-ir ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Qu ^J, PROCEEDINGS •,a$ OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATUEAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. VOLUME XXIII, 1912. PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Associate Editor. HENRY SKINNER, M. D.( Sc. D., Editor Emeritus. ADVISORY COMMITTEE : EZRA T. CRESSON J- •*• G- REHN. PHILIP LAURENT H. W. WENZEL. PHILADELPHIA: ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, LOGAN SQUARE. 1912- The several numbers of the NEWS for 1912 were mailed at the Philadelphia Post Office as follows : January December 30, 1911 February January 31, 1912 March February 29, 1912 April March 30, 1912 May . . April 30, 1912 June May 31, 1912 July June 29, 1912 October September 30, 1912 November October 31, 1912 The date of mailing the December, 1912, number will be announced in the issue for January, 1913. PRESS OF P. C. STOCKHAUSEN PHILADELPHIA INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII. (* Indicates new generic, specific or subspecific names.) GENERAL SUBJECTS. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Entomo- logical Section, 138, 237, 384 Id., Celebration 184 American Association of Eco- nomic Entomologists 470 American Entomological So- ciety 191, 382, 482 Americans at the Interna- tional Congress of Entomol- ogy 327 Animals, Insect parasites of.. 437 Bernard scholarship in Ento- mology 358 Birds, Insect parasites of, 12, 56, 359- Bromeliadicolous insects, 80, 413, 415. Brooklyn Entomological So- ciety 238 California, Pioneer Entomolo- gists of 434 Change of names, Reason for 329 Cleaning Greasy Insects, Method of 386 Climatic conditions, Effect on development of insects 131 Collecting in South America. 277 Collecting in Tropical Amer- ica 328 Development of insects, Effects of climatic conditions on.. 131 Early insects, Scarcity of . . . 328 Economic Entomology, An- nouncement of the Journal of 129 Editorials 39, 79, 128, 178, 224, 270, 324, 363, 468. Entomological exchange, An. 232 Entomological Section (see Academy of Natural Sci- ences of Philadelphia). Entomological Society of America 469 Feldman Collecting Social, 141, 286, 386. Formic acid, Attractiveness of 131 Identifying material, Difficul- ty of 286 Infantile paralysis transmitted by the stable fly 451 Injurious to man, A locus- tid 131 Insect collection of the Amer- ican Museum of Natural History 269 Instruction and research in Biology, Station for 223 International Entomological Congress, Second, 38, 180, 373 Investigation of Okefenokee swamp 327 Lake Laboratory of Ohio State University 130 Labeling specimens 473 Length of life of Thy son nra in confinement 467 Literature, Entomological, 40, S.j, 132, 185, 233, 278, 331, 365. 4-'?. 475- Literature, Recent Entomolog- ical 281 Los Angeles Entomological Club 433 Malaria, Rice growing and. . I-M Malarial parasite, Life c\ of 221 Measuring device, A new.... S^ 11 INDEX. Medical Entomology, A Sena- tor on 425 Mimicry 192 Newark Entomological So- ciety 95 Nomenclature, Strict priority in, 181, 224, 226, 271, 300 325, 423, Nomenclature, Vote on priorr ity in 300, 423 North American insects, Frag- ments on 399, 464 Number of eggs laid by in- sects 355 Obituary: Blackburn, T .436 Bland, J. H. B 4? Bourgeois, J 48 Fletcher, J., Memorial portrait 130 Ganglbauer, L 435 Grosvenor, G. H 436 Haldeman, S. S i Harrison, A 48 Kuwayama, S 288 McCook, H. C. (No- tice of a publication) In memory of 138 Masters, G 436 Montgomery, T. H., Jr. 239 Shelford, R. W. C 3.88 Smith, J. B 192, 193 Stevens, Nettie M 288 Verrall, G. H 48 Ohio State University, Lake Laboratory of 130 Okefenokee Swamp, Investi- gation of 327 Pacific Coast Entomological Society 89 Parasites from a noctuid pupa 467 Personals : Brehme, H. H 232 Comstock, J. H 122 Horn, W 125 Kearfott, W. D 179 Tristan, J. F 180 Wasmann, E 122 Williamson, E. B 177 Plants attacked or visited by insects : Abies 320 Acacia 321 Acer 73, 167, 248 Aconituiii 459 Agave 127 Apple 209, 482 Artemisia, 396, 397, 47 1 Asclepias 459 Ash 9, 209 Bass-wood 317 Coffee-bean 209 Berlandicra 459 Bidens 68 Blephilia 458 Box Elder 169 Brassica 256 Buck bush (see Ceano- thus) . Callirhoc 459 Campanula 459 Canna, 130, 203 Carpinus 168 Ceanothus 81, 102 Celtis 317 Cerasus 256 Cherry (see Prunus}. Cirsium 256 Citrus 73, 7-1 Cornus 166 Cotton 3i7 Cowpeas 3*7 Drymocallis 446 Elm 209 Eriocauloit 457 Eupatoritim 176 Fir (see Abies). INDEX. m Geranium 445 Golden Rod 318, 467 (See also Solidago.) Grape 209, 467 Grind elia 446 Gynandropsis 317 Hclianthus 256 Hickory 208 Hydrophyllnm 458 Iresine 327 Iron Weed (see Ver- nonia). Lepidagathis 176 Linden 209 Locust (see Robinia). Leersia 68 Maize 317 Maple (see Acer). Melilotus 459 Monkshood (see Aconi- tum). Mulberry (see Celtis). Oaks (see Quercus). Opuntia 459 Orange, 317 (see also Citrus). Ostrya 167 Pastinaca 459 Peach 482 Pecan 209 Pentstcmon 445 Pisonia 174, 353 Plum, 209, 482 (see also Prunus). Poplar 209 Potato 317 Potentilla 445 Prunus 3 Psoralea 450 Quercus 2, 3, 164, 472 Ranunculus 463 Rhits 3 Rice 31? Robinia 164, 209 Rose Ruellia Sage Brush (see Arte- • misia). Sagittaria Salicornia Salix 209, Salsoka Solidago Specularia Sphaeralcea Stachytarpha Sugar Cane Sumach (see Rhus). Sycamore Tomato Trumpet-creeper Utricularia Verbena Vernonia Viburnum Walnut Wild Cherry Willow (see Salix). Ze.ruiciiia , Postal regulations concern- ing insects Puget Sound Marine Stan Rice growing and malaria. . . . School of Entomology in Cen- tral Park, N. Y South America, Collecting in. Tropical America. ('"llectiim 82 .176 45fi 249 44'' 459 .446 177 209 317 317 J" 4" in Tracheae, Splitting insert ... Vitality of insects in cyanide jar Water Gap, Collect ing at the. Reviews : ler C"i! tionale d'F.titnm. • '• Mem- 'ires I'arnes ,V iimi.viir> Contl 318 447 -77 214 Mil 417 -'77 328 I-1-1 ' II IV INDEX. to the Natural His- tory of the Lepidop- tera of N. A. 88, 189, 480 Hewitt's House flies and How They Spread Disease 479 Junk's Bibliographia Coleopterologica 191 Longstaff's Butterfly- Hunting in Many Lands 236 Oberthur's Etudes de Lepidopterologie Cbm- paree 371 Poulton's Polymorph- ism in a Group of Mimetic Butterflies . . . of the Genus Pseudacraea 480 Sanderson's Insect Pests of Farm, Gar- den and Orchard 188 Sanderson & Jackson's Elementary Entomol- ogy 432 Seitz's Macrolepidoo- tera of the World.. 481 Walker's No. American Dragon-flies of the genus Aeshna 283 ARACHNIDA. americana, Misumena 248 Argiope 248 aleatorea, Rucinia 248 cunctator, Xysticus 248 Dendryphantes 248 Eriophyes galls 176 Ixodidae (review of in Das Tierreich) 46 labyrinthea, Metepeira 248 Metepeira 248 Misumena 248 octavus, Dendryphantes 248 Phidippus 248 Philodromoides 248 pratdriae, Philodromoides . . 248 Red Spider, Notes on the molting of 145 Rucinia 248 telarius, Tetranychus 145 Tetranychus 145 texanus, Phidippus 248 trifasciata, Argiope 248 Xysticus 248 COLEOPTERA. abietis*, Tetropium 320 aeneus, Meloe 37 affabilis, Anillus 322 Agrabia 448 Anatis 422 Anillus 322 arborea*, Lytta 34, 323 Arizona, C. of ..93, 140, 286, 484 Arkansas, New Dicaelus from 77 attenuata, Gyronycha 125 Bamona 124 Barids, Mexican 364 Bembidium 156 bertrandi, Zonabris 30 bicolor var. fuamboensis, Eletica 31 bicolor, Rhynchites 82 bieti*, Lytta 33 blaisdelli, Cantharis 323 Brachyacantha 449 bridu'elli* , Nemognatha . .,. . . 37 Bruchus 320 brunneostictus*, Bruchus . . . 322 California, C. of 91, 94 calif ornicus, Thicanus ...... 156 Calospasta 37 Cantharis 323 caseyi*, Anatis 422 Cave, C. of 91 Central American C. 182 INDEX. Cerambycidae from Harris- burg, (Pa.), and vicinity.. 308 chodshentica, Zonabris 30 Cicindela 156, 244, 385, 387 cinerascens, Elaphidion 172 cinerea, Epicauta 465 Coccinella 448 Coccinellidae, Studies amongst the 448 cochisiensis*, Scymnillus 451 Coition of Cicindela rugifrons and modesta 385 C. at Ceanothus in Virginia. 105 concavus, Lixus 401, 474 Courting habit of Epicauta.. 465 Creniastocheilus 244 crux var. opulentus, Zonabris. 30 depresses*, Bruchus 321 Dicaelus 77 dicincta, Zonabris 30 discopterus, Bruchus 322 Eburia 172 Elaphidion 172 elegantissimus var. confluens, Zonabris 30 Eletica 30 Epicauta 31, 465 euphratica, Zonabris 30 falli*, Hyperaspis 450 fasciculata, Zonabris 30 fcnyesi, Brachyacantha 450 flagellaria, Lytta 32 formosensis*, Epicauta 31 fortis, Anillus 322 fovcolatum, Tylodenna 347 friifida, Adalia 449 frolovi, Zonabris 30 gigantca, Hornia 260 grandior*, Necrophorus 307 grandis, Anthonomus 352 guttula, Necrophorus 307 Gyronycha, A critical study.. 123 Gyronychina 125 Harrisburg (Pa.) Ceramby- cidae from 308 hauseri, Zonabris 30 hecatef, Onthophagus 244 Hibernation of Cicindela senilis 156 hildebrandti, Lytta 32 hoppingi*, Lytta 35, 323 Hornia 260 humboldtiensis*, Coccinella 448 humcrosa, Zonabris 30 Hydrophilus, Notice of a monograph of 130 Hyperaspis 323, 450 idae*, Hyperaspis 450 imperialis*, Calospasta 37 incomoda, Cantharis 323 indistincta, Bembidium 156 insularis var. montalbana*, Epicauta 32 intermedia, Zonabris 30 julianus, Bruchus 320 Kansas, C. of 387 konigi, Zonabris 30 lateralis, Hyperaspis 450 latreillei, Meloe 37 lengi*, Brachyacantha 449 Lixus 401, 474 lucens, Zonabris 30 lugens, Lytta 323 Lytta 32, 323 Lyttidae, New species, with notes 29, 92 mac er, Lixus 474 maculata, Megilla 347, 350 maculifrons, Meloe 37 major*, Bruchus 321 Meloe 37 Mexican Barids, Notes on.. 364 Mexico and Central America, Weevils of iS_- moercns, Eletica 30 wutabilis, Allorhina 14.2 mysticallis*, Necrophorus . . . 307 Necrophorus 307 Nemognatha ^7 nenuphar, Conotrachclits 348 VI INDEX. New Jersey, C. of . 143. 385 North American species of Necrophoms 307 Note on Anatis i$-punctata, and caseyi n. sp 422 Notes on C 320 Nothornia 320 nunenmacheri*, Lytta ....36, 323 ocellatus*, Dicaclus 77 ochreolineatus, Bruchus .... 321 Onthophagus 244 Oviposition of the weevil Lixus concavus 401, 474 Pennsylvania C 287, 308, 387 perforatus, Polypleurus 143 plicata, Chlamys 350 ploribunda, Hyperaspis 451 pallidipennis, Eletica 31 posthuma, Zonabris 30 pubescens, Stromatium 172 pullus, Bruchus 322 punctulata, Cicindela 244 4- geminata, Eburia 172- i$-punctata, Anatis 422 reticulatum, Calopteron 144 Rhynchites 82 robusta, Bamona 124 rufa var. grandiceps*, Eletica. 30 saucius, Cremastocheilus .... 244 scabiosae, Zonabris 30 scaphinus, Exochomus 142 scarabaeoides, Sphaeridium. . . 82 Scynmillus 451 sicardi*, Agrabia 448 sicardi var. complexa*, Agra- bia 448 simulans, Hyperaspis 451 senilis, Cicindela 156 Sphaeridium 82 staudingeri, Zonabris 30 Stromatium i. . 172 stygica, Lytti 323 subsplendidula, Zonabris .... 30 Tetropium 320 Texas, C. of 140, 286, 383 Thicanus 1 56 tricuspis, Coccinella 449 trifasciata, Coccinella 449 Tyloderma 317 unicolor, Elaphidion 172 valens, Gyronycha 124 villosum, Elaphidion 172 Virginia, C. at Ceanothus in. 105 wolcotti, Hyperaspis 323 Zonabris 30 DIPTERA. abdominalis, Arthrocnodix . . 176 abdominalis, Trineura 356 aequus, Pipunculus 453 af finis, Pipunculus 453 Africa, D. of 237 Agromyza 463 albipennis, Bibio 351 albofasciatus, Pipunculus . . . 455 alexanderi, Elliptera 418 amazona*, Gonomyia ....418, 420 Amphinome 7° analis, Archytas 247 Aneurina 3S7 Anisopus 41? annulata, Phora 357 Aphiochaeta 3^7 appendipes, Pipunculus 456 Archytas 247 arcuata, Gymnophora 3S7 Arthrocnodax 176 Asphondylia 174, 353 Atarba 418 Atherix IC0 atramontensis, Pipunculus . . 455 aterrima, Trineura 356 atratus, Tabanus 246 badai, Furcomyia 69 Bibio 356 bicolor, Phora 357 binotatus, Telostylus 391 biscaynei*, Pipunculus 453 INDEX. VI 1 Borborid from an epiphytic bromeliad 413 hrct'is, Pipunculus 453 Bromeliad-inhabiting crane- fly 415 bromeliadicola*, Along oma ... 415 bromeliarum*, Liuiisona .... 414 Bruggmanniella 174, 354 lininnca*, Syringogaster 349 California, D. of 433 Californian Indians, Flies as food of 159 Calliphora 329 caiiadcnsis, Geranomyia 67 Cecidomyia 472 Chrysops 247 Cincticoniia 174, 353 coccidi'i'ora, Mycodiplosis ... 175 constrictus, Pipunculus 454 craigheadi*, Microdon 463 Cryptolabris 70 dalbergiae, Ulcella 353 davisi*, Agromyza 463 Diploneura 357 D. at Ceanothus in Virginia. . 109 dohrni, Dorniphora 358 domestica, Musca 238, 247 Dorniphora 358 Eastern States, Pipunculidae of 452 Elliptera 418 F.phydra 1 59 femoratns. Pipunciihis 454 Hdcl is, Rhipidia 68 flara, Phora 357 flora. Sacandaga 71 flazricornis, Phora 357 flaripalpis, Phora 357 Flies as food of California Indians 159 florea, Bibio .156 •foliora, Cecidomyia 472 fuliginosa, Phora 357 Furcomyia 68 fuscipcs, Phora 357 fuscus, Pipunculus 453 Generic names in Phoridae.. 356 Geranomyia 67 gladiator, Furcomyia 68 globithora.Y Furcomyia 70 globosus*, Pipunculus 453 Gobrya 393 Gonomyia 418 Gymnophora 3^7 hilterata, Furcomyia 60 houghi, Pipunculus 4^4 Hyperdiplosis 177 immatura, Amphinomc 70 iminodesta, Furcomyia 68 indigcna, Amphinomc 70 hictus, .Microdon . . . ., 463 latcralis. Pipunculus 454 Leiponeura 418 liberta, Furcomyia 69 Limosina 41.4 List of generic names for the "Official list of Zoo- logical names." 229 longipennis, Furcomyia 68 lutea, Phora 357 maccus, Telostylus 391 Macrotoma 390 maculata, Phora 357 maculata, Rhipidia 68 manca, Gonomyia 418 meridionalis*, Arthrocnodax . 176 mc.ricana, Bruggmanniella . . 35^ Microdon 463 Mongoma 415 morioides. Furcomyia 69 Musca -'47. 356 Mycodiplosis 175 Ncrius 39" Xew Jersey, D. of |Sj New Neotropical D Nr\v Tropical Gonomyia ... New York, Tipulidae of 66 nigra, Phora 357 Vlll INDEX. North American D 463 Nothybus 3QO Obelosia 357 Observations on Uleella 353 opaca, Phora 357 pallipes, Phora 357 pallipes, Pipunculus 455 paradoxa, Cryptolabis 70 pennipes, Mongoma 417 Pennsylvania, D. of 141, 142, 143, 144, 386, 387- perparva, Limosina 415 Phora 356, 357 picturatus, Anisopus 417 pilicornis*, Traginops 395 Pipunculidae from the East- ern U. S 452 Pipunculus 452 pisoniae*, Bruggmanniella . . . 174 pisoniae, Uleella 354 pisonifolia*, Uleella 353 pleuralis, Atarba 418 pleuralis, Gonomyia 419 producta*, Hyperdiplosis 177 pubipennis, Furcomyia 69 puella, Atarba 418 pulicaria, Phora 357 pulvmariac*, Mycodiplosis . . 175 pusilla, Phora 357 reipublicae, Pipunculus 455 remipcs, Coenurgia 391 Rhabdo)iiastix ?i Rhipidia 68 rostrata, Geranotnyia 67 rostrifera, Furcomyia 68 rufa, Phora 357 rufa*, Syringogaster 393 ritfipennis, Phora 357 rufipes, Phora 357 Sacandaga 71 scapularis, Phora 357 Schisomyia • 174, 353 siuiulans, Furcomyia 70 simulans, Gobrya 393 similis, Pipunculus 456 solidaginis, Trypeta 467 solitaria, Amphinome 70 South American D 389, 418 stigmata, Furcomyia 69 Stratiomyia 247 subvirescens, Pipunculus 456 Syringogaster* 392 Tabanus ( 246 Telostylus 390 thoracica, Trineura 357 Tipulidae of Fulton County (N. Y.) 66 Traginops 395 translate, Pipunculus 456 Trineura 356 triocellata, Amphinome 70 Trisometopia 357 tristigma, Amphinome 70 Trypeta 467 Uleella 353 urbana, Phora 357 variegata, Atherix 162 vicinia, Phora 357 Virginia, D. at Ceanothus in. 109 vittatus*, Telostylus 390 vomitoria, Calliphora 329 vulgaris, Phora 357 West Indian gall midges ... 173 HEMIPTERA. (See Rhynchota) HYMENOPTERA. abbottii, Lophyrus 403 advena, Halictus 457 Alcidamea 444 Ammophila 244 A ndrena 45& annulatus, Odynerus ....248, 250 Anthemiella 297 Anthemus 297 Anthidium 256, 445 Anthophila 248, 259 Aphelinoidea 297 Aphelinus 82 Aphid-infesting species of Aphelinus 82 apiczle, Dianthidium 445 arizonensis, Xylocopa 444 aureocinctum*, Hypanthidium. 444 INDEX. IX automatus, Aphelinus 83 bakeri, Panurginus 446 Bembex 247 bicolor, Rhodites 466 bidentis, Panurginus 447 bhittatum, Anthidium 445 Bombus 459 boylei, Panurginus 446 brcvicornis, Colletes 459 caeruleum, Chlorion 247 calif arnica, Hoplocampa .... 472 Callirhytis ( 2, 465 Chalcidid from Guatemala.. 318 Chalcidoid parasites from a noctuid pupa 467 Chalcidoidea, Notes on 296 Chlorion 246 cimbicis, Nesomyia 82 Colletes 459 concinnum? Dianthidium .... 256 Conura 318 cookei, Dolcrus 472 Corrections to previous pa- pers in the Mymaridae . . 298 Corrections to some papers on the Chalcidoidea 209 Crabro 248 cressoniellus, Panurginus . . . 445 cressoniellus, var. calochorti, Panurginus 445 curvatum, Dianthidium 257 cuscutae-formis, Diastrophus.. 467 dakotensis, Melitoma 2^8 Dianthidium 256, 445 Diastrophus 466 Dolerus 472 Egg parasitism, A case of ... 81 Epeolus 457 Eustypiura 319 Evylaeus 458 Exomalopsis 447 flavomarginatum, Hypanthi- dium 445 foraminatus, Odynerus 255 Galls of Rhodites bicolor . . . 466 yeminus, Odynerus 2=53 gerstackerit Bombus 459 grisella, Melitoma 248, 258 Guatemala, Chalcidid from.. 318 Halictoides 457 Halictus 255, 457 Hoplocampa 472 H. New records of /\/\ \ H. at Ceanothus in Virginia. 106 Hypanthidium 444 illinoiensis, Panurginus 446 innuptus, Panurginus 446 innuptus, var. absonus*, Pa- nurginus 446 interruptus, Crabro 248 interruptum, Dianthidium .. 257 Kansas H., Biological Notes on 241 labrosiformis distractus*, Pa- nurginus 447 Lophyrus 403 maculifrons, Anthidium 256 Megachile 257 Melitoma 248, 258 minutum, Trichogramma .... 81 Myrmica 2.12 nebulosus, Diastrophus 466 nelumbonis, Evylaeus .^8 nclumbonis, Halictus 457 neomexicanus, Panurginus . . . 446 Nesomyia 82 niger americanus, Lasius . .347, 350 nigrinus, Panurginus 446 norae-angliae, Halictoides . . 457 occidcntalis, Anthophila ..248, 259 occidentalis, Halictus 255 occidentalis, Pogonomyrmc.v 242 Odynerus 248, 250, 253, 255 Oligotropic hees 457 Ophioninae, A review 43 opuntiae, Colletes 459 orpifex, Xylocopa .1-14 Oviposition of a hymenopter- ous egg parasite . . . 329 panis. Parallelaptera 298 vm INDEX. North American D 463 Nothybus 3QO Obelosia 357 Observations on Uleella 353 opaca, Phora 357 pallipes, Phora 357 pallipes, Pipunculus 455 paradoxa, Cryptolabis 70 pennipes, Mongoma 417 Pennsylvania, D. of 141, 142, 143, 144, 386, 387- perparva, Limosina 415 Phora 356, 357 picturatus, Anisopus 417 pilicornis*, Traginops 395 Pipunculidae from the East- ern U. S 452 Pipunculus 452 pisoniae*, Bruggmanniella . . . 174 pisoniae, Uleella 354 pisonifolia*, Uleella 353 pleuralis, Atarba 418 pleuralis, Gonomyia 419 producta*, Hyperdiplosis 177 pubipennis, Furcomyia 69 puella, Atarba 418 pulicaria, Phora 357 fculvinariae*, Mycodiplosis . . 175 pusilla, Phora 357 reipublicae, Pipunculus 455 remipes, Coenurgia 391 Rhabdomastix 71 Rhipidia 68 rostrata, Geranomyia 67 rostrifera, Furcomyia 68 rufa, Phora 357 rufa*, Syringogaster 393 rufipennis, Phora 357 rufipes, Phora 357 Sacandaga 71 scapularis, Phora 357 Schizomyia i .... 174, 353 simulans, Furcomyia 70 simulans, Gobrya 393 similis, Pipunculus 456 solidaginis, Trypeta 467 solitaria, Amphinome 70 South American D 389, 418 stigmata, Furcomyia 69 Stratioinyia 247 subvirescens, Pipunculus .... 456 Syringogaster* 392 Tabanus , 246 Telostylus 390 thoracica, Trineura 357 Tipulidae of Fulton County (N. Y.) 66 Traginops 395 translates, Pipunculus 456 Trineura 356 triocellata, Amphinome 70 Trisometopia 357 tristigma, Amphinome 70 Trypeta 467 Uleella 353 urbana, Phora 357 variegata, Atherix 162 vicinia, Phora 357 Virginia, D. at Ceanothus in. 109 vittatus*, Telostylus 390 vomitoria, Calliphora 329 vulgaris, Phora 357 West Indian gall midges . . . 173 HEMIPTERA. (See Rhynchota) HYMENOPTERA. abbottii, Lophyrus 403 advcna, Halictus 457 Alcidainea 444 Ammophila 244 A ndrena 458 annulatus, Odynerus . . . .248, 250 Anthemiella 297 Anthemus 297 Anthidium 256, 445 Anthophila 248, 259 Aphelinoidea 297 Aphelinus 82 Aphid-infesting species of Aphelinus 82 apicale, Diant Indium 445 arizonensis, Xylocopa 444 aureocinctum*, Hypanthidium. 444 INDEX. IX antomatus, Aphelinns 83 bakeri, Panurginus 446 Bembex 247 bicolor, Rhodites 466 bidentis, Panurginus 447 bivittatum, Anthidium 445 Bombus 459 boy lei, Panurginus 446 brcvicornis, Colletes 459 caeruleum, Chlorion 247 calif arnica, Hoplocampa .... 472 Callirhytis i 2, 465 Chalcidid from Guatemala.. 318 Chalcidoid parasites from a noctuid pupa 467 Chalcidoidea, Notes on 296 Chlorion 246 cimbicis, Nesomyia 82 Colletes 459 concinnum? Dianthidium .... 256 Conura 318 cookei, Dolcrus 472 Corrections to previous pa- pers in the Mymaridae . . 298 Corrections to some papers on the Chalcidoidea 209 Crabro 248 cressoniellus, Panurginus . . . 445 cressoniellus, var. calochorti, Panurginus 445 curvatum, Dianthidium 257 cuscutaeformis, Diastrophus.. 467 dakotensis, Melitoma 2^8 Dianthidium 256, 445 Diastrophus 466 Dolerus 472 Egg parasitism, A case of ... 81 Epeolus , 457 Eustypiura , 3X9 Evylaeus 4.58 Exomalopsis 447 flavomarginatum, Hypanthi- dium 445 foraminatus, Odynerus 255 Galls of Rhodites bicolor . . . 466 geminus, Odynerus 253 gerstackeri, Bombus 459 grisella, Melitoma 248, 258 Guatemala, Chalcidid from.. 318 Halictoides 457 Halictus 255, 457 Hoplocampa d72 H. New records of 444 H. at Ceanothus in Virginia. 106 Hypanthidium ^/i | illinoiensis, Panurginus 446 innuptus, Panurginus 446 innuptus, var. absonus*, Pa- nurginus 446 interruptus, Crabro 248 interruptum, Dianthidium . . 257 Kansas H., Biological Notes on 241 labrosiformis distractus*, Pa- nurginus 447 Lophyrus 403 maculifrons, Anthidium 256 Megachile 257 Melitoma 248, 258 minutum, Trichogramma .... 8l Myrmica 242 nebulosus, Diastrophus 466 nelumbonis, Evylaeus 4";8 nelumbonis, Halictus 457 neomexicanus, Panurginus . . . 446 Nesomyia 82 niger americanus, Lasius. .347, 350 nigrinus, Panurginus 446 norae-angliae, Halictoides . . 457 occidentalis, Anthophila . .248, 2=59 occidentalis, Halictus 255 occidentalis, Pogonomyrmex . 242 Odynerus 248, 250, 253, 255 Oligotropic bees 457 Ophioninae, A review 43 opuntiae, Colletes 459 orpifex, Xylocopa 444 Oviposition of a hymenopter- ous egg parasite 329 panis, Parallelaptera 298 INDEX. Panurginus 445 Panurgus 446 Parallelapter-a 297 pauper flaz'otinctus, Panur- ginus 446 Pennsylvania, H. of 484 picipes, Panurgus 446 picipes, Panurginus 447 picitarsis*, Panurginus .147 plutella*, Aphelinoidca 297 Pogononiyrmex 242 Polistes 246, 255 pulchclla, E.voinalopsis 447 punctata, Callirhytis 2 reniformis, Odynerus 2=;2 renimaculatus, Panurginus . . 446 rex, Anthcnriella 297 rex, Parallelaptera 298 Rhodites 466 rodriguezi*, Eustypiura 319 rudbeckiae, Panurginus 446 sayi, Bembex 247 semifuscipennis, Aphelinoidea. 297 seminator, Callirhytis 465 septemdentatum, Anthidiuni . . 257 simplex, Alcidamca 444 Smicra 319 Solenozopheria 465 speciosus. Stilus 246 Spiloclialcis 319 Stilus 246 Synonymy of an economic species of saw fly 472 texense, Trypoxylon ....248, 258 'thyridopterygis, Habrocytus 349 Tricho gramma 81 Trypoxylon 248 United States, A new Trich- ogrammatid from 296 urnaria, Anunophila 245 vaccinii, Solenozopheria 465 variatus, Polistes 255 verus, Panurginus 445 Virginia, H. at Ceanothus in 106 Xylocopa 444 scxmemae*, Exomalopsis . . . 447 LEPIDOPTERA. abbotii, Sphecodina 467 acreae, Estigmene 406, 464 Actias 208 affinis, Thecla 3 Agnomonia 213 A gratis nili, A. ypsilon 132 albogalleriella, Opostega . . . 165 <4letia • + 83, 139, 184 amatrix, Catocala 212 americani, Malacosoma .... 401 ainica, Catocala 213 amyntor, Ceratomia 9, n aitilis, Agnomonia 213 A nosia 407 Antherea 207 Anthochnris belia 132 antiopa, Euuanessa 407 argillacea, Aletia 83, 139, 184 atalanta Pyramcis 329, 483 atrcus> Caligo 473 Automeris 403 Bandcra 472 bclfrageclla, Gracilaria 166 brunsi ab. conjuncta*, Hcinil- cuca 97 cachara, Caligula 208 California, L. of 89 calif oniica, I'aucssa 8r Caligo 473 Caligula 207 calleta, Callosainia 228 callcta, Bupackardia 228 Callosainia 228 Calpodes 130, 203 cara, Catocala 211 catalpae, Ceratomia ,.95, 407 Catocala 207 Catocalae, Dry year's yield of 207 INDEX. XI catullus, Pholisora 253 Ceratomia 407 Chamber's species of Tineina 163 chersis, Sphinx n Chrysopeleia 164 Chrysophanus 81 cleopatra*, Ghnra 55 clytie, Thecla 49, 344 Coleophora 163 commixtalis, Loxostege 249 contagionis, Euxoa 472 Cossid, A new 55 Cricula 207 cupidinella, Bandera 472 Datana 399 dumetorum, Thecla 3 electellum, Homoeosoma .... 472 electro ab. rickseckeri*, Hemileuca 97 ephemeraeformis, Thyridop- teryx 403 Epicallima 170 Erebus 81 Estigmene 406, 464 ethlins, Calpodes 130, 203 Eudamus 130 Eupackardia* 228 Eupithecia 442 Euvanessa 407 Euxoa 472 field ella*, Thaumalopsis 221 flebilis, Cat oca-la 208 franckii, Sphinx 9 frugiperda, Laphygma : 405 furciferata, Sabulodcs 53 Gelechia 472 Gii'ira 55 Gracilaria 166 grynea, Catocala 212 habilis, Catocala . .K 214 hebraicum, Polygranunate .. 172 Hemileuca 97 Homoeosoma 472 Hyloicus 9 ilia, Catocala 208 illecta, Catocala 207 ines, Thecla 49, 344 itiiuibcns, Catocala 208 im'ariabilis, Gelechia 472 io, Automcris 403 jamaicensis var. flaritincta*, Smerinthus 127 Judith, Catocala 208 kalmiae, Sphinx 11 lachrymosa, Catocala 21^, Laphygma 405 leda, Thecla 49, 344 Lemonias 81 Loxostege 248, 472 luciana, Catocala 214 lucid ell a*, Epicallima 170 Lycacna 81 magnella, Paltodera 472 Malacosoma 401 mariposa, Chrysophanus .... 81 Megalopyge 464 Megathymus 126 Mesosemia 126 Mimicry 192 ministra, Datana 399 Missouri, L. of St. Louis 203 mormo, Lemonias 81 multiscripta, Eupithecia 442 nebulosa, Catocala 208 negundella, Gracilaria 169 neogama, Catocala 212 ncninocgeni stephensi*, Mciia- thymus 126 New butterflies. Two 126 New generic names in L 228 New Hampshire, Tropical but- terfly in 473 New Jersey, L. of 95, 96, M4, 386, 483- New Microlepidoptera 219 Noctuid pupa, Number of chalcidoid parasites from a 467 Noctuelia 220 Xll INDEX. North American Saturnidae. . 97 odoratus, Erebus 81 opercularis, Megalopyge 464 Opostega 165 ostryaeella, Gracilaria 167 palaeogama, Catocala 213 pallulellus*, Schoenobus 220 Paltodora 472 Papilio 480 paulina, Catocala 214 Pennsylvania, L. of ..140, 170, 388 perillata*, Eupithecia 442 philanga, Catocala 213 Pholisora 253 piatrix, Catocala 211 Pieris rapae I31 Planema 480 plexippus, Anosia 4°7 polycena, Thais 207 Polygrammate I72 Prodenia littoralis 132 Protective attitudes of cater- pillars 399 Protective resemblance in a satyrid chrysalis 471 Pseudacrea 4?° puertalis*, Noctuelia 220 Pupal stage of Anosia plexip- pus 407 Pupation of Euvanessa antiopa 407 purpuriella, Chrysopdeia 164 Pyrameis 7?9 ramsdeni*, Mcsoscmia 126 relicta, Catocala 211 residua, Catocala 213 retecta, Catocala 208 robinsoni, Catocala 214 roylei, Anther ea 208 rubrofascia, Sesia 122 Sabulodes 53 St. Louis and vicinity during 1911, L. of 203 Saturnidae of the genus Hemi- leuca, Some 97 Satyrus 246,47! Schoenobus 220 scintillans, Catocala 213 selene, Actias 208 Sesia 122 shasta, Lycaena 81 sheridani, Thecla 6 Smerinthus 127 Sphecodina 467 Sphinx 9 Spring and summer forms of Sabulodes 53 sticticalis, Loxostege 248, 251, 472 sulphurata, Sabulodes 53 Swarming at light, A phyci- tid moth 472 Thais 207 Thaumatopsis 221 Thecla 3- 49, 344 Thyridopteryx 403 tityrus, Eudanius 130 trifenestrata, Cricula 208 United States, L. of 81 ultronia, Catocala 213 uranus, Caligo 473 Vanessa 81, 131 vernoniaeella, Coleophora 163 vidua, Catocala 208, 213 viduata, Catocala 214 viridis, Thecla 6, 8 Western U. S. L., Notes on 81 MALLOPHAGA. acanthus, Docophorus 57 actophilus, Nirmus 61 Alaskan birds, M. from 12 armiferus*, Heterodoxus . . . 362 baculus, Lipcurus 62 bccki, Menopon 65 becki, Philoceanus 62 bicaudcttus*, Gyropus 441 breviantennatus, Docophorus. 58 calif ornicus, Trichodectes .... 440 calif orniensis var. quadripus- tnlatus*, Docophorus 57 caracarensis*, Nirmus 59 INDEX. xiii castoris, Trichodecles 437 climax, Trichodectes 438 Colpocephalum 15, 63, 305 communis, Docophorus 12 complexivus, Nirmus 13, 61 concinnus, Lipeurus 62 confidens, Lipeurus 62 corporosum, Menopon 17 corpulentus*, Goniodes 14 cursor, Docophorus 12 descrepans, Goniodes 14 diffusum, Physostomum 65 dissimile, Menopon 65 diversus, Lipeurus 62 Docophorus 12, 57 dominicanum*, Colpocephalum 63 ductilis, Nirmus 61 enprepes, Nirmus 13, 59 Eurymetopus 63 faralloni, Lipeurus .......... 62 faralloni, Nirmus 58 fasciatus var. arcuatus*, Physostomum 65 felix, Nirmus 61 fiarescens, Colpocephalum ... 63 forficula, Trichodectes 438 fuliginosus, Lipeurus 62 funebre, Colpocephalum .... 63 fusiformus, Docophorus .... 13 geomydis, Trichodectes 437 Giebelia 62 gloriosus, Nirmus 58 Goniodes 14 gracilicornis, var. major, Lipeurus 62 gracilis, Gyropus 441 Gyropus 441 Haematopinus 468 Heterodoxus 360 iscerodes, Docophorus 13 infectus var. conncxus, Nirmus 13 infrequens, Menopon 65 insolitus, Docophorus 58 jenningsi, Menopon 442 lari, Docophorus 13, 57 latifasciatus, Nirmus 58 limitatus, Lipeurus 63 lineolatus var. atrimirginatus, Nirmus ; . 13 Lipeurus 15, 62 lucidus*, Nirmus 60 macropus, Heterodoxus 361 M. from Alaskan birds ...;.. 12 M. from islands off Lower California 56 M. from mammals 437 melanococcus, Nirmus 59 Menopon 17, 65, 359, 361, 442 mephitidis, Trichodectes 437 milleri, Colpocephalum .<.... 63 minutus, Trichodectes 439 mirabilis, Giebelia 62 maritimus, Nirmus 61 montereyi, Docophorus 58 morsitans*, Colpocephalum ... 15 nesiotes*, Nirmus 60 Nirmus 13, 58 ochropygus, Nirmus 61 octomaculatus* Trichodectes . 438 ovalis, Gyropus 441 painei*, Colpocephalum 305 paraleUus, Trichodectes 438 parumpilosus, Trichodectes . . 438 parriccps, Lipeurus 15 paululum, Menopon 65 phacochoeri, Hae'natopinus .. 468 Philoceanus 62 Physostomum 65 platystomus, Docophorus .... 57 protervus, Lipeurus 15 retusus, Trichodectes 439 scalaris, Trichodectes 438 setosus, Trichodectes 437 singularis, Menopon 65 speotyti, Docophorus 58 spiniger, Menopcn 361 subhastatum, Ph.'sostomum . 65 subpachygaster, Colpocephalum 305 XIV INDEX. subrostratus, Trichodectes . . 438 taurus, Eurymetopus 63 testaceus, Lipeurus 63 tigrum*, Colpocephalum 64 Trichodectes 437 unciferum, Colpocephalum . . 63 NEUROPTERA (excl Mallophaga and Odonata). alafimbriata*, Mystacidcs .... 19 Atomyia 17 bettenii*, Grammataulius .... 18 bromeliarum, Phylloicus .... 80 calif ornicus, Peripsociis 268 Chauliodes 172 cornuta, Corydalis 172 Corydalis 172 elegans, Megaraphidia 216 exhumata, Raphidia 215 formosa, Rhyacophila 171 Fossil Raphidia , 215 Glossosoma 17 Grammataulius 18 Hamitermes 269 Megaraphidia 216 mortua, Raphidia 215 Mystacides ig notata, Raphidia 216 Oregon Trichoptera 17 pectinicornis, Chauliodes .... 172 Phylloicus 80 plutonis, Wormaldia 172 Psychomyidae 17 Raphidia 215 rhodopica, Raphidia . ., 216 Rhyacophila 171 termitorum*, Vulhirops .... 269 Vulturopinae, a new subfamily of Psocidae 266 Vulturops*, 267 Wormaldia 172 ODONATA. Aeshna 294 Argia 196 berenice, Hrythrodiplax 387 charadraea, Somatochlora . . 153 Coition of Anax , 138 compositus, Erpetogomphus . 289 constricta, Aeshna 294 Costa Rican 0 289 designates, Erpetogomphus . . 289 diadophis, Erpetogomphus . . 294 claps, Erpetogomphus 290 Erpetogomphus 290 Florida, O. of 387 Germany, Mecistogaster in . . 483 Gomphus 294 Hctaerina 98 Indian Superstition concerning a Mecistogaster . . . .\ 364 Indiana Somatochloras 152 intruda*, Argia 200 linearis, Somatochlora i ^3 Mecistogaster 304, 483 moesta, Argia 196 Newfoundland, O. of 140 New Jersey, O. of 484 ophibolus, Erpetogomphus . 294 Pennsylvania, O. of 387, 484 putrida, Argia 196 Somatochlora i.S2 tencbrosa, Somatochlora .... 152 titia. Hetaerina 98 tricolor, Hctaerina 08 tristani*, Erpetogomphus. .290, 384 uinbrosa, Aeshna 294 ORTHOPTERA. abbreviates, Gryllus 247 African Eumastacinae 262 Africa, O. of Central 238 Amblycorypha 462 angustipcnnis, Oecanthus .... 460 Anaxipha Ji i Atlantic Coast, New O. of in Brachytypus 262 burri*, Brachytypus 262 Ceratites 232 Ccutophihts 247 columbiana, Cyrtoxipha 460 INDEX. xv curtipennis, Stenobothrus .... 462 curvicauda, Scuddcria 462 Cyrtoxipha 411, 460 danica, Locusta 3S5 delicatula, Cyrtoxipha 411 Dendrotettix 2 depressifrons, Thericles .... 264 Enyaliopsis durandi 131 Etoblattina 228 exigua, Anaxipha 412 Falcicula 412 fasciatus var. vittatus, Nemo- bius 461 gnu, Thericles 263 Gryllus 247, 461 hcbardi, Palcicula 412 Injurious to man, A Locustid 131 insutaris, Brachytypus 262 latipennis, Oecanthus 461 Locustid injurious to man . . 131 macro pygia*, Thericles 263 Nemobhis 461 New generic names in 0 232 nigropleuroides*, Xiphidium 116, 232 uii'cus, Oecanthus 460 Oecautlnts 460 Orocharis 460 pennsylvanicus, Gryllus 461 pulicaria, Anaxipha 412 quadripunctatus, Oecanthus . . 461 quagga, Thericles 264 qucrcus, Dendrotettix 2 Rhabdoceratitcs 232 robusta, Etoblattina? 228 rotundifolia, Amblycorypha . 462 saltator, Oroch'jris 460 Scudderia 462 spartinae*, Xiphidium ..111, 2.32 Stenobothrus 462 Stridulations of 0 460 texana, Etoblattina 228 texensis, Scudderia . ., 462 Texas, Fossil Cockroaches from , 228 Thericles 263 uhleri, Amblycorypha 462 Xiphidium in, 232 zebra, Thericles 263 SIPHONAPTERA. (Indexed under Diptera. ) RHYNCHOTA. Acinthocephala 120 Acrosternuui 317 Alcaeus 23 annulata, Brochymena 352 Antestia 26 Apines 27 apterus, Pyrrhocoris 318 Arctocorisa 337 artemisiae, Eriococcus 396 Australian Pentatomidae .... 21 bohcmani, Corizus 219 Brochymena 120, 347 Callipterus ulmifolii 83 calz'a, Corixa 3.39 capita, Myappena 29 carolinensis, Narvesus 121 cederwaldi*, Antestia 26 Cicada, 17-year 142, 143, 237 Cimex 316 citri, Aleyrodes 73 Commius 22 consanguinea, O.rophora .... 121 Corixa 121 Corisus 217 crassicornis, Cor'.zus 215 crenator, Euschistus 120 Davila 121 darisi, Rihau'i 261 Diaphyta 28 Dysderciis 121 . 327 cdulis, Corixa 121 en^clhardti, Rilunia 261 Eriococcus 396 F.rium 306 Euchistus 120, 347 femorata, Acanthocephala .. 120 XVI INDEX. fissilis, Euchistus 352 Food plant of Dysdefcuis mimus ; 327 geminata, Pseudapines ...... 27 gillettii*, Palmacorixa 337 haedula, Brochymena 120 hertnannsburgi, Alcaeus ..... 23 hilaris, Nezara 317 hirtus*, Corisus 217 indentatus, Corizils 218 latcralis, Corisus . . . > 219 Leptocorisa : 121 lichensioides, Erium 396 I'yricen, Rihana -. •. 262 Meccus -. . 121 melancholicus*, Notius 22 Middle and New England States, Key to Corisus of.. 219 mimus, Dysdercus 327 minor, Commius . . 22 Myappena 29 Nabis ;....,.; 121 Narresus ;....... 121 nercivus, Paramenestheus .... 25 New genus of Corixidae 337 New Jersey, R. of .. 237 Nesara 316 Notius 22 nubifera, Aleyrodes 73 obscuratus, Dysdercus 121 Osophora 121 pallida, Stelgidophora 21 Palmacorixa* 337 Paramenestheus 25 panncornis, Corisus 218 parvulus, Theseus 24 Pediculus 339 pennsyh'anica, Nesara 317 persicae-niger, Aphis 350 phyllosoma, Meccus 121 Phytocoris 172 , plana, Turrubulana 25 Poisonous nature of some R. 347, 349- Protective vapors of R 346 pruinosus, Phytocoris 172 Pseudapines 27 Puhnnaria 175 Pygvlampis 121 pyriformis, Pulvinaria 175 Pyrrhocoris * 318 Rihana 261 rosea*, Diaphyta 28 R. at Ceanothus 105 sayi var. australis*, Rihana... 261 scutatus, Corisus 218 signatus, Nabis 121 similaris, Rihana 262 spurca, Pygvlampis 121 Stelgidophora 21 Texas, R. from Brownsville. 120 Theseus 24 tipnloides, Leptocorisa 121 tristis, Anasa 351 tuberculatus, Corizus 218 Turrubulana 25 United States, Corizus from the Northwestern 217 United States, R. from the Northwestern 316 vestimenti, Pediculus 339 viridula, Nezara 316 Wing production in Aphids.. 149 THYSANOPTERA. Aeolothrips ...» 74 Aleurodothtips 73 aspersus, Leptothrips 73 fasciapennis, Aleurodothrips. 73 Florida T 7.3 Franklinothrips* 75 haemorrhoidalis; Hcliothrips. 73 Heliothrips 73 Leptothrips 73 Scolothrips 73 sexmaculata, Scolothrips .... 73 sexmaculata, Scolothrips 73 vespiformis, Aeolothrips 74 INDEX, xvii AUTHORS. ABBOTT, J. F. A new genus of Corixidae 337 ALDRICH, J. M. Flies of the leptid genus Atherix used as food by California Indians 159 Strict priority in nomenclature or not ? 182 ALEXANDER, C. P. A bromeliad-inhabiting crane-fly ....415 Fulton County (N. Y.) Tipulidae 66 A new tropical Gonomyia 418 ALLARD, H. A. Variation in the stridulations of Orthop- tera 460 ANGELL, J. W. Two new North American species of Necrophorus 307 BACK, E. A. Notes on Florida Thysanoptera, with de- scription of a new genus 73 BANKS, N. A bromeliadicolotis caddis-worm 80 At the Ccanothus in Virginia 102 Das Tierreich. Ixodidae 46 Strict priority in nomenclature, or not ? 275 BARNES, WM. & J. McDuNNOUGH. Further remarks on Thecla clytie, leda, and ines 49 A new Cossid 55 New microlepidoptera ,. . 219 On the spring and summer forms of Sabulodes sul- phurata 53 BERGROTH, E. Notes on Australian Pentatomidae .... 21 BERRY, L. (See Rowley, R.R.) BETHUNE-BAKER, G. T. Strict priority in nomenclature, or not? 325 BLAISDELL, F. E. Hibernation of Cicindela scnilis 156 Minutes of the Pacific Coast Ent. Soc 89 BLATCHLEY, W. S. A new species of Dicaelus from Ar- kansas 77 BRADLEY, J. C. Strict priority in nomenclature or not?.. 226 BRAUN, A. F. Notes on Chamber's species of Tineina. . .163 xviii INDEX. BREHME, H. H. Minutes of the Newark Ent. Soc 95 BRIMLEY, C. S. Strict priority in nomenclature, or not?. .275 BURGESS, A. F. Announcement of the Journal of Eco- nomic Entomology 129 BUSCK, A. A new microlepidopter of the genus Epicallima, from Pennsylvania 170 CALVERT, P. P. Studies on Costa Rican Odonata, IV. Erpeto- gomphus in Costa Rica, with description of a new spe- cies having complex structual mating adaptations . . . 289 Editorials 224, 324, 421, 468 Dr. Nettie M. Stevens 288 Sanderson & Jackson's Elementary Entomology 432 Second Internat. Entom. Congress 373 Walker's N. Amer. Dragonflies of the genus Aeshna. . .283 CAUDELL, A. N. Strict priority in nomenclature, or not?. 182 CHAMPION, G. C. Notes on Mexican Barids 364 Weevils of Mexico and Central America 182 COCKERELL, T. D. A. Food plants of Dysdercus mimus. .327 Fossil cockroaches from Texas 228 A new Chalcidid from Guatemala 318 A new generic name for Callosamia calleta Westw 228 New records of bees /|/|/j A Phycitid moth swarming at light 472 Recent entomological literature 281 Rhynchites bicolor 82 Sphaeridium scarabaeoides 82 Strict priority in nomenclature, or not ? 226 CRAWFORD, J. C. Strict priority in nomenclature, or not? 273 CRESSON, E. T., JR. Descriptions of several new neotropi- cal Acalyptrate Diptera 389 Editorial 179 Studies of some Pipunculidae from the eastern U. S. ..452 Minutes of Entom. Section, Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila 385 DAVIS, WM. T. An injurious grasshopper at Ridgeway, N. J i A new variety of Rihana sayi 261 Dow, R. P. Minutes of Brooklyn Ent. Soc 238 INDEX. xix EWING, H. E. Notes on the molting process of our com- mon red spider (Tetranychus telarius) 145 FALL, H. C. A new Tetropium, two new Bruchids, with brief notes on other Coleoptera 320 FELT, E. P. New West Indian gall midges 173 Observations on Uleella Rubs 353 FENYES, A. Gyronycha (Staphylinidae), a critical study. 123 FISHER, W. S. & H. B. KIRK. Cerambycidae from Har- risburg, Penna., and vicinity, with notes 308 Fox, H. Two apparently hitherto undescribed species of Xiphidium from the salt marshes of the Atlantic Coast of the U. S 1 1 1 Types of Xiphidium spartinac and nigropleuroides . . . .232 GIRAULT, A. A. A case either of secondary or double egg parasitism 81 A few experiments with the effects of the protective va- pors of Heteroptera on other insects 346 Fragments on North American insects 399, 464 Notes on Pediculus vcstimenti, the body louse of man. .339 Notes on the Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea 296 Standards of the number of eggs laid by insects — X. . .355 Yellow aphid-infesting species of Aphelinus Dalm 82 GREENE, G. M. Minutes of Feldman Collecting Social, 141, 286, 386 GRINNELL, F., JR. An example of protective resemblance in a Satyrid chrysalid 471 Minutes of Entom. Club, Los Angeles, Cal 433 Oberthur's Etudes de Lepidopterologie Comparee 371 On labeling specimens. A suggestion 473 (See also Haskin, J. R.) HASKIN, J. R., and GRINNELL, F., JR. Thecla clylie, leda, and ines 344 Thecla dumetorwn and affinis, a study 3 HEBARD, M. (See Rehn, J. A. G.) HILL-GRIFFIN, A. L. New Oregon Trichoptera 17 HOLLAND, W. J. Strict priority in nomenclature, or not?. 273 HOLLOW AY, T. E. An experiment on the oviposition of a hymenopterous egg parasite 329 INDEX HOOKER, C. W. The occurrence of Cecidomyia foliora . .472 HUNGERFORD, H. B. & F. X. WILLIAMS. Biological notes on some Kansas Hymenoptera 241 JONES, F. M. The female of Sesia rubrofascia 122 KELLOGG, V. L. & W. M. MANN. Mallophaga from islands off Lower California 56 A third collection of Mallophaga from Alaskan birds.. 12 KIRK, H. B. (See Fisher, W. S.) KNAB, F. Strict priority in nomenclature, or not? 271 KNAB, F. & J. R. MALLOCH. A borborid from an epi- phytic bromeliad 413 KNETZLER, A. Observations on the Lepidoptera of St. Louis, Mo., and vicinity during 1911 203 MCGREGOR, E. A. A new Mallophagan 305 MALLOCH, J. R. Certain generic names in Phoridae ....356 (See also Knab, F.) MANN, W. M. (See V. L. Kellogg.) McDuNNOUGH, J. (See Barnes, W.) MUTTKOWSKI, R. A. Aletia argillacea 83 NEEDHAM, J. G. Strict priority in nomenclature, or not? 271 NEILS, J. D. Wing production in Aphids 149 NEWCOMER, E. J. Notes on Western U. S. Lepidoptera . 