• ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. VOLUME XXIV, 1913. 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. A. G. REHN. ERICH DAECKK PHILIP LAURBNT H. W. WENZEL. PHILADELPHIA : ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, LOGAN SQUARE. The several numbers of the NEWS for 1913 were mailed at the Philadel- phia Post Office as follows : January . December 31, 1912 February January 31, 1913 March February 28, 1913 April March 31, 1913 May April 30, 1913 June May 29, 1913 July June 30, 1913 October September 30, 1913 November October 31, 1913 The date of mailing the December, 1913, number will be announced in the issue for January, 1914. PRESS OF P. C. 8TOCKHAU8EN PHILADELPHIA INDEX TO VOLUME XXIV. (* Indicates new genera, species or varieties.) GENERAL SUBJECTS. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (see Ento- mological Section). Aesthetic Appreciation in En- tomology 464 American Entomological So- ciety 189, 430 Animals and insects 366 Annual Entomological Meet- ings 466 Applied Entomology, Course in 465 Arcadia, An entomologist wanted for 180 Arrow poison from insects.. 83 Audubon Entomological Club 374 Bates' theory applied 113 Birds and insects 83, 370, 371 British Imperial Bureau of Entomology 179 Bromeliadicolous insects 133, 467 Climatic variations and the daily activities of some in- sect groups 342 Collecting notes from the Great Basin 214 Color nomenclature 277 Diary, Fragments from ento- mological 156 Disease, Insects and 172 Economic Entomologists, Am- erican Association of ..77, 469 Economic Entomologists, Pa- cific Slope Association of.. 228 Editorials, 28, 77, 131, 178, 227, 277, 325. 369, 4T3, 466. Eggs deposited in a rainpool 372 Eggs from the stomach of a wren 370 Entomological meeting in Cal- ifornia, 1915 181 Entomological Section of the Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 142, 286, 477- Entomological Society of America 77, 468 Errata 480 Feldman Collecting Social, 42, 139, 238, 336, 427. Forest Entomology in Amer- ica, Society for the advance- m'ent of 229 Galls 53, 187 Great Basin, Collecting notes from 214 Honors to entomologists .... 267 Insectivorous birds 370, 371 Insects in Spring, Appearance of 156 International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, 328, 478. International Exposition of Ornithology, Entomology & Botany 231 King George's interest in en- tomology 416 Laboratory material for work on the relation of insects to disease 172 Largest living insects 416 Literature, 30, 78, 86, 134, 183, 232, 279, 327, 375- 417, 470. London, New president of En- tomolog. Soc. of 257 IV INDEX. Mexico Gulf Coast Citrus Fruit Association 412 Mimicry, Notes on 113 Molting of the walking stick 14 Newark Entomolog. Society.. 190 Nomenclatural Questions 181 Nomenclature, Vote on pri- ority in 129 North American insects, Frag- ments on 53, 195, 323 Pacific Coast Entomolog. So- ciety 38 Pacific Slope Association of Economic Entomologists . . . 228 Paper cartons to protect against insects 467 Photographs of entomologists 130 Poison, Insect arrow 83 Pomona College Journal of Entomology 159 Shooting insects 480 Temperature, Effect of 14 Tenacity of life in an elaterid 343 United States Civil Service examination 133 Utilitarian value of entomol- ogy 369 OBITUARY NOTICES. Avebury, Lord (see Lubbock) Blanchard, F 46 Buckhout, W. A 48 Cameron, P 96 Druce, H 432 Grote, A. R 182 Hammar, A. G 480 Hooker, C. W 192 Jayne, H 383 Kirby, W. F 93 Lubbock, J 289 Magretti, P 432 Merrick, F. A 144 Murtfeldt, M. E 241 Peale, T. R. . . . i Puton, A 432 Ricksecker, L. E 144, 239 Stidham, I. F 321 Uhler, P. R 433 Wachtl, F 432 Wallace, A. R 480 Wright, W. G 91 PERSONALS. Aldrich, J. M: 370 Baker, C. F 27 Bethune-Baker, G. T 257 Bigelow, E. F 450 Brunner von Wattenwyl, K.. 412 Comstock, J. H 267 Fabre, J. H 29 Frost, C. A 370 Gorgas, W. C 267 McClung, C. E. 267 Parker, G. H 267 Williams, F. X 370 PLANTS ATTACKED OR VISITED. Alder (black) 167 Alligator pear (see Avocado) Amaranthus 246 Argentina 207 Astragalus 151 Avocado 416 Avocado 416 Bigelovia in Blackberry 170 Blephilia 109 Bromeliads 467 Bursa 211 Butterfly pea 247 Camphor (see Cinnamon). Cinnamon 146 Claytonia 211 Clematis 246 Clot-bur (see Xanthium). Clover 246 Cornus 109, 170 Cotton 246 Crataegus 109 INDEX. Dog-wood (see Cornus). Elm 352 Eucalyptus 385 Eugenia 108 Geranium 109 Golden-rod (see Solidago). Gossypium 160 Hemlock 309 Hepatica 108 Hydrophyllum 109 Ipomoea (see Sweet potato). Kalmia (see Laurel). Lupine 246 Oak 107, 196, 247, 262 Parnassia no Parsnip 215 Peach 247 Persimmon 167 Pickerel weed (see Ponte- deria). Pig weed (see Amaranthus") . Pinus 167, 336 Plum 247 Pontederia no Ptelea 197 Ribes 109 Rose 247 Rubus 109 Rumex 342 Salix 107, 171 Solidago 106, 246, 341 Sugar Cane 85, 467 Sweet potato (wild) 246 Taenidia 109 Taraxacum 211 Thaspium 109, 222 Tripsacum 222 Turnip 246 Viburnum 109 Willow (see Salix). REVIEWS. Barnes & McDunnough : Con- tribution to the Nat. Hist, of the Lep. of No. Am — 286 Berlese : Trombidiidae 90 Brunetti: Fauna of British India . . . Diptera Nema- tocera 283 Comstock : Spider Book .... 35 Cosen: Contribution to the Morphology and Biology of Insect Galls 187 Fauna Hawaiiensis 424 Folsom : Entomology 423 Jacobi : Mimicry und ver- wandte Erscheinungen 334 Junk : Bibliographia Lepi- dopterologica 382 Kellogg: Distribution and Species-forming of Ecto- Parasites 382 O'Kane: Injurious Insects ... 37 Scorer : Entomologists' Log Book 285, 335 Winn : Preliminary List of the insects of Quebec 37 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBU- TION. Alaska : Col 428 Arizona: Dipt., 276; Hem., 265; Lep., 154. 358. California: Col., 40, 76, 385; Dipt., 220; Hem., 20; Lep., 39, 82, 149, 274, 338, 357- Colorado: Dipt., 295; Hym., 205; Lep., 30, 154, 250, 357; Neu., 6; Odon., 372. Connecticut : Dipt., 295 ; Lep., 256 District of Columbia : Hem. 341 Florida: Dipt., 175; Hem., 264; Hym., 336; Lep., 252, 261, 366; Odon., 314, 373; Thysan., 145. Georgia: Odon 314 Idaho: Dipt 214 Illinois: Dipt., 321; Hym., 196; Lep., 84. Iowa: Col., 82, 352; Hem., 132; Hym., 62, 197. VI INDEX. Kansas : Lep 415 Maine: Col., 128; Dipt., 295; Hym., 104; Odon., 315. Maryland: Dipt., 51; Lep., 195 Massachusetts: Col., 128; Dipt., 228, 295 ; Lep., 256, 305, 326, 359 Michigan : Lep 153 Minnesota : Col., 81 ; Dipt. 320 Missouri : Lep 337, 354, 460 Montana : Lep 154, 358 Nebraska : Lep 344 Nevada: Dipt., 217; Hem., 23; Lep., 130, 154, 250. New Hampshire : Dipt., 295 ; Lep., 479; Odon., 479. New Jersey: Col., 42, 140; Dipt., 65, 242, 247; Hem., 44; Hym., 432 ; Lep., 252, 287, 288, 326, 336 ; Odon., 314, 373. New Mexico : Dipt, 272 ; Lep., 153, 194, 252. New York : Acar., 455 ; Lep., 222, 252, 326. North Carolina: Col., 167, 245; Hem., 264. Ohio : Lep 254 Oklahoma : Lep 279 Oregon : Acar., 455 ; Lep 250 Pennsylvania: Col., 44, 141, 238, 288, 336, 429; Dipt., 43, 45, 140, 295, 431, 479; Hym., 43, 140; Lep., 43, 140, 143, 254, 326, 428, 429. Texas: Col., 61, 156, 238, 342, 343, 428 ; Dipt., 55, 56, 342 ; Hem., 56, 157, 267; Hym., 57, 58, 156; Lep., 55, 254; Orth., 158, 323. Utah: Col., 215; Dipt., 215; Hem., 20; Lep., 152, 249, 251, 357, 358, 450; Neu., 84. Vermont : Dipt 295 Virginia: Col., 53, 62, 142, 195; Hem., 340; Hym., 340, 341; Lep., 53, 55, 58, 59, 61, 195, 324, 339, 340. Washington: Dipt., 217; Lep., 356; Orth., 431. Wisconsin : Lep 253 Africa : Lep., 302 ; Orth., 416. Australia: Col., 268; Hym., 166, 211, 326, 457; Lep., 85, 339. Bahamas : Orth 452 Canada : Lep 149, 256, 357 Central America: Hym., 85; Lep., 467; Orth., 141. Cuba : Lep 72 Formosa : Neu 297 Galapagos Islands : Myr. ... 121 India : Myr 73 Japan : Neu 297 Mexico : Col 389 New Guinea : Col 269 Porto Rico : Dipt 50 Scotland : Odon 286 South America : Dipt., 176, 404, 439; Hym., 160; Lep., 31, 112, 316. ARACHNIDA. aus trails, Margaropus annula- tus 366 Cattle-tick (Australian) in Key West, Florida 366 Dog-tick in Key West 366 Eggs laid by spiders 213 Macrocheles (see muscae). Margaropus annulatus (see aus trails) 366 muscae*, Macrocheles 454 Rhipicephalus (see sanguine- us). sanguincus, Rluplccphalus . . . 368 Spiders, Standards of number of eggs laid by 213 tepidariorum, Thcridium . . . 213 Thcridium (see tepidariorum). INDEX. vn MYRIOPODA. amballae*, Otostigmus 74 americanus, Pectiniunguis .. 122 bilabiatus, Orphnaeus 122 Chilopoda from the Galapagos Islands 121 Cryptops (see navigans). galapagoensis, Scolopendra . . 