, all the veins (save the costal and
submedian) separately out of the median cell. Internal, or sub-
median vein, forked at base. The secondaries have two internal
veins, and the costal free from the base the full length of its course.
In color the species are black and white, or a peculiar yellowish
brown and whitish.

-o-

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ODONATA OF MAINE.-II.

Specimens taken near Orono, Penobscot County, Me., 1891.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

(Continued from Vol. Ill, page 92.)

Tribe III.— LIBELLULINA.

Subfamily 5. — CORDULINA.

46. Macromia (Didymops} transversa Say. — June 6, 15, 20.
Abundant in the woods, Orono, Me.

47. Cordulia ( Tetragoneuria) semiaquea Burm. — Quite abun-
dant over Chemo Stream during July; Bradley, Me.

28. Cordulia \Neurocordulia) Uhleri Selys. — Reported last
season from specimens in the College collection. This season
taken on several dates in June over swampy road in College
woods, Orono, Me.

48. Cordulia {Somatochlora) lepida Selys. — July 1 2th one male ;
July 28th several males; one pair was seen mating and taken in
the net, but the female, unfortunately, escaped. No other females
seen; Chemo Lake near the outlet. The wind was blowing hard,
and they had collected in an opening in the woods and were
easily taken.

49.— Cordulia (Somatochlora) forcipata Scud. — June 13, 15,
16, over swamp in College woods; July 22, over Chemo Stream,
Bradley, Me. This is the Epitheca forcipata of Hagen's Synopsis
of 1875. It seems to be abundant about Orono, Me.

50. Leucorhinia hudsonica Selys. — June ist seven males. Over
a road near a small pond, Old Town, Me. On the Veazee Rail-
road half way between Stillwater and Old Town. My attention

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was called to this species by Mr. J. M. Rondlette (Class 92), who
saw them flying the last of May, and was with me when the speci-
mens were taken. This species seems to emerge very early.
Only one female seen, but not taken. These specimens showed
much brighter colors than those assigned to them in the books.

51. Leucorhinia frigida Hagen. — A single specimen ( £ ) of
this rare species was taken July nth over Chemo Stream, Brad-
ley, just above the dam.

52. Diplax costifera Uhler. — Many specimens taken July i2th
along Chemo Stream, Bradley, Me.

53. Celithemis elisa Hag.— A single 1 July 22cl, and July 28th
a dozen males. No females taken; Chemo Stream where it leaves
the lake. Our specimens were much brighter than the colors
assigned to this species in Hagen's description (Neur. N. A. p.
182, 1861).

REMARKS.

Additional notes upon species repeated in ENT. NEWS, Vol.
II, Nos. 3 and 4, 1891, are numbered to agree with those of that
article. Species reported for the first time in this article are num-
bered from 39 to 53.

The species found the past season include some rare forms and
others remarkable for their occurrence so far North. There seems
to be good reason for believing that the New England insect
fauna extends along the coast of Maine and there mingles with
boreal forms. The species reported above swell the number of
species of Odonata to date known by us from the vicinity of
Orono to fifty.

As we have made no special effort to collect these forms the
indications are that the State is rich in species.

We are greatly obligated to Mr. P. P. Calvert, Philadelphia,
Pa., for examining specimens and for other professional courte-
sies, and to Mrs. Anson Allen, of Orono, Me., for the privilege
of examining the Odonata collected by her husband.

AN exchange says that Jerry Simpson, the "sockless statesman" of
Kansas, it is rumored, will petition Congress for a $2, 000,000 appropriation
for the purpose of experimenting in crossing honey-bees with lightning-
bugs, under the impression that should he succeed the bees will be able
to work nights. — Richland i/<>r,'<?)

Jl8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

Published monthly (except July and August), by the Entomological
Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, with the
endorsement of the American Entomological Society. It will contain not
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but will leave no measure untried to make it a necessity to every student
of insect life, so that its very moderate annual subscription may be con-
sidered well spent.

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of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy of Natural Sciences, Logan Square,
Philadelphia, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, 1892.

Entomological rubbish.— Why is it that in this country our entomologists
get so many poor and imperfect specimens? and when they do secure
them make matters worse by running pins through them out of all pro-
portion to the size of the insect. In Europe they do these things far better,
but it may be said that Europe is an older country, and that they have had
many years in which to learn entomological technique; true, but the dif-
ference in the perfection of the specimens and in the mounting seem out
.of all proportion to their respective ages. Some time ago a well-known
collector wished to know why so many poor specimens came in exchange
from Philadelphia entomologists; our reply was, that none of them were
caught in Philadelphia, but had been received from other parties. He
already had all our local species and those sent were from other places.
It is time we had learned dexterity in catching specimens so that they are
not ruined. Neatness in pinning, expanding and mounting, will greatly
enhance the value of a specimen, and it will receive more respect and be
much more likely to be preserved. If a large, heavy species has a No. i
pin in it and you attempt to move it from place to place, the chances are
the pin will bend and the specimen be ruined. It is a common thing to
find No. 4 pins put through our smaller moths and butterflies, and these
pins pointing at the cardinal points of the compass. Seek your specimens
at the proper time, while they are fresh, and catch and kill them in such
a manner that they wont look as though the cat or the baby had been
playing with them. Use a pin in proportion to the size of the insect, and
remember it goes through either the middle of the thorax or the right
elytron, and should be exactly perpendicular. Always have a uniform
length of pin above the thorax (^ inch.), and it is best to make a little
measure to test this if you wish your specimens to look well and be a
uniform height on the pins. For Macrolepidoptera use Nos. 2, 3 and 4,
Klaeger pins, and for Micros use the silver pins (Klaegur) that come spe-
cially for them. These micro pins are fastened to an ordinary No. 3 or 4

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pin. Any insect that is too small for a No. 2 Klaeger pin should be
mounted on card-board; in other words, never use a finer pin than a No.
2 in any of the orders. In spreading Lepidoptera be careful to have the
inferior margins of the superior wings make a straight line. Let us
inaugurate an era of well-caught and nicely-mounted specimens. It is
almost as easy to do the thing right as wrong, and the NEWS hopes to live
to see the time when entomological rubbish will be a thing of the shadowy
past. — ED.

Notes and.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit, and will thankfully receive items
of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author's name will be given
in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.]

To Contributors.— All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our
earliest convenience, atid as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep-
tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer-
ence, as to make it necessary to put " copy"' into the hands of the printer, for each number,
three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im-
portant matter for certain issue. Owing to low subscription rate, " extras" will be charged
for, and when they are wanted, it should be so stated on the MS. along with the number
desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. — ED.

INCIDENTS OF WORK. — In the fall of 1890 I visited a country place in
the southern part of the State for the purpose of investigating the habits
of the screw worm (Coinpsomyia macellaria). Desiring to watch the work
of the species without interruption, I secured a nearly dead sheep in the
shade of a tree about fifty yards back from the public road and sat myself
down beside the sheep to watch the larvce in their work. Occasionally
flies were caught in the hand and put in the cyanide bottle, or when a full
grown larva dropped from the wounds for pupation it was put into earth
in a bottle brought for that purpose. Thus a full half day was spent
beside the sheep. But my doings had not been unobserved, as passers by
had watched with amazement a stranger in their midst catching flies from
a nearly dead sheep, and it was soon known in the little hamlet that the
bug man who had arrived the night before was catching flies to eat. Im-
agine my surprise after reaching my hotel to be surrounded by a group
of listeners who asked if the flies were really good to eat? how long had
I lived oil such truck ? and if the flies were eaten to cure any disease, etc.?
My explanations, however, were satisfactory to most of those present,
although when I explained that the parents of the screw-worms were
small flies and exhibited specimens, several knew as well as they knew
anything that I was mistaken, as a prominent physician of the town had
shown that the parent of the screw-worm was a species of wasp. The

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physician had actually shown this to be the case by squeezing a live screw-
worm from the abdomen of the wasp. One of the listeners was so sure
that the parent of the screw-worm was a wasp that h was willing to back
up his statement with a good financial consideration. But upon my offer
to put up a like amount, he was afraid to have the subject decided by
trial owing to the difficulty it would be to get the right species of wasp.
A merchant recently told me of a conversation he had had with a farmer
about a recent bulletin of the Station treating of the black weevil (Calan-
dra oryzce}, which was about as follows :

Farmer: " I never tried this remedy, but I know one thing he is off on."

Merchant: " What is that?"

Farmer: "Why, he says them 'ere corn weevils is produced by eggs
which are laid by the old weevils. That's not so, and I know it. Them
'ere weevils come from the vital force in the grain and grow after the corn
has been put in bins, in the same way as seeds sprout in the Spring."

Merchant: "What makes you think that?"

Farmer: "Why, I know it's the vital force in the grain that grows the
weevils, because you never see the weevils in rotten kernels."

It would be hard work to pound sense into a stone, and the merchant,
realizing this, proceeded to tell the farmer that we lived on a small or-
ganism known as a bacterium, but when we were sick the bacterium lived
on us. Surely " where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise."

HOWARD EVARTS WEED, Agricultural College, Miss.

NEWSPAPER ENTOMOLOGY. — I do not like to see unreliable entomo-
logical statements designated in the NEWS as "newspaper entomology."
If I were asked to state what I thought to be the greatest incentive to the
popularity of entomological study during the present century I would un-
hesitatingly say the newspapers. By this I mean papers usually known
and spoken of as newspapers, and more especially the agricultural press.
The entomological question is here discussed mostly from an economic
standpoint, yet interest in the science is pretty sure to be awakened, and
study and research will not stop at the point of injurious and beneficial
species. Purely scientific works and periodicals treating the subject are
accessible but to the few, and are not to be found in the homes of the
masses, while the homes without newspapers are few and far between.
As to the reliability of scientific articles diffused through this medium,
why are they not to be depended upon as much as are other matters from
the same source? If the paper is reliable, its statements can nearly always
be depended upon. Most of our eminent entomologists have at some
period of their career addressed the public through the medium of the
newspapers, and I venture to say have had larger and more appreciative
"audiences" than when the fruits of their researches were disseminated
by means of the strictly scientific periodicals or books. To the science
dl entomology much of my spare time has been given, and, in an humble
way, I do not hesitate to declare that, aside from personal research, by
far the greatest in entive to additional study has been "newspaper ento-

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mology," not of the Electricia tomfooleryensis kind, but such as is printed
in the entomological columns of the Prairie farmer and other agricultural
'papers, and which have at one time or other included the writings of many
of the highest authorities in our beautiful science.

In conclusion, I would most earnestly beg our editor to refrain from
labeling preposterous statements as " newspaper entomology," as thereby
doubts are cast upon the veracity of such standard authorities as the
Prairie Farmer and other reliable newspapers to which due credit is given
even in text-books of entomology (see " Packard's Guide to the study of
Insects"). We all know that mistakes are apt to occur in newspapers as
well as elsewhere, and will not deny that gross exaggeration is often prac-
ticed by unprincipled journalists, but these are the exceptions and not the
rule. Long live ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS and " newspaper entomology !"

ALDA M. SHARP, Gladbrpok, Iowa.

An article labeled "newspaper entomology" simply shows its source,
and is not intended as a reproach. — ED.

Mr. SYDNEY SMITH could not appreciate an entomological paradise
when he characterized insects as the curse of the tropics. "The bete
rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are
covered with ticks, chigoes bury themselves in your flesh and hatch a
large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They will not live together,
but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion
of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose.
You eat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches and
snakes get into the bed, ants eat up the books, scorpions sting you on the
foot. Everything bites, stings, or bruises; every second of your existence
you are wounded by some species of animal life that nobody has seen
before, except Swammerdam and Merian. An insect with eleven legs is
swarming in your tea-cup, a nondescript with nine wings is struggling in
the small beer, or caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hasten-
ing over the bread and butter. All nature is alive, and seems to be gath-
ering all her entomological hosts to eat you up as you are standing, out
of your coat, waistcoat and breeches. Such are the tropics. All this
reconciles us to our dews, fogs, vapors and drizzles, to our apothecaries
rushing about with gargles and tinctures, to our old British constitutional
coughs, sore throats, and swollen faces'."

A SUGGESTION TO LEPIDOPTERISTS. — In connection with the article by
Prof. Smith, in the NEWS for March, on the Lepidoptera, it has occurred
to me that some ideas which presented themselves while studying that
order might be useful or suggestive to others, particularly to those con-
structing keys or tables for popular use. While using such keys (and it
is true of many descriptions also) I have often had my patience severely
taxed by the propensity of the writer to put the cart before the horse; in
other words, to ignore tin- proper sequence of words and phrases. Not
only that, but some keys contain many needless repetitions of the same

122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

phrase or set of phrases, often ingeniously arranged by the author (for
variety, I presume, I hope not with malicious intention) in all the com-
binations possible, adding immensely to the amount of time consumed in
their use without any beneficial results. Uniformity is sometimes much
to be desired. It is desirable here. There is enough to be done in our
science without needlessly wasting any time. As a remedy for the first
evil I would propose two or three rules for guidance in writing descrip-
tions, and for the second the use of abbreviations. The rules are brief
and easily borne in mind. The abbreviations are few and suggestive. I
am well aware that the use of rules and abbreviations when many and
complicated is unwise; but if few, simple, suggestive and labor-saving, it
has many advantages. A letter or figure appeals to the mind more quickly
and surely than a word. Take for instance :

A broad, submarginal band of buff on the lower surface of hind wings.
Proper sequence :

Under surface of hind wings with submarginal band of buff broad.
Now let

A — above = upper surface of wings,

B == below == lower surface of wings,

i = front wing, and 2 == hind wing,
And we have :

B 2 with submarginal band of buff broad.
The rules I would suggest are :

Proceed from the general to the particular; and (usually) from the more
obvious to the less so. Locate a peculiarity before describing it.

These are not to be considered inflexible, and should be applied to
phrases which present a single idea to the mind rather than to single
words. I would invariably, however, refer to the surface first, the wing
second, and the details last, for reasons too obvious to need mention.
The abbreviations I would recommend are as follows :

A (above) — upper surface of wings.

B (below) == lower surface of wings.

1 =- primary == front wing.

2 = secondary == hind wings.
c = cell.

v == vein.

Thus B i, c 6, refers at once to cell six on the under surface of the front
wings.

These abbreviations are, of course, chiefly of value in reference to the
Lepidoptera, especially the butterflies. Perhaps the plan can be adapted
to other orders, at least it seems likely to be applicable to some of them.
The other suggestions apply to all. — A. P. MORSE, Wellesley, Mass.

AILANTHUS FOLIAGE AND THE ROSE-BEETLE. — In Bulletin No. 32 of
the New Jersey Experiment Station, discussing the rose-chafer (J/acro-
dactylus subspinosus) Prof. Smith states that some other things "decoc-
tions of peach leaves and the blossoms of Ailanthus were found to be

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valueless in destroying the beetle." This is the only reference I have
been able to find to this tree, in this connection, until recently. While
attending a farmer's institute at Martinsville, Ind., my attention was called
to the fact that during last Summer the rose-chafer was very troublesome
in that vicinity, defoliating whole vineyards, as well as doing much damage
to roses and other cultivated plants. There seemed to be no remedy for
the pests, but later on the}' were found to be feeding in countless numbers
on the foliage of an Ailanthus glandulosus tree which stood in the court-
house yard, and it was also discovered that in a very short time the beetles
commenced falling to the ground dead; and, as the janitor of the court-
house expressed it to me, "the ground under the tree was literally cov-
ered with dead insects, and they did not recover again either." I was
shown the tree, which was certainly Ailanthus glandulosus. May it not
be possible that the foliage of this tree, if not the blossoms, possesses
poisonous properties which may render it an effectual remedy for this
insect? — Prof. J. TROOP, Indiana Experiment Station.

Cossid or Hcpialid?- — I have found in northern New York what appears
to be a Cossid or Hepialid larva boring the trunks of black ash growing
in swamps. They work in young and vigorous trees; the pupal shells,
seen protruding near the ground, indicate a size nearly that of P. robinicz.
Does any reader of this note know what species has this habit ? — D. S. K.

TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892).
—Pages 41-88 inclusive, have been printed since our last issue, containing
the conclusion of Dr. Horn's " Random Studies of North American Co-
leoptera;" also "The North American species of Ceropalcs" by W. J.
Fox; "A Revision of N. American species of Phlepsius (with a plate),"
by E. P. Van Duzee; "The Mouth Parts of Copris Carolina, with notes
on the homologies of the mandibles (with two plates)," by John B. Smith;
and the beginning of " Notes on North American Tachinidce, Paper III,"
by C. H. Tyler Townsend.

Entomological Literature.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part xcviii, December, 1891. — Co-
leoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 361-368, pi. xvi, G. C. Champion; pt. 3, D.
Sharp, pi. vi; vol. vi, pt. i, pp. 281-312, M. Jacoby. Lepidoptera-Heter-
ocera: vol. ii, pis. xlii, xliii, H. Druce. Diptera: vol. iii, pp. 1-56, S. VV.
Williston. Part xcix, February, 1892. — Araclinida-Araneidea, O. P. Cam-
bridge, pi. xi. Coleoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 369-392, G. C. Champion;
vol. vi, pt. r, supplement, M. Jacoby, pi. xlii. Diptera: vol. iii, pp. 57-72,
S. W. Williston, pi. i.

TRANSACTIONS OK THK YORKSIIIKK NATURALISTS' UNION. Part 16.
Leeds, November, 1891.— List of the ColropU-ra of Yorkshire (cont.1,
pp. 49-64, Rev. W. C. Hey.

124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. |JVlay>

BIBLIOTHECA ZooLOGicA (Cassel), viii, 3, 1891. — Researches on mim-
icry as a basis of a natural system of Papilionidae, Dr. E. Haase.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Feb. 29, 1892. — On the develop-
ment-history of the parasitic Hymenoptera, N. Kulagin; of the Pedipalpi,
Dr. A. Strubell. March 14, 1892. — On the development of the Lung-
Books in Scorpio fulvipes, M. Laurie, figs. Preliminary communication
on a new German species of Chordeuma, C. Verhoeff. Supplementary
remarks to my communication on sense organs in the palpi and first pair
of legs of Solpugidse, Dr. P. Bertkau.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, ix, 51, March, 1892.—
On some spiders from the Andaman Islands, collected by E. W. Oates,
Esq.,* Prof. T. Thorell.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), March 4, 1892. — The
"intermediary body" of Flemming in the seminal cellules of Scolopetidra
and Lithobius, M. Prenant. March 18, 1892. — The "central corpuscle"
of E. von Beneden in the seminal cell$ of Scolopendra, A. Prenant.

REVUE LINNEENNE, viii, 86, Lyons, Feb. 15, 1892. — Description of a
new Saturnia from China, L. Sonthonnax. Study on the genus Stenop-
terus Steph., M. Pic. Habits and metamorphoses of Aphodius granarius
L., Capt. Xambeu.

MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH CICADA OR TETTIGID^;, by G. B. Buck-
ton. London, Macmillan & Co. Eighth and last part, December, 1891.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, xxxv, Brus-
sels, 1891. — Hymenoptera collected on the Lower Congo by the expedi-
tion under the auspices of the king of Belgium,* A. Schletterer. Cata-
logue of the Curculionidae belonging to the genus Zygops* ]. D. des
Loges. — Compt. Rendu. Feb. 6, 1892. Myrmecological notes,* A. Forel.
Heterocera exotica, new species from the Dutch East Indies,* F. J. M.
Heylaerts. Note on the African Chrysodemidae referred to the genus
Iridottenia*^ C. Kerremans. Diagnoses of two Buprestids from the
region of Lake Tanganyika,* id. New Coleoptera from the Congo,* A.
Duvivier. Clavicorni from Bengal, A. Grouvelle. Note on the ants of
Belgium, A. Lameere. The Brachymera of Belgium and the neighboring
regions, E. Coucke. Third note on some Coleoptera Heteromera of
Belgium, L. Coucke. Enumeration of the Hemiptera of Belgium (concl.),
E. Coubeaux.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xviii, 4, February, iS<>2.—
An excursion in the vicinity of Nagasaki, Dr. A. Seitz. Further researches
on the process of completion of coloration, C. Verhoeff. The ZoocecicUe
of Lorraine (cont.), J. Kieffer. — No. 5, March. On some new and rare
P'ossoria,* C. Verhoeff.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST (London), March, 1892. — The Pterophorina
of Britain (cont.), J. W. Tutt. British spiders (cont.), Rev. F. O. P. Cam-
bridge. Notes. — April, 1892. Portrait and sketch of Miss E. A. Ormerod.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

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The Diptera of Dorsetshire, C. W. Dale. Heterocera of the Island of
Man, H. S. Clarke. Lepidoptera of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire,
W. Reid.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xix,
signatures 4-7, Phila., March, 1892. — A study of Atnara s. g. Cclia (cont.),
G. H. Horn, M.D. Random studies in North American Coleoptera, id.
The North American species of Ceropalcs, with a catalogue of the de-
scribed species of the world, W. J. Fox.

MlTTHEILUNGEN AUS DEM NATURHISTORISCHEN MUSEUM IN HAMBURG,

ix, i, 1891. — Spiders from Madagascar and Nossibe,* Dr. H. Lenz, 2 pis.
The Termita, Odonata and Neuroptera collected by Dr. F. Stuhlmann in
East Africa,* Dr. A. Gerstaecker. The Collembola of South Georgia
[Antarctic] from the collections of the German station of 1882-1883,* Dr.
C. Schaeffer, i pi.

NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEWOCHENSCHRIFT( Berlin), March 20, 1892.
— On the voracity of Liparis inonacha L., R. Rittmeyer.

GEOLOGISKA FOERENINGENS i STOCKHOLM FOERHANDLINGAR, Bd. 14,
2, 1892. — On an Hemiptera from the Lower Graptolitic Slates of Sweden, *f
J. C. Moberg.

LE NATURALISTS (Paris), March 15, 1892. — Habits and metamorphoses
of Xyloperta pnstnlata Capt. Xambeu. Two new Sphingida; from Eastern
Asia,* L. Austant. Carnivorous caterpillars, F. Plateau, figs.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADEL-
PHIA, 1892, pp. 133-135. — Report on the Hymenoptera collected in West
Greenland, W. J. Fox.

REVUE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE L'OUEST. II, i, Paris, January,
1892. —General considerations on the classification of the Acarina, followed
by an attempt at a new classification, Dr. Trouessart. Extends to families
and subfamilies.

ARCHIVES DE ZOOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE ET GENERALE (2), x, i, Paris,
1892. — Notes on the life and habits of insects : Observations on Atinuo-
phila affinis Kirby, Dr. P. Marchal.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires i,
xxxii, 6, 1891; xxxiii, i, 1892. — New Hemiptera of the Argentine and
Uruguayan faunas, *f Dr. C. Berg; Glyphcpomis, l\ircnthi-ca n. gen.
Argentine Dipterology (Syrphida/), F. L. Arribalzaj;:i.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Out., April, 1892. — Notes on North
American Tachinidce, with descriptions of new genera and species, v, C.
H. T. Townsencl. Clerck's Icones, W. J. Holland. Hermaphrodite
Gypsy Moths, C. H. Fernald. A classification of the North American
Spiders, N. Banks. Canadian Hymenoptera, i, W. H. Harrington. Our
Winter beetles, H. F. Wickham. Chionobas Uhleri, T. D. A. Cockerell.
How to take the oil or grease out of specimens of natural history, P.
Fisher.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
OF ONTARIO, Toronto, 1892. — Noteworthy injuries caused by insects
during the past season, C. J. S. Bethune. A microscopical examination
of an unexpanded wing of Callosatnia promethea, J. A. Moffat. Notes
on Japanese insects, W. H. Harrington. Numerous articles on Economic
Entomology by various authors.

NEW MEXICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS,
Bulletin No. 5, Las Cruces, N. Mex., March, 1892. — Notices of importance
concerning fruit insects, C. H. T. Townsend.

ENTOMOLOGISTS' RECORD, London, March 15, 1892. — Effects of tem-
perature on the coloring of Lepidoptera, F. Merrifield. Classification by
neuration, J. W. Tutt. The genus Hepialus, J. E. Robson. Numerous
notes on variations in British insects.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, IRIS, Dresden, iv, 2, Ber-
lin, February, 1892.— A new form of Morpho* Dr. O. Staudinger. The
development of the butterfly after leaving the pupal envelope, W. Peter-
son. New African Lycaenidae,*f Dr. O. Staudinger. New species and
varieties of Lepidoptera of the palaearctic faunal region, *f id., 2 pis.

SUPPLEMENTARY APPENDIX to Travels among the Great Andes of the
Equator, by Edward Whymper. London, John Murray, 1891. — This
volume is made up of a series of papers by a number of specialists, and
baseo! on some of the zoological and mineralogical collections made by
Mr. Whymper among the Ecuadorian Andes, for the most part at eleva-
tions above 8500 feet. The greater part of the book is entomological,
the groups treated being Coleoptera*f by (the late) H. W. Bates, D.
Sharp, Rev. H. S. Gorham, A. S. Olliff and M. Jacoby; Formicidae*t by
P. Cameron; Lepidoptera* by F. Du C. Godman and O. Salvin ; and
Rhynchota*t by W. L. Distant. The general entomological results as
bearing on questions of Geographical Distribution are discussed in an
introduction by Mr. Bates. Numerous excellent wood-cuts, engraved by
Mr. Whymper hftnself, illustrate the text.

PUBLICATIONS DE L' INSTITUTE ROYAL GRAND-DUCAL DE LUXEM-
BOURG, xxi, Luxembourg, 1891. — Materials for the entomological fauna
of the province of Belgian Luxembourg: Coleoptera, third century, A.
P. de Borre.

KNOWLEDGE (London), April, 1892.— The life of an Ant, E. A. Butler.

ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), April, 1892. — Anno-
tated list of British Tachiniidas, R. H. Meade. Notes on collecting Tor-
trices (the Pole system), C. Fenn. On some new species of Histericla1
and one new genus,* G. Lewis. Notes on some British and exotic Coc-
cidse, J. W. Douglas. On an Indian Ant-mimicking Hemipteron,* E.
Bergroth. Note on Pentaria badia Rosenh. (= sericaria Mills.) with de-
scription of a second species from the Ea^t Pyrenees,* G. C. Champion.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 12J

ENTOMOLOGIST (London), April, 1892. — Portrait and sketch of Henry
Walter Bates. Hellebore as an insecticide, W. W. Smith. "Assem-
bling" in Lepidoptera, H. D. Sykes. Notes on Lepidoptera taken in
1891, Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. Notes on British Lepidoptera, Mc-
/anippe, R. South. Notes on the synonymy of Noctuid Moths, A. G.
Butler. Descriptions of some new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera
and synonymic notes,* M. Jacoby.

SOCIETE LlNNEENNE DU NORD DE LA FRANCE (Amiens), No. 232, Oc-

tober, 1891. —Contributions to the local fauna (Arachnida), M. Du Roselle.

ZOOLOGICAL RECORD for 1890. — Published by the Zoological Society,
London, 1892. Insecta by D. Sharp. Arachnida and Myriapoda by R.
I. Pocock.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

COLEOPTERA.

Nine n. sp. Rhipidophorus, Ncmognatha, Zonitis, Mex., Centr. Am.,
Champion, Biol. Centr. Amer., Coleop. iv, pp. 361-368. Phytophaga,
n. genera and species, Jacoby, id., vi, suppl., pp. 281-312.

Zygops (Apatorhynchus} leopardinus des Loges, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.
xxxv, p. 40, Mex.

Amara femoralis Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 30. A. robitsfiifa,
p. 32, Calif. A. nupera, p. 33, Col., N. Mex. A. imitatrix, p. 34, Calif.,
Wash., Vancouver. Trechus barbara", p. 41, Calif. Platyniis inyniie-
codes, arizoncnsis, langnidus, p. 42, Ariz. Pinodytes Hamilton!, p. 45,
Pa. P. pusio, p. 45, Cal. Dendrophilus californicits, p. 46, Cal. Aitla-
cosce/is purpurea, p. 46, Ariz. Notoxits Sc/ra'arzi, p. 47, Utah.

DIPTERA.

Syrphidae: n. gen., sp. and synopses of genera, Williston, Biol. Centr. -
Amer. Diptera, III, pp. 1-72.

One new genus (C/isfoinorpha) and ten new species of Tachinidce, U.
S., Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, pp. 77-82.

Hcematobia aids, Snow, 220! Rep. Ent. Soc. Out., p. 96, Minn.

HYMENOPTERA.

Cercopales Stretchii, Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 52, Cal.

Nematus borea/is Marlatt, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1892, p. 133, Disco Is.

Ichneumon Jisca'Hsis Fox, Proc. Acad. Phila 1892, p. 134, Disco Is.

Nolopygiis aiiicricana Harrington, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 98, rrionopoda
canadensis p. 98, Ischyrocnemis otlawaensis p. 98, Pimpla cllophc p. 99,
Can.

* Contains new species other than North American.

128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

Doings of Societies.

A REGULAR STATED MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES was held March 24th at the hall
S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race Streets, Dr. Horn, director, presiding.
Meeting called to order at 8.20 p. M. Members present: Laurent, Ridings,
Blake and Skinner. Associates: Calvert, Fox and Nell. A letter was
read from Prof. C. H. Fernald, in which he stated that he had finished
studying the Pyralidae belonging to the American Entomological Society,
and had returned them correctly named. Prof. Fernald says: "It is a
valuable collection, and I have put a great deal of work on it so as to
have everything accurately named, and have written and put a label on
each individual specimen, so that no confusion nor doubt can arise about
any specimen. The collection contains about 1200 examples, and I added
a large number of species from my own collection which were not repre-
sented in the collection, and have followed the order and names in the
new catalogue. Where I felt certain an insect was a type I have so
marked it, but Grote and Robinson did not mark their types, so that there
may be types in the collection which I have not marked as such. The
fact is, a part of the types went to the New York Museum, and I fear may-
have been destroyed, but I have no means of knowing what ones. I care-
fully compared these in your collection with the original description, and,
where I felt quite sure, marked them; anyway, 1 believe all their species
are represented by authentically named specimens, whether types or
otherwise." Mr. Calvert presented the fourth lot of European Odonata.
Mr. Laurent exhibited a large number of specimens of Coleoptera which
he had collected by sieving earth. Dr. Horn exhibited the type material
used in writing his paper on Eumolpini. This is the first time the group
has been treated in its entirety. They are a difficult lot for study, of more
recent geological time, being feeders on plants of the present period.
Nineteen genera were considered. Mr. Calvert stated that five years had
elapsed since his election as an associate of the Section, and it was ap-
propriate that he should make a statement of the growth and present
status of the Society's collection (Odonata) and his own. The Entomo-
logical Society's collection contains, at present, identified specimens of
Odonata representing in all 77 genera and 189 species. This total is made
up of 62 genera and 147 species from America, 21 genera and 37 species
fromj Europe, 3 genera and 3 species fro'm New Zealand, 4 genera and 6
spec es from Japan (13 genera and 4 species being repeated in this sub-
division). According to present calculations, there are in America North
of Mexico 58 genera and 245 species. Of these 54 genera and 136 species
are represented in the Society's collection; of the remaining four genera,
two are represented by European species and one in his own collection,
leaving but one genus, Oxyagrion, represented in N. America by but one
species, O. rufuhim, from northern California, but even this locality is
considered to be very doubtful by the best authority. In the Society's
collection and his own collection together, there are represented 57 genera
and 164 species of the Odonat fauna of America North of Mexico, that is,
sixty-seven per cent, of all the species. The Odonata of the European
faunal district (/. e., geographical Europe, N.Africa, Asia Minor) includes
36 genera and 103 species. Of these the Society's collection has 21 genera
and 37 species. My own collection includes 31 genera and 77 species,
that is. seventy-five per cent, of the species. Of the other five genera,
two are represented by species from other parts of the world leaving three
unrepresented. The Society's collection does not include any species
from the European fauna not represented in his own collection. Mr.
Chas. Liebeck and Mr. C. W. Johnson, were duly elected members of
the Section. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for April, was mailed March 31, 1892.

. NEWS. Vol. III.

PI. V.

•^

DATANA MINISTRA.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. JUNE, 1892. No. 6.

CONTENTS:

Townsend — New N. Am. Tachinidse 129

Blatchley — Entomologizing in Mexico.. 131

Bruce — Oncocnemis in Colorado 136

Fox — Notes on the Larradse 138

Wickham— Collecting in the far North. 139
Blaisdell — Notes on the Coccinellidae... 143

Townsend — New. Jamaica Tachinidse.... 146

Banks — Atypidae and Theraphosidae 147

Coquillett— A new Dalmannia from Cal. 150

Editorial 152-

Notes and News 154

Entomological Literature 157

Williston — A n. sp. of Criorhinia 145 i Doings of Societies 164

OUR illustration this month represents part of the life-history
of Datana ministra. The plate was made from a photograph
of a drawing' found among the unpublished plates of the late T.
R. Peale, of Philadelphia.

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NEW NORTH AMERICAN TACHINID/E.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

(Continued from page Sr, Vol. Ill, No. 4)

Loewia globosa n. sp. rf1. — Eyes cinnamon-brown, thickly short hairy,
edges touching in front of ocelli; frontal villa light brown, vertex blackish;
anterior pair of ocellar bristles stronger than frontal bristles, directed
strongly forward, decussate; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white;
the prae-genal area very large, brownish, encroaching on sides efface and
extending narrowly to bases of antenna'; sides of face with fringe of
bristles; antennae and arista brownish, second anlennal joint orange ru-
fous, third joint one and one-half times as long as second, more or less
rufous on sides; proboscis about two-thirds bight of head, slim, brownish,
labella developed; palpi curved, thickened apically, brown, bristly; oc-
ciput blackish, black-hairy. Thorax and sculellum black, with a faint
purplish shade, scutellum with an apical decussate and a lateral pair of
macrochcuUe. Abdomen shining greenish black, in some lights dark me-
tallic-green; second segment with a median marginal pair and a weak
lateral pair of mam ichaetae; third with a stn mger lateral pair and a median

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marginal pair; anal with a submarginal row of six. Legs black, claws
and pulvilli rather elongate, pulvilli whitish. Wings grayish hyaline, basal
portion and wing veins yellowish; tegulse soft brownish yellow, halteres
tawny. Length of body 4.5 mm.; of wing 4 mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson). This
genus differs from Ennyomma Twns. in the closed apical cell,
which terminates just before tip of wing.

ATROPHOPALPUS n. gen.

Considerably resembling Ccratomyiella, but differs in the char-
acter of the palpi. Belongs in Phytoinae. Head more or less
triangular in profile. Front rather prominent, narrow in $ ,
about one-fifth width of head, widened before, face widening at
same angle; frontal bristles in a single row, descending on sides
of face to lower border of eyes; vertical and next two pairs di-
rected backward, rest forward and inward, the descending ones
downward; no orbital bristles (.$). Face receding, epistoma
somewhat prominent; facial depression two-thirds width of face,
not deep; facial ridges bare, except a bristle or two next vibrissse,
latter inserted at constriction of ridges about on oral margin,
rather stout, decussate; sides of face narrow, bare except for the
fringe of descending frontal bristles; cheeks nearly one-third eye-
hight, hairy. Eyes very thinly hairy, almost bare. Antennae
as long as face, second joint not elongate, third about five times
as long as second, narrow; arista thickened on basal third, mi-
croscopically pubescent, apparently only 2-jointed, basal joint
short. Proboscis somewhat elongate, about as long as hight of
head, not very stout, labella present; palpi very small, short fili-
form, terminating in a long bristle. Thorax about as wide as
head; scutellum with an apical decussate, and two lateral pairs
of macrochaetae. Abdomen narrower than thorax, elongate cy-
lindro-conical, first segment not shortened; macrochaetae only
marginal; hypopygium more or less exserted. Legs rather long
and slender, not very bristly; claws and pulvilli of $ rather elon-
gate, front ones apparently longest. Wings a little longer than
abdomen, with costal spine, third vein bristly half way to small
cross-vein; apical cell closed in border at tip of wing, fourth vein
bent at wide angle, without stump or wrinkle, apical cross-vein
very slightly concave; hind cross- vein nearly straight, rather
oblique, nearer to bend of fourth vein. Type, A. angusticornis
n. sp.

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Atrophopalpus angusticornis n. sp. tf. — Eyes light brownish; frontal vitta
dark brown, narrow; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white, except
brownish prae-genal area; antennae grayish black, second joint more or
less rufous apically, arista blackish; proboscis dark brown, palpi appar-
ently grayish; occiput cinereous, silvery on edges, gray-hairy. Thorax
silvery, with four black vittae, scutellum silvery, clouded with blackish.
Abdomen shining black, segments two to four narrowly silvery white at
base, all segments very faintly silvery, anal segment light rufous; first
segment with a lateral macrochaeta surrounded with bristles, second with
a lateral one and a median marginal pair, third with a marginal row of
about six, anal with marginal row of eight. Legs black, front and middle
femora faintly silvery below, pulvilli fuscous. Wings grayish hyaline,
tegulae translucent white; halteres pale brownish at base, knobs luteous.
Length of body 4% mm.; of wing 3% mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

Myothyria vanderwulpi n. sp. $ (?). — Eyes light brownish; frontal vitta
blackish, narrow, one-third width of front; front hardly one-third width
of head, equilateral, face widened; two orbital bristles; sides of front,
face and cheeks dark cinereous, slightly silvery; antennae and arista black,
third antennal joint about two and one-half times as long as second; pro-
boscis brownish, fleshy, not as long as hight of head; palpi brownish,
testaceous at tip; occiput blackish, thinly black-hairy. Thorax black,
cinereous pollinose, scutellum black. Abdomen black, bases of second
to fourth segments silvery-white; first two segments with a lateral pair of
macrochastas, the second with a median marginal pair; third with a mar-
ginal row; anal with several lateral submarginal, and a median discal pair.
Legs black, claws and pulvilli very short. Wings grayish hyaline, with
costal spine, tegulae nearly white, halteres blackish, tawny at base. Length
of body 3% mm.; of wing 3^ mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

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ENTOMOLOGIZING IN MEXICO.

By W. S. BLATCHLEY, Terre Haute, Ind.

(Continued from page 114, Voi. Ill, No. 4)

Other interesting and typical tropical forms were the Heliconias
with their brilliant colors and long and narrow wings. As many
as a dozen of them were often seen fluttering about a clump of
flowers, and four or five would at times be captured with a single
scoop of the net. The Nconymphas were- also well represented,
two .or three species being found everywhere living close to the
ground with that queer jerky flight so characteristic of tin- mem-
bers of that genus. Among the Nymphalidae, however, the spe-

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cies of Argynnis, Melitcea and Limenitis, were the most common,
and some of them exceedingly brilliant in color. The genus
Eudamus was especially well represented among the Hesperidae,
E. proteus Linn, being most noticeable on account of its num-
bers, the long tails of its hind wings, and the surprising swiftness
of its flight.

At Fortin, a station nine miles below Orizaba, the difference in
level being 700 feet, a number of species were taken which were
not found at the higher altitude. Among them was a long-beaked
Libythea, a genus which is represented in all the eastern United
States by but a single species, and a large and beautiful Caligo,
which, at that height, was very rare, but two specimens having
been seen. At a still lower level, however, it is said to be one
of the commonest of species.

To the average Mexican a collector of " chinches" or " bugs,"
was a somewhat novel sight, and many were the curious eyes
which followed my every movement. At night, especially when
I set out to seek what I might find about the electric lights, I was
sure to be followed by a motly crowd of all ages, sizes, sexes and
conditions. They would watch me capture a specimen or two
with the net and then each one would rush after the largest and
finest moth to be seen and endeavor to catch it with, his hands.
The moths were usually taken from the sides or walls of houses
near the lights. The houses were mostly of stone, plastered and
whitewashed on the outside, and jut right onto the street with no
yard intervening. The light, reflecting from the walls, would
attract the insects and often fifty or more of them were to be seen
on the sides of a single building. I usually captured the smaller
moths by inverting over them a wide mouthed cyanide bottle
into which they would flutter quickly, and in less than half a
minute would be dead. The larger ones were captured with the
net and chloroformed. Of course every specimen caught with
the hands was ruined, and when the natives went after them or
brought me fluttering specimens with half the scales knocked off
their wings, I would shake my head and inform them as best I
could that when thus captured the insects were sure to be " rote,"
i.e. broken, and therefore worthless. Then the older persons
would cease trying to catch them, but it was hard work to keep
the boys back when a large or showy specimen settled near them.

Oftentimes they would attract my attention to a large moth

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which I had not noticed by clapping me on the shoulder and
pointing to it, at the same time uttering in a whisper, as if afraid
the insect would hear, the words " Esta ime grande, esta unc
grande, esta, esta, esta, esta," which were: "There is a large
one; there is a large one, there, there, there." If a small one
they would say ' ' esta chica, esta chica, ' ' and if a very small one,
" esta chicita, esta, esta, esta."

The houses have the windows very low and protected by
gratings which extend out six or eight inches from the wall. The
boys often aided me by climbing upon these gratings and reaching
with the net a large specimen which had settled close up under
the projecting eaves.

On one occasion, about twelve o'clock at night, a drunken
fellow with two or three companions came along, and grabbing
the handle of the net, he insisted on climbing the window grating
of the most palatial residence of the town for a large brown moth
which was high upon the wall. I remonstrated with him as best
I could, but no policeman being near he insisted on his point,
and I finally had to yield. Up he clambered, making noise
enough to be heard half a square away, and I fully expected to
see him shot by one of the occupants of the dwellings. How-
ever, he finally got within reaching distance of the moth, and
after several ineffectual attempts, during which he came near
falling, succeeded in getting it into the net, and brought it down
in triumph to me. I thanked him graciously, and, getting hold
of the net, quickly left the scene, although half a dozen desirable
specimens were in view.

About 1 200 moths, representing 160 species, were taken during
my stay at Orizaba, but as yet little has been done towards
mounting or classifying them, and hence nothing is known as to
the number of rare forms taken. Among the larger ones were
numerous species of Sphingidce, some of which were exceedingly
abundant. Of these the largest species taken was Sphinx leuco-
phreataf, which expands seven inches. A number of its larvae
were taken from the trunk of a shrub which is extensively used
for hedges. When discovered they were stretched out side by
side on the trunk of the shrub, and were as close together as they
could lie.

Four hundred Coleoptera, representing one hundred and
twenty-five species, were taken in the vicinity of Orizaba. As

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mentioned above, no attempt was made to take a full series of
them, but only those as happened in the way were picked up.
Of those taken by far the larger numbers were Chrysomelidae, a
family which is extensively represented there, almost every kind
of plant having some species which feeds upon it. A Doryphora,
very similar to decimlineata Say, but smaller and darker, was
found feeding upon a cultivated species of Solammi, showing that
that genus of plants is the favorite food of these beetles. Of the
Carabidae, the family most largely represented in Indiana, but
half a dozen species were collected, although a person looking-
for them especially, could undoubtedly have found many more.
The largest and most striking beetles taken were the Dynastes
and Xylorycies already mentioned, of which the latter were very
common about the lights at night, though more were seen during
the day; and the gigantic long-armed beetle Acrocimts longimanus,
three specimens of which were also taken about the lights. A
single male of the handsome and peculiar Scarabaeid Inca clath-
ratus, was also secured.

Of the Orthoptera, forty species of Acrididae or locusts, were
taken, the giant of this number being Rhomalia auricornis Walk.,
which was not found above Fortin, but was quite frequent at Cor-
doba. Unlike most of our species it is not found on the ground,
but on tall weeds and bushes, upon whose leaves both adults and
larvae feed. Like all the larger locusts it is very clumsy in its
movements being easily captured with the fingers. Locustidae,
or "Katydids," were common, especially about the lights, and
some of them were of enormous size. The Blattidae, or cock-
roaches, are represented in the collection by six or seven species,
the most abundant ones seen being the well-known Croton bug
and the Oriental cockroach (Periplancta orientalis L.), both of
which are cosmopolitan. The " earwigs," formerly classed under
this order, but now placed by themselves under the order Der-
maptera, are with us very rare insects, but in Orizaba they literally
swarmed on the sides of the houses, and three or four species of
them were secured.

Sixty species of Hemiptera, or ' ' bugs' ' proper, were taken as
opportunity offered. Leaf and tree hoppers were to be seen by
thousands, and varied much in size and color. Pachycornis tor-
ridus Scop, and Stiretru.r anchorago Fab., which are among the
most brilliant of the Heteroptera, and so variable in color, that

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each has been described under at least half a dozen names were
taken in small numbers, while that pest of the market gardener,
Murgantia histrionica Hahn. was present everywhere. Belos-
toina americanum Leidy, the "electric light bug," is becoming
as well known in Orizaba since the advent of the lights as its con-
gener, Benacus griseus Say, which bears the same common name,
is known to the inhabitants of our northern cities. Nor can we
forbear mentioning, while speaking of Hemiptera, those species
of Acanthia which were felt on various occasions, but were diffi-
cult, to capture.

If a Mexican discovers that an American or " Gringo," desires
to secure any special article or group of articles the price of those
articles suddenly advances one thousand per cent. "Bugs,"
which were quoted away below par before our advent into the
city of Orizaba took an upward impetus in value each day of our
stay, and every street urchin and many men began to deal in
them, or rather to try and deal in them. One day the landlord
informed me that a native was in the office who had ' ' an exceed-
ingly rare butterfly" which he wished to dispose of. I went
down and found that he had a small gray moth with a silvery
band across its wings. I looked at it and asked him ' ' quantoT
(how much?) "Unpeso" (one dollar) was the answer. I did
not care to purchase, but offered him a " media,'1'' six cents. He
walked out with a look of disgust, carrying the precious insect
with him, and that night I captured five of them from the side of
our building. Another native had a large click beetle with enor-
mous mandibles, which he asked me two dollars for. I finally
offered him fifty cents, but he evidently thought I would give
more before I left the city and refused the offer, although he did
not appear as if he had seen fifty cents in as many months.

After eleven days spent in collecting in the vicinity of Orizaba
we left that fair city with many regrets and made our way to the
town of San Andres, 4000 feet higher up the slope. The differ-
ence in the numbers and variety of insects which this ascent of
4000 feet made was remarkable. During two day's collecting
about San Andres not more than half a dozen species of butter-
flies and as many of beetles were taken, while the other orders
were as sparingly represented. As the ascent continued this
number became gradually less. At a camp at 12,000 feet a half
day's search was rewarded with four species of beetles which

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were captured from beneath the bark of logs; one small brown
butterfly, a Chionobus ?, whose range was between 9500 and
13,000 feet, and one species of locust, a Pezotettix, which was
there quite abundant, and a single specimen of which was after-
ward taken near the 14,000 feet level.

At the latter point, which was near the lower limit of snow and
as high as I ascended two species of rough-backed beetles be-
longing to the genus Phellopsis f ; one species of Phalangidae, or
harvestmen; the Pezotettix mentioned above, and three species
of small-sized myriopods were found during several hour's search,
the beetles and myriopods being quite common beneath the bark
of logs and beneath rocks. A few half-grown specimens of a
Centhophilus, a genus of wingless Locustida±, were also secured.
These were evidently the bulk of the species of insects found at
that altitude at that season of the year, though Dr. Scoville saw
at the top of the mountain, 18,000 feet, two specimens of a small
white butterfly, but was unable to capture either of them.

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On the Species of ONCOCNEMIS in Colorado.

By DAVID BRUCE.

As the Noctuid genus Oncocnemis Lederer is not very abun-
dantly represented in the majority of our collections, perhaps a
few observations on the species I have taken in Colorado may be
acceptable.

1. O. Haycsii Grt. — Not very rare at light and over flowers
at night in central Colorado, August and September. I took
two examples in July this year in western Colorado flying round
flowers by day.

2. O. Dayi Grt. — Abundant, flying over flowers by day in
South Park at 10,000 feet elevation; it has all the habits of Plusia
Snowi and P. Hochenwarthi, and can scarcely be distinguished
from these species until captured. I have seen it no place but
at the locality named, August and September.

3. O. fasciatus Smith. — One beautiful example flying over
flowers by day August 2oth, southwest Colorado.

4. O. tenitifascia Smith. — Common just at timber line in South
Park, flying with Dayi over flowers in bright sunshine; looks
extremely like a Botis when flying, August and September.

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5. O. tcrminalis Smith. — Not uncommon at Boulder and vi-
cinity; sitting on rocks by day, and have taken several at light
at Denver, August.

6. O. levis Grt. — Common in August at Golden City and
Denver; can be found in plenty by day by examining crevices
and under projections near electric lights.

7. O. tricolor Smith. — This beautiful species is sometimes
abundant at Denver; I have picked off more than a dozen ex-
amples from a building near an electric light in one morning,
August and September.

8. O. homogena Grt. — I met with this species in some numbers
near Aspen, flying over flowers in the sunshine; have also taken
a few examples at light in Denver, August.

9. O. Glennyi Grt. — Occurs in the greatest profusion during
September and October at light in Denver City. Walls and
fences near electric lights are spotted with thousands in the early
morning, the moths flying off or hiding in crevices as the sunshine
gets on them. This species is a positive nuisance every fall; the
store windows and hallways of hotels are covered with them.

10. O. occata Grt. — Occasionally at sugar in Platte Canon. I
met with a few fine examples this Summer near Canon City, flying
by day over flowers, August.

11. O. Chandleri Grt. — Occasionally at light in the western
part of the State; this year I found it common in July by beating
old cedars; they were hiding under the ragged bark.

12. O. major Grt. — Several on buildings and in crevices of
sidewalks near electric lights at Salida, July. I have also -taken
it flying by day.

13. O. cibalis. — Not common; have taken one or two every
Summer near the foothills in the eastern part of the State; they
start up from the herbage like Crambodes talidifonnis.

14. O. Colorado Smith. — Not uncommon at light in central and
western Colorado in July and August.

15. O. atricollaris Harr. — Occasionally at light in various parts
of the State, August.

1 6. O. umbrifascia Smith. — Two examples only, last July, at
light in southwestern Colorado.

I have also two or three species taken this Summer, the names
of which I have not yet learned; they are probably undcscribed.

138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

Notes on the LARRAD/E, by William H. Patton.

By WILLIAM J. Fox.

In the April number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, under the
title " Notes on the Larradae," Mr. Patton has made several as-
sertions which, if not corrected, would ultimately cause much
confusion, as they are entirely in error. In correcting these state-
ments I wish to state that I do it in the best of good-will and
friendliness to Mr. Patton, to whom I had written some time
ago, pointing out the errors.

Liris Fab. — I am not acquainted with this genus, but accord-
ing to Kohl, who must certainly be acquainted with it, the outer
edge ol the mandibles are without a notch; both sexes have the
mandibles bidentate within, not only those of the 9 . In the
original description, or in any other of this genus, no mention
whatever is made of the tarsi, yet Mr. Patton states that it is
" founded on a male type with peculiar tarsi."

Liris coxalis Patt. is synonymous with Tachytes aurulenta Fab.

Tacky sphex Kohl. — This genus is characterized and distin-
guished from Tachytes, to which it is allied, by the more slender
form and more feeble hairing; the anterior femora of the £ are
notched near the base beneath; the fore tarsi 9 having very long,
flexible spines, and the pygidium being naked. It is certainly
not represented in this country by Larra analis Fab. as an ex-
amination of that species will show.

Lyroda subita Say certainly does not belong to Didineis,
which belongs to the Nyssonidae. The hind femora are toothed
near the apex in Didineis, which is not the case in Lyroda subita.

I am not acquainted with Pisonitus and Sylaon, so again refer
to Kohl. Pisonitus Shuck, is a synonym of Pison Spin. Sylaon
Pice, and Bothynostelhus Kohl, differ from Pison in having the
marginal cell appendiculate, and a pygidial area on the last dorsal
segment 9. Bothynostethus differs from Sylaon by having a.
notch on outer margin of mandibles.

"Larra divisa Pttn. is 9 of L. ccthiops Cress." How can this
be ? The type of (zthiops is a 9 , ^nd is distinct from divisa in
having the pygidial area differently shaped.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 139

COLLECTING IN THE FAR NORTH.

*

I.— THE ALASKAN COAST.

By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa.

By request of the Editor of ENT. NEWS I place before the
reader some account of a Summer trip to Alaska and that part
of British Columbia lying back of it drained by the Stikine Cor
Stikeen) River. Although some parts of the territory are quite
easy of access, the distance from all centres of trade and ordinary
routes of travel have combined with the general ideas as to climate
and the unattractiveness of the insect fauna, to keep entomolo-
gists from visiting them — consequently comparatively little has
been done to increase our knowledge in this direction since the
time of the Russian explorations. The following notes are in-
tended simply to convey an idea as to the general character of
the places visited from an entomological standpoint, but by the
kindness of Dr. Horn, in giving his aid in identifying beetles, the
correctness of what is placed on record relating to the Coleoptera
is secured. A complete list of these insects is in preparation, and
will be presented at as early a date as practicable, so that any
indefiniteness of specification in this paper will be remedied.

Leaving Tacoma about the middle of June, a run of four days
brought me to the first stopping-place in Alaska — the Yes Bay
cannery — and as the steamer was to remain a few hours unloading
freight, I went ashore to get some insects if possible. The rugged
surface of the land with its heavy growth of conifers and thickets
of blueberry intermixed with a vile plant known as the "devil's
club" (Fatsia horrida) is not conducive to either ease or comfort
while collecting, and the excessive dampness forms still another
drawback. The ground is covered everywhere with a luxuriant
carpet of moss, often many inches deep, into which the feet sink
at every step. But little was found here, only a half dozen Ptcr-
ostichus castaneus, a few Staphylinidae, twenty or thirty little
moths, a fly or two and a couple of Hymenoptera. The moths
were flying around the flowers of the devil's club," and before I
had taken all the whistle of the steamer called me back. Shortly
after we touched at the Loring cannery, where I took nothing
but one or two Scolyticlae flying around newly-cut timber.

Early the next morning we were running along the shore of
Wrangel Island, which lies close to the mainland of Alaska, the

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upper end being directly opposite the mouth of the Stikine River.
On the seaward side, only a very few miles from the river mouth,
the town of Fort Wrangel lies on a narrow strip of beach, backed
by high hills covered with the usual conifers and blueberry un-
dergrowth; close to the beach this growth is replaced by thickets
of salmon-berry and thimble-berry, the fruit of both being used
as food by the native and white residents, but supporting little in
the way of insect life. The great nettles, taller than a man, which
are plentiful in these thickets, make the task of forcing a way
through them or searching the ground anything but pleasant.
However, I expected to make this place my base of operations
for some weeks, and so made preparations accordingly.

Investigation showed the insect fauna of the island to be by no
means varied, and to present nothing remarkable as compared
with other points in the North Pacific. A number of Carabidae
may be taken, mostly along the edge of the beach, just above
high-tide mark; among them may be mentioned Cychms angus-
iicollis, C. marginatns, Loricera io-punctata, Nebria sp., Pteros-
tic/ms crenicollis, P. vitreus, P. riparius, Bembidium fimereum,
B. flavopictum, B. cautnui, Patrobus septentrionis, P. aterrimus,
Platynus erasus and Amara littoralis. Of the Dytiscidae only an
Agabus and a few specimens of Hydroporus oblitus were found,
and these not in water, but under stones or pieces of wood in
very wet places — the use of a net in pools and streams yielding
nothing. Search under seaweed and other debris cast up by the
sea proved much less productive than I had anticipated, very
little except a few Staphylinidae being taken here. Trichopteryx
parallela and a species of Ptenidium were found sparingly under
logs and chips, while Cryptohypnus musadus occurred in some
numbers under the shingle.

Just within and along the outskirts of the brush, Athous ferrn-
ginosus is seen quite commonly, flying where footsteps disturb
the quiet of the spot. On rolling over sticks or small logs here,
which were deeply imbedded in moss and much overgrown with
grass, these insects would fly around in numbers, alighting on un-
clothes and very easily captured — they often came from resting
places near or upon the ground, running up the stems of plants
until a good place was reached from which to take wing, when
they would let go and fly slowly around the spot, something after
the manner in which Myodites may be seen about golden-rods in

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 141

the States during Autumn. Occasionally Podabrus piniphilus
may be found in the same localities as the Athous, but not in such
large numbers. Far back in the woods but little can be found,
except Pterostichus castaneus, and this only in small numbers,
the growth of moss being so rank as to greatly obstruct search,
and by it any logs that may chance to lie on the ground are soon
bound down so lightly as to defy efforts to move them. Aphodius
aleutus occurred once or twice in the first, also an Eros of a
species not yet determined.

Experience proved it more profitable to set traps for certain
kinds of beetles rather than to go after them in their almost in-
accessible haunts. With an eye, therefore, to the capture of such
species as live in carrion, I piled up a great heap of carcasses of
birds in a little thicket a few feet from my cabin-door, every day
looking them over carefully and sifting the soil on which they lay,
that nothing might escape. The results were far above what I
had hoped, numerous species of Staphylinidae being thus obtained
in large numbers, also many Cercyon fulvipennis, some C. aduin-
bratum, Choleva egena, Ptilium columbianum, and occasionally
other Trichopterygidae. Taking into account the seeming dearth
of Coleopterous life on the island, the number of specimens taken
in this way was really surprising.

Little in the way of wood- or leaf-eating beetles was seen on
the island, though careful search was made for them. A couple
of specimens of Opsimus quadrilincatus were found, one of them
under the wharf at Wrangel, the other resting on a fence, and a
single dead Phymatodes was taken on a window. Not a single
Chrysomelid \vas secured, and beating trees yielded only two
specimens of a Magdalis. T\vo Hylobiini were taken from low
sprouts. But little can be said of the insect fauna of the place as
regards the other orders. Hymenoptera were scarce, Lepidop-
tera by no means common, and Dipteni numerous only in indi-
viduals. A large species of Dragon-fly was the chief representa-
tive of the Neuroptera, while of Orthoptera there seemed to be a
total lack. The few Hymenoptera that were taken were mostly
Humble-bees, captured around the blossoms of white clover.

Having spent several clays on the island I determined to make
a trip to the mainland, and engaged, for the purpose, a white
trapper and an Alaskan Indian, intending to send them after
mammals while I employed my own time collecting insects. We

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left Fort Wrangel early one morning, and about half past four
next afternoon reached our destination — about twenty-five miles
from Fort Wrangel — which was to be my stopping place for two
days. Next morning I sent my men across the bay with instruc-
tions to ascend the snow-capped mountains opposite, in search
of the mountain goat, and to bring back any insects that they
might come across. Then, as it was raining and all vegetation
was soaked, I could do little but turn over a few logs along the
beach and search under seaweed for Staphylinidae. I was re-
warded by finding a Liparocephalus , but took little else, and filled
out the day by skinning birds shot on the way down.

The night passed without interruption, except that caused by
the cries of a captive baby seal which we had placed in a pen
back of the camp — cries of the most homesick intonation, calcu-
lated to melt the heart even of an entomologist without babies
of his own. Morning dawned clear at last and promised a good
day for collecting, so I lost no time in getting out and to work,
with better success in some directions than on the island. By
beating I took a few Syneta simplex, Corymbites caricinus, C.
tarsalis and Anaspis rufa. A number of Anthobiums were found
and one or two examples each of Leptalia macilenta and Pachyta
monticola, but this was about all of the beetles, the remainder of
the catch consisting of flies, moths and a few Hymenoptera.
Midges and mosquitoes were an almost intolerable nuisance, and
it was quite a relief to get back to the cabin, build a " smudge"
and look over the day's catch. In the evening my men came
back without the goat, though they had shot one away up towards
the summit of the mountain and found the difficulties in bringing
down the skin and necessary parts of the skeleton so great that
the attempt was abandoned. However, they brought down a
Donacia, which they had found in a snow-bank at a considerable
altitude, an Eros and a Rhyncholus, all of interest from the locality
in which they were taken. Both men were so weary that they
said they were too tired to pick up any of the " bugs" they came
across on the way down. Our return trip took us only a single
day, and next day I was on hand to resume my entomological
labors at Fort Wrangel.

Leaving the Stikine River country for discussion in another
paper, but two points remain to be spoken of — Hunter's Bay on
Prince of Wales Island (if we may rely on the information as to

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locality given by officers of the steamer), and Metlakahtla or
Port Chester, a large Indian settlement under direction of a mis-
sionary. At Hunter's Bay a few hours were spent with fair suc-
cess, the same general character of country obtaining as in other
places spoken of though some of the species of beetles were not
found elsewhere. Pterostichus castancus, P. amethystinus, Epurtea
truncatella, a fine Byrrhide, Pedilophorus acuminatus, a Scyd-
msenid of considerable size, and a number of Xyloterus bivittatus
were seen. At Metlakahtla the rain again interfered, but a few
other species were added to my list, among them Pterostichus
validus and Megapenthes stigmosns. All of the narrow coast
strip as well as the islands which constitute southern Alaska con-
sists of rocky and rugged hills with very little variety of soil or
vegetation, so that an entomologist would hardly expect to find
a great variety of species. Every spot seems, however, to yield
something not found at others, and doubtless much that is new
yet remains to be discovered. The difficulties of exploration
have rendered anything more than a superficial examination out
of the question, except in isolated localities, and the day is yet
far distant when we shall be able to say that our knowledge of
the Alaskan insect fauna approaches completeness.

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Notes on the COCCINELLID/E observed in San Diego Co., Cal.

By F. E. BLAISDELL, M.D.

Anisosticta seriata Melsh. — Plentiful in September. Occurring
along the bay-shore in favorable localities. Large numbers are
on the wing during warm sunny days; when at rest, clustered in
the tops of small shrubs and in the ice-plant {Mesembryanthemum
crystallinum).

Megilla maculata DeG. — Rare. Occurs in the eastern portion
of the country, along the Colorado River.

Megilla vittigera Mann. — Quite plentiful in Summer on sedges
along water courses.

Hippodamia ambigua Lee. — Common everywhere.

Hippodamia convergens. — Guer. — Abundant. Interbreeds with
the preceding species ; both congregating during the colder
months of the year under bark on trees, and in the dead leaves

144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

heaped about the bases of clumps of sycamores, where they can
often be observed in immense numbers.

Hippodamia parenthesis Say. — Very rare. Occurs on squash
vines at Povvay. Identical with eastern examples in my collection.

Coccinella q-notata Hbst. — Plentiful. Confined to the coast
region ; not observed in the interior — at least, fourteen years' col-
lecting has failed to discover it at Povvay (fourteen miles from
coast, elevation 700 feet) and higher altitudes.

Coccinella californica Mann. — Very common. This species,
besides being aphidivorous, feeds upon the buds of the wild sun-
flower {Helianthus californica}. Interbreeds with the preceding
species.

Coccinella sanguined Linn. — Plentiful throughout the county.

Coccinella abdominalis Say. — Not common. Frequents citrus
groves, loco-weed (Astragalus leucopsis), and pig-weeds (Cheno-
podiuni).

Psyllobora ttzdata Lee. — Plentiful on plants along water courses
and in vineyards. Have observed them feeding upon a small
aphis infesting the under surface of the grape leaf, where the
beetle was also noticed in all stages of development.

Chilocorus cacti Linn. — Quite abundant in certain localities
upon Agave americana, Astragalus leiicopsis, and citrus and olive
trees infested with the Black Scale.

Exochomus pilate i Muls. — Rare. Occasionally taken with the
preceding species on Astragalus leucopsis.

Exochomus marginipennis Lee. — Moderately common on dif-
ferent flowering shrubs, especially Primus demissus.

Scymnus lophanthce* Blais. — Vortriede's Ladybird is not widely
distributed, occurring mostly on the Coronadian peninsula. In
color, the elytra are a shining black, with a feeble purpurescent
lustre, and not strongly metallic as stated in my descrption in
ENT. NEWS, March number p. 51. Post-coxal arcs distinct in
outline, semi-circular; outer margin feebly concave, terminating
at apex of metathoracic episternuin.

Scymnus marginicdllis Mann. — Plentiful everywhere.

Several undetermined species ot Brachyacantha, Hyperaspis
and Scymnus.

* We are informed by the Agricultural Department at Washington that this is one of the
introduced Australian species, the name of which has not yut been ascertained. — ED.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 145

A new species of CRIORHINIA and Notes on Synonymy.

By Dr. S. W. WILLISTON, Lawrence, Kan.

Criorhinia coquilletti n. sp. cf. — Front separated by nearly the width of
the ocelli; ocellar prominence shining black; front below and the face
covered with dense, light yellow pubescence and pollen, and, on the sides
of the face above, with long, light yellow pile; cheeks broadly shining
black. Antennae brownish red, first joint but little longer than the second,
third joint much broader than long, produced somewhat acutely above to
the base of the arista. Proboscis moderately elongate. Thorax deep,
shining black; on the dorsum, metallic; the color, however, is largely
concealed beneath dense, long pile, which is yellow in front of the wings,
both on dorsum and on the pleurae, and black behind the wings. Abdo-
men deep black, shining, somewhat metallic, on the fourth segment
markedly so; pile long, moderately dense, on the first three segments
black, [slightly intermixed on the third], on the fourth segment yellow.
Legs deep reddish brown or reddish black; the knees, the narrow base
of the tibiae, and the basal joints of the four anterior tarsi yellowish; pile
black. Wings brown on' the anterior and distal parts; subhyaline behind.
Length 9 — 10 mm.

Hab. — Southern California. The specimen upon which the
foregoing description is based, was sent me by my friend, Mr. D.
W. Coquillett, who had recognized it as belonging to a new spe-
cies. The species is closely allied to C. lupina Will., but differs
in having the first antennal joint less elongated, in having the
third joint more acute above, a shorter proboscis, and in the ab-
sence of the facial stripes, etc. I have seen but very few species
in this family since the publication of my " Synopsis." Several
of these, of not a little interest, will be shortly described by Mr.
W. A. Snow. Since my studies of the North American forms,
however, I have had the opportunity of studying nearly three
hundred species from Central America, the West Indies and
South America. The nomenclature of a few North American
species is affected by the results of these studies, as follows:

Melanostoma stegnum Say, Journ. Acad. Phil, vi, p. 163; Com pi. YVr. ii,
p. 358 \_Syrphits~\ ; \Yilliston, Biol, Centr.-Amer. Diptera, iii, p. io.=ltfe-
lanostoma tigrina Osten Sacken, Western Dipt. p. 323; Williston, Syn-
opsis, etc., p. 47, pi. iii, fig. 8.

Melanostoma mellinum Linne", etc. I identify M. prninosuin Bigot as a
closely allied, but distinct species.

Baccha clavata Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 298 [Syrphns]; Syst. Antl. p.
298; Wiedemaun, Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 94; Schiner, Reise d. Xovara,

6*

146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June,

Diptera, p. 341; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p. 270; Biol. Cent.-
Amer. Diptera, iii, p. ^.^Baccha babista Walker, List, etc., iii, p. 549;
Williston, Synopsis, p. 117, pi. iv, fig 9. =Baccha facia/is Thomson,
Eugen. Resa, Ins. p. sv\.=Spazigaster bacchoides Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent.
Fr. 1883, p. 326.

Ocyptamus trigonus Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 125 \_Syrphus\\
Schiner, Reise d. Novara, Diptera, p. 346; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent.
Soc. xv, p. 265; Biol. Centr.-Amer. iii, p. $o.=Baccha torva Williston.
Synopsis, etc., p. 124. Males which seem to be of this species have the
wings hyaline.

Volucella pallens Wiedemann, Auss. Zvveifl. Ins. ii, p. 204; Williston,
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p. 275; Biol. Centr.-Amer. Diptera, iii, p. 53,
= 1'olncelia sc.vpunctata Loew, Wien. Ent. Monatschr. v, p. 38; Centur. vi,
37; Williston, Synopsis, etc., p. 141, pi. vi, fig. 2.

Eristalis vinetorum Fabricius, etc. Eristalis thoracica Jaenuicke is not
a synonym of this species, but of E. obsoletus Wiedemann.

Eristalis albifrons Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 189; Roeder,
Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1885, • p. 341; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p.
283; Biol. Centr.-Amer. iii, p. 62.= Eristalis albiceps Macquart, Dipt.
Exot. ii, p. 56; Williston, Synopsis N. Amer. Syrphida;, p. i72.=Erisfalis
seniculus Loew, Centur. vi, p. 63.

Eristalis scutellaris Fabricius, Syst. Ami. p. 190 {_Milesia}\ Wiedemann,
Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 159; Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, 2, p. 41; Schiner,
Novara Exped. p. 364; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p. 279; Biol.
Centr.-Amer. iii, p. d$=Palpada scutellata Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt, i,
p. 513; Dipt. Exot. ii, 2, p. 38 [Eristalis~\. =Eristalis fascithorax Mac-
quart, Dipt. Exot. 4 Suppl. p. \y).=Doliosyrphus scutcllatus Bigot, Ann.
Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. 222.=Do!iosyi-p/iits rilcyi Williston, Synopsis, p.
1 78, pi. viii, fig. 8. A wider acquaintance with allied species makes me
disinclined to accept the genus Doliosyrphus Bigot.

Trojridia albistylum Macquart, is a distinct species, a specimen of which
is in the National Museum.

Xylota elongata Williston, Synopsis, p. 234, is a synonym of A", angus-
lircutris Loew.

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NEW JAMAICA TACHINID/E.-I.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

The following species was transmitted to me by Mr. Cockerell.
Curator of the Museum, with the record that it was taken at
Cinchona, Jamaica, a place which is high up in the mountains.

Pseudoliystricia exilis n. sp. $.— Eyes brown, with some bronzy reflec-
tions, pubescent; front averaging one-third width of head, frontal vitta
blackish, velvety, hardly one-iifth width of front; five posterior pairs of

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frontal bristles directed backward, two orbital bristles; front, face and
cheeks of a clear golden-yellow, shading to brassy or cinereous in spots
on front, pile on sides of face and cheeks golden-yellow; antennce brown-
ish, first two joints dark, base and posterior half of third rose-rufous,
third joint one and a half times as long as second; arista blackish, first
two joints elongate and of equal length; proboscis black, palpi elongate,
widened and enlarged toward tip, rufous-yellow, occiput brassy, thickly
clothed with brassy pile. Thorax black, thinly silvery, with four narrow
vittse, the outer ones heavier and interrupted at suture; humeri and pleurae
black, very faintly silvery; scutellum deep brownish rufous, very spiny.
Abdomen deep brownish rufous, with purplish reflections, densely beset
everywhere, except on sides anteriorly, with spiny macrochaetae; venter
with macrochastae on median portion and on sides posteriorly. Legs
black, front femora somewhat silvery on outside, tibiae spiny, especially
middle and hind pairs, claws and pulvilli a little elongate, pulvilli tawny
yellowish; front tarsi not dilated. Wings brownish fuscous, veins blackish
at base; tegulas fuscous, halteres rufous. Length of body n mm.; of wing
9.5 mm.

Described from one specimen; Cinchona, Jamaica. Collected
by Mr. W. Fawcett, Head of the Botanical Department of

Jamaica.

o

Our ATYPID/E and THERAPHOSID/E.

By NATHAN BANKS, Washington, D. C.

These two families of spiders contain what are commonly called
tarantulas, the Mygalidae of older authors. They have four lun^-
. sacs, the fang of the mandibles moves vertically, the legs are
short and stout. The two families may be tabulated thus:

Maxillae broadened at base, palpi lateral . . . Atypidae.

Maxillae not broadened at base, palpi terminal, or almost so. Theraphosidae.

Of Atypidae we have but one genus, Atypus; two species of
which have been described from the Western States. A. bicolor
Lucas may, if any one is fortunate enough to obtain a specimen,
form another genus on account of the arrangement of the eyes.
It is probably the species to which Hentz refers as the "A. rujipes
found by Mr. Milbert." A. bicolor Lucas is black, with red Ic^s;
only known from "Philadelphia." A. niger Hentz is wholly
black; from Mass., Md., D. C., Va., N. C.

The Theraphosidae may be divided into two subfamilies:
Inner distal angle of maxillae slightly prolonged, palpi somewhat lateral.

Eriodontiuee.
Inner distal angle of maxillae not prolonged, palpi terminal. Theraphosinae.

148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

The Eriodontinae are represented by three genera:

A. S. E. the largest eyes ......... 2.

A. M. E. the largest eyes ....... Anthrodiaetus.

2.— S. E. farther apart than M. E. .... Myrmekiaphila.

S. E. not farther apart than M. E ...... Nidivalvata.

In Anthrodicetus the S. E. are widely separated, the anterior
row is longer than the posterior row and recurved. One species,
A. unicolor Hentz is described from Alabama. Myrmekiaphila
has the S. E. widely separated, but the anterior row is not longer
than the posterior row, and is slightly procurved. One species,
M. foliata Atk. is described from North Carolina. Nidivalvata
has the S. E. close together or touching, anterior row procurved,
a little shorter than the posterior row. Two species are described,
both from North Carolina, by Prof. Atkinson:

S. E. and P. M. E. touching, in one group . . . . N. marxii.
S. E. and P. M. E. distinctly separated N. angustata.

The Theraphosinse may be divided into two tribes:

Three claws to tarsi ......... Trionchi.

Two claws to tarsi ......... Dionclii.

The Dionchi have one genus, Eurypelma, in Western States,
of which five species are described. These are the genuine ta-
rantulas. As the species are extremely close, a key will not be
given, but the species arranged in two series according to locality.
California: E. californica Auss., E. rileyii Marx, E. leiog aster
Auss. Southern W. S. : E. hentzii Girard, La., Tex., Kans. ; *
E. steindacherii Auss. , N. Mex. E. kentzuis'the most common;
E. mordax Auss. is the same as E. hentzii Girard.

The Trionchi are divided into two groups:

Median groove longitudinal ...... Mecicobothri.

Median groove transverse ....... Aepicephali.

Group MECICOBOTHRI.

Spinnerets four ...... . Brachybothriiun.

Spinnerets six ............ 2.

2. — Eyes about equal in size, third article of spinnerets hut little longer

than second ......... Atypoides.

A. M. E. much smaller than others, third article of spinnerets much

longer than second ........ Hexiira.

Brachybothrium is represented by two species, one B. pacijicum
Simon from Wash. State, the other B. accentuation Simon from

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North Carolina. Hexura and Atypoides have each one species:
H. picea Simon from Wash. State; A. riversi Cambr. from Cala.

Group AEPICEPHALI.

Tibia III flattened at base .... . Pachylomerus.

Tibia III not flattened at base ... .... 2.

2. — Lip much longer than broad at base ...... 5.

Lip at most as long as broad at base . ... 3.

3. — Abdomen truncated behind . . . Cyclocosmia.

Abdomen rounded behind ... ... 4.

4. — Mandibles pointed in front . . ... Cteniza.

Mandibles rounded in front ... . Bolostromus.

5. — Eyes crowded together in two curved parallel rows . Madocjnatha.

Eyes more separated, in two rows not parallel . . Clllosterochilus.

Cyclocosmia truncata Hentz from Alabama. Cteniza calif ornica
Cambr. from California. Bolostromus fluvialilis Hentz from
Alabama. Maclognatha abbottii Lucas from Georgia and " Phila-
delphia." Chlosterochilus gracilis Hentz from Alabama. Chlo-
sterochilus pertyii Lucas, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. , Second Series,
Vol. Ill, 1845, p. 60; not Vol. VI, p. 377, as given by Marx in
the Catalogue. This was described as Actinopus by Lucas, but
the eyes do not differ in arrangement from Ch. gracilis; the A.
S. E. are, however, much larger than the A. M. E., while in Ch.
gracilis the A. S. E. are about equal to the A. M. E. It was
de.-cribed from " Amerique du Nord." Dr. Marx, in his Cata-
logue, also places Pachyoscelis nifipes and Theragreteswalkenaerii
(the male of Sphodros abbottii according to Walckenaer) as in
our fauna. This is not the case, as may be seen from the follow-
ing quotation from Lucas in his article on the subject: . . . " car
1'espece que M. Walckenaer regarde com me le male du 6". ab-
bottii 9 se trouve dans le meme localite que mon Pachyloscclis
rufipes, 1'un et 1'sutre out ete trouves au Bresil dans les Campos
geraes. ' '

Of Pachylomerus we have two species. There seems to be
considerable trouble in the genus. Prof. George Atkinson de-
scribed three species as new, and redescribed P. carolinensis
Hentz, and suggested that P. solstitialis Hentz was the male of
the same species. It is very probable that P. carolinensis and
P. solstitialis are the same, though there may be a slight differ-
ence in the proportionate width of the cephalothorax. But as
P. solstitialis comes before P. carolinensis in the descriptions,

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and as it is a male, I think there is no doubt but what the species
should be called P. solstitialis Hentz. Moreover, the species
identified, described and figured by Prof. Atkinson as P. caro-
linensis does not agree with Hentz's figure of that species. But
P. turris Atk. does agree with Hentz's figure of the eyes. There-
fore I consider P. turris = P. carolinensis = P. solstitialis. I
see no characters of specific value between Prof. Atkinson's P.
carabivorus, P. carolinensis and P. quadrispinosus. The varia-
tion of width in the cephalothorax is so slight as to be of no
value; the arrangement of spines and teeth on claws are not of
specific importance. The males are not known. There is no
great difference in the eyes. I thus write the species under one
name, P. carabivorus Atk., at least until the males show differ-
ences in the palpal structure. The two species may be separated
thus:

P. S. E. as near to A. S. E. as to P. M. E. . . . P. solstitialis.
P. S. E. nearer to P. M. E. than to A. S. E. . . . P. carabivorus.

P. audouiniiLueas, 1837, described from "Ameriquedu Nord;"
if from W. S. may be one of the above species. Lucas placed it
in Actinopus; Ausserer says it is a Pachylomerus; why, I do not
know.

A NEW DALMANNIA FROM CALIFORNIA.

By D. W. COQUILLETT, Los Angeles, California.

Up to the present time only two species of the Conopid genus
Dahnannia have been reported from America north of Mexico.
To these I now add a third, and present a table for identify ing
these three species :

1. Scutellum and humeri marked with bright yellow . . . .2.
Scutellum and humeri wholly black .... vitiosa n. sp.

2. The yellow on hind margins of abdominal segments three and four

prolonged forward each side, nearly crossing the segments; cheeks

of male yellow picta Will.

The yellow not prolonged forward each side; cheeks of male with a
large black spot nigriceps Lw.

Dalmamiia Vitiosa n. sp. r?\ — Front yellowish brown, darkest on the
upper half, where the dark color forms two indistinct stripes; antenna?
black, apex of style yellowish; face and cheeks yellow, the former with
two brown median stripes; occiput black. Thorax, pleura, breast and
scutellum wholly black. Abdomen black, hind margin of the second,

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third and fourth segments yellow; segments three, four and five each with
a median yellow stripe and a broader one each side; venter yellow, a
basal triangle and sides before the apex, black. Legs yellow, apices of
middle and hind femora, upper side of front femora, tibiae, except at the
apex of each, and whole of tarsi, brownish. Wings grayish hyaline;
halteres brown, the knob yellow. Length 4 mm.

Los Angeles County, California. A single specimen.

The second basal and discal cells are united in each wing, but
whether this is a permanent character, or simply a defect of this
individual specimen, I am unable to say. In all other structural
characters it agrees perfectly with Dalmannia picta Williston,
originally described from Arizonia, but which I have collected in
various parts of southern California.

NOVEL SMUGGLING. — The account of the smuggler recently arrested
by the Customs authorities in this city, who had a quantity of diamonds
under a porous plaster on his back, reminds me of an even more in A el
device that came to my knowledge some years ago. A Philadelphia
physician was attacked by that most seductive craze, the collector's mania
for beetles and bugs. After this had been going* on for some years and
the result had become one of the finest collections of Coleoptera anywhere
extant, he began to find that the mad desire for very rare specimens to
rill up the occasional gaps in his otherwise perfect series of creeping
things was too great a drain on his exchequer. To be sure he was a
bachelor, under light expenses, and already blessed with a fair inheritance.
Then, too, he had built up a considerable practice in that branch of medi-
cine which he described as " leading man at baby matinees." Still, rare
bugs come high, and he could not afford the continually increasing drain.
Just at this juncture some one seems to have hit upon a very novel expe-
dient. Whether the fertile brain belonged to the doctor, or to a young
friend, a scion of one of Philadelphia's oldest and proudest families, who
was and is a member of a prominent house of jewelers, I never learned.
However that may be, the interest of the story hinges on the fact that
certain rare beetles came in from South Africa — the Kimberly diamond
fields, in fact — nicely packed in raw cotton, and some of the largest of
these were most unaccountably heavy. While the outer anatomy was of
most interest to the doctor, who valued these rare specimens as such, the
inner anatomy appeared to be of far greater interest to his friend. A
careful investigation, I am told, resulted in demonstrating the fact that the
added weight in these specimens was due to a certain undigested mineral
substance that was found in the abdominal cavities of some of the largest
specimens. Though these specimens were pronounced to be herbifenms,
still when certain cutting and polishing processes were finished 1 heard
that these mineral substances were found to be "of good color and the
first water." Whether the method of thwarting the watchful Customs
agents is still in use I cannot say. — AViv York Toicn Topics.

152 [June,

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We publish below an interesting extract from the "American Farmer,"
which has a direct bearing on Entomology, and shows the magnitude and
importance of agricultural experimentation. We predict that in the future
the interest in Entomology will be largely increased, and also the number
of students of this branch of natural history, more especially as it is now
being more fully recognized as a study of practical value.

The iiiiigiii/itiff of t/i<' .l^rii'iillnral l<~.\-f>eriinenl Station aw/- /;/ the
U. S. — Few persons reali/e the vast proportions to which agricultural
experiment work has grown in this country. The chief part of the growth
has been within the last live years, since the Hatch bill went into opera-
tion. Jiy the terms of this law there are appropriated annually by the

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General Government $15,000 to each State and Territory that shall accept
the terms of the grant and establish and maintain an Agricultural Experi-
ment Station. There is also established in Washington a central office,
called the Office of Experiment Stations, in which the results of the station
work in the various States are digested and tabulated, and which also has
a consulting and advisory interest in the progress and execution of the
work.

Under the act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887. known popularly
as the Hatch bill, agricultural experiment stations are now in operation in
all the States and Territories with the exception of Alaska, Montana and
Idaho. In a few of the States more than one station has been established,
so that in all 49 are now in operation. In Alabama, Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey and New York, separate stations are maintained
wholly or in part by State funds. The total grant of money made last
year by Congress for the experimental work amounted to $728,000 for the
Hatch bill stations and the office of experiment stations, and $50,000 for
the sugar experiments. The amount expended in experimental work by
the grass stations and entomological division is not accurately known, but
reaches probably not less than $20,000, making the total expenditure by
the Department of Agriculture for experimental work in round numbers
$800,000. In regard to the particular amounts expended by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in direct co-operation with the experimental work in
the several States, the following list will be found reliable: For entomo-
logical work— Nebraska, $600; Iowa, $600; Ohio, $1500; Michigan, 5ioco.
For botanical work — Texas, $700; Arizona, $700; Colorado, $1000; Utah,
$500; South Dakota, $500; Wyoming, $500; North Dakota, $500; New
'Mexico, $500; Louisiana, $750; Florida, $250; Georgia, $500; North Caro-
lina, $500; Mississippi, $1600. In addition to this the State and private
contributions to this work amount to fully $200,000, making in all the sum
of $r,ooo, ooo devoted annually to thecauseof the experimental promotion
of Agriculture. Five hundred persons are employed actively in this work.
Among these are 71 directors, 120 chemists, 47 agriculturists, 50 horticul-
turists, 30 botanists, 36 entomologists, 22 veterinarians, 14 meteorologists
(excluding all employed by the Weather Bureau), 4 biologists, etc. During
the year 1891, excluding publications coming directly from the Depart-
ment, the stations published 49 annual reports and 255 bulletins. The
mailing list of the stations (exclusive of the Department lists) now con-
tains 350,000 names. About 40,000,000 pages devoted to information on
agricultural subjects were printed and distributed during tin- year, not
counting the Department publications. This does not include the hun-
dreds of newspapers which publish accounts of the work. It is safe to
say that at least 10,000, ooo of our reading people read moiv or less ol tin's
work every year. In addition to this acid the number reached directly by
the Department, and the vastness of the interests of this work, measured
by the number of people directly benefited, is at OIK e apparent.

154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. |_June,

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Mr. E. V. B BALES, of Denver, Col., is doing a good work in trying to
interest the boys and girls of his city in Entomology by means of popular
articles in the Denver Sun. It is said that many nets are to be seen in
Denver this Spring. This should stimulate others to try and make young
entomologists in the same way.

Rev. C. J. S. BETHUNE, editor of the " Canadian Entomologist," spent
the month of March in the Bermudas in order to get over an attack of
grip. We are glad to say he has returned in good health.

BARON VON FELDER, of Vienna, has sold his famous collection of but-
terflies to Hon. Walter Rothschild, of London, for $25,000. The Baron,
who is now seventy-eight years of age, believed that he was too old to
care for his collection properly. It is said that Hon. Walter Rothschild
intends to leave his collection, now the finest in the world, to the British
Museum when he dies. — Newspaper clipping.

Miss PALMER'S " SILK WORMS." — Chambersburg, Pa., January 28th.
Pretty Miss Aloysius Marguerite Palmer, formerly of this city, and whose
parents still reside here, was yesterday convicted in the Federal Court at
Topeka, Kan., of fraudulently obtaining $3000 from E. E. McClelland, of
Topeka, claiming that she sold him silk worm eggs, though she really-
sold only mustard seeds. She is liable to imprisonment for from one to
five years. — Newspaper clipping.

TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892).
—Pages 89-128 inclusive, have been printed since our last issue, contain-
ing the continuation of C. H. T. Townsend's " Notes on North American
Tachinida;. Paper III."

DOES ACANTHIA PIPISTRELLI OCCUR IN NORTH AMERICA? — 111 ENT.

NEWS, Vol. I, pp. 26-27, is a note by Mr. C. P. Gillette, stating that he
has found numerous specimens of an Acanthia in the nests ol Barn Swal-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 155

lows, and that Mr. Ashmead had determined the species as A. pipistrelli
(notpapishitta, as the name is written in KNT. NEWS). As A. pipistrelli
does exclusively live on Bats (/ --'espcrtilio pipistrcllns and other species)
and in their nests, the American specimens must certainly belong to A.
hintndinis, which is not uncommon in the nests of Barn Swallows in North
and Central Europe. A. pipistrelli is a rare species, which has been found
in Central Europe and once in great abundance in Sweden in an old hol-
low tree inhabited by bats. It is, however, very possible that both A.
pipistrelli and A. columbaria, which lives in dove-cots, also occur in N.
America, although they have been overlooked. Descriptions and figures
of these three species are published by Jenyns in Annals of " Natural His-
tory" 1839, pp. 241-244, and by Schenck in " Entom. Nachrichten" 1877,
pp. 182-183.— Dr. E. BERGROTH, Tammerfors, Finland.

FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC EN-
TOMOLOGISTS.— In accordance with an action of the Association, taken at
the Washington meeting, the fourth annual meeting will be held at Roch-
ester, N. Y., two days prior to the meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. All members intending to present
papers are requested to forward titles to the undersigned before August
ist, in order that the program may be prepared in proper season. The
proceedings of our meetings are attracting the attention of working en-
tomologists of other countries, and it is to be hoped that members will
spare no efforts to make the coming meeting even better than those which
have preceded it. Owing to the continued ill-health of President Lintner,
and in order to relieve him of as much labor as possible, all correspond-
ence, unless of a nature necessitating his attention, may be addressed to
the Secretary, F. M. Webster, Columbus, Ohio.

I FIND from Dr. McKnight's paper in April NEWS concerning the Le-
pidoptera of the Adirondacks, that the fauna of that region is very similar
to ours at Franconia. I have taken there every moth of his list with these
exceptions : LUhosia Candida, Adoncta spinuloides, Arzaina di/fitsa,
Pseudanthroecia coracias, Pityolita pfdipalalis, Tortricodes bifutalis, and
perphaps three or four species of Agrotis, Ticniocampa and Iladcim, us
these last are not yet fully identified in my collection. Of Lophoptcryx
elegans Strk. 1 have a fine pair, male and female. They were taken at
light in June, 1886, and were named for me by Mr. Hy. Edwards. Like
Mr. McKnight's specimen, mine are suffused with brown from base to
subterminal space. In other respects they answer to description of .\'<>-
todonta simplaria Hy. Edw. — ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON.

CAPTURING BEMBIDIUM AND OTHER SMALL COLEOPTERA. — It may pr< ive
a help to some of our numerous Coleopterists to know how to i-asily col-
lect these active little beetles which are so common along the shores < >f
lakes and rivers. Is there a collector who lias not endeavored to pick
them up between his (her?) thumb and forefinger and transfer the speci-
mens to the cyanide or alcohol bottle, only to find them >ion <•>/ just as

156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

he supposes they are safely inside. Here is a method that worked very
successfully with me while at Chautauqua, N. Y., during July and August
of last Summer. Procure a two-drachm vial one-quarter full of chloro-
form or ether; a larger bottle containing alcohol and a penny camel's-hair
brush. Now, having found a locality where the beetles are plenty, drop
the brush in the ether and apply it to the specimens wanted. It is sur-
prising to see how quickly they are put to sleep. Almost immediately
they may be transferred to the alcohol bottle on the tip of the brush and
you are ready for more. In this manner hundreds can be taken within a
short time, and I am sure it would work admirably with the insects of
other orders besides Coleoptera, especially where the species are minute,
but too quick to take in the usual manner. Try it. — LEE B. WALTON,
Kenka College, N. Y.

AILANTHUS FOLIAGE AND THE ROSE-BEETLE. — Concerning Professor
Troop's note in the May number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, the New
Jersey experience has been that the insect favors the blossom in prefer-
ence to the leaves, which are little eaten. With us the Ailanthus is knowrn
as the " tallow tree," and the observation that dead beetles in abundance
were found under the trees, led to the experiment with decoctions of the
blossoms. The secret of the effect observed is in the word " later," that
is, only late in the season the worn out specimens feed on Ailanthus and
die naturally. I have seen the ground beneath a chestnut tree strewn in
the same way; but all specimens were old, and had died of some senile
weakness rather than from any poison contained in the food. The fox
glove only seems to act as a poison on the virile insect, and this used as
a decoction acted too slowly to be effective in protecting vineyards. Yet,
it may be well to try a decoction of Ailanthus foliage. Finally, a printer's
error makes it Bulletin "32" instead of 82. — Prof. J. B. SMITH.

Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
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Insects have been named for F. D. Twogood, D. G. Cox, D. B. Young,
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berger, C. H. T. Townsend, Henry Bird, C. M. Weed.

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Entomological Literature.

INDIAN MUSEUM NOTES, II. Calcutta, 1891. — No. i. (i pi.) Economic
Entomology: Miscellaneous Notes, E. C. Cotes, figs. A new species of
Tineidje,* Lord Walsingham, figs. The Baluchistan Melon Fly,* }. M.
F. Bigot. American blight, E. T. Atkinson. Descriptions of new Coc-
cidce,* W. M. Maskell. A Darjiling Sal pest, G. C. Dudgeon. A new
Psychid injurious to Sal,* F. Moore. — No. 2. The wild silk insects of India,
E. C. Cotes, 14 pis. — No. 3. On white insect wax in India, E. C. Cotes, i
pi. — NO. 4. The locusts of Bengal, Madras, Assam and Bombay, id, i pi.
— No. 5. Methods adopted in Tunis for destroying locusts, R. Drummond-
Hay.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), i.x, 52, London,
April, 1892.— Description of a new genus and some new species of Het-
erocera from Central America, H. Druce. Descriptions of new genera
and species of Pyralidae contained in the British Museum collection, *f W.
Warren. On some undescribed Cicadidae, with synonymical notes,*! ^ -
L. Distant.

THE IRISH NATURALIST, I, i, Dublin, April, 1892. Edited by George
H. Carpenter and Lloyd Praeger.— The Coleoptera of the Armagh dis-
trict, Rev. W. F. Johnson.

LE NATURALISTE, Paris, April i, and May i, 1892.— Cabbage worms, P.
Chretien, figs. Dichotomous tables for determining the European species-
of Colias (con't.), K. Bramson. Description of new Lepiduptera,* P.
Dognin. On difference in development in Coleoptera, L. Planet, figs.

HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP, London, April, 1892.— A few remarks,
on our commonest spiders, K. H. Jones. Secreting glands in the feet of
flies, W. Jenkinson, figs.

WEST VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bull. No. 21,
Charleston, W. Va., 1892. — Methods of dealing with injurious insects, A.
D. Hopkins.

COMPTE RENDU, L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, Paris, March 28, 1892.—
On the mode of articulation of the abdominal rings (zigzag articulation)
in Hymenoptera, G. Carlet.

COMPTE RENDU, SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE, Paris, April i, 1892.— Origin
of the achromatic nuclear spindle in the seminal cells of Scolopendra, A.
Prenant. The alar nerve in some apterous Coleoptera, A. Binet.— April
30th. Comparative researches on the organization of the brain in the prin-
cipal groups of Arthropods, H. Yiallanes. The nerve of the balancer in
some Diptera, A. Binet.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

BULLETIN DE L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DE BELGIQUE (3), xxiii, 2, Brussels,
1892. — Protective resemblance in the animal kingdom, F. Plateau.

JOURNAL OF THE TRINIDAD FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB, I, i, Port-of-
Spain, April, 1892.— This is the first number of a new journal issued under
the direction of a publication committee consisting of Henry Caracciolo,
Esq., president, Prof. P. Carmody, F. I. C., Syl. Devenish, Esq., M. A.,
.and Mr. R. R. Mole. The journal has for its object to keep those mem-
bers of the Club in Europe, America, Venezuela, and throughout Trinidad
en rapport with what the Club accomplishes. One of its special features
will be Economic Entomology. Mr. Caracciolo is a valued correspondent
of the NEWS, and we wish him and his colleagues success in their new
undertaking.

SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Compte Rendu, March 5,
1892. — The African Gomphina,*t E. de Selys-Longchamps. Insects of
western Bengal: xv, Coprophagous Lamellicornia, H. von Schoenfeldt;
xvi, Hydrocanthari,* Dr. M. Regimbart; xvii, List of a collection of Le-
pidoptera, Dr. H. Robbe. Lepidoptera from the Congo,* id. Materials
for a study of the Tabanidse of Belgium, L. Coucke.

OREGON AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bull. No. iS, Corvallis,
Ore., 1892. — Economic Entomology, F. L. Washburn.

JOURNAL OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Columbus, Ohio, Decem-
ber, 1891. — Insect parasites, F. M. Webster, figs.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xviii, 6, Berlin, March, 1892. — Bra-
chyta bifasciata Oliv. v. cancasica, C. Rost. List of Lucanoidas, Sca-
rabeidse, Buprestida? and Cerambycidas collected near Nienghali in South
China,* A. F. Nonfried. — 7, 8, April, 1892. A new variety of Lyc<zna
from Russia,* L. Krulikowsky. Sawfly studies,* Dr. Kriechbaumer. A
new Psilomastax, id. On Tryphon puuctiis Grav., R. v. Stein. Contri-
butions to the Coleopterous fauna of Africa and Madagascar,* A. F. Non-
fried. Preliminary descriptions of three new Lepidoptera from Bismarck-
burg in Togoland, German West Africa,* Dr. F. Karsch.

NATURE, London, April 7, 1892. — On insect colors II, F. H. P. Coste.
—April 21, 1892. Pigments of Lepidoptera, F. G. Hopkins.

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA, by F. Moore, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1892.
Pt. ix, pp. 177-208, pis. 65-71.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER, Leipzig, April n, 1892. — The development
of the coxal gland in Phalaii^iinn, J. Lebedinsky, ligs. New observations
on symbiosis between Ants and Acacias, Dr. C. Keller. The Acacia-
Crematogaster by Prof. Keller from Somaliland,* A. Forel. — April 25th.
Labial palps of Hemiptera, Dr. N. Leon, fig. — May 2(1. Systematic list

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 159

of the Canarian Dermaptera and Orthoptera, with diagnoses of new
genera and species, *f Dr. H. Kraus.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSEXSCHAFTLICHE ZOOLOGIE, liii, 4, Leipzig, April
5, 1892. — On the phylogeny and ontogeny of the wing-veins of butterflies,
Dr. A. Spuler, 2 pis.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Phila., March, 1892.— Descriptions of new
North American Bees, C. Robertson.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST, London, May, 1892. — The secondary sexual
characters of the British Coleoptera, J. W. Ellis. Local lists, etc.

BERLINER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, xxxvi, 2, Berlin, March,
1892. — New African, Central American and East Asiatic Melolonthidae and
Rutelidae,* A. F. Nonfried. To the knowledge of the willow gall-flies,*
J. J. Kieffer, i pi., figs. Communications on gall-flies,* id., figs. Arach-
nida from Ceylon and Minikoy collected by Drs. P. and F. Sarasin,*f Dr.
F. Karsch, 3 pis. Second notice on the Apiocerina, C. R. Osten Sacken.
Arota rosaura Karsch, Dr. F. Karsch, fig. Review of the Locustodeas
collected by Dr. Paul Preuss at the Barombi Station in Cameroons,*f id.,
figs. List of the Rutelidae described after the publication of the Munich
Catalogue, and Additions to the same, A. F. Nonfried. Further contribu-
tions to the beetle fauna of southern Asia and New Guinea,* id. On gall-
fly larva?, E. H. Ruebsaamen, i pi. New gall-flies and galls,* id. Syn-
opsis of the described genera and species of the Blepharocediae, C. R.
Osten Sacken. On the Chretotaxy of Caco.renns iiidagator Lw., id.
Synonymy of Antocha O. S. and Orimargiila Mik., id. Additions and
corrections to the catalogue of the described species of South American
Asilicke by S. W. Williston in the Trans. F.nt. Soc. xviii, 1891, id. New
Rhopalocera,*t E. G. Honrath, i pi. Little-known butterflies, id. A
new Notodonta* id. A local variety of Biston hirtarius, H. Heymons.
Two new Chinese dragonflies of the family Calopterygidae,* Dr. F. Karsch.
Results of the anatomical research on a lateral hybrid of SincriiitJiits
populi L. with some general considerations, H. Tetens, i pi. figs. Epi-
nephclc lithonns var. mincki, T. Seebold.

REVUE D'ENTOMOLOGIE, CAEN, x, pp. 199-236. — Description of a new
species of Tropideres* Fr. Guillebeau. Contributions to the study of
the Pentatomida-,* Dr. E. Bergroth. Third note on the genus Phalcria.
C. L. Rey.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, April 15, 18*92. — The genus
Acronycta and its allies, Dr. T. A. Chapman. Ammonia, verdigris and
black pins, W. H. Harwood, J. \V. Tutt. A. Robinson.

INSKCT LIFE, iv, 7 and S, Washington, April, 1892. — The potato-tuber
moth \Li/a sofancl/a Bd.), Eds., figs. A genus of Mantis c-gg-p.irasites,
* Contains new species other than North American, t Contains new genera.

160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

id., figs. Notes on the grain Toxoptera, F. M. Webster. The larger
digger-wasp, C. V. Riley, figs. The habits of Elasmus, L. O. Howard,
figs. Bees of great value to fruit and seed growers, F. Benton. Some
bred West Virginia Braconidae, A. D. Hopkins. Notes on the habits of
some California Coleoptera, D. W. Coquillett. Early published refer-
ences to some of our injurious insects, F. M. Webster. The color of a
host and its relation to parasitism, C. W. Stiles and A. Hassall. The
usual numerous notes.

YERHANDLUNGEX DER K. K. ZOOL.-BOT. GESELLSCHAFT IN WIEN, xlii,
i, April, 1892. — On the so-called " stand still stage" in the development of
Oestrid-larvae, Dr. F. Brauer. Four new species of Hymenoptera,* Dr.
R. Cobelli. Communications on gall-flies,* E. H. Ruebsaamen, i pi.
figs. The Austrian species of the genus Hilara Melg.,* Prof. G. Strobl.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA-
DELPHIA, 1892, pt. i, January-March. — The spider fauna of the Upper
Cayuga Lake basin, N. Banks, 5 pis. Drexelia, a new genus of spiders,
Rev. H. C. McCook, D. D. Greenland Lepidoptera, H. Skinner, M. D.,
and L. W. Mengel.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1892,
pt. i, March, 1892. — New species of Heterocera from the Khasia Hills, *f
ii, Col. C. Swinhoe, i pi. Additional notes and observations on the life-
history of Atypus piceus, F. Enock. Notes on Lyccena (recte Thecla]
rhyinnus, tengstrcemii and pretiosa, G. T. Bethune-Baker, i pi. The
effects of artificial temperature on the coloring of several species of Le-
pidoptera, with an account of some experiments on the effects of light,
F. Merrirield. On variation in the color of cocoons of Eriogaster lanes-
iris and Saturnia carpini, W. Bateson. On the classification of the Geo-
metrina of the European fauna,! E. Meyrick, i pi.

ARCHIVES DE PHYSIOLOGIE NORMALE ET PATHLOGIQUE (2), iv, 2, Paris,.
April, 1892.— The intermediary body of Fleming in the seminal cells of
Scolopendra and Lithobiiis, A. Prenant, i pi.

ZOOLOGISCHE JAHRBUCHER, vi, 2, Jena, March 30, 1892.— The tree
whiting, Aporia crattzgi Hb., Dr. K. Eckstein. Tegonotus, a new Phy-
toptid genus,* Dr. A. Nalepa, i pi.

BOLLETINO DELLA SOCIETA ROMANA PER GLI STUDI ZOOLOGICI, I, I

and 2, Rome, 1892.— On species of Hemiptera of the R. Museo Zoologico
of Rome, Dr. C. de Fiore.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. Louis, v, 3-4,
1892. — Transformations of a Carabid (Plochiotius fiinutns) and observa-
tions on a Coccinellid enemy of the red spider, J. C. Duffey.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l6l

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., May, 1892. — Miscellaneous
notes on butterflies, larvae, etc., W. H. Edwards. Two distinguished
settlers, W. H. Harrington. New North American Homoptera, iv, E. P.
Van Duzee. Packing insects for transportation, H. F. Wickham. Notes
on North American Hesperidae, E. M. Aaron. New North American
Microlepidoptera, Prof. C. H. Fernald. Notes and descriptions of Bom-
hylidae, D. \V. Coquillett. A Sarcophagid parasite of Cimbc.v americana,
C. H. T. Townsend. Ovipositing in the genus Argynnis, H. Skinner,
Notes on Mclittia ceto Westw., }. B. Smith. A new Ischalia from Van-
couver Island, W. H. Harrington. Obituary of Abbe Provancher, id.

CANADIAN RECORD OF SCIENCE, v, i, Montreal, January, 1892. — List
of Coleoptera collected in the vicinity of St. Jerome, Que., J. F. Hausen.

NOVA ACTA ACADEMIC CAES. LEOP.-CAROL. GERMANICS NATUR/K
CI/RIOSORUM, Iv, Halle, 1891.— New gall mites,* Dr. A. Nalepa, 4 pis.

BOLLETINO DEI MUSEI DI ZOOLOGIA ED ANATOMIA COMPARATA D. R.

UNIVERSITA DI TORINO, No. 115, March 9. 1892. — On the variability of
the metasternal apophysis of Dytiscus i>iargina/is L., A. Griffini, figs.—
116, March 15. On the parasitism of a larva of Aricia in a Cant bus, Dr.

E. Giglio-Tos. — 117, March 18. A new genus of Syrphidae, id. — 118,
March 24. On two genera of Syrphidae Rhopalosyrphus and Oinegasvr-
p/ius, id.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxiii, 2, 3, Buenos
Ayres, February, March, 1892. — New Hemiptera of the Argentine and
Uruguayan faunas (cont.),* Dr. C. Berg. Argentine Dipterology, Syr-
phidae (cont.), F. L. Arribalzaga.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, May, 1892.— Note on generic characters
in the Noctuidae, J. B. Smith. On some Macro-Lepidoptera collected at
Rannoch in 1891, R. Adkin. Notes on British Lepidoptera, the genus
Melanippe (cont.), R. South. Preliminary list of the insect fauna of Mid-
dlesex (cont.), T. D. A. Cockerell. Green and brown pupce of Papilla,

F. \V. Frohawk, F. P. Bedford.

BULLETIN OF THE OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION (2), v,
4, Columbus, Ohio, April, 1892. — Insects which burrow in the stem of
wheat, F. M. Webster.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, May, 1892.— Our
Rush-feeding Colcophuree* }. H. \Yood. Further notes on l-lnf>ithecia
extcnsaria, G. T. Porritt. On a new Onthophilus from Mexico, G. Lewis.
Annotated list of British Tachiniichi- u-ont ), R. H. Meade. The butter-
Hies of Rawal Pindi and tin- Murree Hills, Punjab iomt.i, N. Manders.
On new or little-known Coccidae, chiefly English-2,* K. NYwsteud, i |)1.

* Contains new species other than North American.
6**

162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

SEVENTH REPORT on the injurious and other insects of the State of
New York by J. A. Lintner, Ph.D., State Entomologist, Albany, 1892.
Pp. 200-404, 40 figs.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE VAUDOISE DBS SCIENCES NATURELLES (3),
xxvii, Lausanne, February, 1892.— Origin of the existing Ant fauna of
Europe, C. Emery.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1891, pt. 4,
April i, 1892.— On the Micro-Lepidoptera of the West Indies, Lord Wal-
singham, i pi. On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent, E. Simon, i
pi. Descriptions of new butterflies collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F. Z.
S., in British East Africa during his recent expedition, II, E. M. Sharpe,
i pi. On the association of Gamasids* with Ants, A. D. Michael, 2 pis.

TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS AND REPORT OF THE ROYAL SO-
CIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, xiv, 2, Adelaide, December, 1891.— Further
notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and
species, Rev. T. Blackburn.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Aegeria armasata Druce, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p. 275, Ae. mardia
p. 275, Melitta beckeri p. 276, Durango, Mex. Metosamia (n. g. Satur-
niidae), p. 276, M. godmani, p. 277, Oaxaca, Mex. Telca aure/ia, Phassits
marcius, p. 278, Durango.

Pyralidse: Sericoplaga n. gen. Warren, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p.
295. S. externalis, p. 296, Tex.

Anarta besla, Skinner and Mengel, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1892, p. 158;
Glancopteryx immaciilata, p. 159, Greenland.

Argynnis oweni, Edwards, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 105, Cal. A. Cornelia,
106, Col.

Teras comandrana Fernald, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 121, Mass., Pa., Tex.
Caccecia magnoliana, p. 121, N. Y. Pyrausta inagdalena, p. 122, Tex.,
Fla. Coleophora fletcherella, p. 122, Ont., N. Y.

Four n. gen. 8 n. sp. Pterophoridae, 4 n. gen. 31 n. sp. Tineidas, Wal-
singham, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1891, pp. 492-549, West Indies.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 163

DIPTERA.

Sarcophaga helicis Townsend, Psyche vi, p. 221, Ohio. -S". imbicis
Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 126, S. Dak.

Exoprosopa grata, Coquillett, Can. £nt. xxiv, p. 124, Cal., Wash.
Geronfasciola, p. 125; G. capax, p. 126, Cal.

Camerania n. gen. Syrphidte, Giglio-Tos, Bull. Mus. Zool. Anat. Com p.
Univ. Torino, No. 117, for Temnocera megacephala? Loew.

Blepharipeza rufescens Townsend, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 90,
Md. Hystricia aldrichi, p. 91, S. Dak. Atropharista n. gen. TachinidcC,
p. 92; A. jurinoides, p. 92, S. Dak. Echinomyia dakotensis, p. 94, S.
Dak. Tachinoinyia n. gen. Tachinidae, p. 96; T. robusfa, p. 96.

HYMENOPTERA.

Eleven n. sp. Halictus, i n. sp. Andrena, i n. sp. Ca/liopsis, i n. sp.
Melissodes, Robertson, Amer. Nat. xxvi, pp. 267-274, U. S.

Ceropales cressoni Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 58, Neb., Wash.

HEMIPTERA.

Fourteen n. sp. Phlepsius Van Duzee, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, pp.
63-82, U. S.

Dendrocorisfruticola Bergroth, Rev. d'Ent. x, p. 228, Fla.

Gnathodus imp ictus, abdominals, Van Duzee, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 113,
N. J. Athysanus comma, p. 114, la.; A. bico/or, p. 114, Kan., Miss.; A.
obtusus, p. 115, Miss. Deltocephalusflavocostatus, p. 116, Miss.

COLEOPTERA.

Isonychus prasinus Nonfried, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxvi, p. 223; Ceraspis
elegans, p. 223; C. imitatrix, p. 224; Epectinaspis hondnrce, p. 231;
Phyllopertha latitarsis, p. 233; P. sericeo-micans, p. 233, Honduras.

Isclialia vancouverensis Harrington, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 132, Yanc. Is.

Onthophilus julii Lewis, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), II, p. 124, Mex.

ARANEINA.

One hundred and fourteen n. sp., Banks, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,
1892, pp. 11-81, 5 pis.

Drexelia n. gen. for Epeira dirccta Hentz, McCook, id., p. 127.

Fourteen n. gen. 31 n. sp. Simon, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1891, pp. 549-
575, St. Vincent.

164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

Doings of Societies.

A MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA was held April 28th Meeting:
called to order at 8.20 p. M. In the absence of the director Mr. James
Ridings was called to preside. Members present: Ridings, G. B. Cresson.
Liebeck, Skinner, Laurent. Associates: Calvert, Fox, Dr. Castle. Mr.
Henry Bird, of Rye, N. Y., presented two specimens of Gortyna itiqucs-
.?//<?. Four specimens of Hymenoptera were presented by Mrs. Annie
Trurnbull Slosson, including an undescribed species from Florida. Mr.
Calvert presented a paper for publication in the "Transactions" of the
American Entomological Society, which refers to material (Odonata) col-
lected by the U. S. Eclipse Expedition to the Congo and by Dr. W. L.
Abbott at Zanzibar and in the Kalimanjaro region. Inasmuch as the paper,
in its entirety presented to the U. S. National Museum for publication,
would be long in coming out he had, by permission from Dr. Riley, pre-
sented an abstract to night. Mr. Calvert reviewed the contents of the
paper and made drawings on the black-board to illustrate points in the
neuration of the old world genus Orthetrum. The characters of some of
the species were dwelt on at length. Mr. Calvert also exhibited a speci-
men of Pantala hymencza Say, which had been obtained from Mr. C. \V.
Johnson, to whom it had been presented by Mr. H. D. Coyle, a park guard.

who had captured it in Fairmount Park.

HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. — The seventy-ninth reg-
ular meeting was held March 3, 1892, at the residence of Mr. E. A.
Schwarz. Mr. Wm. Ross Harris, of Texas, was elected a corresponding
member of the Society. Dr. Stiles gave a talk on the " Histology of
Ticks." He made some blackboard sketches and exhibited a number
of slides illustrating the subject. He dwelt especially on the cuticular
tissue, alimentary canal, stigma, excretory organs and glands of the head.
Discussed by Dr. Marx. Dr. Theo. Gill presented a paper on "The
Larva of Insects as an intercalated Stage." He quoted and criticised
certain statements in Agassiz, "Class, of Animals from Embry. Data."
From these criticisms he argued to show that the larva of insects was an
added or intercalated stage. He had prepared a table giving the distri-
bution of fossil insects. This showed that the Orthopteroid, Neuropteroid,
Hemipteroid and Coleopteroid insects were not only the insects of the
PaUeozoic, but also the prevailing insect types of the Mesozoic age. The
I >iptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera, which have a larva or caterpillar
stage, were later developments. Discussed by Messrs. . \shmead, Banks
and Gill. NATHAN HANKS, A'< •,»;-<//;/<,' St-cirtary.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for May, was mailed May 2, 1892.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. III.

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VOL. in. SEPTEMBER, 1892. No. 7.

CONTENTS:

Townsend— Some Deformities in the 1 Dyar.— Preparatory stages of P. errans 175

Abdominal Segments of Tachinidse 166 Townsend— Note on Trichobiusdugesrt 177

Dyar— A new Gluphisia 168 Editorial.... i->>

Harvey — A new Symnthurus 169 Notes and News oo

Fox— Description of Fossorial Hymen. 170 Economic Entomology

Smith— Elementary Entomology 172

Skinner.— A new species of Pamphila... 174

Entomological Literature 183

Doings of Societies : igo>

OUR picture this month represents some rare moths generously
loaned for illustration from the fine collection of I. C. Martindale,
Esq. The negative was kindly made for the NEWS by Dr. \V.
D. Robinson, of Philadelphia. Glorcria arizonensis is a -ray
moth, and its name indicates its home. Calosaturnia mcndocino
is fqom California; the primaries are dark smoky-brown, and the
inferiors tawny, with a black band as shown in figure. Cithcronia
sepulcralis is found from Pennsylvania southward; the primaries
are dove color, and the secondaries are same color, but lighter,
and the markings are wine color. COSSHS brucri, irom Colorado,
is white with black lines. Hypcrchiria -j'-p/ivrid is Irom .\Yw
Mexico, and was discovered by Prof. F. PI. Snow. The \\hite
line across the primaries is quite characteristic. ffv/>cir/iii-ia
paniiiia is readily distinguished by its pale color; it is a very
pretty species. The NK\VS hopes to publish figures of moths, as
there is such a demand for figures in the Heterocera. As the
methods improve we will descend in the scale and study the
smaller species. The figures on plate are somewhat smaller than
the normal si/c of the insects/ — KD.

166 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

Some Deformities in the Abdominal Segments of Tachinidae.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

In the examination of material in the Tachinidae, I have run
across several cases of deformity in the abdominal segments,
which are worthy of being placed on record as a contribution to
the subject. Four specimens, belonging to as many different
species and genera, are noticed below.

Echinomyia thomsoni Will. — A 9 , taken June 8th, Las Cruces,
N. M., exhibits the following peculiarities : The first segment is
normal; the right half of the second segment is quite normal,
but the left half is very considerably lengthened and joins the
fourth segment for nearly one-third of its width, crowding out
the third segment entirely on that side ; the third segment is
represented by about two-thirds of that segment on the right
side above, and about one-half of the segment below; the fourth
or anal segment is but slightly lengthened on its left one-third.
Thus the abdomen appears drawn up on the left side, the anal
segment being set on to the second, on the left, at an acute angle
to supply the deficiency in the third segment. None of the
macrochaetae belonging to the third segment are present at the
suture between the second and fourth segments, and this suture
is abnormally deep and wide, and presents the appearance of a
scar.

Hyphantrophaga hyphantricz Twns. — A 2 , bred from Hyphan-
tria cunea, issued August 25th, Las Cruces, N. M., presents a
more peculiar deformity. In this specimen the abdomen is drawn
up on the right side; the first segment is somewhat lengthened
and bulging behind on the right side, making the suture between
the first and second segments sinuate: the second and third seg-
ments are separated by a suture on the left side extending hardly
to the median line, while on the right they are merged into a
single long segment about two-thirds the normal length of thr
two; the anal segment is quite normal in its proportions, but
points a little to the right in consequence of that side of the ab-
domen being shortened. The normal hind marginal macrochaetae
of the second and third segments are wholly wanting on the right
side. The ventral portion presents the same appearance.

Clytia flava Twns. — A S, from S. Illinois (Robertson), ex-
hibits a still more marked deformity. The second segment seems

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to be split diagonally by an abnormal suture running from the
left anterior corner to the right posterior one; a blind suture on
the right side occupies nearly the place of the normal one between
the first and second segments, while a similar suture on the left
side occupies the position of the normal one between the second
and third segments; these two sutures reach only to -the median
line and there disappear; the anal segment is quite normal in
form, but is somewhat inclined toward the right, as the posterior
margin of what should normally constitute the third segment is a
little oblique to the median line and is inclined anteriorly on the
right. There is no special abnormal feature in the disposition of
the macrochaetae, except that the normal median marginal pair
of the second segment is obsolete and that of the first segment
nearly so. The ventral portion does not share the deformity to
such a degree as the dorsal. This specimen shows an inclination
toward either an absorption of one abdominal segment, or the
acquisition of a fifth one.

Eustomatodexia insulensis Twns. ms. — A £ , from Jamaica (C. \
\Y. Johnson), May, shows the following peculiarities: The first
segment' is lengthened by one-fourth on the right half, where it
joins the right side of the third segment, its posterior suture
being sinuate; only the left half of the second segment is present,
extending to and including the median line, its anterior and pos-
terior sutures uniting in a curve on the median line; the right
side of the third segment is lengthened by one-third, which still
leaves the right side of the abdomen somewhat shortened or
drawn up, on account of the absence of the second segment on
that side; the fourth or anal segment is normal. The venter
agrees with the dorsum; the macrochueUt on hind mar-ins of last
two segments are normal; the normal lateral marginal one on each
side of first segment is present; the Literal marginal pair of the
second segment is present only on the lett side, while the normal
median marginal pair is represented by a Mn^le macrochaeta.

The last mentioned individual is a d<\\iid. In all of the><- spe-
cies the normal number of abdominal segments is lour. I have
referred to the antero -posterior diameter ot the M -nients as the
length, although it is the lesser diameter.

In all probability the deformities above described were due to
injuries received in the larval, not in the pupal >tate.

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A new GLUPHISIA from the Pacific coast.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Gluphisia quinquelinea n. sp. <$. — Head and thorax dark gray without
marks. Abdomen and legs paler gray; fore wings even gray, not quite
as dark as thorax, black and whitish scales and hairs mixed, not anywhere
distinctly irrorate. A space at the base between median and internal
veins, for a short distance on both sides of the basal line, as well as the
lower half of median space is shaded with an obscure flesh-colored tint.
Basal line black, starting on costa 2 mm. from base, strongly inwardly
dentate on subcostal, thence proceeding straight towards internal margin,
slightly widened and marked with a few bluish metallic scales on subme-
dian.fold, but ending at internal vein; transverse anterior line black,
rather broad, nearly straight from costa to internal margin, arcuated in-
wards a little across internal vein; median line blackish, rather obscure,
parallel with t. a. line slightly undulate and diffuse centrally; transverse
posterior line black, nearly straight from costa to internal margin, slightly
undulate and inwardly produced on submedian fold. It is slightly oblique
to the median line, starting from the costa at 2 mm. distance from it, and
nearly joining it at internal margin. The t. a. median and t. p. lines are
each marked with a few bluish metallic scales in the submedian interspace;
subterminal line black, broken by the gray veins, outwardly arcuate from
costa to vein 5 and again from vein 5 to vein 2, then straight to anal an-
gle; fringe gray, faintly spotted with blackish. Secondaries pale gray,
whitish at base, shading into blackish at anal angle. Below uniform
whitish gray, darker on the costa of fore wings. Expanse 31 mm.

Described from one male, Portland, Oreg. A table to separate
the. American species of Ghiphisia will appear later in " Psyche."

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A Local List of the Genus CATOCALA.

By GEO. A. EHRMAN, Pittsburg, Pa.

The genus Catocala is well represented in western Pennsylvania
as the following list will show. I have taken all the species and
varieties quoted, during the last twelve years of my entomological
labors. Prof. John B. Smith has listed seventy-eight species
apart from the varieties that are found in Boreal America. Of
his list I have taken thirty-two species in Allegheny Count}-, Pa.,
not mentioning numberless variations.

CATOCALA.

nubilisJt\\)\\. , common; gracilis Eclw., rare; in inn fa Ed\v., rare;
grynea Cram., rare; cerogama Gn., rare; nltronia Hbn., rare;

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cocci nata Grt., rare; ilia Cram., common; parta Gn., common;
unijuga Walk., rare; briscis Ed\v., rare; concnmbcns Walk.,
rare; caraGn.., common; amatri.v Hbn., rare; tristis Eclvv., rare;
epione Dru., common; antinywpha Hbn., rare; serena Ed\v.,
common; habilis Grt., common; innubens Gn., common; v. C,
scintillans G. & R., rare; paleogama Gn., common; v. A, pha-
langa Grt., rare; neogama S. & A., common; snbnata Grt.,
common; piatrix Grt., rare; nebnlosa Edw., rare; Judith Strk.,
rare; robinsonii Grt. , rare; mVrfo Grt., rare; v. A, flebilis Grt.,
rare; vidua S. & A., rare: lacryinosa Gn., rare; v. D, paulina
H. Edw., rare; insolabilis Gn., rare; obscura Strk., common;
v. A, residua Grt., rare.

I have followed in the footsteps of Prof. John B. Smith for my
classification of this list, and no matter how much I dislike the
system of his Rhopalocera, I find his system for the Heterocera
is the best that we ever have had for the American student up to
the present time.

A NEW SMYNTHURUS.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

Smynthurus 6-maculata n. sp.— Deep blue-black, with four conspicuous
enamel-white spots on the body and two smaller ones between the eyes,
located as shown in the cut. The posterior pair of spots on the body
largest, both pairs on the body somewhat renifbrm in outline with the
sinuses on the dorsal side. Antenna; and le^s paler, shaded with purple.

Eye patches conspicuous and darker than
the coloring of the head. Head broader
than lout;-, nearly in the ratio of 3:2. Body
broad behind, where the breadth about
equals the length, abruptly narrowing
from the broadest part to the last seg-
ments. Ant'-niKe slender, nearly t\\o-
thirds tin- length of the body and head.
The joints in the ratio of 2:3:4:8, and el-
bowed between the third and fourth. The
terminal segment composed of about nine
subjoints. Elater Ion-, slender, the
bran<-|ies i if the fork widely spr'-.ulinu;,

second and third joints equal, the terminal segment i-oiiira', slender and
ending in a point. Legs rather Ion;; and stout; claws lar_

Measurements.— TO\A\ length .7 — i mm. Parts of a full grown specimen
about as follows: head .2 mm. IOHL;, .3 mm. broad; antenna-, h mm.; ratio

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of segments 2:3:4-8; body .8 x .8 mm.; spring .45 mm.; second and third
segments each .16 mm.; largest white spot on body about .18 mm., or
nearly one-fifth the body and head.

Hab. — Orono, Me., July, August and September, 1891, F. L.
Harvey. Under bark on stumps and on herbage in the woods.
Several specimens examined. One specimen was taken July 7,
1891, with Papints mannoratus Pack, under the loose bark of a
fir tree stump. During July, August and September, they were
occasionally seen upon grass and other plants in the woods.
The accompanying cut was drawn for the writer from live speci-
mens by Mr. J. H. Emerton, Boston. It shows the insect mag-
nified about thirty times and a little too broad, due to compression
necessary to hold it still while drawing.

This species is apparently related to 6". quadrimaculata Ryder
(Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 335), but differs in the
larger size, broader body, purplish color and white spots between
the eyes. The dark blue-black color of the body, cleared by
balsam, appears decidedly purple, while the antennae and legs are
pale purple naturally. This form is rather sluggish, but jumps
well when disturbed. A beautiful species, not easily detected
because of its small size and dark color.

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Description of four new species of Fossorial Hymenoptera

from California.

By WILLIAM J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

Sphex (Priononyx) ferruginous n. sp. ?. — Ferruginous; tips of mandi-
bles, ocellar region, antennae, except joints one, two and basal half of
third and two longitudinal marks on metanotum black; front, face, clypeus
and the thorax densely covered with bright silver)' pubescence. Wings
hyaline, nervures brownish; clypeus strongly convex, its anterior margin
rounded, entire; inner eye margins distinctly converging towards the cly-
peus; frontal furrow strong, beginning from a depression before the ante-
rior ocellus; scape of antenna; long, but much shorter than first joint of
flagellum, this latter a little longer than the two following ones united,
these joints in length about equal; prothorax above very broad and (-mi-
vex, not impressed; dorsulum with two parallel, raised, smooth, broad
ridges, which extend from base almost to apex; srutellum strongly and
widely furrowed medially, having the appearance of being bituberculate;
metanotum obliquely striated, the stria- are only seen where the inetaiiotum
is Mack, being covered by the silvery pubescence elsewhere; first recur-
rent nervure received by the first submarginal cell a little before the apex

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the second recurrent nervure interstitial; third submarginal cell much
narrowed at the top; petiole nearly as long as joints i and 2 of hind tarsi
and slightly curved; all the tibia: and tarsi spinose, the anterior tarsi
ciliated with abundant, fine, whitish bristles on the outer side, the inner
side of first joint with several stronger, but shorter bristles, the femora
and tibiae sparsely clothed with long, pale hairs; longer spur of hind tibia;
within on the apical half with several blunt spines, the basal half with
close-set bristles. Length 19 mm.

Described from one specimen, Los Angeles, Cal. ( D. \Y. Co-
quillett). The U. S. National Museum collection contains six
other specimens of this species.

Pseudagenia Blaisdelli n. sp. 9-— Ferruginous; ocellar region black;
clypeus convex, the anterior margin slightly incurved; frontal furrow dis-
tinct, though not strong; space between eyes at top and beneath about
equal, if anything wider at the bottom; first joint of flagellum less than
one-third longer than the second, this latter about one-filth longer than
the third; inner eye margins strongly incurved; ocelli rather small; poste-
rior margin of prothorax slightly angular, scutellum with a feeble, longi-
tudinal, raised line, medially; metathorax rounded behind. Wings sub-
fuscous, the apical margins darker, first recurrent nervure received by the
second submarginal cell at the middle, the second recurrent nervure is
received by the third submarginal cell a little beyond the middle; third
submarginal cell narrowed nearly one-half at the top; the medial and
posterior tibia; very feebly spinose; posterior tarsi very long, the first two
joints united being as long, or a little longer than the hind tibia,-; longer
spur of hind tibia; about one-third as long as the first joint of hind tarsi;
the claws armed with a strong basal tooth. Abdomen with a sparse,
sericeous pile. Length 9 — 10 mm.

San Diego, Cal., Aug. 23, 1891, sent me by Dr. F. E. Blais-
dell, of Coranado, to whom I take pleasure in dedicating this
pretty species. There are other examples in the collections <>f
the Amer. Ent. Soc. and the U. S. Xat. Museum. It is related
to Pseud, mclanoccphala Cam. from Mexico.

PlanicepS planatllS n. sp. .'.' . — Hlack with bluish and purplish n-lk-ctioiis;
clypeus planate, shining, with a few scattered punctures, its anterior mar-
gin truncate medially, the sides rounded; behind the antenna- there is a
short, longitudinal, dimple-like impression; antenna- situated in two strong
excavations; the clypeus produced back between these excavations; s<
shining, the remainder of the antenna' opaque, first joint of llagelhnn
about one-fifth longer than the second, narn wed to the base ; when viewed
from the front tin- occiput i-- depressed medially; mandibles reddish, pos-
terior margin of prothorax subarruate, nearly transverse; ni'-tailiorax
with a slight trace of an impressed line ..n upper suiii e, the

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face with strong, transverse folds, which become obsolete medially; suture
between meso- and metapleune marked by small fovece; last dorsal and
ventral segments with long, black hairs. Legs black, the tibiae and tarsi
more or less armed with distinct spines; the anterior tibiae and tarsi
clothed with a sericeous pile; tarsal claws armed with a large, acute tooth
at base. Wings very dark, with a slight violaceous reflection, apical
margins darker. Length 14 mm.

Two specimens; San Diego, Cal. (Blaisdell) Related to P.
Icevifrons Cr. and P. vicinus Cr. The fact of this species having
three submarginal cells would place it in Parapompilus Cress,
(non Smith), which is but a section of Planiceps. Parapompilus
Sm. has the wings much abbreviated.

Sphaerophthalma anthraciua n. sp..J\ — Entirely black, densely clothed
with long, black pubescence. Head strongly punctured; scape clothed
with black pubescence; thorax strongly punctured, the metathorax with
very large punctures or pits, with the pubescence sparser. Wings strongly
fuscous, with three submarginal cells, the third of which has the outer
nervure angulate. Abdomen strongly punctured; first abdominal segment
sessile with the second. Length 9 mm.

Two specimens; San Diego, Cal. (Blaisdell) This is our only
species that is entirely black.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The Agaristidae, as they are represented in our fauna are rather
unsatisfactorily denned, and the position of Eudryas and allies is
not settled. Good authorities have referred these forms to the
Bombyces or Noctuidse, and tl*e characters allying Eudryas to
Alypia are in the larva rather than the imago state. Species of
Alypia are found in all parts of our country and the family char-
acters are drawn from this genus. The antennae are slender,
thickened beyond the middle and then gradually drawn out to a
point. The body is moderate in size, the head rather small, with
.1 pointed front; ocelli present, palpi distinct. The primaries are
12-veined, the internal (v. i) simple, not forked at base, ^, 4 and
5 rather close together from the end of the median; 6 to 10 sur-
rounding or out of an accessory cell at the tip of the subcostal.
This is almost exactly as in the Noctuida- save that the internal

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vein in the latter family is forked at base. The secondaries have
eight veins, the two internal veins counting as one, vein 5 is almost
midway between 4 and 6, and the costal in out of the subcostal a
short distance from the base. The venation of the secondaries
is Bombycid rather than Noctuid in character. The antennal
structure is the best and most obviou> character. The species
strictly belonging to this family are usually black in color with
white or yellow spots or blotches and often irrorate with blue
scales. They fly by day as a rule, and our common eastern spe-

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cies is, as a larva, quite destructive to grape.

The Syntomidae are poorly represented in our fauna, but are
rich in genera and species in the tropics of both hemispheres.
They are rather small insects with filiform antennae, ocelli some-
times absent, but more usually present, body usually stout, pri-
maries large and secondaries usually proportionately small. The
secondaries have only one internal vein and lack the costal vein

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altogether. There are never more than seven veins all told and
sometimes only four. The primaries have one internal vein;
veins 2 to 5 are quite widely separated, veins 7 to 10 from one
stalk and crowded together close to the apex. Most of the genera
are found only in the southern part of our country, but Lyco-
morfyha, which is an aberrant member of tin- family, extends into
Canada. Our common species is L. pholus. and has the wings
yellow at base and black toward the tip. Though this species
belongs, structurally, to the Syntomidar, it gives but a very feeble
idea of the beautiful forms that are allied to it in more congenial
climes. Often the wings are transparent or nearly so, and bright,
even striking colors abound. Odd and interesting structural
modifications are common, and one of these I have described in
volume i of " Entomologica Americana," where will be found a
complete study of Cosmosoma omphale.

The Pyromorphidae are moderate or small-sized insects, often
with thinly scaled semi-transparent win-.->, lender body and fili-
form antenna-, which in the male are olten lengthily pectinated.
The head is small but distinct, and the ocelli are large and promi-
nent. The venation is distinctive. < >:i the primaries then- are
two inner or free veins, and on the secondaries there are three
such veins. The costal vein of the secondari«-^ is wanting, making
a combination not parallel* d in any other family. The >pi
are rare as a rule, and are mo>tlv southern or southwestern, a

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few only extending1 to the New England States. Harrisina

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americana is the most common and best known species, and dif-
fers from the typical genus in the much narrower wings. Black
colors with reddish or yellowish shades basally and on the collar
predominate in this family.

The Ctenuchidas contain species of larger size making a very
distinct step toward the Lithosiidae. In external appearance and
habitus they are very like the Pyromorphidae, Scepsis having
almost precisely the form of Harrisina, and in this family the
male antennae are also lengthily pectinated. But the venation is
entirely different, the primaries having only one, the secondaries
only two internal of free veins. The secondaries yet lack the
costal vein. The species of this family are represented in all
parts of our territory and some of them are locally common.
Ctenucha virginica and Scepsis fithicollis are of our best known
eastern species.

All the families mentioned in this paper were formerly included
under the term Zygaenidae. A more detailed statement of char-
acters, with figures illustrating the same, can be found in the
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xii, p. 77.

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A NEW SPECIES OF PAMPHILA.

By HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

Pamphila errans n. sp. £ . — Expands i% inches (being the dis-
tance from the middle of thorax to tip of one wing, doubled);
female a little more; upperside dark brown; superiors have two
small yellowish spots on the costal nervures about one-third the
distance from tip to thorax, and an interrupted row of four spots
of the same color on an imaginary line running from the tip to near
the middle of the interior margin; the uppermost of these is a
mere dot, and is situated at end of discoidal, just below the point
of cell. The second is wedge shaped with the point of wedge
inward, and is at the junction of two nervures running into a
point at the discoidal cell. The third spot is nearly quadrate
and larger than the other two. The fourth is resting on the sub-
median nervure and is nearly a rectangle. The fringes are yel-
lowish white, darker towards the tips. Interiors are immaculate,
with the inner two-thirds covered by long hairs of a lighter shade;

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underside is considerably lighter in color, and the neuration is
yellowish and quite distinct. The spots on the superiors are the
counterpart of those above, except that there are two small spots
instead of the first one of the row above. The inferiors have
three spots of same color, the first in the third subcostal space;
the second in the fourth subcostal space, and the third in the first
median interspace. Fringes of superiors dark, and oi interiors
same as above. Body and antennae above dark brown; below
body, palpi and antennae yellowish, with a dark stripe down the
centre of the abdomen.

The species above is almost the exact counterpart of ocola Edw.
but smaller, and below is very close to panoquin and panoquin-
oides. I have specimens from California received from Mr. H.
G. Dyar and Dr. Blaisdell, and also specimens from Texas.

PREPARATORY STAGES OF PAMPHILA ERRANS Skinner.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Egg. — Elliptic-oval, flattened at base, a round, slightly de-
pressed spot on vertex. Smooth, slightly shiny, sordid white,
more distinctly white on top and in several obscure vertical
streaks on the sides; under the microscope covered with little
regular raised reticulations, becoming less distinct at the micro-
pyle. Diameter .8 mm. Laid singly on the upperside near the
base of a blade of the food-plant.

First lamtl stage. — Head rounded triangular, nearly pointed
at vertex, which surpasses the body, lobes not separate: smooth,
dark brown, blackish in front; a small, indistinct, whitish line
above the mouth; width .45 mm. Body at first small, entirely
pale yellow; later long, cylindrical, of uniform si/e; feet normal.
but short; segmental incisures shallow, color uniform pale yel-
lowish green, with double dorsal and single subdorsal, narrow,
even yellowish lines. Anal plate large, circular, projecting and
bearing a few pale hairs. The little larva rests on the upperside
of a blade in the fold near its base, feeding entirely or mainly
during the night.

Second stage. — Head rounded triangular, very slightly notched
on vertex, somewhat shiny, minutely punctured and furnished
with scattered pile; pale whitish with a yellow tinge, a broad

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brown band from above base of antennae to vertex, joining the
one from the other side below the apex of the head and another
similar fainter band behind and parallel to this passing behind the
vertex; mouth brown, width .7 mm. Body light green, not
shiny, transversely annulated, the two dorsal and subdorsal lines
distinct, narrow, pale yellow, with even edges; they run the whole
length of the body, and the subdorsal line is slightly wider than
the dorsal one. Anal plate rounded, projecting with some pale
hairs.

Third stage. — Head rounded triangular, bulging in front and
at the sides, clypeus not depressed, pale green with many minute
blackish dots, the brown bands as before, but much less distinct;
labrum whitish, jaws and ocelli black; surface minutely pilose,
width i.i mm. Body much as before, but more of the color of
grass, covered with very minute, dark green dots; the pale yel-
low lines are as before, rather more distinct with their edges de-
fined by a darker green line; they begin on the anterior edge of
joint 2, but the dorsal one terminates at the beginning of the
anal plate. There is a substigmatal ridge, above which is a band
slightly darker green than the ground color, and below it a broad,
distinctly greenish yellow band, which becomes more distinct as
the stage advances.

Fourth stage. — Head as before, but the brown bands entirely
absent; grass-green, minutely wrinkled and covered with very
small brown dots; jaws and ocelli black, labrum white; width
1.6 mm. Body grass-green, with the four narrow yellow lines
bordered obscurely with dark green, the space between them and
do\vn the sides as far as the lateral region thickly dotted with
dark brown; along the subventral ridge is a broad greenish yel-
low band, shading off above into the ground color.

Fifth stage. — Head rounded triangular, bulging; clypeus small,
grass-green, minutely clotted with black; labrum whitish, jaws
black, ocelli black, ringed with white, five in number, the lower
one remote from the others; width 2.4 mm. Body shaped as
before, the anal plate very large (1.5 mm. loni; I, projecting half
its length beyond the last pair of abdominal feet, ridiM-d by the
subdorsal line, but concolorous with the body. Feet short, grass-
gRvii, tinged with yellow, the lines as before, namely, a double
dorsal and single subdorsal line, narrow and ratlu-r ob>cure, yel-
lowish, i-d-rd with green; the body is densely dotted with green,

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darker than the ground color, and there is a darker superstig-
inatal shade. Substigmatal band along the riclge pale yellow,
distinct, dotted with green; spiracles small, and situated on the
upperside of the stigmatal ridge, the spiracles on joints 2 and
12 being larger than the others, the one on joint 12 situated above
the ridge.

Chrysalis. — Fastened by cremaster and a loop of silk to a stem
or blade of grass, on which a mat of silk had- been previously
spun. Cylindrical, slightly flat ventrally, long and slender. Ab-
domen tapering, thickest at thorax; a tapering process like a
horn projecting from the head in front; wing cases not projecting,
the leg cases extending a little further along the abdomen than
the wing cases; eyes prominent; cremaster broad, flat, excavated
below and ridged subdorsally. much resembling the anal plate of
the larva; width 3.5 mm.; length 19 mm.; length of "horn"
1.5 mm. The color of the living chrysalis was not ascertained,
but is presumably green.

Food-plant. — Grass growing near the sea (species not deter-
mined). Another larva had its head 1.9 mm. wide in the fifth
stage and died while preparing for another moult. It would thus
have had six stages if it had lived. Larvae from Santa Barbara
County, Cal., on the grass very near the sea, where they were
in reach of the salt spray; none found outside this region.

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Note on Trichobius dugesii Twns.
By C. H. T. TOWNSEND.

U-W «"

It will perhaps be remembered by some that an articlc.in the
last volume of ENTOMOLOGICAL NK\VS (vol. ii, pp. 105-6) on a
new hippoboscid from Mexico, which I described as Trichobins
n. gen. dugesii n. sp. , adopting the generic name Trichobius,
which was apparently long ago proposed by Gervais, but of which
no description, or reference to such, could be tound.

Quite recently 1 >r. Alfredo Dugvs, who originally sent me the
hippoboscid, very kindly communicated to me the following in-
formation which will throw much li-lit on the original use of this
generic term, and for which I am under main- obligations to him.

Dr. Duges, who had labeled the specimen " Trichobius sp.,"
had searched in vain at different times during- the la^t y< -ar for the

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description, or figure, which had led him to label it thus. Finally,
while looking by chance in the ' ' Atlas de Zoologie op collection
de 100 planches . . . par M. Paul Gervais, Paris, 1844," he found
a figure labeled " Trichobie parasite'' and also the following
reference in the text: " Trichobius parasiticus Gerv., de la Guiane.
Petit insecte diptere de la famille des Mallophages de Nitzsch,
trouve parasite sur une chauve-souris de la Guiane appelee Des-
modus rufus. II n'a pas encore 6te" decrit. "

Therefore, to Dr. Duges is due the credit for at last finding the
source of this name. He says, in conclusion: " L' insecte res-
semble beaucoup a celui que je vous ai envoye, et que vous avez
decrit le premier."

THKY HAVE SLAVES WHO ATTEND TO ALL THEIR WANTS. — Certain war-
like species of ants, as Formica sanguined and F. rufescens, have sub-
jugated a negro species, F.fusca. Here again ants, while behaving like
men, have never allowed themselves the abuses of force to which men
are accustomed. They never enslave adult ants; they seize upon the
pupa;, bring up the young, treat them gently, and thus turn them into
docile and zealous servants. The slave ants who have never known the
city from which they sprang, do all the inferior work of the community
with eager alacrity, care for the larva;, carry their mistresses, feed them,
barricade the approaches in case of siege, receive the victorious amazons
with joy when they return from a fruitful expedition, and relieve them of
the pupa; captured in the raid. They are so thoroughly on the side of
their employers that it is believed they molest those who return from an
expedition with empty mandibles. As for these slaves their labor is purely
domestic. In some English ant hills the slaves never leave the nest. In
Switzerland some go aphis hunting, a business scorned by the warrior
ants. The warriors always seem to consider the black ants who serve
them as their property, and though they may allow themselves to be car-
ried by their slaves, these soldiers, in their turn, do not disdain to carry
their servants for safety's sake when changing house, or in case of a siege,
to drag them hastily down into the depths of the subterranean dwelling.
This system of slavery has certainly lasted for many centuries in the ant
world, but it has not existed always, as is attested by certain survivals,
because in certain species, that pampered progenetrix, the queen, partici-
pates in the labors of the community exactly like a humble worker.

Prof. J. B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. |., is engaged on a monographic
revision of the Deltoid group of the Noctuida-, and desires material from
all parts of the country. He will name and return all material sent him
for the privilege of retaining such specimens as may be needed for de-
scription or for completing the collection of the U. S. National Museum.

1892.] IJ9

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Mr. W. F. KIRBY, in an article in the August number of the "Ento-
mologist" entitled, "On the Identification of Attacus atlas Linn, and its
allies, with remarks on some other species of the genus" says "Attacus
splendidus Beauv. from St. Domingo may prove to be distinct (from
ery ciiia Shaw), when we receive a series from that island; its alleged
o:currence in Texas is certainly an error."

EARLY CAPTURE OF C. insolabilis. — While running over lists giving
dates of capture of Catocake, I find none earlier than July ist for the
latitude of central Ohio. June 22, 1892, I took the above-named Catocala
resting on Robinia pseudacacia on the State University campus. This
species is comparatively rare in this vicinity, Columbus, O., June 2jth.—
\Y. E. KELLICOTT.

Lophopteryx elegans. — In ENT. NEWS for April, page 87, Dr. McKnight
records the capture of this moth in Franklin County, X. V., and, in a foot-
note, notes the difference between his specimen and the description of
X. notaria Hy. Edw., from Colorado. In his original description of the
species Dr. Strecker says, under var. grisea, " The color of the head and
primaries slate-gray instead of brownish." which would correspond with
the description of A7! notaria. Hence the synonymy of this species should
. be :

Lophopteryx elegans Strecker.

iSS^.— Streck., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 285.
1891. — Smith, List Lep. No. 1273.

var. grisea Strecker.
1884. — Stri-rk., Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phil. p. 286.

iiotiiritt Hdwards. 4

1885. — Hy. Edw., Ent. Amer. vol. i, p. 17.
1891. — Smith, List Lcp. pr. syn.

HARRISON G. I )YAR.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l8l

Bombus fervidus Fahr. — Tlie males referred to this species by Cressmi
really belong to B. borcalis Kby. Mr. Robertson suggests A. clatnx Fabr.
as a more nearly related male, ENT. NEWS i, 41. B. perplc.vns and /!.
hndsonicus. of which the females are unknown, may belong \.ofci"'u1ns;
they belong to the section containing B. vagans Sm. — W. H. PATT<>.\.

A FATAL MOSQUITO BITE (Bacillus of Anthrax communicated to a man
by the insect). — New York, August 4th. A man has just died in Bellevue
Hospital, according to the doctors, as a result of a mosquito bite. While
the case is a very unusual one, it is not unprecedented, they say. The
mosquito had absorbed the microbes of a dangerous disease, which he
transmitted to the patient in the biting process. A fatal case of menin-
gitis was developed as a result. The bacillus of Anthrax is the scientific
name of the poisonous germ in this instance. The patient was Peter
Kennedy, sixty-nine years old. It was about ten days ago when he was
bitten on the left cheek by the mosquito. "The case is a very interesting
one," said Dr. DeLaney, senior surgeon at Bellevue, to-day; "but it is
not an isolated case of death resulting from the bite of a mosquito. Such
cases are rare, but there are several clearly defined ones. "Anthrax is
a disease of cattle. When we know that mosquitoes feed on dead horses
there is nothing remarkable in their absorbing the disease germs of ba-
cillus of Anthrax, which are germinated in the putrifying Mesh. After the
mosquito has absorbed the bacilli or poisonous ptomaines, it is not re-
markable for them to be transmitted to the human system. The germs
multiply rapidly and soon extend to nearly all parts of the body." — Public
Ledger.

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NOTES ON ECONOMK ENTOMOLOGY.

Prof. LAWRKNCK BKUXKR, in his report upon Insect Depredations in
Nebraska for 1891, gives the following interesting account of a remedy for
the cabbage butterfly (Picris ;v/>,r : 'These insects u< .-re nut <->prcially
numerous over the State during the year, but are referred to hen- simply
because I wish to call attention to a reported 'new' rein. -d\ -against them."
To say the least, it is unique as well as simple, if it pro\es as etl'-ctnal as

7

182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

is claimed for it. This remedy was brought to my notice about two weeks
ago while at West Point, my old home, on business connected with my
work for the Division of Entomology. The remedy i:; simply this: The
cabbage plants are sprinkled with ordinary corn-meal while they are wet
with dew or immediately after a rain, so that the meal will cling to the
leaves at all points. My informant certainly had nice cabbages that were
free from worms, and all he had done in the way of a preventive or
remedy was to use this corn-meal as above directed or explained. He
claimed that in a few days after sprinkling on the meal all the worms
would be found dead and turned black, clinging to the leaves of the plants.
Several cabbages that had purposely been left untreated were rather full
of the caterpillars of different sizes. In order to test the corn-meal remedy
for myself I treated these. On the loth of October I received the cab-
bages thus treated by express, just as they were when cut from the roots.
The accompanying letter reads as follows : " The worms seem to become
torpid at first, at least inactive, and then seem to dry up. How the meal
acts on the worms I cannot say. Cannot say whether they eat it by itself
or whether it gets mixed up with the leaves they eat, or whether the meal
that gets on them by adhering to them, acts like a poison on them. The
meal does not seem to do any good unless there is a heavy dew on the
cabbages, and it will adhere well. Perhaps they get killed by the meal
getting on them while the dew is on them. But I think not." When the
cabbages were received by me the worms were dead and partly dried up,
just as they had been described to me. I do not know what to think of
the matter, and give the facts as they appear here.

POTASSIUM IODIDE FOR BEE STINGS. — I have never seen this salt men-
tioned as a sting-cure, but having heard of its use by a bee keeper of forty
years standing, whose verdict was " relief and cure instantaneous," I tried
it. I have only used it in three cases, in all of which it was successful. A
juvenile cousin aged seven, was stung on the hand, land the cure was so
effective that the sting only "tickled" next day, as he expressed it, though
he looked as if the tickling was too much for him at the time. In my own
case the relief was instantaneous, and no swelling ensued the first time,
when the remedy was applied at once, and very little the second time,
when applied about five minutes after. The method of application is
simply to hold a crystal of the iodide to the wound. — H. E. W. in the
"British Bee Journal," June 23, 1892.

SOAPSUDS FOR CABBAGE LICE. — "Some tiim- ago we undertook a line
of experiments against them, using kerosene emulsion of different
strengths. The result was that a weak emulsion had little or no effect,
while a stronger one thoroughly applied killed the lice, but at the same
time ruined the cabbage by giving it a flavor of kerosene which remained
\vht-n it was brought on the table. After some further study a trial was
made of strong soapsuds alone, and this proved highly efficacious, giving
much better satisfaction than any other remedy for the pest ever used at

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 183

the station. While water alone will roll off from the insects without
wetting them, the addition of soap gives a compound that penetrates
readily (Bull. No. 30, S. Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station)."

Calandra reniotepunctata Gyll. it seems has not been noticed heretofore
attacking grain, although two allied species, namely, C. oryzte and C.
granaria, are famous for their depredations. Recently my attention was
called to a number of small weevils, which were found in freshly-made
soup, and on enquiry being made, it was ascertained that the barley, ob-
tained from a near-by grocery, contained numerous specimens of this
insect. It is evident that this species has heretofore been confused with
C. oryzt? by observers.— WM. J. Fox.

A CURCULIO REMEDY. — "The curculio flies," says a plum grower,
" are our greatest enemy. But in Florida I learned of a curious method
of saving the fruit, which the flies kill when it is very young, just as the
bloom is falling off, and when the plums are no larger than marrowfat
peas, half a dozen small tin cans, empty tomato cans will do, two-thirds
full of molasses and water, with a tablespoonful of vinegar added, must
be hung from the branches of each tree. The curculio fly will be attracted
by the mixture and eat it greedily, forgetting at the same time to sting the
baby plums." — AVri1 York Tribune.

Entomological Literature.

AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, May, 1892. — A spider enemy of
Oeneis semidea S. \Y. Denton.

HAKDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP, London, May, 1892. — Famous collect-
ing grounds for Dragonflies, iii (W. H. Bath). The constancy of the Bee,
G. \V. Bulman.

GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, London, May, 1892. — On a neuropterous in-
sect from the lower Lias,*t H. Woodward, i pi.

MKMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 1891-1892 (4), v, i. — Hymenoptera orientalis;
or Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Indian zo-
ological region,* P. Cameron, i pi.

VERHANDLUNGEN UND MrrTHEii.r.\r.KN DES SIEBENBURGISCHEN YE-
REINS FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN IN HEKMANNSTADT, xli, 1891. — On
the Coleopterous fauna of the vicinity of Schaessburg, Dr. K. Petri.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATTKAL HISTORY (6), ix, 53, Lon-
don, May, 1892. — On some new species of Histei-ida-,* G. Lewis. On
the scale-like and flattened hairs of certain Lepidopterous larva-, A. S.
Packard, rigs. On Ophidercs princeps Guen. and its utter dissimilarity

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new

184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

in structure and pattern from Ophideres princeps Boisd., A. G. Butler.
Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidae contained in the
British Museum collection, *f W. Warren. On the anatomy and embry-
ology of the Phalangidae, V. Faussek (transl.). On the genus Polychrysia
Hiibn. (a group of Plusiid moths), A. G. Butler.

JAHRESBERICHT DES YEREINS FUR NATURKUNDE zu ZWICKAU IN
SACHSEN. (1891), 1892. — The gall formations of German vascular plants;
additions and corrections, Dr. D. v. Schlechtendal. On the oviposition
of Lvodes females, id.

