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XXXVI FEBRUARY, 1925 No. 2 CONTENTS Jones—North American Psychids: ed- Howard—An Appeal for Hungarian wardsii Heyl. (carbonaria Pack.) Entomologists macs s eiciie se sisrs 54 (Lepidoptera, Psychidae).......... 33 | Editorial—Entomology at the Convo- Hayes—A Preliminary List of the Ants cation Week Meetings, December of Kansas (Hymenoptera, Formi- 29, 1924, to January 3, '925.......2- 55 cidae) (continued from page 12)... 39 | Skinner—Third International Congress Barnes and Benjamin—A New Sub- Off Entomol ger aarcie cise nels alvlelvicie.s 57 species of Brenthis myrina Cram. The New York State List of Insects... 57 (Lepid.: Nymphalidae) ........... 44 | Entomological Literature.............. 58 Blatchley—Some Additional New Spe- Review of Newstead on the Tsetse cies of Heteroptera from the South- JEINIRs Bgnos tcovbn (hachcanocsecieodan 62 ern United States, with Charac- Review—Report of the Proceedings of terization of a New Genus......... 45 the Fifth Entomological Meeting Hough—The Anal Lobe of Pseudococ- held at Pusa, February sth to roth, cus comstocki Kuw. ( Homop. : Coc- NG Wel Sais neadanadnbosodocanocodeseCtOK 63 IGA) Meecistetieiete sistaiaisvere tree sleiererecsiaieys 52 North American Psychids: edwardsii Heyl. (carbonaria Pack.) (Lepidoptera, Psychidae). By Frank Morton Jones, Wilmington, Delaware, (Plates 11 and III) Psyche carbonaria was described by Packard in 1887, from two males from Texas. Nothing, apparently, was then known of the habits of this insect, which has continued to be a rarity in our collections, most of the specimens dating back many years to Belfrage’s time, with central Texas as their lo- cality and October or November as their date of occurrence. In September and October of 1923 the author made a col- lecting trip through the southwest and west, with Psychidae as the special object of search. The first stop was at Fort Worth, Texas, with the intent of visiting Belfrage’s pre- sumed locality for this insect (Clifton, Bosque County), some seventy miles distant; but upon the advice of Dr. W. M. Winton, of Texas Christian University, search was first made in more accessible areas of like character near Fort Worth and Dallas, with the result-that carbonaria turned up in the first half-hour of actual search. 33 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., ’25 This insect is an inhabitant of the chalk-hill region of Texas. It was found on these hills at the outskirts of Fort Worth; similarly, just to the west of Dallas; and again at Alamo Heights, San Antonio, always where the white chalk showed through the scanty ground-cover vegetation. At intermediate and adjacent points of different character it was absent or rare. The larvae are evidently ground feeders, in September creeping up posts and tree-trunks and affixing their cases for pupation. Emergence of the males takes place in the morning (6 to 9.30 A. M.); and from cases gathered in September, 1923, the earliest emergence was October 18, the latest, November 7. The species is apparently single brooded, the winter being passed in the egg stage. To our knowledge of this insect as briefly characterized by Packard from scanty material, may now be added the following: Egg. —.7 mm. X 1.1 mm.; ellipsoidal, usually distorted by mass-pressure; yellowish-white, smooth, unpolished, some- what moist and adherent (the closely-packed egg-mass does not readily separate when dropped into water), and so delicate in texture that it cannot be removed from the pupa-shell without rupturing many of those contained. Larval case-—Length 22-27 mm.; about 4 mm. in diam- ter at widest part (near the proximal end); almost cylindri- cal, but tapering slightly and gradually toward the distal end, which is ornamented with a few slender fragments of vege- table matter applied longitudinally ; the case is smooth, tough, and exceptionally firm in texture, its outer surface is the color of weathered wood, its inner surface white; the apparently smooth outer surface, under the lens is seen to be a mosaic of minute vegetable fragments firmly embedded in the silk. The larger applied fragments at the distal end protect and partly conceal a short terminal portion of flimsy texture which closes the orifice in collapsed triangular form, the emerging pupa rupturing the triangle at its angles, thus dividing this lower portion, usually rather symmetrically, into three lobes or flaps. For pupation the larva attaches the case firmly, at a height from the ground varying from one to six feet, and apparently by preference to a weathered post or tree-trunk; the point chosen for attachment is usually a crevice or small cavity which conceals the base of the case, which consequently projects at any angle, even almost perpendicularly. In these Sev, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS a0 attached cases males were found to predominate in the ratio of 40 to 1, so the usual habit of the 2 may be to remain con- cealed at or near the ground, for obviously it must differ in this respect from the ¢. Larva, ready for pupation—Length 16-20 mm.; width of head 1.6-1.8 mm.; dull brownish-white; the head and the more heavily chitinized areas of the thoracic segments con- trastingly marked with white and with dark brown having a purplish tinge. Of the three white markings of the epi- cranium (Plate III, fig. 8), the small rounded lateral patch is the most constant; the vertical marking sometimes joins the lower pale area, and the two may expand across the front until most of the dark frontal markings become vestigial, even the frontal punctures being included in the merged pale areas. A line joining the second adfrontal and the frontal seta, extended, passes below the frontal puncture. The ab- dominal setae, especially those below the spiracles, are exceed- ingly small and weak; the small seta shown (Plate III, fig. 9) on the cephalic margin of segments T2 and T3 (apparently x of Forbes, gamma of Fracker) was not detectable in all specimens when examined up to 100 x, those studied includ- ing both blown and alcoholic material. Pupa of ¢ (Plate III, fig. 6, 7)—Length 10-12 mm.; reddish amber-brown to dull dark brown; the head, the thorax and the rugose portions of the abdominal segments darker than the remaining areas; the anterior portions of the abdominal segments, to the seventh inclusive, are striately rugose, strongly so dorsally; ventrally, the mesothoracic wings overlap about one-half of the third abdominal segment, the mesothoracic legs reach or fall slightly short of the wing-margin, the antennae terminate on a line opposite the anterior margin of the third abdominal segment, the prothoracic legs slightly ex- ceed this point ; the caudal segments are striate, they are curved ventrad, and they bear the usual pair of strongly chitinized hooks ; a dorsocephalic spined ridge is present on each of seg- ments 6, 7, and 8, much more prominently on 8, where it is comb-like and projecting ; a dorsocaudal row of vestigial spines, their points directed cephalad, is borne by the fifth abdominal segment; the abdominal spiracles are slightly raised, concol- orous; the maxillae (Mosher nomenclature) equal or slightly exceed the labial palpi. In agreement with the structure of the larval case, the pupa is more long-cylindrical in shape than that of cacocnemos, tracyi, or celibata. Pupa of (Plate III, fig. 5)—Length 15 mm.; pale dull 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 725 amber and lacking the striate rugosity of the d pupa; compared with the pupa shell of the ¢, that of the ¢ is much less rigid in texture and less opaque, the contained eggs being 1n- dividually visible through the thin papery integument; the dorsal portions of the thoracic segments are thickened and their color deepened to dull reddish-brown; the caudal ex- tremity is bluntly rounded and it lacks the prominent hooks of the ¢; abdominal segments 7 and 8 have each a dorso- cephalic row of microscopic blunt spines, their points directed caudad; and segment 5, near its dorsocaudal margin, bears a still more vestigial row of cephalad-directed fine spines. Adult & (Plates II, II])—Expanse 19-22 mm.; black throughout; the body rather robust, with hairy divergent vestiture; antenna with 27 (sometimes a few more) joints, broadly bipectinate, the shaft and its pectinations scaled above ; legs unarmed. Wings broad, moderately opaque, with nar- row hair-like scales; primaries with costa arched, outer mar- gin slightly rounded, apices moderately acute; secondaries broad, rounded; 11-7 veins, 7 of primaries from the cell, or sometimes from the stalk of 8 and 9; 4 and 5 of both wings connate (or varying even to wide separation) at cell; the anal veins of primaries have the basal portion of lc well indicated ; 7 and 8 of secondaries are joined by an oblique bar mid-way of the cell, but not again beyond this point; the furcate plate of the abdomen is wide, with rather short and slightly diver- gent straight rods, the opposite (dorsal) plate much smaller, T-shaped. Adult 2—Length 12 mm.; yellowish-white; the thoracic segments dorsally brown with a tinge of olive, ventrally pur- plish about the vestigial legs; head pale brown, with darkly- pigmented eyes; legs and antennae rather more distinctly in- dicated than usual in related species ; the almost colorless down of the abdomen is very loosely attached and almost completely deciduous in oviposition and emergence. Packard in his original description states that he had before him “Two males from Texas. Collection of Mr. Ed- ward L. Graef; one of these* * * * retained in my own col- lection”; of these two, Graef’s specimen is preserved in the Brooklyn Museum, fully identified as Packard’s type by its pin-labels; in the Packard collection at Cambridge are two specimens of this insect, each labeled simply, ‘‘Dallas, Texas, Boll,” and neither bearing type indication; under these cir- XXXVI, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 37 cumstances the Brooklyn Museum specimen must be consid- ered the type. Compared with the recently described polingi Barnes & Benjamin, this insect, even in flown condition, is immediately and conclusively separable by its narrow hair-like wing-scales, the denser wings of polingi being clothed with larger and much broader scales (See Plate III, figs. 10, 11). There remains for comparison, however, the insect de- scribed by