122 Mecistocephalus (see puncti- f Tons'). navigans*, Cryptops 123 Orphnaeus (see bilabiatus). Otostigmus (see amballae, sim- plex). Pectiniunguis (see american- us}. punctifrons, Mecistocephalus. 122 Scolopendra (see galapagoen- sis) . simplex*, Otostigmus 75 COLEOPTERA. abdominalis, Olla 385 aenescens*, Macrogomis 268 Alaus sp 343 Aleocharinae, Notice of a monograph of 165 Alligator pear weevil 416 armicollis, Magdalis 353 atripennis*, Macrogomis 268 bidcntata, Tomoxio 126 bwulnerus, Chilocorus 159 bridwelli*, Coccinclla 76 Buprestidae at Southern Pines, No. Carolina 167 Calandra (see granaria). calidum, Calosoma 159 Calosoma (see calidum, scru- tator). Canthon (see laevis). Carolina*, Melanophila 171 Chilocorus (see bwulnerus). Cicindela sps 124 Coccinella (see bridwelli, sanguined)'. Coccinellids feeding upon foli- age 342 C. reared from bullet galls.. 196 Coleopterous pupae, To col- lect 226 colonus, Xylotrechus 353 Death- feigning habit of Trox 343 lo-lineata, Leptinotarsa 158 Diabrotica (see 12-punctata, •vittata). i2-punctata, Diabrotica 156 Elcodes (see tricostata). Elytral tracheation in Cicin- dela 124 erythrocephalus, Neoclytus . . . 353 Feeding upon foliage 342 Feigning habit of Trox 343 granaria, Calandra 159 Heilipus (see lauri). Hemipty chits (see castancus). Hypothemus (see dissimilis). Lachnosterna 343 lacvicollis, Otidocephalus .... 196 laevis, Canthon 53 lauri, Heilipus 416 Leptinotarsa (see lo-lineata). lineella, Tomoxia 126 Lucanus placidus, Duration of pupal stadium of 195 Macrogomis (see atripennis, aenescens, submetallictts) . tnaculata, Mvgilla . ...61, 156, 342 Magdalis (see armicollis). Megilla (see maculata). Melanophila (see Carolina). Meloidae of No. Carolina 245 misclla, Pentilia 196 Neoclytus (see erythrocephal- us). Olla abdominalis, Variations of 385 Otidocephalus (see laevicol- lis). Pent ilia (see misella). Vlll INDEX. placidus, Lucanus 195 Pupal stadium of Lucanus placidus 195 Reared from bullet galls 196 Reared from elm stick 352 sanguinea, Coccinella 342 scrutator, Calosoma 159 Staphylinid, Threatening atti- tude of a 62 submetallicus, Macrogonus . . 269 Tomoxia (see bidentata, line- ella). Tracheation of Cicindela, Var- iation in the elytral 124 Trox 343 Variation in hibernating adults of Megilla maculata 61 vittata, Diabrotica 158 Xylotrechus (see colonus). Zimmermann collection 371 DIPTERA. abfitchii, Aedes 244 Aedes (see abfitchii, canaden- sis, cantator, dupreei, jamai- censis, sollicitans, subcan- tans, sylvestris, taeniorhyn- chus, triseriatus} . aenea, Chaetopsis 318 albipes*, Limnophila 248 angustifrons, Rhipidia domes- tica 406 Anopheles (see crucians, ma- culipennis, punctipennis). Anthomyia (see atavella). Anthomyid fly from Floris- sant 295 arcuata*, Peripheroptera 411 Atarba (see varicornis). atavella*, Anthomyia 295 aterrima, Trineura 342 Blera (see confusa}. brasiliensis, Toxorhina 448 canadensis, Aedes 244 cantator, Aedes 243 Celatoria diabroticae, Note on 55 Chaetophlcps (see crassiner- vis. ) Chaetopsis and Stenomyia, Synopsis of ' 317 Chaetopsis (see aenea, fulvi- frons). chilensis* Dixa 177 Chironomidae, Humming of.. 232 ciliata, Psorophora 243 cinerea, Parodina 275 cinereinota*, Geranomyia .... 407 claripennis*, Parodina 276 clavatus*, Sympycnus 271 collaris, Paratropeza 447 confusa*, Blera 294 costalis, Parodina 276 Crane flies and sweets 456 crassinervis*, Chaetophleps .. 51 Criorhina (see intersistcns) . crucians, Anopheles 243 'Culex (see pipiens, restuans, salinariiis, territans). Culicidae of New Jersey, Keys to 65 Cystodiplosis (see eugeniae). Descriptions of new species of Chaetopsis and Stenomyia.. 317 diabroticae, Celatoria 55 Dicranomyia (see subdola, tricincta). Diotrepha (see omissinervis) . Dixa from Chile 176 domestica, Musca, parasite of 452 dupreei, Aedes 244 eudorae*, Peripheroptera .... 410 eugeniae*, Cystodiplosis 175 Euoestropsis* 133 Eutrixoides*, (see jonesii}.. 50 fasciapcnnis*, Stenomyia 320 flavithorax, Teucholabis 439 Fossil anthomyid from Floris- sant 295 fulgens*, Teucholabis 440 INDEX. IX fulvifrons, Chaetopsis 319 Geranomyia (see cinereinota, numenius, scolopax, valida). hilaris*, Teucholabis 443 House fly passing the winter 303 Humming of Chironomidae . . 232 incommoda, Peripheroptera.. 410 intersistens, Criorhina 293 jactans*, Paratropeza 447 jamaicensis, Aedes 243 jocosd*, Teucholabis 440 jonesii*, Eutrixoides 50 jucunda*, Teucholabis 441 laeta*, Teucholabis 442 Larvae in pig excrement 479 Limnophila (see albipes). Macrobrachins in America... 228 maculipcnnis, Anopheles 243 Mosquitoes, Notes on 242 Mounting microdiptera 8 munda*, Teucholabis 444 Musca (see domestica). Muscoidea, New generic names 133 nasoni*, Stenomyia 320 numenius*, Geranomyia 406 omissinervis*, Diotrepha .... 447 paradoxa*, Teucholabis 445 Paratropeza, Synopsis of 446 Parodina, Synopsis of 275 pennipes, Trichopoda 56 Peripheroptera (see arcuata, eudorae, incommoda, teu- cholaboides). Phototropism of mosquitoes. . 12 pipiens, Culex 242 polita, Trypeta 340 pretans, Aedes 244 producta, Macrobrachius .... 228 Protogoniops* 133 Psorophora (see ciliata). punctipennis, Anopheles 243 restuans, Culex 245 Rhipidia domestica (see an- gustifrons.) salinarius, Culex 245 sayi, Aedes 243 scolopax*, Geranomyia 408 smithii, Wyeomyia 245 sollicitans, Aedes 244, 479 Stenomyia (see fasciapennis, nasoni). subcantans, Aedes 244 subdola*, Dicranomyia 404 sylvestris, Aedes 244 Sympycnus, Synopsis of 269 taeniorhynchus, Aedes 244 territans, Culex 245 Teucholabis (see flavithorax, fulgens, hilaris, jocosa, ju- cunda, laeta, munda, para- doxa, tristis). teucholaboides*, Peripherop- tera 410 Tipulidae in the Hungarian Nat. Museum 404, 439 Tipulidae of New Jersey .... 247 Tipulidae of So. America 404, 439 Toxorhina (see brasiliensis) . Trichopoda (see pennipes)... tricincta*, Dicranomyia 405 Trineura aterrima in Texas.. 342 triseriatus, Aedes 244 tristis*, Teucholabis 439 Trypeta (see polita). valida*, Geranomyia 406 •varicornis*, Atarba 448 Wyeomyia (see smithii}. HEMIPTERA. Acanthia (see xanthochila). Anasa (see tristis). Aphid eggs, Hidden 340 Arilus cristatus, Parasite on eggs of 59 biceps, Henicocephalus 265 Blissus (see leucopterus). bruesi*, Harmostes 266 Castolus (see jerox~). INDEX. Cimex (see columbarius) . Color of H 29 columbarius, Cimex 341 Doldina (see interjungens, praetermissa). Empoasca flavescens, Para- site on eggs of 62 fcrox, Castolus 265 Fowl-bug (see columbarius}. Gerris (see gillettei, robust- us). gillettei, Gerris 20 Harlequin cabbage bug (see histrionica) . Harmostes (see bruesi). Henicocephalus (see bleeps'). histrionica, Murgantia 132 indica, Notonecta 20 interjungens*, Doldina 263 leucopterus, Blissus 158 Limnotrechus (see productus). Murgantia (see histrionica). Notonecta (see indica). occiduus*, Zelus (Pindus) ... 22 Pindus (see occiduus). praetermissa*, Doldina 264 productus, Limnotrechus ... 21 robnstus, Gerris 21 iristis, Anasa 56, 57, 159 xanthochila, Acanthia 20 Zelus (see occiduus). HYMENOPTERA. Anagrus spiritus, Host of ... 62 Ancistrocerus (see unifascia- tus). Andrena (see canadensis, dun- ningi, geranii, hippotes, hir- ticincta, illinoensis, mariae, nubecula, parnassiae, soli- daginis, vicina, wecdi). Ants crossing water 372 Ants used in punishments.... 226 aspidioti, Signiphora 167 australiensis, Signiphora .... 167 caementarium, Sceliphron (Pelopoeus) 392 Bephratelloides* 459 Bephratoides 459 canadensis, Andrena 110 carinatifrons, Hadronotus ... 57 cattellae*, Halictus 209 Chalcidoidea eaten by birds.. 371 Chalcis (see ovata). consobrinus, Polynema 197 cydippe*, Eulophinusia 457 Cynipid galls eaten by chil- dren 60 donatus, Epeolus 104 donatus, Triepeolus 105 dunningi, Andrena 82 Epeolus (see donatus). Eulophinusia* 457 Eiipelmus (see reduvii). Eustypiura (see rodrigueci). Galls eaten by children 60 geranii, Andrena 109 graptae, Pteromalus 340 grotii*, Opheliminus 458 Hadronotus carinatifrons, Notes on 57 Halictoides (see novae-an- gliae). Plalictus, New species of .... 205 Halictus (see cattellae, lazu- lis, pavoninus, perpuncta- tus, succinipennis, tenuis, umbripennis) . hclianthi, Triepeolus 105 hippotes, Andrena 108 hirticincta, Andrena no Holcaspid galls, Coleoptera reared from 196 illinoensis, Andrena 108 Lathromeroidcs* 211 lazulis*, Halictus 207 longicorpus*, Lathromeroides 212 lutea*, Signiphora 163 INDEX. XI mariae, Andrena 108 Melissodes sps in Mud wasps, Observations on 392 Neosigniphora* 164 nigra*, Neosigniphora 164 novae-angliae, Halict aides . . 