AXTI D. R. ACCADEMIA D. SCIENZE FlSICHE E MATEMATICHE (2). iv,

Naples, 1891. — Miscellanea Entomologica,* iii, A. Costa (Hymenoptera*
and Blattidae*), i pi.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 1891, 2, Berlin, March,
1892.— Remarks and Additions to the Catalogus Tenthredinidarum Eu-
ropae,* F. W. Konow. The Beetles collected by Dr. A. Stuebel in Hauran
and Tulul-es-Safa in Syria in 1882, Dr. L. v. Heyden. Letzneria lineata
Letzn. var. Weisi Heyden, id. Is it necessary to find a new generic name
for Platycenis raraboides L. and its allies?, G. Albers. A new Lucanid
from the Philippines, id. Second supplement to the Mylabridse or Bru-
chidce, F. Baudi. The palaearctic representatives of the Coleopterous
genus Zonitis F.,* K. Escherich. A new Liinnobaris from Dalmatia, J.
Faust. To the characterization of the genus Omotemnus Chevr., id.
The genera and species allied to the Rutelid genus Singhala Burni.,*f
Dr. K. M. Heller, i pi. Further notes on Dorcadion l&ve Fald., id.
Remarks and Additions to the Monograph of the palaearctic Cicindelidae
by himself and H. Roeschke, W. Horn. First contribution to the know-
ledge of the Cicindeletae, id. On the African Cicindelid genus Enry-
Diot-pha Hope, Dr. G. "Kraatz. On the genus Sta/aginosoniaRurm., id.
Chineosoma, new Melolonthld genus, id. New species,* id. Contribu-
tion to the knowledge of some new exotic Coleoptera, A. F. Nonfried.
List of the Lucanidae described from 1875 to the end of 1889, id. New
species,* Nonfried, C. Rost, A. Kuwert. New Melanotus from the palae-
arctic zone,* O. Schwarz. New Coccinelliclse,*f J. Weise. Cryptoceph-
alus species from West Africa,* id. Contributions to the knowledge of
the genus Orina, id.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUK, xxxvi, 4,
Brussels, April 5, 1892. — On a hew species of Histeridas of Bengal,* G.
Lewis, figs. Descriptions x>f Coleoptera from the vicinity of Akbes
(Syria),* L. Fairmaire. Rhynchota Aethiopica,* E. Bergroth. Diagnoses
of new Coleoptera from the Congo, *f A. Duvivier.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND
LETTERS, viii, Madison, Wis., 1892. — On the appendages ot the first ab-
dominal segment of embryo insects, W. M. Wheeler, 5 pis.

* Contains new species other than North American. '• i "iitains ne\v genera.

l8Q2.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 185

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, May 16, 1892.— the genus
Acnntycla and its allies, Dr. T. A. Chapman. The genus Hepialus. }. E.
Robson. The British Coccinellida?, G. A. Lewcock. Classification by
structure of imago, E. Meyrick, J. \V. Tutt.

MATKKIAUX POUR LA FAUXE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE LA PROVINCE o'Ax-
VERS.— Coleopteres 46 Centurie par A. P. deBorre, Bruxelles, 1891.

ZOOLOGISCHER AxzEiGER Leipsic, May 16, 1892. — On Lebedinsky's
' The development of coxal glands in Phalangimn" Dr. P. Bertkau. To
the knowledge of the male sexual organs in Diptera, N. Cholodkovsky.

: SOCIETATIS ENTOMOLOGIC/E ROSSIC.E, xxv, St. Petersburg,
1891.— Biology of Russian Lepidoptera, I. Portschinsky, figs. New
Asiatic Coleoptera,* B. E. Jakowleff. Description of new species of the
palaearctic fauna of the genus Sphenoptera Sol.,* id. On some Feronia
of the palaearctic fauna, T. Tschitscherine. Remarks on some Feronia
of South Africa and Madagascar,*! id. Some additions to the "Essay
on Feronia of Australia and New Zealand" by Baron de Chaudoir,*f
id. Description of a new species of Feronia (Latr.) Dej.,* id. Diag-
noses of new Coleoptera from central and eastern Asia,*f A. Semenow.
[Several new Coleoptera,*] id. On Astrakhanish Fossoria,* Dr. F.
Morawitz. On some species of Sphc.v, id. Revision of the copulatory
armature of the males of the genera Cilissa and Psendocilissa*\ Gen. O.
Radoszkowski. [The" same] of the genus Colletes* id., figs. 2 pis. Hy-
menopterological studies: Descriptions of new species of the Russian
fauna,* id. figs. Contributions to the knowledge of the beetles of Euro-
pean and Asiatic Russia, including the coasts of the Caspian Sea (con-
tinued),* J. Faust. Contribution to the Lepidopterous fauna of the gov-
ernment of St. Petersburg, R. Lang. Two new Coleoptera,* L. Ganglbauer.
New Aphodina?,* D. Koshantschikoff. New Lepidoptera recently col-
lected in central Asia,* G. Grum-Grshimailo.

BULLETINO DELLASOCIETA YENETO-TRENTINA DI SciEXZE N.\TUKALI.

v, 2, Padua, 1892.— -On two new species of Phytoptus, G. Canestrini.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIEXTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxiii, 4, Buenos
Ay res, April, 1892.— New Hemiptera of the Argentine and Uruguayan
faunas (cont.),* Dr. C. Berg. Argentine Dipterology, Syrphida; (cont.),*
F. L. Arribalzaga.

BULLKTIXO DELLA SOCIETA ENTOMOLOGICA ITAI.IANA. \\iii, 3, 4, Flor-

ence, April 25, 1892.— Contributions to the Coleopterous fauna of Trent
icont.i, S. Bertrolini. Anatomico-pliysiological note on Ixodini, A. I
telli, fig. Hymenopterological contributions: new or littlt-known species
of Hymenoptera-Diploptera,*f iv, G. Gribodo.

LK NATURALISTE, Paris, May 15, 1892. — Habits and metamorphoses of
Chrysochus pretiosus F., Ca]>t. Xambeii. New Lepidoptera/- P. Dognin.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

CENTRALBLATT FUR PHVSIOLOGIE, Leipsic and Vienna, May 7, 1892.—
An automatic centre for the production of light in Lnciola italic a L., M.
Verworm.

COMPTE RENDU. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, Paris, May 16, 1892.—
The roots of the alar nerve in Coleoptera, A. Binet. On the origin and
the formation of the chitinous coat in the larvae of Libelliitee ]. Chatin.

IL NATURALISTA SICILIANO, Palermo, November-December, 1891.—
Description of new Lepidoptera from Sicily, R. Pungeler. Materials for
an entomological fauna of the vicinity of Noto, V. Assenza. Modern
scientific correspondence of the animals figured in Cupanis' " Pamphyton
Sciculum" (1713), Dr. G. Riggio. —January, 1892. Catalogue of Sicilian
Coleoptera (cont.), E. Rogusa.

OTTAWA N^CTURALIST, May 31, 1892. — Fauna Ottawaensis — Hemiptera,
\V. H. Harrington.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS (8), iv, i, 1892.—
On the muscles of the limbs and on the homology of the joints of Arach-
nids, P. Gaubert.

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, Kingston, i, 3, May, 1892.—
A Dexiid parasite of a longicorn beetle, C. H. T. Townsend. Caf/ictryas
senna", E. S. Panton. Notes on some Lepidoptera captured in Jamaica
by Dr. Percy Rendell, J. J. Weir.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, June, 1892. — Notes on
harvest spiders, C. M. Weed.

BULLETIN OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, Jamaica, No. 30, King-
ston, April, 1892. — The sugar-cane borer (Diair&a sacchara/is Fabr. ), T.

D. A. Cockerell.

ICONOGRAPHIE DE QUELQUES SAUTERELLES VERTES*f par AlphoilSC

Pictet et Henri de Saussure, Geneve, 1892, 26 pp. 3 pis.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., June, 1892.— Synonymical
notes on some Heterocera in the British Museum, J. B. Smith. Canadian
Galls and their occupants — Eurosta solidaginis Fitch, W. Brodie. De-
scription of four insect monstrosities, H. F. Wickham, figs. New species
of Phora, J. M. Aldrich, figs The Mole Cricket— Gryllotalpa borealis,

E. W. Doran. New North American species of Goryfes, \\ . ]. Fox.
Catocala a»iica, A. R. Grote.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, Pt. C, March, 1892. — Coleoptera:
vol. iv, pt. 2, pi. xvii, G. C. Champion; vol. vi, pt. i, Supplement, pp.
313-344, M. Jacoby; vol. vii, pp. 161-168, pi. i.\, II. S. Gorham,— Pt. CI,
April, 1892, Arachnida-Araneidea, pp. 89-96, O. P. Cambridge. CoU-
optera: vol. ii, pt. i, pi. xiii, D. Sharp; vol. vi, pt. i, Supplement, pp.
345~374> etc., M. Jacoby. Neuroptera: pp. 1-16, pi. i, A. E. Eaton.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 87

ZEITSCHRIKT FUR WISSENSCHAFTEN, 64 Bd. 3 heft. Halle-Saale, 1891.
— Communications on new or known gall-flies and galls,* E. H. Rueb-
saamen, i pi.

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT, MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, St. Louis,
1892.— The Yucca Moth and Yucca pollination, C. Y. Riley, 10 pis.

ANNUAL REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE for
1891. — Report of the Entomologist on insect enemies of corn, L. Bruner,
pp. 240-309, 88 figs.

II JAHRESBERICHT DES WIENER ENTOMOLOGISCHEN YEREINES, 1892.
—On the first stages of some Geometridce, H. May. Description of the
larva of Dyschorista suspecta Hub., A. Meztger. Contributions to the
Lepidopterous fauna of Slavonia, O. Bohatsch. Local papers.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, Berlin, xviii, 9.— Brief characteriza-
tions of new Bugs collected by Dr. Paul Paul Preuss in Cameroons,*t Dr.
F. Karsch. Contributions to the Coleopterous fauna of Africa and Mada-
gascar (cent.),* A. F. Nonfried. — No. 10. Brief characterizations of new
Mantidse collected by Dr. Paul Preuss in Cameroons,*f Dr. F. Karsch.
On some new genera and species of Melolonthidae,*f E. Brenske.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ; DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY,
Bulletin No. 27.— Reports on the damage by destructive locusts during
the season of 1891. By L. Bruner, D. \V. Coquillett and H. Osborn,

Washington, 1892.

SCIENCE, New York, May 20, 1892. — Notes on local Jassidae, E. B.
South wick.— June 3d. Notes on local Bythoscopidae and Cercopida?, E.
B. Southwick. The systematic position of the Diptera, C. H. Tyler
Town send.

MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Bulletin, No. 19, Amherst,
May, 1892.— Report on Insects, C. H. Fernald; figs, and pi.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, xxv,
January, 2oth. — The tertiary Rhynchophora of North America, S. H.
Scudder.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, June, 1892. — Color variation in the ova
of Biston hirtaria, R. Adkin. A preliminary list of the insect fauna of
Middlesex (cont.), T. D. A. Cockerell. The genus Mclanipf»e (cont.), R.
South. Spring Lepidoptera in Italy, H. Rowlands-Brown. Notes on the
synonymy of noctuid moths (cont.), A. G. Butler.

ENTOMOLOGISKE MEDDELKLSKK, iii, 3, Copenhagen, 1892. — The Danish
species of I.ophynts, H. Borries. Ins<-< t life in \\-ncxiit-la. I-'. Meinert.

* Contains new species other than North American. ntaitis new genera.

1 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

THE ENTOMOL-OGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, June, 1892.—
Two new English species of Hornalomyia* G. H. Verrall. Annotated
list of British Tachiniidas (cont.), R. H. Meade. Entomological notes
from Tasmania, J. J. Walker. A new genus of Eustheninae,*f E. Bergroth.
A new species of Helopeltis, Dr. O. M. Renter.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST, London, June, 1892. — Portrait and sketch
of J. W. Douglass. The Pterophorina of Britain (cont.), }. W. Tutt.
The secondary sexual characters of the British Coleoptera (cont.), J. W.
Ellis. Local lists.

ZOE, San Francisco, April, 1892. — Notes on the Cicindelidae observed
in San Diego County, Cal., F. E. Blaisdell.

LE NATURALIST, Paris, June i, 1892. — The appendages of Arachnids,
A. Goux. New Lepidoptera,* P. Dognin. The artichoke worms,* P.
Chretien.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Baltimore,
1891, Remarkable new Homoptera. 1892, Jan. 2oth, Preliminary survey
of the Cicadida; of the United States, Antilles and Mexico. Observations
on some remarkable Heteroptera of North America, all by P. R. Uhler.

BERLINER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, xxxvii, i, May, 1892.—
Contribution to the knowledge of the genera Lepidiota and Leucopholh^
E. Brenske. The species of the Coleopterous genus Brahmina Bl.* id.
A new Odonat of the genus Macromia discovered by Dr. Paul Preuss
near Buea in the Cameroon Mountains,* Dr. F. Karsch. On Cryptos-
tenima Gu£r. as some recent representatives of the fossil Arachnoid order
of Meridogastra Thor. , id., i pi. List of the Orthoptera captured by Dr.
P. Preuss in the Cameroons,"::'f id., figs. Monographic review of the
Prionid genus CallipogonS&v., A. F. Nonfried, i pi. Capnodes Schilleri,
a new German Perlid,*f E. Rostock. A contribution to the knowledge
of the genus Chordenma (Diplopoda) and some notes on the German
Diplopod fauna,* C. Verhoeff, i pi. On Sabnlicola Cirsii mihi. id.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, xxxvi, 5,
Brussels, May, 1892. — Buprestidae of India,* C. Kerremans.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Ebulea fumipennis Warren, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p. 392. California.
E. ? sfrauiinea, p. 393, California. Udea indistinctalis, p. 394, Sierra
Nevada. Cybolomia e.vforris, p. 395, western United States.

* Contains new species other than North American. f Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 189

Dasylophia puntagorda Slosson, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 139, Florida.

Anthocharis flora Wright, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 154, Washington.

Pronuba synthetica Riley, 3d Rep. Mo. Bot. Garden, p. 141, California.
Prodoxns pulverulentus, p. 150, California. P. Y-inversus, p. 151, N.
Mex. P. reticutatiis, California. P. coloradensis Col., p. 152. P. sor-
didits p. 153, California.

COLEOPTERA.

Hoplia i sp., Serica 2 sp., Lachnosterna 4 sp., Gyinnefis i sp., Dero-
brachus i sp., Honduras, Psiloptera i sp. Hayti, Nonfried, Deut. Ent.
Zeit. 1891, pp. 257-276.

Botynella (n. gen. Coccinellida;) Weise, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. 286.
B. $-punctata, j-punctata, p. 287, Cuba. Sinilia n. gen. ; S. Felschei, p.
288, Florida.

Three genera, seventy species Phytophaga, Mexico, Central America,
Jacoby ; Biol. Cent. -Am. Coleop. vi, pp. 313-374.

Five species Coccinellidae, Mexico, Central America; Gorham, Biol.
Cent. -Am. Coleop. vii, pp. 161-168.

Callipogon Hanseri p. 20, C. Friedlaenderi, p. 22, Honduras; Non-
fried, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxvii.

DIPTERA.

Eighteen new genera, twenty-three new species Tachinicke, Townsend,
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, 13-15, United States.

Sarcodexia (n. gen. Dexiidce) Townsend, Journ. Inst. Jam. i, p. 105.
S. sternodontes p. 106, Jamaica.

riiora cimbicis Aldrich, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 143, S. Dakota. P. setact-a,
p. 144, S. Dakota. P. liiggeri, p. 145, Minn. P. ininuta, p. 146, S. Dak.

ORTHOPTERA.

Acanthoprion (n. gen. Pseudophyllidae) Pictet and Saussure, Icon.
Sauter. vert., p. 26. A. aztccum p. 26, fig., Oudonga, Mex.

HYMENOPTERA.

Goryfes nci>adensis Fox, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 150, Nev. G. atrifrons, p.
151, Nevada. G. inirandus, p. 152, Nevada. G. albosignafus, p. 152,
Montana. G. nifocinctiis, p. 153, Washington.

NEUROPTERA.

Eight species Ephemeridae, Ari/ona. Mi-\i<n, Central America; i-'.aton,
I'.iol. Ct-nt.-Am. Nt-unip. pp. 1-16.

HEMIPTERA.

• Issida: Tic id a n. gen. Uhler, Trans. Mil. Acad. >i i. [891, p. 143. T.
t'iii^ulata, p. 144, California. Belonocharist p. 145; />. finnida, p. 146,
California.

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Cicada cine tif era Uhler, 1. c., 1892, p. 156, N. Mexico, California. C.
retictilaris, p. 157, Jamaica. Tibicen cruentifera, p. 161, Nevada. T.
Blaisdellii, p. 163, California. Odopoea cariboea, p. 169, San Domingo.
O. doiningensis, p. 172, id. Cicada sordidafa, p. 175, Florida. C. reperla,
p. 177, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana.

Henicocephalina: Uhler, 1. c. p. 180, Hymenodectes n. gen.; H. culicis
p. 181, United States; Hymenocoris, p. 181, H. formicina, p. 182, Cali-
fornia. Capsidte: Hadronema pulverulenta, p. 183, United States.

Doings of Societies.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 7, 1892.
— Mr. George D. Bradford, of New York, was elected a corresponding
member of the Society. The discussion of Dr. Gill's paper entitled,
' The Larva of Insects as an Intercalated Stage," engendered at the pre-
ceding meeting of the Society, was taken up and participated in by Messrs.
Stiles, Riley, Gill and Banks. Dr. Riley presented two papers, one "On
certain peculiar Structures of Lepidoptera," and the other, " Descriptions
of new Prodoxidce." He spoke of various interesting structures of the
Prodoxidae, calling attention more particularly to the saw-like ovipositors,
the maxillary tubercles, the cenchri-like spots on the thorax and certain
radiate and chitinous bodies in the receptaculum seminis. The remarks
were illustrated by large figures. He also spoke of the resemblance of
Pronuba synthetica to certain saw-flies. Specimens of the insects de-
scribed were exhibited. Prof. Riley's second paper was read by title only,
and was presented for publication. The discussion of these papers was
participated in by Messrs. Howard, Marlatt and Stiles. Prof. Riley also
presented a paper on "Coleopterous Larvae with Dorsal Appendages,"
in which he described the larva of various species of Mordellistena hav-
ing rows of tubercles on the back which facilitate moving more readily in
the hollows of plants and the larger burrows of other insects. Discussed
by Messrs. Smith and Schwarz. Mr. Doran read a paper entitled "On
the Heat Produced by Sylvanus cassia," in which he recorded some ob-
servations which he had made on the amount of heat produced by these
beetles in meal, but offered no definite explanation of the phenomenon.
Discussed by Messrs. Marlatt, Riley, Austin and Schwarz.

Thursday, May 4, 1892.— Prof. H. E. Summers, of Champaign, 111.,
was elected a corresponding member of the Society. Mr. Ashmead pre-
sented some notes on the genus Enicocephalus Westw. Biographical
and critical notes were given, and the announcement was made of the
discovery of representatives of this genus in material sent to Dr. Riley
from St. Vincent, and announced also the discovery of a new species in
Utali by Mr. Schwarz. The genus cannot be included in any of the pres-

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ent subfamilies in the Reduviicke, to which it belongs, and the ne\v sub-
family Enicocephalime was erected for it. The new species was named
Enicocephalus schwarzii. Discussed by Messrs. Schwarz, Riley, Asli-
mead, Hubbard and Heidemann. Mr. Malley read a paper on Microinus
hispidiis, pointing out some observations on the food and life-habits of
this insect made in the South, where he found it feeding on Aphides.
Discussed by Messrs. Ashmead and Riley. Mr. Howard presented a
note on "The Hibernation of Carpenter Bees," showing that the males
as well as the females winter over. Discussed by Messrs. Riley, Ashmead,
Hubbard, Marlatt and Howard.

A paper by Dr. Bergroth, of Tammerfors, Finland, entitled "Notes
on the Nearctic Aradida?," was read by the Corresponding Secretary, to
whom it had been sent for publication in the Proceeding of the Society.

Mr. F. M. Webster had forwarded a paper for presentation at this
meeting of the Society on "The food-plants of the Lixi." The commu-
nication gave a view of the knowledge of the habits in this respect of this
genus of beetles, both of foreign and American species. Discussed by
Mr. Schwarz.

Mr. Hubbard presented a note on the larva of Atnphizoa, and gave an
interesting resume of the disposition of this anomalous insect in syste-
matic classification by various authors, together with the arguments ad-
duced in support of the diverging views. He presented drawings of the
larva and described its habits. The communication was discussed at
some length by Mr. Schwarz, and also briefly by Messrs. Ashmead, Gill,
Riley and others.

Mr. Masius gave his recent experience with the poisonous bite of Ren-
acus griseus. In handling specimens of this insect he had received a
severe sting on the hand which proved to be very painful. The pain and
swelling increased for two or three days and became so troublesome that
a physician was consulted. In five days the trouble had nearly disap-
peared, although at the time of the meeting the injured part was still sore.
Discussed by Messrs. Howard, Ashmead. Riley and others.

C. L. MARLATT,

A'cY. Secretary, pro. tern.

OBITUARY

"Prof. HERMAN CARL CONRAD BURMKISTKR was born at Stralsuml,
Jan. 15, 1807, and died from the result of an accident at IHieiios Ayres,
May 2, 1892. Prof. Burmeister was the author of many valuable works
on entomology. He was Professor of Natural History at Halle, ha\ in-
been elected to the chair in 1842. About 1850 failing health induced him
to spend two years in Bra/il. In iN6r lie resigned his professorship at

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Halle, and finally settled at Buenos Ayres, where he became director of
the Museum of Natural History, a position he held to within a few days
of his death. He continued to publish on Entomology, the insects of his
new home Affording ample materials for many valuable papers, both in
publications of the National Museum and in European journals, and also
a work on the physical features of the Argentine Republic with an atlas,
which latter included two parts devoted to the Lepidoptera of the country.
The Royal Society's catalogue of scientific papers enumerates no less
than 164 articles (exclusive of separate works) from his pen down to 1883,
and there have since been many more. He has been succeeded as Di-
rector of the Museum by Dr. C. Berg."

JUST after the MS. of our June number went to the printer we learned
of the death of Dr. CARL AUGUST DOHRN, at Stettin, in the 86th year of
his age. Dr. Dohrn was interested in Coleoptera, but he had a regard
for insects of other orders, if only for the reason that it brought him in
communication with the lovers of them. On the death at the compara-
tively early age of 39, of Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, the first president of the
Entomological S< ciety of Stettin, which had been founded in 1839, C. A.
Dohrn, who was then officiating as secretary of the society, was selected
for the vacant post, and at the ensuing anniversary meeting, Nov. 5, 1843,
was duly elected president, a position he continued to hold for upwards
of forty years. The " Entomological Zeitung," which is the organ of the
Stettin Society, was edited by Dr. Dohrn as long as he remained president,
and contains copious articles by him, many of them descriptive of new
species of beetles, and man}' relating to authors and their works and notes
on travel. His own collection of Coleoptera was very extensive, almost
unique in completeness of families and genera. Dr. Dohrn besides being
an entomologist, was an accomplished linguist, litterateur and musician.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for June, was mailed May 27, 1892.

EXT. NEWS, Vol. III.

PI. VII.

SPHINX RUSTICA.

. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. OCTOBER, 1892. No. 8.

CONTENTS:

Nolan — The Introduction of the Allan- i Cockerell — Entomology of Colorado-.. 202

thus Silk Worm Moth 193

Kunze — Larva hunting in Winter 195

Fox — A new Solitary Wasp 197

Smith— Elementary Entomology 198

Coding — N. American Membracida; 200

Editorial 205

Economic Entomology 206

Notes and News.. 209

Entomological Literature 212

OUR plate this month represents the upper and under side of
Sphinx rustica Fabr. , with its larva and chrysalis. The original
drawing was made by the late Titian R. Peale, the artist ento-
mologist. The plate represents the objects reduced in size, the
moth expanding five inches and the full-grown larvae being about
four and a half inches in length.

The Introduction of the Ailanthus Silk Worm Moth.

By EDW. J. NOLAN, M. D.

The attention of Dr. Thomas Stewardson, then Corresponding
Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia,
having been drawn,- in 1860, by various notices published in the
" Bulletin of the Society of Acclimation" and other French
journals, to the recent introduction of the Ailanthus Silk Worm,
Attacus cynthia, into France, he succeeded in obtaining from
Mons. Guerin-Meneville specimens of the caterpillar, the fly, the
cocoon and the silk in various stages of preparation.* In lune
of that year a number of eggs were also sent to him from Paris,
but they were nearly all spoiled in consequence of being hatched
on the voyage. Another lot sent a fr\v days later reached him

* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 525.
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in good condition, and from these, with the assistance of a silk
manufacturer in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, he succeeded
in raising a few worms, which formed their cocoons in July.

Toward the middle of August the moths made their appear-
ance, and the eggs laid by them hatched their worms from Au-
gust 3oth to September 3d. Some of these were placed by Dr.
Stewardson on a tree in a private garden; some were set out on
trees in the suburbs, and others were fed by him in a room at
his house. Of the first lot, nearly all came to maturity; many
of those placed in the country were destroyed by birds, and about
forty cocoons were secured from those raised in the house. The
success with the worms placed on the trees, except for the attacks
of birds, was entirely satisfactory, and proved to the experi-
menters, apparently, the possibility of raising two crops of the
insect during the proper season if reasonable care were taken to
preserve them from injury.

On the appearance of the first crop of caterpillars in the Spring
or early Summer of 1862, Dr. Stewardson was still sufficiently
interested in them to supply them with food, but the work was
becoming irksome. As Corresponding Secretary of the Academy,
most of his leisure time was spent in the room in the northeast
corner of the building, which was then situated at Broad and
Sansom Streets, and now forms part of the Lafayette Hotel.
My duties as Assistant Librarian placed me in constant commu-
nication with the doctor, and I became intensely interested in his
caterpillars, their growth and their work. I was, therefore, de-
lighted when the opportunity was given to me to take charge of
them and look after their allowance of Ailanthus leaves. The
supply was abundant, and fresh, crisp leaves were placed in glass
jars in the Librarian's room as often as a change was necessary.
The work was continued during the fall of 1862 and the Spring
and Summer of 1863. In the Autumn of the latter year I began
the study of chemistry with Dr. Robert E. Rogers, in the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, preparatory to matriculating as a student
of medicine. My time was then so occupied that it was increas-
ingly difficult to look after my pets, which, in spite of the fact
that not all of the successive broods had been preserved, num-
bered at the time some hundreds and required constant attention
to save them from starvation.

The yard of Dr. Roger's laboratory, at the back of the Medi-

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cal Department of the University, which was then located on
Ninth Street above Chestnut, where the Post-office now stands,
adjoined the yard of a house formerly occupied, it is said, by the
distinguished chemist, Dr. Hare. A large Ailanthus tree grew
here, the branches of which extended over the premises of the
laboratory. The more vigorous of the silk worms (so called)
were selected, and, with the consent of Dr. Rogers and the occu-
pant of the house referred to, were placed on the branches of
this tree early in October, 1863, to the number of a couple of
hundred. Here they were left to their fate, and, in truth, entirely
forgotten in the press of other interests until the Winter of the
following year (1864), when, on examining the tree, about forty
cocoons were found, the petioles of the leaves on which they were
spun being fastened to the otherwise naked branches by strands
of silk in the way so characteristic of the Ailanthus moth. They
were left here undisturbed, the survivors of the original colony
of the year before. The tree was vigorous, was secluded from
storms and visited by few birds. There is, therefore, no reason
to doubt that a large number of flies had been distributed from
this point during the preceding season, and it may, therefore, be
considered the main centre from which this interesting and beau-
tiful addition to our local fauna has proceeded, although some,
of course, have descended from the out-door colonies placed by
Dr. Stewardson himself.

The species was brought from China to Turn in 1857, and its
cultivation in France was begun the following year. Dr. Stew-
ardson hoped to benefit his fellow-citizens by bringing the insect
to America, but its introduction does not seem to have produced
much practical result, although the fly, with increasing frequency,
forms an interesting feature of the local collector's cabinet, and
may therefore be regarded as having come to stay.

o

LARVA HUNTING IN WINTER.

By RICHARD E. KUNZE, M. D., New York.

With the swamps well frozen over, although light snowsqualls
made it disagreeable enough, I hunted the larvae of Arzama ob-
liquata the first time this Winter, Feb. 7, 1892. They bore the
stems of Typha /at (folia or Cat- tail flag, and Great Reed Mace,
so called. Inasmuch as they hibernate in the galleries bored out

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of the pithy part of the stalk of Typha, which line the shores of
small creeks and rivers traversing the saltmeadows of the Atlantic
sea-board, they are readily found. Dr. Kellicott, regarding hi-
bernation of obliquata, states that the larva leaves the stem in the
fall and crawls into the earth or old wood to hibernate until April
or May, vide "American Naturalist," vol. xvii, p. 1172, 1883.
On Long Island this larva is abundantly found hibernating in the
stem of Typha throughout the whole Winter. I have taken
larvae out of galleries only a few inches above the frozen water
line, and with thin sheets of ice formed by the moisture of the
stem, completely surrounding the outstretched larva, which so
filled up this gallery, that it seemed to be tightly wedged in place.
Removing a part of the stem and carrying it in my pocket a short
time, the larva soon showed great activity by moving up or down
the narrow gallery at a lively speed, either backwards or forwards
at pleasure. Have found them as high as two feet above water
line, in the borings of thick stems, free from moisture, and all
these stalks exhibit a number of openings as large as thickness
of a pencil, so that they are easily singled out. I find more near
where the fresh and brackish waters meet, than in the open salt
meadows where Typha grows thickest. In fact, a few Cat-tails
of very vigorous growth in a fresh-water swamp adjoining salt
meadows, are preferable to an acre of the former. In an hour's
time I found seven larvae, and on examining some Typha stems
I brought home for another purpose I found three more, making
ten in all, of which one represented another species.

Perhaps it is not superfluous to state that the larva is mature
before hibernating and pupates in the stem ol Typha, if undis-
turbed, early in Spring. I found lots of empty pupa cases in
stems more than a year old. The woody fibre of these withstands
the effect of elements fully two years. In hunting larvae I have
often split open a two-year old stem in a mistake, my benumbed
fingers not readily detecting the softer texture of the latter from
the more firm and newer growth.

Sometimes more than one larva is found in a stem, and I think
the flower-bearing stalk being strongest, yields more than the
leaf-bearing kind. In the stronger stems I found larvae three
feet above the ground. I place the collected larvae in wide-mouth
bottles containing sphagnum, leaving those which have not been
disturbed in their respective stems. After pupation, which some

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do in the moss and others in their galleries, the imago has an
opportunity to crawl upon the stem and develop after emerging.
I place the larvae in a cold hallway or out-house, during Winter.
Have collected such from December up to late in April.

Dr. Riley states in "American Naturalist," vol. xvii, p. 1169,
that A. obliquata also bores the stems of Stigiftaria (Arrow-head)
and Pontederia (Pickerel Weed), whereas Dr. Kellicott, in the
same work, mentions another food-plant, Sparganiimi (Bur Reed),
but it is bored much less so than Typha.

This larva, and other species of such borers, could not well
hibernate in either Sagittaria or Pontederia, the stems of which
are too succulent and perish with the first killing frosts of Winter.

(To be continued.)

o

Description of a new Solitary Wasp.

By WM. J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

Odynerus ( Odyncrus} Aldrichi.

1 . — Clypeus with coarse, separated punctures, with longitudinal folds
or stria?, which are more obvious when viewed from certain positions,
bidentate anteriorly and with a rather strong depression just behind the
teeth ; head coarsely and closely punctured, the punctures becoming
sparse on the cheeks; first joint of flagellum equal in length to the two
following united; thorax punctured like the head; scutellum strongly im-
pressed medially; postscutellum when viewed from the front, crenulated;
metathorax strongly depressed, with a strong, somewhat triangular exca-
vation at base, rugose towards the sides, the metapleurae with irregular,
oblique striations; when viewed from behind the lateral margins of the
metathorax are seen to be emarginate below the middle; hind coxa; armed
with a strong tooth near the base on outer edge; first abdominal segment
above with coarse, separated punctures, those on the second much finer,
on the third segment the basal half is microscopically punctured, while
on the apical portion it has coarse, close, shallow punctures; beneath the
basal portions of the segments are finely punctured, the apical portion
strongly so; black; two transverse, curved spots on clypeus at base, two
minute dots behind antenna;, inner eye orbits on lower portion, large spot
at top of cheeks, prothorax above, anteriorly, teguke, except outer mar-
gin and a spot near base which are brown, spot on mesopleurse above,
posterior margins of scutellum and postscutellum, the marks narrowed
on each side, all bright yellow; a large spot on each side of first abdom-
inal segment also yellow, connected by a greenish white band on apical
margin of the segment, apical margins of dorsal segments 2-5 and a lar_v
spot on apical margins of ventral segments 2, 3 and 4, laterally, also

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greenish white; scape beneath and the legs, except coxae, trochanters and
base of femora, rufo-testaceous; wings subhyaline, apical margins fus-
cous; nervures and stigma deep black; the median cell of fore wings with
a ferruginous stain, the costal and median nervures beneath colored like
the legs.

(j\ — Clypeus deeply and roundly emarginate anteriorly, with fine, sparse
punctures; first joint of flagellum scarcely as long as the two following
united; clypeus entirely, scape beneath, and coxae beneath yellow; legs
with a yellowish tinge; flagellum beneath testaceous.

Var. Greater part of legs and hind margins of the abdominal segments
yellow.

Brookings, S. Dakota (J. A. Aldrich); Colorado (coll. Amer.
Ent. Soc.). The color of the legs will distinguish this species.
Appears to occur abundantly from May 3Oth to June loth, as Mr.
Aldrich sent me about thirty specimens.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The little family Heterogynidae belongs, in most respects, to
the Zygaenid series. In it the primaries have two, the secondaries
three internal veins, as in the Pyromorphidae. It differs, how-
ever, in having a distinct, free costal vein to the secondaries,
while the absence of this vein is one of the distinctive features in
the immediately preceding group of families. It is, perhaps,
questionable whether we have any true Heterogynidae in North
America.

Following these, comes a small series of what may be termed
Arctiid families. All agree in having only a single internal vein
to the primaries and two in the secondaries. The costal vein of
the primaries arises from the subcostal about one-third the dis-
tance from base. In one instance, Euerythra, it is altogether
wanting. Vein 5, in both primaries and secondaries, belongs to
the median series, and arises close to vein 4. The larvae, in the
majority of instances, are hairy caterpillars, usually transforming
in a loose cocoon, in the manufacture of which the hairy clothing
is used to eke out the scanty supply of silk. To facilitate this,
the hair is quite commonly barbed or branched, so that it felts
easily.

The Nycteolidae are small moths that are usually puzzles to the

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amateur. They have the wing form of Tortricids, and much of
their habital appearance, but have the venation above described.
Unlike all the other Arctids, however, the internal vein of the
primaries is forked at the base. That is to say, two parallel veins
start at the base and unite a short distance beyond into the nor-
mal single vein. The ocelli are present. We have as yet but
two genera with three species described from our fauna, and of
these Sarrothripa lintncriana is the common eastern species.

The Pericopidae are very uncertainly separated from the Arc-
tiidas. In venation they differ chiefly in that veins 3 and 4, and
7 and 8, of the secondaries are stalked; that is, a single vein only
starts at the point of origin, and this divides on its way to the
outer margin. The species are often rather frail and long-winged,
and have been compared to the Heliconinse of the diurnal Le-
pidoptera. Some of the species, American and foreign, which
were formerly referred here, have been of late proved to be
Geometridae!

The Lithosiidae differ from the Arctiidae by the absence of ocelli,
but agree with them in almost all other structural characters. In
the typical genus the primaries are narrow and elongate, while
the secondaries are broad and proportionately large, but in our
American forms we have all gradations from this to a really geo-
metriform wing. It may not be amiss to say that here, too, an
interesting amount of uncertainty exists — whether some species
are not Geometridae rather than Lithosiidse. Some of the spe-
cies resemble Noctuidae, and others are sometimes mistaken for
micro-lepidoptera. A reference to the venation will, in most
cases, settle the question at once. There is a tendency in this
family towards a loss of some of the veins of the secondaries,
indicating an approach to the Syntomidae, already treated.

The Arctiidae differ from the Lithosiidae by the presence of
ocelli. They are larger, as a rule, but sometimes with very
similar wing form. Indeed, almost any desired variety of wing
form can be found in this family, which, by its bright and often
strongly contrasting colors, is one of the most attractive to col-
lectors. Two subfamilies are indicated in the American fauna:
the Cydosiinae, which have a roughened or tuberculate front, and
the Arctimae, in which the head is normal, not rough or tuber-
culate. In many of the species in this family there is a tendency
to a reduction in the spurs of the hind tibke, and irdjuently one
of the pairs is wanting.

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In volumes xxi and xxii of the " Canadian Entomologist," will
be found an annotated catalogue of the Arctiidae, in which the
genera are described in some detail and the venation of the lead-
ing types is figured, and to this I would refer the student for
further information concerning this family.

o

STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN MEMBRACID/E, II.

By F. W. CODING, M.D., Ph.D.

PUBLILIA Stal.

Publilia bicinctura n. sp. — Similar to modestns Uhler; more depressed
and slender, with t\vo diagonal white bands. Head broadly oval, un-
equal, blackish brown, with three smooth, slightly elevated, light spots,
arranged in a triangle; eyes black; prothorax light green, with two whitish
bands, the first originating near middle of inferior border passes diago-
nally forward and upward, crossing the median carina in the sulcus, the
second starting about midway between the first and the apex parallel to
it; both are narrowly bordered with dark brown, and several longitudinal
lines of the same color mark the surface posterior to the first band; apex
more attenuated than in its congeners; base of prothorax with .a short,
impressed, black line above each eye; tegmina clear, veins white; below
piceous, upper surface of femora black. Legs otherwise light brown.
Abdomen dark brown. Length 5 mm.

Described from two males and two females. Collected by Prof.
Gillette in June and August, on Glycyrrhiza lepidota.

Hab. — Fort Collins, Colorado.

One example had the bands obsolete, and two had the dorsum
largely ferruginous (types in coll. F. W. G.).

STICTOCEPHALA Stal.

Stictocephala gillettei Godg. $. — Differs from $ as follows: impressed
lateral line extends from base of tegmina to apex of thorax; lateral
carinas meet at about the middle, and apex is less curved. Head grass-
green, surface unequal; prothorax clouded with yellow; tegmina trans-
parent with a tinge of green, and densely punctured; chest .very pale
green; femora yellow, covered with hairs; tibia; marked with brown, tarsi
light brown.

Collected by Prof. Gillette at Trinidad, Col., May 14, 1892.

HELIRIA Stal.

Heliria scalaris Fin. rf. — Castaneous, speckled with yellow. Head
yellow, mottled with castaneous, very broad between eyes, which are
black, ocelli nearer each other than the eyes; prothorax castaneous, mot-
tled with yellow, anteriorly with the yellow predominating, densely punc-

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tured; median carina prominent, mostly shining black; crest compressed
vertically just behind middle; above each eye a black impressed dot; a
yellow stripe along posterior edge of crest halfway to apex; sides poste-
riorly with several longitudinal carina; ; about middle of lateral borders a
dark brown spot surrounded by a yellow ring; lateral angles produced;
tegmina vitreous, punctured, veins piceous, base with piceous spot and
posterior fourth nearly black; chest yellow, marked with piceous, hairy.
Abdomen black, posterior edges of segments yellow, last segment brown.
Legs testaceous, mottled with brown, tibia.- triquetrous and spined, tips
of tarsi piceous. Length 8 mm.; width between lateral angles 4 mm.;
altitude 5 mm.

Had. — Fort Collins, Col. Described from a $ taken by Prof.

Gillette, July 4, 1892.

STICTOPELTA Stal.

Stictopelta marmorata 9> n. sp. — Form similar to nova; castaneous,
mottled with yellow, the latter color predominating in anterior part. Head
yellow, nearly quadrangular, a semi-circular line around apex, a spot con-
tiguous to each ocellus, and a spot between these and each eye, dark
brown; eyes very dark green, surrounded by a yellow ring; prothorax
castaneous, mottled with yellow, darkest posteriorly; at the base, above
each eye, is a shining, irregular, impressed scar; lateral borders white,
this color extending from above base of tegmina nearly to apex, the tip
of which is black; punctured lightly throughout; tegmina vitreous yellow,
veins of corium piceous, apex lightly clouded; chest and abdomen yellow,
ovipositor castaneous; femora yellow, tibia; same color, outer surface
brown, except the anterior pair; tarsi yellow, tips darker. Length 9 mm. ;
width 4 mm.; altitude 3 mm.

Described from one 9 collected by Prof. C. H. T. Townsend.

Hab. — New Mexico.

Subfamily CENTROTINJE Stal.

Centrodontus n. gen. — Head broad, short, almost spindle shaped, eyes
large, globular; prothorax superiorly developed into a rounded gibbosity,
lateral angles with a rounded tubercle, but destitute of horns; median
carina percurrent; posterior prothoracic process extends beyond scutel-
luni, which is bidentate at extremity, the process lying between these
teeth; it is straight, long, narrow, sides nearly parallel, sometimes sinuate
superiorly. Abdomen long, spindle shaped, reaching nearly to apex <>f
tegmina; tegmina opaque, convex externally, when closed forming a con-
cavity enclosing the abdomen; veins very prominent, the usual venation
being interfered with by numerous irregular venules cutting up the regular
cells; claws gradually attenuated to apex. U'ings with three apical cells.
Legs simple, posterior trochanters unarmed, feet simple.

Type of genus Gargara atlas Godg. , described in ENT. NE\VS,
vol. iii, p. no.

I am not acquainted with Signoret's Gargara variegata from
Calabar, but judging from the description it may belong to this
genus.

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NOTES ON THE ENTOMOLOGY OF COLORADO-I.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL.

Notwithstanding the large amount of descriptive matter in our
literature, relating to the insects of Colorado, the information
available about the distribution of the species is very slight. Un-
less one has visited the State, I suppose it must be difficult to
realize the enormous differences of country and climate, and cor-
respondingly different faunae, comprised within the boundaries
of Colorado. Until recently, at least, it seems to have been the
general opinion that to cite " Colorado" as the locality of a new
species was enough, and so lately as May of the present year I
find a new insect described with no better indication of the habitat,
although it was received from Prof. Gillette, who would presu-
mably have given the proper details for the asking. In the fol-
lowing notes I give, indeed, but scanty information about a tew
localities in the State; but such as it is, it may serve to indicate
some facts which could not be gleaned from what has hitherto
been published. I wish that others could be persuaded to follow
the same lines of investigation, so as to substitute a fairly com-
plete account for the present fragmentary records. For the iden-
tification of the insects referred to in this and future notes of the
series, I have been greatly indebted to Mr. Ashmead, Dr. J .
Hamilton, Prof. C. V. Riley, Mr. Hy. Edwards, Mr. W. H.
Edwards, Dr. Horn and the U. S. National Museum. Unless a
statement is made to the contrary, it is always to be understood
that the imago is referred to, as is usual. In addition to the lo-
cality and the date, I have found it an excellent plan, especially
if one has no aneroid, to note some of those forms of animal or
plant life in the locality, which indicate the climate and altitude.
Sometimes trees, etc., occur on mountain-sides in singularly well-
defined zones; thus coming down from the head of Surface Creek
to the Gunnison River, in Delta County, on the 5th of October,
1887, I noted the following zones :

(1) Zone of Spruce (Picea engelmanni Parry).

(2) Quaking Asp (Populus treinnloides Michx.).

(3) Oak Scrub (Quercus undulata Torr.).

(4) Cedars (Juniperus virginiiuia L.) and pifions (Pinus cdntis}.

(5) Sage brush (Artemisia).

(6) Greasewood (Chenopodiacecs).

I have nowhere else found the zones quite so well marked, or

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so easy to observe, but throughout the mountains they are to be
seen more or less clearly. In the fall, when the Spruce is green,
the Quaking Asp yellow, and the Oak Scrub red, very beautiful
effects are produced. In Custer County, I have found it conve-
nient to divide the fauna as follows :

(1) High-Alpine fauna, living from 10,000 feet upwards.

(2) Mid- Alpine " clown to 6500.

(3) Sub-Alpine 6,500 " the foothills.

These three faunae, as will be explained in detail in a paper now
preparing, are very different from one another. The terms may
be used also when referring to other counties, but it must always
be remembered that even between north and south Colorado there
is a difference in the faunae of a given altitude. Therefore, the
tree-zones are in some ways more useful than a statement of the
altitude. For detailed work, I divided Colorado into 78 counties
and vice-counties, included in nine river basins, of which four are
on the Atlantic, and five on the Pacific slope. Grand R. basin,
on the Pacific slope, includes seventeen of these divisions, viz. :
Saguache, N. W. ; Hinsdale, N. ; San Juan, N. ; Ouray; Mont-
rose, E. ; Gunnison, S. (S. of Gunnison R., Taylor R., Willow
Creek); Gunnison, N. ; Mesa, N. E. ; Delta; Pitkin; Eagle, S.
(S. of Eagle R.); Eagle, N. ; Summit, N. (N. of Little Snake R.,
Dillon, Canon Creek); Summit, S. ; Garfield, S. ; Routt, S. E. ;

Grand, S.

SAGUACHE, N. W.

This is a triangular piece of country N. W. of the Cochetopa
Hills, upper mid-alpine in character. In the Summit Park region,
by the head of a tributary of Los Pinos Creek, Populus tremu-
loides and Achillea miUefolium were noted. This was on October
1 3th, and the only insect recorded was a red Chironomus larva,
similar to those found in England. The next day there was a

snow-storm.

MONTROSE, E.

Contains low sub-alpine and mid-alpine districts, with great
differences of climate. In 1887 I traveled from the Gunnison
River via Montrose to Cimarron. The Uncompaghre Valley,
north of Montrose, is a great barren plain, consisting of dried
mud, baked and cracked in the sun; with scattered and solitary
Chenopodiaceae and such plants, and stunted cacti. On« October
6th a strong breeze was blowing, and the scanty vegetation \\.i-

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•covered with dust. The heat was very great, so that one looked
with some longing at the perpetual snow on the distant mountains.
Two days after, traveling up Cedar Creek from Montrose, rain
•came on, and the abundant sticky mud of the roads made it nearly
impossible to proceed. Although the temperature was not down
to freezing point, I do not think I ever suffered so much from the
cold as on this journey. Early next morning numbers of robins
(Memla migratorid) passed on their migration to warmer regions.
Below Montrose, Malvastriim coccineum was noted. This malva-
ceous plant is easily recognized, and is useful for indicating the
kind of locality. It occurs on dry, open ground, up to about
8000 feet, or sometimes rather higher, belonging to the sub-alpine
and lower, mid-alpine regions. On Cedar Creek, October gth.
species of Colias, Coccinella, Vespa and Lutilia were noted.

At Cimarron (6906 feet) I found a Geophilus, and also a new
ichneumonid, since described by Mr. Ashmead as Thersilochus
montanus. In the same neighborhood three beetles were obtained,
afterwards identified as Harpalus amputatus Say, Pterostichus
longulus Lee. and Amara remotestriata Dej. These three are all
found also in the mid-alpine zone of Custer County.

GUNNISON, S.

Mid-Alpine, with some pretty and little-settled country. There
is a pine wood between Allen and Powderhorn, which is rather
unusual, firs being the dominant conifers in Colorado. Judging
from the distribution of the two genera Abies and Pinus, it seems
as if the former were ousting the latter; so we get, as in Custer
County, Pinus ponderosa chiefly fringing the Spruce forests at
their lower limit; and at and near timber-line a high-alpine Pinus
of a different species, maintaining a somewhat precarious exist-
ence. When the pines were dominant, they seem to have gone
a little higher than the firs, and hence the finding of logs and roots
a little above the present timber-line. If this view is correct, it
cannot be doubted that these changes have affected the insect
fauna. The insects taken or noticed were Bembidium indistinctum
Dej. and Lucilia sp. by Little Blue Creek; Vespa sp. on the East
Twin Mesa; and PlerosHchus luczofti'De}., the locality not exactly
noted. A Geophilus was also found.

It will very likely be objected that the above notes are hardly
entomological at all, and I send the paper with some fear lest it

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should go into the editorial \vaste-paper basket on that account.
But my defence is this: though we may interest ourselves in
beetles or moths, or even in a single genus only, nature is a whole,
of which every part depends, more or less, on every other. In.
Entomology, the study of environments is scarcely begun in any-
serious fashion, but yet we may well believe that it will lead to a
better understanding of the reason of things. than almost any other
method of research. Future papers of this series will deal with
other counties in which more insects were obtained.

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WITH this number of the NEWS we have inaugurated a new department;
that of Economic Entomology. We were fortunate in securing the ser-
vices of Prof. John B. Smith to take charge of it as editor, and the NEWS
and its subscribers are to be congratulated. Prof. Smith, as late curator
of the Department of Entomology of the United States National Museum
and at present State Entomologist of New Jersey, has had a ripe expe-
rience in this branch of Entomology, and we confidently predict this, our
new departure, will become one of the most interesting features of the
journal. Economic Entomology is growing in importance every day, and
no one can fail to see its great usefulness, and while much has already
been accomplished, we predict a great future for this part of our study.
Prof. Smith, in his preliminary remarks, maps out the scope of the de-
partment, and what will follow each month cannot fail to be interesting,,
instructive and useful to all our readers, but more especially those in any
way interested in agriculture or horticulture.

An Atchinson (Kan.) woman has brought up her chickens on the bugs-
collected from the machinery at the electric light station every morning.

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Edited by Prof. JOHN*B. SMITH, Sc. D-, New Brunswick, N. J.

IT is the intention of the editor of this department to keep the readers
,of the NEWS informed of the main lines of work done and results ob-
tained by the economic entomologists, as evidenced in the Bulletins and
Reports received. It is also desired to make it a means for the commu-
nication of new results attained by workers, which can be given here in
brief, in advance of the more detailed accounts in the Experiment Station
publications. The object is to give results or abstracts, rather than de-
tailed accounts of experiments, and co-operation is invited, to aid in
making this feature not the least valuable part of the NEWS.

The "Horn Fly," Htzmatobia serrata, is still spreading, and has cov-
ered a vast new territory during the past year. It now extends from
Florida to Canada, and westward nearly to the Mississippi, causing alarm
wherever it makes its appearance. There are none of the sensational
accounts so common when it first appeared, but the facts are sufficiently
bad. One curious, and somewhat encouraging fact is, that in New Jersey,
which was one of the first, if not the first State invaded, the pest has very
•decidedly decreased in numbers, and is very seldom complained of. It
seems now no more abundant than the common native cow-fly, Stomoxys
<calcitranst and, indeed, in some of the localities most infested two years ago,
5s now scarcely noticed. There has also been a decided change in habit in
New Jersey. That peculiarity which induced the common name " Horn
Fly," has almost entirely disappeared. Nowhere did I observe any clus-
tering about the base of the horns during the present season, and none
of the farmers have noticed it. They now frequent the flank or the
^shoulder in company with Stotnoxys. As to remedies, little that is new
has been discovered. Spraying the cattle with the kerosene emulsion
has proved very successful in some hands, while fish oil with an admix-
ture of carbolic acid is a favorite with others. Spreading the droppings
in the pasture every two or three days makes a cheap and certain way of
preventing the larvse from attaining maturity. In the stable, the drop-
pings may be mixed with land plaster to absorb the liquid and make the
mass too dry to serve as food for the maggots.

Among the imported pests, Zen-era pyrina is causing great injury in
Central Park, New York. Mr. E. B. Southwick exhibited, at Rochester,
some very interesting specimens of the injury caused by this larva: trunks
and branches of considerable size being completely girdled. Like so
many introduced species, it is fur more injurious in its new home, than it
«ver was in its own country, and the very great number of species of
trees and shrubs attacked, makes it particularly obnoxious in a large park
which depends so much for its beauty and attractiveness upon the variety
of vegetation contained. No very effective means of combating this
insect have been discovered as yet.

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As an example of a slowly spreading insect, Crioceris iz-punctatiis L.
may be cited. It has been known from the vicinity of Baltimore for many
years, but has been found for the first time in New Jersey during the
present season. Curiously enough, I found it on volunteer asparagus
only, though cultivated beds were just across the fence. It has never
been as troublesome as its congener, C. asparagi, and is fully as pretty a
beetle. This C. asparagi, by-the-bye, is fairly well controlled now-a-days
by growers in New Jersey; they either cut all the shoots in the bed, forcing
the beetles to oviposit on the heads which are sent to market, or the poorer
shoots are allowed to grow until they become covered with eggs. They
are then cut and destroyed, and in this easy manner the first brood of
larva is reduced to a minimum. If farmers could be induced to destroy
the volunteer asparagus growing along the road and in fence corners, the
practice would be still more effective, but as it is, hundreds of eggs are
allowed to develop in these neglected places and the new beetles find
their way to the cultivated plants after the cutting season is over.

Farm practice to prevent insect injury is bound to become a subject of
great importance in the near future. Poisons and insecticides generally,
will always have a large field of usefulness, but we can often control in-
sects easily and cheaply by taking advantage of some peculiarity of habit.
I have called attention to some of the possibilities of this method in
Bulletin No. 85 of the New Jersey Station, and further observations bring
new applications of the principle. In Bulletin No. 21 of the Mississippi
Experiment Station, Mr. H. E. Weed gives an account of the insects in-
jurious to cabbage. All of the species treated are well known, and have
been frequently written up, but the new and valuable facts are in the ac-
count of the "Harlequin Cabbage Bug," Murgantia histrionica. Mr.
Weed has found that the hibernating bugs are especially fond of radish
.and mustard plants, and that they feed and oviposit on these in preference
to the cabbage. By planting trap rows of mustard or radish in the cab-
bage fields the bugs are induced to congregate on them, and there they
can be easily collected and destroyed, or kerosene can be used as a spray,
thus destroying the insects. Kerosene when diluted so as to be safe for
use on. cabbage, is ineffective as against the adult bugs and their destruc-
tion on cabbage is thus out of question. The mustard or radish would be
planted merely to be sacrificed in destroying the insects. In New Jersey
the wild Cruciferae are an important element in the life of our most serious
cabbage pest — Pieris rapce. It is upon these that the few spring butter-
flies lay their eggs, and upon these the larvae develop before the cabbages
are in condition to afford food for them. A conscientious early destruction
of cruciferous weeds, would very materially lessen injury from " cabbage
worms" later in the season.

Dr. E. W. Doran has a Bulletin on "Wheat Insects," No. 16 of the
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. The insects treated are those
that affect the stored grain, and the most important of them is the " An-
gumois Grain Moth." Geleclria ccrcallcla Oliv. Dr. Doran made a num-

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her of experiments for the purpose of determining the degree of heat and
length of the time necessary to destroy the insects, but obtained negative
results only. Unfortunately, he does not seem to have tried duplicating
the results obtained by Mr. F. M. Webster, which are referred to in the
account. Naphthaline has proved satisfactory on experiment, and Dr.
Doran recommends its use in bins of stored grain as a repellant. He says
it also kills the moths in an air-tight vessel, but says nothing of its effects
on the larva?. A rather curious and interesting note is found in the ac-
count of the " Red Grain Beetle," Si/vaims cassia?. Not only were the
insects excessively numerous in a bin of wheat middlings, but in that part
in which they were most numerous the temperature of the material rose
at one time to 95° F., a difference of 53° as compared with the temperature
of the room and of other less infested parts of the grain.

Concerning the Carbon disulphide, a little experience of my own may
prove of some interest. In the little patch of sod constituting my " front
yard," a colony of large black ants had established themselves, and this
year their nest or hill became too conspicuous to suit my views. The disc
of loose soil was nearly two feet in diameter, while openings were found
six inches to each side of that, making the space covered about three feet
in diameter. On this space the grass began to die, and the great number
of insects became annoying. To get rid of them I used a one pound
bottle of Carbon disulphide, simply pouring it into the holes and then
treading down the soil over the space occupied. I expected that, as a
matter of course, the grass roots would be destroyed by this treatment,
and that I would be compelled to re-sod. As against the ants, the sub-
stance was completely effective, no further trace of them being observed;
but instead of losing my grass, it took a new start, growing rank and
vigorous, and, while all around it was dry and parched by drought, this
little patch remained bright and green, growing vigorously! It may be
that the liquid sank into the loose soil so rapidly and deeply that the grass
roots were not affected, and that the looseness of the soil proved an ad-
vantage to the grass on it, enabling it to better resist the dry weather; but
whatever the explanation, such were the facts.

In Volume I, No. i, p. 39, of the Kansas University Quarterly, Mr. Y.
L. Kellogg describes the early stages of Melitara dentata Grt. bred from
the leaves of the prickly pear cactus, Opuntia niissoiiricnsis in Colorado,
and finds the habits of the species very like those of M.prodenialis \Ylk.
described by Dr. Riley and myself. Among other matters he gives a de-
scription of the egg, which is said to be creamy-white in color; but he does
not say where the eggs were found, nor how they are laid. Mr. H. G.
Hubbard, in the course of a conversation in which the eastern species
was mentioned, informed me that he has observed the eggs, and that they
are set, one on top of the other, in such a way as to resemble exactly one
of the spines or prickles of the plant. This is quite a remarkable instance
of mimicry; the more as it is not the egg itself which is mimetic, but rather
the arrangement by the parent moth, in which the individual appearance
of the ova is lost in the impression created by the mass. It is quite prob-
able that the western species will be found to have similar habits.

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Dr. R. OTTOLENGUI, of New York, had a very successful collecting
trip to Mt. Washington, N. H.

Mrs. A. T. SLOSSON has, as usual, been collecting among the Northern
Hills, at Franconia Notch, N. H.

Mr. PHILIP LAURENT and Dr. Henry Skinner spent two weeks collecting
in Mitchell County, North Carolina.

Mr. I. C. MARTINDALE has recently been elected a member of the En-'
tomological Society " Iris" in Dresden.

Mr. FRANK M. JONES, of Wilmington, Del., spent two weeks collecting
in Richmond County, southern North Carolina.

WE have learned that Dr. H. Strecker, of Reading, has entirely rear-
ranged his immense collection of Lepidoptera, and that it is now some-
thing magnificent.

Mr. PHILIP NELL and Mr. C. W. Johnson have been trying to make in-
sects scarce in southern New Jersey. Mr. Nell discovered a very inter-
esting locality for Pa>nf>hi/us Iconardus at Atco, where the species was
found in abundance.

HAVING read the article in the April number of the NEWS on peach yel-
lows and rosette, by W. H. Patton, I would like to ask if this gentleman
is correct, why is the government at Washington spending so much time
and money in trying to find the cause of peach yellows, as well as a
remedy? It seems to me the above article should be corrected in order
to avoid mistakes, or else the government ought to be notified of this
great discovery. — G. R. PILATE, Griffin, Ga.

SOME time ago I read an account of the different classes of insects rep-
resenting the different kind of governments, \\/..: Ants representing
Democratic or Republican; Bees, the Monarchial; and Butterllies the
Anarchistic, etc., with the different explanations. Could you please let
me know or publish where I could have seen it? — EUGICNE R. FISCHKK,
No. 2707 Winnebago St., St. Louis, Mo.

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2IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

WE know of no such article. If any reader of the NEWS can supply
the information Mr. Fischer desires, no doubt he would be grateful. — ED.

ON July 3, 1892, the Entomological Society of Belgium tendered a ban-
quet to the veteran entomologist, the Baron Edmond de Selys-Long-
champs, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of
" La Faune de la Belgique," to which M. de Selys had contributed. M.
Giron delivered a congratulatory address to the honored guest, referring
to the chief events, scientific and political, of the latter's life. Baron de
Selys is one of the oldest of living entomologists, having been born in
I'aris, May 25, 1813. The long and continuous list of his entomological
publications begins with 1831, and extends into the present year.

THE steamer " Kite" (September igth) is on its way from Greenland to
Philadelphia, bringing the members of the Peary Expedition and also the
Academy Relief Expedition. It is stated that rich collections have been
made of the flora, fauna and ethnology of North Greenland. It made
almost a complete collection of water and land mammals, both in skins
and skeletons; a large variety of birds and submarine animal life, a rare
collection of flowering plants, mosses, lichens and insects, and of eth-
nological specimens. These collections become the property of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the Entomological
Section will come into possession of the insects.

IN the preface to the just published first volume of his Catalogue of
Lepidoptera-Heterocera, referred to in our Literature Department, Mr.
\V. F. Kirby says: "The MS. of the whole of the remainder of the pres-
ent work has been in an advanced state for some years, and it is proposed
to issue it as follows: ' Vol. I. Sphinges and Bombyces (now published);
Vol. II. Noctuae; Vol. III. Geometrae and Pyrales; Vol. IV. Micro-Le-
pidoptera; Vol. V. Appendix, to date, and complete indices of both
generic and specific names to the whole. The first four volumes will con-
tain only an Index of Genera. It is perhaps only right to add that the
possibility of completing the work must in part depend on the support
accorded by entomologists to the successive volumes as they appear.' '
The evident value of such catalogues will undoubtedly influence American
entomologists to contribute their share of that support to which Mr. Kirby
refers.

CHOLERA AND FLIES. — It may not be amiss to call the attention of the
public to the great danger from house flies as agents in spreading the con-
tagion should there be an epidemic of cholera. I have repeatedly ob-
served that these insects will ride for a number of miles on street cars,
and doubtless also upon other vehicles of transit, such as railway coaches,
etc., though I have never made observations upon any conveyances but
the ordinary tram or horse car. Suppose a case: imagine a cholera vic-
tim upon the street or anywhere else vomiting; the Hies present are at-
tracted and drink until sated, and have their feet and mouth parts wilted
with tlie vomit containing the germs. They then, perhaps, lly out into
the street, take a place on a horse car, ride several miles, dismount, fly

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into another house, where the family are at dinner, and contaminate the
food set before them with the germs of the cholera carried on the mouth
parts and feet of the insects. Some of the family sicken and die, yet no
one of them will ever, perhaps, suspect that the Hies may have carried the
germs, as supposed above, for miles from some other case. The safe-
guards are to at once clear away, disinfect with corrosive sublimate solu-
tion and scald the spots where the vomit has been thrown, and to be
vigilant in the use of fly-screens, fly-traps, etc. During the late war the
late Professor Leidy pointed out, with beneficent results, that the common
house-fly was instrumental in spreading the contagion of hospital gan-
grene. Why not beware of this imprudent and ubiquitous little dipter in
carrying and spreading the contagion of the dreaded Asiatic plague now
menacing us? — JOHN A. RYDER, /';/ Public Ledger.

GUNNING FOR BUTTERFLIES. — All, no doubt, are familiar with the usual
methods and paraphernalia wherewith butterflies are captured and pre-
served; the man with the gauxe net, poison bottle, cork-lined box, folded
paper envelopes, wire pins and sundries ad libitum, long ago ceased to be
a curiosity in civilized lands. Hut there are some unusual methods and
implements, a description of which will be likely to prove of interest.
Prominent among them is gunning for butterflies, an expedient that is
most useful where tropic vegetation induces high flight, and renders by
means of its density all chance for pursuit impossible. For this a small
bore gun or rifle is best, and dust-shot, such as is used by the humming-
bird hunters on the Amazon, or a water load is best. Any shot coarser
than dust-shot will prove too heavy and will ruin the specimen for sale by
tearing the wings. A gun that will scatter the dust widely should be se-
lected, and even then a few shot bunched may tear off a head or an ah
domen and ruin the prize. My own preference is for a rifle firing a 32-
calibre, long cartridge, loaded with water. These cartridges can be
obtained with an extra heavy charge of powder and without the ball in
them. Before loading they should be smeared inside with melted paraf-
fine applied with a camel's-hair brush; this prevents the water load from
moistening the powder. Hut even with this precaution it is best to load
only so many shells as are likely to be used during the day, and the water
should be emptied from those that are left over at night. After filling die
shell with water up to within a thirty-second of an inch from the rim, a
tight-fitting, oiled wad can be forced down and a light coat of parallme
be applied on top with the brush. I have tried water thickened with
starch, with gum arabic, and with gum tragacanth, but I have never been
able to see that anything has been gained by thus rendering the charm-
somewhat more self-adherent. The water load is much more sure to
bring yonr prize " to grass," and is not nearly so liable to tear and denude
the wings. The dust-shot will often cause ;i large specimen to deflect its
course, and by unmistakable signs show that it has been hit, yet will not
bring it down. — (,'i>/i////?i'i!//,-'s Geographical Magazine.

212 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Entomological Literature.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER, No. 394. — On the larva of Lagoa, a Bom-
bycine caterpillar with seven pairs of abdominal legs; with notes on its
metameric glandular abdominal processes, Alpheus S. Packard. On
ants in thorns of African Acacias, Prof. E. Emery.

REVUE BIOLOGIQUE DU NORD DE LA FRANCE, 46 An. No. 10, July, 1892.
—Memoir on some Acarina and T/iysanura, parasites or mess-mates of
ants, R. Moniez.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, July, 1892. — Notes on Coleoptera, John
Hamilton. A new species of Eiidainus H. Skinner. Notes on North
American Tachinida?, with descriptions of new genera and species, C. H.
T. Townsend. Insects attracted by fragrance or brilliancy of flowers for
cross-fertilization, R. E. Kunze. New North American Microlepicloptera,
C. H. Fernald. New forms of Ichthyura, H. G. Dyar. — August, 1892.
The first or post-embryonic stage of the pea and bean weevils, C. V.
Riley. Some notes on the margined soldier beetle {Chauliognathns
marginatus], C. Y. Riley. The species of Mamestra, A. R. Grote. Mr.
Walker's types, A. R. Grote. Ovipositing of Melitea chalcedon in paper
envelopes, R. E. Kunze, M.D. Lepidoptera from Marshall Pass, Colo-
rado, T. D. A. Cockerell. Biologic notes on New Mexico insects, C. H.
T. Townsend. A list of the butterflies found at Marshall, Mo., and vi-
cinity, Owen J. Staley. — September. Presidential address, Entomological
Club, A. A. A. S., E. A. Schwarz. Some beautiful new Bombycids from
the west and northwest, B. Neumoegen. Preparatory stages of Catocala
stretchii Behr., G. H. French. Synopsis of the North American species
of Asfafus, W. J. Fox.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1892,
Pt. 2.— Additions" to the Longicornia of Mexico and Central America,
with remarks on some of the previously recorded species, by the late H.
W. Bates (74 n. sp. and 6 new genera).

NEW MEXICO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin No. 7,
1892.— Scale insects in New Mexico, C. H. T. Townsend.

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THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY, I, i, 1892. — Notes and descrip-
tions of Syrphidte. W. A. Snow. Notes on Melitera dcntata (irt., \ . L.
Kellogg. Diptera Brasiliana, pt. 2, S. \V. Williston.

SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXPERIMENT STATION, Bul-
letin No. 30.— Parasites of the large willow saw-fly; bee keeping; soap-
suds for cabbage lice, I. H. Orcutt, J. M. Aldrich.

MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION Bulletin No. 16.—
Insects injurious to the grain of wheat, E. W. Doran.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON,
vol. ii, No. 2. — The insect collections in the Berlin Museum. Notes on
the genus Melittobia, W. H. Ashmead. Mimicry in spiders. A new
genus of Phalangiidaj. On Prodidomus rufus Hentz, Nathan Banks.
Notes on the food habits of some species of Chrysomelidae, F. H. Cliit-
tenden. The ravages of Liparis monacha in Germany, and means of
defense and results of work against Liparis monacha in Europe, B. E.
Fernow. A list of spiders from Indiana, W. H. Fox. Note on the food-
plants of some Capsidse from vicinity of Washington, D. C., Otto Heide-
mann. Appearance of mealy bugs parasitized by Lep/ontastix. Habits
of Melittobia, L. O. Howard. A study of the ovipositor in Hymen* >p-
tera, C. L. Marlatt. A list of the Arancea of the District of Columbia.
A contribution to the study of the spider fauna of the Arctic regions.
Notes on the classification of the Ixodida?. Contributions to the know-
ledge of the life-history of Arachnida, Geo. Marx. Peculiar habits of
Ammophila gryphus Sm., T. Pergande. Notes on Leina Sayi, W. D.
Richardson. Note on the life-habits of Megilla maculafa. On the larva
and some peculiarities of the cocoon of Sphcciits spcciosus, Mexican
jumping bean. On the insects affecting the Agave. A probable micro-
gaster parasite of Eleodes in the imago state. • Our American ox warbles.
Further note on Carpocapsa saltitans and on a new (,'rapho/i/ha pro-
ducing jumping beans. Fig insects in Mexico, C. V. Riley. Note on
l\vfohins. A correction. Food habits of Hallicini. Yerdigris in Co-
leoptera. Time of flight in Lachnosterna, E. A. Schwarz.

INSECT LIFE, Washington, D. C., vol. iv, Nos. 9 and 10. — Pea and bean
weevils. The ox bot in the United States, C. Y. Riley. Ravages of tin-
leopard moth in Brooklyn, Nicholas Pike. How far do bees fly?, Frank
Benton. Note on the water bug found by Rev. J. L. Zabriskie, E. Berg-
roth. Early published references to some of our injurious insects, F. M.
Webster. Strange developments of Stomata on Carya alba caused by
Phylloxera, D. A. Owen. — n and 12, August, 1892. — Some interrelations
of plants and insects, C. Y. Riley, figs. A new Iccrya parasite, L. ( ).
1 1 o ward. The West Indian rufous scale (Aspidiotns art icn/a tits Morgan),
T. D. A. Cockerell. Life-history of Ca/0/hysanis ainatinaria \Yalk., a
Geometric! moth, A. S. Packard. Steps towards a revision of Chambers'
Index, with notes and descriptions of new species, Lord Walsingham.
Notes on Lachnostcnm, G. H. Perkins.

214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, August, 1892.— On the identification of AUacns
atlas Linn, and its allies, with remarks on some other species of the genus,
W. F. Kirby. Notes on the synonymy of Noctuid moths, A. G. Butler.

DIRECTIONS for collecting and preserving insects, C. V. Riley. being
part of Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 39, pp. 149, illustrated.

JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 24, 149-50. — Catalogue of the de-
scribed Hemiptera-Heteroptera and Homoptera of Ceylon, W. F. Kirby.

REVISION of the genus Cucullia; Revision of the Dicopinse; Revision
of Xylomiges and Mbrrisonia, John B.. Smith, in Proc. U. S. National
Museum, vol. xv, pp. 33-86.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, August, 1892.— Protective resemblance,
W. Farren. Fecundity of Spi/osotna lubricipeda, Geo. Hollis. The ova
state of Geometrae, C. Fenn.

LIST of types of some species of Lepidoptera, described by Grote and
Robinson, in the American Museum of Natural History, \Ym. Beuten-
miiller. Ext. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.

NOTES on the Transformations of some species of Lepidoptera, Henry
Edwards and S. Lowell Elliott; edited with additions, by Win. Beuten-
miiller. Ext. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.

SOME notes on transformations of Australian Lepidoptera made by the
late Henry Edwards, with notes and additions, Wm. Beutenmiiller. Kxt.
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.

ON the earlier stages of some species of North American moths, \Y.
Beutenmuller. Ext. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, Part 102, May, 1892. — Arachnida
Araneidea, O. P. Cambridge, pp. 97-104. Coleoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, G.
C. Champion, pp. 393-400, pi. 18; vol. vii, H. S. Gorham, pp. 169-176.
Lepidoptera-Heterocera: vol. ii, H. Druce, pp. 25-48, pi. 44. Diptera:
vol. iii, S. W. Williston, pp. 73-89, pi. 2. — Pt. 103, July, 1892. Lepidop-
tera Heterocera, vol. ii, pp. 49-96, pis. xlv-xlviii, H. Druce.

OTTAWA NATURALIST, vol. vi, No. 4. — The fall web worm (ffyphantria
ntnea), }. Fletcher.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, ix, 54.— Descriptions
of new genera and species of Pyralidu? contained in the British Museum
collection, W. Warren.

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA by F. Moore. Pt. 10. Continues Satyrina-; 7
colored plates.

A monograph of Oriental Cicadida? by W. L. Distant. Pt. 5, pp. 97-
120, 3 plates.*

REVISTA DEL MUSEO DE LA PLATA, ii, 1891. — Argentine Dipterology,*
F. L. Arribal/aga, pp. 135-172, 5 plates.

* Contains new species other than North American.

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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, August, 1892.—
Note on the process of oviposition as observed in a species of cattle tick,
R. T. Lewis, i pi.

BULLETINO DELLA SOCIETA ENTOMOLOGICA PfALIANA X.xiv, I, Florence,

June 30, 1892. — On glandular cells of post larval origin, E. Verson, i pi.
Researches on some sense organs in the antenna- of ants, G. Sergi.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHKICHTEN, Berlin, xviii, 12, June, 1892. — A
noteworthy case of mimicry, K. M. Heller. — 16, August, 1892. A fighting
and sociable male bee, C. Verhoeff.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, v, i (Lepidopterologisches
Heft), June, 1892. — On the family Siculida- Guetiee,* Dr. A. Pagenstecher,
i pi. New species and varieties of palsearctic Geometrida- from my col-
lection, Dr. O. Staudinger.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE IMPEKIALE DES NATURALISTES DE Moscou,
1891, 4; 1892. — Essay on a classification of the Sphegida- in the Linnean
sense, according to the structure of the copulatory armature, O. Radosz-
kovvski, 5 plates.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY,
Bulletin No. 20. — Reports of observations and experiments in the practical
work of the division, etc., Washington, 1892.

MK.MOIRES SCR LES LEPIDOPTERES, REDIGES par N. M. Romanoff,
Tome vi, pp. 700, 16 pi. col., St. Petersbourg, 1892.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xix,
No. 2, Philadelphia, 1892. — Notes on North American Tachinida?, sens,
sir., with descriptions of new genera and species, III, C. H. T. Towns-
end. Preliminary notes on some African Odonata,* P. P. Calvert.

TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE,
1891, xxiv, Wellington, May, 1892. — Further Coccid notes, with descrip-
tions of new species and remarks on Coccids from New Zealand, Australia
and elsewhere, W. M. Maskell, 13 plates. Catalogue of the described
species of New Zealand AraneicUe, A. T. LJrquhart.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT. ERLAMIK.N, September, 1892. — Contri-
butions to the biology of the Phryganeidee, Grafin Maria v. Linden.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTO.M<>I.<K;I<,H'E DE BELGIOUE, xxxvi, s,
Brussels, August 6, 1892. — A special form of temporary colonies of Coc-
cinella septempunctatdi V. Plateau. I'hytophaga of Chota Nagpore,* A.
Duvivier.

MKMOIRES (of the same).— I. Synonymical catalogue of the Bupivstid.r
described from 175810 1890, C. Kerremans, pp. 304.

ZOE, III, 2, San Francisco, (uly, 1892. — Notes on the Tenebrimmla1 ob-
served in San Diego County, F. E. Blaisdell. Insects affecting Yucca
blooms, C. H. T. Townsend.

* Contains new species other than North Aim-rican.

2l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

A Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (Moths), by W. F.
Kirby. Vol. i, Sphinges and Bombyces. London: Gurney & Jackson,
1892, pp. xii, 951. Containing the full synonymy of every species de-
scribed up to May, 1892, and a complete alphabetical index of genera.
Price, £2 2S. nett.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Cucullia similaris, C. obsciirior, C. dorsa/is, C. bisfriga, C. Cinderella,
Eiito/ype bonibyciformis, Copipanolis borcalis, C. fasciata, Xy/oini^es
peri/a/is, X. ochracca}. B. Smith, Proc. U. S. National Museum, vol. xv,
pp. 33-86.

Grapholitha sebastiaiiitz Riley, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, ii, 2, p. 214.

Etidamns coyote Skinner, Can. Ent. July, 1892, p. 164, Texas.

Ichthyura init/f/ioiiia, I. albosignia var. specified Dyar, Can. Ent. July,
1892, p. 179.

Hcliodincs tripunctella p. 384, H. sc.vpunctella, H. unipunctclla, Wal-
singham. Insect Life, iv, p. 385, 1892.

Aegeriarubristigma Kellicott, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 211, Ohio.

Bombycidas: Rlelia n. g. Neumoegen, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 225; J\I. danbyi
id., Brit. Col. Hyparpax venus, p. 226, Col. Notodonta descherei p.
227, Brit. Col. Halesidota sanguivenosa, p. 228, B. C.

New species of Heterocera from Mexico and Central America, Druce,
Biol. Cent. Am. Lepid.-Heter., ii, pp. 49-96.

HYMENOPTERA.

Cerchysius leery eg L. O. Howard, Insect Life, iv, ii and 12, p. 379, 1892.
Astatus pygidialis Fox, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 234, N. J., Tex.

ARANEINA.

Datamcs caspari Marx, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, ii, 2, p. 254, Mex.
Caddo n. g. Phalangidae. Caddo agilis Banks, Proc. Ent Soc. Wash.,
ii, 2, p. 249.

DIPTERA.

Calliccra uioittfnsis, Afclaiiostoina n. sp. ; Syrphus ntjicaiida, /!>a-
fliyopa cynaps Snow, Kansas University Quarterly, i, i, p. 34, 1892. Eight
new species of Conops Snow, Kansas Univ. (Juartvrly, i, i, p. 43.

New genera and species of Nortli American Tacliinida1, To\v:isend,
Can. Ent. July, 1892, p. 165.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for September, was mailed August ,;i, 1892.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. III.

PI. VIII.

PROTOPARCE 'SPHINX^ CINGULATA Fab.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. NOVEMBER, 1892. No. 9.

CONTENTS:

' Kunze — Larva hunting in Winter 217 i Townsend— The so-called Throat Bot... 227

Strecker— On Argynnis astarte 218 Editorial 228

Smith — Elementary Entomology 220 Economic Entomology 229

Skinner— A new Pamphila. 222 Notes and News 232

Ottolengui — Entomologizing on Mount Entomological Literature 235

Washington 223 Doings of Societies 239

Fox — Notes on Formicidae 226 j

OUR plate illustrates the larva, chrysalis and imago of Proto-
parce cingidata Fab. The original drawing was made from life
by the late T. R. Peale. This moth expands a little over four
inches. It is readily recognized by the lateral rows of dark pink
spots on the abdomen and the pink color on the inferior wings.

o

LARVA HUNTING IN WINTER.

By RICHARD E. KUNZE, M.D., New York.

(Continued from page 197, Vol. Ill, No. 8.)

February i4th had another larvae hunt in the Cat-tail Flags of
our suburbs on the Harlem River flats. Mr. J. Mohns accom-
panied me and about three dozen larvae were found. In some
stems of Typha latifolia we found both the empty pupa-case of
a brood, as well as the full grown larva of the second as I am led
to believe. In three or four different stems we found evidence
of such. In quite a number of instances found two larvae in one
stem. In the " American Naturalist" for 1883, tne statement is
made by Dr. C. V. Riley that there is one annual brood of Ar-
zama obliquata, whereas Dr. Kellicott found two such in one
season.

February 28th I went over to Long Island on a biting cold day
for the last hunt of the season. The ground of the swamp was

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frozen over solid in all but well-protected parts. Mr. L. Kohl
went with me, a staunch collector 'midst snow squalls, of which
we had several and equally tireless when surrounded by clouds
of mosquitoes. We found sixty larvae, of which we unconsciously
slaughtered about eighteen in the following manner. The spot
selected is very miry and surrounded by shrubbery, but inacces-
sible, except on coldest days of year. There we struck a bonanza.
We did not find many larvae above frost line, and I suggested to
my friend, who carried a mechanic's jack-knife, to cut reeds as
far as possible below frozen parts. By so doing we found many
more, but mutilated about every third larva discovered. There
was from three to five inches of frozen muck, through which we
could not cut, and in this layer of frigid soil found two-thirds of
all specimens. The stems were frozen solid below water-line and
a thin coating of ice surrounded the Winter quarters of the larvae.
The interstitial part of stalks below frost line surrounding galleries
was filled with icy particles and hard to cut. I found repeatedly
both larva? and empty pupa-cases in one and the same stem, thus
verifying Dr. Kellicott's statement that A. obliquata is double-
brooded.

At the end of the first week in May, some of these larvae trans-
formed into pupae; others had turned black in color previous to
such transformation. I kept each larva in a section of the Typha
stem, placed into a jar containing damp moss. A few that ven-
tured out of their Winter quarters and buried in the moss, died
during a cold snap subsequently. Of others I had on previous
occasions collected later in April, after cessation of heavy frosts,
none died with me, although the larvae were removed from the
stems when found and placed into damp moss until the last two
transformations were completed.

-o-

ON ARGYNNIS ASTARTE Doub.-Hew. AND OTHER MATTERS.

By Dr. HERMAN STRECKER, Reading, Pa.

Argynnis astarte Doub.-Hew. ("Genera Diurnal Lepidoptera,"
t. 23, fig. 5), which has only been known, since its discovery in
1848, by one of Lord Derby's collectors in British Columbia, by
the type in the British Museum, and the figure above cited, has
recently been rediscovered by Mr. Thomas E. Bean, who took

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 219

examples of both sexes in the Rocky Mountains on the Canadian
Paciric Railroad, in the Province of Alberta; from one of these,
a $ , Mr. W. H. Edwards described his Argynnis victoria in
"Can. Ent." vol. xxiii, p. 198.

The figure of Doub.-He\v. represents the upper side of -appar-
ently the 9 , and has been a puzzle to Lepidopterists as to what
it could be. It comes nearer to the European Hecate and /no,
though exceeding them in size, than to any American species.
The rediscovery of this remarkable insect is of the greatest in-
terest. Mr. Bean, to whom I am indebted for my example, states
that it is very rare, the Summer being so short in the region in
which it occurs that some seasons it does not appear at all, there
not being time sufficient, save under certain favorable circum-
stances, between the two Winters for it to develop and go
through all the stages.

The literature regarding astarte is meagre; there is no descrip-
tion in the " Gen. Diur. Lep." merely the figure.

In " Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil." i, p. 221, W. H. Edwards con-
founds it with a form or species later described by myself as Ar-
gynnis argt 'in " Syn. Cat. Macrolep." p. 114, No. 210.

In ' Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil." iii, p. 435, the same author in

'Notes on the Argynnides of California" has "No. 4. Arg.

astarte Doubleday. Egleis, Boisduval in lit. This species Dr.

Behr subsequently called Montivago, a name which he transfers

to the following:

I have the example "No. 4" which Dr. Behr sent me long
since, with the types of all his Argynnidse published in the "Jour,
of the Lye. Nat. Hist, of San Francisco," which is the original
of the description of Argynnis arge above alluded to.

In "Trans. Ent. Soc." London, 1889, part iv, pp. 535-575, is
" A Revision of the Genus Argynnis," by Henry J. Elwes, which
is the best thing by far yet published on the Argynnidae gener-
ally; the author states the type is in the British Museum, that it
was discovered many years ago in British Columbia, probably in
the Cascade Mountains, that it seems to have been overlooked
in both Strecker's and Edwards' Catalogues, probably because
the locality is incorrectly given in Kirby's as Jamaica; further,
that it is distinct from any North American specimens and most
nearly allied to Amphilochus.

Everything pertaining to the Argynnides is of interest, from

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an example of Argynnis hanningtoni, a species described by H.
J. Elwes in foregoing paper p. 558, from Mt. Kilimanjaro, East
Africa, I find it is closely allied to the Chilian Argynnis lathonioi-
des and modesta, and that its position in the general collection
would "doubtless be between those species and Argynnis lathonia,
the only European species to which it has any affinity.

Recently in ''Science" there appeared a few lines on the no-
menclature question, in which Prof. G. H. French upholds the
useing of a capital in commencing the specific name of an insect.
There is nothing particularly new in th^s course. Herbst and
Jablonsky adopted it in " Natursyst. der Insecten," 1783-1804;
Hiibner, in " Verz. bek. Schmett." 1816; Boisduval, in "Spec.
Gen. Lep." 1836; Horsfield, in " Descrip. Cat. Lep." 1828-29;
Hewitson, in " Exot. Butt." 1856-76; Trimen, in " Rhop. Air.
Austr. " 1862; the Felders in their various works, also Moschler,
Staudinger in his great classical work, the "Cat. Lep. Eur.
Faun."

From childhood I never dreamed of doing otherwise, and
always adhered to it in my writings when the "Lep. Rhop.-
Het. " and " Syn. Cat. Macrolep." were published. I was ad-
versely criticised on this point with few exceptions by the Amer-
ican lepidopterists, but later others have pursued the same course,
and it is becoming now as general in this country as it has long
been in Europe.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The Liparidae or Dasychirae, as they are called in Mr. Grote's
lists contain divergent material, our American forms considered.
Orgyia and Lagoa have venation of entirely different types and
must be separated into distinct families. Lagoa is very much
more nearly related to the Limacodidae than to Orgyia. Exclud-
ing Lagoa, and perhaps Carama, which I have not at hand for
examination at present, the Liparidoe contain broad winged forms
with retracted head, short palpi, rudimentary tongue and broadly
pectinated male antennas. In the primaries there is. one, in the

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secondaries there are two internal or free veins, not forked at
base; veins 3, 4 and 5, in both wings, are rather close together,
5 not nearly approaching the middle line between 4 and 6. In
all the specimens examined by me, there is a distinct accessory
cell in the primaries. In the genus Orgyia the female is wingless,
with feebly developed head and thorax, but enormously distended
abdomen. She never moves from the cocoon inclosing the pupa
from which she has emerged, and the eggs are laid in a white
mass on its surface. In the other American genera the females
have developed wings and are larger than the males. The cater-
pillar of O. Icucostigma, distressingly common in many eastern
cities, will serve as a fair type of the larva of this family, exclud-
ing, as before, Lagoa and its more immediate allies.

In Lagoa, for which Dr. Packard has suggested the term La-
goidce, we have, as has been indicated, an approach to the Li-
macodid, or more typical Bombyx type, whereas Orgyia ap-
proaches the Noctuidse very closely indeed — so closely that it
would be almost impossible to distinguish some broad winged
noctuids by venation alone. Lagoa has a much heavier body
with comparatively smaller wings than Orgyia; the vestiture is
more loose and divergent, and the species have a "fluffy" ap-
pearance. In the female there is a massive tuft of scaly hair at
the tip of the abdomen, giving it a swollen, obtuse appearance.
The primaries have one simple internal vein; 4 and 5 are rather
close together from the end of the median vein, and 6 is from the
middle of the cross-vein closing the cell. Numbers 7, 8 and 9
are from a single stalk arising with 10 from the end of the sub-
costal. The cross-vein closing the cell is inwardly angulated arid
sends in through it a very distinct fold, feebly dividing the cell.
The secondaries have two free internal veins; 4, 5, 6 and 7 are
from the end of the median cell, 4 and 7 at the lower and upper
angles; while 5 and 6 are from the cross-vein at nearly equal dis-
tances from each other and from 4 and 7 respectively. From
the middle of the cross- vein, a very distinct fold, rising to the
dignity of a feeble vein, runs inwardly, dividing the median cell.
There is no free costal vein, but just before the end of the cell
the subcostal sends off a branch — vein 8 — to the outer margin
before the apex.

The Limacodidae are moderate or small-sized forms, with
usually rather plump bodies, retracted head, obsolete tongue and

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lengthily pectinated male antennae. The ves'citure in the typical
genus is dense and hairy, rather than scaly, and the legs are also
very densely clothed. The primaries have two free internal
veins; 4 and 5 are rather close together from the end of the me-
dian; 6 is from near the middle of the cross- vein; 7, 8 and 9 are
stalked, and from the same point with 10, at the end of the sub-
costal. A very distinct fold divides the median cell. The sec-
ondaries have two fairly distinct free, internal veins, and often a
distinct additional fold. Vein 4 is from the end of the median
and 5 is from the cross-vein, about as far from 4 as the latter is
from 3; 6 and 7 are from a long stalk at the end of the subcostal,
the costal arising out of the latter some little distance from base.
A distinct fold divides the median cell.

The above description is drawn from a specimen of Parasa, and
applies in all essentials to Limacodes, Phobetron, fsa, Packardia,
and probably also to all the other genera referred to the family.
The characters are quite distinctive, and the family is as distinct
in its larval characteristics. Almost all collectors who have col-
lected caterpillars know the odd shaped, slug-like larvae of the
Limacodidae, and if they have handled them with any freedom
they have discovered in many of them very decided urticating
properties. Most of these larvae have no very distinct abdominal
or prolegs, using the whole of the ventral surface for purposes
of locomotion. They make a very dense, oval, or sometimes
nearly globular, parchment-like cocoon, in which the larva usually
rests without change through the Winter, pupating shortly before
emerging as an adult in Summer.

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A NEW PAMPHILA.

By HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Phila., Pa.

Pamphila Carolina n. sp. — Male expands one inch. Upper side: Supe-
riors fuscous, with three small subapical yellow spots, the uppermost one
is very small in comparison with the other two. There are two yellow
spots about the middle of the cell, which are almost coalesced. There is
a row of four yellow spots extending across the wing from about its mid-
dle nearly to the interior margin. The inner third of the wing to the base
is dusted with yellow scales. Inferiors immaculate (two specimens have
traces of yellow spots). Underside: Superiors. The spots above are
repeated, but are not nearly so well defined, and there is a distinct costal
edging of brownish yellow. Interiors brownish yellow, distinctly spotted

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with dark brown dots. The body above is concolorous with the wings.
The antenna? are distinctly annulated, and the club beneath is entirly
yellow, except the tip. Body and palpi below are same color as the
wings.

The credit of turning up this new and interesting species is due
to Mr. F. M. Jones, of Wilmington, Del. Mr. Jones says re-
garding the species: "They were captured about one-half mile
south of Hamlet, Richmond County, North Carolina, on the
border of a small cane-brake. They were not met with on flowers
or in the grass, but sat on the leaves of the canes which bordered
the road, and when alarmed flew with great swiftness. Two were
taken August 23d, and the remaining two in the same locality
several days earlier. This species, does not seem closely allied
to anything else, but will probably fall into the group containing
fusca, eufala, osyka, etc. The spotted character of the under-
side of inferiors distinguishes this species from all others.

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ENTOMOLOGIZING ON MOUNT WASHINGTON.-Part I.

By R. OTTOLENGUI, M.D.S., New York.

On the morning of August 5th I started from Jefferson, N. H.,
with my friend, Mr. Walter Perkins, of Manchester, en route for
the summit of Mount Washington. The train left at 7.45, at
which hour all the mountain tops were heavily clouded in. As
the skies were clear in all other directions we hoped that old Sol
would dissipate the mists ere we reached our destination. Be-
sides, it was Friday, and every one knows that Friday is a lucky
day upon which to start on an expedition. At least it has been
so with me. By the time we left Fabyan's on the curious obser-
vation train that goes from there to the base, the weather was
still more promising. The grade on this road is very steep, so
that the train does not travel at lightning speed. I make this
statement that my next may be believed. All along the road
Argynnis atlantis were extremely numerous. At times as the
train whirled by they rose in flight dozens in a group. This
tempted me to try catching insects from a moving train. Leaning
from the window with my net in readiness, I made a swoop upon
the next group that arose and imprisoned five. I had the same
experience last year, so that I can safely say the place for this
insect is along the road from Fabyan's to the base. Other but-

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terflies I noted, too, so that I have no doubt that a walk along
the rails would be interesting to the collector.

Boarding the train for the summit, we started up Jacob's Lad-
der, seated upon the front platform, legs dangling, and eyes on
the watch for any straggler that chanced within reach. I took
insects in this way last season, but this year nothing came close
enough, though A. atlantis and V. milbertii were numerous.

There be men, who, finding a good spot for collecting a special
rarity, keep the knowledge well locked up in their secret souls
for fear, perhaps, that others may go there and get a share of the
good things. My main object in writing this is to tempt some
other collectors into the charming region, and to describe accu-
rately the most prolific hunting grounds, based upon two different
season's experience.

Just before reaching the hotel the train stops at a water-station,
possibly a quarter of a mile below. If the collector intends to
return to the base the same day, he will have but three hours or
thereabouts for work. He would best leave the train at this point
rather than go to the summit and waste half an hour for dinner.
Having his luncheon with him, he may eat it immediately. He
should have his hunting cup, and can get water from a trough
that leads pure brook water, icy cold, down to this point for the
use of the workmen. This meal will not occupy more than ten
minutes, when all is ready for the chase. I may now continue
the story of my own expedition.

Leaving the water-station we worked our way southward, fol-
lowing the railroad till it turns for the final ascent, at which point
we continued in a direct line, aiming to cross the carriage road,
and descend the cliffs on the other side. We did this because
we had learned that the heaviest winds seem to be on the north
side of the mountain. The C. semidea is hard to see among the
rocks, often resting flat upon their lichen-stained sides, which
they closely resemble. When disturbed they start up, and, being
feeble flyers, are readily wafted away by the winds, sometimes
being carried out of sight, and seldom less than a hundred yards.
One might follow a butterfly that distance across a smooth
meadow, but would scarcely undertake it across Washington's
rocks.

Crossing the carriage road, one finds a wall built up to mark
the road in misty weather and keep the horses from plunging

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down the abyss. Climbing over this wall and descending from
rock to rock, the winds are soon milder and the hunter is pro-
tected from them by the steep side of the mountain rising sheer
above him.

On this trip we scarcely hoped to find many of the semidea,
fearing that with July they ceased to exist. This idea was soon
dissipated, for within half an hour we had taken about fifty.
Suddenly a heavy cloud rolled down upon us, having approached
the mountain from the north and topping its summit then ex-
tended downward towards the southern valley. At once my
friend was lost to sight. We knew that it would be useless to
hunt any longer in the face of the rising storm, and moreover,
that it would be wise to get to the summit quickly. Exchanging
our signal halloo frequently we started up. It is the easiest thing
in the world to get lost in the mists of Mount Washington, for
one crag is exactly like another, and only the oldest guides can
recognize landmarks. But where we were we were safe, for we
both knew that less than a hundred yards above was the carriage
road, and that between us and it was a continual ascent. The
rule was simple. Keep climbing up. Half-way down the moun-
tain this would not hold, for paradoxical as it seems, ascent in-
cludes many a descent. One must climb up and down each spur,
and they all look amazingly alike.

We reached the hotel in safety, and having determined to re-
main over night we went in to dinner. The rest of that day was
spiritless and uninteresting as the mists grew thicker. Our hopes
of hunting moths by light vanished in the impending gloom,
consequently we retired at 7.30 to be ready for an early start if
the morning should prove propitious.

At five we were up and watching the grandest sight that either
of us had ever seen. After a night of storm the sun rose above
the clouds and soon dissipated the upper stratum, so that with a
bright dome of blue above we looked down upon a sea of clouds
that shrouded in every mountain peak and all the valley in every
direction. Stretched before us there seemed to be one long sea
ol ice, such as one imagines to exist in the Arctic regions.

At seven we started down the carriage road walking, and in
search of A. montinus. Of this insect Dr. Scudder says: " Per-
haps no collector has ever seen more than eight or ten in a whole
day's Scramble." At two miles and a half down the carriage

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road we reached the zone of dwarf pines, and also entered the
clouds which we had admired all the morning. When amongst
them so that they shut out the sun, our admiration dwindled.
Up to this point we had taken scarcely any thing, being more
bent upon reaching our destination than upon collecting. I did
capture a single specimen of Anarta schcenherri, however, which
pleased me, because I had seen so many, all of which eluded me.
This little gray noctuid would start up from a rock by the way,
and with rapid flight made more swift by the strong winds, would
disappear almost before one realized that he had seen a ' ' speci-

men.'

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Notes on a small Collection of Formicidce from Jamaica, W. I.

By WILLIAM J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

The species enumerated herein were collected in Jamaica during
April and part of May, 1891, by Mr. Charles W. Johnson, of the
Wagner Free Institute of Philadelphia, and myself. Ants were
exceedingly scarce during our visit, which accounts for the small-
ness of the collection. The discovery of a species new to science,
among so few species, shows what a broad field there is to the
student of these interesting insects in Jamaica. For the identifi-
cation of the species my thanks are due to the distinguished
myrmecologist, M. Ernest Andre.

i. Camponotus fumidus Rog. Common everywhere under
stones and logs. 2. Formica riifipes Fab. Port Antonio, on
flowers; common. 3. Odontoviachus hccmatodes Linn. This
species was common on the south side of the island in the vicinity
of Kingston, but it disappeared entirely on the north side, at
least in the Parish of Portland. 4. Monomorium carbonarium
Sm. Common at Kingston, infesting houses. 5. Phcidole fall ax
Mayr. Common at Kingston; found elsewhere by us. This
species seems to take the place of the common " pavement-ant"
of the North, Tetramorium c&spitum, making its nests in pre-
cisely the same sort of places as that species. 6. Cyphomyrmex
reformis Sm. Near Kingston; numerous specimens. 7. Cy-
phomyrmex foxi Andre, n. sp. Near Kingston; numerous speci-
mens. 8. Rhopalothrix simoni Emery. Near Kingston; nu-
merous specimens. A new locality for this species, whi^h was
described from Venezuela.

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ON THE SO-CALLED THROAT BOT.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

On May 15, 1892, I took a female Gastrophihis which was-
flying at the throat of my horse. The animal manifested unusual
signs of uneasiness, and I noticed the fly alight several times,
always exactly in the region ventrad of the first cervical vertebrae.
This is the so-called throat hot (Gastrophihis nasalis Lin.) of
whose habits but little seems to be certainly known in this country.

G. nasalis is easily distinguishable from G. equi by its clear
wings, dark abdomen, and slightly smaller size. It is quite a
pretty species, with rust-colored pile on the scutellum and on the
the scutum on each side posteriorly.

Brauer says (Mon. Oestr. 60) that "according to Dr. Green
G. nasalis deposits its white eggs in the region of the throat of
the horse." The same author says of the larva (1. c. 89): " The
larvae live, according to Schwab, massed together [in Haufen
gedrangt] in the duodenum of the horse near the pylorus [Pfort-
ner], seldom in the stomach. They pass out with the excrement
of their host and never hang fast to the sphincter interims."
Nothing more is said by Brauer of oviposition or habits of larvae.

Schiner (Fauna Austr. Dipt, i, 391-2) says that "the larvae
live in the intestines of the horse." He also records having bred
specimens "from pupae which were dropped in horse-dung."

Brauer says in his monograph that it was at that time not cer-
tainly known from America, but suggests Gastrus subjacens
Walker from Nova Scotia as a synonym. This synonymy is
confirmed by Osten Sacken (Cat.), who saw specimens in the
British Museum. Beside the above-mentioned specimen from
Las Cruces, N. Mex., I have two others from Kansas labeled
" throat bot, Sept." Osten Sacken (Cat.) says that he has seen
specimens from New York, Utah and Kansas.

The peculiarity of the habits of this species in flying always at
the throat of the horse, w'lth the apparent intention of ovipositionr
is not clear. If, like G. equi, the eggs are swallowed, why are
they deposited in a place so inaccessible to the mouth ot the
horse? The animal certainly cannot get at them to swallow them
himself, nor have I ever seen horses biting each other in this
region of the neck. It would be absurd to suppose that the
animal could rub his throat on his fore legs in any way so as
finally to get the eggs into his mouth.

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So far as I can determine, nothing is known regarding the
method of entrance of the eggs or larvae, into the intestine of the
horse. Though I have not found the eggs, I am forced to be-
lieve, from the actions of the female fly, that they are actually
deposited on the ventral surface of the throat. The habit seems
•explicable only on the supposition that the larvae hatch where the
egg is deposited, and, while young, burrow through into the
-oesophagus and are thus swallowed.

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Legislation against Injurious Insects.— In " Garden and Forest," No. 240,.
for September 28, 1892, is a very timely editorial on " Legislation against
Injurious Insects and Plant Diseases." The matter is already an impor-
tant one, and is bound to grow more important as knowledge of preven-
tive and remedial measures increases. It is discouraging to the intelligent
agriculturist to find, that however well he follows directions and keeps-
down insect pests on his own land, year after year, he gets no permanent
result, because his next door neighbor, who does not spray, supplies him
annually with an overplus from his land. There is a manifest injustice in
this. If the careless or ignorant farmer alone suffered from the conse-
quences of his carelessness or ignorance, one might say "serves him
right," but the trouble is, that insects have a habit of moving about, and
where there are more than enough on one piece of land, they are no re-
specters of boundary lines, but cross over into the well-kept and well-
cared for acres without hesitation. Where it is possible to poison the
insects as they arrive, it simply imposes extra work and extra expense on
the man who protects his crop; but sometimes, though an insect may be
easily controlled, it cannot be reached until after the injury has been done.

A case in point is the red necked Blackberry Cane borer, Agriliis ni/i-
collis. By cutting out the galls early in Spring, when trimming, and burn-
ing the cut wood, the entire brood of insects can be easily destroyed and
future injury prevented. But, if a neighbor allows the insects to develop
on his land, the beetles cannot be prevented from coming over and ovi-
positing in the canes of the clean patch. The beetles cannot be poisoned,
for they feed very little. The larvae cannot be reached, because they are
internal feeders. Every infested cane means the loss of next year's crop
from that cane, and the careful man is helpless. In an infested field, un-
less radical measures are taken, the crop becomes smaller each year,
until it is no longer worth picking. Then it is often left another year,
just to see whether it will do anything, and, finally, after all the insects-
have hatched the canes may be plowed out. I have seen in Atlantic
County, New Jersey, early in September, acres of blackberries in which
ninety per cent, of the caues were infested, and in some cases from ten to
twelve galls were on a single cane. Such fields are plague spots, and

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•should be dealt with as such. Too much legislation is not an unmitgated
blessing, but some means of redress against ignorant carelessness is
imperative.

Caterpillars Injurious to Sugar Beets.— Bulletin No. 24 of the Agricultu-
ral Experiment Station of Nebraska contains "Notes on certain Cater-
pillars Attacking Sugar Beets," by Lawrence Bruner. Mr. Bruner, in this
Bulletin, mentions two species of Eurycpeon as having appeared in inju
rious numbers. One of them is the well-known E. similalis, the other is
—well, Mr. Bruner has, somehow, omitted giving a name to the other.
This omission is supplied in a note by the editors of " Insect Life," vol.
v> P- 55. where it is stated that it will probably prove to be E. (Loxostege]
sticticalis Linn. A curious fact is, that the form heretofore unknown, has
now appeared in the greatest abundance, and is the more injurious. Mr.
Bruner gives a general resume" of the life-history of the species, a list of
-the more common food-plants, cultivated and wild, and suggestions as to
remedial measures. Of these, among others, he says: "Other natural
remedies can be brought to work against these insects' increase. The
chief one of these is the keeping down of certain weeds upon which the
caterpillars naturally feed." He then enumerates a number of these
weeds, which enumeration need not be repeated here. The main point
is in the recommendation to keep down weeds, and it is another proof of
the importance of Farm practice to control insect injury, an example of
which was also given in the last number of the NEWS. Especially the
Cruciferae are noxious, because they nourish some of our most injurious
species during the time the field crop is not available. Clean culture in
the largest sense of that term is one of the most valuable measures at
hand for the control of insect injury.

The Corn Bill Bug, etc. — Bulletin No. 18 of the Iowa Agricultural Col-
lege Experiment Station, contains, among other things, " Reports on In-
jurious Insects," by Prof. Herbert Osborn and Mr. H. A. Gossard. The
chief article is on the " Corn Bill Bugs," species of Sphenophorus, which
have been injurious in Iowa during the past season. ^. ochreus and .5".
parviitus were the troublesome species, while there is no mention of ^".
sculptilis, which has been the troublesome species in New Jersey for two
or three years last past. Nothing new is added to either our knowledge
of the life-history or of remedies.

Strawberry slugs were somewhat troublesome, and a short record of
:some experiments made against the larva of Monostegia ignota is given.
The application of arsenites is recommended, even where the fruit is ap-
proaching maturity. From a sprayed plot — "Within a week after the
application was made the assistant entomologist and other employe's of
the Department ate very heartily of the ripened fruit, with the intent of
proving whether or not any ill effects would follow the freest use of the
same. No injury, whatever, was experienced." All this premises a careful
and intelligent use of the poison, and under such circumstances it can be
•.used up to within a very few days of marketing fruit. Early in the season

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23!

I tried the experiment of eating heartily of currants which had been
sprayed the day previously with a hellebore decoction made according to
my directions. I am happy to say I felt not the slightest discomfort from
the dose.
Plutclla cruciferarum is also treated, and the arsenites are recommended.

The abundance of Grasshoppers during the Season.— In "Insect Life,"
vol. v, p. 57, the editors mention the abundance of grasshoppers in several
eastern localities. In New Jersey there has also been an unusual abun-
dance of Orthoptera, and especially in the southern parts of the State.
Two days' collecting in Cape May County, 'early in September, was pro-
ductive of a greater number of specimens and species than I had before
taken in the State in any one year. Localities back of the shore, which,
in ordinary seasons are swampy and inaccessible, were completely dried
out in late Summer, and here the smaller Locustidas abounded. Acridiimi
was unusually abundant, four, species being observed, two of them in
great numbers. Of the cultivated crops, cranberries suffered more than
others; late cabbages were badly injured in some localities, and other
garden truck suffered to a less extent; field crops in general escaped.

The great abundance of these insects during the season has induced a
somewhat careful study of them, the results of which will appear in a
Station Bulletin some time during the month.

A Mosquito Remedy. — "An Experiment against Mosquitoes," is the title
of an interesting paper read by Mr. L. O. Howard before the Association
of Economic Entomologists at Rochester, and now published in " Insect
Life" vol. v, p. 12. He finds that a very small quantity of kerosene on
the surface of pools will suffice to kill all aquatic larvae, including those
of the mosquito, and will also kill the female mosquitoes attempting to
oviposit. The length of time for which the kerosene remains active, is a
matter of some surprise. Mr. Howard did not get the Lamborn prixe for
saying in the most round-about way that cultivating dragonflies would
not answer to destroy mosquitoes, but he has done better, and has made
an experiment, the practical value of which cannot yet be estimated. He
has proved that under some circumstances it is quite possible to prevent
breeding, by mosquitoes, and even to destroy the adults themselves.

Peach Yellows.— Mr. Patron's note on Peach Yellows, in the April num-
ber of the NEWS, is evidently based on a misconception, and on ignorance
of the voluminous literature of the subject. The " Yellows" is undoubt-
edly a specific disease of an extremely obscure character, and in no way
to be attributed to insect injury. Mr. Patton's note should never have
been written.

SUBSCRIBERS sending insects for identification will please put locality
labels on their specimens.

232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

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IN the September number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS I find the follow-
ing: " Citheronia sepulcralis is found from Pennsylvania southward." It
may be interesting, therefore, for me to report that my friend, Mr. David
W. Perkins, of Manchester, N. H., took four specimens of this moth in
1890 in that city, and again captured two this season. Of the six, two
were females. They were taken in early morning resting on white houses
near electric light poles. — R. OTTOLENGUI, New York.

THY. POWESHIEK. — Female caught and confined July 25th. Within
two days twelve eggs were laid. The eggs are smooth, shiny, in color a
light green. They are hemispherical in shape, with the edges of the base
rounded. By the aid of a medium powered microscope a slight depres-
sion can be seen at the apex; size is about two-thirds that of egg of P.
manaataqua. Larva hatched July 28th. Head of young larva is large,
prominent, light brown in color. Body is light yellow sprinkled with a
few scattering hairs. Hairs on thirteenth segment very prominent. On
each side of the back is an irregular row of fine dark points. Each seg-
ment contains four. The two near the front of segment nearear together
than those of the back. — HENRY G. WILLARD, Grinnell, Iowa.

VENTURESOME BUTTERFLIES. — During the present season I have been
quite struck by the actions of two species of butterflies. The first, Py-
rameis atalanta L. was observed to appear singly in the small, shady
lawn in front of my house, usually about 4.30 to 5 P.M. Whether the same
individual appeared each day, or whether there were several similarly
inclined, I am unable to say, but only on one occasion did more than one
individual appear on the same day. They, or it as the case may be,
seemed to be entirely devoid of fear, flitting about, alighting sometimes
on my shoulder, or often on my book as I sat reading. If driven off it
would return, either to its former position on the back of my chair, or,
more than once, alighting on the heads of my two little sons, aged seven
and three years, as they were at play, much to their astonishment, and,
in the case of the younger, consternation.

ENTOMOLOGICAL XKWS. 233

The other case was at Niagara Falls. Standing among the rocks, just
beneath Prospect Point, I saw what, from the moment's observation I
could give it, appeared to be Pieris rapes hover for the moment in mid
air then boldly dash forward and disappear in the mist and spray. 1
watched for several minutes to see if it would again emerge from its vapor
bath, but watched in vain. It seemed to have deliberately committed
suicide. — F. M. WEBSTER.

MIMICRY IN MOTHS. — Round about my house is a tangled shrubbery
of stunted brushwood, with here and there a silver birch, young beech
and Scotch fir. and in one corner stands an old outhouse, where a pipe is
good at all seasons, says a writer in the "Nineteenth Century." It is
half in ruins, and while there one day I noticed that the dingy old brown
and gray wall was spotted with oddly-shaped blotches of a darker tint
that looked like damp. That same evening, however, I found that the
blotches had disappeared, though more rain had fallen and the roof was
full of holes. The next day they had all come back. When this had hap-
pened a second time I looked more closely at the strange marks, and. to
my surprise, I found them to be living creatures, small moths, in fact, with
folded or outspread wings, clinging fast on to the crumbling wall. From
dusk until dawn they had been out on the wing in the fields and woods—
their chief enemies, the birds, being asleep — but at daybreak came back
to their old place of safety. The shrubbery was dangerous because the
ground was thickly covered with green ivy and still greener periwinkle
and moss, where sparrows, finches and tits were always hunting for food,
and they would have been soon snapped up. On the old weather-stained
wall they were safe. — Public Ledger.

RAVAGES OF WHITE ANTS.— A statement by the British Vice Consul.
Mr. Warbtirton, at La Rochelle, reminds us of the terrible ravages of the
Termites, known as "white ants." It appears that many of the public
buildings and private houses of La Rochelle are being destroyed by these
pests. Introduced from some tropical land about a century ago. the ants
had for a long time kept to a particular part of the town; but on the
demolition of some of the houses there, the old wood was allowed to be
carried away, and the insects are now found in every part of La Rochelle.
In many buildings it is necessary to introduce iron supports, to save them
from tumbling into ruins. Linnaeus spoke of these ants as "the ure.it
calamity of both the Indies." Wood is their favorite diet, and the only
timber safe from them is teak wood (Teiiona i>ra>i</i\-\ and iron wood
\Suti'ro.\-y/n»i). They tunnel through th< vastest beams of buildings in
every direction, leaving a thin layer untouched on the outside, and i -\< -u
coating the outside with clay to conceal their ravages in the interior.
II nml )oli It says that in South America it is rare- to find papers of any an-
tiquity. In one night, everything left exposed, even Loots and shoes,
disappear. Ships are sometinles reduced to a condition sufficient to ac-
count for "foundering at sea" during a voyage. The " Albion" man-of-
war had to be broken up, after reaching Kngland with difficulty, by being

234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

lashed together. If they settle elsewhere in Europe, as they have done
at La Rochelle, a new peril will be added to life and civilization. — Leisure
Hour.

WE have received the following account of Prof. Tovvnsend's entomo-
logical excursion during the past Summer: We left Last Cruces June isth
with four-horse team and covered government ambulance wagon. Cross-
ing the Rio Grande at Rincon, we drove northwest through Cuchilla
Negra, the length of the Canada Alamosa, and on to Luera Spring.
Here we turned west, crossed the Continental Divide, passed between
the San Francisco and Datil ranges, and arrived in Springerville, Ariz.,
June 24th. From this place we drove north, followed down the Little
Colorado River as far as the "San Francisco Wash," passing through
Holbrook and Winslow on the way, and arrived in Flagstaff July ist.
By previous arrangement we were joined here by Prof. Tourney, of Tuc-
son, and Mr. Cordley, of Washington, who had a similar outfit to our
own, and together we proceeded to the Hance place on the rim of the
Grand Canon, seventy miles north of Flagstaff. Mr. Cordley and myself
spent four days and nights down in the canon collecting, about 4000 to
6600 feet below the rim. Returning, we spent two days collecting and
climbing the San Francisco Mountain, the top of which is about 13,000
feet above sea level. We parted from Prof. Tourney and Mr. Cordley at
Flagstaff, visited the petrified forest southwest of Navajo Springs, fol-
lowed up the Zuni River, spent three days in the Pueblo, visited Inscrip-
tion Rock, and returned by the Rio Grande Valley to Las Cruces, Au-
gust 1 4th. The whole trip amounted to a drive of over 1200 miles. My
companions were a fellow-professor and one of our students. About
noo specimens of insects were collected by myself, representing nearly
one-third that number of species. These were all pinned and labeled in
the field. There was collected besides a considerable amount of alcoholic
material and galls. I am preparing some papers on the results of the
collecting in the Grand Canon, and on the San Francisco Mountain, which
will be published in due time.

It may interest you to know that the first scientific organization in New
Mexico has just come into existence. It is known as "The New Mexico
Society for the Advancement of Science," and will meet once a month in
Las Cruces. The following officers have been elected for the remainder
of the current year: President, C. H. Tyler Townsend; Vice- President,
F. C. Barker; Recording Secretary, E. O. Wooton; Corresponding Sec-
retary, Arthur Goss; Treasurer, H. D. Bowman; Members of Executive
Committee, A. E. Blount and J. P. Owen. The Society hopes to publish
an annual numero of its proceedings. — C. H. TYLER TOWNSKND.

A FLIGHT OF Danais archippns Fabr. — The Cleveland (Ohio) Daily
Press of Sept. 21, 1892, states that on the igth inst. in the afternoon, " a
multitude of butterflies visited Cleveland on their way South. There
were swarms upon swarms of them, and for a while they completely filled
the air. They were of the large, brown variety, of the milkweed butter-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 235

tly. and it is supposed that they were started by the storms in the East.
Such migrations, though not unusual in the South and West, are very
uncommon in this part of the country."

This species has been exceedingly abundant in northern Ohio, and ]
think in northern Indiana, this present season. At Wooster, Wayne Co.,
fifty miles S. S. W. of Cleveland, they were not universally abundant on
the date indicated. The day was warm and pleasant, and, if I remember
correctly, with little wind. — F. M. WEBSTER, Wooster, O.

TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892),
pp. 129-256 inclusive, have been printed since our June issue, and contain
the following papers: The N. American genera of Calyptrate Muscidce,
Paper II, by C. H. T. Townsend. The N. American genera of Nemoce-
rous Diptera, by C. H. T. Townsend. Preliminary Notes on some African
Odonata, by P. P. Calvert. On the Pselaphid genus Trimium, by I-'..
Brendel. Revision of the species of Anthrax from America North of
Mexico, by D. W. Coquillett. Descriptions of North American Harvest-
Spiders (Phalangiidae), by C. M. Weed, 7 plates. The Eumolpini of
Boreal America, by G. H. Horn. Monograph of the N. American species
of Tachytes, by W. J. Fox, i plate. A synopsis of the subfamilies and
genera of the Membracidae of N. Amerjca, by F. W. Coding.

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending ; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL XKWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Insects have been named for F. D. Twogood, A. A. Wright, Frank H.
Johnson, A. G. Weeks, Jr., D. 15. Young, Charles U. Clark, James S.
Hine, W. T. Davis, M. Y. Slingerland, J. H. Bomberger, C. H. Tyler
Townsend, Henry Bird, C. M. Weed, George Miller, W. M. Hill, C. I'..
Aaron.

Entomological Literature.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MAINE STATE COLLEGE AGKICUI.TUKAL
STATION, 1891. — Bangor, 1892. Pp. [87-207, Report of the Entomologist,
F. L. Harvey.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECOUD, London, Sept. 15, 1892. — The genus
Acronycta and its allies (cont.), Dr. T. A. I'luipnmn.

236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

A Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae by W. L. Distant. Published by
order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. London, Cal-
cutta and Berlin. Pt. vi, pp. 121-144, 2 plates,* July, 1892.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), x, 57, London,
September, 1892. — Spiders from Madeira,* C. Warburton, i pi. On
Eretinotus and Epiechinus (Histeridae),* G. Lewis, i pi.

Ml TTHEILUNGEN AUS DEM NATURHISTORISCHEN MUSEUM IN HAMBURG,

ix, 2, 1892. — Hemiptera collected by Dr. F. Stuhlmann in East Africa,*t
Dr. A. Gerstaecker.

LE NATURALISTE, Paris, Sept. 15, 1892. — The first stages of Erebia
inelas, P. Chretien. The parasitic rly of Acridium peregrinum, the wan-
dering locust, M. Decaux. New nocturnal Lepidoptera,* P. Thierry-Mieg.
The mouth and buccal organs of Arthropods, R. Saint-Loup.

IOWA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. — Bulletin No. 18, Des
Moines, Iowa, August, 1892. Reports on injurious insects, H. Osborn
and H. A. Gossard.

AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, October, 1892.— Habits of Pre-
nolcpis iinparis, the Winter Ant, W. H. Patton. Aphcenogaster fulva 9,
id. Chinch bugs in New Hampshire, C. M. Weed.

TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGIE, xxxiv, 1-4, Hague, 1891. — Contri-
bution to the beetle fauna of Madagascar,* C. Schaufuss. List of the
Ants and Ant guests of Dutch Limburg, E. Wasmann. Danais chry sip-
pus n. var., P. C. T. Snellen, i pi. Revision of the Rhaphididse,* H.
Albarda, 10 pis. (includes and figures N. American species). Some exotic
Diptera,*f F. M. van der Wulp, i pi. On new or little-known Australian
Longicornia,*f J. R. H. N. van de Poll. Lepidoptera from Flores,* P.
C. T. Snellen. Contribution to the knowledge of the Indo-Australian
Lepidopterous fauna,*]. Roeber. Catalogue of Dutch Hemiptera, v, A.
J. F. Fokker.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, vi,
2-4, Sydney, 1891-92. — On Queensland and other Australian Lepidoptera,*
T. P. Lucas. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, x,* Rev. T. Blackburn.
Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera,* v, E. Meyrick.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, xv, i,
Adelaide, July, 1892. — New South Australian Lepidoptera,* O. B. Lower.
New genera and species of Australian Coleoptera, *f Rev. T. Blackburn.
The Phaneropteridae of Australia and Polynesia, *f J. G. O. Tepper.

LEPIDOPTEREN VON MADAGASCAR,*! Herausgegeben von M. Saalmuel-
ler. Angefangen von dem Verfasser und nach dessen Tode abgeschlos-
sen durch L. von Heyden. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctu;r,
Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. Frankfurt a. M. Moritz Diestervveg, March,
1891, pp. 249-531; pis. vii-xiv.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 237

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS (8), iv, 2, 1892.—
Observations on the huccal pieces of Araneids, P. Gaubert.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1892, 2;
August i. — On stridulation in certain Lepidoptera, and on the distortion
of the hind wings in the males of certain Ommatophorinae, G. F. Hamp-
son. On the Orthoptera of the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies, *f C.

B. v, Wattenwyl and Prof. J. Redtenbacher, 3 pis. New species of Le-
pidoptera Heterocera from Brazil, Mexico and Peru, i, W. Schaus.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xix,
Philadelphia, August, 1892. — Monograph of the North American species
of Tachytes, W. J. Fox, i pi.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATKS NATIONAL MUSEUM, xv, pp.
361-369, Washington, D. C., 1892. — Insects of the subfamily Encyrtina
with branched antennae, L. O. Howard, 2 pis.

INSECT LIFE, v, i, Washington, September, 1892. — Rose saw-flies in
the United States, C. V '. Riley, figs. An experiment against mosquitoes,
L. O. Howard. Occurrence of Bucculatrix canadensisella Chamb. on
birches in Rhode Island, A. S. Packard, figs. New injurious insects of a
year, C. V '. Riley. Notes on the larva of Amphizoa, H. G. Hubbard.
figs. The Dipterous parasite of Melanoplus devastator in California, D.
W. Coquillet. A new sweet potato saw-fly (Schizocerus privatus Norton),

C. L. Marlatt, figs. On the nomenclature and on the oviposition of the
bean weevil (Bruchus obtectits Say), Eds. Notes on the habits of some
species of Coleoptera observed in San Diego County, California, F. E.
Blaisdell. Biologic notes on New Mexico insects, C. H. T. Townsend.
Further notes on the new Herbarium pest, C. V. Riley. The Australian
enemies of the red and black scales, Eds.

CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa,
Canada, Bulletin No. 14, September, 1892. — The Horn Fly, J. Fletcher,
figs.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, October, 1892.—
Elenchus tenuicornis Kirby, parasitic on a Homopterus insect of the
genus Libitrnia, E. Saunders. Notes on Elenchus tcnniconiis Kirby,
with illustrations, Rev. A. E. Eaton, etc.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, October, 1892. —Life-history of Cartcro-
cephalus pal&mon, F. W. Frohawk, etc.

NATURE, London, Sept. 29, 1892.— Peripatns rediscovered in Jamaica,
M. Grabham and T. D. A. Cockerell. /'. jainaicoisis n. sp., p. 514.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUK UK BELGIOUK, xxxvi, 9,
Brussels, September, 1892.— Some ants of the Mt-diU-rraiK-an fauna,-' A.
Forel. The male of Cardicondyla and the perpetuated consangninmis
reproduction, id.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF THE ANIMALS OF IOWA represented in the
collections of the Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Iowa
Agricultural College. Prepared by Herbert Osborn. Ames, Iowa, 1892.
Hymenoptera (three families), Lepidoptera, Coleoptera.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES for 1890-91, I, 2,
Des Moines, 1892. — A new Cecidomid infesting Box Elder, C. P. Gillette.
Egg-laying of the Apple Curculio (Anthonomus quadrigibbus Say), id.
The gall-producing Cynipidse of Iowa, id. On the Orthopterous fauna
of Iowa, H. Osborn. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of Iowa, id.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER, Leipsic, Sept. 26, 1892. — On the develop-
ment of the eyes of the imago of Vanessa, H. Johansen. The physio-
logical significance of the stinging apparatus, especially in the nymphs of
Hymenoptera, C. Verhoeff.

SCIENCE, New York, Oct. 14, 1892. — Some thoughts on the phylogeny
of the mole cricket, E. W. Doran. A wasp study, J. McN. Wright.

VlERTELSJAHRSCHIFT DER NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT IN

ZURICH, xxxvii, 2, 1892. — Researches on the digestive tract of Gryllo-
talpa vu/garis, }. Eberli, figs.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT, ERLANGEN, Oct. i, 1892. — On biology
of wild bees, F. v. Wagner. The international relations of Loinechusa
stnunosa, E. Wasmann.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, Leipsic, Oct. 3, 1892. — New and little-known
laws of the biology of Hymenoptera, C. Verhoeff.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, London, October,
1892. — Descriptions of some new species of African Lepidoptera, W. J.
Holland. Description of a new genus and species of African moths, A.
G. Butler. On the noctuid genera allied to Hypcztra Guen., id. Revision
of the noctuid genus Melipotis Hub., with descriptions of two new spe-
cies, id. Liphistius and iis bearing on the classification of spiders, R. I.
Pocock.

DELAWARE COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin
No. xviii, Newark, Del., September, 1892. — The strawberry weevil (An-
thonomus mnsculns Say), M. H. Beckwith, figs.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., October, 1892. — Preparatory
stages of Calothysanis amaturaria, D. S. Kellicott. Insects reared from
galls on Muhlenbergiamexicana, F. M. \Vebster, fig. The elm leaf beetle
(Galcnica .vanthoiiielicna Schrank), J. B. Smith. The inhabitants of a
fungus, H. G. Hubbard. The life-history of Xenos, id. Note on the
species of Acanthia, H. Osborn. [The foregoing were read to the Ento-
mological Club, A. A. A. S. at Rochester, Aug. 17-19, 1892.] New N.
American Homoptera, E. P. Van i in/.ee.

( "titains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

I&92-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

239

ARCHIVES ITALIENNES DE BIOLOGIE, xviii, i, Turin, 1892. — Note on a
series of new excretory organs discovered in Bombyx mori, E. Verson.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xviii, 19, Berlin, October, 1892.—
On the naming of varieties of palaearctic Cicindelas, H. Beuthin. On the
development of Hemerobius subnebulosus St., and on the change of col-
oring in Neuroptera, C. Verhoeff.

VKRHANDLUNGEN DER K. K. ZOOL.-BOT. GESELLSCHAFT ix \\'IFX, xlii,
3, September, 1892.— The ant fauna of Bulgaria with biological observa-
tions,* Dr. A. Forel, i pi. Alpine gall-flies, Dr. F. Thomas, 2 pis., figs.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

NEUROPTERA.

Rhaphidida1: Rhaphidia assimilis Albarda, Tijds. Ent. xxxiv, p. 144, pi.
8, fig. 23, Vancouver Is. R. bicolor, p. 152, pi. 9, fig. 24, Col. Inocellia
longicornis, p. 169, pi. n, fig. 32, Calif. /. Hageni, p. 171, pi. n, fig. 33.
Calif.

HYMENOPTERA.

Tachytes, 9 n. sp., U. S., Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, pp. 234-52.

Encyrtinse: Pentacnemus n. gen. Howard, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xv, p.
366. P. bucculatricis, Mo., p. 366, pi. xlvii, fig. i. Tetracladia n. gen.
p. 367. T. texana, Tex., p. 367, pi. xlvi, fig. i. Calocerittus n. gen. p.
368, for Tetracncinus floridanus.

DIPTERA.

Sarcophaga opifera Coquillett* Insect Life, v, p. 22, Cal.

Cecidomyia negundinis Gillette, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. I, p. 108, Iowa.

HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA.

Thamnotetti.v Smithi\&n Duzee, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 266, N. J. 7".
/ongiseia, p. 266, Col. T. Lnllclti, p. 267, Col. T. montamis, p. 268,
Brit. Colum., Col.

Doings of Societies.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTIOX OK THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIKXCES
OF PHILADELPHIA. Meeting held May 26th, Dr. Horn, Director, presid-
ing. Tlie Publication Committee reported in favor of the publication of
a paper entitled, " Preliminary Notes on some African Odonata," by P.
P. Calvert. Mr. C. S. \\Vlles stated that in the latter part of March, 1892,
he had captured a specimen of Gnipla ran-uthntn, and saw another one

* Contains new species other than North American.

240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

a few days later on the edge of the woods, near his home at Elwyn, Pa.
Mr. Martindale announced the capture of thirty-eight specimen of Antho-
charis genutia by Dr. Skinner on May gth, at Arcola, on the Perkiomen
Creek. Dr. Horn exhibited a portion of his collection of the tribe Gale-
rucini of the family Chrysomelidse, and spoke of the work he had been
doing on them.

Meeting held June 13, 1892, Mr. Ridings in the chair. Members present:
Ridings, Laurent, Martindale, Welles and Skinner. Associates : Fox,
Calvert and Nell. Mr. Laurent stated that on the ist of May this year he
started to rearrange his water beetles, and thought he would collect some
fresh material and exhibited his captures very nicely arranged. One rare
species, ovatus, was collected by two boys, who let some specimens go
because they would not go in the collecting-bottle they had. All were
collected in a short time, one whole day and four afternoons. In all,
sixty-six species were taken, numbering about fifteen hundred specimens.
Mr. Calvert mentioned having caught Tetragoneura cynosura, a rare
dragonfly, on June 6th. He had collected a few specimens previously.
It flies very high, and its flight is sustained for quite a period of time.
It alights occasionally on the edges of woods and thickets. He exhibited
specimens of the species and spoke of the characters of the family and its
allies. Mr. Nell spoke of the scarity of Microlepidoptera, and Dr. Skin-
ner said the late season had retarded insects in various parts of the West.
Mr. F. Weber was elected an associate of the Section. Section then ad-
journed until September.

Meeting held Sept. 22, 1892, Dr. Horn, Director, presiding. Members
present : Liebeck, Martindale, Skinner, Welles, Ridings. Associates:
Johnson, Nell, Fox. Weber, Westcott, Haimbach and Dr. Castle. Dr.
Horn exhibited two boxes of Galerucini, showing the results of his work
on these beetles, and stated that the number of new species was but few,
and that too much attention had been paid color values and too little to
structure. The material shown will illustrate a coming paper on these
insects. Mr. Nell stated that he had taken twenty-six specimens of Pain-
phihi leonardus on September 4th, near Atco, N. f. They were found on
boneset and iron weed. Dr. Skinner stated that he had received a num-
ber of full grown larvae of Papilio cresf>hontcs found on September iSth
at Sellersville, Pa., on prickly ash. Mr. Westcott reported seeing P.
cresphontes and Callidryas cubicle, at Westville, N. J. Mr. Ridings spoke
of the unusual number of Catocala moths seen in the city limits during
the Summer. Mr. Martindale reported having collected 500 specimens
of Lepidoptera in Indiana during a short visit to the State. Or. Horn
mentioned having lately received a new species of Anof>hthal»nts from
Kentucky. Mr. Martindale reported capturing 200 spcvinu-ns of Ifcniaris
thy she in Chester County, Pa.

Dr. HKNKV SKIN.NKK, R

KNTOMOI <>i.ir.\i \K\VS lor ( viuber was mailed SfpU-inbtr ,;o,

EXT. NEWS, Vol. III.

PI. IX.

11

1 . N. NEBRODES Hew.

2. N. AGATHA Cram.

3. N. METELLA Doub.-Hew.

4. N. NEMETES Hew.

5. N. MELICERTA

6. N. METANIRA Holl.

7. N. NICOBULE Holl.

8. N. NICOTELES Hew.

9. N. BIAFRA Ward. var. CON-
TINUATAHoll.

10. N. BIAFRA Ward.

1 1 . N. MIXOPHYES Holl.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION.

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in.

DECEMBER, 1892.

No. 10.

CONTENTS:

Blaisdell — New Coleoptera from Calif... 241
Ottoiengui — Entomologizing on Mount

Washington 243

Dyar — Egg & Larva of two Lithosians 245

Gillette— Colorado Cynipidse 246

Holland — N. sp. of Neptis from Africa. 248

Smith — New species of Noctuidaj 250

Hamilton— Notes on Bruchus alboscu-

tellatus, etc 253

Strecker — Erebia sofia 255

\Yickham — Collecting in the Far North 256

Slosson — A new Arctia 257

Neumoegen — A new Cossid from Texn

Editorial 260

Economic Entomology 261

Notes and News 263

Entomological Literature 265

NEW COLEOPTERA FROM CALIFORNIA.

By F. E. BLAISDELL, M. D.

Eleodes interrupta n. sp. — Length 16.6 mm.; width 7.1 mm. liody
slightly inflated, convex ; color black. Head little shorter than wide,
rather more than half as wide as prothorax; finely and evenly punctate,
somewhat coarser on epistoma ; antenme slender, reaching to base of
pronotum, terminal three joints but slightly widened. Pruthora.\: one-
sixth wider than long, evenly convex, apex feebly sinuate in circular arc,
angles obtuse; sides in anterior half moderately arcuate, in posterior half
straight and moderately convergent to base, margin rather abruptly in-
terrupted at middle for the distance of one millimetre; base slightly ar-
cuate, angles quite broadly obtuse; disc very finely, evenly and sparsely
punctate, alutaceous. Elytra at base perceptibly wider than contiguous
base of prothorax, and about two and one-halt" times longer ill an tin • latter;
widest at middle; sides evenly arcuate; humeri not prominent; disc
smooth, shining, punctate, not sculptured in anterior half, posteriorly
snlcate, ridges narrow, very convex, nearly angulate, alternately promi-
nent, intervals twice as wide as ridges, outer longest, others gradually
shortening towards suture, sutural snlci obsolete, punctures not im-
pressed, moderately tine, nearly simple, not asperate at sides, arrar.
in rows, alternate rows coarser passing into the intervals, in the finer
series the punctures more distant and less regularly placed, becoming
mostly obsolete on ridges; apex declivi ms. tips everted. 1 ,6gS in; iderately
slender; anterior tibial spurs very unequal, middle equal, posterior sub-
equal.

//<//'. — San Dieigo.

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242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

This species has the general appearance "of gentilis, but is
unique in the character of its sculpturing.

BlapstilUlS Coroiiadeiisis n. sp. — Length, males 4.6-5.6 mm.; females 5-
6.3 mm.; width $ 2-5 mm.; 9 2.8 mm. Form elongate oblong; color
black, legs and antennae rufo-piceous ; surface polished ; pubescence
evenly distributed, conspicuous, rather long, recumbent, pale flavate.
Head feebly transverse, moderately finely densely punctured; epistoma
narrowly and deeply sinuate; eyes moderate, rounded; antennae rather
slender, moderately incrassate in last four joints. Prothorax moderately
convex, about a third wider than long; apex feebly emarginate in circular
arc, angles slightly acute; sides subparallel in posterior third and thence
to apex rather strongly arcuate; base transverse, lateral sinuations feeble,
angles right; disc moderately finely, densely and evenly punctured, basal
impressions just perceptible. Elytra about two and a half times longer
than prothorax, sides subparallel, very feebly arcuate to posterior third,
then rather evenly and strongly to apex, which is rounded; base trans-
verse, not perceptibly wider than contiguous base of prothorax; disc
finely striate, stria; very feebly impressed, finely and regularly punctured,
intervals just visibly convex, extremely finely punctured; scutellum bright.
Abdomen finely and sparsely punctured; legs moderate, femora rather
robust.

Male. — Anterior and middle tarsi dilated, but not as strongly as in m-
fipes. Eyes larger; abdomen feebly impressed in middle towards base;
head shorter and more transverse.

Described from a male and female, supplemented by a series

5 of one hundred specimens. A distinct species and readily dis-

3 tinguished from rufipes by having well-developed wings, which

£ are about one-third longer than the elytra, the smooth and pol-

* ished surface, denser pubescence, finer punctuation, nearly flat

'„ elytral intervals, darker legs and less dilated tarsi. The pubes-

& cence is very readily removed by slight friction, and cabinet speci-

|_ mens are generally quite denuded. The species is diurnal. Fre-

J quents garbage heaps during May and June.

I have carefully compared the above series with a large series
of rufipes and found no intergrading of alar development. On
the other hand, there was a wonderful constancy in the form and
size of the rudimentary hind wings in the latter species, agreeing
in details with the description given by Thos. L. Casey in his
"Coleopterological Notices," p. 440.

Careful examination of a large series of rufipes demonstrates
that the elytral intervals may be decidedly convex, and always
iimiv so than in Coronadensis. The former species is olten quite
pruinose when captured, and this I have never observed in the
latter.

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Ulus latus n. sp. — Length 7.1 mm.; width 3.7 mm.; elliptical, strongly
convex, piceeus, legs and antennas concolorous; pubescence pale luteons,
rather long, moderately slender, recumbent, and quite evenly distributed,
but not densely so. Head moderately transverse and convex, rather
coarsely and evenly, but not densely punctate; epistoma rather deeply
sinuate; antennae slender, joints nine, ten and eleven, subequal in width,
last visibly longer than wide and narrowly rounded. Prothorax scarcely
twice as wide as long; apex rather more than three-fourths as long as base,
quite strongly emarginate in circular arc, angles slightly rounded; sides
convergent, in basal third straight, very feebly arcuate in anterior two-
thirds; base moderately arcuate at middle third, laterally slightly sinuate,
angles right; frimbrise moderately short and robust; disc convex, strongly
so in basal third, feebly dished at lateral sinuations, rather coarsely and
unevenly punctate, somewhat denser at sides, interspaces polished. Elytra
strongjy convex, widest in middle third; base nearly equal to contiguous
prothorax; sides evenly arcuate, apex rounded; disc feebly striate, stria-
not perceptibly impressed, closely, evenly and rather coarsely punctured,
intervals equal, not convex, finely and quite sparsely punctate, surfao-
feebly shining; scutellum narrow, triangular, impunctate, glabrous; pu-
bescence confined to intervals, giving the elytra a decidedly striate ap-
pearance. Abdomen finely and rather densely punctate; apical segment
>1ight1y dished near tip. Legs long, faintly rufo-piceous, anterior femora
decidedly robust.

Type a female. San Diego River.

This species differs from crass us in being strongly convex, with
convergent sides of prothorax; from fimbriatus in the character
of the pubescence.

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ENTOMOLOGIZING ON MOUNT WASHINGTON.-Part II.

By R. OTTOLENGUI, M.D.S., New York.

At three miles we saw the last straggling scmidca, and the trees
became more like trees and less like bushes. Suddenly a little
red butterfly crossed the road close to me. \Vith Dr. Scudder'>
statement in my mind, I was so astonished to see a real live mon-
timis that I' stupidly stood still as it flew over the wall and disap-
peared far clown among the crags. I was so disgusted with my-
self that I started to go in pursuit, but was stopped by Mr.
Perkins, who showed me the folly of climbing over a dreadfully
steep embankment in search of an insect that had passed from
view. Half a mile further we could easily see below us the hall-
way house, toward which we were aiming. Just here the road
makes a long detour in the shape of a horse-shoe. To save a

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part of the walk we started to. climb down and across. Along
the rocks we found the curious mountain blue-berry bushes.
They are scarcely taller than lichens, and the fruit is most tempt-
ingly exposed, being exclusively on the top of the plants. We
plucked a handful, but they were not as sweet as those in the
valley. Suddenly another montinus flitted by, and my first cap-
ture was made. Presently we dropped into the carriage road
again, about two hundred yards above the half-way house. Be-
tween this point and about a similar distance beyond the house,
by walking along the road itself, Mr. Perkins and I captured
fifteen specimens in the course of half an hour. By this time it
was ten o'clock and we started to return, having a long, hard
four -mile walk ahead of us. One does not realize, till he tries it,
how easy it is to get "out of breath" chasing an insect in this
rarified air. But the pursuit of such a rarity as montinus makes
one forgetful. We had gone about half a mile, in the next half
hour, and taken five more specimens, when we were overtaken
by a man driving a buck-board, and quickly engaged passage
with him to the'summit. The trip up was thus made very enjoy-
able as whenever we saw anything on wings it was easy to get
out and go after it. Thus we took five more of montinus in the
next fifteen minutes, after which we saw no more. I may pause
for a few comments. Observe that we took twenty-five of mon-
tinus before eleven o'clock, an hour after which we usually make
our best captures in the valley. I am confident that if we could
have remained on the spot for the rest of the day we could have
taken a hundred specimens, as we were fortunate to find them
plentiful. This makes it worth while for any one designing to ^ >
there to note the date, which was August 6th. They feed on any
of the mountain flowers, but nearly all of ours were taken on a
variety of Golden-rod.

I made two other notable captures during the ascent. One a
fairly large gray geometer, which I have not identified as yet, and
the other a Plusia. This is either ocfoscn'pta, or something un-
known to me. It is a brilliant black with gray markings, and a
handsome specimen.

Reaching the summit we had dinner, and tlu-n went for some
more of semidea. Hunting in the same place above described I
soon found how to capture Anarta Schoenherri, I will endeavor
to direct the reader. Whilst it is true that the rocks look all

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 245

alike, it will not be hard to select the largest patch of green seen
about a hundred yards down the cliffs. Reaching here in pursuit
of a single insect which I saw alight, I found A. Schoenherri feed-
ing on the blossoms of various plants, and to my astonishment
found no trouble in taking them with a bottle, obtaining about a
dozen good specimens. Here also were semidea, which could be
picked up in the grass with the fingers. Unfortunately, it was
really too late in the season for semidea, and when the record of
the two days was examined we found that we had only sixty good
specimens between us, throwing away more than that number.

Though not a Coleopterist myself, I try to remember that
others are when I am hunting, and capture anything that I see.
Thus I took ten varieties of beetles among the rocks at the sum-
mit, which will be given to the first friend who applies for them.
Two are handsome species of Longicorns. As a matter of cu-
riosity I also captured and brought home to be labeled " Summit
of Mount Washington" Pieris rapcc, Colias philodice, Vanessa,..
Milbertii, Argynnis a/a/an/is, Grapta progne, and Drasteria
erechtea. I have also taken Papilio turnus.

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EGG AND LARVA OF TWO LITHOSIANS.

By HARRISON G. DVAR, Boston, Mass.

Crambidia pallida Packard.

1864.— Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, 99.

Egg. — Oblately spheroidal, slightly more flattened on the basal
side than above, smooth, shining, pale pink, not obviously reticu-
lated, though the surface is somewhat irregular; diameter 0.6
mm. The eggs are laid perfectly loose and separate so that they
roll around in the box.

First larval stage. — Head round, smooth, shining, pale brown-
ish; mouth and vertex brown; ocelli black; width about 0.25 mm.
Body cylindrical, the warts not perceptible, but the hairs distinct,
blackish; segmental incisures evident; feet normal. Color pale
reddish, darker on the back.

The larva looks like a little Arctian, though the warts are not
distinguishable. The hairs are simple, pointed at the tip, but
swollen, or glandular at the base.

246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

Hypoprepia miniata Kir by.

1837. — Kirby, Faun. Bor.-Am., pt. iv, p. 305.

1879. — Bethune, Can. Ent. xi, 154.

1889. — Hy. Edwards, Bull. 35, U. S. N. M., 55 (references asfitcosa),

Egg. — Subspherical, much flattened on the basal side, coarsely
and evidently reticulated even under the lens. Under a half inch
objective it appears covered with broad, rounded reticulations,
which leave between them large, shallow, roundedly hexagonal
depressions. Color dark, shining, lead color, with a slight me-
tallic green cast. Diameter 0.6 mm. Laid loose and separate.

First larval stage. — Head cordate, black, shining; width about
.3 mm. Body deeply incised between the segments, cylindrical,
feet normal; warts inconspicuous, hairs distinct, blackish. The
body is orange color, with a dark band from near the head to
back of the middle, showing by transparency, but later becoming
an evident, geminate, brownish dorsal band. The warts are low
and conical, concolorous, normal in arrangement, each bearing
a single hair. The hairs are minutely spinulated.

COLORADO CYNIPID/E.

C. P. GILLETTE, Fort Collins, Col.

All of the Cynipidous galls or gall-flies mentioned in this paper
have been taken by the writer in the State of Colorado since the
first of January, 1891. Quite a number of galls, apparently new,
have been taken from scrub oaks (Quercus undulafa), from which
no flies have yet appeared. Of these I shall make no special
mention until the flies can be obtained, as there is little use in
describing the galls alone, and I do not think it right to name
galls as if they were insects.

RHODITES.

Bicolor. — Galls moderately common in the foot-hills near Fort
Collins and also taken at Manitou.

Fusiformans Ashm. — This is a very abundant gall on r< »»•
bushes in the foot-hills of the State from north to south.

I^nota O. S. — Galls taken in foot-hills near Fort Collins.
Rather scarce.

Polita Ashm. — Galls found very common on rose bushes at
Manitou, Col., on Sept. 10, 1892.

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Radicum O. S. — A single gall was taken from the root of a
rose in northwestern Colorado in August, 1891, but being imma-
ture, no flies issued from it.

Rosfcfolii Ashm. — I found the galls of this species quite com-
mon at Manitou in September, 1892, and have taken a few speci-
mens from rose leaves in the vicinity of Fort Collins.

Tuberculator Riley, MS. — Galls of what I suppose to be Riley's
tuberculator I have found common at Fort Collins, Manitou and
Dolores, during the past Summer.

ANTISTROPHUS.

Pisum Walsh. — Galls common on stems of Lygodesmia juncca
in the vicinity of Fort Collins.

ANDRICUS.

But two species of this genus have been taken, both of which
are new.

D. cellularius n. sp. Galls. — The galls are small, thin capsules,
occurring singly in the buds of Quercus undulata. The bud
scales cover the galls completely, and there is nothing to indicate
their presence until the fly escapes, leaving a small round hole.

Gall-fly 9- — Black, with reddish yellow feet, antennae and ja\\s.
Length 1.5 mm. Head black and shining, face coarsely striate betv
the eyes and mouth; vertex, occiput and geiue having a fine crackled ap-
pearance, ocelli rather inconspicuous, frontal ridge beneath antenna- bi
and prominent, mandibles reddish yellow, except at the very tips, u 1
they are black, palpi whitish; antennae i3-jointed, reddish yellow in r< >!• »
and infuscate at tip; last joint as long as the two preceding 4ogether;
slightly clavate. Thora.v black and with crackled appearance like the
head; parapsidal grooves sharply defined, scutellum bifoveate and coarsely
rugose, pleurae coarsely aciculate. Abdomen black and highly polished.
The large second segment covers nearly the entire surface, fully seven-
eights of it. Feet reddish yellow, hind tibia.- and femora more or K-s-,
infuscate in some specimens. //7//;'v hyaline, slightly longer than the
body; subcostal, radial and transverse n.-rvuivs rather stout, the others
very weak, the areolet only discernible in very favorable light.

Described from thirty female flies bred from galls taken at
Trinidad, Col., May 14, 1X92. The flies began enicr^in- May
2oth. No male> were obtained.

A. frequens n. sp.

Galls. — The galls are dense corky enlargements of small limbs
of Quercus undulata. They are irregular in si/e and shape, and

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are covered with bark like the rest of the limb. Large galls sel-
dom exceed two -thirds of an inch in diameter by two inches in
length. All polythalamous; they are exceedingly abundant at
Manitou, Col. Galls taken May 8th of this year began giving
flies two days later.

Gall-fly 9- — Black, with head, feet, portions of thorax, and basal por-
tions of antennae rufous. Length 1.75 — 2.5 mm. Head varying in color
from a good cinnamon-brown to almost black, but with no black markings
except the tips of the mandibles, the borders of the mouth and the com-,
pound eyes. Face coarsely punctured and with striae radiating from the
mouth. Antennae i5-jointed, rufous at base, last six or seven joints black.
Thorax somewhat darker than the head, varying from cinnamon-brown
to almost jet-black. The surface is finely and densely wrinkled, the
wrinkles running in a transverse direction; parapsides narrow, but dis-
tinct; the two parallel lines extending back from the prothorax not very
distinct; scutellum bi-foveate. the foveae rather small and very black, sur-
face of scutellum wrinkled like the thorax; thorax and abdomen rather
sparsely set with gray hairs, humeri wrinkled like the mesothorax, pleurae
very finely scratched ; abdomen black, polished, somewhat rufous in ru-
fous specimens. Feet, including coxae, with the exception of the poste-
rior tibiae, rufous; the posterior tibiae infuscate. In dark specimens the
posterior femora and the middle tibiae are somewhat infuscate. In the
darkest specimens all of the feet are somewhat blackish. Wings, length
in large specimens 3 mm., areolet medium in size, but faint on account
of the very slight cubital nervure, radial area long and narrow, radial
nerve not attaining the costa, the two transverse nervures quite heavy.

Described from thirty-one reared specimens, all females.

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NEW SPECIES OF NEPTIS FROM AFRICA.

(Plate IX.)

By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburg, Pa.

I have recently been going over the collections of African Le-
pidoptera in my possession with a view to the preparation of a
synonymic catalogue of those of the tropical West Coast. I
have completed the revision of the species of Neptis found in the
Ogove Valley, and make out no less than ten good species and
one variety, which some authors would possibly reckon as a spe-
cies. The species are the following: ncbrodes Hew., Biafra Ward,
nemetcs Hew., nicoteles Hew., nicobule sp. nov, , metanira sp.
nov., mixophyes sp. nov., metella Do ubl.- Hew., Agatha Cram.,
mcliccrta Dru. To these add N. Biafra var. coniinuata var. nov.
I herewith give descriptions of new forms, and the accompanying

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 249

reproduction of a photograph of the various species I trust will
be of assistance to those who are engaged in the study of this
somewhat difficult group.

N. Biafra Ward, var. continuata van nov. $ . — Agreeing with Biafra
in all respects save in the form of the band of large white spots which
traverse the anterior wing beyond the cell. In Biafra the three nearest
the costa are long and linear and the two following are oval, divergent,
and somewhat widely separated from the spots nearest the costa. In
continuata the spots form a continuous uninterrupted band, in which, all
the spots, except the lower one, which is suboval, are subquadrate. The
difference in the form and spacing of these spots imparts a widely different
fades to this form. It is worthy of note that the transverse spots in the
cell of the primaries of Biafra are not constant. In some specimens they
are very faint, and in some altogether wanting.

N. nicobule sp. nov. $. — Allied to N. nicoteles Hew. The markings of
the upperside of the anterior wings differ from those of X. nitolcles in
the form and arrangement of the transverse white spots beyond the cell,
which in nicoteles form a continuous band, and in nicobule a widely sepa-
rated series of four spots, of which the one nearest the costa, and the one
opposite the end of the cell are minute, while the two middle spots are
large and oval. The marginal lines are interrupted below the apex, and
near the middle of the outer margin by dark longitudinal shades. The
spot of the transverse series situated upon the hind margin of the anterior
wings in nicoteles\% large and bind; in nicobule it is simple, and consists
merely of a small subtriangular patch of bluish white scales. Upon the
underside of the primaries of nicobule the dark shading which interrupts
the marginal is much more distinct than upon the upperside, and there
are but three submarginal bands of white, while in nicoteles there are
four. Expanse 43 mm.

N. metanira sp. nov. $. — Allied to X. Biafra Ward. — The wings are
narrower and more produced than in Biafra, and the margins are not
scalloped, but even. The transverse band of white spots beyond the cell
upon the primaries is composed of six spots, the one on the costa minute,
the three following large and fused together forming a transverse spot
indented outwardly upon the nervules. This is followed by two diver-
gent oval spots, of which the lower one is the smallest. The transverse
median band upon the secondaries is relatively narrower than in Inafra,
and more deeply indented externally, and is clouded internally by pale
fuscous. The submarginal lines are bright bluish, t'pon the underside
the primaries have four marginal lines, while in Hiafra there are generally
but three. Expanse 45 mm.