Heylaerts (C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg., ci., 1884) as Manatha edwardsu, which has been standing on our lists as a synonym of gloverii Packard. The unique type of edwardsti is in the Oberthur collection in France; in 1923 it was sent to England, to the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, for comparison with some of our North American species; from his report it became apparent that edwardsii is a larger and more robust insect than glover; following this, M. Charles Oberthur pub- lished (Etudes, XXI (II), 170, Pl. DLXVI, fig. 4889, 1923) a colored figure of edwardsti, strengthening our growing sus- picion of the identity of edwardsti Heylaerts and carbonaria Packard; later (1924), through the kindness of M. René Oberthur and of Prof. C. Houlbert, the writer was given access to the type of edwardsti at Rennes, and there compared it with fresh specimens of carbonaria which had already been compared with Packard’s type. Edwardsit Heylaerts and car- bonaria Packard are identical, edwardsii having priority. The apparent discrepancies in the two original descriptions are due to the study, by their authors, of scanty and undissected mate- rial. This insect was evidently distributed (by Belfrage, per- haps also by Boll), misidentified as T. ephemeracformis Steph. ; for not only does the Heylaerts type bear a written name-label thus misidentifying it, but in the American Museum of Nat- ural History, under carbonaria Pack., is a specimen from the Hy. Edwards collection, similarly labeled, with Belfrage’s name as collector. Heylaerts also described (C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg., cceviii, 1884) what he identified as the larval case of edwardsti, but his description does not apply to the case of this species as 38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Peb., 225 determined by breeding, and his material is not preserved with the ¢ type at Rennes; however, in the remains of the Heylaerts collection in the Rijks Museum at Leiden (for access to which the writer is indebted to Heer Van Eecke) are two cases stand- ing above a label, “Edwardsii Heyl.”, with Texas indicated as their locality and ‘Collection C. V. Riley” as their origin. They agree with Heylaerts’ description (one is the large case of a ©) ; but they are not cases of edwardsi, but of confederata G. & R. Finally, the former generic references of this insect are not admissible. Psyche Schrank is now restricted to viciella Schiff. (genotype) and its allies, 12-8 veined insects ; Manatha Moore, by the characterization of the genus and by an examination of the genotype (albipes Moore, preserved in the British Museum ) is also 12-8 veined ; Platocceticus Packard is usually 12-8 veined, and has no bar joining 7 and 8 of secondaries; Pachythelia Westw. has the fore tibia armed with a long spine. Barnes and Benjamin have referred their allied species, polingi, to Eurukuttarus Hamps.; though the early stages of the genotype of this latter genus are unknown, comparison of the males (pileatus Hamps., edwardsu Heyl.) shows them to be in sub- stantial agreement, in the characters which in this family have served for generic separation. Multiplication of genera being inadvisable under these circumstances, edwardsu Heyl., for the present, should stand with polingi B. & B., in Eurukuttarus Hamps., its bibliography and synonymy becoming : Eurukuttarus edwardsii Heyl. Heylaerts, C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg., ci, 1884 (Manatha), Heylaerts, C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg., ceviii, 1884 (larval case of confederata G. & R., in error for edwardsii Heyl.). Packard, Ent. Amer., III, 51, 1887 (Psyche carbonaria n.sp.). Smith, List Lep. Bor. Am., 29, 1891 (Psyche carbonaria Packa)e Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., 502, 1892 (Manatha). Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., 515, 1892 (Psyche carbonaria Pack.). ‘ Neumioegen & Dyar, Jour. N. Y.. Ent. Soc., II, 119, 1894 (= gloveri Pack.). Neumoegen & Dyar, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., II, 119, 1894 (Psyche carbonaria Pack.). Dyar, List N. A. Lep., 353, 1902 (=gloveri Pack.). Piatesuue Ent. News, VoL. XXXVI. as EURUKUTTARUS EDWARDSI! (Fias. 1-10), E. POLING! (FIG. 11).—JONES. 10 XXXVI, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 6s) Dyar, List N. A. Lep., 353, 1902 (Eurycyttarus carbonaria Pack. ). Smith, Check List Lep. Bor. Am., 82, 1903 (Eurycyttarus carbonaria Pack.). Dyar, Insec. Ins. Mens., I, 104, 1913 (carbonaria). Barnes & McDun., Can. Ent., XLVI, 30, 1914 (carbonaria). Dyar, Can. Ent., XLVI, 179, 1914 (carbonaria). Barnes & McDun., Check List Lep. Bor. Am., 125, 1917 (= gleveri Pack.). Barnes & McDun., Check List Lep. Bor. Am., 125, 1917 (Eurycyttarus carbonaria Pack.). Dyar, Insec. Ins. Mens., XI, 2, 1923 (Pachytelia carbonaria). Dyar, Insec. Ins. Mens., XI, 4, 1923 (Manatha). Oberthur, Etudes Lep. Comp:, XX. (11), 170; 1923 (Pla- toeceticus ). Barnes & Benj., Cont. N. H. Lep. N. A., V (3), 187, 1924 ( ? carbonaria). EXPLANATION OF PLATE III Eurukuttarus edwardsii Heyl. . Venation, wings of ¢. . Genitalia, with adjacent abdominal plates. . Abdominal plates, dorsal and ventral. Legs. . Caudal segments, pupa of °. 1 Pupaot dc. . Caudal segments, pupa of ¢. . Head of larva, last instar. Sitarva, last mstar 10. Wing-scales, 100 &. Eurukuttarus polingi Barnes and Benj. 11. Wing-scales, 100 x. SANAnswWNe A Preliminary List of the Ants of Kansas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). (Continued from page 12.) By Wo. P. Hayes, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. MyRMICINAE. MyRMICINA GRAMINICOLA subsp. AMERICANA Emery. This species is recorded by Tucker (1909, p. 289) from Lawrence, who further comments that males were found in September and October. This insect, according to Wheeler (1910), occurs in the Northeastern states. 40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 725 MonomortuM PHARAONIS Linn. None of the lists of Kansas Hymenoptera contain this common species. It is a cosmopolitan species. In this state it is often confused with Solenopsis molesta Say, both of which infest houses and are spoken of as “red ants.’ It occurs widespread over the state. M. mintmum Buckley. This small black species constructs crater nests in sandy or gravelly situations. The writer has found workers hibernating in a nest in December at a depth of 18 to 24 inches, and at Winfield found them under stones, April 29. In the State Agricultural College collection are three wingless queens and four workers collected by Marlatt. The Winfield specimens were determined by Wheeler, and the Riley County specimens by M. R. Smith. M. MINUTUM var. MINIMUM Buckley. This variety, as cited, is given in the Tucker list as occurring at Lawrence, Kansas, in June and July. SOLENOPSIS MOLESTA Say. This pernicious pest is known over the state as the kafir ant or tiny thief ant. It attacks the planted seeds of sorghums and other crops and causes an immense amount of damage in southern Kansas. It is also a pest of houses and on the other hand is a useful insect on account of its scavenger habits. The results of two years’ study of the biology of this ant by the writer (1920) are reported elsewhere. The species is widespread throughout the United States and Mexico. The writer has found it in many of the counties in the eastern half of the state. It has not been found and reported west of Smith and Barber Counties. Unfortunately, considerable confusion exists in the American literature with regard to this species. Originally described as Myrmica molesta, it, 30 years later, was redescribed by Buckley (1866, p. 342), from specimens collected in the vicinity of Washington, D. C., as Myrmica exigua. This name has not, so far as the writer is able to learn, crept into the economic literature. After another period of 20 years, the same ant was again described by Mayr (1886, p. 461) as Solenopsis debilis. It will be noticed that Mayr was the first to place the species in the genus Solenopsis Westwood. Under this name the species has, much too frequently, been reported as noxious and of considerable economic importance. Previous to the time of Mayr’s paper, many references to this ant were made under the name Solenopsis fugax Latr. This mistake is accounted for by the close resemblance of S. molesta to the well-known Euro- mexmyi. "25 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 41 pean S. fugax. Several workers (Forbes, Webster, et al.) referring, in earlier papers, to S. molesta used the name S. fugax; and, following the advent of Mayr’s description, made similar references under the name S. debilis. According to Wheeler, “Emery (1894, p. 277) was the first to insist that this (debilis) was merely a synonym of Say’s molesta.”’ Commenting further on the synonymy of the species, Wheeler in a letter says, “Solenopsis fugax isa European species and does not occur in this country. It is extremely close to Solenopsis molesta, however. Undoubtedly, all references to fugax in American literature refer to molesta.” Additional confusion has arisen between S. molesta and the little red house ant, Monomorium pharaonis Linn. This is due, in part, to the similarity of habits, but more to their likeness in coloration. Both species are spoken of as tiny, but only a superficial observation is needed to nete the much smaller size of S. molesta. Myrmica minuta Say, a meagerly described form, is thought by such an authority as Emery (1894, p. 277) to be a synonym of molesta. Crevecoeur’s list contains this species cited as Solenopsis debilis. S. TEXANA Emery. Tucker records this species from Law- rence. A female was found by him in June at twilight. Wheeler’s list records this species only from Texas, and in view of the writer’s work with S. molesta, the determination of this species from Kansas appears doubtful. PHEIDOLE PILIFERA Roger. Soldiers of this species were found by the writer attacking workers of Solenopsis molesta Say under stones at Winfield, Kansas, April 19, 1914. These were identified by Wheeler. This record is apparently new for the state. In Wheeler’s list its range is given as ‘‘Eastern and Northern States.” PH. SITARCHES Wheeler. In the State Agricultural College collection are workers and soldiers of this species determined by M. R. Smith from Riley County, collected March 21 and