105 nubecula, Andrena no occidentalis^ Signiphora 162 Oligotropic habit among bees 104 Opheliminus* 458 ovata, Chalcis 58 Panurginus sps in Parasites from Hemiptera . . . 160 Parasites from Lepidoptera. . 340 parnassiac, Andrena no pavoninus*, Halictus 206 Pelopoeus (see caemcntari- um), Perdita sps in pcrpunctatus, Andrena 21 1 peruviana*, Prospaltella 161 Polycystoides* 459 Polynema (see consobrinus, psecas). Prospaltella (see peruviana). psecas, Polynema 196 Pseudiglyphus 458 Pteromahts (see graptae). reduvii, Eupelmus 59 reticulata*, Signiphora 166 rodriguezi, Eustypiura 85 Sceliphron (see cacmentari- um). Signiphora (see aspidioti, australicnsis, lutea, occiden- tals, reticulata). solidaginis, Andrena 106 Specific character in Tricho- granima 326 spiritus, Anagrus 62 succinipennis*, Halictus 205 tennysoni*, Polycystoides . . . 459 tennis*, Halictus 208 Tricho gramma, Specific char- acter in 326 Trichogrammatidae from Australia 211 Triepeolus (see donatus, heli- anthi). Trypoxylon albitarse (larva) 401 umbripennis*, Halictus 208 unifasciatus, Ancistrocerus. . . 398 vicina, Andrena 108 weedi, Andrena 108 LEPIDOPTERA. Abnormal wing formation in Samia 337 Acronycta (see hamamelis, laetifica). Adams collection 133 Adontea spinuloides (see leu- costigma). A gratis (see biclavis, marshal- lana, scandens). Alabama, (see argillacea). albipuncta, Platisenta 254 albiserrata, Hadena 356 albofasciata, Limenitis Ursula 326 Aletia argillacea swarm 84 americana, Malacosoma, 54, 158, 340. Amputation of antennae 338 amymone, Cystineura ....279, 415 auiyntula Evercs 97, 149, 327 amyntula Lycaena 230 Andropolia (see diversiline- ata, illepida, submissa). Anisota senatoria, Note on... 55 anita*, Malacosoma disstria.. 307 anna, Apantesis 193 Anosia (see plexippus). Antennal amputation 338 Antigeny in butterflies 23 Apamea erepta (see ryensis). Apantesis (see anna, perse- phone). archippus, Basilarchia 58 archippus, Limenitis 1 16 argillacea, Aletia 84 Xll INDEX. Argynnis (see laurenti, tnon- tinus) . arida*, Pdtia venerabilis 30 Arsilonchc (see Colorado'), astriata, Malacosoma disstria 306 Asymmetry in Telea poly- phemus 195 atoma, Semiophora 359 Autographa brassicae, Note . on 55 Automeris (see coronis). Basilarchia archippus, Note on 58 Basilarchia parasitized 340 berenice, Danaida 113 bidavis, Agrotis 363 Bionomic features of Limeni- tis 116 brassicae, Autographa 55 Breeding Lycaenidae 103 caeca*, Pseudanarta 250 caeca*, Heodcs hypophlaeas. . 306 calif 'arnica, Samia 337 Caradrina (see insipida, man- talini, spilomda). Castnia 467 Caterpillars and the weather 29 Catocalae, Work with 197 cecropia, Samia 337 Chamaelimnas (see propin- quus). Charts of food plants 304 Cicinnus (see maera). claudia, Euptoieta 55 Colias philodice, Ovipositing of 61 Colorado, Arsilonche 253 comyntas, Everes 97, 327 congrua, Setagrotis 360 coronis*, Automeris 4 corrupta*, Othorene 5 crocea, Pseudanarta 250 cubensis*, Ephyriadcs 72 cunea, Hyphantria 61 Cystineura (see amymone). Danaida (see archippus, bere- nice, plexippus, strigosa). Danaine species and their mimics 113 demutabilis, Peridroma 363 dernarius, Setagrotis 362 devastatrix, Hadena 364 Dirphia (see picturata). diversilineata, Andropolia . . . 358 Druce collection 374 Dryocampa rubicunda, Note on 59 dupla, Pseudanarta 249 eastmani*, Nyctobia anguil- ineata 309 Egg stage of Priono.rystus robiniae 195 eglc, Euchaetias 53 data, Setagrotis 362 Epargyrcus (see tityrus). Ephyriadcs (see cubensis). erica, Hadena 357 Erycinid from So. America, 112, 316. Euchaetias egle, Notes on. ... 53 Euptoieta claudia, Note on.. 55 Everes comyntas and amyn- tula, Notes on 97, 149 Everes (see monica, tejua). exitiosa, Sanninoidea 53 Peltia venerabilis (see arida). filiis, Setagrotis 361 finitima, Hadena 256 floridensis, Limenitis 116 Food plant charts 304 fuscicaudata*, Titya 6 gertana*, Mamestra 273 gibbosa, Nadata 196 Hadena (see albiscrrata, de- vastatrix, erica, finitima, loda, luteocinerea). Halisidota tessellata, Occur- rence of 60 INDEX. xin hamamelis, A crony eta 340 Heliothis obsoleta in Austra- lia 339 Hemileuca burnsi, New form of 130 Heodes hypophlaeas (see caeca}. Heodina wanted 374 Hermathena (see quinque- maculata). Heterocera from Brazil 3 hortensia*, Ormiscodes 3 Hyphantria cunea, Note on.. 61 Icthyura inclusa (see palla). illepida, Andropolia 358 insipida, Caradrina 256 invenusta, Setagrotis 361 laetifica, Acronycta 252 Larvae of Catocalae 197 laurenti*, Argynnis 450 Leucania unipunctata on su- gar cane in Australia 85 leucosigma, Adontea spinu- loides 324 Limenitis (see albofasciata, floridensis, obsoleta). loda, Hadena 356 luciana, Catocala (larva) . . . 197 luteocinerea, Hadena 358 Lycaena (see amyntula, mon- ica, neurona, tejua). Lycaenid from Kamerun . . . 301 Lycaenidae, Breeding 103 maera*, Cicinnus 5 Malacosoma americana, Notes on 54 Malacosoma (see americana, anita, astriata). 'Mamestra (see gertana, tine- ta). mantalini, Caradrina 255 marshallana, Agrotis 365 mephistaria*, Phigalia oliva- cearia 308 minuta, Catocala (larva) . . . 200 monica, Everes 155 monica, Lycaena 230, 328 tnontmuSf Argynnis 479 .Vadata (see gibbosa). neurona, Lycaena 82 Noctuidae, Notes on some, 249, 356. Noctuids on the Atlantic Sea- board 222 Nyctobia anguilincata (see eastmani). Observations on the L. of St. Louis 354, 460 obsoleta, Heliothis 339 obsoleta, Limenitis 114 ophthalmicus, Smerinthus (larva) 201 Ormiscodes (see hortensia'). Othorene (see corrnpta). palla, Icthyura inclusa 339 Papilio (see turnus). paradoxa*, Hemileuca burnsi 130 Peridroma (see demutabilis). persephone, Apantesis 193 Phigalia olivacearia (see me- phistaria). philodice, Colias 6r Phyciodes, New aberration in 194 picta, Phyciodes 194 picturata*, Dirphia 4 planifrons, Setagrotis 360 Platisenta (see albipuncta). plexippus, Anosia 159 plexippus, Danaida 116 Polia (see resoluta, speciosa). Polyphemus, Telea 195 Pontia (see rapae). Priono.rystus robiniae, Egg stage of 195 propinquus*, Chamaelimnas. . 316 Pseudanarta (see caeca, cro- cea, dupla). quinquemaculata*, Herma-thena 112 XIV INDEX. rapae, Pontia 159 reaghi*, Phyciodes tharos . . . 305 resoluta, Polia 359 retecta, Catocala (larva) 200 robiniae*, Prionoxystus 195 rubicunda, Dryocampa 59 ryensis*, Apamea erepta .... 223 Samia (see calif 'ornica, cecro- pia). Sanninoidea cxitiosa, Note on 53 Satyrimima (see weberi). scandens, A gratis 362 Semiophora (see atoma). senatoria, Anisota 55 Setagrotis (see congrua, der- narius, data, filiis, invenusta, planifrons, vernilis, vocalis). Sidema (see dcvastatrix) . speciosa, Polia 359 spilomela, Caradrina 255 strigosa, Danaida 113 submissa, Andropolia 358 Suffert collection 112 Swarm of Aletia argillacea.. 84 tejua, Everes 155 tejua, Lycaena 230, 328 Telea polyphemus, Asym- metry in 195 lessellata, Halisidota 60 Thecla (see wittfeldii). tincta, Mamestra 366 Titya (see fuscicaudata). tityrus, Epargyreus IQ5 turnus, Papilio 159 unipunctata, Leucania 85 vernilis, Setagrotis 361 vidua, Catocala (larva) 199 vocalis, Setagrotis 360 Weather, Caterpillars and .. 29 weberi*, Satyrimima 302 wittfeldii, Thecla 261 NEUROPTERA (excl. Mallophaga and Odonata). Acanthaclisis (see kawaii). Brachynemurus, The genus . . 63 Clathroneuria* 65 coloradensis, Hodotermcs? . . 7 designatus, Platyphylax 84 esakii*, Formicaleo 298 jerox, Hesperoleon 64 fodinae, Parotermes 6 Formicaleo (see esakii). Fossil Isoptera 6 Hesperoleon* 64 Hodotcrmes (see coloradensis). kawaii*, Acanthaclisis 297 longicaudus, Brachynemurus. 64 longipalpis, Scotoleon 65 Myrmeleon (see ochraceopen- nis~) . Myrmeleonidae from Japan and Formosa 297 ochraceopennis*, Myrmeleon. 299 Parotermes (see fodinae, scudderi) . Platyphylax (see designatus). schwarsi, Clathroneuria 65 Scotoleon* 65 scudderi*, Parotermes 8 Trichoptera collected under unusual conditions 84 ODONATA. Agrioninae, Medio-anal link. 258 elongata, Somatochlora 479 integricollis*, Nchalcnnia, 310, 373- Medio-anal link in Agrioninae 258 Metamorphosis, Injury at ... 431 Nehalennia, Species of, 310, 373 pallidula*, Nehalennia 373 Wing split into its laminae.. 478 INDEX. xv ORTHOPTERA. RHYNCHOTA. alleni, Hygronemobius 451 (see Hemiptera). Diapheromera femorata, Ef- fect of temperature on molt- THYSANOPTERA. , *4 Cryptothrips floridensis* .... 145 Grasshopper army moving... 322 LeptothripS asfiersus macro- Hatching of _a mantid 323 ocellatus* 148 Kygronemobius*, ..... 451 Phloeothrips floridens& . . . I47 Mantid eggs eaten by birds.. 