N. mixophyes sp. nov. $. — Belonging to the same group as
and nicol)n/e, characterized by a long, uninterrupted, white longitudinal
ray traversing the cell from the base to its extremity. In ;;//.r<y>/m-.v this
ray is acute at its extremity and not rounded as in the other species. The

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transverse median series consists of six white spots arranged in a curve.
The two spots nearest the costa are subovate and elongated, the next,
opposite the end of the cell, is minute; the next two are large and collo-
cated, the upper one subquadrate, and the lower one subovate. The
sixth spot, which is located upon the inner margin, is triangular, and is
bisected by the submedian nerve. There are three submarginal lines, the
middle one being the most conspicuous. The posterior wings are trav-
ersed by a relatively broad median band of white spots indented out-
wardly upon the nervules. This is followed by a series of narrow fuscous
spots, and these are succeeded by a band of darker markings. There
are two submarginal series of very narrow white lines. The underside is
marked as upon the upperside, but the submarginal white lines are
widened enormously, covering the entire outer margin, and the interven-
ing dark spaces are reduced to narrow lines. Expanse 32 mm.

This is one of the smallest species of the genus, and with t lie-
exception of JV. Goochi Trim., from Natal, the smallest species
hitherto described from the African continent.

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NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID/E.

(Plate X.)

By JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The following diagnoses of new species of Noctuidae are merely
preliminary to the fuller descriptions which have been prepared
for the "Transactions" of the American Entomological Society.
Not so much pour prendre le temps, as to furnish a text for the
plate given herewith, and which is made from a photograph of
the types to test the possibilities of this method of illustration.
The figures are about one-fifth less than natural size.

Mamestra fuscolutea n. sp. ; first row 3rd figure. — Dull, somewhat
fuscous clay yellow, resembling trifoJii in this respect. The s. t. line is
rather prominent, whitish, with a feebly marked W, which is emphasi/ed
by the whitish streaks on veins 3 and 4, crossing the line. The irregular
ordinary spots are distinctly white ringed. It is an ally of trifo/ii and
chart aria, and has a vague resemblance to Hadcna devastatrix from the
series of sagittate spots preceding the s. t. line. Expanse 35 — 40111111.:
1.40 — i. 60 inches.

Hub. — Colorado, Bruce; two female specimens No. 284, 20.1.

OllCOCliemis nigrocaput n. sp.; first row, 4th figure. — Head very deep
limwn or blackish, collar faintly pink at base, bounded by a narrow black
transverse line. Color whitish, powdery, the veins blackish ; a black
basal dash, and a black streak from the orbicular to the outer margin,
broken at the reniform in the male, continuous in the female; secondaries

ENT. NEWS, Vol. III.

PI. X.

AMERICAN NOCTUID/E (Smith).

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white. Belongs to the group atricol/aris, and resembles Mr. Grote's
description of griseicollis, save that the latter has the transverse lines
marked and no basal streak. Expands 1.30 inches; 32 mm.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce, one £ (No. 296), one 9 (No. 181).

Oncocnemis extranea n. sp. ; second row, 4th figure. — Gray with a
fuscous admixture; head dusky; collar with a black transverse line at
base and near tip. Primaries with a black basal dash, to which the davi-
form is attached; a black streak in median cell; black interspaceal streaks
through the darker terminal space; secondaries pale, with fuscous outer
margin. Expands 1.25 inches; 31 mm.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce, one £ (No. 180).
Belongs to group atricollaris, but resembles, somewhat, colo-
radensis, of the Chandler?, group.

Homohadena figurata Haw.; center row, upper figure. — This species was
unknown to me when I wrote my revision of Homohadena, and was then
recorded from Nevada only. Mr. Bruce has now taken it in Colorado.

Acronycta n. sp. ; second row-, 3rd figure. — Specimens of this species
are in several collections and have been sent me for determination. Dr.
Riley has given it a mss. name, I believe, to be published in his intended
monograph of the genus. The figure is presented here experimentally
only and not for purposes of description.

Hydroecia medialis n. sp. ; first row, 6th figure. — Of the usual rusty
yellowish, gray, red or brown, varying in shade, the median space dis-
tinctly darker. Male antenna; serrate and bristled; secondaries paler,
more yellowish, with the median line of underside visible through. Ex-
pands 1.72 — 1.78 inches; 43 — 45 mm.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce (No. 138).

Specimens of this species are in several collections. It is re-
lated to imtnanis and obiiqua, differing most obviously in the
contrasting median space.

Hydoecia senilis n. sp.; first row, fourth figure.— Pale yellowish red,
scarcely rusty, the median lines darker, the ordinary spots mon- \ellow;
•ndaries paler, more yellow, more or less Mail; powden-d. Male
antenna? ciliated. Expands 1.50 — 1.52 inches; 37 — 38 mm.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce (No. 26 £ , 206 9 '•
The insect belongs to the niclitans, jid'cnilis series, interme-
diate in color and larger than either. It has a strong superficial
resemblance to Pachnobia pectinala,

Hydroecia imimoda n. sp.; second row, 4th figure. — Dull powdery
luttous. with a slight admixture of red; all the lines marked, but >rarcely
contrasting; a yellow apical patch and a similar, less distinct blotch at

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base of primaries; secondaries paler, powdery. Male antennae ciliated-
Expands 1.56 inches = 59 mm.

Had. — Colorado. Bruce (No. 244) one S .
In wing form and type of maculation belongs to rutila series,
with the prominent divided thoracic tuft of nitela.

Carneades conjuncta Smith; second row, 5th figure. — The species was
described from New Mexico; the figured specimen is from Colorado.
Bruce (No. 459).

Peridroma nigra n. sp.; middle row, lower figure. — The type of macula-
tion is as in occulta and astricta, from which the new species differs by
the powdery black fore wings, the markings picked out by whitish scales,
and the white, black-powdered secondaries. Expands 2.12 inches; 53 mm.

Hab. — Colorado in September. Bruce (No. 462). A single
female only.

Carneades n. sp.; second row, yth figure.— This little species, belonging
to the messoria group, though without doubt new, I prefer to leave un-
named, because it is defective and I have a single female only.

Caradrina meralis Morr. ; first row, yth figure. — A rather distinct little
species which I have received from Mr. Bruce (Nos. 362, 440), and some-
what doubtfully labeled meralis. *

Pleroma apposita n. sp. ; second row, ist figure. — Contrasting black
and white, very different from obliqnata, which is of a uniform ash-gray.
The maculation is lost, except in the costal region, and the s. t. line only
is marked by white scales the full distance. Expands 1.32 inches; 34 mm.

Hab. — Victoria, B. C. Mr. Neumoegen, one 1 only.

Nootua flavotincta n. sp.; first row, 2nd figure. — Most nearly related
to oblata Morr., but the collar is brown and the disc of thorax pale luteous
gray in the new species, while in the described species the matter is re-
versed. The primaries a red-brown, the markings and costal region yel-
lowish; claviform and cell between the ordinary spots black. Expands
1.32 inches; 34 mm.

Hab.— Victoria, B. C., collected by Mr. C. J. Weidt; two
males, one of them with Mr. Neumoegen.

Calocampa brucei n. sp.; second row, 2nd figure. — Most nearly allied
to some forms of ciiicrifia, but differs in the paler, more ashen gray of
the primaries, and most markedly by the pale thoracic disc, all other spe-
cies having this much darker than the ground color of primaries. Ex-
pands 2 inches; 50 mm.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce, £ and $ .

I take pleasure in naming this fine species after its discoverer.

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Rancora strigata n. gen. et sp. ; first row, ist figure. — An ally of Cu~
i-n/fia, differing from it in the heavier thorax, shorter body, impromtnent
hood to collar, serrate antennae of male and broader, less lanceolate wings.
The color is ashen gray, the transverse markings are obsolete and the
longitudinal dashes are obvious outwardly. Expands 1.75 inches; 44 mm.

Hab. — Victoria, B. C., one ? ; Mr. Neumoegen.

It is possible that Cucnllia serraticornis may be congeric, but
this species is larger, more robust, the wings broader, less lan-
ceolate.

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Notes on Bruchus alboscutellatus, Miarus hispidulus, Coeiiodes
acephalus, and a new Thiobius.

By JOHN HAMILTON, M. D., Allegheny, Pa.

Bruchus alboscutellatus Horn, breeds abundantly in the seed
capsules of seed-box, Bastard Loosestrife, Ludivigia alkrtiifolia,
a perennial plant of the Onagraceae family, which grows in wet
places. The ripe capsule is coriaceous, with four-winged angles,
perforated at the top, divided internally into four cells each con-
taining a hundred or more seeds, and is about the size of a pea.
Each cell usually contains a Bruchus in some stage, and it the
larva eats the seeds the diminution in their number is not very
great. As the dead plant stands rigid and its capsules indehis-
cent till Summer, and not eaten by birds or animals, it is quite
probable the beetles remain in them all Winter, or even till the
time the plant is in bloom. At this time, October 2oth, the cap-
sules contain larva?, pupae and beetles in about equal numbers.

This is a wide departure from the food-habits of any of the
North American species of Bnn'Iins on record, — riifimanus, />/-
sontm, chincnsis, j.-maculatus , dcscrtonim, ob scums, obsolcius,
Schrankicc and aureolus, are known to inhabit the seeds of legu-
minous plants. Pnminus occurs on the Ironwood of Ari/ona
(family unknown to me), but whether it breeds in the fruit is not
stated. It is quite likely other species of Bmchus may inhabit
the seed vessels or succulent parts of other plants, especially of
such as have persistent capsules or pods.

The dents on the hind femur of this species are usually three,
a large basal, small median and moderate apical, well separated;
sometimes the apical is absent, occasionally the apical and me-
dian; and sometimes the femur on one side will have the normal

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number, while the other will have only one or two, in which case
the basal one is larger than usual.

Mianis hispidulus Lee. — Since Mr. Blanchard's statement,
made two or three years ago, that this insect bred in the seed-
pods of Lobelia inflata, no opportunity to examine this plant has
been lost, but the results have been negative. However, on the
ist and on the i5th of October I found L. syphilitica (blue car-
dinal flower), a rank plant growing in wet places, the seed cap-
sules or pods of which contained the larvae, pupae and beetles in
great abundance. This species of Lobelia flowers in a progres-
sively elongating raceme, each flower being in the axil of a leafy
tract; flowering begins in July at the base of the raceme, advan-
cing upwards till the plant is killed by frost, which here is some-
times late in October. Thus it happens that on- the same raceme
there may be at one time blossoms, green, ripe, and dehisced
capsules. Whether the first capsules contained beetles cannot
be asserted from knowledge, but this is probable, and that some
of these are the parents of the larvae and pupae in the later de-
veloped pods is quite likely. The beetles seem to leave the pods
for hibernation, or at least all which were in those kept in my
office for observation did so through a round hole cut near the
base,, though in the field nothing of this was seen.

Cceliodes acephalus Say. — As is known, this species occurs in
abundance during July on the evening primrose, Oenothera bi-
ennis, but no record of its breeding in the seed-pods has been
observed. I discovered a female employed in the act of oviposi-
tion about, the middle of July. A puncture had apparently been
made by the beak, and the beetle turning round inserted an egg
in the puncture which I obtained. No larvae, pupae, nor beetles
were found in the capsules October ist, from which it would ap-
pear pupation occurs in the earth. Was this oviposition acci-
dental ?

Thinobius sp. — Lovers of small things may be interested in
knowing that an undescribed species of this genus may be found
early in October in old leaves about decaying mushrooms. It
has yellow antennae and legs, and seems to differ from T. Jiari-
cornis Lee. by its smaller size, thorax rounded at base and the
evident lustre of the thorax and elytra. The first joint of the
anteniKi: is stout and long, the second as thick, but about one-
third the length, the third is attenuate at base and longer than the

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 255

apical width; the outer ones gradually enlarge, becoming tra in-
verse, and are setose with long stiff hairs. It is a graceful little
thing, not over .02 inch, long, resembling much an Aleocliarid,
but the antennae are not inserted on the front and are very con-
spicuous. I put more than a dozen into a collecting-bottle with
other things, and only succeeded in getting two out of it, — a
warning that the collector should always have something at hand
for special things.

EREBIA SOFIA Streck.
By Dr. HERMAN STRECKER, Reading, Pa.

Having examined an example in Dr. Skinner's collection of
the Erebia described in "Can. Ent." vol. xiii, p. 31, 1891, by
Mr. \V. H. Edwards as a new species under the name of Erebia
Ethela, I find it to be identical with the above E. sofia described
I >y myself in "Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc." p. 35, 1881; the type
came from west coast of Hudson Bay, high up, was sent with
large numbers of other Lepidoptera from the Episcopal Mission
to Mr. W. Jeffcken by Archdeacon Kirtby, who sojourned in
those inhospitable regions for over twenty years.

Mr. Edwards' types were, as he states, taken by Prof. Ed. T.
Owen in the Yellowstone Park, Montana. It is not, however, as
its author states "allied to Erebia epipsodea," but is exceedingly
close to E. Kefersteinii Ev. , a Siberian species.

The representation of the genus Erebia in our fauna is very
meagre; all are, of course, confined to the Alpine and Arctic
regions of the continent, the following are all so far known:

Disa Thub. — That Rossi Curt, and fasciata Bull, are but va-
rieties of this species there seems to me to be but little doubt. I
have received fasciata from Hudson Bay above Eort Churchill,
also a single example through the goodness of Mr. Fletcher from
Nepigon; this differs from the Polar examples, but not to a de-
gree that would warrant specific separation.

Discoidalis Kby. — A beautiful and conspicuous species occur-
ring from the Polar regions downwards in various parts of British
America; also in East Siberia.

Epipsodea Butl. — A species peculiar to the Rocky Mountains
of Colorado, etc.

256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

Tyndarus Esp. — Found in the Rocky Mountains, and in the
Alpine regions of various parts of Europe.

Magdalena Streck. — An almost unicolorous blackish species
whose nearest ally would be the old world species alecto Hub.

Haydenii W. H. Edw. — With this I am unacquainted.

Vesagus Dbldy.'-Hew. is not an Erebia, nor even a North
American insect, but is a South American species belonging' to
the genus Lymanopoda.

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COLLECTING IN THE FAR NORTH.— Part I.

II. THE STIKIXE BIVHR.

By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa.

The Stikine River is one of the largest of the streams flowing
into the Pacific through our Alaskan territory. It is of sufficient
size to permit of navigation by steamers of three and one-half to
four feet draught, and with powerful engines, from the mouth to
Glenora, and occasionally to Telegraph Creek, twelve miles
further on, a total distance of about 138 miles. A little above
this point is the " Great Canon," where the current is too s\vift
and the water too rough for the passage even of canoes in the
skillful hands of native Indians.*

Leaving Fort Wrangel at high tide, early on the morning <>i
the i ith of July, we were soon over the bar which stretches across
the mouth of the river; just here the current is not very swift,
but on ascending a little distance it becomes apparent that the
engines are being worked to nearly their full capacity in order to
make any headway. At our first stop, made for the purposr of
taking wood aboard, I got out and tried to find some insects, but
with the exception of a few Banbidinui quadrifoveolatum^ taken
from beneath the bottom logs in the wood-pile, nothing of the
sort was visible — always leaving out of account the mosquitoes,
midges and Tabanidae, which, on the contrary, were seldom ab-
sent. The undergrowth here was too thick to penetrate without
an axe, and, even had there been time to cut a patch through
the bushes, the fallen timber presented an almost impassable

* See Annual Report of the ("teological and Nat. Hist. Survey of Canada, new scries,
Y<>]. Ill, Part I, isss. The reader is referred to Report 15, —"On an exploration in the
Yukon District, \. \Y. T. and adjacent northern portion of British Columbia" l>\ Gi
M. Dawson, D.S., F.C..S., for further information regarding >;eoi;raphy and history. The
writer acknowledges his indebtedness to this Report in determining distances traveled.

I.'-v)2.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NKWS. 257

barrier to progress. That afternoon \ve passed the international
boundary and left Alaska for British Columbia.

The freshet here had overflowed most of the bottom lands and
the insects were crowded up into the few dry places left, and
therefore easily taken, as I found on making a search among the
dead leaves and rubbish among the cottonwood trees. A fine
example of Cychrus angusticollis Fisch. occurred here, the
farthest from the coast that I have ever seen it — perhaps another
proof of Dr. Dawson's theory that this canon marks nearly the
head of the old salt water inlet that has been silted up, as this
Cychrus has always been considered as strictly a coast species.
A black variety of C. marginatus was also found, with Elaphrns
pallipes, Nebria metal/ica, Bembidium quadrifoveolatum and
Platynus piceolus. Of Pterostichus the most common species
was riparius, but in comparing with it a few vitreus and luczotii
were taken. Nearly all these were found under sticks and leaves
in little hollows, and besides the Carabidas mentioned I got a few
other nice things — an Anistoma, probably lateritia, two or three
Agathidium revolveus, Tachinus nigricornis in numbers, and
rarely an sEgialia cylindrical or rufescens. On a sand bank a feu-
specimens of Cidndela Oregona were flying about and were added
to my captures; dead wood and fungi yielded some good things,
as, for example, Colitys scabra, Tharops ruficornis and Phellopsis
obcordata; while occasionally something nice would be found
flying about the camp, as in the case of Elater Behrensii, Co-
yvnibites angularis, Leptalia macilenta and Cephaloon leptnrides,
Creophilus villosus was attracted by the smell of meat, so was
Silpha lapponica, the latter species going by the name of ' ' Salmon-
bug' ' up there, and is said to do a great deal of damage to fish
put out for curing by the natives.

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A NEW ARCTIA.

By AXXIK TRUMIH'LL SLOSSON, Nrw York, X. Y.

Arctia ininea n. sp.

This moth, from its general form and style of ornamentation,
seems closely allied to arge. But it is a much larger, more robust
insect, and in its coloring quite distinct.

Thorax, abdomen, markings of primaries and entire surface of secon-
daries, a vivid, a peculiar shade of yellowish red. Background of prima-

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258 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

ries black, markings broad and distinct; costal and inner margins broadly
red. The zigzag lines of outer margin, which, mfigurata, with its forms
of celia, phyllira, etc., make a TPor_Z>, take in this species the «Y-like
shape so noticeable in arge and dione. The veins are marked with red,
and there is one broad, heavy band of the same vivid color running from
base to outer margin, curving in its course, and touching anal angle; sec-
ondaries an even tint of yellow-red, with large, black, irregular macula-
tions. Underneath, the costa is marked with fiery orange decoration as
on upper side, but in deeper, brighter color. Abdomen with dorsal and
lateral rows of black spots.

The characteristic markings of this genus are in some respects
so similar in the different species that it is exceedingly difficult to
make a description distinctive, and I know I have failed here.
But this insect is so striking and peculiar, its fiery tones differ so
markedly from the pallid tints of its nearest ally, while its decora-
tion and general habitus are so unlike other groups in the genus
that I cannot doubt its right to a specific name.

Described from one male and two females taken at light in
Franconia, N. H., in 1889, 1890 and 1892.

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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW COSSID FROM TEXAS.

By B. NEUMOEGEN, New York.

AON nov. gen.

Head small, eyes large, palpi prominent, prothorax and thorax
slender, tufted. Antennae simply pectinated, slightly tapering
off near tip. Primaries, costa straight, apices sharp and pointed;
anterior margin well rounded, especially at angle. Inner margin
straight. Wings about two and a half times longer than broad.
Secondaries, costa straight, margins well rounded, tuft along anal
margin. Wings about as broad as long. Body very long and
slender, sparsely covered with hair, but with a pronounced anal
tuft. Legs slender and pilose; tibiae free from hair, with minimal
claws; venation much the same as in Hypopta Hub.

Aon noctiiiforniis nov. spec. — Antennae and palpi brown; eyes black.
Head and prothorax yellowish brown, encircled by a black line. Thorax
gray, with yellow dust along centre. Body gray, with blackish anal tuft.
Above: Primaries light gray, strewn with black granules. A prominent
black cliscal and two black basal spots; costa blackish, with small gnu-
dots. A transverse series of small, irregular black blotches from near
apex to median space. Light green tints along anterior margin from sub-
costal to median veins; a blackish hue transversing basal part of inter-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 259

cellular and median areas. Fringes dark gray, with black accentuation
at veins; a dark shade along interior margin. Secondaries uniformly
grayish white with black marginal tints as far as anal angle; a faint dark
gray discal dot. Below: Primaries dark gray with whitish shades from
basal area to anterior margin; black tints from base along costa; discal
dot not as prominent as above. Secondaries grayish white, powdered
with black along costa; prominent black discal dots. Legs covered with
light gray hair; tibiae black, with white spots at joints. Abdomen light
gray, with a sparse covering of hair. Expanse of wings 29 mm. Length
of body 10 mm.

Hab. — Nueces River, S. W. Texas. Types, two males; coll.
B. Xeumoegen.

Female unknown so far.

A very interesting and rare Cossid, the smallest of our fauna.
It comes close to Hypopia Hub. , but is a smaller, more slenderly-
built insect with primaries as well drawn out as in Holcocerus
Stand. It resembles, superficially, a noctuid.

" Mr. ALBARDA'S COLLECTION OF PAL/EARCTIC NEUROPTERA. — It was
with great regret I heard some time since from my valued friend and cor-
respondent, Mr. H. Albarda, of Leeuwarden, that failing eyesight had
caused him to abandon Entomology. His rich and representative collec-
tion of Palcearctic Neuroptera was offered by him to the Leyden Museum
on condition that it be kept separate and not incorporated in the general
collection, and the offer has been eagerly accepted by the authorities. At
the same time the Dutch Entomological Society received the donation of
such books and pamphlets from his library as the Society did not already
possess. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : October, 1892" (Ent. Mo.
Mag. November, 1892, p. 290). Mr. Albarda recently published an ex-
cellent paper on the family Rhaphididae, in the " Tijclschrift voor Ento-
mologie," noticed in the Literature Dep't of the NEWS for November.

STRENGTH OF THE ANT. — As I was recently walking along a rough
brick pavement, I noticed a small ant dragging the dead body of a large
house-fly across the walk. During the few minutes that I was watching,
it pulled the fly two or three feet to the edge of the pavement and then
up a bank of rough earth, which had an inclination of at least fifteen de-
grees, for a distance of six or more inches, when I caught the ant with its
burden in an envelope and took them to the laboratory to measure and
weigh them. The outside measures of the ant were i x 4 millimeters,
and its weight was 1.4 milligrams; that of the lly 4.5 x 12 millimeters,' and
its weight 36.3 milligrams (these weighings were made upon a line ana-
lytical balance). So we note that the ant was dragging up a steep hill a
body of over twenty-five times its own weight, and apparently not specially
fatigued thereby. — F. P. DUNNINGTON, in " Popular Science News."

260 [December,

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B, SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N, J.

Elaphidion Injury. — One of the striking features noticeable now in riding
through the State of New Jersey is the unusual amount of Elaphidion
injury on oaks. In some localities every tree has several dead or dying
t\vi;_;s, and the ground beneath is strewn with small branches broken off
by recent high winds. Some of these twigs contain two, or even three
larvaj at short intervals, \\hile there is only one girdling. This seems to
indicate that not all the larva? have the girdling habit. I have bred the
species from young oak steins, where no attempt at girdling was ever
made. As the species of Elaphidion sometimes attack orchard trees, it
behooves the agriculturist to collect and burn all fallen oak twigs and
branches, during the Winter, where the oaks are near the orchards. All
shade and ornamental trees should be so protected at any rate, even when
there is no threatened orchard near.

The " Angoumois Grain Moth," of which mention was made last month
in comment on -Dr. Doran's Bulletin, promises to be more injurious than
ever before, during the present season. I have received letters from sev-
eral parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania complaining of injury to corn
as well as wheat, and most of the letters speak of the large number of
"millers" now flying. Wherever this is the case, wheat should be
threshed immediately, and either at once disposed of or bulked in tight
bins and covered with sacking or some more closely woven substance.
Infested corn-cribs are difficult to deal with. If the crib is tight, the car-
bon disulphide remedy can be used; if it is open work, it is probable that
there will be no further breeding of the insects in it this season. The
frosty nights will check development, and injury will not increase. As a
precaution, cribs containing old corn which is infested, should be cleaned
and fumigated with sulphur to destroy lurking moths, before the new
ci >rn is stored in it.

Oviposition of Crickets. — Among the insects most common on Cranberry
3 about picking time, are the crickets, and they are charged by the
growers with eating berries, and thus doing considerable injury. The
(|iit stion of just where they oviposit becomes an important one, when we
consider the possibility of keeping the insects off the bog, and I sent two
of my students, October i3tli, to make observations. They were very
sun essful, brought back a quantity of eggs, and the following account is
from the report made by Mr. R. S. Lull.

They seemed to prefer dry, sandy ground, and were found in greal
numbers c >u the t< >\^ < >f the dams cr< issing the bogs. But one or two were
noticed on peaty ground, and on digging there, could find no trace of
eggs so abundant in the sand. Most of the specimens were females, but
occasionally a male would be seen, burrowing like the rest, or with his

262 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

head hidden in the little cavity he had made, he would sing away, pos-
sibly to cheer his mate. The females were very busy burrowing, thro wing-
out the sand with considerable force with their strong fore legs; sometimes
they dug singly, but often two or three together, preferring some sort of
shelter as of a small tuft of grass. Others were busy egg laying, with the
long ovipositor thrust deep into the sand, sometimes nowhere near a
burrow. Occasionally it seemed as though a burrow had been made, the
eggs deposited, and the little cavity filled up again, as in several places
where eggs were found, the ground had that loose, freshly-dug appearance.

Carefully scraping away the soil disclosed the eggs, quite near the sur-
face, sometimes only three or four lying together, again a dozen or more.
No trace of cell or egg-case was found, although the eggs adhered to-
gether more or less. In some of the burrows and on the surface a larva
was found, evidently of some predacious beetle, which fed upon the eggs.
From the fact that the crickets only oviposit in dry soil, it is suggested
that wetting down the bogs, and if possible the dams as well, about the
middle of October, might prevent breeding there.

The larva brought in is Carabid, but I have not attempted to fix the
genus.

The Horn Fly Again.— In the "Industrialist," for October 8th, Prof. E.
A. Popenoe records the appearance of this insect in Kansas during the
present year. The rapidity with which it has spread is simply marvelous.
First noticed in 1886, it has in six years overrun almost one-half of our
territory, extending north and south from Florida to Quebec, and west to
Kansas. The conclusion that the railroad lines have been largely instru-
mental in spreading the insect would be almost irresistable were it not
that the shipment of cattle moves rather from west to east. Unlike
Stomoxys calcilrans this species does not seem to bother horses.

The Strawberry Weevil. — In Bulletin No. xviii, of the Delaware College
Experiment Station, Mr. M. H. Beckwith gives us an account of injury-
done by Anthonomus inuscuhts to strawberries in Kent County, Delaware.
He has found the larva; in the injured buds and his bred the beetle June
loth. These beetles mated; but refused to oviposit on potted strawberry
plants. They have been found in the field as late as September, and
Mr. Beckwith suggests that there are probably two, and possibly thn-r
broods during the season, but he is unable to 'give us any information as
to another food-plant, or the method of hibernation. Collectors of (.'«>](•-
optera have taken this species at almost all times during the season, but
I am not aware that any food-plants have been recorded. It is one of
those interesting forms that without apparent reason increases surprisingly
for one 'or two years, does a great amount of injury and then drops luck
into obscurity for a longer or shorter time. Our successors in the next
('•ntury will undoubtedly look back with wonder at the ignorance and
stupidity of the students of the present day who failed to see the (to them)
perfectly clear relation between the effect and the cause, but it is as un-
doubtedly true that no reasonable explanation of the fact has been ad-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 263

vanced. .Mr. Beck with has made no experiments, but recommends
kerosene emulsion and hellebore, expressly discountenancing the use of
the arsenites on the score of danger to the consumer. This makes pi is-
sible an interesting comparison with Bulletin iSof the Iowa Station noted
in our last number, in which a free use of the arsenites even upon well
grown fruit is advocated. Personally, I fail to see any danger in their
application while in bud or in blossom, and it is at this time that the ap-
plications against the "weevil" must be made. I very much doubt the
efficiency of the hellebore mixture. One ounce to three gallons i >f water
may do for currant worms, or the saw-fly larvae generally, but it will not
be found effective for much besides. The snout beetles are usually diffi-
cult to kill at best, and where the feeding is done by puncturing the bud
and eating the undeveloped petals anything short of the arsenites is prac-
tically useless, and I would not expect too much of even these. The
kerosene suggestion is, in my opinion, the one most likely to be useful.

Notes and.

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THE newspaper clipping referring to donation of the Angus collection
tn American Museum of Natural History of New York, which appeared
on page 97, vol. iii, of EXT. NEWS, was not written by me, as I furnished
only the last sentence concerning Catocake. — Dr. R. E. Krx/K.

LIEUT. R. E. PEARY, the Arctic explorer, saw bumble-bees at north
latitude 81° 37' in Greenland, and stated that blue-bottle (lies wei>
common that far north as they are in Philadelphia around a butcher-shop.
The latitude mentioned is within about 580 miles of the North 1'ole.

NOTE ON TACHYTES. — In connection with the recent monograph of the
North American species of 'J\ic/t\'/i's by Mr. Fox, in Transactions Fnto-
mological Society xix, 1 want to say that I have confirmed Mr. ('neon's
suspicion that T. clou ,a~ii/n .< Cr. might be the male of 'J\ Jisliiiitits^m.
by taking them in copula. In Illinois I have also taken '/'. I'aluins i com-
mon), T. aunilentus, T. scrii alits and T. <>/>st iinis. — CHAS. R< >ia i; i si IN,
Carlinville, 111.

264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

VENTURESOME INSECTS. — Mr. Webster's note in the NEWS for Novem-
ber, p. 232, on the behavior of Pyramcis atalanta, recalls the fact that I
made the same observation at Wallingford, Delaware County, Pa., in
1881 and 1882. Late in sunny Summer afternoons, about 5.30 o'clock, or
even later, one or sometimes more individuals of P. atalanta appeared
day after day, at nearly the same spot in an orchard lawn. Sometimes
they alighted upon persons, more often upon the trees or the ground. I
have noticed the same phenomena in this species in later years, but can-
not now specify the times and places. Among dragonflies, the only similar
occurrence that I can now recall, is that of some males of P/at/ieini:, fri-
maculata repeatedly alighting upon my gray flannel shirt, late one after-
noon, while I was watching them in a clearing in the woods at Folsom,
Pa. The bluish white color of their abdomens at first suggested that their
alighting upon my shirt was an instance of protective resemblance, but I
doubt that such was the case. — PHILIP P. CALVERT.

To DR. ROBERT H. LAMBORN, the public is indebted for an effort made
a few years since toward discovering a method for exterminating mos-
quitoes. Although many months of research and experiment resulted in
no apparent abatement of the nuisance, still it is not improbable that the
future may bring to the notice of entomologists some predatory insect
which may be utilized as a mosquito annihilator. The higher develop-
ment of useful domestic insects has long been the study of agriculturists,
and has been as important a factor in economics as the limitless effort to
resist the noxious parasite.

Among the many insects indispensable to man are the cochineal bug,
the silk worm and the honey bee; to the latter Dr. Lamborn's attention
has recently turned, doubtless with a view to bringing about the advent
of the much-talked-of " Coming Bee."

Although apiculture is the oldest economic pursuit, it is only within the
last century that much scientific thought has been directed to the perfec-
tion of the stock. Much has been accomplished in the line of developing
a gentler bee, but at the expense of other qualities. To evolve an ideal
bee some points must be considered which have hitherto been overlooked.
A combination of desirable points of various races and an elimination of
objections must require much patience, time and money.

CARKIK B. AARON.

A CHANGE IN THE N.\.M K OF A RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES OF OR-

CHELIMUM. — Recently, while examining a small collection of New Jersey
Orthoptera which had been sent to me by Prof. John B. Smith, of the
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, for determination, a pair
of small Orchelivrium were encountered which agree in every respect with
Harris' description and figure of Orchelimum gracilis as given in "In-
serts Injurious to Vegetation," edition of 1863, p. 163, fig. ;S. ]',y re-
ferring to " Materials for a Monograph of the Orthoptera of N. Aim-iica"
by Samuel H. Scudder, it will be seen that on page 451 this insect of
Harris' is made a synonym of De Geer's l.ncusia fasciala, which is the

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 265

Xiphidiuni fascia/inn of Serville and later \vriters. It is quite possible
that Mr. Scuclder did not have typical specimens of the insect in question
at hand when he was working over the material upon which he based his
decision of the synonymy of names. At any rate the two insects are
quite distinct, as the specimens before me very plainly indicate, and there-
fore Harris' name should be restored to the insect which originally bore it.

In this connection it might be well for me to go a little further and cor-
rect an error which I fell into by accepting this synonymy as made out by
the author referred to above. In an article published in the " Canadian
Entomologist" for April, 1891, on page 70, I described as new a species
of Oir/n'/iiiinin from Nebraska, for which I chose the name^/vrr/A*. Now,
that this name has been ascertained to rightfully belong to another spe-
cies of the genus, my insect's name will necessarily have to be changed.
I therefore suggest for it the name delicatnm, suggestive of its general
delicate structure and appearance.

In my article above referred to I have also unintentionally allowed the
name lanceolatum to appear where that of aitcnuaiinn should have been
used instead. This error occurred on account ot my having described
one of Mr. Scudder's species as new under this name, but afterwards
found out my error in time to make the correction in the paper where the
•description occurs before it was printed, but did not do so in the notes
which follow. — LAWRENCE BRUNER, Nebraska State University.

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Entomological Literature.

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORV, iv, pp.
167, f/sey., New York, 1892. — List of types of Lepidoptera in the [Henry]
Edwards Collection of Insects [now in this Museum,] \Y. I'.eutemmiller.

Ill I .I.KTINO DKI.LA SOCIETA F.NT< >M< >!.< >GICA ITAI.IANA, X.xiv, 2, Flor-

-ence, Sept. 15, 1892. — Contribution-, to the dipterological fauna of the
province of Pavia, II, M. Bezzi. Contributions to the xtu.lv of tin- I'.n-n-
thida?,*t xii, A. Senna. On grasshoppers in the low Florentine plain.
. lonidia Ulauchardi n. sp. of Coccida- from the date palm of the Sahara,
A. Targioni To/zetti, figs.

266 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, Oct. 15, 1892. — The genus
Acronycta and its allies (cont.), Dr. T. A. Chapman. A melanic race of
Liparis monac/ia, }. A. Clark, i pi. Variation in size brought about by
food, E. A. Bowles.

THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY, II, pp. 89-136, Granville,
Ohio, September, 1892. — Psychological notes upon the Gallery Spider-
Illustrations of intelligent variations in the construction of the web, C.
H. Turner.

OFVERSIGT AF FINSKA VETENSKAPS-SOCIETETENS FORHANDLINGAR,
xxxiii, Helsingfors, 1891. [On Siberian Hemiptera-Heteroptera],- O.
M. Renter; has some comparisons of N. American and other faunas.

LE NATURALISTE, Paris, Oct. 15, 1892. — The mouth and the buccal
organs of Arthropods (concl.), R. Saint-Loup. The useful insects of
China, Tcheng-Ki-Tong.

JAHRES-BERICHT DER NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT GRAU-
BUENSDENS, ii. f. xxxv, Chur, 1892. On the formation of honey, Dr. A.
v. Planta.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 1892, i, Berlin, August,
'1892. — On the law of moderation in the alteration of the markings of in-
sects: Contribution to the theory of development from constitutional
causes, K. Escherich, i pi. The Anchonid group, *f J. Faust. [On Co-
leoptara from Turkestan. Siberia, Persia and the Amur River]*f Dr. L.
v. Heyden and J. \Veise. [On Cicindelidas]*t W. Horn. The varieties
of Dorcadion equestre Laxman, Dr. G. Kratze, i pi. Monographic re-
vision of the Rutelid genus Popillia Serv., id. VII. Contribution to the
German beetle fauna, J. Schilsky. Revision of the palaearctic species of
the Elaterid genus I\Ielanotus Eschsch., O. Schwarz, i pi.

ANNALES DES SCIENCES NATURELLES. ZOOLOGIE, xiii, 6, Paris, Oct. 5,
1892.— Anatomical and physiological researches on the compound eye of
Arthropods, H. Viallanes, 2 pis.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZOOLOGIE, liv, 4, Leipsic, Oct.
18, 1892. — Contributions to the knowledge of the wings of insects, C.
Hoffbauer, 2 pis., figs.

THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, November, 1892. — Calosoina scrutator at
Ottawa, J. Fletcher.

ANIMAL COLORATION. — An account of the Principal Facts and Theories
relating to the Colours and Markings of Animals, by Frank E. Beddard,
M.A., etc. With four coloured plates; and woodcuts in the text. London:
Swan Sonnenschein & Co. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892, pp. viii.
288. " I have not used insects so much as has Mr. Poulton. . . . Never-
theless, it is impossible not to devote a great deal of space to insects.

* Contains new species other than North American. f Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 267

The theory of mimicry, for instance, is almost entirely supported by evi-
dence furnished from that group." Preface, p. iv.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, November, 1892.
—Notes on some British and exotic Coccida?, J. W. Douglas; figs. etc.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQVE DE FRANCE, \x, Paris, le
Trimestre, Sept. 22, 1891.— Voyage of M. E. Simon to Venezuela, De-
cember, iSSy-April, iSSS; eleventh memoir: Biological observations on
Arachnids,*f E. Simon, 4 pis. Essay on the classification of the Pyralitcs
(concl. in 46 Tr.)*t E. L. Ragonpt. Malachidte of Europe and neighbor-
ing countries (cont. in 2e and 36 Tr.), E. Abeille de Perrin, etc.— 26 and
36 Trimestres, Dec. 23, 1891.— Voyage of E. Simon to Venezuela;
i3th memoir: Elateridce,* E. Fletiaux; i4th: Nitidulidae, Monotomida.-,*
A. Grouvelle, figs.; i6th: Pseudoscorpions* (concl. in 46 Tr. with 4 pis.),
L. Balzan, 4 pis. Voyage of M. E. Gounelle to Brazil: Eumolpidce,* E.
Lefevre. Arachnological studies, 23d memoir,* E. Simon. Critical ex-
amination of some types of Curculionidse of the genus Apion belonging
to the Musee at Stockholm, followed by synonymical notes, J. Desbro-
chers des Loges. Studies on the geographical distribution of the Mala-
coderma, J. Bourgeois, map. Habits and metamorphoses of Perilitus
brevicollis Haliday, Braconid Hymenopter, parasitic on the Altise (Hal-
* tica ampelophaga Cuer.) of the vine in Algeria, J. K. d'Herculais and C.
Langlois.— 46 Trimestre, April 13, 1892. Monographic essay on the family
Gyrinidse, 2d supplement, Dr. M. Regimbart, 2 pis. Bulletin: Two bird
destroyers of Odonata, R. Martin.

MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE ZOOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, v, 4, Paris, 1892.
—Descriptions of new Diptera,* J. M. F. Bigot.

YKKHANDLUNGEN DER K. K. ZOOL.-BOT. GESELLSCHAFT IN \\~IKN, xlii,
i, April, 1892. On the so-called stand-still stage in the development of
Oestrid larva?, Dr. F. Brauer. Communications on Gall-flies,* E. H.
Ruebsaamen, 2 pis. 13 figs. — 2, August, 1892. The biological significance
of the genital appendages of insects, C. Escherich, i pi. Monographic
revision of the Mecopodidae, J. Redtenbacher, i pi.

COMPTE RKNIM-. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, Paris, Oct. 24, 1892. On
the mode of fixation of the parasitic hexapod larva- of Ararina, S. Jour-
dain.

. \KCHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, Iviii, I, 3, Berlin, September, 1892.
-The beak of the Diptera Pupipara, K. H. Mm — riil>nr-, 2 pis.

NATURE, London, Oct. 27, 1892. — A wave of wasp life, G. \V. IVi-khani.
Protective mimicry [in Locustina], R. H. Thomas.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Nov'r, 1X92.— Notes on the synonymy
of Noctuid moths, A. G. Butler.

* Contains new species other than North Anicricaji. •, tains new jjenora.

268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

THE BRITISH NATURALIST, London, November, 1892.— The secondary
sexual characters of the British Coleoptera, J. W. Ellis. Portrait and
sketch of Rev. O. P. Cambridge.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Out., November, 1892. —
Honey Bee or House Fly, H. Osborn. The life-history of the northern
mole-cricket (Gryllotalpa borealis), E. W. Doran. Note on a borer in
the stem of the Red Currant, E. W. Claypole. Report of Committee on
an Entomological Congress in 1893. Notes on the insect fauna of the
Mississippi bottoms, H. E. Weed. The web-worm tiger (Plochionns
tiinidus Halcl), M. E. Murtfeldt. [The preceding were read to the Ento-
mological Club, A. A. A. S. at Rochester, August, 1892]. Galernca
xanthomelcsna polygoneutic at Washington, C. Y '. Riley. On Desinodex
follicitlonun var. bovis in American cattle, C. W. Stiles. On the Bean
Weevil, C. V. Riley.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

COLEOPTERA.

Anchonidse: n. sp. from Mexico and Central America; Faust, Deut.
Ent. Zeit. 1892, pp. 17-60.

Oinus Hornianus, W. Horn, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 91, Calif. ?

Argodia n. gen. Lamiidae, Belon, Bull. Ent. Soc. France, 189;. p. liv.
A. OrouvelleilA., Mex.

ARACHNIDA.

Cyrtaucheniiti, talpa Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1891, p. 303, Calif.
Brachythele longitarsis p. 305, S. Calif. /?. Thevencti, p. 305, Calif.

DIPTERA.

New species of Chrysops, Corisoneitra, Diatomiticitra, Diac/i/onis,
Slihasoma, Therioplectes, Aty lotus, Tabamis, Bigot, Mem. Soc. Zool.
France, v., pp. 603-688.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for November was mailed October 28, i^- 12.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE X, VOL. III.

By an accident, the plate accompanying my diagnoses of " New species
of Noctuidae" was made up differently than intended by me. I did not
see proof, and though some of the changes necessitated were made, yet
some of the references to the figures are erroneous. I realize that this
error is in a measure due to my negligence in failing to number the fig-
ures. As they stand on the plate the species represented are:

Rancora strigata n. sp. Pleroma apposita n. sp.

Noctua flavotincta n. sp. Calocampa Brucei n. sp.

Mamestra fuscolutea n. sp. Acronycta n. sp.

Homohadena figurata Harv.

Oncocnemis nigrocaput n. sp. Oncocnemis extranea n. sp.

Hydroecia media/is n. sp. • Carneades conjuncta Sm.

Hydrcecia senilis n. sp. Hydrcecia unimoda n. sp.

Peridroma nigra n. sp.
Caradrina meralis Morr. Carneades n. sp.

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VOLUME IV. 1893.

EDITOR :

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PHILIP P. CALYERT, Associate Editor.

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INDEX TO VOLUME IV.

GENERAL ENTOMOLOGY.

American Entom. Society, col-
lections of 115

Association of Economic En-
tomologists 252

Blackberry insects . . . 197, 227
Blackknot, insects from . 267, 295
Carnivorous insects . . . .123
Classifi'n of Arthropods . 200, 270
Colorado, entomology of . 42, 72

Cranberry insects 323

Economic Entomology . 9, 47, 88,

123, 196, 229, 257, 296, 323.
Editorials 8, 37, 46, 86, 112, 195, 228,

266, 296, 322.
Entomological Literature 16, 55, 92,

129, 1 60, 203, 236, 270, 304, 331.
Ent. Section, A. N. S., meet-
ings of 21, 98, 133, 163, 208, 241,

309, 336.
Ent. Society of Philadelphia,

early history of 145

Fungus parasites of insects 303, 328
Herbivorous insects . . . .123
Insect attacks and plaut dis-
eases 229

Kansas, injurious insects of . 47
Medico-entomology . . . .217
Morphology of insects . . 52, 176
Mt. Washington, insects of 249, 287

Nerve centres 200

Notes and News 12, 51, 90, 126, 156,

200, 233, 267, 301, 329.
Obituary.

Bigot, J. F. M 280

Hagen, H. A 313

Martindale, I. C 37

Ruhl, F 280

VVestwood, J. 0 127

\Vood-Mason, J 280

Phylogeny of insects .... 52
Predaceous insects, practical

use of 9

Raspberry insects . . . 197, 227
Summer of 1893, insects of. . 229

Tracheae 90

Vanilla beans, insects attacking 227

Vitality of insects 230

Winter campaigns .... 89

World's Fair, insects at . . 88, 257

ARACHNIOA.

Cattle tick 125

Phidippus opifex 194

New N. A. genera and species

20, 58, 97, 132, 162, 206, 240, 278,

307, 308, 335.
Ticks on animals' ears . 246, 267

COLEOPTERA.

Alaska, C. of

Amblychila cylindriformis .
Arkansas, C. of ....
Baris scolopacea ....
C. inhabiting fungi . . .
California, C. of ....
Carabidse, distribution . .
Clems formicarius . . .
Coccinella q-notata . . .
Cychrus canadensis . . .
Cyllene robinice ....

Donacia

Elm-leaf beetle ....
EpUachne borealis . . i
Eubrichius aquaticus
Galerucella xanthomeleena

Illinois, C. of

Kansas, C. of

Lasiodci ina sen-iconic . .
Long Island, C. of . .

i, 187

. 281
. 284

. 121

. 118

. 235

. 1 86

. 12

. 124

. 21

- 285

IO

24, 197

. 2O2

JO

. I50

• 293

• 326

11

INDEX.

New N. A. genera and species 20,

58, 97, 162, 206, 240, 277, 335.
North Carolina, C. of ... 6
Oncideres pustulata .... 302
Ont'iophagus nuchicornis . . 22
Phytonomus punctatus ... 22
Ptinid pests ........ 325

Rose-bug 325

Silvanus surinamensis ... 13

Sitodrepa panicea 326

Strawberry weevil 88

Irichobaris trinotata . . .128

DIPTERA.

Cecidotnyidous? galls . . . 242

Ceria signifera 91

Empid, an anomalous . . . 208

Hornfly 13

Hypoderma in cattle .... 299
in man . . . .219

Meromacrus 114

Mythicomyia n. gen 209

rilcyi n. sp. . . 209
New N. A. genera and species

58, 97, 113, 132, 162, 209, 240, 277,
-,-,£

J0°-

Psychoda albipunctata n. sp. . 113
" slossoni n. sp. . .114

Psychodidas, N. A 113

Pteroptila 114

Subula pallipes 163

Tachinidae, recent work on .13
Trichopoda, distribution . . 69

HEMIPTERA.

Aphis persices-niger . . . .123

Corimelcena albipennis . . . 91

Cyclaphns tenuicornis . . . 268

New N. A. species 58, 97, 132, 207,

240, 277, 336.

Pear-tree Psylla . . . . n, 324

Pseudococcus, note on . . .317

HYMENOPTERA.

Acraspis undulata n. sp. . . 28

Aptt'sis major n. sp 32

Bee fights, how a 49

IV<--stiiigs and rheumatism . 51

Belonocnema Colorado n. sp. . 210

Carpenter bees 218

Cynipidse . . 28, 153, 166, 210, 223

Distribution 302

Holcaspis bretnpennata n. sp. . 31
Colorado n. sp. . .210
monticola n. sp. . . 30
rubens n. sp. ... 29

Jamaica, H. of 188

Melecta niiranda n. sp. . . . 143
N. A. species . . . 143

Neolarra 292

Neuroterus congregates n. sp. 166
virgens n. sp. . .166
New N. A. genera and species
28, 58, 97, 132, 207, 241, 278, 307,

336.

Nomia, N. A. species . . . 134
punctata n. sp. . . . 135
Op/iion slossoncs n. sp. . . . 135
Piinpla conqwisitor .... 269
Pompilius luctuosiis .... 234
Stinging by H. . . . 51,217,301
Torymus haincsii n. sp. . . 278
Vespa, Toad feeding on . . .159
Wasps, preservation of larval

food by 202

Xylocopa orpife.v 151

LEPIDOPTERA.

Aberrant forms 75

African L., n&w . 22, 59, 103, 136,

i?i, 309, 339-

Agrotiphila incognita n' sp. . 101
ma at la fa n. sp. . 100
Amnemopsyche incisa n. sp. . 60
Ancistrota, new Afric. spp. . 177
Antincphclc, new Afric. spp. . 340
Ap/ni.-dis, new Afric. spp. 25, pi. I.

Arctiidre 138, 213

Argyn HIS crinna 246

cornclia, oTi'ftii, pi. xi.
" cybclc and Icto . .318
Autumn collecting of L. . . 109

riionra goodii n. sp 136

California, L. of . . . 226, 235
Callidirpaiia, new Afr. spp. 171, 2

INDEX.

in

Calymnia calami ....
Carneades e dicta Us n. sp. .

sic cat a n. sp.
Catocalae, capturing . . .

" in New York .
Cai'iria, new Afric. spp.
Cecrita bilineata ....
Cerapoda sty la fa n. sp. . .
Ceruridia slossonii . . .
Chrysophanus dione . . .•
C. phloeas var. fasciata . .
Ciropteryx, new Afric. spp.
Coptopteryx, new Afric. spp
Cosuma cinerea n. sp. . .
Ctcnogyna, new Afric. spp.
Diodosidafunebris n. sp. .
Decoying P. turnus . . .
Dendrolimus do/ores . .
Deivitzia perpallida n. sp. .
Drepana bioculata n. sp.
D' Urbania mapongua n. sp.
Eacles imperialis ....
Elementary Entomology 4,
119, 191, 221.

El pis n. gen

Epizeuxis laurentii n. sp. .
Euclca new Afric. spp. . .
Eudanius czmilca n. sp. . .
Eupccya n. gen

" itivalis n. sp.

" slossonite n. sp.

Euverna n. gen

Extended pupal term . .
Feniseta tarquinius . . .

Food-plants

Foresight of larvae . . .
Friendly butterfly ....
Geodena, new Afric. spp. .

Ghost moth

Gipsy moth

Cirpa, new Afric. spp. .
Gonimbrasia longicaudata

137-
Gononieta fitan ....

Goodia n. gen

new Afric. spp. . .

. 127

• 99

• 99

• 73
. 261

62,63

. 262

• 99

• 5i
. 126

• 330
. 176
. 174
. 107

• 342

• 36

- 83
102, 3

. 64

. 167

. 169

. 169

. 141

• 234

• 14

• 303

. 269

• 52

. 61

. 268

. 158

. 60

n. sp.

137
178
179

• 15
. 248

• 341

• 177
. 24

• 157
39, 84,

Grapla com ma . . . . 14, 53
zephyrus, food of . . 220

Greasy L 297

Heliothis armiger . . 10, pi. v

Hepialns huinuli 268

Hcstia rinkiuensis n. sp. . . 337
Hcterocainpa manteo . . . 262
Hydrcecia media/is .... 87
micacea . . . 51, 87
Hylemera, new Afric. spp. . . 61

Ichthyiira 77, 170

Jamaica, L. of 3

Larinopoda me/andeta n. sp. . 25

Larvae, various 310

Lasiocampidse 248

Latoia, new Afric. spp. . . . 103
Lepasta africana n. sp. . . . 343
Leucoma gracillima n. sp. . . 64
Limacodes cretacea n. sp. . . 107

Lithosidse 138, 213

Long Island, L. of . . . .116
Lycczna sonorensis . . . .125
Lyctznesthes, new Afric. spp. 25-7
Macrurucampa n. gen. ... 34
Plainest ra lan^nida n. sp. . . 100
segrcgata n. sp. . 100
Megadrepana cinerea n. sp. . 178
Mircsa, new Afric. spp. . . 104-5
Movements of pupae .... 264
Mynes dohertyi n. sp. . . . 337
Natada melainpepla. n. sp. . . 107

Neoarctia n. gen 141

New N. A. genera and species
20, 34, 59, 83, 97, 98, 132, 133, 141,
169, 207, 241, 248, 308, 336.
North Carolina, L. of . . So, 189
Notodonta stragnla .... 255
Nyc temera fallax n. sp. . . 59

- - 159

• • 338

IOO

99

212

211
212

M

Ocyton, new Afric. spp. .

Oncocnemls Colorado n. sp.

pndorata n. sp.

/'amplii/a a/cina n. sp. . .

strcckeri n. sp. .

yehl n. sp
I\wnias astylus, food of . .

IV

INDEX.

Papilio elwesii 279

eurymedon .... 243

policenoides . . . . pi. i

Parasa viridissima n. sp. . . 102

Phraginatobia assiniilans . . 16

Plegapteryx, new Afric. spp. 172, 3

Plusia bimaculata 225

Prolatoia, new Afric. g. spp. 107, 8
Pseudaletis, Afric. spp. . . pi. i
Psychide, larval cases of N. A. 320

Pt i/itra n. gen 103

" argyraspis n. sp. . . 104

Pyrameis huntera 14

Redoa ogovensis n. sp. ... 63
Rhypteira, new Afric. spp. . 106, 7

Saturnidae 112

Schizura ipoincea 158

Scotogramma luteola n. sp. . 101
uniformis n. sp. 101
Semyra lineata n. sp. ... 102
Setagrotis terrific a n. sp. . . 98
Sphinx franc kii n. sp. . . . 133

Spilosoma prinia 127

Soloe biguttata n. sp 62

Stibolepis abluta n. sp. . . . 343
Sulychra, new Afric. spp. . . 63

Synchlos crocale 158

Synonymic and structural notes 33
Tagiades dannatti n. sp. . . 309
Teinorhyncha n. gen. . . . 106
umbra n. sp. . 106
Tegulata? nigristriata n. sp. . 341
Temperature and color . . . 321
Thaleropsis trigona . . . pi. i
Thyinistada, new Afric. spp. . 180
Tingra, new Afric. spp. . 22, 23
Tmetocera ocellana n. sp. . . 196

Vanessa antiopa 52

Venturesome butterfl. 13, 14, 54, 90

MYRIAPODA.

Lithobius dorsospinoruni, ne-
brascensis, sexdentatus, n.
spp. ... 247

New N. A. species . . 241, 247
NEUROPTERA.

Amphientomum hageni . . . 268

Different species in coitu . . 268

Lestes eurinus 330

Mantispa, self mutilation by . 295
New N. A. species and genera

132, 207, 278, 336.
White ants, ravages of ... 269

ORTHOPTERA.

Acridium obscurum . . .48, 50
Blatta orientalis .... 48, 50

Digestive system 47

Grasshoppers in Minnesota . 263
New N. A. genera and species

20, 59, 132, 162, 207, 241, 307, 308
Scudderia furculata . . .48, 50

THYSANURA.

Acharutes brevipennis n. sp. . 182
marmoratus . . .184
nivicola . . . .184

New N. A. species 65, 182, 241, 278,

336.
Papirius unicolor n. sp. ... 65

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOL. IV.

Aich, H 15

Ashmead, W. H., 278

Ashton, T. B 145

Banks, N. 268

Bassett, H. F., . . . . 153, 223

Bean, T. E., 220, 234

Calvert, P. P., 200, 268, 313, and

Ent. Lit.

Chagnon, G., 76

Chapman, T. A., 268

Cholodkovsky, N., .... 52
Cockerell, T D. A., 42, 72, iSS, 317

Cook, H. J., 13

Coquillett, D. W., .... 208

Cross, E. W 14

Daggett, F. S., . . . . 15, 263
Davidson, A., .... 151, 194
Davis, G. C., ... 31, 115, 135

Doll, J., 310

Dyar, H. G., 33, 112, 138, 170, 2:3,

243, 247, 253, 262, 310, 320.

Edcly, F. A., 52

Ehrmann, G. A., . . . .75, 309

INDEX.

Fall, H. C., 235

Field, W. L. W 14(54)

Forbush, E. H., 159

Foulks, O. D., 261

Fox, W. J.,. . . 3, 134, 143, 234

Fyles, T. W 159, 225

Gillette, C. P., ... 28, 166, 210

Goodhue, C. F., 16

Hamilton, J., .... 187, 217
Harvey, F. L., . . . . 65, 182

Healy, J. L 295

Holland, W. J., 22, 59, 102, 136, 170,

337-

Holstein, G. W., 300

Horn, G. H., . . . . . .281

Johnson, C. W., .... 3, 91

Jones, F. M., 189

Joutel, L. H., 270

Kenyon, F. C., 247

Kirby, W. F., . ... . . .128

Knaus, W., 293

Kunze, R. E., . . . . 109, 269

Laurent, P., 6, 285

Lembert, J. B., . . . . 125, 303

Liebeck, C., 121

Longley, W. E., 261

Mason, J. T. 157

McKnight, C., 127

Meeske, H., 116

Merkle, A., 202

Neumoegen, B., 133, 138, 213, 248
Osborn, H., ....... 92

Oslar, E. J. 226

Owen, E. T., 246

Packard, A. S., ... 77, 167
Patton, W. H.,. . . . 203, 302
Phillips, J.M., ....... 54

Pocock, R. I., 270

Rowley, R. R., 264

Schaufuss, C. F., 12

Skinner, H., . . 64, 80, 211, 318
Slosson, Mrs. A. T., . 51, 249, 287
Smith, J. B., 4, 39, 80, 84, 87, 98,

113, 119, 191, 221, 292 and Econ.

Ent.

Snyder, A. J., 73

Snyder, W. E., 118

Stokes, A. C 90

Stromberg, C. W., . . 149, 283
Townsend, C. H. T., 13, 69, 158,

163, 242, 246, 267, 277, 302.

Ulke, H., 54

Villanes, H., 200

Watson, J., 279

Webster, F. M., 128, 186, 227, 268,

295-

Westcott, O. S., 91

Wickham, H. F., . . . . i, 302

Willard, H. G., 127

Williston, S. W., . . . 113, 114

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. IV.

JANUARY, 1893.

No. i.

CONTENTS:

\Vickham — Collecting in the Far North i
Fox and Johnson. — Lepidoptera from

Jamaica 3

Smith — Elementary Entomology 4

Laurent — Coleoptera of N. Carolina 6

Editorial 8

Economic Entomology 9

Notes and News 12

Entomological Literature 16

Entomological Section.... 21

Holland — Some African Butterflies 22

Gillette— Colorado Cynipidae 28

Davis — A new Ichneumonid 31

Dyar — Synonymic and structural notes 33

COLLECTING IN THE FAR NORTH.-Part II.

II. THE STIKINE RIVER.

By H. F. WICKHAM, Io\va City, Iowa.

Not having a tent I used an old quilt to make a shelter large
enough to crawl under at night in the vain hope of being able to
keep out the mosquitoes by fastening down the end after I had
entered. In the morning I used to find numerous little beetles
on the outside, evidently attracted by some peculiarity in the
color or odor of my domicile, since they occurred rarely on other
shelters in the camp; among these captures may be enumerated
the following species: Porrhodites feuestralis, Lothrimceum sp.,
Olophrum porcum, Pediacus fuscus, Ilawticus serratus, Ctznos-
celis cryptophaga, Corticaria scrricollis and Podabrus scabra.
The summit of the hill, which is divided by the canon furnished
a number of Cryptohypnus nocturnns, found beneath a log.

After a few days had been spent at the canon, a party of In-
dians came up the river in canoes on their way to the Tahltau
village above Glenora, and with them I engaged passage as far
as the latter place. At one of our stops I managed to find a te\\

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

specimens of Aegialia rufescens under a piece of wood nearly
buried in sand, but not much else of interest occurred, excepting
Opisthius Richardsonii, a specimen of which I washed out of the
bank.

Glenora was reached at last, and, through the kindness of the
Inspector of Customs, I was soon installed in the building for-
merly used as the Custom House. This place was a thriving and
busy little town during the days of the gold excitement, but is
now almost deserted, except by a few miserable and diseased In-
dians who manage to exist on fish and berries, with what little
additional food they can procure of the white traders near by.
The country here proved very different from what I had seen on
the lower river, rising in terraces from the stream, the sides and
tops of the benches being covered with a growth of conifers and
shrubbery, but not of so imprenetable a character as near the
coast. The insects found proved quite different, as a comparison
of lists will show.

Close to the river, under rubbish and drift-wood, were found
several species of Ne.bria in -small numbers. N. metallica, hud-
sonica, Sahlbergi and Manner heimii, with Opisthius Richardsonii,
Bembidium planatum, planiuscuhim, striola and lucidum, and
Platyrus piceolus. In damp spots under dung occurred Platy-
tcthus americanus, Tachinus semirufus and some Aleocharini.
Beneath the bark of a log lying near the water I got a series of
Omalium pusilhtm, Dryocoetesaffaler2C&& Polygraphus rufipennis.
Up on the terrace, where the soil was dry, the fauna was of a dif-
ferent character, and here I got Bembidium monelum, Harpalus
cautus and rujimanus; under burnt logs a few Cytilus trivittatus
were seen, beneath sound ones I took one example each of Pla-
tycerus depressus and Adimonia externa. In fungi, besides a lot
of Staphylinidae, I took a few Hallomemis punctilatus and Tetra-
toma concolor. Beating flowers yielded a few Centorhynchus and
a few single specimens of Leptura subargentata, Bnprestis Langii
was seen once on the rafters of a cabin.

Sickness and the advance of the season impelled me to leave
after a short stay here, and I took the opportunity offered by the
return of the Indians to go back with them. Our return trip
was made in short time and with little labor, having the current
and often the wind in our favor, we reached the mouth of the
river after only seventeen hours of actual travel.

1893.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3

LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM JAMAICA, W. I.

By WM. J. Fox, and C. W. JOHNSON.

The species included in this list were taken by us during- a short
visit to Jamaica in the months of April and part of May, 1891.
At the time of our visit insects of all orders were very scarce,
though the majority of the species mentioned herein, with a few
exceptions, occurred rather commonly. The greater part of the
collection was made at Kingston, Bog Walk and Port Antonio.
In addition to those species captured by us, we saw at Port An-
tonio Urania Sloanus, Aganisthos odius Fab. and two specimens
of the very rare Papilio homerus. About twenty-five additional
species of moths are not included, as it was impossible for us to
identify them at the present time. To Dr. Henry Skinner we
are indebted for verifying the identifications.

RHOPALOCERA.

Nymphalidae: Danais Jamaicensis Bates, Heliconius charitonius
L. , Coleznis delilia Fab., Dione vanilla; L., Euptoieta hegesia
Cram. , Junonia genoveva Cram. , Anartiajathrophez L. , Victorinia
steneles L. , Adelpha abyla Hew. , Calisto zangis Fab. , Cystineura
dorcas Fab., Dynamine zetes Men., Ancea troglodyta Fab. Ly-
caenidae: Thecla eurtyulus Hiib. , T. pan Dr., Lyccena theonns
Luc., L. filenus Poey, two undet. spp. Papilionidas: Eurema
dtrina Poey, E. Westwoodi Luc., E. lisa Bd. L., E. gnathene
Bd., E. bulcea Bd. , E. thymetus Poey, E. elathea Cram., Picris
monuste L., Catopsilia rorata Butl., C. dry a Bd., C. statira Cram.,
Papilio thersites Fab., P. pelaus Fab., P. poly damns var. poly-
crates Hofm. Hesperidae: Thymele tityrus Fab. , T. protens L.,
Aethylia amp hi on Hiib. , Carystus tripunctatus H. S. , Pamphila
phyheus Dr. , P. pustula Hub., P. coscinus H. S., P. syhicola
H. S., P. amyntas Fab., Hesperia syrichtus Fab., Nisonaidcs
philemon, Achlyodes gesta H. S., six unidentified species.

HETEROCERA.

Empyreuma pugione L. , Camposin crcdnla, Laitron vinosa Dr. ,
Pareuchates cadaverosa Grote, Ecpanthcria ui^n'p/a^n Walk.,
Utethesia vemista Dalm., Agrotis disccrnans Walk., Had out ui-
signis Walk., Homoptera sp. , Mni^aroiiia hyaliuata L.

4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

Following the Limacodidae in our lists are the Psychidae. There
is really very little to associate this latter family with any that
have gone before, nor that immediately follow, but I have no
more satisfactory location to propose. The larvae of this family
are all bag worms; that is, they make a bag or case for their pro-
tection, which they carry with them everywhere, and in which
the entire larval life is passed. The females, indeed, usually do
not leave their case at all, but are wingless or larviform, and the
eggs frequently develop or mature within the abdomen without
being laid in the ordinary way. In due time the young cater-
pillars hatch and then eat their way through the egg-shell, the
mother womb and out of the old bag. They start a case of their
own almost immediately, and enlarge this as growth renders it
necessary. The cases are characteristic, and differ in the species;
some are -made of silk alone, some are covered with leaf frag-
ments, and some with little sticks. It is interesting that, in some
exotic species, the bags differ in the sexes; not only in size, but
also in make up. That of the male will often have a larger,
stouter twjg or stick projecting below it, and on this it rests when
emerged from the pupa, and until it is fully mature. The female,
which does not leave her house at all, requires no such structure,
and therefore builds none. The male insects are always winged,
the wings frequently quite large, often transparent, or thinly
clothed with scales, the color usually black. The antennae are
pectinated, often even plumose. The tongue is short, or almost
wanting, in the female rudimentary. The venation is as curious
and aberrant as is the rest of the insect, and it varies considerably
within family limits. The median cell is always divided on both
wings; an accessory cell may be present either at the upper or
lower angle of the cell; the veins sometimes branch before they
reach the margin, and the internal veins are either branched, or,
on the primaries, with a long fork at the base. In our lists Pcro-
phora and Lacosoma are referred to this family. Mr. Kirby
thinks they do not belong here, and refers them to the Drepanu-
liike, which may or mav not be correct. They are probably not
Psychidae.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 5

The Dioptidae is an interesting family, of which we have in our
fauna a single genus and species only, Phryganidia calif arnica,
and I am not so certain but that this really belongs with some of the
exotic forms which I have seen. Based on our species the family
has large, somewhat thinly-scaled wings, the primaries with one,
secondaries with two internal veins. On both wings veins 3 and
4 are on a long stalk, separating toward the outer margin, and 5
is from the cross-vein, almost exactly at its middle. On the sec-
ondaries 6 and 7 are stalked, and on the primaries veins 7 to 10
.are all from the same stalk. The antennae of the male are lengthily
pectinated, of the female simple, and the tongue is only moder-
ately developed. I am strongly inclined to refer the species very
near to the Lithosiidae, if not to them directly. In its larval his-
tory it is very like Euphanessa, especially in having a naked pupa
suspended by the tail, and in other features they are not dissimilar.
The genus is a rather aberrant one, was referred to the Psychidae
by Packard, to the Zygsenidae by Stretch, and to the Dioptidae by
Butler. It must not be taken as giving the characters of the
latter family, except in so far as Phryganidia is a member of it.

The Notodontidae again contain a considerable number of
genera and species, and a considerable diversity of form and
habitus. As a rule the head is retracted, very small, the tongue
only moderately developed, or more usually entirely wanting;
the ocelli are wanting in the genera examined by me, and the
male antennae are lengthily pectinated, those of the female being
unusually -short in some genera. The thorax is proportionately
short, while the abdomen is proportionately long in most in-
stances. These proportions of head, thorax and abdomen serve
to give the members of this family a distinctive appearance,
which, once recognized, makes placing the insect easy, at a
glance. The legs are usually clothed with long hair, and are
subequal in length, the posterior very little longer, unlike those
of the Noctuidae, where they are often double the length of the
others. The wings are of moderate or, proportionately, rather
large size, primaries with one, secondaries with two internal veins;
vein 5 of each wing from the cross-vein nearer to 6 than to .\.
There is quite a diversity in the appearance of the larva, and
some difference in habits of pupation. Some make an under-
ground cell, others spin a more or less dense cocoon and pupate
above ground.

6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

The Platypterygidae is a small family of easily recognized forms.
The body is rather slight, the parts fairly proportioned. The
mouth parts are moderately developed, the ocelli are wanting and
the male antennae are pectinated. The legs are subequal in length.
The wings are large and broad, the primaries distinctly falcate,
giving the species a characteristic appearance. Both fore and
hind wings have one internal or free vein only, and 5 is nearer to
4 than to 6; an oblique, somewhat sinuous vein closing the cell.
On the secondaries the subcostal branches, giving rise to 6 and
7, before the end of the cell. The proportion and form of the
wings give the venation a somewhat butterfly-like appearance.

-o-

Coleoptera of the Mountainous Region of North Carolina.

By PHILIP LAURENT, Philadelphia, Pa.

I had often desired to take a trip to the mountains of North
Carolina, and when my friend, Dr. Skinner, made the proposition
for a two weeks' collecting trip to this region, I at once consented.
We left the city of Philadelphia on July 5th on board the 7.40
p. M. train, arriving at our destination, Cranberry, N. C., after a
ride of twenty-four hours. A good night's rest and a breakfast
of hot corn-cakes, oat-meal and hot potatoes, washed down with
a glass of fresh milk, and we were ready for a hard day's work.
From recent articles that I had read I was led to believe that
many rare and possibly new species would be found in this re-
gion, and possibly there may be among the foot-hills or during
the months of June and August, but I doubt it very much owing
to the nature of the country, which consists of nothing but forest-
covered hills and mountains, very little land being under cultiva-
tion. My first day's collecting convinced me that little new ma-
terial was to be found, as the majority of the species captured
represented old, familiar faces that I had often seen while col-
lecting in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Much rain had fallen
during the two weeks previous to our arrival, which may partly
account for the scarcity of insect life. During our two weeks'
stay I captured two hundred and twenty-eight species of Cole-
optera, represented by about fourteen hundred specimens, among
the lot being a few rare species. Among the rarer species taken
and species not generally found in the Northern and Middle

IS93-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 7

States, I might mention the following as being of particular in-
terest to the Coleopterist: Cychrus canadensis Chd., Pterostichns
grandiceps Chd., Mycctina perpulchra Newm., Endomy chits bi-
giittatus Say, Deltometopus amcenicornis Say, Microrrhagus tri-
angularis f Say, Corymbites hamatus Say, Agrilus acutipennis
Mann., Geotrupes Balyi Jek., Anomala marginata Fab., Cen-
trodera decolorata Harr. , Toxotus cylindricollis Say, Leptnra
biforis Newm.

Our collecting was all done at an elevation of three thousand
feet and upwards, the highest point reached being that of Grand-
father Mount, the height of which is close to six thousand feet.
I was in hopes of adding some new material to my collection of
water beetles, but of them it might properly be said that they
were conspicuous by their absence. Gyrimis analis Say, or a
closely allied species, being the only water beetle observed, the
icy coldness of the streams and ponds no doubt accounting for
the absence of water beetles as well as other aquatic insects.

A NATURALIST'S FLEAS.— A naturalist, who is both an ardent student
in his branch of science, and absent-minded to a degree which keeps his
family on the alert, recently celebrated his silver wedding. Many guests
were invited for the occasion, and the house was made ready for the re-
ception of the company.

Just as the first guest arrived one of the daughters was sent to summon
the father, who had not come from his study. Care had been taken that
he should be reminded to dress in time, so he was all ready, and at the
summons the daughter noticed that her father carried in his hand a small
wooden box, and as he shook hands with the nearest guest she saw him
drop it. The cover rolled off, but she gave a sigh of relief when she saw
that the box was apparently empty.

The naturalist, however, uttered a cry of dismay, and instantly went
down on his hands and knees in a vain attempt to gather up something.

" Have you spilled anything, father?" she asked.

"Spilled anything!" he echoed, in evident indignation over her calm
tone. " I have lost fifty fleas that I have just received from Egypt!"

The effect of this intelligence on the family was nothing in comparison
to the effect the catastrophe had upon the company before the evening
was over, and the only thing that the naturalist suid to his friends in an-
swer to their congratulations upon his happy married life, so his daughter
declared after all was over, was to ask that if they carried away any of
his Egyptian fleas they would return the insects to him.— Newspaper.

8 [January,

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Neumoegen, Esq. We have room for many more.

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J,

Introduction of Predaceous Insects.— In " Science," No. 509, for Nov. 4,
1892, Mr. Camillo F. Schaufuss, gives an account of the efforts made by
Mr. A. D. Hopkins, of the Virginia Station, to collect and introduce into
our country the European Clerus formicarms L. to assist in destroying
the Scolytids which are so injurious to Virginian forests. Mr. Schaufuss
considers the experiment a promising one, and sees no reason why it
should not prove successful. There seems no real reason, perhaps, win-
it should not be; but it would not be well to anticipate too much. There
would seem to be no reason why our allied American species should not
increase sufficiently to control the Scolytids, but they do not seem to do
so. There is not even proof that Clerus formicarius in its own home is
in itself a large factor in controlling Scolytids. The thorough forestry
organization of Germany is alone sufficient to minimize injury; the re-
moval of every diseased or infested tree; the systematic collection of
fallen branches; the utilization of absolutely everything not needed by
living trees, is exactly what intelligence would dictate, and, where the
•destructive insects themselves are placed at so great a disadvantage, pre-
daceous insects may be relatively much more numerous and effective.
The result of the experiment will be watched with interest.

It is perhaps a trifle unfortunate that Dr. Riley's experiment, the intro-
duction of Vedalia to destroy Icerya was so splendidly and rapidly suc-
cessful. The success has become so widely and generally known that it
seems to have become a fixed idea with many that all sorts of injurious
species can be controlled in the same way. I have been asked many
times by all sorts and conditions of men why I don't try to do something
of that kind for our common pests. Dr. Riley's experiment was made
under unusual circumstances, and on a strictly scientific basis, with all the
chances in his favor. He had to do with an introduced insect, which, in
its own home, was not particularly abundant or destructive. He reasoned,
correctly enough, that if it could be discovered why the insect was rare at
home and abundant here, the conditions might be made more similar.
The working out of the problem deserves all possible praise, and the suc-
cess was signal. The natural enemy was discovered, its history was made
out, and it was introduced, propagated and colonized. The insect was
only asked to do here what it had already done at home, and was placed
in surroundings where Icerya only was familiar to it as prey. The same
combination of circumstances may not occur again for years in favor of
an experiment of that kind.

This should not be read as an adverse criticism of Mr. Hopkins' ex-
periment, but rather as a warning that too much must not be expected
of natural enemies. Nature never works to the immediate destruction
of its creatures; the balance is so nicely adjusted that no rapid and per-

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manent changes are possible until man intervenes, and then he turns the
balance, nine times out of ten in favor of the destructive insect. Feu-
injurious insects are more commonly parasitized than the larva of Pieris
rapes, the " cabbage worm." Of the late brood it is difficult to find chrys-
alids that are sound, and if the search be made in Spring, not one per
cent, will be found alive. From these few surving pupae butterflies issue,
and from the vast number of others the parasites— more parasites than
the butterflies could lay eggs; and yet, each season, from the few Spring
insects we get swarms of butterflies by Summer, and in mid-Summer
hosts of larvae. I have absolutely no faith in the efficiency of parasites
to certainly control injurious insects under present artificial conditions.
Parasites are natural checks only, and the check may be placed far beyond
the point where, in our opinion, the insect becomes destructive.

The Elm Leaf Beetle.— In number 2 of vol. v, of •' Insect Life," issued
November, 1892, is an abstract of the minutes of the meeting of the En-
tomological Society of Washington for October, 1892, in which occurs the
following sentence: " He [Prof. Riley] also read extracts fiom a commu-
nication from Prof. J. B. Smith, who had found the eggs of a second brood
of Galerucella xanihomcUena at New Brunswick, N. J." As it stands
there, the sentence is somewhat misleading, and effectually contradicts
the papers on the subject, published by me earlier in the season, which
was not intended. The essential part of my letter to Dr. Riley is dated
August 3ist, is as follows: " I have to-day — since writing you this morn-
ing— discovered here and there patches of eggs of G. xaiiilioiticlczna,
and one brood of newly-hatched larvae on the new foliage of the elms.
The parent beetles are the results of the latest larvae of the first brood
and there are very few of them about. I will have to be away for the next
few days, but I will have some of the beetles collected and prepared for
study. It is due to myself to say that I found nothing of the kind in pre-
vious years, and due to you to say that facts have verified your suggestion
that, with abundant fresh food, some of the beetles would, exceptionally,
produce a second brood, as in Winter they exceptionally produce a third.
It is a remarkable fact that, from early in July until late in August, no eggs,
should have been seen, while now, quite suddenly, there is no difficulty
in finding them, though they are by no means abundant."

A few days later when I again had an opportunity of examining the
trees, eggs had not increased, nor was there any increase later on. The
larvae that hatched from them fed slowly, many starved to death, and a
very small proportion only reached the imago state. The oviposition for
a. second brood is decidedly exceptional among the beetles. It is curious
that the beetles emerging in July should have made no attempt to oviposit,
while of the same brood, some emerging after the middle of August
should have reproduced their kind.

Corn-worm. — This pest, the larva of Heliothis arinigcr, has been more
than usually abundant during the past season in New Jersey. Its work on
corn is well known, and is well illustrated in the plate accompanying this.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PI. V.

INJURY DONE BY THE CORN-WORM (HELIOTHIS ARMIGER).

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number. The ears were picked up at a husking in Cumberland County,
and they were, unfortunately, by no means exceptional specimens. The
outer rows had been injured to a very considerable extent, but damage
decreased rapidly toward the centre of the field, indicating that the in-
sects had come on from the outside. But it was not on corn that the
greatest money injury was caused by the pest, but on tomatoes. Dr.
Riley has given a very characteristic figure of the larva on tomato, and I
had abundant opportunity of verifying its fondness for that fruit or vege-
table. Early tomatoes are a very important feature in the money crop
of the farmers of southern New Jersey, and they force their plants along
as rapidly as possible to get the high prices ruling for early specimen/;.
Late in June and early in July, they realize as much for a quart as they do
a month later for a bushel. In 1892 more than sixty per cent, of the very
earliest tomatoes were destroyed by this larva, and a money loss was
caused totally disproportionate to the actual percentage of the crop in-
jured. The same larva would sometimes enter two or even three toma-
toes in succession, and even where little eating was done, the rain and
dew entering, caused decay. Early in July the larvae were maturing rap-
idly, and the next brood, finding an abundance of sweet corn, neglected
the tomatoes, which were not thereafter disturbed, nor did I find the larva?
except on corn when this was available.

To deal with the insects on the tomato is not easy. Spraying with the
kerosene emulsion has been attempted with some success, and pyrethrum
has been used to some advantage. Yet the measure of success attained
was not such as would authorize us to advise the use of either with con-
fidence. In my opinion the insect should be dealt with in the corn-fields
by means of thorough fall or winter plowing. It is too much the practice
to leave the corn stocks in the ground over winter, and the insects, which
pass the winter in the pupa stage some four to six inches underground,
are left undisturbed until spring, when they are ready to emerge. Fall
plowing would turn many of these pupae to the surface and would break
up the cells of others, so that the earth would come into direct contact
with them and by its alternate freezing and thawing would destroy them.

The Pear-Tree Psylla.— This is the title of Bulletin 44 from the Entomo-
logical division of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station,
and it is written by Mr. M. Y. Slingerland, Prof. Comstock's assistant.
Mr. Slingerland draws a vivid picture of the injury caused by the insect,
explains how it is done, give us a very complete life-history, and finds
that the kerosene emulsion even when greatly diluted, twenty-five times,
is effective in destroying the nyrriphs. Perhaps the most interesting part
of the paper is the result or non-result of the use of a variety of insecti-
cides on the eggs of this species. It was found that kerosene, kerosene
emulsion, turpentine, turpentine emulsion, ben/ine, crude carbolic acid
emulsion diluted ten times, resinwash of triple strength, whale-oil soap
and sulphide of potash wash double strength, were all equally ineffective.
The result was somewhat of a surprise, and yet may be explained by the

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fact that, according to Mr. Slingerland, the egg is quite hard and may be
roughly handled without injuring it. I have found the kerosene emulsion
entirely ineffective on the hard eggs of ^[elittia ccto and Anasa tristis,
but quite completely effective on the soft eggs of certain Tortricid moths
and of certain Coccida;. Chitine of any thickness resists perfectly the
action of most penetrants, including alcohol and chloroform, yields but
slowly to potash, carbolic acid or acetic acid, but is readily attacked by a
saturated solution of bichloride of lime, or by eau Jaralle and can La-
ban-ague. In such strength as we may apply them on vegetation, I be-
lieve that none of the materials named will injure a hard shelled egg,
simply because they could not penetrate it. This will explain, also, why,
on certain bugs like Anasa tristis or beetles like Macrodactylus subspino-
sus, the diluted kerosene is ineffective, and even the pure article is resisted
quite strongly. On such insects the spiracles offer the only part of entry
for the insecticide, and these are exceedingly well protected in the cases
mentioned. The softer the egg or the insect, and the less protected the
spiracles the more effective becomes the kerosene emulsion.

Notes and. Ne^vvs.

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Ix recent years the bark-beetle, Dendroctonnsfrontalis Zimm. has ap-
peared in the \Yest Virginian forests with very disastrous results. To
combat it in some measure, Mr. Andrew D. Hopkins, entomologist of
the Agricultural Experiment Station at Morgantown, \Y. Ya., has formed
the plan of introducing against it a new enemy in the European bark-
beetle, Clerusforinicarins L. For this purpose Mr. Hopkins has lately
been in Germany, and has here applied himself with great skill and good
fortune to the collection of this useful insect, and to the study of its con-
ditions of life. He has taken to America the larva? of the bark-beetle
destroyer in various stages, as well as the pupa and imago, all in their
Winter rest, and the hope is entertained that if they arrive there in healthy
condition, the attempt at acclimation can begin next Spring. — CAMILLO
F. SCHAVFUSS, Mus. Dir. Meissen, Saxony.

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RECENT SYSTEMATIC WORK ox THE NORTH AMERICAN TACHINID.-K.—
On page 350 of volume iv of " Insect Life," there appears a short note
on the writer's systematic work on the Tachinicke. With the sole desire
to explain my position so that my work may not be misunderstood, I hope
this note will not be out of place. I have long been familiar with the ex-
cellent advice of Baron Osten Sacken, quoted from the preface to his
" Catalogue of North American Diptera," and no one recognizes more
than the writer the value of monographic work. Perhaps there is more
excuse for fragmentary preliminary work in this than in other groups of
insects. However, ii is. and lias been from the first, my intention to pro-
duce a monograph of North American Tachinidae, so soon as the unde-
scribed material can be worked up and mo^t of the synonymy disposed
of. 1 hope that my communications will be of some value in the recog-
nition of species, and that they will add to the systematic knowledge of
the group. While I have great respect for Dr. Brauer's ability and pre-
vious valuable work, I claim that American students have a right to ask
for full and recognizable descriptions of newly-erected genera, instead of
simple reference to the type species which no one can examine without
visiting the European museums. It is on this account hard to recognize
Dr. Brauer's work in this country; and I believe one may be pardoned
for publishing conscientiously thorough descriptions in this group, even at
the risk of a few synonyms, because synchronous with Dr. Brauer's work.
It is also a question whether Dr. Brauer's disposition of the MuscidoL- will
ever be accepted in full by systematists. So far as my own work is c< >n-
cerned, I may say that my motives have been quite correctly interpreted
in the note above referred to. I have a very small allowance of time to
devote to this work, and, so far, consider my communications as merely
preliminary; nor do I deny that I desire thereby to secure priority. It is
my full intention, so soon as my time and the circumstances in the case
will permit, to bring these descriptions together in a monograph which
shall be the more valuable for its completeness, and will not require such
extensive subsequent additions and revisions as would a more premature
one. I greatly regret the necessity for this note, which I feel called upon
to offer in defense of my position. — C. H. TYLER TOWXSEXD.

IT is perhaps worthy of note that the horn-fly has reached central Mich-
igan, and was very thick and annoying in the southern part of the State
the past Summer. The grain beetle, Si/raiius surinamensis, is attracting
much attention among farmers by eating the wheat in the bin. Keeping
wheat for higher prices, year after year, and the warm Winters may ex-
plain this new annoyance. The past season the old parsnip caterpillar,
l\ipili<> tit/tTins, has attacked celery quite generally in Michigan, doing-
considerable harm. Of course it is easily destroyed. — H. J. COOK.

HAVIXG read two paragraphs in the NKWS relating to Venturesome
Butterflies, it occurred to me that the following might be of interest: On
the roof of our house there is a spar.- sixteen feet square enclosed by a

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railing, within which we spent the latter part of the afternoon of many a
hot day last August. Here, at about five o'clock every afternoon from
two to five individuals of P. hunt-era appeared, flying with apparent un-
concern close about the heads of the spectators, and frequently alighting
on the chimney beside them, on the roof at their feet, and on the railing.
They appeared each day with the utmost regularity, and often remained
for some time after sunset.

On reading in the NEWS of the occurrence of Feniseca tarquinius at
Jackson, N. H., I was reminded that I found two specimens of this but-
terfly in the road at Gaerwera Falls, Wilton, N. H., last June. I captured
one, but it was so old and worn that I did not keep it. There were sev-
eral other small butterflies in the vicinity, which I do not doubt were of
this species, though I could not identify them.

Four species of butterflies which are not generally plentiful in New
England are found somewhat commonly here. Papilio philenor, P. cres-
phontes, Callidryas eubule and Junonia ccenia. I have taken specimens
of all, except eubule, which has been seen several times by my brothers
and myself. — WILLIAM L. W. FIELD.

MORE VENTURESOME INSECTS. — The notes in the NEWS for November
and December by Messrs. Webster and Calvert on the singular behavior
of Pyrameis atalanta, reminds me that I have seen Grapta comma act in
the same way in an orchard in Manchester, N. H. Almost any afternoon
for several weeks this butterfly could be found flitting about above the
decayed apples, or sunning himself on the trunk of one of the trees. At
first I thought that he was attracted by the apples, but after these were
removed he came as regularly as ever. Very often he would alight on
my sleeve as I stood watching him. On Star Island, Isles of Shoals, in
the Summer of 1891, I was extremely interested by the actions of a Py-
raineis hnntera, which came every afternoon at about 3.30 o'clock and
perched upon the railing of the hotel piazza. Sometimes it even flew
nearer and alighted on my chair, and once even on the book from which
I was reading. — EDWARD W. CROSS.

NOTES ON THE FOOD-PLANT OF PAONIAS ASTYLUS Dru. — It may be of
interest to some of the readers of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS to learn
that I found Dangleberry or Blue Tangle ( Gaylussacia frindosa) to be the
favorite food-plant of that rare Sphinx, Paonias astylus Dru., and that
owing to this discovery, after many a vain search on huckleberry, I was
iortunate enough to collect quite a number of larvae during the months of
August and September. Dangleberry grows abundantly in some parts
of New Jersey, and is principally found in shady places on the outskirts
of woods, the bushes often reaching a hight of over three feet; it can
readily be recognized by the green berries dangling from a long stem and
turning reddish blue late in the season. Huckleberry bushes of the va-
rious species on which some of the Newark collectors always find the
beautifully speckled astylus larva;, were very plentiful where I did my

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collecting, but I invariably found them on dangleberry only, and during
this season (1892) I have taken them in the following places in New Jersey,
viz., Soho, Franklin, Eagle Rock and Greenwood Lake.— HERMANN
AICH, 43 Murray Street, N. Y. City.

RESIDING upon the edge of a vast wilderness the temptation to explore
its depths cannot always be resisted, in consequence my brother and my-
self with three Indian guides and packers might have been found, late in
lime, threading our way in birch-bark canoes through the intricate chan-
nels which form the canoe paths between the Lake of the Woods, Rainy
Lake and Vermilion River district, on our way back to Duluth, Minn.

At Black Bay, on Rainy Lake, June igth, we first met /'af>i/io turnns in
quantities, seemingly attracted to the vicinity of an Indian encampment
by the odor of refuse of moose recently killed, whose bones, with pieces
of meat attached, lay scattered about.

Quite a number of turnns were taken upon the wing when an accidental
discovery made the capture comparatively easy. Having caught a ragged
specimen, which proved worthless for cabinet purposes, it was thrown
upon the ground, when I observed that nearly every P. turmts as it passed
circled back and hovered over the dead one which looked brilliant in the
sunlight. At first I thought the brilliant spot was being mistaken for a
flower, which, to a certain extent, was no doubt the case, but by placing
captured specimens, just enough " pinched" to prevent flying, of both
male and female, at intervals, one could readily see that color alone \v;is
not the final attraction. The male decoy resting upon the ground with •
wings slightly rising and falling would attract the first P. turnns that came
within a dozen feet; a few zigzag turns and the visitor would hover over
an instant, almost touching, and then depart. In the case of the female
decoy, however, it was different; the same approach was made, but instead
of departing, the butterfly seemed to be under the influence of a charm
and would hover about, finally settling upon the ground beside the decoy.
In this manner I attracted sometimes as many as a dozen about the decoy
in a space not over six inches square. In crossing the ten rough portages
of Vermilion River I succeeded in taking over 200 bright specimens by
making decoys of the first few females caught, besides, perhaps, a hun-
dred or more which were allowed to escape on being found imperfect.
This experience proved of interest to me, and it may call out further facts
regarding the use of "decoys" by other readers. — FRANK S. DAGGETT,
Duluth, Minn.

LAST Spring a friend of mine living at Concord, N. H., thought he
would collect a few insects at the electric lights in that city and send them
to me as a surprise. He is no entomologist, and cannot tell a butterfly
from a moth, so of course did not know a rare tiling from the most com-
mon. In due time I received a box from him containing about one hun-
dred specimens of all kinds— bugs, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths,
and in fact everything that comes to an electric light. As 1 only care for

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the Lepidoptera, I do not know how many other rare things there were,
but among the moths I found three nearly perfect specimens of Phragina-
tobia assiini/ans var.franconia Slosson, two males and one female. You
may be sure that I was quite content to have the rest of the specimens
not quite so rare, although there were several other good things in the
box. I do not know when he collected them, but from the other species
sent it must have been early in the season. I thought it a little strange
that he should take three of fraiiconia and none of the more common
rnbicosa. — CHAS. F. GOODHUE.

TRANSACTIONS American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892), pp.
257-304 inclusive, have been printed since our November issue, and con-
tain the following papers: A preliminary synopsis of the Harvest-Spiders
(Phalangidae) of New Hampshire, by C. M. Weed, five plates. Notes on
North American Tachinicke, with descriptions of new species, Paper VII,
and the North American genera of Calyptrate Muscidae, Papers III, IV
and V, by C. H. Tyler Townsencl. A synoptical arrangement of the
genera of North American Jassidse, by E. P. Van Duzee.

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Entomological Literatuire.

NOTE. — Until within the past few months, it has been usual to include
in this Department of Entomological Literature, notices of the contents
of all entomological publications received here. This course has resulted
in occupying a larger number of pages than set-ins for the good of the
Niavs. It is now intended not to publish notices of papers treating ex-
clusively of entomological subjects which have very little or no bearing
upon American insects. Exceptions, of course, will be made in favor of
monographs. Anatomical, physiological and embryological papers will
be noticed as heretofore. This note will explain the omission of. or very
slight reference to the contents of various foreign journals. Special at-
icniion will be given to American journals and papers, but the complete-
ness of this record will depend <>n the extent to which authors, editors
and publishers transmit their publications to this Academy, or to the
American Entomological Society. — 1'. P. C.

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THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), No. 59, Lon-
don, November, 1892. — New and obscure British spiders,* Rev. F. O.
Pickard-Cambridge.

ZOOLOGISCHE JAHRBUCHER, v, 3, 4, Jena, Oct. 20, 1892.— An endeavor
to show that the tracheae of the Arthropoda arose from setiparous sacs,
H. M. Bernard, 3 figs.; vi, 4, Oct. 29. 1892. On the ancestral history of
the Papilionidse, A. Spuler, 2 pis.

SCIENCE, New York, Nov. 18, 1892. — Flight of Archippus, E. T. Dum-
ble. Codling-moth statistics, F. L. Was burn. Dec. 2, 1892. — On the use
of the compound eye of insects, R. T. Lewis.

JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, Ixi, pt. ii, 2, Calcutta,
1892. — Catalogue of the Diptera of the Oriental region; parts ii and iii,
J. M. F. Bigot.

BOLLETINO DEI MUSEI DI ZOOLOGIA ED ANATOMIA COMPARATA D. R.

UNIVERSITA DI TORINO, vii, 152, Oct. 20, 1892. — Diagnoses of new spe-
cies of Diptera: Syrphida; and Conopidas from Mexico, Dr. E. Giglio-Tos.

AXALES DE LA SOCIEDAD ClENTIFICA ARGENTINA, XXxiii, 5, BueilOS

Aires, May, 1892. — Funeral discourse on Dr. Herman Burmeister. Dr. J.
Balestra, Minister of Public Instruction. New Hemiptera of the Argen-
tine and Uruguayan faunas,* Dr. C. Berg. Argentine dipterology (Syr-
phidse) (cont), F. L. Arribalzaga.

THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, xiv, London,
October, 1892. — Report on the Conifer Conference held at the Chiswick
Gardens, Oct. 7 and 8, 1891: Insects injurious to Coniferae, W. F. H.'
Blandford.

MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (4), v, 2, 1891-92. — On iridescent colors and a
method of examining iridescent objects, birds, insects, minerals, etc., so
as to ensure uniformity in their description, A. Hodgkinson.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, xxxvi, 10,
Brussels, 1892. — The collections of Articulates in the Muse"e Royal d'His-
toire Naturelle de Belgique; G. Severin; the aquatic Coleoptera.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xviii, 20, 21, Berlin, Oct. -Nov., 1892.
-The Anthomyidx of the Fallen-Zetterstedt collection [at Lund], P.
Stein.

CATALOGUE OF EASTERN AND ATSTKALIAN LEPIDOPTERA Heterocera
in the collection of the Oxford University Museum by Col. C. Swinhoe.
Part I. Sphinges and Bombyces; with 8 plates. Oxford, Clarendon Press,
1892, pp. viii, 324; 1425 species are listed, including new ones.

* Contains new species other than North American.

iS ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin
44, Ithaca, N. Y., October, 1892. — The pear-tree Psylla, M. V. Slinger-
land, figs.

ZOE, San Francisco, Cal., October, 1892. — On a leaf-miner of Popnlxs
t-'fcinonti, C. H. T. Townsend. Notes on two Mexican species of Cero-
plastes, with a record of parasites reared from one, id. Notes on the
butterflies of Yosemite Valley, E. C. Van Dyke. Notes on some Califor-
nian Cistelidae, F. E. Blaisdell. Insects of Catalina Island, F. A. Seavey.

NATURE, London, Nov. 17, 1892. — On the walking of Arthropoda, H.
M. Dixon, figs.

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE INVERTEBRATA by A. B. Griffiths, Ph.D., etc.
New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1892, pp. xvi, 477, Si figs.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, Nov. 15, 1892. — The genus
Acronycta and its allies (cont.), Dr. T. A. Chapman. Male \_Leucoma
salicis~\ copulating more than once, F. B. Newnham, The ova state of
Geometrse, F. J. Buckell.

INSECT LIFE, v, 2, Washington, November, 1892. — Twenty-five papers,
etc., read at the fourth annual meeting of the Association of Economic
Entomologists at Rochester, N. Y.., Aug. 15 and 16, 1892, some of which
are: Hypoderas colmnbcz, D. S. Kellicott. Notes on Aegeridae of central
Ohio, ii, id. The possible and actual influence of irrigation on insect in-
jury in New Mexico, C. H. T. Townsend. A new enemy to Timothy
grass \_Oncognathusbinotatus F.], L. O. Howard. Notes on plant faunae,
T. D. A. Cockerell. The usual large amount of interesting notes.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1892, iii, Oct.
i, 1892. — Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from
Brazil, Mexico and Peru, ii,*f W. Schaus. A list of the Lycaenidag of the
South Pacific islands east of the Solomon group, with descriptions of
several new species,* H. H. Druce, i pi.

ACTES DE LA SOCIETE SciENTiFiQUE Dti CHILI, ii, i, Santiago, July,
1892. — Latrodectus fonnidabilis of Chili, F. P. Borne.

BULLETIN OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, Jamaica, No. 36. King-
ston, October, 1892. — Coccidae, or scale insects, T. D. A. Cockerell.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, December. 1892. — The
striped harvest-spider: A study in variation, C. M. \Yeed, 3 pis. The

functions of the nervous system of the Myriapoda, C. M. Child.

\

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, Ixv, 3, I.eipsic, 1892. — Two
Hymenopterous hermaphrodites, Dr. R. Krieger. On the presence of
fossil " Ruckenschwimmer" \\ofonecfes) in the Braunkohl of Rott, Dr.
D. v. Schlechtendal.

* Contains new species other than North American. f Contains new genera.

1 893.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 19

PAPERS AXD PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA for
1890, Hobart, 1891. — On new species of Tasmanian Araneicke, A. T.
Urquhart.

THE ZOOLOGICAL RECORD, volume the twenty-eighth, being records

of zoological literature relating chiefly to the year 1891 edited by

D. Sharp. London: Guerney & Jackson, MDCCCXCII. Arachnida,
Myriopoda and Prototracheata, R. I. Pocock. Insecta, D. Sharp.

DIE SPINNEN AMERIKAS — Epeiridae — von Graf. E. Keyserling nach
dessen Tode herausgegeben von Dr. George Marx, iv, Bd. i. Nurnberg,
1892. Verlag von Bauer and Raspe (Emil Kuester), pp. viii, 208, 9 pis.

REISEN IN DER ARCHIPEL DER PHILIPPINEN von Dr. C. Semper, Zwei-
ter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate, v, 7. — The butterflies of the Phil-
ippine Islands, G. Semper, pp. 271-380, taf. xlvii-xlix, Wiesbaden, C. \V.
Kreidel's Verlag, 1892.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER, Leipsic, Nov. 28, 1892. — Biological note [on
a dipter with Pseudoscorpions attached], Dr. F. von Wagner. Rules of
nomenclature adopted by the zoological congress at Moscow, R. Blanchard.

THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, Dec., 1892. — Clothes moths, J. Fletcher,
figs.

A MONOGRAPH OF ORIENTAL CICADID/E by W. L. Distant. Published
by order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.. Pt. vii, pp.
145-158, pi. xv. Title page, Index, Preface. London, Calcutta, Berlin,
August, 1892.

LEPIDOPTKRA INDICA by F. Moore. Pt. xi, pp. 241-272, pis. 79-86.
London, L. Reeve & Co., 1892.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (2)

' »

vii, i, Sidney, Sept. i, 1892. — Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carab-
idce),*f T. G. Sloane. Notes on Australian Coleoptera (CarabidceV:t
Rev. T. Blackburn. Notes on Australian Cynipicke,* W. W. Froggatt.

LES ACARIENS PARASITES par P. Megnin, Paris, Gauthier-Villars et
fils, G. Masson, pp. 183, 40 figs., small Svo. — This undated volume forms
one of the series "Encyclopedic Scientifique des Aide-Memoire" pub-
lished under the direction of M. Leaute, member of the Institute.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MACA/.INE, London, December, 1892.
— Practical hints on sugaring, W. Holland. (',. 15. Longstaff. Coccids in
Ants' nests, W. W. Smith.

•

THE BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA, with colored drawings and
descriptions, by W. H. Edwards. Third series, part xiii, Boston and NV\v
York, Houghton, Mirrlin & Co., 1892. Treats of CJiionof>as c/iry.vus, ca
lais.jiitta, crambis, Ilnicci.

* Contains new species other than North American.

20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

THE ORTHOPTERAN GENUS HIPPISCUS, by Samuel H. Scudder. From
Psyche, June, 1892, pp. 265-274; July, '1892, pp. 285-288; August, 1892,
pp. 301-304; September, 1892, pp. 317-320; October, 1892, pp. 333-336;
November, 1892, pp. 347-350; December, 1892, pp. 359~363-

COLEOPTEROLOGICAL NOTICES, iv, by Thos. L. Casey. From Annals
of the New York Academy of Sciences, vi, pp. 360-712.

COMMON INJURIOUS INSECTS OF KANSAS, by Vernon L. Kellogg, Uni-
versity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 1892, pp. viii, 126, 61 figs.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.
Aegeria rubristigma D. S. Kellicott; Insect Life, v, p. 84, Ohio.

ARACHNIDA.

Epeiridae : n. gen. and species, Keyserling and Marx, Die Spinnen
Amerikas, iv, pp. 1-208.

ORTHOPTERA.

Hippiscus, 20 n. sp., Sticthippus n. subg., Scudder, Psyche, 1. c,

COLEOPTERA.

Rhynchophora: numerous new sp. and gen., Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad.
Sci. vi, pp. 360-712.

A STREAM near Tucson, Ariz., petrifies all soft substances thrown into
it. It is in the great Colorado potato beetle belt, and at the time of their
migrations thousands of them strike the water and are converted into
stone.— American Farmer.

Mr. H. DEVAUX has been making interesting experiments on the sense
of taste in ants. Among other results he has found that Lasiiis flavus,
while fond of sugar, dislikes saccharine. The ants swarmed around sugar
laid out for them, but turned away from saccharine as soon as they tasted
It. Even sugar became unpleasant to them when it was mixed with sac-
charine. It seems, therefore, that sweetness is not the only quality which
attracts them to sugar.— Nature.

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Tne Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

OCTOBER 27, 1892.

Meeting called at 8.20 P.M., Dr. Horn, Director, presiding. Members
present : Horn, Laurent, Welles, Skinner, Ridings, E. T. Cresson, G.
B. Cresson, Martindale, Johnson. Associates: Haimbach, Westcott, Fox,
Nell, Calvert. The Director announced the death of Captain William S.
Pine on Oct. 4, 1892, in the eighty-third year of his age. Captain Pine
was one of the oldest members of the American Entomological Society.
The Publication Committee reported in favor of the publication of the
following papers: A Synopsis of the Subfamilies and Genera of North
American Membracidae, by F. W. Goding, M.D., and A Preliminary
Synopsis of the Harvest-Spiders (Phalangidse) of New Hampshire, by
Clarence M. Weed. Mr. P. Calvert presented to the cabinet of the So-
ciety forty-three specimens of American and European Odonata not before
represented in the collection. Mr. Laurent exhibited the Coleoptera he
had collected in Mitchell County, North Carolina, during two weeks in
July of the past Summer. The speaker said that owing to the elevation,
over 3000 feet, the species were nearly all Northern. The collection made
numbered about 1400 specimens and 225 species. Cychrns canadensis
was one of the interesting species taken. Dr. Horn, in commenting on
the collection, said such collections have great value in the study of geo-
graphical distribution. He also remarked that there is a form of Lepttira
vittata with yellow elytra which might deceive those not knowing of such
a variety. Dr. Skinner exhibited the Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Lau-
rent and himself in Mitchell County, N. C. Dr. Horn stated that he wrote
to a friend in England that Luperus is not represented here in America,
and his English friend took exception to, the statement, and sent him
specimens representing Luperns and Luperoides to convince him to the
contrary, but they only confirmed his previous statement. Mr. Charles
Boerner was duly elected an associate of the Section.

NOVEMBER 17, 1892.

Dr. Horn, Director, presiding. Members present : Horn, Ridings,
Laurent, Skinner and Liebeck. Associates: Calvert, Fox, Boerner, Dr.
Castle and Mr. Wen/el. The Publication Committee reported in favor
of publishing the following: The North American Genera of Calyptrate
Muscidse, by C. H. Tyler Townsend. North American Tachinidce, with
desciiptions of new species, by C. H. Tyler Townsend. The North
American Pemphredonidee, by Win. J. Fox. Dr. Horn stated that he
was still studying the Galerucini. Two species had given trouble to sepa-
rate that differed principally in color markings, yet are very distinct.
They are notata and notulata. The differences were pointed out by the

22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

aid of drawings on the blackboard. Mr. Liebeck reported the capture
of Onthophagus niichicornis by Mr. Sheriff at Boston. Mr. Wenzel said
he had found Phytonomus punctatus in abundance in West Philadelphia
three years 'ago. He also mentioned having found O. nuchiconiis in
carrion. Mr. Wenzel presented four photographs to the Society, among
them was of his grandfather, Henry Feldman, a well-known Philadelphia
entomologist of the older generation. The nourishing Feldman Collect-
ing Club was named after him. Mr. P. P. Calvert was unanimously elected
a member of the Section.

DECEMBER 12, 1892.

The annual and business meeting was held this evening, Mr. Ridings
presiding, owing to the absence of Dr. Horn, Director, on account of
illness. Members present: Liebeck, G. B. Cresson, E. T. Cresson, John"
son, Welles, Calvert, Ridings, Skinner and Martindale. Associates :
Fox, Westcott. Mr. G. C. Davis, of Agricultural College of Michigan,
visitor. The following were presented to the cabinet: specimens of
Cryptocephalus badius by Mr. H. W. Wenzel, and one male Goiuphns
intricatus'by Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend. At the election the following
were elected officers for the ensuing year:

Director, GEO. H. HORN.

Vice-Director, I. C. MARTINDALE.
Recorder, HENRY SKINNER.

Conservator, HENRY SKINNER.

Publication Committee, }. H. RIDINGS, P. LAURENT.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

SOME NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES.

By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburgh.

TINGRA Boisd.

i. T. glagoessa sp. nov. (^.—Allied to T. abraxas\\Test\\. and T. tnacn-
Jata Smith and Kirby, from which it may readily be distinguished by the
fact that it has no black marks whatever upon the outer margin of the
wings. It is uniformly pure white, except at the base of the primaries
upon the upperside, which are slightly tinged with yellow. The only
black marking is a small round spot at the end of the cell upon the pri-
maries and secondaries. Expanse 35 mm.

Hab. — Talaguga, Upper Valley of the Ogove.

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2. T. limbata sp. nov. + . — Allied to T. macnlata Kirhy, but readily
distinguished from that species by the very heavy black border on the
primaries and the outer margin of the secondaries, which is not interrupted
as in T. macnlata by large white spots at the extremities of the intraneural
folds. Upperside: The anterior wings are irrorated with blackish scales
upon the costa, and have three small black spots above the cell near the
costa about the middle and a black spot at the end of the cell. The outer
third of the wing is broadly black, the inner margin of this black band
being excavated above the third median and produced inwardly upon the
second and third median nervules. The band terminates at the outer
margin is very slightly edged with white. The secondaries have a black
spot at the end of the cell and one above it near the costa, and a submar-
ginal series of smaller spots upon the interspaces parallel to the outer
margin. The outer margin from outer to inner angle is broadly margined
with black slightly interrupted with white on the interspaces at the ends
of the folds. Underside : The underside is white, with the bases suffused
with light orange. There is a small black spot in the middle and a large
black spot at the end of the cell of the primaries, and the three black
spots, which appear upon the upperside above the cell near the costa, re-
appear upon the underside. Beyond the cell on the primaries, there is a
series of six black spots diminishing in size from the costa and terminating
upon the space between the first and second median nervules. From the
costa there extends a submarginal series of black spots, seven or eight in
number, largest near the apex. The extremities of the nervules are
marked by triangular black spots. The secondaries have a black spot at
the end of the cell and curved limbal series of eight black spots sweeping
around from before the middle of the costa to above the anal angle. This
is followed by a series of six larger black spots extending from the outer
angle to the anal angle. The ends of the nervules, as on the primaries,
are tipped with triangular black marks. Expanse 43 mm.

Hab. — Kangwe, Ogove Valley.

This is a well-marked species, and is easily distinguished from
all others allied to it.

3. T. anienaidoides sp. nov. — Allied to T. atncnaida Hew. Upperside:
The upperside is red; the costa clouded with blackish scales; three black
spots above the cell parallel to the costa, a small black spot in the middle
and a large black spot at the end of the cell, and a very small spot below
the cell between the first and second median nervules. The apex is
broadly black from the outer third of the costa to the second median
nervule. The outer margin is narrowly edged with black below this.
The secondaries have a large black spot at the end of the cell and a small
black spot beyond it near the outer margin, which is narrowly fringed
with black. Underside: The underside is red, with the costal margin, the
apex of the primaries, and the entire surface of the secondaries irrorated
with grayish scales. The marks about the cell of the primaries reappear

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upon the underside, and in addition there is an irregularly curved series
of five small black spots extending from the costa to the second median
interspace, and a very faint subapical series of four small spots on this
wing. The secondaries have a small black spot at the base, one at the
middle, and another at the end of the cell; one below the cell on the first
median interspace and one above the cell before the middle of the costa;
in addition a submarginal series of eight spots parallel to the outer mar-
gin. . There is a very faint marginal black line on both the primaries and
secondaries, and the fringe, which is grayish, is checked at the end of the
nervules with black.

9-— The female is marked very much as the male, but has a submar-
ginal series of spots upon the upper and lower sides of both wings. In
one example before me the black apical band of the primaries is reduced
to a mere fringe. Expanse: tf, 35 mm.; 9, 38 mm.

Hab. — Gaboon and Kangwe.

I was inclined to refer this form to amcnaida Hew., but it dif-
fers constantly in having the border, which is very wide in amcn-
aida, restricted to a mere line upon the secondaries and the outer
angle of the primaries, and not having as many markings upon
the primaries. It may be a local race of Hewitson's species.

D'URBANIA Trim.

4. D. mapongua sp. nov. $. — Allied to D. (pseuderesia) variegata?>.
and K. Upperside: The upperside is red, with costa, apex and outer
margin of both wings broadly black. In addition, upon the primaries
there are three or four broad and obscure spots near the base fusing with
each other. The secondaries have a small black spot below the cell near
the inner margin. Underside: The underside is prevalently gray. There
is a large black spot at the end of the cell upon the primaries and a sub-
apical series of four quadrate crimson spots margined internally by black,
and between this black margin and the black spot at the end of the cell,
a broad transverse limbal band of orange-red, running from the subcostal
region to the outer angle, where it fades into white. The secondaries
have two minute black spots near the base followed by a band of crimson
marks crossing the cell, below which, and at the end of which, there are
two large black marks. These are followed by a curved submarginal
series of six crimson spots heavily margined inwardly and lightly mar-
gined externally by black. The primaries and secondaries have a narrow
marginal black line, and the fringes, which are gray, are checked will)
black at the ends of the nervules. Expanse 30 mm.

Hab. — Kangwe" .

I compared this species with the specimens in the collection of
Mr. H. G. Smith, and showed it also to Mr. Kirby, and they
agree with me in pronouncing it distinct from any species known
to them.

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LARINOPODA Bull.

5. L. melandeta sp. nov. <3\ — Allied to L. libyssa and L. campwms.
Upperside: The upperside is white. The costa, the apex of the prima"
ries are broadly black. Underside: The underside is as the upperside,
but the black border of the primaries is interrupted by a subapical white
line. The black border is also on this wing much narrower at the outer
angle, which it does not quite reach. The secondaries have the black
margin of the outer border extended around the inner border, and the
outer border is divided near the anal angle by a narrow white line, and
separated from the black fringe by a white line, which is broader near the
outer angle and opposite the cell. Upon the cell there is a transverse
oval black spot, which fuses with another large, irregularly shaped black
spot, which is situated upon the middle of the costa. Expanse 30 mm.

Hab. — Talaguga, Upper Valley of the Ogove.

APHMEUS Hub.

6. A. propinquus sp. nov. $. — Allied to A. orcas Dru., from which it
may be distinguished by the smaller amount of blue upon the upper sur-
face of the wings, and the different form of the silvery bands upon the
lower side of the wings. Upperside: The upperside is black with metallic-
blue spots and bands disposed as follows : On the primaries a short
longitudinal streak at the base of the cell, a transverse elongated spot at
the middle, and another at the end of the cell; beyond the cell, three
minute subapical spots and two other spots, one on either side of the
second median nervule in a line parallel to the outer margin. Below the
cell from the base toward the outer margin, the inner margin is broadly
laved with blue, interrupted by a black line upon the submedian nerve.
The secondaries have a large subtriangular blue spot extending from the
base below the cell toward the outer margin, which it does not reach, and
bounded inwardly by the anal fold, which is black. Underside: The un-
derside is rich maroon; the spots are as in orcas, except that the fourth
spot from the base of the primaries is divided in propinquus into two spots,
beyond the interspace between which there is a large spot; and upon the
secondaries the transverse median band, which is broad in orcas, is nar-
row and twice constricted in propinquus, and is followed toward the outer
margin by a third conspicuous transverse band or spot, located between
the third median and subcostal nervules. The fringe on both primaries
and secondaries is white checked with black at the ends of the nervules.
Expanse 32 mm.

Hab. — Upper Valley of the Ogove.

LYCENESTHES Moore.

7. L. musagetes sp. nov. rj\ — Allied to L. li^nrcs Hew. Upperside:
The wings are uniformly dark purplish blue. Underside: The undersich
is a pale blackish brown with no markings whatever near the base of tin-
primaries and secondaries. The primaries have at the end of the cell a

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double transverse bar of dark lines edged externally and internally with
p'ale gray, followed by a submarginal series of similar markings extending
from the costa to the inner margin and dislocated at the third median and
first median nervules. This series of spots is succeeded by a very obscure
marginal band of subhastate dark markings. The posterior wing has a
double bar at the end of the cell, and a series of submarginal markings
parallel to the border very much as in the anterior: The submarginal
band is followed by a double series of pale gray lunulate markings, which
are interrupted beyond the first median by a very large black ocellus,
which is margined with red, and has the black pupil irrorated with me-
tallic-blue scales. A similar ocellus smaller in size, is located at the anal
angle. The underside of the abdomen is yellow; the remainder of the
under surface of the body is concolorous.

$ . — The female has the upper surface blackish with pale gray markings
disposed in bands upon the outer border of the secondaries; the underside
is marked as in the male. Expanse 28-30 mm.

Hab. — Gaboon.

This species, which is very closely allied to L. ligures Hew.,
may be distinguished by the fact that it has not any markings at
the base of the secondaries. In ligures there is a double bar on
the costa near the base and a profusion of pale striae on the outer
half of the secondaries. The ground color in L. musagetes is
blackish; in L. ligures it is a reddish brown. Mr. H. H. Druce,
to whom I communicated one of my types, agrees with me as to
its specific value. The two species are undoubtedly mixed in
collections, but I rind in a series of about thirty specimens of each
species before me that the markings are constant.

8. L. scintillula Holl. ?. — The female of this species, of which I have
recently received a single example, differs from the male upon the upper-
side in having the bright orange-red color restricted to a large patch cov-
ering the limbal area about the middle of the wing upon both primaries
and secondaries, the costa and inner margins of which are broadly black.

9. L. erythropoecilus sp. nov. $ . — Allied to L. htsones Hew. Upper-
side: The base, the costa, the apex and outer margin, are broadly black.
The limbal area is marked by a large suboval red spot indented at the
end of the cell by a black tooth-like projection. The secondaries have
the costa, the inner and outer margins likewise broadly black, enclosing
a large subtriangular red mark upon the middle of the wing. The outer
margin is interrupted by a series of red spots, of which the two between
the median nervules are subhastate and pupiled with triangular spots of
black. There is a marginal whitish line; the fringes are Mark. Under-
side: The underside is cream-colored, barred with red and black lines.
The most conspicuous of these lines upon the primaries are a double
i:urved transverse line beyond the cell extending from the costa to the

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first median followed by a continuous double curved submarginal black
line extending from the costa to the inner angle. The base of the costa
is black. There is a large subtriangular transverse black spot next the
base, a black bar surmounted by a very narrow curved black line at the
end of the cell, and a conspicuous black transverse spot above the inner
margin near its middle. The secondaries upon the underside have a
black transverse curved line at the base followed by a spindle-shaped
transverse black line extending from the costa to the inner margin; this
is succeeded by another fusiform black mark running from the costa to
the end of the cell, which is marked by a reddish spot. Upon the inner
margin there are two black spots coalescing to form a subhastate mark
upon the diverging ends of which is the red triangular mark. Beyond
these is the median transverse series of spots, the one nearest the costa
oval, the one beyond the cell club-shaped continued to the inner margin
as a narrow curved line. This series of spots is divided outwardly by
narrow parallel lines. The outer margin is broadly black interrupted on
the margin by a series of cream-colored oval marks, which fuse with each
other, and are pupiled with gray. There is a large ocellus on the first
median and a small one at the anal angle. Both are crimson pupiled with
black. Expanse 22 mm.

Hab. — Talaguga, Ogove Valley.

10. L. xanthopcecilus sp. nov. $ . — Upperside: The upperside is dark
brown, with a large yellow suboval spot on the primaries. Underside:
The underside is white marked with black lines and spots. The primaries
have a basal streak followed by a conspicuous subtriangular spot, which
crosses the cell, and this is followed by three widely separated black
spots, one in the middle of the costa, another at the end of the cell, and
the third near the inner margin about the middle. The outer third is
broadly black, and this black area is divided by four submarginal white
lines, the innermost of which is narrow and broken, fusing at the first
median nervule with the second, which is broad and irregularly curved
and extends from the costa to the second median nervule. The third is
narrow, parallel to the outer margin and the fourth is a mere line marking
the inner edge of the fringe, which is black. The lines upon the prima-
ries at the base are extended upon the secondaries, and in addition then-
are six or seven spots in the median area, of which those near the inner
margin are smallest. There is an irregularly curved submedian line of
brown geminate at the outer anal angles, and an ocellus pupiled with blue
scales in the first median nervule.

$. — The female is exactly like the male, except that it has a slum
curved median band upon the upper surface of the secondaries. Expanse
25 mm.

Hab. — Talaguga.

ii. L. melambrotus sp. nov. ^f. — I'pperMde: The upperside is blackish

with a blue reflection. The posterior wings have the fringes gray; a nar-

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row black marginal line defined inwardly by an equally narrow white line,
within which on the interspaces there is a series of black pupiled ocelli,
of which those situated upon the median nervules are the largest. The
iricles of these ocelli are gray. Underside: The underside is white, orna-
mented with pale gray and black markings of a complex character. The
margins of both primaries and secondaries are ornamented by a series
of black pupiled ocelli, the irides of which upon the primaries are white,
as also upon the secondaries, except in the case of the two upon the me-
dian nervules, which are the largest and have their irides red. This series
of ocelli is defined inwardly upon each wing by a submarginal line of dark
brown parallel to the outer margin. Expanse 20 mm.

Hab. — Kangwe.

This is a very small, but distinctly marked species.

I take the present occasion to present figures of several of the
foregoing species as well as of several others which have recently
been described by me, and which I have grouped upon plate.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.

Fig. i. Papilio policenoides Holl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Oct., 1892.

" 2. Thaleropis trigona Holl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Oct., 1892.

" 3. Tingra limbata Holl., sp. nov.

4. Tingra glagce^sa Holl., sp. nov.

5. Larinopoda melandeta Holl., sp. nov. Upperside.
*' 6. Larinopoda melandeta Holl., sp. nov. Underside.

7. Pseudaletis clymenus Druce, co-type.

" 8. Pseudaletis zebra Holl., Psyche, March, 1891.

" 9. Pseudaletis nigra Holl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Oct., 1892.

" 10. Aphnceus crustaria Holl., Psyche, November, 1890. Underside.

;" ii. Aphnczus ilogo Holl., Psyche, November, 1890.

<l 12. Aphn^ns argenteola Holl., Psyche, November, 1890.

" 13. Aphnceus areas Drury.

<l 14. Aphnceus propinqiius Holl., sp. nov.

" 15. Aphnceus argyrocyclus Holl., Psyche, November, 1890. "

o

COLORADO CYNIPID/E.-Part II.

C. P. GILLETTE, Fort Collins, Colorado.

ACRASPIS.
A. undulata n. sp.

Galls resembling those of Mr. Bassett's A. macrocarpa; were
found common on the leaves of Quercus undulata at Manitou,
Col., on June 3Oth of this year. The inmates of the galls were
mature at that time, and would run about when cut out. Up to

ENT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PI. I.

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this date (November igth) none of the flies have gnawed their
way out of the galls, but a considerable number have been re-
moved by the aid of a pocket-knife. As the galls have been
kept in a warm room since the last of September, it seems prob-
able that the flies do not emerge in the natural state before
Spring, whereas A. macrocarptz emerges in the fall. The flies
differ from macrocarpce by having the third joint of the antenna
but very little longer than the first and second together, by hav-
ing abortive wings not more than three-fourths as long as the
thorax, by having the abdomen globular, not compressed, and
by varying from 2.5 — 3 mm. in length. Specimens of macro-
carpce in my collection reared from galls upon Quercus macro-
carpa in Iowa all have the sides of the front, the lateral margins
of the mesonotum and the sides of the scutellum decidedly ru-
fous. In undulata all of these parts are black, as is the entire
insect, except a little rufous coloration on the tips of the coxae
and at the joints of the feet. Described from nineteen specimens
cut from the galls, all alive and active, and apparently fully
mature.

HOLCASPIS.
H. rubens n. sp.

Galls. — The galls are globular, from 10 — 14 mm. in diameter,
composed of a dense corky substance, each with a single larval
cell that is easily detached from the surrounding portions, at-
tached singly to small twigs. They have either a smooth or
rough exterior, and are of a light straw color, usually consider-
ably tinted with red. They resemble very closely the galls of
Holcaspis rugosa Bass. The flies, however, are very different.

Gall-flies. — General color rufous, with lines over the base of the wings;
two parallel lines on anterior portion of mesonotum, line at base of scu-
tellum, sutures of thorax and sternum, black. Head small; face hairy
and coarsely punctured; sutures surrounding clypeus, tips of mandibles,
usually the terminal joints of the labial and maxillary palpi, pits for the
insertion of the antenna?, eyes and ocelli black; antennae i4-jointed, ru-
fous, shading into black towards the tip. Thorax and scutellum coarsely
punctured and hairy ; parapsidal grooves distinct, but extending only
about half way from the scutellum to the prothorax. In some specimens
the black lines of the mesonotum are dim or wanting, while in others
they are heavy, the two parallel lines often coalescing; scutellum with
shallow groove and no fovea? at base; metathorax black. . 1/nfoiin-n pol-
ished, with hairs upon the sides of the second segment, ovipositor sheaths
black, a characteristic black dash across the venter, general color rufous,

30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

but in a few specimens the color is quite dark. Feet rufous and hairy,
with coxae and tarsi more or less infuscate. Wings 5.5 mm long, areolet
large, radial nervure thickened at tip and not attaining the costa and the
cubital nervure not attaining the first transverse.

Described from upwards of fifty specimens, all females, reared
from galls taken at Manitou, Col., Sept. 30, 1892. The flies
began to emerge from the galls October 2Oth.

H. monticola n. sp.

Galls. — Dense cellular growths, rather cylindrical in form, but
a little smaller at the base than at the free end and somewhat
compressed laterally, the diameter in the direction of the twig
being somewhat greater than the transverse diameter. The free
end is usually rounded, but may be flat, slightly compressed or
with a blunt elevated point. They are attached by a broad base
in cup-like expansions of the small twigs. The largest galls will
measure one-fourth of an inch in greatest diameter by the same
in hight. They are black and dirty on the outer end on account
of the accumulation of the dirt in the sweet substance which they
secrete during growth. They are of a yellowish or greenish
brown at the sides, the color being quite light at the base of the
galls. A few of the two or three hundred galls that I have are
reddish in color at the sides. Although the outer substance of
the galls is very dense, the central cell is easily separated from
it, and it seems large in proportion to the size of the gall.

The galls are exceedingly abundant on scrub oaks at Manitou,
Col., and the galls are much visited by wasps and honey bees
for the sweet which they secrete.

Gall-fly, — Black, tinged with rufous on head, thorax and legs. Length
3.5 — 4 mm. Head small, face rugose, somewhat striate between the eyes
and mouth, sparsely haired, vertex finely rugose, ocelli inconspicuous and
surrounded by a black area; antennae black, i3-jointed, third joint a little
longer than the first and second together, fourth joint about equal to the
third, terminal joint as long as the two preceding, and all joints rather
sparsely haired for Holcaspis. Thorax rather coarsely punctured, the
punctures giving rise to hairs that form a sparse pubescence; parapsidal
grooves distinct, but narrow, and only reaching about one-half of the dis-
tance from the scutellum to the prothorax. The two parallel lines from
the collar and the lines over the base of the wings are very distinct; scu-
tellum broadly rounded posteriorly and with a shallow groove at base.
Abdomen black', polished, second segment with fine gray pubescence on
either side near the base. Jl'iHg-s 5 mm. long, hyaline, nervures slender,
areolet large. Feet blackish, tinged with rufous, often appearing quite
rufous if held in the proper light, moderately pubescent.

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Described from twenty-five flies, all females, reared from galls
taken at Manitou, Col., Sept. 30, 1892. Flies began emerging
from the galls November loth.

H. brevipennata n. sp.

Galls globular, from i — 1.5 centimeters in diameter, attached
singly to the underside and always near the margin of the leaves
of Quercus undulata. The central cell is held in place by a rather
abundant growth of frail radiating fibres, more or less branched
towards their outer ends. The outer shell is very thin, and is of
a straw color more or less stained with rusty-brown. The species
seems to be badly parasitized, as twenty galls taken at Manitou,
Col., September 3Oth, gave but two of the gall-flies, and these I
cut from their cells.

Gall-flies. — Rufous, 3.5 mm. in length, wings not quite attaining the tip
of the abdomen. The only black parts are the eyes, ocelli, two or three
joints at the tip of the antenna and the almost black color of the terminal
segments of the abdomen. In one specimen the head is quite dark, in-
dicating that in some specimens it might be almost black. Head rugose,
sparsely set with gray pubescence; antennae i3-jointed, third joint slightly
longer than the fourth, and fully as long as the four terminal ones together.
Thora.i' rugose-punctate, not very densely haired, parapsides very dis-
tinct and extending the whole length of the mesothorax, middle groove
absent; scutellum rather coarsely rugose and with two shallow foveae at
base. Abdomen globular, second segment covering fully two-thirds of
the dorsum and sparsely pubescent at the sides, the hairs arising from
small punctures, ovipositor sheaths very short. Feet uniformly rufous
and quite hairy. M'ings not quite reaching the tip of the abdomen, ner-
vures black, the transverse and radial ones being specially heavy and
smoky along their margin. In the apical cell are two dusky patches, one
near the tip and one under the radial nerve near the base, areolet wanting.

Described from two females, both alive and active; cut from
the galls October 3ist.

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A NEW ICHNEUMONID.

G. C. DAVIS, Agricultural College, Michigan.

While out collecting one day last Summer I happened to spy
a very odd looking parasite crawling over the leaves of a low
bush in the oak woods near the college. It looked odd because
it had only small stubs instead of Well developed wings. At the
first glance the wings appeared to have been injured, or perhaps

32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Ljanuar}r>

not properly expanded when the insect issued from the pupa case,
but a closer examination showed both to be untrue. They prove
to be naturally well formed, what there is of them, and are but
dwarfed, abortive and useless.

Upon investigation I find the species is undescribed and be-
longs to the genus Aptesis. In our fauna there is only one other
species known of these subwinged Ichneumonids, and that seems
to be rare. While they probably are not as common as the en-
tirely wingless species, they no doubt are made more rare by col-
lectors discarding them with the injured and imperfect material
as a part of it. The wingless forms are so distinctly different
that they are seldom overlooked, but the partially winged ones
are liable to deceive a person, and collectors should be on the
watch for such forms.

I append the following description:

Aptesis major n. sp. 9 - — Dull black; head large, broader than the tho-
rax, finely punctured; ocelli distinct, glassy; mandibles black, with ex-
ternal dull ferruginous spot; labial palpi black, maxillary palpi long, light
brown; antennae long filiform, the first three joints of the flagellum form-
ing fully one-third of the length, scape and first two joints of flagellum
rufous, remainder dark brown, except joints 4-8, which are white, except
a narrow stripe beneath; pro- and mesothorax shining, slightly punctured;
parapsidal grooves distinct; metathorax broad, quadrate, flat and gener-
ally sloping behind; smooth, except that it is densely and rather coarsely
punctured; scutellum and blunt tubercles on metathorax dull rufous; most
of femora and tibiae on posterior legs dusky; remainder of legs rufous,
except trochanters, which are much lighter; abdomen elliptical, finely
punctured; petiole smooth and flat above, margined, greatly expanded
near the tip; last half of third, the following segments and ovipositor
black, remaining segments rufous; ovipositor exserted nearly the length
of the abdomen; winglets reach nearly to the tip of the metathorax, ner-
vures developed to the stigma; base of nervures and tegulae fulvous.
Length 4 mm.

One specimen, taken at Agricultural College, Michigan.

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SYNONYMIC AND STRUCTURAL NOTES.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

The genera of the Notodontidae with a tuft on the internal
margin of primaries (excluding Lanassa) may be distinguished
as follows:

Primaries with an accessory cell.

Antennae of c? pectinated; eyes naked Notodonta

Antennae simple; eyes hairy Lophopteryx.

Primaries without accessory cell.

Antennae of rf pectinated . . Pheosia.

Antennae simple, ciliate Lophodonta.

According to these characters the species fall in as below:

Notodonta Ochs. Pheosia Hub.

N. stragula Grt. P. dimidiata H.-S.

N. pacifica Behr. rit/iosa Pack.

N. elegans Strk. californica Str.

vai . grisea Strk. P. portlandia Hy. Edw.

notaria Hy. Edw. deschcrei Neum.

N. georgica H.-S. P. simplaria Graef.

P. basitriens Walk.

Lophopteryx Steph. Lophodonta Pack.

L. americana Harv. L. ferruginea Pack.

L. angulosa S. & A.

According to superficial resemblance in size, shape and pattern
of markings they would stand:

Notodonta. Pheosia.

N. stragula. P. dimidiata.

N. pacifica. P. portlandia.

N. georgica. P. elegans.

N. basitriens. var. grisea.

Lophopteryx. Lophodonta.

L. americana. L. ferruginea.

L. angulosa.
L. simplaria.

It will be noticed that neither of these arrangements has been
used in any of our lists, and it would appear as if neither struc-
ture nor superficial resemblance was considered essential for ge-
neric definition.

I have not been able to examine Drynobia tortuosa Tepper.

The species associated under Hctcrocuinpa are much alike in
structure, but their larvae differ so much that it may be thought
advisable to break up the genus. This might be done as follows:

Heterocampa Doubleday.
H. astarte Douhl. (type).
1/icniis Harr.
van a Walk.

With this would go obliqua, lunata, siibrotata and ccltipluiga.

34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Loclmiaeus Doubleday.

Tad ana Walk.
L. nianteo Doubl. (type).

cincrascens Walk.

snbalbicans Grt.
Cecrita Walk.
C. guttivitta Walk. (type).

albiplaga Walk.

incieteniiinata Walk.

inncorea H.-S.
C. biundata Walk.

olivatus Pack.

viridescens Walk.

and probably the names pulverea G. & R., semiplaga Walk.,
wnbrata Walk, and athereo Harr. , which I have not satisfactorily
determined.

Misogada Walk.
M. cinerea Pack. (type).
unicolor Pack.
marina Pack.
sobria Walk.
Donbledayi Scudd.

The antennae will sufficiently distinguish this genus only the
terminal four joints being bare of pectinations.

Macrurocampa n. gen. — Head moderate, retracted; eyes large, naked;
palpi scarcely exceeding the front. Thorax wider than long; abdomen
exceeding secondaries; ^ antennae bipectinate for the basal 38 joints, the
pectinations longest centrally; the terminal 15 joints bare; fore wings 12-
veined ; median vein 3-branched, veins 3 and 4 arising close together;
cell closed by a concave cross-vein, from which arises vein 5 slightly above
the middle; veins 6 to 10 on a stalk out of the apex of the discal cell; no
accessory cell, or a very narrow one reaching from discal cell to the origin
of vein 7 (which is half way to the apex of the wing) showing a tendency
to be obsolete. Vein 1 1 arises from the subcostal about one-fifth its length
from end of cell; costa straight, apex subacute, outer margin convex.
Wings more than twice as long as broad; secondaries with two internal
veins; median 3-branched, 3 and 4 arising together from lower corner of
cell; cell closed by a concave cross-vein, from which 5 arises a little above
the middle; 6 and 7 on a short stalk from the upper corner of cell; 8 runs
close to the subcostal till just before the end of the cell; it is slightly
sinuate, approaching the subcostal most iu-arl\ along the middle of the
cell. The wing is ovate, evenly rounded; hind tibia? with two pairs of
spurs.

Type, Noctua marthesia Cramer.

M. marthesia Cram.
turbida Walk.
tessc//a Pack.
c/ongata G. & R.

The genus is distinguished by the very narrow obsolete acces-
sory cell, often wanting, and by the structure of the larva, which
bears a pair of long tails, even longer than those of Centra.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35

The other species of Heterocampa included in Prof. Smith's
list are unknown to me. They are Chapmani Grt., supcrba Hy.
Edw. , thyatiroides Walk., mollis Walk, and nigrosignata Walk.
H. nigroscripta Walk, is said by Mr. Kirby to be Thiacidas
postica from India, hence wrongly included in the list, and, finally,
H. nivea Neum. is a Centra, and has been redescribed by myself
as C. meridionalis (Psyche, vi, 291).

Arctia minea Slosson.

I have examined the types in the collection of Mrs. Slosson.
They are normally marked A. michabo Grt., but differ in the reel,
fiery tint of the pale marks which, in michabo, are usually of a
pink tint. The name is probably worthy of varietal rank.

Ceruridia Slossonii Packard.

I am also indebted to Mrs. Slosson for the opportunity to ex-
amine this curious form. It is, with only slight doubt, a female
of Gluphisia avimacula Hudson, of which the yellow shades are
replaced by black. This variation is common in the genus; I
have seen it in G. sei'era and the common G. trilincata, though
these forms have not received names. The generic name Ceru-
ridia is the same as Melia Neum. if my determination of the
moth is correct. Both names appear to me unwarranted, as the
moths do not differ in structure from Gluphisia, and the larv;e
are identical in form and in pattern of markings. The species
are somewhat larger than Gluphisia proper, but the pectinations
of the £ antennae are no longer in proportion. The species to
which the names are applicable are:

G. Lintneri Grote.

G. severa Hy. Edw. .

Danbyi Xeum. (type of Melia}.
G. avimacula Hudson.

S/ossoi/ii Packard (type of Cen/ridia).

The Bombycidae of Prof. Smith's list are a very heterogeneous
assemblage. The genera Pseudohazis and Hemileuca undoubt-
edly belong to the Saturniidae. This family has been too closely
restricted by Prof. Smith. The females of some of the species
which he has included show gradations to the simply bipectiiutr
antennae, as do some of the moths in having the two sets of pec-
tinations of unequal length, and it is but a natural step to Pse^t-
dohazis and Hemilcuca, which are otherwise- the same in the
structure and in the larva. They are totally dissimilar to the
other species, which are all true Lasiocampidae, with the possible
exception of Thauma ribis, which I have not examined. Quad-

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rina diazoma is correctly referred here, though Mr. Kirby, fol-
lowing Prof. Smith's published opinion, has placed it among the
Zeuzeridae.

There are no Bombycidae in North America, unless Bombyx
mori Linn, has really been domesticated, as is alleged.

Family LACOSOMIDE.

I propose this name for Lacosoma and the allied genera. These
have been associated with the Psydridae on the ground of larval
habits, but they are different in the structure of the moths. A
good family character is afforded by the position of vein 8 of the
hind wings, which is not united to the subcostal by a cross- vein,
but runs free and remote from it, much as in the Saturniidae.
These genera have been placed in the Drepanulidae by Mr. Kirby,
but on superficial resemblance only, which renders the reference
doubly unfortunate.

The genus Antarctia Hub. being restricted to South American
forms in Kirby 's Catalogue, the North American species must be
variously distributed. A. rufula Boisd. will go to Spilosoma,
and will stand as follows, as none of the names seem worthy of
varietal rank:

Spilosoma rufula Boisduval.

pit net a fa Pack. «

proba Hy. Edvv.
vagans Boisd.
ptcridis Hy. Edw.

A. Beanii and A. Bnicci are structurally near to Spilosoma,
but differ in minor points and markedly in coloration. They will
probably form a new genus when further studied.

A. rubra Neum. differs from all the other species in lacking
the middle spurs of the hind tibiae. It superficially resembles
Phragmatobia, but differs in wing shape and in the pectinated
antennae.

Elpis n. gen. — Head retracted, tongue short, palpi obliquely descending,
eyes naked, $ antennae moderately bipectinate to the tips. Thorax as
broad as long; abdomen short, conic, scarcely exceeding secondaries:
posterior tibiae with a pair of short apical spurs. Venation of Phragma-
tobia on both wings; costa of fore wings slightly convex, apex acute,
outer margin straight, the anal angle rounded. Wing more than twice
as long as broad; hind wings elongate-ovate, less triangular than in
Phragmatobia.

Type, Antarctia rubra Neum.

E. rubra Neum.

var. Walsinghami Butl.

The species inhabits the western part of Oregon and Wash-
ington, doubtless extending its range into British Columbia.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for December was mailed December 2, 1892.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PL II.

ISAAC C. MARTINGALE.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv. FEBRUARY, 1893. No. 2.

CONTENTS:

Obituary notice of Isaac C. Martindale 37 I Entomological Literature 55

Smith — Elementary Entomology 39

Cockereil — Entomology of Colorado 42

Editorial 46

Economic Entomology 47

Entomological Section 59

Holland — New African Nyctemeridae

and Liparidse 59

Skinner — A new Eudamus 64

Notes and News 51 ' Harvey — A new Papirius 65

ISAAC C. MARTINDALE.

Mr. Martindale died suddenly, from apoplexy, Tuesday, Jan-
uary 3rd, at his home, No. 322 Perm Street, Camden, N. J. He
was born in Byberry, Philadelphia County, Pa., July 15, 1842.
His parents were members of the Society of Friends, and his
early education was acquired chiefly at schools under the control
of Friends. His father was a descendant of John Martindell,
who, early in the history of the country, settled in Bucks County,
Pa. Many of the family have become prominent in the history
of that part of Pennsylvania. On both sides his ancestry has
shown literary ability, and this, early developed in the deceased,
added to an inherent love for the study of Nature. He began
the study of Natural History while on his father's farm, and, de-
spite an almost insurmountable difficulty from lack of books, ac-
quired considerable scientific knowledge. Geology, Mineralogy,
Ornithology, Astronomy, Meteorology, Botany, Entomology
and other branches of science received his attention, and were
the study of years. Feb. 9, 1863, he was elected a correspond-
ing member of the American Entomological Society, but it has
only been within the last few years that Mr. Martindale has de-
voted his entire leisure time to Entomology, and more par'icu-

38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

larly Lepidoptera. In former years his favorite study was Botany,
and he ranked as one of the foremost botanists in the country.
Much has been contributed by him on this subject to literature,
and his collection of plants is regarded as the best in New Jersey,
and with but few equals in the United States. His collection of
Lepidoptera ranks very nearly the finest in America, and contains
many beautiful and rare exotics not represented in other collec-
tions, as well as many exceedingly valuable native species. The
collection is contained in about ten large cabinets all fashioned
after the plan devised by himself. In the death of Mr. Martin-
dale the Academy loses a most efficient member and a trustworthy
officer. He was for sixteen years a member, and during part of
the time was most active as Chairman of the Finance Committee.
At the time of his death he was Treasurer of the Academy and
Vice-Director of the Entomological Section. He was also a
member of the American Philosophical Society, the Botanical
Club, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Entomo-
logical Society "Iris" in Dresden, Germany. He was in the
banking business, and was cashier of the Camden National Bank.
He frequently made interesting communications on entomological
subjects before the Entomological Section of the Academy, but
wrote comparatively little on Entomology, his principal contri-
butions being in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, vol. i, p. 126, and
"Canadian Entomologist," vol. xxiii, p. 174. Had he lived
longer his services to Entomology would undoubtedly have been
great, as he was a most enthusiastic and untiring worker, and
what he has done in such a short time showed what he would
have accomplished had he not been stricken at the comparatively
early age of fifty years. He will be sadly missed by his friends
and fellow members of the Academy and Entomological Section.
He leaves a widow, a daughter and two sons.

Mr. WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, of the American Museum of Natural
History, Central Park, New York, is writing a monograph of the Lepid-
opterous family Aegeridas, to be illustrated by colored plates, and he is
desirous of receiving material and information on the subject.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39

ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The Saturniidae and Ceratocampidae differ from all the other
of our Bombyces by having the antennal joints unusually long,
and furnished with two pectinations to each side. Each segment,
therefore, bears four branches or joints. This structure is not
paralleled elsewhere in the Lepidoptera, so far as my knowledge
extends, except in the aberrant Sphingid genus Cressonia. Its
distinctive character gives it an absolute systematic value, and by
its aid all members of these families may be readily recognized.
Between themselves, the Saturniidae and Ceratocampidae differ,
primarily, in that the former have the antennal pectinations ex-
tending to the tip, while in the latter they extend only a little
beyond the middle.

In the Saturniidae the head is small, and the ocelli and tongue
are wanting. The venation is quite simple, and usually the pri-
maries have ten veins only; the missing veins belonging to the
sub-costal series. In the fore wings there is one internal vein,
which may or may not have a small fork at the base. The cell
extends to the middle of the wing or beyond it, and the veins are
well separated. The secondaries lack all trace of a frenelum in
both sexes; the costal vein is free from the base, and there are
two internal veins, the inner very feeble and very close to the
internal margin; vein five belongs to the sub-costal series. The
legs are short and very hairy, the tarsi very feebly spinulose.
The little epiphysis on the underside of the fore tibia is distinctly
present.

It is to this family that our American "silk worms" are re-
ferable; and the moths are the giants among our Bombyces; ex-
panding in some instances six inches or more.

Two very well separated sub-families are recognizable: the
Attacinae and Saturniinae, recognizable primarily by the fact that
in the Attacinas the median cell on both wings is open, while in
the Saturniinae it is closed by a distinct cross-vein. Other dif-
ferences exist: in the Attacinae the antennal development is most
perfect, the pectinations being as complete, though smaller, in
the female than in the male. The wings are verv broad, the pri-

40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

maries with a rounded apex, below which there is a variably dis-
tinct excision, in some exotic species so strongly marked as to
make the wings distinctly falcate. As a whole, the wing outline
is extremely graceful, no sudden or sharp angles presenting any-
where. In the cocoons there is a decided tendency to a doub-
ling, most marked in cecropia, but obvious in all the species
known to me. They also are attached to the plants on which
the insects feed, in a majority of the cases, though this feature
varies. Those of Columbia and cecropia are often, if not usu-
ally, attached to twigs or branches their full length; those of
cynthia and promethea are enveloped by a leaf and attached by a
pedicel to the twig; and those of angulifera are not attached in any
way, but fall to the ground with the leaves. In the Saturniinae we
have a very decided difference in wing form. The apex of prima-
ries is distinctly pointed or angular, and the outer margin, though
it may be excised, is never gracefully swung. Everywhere the
angles are obtrusive, and there is a clumsy appearance as a rule.
In luna this is much less noticeable, owing to the handsome tails.
The antennal development is much less perfect, and we find,
in the females, first a short ending of one pair of pectinations,
then the disappearance of one pair and the shortening of the
other, and finally the pectinations disappear entirely. The num-
ber and comparative length of the segments is not changed,
however, and in the males the typical family structure is distinct
in all cases, though the pectinations may not be equally long.
The cocoons are usually distinctly single, and, as usually, drop
to the ground with the leaves; if, indeed, the larva does not de-
scend to the ground to pupate.

The most obvious character of the Ceratocampidae has already
been stated. It is found in the fact that the antennal pectinations
extend to the middle only. In the female the pectinations are
very short, or the antennae are simple. The venation is, in its
main features, not unlike that of the Saturniidse, but we notice a
very obvious tendency to some of the follow ing families in the
very decided shortening of the median cell, and a corresponding
increase in the length of the veins arising from it. This feature
is distinctive of a small group of families, and associates the
Ceratocampidae much more nearly with the Lasiocampidae than
with the Saturniidae. Vein five, of the primaries, while much
nearer to the subcostal than to the median series, usually arises

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 41

from the cross-vein, and occasionally we note a very distinctive
tendency toward a division of the cell itself, by a distinct fold.
The head structure is not unlike that of the Saturniidae, and the
same may be said of the leg structure; the armature of the tarsi
being usually sparse. On the fore tibiae of some of the species
the epiphyses are enormously developed, and force the question
of their purpose quite prominently upon the student. In the
method of pupation the species of this family differ entirely from
the Saturniidae in that they all form naked, subterranean pupae.

Under the term " Bombycidae," my list contains a miscellane-
ous aggregation of forms which did not fit into the families that
I had more definitely limited, and, as it stands, this "family" is
incapable of definition. It is, however, quite easy to divide it,
and we get first,- the family Hemileucidae, containing the genera
Psendohazis and Hemileiica as they stand in the list. In vena-
tion this family corresponds very closely with the family Satur-
niidae, and stands much nearer to it, indeed, than the Ceratocam-
pidae; not only in this respect, but in the wing form and in the
method of pupation. The family differs primarily in the struc-
ture of the antennae, in which there is only a single pectination
to each side of each joint. As the number of pectinations is as
great or greater than in Saturniidae, it necessitates at least double
the number of joints in an antennae of the same length, and these
joints are quite different in form. We have thus an absolute,
sharply-limited character in the relative number of joints in an-
tennae of the same length. The head structure also is quite
different, influencing the location of the antennae. In the Sa-
turniidae the eyes are comparatively large and extend to the ver-
tex, the antennal cavities touch the margin of the eye, and are
separated by less than their own diameter, even in the female.
In the Hemileucidae, on the contrary, the eyes are much smaller,
much more widely separated and do not reach the vertex. The
antennal cavities are situated on a prominence, do not touch the
margin of the eye, and are separated by nearly twice their diam-
eter. So different, indeed, is the head structure, that if we at-
tribute as much value to its modifications as Dr. Packard has
been inclined to do, we cannot find more widely distinct families.
The legs are short and hairy, the spurs obsolete, except on the
posterior tibiae, but the tarsal spinulation is distinct, and the tarsal
claws are unusually long. The fore tibiae are peculiar; they are

42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

furnished at the tip with a distinct claw, which is an unusual
character in this series, and they lack entirely the epip,hysis, which
is an all but universal character in the Macroheterocera, and this
serves to isolate the family from all the other related Bombyces-
examined by me. There are other differences, in thoracic struc-
ture and elsewhere, which this is scarcely the place to describe,
but enough has been shown to make it desirable that Mr. Dyar's
sentence on p. 35 of this volume: " The genera Pseudohazis and
Hemileuca undoubtedly belong to the Saturniidae," should be
regarded as an expression of opinion and not as a statement of
fact. The use of the term " undoubtedly" is unfortunate in any
case, for we really know too little absolutely to make any such
definite assertions. I am aware that it would not be difficult to find
equally positive assertions made by myself in times past, when I
thought I knew very much more than I do now; at that time no
one else seems to have had any definite information concerning
the wealth of knowledge that we did not possess. It is certain
that I did not then realize that all that was printed in the books
could not be implicitly relied upon.

NOTE. — Some unfortunate typograpical errors crept into the
January instalment of this paper; in one case entirely reversing
my intended statement. On p. 5, line 3, omit but between certain
and that ; line 16, after genus insert which; line 25, lengthily
insert often.

o

NOTES ON THE ENTOMOLOGY OF COLORADO.-II.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Kingston, Jamaica.

DELTA.

The northern border of the countv is elevated, but rapidly de-
scending as one goes southward, the zones of vegetation recorded
on p. 202 are grassed, and the Gunnison River is reached at quite
a low level. I crossed the county in September and October,
from the Grand Mesa down the valley of Surface Creek and
across the plain to Montrose. We camped for a few days on
Surface Creek at about 8,500 feet altitude, where the zones of
Spruce and Quaking Asp intermingled. Here the plants were
characteristic of the mid-alpine region, such species as Frag aria
vesca, Epilobium angustifolium, Ur.Hca.gr acilis, Rubus strigosus

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Troximon aurantiacum, T. glaucum, Mertensia sibirica, Cam-
panula rohmdifolia, Aconitumcolumbianum, etc., being observed.
The mollusca were equally characteristic, including Patula
Cooperi, Conulus fulvus, Limnoca humilis, Pupa blandi and
others. The insects corresponded; on September 26th, I saw
Vanessa antiopa; on September 3Oth, Vcspa maculata; and at
various times species of Grapta, Colias, Lithobius, Geophihis,
etc. A marten was shot by one of our party, and a Pulex found
parasitic upon it.

On September 3<Dth we moved a few miles further down the
valley, and at this camp I took a wasp, Vespa arenaria Fab. ;
two beetles, Platycerus sepressus Lee. 9 (under a log) and Ne-
crophorus vespilloides Hbst. (flying by day), and a Vanessa J//7-
bertii. I have also a note of Hippodamia ^-signata Kirb. on
Surface Creek, and Pterostichus protractus Lee. , Delta County,
the locality not exactly noted. P. protractus is recorded in the
Wheeler Report from Fort Garland and the Roaring Fork, and
so appears to be of wide distribution in Colorado, although I did
not find it in Custer County. Colorado, as a whole, seems to
contain comparatively few species of Pterostichus (though two
or three are abundant), but plenty of Amara, thus:—

Colo fms listf New Jersey British Is.

( J. B. Smith.) (Fowler & Matthews.)

Pterostichus 8 19 22

Amara 20 16 26

MESA, N. E.

In September, I crossed the northern border of the county
close to the Mam Mountains, and traveled by way of Buzzard
Creek and Plateau Creek to the Grand Mesa. This region is
mid-alpine, but descending Plateau Creek we should soon meet
with sub-alpine features, and even near Eagalite, where we
camped, they were becoming quite marked. It will be convenient
to group the notes under three districts;

(i) Buzzard Creek District. — The divide between North
Mam Creek and Buzzard Creek is not so high but that the Scrub
Oak grows there, being ordinary mid-alpine. Elk (Cerviis cana-
densis) and black-tailed deer (C. macrotis} were observed on the
Mam Mountains. At our camp near the foot of t'he Mam Moun-

44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

tains, by a stream which runs into Buzzard Creek, Vanessa an-
tiopa was common; of Hymenoptera, Augochlora pura Say was
taken on September I5th, and Apathus insularis Sm. on Sep-
tember i yth; of Coleoptera, Tachyporus jocosus Say was found
on September i4th, and Nebria trifaria Lee. (at the foot of the
Mam Mountain) on September :6th. Species of Geophilus and
Lithobius were also noticed.