April 30, under stones. This species in Wheeler’s list is from Texas and has apparently not been noted previously in this state. Pu. sirarcHEs Wheeler. New var. Workers of this species were collected in Cowley County by the writer in 1916. They were submitted to Wheeler who pronounced them a new variety 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 725 which is, as far as the writer can ascertain, still undescribed. PH. vINELANDICA Forel var. Workers of this species were collected at Winfield, April 19, under stones. This species occurs in the “Eastern States’ and no record was found of its occur- rence in Kansas. Pu. HaAyest M. R. Smith. Specimens of this species found attacking planted corn and kafir seed at Manhattan were sent to M. R. Smith, who pronounced it a new species and who stated that Wheeler had concurred in the belief that it was a new and undescribed species. A description of this ant appeared in ENtomorocicaL News for July, 1924, page 251. Because of its damage to planted seed in the state, this insect bids fair to become of considerable importance and studies are now being carried on to learn of its life history. So far this species has been found at Manhattan only. CREMASTOGASTER LINEOLATA Say. This species without ref- erence to any of its varieties or subspecies is listed from Law- rence by Tucker (1908), who found females and workers in April, workers in June, and-males and females in September. It is also found listed by Crevecoeur as new. Wheeler gives the range of this species as northern states and Canada. C. LINEOLATA subsp. LEVIUSCULA Mayr. Tucker reports tak- ing this subspecies from a dead standing elm tree at Lawrence, and at Wichita he found workers during April. C. LINEOLATA var. CLARA Mayr. Workers of this variety (determined by W. M. W.) have been collected at Winfield a number of times by the writer. They were found under stones in several instances with colonies of Solenopsis molesta Say. This is apparently a new state record. C. vIcTIMA subsp. MISSOURTENSIS Pergande. This species (determined by M. R. S.) was collected by the writer at Man- hattan under stones April 13, 1917. It is a new state record. STENAMMA sp. Undetermined males of this genus are in the State Agricultural College collection from Manhattan collected in September both by Faville and Marlatt. APHAENOGASTER MARIAE Forel. In a recent letter, M. R. Smith writes that he has seen this species among ants from the Colorado Agricultural College collection sent him by C. R. Jones which bore Kansas labels. This is apparently a new state record.” A. TREATAE Forel. A new record for Kansas. Workers of “Other species noted from this collection from Kansas are Formica pallide-fulva Latr.. Eciton schmitti Emery, Prenolepis imparis Sav. and Leptothorax curvispinosus Mayr. Smith also has a record of Mono- morium minimum Buckley from Lawrence. All of these are discussed elsewhere in this paper. mK XVE, 25) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 43 this species (determined by M. R. S.) were collected abundantly in March and April by Norton. A. FULVA Roger. Although not reported from this state, this species may occur since Wheeler (1916, p. 586) says that A. tennesscensis, the next listed species, occurs only in regions where A. fulva occurs. A. TENNESSEENSIS Mayr. This species was first reported from Lawrence by Tucker, at which time he called it Stenamma (Aphaenogaster) tennesseensis. It is listed, mispelled, as an addition to the Kansas list by Crevecoeur. In the State Agri- cultural College collection are workers (determined by M. R. S.) from Riley County collected in March. POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS subsp. RUGOSUS Emery. Three workers from Grant County, collected August 16 by Popenoe, two workers from Hamilton County, collected August 27 by Popenoe, and one worker from Meade County, collected July, are in the State Agricultural College collection, (determined by M. R. S.). According to Wheeler, the range of this subspecies is from Arizona to California. This is evidently a new state record and a somewhat eastern extension of its range. P. OCCIDENTALIS Cresson. This insect, known commonly as the Mound-building Prairie Ant, is widely distributed over the western part of the state. Because of its economic importance it is one of the best-known Kansas ants. The work of Dean (1908) on its life history has revealed many facts concerning its biology. This species was first noted in Kansas lists by Bridwell (1899). Specimens are at hand from Russell, Wallace, Hamilton and Trego Counties, and the writer has collected specimens in Cowley County. Dean (loc. cit.) has shown that it occurs throughout the state ‘“‘west of a line running through Belleville in Republic County and Oxford in Sumner County.” Myrmica RuBRA Linn. This species without varietal distinc- tion is reported from Lawrence by Tucker where he found it in September. M. ruBRA Linn. var. SULCINODOIDES Emery. This variety is listed from the state by Crevecoeur. Its range according to Wheeler is Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. LEPTOTHORAX SCHAUMI Roger. This species is in the Crevecoeur list as a Kansas species. L. curvispinosus Mayr. Also listed by Crevecoeur. This and the previous species are probably from the vicinity of Ottawa. L. sp. This undetermined species is also found in the Crevecoeur list. It may be one of the foregoing species or a different one. (To be continued) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Feb., ’25 > A New Subspecies of Brenthis myrina Cram. (Lepid. : Nymphalidae). 3y Wo. Barnes and F. H. Benyamin, Decatur, Illinois. Brenthis myrina tollandensis race nov. Similar to topotypical (New York) myrina; the black mark- ings on the upper side tending to be narrower and cleaner cut except toward the wing bases which are slightly more suffused than in eastern specimens. The most conspicuous difference is on the under side of the hind wing which in the present race bas much more yellow, the yellow untinged by brown, the usual brown patches in the subterminal area between veins 2-4 and 4-7 reduced and pow- dery. The subterminal apical region of the fore wing agrees with the hind wing in its clear yellow color and brown powdery patch, appearing quite yellow instead of being heavily suffused by the brown patch found on eastern specimens. B. myrina occurs from Labrador to British Columbia and southward to Pennsylvania and Utah. As might be expected, there appears to be a gradual transition from: the typical form though paler colored Alberta and Utah material toward the Colorado form. These are the first Colorado specimens we have seen, although the Barnes Collection is rich in Colorado material from Glen- wood Springs, Denver, Hall Valley, etc., the result of extensive collecting by Bruce, Oslar and Barnes. 294.%,; 1400 930 470 400 do. Amazonas .... 100 60 40 can Sphingidaeivaice .. 140 118 Zz 94 The Satyride collection, made by Fassl, is especially inter- esting, as it contains a long series of different species, including insects found only at high altitudes, that are lacking in the collections of other workers i in the tropics. Weymer had 1 recourse to this collection when working at the Seitz-manual wherein he describes 30 new species and var ieties, and 20 hitherto un- known.—(From Staudinger & Bang-Haas, List No. XIII, December, 1924.) 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TOS E Citorial—HOpe si. .j-\-ijeleleisieleuie erestnieate 122 Imperial Entomological Conference... 109 | Gunder—California’s Annual Butterfly Needham—Some Aquatic Neuropteroid SHOW yeseinis cterereicteieieveleleereietarcenee enero 123 Insects of Lake George............ 110 | Entomological Literature.............. 123 Weiss and West—An Adelid Gall on Virginia Creeper (Lepidoptera)... 116 Barnes and Benjamin—Notes on Two Doings of Societies—Ent. Sec., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (Odonata, Hymen- optera, Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepid. 126 Butterfly Names omitted from Re- Obituary: A. Bang-Haas.............. 128 Thomas Lincoln Casey. Thomas Lincoln Casey, for many yéars an earnest student of American Coleoptera, died on February 3, 1925, in his 68th year. He was born February 19, 1857, at West Point, New York, the son of Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey and Emma Weir, and grandson of Major Gen. Silas Casey. He was educated at private schools in Washington; Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, class of 1877; and finally graduated with high honors at the United States Military Academy in 1879. His career in the army included appointment as second lieutenant, corps of engineers, June 13, 1879; first lieutenant, June 17, 1881; captain,-July 23, 1888; major, July 5, 1898; lieutenant colonel, September 26, 1906; colonel, September 21, 1909. charge of defense of Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the He was in Spanish-American War, and at many stations in charge of works of river and harbor improvement; assistant astronomer under Prof. Newcomb, Transit of Venus expedition, Cape of Good Hope, 1882; Greer County Commission, Texas, 1886; Mississippi River Commission, 1902-6. U. S. Engineers’ exhibit, St. Louis Exposition, 1904; member and engineering secretary, Light 1906-10 ; retired from active service March 1, 1912. He married June 1, 1898, Laura Welsh, of Philadelphia, who survives him. 97 He was in charge of House Board, 98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Apress Physically, he was tall, well built, though somewhat over weight in his later years. His home was in Stoneleigh Court, Washington, D. C., after his retirement from the army, where he was always glad to receive entomological visitors, who found him a gracious host. His occupations, apart from ento- mology, included billiards at the Cosmos Club, and music at his home, in which he and Mrs. Casey found pleasure. Many daylight hours were devoted to his beetles, studied with the help of many pipes of tobacco. Possessed of inherited intelligence of high order, provided with the best education schools could supply, fortunately inde- pendent of financial worries or overly onerous daily duties, happily married, Casey came into the study of the Coleoptera with an equipment which has seldom been equalled. His field experiences, in consequence of the various stations involved