371 • <•> • AUTHORS. ALDRICH, J. M. Collecting notes from the Great Basin and adjoining territory 214 ALEXANDER, C. P. The neotropical Tipulidae in the Hun- garian National Museum 404, 439 A new species of Di.ra from Chile 176 BANKS, N. The genus Brachynemurus 63 BERGROTH, E. On some North American Hemiptera . . . .263 BERRY, L. (See Rowley and Berry.) BETHUNE, C. J. S. and MACGILLIVRAY, A. D. Announcement of Entom. Society of America 468 BETHUNE-BAKER, G. T. Everes comyntas and amyn- tula 97, T49, 327 Material wanted 374 BIGELOW, E. F. An entomologist wanted for Arcadia . . . . 180 BIRD, H. The appearance of an unexpected Noctuid on the Atlantic seaboard 222 BISHOPP, F. C. The occurrence of the Australian cattle- tick and the brown dog-tick in Key West, Florida .... 366 BLAISDELL, F. E. Minutes of the Pacific Coast Entomo- logical Society 38 Variations in the maculation of Olla abdominaHs 385 BOWDITCH, F. C. New species of Macrogonus 268 BRADLEY, J. C. (See Comstock, J. H. et a/.) BREHME, H. H. A new aberation in Phyciodes 194 A note on Apantesis anna and A. persephone 193 Notes on mosquitoes 242 BURGESS, A. F. (See Parrott, P. J. and Burgess, A. F.) xvi INDEX. CALVERT, P. P. Bromeliadicolous insects 133 Editorials. (See Editorials under General Subjects.) Obituary : Peter Cameron 96 Obituary : Horace Jayne 383 Obituary : W. F. Kirby 94 Obituary : Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury 289 Review: Cosen's Contribution to the Morphology and Biology of Insect Galls 187 Review : Fauna Hawaiiensis 424 Review: Folsom's Entomology 423 Review : Jacobi's Mimikry 334 The species of Nehalennia, including one from the East- ern U. S. hitherto undescribed 310 The true male of Nehalennia integricollis and N. palli- dula n. sp 373 Titian Ramsey Peale I CHAMBERLAIN, R. V. Notes on Chilopoda from the Gala- pagos Islands 121 Two new Otostigmi from India 73 COCKERELL, T. D. A. Andrena dunningi 82 Eustypiura rodriguezi 85 Feltia venerabilis arida n. subsp 30 The first fossil anthomyid fly from Florissant, Colo 295 The genera Parotermes and Hodotermes 6 COMSTOCK, J. H., BRADLEY, J. C. and RILEY, W. A. Reso- lutions on death of Alfred G. Hammar 480 COMSTOCK, W. P. On the recurrence of Thecla wittfeldii.26i COOLIDGE, K. R. Method of breeding Lycaenidae 103 Obituary : W. G. Wright 92 CRESSON, E. T., JR., Descriptions of two new species of the dipterous genera Chaetopsis and Stenomyia 317 Collecting and mounting micro-diptera, II. Mounting ... 8 Review : Brunetti's Fauna of British India .... Diptera Nematocera 283 Review: The Monthly Bulletin of the (Calif.) State Commission of Horticulture 285 and J. A. G. Rehn. Entomological Literature. (See Literature under General Subjects.) INDEX. xvii DODD, A. P. The occurrence of Leucania unipunctata on sugar cane in No. Queensland 85 Dow, R. P. Some nomenclatural questions 181 ELLIS, M. D. Seven new No. American bees of the genus Hal-ictus 205 EMERTON, J. H. Review: Comstock's Spider Book 35 ENGEL, H. Obituary : Franklin A. Merrick 144 EWING, H. E. Review : Berlese's Trombidiidae 90 A new parasite of the House Fly 452 Review : Kellogg's Distribution and Species- forming of Ecto-Parasites 382 FALL, H. C. Obituary : L. E. Ricksecker 239 FELT, E. P. Cystodiplosis eugeniae n. sp 175 Entomological meeting in California, 1915 181 FROST, C. A. Notes on Tomo.ria bidentata and T. Iincella.i26 GIRAULT, A. A. A dragonfly depositing eggs in a rainpool over concrete 372 Fragments from an entomological diary 156 Fragments on No. American insects III-V 53, 195, 323 Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea eaten by birds 371 Lepidopterous eggs from the stomach of a wren 370 Mantid eggs apparently eaten by birds 371 A new Signiphora from Queensland 166 A specific character in the genus Trichogramma 326 Standards of the number of eggs laid by insects 213 Three new Genera of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Queensland 457 A twelfth new genus of Hymenoptera Trichogrammati- dae from Australia 211 GREENE, G. M. Minutes of the Feldman Collecting Social. (See under General Subjects.) GRINNELL. F., JR. Obituary: W. G. Wright 91 HASKIN, J. R. The danaine species of No. America, and their mimics 113 HEBARD, M. A new North American Genus belonging to the group Nemobiites 451 HERMS, W. B. Pacific Slope Association of Economic Entomologists 228 xviii INDEX. HILTON, W. A. Change in title of Pomona College Jour- nal of Entomology 159 HOLLAND, W. J. A new lycaenid from Kamerun, West Africa 301 HOSENFELT, G. H. (See Rau & Hosenfelt.) HOWARD, L. O. Obituary: Philip Reese Uhler 433 JOHANNSEN, O. A. Mcicrobrachins in America 228 JOHNSON, C. W. On the Criorhina intersistens and an al- lied species 293 JOICEY, J. J. The Suffert collection of butterflies 112 KNAB, F. The Lepidopterous Caterpillar in the Bromeliad from Costa Rica 467 LEMMER, F. Minutes: Newark Entomological Society.. 190 LEONARD, W. D. Additions to the New Jersey Tipulidae, with description of a new sp 247 LEUSSLER, R. A. The butterflies of Omaha, Neb 344 LOVELL, J. H. The origin of the oligotropic habit among bees 104 MACGILLIVRAY, A. D. (See Bethune, C. J. S.) MALLOCH, J. R. The genus Parodina 274 MANEE, A. H. Observations on Buprestidae at Southern Pines, No. Carolina 167 MENGEL, L. W. A new erycinid from So. America. .112, 316 MESKE, A. Note on Smith's description of a new noctuid.273 MILBURN, J. G. Recollections of A. R. Grote 182 NAKAHARA, W. On three new species of Myrmeleonidae from Japan and Formosa 297 NOAKES, A. The Druce collection of Lepicloptera 374 NUNENMACHER, F. W. Studies amongst the Coccinellidae 76 OVERMAN, C. T. Cystineura amymonc 415 PARROTT, P. J. and BURGESS/ A. F. Announcement of American Asso. of Econ. Entomologists 469 PATTERSON, R. S. (See Weiss & Patterson.) RAU, P. & N. Some observations on mud wasps 392 RAU, P. & G. H. HOSENFELT.. Abnormal wing formation in Samia cecropia and 5". californica 337 REED, E. L. Cystineura amymone 279 INDEX. xix REHN, J. A. G. Color nomenclature 277 Obituary : W. F. Kirby 94 (See also Cresson & Rehn.) REIFF, W. Some new forms of Lepidoptera from Mass. .305 RILEY, W. A. Some sources of laboratory material for work on the relation of insects to disease 172 (See Comstock, J. H. et a/.) ROWLEY, R. R. & L. BERRY. Last year's work with Cato- cala and other Lepidoptera 197 RUST, E. W. New Peruvian parasite from Hemichio- naspis minor 160 SCHAUS, W. New species of Heterocera from Brazil 3 SCHROERS, P. A. Observations on the Lepidoptera of St. Louis and vicinity during 1912 354 Heterocera in and around St. Louis, Mo 460 SCHWARZ, H. Obituary: Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt 241 SELOUS, F. C. Birds and butterflies 83 Insect arrow poison 83 SEVERIN, H. H. P. & H. C. The effect of temperature on the molting of Diapheromera femorata 14 SHELFORD, V. E. Noteworthy variations in the elytral tracheation of Cicindela 124 SHERMAN, F., Jr. The Meloidae of No. Carolina 245 SHERMAN, J. D., JR. Obituary: Frederick Blanchard 46 Obituary : Frederick Blanchard 46 SKINNER, H. Antigeny in nearctic butterflies 23 How does the house fly pass the winter? 303 Limenitis ursula var. albofasciata 326 Minutes: (See American Entomological Society.) Minutes: (See Entomological Section, Academy of Na- tural Sciences, Phila.) A new Aryynnis from Utah ^50 A new hesperid butterfly from Cuba 72 Notes on Lycaena amyntula, Monica and tejua 230 Notes on Lycaena neurona 82 Obituary : W. F. Kirby 93 Obituary: Rev. Dr. Isaac F. Stidham 321 xx INDEX. Review: Barnes & McDunnough's Contributions 286 Review: O'Kanes' Injurious insects 37 Review : Scorer's Entomologists' Log' Book 285 Review : Winn's Preliminary List of the insects of Quebec 37 To collect Lepidopterous pupae 226 SMITH, J. B. A new noctuid 273 STONER, D. Eleodes in Minnesota 81 Notes on some beetles reared from a dead elm log . . . .352 The harlequin cabbage bug in Iowa 132 DE LA TORRE BUENO, J. R. Some new and little known Heteroptera 20 Vote on priority in nomenclature 129 TOWNSEND, C. H. T. Two new generic names in Mus- coidea 133 VANATTA, E. G. The Zimmermann collection of Coleop- tera 371 VAN DUZEE, M. C. Synoptical table of the No. Am. spe- cies of the genus Sympycnus 269 VORHIES, C. T. Trichoptera collected under unusual con- ditions 84 WALTON, W. R. New No. American Tachinidae 49 WATSON, J. H. A new form of Hemileuca burnsi 130 WATSON, J. R. New Thysanoptera from Florida 145 WEISS, H. B. Notes on the phototropism of certain mos- quitoes 12 Aesthetic Appreciation in Entomology 464 WEISS, H. B. & R. S. PATTERSON. Revised keys to the species of mosquitoes found in N. J 65 WESTCOTT, O. S. The 1912 swarming of Aletia argillacea 84 WILLIAMSON, E. B. The medio-anal link in Agrioninae. .258 Some Colorado dragonfly records 372 WOLLEY-DOD, F. H. Notes on some No. American Noc- tuidae 249. 