On September iSth we camped on Buzzard Creek itself. I
wrote at the time: " Buzzard Creek is a pretty stream, bordered
with Willows, — and the surrounding country consists of low
rounded hills, covered with gray Artemisia-brush, Oak-brush
(now brilliantly red), and here and there patches of Quaking
Aspen turning yellow." At this locality Vanessa antiopa was
again met with; also Culex sp. and Pcederus^., and in the creek
plenty of the cases of Helicopsyche on stones. Two ducks shot
were found to have eaten numbers of the latter.

Calathus ingratus Dej. was taken near Buzzard Creek.

(2) Plateau Creek District. — It is a good indication of the
sub-alpine region when the creek bottoms begin to be filled with
the narrow-leafed cottonwood, Populus angustifolia. This was
the case near Eagalite (is this a corruption of eagalite?), where
we camped, and other indications of a warmer climate were not
wanting. The sand by the creek was alive with lizards of two
species ( Ufa ornata Baird and Girard, and Cremidophorus sex-
lineatus L.), while tiger beetles (Cicindela iz-guttata Dej.) were
nnumerable, taking flight at the slightest alarm. At night, there
was a constant chirping of crickets. The other insects noted
were Vanessa antiopa, Catocala sp., Enpithecia sp., Trechus
micans Lee. (chalybeus Mann.), Crabro odyneroides Cr. , Chrysis
sp. ; and three Orthoptera, Trimerotropis vinculata Scudd., Dis-
soteira Carolina L., and Acridium shoshone Thos. Rose leaves
were noticed to have been cut by some Jlfegachi/e. The date of
these observations was Sept. 19 and 20, 1887.

(3) Grand Mesa District. — On the north slope of the Grand
Mesa a specimen of Hemileuca jnno var. diana Pack., was taken
on September 2oth. We camped on the Mesa, near Clear Water
Creek, at two different places, altitude about 9,800 feet. This is,
of course, high mid-alpine. Some of the characteristic plants
are Achillea millcfoliiim, Graphalium Sprenge/ii, Gentiana ser-
rata, Galium boreale, Castilleia miniata (form with rose-pink

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flowers), Rammcuhis aquatHisvsir. stagnatilis, Caltha leptosepala,
etc. It is the zone of Spruce (Picea Engelmanni), but Quaking-
Asps are to be seen in diminished numbers. Three beetles col-
lected proved to be Amara terrestris Lee. , Pterostichus longulus
Lee. and Melanophila atropurpurea Say. Musca sp. was ob-
served, and species of Lithobius andfatus. Various things were
collected in alcohol, but never got identified, with the exception
of Phalangodes robustus Packard, concerning which see " Cana-
dian Entomologist," July, 1889. A saw-fly larva found on Sep-
tember 22d, was 14 mm. long, reddish yellow, with a dark dorsal
line, last segment purplish. It is perhaps identical with one I
found on rose in Custer County.

A CLAIM THAT AN ANCIENT BEETLE HAS BEEN FOUND ALIVE IN IRON.—

Our fellow-citizen, Z. T. White, is the owner of what we believe to be the
most interesting insect and mineral specimen in existence. Some months
ago Mr. White was presented with a specimen taken from considerable
depth in the Longfellow mine of Clifton, Ariz. When the specimen in
question was fractured, a beetle of dull reddish gray was disclosed, sur-
rounded by a closely-fitting mold of iron ore; in fact, the beetle lay in
state as perfect as in life, in the sarcophagus of iron. Naturally, very
much impressed with his acquired property, Mr. White hastened to en-
velop it in a piece of cloth, with the view of conveying it to his cabinet.
On his way, however, he had occasion to examine the interesting speci-
men, and his surprise may be better imagined than described when he
perceived a young beetle slowly emerging from its dead parent's body,
and in every characteristic resembling it, barring the fact that it was
smaller. At the time Mr. White called the attention of the writer to the
fact, the young beetle was placed under a glass by its owner. It continued
to prosper and increase in dimensions and lived for five whole months.
The specimen, the insect in its cyst of ore and the younger insect gener-
ated in a prehistoric period to be born in the nineteenth century, are now
in the Bullion office awaiting Judge J. F. Crosby, of this city, who pro-
poses to present them, with the compliments of our fellow-citizen, Mr.
White, to a prominent scientific association of the Atlantic slope. Fossil
insects are common; beetles and other insects inclosed in amber and other
compounds are frequently met with, but geology in all these cases gives
an explanation to account for the appearance of organic matter, but in
this case there is no plausible pretext to account for tin- insects enveloped
in a matrix of iron and found far beneath the surface, no other traces of
organic life being present. It is almost beyond credence — El Paso J lit //ion.

46 [January,

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

Published monthly (except July and August), by the Entomological
Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, with the
endorsement of the American Entomological Society. It will contain not
less than 240 pages per annum. It will maintain no free list whatever,
but will leave no measure untried to make it a necessity to every student
of insect life, so that its very moderate annual subscription may be con-
sidered well spent.

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Philadelphia, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1893.

IT has been suggested that we should publish more reports of captures
and local lists, after the manner of the English entomological journals.
We are perfectly willing to do so, and trust our readers and subscribers
who think such notes would be interesting, will send a supply for each
month. This has been done to a very limited extent in entomological
journals published on this side of the "great pond," and the reason is
not far to seek. The conditions of affairs here as compared, for instance,
with England are very different; we have an area of 3,605,000 square miles
in which we collect, and the area of England and Wales is but 58,000
square miles. Moreover, there are perhaps fifty entomologists in England
to each one in the United States. We also have many more species to
look after, and it is a matter of very small moment to an American col-
lector if he takes a common butterfly, but our English friend immediately
reports it to his journal. On looking over an English entomological
journal one will find it largely made up of notes of captures, local lists,
items of interest to collectors, and similar affairs. Perhaps a number of
people will report captures of Colias hyale and Colias edusa; now, if we
should do the same, and every bug hunter should report the capture of
Colias philodice in our immense territory, it would take up almost a whole
issue of the NEWS to contain it all. There is a happy medium in every-
thing, and while we do not expect to see these local reports carried out to
the same extent as abroad, on account of the conditions being so very
different, yet we might have very much more of it done here in America,
so send in your reports and we will do the rest.

PICTURES for the album of the American Entomological Society have
been received from William Beutenmiiller, W. H. Edwards, H. H. Ly-
man, Dr. F. W. Coding, James Angus, Dr. S. W. Williston and E. B.

Southwick. We still want all we can get.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B, SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J.

Common Injurious Insects of Kansas, is the title of a 1 26-page pamphlet,,
by Vernon L. Kellogg, M. S., issued at the University of Kansas. It is
prefaced by a very brief and very general account of the life-history of
an insect, and the division into biting and sucking forms is made. Four
pages treat of the more usual insecticides and their range, and less than
two pages are devoted to "spraying and dusting." Then follow the ac-
counts of the injurious insects, grouped under the crops attacked by them
and in the order of their importance; thus the Chinch bug appropriately
heads the list.

The treatment of each species is necessarily brief, and the remedies to
be adopted are also very briefly mentioned. In all, fifty-nine species are
described, and these are illustrated by sixty-one figures. To each account
" Kansas Notes" are added, referring to observations made in that State.
The pamphlet will be very useful, no doubt, and forms a convenient little
book for farmers and fruit growers to have about. It has one disadvantage,
common to all publications of that character, it becomes antiquated in
large part with such astonishing rapidity. Already, when just off the
press, I note that, for some insects, better and more practical or effective
means have been recommended than those mentioned in the book; and
yet I have no doubt it represents in most cases the state of our knowledge
when it was dated, less than three months ago. Of the illustrations, a
fair proportion are the well known and always excellent figures from Dr.
Riley's Reports; a few are from other sources, but perhaps the majority
are original, or are re-drawn. Line has been used almost exclusively, and
the result is not good in most cases. All the re-drawn figures are inferior
to the originals, and the new figures, while recognizable in most cases,
leave much to be desired.

Digestive System of Orthoptera.— Some words in Mr. Kellogg' s intro-
ductory remarks give food for thought. He says: "For the intelligent
application of insecticides (insect-killing substances), some little should
be known of the general economy of insect life, and that little may be
briefly told." But is this really true? Can there be any really intelligent
application of insecticides without a great deal more knowledge than can
be " briefly told;" and after all, do the teachers themselves know exactly
what to do in all cases; or do they always know exactly how insecticides
act, and why they will act in one case and not in another. Why hellebore,
for instance, is specific for one series of insects and absolutely ineffective
as against others equally exposed and without greater apparent means
of resistance. There comes in, also, a very important factor: the deter-
mination of the author of the mischief. However easy this may be to
the trained observer, it is sometimes very difficult to one that does not

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have a special knowledge, even if more than usually intelligent or other-
wise well educated. I have not infrequently received insects with a sam-
ple of injury supposed to have been done by them, which I knew at once
they could not have caused. The true depredator may be inconspicuous,
or a nocturnal prowler, while a common, noisy day bird is charged with
the mischief. A very good illustration of this feature may be found in
the case of the Orthoptera frequenting cranberry bogs. For years past
the grasshoppers (Acrididae) have been charged with the injury, though
I have always attributed it to the katydids (Locustidae). The growers
have always contended that there were few or no katydids and any num-
ber of grasshoppers, and they must be the depredators. Now it is quite
true that grasshoppers are very much en evidence on many bogs, and
their clumsy jumpings and noisy flight attract so much attention that the
species of Scudderia with their noiseless flight, thin, almost transparent
wings and green color, are entirely overlooked. In several cases, after a
grower had positively declared that there were no katydids on his bog, I
caught several for him within a small radius, to his intense surprise. The
next objection was, suppose there are a few katydids, how can they do all
this injury; they may eat berries, but so do the grasshoppers. On some
bogs it would have been possible to answer that if every grasshopper ate
only two berries a week, they would have taken every berry on the bog
in one week, but the true answer was found in the structure of the insects
themselves, and in the capacity of the digestive system. On page 50 will
be found figures of the digestive systems of a katydid, Scudderia furcu-
lata, a grasshopper, Acridium obscurum, and a roach, Blatta orientals;
the latter for a comparison merely. The differences are quite striking,
and give the katydid a capacity equaling three Acridium obscurum, or
eight Melanoplus femur-rubrum. In the Acridium, in Melanoplus, and
in all other of the grasshoppers examined by me, the crop is quite a
thick-walled structure, with grinding ridges, teeth and wrinklings on the
inner surface. There is no distinct gizzard. It may be well to say that
there is an extremely short oesophagus, and that the crop lies largely in
the thoracic cavity. The caeca consist of six purse-like upward extensions
with a short tail-like downward appendix to each. The stomach, or chy-
lific ventricle is shorter and of a smaller diameter than the crop, and holds
about half as much. The ileum and colon together do not equal the
stomach in capacity. We have here a very simple type ; an almost
straight tube from one end of the body to the other, divided into special-
ized regions. The katydid structure is quite dissimilar. We have, first,
a very long oesophagus extending through the thoracic cavity into the ab-
domen, where it enlarges to a crop which is a thin membranous sac,
capable of great distension. This merges into a distinct gizzard, which
has a complicated grinding apparatus and thence the food passes to a very
long stomach, at the mouth of which the caeca are represented by two
large pouches, also distended with food. The stomach forms two large
coils, and, with the Ccecal pouches, holds at least twice as much as the

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crop. The form of the head, of the jaws, and of the insect as a whole,
all point to one result only: that katydids, and not grasshoppers, do the
injury complained of on cranberry bogs.

Now, all these facts in insect anatomy I believe the farmer ought to
know, or should at least have the opportunity of knowing. It forms part
of that body of knowledge which is necessary to be able to decide,
promptly and safely, which is the true injurious insect first, and how it
may be killed afterward. I believe very decidedly that beside a general
knowledge of the transformation of insects, the farmer needs quite a
definite knowledge of insect anatomy and physiology, and, so far as I am
able to do so, I propose to put such knowledge within reach, in New
Jersey at least.

How A BEE FIGHTS. — An observer writes in the Chicago Tribune, that
he is satisfied that there is just as much rivalry between humming birds
and bees in their quest for honey as there is between members of the
human race in their struggle for the good things of life, and describes a
recent quarrel that he saw in a Portland, Me., garden, where a humming
bird with an angry dash expressed its disapproval of the presence of a
big bumble-bee in the same tree. The usually pugnacious bee inconti-
nently fled, but he did not leave the tree. He dashed back and forth
among the branches and white blossoms, the humming bird in close pur-
suit. Where will you find another pair that could dodge and dare equal
to these ? They were like flashes of light, yet the pursuer followed the
track of the pursued, turning when the bee turned. In short, the bird
and the bee controlled the movements of their bodies more quickly and
more accurately than he could control the movements of his eyes. The
chase was all over in half the time that it has taken to tell it, but the ex-
citement of a pack of hounds after a fox was no greater. The bee es-
caped, the bird giving up the whole chase and alighting on a twig. It
couldn't have been chasing the bee for food, and there is no possible
explanation of its unprovoked attack, except that it wished to have all
the honey itself.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, May 6, 1892. — The secretary
read a letter which Lord Walsingham had received from Sir Arthur P.lack-
wood, the secretary of the post-office, in answer to the memorial, winch,
on behalf of the society, had been submitted to the Postmaster-General,
asking that small parcels containing scientific specimens might be sent to
places abroad at the reduced rate of postage applicable to packets of
/xinttjide trade patterns and samples. The letter intimated that, so far
as the English post-office was concerned, scientific specimens sent by
sample post to places abroad would not be stopped in future. [_ ' his is
not new, but will probably be useful for American entomologists to know,
especially those who exchange with correspondents in England.]

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

[February,

Alimentary canal of u, katydid (Scudderiafurculata) ; b, grasshopper (Acridium obscuruni) ;
c, cockroach (li/attu vrientalis), much enlarged. All the parts of the tract arc named, except
the irregular threads surrounding the stomach, which are the Mulpighian vessels. They are
much more numerous than shown in the figure, and form, in nature, a complete network
around the organ.

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Notes and.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit, and will thankfully receive items
of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author's name will be given
in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.]

To Contributors.— All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our
earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep-
tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer-
ence, as to make it necessary to put " copy"' into the hands of the printer, for each number,
three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im-
portant matter for certain issue. Owing to low subscription rate, " extras" will be charged
for, and when they are wanted, it should be so stated on the MS. along with the number
desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. — ED.

A CORRECTION. — Mr. Dyar's note in January NEWS concerning a moth
of which he speaks as Ceruridia Slossonii Pack., is misleading, and re-
quires correction. There is as yet no such insect as Ceruridia Slossonii
Pack. A moth in my collection has a label bearing, in my own hand-
writing, the above name proposed for it by Dr. A. S. Packard. No de-
scription of this moth has been published. I stated these facts when I
showed the insect to Mr. Dyar, but he has apparently forgotten them.

ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON.

WRITING in regard to a recent article in the NEWS by Prof. J. B. Smith
on American Noctuidae, Mr. J. W. Tutt, of London, England, says: "The
value of your photographic plates is unquestionable, and it enables us
who cannot see the type specimens in your collections to form an idea of
the moths you describe. With regard to fig. 5, in the first row, the spe-
cies is undoubtedly our European Hydrcecia micacea Esp., and the de-
scription suits our species exactly. But this is a most variable species in
England, and varies from pale yellowish with very faint markings through
banded specimens to dark brown (vide British Noctuce and their varieties,
vol. i, pp. 64-66), some of the specimens being bright rosy-red; in fact,
the species is called ' the rosy rustic.' In naming new species, care should
be taken to refer to such well-known European species as this undoubt-
edly is."

BEE STINGS AND RHEUMATISM. — I some time ago came across a few
articles having reference to bee stings as a cure for rheumatism. The
subject had passed from my mind until just recently, when a particular
friend of mine, who has suffered from this annoying cpmplaint, was stating
his case to me I at once remembered what I had read, and told him about
it. His curiosity being aroused, he asked to see the letters, and after
careful perusal of the same he came to my apiary to try the effect of the
remedy. My friend is an ex-police sergeant, who has suffered acutely for
years from rheumatism, and passed through the hands of several medical
men, and spent seasons at various convalescent homes, undergoing va-

52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

nous kinds of treatment, but all to no purpose. However, on Monday,
nth of July last, he came to see me, suffering from severe pain in his
right elbow and right ankle. With the help of my bees I gave him eight
stings, three upon the elbow and five upon the. ankle. When he came
he could not lift his arm, and it was with very great difficulty that he man-
aged to walk a distance of two miles to my place, but twenty minutes
after being stung, he could work his arm about as freely as if he had
never had rheumatism in his life, and he walked away like a two-year-old.
— British Bee Journal August, 1892. See also ENT. NEWS vol. i, foot
of page 143.

A FRIENDLY BUTTERFLY. — On a picnic some miles east of Bangor in
1890 this very sociable Vanessa antiopa made my acquaintance, one not
soon to be forgotten by me. It was a fresh and bright one, and his aim
seemed pleasure alone, he acted so lively and pleased. His continued
attentions to me as I carelessly swung my net beside the road at last in-
duced me to meet him half way in friendliness. Even after catching him a
few times and then freeing him he alighted on the net, on my straw hat, and,
finally in contentment, on my left shoulder. With my coat off in the heat
it seemed to me my white shirt might be the attraction. Thinking my
children would be amused, I walked back to the stream and called them
up to wonder in their turn. Next we all went further to our lunch place
under a big Pine where were others of the party. There for some time
he kept his place, apparently much pleased. As time passed I at last
began to test the power of attraction, actually driving him with net far up
into the tree when he again tried to come back, but was probably scared
by some one else at last. Now, the time was long, the distance walked
considerable, and his various manoeuvres were quite multifarious. His
actions showed pleasure distinctly. — F. A. EDDY, Bangor. Me.

ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY OF INSECTS. — Under this title
the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" for December, 1892, con-
tains a translation of a portion of a paper by N. Cholodkovsky, on the
embryonal development of Phyllodromia (Blatta) gennauica, published
in the " Me'moires de 1' Academic Impe'riale des Sciences de St. Peters-
bourg" (7), xxxviii, No. 5, 1891. As set forth in this translation, M. Cho-
lodkovsky advances "the following main theses:—

1. The head of Insects contains more than four protozonites, probably
six, of which one is pre-oral, but the rest are post-oral.

2. The antennae of Insects belong to the first post-oral segment and are
entirely homologous with the remaining ventral extremities. They do
not correspond to the antennae of Peripatus, but probably to the chelicerae
of spiders, and perhaps to the second pair of antennas of Crustacea.

3. Since the possibility that a number of segments in the germinal streak
of different Arthropods have disappeared is not excluded, a homology of
the mouth-parts of the different classes of Arthropods cannot at present
be set up.

jgg- ~| ENTOMO LOGICAL XEXVS. 53

The abdominal appen^aSes ol" tne Insectan germinal streak (includ-
ing the cerci) are homoloS'ous with the thoracic le§'s- Herein it makes
no difference whether these appendages are attached to the middle, at the
side, at the front or hinc1 margin (are nieso-, pleuro-, pro-, or opisthostatic
in the terminology of praher)> provided only that their cavity is imme-
diately continuous with that of the somite to which theV belong. The
fact that the abdominal appendages usually remain unsegmented in nowise
tends to show that they' are not °f tne nature of limbs, since, for instance,
the mandibles also are ^segmented.*

5 Many of the abdom'na^ aPPendages of larvae and perfect Insects are
homologous with the thoracic legs, even when they are secondary in

ontogeny.

6 The primitive funr^on °^ tne ^rst Pair °f the abdominal appendages
was ambulatory, as al£° that of the remaining appendages. The ances-
tors of the Insects were therefore undoubtedly homopod, not heteropod.

7 The many-leeeed Insect 'arva? are to be derived from the six-legged'
just as little as are conversely- tne hexapod larvae from the polypod; both
forms°developed inder?endentiy of one another.

8 The embryonic ePve'°Pes °^ *ne Insects probably correspond to the

remains of a Trochosf-* _e-

With regard to the c*r'gni of Insects, M. Cholodkovsky believes that ex-
istino- knowledge "seems to decide the question still more definitely in
favor of the derivation °^ tne Insects from homo- and polypod and, prob-
ably, Scolopendrella-\^ ancestors. Even Graber . considers it

probable that the anc:estors of Insects were myriapod-like. ... If,
however we weieh th<s »reat difference between the Crustacea on the one
hand and the rest of tne Arthropods on the other, a close relationship
between Insects and Crustaceans appears simply impossible. The Nat<-
fr/itts-hrm of larva ai1 exclusivery Crustacean possession, the remarkable
resemblance in embnrOrnc development between Insects and Peripatiis,
and the constitution °^ tne respiratory and excretory organs, are facts
which all compel us tr* conclude that the Arthropods are at least diphyletic
in origin The Crustacea> indeed, are to be derived from marine Anne-
lids which in the colirse °^ their development passed through the Tro-
chosnhere sta^e (wh^'1 m ^-he Crustacean development became trans-
formed into that of tHe Naupliiis}, while for the ancestors of the Tracheata
we must look to ten'estr'a'' or fresh-water Annelids, more of the Oligo-
chaete type."

YFNTURFSOMF lx^KCTS- — The notes, in late numbers of the NEWS, by
Messrs Webster Ca'vert ant' Cross, on " vrnturesome insects," remind
me that I have made tne same ol)st-r\;itions in regard to all the species of
the o-enus GraMa tljat ^ ani tann''ar with. \Vhen collecting, if I fail to
secure a specimen at '"'rst trial, 1 always stand still and the insect is suiv
to ali"ht on the samr- or near tne same spot. I remember one (,'nip'ii

" Wlu-t bt-r tbf so'-mf'11'6^ t""3110'1''1' filaments of Sisyi<i and .s/,i//j belong to tbis cnte-
Kory is doubtful, but'can onl>' be decided by emt.ryological investigations."

54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

comma at Connellsville, Pa., that alighted every afternoon on a small
Almond tree. I repeatedly attempted to capture it, but it was too wary
for me. I am quite certain it was the same insect, and it would alight not
only on the same tree, but on the same spot. There was no food near
that I could see. I also have seen a case of "attempted suicide." It was
at the Cucumber Falls, Ohio Pyle, Pa. The sun was shining brightly on
the water at the time, and I was standing at the foot of the falls. I saw
a large Papi/io tnrnus hover before the water and then fly directly into it.
It \vas dashed back by the force of the water, but, as soon as it regained
its balance, returned to the charge. This time it was hurled to my feet,
and now adorns my collection. I would suggest that the sunlight reflected
from the water attracted the insect. — JAMES M. PHILLIPS.

THE following has been sent us by one who has had reason to regret
that his correspondents had more faith in the tender handling of the mails
than the results proved desirable. The remarks are equally applicable
to all orders of insects. To the items we might add— enclose stamps not
only to pay for the return of the box, but the return of the letter. This may
seem a small matter, but to expect one to give time and labor for nothing
and to pay for the privilege is at least unreasonable.

TEN COMMANDMENTS

which every coleopterist, who sends specimens for names, should always
carefully consider:

1. Take a nice little wooden box with good cork lining, at least a quarter
of an inch thick.

2. Use Klaeger pins and stick them deep into the cork to prevent vi-
bration.

3. Fasten the specimens or papers underneath with a little gum to pre-
vent them from turning around the pin.

4. Don't put the specimens too close — to prevent their injuring each
other.

5. See that the specimens are clean and perfect.

6. Put the box in an outer box of strong pasteboard, but leave room
enough between the two boxes to be stuffed with cotton or horsehair, etc.

7. Instead of an outer box, a thick layer of cotton may be used.

8. Write on the outside of the bundle the address— clear and legible.

9. If the box is to be returned, put the return postage in the accompa-
nying letter.

10. Acknowledge the receipt of the box.

(Any neglect of these rules will probably be disastrous.)

HENRY ULKE.

IC locality where the butterflies were taken, which was omitted in the
article in last issue of NEWS, by William L. W. Field, was Guilford, Conn.

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Identification of Insects ( Images ) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Entomological Literature.

COMPTES RENDUS. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, Paris, Nov. 28, 1892.—
On a nervous ganglion in the feet of Phalangium opilio, M. Gaubert.
Researches on the colors of some insects, A. B. Griffiths.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), x, 60, Lon-
don, December, 1892. — On the development of the Pedipalpi, Dr. A.
Strubell (transl. Zool. Anz. 1892, No. 385, 386). On the morphology and
phylogeny of insects, N. Cholodkovsky (transl. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb.
1891).

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, xviii, 1892.—
On the blood of the Invertebrata, Dr. A. B. Griffiths.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, December, 1892. — The emergence of
the Centras, Dr. T. A. Chapman. Indoor light [for night collecting],
Major J. N. Still. Numerous additional records of Colias edusa, C. hyale.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., December, 1892.—
Notes on Coleoptera, xi, Dr. J. Hamilton. A preliminary grouping of the
described species of Saproinyza of North America, with one new species,
C. H. T. Tovvnsend. Preliminary remarks on some North American
species of Halisidota Hub., H. G. Dyar. Partial preparatory stages of
Catocala illecta Walker, with notes, G. H. French. Discovery of the
genus Cratccpus Foerster in America, and the description of a new spe-
cies, W. H. Ashmead. Cnicns disco/or as an insect trap, W. S. Blatchley.
Notes on the habits of Siphonophorci cucurbitce Middleton, F. M. Web-
ster. Butterflies on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, T. L. Mead.
A new genus of Diptera allied to Rhaphiomidas, D. W. Coquillett.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT. EKLANGKN, Nov. 15, 1892. — Contribu-
bution to the knowledge of the anatomical structure of the reproductive
organs of the Galeodida?, A. Biruln.

SCIENCE, New York, Dec. 16, 1892. — Some entomological factors in
the problem of country fences, F. M. Webster. How are young spiders
fed? J. W. Sanborn.

56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

RECUEIL ZOOLOGIQUE SUISSE, v, 4, Geneva-Bale, Oct. 5, 1892. — Anat-
omy and habits of Encyrtus fuse icollis, E. Bugnion (cont.), 3 plates.

JOURNAL OF THE TRINIDAD FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB. Port of Spain,
Trin., December, 1892. — Oecodoma cephalotes, II, J. E. Tanner. Bite of
the Tarantula (My gale} spider, C. W. Meaden.

ACTES DE LA SociETE SCIENTIFIQUE ou CHILI, II, 2, Santiago, Octo-
ber, 1892. — The migratory locust of Chili, I. Bolivar. The question of
the traveling cricket, F. Lataste. Notes on the Coleoptera of Chili,* P.
Germain, figs. Latrodectus fonnidabilis of Chili; III. Pathological, F.
P. Borne.

ABHANDLUNGEN DER NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT zu HALLE,
xvii, 3 u. 4, 1892. — Historical development of the doctrine of partheno-
genesis, Dr. O. Taschenberg.

MITTEILUNGEN AUS DEM OsTERLANDE. — Herausgegeben von der Nat-
urforschenden Gesellschaft des Osterlandes zu Altenburg i. S.-A. Neue
Folge, v, '92. — Corrections in the spider fauna of Brazil, Dr. E. A. Goeldi.

COMPTE RENDUS. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE, Paris, Dec. 10, 1892. — Zoolog-
ical affinities of the Pantopodes, S. Jourdain.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. — Contributions to Canadian Paleon-
tology. II. Canadian Fossil Insects; 2. The Coleoptera hitherto found
fossil in Canada, S. H. Scudder, pp. 27-56, pis. ii, iii.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, ii,
3, Dec. 31, 1892. — On the morphology of the Ticks, Dr. G. Marx. On
the discovery of the genus Eunotus in America, W. H. Ashmead. An
insectivorous primrose, F. W. Mally. The hymenopterous parasites of
spiders, L. O. Howard: i pi. On certain peculiar structures of Lepidop-
tera : i. Radiate bodies in the receptaculum seminis of Promiba and
Prodoxus; 2. Pseudo-cenchri; 3. Tegulse and patagia, C. V. Riley; figs.
New species of Prodoxidae, id, figs. Coleopterous larvae with so-called
dorsal pro-legs, id., figs. The evolution of heat by Silvanus cassice, E.
W. Doran. Notes on the genus Enicocephalus \Yestw., and description
of a new species from Utah, W. H. Ashmead. Notes on the Nearctic
Aradidee, Dr. E. Bergroth. Additional note on Nearctic Aradidae, id.
Food plants of the Li.vi, F. M. Webster. Description of the larva of
Amphizoa LeContei, H. G. Hubbard, i pi. A note on the parasites of
the Coccidas, L. O. Howard. Notes on the Eucharids found in the United
States, W. H. Ashmead.

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, iv, i,
xv, New York, Dec. 27, 1892. — Catalogue of gall-producing insects [Hy-
menoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Arachnida] found within fifty miles of
New York City, with descriptions of their galls and of some new species,
W. Beutenmiiller.

* Contains new species other than North American.

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THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, Dec. 15, 1892. — The genus
Acronycta and its allies, Dr. T. A. Chapman, i pi. Seasonal variation
eof larvae, R. Freer.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, pt. civ, London, September, 1892. —
Arachnida-Araneidea, O. P. Cambridge, pi. xii. Coleoptera, iv, pt. 2,
pp. 401-448, pi. xix, G. C. Champion. Lepidoptera Heterocera, ii, pp.
97-112, pi. xlix, H. Druce. — Pt. cv, November, 1892. Arachnida-Aranei-
dea, O. P. Cambridge, pi. xiii. Arachnida Acaridea, pp. 33-40, pi. xix,
O. Stoll. Coleoptera, iv, pt. i, pp. 477-524, G. C. Champion; iv, pt. 2, pi.
xx, id. Lepidoptera Heterocera, ii, pp. 113-128, pis. 1-lii, H. Druce.
Rhynchota Heteroptera, pp, 353-368, W. L. Distant.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
(N.' S.), xix, pp. 236-251, 1892. — The tropical faunal element of our
southern Nymphalinae systematically treated, S. H. Scudder.

ANALES DEL INSTITUTO FISICO-GEOGRAFICO v DEL MUSEO NACIONAL
DE COSTA RICA, III. San Jose" de Costa Rica, 1892. — On the natural his-
tory of Costa Rica: I. Invertebrates collected and classified in 1889-91,
H. Pittier.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS (8), iv, 3, 1892. —
On the general process of tegumentary cuticularization in the larvae of
Libelhila, J. Chatin. On the respiration of the larvae of Libellula, J.
Martin.

THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL, Washington,
December, 1892. — The grasshopper, Oedipoda Carolina; an introductory
study in zoology, H. L. Osborn.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Out., January 1893. — De-
scriptions of four new West African butterflies, W. J. Holland. Some
additions to the genus Clisiocanipa Curt., B. Neumoegen. Description
of a new Tolype, id. Can the Diptera be considered the highest insects?
C. H. T. Tuwnsend. A new arrangement of the Coleoptera, W. H.
Patten. A general summary of the known larval food habits of the
Acalyptrate Muscidae, C. H. T. Townsend. Larvae of Papilio philenor
becoming larvophagous, Dr. R. E. Kunze. Synopsis of the Asilid genus
Anisopogont D. W. Coquillett. The larva and chrysalis of C/irvsophamts
dione, Dr. H. Skinner. Notes on '/,anca aincricana Cress., Rev. T. \V.
Fyles. A new form of Priotiia, and notes on Platyplcry.v airua/a and
P. genicnla, G. H. Hudson. Female of Crocofa rosa French, G. H.
French. Honey Bee or House Fly, J. M. Aldrich. Mt'lauocliroia ccphisc
Hub., T. D. A. Cockerell. Astatns bicolor Say, C. A. Hart. Halisidota
inacii/arin Walk., H. G. Dyar.

PSYCHE, Cambridge, Mass., January, 1893.— An interesting blood-suck-
ing gnat of the family Chironomidae, C. H. T. Townsend. i pi. Descrip-

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tions of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera, \V. J. Hol-
land. On the species of the genus Mirax found in North America, \V.
H. Ash mead. Notes on the larval stages of Arctia Blakei Grote, H. G.
Dyar.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ARACHNIDA.

Acarus serotince Beutenmiiller, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. iv, p. 378, pi. xvi,
fig. 7. Acaridea: n. sp. Mex. and Cent. Am., Stoll, Biol. Cent. -Am.
Arach. Acar. pp. 33-40, pi. xix.

COLEOPTERA.

One new genus, nine new species (fossil), Scudder, Geol. Survey Can.
Paleon. II, pp. 27-56.

Heteromera: n. sp. Mex., Cent. Am., Champion, Biol. Cent.-Am. Co-
leop. iv, pt. i, pp. 477-524; Pt. 2, pp. 401-448.

DIPTERA.

Anisopogon ludiiis Coquillett, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 20, Cal., Brit. Col. A.
rubidus p. 21, Cal. A. patruelis, p. 21, Tex.

Apomidas (near Rhaphiomidas) n. gen., A. trochilus n. sp. Coquillett^
Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 315, Calif.

Cecidomyia clavula Beutenmiiller, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, p. 269, pi.
xv, fig. 5.

Sapromyza ocellaris Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 303, N. Mex.

Tersest/ies (n. gen. Chironomidae) Townsend, Psyche, vi, p. 370. T.
torrei/s, p. 371, N. Mex.

HEMIPTERA.

Aradus Duzeei Bergroth, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. II, p. 333, Pa., Out.
A. concinnus, p. 337, S. Calif.

Enicocephalus Schwarzii Ashm., Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. II, p. 329, =
E. {Hymenodectes] cttlicis Uhler, Trans. Md. Acad. Sci. 1892, Utah.

Heteroptera: n. sp. Mex., Cent. Am. Distant, Biol. Cent.-Am. Rhyn.-
Heter. pp. 353-368-

HYMENOPTERA.

Cratapus Fletcheri Ashmead, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 309, Ottawa.

Cynipidse: three n. sp. Beutenmiiller, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, p. 247,
248, 257.

Eucharinae: five n. sp. Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. II, pp. 354-58.

I'Mnotns lividus Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. II, p. 288, Ga.

Mirax: four n. sp. Ashmead, Psyche, vi, pp. 378-379.

New sp. of Polysphincta, Pezomachus, Hemileles, Eupeltnus, Holco-
pelte, Mestocharis, Tetrastichns, Howard, Pioc. Ent. Soc. Wash. II, pp.
290-302.

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LEPIDOPTERA.

Clisiocampa nuts Neumoegen, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 4, Utah, Ariz. C.
azteca, p. 5, Mex.

Eumelia for Melia Neum., Neumoegen, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 25.

Heterocera: n. sp. Mex., Cent. -Am., Druce, Biol. Cent. -Am. Lep. Het.
H, PP- 97-128.

Prionia Icevis Hudson, Can. Ent. xxv, p- 24, N. Y.

Prodoxiis: five n. sp. (redescribed), Riley, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. II,
pp. 312-319.

Tolype tolteca Neumoegen, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 6, Mex.

ORTHOPTERA.

Bacillus coloradus Scudder, Psyche, vi, p. 372, Col. B '. cariiiatns id.,
Ariz., Mex.

Tne Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

NEW AFRICAN NYCTEMERID/E AND LIPARID/E.

By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburgh.

(Except when otherwise indicated, the species are all from the valley of the Ogove.)

NYCTEMERIDyE.

NYCTEMERA. Hiib.

i. N. fallax sp. nov. $. — Allied to N. apicalis Walk, and N. Icnconoe
Hopff. The front is white; the antenna are black; the collar has on it
two black spots narrowly margined with white; the tegulae are black, nar-
rowly margined with white; the top of the thorax is black, spotted with
white; the upperside of the abdomen is uniformly gray; the underside
of the thorax is white, profusely spotted with black spots; the underside
of the abdomen is uniformly white, with two rows of narrow, linear,
black spots upon either side; the extremity of the abdomen is tufted with
orange hairs; the legs are pale orange; the primaries are white, semi-
diaphanous, with the costal area near the base and the neurations black-
ish: the apex and outer margin are blackish; a subapical spot extends
from the costa before the end of the cell nearly to the inner angle, and
touches the outer margin above the submedian nervule; there are no
white marks upon the outer border of the primaries below the apex; the

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secondaries are translucent, with the costa and the outer margin black,
the black border being narrow on the costa near the base, then widening
rapidly to the outer angle, then still widening in width toward the anal
angle, fading away near the inner margin, which is without a border.
Expanse 45 mm.

This is a very distinct species, and may readily be distinguished
from its near allies by the extreme translucency of the seconda-
ries, and the absence of white spots upon the outer margin of
the primaries below the apex as well as by the form of the sub-
apical band.

AMNEMOPSYCHE Butl.

2. A. incisa sp. nov. cf.— Antennae black; front reddish orange; collar
black. Body whitish. Legs white, with the femora narrowly edged with
blackish; the primaries are yellowish white, tinged with orange-red at the
base near the costa; the costa at the base is very narrowly edged with
black, and this black border rapidly widens and covers the entire outer
half of the wing; the inner edge of this black border is sharply cut into
by the white basal area about the end of the cell above the second sub-
median and at the end of the first submedian. A large oval white spot
interrupts the black apical area beyond the end of the cell; the seconda-
ries are yellowish white, with the outer margin heavily black, the inner
edge of this black margin being very irregularly and deeply cut into by
the white area opposite the end of the cell; the underside is marked very
much as the upperside. Expanse 35 mm.

GIRPA Walk.

3. G. notata sp. nov. rj\ — Allied to G. circumdata Walk., but larger,
and with the black borders differently arranged. Head and antenna;
black; collar rufous. Body black: the legs orange, margined with black-
ish; the underside of the abdomen orange; the primaries have the costa
near the base and the outer half broadly black, the line dividing the outer
black area running from beyond the middle of the cell diagonally out-
wardly to a point one-quarter of the distance from the outer angle upon
the inner margin ; the secondaries are broadly bordered with black,
widest near the outer angle and narrower upon the inner margin; this
outer black border is produced inwardly near the anal angle; the under-
side of the wings is much as the upperside. The female is marked much
as the male, but with broader wings. Expanse: <j\ 35 mm.; 9, 40 mm.

4. G. cyJlODephala sp. nov. $. — Head and antenna; black; collar ful.
vous; the upperside of the thorax and of the abdomen whitish, the latter
narrowly annulated with black; the underside of the thorax is fulvous;
the underside of the abdomen is whitish; the legs are black, margined
with whitish; the primaries are black upon the costa and have the ouU-r
hall broadly black; this broad bla.ck area is invaded by the white basal

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area below the cell in such a manner as to rudely suggest the outline of
a dog's head, a style of marking well known in the genus Co/ias. The
secondaries are broadly black at the outer angle, the border growing
rapidly narrower toward the extremity of the second submedian, then
widening before the anal angle, which is marked by a black spot sepa-
rated by a white line from the remainder of the border; the underside is
as the upperside. The female is marked like the male, but larger. Ex-
panse: cf, 33 mm.; ?, 38 mm.

This species is represented in my collection by specimens from
the Upper Ogove and Old Calabar.

HYLEMERA Butl.

5. H. tenera sp. nov. <j\ — Antennse blackish; front, collar and upperside
of abdomen orange. Body and legs whitish; the wings, which are semi-
diaphanous, are white on the basal half and black on the apical half, the
inner edge of the black area being divided by a curved line running from
before the middle of the costa to a point on the inner margin one-quarter
of the distance from the other angle; the secondaries are narrowly tipped
with black at the outer angle. Expanse 32 mm.

6. H. indentata sp. nov. £. — Body luteous; antennae black. Wings
•white, very narrowly margined on the costa near the base with black,
•with the outer half broadly black, the inner margin of the black area
being produced inwardly at the origin of the second median nervule; the
secondaries are narrowly bordered with black from the end of the costa
to the middle of the outer margin; the underside is as the upperside.
.Expanse 40 mm.

LIPARID/E.
GEODENA Walk.

7. G. absimilis sp. nov. <j\ — Antennas yellow, with the pectinations
black. Head and thorax bright orange. Abdomen pale orange, clouded
with grayish near the thorax on the upperside; underside of thorax and
abdomen orange-yellow. Legs of the same color margined with gray;
the wings are white, with a large, round discal dot at the end of the cell;
the primaries are heavily margined with blackish, the black border ex-
tending from the costa two-thirds of the distance from the base to the
inner angle. Expanse 38 mm.

This species is quite distinct in general appearance from G.
quadriguttata Walk., with the type ol which I have compared it.

8. G. dama sp. nov. <j". — Antenna; black; front orange; the uppt-rside
-of the thorax and abdomen are grayish fawn; the lowersicle of the thorax
and abdomen are orange; the tip of the abdomen is dark brown. Legs
fawn colored; the primaries are grayish lawn throughout with an oval dot

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at the end of the cell; the secondaries are luteous, margined with pale
fawn of the same color as the primaries and with a small round black dot
at the end of the cell; upon the underside the primaries are as on the
upperside, save that there is an orange basal ray near the costa, and that
the inner margin is whitish; the secondaries are bright orange-yellow on
the lower side with the outer margin darker than on the upperside. Ex-
panse 32 mm.

SOLOE Walk.

9. S. bigutta sp. nov. tf. — Allied to .S". trigutta Walk., but without the
discal dot on the posterior wing; the primaries are relatively broader and
more rounded on the apex, the species is also smaller than S. trigutta;
front orange; the thorax and the abdomen are tinged with luteous, and
the legs are concolorous; the upperside of the wings is creamy-white;
the primaries have two black dots in the cell, one near the middle and
one near the end; the outer margin of the secondaries is slightly suffused
with gray; on the underside the primaries are heavily clouded with slaty-
gray upon the costa and at the apex, and the secondaries have the costal
margin near the base slightly washed with yellow; the spot at the end of
the cell of the primaries reappears upon the secondaries, and in some
specimens there is a faint indication of a discal dot at the end of the cell
of the primaries upon the underside. Female like the male. Expanse:
C?, 27 mm. ; $ , 30 mm.

This species may be distinguished from its allies by the mark-
ings as well as by the opacity of the wings. In 6". trigutta Walk.
and 6". tosola Ploetz, the wings are semi-diaphanous.

CAVIRIA Walk.

10. C. proxantha sp. nov. $. — The antennae have the culmen white, the
setae testaceous; the head, thorax and abdomen are yellowish white above
and white beneath; the legs are concolorous; the primaries above are
pale ochre-yellow, with the costa narrowly margined with light brown;
the secondaries are pure white; the underside of both wings is pure white.
Expanse 32 mm.

11. C. nigripes sp. nov. $. — Antennas are as in the preceding species;
the front orange; the thorax and abdomen are white; the legs are white,
with the tibice and tarsi black; the wings are pure silvery white, opaque,
with the costa of the primaries narrowly margined with black. Expanse
30 mm.

12. C. xantliosoma sp. nov. $. — The antennae have the culmen whitish
with the seta? pale gray; the entire body is bright yellow; the wings are
creamy white tinged with luteous upon the costa of the primaries, which,
together with the outer margin of the primaries, is very narrowly mar-
gined with brown. Expanse 40 mm.

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13. C. eximia sp. nov. <$. — Antennae blackish; palpi white, edged below
with black; front white; collar dark brown in front; the patagiae have a
dark brown spot upon the base; the body is white, with a faint grayish
dorsal line, the thorax and abdomen below are yellowish white and the
legs are uniformly of the same color; the primaries are creamy white with
the costa very heavily margined with dark brown; the submedian and
median nerves and the median and costal nervules near the outer margin
are marked with brown; the hind wings are immaculate; the underside
is pure white throughout. Expanse 45 mm.

REDO A Walk.

14. R. Ogovensis sp. nov. <$. — Antennae with the culmen white, the
setae gray; the front is orange, the body throughout white; the legs are
orange; the wings throughout are pure silvery white, slightly laved with
yellowish on the costa of the primaries below. Female like the male,
but larger, and the wings more silvery. Expanse: ^f, 36mm.; 9, 58 mm.

SULYCHRA Butl.

15. S. pi omelaeiia sp. nov. $. — Antennae and palpi black; front orange,
with a black dot in the middle; the head is yellowish; the collar black;,
the patagiae pale orange margined externally with black; the thorax is
white, with two long suboval spots in the middle; the abdomen is whitish
with the terminal segments banded laterally with blackish and with a
ventral black line on either side uniting near the anus and enclosing a
yellowish ventral area; the pectus is black; the underside of the thorax
is the same color; the legs are black, slightly margined with pale gray;
the wings are semi-diaphanous, the primaries smoky-brown, with the
neurations darker brown; the secondaries are white, with the exterior
margin clouded with brown. Expanse 55 mm.

16. S. (?) flavescens sp. nov. $. — The primaries have the costa convex
and the apex produced, the outer margin excavated below the apex and
the outer angle rounded; the palpi are black, margined with brown be-
neath; the antennae are black; the front and the thorax above and below
are grayish ferruginous; the abdomen is ferruginous, with a dorsal row
of black spots and a lateral row of similar spots on either side; the pri-
maries are grayish ferruginous, with a very faint transverse basal and a
straight median transverse band succeeded by a very pale geminate sub-
marginal band. All of these bands are pale smoky-brown; the neura-
tions are dark brown; the secondaries are tawny, with the neuration dark
brown. On the underside the wings are tawny, with the neuratimis
brown; the primaries have a transverse brown line running from the costa
to the radial, and some indistinct brownish cloudings near the outer mar-
gin; the secondaries have a similar series of markings near the out; r
angle. Expanse 55 mm.

I refer this species, with doubt, to the genus Sulychra, to

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which, however, the structure of the cells and the neuration gen-
erally show it to be closely allied.

LEUCOMA Hub.

17. L. gracillima sp. nov. $. — Antennas with the culmen white, the pecti-
nations gray; the palpi, the front, and the entire body with the legs lute-
ous gray; the wings are whitish, translucent, with the costa and margins
opaque white. Female like the male. Expanse: cf, 32 mm.; 9, 37 mm.

Hab. — Cape Lopez.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE III.

Fig. i. Amnemopsyche incisa tf, sp. nov.

2. Girpa cynocephala (^, sp. nov.
" 3. Girpa notata tf, sp. nov.
" 4. Geodena dama <5\ sp. nov.

5. Geodena absimilis $ sp. nov.

6. 6b/c>^ bigutta tf, sp. nov.

7. Hylemera tenera tf, sp. nov.

8. Hylemera indentata 9 , sp. nov.

9. Leucoma gracillima $, sp. nov.
'" 10. Nyctemerafallax <j\ sp. nov.

"" • ii. Suly chra promelczna ^, sp. nov.
" 12. Redoa Ogovensis <^, sp. nov.
" 13. Redoa Ogovensis 9, sp. nov.
" 14. Caviria eximia $, sp. nov.
41 15. Caviria xanthosoma ^, sp. nov.

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A NEW EUDAMUS.

By HENRY SKINNER, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.

Eudamus Aemilea n. sp.— Male expands i% inch., 9 i/^ inch. Wings
are a gray-brown, similar to E. bathyllus, yet when compared with the
latter species there is a marked difference in color; yet it is almost impos-
sible to describe in words. There is a somewhat lighter and grayer area
in the middle of the secondaries of czmilea. Upperside: primaries. In
three specimens there is a white 'dot near the outer end of the discoidal
cell, and in two specimens there are two of these white spots; there is a
crooked row of white spots running across the outer third of the wing
from the costa nearly to the interior margin. First come the three nearly
united spots which are present in so many species, then below these and
urther toward the exterior margin are two others, the lower one of the two

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points toward the tip of the wing; then further toward the base is another
spot, and below this and still further toward the base is a spot made up
apparently of two coalesced; below this and outward, nearer the exterior
margin, is the last spot, which is usually square in shape. In one male
the coalesced spot is nearly obsolete; the inferiors are immaculate. The
wings are edged with a narrow black border, and the fringes are gray-
ish; some of the hairs from the black border run through the fringes
from the wings, giving the edge of the wings a scalloped appearance.
Underside: the spots above are repeated beneath; the wings beneath are
much lighter in color, and the inferiors have two black bands running
across them.

This is a smaller species than bathyllus, and is a different color;
it wants the inner costal spots found in bathyllus andfa/ades, and
leaving out the inner costal and discal spots it has eight spots
remaining, and none of the allied species have this many. That
it is a new species is very apparent to the eye, but is one of those
difficult things to picture in words. From five specimens, two
males and three females, taken by Prof. Edw. T. Owen, at Fort
Klamath, Oregon, I take pleasure in naming this species after
the wife and eldest daughter of Prof. Owen.

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A NEW PAPIRIUS.

Plate IV.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

Papirius unicolor n. sp. — Light brownish purple throughout; color much
like that of the Delaware grape with the bloom removed. Back, ends
of the legs and apical half of the antennae darker. Dorsum often with
two interrupted stripes of darker shading. Head, base of antenna, base
of legs, spring and ventral surface lighter; one specimen had the two
terminal segments of the antennae conspicuously clear. Young, half-
grown specimens and full-grown specimens in damp situations paler.
Occasionally a very large specimen and those taken in dry places, are
more brown, but all show the purple tint; sides of the full-grown speci-
mens often obscurely marked with paler oblong spots.

Body, including head, twice as long as broad; breadth and depth equal;
gradually widening from the neck to the greatest breadth, abruptly nar-
rowing with a slight re-entering angle to the conspicuous terminal seg-
ments.

Head, viewed from front, as long as broad; depth lull tin- length.

/•'ye patches prominent, elevated black, conspicuous, bearing eight
ocelli; four in the inner row, three in the outer, and a single smaller one

66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, [February,

in the middle; the second ocellus from the front in the inner row is also
smaller than the others; front of the head between the eyes elevated and
bearing a tuft of long hairs.

Antenna long, slender, elbowed at the second joint, nearly as long as
the body; basal joint short, but slightly longer than the terminal; second
joint shorter than third, the portion beyond the elbow usually somewhat
longer than the two basal joints; third joint usually longest, the terminal
half composed of seven or eight short sub-segments; terminal joint short
conical, narrower than the club-shaped end of the third joint; composed
of about ten sub-segments, the three basal of which are about the same
width and obscure; fourth and fifth wider and well defined; sixth and
seventh narrower and somewhat obscure; each segment bears a whorl
of hairs, and, as there are three whorls on the portion beyond the seventh
segment, probably it represents three more; when walking the basal por-
tion of the antennae is projected upward and outward from the head, the
apical portion beyond the elbow outward and downward.

Legs long, claws prominent, the longer curved and bearing two teeth
on its inner face below the middle; smaller claw slender over half the
length of the other.

Suckers nearly as long as the body, cylindrical white, covered with
papillae; tentaculum cylindrical, prominent.

Spring rather long and slender, about three-fourths the length of the
body; terminal segment less than half the length of the second, lanceo-
late, unarmed, concave below, nnd bearing on each edge of the concavity
a row of about forty teeth; the teeth increase in size outward, and at the
end join in a common tubercle.

Hairs are sparsely found on all parts of the body. Under a high power
those on the second joint of the spring, which we especially examined,
were barbellate.

Measurements made from live specimens:

(a) Total length 1.9 mm.; head, .8 mm. long, .8 mm. broad, .4mm.
deep from front to back; antennae, 1.7 mm. long; joints in the ratio of 7:
22:25:6 nearly; body, 1.6 mm. long, .8 mm. broad, .9 mm. deep; spring,
i. 06 mm. beyond body; segment in ratio of 5:6:2; tentaculum, .4 mm.;
sucker, 1.5 mm.; hairs on back, .16 mm.; claw, .09 mm.

(b] Total length, 2.16 mm.; head, .8mm. long. .8mm. broad, .4 mm.
deep; antennae, 1.73 mm. long; segments in ratio of 2:7:10:2; body, 1.76
mm. long, 1.07 mm. broad, 1.07 mm. deep; last two segments of body,
.4 mm.; spring, 1.52; segments in ratio of 8:8:3; beyond body, 1.04 mm.;
sucker, 1.6 mm.; hairs, 1.6 on back and terminal segments; tentaculum,
.4 mm.: claw, .1 mm. Other specimens were fully 2.5 mm. long.

Hab. — Under rubbish along the Penobscot from May to No-
vember. During the fall in the woods upon ctgarics and boleti;
under the loose bark of stumps, also under boards and rubbish
in meadows and pastures. We found them under boards as late

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as November 8th, in this cold climate, after a snow of several
inches had fallen. They no doubt hybernate in such situations.
Common; more than a hundred specimens examined during
1891-92.

Orono, Me. F. L. Harvey.

Associated with P. inarm oratus on agarics and boleti; under
bark with the above and Smynthnrus 6-maculaa Harvey; under
rubbish with a large yellow Smynthurus n. sp. and half a dozen
other Thysanourans.

Sluggish, slow-moving, but when disturbed can jump fully
eight inches. The form, long legs, clumsy movements, and
motion of the antennae while walking, combine to give it a gro-
tesque appearance.

Relationship. — Nearly the color of P. fuscus Lubbock, but
differs in the form of the body, smaller terminal abdominal seg-
ments, structure of the antennae, and much greater size.

Most like Smynthurus novteboracensis Fitch of the described
American species. Agrees with it nearly in size and habitat, but
differs in color, somewhat greater size, and structure of the an-
tennae. Specimens from the Nathan Banks collection, kindly sent
us by Mr. Macgillevroy, have apparently but two joints beyond
the elbow, and the third joint though, knotty at the end, seems
to be entire. The form and color also seem different.

Critical remarks. — Lubbock, in his diagnosis of the genus
Papirhis, says there are only four joints to the antennae. The
figure of P. fuscus, given in his monograph, shows five (three
beyond the elbow). Fitch overlooked the short basal joint in
describing his 5". novezboracensis, and regarded the portion be-
yond the elbow obscurely three-jointed. Packard, in his Essex
Co. Catalogue, in describing P. marmoratus, first speaks of the
third joint being broken into short segments. Lubbock says the
third joint of P. fuscus appears knotty. The species we are con-
sidering has only the terminal half of the so-called third joint
broken into short segments. It appears that there is great varia-
bility in the third joint from entire knotty forms, though others
with the terminal half subjointed, to those with the entire joint
broken into subjoints. If we did not know one form in structure
stands between P. fuscus and P. miirmoratns in the structure of
the third antennal joint we would be compelled to regard the an

68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

tennae as broken into five well-defined regions. Are the species
with the third joint broken into subjoints all American? An
examination of our figures will show that they occupy, in struc-
ture, a position between Papirius and Smynthurus, for, if you
coalesce the subjoints of the terminal and subterminal regions,
the antennae become four-jointed, with a long terminal joint
broken into many sub-joints, that is, Smynthurid,

It is impossible to identify species from such meagre and gen-
eral descriptions as that of P. novceboracensis Fitch, especially
when not accompanied with drawings. It is equally hard to do
so from alcoholic specimens of species soft bodied, and that
shrivel and change color as do Thysanourans. Good drawings
are essential.

Whether we err in referring this form to a new species can
never be decided by the published description. The accompa-
nying more detailed description and drawings will, we hope, serve
a better purpose. The drawings were made by Mr. J. H. Emer-
ton, under the direction of the writer. Fig. i shows the ocelli
accurately drawn. Fig. 2 shows one of the suckers extended.
Fig. 3, side view.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for January was mailed December 30, 1892.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PL IV.

Fig. 1

PAPIRIUS UNICOLOR Harvey.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv. MARCH, 1893. No. 3.

CONTENTS:

Townsend — On the geographical range [ Smith — Elementary Entomology 84

and distribution of Trichopoda 69 Editorial 86

Cockerell— Entomology of Colorado 72 Economic Entomology 88

Snyder— Capturing Catocala 73 Notes and News 90

Ehrman— Common Diurnals 75 Entomological Literature 92

Chagnon— Donacia 76 Entomological Section 98

Packard — Notodontian genus Ichthyura 77
Skinner-Smith — Two weeks' collecting

in N. C. and desc. of a new moth... 80

Smith — New species of Noctuidae 98

Holland — West African Limacodidse... 102

On the geographic range and distribution of the
genus Trichopoda.

By C. H. T. TOWNSEND, Las Cruces, N. M.
The Tachinid genus Trichopoda is, so far as known, exclusively
American. It is not necessarily tropical in distribution, though
a considerable number of species have been reported from the
tropical portions of South America. It is, however, peculiarly
limited in range to certain topographical conditions, being found
usually only at low elevations, down near the sea-level. It seems
to attain its maximum development in the more southerly, but
temperate latitudes of the United States, near the Atlantic sea-
coast. It is represented on the Pacific coast but by a single spe-
cies, T. pennipes Fab., which is found from New England to the
Argentine Republic, in favorable localities situated but little above
sea-level. It is notable, also, that this species is the smallest one
of the genus.

So far as my personal observation in collecting goes, I can give
the following notes on the range ( >f the genus: I have never found
Trichopoda in other than one locality, the District of Columbia,
on the Virginia side of the Potomac. There it is well repre-
sented in both number of species and individuals. I do not re

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member ever seeing it in Michigan, but Cook records T. pennipes
there. I have never found a specimen of the genus in New
Mexico or Arizona. During a two weeks' trip in Old Mexico I
saw none, though I went out quite extensively in the country
around Orizaba and Cordova in the month of August. These
places are, however, from ^ooo to -£900 feet above sea-level.

Other records show the distribution of the genus as follows:
Along the Atlantic coast from Connecticut south, and especially
in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Florida; also along the Gulf coast
of the Southern States, and in Texas. The specimens from
which most of the North American species were originally de-
scribed by the early writers came from the Carolinas, and two
species from Georgia. Other species were described from the
region of the Amazon, eastern Brazil and Argentine Republic,
Guiana, Venezuela and the West Indies. T. arcuata, a small
species which seems to be distinct from T. pennipes, is described
by Bigot from Chili, and probably represents the latter species
in that region.

T. pennipes is known inland from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, and occurs in California, as well as in Old Mexico, Brazil
and Argentine Republic, as stated above. I have also specimens
from San Domingo and Jamaica.

The next species to T. pennipes in extent of range inland is T.
histrio Wlk. (syn. T. trifasciata Lev.) It is recorded from Con-
necticut, Illinois and Kansas.

These two species are the only ones I know that are found any
distance inland in the United States. They do not seem to be
found, however, more than a few hundred feet above sea-level.
Regarding the apparent scarcity of this genus in Mexico, which
is mainly a high plateau region, it may be noted that the Biologia
Centrali-Americana collections contain, as indicated in the " Bio-
logia Diptera," vol. ii, but two specimens of Trichopoda from
all the region of Central America and Mexico. These belong to
two species: T. pennipes, a 9 from Presidio, Mex. (less than a
thousand feet elevation), and T. pyrrhogaster, a £ from San
Geronimo, Guatemala (probably not over five hundred feet ele-
vation). It is quite a significant fact that these were the only
specimens obtained by the Biologia collectors in all that region.

As before stated, the only species, so far as I am aware, that
has ever been found on the Pacific coast, or even on the Pacific

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slope, being that region west of the Continental divide in both
Americas, is T. pennipes; or, in South America, what I have
considered as its Chilian representative, T. arcuata. The genus,
therefore, seems to attain its most perfect development on the
Atlantic coast. It is notable, also, that it is a genus that is not
represented in Europe, but is strictly American. It is quite pos-
sible that these facts have an important bearing on the subject of
the phenomena of life on the Pacific coast, treated in such an
interesting manner by Dr. S. H. Scudder in the "Overland
Monthly" for April, 1892.* Dr. Scudder shows, in this article,
that those butterflies and other insects, which are common to
eastern and western America and Europe, have the greatest num-
ber of broods annually in the eastern United States, while in the
same latitudes in Europe and on the Pacific coast they have a less
number. In the same manner, genera common to those three
regions exhibit a greater number of species on the Pacific slope
and in Europe than in the eastern United States. Trichopoda
does not tend to confirm this law, since it reaches its greatest de-
velopment on the Atlantic coast, at least in number of species.
Does the fact that the genus is peculiarly American have any
bearing on this point ? Does a genus that is peculiar to America
naturally reach its highest development on the Atlantic coast ?
The study of the single species, T. pennipes, may give a different
result.

Either the natural conditions prevailing west of the backbone
of the continent, which restrain the tendency to the over expen-
diture of vital energy, have worked to the disadvantage of other
species of the genus, which have not been able to adapt them-
selves thereto; or, what is somewhat more probable, these species
originated in the eastern region and have never passed the bar-
rier of altitude which lies between them and the Pacific coast.

It should be noted, also, in this connection, that the genus
Trichopoda probably represents the most highly specialized type
of insects.

LORD WALSINGHAM has accepted the vacant position on the editorial
staff of "The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," caused by the death
of Mr. H. T. Stainton.

* The " Californian" of the future— "Overland Monthly," April, 1892, pp. 383-386.

72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

NOTES ON THE ENTOMOLOGY OF COLORADO.-III.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Kingston, Jamaica.

GARFIELD, S.

The observations in this county date from September gth to
September I4th, and relate only to the extreme eastern portion,
from the neighborhood of Cattle Creek to Glenwood Springs and
Divide Creek. The country about Glenwood Springs is dry,
hot, and dusty; or wet and very muddy, according to the weather.
Near Cattle Creek, and also at Glenwood Springs, the Scrub Oak
{Quercus undulata} and Achillea miHefolium were observed; and
Malvastrum coccineum at Glenwood Springs and Divide Creek.
The snail, Patula cooperi, was several times noticed. Helico-
psyche cases were found in Divide Creek; and sand from there
yielded a trace of gold. Near Cattle Creek I took Brady cellus
cognatus Gyll. and two wasps, Vespa diabolica Sauss. and Polistes
aurifer Sauss. These latter illustrate that mingling of separate
faunae, which helps to make Colorado so rich in species. The
Vespa is truly boreal, while the Polistes extends to California, no
doubt (although actual records seem wanting) across Arizona and
southward.

At Glenwood Springs Lyc&na exilis Bdw. and Agrotis (Feltia)
venerabilis Walk, were taken ; and at Divide Creek Agrotis
( Carneades} riding siana Grote, and Priononyx thomes Fb. Here
again we see two faunae ; the first mentioned, Agrotis, being
boreal and eastern, while the other is southern and western,
" Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico" being its range according to
Prof. J. B. Smith. Near the head of North Mam Creek, on Sep-
tember 1 4th, Vane ssaantiopa was seen; and Dry ops striatus Lee.
was taken, the exact locality now uncertain.

EAGLE, S.

We traveled south of the Eagle R., along the road from Red
Cliff to Glenwood Springs. The Eagle is a pretty river, clear
and shallow, but the country, especially about Gypsum, is dry,
with little else than sage-brush. Red sandstone hills, scattered
with conifers, rise on either side of the plain in which the river
flows. By Squaw Creek I took Platynus jejunus Lee. , and it is
a curious coincidence that the only other time I ever met with

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this uncommon and singular species was by Squaw Creek, in
Chafifee County. Pcedisca riding siana Rob. was found near
Gypsum on September 8th.

Crossing over Cottonwood Pass, on September gth, the features
of the country were entirely changed. The sky cloudless blue,
and rising against it gray rocks covered with lichens; and hill-
sides, all Oak Scrubs Quaking Asps, Wild Cherry and Dwarf
Birch. The Oak, some of the brightest green, some vivid red;
the Aspens yellow, Wild Cherry red, and Birch yellow; all inter-
mixed and giving the landscape far more color than flowers
could do.

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CAPTURING CATOCAUE.

By A. J. SNYDER, North Evanston, 111.

Early in the morning on August 3d, my wife and I left Farnia,
111., for a fourteen-mile drive into a wild part of Clay County.
\Ve wished to visit a place called " Rattle Snake Den," a section
which I visited several years previous with some friends who were
interested in geology, and where we found some valuable fossils.
It occurred to me that this same locality might prove, as it was
covered with a good growth of oak and hickory trees, a good
hunting ground for Catocalae.

About two miles southwest of lola, a small country post-office,
we entered the woods, and finding the country much changed
since my previous visit we drove but a short distance when I
alighted and began my search for the creek bed which we had
explored before. Whip in hand, brushing the trees as I passed,
almost immediately I started a fine specimen, probably an ob-
scura, and in my haste to capture it became excited and lost it.
Soon, however, I had better success, and took a fine specimen
on an oak, and almost at once another from a scalebark hickory
near the first. Failing to find the place of which I was in search,
I turned in another direction, and crossing a swampy piece of
land, then dry, I started a fine cara, and an exciting chase began.
The insect was so large that several times in attempting to take
it with the bottle I touched its wings and it escaped. I soon cap-
tured a very fine specimen, however, of the same species.

My next capture was a fine grynea. After some time we found
the desired locality, and, hitching the horse, we began the hunt

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in earnest. To use a common expression — "The woods were
full of them," but they were rather wild. Occasionally one would
light high and necessitate taking it with the net. I found such
specimens were seldom perfect though I used great care and speed
in killing and removing. Later in the season I tried chloroform-
ing such specimens and rather liked the plan, as in this manner
I secured some good specimens which would otherwise either
have been ruined or else have escaped. We searched one side
of the stream only and probably a strip four rods in width and
two hundred yards in length, but by noon had taken seventeen
fine Catocalae, several Geometrids and a few Neonympha eurytris.

Eating dinner as quickly as we could, conveniently, we began
the chase again, going over the same ground and then returning
on the opposite side of the creek. We found the game (no other
word seems appropriate to me) even more plentiful than in the
morning. On one hickory tree I found six specimens and at
least three species. Sometimes we could see them without scaring
them up, but so closely do the closed wings of these beauties
resemble the bark that it required great skill and generally we
found them by ' ' whipping' ' the trees. We were compelled to
leave <tne field early to reach home, and it was with much regret
that we finally relinquished the chase after having taken forty fine
Catocalae.

To me it was one of the most exciting and enjoyable days I
ever spent after insects, and I was proud of our catch. We
hoped to revisit this locality before the season was over, but
found it impossible. On the i6th of August I took about twenty
more specimens of Catocalae near Central City, 111., and at dif-
ferent times during the season took a few at sugar. I have now
in my collection the following species (twenty-three in all) which
I have taken in Clay and Jackson Counties, and which represent
one day's collecting and several odd hours that I could spend in
the woods: viduata, desperata, flebilis, robinsonii, obscura, var.
simulatilis, residua, amatrix, cara, ilia, neogama, piatrix, habilis,
grynea, innubens var. scintillans, angusi var. litci/fa, insolabilis,
palczogama, arnica and var. nerissa.

I can report very successful collecting in Fayette County during
the months of July and August, also some fine captures during
September in Cook County. I also succeeded in raising several
broods of larvae, the most interesting of which was a small brood

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of Paphia troglodyta, though I almost failed in this because of
absence of the food-plant here. To me the Catocalae are espe-
cially interesting, because so little is known of them. A certain
wind brings them and then they are gone, no one knows where.
I hope to hear more through the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS con-
cerning this interesting group.

Some old Forms of our Common Diurnals, with a few Remarks.

By GEORGE A. EHRMAN, Pittsburgh, Pa.

The strange variations which occur among our common insects
are looked after by the specialist with equally as much interest
as new or undescribed species, as mother nature is not constant
in creating her offspring alike. I had the good fortune to cap-
ture a few exceedingly odd forms of our commoner species of
diurnals in my locality during the past few seasons, and I wish
to place them on record.

Papilio turnus Linn. — A male has the color of the right pri-
mary replaced by pale buff almost white instead of the usual
yellow; it extends from the base to the black marginal band on
the outer edge, taking up that space from the inner margin to
the discal cell and extending upwards to the subcostal nervure;
the black on the outer marginal band in this space is paler, other-
wise the specimen is normal in structure and coloration.

Papilio turnus dimorphic $ Glaucus Linn. — Two examples
that agree with the intermediate forms figured in Edw. Butt. N.
A. 2, pi. 5, and a third example that is the same as the general
run of Glaucus, but has a yellow body.

Papilio asterias Fabr. — A male of the usual form, but smaller
in size, and the ocellus is without the pupil spot, hence it is blind-
eyed like Papilio machaon Linn, of Europe.

Colias philodice Godt. — One male, normal on the upperside
excepting the secondaries, on which the upper discal nervure and
subcostal nervures are black; on underside of primaries there is
a dark smoky arch extending from the inner angle to the discal
cell.

Argynnis bellona Fab. — One female which has the right hand
hind wing pale fulvous from discal cell to the outer edge of wing
on the upperside, and the black spots are very faint; the same

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wing on the underside is very pale and void of all markings,
otherwise the insect is normal.

Grapta interrogationis Fab.; dimorphic form fabricii Ed\v. —
Normal in form and coloration, but has an odd-shaped hole in
the subapical space of the right primary, and in the secondary
on the same side has a large egg-shaped hole near the outer mar-
gin, just above the tail. No doubt this specimen, which is a male,
was injured in the chrysalid state.

Limenitis disippus Godt. — One female of the usual form and
size, but with a large white blotch on the anal margin on the
upperside of secondaries extending from the discal cell to the
edge of the anal margin; the underside of the primaries normal,
but the same side of secondaries is suffused with much white.

During the -Summer of 1892 I took the following species that

I never met in my locality before: Terms nicippe i £ and i ? ,

Vanessa milberti i £ and Thecla strigosa i £ , while Euptoieta

claudia was very common. These are not rare insects by any

means, but they seem rare around Pittsburgh.

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DONACIA.
By Gus CHAGNON, Montreal.

The neighborhood of Montreal, Canada, is undoubtedly the
locality where, I think, the genus Donacia is the most largely
represented. Thirteen of the (twenty) species described in Mr.

C. W. Leng's valuable paper, " Synopsis of Donacia of Boreal
America" can be found here.

Last July I visited a small pond a few miles from this city, and
on the large leaves of Nymphcea and other plants growing on its
shore, I captured Donacia emarginata, D. subtilis, D. flavipes,

D. palmata, D. piscatrix, D. distincla, D. pubescens, D. pusilhi,
and two varieties of D. cincticornis.

Provancher, in his " Coleopteres de la prov. de Quebec" re-
cords four other species, viz., D. harrisii, D. hirticollis, D.
czqualis, D. rufa, and says that they are to be found between
here and Quebec. This total of thirteen species for Montreal
must be extraordinary when they are only twenty in all — Boreal
America.

Sphceridium scarabczoides, which has been introduced from
Europe, is now very common here. I had the pleasure to send
several specimens of it to Dr. Geo. H. Horn.

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NOTES ON THE NOTODONTIAN GENUS ICHTHYURA.

By A. S. PACKARD, Providence, R. I.

From an examination of the collection of the late Henry Ed-
wards, in the Museum of American Natural History of New
York, and my own collection, I believe that the number of spe-
cies of this genus will have to be considerably reduced. I have
arrived at the following results, subject to future correction, when
our collections of the moths themselves shall be more complete,
both in bred series and in specimens from widely scattered locali-
ties, differing in meterological features, and when our knowledge
of the larval histories will be far more extensive than at present.
It is a pity that entomologists feel called upon to describe sup-
posed new species, when, as is often the case, they are merely
local or climatic varieties. A number of species of North Amer-
ican Bombyces range from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. In
the damp eastern and northern States they tend to melanism; in
the dry, hot region of Utah, Arizona, and other portions of the
Great Basin, they tend to become pale or whitish gray, having a
taded appearance, while in California with its great range of
climate, from the wet and cool mountain regions of the Sierra
Nevada to the dry parched desert tracts of Southern California,
the conditions are favorable for the production of remarkable
variations. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Beutenmiiller,
the Curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History,
for giving me access to Mr. Edwards' collection.

The more typical American species is / inclnsa Hub., of which
/ palla French is a pale form. I owe to the kindness of Prof.
French two type specimens; one of them is exactly like a pale
normal inclnsa, the costal silvery line being nearly straight, as in
inc/usa, and thus readily separable from var. ornata, the pale
form of / van Fitch.

Ichthyiira ran Pitch, (Clostera incarcerata Boisduval, 18691.
After examination of my type of /. indentata in the Harris col-
lection I find it agrees with Fitch's description. I regard /. or-
nata G. & R. as only a climatic variety of Fitch's van, and a
specimen of / ornata G. & R., so labeled by Mr. Edwards, is
also labeled " incarcerata Boisd. ;" and on comparing Boisduval' s
description of incarcerata with specimens of ornata from California,
Truckee Valley, Reno, Nevada, and Colorado, I do not see any
specific differences.

78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

/ incarcerata ( I. ornata} is a larger and generally paler form
than / -van of the eastern States, and I think it is simply a cli-
matic variety of the eastern form. One £ and a 9 in the Ed-
wards collection are as dark as the typical eastern ran, and the
pale form may be a seasonal variety. Indeed, Mr. Beutenmiiller
informs me that in / van, which he has reared, the pale form is
the Summer brood, the dark individuals belonging to the Winter
brood.

One 9 from Truckee, and a small $ from the Sierra Nevada,
Cal., are very pale.

Ichthyura inornata Neum., Papilio ii, Oct. 7, 1882. I am
strongly inclined to regard this form as a climatic variety ot /.
van, var. ornata. One median-sized 9 ornata from Southern
California intergrades with / inornata, though it is much smaller.
It has the large, diffuse discal spot, and pale leaden intervenular
patches of inornata.

Of / inornata Neum., a male and female from Arizona are in
the Edwards collection. It is the largest and palest of all our
forms. It scarcely differs from / ornata in the situation of the
lines and their relative distribution; the oblique costal white line
and its continuation across the wing are the same, and the obtuse,
almost rounded apex of the V, does not quite reach the hind
edge, just as it does not in ornata, but the loop made by the ob-
tuse apex is more marked in itiomata. The short middle line,
ending on the hind edge of the wing and the dislocated basal line
are exactly as in ornata.

I. inornata, then, appears to be only a very large and unusually
pale subochreous form of van, following the same law of climatic
variation, i.e., increase in size, and a pale, faded appearance in
Pacific coast examples (south of Oregon), due probably to a hot.
dry, desert region, with a light surface soil. By adaptation to
these conditions the moths are better protected from observation,
and thus the life of the species is assured.

/ luculenta Edw., Ent. Americana ii, 10, April, 1886. One 1 ,
type; north Indiana. This appears to be only a variety ot /.
strigosa. It differs from typical strigosa as follows: the oblique
whitish line forming the inner arm of the V is a little more ob-
lique and distinct than in the normal strigosa. The outer arm
of the V, and the silvery white costal mark is exactly as m
strigosa.

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Ichthyura jocosa H. Edw., Ent. Americana ii, 10, April, 1886.
One 9 , type; Indian River, Fla. This is only a small inclusa,
differing from the normal form of the species in the inner arm of
the V being firmer and less sinuous, being interrupted at the
union with it of the short middle line which ends on the hind
edge of the wing, while in inclusa the line is not usually inter-
rupted, although two of the inclusa in Mr. Edwards' collection
do have the line interrupted as in his type of / jocosa. The
latter is also more generally subochreous than usual, and without
a line on the hind wing.

Ichthyuria bifiria\\. Edwards, Ent. Americana ii, 167, Decem-
ber, 1886. This is very near / bnicei, the wings being of the
same shape, and the moth of the same size, with the same beau-
tiful lilac shades on the fore wings, thus differing from any other
species, though it may yet be found to intergrade with brucei.
The single type differs from Mr. Edwards' type of brucei, in the
oblique silver-white costal streak being more sinuous, as is also the
line across the wing which forms the continuation of the streak.
On the other hand the other (inner; arm of the V is straight, not
sinuous, the inner two lines are about the same. The submar-
ginal spots and streaks are the same in both species.

The most important synonymy of the North American species
of Ichthyura may provisionally, at least, be as follows:

1. Ichthyura inclusa Hiib. 4. Ichthyura inversa Pack.

pal/a French. -. Jc/it/n'itra strigosa Gr.

jocosa Edw. luculcnta H. Edw.

2. Ichthyura van Fitch.

indcnlata Pack. 6' *«&"« *™« H-

incarcerata Bdv. 7- Ichthyura Infina H. Edw.

oniata G. & R. 8. Ichthynra albosignia Fitch.

3. Ichthyura astorics H. Edw.
(perhaps a var. of van)

Walker's Ichthyura apicalis is possibly / vau, but it is impossible
to determine from his brief description, as he does not say whether
the albida maculaque costali is oblique or not. In Barnston's
MS. description quoted by Walker, the larva is described as
" brown, thick, with sixteen feet, and with a band on part of the
back;" "feeds on the Poplar leaf." This description will apply
better to vau than to any other species known to me, as I have
reared va^t from the Poplar, and the larva is brown, short, though
not with " a band on part of the back."

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Two weeks' collecting in N. Carolina by Henry Skinner, M.D.,
and description of a new moth by Prof. John B. Smith.

The two weeks began July yth, extending to July 2ist. The time
was mostly spent at Cranberry, Mitchell County. Cranberry is
situated at an elevation of 3250 feet, and is a mining village, the
terminus of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina
Railroad. I was accompanied by my friend, Mr. Philip Laurent,
who gave an account of the Coleoptera taken on the trip in the
January NEWS. The hotel at Cranberry is a model of comfort,
and the table all that can be desired, and any entomological
friends who wish to enjoy a stay in the mountains will be well
treated at that place. We started out with great expectations,
hoping to find new or modified Southern species, but were greatly
disappointed, as the elevation of the region makes the fauna
Canadian in character, as pointed out by Mr. Theodore L. Mead
in an interesting article entitled, "Butterflies of Grandfather
Mountain, North Carolina (Can. Ent. xxiv, 313)." Mr. Mead's
experience was nearly the same as our own, but it is interesting
to compare notes, even by collectors in practically the same field,
and at nearly the same time of year. His stay was from July to
September, and Grandfather Mountain is only a little over eleven
miles from Cranberry. A part of Mr. Mead's description is as
follows: "' Grandfather Mountain is one of a group of mountains
rising to a height of over 6000 feet in western North Carolina
and eastern Tennessee, and forming the topmost crest of the
Alleghanies." It is said that there are more than twenty-five
peaks in this region higher than Mt. Washington, N. H. "The
whole region one would suppose to be a paradise for mountain
butterflies, and especially Satyridas, which are well represented
in the foothills and lower valleys of the Alleghanies. To my
surprise I did not see a single Satyrid of any species during my
stay, either at Linville (3800 feet), or at any higher point." (Mead)

Our experience with the Satyrids was not quite as meagre, as
we saw Neonympha cantlnis quite common on the wagon-road
between Cranberry and Linville. Argynnis diana we did not see
at all. Mr. Mead says: " A single A. diana was the only sug-
gestion of the rich butterfly fauna of West Virginia to the North
of us." Dr. Rex, a Philadelphia naturalist, says he saw diana
in great abundance on iron weed ( Vernonia} on the low lands

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along the Linville River. He may have seen Limenitis ursu/a,
and, not being a lepidopterist, could not distinguish between the
two species; however, I know diana is locally common in the
region, and how local butterflies can be, is shown by the following:
Mr. Mead says " Argynnis cybele is rare, and I saw only a single
specimen, which was smaller than the associated aphrodites, al-
though cybele is represented by really huge examples in the
warmer valleys of Virginia." We found both cybele and aphro-
dite, both sexes, in great abundance at Cranberry, and -in many
variations as to color, size and markings, some of them the huge
examples spoken of by Mr. Mead as being found in Virginia.
These two species were the commonest butterflies at Cranberry.
We did not find a single species of butterfly not found around
Philadelphia, unless we except Pamphila otho, but we even have
this in its Northern dress, egeremet. Mr. Meacl, in speaking of
his list which is practically the same as ours, says: "The list is
noteworthy, chiefly for the absence of nearly all the butterflies
characteristic of the latitude, and of many others one would ex-
pect to meet in so favorable a mountain region. It is possible
that some of these missing species may be found in the early
Spring when the mountains are said to be one blaze of color with
Azaleas and Rhododendrons and all manner of vernal blossoms.
These butterflies may lay their eggs early, so that the larvae may
have the whole season to grow, and then disappear; but this is
mere conjecture, based on the well attested abundance of early
flowers, of gay colors well suited for butterfly fertilization." I
have quoted Mr. Mead's remarks in way of explanation of the
scarcity of Southern Summer butterflies, as it is very interesting
and may be true, as the low temperature in the mountains may
be the cause of the retardation of the growth of the caterpillars
which he mentions, ' ' so that the larvae may have the whole season
to grow." We wore overcoats almost every night and had log
fires in the office and parlor of the hotel. The average weekly
temperature for July, at Cranberry, ranges from 62 to 66 degrees,
and last July the highest point reached by the mercury was July
3(1, 84 degrees, with the lowest point during the week being 49
degrees. At night, during July, the hi^he.^t point reached \\as
60 degrees, and the lowest 47, so that it is quite cool during the
day and cold at night.

There must be something to account for the scarcity of insects

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[March,

and comparatively small number of species, both of Lepidoptera
and Coleoptera, as vegetable life of all kinds is here in great
profusion. On the slopes of the high mountains of Carolina
and Tennessee the principal trees of Appalachian forests attain
their greatest size and perfection, and in a ride of a few hours,
covering a rise in elevation of 4000 or 5000 feet, one may see
growing in their supreme perfection the trees of the South, like
the magnolias; the trees of the Middle States, like the ashes, the
oaks, the maples, and the lindens; then the birches, the pines,
the mountain ashes, and the spruces of the extreme North. We
ascended Grandfather Mountain and then went as far as Blowing
Rock, which is thirty-two miles from Cranberry. We did not
fare as well as we expected entomologically, but had a very
pleasant time in every other respect. The absence of Hesperidae,
with the exceptions mentioned, seems remarkable.
SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN.

Papilio philenor (Mead),

BUTTERFLIES.

Danais archippus,
Euptoieta claudia (Mead),
Argynnis diana (Mead),
" cybele,
" aphrodite,
Phyciodes tharos,
Grapta faunus,
Pyrameis atalanta,
" huntera,
Limenitis Ursula,

' ' disippits,
Neonympha canthus,
Thecla humuli,
Chrysophanus hypophlfsas,
Lyccena pseudargiolus,

comyntas,
Pieris rapes (rare),
Colias philodice (large & beautiful),
" keewaydin (Mead),
" eurytheme (Mead),
Terms nicippe (seen at Blowing R. ),

" lisa (Mead),
Papilio fur IMS,

glaucus,
troilus,
asterias,

A n cylo.ryph a nuni itor,
Pamphila otho,

" manataaqua,
Eudamus tityrus.

MOTHS.

Sphinx eremitus,
Thyris niacit/afa,
Euphanessa iiiendica,
Crocota sp.
Callimorpha Iccontei,
Phyrrharctia isabella,
Spilosoma virginica,
Adoneta spinuloides,
Heterocampa trouvelotii,

' ' wanteo,

Anisota stigma,
Clisiocampa americana .

NOCTUINA.

Pseudothyatira cymatophoro i\ /< 's ,

var. expultrix,
Acronycta Jiainauietis,
Eueretagrotis perattenta ,
Carneades tessellata,
Plainest m re nig era,
" olivacea,

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Hadena arctica, Erastria muscosula,
" ligni color, " cameo/a,

" modica, Homoptera calycanthata,

Tricholita signata, Homopyralis tactus,

Hydrcecia nictitans, Pangrapta decora/is,

" velata, Pseudaglossa lubricates,

Leucania unipuncta, Megachyta lituraiis,

Scolecocampa liburna, Zanclognatha sp.

Nolophana Dial ana. Renia brevirostralis,

Cucullia convexipemiis, Bomolocha bijugalis,
Plus'ia simplex:, scabra,

" precationis, Epizeuxis laurentii.
Alariaflorida,

Epizeuxis laurentii n. sp. — Ground color very dark smoky-brown, al-
most blackish, vestiture dulled, not glossy or shining. Head and thorax
immaculate, abdomen slightly paler, the segments narrowly edged with
very pale luteous. Primaries with the blackish ground intermixed with
luteous scales, which color also emphasizes the maculation; basal half
line narrow, even, luteous; t. a. line geminate, upright, irregularly angu-
lated and dentate; outline broad, distinct, blackish, inner line narrow and
scarcely defined; included space pale luteous, prominent; t. p. line gemi-
nate, strongly and irregularly dentate, almost upright, only slightly out-
curved; the inner defining line is broad, distinct, blackish, outer line nar-
row and scarcely marked, included space distinct, pale luteous; s. t. line
pale luteous, prominent, irregularly angulated and dentate; a black ter-
minal line, interrupted on the veins. Fringes concolorous, cut with nar-
row, pale luteous streaks beyond the veins, each streak starting from a
larger dot at the base of the fringes; a broad, somewhat diffuse, upright,
blackish median shade; orbicular small, punctiform, pale luteous; reniform
narrow, upright, or kidney-shaped, pale luteous, centred with ground
color; secondaries paler than the primaries, the ground apparently very
pale luteous, dusted with blackish scales; three pale lines cross the wing,
the first is within the middle and is broad, diffuse and little marked; the
second is better defined, narrow, and dentate; the third is near the outer
margin, is very distinct, and is strongly dentate; a black terminal line,
interrupted on the veins. Fringes of the pale ground of the secondaries.
Beneath, the maculation is almost a reversal of the markings of the upper-
side, but altogether more pale and less contrasting; a distinct black lunule
on secondaries. Expands 24 — 25.5 mm.; .96 — 1.02 inches.
Habitat. — Mitchell County, North Carolina, in July.
One male and one female from Dr. Skinner, who has other
specimens from the same locality. The new species is allied to
cemula rather than americalis, the maculation being much the
same, but the almost black ground of the new species is unlike
even the darkest shadings of the gray in tcmula, and differences

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in the course of the lines emphasize the contrast in the ground
color. The specific name is suggested by Dr. Skinner, but it
gives me pleasure in adopting the suggestion to testify my ap-
preciation of Mr. Laurent as a good collector and as a good
fellow.

GEOMETRINA. Pyralisfarinalis,

Cabcrodes confn&aria, Argyria nivalis,

Endropia serrafa, Crambus girardellus,
Calocalpe undii/ata, elegans,

Rheimiaptera hastata, agitatellus.

Epirrita cambricaria, TORTRICINA.

Pteroplwra atricolorata. ,

Oenectra tn-orea,

PYRALIDINA. Dichclia siilfiircana.

Diathrausta pisusa/is, TINEINA.

Pantographa limata, Anaphora sp.

The moths are also Northern in character. Nearly all were taken at
light at Cranberry. A few small Geometers and Micros are not included
for want of names.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

We may follow the series treated in the last number by the
true Bombycidae, using Bombyx mori, the well-known silk worm
moth, as the type of the family, as it is the only species in our
fauna referable to it. Strictly speaking, indeed, the silk worm is
not a member of our fauna at all, but it has been domesticated,
as we have domesticated so many animals for the benefit of man.

In this species we find a small, but distinct frenulum, best de-
veloped in the male, but evident also in the female. Vein 5 of
both wings arises from the cross-vein almost midway between 4
and 6; the costal vein of the secondaries is connected with the
subcostal by a cross-vein very near the base; the veins are nowhere
crowded, and the cell is not as short as it is in some of the other
forms that follow. The wings are quite large, the primaries dis-
tinctly falcate, the secondaries proportionate. The head is small,
retracted, the antennae pectinated in both sexes, the tongue ob-
solete, and the body in the female very stout and heavy. It is

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in the larva state that this insect is useful to man, and then only
when it is full grown and prepares for pupation, spinning a very
dense and thick silken cocoon which has the advantage over all
others that it is spun continuously, and allows itself to be un-
wound very readily. The silk is secreted by the caterpillar in
two long glands, one situated on each side of the body, close to
the digestive tract. These glands, taken from the full-grown
caterpillar before it has begun to spin its cocoon, make the silk
" gut," so well known to fishermen.

Following next in the series we have the Clisocampidae. These
include the genera Clisiocampa, Artace and Tolype. We have-
here a very decided shortening of the median cell, and a tendency
to a crowding of the veins of the fore wings toward the costa.
The secondaries have no frenulum, and this character may per-
haps be made of more use systematically than has been the case
heretofore. Prof. Comstock, if I mistake not, proposes the term
" frenatae" for one series of families, though I do not remember
exactly what limitation was to be given the term. In both wings
in this family vein 5 belongs to the median series ; that is, it
arises with or near 4, and not with or near 6. The head, as is
usual in this series of families, is small, sunken, the mouth parts
are obsolete, and the antennae are pectinated in both sexes, much
more evidently in the male. The wings are moderate in size,
rounded, not angulate at any point, and proportionately some-
what larger in the male than in the female. The larvae make a
silken cocoon in which they pupate, but the silk is small in quan-
tity and cannot be reeled. The genera referred to this family
differ quite considerably in appearance, and to some extent also
in habit; our common Eastern species of Clisiocampa is the C.
americana of Harris, the larva of which is well known as the
" tent caterpillar." The eggs of this species are laid in belts on
the small twigs of the food-plant.

The remainder of the Bombyces of my list, so far as they are'
known to me, may be referred to the Lasiocampiche. In this
family we find the shortening of the cell carried to the extreme,
while the veins are, as a consequence, unusually long. There is,
further, a crowding of the veins to the costal region on the one
hand, and a tendency to a branching of the veins of the costal
series on the other. In the secondaries the costal is connected
with the subcostal, and usually there is quite a large cell formed

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at this point. There is no frenulum, but there are a small number
of short veins from the costal vein near the extreme base, and
these are supposed to be the origin of the structure. Vein 5
belongs to the median series in all the species examined by me.
The head structure does not appear to differ very markedly from
that of the preceding family, but the antennal pectinations are
perhaps not quite as prominent. The wing form varies some-
what in the genera, but there is quite a distinct tendency to a
dentate outer margin, to a tooth on the inner margin, or to an
enlargement of the costal margin of the secondaries.

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cyanide bottle and take a look for Spring insects. There is much good
work to be done, especially by the field naturalist, in studying seasonal
variation, and we would urge the necessity of carefully labeling every
specimen with date of capture. In the diurnal lepidoptera most of our
species have probably been named, and perhaps some are named which
should not have been. There are two general laws which have to some
extent been overlooked, they are those of seasonal variation and geo-
graphical variation. These facts are well recognized in regard to some
few species, as for instance in Papilio ajax and its variations and in Ly-
c<zna psendargiolus. Why does it not apply to all ? It is well known
that the Canada examples of Papilio tnrnus are quite different in appear-
ance from the Florida ones, yet in this instance no one calls the latter
floridcnsis. If we were to erect names for every variation in a species
we would in some cases have an ensis for nearly every State in the Union.
When our butterflies are studied in series in relation to their geographical
distribution, and the different seasonal broods are mapped out, we think

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quite a number of names will fall into the second line. It has not been
the general custom to put date of capture on the pins of individual speci-
mens and on the papers of specimens in envelopes, but it should be done
in all cases, as it may help solve one of the problems in relation to allied
species and varieties.

IN our June issue of last year we had occasion to acknowledge from a
kind friend and patron of science, the receipt of a very generous contri-
bution in aid of the publication of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. It was owing
to this help that we were enabled to make such a gratifying improvement
in the journal for 1892. And now, since our last issue, we are in receipt
of another liberal gift from the same gentleman, for the same purpose.
It is just such timely acts of generosity as these, that not only make us
feel in a great measure compensated for the time and labor gratuitously
given, but they encourage us to work the harder to make this the best
and most popular entomological journal in the world.

PICTURES FOR THE ALBUM OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SO-
CIETY have been received from Dr. Geo. H. Horn (who also presented a
fine picture of Dr. J. L. LeConte), Prof. F. L. Harvey, W. H. Danby, D.
\V. Coquillett, John D. Evans, \Vm. Kayser, Lee B. Walton. W. Knaus,
Nathan Banks, William J. Fox, Dr. Otto Staudinger and A. Bangs Haas
(Blasewitz, Dresden, Germany), H. F. Wickham, and pictures of F.
Schafhirt, W. F. Wenzel and Henry Feldman, presented by Mr. H. W.
Wenzel. It should be understood that we want the pictures of all persons
interested in entomology.

HVDRCECIA MEDIALIS. — Mr. Tutt's note in the February number of the
NEWS illustrates how difficult it is, even by a picture, to give an adequate
representation of an insect. I do not much wonder at the opinion that
we had to do with a specimen or form of the European H. inicacecz, for
there is a certain amount of superficial resemblance, which is misleading.
But I assure Mr. Tutt that we have a really very different species, as I
hope to prove when the full description is published. I have seen a con-
siderable number of the European -species, and some years ago made a
rather careful comparison with our H. obliqua Harv., which is very much
nearer to micaeece than the species which I have just described; indeed,
I am not at all sure that it will not prove the same in the event, but this
needs further study and more material than I have at my command at
present. I am by no means as ready as I once was, to admit that there
are any great number of species common to Europe and to N. America.

JOHN B. SMITH.

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J.

The World's Columbian Exposition.— One of the features of the exhibit
to be made by the office of experiment stations at Chicago, will be a Bio-
logical Laboratory in operation. It is intended that certain simple and
easily understood experiments will be constantly carried on, not to get
results of course, but rather to give the public an idea of how results are
obtained. As a part of this Laboratory, there will be a corner devoted to
the entomologist and his contraptions, and at the request of the Director
of the Office of Experiment Stations, I have agreed to take charge of
this Laboratory, or rather the Entomological part thereof. It is the in-
tention to have, primarily, a well-equipped Laboratory, or, perhaps better,
the material for such an equipment, for one of the most important features
of a good Laboratory — an abundance of room — will be wanting. This
will show the public at large the tools of the trade, and will embrace
breeding cages, setting boards, nets, cyanide and other bottles, and indeed
everything that is necessary for everyday work. To make the thing look
more natural, one table will be devoted to breeding some of the well-
known and easily obtained pests, and perhaps some others will be
mounted or otherwise prepared for examination and study. There will
be a dissecting microscope in actual use at times, and a compound micro-
scope to enable the stranger to appreciate the vastness of the subject
under investigation. If we find the Chicago water suitable for the pur-
pose, the kerosene emulsion will be made occasionally, and, when the
neighboring chemical Laboratory gets too unbearable, a fish-oil soap will
be made as an antidote. It is my desire, however, to make this feature
of the exhibit something more than a mere show for the "gaping multi-
tude," and if possible to obtain for the Laboratory a series of little con-
trivances in use by entomologists, which will be of interest and use to the
collector and student, more than to the casual visitor. Almost every col-
lector has some little contrivance of his own, either to collect, mount,
inflate, or otherwise prepare his insects; or some little dodge in rearing
or keeping specimens. A series of such little notions I am anxious to
secure, and would be very much obliged if any of the readers of the
NEWS who may have anything of the kind would communicate with me.

The Strawberry Weevil. — In "Insect Life," vol. iv, No. 3, Mr. F. H.
Chittenden has an article that treats of this pest. Tlu- study made is very
much more complete than that made by Mr. Beckwith, mentioned in this
Department recently, and the suggestions as to remedies or modes of
preventing injury commend themselves very much more. The procedure
mentioned with most favor by the author is covering the beds before the
appearance of the insects with a cloth, or even with old newspapers,
which will serve to keep off the beetles. Contrary to Mr. Beckwith, Mr.

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Chittenden concludes that there is only a single annual generation of the
insects. It seems also that the species has been mistaken heretofore, and
that instead of being Anthonomous iimscitliis, it is A. signatits. The in-
sect has also been found on the Blackberry, and indeed the statement is
made that this is probably the original food-plant of the species. This
brings to mind that I found the Strawberry leaf roller, Phoxoptcry.v
comptancf_q\\\te common in Atlantic County, N. J., on Blackberries in 1892,
but neither saw nor heard of their injuring Strawberries.

Winter Campaigns. — The entomologist knows, what the farmer frequently
does not, that there is no time in the year when insects are not to be found
in some stage. To be sure insects are not a very prominent feature of
the Winter landscape, but there is no difficulty in finding a great many of
them nevertheless. From the economic standpoint the Winter habits of
the insects are of extreme importance, and we are often able to reach
them with less trouble and more effect than during the Summer. A great
many of the forms that are injurious in the orchard, Winter in the imago
stage, hiding in and under rubbish, or under the bark of trees, especially
old Apple trees, or in the decaying or injured twigs or branches. It is
very good practice, therefore, to make use of some spell of pleasant
weather, to give the orchard a thorough cleaning up. Not a rubbish heap,
not a dead twig or branch should be left anywhere in it. The bark of the
trees should be carefully scraped, so as to remove all the loose flakes, and
with them also all the insects that are hibernating under them. This will
also destroy many of the insects that Winter in the pupa state, like the
Codling moth, of which I have seen pupae under every scale of the old
Apple trees in a carelessly kept orchard. A very little Winter work in
orchards of this character may make an appreciable difference in the
quantity of perfect fruit the following season. In the twigs and branches
that are dead or dying, many Longicorn borers may be found in some
stage, not the least important of which may be species of Elaphidion.
These may all be destroyed by thorough removal of the infested wood.
At this season it is easy to find the eggs of the Tent caterpillars on the
trees infested by them. The well-known belts are easily seen with a very
little practice, and they are as easily picked off and destroyed. Perhaps
the most important of the pests that may be reached in the Winter are the
scale insects, many species of which infest the orchard and the nursery,
often proving very destructive to young trees. Young Pear trees infested
by the scurfy scale can be entirely rid of them by washing with a strong
whale-oil soap the trunk and larger branches; or, instead of the soap a
solution of one pound kainit in one gallon of water may be used. This
will leave the trees in good condition in Spring, and a healthy growth
may be expected. Many other species of scales spend their life on the
twigs and branches, and are not so easily reached; for these the kerosene
emulsion is best, and it can be used at a much greater strength than would
be advisable in Summer, when the foliage would have to be regarded.
Kerosene emulsion diluted nine times would be fatal to most of the scales

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infesting our orchard trees, even if only a single application were made.
At this strength even if it does not kill the scale or the eggs which may
be under it, part of the waxy or other material composing the scale will
be loosened from its fastenings, so as to allow water to penetrate and
complete the work begun by the insecticide. As a matter of practice a
second spraying two or three weeks after the first is to be recommended,
that the work begun by the first may be completed. Few scales, indeed,
will survive such treatment, and the trees will show the beneficial effect
early in the season, having nothing to retard their growth. This practice
is especially important in nurseries, from which it is certain that many of
the plant diseases and injurious insects are widely spread at the present
day.

Notes and.

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INSECT TRACHEAE. — Dr. A. C. Stokes writes in "Science" for Jan. 27,
1893, " to confirm an important discovery made in this country, but, so
far as I have been able to learn, never corroborated in any American
publication. It was Prof. George Macloskie, of Princeton College, who
announced in the "American Naturalist" for 1884, page 567, that the so-
called spiral threads of insect trachea are in reality chitinous folds of the
membrane, and consequently tubules, which are longitudinally fissured."
Dr. Stokes' observations, made chiefly on Zaitha JJiuninea, are described
at length, and the appearance of the tracheal threads, or Uenidia, is fig-
ured. The tcenidia, as has been previously pointed out, are not spiral, but
primarily independent of and parallel to each other. He also discusses
certain "internal, chitinous, hair-like bodies arising from the fold of the
tsenidia and projecting into the lumen of the tubes," and " certain minute,
elliptical bodies in the trenidia, each with an internal, presumably gland-
ular, appendage, to all appearance forming part of the tcenidium, from
which it springs."

VENTURESOME INSECTS. — It is perhaps worth recording in connection
with notes on venturesome insects, that it has several times been my ex-

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perience that I must give my net to a companion to catch Pyrameis Inoi-
tera or ata/anfa, which had alighted on my back. That there is a mani-
festation of something akin to curiosity on the part of many Lepidoptera
is unquestionable. Butterflies return on the same round of glades in a
wooded tract, and every collector must have remarked that his quarry
is more easily secured if he stands still when a desirable butterfly passes
high above him rather than if he pursues. By experiment he might
further remark that a thrust with a conspicuous umbrella or net at a but-
terfly out of reach is almost certain to attract the insect's attention, and
that in a large per cent, of instances it will return all the more speedily on
account of the interference.

In Indianapolis I was once attracted by a fine specimen of Papilio cres-
phontcs, a butterfly rare in this locality, flying over a large flower garden.
I stopped and leaned over the fence to watch it. My comrade wished to
know why I stopped, but I begged him to be quiet. I had no net and
had little expectation of making any capture; but cresphontes flew around
from point to point, and after several uncertain circuits, in each of which
he gradually approached nearer to us, he at last ventured so near that, by
a quick motion, I actually caught him in my hand as I leaned over the
fence. It is curious to note that most of the memoranda as to venture-
some insects have to do with some species of Pyrameis. — O. S. WESTCOTT.

PUPARIUM OF CERIA SIGNIFERA. — In recently going over some Diptera
that have been for some time in my collection unnamed, I found the fol-
lowing interesting specimen. It closely resembles a Conops, and might
easily be mistaken for that genus. It proves to be Ceria signifera Loew
9- This specimen was given to me by Dr. Henry Skinner; with it was
a card, to which was attached a leaf, and on this was a small pupa-case.
On the card was written the following: "Found near Bala, Pa. Dead
oak leaf on ground; hatched May 13, 1889." At first it was thought to be
the chrysalis of a small butterfly, but it is evidently the pupa of this fly.
It is about 12 mm. in length (the anterior part being broken in hatching)
the ground color of the empty pupa-case is brownish gray, roughly and
irregularly netted with black. There is a dorsal binate row of dark brown
tubercles, with single lateral rows alternating with those on the back;
above and below the lateral row there is an obscure row of small tuber-
cles, the posterior end has a long projection one-fourth its total length,
the greater part of which is a dark glossy brown. The ventral surface is
flat and firmly attached to the leaf. As far as known this species has only
been recorded from Mexico, Florida and Texas; regarding the specimens
from the latter locality in the type collection (Cambridge) there appears
to be some doubt (see Williston's Synopsis p. 262). Also identified Ceria
daphne us \Yalker, collected in Jamaica, 1891, by myself. Ceria triitt-iis
Loew; was collected by Mr. Mr. E. Y. Beales at Denver, Col., not before
recorded east of California. — C. \V. JOHNSON, Philadelphia, Pa.

NOTE ON COKIMKL.KNA Ai.i'.ii'i N.xis Say. — This species, described by
Say in 1831, seems not to have been recognized since, and Prof. Uhler,

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in his "Check List," accompanies it with an interrogation point. In a
collection of Colorado Hemiptera which I have recently had the pleasure
of examining for Prof. C. P. Gillette, of Fort Collins, Colorado, I found
a specimen which agrees in every particular with Say's description. I can
have no hesitation in referring it to his species, and considering it a very
well marked and distinct species. Say remarks "This insect is mutilated,
but it is a very distinct species. I obtained it on the Missouri River, when
with Major Long's exploring party." Say describes it under the name
of Thyrescoris albipennis, but it should be referred to Coritnelcena.

HERBERT OSBORN.

Identification oflnsects (Imagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; ad, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
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Entomological Literature.

COMPTES RENDUS. L'ACADEMIE DBS SCIENCES, Paris, Dec. 26, 1892. —
On the histology of the accessory organs of the male apparatus of /V;v-
planeta orientalis, P. Blatter.

THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY, II, pp. 137-172, Gran-
ville, Ohio, December, 1892.— Additional psychological note upon the
gallery spider, C. H. Turner.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, January, 1893. — The pupa
of Argyramazba cedipits F., C. H. T. Townsend. February, 1893. — On
a small collection of Coleoptera from the high mountains of British Co-
lumbia, H. F. Wickham, figs. A peculiar seed-like case-worm from the
Grand Canon, C. H. T. Townsend, figs.

JOURNAL DE L'AiNATOMIE ET DE LA PHYSIOLOGIE, XXV'iii, 6, Paris, Dec.

21, 1892.— On the structural modifications which the yellow muscles of
Dytiscus present during contraction, F. Tourneaux, i pi.

KNOWLEDGE, London, January, February, 1893. — Caterpillars (cont.),
E. A. Butler, figs.

THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, January, 1893. — List of Coleoptera collected
in 1883-84 by Mr. T. C. Weston on, and in the vicinity of, the Cypn-ss
Hills, N. W. T., W. H. Harrington. February, 1893.— [Faunistic notes
on Coleoptera], W. H. Harrington.

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ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER, Leipsic, Dec. 26, 1892.— On the structure
and development of the eyes of Phalangidae, F. Purcell.— Jan. 23, 1893.
A diluvial Periplaneta, Dr. E. Schaeff. On a new stage in the develop-
ment of male Julids, C. Yerhoeff.

ENTOMOLOGISKE MEDDELELSER, III, 5, Copenhagen, 1892.— Coleop-
terous larvae in the Copenhagen Museum, F. Meinert.

ENTOMOLOGISK TIDSKRIFT, xiii, 1-4, Stockholm, i&)2.—Cephuspyg-
mceus L. in North America, S. Lampa. Summer studies in Entomology,
C. H. Neren. Histological studies on the digestive-canal of some lepid-
opterous larvae, E. Holmgren, 6 pis. On stridulation in Acherontia atro-
pos L., C. D. E. Roth.

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
OF ONTARIO, 1892, Toronto, 1893. — Notes on the rarer butterflies of the
Province of Quebec, Rev. T. W. Fyles. A trip to Mt. Washington, H.
H. Lyman. On the power of Insects to resist frost, J. A. Moffat. The
Web-worm tiger (Plochionns timidus Hald.), Miss M. E. Murtfeldt. The
mole-cricket, Gryllotalpa borealis E. W. Doran. The songs of our grass-
hoppers and crickets, S. H. Scudder, figs. Economic entomology, J.
Fletcher, J. A. Moffat, Rev. C. H. Bethune, S. H. Scudder.

BOLETIN DE LA ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE ClENCIAS DE CORDOBA, xii,

Buenos Aires, 1892.— Argentine Dipterology— Mycetophilidae,* F. L.
Arribalzaga, 2 pis.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxiv, 2, Buenos
Aires, August, 1892.— New Hemiptera of the Argentine and Uruguayan
faunas,* C. Berg.— 4. October, 1892. Argentine Dipterology— Syrphidce
(cont.),* F. L. Arribalzaga.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, London, January,
1893. — On some points in the morphology of the Arachnida (s. s.}, with
notes on the classification of the group, R. I. Pocock, 2 pis. Additional
notes on the origin of the tracheae from setiparous glands, H. M. Barnard,
fig. On the terminal organ of the pedipalp of Galeodes and the discovery
of a homologous organ on the pedipalp of Phrynus, id. Some observa-
tions on the mouth organs of Diptera, C. O. Waterhouse.

SCIENCE, New York, Jan. 20, 1893.— The nest of the trap-door spider,
D. Cleveland. An interesting sensory organ in certain plant lice, J. B.
Smith.— Jan. 27, 1893. The structure of insect trachea;, with special ref-
erence to those of Zaif/ia jhiininea, A. C. Stokes. Notes from the Cor-
nell Insectary, M. V. Slingerland (observations upon plant lice).— Febru-
ary 3d. Some insect immigrants in Ohio, F. M. Webster.

HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION OF THK MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE, Bulletin No. 20. — Report on Insects, C. H. Fernald, Amherst,
Mass., January, 1893.

* Contains new species other than North American.

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DIE PAL^ARKTISCHEX GROSSSCHMETTERLINGE UND IHRE NATURGES-
CHICHTE, Bearbeitet von Fritz Ruhl. i. Doppel-Lieferung (Lief, i and 2),
Leipzig, Ernst Heyne, 1892, Svo. To be completed in about 75 " Liefer-
ungen" at i mark 20 pf. each. This double part contains the general
part of 76 pages and the beginning of the descriptions.

ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, vii, pp. 1-44, De-
cember, 1892. — Catalogue of the described South American species of
Calyptrate Muscidte, C. H. T. Townsend.

PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY. — A Guide for Beginners, by Richard C.
Schiedt, professor of Natural Sciences in Franklin and Marshall College,
Lancaster, Pa. Lancaster, 1892, 12010., 310 pp., $1.35. "Based upon
the larger text-books of Professors Arnold Lang, Berthold Hatschek
and Korschelt and Heider, which present the latest results of morpho-
logical research not yet published in the English language. . . . The
embryological element preponderates on account of its importance for
modern thought in general." — Preface. Tracheate Arthropoda, pp. 180-
194, 207-220.

THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY, I, 3, Lawrence, Kan., January,
1893.— On the Apioceridae and their allies, S. W. Williston, 2 pis. Dip-
tera Brasiliana, III,*f id.

RENDICONTO DELL 'ACCADEMIA DELLE SCIENZE FISICHE E MATEM-
ATICHE (2), vi, 7-12, Naples, 1892.— Some effects of the venom of the
Tunisian scorpion (Butkus tunetanus) on man, A. Costa.

ZOOLOGISCHE JAHRBUCHER, vi, 5, Jena, Dec. 30, 1892. — Observations
on butterflies living in water, G. W. Mueller, i pi. On the difference in
time in the appearance of the sexes in butterflies, W. Petersen. Contri-
butions to the biology of the Hymenoptera, C. Verhoeff, 2 pis.

AECHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, Iviii, II, 2, Berlin, December, 1892.—
Review of the scientific literature on Entomology for the year 1891, P.
Bertkau.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 1892, 2, Berlin, December,
1892. — Hadrosticta nov. gen. Cetonidarum from Central America near
Argyripa lansbergii Sall6, Dr. G. Kraatz, i fig. On the biology of some
ant guests, E. Wasmann.

HOR/E SCIENTATIS ENTOMOLOGY,*: RossiCyE xxvi, 1-2, St. Peters-
burg, 1891.— Biology of the coprophagous and necrophagous flies, I, J.
Portschinsky; 3-4, 1892. Biology of the Lepidoptera of Russia: III. Color
marking and ocellate spots, their origin and development (cont.), J.
Portschinsky, 2 pis.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, Jan. 15, 1893. — Life-history
of Dasycampa rubiginea, Dr. W. S. Riding. Practical hints on the ar-
rangement of our cabinets, A. J. Hodges.

* Contains new species other than North American. f Contains new genera.

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JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA I, 5, Kingston, January, 1893.
— Peripatus, \_P. jamaicensis} M. Grabham, figs. A scorpion parasite,
C. H. T. Townsend. Description of a new Jamaican spider, T. D. A.
Cockerell.

DELAWARE COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bull, xiv
for December, 189:, Newark, Del., 1892? — Notes on a corn Crambid \_C.
ca/iginosellus], M. H. Beckwith, figs.

BULLETIN FROM THE LABORATORIES OF NATURAL HISTORY OF THE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, II, 3, Iowa City, Iowa, January, 1893.— On
the early stages of three North American Coleoptera, H. F. Wickham.
Report on an entomological reconnoissance of southern Alaska, id. On
two species of Coleoptera introduced from Europe, id.

EVIDENCE OF MR. JAMES FLETCHER, entomologist and botanist, before
the select Standing Committee of the House of Commons on Agriculture
and Colonization. Session of 1892. Ottawa.

SlTZUNGSBERICHTE DER KAISL. AKADEMIE DER WlSSENSCHAFTEN.

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. CI. Abtheilung I, i and 2,
Vienna, 1892. — Monograph of the digging wasps allied to Nysson and
Bembex, A. Handlirsch, 3 pis.

MEMOIRES DE L'ACADEMIE IMPERIALS DES SCIENCES DE ST. PETERS-
BOURG (8), xxxviii, No. 5, 1891. -The embryological development of
Phyllodromia (Blatta) gennanica, N. Cholodkovsky, 6 pis.

XXXVIII. BERICHT DES VEREINS FUR NATURKUNDE zu KASSEL. 1892.
— On the so-called (Triungulinus form of l\felce larvae, Dr. L. Weber, i pi.

ANNALEN DES K. K. NATURHISTORISCHEN HOFMUSEUMS vii, 3, Vienna,
1892. — New forms of Hymenoptera, F. F. Kohl, 3 pis. Contribution to
the Microlepidopterous fauna of the Canary Archipelago, Dr. H. Rebel,
i pi.

THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,
1892, part 4, January, 1893. — New light on the formation of the abdominal
pouch in Parnassius, S. H. Scudder. Additions to the Longicornia of
Mexico and Central America, with notes on previously-recorded species,
C. J. Gahan, i pi. Contribution to a knowledge of the Homopterous
family Fulgoridse,*t W. L. Distant, i pi. The secretion of potassium
hydroxide by Dicranura vinula (imago) and the emergence of the imago
from the cocoon, O. H. Latter. Further experiments upon the colour-
relation between certain lepidopterous larva-, pupa.-, cocoons and imagines
and their surroundings, E. B. Poulton, 2 pis.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ontario, February, 1893 -
Candian Hymenoptera, 2, W. H. Harrington. Synopsis of the Asilid
genus Blacodes, D. W. Coquillett. Notes on some injurious insects of

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

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Texas, F. M. Webster. The larvae of the Clisiocampae, H. G. Dyar.
Astatus bicolor Say, W. J. Fox. Note upon the revision of the genus
Cucnllia, A. R. Grote. A Trypetid bred from galls on Bigelovia, C. H.
T. Townsend. The Membracidas of St. Vincent Island, W. I., F. W.
Coding.

INSECT LIFE, v, 3, Washington, D. C., January, 1893. — The glassy-
winged sharp-shooter (Homalodisca coagulata Say), Eds., figs. The
Osage Orange Pyralid (Loxostegemaclurcs Riley), Miss M. E. Murtfeldt,
figs. The food-plants of some Jamaican Coccidae, T. D. A. Cockerell.
The " maxillary tentacles" of Pronuba, J. B. Smith, figs. The potato-
tuber moth {Lita solanella Boisd.), R. A. Wright. Food-plants of North
American species of Bruchus, Eds. The strawberry weevil (Antho)ioinus
signatus Say), F. H. Chittenden, figs. Damage to forests by the de-
structive Pine Bark Beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm.), A. D. Hop-
kins. An interesting water bug {Rhenmatobates rileyi Berg.), Eds., figs.

PSYCHE, Cambridge, Mass., February, 1893. — Communal cocoons and
the moths which weave them,*t W. J. Holland, i pi. On the attraction
of light for the two sexes of Coleoptera, H. F. Wickham. Descriptions
of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera, II, *f W. J. Hol-
land. A melanistic locust, A. P. Morse. A new American Lacinius, N.
Banks. The larval stages of Ichthyura multnoma Dyar, H. G. Dyar.

STRAY NOTES ON THE NOCTU^E byj. W. Tutt, F. E. S., December,
1892. Published by the author, Westcombe Hill, Blackheath [London],
S. E., xxiv pp.
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BERICHTE DER NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT zu FREIBURG I.

B. vi, 2, 1891. — On the reduction of the chromatic element in the forma-
tion of the sperm in Gryllotalpa vulgaris Latr., O. voni Rath.

FESTSCHRIFT ZUM SIEBENZIGSTEM GEBURTSTAGE Rudolf Leuckarts,
Leipzig, Engelmann, 1892.— On development history of insects, Dr. A.
Tichomirow, i pi.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, February, 1893. — Remarks on variation
in / 'anessa atalanta and V. cardui, R. South, fig. Removal of grease
from the bodies of moths, W. M. Christy.

IOWA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bull. No. 19, Ames, la.,
November, 1892. — Report of experiments and studies in Entomology, H.
Osborn, figs. Notes on the potato-stalk-weevil ( Trie hob aris ti inotata
Say), F. A. Sirrine, figs.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, February, 1893.
—West Indian Coccidae, T. D. A. Cockerell.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 97

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ARACHNIDA.

Araneina: Anoka peckhami Cockerell, Jour. Inst. Jam. I, p. 222, Jamaica.
Phalanginae: Lacinins texamis Banks, Psyche vi, p. 403, E. Tex.

COLEOPTERA.

Longicornia: New genera and species from Mexico and Central Amer.,
Gahan, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, pp. 255-273.

DIPTERA.

Blacodes cristatus Coquillett, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 33, B. truncus, claitsiis,
p. 34, Cal.

Eurosta bigelovi<% Townsend, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 49, N. Mex.

HEM1PTERA.

Membracidae: Six new species, St. Vincent, \V. I., Coding, Can. Ent.
xxv, pp. 53-56.

Aspidiotuspalmce Cockerell, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), iv, p. 39, Jamaica.
Diaspis tentaculatus Morgan, 1. c., p. 41, Jamaica.

HYMENOPTERA.

Stizus nanus Handlirsch, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, CI, i Abth., p. 61. Ga.;
6". mexicanus, p. 66, Mex.; .S. guttulatus, p. 67, Mex.; .5". xanthochrous',
p. 69, Tex.

Stigmus temproalis Kohl, Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. vii, p. 204, Guatemala;
Oxybelus (Oxybeloides] columbianus, 208, Brit. Col., Wash.

Coleocentnts canadcnsis Harrington, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 30, Ont.; Ec-
thrus rufopedibns, p. 31, Montreal.

Brae on anthonomi Ashmead, Ins. Life, v, p. 185; Catolaccus anthonovii,
p. 185; C. incertus, p. 186, D. C.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Clisiocampa ainbisiinilis Dyar, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 40, Cal.; C. pluz'ialis,
p. 42, Oreg., Wash.

Among the various contrivances resorted to as a safeguard against the
bee-moth (Galleria ccrcana Fab.), perhaps the most ingenious is that
mentioned by Langstroth, of governing the entrances of all the hives by
a long lever-like hen roost, so that they may be regularly closed by the
crowing and cackling tribe when they go to bed at night, and opened
again when they fly from their perch to greet the merry morn. — C(>:cti/i's
Curious Facts.

98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

The Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

JANUARY n, 1893.

Meeting called to order at 8.20 P.M., Dr. Horn, Director, presiding.
Members present: Ridings, Liebeck, Laurent, Calvert, Skinner and John-
son. Associates: Fox, Boerner, Dr. Castle. The Director announced
the death, on Jan. 3, 1893, of Mr. Isaac C. Martindale, Vice-Director of
the Section. Mr. Calvert offered the following, which was ordered to be
transcribed in the minutes: "This Section desires to record the sense of
loss it has sustained in the death of Mr. Martindale and the appreciation
in which it held the deceased. His knowledge, advice and aid were ever
at the service of its members. His cheerful presence cannot fail to be
missed at its meetings. While recognizing that all these advantages are
no longer its to enjoy, this Section can but hope that his example will be
a source of encouragement to all his co-laborers in Entomology." Dr.
Skinner exhibited specimens of a new species of Eudanms from Fort
Klamath, Oregon. Dr. Horn said he hoped to present, by next month,
his paper on Galerucini, and also exhibit the specimens. Mr. Calvert
stated that he had again commenced work on a catalogue of the Odonata
of Philadelphia and vicinity, and hoped to produce a work by which all
the species might be determined, by suitable synoptic tables and brief
descriptions. An account of the external and internal anatomy will also
be given. The speaker further said that civilization reduced the number
of species by the pollution and filling up of streams and ponds, and it is,
therefore, important that the work be done as soon as possible.

HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID/E.

(Continued from page 253, Yol. Ill, No. 10.)

By JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J.

Setagrotis terrifica n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 2. — Pale whitish luteous, the ordi-
nary spots more white, outlined by a black filling in the cell. T. a. line
imperfect, hardly traceable; t. p. line evenly outcurved, denticulate on the
veins; s. t. line marked by a series of fuscous spots. Secondaries white.
Beneath white, powdered with black, with a black discal spot and an outer
line on both wings. Expands 34 — 35 mm.; 1.36 — 1.40 inches.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce, No. 51.

Two male specimens. The species differs from the described
forms in the luteous ground color and in the unusually long an-
tennae.

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Carneades Siccata n. sp. PI. vi, fig. i. — Pale whitish gray with a luteous
tinge, powdered with black. On the primaries this powdering sometimes
darkens the s. t. space completely. The median lines are black, incom-
pletely geminate. The s. t. line is pale, defined by the black powderings
in the s. t. and terminal spaces. Claviform wanting. Orbicular small,
round, black; reniform large, kidney-shaped, black. Secondaries white.
Expands 34 — 37 mm.; 1.36 — 1.48 inches.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce, No. 140.

Differs from all the described species by having pectinated an-
tennae. It somewhat resembles forms of Porosogrotis rileyana,
but differs in the sexual characters deciding the reference to Car-
neades.

Carneades edictalis n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 3.— Fuscous-brown, collar with a
median darker line; all the lines present. Basal line geminate, interrupted
on cell. T. a. line distinctly geminate, inner line brown, outer blackish.
T. p. line geminate, outer line vague, inner line lunulate or crenukite.
S. t. line marked by preceding dusky spots and shades; claviform very
small. A blackish shade before and between the ordinary spots. The
orbicular round, slightly paler, reniform upright, constricted centrally,
dusky filled inferiorly. Expands 35 — 38mm.; 1.40 — 1.52 inches.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce. Nos. 70, 207, 326.

Three males are at hand, the antennae pectinated. This spe-
cies is, therefore, related to the preceding", siccata, and with it
forms a distinct group in the genus.

Cerapoda Stylata n. gen. et sp. PI. vi, fig. 4. — Ash-gray with black pow-
derings, median lines very widely separated, the t. p. very even, nearly
parallel with outer margin. S. t. line almost obsolete, traceable in the
dark terminal space only by two long, pale dents on veins 3 and 4, form-
ing a prominent W. A dusky shade in the cell relieves the pale ordinary-
spots. Secondaries white, with a punctiform outer dark line. Expands
36 — 38 mm.; 1.45 — 1.52 inches.

Hab. — Colorado, Bruce. Nos. 23, 99, 208.

The genus is characterized by a series of long, curved, out-
wardly divergent, claw-like spines on the outer sides of the tips
of the fore tibiae and tarsi. It resembles the pale forms of On-
cocnemis.

Oncocnemis pudorata n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 8. — Belongs to the fascia/us
section of the genus, and most like fcimifascia, though larger. Color of
head, thorax and primaries a dull, olivaceous powdery fuscous gray, witli
all the markings indefinite. A whitish band beyond the t. s. line is most
evident, and is continued across the otherwise black secondaries. Ex-
panse 28 — 29 mm.; 1.12 — 1.16 inches.

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Hab. — Laggan. British Col., Agnes Lake 6700 feet, Aug. 19,
1891, Mr. Thos. E. Bean, Nos. 458, 491, £ and 9.

Oncocnemis Colorado n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 5. — Resembles chandleri \n color
and appearance, and differs from it in color characters mainly in the less
contrasting maculation, the very indistinct spots preceding the vague s. t.
line, and in that the t. p. line is even and not lunulate. The sexual char-
acters are like those of augiistiis, and not like those of chandleri. Ex-
pands 34 mm.; 1.35 inches.

Hab. — Park County, Col. Bruce.

Types are in the United States National Museum, in Mr. Neu-
moegen's collection and in the Rutger's College collection. The
species seems not uncommon, and it is quite likely that it has
been confused with chandleri. Indeed, I have so named it my-
self, at first considering the ornamental characters as merely
varietal.

Mamestra languida n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 6. — Resembles a small purpnrissata,
in general appearance. Differs in the absence of the t. a. line, by having
the t. p. line even, rather than lunulate, by the darker shade extending
over the costal region and through the median cell to the t. p. line, and,
finally, by the whitish secondaries. Expands 37.5 mm.; 1.50 inches.

Hab. — Colorado. Bruce, No. 261.

The resemblance to purpnrissata extends to the antennal struc-
ture and to the relative proportion of thorax and abdomen. In
ornamentation the resemblance becomes less striking on critical
comparison.

Mamestra segregata n. sp. PI. vi, fig. n. — Very dark purplish brown,
verging on blackish; a more reddish shade through the centre of the
wing, the lighter regions relieved by gray povvderings. Transverse lines.
all present, black or blackish, geminate, gray filled. Median lines ap-
proximate in the submedian interspace, connected by a black streak from
the end of the claviform. Ordinary spots large, gray powdered, orbicular
oblique, sometimes incomplete above. S. t. line yellowish sinuate, de-
fined by black scales. Secondaries deep smoky-brown. Expands 36
mm.; 1.43 inches.

Hab: — Laggan, British Col., at light, May i3th and lyth.
Bean, Nos. 447, 531, S and 9.

Differs frpm all the described species by the combination of
very dark brown color, connected median lines and even s. t.
line.

Agrotiphila maculata n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 7. — Black and whitish gray, the
markings contrasting. The patagiae are gray margined, and the dorsum

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has a strong admixture of gray scales. Primaries with tin- median space
darker than the rest of the wing in which gray is the ground upon which
the black markings are laid, liasal line darkening the base of the wing.
T. a. line broken, with an apparent inward angulation. T. p. line single,
denticulate on the veins. S. t. line line marked only by a variably con-
tinuous dusky shade in the s. t. space. A series of black lunate terminal
spots. Ordinary spots gray, defined by the black filling of the cell.
Secondaries blackish smoky. Expands 31—32 mm.; 1.24—1.28 inches.
Hab. — Laggan, British Col., above timber, Bean. Nos. 461,

463-

Belongs to the typical section of the genus, but is different from

all in the blotchy appearance of the margings. A peculiar glis-
tening reflection of the secondaries caused them to photograph
nearly white, and in this the figure given is incorrect.

Agrotiphila incognita n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 9. —Smoky fuscous, part of the
basal space and all beyond 1. p. line of primaries paler, with a yellowish
shade. Median lines geminate, very even, t. a. line with a slight inward
angulation. S. t. Itne very even, pale and distinct. A blackish terminal
line. Secondaries yellowish, margins blackish powdered. Expands 26 —
30 mm.; 1.04 — 1.20 inches.

Hab. — Laggan, British Col., above timber. Bean, Nos. 462,
492.

This is an ally of" A. rigida, with which it agrees in structural
characters. It differs obviously by the entirely different median
lines and by the yellowish secondaries.

Scotogramma uniformis n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 12. — General color a dull
grayish luteous with an even and rather dense powdering of black hairs
and scales. Head and thorax immaculate; primaries with vague traces
of the ordinary markings in the form of dusky clouds. Secondaries
smoky, with a yellowish tinge in the disc, fringes pale yellowish. Ex-
pands 33 mm.; 1.32 inches.

Hab. — Laggan, British Col., July 3ist, far above timber (7000
feet). Bean, No. 465.

Belongs to the section of the genus with hairy vestiture and
obviously distinct from all by the lack of any distinct ornamen-
tation.

Scotogramma luteola n. sp. PI. vi, fig. 10.— Ash-gray to fuscous or lu-
teous gray, black powdered. The median lines are blackish, distinct,
single, even or denticulate on the veins. S. t. line marked by a dusky
preceding shade, divided into three clouds. A vague median shade
darkens the inferior portion of the median spare. The ordinary spots are
wanting, or so vague as to be undescribable. Secondaries smoky with
pale, yellowish fringes. Expands 28 — 30 mm.; 1.16—1.22 inches.

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102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

Hab. — Laggan, British Col., 6700 to over 7000 feet, July and
August. Bean, Nos. 463, 495, 496.

Belongs to the series with hairy vestiture, and resepibles phoca
in wing form, differing obviously in the ornamentation, and most
prominently in the secondaries, which in the new species are
smoky, while in phoca they are dull yellow.

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NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF WEST AFRICAN
LIMACODID/E.— I.

By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph. D., Pittsburgh, Pa.

(Unless otherwise indicated the species are all from the valley of the Ogove.)

SEMYRA Walk.

1. S. lineata sp. nov. $. — Body and appendages dark brown. Prima-
ries liver-brown; a very dark brown curved line runs from near the apex
to the base below the costa and is interrupted near the end of the cell by
a bright silvery spot; a similar dark brown line runs from near the apex
inwardly to about the middle of the inner margin; there are a few brown
rays near the base below the cell. The secondaries are wax-yellow, with
the fringes darker. On the underside the primaries are pale brown, with
the neurations whitish. The secondaries are of the same color as on the
upperside, but the neurations are whitish and stand out distinctly upon
the dark ground. The fringes on the underside of both wings are dark
brown. Expanse 30 mm.

PARASA Moore.

2. P. viridissima sp. nov. <j\ — Front dark brown. Antennae brown; the
upperside of the thorax very dark green; the upperside of the abdomen
bright pea-green; lowerside of the thorax tinged with brownish. Legs
brownish; lowerside of abdomen pale green. Primaries bright green,
with the base and the marginal area brownish. The marginal brown band
is produced inwardly at the second median. The secondaries are pale
green, with the margin pale brown. On the underside the wings are
marked as on the upperside, except that there is no brown at the base of
the primaries, and the nervules are whitish contrasting with the darker
ground color. Expanse 32 mm.

EUCLEA Hub.

3. E. divisa sp. nov. $. — Antenna? brown; front reddish. I'oily above
and below brown. Legs concolorous. The primaries on the upper sur-
face are wood-brown, with the basal half dark brown, the basal area being
separated from the rest of the wing by a pale whitish curved line running
from before the apex inwardly to the inner margin one-third of its length
from the base. The secondaries are uniformly wood-brown; the under-
side- ol both wings is wood-brown. Expanse 24 mm.

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4. E. bra nnea sp. nov. ^. — This insect is uniformly throughout dark
hrown. The secondaries are a trifle darker than the primaries. Expanse
23 mm.

LATOIA Guer.

5. L. nana sp. nov. <j\ — Antennte brown; upperside of thorax green;
upperside (if abdomen dark brown. Legs anil lowerside of body dark
brown. Primaries pale brown, traversed by a broad band of paler brown
running from Ihe costa below the apex to the inner margin. Secondaries
uniformly very pale brownish. The underside of the wings is uniformly
of the same color as the upperside of the secondaries with the costa- and
outer margin dark brown. The limbal band on the primaries reappears
faintly on the underside. Expanse 25 mm.

6. L. viridifascia sp. nov. <$. — Antenna; brown. Front and upperside
of thorax pale green; upperside of abdomen pale green, shading into pale
brown at the anal extremity; lowerside of thorax and abdomen with the
legs and palpi dark brown. Primaries maroon, with the marginal area
pale cinereous and the fringes dark brown. The dark area is interrupted
about the middle of the wing by a band of pea-green, running from the
inner margin parallel to the outer margin as far as the costa, constricted
at the origin of the third median. The secondaries are wax-yellow. On
the underside the primaries are marked as on the upperside, but with the
markings fainter and poorly defined. The neurations are lighter than the
ground color of the wings upon the underside. Expanse 27 mm.

7. L. (?) albipuncta sp. nov. tf. — Front and collar ferruginous. An-
tenna- brown; upperside of thorax and abdomen dark maroon; lowerside
of abdomen reddish. Legs dark brown, with the tarsi pale ferruginous,
heavily clothed with hairs. The upperside of the primaries and secon-
daries are uniformly dark maroon-like the upperside of the thorax. The
discs of both wings are semi-diaphanous; upon the primaries at the mid-
dle of the inner margin there is a moderately large, oval, whitish spot.
Expanse 21 mm.

PTILURA gen. nov.

$ . — Antennae moderately long-, pectinated for three-fourths of
the distance from the base, terminating in a simple filament. Palpi
porrect, with the second joint longer than the other two, the third
short, and all the joints clothed with moderately long hairs. Legs
with the femora clothed heavily with hairs upon the inner margin.
The tibiae of the last pair are armed with four spurs near the end.
At the extremity of the abdomen there are three tufts of plumose
scales, two above diverging and directed upwardly, and one below
above the anal opening directed downwardly. The primaries are
subtriangular, with the costa straight for two-thirds ol the dis-
tance from the base, then curving regularly to the apex. The

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inner margin is straight; the apex is very slightly rounded; the
outer margin is very slightly curved and the outer angle is evenly
rounded. The secondaries are subpyriform, with the outer
margin even rounded. Type P. argyraspis Hull.

8. P. argyraspis sp. nov. rp. — Antennae, front, palpi, and upperside of
thorax brown. Abdomen on the npperside paler brown; the underside
of the palpi and of the abdomen pale brown; the extremities of the tibiae
of the second and third pairs of legs and the extremities of the. femora
in the third pair are marked with whitish. The primaries are brown, with
the limbal area dark brown, and the intraneural spaces ornamented with
black velvety subhastate lines and spots, accentuated with greenish silvery
markings as follows: a large subhastate spot before the base near the inner
margin, above which is a small oval spot; near the end of the cell at the
origin of the third median, a large hastate spot with its point turned toward
the cell; beyond this a snbmarginal series of smaller subhastate spots in-
terrupted between the second and third median. The first and last spots
of the series are the smallest; the third and the fourth, reckoning from the
apex, are the largest. Beyond this series of spots there is a faint submar-
ginal brown line. The border is defined by a marginal brown line, and
the fringes upon the interspaces are dark brown, the extremities of the
nervules being marked by paler brown; there are also two dark brown
spots about the middle of the costa. The secondaries are uniformly
wood-brown, with the fringes checkered with paler color at the extremi-
ties of the nervules. On the underside the primaries and secondaries are
obscure brown with the fringes distinctly checkered with obscure yellow-
ish at the ends of the nervules. The primaries have a dark spot on the
costa beyond the end of the cell. The secondaries, which are paler on
the basal half, have a narrow discal mark at the end of the cell, followed
by an obscure transverse brown line running from the costa to a point
above the anal angle. Expanse 50 mm.

MIRES A Walk.

9. M. transversata sp. nov. $ . — Antennae brown. Body and appendages
bright ferruginous. The primaries are bright ferruginous, shining near
the base and inner margin; a dark brown, almost black, gently curved
line runs from the apex to the inner margin, terminating at a point one-
third of the distance from the base. This is succeeded on the outer mar-
gin by a similar line running from the apex, curving inwardly and 'termi-
nating upon the outer margin, one-third of the distance from the outer
angle. The secondaries are wax-yellow, shining on the inner margin,
with the fringes dark brown. The underside of both wings is wax-yellow,
with golden reflections; the transverse dark line of the npperside reap-
pears very faintly upon the underside of the primaries. Expanse 45 mm.

jo. M. pyrosomoides sp. nov. tf. — Allied to M. f>yros(nna Bull., from
Madagascar, but larger and otherwise greatly differing. The antenmc

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and front together with the collar and forward edge of the thorax on the
upptrside are bright yellowish ferruginous. The posterior part of the
thorax is reddish brown; the upperside of the abdomen is yellowish fer-
ruginous; the underside of the thorax and abdomen is darker brown; the
legs are dark brown; the anterior pair are ornamented with silvery marks
upon the upper end of the tibia?. The primaries are densely clothed witli
shining brown scales, shading into yellowish on the inner margin near the
base; they are ornamented by an obscure transverse median band of
raised scales and by a similar very obscure subquadrate spot beyond the
end of the cell. The fringes are dark brown; the secondaries are pale
shining brown, with the fringes darker; the underside is wax-yellow, with
the cell of the primaries darker, and the inner margin of the primaries
paler. Expanse 42 mm.

11. M. auribasalis sp. nov. (^.—Antennae, front, palpi and body, dark
brown. The patagiae are marked with some golden scales, and at the
base of the antennas there is on either side of the head a prominent sil-
very-white spot. The legs are dark brown, with the tibiae and tarsi of the
anterior pair marked with minute silvery-white spots. The tibiae and
tarsi of the third pair are paler than the other legs. The primaries are
brown, with a profusion of golden scales on the inner margin near the
base; the outer margin near the apex is paler brown. The wings are
traversed by a very obscure transverse basal, transverse median, and ir-
regularly curved marginal line. The secondaries are pale reddish brown,
with the fringes darker before the anal angle. On the underside the wings
are pale reddish brown, with the cell of the primaries clouded with dark
brown. The fringes of the primaries are dark brown, and the fringes of
the secondaries dark brown before the anal angle. Expanse 45 mm.

12. M. nobilior sp. nov. 9-~Antennae testaceous. Front and collar
reddish. Palpi dark brown; upperside of thorax and abdomen dark fer-
ruginous; lowerside of thorax and abdomen pale ochraceous. There is
a silvery spot at the origin of each of the antennae. The first two pairs
of legs are dark brown. The third pair is pale ochraceous. The prima-
ries have the basal third fuliginous, witli a profusion of golden scales on
the inner margin near the base. There is an oval fuliginous spot at the
end of the cell. The middle of the wing is crossed by a cinereous trans-
verse band running from before the apex from the costa to the inner mar-
gin sharply defined externally by a dark brown shade, which covers tin-
disc as far as the irregularly curved, submarginal line of lunulate fuliginous
spots, which runs from before the apex to the outer angle. This submar-
ginal line is followed on the margin by a cinereous border, which does not
quite reach the outer angle. The secondaries are brownish with the inner
margin and the costa pale cinereous and the cell covered with dense fu-
liginous hairs. On the underside the wings are shining, pale testaceous,
with the cell and the outer margin of the primaries obscurely clouded
with dark brown. The neurations are lighter and sharply defined upon
the darker ground color. Expanse 48 mm.

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TEINORHYNCHA gen. nov.

9. — Antennae simple, filiform. Palpi produced, compressed,
very long. The first joint is short; the second relatively very
long; the third very slightly shorter than the second, clothed
with short scales. The legs without spurs, moderately hairy.
Abdomen stout, not reaching beyond the inner margin of the
secondaries. Primaries subtriangular with the costa straight, the
apex rounded, the outer margin evenly rounded, the outer angle
obtuse, the inner margin convex. The secondaries are subpyri-
form, with the outer margin evenly rounded. This genus is allied
to the genus Scopelodus Westw. , but the last joint of the palpi
has not the form which prevails in that genus. In the structure
of the wings, it is closely allied to MzresaWalk. Type 7\ umbra
Holl.

13. T. umbra sp. nov. ? . — Antennae testaceous. Front, collar, thorax
and abdomen reddish. Palpi very greatly produced, dark brown. Legs
dark brown; the primaries are liver-brown, with an obscure, transverse,
median line, and a more clearly defined submarginal line running from
before the apex across the wing and terminating upon the margin above
the outer angle. The fringes are darker; the secondaries are pale shining
reddish brown, the fringes darker. On the underside the wings are pale
reddish brown, with the cell of the primaries clouded with obscure fu-
liginous, and the inner margin lighter, shining. There are a few golden
scales near the base of the secondaries. The fringes are darker. Expanse
42 mm.

RHYPTEIRA gen. nov

• <? . — Antennae moderately long, incrassatecl at the base, mod-
erately pectinated upon the lower half, beyond the middle simple.
The palpi are short, divergent. The first joint very short, the
second long, the third almost obsolete, clothed with a moderately
heavy vestiture of silky scales. The eyes are prominent. The
legs are heavily clothed with hairs. The abdomen is produced
beyond the margin of the secondaries. The primaries are mod-
erately long and narrow, with the costa regularly curved to the
apex, which is rounded. The outer margin, which is narrow, is
regularly curved; the outer angle is obtuse. The inner margin
is nearly straight. The secondaries are subtriangular, with tin-
inner margin straight, the costa convex, and the outer margin
evenly rounded. The prevalent color is brown, with darker
markings. Type I\. sordida I loll.

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14. R. sordida sp. nov. <j\ — Antennae luteous. Front, collar, thorax
and abdomen, pale wood-brown. The legs are lighter. The primaries
are wood-brown, darkey at the base, pale on the outer third, which is
marked near the apex by a dark oval brown spot. There are also near
the outer angle some obscure zigzag brown lines. The secondaries are
wood-brown, paler externally, with a dark spot near the anal angle. The
underside of both wings are uniformly pale brown. Expanse 40 mm.

COSUMA Walk.

15. C. cinerea sp. nov. J1. — Antennae testaceous. Palpi brown below,
cinereous above; upperside of thorax and patagiae cinereous marked with
brown scales; the upperside of abdomen brownish; lowerside of abdomen
and legs cinereous. The primaries are cinereous, shining, heavily dusted,
with blackish scales and clouded with brown on the cell; a small blackish
spot is located at the end of the cell, and is followed by a zigzaged trans-
verse line of brown reaching from the costa before the apex to the middle
of the inner margin. About the middle of this line there is a subtriangular
patch of cinereous scales, which, in certain lights, has a silvery appear-
ance. There is a short subapical band of dark brown, which is bent at
its middle, and is followed by a snbmarginal series of small dots located
on the intraneural spaces. The fringe is pale ashen checkered with brown.
The secondaries are pale cinereous with darker brown scales upon the
cell. The ends of the nervules are darker and the fringes are checkered
like those of the primaries. On the underside the wings are uniformly
pale yellowish cinereous sprinkled with blackish scales. The fringes are
as on the upperside. Expanse 45 mm.

LIMACODES Latr.

16. L. cretacea sp. nov. rf.— Uniformly white. The eyes black. The
wings are lustrous white witli a pale brownish spot on the outer third of
the primaries, and with a large subtriangular space upon the disc of the
secondaries marked with the same color. On the underside the. costal
area of the primaries is clouded with pale brown. Expanse 12 mm.

NATADA Walk.

17. N. melanipepla sp. nov. $. — Antenna black. Front, collar and pa-
tagku bright red. Thorax, abdomen and legs, reddish ochraceous. The
primaries and secondaries are reddish ochraceous, with the outer margins
and fringes brownish gray, the marginal border being widest near the
costa. The underside of both wings is as the upperside, save that the
black border of the primaries is continued along the costa to within one-
third of the distance from the base. Expanse 50 mm.

Ha6itat.-Tala.guga..

PROLATOIA gen. nov.

$ . — Antenna' moderately long, heavily pectinated, the setae
gradually diminishing in length from before the base to the ex-

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tremity and appressed, i.e., the setae on both sides of the culmen
are bent downwardly until their extremities nearly touch. The
second joint is longest and wide laterally; th% third is moderately
long and subcylindrical. The legs are densely hairy and armed
with spurs on the tibiae. The abdomen does not extend beyond
the outer margin of the secondaries. The primaries are subtri-
angular, relatively broad with the costa curved before the apex.
The outer margin is evenly rounded. The inner margin is con-
vex. The secondaries are subpyriform with the outer margin and
the angles evenly rounded. Type P. perileucc Holl.

18. P. perileuce sp. nov. <3\ — Front and collar reddish. The antennae
blackish; the upperside o. the thorax and abdomen dark plumbeous;
the lowerside of the thorax and abdomen is whitish, as are also the legs,
the first pair of which has the femora slightly margined with pale plum-
beous. The primaries are uniformly dark plumbeous, shining. The
secondaries are blackish, shining, with the fringes broadly whitish. On
the underside the wings are as on the upperside, except that the primaries
have a very pale plumbeous marginal line before the darker fringe, and
there are some whitish hairs on the secondaries near the inner margin.
Expanse 23 mm.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII.

Fig. i. Ptilura argyraspis sp. nov.

2. Miresa pyrosomoides sp. nov.

3. Miresa nobilior sp. nov.

4. Miresa auribasalis sp. nov.

5. Miresa transversata sp. nov.

6. Natada clsa Druce.

7. Semyra lineata sp. nov.

8. Euclea divisa sp. nov.

9. Euclea brunnea sp. nov.
10. Pro/a tola pcrilenc e sp. nov.
it. Cosuma rugosa sp. nov.

12. Cosnma cinerea sp. nov.

13. Teinorhyncha umbra sp. nov.

14. Latoia albipuncta sp. nov.

15. Latoia nana sp. nov.

16. Latoia viridifascia sp. nov.

17. Limacodes cretacea sp. nov.

18. Miresa hi/da Druce.

19. Rhypteira sordida sp. nov.

ERRATA.
Vol. iv, No. i, p. 22, eighth line from bottom, for glagoessa read ylagoessa

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for February was mailed January 27, 1893.

EVT NKWS, Vol. IV

PI. VII.

WEST AFRICAN LI MACODID/E (Holland.)

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv. APRIL, 1893. No. 4.

CONTENTS:

Kunze — Autumn collecting of Lepid.... 109

Dyar — A note on the Saturniidae 112

Williston — N. Am. Psychodidse 113

Davis — Collection of the Am. Ent. Soc. 115

Meeske— Field Notas 116

Snyder — Coleoptera in Fungi 118

Smith — Elementary Entomology 119

Editorial 122

Economic Entomology 123

Notes and News 126

Entomological Literature 129

Entomological Section 133

Neumoegen — Descr. of new Sphinx 133

Fox — Synopsis of N. A. sp. of Nomia... 134

Davis — Anew Ophion 135

Holland — African Bombycids 136

Neumoegen and Dyar — Lithosiidse and

Arctiidas 138

Fox — Synopsis of N. Am. Melecta 143

AUTUMN COLLECTING OF LEPIDOPTERA.

By RICHARD E. KUNZE, M.D., New York.

A sandy shore fringed by a belt of timber, the background of
which skirted by undergrowth, shelters many forms of Lepidop-
tera. A few clearings near fishermen's huts and patches of cul-
tivated ground produced a varied flora. Such is a part of Hud-
son County, N. J., facing Newark Bay on one side and on the
other a line of villages, opposite Staten Island, N. Y. The roads
leading to the beach are covered by a yellow sand, attractive only
to some insects because of protection it affords to certain forms.
A sandy bluff overlooking the bay was carpeted with a low, blue-
flowering Aster (A. multiflorus}, while other taller kinds and a
Goldenrod (Solidago ulmifolia) grew in abundance on the clear-
ings. Many butterflies were attracted to this sheltered, out-of-the-
way locality, and not a few were uncommon.

It was September 25th, 1892, a bright, warm Sunday, when I,
with an entomological scholar of mine, did some fine collecting
in this locality. Of Heterocera we took a few Catocalte of com-
moner species, and one of rctecta from a hickory tree, some
Deiopeia bella, one Scepsis fulmcollis and a few Noctuids I could

110 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

,not determine. Of Rhopalocera we found feeding on blue and
purple Asters, P. huntera, P. atalanta and D. archippus. My
young friend started up a Callidryas eubule feeding on Golden-
rod, and was soon lost sight of between the tops of highest trees.
About noon we espied another eubule flying above the tops of
trees, which shaded the avenue, and it seemed to be heading for
Philadelphia, with no time to stop. It was not enchanting to see
rarities pass out of view, but in the forepart of October my friend
captured four such in his garden in Astoria, L. I., of which more
hereafter.

In a clearing of cultivated ground, close to the bay, we found
numbers of Tcrias lisa. We had previously taken a few, but
here they were at home. In a little while had taken fourteen
such, and I soon discovered why they were so plentiful. In the
centre of this clearing grew the larval food-plant of lisa, the. little
sensitive pea {Cassia ckamezcrista), and this accounted for so
many of these little beauties. They were easily taken, except
when hard chased; then they would rise from their low, jerkety
flight or drop suddenly down in among the withered grass and
defy detection or any effort to again dislodge them. One Enp-
toieta claudia was secured by my friend on the same field, where
a week later I took seven fresh-looking specimens of the same.
We also took a few albino 9 of Colias philodice and Junonia
ccenia came in for a share of the spoils.

After lunching and trying to prevent mosquitoes following suit
at our expense, we moved on to other parts of this tongue of
land, where a larva hunt was now in order for that of Lepidop-
tera. The hot afternoon was well spent in finding larVse of Li-
macodidae, Saturniidse and Sphingidae. The Ichneumonids had
gotten in some of their fine work on many of the larger Saturnians.

A week following I revisited the same locality alone, and a
stiff breeze blowing from the southwest nearly all day prevented
butterflies from coming to the open field. I saw and took only
one T. lisa. In place thereof Euptoieta claudia put in a welcome
appearance, which sought the violet-blue flowers of that little
dwarfed Aster, growing on a bluff overhanging the water's edge.
They had a habit of spreading out both wings while resting on
these azure flowers sunning themselves, or to prevent the wind
from lifting them off their feet I don't know which. When dis-
turbed or to evade pursuit, they would sometimes drop upon the

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bare, sandy road, where, with closed wings, they very nearly
resembled in color that of the buff colored surface, and were not
easily seen. A still greater protection was afforded when claudia
alighted on the now Autumn-tinted leaves of Five-finger (Poten-
tilla canadensis], the colors of which was the counterpart of its
own underside of both pairs of wings. I had the greatest diffi-
culty to locate claudia, when it flew for protection to Cinquefoil
—a perfect mimicry. When feeding on blue Asters it became
an easy victim.

I must now record the taking of C. eubule by my young scholar
of Astoria. His house stands in a garden full of flowering plants
from the time the Snowdrops and Crocuses open until Chrysan-
themums close the floral season. It is visited by many Lepidop-
tera, and often rarities. On Oct. 5, 1892, he took the first $
eubule on flowers of a scarlet Geranium. His mother hastily in-
formed him of a new arrival, and, being a little hasty, startled
the insect, so that it flew high in the air, circled about for a mo-
ment and descended upon the same truss of flowers before he
had left the spot, and was quickly netted. The next capture of
eubule occurred on the loth, from flowers of a red Indian Shot
{Canna Indicd). Another specimen he took on the i4th of Oc-
tober from the flowers of Nasturtium, and his fourth on the i5th
from a scarlet-flowering- Nasturtium. The last three captures
were easily made. Of these one is a 9 , and two of the number
fair specimens. A £ which I received is almost perfect. He
likewise took in this garden, later on in October, two specimens
of Vanessa milbertii, one a 9 without a blemish, and a £ rather
the worse "for wear. One of these was taken on a Chrysanthe-
mum. Both Callidryas eubule and Vanessa milbertii are rare in
this vicinity.

Mr. J. Mohus saw several eubule flying high near Bay Ridge,
L. I., this Autumn. The same entomologist took a great rarity
for this latitude in October last in the upper part of New York
City. It was Thysania zenobia, which he took off a high tree
resting in the posture of a Geometrid, and which he was inclined
to think it was, until shown to me. In color it is good, but infe-
riors badly torn. I think it is a female specimen. The exact
shade of this fine insect I would liken to a cinereous-pink, the
color of ashes of a red-ash coal, which, with its horizontal bars
of black, produces a fine contrast.

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A NOTE ON THE SATURNIIDAE.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

I am under obligations to Prof. Smith for many favors, I shall
ask him to allow me to retract the term "undoubtedly," which
seems to have given offence, and argue the question on its merits.