in his army life, included Long Island, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, California and South Africa. His generous purchases aided in building up one of the most remarkable of private collections, so extensive indeed that he was obliged to rent two apartments in Stoneleigh Court, one for his collection and hooks, the other for his abode. His library was so large that he had everything, practically, in his home that the literature contained. The final resting place of both collection and library will be in the United States National Museum, as we are informed by Mr. John D. Sherman, Jr. A conference of specialists to make plans for the reception of the collection has been called for March 3. With the advantages thus recapitulated he approached the taxonomy of the Coleoptera as logically as he did the engineer- ing problems for which he had been trained. The microscope stood always ready on his working table; under its magnifica- tion the smallest beetle was subjected to minute scrutiny and had to agree in every detail with its published description before its identity could be satisfactorily established. If such scrutiny failed to bring it within the characters of some described species, it was set aside for description later as a new species, usually in conjunction with a review of the group to poceves 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 99 which it belonged, at least as far as the group was represented in his collection. Beginning with such a review of Cucujidae in 1884, Casey continued this laborious work for forty years. In that period he published 8621 pages (the greater part at his own expense) and described a large number of species or forms. The descriptions often cover half a page of fine print and for completeness of detail leave nothing to be desired. The synopses that precede the descriptions display in the highest degree his remarkable power of analysis. His work was unaided and always original without compilation from other authors, and he never altered his style of composition, seldom changed his views or retracted his statements. The same attitude of describing what he sometimes called “taxo- nomic units” as he found them in his collection, leaving the biologist to determine their relation to one another or to previ- ously described species, persisted in spite of all criticism. Of criticism there was plenty. His efforts were at first encouraged by Dr. George H. Horn, who, following the death of Dr. Leconte, had become by 1884 the principal authority on American Coleoptera. Casey’s insistence upon describing as new species individuals which differed in some slight respect, contrary to Horn’s opinion that they did not represent “species,” alienated the support of the older man. Horn’s attitude towards Casey’s description was shown by Synonymical Notes in which his specific names were briefly and at times perhaps wrongfully relegated to synonymy. The industry of the younger writer and his capacity for dealing with the more minute and neglected species quickly made it impossible for Horn to cope with the situation. Following Dr. Horn’s lead it became the fashion among coleopterists to deride Casey’s work. There was once an entomological gathering at which the percentage of valid species among those he had described was variously estimated by those present, 70% being the highest estimate. Casey seldom trou- bled himself to refute criticisms and the synonymy alleged by his critics therefore stands in the catalogues, although in con- did reply to criticism, he was vigorous in attack, a fighter who neither gave nor asked quarter. He once said that he enjoyed “polite polemics.” 100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Api, 25 Many years must pass before an accurate estimate of the value of his work can be formed. To many coleopterists it must seem incredible that after the exhaustive work of Leconte, Horn, Crotch and others almost half our species waited for Casey’s discovery and description. And if their studies cover Prionus, Buprestis, or other genera in which his method of de- scribing unique specimens led to bad results, they may feel jus- tified in regarding his “taxonomic units’’ as probably synonyms in most cases, But when comparison is made with recent studies in Serica, where dissection of genitalia has resulted in doubling the number of species, or in Donacia, where five years of masterly study of abundant material has produced a similar result, soon to be published, it will be seen that finer discrimination must always result in a great increase in names. When, moreover, it is remembered that a great part of Casey’s work was with the Pselaphidae, Scydmaenidae, Staphylinidae and other obscure families which had been greatly neglected up to his time, it is not so surprising that, in the immense product of his long continued industry, he found it necessary to describe thousands of species. A revision of his descriptions with a view to eliminating the names that are unnecessary can be adequately made only by students as well prepared for their work as he was for his and equally willing to devote them- selves to a laborious task. And after making all corrections there may still remain as Casey’s life work, the greatest con- tribution to the taxonomy of the Coleoptera that has ever been made by one man. A list of Col. Casey’s writings to 1918 appeared in the last Catalogue of the Coleoptera. His subsequent publications include : A revisional study of the American Platyninae, Random Studies among the American Caraboidea, Some dese. Studies among the American Barinae, Mem. Coleop. IX, 1-529, Apl. 8, 1920. Studies in the Rhynchophorous subfamily Barinae of the Brazilian Fauna, Mem. Colecp. X, 1-520, Nov. 25, 1922. Additions to the known Coleoptera of North America, Mem. Coleop. Xi, 16347. May 20, 1924. Cuas, W. LENG. xvi, 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 101 Six New Thysanoptera from the Western United States. By J. DoucLtas Hoop, University of Rochester. This paper continues the description of the new species which have accumulated in my collection during the past few years. Three of the six forms described below were collected in Colo- rado in 1918 and 1919 by Mr. L. O. Jackson, formerly of the U. S. Biological Survey; two were given to me by the late Mr. H. M. Russell, whose careful work on thrips for the Bureau of Entomology has made his name known to all entomologists ; while the remaining one was taken in Texas in 1911 by the late Mr. Charles A. Hart, formerly Systematic Entomologist of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. The types are in my collection. Anaphothrips decolor sp. nov. ? (macropterous ).—Length about 1.3 mm. Color uniform, pale, yellowish white, with last three abdominal segments shad- ing to pale brownish, extreme tip of segment 10 dark brown; antennal segments 1-4 nearly white, 5 shading to brown at tip, 6-8 dark brown; ocellar pigment wanting; wings colorless. Sixth antennal segment divided; no long bristles on posterior angles of prothorax ; tenth abdominal segment divided above in its entire length. Colorado, L. O. Jackson; taken by sweeping. Closest to A. longipennis Crawford, but easily known by the total absence of long prothoracic bristles and the divided last segment of the abdomen. Haplothrips purpuratus sp. nov. ? (macropterous ).—Length about 1.5 mm. Color blackish brown, with fore tarsi, ends of fore tibiae, and antennal seg- ments 3-6 bright yellow; segments 1, 2, 7 and 8 of antennae blackish brown, 2 paler at apex, 5 and 6 slightly infuscate apically ; wings colorless, without the usual brown area at base, hairs dark gray, except at tip of wings, where they are abruptly clear white; subhypodermal pigmentation purple. Head unusually .long, about 1.4 times as long as greatest width, broadest behind eyes, sides slightly rounded and some- what narrowed to base; vertex subconically produced in front of eyes and overhanging insertion of antennae, the anterior 102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Apts, 2 ocellus attaining frontal costa and directed forward ; dorsal and lateral surfaces very finely and closely, but not deeply, trans- versely striate, and set with a few minute, barely distinguishable bristles; postocular bristles blunt but nearly pointed, almost as long as eyes. Eyes small, not protruding. Ocelli anterior in position. Antennae about 1.6 times as long as head; segment 3 slightly shorter than 2, 4, 5 or 6, outer surface less rounded than inner, inner surface without sense cone; 4, 5 and 6 alike in shape, with successively slenderer and shorter pedicels ; 7 with pedicel half as wide as apex; 8 subconical, closely united with 7. Prothorax along median dorsal line less than half as long as head and (inclusive of coxae) about 2.5 times as wide as long, surface finely and closely striate with anastomosing lines except at middle ; midlateral bristles wanting, all others blunt or slightly dilated at tips, shorter but somewhat stouter than postoculars, dark in color. Mesoscutum deeply, and exceedingly closely, transversely striate; metascutum similarly, but longitudinally, striate. Wings distinctly narrowed at middle; fore pair with about 22 clear white hairs at tip and devoid of accessory hairs on posterior margin; third subbasal bristle long, pointed, the others about half as long and dilated at tip, all colorless. Tarsal tooth minute. Abdomen only slightly wider than pterothorax ; tergites with a few faint, anastomosing striae. Tube less than one-half as long as head, twice as wide at base as at apex, sides slightly concave. LBristles long and pointed, terminal ones light brown and equal in length to tube, others colorless. Measurements of holotype (?): Length 1.49 mm.; head, length 0.240 mm., width 0.174 mm.; prothorax, length along median dorsal line 0.114 mm., width (inclusive of coxae) 0.293 mm.; pterothorax, width 0.308 mm.; abdomen, width 0.332 mm.; tube, length 0.111 mm., width at base 0.066 mm., at apex 0.033 mm. Antennal seoments. =... = ia Oe ae Length (microtis)* 2.) 45°55 248) 574 pom ole a7, Width ‘(microns 293" 3335 729 2235" 1280927 2 Total length of antenna 0.38 mm. 3 (macropterous ).