356 JANUARY, 1913. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Vol. XXIV. No. 1. Titian Ramsey Peale -(1800-1885), PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Associate Editor. HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Sc.D., Editor Emeritus, K2RA T. CRESSON. PHJLCP LAURKNT. ADVISORY COMMITTEE: KRTCH DAECKE. ). A. 'G. REIiM N. W. PHILADELPHIA: THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, LOGAN SQUARE. 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CONTENTS: Portrait— Titian Ramsey Peale i Schaus — New Species of Heterocera from Brazil (Lepid.) 3 Cockerell — The Genera Parotermes and Hodotermes (Isoptera) 6 Cresson— Collecting and Mounting (Micro-Diptera) — II 8 Weiss — Notes on the Phototropism of Certain Mosquitoes ( Dipt. ) 12 Severin and Severin — The Effect of Temperature on the Molting of the Walking-stick, Diapheromera fem- oral a Say (Orthop.l 14 de la Torre Bueno — Some New and Little-known Heteroptera from the Western United States 20 Skinner— Antigeny in Neartic Butter- flies ( Lepid. ) 23 Baker— Change of Address 27 Editorial 28 Color of Hemiptera 29 The Insects' Homer 29 Caterpillars and the Weather 29 Cockerell — Feltia venerabilis arida n. subsp. (Lepid.) 30 Entomological Literature 30 Review of Comstock— Spider Book. ... 35 Review of Winn— A Preliminary List of the Insects of the Province of Quebec— Part I 37 Review of Kane— Injurious Insects : How to Recognize andControl them 37 Doings of Societies 38 Obituary— Frederick Blanchard 46 Obituary — Dr. Wm. Armstrong Buck- hout 48 Titian Ramsey Peak. (Portrait, Plate I) Following our practice of the last two years in placing a portrait of one of the older American entomologists on the cover of the NEWS, we have selected for the frontispiece and for the cover for 1913 the portrait of Titian Ramsey Peale. Titian R. Peale published in 1833 a work entitled Lepidop- tera Americana* which seems never to have passed .beyond a single small installment. *Lepidoptera Americana : or, Original Figures of the Moths and Butterflies of North America; in their various stages of existence and the plants on which they feed. Drawn on stone, and coloured from nature ; with their characters, synonyms, and remarks on their habits and manners. By Titian R. Peale. Curator of the Philadelphia Museum. Vol. I. No. I, Philadelphia: Printed by William P. Gib- bons, S. W. corner Sixth & Cherry Sts., 1833. The copy of Number i in the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia comprises 14 unnumbered pages of text and 4 colored plates numbered 3 to 7; the size is 8,:4 x io^< inches. Ac- companying this single part is a printed sheet of "The Proposals for Publishing by subscription a work to be entitled Lepidoptera Amer- icana" which state that "the work will consist of one hundred Plates," in Numbers of four Plates, to be regularly published every two months, at Ten Dollars a year; a few other uncolored plates with Peak's autograph and the date 1836, and some unpublished manuscripts. 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 He was chiefly known, however, as an illustrator of books in various branches of natural history, such as Thomas Say's American Entomology (1824-28), a number of the plates of which bear his name. It is possible that it was to Peale that Say referred in his letter to J. F. Melsheimer, dated from Phil- adelphia, July 30, 1816, and published by Mr. W. J. Fox in the NEWS, volume XII, page 140 (1901), as follows: "On the lid of the box within you will find two plates of insects intended for my American Entomology they are all to be coloured — I send you the plate of G. Tityus as the first one that I have had coloured you will not criticise it with too much severity as the artist is young & will improve." This plate is No. 4 of the first volume of Say's work and is unsigned. Peale, at the time of the writing of this letter was about sixteen years of age. Peale's association with Say is shown by passages in two others of the latter's letters to Melsheimer. In that of June 10, 1818 (Ent. News, XII, p. 234), Peale is mentioned as one of the party who accompanied Say on his collecting trip to Florida, while that dated March 13, 1819 (/. c., p. 281) reads. "Mr. T. Peale will accompany me [on Major Long's Western Expedition to the Rocky Mountains] to prepare the skins of such animals as may be discovered." Occasionally in the American Entomology, Say quotes observations by Peale. Peale's collection of Lepidoptera is still preserved at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, partly in his original boxes in the form of books measuring 9^/2 x n^4 x 2 inches. Under each of the two covers of each book is an inner cover of glass, to the inner surface of one of which are fastened small disks of cork, a specimen being pinned in each disk. The distance between the glass covers is about i*4 inches and the enclosed space is tightly sealed, but both surfaces of each specimen can be clearly seen. One of these boxes con- tains the type of Say's Hipparchia [=Chionobas] semidcd with a record to the effect that it is the original of the plate in the American Entomology. This record has been quoted in the NEWS, volume XIII, page 12 (1902). Vol. Xxiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3 Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, volume IV, New York, 1888, contains a brief sketch of Titian Ram- sey Peale, stating that he was born in Philadelphia in 1800 and died in the same city, March 13, 1885. He was the son of Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), artist and portrait painter and founder of Peak's Museum*; Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), also a well-known portrait painter, and Raphaelle Peale (1744-1825) were brothers of Titian R. Titian R. ac- companied the United States Exploring Expedition under Lieutenant Wilkes in 1838-1842, and was an Examiner in the Patent Office at Washington from 1849 to 1872. New Species of Heterocera from Brazil (Lepid.) By W. SCHAUS, London, England. Ormiscodes hortensia sp. n. $ , Head and collar dark brown. Thorax olive brown mottled with light brown hairs. Abdomen brown red banded with black. Fore wings greyish buff mottled with olive brown scales, and with some irregular fine fuscous horizontal streaks ; an indistinct darker subterminal shade, expanding on costa into a better marked fuscous brown shade ; a large triangular space medially on costa, dark olive brown mottled with pale hairs, edged by a fuscous line inwardly oblique from costa to below cell, rounded and vertical to costa, slightly lunular outwardly and enclosing a fuscous streak on disco- cellular. Hind wings bright brown on base and inner margin, shading to darker brown outwardly and towards costa; a dark discal spot; a fuscous brown postmedial line; a broad subterminal fuscous shade; termen coloured like fore wings. Ex. 85 mm. Hab. Piassaguera, Sao Paulo. *Peale's Museum, a private enterprise, was also known as The Philadelphia Museum and was an entirely distinct institution from the Academy of Natural Sciences. Most of its contents were destroyed by fire or scattered among various owners after a somewhat checkered existence. 