81 NIXON, S. B. Description of a new variety of Smerinthns jamaicensis 127 NUNENMACHER, F. W. Studies amongst the Coccinellidae 448 PAINE, J. H. The Mallophagan genus Heterodo.vus. . . .359 Notes on a miscellaneous collection of Mallophaga from mammals 437 Synonymical Note on Haematopinus phacochoeri En- derlein 468 PATCH, E. M. Shigeru Kuwayama 288 PEARSALL, R. F. Eupithecias that appear to be unde- scribed 442 PORTER, A. F. Collecting in Tropical America 328 REIIN, J. A. G. On the genus Ana.vipha 411 Two new species of African Eumastacinae 262 REHN, J. A. G. & M. HEBARD. A new name in Orthoptera 232 INDEX. xxi REIFF, W. An entomological exchange 232 ROBERTSON, C. Oligotropic bees 457 ROHWER, S. A. One reason for the change of names. . . .329 The synonymy of an economic species of saw fly 472 ROWLEY, R. R. & L. BERRY. A dry year's yield of Cato- calae, 1911 207 SASSCE.R, E. R. Erium lichensioidcs Ckll. vs. Eriococcus artemisiae Kuw 396 SCHWARZ, E. Calpodes ethliits 130 SKINNER, H. A senator on medical entomology 425 Two new butterflies 126 Barnes & McDunnough on N. Amer. Lepidoptera, 88, 189, 480 Editorial 39 Hewitt's, House-flies and how they spread disease 479 LongstafFs Butterfly-Hunting in many Lands --236 Minutes of American Entomological Society ....191, 382 Minutes of Entom. Section, Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., J38, 237, 384 Poulton's Polymorphism in a Group of Mimetic But- terflies 480 Sanderson's Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard. 188 Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World 481 SLOSSON, A. T. Collecting at the Water Gap 171 SMYTH, E. A. Description of the larva and first bred specimens of Sphinx (Hyloicus} franckii 9 SOULE, C. G. A tropical butterfly in New Hampshire . . .473 STILES, C. W. Fourth list of generic names for the "Offi- cial List of Zoological Names" provided for by the Graz Congress (Diptera) 229 STRYKE, A. C. The life-cycle of the malarial parasite ..221 THOMAS, W. W. The splitting of insect tracheae 422 DE LA TORRE BUENO, J. R. A new Corizus from the Northwestern U. S 217 Nesara viridula, an hemipteron new to the Northeast- ern U. S 316 Records of Heteroptera from Brownsville (Tex.) 120 F. W. Terry 47 INDEX: TOWNSEND, C. H. T. Strict priority throughout taxo- nomic nomenclature 423 Vulturopinae, a new subfamily of Psocidae 266 TRISTAN, J. F. A Costa Rican Indian superstition con- cerning a Mecistogaster dragonfly 364 VIERECK, H. L. Ophioninae — a review 43 WALTON, W. R. New North American Diptera 463 WATSON, J. H. Some new forms of North American Saturnidae, genus Hemileuca 97 WEBSTER, F. M. Oviposition of LLvus concavus 474 Strict priority in nomenclature, or not? 181 WELLMAN, C. New species of Lyttidae, with notes on described species 29 WESTCOTT, O. S. Note on Anatis i$-punctata and A. caseyi n. sp 422 Scarcity of early insects 328 , WICKHAM, H. F. Aletia argillacea 184 WILLIAMS, F. X. (See Hungerford, H. B.) WILLIAMSON, E. B. 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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. XXIII. JANUARY, 1912. No. i CONTENTS: Portrait— Professor S. S. Haldeman I Davis— An Injurious Grasshopper at Ridgewav, N. J. (Orthop.) 2 Haskin and Grinnell — Thecla dumento- rum and T. affinis ; a Study (Lepid.i 3 Smyth— Description of the Larva and first bred specimens of Sphinx (Hy- loicus) franckii Neum. (Lepid ).... 9 Kellogg: and Mann— A Third Collection of Mallophaga from Alaskan Birds 12 Hill-Griffin—New Oregon Trichoptera 17 Bergroth — Notes on Australian Penta- tomidae ( Rhynch.) 21 Wellman — New Species of Lyttidae, with notes on described species (Coleop.) 29 Editorial 39 Entomological Literature 40 Obituary — James H. B. Bland 47 F. W. Terry 47 George Henry Verrall 48 Albert Harrison 48 Jules Bourgeois 48 Professor S. S. Haldeman. (Portrait, Plate I.) Following the plan adopted for 1911, of placing on the covers of the NEWS the portrait of one of the older American Entomologists, wre present for 1912 the portrait of Prof. S. S. Haldeman, adding the following biographical sketch. SAMUEL STEHMAN HALDEMAN was born August 12, 1812, at Locust Grove, Pennsylvania, and died at Chickies in the same State, September 10, 1880. He spent two years as a student in Dickinson College, Pa., but the rest of his education was self-directed. He was Professor of Natural History in the University of Pennsylvania 1851-1855, Professor of Comparative Philology in the same 1869-1880, and Professor of Natural History in Delaware College in 1855, "acting also as Professor of Geology and Chemistry to the State Agricul- tural College." The Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers lists 61 titles on geological and zoological subjects from his pen between 1839 and 1881, 30 of them being entomolog- ical (chiefly on Coleoptera). "Failing eye-sight compelled him eventually to give up his studies in Zoology, and to devote his whole time to Linguistics." A biographical notice, by Dr. D. G. Brinton, with quotations from Dr. J. L. Le Conte, was pub- lished in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical So- ciety, Volume XIX, pages 279-285. 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 • An Injurious Grasshopper at Ridgeway, New Jersey (Orth.). By WM. T. DAVIS, New Brighton, Staten Island. N. Y. In the last list of the Insects of New Jersey the grasshopper Dendrotettlx quercus Riley is reported from Bamber, collected by Mr. Daecke, August I7th. This is said to be the only record of the species in the Eastern United States. Dcndrotetti.r did damage to the oak trees at Ridgeway, N. J., in 1910. A few were found on August 16, 1910, about a mile west of Lakewood, and last year they were very common on the oaks about Ridgeway and north to where the road to Lakewood crosses Toms River. A single specimen was dis- covered on a post oak at Lakehurst on August 15, 1911, so the known range of the insect is from Bamber to Lakewood, a distance of about twelve miles, and westward for a few miles. The damage has been so great that the many defoliated trees near Ridgeway are noticeable from the windows of a moving train. The gayly colored grasshoppers are more common on the white oaks, though they eat the foliage of scarlet oaks and other members of the red oak group. Some of the scar- let oaks near Ridgeway have been hard pressed by enemies. They support many large woody galls of Callirhytis punctata on their limbs; they have had thousands of eggs of the seven- teen-year cicada laid in their branches, which have caused the ends of many of them to break off and die, and lastly the trees have been defoliated by the grasshoppers. Mr. W. DeW. Miller, of the American Museum, and I, counted on the trunks of some trees, as many as forty grass- hoppers, usually slowly making their way up to what re- mained of the foliage, and the excrement of the grasshoppers on the limbs fell with a rain-like patter on to the dry leaves beneath. Some of the grasshoppers were fully winged and others were apterous. Individuals between these two states were not common. We have before noticed this in other Or- thopterous insects. Nature either prepares them for flight or the reverse; there is hardly a half way condition. In addition Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 3 to the oaks the grasshoppers when pressed for food will eat other plants, and we observed where several had devoured parts of the leaves of a sumach, Rhus capallina. They did not seem to like wild cherry, Primus scrotina. It is evident that if the seasons continue favorable, this grass- hopper may become a serious pest in New Jersey, as it has been in Missouri and Texas, according to the writings of Dr. Riley and Prof. Bruner. Thecla dumetorum and T. affinis; a Study (Lepid.). By J. R. HASKIN, Los Angeles, Cal., and F. GRINNELL, JR., Pasadena, Cal. Although Thecla dumetorum was described in 1852 and affinis in 1862, very little has been written about them. Appar- ently no effort has been made to check the descriptions in spite of the fact that Western collectors have long felt that they did not correctly describe the common green Thecla of the Western States. It seems to have become generally understood that dume- torum should have a row of white spots across both wings, on under side, while affinis should be spotless. When, therefore, it is found that the majority of specimens follow neither of these extremes, but have a number of spots on secondaries only, their proper classification gives rise to the question, just what did Boisduval and Edwards have in mind when they wrote their descriptions. T. DUMETORUM. Boisduval was the first to describe our green Thecla from material collected by Lorquin in the early fifties. In his Lepi- dopteres de la Californie, 1852, p. 19, he wrote : "22 Thecla Dumetorum." "Ce Thecla ressemble tout a fait a notre Rubi, et pourrait bien etre une simple variete locale de cette espece. "II lui ressemble en clessus, sauf que les ailes inferieures sont moins denticulies, et que la palette anale est a pen pres nulle ; en dessous, la ligne de points blancs est plus marquee, et le disque des ailes super- 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., *I2 ieures est beaucoups plus largement roussatre, ce que fait que le vert domine moins." A free translation into English is as follows : "This Thecla quite resembles our Rubi and may well be considered a simple local variety of that species. It resembles it on upper side, except that the secondaries are less denticulated and the anal palette nearly void; on under side, the line of white spots is more marked and the surface of the primaries is much more russet colored, which makes the green less predominant." Thus we see that Boisduval describes dumetorum as quite like T. rubi, although with some minor points of difference. We must therefore obtain some information concerning rubi, especially its correct description. From Meyrick's Handbook of British Lepidoptera, 1895 P- 343 : "T. rubi. L. 25-31 mm. fore wings and hind wings rather dark fus- cous, ochreous tinged ; hind wings with termen waved. Wings be- neath rather metallic green, fore wings becoming fuscous dorsally sometimes with white postmedian line; hind wings sometimes with postmedian white line or series of dots. Britain to Ross, Ireland, common ; Europe, N. and W. C. Asia, Japan, N. Africa ; 5, 6. Larva green ; dorsal line lighter, darker edged; subdorsal series of oblique subconfluent streaks, edged be- neath with dark green; spiracular line yellow; head pale brown; on Genista, Cytisus, Ulex, and V actinium; 6, 7. Pupa subterranean." With this description before us, we see that dumetorum, be- ing quite like rubi, has "fore wings * * sometimes with postmedian white line ; hind wings sometimes with postmedian white line or series of dots." An English collector has written Mr. E. J. Newcomer, of Palo Alto, Cal. : "It has been noticed that in some northern localities there is an inclination to de- velop the white markings into a series of dots across all the wings. The spotless form seems more noticeable in the South." It is very evident then that specimens of our common green Thecla with well marked spots were received by Boisduval and named dumetorum. Dumetorum was probably named from a limited or moderate series of specimens. A careful study of a long series and a close comparison with specimens of T. rubi has brought out a Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 5 number of points that are decidedly at variance with Boisdu- val's description. We have in our combined collections 149 specimens of dmnctorum, collected at Santa Barbara, Newhall, Burbank, Los Angeles and vicinity, Pasadena and vicinity, and San Diego. Air. Newcomer, of Palo Alto, has also kindly writ- ten us concerning the spots on twenty-nine specimens in his collection, taken at Palo Alto, San Luis Obispo and Lake Ta- hoe. Also, Mr. Grinnell fortunately has three good specimens of rnbi, from England, in his collection. Our 149 specimens, when assembled for study, were found to consist of no $ and 39 $. When these were separated and arranged in convenient rows, the first thing noticed was the great variation in general appearance between the fresh and the worn specimens. This was particularly noticeable with regard to the upper surface color, fringes, denticulations and general outline. We therefore divided the set about equally into good and poor series and have used the good set to draw up a new description of dwtnetorum. T. dumetorum. — Expanse 25-30 mm. $ above uniformly plumbeous without the decided fuscous tint of rubi. Under a certain glancing light a brownish luster can be noticed. 9 above the centers of both wings reddish fulvous, surrounded by the plumbeous color of the $ . This fulvous varies greatly in different specimens, being predominant in some and slight in others. All the 9 , however, have it to some degree, while all the $ have a noticeably different, uniform plumbeous color. On the best specimens a pale gray or whitish fringe is notice- able, being especially clear and broad towards the rear of secondaries. The denticulations and anal palettes are as clearly defined as in the European T. rubi.1 On under side the prevailing color is a bright metallic green but the posterior part of the primaries is broadly tan color, shading to gray towards the inner margin. With the wings closely folded the sec- ondaries nearly cover the tan and gray of the primaries so that the insect appears to be uniformly bright green on under side.2 1 These latter features are naturally not so noticeable on worn or even slightly worn specimens, as the edges of the wings wear out rapidly. This would easily account for Boisduval's exceptions on these points. 2 In T. rubi the green covers fully two-thirds of the surface of the primaries, leaving a comparatively narrow strip of tan and gray along the inner margin. 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '12 Concerning the white spots on the under side — on our three specimens of rubi, from Cornwall and Dartmoor, England, the spots are clear white on the green background. In dumetorum the white spots are heavily bordered inwardly with brown. This brown border is very clearly shown in T. sheridani, which is much like dumetorum except that it has a broad white line, complete in some and slightly broken in other specimens, clear across both wings. In dumetorum the most noticeable and persistent spots are two in number on the secondary, one being midway on the costa, the other nearly in the center of the wing between the second and third median nervules. These are frequently strengthened by other smaller spots tending to form an irregu- lar postmedian line. On the 149 in our collections and the 29 in Mr. Newcomer's, one or the other of these spots persists in all but ten specimens which are spotless even when viewed through a low power glass. One specimen has a faint dot on costa of one wing only, while another specimen has a faint dot in center of one secondary. Two have only the costal spots on both secondaries, and fourteen have only the center spots, some clear and others faint. The predominant form has two spots, there being 108 of these. There are thirty others with two spots on the secondaries, but with faint brown markings on the primaries also ; some of these are strengthened by traces of white spots. Two have three spots on secondaries ; two have three on secondaries and traces on primaries ; three have three on sec- ondaries and a distinct row of white spots on primaries ; two have four spots on secondaries and a row of spots on prim- aries ; finally, three have an irregular row of five spots on sec- ondaries, the costal and central being large and predominant. Summing up in percentages, about 21 per cent, have spots on both wings, 73^ per cent, on secondaries only, 5*/> per cent. on neither wing. T. AFFINIS. Mr. Edwards published T. affinis and its companion, T. viri- dis in 1862, from material sent him by Mr. C. Drexler and Dr. Vol. XXJii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 7 H. Behr. We believe that if he had studied the green Theclas from an abundance of material and had given more thought to Boisduval's position, he would never have presented these two names, but would simply have amplified Boisduval's dume- torum. The da affinis Edwards.— (From Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862. 223.) Expands i.i inch. Both sexes glossy red brown ; brightest in female ; the male has a smooth oval spot on disc of primaries; costa of primaries and base of both wings, blackish brown ; whole hind margin edged with same color ; fringe white; underside uniform apple green, except on inner margin of primaries, where it is pale brownish grey; both wings immaculate; costal edge of primaries grey; hind margin of secondaries with crena- tions. Utah, from Mr. C. Drexler. Both viridis and affinis are allied to T. rubi and to T. dumetorum of Boisduval. The latter, I have not seen, but it is chiefly described as being "entirely like rubi, and to be considered a local variety of that species," a description which does not apply to either of the above- named species. Affinis approaches most nearly to rubi in color below, but the upper side is much brighter and the white spots of underside are wanting, l^iridis has similar spots to rubi, but the color of both sides is different, as is that of the antennae, edge of costa and fringe. Tliecl a viridis Edwards. Expands 1.2 inch. Upper side of both sexes blackish ; the male has a smooth oval spot on disc of primaries; hind margin of secondaries a little crenated to- ward anal angle ; fringe whitish, at anal angle, brown. Under side uniform deep green, except on inner margin of primaries, where it is brownish grey; costal edge of primaries fulvous; across the green shade runs a common sinuous band of elongated, clear white spots ; fringe of secondaries brown at the extremities of the nervures ; anten- nae white ; club dark brown. It has been generally accepted that liridis is a synonym of dnmetornm. We note in this description of riridis that the upper side is incorrectly given and the spots on under side re- late to one of the unusual forms of dumetorum. The so-called affinis types came from Utah, where both dumetorum and slieridani are found. :i "Vide Bruce, Ent. News, 8,134, 1897. Barnes, Ent. News, 11,330, 1900. Snyder, Ent. News, 12,302, 1901. 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 Edwards' types of affinis consist of I $ and I $ with an equal number of cotypes. Dr. Holland writes that the 9 cotype has a minute spot on the costa of one secondary. We have one specimen in our dumetorum series marked similarly to this. The description of the upper surface color was taken from a limited number of specimens and is doubtless as mis- leading" as was viridis Edwards, and dumetorum Boisduval. The under side represents another uncommon form of dume- torum, viridis and affinis representing the two extremes. The net result of our investigation shows that there is a green Thecla in California which varies widely in the white markings on the under side. The range of this Thecla extends east to Utah and Colorado. Boisduval first described it but without a great degree of accuracy. Edwards followed with his descriptions of viridis from California and affinis from Utah, both descriptions following certain forms only. From the above study, we believe our readers will agree with us that the correct synonymy of the butterfly under discus- sion is : T. dumetorum Bd., Syn. affinis Edw., Syn. viridis Edw. In conclusion, we wish to lay stress upon the importance of having an abundance of fresh and perfect material when study- ing specimens which very closely resemble already named spe- cies. Such men as Mr. Edwards, and there are some living in this year of our Lord, who have done so much magnificent work with the Lepidoptera, have names to conjure with and any inaccuracies in their writings are liable to create a condi- tion of doubt and uncertainty which may take years to over- come. Before closing, we desire to express our thanks to Dr. Hol- land, Dr. Skinner and Mr. Newcomer for valuable information which they have so kindly furnished one or the other of the authors. ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIII. Plate II. SPHINX (HYLOICUS) FRANCKII-SMYTH. 1, MALE. 2, FEMALE. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 9 Description of the Larva and first bred specimens of Sphinx (Hyloicus) franckii Neum. (Lcpid.). By ELLISON A. SMYTH, JR., Blacksburg, Virginia. (Plate II.) A half mile avenue of young ash trees on the Experiment farm lands of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacks- burg, Virginia, has for some years yielded me larvae of Cera- tomia nndiilosa and Sphinx (Hyloicus} chersis, whenever sought for in season ; at times, Protoparcc rustica in numbers, and at intervals Chlaenograunna jasminearum; with the larvae of these species I have been intimate for years, and know them apart in any instar. On the 25th of last August (1910), one of the boys, Mr. Barringer, hunting with me for Protoparce rustic a in the ash avenue, brought me six full grown larvae, of the general type of chersis, all from one ash tree, which larvae were altogether new to me. By elimination, I concluded that they were either canade'nsis or franckii, with the chances largely in favor of the latter. Although lacking the anterior fleshy protuberances of Ceratomia amyntor, a pair of dorsolateral, tuberculated lines, strongly suggested the dorsal serrated ridge of that spe- cies. I sent a specimen at once to Dr. Beutenmuller, which reached him ready to pupate, and unfortunately died before he could have it figured. He agreed with me that it could be only canadensis or franckii. Of my remaining five larvae, two died, one pupated on the surface of the breeding cage, and two went under earth before I could photograph or make a colored sketch. Fortunately, as a preliminary step to a water-color sketch, I had taken a careful description the afternoon they were brought to me, intending to paint in the morning. The following is the description of these larvae, full grown, and at the end of their last instar: Full length, 3)4 inches; pea-green dorsally and dorso-laterally, darker green laterally and ventrally; two dorsal longitudinal lines \\ inch apart, green dorsad, edged with yellowish white laterad, and arnu' I, on iirst three segments, with rather prominent, yellowish, pointed tu- JO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 bercles, with whitish tubercles for rest of length, and suggestive of amyntor's central, dorsal, serrate line ; these two lines fade out on the roth segment. A lateral, whitish line from 4th to nth segment, across which, dorso-caudad, the / oblique bands barely pass and abruptly end. Seven oblique, lateral stripes, each green cephalad, yellowish caudad ; /th most prominent and ending at base of caudal horn. Dorsal anal flap edged with yellow. Caudal horn apple-green, minutely punctulated with same color. Head apple-green, with two faint yellow lines. Thoracic legs pink. Stigmata cream-pink edged with brown. Three or four punctules over each proleg, parallel to oblique, lateral bands. Jaws black. The pupa is almost identical in color, size, and shape with that of chersis, with the short, free "tongue case" of the lat- ter, which is 3.5 mm. long on its under free surface. The proof of an anticipated identity was yielded on May 3, 1911, when the surface pupa yielded a perfect and beautiful male Sphinx franckii (this is in Fig. i, Plate II), and on May nth one of the subterranean pupae disclosed a perfect fe- male. (Fig. 2). The importance of testing the specific valid- ity of this supposed hybrid sphinx, as well as the desire to obtain more specimens, urged upon me the duty of tying out this female for egg results, but the cold spring had so retarded everything that no hawk-moths had been seen on the wing as yet, and moreover, the ash trees were not in foliage, and the lilac barely out ; with reluctance therefore, I killed the female also, and thus graced my collection with a perfect pair, the first ever bred, and the female, the only one in existence, as far as I know, of this rare species (?) My male agrees fairly well with the colored figure given by Rothschild and Jordan, in their Monograph of the Sphingidae in Wytsman's "Genera Insectorum," though the black outer border of hind wings is even and continuous in my specimen, and not sagittate as in their figure, and the fore costal area is more evenly grey. Neumogen's original description of the then unique type, a male, in Ent. News, Vol. IV., p. 133, agrees fairly well with my specimen, though mine is 2 mm. longer than the type, in alar expanse. The female is larger than the male, being 118 mm. in alar Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS n expanse, while my male is 107 mm. ; with more rounded wings than the male, and is much darker in color, the pink being much overclouded with a darker brown, and it is a handsomer in- sect. The photograph brings out fairly well the differences, even though in black and white. Dr. Beutenmuller has written me that Mr. Schneider, of Baltimore, some time ago took an unknown larva from ash, which he described to Mr. Beutenmuller in a letter, though I believe this description was never published. It is thought by Dr. Beutenmuller to agree with the specimen I sent him. Unfortunately, Mr. Schneider's pupa was destroyed during the winter by accident. It may be noted that the original descrip- tion as published by Mr. Neumogen, as well as the Catalogues of Drs. Smith and Dyar, give the name of the Sphinx as "franckii;" whereas Rothschild and Jordan, in the "Genera Insectorum" and also in their "Revision of the Sphingidae," Vol. I, p. 135, follow the custom of writing the name "francki." As to the biologically important part of the matter, the specific validity of the insect ; the constancy of coloring and characters in the three known examples, of both sexes, (one female and two males), might argue against hybridism, al- though among birds, for instance Helminthophtia leucobron- chialis, a supposed hybrid between H. pinus and H. chrysoptera, among our native warblers, there is much constancy in the markings of the known specimens. ' I cannot, however, agree that Sphinx kalmiae plays any part in the parentage, for the larva shows no resemblance to this species, whereas, as be- fore suggested, there is more than a suggestiveness of the larva of amyntor, though chcrsis is the nearest; amyntor could contribute the cream-pink to the wings of franckii as well as could kalmiae. On the other hand, if amyntor and chcrsis are really in separate genera, as seems to be the case, it might be doubtful if they would interbreed; the general scheme of thoracic and wing markings of franckii are about as near amyntor as they are to kalmiae, though the abdominal spots are more similar to kalmiae and chersis. Sphin.v chcrsis is abundant here, Ccratomia amyntor occurs at times and I have 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 several times found its larva on birch and elm ; Sphinx kal- miae has been taken here only three times to my knowledge, and only once have I ever found its larva. The extreme rar- ity of franckii would seem to indicate hybridism, unless it be a rare "sport," or possibly it is a mutant. Without any real proof, I must confess that I believe in the specific validity of Sphinx franckii. - — — •— — A Third Collection of Mallophaga from Alaskan Birds. By V. L,. KELLOGG and W. M. MANN, Stanford University. California. In 1900 a small collection of Mallophaga, collected by Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny from birds shot by him at Pt. Barrow, Alas- ka, was described by Kellogg and Kuwana (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. v. 23, pp. 151-159, PI. VII, 1900). Five new Mal- lophagan species were described and fourteen old species rec- ognized in this paper. In a paper of 1902 on "Mallophaga from Birds of the Pacific Coast of North America" (Jour. N. Y. Entomological Soc. v. 10, pp. 20-28, PI. Ill, 1902) Kellogg and Chapman recognized twelve known Mallophagan species from birds from Kodiak Island, Alaska, and described one new species from the same place. The present small collection of Mallophaga is composed of specimens taken from birds shot by the well known ornithologist, R. C. McGregor, at Norton Sound, Alaska, in 1900. The birds were determined by Mr. McGregor and the parasites were taken from the fresh host specimens. Fifteen host species are included in thejist and seventeen parasite species, of which two are herewith de- scribed as new. In addition one new variety is recognized. Docophorus communis Nitzsch. Two specimens from Melospiza cinerea, Amaknak Is., Un- alaska; four specimens from Perisorius canadcnsis fnscifrons, Norton Sound. Docophorus cursor Nitzsch. Two specimens from Surtiia ululu caparoch, Norton Sound. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 13 Docophorus fusiformis Denny. One male from Tringa ptilocnemis, Norton Sound. This specimen agrees with those of Denny and Piaget in having- the clypeus emarginate. There are few records of this species, in spite of its apparently wide distribution. • Docophorus icterodes Nitzsch. Four specimens from Arctonetta fischeri. Duck-egg Island. Docophorus lari Denny. Five specimens from Rissa tridactyla pollicaris, no locality ; one from Tringa ptilocnemis, Dexter Golofnin Bay, Norton Sound. Docophorus sp. juv. A specimen belonging to the platyclypeatus group, but too young to be specifically determined, from Lagopns lagopus, Norton Sound. Nirmus complexivus Kellogg and Chapman. Numerous specimens from Tringa ptilocnemis, one from Tringa maculata, Norton Sound ; also a single specimen, prob- ably a straggler, from Perisorins canadensis, same locality. Nirmis eaprepes Kellogg and Chapman. Seven specimens from Arenaria interpres, Norton Sound. Nirmus lineolatus var. atrimarginatus Kellogg. One specimen from Rissa tridactyla pollicaris, Norton Sound. Nirmus infectus Kellogg and Kawana var. connexus var. nov. Two males and two females from Phalaropus lobatits, Nor- ton Sound. Differs from typical infectus in its relatively longer head, concolorous legs, and large dorsal blotches. The length of the head i? .40 mm., width .24 mm. Ninnus infectus, known only from a single female from Crymophilus fiilicarius. (Pi. Barrow, Alaska) is very close to interntptus of Piaget, from Flialacrocora.r carbo, and may prove to be only a variety of this species. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '12 Goniodes descrepans Kellogg and Paine. One specimen from Lagopus lagopus, and two from Tringa ptilocnemis, Norton Sound. Goniodes corpulentus sp. nov. (Figs. 1 and 2). Four males, five females and one young, taken on Canachites canadensis, and two females and a young (undoubtedly strag-- glers) from Tringa maculata. Both hosts were shot on Nor- ton Sound. This species is close to damicornis. FIG. i. — Goniodes corpulentus n. sp. , female, from Canachiles cana- densis. FIG. 2. — Goniodes corpulentus, n. sp., antenna of male above, of fe- male below. Description of the male. Body, length 2 mm. ; width .97 mm. ; gold- en brown, with darker markings ; short robust body. Head, length .64 mm. ; width .64 mm. ; front flatly convex, with a rather broad color- less border, and with eight very fine hairs on margin and a longer hair in front of each antenna; temporal region distinctly angulatc, slightly expanded, the angle with one very long hair and a shorter one; occipital margin shallowly concave; occipital band strongly sinu- ous; antennal bands straight, diverging to angle of front; antenna] Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 15 fossae large; antenna with first segment more than half as broad as long, appendage of third segment longer than last segment ; eye large, convex; color oale golden brown, antennal and occipital bands, man- dibles and a blotch on signature, darker. Prothorax at base one-half as broad as head, sides nearly straight, diverging from front to rear, a strong bristle at posterior angles, pos- terior margin rounded; color light, golden brown, darker at sides, coxae showing through as darker blotches. Metathorax short, dorsum not longer than prothorax, sides strongly rounded, margin with two long, pustulated hairs at one-third distance from apex, posterior mar- gin obtusely angled ; color same as prothorax. Legs concolorous with body, femora thick. Abdomen about equal in length to rest of body, broadly truncate, at apex, segments 3, 4 and 5 broadest ; lateral margin of first segment nearly twice as long as that o-f second segment; marginal angle of the first two segments with a single long hair, of segments 3, 4 and 5 with two, of segments 6 and / with three; dorsum with scattered fine, long hairs ; color pale golden brown, a longitudinal dorsal darker blotch, and each segment with a well-marked light marginal blotch which curves strongly inward in the anterior part of segment. Female. Body — length 2.40 mm.; width i.i mm.; head, length .72 mm. ; width .86 mm. ; abdomen longer in proportion to rest of body than in male ; the markings are similar to those of the male, but more pronounced. Lipeurus protervus Kellogg. A female of this curious species, taken on Larjofms lagopus, Norton Sound. Lipeurus parviceps Piaget. Two specimens referable to this species from the eider duck, Arctonetta fischeri. Duck Egg- Island. Lipeurus pari'i- f cps has been recorded hitherto only from Sterna. Our spec- imens differ from Piaget's figure, in having larger pustules in the dorsal blotches, and only one dark spot on the metathor- acic margin. Probably our specimens should be considered to be a variety. Colpocephalum morsitans sp. nov. (Fig. :0. One male from Triuga nwculata, Norton Sound. This species is close to bicolor of Piaget from Strcpsilas interferes. It can be distinguished from that species by the abdominal i6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '12 markings, the presence of four rows of minutely pustulated hairs on each abdominal segment; and by the markings of the head. The dark abdomen, with still darker transverse blotches, is characteristic of morsitans. The prothorax of the specimen is damaged and can not be fully described. Description of male. Length of body 1.60 mm.; width .57 mm.; dark brown in color with well defined darker markings. Head, length .37 mm.; width .44 mm. ; noticeably broader than long; front broadly and flatly rounded, with short hairs on each side and two longer hairs in front of ocular emargination : temples produced squarely with three long hairs and several shorter ones on outer margin ; occipital margin strongly concave with two pustu- lated hairs near the middle and one on each side of these a little inward from the margin ; ocular emargination broad, not deep, with distinct fringe; eye deeply emarginate ; head brown a little lighter than abdomen; ocular flecks, mandibles and bases of oc- cipital bands piceous. Prothorax small, sides rounded; brown with coxae showing through faintly as blotches. Met- athorax about one and one-half times as long as prothorax, sides rIG. 3. — Lolpoceplialinii morsitans n. sp , male, from Tmiga macuiata, Norton almost straight, diverging strongly Sound, Alaska. posteriorly; truncate at apex, one strong hair at posterior angle and a few hairs on posterior margin ; uniformly brown in color; darker than head; coxae showing through faintly as blotches. Legs concolorous with head, tibiae with small darker spot at apex, femora thick. Abdomen ovate, first and penultimate segments approximately equal in width; broadest at segments 3, 4 and 5; each segment with a series of one strong and several finer hairs at the margin, ami four alternat- ing rows of finely pustulated hairs on dorsal surface; color brown with broad darker margin, and each segment with complete darker ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIII. Plate III. 13 a. A J Stover del GRAMMATAULIUS BETTEN 1 1 -HILL-GRIFFIN. ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIII. Plate IV. A.J. Stover, del MYSTACIDES ALAFIMBRIATA-HILL-GRIFFIN. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS I/ transverse blotch. Last segment lighter, without markings, posterior margin with three short hairs on each side of the middle; scattered hairs of variable size on dorsum. Menopon corporosum Kellogg and Kuwana. One specimen from Arcnaria inter pres, Norton Island, and two from Phalaropus lobatus; same locality. The last two are undoubtedly stragglers. New Oregon Trichoptera. By ANNIE LAURA HILL-GRIFFIN, Payette, Idaho. (Plates III and IV.) In preparing a thesis on the biology of certain Trichoptera, completed June, 1911, I sent a number of specimens to Dr. C. Betten, of Lake Forest, Illinois, to be identified. Six of the species submitted to Dr. Betten turned out to be new or probably new. One represented a new genus. It has been a great disappointment, that of four of these new species, there was not enough material to describe, in some cases only one imperfect specimen being in the collection. This was the case with the Psychomyid which represents the new genus. This was collected by myself, in October, 1908, at Crystal Lake, with five others of different species. The list of new Trichoptera is as follows : Limnophilidae. Grammataulius bettcnii, n. sp. Sericostomatidae. Atomyia, n. sp. Leptoceridae. Mystacides alafimbriata, n. sp. Psychomyidae. n. g. n. sp. Rhyacophilidae. Glossosoma, n. sp. Glossosonia, probably new. The collection contained enough specimens of two of these species so that descriptions could be made. The first one, a Crammataitlins, I have given the name of bettcnii in recog- nition of the kind assistance given me in the determination of specimens by Dr. Cornelius Betten. The second, a Lep- tocerid, has been given the descriptive name alafimbriata be- cause of the long, soft black fringe upon the outer and inner margins of the hind wings. l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 Grammataulius bettenii, n. sp. (PI. III). Ocraceous, with brighter colored hairs, and dark markings. Head, yellowish, hairy. Antennae, testaceous, with short, black appressed hairs; underside of basal joint clothed with longer black hairs, and a thin tuft of black hair under each antenna; basal joint about twice as long as wide. Palpi yellow. Thorax with hairy yellow band divided by a naked medial line, and having a triangular, black pilose patch on either side. Legs yellowish, with black spines. Abdomen yellowish, sparsely provided with short, pale hairs ; sometimes of a grayish hue. A dorsal view, with folded wings showing an extremely long and narrow isosceles triangle with its point half-way back along the wings. It is formed by the dark edge of one wing which folds slightly over the other, for a part of the distance. Anterior wing narrow, obliquely truncate, inner margin concave. Yellowish hyaline, marked with brown and scantily clothed with pale yellow hairs, Vandyke brown streak through center of wing, extend- ing through thyridial area and the fourth apical cell. Other dark streaks consisting of irregular patches of color, occupy discoidal and thyridial cells, and many scattered irregular spots are distributed promiscuously throughout interneural areas. Venation pale. Solid streak of Vandyke brown extending from near arculus to the anal angle, with brown irrorations beneath. Costal area immaculate except for a faint irregular cloudiness near the base. Thyridium and arculus hya- line. Pterostigma absent. Discoidal cell slightly longer than its pedicel and very narrow. Posterior wings slightly shorter than the anterior, but at least twice as wide toward the base, hyaline, the apical portion scantily clothed with short pale hairs. Venation light yellow. No markings except the very characteristic brown streak between and partly within the third and fourth apical cells. It covers the vein until near the end, when it curves upward, and the vein downward. Scanty long hairs near attachment of wing, extending along the two lowest veins and the margin. Length of body, from 13 to 17 mm. Alar expanse, 41 mm. Case: Composed of bits of straw arranged longitudinally in such a manner as to form a cylinder. The straws usually, though not always, form a spiral having \y2 to 5 or 6 turns. Occasionally, the straws are cut as long as the entire case, which then has no spiral effect.. In this instance, no indication is given of the earlier stage of the case, aivl I suspect this occurs only when the larva has been deprived when nearly grown, of its case, and has then made it to suit its own size and has not had to enlarge it subsequently. Sometimes the narrow blades of a sort of watergrass are fastened together to make what appears to be Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS IQ a short piece of a very wide blade of grass, and then this piece is fas- tened into the case just as are the others which are not "pieced to- gether." Habits and Occurrence: Found in small ponds along the C. & E. R. R., Corvallis, Oregon, and in ponds formed by the widening of slow-flowing streams. Also in various slow streams flowing through meadows. The earliest species to emerge in the laboratory, and probably one of the first to do so outside, since the larvae are far in advance of the most of the others, being nearly ready to pupate in the latter part of January and first weeks of February, varying slightly from year to year. Pupation occurs in February and the first of March, and I have records of emergence of adults March 12, 14, 15, 20, 21 and 30, and April 10. All the adults in the col- lection, however, bear dates of September, October and No- vember, which suggests two broods, or a very long adult • life. The larvae seem to be restricted as to locality, but quite abundant when found at all. The adults are moderately plen- tiful, for caddisflies. This is one of the four largest spe- cies in the collection of the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis. Larvae are difficult to rear inside. They feed on water plants, dead and decaying leaves, manure and filth which may happen to be in the meadow streams where they live. Eggs and oviposition unknown to me. Mystacides alafimbriata, n. sp. (PI. IV). Small, black, delicate and graceful, clothed with short black hair. Head black, shining, with a few hairs between and below the antennae, which are long and filiform; basal fourth annulated with buff; basal segment very large in proportion to the antennae, surrounded with black hair. Palpi very bristly with black hair. Thorax black and shin- ing. Legs grayish-yellow with few small black spines. Abdomen dark gray. Anterior wing long, rather narrow, rounded at apex, dusky, cloth- ed with short black hairs. The costal area is darker than the remain- der. Venation brown. Thyridium and arculus hyaline. Pterostigma present. Discoidal cell about the same length as its pedicel. The first apical cell is not very long; not so long as the second, in fact. All interneural areas extremely long and narrow. 