As I have shown that the gradation in the double set of pecti-
nations in the antennae of the Saturniidae from equally long in
both sexes, through the upper pectinations becoming shorter in
the 9 , then absent, and finally shorter in the £ , the continua-
tion of this process would produce the structure of Hemileuca.
In the last genus of the Saturniidae, as limited by Prof. Smith,
viz., Coloradia, we have a most interesting condition, which
shows the correctness of my position. The second set of pecti-
nations is absent in the female and shortened in the male; the
pectinations themselves curve slightly forward, approaching the
structure of Hemileuca and Pseudohazis, and beginning to de-
part from the structure of the other genera of the Saturniidae
(sens Smith), where they are nearly straight. By count, the an-
tennae of Callosamia have 27 joints, those of Pseudohazis 48
joints, but those of Coloradia have 37 joints, being nearly inter-
mediate. Coloradia has two distinct internal veins in the secon-
daries, again approaching the " Hemileucidae" and differing from
the " Saturniidae."

Concerning the other differential characters pointed out by
Prof. Smith, we find the same interesting condition. The eyes
are large, but do not reach the vertex of the head; the antennae
are on a prominence, and are separated by more thai; their own
diameter.

Thus Coloradia forms an excellent connecting link between the
"Saturniidae" and the "Hemileucidae" of Prof. Smith, much
nearer in general structure to the latter, but possessing the double
pectinations in the male antennae. The existence of this inter-
gracling form shows the close relation of the moths which Prof.
Smith would place in different families, without sufficient reason
as it seems to me.

I have before me a larva which is probably that of Coloradia
pandora. It was received from Mr. C. A. Wiley, of Miles City,
Mont., to whose kindness I am indebted for it. It is covered
with long branching processes, tipped with spines, like those of
Hyperckiria, Pseudohazis and Honileiica. The arrangement is

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that of Pseudohazis, which differs slightly from that of Attaciis in
the number of processes. Thus the larval characters also bear
out my view that we have to do with but one family. Prof.
Smith's terms might be used as subfamily names, but I would
include Coloradia in the Hemileucinae, basing the separation of
the subfamilies on the characters of the internal veins of the
secondaries.

The fore tibiae of Coloradia end in a long, sharp spine, exactly
as in Pseudohazis; I should hardly call it a claw in either case.
But the small epiphysis is present in Coloradia, apparently cor-
related with the double pectinations of the antennae.

The only comment on Mr. Dyar's note is, that there are no families in
the Lepidoptera which do not show forms as completely intermediate as
he considers Coloradia. Somewhere a line must be drawn, unless we
dispense with families altogether. — J. B. SMITH.

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THE NORTH AMERICAN PSYCHODIDyE.

By S. W. WILLISTON, Lawrence, Ks.

In the study of numerous new species of Psychoda and Peri-
toma from the island of St. Vincent, I have compared all the
material in the family from the United States and elsewhere that
is accessible to me. I give here the description of two new spe-
cies, which are of interest, because of their large size. P. alter-
nata Say is our most common species. It is often found about
damp places, among leaves, and is frequently attracted by lights
during Summer nights. It probably occurs over the greater part
of the United States, and will be recognized by its pale color,
small size, and the black dots of hair around the margin of the
wings.

Psychoda albipunctata n. sp. ^'.— Wings rather broad, clothed rather
thinly with brownish and blackish hairs; a tuft of blackish hair near each
furcation; at the extremity of each vein, save the first and last, a smalk-r
white one; a small white tuft also, near the black one of the anterior fur-
cation; the prefurca of the second vein with longer and yellowish hair.
Abdomen in ground color luteous and blackish, the hair abundant and
erect, for the most part gray, or brownish gray, with black intermixed.
Hair of the thorax brownish gray, abundant; antennae yellow, elongate,
longer than the abdomen; basal joints moderately thickened, the remain-
ing joints slender, verticellate with white hairs. Legs brown, clothed

114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

with brownish hair and tomentum, with narrow annuli of white tomentumr
at tip of tibiae and metatarsi, hind metatarsi ciliated; tarsi stout. Length
2.2 mm.; of wings, 2.2 mm.

Three specimens, Havana, Cuba. Col. Nat. Museum.

Psychoda Slossoni n. sp. <$. — Wings rather narrow, the upper surface
clothed for the most part with rather long, black hair, with one or two
poorly differentiated bands or spots of whitish hair; costa at the base with
a large tuft of dense, long, black hair, beyond the tuft the hair becomes
gradually shorter and somewhat intermixed with whitish; on the posterior
margin the hair is dense and long; black, except between the termination
of the sixth and seventh veins, and at the tip, where it is white. Body
black, not shining; abdomen and scutellum clothed with long white hair,
the dorsum of the thorax apparently with black and white hair; antennae
not longer than twice the greatest diameter of the head, slender, light
yellow; the basal joints dilated, black, and densely clothed with black
hair; the following joints elongate, slender, with a row of about six slen-
der, successively longer, erect, straight, fine bristles on the upper margin.
Legs yellowish, the tarsi blackish; tibiae and tarsi, or at least the two an-
terior pairs, ciliate, with long black hair; that on the tibiae on both sides
distally; that on the tarsi chiefly on the basal joint and on the posterior
and dorsal margin. Length 2.2 mm.; of wings, 2.75 mm.

A single male specimen from Watkins Glen, N. Y. Mrs. A.
T. Slosson.

A female specimen collected with this male differs so much
that I at first thought it represented a distinct species, and it is
not at all unlikely that it does. The hair on the wings is not as
long; there are no white spots at the tips of the longitudinal
veins; the hair of the body is white throughout; the basal joints
of the antennae are but little dilated and have white hair; the legs
are wanting.

Psychoda alternata Say.

This species is easily recognizable. I have specimens from
Connecticut, Michigan, Dakota, Tennessee and Kansas. I am
not sure but that specimens from the West Indies are of the same
species.

I HAVE lately discovered that Meromacrus Rondani (Esam. di. vnr. sp.
d'Ins. Bras. p. 10, 1848) is quite identical with Ptcroptila Loew (1885).
There is no excuse, either for the proposal of the name by Loew, or the
failure to recognize the identity by myself, sooner. Our species should
be known as Meromacrus in the future. — S. W. WILLISTON, Lawrence,.
Kans.

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Collections of the American Entomological Society.

ED. NEWS. — Will you kindly permit me, through your col-
umns, to say a few words regarding the value of the American
Entomological Society to the scientific worker. I did not fully
appreciate its importance until I spent the past Winter in Phila-
delphia, and am certain no one will give a heartier welcome or
grant more privileges than its members. It has specialists in
almost every order of insects, and some orders have several.
The collection, as a whole, is a fine one, and, through the work
and generous donations of these men, it has in special lines be-
come very complete. Perhaps no one there has done more for
the Entomological Department than Mr. E. T. Cresson, our dis-
tinguished Hymenopterist. His entire collection, including types,
has been given to the Society. A student working in this
order will find no other collection that nearly equals it. Al-
though Mr. Cresson has given up further work, he is ever ready
and willing to aid others in any way that he can. Mr. Fox is
taking up the work where it was left, and is adding his share to
make it more complete. In Lepidoptera the collection has been
kept up to date and improved in many ways by Dr. Skinner.
He has added many fine specimens in Rhopalocera, which is his
specialty. Dr. Horn and others have done much to make the
collection in Coleoptera what it is. Mr. Liebeck is just rearrang-
ing the large and very complete collection, so that it is in fine
condition for study. The general order Neuroptera is growing
very fast through the work of Mr. Calvert, and is very strong in
Odonata. The collection in Diptera is becoming a very respect-
able one through the work of Mr. Johnson. These are only :i
few of the many entomological workers that help each year to
add to and improve the collection in many ways.

But these fine collections in the various orders would be of
little value was there not something else to go with them. Right
adjoining, as handy as can be, is one of the finest and most com-
plete scientific libraries there is. Foreign as well as American
books, pamphlets and magazines are kept, and many a rare pub-
lication is found on its shelves that the general entomologist has
never seen. It is the combining of both the library and collection
supplemented by a live, active corps of specialists that makes the
Society an inducement worthy of careful consideration by the
student specialist. — G. C. DAVIS, Agr. College, Michigan.

Il6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

FIELD NOTES.

By H. MEESKE, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tele a polyp hemus is double brooded on Long Island. Tolype
velleda I always collect on Prumis virginica. Eaclis imperialis
has been very plentiful for the last four years around Brooklyn,
and larvae destroyed the foliage of a number of maple and ever-
green trees of value. If I had not collected the larvae by hun-
dreds they would have done much damage. A dozen larvae were
sometimes to be found on one tree. I have seen the caterpillars
on trees where not a leaf was left. I have found them feeding on
sassafras, wild cherry, rose, oak, gum, spruce, dogwood, hickory,
maple, thorn (^Myrica cerifera), Viburnum dentatum. I never
found them on willow or poplar trees, some of which grew in the
locality. They appear to eat almost everything in the line of
tree or shrub, and probably eat Plantamis, fruit trees, birch, elm
and chestnut. A friend collected 600 larvae on pine on Long
Island in one day. QfCArysome/a scalaris, I collected 360 speci-
mens in two hours from the bark of the black birch. As they
were mostly high up on the bark and branches, those I secured
were few in comparison to the numbers there. Ergates speculates
I found on trunks of spruce at Hot Springs, Las Vegas, N. Mex.,
altitude 1000 to 8000 feet. Of twelve specimens collected, two
were males. Citheronia regalis was found by a friend feeding on
button-brush. I have found them on sumach, hickory, gum and
walnut. At least half of them were sick from the inroads of a
fungus. I have found E. imperialis and Thyreus abbottii affected
in the same way. Hemaris thy she, common on viburnum, I
have often found 50 to 100 eggs on a bush. Every x versicolor
is said, by some one, to pupate under water. I experimented
with twelve larvae in 1891, and kept water in the bottom of the
glass jar, and as soon as they had spun the cocoon and changed
to pupae, I let in, gradually, more water, which softened the co-
coon and drowned some of my pupae, so I do not believe in that
method any more. Most of the eggs of this species are deposited
on bushes standing high and dry on the ground. On the bushes
on dry ground I have found as many as twenty eggs at a time,
and butfewieggs or larvae on bushes in the water. Hyparpax
aurora I have seen destructive to oaks, especially the very young
trees. Phobetron pithecium I have found on Betula alba and D.

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nigra, and have known it to be found on chestnut. Ceratomia
amyntor also feeds on B. alba and nigra. SmerintJms excczcatus
also feeds on these two. A friend had several hundred cocoons
of Attacus cynthia which were collected in 1890; all were kept in
the same box and came from the same locality. Some emerged
in the Summer and some in the fall, and over a hundred living
pupae are not out yet (February, 1892). Hyperchiria io, I think,
is sometimes double brooded on Long Island.

In 1888 I found two male specimens at the electric light late
in August. Caterpillars of this moth are sometimes found late
the fall after all the leaves have been destroyed by the cold
weather. Nadata gibbosa caterpillars I frequently find on Primus
•virginica. This is also double brooded on Long Island. Lima-
codes scapha larvae were quite common in 1889 on chestnut and
hickory, and at Elizabeth, N. J., I found them on Myrica cerifera.
Amphion nessus may be destructive to grape vine. The larvae
keeps on the ground in day time. It is also common on Virginia
Creeper. It can be trapped by placing a board on the ground,
under which is put dead leaves or moss.

Harrisimemna sexg^Mata larva on Ilax. It wears a cap, or
some long hairs. It is carried for protective purposes and is
shaken when the larva is disturbed. The larva eats quickly into
solid wood to pupate and closes the opening with a door which
looks like lead.

Papilio turnus, common on cherry and tulip trees. I have also
found them on magnolia and lilac. I have reared five specimens
of glaucus from Long Island larvae. Papilio troilus, common on
sassafras at Ridgewood, L. I. ; all found on low bushes and as
many as eight larvae on a bush. I had over 100 pupae, but about
half were parasitized. Smerinthus modesta very common, and
many on every willow, but very local. A friend had 400 pupae
in one season. They proved very destructive to the foliage, but
mostly to. large trees and the upper branches; they are hard to
find before being full grown, after which they strip the branches.
If it had not been for our collecting I think they would have
greatly damaged the willows in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn.
Ceratomia undulosa, very destructive to lilac at Ridgewood. I
collected all stages, from a few bushes, over 400 caterpillars, and
the leaves were nearly all eaten. Deidamia inscriptum is de-
structive to Virginia Creeper, and may sometimes prove fatal to

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the vine. The moth will sometimes lay eggs on nearly every
leaf. The larva of Darapsa myron feeds on the same, but is
much stung by ichneumons. Empretia stimulea, according to
the 5th U. S. Agr. Report, p. 146, is nowhere a common insect.
I have found the imago in copulation, by beating, at Ridgewood,
in 1887, in numbers. The larva was very common on elm,
cherry, sassafras, and also on poison ivy; I could have collected
a thousand, but only took one-half of the larger larvae. Grapta
umbrosa was also common on the elms, but many had been ruined
by ichneumon and tachina flies.

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COLEOPTERA INHABITING FUNGI.

By W. E. SNYDER, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

One bright day about the middle of last August I started on a
short collecting trip in quest of Coleoptera, making a low piece
of woods on the shore of Beaver Lake my special place of search.
When collecting there previously I had noticed an abundance of
various species of fungi, and concluded it would doubtless offer
many good things to my cabinet. I regret that I cannot give
the scientific names of the species mentioned below, but never
having studied them, I am unable to do so.

Reaching my destination I soon found a very large, bright-
colored fungus, so dry that it was very brittle, growing on the
side of a large poplar tree. It was about fifteen feet from the
ground, so I climbed up to it, and, after some hard work, suc-
ceeded in breaking it off, and then descended in order to investi-
gate my prize. Carefully breaking it in pieces in my large hat,
in order that no specimens might escape, I soon had its contents
in the coflecting bottle. Frmn it I took four of Dacne ^-macu-
latus, over one hundred Tritomaflavicollis, six of Mycetophagus
punctatus and four of M. pluripunctatis. I considered that a
very productive fungus. From others of the same species of
fungus I secured some fifty more of the Tritoma and three or
four of M. punctatus, but not a single other specimen of Dacne
or M. pluripunctatus was found. From the same species of fungus
I also took a £ and 9 of Diapcris hydni.

I next investigated another kind, and our most common poplar
fungus, and from one 8 by 12 by 3 inches thick, I captured nine-

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teen of Boletotherus bifurcus. The larvae and pupae were found
in the same fungus. I investigated several more, but found only
larvae of this species.

The low, rotten, and fungus-covered stumps near the edge of
the woods next claimed my attention. Here I found several
hundred Hoplocephala bicornis, also a few Platydema excavatum
and several larvae, probably of the former. On another species
growing most abundantly on the top of the stumps were scores
of Cratoparis lunatus. Hiding under the loose fungi and among
the rotten wood, were found Melandrya striata and several spe-
cies of Carabidae. Two specimens of Cyllodes biplagiatus were
taken from still another variety growing on poplar. A species
growing on oak trees contained numerous larvae unknown to me.
I should like to hear through this journal more concerning the
species of Coleoptera to be found inhabiting fungous growths.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

It has been usual to follow the Bombycid series by the Cossidae,
though they are very decidedly out of place between the Bom-
bycids and Noctuids. In venation the insects are characterized
by having two internal veins to the primaries and three on the
secondaries; and on the latter an oblique cross- vein between the
costal and the subcostal. In these characters they are unlike any
of the other families known to me, and are therefore at once rec-
ognizable. Usually, the head is small in proportion to the body,
the palpi are small, and the tongue is obsolete. The ocelli are
wanting. The antennae are usually short, or of only tnoderate
length; closely pectinated in the male, sometimes for their lull
length, sometimes broadly feathered from the base to the middle
only. In the female they are simple, serrated, or even shortly
pectinated. We have two somewhat divergent series among our
species, of one of which Cossus may be considered typical. In
these the wing-form and general appearance, as well as the long
robust body, reminds one of the Sphingidae or Hawk-moths.
The colors are usually black and white, or gray, and the mark-
ings are usually dotted, marbled, or transversely strigate. There

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is often a very great difference between the sexes, not only in size
and color, but also in the wing-form and in the maculation ; in-
deed, the case of male and female of one species forming types
of distinct genera, is not unknown among this family. The sec-
ond series has a more Bombycid appearance, and may be typified
by Hypopta. The vestiture has a more dense, matted appearance
than in any Bombycid, however, and the wings have unusually
long and very even fringes. In this series the colors are white,
or pale gray and yellowish, with longitudinal marks and lines,
and there is no marked difference between the sexes. The larvae
of all the species, so far as I know them, are wood borers, living
in the trunks of trees and boring great channels. As is usually
the case with Endophytes of this character, they are white, or
with a faint reddish tinge, and are furnished with piliferous tu-
bercles, which are as usually black. The abdominal legs have a
complete circlet of spinules, in which character they differ from
all the Bombycid larvae, and agree with those of the Sesiidae and
Pyralidae. They usually require more than one, and sometimes
more than three years to complete their transformations from egg
to imago.

Our native species of Cossidae are rarely common, and yet
more rarely injurious. Within the last decade or thereabouts,
there has been introduced into our country, in the vicinity of
New York, a European species, Zeuzera pyrina Fab., which bids
fair to become a first-class pest to Elm and other shade and or-
namental trees. In Newark, N. J., it is becoming annually more
abundant, and signs of its injuries increase. Mr. E. B. South-
wick reports that, in the Central Park, N. Y. City, its ravages are
increasing rapidly, and from the nature of the injury done it is one
of the pests most to be dreaded.

Following the Cossidae in our lists are the Hepialidae, which
are also out of place. The family is unique in every respect, and
has the appearance and characters of a survivor of an ancient
type left stranded among a mass of modern developments. Both
pairs of wings have twelve veins; both have an accessory cell,
and in both the median cell is divided. There are no ocelli, there
is no tongue, and no frenulum. The head is minute, the palpi
are weak, the antennae short and bristle-like. The wings are
large and often frail, the thoracic rings are unusually well marked,
and the body is usually long and cylindrical. Prof. Comstock

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has recently pointed out a peculiar backward projecting lobe near
the base of the inner margin of the fore wing. " This lobe passes
beneath the hind wing, and thus the costal edge of the hind wing
is held between this lobe and the inner margin of the fore wing,
which overlies the hind wing." Only one other lepidopterous
family, the Micropterigidae, has a similar structure, and these two
Prof. Comstock proposes to separate from all the other Lepid-
optera under the name "Jugatse," calling the others "Frenatse."
It is interesting to note that this. " jugum" reappears in the Tri-
choptera, or Caddice-flies, and apparently emphasizes the sug-
gestion of relationship between some such type and the moths
in times long past.

The larvae of Hepialidae, so far as I know them, are wood
borers, and quite often in the roots of trees and shrubs. They
also require more than one year to attain their full development,
and not often found.

The moths are not common, as a rule, and most collections
contain very few of them. They fly at twilight, and have received
the somewhat fanciful name of " Ghost-moths," from their quiet,
shadowy mode of flight. Sometimes they may be found during
the day under stone bridges, or under overhanging ledges of
rock, and a locality for them once discovered — they can be taken
year after year — sometimes in no small numbers. Some of the
Western species appear to be much more common than any from
the Atlantic coast.

PICTURES FOR THE ALBUM OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SO-
CIETY have been received from D. B. Young, H. F. Bassett, George H.
Hudson, Herbert Osborn, Chris. H. Roberts, H. W. Wenzel, Rev. Thos.
\V. Fyles. This is getting to be a fine and valuable collection, and we
wish to make it as complete as possible, and will be glad to hear from
those who have not already sent their photos.

Baris scolopacea Ger.— An unrecorded species introduced from Ku-
rope, first taken by the writer in June, 1885. on Chenopodiniii album,
growing rank on a lot below this city (Philadelphia). A small, prettily
marked species, of which a very few specimens were captured the first
year, but which has steadily spread over a greater territory and can now
be found every season in fair quantities. The beetles have remained un-
named in several of the local collections, until recently their identity was
established by Mr. Schwarz, ofWashington; D. C., due to some exchanging
between Mr. Wenzel, of this city, Mr. Ulke and himself. — CHAS. LIEKECK.

122 [April,

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DEPARTMENT OF EGONOMIG ENTOMOLOGY.

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N, J.

The Black Peach Aphis. — In Bulletin No. 40 of the Cornell Experiment
Station Mr. Slingerland has an article on the Black Peach Aphis, Aphis
persicce-niger, which has, it seems, made its appearance in destructive
numbers in -some sections of New York State. Nothing is added to our
knowledge of the history of the insects, and under the head of remedies
he makes the statement concerning the root inhabiting form that "There
is on record no experiments in the destruction of this form." This

is not strictly correct; in Bulletin No. 72 of the New Jersey Station I rec-
ommend kainit for the root form of this insect, and in Bulletin No. 75 I
quote the positive testimony of Dr. E. F. Smith, who made the experi-
ment, that tobacco dust had been tried with great success. In my report
for 1890'! cite the testimony of growers as to the effects of applications
of kainit on infested ground, and throughout my reports are notes on the
same subject. If my memory serves me, Mr. Alwood, of the Virginia
Station, has also stated at some meeting of economic entomologists that
tobacco had been successfully used by him or in his State. Dr. E. F.
Smith has, somewhere, published his experiments on the root forms of
the peach louse in some detail, and Mr. Slingerland, however small his
faith in the efficiency of the remedies, might at least have stated that
claims have been made for them; leaving it open to the farmers to make
experiments if they choose. Though I have made no experiments which
have any claim to be called conclusive, yet the uniform success that has
attended a liberal use of kainit in peach orchards infested by these root
lice, leads me to feel safe in making positive recommendations. Thus
far I have not found a case where the applications have failed. The
trouble with the trees was not starvation in all cases, but entirely an aphid
attack. '

Carnivorous and Herbivorous Insects. — The food relations of some of
our supposed predaceous insects have been carefully studied by Prof. S.
A. Forbes, and some contributions have been made on the subject by Mr.
F. M. Webster and others. Among the predaceous forms the Coccim-1-
lidae have been shown to be by no means as universally carnivorous as
was once supposed, but that vegetable matter, and particularly fungus
spores formed a considerable proportion of their nourishment at some
seasons of the year. Coccinella y-iiofadt is one of the most common of
our "lady birds," and there is no question that, in both larval and adult
stages, much, and sometimes all of its food is furnished by plant lice.
Others as well as myself have actually observed them feeding voraciously
on quite a number of species of aphids, so that this habit of the species
is in no doubt. Epilachne borealis, on the contrary, is as universally
known as an herbivore, which is gradually but steadily iiu rc.isin- in mini-

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bers and in destructives, in New Jersey at least. I was curious to know
just what, if any, difference in mouth structures accompanied this diver-
gence in habits, and dissected out the parts in the above-mentioned spe-
cies, and with a somewhat unexpected result. While in the Epilachne I

Fig. i.

found a stout, chitinous mandible with a prominent acute apical and two
smaller internal teeth, such as might well belong to a carnivore, I found
in the Coccinclla a mandible which I would as readily have referred to a

Fit;'. 2.

pollen or fruit feeder. The mandible is distinctly compound, with all the
sclerites well marked, the apical tooth small and bifid. It will be noticed
by comparing the figures herewith given that the differences are not con-
fined to the mandibles, but extend to all of the mouth structures. The

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maxilla; are quite radically different in the development and the texture
of the parts, and in this respect the Coccinella more resembles other pre-
daceous insects. The form and arrangement of the sclerites of the lahium
differ throughout, and show no family resemblance in any character that
I have noted.

The labrum of Coccinella differs markedly in form from that of Epi-
lachne. but yet more markedly in the sensitive structure beneath it — the
epipharynx. A marked peculiarity in Coccinella is found in a central and
basal series of sensory pits which are not furnished with tactile hairs.
The latter are few in number, as compared with Epilachne, and are much
less regularly arranged, but many, if not most of them, have around the
base a number of supplemental pits, which are not furnished with per-
ceptible processes of any kind. I have made no detailed comparisons
between the parts, preferring to let the figures speak for themselves, but
it gives an indication of differences remaining to be studied, and con-
tradicts a generalization which I had been inclined to make, that com-
pound mandibles would be rarely found in predaceous forms.

EXPLANATION TO BASE FIGURES.

Fig. i. — Mouth-parts of Epilaclme borealis : a, maxilla; d, labrum; c,
mandible; d, labrum beneath — epipharynx. Original.

Fig. 2. — Mouth-parts of Coccinella g-notata : a, maxilla; b, labrum; c,
mandible; d, labrum beneath — epipharynx. Original.

The Cattle Tick. — Bulletin No. 24, of the Texas Station, on the above
subject is an unusually interesting and valuable one. Dr. Cooper Curtice,
its author, is well known as a veterinarian, and has devoted himself more
especially to a study of the parasites of domesticated animals. The his-
tory of this tick is very completely given, and there is much information
concerning the structure and physiology of the insect, while the author
leaves yet some problems for others to solve. There is a consideration
of the relation of the ticks to "Texas fever" in cattle, but Dr. Curtice is
apparently not convinced that any real relation exists between them.

Dr. M. Francis treats of remedial measures, and finds several of the
sheep dips preferable to the kerosene emulsion. He does not find that
Mr. H. E. Weed's recommendation of sulphur is warranted by experience
in Texas. The efficiency of the sheep dips as compared with the kero-
sene emulsion is somewhat surprising, and warrants more careful study
of the composition of these dips.

I GIVE a new locality for the Lyccn/a si»iorcnsis, it being in the Yosemite
on the trail leading to the foot of the Upper Yosemite Falls. I took sev-
eral between the Columbia Rorks and Valley View Point during the
month of May, 1892, and they were seen on the opposite side around
Union Point on the trail leading to Glacier Point during the month of
IUIH-, but they were so worn I took none of them. — J. P>. LKMUKKT,
Yosemite, Cal.

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Dr. HORN expects to be absent from this city from the middle of April
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of delay in receiving replies.

THE NEWS begs to acknowledge the receipt, on several occasions, from
Mr. V. R. Pratt, of copies of the Reynoldsville (Pa.) Volunteer, contain-
ing his articles on the entomology of Reynoldsville and vicinity. The
last one received is on Compound eyes, whose structure Mr. Pratt illus-
trates by the piling together of six-sided church steeples to form a hemi-
sphere, with the points of the steeples in the centre, the bases of the
steeples on the surface representing the facets. The article is an excel-
lent example of the interest which can be imparted to presentations of
the facts of Entomology.

THE many friends and scientific correspondents of Dr. John Hamilton,
of Allegheny, will be delighted to know that he is on the fair road to re-
covery from his recent protracted illness, which threatened at one time to
terminate fatally. He has been confined to his bed since the 5th of Feb-
ruary, but is again able to sit up for a part of each day, and hopes ere long
to be able to resume his studies of the Coleoptera, in which he has done
so much excellent work. He has in hand a lengthy paper upon the bee-
tles of Alaska, which will be a most valuable contribution to our know-
ledge of that comparatively little-known field, and his Catalogue of the
Coleoptera of western Pennsylvania is in such a state that it might soon
go to the hands of the printer. It is earnestly to be desired that he may
live to publish these papers upon which he has expended many years of
diligent labor. — W. J. HOLLAND.

THE imago of C. dionc first makes its appearance about June 2oth.
The insect is found in the greatest abundance on tall slough grass, as is
also C. thoe. However, I have rarely found them on wet, marshy ground.
C. dione is not difficult to collect, as it may often be seen hanging to the
side of the grass blade and easily captured before disturbed. \Vhen once
disturbed, however, its flight is rapid and very hard to follow with the eye.

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There are two broods in a season, the second making its appearance in
July. In the latter part of July and August the species is most abundant,
but nearly all specimens are badly demoralized, and a perfect one is hard
to find. The favorite flower of the butterfly is a species of milkweed.
From the milkweed I have sometimes taken as many as twenty specimens
with a single stroke of the net, all of which, with a few exceptions, proved
to be imperfect. A description of the life habits of C. dione is in most
respects identical with that of C. thoe. Thee appears a few days before
dione, but is not nearly so abundant in this locality. The larva of C.
dione seems to be an especial attraction to the ants; on the food-plant I
have seen larva completely covered with them. Whether the larva itself
is the attraction or the gummy product of the plant I do not know. The
ants appear to be friendly, and never do them any injury. This is also
the case with C. thoe, as doubtless with all Chrysophanus larva. — HENRY
G. WILLARD, Grinnell, Iowa.

JOHN OBADIAH WESTWOOD, M.A., F.L.S., honorary president of the
British Entomological Society, died in London, January 2d. Prof. West-
wood was born in Sheffield in 1805. He was educated at Litchfield, and
was appointed in 1861 to the professorship of zoology founded at Oxford
by the munificence of the late Rev. F. W. Hope.

In 1855 the Royal Society awarded him one of the royal medals for his
scientific works, and in 1860 he was elected to fill the place of the illus-
trions Humboldt as corresponding member of the Entomological Society
at Paris. He wrote: Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects,"
" Entomologists' Text Book," published in 1838; " British Butterflies and
their Transformations," in 1841, and a number of other works of a similar
nature.

IT may be of interest to the readers of the NEWS to know that I took
one 9 specimen of Spilosoma priina Slosson at electric light last Summer.
Very likely more could have been captured, but not being on the lookout
for the species, may have passed them over as the more commoner species
of the same family. I saw a specimen of priina in New York, and at
once recognized my unnamed specimen. It has, I believe, only previously
been taken in the White Mountains. I can record the capture here of
Ca/ytnnia calami Harvey, last July. I have not seen it mentioned in any
New York lists. — CHAS. S. MCKNIGHT.

OUR KNOWLEDGE OF INSECTS. — In England we have about 12,000 spe-
cies of insects, and it is perhaps not to be expected that the ultimate total,
when all the smallest species have been collected and studied as assidu-
ously as the larger ones, will exceed this estimate by more than a tm-
hundrecl, or at most one or two thousand, lint with foreign countries it
is very different; and I must confess that I was surprised, when 1 lately
received a fine new species of I'/iasniida from Madagascar, to find that
barely half a dozen species had yet been recorded from that island. If
this is the state of our knowledge of such insects as I'/iasniida, how im-

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perfect must it be of the smaller species of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,
Diptera, etc., many of which are of almost microscopic dimensions. Many
insects are so local and so closely connected with plants which disappear
before civilization that the same fate of extermination which has fallen
on so many of the larger animals during the last century cannot but fall
heavily upon these also. It is not too much to say that it is highly pro-
bable that a large proportion of the insects at present existing in the
world will become extinct before their existence is even known to scientific
men. — W. F. KIRBY in "Knowledge."

FOOD-PLANTS OF THE POTATO STALK-WEEVIL, Trichobasis irinotata
Say. — This insect has for many years been known as affecting the stem
of the potatoes, but of late is either changing its larval habits somewhat!
or else entomologists are becoming more apt in their investigations; pos-
sibly both. A recent Bulletin from the Iowa Experiment Station gives,
besides the potato, several species of " Ground Celery" and the " Horse
Nettle," while lately one of my correspondents near Cincinnati, Ohio, is
complaining bitterly of injuries to his egg plants "during the last three
years." Some sections of these affected plants of last year sent me Feb-
ruary ist contained adults of this weevil. It will now be in order to watch
the tomato. The list of food-plants of the larva;, as now understood,
will stand as follows :

Solatium tuberosum, Miss. Margaretta H. Morris, Harris Ins Inj. Yeg.,
1841, p. 72; Flint ed. pp. 81-82.

Solanum carolinense, Physalis philadclphica, P. virginiana var. ani-
bigua, P. laiiceolata, F. A. Sirrine, Bull. 19, Iowa Agri. Exp. Station,
November, 1892 (issued February, 1893), pp. 589-94.

Solanum melongena, F. M. Webster.

Prof. C. P. Gillette (Bull. 12, Iowa Agri. Exp. Station, p. 547) stated,
in 1891, that he had observed the adults in Winter in two species of Phy-
salis, but does not give the species. — F. M. WEBSTER, Wooster, Ohio.

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Pliny, to whom the origin of the sweet, viscid fluid (honey-dew) secreted
by the Aphides was unknown, says, " it is either a certaine sweat of the
skit-, or some unctuous gellie proceeding from the starres, or rather a
liquid purged from the aire when it purifyeth itself."

IS93-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 2Q

Kritomological Literature.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, Leipsic, Jan. 30, 1893.— On the parasitism
of the Pseudoscorpions, F. Leydig.

LE NATURALISTE, Paris, Feb. i, 1893. — The means of defense of some
nocturnal Lepidoptera, L. Cuenot, figs.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, March, 1893. — Notes on
Ohio and other Phalangidae, C. M. Weed.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, Feb. 15, 1892. — Heliothis
armigera [bred in imported? tomatoes], J. W. Tutt.

ATTI BELLA SOCIETA YEXETO-TRENTINA DI SCIENZE NATURALI (2), I,

Padua, 1893. — The family Phytoptini, G. Canestrini, 16 pis.

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. By F. Moore, part xii, London, L. Reeve & Co.,
1892. — Pp. 273-317, pis. 87-94. This part completes volume i.

THE JOURNAL OF THE CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, xv,
3 and 4, Feb. 24, 1893. — Mordellidas in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, C.
Dury.

ARCHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, lix, I, i, Berlin, December, 1892.—
On the various types of six-footed larvae among the fresh water mites,
Dr. P. Kramer.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT, Erlangen, Feb. i, 1893. — Sounds by
ants, E. Wasmann. — February, isth. Self mutilation by Phryganid larvae,
Grafm M. von Linden.

ICONOGRAPHIE SUR QUELQUES SAUTERELLES VERTES*f par AlphonSC

Pictet et Henri de Saussure, Geneve. Imprimerie Aubert Schuchardt,
1892, pp. 28, pis. 3, 4to.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, March, 1893.—
Notes on some experiments in hybridising Burnet Moths (Zygsense), W.
H. B. Fletcher. Many notes.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, March, 1893. — The West Indian species
of Cerop/astes, T. D. A. Cockerell. The cyanide reaction with yellow
Lepidoptera, F. H. P. Coste.

EXTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xix, 3, Berlin, February, 1893. — Re-
marks on C. Escherich's "Biological significance of the genital appen-
dages of insects," C. Verhoeff.

CATALOGUS HYMENOPTERORVM hucusque descriptorum systematicus
et synonymicus. Auctore, Dr. C. G. de Dalla Torre. Vol. vi: Chrysididre
(Tubulifera), Lipsue Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, MDCCCXCII, pp.
viii, 1 1 8.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

SCIENCE, N. Y., March 10, 1893. — Notes on the wing color of North
American Locusts belonging to the subfamily Oedipodinae and its seem-
ing relation to climatic conditions, L. Bruner.

VERHANDLUNGEN DER K. K. ZOOLOGISCH-BOTANISCHEN GESELL-
SCHAFT IN WIEN, xlii, 4, January, 1893. — On the pouch-shaped abdominal
appendages of the female butterflies of the Acrseidse, A. F. Rogenhofer.

BULLETINO DELLA SOCIETA ENTOMOLOGICA ITALIANA, Xxiv, 3, Flor-
ence, Jan. 28, 1893. — Revision of the European species of mosquitoes,
Culicidae, E. Ficalbi. New or little known Coccidae, A. T. Tozzetti, figs.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST, London, March, 1893.— Portrait and sketch
of J. A. Clark. Entomological nomenclature, C. W. Dale. The Ptero-
phorina of Britain (cont.) J. W. Tutt. Is moisture the cause of melanism?'
J. E. Robson.

BULLETIN OF THE OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, No.
45, December, 1892. — Insects affecting the Blackberry and Raspberry, F.
M. Webster, 38 figs., 88 species recorded. — No. 46, Underground Insect
Destroyers of the Wheat plant, id. figs.

BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, No. 93,
Washington, D. C., 1892. — Received Feb. 28, 1893. — Some insects of
special interest from Florissant, Colorado, and other points in the Tertia-
ries of Colorado and Utah, S. H. Scudder.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, pt. cvi, London, January, 1893.—
Arachnida Acaridea, O. Stoll, pp. 41-55, i-xxi, pis. xx, xxi. Coleoptera,
vol. iv, pt. i, pp. 525-564, pi. xxii, G. C. Champion. Rhynchota Heter-
optera, pp. 369-384, pi. xxxiii, W. L. Distant.

THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA, including Ceylon and Burma. Pub-
lished under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council.
Edited by W. T. Blanford. Moths, vol. i, by G. F. Hampson. London,
Taylor & Francis, 1892, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 527; 333 woodcuts.

MlTTHEILUNGEN DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN GE-

SELLSCHAFT., viii, io, Schaff hausen, January, 1893. — On hybridization
among insects, Dr. M. Standfuss. Summary of the researches of M.
Jules Gonin on the metamorphosis of Lepidoptera, Prof. E. Bugnion.
Coleoptera Helvetica, Dr. G. Stierlin, pp. 289-320.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), xi, 62, London,
February, 1893. — Report upon the Myriapoda of the "Challenger" expe-
dition, with remarks upon the fauna of Bermuda,* R. I. Pocock, i pi. On
the probable sensory nature of the "appendix" of the antennas of cole-
opterous larvae, C. J. Gahan. Aglia tan, a connecting link between the
Ceratocampidoe and Saturniidae, and the type of a new subfamily Agliinae,
A. S. Packard. A reply to some observations on the mouth organs of
the Diptera, B. T. Lowne.

* Contains new species other than North American.

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PSYCHE, Cambridge, Mass., March, 1893.— Notes on Tachinidse, S. W-
Williston. Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Le-
pidoptera iii, W. J. Holland, i pi. Orgyia badia Hy. Edvv. and other
notes, with a table to separate the larvae of Orgyia, H. G. Dyar. Syn-
opsis of the North American species of Megacilissa, W. J. Fox.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
(2), vii, 2, Sidney, Nov. 22, 1892. — A viviparous Australian Peripatns (P.
leuckartii Sang.), J. J. Fletcher. Catalogue of the described Hymenop-
tera of Australia, pt, u, W. W. Froggatt. Further notes on the viviparity
of the larger Victorian Peripafus, generally known as P. leuckartii, A.
Dendy.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., March, 1893. — Cana-
dian Hymenoptera. No. 3, W. H. Harrington. New Chernetidae from
the United States, N. Banks. Descriptions of new Braconids bred by
Prof. A. D. Hopkins, W. H. Ashmead. Synopsis of the Asilid genus
Dioctria, D. W. Coquillett. Notes from the Cornell Insectary— I. Some
results of a trap lantern experiment, M. V. Slingerland.

THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,
1892, pt. III. — On some eggs of Hemiptera, Dr. D. Sharp, 2 pis.— On va-
riation in the color of cocoons, pupse and larvse; further experiments, W.
Bateson. Experiments in 1890 and 1891 on the color relation between
certain lepidopterous larvae and their surroundings, together with some
other observations on lepidopterous larvae, Miss L. J. Gould, i pi.

FLOWERS AND INSECTS — LABIATE by Charles Robertson, Trans. Acad.
Sci. St. Louis, vi, pp. 101-131, Nov. 25, 1892 — [ORCHIDS], Bot. Gazette,
xviii, pp. 47-54, Crawfordsville, Ind., February, 1893. These are the
most recent additions to a series of papers with the same title, which Mr.
Robertson has contributed to various numbers of the Botanical Gazette,
beginning with vol. xiv, p. 120, May, 1889, and to the Transactions of the
Academy of Sciences of St. Louis, vol. v.

MIDDEN-SUMATRA. — Reizen en Onderzoekingen der Sumatra-Expeditie,
exitgerust door het aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1877-79, beschreven
door le Leden der Expeditie, onder toezicht van Prof. P. J. Veth. Natu-
urlijke Historic, door Joh. F. Snelleman. Tweede Deel. Leiden. E. J.
Brill, 1892. Forrkularia, A. de Bormans. Lepidoptera, P. C. T. Snellen.
Diptera, F. M. van der Wulp. Hymenoptera, C. Ritsema Czn and Dr.
G. L. Mayr. Hemiptera, W. L. Distant and C. Ritsema Czn. Aranese,
Dr. A. W. M. van Hasselt.

132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ARACHNIDA.

Acaridea: n. sp. C. Am., Stoll. Biol. Centr.-Am. Arach.-Acar. pp. 41-55.
Pseudoscorpiones — Chernetidae: n. sp. from U. S., Banks, Can. Ent.
xxv, pp. 64-67.

Phalangida: Liobunum /occ>risendii\\reed, Am. Nat. xxvii. p. 295, N. M.

COLEOPTERA.

Byrrhidae: Nosotetocus (fossil), n. gen., Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur.
93, p. 16. N. marcovi, p. 17, pi. 2, figs. 2, 3, Florissant, Col.

Carabidae: Carabites exanimus (fossil), Scud., 1. c. p. 17, pi. i, fig. 4,
White River, Utah.

Heteromera: n. gen. and sp., Mex., Cent. Am., Champion, Biol. Cent.-
Am. Coleop. iv, pt. i, pp. 525-564.

DIPTERA.

Dioctria parvnlns, rubidus, Cal., Coquillett, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 80 and
table of N. A. species.

Mycetophilidae : Mycetophoetus (fossil), n. gen. Scud., 1. c. p. 20. J/.
intermedius, p. 20, pi. 2, fig. 5, Florissant, Col.

Oestridae: Palcestrus (fossil), n. gen. Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur. 93,
p. 18. P. oligocenus, p. 19, pi. 2, figs, i, 4, Florissant, Col.

HEM1PTERA.

Ceroptastes, 3 n. sp., West Indies, Cockerel!, Entom. xxvi, pp. 81-83.

Cicada grandiosa (fossil) Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur. 93, p. 15, pi.
i, fig. 3, Florissant, Col.

Heteroptera: n. sp., Mex., Cent. Am., Distant, Biol. Cent. -Am. Rhyn.

Heterop., pp. 369-384.

HYMENOPTERA.

Braconidas: n. sp. from W. Va. and tables of species of Spathius and
Ccznophanes, Ashmead, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 67-79.

Megacilissa gloriosa, N. Mex., Fox, Psyche, vi, p. 421, and table of
N. A. species.

Tenthredinidae: Atocns (fossil), n. gen. Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur.
93, p. 24. A. defessits, p. 25, pi. i, fig. 5, Florissant, Col. N. sp. from
Ontario, Harrington, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 57-64.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Libytheinae: Barbarothca (fossil) n. gen., Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol.
Sur. 93, p. 21. B. florissanti, p. 23, pi. 3, figs. 1-5, Florissant, Col.

ODONATA.

Fossil: Tru'hocncniis alicna Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur. 93, p. 12, pi.
i, fig. 2, Florissant, Col. Stenogomphus n. gen., p. 13. ^S". carlctoni, p.
14, pi. i, fig. i, Roan Mountain, Col.

ORTHOPTERA.

Pseudophyllidae: Acanthoprion n. gen., A. azfcciun Pictet and Saussure,
Icon. Saut. Vert. p. 26, pi. 3, fig. 21, Mex.

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The E^ntomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

FEBRUARY 23, 1893.

Meeting called to order at 8.20 P.M., Dr. Horn, Director, in the chair.
Members present: Laurent, Ridings, Calvert, Skinner, Liebeck, Welles.
Associates: Boerner, Nell, Dr. Castle. Mr. Calvert stated that, in con-
nection with the catalogue of Odonata he is preparing, he has been obliged
to revise the genera of the subfamily Libellulinae on account of the un-
suitable character of the present ones for American species. The speaker
gave the characters of the genera of Dipla.v and Celitheniis, aided by
drawings on the blackboard. Mr. Nell exhibited some pop-corn, show-
ing depredations of the moth Gelechia cereallella, and exhibited speci-
mens of the moth, chrysalis and larva. Dr. Horn exhibited the series of
Galerucini he had used in the preparation of his paper on that* subject.
The group had been treated in 1865 by Dr. LeConte, but comparatively
few species have been added since, and few reductions made by synonymy.
The comparative characters of the genera were explained and dwelt on
at length. Our species, previously under Luperus, will have to be called
Luperoides. In a paper entitled Miscellaneous Coleoptera, Dr. Horn
stated he would describe new species of Dacoderus aegialites, Mr. L,ie-
beck recorded finding in this locality, in numbers, Baris scolopacta.

HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Recorder.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

Description of a new Sphinx and some notes on
S. coloradus Smith.

By B. NEUMOEGEN, New York.

Sphinx franckii nov. spec. — Antenna; brown, culmen white. Head
gray; palpi of same color, granulated with yellowish brown; collar also
yellowish brown, with two oblique black streaks converging at upper
centre; patagiae light gray, heavily edged with black inwardly in their
upper portion. Abdomen has a large area of dorsum in yellowish brown
with a black centre line; broad black segmentary bands with whitish in-
terspaces. Primaries light gray, shading into white at base, at apex and
along submarginal line; black dashes along apical part of costa at apex,
in internerval spaces, and a thin black line below and parallel with me-
dian vein; a double, black, submarginal line from below vein 7 to inner
margin, bulging inwardly between veins 1-3, the outer line degrading into
a large, blackish, irregular blotch near angle; the entire median and sub-
marginal area of wing, up to near apex, covered with a peculiar bright

134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, [April,

yellowish brown; granules of same color in apical part of costa. Sec-
ondaries have ground color of a yellowish white, with pronounced mar-
ginal and median bands of black; both wings have yellowish brown
fringes dotted with black at nerval termini and brownish s. t. lines. Below,
both wings brownish gray, fading into white basal tinges, especially in
secondaries, which have whitish anal margins. Thorax yellowish brown.
Abdomen silvery gray. Legs gray, with a sprinkling of yellowish brown.
Expanse of wings 105 mm. Length of body 30 mm.

Hab. — Kansas City.

Type, £ collection of George Franck, Esq.

This insect forms a connecting link between 61. kalmi<z and S.
chersis, having in part of its primaries the peculiar yellowish
brown of the former, and besides the light gray, as well the entire
shape of wings of the latter.

I tak.e great pleasure in naming it after my friend, Mr. George
Franck, of Brooklyn, a well-known lepidopterist.

Sphinx coloradus Smith.

This is only a local (Colorado) variation of my .5". dollii, Pap.
i, p. 149, from Arizona. Mr. D. Bruce, in the last few years,
has caught quite a number of this form, which, on the average,
is soirfewhat larger than the typical. In the type the whitish
space along costa and cell, as well as the black dashes between
veins, are less pronounced, and the short, black, transverse, sub-
marginal line between veins 2-5 is absent. In all other respects
the insects tally.

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SYNOPSIS OF THE N. AMERICAN SPECIES OF NOMIA.

By WM. J. Fox, Philadelphia, Pa.

Apical margins of dorsal abdominal segments 2-4 or 5, greenish white.
Size large, 17 mm. or over in length; apex of hind tibia; of $ not
emarginate ........ Norton! Cr.

Size medium, less than 15 mm. in length.

Dorsal abdominal segments of £ subopaque, not punctate, but feebly
roughened or granulated, apex of hind femora of rf widely

emarginate Robinsoni Cr.

Dorsal abdominal segments of 9 distinctly punctured, tf unknown.

punctata n. sp.

Apical margins of dorsal abdominal segments not greenish white; entirely
ferruginous, or ferruginous and black. Length 10 — 12 mm.

nevadensis Cr.

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Nomia punctata ?.— Front and clypeus with rather strong, scattered
punctures; front strongly impressed medially, dorsulum more strongly
punctured than the front, very sparsely so on posterior portion; scutellum
sparsely punctured, strongly impressed down the middle; metathorax
with coarse, separated punctures, the enclosed transverse portion at base
rugose. Abdomen shining; distinctly, sometimes coarsely punctured.
Black; apical margins of dorsal abdominal segments 2-4, broadly greenish
white. Head, thorax and legs, more or less clothed with grayish pubes-
cence; tarsi testaceous, the first joint of hind tarsi within the bronzy pu-
bescence. Wings subhyaline, apical margins fuscous, nervures and stigma
dark testaceous. Length 10 mm.

Var. (?) A specimen has the punctures of the dorsulum and abdomen
very strong and the tarsi black.

Three specimens, Denver, Col. (E. V. Beales), Vega S. Jose,
N. Mex. (C. H. Tyler Tovvnsend) and Big Stone City So. Dak.,
(J. F. Aldrich). Is at once distinguished from Nortoni by its
small size and the rather densely pubescent thorax; from the
Cuban species, Robinsoni, it is distinguished by the distinctly
punctured abdomen.

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A NEW OPHION.

By G. C. DAVIS, Agr. Coll. Mich.

I take pleasure in dedicating this new species of Op hi on to
Mrs. Annie T. Slosson. who bred the specimen from a dark co-
coon of one of the larger species of Acronycta last season. The
parasitized cocoon was taken in Connecticut.

Ophion slossonae n. sp. <j\ — Length one inch, wing expanse one and
five-eighths inches. Dark honey-yellow, except eyes, ocelli, tips of man-
dibles, tarsal claws and extremities of tarsal joints on posterior legs,
which parts vary from dark brown to black. The wings are deep fuligi-
nous with black veins, except at extreme base and the stigma, which are
fulvous; the vein-stump in the cubito-discoidal cell comparatively long;
glabrous spot small, opaque like rest of the wing, obscure; metathorax
distinctly areolated. It has eight prominent ridges emanating from the
extremity o the thorax, the two central ones and the outer pairs close
together; these are crossed by two semicircular lines, the upper one ab-
breviated, and the lower one uniting with the outer radiating lines; petiole
of the abdomen much lighter in color below the abrupt constriction than
above. In other respects the species differs but little from O. glabratnin.
which it closely resembles in form and color.

One specimen in collection of Am. Ent. Society, Philadelphia.
The fuliginous wings will at once distinguish the species.

136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

Since naming the above I have received another £ specimen
collected by Mr. French at Carbondale, 111., in June. This shows
the species to have quite a wide distribution. The specimen dif-
fers from the other only in having no black on the posterior tarsi,
but all the tarsi and tibiae a little lighter yellow.

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THREE NEW AFRICAN BOMBYCIDS.

By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, Pa.

SATURNIID^E.
BUNAEA Hub.

i. B. gootlii sp. nov. $. — In the form of wings and in size allied to B.
milfordi Kirby, with the type of which I have compared it, but from which
it differs very materially. Antennae blackish. Front dark brown, with a
conspicuous white spot at the base of each of the antennae; the upper-
side of the thorax is dark fawn; the upperside of the abdomen pale
fawn; the lowerside of the thorax and abdomen is pale fawn, inclining to
whitish; the legs are dark brown; the primaries are fawn, except the outer
margin, which is paler, inclining to whitish near the outer angle; the line
of demarcation between this pale outer area and the darker body of the
wing is straight, running from the costa a little before the apex to the
inner margin nearly three-fourths of the distance from the base; there is
an irregularly zigzagged basal line of dark brown and at the end of the
cell a hyaline dot surrounded by a dark brown ring denned externally by
pale fawn; the secondaries have the ground color on the inner half of the
wing as on the primaries; the costal margin is broadly laved with bright
pink; the wing is marked by a very large ocellus, having a hyaline spot
in the middle, the pupil being velvety-black, irrorated with bright blue
scales about the middle; the iris is pale yellowish, very broad, and denned
externally by a diffuse brownish line which coalesces with a transverse line
running from the inner edge of the ocellus to the inner margin about the
middle. On the underside the primaries are fawn, with the inner margin
broadly reddish; at the end of the cell the ocellus of the upperside reap-
pears, but more .distinctly denned; the line separating the lighter marginal
area from the darker inner area reappears upon the lowerside as a heavy
brown line; the marginal tract on the lowerside is very little paler than
the body of the wing; the underside of the secondaries is fawn, profusely
marked with whitish scales on the basal half; there is a dark brown cir-
cular spot near the base, and a dark brown transverse line running from
the outer angle to near the middle of the inner angle; the ocellus, which
is so conspicuous upon the upperside of the posteriors, on the underside
is obsolete, being indicated by the hyaline dot and a broad patch of whitish

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scales one the basal side of which there is a lunulate brown mark; there
is a very faint submarginal curved line of whitish scales shaded inwardly
by pale brown. Expanse 4.5 inches.

Hab. — Kangwe, Ogove Valley.

GONIMBRASIA Bull.

2. G. longicaudata sp. nov. <$. — Antennae dark brown. Front blackish;
at the base of each of the antenna; there is a pale reddish spot; the collar
is reddish pink, margined posteriorly with blackish; the thorax is reddish
pink; the upperside of abdomen is paler pink; the underside of the thorax
and abdomen are reddish fawn; the legs are concolorous, margined ex-
ternally with dark brown; the primaries on the upperside are reddish
pink, with a patch of whitish scales about the middle of the cell and a
similar patch below it nearer the base, and a hyaline spot at the end of
the cell: there is a straight submarginal line running from the costa a little
before the apex to a point on the outer margin a little before the inner
angle; this dark line is defined externally by a broad white line and in-
ternally by a faint grayish line; both of these lines become diffuse near
the apical extremity; the secondaries on the upperside are reddish pink
upon the inner margin; the limbal area near the costa is clouded with
blackish; there is a curved, whitish, obsolescent band beyond the base,
followed by a conspicuous ocellus, the middle of which is accentuated by
a hyaline dot; the iris is bright Naples yellow, margined with deep black
and surrounded externally by a bright whitish ring; the submarginal line
of the primaries is produced upon the secondaries as a transverse median
band running from before the outer angle to the inner margin two-thirds
of the distance from the base, but with the order of the colors in the line
reversed; the outer half of the wing beyond this transverse line is darker
than the rest of the wing; the outer margin is produced in the form of a
very long and broad tail. On the underside both wings are reddish fawn
with the outer margin of the primaries and the outer half of the seconda-
ries separated from the body of the wing by heavy brown lines, beyond
which the color of the wings is dark brownish; the hyaline spots of the
upper surface reappear upon the lowerside feebly defined externally by
whitish scales. Expanse 6.25 inches.

Hab. — Kangwe, Ogove Valley.

PINARIDyE.

GONOMETA Walk.

3. G. titan sp. nov. V . — This remarkable insect is almost uniformly dark
brown, with the apices of the primaries paler, the primaries being trav-
ersed by a transverse inner, transverse median, and transverse outer band
of slightly darker cloudings; a very indistinct pale fawn clot appears at
the end of the cell in the primaries. Expanse 7 inches.

Hab. — Kangwe, Ogove' Valley.

138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

What I take to be the male of this remarkable insect is a spe-
cies bright fulvous in color, with the inner margins of the secon-
daries and the base of the primaries clouded with fuliginous.
The expanse of the wings in the male is somewhat less than four
inches. I cannot be certain of my reference of the male before
me to the female, but it is the largest male in the genus, and in
color comes sufficiently near to the female, of which I possess
two tine examples, one of them ex-larva. The caterpillar produ-
cing this huge moth, the body of which in the case of the female
exceeds in size that of any other of the African Saturniidae known
to me, is densely covered with short spines, which are extremely
sharp and highly venomous. I was so unfortunate as to incau-
tiously handle the cocoon, which is represented in the plate, and
to receive some thrusts from the spines with which it is densely
covered. The result was severe inflammation, a single point of
contact becoming the centre of an inflamed spot as large as a
silver dollar in diameter. This venomous property of the spines
is persistent, though nearly five years have elapsed since the
specimens came into my hands. The moth emerged on April
27, 1887.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII.

Fig. i. Gonimbrasia longicaudata sp. nov.

" 2. Gonometa titan sp. nov. 9-

" 3. Bunaea goodii sp. nov. $.

" 4. Cocoon of G. titan ?.

ERRATA.

Page 108, vol. iv, at end of second line from top, insert "The palpi are
moderately large, porrect, compressed."

Page 106, eleventh line from top, for Scopelodns read Scope/odes.

Notes on LITHOSIID/E and ARCTIID/E with descriptions

of new varieties. — I.

By B. NEUMOEGEN and HARRISON G. DYAR.

The following notes have accumulated, and are presented with
the descriptions of certain forms which are worthy of distinctive
names to save space in our revisionary work.

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Family LITHOSIID/E.

Genus TANTURA Kirby.

1892, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 86.

Penthetria Hy. Ed\v.
1881, Hy. Edw., Papilio i, So.

Primaries 12- veined, median vein 4-branched; veins 3-5 straight,
•equidistant; cell closed; vein 6 arises below apex of cell; veins
7-9 on a stalk from apex of cell; vein 10 from the subcostal near
apex of cell; vein n also from subcostal;' .12 from base of wing.
Secondaries 8-veined, two internal veins; median vein 3-branched;
veins 3-4 on a stalk from lower angle of cell ; cell closed; vein 5
arising below the middle of cell; veins 6-7 on a long stalk from
apex of cell; vein 8 from subcostal below middle of cell, running
straight to apex of wing. Antennae simple, minutely ciliate.

Type Penthetria majuscula Hy. Edw.

Penthetria parvula Hy. Edw. does not belong to any family of
the Macroheterocera.

Genus CRAMBIDIA Pack.

The venation is peculiar. Primaries: vein i is free; median
2-branched; vein 2 arising from the middle of the discal cell; ar-
cuate at base; vein 3 is a continuation of the median, straight to
outer margin of wing (veins 4-5 absent); cell closed, vein 6 at
or below apex of cell; a small, roundedly triangular accessory
cell, indifferently present or absent in the same species; when
absent, veins 7-9 arise on a stalk from apex of discal cell, and
vein 10 from the subcostal; when present, veins 7-9 arise from
the end of the accessory cell and vein 10 from its base, or from
its upper part; vein n arises from the middle of the subcostal
vein; vein 12 from base of wing, running very close to vein 11,
or actually united with it for a considerable distance. Seconda-
ries: two internal veins; median 3-branched; vein 2 arises before
middle of cell; veins 3-4 on a long stalk from lower angle of cell
(vein 5 absent); cell weakly closed; veins 6-7 on a short stalk
from apex of cell; vein 8 from subcostal at middle of cell.

Table of species:

Wings pale brown .. pallida Pack.

Wings white.

Head yellow, contrasting with body . . cephalica ( i . .X: 1\.

Head white, concolorous . . casta Sanb.

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Of the remaining species referred to Lithosia in Prof. Smith's
list, L. bicolor Grote, may remain in the genus; the others are
synonyms.

Family ARCTIID.^.

Crocota intermedia Graef.
Yar. pari'iila n. var.

Differs from the typical form in the width of the black border
of hind wings. In intermedia the border covers two-thirds of
the wings; here, one-third or less.

Type, one 9 , in Mr. Neumoegen collection, caught by Mr.
Bruce in western Colorado.

Mr. E. L. Graef has a similar specimen from Arizona.

Arachnis picta Pack.
Var. citra n. var.

The ground color of head, thorax, anal tuft of abdomen and
primaries varies from light orange to lemon between the normal
gray maculations. Fringes of both wings yellow. Abdomen,
as well as secondaries, deep red with a purplish sheen.

It differs from the typical Californian insect by having the sec-
ondaries more distinctly subhyaline, especially in the males.
Below, primaries lemon to light orange, especially so in basal
space and along costa; along costa of secondaries an area of
lemon, and the veins of males scaled with the same color. Ab-
domen light yellow. The most remarkable feature about this
variation is that it is of a much larger size than the typical form.
Expanse of wings: S, 50 — 51 mm.; 9, 62 — 65 mm. Length
of body: £ , 12 mm. ; 9 , T5 — 2° nun.

Types, males and females, in Mr. Neumoegen' s collection.

Hab. — Western Colorado.

Mr. Bruce, who caught these charming insects and who sug-
gested the varietal name, writes us as follows: "This form is
found nearlv on the western border of Colorado at low elevation

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(6000 feet), and is very constant in color. I have them even a
little pinker and not quite so yellow. The ordinary forni is not
found at that place at all, yet it is common 120 miles east of there,
and I have reared a good many from females taken in the Ar-
kansas Valley, all being the ordinary form. It is so local and
constant in color, it is surely worthy of a name."

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Elpis rubra Neum.

Var. danbyi n. var.

Stalk of antenna bright red, pectinations black; hair of thorax
brown, with a red tint. Abdomen yellow-brown. Wings trans-
lucent; primaries blackish brown, with many minute red hairs
intermixed. Secondaries black; all tibiae red on top, the thick
hair at base of legs light brown; eyes blackish.

Type, one £ , in Mr. Neumoegen's collection.

Named in honor of Mr. W. H. Danby, Victoria, B. C, from
whom the specimen was received.

Genus EUVERNA n. gen.

Head retracted, palpi exceeding the front, eyes globose, naked;
antennae bipectinate in $ , serrate in 9 ; vestiture of hair and
scales rather short and appressed. Abdomen exceeding secon-
daries by half its length; thorax moderately stout; abdomen of
nearly even width throughout, slightly flattened toward the ex-
tremity; primaries elongate, two and a half times as long as
broad, costa straight till beyond cell, then slightly rounded over
apex: outer margin oblique; internal angle obtuse, not rounded.
Secondaries small, trigonate, subcaudate in the £ , costa convex,
apical and anal angles rounded; hind tibiae with two pairs of
short conical spurs; anterior tibiae unarmed at tip; vein 8 of sec-
ondaries leaves subcostal at about middle of cell, runs very close
to it to the apex; veins 7-10 of primaries stalked out of end of
cell, as in Spilosoma.

Type, Seirarctia clio Pack.

Genus NEOARCTI& n. gen.

Head much retracted, palpi short, not attaining the front, eyes
naked, well sunken in the long hairy vestiture; antennae of £
moderately bipectinated, females shortly so; thorax rather small,
very hairy, abdomen exceeding secondaries, sometimes very
much so; primaries more than twice as long as broad; costa
slightly convex or straight, apices produced and rather pointed ;
outer margin convex, slightly oblique ; interior angle gently
rounded. Secondaries full and rounded; costa and outer margin
convex, vestiture of the wings thin and subtranslucent. The
venation is practically that of Spilosoma.

Type, Antarctia beanii Neum.

Arctia brucei Hy. Edw. is congeneric.

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Genus EUPREPIA Ochs. (Arctia auct.)

E. virgo Linn.

Var. citrinaria n. var.

Differs from typical virgo in having the ground color of the
secondaries entirely light yellow instead of red; the form is rare.
The type is in Mr. Neumoegen's collection.

E. virguncula Kirby.
Var. otiosa n. var.

Two specimens in Mr. Dyar's collection differ from typical vir-
guncnla in having traces of the usual transverse lines, which are
normally absent in the species. In one specimen there are en-
largements on the median venules and subcostal vein, obsoletely
connected, representing the outer (4th) line which would be
straight if the markings were sufficiently continuous to form a
line; in the other specimen there is a short bar in the cell between
subcostal and median veins, representing the outer median (.3d)
line.

This form approaches the variety complicata. of E. ornata,
which differs from the fully marked var. acharia (the ground
form) in the absence of the basal half line (ist line) and the
greater or less obsolescence of both inner and outer median (2d
and 3d) lines, or even in the breaking up of the outer (4th) line.
We cannot, however, follow Mr. Kirby in referring complicata
Wlk. as a synonym of virguncuta, for the species differ in several
important characters, of which, perhaps, the most evident, is the
heavy lining of the median vein in virguncula, as contrasted with
the narrow, obsolescent marking in complicata, which leads to
the disappearance of the vein linings in the form ornata Pack.
Mr. Packard has wrongly identified E. ornata.

E. arge Sm. & Abb.

Var. ncrvosa n. var.

This curious form differs from typical argc in the absence of
all transverse lines, even of the angular terminal (5th) line, while
the hind wings are largely suffused with blackish. The veins on
the fore wings are distinctly lined with flesh color, and the longi-
tudinal submedian streak is present, forked at the end; the tho-
racic and abdominal parts are colored as in E. arge. There is a
figure of this form in Mr. Strecker's unpublished plates of the
Arctiidae (PL viii, fig. 20) and examples in Mr. Neumorgrn's

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collection, but these latter retain part of the normal maculation
of E. arge\n. the W mark, and traces of the outer tooth in the
cell. The hind wings are largely blackish.

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Synopsis of the North American species of Melecta.

By WM. J. Fox, Philadelphia, Pa.

FEMALES.

Size large, 11-15 mm. in length.

Pubescence on thorax and ornation of abdomen tawny; tubercles on scu-
tellum ending in a short tooth; fore wings, with exception of a pale
spot at apex of submarginal and discoidal cells, fuscous throughout.

interrupta Cr.

Pubescence on thorax and ornation of abdomen grayish-white; tuber-
cles on scutellum ending in a long tooth; fore wings, except a spot
in the median, first and second submarginals and third discoidal
cells, and the broad apical margins hyaline . . nurar.da n. sp.
Size medium, less than n mm. in length.

Ornation on abdomen interrupted medially; first joint of flagellum

shorter than the following two united . . calif ornica Cr.

Ornation of abdomen not interrupted medially, forming continuous,

irregular, or dentate fascia; first joint of flagellum as long, or a

little longer than the following two united . maculata Cr.

MALES.

Size large, 1 1 mm. or over in length; pubescence of thorax and ornation
of abdomen tawny . . . interrupta Cr.

Size medium, less than 1 1 mm. in length; pubescence, etc., pale.

Ornation of abdomen not covering the entire surface of the dorsal seg-
ments.

Fascia on abdomen interrupted medially ; flagellum not, or very
slightly thickened medially . . . californica Cr.

Fascia on abdomen not interrupted medially, forming continuous,
irregular, or dentate bands; flagellum greatly thickened medially.

maculata Cr.
( )rnation of abdomen covering the entire surface of dorsal segments.

mucida Cr.

Melecta miranda ?. — Deep black; head, thorax on sides and beneath
dorsulum anU-riorh, scntellum more or less, coxas and femora beneath,
with long, grayish- white pubescence; on the anterior part of dorsn'.uin
enclosed by the pale hair and a spot between the tegulse and scutellum
composed of black pubescence; dorsulum rather coarsely punctured, the
punctures a little stronger and more separated than in interrupta.
scutellum very coarsely punctured, more so than in intcnitpta. pro-

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duced with two strong, rather elongate, widely separated teeth; apex of
femora, outer side of tibia; more or less and the tarsi with ashy pile,
tegulas reddish. Wings, with the apical margins, broadly, a spot in the
median, first and second submarginal and the third discoidal cells fuscous;
on each extreme side of dorsal abdominal segments 1-3 there is a large
spot of pale pubescence, which is narrowly produced out on apical por-
tion of segment to almost the middle as in interrupta, but the fascia are
much narrower, the fourth and fifth segments with a transverse series of
four spots, those on the fifth segment by far the smallest; last dorsal seg-
ment with elongate-triangular enclosure, which is divided by a strong,
medial, longitudinal carina; the basal and lateral portions of the ventral
segments finely and closely punctured. Length 12 — 15 mm.

Rapid City and Custer, S. Dak. ( J. T. Aldrich). In general
appearance resembles Ericrocis lata; also resembles Melecta cali-
fornica, but is much larger. In the synoptical table here given
of our species of Melecta, I have included M. (?) mucida, which,
although possessing but two submarginal cells, is referable to
Melecta. It is probably abnormal, as sometimes Melecta cali-
fornica has but two submarginals in one wing, while in the other
wing there is the usual number. M. separata and eawardsii are
not included in the table, as they belong to Bombomelecta. This
latter genus differs from Melecta, in addition to the characters
given, by Patton, in having the tarsal claws cleft.

Mr. Jules Remy says, that on his arrival at Salt Lake, he observed upon
the shore, on top of the salt, a deposit of a foot deep which was entirely
composed of dead locusts, — (Edipoda corallipes. These insects, driven
by a high wind in prodigiously thick clouds, had been drowned in the
lake, after having, during the course of the Summer (1855), destroyed the
rising crops, and even the prairie grass. * The Mormons, in their

simple and picturesque descriptions, say that these insects are the produce
of " a cross between the spider and the buffalo."

" In the year 1503," says Moufet, "Dr. Penny was called in great haste
to a little village, called Mortlake, near the Thames, to visit two noble
ladies, who were much frightened by the appearance of bug bites, and
were in fear of I know not what contagion ; but when the matter was
known, and the insects caught, he laughed them out of all fear." This
fact disproves the statement of Southall, that the Cimeux It'ctiilariiis was
not known in England before 1670, and that of Linnaens, and the gener-
ality of later writers, that this insect is not originally a native of Europe,
but was introduced into England after the great fire of London in 1666,
having been brought in timber from America. Cowan, Curious l*\icts.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for March was mailed March 3, 1893.

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AFRICAN BO MBYCIDS (Holland.)

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PI. IX.

AFRICAN DREPANULID/E (Koduco.l oiu-lmlf)

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv.

MAY, 1893.

No. 5.

CONTENTS:

Ashton — On the early history of the

Entomological Society of Phila 145

Stromberg — Field Notes 149

Davidson — The Nest and Parasites of

Xylocopa orpifex 151

Bassett — Notes on the Cynipidse 153

Notes and News 157

Entomological Literature 160

Entomological Section 163

Townsend — The Puparium and Pupa of

Subula pallipes 163

Gillette — Colorado Cynipidse 166

Packard — Litnacodes-like Moths 167

Dyar — Notes on Ichthyura 170

Holland — West African Drepanulidae... 171
Harvey — A New Acharutes 182

On the Early History of the Entomological Society of

Philadelphia.

[Now the American Entomological Society.]

By T. B. ASHTON, Tonganoxie, Kan.

During the Winter of 1858-59 it was my pleasure to visit the
city of Philadelphia, my home being in Washington County,
N. Y. I had known for some years a few persons in that city
who were, like myself, interested in Entomology, and it was to
enjoy their society as collectors of insects that attracted me thence.
During the early part of the Winter a few of us who were quite well
acquainted, talked over the advisability of forming an entomologi-
cal society, that those interested in the study might be encour-
aged to come together, become better acquainted, and, by com-
paring notes and ideas, impart to each other practical information
regarding the collecting of and the habits of insects, which could
not otherwise be obtained, and also to benefit each other by a
comparison and exchange of specimens. This consultation cul-
minated in the issue of a call to a number of persons in the city,
known to be interested in Entomology, to come together to or-

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ganize a society, and, on the 22<d of February, 1859, a meeting-
was held for that purpose at the residence of E. T. Cresson, No.
728 Erie Street, and a committee appointed to draft a Constitu-
tion and By-Laws, whose report was adopted at a subsequent
meeting, the association receiving the name of "The Entomo-
logical Society of Philadelphia."

The object of the Society is set forth in Article VI. of the
Constitution, which reads as follows: "Every member elected
to the Society is expected to communicate, either by writing or
verbally, information of the name, locality, habits, time, etc., of
insects taken within the United States of America, the same to be
recorded in books kept for that purpose, and open to the inspec-
tion of members." The financial support of the Society was
provided for by Article II. of the By-Laws, viz. : " Every mem-
ber elected to the Society shall pay to the Treasurer an initiation
fee of 50 cents, and shall be subject to a monthly contribution of
6 cents, payable at the last stated meeting of each month."

The Society consisted of the following organization members :
Dr. Thos. B. Wilson, Dr. John L. LeConte, James Ridings,
George Newman, T. B. Ashton, J. W. McAllister, E. T. Cresson,
Henry Feldman, George Hill, Charles Wilt, John Pearsall, Wil-
liam Evett, J. H. B. Bland, John Meichel, Robert Jack, Wm. S.
Wood, Thomas Cox, William Wolter, Chas. J. Wood, Louis
Schneider, and S. H. Shinn ; in all, twenty-one. The first offi-
cers elected were, President, John L. LeConte ; Vice-President,
James Ridings ; Secretary, E. T. Cresson ; Treasurer, Charles
Wilt. The first member elected was Henry Ulke, and the first
correspondent was Baron R. Osten Sacken.

After meeting several times at Mr. Cresson' s house, the So-
ciety adjourned, by invitation of Dr. LeConte, to his residence,
No. 1325 Spruce Street, where it continued to meet while I re-
mained in the city. The Society in its early days \vas much in-
debted, financially, to Dr. T. B. Wilson, for many acts of gener-
osity ; he also donated many specimens of the various orders of
insects to its collections. All the members seemed to take an
active interest in its affairs, and did the best they could to pro-
mote its prosperity. Among them all I remember of only two
who then possessed named collections, viz. : Dr. LeConte and
Mr. Ulke, and they were confined to Coleoptera. Most of the
members were good collectors, had many line specimens, and

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possessed much practical knowledge of the habits of insects ; but
only a few knew anything regarding their structure or classifica-
tion, except in a general way. In nationality the members were
English and German, with a few Americans ; the former seemed
partial to Lepidoptera, the Germans to Coleoptera, while the
Americans as a rule were more inclined, I think, to take an interest
in all the orders, and to make general collections. All were most
willing and ready to exhibit their captures and impart knowledge
of the same at the meetings of the Society, and also to show to
interested parties the many rare and beautiful treasures in their
cabinets. Occasionally the Society was honored at its meetings,
during my stay, by visitors of note from a distance, among whom
I remember Professor S. F. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, an enthusiastic naturalist ; Baron R. Osten Sacken,
of the Russian Legation at Washington, then the only known
Dipterologist in the country ; Dr. Brackenridge Clemens, of
Easton, Pa., the eminent micro-lepidopterist; and the members
were pleased to meet them and make their acquaintance.

In the Spring of 1859 I returned to my home in northern
New York, and have never had the opportunity again of attend-
ing any of the meetings of the Society, and but once have I had
the pleasure of seeing its collections, and that was many years
ago. Although living far away from Philadelphia, I have always
felt a warm interest in the prosperity and welfare of the Society,
and cherished a life-long respect for many of its old members,
with whom I have had occasional correspondence and received
many entomological favors. After my return home I noticed
that I did not receive from the collectors in Philadelphia as many
fine specimens as I did before the formation of the Society. Rare
insects were then distributed to but few persons, and 1 came in
for a share ; but the association created a desire among the mem-
bers to assist each other, and hence those living distant from
Philadelphia did not fare as well in that respect as formerly. But
I never regretted the part I took to bring collectors together, to
know and assist each other by adding to their collections, even
if my own cabinet did not receive as many additions from my
Philadelphia friends, for it was more than made up from other
places, indirectlv through the influence of the Society. Before
its formation I do not remember that I ever received, among the
many boxes of insects that came to me at my home, a single one

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with named specimens; while, after the Society was formed, speci-
mens invariably came to me with their scientific names attached.

The growth and outcome of the few interested persons who
met and organized "The Entomological Society of Philadel-
phia" now is, and has been for a number of years, of national
importance. It has been the means, directly and indirectly, of
stimulating into action a general interest and desire in thoughtful
and educated persons to investigate the formation and habits of
insects, and ascertain, as far as possible, the places that their
numerous species fill in the economy of nature, and of circulating
a knowledge respecting them otherwise difficult to obtain. And
now, all over the land, there are individuals and institutions col-
lecting and studying the habits of insects, not only as a matter
of curiosity and pleasure to behold their beauty and contemplate
the wisdom and forethought manifested in their construction, but
of necessity to know and welcome our minute friends, and to
guard against a vast host of devastating enemies.

Before the influence of the Society was felt, a few honored
names like Say, Harris, Fitch, LeConte, etc., — supposed by
their illiterate neighbors to be partially insane, — had told the
general public the necessity of becoming better acquainted with
the life-history of Insects, and how few persons believed their
teachings ! But to-day both Government and State see the im-
portance of the subject and spend their money liberally in the
employment of the highest and best entomological talent to in-
vestigate, promote, and circulate all the knowledge that can be
obtained in reference to Insect Life, especially of those species
that are injurious or beneficial to vegetation. Surely, if our
members were not wise in entomological literature and education
to begin with, they certainly did a wise act in organizing "The
Entomological Society of Philadelphia." Thirty-four years have
passed since the Society first came into existence, and to-day as
I examine the "Scientists International Directory," for 1892, for
the individual names of the twenty-one persons who founded it,
I feel sad to think that I can find only two of them, viz., Cresson
and Ashton. Where are the other nineteen — have they all passed
away ? *

* Two of these are still living members, viz., James \Y. McAllister and
J. H. B. Bland ; eleven are known to be dead, while the other six are not
now members. If living, we do not know their whereabouts.— ED.

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FIELD NOTES.

By C. W. STROMBERG, Galesburg, 111.

In the Winter time when the entomologist has to stay at home,
after his material results from his Summer's work have been ar-
ranged and labeled up, what is a greater pleasure than to get
down entomological publications and go over them again and
again ?

Field notes are always interesting. Dr. Hamilton cannot write
too often, and I think most of us must enjoy following Mr. Wick-
ham about in his travels after Coleoptera. Messrs. Hubbard
and Schwarz's articles are most instructive and entertaining, and
there are many others. Such notes undoubtedly contribute to-
wards keeping up an interest in Entomology with many of the
younger and some of the older entomologists. Sometimes we
come across notes on Winter collecting. I have been quite suc-
cessful at that season of the year in the past, and will mention a
few items.

In an old hollow sugar-maple which stood near the edge of a
strip of woods which was comprised mostly of blue ash and white
elm, and which was bordered on one side by a piece of prairie,
the following species of Coleoptera were taken: In the first place
the fine rotten wood in the bottom (inside) was raked out and
examined, which yielded more than a dozen specimens of Apho-
dius oblongus Say, a large number of Dendrophilus punctulatus
Say, five specimens of Corymbites sulcicollis Say. After the dust
was examined a large portion of the heart of the tree, which
was loose and honey-combed, — i.e., eaten by ants and other in-
sects,— was broken into bits over a piece of cloth. It yielded
several specimens of Adelocera impressicollis Say, two specimens
of Adelocera marmorata, and one specimen of Adelocera ai'ita
Say. The only specimen I have ever seen. There were more
than twenty specimens of Thaneroclerus sanguineus Say, two
specimens of Clerus ichneumonius Fab., three specimens of Der-
mestes lardarius Linn., Tenebrio castaneus Knoch, and T. tenebri-
oides Beauv. several of each. Next in order was the outside of the
base, which had not been molested so far. The bark was loose
at the edges, and each large flake seemed to be partly kept in
place by a large amount of spider-web, white patches, egg-sacks,
•etc., which are generally found about old trees. When this was

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removed a sight met my eyes which was beautiful to behold,
especially since it was my first experience with Clerus ichneu-
monius (with exception of the two specimens taken from the
inside). Under every piece of bark around the whole tree for
three feet up were patches covered with this beetle. It was in
the month of February, and, though the sun was quite warm,
the beetles were slow to show life ; a few around the outer edges
were dead, but they were imbedded to some extent in bits of
spider-web, and had probably been entangled in previous seasons.
Under the bark were a few more Adelocera impressicollis ; some
of the common Tenebrionidae found at this season, and Cato-
genus rufus.

Other hollow trees were examined in the vicinity, but yielded
only a few specimens of Aphodius oblongus, Dendrophilus punc-
tulatus and Corymbites sulcicollis. These are nearly always found
among the dust. Whether they have been disturbed by squir-
rels or jarred down is hard to tell, but one would suppose that
the latter. species would be found clinging to the wood.

I have often been surprised at the gregarious habits of certain
Carabidae. What is there about a log or depression in a piece
of woods that attracts insects of a certain species in great num-
bers, when you might hunt in vain in similar situations in the
same piece of ground ? Pentagonica flavipes, var. bicolor, is not
a common insect. One day in October, some two years ago, I
examined a depression (in ground) near a charred log. The
place was not over five feet in diameter, but it yielded more than
thirty specimens of Pentagonica; thirty-nine were taken alto-
gether, but the others were a few feet away near another log.

Almost in the same way I took (several years ago), near one
small log which was partly imbedded in the earth, upwards of
fifty specimens of Lebia viridipcnnis, a species that had seemed
rare till then. The same fall I took enough of Lebia ornata
(near one log) to nearly fill a 4-drachm bottle, a species that is
always common, however.

At another time a friend turned up a nest of Clivina impressi-
frons. It was in the early Spring. They were clinging to the
underside of a log which was very deeply imbedded in black soil.
In such situations it is quite a rare thing to find Coleoptera, ex-
cept along the edges, but here there were Clivinas (closely
crowded) on a space not larger than one's hand.

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Leptotrachelus dorsalis Fab. is not an abundant insect, but I
found a spot once (late in fall), in a moist piece of woods, where
they were in unlimited numbers under and among wet leaves. In
the same region nearly a thousand specimens of Platynus basalis
were taken on less than an acre of ground. Here, too, Lathro-
bium armatum Say was abundant ; nearly every log and bit of
bark turned over yielded specimens. Many other species were
abundantly represented.

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The Nest and Parasites of XYLOCOPA ORPIFEX,* Smith.
By ANSTRUTHER DAVIDSON, Los Angeles, Cal.

In this section of Southern California four or five species of
Xylocopa are found. This last season, while collecting with
Professor Coquillett, of our National Division of Entomology,
we for the first time discovered the nests of X. orpifex in abund-
ance on Wilson's Peak, a mountain of 5000 feet altitude. At
the time of our visits in June and August, 1892, we collected
numerous specimens of the. bees and their nests. While the
nests do not seem to differ in many particulars from the nests of
X. virginica as described by Packard in his well-known guide
to the study of insects, yet there are numerous problems con-
nected therewith which I wish the readers of the NEWS would
throw some light upon.

I picked up one piece of wood four inches in diameter and
about three feet long, and as there was but one external opening
it is presumable all the cells contained therein were the work of
one bee. From a diagonal entrance the tunnels were driven
longitudinally a distance of three or four inches on each side.
Parallel to this was another of a similar length, and a third very
much shorter, the cells in all numbering twenty. The tunnel is
not all of one uniform width, but is dilated in the centre of
each cell, so that the tunnel measures three-eighths of an inch
in diameter at the extremities, and half an inch at the centre of
each cell.

The partitions are constructed in a manner apparently identical
with those of X. virginica, but the ribbon-like coil has five com-
plete whorls, and is one-eighth of an inch wide. After the par-

* From a paper read before the S. California Science Association.

152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

tition is completed its angles are filled up with sawdust, and
smoothed with a waxy secretion so as to make the bottom of the
next cell oval or rounded. These cells have a uniform depth of
five-eighths of an inch. Here I would like to ask if all the
Xylocopa make their tunnels wider in the centre of each cell than
elsewhere? I have been led to infer from the little literature I have
available, that in the construction of their cells they retained some
of the fragments wherewith to construct the partitions. This
seems to me rather too rational even for the carpenter bee, and I
thought I had solved the problem in supposing that' in digging
fragments for the formation of the partition the bee had uncon-
sciously widened the succeeding cell. This theory is untenable,
however, as I have found some apparently new tunnels with four
or five cells constructed exactly as when filled, and besides the
terminal cell is always so constructed.

I have frequently seen it stated that the Xylocopa turns the
terminal cell towards the outer surface of the log so that the bee
resulting from the egg first deposited, and presumably the first
hatched, could eat its way out by a new channel. Whatever
may be the habit with other bees it is certainly not so with the
one in question, since all the bees here escape by the original
opening in the inverse order of their deposition.

On opening many of the tunnels filled early in the season one
or two of the external cells may be found empty, the bees having
already made their escape. In the lower cells the bees though
perfect and active, remain until the following Spring, when they
break through the partitions and escape. In those built late in
the Summer all seemingly remain until the next Spring.

How it happens that the bee resulting from the egg last de-
posited is the first to escape, when there must, of necessity, be
weeks of difference in their time of deposition, is something I
cannot satisfactorily account for. I am led to infer, by the fact
of the external cells always containing males, and the lower ones
only females, that the explanation in part lies therein. Probably
the males hatch out in less time than the females or take less
pollen to feed them, or it is very likely that both of these factors
enter into the equalization of the incubating periods.

Fertile, though these insects are, yet on account of their many
enemies and parasites, comparatively few of them reach maturity.

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What the exact proportions are I regret I did not ascertain, but
the number attacked by parasites was certainly very large. In
one piece of wood in which were three short tunnels of two cells
each, six cells in all, three cells contained bee-fly pupae, one a
Chalcid pupae, and the remaining live bees. Although this is
probably above the average, I do not think it is much so.

Chief among its enemies is Argyramceba simson Fab. We
found numerous pupae of this bee-fly in the cells and bred the
insect.

It was interesting to observe this pupa, ever restless, with its
lings of hooked hairs on its body preventing it going backward
as it gradually wriggled itself through the partitions to the ex-
ternal opening, where it transformed, leaving its case hanging to
the edge of the opening.

The other parasite found was the Chalcid, Monodontomerus
montivagus Ashm., which deposits its eggs to the number of
from ten to twenty in each cell. These do not destroy their
host until it is about to transform into the pupa state, as is
demonstrated by the amount of larval excrement so invariably
found in the cell, for the larvae of X. orpifex voids a large
quantity of excrement, and while not an isolated example, as I
have since discovered, I was not previously aware of bee larvae
so doing. In this, as in many other instances, some broods of
Monodontomerus were all males, while other broods were all
females.

NOTES ON THE CYNIPID/E.— I.

By H. F. BASSETT, Waterbury, Conn.

Even the most careless observer of Nature cannot have failed
to notice the swellings and deformations which exist in great
variety on the buds, leaves, flowers, fruits, stems and roots of
trees and plants, and, if not already informed, to wonder what
causes them.

We call them galls, and on examination find that most of them
are the home of the larvae of insects — larvae developed from
eggs laid on the plant by the parent insect before the gall existed.

The galls are produced by insects, but the interesting question
— how? will be considered at another time.

154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

The species of insects which are able to produce galls are quite
numerous, and are found in nearly all the orders of this large
class, but these notes will, unless otherwise stated, refer in all
cases to such as belong to the order Hymenoptera, and to the
family Cynipidse.

The species of galls produced by the Cynipidae are more
numerous on the oaks than on plants of any other order; indeed,
the oaks are noted the world over for the variety and abundance
of the galls they produce. Our North American oaks are known
to produce about two hundred species, and it is doubtful whether
one-half have yet been noticed. I have gathered, at one time,
from an oak standing alone in a cultivated field nine distinct
species. All trees of the same species are not equally the pro-
ducers of galls; indeed, of trees and shrubs whose branches in-
terlace, one may be infested with thousands of galls, while the
others produce none at all. Whether this is owing- to wrhat we
may call the individuality of the tree that is found to be favor-
able or otherwise — for trees of the same species have individual
traits, no two being alike — or whether a tree that the gall-flies
have once attacked is, thereafter, more susceptible to the influ-
ences that produces the galls, or whether it is due to entirely
different causes is not yet known.

I have studied the oaks with special reference to this subject
and find that colonies of gall-flies are more or less persistent,
some having been known to me for fifteen or twenty years and
still existing. In one case I found that the Summer brood,
hatched from leaf-galls, laid its eggs for the next generation in
the bark of the large roots of the tree on which they grew, and
that when the insects from the root-galls appeared they laid their
eggs in the buds of the same tree.

I have taken at one time, more than fifty of these last in the
act of egg-laying in the buds of two or three oak sprouts that
sprung from a common root and were not much higher than my
head. Other clumps of oak bushes a few feet distant furnished
none at all.

This and some other facts of the same sort show that the female
gall-fly discerns a special fitness for her work in certain trees, but
does not show in what it consists. It is possible that the size and
shape of the oak buds, which differ considerably on different trees,
may have some influence in determining the insect's choice for

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such species as lay their eggs in the buds. As these insects are
generally winged, their localization does not depend upon their
inability to reach other trees.

The Cynipidous galls are by no means confined to the genus
Quercus, as a considerable number of species are found on plants
belonging to the order Rosacae — the blackberry, raspberry, wild
roses and the genus Potentilla. The order Compositae, and
some others, also, furnishing gall-producing plants.

There are a vast number of galls on various kinds of trees and
plants that are not produced by hymenopterous insects. These
mostly belong to the order Diptera, and the family Ceciclomyae.
In the perfect state they have two wings, and the larvae are easily-
distinguished from the Cynipidae. I mention this fact lest it be
thought by the beginner in the study that these have been over-
looked. Many kinds belonging to this class are sent me every
year, and the senders are probably disappointed when I inform
them that all the time I could devote to the study of galls for
almost thirty years, not much it is true, has not enabled me to
do more than begin the study of the hymenopterous galls, and
that I have not even attempted to study those of other orders,
which are no doubt equally interesting and equally difficult.

Baron Osten Sacken, in his first article, "On the Cynipidas of
the North American Oaks and their Galls," published in the
first volume of the ' ' froc. of the Ent. Soc. of Phila. , Oct. , 1 86 1 , ' r
writes as follows on the study of the gall-flies: "The difficulties
attending the study of the habits of the Cynipidae are so great,
the peculiarity and, I may say, the intricacy of their habits is so
extraordinary, that the most important questions concerning them
remain unsolved. The chief reason of the difficulty of this study
is the close and persistent observation of nature it requires. Here,
it is not sufficient to collect at random, in order to work out at
leisure the material thus obtained; here one has to watch the
growth of the gall on the tree for weeks and months ; in order to
be enabled to make certain observations one is bound to a certain
season of the year and a certain locality, and if the season is
missed or the locality cannot be reached at the requisite time,
one has to wait a year before observations can be renewed." All
this, and more, is true; still, the history of these little insects so
far as yet known is so marvellous, that no difficulties, however
great, can deter one who has begun the study of their habits.

156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

Some of the ' ' unsolved questions' ' referred to by Baron Osten
Sacken have, since he wrote, been solved, or a way to their full
solution discovered, but fields vast enough for a life-time of
study remain to be explored.

THE Sugar Ant (Formica omnivora Linn.) appeared about the year
1760 in Barbadoes, and caused such devastations that, in the words of
Dr. Coke, "it was deliberated whether that island, formerly so flourish-
ing, should not be deserted." In 1763, Martinique was visited by these
devastating hordes; and about the year 1770 they made their appearance
in the island of Granada. Barbadoes, Granada and Martinique suffered
more than any other island from this. plague. Granada, especially, was
reduced to a state of the most deplorable desolation; for, it is said, their
numbers there were so immense that they covered the roads for many
miles together; and so crowded were they in many places, that the im.
pressions made by the feet of horses, which traveled over them, would
remain visible but for a moment or two, for they were almost instantly
filled up by the surrounding swarms. * * * Notwithstanding the myriads
that were destroyed by fire, water, poison and other means, the devasta-
tions continued to such an alarming extent; that in 1776 the government
of Martinique offered a reward of a million of their currency, for a remedy
against the plague; and the legislature of Granada offered ^"20,000 for
the same object; but all attempts proved ineffectual, until the hurricane in
1780 effected what human power had been unable to accomplish. —
Cowan's Curious facts.

THE Kermes-dye, or scarlet, made from the Coccus ilicis Linn., an insect
found chiefly on a species of oak (Q. ilex} in the Levant, France, Spain
and other parts of the world, was known in the East in the earliest ages,
even before the time of Moses, and was a discovery of the Phoenicians in
Palestine. Tola, or Tho/a, was the ancient Phoenician name for this
insect, and dye, which was used by the Hebrews, and even by the Syrians.
To the Greeks this dye was known under the name of Coccus, as appears
from Dioscorides and other Greek writers. From the epithets kermes
and coccus, and that of vermiculus or venniculum, given to the Kermes
in the middle ages when they were ascertained to be insects, have sprung
the Latin coccineus, the French carmesin, carmine, cramoistand vermeil,
the Italian chermisi, cremisino and chermesino, and our crimson and
vermillion. — Cowan's Curious Facts.

IN the "American Naturalist" for April (p. 400, i), Mr. Nathan Banks
holds that the maxillae of insects represent the first maxillae plus the max-
illipedes of the Chilopods, and that the labium of insects equals the second
maxillae of Chilopods. He also suggests that the meso- and metathorax of
insects are each composed of two segments, so that the entire thorax
would consist of five segments, whereof one, three, and five bear legs,
while two and four are provided with wings.

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THIS number contains forty pages.

SEE change of wording in regard to Identification of Insects for sub-
scribers page 160.

PICTURES FOR THE ALBUM OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SO-
CIETY have been received from Prof. Edwin Alonzo Popenoe, Rev. John
Davis, Ernest J. Oslar, Prof. G. H. French, Charles Robertson, Dr. W.
G. Dietz, Dr. C. V. Riley, Prof. Clarence M. Weed, T. D. A. Cockerel!
and Prof. J. W. Tourney.

\\'E have lately had a very pleasant visit from Mr. Chas. Robertson,
of Carlinville, 111., who has been looking over the part of the collection
of the Society in which he is interested. He has been studying for some
years the relationship existing between flowers and insects.

KUNCKEL D' HERCULAIS maintains that the two tints of the locust, rose
and yellow, are merely indicative of different ages, not of two varieties
as generally supposed. The interest of his observation lies in his conclu-
sions that the change of color is associated with the histolysis and histo-
genesis which accompany the moults. The considerable dependence of
their color on the presence of light was also brought out by breeding
some in darkness. — (Comptcs Rendus, cxiv. 240.)

SOME few years ago I sent to Mr. B. Neumoegen, of Xew York, a num-
ber of E. impersalis, all dark, showing no light markings "as in var.
didyma." I believe he afterwards named them as a new variety, which
is, no doubt, correct, as I looked through the South Kensington Museum,
in London, and they haven't it. Those I sent were all males ; this season
I have taken quite a number, and amongst them is one 9, thereby estab-
lishing the fact that the variety exists in both sexes. I would say to those
who have not seen this beautiful and striking variety, that the entire nn >tli
is a rufous-brown, or, to make it plain, is the color of the cfar/c markings
of the typical moth without any of the light markings. — J. T. MASON,
Houston, Texas.

158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

NICHOLAS has made some experiments at Mount Ventoux on the re-
tardation of the date of hatching in Hymenoptera, produced by high alti-
tudes. His results are as follows :

At the height cf 20 metres the retardation amounted to o days.

" 600 " " " 25 "

" 860 " " " 41 "

1253 " " " 69 "

1400 " " 83 "

1700 " 98 "

1912 " " ' " 117 "

— (C. R. Ass. Franc., 1891, pt. 2., 566.)

W. H. HUDSON records a new case of mimicry from La Plata, on the
part of a grasshopper (Rhonialca), which resembles a wasp (Pepsis}.
This wasp is, like all its allies, protected by its sting ; but it is also fur-
nished with stink glands, which emit a most disagreeable odor. When
on the wing the grasshopper becomes the facsimile of the wasp ; more-
over, when taken in the hand, it has the curious habit of suddenly curling
the body round, as a wasp does to sting. The same author has an inter-
esting chapter on dragon-fly storms. In the Summer and the Autumn
thousands of these insects may be seen flying in a northeasterly direction
at the extraordinary speed of seventy or eighty miles an hour, evidently
in the utmost terror, before the pampero, a cold, dry, exceedingly violent
wind. — (Naturalist in La Plata, 127.)

NOTES ON SYNCHLCE CROCALE Edw. — A note was published by the
writer in "Can. Ent. " (1892, p. 198) on Synchlce crocale \\ . H. Edw.
Two broods of the larvse are there recorded. On August 24, 1892, I
found a small colony of larvae of this butterfly on HeliantJnts near Las
Cruces. The larvse were very small, not a half inch in length ; this find-
ing conclusively indicates a third brood for southern New Mexico. The
food-plant of this butterfly here is Helianthus annmis. — C. H. T. TOWN-
SEND.

SCHIZURA IPOME.E Doubl. — On July n, 1892, the larva of Schizura
ipomece Doubl. was found on a round-leafed leguminous tree, Cercis oc-
cidentalisTovr., in the Grand Canon, Arizona, 2500 feet below the rim
at Hances. It was feeding of the leaves. The colors of the larva assimi-
lated in a striking manner with the green of the leaves and the dark gray
of the bark, as it clung to the twigs when not feeding. This is apparently
a new food-plant for the species. The larva was determined by Dr. Pack-
ard.— C. H. T. TOWNSEND.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
— GYPSY MOTH DEPARTMENT. — The committee in charge of this De-
partment desires to again call your attention to the danger which menaces
the orchards, gardens, shade trees, narks and woodlands of Massa-
chusetts by reason of the presence within her borders of one of the worst
insect pests of Europe.

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The gypsy moth destroys the foliage of fruit, shade, and forest trees, and
of bushes and vines, and feeds upon many vegetables. It is far more des-
tructive than the tent caterpillar or canker-worm, as its ravages cover the en-
tire period of the Summer. In Medford it kept fruit trees stripped through-
out the season, destroying the fruit crop, and in many cases killing the
trees, notwithstanding the efforts of the people to control the pest. We
mail you a report of the work done toward the extermination of the gypsy
moth in 1892, issued by the secretary of this board. It contains a colored
plate of the gypsy moth, and also scenes of its ravages. This will be
mailed free to any address if application be made to this office.

Thus far the moth has not been seen outside of the region where it was
found in 1891, notwithstanding all reports to the contrary. It possibly
may have spread beyond this region, and we ask your assistance in ac-
quainting the people with its appearance, habits, and destructiveness. As
the appropriation made by the legislature for the extermination of the
moth is not sufficient to admit of making a thorough search over all east-
ern Massachusetts, all citizens, and especially farmers, fruit growers and
horticulturists, are requested to be on the alert for the appearance of the
moth and to report to this office any suspected cases. — E. H. FORBUSH,
for the Committee.

WE have received, in connection with the above, a box with glass cover
and hermetically sealed, containing illustrations of the entire life-history
of the gypsy moth (Ocneria dispar), prepared by Prof. C. H. Fernald.
It contains the two sexes of the insect, both spread and in the position it
assumes in life when at rest. The chrysalids of the sexes, the eggs en
masse on the bark, and also individual eggs, the different stages of the
blown larvae are also shown. The whole makes a beautiful and very
valuable educational exhibit, and Prof. Farnald and those engaged in the
work are to be congratulated on the practical value which will undoubt-
edly result from their labors. — ED.

A PIQUANT REPAST. — The Rev. Edwin Tearle writes from Stockton
Rectory, England, under date of Feb. 7, 1893: "I was greatly amused
and surprised, one day last Summer, to observe a toad creep up to a
fallen apple on which some wasps of the species Vespa vulgaris were
feasting. In the most adroit manner the reptile caught seven of the in-
sects and swallowed them, one after another, and then leisurely returned
to its hiding-place under a tuft of grass, to digest the meal." — Rev.
THOMAS W. TYLES, South Quebec.

IT has been suggested by several Philadelphia entomologists that bi-
monthly excursions should be inaugurated for the coming Summer, to go
to various places of interest in the vicinity of Philadelphia in search of in-
sects. It is to be hoped that as many as can get away from their ordinary
avocations may help make these outings a success, as there seems to be
little doubt but what a very enjoyable time can be had, and interesting
work done. It is the intention to hold the first one Saturday, June the 3d,

160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

and continue every other Saturday during the collecting season. Atco, N.
J., has been selected as the first excursion ground. All are cordially-
invited. The early morning train will be taken.

Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions : ist, The number of species
to be limited to twenty-five for each sending ; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans-
portation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Entomological Literature.

SOCIETAS ENTOMOLOGICA, vii, 16, Zurich-Hottingen, Nov. 15, 1892.
— Orthoptera Centrali-Americana, Dr. H. de Saussure, — 17, Dec. i, 1892.
Pieris rapes in North America, J. B. Smith.

FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN,
pp. 181 — 226, St. Louis, March 9, 1893. — Further studies of Yuccas and
their pollination, W. Trelease, pis. i — 10, 15 — 23. Concerning "the rela-
tionship of the Yuccas to one another and to their pollinators, the
Pronuba moths."

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WYOMING AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ANL>
EXPERIMENT STATION for the year 1892. Laramie, Wy., February, 1893.
—No. 7, Insecticides, F. J. Nis wander.

COMPTES RENDUS. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE, Paris, March 4, 1893. — Note
on a singular rotating movement of the head of a Culicid larva, S. Jour-
dain. — March n, 1893. On the structure of the fibrillae of the yellow
muscles of Dytiscus and Hydrophilus in the state of repose, F. Tourneaux.

ZOE, iii, 4, San Francisco, January, 1893. — A new jumping spider, f. L.
Curtis. Notes on Histeridse observed in San Diego Co., F. E. Blaisdell.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER, Leipsic, February 27, 1893. — On the devel-
opmental history of the Phytophthires, J. Krassilstschik, figs. — March 13,
1893. Note on an intercalary stage in Julid males, C. Verhoeff. Com-
parative anatomy and systematic position of the Phytopthires, f. Kras-
silstschik (cont.). Note on the parasitism of Chelifers 'on beetles, S. ].
Hickson.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, London, Mairli,
XS93- — The affinities and origin of the Tardigrada, Prof. J. von Kennel
Uransl. Sitzb. Natf Gesell. Univ. Dorpat ix, iii, 1892). On the embryology
of the mites — Ixodes, J. Wagner (trans. Zool. Anz. Aug. 29, 1892).

I8Q3-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l6l

REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE on the work of exter-
mination of the gypsy moth. Boston, January, 1893. E. H. Forbush & C.
H. Fernald. 40 pp., i colored plate, i map, 6 photographic plates.

SCIENCE, New York, March 24, 1893. — The ravages of book worms,
Dr. S. A. Green and S. Carman.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, March 15, 1893. — New classi-
fication of the Lepidoptera-Heterocera, Dr. Chapman.

SPECIES DBS HYMENOPTERES d'Europe et d'Algerie. Fonde" par Ed-
mond Andre\ continue1 sous la direction scientifique de Ernest Andre".
Fascicules 41, Jan. i, 1892; 42, April i, 1892.

ANNALI DEL MUSEO Civico DI STORIA NATURALE DI GENOVA, serie
2, x, xi, contain numerous papers by various writers, on the collections
made by L. Fea in Burmah.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA, BUENOS AIRES,
Noveber, 1893. — New Hemiptera of the Argentine and Uruguayan faunas
(cont.),*| C. Berg, December, 1892. Argentine Dipterology (Syrphidae)
(concl.),* F. L. Arribalzaga.

* BERICHT UBER DIE THATIGKEIT DER ST. GALLISCHEN NATURWISSEN-
SCHAFTLICHEN GESELLSCHAFT wahrend des Vereins-jahres, 1890-91. St.
Gallen, 1892. — Communications on the appearance of the "Nonnen
spinner" (Liparis monacha) in 1890 and 1891 in Southern Germany and
eastern Switzerland, C. Fenk.

CATALOGUS HYMENOPTERORUM hucusque descriptorum systematicus
et synonymicus. Auctore Dr. C. G. Dalla Torre. Vol. vii, Formiciclae
(Heterogyna). Lipsiae, Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann. MDCCCXCIII.
pp. i — 289.

TRINIDAD FIELD NATURALIST'S CLUB, i, 6. Port of Spain, February,
1893. — Castnia licus, a banana pest, T. I. Potter. Some peculiar types
of Trinidad Rhynchophorous beetles, H. Caracciolo.

PSYCHE, Cambridge, Mass., April, 1893.— A preliminary synopsis of the
harvest-spiders (Phalangiidae) of Mississippi, C. M. Weed, pis. n — 15.
Description of a new and interesting Phasiid-like genus of Tachimdas
s. str., C. H. T. Townsend. Descriptions of new species and genera of
West African Lepidoptera — IV, W. J. Holland. Some notes on the early
stages, especially the chrysalis, of a few American Sphingida.', S. H.
Scudder. Life-history of Orgyia gulosa Hy. Edw., H. G. Dyar. Biblio-
graphical notes— III, S. Henshaw.

U. S. DEPT. OK AGRICULTURE, Division of Entomology, Bulletin No.
28. — The more destructive Locusts of America north of Mexico, by Lau-
rence Bruner, Washington, 1893, 40 pp., 21 figs.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

5*

l62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

HISTOIRE PHYSIQUE, NATURELLE ET POLITIQUE DE MADAGASCAR
publiee par Alfred Grandidier. Paris, Imprime, par autorisation de M. le
Garde des Sceaux a I'lmprimerie Nationale, 4to. Vol. xx, Histoire
Naturelle des Hymenopteres par H. de Saussure. Premiere partie, pp.
xxi, 590, 1890. Atlas to the same — ire partie, 27 pis., 1892. Deuxieme
partie: Les Formicides par M. A. Forel, pp. v. 243, 7 pis., 1891.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, April, 1893. — An extreme
case of parasitism [Sarcoptes scabiei}, R. Hessler. Notes on the mouth-
parts and thorax of Insects and Chilopods, N. Banks. Further note on
the Tineid case-worm from the Grand Canyon, C. H. T. Townsend. The
puparium of Blepharipeza, id.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ARACHNIDA.

Araneina: Dendryphantes ceneolus Curtis, Zoe, iii, p. 332, Calif.?
Phalangida: Liobunum politum magnum Weed, Psyche, vi, p. 428, pi.
15, Miss.

COLEOPTERA.

Hololepta pervalida Blaisdell, Zoe, iii, p. 337, H. negleda p. 338, San
Diego Co., Calif.

DIPTERA.

Tachinidae: Hyalomyodes, Townsend, Psyche, vi, p. 429, H. weedii, p.
430, N. H., Pa.

ORTHOPTERA.

Mantidae: n. gen. and spp., from Mex., Centr. Amer., de Saussure, Soc.
Ent. vii, pp. 121 — 124.

ERRATA.— Vol. IV, No. 4.

Page 128, line 10, for Trichobasis read Trichobaris.

" 128, line 12, for somewhati read somewhat,

" 128, line 15, for " Ground Celery" read " Ground Cherry"

" 133, line 20, for Luperoides read Luperodes.

" 133, line 21, for Dacoderus cegialites read Dacodems and AZgialitcs

" 142, line 29, for Packard read Kirby.

" 142, line 38, for Strecker's read Stretch's.

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PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

MARCH, 23, 1893.

In the absence of the Director Dr. Horn, Mr. Ridings was called on to
preside. Members present: Calvert, Ridings, Laurent, Skinner. Associ-
ates: Westcott, Fox and Boerner. Mr. Calvert presented to the collection
of the American Entomological Society a 9 Fons Colombia vinosa Say,
and a Trithemis umbrata. The latter species he said was a Tropical
American one, and that the male has a band across the wings, but the
present specimen, a 9> also nas the band. It is only the second such
female the speaker had ever seen. The question of secondary sexual
characters was referred to by Mr. Calvert, and further discussed by the
members present. Mr. Fox called attention to and exhibited a new
genus of Fossorial Hymeoptera. He stated that it was related to
£>!fie/us, Gastrosericus and Astatus. From the two first mentioned
genera it differed by the middle tibiae having two spurs at apex, and from
Astatus by the eyes of the $ being separated on the vertex. In conse-
quence of the two spurs on the tibiae he had decided to call it Diploplectron.

HENNY SKINNER, Recorder.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

The Puparium and Pupa of Subula pallipes Lw.

By C. K. TYLER TOWNSEND.

The descriptions which appear below are drawn from a pupa-
rium and pupal skin, from which issued a specimen of Subula
pallipes Lw. The fly was bred by Prof. C. P. Gillette, at Fort
Collins, Col., from maggots and puparia found under bark of
cottonwood (Populus sp.).

The pupa is enclosed in a puparium formed of the old larval
skin. The puparium splits dorsally on the median line down to
the posterior portion of the fifth segment, where the integument
breaks laterally on each side, to allow the partial escape of the
pupa, the head segment having previously become wholly or
partly detached. The pupa works itself more than half way out
through this opening, and there remains. The fly then escapes,

164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

leaving at least the posterior one-third of the pupal skin still
inclosed within the split portion of the puparium. The descrip-
tion of the puparium omits mention of the head segment, which
was missing. It is fully described with this exception.

Puparium: Twelve (?) jointed (there are eleven segments present),
wholly of a dark brown color, slightly lighter on the tuberculous lateral
edges of segments, moderately broad, considerably flattened, of a nearly
equal width throughout, very slightly wider on posterior half, the posterior
end rounded in outline from above. Whole surface divided off into minute
plates, appearing minutely warted or scaly, the scales or plates larger in
middle of segments than on the borders. Second segment (first one
present) a little narrower than others, third a little wider, fourth slightly
wider than third; fourth to tenth nearly equal in width, except that the
eighth and ninth are very slightly wider; eleventh a little narrower at base
than tenth, narrowing posteriorly, a little more than one-half as wide on
hind margin as at base; twelfth or anal segment very small, short, about
one-half width of hind margin of eleventh, rounded behind, hardly one-
half as long as wide. Second and third segments short, third hardly longer
than second, fourth one and one-half times as long as third, fourth to
ninth subequal in length; tenth a little shorter, widened at sides poste-
riorly; eleventh a little longer than ninth. Segments 2 — 10, on lateral
edge near middle, with a short posteriorly recurved bristle ; segment n
with a similar one on lateral edge anteriorly, and on hind margin just
inside posterior lateral angle of segment with an outwardly recurved
bristle; anal segment bare. Segments 5 — 10 with a transverse row of
about ten small tubercles or papillae on dorsum just next to anterior
margin of segment, closely approximated and not extending down on
sides of segments, the rows being little more than one-half as long as
width of segments; same segments with a similar row of from twelve to
sixteenth minute tubercles on venter, the fourth segment showing a
somewhat less distinct row; segments 5 — 10 also each with a small
rounded smooth tubercle on sides of dorsum in middle; segment n with
a transverse row of seven such tubercles on dorsum considerably before
anterior margin, the three median ones approximated and somewhat
removed from the lateral pairs, and two behind these near lateral margin
of segment with several more below or on lateral margin; all the tuber-
cles of transverse row, except the outer one on each side, are larger than
the lateral ones. Eleventh segment anteriorly bulged ventrally on median
portion, with a transverse stigmatal slit a little longer than one-half width
of segment, the anterior edge of slit being armed with eight teeth; two
small tubercles just anterior to each end of slit; stigmata apparently
opening in slightly hollowed portion behind the slit. Length (of the
eleven segments), 8.5 mm.; width of second segment, 2 mm.; of ninth
segment, 2 3-5 mm.

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Pupa. — Pupal skin whitish on abdominal portions; head; thorax, and
wing cases more glassy, subtransparent, thoracic dorsum and cephalic
horns with a slight brownish flavous tinge; transverse dorsal rows of
bristles on abdominal segments brownish flavous. Head with one pair
of cephalic horns (antennal cases) running straight out laterally and
curved upward, set opposite to each other squarely base to base, rather
long, thickened on basal one-third or hardly more, annulate on remaining
portion, there being eleven quite distinct annulae or segments, the two
basal ones a little longer than the others, the horns therefore consisting
of twelve joints including the elongate thickened basal joint comprising
one-third their length, and corresponding to the joints of the antennae of
the adult fly. Head conforming to shape of eyes and head of adult fly,
neck constricted. Thorax a little narrower anteriorly than head, grad-
ually widening posteriorly to about same width as head; wing cases
moderately narrow, reaching a little beyond middle of third abdominal
segment below, the leg cases reaching nearly to middle of fourth seg-
ment; scutellar segment indistinct, appearing as a portion of thorax be-
hind; first abdominal segment bare, hardly as long as following segments;
other abdominal segments nearly equal in length, the anal segment a
shortened, narrowed and rounded terminally. Segments 2 — 7 each with
a transverse dorsal row of perfectly appressed spine-like bristles directed
posteriorly, the rows being a little approximated to posterior margin of
segment, especially on segments 4 — 7, while the row on second segment
is almost in middle; each long bristle in the rows is surrounded at base
by several shorter, closely approximated bristles about one-half its own
length; the longer bristles average somewhat more than one-third the
length of the segments. Segment 8 bare; all the segments bare on venter;
prothoracic spiracle on anterior lateral margin of thorax; mesothoracic
spiracle immediately at base of wing cases; metathoracic spiracle at
anterior lateral corner of dorsum of scutellar segment. Abdominal seg-
ments i — 7 with a spiracle on lateral edge of dorsum approximated to
anterior margin. Spiracles are of a slightly flavous tinge. Length, 6 3-5
mm. ; width of thorax, each nearly i mm.

The fly escapes by the pupal skin; splitting along the median
dorsal line of the head and thorax as far back as the scutellar
segment, beginning just above the base of cephalic horns; and
by a break starting from the same point and extending obliquely
down and outward laterally on sides of head to junction of head
and thorax, a triangular piece of the anterior portion of the
integument of the head being thus left attached to bases of ceph-
alic horns on their upper side. Long sections of the tracheal
integument are left attached to the prothoracic and metathoracic
spiracles on the inside, these being sloughed from the tracheae at
the same time that the fly escapes from the pupal skin.

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COLORADO CYNIPID/E. -(Continued.)

By C. P. GILLETTE.

NEUROTERUS.

N. congregatus n. sp.

Galls occurring in terminal and probably axial buds. The twig ex-
pands next to the bud, and within the bud develop a number of little
globular capsules covered and surrounded by a hairy or woolly growth.
The capsules themselves resemble very much those of N. vesicula Bass.
I have four of these gall clusters that measure from 6 to 8 mm. across,
and each is composed of from ten to fifteen of the little globular capsules.
After the flies have eaten out of the capsules the gall-cluster reminds one
of the rose to a watering pot.

Gall-flies black, feet and antennae brown, length 2 mm ; all males.

Head black, shining, with a very fine crackled appearance ; eyes large
and prominent ; face narrow and rectangular in outline, the inner margins
of the eyes as seen in front being straight and parallel ; mandibles reddish
yellow, ocelli rather prominent and slightly elevated. Thorax smooth
and shining, with the fine crackled appearance common to the genus,
without any signs of parapsidal or other grooves, and with a broad notch
at the base of the scutellum ; scutellum without foveae, but with a shallow
basal groove, shining, and with the crackled appearance indistinct, es-
pecially on the central portion. Abdomen petiolate, black. Feet dark
brown, light at the joints. Wings 3 mm. long, radial cell long and narrow,
radial nervure almost attaining the costal margin, cubital nervure faint,
and hence the areolet rather indisti;ict, all the nerves dark brown. An-
tennce i4-jointed, joints 1-3 and often the basal portion of the fourth light
yellow, remaining joints brown or blackish ; first and second joints robust,
third as long as fourth and fifth together.

Described from twenty bred flies from galls taken at Manitou,
Col., May 8, 1892. All of the flies hatched before May iyth.

N. virgens n. sp.

Galls. — This species can hardly be said to produce a gall. The cells
of the flies were found in the Spring of the year in twigs of the last Sum-
mer's growth. The twigs are usually slightly swollen where the cells
occur, but not enough to attract attention. I should not have noticed
them at all had I not seen dead twigs with numerous small punctures in
them, from which flies had escaped during previous years.

Gall-fly black, with the first three joints of the antennae yellowish brown .
Length 1.5 to 2 mm.; all females.

Head black and shining ; under a power of seventy-five diameters the
surface has a finely crackled or scaled appearance as has also the meso-
thorax ; ocelli medium in size, face with median ridge; antennae 13-
jointed, gradually thickened to the tip, first three joints yellowish, third

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joint longest, first and second joints much thickened ; mandibles reddish,
but black at the tips ; mesothorax shining, without parapsidal grooves,
broadly notched at the base of the scutellum ; scutellum with shallow
groove at base, the surface appearance the same as that of the thorax and
head. Wings a little longer than the entire body, radial nervure long and
narrow, areolet medium in size, radial nervure reaching, or nearly reach-
ing the costal margin. Feet with tarsi yellowish brown, tibiae usually of
the same color, but in some cases almost black, femurs blackish in the
middle and sometimes almost entirely black, coxae always black at the
base, but light at the tip.

Described from eighteen flies, all females, reared between the
8th and I3th of May from galls taken at Manitou, May 8, 1892.

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A New Genus and Two New Species of Limacodes-like

Moths.

By DR. A. S. PACKARD, Providence, R. I.

When visiting the late Professor Poey, in Havana, in March,
1886, he very kindly presented me with a pure snow-white Lima-
codes-Y\ke moth, together with its cocoon, also chalky-white.
It was not described by Walker, and nothing like it was to be
seen in the collection of the British Museum, for the opportunity
of examining which, in 1889, I am indebted to Dr. Giinther and
Mr. A. G. Butler. It appears to be an undescribed genus, and
one of much interest, since afterward Mrs. Slosson captured sev-
eral specimens (3 £ , i 9 ) of a closely allied species in February
and March, 1891, at Punta Gorda, which is on the west coast of
southern Florida. The genus, therefore, appears to be Antillean,
with a foothold in the southern extremity of Florida, and this
adds another to the interesting series of West Indian forms which
have probably been transported by oceanic currents across the
Gulf, either from Cuba or from the Spanish Main.

The genus is more nearly allied to Heterogenea than to Lima-
codes, or the forms such as Euclea, Empretia, o\' Phobetron, whose
larvae are spiny.

Eupoeya n. gen. £ and 9 • — The head is much as in Hetero-
genea pallida, but not quite so wide. The palpi are unusually
small and slender, and are extended horizontally, but not reach-
ing the front so as to be seen when the moth is examined from

168 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

above ; the third joint is very small, slender, short, not one-
third as wide as the second. The £ antennae are well pectinated,
the branches extending to the tip, where they are unusually long',
being" longer at the end than in Sisyrosea, and more as in Lagoa ;
the branches are also unusually scaly.

The fore wings are more regularly triangular in outline than
usual ; the costa is unusually straight, and the apex is unusually
pointed. The wing is not quite so wide as in H. pallida, and
the outer and inner edges are more continuous, the outer angle
being less marked than in H. pallida. The hind wings are a
little more elongated, more produced towards the apex than in
H. pallida. Venation : nearer to that of Heterogenea than any
other genus. In the fore wings, compared with those of H. pal-
lida, the second subcostal branch does not arise at the origin of
the anterior discal vein, as in H. pallida, but originates either
one-third or over half way between the origins of the first and
third branches ; the fifth branch is short, and not detached at its
origin from the main vein, as in Heterogenea pallida, there being
in Heterogenea two independent veins. The arrangement of the
discal veins is as in Heterogenea, and the four branches of the
median vein are much as in Heterogenea. Hind wings: nearly
as in Heterogenea, but the two branches of the subcostal may
originate at the base or origin of the anterior discal vein (E. ni-
valis), or two-thirds of the way to the apex (E. slossonics} ; in
Heterogenea pallida the two branches are separate at their point
of origin, the second subcostal vein being independent. The
median and other veins are much as in Heterogenea.

The legs are rather short and with long scales, being more
hairy than usual ; the tarsi are a little shorter than in H. pallida
and more hairy. The abdomen is slender, but the genital arma-
ture thicker than in the £ H. pallida.

The genus is named in honor of the late distinguished Cuban
zoologist. (Poeya Bourg. is a genus of molluscs.) This genus
need not be confounded with Heurctes picticornis G. & R., from
the West Indies, the type of which is in the American Museum
of Natural History, and which I have, thanks to Mr. Beutenmiil-
ler, examined. It differs in the shape of the wings and in the
more broadly pectinated antennae. Neither is it Limacodes cre-
tacea or the Cuban Phryne immaculata Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc.
Phil., v, 246.).

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169

Eupoeya slossoniae n. sp. 3 cT, i ?. — Pure virgin snow-white, with no
markings on the head, body, or wings. The pectinations of the antennae

dusky, but with snow-
white scales above.
Palpi white, third joint
white, but the first and
second are blackish on
the outside. The tho-
rax and abdomen are
white above and be-
neath. Both pairs of
wings are glossy satiny
snow-white above with
no stains or discolora-
tions whatever on the
costa or elsewhere.
But the fore wings on
the under side are
dusky on the costa,
the smoky scales
mixed with fine sub-
ochreous scales; dusky
scales are scattered
over the apex and
down along the outer
edge. Hind wings
white beneath with
fine, dusky scales
along the outer edge,
but the long uneven
fringe of both wings is
white.

Length of body $ 7
mm. ; length of wing,
10 mm. ; expanse of
wings, 22 mm.

Respectfully dedi-
cated to Mrs. Annie
Trumbull Slosson in
recognition of her
general interest in
Entomology, and of

a EUPOEYA SI.OSSONI/E ; /', E. NIVALIS. i i

her exact and criti-
cal knowledge of many of our Rombyces.

Eupoeya nivalis n. sp. i I . -Comparing one with a fi-male E. slossonitr

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in Mrs. Slosson's collection, the Cuban moth is much larger, the body be-
ing twice as thick, while the antennae have shorter pectinations ; also the
palpi are larger and project farther in front. The shape of the head and
front is the same in both. The fore wings are entirely white at base of
costa above and beneath, where in E. slossonicz it is brown. There are
brown hairs on the breast, as in the other species. The fore legs are
nearly white, much more so than in E. slossonics. In its venation E. ni-
valis differs from the Floridan species as follows : Fore wings, the second
subcostal branch arises much nearer the anterior discal vein, only one-
third the way to the origin of the third subcostal branch, the distance be-
tween the origin of the second and third being twice as great as in E.
slossoniiz. There are also slight differences in the direction of the an-
terior discal vein, and in the distance between the origins of the first and
second median venules. In the hind wings the first and second subcostal
divide at the origin of the upper discal ; in E. slossonia: they divide far
beyond the origin of the upper discal and one-third the way out to the apex
of the wing. The direction of the two discal venules differ, these being more
oblique in the Cuban species. Length of fore wing 14 mm. ; of body 12 mm.

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NOTES ON ICHTHYURA Hub. (Melalopha Hiib.)
By HARRISON G. DYAR, Roxbury, Mass.

Mr. Neumoegen and myself have reached conclusions in re-
gard to the species of Ichthyura very similar to those set forth by
Dr. Packard in the March number of the NEWS. There are several
differences in our conclusions, which I would like to notice. Ich-
thyura inornata Neum. We give this form specific rank. In
markings it does not differ from / van var. ornata, but the large
size and absence of the thoracic patch entitle it to more than the
rank of a local race. While I believe that Dr. Packard is right
in considering such forms as luculenta and ornata as local races,
I think he has carried this idea too far in the present instance.

Ichthyiira jocosa Hy. Edw. — We give this specific rank also.
Only the types are known and differ from indusa in the absence
of the silvery part of the outer line. It may prove to be a race
of indusa but it seems premature to so refer it now.

Ichthyura bifiria Hy. Edw. — I cannot at all agree with Dr.
Packard in his reference of this form. It is not allied to / brucei
but on the contrary is close to /. vau, and is probably the local
race of it inhabiting the Sierra Nevada of California. I have
bred the larva, and the description appeared in these pages in
January, 1892.

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I have been mistaken in my identification of / brucei in my
reference to that form in ENT. NEWS, iii, 6, and "Can. Ent.,"
xxiv, i So.

Ichthyura invcrsa Pack. — After carefully reading the descrip-
tions and examining a typical specimen of inversa which Dr.
Packard kindly loaned me, I am satisfied that this name refers to
pa/la French. Prof. French's description is very careful, but
seems to differ somewhat from the specimens which he has dis-
tributed. It applies exactly to Dr. Packard's specimen of inversa
which was marked as "compared with type." In accordance
with these ideas I would arrange the North American species of
Ichthyura as below. This is the arrangement adopted by Mr.
Neumoegen and myself in a paper now in the hands of the editor
of the "Canadian Entomologist."

Melalopha apicalis Walk (unidenti- 5. M. yaw Fitch.

fiedi. indentata Pack.

\ i Lines of primaries anastomos- var. ornata G. & R.

ing, the second and third incarcerata Boisd.

lines distinctly united. var. bifiria Hy. Edw.

1. M.jocosa Hy. Edw. var. astorits Hy. Edw.

2. Jlf. ific/usaliub. \ 2 Lines not anastomosing; sec-

americana Harr. ond and third separate,

var inversa Pack. 6. M. mulfnoma Dyar.

palla French. 7. M. brucei Hy. Edw.

3. M. strigosa Grt. 8. M. alethe Neum. and Dyar ms.

var. luculenta Hy. Edw. 9. M. albosigma Fitch.

4. M. inornala Neum. var specified Dyar.

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NEW SPECIES OF WEST AFRICAN DREPANULID/E.

By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburg, Pa.

(All of the species described in the following paper come from the
Valley of the Ogove River.)

Genus CALLIDREPANA Feld.
i. C. oculatasp. nov. J1.— Body and antennae pale ochraceous; eyes black.

Upperside: fore wings ochraceous, clouded on the costa and the outer
margin with vinaceous. At the end of the cell there is a minute white
spot ; below the apex on the outer margin there is a minute ocellus pu-
piled with black, margined with yellow, about which there is a darker
line of vinaceous. This ocellus is incomplete on the lowerside, where it
fuses with a smaller blackish spot ; there are two small blackish spots
near the outer angle. The secondaries are whitish on the costa, shading
on the outer and inner margins into ochraceous.

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Underside : both wings are pale yellowish white, the primaries narrowly
clouded on the outer margin with roseaceous. Expanse 24 mm.

2. C. brunneola sp. nov. tf. — Body brownish above, pinkish white
below.

Upperside : primaries pale rosy-brown, marked with a number of ob-
scure darker striae, ornamented with a regularly curved basal transverse
line convex outwardly, and a curved line running from the apex to the
middle of the inner margin, convex inwardly and double at the apex.
From the end of the cell a dark shade extends parallel to the costa as far
as the outer curved line. There is a very narrow zig-zag submarginal
line. The secondaries are yellowish white on the costa and rosy-brown
on the remainder of the wing. The rosy-brown area is marked with
striae as the primaries, and the outer transverse line of the primaries is
produced upon the secondaries as a transverse median line widening and
becoming darker toward the inner margin, near which it fuses with a dark
brown spot margined externally with whitish. The submarginal line of
the primaries is extended upon the secondaries. The fringes of both
wings are dark brown.

Underside : yellowish, laved on the costa of the primaries and the
outer margin of the secondaries with bright pink. Expanse 20 mm.

« Genus PLEGAPTERYX H.-S.

3. P. fasciata sp. nov. tf. — Antennae and front pale fawn ; upperside of
thorax lighter ; abdomen fawn.

Upperside : primaries greenish gray, clouded on the outer margin with
olivaceous, interrupted below the apex on the margin with an angulated
greenish gray line. The middle of the wing is crossed by a dark brown
band, irregularly produced at the end of the cell, and interrupted by a
pale spot; in the upper margin of which is an olivaceous dot. The sec-
ondaries are dark brown at the base like the thorax, pale olivaceous about
the middle of the wing, clouded with olivaceous on the outer margin, and
crossed near the middle of the wing by a twice-curved narrow median
line, which is widest and most distinct near the inner margin.

Underside : primaries sooty ; the costa bright reddish brown ; the mid-
dle of the outer margin and the inner margin grayish. Secondaries rosy-
brown, with the outer angle suffused with dark brown, the middle of the
wing crossed by an interrupted median transverse line. Expanse 32 mm.

4. P. purpurascens sp. nov. ^. — Antennae testaceous ; front and thorax
maroon ; upperside of abdomen bluish black ; lowerside of thorax and
abdomen brownish.

Upperside : primaries rich maroon, crossed by a transverse basal and
transverse median line of greenish purple, between which, at the end of
the cell, there is a subpyriform spot of greenish purple, pupiled with
blackish. The transverse median line fuses near its costal extremity with
two broad greenish purple rays, the upper one of which sweeps outwardly
to the apex, which is accentuated by a triangular spot of the same color ;
the lower ray fuses near the outer margin with a greenish purple line,

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which extends along this margin about its middle. In addition, there are
near the outer angle three submarginal greenish purple spots. The sec-
ondaries are greenish purple from the base two-thirds of the distance to
the outer margin, which is heavily bordered with maroon. These wings
are also crossed by a narrow, irregularly curved, transverse median line.
Underside : primaries sooty, margined externally with bluish, and laved
near the apex with bright ferruginous. The secondaries are ferruginous,
with the costa marked with bluish black. Both primaries and secondaries
are traversed by a narrow transverse median line. Expanse 34 mm.

5. P. obscura sp. nov. r?. — Antennae, front, thorax and abdomen pale
ferruginous ; lowerside of thorax and abdomen bright ochraceous.

Upperside : primaries pale ferruginous profusely marked with brownish
spots and striae. Secondaries, like the primaries, traversed by a broad,
diffuse median band running from the costa across the end of the cell to
the middle of the inner margin.

Underside : bright ochraceous, clouded near the apex of the primaries
and on the outer margin of the secondaries with brown ; both wings
traversed by an obscure purplish transverse line, which extends from the
apex of the primaries to the middle of the inner margin of the second-
aries. Both wings are marked with spots and striae as upon the upper-
side. Expanse 45 mm.

6. P. partita sp. nov. (^.—Antennae testaceous ; front and thorax ferru-
ginous ; upperside of abdomen fawn ; lowerside of thorax, abdomen, and
legs bright ochraceous.

Upperside : primaries and secondaries uniformly reddish fawn, with the
outer margins broadly softened with grayish. This pale outer area is
divided from the darker inner area by an obscure geminate blackish line,
which runs from before the apex of the primaries to the inner margin of
the secondaries, terminating here two-thirds of the distance from the base.
There is a small black discal dot on the primaries.

Underside : the primaries are dark ferruginous, except on the costa
near the base, where they are bright ochraceous. The secondaries are
bright reddish ochraceous. The dark transverse line of the upper surface
reappears on the underside, but more obscurely, and there is a faint dis-
cal dot at the end of the cell in both wings. Expanse 45 mm.

7. P. subsplendens sp. nov. rT. — Antenna? brownish ; front brown ; col-
lar greenish ; upperside of thorax dark olivaceous ; upperside of abdo-
men brownish olivaceous ; underside of thorax and abdomen bright
greenish yellow ; legs tinged with rosy.

Upperside : primaries pale olive, with darker marks and cloudings. A
dark olive ray runs along the costa of the primaries and is produced to
the outer margin below the apex. There is a reddish transverse basal
and transverse linibal line and a small dark brown discal dot at the end
of the cell. The transverse linibal line of the primaries is produced as a
broader curved line upon the secondaries, the ground color of which is like
that of the primaries, save on the costa, where it is replaced by pale yellow.

174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

Underside : primaries and secondaries are bright chrome-yellow,
marked with heavy maroon cloudings and striae, and crossed by the same
transverse lines which appear on the upperside, but which are very much
more distinct upon the lowerside. Expanse 41 mm.

COPTOPTERYX gen. nov.

£ . — Palpi short, compressed, produced downwardly at the ex-
tremity. Antennae half as long as the costa of the primaries,
minutely pectinated, the pectinations being longest about the
middle. The tibiae of the hind legs are slightly swollen, and
armed with double spurs at the extremity, and also provided with
a single spur above this pair. The primaries have the costa an-
gulated beyond the middle ; the apex is produced, the outer
margin is deeply excised below the apex and at the outer angle.
The secondaries have the outer angle obtuse and the outer
margin sharply produced about the middle and deeply excised
before the anal angle. The primaries and secondaries are marked
with translucent angulated discal spots at the end of the cell.
The abdomen is produced one-third of its length beyond the
inner margin of the secondaries. The prevalent colors of the
genus are browns and olive-grays. Type C. specularia Holl.

8. C. specularia sp. nov. rf . — Antennae, front, and collar pale olive ; pa-
tagiae and upperside of thorax dark olive ; upperside of abdomen black-
ish ; lowerside of thorax and abdomen and legs fawn.

Upperside : primaries brownish olive, clouded with blackish upon the
inner margin and marked with grayish upon the costa about the middle
and before the apex. Here wings have a moderately large hyaline trian-
gular spot at the end of the cell, and a zig-zag, subbasal, transverse line
and a narrow limbal line of black extending from below the costa, where
it is sharply curved outwardly to the inner margin two-thirds of the dis-
tance from the base. The apex is truncate. The outer margin is deeply
excised and serrate below the apex, sharply produced at the middle, and
excised and slightly serrate at the outer angle. The secondaries are
blackish, marked with pale olivaceous spots on the inner margin and
crossed by transverse median and transverse submarginal darker lines.
At the end of the cell there is a small hyaline spot. The anal angle is
deeply serrate at the ends of the nervules.

Underside : primaries grayish fawn on the costa, clouded on the inner
margin with olivaceous, crossed by a narrow submarginal line running
from the costa before the apex to the inner margin two-thirds of the dis-
tance from the base. Beyond this line the wings are clouded with olivace-
ous, forming a dark subquadrute spot at the apex, succeeded by a trian-
gular spot and a heavy shade near the region of the outer angle. The
secondaries are oblivaceous, clouded with blackish and crossed by a
blackish, transverse, limbal line. Expanse 45 mm.

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9/C. homochroa sp. nov. rf. — Antennae and front reddish fawn ; pata-
giae and upperside of thorax dark brown ; abdomen and underside of
thorax and legs reddish fawn.

Upperside : the primaries and secondaries are reddish fawn, slightly
paler toward the outer margin. The primaries are crossed by obscure
subbas:il and limbal transverse lines. The secondaries are crossed by a
more sharply defined transverse median line. At the end of the cells in
both wings there are narrow angulated hyaline spots beyond which to-
ward the outer margin in both wings there is a small brown spot.

Underside : both wings grayish fawn, profusely marked with blackish
spots and striae ; both traversed by narrow blackish limbal lines. On the
underside the hyaline spots are defined externally by narrow blackish
lines. Expanse 43 mm.

10' C. Propinqua sp. nov. $. — The wings in this species are broader
than in the two preceding species, and far less sharply excised on the
outer margins. Antennae testaceous ; collar, thorax and upperside of
abdomen, dark brown. Lowerside of thorax and abdomen obscure fer-
ruginous.

Upperside : primaries dark brown, with the costa and apex marked
with ashen and traversed by a zig-zag, subbasal and narrow limbal line,
between which there is a darker clouding. The outer margin is preceded
by some obscure dark markings ; the hyaline spot is defined externally
by narrow light lines. The secondaries are darkest about the middle
where they are crossed by a narrow transverse median line and are orna-
mented with obscure submarginal cloudings.

Underside : primaries cinereous, with dark olivaceous spots and striae
on the inner margin near the base, and heavily clouded with dark brown
near the outer angle. A narrow transverse limbal line extends from the
apex (where it is accentuated by two subtriangular brown spots) to the
inner margin three-fourths of the distance from the base. The secondaries
are ferruginous, clouded with olivaceous, and crossed by a straight trans-
verse limbal line, black, defined externally and internally by pale lilac.
Expanse 37 mm.

ii. C. (?) cinereo-marginala sp. nov. ^. — Antennae testaceous; front
rufous; upperside of thorax and abdomen dark brown, lowerside cinereous.

Upperside : primaries and secondaries dark brown on the basal half.
The outer half of the primaries is dark cinereous, the outer half of the
secondaries pale cinereous, the division between the pale outer area and
the dark inner area being obscurely marked on the primaries and sharply
defined on the secondaries. The primaries are falcate, and sharply pro-
duced at the extremity of the third median on the outer margin. The
secondaries have the outer margin evenly rounded, forming a somewhat
acute angle with the inner margin.

Underside : both wings grayish ferruginous with a small white spot near
the margin beyond the end of ths cell, an obscure median transverse line
on the secondaries. Expanse 38 mm.

176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

I refer this species with doubt to the preceding genus, owing
to the form of the secondaries, but decline at present to erect
another genus for its reception.

CIROPTERYX gen. nov.

$ . — Palpi very minute, appressed. Antennae half as long as
costa, minutely pectinated. Primaries elongated ; costa nearly
straight, or very slightly curved ; apex truncate ; outer margin
produced before the middle, then rapidly returning to the inner
margin, which is half as long as the costa. The outer margin
after the point where it is most strongly produced, forms a line
to the inner angle, which is nearly parallel to the costa. The
secondaries are subpyriform, with the outer margin regularly
curved, or slightly produced about the middle of the outer
margin. The abdomen is produced for fully one-third of its
length beyond the inner margin of the secondaries and is clothed
at its extremity with two broad and long tufts of hair. The
colors of the genus are prevalently browns and olives. Type C.

viridifascia Holl.

^

12. C. viridifascia sp. nov. <$. — Antennae; thorax, and abdomen brown-
ish cinereous; underside of thorax dark ferruginous; underside of abdo-
men pale vinaceous; anal tufts lighter.

Upperside: primaries and secondaries lilacine-brown, both crossed on
the middle by a broad and somewhat irregular band of olive-green,
margined external!}' and internally by lines of dark brown. There is a
small brown discal dot at the end of the cell of the primaries.

Underside: both primaries and secondaries are dark ferruginous, with
the discal area of the primaries clouded with blackish. The secondaries
are slightly paler than the primaries. Expanse 30 mm.

13. C. OChreata sp. nov. <$. — Antennae testaceous; front ferruginous;
upperside of thorax and abdomen fawn; pectus reddish; underside of
abdomen and thorax pale ochraceous, legs concolorous.

Upperside: primaries pale greenish olivaceous, clouded at the base and
on the outer margin with lilacine-brown. Secondaries brownish with the
costa and transverse median fascia pale stramineous. There is a small
discal dot at the end of the cell on both wings.

Underside: primaries and secondaries bright ochraceous, with the outer
third heavily shaded with lilacine-brown, the darker area being defined
by a straight line running from the apex of the primaries to near the
middle of the inner margin of the secondaries. The bright inner ochra-
ceous area of the wing is marked with obscure reddish spots and stria?.
Expanse 29 mm.

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ANCISTROTA Hiib.
n*

14. A. (?) geometroide? sp. nov. <^\ — Antennae and entire body luteous-
gray. (Jpperside of primaries luteous-gray, sprinkled witli minute pale
brown stria? and clouded with the same color on the middle, and at the
end of the cell traversed by a narrow submarginal line, running from
before the apex on the costa to the inner margin two-thirds of the distance
from the base. Secondaries darker, vinaceous, with some submarginal
cloudings and a transverse dark brown line running from the outer angle
to the middle of the inner margin. The secondaries are somewhat pro-
duced opposite the end of the cell at the extremity of the third median
nervule, the outer margin forming an obtuse angle with the inner margin.

Underside: both wings are pale ochraceous, with a minute discal dot at
the end of the cells and a narrow dark brown submarginal line located as
on the upper surface, but more distinct. Near the outer angle of the
primaries and on the outer margin of the secondaries, the wings are
slightly suffused with pinkish. Expanse 40 mm.

15. A. (?) bimaculata sp. nov. <j\ — Antennae and upperside of the body
pale brown; legs and lowerside of abdomen rosy.

Upperside: wings pale brown with some obscure blackish markings on
the costa before the apex. A straight geminate brown line runs from the
apex to the inner margin, two-thirds of the distance from the base, and is
produced upon the hind wings, terminating about the middle of their
inner margin. Upon the primaries near the origin of the first median
nervule below the cell, there is a large dark brown suboval spot.

Underside: the primaries and secondaries are bright ochraceous, broadly
laved with rosy, and faintly marked with brownish spots. There is a
minute discal clot on each wing and on the primaries there is a faint line
running from the apex toward the outer third of the inner margin, which
it does not quite touch. The inner margin of the primaries is whitish,
shining. The outer margin of the secondaries near the anal angle is
tinged with whitish. Expanse 44 mm.

I refer the two foregoing species with doubt to the genus
Ancistrota, with which they more nearly agree than with any
other genus known to me.

DREPANA Sdirank.

4^

16. D. (?) bioculata sp. nov. $• — Primaries falcate, deeply excised below
the apex on the outer margin, with the outer angle broadly rounded; the
secondaries subovoid. Antenna' black; body pale fawn; lowerside of
abdomen ochraceous.

Upperside: primaries faun, tinged with ochraceous near the base and
marked by a conspicuous dark black patch of raised velvety-black scales
below the cell about the middle of the inner margin. Secondaries rosy.

Underside: both wings pink with a small black discal dot at the end
of the cell. Expanse 30 mm.

5**

178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

MEGADREPANA yen. nov.

Palpi minute; antennae one-third the length of the costa of
the primaries, heavily pectinated for three-fourths of the distance
from the base; extremity of the culmen without setae; costa of
primaries strongly arcuate before apex; apex strongly falcate,
inner angle obtuse. Secondaries subtriangular with the outer
margin evenly rounded, abdomen not projecting beyond the
outer margin of the secondaries. The lower radial nervule of
the primaries has its origin at the middle of the cell, where the
clisco-cellulars form an acute angle with its vertex toward the
base. The upper radial has its origin before the end of the cell
and forms, with the disco-cellular, the upper angle of the cell.
In the secondaries the lower radial rises at the middle of the end
of the cell, and the upper radial at its upper angle, the subcostal
in the secondaries arising before the end of the cell. Type M.
cinerea Holl.

'' 17. M. cinerea, sp. nov. <^. — Antennae testaceous; front and collar pale
gray; thorax and abdomen dark gray.

Upperside: primaries and secondaries are obscure ashen-gray with
some rusty markings near the apex of the primaries, and an obscure
transverse median and limbal line upon both wings. The outer margins
of the secondaries are broadly darker than the body of the wing.

Underside: both wings are cinereous, with the costa of the primaries
before the apex marked with ferruginous. The lines of the upper surface
reappear upon the lowerside, but more distinctly, and in the secondaries
the limbal line is diffuse, accentuated with bright ferruginous ocelli, which
are more or less obscurely defined. Expanse 60 mm.

GOODIA gen. nov.

I . — Palpi minute, compressed, last joint extremely minute;
antennae broadly pectinated for three-fourths of the distance
from the base, end of culmen naked; body heavily clothed with
hair; legs short, hairy. Primaries strongly arcuate before the
apex, falcate; outer margin strongly concave; outer angle
rounded. Secondaries substriangular with the outer angle
rounded, the outer margin strongly convex, the anal angle more
or less produced, the inner margin straight. In the primaries,
the lower radial arises from the middle of the cell, the upper
radial from the upper angle. The disco-cellulars do not form an
angle with each other at the end of the cell. In the secondaries,
the disco-cellulars form an angle below the origin of the lower
radial, and the subcostal has its origin very slightly in advance

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of the upper radial. The vestiture of the wings, especially at
the base, is heavy. At the ends of the cells there are one or
more minute hyaline spots.

9 . — The female differs from the male in having the antennae
very slightly pectinated and quite short, and the primaries rela-
tively broader, with the outer margin rounded from the outer
angle and very slightly produced at the apex. Type G. nubilata
Holl.

18. G. nubilata sp. nov. <$. — Antenna; testaceous; front brown; collar
whitish; upperside of thorax and abdomen brownish ochraceous; lower-
side of thorax and abdomen brown.

Upperside: primaries wood-brown, with the costa for two-thirds of
the distance from the base ashen-gray, interrupted by a dark spot on the
costa near the middle of the wing. At tbe end of the cell, near the
middle, is a small hyaline spot, and at the lower angle, a very minute
hyaline spot. The wing is crossed from before the base to the inner
margin by a limbal series of brownish hastate markings located on the
ervules and connected by very narrow waved brown lines, which are
defined outwardly by stramineous. The fourth of these hastate marks,
reckoning from the inner margin, is broadly surrounded by stramineous;
there are also some pale subapical markings, and an obscure, curved
subbasal line. The secondaries have the same color as the primaries,
but paler on the costa, and the limbal series of hastate spots and curved
lines is continued from the primaries. The fringes are brownish.

Underside: the wings are cinereous, shaded with pale ochraceous, .and
heavily clouded near the middle and on the outer margin with dark
brown and profusely irrorated with small brown spots and striae. The
female does not differ from the male, except in form. Expanse: fj, 76
mm.; 9 > 9° mm.

19? G. lunata sp. nov. <j\ — Front dark brown; collar whitish, margined
behind with dark maroon; thorax and abdomen above pale reddish
brown, below dark brown.

Upperside: primaries with a narrow lunulate mark at the end of the
cell, defined internally by pale ochraceous, and externally by dark maroon.
The prevalent color of the primaries is brown, shading into lilacious be-
tween the median nervules, into umber beyond the cell. Upon the third
median nervule beyond the cell is a diffuse ochraceous spot. The apices
of the wings are pale luteous. There is a faint marginal and submarginal
line, the latter defined inwardly by a paler line, which is succeeded toward
the base by a narrow line of maroon, which is produced inwardly on e;u -h
of the nervules in the form of small hastate markings. The secondaries
are wood-brown clouded with ochraceous, and the marginal lines and
hastate markings of the primaries are continued upon the secondaries.

Underside: primaries and secondaries wood-brown, clouded with lila-
cine on the cell and outer margin, anil with fuliginous below tin- evils and

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just beyond their extremities. The primaries have a bright subtriangular
moon spot near the middle of the cell and a similar small oval spot on
the costa near the apex. The maroon markings, which define the hyaline
spot on the upper surface, reappear on the under surface. In addition,
the lowerside of the wings is very profusely marked, especially upon the
costa of the secondaries, with small maroon spots and striae. Expanse

80 mm.

^

20. G. vestigiata sp. nov. $. — Front dark brown; collar white; upper-
side of thorax and abdomen pale cinereous; pectus rosy; lowerside of
abdomen dark brown.

Upperside; primaries dark cinereous, shading into pale cinereous about
the base and near the apex. There are four minute hyaline spots, two
just beyond the end of the cell, and two just within the end of the cell,
very minute, and near each other. There are also one or two minute
hyaline spots near the apex below the costa. The two minute hyaline
spots at the end of the cell are surrounded by pale luteous and the two
larger spots beyond the end of the cell are likewise thus surrounded, and
between these two luteous spots projecting outwardly, there is a hastate
luteous mark. The whole arrangement of these spots strongly resembles
the footprint of an animal in miniature. Beyond these markings there
is a crenulate limbal line running from the costa before the apex to the
inner margin, two-thirds of the distance from the base, defined inwardly
and outwardly by pale cinereous. There are also some obscure marginal
lines. The secondaries are somewhat paler than the primaries, and at
the end of the cell, there are three hyaline marks, the innermost of which
are the largest, and they are surrounded as the hyaline spots upon the
primaries by luteous areas. The limbal and marginal markings of the
primaries are continued upon the secondaries.

Underside: the wings are darker with the yellowish markings surround-
ing the hyaline spots and the limbal lines more clearly defined. Expanse
70 mm.

The genus Goodia, which I take pleasure in naming after my
excellent friend, who has done much to elucidate the natural
history of West Africa, is referred to the Arepanulidse, with slight
hesitancy, though the neuration and form of the wings is char-
acteristically drepanulid. The antennae in their form suggest a
relationship to the genus Copaxa among the Saturnidae.

The typical species of the genus is in the collection of Mr.
Herbert Druce, of London, as well as in my own.

THYMISTADA Walk.

21. T. erosa sp. nov. tf. — Antenna; moderately long, heavily pectinated;
front brown; thorax and abdomen fawn.

Upperside: primaries lilacine-gray with some obscure brown markings
on the costa, an obscure transverse median and transvrrsr limbal bnnvn
line; the outer margin sharply produced between the second and third

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nervules, and above this tooth-like projection there is a series of small
brown spots. The fringes are dark brown, checked with ashen at the
ends of the nervules. The secondaries are colored like the primaries.
The outer margin is eroded before the anal angle. There are two small
obscure brown marks beyond the origin of the second median nervule.

Underside: both wings pale cinereous, profusely marked with minute
blackish striae, the posterior margin of the primaries being pale, immacu-
late and shining. Roth wings have a minute discal dot at the end of the
cell, and the primaries are crossed by an incomplete transverse limbal
line. The fringes are dark brown. The female is like the male, and the
wings are relatively broader, and more deeply eroded at the angle of the
secondaries. Expanse 33 — 35 mm.

2^. T. miserrima sp. nov. $. — Costa strongly arcuate; apex of primaries
broadly produced opposite the end of the cell. Secondaries subquadrate,
the outet margin being strongly produced at the extremity of the radial.
The prevalent color of the upper surface is pale olivaceous sprinkled
with minute darker spots and striae. There are two small hyaline spots
on the primaries, one located beyond the end of the cell, the other just
below the cell at its extremity.

Underside: both wings obscure ashen with minute spots and striae
covering their entire surface. Expanse 25 mm.

I refer both of the foregoing species to Walker's genus Thy-
mistada, with the type of which Terosa agrees very well. T.
miserrima probably does not belong here, but may be a represen-
tative of a new genus.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX.

Fig. i. Goodia vcstigiata, sp. nov.

2. Goodia linin'lata sp. nov.

3. Goodia nubilata sp. nov.

4. Megadrepana chicrca sp. nov.

5. Thyiiiistada crosa (^ sp. nov.

6. Plegapteryx fasciata sp. nov.

7. Plegapteryx purpurascens ®p. nov.

8. i-lncisii'ota (?) geometroides&p. nov.

9. slncistrota (?) bimacii/alti sp. nov.

10. Drcfranu (?) biocitlala sp. nov.

11. CaIHdrcf>ana brunneola sp. nov.

12. Callidrcfiana oculata sp. nov.

13. Thymistada niiscrrinia sp. nov.

14. Cin/pft'ry.r viridifascia sp. nov.

15. Plegapteryx subsplendens sp. nov.

16. Coptopteryx (?) cinereo^marginafa sp. nov.

17. Thyniistada crosa 9 SP- nov.

18. Coptopteryx specnlai-ia sp. nov.

19. Coptopteryx /io»ii>c/irixi sp. nov.

20. Coptopteryx propinqua sp. nov.

182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

A NEW ACHARUTES.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

Acharutes brevispinus n. sp. — Ground color pale cream above and dirty
white or grayish below; covered with lavender or pale purple patches and
streaks; darker above. Head, above and below, and the antennae, darker
than the rest of the body; a spot on the head between the eye patches,
and another on the neck, darker; a spot of the ground color on each side
of the dark spot on the neck; other less marked spots on the head and
antenna?, giving them a mottled appearance. Eye patches black, kidney-
shaped, rather conspicuous, and remote from the base of the antennae; a
dorsal median, longitudinal band composed of five obscure stripes; a
median darker one, each side of which is an interrupted lighter stripe
composed of spots of the ground color; outside of these an obscure stripe,
darker than the general body color; underside of the body (excepting
the head), the legs and elater pale grayish blue; the disposition of the
color patches is variable in specimens of the same size, and the depth of
color varies with the sex and age; the young are paler. What we take to
be the females are larger, lighter colored, more sluggish, and the abdo-
men is wider at the sixth segment in proportion to the length. Body fusi-
form, robust, widest at the sixth segment. Last abdominal segment ob-
tuse. Body sparingly clothed with stout, curved hairs. Head nearly
round, truncated behind and obtusely produced in front, broader than the
prothorax and mesothorax. Antenna? stout, slightly longer, or about as
long as the head; basal joint broader than the others, and somewhat lon-
ger than broad; second joint a little longer than broad, widest at the distal
end; third joint about as long as broad; widest where it joins the fourth:
fourth one-half longer than third, widest at the base, ovate, obtuse at the
end; third and fourth separated by an obscure suture, and together ap-
pearing as a long, terminal, oblong segment; the two basal segments have
well marked, deep sutures. Ratio of the joints nearly 9:10:12:17. The
basal joints each bear about two pairs of hairs and the terminal segment
more. Eye patches black, conspicuous, reniform, remote from base of
•antenna?. Length to width as 12:7. Last abdominal segment prominent,
broadly rounded at the end, bearing inconspicuous anal spines, located
for a part upon minute warts, and only about one-third the length of the
hairs clothing the body. Legs stout, rather short and bearing stout claws
60 mm. long; the shorter claw half as long. Elater short, broad at the
base; as broad as long; basal part as long as the others taken together;
terminal joint one-fifth the length of the second, slender and pointed.