4 ENTOMOCOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 Dirphia picturata sp. n. $ . Head, collar, and thorax dark brown. Abdomen brownish black dotted with white ; basal segment bright red ; fine reddish brown segmental lines, anal hairs yellow brown. Fore wings : a dark brown oblique shade at base reaching antemedial line on inner margin, the space above it lilacine buff mot- tled with whitish hairs, limited by the antemedial line, which is fuscous brown, finely pale, edged inwardly, vertical on costa, outcurved and angled in cell, almost vertical below cell, somewhat outbent on inner margin. Wing beyond brown shaded with fuscous brown in cell ; an irregular white spot on discocellular, containing a fuscous grey line following its outline, being narrow in front and slightly inbent, somewhat constricted medially, and broader behind ; beyond cell on vein 5 are two small white spots with grey centers, almost suffusing; on one wing there are some small dots on vein 6, and one on vein 2 near outer line; this line is fuscous brown, slightly inbent from costa, followed by a pale brown and then a lilacine shade ; subterminal fuscous brown spots connected by an indistinct line; from vein 4 to 6 the spots suffuse with the terminal shade which is dark brown, narrowing towards apex and tornus which are filled with the lilacine shade. Hind wings brown shaded with red at base; hairs on inner margin red ; a reddish brown spot on discocellular, pale edged ; a fuscous brown postmedial and subterminal shade, the latter followed by a lilacine shade. Fore wings below grey brown shaded with red on inner margin ; a black discal point ; an outer lilacine shade, darker edged. Hind wings below lilacine to just beyond cell; a medial brown shade ; a fuscous brown small spot ; terminal space brown ; a sub- terminal lilacine shade. Ex. 62 mm. Hob. Joinville, Brazil. Automeris coronis sp. n. $. Head and collar dark brown. Thorax brown, shading to red- dish brown behind, the patagia tipped with yellow buff. Abdomen roseate brown, with very faint smoky grey transverse lines. Fore wings brown, darkest at base and beyond outer line ; antemedial line remote from base, fine, fuscous outcurved to vein 2, and again to submedian, marked with pale points on veins ; medial space paler, tinged with grey, the discal spot very large, light brown marked with two black points on inner edge, four on outer; a vertical brown post- medial shade from costa to line, this latter fine, reddish brown from Vol. XXlv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 5 apex to middle of inner margin, marked with buff white points on veins; a diffuse fuscous brown subterminal shade outwardly edged with light brown. Hind wings dull roseate brown at base and along iinner margin, brownish on costa ; ocellus very large, black, broadly circled with whitish yellow, containing an irregular brown spot with four lines projecting towards outer margin, and an angled white line within it; a postmedial lunular black line followed by a broad maroon shade; outer margin and cilia ochreous buff, with a darker terminal line. Fore wings below brownish buff, tinged with reddish except on costal and outer margins which are shaded with fuscous ; a large black discal spot containing a small white spot; an outer black line, wavy from costa, well before apex to middle of inner margin; traces of subterminal triangular fuscous shades. Hind wings below brownish buff irrorated with fuscous ; a small horizontal whitish discal streak, dark edged ; a wavy, irregular post- medial dark line; traces of subterminal shadings as on fore wings. Ex. 95 mm. Hob. Joinville, Brazil. Othorene corrupta sp. n. $. Head, collar, and patagia dull purplish slate colour; thorax roseate brown. Abdomen above pale reddish brown. Fore wings dull purplish slate colour at base, shading to roseate brown terminally, crossed by numerous black striae, but fewer on outer margin ; no traces of lines. Hind wings pale brown, darker shaded on costa; a purplish red shade along inner margin. Fore wings below roseate brown, the apex striated with black. Hind wings below yellow buff, shaded with roseate on inner margin. Ex. 72 mm. Hob. Joinville, Brazil. Cicinnus maera sp. n. $ . Head roseate brown. Collar, thorax, and abdomen pale red- dish ; anal tufts fuscous brown. Fore wings to outer line pale reddish shaded with smoky grey be- fore the line, and with a few scattered fuscous scales on postmedial space; a large round buff white spot filling end of cell, finely darker edged, especially on discocellular, which is followed by a slight fuscous grey shade ; pale shades between veins 2 and 4 close to median; a fine darker red line from cell spot to inner margin; outer line remote, fine, oblique on costa, angled at vein 8, then thicker, dark 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 brown and vertical to inner margin, a black shade from angle above vein 8 to termen at apex, shaded above with fuscous grey; termen roseate buff shaded with pale grey, and irrorated with black, forming clusters on veins near outer line; the apex is bluntly produced, the termen somewhat convex between veins 5 and 2. Hind wings grey shaded with roseate becoming reddish at outer line and on termen, thinly irrorated with dark scales ; the outer line dark brown from costa near apex to anal angle, followed by black clusters of scales on veins. Wings below similar but duller. Ex. 33 mm. Hob. Joinville, Brazil. Titya fuscicaudata sp. n. 9. Body dull brown; anal tufts fuscous brown. Fore wings smoky brown, thinly scaled, the lines broad, greyish buff; antemedial inwardly oblique, inbent at submedian; an oblique black spot on discocellular ; postmedial inbent, sinuous; subterminal narrower, parallel with postmedial. Hind wings smoky brown; a broad, slightly darker, medial shade. Ex. 58 mm. Hob. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The types of these species will be placed in the United States National Museum at Washington. The Genera Parotermes and Hodotermes (Isoptera). By T. D. A. COCKEKELL, Boulder, Colorado. At Station 14, in the miocene shales of Florissant, Colo- rado, my wife found a specimen of Parotermes fodinae Scud- der, sufficiently well preserved to show practically the entire venation of the anterior wings. Upon comparison, I find that the venation is nearly identical with that of Hodotermes ochraceus Burm., as figured by Desneux in Genera insectorum, Isoptera, pi. I, f. 43.. The difference is mainly as follows: P. fodinae has the region above the media considerably narrower, so that about the middle of the wing the media is distinctly nearer to the costa than to the upper branch of the cubitus; the media (scapular vein) gives off above in my example of Vol. XXlv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 7 fodinae three branches in one wing and four in its opposite (in ochraceus six) ; below, the media gives off three branches, the first before the origin of the third upper branch, all leaving the media at a much larger angle than the upper branches (ochraceus is quite different here, but Hodotermes mossambi- cus has the lower branches of the media practically as in P. fodinae}. The cubitus forks before the middle of the wing, and its upper branch forks again, exactly as in H. ochraceus; the anal also has a fork below and a little beyond the cubital fork, as in ochraceus. The presence of the sub-costal (sub-marginal) vein, which was supposed to separate Parotermes from Hodotermes, is not diagnostic, this vein being present in true Hodotermes. It is Parotermes, formerly considered a sub-genus of Hodotermes, which has the sub-costa absent or rudimentary. According to the diagrammatic figure of Hodotermes brunneicornis given by Redtenbacher and reproduced by Sharp, the media of that insect has no inferior branches, and the cubitus is wholly un- like that of our fossil; but brunneicornis really belongs to a different genus, Stolotermes. The indications are, then, that Parotermes differs little from Hodotermes, so that it may be a matter of opinion whether it is really separable. At the pres- ent day, Hodotermes is represented by five species in Africa, three in Central Asia and three other dubious forms, Asiatic and African. It therefore, in its occurrence at Florissant, affords a case parallel to those of the Nemopterids and Ne- mestrinids. Scudder described a large species from the Florissant shales as Hodotermes (?) coloradensis. It is remarkable not only for its large size, but the unusually long abdominal append- ages, and the total absence of the sub-costal vein on all the wings. It is therefore apparently not a true Hodotermes. I have a very fine specimen (Florissant, Station 13, IV. P. Cock- erell) which I have referred to Scudder's species, but on re- viewing the subject I can only conclude that it is distinct, since it has the sub-costal vein well developed, and the abdominal 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 appendages are very small, resembling those figured by Des- neux for Hodotermes turkestanicus. My insect is, I believe, a true Hodotermes or Parotermes, although the structure of the cubital and anal veins, and lower branches of the media, cannot be made out. It may be named as follows : Parotermes scudderi n. sp. Hodotermes coloradensis Cockerell, Popular Science Monthly, LXXIV, 1908, p. 1 1 8, fig. Length about 15^ mm.; head oblong, about 4*4 mm. long and 3 wide; wings about 22 mm. long; media to costa in middle of anterior wing about i mm., thus the space narrow as in Parotermes', media