2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 Posterior wing slightly lighter in color than the anterior ; approxi- mate shape, half an ellipse cut longitudinally. Venation, yellow- brown, the median vein being very strong and thick. Costa extremely strong, with hamuli extending from the center of the costa about half- way to the apex. Cross-veins entirely absent except for a small one near the base. Both outer and inner margins fringed with long soft, black hair which increases in length to the base of the wing, where it is fully as wide as the attachment itself. Length of body, 6 mm. Alar expanse, 17 mm. •Collected at Permelia Lake, Mt. Jefferson, Oregon, July 1 6, 1908, by Prof. J. C. Bridwell. In the latter part of June, just after the preceding was writ- ten, a few specimens of this same species were captured by Mr. A. J. Stover, at Colorado Lake, an arm of the Willamette, near Corvallis. After making sure of its identity with M. alafimbriata, an attempt was made to find larvae and pupae. A number of small, slender pupal cases were suspected and rearing proved them to be undoubtedly the new spe- cies. Larvae were also found. The adults at Colorado Lake appear about 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening, in swarms, and dance and hover above the water with dizzying pertinacity. Except accidentally, they do not seem to alight, nor to touch one another. They hover di- rectly above where the larvae and pupae are found, but could not be detected in the act of oviposition. Pupa : The pupal cases are found attached to floating logs or snags in Colorado Lake. They resemble the larval cases. The well-developed pupa has extremely long antennae like the adult. These curve back above the eye, slant across the black wing and down to the posterior end of the abdomen, where their surplus length is coiled into a curl, through which the tips finally project backwards. Length of pupa 8 mm. Larva: The larva is a very small, slender, but extremely active creature with comically long hind legs. These it places in advance of the middle pair, in walking, making it appear as though the middle legs were longer than the hind legs. Upon close inspection, however, the latter are seen crossing Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 21 the middle legs. When removed from the case, they move about with quick, jerky movements, actually jumping, like a flea, at times. They feed on grass and various water plants. Length of a larva, probably nearly full-grown, 6 mm. Case: A small, slender cylinder of long bits of reed, straw, sticks, etc., placed lengthwise. Usually one straw about twice the length of the case is attached to it dorsally, or two very long ones, laterally. Occasionally, a part of the case is constructed of grains of sand and tiny bits of miscellaneous material. Eggs: not observed. EXPLANATION OF PLATES. PLATE III. Grannnataulius bettenii, n. sp. Fig. i. Adult; 2, Larva; 3, Wings; 4, Maxilla of larva; 5, Larval case ; 6, End of Pupal case and detail of net in end ; /a, Labrum and 7b, Mandible of Larva; 8, 9 and 10, Dorsal, lateral and ventral views re- spectively of the male genitalia ; u, Head of imago, dorsal view; 12, Dragging hook of larva; 133, I3b, First and third legs of larva; 14, Mandibles of pupa. PLATE IV. Mystacides alafiinbriata, n. sp. Fig. i, Adult; 2, Wings of male; 3, 4 and 5, Lateral, ventral and dor- sal views respectively of the male genitalia ; 6, Head of adult, dorsal view ; /, Lateral view of the female genitalia ; 8, Dragging hook of larva; 9, Mandible of larva; 10, Pupa; n, Labrum of larva; 12, Ventral view of larval case; 13, Larva; 14, End of pupal case; 15, Maxilla of larva; i6a, i6b and i6c, Middle, front and hind legs respec- tively of larva. Notes on Australian Pentatomidae (Rhynch.). By E. BERGROTH, Turtola, Finland. Stelgidophora pallida V. Duz. This insect was described as doubtfully belonging to Dictyo- tns Dall. and was later placed by Van Duzee in the genus Eurynannus Bergr. It is allied to Eurynannns, but so distinct that a new genus Stelgidophora must be founded upon it. As described by me in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905, II, pp. 153- 154, the head of Eurynannus is unique in the Pentatomidae in 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL N^WS [Jan., 'I2 having the sides of the whole basal half of the anteocular part very broadly convex, continuously merged in the antenniferous tubercles which are convergent; the eyes are shortly stylated and so small that the vertex is about seven times broader than an eye; the ocelli are situated twice as far from each other as from the eyes ; the bucculae are low and straight ; the sides of the pronotum are convexly rounded, sinuated only immediately behind the apical angles; the scutellum is about as long as broad ; the veins of the membrane are simple and few in num- ber. In Stelgidophora, the convex anteocular part of the lateral margin of the head is not longer than the eye itself ; the an- tenniferous tubercles are well separated from the lateral mar- gin of the head and not convergent ; the eyes are larger and not stylated ; the ocelli are four times farther from each other than from the eyes; the bucculae are lobed both anteriorly and pos- teriorly, the anterior lobe being rounded and deflected, the pos- terior lobe subacute and directed backward ; the sides of the pronotum are deeply sinuated ; the scutellum is much longer than broad ; the membranal veins are densely reticulated. I have seen the type of pallida in the American Museum of Na tural History, New York. Commius minor Bergr. The type specimen is somewhat immature. In specimens with the colors fully developed the two large basal spots to the pronotum and the ground color of the corium are dark brassy bluish green, not fuscous as in the type. This insect seems to be much more common than the typical species, C. elegans Don. It occurs in the whole eastern part of Australia and I have seen it in several collections. Notius melancholicus n. sp. Oblong, black, four small upper basal spots to head, narrow lateral margins of head, of pronotum and of basal half of corium, bucculae, rostrum (except apical joint), basal ring of the two last antennal joints, narrow margin of acetabula, coxae, trochanters, base of femora, a me- dian ring to tibiae, basal joint of tarsi, and a spot on the external apical genital lobe of female yellow. The last three antennal joints subequal in length, second joint distinctly shorter than third. Hemelytra dis- Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23 tinctly passing apex of abdomen, corium reaching base of last connexi- val segment. Abdomen but little broader than the closed hemelytra, which cover the greatest part of the connexivum. Puncturation as in N. depressus. Length, $ 13 mm. Tasmania. Qosely allied to N. depressus Dall., but the connexivum and lateral border of the venter are entirely unspotted, the third antennal joint and hemelytra are longer, and the abdomen is more narrowed posteriorly. In depressus the third antennal joint is distinctly shorter than the second, the hemelytra do not pass the apex of the abdomen, the corium barely passes the middle of the penultimate connexival segment, and the abdo- men is broader behind the middle, leaving the greatest part of the connexivum exposed. Alcaeus hermannsburgi Dist. On this species Distant founded the genus Muritha, which is a synonym of Alcaeus Dall. Distant says that it differs from Alcaeus in having the second antennal joint "not about half the length of the first, but nearly twice as long." This is cor- rect, but the length of the second joint in A. hermannsburgi is due to the fact that the second and third joints are fused into one long joint, being separated only by a constriction, not by a real articulation. In consequence of this the third joint, as de- scribed by Distant, corresponds to the fourth joint in the other species. The second joint is, as Distant correctly says, "flatten- ed and roundly ampliate at base ;" this flattened basal part of the joint corresponds to the whole second joint in the other de- scribed species, this joint being compressed in all species, as correctly stated by Dallas. The fourth (apical) joint (corre- sponding to the fifth in the typical species), which was lacking in Distant's type, is only half the length of the preceding joint, black with the base narrowly yellow. There are several species of this Australian genus, only four of which have been de- scribed ; they are extremely similar in color, much confused in the collections and sorely in need of a revision, impossible to undertake without examination of the types of the described species. They are separable principally by the structure of the 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 antenna and orificia and, above all, the male genital segment. The transitions between species with five-jointed and four- jointed antennae are quite gradual. In some species the suture between the second and third joints is fairly distinct, in others it is hardly perceptible, sometimes disappearing only on the inner side of the joint or vanishing altogether as in A. her- mannsburgi. In no species I have seen a quite normal articu- lation with free mobility between these segments. We find a quite analogous structure of the antennae in the allied genera Eumecopus Dall. and Poecilometis Ball. In both these genera there are species with five-jointed and with four-jointed an- tennse, owing to the second and third joints being either more or less distinctly separated or fused together. Kirkaldy (Cat. Hem. I, p. 189) founded the "subgenus, if not genus" Eurono- tias on the species of Poecilometis with five-jointed antennae. Why he did not make the same subdivision in the genus Eume- copus is hard to understand. Enronotias is quite unnatural and untenable even as a subgenus, as both in Poecilometis and Enmecopus some species with four-jointed antennae are much more closely allied to certain species with five- jointed antennae than to each other. Theseus parvulus Westw. In his revision of the Pentatomidae described by Westwood in the "Hope Catalogue," Distant places Halys parvula Westw. in the genus Spudaeus Dall., but from the figure he gives of the type it is clear that it belongs to Theseus Stal. Kirkaldy proposed the new name Austromalaya for Spu- daeus, which is said to be preoccupied by Gistl. From what I have gathered about that monstrous literary product "Natur- geschichte des Thierreichs fur hohere Schulen bearbeitet von J. Gistl" few of his very numerous new names are properly founded. They seem to be nomina nuda massed together in the 1 6 pages forming the introduction to the book and mostl\ proposed quite arbitrarily without real grounds for old. well- known genera. I believe that most of these names have been undeservedly included in Waterhouse's "Index zoologicus." Vol. XX'iii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 25 Until we learn whether the name Spudaeus Gistl has a show of. legitimacy, if ever so little, I think there is no reason to abandon the name Spudaeus Dall. (Of the names proposed by Gistl in Hemiptera one at most can be used: Euphcno for the preoccupied name Macrops Burm. in the Reduviidae). Paramenestheus nercivus Dall. Sciocoris nerchms Dall., placed in our catalogues in the genus Menestheus Stal, ought to be transferred to Paramenestheus Bredd. It is true that Stal cited nercivus as the type of Menestheus, but from the information which Distant in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. (8) VI. p. 469, gives of Dallas's type it is clear that Stal had wrongly identified nercivus, with which his description of the head and antennae does not at all agree. Menestheus was probably founded on a still undescribed spe- cies allied to M. cuneatus Dist. Judging from the description it is probable that M. doddi Dist. belongs to neither of these genera. Turrubulana plana Dist. Distant has totally misunderstood the systematic position of this insect, placing it in the Halyinae near the African genus Atelocera Lap. It pertains to the true Pentatominae and is closely allied to the Australian genus Lubentius Stal, from which it differs principally by the longer and narrower, later- ally bisinuated and apically not rounded head, by the second antennal joint not reaching the apex of the head, the longer second rostral joint (reaching the middle coxa;), the slightly elevated, more deeply sinuate apical pronotal margin, the long- er frena, and by having the tips of the membranal veins united by a more or less continuous transverse vein parallel to the margin of the membrane. The membrane is described as "black" with "the apex paler," but it is subhyaline with brown veins. It appears to be black on account of the underlying black dorsal surface. The ground color of the upper side is normally reddish ochraceous. I have another allied new genus which will be described in a forthcoming paper on Hemiptera from Central Australia. 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 Antestia cederwaldi n. sp. Above green with the corium glaucous, beneath pale flavous tinged with orange and with a broad sublateral green vitta extending from the anterior margin of the propleura to the apex of the abdomen. Head above with the basal margin, an intraocular oblong spot conflu- ent with the base, two median vittae and a broad jugal vitta black. The whole margin of the pronotum, base of exocorium, epipleura, and an elongate smooth callous vitta in the exterior submedian part of the mesocorium orange; a line running from the apical margin of the pro- notum to near the apex of the scutellum, the suture of the endocorium, and a line at the outer margin of the mesocorial callous vitta whitish. Tergum of abdomen black, connexivum orange, each segment with a basal subtriangular blackish spot which does not touch the outer mar- gin, last ventral segment with a median piceous spot of variable size. Head as long as the pronotum in the middle and distinctly broader than long, finely and rather sparingly punctured above, smooth beneath ; juga transversely wrinkled, anterior ocular orbita smooth and elevated, prolonged obliquely inward and backward in the shape of a short ridge ; rostrum green, apical joint piceous; antennae green, second joint a little longer than third, fourth joint light brown, almost twice longer than third (fifth joint wanting). Pronotum almost three times broader than its length in the middle, rather thickly punctured with pale fuscous, the whole apical margin and the straight antero-lateral margins smooth, callously elevated, lat- eral angles rounded, not prominent. Scutellum punctured as the pro- notum. Pleurae irregularly punctured with very pale fuscous, anterior margin of propleuras elevated, evaporative area of metapleura extended over the posterior half of mesopleura. Corium more strongly and darkly punctured than pronotum and scutellum, the callous vitta of the mesocorium posteriorly obliquely continued to the interior apical angle (membrane mutilated). Wings slightly infuscated, iridescent. Abdomen beneath remotely and very finely punctulate, more distinctly punctured towards the sides, last ventral segment ( $ ) in the middle a little longer than the preceding segment. Legs green. Length, $ 7.8 — 8 mm. New South Wales (Richmond River, C. Cederwald). Very distinct from the two described Australian species of the genus. Dedicated to the memory of my dear friend, Carl Cederwald, from Stockholm, who many years ago collected in- sects for me in New South Wales, and who fell as a volunteer in the Boer War. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Pseudapines geminata V. Duz. This insect seems to be widely distributed. The types came from New South Wales and I have received it both from South Australia and West Australia. It was described as an Apines, but I cannot share Van Duzee's opinion that "this specie? agrees in all generic characters with Apines concinna Dallas." It differs in so many points from the Indian concinna as de- scribed and figured by Dallas and Distant, that a new genus, Pseudapines, must be founded upon it. The differential char- acters appear from the comparative diagnoses given below. The pale submarginal scutellar vittse are often broadly inter- rupted by black in the middle. Apines Dall. Head about as broad as long, narrowing from the anteocular sinus to the rounded apex. Antennae more than half the length of the body. First joint of rostrum reach- ing base of head, third joint shorter than the fourth, which is almost as long as the second. Pronotum in the middle much longer than the head, not strongly transverse, moderately narrowed toward the apex. Mesosternum sulcated in the middle. Oriflcia prolonged in a rather long, gradually tapering sulcus di- rected obliquely forward. Hemelytra barely reaching the apex of the abdomen, corium not reaching penultimate connexival segment. Legs long, femora reaching much over the lateral margins of the body, basal and apical joint of tarsi subequal in length. Pseudapines nov. gen. Head broader than long, sub- parallel from the anteocular sinus to the broadly subrotundately truncate apex. Antennae less than half the length of the body. First jomt of rostrum not reaching base of head, third joint longer than the fourth, which is scarcely longer than half the sec- ond joint. Pronotum in the middle as long as the head, strongly transverse and strongly narrowed toward the apex. Mesosternum carinated in the middle. Orificia prolonged in a short, suddenly discontinued sulcus di- rected straight outward. Hemelytra considerably passing apex of abdomen, corium reach- ing the middle of last connexival segment. Legs very short, femora not reaching the lateral margins of the body, basal joint of tarsi shorter than apical joint. 2$ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 In the figure given by Van Duzee the femora are represented as reaching- over the sides of the body, but this is wrong. The Philippine A. grisca Banks is apparently a true A pines. Diaphyta rosea n. sp. Obovate, pink-colored, basal border of pronotum and apex of scutel- lum broadly tinged with whitish ; second and third ventral segments whitish from near the middle to near the spiracles, rostrum and anten- nas testaceous, fourth and fifth antennal joints (except at base), pos- terior lateral margins of tylus, a point at the base of the fore and mid- dle acetabula, and the apical angles of the abdominal segments black; spiracles placed in a small whitish callus. Head a little broader than long and a little shorter than the prono- tum, slightly sinuate in front of the eyes, beneath very finely and spar- ingly punctured, above transversely rugulose ; apical half of juga very thickly and finely punctulate, ocellar areas smooth with a single slightly .curved row of fine punctures on each side a little inside the ocelli ; rostrum slightly passing the middle of the third ventral segment ; an- tennae rather stout, third joint distinctly shorter than the second and as long as the fifth, fourth joint as long as the second. Pronotum strongly but rather sparingly and irregularly punctured with fuscous, with smaller points intermixed, all points becoming black on the basal area, the transverse discal impression interrupted in the middle, anterior lateral margins straight, narrowly elevated, lateral angles obtuse, not prominent, posterior lateral margins and basal mar- gin broadly and slightly sinuate. Scutellum strongly but remotely punc- tured with fuscous, more thickly so on the sides behind the middle, the punctures blackened on the apical area. Acetabula and posterior border of propleurae and metapleurae punctured with fuscous, sternal lamina in front of the fore coxae roundedly narrowing, bent upward, being contiguous to the sternum, not freely prominent. Hemelytra somewhat passing apex of abdomen, corium reaching base of last con- nexival segment, rather strongly and thickly concolorously punctured, the punctures becoming fuscous toward the inner part, membrane glossy, infuscated. Abdomen beneath strongly concolorously punctured, smooth along the centre, apical angles of the segments acutely prominent, last male ventral segment in the middle longer than the two preceding segments combined, male genital segment broadly sinuate at apex. Legs pink, femora with very small sanguineous points, upper side of tibiae strongly punctured with black. Length, $ 8.5 mm. West Australia. Less elongate than D. pulchra Westw. (of which fufaescens Dall. is possibly only a variety), quite differently colored and Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 29 with several structural differences. It more resembles a Cuspi- cona, but the generic characters are those of Diapli\'ta. Myappena capito Dist. Distant says that "this genus appertains to the group of genera distinguished as Platycoraria Bergr.," but in the de- scription he writes : "Abdominal segments 1-5 with a trans- verse strigose vitta behind the spiracles" (the italics are mine). I have not seen this insect, but it can certainly not belong to the Platycoraria, as in this group the strigose ventral vitta is situated far inward from the spiracles, forming an uninter- rupted curve from the first to the third segment. The "strigose vitt?e" in Myappena Dist. are certainly not homologous with the stridulatory vittse in the Platycoraria. As the rostrum is de- scribed as only passing the anterior cox?e Mvappena cannot even belong to the Halyinae. Its position will remain enigmati- cal until it has been re-examined and redescribed by a hemip- terist having access to the type. New Species of Lyttidae, with notes on Described Species (Coleop.). By CREIGHTON WELLMAN, M.D., F.E.S. (Studies from the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, under the direction of Creighton \Vellman, Tulane University of Louisiana, No. 2). The writer has for several years been interested in the Lyt- tidae (Meloidae.auctt.) on account of their parasitic habits and the bearing of the facts regarding their habits on the general question of parasitism, and also because of the employment by African and Oriental natives of substances prepared from these insects as medicines, aphrodisiacs, poisons for suicide and mur- der, etc. In the course of an examination of large amounts of ma- terial from the British, Berlin and Indian Museums, the Pusa collection of Bengal, several private collections and my own cabinet, I have accumulated a number of notes which do not 3° ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 bear on my work which is to appear in the Fauna of British India or on any other special investigation now in hand. These are brought together in the present paper with the object of adding to the still somewhat scanty knowledge we possess of this important and interesting group of insects. V Genus ZONABRIS Har. The following notices of species are from examination of types or authentic specimens : Zonabris hauseri and Z. lucens are distinct species; lucens can be told from hauseri by its longer fourth article of the an- tenna and its dark elytral apex. Z. cm.r var. opulcntus. This form should be considered as a variety of lucens and not of crux. Z. elegantissimus var. connuens. This is merely a slight color variation. Z fasciculata Esch. This is a good species, near macu- lata, '01. Z. subsplendidula Rtt. and Z. staudingen Hdn. are both va- rieties of Z. splendidula Pall. Z. frolovi, Z. intermedia and Z. konigi are color variations of the same species. Z. humcrosa, Z. chodshentica, Z. scabiosae and Z. euphra- tica are all varieties of the same species based on differences of the elytral pattern. Z. bertrandi Cast. = Z. ustulata Reiche. Z. dicincta Bert. = Z. bizonata Gerst. Z. (Caryna) postJiuma Mars, is a variety o'frM. (C.} mi.vta Mars. Genus ELETICA F. Eletica maerens Per. = E. rufa F. var. E. rufa F. var. grandiceps n. var. Brown, smaller than typical forms, structural characters as in rufa except that the head is proportionately very much larger than in normal specimens. "Africa." There is a specimen in the British Museum. Vol. X.xiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 31 Eletica bicolor Champ, var. fuamboensis n. var. Differs from bicolor in having the head proportionate!}' smaller, the eyes rufous and more convex and the head less canaliculated at ver- tex. The coloring is as in bicolor except that the thorax is black. "Fuambo, Brit. Cent. Africa, "95-1." British Museum. This insect may represent a new species, but the extraordin- ary variability in the genus makes it impossible to announce it as such until more material appears. E. pallidipcnnis Fairm. — E. rufa F. Genus EPICAUTA Reclt. Epicauta formosensis sp. n. Black, with red head, clypeus infuscate; back and sides of pronotum, suture, margin and apices of elytra, edges of ventral segments, epis- terna and mesosterna all edged with white pubescence; form large, robust, elongate, somewhat cylindrical ; head large, subquadrate, strong- ly rounded, a median impressed line on the occiput, pustules back of bases of antennae small, punctuation sparse, but uniform and coarse, punctures on frons a little finer than rest of head, pubescence heavier and larger at back and sides ; labrum poorly obcordate, transverse, sides more strongly punctured than disc, pubescence heavier at anter- ior angles, labro-clypeal suture distinct ; clypeus rounded behind, almost straight in front, transverse, very much more coarsely punctured than head, pubescence stronger at sides ; maxillary palpi long, somewhat slender, art. 2 and 4 about equal in length, art. 3 a little shorter than others and a little broader than 2, art. 4 broader than 3, bluntly rounded and flattened; pubescence sparse; antennae long and robust, art. I the stoutest, 2 about 2-3 as long as i, 3 about il/t as long as T, 4 a little longer than 2 and gradually increasing and tapering to 10, 11 a trifle longer than 10 and bluntly sharpened ; eyes small, narrow, reni- form. Pronotum short, subquadrate, a little narrow behind, strongly con- stricted in front, margin distinctly everted, a slight median depression posteriorly, another at middle of disc ; punctuation not quite as strong as head but very thick and close, pubescence very short and rather heavier at sides; scutcllum rather rounded triangle, medium, some- what smooth ; elytra parallel separately, rounded at apices, ora dis- tinct, nervure indistinct, evenly and finely punctured, granulose, pu- bescence short, close lying; ventral surface a little more heavily punc- tured than elytra ; legs large, long, robust, femora and tibiae a little more finely and thickly punctured than abdomen, pubescence pale; 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 posterior tibial spurs somewhat spoonshaped, the inner the longer and the outer the heavier ; farsi, long and stout ; claws, long and robust. Type in British Museum. Type locality, Formosa. Distribution. Formosa, Japan (Rev. H. Loomis) ; C. For- mosa, '94; Formosa (Bowring), '63; British Museum (3); Wellman Coll. (i). Waterhouse (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, in, p. 407) referred this species to assamensis with a query. It is perfectly distinct, however, and may be told by the larger size, white marginal pubescence, the entire lack of long black hair on the sternum, and the heavier and sparser punctuation of the head. The specimen in my collection, labeled chinensis Cast., is not quite typical, being smaller, with a larger smooth area on the frons. Epicauta insularis Haag-Rut. var. montalbana n. var. Differs from typical specimens by having the pronotum uniformly dark red instead of black. Although the essential characters are iden- tical with insularis the color difference is so striking that any one would at first glance pronounce it a new species. This pretty variety was sent me by Mr. Charles S. Banks, Entomologist of the Bureau of Science, Manila, who writes concerning it as follows: "Those numbered 11,059 were found by Mr. W. Schultze, my assistant, very abundant at Montalban, about 30 kilometers from Manila. They were taken on the 6th of June, 1909, and were present in thousands. Mr. Schultze says that wherever they touched his hand they caused tiny blisters." I have in my collection typical specimens of insularis, also taken by Mr. Banks, and there is another series in the United States National Museum, from Benguet, '03, and Manila, '09, sent by the same collector, who also reports in a letter to the writer the following other Philippine captures : Gen. Cissistes cephalotes '01. Manila, Sept., '03 (R. E. Brown, S. J.), Horia testacea F., Negros Is., P. I., '02 (Banks). Genus LYTTA F. Lytta signifrons Fabr. - = L. codcstina Haag. L. hildebrandti Haag. = : L. vittipcnnis Kibe. L. flayellaria Er. is a Macrobasis. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 33 Lytta bieti n. sp. Color metallic, bluish purple, a yellow spot on the vertex, elytra with a yellow vitta extending obliquely from the basal margin over the humeral callus to the apex and ending nearer the suture than the margin ; form medium, robust, depressed, slightly wider posterior- ly; head large, triangular, slightly rounded angles, a slight vertical median impressed line, an impression at base of antenna on each side, another impression at the anterior end of the light spot on vertex, coarsely and very sparsely punctured, becoming a little denser at frons; pubescence short, sparse and mixed dark and lighter at back and un- der head; labrum strongly obcordate, a median smooth space, finely and sparsely punctured, pubescence pale, sparse, labro-clypeal suture distinct ; clypeus very short, transverse, narrowed in front, posterior border convex, a foveate impression on either side, finely and thickly punctured, pubescence sparse; maxillary palpi long and medium, art. 2 medium, slightly obconical, art. 3 short, obconical, last article the longest of all, slightly ovoid; antennae art. I short, strongly swollen, art. 2 small, beadlike. Pronotum short, transverse, narrowed behind, strongly gibbous at sides, suddenly constricted into neck, a median longitudinal impressed line to near posterior margin ending in a large impression, reflexed posterior margin strong at middle weakening at sides, a large, round, shallow fovea on either side of disk, disk around these foveae smooth, impunctate, and in front of these it is sparsely and coarsely punctured, a little coarser than head, pubescence short, sparse, dark; scutelhun large, rounded, a large deep fovea taking in nearly all of it; elytra less than three times as large as joint width, ora and nervures dis- tinct, evenly, mediumly, coarsely and rugosely punctured, light and dark areas punctured the same, pubescence sparse and very short, slightly dehiscent and separately rounded at apices; ventral surface of mesosternum finely, thickly and rugosely punctured, pubescence mediumly short, ventrals of abdomen finely, sparsely and transversely aciculately punctured, pubescence mediumly short, sparse and confined more to sternum ; legs medium long and stout, femora and tibiae punctured about like ventrals but not aciculate, posterior tibial spurs, outer with slight tendency to being trumpet-shaped, inner sharp and curved; tarsi long and slender; clan's short and stout. Length 13, width 3.5 mm. Type in B. Museum. Type locality, Thibet. Distribution. Thibet, Tatsienlou (Mgr. F. Biet.). British Museum (3 specimens). This can readily be told at a glance from thibctana by its more gibbous pronotum, color, by its much coarser elytral sculp- ture, and by the oblique direction of the elytral vitta, in thibe- 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '12 tana the vitta is reflected upward at its apex, in bieti it is re- flected downward. Lytta arborea n. sp. Color metallic, dark blue, a small red dot on vertex, pubescence very short, sparse and mixed light and dark; form small, oblong; head subquadrate, strongly rounded angles, sparsely but very coarsely punctured, punctuation closest at frons and vertex; labntm short, strongly emarginate in front, sides rounded, punctured very finely and sparsely, labro-clypeal suture not distinct ; clypeus short, trans- verse oblong, strongly rounded angles, sparsely and finely punctured ; maxillary palpi long and slender, art. 2 long, very slender, cylindrical, 3 is l/2 as long as 2, and a little thicker, last not quite as long as 2 but much thicker and truncate ; antennae medium, art. i short and swollen, 2 very small and beadlike, 3 a little longer than i, cylindrical, 4-10 subequal, slightly increasing in diameter, last longer than 10, strongly pointed ; eyes small, flat, far apart, entire. Pronotum roughly hexagonal, a slight median impressed line, a large fovea on either side of line, on disk, feebly everted at posterior mar- gin, more strongly at middle, punctured like head, but very much sparser and scattering; scutcllum short and squarish, almost impunc- tate; elytra 2l/2 times as long as joint width, ora prominent nervures slightly visible, uniformly rugose, jointly rounded behind ; ventral surface very faintly and sparsely punctured ; legs medium, femora and tibiae a little more closely punctured than ventrals; tarsi long and slender; claws long and stout ; $ antennae long and delicate, last ven- tral deeply notched ; 9 antennae very short, stouter, last ventral shal- lowly notched. Length 8 mm., width 2.5 mm. Type in my collection. Type locality, Humboldt County, California. Distribution Weitchpec, Humboldt Co., V. 20, u, near Ham- burg, Siskyou Co., VI. 2, IT (F. W. Nunenmacher). This rare insect was found by beating trees (? dogwood } along the river. It is very scare, but of great interest on ac- count of its unusual habits. None of our other indigenous blis- ter beetles, except the genus Pomphopoea (and possibly Mac- robasis unicolor Kby. which is occasionally taken on small bushes) are arboreal in habits. The present species is the first of the present genus known to live on trees. Structurally, it is not very close to any described form. Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 35 Lytta hoppingi n. sp. Color black, prothorax bright reddish testaceous with a black longi- tudinal dorsal median broad stripe which is the full width of the neck in front, ending behind at the base of the pronotum in a point, very sparsely clothed throughout with short, black very sparse pubes- ence; form slender, graceful, somewhat depressed, strongly widened behind ; head small, subglobose, slightly depressed, with a very faint median impressed line at the occiput, a faint smooth pustule on vertex, thickly and moderately coarsely punctured, the punctures being thicker around the pustule on vertex, becoming sparser toward sides and back of head ; labrum short, broad, feebly emarginate in front, strongly rounded corners narrowed behind, thickly and finely punctured, labro- clypeal suture distinct ; dypeus short, transverse, slightly rounded in front, straight behind, punctured a little more sparsely than labrum ; maxillary palpi short and slender, arts. 2 and 3 subequal, cylindrical, last a little longer, slightly flattened and truncate; antennae long and stout, art. i short and strongly swollen, 2 is ^2 as long as first, bead-shaped, 3 a little longer than i and subequal from 3 to 10, last a little longer than 10 and strongly pencil-sharpened ; eyes large, wide apart, slightly convex, entire. Pronotum long, slender, subcylindrical, gently and slowly narrowed in front, feebly narrowed behind, posterior margin very feebly everted, a very slight median fovea near the posterior margin, punctured a little more finely than head, the dark areas punctured a little more thickly than the light; scutellum small, triangular, point rounded, finely and thickly punctured ; elytra 2l/2 times as long as joint width, ora dis- tinct, very finely and vermiculately rugose, jointly rounded at apices; ventral surface very finely and evenly punctured; legs medium, femora and tibiae punctured like ventrals ; .tarsi long and mediurrrly strong. $. Articles of antennae much longer than those of 9, the last two ventral segments much more strongly notched than 9 , posterior tibial spurs long and slender, smooth pustule on vertex well marked. 9 . Articles of antennae stouter, last ventral segments slightly notch- ed, posterior tibial spurs shorter and stouter, pustule on vertex feebly marked. Length 15 mm., width 4 mm. Type in my collection. Type locality Fresno County, Cali- fornia. Distribution. Coalinga, Fresno County, California. V. 8. (R. Hopping). This graceful species is not very closely allied to any other now known. At a glance it somewhat resembles in form and color Pyrotrichus vitticollis Lee. 3^ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 Lytta nunenmacheri n. sp. Color black, a small red spot on vertex, uniformly clothed with short, very sparse, black, erect pubescence ; form rather short and robust ; head subquadrate, a slight median impressed liile on occiput, vertex transversely somewhat impressed, sparsely and mecliumly coarse- ly punctured, the punctures being thickest just at vertex; labntin obcordate; the anterior half rather thickly and coarsely punctured, the posterior half impunctate, labro-clypeal suture distinct; clypeus short, transverse oblong, anterior 1-3 impunctate, posterior 2-3 punctured like labrum ; maxillary palpi short and stout, art. 2 long, 3 short, last a little longer than 2, strongly flattened, truncate; antennae medium in length, stout, art. i short, strongly swollen, 2 very small, beadlike, 3 longer than I, 4 as long as I, 4-10 subequal in length but gradually increasing in diameter, last longer than 10 and strongly pencil-sharpen- ed; eyes small, far apart, slightly convex, very slightly notched. Pronotum subquadrate, sharply contracted in front, rather strongly narrowed behind, posterior margin strongly everted, a deep longitud- inal median impression extending almost its entire length, sparsely punctured, the punctures like those of head ; scutellum small, rounded, finely and thickly punctured; elytra 2*/2 times as long as joint width, slightly widened posteriorly, ora distinct, 2 middle nervures visible, finely and vermiculately rugose, a little more strongly marked toward apices, separately rounded behind; ventral surface sparsely and finely punctured ; legs long and stout ; femora and tibiae punctured like ven- trals but a little thicker ; tarsi long and stout ; claws long and stout. $ . Antennae longer and slenderer than 9 , pronotum convex and not rugose, posterior tibial spurs long and slender, slightly trumpet-shaped. 