—Much like female, but smaller (length 1.2 mm.) and more slender. Fore legs scarcely more enlarged than in female; fore tarsi with a stout, dark-tipped tooth whose anterior margin is at right angles to axis of tarsus. Measurements of allotype (¢): Length 1.20 mm.; head, length 0.216 mm., width 0.149 mm.; prothorax, length along median dorsal line 0.101 mm., width 0.255 mm.; pterothorax, mV 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 103 width 0.270 mm. ; abdomen, width 0.242 mm. ; tube, length 0.090 mm., width at base 0.052 mm., at apex 0.031 mm. mirugayseamentso... 1 2 3° 4°.5 /6 °° 75°8 tenor (microns)... 35 Sl 45 55-54 49 43 26 Maden (miierons)i:.. 28 27° 21 28 25 22°19" 10 Total length of antenna 0.36 mm. Described from one female and one male taken on Atriplex sp., at Tempe, Arizona, October 27, 1913, by Mr. H. M. Russell (No. 230). The absence of accessory hairs from the posterior margin of the fore wings, the produced vertex, the purplish subhypodermal pigmentation, the antennal coloration, the sculpture of the pronotum and the absence of the midlateral bristle make this an easily known species. It is allied to jonesii, halophilus, malifloris and the new species described below. Haplothrips distalis sp. nov. ? (macropterous ).—Length about 1.5 mm. Color pale brown, with bright red subhypodermal pigmentation; fore tarsi, seg- ment 3 of antennae, and usually the bases of segments 4-6, bright yellow; segments 1, 2, 7 and 8 blackish brown, 2 paler apically, 3 often very slightly infuscate at extreme apex, 4-6 brown in distal three-fifths or more, 4 darkest ; wings clear and colorless, except occasionally for a slight brownish cloud at extreme base, hairs dark gray except at tip of wings, where they are abruptly clear white. Head unusually long, about 1.33 times as long as greatest width, broadest behind eyes, sides slightly rounded and some- what narrowed to base; vertex subconically produced in front of eyes and overhanging insertion of antennae, the anterior ocellus attaining frontal costa and directed forward; dorsal and lateral surfaces very finely and closely transversely striate and set with a few minute, barely distinguishable bristles ; postocular bristles blunt, not at all pointed, about two-thirds as long as eyes and dark in color. Eyes small, not protruding. Ocelli anterior in position. Antennae about 1.6 times as long as head ; segment 3 about equal in length to 2 and distinctly shorter than 4, without sense cone on inner surface ; segment 4 decidedly the longest and broadest in entire antenna, distinctly stouter than 5 or 6; 7 with pedicel more than half as wide as apex; 8 sub- conical, closely united to 7. Prothorax along median line less than half as long as head and (inclusive of coxae) about 2.4 times as wide as long, sur- 104 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Apree 25 face without noticeable sculpture; all usual bristles present, blunt but scarcely dilated at tip, dark brown in color, midlaterals subequal to the two pairs on anterior margin, those at posterior angles longer and subequal to postoculars. Mesoscutum moder- ately closely transversely striate; metascutum more closely and deeply longitudinally striate. Wings distinctly narrowed at middle; fore pair with 9-11 clear white hairs at tip and with about 9 accessory hairs on posterior margin; third subbasal bristle long, pointed the others less than half as long and dilated at tip, all colorless. Tarsal tooth minute. Abdomen only slightly wider than pterothorax; tergites faintly sculptured with anastomosing lines., Tube less than one- half as long as head, nearly twice as wide at base as at apex, sides very slightly concave. Bristles long and pointed, terminal ones light brown and longer than tube, others colorless. Measurements of ‘holotype (?): Length 1.50 mm.; head, length 0.221 mm., width 0.165 mm.; prothorax, length along median dorsal line 0.105 mm., width (inclusive of coxae) 0.249 mm.; pterothorax, width 0.296 mm.; abdomen, width 0.306 mim. ; tube, length 0.105 mm., width at base 0.059 mm., at apex 0.031 mm. Antennalesesmentsyea Ole tO). 3 ae A I ee eS Lensth (microns): 7. 36 48-48 59° 50° 45 44 "24 WidthiGnicrons)s5.& + 26nnZOn 25832) 27924 20a Total length of antenna 0.35 mm. ¢ (macropterous ).—Much like female, but smaller (length 1.3 mm.) and more slender. Head nearly 1.5 times as long as wide, as broad across eyes as behind them, eyes slightly pro- truding. Fore legs scarcely more enlarged than in female; fore tarsi with a rather small, stout tooth whose front margin is at right angles to axis of tarsus. Measurements of allotype (¢): Length 1.29 mm.; head, length 0.215 mm., width 0.146 mm.; prothorax, along median dorsal line 0.093 mm., width (inclusive of coxae) 0.225 mm.; pterothorax, width 0.249 mm.; abdomen, width 0.231 mm.; tube, length 0.105 mm., width at base 0.055 mm., at apex 0.029 mm. Antennal-segments. = ©/1 7 G2 Sea aee eens ats ny ees Length’(microns)... 33°47 "47 246m et Width (microns). .-. ° 275° 26""24n 29 e226 el 19) 12 Total length of antenna 0.33 mm. Described from 6 females and 5 males, taken on Atriplex Ven- j@al spines*of penult/legs, 0, 1, 3, 2,1; dorsal 1, 0, 3, 1, 0. Dorsal spines of eleventh and twelfth legs, 0, 0, 3, 1, 2. Coxae not laterally armed. In the male the lobe at end of fourth joint of penult legs is small, subcylindric, distally trun- cate, and extends obliquely dorsocaudad above the plane of articulation with fifth joint. Coxal pores 3, 5, 5, 3. Length, 15 mm. Locality——Uruguay: Montevideo. Type: Male, with anal legs missing, sent for identification by F. Felippone. In collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A New Genus of the Siphonaptera. By Carrot Fox, Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service. Actenophthalmus gen. nov. Very close to Rhadinopsylla Jordan and Rothschild (1912) but easily distinguished by the six pairs of lateral plantar bristles on the fifth tarsal segments of all legs. Frontal notch distinct; eye absent; a genal comb of five spines of approximately the same length, the upper spine not in line with and diverging from the others; anterior margin of the antennal groove thickened especially at the usual loca- tion of the eye; antennal groove not carried to top of head, the internal incrassation absent; labial palpus of five segments, the last segment not as long as the fourth and having near the tip posteriorly a curved bristle as in Rhadinopsylla and Ctenophthalmus; pronotal comb present; abdominal tergites with apical spines as follows, 2nd. with 6, 3rd. with 8, 4th. with 6 and 5th. with 4, on the two sides taken together ; seventh tergite with two antepygidial bristles on each side; pygidium convex ; a large patch of hairs on inner side of hind coxa; fifth tarsal segment of all legs with six pairs of stout lateral plantar bristles. Type, Actenophthalmus heiseri McCoy (1911) as Ctenoph- thalmus. Type specimen in U. S. National Museum, No. 14154. Host unknown. Locality, Mojave, California. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PHILADELPHIA, Pa., APRIL, 1925. Hope. Two entomologists stood before a case filled with books on insects among which one of them was searching for a par- ticular volume. “It’s no use” said the other, banteringly ; “You might as well as stop now as at any other time. There are ten million species of insects and you'll never get to the end.” “Carry out your idea logically,” the first replied, “and vou might as well never begin.” Neither of them stopped. A week ago the earth and the air were filled with the promise of spring as the thermometer mounted to the seven- ties. To-night, as these words are written, a high northwestern gale has driven the temperature to seventeen degrees below the freezing point and no insect stirs out of doors. In both cases the entomologist is sustained by the hope that betterment will come—that he will shed some little light on the obscurity that veils so much of the living world, just as the eternal round of the seasons will again bring spring time and harvest—of insects as of grains. We desire here to acknowledge our appreciation of the re- plies to our Editorial in the March number. We are especially glad to get those giving suggestions and opinions as to what would make for the improvement of our journal, and we feel sure they will greatly help us in our work. We thank the following persons for their words of advice and approval: W. S. Blatchley, S. E. Cassino, R. A. Cooley, M. H. Hatch, E, P. Felt, H. B. Weiss and E. A. Klages. 122 KX UIE: 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 123 California’s Annual Butterfly Show. The 4th Annual Butterfly Show of the Lorquin Ento- mological Club was held at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., during February. Fifteen exhibitors displayed parts of their collections and some fifteen thousand moths and butterflies were arranged in cases and cabinets for public approval. Very little Eastern material was represented, prac- tically everything being from the West Coast. Mr. Wm. Schrader’s exhibit of J. coenia showing some twenty-five gen- erations thru to form nigrosuffusa was of special interest, as were the Calif. group of Melitaeas by Geo. Malcolm. A fine display of local Noctwidae was arranged by Chas. Hill. Among the commercial displays, that by Mrs. Alice Newcomb received “Ist Commercial Prize Ribbon” for Butterfly Arts and Crafts. J. D. Gunner, Recorder for 1925. Entomological Literature COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. Papers of systematic nature will be found in the paragraph at the end of their respective orders. Those containing descriptions of new genera and species occurring north of Mexico are preceded by an *. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. The titles occurring in the Entomological News are not listed. 4—Canadian Entomologist. 5—Psyche. 11—Deutsche Ent. Zeitschrift. 18—Internationale Entomolog. Zeit., Guben. 22—Bulletin of Ent. Research. 24—Annales, Societe Ent. de France. 45—Zeit. f. Wissenschftl. Insek- entk., Berlin. 50—Proc., U. S. Nat. Mus. 69—Comptes Rendus des Seances, Acad. Sci. Paris. 75—Annals and Mag. of Nat. History, London. 89—Zool. Jahrbucher, Jena. 107—Biologisches Zentralblatt. 130—Ohio Jour. of Sci- ences. 131—Entomologische Blatter, Berlin. 145—Physis, Buenos Aires. 154—Zoolog. Anzeiger. GENERAL. Barber, G. W.—The importance of winter mortality in the natural control of the European corn borer in New England, 5, xxxi, 279-92. Bruch, C.—La obra cienti- 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Apr ea) fica del Dr. Carlos Bruch. 