of anterior wing with only three branches above, the first arising nearly 9 mm. from base of wing; radius of lower wing with two branches above ; antennae, as preserved, appearing brown with white annuli (the sutures), about six joints to a mm. in middle of antenna. Easily known from the other species of Parotermes by its great size. — <•> i — Collecting and Mounting Micro-Diptera. Paper II — Mounting. By E. T. CRESSON, JRV Philadelphia, Pa. In previous pages of this journal (i) I gave an account of a method of collecting micro-diptera and promised to supple- ment it with an article on a method of mounting which I use and find most satisfactory for preserving them for study. It is generally the fact that a thorough systematist is a poor tech- nician and vie a versa. The systematist being more interested in the insect and its relationship than in the method of mount- ing and its appearance in relation to others in the series or col- lection, while the technician considers more the appearance and the method of mounting. The method I use and will here try to describe, should appeal to the former on account of the advantages possessed for thorough examination, while the ap- pearance of the mount nnd its subject should satisfy 'he latter The common practice of gluing the insect to points, which is usually done by Coleopterists and seems most satisfactory for them, should be discouraged for micro-diptera, and this (i). Vol. xxi., pp. 406-410. Vol. XXIV] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 9 I do most earnestly on account of two very bad features which are evident even when most care is taken in the mounting. This I say in spite of what Prof. C. F. Baker says in his ar- ticle "On Mounting Minute Insects, Particularly Micro-Dip- tera," (2) in which he recommends gluing the specimens on cardboard points, arguing mainly from a technician's view- point, that the various angles which the specimens may other- wise assume, ruins the appearance of the collection. My objec- tions to this and other methods mentioned in this paper of mine, are based upon experience in handling a great mass of material on all sorts of mounts. Regarding the objectionable features of the method above mentioned, the first and most important is the fact that one surface is always inaccessible for examination, and this surface may have the character of most value. If relaxing and remounting could be done, this factor would not be so objectionable. Then again in mounting with glue the legs which are often tightly folded may have to be spread for examination of the bristles, etc., and this is generally impossible on account of softening the mount- ing adhesive. Of course, if the adhesive used is soluble in water this factor is eliminated. The other fault in question is that it is often the case when certain characters are to be examined, the large pin interferes with the line of vision. There still remains another fault which can be eliminated and that is the practice of picking the insect up with a moist point or brush in order to place it on the mount. Then again, the moist- ure from the mounting adhesive will often discolor the in- sect beyond recognition, thereby rendering the specimen worthless. I have in mind a case where a new species was practically based upon the discoloration caused by the stain resulting from the moisture in the adhesive used in mounting. In handling these small insects, I always use tweezers, picking them up by the wings or, secondly (rarely), by the legs, never, under any circumstances, touching the body with anything other than the point of the mounting pin. As emphasized in (2). Psyche, May 1897, pp. 63-64. IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 my previous article, an excess of moisture is the greatest ene- my one has to guard against in handling these small insects. Another method which is also used, and although better than the one just discussed, has one of the former objections be- sides another, not so important, but still a factor to be con- sidered. I refer to the method of mounting the insect the usual way on a minute nadel which is, in turn, stuck into a piece of cork, pith, or similar substance, and this mounted on a standard pin, thus forming what is termed a secondary mount, the method to which Prof. Baker refers as being un- sightly. The first objection to this method is the necessity of handling the insect in the act of piercing it with the nadel, although this can be done to some satisfaction by placing the specimen on cloth or pith. The other objection is that the na- del in piercing the thorax will often depress or break the chitin and thereby destroy the normal position of an im- portant bristle or hair. The method I use also comes under the head of secondary mounting, but overcomes all the objections noted above. This I will try to explain as clearly as possible, and the process, al- though appearing long and complicated, is quite simple, and the satisfaction gained by having thoroughly practical mounts will offset any extra time spent. This method is practically the impaling of the insect upon the point of a nadel, which <5» is supported by a cork, pith or blotting paper mount on a standard pin in the manner shown by the accompanying sketch. There are several ways in which this can be done and various kinds SUP of supporting materials used, but I find that blotting paper is the most economical and looks neat. I generally prepare the slips of blotting- paper in quantity, using the thickest blotter I can find (40 pounds to the ream). A standard sheet will supply enough slips for a season's collecting. These slips are cut 5x9 millimeters in size, on a photo-trimmer with the aid of a couple of Vol. XXlv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. II gauges. The nadeln (I use the American Entomological Co.'s No. 216) are first arranged in a flat bottom tubular vial, whose diameter is less than the length of a nadel, with their points up. This can be done any time, and is to me the most tedious part of the entire proceedings. I throw two or three hundred upon a piece of white cardboard, which at once shows up the pointed ends, and with a pair of fine tweezers I pick each one up and drop it into the vial with its point up. The standard pin is No. 2, steel or hard brass, 39 millimeters long. The foregoing opera- tions are all preparatory and can be done in sufficient quantities to take care of the season's collecting. Preparatory to the act- ual mounting a goodly number of slips must be pierced through one end by a nadel. Any quantity of these may be prepared, and are best arranged in series, sticking in a sheet of cork or pith. The nadeln are gotten out of the vial by inverting the latter against the thumb of the left hand and pinching a few of the nadeln between the thumb and index finger, and with the forceps each nadel is taken and stuck in a sheet of cork. After a goodly number are thus treated they are then pierced through the slips, and these are arranged as above suggested, thus completing all the operations preparatory to the actual mounting. The following equipment will be found necessary for rapid work; a pair of pinning forceps, a low power (il/2 inch focus) watchmaker's eye lens with spring, a gauge, for making the slips of uniform height on the supporting pin (22 millimeters up from the point), and a sheet of white bristol board or blotting-paper. The insects to be mounted are thrown, a few at a time, upon the white bristol board, a nadel with its accompanying slip is picked up with the forceps, and, with the aid of the magnifying glass, pierced through the side of the thorax, pref- erably the left side. A click will be heard as the nadel is pull- ed up, thus indicating that the point has passed through the thorax. Then, with the aid of the other hand, invert the slip and grasp the same with the forceps at the nadel end and pass a standard pin through the other end in the opposite direc- 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 tion to that of the nadel, but not too close to the end. Refer- ence to the figure will more fully explain this. This finishes the actual mounting and by the use of the gauge, the slip can be run up on the large pin to the given distance, thus making uniform mounts. Finally, by the application of a drop of di- luted white shellac at the junction of the slip and the large pin, a very rigid mount is obtained, leaving the nadel free to turn, as is often necessary