9 . Antennae shorter and stouter, pronotum slightly depressed and slightly rugose, posterior tibial spurs shorter and stouter and strongly trumpet-shaped. Length 12-22 mm., width 3-3.8 mm. Type in my collection. Type locality Humboldt County, Cali- fornia. Distribution. Orleans Bar, Humboldt County, California, V. 22, n (F. W. Nunenmacher). Nunenmacheri can be told from blaisdclli by its sulcate pro- notum, by its much thicker (twice as thickly) punctured head, by its rugose pronotum and by the posterior tibial spurs being very trumpet-shaped (they are only grooved in blaisdclli'] and by the much duller texture of the head and thorax and elytra. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 37 Genus CALOSPASTA Lee. Calospasta imperialis n. sp. Color piceous. head and thorax testaceous, elytra and legs stramine- ous, antennae varying from piceous to testaceous, pubescence sparse and short throughout ; form small, slender and delicate, subparallel ; head small, subglobose, sparsely and very minutely punctured, with a small shallow depression at frons ; labrutn short, transverse, oblong, finely and thickly punctured in the middle, labro-clypeal suture very distinct ; clypeus short, transverse, with anterior angles rounded, punc- tured like head ; maxillary palpi medium, slender, last article trun- cate; antennae medium, robust, article I short, slightly swollen, 2 bead-like, 3 almost equal to I and 2, cylindrical, 4-10 subequal, short cylindrical, n a little longer and somewhat fusiform; eyes large, far apart, almost entire. Pronotum long, somewhat cone-shaped, very strongly contracted in front and slightly narrowed behind, posterior margin reflexed, a V- shaped depression posteriorly at the middle, punctuation as that of head ; scutelluni small, V-shaped, almost impunctate ; elytra slightly widened behind, ora and nervures distinct, somewhat coarsely, irregu- larly and rugosely punctured, separately and bluntly rounded behind ; ventral surface very finely but distinctly punctured ; legs long and slender, femora and tibiae punctured like ventrals, posterior tibial spurs short and weak, the inner sharp, the outer blunt ; tarsi long and slender ; claws long and weak. Length 6 mm., width 2 mm. Type in Wellman coll. Type locality Meloland, Imperial Valley, California. Distribution. Imperial Valley, May, 1911, on wild hollyhock (J. C. Bridwell, 9 specimens). This species is very distinct from anything in the genus yet described. Genus MELOE L. Mcloe latrcillci Mars. = = M. pitrpurascens Germ. M. aenens Cast. == M. purpurascens Germ. M. maculifrons Luc. == M. inajalis L. var. Genus NEMOGNATIIA Illig. Nemognatha bridwelli n. sp. Color yellowish testaceous, antennae and last 3 articles of tarsi piceous, pubescence medium in length, light yellow and very thick and close, covering the entire insect ; head subtriangular, closely, 3§ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 thickly and finely punctured, a median vertical smooth, raised line on the f rons and vertex ; labrum short, transverse, with strongly rounded anterior angles, punctuation that of head, labro-clypeal suture very distinct; clypeus transverse oblong, punctured like head; maxillary palpi long, mediumly robust ; articles subequal, last article feebly flat- tened and truncate; antennae long, mediumly robust, article I short and swollen, 2 not quite as long as I, cylindrical, 3-10 subequal, monili- form, becoming gradually thinner and slightly flattened on the under side towards the end, 1 1 about equal to preceding and bluntly pointed ; eyes large, narrow, strongly uniform and far apart. Pronotum transverse oblong, sharply and shortly contracted in front, sides parallel, posterior margin slightly reflexed, a very small posterior median depression, punctured like head, but more sparsely; scutellum large, triangular with' rounded apex, excavated in middle, feebly and thickly punctured; elytra slightly narrowed behind, ora and nervures not distinct; very thickly, finely and rugosely punctured, uniformly and separately rounded behind; ventral surface punctured like elytra but more sparsely; legs medium and robust, femora and tibise punctured like ventrals but a little more closely, posterior tibial spurs the inner slender and pointed, the outer thick and grooved ; tarsi long and mediumly robust; claws short and stout. Length 9 mm., width 4 mm. Type in Wellman collection. Type locality, Imperial Valley, California. Distribution, Meloland, Imperial Valley, May n, on arrow- weed, (J. C. B.) 3 specimens. This species may be placed near punctipennis Lee. and im- maculata Say., but is easily told from either by its very thick pubescence. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENTOMOLOGY. — The Second In- ternational Congress of Entomology will be held at Oxford, England, from August 5 to 10, 1912. Further particulars will be announced shortly. The Executive Committee proposes to find for members of the Con- gress lodgings in the town, or in rooms in one of the Colleges at a moderate charge ; rooms in the Colleges will be available only for men. The Executive Committee invites an early provisional notice of intention to join the Congress, in order to be able to make the ar- rangements for the necessary accommodation. 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The attendance from America at the First Congress was small as might have been expected, on account of the distance and expense of the journey. Ameri- cans should take a greater interest in the coming Congress arid see that this great continent is well represented. All those interested in the study are eligible for membership and we hoj)e to see a much larger attendance from this side of the Atlantic this year. It will be possible to see the great collections of England under very favorable circumstances and to make the acquaintance of our fellow workers of Europe. Make up your mind to go. You will have a fine time, an intellectual treat and a warm welcome at Oxford. The expense need not be great. It will be possible to attend the Congress for about $150, or as much more as you care to expend if you travel further while abroad. — H. S. 39 40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY'E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy- Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 3. The American Naturalist. — 4. The Canadian Entomologist. — 5. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass. — 7. U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, Bureau of Entomology. — 8. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. — 9. The Entomologist, London. — 10. Nature. London. — 11. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. — 13. Comptes Rendus, Societe de Biologic, Paris. — 14. Proceed- ings, Zoological Society of London. — 18. Ottawa Naturalist. — 22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. — 24. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. — 35. Annalcs, Societe Entomologique de Belgique.— 38. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. — 40. Societas Entomologica, Zurich. — 43. La Cellule. — 44. Verhandlungen, K. k. zoologisch- botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. — 84. Entomologische Rund- schau.— 86. Annales, Societe Entomologique de France, Paris.— 89. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. — 92. Zeitschrift fur wissen- schaftliche Insekten-biologie. — 123. Bulletin, Wisconsin Natural History Society, Milwaukee. — 166. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben. — 184. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Phila- delphia.— 186. Journal of Economic Biology, London. — 193. En- tomologische Blatter, Nurnberg. — 216. Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart. — 218. Mikrokosmos. Zeitschrift fur die praktische Bet- atigung aller Naturfreunde, Stuttgart. — 290. Biological Series, Michigan Geological and Biological Survey, Lansing. — 293. Spolia Zeylanica, Colombo, Ceylon. — 313. Bulletin of Entomological Re- search, London. — 324. Journal of Animal Behavior, Cambridge, ]VIass. — 341. Archiv fur Rassen- u. Gesellschafts-Biologie, Leipzig. — 346. Fauna Exotica, Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete der exotischen Insektenwelt, Frankfurt am Main. — 350. Bulletin from the Labo- Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 41 ratory of Natural History of the State University of Iowa, Iowa City. — 351. Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Physiologic, Herausgegeben von Max Verworm, Jena. — 352. Revue Critique de Paleozoologie, Organe Trimestrel, Paris. — 353. Arbeiten aus den Zoologischen Instituten der Universitat Wien. GENERAL SUBJECTS.— Gregory, J. W. The scientific mis-- appropriation of popular terms, 10, 1911, 7. — Hoffman, F. Noctam- bulas entomologicus, 216, 1911, 175-176. — Manders, N. An investi- gation into the validity of Mullerian and other forms of mimicry, with special reference to the islands of Bourbon, Mauritius, and Ceylon, 14, 1911, 696-749. — Meunier, F. Paleozoologie Insectes (Re- views). Fossil insects anl crustaceans from Florissant, Colorado, by T. D. A. Cockerell, 352, 1911, 210-212. — Sasse, E. Zur physiolo gie des nervensystems der insekten (Xach versuchen an der larve des hirschkafers [Lucanus cervus]), 351, xiii, 69-104. — Simpson, J. J. Entomological research in British West Africa. Hints for col- lectors, 313, ii, 187-240.— Stiles, C. W. The article 30 (g) of the international rules of zoological nomenclature, 38, xxx, 202.— Turner, C. H. Literature for 1910 on the behavior of spiders and insects other than ants, 324, 1911, 401-412.— White, J. C. E. On the killing of flies, bees. &c., by wasps. 8, 1911, 260. APTERA AND NEUROPTERA.— Anon. Von ameisenlowen, 218, v, 164-166. — Hoffman, R. W. Ueber bau und funktion der dor salkeule von Corynephoria jacobsoni, 22, 1911, 382-391. — Lozinski, P. Ueber die malpighischen gefasse der Myrmeleonidenlarven als Spinndrusen, 22, 1911, 401-417. — Meissner, O. Ameisen und amei- senlowen, 40, xxvi, 59-60.— Muttkowski, R. A. S'tudies in Tetra- goneuria (Odonata), 123, 1911, 91-34 (*) (cont.).— Shull & Carri- ker. A biological survey of the sand dune region on the south shore of Saginaw Bay, Michigan. Thysanoptera, Mallophaga, 290, iv, 177-216, 233-242 (*). — Wasmann & Holmgren. Tabelle der Ter- mitophya- und der Xenogaster-Arten, 22, 1911, 428-429. ORTHOPTERA.— Kheil, N. M. Die Finot'sche Orthopteren- sammlung in Paris, 166, 1911, 203-204, 213-215.— Meissner, O. Bi«<- logische beobachtungen an Dixippus morosus, Nachtrag, 216, xxv, 185-186 (cont.). — Shull, A. F. A biological survey of the sand dune region on the south shore of Saginaw Bay, Michigan, 290, iv, 217 231. HEMIPTERA. — Collinge, W. E. On the locomotion and length of life of the young of Pulvinaria vitis var., ribesiae, 186, vi, 139- 1,42. LEPIDOPTERA.— Ashworth, J. H. Zoology at the British As- 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'l2 sociation. Mimicry in African butterflies and moths. The scent patches of Lepidoptera, 10, 1911, 26-27. — Barnes & McDunnough. On certain Olene species, 5, xviii, 157-159 (*). — Bohm, L. K. Die antennalen sinnesorgane der Lepidopteren, 353, xix, 219-246.— Chittenden, F. H. The fig moth (Ephestia cantella), 7, Bull. No. 104, 1-40. — Dognin, P. Heteroceres nouveaux de 1'Amerique du Sud, Fasc. Ill, 66 pp. — Fassl, A. H. Die vertikale verbreitung der Lep- idopteren in der Columbischen Central-Cordillere, 346, i, 24-20 (cont.). — Gibson, A. Fauna Ottawaensis. Order Lepidoptera: sir perfamily Geometroidea, 18, 1911, 105-112.— Green, E. E. On the occasional luminosity of the beetle "Harmatelia bilinea, 293, vii, 212-214. — de Meijere, J. C. H. Ueber getrennte vererbung der ge- schlechter, 341, viii, 553-603. — Michael, O. Beobachtungen ueber vorkommen und lebensweise der Aguasarten des Amazonasgebie- tes, 346, i, 21-23. — Mitterberger, K. Zur biologic von Depressaria heydenii, 92, vii, 285-287. Abnormitaten in der begattung einiger microlepidopteren, 166, 1911, 204-206. — Rau, P. Fluffy Cecropia cocoons, 5, xviii, 168-170.- — Reiff, W. Experimente an ueberwintern- den Lepidoptera-puppen, 92, vii, 267-270 (cont.). — Schaus, W. New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica. — XI, 11, viii, 577-602.— Schulze, P. Die nackengabel der Papilionidenraupen, 89, xxxii, 181-244. — Smyth, E. G. Report on the fig moth in Smyrna, 7, Bull. No. 104, 41-65.— Srdinko, J. Ueber die lebensweise und die zucht von Agrotis candelisequa, 166, 1911, 217-219.— Wolley Dod, F. H. Fur ther notes on Alberta Lepidoptera, 4, 1911, 361-369 (cont.). DIPTERA. — Alexeieff, A. Sur les cercomonadines intestinales de Calliphora erythrocephala et de Lucilia sp., 13, 1911, 379-382 — Bolsius, H. Sur la structure spiralee ou discoide de I'elemente chro- mahque dans les glandes salivaires des larves de Chironomus, 43, xxvii, 77-86. — Doane, R. W. Tipula fallax and others, 5, xviii, 160- 166 (*). — Morgan, T. H. An attempt to analyze the constitution of the chromosomes on the basis of sex limited inheritance in Drosophila, 184, 1911, 365-412. — Patterson, T. L. Notes on a Sar- cophagid found in a turtle, 5, xviii, 173-174. COLEOPTERA.— Bickhardt, H. Neue Histeriden aus Afrika und Sudamerika, 193, vii, 206-217.— Bowditch, F. C. Further notes on Diabrotica. No. II, 4, 1911, 386-389 (cont.).— Champlain, A. B. Notes on Coleoptera from Connecticut, 5, xviii, 170-173. — Collins, J. Notes on the early stages of Haemonia appendiculata, 8, 1911, 248-250.— Gahan, C. J. On some recent attempts to classify the Coleoptera in accordance with their phylogeny, 9, 1911, 348-351.- Gounelle, E. Liste des Cerambycides de la region de Jatahy, Etat Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 43 de Goyaz, Brasil, 86, 1911, 1-150. — Heikertinger, F. Zur praxis des kaferfanges mit dem katscher, 38, xxx, 227-233. — Kerremans, C. Remarques synonymiques sur quelques especes du genre Cyphu- gastra, 35, 1911, 294-297. — Kleine, R. Biologisches uber den schwar- zen Aaskafer (Phosphuga atrata), 193, vii, 193-199.— Lund, E. J. On the structure, physiology and use of photogenic organs, with special reference to the Lampyridae, 184, 1911, 415-468.— Mangan, J. The occurrence of Necrobia and Dermestes in cotton bales, 186, vi, 133-138. — Netolitsky, F. Die parameren und das system der Adephaga (Caraboides), 44, 1911, 221-239.— Norton, A. H. The potato beetle (Doryphora decemlineata) eating the eggs of its kind, 4, 1911, 385. — Nusslin, O. Phylogenie und system der bork- enkafer, 92, vii, 271-278 (cont.).— Ohaus, F. Neue gattungen und arten der Dynastidengruppe Phileurini, 84, 1911, 169-171.— Rungius, H. Ueber die physiologische bedeutung des kaumagens von Dyt iscus marginalis, 22, 1911, 442-446. — Santschi, F. Une nouvelle espece d'Eciton, 24, Ivi, 113. — Strohmeyer, H. Die familie der Plat- ypopiden und ihre einteilung, 193, vii, 217-218.— Wickham, H. F. A list of the Coleoptera of Iowa, 350, vi, No. 2, 1-40. HYMENOPTERA. — Allard, H. A. Some experimental observa- tions concerning the behavior of various bees in their visits to cotton blossoms. 11, 3, 1911, 668-685.— Cockerell, T. D. A. Rec- ords of bees, 4, 1911, 389-391 (*). Descriptions and records of bees.— XXXIX, 11, viii, 660-673 (*).— Cushman, B. A. Notes on the peach and plum slug (Caliroa amygdalina), 7, Bull. No. 97, pt. V. — Girault, A. A. Miscellaneous notes on the Hymenoptera Chalci- doidea: The genera Arthrolytus, Horismenus, Microgaster, 4, 1911, 370-377 (*). — Hormuzaki, F. Die systematische und morpholog- ische stellung der bukowiner foremen von Melitaea athalia, und aurelia, 92, vii, 261-267.— Schmidt, A. Neue Aphodiinen und eine synonymische bemerkung, 40, 1911, 55-56.— Schmiedeknecht, O. Opuscula Ichneumonologica. Fasc. XXIX, pp. 2241-2322— Schulz, W. A. Grabwespen-Typen Tourniers, Brulles, Lepeletiers und S'chencks, 40, xxvi, 57-59 (cont.).— Turner, R. E. Notes on fos- sorial Hymenoptera.— V., 11, viii, 602-624.— Wheeler, W. M. Pseu- doscorpions in ant nests, 5, xviii, 166-168. Literature for 1910 on the behavior of ants, their guests and parasites, 324, 1911, 413-429. OPHIONINAE.— A REVIEW. — In one of the latest fascicles of the Genera Insectorum, namely Fascicule H4me, received at the Smithsonian Institution, October 12, 1911, and containing 100 pages and 2 plates, Mr. Gy. V. Szepligeti treats of the group of Ophioninae which in his 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '12 opinion have a spindel shaped abdomen and for which he proposes to use Foerster's term Mesochoroidae. Of the Ashmeaclian groups Mr. Szepligeti treats the Plectiscini, (omitting the available genera Hambergiclla Roman, Mischoxurides Ashmead, Clepticus Haliday, Symphylus Foerster, Acroblapticus Schmie- deknecht, Campoihrcptus Foerster, Zarhynchus Ashmead, Rhynchothy- reus Ashmead, and Grypocentrus Ruthe) ; the Mesochorini, (omitting Thy mar is Foerster, which he probably holds with others as belonging to the Tryphoninae and Edrisa Cameron) ; the Campoplegini excepting the genera with compressed abdomen, (omitting Phobocampa Thomson, Paurolexis Cameron, Enytus Cameron, Neobosmina Cameron, and Dusona Cameron) ; the Banchini, which he would place in the Pimplinae near Lissonotini, (omitting Agathilla Westwood and Nawaia Ash- mead) ; the Paniscini, which he says belongs to the Tryphoninae, (omitting Bucheckcrius Schulz and Paropheltes Cameron) ; the Hell- wigiini (omitting Diamon Gistel) ; the Nesomesochorini which he per- sistently misspells as Neomeschorinae and which he holds belongs to the Tryphoninae, (in this view the writer cannot concur as the Nesome- sochorus Ashmead is almost morphologically identical with Nonnus Cresson and should be placed near Zachresta Foerster according to present day classifications) ; and the Megacerinae a group not in Ash- mead's classification and held by Szepligeti to belong to the Tryphoninae. No attempt is made in the work under consideration to bring up to date the first part of the Ophioninae published by the same author, so the available genera omitted from that part are not accounted for— these genera are Odontagrypon Cameron in the Anomalini, Oph'nni- oneura Cameron, Enicospilus Stephens and Gcnophion Felt in the Ophionini and Hiatenso-r Brues and Protohelkvigia Brues of the Ophioninae. The chief feature of this classification is the attempt to treat the Ophion- . inae with a more or less fusiform abdomen and usually round propo- deal spiracles as a separate group from those having a compressed abdomen and with the propodeal spiracles usually elongate. In effect this is to apply Foerster's division of the Campoplegini to the whole Ophion- inae. Inasmuch as these characters are of doubtful value as a means to a definite end even in the Campoplegini, and owing to the fact that there are numerous examples of intermediates between completely com- pressed abdomen and fusiformly compressed abdomen and between round and elongate propodeal spiracles, the reviewer is of the opinion that the present classification does not clear up the situation, but makes the classification more unsatisfactory than ever. Are not the difficulties attendant on separating Ichneumonidae into groups through the use of the depression or compression of the abdomen great enough without \ Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL M-;\VS 45 again dividing the compressiventres into groups on the degree of com- pression ! To pursue such a course it would seem is to bring <>n dis- traction. In the "Limnerinae" the customary neglect of the Foerster collection is manifest and as usual no reason is given for this procedure. Grant- ing that the Foerster collection of Campoplegini is still in existence our European colleagues could do a great service by consulting it and rec- onciling the species on which the genera without geno-types were based with the latest facts, to the end that Foerster's genera without species would have species placed in them. It is greatly to be regretted that this latest classification still leaves us in the dark with reference to the genera of Foerster without a species. The zoogeographical arrangement of the species is convenient and helpful as in other parts done by Mr. Szepligeti. It were well if this arrangement were adhered to throughout the Genera Insectorum. For example the Chalcididae part would have been made useful had the species been divided into zoogeographical regions. Some corrections and changes are called for — to wit: — page n, Biolysa should read Biolysia; page 12, Canidia Holmgren is certainly preoccupied in the Coleoptera as correctly held by Ashmead ; page 13, the genotype of Hyposoter is H. paror^yiae Viereck and of Horogenes the type is H. discoocellellae Viereck. Both of these genera may be distinguished from Casinaria by the shorter propodeum which hardly extends beyond the base of hind coxae and does certainly not surpass the basal third of the hind coxse ; there are other differences, but this we hold to be the most important — hence we are opposed to Horogenes and Hyposoter as being synonymous with Casinaria. As the geno- types of Horogenes and Hyposoter were not published until 1910 they probably were not known to Szepligeti before he finished his paper; page 15, the genotype of Lintncria Holmgren cannot be a species con- generic with Eulinineria Schmiedeknecht so the reviewer in order to make as little confusion as possible chooses (Ichneumon] Liinncna loiii^'ipcs ( Muller) Gravenhorst. Thomson, as type of Liinuc^ia ; the type chosen for Olcsicampe Foerster is Ichneumon longipcs Muller, thus Linnicria and Olesicampe are isogenotypic and Olcsicampe becomes the name to be used in place of the preoccupied Linnicria. making Lun- ncrium unnecessary. 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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. XXIII. FEBRUARY, 1912. No. 2. CONTENTS: Barnes arid McDunnough— Further Re- marks on Thecla clytie, leda and ines (Lepid.) 49 Barnes and McDunnough— On the Spring and Summer Forms of Sab- ulodes sulphurata Pack. (Lepid.).. 53 Barnes and McDunnough — A New Cos- sid (Lepid.) 55 Kellogg and Mann — Mallophaga from Islands off Lower California 56 Alexander — Fulton Co. (New York), Tipulidae (Dipt.).— II 66 Back — Notes on Florida Thysanoptera, with description of a new genus. . . 73 Blatchley — A new species of Dicaelus from Arkansas (Coleop.) 77 Editorial 79 Notes and News 80 Entomological Literature 84 Doings of Societies 89 Further Remarks on Thecla clytiet leda and ines (Lepid.). By WM. BARNES, M.D., and J. MCDUNNOUGH, Ph.D., Decatur, 111. (Plates VI, figs. 1-7) Tn the July number of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for 1911, p. 293, we are treated to another of those "lumping" articles for which certain of our Californian confreres are becoming quite famous. This time it is three species from the genus Thecla which are the objects of attention, and after four pages of comparative tables and three pages of ordinary reading mat- ter, Messrs. Haskin and Grinnell, Jr., arrive, in the final para- graph, at the conclusion that Thecla clytie Edw., leda Edw.. and ines Edw. are one and the same species, and that any dif- ferences between them are "really so minute'' that they con- sider "even form names a superfluity." A study of the material in Coll. Barnes has brought us to a slightly different conclusion, viz. that the authors of the above mentioned article have certainly never seen a specimen of the true clytie, and most possibly not even of ines, and that from a superficial study of a series of leda and an attempted compari- son of mere descriptions they have considered themselves in a 49 5O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l2 position to cast doubts upon the work of one of the most care- ful entomological observers that America has ever produced. Descriptions are at best but feeble reeds to lean upon, and are capable, like statistics, of being twisted to suit the purpose of the moment ; with an idea therefore of clearing up some of the doubt which seems to exist concerning these three forms we have prepared a somewhat enlarged photograph, which is re- produced in the accompanying plate, and append further a few remarks on the same. Theda clytic was described from a female taken by Boll at San Antonio, Texas ; it was taken later by Aaron near Corpus Christi, Tex. (Pap. IV, 180) ; and a single female, captured by Dr. Barnes himself in the same locality, was for a long time the sole representative of this rare species in his collection ; recent- ly, however, the receipt of one male and ten females from Brownsville, Texas, has placed us in a position to better judge of its specific value, and we have no hesitation in declaring it to be a thoroughly valid species, belonging in the same group with leda but abundantly distinct. It apparently is confined to Southern Texas, and the listing of it from Arizona is probably due to an error of determination. Holland's figure (Butt. Book, Plate XXX, fig. 6) is an excellent representation of the upper side of the female, and in Fig. 3 of our plate we repro- duce the under side. The points of difference to leda men- tioned by Edwards (Pap. II, 24), viz. the pale blue of upper side, the red marginal line of under side, the broad red dashes of the transverse band, and the small wholly white outer tail all hold good and are excellent means of separation, notwith- standing Messrs. Haskin and Grinnell's disparaging remarks on the subject. We would further call attention to the entirely different course and general make-up of the discal band of dashes on primaries, which in fresh specimens are bright orange-red. The male of this species has seemingly never been describe- 1 ; the single specimen before us was unfortunately too worn to include in the plate ; as far as we can tell there is a faint trace of blue at the base of primaries and the black sex mark in the Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 51 cell is quite distinct ; on the secondaries the blue scaling extends from the base and inner margin about midway across the wing and does not exceed an imaginary line drawn from the small outer tail to the base of wing. Aaron's reference of clytie to adria Hew., a species from Brazil, can scarcely hold ; Hewitson's figure is very poor and bears merely a general resemblance to clytie ; in the description there are also certain details which do not tally at all with the specimens before us. Wright's remark (Butt. West Coast, p. 209) that cl\tie is but a slightly larger form of ines is quite erroneous and not at all applicable to the true species ; what species Wright has misidentified as clytie it is impossible to say definitely : it may. however, be ines, for the ines of Wright is the leda of Edwards. Thecla leda and ines are two forms much more closely allied to each other than to the preceding species ; in fact we are in considerable doubt as to whether they should be classed as dis- tinct species or forms of one species ; they can readily be sep- arated, as we shall show later, and the differences between them are by no means so minute as our California friends would have us suppose. Racial forms they cannot be, as we have them from identical localities in Arizona, nor are they seasonal variations, for our date labels show that both are taken from Inly to September. The male genitalia appear practically identical, so the question can only be settled positively by breed- ing from ova of a known female. It would, however, be fool- ish, in our opinion, in the present state of our knowledge, to sink one as the synonym of the other ; names sunk as synonyms are gradually lost sight of, and before many years we should have some enterprising entomologist describing once more this same form and thus creating a true synonym. One of the main points of difference between leda and ines has been passed over by the authors of the above-mentioned article, viz. that in ines "on secondaries, beyond disk, the gray scales prevail." In fresh specimens of this form the contrast between the dark and light areas on the inner and outer sides of the discal band is very marked, much more so than is shown in our plate, 52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l2 Fig. 5. Using this as a basis of separation we examined over 100 specimens contained among Dr. Barnes' duplicates and divided them into two groups ; we next separated the sexes in each group, a task over which great care must be exercised, for in many males the sex-mark is quite faint, and in certain females, owing to the distribution of blue scales, a dark patch like a male sex-mark appears in the cell, — in doubtful cases recourse must be had to an examination of genitalia. The net result was that in one series we had specimens as represented by our figures No. i and No. 6, and in the other series insects corresponding to Nos. 2 and 7 ; the former are male and female leda: the latter the two sexes of ines. Even to the casual ob- server the much greater extent of the blue surface in ines on both wings and in both sexes is apparent; naturally slight de- viations occur, but it may, we think, be stated as a general rule that in leda the blue scaling of primaries in both sexes never extends more than two-thirds along the inner margin and is scarcely to be seen in the cell ; on the secondaries in the male sex it never extends upwards along the outer margin beyond the small tail, whilst in the female there is always a distinct dark costal margin extending downwards to about this same tail. In ines, on the other hand, the blue on primaries in the male is even more extended than in female leda, occupying the basal portion of the cell and approaching close to the anal angle ; on the secondaries it extends upwards considerably be- yond the small tail. In the female it covers close upon half the primaries and the whole of the secondaries, with the exception of an extremely fine marginal line of black extending from costa half-way to anal angle. Edwards certainly mixed his sexes in the description of ines, as Messrs. Haskin and Grinnell rightly surmised ; his male is without doubt the true female, and Holland's figure (Plate XXIX, Fig. 35) is also that of the female : what Edwards' female was is a little difficult to tell from the short description ; it might be the male of ines or even the female of leda — this is, however, of no great import- ance, as it is the first portion of the description which defines the specific name. With regard to Wright's figures, which are Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 53 made from atrociously poor specimens and can scarcely be recognized, his figure 327a (Plate XXVIII) is, in the light of our previous remarks, female leda, not male ines; 32/b might be anything, but is probably male leda, and 32/c is the under side of le da, certainly not of incs. The amount of red in the bands and spots of under side of ines is variable and of no specific value ; in typical specimens the transverse lines show very little color and the anal spots are small and dark ; other specimens examined showed a con- siderable amount of orange-red both in bands and spots, seldom however attaining the bright color which is almost invariably present in leda. Of the two forms, ines appears to be much the rarer, not more than 20 per cent, of the specimens examined being refer- able to this species; we possess it from the Huachuca Mts., Chiricahua Mts. and Prescott, Arizona, this latter being the typical locality ; leda we have from the same localities, and it apparently extends into Southern California, although it has been recorded there under the name of incs ( Wright, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XVI, 162). We should be glad if some of our San Diego collectors would give us the privilege of examining the California speci- mens, with a view to correct identification, as we have no Cali- fornia material at hand. On the Spring and Summer Forms of Sabulodes sulphurata Pack. (Lepid.). By WM. BARNES, M.D., and J. McDuNNOUGH, Ph.D., Decatur, 111. (Plate VI, figs. S-io.) On the evening of May 10, 1911, a fresh female of Sabit- lodcs furciferata Pack, was taken at light and about 25 ova obtained the same night before killing the specimen. The larvae hatched in eight days and fed up well on maple, being full grown about the third week in June. At this stage, possibly on account of the excessive heat, the majority suddenly died ; 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l2 three, however, pupated, the imagines appearing the second week in July. To our surprise the specimens (2 males and i female), instead of resembling the parent furciferata, were typical representatives of what is at present listed as a good species under the name of Sabulodes snlphurata Pack. It is evident that under these two names we have but the spring and the summer forms of a single species. S. snlphurata was described in 1873 (Fifth Rep. Peab. Ac. Sci., p. 79), S. furciferata in 1876 (Mon. Geom., p. 559) ; the reference given in Dyar's list (Fifth Kept. Peab. Ac. Sci., p. 68, 1873) is erroneous and refers to Goniacidalia furciferata Pack., an entirely different species. The synonymy will there- fore stand : Sabulodes sulphurata Pack. (a) form. vern. furciferata Pack. It would be interesting to breed ova obtained from sulphurata and observe whether the resulting imagines are typical furci- ferata; the species probably hibernates in the pupal stage, in contradistinction to 5. transversata Dru., which hibernates as ovum. We present figures of the parent furciferata and a pair of its progeny, in which latter the striking yellow color is un- fortunately not evident. Following are our notes on the larval stages, which, although incomplete, will perhaps prove of some slight value, as we believe nothing of the life history of this species has yet been published. Egg. — Very similar to that of 5". transversata; when first laid green, turning shortly deep red and finally, before emergence, black. Larva, ist Stage. — Head, flat and broad, pale red ; body pale green- ish with a very broad black-brown dorsal band ; ventrally dark brown ; legs and prolegs pale ; tubercles pale with short setae. Length 4 mm. 2nd Stage. — Head small, flat, pale brown; body greenish white, cyl- indrical, with prominent lateral fold ; a broad dorsal rosy-brown band, showing traces, principally anteriorly, of two pale subdorsal lines ; ven- trally brown; claspers broadly fan-shaped, whitish; tubercles very min- ute, dark brown. Length 12 mm. yd Stage. — Head flat, pale brown, mottled with darker ; body, smooth, cylindrical; dorsum dark purple-brown shading laterally into pale greenish ; traces of a geminate pale dorsal stripe on anterior and posterior segments ; fairly distinct slightly wavy subdorsal line, and Vol. Xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 55 several waved lateral lines ; ventrally brownish, crossed by several wavy longitudinal lines. Length 18 mm. Breadth 1.5 mm. 4th Stage* — Head flat, light or dark brown, strongly marbled with darker; palpi prominent; in a resting position head and prothorax incline dorsally upwards to mesothorax, which is considerably humped and contains two lateral protuberances. Body, cylindrical, smooth, tap- ering, dorsally dark purplish-brown, marbled, shading into light brown laterally; traces of dark dorsal line, much broken; indistinct light wavy subdorsal line and several similar lateral lines; tubercles small, black; dorsal tubercles on 4th and 5th abdominal segments larger, tipped with white ; ventrally pale ochreous to reddish brown with broken dark medio-ventral line and several light wavy lines ; prolegs more or less shaded with creamy. Length 27 mm. 5th Stage. — Head and prothorax very flat, mesothorax rising more or less abruptly above same and with two large lateral protuberances ; remainder of body cylindrical. Head pale to dark ochreous, slightly marbled, with fairly prominent wart at apex of clypeus ; prothorax light brown ; remainder of body dark gray brown to red-brown, shaded and marbled with lighter; mesothoracic hump often tinged with white anteriorly; traces of a black dorsal line only distinct on thoracic seg- ments; this line is bordered with light ochre, the color showing prom- inently on the abdominal segments where the black is lacking; several irregular wavy lateral longitudinal lines of a light ochre color, edged with black, all indistinct. Tubercles black, very small, except II on 4th and 5th abdominal segments which is larger, conical, and often marked basally with white; ventrally gray-brown, mottled and lined with darker, anterior half usually lighter than posterior portion; le-s and prolegs of body color, often tinged basally and inwardly with whitish. Length 32 mm. A New Cossid (Lepid.). By WM. BARNES, M.D., and J. McDuNNOUGH, Ph.D., Decatur, 111. (Plate VI, figs, n, u ) Givira cleopatra n. sp. $ . — .Front, collar, and thorax composed of mixed black and white scales, giving a general grizzled gray appearance; abdomen similar, with slightly more white scales and a bifurcate anal tuft. Primaries white, thickly sprinkled with gray, which predominates in apical portion beyond cell and around the anal angle; white color con- fined to a large patch in the cell, a patch extending between cubital and second anal veins from base of wing to shortly before vein Cu2, and 56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., *I2 three irregular subterminal blotches between veins Cu2 and M2 ; a series of black dots along costa, increasing in size near apex ; a small black patch at origin of veins Cui and M3 and a similar one on second anal vein obliquely below it ; inner margin with several fine black strigae; on outer margin a series of black dashes, of which the apical ones are perpendicular to the margin, that between veins Mi and R$ being the longest and most prominent ; the lower ones are oblique and bordered inwardly with white. Secondaries dark gray, lighter ^ base, with traces of marginal row of white spots; fringes on both wings checkered white and gray. Beneath much as above; white subterminal patches less prominent; terminal black dashes very clear; secondaries, lighter than above, white, sprinkled heavily with gray; veins bordered terminally with a series of black dots. Expanse, 29 mm. Habitat. — Eureka, Utah (T. Spalding). i <5 . Type Coll. Barnes. Somewhat similar to our species palmata, but differing in venation. As it was late to include a figure in our revision of North American Cossidae, just published, we reproduce it on the accompanying plate, together with ethela N. & D., of which species the above mentioned work only figures a very poor specimen, the only available one at the time. Mallophaga from Islands off Lower California. By V. L. KELLOGG and W. M. MANN, Stanford University, California. The following determinations and descriptions of new spe- cies of bird-infesting Mallophaga are made from a collection taken by R. C. McGregor in 1897 from birds of the islands off the coast of Baja California. The determinations of the bird- hosts were made by McGregor, an accomplished ornithologist. The parasites were taken from the fresh bird specimens. The collection is of special interest on account of the relation of the host species to the birds of the Galapagos Islands, from which two collections of Mallophagan parasites have been studied at Stanford (see "Mallophaga from Birds of the Gala- pagos Islands," by Kellogg and Kuwana, in Proc. Wash. Acad. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 57 Sci., Vol. IV, pp. 457-499, Sept., 1902; and "A Second Collec- tion of Mallophaga from Birds of the Galapagos and Revilla- gigedo Islands and Neighboring Waters," by Kellogg, in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. XXXII, pp. 315-324. Nov., 1906). The birds of the Galapagos Islands are believed to be descendants, either unmodified, or modified to be new species and new genera, of species of the western coast of northern South America, Central America and Mexico. In the light of this presumption and in the light of the fact thac those Mallophagan species found so far on more than one host species are usually found on related host species, the com- parison of a Mallophagan collection from birds of the West Coast of America (south of the United States) with the full collections already made from the Galapagos birds might be expected to turn up a number of interesting cases of host dis- tribution. And this expectation finds some realization in tin- present opportunity. Of the Mallophagan species included in this collection from birds of the islands off Baja California, fifteen have been also recorded from birds of the Galapagos Islands. Among these cases of common occurrence the taking of Docophorus spcotyti Osborn, recorded from Spcotyto rostratus and Speot\hanns mariposa and Lycaena shasta near Deerpark (7,500-8,000 feet). T have already recorded these from Glen Alpine.— E. J. NEWCOMER. Palo Alto, Cal. A CASE EITHER OF SECONDARY OR DOUBLE EGG PARASITISM.. — In early July, 1911. Mr. Henry H. Severin sent to me a large number of the parasitized eggs of Cimbe.v atnericana Leach in the leaves of willow. After several days, these gave forth large numbers of (Pentartliron'} Trichoqramma nnnnfnin Riley and a single proctotry- pid. Upon their receipt, a few of the eggs had been isolated in vials and when they were examined later, in one case a third species of parasite was found to have emerged — a male eulophid of the Ente- doninre. Observation of the parasitized host egg in this case revealed also about a half dozen pupae of the TricJwc/ranniw, all in a compact mass on one side of it; the remaining part of the egg was clean and smooth somewhat like a pupal cavity and was doubtless occupied by the pupa of the eulophid. No adults of the Trictwgramuta issued from it and the pupa? observed were dead. Before the egg cavity had been disturbed, a single exit hole had been observed at one side of the center over the space doubtless occupied by the eulophid. Here, we have either a case of secondary or else double parasitism in the egg; and the former seems to me the more likely, from the nature and habits of the EulophidjE, and also because of the fact that a large number of the Triclicfirainwa seemed to have he-en killed, a larger number than would seem to be necessary for the survival of the eulophid, if the 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l2 case was that of double parasitism only. Whatever its nature, it seems worthy of record but it is not unique for egg parasites. The eulophid was seemingly Nesomyia cimbicis Brues, male, but the ab- dominal petiole was very long and the parapsidal furrows apparently complete or nearly, at least slender grooved lines. Its antennae were in fragments and at the time I could not give the specimen enough attention to insure its identity. The locality was Milwaukee, Wis., June 30, 1911. It is worth recording, in this connection, that as many as thirty or more individuals of the trichogrammatid came to maturity in some of the isolated eggs of the Cimbex. — A. A. GIRAULT. RHYNCHITES BICOLOR. — This beetle is common in New Mexico and Colorado, often damaging roses. When at Woods Hole, Mass., last July, I found it equally common there, but somewhow the beetles did not look right, so I brought some home for comparisons. It appears that the Colorado insect, as compared with that from Woods Hole, is distinctly smaller, of a lighter shade of red, with the elytra less coarsely sculptured, and without the rows of evident coarse punctures. Also, I find the head entirely black, whereas it is largely red in the Woods Hole insect. I consulted Professor H. F. Wickham about this and he kindly informed me of Le Conte's three "races," of which a from Ore- gon and California, is probably the same as my Colorado insect. As Professor Wickham knows of no available name, and T have found none, I propose to call the Colorado insect Rhynchites bicolor wick- hami, taking as the type one from Boulder, Colorado, collected by my- self on rose in June. It is surely not more than a subspecies or race, but I think valid as such. — T. D. A. COCKERELL. Boulder, Colorado. SPHAERIDIUM SCARABAEOIDES. — This beetle has reached Colorado ; I took one on the University campus at Boulder. October, 1911. Blatch- ley, in his Coleoptera of Indiana, says there are no striae on the elytra, but in my specimen there are weak widely spaced striae. Professor Wickham has kindly examined his material (from Canada, Rhode Island, Illinois and Iowa) and finds the same striae, more distinct in some than in others. — T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder. Colorado. YELLOW APHID-INFESTING SPECIES OF APHELINUS DALMAN. — Apropos of yellow species of Aphelinus Dalman which infest aphids, I have happened upon several instances in addition to the one recently pub- lished by me (The Entomologist, London, 1911, p. 178), and think it desirable that they be recorded. Mr. J. J. Davis sent me the material in both instances. This was several years ago and only recently did I have occasion to examine it. In some vials of alcoholic material- aphid parasites— I found two which contained a female specimen each of a yellow Aphelinus together with the host aphid, the latter in each instance bearing the characteristic exit-hole made by the parasite. The •specimens, however, were found to be in too bad condition for specific Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. identification though they appeared to be the same species, and both resembled in general coloration Aphelinus automates Girault, the only yellow aphid-infesting species so far known and the one referred to above. One of these specimens was found to have been reared from Callipterus iilniifolii on Elm, Morton Grove (Chicago), 111., August 5, 1009, while the other was obtained from the same host, collected at Oak Park (Chicago), 111.. August 12, 1909, and emerging the four- teenth of August following. I now know of a third (or rather fourth) instance, the rearing from a Calaphis at St. Louis, Mo., by Mr. Davis very recently of a specimen of a species altogether different from automatus and consequently unknown to science. This species has been turned over to Dr. L. O. Howard, who has done so much to further our knowledge of the Aphelininse. — A. A. GIRAULT. A NEW MEASURING DEVICE. — In making accurate comparison of the proportions of the elements of the venation in the published illustra- tions of insect wings the writer hit upon a very simple device which may be of use to others. Place a small piece of transparent celluloid upon the figure and scratch the design upon the celluloid, now carefully trim around the outside line and there is left a rectangle I cm. wide and 5 cm. long marked off into square centimeters, each cross line being divided by the oblique line giving 4-6, 3-7, 2-8 and 1-9 mm. respectively. By laying this device upon a drawing one can quickly determine the length of any line up to i cm. in length to the tenth of an mm. by estimating the tenths of the intervals between the cross lines. The rule may be read the long way with lessened accuracy but equal fa- cility. After rather extensive use the writer finds it very much more con- venient and quite as accurate as the use of bow dividers or of any other method that has come to his notice.— C. W. WOOUWORTH, Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, California. ALETIA ARGILLACEA. — The note in the November number of ENTOMO- LOGICAL NEWS in ha siymoidca were as follows: February 26, 1910. three specimens: March u, 1910, seven; April, 1910, nine; December 7, 1910, three; December 18, 1910, six; Jauuary 3, 1911, five; February 15, 1911, four; February 20, 1911, five; March 12, 1911, nine. Trips were made each month to the locality, and he stated that from his observations, he believed it to be a winter species. Eggs and larvae were found. The food plant is the wild hollyhock, a species of Sidalcca. All stages were ex- hibited. President Van Dyke thought that they were the hibernating adults that had been coaxed out by the warm weather, and had crawled up on the plants as stated. He also stated that the time had arrived for a change in the methods of collecting, saying that it is necessary to investigate closely and to work out the life histories of the species. Close collecting is con- stantly adding new and interesting things. No new Cicindelidac have been recently added, but among the Carabidae, a new variety of Trechus near barbarae, and at the same time a new Ochthebius, with the MS. name of marinus. Both of these spe- cies belong to a between-tides fauna. In Marin Co., California, the blind Tenebrionid, Eschatoporis nuncnmacheri, had re- cently been found by Mr. Nunenmacher. Other things never before found south of Washington had also been found there. We must work closely with the Rhynchophora, as many a new species, or species new to this locality, is to be found. Working among the Cossonidae of the State, it was found that much confusion has occurred with regard to several of the species. There are five species of Cossonns found on the Pacific Coast, two of which are new. In the genus Meloe, two species not found here before, have recently been captured here. New Otiorhynchids are constantly being found. Vol. xxiiij ENTOMOLOGICAL MEWS. 95 After viewing and discussing the Exhibits, refreshments followed. The Fortieth Meeting, or Annual Field Day of the Society was not held — F. E. BLAISDELL, Secretary. THE NEWARK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Meeting of September 10, 1911, at the Newark Turn Hall, Newark, New Jersey. President Buchholz in the chair and eleven members pres- ent. Messrs. Keller, Brehme and Angelman were appointed as a Committee to make arrangements for the Twenty-seventh Anniversary to take place in October. Mr. Angelman reported Ceratomia catalpa caterpillars at Paterson, N. J., which is probably the most nothern point which this species has reached up to the present time. Mr. Buchholz reported the following captures : One Sesia unknown to him bred in speedwell and taken at Rye, New York ; a new A crony eta bred ; larvae found at Lakehurst, N. J., food either huckleberry or oak : Catocala hcrodias and Catocala coccinata variety sinuosa, both taken at Lakehurst, on August 1 2th. Mr. Grossbeck gave an interesting talk on his trip to Jamaica and stated that collecting was much easier in the United States than in the tropics. About forty photographs illustrated his talk. Meeting of October 8, IQII. at the Newark Turn Hall. President Buchholz in the chair and ten members present. Mr. Brehme reported the capture of Catocala connubialis, formerly called sancta Hulst, at South Elizabeth, N. J., July 23rd. This is the first record of this species being taken in New Jersey. There is no question about its being a native of this State, as the specimen only emerged a short time before it was captured. Mr. Brehme also reported on the abundance of Catopsilia cubule along1 the coast from Monmouth Beach to Beach Haven 96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l2 during August and September. By all appearance this spe- cies is also a native and not a visitor only. After adjournment the members partook of a dinner, in celebration of the Society's Twenty-seventh Anniversary.— Meeting of November 12, 1911, in the Newark Turn Hall. President Buchholz in the chair, nine members present. Messrs. Keller, Brehme and Grossbeck were appointed as the Nominating Committee for the election of officers in De- cember. Mr. Zaiser reported the capture of Dcilephila chainoenerii. Mr. Lemmer reported the capture of one Gypsochroa sit el - lata (Geom.) at light in Irvington, August i6th. This species is new to the State. Mr. Buchholz showed a very interesting series of Papaipema, comprising thirteen species all raised by himself from larvae collected during the past season. Meeting of December roth, 1911, in the Newark Turn Hall. President Buchholz in the chair, thirteen members present. Visitor, Mr. John Hampson, of Newark. The Nominating Committee selected the following members to hold office for the year 1912, and they were duly elected: President, Otto Buchholz (reelected) ; Vice-President, Adolf Schleckser ; Secretary, Fred Lemmer : Financial Secretary, T. D. May field (reelected): Treasurer, George J. Keller (re- elected) ; Librarian, Herman H. Brehme : Trustees, for three years, Wm. J. Erhard ; for two years, Julius Buenson : for one year, Louis Doer f el ; Curator of Lepidoptera, Herman H. Brehme ; Curator of other Orders, Edwin E. Bischoff. Mr. Henry H. Brehme, of Newark, and Mr. Justus Kaiser, of Woodhaven, Long Island, were elected members. Mr. Herman H. Brehme showed a very interesting series of Junonia cocnia, 25 specimens in all, and no two alike, although all were from the same brood. HERMAN H. BREHME, Secretary. 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" 3 " " 9- '• 4 " ab. conjnncta, n. ab. " 5 " asymmetrical, anks: Zodion perlongum Coq., Broomall, Pa., Sept. 18, 1910 (Aldrich's List records it from Mex., N. M. and Col.) ; 142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mch., 'l2 Z. intermedium Banks, Pocono Lake, Pa., July n, 1911, Malaga, N. J., Sept. 15, 1907, and Physocephala furcillata Will., Pocono Lake, Pa., July 10, 1911. Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited Allorhina mutabilis Gory (Col.) ; four from Florence, Ariz., and five from Davis Mts., Tex., only one of the latter having the elytra nearly covered with the green coloring as in those from Arizona. The Texas specimens were collected by H. A. Wenzel in July on "grease wood" in open fields. Prof. Calvert stated he had collected this species in Chihuahua, Mexico, in August. Prof. Calvert said he had collected eggs of the 1 7-year Cicada between Almonesson and Blackwood, New Jersey, in twigs, and had hung some twigs up and placed others in water, putting white cloth beneath each to render visible any larvae which might hatch, but had waited six or seven weeks with no result, as all seemed to have dried up. This led to a discussion on the species. Meeting of November I5th, 1911, at the new Zoological Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. Fifteen mem- bers and sixteen invited guests were present. President Haim- bach in the Chair. The death of James H. B. Bland, the first president of the Social, was announced as having occurred on the I2th. Prof. Calvert said he was exceedingly glad the Social had accepted his invitation to hold this meeting in the Laboratory, and hoped it would not be the last; and was glad that his col- leagues on the teaching staff were also there to welcome us. He mentioned the different classes and branches of study carried on in the laboratory. Dr. Skinner remarked on the new building, and said it was very different from the time when he attended college here thirty years ago, as then there were few buildings, and only two men he knew of at that time interested in Entomol- ogy, Drs. Joseph Leidy and Harrison Allen. He spoke of the ignorance of physicians in relation to Entomology and cited cases. He described the manner devised by E. T. Cres- Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 143 son, Jr., in which the collection of the American Entomolog- ical Society was lately moved. Mr. Wenzel, Sr., exhibited two boxes of Coleoptera con- taining Pachybrachys, Bruchids, Buprestids, Clerids and Carabids collected by Mr. Wenzel, Jr., in Southwest Texas, and said they contained many which were new. He had got- ten the first named genus in readiness for Prof. Fall, who is to monograph this group. Mr. Daecke exhibited galls of Eurosta elsa Daecke (Dip.), and said they were almost the same as £. comma Wiecl., but they were found on the roots of a different species of golden rod. He also exhibited the Diptera recorded at the last meet- ing and three specimens of Polyplcnnis perforatus Germ. (Col.) from Manumuskin, N. J., April 24, 1900, Linglestown, Pa., November 30, 1908, and Rockville, Pa., March 27, 1910, all having been compared with the Horn collection, and found to be determined correctly. The first was the only one collected by himself, and was exhibited to refute the state- ment on p. 358 of the 1910 New Jersey List: "It may be that this record really refers to the preceding" (geuiinatus Sol.) Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited Rhamphomyia gracilis Loew (Dip.), Pocono Lake, Pa., July 12, 1911, collected by himself. Mjr. Harbeck exhibited a Tabanus of which he had caught several at shore in company with lineola Fabr., costalis Wied. and nigrovittatus Macq., and which is most likely a new species. This one was taken at Manumuskin, N. J., July 4, 1909, and he said that by sweeping the net about the head hundreds of specimens of the other species could be taken. Mr. Daecke said by glancing at Tabanus, one of the most inter- esting characters would not be noted, that is the maculations of the eyes — this one has three fine green stripes. Prof. Calvert in continuation of his communication of last meeting on the 1 7-year Cicada said that where the twigs were found no chimneys were to be seen. This was June 19th. Females were more abundant than the males. Two females were particularly mentioned as displaying extreme vitality. 144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mch., 'l2 One fell to the ground from some distance up in a tree and began crawling, and when picked up the entire abdomen was missing, most likely cut off by a bird ; five hours later it could still crawl, cling to a finger and flutter its wings, but could not right itself when placed upon its back. One caught in the net while flying had a large cavity in end of the abdomen, ovipositor and muscles were lacking; this lived at least twenty- two hours later, for at that time it was crawling and fluttering about a room in which it had been liberated. Dr. Skinner wanted to know if anyone had theories as to when the -Cicadas do or do not make the chimneys. Mr. Wenzel said they seemed to make more in wet seasons than dry. Mr. Hornig said he had seen them very numerous in one spot, about four- teen or sixteen in a square foot near Glassboro, New Jersey. General discussion. After refreshments were served the members were shown over the building by those in charge of the various depart- ments. Meeting of December 2Oth, 1911, at 1523 S. i3th St., Phila- delphia. Twelve members were present. Vice-President Wenzel in the Chair. Mr. Daecke said that the vitality was so great in certain insects that the cyanide was a long time affecting them, but if tobacco smoke was blown in the bottle the combination of the two fumes would kill almost immediately. Trogosita vlrescens Fabr. (Col.), was specially mentioned as after be- ing in the bottle 36 hours and then pinned, found to be alive several days later. Exhibited 9 specimens of Cosyinbia culi- caria Gn. (Lep.), from the following localities in New Jersey: Browns Mills, April 29, 1906, May 19, 1907, May 21, 1904, July 4, 1907; Da Costa, May 17, 1903, and Clementon, May 17, 1901. Mr. C. T. 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THE "ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE" -a journal devoted to general Entomology, started in 1864, and now edited by G. C. Champion, J. E. Collin, W. W. Fowler, R. W. Lloyd, G. T. Porritt, J. J. Walker and Lord VValsingham. It contains descriptions of new genera and species, in all Orders (British and foreign), life histories, reviews of new works, etc., and is illustrated by at least two chromo-lithographic plates per annum. Vol. xlvii (xxii of the second series) was commenced in January, 1911. The subscription for the 12 numbers is six shillings per annum, post free. Address the publishers, GURNEY & JACKSON, Paternoster Row, London, E. C. Advertisements are Inserted at low rates: for terms, apply to R. W. Lloyd, I, 5, Albany, London. W. When Writing Please Mention " Entomological New*." ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXIII. Plate X . H. E. EWINGj DEL. MOLTING PROCESS OF TETRANYCHUS TELARIUS L.-EWING. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND •PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. XXIII. APRIL, 1912. No. 4. CONTENTS: Ewing — Notes on the Molting Process of our common red spider fTetra- nychus telarius L.) (Acarina) 145 Neils— Wing Production in Aphids CHemip.) 149 Williamson — The Known Indiana So- matochloras (Odonata) 152 Blaisdell— Hibernation of Cicindela se- nilis (Coleop.) 156 Aldrich — Flies of the Leptid genus Atherix used as Food by California Indians (Dipt.) 159 Braun — Notes on Chambers' species of Tineina (Lepid.) 163 Busck — A new Microlepidopter of the genus Epicallima Dyarfrom Penna. 170 Slosson — Collecting at the Water Gap. 171 Felt— New West Indian Gall Midges (Dipt.) 17;, Editorials 178 Notes and News j8o Entomological Literature 185 Doings of Societies 191 Obituary— Prof. John B. Smith 192 Notes on the Molting Process of Our Common Red Spider (Tetranychus telarius L.) (Acarina). By H. E. EWING, Corvallis, Oregon. (Plate X) As far as the writer has been able to ascertain, we have no record of any one having witnessed the molting process in any of the red spiders. Since the members of this family (the Tetranychidae] are themselves almost or quite microscopic in size, this fact is not surprising. In order to get any valuable observations of the process, it is necessary to use the com- pound microscope; and since the molting process occurs but three times in the life of an individual, and occupies only a few minutes many weary observations would ordinarily have to be made in order to see it. OBSERVATION OF THE MOLTING PROCESS ON THE STAGE OF THE MICROSCOPE. While working out the life history of our common red spider (Tetranychus telarius L.), a species which is known to every keeper of a greenhouse and to almost every gardener or or- chardist, I was fortunate enough to observe the complete pro- cess of molting of a quiescent larva into the nymphal stage. 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 This was in the early part of the winter of 1909, at Ames, Iowa, where some extensive experiments on this species were being carried out. The following detailed account of the process and the subse- quent actions of the newly emerged nymph are given almost word for word as I have them from the records taken at the time. At 11.50 A. M. on December nth, I came into the labora- tory as usual to take notes on the breeding cells. These cells were very small glass stender dishes. Each was small enough to be placed on the stage of the microscope, and each contained a single, isolated individual upon some very small, one-leaved plant. The larva in cell A 25 was observed along with the oth- ers, and at first I saw that the larva had fixed itself for a molt. But to my surprise as I examined it more carefully, I thought I saw it move slightly. At once I took my hands off the micro- scope to be sure that this apparent motion was not due to my own movements. The larva was now seen clearly to move. Its body was moved back and forth and sideways, but the legs were kept still. Suddenly in a single instant the skin of the old larva burst all the way across the body just behind the scapu- lar groove on the dorsal surface. In another instant some of the dorsal bristles of the cephalo-thorax were released as if they were springs, and projected in almost their normal posi- tion. At the same time the eyes of the emerging nymph burst into view. . Now began a series of side motions and of backward strains. The hindmost larval legs were used, being extended laterally and slightly anteriorly. At the same time the muscles of the body gave it a wriggling motion. These motions continued for about one minute when the whole anterior part of the new nymph began to be drawn out of the anterior part of the old larval skin. This motion was at first rather slow until the an- terior legs were released from their old sheath, when all of a sudden the whole nymph pulled loose from the anterior part of the old skin. The now half emerged nymph, having thus shed its coat, so Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 147 to speak, began to cast off the remainder of its "old garments." This consisted of that part of the old skin covering most of the abdomen and the third pair of legs. The individual walked away about twice its own length, and after a few movements, which apparently were used for fastening the posterior part of the old skin to the surface of the leaf, it calmly walked out of the rest of its "garments." The whole time consumed in cast- ing the skin was less than four minutes, beginning with the first noticed movement of the inert larva. The new pair of legs which now appeared (there being four pairs in the case of the nymph, while only three pairs were present in the larva) were smaller than the rest and could not be used in walking for some time. This pair appeared just back of the third pair, as is the rule in the case of other Acarina. The larva now walked about some, but all the time it kept flexing and extending its added pair of legs. It was "trying them out" so to speak, before it could use them in walking. At 12 o'clock this nymph went to the base of the plant and stretched out its legs, and lay motionless, doubtless exhausted by the ordeal of the molting process. It remained in this position from 12 o'clock to twelve minutes after 12. Now its body began to move and soon it was "trying out" its legs again. After about three minutes the nymph began walking, but it was a shaky, unnatural gait. It kept this up until 12.17, when my observa- tions ceased. \ SOME GENERAL NOTES IN REGARD TO THE MOLTING PROCESS. The molting process in this species is always preceded by a quiescent period of several hours. This period is perhaps used in the reformation of some of the bodily structures, but cer- tainly not many. In assuming a position at the beginning of the quiescent period previous to the molt the legs are always extended, and they are nearly always attached to a fine web which the species spins. One of the chief uses of the web which is spun by this spe- cies is as an aid in the molting process. The cast skins are nearly always found fastened to some threads of this web. 148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'l2 Frequently the posterior part of the cast skin is left attached to the anterior part, and is not torn entirely apart from it, as it was in the case of the individual which was observed molting under the microscope. Although I never have observed the second and third molt- ing processes, a study of the second and third cast skins would indicate that it is essentially the same as the first one. THE FOUR STAGES OF THE MOLTING PROCESS. From the observations made of the molting process it may be divided into four stages. The first stage (Fig. i). This stage begins with the first movements of the body, and ends with the complete transverse rupture of the old integument. The second stage (Fig. 2). This stage begins with the transverse rupture of the old integument, and ends with the complete shedding of the anterior part of the old skin. The third stage (Fig. 3). Includes that part of the process between the casting of the anterior part of the old skin, and the complete freeing of the body from the posterior part of the old skin. The fourth stage (Fig. 4). Includes that part of the process coming after the last part of the old skin has been cast and extending until the rest period due to exhaustion sets in. A PART OF THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE MOLTING PROCESS AS RECORDED. Ames, Iowa, December nth, 1909. Time : Individual in cell A. 25. A.M. 11.50 The first movements noticed in the quiescent larva. These movements were back and forth and sideways, with the legs fixed at their tips by means of the tarsal claws. 11.54 Last part of the old larval skin is detached from the body. 12.00 The new nymph stops "trying out" its new pair of leas, the hindmost pair; and stretches itself out motionless and pre- sumably exhausted. P.M. 12.12 Period of rest is broken by the "trying out" of the new and old legs, but not bv walking upon them. 12.15 Nymph begins walking about although its gait is not steady. 12.17 Observations stopped. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 149 Wing Production in Aphids (Hemip.). By J. D. NE.IILS, University of California, Berkeley, Cal. The results obtained by Doctor J. Loeb by the use of chemical salts on micro-organisms, suggested to Professor \V. T. Clarke that some of the polymorphism exhibited by Aphids might be due to the action of such salts. Accord- ingly he experimented with a series of salts*. The method of introducing the salts into the insect was as follows : Cuttings of rose, bearing a single apterous vivi- parous aphid (Nectarophora rosae) were planted in five four-ounce tumblers containing washed and sterilized sand. The sand was wetted with saturated solutions of magnesium chloride, magnesium sulphate, potassium phosphate, sodium hydrogen phosphate and pure water, respectively. Records extending through a period of three weeks were kept with the result of an apparent and very striking effect of mag- nesium salts. Since this paper is not accessible to many, the results obtained by Professor Clarke are given in de- tail in the following table: September Experiment MgCl2 MgS04 K3P04 NaH2PO4 H2O Total Number of Aphids 263 142 131 Percentage of winged forms. 89 92 0.4 October Experiment Total Number of Aphids 254 268 217 Percentage of winged forms. 73 i November Experiment Total Number of Aphids 233 228 227 Percentage of winged forms. 80 77 4.4 February Experiment Total Number of Aphids 278 271 295 146 252 Percentage of winged forms. 78 84 2 o 3 As pointed out in a paper by F*rofessor C. W. Wood- worth on Winged Aphids f the wilting of plants results in a slowing down of the birth rate, also in bringing about * Journal of Technology, Vol. i, Berkeley, California, t Entomological News, March, 1908. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 a spontaneous production of young with wing' pads. Many species of Aphids increase until the condition of the plant is wilted or curled, due to the poisonous effect of the lice or the lack of water; then they produce winged forms and free the plant entirely. There seem thus to be two possible explanations of wing- production in these experiments ; first, there may be a stim- ulative action due to the chemicals, or second, it may be due to the slower development after hatching and after feeding begins. This slower development of tissue gives more opportunity for the development of wings, which would otherwise be sacrificed to the development of such Vissue as the reproductive system under more favorable con- ditions. This retarding in development is brought about by the wilting effect produced by several agencies, as drought, excessive infestation of the plant by the lice, the prepara- tion of the plant for winter conditions, or perhaps artificial- ly by the presence of magnesium salts. The writer undertook to verify the determinations made by Professor Clarke and obtained the following results : Material ist 3 days and 3 days 3rd 3 days Total Percentage of w -4— ' u. 5 en E o M— ( £ in •*-» u HQ en E IH O M-H & en 4-1 IH 3 £ 0 **H £ cfi J3 +j u s Ifl 5 £ £ W. forms MeSO.. 5 3 8 o IO IO 12 O 8 8 14 2 23 21 34 2 9i 3 5-9 H,,O.. These results completely confirmed those obtained by Pro- fessor Clarke, but bring out the additional fact that after the first three days all the MgSO4 aphids developed wing pads. This makes it possible to determine quite accurately the time during the development of the insect at which the action of magnesium became effective. A series of experiments were made by the writer to dis- cover whether the determination of the future development into winged or wingless aphids occurred before or after Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS birth. Professor Woodworth, in the paper quoted above, has pointed out that a distinction may be made between the two forms as soon as they have accomplished their first molt, thus placing one limit to this critical period. These experi- ments were conducted in the following manner : A cutting of rose bearing a number of young apterous viviparous ap- hids (Nectar ophora rosae) was planted in a four-ounce tumbler containing washed and sterilized sand and watered with a saturated solution of magnesium sulphate. In a like manner a cutting with aphids was wetted with water. Since in the former experiments the aphids born during the first three days did not show the effect of the salt, three days were permitted to pass and then as soon as the young were born on the plant treated with magnesium sulphate they were carefully transferred to a fresh cutting bearing no aphids planted in sand, to which only pure water had been added. Those born on the plant in water were likewise transferred just after birth to a plant bearing no aphids, which had been planted in sand watered with magnesium sulphate. The fol- lowing table shows the results: Chemicals used Plant on which birth occurred MgSO4 H2O Plant to which newly born aphid was transferred ..H2O MgSO4 Per cent, developing wing pads o ioo$> From this table it will be seen that the effects of mag- nesium salts on the wing production of aphids is due strictly to the salt taken by the insect after birth and that the feeding during the first day of its existence determined its future de- velopment. These experiments do not answer the question whether the magnesium is a stimulant to the development of wing-buds or a retarder of the general development, but the much slow- er development of the ovaries and the slower increase in to- tal body weight, which has been readily observed in the ex- periments, would seem to favor the latter idea. The writer proposes to show the morphological differen- tiation between these two forms which occur during this stage in a subsequent paper. 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL N£WS [April, 'l2 The Known Indiana Somatochloras (Odonata.)- By E. B. WILLIAMSON, Bluffton, Indiana. In the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1839, Thomas Say, in a paper read July 12, 1836, says of his new Libellula tenebrosa, "Inhabits Indiana." Twenty-five years had elapsed since the Battle of Tippe- canoe; and just twenty-five years more were to pass when the cicadas and the darters with their capital W's announced another war. And forty years after the beginning of that war passed before a Somatochlora was again recorded for Indiana. Well did Professor Needham include one Somato- chlora in his discussion when he wrote of "Two Elusive Drag- onflies." (Ent. News, 1905). In these sixty-five years between the captures of Soma- tochloras in Indiana, the State had passed from a wilder- ness to cultivated lands. Where the farmer as a boy caught cat-fish and snapping turtles, he plowed corn as a man. The smaller streams became tile ditches; the primitive forests, fields and pastures. What changes took place in the original plant and animal inhabitants of the State are known very meagerly even for the most conspicuous forms. The pass- ing of the obscurer has not left a trace. Of the wild turkey and the deer we know something, but who has concerned himself with the extinction of an orchid or the loss of a dragonfly? That these questions already difficult are to be answered in the future while data are yet obtainable is scarce- ly to be hoped. Philanthropy is concerning itself in pure science mainly in attacking problems whose solutions may be as ready for the student thirty generations hence as at the present time. Unfortunately no one will find an oppor- tunity to collect native orchids or Somatochloras in Wells County, Indiana, a thousand years from now. The humble apology of the writer of local lists to the student of the anatomy of the cat is not in good taste. Thomas Say, then, in 1836, recorded L. (Somatochlora} tenebrosa for Indiana. On June 4, 1901, Mr. Chas. C. Beam Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 153 took a teneral female Somatochlora in Fountain County, which Dr. Calvert, several years ago, determined as linearis. Along Flat Creek in Wells County, on July 2, 1911, I took a male S. charadraea, and two days later, at the same loca- tion, took a male of ,S. linearis. These are the State records, scanty because of the nature of the dragonflies themselves, but especially because no one is employed, or has the leisure, to give the subject attention. The capture of no other known species could have fur- nished a greater surprise than charadraea. The only other specimen known was taken at an altitude of about 8,000 feet in Bear Creek Canon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by Ernest J. Oslar. The elevation of Flat Creek is about 800 feet, and its name is indicative of its character, which is anything but that of a mountain torrent. Flat Creek is a tributary of Little River which it joins just above Mardenis, Huntington County. Little River, meeting the Wabash River at Huntington, is the shrunken descendant of the Fort Wayne outlet of the extinct Lake Maumee whose waters once passed into the Wabash. Flat Creek passes into Hunt- ington County from Wells County about one and one-half miles south of the Allen County line. Its last*2oo-3Oo yards in Wells County is through brushy and rank second-growth woodland on the Simmers sisters' farm. In Huntington County it passes into a large open field, and above the Sim- mers woodlot it runs for nearly a mile through practically open fields and through the barnyard of the J. M. Settle- meyer farm. Mr. Settlemeyer has made some borings in the creek bottom on his farm obtaining a limited but con- tinuous artesian water supply. He tells me that prior to these borings the creek dried up in summer. Early in Inly. 1911, when I collected there, it averaged possibly 3 feet in width and carried a very small amount of water. The creek bottom will average about 3 feet below the land surface in the adjoining woodland. Its course is meandering, and in a few places there are perceptible ripples over gravel bot- tom. The water is generally only a few inches deep, but 154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 there is one pool where the water is possibly 2 feet deep. The banks are grass-grown or bare in places, with much willow herb and some lizard tail. The water is warmed by its exposure in fields, and is fouled by barnyards and the visits of domestic animals. On July 2, 1911, en route to Little River, I reached the bridge over Flat Creek on the Wells-Huntington Counties line at about 8 A. M., and leaving the motorcycle on the bridge, started up the creek through the Simmers woodlot. At a short distance I saw a dragonfly, hovering like a Tetragonenria, over a ripple. It left the ripple, flying up- ward and being lost to sight. It appeared again at the rip- ple, not approaching by following the creek, but "dropping down from the clouds ;" and it disappeared as it had in the first instance. After a few moments' wait I followed the creek through the woods to the fields beyond without see- ing any dragonflies. On my return, as I walked in the creek bed, a flash of black, yellow and green danced for a second before my eyes and as it passed to one side the net over- took it, — a brilliant male of S. charadraea. Possibly half an hour more was spent at the creek, and no Somatochloras were seen. Leaving the creek I went to Little River near Mardenis where I expected to find Macromias, and where I hoped, after my experience at Flat Creek, I might find Somatochloras. Collecting here without success and think- ing over the morning's experience, I became more and more convinced that the first Somatochlora seen was a different species from the one captured. The first one seen showed no yellow at all in the two good views I had of it, while the one captured gave me a distinct glimpse of yellow, though I had but the most fleeting glance at it on the wing. So before noon I returned to Flat Creek, first a mile below where I had collected in the morning, and later at the former woods. But at neither place did I see any Somatochloras. The next day, Monday, I made a hurried early morning trip to the creek in the Simmers' woods, and saw the, Soma- tochlora again, — a good view and one that convinced me it Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 155 was not charadraea. That evening I rode to the creek again, a total of about 55 miles traveled that day, but in the last hour or two before dark I failed to catch a glimpse of Somatochloras. I slept that night in Settlemeyer's barn and in the morning followed the sun's first rays into the Sim- mers' woods. Twice I got good though distant views of the Soinatochlora. He would drop down from over the trees, pass along the creek for a short distance, and leave like a flash. Then an hour passed and no sign of him. As I stood in the creek near where I had caught charadraea the Sunday before, planning my next trip after the wretch that was making the glorious Independence Day a mockery, there was a flash over a large red haw tree and in the same -breath the net got him as he started to rise in passing me. And this one was 5". lincaris. Wallace somewhere tells of a headache which seized him when a butterfly slipped to freedom from his fingers. Waking and sleeping I had seen this dragonfly for nearly forty-eight hours, and my emotions I believe were as intense. On subsequent trips to the creek I failed to see any Somatochloras. The colors of charadraea are as described in Ent. News, January, 1907, with the following notes: Labrum largely brown, greenish or paler at center, clypeus brown, lighter at center below to meet pale on labrum; frons in front, below metallic area, brown ; no yellow on vertex. On abdominal segment 2 an additional small yellow spot above the yellow of the genital lobe. Eyes nile green, brilliant. Yellow markings chrome yellow, tend- ing to gamboge. The living colors of lincaris may be briefly described as follows : Labrum yellow ; face brown, clypeus paler at center ; frons obscure yellowish on either side against the eyes, above and slightly in front metallic dark blue; vertex and occiput dark, nearly black; eyes bril- liant nile green; rear of eyes pale, brown. Thorax metallic without other color excepting the sclerite between the front wings which is pale lemon. Legs black, brown at base. Abdomen black, segment i brown above ; a large rounded pale yel- low spot at base of genital lobe ; lower lateral margins of 3 and 4 edged with gray ; small lateral basal yellow spots on 5-8, all about the same size, most distinct and bright on 6 and 7, dullest and smallest on 8 ; a hint of lateral basal spots on 3, large but dully colored and ill defined. 