145, vii, 216-277. Hedicke & Hering.—Vorschlage fur eine terminologie der blattminen. 11, 1924, 185-99. Oberthur, C.—Obituary. 18, xviii, 299-30. Schroder, C.—Handbuch der entomologie. iii, p. 849-1040. Young, R. T.—The life of Devils Lake, North Dakota. (Pub. N. Dak. Biol. Sta., 1924, 114 pp., Insecta, p. 94-8.) ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL, ETC. Bierens de Haan, J. A.—Reflex und instinkt bei dem am- eisenlowen. 107, xliv, 657-67. Bodenheimer, F. S.—Uber die ausnutzung des pflanzenneueunfuhrungen entstandenen. freien nahrungsraums durch einheimische insekten. 107, xliv, 671-5. Corneli, W.—Von dem ausbau des sehorgans der blattwespenlarven u. der entwick. des netzauges. 89, xlvi, Anat., 573-608. Dallas, E. D—Melomelia tarsai en un coleoptero argentino, Scatophilus dasypleurus. 145, vii, 242-3. Feuerborn, H. J.—Das problem der segmentalen eliederung des insektenthorax. 154, lxu, 1-26. Heyde, K.— Die entwicklung der psychischen fahigkeiten bei ameisen und ihr verhalten bei abgeanderten biol. bedingungen. 107, xliv, 623-54. Hosselet, C_.—Les eonocytes de Culex annu- latus et etude de leur chondriome au cours de la secretion. 69, clxxx, 399-401. Mohr, O. L.—A minute-like I]I-chromo- some recessive in Drosophila melanogaster. (Br. Jour. Exper. Biol., ii, 189-98.) Parker, H. L.—Recherches sur les formes post-embryonnaires des Chalcidiens. 24, xcili, 261-379. Passerini, N.—Influenza della qualita alimenti sull accrescimento delle larve e sul metabolismo del Tene- brio. molitor.” (Att Re. Accad.. Naz. “Mince. 4, poo-9)). Pawlowsky, E. N.—Zur ausseren morphologie der skor- pione, p. 473. Zur morphol. der weibl. genitalorgane der skorpione, p. 493. 89, xlvi, Anat., 473-508. Prell, H.—Zur biologie der blattschaber (Cionini). 154, Ixii, 33-48. Rasanen, V.—Stridulationsapparate bei ameisen besonders bei Formicidae. (Acta Soc. Fauna et Fl. Fennica, xl, No. 8.) Rittershaus, K.—Eine neue art von eisprengern bei lamellicornierlarven (Phylloptera horticola und Anomala aenea). 154, Ixii, 31-3. Trappmann, W.—Die malpighi- schen gefasse von Apis mellifica. Anatomie u. phys. des zwischendarmes von A, mellifica. Die bildung der peri- tropihischen membran von A. mel. Die rectaldrusen von A. mel. Morphol. u. entwicklungsgeschichte von Nosema apis. (Arb. aus der Bio. Reichs. f. Land-i. Forstwirts., Berlin, xii, 565-622.) exxvi, 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 125 ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA. Dias, Libanio e Lisboa.—Lucta contra os escorpioes: The struggle against scorpions. (Mem. Inst. O. Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, xvii, 5-44. Gatenby, J. B—Notes on Acarine or Isle of Wight bee dis- eise. (5¢..Proc. KR. Dublin Soc., xvii, 357-63.) THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTA. Needham, J. G—tThe male of the parthenogenetic may-fly, Ameletus ludens. 5, xxxi, 308-10. Porter, C. E——Los estudios sobre neuropteros chilenos. (Rev. Chilena Hist Nat., xxvii, 168- 81.) Banks, N.—Neurop. from the Williams Galapagos exped. Zoologica, N. Y., v, 177-80.) Navas, L.—Algunos insectos de Chile..2d ser. (Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., xxviii, 12-16.) HEMIPTERA. Chamberlin, J. C—The citrus Coccidae of the World. An appeal for co-operation and aid. 22, xv, 281-2. Torre-Bueno, J. R—Methods of collecting, mount- ing and preserving hemiptera. 4, lvii, 6-10. * Drake & Hottes.—Four undescribed sps. of water- striders (Gerridae). 130, xxv, 46-50. Myers, J. G—On the systematic position of the fam. Termitaphididae with a descr. of an. gen and sp. from Panama. 5, xxxi, 259-78. LEPIDOPTERA. Bouvier, E. L.—Sur les Saturniens Hemileucides du groupe du Dirphia tarquina. 24, xciil, 381-9. Draudt, M.—The macrolepidoptera of the World, Fauna Amer. Pts. 158-59. Noctuidae, Genera Cardepia to Xylomyges. *McDunnough, J.—New Canadian L. with notes. 4, lvii, 11-23. Stichel, H.—Beitrage z. kenntnis der Riodinidenfauna Sudamerikas. VII. Nord-Brasilien. 45, xix, 245-50. DIPTERA. * Aldrich, J. M.—New D. or two winged mies im the U.)S. Nat. Mus. 50, ixvi, Art.. 18. *Curran, C. H.—Three new D. from Labrador. 4, lvii, 24-6. * Dyar & Shannon.—The mosquitoes of Peary’s pole exped. of 1908. (Jour. Wash. Ac. Sc., xv, 77-8.) Edwards, F. W.— Mosquito notes.—V. On the identity of certain type speci- mens, of Wulp and Theobald. 22, xv, 260-2. * Hull, F. M. = feview of the gen. Eristalis in N. Amer. 130, xxv, 11-45. 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Apt:,: 23 COLEOPTERA. Blake, D. H.—Note on the habits of Sphenophorus pontederiae. 5, xxxi, 311. Forbes, W. T. M.° —How a beetle folds its wings. 5, xxxi, 254-8. Bruch, C.—Dos nuevos coleopteros mirmecofilos. 145, vii, 227-31. * Fall, H. C—Some notes on Cercyon, with descr. of three n. sps. 5, xxxi, 247-53. Mann, W. M.—New beetle guests of army ants. (Jour. Wash. Ac. Sc., xv, 73-7.) Marshall, G. A. K.—On new Curculionidae from Brazil. 75, xv, 282-96. Mutchler, A. J—Coleop. from the Williams Galapagos exped. (Zcologica, N. Y., v. 219-40.) Ochs, G. —Uber neue und interessante Gyriniden aus dem Br. Mus. in London. 131, xx, 228-44. HYMENOPTERA. Reinhard, E. G.——The wasp Hopli- sus costalis, a hunter of tree hoppers. (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., xv, 107-10.) Savin, W. M.—The social wasps—Polistes and Vespa. (Nat. Hist., xxv, 81-86.) Bruch, C.— Description de la reina, Eciton hetschkoi. Un nuevo estafilinido ecitonfilo. Una nueva ponerina, Acantho- stichus ramosmexiae, n. sp. 145, vil, 232-35; 256-60; 260-61. Brues, C. T.—The identity of Leptofeonus and Pelecinella, 5, xxxi, 302-4, Clement, E.—Opuscuia Hymenopterologica. 11, 1924, 105-33. Dittrich, R.—Die Tenthredinidocecidien, durch blattwespen verursachte pflanzengallen u. ihre erzeuger. (Zoologica.-Stuttgart, xxiv, 587-635.) Dover, C. —Notes on the genus Nectarina (Vespidae). 5, xxxi, 305-7. Friese, H.—Ueber auffallende hummelformen. 11, 1924, 437-9. Doings of Societies. The Entomological Section of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Meeting of January 24, 1924. Director Laurent in the chair. Eleven persons present. Oponata.—Dr. Calvert made a communication on the taxo- nomic characters of odonate larve, illustrating his remarks with specimens and lantern slides. HyMeENopTEeRA.—Mr. Kisliuk presented larve of Emphy- tus cuictus Linn., taken on manetti stock from Ireland at Phila- delphia, Nov. 21, 1923. Drprera.—Mr. Hornig read a clipping from a New York newspaper which stated that householders should kill off the flies which come into the house in the fall after the screens soni : xxxvI, 725 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 127 are removed, as these are the progenitors of the next summer's house flies. Mr. Hornig deplored such publicity of an untruth, which works against his campaign for the destruction of the hibernating larve in the breeding places. Meeting of March 27, 1924. Vice-Director R. C. Williams presided. Ten persons present, including J. L. King, of the Japanese beetle laboratory, C. G. Albrecht, of the Federal Inspection Board and J. Kotinsky. Mr. King reported that he has just heard of the death of Dr. A. D. MacGillivray, on evening of March 24th. CoLeorTerRA.—Mr. Kisliuk reported the confiscation of a quantity of sweet potatoes on a ship from Cuba, infested by the sweet potato weevil. Dr. Calvert referred to a Geography of Pennsylvania by C. B. Trego, 1843, in which under the subiect of Insects, Prof. S. S. Haldeman says ‘Pennsylvania is the most northern limit of Scarabaeus tityus . . . we have met with but one mature specimen.” Dr. Calvert asked if anyone present knows of other records for this species in Pennsylvania. Several mentioned that it has been recorded from Ohio and Indiana, but could not mention any other records for Pennsylvania.* Mr. Rehn gave an extremely interesting account of his trip to Costa Rica, in 1923, describing the various localities visited and their particular insect life. The communication was illustrated by specimens and lantern slides. Meeting of May 22, 1924. Director Laurent presided. Eight persons present. A circular letter was read announcing the fifth annual sum- mer meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, the program of which scheduled the evening of July 15th in Philadelphia. Dr. Skin- ner suggested that the Section invite them to hold an in- formal meeting at the Academy. To that end it was moved and seconded that an invitation be extended to the association to meet here, and a committee of two be appointed to confer with them regarding this matter and make such arrangements as may be appropriate. Dr. Calvert was appointed chairman of this committee with the privilege to select the other member. Mr. C. F. 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XXXVI MAY, 1925 No. 5 CONTENTS Howard—Parasitic Hymenoptera Feed- The New York State List of Insects... 148 ing by Indirect Suction............ 129 | III. International Congress ot Ento- Hood—Six New Thysanoptera from the ii(alley~ fagoubesop dddusnsacaoscauada 148 Western United States............. 134 | Cort—The American Society of Parasi- Dr. William Schaus..........+s.++ee0- 138 tologists ..........eeeeeeee coeeeee- 149 Champlain, Kirk and Knull—Notes on Needham—Entomologists are Honest. 149 Cerambycidae (Coleoptera)....... 139 | Riley—An Enquiry .............--..0.- 150 Crosby and Bishop—Two New Spiders Entomological Literature.............. 150 Review of The Revista Chilena de His- from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina (Araneina)........ 142 Klages—What becomes of Great Col- | cehittoy GME Sete sou Coa dune omeacre 146 Fditorial--Giveus Entomological News! 147 Prof. and Mrs. Cockerell to Visit Ar- PENINA...cccecsccseeee soni cagOuOS 148 COKIAM NAULMT Ace a oils cecoittelaivaissie lols 157 Review Fiji-New Zealand Expedition. 