Measurements.— Total length 1.725 mm.; head .23 mm. long, 2.25 mm.
broad; antennae, 240 mm.; ratio of joints nearly 4:5:6:8; body 1.5 mm.;
segments nearly in the ratio 6:3:8:8;9;8;8;5:5; breadth of body at sixth seg-
ment .575 mm.; legs with claw .36 mm.; elater 230 mm.; ratio of .seg-
ments 5:4:1; large claw .06 mm.; small claw .06 mm.; anal spines .015 mm.

J)isfingitis/ihi£ characters. — Small, obscurely triangular head, trun-
cated behind, spotted, darker than the body; long thick antenna-, dark
colored, with a short broad basal segment, and a long oblong-ovate ter-

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minal one; narrow prothorax and metathorax, the former bearing a dense,
dark and two lighter spots; the dorsal band made up of three darker and
two lighter stripes; the fusiform body broad at the sixth segment, and the
obtuse rounded terminal segment of the body bearing short, inconspicu-
ous anal hooklets; size from 1.5 mm. — 2.5 mm.

A sluggish species with weak elater, which it does not often
use; preferring to feign death and roll up like a wood louse. It
rarely jumps over two inches.

Exceedingly abundant during the whole Winter of 1891 and
'92 in celery stored in the cellar. It was also noticed out of doors
in the Autumn in potato-hills. It probably lives out of doors,
and was carried to the cellar with celery and the dirt used to cover
it; exceedingly abundant. Many hundreds seen and many exam-
ined. Associated with Tomocems plumbeus, Lcpidocyrtus metal-
licus, Lipura ambulans, Isotoma tricolor, Tcmpletonia americana
and an undetermined species of each Entomobrya and Isotoma.

Relationship. — The presence of anal spine places this species
in Group B of Lubbock's Classification. We don't know how
carefully Lubbock's species were examined, but the spines of our
species might readily be overlooked, unless searched for with a
high power. Apparently more related to Acharutes marmoratus
Packard than any described American species, but readily dis-
tinguished from it by the short anal hooks, larger size, thicker
set body, color and structure of the terminal segment of the elater.

The accompanying drawing of A. brevispimcs n. sp. (figs, i and
2) were made by Mr. Emerton from live specimens. They show
the head too oval and not broad enough behind the prothorax is
too long and does not show the spots on the neck usually seen.

For purposes of comparison we add cuts of what we take to
be A. marmorahis Packard (figs. 3 and 4), and of A. nivicola
Fitch (figs. 5 and 6). The latter has not been figured so far as
we know, and as it is used by Packard as a standard for com-
parison in describing the American species of Acharutes, we re-
gard the figures important. The cuts of A. nivicola are drawn
to a larger scale than the others. A. brevispinus usually exceed-
ing A. nivicola in size. The species we take to be Packard's A.
marmoratus grows much larger than his description indicates,
being nearly 2 mm. in full-grown specimens. Found by us on
Agarics and Boleti. We are not sure but what .-/. boletivorous
Packard and A. marmoratus Packard are the same species. Our
specimens have the ovate third joint of the elater, which seems
to be the most important difference.

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

[May,

Fig. \i.

^x^ - 3 —

Figs. 1 and 2, A. BREVISPINUS ". «!>

Kigs. 5 and »>, A. NIVICOLA Fitcli.

i-s :; ,in<l 1, A. MARMORATUS Filch.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv. JUNE, 1893. No. 6.

CONTEXTS:

Webster — Distribution of Carahidae.... 186 Entomological Literature 203

Hamilton — Coleoptera of Alaska 187 Entomological Section 208

Cockerell — Hymenoptera of Jamaica... iSS Coquillett — An Anomalous Empid 208

Jones — Two weeks in Rich'd Co., N. C. 189 Gillette — Colorado Cynipida; 210

Smith— Elementary Entomology 191 Skinner— New species of Pamphila 211

Editorial 195 Xeumoegen and Dyar — Lithosiidae and

Economic Entomology 196 , Arctiidae 213

Notes and News 200

IN the last number of the NEWS was published an interesting
account of the early history and organization of the American
Entomological Society, in which it was stated that its first presi-
dent was Dr. John L. LeConte. It will no doubt be of great
interest to our readers, especially those interested in Coleoptera,
to see a portrait of the man who did so very much to advance
our knowledge of that order of insects. Dr. LeConte died on
Nov. 15, 1883, aged 58 years, and was succeeded by Dr. G. H.
Horn as President of the American Entomological Society and
Director of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia. An interesting biographical sketch of
Dr. LeConte is given in Vol. XI ot the Transactions of the
American Entomological Society.

THE journal of the New York Entomological Society, which lias just
emerged from its chrysalis condition, makc-s a very line appearance in its
first number, and we wish it long life and much prosperity, and hope th.it
the " AY ;;/<6/< •/'//<,'" may never cease rolling. The first plate is very fm>-
and the journal is well printed, and the articles are interesting and of value.
An American journal of this character has been badly needed, and will
help take the pressure of too much manuscript from the Ni-:ws, which
will facilitate the early appearance of papers. Ki>.

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Geographical Distribution of the Carabiclae.
By F. M. WEBSTER, Wooster, Ohio.

In the " Popular Science Monthly," vol. xlii, p. 191, Decem-
ber, 1892, Mr. Henry A. Pilsby, in speaking of the more complex
obstructing mechanism in many of the snails of the Southern
States and South America, and, citing especially, Caracolas laby-
rinthns, from Panama, says: "These Southern forms represent
the highest development of the three-toothed type of aperture.
The meaning of this increasing complexity appears, when \ve
remember that the regions where the most complicated types of
snails are found, are known to be practically coincident with the
regions producing carnivorous Coleoptera in the greatest num-
bers and in the most exuberant variety of forms."

The above statements are considerably at variance with what I
had supposed to be the generally accepted opinion, among ento-
mologists, and is quite contrary to my own observations, though
these have been somewhat limited. Wollaston, in his work " On
the Variation of Species with Especial Reference to the Insecta,"
p. 28, states that ' ' The great preponderance of the phytopha-
gous over the predaceous tribes, in the hotter regions of the
earth, is a remarkable fact, and strongly suggestive of the rela-
tion which the insect and vegetable worlds (both of which attain
their maximum in those zones) bear to each other." Further-
more, Mr. Darwin, who had previously remarked this fact ("Jour-
nal of Researches," p. 34) says that "the carnivorous beetles, or
Carabidae, appear in extremely few numbers within the tropics.
The carrion feeders and Brachelytra are very uncommon; on the
other hand, the Rhynchophora and Chrysomelidae, all of which
depend on the vegetable world for subsistence, are present in
astonishing numbers."

In his list of the Coleoptera of New Zealand, Capt. Thomas
Brown gives the names of 148 species of Carabidae and 299 of
Rhynchophora. A week's observation in the vicinity of Hobart,
Tasmania, in mid-Summer, illustrated, quite forcibly, the simi-
larity of the coleopterous fauna with that of New Zealand, as re-
gards to the matter in question. While I observed Rhyncho-
phora and Chrysomelidae in abundance, very few Carabida? were
seen. True, these islands lay within the temperate zone, but
their climate is sub-tropical, like that of extreme southern United

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States. In North America, north of Mexico, the Carabidae out-
number the Rhynchophora in number of species.

It seems not improbable that the three obstructing teeth on the
rim or lip of the aperture of the shell in the molluscs mentioned
by Mr. Pilsby, may serve to protect the occupant from its ene-
mies, and, possibly, some of these may be predaceous beetles.
But if this be true, there must be another more powerful enemy
than predaceous Coleoptera, and one with which the writer of
the notice is unacquainted, that causes the peculiar dentition, else
the result could not be, as he says, that the highest development
appears to the southward, but quite the reverse.

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THE COLEOPTERA OF ALASKA.

By JOHN HAMILTON, M.D. , Allegheny, Pa.

A Catalogue of the Coleoptera of the vast territory of Alaska
was commenced near two years ago, and is now approaching
completion. The synonymy and distribution of the species are
given, and likewise a list of places in Alaska where Coleoptera
have been taken, with the longitude and latitude of each place.
The following summary may interest entomologists:

Number of families, 45; number of genera, 251; number of
species, 572. Number of species common to both hemispheres,
137; number of species occurring in Alaska and other parts of
North America, 240; number of species occurring in Alaska and
not recorded as occurring elsewhere, 175; number of species im-
ported by commerce, 17; number of species doubtfully Alaskan,
3; number of species occurring in Northern Asia and Alaska not
recorded as occurring in other parts of North America, 33; num-
ber of species taken on the coast of Behring Strait and along the
lower Yukon, 28; number of species taken on the continent or
mainland in Alaska, 60. Many of these occur also in the penin-
sulas, islands and other parts <>f North America, and some of
them likewise in Northern Asia.

In the year A. D. 1X53, Prof. C. (i. Mannerheim completed
the publication of a catalogue of all tin- Alaskan Coleoptera
known to him, numbering 540 species; some of these have be-
come synonyms of one another — how many, has not been counted.
It will be seen that, in the aggregate during the past 40 ye;u^.

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this number has only been increased by 32 species. Placing-
Mannerheim's species in the families corresponding to those now
adopted, the following list shows the difference in that and the
present catalogue by families. The figures following the family
are the number of species -in this catalogue; the second series,
those in Mannerheim's.

Amphigoidae, i i; Anthicidae, i i; Buprestidae, 5 4; Byr-
rhidae, 7 6; Calandridae, 2 2; Carabidae, 128 114; Cerambycidae;
17 18; Chrysomelidae, 12 12; Ciodidae, 4 4; Cleridae, 2 2; Coc-
cinellidae, 7 5; Colydidae, 2 2; Cryptophagidae, 16 15; Cucujidae,
8 8; Curculionidae, 23 19; Dascyllidae, i i; Dermestidae, 2 2;
Derodontidae, 2 2; Dytiscidae, 33 34; Elateridae, 30 31; Gy-
rinidae, i i ; Haliplidae, i i ; Heteroceridae, i i ; Hydrophillidae,
13 14; Lampyridae, 9 7; Latrididae, 16 15; Melandryiidae, 5 4;
Meloidae, i i; Mordellidae, 2 2; Nitidulidae, 13 15; Oedemeridae,
i i; Platypsyllidae, i o; Pselaphidae, 5 3; Ptinidae, 3 3; Pyro-
chroidae, 2 i; Pythidae, 4 4; Scarabaeidae, 5 6; Scolytidae, 18 20;
Scydmaenidae, 3 3; Silphidae, 28 33; Spondylidae, i i; Staphy-
linidae, 120 107; Tenebrionidae, 7 6; Trogositidae, 7 6; Trichop-
terygidae, 8 5.

Additions to the Hymenoptera of Jamaica.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL.

Having just prepared a list of the Hymenoptera of this island,
I find I have notes on a few species apparently not yet recorded,
as follows: i. Catolaccus sp. [L. O. Howard]; Kingston. — 2. Co-
thonaspis sp. [L. O. Howard]; Kingston. — 3. Cyrtogaster sp.
[C. V. Riley]; bred from cocoons of Apanteles found by Mr.
Fawcett at Cinchona. This is the insect doubtfully referred to
Lamprostylus in In. Inst. la., 1892, p. 43. — 4. Dorymyrni, i
pyramicus Rog. [Riley]; at flowers of fennel, Mandeville; and
on corn (Zea} in Kingston. — 5. Ectatomma {Holcoponera} coii-
centricumMayr., [E. Andre]; Moneagne. — 6. Holcopelte sp. [L.
O. Howard]; a green species with white legs, bred by Mr. J. J.
Bowrey from cocoons of Apanteles. — 7. ] .ami (Notogonia] tri-
fasciata Sin. [W. J. Fox]; Kingston, given to me by Mr. L. M.
Lynch, who informed me that it had stung a lady, who was there-
upon taken severely ill. Dr. Phillippi attended the case. I sup-
pose this is an instance of idiosyncrasy, comparable to many

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others recorded from time to time. — 8. Macrotelia floridana
Ashm. [L. O. Howard] ; one found on a window at Manchester
Cottage, Kingston. — 9. Smicra femorata Fab.; there is a speci-
men from Jamaica in the British Museum marked 6". pimctata Fb. ,
which, according to Mr. Kirby (In. Linn. Soc. 1882, p. 66), is a
synonym of femora/a. However, Mr. Kirby considers .5". riigro-
picta Cress., which has been recorded from Jamaica by Mr. Fox,
also a synonym of femorata. — 10. Tapinoma melanocephalus Fab.
[Riley]; in decaying tamarinds, East Street, Kingston; and on
corn (Zea) in Kingston.

The authorities for the identification of the species 'are given in
square brackets after the describers. This method of citation is
new or unusual, but I would venture to suggest its adoption by
writers who have insects identified for them. It is only fair to
those who identify species, that they should get the credit due to
them, and further, the value of a list is greatly increased when
we know who is responsible for the identifications. This being
granted, the method hefe employed has the advantage of clear-
ness and brevity. When no authority is cited in this way, it
should be assumed that the writer identified his own species, or
that the records are not new. When the record refers only to
specimens compared\yy the writer with other specimens identified
by a specialist, it is not fair to cite the specialist as authority,
since the writer might have made some mistake.

o

Two weeks in Richmond County. North Carolina.

By FRANK M. JONES, Wilmington, Del.

In the March number of the NEWS is given a list of the Le-
pidoptera captured by Messrs. Skinner and Laurent in Mitchell
County, North Carolina, between the dates of July yth and 2ist.
One month later, I collected for a similar length of time in Rich-
mond County in the south central part of the same State, and for
a few hours in the vicinity of Wilmington, N. C., and as the in-
sect fauna of the one locality < Mitchell County) is that of tin-
mountains, and of the other that of the warm and moist lowlands,
a comparison ol the species met with may be of interest.

The soil ol Richmond County is extremely sandy, and but
little ot the land is under cultivation. Although a greater va-
rietv of trees are to be found in the moist hollows and alon^j the

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[June,

small streams or " branches," pines and oaks are almost exclu-
sively the trees of the higher ground. Along the "branches"
the collecting is excellent, especially at the flowers of Clethra
alnifolia, at which nearly all of the diurnals were captured, and
in the clearings, though often a tangle of high grass and rank-
growing plants, Pamphilae especially abounded.

Fifty-seven species of butterflies were met with, including one
new species, since described by Dr. Skinner as Pamphila Carolina.
The three species marked with a * occurred at Wilmington, N.
C. , and not in Richmond County.

LIST OF BUTTERFLIES.

Danais archippus,
Euptoieta claitdia,
Phyciodes tharos,
Grapta interrogationis,
Pyranieis huntera,
Jnnonia ccenia,
Limenitis ursnta,
Limenitis disippus,
Debis portlandia,
Neonympha areolatu.s,
Neonympha sosybius,
Satyrus a/ope,
Libythea bae/unaiii,
Calephelis borealis*
Thecla ha!esus,

" m-albiim,
melinus,
pceas,

Chrysophanus hypoplilczas,
Lycfrna pseitdargio/iis.
Lyccena comyntas,
Pieris rapes,
Catopsilia eiibule,
I\fegatiosfoina c&sonia,
Terias uicippe,

" lisa,

" j it c iiiida,
Papi/io ajax*

" I it nuts,

Papi/io turnus glaucns,

asterias,
" trail us,
" palamedes,
" phi/eiior,
Ancyloxypha monitor,
Pamph ila campestris,
phylceuS)
brcttus,
of ho,
cernes,
verna,
" acciiis,

macidata,1''
' ' vitellins,

" f ii sea,

arogos Bd.-Lec.
Carolina,

Aniblyscirtcs via/is,
Amblyscirtes textor,
Pyrgus tessellata,
Nisoiiiaitcs inar/ialis,

" petronius,

P/io/isora cafn/liis,
Eiidain/ts ba//iy//us,
lycidas,

lilyrns.

Debis portlandia, Neonympha arcolattts and sosylu'ns, and
rus alope, were all quite common, as were also Thecla halctus
and T. melinus. Tcrias jucunda \\ras extremely common among

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the scrub-oaks; all of the Papilios were rather rare, and not a
single Colias or Argynnis was seen; with the exception of Pam-
phila maculata, P. arogos and P. Carolina, none of the Pamphike
mentioned were rare, and otho, acci^ls and vitellius, were quite
abundant.

Of the moths, about seventy species were taken. Choerocampa
tersa occurred at flowers, and the larva was found feeding on
Diodia feres. At sugar, the larger Catocalae occurred sparingly,
ilia and cara being the only species taken; but elonympha came
in swarms, as did also Homoptera ediisa, Zale horrida and many
less common species. Exyra riding sii occurred as larvae, pupae
and perfect insects, in the large trumpet-shaped leaves of a spe-
cies of pitcher-plant (Sarracenia flava). These leaves or ' ' trum-
pets." are excellent traps for a great variety of insects. Coleop-
tera seem to predominate, and although the specimens in the
bottom of the "trumpet" are partly digested, and, as a rule,
unrecognizable, those near the top are often alive and in perfect
condition. The largest moth taken from one of these natural
traps was Agrotis ypsilon, and smaller species were of frequent
occurrence.

The suggestion made by Dr. E. Kunze (ENT. NEWS, vol. ii,
p. 174) that collectors should plant Clcthra alnifolia in their gar-
dens is certainly a good one, for the blossoms of this plant are
not only attractive to swarms of clay-flying insects, but are also
visited by many more at night.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA ( Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

Next in order in our lists follows the Noctuid series, comprising
the Thyatiridae, Noctuidae and Breprmkr, the former a link to the
Bombyces, the latter to the Geometridae. In a general way these
families agree in venation, but there is not otherwise any very
strong band of union between them.

The Thyatiridae have a moderately robust body with a com-
paratively short thorax, long abdomen and largo wings, resem-
bling the Notodontidse quite stnngly in these features. The
thoracic tutting is evident in most cases, shouing a very decided

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tendency to form a divided median crest, uplifted patagiae and a
circular, disc-shaped collar. In venation the primaries have a
furcate dorsal or internal vein, 5 belonging- to the median series
and near to 4, and accessory cell often, though not universally
present. There is considerable variation, even within specific
limits, in the distribution of the veins at the end of the subcostal,
and even the two opposite wings of the same specimens may
differ to some extent. The location of vein 5, which is an essen-
tial point, is constant, and separates the family from the Noto-
dontidae. The secondaries in the typical series have the costal
vein sinuate, and the subcostal branched before the end of the
cell; in Leptina these characters are scarcely marked enough to
attract attention at first glance; but these are the characters of
venation which separate them from the Noctuidae. Vein 5 is
nearest to 4, as on the fore wings. It is quite likely that the es-
sential family character of the Thyatiridae has escaped us thus
far; certainly Leptina scarcely fits into the characters drawn from
Bombycia or Thyatira. In our fauna we have very few species,
and some of these are very rare. The species grouped under
Bombycia in my list are certainly not congeneric, but I have
never had all of them together at one time for careful study.

In the Noctuidae we have a very great diversity of appearance,
size and wing form, as well as a very great diversity in the form
and habits of the larva, and yet, up to the present time, it has
not proved possible to divide the family satisfactorily. The pri-
maries have a more or less evidently forked dorsal or internal
vein, vein 5 nearer to 4 than to 6, and an accessory cell present,
except in rare instances. The secondaries have the costal vein
free from the base, usually joining the subcostal close to its origin
and forming a small cell at the base, but never connected by a
transverse vein. Rarely the costal arises out of the subcostal,
and we then have a structure almost indistinguishable from the
Arctiidae. Vein s belongs to the median series, and is not remote

*-> c5

from 4. There are two simple internal veins. As a whole, the
venation is very constant, and where aberrations occur, they are
rarely such as to cause doubt whether or not the insect is refer-
able to the Noctuidae. In body structure the insects arc usually
robust, with an approximately quadrate, convex thoracic dorsum,
i distinct, though not prominent head, and a proportionate, cy-
lindric or cylindriconic abdomen, ordinarily not extending beyond

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the hind angles of the secondaries. The wings are usually rather
small in proportion to the body and the primaries are trigonate,
with marked, though rarely pointed apices. The ocelli are pres-
ent, except in rare instances, and as a rule the tongue is well de-
veloped. The legs are usually well developed, moderate in
length, the posterior longest, tibiae of median pair with terminal
spurs, those of posterior pair with middle and terminal spurs.
The anterior tibia has, in lieu of spurs, an epiphyses on the inner
side, covering an excavation which occupies a greater or less ex-
tent of the member. While the above characterizes the normal
iorm of the Noctuida;, there are numerous departures from the
type. The head, instead of being moderate only, may become
prominent, or it may, on the other hand, become reduced in size,
retracted and bombyciform in appearance. The tongue, while it
never becomes excessively long, may dwindle and become obso-
lete, and this is usually associated with a retracted head. The
palpi vary in every possible way, from the small tubercles which
are hardly perceptible, to the prominent, rostrate type found in
the Deltoids. The antennae are as variable; in the females they
are usually setaceous or bristle-form, but by no means always;
in the males they range from setaceous to broadlv pectinated,
though never to the doubly pectinated type; sometimes there are
other peculiarities in the male antennae, like the knots in Rcnia,
or the peculiar twists in Herminia. These variations in the ap-
pendages oi the head furnish good characters for generic divi-
sions, and, in addition, the character of the frontal structure and
of the frontal clothing, as well as of the eyes, are made use of.
In the great majority of cases the eves are naked, hemispherical,
are not particularly prominent; sometimes they will become al-
most globose, and the most conspicuous feature of the head; or,
on the contrary, they may be reduced to lentil-shaped discs, or
may loose their round form altogether anil become reniform, or
kidney-shaped. Sometimes we find at the margins a fringing of
long hair overhanging the eyes, and thev are then said to be
lashed; again, there may be a clothing of more or less conspicu-
ous Imir on the surface, a single hair from each facet, set in one
ot ihe angles. Lashed eyes usually aeroinpany a somewhat re-
tracted head, and are more usual in the Xvlinifonn series. The
trout varies quite tre<|uently. and while the iM'eat bulk of the spe-
cies have it smooth and not modified in anv wav, we often find

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it roughened and protuberant; or with a cup-like depression, in
which there is usually a tubercle or other process; or there may
be a conic projection, with or without a depression at the tip;
sometimes instead of a conic protuberance or a depression, we
have a flattened, plate-like projection varying in form, and generic
characters are furnished by these modifications. It is quite a
characteristic of the fauna of the elevated Western plateaus that
the majority of the species have the front modified in some way,,
while along the Atlantic coast and in the Northeastern and central
portions of our country this character is somewhat exceptional.
The clothing of the head may be hairy or scaly; smoothly applied
or forming tuftings, and we get some generic characters here.

(To be continued.)

PHIDIPPUS OPIFEX McCook. — In that admirable work on American
Spiders by Dr. H. C. McCook, he says: "I know no Saltigrade and no
Lateragrade that produces more than one cocoon, although of the former
Stavely says that Epibleiuutn scenicum makes one or two, and of the latter
that Pkilodromus caespiticolis deposits two flattened cocoons in a large
nest."

I have repeatedly gathered the cocoon nests of this Phidippus in search-
ing for parasites on their eggs, and have seldom, or ever, found one with
less than two cocoons, and I have found them with as many as four; three
is a very common number.

The nests may generally be found in the centre of some foot-hill shrub
of Sage or Encelia, the illustration thereof as given by Dr. McCook is
very typical. In the seclusion of her nest the female first spins a shallow
disc, in which the eggs of a pinkish red color are placed; over this, but
quite separate from it, she weaves a cover larger but less firm in texture
and pats it down so uniformly as to leave the lid impressed exactly like a
thimble top. The convex sides are made to adhere by a few loose threads
wound round at their junction and finally covered over with a sheet of
web that separates it from the cell occupied by the female. The young
all hatch out in August or September, and in their growth naturally sepa-
rate the sides and escape into the surrounding cottony mass, where they
safely remain until the Spring. — ANSTRUTHER DAVIDSON, M. D., Los
Angeles, Cal.

THE following has been received: Agricultural College, Las Cruces,
N. Mex., U. S. A., May i, 1893. Please take note that my address, afft'i
June /, 1893, will he as follows: C. H. Tyler Tuwnsend, Curator of Mu-
seum, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, \Y. Indies.

\\Y wish Prof. Townsend all prosperity in his new lield of labor.

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THE latest number of "Insect Life" (April, 1893, p. 215) contains the
following comment on the department of Entomological Literature of the
NEWS:

'* Entomological News .... no longer gives abstracts of the contents
of foreign entomological journals, or of only such items as refer to Amer-
ican entomology .... [This] innovation we regret and must view as a '
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department. Even those who have access to the larger number of the
entomological publications of the world cannot examine them all and a
current statement of the contents of all in compact form is invaluable.
Such a department might well be made more, rather than less complete,
and would secure more subscribers than any other feature."

A partial statement of , the reasons leading to this change was given in
the NEWS for January, 1893, p. 16. It was believed at the time that only
a very few of our subscribers made any use of the notices of such papers,
not of a monographic character, as were concerned with the description
of insects not found in North America in the broadest geographical sense.
It seemed, therefore, much better to employ this space in a manner which
would prove of greater benefit to the larger proportion of our readers.
Should it indeed be shown, from communications from subscribers them
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DEPARTMENT OF EGONOMIG ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B, SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J,

The Blld Moth. — This insect, Tmetocera ocel/ana, forms the subject of
Bulletin 50 of the Cornell Station, and is written by Mr. V. L. Slingerland.
The life-history of the insect is very completely given, and the features in
which the observations either contradict or confirm other writers are
pointed out. The question of remedies is treated in some detail, but not
so much to show what is useful as to show what is effective. Finally,
however, the recommendation is made that the trees be sprayed very
early, before the blossoms, or rather the buds open, so as to kill the hi-
bernated larva as soon as it begins feeding. It is probable that this will
prove at least partially effective.

This recommendation to spray early, is seasonable, and should be
adopted by fruit growers generally, even where they are not troubled by
the bud moth; but by the Plum Curculio alone. There is every reason to
believe that this creature begins feeding quite early in the season, even
before the buds are open in many cases, and that a spraying at this time
is even more effective than one made later. Several ot the most successful
growers in New jersey have informed me that they consider this first
spraying before the buds open, the most important, and that if they were
limited to one application only, this would be the one chosen by them.

Mr. Slingerland again speaks of the inefficiency of kerosene in pene-
trating eggs, and while he has not tried it "on this insect, he seems to con-
sider that it would be ineffective. The use of this substance is probably
not indicated here, but I have found it very effective in actual experiment
against the eggs of at least two species of Tortricidae, not very different
in appearance from those of the Bud-moth. There seems to be, of late,
a tendency to decry kerosene, just as, not so long ago, the tendency was
to consider it almost a cure-all. I have never been as successful as some
others in the use of this insecticide, but within a range, the exact limits
of which are not yet defined, it is one of the very best that we have.

One point deserves further emphasis. It has become the practice for
growers to use a combination of insecticide and fungicide, and Mr. Slin-
gerland properly commends this. He calls attention to the fact, which I
have several times referred to, that in making the combinations Paris
Green must not be used with any fungicide containing Ammonia, as this
is a solvent of the Arsenite of Copper. London Purple can be safely
used, however, and this is one of the reasons why 1 generally recommend
it in preference to Paris Green.

Blackberry, Raspberry and Wheat Insects: Spraying. — From the Ohio
Station we have three bulletins of entomological interest, that on the
Spraying issued by the Horticulturist. This is No. 48, and contains no-
thing that is new. lUilletins 45 and 46 are by Mr. Webster, and are coin-

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pilations to a large extent, especially in the case of the Blackberry and
Raspberry pests. The bulletins are good, and are extremely useful to
entomologists; but there is just a question whether it is the best plan to
issue as a Station Bulletin a work treating of insects which have not Ix-t-n,
and in some cases never will be injurious in the territory embraced by the
State for which the Report is issued. The average farmer wants to know,
and quite naturally, what to do with the pests that are troublesome in his.
land, and will not wade through a large pamphlet the bulk of which does
not concern him. \Ve all have our ideas of the proper, and Mr. \Yt-bster
may be nearer right than I am, but I certainly would not have included
(irapta comma among the injurious Blackberry insecis on the faith of a
single larva ar.d one chrysalis found on vines in the woods. Complications
of this character have an undoubted value; but they are really adapted
for general works like that of Mr. Saunders, on Fruit Insects, rather than
for Station Bulletins.

The Bulletin on Wheat Insects is of much more vital interest to the
farmers of Ohio, and Mr. Webster speaks with more positive knowledge
on this subject. It is the underground pests that are specially considered,
and this brings me to another repetition of the experience of the New
jersey farmers, that where they have used the commercial fertilizers, there
insects of this character do not trouble them. One of the largest growers
of Onion sets in the State told me recently that he never had the slightest
trouble with the Onion maggots so long as he did not use the barnyard
manure, and that he had become so firmly convinced of the value of these
chemical manures as insecticides that he used them exclusively. This is
one of the men that really make farming pay, and his experience is sug-
gestive.

Colorado Insects.— Some of these are treated in Bulletin No. 19 of the
Colorado Station by Mr. Gillette, and the Bulletin shows that its author
has not forgotten how to do good work. Quite a variety of species are
treated, none of which call for special comment, save to suggest that tig.
9, of Trypefa canadensis, would look a little better if it had legs. \\'<-
have always been under the impression that all insects had sonic legs,
though in some collections the matter is left in doubt, and in figures, the
Lepidoptera seldom have more than two. Mr. Gillette recommends the
application of arsenites as a remedy for two species of leaf rollers that he
has found injurious.

The Squash Lady Bird. — For some years Epilachne boreaKs has become
steadily more abundant in the Hasten, States, and has in some localities
become a serious pest on Cucurbs of all kinds. In New Jersey it seems
to have been more troublesome .m tin- Watermelon than on others of the
vines, but 1 have found it abundant on Pumpkins, Squashes, Melons and
Cucumbers as well. In the April number of the NK\VS I figured the
mouth parts of this species in ro-nparison with those of ('ni'cincHa 9-
to show the differences in the mandibular structure more particu-

198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

larly. The eating done by this beetle is somewhat peculiar in that it ap-
parently marks out its work when it starts feeding, and does not exceed
the portion at any time, preferring to go to another point and start a fresh
layout.

In the accompanying figure the characteristic injury is well shown. The
beetle gnaws through the epidermis on the upperside, in the form of a
more or less well marked semicircle and within this it feeds, sometimes

Fig. I. — Eaten leaf.

only the upper surface, sometimes leaving nothing, but more frequently
allowing a skeleton to remain. How many of these patches are eaten by
one beetle I cannot say; but as they are long lived, probably a considerable
number, since they are at all times feeding.

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

199

Somewhere in mid-Summer the insect lays its eggs on the underside of
the leaf, in little patches of from 15 to 20, or more rarely from 30 to 40.

These eggs are yellow, and
resemble the eggs of the po-
tato beetle quite closely; the
accompanying figure shows
their general appearance
fairly well. The eggs hatch
in about a week, and a little,
spinous, yellow larva, makes
its appearance, not unusually
signalizing its entrance into
the world by eating into its
helpless relatives who have
not yet emered from the egg,
showing perhaps a remnant
of the ancestral carnivorous
habit. The larva feeds indif-
ferently on the upper or un-
derside of the leaf, but more

Fig. 2. — Egg patches.

commonly on the latter, and

-eats the epidermis only, and not the entire leaf tissue. The infested
leaves dry up, wither and die.

Late in July, or in August, the larvae become full grown, and then ap-
pear as shown in the figure. The spines when examined under a mod-
erate power of the microscope
are very interesting objects ,
branching from main stem, the
branches themselves jointed as
in some of the urticating larvae.
The larva attaches itself by the
anal extremity and changes to a
pupa, much as do the other Coc-
cinellidu,', and this stage lasts
only a few days. The beetles,
after they emerge, feed very lit-
tle, if at all, and soon disappear,
finding Winter quarters under
rubbish, in outbuildings or barns,
or in fact wherever there is a'
(-re-vice large enough for them

Fig. :).— I.arva, pupa and iiiiajjo. tO Crawl into.

As to the remedies for this species, these are very simple: the insect
feeds entirely exposed ;it all periods of its life, and in tin- imago stage on
the upperside of the leaves, so that the arsenites can reach them without
anv trouble at all.

2OO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June,

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PICTURES FOR THE ALBUM OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL. So-
CIETV have been received from H. F. Bassett, C. H. T. Townsend, Philip
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Prof. LAWRENCE BRUNER, of the University of Nebraska, is writing a
revision of the "Grouse Locusts" (Tettigina- ). In order to make the
work as complete as possible, he will be pleased to receive sets of these
insects from collectors in all parts of North America, including the West
Indies.

To those already, or about to be, interested in the Odonata, or Dragon-
flies, it may be of interest to announce that the writer's catalogue of the
Odonata of the vicinity of Philadelphia is expected to appear in the
'Transactions" of the American Entomological Society about the close
of the Summer. The paper will consist of i. A description of the ex-
ternal and internal anatomy and development of the Odonata in general;

2. A catalogue of the species found near Philadelphia and of other N.
American species for comparison, with brief characters and descriptions;

3. A comparison of the Philadelphia Odonat fauna with that of North
America, etc. The general description will serve as an introduction to
the study of this group and will be more detailed than any account pre-
viously published in English. The paper will thus be of use to American
entomologists who are not concerned with the Philadelphia fauna. Illus-
trations will accompany the text. — P. P. C.

M. H. YIALLAXES, in his latest memoir on the nervous centres and sense-
organs of articulated animals (Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (7), xiv, pp. 404-456),
summarises his results as follows:

From the point of view of the cerebral structure, Linntlits and the
Arachnids constitute a most homogeneous group, quite distinct from all
the other Arthropods. In these two types the brain is composed of only
two segments, protocerebron and deutocerebron, both entirely

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phagial. The protocerebron, which innervates tlie eyes is strictly com-
parable to that of the Crustaceans, the M\riapocls and the Insects; it is,
however, to be remarked that in Limnlns the pedunculaied body attains
proportions truly colossal. This same organ, although modified, is also
recognizable in the Arachnids, where it has been described by M. Saint
Remy under the name of 'stratified organ.' In the Crustaceans, Myria-
pods and Insects, the deutocerebron is entirely pre-cesophagial; it fur-
nishes a root to the visceral system and innervates the first pair of cephalic
appendages. It is strictly the same in Liinnlus and the Arachnids, but
here the innervated appendages are called chelicerae instead of first pair
of antennae. The first pair of antenna; are above all, organs of olfaction,
while the chelicerae are only tactile appendages physiologically analogous
to the second antennae of the Crustaceans; in Limuliis and the Arachnids,
the deutocerebron is not differentiated into olfactory lobes.* A tritocere-
bron comparable to that of Crustaceans and Insects is wanting in the
Arachnids and Liinnlus; in these animals, the first ganglionic mass which
follows the deutocerebron is exclusively concerned with the innervation
of the mandible (first maxilliped in Limuhis}. The visceral nervous sys-
tem of Arachnids and Limit/us is represented only by ganglia homologous
to the lateral ganglia of Insects and derive their roots from the deutocere-
bron; but the ganglia imparia are wanting, their absence being correlated
with that of the tritocerebron. The homologies of the nervous system
necessarily enter into those of the cephalic skeleton. The chelicerae are
evidently the homologues of the antennules of Crustaceans and of the
antennae of Insects. The rostrum of Arachnids being innervated by the
deutocerebron cannot be completely homologous to the labrum of Insects,
and Crustaceans, of which the innervation is tritocerebral; the rostrum
and the labrum are two analogous formations, but developed on different
zonites. . . . It results from this comparative examination that the Arach-
nids and Limuliis ought to be united in a single group opposed to all the
other Arthropods. They may be designated under the common name of
Chelicerata for the peculiar condition of their nervous system is connected'
with the absence of olfactory antenna- and the replacement of these latter
by chelicerae. The Crustaceans, Myriapocls, Insects and Penpafiis present
considerable resemblances between themselves. They can be united
under the name of Antcnnata to indicate that it is to the existence of olfac-
tory antennae that they owe the distinctive traits of their cerebral organi-
zation. The Antennata can be divided into two secondary groups : The
first comprising only the Crustaceans and characterized by a complete
development of the tritocerebron correlated with the existence of a second
pair of antennae. The second uniting the Myriapods, Insects and Peri-

* These considerations of a physiological order have led M. Saint Ki-niy to think that
the deutocerebron was not developed in the Arachnids, and that tin- second cerebral seg-
ment of these animals was the representative of the tritocerebron of the Crustacea ; but
from a strictly morphological point of view this opinimi lammt In- admitted, the second
cerebral segment of the Arachnids having its commissure pre-u-sophagial, cannot 1 e com-
pared to the tritocerebron, whose commissure is always \>»^\. • i scijihagial.

6*

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pafns, which are all characterized by a reduction of the tritocerebron cor-
related with the absence of a second pair of antennae. The following
table will show this new grouping, which, it seems to me, better expresses
the affinities of the groups of Arthropods than any other.*

( Myriapoda

f Biantennata -| Peripatus

i Antennata •] ( Insecta

Arthropoda -I L Quadriantennata Crustacea

I rhf>1i> f Limulus

\ Arachnida

A WEEVIL LIVING UNDER WATER is represented by the very rare Eit-
bric/rins aqnaticiis Thorns, lately observed at the Biological Station at
Ploen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, by Dr. Otto Zacharias, and is apt to
create great interest in entomological circles.

The little beetle in question is only a few millimeters long, but it mani-
fests such an eminent adaptation to live under water that it deserves our full
attention by all means. Without any organs particularly developed for
paddling, as the water beetles proper are furnished with, this weevil moves
about in the liquid element with the alertness of a Hydrachiride, to let
itself down occasionally on a spawning-plant, or on a leaf of the Elodea,
to rest. It swims chiefly by the two fore-legs, while the hind pair of legs
are hardly used at all. From a communication of Prof. E. Taschenb°rg
it is known of several weevils, that they occur only on water plants, and,
of Hydronoinas alismatis it is known, that it can remain under water for
a long time; all these novices at aquatic existence, however, are put into
the shade by the Enbric/iiiis, who behaves itself amidst the water mites
and Daphnides, etc., like one of themselves according to Dr. Kraatz at
Berlin, who determined this beetle, discovered by Dr. Zacharias in the
Ploen Sea; it is very rare in Germany. — AUG. MERKEL, New York.

THE PRESERVATION OF THE LARVAL FOOD BY DIGGER WASPS. — Arti-
cles relating to the habits of the digger wasps commonly mention a state
of "paralysis" or "suspended animation" (Prof. C. V. Kiley's account
of the habits of Sphecius speciosus, " Ins. Life," iv, 249; April, 1892, is the
latest), produced by the sting of the wasp. I have, however, observed
that death is produced directly by the sting of the wasp, notably in Nemo-
bins by Lyroda subita, and it appears that an antiseptic influence is exer-
cised by the acid from the sting, and the sealed condition of the wasp
cells helps in preserving the larval food in a fresh state. For a number
of years past this view of the effect of the sang has appeared to be the
correct one, but Fr. Dienelt, of Loda, 111., was the first to make it known
(see The Observer, Portland, Conn., April, 1892). In the case of large
insects stung by the smaller wasps the poison from a single stinging has
probably not caused death so speedily, lu-nce the apparent "paralysis"

* The division of the Arthropods into Tracheata and Brauchiata cannot be preserved,

as it separates the Arachnids from l.inr.ilus, which is their nearest ally, in order to brinjj
them close to the Insects and Mvriapods from which they differ in so many respects. . . .

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 203

spoken of. hut which really results the same unless the wasp larva so soon
begins to feed as to cause death in that way. In the case of llcmbex it
is known that the death of its prey occurs not from stinging, but from
piercing the head of the dipteron with its mandibles, hence no '•suspended
animation," and the storing of the fly in the wasp cell answers all neces-
sary care in preservation, although acid may also be injected by the wasp.
— \\'M. HAMPTON PATTON, Hartford, Conn.

.MR. LKVI W. MENGEL, of Reading, Pa., who was entomologist to the
first Peary expedition to Greenland, is a candidate for the position of the
United States Consul to Trinidad, \V. I.

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Entomological Literature.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE CONNECTICUT ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCI-
ENCES, viii, 2, New Haven, 1893.— New England spiders of the family
Attidte, J. H. Emerton, 6 pis. New England spiders of the family Tho-
misidce, id., 5 pis.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., April, 1893. — Some new
Locustidae from Indiana, W. S. Blatchlcy. On some butterfly larva? not
hitherto described, H. G. Dyar. New North American Microlepidoptera,
Prof. C. H. Fernald. Hints on collecting Coleoptera during the Winter,
A. Ford. The butterflies of Grand Rapids, Mich , R. H. Wolcott. Try-
plwn flavifrons n. s., Rev. T. \V. Fyles. The song of Tliyrt-oiin/iis, \\ .
T. Davis. Notes on Leucania psfitJtir^yria Guen., Rev. T. \V. Fyles.
Two new Cynipids from Washington Slate, C. P. Gillette. Which side
of the tree does Phloeotribiis iiiniiiaris attack?. F. M. Webster. Trypeta.
Clisiocampa and Annnalo, T. 1). A. Cockerel!.

ANNALES DES SCIKNCHS X.VH-KKI.I.KS, ZoOLOGlE 171. xiv, 4-5. Paris,
March 10, 1893.— Histological studies on the nervous centres and the
sense-organs of articulated animals, H. Viallanes.

Till': VICTORIAN NATI-KALIST. Melbourne, March, 1893. — Notes on
some Victorian CoccicUe or scale insects, :: II, C. French.

* Contains new species other than North American.

204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

NATURE. London, April 13, 1893. — Notes on a spider, [Argiope sp.]
H. H. J. Bell. April 27, 1893. — The use of Ants to Aphides and Coccids,
T. D. A. Cockerell.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 1893, i. Berlin, March,
1893. — The large Hydrophilideof theworld, of the genus Hydrous Leach,
A. Kuvvert. Comparative researches on the abdominal segments and
the copulatory organs of male Coleoptera, a contribution to the knowledge
of the natural relationships of the same, C. Verhoeff, 4 pis. '

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, xxxi, 140.
Philadelphia, January-March, 1893. — The life-history of certain moths of
the family Cochliopodidae, with notes on their spines and tubercles, Dr.
A. S. Packard, 4 pis.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Ento-
mological Division. Bulletin No. 50. Ithaca, N, Y., March, 1893. — The
Bud-moth \_Tmetocera ocellana\, M. V. Slingerland; 29 pp., 8 figs.

PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., May, 1893. — Some observations upon two
species of Bruchus, M. V. Slingerland, i pi. An undescribed species of
Vespa, }. W. Shipp. Brief notes on two Jamaican Papilionidae, T. D. A.
Cockerell. Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Le-
pidoptera, v, W. J. Holland. Description of the pupa of Toxophora
virgata O. S., C. H. T. Townsend. The primitive number of Malpighian
vessels in Insects, W. M. Wheeler. Note on Atropharista jurinoides-
Towns., C. H. T. Townsend.

JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Devoted to
entomology in general; edited by William Beutenmiiller, and to be pub-
lished quarterly by the society. It is to contain about 200 pages per vol-
ume, with as many plates as possible. The subscription price is $2.00
per year, single copies 50 cents. Volume I, No. r, is dated March, 1893,
contains 48 pages and i plate, and its contents are: Common versus Proper
[Names], Mrs. A. T. Slosson. Attempt at a new classification of the
Bombycine moths, A. S. Packard. Notes on Macrops and Anthonotnns,
G. W. J. Angell. Notes on Oniticellus Serv., id. Some injurious insects
of the orchard and garden, Mrs. M. Treat. Notes on some North Amer-
ican moths, C. Palm, i pi. Notes on the life-histories of some Notodon-
tidse, A. S. Packard. New species and varieties of Bombyces, B. Neu-
moegen and H. G. Dyar. A new Lithosid genus, B. Neumoegen, fig.
On the food-habits of North American Rhynchophora, \V. Beutenmiiller.
Catalogue of the butterflies of Staten Island, W. T. Davis,

ACTES DE LA SociETE SciENTiFiQUE DU CHILI, II, 3. Santiago, Feb-
ruary, 1893. — Latrodectus fonnidabilis in Chili (cont), F. P. Borne.

JOURNAL OF THE TRINIDAD FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB, I, 7. Port of
Spain, April, 1893. — Preliminary list of Trinidad butterflies, W. M. Crow-
foot.

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STUDIES on the male tarsus in some adelphagous Coleoptera, H. F.
Wirkham. Ext. Iowa Nat. Hist. Bull. II, pp. 322-329, pis. v-viii, March,

1893-

THE CANADIAN RECORD OF SCIENCE, v, 5. Montreal, January, 1893.
-The Horn Fly, A. F. \Vinn.

JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, viii, i. Boston, April, 1893.— A contribu-
tion to insect embryology [mainly concerns the Orthoptera], \Y. M.
Wheeler, 6 pis.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT. Erlangen, April, 15, 1893. — The Pha-
raoh-ant (Mononioriuni pharaonis], Dr. J. Ritzema Bos.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER. Leipsic, April 24, 1893. — Comparative
study of the development of the egg in the agamic apterous form, in the
agamic winged form, and in the sexual form of the Phylloxera, V. Lemoine.

COMPTE RENDU. L/ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. Paris, April 17, 1893.-
On the circulatory apparatus of My gale ccementaria Walck., M. Causard.

SCIENCE. N. Y., May 5, 1893.— On a supposed climatic variation in the
wing-color of some Orthoptera, \Y. L. Distant.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xix.
Philadelphia (December, 1892), April, 1893.— A synoptical arrangement
of the genera of the North American Jassidse, with descriptions of some
new species, E. P. Van Duzee. The North American Pemphredonidae,
YV. 1. Fox. A synopsis, catalogue and bibliography, of the Neuropteroid
insects cf temperate North America, N. Banks, 6 figs, xx, i, May, 1893.
—Sphinges and Bombyces— A Review, J. B. Smith. A new genus of
Larridae, W. J. Fox. Synopsis of the Hormiinae of North America, \Y.
H. Ashmead. On a species of Sim -n In in from the Grand Canon of the
Colorado, C. H. T. Townsend, 6 figs. Notes on Lecanimn, with a list
of the West Indian species, T. D. A. Cockerell.

INSECT LIFE, v, 4. Washington, April, 1893. — The orange Aleyrodcx
(. /. litri n. sp.), Eds., figs. The pear-tree Psyt/a, Eds., figs. The Lang-
ddii non-swarming device, F. Benton, figs. Notes on Aphididre, H. Os-
born and F. A. Sirrine. Belvosia, a study, S. W. Williston, i pi. Ob-
servat'K nis on the boll-worm in Mississippi, S. B. Mullen. Notes on Entilia
sininita, Mrs. M. E. Rice, fig. The food-plants of some Jamaican Corcid.r
II, T. D. A. Cockerell. Observations <m some Hymenopterous parasites
of Cok-optera, F. H. Chittenden. Report on the Australian insects sent
by Albert Koebele to Ellwood Cooper and !'.. M. Lelon-, D. \Y. Cociuillett.
The genus Dcndrotettix, C. V. Riley.

TIIK ENTOMOLOGIST. London, May, 1893. — Prevention and dire of
grease, Rev. J. Greene. A list of Coleoptera new to tin- fauna of Japan,
with notices of unrecorded synonyms, G. Lewis. Suggestions fordei oying
butterflies. II. G. Knaggs.

2O6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

SOCIETAS ENTOMOLOGICA. Zurich-Hottingen, April 15, 1893. — On the
expansion of the wings of butterflies, Dr. O. Staudinger.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, May, 1893. — A
few remarks on Coccids, W. M. Maskell. A third species of Aleurodicus,
T. D. A. Cockerell. On the employment of arsenic as a preservative in
collections of insects, R. McLachlan. Conspectus specierum generis
Trigonotylus Fieb., O. M. Reuter. A synopsis of the British Psychodidae
(cont.), Rev. E. A. Eaton.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
(N. S.), xx, pp. 55-92. — Studies on the transformations of moths of the
family Saturniidae, A. S. Packard, 10 figs. April (?), 1893.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Division of Entomology. Bull.
No. 29. — Report on the boll worm of cotton (Heliothis armiger Hiib.).
Made under the direction of the entomologist by F. W. Mally. Washing-
ton, 1893; 73 pp., 2 pis.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Pt. CVII. London, March, 1893.
— Coleoptera: vol. iv, pt. i, pp. i-xxiv, title page, 565-572, pi. xxiii, G. C.
Champion. Vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 449-464, pi. xxi, G. C. Champion. Le-
pidoptera Rhopalocera: vol. ii, pp. 241-256, F. D. Godman and O. Salvin.
Rhynchota Heteroptera, pp. 385-408, pis. xxxiv-xxxv, W. L. Distant.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST. London, May, 1893. — The Pterophorina
of Britain, J. W. Tutt. Notes on certain Coleopterous insects found in
city warehouses, G. A. Lewcock.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ARACHNIDA.

Araneina: New species of Attidae, Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad. viii,
pp. 220-252; of Thomisidae, id., /. c., pp. 459-381.

COLEOPTERA.

Heteromera: n. gen. and spp. Mexico and Cent. Amer., Champion,
Biol. Cent. -Am. Coleop. iv, pt, i, pp. 565-572; pt. 2, pp. 451-464.

Histeridae: Synodites gibbidorsum, detritus, Schmidt, Deut. Ent. Zeit.
1893, p. 180, Mex. .S". graniformis, p. 181, id. ? Hetceriomorphus n. gen.
H. pcrplexns, p. 186, Mex. Hetariodes, n. gen., H. fraudulently, p.
1 88, id.

Macrops schauppi Angell, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. i, p. 12, loc?; M. lara-
iiiiftisis, p. 12, \Vy. Antkonomus dentoni, p. 13, Nev.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2OJ

HEMIPTERA.

Alcyrodes citri Riley and Howard, Ins. Life, v. p. 219, S. States.

Aradidce: Lobocara n. gen. Bergroth, Rev. d'Ent. xi, p. 259; L. orafa,
p. 260, Mex.

Heteroptera: n. gen. and spp. Distant, Biol. Cent.-Am. Rhynch. Heter.
PP- 3S5-408.

Jassidae: n. sp. Van Duzee, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, pp. 295-307.

Pemphigus attenuatus Osborn and Serrine, Ins. Life, v, p. 237, Iowa.

HYMENOPTERA.

Tryphon flavifrons Fyles, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 107.

Diastrophus kincaidii, Syncrgus garryana, Gillette, Can. Ent. xxv, p.
no, Wash.

Vcspa zuestzt'oodii, Shipp, Psyche, vi, p. 450, N. Amer.
Pemphredonidae; n. sp., Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, pp. 307-326.
Larridae: Diploplectron Fox, /. c., xx, p. 38, for Liris(?) brunneipes Cr.
Hormiinae: n. sp. Ashmead, /. c,, xx, pp. 39-44.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Crambns albilinellus Fernald, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 94, S. Cal. C. colora-
dellus, p. 95, Col. Alucita fishii, Nev., A. elliottii, N. Y., p. 95.

Hesperidae: n. sp. Cent. Amer., Godman & Salvin, Biol. Cent. -Amer.,
Lepid, Rhop. II, pp. 244-256.

Parorgyia atrivenosa Palm., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. I, p. 21, pi. i, fig. 5.

Hypopacha n. gen. Lasiocampidae, Neumoegen and Dyar, /. r., p. 29,
type Cnethocampa grisea Neum.; six n. var. Clisiocaiupa, pp. 30-31.
Trypanus perplexus, p. 31, Col. Hypopta edwardi, ethf/a, conic/id, p.
32, Col.; n. vars. of Nadata gibbosa and Xotodoiita styagiila, p. 34, 35.

tiruceia, n. gen, Lithosidae, Neumoegen, /. c., p. 35; />'. pnlrcrina, p.
36, Col.

NEUROPTERA.
Nothochrysa calif ornica Banks, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 373, Cal.

ORTHOPTERA.

Acrididse: Dcndrotettix Riley, Ins. Life, v, p. 254; D. fa Hgipt -nnis, p.
255, Texas.

Conocephalus pa/nstris Blatchley, Can. ICnt. xxv, p. 89, Ind. Oir/ic/i-
nimii indianense, p. 90, Ind. O. canipcstrc, p. 91, Ind. O. brnncri, p.
92, Ind.

Gladys (from Wellesley)— " Oh, l/ncli- Rufus! do look at these tadpoles
in tliis pool; and to think that sonic day all those horrid things will be
butterflies."

208 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

Thie Entomological Section.

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

APRIL 27, 1893.

A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy
of Natural Sciences was held in the Hall, S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race
Streets, this evening. In the absence of the director, Mr. J. H. Ridings
presided, and in the absence of the recorder, Mr. Calvert acted as such.
Additions to the Cabinet of the American Entomological Society were
presented as follows : one $ Aeschna jiincea, one <$ A. verticalis from
Mr. Calvert; Jamaican ants, four species, from Mr. J. Percy Moore; new
Hymenoptera, six species, from Mr. Charles Robertson ; twenty-three
species of European Hymenoptera new to the collection from Mr. Ernest
Andre" in exchange; eight specimens of a new species of Entcchnia from
Prof. J. T. Aldrich. Papers No. 280, 281 and 282, were presented for pub-
lication and referred to the Publication Committee. Mr. Fox called at-
tention to the new species of Entechnia, presented by Prof. Aldrich,
which has the tongue much longer than in any other species of the genus.
The eight specimens shown were apparently all females, and were col-
lected at Hot Springs, South Dakota, by Prof. Aldrich.

PHILIP P. CALVERT, Acting Recor-der.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

AN ANOMALOUS EMPID.

By D. W. COQUILLETT, Los Angeles, Cal.

Among the Diptera collected by the writer during the past
season is a single specimen, which, while undoubtedly belonging
to the Empidae, differs from all other members of" this family
known to me, in that the anal cell is open. Indeed, this is the
principal character employed by Dr. Loew for separating the
Bombylidse from the Empidae. The present form, however, has
much more affinity with the latter family than it has with the
Bombylidae. The spherical head attached to a distinct neck; the
absence of labellae; the very short first antennal joint, and the
long, robust terminal style; the very gibbous thorax, and narrow,
•elongated abdomen; finally, the absence of the second submar-
ginal cell in the wings, are characters which pertain to the Em-

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picke, but not to the Bombylidae. The almost complete oblitera-
tion of the first section of the fourth vein finds its parallel in the
Empid genus Syndyas, but so far as I am aware, is not known to
occur in any Bombylid genus. The course of the second vein,
closing the marginal cell, is a character not known to me as oc-
curring in either of the above-mentioned families. Still, this
character, as well as the other neurational ones, cannot be con-
sidered of sufficient importance to exclude the present form from
the Empidae, and it will best be located in the subfamily Hybotinae.
The following is- a description of this new form:

MYTHICOMYIA n. gen.

Body destitute of macrochsetae. Head globular, attached to a
distinct neck. Antennae porrect, two-thirds as long as head;
first joint very short, the second as broad as long; third joint
broadly lanceolate, not annulate, nearly three times as long as
the second; style terminal, nearly half as long, and one-third as
broad as the third joint, very densely pubescent. Eyes of the
male contiguous, and with an area of enlarged facets above.
Three widely separated, equidistant ocelli present. Proboscis
rigid, nearly as long as heighth of head, projecting obliquely
forward, destitute of labellae; palpi minute. Thorax greatly
arched, in profile higher than long. Wings having the marginal
cell closed; onfy one submarginal and four posterior cells, all of
them open, as is also the anal cell; first section of the fourth vein
colorless, the last, or seventh vein, very weak. Neuration as

shown in the accompanying figure.

Legs rather robust, but none of the
parts dilated, destitute of bristles, spines
and other processes ; front coxae less
than half as long as their femora; pul-

MVTHICOMVIA RILEVI. vilH well-developed , empoclium bristle-
like. (Name from the Greek Muthikos, legendary, and mnia, a
fly.)

Mythic comyia rileyin. sp. — Black, the frontal triangle, face, humeri, base
of the first and apices of the otlu-r abdominal segments excepting the last,
apex of femora, tibia- wholly, and tin- halt<-rrs white, the short, sparse
hairs also white; occiput, thorax and abdomen gray pollinose, the hypo-
pygium shining, one and one-third times as high as long, shorter than,
but projecting one-fourth its height above the eighth abdominal segment.
Wings uhnllx hyaline. Length ,?..s mm.

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Kern County, Cal. A single specimen in May.

It is with much pleasure that I dedicate this rare and very in-
teresting species in honor of our national entomologist, Dr. C.
V. Riley.

The accompanying figure is from a camera-lucida sketch, drawn
with the assistance of Miss Grace G. Kingsley, of this city.

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COLORADO CYNIPID/E.-Part IV.

By C. P. GILLETTE, Fort Collins, Colorado.

HOLCASPIS
H. Colorado n. sp.

Gall. — I have two small twigs, each containing a cluster of three galls
that resemble small, dark colored galls of H. rugosa Bass. The galls are
slightly drawn out into a blunt point; the largest measures three-eighths
of an inch in length by five-sixteenths of an inch in breadth. The sub-
stance of the galls is more dense than in rugosa or globulus, and the cen-
tral cell does not separate from the surrounding cellular tissue.

Gall-fly 9- — Black, shaded with rufous. Length 3.6 mm. Head dark
rufous, with parts bordering mouth, middle portion of face and vertex
black, or nearly so; antenna 13-jointed, black, third joint slightly longer
than the fourth. Thorax rather coarsely punctured, and from each punc-
ture arises a gray hair; the general color of the thorax is black, but there
is a tinge of rufous upon the shoulders and between the parapsidal grooves;
parapsidal grooves black, and rather broad at the scutellum, but extending
only about half way to the collar; median groove wanting, parallel lines
extending back from the collar distinct, lines over base of wings black,
smooth and shining; scutellum grooved at base, rugose, sparsely haired,,
and darker in color than the mesothorax; pleurae densely punctured, the
punctures giving rise to fine white hairs. Abdomen black polished, sec-
ond segment with fine pubescence on the sides near the base, second
segment hardly covering more than one-third of the dorsum; the abdomen
is truncate and compressed laterally, the greatest depth from the dorsum
to the venter being greater than the length. M'ings hyaline, 4.2 mm. long;
nervures black, but not heavy; areolet rather large. Feet blackish, tinged
with rufous; tibice darker than femurs.

Described from one living female cut from the gall Oct. 31,
1892. The galls were taken at Manitou, Col., September 3Oth.

BELONOCNEMA.
B. Colorado n. sp.

Gall-fly 9- — General color dark rufous; head entirely rufous, but rather
lighter in color than the other parts of the body. Head: Facial carina
rather prominent, labrum elevated at the free end and slightly notched.

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sculpturing of face consisting of fine impressed lines outlining small, more
or less hexagonal areas; mandibles and palpi pale yellowish, ocelli ap-
proximate, a tinge of black about the base of each, occiput slightly tinged
with black; first joint of antenna rufous, second tinged with same color,
the following joints black, third joint as long as fourth and fifth together.
Thorax smooth and shining, parapsidal grooves very distinct, median
groove absent; scutellum rugose, without fove£e, but with broad basal
groove; pleura? of pro- and meso-thorax smooth and shining, the meso-
thorax striated on a small part of its upper surface immediately beneath
the base of the wing; the pro-thoracic pleurae are sparsely punctured and
near the anterior coxas are striated. Abdomen dark rufous shading into
black at the tip, the second segment bearing a few scattered hairs at the
side. N'ings hyaline, nervures distinct, but without smoky margins, ra-
dial nervure long and but little curved, and the radial cell long and nar-
row, cubital nervure reaching the first transverse areolet medium in size;
length 5.5 mm. Tw/dark rufous, the femora being lightest in color.

Described from a single female taken by the writer at Dolores,.
Col., June 18, 1892.

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THREE NEW SPECIES OF PAMPHILA.

By Dr. HENRY SKINNER, Phila., Pa.

Some weeks ago while on ;i visit to Reading, Pa., and looking'
over the Hesperidae in the wonderful collection of Lepidoptera
belonging to Dr. H. Strecker, I found these three new species,
and was kindly allowed to take them home with me for study and
description:

Pamphila streckeri n. sp. rf. — Expanse 1.25 inches. This is a y
fulvous species with a narrow dark brown bonier to all wings. J'/i-
marii's: yellow-fulvous, except the dark border, which is about one-
eighth of an inch in width. The stigma is a long, narrow, black line, ex-
tending from median nervure to submedian nervure, crossing obliquely
two nerve spaces; at the end of cell there is a distinct, black, V-shaped
mark, composed of two lines with the point toward tip of wing. \-<~(»i-
ifaries: these are yellow-fulvous, with a dark border similar to primaries,
except that on primaries there is no fuscous on costa, except at tipr
whereas in secondaries the dark border extends all around and widens
toward base of wings. The border on exterior margin of secondaries is
narrower than on primaries, and the yellow-fulvous of central- are:, of
wing runs into it in marked indentations, then- being four well-delmed
teeth. Fringes to all wings yellow-fulvous, f '/nti'i-sirfc: primaries s.une
as above, excepting that there is the usual dark basal mark; the bonier is
same width as above, but lighter in color, and the yellow veins run
through it giving the fuscous a dentate appearance; and the yellow-fulvt ui<

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fringe is separated from wing by a remarkably distinct and well-defined
black line. The secondaries are greenish gray with the nerves lemon-
yellow, making a distinct and curious combination; the interspace between
the last median and the submedian nervure is bright yellow-fulvous;
fringe and black line same as on primaries.

This is a remarkable species, and can be readily recognized by
character of stigma, dentate fulvous on secondaries above, and
by the marking of secondaries below. Above the species looks
like delaware, only it is darker in color, and below it reminds one
very much of Thymelicus poweschiek.

Described from one £ in the collection of Dr. Strecker, after
whom I have named it. The specimen came from Florida.

Pamphila yehl n. sp. $. — Expanse if£ inches. This species looks con-
siderably like aaroni, and the superiors are marked not unlike pawnee,
thus having a heavier stigma than aaroni. Upperside: primaries yellow-
fulvous, with a brown border three-sixteenths of an inch in width; three
yellow-fulvous subapical spots situated in the brown border, the border
extending inwards from these to the end of cell; stigma rather wide and
mud-color in the middle, it is faintly divided in two by the nervure; beyond
the stigma and extending to brown border are two quadrate, yellow-ful-
vous spots, and at outer end of stigma a small V-shaped one, and at end
of this and directly below the extra discal spots is another minute V-shaped
spot. Secondaries: centre yellow-fulvous, with a dark brown border ex-
tending all around; the yellow-fulvous is broken into four distinct parts
by the nerves, with an extra one in the cell. Underside: there is nothing-
characteristic about primaries below; secondaries are light cinnamon-
brown in color (much like leonardus); in the centre of the wing, closely
placed, there is a semicircle of four yellowish round spots, with an addi-
tional one placed more inwardly toward the base.

These spots are not nearly so well defined as in leonardus. The
species comes near aaroni.

One specimen from Florida in collection of Dr. Strecker.

Pamphila alcina n. sp. tf. — Expanse 1.5 inches. Cppcrside. Primaries:
stigma black and well marked; three subcostal spots showing not very
distinctly in the fulvous of costa; taking on artificial line from subcostal
spots through stigma to inferior margin, the whole of this area to base of
wing is fulvous; external to the stigma are two fulvous spots one above
the other; the lower one is quadrate, and the other a triangle enclosed by
the nerves; the fulvous extends along interior margin to outer margin of
wing; the remaining part of wing is brown; the inferiors are brown, with
the central area covered by ill-defined fulvous spots and scales, I 'udcr-
nde of inferiors greenish fulvous, immaculate.

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From three male specimens from Colorado; two in coll. of
author and one in coll. Dr. Strecker.

This species comes closest to manataaqua and cernes, hut is
larger than either and lighter in color.

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Notes on LITHOSIID^E and ARCTIID/E, with cescriptions
of new varieties.— I

By B. NEUMOEGEN and HARRISON G. DVAR.

(Continued from page 143.)

E. nais Dru. rf . — Thoracic vestiture shaggy. Head and collar above
pale ocher-yellow, rarely with two black spots on the collar; thorax pale
ocher-yellow, with three black stripes; abdomen same color with a broad
dorsal black band, broadest centrally. Below, nearly entirely black;
fore wings black, with pale ocher-yellow marks; when complete, these
are as follows: a costal line from base two-thirds length of wing ( but the
costal edge is black), a median band from base to end of cell, where it is
bent at right angles to touch costal band, and sends off at its middle below
a branch to internal angle; a terminal W-shaped mark, the upper limb of
which does not quite attain costa; its central angle joins the angle of the
median band, and its lower limb the branch at about the middle of the
latter; the fringe and internal margin are also pale ocher-yellow; usually
the outer part of these marks is more or less obsolete, and the W mark
and branch of median band may be entirely absent; hind wings pale ocher-
yellow, shading to darker at the central basal area, rarely overspread with
a light red shade in this portion. There is one marginal, three submar-
ginal, an elongate apical, and one small discal spot, all variable in size,
sometimes partly absent, or enlarged and confluent. Kxpanse 32-39 mm.

Female differs from $ in the smooth thoracic vestiture; the marks on
the collar are more generally present than absent; the color of hind wings
and abdomen is a darker ocher, and the marginal black spots tend to be
larger becoming confluent, and occasionally forming a complete black
border. Expanse 32-35 mm.

E. phalerata Harris. — Thoracic vestiture of cf smooth and even, or very
slightly shaggy; the black marks on collar and thorax distinctly present.
Abdomen pinkish red with dorsal black stripe; below entirely black; fore
wings black, with pale ocher-yellow markings, with a slight flesh-colored
tint. The pattern is as in fiais, but the costal edge is yellow, and the
markings never show a marked tendency to become obsolete. The costal
band extends almost to the apex and the upper limb of W mark joins it;
rarely it is disconnected and shortened, but this is the extent of variation;
hind wings pale ocher-yellow, pinkish red along abdominal margin; tin-
color fades away outwardly, but often largely overspreads tin- wing; black
marks as in nais, but the dJM-al dot is usually larger, while tin- --pots do

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not usually b come confluent, though they are often reduced in size or
entirely absent. Expanse 34-38 mm.

Female differs from $ in the smoother thoracic vestiture, though the
difference is not marked, and in the color of hind wings, which are crim-
son-red, the black spots larger than in 9> but usually not confluent. Ex-
panse as in (j\

E. vittata Fab rf. — Thoracic vestiture shaggy, but less so than in nais,
black spots on collar absent. Abdomen ocher-yellow, with a broad black
dorsal band, which widens posteriorly and covers nearly the whole of the
last abdominal segment; fore wings black, marked as in nais, but the
costal edge is yellow nearly to apex, as it is in phalerata. The terminal
W mark is even more invariably obsolete than it is in nais, the marks
being sometimes reduced to the costal and median longitudinal lines;
hind wings ocher-yellow or red, the spots almost always decidedly con-
fluent, and frequently forming a complete border. Expanse 38-43 mm.

In the 9 the thoracic vestiture is smooth, the black spots are
often present on the collar, the abdomen is more covered with
black posteriorly, while the marks on the fore wings are usually
more reduced and the marginal black band of secondaries often
covers more than half the wing; otherwise as in the £ .

Mr. Dyar is prepared to show from the differences in the £
genitalia that these three forms are entited to specific rank, and
we are informed by Mr. J. Doll that the larva^ of phalerata and
decorata (= vittata] differ strikingly in appearance.

Hypercompa caja Linn.

The typical form with red hind wings occurs in the Pacific
Northwest, as we learn from Prof. O. B. Johnson.

Var. americana Harris.

This inhabits the Northeastern part of the continent.

Var. iifa/iensis Hy. Edw.

The white marks are more extensive, the hind wings yellow.

Var. transmontana n. var.

This a Western varietal form, still more extreme in its mark-
ings than var. utahensis Hy. Edw., coming, in its profusion of
white on primaries, very near //. wiskotti Stgr. from Asia Minor.
The ground color of primaries is white, with the following macu-
lation in blackish brown. Three irregular, broad, transverse
stalks from basal half of costa, converging below cell in subnic-
clian space and followed by a large blotch, either subovate or sub-
quadrate, resting on basal half of internal margin. A large,

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subquadrate spot, angulated outwardly, from apical part of costa
to veins 5-4, and another broader blotch similarly notched at
outer edge, resting on internal margin near angle, sharply pointed
at conjunction with vein 3. The interspace between veins 3 and
4 as well as the anterior margin is entirely immaculate white.
Apical blotches either wanting or minimal; a narrow terminal
line; small basal dots from costa to internal margin. Secondaries
light yellow; no cliscal dots, but large transverse dots of steel-
blue in basal part of cell, and from one to three submarginal dots
of same color. Below, the maculations of primaries are more
reduced, only two stalks from costa, which converge in cellular
interspace, the stalk nearest base wanting. The large subovate
blotch in basal half on internal margin, more or less obsolete.
Basal dots absent; secondaries as above.

Hab. — Western Colorado. Caught by Mr. D. Bruce in several
examples. Types in Mr. Neumoegen's collection.

Yar. opulenta Hy. Ed\v.

As originally suggested by the describer, this must be only a
variety of caja. It is distinctly led up to by the form described

above.

Genus ZATREPHES Hub.

Head rather small, front higher than wide, narrowing a little
below, smooth, slightly convex; ocelli present, eyes large, glo-
bose, naked; antennae inserted over the eyes, very far apart,
simple, minutely ciliate; palpi exceeding the front by more than
half their length, ascending; tongue long, strong, coiled. Tho-
rax as long as broad, with smooth vestiture of hair and scales.
Abdomen moderately stout, exceeding the secondaries; the ter-
minal joints conical. Legs slender and closely scaled, long,
subequal; posterior tibia- with two pairs of short spurs, tarsi very
slightly spinuated with two claws at tip; fore wings produced at
apex, costa slightly and evenly convex, outer margin very ob-
lique; wing more than twice as long as broad; vein i free, sub-
sinuate, median four branched, veins 3-5 arising very close to-
gether and remote from 2; cell closed, the cross-vein deeply bent
inwards below the middle, the upper part oblique; 6 from apex
of cell; 7-10 on a stalk from origin of 6, vein 10 running very
close to the others; i i arises from the subcostal and is also much
crowded in the narrow coital space; \2 free, \vith a loop near
base below to receive the frenulum of secondary; hind wings tri-

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gonate, costa and outer margin slightly convex; 2 internal veins;
median three branched; cell broad, closed by a slightly concave
vein; 5 arises below the middle of cross-vein; 6 is a continuation
of the subcostal; 7 arises from subcostal before end of cell, 8
wanting.

This genus seems hardly to belong to the Arctiidse. In the
position of the median venules of the hind wings it is like the
Agaristidae, but vein 8 is entirely absent.

Z. trigona Grt.— This differs from its ally, Z. specularis H. S., as follows:
Head, collar and patagia in specnlaris uniformly yellowish gray; in trigona.
mouse-gray, with a central line and rims of collar, as well as the edges
of patagia, of rose color. Primaries above: the hyaline space in specu-
laris runs from costa in three small undulations to within outer margin,
then loops inwardly, skirting the discal area in two large bows back to
costa. In trigona it is a simple curved line, keeping at a distance from
the outer margin, resting with a sharp inner hook on median vein and
then traveling back to costa in a curve. In specularis it is strictly hyaline;
in trigona the space is powdered with straw-yellow, bcth having the black
granules; the space of costa covered by hyaline blotch is 8-9 mm. in
specularis; 5-6 mm. in trigona. The apical area in specularis is yellow-
ish gray, the costa being yellow, while in trigona it is blackish gray, with
a red apical costa. In specularis the intersection of nerves at outer mar-
gin is light gray, in trigona it is black; besides there is a narrow, but
bright yellow marginal band in trigona. A rose colored, small basal dash
and a small reddish line at angle of trigona. In specularis there are two-
small yellowish basal dots, one resting on median and the other on sub-
median vein. In trigona there are two large basal dots, very often con-
fluent, thus forming an irregularly square, basal yellow field; besides,
there is always in trigona an irregular, yellowish blotch, covering the me-
dian space between this basal field and the hyaline costal area, most in-
tense in color near base and fading towards angle. Secondaries in specu-
laris strictly hyaline, with a brownish marginal rim and a light shade of
rose along anal margin. In trigona more opaque, whitish hyaline, no-
marginal rim, but an intensely rose-colored area along anal margin; ante-
rior margin of specularis slightly curved at centre and somewhat pointed
at angle, while in trigona it is well rounded. Primaries below in specu-
laris, as well as the nerves, whitish gray, with a rose-colored dash along
costa from inner rim of hyaline space pointing towards base. In trigona
the most intense rose color, with the exception of apical space, which is
dark gray, crossed by rose-colored veins and a marginal white tint along
inner margin. Expanse of wings: specularis 38-40 mm. ; trigona 33-35 mm.

The specimens before us are from Mexico, Chiriqui Hay and
Venezuela in specularis; and from Colorado and the Southwest
in trigona.

INT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PI. XI.

ARGYNNIS OWENI Edw. V

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ARGYNNIS CORNELIA E.hv.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv.

SEPTEMBER, 1893.

No. 7.

CONTENTS:

Hamilton — Medico- Entomology 217

Bean — Food-plants of Grapta zephyru^- 220

Smith — Elementary Entomology 221

Bassett — On the genera of Cynipidae — 223
Fyles — Early stages of P. bimaculata... 225

Oslar — Los Angeles Rhopalocera 226

Editorial 228

Economic Entomology 229

Notes and News 233

Entomological Literature 236

Entomological Section 241

Townsend — Stem gall on E. nevadense 242
Dyar — Life-history of P. eurymedon.... 243
Owen — Peculiar form of Arg. erinna.... 246
Townsend — Tick from ear of Coyote... 246

Kenyon — New Myriapoba from Neb 247

Neumoegen & Dyar — An undescribed
form of Gloveria 248

OUR illustration this month represents the upper and under-
sides of two species of Argynnis lately described by Mr. W. H.
Edwards. The specimens are in the fine collection of Prof. Edw.'
T. Owen, of Madison, Wis., and the negative from which the
half-tone was made was supplied by Prof. Owen. Next to the
Hesperidae, the species of Argynnis are probably the most diffi-
cult to illustrate in this way. The species were described in the
"Canadian Entomologist."

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MEDICO-ENTOMOLOGY.

By JOHN HAMILTON, M.D., Allegheny, Pa.

Stinging by Hymenoptera. In continuation of this subject
from an article on p. 51 of this volume, and volume i, p. 143, it
is desired to place on record the result of a personal experiment
made by the writer last Summer.

The muscle and nerve which pass over the point of the elbow
were injured by a fall, and six weeks afterwards remained quite
painful. In August, while collecting, some wasps (^Polistes) were
observed on some flowers, and a trial of the efficacy of stinging

218 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

was suggested. Five were successively caught, and each allowed
to insert its sting twice along the course of the tendon and nerve,
as well also as a black hornet ( Vespa maculata). The sting ol
the Polistes is very long and slender, and the wound quite pain-
ful; that of the Vespa, while much coarser and shorter, causes
less pain. The stinging was followed by some tumefaction and
an unpleasant, numb sensation, which lasted several hours; when
these ceased all pain from the arm was gone and did not return.
While stinging may be a paliative in some of the chronic forms
of rheumatism, from the nature of that disease, of itself, it could
not possibly effect a cure. Enough of authentic examples, how-
ever, exist showing that it may be employed with advantage in
certain neuralgic affections (the rheumatism of the unprofessional)
and in traumatic injuries of the nerves and muscles. So far as
known, no unpleasant sequences have ever occurred irom the
stings of Hymenoptera in any part of the body supplied by
nerves originating in the spinal cord; but in stinging about the
face and head which are supplied by nerves proceeding from the
brain itself great care should be taken to avoid wounding these
nerves, otherwise a fatality might occur, as cases are on record
similar to the one which follows, witnessed by the writer: While
watching the hiving of a swarm of bees in a lawn in a country
village, the owner, an oldish gentleman, was seen to suddenly
fall; reaching his side in an instant, he was found to be almost
pulseless and scarcely breathing; artificial respiration was insti-
tuted by an assistant, and soon medicinal remedies were at hand,
camphor, ammonia, etc., and a teaspoonful of compound spirits
of aether administered; in the space of half an hour heart action
and respiration were sufficiently re-established. The sting, which
remained in the puncture, had penetrated the supra-orbital nerve
a little above where it leaves the orbit. Should any one be in-
duced to try enkentric treatment, this danger in applications
about the head should not be overlooked.

Carpenter Bees. — It may not be so well known to entomolo-
gists as to country boys, that bees which alight on timothy stalks
and ripening grain are drones and may be handled with impunity.
Acting on this knowledge, one day last Summer, the writer
picked a bumble-bee from a grass stalk and proceeded to ex-
amine it for Stylops; suddenly he concluded that ho had met with
an exception to the rule about drones and timothy stalks, having

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unexpectedly received near the point of one of his fingers what
was supposed to be a sting, and severely painful, the blood flowed
freely, and there was a deep transverse cut about three-eights of
an inch in length. This seemed a rather curious sting. An ex-
amination, with judicious care, showed that the bee was really a
droiie, and that its other end possessed a weapon more formidable
than any sting — a long, sharp, sickle-shaped pair of mandibles
of horny chitin. Whether it is the habit of Xylocopa to use the
jaws as an offensive and defensive weapon, or whether the oc-
currence mentioned was accidental, can only be known by ex-
perimenting, which the writer does not propose to institute per-
sonally— an occasional sting is not greatly regarded, but he does
not care to be bit.

Hypoderma. — An imago of a species of this genus is the parent
of the well-known warble which is frequently seen on the backs
of cattle, It is said the eggs are conveyed into the mouths of
cattle when licking themselves, where, soon hatching out in the
fauces and throat, the larvae penetrate through the various tissues
till they reach the skin of the back, where they remain till fully
grown, escaping to the ground for pupation through the ulcerated
tumors they occasion. Several years ago I saw, professionally,
a boy, six years of age, who had been suffering for some months
from the glands on one side of his neck being swollen and a fcetid
ulceration around the back teeth of the lower jaw of the same
side. Three months' treatment was of no avail, and the end
seemed near; one day a white object, which was seen to move,
was observed in the ulcer at the root of the tongue, which, on
being carefully extracted, proved to be a large grub, which, from
having frequently seen them, I recognized as a full grown larva
of Hypoderma. It was of the usual tawny color, about half an
inch long when contracted, about one-third that thickness and
quite lively. The case ended fatally. This boy had been on a
dairy farm in Illinois the previous fall, where probably the egg
was in some way taken into his mouth, and the larva found be-
tween the base of the tongue and the jaw suitable tissue in which
to develop, coming to maturity at the same time with those bred
in cattle.

Prof. PACKARD is said to have been offered the Hope professorship of
Zoology at Oxford, England, to succeed the late Prof. \Yest\vood, but
declined, as he did not wish to leave America.

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FOOD-PLANTS OF GRAPTA ZEPHYRUS.

By THOMAS E. BEAN.

Early in August, 1890, I collected zephyrus larvae of various
ages from third stage to those nearly mature, at an elevation of
about 5800 feet, feeding on Ribes lacustre, a gooseberry very
common near Laggan, though also very local. They were taken
home, and with them a supply of the plant, on which they were
fed for a day or two, during which time several made pupa. The
supply of gooseberry being exhausted, and the nearest locality
for it quite distant, I was obliged to consult the botanies for a
substitute. Of accessible plants rose seemed most plausible for
trial. Accordingly, the wilderness of their can was made to
blossom with the rose, and the Graptas (there were ten or more)
were introduced. They climbed up on the awning in a long
procession to inspect the new Bill of Fare — looded askance at the
rose twigs and went away to look for a gooseberry patch. Pros-
pects for success of the experiment looked dark, but I persevered
in giving the botanical ultimatum a fair test. And the Graptas,
after many journeys around the can and a great amount of
''beating about the bush" (rosebush), reluctantly admitted the
analogy between rose and gooseberry, and began to tackle the
rose leaves. They successfully fed up, and I have to-day ten
fine rose-fed zephyrus in my collection. The butterflies are
mostly smaller than those from gooseberry. Since that time on
one occasion I found a single larva of zephyrus on rose, at a dis-
tance from any of the known food-plants of the species. But
when collecting the larvae in 1892, found freely in one locality on
gooseberry only, and in another place on Menziesia glabe lla only,
both localities within four miles of Laggan, none could be found
on rose. Although the fact cannot be considered fully proved,
my experience in 1892 seems to indicate that in this district
zephyrus has a local habit in regard to its food-plants: — where
the larva was found feeding on gooseberry I found none on other
plants in that immediate locality; where it was feeding on Men-
ziesia glabella careful search failed to detect any on either goose-
berry or rose in the same locality. Possibly the facts observed
may simply mean that zephyrus has a scale of preference in food-
plants; Menziesia glabella being the preferred plant, with goose-
berry as a second choice. I have tried no further experiments,

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but think it likely that Fragaria and Spirtza might be accepted
as food-plants by zephyrus in case of necessity.

Azalea occidentalis was recorded by Henry Edwards as the
food-plant of zephyrus in the Yosemite.

ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

As they are arranged in our list to-day, the Noctuidae begin
with a series of what maybe termed Bombyciform moths, having
some of the appearance of the Notodontidae, both in the adult
and larval stages. We find, in some cases, the retracted head,
short tongue and woolly vestiture, which gradually merges into
forms like Acronycta, which are typically Noctuid, of a whitish
color usually, and, as a rule, with black markings which show a
decided tendency to the Greek psi character. These are followed
by a series of rather small, slight-bodied moths — whitish, green,
red, or brightly colored, with rather large wings, of which Bryo-
phila is typical. The typical Noctuina follow, and contain a
series of robust forms with comparatively short, stiff wings, and
usually sombre or quite modest colors. The larvae are largely
cut-worms, and as such to be reckoned among the foes to agri-
culture. One of the most numerous series is that of the Agrofes,
all of them distinguished by naked eyes and spinose tibiae. In a
very large proportion of the species the front is modified into a
tubercle, or is at least roughened. The thoracic clothing and the
tuftings vary much, as does indeed not only the wing, but the
body form, many being quite depressed and flattened, while others
are quite cylindrical and with cylindro-conic abdomen. Quite a
number of genera, and about fifteen per cent, of all our species,
are represented in this series. This is followed by Mamestra and
its allies, all of them with hairy eyes, smooth front, and non-
spinose tibiae. In their appearance and habitus they are not un-
like the Agrotes, and have the same prevailing dusky colors with,
indeed, fewer exceptions. In the next, following Hadenids we
find again naked eyes, but unarmed tibiae, and here again the
front is not modified. The habitus is much the same as before,
and the body parts may be tufted or untufted; this and the wing-

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form serving to separate genera. Oncocnemis differs from the
surrounding allies by the possession of a claw on the fore tibia.
Through a series of more brightly colored forms we reach a series
of species and genera which are of a prevailing rusty or red-
brown tint, and of these Hydroecia may be considered typical.
They are Hadenids in most of their structural characteristics;
but color, wing form and vestiture, differ slightly, the latter much
more inclined to hairy. With Nonagria we begin a series of
forms in which the transverse maculation becomes less obvious
and a distinct tendency to a strigate type is manifested. Leu-
cania, with a predominating white color and hairy eyes, is the
leading genus. The following Taeniocampid series is character-
ized by hairy eyes and a usually reddish or brown color, the
vestiture varying from scaly to hairy. The front is always smooth
and the tibiae are never spinose, the anterior armed in one genus
only. The relation of this series to the forms classed under or
near Mamestra is sometimes close.

Similar in color, but much brighter, with naked eyes and a
usually smoother vestiture, are the Orthosiids, which often have
somewhat large wings and more slender, untufted bodies and tend
in some directions to flattened or depressed body, leading grad-
ually to what may be called the Xyliniform series. Here the wings
become narrower, more elongate, usually parallel, and the outer
margin is scarcely oblique. The head is frequently retracted
and the eyes quite usually furnished with long lashes, though
they may be hairy or entirely naked. In Xylina we have the
typical form, which changes gradually to the type seen in Cucul-
lia, where the wings are lanceolate and the thoracic tufting is
curiously developed. Anomis and Aletia seem to form the bridge
to the Plusiid series, in which we have bright, often metallic colors,
unarmed front and legs, naked eyes, a very characteristic tho-
racic and abdominal tufting, and in the larva a distinct tendency
to the looper or Geometrid type, the prolegs decreasing in
number.

Next follows a series of moths resembling the Plusiids in the
metallic colors and in the thoracic tuftings. The wings are
broader, however, with a tendency to become somewhat falcate
at tip, the front is protuberant and pitted, and the fore tibiae are
armed with a curved claw. From this type we have a gradual
merging into the Heliothid type. Here we have bright, con-

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trasting colors: white, sometimes silvery, often yellow, and some-
times red. As a rule, the tibke are spinose, and very often the
anterior are shortened and heavily armed at tip, the genus Schinia
being particularly distinguished in this direction. Anarta and
its allies are related to some of the Heliothids, the Plusiids, and
to Annaphila, through which we lead into the Acontiids. The
latter are mostly small species, usually brightly colored, with
close scaly vestiture, and closely scaled, unarmed legs. The
eyes are naked, and the front is rarely modified. Following this
series we reach another of a very decidedly different type — the
Catocalinse of Mr. Grote. The colors are sombre in most in-
stances, at least so far as the primaries are concerned, and the
secondaries are frequently maculate. A peculiarity of a large
proportion of these species is that the transverse posterior line on
the primaries makes an abrupt inward bend below the reniform,
leaving a prominent, square, often white or pale patch above it.
In Syneda, and its near allies, the secondaries are yellow or yel-
lowish, or red, leading into Catocala, in which they are yellow,
red, or black, and usually banded. In the latter genus the larvae
are semi-looped. In this series and the forms immediately fol-
lowing, we have usually or rather close, scaly vestiture, particu-
larly on the abdomen, which is usually smooth and cylindro-conic.
The palpi are smooth, upright, and usually reach at least to the
vertex, while the wings are large, leading to the Erebid series,
in which both pairs of wings are similarly marked by transverse
lines. At the end of the family we find the Deltoid series, so
called from the fact that many of them, when at rest, have the
form of the Greek letter delta. They are usually easy of recog-
nition by the unusually long palpi, which are sometimes curved,
sickle-shaped over the head, sometimes projected straight for-
ward, snout-like, clothed with upright scales. In this series we
find some of the most interesting secondary sexual characters
that are known in the order.

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ON THE GENERA OF THE FAMILY CYNIPID/E.

By H. F. BASSETT.

It is to be regretted that the work of genus-making in this
family had not been deferred until the dimorphism of most of the
species had become known, and the relationship of the two forms
had in each case been ascertained.

224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

The work in this line done by Hartig and Forster will event-
ually either give place to a new classification, or if preserved
must fasten on the species a nomenclature extremely awkward
and bewildering.

Hartig' s work applied to any other family of insects would
have been in every way correct and satisfactory, and the only
objections urged against Forster' s classification have been that
his genera are too often founded upon characters so obscure as to
render their identification in very many cases difficult, if not im-
possible, and that he founded on these obscure characters far more
genera than were necessary for a family comparatively small even
now, when the number of species has been very largely increased.
They thought the old Linnaean genus needed division, for they
had no intimation of the strange life-history of many of the spe-
cies that belonged to it, and that when this should become known
nearly half their species, and not a few of their genera would
disappear.

The genera founded within the last twenty-five years have not
only been labor lost, but have added to the literature of the sub-
ject much that has no real scientific value.

When Dr. Adler and others had traced the history of the Eu-
ropean species known to them, they found that many species not
only had two specific names but that in not a few instances a spe-
cies had been placed in widely different genera. Now, two forms
of an insect, differ they ever so widely, do not constitute two
species, and they are, if possible, still further from a generic sepa-
ration.

In his several articles on the North American Cynipidae, Baron
Osten-Sacken did not venture to establish new genera, though in
one instance he grouped species that he thought might be found
to have generic relations, but he still adhered to his plan of placing
all the Hymenopterous oak gall makers in the genus Cynips.
This he did, it seems, mainly for two reasons: the distinctive
character of most of our species which barred them out of genera
founded on European species and the rapid accumulation of new
material in this country. I can but think it would have been better
if we had followed his example till such time as our knowledge
of our species should be far more complete than it is even now.

I know how strong the temptation is to emphasize the peculi-
arities of a remarkable species by giving them generic value, but

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inasmuch as these features are probably confined to one ot the
two forms of dimorphic species, it may happen that our new
genus has no generic foundation whatever, for it would be unwise,
if not impossible, to found a genus upon the characters of both
forms of a dimorphic species.

If we must form genera in the present incomplete state of our
knowledge of these insects (I cannot see why we must) let us
decide without delay which of the two forms of a species shall be
the basis of our genus. This should be, it seems to me, the bi-
sexual brood, as being the normal form of the species. All natu-
ralists will agree that the multiplication of synonymns is an evil,
. and all are glad to find species that the imperfect knowledge of
dabblers has not loaded down with names.

To preface the history of an insect with a half page of real or
supposed synonyms may give the impression that the writer has
complete knowledge of his subject, but it often shows that ' ' some-
body has blundered," and it has sometimes happened that the
compiler has made a jumble that another half page will hardly
set right.

While the field of scientific research is open to all, and no one
has exclusive right to any part, it still remains true that too great
care cannot be taken in the naming, classifying and identification
of species, and that this cannot be safely undertaken without a
knowledge of what others before us have done.

The time has not come when a safe and permanent classification
of the gall-making Cynipidae can be made, and it will not come
until some of our entomologists shall do for our species what the
Continental entomologists have done for the European species-
learn by observation and experiment their true life-history.

The discovery, and the careful description of new species is
valuable, but in the classification of these let us adopt the motto
of our society — Festina lente.

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The Early Stages of Plusia bimaculata Steph.
By Rev. T. W. FYLES, South Quebec.

Eggs. — Laid dispersedly in the end of July; round, yellowish
white; hatched August 3d.

Young laiva. — Half-looper; one-tenth of an inch long, yellow-
ish white; subdorsal lines white; head and body sparsely set with

226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

long, light brown hairs rising from brown dots; head bluish white.
Food-plant Taraxacum. Larva moulted August i2th.

After first moult. — Two-eighths of an inch long; pea-green,
with white subdorsal and side lines. Moulted August 2oth.

After second moult. — Length nine-twentieths of an inch; color
pale pea-green; subdorsal and side lines yellowish white; spira-
cles of the same color; between the subdorsal lines the back is
mottled with yellowish white. Moulted September ist.

After third moult. — Length three-fourths of an inch; no per-
ceptible change in color and markings. Moulted September i5th.

Full grown larva. — One inch and a quarter long; somewhat
attenuated towards the head; color pale green; dorsal line darker
green — this line is widened in the middle of every segment,

thus XX ; the side lines are white. The larva spun up Sep-
i i

tember 24th, gathering some of the leaves about it.
Cocoon. — Silken, rather flimsy, yellowish white.
Part of the brood went into hibernation after second moult.

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Los Angeles County, California, Rhopalocera taken from

Feb. 16 to 28, 1893.

By ERNEST J. OSLAR.

1. Danais archippus. 10. Chrysophanus helloides.

2. Agraulis vanillce. n. Lyccena antiatis.

3. Melittza editha. var. behrii.

" palla. acmon.

rubicunda. 12. Pieris vernalis.

chalcedon. 13. Anthocharis cethura.

4. Phyciodes mylitta. reakirtii.

5. Vanessa antiopa. 14. Meganostoma eurydicc.

6. Pyrameis atalanta. 15. Colias ariadne.

" cardui. " harfordii.

carye. 16. Papilio rutulus.

7. Junonia cccnia. zolicaon.

8. Ccenonympha California. 17. Pamphila napa.

9. Tkeclairus. 18. Pyrgus tessellata.

var. arsace. 19. Nismiades icelus.
dumetorum. " pacuvius.

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Took the same things in March, with the addition of

1. Melittza gabbii. Diurnal Heterocera.

2. Argynnis semiramis. 4. Melicleptria pidchripennis.

callippe. 5. Heliaca fasciata.

3. Pieris beckerii and sisymbri.

INSECTS ATTACKING VANILLA BEANS. — A little microscopic mite, be-
longing to Tyroglyphidae, is not unfrequently found upon vanilla beans.
A few of these were examined as appearing on a lot of old beans not long
since, and they did not very greatly differ from what Hassall classifies as
Acarus sacchari, the sugar-mite. In the " Druggists' Bulletin" of a few
month^ ago a similar mite was spoken of in vanilla bean. The outside
of these beans looked perfect, but "on opening the bundles they pre-
sented a different appearance from the outside ones, and the odor was
different." They also appeared full of white specks and seemed crumbly.
These minute insects resembled the itch insect. It is said that persons
handling old beans are frequently attacked with a disease very much re-
sembling the itch, and this parasite is the cause of it. They burrow under
the skin and produce all the symptoms of itch.

Carpenter says of the Tyroglyphidce, the cheese-mite family, that they
are by far the most destructive of all Acarina, swarming in countless
numbers and devouring hay, cheese, drugs, growing plants and roots, etc.

SOME MORE BLACKBERRY AND RASPBERRY INSECTS. — In reply to Prof.
Smith's criticism in the June number of ENT. NEWS, p. 197, 1 would say
that a number of larvae and one additional chrysalis of Grapta comma
were found on the blackberry. Another species to be added to the list is
Hemileuca maia Dru., the larvse being found in considerable numbers
feeding on the foliage near Wooster, Ohio. Dr. D. S. Kellicott also has
them from southern Ohio, feeding on the same plant. Dr. John Hamilton
has also sent me the following notes on the Coleoptera included in my
bulletin: " Bassareus mamm ifer, Mr. Beutenmu'ller says, maybe found
on blackberry. This is quite true, provided the bushes be found under
or near a walnut or hickory, which are its natural food-plants. Crv/>/<>-
cephalus nofatus Fab., ^-maculatus Say, is the blackberry depredator.
Chelymorpha argus: The natural food of this plant is the Convolvnlaccu",
and as both the plant and beetle are abundant in alluvial grounds the
imago wanders off to every plant in the vicinity, but while they may oc-
casionally eat at some of these plants it is not likely to be more than acci-
dental. They do not certainly eat corn plants, but seem very fond of the
water which is often contained in the axil of the leaves." White- grubs
(Lachnosterna) are also injurious to the blackberry and raspberry.

F. M. WEBSTER.

228 [September,

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PENNSYLVANIA has been the birthplace and home of a number of ento-
mologists of eminence, and its chief city, Philadelphia, has the distinction
of being the birthplace of the American Entomological Society, which
has done so much to advance the study of Entomology in this country.
The practical application of the study in the way of economic entomology
seems to have been entirely neglected, and Pennsylvania has no State
entomologist as far as we know, at least we have never seen anything in
the way of work from such an individual, and if he exists we know it not.
The State Agricultural College probably receives the annual grant of
$15,000 per annum under the provisions of the Hatch bill, but none of it
has probably ever gone toward the study and investigation of insect dep-
redations. We are away behind our sister States in this respect, and in
the home of Say, Melsheimer, Haldeman, Leidy, LeConte, etc. Eco-
nomic entomology appears to be unknown. Why should Pennsylvania
be behind the other States in this respect? It can't be that the State has
no injurious insects, but that its legislators are in ignorance of the value
and importance of such studies.

THE ornithologists of America and their friends have erected a monu-
ment to Aububon in Central Park, New York, which we believe cost ten
thousand dollars. It has been suggested by one of the members of the
American Entomological Society that the entomologists of America
should erect a monument to the memory of Thomas Say, who might well
be called the father of American entomology. Entomology, as a study
of value to mankind, is of more practical importance than ornithology,
and the entomologists of this country should take as much pride in honor-
ing one of their distinguished deceased brethren as the bird men.

PICTURES FOR THE ALBUM OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL So-
CIKTV have been received from Theo. D. A. Cockerell, J. Alston Moffat,
C. W. Stromberg, S. H. Scudder, Frank S. Daggett. There are plenty
of entomologists left whose pictures should adorn our album, and we hope
they will go see their photographer soon.

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J.

The Summer of 1893. — It is perhaps somewhat early to characterize the
present season, and yet it has proved itself an extremely interesting one
in many particulars. The intense cold of the Winter of 1892-93 led many
to believe that there would be quite a wholesale destruction of insects,
and in some cases this seems to have proved true. Yet, on the other
hand, insects like the potato beetle were as numerous as ever, and the
striped Diabrotica was not perceptibly affected. Epilachne borealis, on
the other hand, became a rare insect, and only an occasional specimen
here and there, was visible. Systena blanda assumed the dimensions of
a pest in some parts of New Jersey, and attacked a very great variety of
plants. In one case an entire crop of carrots was destroyed. Beets were
considerably eaten; canteloupe and other cucurbs were quite generally
infested, and even corn was attacked. Nothing suffered worse than the
Pig Weed, though I heard no complaints of the injury caused on this par-
ticular crop. The Elm leaf beetle wintered in excellent condition, and
made its appearance in very great numbers. Trees suffered more than
ever at New Brunswick, and in some cases there remained not a leaf on
the trees on July isth. In many places the ground was covered with the
fallen leaves as in Autumn, and the trees had a desolate appearance. In
fact, as a rule, insects hibernated well, and there is every reason why that
should be so. The steady cold maintained the continued torpidity of the
species hibernating in the adult stage, and preserved from the danger of
being crushed by the heaving of wet ground those species that wintered
as subterranean pupae.

The Relation of Insect Attacks and Plant Diseases.— It has been observed,
time and again, that weakly plants suffered most from insect attack, while
vigorous healthy plants appeared free, or nearly so. Of course this may
be in a very great measure due to the fact that, by means of its abundant
vitality, the healthy plant is capable of sustaining an amount of injury
which would be fatal to a weakling; but this is by no means universally
true. I have frequently noticed on a considerable variety of plants that
the smaller and less thrifty contained the greater number of specimens
of the injurious species, and this, where the original stunting of the plant
was not due to the insect attack. 1 have also noticed that in many cases
plants attacked by fungous or bacterial diseases prove especially attractive
to insets I found, in an onion field for instance, a small number of
specimens with a bacterial disease beginning at the heart of the bulb.
These bulbs were in almost every case covered by white mites, which
seems to find these plants much more to their taste than neighboring'
healthy bulbs on which very few, if any, examples were to be found.
These same plants, too, became, in a somewhat later stage, food for the

23° ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. • [September,

larva of one of the Muscid flies. Wherever the bulb was exposed,
masses of white eggs were to be found, and soon the maggots were at
work aiding the disease. Usually the maggots were accused of being the
authors of the injury, but erroneously so. I have frequently noticed in
other connections that the slightest trace of a soft rot, whether caused by
a fungus or bacteria, attracted insects who were then, frequently, charged
with all the injury caused. On the other hand, insect injury very often
served to give entrance to the germs of plant disease, and the latter finishes
what the first began. In the tomato field a fruit bitten into by the larva
of Heliothis armiger is almost certain to become victim to bacterial de-
-cay, and to infect every other fruit with which it is in contact.

The lesson of this is, of course, to have plants that are healthy. This
is much more often within the control of the farmer than is thought at first
sight, especially in all crops that are set out. It is too much the practice
to put out weaklings, with the idea that they will catch up with the others
later on. They may, and often really clo so, but more usually they fall
victim to disease and insects, or give only a very inferior yield.

Insects and parasitic diseases work hand in hand, and either will follow
the other as the case may be. The true theory is to give neither a foot-
hold if possible.

Vitality in Insects. — Instances of great vitality in insects are not rare,
but I was quite surprised at the resistance offered by a Muscid larva which
I found in decaying onions. I wished to preserve a few specimens, and
placed them in a dish containing ninety-five per cent, alcohol, expecting
to find them dead in a few minutes. Half an hour thereafter they were
yet very lively, and were squirming about at a great rate. I removed
some of them to a mixture containing acetic acid 25 per cent., alcohol
25 per cent., water 50 per cent., and added an alcoholic solution of eosin
to those left in the original liquid. About two hours thereafter the speci-
mens were yet alive and those in the stained liquid has assumed a pretty
red tint, that extended, apparently, to some of the internal structures.
Punctured two specimens and the}' died almost immediately. Those in
the acetic acid solution were not dead when I left the laboratory, but were
dead next morning. This experiment was rather interesting, and I placed
a number of the maggots in a hellebore decoction — one ounce to one
gallon of water. They lived in this half a day or more, and in a decoction
of double that strength lived several hours. Afterward, I poured over a
few infested onions fully half a pint of the one ounce to one gallon de-
coction, and twenty-four hours thereafter no ill effects were noted on the
specimens. Placed several of the maggots in a solution of kainit — two
ounces to one pint of water, and in this they lived thirty-six hours; took
them out, placed them on a dry board and covered with a glass dish,
under which they lived yet twenty-four hours, one of them changing to a
pupa during that time. A solution of nitrate of soda, one ounce to one
•quart of water, killed all that were placed in it within thirty-six hours.

These experiments become interesting from the fact that Mr. Fletcher

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has found the hellebore decoction a very satisfactory remedy for the cab-
bage maggots, and I have found that both the kainit and nitrate of soda
solutions were exceedingly fatal to many subterranean forms.

Orange Insects form the subject of a large part of a special bulletin of
the Louisiana State Experiment Station, and this part is prepared by Prof.
H. A. Morgan. There is little that is new in this paper, which covers
rather more than fifty pages, but the compilation is good, and the work
of the insects in Louisiana is described. So, if there was little room for
new observation on pests that have been so well studied by Hubbard,
Comstock and others, yet the work is far from being a compilation merely,
and will be most useful to the Citrus growers in Louisiana, for whom it
is especially intended. It is to be much regretted that both paper and
presswork of the pamphlet are exceedingly poor.

The Insect Pests of the Tobacco are very incidentally treated in Bulletin
No. 44, of the Alabama Station, by Mr. A. J. Bondurant, where they are
reduced to the " Cut worm" and the " Horn worm." Both are figured,
and I very much regret that I am unable to reproduce the picture of the
"Cut worm," which is an artistic curiosity, or an entomological mon-
strosity, or both. No better remedies than digging out the one, and
picking off the other are recommended, though the poisoned bait traps
for the "Cut worm" and the poisoned "Jimpson Weed" flowers for the
Sphinx have proved very successful.

The Insect Enemies of Small Grains are treated by Mr. Lawrence Bruner,
in the annual report of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture for 1893,
and, as usual, Mr. Bruner has done his work well, even though it is com-
pilation in very great part. The tedium of entomological literature is
somewhat relieved by the attractive frontispiece illustrating a grasshopper
orchestra singing the well-known ballad " In this wheat by-and-bye."

The Classification of Insects and their Relation to Agriculture.— This is

the title of Bulletin 28 from the Minnesota Station, and its author is Dr.
Lugger. The Bulletin is very popularly written, and is very largely a
picture book. The definitions that are given of the various divisions are
of the most general possible description, and are in themselves insufficient
to give even an idea of the creatures to which they are known to be ap-
plied. Supplemented by the pictures they become intelligible, and prob-
ably some information will be gained by the farmers that can be persuaded
to read it through. Following the descriptive part of the Bulletin we
have a chapter on applied or practical entomology, in which both natural
and artificial methods of destroying insects are described. There is no-
where a very definite statement of exactly what cases are adapted for
natural or artificial methods, and altogether the Bulletin is very general
and indefinite. It is not quite such a one as we have been in the habit of
expecting from Dr. Lugger, and lie certainly does not do himself justice.
There are few points that are absolutely inaccurate, but one matter is of
some importance not only to the farmers of Minnesota, but to those of

232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

other States. Speaking of London purple, Dr. Lugger says it has the
advantage that it can be used with the Bordeaux mixture, and he says if
Paris green is used for a similar purpose, we are very apt to increase its
injury upon foliage. This is strictly incorrect: Paris green can be as safely
used as London purple with the Bordeaux mixture, but it must not be
used with any fungicides containing ammonia, because the ammonia dis-
solves the arsenite of copper. London purple, on the other hand, can be
used with fungicides of this description, because the arsenite of lime is
not attacked by the ammonia. This is a very important point, and one
upon which I have always placed great stress. It is the ammonia that
renders the use of Paris green inadvisable in any fungicides containing it.
Wherever lime is present in the fungicides it will be apt to prevent any
trace of injury to the leaves by any of the arsenites.

The Horn Fly Again.— This insect forms the subject of Bulletin 14 of the
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, and in it Mr. Fletcher gives
a brief statement of the life-history of the insect, and also a record of its
appearance and spread in Canada. Nothing new is added to our know-
ledge of the insect, but the Bulletin is mentioned here principally to record
the fact that in New Jersey the fly is becoming less and less abundant. In
several localities in the southern part of the State, where, a few years ago,
the fly was in the greatest abundance, they are now very much less in
number than the common stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. Exactly what
has led to this reduction in numbers I have no means of knowing, but
the fact is undoubted.

The Boll Worm.— This insect forms the subject of Bulletin 29 of Division
of Entomology United States Department of Agriculture, and it is written
by Mr. F. \V. Mally. The Bulletin is an excellent one. It is too long to
abstract with any degree of justice, and only its scope can be mentioned
here. The method and extent of injury on various plants are recorded,
the life-history of the species is given, the parasites are mentioned and
briefly described; the insects preying upon it are referred to, and finally
the injuries to the plants caused by other insects and charged to the Boll
worm are detailed. The subject of remedies forms the most important
part of the Bulletin, and is, of course, the most interesting. Attacking
the insects by light proved distinctly unfavorable, or, as Mr. Mally says,
" that the use of lights for attracting and trapping the Boll worm moth is
entirely useless." The use of poisoned sweets seems to have been more
successful. Applied to pea vines, which had been planted as a trap crop,
a great many moths were poisoned, and probably a considerable benefit
was derived by this method. Mr. Mally, however, does not seem to think
very highly of this method either, and does not speak very enthusiastically
of it. Quite a number of experiments were made with pyrethrum, either
dried, a watery extract, or an emulsified oil extract. All of these were
more or less successful on the young larvce and all were practically un-
successful on the old or more matured larva;. The final conclusion is
that, trapping the larva; upon corn planted for that special purpose, would

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prove the most satisfactory method of preventing injury that could be de-
vised. The specially interesting series of experiments were those made
with bacterial diseases. Quite a number of disease germs were cultivated,
but the efforts made to inoculate the Boll worm were in all cases practical
failures. This accords very well with what has been observed in other
cases, and it lends weight to conclusions that have been arrived at, that
insect diseases depend too much upon conditions which are not under the
control of man to be at any time considered as reliable, except in very
peculiar instances.

Notes

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Dr. J. E. TALMAGE, of Salt Lake City, Utah, disposes of the assertion
often made that no living thing can exist in the waters of the Great Salt
Lake. He records the presence of Artemia fertilis Verrill ; larvae of
Tipulidae, probably Chironomus oceanicus Packard; a species of Lorixa,
probably C. deco/orUhler; and lastly the larvae and pupre of a fly Ephydra
gracilis Packard.

" HITHERTO the two groups Macro- and Micro-lepidoptera into which
butterflies and moths have been divided have been characterized by the
former including all the large and conspicuous species, and the latter only
containing small and inconspicuous moths. Dr. Chapman, in a commu-
nication to the Entomological Society of London, has endeavored to raise
the Micros in general favor by transferring to that group several of our
finest moths. According to him the pupa of the Goat-moth (Cossns //>-
niperda) possesses all the characteristics of a typical Micro-lepidopterous
pupa, and for a similar reason the genera Sesia, Zyga:na, /'/-(ten's and
Hepialus should be placed among the Micros."— H.vclian^e.

RECENTLY my attention was called to a cocoon which was found in a
shell of the snail known as Helix albolabris, colltTtcd at Lake Hupat-
cong, New Jersey. Thinking the cocoon to be that of one of the dipter-

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234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

ous parasites, I placed it in a small vial, intending to give it to some dip-
terist at the first opportunity, but what was my surprise when examining
the vial lately to find a specimen of the genus Potnpilns, one of the fosso-
rial wasps, which proved to be, en identification, P. Inctiiosus Cress. It
is well known that species of the family Pompilidae make nests, generally
of mud, storing them with spiders, but I have never heard of them utilizing
snail-shells for that purpose, although some species of the bee genus
Osniia have been known to build in such places. A fact that makes this
note more interesting is, that Pompilus luctuosus has never before been
recorded east of Colorado. — WM. J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

INSTANCES OF EXTENDED PUPAL TERM. Pieris sisyinbri. — Several
pupce were bred at Laggan from eggs, in July, 1890; four of these pro-
duced butterflies early in June, 1892, all males.

Anthocharis hyantis. — One male and two females emerged late in May,
1891, from chrysalids of 1889.

The above are the only cases in my own experience, of species remain-
ing two Winters in pupa; the fact is on record, however, as to Antho-
charis ausonides, A. sara, A. genutia, and some other Lepidoptera.

The extension of pupal term through second Winter may be a com-
moner incident than we are aware, and I am inclined to consider it an
influential factor in causing the wide variance seen in different years in
the commonness of certain butterflies. Anthocharis hyantis is peculiarly
fluctuating in abundance in this locality. It is usually a rare insect, yet,
in 1890, it was one of the commonest butterflies during its short time of
flight, and it is a certainty that far more than half the Hyantis, which have
taken flight here in the past seven years, were on the wing in two weeks
of that Summer. — THOMAS E. BEAN.

IN a paper in the " Entomologist" for June, 1893, by Robert McLachlan,
entitled "The Decadence of British Butterflies, with Suggestions for a
Close-time" he mentions the fact that Aporia cretccgi has probably be-
come nearly extinct in England, if not totally so. Two British butterflies
have become extinct, and a third, Lyc&na arioii "shows signs of being
dangerously near extinction. Chrysophanus dispar was common in for-
mer years in the few of the eastern counties where it fed on the great
water-dock (Rumex hydrolapathum). It disappeared entirely about the
year 1850. The other extinct butterfly, Lyca~na acis, was widely spread
over England, but was always extremely local, and seldom, if ever, found
in numbers. Its extinction was going on for many years, and probably
commenced about 1840. Mr. McLachlan further states that the British
butterflies only number about sixty-three species, and that in times gone
by the 'list must have been larger. " I have spoken about the extent to
v.hich the direct action of collectors may influence the extinction of a
species, and have said that I do not regard it as serious, save in cases
where other causes have already put the species far on the road to ex-
tinction. But I may have underestimated this matter, and it lias occurred

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to me latterly, on several occasions, whether a close-time or season could
not be enforced for certain British butterflies, the species to be decided
upon by a committee of experts, just as has been done for British birds.
The idea may seem to some childish and ridiculous, full of paltry senti-
ment, and so on. But why not protect the beautiful innoxious insects
that display their admirable forms and colors, and gladden the hearts of
all true lovers of Nature." Around Philadelphia we have about thirty-
seven more species of butterflies than there are in all Britain, so it is not
childish or ridiculous to preserve these beautiful creatures as Mr. McLach-
lan suggested, especially where there are so few.

CALIFORNIA NOTES. — Two years ago, while working a mountain stream
in a neighboring canyon, several specimens of Amphizoa insolens were
taken. These attracted the attention of Dr. Horn, on a recent visit, and
he expressed surprise that the species should be found so far south, sug-
gesting that I send a note of the capture to the NEWS. In this connection
it seems appropriate to note the occurrence here of one or two other
northern forms, which, so far as I know, have not been recorded from
this part of the State. The following were taken last Summer in the San
Bernardino Mountains: Mysia hornii; one example of this species beaten
from pine. Chrysophana placida; three examples also from pines. Ne-
cydalis cavipennis; a specimen recently emerged, found resting on the
trunk of a sugar pine. Pinus latnbertiana; the trunks of many dead
and dying pines revealed numbers of the nearly cylindrical burrows of
this fine longicorn, in some of which were the remains of a past genera-
tion of beetles. Pterostichus ater: two examples of average size, not
differing from northern specimens. All the above were found at an alti-
tude of from 4000 to 6000 feet, and would seem to have followed the
Sierras south, going higher as they advance, until in this latitude they are
found only near the summits of the higher ranges.

The occurrence of a species of Psephenus in this locality seems worthy
of mention. Specimens submitted to Capt. Casey were identified by him
as lecontei. . On comparing with Massachusetts examples in my cabinet
the local specimens show several somewhat constant differences, notably
in the more feebly explanate elytral margin and the dark legs, but with
the few specimens at hand it is impossible to pronounce upon the value
of these differences. It is probable that they are merely geographical.

A specimen of Rosalia funebris has been recently received from a friend
who took it in San Diego County, probably introduced there, as suggested
to me by Dr. Horn, in Oregon timber. — H. C. FALL, Pomona, Cal.

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Entomological Literature.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, xxxvii, 3, 4,
Brussels, 1893. — Essay on the grouping of the Buprestidae, C. Kerremans.
Some words on a new arrangement of a part of the Diptera Orthorrhapha
proposed by M. Osten-Sacken, L. Coucke. On the classification of the
family Formicidae, with synonymic remarks, A. Forel. The Chrysomelidae
of Belgium, Baron P. de Moffarts.

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA by F. Moore. Pt. xiii, xiv, forming pp. 1-32.
33-64, of vol. ii, pis. 95-100, 101-107. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1893.

THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. London, May 6, 1893. — Coccidce, or
scale insects which live on orchids, T. D. A. Cockerell, figs. (3 n. sp.)

OPUSCULA ENTOMOLOGICA edidit C. G. Thomson. Fasc. xv, Lund,
1891. — Contributions to the systematic knowledge and synonymy of the
Phryganidae. Contributions to the knowledge of the Ichneumones
pneustici — xvi, 1892. Contributions to the knowledge of the Braconidas;
and of the genus Anonialon.

NOUVELLES ARCHIVES DU MUSEUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE (3), iii, 2.
Paris, 1891.- — Monograph of the genus Palophus [Phasmidae], C. Brong-
niart, 2 pis. Monograph of the genus Eumegalodon [Locustidce], id.,
i pi.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), xi, No. 65.
London, May, 1893. — Notes on the genus Acronycta of authors and its
position in the classification of Heterocerous Lepidoptera, A. G. Butler.
Description of a new species of Tree Trap-door Spider from Trinidad,
R. I. Pocock, i pi.

THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. Melbourne, April, 1893. — Notes on
some Victorian Coccida?, or scale insects, II,* C. French. On the color
variations of some Australian Lepidoptera, J. Lidgett.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES for 1892, vol. i,
pt. iii. Des Momes, 1893. — List of Iowa clover insects and observations
on some of them, H. A. Gossard. Notes on Aphididae, H. Osborn and
F. A. Sirrine. Life-histories of Jassidae, H. Osborn. Additions and cor-
rections to Catalogue of Hemiptera, id.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., May, 1893.— New
species of fossorial Hymenoptera, \V. J. Fox. Synopsis of the Asilicl
genera Mallophora and Nicocles, D. W. Coquillett. Descriptions of cer-
tain new forms of Lepidoptera, B. Neumoegen and H. G. Dyar. North
American Thysanura, A. D. Macgillivray. Nomophila iioctuclla Schiff,
E. P. Felt, figs. Further on the Diptera considered as the highest insects,
C. H. T. Townsend. June, 1893. — Notes on Chionobas subhyalina Curtis,

* Contains new species other than Xorth American.

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W. H. Edwards. Field notes from Texas and Louisiana, H. F. \Vickham.
A new Gastropacha, }. J. Rivers. The butterflies of Laggan, N. \V. T.;
account of certain species inhabiting the Rocky Mountains in latitude 51°
25' (cont.), T. E. Bean. Additions to the list of Canadian Lepidoptera,
J. A. Moffat. The systematic position of Varina ornata Neum., A. S.
Packard. Catocaline moths from Georgia, A. R. Grote. Descriptions
of certain Lepidopterous larvae, H. G. Dyar. Nebraska Myriapoda, F.
C. Kenyan. Parnassius clodius and P. smintheus, H. Strecker.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xix, 9. Berlin, May, 1893. — Pre-
liminary reply to VerhoefT s criticism on my work, "The biological sig-
nificance of the genital appendages of insects," K. Escherich.

BULLETINO BELLA SOCIETA ENTOMOLOGICA ITALIANA, XXV, I. Flor-
ence, May 10, 1893. — Third memoir on the preservation of the fugitive
colors of the Libellulae, P. Stefanelli. On the respiratory phenomena of
the chrysalid, L. Luciani and D. Lo Monaco. Revision of the European
species of the mosquito family, E. Ficalbi.

NATURE. London, May 18, 1893. — The use of ants to Aphides and
Coccids, G. J. Romanes, A. O. Walker. — May 25th. What becomes of
the Aphis in the Winter?, T. A. Sharpe. — June ist. Notes upon the habits
of some living scorpions, R. I. Pocock.

ERGEBNISSE DER PLANKTON-EXPEDITION DER HUMBOLDT-STIFTUNG
II, G. a. Kiel and Leipsic: Lipsius & Fischer, 1893. — The Halobatidae,*
Dr. F. Dahl, figs. The Halacarina, Dr. H. Lohmann,* figs., 13 pis.

NATURGESCHICHTE DER INSECTEN DEUTSCHLANDS begonnen von Dr.
W. F. Erichson. — Erste Abtheilung Coleoptera. Fiinfter Band, 2 Liefe-
rung, pp. 201-400, Dr. G. Seidlitz [Tenebrionidoe]; Sechster Band, 6
Lieferung, pp. vii-xiv, 961-1161, J. Weise [Chrysomelidae, additions,

index].

i

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, May 15, 1893. — Melano-
chroism in British Lepidoptera, J. W. Tutt. — June 15th. Melanochroism
in British Lepidoptera, A. R. Grote.

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, I, 6. Kingston, April, 1893.
—Notes on Insect Life [Lepidoptera], E. S. Panton. A list of West In-
dian Coccidae, T. D. A. Cockerell, i pi. Additions to the fauna and flora
of Jamaica, id.

LEHRBUCH DER ZOOLOGIE von Dr. Julius Kennel. Stuttgart, Ferninand
Enke, 1893— 8vo., pp. xvi, 678; 310 figs. Tracheate Arthropods, pp.
405-450.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT. Erlangen, May 15, 1893. — Recent
works of F. Plateau, Dr. Tiebe. Recent information on Ants' nests, Dr.
Voigt.

* Contains new species other than North American.

238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

PSYCHE. Cambridge, June, 1893. — An unusual appearance of Schisto-
cerca americana, W. S. Blatchley. Hosts of North American Tachinidse,
etc., I, C. H. T. Townsend. Descriptions of new species and genera of
West African Lepidoptera, VI, W. J. Holland. A new species of Steno-
bothrus from Connecticut, with remarks on other New England species,
A. P. Morse. Additions to the list of Bombyces at Poughkeepsie, H. G.
Dyar. Early stages of two Jamaican Nymphalidae, T. D. A. Cockerel!.

ZOE. San Francisco, April, 1893. — A new Trypetid from Chacaltianguis,
Mex., with a note on Hexachcsta amabilis Lw., C. H. T. Townsend. A
new subspecies of Ceroplastes from Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerel! .

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER. Leipsic, May 29, and June 12, 1893. —Mor-
phology of the appendages and mouth-parts of Crustaceans and Insects,
Dr. H. J. Hansen.

BOLLETINO DEI MuSEI DI ZOOLOGIA ED ANATOMIA COMPARATA DELLA

R. UNIVERSITA DI TORINO, viii, 147, May 20, 1893. — Diagnoses of new
genera and species of Diptera, Dr. E. Giglio Tos.

ARCHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, lix, I, 2. Berlin, April, 1893. — Con-
tributions to the knowledge of the Pupipara (the larva of Melophagus
ovinus), H. S. Pratt, i pi.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, xvi, pp. 45-52 [No.
924]. Washington, D. C., 1893. — Notes on North American Hemiptera
Heteroptera, A. L. Montandon.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, June, 1893.—
Notes on some British and foreign Coccidse, J. W. Douglas, fig. The
decadence of British butterflies, with suggestions for a close-time, R.
McLachlan. A new Coccid in an Ant's nest, R. Newstead.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, June, 1893. — On three hybrid silk-
moths, hybridised and bred in North America, J. Watson. The, West
Indian species of Dactylopius, T. D. A. Cockerel!. Suggestions for de-
coying butterflies, H. G. Knaggs.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. Philadelphia, June, 1893. — The cinna
mon harvest spider and its variations, C. M. Weed. North American
Cosmetidae, id. An American species of Sabacon, id. The puparium
of Jurinia, C. H. T. Townsend.

ZOOLOGISCHE JAHRBUCHER, vii, i. Jena, May 20, 1893. General bi-
olcgy of butterflies, II, A. Seitz. Remarks on the essay by A. Spuler,
"Zur Stammesgeschichte, der Papilioniden," T. G. H. Eimer, S figs.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Division of Entomology. Bul-
letin No. 30. — Reports of observations and experiments in the practical
work of Division, made under the direction of the entomologist, Wash-
ington, 1893. Report on some of the beneficial and injurious insects of
California, D. W. Coquillett. Report upon insect injuries in Nebraska

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during the Summer of 1892, L. Bruner. Report on insects of the season
in Iowa, H. Osborn. Entomological notes for the season of 1892, M. E.
Murtfeldt. Report on experiments in apiculture, 1892, J. H. Larrabee.

SCIENCE. New York, June 23, 1893. — Influence of parasites on other
Insects, G. C. Davis.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE. Paris, June 10, 1893. Re-
sistance of the scorpion to unfavorable conditions of life, J. Noe.

REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE DU BOURBONNAIS, vi, 6. Moulins, June, 1893.—
A parasite of the Ants — Elasmosoma berolinense Ruth., 1'Abbe Pierre.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Agricultural Experiment Station. Bull.
No. 28. St. Anthony Park, Minn., March, 1893. — The classification of
insects and their relation to agriculture, O. Lugger, 143 pp., Si figs.

NEW MEXICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 9. Las Cruces, N. Mex.,
December, 1892. — Insecticides and their appliances, C. H. T. Townsend,
25 pp., 20 figs., i pi.

WEST VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Bulletin No.
31. Morgantown, W. Va., April, 1893. — Catalogue of West Virginia
Scolytidae and their enemies, with list of trees and shrubs attacked, A.
D. Hopkins.

UNTERSUCHUNGEN UBER DIE FAUNA DER GEWASSER BOHMKNS, I.
Metamorphose der Trichopteren II, Serie, von Prof. Fr. Klapalek (Ar-
chiv d. Naturwis. Landesdurchforschung von Bohmen, viii, 6). Prague,
1893, 143 pp., numerous figures.

DlE PlLZGARTEN EINIGER SUDAMERIKANISCHER AMEISEN VOn Alfred

Moller. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1893, 127 pp,, 7 pis., 4 text figures.

THE LIFE OF A BUTTERFLY. By Samuel H. Scudder. Received from
Henry Holt & Co., Publishers, New York.— This little book of 182 pages,
with four plates and an index, treats of the life-history of Anosia plex-
ippus, the milkweed butterfly. The character of the book is well sketched
out in the author's preface, which reads as follows: " In the following
work I have tried to present in untechnical language the story of the life
of one of our most conspicuous American butterflies. At the same time
by introducing into the account of its anatomy, development, distribute m,
enemies and seasonal changes, some comparisons with the more or less
dissimilar structure and life of other butterflies, and particularly of our
native forms, I have endeavored to give, in some fashion and in brief
space, a general account of the lives of the whole tribe. By using a single
butterfly as a special text, one may discourse at pleasure of many." This
book should be a great service to the beginner, as it is very entertainingly
and instructively written, and, as the author states, is a guide to the life-
histories of all butterflies. It is divided into eleven chapters, the first of

240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

which gives a general account and the remainder are devoted to the
anatomy, physiology, habits, vagrancy, mimicry and protective resem-
blance, critical periods of life, etc.

BRIEF GUIDE TO THE COMMONER BUTTERFLIES OF THE NORTHERN
UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Being and introduction to a knowledge
of their life-histories. By Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Published by Henry
Holt & Co., New York; i2mo., 206 pp. — The book begins with a chapter
entitled, " What are Butterflies?" and is followed by others on structure,
etc., of the imago, egg, caterpillar and chrysalis, the lives and habits of
caterpillars, how the chrysalis hangs, variation, etc., sexual differences,
senses, mimicry and protection, classification of butterflies, followed by
an interesting and valuable chapter describing some of the more important
works on American butterflies. Next follow keys to the various groups
based on the perfect butterfly, the caterpillar and chrysalis. The body
of the work is made up of the descriptions of the imago, egg, caterpillar
and chrysalis, etc., of the species treated. The work ends with an ap-
pendix of instructions for collecting, rearing, preserving and studying,
and the whole makes a work that no beginner can well get along without.

SEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAS INSECTS DESCRIBED
IS THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ARACHNIDA.
Sabacon spinosus Weed, Amer. Nat. xxvii, p. 575, fig., N. Hampshire.

COLEOPTERA.

Buprestidae: Micrasta n. gen. 4 n. sp., Mexico, Kerremans, Ann. Soc.
Ent. Belg. xxxvii, p. 115.

Euclasea obliqua Lewis, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xi, p. 425, Mex.

DIPTERA.

Mallophora megachile Coquillett, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 118, Cal. Nicocles
argentatus, p. 119, Cal.

Sarcophaga leucanice Townsend, Psyche, vi, p. 468, 111.

Euaresta latipennis Townsend, Zoe, iv, p. 13, Mex.

Dexinas, Muscinse, Anthomyime: n. gen. and sp., Mexico. Giglio-Tos,
Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, viii, No. 147.

HEMIPTERA.

Coccidae: n. sp., Cockerel!, Journ. Inst. Jam. I, p. 254-256.

Ceroplastes psidii cistndiformis Cockerell, Zoe, iv, p. 104, Guanajuato,
Mexico.

Cosmopepla caeruleata Montandon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi, p. 47,
Venez., Cent. Am. C. Uh/eri, p. 48, Calif., Nev. Dcndrocoris pini,
Sinca Rileyi, p. 51, Calif.

Dactylopins virgatus Cockerell, Entom. xxvi, p. 178, Jam.

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HYMENOPTERA.
Fossorial: n. sp. Fox, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 115-117.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Acronycta (Tricrna) Grotci Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xi, p. 400,
N. Y., Kans. A. (T.) Smithii, p. 401, id.

Lagoidae: Dalcerides n. gen. for Artaxa ingenita H. Ed\v., Neumoegen
& Dyar, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 121. New Notodontida?, Saturniidae, Lithosiidse,
Hepialidse, pp. 121-125.

Phyllodesma Dyari Rivers, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 144, Texas.

Grammodes concolor Grote, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 155, Savannah.

MYRIAPODA.

Archilithobius 4 n. sp., Lithobius i n. sp., Kenyan, Can. Ent. xxv, pp.
161-162, Neb.

ORTHOPTERA.

Stenobothrus olivaceus Morse, Psyche vi, p. 477, Conn.

THYSANURA.

Smynthurus spinatus Macgillivray, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 127, N. Y. S.
JJoridanus, p. 127, Fla. Anoura magua, p. 128, Ohio.

The Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

MAY 25, 1893.

A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy
of Natural Sciences was held in the Hall, S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race
Streets, this evening, Mr. E. T. Cresson in the chair. Thirteen members
and associates present. The chairman announced that we had with us a
distinguished entomologist, Dr. S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass.
The Publication Committee reported in favor of publishing the following
papers in the "Transactions" of the American Entomological Society:
A Synopsis of the Harvest Spiders of South Dakota. By C. M. Weed.
Seventh Contribution to a Knowledge of Certain Little-known Aphididae.
By C. M. Weed. The Cosmetidse of the United States. By C. M. Weed.
Mr. W. J. Fox exhibited a new species of Sphe.v which he had received
from Mrs. A. T. Slosson, who had captured it in Florida. The characters
of the species were given, and the name exornatus proposed for it. Dr.
Scudder announced that he had lately presented to the American Philo-
sophical Society for publication, a paper on fossil insects. The dipterous
family Tipulidae was treated. The bulk of the work was based on mate-

242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

rial from Florissant, Col. Sixty species were taken into consideration.
About half the genera are extinct, not including half the species. The
neuration of some of the newly-described genera were explained by
drawings on the black-board. In reply to a question the speaker stated
that in most cases the neuration was exceedingly well preserved. Mr.
Calvert said that, in his account of the local Odonata, he had been led to
make a careful study of the thorax. The key to such a study he had
found in the anatomy of the thorax in the genera Calopteryx and Hetcs-
rena. The speaker gave at length the anatomy of this part of the Odonata,
and aided his discourse by black-board drawings. C. F. Seiss was duly
elected a member of the Section, and Mr. W. H. Patton, of Hartford,
Conn., and Dr. H. G. Griffith, of Manayunk, associates.

Dr. H. SKINNER, Recorder.

JUNE 12, 1893.

A regular stated meeting was held on this evening. Mr. Welles in the
chair. Eleven members and associates present. A communication from
the New York Entomological Society suggesting the appointment of a
field meeting on July 4th was received, and, on motion, a committee con-
sisting of Messrs. Johnson, Skinner and Laurent, was appointed to reply
to the same, and make such arrangements as deemed best. Mr. Johnson
exhibited for Dr. Skinner a chrysalis of Feniseca tarquinens, which some-
what resembles a monkey's face. The larvae is carnivorous, and feeds on
plant lice. The specimens were reared by Miss Emily L. Morton. Mr.
Calvert described the characteristic wing-veining of the two suborders of
the ODONATA, Zygoptera and Anisoptera, and illustrated by black-board
sketches the apparent manner in which the triangle of the latter was de-
rived from quadrilateral of the former PHILIP P. CALVERT,

Acting Recorder.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

STEM GALL ON EPHEDRA NEVADENSE.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

On Oct. 10, 1891, I found near Joblin's Ranch, San Andres
Mountains, on stems of Ephedra nevadense, numbers of small,
elongated galls, from which the occupants had emerged, as was
shown by a small hole in each gall. This is the only case that
has ever come under my notice of an insect affecting this plant.
Whether it possesses some acrid principle, by virtue of which it
is distasteful to most insects, I cannot say.

The gall may be cecidomyidous, or it may be hymenopterous.
I think it more probable that it is the former. It may be described
as follows:

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Gall.— Length 11-13 mm.; width 3^-4^ mm. An elongated perfect
swelling of the stem-like shoots of the plant near their ends, the swellings
or galls being about three times as long as thick; subcylindrical, placed
always immediately above a joint, the lower end terminating at the joint
and subtruncate, the upper end sloping quickly from all sides into the
distal portion of the stem, which extends upward in a line with the longi-
tudinal axis of the gall. External surface of gall longitudinally finely
fluted or furrowed, being the exaggerated minute longitudinal flutings of
the stem of the plant developed in size by the process of swelling. Color
of dried galls greenish or straw colored, doubtless green in life. The gall
maker emerges always at the lower end, the exit hole in each gal'l being
just a little above the joint, about one-third the length of the gall or less
from its lower end. The dried gall grows a little less in diameter on its
lower portion, and especially so on the side containing the exit hole where
the adjacent portion is collapsed, doubtless due to drying. This gives
the upper end the greatest diameter. The dried galls are very hard,
somewhat woody; opening them discloses a central longitudinal channel
in which the larval occupant lived.

Described from three old galls. I am inclined to regard this
as a cecidomyidous gall.

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LIFE-HISTORY OF PAPILIO EURYMEDON Boisd.

By HARRISON G. DYAR, Boston, Mass.
Papilio eurymedon Boisd.

Egg- — Nearly spherical, the base flattened, smooth, slightly
shining, yellowish green with a reddish shade on one side, which
causes it to resemble a miniature unripe wild coffee berry. Diam.
1.3 mm. Laid singly on the upper side of the leaves of its
food-plant.

First larval stage. — Head rounded, black, shining, partly re-
tracted under joint 2; width .8 mm. Body shaped as in other
species of Papilio, smaller centrally, with rows of spinose tuber-
cles, the row i very small, the subdorsal row ii large, especially
the ones on joint 2 on each side of the cervical shield, and on
joints 3, 4, 12 and 13; lateral row iii small. Color dark brown,
becoming later velvety-black, the cervical shield pale brown and
a white saddle-shape.d spot on joints 7 and 8.

Second stage. — Head slightly retracted under joint 2; rounded,
shining, dark brown, paler over the clypeus and mouth; ocelli
black; a few short hairs over the lower part of head: width 1.3
mm. The subdorsal tubercles on joints 2, n, 12 and 13, are

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rather long, with a few setae; all the rest very short, smooth,
round and shining. Color pale brown, mottled with darker
brown, a white saddle on joints S-io, pointed posteriorly and
reaching forward on the sides; pale subventrally, and a whitish
subdorsal line; joint 2 is yellowish, and joints 12 and 13 paler
than the rest of the body. Below the tubercles of row iii, on
joints 3, 4 and 6, is a velvety-black spot. As the stage advances
the color becomes greenish, especially subventrally.

Third stage. — Head pinkish brown, mouth-parts paler, ocelli
black; width 1.8 mm. On joint 2 an ocherous, slightly spinose,
subdorsal tubercle, and a slighter one on joint 12, all the rest
reduced to round, shining, slight elevations. The body is en-
larged at joints 4-6, elsewhere nearly uniform in size. Color
dark green, paler at the sides, slightly shaded with blackish and
minutely dotted with yellowish; on joints 7-9 a white saddle,
excavated before and pointed behind, passing slightly below the
obscure, broken, narrow, white, subdorsal line, and containing
two faint green dorsal spots; joints 12 and 13 whitish. The tu-
bercles of rows i to iii on joint 4 are quite distinct, rounded,
shiny dark brown, and connected by a pale brown band. The
subdorsal line runs between tubercles ii and iii, and just above it
is a black bar, and below it a minute blue dot encircled with
black. There are no other .blue dots perceptible, but a blackish
subdorsal one on joint 9. The elevated shiny dots on joints 3,
5 and 1 1 are ocherous or brown. Anterior edge of joint 2 yellow;
scent-horns brown.

Fourth stage. — Head as before; width 2.7 mm.; joint 2 nar-
rowly yellow anteriorly, the tubercles on each side of the opening
orange tinted. Body dark green, whitish subventrally and mi-
nutely dotted with yellowish, only traces of the saddle-shaped
spot in diffuse subdorsal whitish patches and an arrow-shaped
dorsal spot on joint 9, and even these disappear before the stage
is completed. On joints 12 and 13 a small, yellow, subdorsal
tubercle. On joint 4 the tubercles of rows i to iii are small,
round, orange tinted; the tubercle i has on it and below it an
elongated black-ringed patch, a blue dot;, below tubercle ii a
black line dividing a yellow, black-ringed, pyriform spot that
covers tubercles ii and iii, enclosing above tubercle iii a black-
ringed blue spot. There are no other blue dots, the places of
the absent subdorsal tubercles being slightly paler green than the

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ground color. Stigmatal line absent; spiracles brownish, pale
ringed. In the incisure, between the joints 5 and 6, is a black
band, edged with yellow, anteriorly, concealed when the larva is
at rest, but suddenly exposed when the presence of an enemy is
suspected.

Fifth stage. — Head rounded, the sutures deep, minutely wrin-
kled and clothed with very short pile; pinkish brown, whitish
around the mouth; ocelli black; width 3.8mm. Body entirely
smooth, uniform soft green, whitish at the sides and beneath, and
minutely, but obscurely dotted with yellowish; joint 2 is yellow
anteriorly around the slit for the scent organ. The marks on
joint 4 are without tubercles, and consist of a rounded triangular
orange spot in a black edge, below it a pale blue dot, then a black
edged pyriform spot, very slightly excavated in front and pro-
duced on its lower posterior side, divided above the middle by a
transverse black line (above which it is orange, below yellow)
and containing a violet dot in a broad black border. As the
stage advances this mark becomes terra cotta color, except the
lower part of the pyriform spot, which is yellow, shaded with
terra cotta. In the fold between joints 5 and 6 is a black band
edged with yellow anteriorly, reaching over the dorsum to the
lateral region on each side. On joints 5, 9, 10 and n deep blue
dots represent the former tubercles of rows i and ii; on joints 5
to 12 a substigmatal row of deep blue dots and on joint 5 a sub-
dorsal and lateral pale blue dot. Spiracles small, white, sur-
rounded by a broad brownish border; scent organ orange.

Chrysalis. — Cylindrical, the abdomen tapering, no depression
between thorax and abdomen, a blunt trigonate thoracic promi-
nence projecting forward parallel, with a similar process over
each eye; a slight lateral projection at base of wing-case and a
row of subdorsal abdominal granular elevations, three of which
are most distinct. Color wood-brown, longitudinally streaked
with olive-brown; wing-cases grayish; a subdorsal line of deep
brown shading over the dorsum, continued as a broad shade to
the end of the thoracic projection; a broad, lateral, similarly
colored band, extending the whole length, diffuse on its upper
edge; a brown shade on the wing-cases basally, below the cell
and a greenish shade on the leg-cases. Length 35 mm. ; width
9 mm.

Food-plant. — Wild coffee (Rhamnus calif ornica Esch.).

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Peculiar form of Argynnis erinna Ed\\.
By Prof. ED. T. OWEN.

Size, form and colors of Arg. erinna, in whose habitat it was taken.
On the fore wing, on a strip one-fourth of an inch wide from apex to pos"
terior angle; the usual black markings appear but faintly suggested; this
absence of black is compensated by considerable black venation. On the
rest of the wing the usual black marks are heavily confluent. The hind
wing has a similar strip of like width on which venation marks alone ap-
pear. The black markings within are again equally confluent. Corre-
sponding modifications exist on lower surfaces, except that on both fore
and hind wings there has been an effort to fuse the outer row of silver
spots with the next adjacent silver spots, which has resulted in a washing
of the usual tawny band with yellow.

Hab. — Klamath County, Oregon.

In the hope that this aberrant form may recur, I venture to

name it cunninghami, after the gentleman who captured it.

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Note on a Tick from the Ear of a Coyote.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

A coyote was shot by the writer on the evening of Aug. 3,
1892, near La Vega de San Jose, in Valencia County, N. Mex.
The ears were immediately cut off and tied outside upon the top
of a high covered wagon to dry in the sun. In this isolated po-
sition they remained uninterruptedly until August 6th, when they
had begun to smell. On this date there was found in close prox-
imity to them a tick, which must have proceeded from them. It
was small, shrunken, and apparently lifeless when found, its size
being due to its empty condition. It was evidently a little more
than half grown. Any one who is familiar with the habits of
ticks will probably agree with me that this specimen came from
the ears of the coyote, since there is hardly a chance that it could
have reached its situation in any other way. It may have left the
ears of its own accord, or perhaps it was shaken from them by
the jolting of the wagon, which had been continuously on the
road during the three days. Following is a description of the tick :

Tick from Coyote's Ear. — Length 2^ mm.; anterior width, \l/2 mm.
Coriaceous, grayish or bluish, thickly covered with well- developed spines
on anterior half of dorsum especially, also on sternal portion of venter.
Mouth-parts nearly the same as in the tick from horses' ears (Jour. N. V.
Ent. Soc. i, No. 2, June, 1893), the fourth joint of palpi considerably
shorter than the third joint. The spiny anterior portion of body projects
.anteriorly, in a rounded median angle, over the capitulum, the mouth-

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parts being more or less sunken. Ends of palpi and rostrum just visible
from above. Legs same, each terminated with a pair of curved, strongly
hooked claws; no suckers. Spiracles marked by a conical tubercle,
directed backward.

One alcoholic specimen from ear of Cants latrans. Color
noted before immersion in alcohol, which has turned it to a dark
reddish brown. This is perhaps the same species as that found
in horses' ears, and above referred to. It agrees with that form
in all respects not mentioned above.

NEW MYRIAPODA FROM NEBRASKA.

By F. C. KENYON, University of Nebraska.

Lithobius sexdentatus n. sp.— Robust, light brown, head darker; smooth,
slightly pilose. Head subobttmdate, a little longer than broad; posterior
coxae laterally armed; anal and penultimate legs armed with two claws;
antennae, articles rather long, 20-21; ocelli 19-24 in four rows; prosternal
teeth six, short; coxal pores round, in a single series, 4, 4, 5, 4—4, 5, 5, 4.
Spines of first pair of legs i, 2, i; of penultimate pair i, 3, 3, 2; of anal
pair i, 3, 2, i; posterior legs not long. Fifth joint of anal legs somewhat
crassate; last two joints not sulcate; claw of 9 genitalia strong, curved,
and with a minute lobe on the outer side; spines 2 + 2, outer one longer.
Length 12 mm.

From Pine Ridge, Sioux County, Nebraska.

Lithobius nebrascensis n. sp. — Robust, scuta slightly arched, the larger
scuta subequal; smooth, very pilose: brown, head chestnut. Head sub-
cordate, longer than broad; coxae of anal legs laterally armed; penulti-
mate and anal legs with one claw; antennae, articles long, 20-21; ocelli
10 in three rows; prosternal teeth 4, short; dental lamina rounded; coxal
pores round, in a single series, 2, 3, 3, 2 — 3, 4, 4, 4. Spines of first pair
of legs i, i, i — i, 2, i ; of penultimate pair, r, 3, 3, 2; of anal pair, i, 3, 2,0;
posterior legs short, anal legs scarcely crassate, claw of ( 9 ) genitalia
strong bipartite. Spines straight, subequal, inner shorter. Length umm.

Two specimens, one from West Point, the other from Sioux
County, Nebraska.

Lithobius dorsopinorum n. sp.— Rather depressed, smooth, sparcely pi-
lose; yellowish, head orange. Head of about equal length and breadth;
posterior coxae unarmed; anal penultimate and first pair of legs with one
claw; antennae filiform, articles rather long, 21; ocelli 11-15 in three rows;
prosternal teeth 2 -(- 2 — 2 + 3 short; dental lamina rounded, teeth short;
coxal pores round in a single series, 3, 4, 4, 3 — 4, 5, 5, 4. Spines of first
pair of legs o, 2, i — i, 2, i; of penultimate pair, i, 3, 2, i — i, 3, 3, 2; of
anal pair i, 3, 2, i; posterior legs rather long, not crassate. Claw of
genitalia (9) short, broadly tripartite. Spines 2 + 2 short, straight,
outer the longer. Length 9-14 mm.

Six specimens irom Pine Ridge, Sioux County, Nebraska.

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ON AN UNDESCRIBED FORM OF GLOVERIA.

By B. NEUMOEGEN and HARRISON G. DYAR.
Family LASIOCAMPID.E.

Synopsis of Subfamilies.
Vein 8 of secondaries outwardly united to subcostal vein by a cross-vein

forming two cells Phyllodesminae.

Vein 8 of secondaries free outwardly; one discal cell . Clisiocampinae.

Subfamily CLISIOCAMPINAE.

Synopsis of Genera.
Thorax hairy.

Vein 8 ot primaries from the subcostal . . Clisiocampa.
Vein 8 from a stalk.

Vein 8 of secondaries with a costal spur.

Antennae long and slender . . Hypopacha.

Antennae shorter, pectinations decreasing to tip . . Artace.

Vein 8 of secondaries with two costal spurs . . Dendrolimus.

Thorax with a central patch of scale-like hairs .... Tolype.

Genus Dendrolimus German
1824 Germ., Syst. Prodr. p. 48.

Gloveria Packard.
1872 Pack., Rept. Peab. Acad. iv, p. 89.

Synopsis of North American Species (females only).

Gray; subterminal line distinct.

Subterminal line sharply and regularly dentate . arizonensis.

Subterminal line undulate, irregular . . dolores.

Brown-gray; subterminal line obscure . . gargamelle.

D. dolores n. sp. 9 • — Similar to D. arizonensis, but the transverse lines
are more obscure, and the subterminal line is roundedly undulate, not
dentate, the outer angles of the dentations of arizonensis being lost in
this form. In the interspace between veins 3 and 4 there is a larger pro-
jection of the line than elsewhere. Male unknown. Habitat, Arizona.

Mr. Edwards, in describing dentata (Papilio iv, 107), has re-
described the species already characterized by Dr. Packard as
arizonensis, and has left this form without a name. Though
closely allied to arizonensis, it has the aspect of a species rather
than that of a variety.

Of these three species, the male of one only is known to us,
namely that of D. gargamelle Strecker. It differs markedly from
the 9 , and will be found described by Mr. Edwards as "Gloveria
arizonensis £' (Papilio iv, 107) as well as in Dr. Strecker's
paper (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1884, p. 286).

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. IV.

OCTOBER, 1893.

No. 8.

CONTENTS:

Slosson — Collecting on Mt. Washington 249
J. B. S. — The meeting of the Associa-
tion of Economic Entomologists.... 252

Dyar — Larva of Notodonta stragula 255

J. B. S. — Economic Entomology at the

World's Fair 257

Foulks — Local list of Catocala 261

Dyar — Differences between the larvae
of C. bilineata and H. manteo 262

Daggett— Grasshoppers at Duluth, M.. 263
Rowley — Movements of pupae and ac-
tivity of images 264

Editorial 266

Notes and News 267

Entomological Literature 270

Entomological Section 278

Ashmead — A new species of Torymus.. 278
Watson — The female of Pap. elwesii 279

COLLECTING ON MT. WASHINGTON.-Part I.

By ANNIE TRUMBUI.L SLOSSON.

I went up the mountain for the first time this season in the
afternoon of July yth. The day had been hot and still below
and even on the summit the sunshine had been bright and warm
and there had been little wind. As soon as we left the cars I
went at once to my old hunting ground, the warm wooden front
of the Summit House. This is painted white, and on a clear day
has the sunshine upon it from morning till late afternoon. And
on the warm white surface, insects of all orders collect, setting
and remaining and easily taken. Here I once found and cap-
tured, on July 4th, three or four years ago, at the close of a warm
bright day, twelve specimens of Alypia langtonii. These were
resting, not far apart, on the front of the house and formed a sort
of Sorosis or Woman's Club, for they were all females with the
one white spot on secondaries. I felt sure of a good catch now,
and was not disappointed. There were so many insects either
in full view or hidden away under the projecting clapboards that
I was kept busy for some minutes, and literally had my hands

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full. I was not without aid however. I had with me a quick-
eyed and quick-fingered friend, and a stranger seeing us at work
offered his assistance, and proved a useful ally. Of course he
proved to be a naturalist, a botanist from Boston, an enthusiast
as to his own specialty, and a sympathising listener to the riders
of other hobby horses. In less than half an hour we had taken
fifty-nine insects, — Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemip-
tera and Lepidoptera. Of this last order, my own specialty, we
found but one specimen. Oddly enough, this was one of the
^geridadae, Albuna torva Hy. Edw. This was first described
from specimens taken in "Glen, Mt. Washington, N. H., Van-
couver Island and Colorado," by Mr. Henry Edwards, " Papilio"
vol. i, p. 189. I have taken several specimens at Franconia.

But it seemed a strange insect to find on the very summit, rest-
ing on the side of the house, in perfect condition, not a scale
removed from delicate body and fragile wings. The brilliant
beetle, Corymbites resplendens shone out like an opal from the
white background. We took some half dozen of this species at
that time, and certainly more than fifty during my stay of a week.
It is always plentiful on and near the summit. Corymbites virens.
C. hieroglyphica and C. cruciatus, were also taken, and soon I
spied that rare cerambycid, Anthophilax attenuata, hiding away
in the shadow. It was a fine female specimen. I have taken
one of the same sex at Franconia several years ago, and another
this Summer. I knew that the male was exceedingly rare, and
was therefore overjoyed to secure one a few minutes later. Then
another male turned up, and soon another female. The next day
I found another pair, also near the house, making three good
pairs in all, a rare capture. Of Hymenoptera I took three speci-
mens of Xiphydria provancheri Cress., one of the Uroceridae.
I have taken it previously on the mountain. There were several
Ichneumons, a brilliant little Chrysid and a Bombus. Of Diptera
there were several varieties, among them two pairs of the large
robber-fly, Laphria sericea, and Hemiptera was represented by
two or three leaf hoppers.

We went in to supper, hungry and happy, bottles were filled
with rarities and our heart's with hope. There is no night col-
lecting on the summit. I have been there a great many times in
all sorts of weather, but have never seen an insect fly after dark,
though I have watched the lights and windows faithfully. But

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our evenings at the Summit House are very pleasant ones, espe-
cially when, as happened this time, there are several of congenial
tastes and pursuits. By a happy chance there were six of us this
time, all enthusiasts in our lines. Two were botanists, the Boston
one who had aided me, on my arrival, in what might be called
my house hunting, and another also from Massachusetts, and just
now devoted to the Sphagnaceae. This last, for lack of a better
title, we styled the sphagnostic. Then there were two zoologists
at this time looking up certain small rodents with unpronounce-
able names. These last scattered their little wire traps all over
the grand old mountain, and so we dubbed them the trappists.