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 Hibernation of Cicindela senilis (Coleop.). By FRANK S. BLAISDELL, SR., San Francisco, California. It has been my custom for several years to spend the Thanks- giving Holidays at Vine Hill, Contra Costa Co., California. Vine Hill is a railroad station on the Santa Fe Railroad, about three miles south of Benecia Bay. The region is settled up, and the land divided up into ten- or twenty-acre ranches, fruits and chickens being the main productions. The marsh land, bounding the southern shores of Benecia Bay, sends an arm inland to the south for quite a distance, and the irregular edge of this saline area reaches the ranch at which I stop. The country in general is rolling ; hills of two or three hundred feet elevation are quite common. Upon one hill in particular there are a number of white oaks on th.e northern and northwestern slopes. The weather was moderately cold and dry on November 24th to the 27th, 1910, and insects at this time are all in hiber- nation. Collecting consists mainly in hunting out all crevices about buildings and fences, turning over of rocks and of pull- ing off the bark of trees. Beating oak trees over an umbrella yielded many good things. The Coccinellidae were particularly in evidence. After having collected from all of the oaks I took to the grain fields, where ledges cropped up here and there. Finally I worked my way to the borders of the saline flats. A short distance from the edge of a grain field, and within the marsh boundaries, a small barren knoll with croppings of a ledge attracted my attention. Heretofore it had never yielded any- thing more than a few Bembidium indistincta and Thicanus californicns. The surface of the ground is always crusted over with a saline exudation or deposit ; this barren spot is not much more than one hundred feet square, and not much more than three feet above the general level. It is bounded by the saline marsh plants — mostly what I take to be Salic ornia. About the ledge were three or four loose and flat rocks, which measured about two and one-half feet in length and one and one-half feet in width. As I looked about it occurred to me Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS that it was an ideal place for Cicindda sen His. After tipping over a number of small stones, I approached one of the large rocks mentioned above, and as I did so, I noticed that the lizards had been feeding upon a species of Cicindda. Close examination of the fragments proved them to be the remains of senilis. A new record, for I had never found them at Vine Hill before. After turning over the large rock I noticed a small hole (B) at the edge of the impression (A) made by the rock, as shown in the accompanying diagram. I also observed that there was something whitish in that hole, and with my forceps ,.•.;*<> C I extracted a C. senilis. It was torpid from the cold. At the mouth of its burrow there was a small pile of dirt (B), which looked like a miniature gopher mound. This little pile of dirt was not the only one, for all around the rock impression there were numerous others (C). An idea occurred to me and I began to dig, and Cicindda senilis began to appear by the twos and fours. They were at different depths, none deeper than three inches (G), and there was distinct evidence of galleries. There was ho evidence of larvae, and the little piles of dirt told the story very clearly,— that these insects had retired to this rock and dug their way beneath it for the purpose of hibernating through the winter. 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 Having- exhausted that colony, I passed on to another large rock, raised it, and again I could see signs of burrows and one or two senilis were in sight. So I determined upon a more systematic study of the burrows. The diagram shows the re- sults. There was one main gallery (D) with branches leading dis- tinctly to the margins of the rock impression (A), and each branch was closed with dirt as before ; some of the branches ended blindly (E). In one end of the gallery I found five individuals that exhib- ited scarcely any signs of life ; in the blind branches of the gallery there were usually one or two specimens. The main gallery was not more than one-half to one inch below the sur- face of the dirt (broken lines), and came to the surface wherever the continuous line (F) is shown in the diagram. A number of individuals were enclosed in oval cells (G), resembling a pupal cell ; these were apparently cut off from any exit, or at least I could not trace it to the margin of the rock impression. But as a rule a pile of dirt was opposite to these isolated cells, as in cases where the connection was evi- dent. I consider that the gallery was not community property through instinct, but through accident, as each Cicindela in nearly all instances had its corresponding pile of dirt at the margin of the rock impression. In most cases it was clearly to be seen that a burrow had been dug from periphery to center, and that the dirt had been pushed outward interruptedly as indicated by the transverse markings of the filled burrows. The different individuals of the colony, in working centrally beneath the rock, would eventually meet each other, their bur- rows uniting; this being the case, it would undoubtedly modify and convert the gallery into community property, with the re- sult that there would be an amicable association of individuals, which at other times would be decidedly bellicose. Such an association apparently aroused a latent social in- stinct that is so well exhibited by many other species, especially the Coccinelidae, and for that matter some species of Cicin- delae are social, but not all. Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 159 Sixty-four specimens were collected from beneath three rocks, and I was well satisfied that many more could be found beneath other immovable rocks of the ledge. These insects did not develop beneath the rocks, but on the other hand sought these protected sites to hibernate. Flies of the Leptid genus Atherix used as Food by California Indians (Dipt.)." By J. M. ALDRICH, Moscow, Idaho. In March, 1911, as I was making plans to investigate the Ephydras and other insects of western salt and alkaline lakes, I wrote to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington, mentioning the well-known use of an Ephydra at Mono Lake as food by Indians, and asking if any information could be procured for me in regard to other places in the West where such food was used. The Commissioner obligingly sent a cir- cular to employees of the service in the West, which elicited several responses, one of which brought the first intimation of the use of a Leptid fly as human food. Mr. Joseph A. Garber, farmer in charge of the Yainax sub- agency, Yainax, Oregon, wrote down two statements made to him by Indians living at or near the sub-agency, which I am permitted to publish. The Indian name under which it is re- ported that the Ephydra was used was "Koo-chah-bie," and this was used in the circular of inquiry. "Statement of Chief Ben Lawver : "Ben Lawver, an old Modoc Indian now living at Yainax sub-agency says that this fly which was used for food by the Indians was called by the Modocs and Pitt Rivers Ha-lib- wah, but after the flies were prepared for use as food, the product was called Koo-chah-bie. There are a few of these flies on Sprague River in this county and they are still called the Ha-lib-wah fly by the Klamath Indians. * This paper is one of the results of an investigation carried on with the aid of an appropriation from the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund. l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'l2 "About forty years ago when the Indians used the Koo-chah- bie as food, they would go to Pitt River in Modoc County, California, at a point about ten miles down the river from where the little village or town of Canby now is. The time for gathering the flies was some time in the early summer. The Indians would place logs across the river in about the same manner that a present-day log or lumber boom is con- structed. Then they would go up stream and shake the flies off the willow bushes growing along the banks of the river. The flies falling on the water would float down stream and lodge against the logs in great quantities. As many as a hun- dred bushels could be gathered in this way in a single day. The Indians used a kind of basket to dip the flies from the water and carry them to the place where they were to be prepared for food. "A pit was dug in the ground about 1^/2 to 2 feet deep and about 2 feet or more square. Then two layers of stones were placed in the bottom of the pit, each layer being about three inches thick. A wood fire was built on these stones and more stones were put around and over the fire. When the fire was burnt out and the stones were hot, all the stones were removed except the bottom layer. Then green tules or green coarse grass was spread out on the bottom layer of rocks. The walls of the pit were lined with hot rocks also, and this inclos- ure lined with tules or grass. The oven-like inclosure was then filled with the flies. These were covered with green coarse grass and the whole covered with more hot stones. Water was then poured on the hot stones of the walls of the pit, the hot stones converting it into steam. "As soon as the water was poured on, dirt was hurriedly thrown over all to the depth of several inches. The flies were allowed to cook in this manner until the heat was pretty well expended. The dirt and grass were then removed 'from the top and the mass allowed to cool. When sufficiently cooled the product was taken from the oven and was ready for use as food. In this state it was called by the Modoc and Pitt River Indians 'Koo-chah-bie.' When cold Koo-chah-bie is about the consistency of head-cheese, having a reddish brown color and can be cut into slices with a knife." Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l6l "Statement of William Turner Jackson : "William Turner Jackson, a Pitt River Indian now living near Yainax, Oregon, says that he saw this fly forty or more years ago, when he was a mere boy, in great quantities on a mountain side about eight or ten miles northeast from the postoffice or village of Lookout, in Modoc County, California. It seems that these flies, according to his statements, would gather at or near the head of a small canyon through which flowed a small stream of water. He never saw them at anv other place in quantities and if one would go a quarter of a mile from this point in any direction there would be practically no flies. These flies gathered there some time in the month of May, and could be gathered by the tons. The trees, bushes and rocks were covered with them in places to the depth of five or six inches. Hence it was no trouble to gather them, for they could be scraped off the rocks and trees into great heaps. They would alight on the Indians until they were literally covered with them. "The time of gathering them was in the cool of the morn- ing when they were all settled and too cold to fly. In the heat of the day the air would be so filled with them as to exclude the sun and one could see but a short distance. (Where the flies came from and where they went to from this place is not known by the Indians who gave me this version of the inci- dent.—J." A. G.) "Indian Jackson also says that the flies were gathered in great quantities and prepared for food. "A large pit was dug in the ground and the same materials used in constructing the oven as those mentioned in the Ben Lawver statement. Rut before the flies were put into the oven they were dumped into large baskets and mashed up and kneaded like a housewife works her paste when preparing to bake bread. The mass is made into loaves like bread and placed in the oven side by side. There may be a half dozen or more layers of these loaves in one oven with the hot stones between the layers. A great quantity could be cooked or baked in one oven in this manner. When this product was baked and dried it could be sliced from the loaf and used as food. 1 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 "The food was called at that time and place by the Pitt Rivers 'Why-hauts.' When the Indians had gotten as much of the Why-hauts as they needed for winter supply, they car- ried it away to their places of living. A great deal of this was used as winter food." The two places described by the Indians are both on Pitt River in the southern part of Modoc County, the northeastern county of California, and are not much more than ten miles apart by the data given. The two Indians it will be noticed belonged to different tribes, which probably accounts for slight differences in handling the flies. I believe both accounts are truthful, although the quantity of material secured may be a little exaggerated. The identification of the fly as a member of the genus Athcrix is very easy. About the year 1900 I was at Logan, Utah, early in July, and joined a fishing party which drove to a point southeast of Avon, in the south end of Cache Valley, on a small stream in the mountains. I distinctly remember seeing masses of flies of the genus Atheri.v come floating down the stream, and in one spot where a stick lay partly under water they would lodge so that a handful could easily be picked up. At the time I had no place to put the insects for preser- vation, and did not collect any, but I recognized the genus. In the summer of 1898 also, at Hailey, Idaho, or a few miles above the town, I noticed on the underside of a wagon bridge crossing Wood River masses of old dead flies that had appar- ently been attached to the timbers of the bridge for several years ; they were hanging over the water. Material which I collected here was afterwards destroyed by a fire in the Uni- versity of Idaho, and again I am not sure of the species, but I collected Atheri.v variegata at Hailey on another occasion. It would be necessary to collect in the Pitt River region to feel certain of the species of the above account by the Indians. The explanation of the gregarious habit of the fly is that the females deposit their eggs collectively in this manner. The female does not fly away from the egg mass, and other females gathering on the outside of the cluster and also depositing their eggs results in the formation of a mass of eggs and Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 163 flies several inches deep. An instance of this is cited by Ives, in Entomological News, i. 39, 1890, and Dr. "Riley, comment- ing on the case in Insect Life, ii, 386, 1890, mentions some- thing similar, but possibly not the same. The Ives material came from Pemberton, New Jersey. This habit in Atherix is much better known in the European Atheri.v ibis, in which it has often been described. Verrall (British Flies, v, 288, 1909), quotes a condensed description of the habits of the species from Walker (Ins. Brit. Dipt., i, 70) — "The female of this fly is gregarious, and attaches its eggs in large clusters to boughs hanging over streams, and there remains, and shortly dies. The cluster is generally pear- shaped, and sometimes contains many thousands of dead flies, and continually receives accessions by new comers settling upon it. When the larva is hatched it falls into the water, its future residence ; it has a forked tail about one-third the length of the body, and has the power of raising itself in the water by an incessant undulating motion in a vertical plane." Williston, in the 3d edition of his Manual of North American Diptera, p. 160, also refers to this habit. Notes on Chambers' species of Tineina (Lepid.).* By ANNETTE F. BRAUN, University of Cincinnati. Coleophora vernoniaeella Chambers. Coleophora vernoniaeella Chambers, Can. Ent, X, 114, 1878; Dyar, List N. A. Lep., No. 6051, 1902. Antennae whitish, basal joint without a tuft. Labial palpi white; second joint with a very small projecting tuft and tinged with brown- ish ocherous on its outer side, third joint sometimes brownish ocherous on its outer side. Head and thorax white. Forewings whitish, with the extreme edge of the costa near the base dark brown, and marked with longitudinal ocherous and fuscous lines, distributed as follows : a longitudinal streak from the base through the cell, bifurcating about the middle of the cell, the upper branch following the upper side of the cell and curving down into the cilia just below the apex, the lower branch extending outwardly almost straight and reaching the cilia just above the fold; a second ocherous streak just below the fold *( Continued from December, 1909.) 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'l2 and parallel to it. There is sometimes a third ocherous streak just be- low the costa for about one-half the wing length. There are three or four ocherous streaks lying between the costal veins. In the darker specimens these streaks and also the longitudinal streaks before described are more or less flecked with fuscous scales. Cilia somewhat ocherous. Hindwings grayish ocherous, cilia the same. Legs whitish, the anterior pair dark brown along their outer sides. Expanse : 13-14 mm. Chambers described this species from larval cases only, not- ing particularly the extreme length of the cases. The largest cases are almost an inch long, although the usual length is 15 to 18 mm., almost straight and cylindrical, but slightly taper- ing and roughly three-valved at the apex. The full-grown cases are found upon the leaves of Ironweed (Vernonia fas- ciculata Michx.) during May and the early part of June. One leaf may contain as many as six or seven mines. The mines are irregular in shape, often a centimetre or more across. At the time of pupation the case is usually attached to the stem. The imagoes appear during the early part of July. Chrysopeleia purpuriella Chambers. Chrysopeleia purpuriella Chambers, Can. Ent. VI, 73, 1874; XI, 9, 1879; Psyche, III, 64, 1880; Dyar, List N. A. Lep., 6133, 1902. This species was originally described from captured speci- mens and later (Can. Ent., Vol. XI) Chambers says, "Its food plant is unknown and certainly its habits of life must differ from those of ostryacella, for no mine similar to that of the latter is found in this vicinity." A year later, in Psyche, Vol. Ill, Chambers infers that the food plant of C. pnrpnriclla is Locust (Robinia pseudo-acacia L. ) and that certain small mines on these leaves are those of this species, because a single speci- men emerged among leaves of this plant which were collected for breeding other species. I have bred specimens which I consider to be undoubtedly the true Chrysopeleia purpuriella Chambers, from mines on Red Oak very closely resembling the mines of C. ostryacella on Ostrya. The mine begins either at the margin of the leaf or along a vein and gradually broadens, its outlines being some- what more irregular than those of C. ostryaeella. It shows the Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 165 characteristic tube formed of particles of excrement, and the diverging lines of excrement extending out through the mine. The larva, when full grown, leaves the mine bv a circular opening in the lower epidermis and spins among the leaves an ovoid cocoon, very similar to that of C. ostryaeella. The mine of C. purpuriella is perhaps smaller in extent than that of C. ostryaeella and more variable in shape, due to its position and the irregularities in the outline and venation of the oak leaves. The imagoes obtained from these mines agree closely with Chambers' descriptions. Apart from the general larger size and darker color, the best character to be used in distinguish- ing C. purpuriella from C. ostryaeella is, as noted by Chambers, the relative position of the central pair of scale tufts. In C. purpuriella these tufts are at approximately the same distance from the base ; in C. ostryaeella the more dorsal of the pair is the farther from the base. Apart from the improbability of the breeding of a species of this genus from so small a mine as that noticed by Cham- bers on locust leaves, there is the fact that Chambers' observa- tions rested largely upon conjecture and took no account of the possibility of the accidental introduction of a cocoon al- ready formed upon the locust leaves. In one instance I found a cocoon of C. purpuriella on a blackberry leaf beneath an oak tree. I have collected the mines only during the latter part of Sep- tember ; the imagoes appeared the nineteenth of the following June. The species is, however, undoubtedly double brooded as the cocoon found on blackberry was collected on the 22d of July, the imago appearing on the 2(jth. Opostega albogalleriella Clemens. Opostega albogalleriella Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., I, 131, 1862; Tin. Xo Am., 180, 1872; Busck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V, 208, 1903; Dyar, List N. A. Lep., No. 6228, 1902. Syn. quadristrigella Chambers, Cin. Quart. Jn. Sci., II, 106, 1875; Busck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V, 208, 1903 ; Proc. U. S. N. M., XXX, 731, 1906; accessoriella Frey and Boll, Stett. Ent. Zcit., XXXVII, 216, 1876; Busck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V, 208, 1903; nonstrigella Cham- bers, Jn. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., Ill, 296, 1880; Busck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V, 208, 1903. 1 66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 A large number of specimens collected in July, 191 ij at Bal- sam, N. C., shows that the varieties described under the names albogalleriella, nonstrigella and quadristrigella form part of a series in which there is a gradual increase in the number of fuscous markings and in the extent of the wing occupied by fuscous scales, culminating in a fourth form in which the entire wing up to the first pair of dark streaks is suffused with fus- cous, except the extreme costa. In O. albogalleriella the entire wing is white, except for the apical dot and costal and dorsal streaks ; some of my specimens have the dorsal dark spot faintly indicated by a few pale fus- cous scales. Apical markings are absent in O. nonstrigella, according to Chambers' description ; I have one specimen in which one costal streak and a streak beyond the apical spot are indicated by faint dark lines, thus approaching quadristrigella, which appears to be the most abundant form. In the darker specimens there is considerable variation in the amount of fus- cous on the wing. In all of these specimens there is an addi- tional dark dorsal streak, proximal to the dorsal streak refer- red to in the description of quadristrigella, and corresponding to the first costal streak in the variety quadristrigella. The suf- fusion of the basal three-fourths of the wing with fuscous varies ; in some specimens it is confined to the dorsal half of the wing and is not deep enough to obscure the dark dorsal spot ; in extreme forms the entire wing to the first pair of black streaks, except a narrow streak along the costa, is an almost uniform dark fuscous. Gracilaria belfrageella Chambers. Gracilaria belfrageella Chambers, Can. Ent., VII, 92, 1875; Dyar, List N. A. Lep., No. 6348, 1902. Chambers described the species from captured specimens from Texas. A series of specimens bred on Corn us asperifolia Michx. at Cincinnati, one of which Mr. Busck has kindly com- pared with Chambers' type in the U. S. National Museum and pronounced identical with it, agree very closely, but show a few minor variations from the typical form, among them be- ing the golden tinge of the face in some specimens, and the dark Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l6/ tips of the middle and posterior tarsi. Rarely the costal pale triangle, instead of extending as a broad band along the costa, is divided into two spots. The mine is' placed on the under side of the leaf, and begins as a linear winding mine, abruptly enlarging into a whitish blotch, which later becomes wrinkled. The larva leaves the mine, forming the characteristic cone. Pupation takes place in a fold of the leaf. On the same bushes at the same time is found the larva of a Gracilaria utilizing the entire leaf to make a very striking long cylindrical roll. It begins by rolling under the lateral edge of the leaf, continuing until the entire leaf is rolled up. The pupa in this instance is formed within the roll. The imagoes which issue from such rolls are almost indistinguishable from those obtained from the cones and regarded as the true G. belfra- geella Cham. In these the separation of the costal triangle into two portions is of more common occurrence than in G. belfrageclla. As yet I have been unable to find any mines different from those of G. belfrageella, and without such data, I cannot decide that this is a different species. Gracilaria ostryaeella Chambers. Gracilaria ostryaeella Chambers, Bull. Geol. Surv. Terr., IV, 121, 1878; Can. Ent, IX, 127, 1877. Chambers named this species from a knowledge of the mine only, merely saying that "the larva when very small makes a linear whitish mine in the upper surface of the leaves." The same species is also briefly mentioned by Chambers in the Canadian Entomologist of the preceding year. The species is omitted in Dyar's list. The mine to which Chambers refers is undoubtedly identical with one I have frequently found in the vicinity of Cincinnati on the upper side of Ostrya leaves. The mine is in general similar to that of G. packardclla on sugar maple. Although linear at first the mine soon spreads out into a whitish blotch, lying over a vein, and sending out irregular finger-like pro- - cesses. The- blotch portion of the mine later becomes trans- parent and marked with a network of brownish veins. The i68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 larva forms the usual characteristic cone by rolling down the tip of the leaf. These larvae are extremely difficult to rear, and I have succeeded in breeding but a single moth which emerged late in autumn. This specimen unquestionably repre- sents Gracilaria ostryaeella Chambers. On the underside of Carpinns between the lateral veins are narrow linear mines spreading out into flat blotches which be- come transparent and marked with a dark network of veins. When viewed from the upper side of the leaf, the completed blotch on Carpinns is remarkably similar to the upper side blotch on Ostrya. Specimens bred in September and October from the underside mines on Carpinns are identical with the specimen bred from the upperside mine on Ostrya. In spite of the different larval habit I think they must be regarded as belonging to the same species. An underside mine like that on Carpinus is found on Ostrya, and is doubtless also a mine of G. ostryaeella Cham. The summer form bred from underside mines on leaves of Carpinns collected in July, emerges in the early part of August, and affords a remarkable example of seasonal variation. Its identity with the later form would never be suspected from captured specimens. The two varieties are described separ- ately below. Summer form : Antennae ocherous, tinged with bronze toward the base, becoming darker toward the tip and broadly annulate with dark brown. Labial palpi yellowish white, third joint annulate with dark brown just before the tip. Maxillary palpi yellowish white. Face, head and thorax pale golden, the vertex somewhat bronze. Forewings suffused with purplish bronze ; a pale golden patch at the base, broadest on the dorsum ; costal triangle pale golden, broadly truncated on the fold and extended outwardly as a band along the costa to the costal cilia. This pale patch is almost immaculate, there being only two or three brown scales on the costa. Hindwings fuscous, cilia reddish. Fore and middle legs dark purplish brown except the tarsi, which are white sometimes faintly tipped with black. Hind legs pale yellowish; a black patch externally on the apical half of the femora; tibiae and tarsi sometimes tipped with dark brown. Expanse: 9-5-To mm. Autumn form: Antennae grayish, annulate with dark brown. La- bial palpi dark purplish brown except the inner side of the second joint, and the upper side near the base and extreme tip of the third Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 169 joint which are pale golden. Maxillary palpi pale golden, the joints brown toward their tips. Face golden below, head and thorax bronzy gray. Forewings suffused with purplish brown and speckled with patches of darker brown scales. An elongate patch of these scales lies just within the margin at the inner angle, leaving merely a narrow edge of golden color instead of the broad golden patch at the base in the summer form. In darker specimens this is also obliterated. The dark scales form a very distinct margining along the inner side of the pale costal triangle. The costal triangle is separated from the pale patch beyond (with which it is continuous in the summer form) by a patch of dark brown scales on the costa. The golden yellow color of the costal triangle deepens into purplish brown toward the costa where there are two or three small brown spots. The pale costal patch be- yond is sometimes almost obsolete, because of the darkening of the color and the large admixture of dark brown scales. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. Legs as in the summer form, except that the tibiae of the hind legs and the tarsi are more deeply shaded with brown. Ex- panse: 9.5-10.5 mm. The summer form reminds one strongly of a small specimen of G. supcrbifrontella Clem. ; the autumn form is perhaps closest to G. juglandiella Cham., but the general color is lighter and more reddish, and the costal triangle is more distinctly outlined. Gracilaria negundella Chambers. Gracilaria negundella Chambers, Can. Ent. VIII, 18, 1876; Bull. Geol. Surv. Terr., Ill, 132, iS/7; Psyche, III, 66, 1880; Dyar, List N. A. Lep. No. 6360, 1902. The species to which Chambers originally gave the name negundella was bred from Box Elder in Colorado. Specimens bred from the same tree around Cincinnati do not agree with Chambers' description. These specimens are decidedly darker, but the distribution of the markings and particularly the mark- ings of the legs and body are as Chambers has described them. A description which will serve better for the identification of the Eastern form is given below : Antennae grayish, annulate with dark brown. Labial palpi yellow, the second joint dusted beneath and tipped with dark brown, the third joint dusted beneath and on the sides with dark reddish brown, with a broad annulus just before the tip. Maxillary palpi pale yellow, the joints tipped with brown. Face and head golden, the latter usually al- most entirely suffused with purplish bronze. Thorax and forewings 17O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, JI2 pale golden, more or less suffused with bronzy brown or red, and flecked with dark brown scales. Costal triangle usually distinct and pale golden, broadly truncated on the fold and extended along the costa as a narrow band to the cilia. The costa within the costal tri- angle is. marked with four or five black specks. There are three or four similar dark spots on the costa in the extended portion of the tri- angle, the first being the largest and sometimes separating the costal triangle from its prolonged portion, which is hi this case more or less suffused with the darker shade. Fore and middle legs yellowish, the basal joints brown, femora and tibiae banded with reddish brown, these bands sometimes confluent ; tarsi tipped with brown. Hind legs whitish, apical half of femora dark brown, tarsi tipped with brown. Lfnderside of abdomen whitish, upper side dark smoky brown. The mine begins as a narrow linear mine on the underside crossing to the upperside, where it spreads out into a rather large whitish blotch. The larva later feeds within conically rolled leaves as Chambers mentioned in the description of the species. A new Microlepidopter of the genus Epicallima Dyar from Pennsylvania. By AUGUST BUSCK, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. Epicallima lucidella, new species. Labial palpi golden yellow. Antennae velvety black with silvery white tips; basal joint smooth without pecten. Face, head and thorax bronzy. The deep black ground-color of the forewings occupies but a sm^ll part of the wing as a margin on the base, along dorsum and around the apical edge to the brilliant deep golden yellow area which occupies the larger costal half of the wing and sends a long process out towards the apex ; at basal third is a narrow perpendicular black- edged metallic blue fascia, crossing the golden area and terminating in a pale yellow dorsal spot; on the cell are two pairs of parallel longi- tudinal metallic blue streaks, all edged with black; on the middle of costa is a small pale yellow spot and at apical third is a similar pale costal dash. Cilia blackish with strong golden reflections. Hindwings and abdomen black. Legs black, with the tips of the tarsi and the spurs silvery white. Alar expanse: 12-13 mm. Habitat : Oak Station, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Fred. Marloff, collector. Type: No. 14435, U. S. Nat. Mus. A brilliant species, suggesting some of the European metal- lic species, but very different in pattern. Among the American species it comes nearest the smaller E. edithclla Busck, from which, however, it is also amply differentiated in pattern. Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 17 1 ' * Collecting at the Water Gap. By ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON, New York City. \Yhen, a few years ago, I deserted the happy hunting- grounds of the White Mountains and selected the Delaware Water Gap for a summer resort, I had faint hope of entomo- logical success. The place was so near New York and Phila- delphia, had been so hunted over for years, how could I ex- pect to make any discoveries, capture new or even rare species? But as I look back over my records I am not at all ill pleased with the net results. The locality is almost ideal from the viewpoint of a naturalist. Well wooded, well watered, a roll- ing country with surrounding hills and real mountains to look up to or climb, it is a tempting spot for botanist, entomologist or general zoologist. Its insect fauna is rather peculiar, in- cluding both northern and southern species beside those com- monly found in the Middle States, so-called. I have found there several insects which I had before taken only on Mt. Washington, and again some species which I have heretofore called southern and taken only in Florida have turned up at the Gap. As some of you know, I no longer like "roughing it" when on a collecting trip. I stay at a comfortable hotel where, be- tween my tramps, I can rest and eat under most favorable con- ditions. At the Gap my night collecting would be styled by strenuous entomologists almost criminally luxurious. A large private bathroom opened from my bedroom ; its floor was tiled, its woodwork and walls pure white. It had one window and bright electric light. Before I went down to dinner in the evening the window was always opened to its fullest extent, the lights turned on and the door closed. Then, when I re- turned later at night, I found my '"catch." Walls, ceiling and white bathtub were covered with specimens ; certain families of Neuropteroid insects, Perlidae, Rhyacophilidae, Hydropsy- chidae and others were abundant. Among these Mr. Banks found several new to science and has since described such. In my latest number of Transactions of the Am. Ent. Soc. two of these are described by Mr. Banks, Rhyacophila formosa 172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 —the specific name a fitting one for the exquisite little creature with its jet black wings spotted with white and yellow, and antennae ringed with black — and Wormaldla plutonis, a dark plutonic fellow in deep mourning. The big Corydalis cornuta is common and has been brought to me dozens of times by bellboys and night watchmen, though let alone severely by the hotel guests of both sexes. A large Chauliodes, pectinicornis I think, flies occasionally into the house at night. I have found good species of Lepi- doptera in that room, too. The first and thus far the only specimen I have captured of Polygrammate hebraicum Hub. was sitting on the white wall, where his green and black wings showed to the best advantage, one evening when I first looked at my trap. Coleoptera come there also, especially longicorns from the oaks near my windows. Hlaphidion villosum is rather common and I have taken unicolor and cincrascens there, too. Employes and guests show a kindly interest in my researches. As I came in from a walk one day I saw a young man whom I knew but slightly, sitting upon the stairs in a constrained posi- tion, head bent backward and eyes directed towards the top wall near the ceiling. As I spoke to him he answered in a greatly relieved tone that he had sat there over an hour, keep- ing his eye on "that bug up there" for me. The ''bug'' proved to be a good specimen of the handsome beetle Ebnria 4-gemi- nata Say., and the hearing of this sonorous name and trying to commit it to memory seemed an adequate reward to the pa- tient watcher. In the same bathtub of which I have spoken I found, this last summer, a fine specimen of the longicorn Stromatinin pitbesccns Hald. It is a rare species in this part of the world, and one of our best-known coleopterists here (a shy man, so I will not name him) tells me he suspects it is but a wanderer from some other region and but of chance occurrence. I take many rare, some new, species of Hemiptera at the Water Gap. Two specimens of a new capsid, one of each sex, were taken on different nights at the bottom of the bathtub, which was fortunately dry just then. It is a Phytocoris and has the manuscript name of pruinosns Heid. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 173 I have two or three new namesakes among my Gap captures, but modesty forbids my enlarging upon these. One wet chilly day I started for a walk; but my net was soon useless, being soaking wet, and insects were scarce. I decided to give it up and return home. As I passed a low dwarfed sycamore I caught sight of an odd-looking lump on a leaf and knocked it into my damp net. It was a large Membracid new to me, and I sent it to Mr. Van Duzee. The very next day I received a letter from him telling me that this was a long lost species of Walker's, which he had never before seen, and that it settled a doubtful point for him as to the identity of another species described by himself. I was, of course, filled wit.h joy and pride over my rare unique. But, a day or two after, a note from Mr. Van Duzee told me that, after hearing from me that the insect in question was found on sycamore, he had searched such trees and — found two specimens of the bug. right in the suburbs of Buffalo ! He secured but one of the two, the other escaping from the net. I tried hard to sympa- thize with the loser, but fear I felt selfishly resigned to the thought that he now had no more than I had — just one. But a little later my second specimen was secured and now I earn- estly hope that at least one more Buffalo bug of this sort will fall into the net of my good friend, the Hemipterist. I was going to tell you of some other interesting captures made in this same locality. Odonata, Diptera and Orthoptera, but that story must wait till another time. However, I can assure you that I heartily agree with the ambitious bellboy, fresh from the country academy, who, after looking at a box of my insect treasures, exclaimed, "The Water Gap must be a very insectivorous place." New West Indian Gall Midges (Dipt.). By E. P. FELT, Albany. New York. The following descriptions of new species are based upon material received during the past year from St. Vincent, W. I. The most interesting form is BruggmaiiiticUa pisoniae, remark- able because of its presenting a combination of characters found 174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 in Schizomyia and Asphondylia, and in being a form approxi- mately intermediate between Schizomyia and Cincticornia. Bruggmanniella pisoniae n. sp. Tbe interesting midge described below was reared May 5, 1911, by Mr. W. H. Patterson, St. Vincent, W. I., from stems of Pisonia nig H cans. Gall. The affected young stems show irregular elevations about 4 mm. long, each marking an oval cell some 3 mm. long. These cells are numerous, 8 or 10 occurring on a piece of stem some 4 cm. long and only about .5 cm. in diameter. Larva. Length 2 mm., rather slender, yellowish orange. Head moderately broad, retracted. Antennae short, stout, apparently bi- articulate. Breastbone apparently wanting. Segmentation distinct, the skin nearly smooth; terminal segment greatly reduced, irregularly conical, with a diameter about three-fourths that of the preceding segment and a length a little greater than its diameter. Pupa. Length 2.5 mm., moderately stout, yellowish orange ; cephalic and thoracic horns minute though distinct. Abdominal segments dor- sally with a sparse basal row of moderately stout papillae, each with a chitinous apex, the general surface of the abdominal segments with rather coarse, irregular, chitinous plates ; terminal segment with two pairs of submedian, conical processes and minor lateral processes. Male. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae as long as the body, sparsely short haired, yellowish brown ; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem one- fourth the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length thrice its diameter, a slight constriction near the basal third; basal, subbasal and apical whorls of short, stout setae and high, irreg- ular circumfili closely resembling those of the male Schizomyia; ter- minal segment produced, with a length about four times its diameter, a marked constriction at the basal third and the apex broadly rounded. Palpi: first and second segments short, irregular, the third one-half longer than the preceding, fusiform. Mesonotum dark brown. Scu- telium and postscutellum apparently yellowish brown. Abdomen rather thickly haired, dark brown, the genitalia fuscous. Wings hya- line, costa dark brown, the third vein uniting with the margin at the apex of the wing. Halteres yellowish. Coxae and femora basally yellowish, the distal portion of femora and tibiae fuscous straw, the tarsi darker; claws slender, simple, evenly curved, the pulvilli about half the length of the claws. Genitalia: basal clasp segment stout, narrowy conical, the apex subacute ; terminal clasp segment subapical, its apex pectinate; dorsal plate short, divided, the lobes narrowly oval, coarsely setose; ventral plate short, broadly and roundly emarginate, the short lobes broadly rounded and thickly setose. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 175 Female. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, rather thickly haired, fuscous yellowish ; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem about one-fifth the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter closely resembles that of the male, though the irregular circumfili are not so highly developed as in the opposite sex ; terminal segment reduced, sessile, with a length about twice its diameter, ob- tuse apically. The apex of the abdomen is expanded, bearing several irregularly triangular plates and a moderately short, stout, crooked, setose ovipositor with a distinct subapical enlargement. Other charac- ters practically as in the male. Type Cecid. 32234. Mycodiplosis pulvinariae n. sp. Numerous larvae of this midge were found by Mr. W. H. Sands, St. Vincent, W. I., preying upon Pitlvinaria pyriformis, and the midges reared therefrom were submitted to us through the courtesy of Mr. William H. Patterson of the Agricultural School. The species is allied to M. coccidivora Felt, though easily distinguished by the much stouter basal clasp segment in the male and the rather closely spined terminal lobes of the female. Larra. Length 1.5 mm., yellowish, moderately stout, tapering slightly at both extremities and without a visible breastbone. Pupa. Length 1.5 mm., salmon-colored, moderately stout. Thoracic horns filiform. Wing cases extending to the second abdominal seg- ment, the anterior and mid-leg cases to the fourth, and the posterior leg cases to the fifth abdominal segment. Male. Length i mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the body, rather thickly haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth having stems with a length one-half and one-fourth greater than their diam- eters, respectively; distal enlargement pyriform, with a length one- fourth greater than its diameter; circumfili moderately long, stout, setae long, stout. Palpi : first segment subquadrate, the second with r, length about thrice its diameter, the third and fourth a little shorter than the second and successively more slender. Mesonotum dark brown. Scutellurn and postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen fuscous yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa fuscous yellowish. Halteres yellow- ish. Coxae and femora basally yellowish, the distal portion of femora, tibiae and tarsi mostly dark straw. Claws slender, strongly curved, the anterior unidentate, the pulvilli rudimentary. Genitalia : basal clasp segment rather long, slender; terminal clasp segment relatively- short, stout; dorsal plate long, dri-ply and triangularly incised, the lobes tapering and narrowly rounded apically ; ventral plate moderately short, tapenng to a narrowly rounded apex. I?6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'l2 Female. Length I mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem one-third the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length twice its diameter; circumfili moderately high, setae abun- dant, stout; terminal segment with a length about two and one-half times its diameter and a short, knoblike process apically. Ovipositor short, the terminal lobes lanceolate, narrowly rounded and apically with an irregular, sparse group of chitinous spines, the latter with a length about equal to half the width of the lobe. Other characters nearly as in the male. Type Cecid. 32233. Arthrocnodax meridionalis n. sp. This minute midge, easily separated from A. abdoiuinalis Felt by the shorter sterns of the flagellate antennal segments in the male, was reared May 7, IQII, by Mr. W. H. Patterson, St. Vincent, W. I., from open Hriophyes galls on the leaves of Rnellia tnbcrosa Linn, and doubtless preys upon the mites. A similar, if not identical species was obtained by this gentleman May 20, 191 1, from Enophyes galls on the leaves and bracts of Lcpidagathis alopecuroidea. He reared the same species, April 6, 1911, from galls of Eriophyes gossippii on Sea Island Cot- ton and also on April iSth from mite galls on the leaves of a species of Eupatorinm. Larva. Length I mm., apparently yellowish, slender, the diameter being only one-fifth that of the length. Head and anterior body seg- ments greatly produced, the former extensile and with a length about thrice its diameter. Antennae long, slender, curved, with a length about half the head; mouth-parts fuscous; the body segments with a trans- verse row of tubercles, each bearing a long, stout seta with a length about half the body diameter; terminal segment broadly rounded and with several publateral setose tubercles. Psendopods occur on the third to twelfth segments. Male. Length .6 mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the body, thickly haired, yellowish brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems hav- ing a length respectively one and one-half and one and one-fourth times their diameters ; distal enlargement subglobose, the whorls of setae thick, long, the circumfili moderately stout. Palpi slender, the first and second segments quadrate, with a length one-half greater than the diameter, the third and fourth nearly equal, each with a length twice the diameter ; mouth-parts somewhat produced, with a length one-half that of the head. Mesonotum reddish brown. Scutellum, postscutellum and abdomen probably yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 1/7 light straw. Halteres yellowish. Legs a variable yellowish straw, the pulvilli as long as the slender claws. Genitalia : basal clasp segment long, stout ; terminal clasp segment slender, swollen ; dorsal plate broadly and triangularly emarginate, the ventral plate long, rather broad. Female. Length .6 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely haired, yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem one-third the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length twice its diameter ; terminal segment somewhat reduced, with a length one-half greater than its diameter, broadly rounded apically. Ovipositor as long as the body, stout, the lobes narrowly oval and sparsely setose. Type Cecicl. 3.2235. Hyperdiplosis producta n. sp- This species was reared by Mr. W. H. Patterson, St. Vin- cent, W. I., from presumably mite galls in the inflorescence of Stachytarpha jamaicensis. It is provisionally referred to this genus. Male. Length .75 mm. Antennae one-fourth longer than the body, thickly haired, yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth having the two stems with a length, respectively, twice and thrice their diameters. Distal node pyriform, each enlargement with a coarse whorl of stout setae, the circumfili slender ; terminal segment produced, the distal enlarge- ment cylindric, with a length thrice its diameter and apically a slender, fingerlike process. Palpi : first segment subquadrate, the second with a length three and one-half times its diameter, the third probably as long as the second, the fourth probably one-half longer, somewhat dilated. Mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen greenish yellow. Wings hyaline, costa light straw. Halteres yellowish. Legs pale straw ; claws stout, strongly bent, swollen subapically, pul- villi rudimentary. Genitalia : basal clasp segment long, the slender terminal clasp segment slender, other structures indistinct. Female. Length I mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, sparsely haired, yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem three- fourths the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length two and one-half times its diameter: a subbasal whorl of long, stout setae and a subapical band of somewhat smaller setae; terminal segment produced, with a length about thrice its diameter and apically a nearly equally long, tapering process. Ovipositor short, the lobes lanceolate and setose apically. Other characters nearly as in the male. Type Cecid. 32236. — i <•> • Mr. E. B. Williamson, of Bluffton, Ind., is expected home about April I from a collecting trip in British Guiana and Trinidad. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. 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The Americans who expect to attend the Second Interna- tional Entomological Congress, at Oxford, August 5-10, 1912, number more than those who were present at the First Con- gress at Brussels. As far as known, the following will go to Oxford this com- ing summer: Prof, and Mrs. J. H. Comstock, Ithaca ; Dr. and Mrs. Henry Skinner, Philadelphia ; Mr. Henry H. Lyman, Montreal ; Prof. Herbert Osborn, Columbus ; Dr. W. J. Hol- land, Pittsburgh; Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg, Palo Alto, Cali- fornia; Mr. Nathan Banks, East Falls Church, Va., and Dr. and Mrs. P. P. Calvert, Philadelphia. We hope there will be still more and trust they will send in their names to the Editor of the NEWS. Elsewhere in this number we reprint a part of a circular issued by the Reception Committee at Oxford. Copies of this circular, and blanks for subscriptions, for submission of titles of papers and for requisi- tion of rooms may be obtained from Dr. Henry Skinner, member of the Executive Committee, Academy of Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia. 178 Vol. Xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 1 79 Woe ! Woe ! Woe ! Hear the voice of lamentation. How long ! how long shall the deserving ones be scoffed at for their labors. Surely the worthy study of nature is becoming a babble of words, the worship of names supplanting a devotion to research. Has orthography parasitized entomology ? We hear in an authoritative voice from across the waters1 that the "specific name and not the species is the only really new thing that is intended;" that "n. sp. whenever applied, signi- fies a new specific name only, and not a new species." Now, in fact, although "entomologists do not purpose to have cre- ated the insect they describe," they do propose to have defined a new species, new to science, new in the sense of having never been known. If that is not new, what is it? Further, that voice still louder acclaims that priority shall be ignored in respect to certain names because these names are "obviously based on a barbarous and unmeaning gibberish, and .... must be rejected as null and void." Of course this is ridiculous and cannot stand ; and it is to be regretted that these unmeaning names, these combinations of letters, must stand lords and masters over other good, well meaning names, which must be placed beyond further reach in the Sargasso Sea of synonomy. It is further to be regretted that a well respected journal should give its pages to such a list of these good names that are thereby made worthless ; and using the form of argument adopted by a fellow entomologist in another journal2, if the scientific status of a publication is gauged by the quality of its contents, these pages will surely stand as an indissolvable stain, detracting seriously from its prestige. — E. T. C., JR. C(laude) M(orley) says in the Entomologist for March, 1912, p. 99, "We do not know Mr. Kearfott ; but he has stirred up more animation in this country than we have seen displayed for a long time." Our hearty congratulations to Mr. Kearfott. — H. S. (1) The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Feb., 1912, p. 32. (2) The Entomologist, March, 1912, p. 99. l8o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'l2 Notes and. Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OP THE GLOBE. PROF. J. F. TRISTAN wrote from Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, under date of February 4, 1912, "My wife and I left San Jose on the Qth of January and went to a new colon}-, Colonia Carmona, in the southern part of the peninsula of Nicoya. From that place we came here and then crossed the peninsula to the Pacific. We remained in a beautiful farm near the seashore for eight days, and then returned to this place [town of Nicoya]. On the /th we shall go again to Colonia Carmona, where we will remain some days more. We hope to reach San Jose on February 25. In all this long trip and at different places I have collected Odonata for you. There are only two species that I have not seen before. Most of the species are very abundant." [En- tomologically, the peninsula of Nicoya has been examined but slightly so that the data gathered by Prof. Tristan will be very welcome. — ED.] SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENTOMOLOGY will be held at Ox- ford on August sth to loth, 1912, under the Presidency of Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc., F.R.S. A Reception Committee has been formed, consisting of : — Dr. F. A. Dixey, F.R.S. (Chairman). Professor G. C. Bourne, F.R.S. (Professor of Zoology)- Professor H. L. Bowman, D.Sc. (Secretary to the Dele- gates of the University Museum). Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc., F.R.S. (President of the Second Congress). Geoffrey W. Smith, M.A. (Fellow of New College). Commander J. J. Walker, M.A. (Secretary of the Entomological Society of London.) H. Eltringham, M.A. (Cant.), M.A. (Oxon.), G. H. Grosvenor, M.A., Secretaries. It is hoped that the Reception Committee will be able to arrange for members of the Congress to have rooms in the Colleges at a moderate price, but this privilege will be available for gentlemen only. A list of hotels and lodgings recommended, with tariffs, will be is- sued later. In order to facilitate the arrangements, it is requested that ladies and gentlemen who propose to join and attend the Congress send in their names as early as possible to the General Secretary of the Execu- tive Committee, who will be happy to give any further information. Ordinary Members who pay £i (25 francs) will receive all publica- tions of the Congress. Ladies and children accompanying Members will, on payment of los. (frs. 12.50) each, have all privileges of Mem- bers except that of receiving the publications. Life Members who pay a composition of at least £10 (frs. 250), will receive free all future publications of the Congress. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l8l The funds in respect of Life Compositions will be invested, and only the interest will be at the disposal of the Executive Committee. Sir Daniel Morris, D.Sc., and The Hon. X. Charles Rothschild, M.A., F.E.S., have kindly consented to act as Trustees of the funds. Members who propose joining the Congress, or presenting papers, are requested to fill in the accompanying forms and send them in with their subscription (except of course in the case of Life Members who have originally paid) to the General Secretary of the Executive Com- mittee, Malcolm Burr, D.Sc., care of Entomological Society of London, 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. The Programme of the Second Congress of Entomology will be sent out early in the spring, and, we believe, will be found so attractive that we shall have the pleasure of welcoming to Oxford a large gathering of Entomologists and friends of Entomology. On behalf of the Committee, E. B. POULTON, President; MALCOLM BURR, General Secretary. STRICT PRIORITY IN NOMENCLATURE" — OR XOT? — [The following have been received in response to the editorial in the March News. We hope to hear from many other entomologists. This subject will be discussed editorially in the May NEWS.] Please place my name on the list of those who vote against the strict application of the law of priority in all cases, etc. — J. H. COMSTOCK. I wish to register my vote against the strict application of the law of priority. Old names and old descriptions are often worthless and even misleading. Such of them as serve to clearly separate out from allied species rendering them clearly distinguishable, and not, as in many cases, applying to aberrant forms, should be retained. The time was when the describing and naming of insects was an end ; but now it has ceased to be such and has become an imperatively essential means toward tracing out their development and inter- relationships. Priority, like any other law that does not admit of pro- gressive, intelligent and practical application, is sadly in need of either amendment, or elimination. Nature does not compel an insect to carry about with it the cast larval skins and pupa case, but enables it to dis- card these as they cease to be useful. — F. M. WKRSTER. Relative to the question of abandoning the law of priority as dis- cussed editorially in the last number of the NEWS, I would say that this step must have been approved by the entomologists mentioned with scarce appreciation of what a fearful condition it is apt to lead to. Most systematists know of one or more preoccupied genera which they are very reluctant to see changed, and if a proposition is suggested to disregard a law which prohibits the retention of such personally favored genera, they are apt to center their thoughts on that one point and so l82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS $>ril, '12 vote for the annulment' of a law that may be essential and desirable in nearly all other cases. Such a motion was voted down at the- meeting of the Entomological Society of America at the recent Washington meeting because of the discussion the matter evoked. When a motion meets with opposition and arguments on both sides of the question are presented, the voters are enabled to deal more intelligently with the matter and a fairer and more meaning vote is the result. Thus the Entomological Society of America voted to retain intact the law of priority. When questions of nomenclature are no longer solved accord- ing to codified laws and rules, but are submitted to the varying judg- ment of different workers, we may abandon all hope of an ultimately stable nomenclature. That the law of priority should always be re- tained intact is my earnest belief and you may record my vote to this effect..— A. N. CAUDELL. I hasten to ask that my name be put down on the side of the sec- ond proposal in your editorial column, in favor of the preservation of the most used names against unused names claiming priority. This looks like the glimmering of the dawn of a brighter day in nomenclature. After we get past the period of priority-worship, scientists will look back in astonishment at the actions of the last de- cade or two. — J\ M. ALDRICH, Moscow, Idaho. WEEVILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. — [The Coleoptera part of the Biologia Cenir all- Americana has been completed with the appearance of Volume IV, Part 3, on certain groups of the Curculioni- dae. Much interest therefore attaches to the "Introduction" of this Part, which we quote as follows:] This volume, one of five required for the enumeration of the Rhyn- chophora, was commenced by Dr. Sharp in 1889 and is now concluded by myself. The study of the "Otiorhynchinse Alatae" has unfortunate- ly been delayed for many years, during the publication of Vol. IV, parts 4, 5 and 7, all of which are devoted to the Family Curculionidse. The present Volume, IV. part 3, includes the Sub-families Attelabinae, Pterocolinas, Allocoryninae, Apioninse, Thecesterninse, and Otiorhyn- chinse. The Attelabinse are represented by 104 (88 new), the Ptero- colinae by three (all new), the Allocoryninre (a new sub-family) and Thecesterninae each by one, the Apioninae by 88 (84 new), and the Otiorhynchinse by 419 (340 new) species respectively; the total num- ber for the six sub-families being 616 species, with 516 new, and forty new genera. Amongst the 419 Otiorhynchinae, the apterous and wing- ed forms are almost equal in number, there being a preponderance of apterous terrestrial species (Eupagoderes, Epicoerus, Epagriopsis, etc.) in the arid portions of Mexico and the winged forms (Exophthalmus, Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 183 etc.) becoming relatively more numerous in the forest regions south- ward. Taking the Curculionidag as a whole — the sub-families Curcu- lioninae and Calandrinae, in addition to those worked out in the present volume — the number of species enumerated altogether from Central America is as follows: Vol. IV, part 3, 616; IV, part 4, 1365; IV, part 5, 908; IV, part 7, 344; total 3233. The three other families of Rhynchophora' — the Brenthidse, Scolytidse and Anthribidae — dealt with in Vol. IV, part 6, number 615 species, thus bringing the total for the whole of the weevils up to 3848. The Rhynchophora, therefore, as anticipated (though not to the extent roughly estimated by myself in the introduction to Vol. IV, part 4 of this series), greatly outnum- ber the Phytophaga (2619, including the Hispidae and Cassididae) within our limits. The Otiorhynchid material examined by me includes that belonging to the U. S. National Museum, to whom we are indebted for co-types of all the species here described from their collection, as well as for many North American forms for comparison. From Costa Rica we have received during recent years numerous interesting species, both from Pittier and Biolley. Mr. Wickham, too, during his visit to Mexi- co in 1909, secured various Otiorhynchids, and, as usual, has kindly allowed us to retain any of these specimens that we required. Signer A. Solari again, has also permitted us to keep for the British Mu- seum the types of such species as have been described by me from his collection, which includes a portion of that of Jekel. The "Sommer collection" of Curculionids (including various types of Boheman, etc.) having been recently acquired by Prof. Poulton for the Oxford Uni- versity Museum, we have been enabled to verify the names of certain species left unidentified by Dr. Sharp, and this involves some slight corrections to the synonymy of the "Otiorhynchinge Apterae," which are noted in the Supplement. As stated in a footnote on p. 317, various Apioninas left undetermined by Dr. Sharp for want of sufficient material, with such forms that have since come to hand have been handed over to the specialist Herr Hans Wagner for study, and his descriptions of the new forms will be published elsewhere. Of the fifteen colored plates issued, the first six were drawn by Mr. Purkiss, the others by Mr. E. Wilson, of Cambridge. It will not be out of place to note here that the enumeration of the Coleoptera, commenced in 1879, is now completed, bringing the total number of species to 18,039, for which eighteen volumes have been required. — G. C. CHAMPION, December, 1911. 184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 ALETIA ARGILLACEA (Lepid.) Since the flight of this moth last fall seems to have attracted the attention of observers in different parts of the country, it may be worth while to put on record the notes I made at the time of the appearance of the horde at Iowa City. If data from different sections are properly correlated, we may learn something definite and valuable regarding the speed, extent and exciting causes of the movement. My notes, with one or two slight verbal changes to make them comprehensible to the general reader (by the omission of certain purely local references), are as follows: "October i, 1911. This morning, on going to the post-office, I noticed that the side of the building around the south door was plentifully sprinkled with these moths, most of them resting head downward on the stone wall, others clinging to the globes or supports of the two large lights with less regularity of pose. In one place four of the insects were resting in a row, the thorax of each of the last three tucked under the wings of the one preceding. The moths seem very fresh and in fine condition. I counted 100 at this place and estimated that there must be at least 150 in the group. At the west door only about twenty were to be counted. On the way home I saw them in abundance on the electric light poles along Iowa Avenue, and on one corner they were plentiful in the grass at the base of the support, flying out in numbers when disturbed. This flight has followed two or three days of unsettled, more or less rainy weather. On the night of the 2Qth of September there were none about the avenue lights, since Mr. Stoner and myself had been out looking for beetles and would certainly have noticed the moths had they been present. The invasion seems to have been sud- den, and to have taken place last night." A note made the next day (October 2) refers to the great abundance of the moths on poles at various points about town. In one place 35 were counted on a space about the size of the palm of my hand. A later item states that five days later scarcely any were left. This is the second really large flight of the species that I have seen at Iowa City, the other taking place in 1898, my record specimens carrying dates from September 7 to October 8, the majority being September 21. — H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. [,In addition to the notes by Mr. Muttkowski and Dr. Skinner in the NEWS for February, 1912, and. November, 1911, respectively, other ob- servations on the swarms of this species are published in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 259, for Dec., 1911.— Ed.] THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA celebrated the One Hundredth Anniversary of its foundation by a three days' series of meetings, a reception by the President, and a banquet, on March igth, 2Oth and 21 st. Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 185 Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy- Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 4— The Canadian Entomologist. 6 — Journal, New York Ento- mological Society. 7 — U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 8 — The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9 — The Entomologist, London. 11 — Annals and Magazine of Nat- ural History, London. 18 — Ottawa Naturalist. 22 — Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 34 — Proceedings, Iowa Academy of Sciences, Des Moines. 38 — Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 40 — Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 46 — Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 51 — Novitates Zoologicae, Tring, England. 69 — Bolletino, Societa Ita- liana Entomologica. 73 — Archives, Zoologie Experimental et Generale, Paris. 79 — La Nature, Paris. 84 — Entomologische Rund- schau. 89 — Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 97 — Zeitschrift fur wis- senschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 153 — Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 179 — Journal of Economic Ento- mology. 182 — Revue Russe d'Entomologie, St. Petersburg. 190— Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift "Iris," Dresden. 193 — Ento- mologische Blatter, Cassel. 216— Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stutt- gart. 223 — Broteria. Revista de Sciencias Naturaes do Collegio de S- Fiel. (Ser. Zoologica). 240 — Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono. 337 — Meddelelser om Gronland. Denmark Ekspe- ditionen til Gronlands Nordostkyst 1906-08, Copenhagen. 346 — Fauna Exotica. Mitteilungen aus clem Gebiete der exotischen In- sektenwelt, Frankfurt am Main. 368 — The Monthly Bulletin of the State Commission of Horticulture, Sacramento, Cal. 369 — Ento- mologische Mitteilungen, Berlin-Dahlen. 371 — Memoires de la S'ociete des Naturalistes de Kieff. 372 — Imperial Department of Agriculture for the \Yest Indies. 373 — Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, by Wm. Barnes and J. H. McDunnough, Decatur, 111. GENERAL SUBJECT. Ballou, H. A. — Insect pests of the cocoa- 1 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '-12 nut, 372, Pamphlet Ser. No. 70, 21-34. Gennerich, J.— Treibzucht durch einwirkung grunen lichtes, 216, xxv, 235-236. Horn, W.— Skizzen aus der geschichte des "Deutschen Entomologischen Mu- seums," 369, i, 33-38. Janet, C. — Sur 1'ontogenese de 1'insecte 1909, F. 28, Limoges, 129 pp. Johansen, F. — Freshwater life in Northeast Greenland, 337, v, 321-337. Johannsen, O. A — Insect notes for 1911, 240, Bull. No. 195. Marlatt, C. L. — Some recent new importa- tions (insect pests), 179, v, 73-77. O'Kane, W. C.— Methods in insect photography, 179, v, 54-59. Poche, F. — Die motive und ziele der modernen nomenklaturbewegung, 182, xi, 253-260. Portier, P — • Recherches physiologiques sur les insectes aquatiques, 73, viii, 89- 379. Reitter, E — Ueber den eingeburgerten missbrauch bei be- nutzung von entomologischen typen, 38, xxxi, 21-26. Rosa, D. — - II lamarkismo e le farfalle, 69, xlii, 39-42. Sanderson, E. D. — Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 684 pp, 1912. Washburn, F. L. — The relation of the station ento- mologist to his environment, 179, v, 33-53. Weiss, H. B — Some economic methods a hundred years old, 179, v, 88-90 . APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Crawford, D. L.— A new in- sect pest (Trioza alacris), 368, i, 86-87. Jones, P. R. — Some new California and Georgia Thysanoptera, 7, Tech. Ser. No. 23, pt. 1 (*). Navas, P. L. — N-otas sobre Mirmeleonidos, 223, x, 29-75. Strickland, E. H. — A quiescent stage in the development of "Ter- mes flavipes," 6, xix, 256-259. ORTHOPTERA. Gahan, C. J.— A new species of Phasmid of the genus Prisopus, considered especially in reference to the sup- posed aquatic habits of the genus, 9, xlv, 49-57. Trouessart, A.— La mante tunisienne et le pouillot fitis, 79, xl, 193-195. Wheeler, W. M — A desert cockroach, 6, xix, 262-263. HEMIPTERA. Butler, E. A.— On the eggs of two British spe- cies of Coreidae, 8, 1912, 36-38. Davis, W. T. — The periodical cicada in the Half Way Hollow Hills, Long Island, N .Y., 6, xix, 261. Doten, S. B. — The European elm scale (Gossyparia spuria), 368, i, 89-100. Jordan, K. — Contribution to our knowledge of the mor- thology and systematics of the Polyctenidae, a family of Rhyn- chota parasitic on bats, 51, xviii, 555-579 (cont.). LEPIDOPTERA. Aldrich, J. M.— Note on "Theronia fulves- cens," 179, v, 87-88. Barnes & McDunnough. — Revision of the Megathymidae, 373, i, No. 3, 42 pp. (*). Bryk, F.— Apollinische liebe, 40, xxvi, 50-52. Englisch, J. — Ueber das ei und die zucht der raupe von "Attacus edwardsi," 34, xxix, 21-22. Fassl, A. H.— Noch- mals ueber Agrias amydon und eine neue Sardanapalus-form aus Columbien, 84, xxix, 9-10. Fruhstorfer, H. — Neue Nymphaliden des neotropischen gebietes aus der sammlung Staudinger. Neue Bras- Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 187 soliden, 84, xxix, 14-17. Fuge, E. — Eine zweite generation von "Limenitis populi," 216, xxv, 239. Gauckler, H. — Etwas vom ko- dern und nachtlichen raupensuchen, 34, xxix, 17-19. Grossbeck, J. A. — Migration of "Alabama argillacea," 6, xix, 259-261. Hamp- son, G. F. — Description of new species of Pyralidae of the sub- family Pyraustinae, 11, ix, 242-269. de Joannis, P. J. — Le genre Ensonista et ses allies, 223, x, 5-28. Jordan, K. — A new hawk-moth from Ecuador, 51, xviii, 599-600. Kennel, J. V. — Ueber tympanal- organe im abdomen der spanner und zunsler, 22, xxxix, 163-170. Meyrick, E. — On some impossible specific names in Micro-lepidop- tera, 8, 1912, 32-36. Mitterberger, F. — Die zucht von Crambus py- ramidellus aus dem ei, 216, xxv, 243-244. Neustetter, H. — Neue "Heliconius," 346, i, 54-55. Pospjelow, W. — Die postembryonale entwicklung und die imaginale diapause bei den Lepidopteren (Russian), 371, xxi, 163-418. Rothke, M. — Catocala relicta und ihre formen, 84, xxix, 12-14. Schaus, W. — New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica — XIII, 11, ix, 202-214. Stobbe, R. — Die abdomi- nalen duftorgane der mannlichen Sphingiden und Noctuiden, 89, xxxii, 493-532. Verity, R. — Studio comparato dello sviluppo del "Pieris manni" e "Rapae," 69, xlii, 137-141. Wolff, P.— Ueber hitze- und kalteversuche mit schmetterlingspuppen, 216, xxv, 231- 232. Zykoff, W. P. — Les parasites des Psychides (Russian), 182, xi, 213-220. DIPTERA. Bezzi, M — Dipteres (Premiere serie) suivi d'un appendice sur les Dipteres cavernicoles recueillis par le Dr. Abso- lon dans les Balcans, 73, viii, 1-87. Dipteros do Brazil, Sobre tres interessantes Dipteros de S. Paulo, 223, x, 76-84. Felt, E. P.— The identity of the better known midge galls, 18, xxv, 164-167. Hendel, F. — Neue Muscidae acalyptratae, 38, xxxi, 1-20. Hunter, S. J.— The sand-fly and pellagra (Abstract), 179, v, 61-63. Knauer, F. — Unser kampf gegen die stechmuckenplage, 191, 1912, 177-181. de Meijere, J. C- H. — Zur kenntnis der metamorphose von Platypeza und der verwandtschaftlichen beziehungen der Platypezinen, 46, liv, 241- 254. Ruhl, M. — Zur lebensweise von Piophila casei, 40, xxvii, 15. Wust, O. — Studien an "Cecidomyia rosaria" und "albipennis," 216, xxv, 247-248. COLEOPTERA. Alt, W. — Ueber das respirationssystem von Dytiscus marginalis. Ein beitrag zur morphologic des insekten- korpers, 97, xcix, 357-443. Carnes, E. K. — Collecting ladybirds (Coccinellidae) by the ton, 368, i, 71-81. Chapman, T. A — Notes on the first stages of "Sitaris muralis" and "Metoecus paradoxus," 8, 1912, 29-32. Davis, W. T. — Miscellaneous notes on collecting in Georgia, 6, xix, 216-219. Deville, J. St. C.— Die bedeutung der in- sekten, insbesondere der Coleopteren fur die zoogeographie, 193, i88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 viii, 4-8. Fall, H. C. — Xew Coleoptera chiefly from the Southwest. -V, 4, xliv, 40-48 (*). Hopkins, A. D.— The dying hickory trees: cause and remedy, 7, Circ. No. 144. Kerremans, C. — Monographic des Buprestides, Tome V, 19-20 Livr., 577-640. Leng, C. W.— Notes on Coleoptera collected in Northern Georgia— II, 6, xix, 209-216. "Deltometopus amoenicornis" with ants in beach stump, 6, xix, 261. Schmidt, A. — Neue Aphodiinen und eine synonymische bemerkung, 40, xxvi, 52 (*). Smirnov, D. A — Contribution a 1'etude des moeurs et de la metamorphose de Bruchus affinis et d'autres Bruchides (Russian), 182, xi, 169-194. Wichmann, H.— Beitrag zur kenntnis des stridulationsapparates der borkenkafer, 193, viii, 8-10. HYMENOPTERA. Banks, N— Psammocharidae: classification and descriptions, 6, xix, 219-237 (*). Beutenmuller, Wm.— The No. American species of Dryophanta and their galls, 153, xxx, 343-369. Girault, A. A. — Notes on the Chalcidoid Trichaporus of the family Eulophidae, with description of one new form from Illinois, 4, xliv, 49-52 (cont). Grossbeck, J. A. — A contribution toward the life history of "Emphor bombiformis," 6, xix, 238-245. Pawlowsky, E. N.— Zur kenntnis des anatomisch-histologischen baues des ge- schlechtapparates der Hymenopteren. I. Das mannliche ge- schlechtapparat der Bombus-arten, 182, xi, 221-234. Wheeler, W. M. — Descriptions of some new fungus-growing ants from Texas, with Mr. C. G. Hartman's observations on their habits, 6, xix, 245-255 (*). "Lasius" (Acanthohyops) claviger in Tahiti, 6, xix, 2G2. Additions to the ant-fauna of Jamaica, 153, xxx, 21-29. INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD. By E. Dwight San- derson, Dean of the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University; Director West Virginia Agricultural Station; John Wiley & Sons, New York ; Chapman & Hall, London. Price, $3.00 net. The growth of economic entomology is so rapid that we may no longer expect to see books covering the whole field. In the future we will expect to see special works devoted to branches of the subject. Prof. Sanderson's book is made up of 669 pages, an index, and 513 illustrations. The sources of illustrations are given and it is a proper courtesy, but does anyone ever read the long lists of figures? The amount of damage done by insects annually is a very real one, and Prof. Sanderson places it at the nice sum of $1,272,000,000 (grand total.) A grand total like that should be a splendid thing with which to dazzle Congress, State Legislatures, institution officials and others, for increased appropriations and increased salaries. This sum is not inconceivable, but "almost." The sequence of subjects treated is a logical one and the various insect enemies of certain species of plants Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 189 or groups of allied plants are treated under those headings. The large number of illustrations of injurious insects, coupled with their descrip- tion, should enable any intelligent person to identify them and apply the appropriate remedy. The book is written in a lucid way and should prove very useful. Prof. Sanderson has had a wide experience ns an economic entomologist and has used judgment in the selection of remedies and control measures. The work covers the subject ad- mirably and as well as it is possible to treat such a large subject within the pagination of a single book. — H. S. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA, Vol. I, No. 3, Revision of the Megathymidae. By William Barnes, S.B., and J. H. McDunnough, Ph.D. The authors call the family "giant skippers" and are ''inclined" to give them super- family rank as Hesperiides. They do not consider them related to the Castniidae, where they have been placed by some authors. The comparative anatomy of the group, early stages and habits as far as known are discussed in detail. The authors found the sexual organs of value in specific separation and they were given special consideration. The genus Aegiale Felder is used for the spe- cies hesperiaris Walk., and the other species are placed under Mega- tliyunts Scudder. Aegiale is separated from Megathymus by differen- tial characters in the pulvillus. the squamation of the palpi and the wing venation in the male. The Boreal American species have twice been previously been treated as a whole ; by Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 13, in, 1905, and by Skinner, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 37, 169, 1911. Some of the species are rare in collections. Sinithi was mentioned by Skinner on pages i/o and 205. It was not in the table as no ma- terial was at hand for study. No detailed study was made of Mega- thymus in Dr. Skinner's paper as he knew that the present au- thors had their paper well under way. Dr. Dyar need not have con- fused streckeri and cofaqui as he studied Dr. Skinner's material con- taining the types of streckeri and one male and two females of cofaqui. The authors have carefully examined all the literature of the subject and commend the work done by Dr. Skinner, saying Skin- ner's identifications "appear" to be correct. Their studies of M. ucumocgcni are extremely interesting. This species was described by Edwards, from one "male" and three females. Barnes and McDunnough say that the type with the male label on it is a female. It is not unlikely that Mr. Edwards confused the sexes, as it is a very easy thing to do if you do imt dissect out the genitalia. Ottolengui says that Doll caught seven specimens. Barnes says he has a male of the original lot and states there is also a male in the 19° ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'l2 Strecker collection. There is also a male of the original lot in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The male of this species was redescribed by Dyar under the name aryxna. Barnes and McDunnough find two species in the "type series" of aryxna. It seems a pity to have such an elastic series and in the fu- ture it will be well for Dyar, McDunnough and Barnes to fix a single type. After the careful examination of a good series of specimens I am unable to see anything more than individual non-specific differ- ences between ncumoegeni Edwards and the aryxna of Barnes and McDunnough. All the characters they give appear to the writer as gradational. including the genitalic. We need much better and addi- tional evidence before specific value can be accepted. M. polingi Skinner was described from two specimens supposed to be male and female. The type and paratype prove to be females as stated by the authors of this paper. They had over one hundred speci- mens of both sexes for study, and were able to detect the fact that Dr. Skinner erred as to the sex of one specimen. The writer does not assume any obligation to take cognizance of letters at a particu- lar time. When statements appear in the literature they are placed on an entirely different basis. The authors place M. var. navajo as a synonym of coloradensis Riley. If a black form as compared with a light chestnut brown one is not sufficient difference to constitute a variety, then they are correct. Riley in his original description said, "This Colorado form is remark- able for its small size and the paleness of its colors." There can be no question about the meaning of the above. It refers to the color of the insect and not alone to maculation as the two authors state. The Academy of Natural Sciences possesses one of the cotypes of colora- densis and it has not faded since it was caught and it is a light chest- nut brown in color, whereas yuccae is dark umber-brown and navajo black. M. cofauui Strecker is a very distinct species, both in maculation and in the male genitalic characters. The male has a buff border on the upper side of the secondaries, otherwise the markings are the same as in .the female, except that the row of spots on the secondaries is almost obsolete. The male specimen of streckeri bearing the type label, was taken in Arizona by Morrison. State labels were the fash- ion when it was captured and it can only be said that it was taken in one of the various localities in Arizona where Morrison is known to have collected. Barnes and McDunnough have given us an able paper which has considerably advanced our knowledge of the family. There are still questions that need elucidation and they will be solved in the future. — H. S. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS BIBLIOGRAPHIA CoLEOPTEROLOGiCA. Under this title W. Junk, the Entomological publisher and antiquarian bookseller of Berlin (W. 15, Kurfurstendamm 201), has brought out a catalogue of 3928 Coleop- terological books and memoirs, arranged alphabetically under authors' names, which he has for sale. The edition of this Bibliographia which is bound in linen boards, includes fourteen pages on "Die Coleoptero- logische Literatur," which gives the principal works of reference on this group of insects under such headings as: For the Beginner (Ger- man), Coleoptera of Central Europe, Nomenclature, Larvae, French fauna, Nearctic Region [where Blatchley's Coleoptera of Indiana has not yet found a place], etc. This edition is sold at one mark, and this summary of the literature (which is lacking in the paper-bound copies distributed free) should be very useful. Doings of Societies. AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Meeting of December n, 1911. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Pres- ident, presiding. Nine persons were present. Reports of the various officers and committees for the year 1911 were read. The report of the Librarian recorded four thousand volumes in the library of the Society and recom- mended the purchase of additional bookcases for the new quarters. The President announced the deaths of two former Presi- dents, the Rev. Henry C. McCook, D.D., on October 3ist, and J. H. B. Bland on the I2th of November, aged 79. The following persons were elected to serve as officers for the year 1912: President, Philip P. Calvert; Vice-president, Henry W. Wenzel ; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson ; Curator, Henry Skinner; Recording Secretary, Henry Skinner; Correspond- ing Secretary, J. A. G. Rehn. Executive Committee: Philip Laurent, H. W. Wenzel, D. M. Castle. Publication Commit- tee : E. T. Cresson, C. F. Seiss, B. H. Smith. Finance Corn- mittee : C. S. Welles, D. M. Castle, Morgan Hebard. Meeting of February 15, 1912, Mr. Philip Laurent in the chair. Seven persons were present. Mr. E. T. Cresson was appointed a delegate to represent the i92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '12 Society at the Centenary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to be celebrated March 19, 20 and 21. Mr. Laurent called attention to Circular 144, U. S. Dept. Agric., and said he was not previously aware that Scolytus quadrlsplnosus injured the small stems and buds of the hickory. He also read a newspaper clipping, dated Woodbury, N. J., January 3Oth, which read as follows: ". . . According to fruit experts the yield of South Jersey the coming season ought to be a record breaker. These men declare that when the trees have a coating of ice once during the winter the fol- lowing season is prolific in the yield as the ice kills any pests that may have clung to the bark. Thus far there have been three sleet storms, and at present every tree in Gloucester County has a half-inch ice coating." The speaker asked whether it was a fact that ice kills scale and other bark insects. Dr. Skinner made some remarks on the so-called Pharma- cophagus Papilio, P. phileiwr and its alleged mimics, Papilio glaucus, polyxcnes and troilus. The records of birds attack- ing these insects are very meager and it is doubtful whether P. philcnor is poisonous or noxious to birds. A large amount of careful experimental evidence will be necessary to prove that the three species, in the female sex, mimic philcnor, and that their markings were thus developed. Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., suggested that Dasyllis may mimic the non-predaceous bumblebee so that it may deceive other insects on which it feeds, the latter mistaking it for a bumble- bee and not making an effort to escape. HENRY SKINNER, Sec'y. OBITUARY. PROFESSOR JOHN B. SMITH, State Entomologist of New Jersey, eminent as an Economic Entomologist, endeared to many friends by his personal qualities, author of important memoirs on Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, died at New Bruns- wick, New Jersey, on March 12, 1912. An account of his life and work will appear in the next number of the NEWS. 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Montgom- ery, Jr 239 Professor John Bernhardt Smith, Sc.D. (Portrait, Plate XI) Professor John Bernhardt Smith, one of the best known en- tomologists in this country, and widely known in foreign lands also, died at his home at New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Tuesday morning, March I2th, after an illness of seven months. For some years Professor Smith had been ailing, and in 1906, partly under the advice of his physician, he spent sev- eral months in Europe in the hope of regaining his health. He returned a much better man physically ; but he was never again his old self, and he frequently alluded in a jocular man- ner to the fast approaching end to his earthly career. His in- domitable energy, however, kept him from becoming a chronic invalid, and even during the last months of his life when he was largely confined to his bed he regularly attended to his correspondence and directed the work under his charge at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Bright's disease, with its manifold complications, finally claimed him , and he rapidly sank under its dreaded influence. Professor Smith was born in New York City on November 21, 1858. He was educated in the Public schools, studied law 193 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 'l2 and was admitted to the bar in 1879. But the practice of law was not to his especial liking; and, as he himself once ex- pressed it, "a fly on the wall was more interesting to him than the case in hand." In 1884, after a four years' career as a lawyer, he bade adieu to that vocation forever, and accepted the appointment as Special Agent to the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture at Washington under the late Dr. C. V. Riley. In 1886 he became Assistant Curator of Entomology in the United States National Museum, and in the three years of his connection with that Institution published a number of excellent papers and monographic works, chief among which are his "Monograph of the Sphingidse of America north of Mexico," "A Preliminary Catalogue of the Arctiidae of Tem- perate North America," "A Revision of the Lepidopterous Family Saturniidse," some of his "Contributions toward a Monograph of the Family Noctuidse," and "Notes on the Spe- cies of Lachnosterna of Temperate North America with descriptions of New Species." In 1889 he resigned his post in the National Museum to ac- cept a Professorship of entomology at Rutgers College, and to become entomologist to the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- ment Station at New Brunswick, positions which he held until the time of his death, and to which was added in 1894 the office of State Entomologist of New Jersey. In these three capaci- ties he brought honor and renown to the institutions he served. His annual reports, which all told, form several bulky vol- umes, are mines of information, and rank with the best ever produced by any experiment station. His numerous bulletins also represent a vast amount of original research along economic lines. His "Contribution toward a Knowledge of the Mouth Parts of the Diptera" (1890) set forth views on the homologies of these organs quite different from those generally accepted. In 1902 he became intensely interested in the work of the extermination of mosquitoes which had been prosecuted with marked success in various parts of the world, and he imme- diately urged and secured from the legislature in 1903, under Vol. Xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 195 the most adverse conditions, an appropriation for an investiga- tion of the subject in New Jersey. The final report (1905), which covered a two years' investigation, comprised 482 printed pages and treated elaborately every phase of the sub- ject, economic and systematic. From the time of the appear- ance of that report on, he annually secured, by dint of hard work, an appropriation to carry the recommendations made in the report into effect. The success of his work has been heralded far and wide, and the ditching scheme for the drain- ing of marshes was developed by him in the highest degree. To Professor Smith is due the credit for having demonstrated the practicability of ridding immense marsh areas of a most pestiferous insect. During all the years of his work on economic entomology which kept him busy answering a voluminous correspondence, attending Farmers' Institute meetings and experimenting with proprietary insecticides which came on the market, he still found time to pursue his work on the systematic side of the subject and continued to publish incessantly revisions of par- ticular Noctuid genera and papers on new species of Noc- tnidae, in which family he was the recognized authority. In 1893 he also published as Bulletin 44 of the United States Na- tional Museum his "Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Super- family Noctuidae found in Boreal America," which was an ex- cellent illustration not only of the industry of the man but of his wide knowledge of the family which he chose for his spe- cialty. The popular side of entomology also was not neglected as is shown by his two books "Economic Entomology," and "Our Insect Friends and Enemies ;" nor was the general subject, as is shown by his three lists of the insects of New Jersey, each of which was a total revision of the last and really a separate work, his "Explanation of Terms used in Entomology" and his two lists of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America. As a lecturer he was widely in demand by Farmers' Insti- tutes, public schools and scientific institutions. 196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 'l2 Professor Smith was a firm believer in scientific societies and himself belonged to many, including the Brooklyn Ento- mological Society, of whose journals, "The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society" and "Entomologica Ameri- cana," he was editor from 1882 to 1890; Newark Entomo- logical Society of which he was an honorary member, Feldman Collecting Social, Entomological Society of Ontario, Entomo- logical Society of America, Association of Economic Ento- mologists, Society for the promotion of Agricultural Science, Brooklyn Institute, Washington Academy, New Jersey State Microscopical Society, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, etc. Pie was a fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the American En- tomological Society (elected June 28, 1897). In most of these societies he was an active member, and frequently served in the capacities of president and secretary at one time or an- other. In recognition of his high attainments as a scientist, the honorary degree of doctor of science was conferred upon him by Rutgers College in 1891. To all who knew him he was ever the same jovial, good natured man, always willing to help where assistance was needed. He will be greatly missed not only by his many friends and scientific associates to whom he had endeared him- self, but by scientific workers throughout the country. He is survived by a widow and two grown up children. JOHN A. GROSSBECK. The Dragonfly Argia moesta and a new species (Odonata). By E. B. WILLIAMSON, Bluffton, Indiana. Agrion tnoestnm and putridum, as described by Hagen, have some slight differences in color and size only to distinguish them. In Synopsis des Agrionines, $me legion, Argia putrida Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS is recognized as very closely related to moesta, and an added character, reduced venation, is mentioned as distinguishing pn- trida. At the same time a race ( ?) from Rock Island, Illinois, is mentioned which equals or slightly exceeds moesta in size. Calvert, in A List and Bibliography of the Species (of Argia), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1902, lists pHtrida as a variety of moesta. The same opinion is expressed on page 76 of the Biol. Cent. Am. Naur. In studying some material from Texas and Oklahoma, I have found it necessary to examine carefully the status of these two nominal species, and my conclusion is that, if two species exist, they must be defined in terms of other characters than those used in the past ; and I am at present unable to detect any such characters. I have studied specimens from Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, District of Columbia. Pennsylvania, Maine, Michigan and Ontario. Of these the palest male individual is from Ontario, which has about one-half the mesepisternum and less than one-half the mesepimeron dark colored. This individual has the ab- domen black with pale on sides of i, lateral apical spot on 2, and the customary narrow basal abdominal rings. It has the abdomen 33.5 mm., hind wing 25 mm. The darkest male in- dividual is from Wister, Oklahoma, in which the entire thorax is dark, with a narrow pale antehumeral stripe, not reaching the antealar sinus, and a narrow, abbreviated streak on the metepisternum. This specimen has the abdomen black, with the basal annulations present but dark. Abdomen measures 32.5 mm., hind wing 25 mm. To facilitate a comparison of thoracic pattern of males the following five types of pattern may be defined and designated by Roman numerals: I, mesepisternum one-half black, mesepimeron with black in a broken pattern occupying less than one-half the area, metepisternum and metepimeron without black, with the exception of a line, present or absent, on the sutures. II, mesepisternum one-half black, mesepimeron black excepting a narrow anterior stripe above and a narrow posterior stripe below, mete- pisternum and metepimeron without black. 198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, '12 III, mesepisternum two-thirds black, pale area not reaching antealar sinus, mesepimeron as in II, with pale slightly reduced, metepisternum and metepimeron pale as in II, but a distinct line on second lateral suture. IV, mesepisternum two-thirds black, but pale area reaching the antealar sinus, mesepimeron as in III, but posterior ventral pale area reduced to a spot, metepisternum black below and narrowly along second lateral suture, metepimeron black, pale above in a sinuate pat- tern. V, thorax all black, but a narrow pale antehumeral stripe not reach- ing the antealar sinus, and a narrow, abbreviated streak on the mete- pisternum near its middle, just posterior to the first lateral suture. In the tabulation which follows, these numerals, followed by + or — mean respectively that the thorax is slightly darker or lighter than the number indicates. MALES ONLY. LENGTH OF ABDOMEN LENGTH OF HINDWING LOCALITY. COLOR OF THORAX. Ex- tremes Aver- age Ex- tremes Aver- age Texas . . . IV+, IV-h IV-. 32-36 33-6 25-28 26 Oklahoma . V, V-, V-, IV, V-, IV-, V- 30-33 32 23-25 24 Tennessee . IV-f , IV+, IV+ 32 24-5 Indiana . . ii+, IV-K iv+, iv+, n( iv, IV-I-, II 30-34 3i-7 23-25 24 Ohio .... II 32 25 Pennsylvania III, III, V-, IV+, III, III, III. 27-34 32 22-27 25 Maine . . . Ill, III 30 24 Ontario . . 1+ 33-5 25 In all the males studied the abdomen is black, with narrow basal rings on 2-7; in one specimen from Wister, Oklahoma, there is some pale color laterally on 1-5, and 9 and TO have a lit- tle pale color laterally; in another male from Clifton, Texas, the pale color on 1-5 is faintly discernible; a male from Auburn, Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 199 Indiana, has some gray on either side of 9 and 10; other males from Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Maine have the sides of i pale, and a more or less distinct lateral spot on 2. Females from the same localities show fewer differences. Unless obscured, there is present a longitudinal, dorsal pale area, adjoining or near the black dorsal carina ; a similar pale area occupies the mesepimeron in all but its most anterior and dorsal portions ; and a similar large pale area occupies the mete- pimeron, excepting only a narrow border ; along the second lat- eral suture on the metepisternum a narrow area of the same kind is less definitely developed. These pale areas give the impression of a thin coating of paraffin over the general body color. They seem to depend largely on post-mortem changes, and asymmetrical specimens are not rare. One female from Indiana is remarkable; the pale areas on the thorax are of usual size and definiteness, but instead of being surrounded by the usual light brown or pearly gray, the pale areas lie in a field of dark brown or nearly black ; the result is a thoracic color pattern not at all suggestive of other individuals of either sex in which, if any dark color appears, it is in the usual pale areas of the normal females ; in this case the pale areas remain pale, but the adjoining areas are dark. Two other Indiana specimens suggest this female. In two other Indiana females the thorax is light brown with green dorsal thoracic stripes of indefinite pattern, suggesting Gynacantha. To describe the dorsum of the abdomen of mocsta as pale colored is only partially correct. About segment 6 the lateral apical and basal black fail to connect in a continuous line as they do on the preceding segments, and the black decreases posteriorly and disappears before 9. If segment 3 or 4 be examined carefully it will be apparent that the dorsum of each segment above the lateral black streak is darker colored than the sides below the streak, and that the definition of the black and paler is obscure on the dorsal side of the streak ; there is no well-defined longitudinal dorsal paie area, and the dorsum color (reddish brown) is a very different color from the pale basal rings of obscure bluish. 200 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, ' 1 2 Females from various localities show the following sizes : LOCALITY LENGTH or • ABDOMEN LENGTH OF HIND WING Extremes Average Extremes Average Texas ^1-34 •12 =; 26—29 27 S Tennessee ii 26 Indiana 28. s-n 10.7 24-27 2S 6 Pennsylvania .... Maine 30-33 28-"? I 32 2Q 1 25-27 26 25 Michigan »I.K 26 It is possible that a more intelligent study of larger material may reveal that I have included more than one species in the above discussion, but for the present I am forced to conclude that putrida is a synonym of moesty. In all the material I have been unable to detect any differences in male abdominal appendages or female mesostigmal laminae. Argia intruda n. sp. Associated with the dark moesta at Wister, Oklahoma, are other Argias which seem to be specifically distinct from moesta, and which, after some correspondence with Dr. Calvert on the subject, I venture to describe as new. Male. Abdomen 33-36, average 34.5, hind wing 25-26, average 25.3. Female. Abdomen 33-37, average 33.8, hind wing 26-29, average 27.2. Male. Head dull pale brown, rear of head black above, pale brown below. Thorax pale brown, black as follows : A middorsal thoracic stripe, on either side occupying one-half the mesepisternum ; a spot on the mesepimeron against the humeral suture where it meets the mesinfra- episternum, and another above against the first lateral suture just in front of (or below) the posterior border; a faint line on humeral suture, widened into a small spot above. This is the palest coloration represented and is shown by four specimens ; in others the two spots on the mesepimeron grow towards each other till they form an oblique Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2OI irregular stripe across the mesepimeron ; from this stage this stripe grows in width posteriorly till it occupies nearly the entire area (pat- tern II, as described under moesta) ; this stage represents the maximum development of black on the thorax and is attained by only a single specimen. Abdomen black above, pale below on the sides on all segments but 7, pale narrow blue basal rings on 3-7, a longitudinal middorsal stripe, absent or very reduced on 6-7; 9 and 10 variable, generally gray or light brown, excepting the lower lateral margins and ventrally, and a black lateral spot on either side, near the middle, of 9; this spot on 9 may be wanting or it may be developed into an elongated spot. Abdominal appendages similar to moesta (see Fig. 29, Tab. 4, Biol. Centr. Am. Neur.), but the inferiors are longer than the superiors (not equal), and are terminated by a large, rounded, pale tubercle. Female. Similar to the male. Black area on rear of head reduced to a spot on either side. Darkest thoracic pattern : A black line on either side of the mid- dorsal thoracic carina, originating just below the antealar sinus and reaching the mesostigmal lamina, separated from the black middorsal carina by pale area equal to the width of the black line, the dark line and the pale area next the carina together occupy less than one-half the area of the mesepisternum. This black area is developed in a pale area which is present on the mesepisternum as well as on the mese- pimeron and metepimeron, as described for moesta. In other speci- mens the black dorsal lines on either side of the middorsal carina are reduced and in three specimens they are wanting altogether. No such lines are present in moesta. All specimens show more or less distinctly the pale areas above mentioned as present on females of moesta. Abdomen darker than in any moesta examined, though, if the red- dish brown of moesta be considered dark, moesta has a more extensive area dark colored, since in moesta there is no longitudinal middorsal pale area, while in intruda the dorsum is black (instead of reddish brown as in moesta), and there is a narrow but sharply denned and distinct pale longitudinal middorsal stripe, narrowest on 7, where it is reduced to the merest line. The lateral black is carried posteriorly on to 9, usually to its apex ; 10 is pale colored. Sides of abdomen below the black, pale colored. The mesostigmal lamina of intruda differs from moesta as follows: in moesta the posterior (or superior) lobe of the lamina is symmetrical with the border of the lamina on either side similarly curved, while the anterior (or inferior) border of the lamina is distinctly concave, the external angle of the lamina being correspondingly acute; in intruda the posterior (or superior) border of the lamina external to 2O2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 'l2 the lobe is straighten or less curved than internal to the lobe, resulting in an asymmetrical lobe, and the anterior (or inferior) border is straight or slightly convex, resulting in a less acute external angle. Wister, Oklahoma, August 2 and 4, 1907; 15 males, 17 fe- males, Frank Collins; all in collection of E. B. Williamson. When this material was studied and the differences detected, specimens were sent to Dr. Calvert for his opinion. He kindly separated the appendages of several males and returned these specimens to me. In his opinion they are specifically distinct from the material which we identify as moesta and putrida, and it is at his suggestion that I have described them as new. The material on which the preceding study is based is in my collection and is as follows : Argia moesta. Texas — Bay City, May 24, 1907, 2 males, i female, E. B. W. Clifton, May 28, June i, 1907, 16 males, 9 females, E. B. W. Oklahoma — Wister, June 3, 1907, i male, E. B. W. ; August 2 and 4, 1907, 6 males, Frank Collins. Tennessee* — Nashville, Cumberland River, September 29 and Oc- tober 5, 1900, and June i, 1901, 3 males, i female, E. B. W. Indiana — Saint Paul, August 13, 1911, 11 males, 5 females, E. B. W. Bluffton, without data, 2 males ; July 10, 1900, i male ; July 27, 1902, male, female; August 9, 1903, i male; July 16, 1905, 3 males, 2 females; July 22, 1906, I male; August i, 1909, male, female; June 8, 1911, male, female, E. B. W. Ft. Wayne, July 17 and 18, 1901, 2 males, 4 females, E. B. W. James Lake, July 5, 1908, i male, E. B. W. Auburn, July 7, 1911. i male, E. B. W. Ohio— Kent, June 21, 1900, i male, J. S. Hine. District of Columbia— July 18, 1897, i male, J. S. Hine. Pennsylvania— Fayette County, July 2, 1899, i male, E. B. W. Ohio Pyle, June 24, 1900, 2 males, i female, E. B. W. ; Sep- tember 8, 1901, 5 males, 3 females, J. L. Graf. Maine — 7 males, 8 females, F. L. Harvey. Michigan — Emmett County, August II, 1907, i female, L. A. Wil- liamson. Ontario— Go Home Bay, July 12, 1907, i male, E. M. Walker. Argia intruda. Oklahoma— Wister, August 2 and 4, 1907, 15 males, 17 females, Frank Collins. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2O3 All specimens studied have, I believe, a nature color pattern which would not have varied with increasing age, though I do not know how early in the life of the imago this pattern is at- tained, since I have no teneral material before me, and I have no notes on the colors of recently emerged imagoes. Thoracic pruinescence appears first ventrally, occupying the bases of the legs and the metepimeron, then the pale areas of the thorax, and finally, in older individuals, including the entire thorax and obscuring the thoracic pattern. It can be removed by gen- tle rubbing or scraping. Pruinescence of the apical abdominal segments appears later in the life of the imago than the first traces of thoracic pruinescence. These two species of Argia begin to show thoracic pruinescence earlier in imaginal life than any other dragonflies known to me. Observations on the Lepidoptera of St. Louis, Mis- souri, and vicinity during J9U. By the Members of the St. Louis Entomological Club. Compiled by AUGUST KNETZLER. The opening of the season, being quickly followed by hot weather and a protracted drouth, brought out some unex- pected features, the most striking of which was the wonderful abundance of the entire Colias family and the scarcity of Pa- pilios. Particularly surprising was the appearance in large numbers of Dione vanillae, specimens of which could be seen daily on the city streets from August till November. The larvae of this beautiful insect were found feeding on Passi- flora in several gardens. No less remarkable was the first ap- pearance here of the fine large Hesperid, Calpodcs ethlius, of which not only were there several fine specimens taken, but the larvae also were discovered feeding on Canna by Mr. Ernst Schwarz, who bred several with good results, the ima- goes emerging even after our first heavy frost. Another new Hesperid, male and female, not yet determined, was taken by Mr. Paul Schroers. 204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 'l2 Of Heterocera nearly all species were common during the early half of the season, more particularly Ecpanteria de- florata, Haploa lecontci, Haploa re stalls and Anlsota rubi- cunda, while Cressonia juglandls and Ampelophaga chocrllus were not observed. All Saturniidae and Sphingidae were scarce. During the latter part of the season most Heterocera were not nearly as common as in previous seasons. New spe- cies were taken as follows: Eucrythra phasma, Apantesis anna, A. persephone, Ampelophaga verslcolor, Erebus odora and Cochlidon Y-inversa by Mr. Paul Schroers ; Pholus litls by Mr. Frank Malkmus ; Catocala vlduata, C. dejecta, Schlnia chrysellus and S. trifascla by Mr. Geo. Hosenfelt. All larvae were scarce during the latter part of the season. The following list of Rhopalocera, with remarks applying to the season of 1911, contains the names of all the different species taken in this locality within the last fifteen years : 1. Danais plexippus, L. Abundant particularly during October. Their flight this year seemed to be in a southwesterly direction. 2. Dione vanillae. L. For once this ever rare insect was common. 3. Ettptoieta claudia, Cr. Swarming during September and October. 4. Argynnis diana, Cr. None observed. 5. Argynnis idalia, Dr. One specimen taken by the writer. 6. Argynnis cybele, Fab. Common in June. 7. Phydodes nycteis. D. and H. Common in July. 8. Phydodes ismeria, B. and L. None observed. 9. Phydodes tharos, Dr. Common in June. 10. Phydodes tharos v. mar da, Edw. Many specimens taken in April. 11. Phydodes tharos v. morpheus, Fab. Common, summer and fall. 12. Phydodes tharos v. packardii, S. None observed. 13. Melitaea phaeton, Dr. None observed. 14. Grapta interrogation's v. umbrosa, L. Common. 15. Grapta interrogationis v. fabridi, Edw. Usually common during September and October, very rare this season. 16. Grapta comma, H. Scarce. 17. Grapta comma, v. harrisi, Edw. Scarce. 1 8. Grapta comma, v. dryas, Edw. Fairly common. 19. Grapta progne, Cr. Observed by Mr. Fred. Schwarz. 20. Vanessa J-album, B. and L. None observed. 21. Vanessa antiopa, L. Scarce as usual. 22. Vanessa milberti, G. Observed by Mr. Paul Schroers. Vol. xxiiij ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2O5 23. Pyraineis atalanta, L. Common in June, but extremely rare later. 24. Pyraineis huntera, F. Abundant. 25. Pyrauieis cardui, L. Common. 26. Junonia cocnia, H. Perhaps never before so abundant. Mr. Noel Poepping, while on a trip to S. E. Missouri, reported that he saw myriads of this species flying across the Mississippi River, many fall- ing into the water. 27. Limenitis ursula, G. Moderate. 28. Limenitis disippus, G. Quite abundant. 29. Apatura celtis, B. and L. Common. 30. Apatura clyton, B. and L. Rare. 31. Apatura clyton v. proserpina, Sc. Extremely rare. 32. Anaea andria. Sc. Not as common as usual. 33. Debis portlandia, F. Common. 34. Neonympha eurytus, F. Common. 35. Satyrus alope, F. Taken at Meramee Highland, Mo., by Messrs. Herman Schwarz and Chas. Dieckmann. 36. Libythea bachmanni, K. Common June and July, but not seen later. 37. Thecla M-album, B. and L. None observed. 38. Thecla melinus, H. Common. 39. Thecla calanus, H. Common in June. 40. Thecla calanus v. lorata, G. and R. None observed. 41. Thecla H par ops, B. and L. One specimen taken at Forest Park by Mr. Marion Henderson. 42. Thecla damon v. discoidalis, Sk. One specimen taken at Forest Park by the writer. 43. Thecla cecrops, F. Quite abundant. 44. Thecla irus, G. Common in April. 45. Thecla titus, F. Common in July. 46. Feniseca tarquinius, F. Scarce. 4". Chrysaphanus thoe, B. Common. 48. Chrysophanus hypophlaeas, B. Common. 49. Chrysophanus hypophlaeas v. fasciata, S. One specimen taken by writer. 50. Calephelis borealis, G. and R. None observed. 51. Lycaena pseudargiolus, B. and L. Common. 52. Lycaena pseudargiolus v. violacea, Edw. Scarce. 53. Lycaena pseudargiolus v. marginata, Edw. Scarce. 54. Lycaena comyntas, G. Common. 55. Lycaena isola, R. One specimen taken at Forest Park by Mr Marion Henderson. 56. Lycaena isola v. alee, Edw. None observed. 57. Picris protodice, B. and L. Abundant all season. 2O6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 'l2 58. Pieris protodice v. vernalis, Edw. Very scarce. March. 59. Pieris rapae, L. Unfortunately common. 60. Pieris rapae v. immaculata, Sk. and A. None taken. 61. Pieris rapae v. novangliae, Sc. None taken. 62. Nathalis iole. Extremely common. 63. Euchloe genntia, F. Two specimens taken by Mr. Ernest Schwarz. 64. Euchloe olympia v. rosa, Edw. Seems to have become extinct in this locality. 65. Catopsilia eubule, L. Exceptionally abundant. 66. Zerene caesonia, St. Common in July. 67. Zerene caesonia v. ro^a, McN. Scarce, October. 68. Colias eurytheme, B. With its variations. 69. Colias ariadne, Edw. Probably never before more abundant. 70. Colias eryphile, Edw. Probably never before more abundant. 71. Colias keewaydin, Edw. Probably never before more abundant. 72. Colias keewaydin v. a/6. Probably never before more abundant. 73. Colias philodice, G. Not as common as usual. 74. Colias philodice v. o/fr., Sk. Not as common as usual. 75. Terias mexicana, B. Many specimens taken. 76. Terias nicippe, Cr. Abundant. 77. Terias nicippe v. flava, St. Scarce. 78. Terias lisa, B. Very common in September and October. 79. Terias lisa v. alba, St. Not common. 80. Papilio ajax v. zvalshi, Edw. Common April and early May. 81. Papilio ajax v. telamonides, F. Extremely rare. 82. Papilio ajax v. marcellus, B. and L. There seemed to be a direct transition from walshi to marcellus with telamonides eliminated alto- gether. Marcellus appeared in early June in fair numbers, while at its usual time, in late July, it was hardly in evidence. 83. Papilio philenor, L. Common in June, very scarce later. 84. Papilio asterias; Cr. Scarce all season. 85. Papilio troilus, L. Scarce all season. 86. Papilio cresphontes, Cr. Scarce all season. 87. Papilio turnns, L. Abundant in June, scarce later. 88. Papilio glaucus, L. Abundant in June, scarce later. 89. Ancyloxypha numitor, F. Common. 90. Atrytone zabitlon, B. and L,. Scarce. 91. Atrytone hobomok, H. Common. 92. Atrytone hobomok v. pocahontas, Sc. Scarce. 93. Hylephila huron, Edw. Common, September and October. 94. Hylephila phylaeus, Dr. Common, October. 95. Thymelicus otho, S. and A. Scarce. 96. Thymelicus\ cernes, B. and L. Common. 97. Thymelicus brettus, B. and L. Very scarce. Several taken by Messrs. L. P. Arras and G. Hosenfelt. Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2O7 98. Polites peckius, K. Scarce. 99. Euphyes rerna, Edw. Scarce. 100. Euphyes metacomet, H. Scarce. 101. Euphyes bellns, Edw. None observed. 102. Euphyes fusca, G. and R. None observed. 103. Limochroes manataaqua, Sc. None observed. 104. Prcnes ocola, Edw. None observed. 105. Phycanassa viator, Edw. One specimen taken by the writer. 106. Phycanassa delaware, Edw. None observed. 107. Calpodes cthlius, Cr. Discovered breeding here, several speci- mens taken. 108. Pholisora catitllus, F. Common. 109. Pholisora hayhursti, Edw. Common. 1 10. Hesperia tessellata,-Sc. Common. in. Anthomaster leonardus, H. None observed. 112. Amblyscirtes vialis, Edw. Rather scarce. 113. Amblyscirtes samoset. Sc. Rather scarce. 114. Eudamus tityrus, F. Not as common as usual. 115. Eudamus lycidas, S. and A. Abundant. 116. Eudamus bathyllus, S. and A. Fairly swarming. 117. Eudamus pylades, Sc. None observed. 118. Thanaos brizo, B. and L. Common. 119. Thanaos martialis, Sc. Common. 120. Thanaos juvenalis, F. Very scarce. 121. Thanaos naevius, L. None observed. A Dry Year's Yield of Catocalae (Lepid.) 1911. By R. R. ROWLEY and L. BERRY, Louisiana, Missouri. Everybody remembers how warm the first of February was, in fact how warm the entire season has been. Insects began to fly early. The first moth from a cocoon was an Indian Caligula on the 25th of March. After that Cricula and Antherea and, all through April, numbers of Thais polyccna. The first larva of Catocala was of illccta, half an inch long, on April 2