158 Doings of Societies—The American En- tomological Society (Coleoptera, Bepidoptera) een a<-clsl-cisses cee =i 159 Parasitic Hymenoptera Feeding by Indirect Suction. By L. O. Howarp, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. The gaps in our knowledge of the biology and economy of the parasitic Hymenoptera are so great as almost to be ap- palling. The object of this note is once more to call to the attention of American workers a very interesting field in which many more observations are needed. In an article published in the June, 1910, number of the Jour- nal of Economic Entomology, I wrote of the habit with certain Chalcidoidea of feeding at the puncture holes made by the ovipositor, mentioning Paul Marchal’s observations on the feed- ing of Tetrastichus xanthomelaenae in this way on the eggs of the European elm leaf beetle, those of Dr. H. T. Fernald of a similar habit on the part of Tetrastichus asparagi with the eggs of the imported asparagus beetle; also those of Marchal again of the same habit with Aphelinus mytilaspidis in relation to Aspidiotus ostreaeformis ; also the observations by Mr. J. G. Sanders, then of the federal Bureau of Entomology, on Aphelinus fuscipennis in relation to Aspidiotus rapar. All of these observations were practically identical and were as- 129 realds a 130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 y, sumed in my note to be indicative of a habit which might be very general among many parasitic Hymenoptera, and I called attention to them especially for the very good reason which I quoted from Marchal and which may be translated, very freely, as follows: This is a factor hitherto neglected which must be taken into consideration in the study of the evolution and specialization of the instincts related to reproduc- tion which one observes with insects and Ras Bi with Hymenoptera. In 1921 Mr. B. Trouvelot of Marchal’s eae published a note (reviewed by me in Entomological News for July, 1922). in. which he described a most curious and interesting complica- tion in this habit of feeding at the puncture hole, showing that Habrobracon johannseni piercing the cocoons of the potato tuber moth secretes a gelatinous tube connecting the body of the larva with the exterior of the silken cocoon so that the parasite can feed readily. I pointed out that a similar habit would surely be found among parasitic Hymenoptera in this country, and my object in sending the note to Entomological News was to ask observers to look into the matter. Since that time other similar observations have been made. J. L. Lichtenstein in France has noticed a similar procedure with Habrocytus cionicida, a Chalcidoid parasite of Cionus thapsi. J. C. Faure, also in France, found something similar with a species of Pachyneuron and with Pteromalus variabilts and Arthrolytus sp. Jointly with Messrs. Paillot and Ferriere, he found something similar with Dibrachys boucheanus, while: Voukassovitch has studied a similar procedure with Dibrachys affius and Pteromalus encerus. Thus it will be seen that a: group of entomologists in France have been paying Tather. especial attention to this remarkable habit. Quite recently J. C. Faure (Revue de Zoologie agricole et appliquée, October 1924, pages 225-233) has published certain studies on the oviposition and mode of nutrition of Pteromalus variabilis and Eurytoma appendigaster when parasitizing Apanteles glomeratus through its cocoons. XXxvi,.’25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 131 He shows how the adult of Pteromalus variabilis runs over the cocoons. touching them: with its antennae until it stops, places its legs firmly upon the silk, draws its abdomen under until it forms a right angle with the rest of the body, and thrusts its ovipositor into the wall of the cocoon. The move- ments which it makes are described. Then the ovipositor seeks the larva in the cocoon, exploring the surface of its body and finally puncturing it, which results in a paralysis of the larva. Then the ovipositor is withdrawn, the abdomen contracts rhythmically, and a liquid consisting of a whitish mucus is secreted between the stylets in drops and descends to the body of the host larva. After some seconds the ovipositor is with- drawn very slowly, permitting the liquid of the forming tube to rest in place. The tube thus formed varies in length ac- cording to the space between the larva and the wall of the cocoon, and is of a brilliant white in color and is difficult to: see at first. It comes quite to the outside of the cocoon above the silk threads. After withdrawing the ovipositor, the para- site searches, first with its antennae and then with its palpi, to find the extremity of the tube, through which it sucks up the blood of the larva. It may suck thus from fifteen to thirty minutes, and the whole feeding may last from twenty minutes to an hour and a half with periods of rest. Disturbed, or by her own volition, the female may abandon the tube, but readily finds it again. : This feeding method may also be used when the larvae of the Apanteles are taken out of their cocoons. In this case also a tube is secreted, but it is short and only takes from five to seven minutes to make. Dibrachys boucheanus does the same thing, as Voukassovitch observed when he gave it larvae of Sitotroga. Faure also noticed that sometimes the parasites nourished themselves without the help of a tube, applying their mouths to the point pierced by the ovipositor. According to Genieys and also to Picard, Habrobracon johannseni makes no tube if it is feeding upon larvae taken out of the cocoon. Genieys questions whether the absence of the tube is due to a change of instinct or the mechanical impossibility of making a tube under such circumstances. Faure thinks that the obser- 132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, *25 vations just cited discard the second hypothesis and that it is difficult to admit the first, at least in a general way. The egg-laying is then described for this species, and then the formation of a similar tube with Eyrytoma appendigaster, another enemy of the Apanteles. This process is described in detail, but is not strikingly dissimilar to the one just described, although the perforation of the cocoon and the formation of the tube with the latter species only occupies from five to six minutes. Then the egg-laying of the Eurytoma is described in further detail. Under the head of General Considerations, Faure goes on to state that in his opinion nutrition with the aid of a suction tube is probably frequent with Hymenoptera which parasitize hosts living in closed receptacles (such as the cocoons of Apanteles and galls and so on), but of course the observations which have as yet been made—eight in all and by a very few entomologists —will hardly permit a generalization. He points out that Picard has noticed that the female of Melittobia acasta which wishes to nourish itself from a living prey in a closed receptacle to the walls of which it does not adhere, attacks the cocoon with its mandibles and passes its head through the hole made in this way, afterwards laying its egg through the cocoon wall. The same writer also describes the mode of nutrition of Hemuteles areator, which draws along its ovipositor the blood of the larva of Apanteles enclosed in its cocoon. The paralysis of the victim before feeding or egg-laying, which has been noticed with numerous Hymenopterous parasites, is indis- pensable in such cases as those just described in order to enable the making and the use of a suction tube. The liquid from, which the tube is built plays a plain role in the sliding of the egg down through the ovipositor and in its fastening the egg to its host. Faure asks whether there is in all this an indication that in nutrition we may find the adaptive origin of the ovipositor sheath ? It may be asked, as Trouvelot suggests, whether this habit of nutrition with the aid of a tube associated with the special mechanism of oviposition does not constitute one of the im- portant biological characters which permit the parasitic rela- xxxvi, 725 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 133 tion to be extended to hosts which live in enclosed places. Faure does not give this conception any great weight, since he has pointed out two other methods of nutrition which are pos- sible at the expense of hidden hosts. It seems also that certain females never nourish themselves from their hosts when laying their eggs. Moreover, he has observed the oviposition of nu- merous Hymenoptera, and believes that the existence of a viscous liquid is not indispensable to permit the descent of the egg, while the fixation of the egg upon the host is not the gen- eral rule. It should be also noticed that while certain insects secreting a tube abandon this practice when they are feeding upon naked larvae, others preserve it. Undoubtedly many observations on the mere feeding at the puncture hole have been made since the publication of my note in June 1910, enough, in fact, to justify Marchal’s suggestion that the habit must be rather general; but very few of them have been placed on record. R. A. Cushman in his important article on the “Calliephialtes Parasite of the Codling Moth” in the Journal of Agricultural Research, volume I, page 232, showed that C. messor feeds greedily on the juices issuing from the punctures which it makes in the codling moth larva, and Mr. A. B. Gahan has shown me unpublished notes indicating a similar habit on the part of Jtoplectes conquisitor when puncturing the pupae of Autographa brassicae and on the part of Cirrospilus flavicinctus in its relations to Coptodisca splen- dortferella. Some of the other notes that must have been made should be published. In fact, as I talk with entomologists here and there and everywhere, I am constantly learning of observa- tions which have never been recorded but which would be ex- tremely suggestive and would inspire other workers if they were only put into print. But about the tube formation there seem to have been no recorded observations in the United States. I was inclined to be a bit incredulous until Trouvelot himself showed me the tube plainly in Marchal’s laboratory in June, 1923. It only took a little close observation, and Faure states in his article from which we have just quoted that he saw the whole opera- tion easily under the binocular microscope. 134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 Six New Thysanoptera from the Western United States. By J. Doucias Hoop, University of Rochester. (Continued from page 105.) Rhynchothrips piger sp. nov. 2 (brachypterous).