The weather was favorable through most of the week. Of
course there was some fog, some wind, and a little rain. But we
had intervals of sunshine and clear skies and made use of them,
and in that one week, from Friday to Friday, I took about six
hundred insects. This far surpasses any record I have ever made
here hitherto. But the season had been exceptional, with much
warm weather and much less wind than is usual, so I was told.
Then I was aided in my collecting by so many willing hands.
Every one contributed something. The trappists never went out
to set or examine their traps without bringing back some ento-
mological treasure, and the botanists shook out from their tin
cases live beetles and bugs they had captured while gathering
alpine plants. All the good people of the hotel interested them-
selves in the matter, and added to my collection hourly. From
the managers to the youngest bell-boy all contributed, and even
old Med, the grand St. Bernard, sniffed at every fly that buzzed
around his massive head and seemed to question its desirability
as a specimen. Nearly all my own personal collecting was done
upon the very summit, quite near the house. I went once down
as far as the " Alpine Garden," but generally spent my day in
hunting nearer home. Under stones all over the cone were three
or four species of Carabidae in great numbers. Here I found
Pterostichus vindicates, P. coracinus, Amara hyperborea, a Pa-
trobus, probably rugicollis, and Nebria sahlbcrgii.

In Austin's list of 1874 he calls Amara hyperborea " decidedly
the most abundant species under stones." I have never found
it so, and this season took but three or four specimens in all.
Pterostichus vindicatus was far the most plentiful of the species I
have spoken of. Patrobus rugicollis {?} was also common. This

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same species I have also taken at Franconia this Summer. Two
of the Byrrhidae, B. geminatus and B. cydophorus (?) were not
infrequent under stones near the stables, and with them I found
Cryptohypmis ventriculus and C. abbreviatus. Of course the
butterfly Chionobas semidea was there in numbers, flying about
among the rocks, darting down into dark crevices when pursued,
or resting on some gray, lichen-covered stone so like in prevail-
ing tint to its own mottled wings, as to defy detection. Of Ar-
gynnis montinus, the other and much rarer alpine butterfly, I saw
nothing on this first trip. Since the time, three or four years
ago, when I was so fortunate as to capture seven specimens
during the first week of August, I have never expected to find
them at an earlier date.

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THE MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC

ENTOMOLOGISTS.

The fifth annual meeting of this Association, held at Madison,
Wis., was in some respects the most successful that has been held.
In point of attendance it was behind the Washington and Ro-
chester meetings, but in the number and value of the papers
presented, it ranks with the best. As the proceedings are to be
published in detail in "Insect Life," and an abstract in the
" Canadian Entomologist," ii will be necessary to give here only
a mere outline of what was done, referring to the other publica-
tions for further information. The Presidential address by Prof.
S. A. Forbes was a thoughtful review of the work that had been
accomplished during the past year, and the plea for greater unity
of purpose among entomologists.

Two papers were presented by Mr. J. Ritzema Bos, and were
read by the Secaetary, the writer not being present. M. H. Du
Buysson sent a paper on the use of Bisulphide of Carbon for the
destruction of insects, principally those infesting furs and Museum
specimens. The point of this article was in the description of a
water-joint to a box described by him, and in which the specimens
to be fumigated were to be placed. An interesting discussion
ensued on the uses of Bisulphide of Carbon both as a destroyer
of Museum pests, and of field insects. Quite a diversity of re-
sults appeared, and it is evident that this substance has not yet

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been tested in as many directions as is needful, before its useful-
ness to the economic entomologist can be decided. Mr. T. D.
A. Cockerell sent a paper on the distribution of scale insects, and
another on a method of keeping slip records. Mr. D. W. Co-
quillett sent a paper on hydrocyanic acid gas as an insecticide,
describing the experiments that had been made with a variety of
gases for the destruction of scale insects. Mr. H. Garman read
a paper on illustrations for the economic entomologist. He re-
viewed the various methods now in use, pointing out their merits
and defects, and concluding that, after all, wood engraving was,
up to the present time, by far the most satisfactory process.
There was considerable discussion upon this subject in which the
claims of photography as a method of illustration were urged,
and some of the difficulties in reproducing from photographs
were explained and discussed. Mr. C. R. Gillette read a paper
on the use of arsenic and its combination as an insecticide, re-
viewing in a general way the experiments made with this sub-
stance, and discussing the scope of its combinations. This paper
was also discussed at some length. Mr. A. D. Hopkins pre-
sented a paper on note and record keeping for the economic en-
tomologist, in which he described at length his methods. In the
discussion on this paper it eventuated that no two men had pre-
cisely the same system, and that each had adopted the method
used by him, because of its seeming simplicity as applied to his
own work. Another paper on destructive Scolytids and their
imported enemy, also started considerable discussion in connec-
tion with a paper by Mr. Riley on and parasitic predaceous in-
sects in applied entomology, and another by Mr. J. B. Smith on
the economic value of parasites and predaceous insects. The
whole matter of the importation of parasites and predaceous in-
sects was fully discussed, and the question of the real substantial
value of insects of this character to the agriculturist, was fully
considered. The general tendency of opinion seemed to be that
the aid given by such insects had been considerably overestimated.
Mr. L. O. Howard read a paper on methods of studying the life-
histories of injurious insects, in which he detailed at some length
some of the contrivances in use in the United States Department
of Agriculture, and also read another note on mosquito treatment,
in which he gave the results of some further experiments in the
use of kerosene for the destruction of the larva of these pests.

254 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

Mr. J. A. Lintner sent a paper on arsenical spraying of fruit trees
while in blossom, which was in the nature of a report from the
committee appointed to consider this subject two or more years
ago. Nothing new is added to our absolute knowledge of the
subject; but hasty legislation was deprecated, and a list of insects
was given for which spraying, while fruits were in blossom, might
be necessary. It was intimated that the matter might resolve
itself into a clash of interests as between bee-keepers and fruit-
growers, and it might be merely a question as to which interest
was the most important. Mr. H. Osborn described the methods
of combating insects which attack forage plants, some methods
of attacking parasites of domestic animals, and also gave a few
notes of the year as applied to Iowa. In the discussion ensuing
on the second of these papers the value of the kerosene emulsion
for the destruction of animal parasites was one of the subjects
considered, and there seemed to be a considerable reaction against
recommending it for use for this purpose. No question was made
as to its value or effectiveness; but it was considered unsafe or
inadvisable to recommend it to the general farmer who could not
be trusted to properly prepare and use the substance. Mr. J. B.
Smith read a paper on the use of fertilizers as a means of lessen-
ing insect injury to field crops, and also gave some notes of the
year in New Jersey. Considerable discussion ensued on the first
of these papers, and it seemed to be the opinion that, however
satisfactory the method might be in the Eastern States where
fertilizers were a necessity, it would be impossible to secure their
use by the farmers of Western States, where the soil required no
addition to its natural fertility. Mr. F. M. Webster read a paper
on the insect foes to American grain, and also gave notes on the
insects of the year in Ohio. In the discussion on Uie first of
these papers considerable was said on the geographic distribution
of some of the insects mentioned, and it developed also that in
the study of some of the species there are abundant opportunities
for co-operation among the workers in a number of States. Mr.
H. M. Weed read a paper on remedies for insects injurious to
cotton, in which he described the practice at present in use in
Mississippi, showing the tendency among farmers to resort to the
very simplest and most primitive possible methods. A paper
was sent by Mr. R. Allan Wight, of Auckland, New Zealand,
on leery a piirc hasi and Vedalia cardinalis in New Zealand. Mr.

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C. V. Riley made some remarks on a San Jose scale, which has
made its appearance in Virginia during the present year. He
emphasized the fact that here was another case in which an inju-
rious insect could probably be completely stamped out of one
locality were there any authority with sufficient power to act
promptly and efficiently. This started some discussion as to the
value of legislation in matters of this character, and quite a di-
versity of opinion was shown to exist on the subject. Mr. H.
Garman described his method of preserving larvae for study,
which consisted essentially in killing them in boiling water, then
cutting through the skin and again boiling until the entire tissues
of the insect had become hardened and fixed. Miss M. E. Murt-
feldt read some notes on Piophila casei, in which she described
the attacks made by the larva of this insect on meats in smoke-
houses.

Altogether six sessions were held on three days, and had there
been a longer time for meeting it could have been profitably
employed, since in order to allow the reading of all the papers it
became necessary in some cases to shorten discussion. — J. B. S.

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On the Larva of Notodonta stragula Grt.
By HARRISON G. DYAR.

The mature larva of this species has been briefly described three
times,* but the authors are sadly at variance as to the location of
the discal humps on the anterior abdominal segments. Grote
locates them on joints 5 and 6, Edwards and Elliot on joints 7
and 8, while Packard finds them on joints 6 and 7. My obser-
vations agree with those of Dr. Packard. The other authors are
probably in error.

Egg. — Shape two-thirds of a sphere, the base flat; smooth,
.white, not shining; diameter i mm. Magnified 50 diameters it
appears closely, but irregularly punctured. Magnified 250 di-
ameters there is seen around the micropyle a row of 12 radiating
pyriform cells, followed by two more concentric rows of elongate
hexagonal cells. After these the regularity of the rows of cells

* 1882 — Grote, Papilio, vol. ii, p. 99.
1883 — Edwards and Elliot, Papilio, vol. iii, p. 129.
1890 — Packard, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xxiv, 524.

256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

is lost, the reticulations dividing them become broad, separating
a series of rounded, shallow pits, not regularly arranged, but
quite close together.

Larva, stage III. — Head narrowing upwardly, with a rather
marked angle between front and sides, clypeus rather large, su-
tures evident, the median depressed at vertex; width i mm.
Body cylindrical, joint 12 enlarged dorsally, sloping off rapidly
to joint 13, which is small; anal feet no larger than the other ab-
dominal ones. On joint 6 dorsally a fleshy hump, low, conical,
nutant. A very slight one also on joint 7. Color lilac-white,
diffusely marked along the sides with a darker shade. A brown-
black dorsal band, narrowing and disappearing on joints S-io,
but distinct again posteriorly. A faint white stigmatal line.
Thoracic feet dark. Larva rests on a perch made of the midrib
of the leaf.

Stage IV. — Head higher than joint 2, concolorous with body,
with a purplish band from antennae narrowing upwardly to vertex
of each lobe, save dark mottlings, especially posteriorly on the
sides; width 1.7 mm. Body lilac- white; the darker lateral streaks
become oblique subdorsal lines, but are faint, as is the obscure
white stigmatal line. Dorsal band continuous, but very narrow
on joints 8-10, velvety brown-black on the nutant fleshy hump
on joint 6, reddish on the hump on joint 12. Venter heavily
shaded with purple-brown; feet all dark. Tubercles small, con-
colorous, with very fine short setae. Row i anteriorly, ii poste-
riorly subdorsal, iii lateral, iv posteriorly substigmatal, v and vi
in line subventral. Spiracles black ringed; anal feet white above;
a white line from the spiracular line onto the foot of joint 10.
The two setse of row i are borne on the hump of joint 12; but
the humps on joints 6 and 7 arise between the tubercles and bear
no setae.

Stage V. — Width of head 2.8 mm. Humps on joints 6 and 7
subequal, leaning backward, retractile, bearing tubercle i at the
lateral base; anal feet used in walking, small; stigmatal white line
absent on joints 11-13, but bent at right angles on joint 10, pass-
ing clown along the foot. Otherwise as in the description by
Edwards and Elliot.

Food-plants. — Willow {Salix) and poplar (Populns).

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ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.

It may interest some of the readers of the NEWS to know what
has been done to represent Economic Entomology at Chicago,
and to this end a brief statement of the character of the insect
collections may not be uninteresting. By all odds the largest,
and infinitely the best-arranged and considered, is that in the
U. S. Government building under the charge of Dr. Riley. In
the first place a great deal of money has been spent upon the
collection ; the arrangement has been in the hands of trained men,
with a definite purpose in view, and the economic exhibit as a
whole is extremely good. There is nothing that is not open to
criticism, and it would be easy* to find fault with some phases of
the collection. It is questionable, perhaps, whether there is any
necessity for figures when the insects are large enough to repre-
sent themselves ; as for instance, a Cecropia and its cocoon are
quite visible enough to the naked eye without figures to assist in
recognizing them. It might have been better, or at least looked
better in some cases, if the species were represented by a greater
number of specimens than is sometimes the case, and there are
other little matters of detail with which fault could be found.
But the collection is so good as a whole, that criticisms of this
character seem mere earnings. In addition to the strictly eco-
nomic series, there are also a number of boxes containing merely
show specimens : that is, attractive specimens, principally from
South and Central America, illustrating nothing except them-
selves, and furnishing what may be termed an " Oh, my ! " col-
lection. These are not named and have no scientific interest
whatever. Another lot of boxes illustrates the National Museum
collection by means of sample drawers from a majority of the
orders. It is perhaps a question whether it is good policy to ex-
pose any part of a regular museum series, in any order, to the
action of light, dust and the risk of accidents necessitated in a
case like the present, and it is gratifying to note that types, at
least, have been removed from the collection and retained in the
Museum. The entomologist will find one of the most interesting
parts of this exhibit in the exhibit of apparatus for raising, mount-
ing, studying and capturing insects ; a great variety of nets,
bottles, forceps, pins, and other paraphernalia being shown.

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There is another collection of insects in the government build-
ing, forming part of the Smithsonian exhibit ; but as this is
strictly technical in character, and was prepared by the writer, it
needs only a mere mention here, and the criticism must be sup-
plied by some more disinterested party. In this collection all the
families of American insects are defined on printed labels, and
are illustrated by specimens and drawings.

In the Agricultural Building there are a number of collections
of insects. The largest and most important of these forms part
of the collective exhibit of the Agricultural Colleges and Experi-
ment Stations. I regret very much that few good words can be
said for this collection. It is made up of contributions from the
entomologists of quite a number of the Stations, and it is to be
noted that some of them have entirely failed to comprehend the
scope of the exhibit, while others have prepared boxes which
would be considered very inferior, even in an amateur collection.
There are some good cases, of course ; but as the writer is also
one of the contributors to this alcove, it would be better to allow
some one else to point out the poor boxes. Besides the character
of the collection, the installation leaves much to be desired, and
the location is such that the boxes are subject at times to very
considerable jars. The result is seen by the broken specimens
piled up in the bottom of the boxes. A great many of these will
have little or no value when they are returned to their owners.
Yet, it will pay to examine the collection carefully, since it illus-
trates the methods of a number of entomologists from all parts
of our country, and there is an abundance of opportunity to
compare the difference between good and bad work.

Besides this entomological alcove, there is in connection with the
same exhibit, an entomological laboratory, in which it was intended
to show the complete working outfit of a well- equipped Station.
It was originally intended that in this laboratory certain experi-
ments should be carried on and a considerable number of insects
bred during the season, illustrating practically, some of the work
of the entomologists. Lack of funds, among other things,
has prevented the carrying out the original plan, and the exhibit
is at present by no means what it was intended to be, when it was
originally planned by the writer ; yet there will be found in this
exhibit a great deal that will interest entomologists, since it con-
tains devices of all kinds contributed by a large number of work-

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ing entomologists, and it is especially rich in apparatus for the
study and preservation of insects, in lines which are not touched
upon in the collection under Dr. Riley's charge.

In this building Canada has also an exhibit of insects in con-
nection with her Agricultural display, which I overlooked ; but
which has been described to me as a very good one, representing
a general collection than special economic features.

Minnesota has, in connection with her agricultural exhibit,
quite a number of boxes in very good condition. This is, in large
part, composed of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera arranged without
economic purpose, and in part a collection illustrating oak insects
and injurious grasshoppers. Perhaps the most interesting box
in the entire series is one illustrating the bee moth and its work ;
the samples of injury being in some respects the best that I have
ever seen.

In the Austrian section there are a number of bottles illus-
trating the transformation of insects, and other small animals.
These bottles are extremely well prepared, and are educational in
character. So far as I know, these are all the entomological ex-
hibits in the agricultural building which have any claim to atten-
tion. There are, in some of the South and Central American
exhibits, a few specimens of insects, without name and without
purpose, except to show that such things do occur.

An excellent entomological exhibit is to be found in the Illinois
State building in connection with the show made by the State
University, and this is under the direction of Prof. Forbes. It
contains a very well-equipped laboratory, illustrating the methods
of work in use at Champaign, and also a number of insect col-
lections. One of the interesting features is a series illustrating
the food of one robin for one entire year, and this illustrates in a
very graphic manner the difficulty in determining whether a bird
is to be classed as beneficial or injurious. There is also a very
good collection of insects injurious to corn, and a very large col-
lection of forms that injure the apple. Of less economic interest
is a collection of the common insects of the State with an attempt
to illustrate forms occurring in all parts of it and others that occur
in limited localities only.

In the Kansas State building there is a collection, mostly Lepid-
optera, systematically arranged, illustrating no economic problems
and apparently a sample of the State College collection. I am

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informed that in some other of the State buildings there are
attempts at entomological collections ; but they escaped me and
are not of any extent.

In the Forestry building there are a number of collections illus-
trating insects injurious to trees. Of those seen by me, that in
the West Virginia section was by all odds the best, and Mr. Hop-
kins has made a very creditable showing indeed.

Michigan has a few boxes of insects, but these are very far in-
ferior to the others. I am informed that one other of the States
has an exhibit in this building; but I did not see it.

In the German section there are four boxes illustrating rather
a method of preparing insects of this description than any con-
siderable portion of the insects themselves.

Russia, on the contrary, shows a very full series of Forestry
insects, very respectfully prepared; but affording nothing new or
suggestive as to methods of arrangement or of preservation.

In the " Liberal Arts" building, Japan has a very large lot of
boxes containg insects from central Japan, very well mounted as
a whole, and systematically arranged, but without names, and
with no economic interest. In the educational exhibit in this same
building, Japan shows other specimens of insects illustrating the
work done in some of her schools. Germany has in this same
department a series of boxes with very well prepared and very
well mounted specimens, remarkable for the number of blown
larvae.

Oregon has, as part of its educational exhibit, a battered Cecro-
pia moth, which very well illustrates the character of the speci-
mens preserved by the ordinary school-boy.

Michigan shows a series of very well-prepared boxes in her
educational exhibit, and if these boxes could be taken as showing
the average work of the students in the Agricultural College, it
would deserve nothing but the highest possible praise. Unfor-
tunately, however, the collection is obviously in its greater por-
tion the work of special students, the larger part prepared by
Mr. Davis, who is a professional. The exhibit therefore fails
entirely in what should be its purpose; that is, to show the work
actually done by the students in the ordinary course of their
studies. If it had shown the insects as prepared by the students,
in the boxes in which they are prepared, it would have had a
distinct educational value; as it is, it simply illustrates how well

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the insects collected can be arranged in boxes especially prepared
for exhibition.

In the building devoted to Ethnology and Anthropology there
are two collections of insects, neither of them of economic inter-
est. One of them illustrates the insects of Colorado, and is pre-
pared by Prof. Gillette. The other, consisting of Lepidoptera,
belongs to a Chicago lady, and contains specimens from all parts
of the world, most of them very well named.

As a whole, the collections of insects at Chicago are rather
disappointing, and it is perhaps to be regretted that the oppor-
tunities offered during the present year have not been of more
advantage to entomology and entomologists. — J. B. S.

Mr. W. E. Longley has kindly favored the NEWS with some
notes on the same subject. As they traverse much of the same
ground which Prof. Smith has just gone over, we here print those
referring only to such entomological exhibits as he has not men-
tioned.

The U. S. of Columbia makes a very showy exhibit in their
own building. In an ordinary mercantile show-case, about ten
feet long, are pinned some two hundred butterflies and one hun-
dred beetles. There is no attempt at a scientific arrangement,
but the specimens are pinned in alternate rows of blue, yellow,
brown, etc., making a picture that catches the popular eye.

Costa Rica, Java, Brazil, Mexico, and British Guiana have each
a few specimens.

Ecuador brought quite a number of her Lepidoptera to the
Exposition in papers, but has not set and displayed them for
exhibition.

Finally, in the gallery of the Mining building, Friedrick Ehrens-
berger, of Eichstadt, Bavaria, exhibits a series of fossil insects
from the lithographic stones and of those enclosed in amber.—

P. P. C.

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LOCAL LIST OF CATOCALA.

By O. D. FOULKS, Millbrook, Duchess Co., N. Y.
Being much interested in several articles in the NEWS where

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collectors have given the result of their catch, the manner of
proceeding, and the fruitfulness of localities, I thought some
others would be interested in work in this neighborhood. During

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the past Summer I have taken over fifteen hundred Catocala
from one fourteen-acre piece of mixed timber, — oak, chestnut,
ash, etc. This does not include imperfect ones, or those slightly
damaged, that were allowed to escape, or were discarded on care-
ful examination. I cut a path completely around the inside of
woods, about fifty feet from edge, then selected trees thirty or
forty yards apart, and used the commonest molasses and vinegar.
I had in all about one hundred trees thus marked. In the three
months I have taken out of the woods thirty-five species, with
four more yet to determine. The following is my list:

CATOCALA.

nubi/is, mannorata, habilis,

elonymp/ia, parta, paleogama,

arnica, unijuga, var. phalanga,

gracilis, briseis, neogama,

grynea, concumbens, subnata,

simi/is, car a, piatri.r,

formula, amatrix, Judith,

polygama, relicfa, robinsoni,

teroga-iiia, tristis, retecta,

ultronia, epione, flebilis,

coccinata, antinympha, desperata,

ilia, serena, obscura.

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On the Differences Between the Larvae of Cecrita bilineata
and Heterocampa manteo.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

The larvae of the two species named above resemble each other
so closely as to be almost indistinguishable. They do not differ
in structure and the pattern of markings, though variable in both
is identical. The larvae are green, a reddish or a black band on
the side of the head bordered with white. On the body are dorsal,
subdorsal and stigmatal lines, the first two white and rather broad,
the latter yellow and narrow. From this simple coloration the
following variations occur: Patches of mottled, purplish brown
appear in. the dorsal space on joints 5, 7, loand 12, spreading to
the adjoining segments in more heavily marked examples and
finally filling in the whole space between the subdorsal lines, and
in addition forming a lateral projection on joints 7 and 10 below
the normal course of the subdorsal line. This curious variation
occurs in both species.

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The most salient points of difference consist first in the food-
plant. C. bilineata feeding on the elm, always solitary, and H.
manteo on the oak, gregarious when young. Second in the width
of head; the full grown larva of C. bilineata having a head of
from 2.9 to 3.3 mm. in width, while that of H. manteo varies
from 4 to 4.3 mm. Besides these differences certain others are
to be observed in the markings. The dorsal line in the green
forms is narrower and more concrete in manteo, remaining clear
and distinct in the brown form, while in bilineata it is entirely
lost in this form. The dorsal space in the green form of bilineata
is usually shaded with white, contrasting with the green lateral
area; while in manteo it is green, concolorous with the sides, or
the sides are shaded with white, producing the reverse condition
to that seen in bilineata.

I am unable to detect any other differences. Larvae collected
in Plattsburgh, N. Y.

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GRASSHOPPERS AT DULUTH, MINN.
By FRANK S. DAGGETT.

During the past Summer, Duluth and vicinity has been visited
by a grasshopper scourge, which remained with us until Septem-
ber, and as a result lawns are ruined, and flowers, except where
protected by a gauze, are a rarity. Aside from the fact the labor
of cutting lawns with a mower has been dispensed with all Sum-
mer, perhaps the most interesting thing in connection with this
visitation is its effect upon butterfly life. Usually, we have a
number of the most common varieties in profusion. Colias and
Pieris came out as usual in the Spring, but upon the advent of
the grasshoppers, which promptly devoured the red and white
clovers, they soon disappeared, except in places where the de-
struction was slow. Later in the season the second brood made
its appearance in very few numbers, and all through August,
when they are generally plentiful, only an occasionally fresh one
was to be seen, and one was as apt to meet it among dense brush
seeking for some hidden flower as the open clover fields had been
stripped of bloom by the grasshoppers. I do not remember
having seen a ragged or faded specimen during the season, which
would indicate, in the absence of flowers, death by starvation
before sufficient time had elapsed to make them weather worn.

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V. antiopa were very plentiful in 1887, following a Winter of
heavy snow, clusters of their larvae being found everywhere on
the willows; again this Spring the larvae were still more plentiful
for the first time since 1887, last Winter bringing an unusual
heavy fall of snow. This year the larvae all fed upon poplar,
willow being entirely neglected. Their abundance may be ap-
preciated when I state that in order to interest my two children
in the study of insect life I prepared a number of breeding- boxes
and they collected enough larvae to raise over 900 perfect adults,
and I noticed them about the country everywhere while driving.
In spite of this abundance of larvae very few adults were seen
later at any one time. They seemed to come out, live a few days,
and then disappear. It was the same with all, except Chryso-
phanns americana, which was exceedingly plentiful about the
Golden Rod, whose late blooming habit saved it from the grass-
hoppers.

It would seem that the heavy fall of snow last Winter, which,
in this section, has usually been followed by a very successful
Summer for the collector of Lepidoptera also proved very favor-
able for the preservation of eggs deposited by the grasshoppers.
At this writing I am taking some satisfaction, after a season of
disappointment from a collecting standpoint, in watching the
rapid destruction of the pest by a great quantity of small hawks
tarrying in this vicinity on their way South, who spend the entire
day in swooping from some stump or stub, returning each time
with a full fledged specimen. What persistent collectors they are!

MOVEMENTS OF PUP/E AND ACTIVITY OF IMAGOS,

By R. R. ROWLEY, Louisianna, Mo.

Doubtless the same conditions of individual activity or slug-
gishness exist throughout the animal creation, less marked per-
haps than in the human race, but the butterfly hunter, baffled in
his attempts to outwit and capture some fairy-winged beauty, is
hard to convince that one cresphontes is lazier than another, or
that a wary Ursula ever sleeps in the sunshine.

Perhaps there is no butterfly in Missouri more difficult to ap-
proach than troglodila unless it be antiopa, and yet both of these,
several hours from the pupa, may be taken between the thumb
and ringer and placed flat on the hand, where they will remain
motionless for some time. ' ' Playing possum ' ' one wants to call it.

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Indeed, our experience with- a great number of caterpillars of
antiopa is, that the mature " worm " in the act of suspending, is
rather awkward, more so than the larvae of other native butter-
flies, many of them failing to fasten the cremaster in the button
of silk and perishing in the fall.

Many butterflies will remain motionless for three or four hours
after their wings have begun to expand, and we have kept some
a whole day by darkening the cage or box. Others become active
in a short time and cannot be persuaded to remain in a quiet con-
dition, even in a darkened room.

Several butterflies in the same cage soon set up a fluttering,
and, to secure an absolutely faultless specimen, individual pupae
must be isolated, unless your cage is very large.

Of all the patience-trying lepidopters with which we recollect
having had dealings, Grapta progne is the most perverse. It is
active as soon as its wings are expanded and such a flutterer as
it is! It gives one no end of trouble before it is ready to set. Of
eleven pupae of this species but two unblemished specimens are
to be seen on the setting-board. Indeed, one pupa never lost a
whit of its activity from larvahood, but kept up a knocking against
the side of the box that could be heard all over the room. One
had to but touch die box to give this nervous little chrysalis an
excuse for a fresh spell of drumming. It kept up this activity
even after the colors of the imago were plainly visible through
the pupal skin, to within less than an hour of its emergence as a
butterfly.

Of the ten other pupae no such behaviour was noticeable, and
movement could be provoked only by handling.

I once reared fifty larvae of the luna moth, and of that number
of cocoons there were, perhaps, a dozen that kept up a rattling
motion, all Winter. One pupa would begin to turn in his co-
coon and the others, as if listening for the signal to join in the
"racket," would follow, and, for several minutes, pandemonium
would reign supreme in the box. Invariably a movement on the
part of one would arouse the rest, governed, doubtless, by feeling,
or a kindred sensation. We have known fresh pupae of Eacles
imperialism.^ Anisota stigma to move pretty much all over a box
by using the cremaster as a cane.

The pupae of polyphemns are not so active as those of /nna,
but both are more nervous than chrysalids of cecropia and pro-
met hea. Regalis is less demonstrative than imperial is. The
test of a live pupa is to pour a little cold water or blow the breath
upon the object when even a slight movement will give the desired
information.

8*

266 [October,

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ON TICKS IN THE EARS OF MAMMALS. — In the June, 1893, number of
the Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. there appeared an article by the writer on ticks
in the ears of horses, in which it is stated that no mention could be found
in literature of any species occuring in the ears of mammals. Since the
paper was sent in, Part II of the report on the Death Valley Expedition
conducted by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, has appeared in the North American
Fauna No. 7, published by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. On page 252
of this work Dr. Riley mentions the following cases in point, the ticks
having been determined by Dr. Marx:

Argas occidentalis Marx. — From dog's ear.. Nevada.

Rhlpistoma leporis Marx. — From rabbit's ear. Calif.

Dermacentor americanus L. — From child's ear. Calif.
Two other species are mentioned as taken, one from a jack rabbit and
the other from a Thomomys, but apparently not from the ears. Since
writing the paper above mentioned on ticks in horses' ears, I have been
told that the same tick, which I there doubtfully referred to the genus
Argas, also occurs plentifully in the ears of jack rabbits in Southern New
Mexico. I have seen no specimens however. What is apparently the
same species was also obtained from the ear of a coyote (see note on sub-
ject in ENT. NEWS). — C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

INSECTS REARED FROM BLACK KNOT, Ploivrightia inorbosa. — From
a lot of knots collected in a single garden in Wayne County, Ohio, in
April, I reared the following species, the knot being on both cherry and
plum.

Hymenoptera: Braconfungicola n. sp., Ashmead. M. S. Phaenocarpa
fungicola n. sp., Ashmead, M. S. Glypta vulgaris, Cresson.

Diptera : Cecidomyid sp. ? Muscid sp. ?

Lepidoptera : Sesia pictipes G. & R. Euzophera semifuneralis Walk.
Tort rix sp.?

Coleoptera: Hydnocera verticalis Say.

268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

MR. H. M. BERNARD, in a recent communication in the Journal of the
Linnean Society of London (xxiv, pp. 279 — 291) tries to show that the
Mites are not degenerated Arachnids, but Arachnids permanently ./ir^ at
a larval stage of development.

PAIRING of different species. — On Aug. lyth, 1893, near Little Crum
Creek, Ridley Township, Delaware Co., Pa., I observed a Libellula
pulchella Drury $ and a L. basalis Say 9 in coitu, but was unable to
capture them. — P. P. CALVERT.

Besides the foregoing, there were great numbers of Mites of a light
color, but the species were not determined. It would be an exceedingly
interesting matter to determine just to what extent these insects aided in
the diffusion of the spores of the fungus, and how much we are indebted
to them for its spread from one locality to another. — F. M. WEBSTER.

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Agassiz Association invites entomological students who read this notice
to join its ranks. Members are expected to keep each other informed of
the progress of their work in special lines of study, and to contribute to
the published reports. During the Winter one or more courses in Ele-
mentary Entomology will be conducted. The initiation fee is 50 cents.
For further particulars, address the Secretary, WILLIAM L. W. FIELD,
Milton, Mass.

Two UNCOMMON INSECTS. — Early in August, at Sea Cliff, L. I., I found
on the bark of a chestnut tree a specimen of Amphieniomum hageni
Pack.; a little Psocid with hairs and scales on its wings. Later I found
several darker specimens on a species of maple. It runs very rapidly
over the bark, but does not attempt to fly. It was previously known from
Maine, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. On August 25th, I found on a
fallen white birch a rare Capsid, Cyclaphus tenuicornis Say. The insect
had not been seen since Say described it, until two years ago, when
Messrs. Heidemann and Schwarz discovered it at Washington, D. C. —
NATHAN BANKS.

SINCE Prof. J. B. Smith is unaware of the origin of the name "Ghost
Moth" for the Hepialidae, many of your readers are probably so also,
and it may interest them to know that the " Ghost Moth " is the male of
Hepialus humuli, and the name has been extended to the rest of the family.
This moth is pure silvery-white and flies for just twenty minutes at dusk,
swaying to and fro at the tops of the grass and facing the breeze, exactly
as if attached to the extremity of a 3o-inch pendulum, often, probably,
doing so in churchyards and over graves. I was fortunate enough some
years ago to discover that this conspicuous performance is done in order to
attract the 9 by sight. It has since been noted that in other species of
the genus, also, the usual process is reversed, and that the female is at-
tracted by the male, and that the scent tufts assist in the attraction, instead
of probably merely "charming" the 9 after she has attracted the male,
as is no doubt their ordinary use.— I. A. CHAPMAN, Hereford.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 269

Pimp/a conquisitor Say, was seen in great numbers (July ryth) flying
up and down the bark of trees in Logan Square, Philadelphia. The in-
terstices of the bark were full of the larvae and cocoons of Orgyia leu-
costigma, which had been coraled by a ring of tar about four feet from
the ground. It was inferred that the Pimpla is parasitic upon the above-
mentioned moth larvae.

ACUTE LARVAL FORESIGHT OF Tkyreus abbotii.-Th& daughter of a West -
chester County friend, beyond Mount Vernon, N. Y., for several years
tried to raise a few pupse for me of such larvae, which infected their grape
arbor. Generally she failed. As usual, when I visited this locality this
July for A. idalia, Sat. alope, and Neon, canthus, she handed me two
segar-boxes for inspection. One contained five Darapsa myron larvae,
dried up leaves and not enough of hard garden loam in lumps, to half
cover bottom of box. The other disclosed four abbotii larvae half-grown,
but turning dark as if to pupate, more dried-up leaves, and no earth what-
soever. A few larvae were dead in both boxes. Under the leaves I found
a cocoon-like object, which, when examined, proved to be a full-grown
abbotii larvae " spun up " in a grape vine leaf, perfectly cylindrical in out-
line and closely encasing the contracted larva. It was in fine condition.

For years I instructed this young lady and family how to raise larvae of
desirable species, and not to be afraid of handling such. This year many
of these larvae were thrown in the fire, so that they could not ' 'sting or bite' '
the little children ! I made another search for larvae with the aid of
the children, and in an hour had found fifteen others of half-grown and
larger myron and abbotii larvae on that arbor. They were put in a barrel
half filled with moist loam, in the centre of which I placed a tomato-can
filled with water, containing food-plant and loose grass to prevent larvae
falling into it. Top was covered with heavy manilla paper and cheese-
cloth to prevent cats and other curios from lodging therein. It is the object
lesson which best convinces and teaches the most indifferent of all mankind.
— RICHARD E. KUNZE, M. D., New York.

RAVAGES OF THE WHITE ANT. — The rapid increase within a few years
of the white ants ( Termes flavipes] in the city of New York, and espe-
cially Harlem, which is now overrun with them, makes the fact of their
present and future injury a very serious one, especially as their habits and
lives while underground are so very little known, it having always been
supposed that there was but one queen in each colony, while the fact is
that their number varies in different colonies, having found as many as nine
and at another time fourteen laying and fertile queens living together in
the same cell or gallery, this being I believe the first record of queens
being found It is not alone to dead wood, whether sound or de-
caying, that they confine their operations ; living plants and shrubs are
just as liable to their attacks, and some kinds seem to be preferred to the
decaying wood, which is their natural food. Such are geraniums, of which
they are very fond, eating everything but the outer skin and leaves, which
they leave intact. I had over twenty standard geraniums, from two to

2JO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

three feet high, destroyed by them in one Summer, as well as the stakes
which supported them. Red currants are also liable to their attacks, be-
sides various other shrubs and plants, while the root of grasses also serve
them as food. — -L. H. JOUTEL in Jour, of the N. Y. Ent. Soc., June, 1893.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE TRACHEATE ARTHROPODS. — Pocock proposes
the following classification of this group (Zool. Anz., July 3, 1893):

A. Generative organs open in the anterior part of the body, apparently

on the third metacephalic somite Progoueata.

a. Antennas branched ; segments of body of adult not formed by fusion

of two embryonic somites .... Class Pauropod Lubbock.

b. Antennae aimple ; some segments of body of adult formed by fusion

of two embyonic somites .... Class Diplopoda Blainville.

B. Generative organs open at the posterior end of the body close to the

anus Opisthogoaeata.

a. Metacephalic region of the body not divisible into distinct regions,

but composed of a series of similar or approximately similar
somites, each of which bears a pair of ambulatory appendages

Homopoda.
a. Two ( perhaps three ) pairs of gnathites, feet biunguiculate

Class Symphyla Ryder.
B. Four pairs of gnathites ; feet tipped with one claw Class Chilopoda.

b. Metacephalic region of body divisible into two distinct regions, the

anterior of which, composed of three somites, bears three pairs of
legs, while the posterior is never in the adult furnished with ambu-
latory appendages Class Hexopoda.

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Entomological Literature.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xx, 2,
July i, 1893. — The Galerucini of Boreal America, G. H. Horn, i pi. Mis-
cellaneous Coleopterous Studies, id. Notes on Bees, with descriptions
of new species, C. Robertson. The Phalangida Mecostethi, N. Banks.

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, v, pp.
87-94. New York, June, 1893. — Notes on transformations of some North
American moths, W. Beutenmiiller.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 27 1

ARCHIVES ITALIENNES DE BIOLOGIE xix, fasc II. Turin, 1893. — Ob-
servations on the respiratory movements and muscles of the thorax of
Coleoptera, L. Camerano (original in the Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino
xxviii). On the respiratory phenomena of the chrysalis of Bombyx mori,
L. Luciani and Dr. D. Lo Monaco (original in Atti R. Accad. Georgoflli
xvi, i), On the contraction of the striated muscles and on the move-
ments of Bombyx mori, Dr. M. L. Patrizi (original Atti R. Accad. Sci.
Torino xxviii, 9).

COMPTE RENDU. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. Paris, June 12, 1893.—
On the oil of eggs of the grasshopper or wandering locust (Acridium
peregrinum) of Algeria, R. Dubois. — July 31, 1893. On the cerebral
nuclei of myriapods, J. Chatin. Researches on the anatomy and the de-
velopment of the male genital armature of Orthopterous insects, A. Pey-
toureau.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, ii,
4, June 30, 1893. — Is Megastigmus phytophagic ?, C. V. Riley. Annual
address of the President — Parasitism in insects, id. Note on Galeruca
xanthomelcena, id. Summary of a collection of Hemiptera, secured by
Mr. E. A. Schwarz in Utah, P. R. Uhler. On spiders' web, Dr. G. Marx.
Notes on some Cecidomyidae of the vicinity of Washington, D. C., C. H.
T. Townsend. Notes on certain Cecidomyiidous galls on Cornns, id.
Biologic notes on some species of Scolytidse, F. H. Chittenden.

PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., July, 1893. — The primitive number of
Malpighian vessels in insects II, W. M. Wheeler. Descriptions of new
species and genera of West African Lepidoptera — VII, W. J. Holland. 2
pis. A cabbage-like Cecidomyiidous gall on Bigelovia, C. H. Tyler
Townsend. — August, 1893. The primitive number of Malpighian vessels
in insects, iii, W. M. Wheeler. Notes on Glnphisia and other Notodon-
tidae, A. S. Packard. A description of the larva of a species of the Lint-
neri group of Glnphisia, H. G. Dyar. A cocks-comb gall on R/ius ini-
crophylla, C. H. T. Townsend. Tardy wing expansion in Cal/osamia,
C. G. Soule.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Pt. cix. London, May, 1893. — Le
pidoptera-Rhopalocera, vol. ii, pp. 265-288, F. D. Godman and O. Salvin.
Lepidoptera-Heterocera, pp. 145-160, H. Druce. Rhynchota-Heterop-
tera, pp. 441-462, i-xx, title page, W. L. Distant. Pis. xxxvi-xxxviii.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. London, July,
1893. — List of insects collected by Miss Elizabeth Taylor in Western North
America [Slave River] in the Summer of 1892, A. G. Butler and W. F.
Kirby. Notes on some Mexican Coccidae, T. D. A. Cockerell. The coxal
glands of Scorpio, H. M. Bernard, i pi.

REVUE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE L'OUEST, in, i. Paris, Jan. -
March, 1893. — Exposition of opinions expressed on the morphological
value of the solid pieces of the genital armor of insects, Dr. A. Peytoureau.

272 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER. Leipsic, June 26, 1893. — Supplementary
note on the egg of the apterous agamic Phylloxera, Y '. Lemoine. On
the development and life-history of Pogonius bifasciatus F. (Hymenop-
lera), C. Verhoeff.— July 3. On the classification of the Tracheate Ar-
thropoda, R. I. Pocock.— July 31. On the structure and the signification
of the endosternite of Arachnids, W. Schimkewitsch, figs. — August 14.
News of water mites [Axona\ R. Piersig, figs. The " head" of Galeodes
and the procephalic lobes of Arachnidan embryos, H. M. Bernard, figs.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., July, 1893.— Com-
ments on Mr. Van der Wulp's recent diagnoses of new species of Mexican
Phasiidae, Gymnosomatidae, Ocypteridae and Phaniidse, C. H. Tyler
Townsend. Description of the grubs of Chrysomela exclamationis, id.
A list of species of Diptera from San Domingo, S. W. Williston. Fitch's
types of N. A. Membracidee, F. W. Coding. North American Thysanura
II, A. D. Macgillivray. A new Asilid genus related to Erax, D. W. Co-
quillett. Notes on collecting some of the smaller Sesiidse in the London
(England) district, L. Gibb. A suggestion as to the identity of Cycnia
dubia Walk., H. G. Dyar. A new lac-insect from Jamaica, T. D. A.
Cockerell. Notes on Taxonus nigrisoma and T. dubitatus, }. G. Jack.
Note on Copimamestra and Eulepidotus, A. R. Grote. Descriptions of
certain Lepidopterous larva? (cont.), H. G. Dyar. Lithophane oriunda,
]. A. Moffat. — August, 1893. Some interesting color varieties in the genus
Crossidius, H. F. Wickham, i pi. Notes on two species of Tenthre-
dinidse, from Yosemite, Cal., H. G. Dyar. Fitch's types of N. A. Mem-
bracidse, F. W. Coding. Synopsis of the Dipterous genus Thereva, D.
W. Coquillett. Some notes on Michigan insects, principally Coleoptera,
affecting forest trees, C. H. T. Townsend. The Phalanginse of the U. S.,
N. Banks. A black male of Papilio turnns, A. S. Van Winkle.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, July, 1893.— Sex ratios in butterflies
and an inference, T. E. Bean.

THE Insect Enemies of Small Grains by Lawrence Bruner. Extr. Ann.
Rep. Nebraska State Board Agric. 1893, pp. 360-468, in figs. Lincoln,
Neb., 1893.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1893. Pt. i.
London, June r, 1893. — A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with
a revision of the genera, E. T. Watson, 3 pis. Descriptions of new spe-
cies of Dipterous insects of the family Syrphidae in the collection of the
British Museum, with notes on species described by the late Francis
Walker. — Part I. Bacchini and Brachyopini, E. E. Austen, 2 pis.

SCIENCE. New York, July 21, 1893.— A silk-spinning cave larva, H.
Carman. — August n. Preliminary note on the cottony scale of the osage
orange, T. D. A. Cockerell.— August 25. The Cornell mixture [Insecti-
cide and Fungicide], M. V. Slingerland. Notes on marine and fresh-water
larvae of midges, G. Swainson.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 273

JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, I, 2, June,
1893. — Ticks in the ears of horses, C. H. T. Townsend. New North
American Aculeate Hymenoptera, W. J. Fox. Notes on the life-histories
of some Notodontidae, ii, A. S. Packard. Another leaf-miner of Popnlns,
C. H. T. Townsend. Note on a new Antlion allied to Myrmeleon blandus
Hagen, id. A Nycteribid from a New Mexico bat, id. On the food habits
of North American Rhynchophora, W. Beutenmiiller. Some notes on
the ravages of the white ant ( Termes flavipes L.) A. Joutel. Capture of
B rot is vulneraria R. Ottolengui. List of the Coleoptera of Eastern North
America, C. W. Leng and W. Beutenmiiller.

THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST, San Diego, Calif., July, 1893. — On
an apparently Microlepidopterous leaf-miner of the vine, C. H. Tyler
Townsend. — August, 1893. Some larvae on scrub oak, C. H. Tyler
Townsend. Notes on Hemileuca, id. The peach and apricot borer of
southern New Mexico, id.

BULLETIN OF THE OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Tech-
nical series, I, 3. Norwalk, Ohio, April, 1893. — Methods of oviposition
in the Tipulidae, F. M. Webster, figs. A Dipterous gall maker and its
associates, id., figs. Notes of some species of Ohio Hymenoptera and
Diptera heretofore undescribed, id., figs. Description of a new species
of gall-making Diptera, J. Marten, figs. Description of a species of
Chlorops reared from galls on JMuhlenbergia mexicana, S. W. Williston.
Descriptions of new parasitic Hymenoptera bred by F. M. Webster, W.
H. Ashmead, A. Tachinid reared from cells of a mud-dauber wasp, C.
H. T. Townsend.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, July, 1893.—
Explanatory notice of my views on the sub-orders of Diptera, C. R. Osten
Sacken. Notes on new or little-known Coccidse, 4, R. Newstead. The
West Indian species of Mytilaspis and Pinnaspis, T. D. A. Cockerell,
figs. Courtice's breeding-cage, with variations, H. G. Knaggs, M.D.

Ill JAHRESBERICHT DBS WIENER ENTOMOLOGISCHEN VEREINES 1892.
Vienna, 1893. — The genus Pamassius Latr. in Austria-Hungary, Dr. H.
Rebel and A. Rogenhofer, i col. plate.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE. Paris, July i, 1893. — Note
on the pilicolous Sarcoptids (Listrophorinae), Dr. E. Trouessart.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ALBANY INSTITUTE xii. — Insects of the past
year and progress in insect studies, J. A. Lintner.

ACTA SOCIETATIS PRO FAUNA ET FLORA FfiNNICA, viii. — Helsitlgfors.

Phytometridae of Finland, A. Poppius, 2 pis.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, July 15, 1893. — The pupal
and imaginal wings of Lepidoptera, Dr. T. A. Chapman. On the pupal
wing in butterflies, J. W. Tutt. Melanochroism in British Lepidoptera,
A. R. Grote, J. W. Tutt, continued in the number for August 15111.

2J4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

BERLINER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT xxxvii, 3. Berlin, October,
'92. — List of the Glaphyridae, Melolonthidae and Euchiridse described since
1871, A. F. Nonfried. The gall-flies [Cecidomyidae] of the Konigliche
Museums fur Naturkunde at Berlin, E. H. Ruebsaamen, 12 pis. — 4. May,
1893. On the characters of the three divisions of Diptera: Nemocera
vera, Nemocera anomala and Eremochaeta, C. R. Osten Sacken. Cor-
rections as to matters of fact in Baron Osten Sacken's article, F. Brauer.
On some nymphs of Aculeata, C. Verhoeff. Biological observations, es-
pecially on Odynerus parietum, id. On Proterandry of the Diplopoda,
id. — xxxviii, i and 2, July, 1893. The insects of the district of Adeli back
of Togo, West Africa, from the materials collected by Capt. Eugen
Kling (1888-89) and Dr- Richard Biittner (1890-91), Dr. F. Karsch, with
an introduction by Dr. R. Biittner. Part i: Apterygota, Odonata, Or-
thoptera Saltatoria, Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, 35 figs., 6 pis.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 1893, Erstes Lepidoptero-
logisches Heft. Berlin, July, 1893.— Biography of Adolf Speyer, Otto
Speyer. Revision of the Pierid genus Delias, H. Ritter von Mitis, 2 pis.
— Zweites heft, July, 1893. Comparative researches on the abdominal
segments, especially the ovipositing apparatus of female Coleoptera, a
contribution to the phylogeny of the same, C. Verhoeff, 2 pis. Revision
of the species of the Coleopterous genus Prosodes Eschr., E. Reitter.
Remarks on and additions to the "Catalogue systdmatique des Cicin-
delidae" par Fletiaux (1893), W. Horn.

THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY, II, i. Lawrence, Kans., July,
1893. — Revision of the genera Dolichopus and Hygroceleuthus, J. M.
Aldrich, i pi. New genera and species of Psilopinae, id.

THE LARV/E OF THE BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS by (the late)
William Buckler, edited (in part) by (the late) H. T. Stainton, vol. v.
The second portion of the Noctuae. London, the Ray Society, 1893. Pp.
xi, 90, pis. (colored) Ixx-lxxxvi.

A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera (Cynipidae
and Appendix). Vol. iv. By Peter Cameron. London, the Ray Society,
1893; 248 pp., 19 colored plates.

ICONES ORNITHOPTERORUM: A monograph of the Rhopalocerous genus
. Ornithoptera, or bird-wing butterflies. By Robert H. F. Rippon. Pt. 5,
containing four plates and text. Published by the author, London, No-
vember, 1892.

MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bull. No. 98. Agr.
College, Michigan, July, 1893. Locusts— The horn-fly, G. C. Davis, figs.

BULLETINO DELLA SOCIETA ENTOMOLOGICA ITALIANA, XXV, 2. Flor-
ence, Aug. 5, 1893. — Revision of the European species of the family Cu-
licidae — mosquitoes, E. Ficalbi. On the so-called Bugonia of the an-
cients, and its relation to Eristalis tenax, a two-winged insect, C. R.
Osten Sacken.

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THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. Zoology,,
v, pt. 8., September, 1892. — The development of the head of the imago
of Chironomus, L. C. Miall and A. R. Hammond, 4 pis. — Pt. 9, Novem-
ber, 1892. On the variations in the internal anatomy of the Gamasinae,
especially in that of the genital organs, and on their mode of coition, A.
D. Michael, 4 pis. Journal of the same. Zoology, xxiv, 154, May 5,
1893. On the Buprestidae of Japan, G. Lewis. No. 152, July 20. Some
observations on the relation of the Acaridae to the Arachnida, H. M. Ber-
nard, i pi.

JAHRES-BERICHT DER NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT GRAU-
BUNDENS. N. f. xxvi. Chur, 1893. On formic acid in honey, Dr. A. v.
Planta.

ARCHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, lix, I, 3. Berlin, July, 1893. — Con-
tributions to the knowledge of the mouth parts of the Trichoptera, R.
Lucas, 3 pis.

LE NATURALISTE. Paris, Aug. i, 1893. — -A Dipter \_Thryptocera
Lithobii^ parasitic on myriapods of the genus Lithobius, A. Giard. — Au-
gust 15. Observations on the phases of the coloration of a nymph of
Ichneumon ruftcaudtts \Nesm., L. Planet, figs.

JAHRESHEFTE DES VEREINS FUR VATERLANDISCHE NATURKUNDE IN
WURTTEMBERG, xlix. Stuttgart, 1893. — On the formation of hermaph-
roditic insects, Dr. J. Vosseler. Biological communications on some Or-
thoptera from Oran, id.

TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE,
xxv, Wellington, May, 1893. — Further Coccid notes, etc., W. M. Maskell.

SlTZUNGSBERICHTE DER KONIGLICH PREUSSISCHEN AKADEMIE DER

WISSENSCHAFTEN zu BERLIN, 1893, xiv-xvi. — On noteworthy occurrences
in the sperm of Dytiscus marginalia. Dr. L. Auerbach.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST. London, August, 1893. — The "Melanism"
controversy, W. E. Sharp.

OvERSIGT OVER DET KONGELIGE DANSKE VlDENSKABERNES SELSKABS

FORDHANDLINGER, 1892, No. 3. Copenhagen, — Copulatory organ and
copulation of Melolontha, J. E. V. Boas, i pi.

ZOE. San Francisco, July, 1893. — Description of a luminous [Coleop-
terous] larva found near Holbrook, Ariz., C. H. T. Townsend. Note on
Termopsis angusticollis, id.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
(2) vii, 3. — Sydney, March, 1893. — Gall-making Buprestids, W. W. Frog-
gatt.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS, July 22, 1893.—
Note on an entomophagous insect, parasitic on European silk worms
\_Doria meditabunda Meig.], E. J. Bouvier and Delacroix.

276 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

ANATOMISCHER ANZEIGER. Jena, Aug. 5, 1893. — On the remarks of
Dr. Ballowitz concerning the sperm of Dytiscus marginalis, L. Auerbach.

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. London, 1893, i
pt. 4. — Notes on some of the digestive processes in Arachnids, H. M.
Bernard, i pi.

INSECT LIFE, v, 5. Washington, July, 1893. — The present year's ap-
pearances of the periodical cicada, Eds. Further notes on Yucca insects
and Yucca pollination, C. V. Riley, figs. On the pollination of Yucca
whippier in California, D. W. Coquillett. The cocoanut and guava mealy-
wing (Aleurodicus cocois Curtis) Eds., figs. Further notes on the cotton-
tail-bot with the breeding and identification of the fly, C. H. T. Townsend.
The sugar-beet web-worm (Loxostege sticticalis L.), Eds., figs. Report
on a trip to northwest Missouri to investigate locust injuries, H. Osborn.
The angoumis grain moth or "fly weevil" (Gelechia cerealella), L. O.
Howard. Descriptions of Noctuida? from the Death Valley, J. B. Smith,
figs. The red-legged flea beetle (Crepidodera rufipes L.), Eds. figs.

VERHANDLUNGEN DER K. K. ZOOLOGISCH-BOTANISCHEN GESELL-
SCHAFT IN WIEN, xliii, i, March 1893. — On the eye of Scutigera coleop-
trata, Dr. T. Adensamer. — 2. July, 1893. On parthenogenesis among
spiders, N. Damin. To the knowledge of the Coleopterous genus Tri-
chodcs Herst., a monographic study, K. Escherich, 2 pis.

NATURE. London, Aug. 24, 1893. — The fungus-gardens of certain
South American ants, J. C. Willis [Abstract of Moller's paper, see ENT.
NEWS, September, p. 239]. A few remarks on insect prevalence during
the Summer of 1893, Miss E. A. Ormerod.

DENKSCHRIFTEN DER KAISERLICHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAF-
TEN, lix, Vienna, 1892. — New species of the genera Phytopsis Duj. and
Cecidophyes Nal., A. Nalepa, 4 pis.

Reports of the United States Commissioners, Universal Exposition.
Paris, 1889; vol. v. — On the useful and injurious insects, C. L. Marlatt.

REVIEW. — PART III OF BRAUER AND BERGENSTAMM'S MONOGRAPH OF
THE MUSCARIA SCHIZOMETOPA. — The third part of this work has recently
appeared (Denkschr. d. Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. d. Kais. Akad. d. Wissen-
schaft, bd. Ix, Wien, 1893). It contains 152 pages quarto, no plates, and
comprises in the main an analytic table of sections, and another of genera.
These tables cover 91 pages, and will be of great use in the determination
of the genera erected by the authors. The value of the work is enhanced
to American students by the fact that the authors have examined the large
collection of Tachinida?, etc., of the U. S. National Museum, sent them
by Dr. Riley, the results being considered in this part. Following the
tables there are 30 pages of notes and descriptions, which number 115 in
all, of much use in defining the position of recently described and other
genera in the Brauerian system. The numerous genera erected by the

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writer are carefully considered, and their affinities pointed out so far as
practicable from the descriptions. In these notes the authors describe and
name a new genus Rileya (type R. americana), in honor of Dr. Riley.
It is unfortunate that two Hymenopterous genera have already been
named Rileya, one by Mr. Howard and one by Mr. Ashmead. The
tachinid genus might, however, be known as Rileymyia. Further notes
on the sections and the genera they embrace follow, together with a sum-
mary of the writer's groups and genera of North American Tachinidse
5. sir. given in the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. A supplement to the alphabetic
list of species mentioned in the work comes next. The whole is con-
cluded by a general index of all the genera mentioned in the three parts,
which contains all the Calyptrate Muscid genera of the world erected up
to the time of publication of this part. — C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

COLEOPTERA.

Galerucini : n. gen. et spp. Horn, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xx, pp. 57-
136; and of other families, id., /. c. pp. 136-144.

Neinatocephalus guatemalensis Senna, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxv, p. 128,
tav. i, f. 4, Guatemala.

DIPTERA.

Cecidomyia bigelovice-brassicoides Towns. , Psyche vi, p. 491, N. Mex.

Efferia (near Erax] Coquillet, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 175, type anomalis
Bell. E. pernicis, p. 175, Candida, p. 176, Cal. E. rara, Texas, p. 176.

Ocyptamus iris Austen, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 133, Baccha
sagittifera p. 144, Jam., with synonymy for other species.

Nycteribia antrozoi Townsend, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 1, p. 79.

Lasioptera muhlenbergice Marten, Bull. Ohio Agr. Experiment Station.
(Tech. ser.) I, p. 155, Illinois.

Chlorops ingrata Williston, /. c., p. 156, Ohio.

N. sp. Dolichopus, Hydroceleuthus, Aldrich, Kans. Univ. Quart. II,
pp. 1-26. N. gen. et spp. Psilopinre, id., /. c., pp. 47-50.

Thereva n. spp. Coquillett, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 197-201.

HEMIPTERA.

New species from Utah, Uhler, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. II, pp. 366-385.
New Coccidse from Mexico, Cockerell, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xii, pp.

43-53-

Tachardia getninifera Cockerell, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 181, Jam.

N. gen. et spp. Mexico, Cent. Am., Distant, Biol. Cent. -Am. Rhynch.-
Heterop. pp. 441-462.

New Coccidse, \V. Indies, Cockerell, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2) iv, pp. 155-158.

2j8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

HYMENOPTERA.

Aculeata, n. sp., Fox, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. i, pp. 53-56, U. S.
Parasitica, n. sp., Ashmead, Bull. Ohio Agr. Exper. Station (tech. ser.)
i, p. 159-^5- Ohio.
Apicke: n. spp. Robertson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, pp. 145-149.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Thamnonoma gracilior Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xii, p. 16, Slave
River, etc. Pseudosiona n. gen. Geometrarum, p. 18, P. taylori, p. 18,
near Mackenzie River.

N. gen. et spp. Mexico, Cent. Am., Godman and Salvin, Biol. Cent.-
Amer. Lep. Rhop. ii, pp. 265-288. Druce, /. c. Lep. Heter. pp. 145-160.

Prodoxus intricatus Riley, Ins. Life, v, p. 307, Mexico.

Noctuida?: n. spp. Calif., Smith, Ins. Life v, pp. 328-334.

NEUROPTERA.

Myrmeleon n. sp. (unnamed), Townsend, Journ. N. Y. Soc. i, p. 78.

PHALANGIDA.

N. gen. et spp. Banks, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 205-211; Trans. Am. Ent.
Soc. xx, pp. 149-152.

THYSANURA.
Japyx americanus Macgillivray, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 174, Wash.

Ttie Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

A NEW SPECIES OF TORYMUS.

By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD.

Torymus hainesii sp. n. 9- — Length 23 mm.; ovip. 2 mm. Robust;
thorax above dull bronzed green, shagreened, covered with short sparse
hairs; head, pleura, coxae and femora, except hind pair, mostly blue or
purplish; hind femora and abdomen metallic bluish green; scape, mandi-
bles, tibia and tarsi, brownish yellow; flagellum dark brown, the joints,
after the first, scarcely as long as wide. The head is transverse, antero-
posteriorly thin, the face and cheeks flattened, nearly smooth, feebly, very
sparsely punctate; facial furrow large, the vertex in consequence, rather
sharp. Thorax short, subovoid ; pronotum short, contracted anteriorly ;

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mesonotum scarcely as long as wide with the parapsidal furrows distinct
only anteriorly; metanotum extremely short, declivous posteriorly. Wings
hyaline, nearly bare of pubescence, the venation light brownish yellow,
the marginal vein very long, almost the length of the submarginal, the
stigmal very minute, scarcely developed, while the postmarginal is only
twice the length of the short stigmal. The abdomen is subsessile, oval,
shorter than the thorax, subconvex above, boat-shaped beneath, its sur-
face delicately, microscopically sculptured with wavy lines, smoother on
dorsum towards base ; second segment the longest, with the flap medially
emarginated.

Hab. — San Julia, Lower California. Types in coll. Ashmead
and coll. California Academy.

Described from three 9 specimens taken in April, 1889.

This species comes nearest to Torymus anthomyiez Ashm., but,
besides its much larger size, it differs decidedly in its mesonotal
characteristics, T. anthomyi<z having entire parapsidal furrows.

These two species with two or three other undescribed species
form quite a distinct group in the genus.

-o-

ON THE FEMALE OF PAPILIO ELWESII (Leech).
By JOHN WATSON, Manchester, England.

P. elwesii. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1886. Part II.—" On a collection
of Lepidoptera from Kiukiang."

The description of the female of Mr. Leech's elwesii given
below is taken from the first and only female known to science of
this extremely rare and handsome species. Mr. Leech's speci-
mens of the male (only two of which were viewed) were taken
by Mr. Pratt, in Kiukiang in 1887, on the Yangtse River, 500 miles
from the coast. The unique female now described was brought
from Central China by a captain of a steamboat, and its exact
locality is unfortunately unknown.

P. elwesii 9 • — Primaries more rounded than male, outer margin wavy.
Primaries and secondaries blackish brown with on either side of nervures
of primaries and anterior portions of secondaries from base to below the
discoidal cell a plentiful supply of gray scales enclosing a black-brown
streak in the centre of each internervular space ; a faint blue irroration on
upper and under surface of secondaries in the internervular space between
the first and second submedian nervulcs and just next the anal ocellus.
The posterior portion of secondaries and "tail " faintly glossed with blue
a little more pronounced on under surface. The five crescentic marks
exclusive of the ocellus at anal angle not so heavy as the male, particularly

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that next the ocellus. Ocellus larger than the male. The tail differing
from male in being rounded and not obliquely cut off ( see plate). The
space between first and second submedian nervules greater than in the
male, giving the female tail a heavier appearance. Exp. 154 mm. ; 6% ins.

Hab. — Central China.

In the collection of J. C. Hudson, Esq.

Fig. I. — Female. Fig. II. — Contour of "tail" of male.

I place this grand species next rhetenor. Mr. Leech writes
me " I place elwesii next rhetenor also."

After examining a large number of specimens of the allies of
elwesii, I find that the faint blue scales forming the often incom-
plete row of crescentic1 or orbicular marks on the secondaries of
rhetenor, protenor (in a less degree) and found in its greatest pro-
fusion on upper and under surface of polymnestor and its insular
variety parinda.

Unlike nearly all other Papilios, the tail ot elwesii is not formed
of the prolongation of the third submedian nervule, but is formed
by the shortening of the fourth and fifth thus causing a distinct dip
in the contour. In this habit it is also accompanied by its ally,
P. icariiis of Westwood.

OBITUARY.

On April 14, 1893, J. F. M. BIGOT, the well-known Dipterist. He was
born in 1818.

On May 6, 1893, JAMES WOOD-MASON, on the way from Calcutta to
England. Born in Gloucestershire in 1846. He was Professor of Com-
parative Anatomy at the Medical College of Bengal, and established a
reputation through his entomological and deep sea researches.

On June 30, 1893, at Zurich-Hottingen, Switzerland, FRITZ RUHL, Presi-
dent of the Societas Entomologica, and editor of the journal bearing that
name, in the 57th year of his age.

KNT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PI. XIII.

RAVAGES OF CYLLENE ROBINI/C.

See page 285.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv. NOVEMBER, 1893. No. 9.

CONTENTS:

Horn — Amblychila cylindriformis 281

Stromberg— Field Notes 283

Laurent — Ravages of the locust-borer.. 285
Slosson — Collecting on Mt. Washington 287
Fox — Observations on the genus Neo-

larra 292

Knaus — Notes on sand dune collecting. 293
Editorial 296

Economic Entomology 297

Notes and News 301

Entomological Literature 304

Entomological Section 308

Ehrmann — A new Hesperid from West

Africa 309

Dyar and Doll — Lepidopterous larvae.. 310

Amblychila cylindriformis Say.

By GEO. H. HORN, M.D.

" Are there three species of Amblychila, or two, or only one?"
The above line is the text of a short article by Mr. J. J. Rivers,
recently published ("Zoe," iv, p. 218, San Francisco, Sept. 19,
1893), in which he accepts two species, cylindriformis and picco-
lominii* baroni Riv. being the male of the latter.

Some time in the decade ending 1840, Piccolomini returned
from a voyage, bringing a number of Coleoptera, which were
placed in the hands of Dupont, probably for sale. The collection
was visited by Chaudoir, Reiche, La Ferte and Motschulsky,
purchases made and species described by these entomologists
with the locality "California." After many of the species had
been identified it was found that several could not possibly have
been collected in California (Pastmachus and Amblychila) while
the aggregate indicated a locality anywhere from western Texas
to central Arizona. Moreover, a study of maps of the date
showed that the territory indicated in the acquisition after the
Mexican war as well as Texas, was then called California. In

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regard to Amblychila piccolominii , Mr. Rivers speaks of " Du-
pont's examples." Reiche states that he saw but one specimen,
a female. It is probable that the sex was a mere guess, as it is but
a few years since the means of sexual distinction was made known.

After Reiche' s description Lacordaire expressed the opinion
that the insect was not specifically distinct from that described by
Say (see Mem. Liege, i, p. 95, 1843), and repeated the same
some years later (" Genera," i, p. 8, note, 1854). Mannerheim's
reference to the insect carries with it no authority as to locality
or specific value, being merely a short description culled from
the longer one of Reiche (" Bull. Mosc." 1843, p. 183).

The first specimen of Amblychila seen by an American student
after Say came to LeConte in 1854, and gave the occasion for
some remarks, and finding so many gross inaccuracies in the
figures of this and some other species figured by that author, he
seems to have been left in an uncertain state of mind.

The next reference to Amblychila is by Thomson in his begin-
ning of a monograph of Cicindelidae (Paris, 1857), in which he
figures anew the so-called California specimen. That Thomson
saw the Reiche type is known to me, and I can assert that no
other specimen of Ambychila went to Europe until fully ten years
after. At this time I will state that the Reiche type was exam-
ined by LeConte and myself. Mr. Rivers seems to think that
Thomson was influenced in his opinion " by reading the opinions
of our two great Coleopterists." As far as LeConte is concerned,
he never expressed an opinion until 1859 (Col. Kansas, etc.),
and if I can assume to be the second I must here admit that in
1857 I had never seen an Amblychila, much less expressed an
opinion.

In Mr. Rivers' paper he seems willing to admit that his baroni
is the male of piccolominii. At the same time he gives a photo-
graphic representation of the last-mentioned species. From my
memory and a drawing I had specially prepared, the true picco-
lominii is still smoother than the one he figures.

These preliminary remarks are intended as the basis of an an-
swer to the question asked by Mr. Rivers. My opinion is that
there is but one species of Amblychila. This insect is now known
to be distributed over a wide extent of country from Kansas to
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. In that range it meets great
variat:ons of climate and undergoes the' same style of variation

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found in many other species in the same range. I might merely
mention as an example Eusattus reticulatus or Asida sordida.
Unfortunately, Mr. Rivers and some of my French friends, have
had for comparison the large, fully-developed and rough forms
from Kansas and the smaller and smoother forms from the other
limit of its distribution. Were it possible for me to gather in one
series the specimens I have seen from the intermediate points of
distribution and which are now scattered in the various collec-
tions, I think the evidence would be as clear to all who are at
present skeptics as it was to me and to LeConte some years ago
that there is but one species of Amblychila which varies from
climatic causes along its thousand miles of distribution.

o

FIELD NOTES.

By C. W. STROMBERG.

In the Winter of 1891 a few weeks were spent near Carlisle,
Ark. , where a part of the time was devoted to collecting Cole-
optera, and, as collectors are scarce in those parts, I thought I
would report results, hoping others might become interested in
the region.

To go into any part of the South during Winter for the sake
of collecting insects every one knows would not pay, but I be-
lieve that an energetic collector spending a Summer in any part
of Arkansas, and especially where he has both prairie (wild and
cultivated) and forest for his field, will reap a rich harvest in the
way of rare and interesting specimens in any of the orders of
insects.

The country (January 2d), after leaving Little Rock and before
reaching the prairie region, presented a picture so dreary and
discouraging that I gave up all hopes of finding anything at that
season to enrich my cabinet. The fields were covered with water.
Flat timber lands were everywhere submerged. Cabins seen
here and there were surrounded by the muddy fluid and corn-
cobs, chips and all kinds of rubbish were floating about in the
dooryards. Occupants of the cabins were grouped in the door-
ways and they looked gloomy enough; even the cattle seemed
to have the blues. But the country improved in Hearing the
prairies. Although there was a great deal of water on the flat
lands, enough of the land was rolling to make a variety, and here

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one's spirits will rise, for birds are abundant, northern Summer
birds. Surely where there are so many insect-loving birds, in-
sect life must not be lacking. The soil here is sandy, and is
underlaid with "hard pan." The ground, therefore, is hard
and firm after the heavy rains.

I will not take up valuable space with a list of all the small
species in the way of Staphylinidae, Histeridae, Elateridae, Chryso-
melidae, Anthicidae and several families of bark beetles that
were taken under bark on trees, under boards and rails in the
meadows and by sifting old leaves and rubbish from fence cor-
ners, bases of trees, etc. , but will limit myself to the Carabidae
mostly, which are my favorites. Of water beetles there were
none. Only one little specimen of Hydrophilus nimbatus Say
was captured, but a few Gyrinidae were seen on warm days.

The first day after arrival, being bright and warm, brought out
large numbers of insects. Nearly three hundred specimens were
taken during a forenoon in a pasture including Tachys cenescens
Lee. which were under bits of bark in wet places, and were mostly
immature. Lebia abdominalis Chd., pulchella Dej., depicta Horn
and Epipociis discoidalis Lee. were clinging to the underside of
rails near an old fence. Platynus limbatus Say, punctiformis Say,
Aspidoglossa snbangulata Chd. , Pterostichus tumescens Lee. ,
Evarthrus orbatus Newm. were under bits of wood, etc.

Platynus striatopunctatus occurred under logs near a hay-shed.
Chrysomelidae were numerous on rising ground, where they had
probably been driven by the water. On an old pine was found a
large Sandalus (iiiger?) perfect, though dead, and under the bark
were a few Gynandropus (elongatus?}; this species was quite
common, it occurred on the trunks of trees often many feet above
the ground.

Collecting one day along a roadside thirteen specimens of
Chlcenius viduus Horn were secured. They were under rails and
among the rotten wood. Several Panagceiis fasciatus Say were
also taken. Much collecting was done in the woods, where I
took one day, under bark, that rare and beautiful Platynus qnad-
rimaculatus Horn. Working persistently I soon had the pleasure
of seeing specimen number two in my bottle. I also took in the
same way a pretty little Badister (near elcgans}.

By wearing rubber boots and wading into the bayous many
interesting things were taken on stumps, under the bark and on

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floating logs. Among the leaves near the water Bradycellus
linearis was common. It was often found among leaves on ground
that had been covered with water for several days or weeks at a
time. Loxandrus, of which there were several species, did not
seem to object to water either. They were everywhere in the
wet woods.

Coptodera izrata Dej. was taken once under bark, and the
bright little Hister ceniomicans Horn and venustus Lee. were dug
from crevices in oak bark. Dicerca lurida Fab. might have been
gathered by the pint. Sometimes a whole handful was taken
(but not kept) from under the loose bark of a large tree.

Burnt over districts in the woods yielded many Platynns er-
rans and Cryptobium sp. Pinophilus (jopacusf) was the most com-
mon of all the Staphylinidae.

To the kindness of Mr. Henry Ulke I am indebted for the
names of the above species.

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RAVAGES OF THE LOCUST BORER.

By PHILIP LAURENT, Phila.

On September iyth of the present year my neighbor, Mr.
Horace Rodd, called my attention to a grove of young locust
trees (Robinia pseudacacia) growing a short distance from his
home at Mt. Airy, Pa. The trees varied from one to six inches
in diameter, and not one of them but what showed the distinctive
work of the locust-borer {Cyllene robinia}. Many of the trees
were completely honey-combed by the larva of this destructive
beetle. With the aid of Mr. Rodd I secured sections of some
of the trees, some of which are represented on the plate accom-
panying the present number of the NEWS. Figures i, 2 and 3
(read figures beginning from upper left hand corner) were cut
from a tree five inches in diameter that had but lately succumbed
to the ravages of the borer. The other figures represent sc-
tions cut from limbs and branches; no part of the tree is exempt
from their attacks, excepting the smaller twigs and leaves. In a
field close by I found the beetle feeding on the golden-rod (So-
lidago}, there were hundreds of them; in some cases I counted
as many as ten specimens on one stalk of golden-rod. For
many years the locust borer and hickory-borer were thought to

286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

be one and the same insect, but the investigations of Mr. Benj.
D. Walsh proved this to be a mistake. As preventive measures
it has been suggested to soap the trees about the end of August
or early in September, just previous to the emerging of the
beetles, which occurs during September, also the employing of
children to gather the beetles by hand; if this latter means is
used the children should be instructed to gather the beetles from
the trees and not from the golden-rod, as stated in an article
which I read a short time ago, otherwise it would prove to be a
case of locking the stable door after the horse is stolen.

If any of the readers of the NEWS desire more information
concerning the insect here treated of I can refer them to the fol-
lowing papers: ' ' Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation," Flint
edition, 1880, pp. 103-4. "The Practical Entomologist," Janu-
uary, 1866, vol. i, pp. 28-29, — An article entitled Borers, by
Benj. D. Walsh. "Trans, of Amer. Ent. Soc." May, 1880,
vol. viii, p. 136, — Notes on some Genera of Cerambycidae, with
descriptions of new species, by Dr. George H. Horn.

The following articles also contain more or less information on
the subject, though in some cases it is but a repetition of what
has been published in the three articles first mentioned: " Insects
Injurious to Forest and Shade Trees," by A. S. Packard, Jr.,
1881, p. 95. "Canadian Entomologist," December, 1877, vol.
ix, pp. 223-4, — A few Common Wood-boring Beetles, by Rev.
C. J. S. Bethune. "Canadian Entomologist," August, 1880,
vol. xii, pp. 151-2, — -" Entomology for Beginners," by R. Y.
Rogers, Jr. "Canadian Entomologist," September, 1882. vol.
xiv, p. 200, — An article by J. Alston Moffat, "Canadian Ento-
mologist," November, 1882, vol. xiv, p. 240, — An article by
Dr. Geo. H. Horn. Annual Report of the Entomological So-
ciety of Ontario for the year 187^, pp. 13-4; also for the year
1877, pp. 24-5. Fifth Report of the U. S. Entomological Com-
mission, Department of Agriculture, pp. 355-8. " Bulletin of
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences," April 10, 187.',., vol. ii, p.
96, mention of the capture of Cyllene robinitz at Lake Pontchar-
train, Louisiana.

THE Union Medicale recommends a mixture of equal parts by weight
of powdered ipecac, alcohol and sulphuric ether as an application for
insect bites.

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COLLECTING ON MT. WASHINGTON.-Part II.

By ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON.

Some years ago as I was going up the mountain by rail a young
man connected with the Summit House spoke to me and said he
hoped I could tell them up there the name of a red bug infesting
the house. On my arrival I was told that there had been much
complaint from guests because of the supposed presence of that
unpleasant little creature, Acanthia leciidaria. But the "red
bug" proved to be that pretty little Chrysomelid, Galerucella
cavicoliis. It was there in great numbers, covering the windows,
lighting on the walls, crawling on the floors. This season I saw
very few of that species, but Galerucella decora seemed to have
taken its place. I took scores of these, and they were brought
to me daily by friends. The two " lady bugs," Coccinella trifas-
ciata and C. transversoguttata, were also very common. The
former, at least, breeds not far below the summit, for I found one
specimen just emerging from the pupa skin which hung on one
of the alpine sedges growing not two hundred feet below the top
of the mountain. The larvae can probably find plenty of food,
as there are aphides even on the summit. Mr. Mann, in " Psy-
che," vol. i, p. 183, speaks of plant-lice which "infested the
branches of birch trees," and " had produced an appearance like
a snow-storm around the Summit House."

Flowers were scarce at the time of our first visit. The gol-
den-rod was hardly in bloom, some of the earliest alpine flowers
had gone by, and the little mountain sandwart, Arenaria groen-
landica, was for some reason less plentiful than usual. But on
the slope down into the alpine garden I found some golden-rod,
a little Clintonia, goldthread, the white potentilla and a few other
plants in bloom, and around these I took a few moths. Anarta '
melanopa and A. schoenherri were here, and also higher up among
the rocks, a little brown and white tortricid, Sciaphila moesch-
leriana fluttered about, and I captured several; also two or three
specimens of the geometrid, Eupithecia cretaceata. About these
same blossoms, or on leaves, I caught several of the Lampyridae,
Telephorus rotundicollis, Podabnis diadema, Lucidota atra, El-
lychnia corrusca, Ccenia dimidiata and Pyropyga decipiens. Hy-
menoptera were scarce, though I saw three or four specimens of
Bombus pennsylvanica and a few Parasitica. Of these last Mr.

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G. C. Davis pronounces two or three "probably new," and
others very rare. The absence of Plusia vaccinia about these
flowers was surprising, as I had never failed in previous visits at
this season to take at least a few. But I saw none at this time.

Argynnis myrina was very common, and specimens were
brought me every day by willing, but inexperienced collectors
in hopes of their proving to be A. montinus.

Water beetles of a few species were not uncommon in the little
pools between the rocks near the summit and at the side of the
carriage road. Here I found Hydrophilus mixtus, Hydrobius
fuscipes, Creniphihis subcupreus, Cymbiodyta fimbriala and an
Agabus, probably confinis. Some of these same species were
also brought me by the trappists from the lake of the clouds,
and the sphagnostic found crawling out from the sphagnum he
gathered in that same water many specimens of a tiny Hydropo-
rus, species yet unascertained. Bidessiis affinis was very abun-
dant everywhere. One species of Hygrotrechus, of the family
popularly called water-boatmen or water-skaters, was also very
plentiful in the pools and on the lake. It is a reddish form,
probably H. rufoscutellatus . These little pools are also good
hunting ground for other than aquatic insects. Beetles, bugs,
ichneumons and small moths are blown from the sedges or rocks
into the water, and I have taken many such, struggling on the
surface or floating there lifeless.

Of course any one seen carrying a butterfly net or poison bottle
about the rocky top of Mt. Washington meets many a scoff and
jeer from the ordinary tourist — "Catching mosquitoes?" asks
one, sarcastically; "going fishing," calls out another, while the
more sober minded ones ask seriously if I really expect to find
any insects in such an unlikely spot.

It is certainly wonderful how many forms of animal life exist
in this bleak, barren, frigid region. At times the very air seems
alive with minute insects, dancing like motes in the sunshine.
You can scarcely turn over a single one of the stones which lie
so strangely scattered over the whole cone or summit without
finding under it many and various insects, beetles, larvae, flies,
mites, spiders and ants, some so minute as to be scarcely visible
to the unassisted eye. The grass and sedge growing between
the rocks are alive with small leaf-hoppers, at least one of these,
taken on this visit, is a new species, so Mr. Van Duzee tells me,

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a small Jassid. And there are always a great many flies, princi-
pally Muscidae and Tachinidae. I have never seen a day so cold
or stormy that there were not some of these bluebottles buzzing
about the rocks or bumping against the house or barns. Mr. C.
H. T. Townsend, to whom I sent some of these, pronounces
them "of great interest."

The red-legged grasshopper is plentiful, and I saw one of the
red-winged (H. tuberculatus) also C. viridifasciata, and two or
three species of Tettix and Tettigidea. I took only two dragon-
flies this time, both belonging to the Agrionina. These were
flying in Alpine Garden. Others were seen, but not captured,
around Lake of the Clouds. A C/ifysofis and two or three Phry-
ganidae were also found.

The stones themselves are resting places for flies and other in-
sects, while several species of spiders crawl over them by hun-
dreds. It is out of place in an entomological journal, I suppose,
to say much of other forms of animal life, but I may just hint at
such.

There are chipmunks here; one of them became very tame
last Summer, and came daily to be fed, taking nuts or grain from
those he knew or trusted. After his long Winter's sleep in that
frozen clime he might well, have been excused for forgetting his
old acquaintances, but he remembered. And all this Summer
he came again every day, accepting favors as gracefully as ever
from his Summit benefactors. While I was there in July a wood-
chuck was shot by one of our party, on the side of the cone,
quite near the hotel, and mice, shrews and moles are not uncom-
mon, as daily visits to the wire traps, with which the mountain
bristled during our stay proved. Snowbirds (Junco) fly about
and dart in and out among the rocks just around the base. I
made a great mistake I suppose in not examining the trapped
and shot animals for parasites. I heard, but all too late, that
mysterious little creatures were seen running from the bodies of
these victims soon after their decease. These may have proved
rare alpine forms of Pulex, Pcdiculus, Melophagus or Sarcoptes;
perhaps even a new Platypsilla!

One must not be too fastidious in the choice of hunting grounds
on the summit. One of our favorite insect mines there was the
soft-soap barrel near the kitchen door. This sapanaceous bait
proved very taking, and we captured there some of our rarest

290 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

species. Here were found two or three specimens of Scotodes
americanum Horn, a pair of Tetropium cinnamopterum, Campy -
lus denticornis, and the dainty little Longicorn, Pogonocherus
penicellatus; also flies, bees and ants. Even Medford's shaggy
coat proved remunerative, and I took off it, as the grand old dog
lay in the sunshine one warm noon, a fine specimen of Chryso-
bothris trinervia which flew and lighted there as I looked on.
Several specimens of this Buprestid were taken on the summit.
Dr. Packard, in his " Forest Insects," speaks of it as occurring
in the pine forests of Colorado, and it is probable that it bores in
pine trees, as do so many of its congeners. Some, perhaps
many, of these wood-boring beetles found on the summit are
brought up in the wood piled near the base for fuel. I have
taken Upis ceramboides , Iphthimus opacus and Scotobates calca-
ratus on these logs in former years and have seen ants running
in and out of holes and tunnels here. I searched faithfully for
the larvae or pupae of the Agrotidee peculiar to this fauna, but
found but two of the latter under moss near rocks. These both
were covered with a mould or fungoid growth and did not de-
velop. One larva of C. semidea was taken on sedge (Carex vitl-
garis var. hyperborea). It was the green form and full grown.
It fed well in confinement on its natiye food-plant while still on
the mountain. When I brought it down to Franconia I gave it
various species of Carex growing near, and it ate indiscriminately
of each and all, thus showing a deplorable ignorance of botany,
and one day it disgraced itself still more deeply by eating vora-
ciously of blue grass (Poa pratensis} apparently quite unable to
distinguish between Cyperaceae and Graminaceae. But after
about three weeks of this varied fare it fell into a stupor and has
slept ever since, alive but motionless, in its hybernation I sup-
pose. I came down the mountain on the i4th, after a week's
stay. On August 22d I again went up, hoping to find Argynnis
montinus. I had been waiting at the Crawford House nearly a
week for favorable weather. It had been cold and foggy, with
much rain and wind all that time. The 22d was cold and bright,
with a fair prospect of settled good weather. I had planned for
only two days on the mountain this time. The forenoon of the
23d was bright and pleasant, though not very warm, and I did
some fair collecting. Six specimens of Argynnis montinus were
taken, but the week of storm had somewhat dimmed their beauty,

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and some of them were quite shabby. In the Alpine Garden,
near the head of Tuckerman's Ravine, the golden-rod was in fine
bloom, and Plusia vaccinii was there in numbers; a few speci-
mens of Plnsia simplex came also to the flowers. Vanessa mil-
berti, perfect, fresh specimens, looking as if just emerged from
the chrysalis were flying here, and I took several.

I had seen, when on the mountain in July, under stones near
the house, a large reddish mite. This was very common, and I
could have taken a hundred. But I knew nothing of the Acarinae
and had no correspondent interested in the family, but at this
later visit, having a little vial of alcohol with me, I preserved one
specimen; this Mr. Nathan Banks pronounces a new species. I
also collected, running on the rocks, a Phalangid (daddy long-
legs), which Mr. Banks writes me is new. Two spiders, Chibiona
canadensis and Pardosa brunnea, were very common among the
stones and moss; and Eristalis tenax, the ubiquitous drone-fly
of the lower country was buzzing about among the flowers.

I found another larva of Chionobas semidea, the reddish form.
But a better discovery than this was that of a hairy larva, evi-
dently an Arctian, and unlike anything I have ever seen. Know-
ing how very few of this group are found on the mountain I
hoped that the larva might be that of the fine moth, Platarctia
parthenos, but Dr. Packard tells me it is not that, and he cannot
yet identify it. The larva of Laria rossii has been described,
and is quite unlike this. It was found crawling on a rock in the
Alpine Garden. .Not knowing its food-plant I gathered leaves
from all the plants and small shrubs near by and gave the cater-
pillar its choice. It at once selected the mountain bilberry, Vac-
cinium uliginosum, and ate greedily; after bringing it home I
tried other species of Vaccinium, but it would eat none of them.
Then I tried other plants, plantain, dandelion, lettuce, cabbage,
but with no success. Later it ate sparingly of poplar and white
birch. I have handed over this interesting larva to Dr. Packard,
who will describe and have drawings made of it, and then try to
carry it through its transformations, so I will not speak of it in
detail here. This is no place for a meteorological article, so will
not dwell upon the terrible storm of August 24th. It has ahx-ady
become a matter of history. Those of us who watched through
the hours of that long night of wild tumult and tempest will not
soon forget the experience. There was no collecting that day.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

and on the next, when the storm was subsiding, I came down the
mountain. I expect to print a complete list of the insects cap-
tured during my two visits to the Summit. They have been
identified by Mr. Liebeck, Mr. W. J. Fox, Mr. G. C. Davis, Mr.
Van Duzee and others. And I am deeply indebted to them all
for their assistance. The heaviest burden has devolved upon
Mr. Liebeck, as the number of Coleoptera far exceeded that of
any other order, amounting to about one hundred and twenty
species.

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Observations on the Hymenopterous Genus Neolarra Ashm.

By WILLIAM J. Fox.

In the Bulletin of the Colorado Biological Association, No. i,
1890, p. 8, Mr. William H. Ashmead has described an interesting-
new genus of the Fossorial Hymenoptera. Through the kind-
ness of the above-mentioned gentleman I have had the opportu-
nity of examining the unique type, from which I have made the
observations contained herein and have drawn up the appended
description. I quite agree with Mr. Ashmead in stating that it
will probably form a distinct tribe of the Bembecidae (so-called),
and go further and believe it to represent a distinct group inter-
mediate between the so-called Bembecidae and Larridae. As
several authors have demonstrated that the Larridae and Bembe-
cidae are not entitled to family distinction, representing nothing
"but groups of the Sphecidae, the discovery of Neolarra tends to
make the assertion stronger. While its affinities to the Bembe-
•cites are shown in the strongly protruding labrum and form of
the mandibles, yet its relation to the Larrites is evident in the
wings, which are not very dissimilar to the genus Dineius. I
might state that the type is a £ , and not a 9 , as supposed by
Mr. Ashmead.

Description. — Head as broad as the thorax; mandibles broad
at base, narrow and acute at apex, not emarginate on outer mar-
gin; labrum triangular, a little, broader at base than it is long;
the clypeus seems to be divided into three lobes, the middle one
being by far the largest, most prominent, and extends up between
the insertion of antennae; eyes rather strongly diverging towards
the vertex, their inner margin entire; antennae short, the pedicel

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in length equal to about one-half the length of the scape, the
flagellum strongly clavate; ocelli forming a low triangle or strong
curve, all three distinct, the anterior one much larger than the
posteriors; prothorax hidden by the head in this specimen (the

vertex is very long and
projects back on the
dorsulum) laterally
dentate or lobate; the
humeral tubercle is
very large; scutellum
large; metathorax not

Fore wing of Neolarra pruinosa. longer than the SCUtel-

lum and postscutellum combined, unarmed; abdomen elongate-
ovate, 'a little longer than the head and thorax united; last dorsal
segment without a pygidial area; tibiae not spinose, the middle pair
with but one spur at apex, as are likewise the anterior and posterior
pairs (teste Ashmead}; for tarsi without comb, the first joint pos-
sessing some stiff hairs; wings ample, with one very short mar-
ginal cell, which is truncate, and has a short appendiculation,
two submarginal cells, the first of which is over three times longer
than the second, which is narrowed above, and is about twice
higher than it is broad beneath; first recurrent nervure received
by first submarginal cell before its apex, the second received by
the second submarginal at about the middle; stigma large.

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NOTES ON SAND DUNE COLLECTING.
By W. KNAUS.

For the past three years I have collected Coleoptera during
May among the sand dunes bounding the valley of the Arkansas
River on the north, and twenty miles southwest of McPherson,
Kans. The ridge of sand hills is broken, and immense excava-
tions have been gradually cut out by the strong winds which leave
the white sand piled in huge dunes at the northern and southern
extremities of these "blowouts." The margins of these dunes
seem to be a favorite resort of Cicindelidae, and in the bottoms
of the "blowouts" in the mornings are to be found numbers of
Coleoptera, blown around at the sport of the wind currents.

My first collecting was done May 5, 1891. Before reaching
the sand dunes I took a number of Cicindela vulgaris and re-

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panda. At the base of the sand dunes, where vegetation was
kept back by the drifting sand, I found numbers of Cicindela
scutcllaris, and associated with them, but less numerous, C. for-
mosa. Both of these species occurred less frequently higher up
on the dunes, on the hillsides and near the bottom of the " blow-
outs." On the sides of the dunes I took a single specimen of
'Geopinus incrassatus, two or three other Carabidae, an Aphodiics,
two or three Melano tus fissilis, Trox <zqualis, a few El codes ex-
tricata, Anomala binotata and two specimens of a Euphorid
which has since been identified as Stephanucha pilipennis Kraatz.
Only one other specimen of this species has, so far as I know,
been taken in the State, and that was collected this Spring by
Prof. E. A. Popenoe, of the State Agricultural College in Man-
hattan, Kansas.

Beating willows enabled me to take but a single specimen of
Gastroidea formosa .

A visit a week later added a nice lot of the two species of Ci-
cindelidae mentioned above, to my duplicates.

The season of 1892 was about ten days later than the preceding
and my collecting was done in the latter part of May. I added
another beautiful Cicindelid to my list of duplicates, that of C.
venusta. I found it sparingly associated with the two species
taken the season before. In two visits I took only about a dozen
specimens, and only in a single restricted locality. This variety
occurs in the western part of the Slate, but to my knowledge it
has never been taken in central Kansas, except as here indicated.
The Spring of 1893 was unusually cold and windy, and the
sand was piled up higher than usual. The best collecting this
season I found to be in the bottoms of the sand "blowouts"
from seven to nine in the morning. The Coleoptera in consid-
erable numbers were taken while sluggish from the chill of the
night. In this way I took ten fine specimens of Stephanucha
pilipennis, all either dead or crawling slowly over the surface of
the sand; two fine specimens of a shining black Cremastochilus,
several Anomala binotata, one Anomala minuta, and a fine lot of
Chalcodernms collaris which I have no doubt breed in large num-
bers in the seed-pods of the Yucca which occur abundantly along
the sides of the " blowouts." The only Carabidae taken were a
few specimens of Dyschirius globulosis, J^acliys incurvus, Ptcr-
ostichus crythropus, Nothopus zabroidcs, Plarpalns

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Sienolophus ochropezus and a Harpalus sp. The Chrysomelidse
were represented by a Graphops nebulosus and a Pachybrachys
tridens; the Staphylinidae, by a Philonthus varius, Philonthus
sp. and a Stenus sp.. Two or three species of Saprinus, a Lim-
nichus sp. the only one ever taken in the State. A Chalepus
trachypygus, several Lacon retangularis, and a handsome Cardio-
phorus. Two species of Blapstinus near pratensis; a Rhysse-
matus, a Sphenophorus pertinax, several 6". sculptilis with another
handsome species of the same genus were taken near some large
swamp grass.

Cicindela scutellaris and formosa were not so numerous this
season as usual, and I did not succeed in finding a single speci-
men of C. venusta, although looking for it carefully on two trips.
Two or three specimens of Catalpa lanigera were also taken on
willow catkins. I expect to collect for a number of seasons in
this locality and will make additional observations on the occur-
rence of the rarer species mentioned above.

ON Sunday (October ist) I found a pupa of Mantispa (sp. ?), and opened
the case before I knew what it was. On being brought into a warm room
he speedily showed signs of life, and unfolded his members. One wing,
however, was not fully developed, and through this he thrust both his
anterior legs. Being unable to release them he went to work deliberately
to eat off the offending legs, and when last observed had eaten through
more than half of the large femur of one leg. This is the first time I have
observed such an act on the part of an insect, although similar instances
are recorded of animals caught in traps. — JOHN L. HEALY, Chicago, 111.

INSECTS REARED FROM BLACK KNOT, Plowrightia morbosa. — From
a lot of knots collected in a single garden in Wayne County, Ohio, in
April, I reared the following species, the knot being on both cherry and
plum.

Hymenoptera: Braconfungicola n. sp., Ashmead. M. S. Phaenocarpa
fungicola n. sp., Ashmead, M. S. Glypta vulgaris, Cresson.

Diptera : Cecidomyid sp. ? Muscid sp. ?

Lepidoptera : Sesia pictipes G. & R. Euzophera scinifitneralis \Yalk.
Tortrix sp.?

Coleoptera: Hydnocera vertical! s Say.

Besides the foregoing, there were great numbers of Mites of a light
color, but the species were not determined. It would be an exceedingly
interesting matter to determine just to what extent these insects aided in
the diffusion of the spores of the fungus, and how much we are indebted
to them for its spread from one locality to another. — F. M. WKHSTEK.

296 [November,

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Now that the study of insect life has become of considerable economic
importance, and owing to the fact that we have quite a number of pro-
fessional entomologists in our midst, it is time that more general attention
was paid to the condition of our specimens for the cabinet and for study.
There are comparatively few people in this country who properly under-
stand capturing, preparing and mounting specimens in all their details.
There seems to be no very good reason why this should be so unless it is
that most of us are very careless, as it is almost as easy to do the thing
the proper way as the converse. The first condition to be observed is to
get your specimen without ruining it, and then the following manipula-
tions are comparatively easier, but so seldom properly carried out. The
insect should bear at least some relation to the number or size of the pin,
and all should be mounted at a uniform height. These and other details
are important, and will facilitate study even though it may not be con-
sidered necessary by a few, who think anything will do. Prof. Smith says
in the last number of the NEWS that as a whole the collections of insects
at Chicago are rather disappointing, and we are sorry to say we have
heard the same opinion from others. More attention should be given to
this subject, and all should strive to improve in this matter. There is an
association of American botanists to which the condition of membership
is that one must know how to make a specimen which is up to a certain
standard (a high one). If such an association were formed among ento-
mologists in this country we fear the membership would be very limited.

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J,

Greasy Lepidoptera. — In the "Entomologist" for October, 1893, Mr. H.
G. Knaggs speaks of having been experimenting with ether for the ex-
traction of grease from insects, and particularly Lepidoptera, and begs
that greasy insects be sent him for purposes of experiment. While the
subject is perhaps not strictly economic, yet it has an interest for all col-
lectors, even on the smallest scale. It is surprising, however, that in
England the use of ether for such purposes should not be known, for it is
with us perhaps the most common of the materials used. I have not
made any attempt to look over the literature on this subject, but I have
found almost universally, that ether is the favorite liquid employed by
collectors great and small, and in my opinion it is not even the best. It
is certainly effective, but it is not nearly so useful in my experience as
chloroform. This latter acts quicker, just as thoroughly, and may be used
several times in succession, before it becomes saturated with grease. In-
deed, very frequently I do not even immerse the insect in the liquid, but
with a medicine dropper simply drip the chloroform on the insect in such
a way that it runs from end to end of the specimen, and with a very small
expenditure of liquid, nearly or quite all the grease is removed in a very
few minutes. For use on a larger scale I have found nothing that is better
than a high grade of gasoline. This in the first place is very cheap, cost-
ing not more than fifteen cents a gallon, so that it is possible to use it
liberally, without feeling that the specimens were costing more than they
were worth. Insects of all kinds can be safely immersed in this liquid
and left there for an indefinite time without staining or losing color, and
when removed the specimen requires but a few moments to become dry
and regain its bright appearance.

Experiments on the Pear Midge.— I have in this department several times
called attention to this insect, and to the fact that it is gradually spreading
through New Jersey. During the past season it has invaded a new
county, and I have made a Series of experiments as to the effect of cer-
tain fertilizing materials upon the insect after it had gone under ground.
I reported, some time during the Summer, that in an orchard in which
the midge made its appearance last year, the. ground was at my sugges-
tion given a heavy dressing of kainit, the land under the infested trees
being treated at the rate of nearly a ton to the acre, while the remainder
received about half that amount. This Spring that orchard was almost
entirely free from the midge, only a very few infested pears being found
at the edge of the orchard, where the midges could easily have come on
from a neighboring plantation. Immediately adjoining this orchard is
another, which was also infested last year, and which was not treated in
any way. This Spring there was not a single Lawrence pear in it that

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was not full of midge larvae. The trees set very heavily, and early in June
I made a most careful search; not for insects, but for pears that were not
infested, and absolutely failed to find a single one that was sound. One
.tree, not more than thirty feet from the edge of the exempt orchard, was
literally loaded with fruit, all of it infested. That not more of the midges
came to this good orchard is at first sight surprising, but it is perhaps ex-
plainable by the fact that last year there was only a small crop of Law-
.rence pears and that comparatively few midges matured, and those that
did so, found an abundance of opportunity to oviposit, so there was no
need for them to migrate. This enormous multiplication induced an
earnest appeal to the owner of the infested orchard, was persuaded, when
the matter was properly presented, to consent to a stripping of the trees,
and for two days bushels upon bushels of the young fruit were picked and
destroyed; with it of course the midge larvae contained in them. For
purposes of experiment I collected perhaps two quarts of the infested
pears. These I divided into eight parts as nearly equal as it was possible
to get them; care being taken that each lot should, as nearly as possible,
resemble the other in the proportionate number of large and small ex-
amples, so as to make each lot a fair sample of the whole. Eight fruit
jars were half filled with sand and one lot of the infested pears was placed
in each jar. The pears were left there for several weeks, being moistened
very occasionally to prevent their hardening and drying, and to facilitate
the escape of the midge larvae. Late in June, or early in July, the pears
in each jar were carefully sorted over, those that had been fully abandoned
by the larvae were thrown away, and those that had not broken open or
decayed, were cut to enable the insects to escape from them. Early in
August the jars were again overhauled, the ground was found full of larvae,
and the now completely abandoned pears were thrown away. Two of
the jars were left as-checks; two others of the jars received a small quan-
tity of nitrate of soda; two others an equal quantity of muriate of potash,
and two others a somewhat larger quantity of kainit. In each case the
dry fertilizer was sprinkled upon the top of the ground; in the one in
what would be a light top dressing; in the other in what would be a liberal
application of the same fertilizer on a commercial scale. In each case it
was intended that natural conditions should be resembled as nearly as
possible. A very small quantity of water, just sufficient to moisten the
surface of the soil was added after the fertilizers had been applied, and at
intervals during the season small quantities of water were added, just
sufficient in each case to moisten the soil. On October 6th, all except
one of the check jars were examined. In each case the entire contents
•of the jar was dumped into a large, shallow pan, to which water was
added, and the sand was carefully washed. It proved to be easy to sepa-
rate out all foreign material from the sand, and this foreign material was
simply the midge larvae or the cocoons made by them. In each case all
the insect contents of each jar were put into a vial, the vials all of exactly
the same size, in order to compare by bulk the number of specimens.

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In the check jar there were numerous larvae in the sand all, apparently
of them alive, and there were also a very large number of cocoons con-
taining unchanged larvae, all of them, apparently, in good condition. In
all the other jars there were no living larvae in the sand, and only a very
few badly-dried and shriveled specimens could be found; in none of the
other jars was there anything like the number of cocoons found in the
first one examined.

Jar number one, containing muriate of potash in a light application,
showed no free larvae, but many cocoons; in bulk about four-fifths of the
check lot; but among these, about half of the larvae within the cocoons
were dead.

Jar number two contained double the quantity of muriate. There were
nearly as many cocoons as before; but the larvae contained in them were,
fully three-fourths of them, dead.

Jar number three contained nitrate of soda, a light dressing. There
were no free larvae, and of the cocoons, in bulk about two-thirds as many
as in the check lot; but in these cocoons not more than ten per cent, of
the larvae were alive; the others were dried and shriveled.

Jar number four contained double the quantity of nitrate. There were
about as many cocoons as before, but I could not find more than about
five per cent, of living larvae in them.

Jar number five contained a light dressing of kainit, about as much as
in the heavy dressings of muriate and nitrate. There were no free larvae,
and of cocoons in bulk about two-thirds of the check; that is, about the
same as in the nitrate, but of living larvae in these cocoons I found less
than three per cent.

Jar number six contained double the amount of kainit. The cocoons
in bulk, equaled less than one-third of the check lot, and I found not a
single living larva. In other words* in this jar not one-third of the larvae
ever formed cocoons, and of those that did get to this point, all died. I
think that this experiment, confirmed by the quite remarkable result
shown by the field test, proves that we will be able to control, to a very
large extent at least, the injuries from this insect by the proper use of the
mineral fertilizers. The application should be made very soon after the
larvae abandon the pears on the trees, and the application should be a
very liberal one, and should be made, if possible, just before or during a
mild rain; the object being to carry the solution into the soil as soon as
possible. It would advantage the orchard, and would probably also add
to the benefit to be derived, if in the Spring, at the time the blossoms are
forming, a dressing of nitrate of soda be applied. This would reach the
few pupae that might have escaped, and which would be at time leaving
the cocoons and working their way to the surface, ready to emerge as
imagoes.

Cresent Horse Ranch, Albany, Tex. — I send a specimen of the so-called
heel-fly of Texas, Hypoderma lineafa, bred by me from a larva which I
caught as it fell from the back of a Hereford cow. This is, I believe, the

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third recorded instance of the metamorphosis of this fly having taken
place under artificial conditions. Two years ago, after many failures, I
was able to record my success, followed a few weeks later by Dr. Cooper
Curtice, formerly of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington.

Dr. Curtice has made an exhaustive study of the life-history of this fly
known North and East as the oxwarble fly, here as the heel-fly, although
their identity was scarcely ever suspected until two years ago. I believe
that here the fly invariably deposits its eggs on the hair around the heel,
although the popular idea is that the fly actually stings the animal. The
cattle lick themselves, thus conveying the eggs into the mouth, the larva
making their way in between the walls of the gullet. Here they remain
some months, when they finally make their way up to the skin along the
back, where they bore through, remaining in the hole a little over two
months. When they first reach the skin they are quite white, but gradu-
ally color and form somewhat become a dark brown or black, and forcing
themselves out of their sacks fall to the ground. The skin of the larva
becomes hard and shell-like, and at the end of about six weeks the perfect
fly emerges.

Although I know that in Penna. the backs of domestic cattle are often
badly infested with these larvae, showing that the fly is by no means rare,
yet I never saw that its presence caused any fright or even uneasiness,
whilst here it is so dreaded by cattle as to cause at times heavy loss to
stockmen. The time of the fly beginning and ending its attack is very
variable. I have seen cattle running from it as early as December, whilst
this year up to date (Feb. i5th) I have seen no indication of its presence.

Cattle seem to become absolutely frantic from terror; a steer will be
quietly grazing, when suddenly he will spring forward head erect, tail
arched, and in a moment he will be madly rushing across the pasture,
probably to the creek, into which he \fill plunge, remaining for hours. If
the streams running through the pasture have muddy bottoms many weak
animals become mired and perish miserably unless discovered and pulled
out. As the fly generally appears towards the close of Winter, when
cattle are often comparatively poor and weak, the loss in this way would
be very serious but that stockmen have their men ride daily along the
banks of any boggy streams in order to rescue mired animals.

When a cow-boy finds one unable to get out he uncoils his lariat, deftly
throws it over the horns, gives a turn or two around the pommel of his
saddle, and, calling on his pony, the animal, unless very badly mired, is
soon on the bank and in safety, and hereafter often comes the most diffi-
cult part of the business — the letting go. In getting hold the cow-boy
has it all his own way, but once the animal is on solid earth again it forgets
its former peril, remembering only the terrible wrench to head and neck,
and proceeds to get even with its tormentor, with 'the result that the man
has sometimes to drop his rope and ride off trusting to its l>co uning
loosened and dropping off. Can any one suggest tin- reason why the fly
has such terrors for a Texas cow whilst in Pennsylvania she cares nothing
for it? — GEO. W. HOLSTKIN.

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PICTURES FOR THE ALBUM OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SO-
CIETY have been received from Chas. Fuchs, of California; David Bruce,
Brockport, N. Y. ; and Chas. Boerner, of Philadelphia. Three interesting
pictures were presented by Prof. J. B. Smith. They were groups of some
of the members of the Association of Economic Entomologists, and in-
cluded Messrs. Webster, Howard, Hopkins, Davis, Riley, Summers,
Weed (H. E.), Osborn, Gillette, Aldrich and Claypole.

' THE greatest bridge builder in the world is the spider," says the New
York Sun. "There is a point on the Meramec River, not far from the
Missouri Pacific bridge, where a large spider made a bridge clear across,
a distance of over 200 feet. He first sent out a flyer, a sort of kite string,
which was carried across the stream by the breeze and lodged in a tree
opposite. It was then braced by guys to other branches, and thus fifty
feet above the water was a perfect suspension bridge. In comparison
with this insect work the Niagara and Brooklyn bridges are trifling."

Prof. A. J. COOK, of the Agricultural College of Michigan, states that
the exhibit of insects at the World's Fair, and which was mentioned on
page 260, October NEWS, was made by students of the college, three of
whom were farmers, two teachers in the public schools, one a student of
medicine, and one a professional entomologist, although the specimens
collected by the latter were all obtained by him while a student at the
college and before he became a specialist in Entomology. The original
boxer, in which the collections were made were not suitable for exhibition
purposes, hence the transfer.

STINGING POWERS OF ICHNEUMONS. — Looking over vol. i of the Ni:\\x
Mr. Gillette's note on page 162. referring to his having been stun^ by
Ichneumon snfitra/is, reminds me of a somewhat similar experience I had
with other members of the same family. Some years ago I caught, by
hand, a specimen of a large Cpliion in the room, and it stung me severely
enough to cause me to drop it at once. Again, just a month ago, an in-

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dividual of the curious Pelecinus polycerator after prodding at the palm
of my hand for some moments finally succeeded in pricking the skin be-
tween two of my fingers. Probably most of the Ichneumonidae with
short ovipositors can inflict a slight wound where the skin is thin, but in
both the cases under my observation, as well as in that of Prof. Gillette,
there has been no subsequent irritation such as is produced by the poison-
ous sting of bees or wasps.— H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City.

THE GUNGOO PEA GIRDLER. — In Notes from the Museum, No. 43,
under the title of an enemy of Casuarina, the injury to the branches of
that tree by the twig-girdler, Oncideres pustulata, was described. It has
since been found that Mr. Bowrey's collection of insects in the Museum
contains a specimen of this beetle, which is recorded on the label as gird-
ling the branches of the gungoo pea or guango, Pithecolobium saman.

Branches which had been girdled accompany the specimen. They are
from ii to 23 mm. in diameter. The beetle and girdled gungoo stems
were brought by Mr. J. Goodlet from Maryland, St. Andrew, March :,
1882, as stated on the labels attached to the specimens. This would in-
dicate that this girdler is not a recent addition to our fauna, but probably
a native, which has been in the habit of attacking the gungoo pea, and
has recently taken to the Casuarina. The gungoo pea is a large and
spreading leguminous tree, originally introduced into Jamaica from the
mainland by the seeds being brought by cattle. Its seeds are often used
for food. Oncideres pustulata is an addition to the list of identified
Jamaican Coleoptera. — C. H. TVLER TOWNSEND.

EASTWARD RANGE OF PACIFIC COAST SPECIES. — Stizn's unicinctus Say
described from the centre of the Great Plains, occurs in California, as I
am informed by Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, of Coronado. I have myself taken
this wasp in Georgia.

Nomia nevadensis Cress. I have received from California, and have
myself taken it in Georgia. This species in Western specimens, as those
from Dr. Blaisdell, varies greatly in color from black to red, but in the
East it is black without variation.

Bombomelecta thoracica (Cress.) [= pacifica (Cress.) ] I have taken
in Connecticut.

Paratiphia albilabris (Spin.), a common species in the Pacific region,
occurs in New Jersey, as is proven by a specimen (with dark wings) taken
by Mr. Wm. J. Fox Mr. Ashmead has taken the dark-winged variety
in Florida, and Mr. Pergande in District of Columbia. Microbcmbc.v
uionodonta (Say) in its clouded-winged variety is likewise Eastern.

Isodontia azteca (Sauss.), common in California, I have received from
Florida (Dr. Wittfeld), and it has been redescribed under the name .5". ( /. i
macrocephala, from Pennsylvania, by Mr. Wm. J. Fox (ENT. NEWS, i, 137).
Isodontia clcgans (Sm.) occurs in both California and Florida.

WM. HAMPTON PATTON, Hartford, Conn.

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AMONG the food-plants of moths, new to science that I have been for-
tunate in discovering are, of Alypia niariposa, the Clarkia elegans and
Code tin iL'i/liauisoiiii, on the I5th of April, 1893, and on 2oth of May I
found Alypia ridingsii ovipositing on the Clarkia rhomboidea. Mr. H. G.
Dyar informed me that they were unknown to science. This cost me a
two-day's trip to the old collecting ground I had left to obtain the food-
plants of Alypia niariposa on June 2oth. On my return, June 2ist, I dis-
covered a Lepisesia clarkia ovipositing on the Clarkia rhomboidea and
then light on a Gayophytum diffussuin and tack on the underside of the
leaf several eggs in succession, I waited till she flew off and secured
about fourteen eggs in a radius of three feet, and afterwards found a
Heniaris cynoglossum deposit several eggs on Gayophytum diffussum,
and am raising some of the larvae.

On the ist of April last I saw Nisionades propertius oviposit on the
dark barked prickly leaved live oak buds, and when sprouted they tacked
their eggs on the tender leaves. — JOHN B. LEMBERT, Yosemite, Cal.

THE LABOULBENIACE/E OF N. A. — Prof. Roland Thaxter, who is en-
gaged upon an illustrated monograph of the fungus parasites of insects,
the first part of which* was published a few years since, has just issued a
fourth preliminary partf on the family Laboulbeniae, to which the second
part of his monograph will be devoted. The group comprises some of
the most singular and interesting members of the vegetable kingdom,
which, though commonly simple in structure, and minute in size, occupy
a very high position among the fungi from the close relationship which
their sexual processes bear to those of the highest Thallophytes (the red
sea weeds). The plants in question vary from about 75 micromillimetres
to a millimetre or more in length, and are all external parasites attached
to the integument of certain insects which they do not injure by their
presence. The families of Carabiclte and Staphylinidae are the groups
most frequently parasitized in this way, although a number of forms occur
on aquatic Coleoptera and a few on Diptera.

Prof. Thaxter's studies of the family have brought to light more than a
hundred new forms in addition to the dozen species formerly known,
which include numerous new genera, and will form the basis of his mono-
graph. The family promises to be a large and varied one, and in order
to make the work as complete as possible, Prof. Thaxter is desirous of
communicating with collectors of Coleoptera in various parts of the
country with a view to procuring by purchase or otherwise as many speci-
mens for examination as possible of riparian Staphylinidae. Special de-
siderata are species of Blcdiits, f.a//in>l>iitin, Acy/opfiorus, Philontlnis
and their immediate allies. Specimens should be collected directly into
alcohol and may be sent to Prof. R. Thaxter (3 Scott Street, Cambridge,
Mass.), who would be glad to correspond with any one wishing to assist
him in this way, especially if resident in the Southern or Western States.

* The Entomophthorese of the I", s. in Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. iv, No. vi.
t Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences, vol. xxviii, pp. 156-188.

304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of species
to be limited to twenty-five for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans-
portation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
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Entomological Literature.

PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., September, 1893. — The primitive number
of Malpighian vessels in insects-iv, W. M. Wheeler. On variation in the
venation of an Arctian, with notes on other allied genera, H. G. Dyar, i
pi. Descriptions of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera,
viii, W. J. Holland, fig. Notes on Gluphisia other and Notodontidae ii.
A. S. Packard. On a fleshy leaf-gall on scrub oak, C. H. T. Townsend.
Arctia yarrowi in Canada, T. E. Bean. — October, 1893. Notes on Glu-
phisia, H. G. Dyar. Descriptions of new species and genera of West
African Lepidoptera, ix, W. J. Holland, figs. The primitive number of
Malpighian vessels in insects, v, W. M. Wheeler.

MlTTHEILUNGEN DER NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT IN BERN

aus dem Jahre 1892; 1893. — Alternation of generation among insects, E.
Anderegg.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Out., September, 1893.—
Description of a peculiar new Liparid genus from Maine, B. Neumoegen,
figs. The species of Eucoptocncmis, A. R. Grote. North American
Thysanura iii, A. D. Macgillivray. A new species of Hypopta, H. G.
Dyar. A new Lecanium from Canada, T. D. A. Cockerell. Synopsis
of the Dipterous genus Psilocephala, D. W. Coquillett. On some Lepid-
opterous larva? on alfalfa, C. H. T. Townsend. Rearing Sphinx chrys-
alids, J. A. Moffat. — October, 1893. Washington Tenth redinidae and
Urocerida;, A. D. Macgillivray. Descriptions of the larvae of certain
Tenthredinidae, H. G. Dyar. Description of the preparatory stages of
Nemeophila scudderi Pack., H. H. Lyman. A new species of Oligolo-
phits, N. Banks. Notes on a polymorphic Papiiio, W. H. Edwards.
The clover leaf weevil, Phytonomus punctatus Fabr, in Italy, F. M. Wtb-
ster. Chalcid parasite from lanassa eggs, H. G. Dyar. Carterocephalus
inandan, Dr. H. Skinner. Variety of Priono.vyxtiis rohinia", G. A. Ehr-
mann. New localities for Papilio lunncntx. E. M. Aaron. [Ovipositing
of] Argynnis eg Ids, }. B. Lembert. Hcpialits aura/its at Eranconia, N.
H., Mrs. A. T. Slosson.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, September, 1893. — The W<_st Indian
species of Dactylopius, T. 1). A. Cockerell.— October, 1893. Breeding

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exotic Bombyces in 1893, J. Watson. Life-history of Lyc<zna cegon, F.
\V. Frohawk.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, September,
1893. — Notes on the earlier stages of the Nepticulse, with a view to their
better recognition at this period of their life, J. H. Wood. Observations
on Coccida? No. 6, R. Newstead, figs. — October, 1893. On the genus
Halobates Esch. and other marine Hemipt.era, J. J. Walker. On the
habits of Mesovella furcata Muls. and Rey., E. A. Butler.

THE OTTAWA NATURALIST. Ottawa, Can., September, 1893. — Notes
on Canadian insects, W. H. Harrington, J. Fletcher.

NATURE. London, Sept. 7, 1893. — Insects attracted by Solanum, T.
D. A. Cockerell.

LE NATURALIST. Paris, Sept. i, 1893. — -Description of a new genus
and a new species of the family Halacaridae or marine Acarines, Dr. E.
Trouessart and G. Neumann. — September isth. Isaria densa, a fungus
parasite of the white worm; its employment in agriculture in combating
jMeloIontha, Dr. Koehler, figs.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS, Aug. 12, 1893.—
On the labrum of Agrotis segetum, }. Chatin.

SCIENCE. New York, Sept. 8, 1893. — Notes on the wood or fallow ant
of southeastern Massachusetts, J. B. Woodworth. — September isth. In-
sect swarms [Neuropters], C. D. McLouth. Prosopophora ; a genus of
scale insects new to the North American fauna, T. D. A. Cockerell.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER. Leipsic, Sept. ii, 1893. — Notes on Peri-
pat us jamaicensis Grabh. and Ckll., T. D. A. Cockerell. On commen-
salism of Pseudoscorpions, H. von Ihering.

HISTOIRE PHYSIQUE, NATURELLE ET POLITIQUE DE MADAGASCAR
publiee par Alfred Grandidier. Vol. xx, Hymenopteres, 2e partie Les
Formicides, par M. A. Forel. Supplement au 28e fascicule. Pp. 229-280.

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA by F. Moore. London, L. Reeve & Co. Part
xv, 1893. Vol. ii, pp. 65-88, pis. 108-114.

ZOOLOGISCHE JAHRBUCHER, vii, 2. Jena, Aug. 15, 1893. — Catalogue
of the hitherto described Gallmites, their galls and food-plants, A. Nalepa.

INDIAN MUSEUM NOTES. Vol. ii, 6, Calcutta, 1893. — A conspectus of
the insects which affect crops in India, K. C. Coates. Vol. iii, i and 2
contain articles on Indian insects of economic importance by E. C. Coat< s
(miscellaneous, locusts), F. H. Blandford (Scolytidse), W. M. Maskell
(Coccidce), F. Moore (Heteroceraj, G. B. Buckton (Aphidicke, Psyllidae),
O. E. Janson (Scolytida;), L. Lethierry (Capsidae), C. T. Bingham Ueak
tree pests).

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS of the Royal Society of London (B.)
for 1892. Vol. 183, 1893. — A new mode of respiration in the Myriapoda,
F. G. Sinclair (formerly F. G. Heathcote). — PROCEEDINGS of the same,

306 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

No. 326, Sept. 30, 1893. — The experimental proof that the colors of cer-
tain Lepidopterous larvae are largely due to modified plant pigments de-
rived from food, E. B. Poulton (abstract).

JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, September,
1893. — A preliminary revision of the Bombyces of America north of
Mexico, B. Neumoegen and H. G. Dyar. Some studies of the fecundity
of the apple-leaf plant louse, Aphis tnali Fitch, F. M. Webster. Notes on
spiders, N. Banks. List of the Coleoptera of eastern North America,
with special reference to the fauna of New York City and vicinity, C. \Y.
Leng and W. Beutenmuller (cont.).

BULLETIN OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM No. 44. — A catalogue,
bibliographical and synonymical, of the species of moths of the Lepidop-
terous superfamily Noctuidae, found in Boreal America. With critical
notes, by John B. Smith, Sc. D., Professor of Entomology in Rutgers
College. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893, 424 pp.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, Sept. 15, 1893. — An ex-
planatory suggestion of the plumose antennae in the female Lepidopterous
pupa, J. H. Wood.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE xxxvii, S.
Brussels, 1893. — Materials for a study of the Stratiomyidas of Belgium,
E. and L. Coucke.

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, I, 7. Kingston, August,
1893. — Notes on the fauna and flora of Jamaica — I, T. D. A. Cockerell.
Notes on insect life, E. S. Panton. Notes on some Jamaican Muscidae,
with brief anonymous descriptions of doubtful forms, C. H. T. Townsend.
The almond bag-worm, id.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xix, 14. Berlin, July, 1893. — Ana-
lytic revision of the species of Spilogaster, P. Stein. — 17 and 18, Septem-
ber. Brief remark on the significance of the genital appendages for the
phylogeny, C. Verhoeff.

SOCIETAS ENTOMOLOGICA, viii, n and 12. Zurich-Hottingen, Septem-
ber, 1893. — Some observations on insects [hybrids, nest structure], F.
Rudow. Attempt at hybridization, A. v. Caradja.

THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. London.
Sept., 1863. — Notes on the Peripatus of Dominica, E. C. Pollard, i pi.

JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION for ses-
sion 1892-93, No. ix. Hamilton, Ont., 1893. — Insects injurious to plants.
L. Woolverton, figs.

THE GARDENER'S CHRONICLE. London, Sept. 23, 1893. — The Hessian
fly [F. Enock]. Insects injurious to forest trees, A. D. Webster, figs.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, x.\, 3,
July-September, 1893. Philadelphia, Oct. 2, 1893. — Catalogue of the

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Odonata (Dragonflies) of the vicinity of Philadelphia, -with an introduc-
tion to the study of this group of insects, P. P. Calvert, 2 pis.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxv, 4-5. Buenos
Aires, April-May, 1893. — The genus Sapromyza in America, F. L. Arn-
balzaga.

.NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXPERIMENT STATION. Bull.
No. 94. New Brunswick, N. J., July 2, 1893. — Insects injurious to Cucurbs,
J. B. Smith, figs. — No. 95. The periodical Cicada, J. B. Smith, figs.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (2), iv.
San Francisco, Sept. 14, 1893. — Report on some Mexican Hymenoptera,.
principally from Lower California, \V. J. Fox.

SPECIES DES HYMENOPTERES d'Europe et d'Algerie, fonde" par Ed-
mond Andr6 et continue sous la direction scientirique de Ernest Andr6.
426 Fascicule. Gray (France), Bouffaut Freres. Dated April i, 1892.
Forming pp. 145-208 of tome vi.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part ex. London, August, 1893.—
Hymenoptera, vol. ii, pp. 177-192, P. Cameron. Lepidoptera-Rhopalo-
cera, vol. ii, pp. 289-296, pi. Ixxv, F. D. Godman and O. Salvin. Lepid-
optera-Heterocera, pp. 161-184, pi- Iv, H. Druce. Rhynchota-Heterop-
tera, pi. xxxix, W. L. Distant. Orthoptera, pp. i-S, pi. i, A. de Bormans.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ARANEINA.

Tapinopa bilineata Banks, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. i, p. 128, N. Y., D. C.
Coriarachne brunneipes, Oxyopes rufipes, p. 133, Wash. O. cinerca, p.
133, N. H.

DIPTERA.
Psilocephala n. spp. Coquillett, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 222-229, U. S., Jam.

HEMIPTERA.

Lecanium (Eulecanium) flefcheri C.oc\z.Qre\\, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 221, Out.
Dactylopius n. sp. Cockerell, Ent., xxvi, pp. 266-268, \V. 1.
Prosopophora rufescens Cockerell, Sci. xxii, p. 151, N. Mex.

HYMENOPTERA.

Aculeata: n. gen. et spp. Lower California, Fox, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci.
(2), iv.

Pompilida3: n. spp. Mex., Cent. Amer., Cameron, Biol. Cent. -Am. Hy-
menop. ii, pp. 177-192.

Tenthredinidae and Uroceridse: n. spp. Washington, Macgillivray, Can.
Ent. xxv, pp. 237-244.

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LEPIDOPTERA.

Dyaria (n. gen. Liparidse) Neumoegen, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 213. Type
D. singularis, p. 215, Me.

Hypopta theodori Dyar, /. c. p. 220, N. Mex.

Nycteola revayana var. cinereana Neumoegen and Dyar, Jour. N. V.
Ent. Soc. i, p. 117, North Atlantic States.

Hesperidae: n. spp. Mex., Cent.Amer., Godma'n and Salvin, Biol. Cent.-
Amer. Lepid. Rhopal. ii, pp. 289-296.

Geometridae: n. gen. et spp. Mex. Cent. Amer., Druce, Biol. Cent. -Am.
Lepid. -Heter. pp. 161-184.

ORTHOPTERA.

Ca/oblatfa, Anisopygia (n. gen. Blattidse), three n. sp., de Saussure,
So'c. Ent. viii, p. 57, Cent. Amer.

Forficulidce: n. gen. et spp. Mex., Cent. Amer., de Bormans, Biol.^Cent.
Am. Orthop., pp. i-S.

PHALANGIDA.

Oligolophus nionfajius Banks, Can. Ent. xxv, p. 252, Mt. Washington,
N. H.

The Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1893.

A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy
of Natural Sciences was held in the Hall, S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race
Streets this evening, Dr. G. H. Horn, Director, presiding. Members
present: G. B. Cresson, Ridings, Skinner, Calvert, Johnson and Liebeck.
Associates: Fox, Boerner, Westcott, Drs. Griffith and Castle. Mr. Cal-
vert presented to the American Entomological Society some American
and European Odonata, among them were specimens of Lestes eurimis
from Texas, a species which Mr. Scudder states was only known by a
unique specimen, but the speaker had received it in some numbers from
several localities, including Massachusetts. Another interesting species
was Sympycnafusca, the only Odonat known to hibernate. Mr. Calvert
also referred to the matter of the reduction of postal rates for insects. Dr.
Horn stated that he hoped to exhibit, during the Winter, some Coleop-
tera from the peninsula of Lower California, on which he was working,
and which belonged to the California Academy of Sciences. The collec-
tion does not contain as many new species as one might naturally suppose.
The peninsula, though geographically a part of Mexico, belongs properly
to the fauna of Southern California and Arizona, and is not tropical in
character. A certain number of species extend all the way from the end

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of the peninsula to Montana, which distribution is brought about by river
currents. Mr. Calvert remarked that the Odonat faunal distribution con-
firmed what Dr. Horn had stated in regard to the Coleoptera. The
speaker also said that his Summer's work had been mainly of a literary
character, and that his work on the Odonata of Philadelphia and vicinity
was completed, and in the hands of the binder. The scope of the work
was defined in detail. Mr. John L. Healy, of Chicago, was duly, elected
an Associate of the Section.

Dr. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

A NEW HESPERID FROM WEST AFRICA.

By GEO. A. EHRMANN, Pittsburg, Pa.

Tagiades daiiaatti n. sp. $. — Antennae dark brown; palpi white, tipped
with black; abdomen white, except the first three segments on the upper
side, which are pale brown. Underside of thorax: abdomen and all the
legs pure white. Upperside of primaries: dark brown with a subapical
row of five small, oval, transparent spots, and two near the costal ner-
vure above the discoidal cell; the outer one is very minute; there is also
one larger triangular spot in the discoidal cell below the two near the
costal nervure, and another row of four larger, elongated, transparent
spots in the submarginal space near the inner angle, the second from
above being the largest; there is also a prominent white dash on the inner
margin below the inner angle; fringes brown. Upperside of secondaries:
basal area extending upwards and outwards ; towards the apex dark
brown; there is a broad brown band extending from the costa on the in-
terior median space to the discoidal nervure, here it breaks off very
abrupt, then follow two large, triangular and one small, round black spot;
this completes the outer margin, then follows a row of eight round, black
spots in the submarginal area, the three largest being towards the apex,
the rest are of a uniform size; the abdominal margin is pure white, in-
cluding the whole of the area which extends towards the apex, where it
divides into two points; the fringes from the discoidal nervule to the anal
angle pure white. Underside of primaries: same as above, but the ground
color is of a light brown or fawn; markings the same as above. Under-
side of secondaries: basal area p le gray, and an additional black spot
near the costa, which increases the series to nine, whereas on the upper-
side there is but eight in the submarginal area, otherwise both sides are
the same. Expanse i^ inches; $ in my collection.

Hab. — Piquinnie Ses, Liberia, \V. Africa.

This lovely species shows no relation to the other African forms
of this genus, T. ftesus, etc., but has a closer affinity to those

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from Southern Asia; it comes nearest to T. atticus Fab., but is
much larger, and whereas T. atticns has on the upperside of the
secondaries a marginal row of four large oval spots, blending
into one another and almost forming a complete band, T. dan-
natti has but three, and two of them are triangulated, and all of
them widely separated. T. dannatti has a submarginal row of
spots, which is wanting in T. attiais; the last-mentioned row of
spots is inclined in position similar to those in T. gopala Moore,
from India also.

This is without doubt a good and valid species, and seems
unique from Africa, as I cannot find anything that corresponds
with it in all the literature that I have gone through or the col-
lections I have examined.

I have named this lovely and unique butterfly after my friend,
Mr. Walter Dannatt, of Westcombe Park, S. E. London, Eng-
land, through whose kind liberality I have added some of the
most glorious species of butterflies the world contains to my
cabinet.

-o-

ON CERTAIN LEPIDOPTEROUS LARWE.

By HARRISON G. DYAR and JACOB DOLL.

Deidamia inscriptum Harris.

Head rounded, nearly square as seen in front, median suture depressed
above the clypeus over vertex; slightly granular, green with a yellowish
line from base of antenna up toward vertex of each lobe, passing to the
side and joining the subdorsal line of the body; width 3.6 mm. Body
cylindrical, decreasing slightly and gradually-in size from joint 5 to the
head; joint 12 a little enlarged, with a moderate, normal horn with rudi-
mentary granulations. Segments rather finely 8-annulate; color green,
finely dotted with yellowish, especially on the sides, with a pale subdorsal
line, which runs evenly to joint 12, where it bends up and ends at base
of horn. Spiracles white, with a narrow black edge at each side, but none
above or below. Thoracic feet pale testaceous; suranal plate scarcely
corneous, pointed behind; lateral anal plates on the last pair of feet not
distinct. Length about 40 mm.

Sphinx eremitus Hubner.

Head higher than wide, square on top but narrowing toward vertex,
flat before; clypeus small, sutures deep, coarsely shagreened; color deep
pitchy brown, with a white line on each side reaching nearly to vertex;
ocelli and mouth black; width 5.5 mm. Body cylindrical, segments 8-
annulate. On joint 3 anteriorly, dorsally is a fleshy collar-like projection.

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Horn stout, moderate, slightly curved, coarsely granular; color blackish,
pitchy, thickly covered with little black dots in pale circles; seven oblique
lateral pale shades. Thoracic feet, horn and areas around the spiracles
black. Thoracic segments (joints 2-4) without dots, smoky-brown; cer-
vical shield area paler, bisected by a pale line into two halves, narrowly
lined with black. A black patch on joint 2 posteriorly, partly concealed
by the " collar." On joints 3 and 4 behind the collar is a large, elliptical,
sooty-black patch, surrounded by a white shade, which is more marked
anteriorly, and obtains also on the collar-like projection before the patch.
Anal plates moderate, triangular, granular, setiferous, concolorous.

Citheronia mexicana Grote & Robinson.

Penultimate stage. — Head smooth, evenly rounded, dark brownish
black, sutures broadly pale; mouth parts, except the jaws, also pale. A
few short, pale hairs above the mouth; width 4.3 mm. Body cylindrical;
anal feet large, with triangular corneous plates; abdominal feet long, with
two rows of elongated, setiferous tubercles. On the body are three seg-
mentary rows of modified processes. Row i on joints 2-13 subdorsal, a
single dorsal one on joints 12 and 13 with a subdorsal one each side on
the anal plate; row ii lateral on joints 2-13; iii, subventral on joints 2-13
'and a small row iv on joints 2-6, 11-13 below row iii. These processes
resemble antlers, being furnished with about six thorn-like curving
branches; row i on joints 2-4 and 12, about twice as long as the others,
thicker and with more branches. Row ii on joints 3 and 4, and i on joint
13 slightly longer than the others, but shorter than these just mentioned.
Apices of processes minutely setiferous or bare; edges of the 3 anal
plates with smooth conical, setiferous tubercles; color blackish, nearly
black; processes all shining black, except the basal half of i and ii on
joints 2-4 and the short i on anal plate which are white. In another ex-
ample the bases of many of the processes are white; spiracles large,
black.

Last stage. — Head as before, but the pale area around the mouth
spreads over the sides of the lobes; ocelli black; a few very short, but
bristly setae; width 6.2-6.5 mm- Processes and tubercles all proportion-
ately much shorter than before, the longest one scarcely more than half
as long as the corresponding ones in C. regalis, the branches reduced to
short, conical prominences, each with a very short spine at tip; tubercles
on feet and anal plates shortenened, rounded, with small setae; coloration
much as before, but the body is paler, appearing to have been blackish
olive. A whitish stigmatal shade, defined along the undulations of the
subventral ridge. Spiracles large, black. Thoracic feet and anal plates
partly pale.

Described from alcoholic specimens.

Euclea indetermina Boisduval.

is^2. — Bnisd., Cuviers An. King. (Griffith) pi. 103, fig. S.
riridus Reakirt.

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1864. — Reak., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, 251.

vernata Packard.
1864. — Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, 339.

j chloris Grote.
iSSi. — Grote, Papilio, 5, 5.

We have before us the larva of the species formerly known as
" Parasa chloris." It is evidently what is represented in Bois-
duval's figure. 'As justly remarked by W. V. Andrews (Psyche
ii, 272), the species belongs to Euclea from the structure of both
larva and imago. Although this larva has been well described
several times we present the following condensed notes, since
they contain points not previously noticed.

Larva. — Head retracted below joint 2, blotched with red on its lower
part, ocelli and mouth dark ; joint 2 granular, honey-brown, retracted
beneath joint 3. Stibdorsal series of horn-like processes on joints 3-13,
those on joints 4, 5, 8, n and 12 very long (2.5-4 mm.), the ones on joints
3 and 13 moderate, the others short, subspherical; all densely spinulose,
urticating. Lateral series on joints 3-4, 6-12 (none on joint 5), short,
except the one on joint 4, which is twice as long as the others. Spiracles
round, the one on joint 2 usually concealed, the one on joint 5 in line
with the lateral processes, those on joints 6-12 much below them. Size
of larva 18x7 mm. The coloration has been well described, and we
would merely note that there are two forms, a red and a yellow one. In
the first, the ground color is straw color, the horns, with their ridges, a
middle lateral band and subventral one vermillion-red. In the other the
ground color is lemon-yellow, the horns and bands also yellow, the short
horns tinged with orange.

Araclmis aulea Geyer.

1837. — Gey., Zutr. Ex. Schmett., figs. 913, 914.

Head rounded, as wide as high, scarcely bilobed, flattened before,
shining black. Body normal, large, robust; warts large, but low, flat-
tened, circular. Hair very bristly, quite short, but dense, deep, black.
Body dark brownish, nearly black, immaculate; warts pale brown, con-
trasting. Thoracic feet black; abdominal ones blackish vinous. Length
of mature larva 45-50 mm.

OBITUARY.

C. N. F. BRISONT DE BARNEVILLE, in St. Germain-en-Laye.

ERRATA.— Vol. IV, No. 8.

Page 255, line 24, for discal read dorsal.
" 256, line 18, for save read. some.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PI. XIV.

DR. H. A. HAGEN.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. iv. DECEMBER, 1893. No. 10.

CONTENTS:

P. P. C.— Dr. H. A. Hagen 313 ! Economic Entomology 325

Cockerel!— Note on Pseudococcus 317 j Notes and News 329

Skinner— Argynnis cybele and leto 318 Entomological Literature 331

Dyar — Larval cases of N. A. Psychidae 320
Editorial 322

Entomological Section 336

Holland — New Exotic Lepidoptera 337

Dr. H. A. HAGEN.

Dr. H. A. HAGEN, Professor of Entomology in Harvard Uni-
versity and one of the foremost entomologists of his time, died
in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 9, 1893.

HERMANN AUGUST HAGEN was born in Koenigsberg, Prussia,
May 30, 1817. His father, Karl Heinrich Hagen, was a Royal
Councillor and Professor in the Albert University at Koenigsberg.
His mother's maiden name was Link. His early education was
received at the Gymnasium of Kneiphoven, and in 1836 he en-
tered the University of his native city as a student in medicine.
In the "Vita" appended to his Synonymia Libettularum Euro-
pfsarum, he has told us of the above-mentioned facts of his-
own life, and given us the names of his instructors in the Univer-
sity; the most noted of these was the zoologist, Martin Heinrich
Rathke, whom he accompanied in 1839 on a visit to Norway,
Sweden, Denmark and Germany, and whom he ever seems to-
have highly esteemed. It was in this same year, 1839, that he
published his first entomological paper, his Verzeichniss der Li-
bellcn Ostpreussens (List of the dragonflies of East Prussia). H<-
received his medical degree Oct. 17, 1840; and of the four thest s

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which he presented on that occasion, three were medical and one
'entomological {Neuroptera et Orthoptera conjungi debent}, while
the Synonymia above quoted was his " Dissertatio inauguralis."
He afterwards studied in Berlin, Vienna and Paris, but returned
to his home, describing himself in his Bibliotheca as " Arzt in
Kcenigsberg."

His earliest and latest entomological publications concerned
the Odonata, but throughout his entire life nearly every order of
insects received a contribution from his studies. Early in the
forties appeared the first of his numerous papers in the ' ' Stettiner
Entomologische Zeitschrift. " Some of these were his earliest
palaeontological essay, Die fossilen Libellen Europas 1848, a
review of the later literature on the Neuroptera 1848-52, Die
Sing -deaden Europas 1855, '56, '58.

A kindred spirit for the study of the Odonata, Dr. Hagen
found in the eminent Belgian entomologist, Baron Edmond de
Selys-Longchamps, four years his senior, and who still attends
the meetings of the Belgian Entomological Society. Jointly, they
produced what is still the standard work on European dragonflies,
the " Revue des Odonates" (Brussels, 1850), " Monographic des
Calopterygines" (1854), " Monographic des Gomphines" (1858),
and if their joint names do not appear on later publications, yet
each received and acknowledged the constant aid of the other,
whether in Europe or separated by the Atlantic.

From 1850 until his departure for the United States, Dr.
Hagen' s entomological activity is well shown by the following
list of his more important publications: " Leon Dufour ueber die
Larven der Libellen mit Beriicksichtigung der fruherer Arbeiten' '
(1853), "Monographic der Termiten" (1855, '58, '60), "Die
Phryganiden Pictet's nach Typen bearbeitet" (1859-61), "Re-
vision critique des Phryganides decrites par M. Rambur d'apres
1'examen des individus types" (1860), "Ueber Phryganiden-
Gehause" (1864), " Phryganidarum Synopsis Synonymica"
(1864), "Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Phryganiden" (1865),
" Beitrage zur Kenntniss und Synonomie der Psociden" (1866),
<( Hemerobidarum Synopsis Synonymica" (1866), " Psocinorum
et Embidinorum Synopsis Synonymica" (1866); papers on the
insects, mainly Neuropterous, of various parts of Europe, Cey-
lon, Syria, Mozambique', Cuba, Madeira and America, of which
the most important is the " Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North

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America," written at the special request of, and published by the
Smithsonian Institution in 1861 ; palaeontological papers on
European fossil and amber insects. But the greatest monument
to his labor and patience is his " Bibliotheca Entomologica," a
list of all the publications on the entire field of entomology up to
1862, grouped under author's names, these latter alphabetically
arranged. The work is octavo size, and was published by W.
Engelmann, Leipsic. Vol. I, 1862, 566 pages, runs from A to
M; Vol. II, 1863, 512 pages, N to Z, with numerous indices and
a vast amount of other useful bibliographical aids to the working
entomologist. By the production of this work Dr. Hagen has
earned the thanks of all future generations of students.

In the " Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology at Cambridge" for 1867, Prof. Louis Agassiz wrote:
" It gives me great pleasure also to state that I have been able to
induce Dr. Hagen, of Kcenigsberg, to come over to Cambridge
and assume the arrangement of the Department of Entomology.
The loss of Mr. Uhler, who, to my great regret, was called away
from us by his appointment as superintendent of the library of
the Peabody Institute, at Baltimore, left a great hiatus in our or-
ganization. This blank is now filled, and the high position which
Dr. Hagen holds among entomologists makes his presence among
us not only of immense practical service to the Museum, but an
honor also to the scientific character of the institution." Dr.
Hagen was placed in charge of the Articulates in the Museum,
and his first report thereon is included in the " Trustees' Report"
for 1868. In it he says: " I arrived in Cambridge, Oct. 12, 1867,
having come to this country in order to take charge of the collec-
tion of Articulates in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and
especially to rearrange the entomological collection," and in this
report he presents a plan of arrangement. Some years later the
Crustacea and Annelids were removed from his care, so that the
Department of Insects was his sole charge. In the " Reports"
for 1875, and later, his name appears as Professor of Entomology,
on which subject he gave instruction to special students.

From May to October, 1870, he revisited Europe, one fruit of
which was, as stated in his report for that year, that his own col-
lection of Neuroptera and Pseudoneuroptera had reached this
country, and had been deposited in the Museum. In this Cam-
bridge possesses one of the finest collections of these groups in

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the world, and which, for North American forms, is without a
rival.

In 1879 he presented his entomological library of 762 volumes
and 3000 pamphlets to the Museum. He spent the greater part
of the Summer of 1882 in an economic survey along the line of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, but especially in Washington.

From 1868 to 1890, Dr. Hagen's reports tell the same tale of
unceasing work in the arrangement of the large and constantly
increasing collections of insects acquired by the Museum, a very
large part of which, tedious as it is, was performed by his own
hands. Although for several years previous he had been unwell,
in September, 1890, his health became so poor as to force him
to abandon all work, and his last entomological paper, " Notes-
and Descriptions of some North American Libellulina" appeared
in October of that year. Since then he steadily grew more feeble.

Dr. HAGEN'S most important publications during his residence
in America were : ' : Monograph of the North American Astacidse' '
[Crayfishes] (1871), "Synopsis Pseudoscorpionidum Syno-
nymica" (1871), " Mimicry in Colors of Insects" (1872), " Bei-
trage zur Kenntniss der Phryganiden" (1873), "Synopsis of the
Odonata of America" (1875), " Beitrage zur Monographic der
Psociden" (1882-83), "On the Genus Colias" (1882), "Mono-
graph of the Hemerobidae" (1884-88), " Monograph of the Em-
bidina" (1885), " Monograph of the earlier stages of the Odonata,
subfamilies Gomphina and Cordulegastrina" (1885), "Stray
notes on Myrmeleonidse" (1887-88), and portions of Mr. L.
Cabot's monograph "On the Immature state of the Odonata' *
(1872, 1881, 1890).

Dr. HAGEN was an excellent artist, and illustrated many of his
own papers. Most of the plates in the monographs of the
Odonata, written in conjunction with Baron de Selys, are his
work, and many unpublished drawings exist among his papers
at Cambridge.

Of Dr. HAGEN, personally, the writer can say little, but that
is very pleasant. I met him but once, for parts of three days in
July, 1890, at the Museum in Cambridge. Although unwell and
obliged to rest frequently, he showed me his collection of Odonata,
giving me types and other specimens. He was very hopeful of
recovery, and. talked of the work he would like to do next year.
Referring to Westwood, Burmeister, Poey, Gundlach and de

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Selys, all then alive and all older than himself, he laughingly
said, "I am the baby at seventy-four." I may, perhaps, be
permitted to add one other personality. In February, 1890, he
sent me his unpublished notes on Leucorhinia, giving me per-
mission to publish them, and when I wrote him for a title, he
wrote "Synopsis of Leucorhinia" with my name as author, al-
though the work was all his own. None but a generous man
would have done so.

Dr. HAGEN belonged to an age that has passed away — when
it was still possible to be an entomologist, as the four hundred
and odd titles marking "his fifty years of publication on all the
orders sufficiently attest. H-is " Biblibtheca" and the entomolog-
ical collections at Cambridge are the monuments of his life's work.

At the time of his death, Dr. HAGEN was the senior by election
of the ten Honorary Fellows of the Entomological Society of
London, having been elected to that body in 1863, one of the
twelve honorary members of the Entomological Society of Bel-
gium, and correspondent, or member of the American Entomo-
logical Society, Entomological Society of Stettin, Boston Society
of Natural History and other scientific bodies. — P. P. C.

NOTE. — The portrait of Dr. Hagen published in this number of the
NEWS is from a photograph taken when he resided in Kosnigsberg.

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Note on the Genus Pseudococcus Westwood.
By T. D. A. COCKERELL.

According to Scudder (Nom. Zool. , p. 266) the name Pseudo-
coccus dates from 1848, but I find what appears to be its earliest
publication in the "Modern Classification of Insects," vol. i
(1839), p. 118. Here Westwood writes:

' Pseudococcus Westw. (C adonidum., cacti, etc.), having the
female not fixed, and clothed with a woolly secretion."

Of the two species mentioned, adonidum belongs to what we
now call Dadylopius and cacti to Coccus sens. Signoret. The
definition would fit several genera as now understood, but in the
absence of any indication of a type species we should take
adonidum as the type, as it is first mentioned.

However, in Mod. Class. Ins. vol. ii (1840), p. 448, all doubt
on this score is removed, since we read that C. ilicis is to be con-
sidered the type of Coccus; and of C. cacti, the author states:
'this insect . . . belongs to a genus . . . which I propose to

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name Pseudococcus.''' No mention is here made of adonidiim,
and I think we may consider that cacti was certainly intended as
the type of the genus.

It seems doubtful whether Westwood's name Pseudococcus can
be used at all, as the restriction of Coccus L. to cacti and allied
forms will probably be maintained by future authors ; and as for
adonidum, it belongs to Dadylopius, which was published in 1835.
From this it appears that the ' ' Pseudococcus Westw. ' ' of Signoret
and modern writers is not the true genus of Westwood, but stands
in need of a new name. I will suggest that it be called Pliena-
coccus — a word which has practically the same meaning as Pseu-
dococcus.

- Phenacoccus consists of Dactylopids which have in the female
g-jointed antennae, and construct more or less distinct ovisacs.
The following species have been described.

P. aceris Geoff. (Europe and North America), P. mespili
Geoff. (Europe), P. hedercs Sign. (Europe), P. platani Sign.
(Europe), P. cesculi Sign. (Europe), P. brunnitarsis Sign. (Eu-
rope), P. fagi Dougl. (Europe), P. quercus Dougl. (Europe),
P. ulicis Dougl. (Europe), P. ulmi Dougl. (Europe), P. socius
Newst. (Europe), P. associalis Newst. (Europe), P. astelice
Mask. (New Zealand), P. casuarince Mask. (Australia), P.
nivalis Mask. (Australia), P. yuccce Coquill. (California), P.
helianthi Ckll. n. sp. (N. Mex.).

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NOTES ON ARGYNNIS CYBELE AND LETO.

By HENRY SKINNER, M.D.

It has been held by some Lepidopterists that leto is a Western
form of cybele (Boisd. Lep. Cal. p. 60, 1869, Streck. Call. p.
in, 187) I am not prepared to prove absolutely that they are one
and the same species, but nevertheless I think such is the case. The
Pacific coast examples of leto may be considered the typical form,
being dark, almost black in the female (of course excepting the
yellowish white border) and the inner area of all wings darker in
the male. Specimens of leto from further East more nearly ap-
proach cybele, and in some specimens to such an extent as to
make it almost, if not entirely impossible to say to which lorm
they belong. I have one specimen of leto £ from St. Ignatius,

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Mont., that does not differ at all on the upper side from cybele.
The easternmost point from which I have received leto is the
Yellowstone Park. A fair series of examples from the connecting
territory (eastern Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, etc.) I think
would absolutely connect these forms. I have received cybele
from Colorado, but probably disposed of the specimens in ex-
change before I thought of their value for comparative study.
It may be said that the females of the two forms are entirely dif-
ferent; this is true as a rule, but it is just this point I wish to
mention. I have two females of cybele that do not essentially
differ from the light yellow bordered females of leto, and I think
any of our Lepidopterists would label them leto 9 if he did not
know the locality where caught. One specimen is from Bing-
hampton, N. Y. , and the other is from Spanish River on the
Canadian shore of Lake Huron.* The latter was presented to-
me by Mrs. F. O. Herring, of Plainfield,. N. J., who also has
the form in her collection, and says it is common in the locality
where taken. I also find that the examples of leto, taken by
Capt. Geddes in Northwest Territory, more nearly approach cy-
bele than do the coast examples of leto. I think in cybele and
leto we probably have but one species with dimorphic females;
the female in the West having a cream-colored border, and irt
the East being generally like the male. The territory where
both females occur may eventually be found (if not already the
Spanish River locality). This dimorphism is evidently geo-
graphical like that of P. turnus, only instead of being divided
North and South like turmis, it is East and West. The latitude
where both females of turnus abound is that of Philadelphia. I
would be very glad to have any material or notes tending to>
confirm the relationship of cybele and leto.

Dr. W. J. HOLLAND, of Pittsburg, Pa., is doing excellent work on the-
West African Heterocera, and is illustrating all the new species he de-
scribes by the photo-mechanical method wherever the insects are suitable
for this kind of work. Most of his illustrated papers have appeared in
"Psyche." Dr. Holland is also working on a synonymic catalogue of
the African Hesperidae, which promises to be a work of great value to
Lepidopterists.

* Both specimens bright au-.l fresh.

320 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

ON THE LARVAL CASES OF NORTH AMERICAN PSYCHID/E.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

For more than fifteen years we have had on our lists the names
Oiketicus davidsonii, Psyche fragmentella and P. coniferella, de-
scribed from the larval cases only. For the sake of simplicity,
it would seem advantageous that names of insects should be given
to each species in a corresponding stage, preferably the mature
form. It is puzzling to students, and introduces unnecessary'
complications to have names given in other than the final stage,
but in the above instances the names have been given, not to any
stage of the insect in question, but to the cases made by them in
larval life. Still, provided the forms of the cases are characteristic,
I would not suggest ignoring these names. It is the object of
this paper to determine this matter.

Oiketicus davidsonii Hy. Edwards.

This cannot be an Oiketicus. In the species of which the cases
are known to me (O. abbotii, O. kirbyi, O. plaiensis), the sticks
with which the cases are strengthened are laid on transversely
throughout. In this form they are laid longitudinally. The
form seems characteristic by the length of the sticks used, some
even longer than the case itself.

Psyche fragmentella Hy. Edwards.
coniferella Hy. Edwards.

From an examination of the cases in the Edwards collection,
I am satisfied that these names refer to the same species. The
cases are unlike any known to me. From the locality (Sierra
Nevada of California) it also seems likely that the species is a
good one. I see no reason for regarding it as belonging to the
genus Psyche.

The following table will, perhaps, bring out the characters of
the cases of our Psychids with reasonable clearness. Concerning
Psyche carbonaria from Texas, nothing is known ; but I do not
think that it will prove the same as either of the species men-
tioned above. The species which I have referred to the Lacoso-
midae are not included. Differing widely in structure of the
perfect insect, they differ as much in the plan of structure of the
cases. It would be as reasonable to include the case-bearing
Microlepidoptera among the Psychicke as these moths. I regard

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Manatha edwardsii Heyl. as a synonym of Platceceticus gloveri
Pack. " Pseud op syche" exigua has been carelessly referred here.
It can have little in common with the Psychidae.

SYNOPSIS OF CASES.
Cases with sticks laid on thickly crosswise.

Case about 35 mm. long Oiketicus abbotii.

Cases with sticks laid lengthwise.

With a few sticks only; the case largely of silk; length 50-60 mm.

species*
With more numerous sticks, often densely covered.

Case 40 mm. long, with enormous sticks closely fastened, davidsonii.
Cases 30-45 mm., the sticks shorter than the case.

Case somewhat enlarged centrally . . . . T. ephemeraeformis.

Case smaller, cylindrical T. meadii.