to present certain aspects for ex- amination. With relaxed specimens, after the same have been dried, a blotter should be used instead of the bristol board so that the point of the nadel can protrude further through the thorax. This will insure a more solid mount, as the body juices are not present to cement the specimen to the pin. These mounts have a very neat, uniform appearance, and the method, although seemingly rather complicated and lengthy, is very simple, and after a little practice becomes very easy, and one can mount as rapidly as with any other double- mounting method. This method insures as perfect specimens as is possible, and gives access to any surface for examination with a compound microscope, and although it has been used before, I do not see many examples in the collections I have examined. It should be used by all who mount small Diptera, and when one collects by sweeping, the material is often gath- ered in such large numbers that one needs a rapid and safe method for mounting the same. Notes on the Phototropism of Certain Mosquitoes (Dipt.). By HARRY B. WEISS, New Brunswick, N. J. The different species of mosquitoes exhibit quite dissimilar reactions with regard to their avoidance of and attraction to sunlight. Some are apparently both equally positively and neg- Vol. xxiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 13 atively phototropic, while others respond mainly only to one stimulus and again others are unequally positively and nega- tively phototropic. Culex pipiens, Culex aurifer, Culex canadensis, Culex syl- vestris, Culex salinarius, Anopheles maculipennis and Wyeom- yia smithii are negatively phototropic. They appear normally only at night. They are also slightly positively phototropic inasmuch as they are attracted to a certain extent by artificial light and the low intensities found at dusk. In other words these species are positively phototropic up to a certain inten- sity of light, when they become negatively phototropic. Near the close of the season impregnated females of pi- picns becomes strongly negatively phototropic and seek dark hibernation quarters in spite of the warm temperatures, which sometime prevail outside. Anopheles crucians, sometimes called the daylight mosquito, is positively phototropic up to the high intensity of light which occurs during the middle of the day. Anopheles punctipennis responds both negatively and positively, more so negatively. Its normal attraction is a low intensity. Culex solUcitans seems to be equally negatively and posi- tively phototropic, these tropic reactions evidently being de- pendent upon nutrition, as it is difficult to find a more blood- thirsty species. Culex perturbans is negatively phototropic and cantator positively, but not to the extent of solUcitans'. Positive phototropism is most prevalent among the salt marsh forms, Culex solUcitans, Culex cantator and Culex taeniorhynchus all actingly positively but Culex salinarius, which is also a salt marsh mosquito, responds negatively. Inasmuch as various factors influence phototropism, it might be supposed that the positive reactions of solUcitans, cantator and taeniorhynchus, all being biters of the first rank, are dependent upon their desire for food. Positive photo- tropism is not at all useful to mosquitoes inasmuch as it sub- jects them to attacks by their natural enemies. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 The Effect of Temperature on the Molting of the Walking-stick, Diapheromera femorata Say (Orthop.). By HENRY H. P. SEVERIN, Ph.D., Honorary Fellow, University of Wisconsin, and HARRY C. SEVERIN, M.A., Professor of Entomology, South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. In a recent paper we (i) called attention to the fact that of one hundred Diapheromera femorata reared under as nearly normal or field conditions as possible during June, July and August, the months during which the development of this Phasmid occurs in its natural habitat in Wisconsin, 23 per cent, molted four times, 76 per cent, five times, and only I per cent, six times. The suggestion was also made that "in all probability temperature plays an important role in the rate of development." To determine with certainty what effect tem- perature has on the molting of this walking-stick, a number of experiments were performed. In order to compare the data obtained by rearing some of these insects under normal conditions with specimens bred under a temperature either higher or lower than field condi- tions, the following table containing the averages of the inter- vals or periods between molts (stages or stadia) and the total duration of the periods (post-embryonic development) of five TABLE I. AVERAGES IN DAYS OF THE STAGES BETWEEN MOLTS OF DIAPHERO- MERA FEMORATA REARED UNDER NEARLY FIELD CONDITIONS IN JUNE. JULY AND AUGUST. "o c N-3 ^_, VM C" I* u S E E E s E §"O c ^"o O j 3 3 3 3 3 3 ' ?^ *5 u o S — 13 •O T3 T3 •a •a S'So 2 'rt cu X 3 0 2 ID a rt 2 rt cC OK V in t/3 (ft tn W en t/3 > KS , £ •_ E E E E E E E > '~ a ,O « 3 a 3 a 3 . 3 aj 4J 5 i "TJ ^ s Ei •3 •5 •3 •3 'O •3 V X 3 0 cd rt rt rt cd o •-• H (/3 £S (7i (75 (7) c75 i75 (75 £§ Normal c? 4 12.6 7.6 10 10.4 40.6 High 5 9-5 7 8 8 8 40.5 Normal # 5 9.8 8 S.2 9.8 u • 46.8 High tf 6 10.5 7-5 7-5 6-5 7 8 47 Normal 9 5 u. 6 8.4 8.8 9.2 11.4 49-4 High 9 6 10 10 7 7 7 9 50 De Sinety (2) reared a walking-stick, Leptynia attennata, at 30 degrees C. and found that, while the specimen completed its development more quickly under these conditions, yet the acceleration in development did not affect the interval between the four molts equally. He writes, "tandis que le premier est peu abrege, le deuxieme et le troisieme le sont beaucoup et le quatrieme est allonge." In another experiment, ten male and five female walking- sticks were reared during the somewhat colder months of April, May and the early part of June. The following table shows the interval between molts and the post-embryonic de- velopment of each group of walking-sticks, the grouping being made according to sex and the number of molts. Vol. xxiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. If the averages of the post-embryonic developments of the male walking-sticks which molted five times under nearly nor- mal conditions are compared in the following table with those of the male specimens that passed through four molts while exposed to a low temperature, it will be seen that the former TABLE IV. STAGES IN DAYS BETWEEN MOLTS OK DIAPHEROMERA FEMORATA REARED DURING THE SOMEWHAT COLDER MONTHS OF APRIL, MAY AND THE EARLY PART OF JUNE. M "o _ a 5 > > fr* VI « u E E E E E 5 > c — "82 •^ C/] 3 3 3 3 3 <[J ^ a> 0,2 3-8 E *^ •5 •5 •5 -3 •3 i *O f3 q^ •< rt rt X 3 0 a cd rt a CO t/) y si Qffi t/5 y, *^ C/3 +J tfl 35 t/5 B,g ID- April 8, 1910 * 4 14 12 10 14 50 May 28 it * 4 t 1 C? 4 16 10 8 ii 45 23 " II, " c? 4 14 8 8 16 46 27 " 14, " c? 4 12 10 10 14 46 " 30 " 16, " 4 13 9 ii 15 48 June 3 Averages 13.8 9.8 9-4 14 47 April 5, 1910 Jl 5 15 9 8 12 14 58 June 2 " 10, " c? 5 16 10 9 II 13 59 " 8 " ii, " c? 5 13 8 9 12 15 57 " 7 " ii, " cT 5 M 10 8 II 13 56 " 6 " 18, " c? 5 ii 10 10 12 12 55 " 12 Averages 13-8 9-4 8.8 II. 6 "13-4 57 April 9, 1910 9 5 15 8 10 II 14 57 June 5 it 41 1 ( 9 5 17 9 8 10 14 58 6 " 10, " 9 5 17 9 8 12 12 57 " 6 " 12, " 9 5 H 9 8 13 13 57 " 8 " 23, " 9 5 ii 9 TO 12 II 53 " 15 Averages 14.8 8.8 8.8 ii. 6 12.8 56.4 required about the same amount of time (46.8 days) as the latter (47 days). The female, which under nearly norm ii conditions cast its skin six times, required 53 days to com- plete its post-embryonic development, while the females which molted five times, while kept in a cold temperature, required i8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '13 56.8 days (Table V). A comparison of the averages of cor- responding stadia of the male and female Phasmids which were subjected to differences in temperature, shows that the interval between molts is longer on an average when the insects are kept in a cold temperature. It is evident, thus, that a low temperature lengthens, on an average, the interval between molts. TABLE V. AVERAGES IN DAYS OF THE STAGES BETWEEN MOLTS OF DIAPHERO- MERA FEMORATA REARED UNDER NEARLY NORMAL CONDITIONS IN JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST, AND IN THE SOMEWHAT COLDER MONTHS OF APRIL, MAY AND THE EARLY PART OF TUNE. t-l -H > - .^O. *- "3 ^H ^^ 1—1 i— • r •^* *-* ,— ffj 1-1 IH E E E E E E £ > c D O- .0 01 3 3 3 3 3 3