Case about n mm. long, cylindrical, closely covered with rather long,

overlapping sticks Psyche confederata.

Case much the same, but oval Piatceceticus gloveri.

Cases without sticks.

Involucrum cylindrical, ir mm. long, " omnio granis sabulosis obtec-

tum" Chalia rileyi.

Case about 25 mm. long, covered with fine material, arranged length-
wise Psyche fragmentella.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, Oct. 4, 1893. — "Mr. F. Merri-
field exhibited specimens showing the effects of temperature in pupal
stage on several Lepidoptera. Vanessa polychloros-was much darkened,
especially towards the hinder margin, by a low temperature. Vanessa
c-album showed effects on both sides, especially in the female; they were
striking on the underside. Several examples of the striking effect pro-
duced by temperature on the Summer emergence (Prorsa) of Araschnia
levana were exhibited. Some Vanessa io showed the gradual disinteg-
ration, by exposure to a low temperature, of the ocellus on the fore wing,
which in extreme specimens ceased to be an ocellus, and was a remark-
able confirmation of Dr. Dikey's views of the origin of that ocellus. Mr.
Goss stated that, in his experience of V. c-album, the form with the pale
underside was the first brood, occurring in June and July; and that the
second brood, from the end of July to October, was invariably darker on
the underside. ' ' Similar interesting studies have been made in this country
by Mr. W. H. Edwards and others. If our species of Safynix were studied
from a geographical series and from the different seasonal broods with the
effect of cold and altitude borne in mind, a few names would probably
fall into the second line.

* An undetermined species, probably also undescribed, from southern Arizona and New
Mexico.

322 [December.

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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J.

A Few Notes on Cranberry Insects.— The cranberry industry is one of
the most important in parts of Massachusetts and parts of New Jersey,
and the cultivation of this fruit is extending to the West. It has already
become of considerable importance in Wisconsin, and plantations have
been started in the State of Washington. Recently, the horticulturist of
the Wisconsin Station has published a bulletin on the insects and diseases
of the cranberry, based almost entirely on work done at the New Jersey
Station by the botanist and entomologist there. In August last I had an
opportunity of conversing with Mr. Goff, at Madison, Wis., and he in-
forms me that in some respects there seems to be a little difference in
habit of some of the insects, and particularly in the case of the Teras
vacciniivorana. In New Jersey and on Cape Cod it is well known that
this insect is dimorphic, and that there is a fall brood, which is slate colored
and lives through the Winter, and that there are two Summer broods,
both of which are orange colored. The interesting point seems to be,
that this orange colored brood is entirely wanting in Wisconsin, and that
only the slate colored form exists there. The evidence upon which this
statement is made, is not entirely beyond question, but it is very likely
indeed to prove correct, from what we know of the actions of other in-
sects in similar climatic conditions.

A point of some interest in connection with the new bogs that have
been started in Washington is, that I have received from that place speci-
mens of the " Fire-worm," the larva of Rhopobota vacciniana, the insects
being transmitted to me through the agency of the secretary of the Amer-
ican Cranberry Growers' Association. Investigations made at my request
show that the vines which were set out on the Washington bog were ob-
tained from Massachusetts, and there is almost no room for doubt that the
vines so set out contained the eggs of this insect, which are laid in the fall
and do not hatch until well along next Spring. If, as is usual, the plants
were collected any time after mid-Summer, or early in the fall, and were set
out in fall or in Spring, there would be no difficulty whatever in the hatching
out of the larva from the eggs in Washington. I have no information as to
how widespread this insect is in its new quarters, but I have not the shadow
of a doubt that it will make itself at home in the new region, undergoing
perhaps some little modifications, and that it may be even more injurious
in its new home than it is with us in the East. Referring to the matter of
modification, it is a matter of some interest that even in the specimens
sent me, all the markings stand out very much more brightly than they
do in any Eastern specimen that 1 have ever seen. It would pay the
cranberry growers in this new region to make a very careful investigation
of how far this insect has already spread. It is scarcely likely that it ex-

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ists in any very great quantities as yet, and it may be that it can be de-
stroyed by sacrificing the chance of a crop for one year, and so entirely
excluded from that region, unless again brought in on plants from the
East. The easiest way to accomplish this, if the bogs are properly laid
out, would be to reflow well along in the Spring, after there has been a
general hatching of the larva all through the infested bogs. The expe-
rience that I have had, and the results of the experience of others, has
shown that we cannot depend upon insecticides for the absolute destruc-
tion of any insect of this character; while on the other hand, a measure
such as I have suggested, is likely to prove completely successful. We
have here another illustration of the importance of carefully looking over
plants that are purchased from one region of our country to be set out in
a new place. Had the person who purchased the Eastern plants known
of the danger of introducing also the injurious insects it would have been,
comparatively speaking, an easy task to destroy the insects that were on
the plants while yet in the egg stage and before they were set out. It
would have paid to have taken each plant separately, before it was set
out, and examined every leaf for eggs. They are not difficult to see, and
it would have been only a fraction of a minute for each spray to be exam-
ined. I quite expect that nothing will be done and that the cranberry
growers in Washington will make for themselves an enormous amount of
work to be attended to in the future. They are providing themselves
with a tax which will be levied upon them without any action or will oi
their own, and which they will in time spend thousands of dollars to get
rid of, where a few hundred at the outside, expended at the present time,
would secure them future immunity.

The Pear Psylla in New Jersey. — A short time ago Prof. Beckwith, of
the Delaware Experiment Station, wrote me that he had found specimens
of this insect in Burlington County, N. J., and at my request sent me some
specimens. These I forwarded to Mr. Slingerland, as they were imma-
ture, and received from him the assurance that Prof. Beckwith was correct,
and that this was really the pear Psylla. This is the first time that the
insect has come to my notice from New Jersey. As soon as possible I
communicated with the growers in whose orchard the insect had been
found, and afterward visited the nursery, which is one of the most exten-
sive in that part of New Jersey, and whose owners are also of the most
intelligent class of men engaged in business of this description, and are
strictly entitled to be called successful farmers. So far as I can see from
the examination made, the insect is as yet confined to this orchard, and
indeed, to only a comparatively limited part of it. It is certain that we
have not to do here with a normal spread, but rather with an introduction.
These gentlemen import each year a considerable number of young trees
from different parts of the country, and among other places northern
New York furnishes a large number of pear trees. Mr. Slingerland's
work has informed us that in some parts of the State of New York this
insect has been exceedingly injurious for two or three years back, and

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from the localities in which he found it abundant stock was imported into
this orchard on the Delaware. Judging from the number of specimens
found, and from the territory which this insect seems to have covered, it
is reasonably certain that it has been in its present location at least two
years, and quite enough specimens were observed to make it probable
that next year, under ordinary circumstances, a considerable spread from
this orchard will take place. Fortunately, the owners of the orchard in
question are intelligent men, and men who realize the importance of
dealing promptly in matters of this kind. They have therefore agreed to
take active measures, recommended by me, during the ensuing Winter
and early next Spring, and there is reasonable hope that it will be possible
to check the further spread of the insect, and to reduce its numbers to
such an extent, that we may reasonably hope that the survivors will fall
victims to natural causes. We are not unreasonable in expecting the
latter, because heretofore the insect seems not to have shown any ten-
dency to migrate in the direction of the location where it has just been
found. It behooves fruit growers and farmers generally who purchase
plants, trees, grafts, or the like, from any locality other than their own,
to make a most careful examination of the plants before they set them
out, to make sure that no insects are introduced with them. It is care-
lessness in this respect that has given us some of our most troublesome
insects, and it has been the almost universal experience that where an
insect was introduced and showed itself capable of multiplying that such
species become the most difficult to deal with.

A "Rose Bug" Remedy.— In the 5th Report of the Board of Managers
of the Rhode Island College, we find in the Report of the horticulturist:
"A Remedy for the ' Rose Bug.' ' This remedy is nothing except a
thorough spraying with the Bordeaux mixture, to which Paris-green was
added in considerable quantities. This, it seems, rendered the vines un-
pleasant to the " rose bugs" and they ceased feeding upon them. Reports
of this kind have been made before, and I do not for an instant question
their accuracy, but there are as many cases equally authentic where the
remedy has proved no remedy at all. I have myself seen "rose bugs"
feeding upon foliage and buds that were completely covered with the
Bordeaux mixture, and it did not even seem to disagree with them. It
only emphasizes what has been already stated elsewhere concerning this
insect, that when it appears in reasonable numbers it is not difficult to
keep it from grape, and a dusting with lime, or in fact a considerable
number of other substances, will prove reasonably effective. It is when
they appear in such enormous swarms that everything is covered with
them, that all remedies fail as completely as do all signs of rain in times
of drought. Then, apparently, they will eat everything that is in the way,
and it makes no difference what poison is used.

Notes on some Ptinid Pests.— Insects injurious to vegetation do not al-
ways confine their attacks to growing plants; but sometimes cause con-

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siderable trouble to stored products of a vegetable origin, and this whether
it be a leaf, branch, trunk or root. Nothing is sacred to the insects, and
without care everything will find a pest to attack it. The botanists and
druggists find that they must use caution in preserving their pressed and
dried plants and herbs from the attacks of certain species of insects, and
even poison does not always act as a saviour. A great number of the
species that belong in the category of pests that feed upon dry vegetable
matter, are members of the Coleopterous family Ptinidae, and none of the
members of this family have a worse and better deserved reputation than
Lasioderma serricorne and Sitodrepa panicea. The first of these, owing
to the frequence of its attacks upon tobacco, has locally received the name
" tobacco beetle," feeding upon dried tobacco in all its stages. It is else-
where called the " cigarettejbeetle," and as such has been classed among
the beneficial insects. There might be some justice in this were it not for
the miserable habit that the insect has cf also attacking cigars, which, to
some entomologists, are as much a necessity as food and drink. A
very good second to the Lasioderma is the Sitodrepa, although this
is not so commonly known as a tobacco-feeding insect; but this means
nothing, for it has a decided catholic taste, and it will feed upon gunwads
and belladonna quite as readily as it will upon tobacco. To my friend,
Mr. J. Turner Brakeley, Bordentown, N. ]., I owed at one time part of a
box of cigars. I felt very grateful to him until I examined them carefully,
and found that it was not to the friend, but to the entomologist that he
had sent them, for they all looked very much like the specimens of which
a figure is here presented. Every one of them had anywhere from three
to ten or a dozen little round holes from which the beetles had emerged,
and the exterior proved to be very much better than the interior, for in
the majority of cases a large proportion of the inside of the cigar, or fill-
ing, had been eaten away, and only chips andfrass remained, mocking
all attempts at smoking, even after the holes had been pasted up. Very
much the same sort of attack is made by the Lasioderma not only upon
cigars, but upon plug tobacco, and at one time there was quite a disturb-
ance among certain tobacco manufactures in one of the Southern States
over the unusual increase of this pest in their factories. Specimens were
sent to the National Museum to obtain information on the subject, and
some good samples ought to be in that institution. The differences be-
tween the Lasioderma and the Sitodrepa are very readily discovered, and
are indicated in figures i and 2. The Lasioderma is the larger insect,
very much broader comparatively, with a smooth surface, the elytra not
striate, but clothed with fine silky hair, which shows a tendency to arrange
itself into distinct rows. The antennas have the joints subequal, and no
very strongly marked antennal club. In the Sitodrepa, on the contrary,
we have a narrower, more elongate insect, with the elytra distinctly stri-
ated. The antennae are quite different, and have a distinct three-jointed
serrated club. The larvae of the two species look very much alike, and
are white, fleshy, wrinkled grubs, which are usually curled up as shown in

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figure 3. In drug houses the Lasiodcrnia and Sitodrepa both become
very injurious on occasion, and question is not infrequently made for a

F|g- 3-

Explanation to Figures: i, LusioJerm.t serricornt; 2, Sitodrcfa fanicea ; 3,
paiiictu larva ; 4, Injury to cigars.

remedy. Of course, in the preservation of all vegetable matter when
dried, nothing is better than to be sure in the fust place that the material

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is not infested, and then preserve either in glass jars or in tight tin boxes.
Almost anything else these insects will bore through. When glass or tin
are not available, or cannot be used for any reason, it has been found that
a liberal use of naphthaline will keep out the insects fairly well, and where
the material has become infested, naphthaline usually checks further in-
crease, though it does not kill the specimens themselves. Wherever the
material will not be injured thereby, exposure to the fumes of carbon
disulphide is the most satisfactory method of getting rid of the insects;
but a beetle that will attack the entomologist's cigars is mean enough for
anything, and must be closely watched.

Fungi versus Insects.— In "Science" for October 2oth, Mr. Gerald
McCarthy has a paper under the above title, in which there is really no-
thing new, nor anything newly stated. But it presents on one hand the
fact that we cannot hope to make any permanent impression upon inju-
rious insects by our present methods, unless they are much more gener-
ally adopted, and on the other hand suggests that we have in the cultiva-
tion of fungous and bacterial diseases the probable remedy of the future.
Now, it is undoubtedly true, as he suggests, that our application of insec-
ticides is not so efficient as it might be, but that is not due in all cases to-
the practice itself; only to the fact that it is not universally and properly
applied. It is beyond reasonable doubt that if, for only three years in
succession, every farmer and other tiller of the soil within the boundaries
of the United States, would make intelligent and conscientious use of the
remedies that we have against the Codling moth, that within that time the
insects would be so reduced in number, that for a long time to come they
could not be ranked as injurious, and in some places might be even ex-
terminated. That farmers do not adopt these measures is no proof that
they are not practical, nor that they are not efficient. In fact, we can say
that they are not only practical, but that they are absolutely certain. Our
effort should be, therefore, to convince the farmer of the importance of
adopting these remedies, and we should try to educate him to the point
that he will himself see that it will pay him to use every possible method
to clear out these pests. By a system of legislation we may be able to
reach the ignorant or stubborn specimen and force him to look after his
own interests, so that we can look forward to a time in the future when
insect pests will cause little practical injury. Now this suggested remedy
for using fungous diseases to destroy insects has a very, tempting sound,
and in some cases it would undoubtedly prove successful; but, really,
those cases are rare, and depend upon so many factors of which we prac-
tically know nothing; or which, when we do know them, are beyond our
control, that we could never tell beforehand what the result is going to
be. Practical experience has shown that diseases which attack one spe-
cies will, very frequently, pass by even a very closely allied one, and we
have seen, too, that for some years in succession diseases have carried off
insects of certain kinds by the wholesale, while for a long series of years
afterward they were practically exempt. Insect diseases, like a good.

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many other things, have also a fashion of attacking pests after they have
caused injury to the farmer, and somehow or other, no matter how violent
a disease may be this year, it does not seem to have any effect upon the
number of insects that make their appearance the year following. Then
there are a large number of our most injurious insects beyond the reach
of fungous diseases from their habits of life. What hope can we have of
reaching, for instance, the Plum Curculio larva, or that of the Codling
moth, both of which live inside the fruit which they infest, and are entirely
sheltered from the outer air and from the spores that could be carried
even to the very fruit that they inhabit. The truth is, that fungous and
bacterial diseases will be found to have a field, and that within certain
limitations we can make them decidedly useful; but that they will ever
replace poisons for many species is a question which, to me at least, seems
exceedingly doubtful. Natural means check insect life and prevent undue
increase; they can never be used to destroy completely the form of life
upon which they prey. If we desire to do that we must use means other
than those provided by nature itself.

Notes and.

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ABOUT a year ago we published a request for photographs for the album
of the American Entomological Society and up to date have received
eighty pictures. Those not previously acknowledged are from Dr. Emil
Brendel, Chas. W. Johnson, Rev. C. J. S. BethUne, Richard F. Pearsall
and Miss Mattie Wadsworth. We still have room for many more and
again ask all interested in entomology to send in their pictures irrespec-
tive of whether they have written on entomological subjects or not.

Mr. HERBERT DRUCE, the well-known student of the exotic Heterocera,
has been visiting this country, and has seen some of our large collections,
in which he was much interested. He spent some time with Dr. Holland,
of Pittsburgh, and Mr. Neumoegen, of New York, and also visited the
American Entomological Society.

33° ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

TRANSACTIONS of American Entomological Society, 1893. — The fol-
lowing papers have been published since the issue of No. 3: Notes on
Bees, with descriptions of new species, by Charles Robertson; Notes and
descriptions of Pselaphidse, with remarks on the Scydmaenidae, by E.
Brendel, M.D., one plate; A Synopsis of the Harvest-Spiders (Ph'alan-
giidae) of South Dakota, by C. M. Weed, one plate; The Cosmetidae of
the United States, by C. M. Weed, one plate; Contribution to a Know-
ledge of certain little-known Aphididse, by C. M. Weed, one plate; The
Entomology of the Mid-alpine zone of Custer County, Colorado, by T
D. A. Cockerell (in press).

LESTES EURINUS. — The statement in the NEWS for November, p. 308,
that I presented specimens of Lestes enrinus from Texas is incorrect, as
they came from Massachusetts. The known localities for this species are
Massachusetts, New York and Illinois, as stated in my Philadelphia Cata-
logue (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, p. 229, 1893). — PHILIP P. CALVERT.

Prof. JOHN B. SMITH is a frequent visitor to the meetings of the Feld-
man Collecting Social of Philadelphia, where, after the scientific meeting
.has adjourned, the members have a pleasant time socially, and discuss the
good things of this life around the table. The meetings are held at the
home of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, the well-known Coleopterist. Mr. Laurent
is president of the Club and Mr. Schmitz, secretary.

Mr. W. J. Fox, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, is
•at work on a monograph of the Hymenopterous group Larriens of North
America, and has nearly completed it. The number of species will be
.nearly doubled and several new genera added.

IT is said that many specimens of the rare Papilla houienis, of Jamaica,
have been recently sent to England. This species is probably only repre-
sented in collections in this country by three individuals.

Mr. OTTO HERZ, naturalist to His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke
Nicolas Michailowitsch, of Russia, is anxious to obtain for the collection
of His Imperial Highness certain rare American Lepidoptera. Among
the species desired are Papilio aliaska, Parnassius eversmanni and its
variety thor, and Colias boothii, which was described from the Second
Ross Expedition.

Mr. PHILIP LAURENT, of Philadelphia, is interested in Entomological
Photography, and made the negative for the plate in the last number of
the NEWS.

IT is stated by Mr. South in the "Entomologist" for November, 1893,
that a specimen of Chrysophanns phlccas, captured in Middlesex, England,
is the form described by Strecker from American examples. " Interme-
diates between var. fasciata and the type are not rare in Britain, and Mr.
Sabine captured three examples this year." We believe it was heretofore
supposed that fasciata did not occur except in America.

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Prof. C. H. T. TOWNSEND, curator of the Institute of Jamaica at King-
ston, has recently been elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of
London.

WE have just received the great work on the Proctotrypidae of North
America by Mr. W. H. Ashmead, of the Department of Agriculture at
Washington. D. C. Nearly 700 species are treated. It is a work of nearly
300 pages. It will be noticed later in the literary review.

THE recent addition to the fine collection of Mr. B. Neumoegen, of
New York, will run up into many thousands of specimens from all parts
of the world.

Identification of Insects ilmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of species
to be limittd to twenty-five for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans-
portation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor
•who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
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Entomological Liter ature.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, Ixi, i. Paris,
July 20, 1892. — On the American Oestridae, whose larvae live in the skin
of man, Dr. R. Blanchard, figs. Study of the cavernicolous Arthropods
of the island of Luzon: Coleoptera, A. Raffray; Orthoptera, I. Bolivar;
Arachnida, E. Simon. — 2, Oct. 12, 1892. Contribution to the microscopic
study of the larval nervous system of Stratiomys longicortiis Sc., F.
Henneguy and A. Binet, i pi. — 3, Dec. 28, 1892. New, or little-known
Dipcera, J. M. F. Bigot. — 4, April 28, 1893. Revision of the Pselaphid:e
of Sumatra, A. Raffray, i pi. Additional notes on the American Oestridae,
whose larvaa live in the skin of man, R. Blanchard (pp. ccix, ccxlvi).

ACTES DE LA SOCIETE LlNNEENNE DE BORDEAUX, xlv, 1893. — On the

habits of some Hymenoptera of Provence of the genus Osmia Panzer, C.
Ferton. On artificial fecundation of Cant/ianis griseus, M. Kunstler.

ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, viii, 1-3, July.
1893. — The Myriapoda collected by the United States Eclipse Expedition
to West Africa 1889 and 1890, O. F. Cook and G. N. Collins, 2 pis.
Studies on the life-histories of some Bombycine moths, with notes on the
setae and spines of certain species, A. S. Packard.

THE BRITISH NATURAIST. London, October, 1893. — British spiders
(cont. ), Rev. F. O. P. Cambridge.

332 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,.

BULLETIN OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AT HARVARD
COLLEGE, xxv, i. Cambridge, Mass., September, 1893. — The Orthop-
tera of the Galapagos Is., S. H. Scudder, 3 pis.

MEMORIAS Y REVISTA DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA " Antonio Alzate,"
vi, ii and 12. Mexico, 1893. — A new species of Lecanium from Mexico,
T. D. A. Cockerell.

BULLETIN FROM THE LABORATORIES OF NATURAL HISTORY, State Uni-
versity of Iowa, ii, 4. Oct. 9, 1893. — Description of the early stages of
several North American Coleoptera, H. F. Wickham.

DELAWARE COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Bull.
No. xxi. Newark, Del., September, 1893. — Insects injurious to stored
grain, M. H. Beckwith, figs.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xiv, 19. Berlin, October, 1893.—
Cecidiological notes, Dr. F. Thomas. — xiv, 20, October, 1893. Remarks
on the " Catalogus Coleopterorum Europae, Caucasi et Armeniae Ros-
sica?," ed. E. Reitter, E. Bergroth. Species and subspecies in entomology,
E. Hartert. The genus Harpobittacus Gerst., R. McLachlan.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MAINE STATE COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL EX-
PERIMENT STATION [at] Orono, Me., 1892. Bangor, 1893. — Report of
botanist and entomologist, Prof. F. L. Harvey, figs.

LA NATURALEZA. Periodico Cientifico de la Sociedad Mexicana de
Historia Natural. (2) II, 3 and 4. Mexico, 1892. — A new Ixode, Dr. D,
A. Duges, i pi. The " Tlalzahuatl" [larva of Trombidium sp.], id.
Acanthia inodora, id.

SCIENCE. New York, Oct. 13, 1893. —On the systematic position of the
Diptera, A. S. Packard. Notes of some experiments on the house-fly,
J. B. Smith. — Oct. 20. Silk-spinning fly larvae, H. Garman. Fungi versus
insects, G. McCarthy.

BULLETIN DES SEANCES DE LA SOCIETE NATIONALS D'AGRICULTURE
DE FRANCE, 1893, No. 7. Paris, July, 1893. — Ravages caused by a sack
worm (Psyche atra) in the highlands of Auvergne, M. Laboulbene.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. London, Octo-
ber, 1893. — A few synonymical notes upon African Lepidoptera, VV. J.
Holland. Notes on the classification of scorpions, followed by some ob-
servations upon synonymy with descriptions of new genera and species,
R. I. Pocock, 2 pis.

THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. Melbourne, September, 1893. — A cata-
logue of Victorian Heterocera, part v, O. B. Lower.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, Ixvi, i and 2. Leipsic,.
1893. — Plant-lice and honey-dew, Dr. G. Brandes. Remarks on Dr..
Eckstein's " Pflanzengallen und Gallenthiere," Dr. I), von Schlechtendal.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 333

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA-
DELPHIA, 1893, pt. II, April-September. Oct. 31, 1893. — Descriptions of
two new species of North American Bombycidae, H. Strecker.

THE GARDENER'S CHRONICLE. London, Oct. 21, 1893. — How Red
Spider was got rid of, W. Miller ["red brick cure"].

PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL
SOCIETY, vii, 1893. — The occasional phenomenal abundance of certain
forms of insect life, W. E. Sharp.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER. Leipsic, Oct. 16, 1893. — On the stigmata
of the larva of Melolontha, J. E. V. Boas, figs. An attempt at an ex-
planation how some Hies can float in one point in the air, Dr. L. Car.
Contributions to knowledge of the Hydrachnidae, R. Piersig. — October
30. On the copulatory organs of the Libellulidae, J. Ingenitzky. Are
the homologues of the laminae basales of male Coleoptera present in
Hvmenoptera? C. Verhoeff.

TIDJSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGiE, xxxv. The Hague, 1892. — Tabular
review of the Donaciini taken in the Netherlands, Dr. E. Everts. Re-
marks on collecting and preserving insects in the tropics, J. Z. Kannegieter.

OPUSCULA ENTOMOLOGICA edidit C. G. Thomson. Fasc. xvii. Lund,
1892. — Contributions to the knowledge of the Braconidae [of Europe].
Fasc. xviii, 1893. On [European] Ichneumonidse.

BlHANG TILL KONGL. SVENSKA VETENSKAPS-AKADEMIENS HAND-

LINGAR 17 Bd., Afd. iv, No. 8. Stockholm, 1891. — Contributions to the
knowledge of Californian Collembola, H. Schott, 4 pis.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (2), iv.
San Francisco, 1893. — On a collection of Formicidas from Lower Cali-
fornia and Sonora, Mexico, T. Pergande.

EVIDENCE of Mr. James Fletcher, entomologist and botanist, before
the select standing committee of the House of Commons on agriculture
.and colonization, session of 1893; 25 pp. [Economic Entomology, Ottawa,
1893-]

CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM.- — Report of the entomologist and
botanist (James Fletcher) for 1892; 25 pp., figs. [Economic Entomology,]
Ottawa, 1893.

THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY, II, 2. Lawrence, Kans., Oc-
tober, 1893. — The sclerites of the head of Danais archippus Fab., V. L.
Kellogg, i pi. New, or little-known Diptera, S. W. Williston.

REVISION DE LA TRIBU DES HETEROGAMiENS [fam. Blattidre], par H.
deSaussure. Extract Revue Suisse de Zoologie, I, pp. 289-318. Geneva,

334 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, xvi, Nc. 950. Wash-
ington, 1893. — A descriptive catalogue of the harvest-spiders (Phalan-
giidae) of Ohio, C. M. Weed, 3 pis. — No. 951. Scientific results of the
U. S. Eclipse Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90. Report on the Insecta,
Arachnida and Myriapoda, C. V. Riley; including descriptive papers on
the Odonata, P. P. Calvert, figs., and Araneina, N. Banks, figs., and G
Marx, i pi.

ZOE, iv, 3. San Francisco, Sept. 19, 1893. — The species of Amblychila,.
]. J. Rivers, 2 pis.

PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., November, 1893. — The primitive number
of Malpighian vessels in insects, vi, W. M. Wheeler. Note on a Scut-
telerid on native tobacco in Arizona, C. H. T. Townsend. Descriptions
of new species and genera of West African Lepidoptera, y, W. J. Holland,
2 pis. Descriptions of new aculeate Hymenoptera, W. J. Fox.

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, v, pp.
241 et seq. New York, October, 1893. — Descriptive catalogue of the but-
terflies found within fifty miles of New York City, together with a brief
account of their life-histories and habits, W. Beutenmiiller.

JAHRBUCHER DES NASSAUISCHEN VEREINS FUR NATURKUNDE. Jahr-
gang 46. Wiesbaden, 1893. — Ornithoptcra schoenbergi n. sp. from the
Malay Archipelago, Dr. A. Pagenstecher, 3 pis. A lepidopterological
voyage around the world, Dr. A. Seitz.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE. Paris, Oct. 27, 1893. — Sphex
splendidulus da Costa [larval development], M. Nicolas.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, Oct. 15, 1893. — The Presi-
dent's address to the British Association considered in its relation to en-
tomology, J. W. Tutt. On the larva of Arctia caia, with special reference
to its correlated variations in plumage, moulting and hybernation, T. A.
Chapman, M.D.

THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., November, 1893. —
The late Professor Westwood, Ed. The fourth annual meeting of the
Association of Economic Entomologists [with brief abstracts of the papers
read]. List of Coleoptera taken at Sparrow Lake, Out., J. Hamilton,
M.I). New North American Homoptera, No. vi, E. P. Van Duzee.
Notes on a polymorphic butterfly, .Sy;/r/;/o? lacinia Geyer (in Hub. Zutr.),
with description of its preparatory stages, W. H. Edwards. On a seem-
ingly microlepidopterous leaf-miner of the narrow-leaved cottonwood, C.
H. T. Townsend. Hyblcea puera Cramer, T. D. A. Cockerell.

THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, November, 1893. — Fauna Ottawaensis, Hy-
menoptera Phytophaga, W. H. Harrington.

EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY. — An essay on the application of the
theory of Natural Selection in the classification of animals and plants, il-
lustrated by a study of the evolution of the wings of insects and by a

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contribution to the classification of the Lepidoptera. By John Henry
Comstock, B. S. Reprinted from the Wilder Quarter-Century Book.
Ithaca, N. Y., 1893. Pp. 37-114, 3 pis., 33 text-figures. Part I of this
interesting essay is A proposed method stated; Part II. The evolution of
the wings of insects; Part III. A contribution to the classification of the
Lepidoptera. The author says: " I do not believe that the systematists
of to-day are making as much use of the theory of descent in taxonomic
work as they might. We are still busy describing species as if they were
immutable entities; and in our descriptions we give little thought to the
causes that have determined the forms of organisms. It is true that con-
siderable has been done in the direction of working out the phylogeny of
the larger groups, as branches and classes, and to a less extent of orders.
But rarely is any attempt made to determine the phylogeny of the smaller
groups. Here I believe lies the work of the systematist of the future.
The description of a species, genus, family or order, will be considered
incomplete until its phylogeny has been determined so far as is possible
with the data at hand. We are to care less for the mere discovery of new
forms, and more for an understanding of the processes by which new
forms have arisen. ... I suggest, therefore, that the logical way to go-
to work to determine the affinities of the members of a group of organ-
isms is first to endeavor to ascertain the structure of the primitive mem-
bers of this group; and then endeavor to learn in what way these primitive
forms have been modified by natural selection, keeping in mind that in
each generation those forms have survived whose parts were best fitted
to perform their functions." Prof. Comstock proceeds to practically ex-
emplify his method by endeavoring to determine the phylogeny of the
Lepidoptera, but his essay will be of interest to entomologists generally.
We emphatically endorse his views as above quoted, and recommend
them to the attention of students of our science.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, November, 1893. — Variation of Chry-
sophanus phl&as in Britain, R. South, 2 figs. The " Melanism" contro-
versy, W. F. de Vismes Kane. On certain species of North American
Hypenida?, A. G. Butler. Observations on the Hessian-fly (Cecidomyia
destructor) during 1893, F. Knock.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

ACARINA.

Gonixodes rosfralis Duges, Naturaleza (2) II, p. 164, pi. viii, fig. if
Guanajuato, Mex.

COLEOPTERA.

Halecia pyropus Kerremans, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii, p. 504,.
Guadeloupe. Psiloptera (Lanipetis) auropunctata, p. 507, Mex.

336 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

DIPTERA.

Bombylidi: n. spp. Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixi, pp. 321-377.

Various families: n. spp., U. S., Williston, Kans. Univ. Quart.' II, pp.
59-78.

HEMIPTERA.

Lecanium schini (Lichtenstein MS.) Cockerell, Mem. Revist. Soc. Cien.
Antonio Alzate, vi, p. 325, Guanajuato, Mex.

Acanthia inodora Duges, Naturaleza (2), II, p. 169, pi. viii, figs.

Homoptera: n. spp., U. S., Van Duzee, Can. Ent. xxv, pp. 280-285.

HYMENOPTERA.

Formicidce: n. spp., Lower Cal., Mex., Pergande, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci.
(2), iv, pp. 26-36.

Larridae: n. gen. et spp., U. S., Fox, Psyche, vi, pp. 553-556.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Cossus ore Strecker, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1893, p. 282, Wash.
Hepialus Los id., 1. c., Me.

PANORPINA.

Bittactts chlorostigina McL. = Harpobittacus c., Apterobittacus n. gen.
or B. apterus McL., McLachlan, Ent. Nach. xiv, p. 317.

THYSANURA.

Collembola: n. gen. et spp., Calif., Schott, Bih. K. Sven. Vet.-Akad.
Hdlgr. Bd. 17, Afd. iv, No. 8.

The Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

OCTOBER 26, 1893.

A regular stated meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy
of Natural Sciences was held in the Hall, S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race
Streets this evening, Mr. E- T. Cresson presiding. Members present: E.
T. Cresson, Calvert, G. B. Cresson, Seiss, Welles, Laurent, Johnson,
Skinner, Ridings, Liebeck. Associates: Fox, Boerner, Westcott. Mr.
Laurent exhibited a very beautiful moth, which he stated, as far as he
knew, had never before been reported from Pennsylvania or New lersey.
It belongs to the Geometers, and the spfecies is Plagodis keutzingaria.
The speaker also exhibited an exceedingly dark specimen of Samia cyn-
tlna which had been reared in the city. Mr. Calvert exhibited specimens
of an unknown lepidopterotis larva in alcohol. Mr. C. W. Johnson ex-
hibited a photograph showing the injury clone to the pine in Pennsylvania

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by a beetle belonging to the Scolytidse. The injury began in 1891, and
the insects attack the live trees and begin at the top and work down. They
have also been very destructive in West Virginia. Mr. Hopkins, of the
West Virginia Station, has introduced a species of Cleridae from Europe,
which is destructive to the injurious Scolytids. A number were set loose
in 1892 at Morgantown, W. Va. Mr. Johnson found an American species
of Cleridse destructive to the Scolytidae. Mr. Wm. J. Fox called attention
to a collection of Hymenoptera made in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire by Mrs. A. T. Slosson, of New York. The collection con-
tained two species of more than usual interest, one of which, Melitnis
bimaculatus, had never been identified since it was first described in 1867.
The other species, Crabro montana, was of interest, because it had never
before been recorded east of Colorado.

Dr. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

NEW EXOTIC LEPIDOPTERA.

By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Pittsburg, Pa.

species described in this paper are all represented in my collection by the types.)

RHOPALOCERA.

HESTIA Hiib.

1. H. riukiueasis sp. nov. c?.— Closely allied to H. leuconoe Erich., but
with all the black spots and lines greatly diminished in size, and in many
cases obsolescent. The geminate white marginal spots of the anterior
wings in both sexes and of the posterior wings in the female sex are con-
fluent with the white ground color of the wings in such a way as to give
the black spots at the ends of the nervules the form of the Greek capital
letter Ypsilon. Expanse 5.75 inches.

Hab. — The Riukiu (Loochoo) Islands.

I have a pair of these insects which I purchased some five years
ago from a gentleman in Yokohama, who happened to obtain
them from an acquaintance who had collected them in the Riukiu
Islands. Mr. Herbert Druce informs me that he has seen other
specimens from the same locality. The species is very well
marked and distinct.

MYNES Uoisd.

2. M. dohertyi sp. nov. <$. — The antennae are black; the upperside of
the thorax is clothed with glaucous hairs; the upperside of the abdomen
is whitish; the lowerside of the thorax and abdomen and the palpi are
whitish. The first pair of legs are whitish in front, but behind are oliva-

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ceous, as are the second and third pair throughout. The primaries upon
the upperside are white tinged with yellow, and with a broad, apical,
black tract, which is continued narrowly along the outer margin and more
narrowly along the costa. This black border is irrorated along the margin
at the apex and above the outer angle by bluish olivaceous, and the ends
of the inferior vein and the median nervules are black, and interrupt the
white area of the wing for one-third of their length from the outer margin;
just at the outer angle is a circular spot of deep black. The secondaries
are glaucous at the base; the middle third is bluish green, and upon the
outer third there is a broad, black, marginal band, produced inwardly
upon the median nervules. The outer margin is marked by a very nar-
row, bluish gray, marginal line. Upon the underside the primaries are
white, tinged slightly with yellowish, with the fringes black, as upon the
upperside. -The black apical area of the upperside reappears upon the
lowerside, but is interrupted by spots and markings as follows: beyond
the cell near the costa by a round spot of bluish white followed by two
smaller oblong spots of the same color, by a transverse subapical band
of bluish white, two marginal spots of the same tint above the outer angle,
and two bright red, oblong spots on either side of the third median ner-
vule near the outer margin. The secondaries upon the lowerside are
broadly smoky-olive, with the outer margin greenish and the costa at the
base crimson. The inner margin is laved with yellowish; the greenish
outer margin is traversed by an inner and an outer series of geminate
sublunulate markings upon the intraneural spaces; the outer series is
separated from the fringe, which is black, and the two members of it from
one another by narrow, bluish white lines.

9 . — The female does not differ materially from the male, except that
the wings are much broader and the outer margin, both above and below,
has no dark markings within the black fringes above the outer angle, ex-
cept the circular spot at that angle, which is most conspicuous upon the
lowerside. Expanse: <$, 58 mm.; 9. 65 mm.

Hab. — Bum.

This is one of the fine new species of Rhopalocera collected by
Mr. Doherty during his recent visit to Buru. The genus Mynes
has not hitherto been recorded from this island. It is a distinct
and well-marked species, which differs in important particulars
from all others in the genus. Having examined the figures or
the types of all the other known species, I am able to confidently
affirm the specific distinctness of the insect.

HETEROCE.RA.

SPHINGID^E.
OCYTON Boisd.

3. 0. crenulata sp. nov. (^. — Allied to O. reutlingeri Holl. The upper-
side of the body is slaty-gray; the lowerside of the palpi and thorax paler

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gray; the lowerside of the abdomen darker and tinged slightly with red-
dish. The legs are concolorous, the tibiae of the last pair marked by some
pinkish tufted hairs. The primaries have the outer margin produced at
the extremity of the third median nervule, and the margin between this
point and the outer angle scalloped, or crenulate, in this respect resem-
bling Lophuron zantus H. S., from which it differs, however, in not hav-
ing the outer margin excavated below the apex. The primaries on the
upperside are slaty-gray, crossed diagonally below the apex from the costa
to the middle of the outer margin by a dark brown diagonal band defined
on the side of the apex by a narrow paler line. In addition, there are ob-
scure blackish markings and waved lines, composing a sub-basal and
geminate limbal series. There are also two very small blackish dots at
the end of the cell, between which is a pale brownish space. The sec-
ondaries are blackish, with the costal margin near the base testaceous,
shining, and the outer margin near the anal angle pale gray. The outer
margin is very narrowly whitish. On the underside the primaries are
dark reddish gray, clouded with fuliginous on the middle area. There is
a geminate limbal series of curved markings on the interspaces termina-
ting below the apex and above the outer angle in a bright yellow spot.
The secondaries on the underside are reddish gray, with a narrow and
obscure curved transmedian and similar geminate submarginal lines, the
latter terminating just before the anal angle in three or four salmon-colored
spots. Expanse 55 mm.

Hub. — Batanga, Cameroons, West Africa.

4. 0. spiritus sp. nov. $. — The upperside of the body pale olive-gray;
lowerside of body whitish. Legs concolorous. The primaries on the upper-
side have the basal and middle area pale olivaceous with the apical area
much paler, inclining to whitish. There is a very faint and narrow sub-
basal transverse line curved on the costa, succeeded beyond the cell by a
broad, subtriangular, olivaceous spot extending from the costa to the third
median nervule, upon which its apex terminates. Below it there is an
incomplete transverse limbal band of like color, succeeded toward the
anal angle by a subquadrate olive spot. The lighter outer area is inter-
rupted by a narrow, waved, dark brown, submarginal line, and has some
grayish cloudings on the costa and on the outer margin below the apex
and above the outer angle. The secondaries are pale smoky-brown, in-
terrupted by a still paler, broad, submarginal band, which shades into
whitish at the anal angle. On the underside both wings are pale gray,
with the outer margins somewhat broadly shaded with darker grayish
brown; both are crossed by waved, geminate, transverse, median, and
submarginal lines, the space between them being the palest portion of the
wing. The primaries have the costa reddish fawn, with the middle and
basal area heavily suffused with fuliginous. Expanse 48 mm.
Hub. — Kangwe, Valley of the Ogove, West Africa.

340 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

ANTINEPHELE Holl.

5. A. achlora sp. nov. — Dr. A. G. Butler described a species of this
genus under the name of anomala. In the large series of specimens,
which I originally referred to Dr. Butler's species, I find eight specimens,
males and females, which are uniformly characterized by the entire ab-
sence of the greenish lines, which, in Dr. Butler's species, run from the
transverse basal band along the costa and below it connecting the sub-
basal band with the diagonal subapical band of spots. Furthermore,
there is found in all these specimens a series of transverse limbal lines and
markings, which do not appear in Dr. Butler's species in the primaries
below the green lines of which I have spoken. The body on the under-
side in A. anomala is whitish. In all the specimens to which I refer it is
reddish. The secondaries on the underside are marked by a series of
dark transverse brown lines, most distinct upon the costa. The general
facies of the species is that of a darker and more obscurely colored in-
sect. Whether a species or a varietal form of A. anoma/a it is hard for me
to say, but Mr. Druce, who has examined the series of species in my col-
lection, agrees with me that it is well worthy of a name, and hence I have
designated it as Antinephele achlora, because of the absence of the green
lines on the primaries. Expanse 55 mm.

6. A. marcida sp. nov. <j\ — Allied to A. anomala and A. achlora, but
larger. The primaries are ochraceous, with the basal and costal area
olive-green, crossed from the costa before the apex by a series of silvery
spots, defined outwardly by a broad blackish line, and marked at the apex
with a whitish spot. The olive-green basal and costal area is interrupted
by a parallel series of dark brown lines. The upperside of the seconda-
ries is fuliginous. The primaries on the underside are sooty-brown, .ex-
cept on the outer third, where they are reddish brown, and where the
spots and lines of the upperside faintly reappear. The secondaries on
the underside are reddish brown, with obscure and narrow, transverse,
median and geminate, transverse, limbal lines. The margin is broadly
darker, especially at the apex. The transverse limbal line has its costal
extremity accentuated by a black spot. Expanse 57 mm.

Hab. — Benita, West Africa.

DIODOSIDA Walk.

7. D. funebris sp. nov. ^.—Allied to D. fumosa Walk., from which it
differs in the greater breadth of the primaries, as well as in its different
coloration. The upperside of the thorax is dark rosy-brown; the upper-
side of the abdomen paler rosy-brown. The underside of the body is
throughout bright rosy-brown; the legs concolorous, except the first pair,
which have the tibiae and the tarsi margined with white. The primaries
on the upperside are dark lilacine-gray, clouded with brown at the base,
crossed beyond the base by a curved submarginal band much more
sharply curved than that in fumosa. The broad median band, which ap-
pears in fumosa, is lacking in this species, and the primaries are crossed

I8Q3-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 34!

by a dark brown shade, running from the costa at the end of the cell to
the outer margin above the outer angle. The outer margin below the
apex is marked by a broad lunulate brown spot; there are also some ob-
scure, parallel, submarginal lines within this brown mark near the apex.
The secondaries on the upperside are dark rosy-brown, clouded with
darker brown on the margin, and with the edge very narrowly white. On
the underside both wings are rosy-brown, with the basal area and the cell
of the primaries blackish. Both wings are traversed by very narrow and
obscure, transverse, median, limbal, and submarginal lines.

9- — The female does not differ from the male, except in that the wings
are broader and the body heavier and shorter. Expanse: (j\ 60 mm.;
$, 70 mm.

I have a series of seven specimens of this species taken at
Benita.

DEWITZIA Holl.

8. D. perpallida sp. nov., <$. — This species is allied to D. pauperctila
Holl., but is much smaller and much lighter in coloration. On the upper-
side the entire insect is pale ashen-gray, clouded with pale rosy-brown
upon the costa and near the base of the primaries. There is a faint trans-
verse basal, sub-basal, median, and geminate submarginal series of lines,
the submarginal series being accentuated by minute dots upon the ner-
vules. On the secondaries there are transverse median and geminate
submarginal lines, the latter accentuated as in the primaries by minute
blackish dots. The fringes of the primaries are pale gray; of the secon-
daries whitish. On the underside both wings are pale gray; both have
transverse median and geminate submarginal lines, the latter as on the
upperside accentuated by minute black dots on the nervules. Expanse
55 nirn.

Hab. — Benita.

LITHOSIIDyE.
TEGULATA Walk.

9. T. (?) nigristriata sp. nov. $.— Head, collar and upperside of thorax
yellowish. The tegulae have a black line in the middle near the outer
end, and there are two black spots on the upperside of the thorax between
the bases of the tegulae and a linear black mark upon the middle of the
thorax. The abdomen is yellow, annulated with black on the last two
segments on the-upperside only. The underside of the thorax, abdomen,
and the legs are uniformly yellow. The primaries are creamy, with all
the interspaces between the nervules filled in with black, and a large oval
spot on the middle of the cell and a small black spot beyond it in the
secondary cell. The secondaries are pale testaceous with the base and
inner margin tinged with yellowish. The fringes of both wings are
creamy. The undersides of the wings have markings as on the upper-
sides, but much paler. Expanse 30 mm.

Hab. — Kangwe, West Africa.

342 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

This beautiful species is very closely allied to the genus Tegu-
lata, but differs so strikingly in its markings from all other species
of the genus, that I refer it, with some hesitancy, especially since
the outer portion of the wings is somewhat narrower and more
rapidly reduced in width than in any other species hitherto re-
ferred to the genus.

BOMBYCID^E.

CTENOGYNA Feld.

10. C. (?) OQOVensiS r,p. nov. ,$ . — Front, palpi and collar, pale fawn;
upperside of thorax and abdomen pale reddish fawn, with a dark brown
dorsal line upon the abdomen extending its whole length. The underside
of the body, together with the legs, grayish white with one or two dark
brown spots on the ventral line of the abdomen. Upperside: primaries
reddish fawn, with a minute black discal dot at the end of the cell. It is
further ornamented by irregularly curved and very narrow transverse
basal, median and sublimbal lines. A dark line runs from after the mid-
dle of the inner margin to the apex, being strongly angulated just before
reaching the apex. At its lower extremity upon the inner margin it is
accentuated by two silvery dots placed on its basal margin. The apex
above the angulation of this line is slightly paler than the rest of the wing.
There is a submarginal series of minute brown dots on the interspaces;
the fringes are dark brown. The secondaries are uniformly yellowish
ochraceous, with the anal angle and outer margin before the same tipped
with brown. Underside: both wings are yellowish white, with the costal
and outer area of the primaries and almost the entire body of the secon-
daries dusted with pale brown scales. The primaries are marked by a
transverse limbal line, which is dark brown on the costa and accentuated
by blackish linear dots upon the nervules where crossed by this line. The
nervules beyond this line are covered by dark brown scales, and the sub-
marginal series of brown dots which appears on the upperside reappears
on the lowerside. The secondaries have a small black discal dot at the
end of the cell, followed by a curved, but very indistinct, transverse me-
dian line, which does not reach the inner margin. The transverse limbal
line of the primaries is continued as a regularly curved line upon the sec-
ondaries and the black dots on the nervules are very sharply defined.
There is also a small brown spot at the outer angle. The fringes of the
primaries are dark brown; of the secondaries paler brown,

$ . — The female corresponds in all respects very closely with the male,
save that the transverse outer line on the upperside of the primaries is
not angulated before the apex and the markings on the underside of the
wing are more obscure, and the pectinations of the antennae are shorter.
Expanse: $ and 9 4° mm.

Hab. — Kangwe, West Africa.

The female specimen on the plate was obtained from a cater-

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pillar, the description of which Mr. Good failed to write prior to
pupation. He says: "When ready for its change, it strung
together by silken threads little lumps of earth in the jar in which
it was feeding, so that it was covered all over with a web of little
clods of the size of grains of corn. In these it turned into the
chrysalis. It emerged from the chrysalis Nov. 15, 1888."

11. C. (?) vilis sp. nov. J'. — Allied to the preceding, from which it dif-
fers, however, totally in color. The antennas, thorax and body, are uni-
formly pale gray, with the underside of the body whitish. Upperside:
primaries dirty yellowish gray, with the outer margin clouded obscurely
with ferruginous. The transverse lines are much as in C. ogovensis, but
less sharply defined. The secondaries are uniformly pale creamy-white.
Underside; both primaries and secondaries creamy-white, with the outer
extremities of the nervules shaded with pale brown. Expanse 40 mm.

Hab. — Kangvve, West Africa.

NOTODONTID^:.
LEPASTA Moschl.

12. L. africana sp. nov. <j\ — Front, antennas and collar, dark brown;
patagia creamy-white, tipped with dark brown; body and legs dark brown.
Upperside: primaries, with the base and a narrow streak on the costa
from the base to the middle of the costa, dark brown. This line is fol-
lowed by a broad, silvery-white line running from the inner margin before
the base parallel to the costa, and terminating upon it before the apex.
The entire wing beyond this silvery-white line is brown, interrupted by a
marginal silvery line succeeded inwardly by a similar submarginal silvery
line, which runs from before the apex to the first median nervule, and
then sweeps inwardly and upwardly toward the cell, widening gradually
and terminating abruptly near the origin of the first median nervule.
Within the curved line there is another V-shaped silvery line reversed
toward the outer curve, the lower limb narrow and following the line from
the third median nervule, and the upper limb widening toward the outer
margin and following the line from the first radial. The secondaries are
uniformly fuscous in the type. Another specimen in my possession has
the secondaries creamy-white; otherwise, it does not differ from the type.
The underside of the wings is obscure fuscous, or whitish, with the mark-
ings of the upper surface reappearing very faintly. Expanse 26-33 inm-

Hab. — Kangwe, West Africa.

LASIOCAMPID/E.
STIBOLEPIS Bull. '

13. S. abluta sp. nov. r?. — Allied to S. nivfa Hull. Wings silvery-white,
slightly clouded on the upper surface with pale gray along the costa and
the outer margin. The costa is further marked by six incomplete, trans-
verse, black bands, followed before the apex by a transverse series of

344 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

four circular black spots running from the costa to the third median ner-
vule. In the inner margin above the outer angle there are two sagittate
black spots coalescing with each other. The extremities of the nervules
are indicated by narrow black striae, between which there appear some
very faint angular lines. The fringes are white, very narrowly checked
with black at the middle of the interspaces. The secondaries are marked
on the outer border much like the primaries. On the underside the costa
and apex of the primaries and the extremities of the nervules on both
primaries and secondaries are black; otherwise, the wings are pure white.
The front and the abdomen are ochraceous; the antennae have the culmen
black, the seta; rufous. The legs are pale ochraceous, with the tarsi
black. Expanse 70 mm.

Hab. — Kangwe, West Africa.

I was first inclined to refer this species to S. sylvia Druce, but
a careful study of the description given by Mr. Druce shows
marked differences, and Mr. Druce himself assures me, after
seeing the type, that it is totally distinct.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV.

Fig. i. Hestia riukiuensis $, sp. nov.
" 2. Mynes dohertyi $, sp. nov.

3. Mynes dohertyi 9 , underside.
" 4. Diodosida funebris ^, sp. nov.
" 5. Dew itzia perpallida $, sp. nov.
' ' 6. Antinephele achlora tf, sp. nov.
" 7. Antinephele marcida $, sp. nov.
' ' 8. Ccyton crenulata tf, sp. nov.
" 9. Ocyton spiritus $, sp. nov.

" 10. Tegulata? nigristriata ^, sp. nov.

" ii. Lepasta africana $, sp. nov.

" 12. Ctenogyna ogovensis $, sp. nov.

" 13. Ctenogyna vilis $, sp. nov.

" 14. Stibolepis abluta (J\ sp. nov.

ERRATA.— Vol. IV, Nos. 8 and 9.

Page 280, after parinda insert , are analogous to the blue nebula (irrora-
tion) next to the ocellus of secondaries of P. elzvesii.

Page 285, line 15 from bottom, for distinctive read destructive.

" 286, after line 10 insert the following: As the insect probably de-
posits the eggs before leaving the trees for the golden-rod.

Page 289, line u from bottom, tor base read house.

Larva of Citheronia splendens Druce. — Through an error in determina-
tion, the larvae of this species have been described by us as
Citheronia mexicana on page 311. The name should be changed
as above. — H. G. Dyar and J. Doll.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. IV.

PI. XV

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Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

Amfirican and Exotic Lepidoptera.

Live Cocoons and Pupa1. Fertili/ed Ova and Inflated Larva1. Biological
Collections put up in best style, crspeci illy of the Silk -producers of the world.
Coleoptera, American and exotic species. The School Cabinet, containing a fine
assortment of all the orders of insects, correctly named and labeled. A line
collection of stuffed birds — 400 different species from North America — -for sale
al a sire at bargain ; also fine Bird-skins and Bird's Egix* ; and all entomological
supplies. All ffoods warranted to be first class, and the price lower than any
dealers in the United Stales. Send 10 cent stamp for Lists ;md postage. \\V
buy I .epid >pten>us c icoous and pupa', or give liberal exchange lor same.

I'rof. CARL BRAT \, \nturalist, Itantror, Me.. V. S. A.

VOL III. No. 2.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

,",
V

FEBRUARY, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALVKRT.

PHILADELPHIA :

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the A. N. S. of Philadelphia,

published by the Entomological Section of the Philadelphia Academy, with the
endorsement of the American Entomological Society, and with the aid of an
annual grant made by that Society.

It will be published monthly, excepting July and August, and will contain
not less than 200 pages per annum. It will maintain no free-list whatever.
but will leave no measure untried to make it a necessity to every student of
insect life, so that its very moderate annual subscription may be considered
well spent.

Annual subscription $x.oo, in advance.

Exchanges and works for review solicited.

ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate of 75 cents per inch, single insertion;
a liberal discount on insertions for 3 months or longer. No advertisement
taken for less than 50 cents. Cash in advance.

All remittances should be addressed to E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer,
P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.; all other communications to the Editor. of EN-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Logan Square, Phila., Pa., U S. A.

M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.,

Taxidermist and dealer in Natural History specimens and supplies, Minerals,
Birds' Eggs and Skins. Importer of KLAEGER PINS No. oo to 5 in papers of 500
each; No. 6 and upwards in papers of 250 each. Sent post-paid to any part of
the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand. Assorted pins in broken
lots at $1.25 per thousand. To colleges and other parties ordering in large
quantities I request the privilege of making special rates. Send "stamp for
catalogue of Naturalists' Supplies.

BIOLOGl/rCENTRALI^AMEmCANA!

The following portions of the " Biologia Centrali-Americana" are offered for
sale separately: — AVES: ist vol. complete, price 170 francs; 2/1 vol. in course of
publication. REPTILIA, in course. MOLLUSCA /t'nrs/ria and fluviatilia, in
course. ARACHNIDA, in course. COLEOPTEKA: Pcctinicornia and Lamclli-
forma, one volume complete, price 135 francs; Erotylidt?, in course; Rhyiicho-
phora, in course. RHYNCOTA-HOMOPTKRA, in course. DIPTERA, in course.
Address, Mdine Ed. Andre, 21 boulevard Bretonniere, a Beaune (Cote-d'Or),
France.

COLLECTIONS FOR SCHOOLS, BEGINNERS, AMATEURS, ETC.

I offer at lowest prices to Beginners, etc., collections of Lepidoptera from
smallest to largest number, containing species from Fla., Atl. States, Col., Calif.,
Can., Mex., Cent, and S. Am., Eur., Asia, etc., embracing principal groups rind
genera of rarest and other species; all expanded ready for collection, correctly
named with exact locality. Lepidoptera also gratuitously identified. For
particulars, address Dr. HERMAN STRECKER, P. 0. Box 311, Reading, Penna.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

I have a good supply of Eastern Coleoptera, which I desire to exchange
for species not in my collection. Melandryidse and Oedemerida- espe-
cially desired. — Joe. C. Thompson, Box 73, Kosebank 1*. O., S. I., N. Y.

COLEOPTKRA and LEPIDOPTERA to exchange. — Aphodius phalerioides,
Blcpliarida rhois, Strigodcnna p\'x»ura, Dryocainpa mhicnnda. /'aiii-
phila panoquiii, Cithcronia regalis and many other good things. — }'hili|)
Laurent, 1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

I have for exchange fine specimens of Zcuzera ccscnli, only recently
found in America, also of E. iinperia/is. Would like Catocalas, L. ini-
perialis var. didyina, or western Colias. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison
Avenue, New York City.

LEPIDOPTEKA from Central America and India offered for Northwestern
LEPIDOPTEKA. — Levi W. Mengel, 620 Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

I have a large number of duplicate North American COLEOPTERA and
desire to exchange for species not in my collection. Correspondence and
exchange lists solicited. — Chas. Liebeck, Ent. Sec. A. N. S., Phila., Pa.

COLEOPTERA of North America in exchange for American and exotic-
species not in my collection. — Alva H. Kilman, Ridgeway, Ontario, Can.

COLEOPTERA of North America in exchange for specimens of same not
in iwy collection. Send lists and desiderata to W. M. Hill, 143 Cook St.,
East Liverpool, Ohio.

DIPTERA wanted from all parts of N. A. Will collect in exchange any
desired order or group in this vicinity. — J. M. Aldrich, Brookings, S. D.

COCOONS and pupae of the rarer Bombycids, etc., hina and aii^iilifcra ;
also a few bred cocoons of the very rare .S". Columbia and A. inylitta.—
Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. V. NVw Windsor delivery,

WANTED. — Odonata (Dragonflies) from all parts of the world, especially
Complins from northern Illinois. North American Odonata named and
exchanged. — Philip P. Calvert, Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Named or unnamed Tachinida.- wanted in exchange or for study, from
any part of N. Am., Mex., Cent. Am and W. Indies. Bred material par-
ticularly desired. — C. H. Tyler Tovvnsend, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

Hymenoptera (Aculeata). I desire to exchange in this Order. Ameri-
can species given in exchange for exotic. Will name specimens for du-
plicates.— Win. J. Fox, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Pa.

Live larva? and pupa- and papered imagos of I'aphia troglodita, Colias
cczsoiiia, Triptogou inodesta, Daremma undulosa, Smerinthusgetninatus,
etc., usually for exchange. — R. R. Rowley, Curryville, Pike Co., Mo.

rainphila aaroni and many other rare species for exchange. Send list
of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan Square. Phila., Pa.

COLEOPTERA' for exchange. — Phymaphora pulchclla, JMycctiua pcr-
pn/clira, Ips co uflucntus ami many other good species in perfect condi-
tion. EndomychicUe, Lepturcu and Cicindelida\ especially desired. — Lee
B. Walton, Jr.', Kenka College, Yates Co., N. Y.

ORTHOPTERA of northeastern I'nited States and provinces. Acridicku
and N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.
—Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, \\Vlleslcy, Mass.

CHRVSALIUS <>f undiilosa, iiisci'iptiou. modesta,juglandis, ;;/r<>/\, iinpc-
rictlis, ncssus, hv/it"iis. and many more; also Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
for exchange. — H. Mceske, 315 \\"ychol'f Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

WANTED. — Price-lists of Coleoptera. — }. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Co-
lumbiana, O.

Have a lot of line l\-t'rt>piii cocoons which I wish to exchange for co-
coons or pupa- of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera. — lames Tonsil,
236 S. Water St., Chicago, "ill.

I desire to exchange cocoons of Sarnie? cynthia, Tclca polyphcnnts and
Attacus cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs. — 1". W. (ilover.
Whitman, Mass.

P C. SfoCKHflusEN. ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTEH 55 N. 7TH ST . PHILA , PA

Entomological Forceps.

No. I— Half Size.

No. 2— Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 | No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

mSIKiFKCTIKJG CO3MES FOR ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINETS.

Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

ENTOMOLOGICAL RECORD BOOKS.

These books are ruled in columns with appropriate headings, and contain
200 pages 12 x 10 inches, having room for 4,600 entries. Bound in cloth. Suitable
also for recording collections of birds, etc. Price each, $2.00.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

COLEOPTERA OF THE PACIFIC COAST FOR SALE.

Send for my new price-list. Many new things. Also a list of fine Mexican
beetles, and a small list of choice Lepidoptera.

f$jg~ As a special offer to young entomologists, I will send 150 species, four
specimens of each, 600 in all, correctly named California beetles for ten dollars.

L. E. RICKSECKER, Santa Rosa, Cal.

$8000 worth of Indian butterflies for sale, single or in lots. Prices from
25 cents to 125.00. All specimens in first-class condition, folded, in paper, or
with spread wings. Price-list sent free on application.

LOUIS PIO,

640 N. Hoyne Avenue, Chicago, 111.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Pins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Ashland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

DR. 0. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS,

BLASEWITZ-DRESDEN, GERMANY.

In our price-list No. xxxv, we offer more than i r,ooo species of well-named
LEPIDOPTERA (set or in papers, all in the finest condition) from all parts of the
world, also in lots or series; 850 kinds of prepared larvce, and in our List x more
than 13,000 species of COLEOPTERA. Also OTHER INSECTS and fine SHELLS
for sale.

VOL III. No. 3.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

MARCH, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALVERT.

PHILADELPHIA :

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the A. N. S. of Philadelphia,

published by the Entomological Section of the Philadelphia Academy, with the
endorsement of the American Entomological Society, and with the aid of an
annual grant made by that Society.

It will be published monthly, excepting July and August, and will contain
not less than 200 pages per annum. It will maintain no free-list whatever,
but will leave no measure untried to make it a necessity to every student of
insect life, so that its very moderate annual subscription may be considered
well spent.

Annual subscription $x.oo, in advance.

Exchanges and works for review solicited.

ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate of 75 cents per inch, single insertion;
a liberal discount on insertions for 3 months or longer. No advertisement
taken for less than 50 cents. ggf Cash in advance.

All remittances should be addressed to E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer,
P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa. ; all other communications to the Editor of EN-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Logan Square, Phila., Pa., U S. A.

M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.,

Taxidermist and dealer in Natural History specimens and supplies, Minerals,
Birds' Eggs and Skins. Importer of KLAEGER PINS No. oo to 5 in papers of 500
each; No. 6 and upwards in papers of 250 each. Sent post-paid to any part of
the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand. Assorted pins in broken
lots at $1.25 per thousand. To colleges and other parties ordering in large
quantities I request the privilege of making special rates. Send stamp for
catalogue of Naturalists' Supplies.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA.

The following portions of the " Biologia Central!- Americana" are offered for
sale separately: — AVES: ist vol. complete, price 170 francs; 2d vol. in course of
publication. REPTILIA, in course. MOLLUSCA terre stria and fluviatilia, in
course. ARACHNIDA, in course. COLEOPTERA: Pectinicornia and Lamflli-
cornia, one volume complete, price 135 francs; Eroty/idcz, in course; Rhyncho-
phora, in course. RHYNCOTA-HOMOPTERA, in course. DIPTERA, in course.
Address, Mdme Ed. Andre, ar boulevard Bretonniere, a Beau ne (Cote-d'Or),
France.

North American diurnal lepidoptera collected by Mr.

E. M. Aaron. This collection is arranged, and con-
tains over three hundred and twenty-five correctly named species, numbering
about twelve hundred specimens, not including eight hundred Hesperida* which
may be disposed of separately if so desired. Also rare works on entomology.

Address : C. B. AARON, 910 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

Lepidoptera from Central America and India offered for Northwestern
LEPIDOPTEKA. — Levi W. Mengel, 620 Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

Coleoptera. — I have a large number of duplicate N. Am. species and
desire to exchange for species not in my collection. Correspondence and
exchange lists solicited.- — Chas. Liebeck, Ent. Sec. A. N. S., Phila., Pa.

Goleoptera of North America in exchange for American and exotic
species not in my collection. — Alva H. Kilman, Ridgeway, Ontario, Can.

Coleoptera of North America in exchange for specimens of same not
in my collection. Send lists and desiderata to W. M. Hill, 143 Cook St.,
East Liverpool, Ohio.

Diptera wanted from all parts of N. A. Will collect in exchange any
desired order or group in this vicinity. — J. M. Aldrich, Brookings, S. D.

Cocoons and pupa? of the rarer Bombycids, etc., Inna and angulifera ;
also a few bred cocoons of the very rare 6". Columbia and A. mylitta.—
Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. New Windsor delivery.

Neuroptera. — Odonata (Dragonflies) wanted from all parts of the world,
especially GoDiphus from northern Illinois. N. Am. Odonata named and
exchanged. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Diptera. — Named or unnamed Tachinidae wanted in exchange or for
study, from any part of N. Am., Mex., Cent. Am. and W. Indies. Bred
material particularly desired. — C. H. T. Townsend, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

Hymenoptera (Aculeata). I desire to exchange in this Order. Ameri-
can species given in exchange for exotic. Will name specimens for du-
plicates.— Wm. j. Fox, Academy of Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Live larvae and pupae and papered images of l\iph. trog-
lodita, Col. ccesonia, Trip, inodesta, Dar. midnlosa, Smer. geniinatus, etc.,
usually for exchange. — R. R. Rowley, Curryville, Pike Co., Mo.

Lepidoptera. — Pamphila aaroni and many other rare species for ex-
change. Send list of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan
Square, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera for exchange; many good species in perfect condition. En-
clomychidae, Leptura; and Cicindelidas, especially desired. — Lee B. -Walton,
jr., Kenka College, Yates Co., N. Y.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididae and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Chrysalids of nndulosa, inscriptum, modes/a, juglandis, inyops, iuipc-
n'a/is, fiessus, hyltrus, and many more; also Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
for exchange. — H. Meeske, 315 Wychoff Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — }. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of line Cccropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupa? of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Samia cynthia, Tclca
polyphemns and Attacus cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T. W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacns Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert II.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — Correspondence solicited from those having J)rasleria
erichto in collections. Bred specimens of erichlo to exchange for other
Dnistcria.— M. Y. Slingerland, Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larva- from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake Yiew, Chicago, 111.

P. C. STOCKHAUSEN, ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER, 55 N. ?TH ST , PHILA., PA.

Entomological Forceps.

No. 2— Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2. 50 No. 2, Price Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

DISUHKECTIIVG CONES FOR. EHiXOMOI^OGICAI* CABINETS.

Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

$2.50
1-25

•25
3.00
i.oo

•50

IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.

Classification of Coleoptera of N. Am. by LeConte and Horn, 567 pp. 1883.
List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mex., by Samuel Henshaw, 1885 .

First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each
Synopsis of Hymenoptera of America N. of Mex., by E. T. Cresson, 1887.
Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by Prof. J. B. Smith, 1891.
Check List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera of N. Am., by P. R. Uhler, 1886 .
Price Lists on application. GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Rare Cocoons For Exchange.

I have a few fine healthy cocoons of the rare Callosamia angii/ifera moth
to exchange. Also cocoons of hybrid Columbia and cecropia. Send for my
exchange lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

LEPIDOPTERA WANTED.

Price Lists wanted of named specimens of the Lepidoptera of the world.
Will also consider exchange lists. Address :

I. C. MARTINDALE,

CAMDEN NATIONAL BANK,

CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Pins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Ashland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

VOL III. No.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

— o-

APRIL, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHII.II- P. CALVERT.

_ A

PHILADELPHIA :

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

Lepidoptera from Central America and India offered for Northwestern
LEPIDOPTERA. — Levi W. Mengel, 620 Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

Coleoptera. — I have a large number of duplicate N. Am. species and
desire to exchange for species not in my collection. Correspondence and
exchange lists solicited. — Chas. Liebeck, Ent. Sec. A. N. S., Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera of North America in exchange for American and exotic-
species not in my collection. — Alva H. Kilman, Ridgeway, Ontario, Can.

Goleoptera of North America in exchange for specimens of same not
in rny collection. Send lists and desiderata to W. M. Hill, 143 Cook St.,
East Liverpool, Ohio.

Diptera wanted from all parts of N. A. Will collect in exchange any
desired order or group in this vicinity. — J. M. Aldrich, Brookings, S. D.

Cocoons and pupa; of the rarer Bombycids, etc., lima and angulifera ;
also a few bred cocoons of the very rare .S". Columbia and A. mylitta.—
Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. New Windsor delivery.

Neuroptera. — Odonata (Dragonflies) wanted from all parts of the world,
especially Goniphusfcom northern Illinois. N. Am. Odonata named and
exchanged. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Diptera. — Named or unnamed Tachinidas wanted in exchange or for
study, from any part of N. Am., Mex., Cent. Am. and W. Indies. Bred
material particularly desired. — C. H. T. Townsend, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

Hymenpptera (Aculeata). I desire to exchange in this Order. Ameri-
can species given in exchange for exotic. Will name specimens for du-
plicates.— Wm. J. Fox, Academy of Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Live larvae and pupae and papered images of Paph. trog-
lodita, Col. ccesonia, Trip, modesta, Dar. unditlosa, Snier. gcmi/iatns, etc.,
usually for exchange. — R. R. Rowley, Curry ville, Pike Co., Mo.

Lepidoptera. — Pamphila aaroni and many other rare species for ex-
change. Send list of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan
Square, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera for exchange; many good species in perfect condition. En-
domychidse, Leptune and Cicindelidae, especially desired. — Lee B. Walton,
Jr., Kenka College, Yates Co., N. Y.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididae and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of line Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupae of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Sainia cynthia, Telea
polyphemus and Attacus cccropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T. W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — Correspondence solicited from those having Drastena
erichto in collections. Bred specimens of crichio to exchange for other
Drasteria. — M. Y. Slingerland, Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larva- from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake- Yiew, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuida- named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — ]ohn 15. Smith, Ne\v Brunswick, N. J.

Hymeiioptera, especially Bees of U. S. and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — Wm. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

(Continued cm third |>a>;x- <>!' cover.)

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Ca/. amatri.v, C. parta and Heinaris thy she
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygaenids set or
papered. — Dr. R. E. Kunze", 606 Third Ave., New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, PI u si a balluca, tnefalliica and ampha; also the
Hydnccias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.,

Taxidermist and dealer in Natural History specimens and supplies, Minerals,
Birds' Eggs and Skins. Importer of KLAEGER PINS No. oo to § in papers of 500
each; No. 6 and upwards in papers of 250 each. Sent post-paid to any part of
the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand. Assorted pins in broken
lots at $1.25 per thousand. To colleges and other parties ordering in large
quantities I request the privilege of making special rates. Send stamp for
catalogue of Naturalists' Supplies.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA.

The following portions of the " Biologia Centrali-Americana" are offered for
sale separately: — AVES: ist vol. complete, price 170 francs; 2d vol. in course of
publication. REPTILIA, in course. MOLLUSCA terrestria and fluviatilia, in
course. ARACHNIDA, in course. COLEOPTERA: Pectinicornia and Lainelli-
cornia, one volume complete, price 135 francs; Erotylidce, in course; Rhyncho-
phora, in course. RHVNCOTA-HOMOPTKRA, in course. DIPTERA, in course.
Address, Mdme Ed. Andre, 2f boulevard Bretonniere, a Beaune (Cote-d'Or),
France.

CftD Q A | IT North American diurnal lepidoptera collected by Mr.
• "•• Or^Lt. 2, M. Aaron. This collection is arranged, and con-
tains over three hundred and twenty-five correctly named species, numbering
about twelve hundred specimens, not including eight hundred Hesperida- which
may be disposed of separately if so desired. Also rare works on entomology.

Address : C. B. AARON, »1IJ Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

DR. 0. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS,

BLASEWITZ-DRESDEN, GERMANY.

In our price-list No. xxxv, we offer more than 11,000 species of wt 11-named
LEPIDOPTERA (set or in papers, all in the finest condition) fromx all parts of the
world, also in lots or series; 850 kinds of prepared larva1, and in our List X ni<>n
than 13,000 species of COLEOPTEKA. Also OTHER INSECTS and fun- SHKI.I.S
for sale.

JLEPIDOPTICRA. — For disposal, fine set and unset specimens from
India, Japan, Congo Free State, Mombosa, Madagascar, South Africa, Bornro
and various Pacific islands. Correspondents \\ill oblige by stating class of de-
siderata. A number of British specimens offered in exchange for AIIKTH -,in.

Dr. KEKI), Jr., IJjhope, near Siinderlaud, Kii

P C. STOCKHAUSEN. ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER 55 N. 7TH ST , PHILA PA.

Entomological Forceps,

No. 2— Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 | No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

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Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.

$2.50

1-25

•25

3.00

I.OO

•50

Classification of Coleoptera of N. Am. by LeConte and Horn, 567 pp. 1883.
List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mex., by Samuel Henshaw, 1885

First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each
Synopsis of Hymenoptera of America N. of Mex., by E. T. Cresson, 1887.
Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by Prof. ]. P>. Smith, 1891.
Check List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera of N. Am., by P. R. Uhler, 1886 .

Price Lists on application. GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. 0. Box 24S, Philadelphia. Pa.

Rare Cocoons For Exchange.

I have a few fine healthy cocoons of the rare Callosaiitia angulifera moth
to exchange. Also cocoons of hybrid Columbia and cecropla. Send for my
exchange lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

LEPIDOPTER/r WANTED.

Price Lists wanted of named specimens of the Lepidoptera of the world.
Will also consider exchange lists. Address :

I. C. MARTINDALE,

CAMDEN NATIONAL BANK,

CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Tins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Ashland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

VOL III. No. 5.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

-o-

MAY, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHII.IP P. CALVERT.

O —

PHILADELPHIA :

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.-

Neuroptera. — Odonata (Dragonflies) wanted from all parts of the world,
especially Gomphus from northern Illinois. N. Am. Odonata named and
exchanged. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Diptera. — Named or unnamed Tachlnidse wanted in exchange or for
study, from any part of N. Am., Mex., Cent. Am. and W. Indies. Bred
material particularly desired. — C. H. T. Townsend, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

Hymenpptera (Aculeata). I desire to exchange in this Order. Ameri-
can species given in exchange for exotic. Will name specimens for du-
plicates.— Wm. J. Fox, Academy of Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Live larvae and pupae and papered images of Paph. trog-
lodita, Col. ccesonia, Trip, inodesta, Dar. itndnlosa, Snier. geminatus, etc.,
usually for exchange. — R. R. Rowley, Curry ville, Pike Co., Mo.

Lepidoptera. — Painphila aaroni and many other rare species for ex-
change. Send list of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan
Square, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera for exchange; many good species in perfect condition. En-
domychida?, Lepturae and Cicindelidae, especially desired. — Lee B. Walton,
Jr., Kenka College, Yates Co., N. Y.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididae and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of fine Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupa? of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Samia cynthia, Telea
polyphemiis and Attacus cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T. W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptt-ra, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Enc/idia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidse or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Hymenoptera, especially Bees of U. S. and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — \Vm. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Cat. amatri.r, C. parfa and Hemaris thysbe
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygaenids set or
papered. — Dr. R. E. Kunze, 606 Third Ave., New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, J^Insia ballnca, nictalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed. -
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viil or fil arete, Bucarest. Roumania.

External Animal Parasites. — Liberal exchanges during coming season in
Colorado insects, for Mallophaga, Pediculi and Fleas, especially the latter.
Correspondence solicited. — C. F. Baker, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometrida.' from all parts of the world;
Euro] H -an given in exchange. — Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

(Continued on third page of cover.)

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, live cocoons of Attacus Gloveri and Attaciis
ccanothi. Will purchase or give in exchange Chiouobas seiuiJea and other
White Mountain material. — H. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Avenue, N. Y.

ADVERTISING RATES.

Ten cents per line, Brevier measurement (nine lines to an inch) each inser-
tion. Cash in advance. No advertisment taken for less than fifty cents. A
liberal discount on insertions for three months or longer. Address:

E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer, P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

COLEOPTERA FOE, SALE.

A collection of Coleoptera of the United States comprising nearly 5000
named species in good condition, arranged in 36 book-shaped wooden boxes.
For particulars address

E. SEEBER, 939 S. Second Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.,

Taxidermist and dealer in Natural History specimens and supplies, Minerals,
Birds' Eggs and Skins. Importer of KLAEGER PINS No. oo to 5 in papers of 500
each; No. 6 and upwards in papers of 250 each. Sent post-paid to any part of
the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand. Assorted pins in broken
lots at $1.25 per thousand. To colleges and other parties ordering in large
quantities I request the privilege of making special rates. Send stamp for
catalogue of Naturalists' Supplies.

O A I C North American diurnal lepidoptera collected by Mr.

Or"lL»t. E. M. Aaron. This collection is arranged, and con-
tains over three hundred and twenty-five correctly named species, numbering
about twelve hundred specimens, not including eight hundred Hesperidce which
may be disposed of separately if so desired. Also rare works on entomology.

Address : C. B. AARON, 9KJ Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

DR. 0. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS~

BLASEWITZ-DRESDEN, GERMANY.

In our price-list No. xxxv, we offer more than 11.000 species of well-named
LEPIDOPTERA (set or in papers, all in the finest condition) from all parts of the
world, also in lots or series; 850 kinds of prepared larva-, and in our List X more
than 13,000 species of COLKOPTEKA. Also OTHER INSECTS and fine SMKI.I.S
for sale.

JLTCPIDOPTKRA. — For disposal, line set and unset specimens From
India, Japan, Congo Free State, Mombosa, Madagascar, Smith Africa, Borneo
and various Pacific islands. Correspondents will oblige by stating class of de-
siderata. A number of British specimens offered in exchange for American.

Dr. I.TIiD. Jr., Hyhope, ne:ir Smiileriaml, Kn^Iaud.

P C. STOCKHAUSEN. ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER. 55 N. ?TH ST . PHILA. PA.

Entomological Forceps.

No. 2— Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 | No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

DISINFECTING CONES FOR ENTOMOI^OGICAI, CABINETS.

Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.

Classification of Coleoptera of N. Am. by LeConte and Horn, 567 pp. 1883. $2.50

List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mex., by Samuel Henshaw, 1885 . 1.25

First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each . .25

Synopsis of Hymenoptera of America N. of Mex., by E. T. Cresson, 1887. 3.00

Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by Prof. J. B. Smith, 1891. i.oo

Check List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera of N. Am., by P. R. Uhler, 1886 . .50

Price Lists on application. GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Rare Cocoons For Exchange.

I have a few fine healthy cocoons of the rare Callosamia angiilifera moth
to exchange. Also cocoons of hybrid Columbia and cecropia. Send for my
exchange lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

[ETiDOPTERA WANTED.

Price Lists wanted of named specimens of the Lepidoptera of the world.
Will also consider exchange lists. Address :

I. C. MARTINDALE,

CAMDEN NATIONAL BANK,

CAMDEN, SEW JERSEY.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Pins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Ashland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

JUNE, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GKO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALVERT.

PHILADELPHIA :

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

Hymenoptera (Aculeata). I desire to exchange in this Order. Ameri-
can species given in exchange for exotic. Will name specimens for du-
plicates.— Wm. J. Fox, Academy of Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Live larvae and pupae and papered images of Paph. trog-
lodifa, Col. c&sonia, Trip, inodesta, Dar. undulosa, Siner. geminatus, etc.,
usually for exchange. — R. R. Rowley, Curryville, Pike Co., Mo.

Lepidoptera. — Patnphild aaroni and many other rare species for ex-
change. Send list of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan
Square, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera for exchange; many good species in perfect condition. En-
domychidae, Lepturae and Cicindelidae, especially desired. — Lee B. Walton,
Jr., Kenka College, Yates Co., N. Y.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididse and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Goleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of fine Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupae of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Samia cynthia, Telea
Polyphemus and Attacus cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T. W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Eitc/idia, Drastcria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — \Yanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. j. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuida_> named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Hymenoptera, especially Bees of U. S. and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — Wm. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Cat. aniafri.v, C. par/a and Heinaris thysbe
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygaenids set or
papered.— Dr. R. E. Kunze, 606 Third Ave., New York City,

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Pliisia balluca, mctalliica and auipha; also the
Hvdnecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest. Roumania.

External Animal Parasites.— Liberal exchanges during coming season in
Colorado insects, for Mallophaga, Pediculi and Fleas, especially the latter.
Correspondence solicited. — C. F. Baker, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Lepidoptera wanted/ especially Geotnetrida- from all parts of the world;
European given in exchange. — Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (I'rof. F '. II. Sno\\-'s collecting!
for Caddice-llies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, I'niv. of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

(Continued fin third page of cover.)

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, live cocoons of Atlacns Glovcri and Atlacns
ceaiiot/ii. Will purchase or give in exchange Chionobas seinidca and other
White Mountain material. — H. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Avenue, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I offer European species in exchange for American, espe-
cially Spningidae and Catocalas. — A. Voelschow, Schwerin in Meckl., Ger.

ADVERTISING RATES.

Ten cents per line, Brevier measurement (nine lines to an inch) each inser-
tion. Cash in advance. No .advertisment taken for less than fifty cents. A
liberal discount on insertions for three months or longer. Address:

E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer, P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

COLEOPTEEA FOR SALE.

A collection of Coleoptera of the United States comprising nearly 5000
named species in good condition, arranged in 36 hook-shaped wooden boxes.
For particulars address

E. SEEBER, 939 S. Second Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.,

Taxidermist and dealer in Natural History specimens and supplies, Minerals,
Birds' Eggs and Skins Importer of KLAEGER PINS No. oo to 5 in papers of 500
each; No. 6 and upwards in papers of 250 each. Sent post-paid to any part of
the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand. Assorted pins in broken
lots at $1.25 per thousand. To colleges and other parties ordering in large
quantities I request the privilege of making special rates. Send stamp for
catalogue of Naturalists' Supplies.

INSECTS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF CANADA FOR SALE.

I will collect during Summer of 1892 on the mountains of the central range
in the vicinity of Laggan and Hector (Canadian Pacific Railway), at summit
of Kicking Horse Pass, and at high elevations in the Bow Valley. Will give
special attention to alpine work and collect all orders of insects for which there
is request. Several orders wanted for fine series of the Macrolepidopter.t
Price 125.00. Satisfaction guaranteed.

For full information address me at Field Post Office, British Columbia.

THOS. E. BEAX.

DR. 0. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS^

BLASEWITZ-DRESDEN. GERMANY.

In our price-list No. xxxv, we offer more than 11.000 species of well-named
LEPIDOPTEKA (set or in papers, all in the finest condition 'i from all parts of the
world, also in lots or series; N,SO kinds of pn-p.n. d larvae, and in our List X ni>
than 13,000 species of COLKOPTKRA. Also OTHER INSECTS and fine Sm.i.i.s
for sale.

L13PIDOPTERA. — For disposal, fine set and unset S] ns In/in

India, Japan; Congo Free State, Mombosa, Madagascar, South Africa, Pol-
and various Pacific islands. Correspondents will oblige by stating class of de-
siderata. A number of British specimens offered in exchange for American.

Dr. REED, Jr., Ryhopo. near SmidcrlniHl, Ki

P. C. STOCKHAUSEN. ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER 55 N. 7TH ST , PHILA PA.

Entomological Forceps.

No. 2— Half Size. I

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 | No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

niSHNEEC'TIIHG COT^ES* FOR ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINETS.

Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

mOLOGIA^ENTRALI-AMERICANA.

The following portions of the " Biologia Centrali-Americana" are offered for
sale separately: — AVES: ist vol. complete, price 170 francs; 2d vol. in course of
publication. REPTILIA, in course. MOLLUSCA terre stria and flnviatilia, in
course. ARACHNIDA, in course. COLEOPTERA: Pectinicornia and LanicUi-
cornia, one volume complete, price 135 francs; Erotylidtz, in course; Rhyncho-
phora, in course. RHYNCOTA-HOMOPTERA, in course. DIPTERA, in course.
Address, Mdme Ed. Andre, 21 boulevard Bretonniere, a Beaune (Cote-d'Or),
France.

Rare Cocoons For Exchange.

I have a few fine healthy cocoons of the rare Callosamia angulifera moth
to exchange. Also cocoons of hybrid Columbia and cccropia. Send for my
exchange lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

LEPIDOPTERA~WANTED.

Price Lists wanted of named specimens of the Lepidoptera of the world.
Will also consider exchange lists. Address :

I. C. MARTINDALE,

CAMDEN NATIONAL BANK,

CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Pins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Ashland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

VOL. in. No. 7.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

o

SEPTEMBER, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, 1VT.D. CHARLES A. BLAKH.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALVKRT.

PHILADELPHIA :
ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF
* THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,
LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

Hymenoptera (Aculeata). I desire to exchange in this Order. Ameri-
can species given in exchange for exotic. Will name specimens for du-
plicates.— Wm. J. Fox, Academy of Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Live larvae and pupae and papered images of Paph. trog-
lodita, Col. ccssonia, Trip, mo'desta, Dar. undulosa, Snier. geminatits, etc.,
usually for exchange. — R. R. Rowley, Curryville, Pike Co., Mo.

Lepidoptera. — Pauiphila aaroni and many other rare species for ex-
change. Send list of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan
Square, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera for exchange; many good species in perfect condition. En-
domychidae, Lepturae and Cicindelidae, especially desired. — Lee B. Walton,
Jr., Kenka College, Yates Co., N. Y.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acridida and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of fine Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupae of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Sainia cynthia, Telea
polyphemus and Attacus cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T. W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V '. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Hymenoptera, especially Bees of U. S. and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — Wm. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

Goleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Cat. amatrix, C. parfa and Hemaris thysbe
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygaenids set or
papered. — Dr. R. E. Kunze", 606 Third Ave., New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia ba/hica, nictalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera aiid Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania. offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed. —
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest Roumania.

External Animal Parasites.— Liberal exchanges during coming season in
Colorado insects, for Mallophaga, Pediculi and Fleas, especially the latter.
Correspondence solicited. — C. F. Baker, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometrida? from all parts of the world;
European given in exchange. — Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
, for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Vernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

(Continued on third page of cover.

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, live cocoons of Attacus Gloveri and Attacus
ccanothi. \\Till purchase or give in exchange Chionobas scmidea and other
White Mountain material. — H. Ottolengui, 1/5 Madison Avenue, N. Y.

Lepidoptera.— I offer European species in exchange for American, espe-
cially Sphingidae and Catocalas. — A. Yoelschow, Schwenn in Meckl., Ger.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadata
doublcdayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidae and Lima-
codid;e. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted m exchange, especially Bombycidse and Noctuidae
from all parts of the United States. — Harry W. Foote, Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, New Haven, Conn.

Coieoptera. — Coleoptera to exchange for Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,
Odonata, aquatic Hemiptera and entomological literature. Cicindelida;,
Cerambycidae, Meloidae, especially desired. — W. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam,
Wis.

Coleoptera. — For exchange: Scarabaeidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinida; and
Hydrophilidae, especially desired. — Ralph Hopping, Redstone Park,
Kaweah, Cal.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

ADVERTISING RATES.

Ten cents per line, Brevier measurement (nine lines to an inch) each inser-
tion. Cash in advance. No advertisment taken for less than fifty cents. A
liberal discount on insertions for three months or longer. Address:

E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer, P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.,

Taxidermist and dealer in Natural History specimens and supplies, Minerals,
Birds' Eggs and Skins Importer of KLAEGER PINS No. oo to 5 in papers of 500
each; No. 6 and upwards in papers of 250 each. Sent post-paid to any part of
the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand. Assorted pins in broken
lots at $1.25 per thousand. To colleges and other parties ordering in large
quantities I request the privilege of making special rates. Send stamp for
catalogue of Naturalists' Supplies.

DR. 0. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS,

BLASEWITZ-DRESDEN, GERMANY.

In our price-list No. xxxv, we offer more than 11,000 species of well-named
LEPIDOPTERA (set or in papers, all in the finest condition) from all parts of the
world, also in lots or series; 850 kinds of prepared larvae, and in our List X more
than 13,000 species of COLEOPTERA. Also OTHER INSECTS and fine SHELLS
for sale.
. — — .

LKPIDOPTERA. — For disposal, fine set and unset specimens from
India, Japan, Congo Free State, Mombosa, Madagascar, South Africa, Bonieo
and various Pacific islands. Correspondents will oblige by stating class of de-
siderata. A number of British specimens offered in exchange for American.

Dr. REED, Jr., Ryhope, near Sumlcrlaml, England.

P. C. STOOKHAOSEN. ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER 55 N. ?TH ST , PHILA. PA.

Entomological Forceps.

No 2-HalfSize.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 | No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

COBJES FOR ENTOMOLOGICAL, CABINETS.

Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.

12.50

1.25

•25

3.00

I.OO

.50

Classification of Coleoptera of N. Am. by LeConte and Horn, 567 pp. 1883.
List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mex., by Samuel Henshaw, 1885

First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each
Synopsis of Hymenoptera of America N. of Mex., by E. T. Cresson, 1887.
Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by Prof. ]. B. Smith, 1891.
Check List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera of N. Am., by P. R. Uhler, 1886 .
Price Lists on application. GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Rare Cocoons For Exchange.

I have a few fine healthy cocoons of the rare Callosamia angulifera moth
to exchange. Also cocoons of hybrid co/mnbia and cecropia. Send for my
exchange lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

LEPIDOPTERA WANTED.

Price Lists wanted of named specimens of the Lepidoptera of the world.
Will also consider exchange lists. Address :

I. C. MABTINDALE,

CAMDEN NATIONAL BANK,

CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Pins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Ashland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

VOL III. No. 8.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

-o-

OCTOBER, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALVERT.

PHILADELPHIA:

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

Lepidoptera. — Live larvae and pupae and papered images of Paph. trog-
lodita, Col. ctzsonia, Trip, modesta, Dar. undulosa, Stner. geminatus, etc.,*
usually for exchange. — R. R. Rowley, Curryville, Pike Co., Mo.

Lepidoptera. — Pamphi/a aaroni and many other rare species for ex-
change. Send list of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan
Square, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera for exchange; many good species in perfect condition. En-
domychidae, Lepturae and Cicindelidae, especially desired. — Lee R. Walton,
Jr., Kenka College, Yates Co., N. Y.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididae and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Coieoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of fine Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupae of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Samia cynthia, Telca
polyphenins and Attacns cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T . W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euc/idia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. Y. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake Yiew, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Hymenoptera, especially Bees of U. 5^ and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — Win. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Cat. ainatri.r, C. parta and Hcinaris thysbe
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygaenids set or
papered. — Dr. R. E. Kunze", 606 Third Ave., New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Phisia balluca, mctalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometricke from all parts of the world;
European given in exchange. — Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Coleoptera. — Coleoptera to exchange for Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,
Odonata, aquatic Hemiptera and entomological literature. Cicindelidae,
Cerambycidae, Meloida-, especially desired. — W. E. Snyder. Ik-aver Dam,
Wis.

Lepidoptera.— I offer European species in exchange for American, espe-
cially Sphingiikc and Catocalas. — A. Voelschow, Schwerm in Meckl., Ger.

(Continued on third page of cover..1

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Arada/a
doubledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidse and Lima-
codidjc. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted in exchange, especially Bombycidae and Noctukkt
from all parts of the United States. — Harry W. Foote, Agricultural Kx-
periment Station, New Haven, Conn.

Coleoptera. — For exchange: Scarabaeidce, Dytiscidce, Gyrinidce and
Hydrophilidae, especially desired. — Ralph Hopping, Redstone Park.
Kaweah, Cal.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. semidca, A. montanus, S. modesta
(imagos and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidae preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Correspondence desired with amateur entomologists. — Wm. Wingrove
Bathon, Aberdeen, Md.

Celeoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

ADVERTISING RATES.

Ten cents per line, Brevier measurement (nine lines to an inch) each inser-
tion. Cash in advance. No advertisment taken for less than fifty cents. A
liberal discount on insertions for three months or longer. Address:

E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer, P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.,

Taxidermist and dealer in Natural History specimens and supplies, Minerals.
Birds' Eggs and Skins Importer of KLAEGER PINS No. oo to 5 in papers of 500
each; No. 6 and upwards in papers of 250 each. Sent post-paid to any part of
the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand. Assorted pins in broken
lots at $1.25 per thousand. To colleges and other parties ordering in large
quantities I request the privilege of making special rates. Send stamp lor
catalogue of Naturalists' Supplies.

DR. 0. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS,

BLASEWITZ-DRESDEN, GERMANY.

In our price-list No. xxxv, we offer more than 11,000 species of well-named
LEPIDOPTERA (set or in papers, all in the finest condition) from all parts of the
world, also in lots or series; 850 kinds of prepared larva.-, and in our List X UK ire
than 13,000 species of COLEOPTEKA. Also OTHER INSECTS and fine SHKI.I.S
for sale.

LEPIDOPTEKA. — For disposal, fine set and unset specimens from
India, japan, Congo Free State, Mombosa, Madagascar, South Africa, Borneo
and various Pacific islands. Correspondents will oblige by stating class of de-
iiderata. A number of British specimens offered in exchange for American.

Dr. REED, Jr., Ryhope, near Snwlerlaiul, England.

P. C. STOCKHAUSEN. ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER 55 N. 7TH ST , PHILA. PA.

Entomological Forceps.

No 2— Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 | No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

DISINFECTING CONES FOR ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINETS.

Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.

$2.50

1-25

•25

3.00

I.OO

.50

Classification of Coleoptera of N. Am. by LeConte and Horn, 567 pp. 1883.
List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mex., by Samuel Henshaw, 1885

First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each
Synopsis of Mymenoptera of America N. of Mex., by E. T. Cresson, 1887.
Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by Prof. J. B. Smith, 1891.
Check List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera of N. Am., by P. R. Uhler, 1886 .
Price Lists on application. GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Rare Cocoons For Exchange.

I have a few fine healthy cocoons of the rare Callosamia angulifcra moth
to exchange. Also cocoons of hybrid Columbia and cecropia. Send for my
exchange lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

LEPJDOPTERA WANTED.

Price Lists wanted of named specimens of the Lepidoptera of the world.
Will also consider exchange lists. Address :

I. C. MAKTINDAL.E,

CAM DEN NATIONAL BANK,

CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Pins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Ashland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

VOL. III. No. 9.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

NOVEMBER, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GKO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BI.AKK.

KZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CAI.VKR i .

PHILADELPHIA:

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OK

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

Lepidoptera. — Painphila aaroni and many other rare species for ex-
change. Send list of duplicates to H. Skinner, Acad. Nat. Sci., Logan
Square, Phila., Pa.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididae and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Goleoptera. — Price-lists wanted.— J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of fine Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupce of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Samia cynthia, Telea
polyphemns and Attacus cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T. W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought:, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvse from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera.— Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Hymenoptera, especially Bees of U. S. and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — Wm. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Cat. aniafri.v, C. parta and Hemaris thysbc
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygaenids set or
papered. — Dr. R. E. Kunze, 606 Third Ave., New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia balluca, metalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Goleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometridae from all parts of the world;
European given in exchange. — Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Coleoptera.— Coleoptera to exchange for Coleoptera, Hymenopttra,
Odonata, aquatic Hemiptera and entomological literature. Cicindelida-,
Cerambycidas, Meloidse, especially desired. — W. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam,
Wis.

Lepidoptera.— I offer European species in exchange for American, espe-
cially Sphingidae and Catocalas. — A. Voelschow, Schwenn in Meckl., Ger.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadata
doublcdayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidce ami Lima-
codidre. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted in exchange, especially Bombycidse and Noctuidse
from all parts of the United States. — Harry W. Foote, Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, New Haven, Conn.

(Continued on third page of cover.;

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Coleoptera. — For exchange: Scarabaeidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinida? and
Hydrophilida?, especially desired.— Ralph Hopping, Redstone Park,
Kaweah, Cal.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. semidea, A. motif anus, S. modesta
(imagos and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidae preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Correspondence desired with amateur entomologists. — Wm. Wingrove
Bathon, Aberdeen, Md.

Celeoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipidse wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera.— For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptera
for others from any part of N. A. — W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Ind.

ADVERTISING RATES.

Ten cents per line, Brevier measurement (nine lines to an inch) each inser-
tion. Cash in advance. No advertisment taken for less than fifty cents. A
liberal discount on insertions for three months or longer. Address:

E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer, P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

INSECT PlfiS.

KLAEGER. Standard make; bright or japanned.

Sizes No. oo to 5 in papers of 500 each; No. 6 and larger, 250 each. Sent
postpaid to any part of the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand in
original packages, at $ 1.25 in broken lots.

CARLSBADER. Bright or japanned, same price as for KLAEGER'S.
ENGLISH. Short, for Micro- Lepidoptera, per half ounce $1.52 postpaid

(about 1450 in a package).
SHEET PEAT. Y% x 4 x 12, 53 cents per dozen, postpaid; 13.50 per gross.

Express extra.

To colleges and other parties ordering in large quantities, I request tin-
privilege of naming special rates.

Send 5 cent stamp for full illustrated catalogue to

M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 SUDBURY STREET,

BOSTON, MASS.,

Taxidermist, and dealer in all kinds of Naturalists' Supplies.

P. C. STOCKHAUSEN, ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER 55 N. TTH ST , PHILA. PA.

Entomological Forceps.

No 2— Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 \ No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

DISIISKECXII«JG CONES FOR EBJXOMOI^OGICAI*

Price $1.00 per 100. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.

$2.50

1-25

•25

3.00

1. 00

•50

Classification of Coleoptera of N. Am. by LeConte and Horn, 567 pp. 1883.
List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mex., by Samuel Henshaw, 1885

First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each
Synopsis of Hymenoptera of America N. of Mex., by E. T. Cresson, 1887.
Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by Prof. ]. B. Smith, 1891.
Check List of Hemiptera-Heteroptera of N. Am., by P. R. Uhler, 1886 .
Price Lists on application. GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pamphila and Catocala Wanted.

I will pay a good price in cash or exchange for Pamphila or Catocala ne\v
to my collection. For exchange : Pamphila aaroui, patioqniit, fusca, cernes,
fiontiac, hobomok, zabulon, otho and many others.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

DR. 0. STAUDINGER & A. BANG HAAS,

BLASEWITZ-DRESDEN, GERMANY.

In our price-list No. xxxv, we offer more than 11,000 species of well-named
LEPIDOPTERA (set or in papers, all in the finest condition) from all parts of the
world, also in lots or series; 850 kinds of prepared larvae, and in our List X more
than 13,000 species of COLEOPTERA. Also OTHER INSECTS and fine SHELLS
for sale.

JOIHIIbT

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
Pins a specialty. Price-
list sent on application.
78 Asliland Place,
Improved Entomological Forceps. Brooklyn, N. Y.

VOL III. No. 1O.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

-

PHILADELPHIA.

DECEMBER, 1892.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKH.

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALVKRT.

O

PHILADELPHIA:

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1892.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididae and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of fine Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupce of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Samia cynthia, Telea
polvphemus and Attacus cccropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-f . W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House', Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidce named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Hymenoptera, especially Bees of U. S. and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — Wm. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

Goleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Cat. amatrix, C. par/a and Hemaris thysbe
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygaenids set or
papered. — Dr. R. E. Kunze, 606 Third Ave., New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia ballnca, metalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, B nearest, Roumania.

Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometridas from all parts of the world;
European given in exchange.— Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Vernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Coleoptera. — Coleoptera to exchange for Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,
Odonata, aquatic Hemiptera and entomological literature. Cicindelidae,
Cerambycidae, Meloidae, especially desired. — W. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam,
YVis.

Lepidoptera. — I offer European species in exchange for American, espe-
cially Sphingidre and Catocalas. — A. Yoelschow, Schwenn in Meckl., Ger.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Xadata
doithledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidae and Lima-
oxlicke. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted in exchange, rsp'-rially Borrtbycidse and Noctuidae
from all parts of the United States.— Harry \Y. Foote, Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, New Haven, Conn.

Coleoptera. — For exchange: Scaraba.-ida', l)ytiscid;i\ Gyrinidii' and
Hydrophilidie. especially desired.— Ralph Hopping, Redstone Park,
Kaweah, Cal.

(Contimu-il "ii tliird page of cover..

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. seinidea, A. •iiionfaniis, S. modes/a
(images and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
SphingitUe preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Correspondence desired with amateur entomologists. — Win. Wingrove
Bathon, Aberdeen, Md.

Celeoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipidae wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera.— For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptera
for others from any part of N. A.— W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Ind.

Lepidoptera. — Will exchange Lepidoptera of California for those of other
parts of the world. — Beverly Letcher, 532 California St., San Francisco.

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RARE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

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abundant numbers, as well as

Rare Butterflies, Sphingidae. Bombycidae, Saturninae, Cossidse and Hepialidae
from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America.
Most liberal terms granted.

B. NEUMOEGEN, 40 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y.

Pamphila and Catocala Wanted.

I will pay a good price in cash or exchange for Pamphila or Catocala new
to my collection. For exchange : Pamphila aaroni, panoquiii, fusca, cernes,
pontiac, hobomok, zabulon, otho and many others.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Entomological News

. AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

JANUARY, 1893.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.LX. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARLES LIEBECK.

Rev. HENRY C. McCooK, D.D.

PHILADELPHIA:

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THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1893.

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EXCHANGES

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are added at end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest
in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted.— J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colunv-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Have a lot of fine Cecropia cocoons which I wish to ex-
change for cocoons or pupse of almost any other variety of Lepidoptera.—
James Tough, 236 S. Water St., Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange cocoons of Samia cynthia, Telea
polyphemus and Attacus cecropia for other N. Am. cocoons or bird's eggs.
-T. W. Glover, Whitman, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kuegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidse or Heterocera generally. Noctuidne named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Hymenoptera, especially Bees of U. S. and Canada, wanted. Tropical
collections to name. — Wm. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bovvditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — To exchange Cat. ainafri.r, C. parta and Hemaris thysbe
in papers, for southwestern species or Arctians and Zygasnids set or
papered. — Dr. R. E. Kunze", 606 Third Ave., New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia ba/luca, mcfaf/iica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed. —
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometrician from all parts of the world;
European given in exchange. — Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

Pliryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Coleoptera. — Coleoptera to exchange for Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,
Odonata, aquatic Hemiptera and entomological literature. Cicindelidse,
Cerambycidte, Meloidce, especially desired. — W. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam,
Wis.

Lepidoptera. — I offer European species in exchange for American, espe-
cially SphingicUe and Catocalas. — A. Yoelschow, Schvverm in Meckl., Ger.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadata
doiiblcdayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidae and Lima-
codida;. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted in exchange, especially Bombycidae and Xoctuida.-
from all parts of the United States. — Harry W. Foote, Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, New Haven, Conn.

Coleoptera. — For exchange: Scarabo-ida1, I )\ tiscida-, Gyrinkla- and
Hydrophilidae, especially desired. — Ralph Hopping, Redstone Park,
Kaweah, Cal.

(Continued on third page of cover.:

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Coleoptera, — I wish to 'obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleoptera.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. semidea, A. tnontanns, S. modes/a
fimagos and pupce), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidse preferred, — R. < Htolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. V.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry (i. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Correspondence desired with amateur entomologists. — Wm. \Vingrove
Rathon, Aberdeen, Md.

Celeoptera.— Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. ]>. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipicke wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera.— For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptera
for others from any part of N. A.— W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Ind.

Lepidoptera. — Will exchange Lepidoptera of California for those of < ither
parts of the world. — Beverly Letcher, 532 California St., San Francisco.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acridicke and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupoj of the rarer moths, lima, imperials,
rcg ft/is, P. frafenia, P. />if(eciu»i, etc.; also many fine set specimens;
hybrids from selene et luna, ccanothi et cecropia, G/overi et ceeropia.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. (New Windsor
delivery).

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M. ABBOTT FRAZAR,

93 SUDBURY STREET,

BOSTON, MASS.,

Taxidermist, and dealer in all kinds of Naturalists' Supplies.

P. C. STOCKHAUSEN, ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER 55 N. 7TH ST , PHIL*. PA.

Entomological Forceps.

No 2— Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

DISINFECTING CONES FOR ENXOMOI^OGICAI. CABINETS.

Price $1.00 per roo. Postage 10 cents.
Instruments of all kinds for Naturalists made to order.

BLAKE & CO., 55 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

LEPIDOPTERA WANTED

I desire to obtain, either by purchase or exchange

RARE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

from the Southern, Western and Northwestern parts of the United States in
abundant numbers, as well as

Rare Butterflies, Sphingidae, Bombycidae, Saturnine, Cossidae and Hepialidse
from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America.
Most liberal terms granted.

B. NEUMOEGEN, 40 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y.

Pamphila and Catocala Wanted.

I will pay a good price in cash or exchange for Pamphila or Catocala new
to my collection. For exchange : Pamphila aaroni, panoquin, fusca, cernes,
potitiac, hobomok, zabitlon, otho and many others.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pacific coast Coleoptera and Lepidoptera

My eleventh annual list will be sent out Jan. i, 1893. It contains many
additions to my list of Coleoptera and a new list of Lepidoptera, including rare
diurnals and Catocala.

L. E. RICKSECKER,

SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA.

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VOL. IV. No. 2.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

-o-

FEBRUARY, 1893.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARLES LIEBECK.

Rev. HENRY C. McCooK, D.D.

-O-

PHILADELPHIA:

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1893.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

• These notices are continued as long as our limited space will allow; the new ones
are added at end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest
in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidas or Heterocera generally. Noctuidas named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia bal/uca, metalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange. —
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y. "

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed. —
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Lepidoptera wanted, especially Geometridaa from all parts of the world;
European given in exchange. — Chr. Schroder, Rendsburg, Germany.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Vernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Coleoptera. — Coleoptera to exchange for Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,
Odonata, aquatic Hemiptera and entomological literature. Cicindelidae,
Cerambycidae, Meloidae, especially desired. — W. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam,
Wis.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadata
doubledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidas and Lima-
codidae. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
' — H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. semidea, A. wontanus, S. modesta
(images and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidae preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Celepptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipidae wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera. — For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptera
for others from any part of N. A. — W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Ind.

Orthoptera of northeastern United States and provinces. Acrididce and
N. E. specimens particularly desired. Correspondence and exchanges.—
Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

(Continued on third page of cover..

EXCHANGES.— Continued.

Lepidoptera — Cocoons and pupae of the rarer moths, luna, imperialis,
regalis, P. fraterna, P. piftcciitni, etc.; also many fine set specimens;
hybrids from selene et luiia, ceanothi et cecropia, Gloveri et cccropia.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. (New Windsor
delivery).

Lepidoptera.— I will exchange or sell specimens (imagos or larvae) from
Illinois for those of other localities. Have on hand prepared sets of last
year's collecting. — Arthur J. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Prtpared larvae, live pupae, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. — A Voelschow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Colorado for exchange.— E. V.
Beales, 1650 Larimer Street, Denver, Col.

Coleoptera for exchange: good species in perfect condition. Cicindelidae,
Endotnychidse and Leptura are especially wanted. — L. 15. Walton, Box
123, Keuka College, Yates County, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupae, of Cecropia and
Polyphemus for pupae or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera.— James Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

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from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America.
Most liberal terms granted.

B. NEUMOEGEN, 40 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y.

Pamphila and Catocala Wanted.

I will pay a good price in cash or exchange for Pamphila or Catocala new
to my colle: tion. For exchange : Pamphila aaroni, panoquin, fiisca, cernes,
pontiac, hobo>nok, zabulon, otho and many others.

PH1LJP LAURENT,

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VOL IV. No. 3.

Entomological News

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

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OF

PHILADELPHIA.

MARCH, 1893.

EDITOK :

HENRY SKIXNT. R, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALYEKT. Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLKS A. BI.AKK.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARLES I.IKISKCK.

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VOL. IV. No.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

APRIL, 1893.

EDITOR I

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARLES LIEBECK.

Rev. HENRY C. McCooK, D.D.

O

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1893.

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List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mexico, by S. Henshaw, 1885 . 1.25
First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each . . .25.

Synopsis of Hymeiioptera of America North of Mexico, by E. T.
Cresson. Part I, Families and Genera; Part II, Catalogue of Spe-
cies and Bibliography, 1887 ........ 3.00-

Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal Am., by Prof. J. B. Smith, 1891 i.oo

Check List of Heniiptera Heteroptera of N. America, by P. R.

Uhler, 1886 50

Horn (Dr. G. H.) — Revision of the Tenebrionidae of America North of

Mexico, 152 pp. 2 pi. 4to ... 6.00-

LeConte & Horn. — Rhynchophora of N. America, 455 pp., 1876 . 3.00-
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from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America.
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VOL. IV. No. 5.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

MAY, 1893.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARLES LIEBECK.

Rev. HENRY C. McCooic, D.D.

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1893.

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Classification of Coleoptera of North America, by Drs. LeConte

and Horn, 567 pp. 1883 ... . $2.50

List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mexico, by S. Henshaw, 1885 . 1.25
First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each . . .25

Synopsis of Hymeiioptera of America North of Mexico, by E. T.
Cresson. Part I, Families and Genera; Part II, Catalogue of Spe-
cies and Bibliography, 1887 ........ 3.00

Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal Am., by Prof. J. B. Smith, 1891 i.oo

Check List of Hemiptera Heteroptera of N. America, by P. R.

Uhler, 1886 50

Horn (Dr. G. H.) — Revision of the Tenebrionidre of America North of

Mexico, 152 pp. 2 pi. 4to ......... 6.00

LeConte & Horn. — Rhynchophora of N. America, 455 pp., 1876 . 3.00
Price-Lists may be had on application.

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P. O. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Entomological Forceps.

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QUEEfi £ CO.,

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Klaeger Insect Pins, white or black, standard
length, 34 mm. In original packages of 500
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(SPECIAIi QUOTATIONS IN QUANTITIES.)

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Pinning Forceps,

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croscopes, etc. ; will be sent on application.

LEPIDOPTERA WANTED.

I desire to obtain, either by purchase or exchange

RARE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

from the Southern, Western and Northwestern parts of the United States in
abundant numbers, as well as

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from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America.
Most liberal terms granted.

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Pamphila and Catocala Wanted.

I will pay a good price in cash or exchange for Pamphila or Catocala new
to my collection. For exchange : Pamphila aaroni, panoquin, fusca, cernes,
pontiac, hobomok, zabulon, otho and many others.

PHILIP LAURENT,

1306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
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VOL. IV. No. 6.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

-o-

JUNE, 1893.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARLES LIEBECK.

Rev. HENRY C. McCooK, D.D.

-O-

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THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1893.

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ElSLTO]VI01iOGICflli

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II (1891), ..... 1.50 "

III (1892), ... i.oo

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WANTED

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B&&* Good prices given for well-preserved copies of any of the above. Address

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Entomological Publications.

Classification of Coleoptera of North America, by Drs. LeConte

and Horn, 567 pp. 1883 ... $2.50

List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mexico, by S. Henshaw, 1885 . 1.25
First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each . . .25

Synopsis ot Hymeiioptera of America North of Mexico, by E. T.
Cresson. Part I, Families and Genera; Part II, Catalogue of Spe-
cies and Bibliography, 1887 3.00

Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal Am., by Prof. J. B. Smith, 1891 i.oo

Check List of Hemiptera Heteroptera of N. America, by P. R.

Uhler, 1886 5«

Horn (Dr. G. H.) — Revision of the Tenebrionidse of America North of

Mexico, 152 pp. 2 pi. 4to 6.00

LeConte & Horn. — Rhynchophora of N. America, 455 pp., 1876 . 3.00
Price-Lists may be had on application.

GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. O. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Entomological Forceps.

No 2-Half Size.

No. i, Price, Nickel Plated, each $2.50 | No. 2, Price, Nickel Plated, each $1.50

Sent by mail on receipt of price.

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original packages, at $ 1.25 in broken lots.

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ENGLISH. Short, for Micro-Lepidoptera, per half ounce $1.52 postpaid

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Express extra.

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93 SUDBURY STREET,

BOSTON, MASS.,

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P. C. STOCKHAUSEN, ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER 55 N. ?TH ST . PHIL*. PA.

QUEEfi & CO.,

INCORPORATED.

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Klaeger Insect Pins, white or black, standard
length, 34 mm. In original packages of 500
each, $1.00 per thousand (postage extra).

(SPECIflli QUOTATIONS IN QUANTITIES.)

Sheet Cork,

Pinning Forceps,

Disinfecting Conee.

For full schedule of prices, see Catalogue B, which also describes Mi-
croscopes, etc. ; will be sent on application.

LEPIDOPTERA WANTED

I desire to obtain, either by purchase or exchange

RARE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

from the Southern, Western and Northwestern parts of the United States in
abundant numbers, as well as

Rare Butterflies, Sphingidae, Bombycidae, Saturninae, Cossidae and Hepialidae

from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America.
Most liberal terms granted.

B. NEUMOEGEN, 40 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y.

INSECT BOXES,

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$1.05. Of the size and style made for the U. S. National Museum $1.10. Special
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reasonable prices. References for boxes and cabinets: U. S. National Museum,
Brooklyn Entomological Society, and many others.

JOHN SCHMITT, 290 Third Ave., Brooklyn, JV. Y.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

Fine Carlsbader Insect
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;S Ashland Place,
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VOL. IV. No. 7.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

SEPTEMBER, 1893.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BLAKE.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARI.KS LIKBKCK.

Rev. HENRY C. McCooK, D.D.

PHILADP:LPHIA:

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1893.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

BACK VOLUMES

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the wanting volumes now, as only a few copies are left over, especially < ><
volume 2. The prices are as follows:

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" . II (1891), 1.50

III (1892), . . . i .00

Address: E. T. CRESSON, Treasurer, P. 0. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

WANTED

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63^ Good prices given for well-preserved copies of any of the above. Address

GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. O. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

Entomological Publications.

Classification of Coleoptera of North America, by Drs. LeConte

and Horn, 567 pp. 1883 . #2.50

List of Coleoptera of America N. of Mexico, by S. Henshaw, 1885 . 1.25
First and second Supplements to same, 1887 and 1889, each . .25

Synopsis of Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico, by E. T.
Cresson. Part I, Families and Genera; Part II, Catalogue of Spe-
cies and Bibliography, 1887 . 3.00

Check List of Lepidoptera of Boreal Am., by Prof. J. B. Smith, 1891 i.oo

Check List of Hemiptera Heteroptera of N. America, by P. R.

Uhler, 1886 . .... .50

Horn (Dr. G. H.) — Revision of the TeiK-brioimkt of America North of

Mexico, 152 pp. 2 pi. 4t<> . 6.00

LeConte & Horn. — Rhynchophora of N. America, 455 pp., 1876 . 3.00
Price-Lists may be had on application.

GEORGE B. CRESSON,

P. O. Box 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

*

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JOtNTEO
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GOODS FOR ENTOMOLOGISTS,

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INSECT PlflS.

KLAEGER. Standard make; bright or japanned.

Sizes No. oo to 5 in papers of 500 each; No. 6 and larger, 250 each. Sent
postpaid to any part of the United States and Canada at $1.05 per thousand in
original packages, at $1.25 in broken lots.

CARLSBADER. Bright or japannrd, same price as for KLAEGER'S.
ENGLISH. Short, for Micro- Lcpidoplera, per half ounce #1.52 postpaid

(about 1450 in a package).
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Express extra.

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privilege of naming special rates.

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93 SUDBURY STREET,

BOSTON, MASS.,

Taxidermist, and dealer in all kinds of Naturalists' Supplies.

P.O. STOCKHAUSEN, ENTOMOLOGICAL PRINTER SS'N. ?TH ST . PHILA P».

QUEEfi&CO.,

INCORPORATED.

Microscope Makers and Importers,

Microscopical Supplies of all kinds.

English Insect Pins, short and long, white and gilt, in loo's or looo's.
Carlsbader Insect Pins, bright (see catalogue).

Schlneter Insect Pins, black (see calalogue).

Klaeg-er Insect Pins, white or black, standard
length, 34 mm. In original packages of 500
each, $1.00 per thousand (postage extra).

(SPECIAL QUOTRTIOJ>iS IJSL QUANTITIES.)

Sheet Cork,

Pinning Forceps,

Disinfecting Cones.

For full schedule of prices, see Catalogue B, which also describes Mi-
croscopes, etc. ; will be sent on application.

LEPIDOPTERA WANTED.

I desire to obtain, either by purchase or exchange

RARE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

from the Southern, Western and Northwestern parts of the United States in
abundant numbers, as well as

Rare Butterflies, Sphingidae, Bombycidae, Saturninae, Cossidae and Hepialidae

from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America.
Most liberal terms granted.

B. NEUMOEGEN, 40 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y.

American Butterflies

wanted by exchange or purchase. Hesperida1 and Lycsenidac especially de-
sired. Many rare duplicates on hand. Butterflies named free of charge.

Dr. HENRY SKINNER,

Academy of Natural Sciences,

Log-an Square, Phila., Pa.

TAXIDERMIST AND DEALER IN ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES.

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VOL. IV. No. 8.

Entomological News

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

OF

PHILADELPHIA.

o

OCTOBER, 1893.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. BI.AKK.

EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARLES LIEBECK.

Rev. HKNRV C. McCooK, D.D.

PHILADELPHIA:

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1893.

Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter.

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in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera. — Price lists wanted.— J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Coluni-
biar.a, O.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepkloptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — 1 am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larva; from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuida; named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, X. |.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowclitch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia balluca, tnetalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcjecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania. offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Yiilor hlarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Phrygaiiidse wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas. Colorado and Xew Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Coleoptera. — Coleoptera to exchange for Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,
Odonata, aquatic Hemiptera and entomological literature. Cicindelidae,
Cerambycidse, Meloids, especially desired. — W. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam,
Wis.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Naif a/a
doubledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontida- and Lima-
codidae. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literatim- in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from tin- West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange ( '. ,svw/</<-</, .-.'. iiioii/aiins, .S'. modes/a
(imagos and pupa-), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidae preferred. — R. ottolengui. n= Madison Ave., X. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of loua to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry (".. Willard, (irinnell, loua.

Celeoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. 1!. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipida- wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the Hies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins. Col.

Orthoptera.— For exchange: Mexican I.epidoptern, unmounted for lit-
erature, in any language, on X. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana < M thoptei .1
for others from any part of X. A. — W. S. Blatdiley, Tern- Haute, Ind.

Orthoptera. — I desire to procure, by purchase. . xchange, or lor identifi-
cation, specimens of the genus Sf>/iara^t-inon from all parts of the country.
—Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, \\Vllcsley, Mass.

ii ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

•

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupse of the rarer moths, lima, imperialis,
regalis, P. fraterna, P. pittecimn, etc.; also many fine set specimens;
hybrids from selene et lima, ceanothi et cecropia, Gloveri et cecropia.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. (New Windsor
delivery).

Lepidoptera. - I will exchange or sell specimens (images or larvse) from
Illinois for those of other localities. Have on hand prepared sets of last
year's collecting. — Arthur J. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Prepared larvce, live pupa;, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. - A Voelschow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Colorado for exchange. — E. V.
Beales, 1650 Larimer Street, Denver, Col.

Coleoptera for exchange: good species in perfect condition. Cicindelidae,
Enclomychidae and Leptura are especially wanted. — L. B. Walton, Box
123, Keuka College, Yates County, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupse of Cecropia and
Polyphemus for pupae or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera.— fames Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

Lepidoptera. — American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-
peridse and Lycaenidae especially desired. — Henry Skinner, Academy of
Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera.— A few rare Indian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Northwest.— Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa.

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Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted.— J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepicloptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studyisg the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bovvditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia ballnca, nietalliica and ampha; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange. —
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadafa
donbledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidie and Lima-
re. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. semidea, A. montanus, S. modcsia
(images and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidui preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection.— Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, low.i.

Celeoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cyjipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipidae wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera.— For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptera
for others from any part of N. A. — W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Ind.

Orthoptera. — I desire to procure, by purchase, exchange, or for identifi-
cation, specimens of the genus Sf>liai\igc)non from all parts of the country.
-Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupce of the rarer moths, Ixtia, hnf>erialis<
regalis, P. fraterna, P. pitlccinni, etc.; also many line set specimens;
hybrids from selene et /inia, ceanofhi et <vr/v>/>/</, itlorcri et r<r;vj/>/</.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Newbnrgh, N. Y. (New Windsor
delivery).

ii ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

Lepidoptera. — I will exchange or sell specimens (imagos or larvae) from
Illinois for those of other localities. Have on hand prepared sets of last
year's collecting. — Arthur]. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Prepared larvse, live pupae, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. — A Voelschow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera, Coleaptera and Hemiptera of Colorado for exchange.— E. V.
Beales, 1650 Larimer Street, Denver, Col.

Coleoptera for exchange: good species in perfect condition. Cicindelidae,
Endomychidae and Leptura are especially wanted. — L. B. Walton, Box
123, Keuka College, Yates County, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupae of Cecropia and
Polyphemus for pupae or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera.— [ames Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

Lepidoptera. — American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-
peridas and Lycasnidse especially desired. --Henry Skinner, Academy of
Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — A few rare hidian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Northwest. — Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa.

Odouata. — Dragonflies. Species not in my collection wanted from all
parts of the world. N. American species given in exchange, or named
by special agreement. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Phila., Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Imagines and pupae of New England species for pupae of
Megathyinus yucc<z and Sphinx catalpcs. — Field Brothers, Guilford, Ct.

Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange specimens with col-
lectors in the South and West who wish to extend their collections; cor-
respondence solicited. — F. W. Russell, M.D., Winchendon, Mass.

I am desirous of collecting in any of the Orders in Northwestern Ohio;
write me. — N. Sager, Jr., Herring P. O., Allen Co., Ohio.

IN PREPARATION

A LIST OF ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE

STUDY OF INSECT LIFE.

It is the desire of the undersigned to make as complete a List as pos-
sible of those persons in this country who are interested in the study of
INSECT LIFE. Will the readers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS kindly
assist in the matter by sending us on postal cards the address of all such
as are known to them in their vicinity, together with mention, if possible.
of the Order or Orders in which they are specially interested ?

Address :

J. H. RIDINGS, Secretary,

American Entomological Society,

P. O. BOX 248,

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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are added at end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest
in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — J. H. Homberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Allacits co/imthni Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich. -

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera EucliJla, Drastcria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111. •

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, P/usia balliica, inctallica and ainpla ; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yemen L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of .\'<uta/a
donbledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidae and Lima-
codidae. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly ( oVnpUra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. st'iitirft'tr. A. tnniifai/us. S. iiiiutfsfu
(image >s and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingicke preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 11= Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry G. \\'illaid, C.rinnell, lo\\,i.

Celeoptera.— Price-lists wanted.— Dr. E. I',. Stephens. Plymi.uth, Mass.

Cyilipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipida- wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the llies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins. Col.

Orthoptera. — For exchange: \Ie\icaii I .epidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. .Also [ndiafla Orthoptera
for others from any part of N. A.— \Y. S. Blatchlcy, Terre 1 [ante, bid.

Orthoptera. — I desire to procure, by purchase, exchange, or foi identifi-
cation, specimens of the genus Sf>/iarafft'inu)i from all pa it sol the country.

- Albert P. Morse, Wellesley < ollege, \\'ellesli y. Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupa' of (he raivr moths, litna, impcrialis,
r,\L.>a/is, P. fm/cnia, /'. pitlicciuin. etc.; also many tine set specimens;
hybrids from selene et lima, ccanollii et <v,.v />/(/, (,7<>:;r/ el cecropia.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. \ New \\'indsoi
delivery).

ii ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

Lepidoptera.— I will exchange or sell specimens (images or larvae) from
Illinois for those of other localities. Have on hand prepared sets of last
year's collecting. — Arthur]. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Prepared larvae, live pupae, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. — A Voelschow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Colorado for exchange. — E. V.
Beales, 1650 Larimer Street, Denver, Col.

Coleoptera for exchange: good species in perfect condition. Cicindelidae,
Endomychidae and Leptura are especially wanted. — L. B. Walton, Box
123, Keuka College, Yates County, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupae of Cecropia and
Polyphemus for pupae or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera.— [ames Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

Lepidoptera. — American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-
peridae and Lycasnidae especially desired. — Henry Skinner, Academy of
Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — A few rare Indian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Northwest. — Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa.

Odonata. — Dragonflies. Species not in my collection wanted from all
parts of the world. N. American species given in exchange, or named
by special agreement. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Phila., Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Imagines and pupae of New England species for pupae of
Megathymus yuccce and Sphinx catalpce. — Field Brothers, Guilford, Ct.

Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange specimens with col-
lectors in the South and West who wish to extend their collections; cor-
respondence solicited. — F. W. Russell, M.D., Winchendon, Mass.

I am desirous of collecting in any of the Orders in Northwestern Ohio;
write me. — N. Sager, Jr., Herring P. O., Allen Co., Ohio.

IN PREPARATION

A LIST OF ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE

STUDY Of INSECT LIFE.

It is the desire of the undersigned to make as complete a List as pos-
sible of those persons in this country who are interested in the study of
INSECT LIFE. Will the readers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS kindly
assist in the matter by sending us on postal cards the address of all such
as are known to them in their vicinity, together with mention, if possible,
of the Order or Orders in which they are specially interested ?

Address :

J. H. RIDINGS, Secretary,

American Entomological Society.

P. O. BOX 248,

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

1893.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

EXCHANGES

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i' • These notices are continued as long as our limited space will allow; the new ones
are added at end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest
in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera.— Price-lists wanted.— J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biar.a, O.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Atiacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, I'hi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — 1 am studying the Noctuid genera huclidia, Drasieria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidas or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata. — John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection.— Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plnsia balluca, metallica and ampla ; also the
Hydroecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange. —
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed. —
A. L. Montandon, Strada Yiilor nlarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Phrygailidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadala
doubledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidae and Lima-
codidre. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska,, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. scinidca, A. tnontaims, S. niodcs/a
(images and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingida- preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Celeoptera.— Price-lists wanted.— Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cyiipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipida- wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera. — For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on X. A. < )rthoptera. Also Indiana ( Mthoptera
for others from any part of X. A. — W. S. I'.latchley, Terre Haute, lud.

Orthoptera. — I desire to procure, by purchase, exchange, or for identifi-
cation, specimens of the LM-IHIS Sp/nini^i'inoH from all parts of the country
-Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupa' of the rarer moths, luna, iui^-rialix,
regalis, P. fraterna, /'. f>i//u'cii<»i. etc.; also many line set specimens;
hybrids from selene et lima, ccuuolhi et ^r/v/w, Clorcri et it-crofiia.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Xowburgh, N. Y. (New Windsor
delivery).

H ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

Lepidoptera.— I will exchange or sell specimens (images or larvae) from
Illinois for those of other localities. Have on hand prepared sets of last
year's collecting. — Arthur]. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Prepared larvae, live pupae, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. — A Voelschow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Colorado for exchange.— E. V.
Beales, 1650 Larimer Street, Denver, Col.

Coleoptera for exchange: good species in perfect condition. Cicindelidae,
Endomychidse and Leptura are especially wanted. — L. B. Walton, Box
123, Keuka College, Yates County, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupae of Cecropia and
Polyphemus for pupae or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera.— James Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

Lepidoptera. — American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-
peridae and Lycaenidae especially desired. — Henry Skinner, Academy of
Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — A few rare Indian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Northwest. — Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa.

Odonata. — Dragonflies. Species not in my collection wanted from all
parts of the world. N. American species given in exchange, or named
by special agreement. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Phila., Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Imagines and pupae of New England species for pupae of
Megatkymus yucc<z and Sphinx cata/ptz. — Field Brothers, Guilford, Ct.

Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.— I desire to exchange specimens with col-
lectors in the South and West who wish to extend their collections; cor-
respondence solicited. — F. W. Russell, M.D., Winchendon, Mass.

I am desirous of collecting in any of the Orders in Northwestern Ohio;
write me. — N. Sager, Jr., Herring P. O., Allen Co., Ohio.

Diurnal Lepidoptera. — I will be pleased to correspond with collectors
with view to exchanging Lepidoptera of the world. I usually have 2000
or 3000 mounted duplicates on hand, in perfect condition. — A. G. Weeks,
Jr., 360 Washington St., Boston.

Correspondence and exchange of insects desired with young entomolo-
gists, especially in the Southern and Western States and Mexico. — Stewart
N. Dunning, 43 Niles St., Hartford, Conn.

I desire to dispose of Japanese insects by sale or exchange; correspon-
dence solicited. — Otoji Takahashi, Tokio, Japan.

IN PREPARATION

A LIST OF ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE

STUDY OP INSECT LIFE.

It is the desire of the undersigned to make as complete a List as pos-
sible of those persons in this country who are interested in the study of
INSECT LIFE. Will the readers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS kindly
assist in the matter by sending us on postal cards'the address of all such
as are known to them in their vicinity, together with mention, if possible,
of the Order or Orders in which they are specially interested ?

Address: J. H. RIDINGS, Secretary,

American Entomological Society,

P. O. BOX 248, Philadelphia, Pa.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. i

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

«3r These notices are continued as long as our limited space will allow; the new ones
are added at end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest
in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera.— Price-lists wanted.— J. H. Bomberger, Box 76, Coluni-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons of Attacus Columbia Smith to exchange for native
lepidoptera, or for books on North American lepidoptera. — Robert H.
Wolcott, Phi Delta Theta House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata.— John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia balluca, mctallica and ampla ; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange. —
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed. —
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Vernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadu/a
doubledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidoj and Lima-
codidae. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly ColeopU ra.
— H. V . Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. sauidca, A. montanus, S. modest a
(imagos and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingida' preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., X. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collection. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Ceieoptera.— Price-lists wanted.— Dr. E. P.. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipida- wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera.— For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptei.i
for others from any part of N. A. — W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, hid.

Orthoptera.— I desire to procure, by purchase, exchange, or for identifi-
cation, specimens of the genus Spharagemon from all parts of the country.
-Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupa? of the rarer moths, luna, iinpcrialis,
rcgalis, P. fraterna, P. pilhccium, etc.; also many fine set specimens;
hybrids from selcnc et luna, ceaiiothi et cccrnpia, Glovcri et r<r/v )/>/</.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. (New Windsor
delivery).

ii ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

Lepidoptera. — I will exchange or sell specimens (images or larvae) from
Illinois tor those of other localities. Have on hand prepared sets of last
year's collecting. — Arthur]. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Prepared larva;, live pupae, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. — A Voelschow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera of Colorado for exchange. — E. V.
Beales, 1650 Larimer Street, Denver, Col.

Coleoptera for exchange: good species in perfect condition. Cicindelidae,
Endomychidae and Leptura are especially wanted. — L. B. Walton, Box
123, Keuka College, Yates County, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupae of Ctcropia and
Polyphemus for pupae or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera.— James Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

Lepidoptera.— American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-
peridce and Lycaenidae especially desired. — Henry Skinner, Academy of
Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — A few rare Indian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Northwest. — Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa.

Odouata. — Dragonflies. Species not in my collection wanted from all
parts of the world. N. American species given in exchange, or named
by special agreement. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Phila., Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Imagines and pupae of New England species for pupae of
Megathymus yuccce and Sphinx catalpez. — Field Brothers, Guilford, Ct.

Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange specimens with col-
lectors in the South and West who wish to extend their collections; cor-
respondence solicited. — F. W. Russell, M.D., Winchendon, Mass.

I am desirous of collecting in any of the Orders in Northwestern Ohio;
write me. — N. Sager, Jr., Herring P. O., Allen Co., Ohio.

Diurnal Lepidoptera. — I will be pleased to correspond with collectors
with view to exchanging Lepidoptera of the world. I usually have 2000
or 3000 mounted duplicates on hand, in perfect condition. — A. G. Weeks,
Jr., 360 Washington St., Boston.

Correspondence and exchange of insects desired with young entomolo-
gists, especially in the Southern and Western States and Mexico. — Stewart
N. Dunning, 43 Niles St., Hartford, Conn.

I desire to dispose of Japanese insects by sale or exchange; correspon-
dence solicited. — Otoji Takahashi, Tokio, Japan.

Coleoptera. — Aegialites Fuchsii Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, p. 143,
1893. I offer this rare and interesting species in exchange for Coleoptera
not in my coll. Address C. Fuchs, 212 Kearney St., San Francisco, Cal.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to obtain eggs or larvae of Eacles regalis, and
Sphinx modesta; will exchange for other good material. — Hermann Aich,
43 Murray St., New York.

Lepidoptera.— I have a large number of duplicates which I offer for sale
or exchange Address G. Cleveland, 17 Elm St., Oneonta, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Hybrid cocoons of Ceanothi et Cccropia in exchange for
rare, perfect specimens of Sphingidae, Arctiidas, Bombycidse, Catocakc
and Diurni not in my collection. — Dr. R. E. Kunze", 606 Third Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I have on hand a large supply of duplicates which 1 wish
to exchange for insects of the same order not in my collection. Corre-
spondents especially desired from the southwestern and northwestern part
of the U. S. Send list of duplicates to Leigh I. Holdredge, 27 Ford Ave.,
Oneonta, N. Y., U. S. A.

1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

EXCHANGES

Not exceeding three lines free to subscribers.

These notices are continued as long as our limited space will allow; the new ones
are added at end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest
in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted.— J". H. Bomberger, Box 76, Colum-
biana, O.

Lepidoptera. — I am studying the Noctuid genera Euclidia, Drasteria
and Litosea. Specimens bought, exchanged or determined. — M. V. Slin-
gerland, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. I. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,

T 1 T T* /~»1 • T11 J

Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata.— John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection.— Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia balluca, metallica and amp/a ; also the
Hydroecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed. —
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor filarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Phryganidae wanted; will exchange choice Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico (Prof. F. H. Snow's collecting)
for Caddice-flies, U. S. or exotic. — Yernon L. Kellogg, Univ. of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadata
doiibledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidse and Lima-
codidae. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleoptera.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. scmidea, A. montanus, S. modcsta
(imagos and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidae preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collect on. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Ceiepptera.i — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae. — Named or unnamed Cynipidse wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the (lies with their galls when possible — C
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera. — For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptera
for others from any^part of N. A. — W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Ind.

Orthoptera. — I desire to procure, by purchase, i -x< -hange, or for identifi-
cation, specimens of the genus Spharagemon from all parts of the country
-Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupa.- of the rarer moths. l,oia, inif>t-ria/is,
iri; a/is, P. fratenta, /'. f>it/ieciiiin, etc.; also many fine set specimens';
hybrids from selene et luna, ccauothi et ct'cn>f>ia, (.;/<>rcri et cecropia.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. (New Windsor
delivery).

Lepidoptera.— Prepared larva-, li\v pupa-, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. — A Vodsrhow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

ii ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupae of Cecropia and
Polyphemus for pupae or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera.— James Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

Lepidoptera. — American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-
peridae and Lycaenidae especially desired. — Henry Skinner, Academy of
Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lepidoptera.— A few rare Indian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Northwest. — Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa.

Odonata. — Dragonflies. Species not in my collection wanted from all
parts of the world. N. American species given in exchange, or named
by special agreement. — P. P. Calvert, Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange specimens with col-
lectors in the South and West who wish to extend their collections; cor-
respondence solicited. — F. W. Russell, M.D., Winchendon, Mass.

I am desirous of collecting in any of the Orders in Northwestern Ohio;
write me. — N. Sager, Jr., Herring P. O., Allen Co., Ohio.

Diurnal Lepidoptera. — I will be pleased to correspond with collectors
with view to exchanging Lepidoptera of the world. I usually have 2000
or 3000 mounted duplicates on hand, in perfect condition. — A. G. Weeks,
Jr., 360 Washington St., Boston.

Correspondence and exchange of insects desired with young entomolo-
gists, especially in the Southern and Western States and Mexico. — Stewart
N. Dunning, 43 Niles St., Hartford, Conn.

I desire to dispose of Japanese insects by sale or exchange; correspon-
dence solicited. By permission, refer to Prof. C. V. Riley. — Otoji Taka-
hashi, Tokio, Japan.

Coleoptera. — Aegialites Fuchsii Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, p. 143,
1893. 1 offer this rare and interesting species in exchange for Coleoptera
not in my coll. Address C. Fuchs, 212 Kearney St., San Francisco, Cal.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to obtain eggs or larvae of Eacles regalis and
Sphinx modesta; will exchange for other good material. — Hermann Aich,
43 Murray St., New York.

Lepidoptera. — I have a large number of duplicates which I offer for sale
or exchange Address G. Cleveland, 17 Elm St., Oneonta, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Hybrid cocoons of Ceanothi et Cecropia in exchange for
rare, perfect specimens of Sphingidae, Arctiidas, Bombycidae, Catocalae
and Diurni not in my collection. — Dr. R. E. Kunze", 606 Third Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I have on hand a large supply of duplicates which 1 wish
to exchange for insects of the same order not in my collection. Corre-
spondents especially desired from the southwestern and northwestern part
of the U. S. Send list of duplicates to Leigh I. Holdredge, 27 Ford Ave.,
Oneonta, N. Y., U. S. A.

Lepidoptera. — Several thousand specimens taken in Utah during past
Summer for exchange; Parnasius, Chionobas, T/iec/as, etc.; also good
specimens from Illinois; all in papers. — A. J. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, cocoons of regalis, iniperialis, gloveri, io, ce-
cropia, polyphemus, promethea and others, as well as pupae, — against Le-
pidoptera of all parts of the world. — Bernard Gerhard, 1520 Lafayette
Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

Lepidoptera. — Correspondents wanted on Pacific coast, or Colorado,
with a view to exchange in Lepidoptera. — Oliver J. Staley, Marshall, Sa-
line County, Mo.

Lepidoptera. — We wish to obtain, either by purchase or exchange, live
larva? or pupae of Ecpantheria scribonia and images of Erebus odora.—
Field Brothers, Milton, Mass.

Wanted. — Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from all sections. Will exchange
works on Entomology, Zoology and Botany, and works relating to the
languages of the N. A. Indian. Send for list. — Wm. D. Doan, Box, 377,
Coatesville, Pa.

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in) are discontinued.

Lepidqptera. — Wanted to purchase cocoons and larvae from different
parts of U. S. State name and price. — E. J. Kruegeman, 54 May St.,
Lake View, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted to exchange, papers on N. Am. Lepidoptera for
Noctuidae or Heterocera generally. Noctuidae named for privilege of
retaining desiderata.— John B. Smith, New Brunswick, X. J.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bowditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera.— Wanted, Plusia ba/luca, inetallica and ampla ; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange. —
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Yiilor tilarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadata
doubledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidse and Lima-
codidae. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the West and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. sen/idea, A. niontaints, S. modesta
(imagos and pupae), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidte preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collect on. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Coiepptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae.— Named or unnamed Cynipidae wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the Hies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera. — For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana ( >rtlu>ptera
for others from any part of N. A. — W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Incl.

Orthoptera. — I desire to procure, by purchase, exchange, or for identifi-
cation, specimens of the genus S^lnun^onon from all parts of the country.
-Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupa1 of tiie rarer moths, Liua, im/>eria/is,
regalis, P. frafen/a, /'. f>H]ieci;un, etc.; also many fine set specimens;
hybrids from selene et litna, ccauothi et cecr;>/>i\i, (>'/<>reri et cccropia.
List exchanged. — Emily L. Morton, N'owburgh, X. N". (Xew Windsor
delivery).

Lepidoptera.— Prepared larva1, live pupae, Coleoplera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. — A Voelschow,
Schwerin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera. — I wish to exchange large, sound pupa- <,f ('<;-n>/>/\r and
Polyphemus for pupa- or imagines of almost any other species of Lepid-
optera. — Tames Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago.

.— American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-

perkke and Lyca-nid.e especially desired. Henry Skinner, Academy
Natural Sciences, Logan Square. Philadelphia. Pa.

Lepidoptera.— A few rare Indian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Xorthwest. Lev! W. Mellgel, Reading. Pa.

ii ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November,

Odonata. — Dragonflies. Species not in my collection wanted from all
parts of the world. N. American species given in exchange, or named
by special agreement. — P. P. Calvert. Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.— I desire to exchange specimens with col-
lectors in the South and West who wish to extend their collections; cor-
respondence solicited. — F. W. Russell, M.D., Winchendon, Mass.

I am desirous of collecting in any of the Orders in Northwestern Ohio;
write me. — N. Sager, Jr., Herring P. O., Allen Co., Ohio.

Diurnal Lepidoptera. — I will be pleased to correspond with collectors
with view to exchanging Lepidoptera of the world. I usually have 2000
or 3000 mounted duplicates on hand, in perfect condition. — A. G. Weeks,
Jr., 360 Washington St., Boston.

Correspondence and exchange of insects desired with young entomolo-
gists, especially in the Southern and Western States and Mexico. — Stewart
N. Dunning, 43 Niles St., Hartford, Conn.

I desire to dispose of Japanese insects by sale or exchange; correspon-
dence solicited. By permission, refer to Prof. C. V. Riley. — Otoji Taka-
hashi, Tokio, Japan.

Coleoptera. — Aegiaiites Fuchsii Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, p. 143,
1893. 1 offer this rare and interesting species in exchange for Coleoptera
not in my coll. Address C. Fuchs, 212 Kearney St., San Francisco, Cal.

Lepidoptera.— I desire to obtain eggs or larvae of Eacles regalis and
Sphinx uwdesta; will exchange for other good material. — Hermann Aich,
43 Murray St., New York.

Lepidoptera. — I have a large number of duplicates which I offer for sale
or exchange. Address G. Cleveland, 17 Elm St., Oneonta, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Hybrid cocoons of Ceanothi et Cecropia in exchange for
rare, perfect specimens of Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Bombycidae, Catocalas
and Diurni not in my collection. — Dr. R. E. Kunze", 606 Third Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I have on hand a large supply of duplicates which 1 wish
to exchange for insects of the same order not in my collection. Corre-
spondents especially desired from the southwestern and northwestern part
of the U. S. Send list of duplicates to Leigh I. Holdredge, 27 Ford Ave.,
Oneonta, N. Y., U. S. A.

Lepidoptera. — Several thousand specimens taken in Utah during past
Summer for exchange; Parnasiits, Chionobas, Theclas, etc.; also good
specimens from Illinois; all in papers. — A. J. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, cocoons of regalis, imperial-is, gtoveri, io, ce-
cropia, polyphemus, proniethea and others, as well as pupae, — against Le-
pidoptera of all parts of the world. — Bernard Gerhard, 1520 Lafayette
Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

Lepd9ptera. — Correspondents wanted on Pacific coast, or Colorado,
with a view to exchange in Lepidoptera. — Oliver J. Staley, Marshall, Sa-
line County, Mo.

Lepidoptera. — We wish to obtain, either by purchase or exchange, live
larvae or pupae of Ecpantheria scribonia and images of Erebus odora. —
Field Brothers, Milton, Mass.

Wanted. —Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from all sections. Will exchange
works on Entomology, Zoology and Botany, and works relating to the
languages of the N. A. Indian. Send for list. —Win. D. Doan, Box, 377,
Coatesville, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Am in want of live papae of Papilios and Pierids, and
imagos in papers, especially varieties from any part of U. S. Can offer
in return many rare butterflies from India, Africa, Australia, etc.; also
cocoons and images of Indian, Chinese and Japanese silk moths. — John
Watson, 177 Moss Lane, East Moss Side, Manchester, England.

Lepidoptera. — Three thousand duplicates for exchange. Send list of
duplicates. Correspondence solicted. — P. C. Truman, Volga, S. Dakota.

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are added at end of the column, and only when necessary those at the top (being longest
in) are discontinued.

Coleoptera of N. Am. and Mexico wanted by purchase or exchange;
large collection. — Fred. C. Bovvditch, Tappan St., Brookline, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, Plusia balluca, nuial/ica and amp/a ; also the
Hydrcecias. Have some of the rarer eastern Noctuids for exchange.—
Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y.

Coleoptera and Hemiptera, European and exotic, also postage stamps
of Roumania, offered for American Hemiptera-Heteroptera unnamed.—
A. L. Montandon, Strada Viilor nlarete, Bucarest, Roumania.

Lepidoptera. — Good exchange or cash given for specimens of Nadata
doubledayi Pack. Also wanted any of the rarer Notodontidas and Lima-
codidre. — Harrison G. Dyar, 599 Broadway, New York City.

Coleoptera. — I wish to obtain Entomological literature in any language,
especially that treating of Coleoptera and for works not in my possession
will give good insects from the \Vest and from Alaska, mostly Coleopttra.
— H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange C. semidea, A. montattns, S. modes/a
(imagos and pupa;), and other White Mountain material. The rarer
Sphingidae preferred. — R. Ottolengui, 115 Madison Ave., N.. Y.

Lepidoptera (diurnal) of Iowa to exchange for species of same order not
in my collect on. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa.

Coleoptera. — Price-lists wanted. — Dr. E. B. Stephens, Plymouth, Mass.

Cynipidae.— Named or unnamed Cynipida; wanted by purchase or ex-
change. Always accompany the flies with their galls when possible. — C.
P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Col.

Orthoptera.— For exchange: Mexican Lepidoptera, unmounted, for lit-
erature, in any language, on N. A. Orthoptera. Also Indiana Orthoptera
for others from any part of N. A. — W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, hid.

Orthoptera.— I desire to procure, by purchase, exchange, or for identifi-
cation, specimens of the genus S^hani^t'inuii from all parts of the country.
-Albert P. Morse, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

Lepidoptera. — Cocoons and pupa; of the rarer moths, l.ina, iuipcrialis,
regalis, P. fraterna, P. pithcclnin. etc.; also fine set specimens; hybrids
from selene et luna, ceanothi &. cecropia, Gloveri et cccmpiu. List ex-
changed.— Emily L. Morton, Newburgh, N. Y. (New Windsor Deliv.)

Lepidoptera.— Prepared larva_\ live pupae, Coleoptera and Reptiles from
America desired in exchange for species of Europe. -A Voelschow,
Sch \verin in Mecklinburg, Germany.

Lepidoptera.— American diurnals wanted. Will buy or exchange. Hes-
periche and Lyca-nicke especially desired. — Henry Skinner, Academy of
Natural Sciences, Logan Square. Philadelphia, Pa.

Odonata.— Dragonflies. Species not in my collection wanted from all
parts of the world. N. American species given in exchange, or named
by special agreement— P. P. Calvert. Acad. of Nat. Sciences, Phila., Pa.

Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. — I desire to exchange speciim ns with col-
lectors in the South and West who wish toextend their collections ; cor-
respondence solicited.— F. W. Russell, M.D., Winchendon, Mass.

I am desirous of collecting in any of the Orders in Northwestern ( )hio ;
write me.— N. Sager, Jr.. Herring. P. O., Allen ( '•>., ( >hio.

Diurnal Lepidoptera. — I will 1»- pleased to correspond with collectors
with view to exchanging Lepidoptera <>l the world. I usually have
or 3000 mounted duplicates on hand, in perfect condition. A. G. Weeks.
Jr., 360 Washington St., Boston.

ii ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December,

Lepidoptera. — A few rare Indian Lepidoptera to exchange for rare spe-
cies from the Northwest.— Levi W. Mengel, Reading, Pa.

Correspondence and exchange of insects desired with young entomolo-
gists, especially in the Southern and Western States and Mexico. — Stewart
N. Dunning, 43 Niles St., Hartford, Conn.

I desire to dispose of Japanese insects by sale or exchange, and of A.
yamamai and silk-worm ova at once; correspondence solicited; refer by
per. to Prof. C. V. Riley. — Otoji Takahashi, Tokio, Japan.

Coleoptera. — A egialites Fuchsii Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xx, p. 143,
1893. 1 offer this rare and interesting species in exchange for Coleoptera
not in my coll. Address C. Fuchs, 212 Kearney St., San Francisco, Cal.

Lepidoptera. — I desire to obtain eggs or larva? of Eacles regalis and
Sphinx inodesta; will exchange for other good material. — Hermann Aich,
43 Murray St., New York.

Lepidoptera. — I have a large number of duplicates which I offer for sale
or exchange. Address G. Cleveland, 17 Elm St., Oneonta, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Hybrid cocoons of Ceanothi et Cecropia in exchange for
rare, perfect specimens of Sphingida?, Arctiidae, Bombycidae, Catocake
and Diurni not in my collection. — Dr. R. E. Kunze, 606 Third Ave., N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — I have on hand a large supply of duplicates to exchange
for insects of the same order not in my collection. Correspondents es-
pecially desired from the S. W. and N. W. part of the U. S. Send list of
duplicates to Leigh I. Holdredge, 27 Ford Ave., Oneonta, N. Y.

Lepidoptera. — Several thousand specimens taken in Utah during past
Summer for exchange; Parnasius, Chionobas, Theclas, etc.; also good
specimens from Illinois; all in papers. — A. J. Snyder, North Evanston, 111.

Lepidoptera. — Wanted, cocoons of regalis, imperial is, glover i, io, ce-
cropia, polyphemus, promcthea and others, as well as pupae, — against Le-
pidoptera of all parts of the world. — Bernard Gerhard, 1520 Lafayette
Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

Lepdoptera. — Correspondents wanted on Pacific coast, or Colorado,
with a view to exchange in Lepidoptera. — Oliver ). Staley, Marshall, Sa-
line County, Mo.

Lepidoptera. — We wish to obtain, either by purchase or exchange, live
larva? or pupa? of Ecpantheria scribonia and imagos of Erebus odora.—
Field Brothers, Milton. Mass.

Wanted. -Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from all sections. Will exchange
works on Entomology, Zoology and Botany, and works relating to the
languages of the N. A. Indian. Send for list. -\Vm. I). Doan, Box, 377,
Coatesville, Pa.

Lepidoptera. — Am in want of live pupa? of Papilios and Pierids, and
imagos in papers, especially varieties from any part of U. S. Can oifer
in return many rare butterflies from India, Africa, Australia, etc.; also
cocoons and itmgos of Indian, Chinese nml Japanese silk moths. — John
Watson, 177 Moss Lane, East Moss Side. Manchester, England.

Lepidoptera. — Three thousand duplicates for exchange. Send list of
duplicates. Correspondence solicted. — P. C. Truman, Volga, S. Dakota.

Lepidoptera. — I have for exchange a large number of duplicates of last
summer's collecting. Please write for list, Also cocoons of Cecropia and
Polyphemus,. — James Tough, 234 S. Water Street, Chicago, 111.

Lepidoptera. — I have a large number of specimens, taken in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains, for exchange. — F. Burns, Verdi, Nevada.

Orthoptera. — Wanted, by exchange or purchase, specimens of the sub-
family TettiginfS from all parts of North America ; literature also desired.
-Dr. Joseph L. Hancock, 255318! St. Chicago, 111.

Germany. — I desire to exchange German Lepidoptera and CoVoptera
for specimens from the Southern and Western Slates. — Fine specimens
and many rare ones. — Wm. Kayser, Wapakoneta, Ohio.

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