—Length about 1.6 mm. Color dark blackish brown (black to the naked eye), with tarsi and apices of all femora and tibiae brownish yellow; antennae with seg- ments 1, 2, 7 and 8 brown, 2 paler apically and 7 in pedicel; 3 yellow, sometimes lightly shaded with brown at apex; 4-6 progressively darker, brownish yellow or brown,. with yellow pedicels, 4 sometimes nearly as pale as 3. Head very slightly wider than long, broadest somewhat behind eyes; cheeks rounded, distinctly converging posteriorly, the head at base about 0.9 the greatest width; lateral and dorsal surfaces striate with widely spaced anastomosing lines which become rather heavily reticulate on vertex, and with the usual minute, transparent bristles; vertex broadly rounded in front, overhanging insertion of antennae, and bearing the anterior ocellus at its extremity; postocular bristles nearly as long as eyes, almost pointed, dark in color. Eyes nearly four-tenths the length of head, two-thirds as wide as their interval. Ocelli situated well forward. Antennae 2.5 times as long as head; segment 3 clavate, symmetrical ; 4-6 pedicellate, 4 longer than 5 and about 1.9 times as long as wide, pedicel not sharply sepa- rated from rest of segment; 7 distinctly pedicellate; 8 broadly united to 7. Mouth cone long and acute, extending well on to mesosternum. Prothorax along median dorsal line about two-thirds as long as head and (inclusive of coxae) nearly 2.9 times as wide as long, without a median dark line, surface without sculpture; all bristles present, blunt but not knobbed, dark in color, outer pair at posterior angles somewhat longer than postoculars, inner pair about equal to postoculars, midlaterals still shorter, the two pairs on anterior margin decidedly shorter and slen- derer than midlaterals. Pterothorax slightly wider than pro- thorax, sides slightly convex, nearly parallel. Wings about attaining base of abdomen, brown in color, and with the three usual sub-basal bristles as long as midlaterals, blunt, brown. Legs rather long, noticeably slender; fore tarsi unarmed. Abdomen large, broad, fully 1.4 times as wide as prothorax. Tube about three-fourths as long as head, about 1.8 times as long as basal width, and fully twice as wide at base as at apex, xxxvi, ’25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 135 sides straight. Bristles dully pointed, brown; lateral bristles on segment 9 about 0.7 as long as tube, shorter than terminal bristles. Measurements of holotype (2): Length 1.59 mm.; head, length 0.188 mm., width behind eyes 0.196 mm., at base 0.176 mim., prothorax, length 0.123 mm., width (inclusive of coxae) 0.353 mm.; pterothorax, width 0.405 mm.; abdomen, width 0.510 mm.; tube, length 0.146 mm., width at base 0.081 mm., at apex 0.038 mm. Pilennel SeOMentS. 4-1 2 do) 4-5 "6 7-8 leeictn (merons).2. 45. 57 75, 70 64° 66. 58° 37 Widthe(micranS).... d+. a9. 35. 3/7 34, 32°27 ‘JA Total length of antenna 0.47 mm. 3 (brachypterous).—Smaller than female and with more slender abdomen; fore tarsus unarmed. Described from 5 females and one male, collected by Mr. L. O. Jackson, at Eldorado Springs, Colorado, June 23, 1918, on a plant which is, as yet, undetermined. Close to Rh. russelli, but structurally separable by having the tube three-fourths, instead of 0.9, as long as head; the mouth cone acute and extending well onto mesosternum, instead of barely attaining it; the prothorax nearly 2.9, instead of 2.0 to 2.25, times as wide as long; the fourth antennal segment longer, instead of shorter, than 5, and 1.9, instead of 1.6, times as long as wide; as well as by the broader head, longer mid- lateral bristles and slenderer legs. In coloration the only ap- parent difference lies in the antennae, which in piger are much darker, with the first two segments more nearly concolorous with the head than with the third segment. Eurythrips harti sp. nov. ¢ (macropterous).—Length about 1.5 mm. Color light brown, with thorax, sides of head and tip of abdomen slightly darker ; subhypodermal pigmentation orange yellow, appearing black by reflected light; legs pale yellow, with femora and tibiae lightly shaded with brown; antennae with segments 1 and 2 pale, about concolorous with legs, slightly darkened at. sides, 3-8 dark brown, 3 palest and with yellow pedicel, 8 darkest. Head about 1.08 times as long as wide, constricted at pos- terior angles of eyes, cheeks diverging slightly to base, notice- 136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 ably roughened in basal half, dorsum of head smooth; vertex slightly elevated and produced, slightly overhanging, bearing the anterior ocellus at its extremity; postocular bristles nearly half as long as head, pointed, colorless; postocellar bristles a little longer than diameter of ocelli; occiput with the usual pair of small bristles about midway between eyes and base of head. Eyes about one-fourth as long as head, somewhat bulg- ing, two-thirds as wide as long, and less than half as wide as their interval, rather coarsely facetted, about 5 facets making up their lateral outline. Ocelli not situated far forward, the posterior margin of posterior ocelli slightly in advance of center of eyes; anterior ocellus directed forward. Antennae 2.3 times as long as head; segments 3-7 pedicellate; 8 somewhat nar- rowed at base but hardly lanceolate or pedicellate, broadly united to 7. Mouth cone semicircularly rounded at apex, slightly surpassing middle of prosternum; tip of labrum not surpassing tip of labium. Prothorax nearly 0.8 as long as head and (inclusive of coxae) about twice as wide as long, surface without sculpture ; anterior marginal bristles minute, all others long, slender and pointed, nearly colorless, midlaterals about equal to postoculars, those at anterior angles much shorter and those at posterior angles much longer and curved. Pterothorax wider than prothorax, narrowed posteriorly, sides slightly convex. Wings of nearly the same width throughout, darker basally, quite uniform brownish beyond; no accessory hairs on posterior margin near tip; the three subbasal bristles pointed, outer longest and about equal to postoculars, others slightly shorter. Legs moderately short and strong, fore tarsi unarmed. Abdomen wider than pterothorax. Tube nearly 0.9 as long as head and about twice as long as basal width, which is about 1.8 times the apical; sides straight. Bristles long, pale yellow and pointed, those on segment 9 much longer than tube; ter- minal bristles darker, two-thirds as long as tube. Measurements of holotype (?): Length 1.49 mm.; head, length 0. 174 mm., greatest width 0.161 mm., width behind eyes 0. 135 mm.; eyes, length 0.047 mm., width 0.032 mm., interval 0.075 mm. ; postocular bristles, length 0.080 mm. ; prothorax, length 0.135 mm. , width (inclusive of coxae) 0.267 mm. ; ptero- thorax, width 0.300 mm.; abdomen, width 0.345 mm.; tube, length 0.155 mm., width at base 0.079 mm., at apex 0.044 mm. Amtennal segments. .... » ll!” {2 seem apens e ieee Length (microns)... 42 54 56 54 56 53 49 40 Wadéth (microns ).\...%, .42. 345. soumso se Zocated » 4A Total length of antenna 0.40 mm. xxxvi, ’25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 137 Described from one macropterous female taken by Charles A. Hart, at Brownsville, Texas, November 20, 1911, “in sweep- ings from grass, etc.” Readily known from the other species of the genus which have pointed bristles by the dark brown color of the third and fourth antennal segments (excepting the yellow pedicel of segment 3), the rounded mouth cone, unarmed fore tarsi, long antennae and short postocellar bristles. Dedicated to Mr. Hart, who for several years spent all his leisure time collecting Thysanoptera in Illinois and Texas, and who in this way added to the North American list more than forty species new to science, three more than were recorded in 1902 by Hinds from the entire continent. Oedaleothrips jacksoni sp. nov. ? (apterous ).—Length about 2.5 mm. General color deep black; posterior third of pterothorax and all of segment 1 of abdomen nearly white; segment 5 of abdomen with a pair of snow-white blotches at the posterior angles; segments 1-3 of antennae lemon yellow, the first two slightly tinged with pale brown at base, the remainder of antennae abruptly deep black ; legs blackish brown, middle and hind tibiae and their tarsi dis- tinctly darker ; tube black. Head about 1.5 times as long as wide, decidedly elevated and swollen behind eyes, narrowed posteriorly to a neck-like base which is only two-thirds the greatest width of head; postocular bristles small, almost lateral, capitate, similar to a forwardly- directed pair near base of antennae. Eyes flattened, protruding, widely separated and about half as wide as their dorsal interval, produced posteriorly in an acute angle on ventral surface of head. Ocelli wanting. Antennae about 1.4 times as long as head, intermediate segments more slender than in Oe. hookert Hood (see measurements ), segment 3 nearly four times as long as greatest width; 5 and 6 produced at apex into a ventral tooth ; 4-7 pedicellate. Prothorax less than twice as long as head and (inclusive of coxae) about 1.8 times as wide as long, declivous posteriorly ; bristles similar to postoculars. Pterothorax greatly reduced, about as long as broad but distinctly narrower than head; metanotum with heavy, concentric anastomising striae. Legs long and slender; hind femora and tibiae distinctly arcuate. Fore tarsus with a short and very stout triangular tooth. 138 ENTOMOLOGICAL’ NEWS May, ’25 Abdomen broad and heavy, abruptly broadened from the very narrow base, more than twice as wide as pterothorax; tube coal black, about 0.4 as long as head, and somewhat more than twice as wide at base as at apex, sides straight; bristles nearly colorless, pointed. Measurements of holotype: Length 2.45 mm.; head, length 0.495 mm., greatest width 0.333 mm., width at base 0.213 mm.; prothorax, length 0.207 mm., width (inclusive of coxae) 0.375 mm.; pterothorax, width at middle 0.285 mm.; abdomen, greatest width 0.654 mm.; tube, length 0.189 mm., width at base 0.105 mm., at apex 0.051 mm. Atteritial’segmients 02.0 SOS BAe ee Ge aaa Length (microns)... 54 90 162 117 108 90 66 52 Width (microns)... 43 41 43 41 38 34 29 21 Total length of antenna 0.739 mm. Described from one female taken by Mr. L. O. Jackson, at Mill Gulch, Colorado, May 30, 1919, from a limb of Mountain Mahogany, Cercocarpus parvifolius Nutt. Readily known from Oe. hookeri Hood (the type of the genus) by the coloration and the more slender antennae, dif- ferently shaped tube, and the pointed abdominal bristles. Oe. querci, from Florida, differs abruptly in having the third anten- nal segment uniform dark brown in color, and the second antennal segment only half as long as the fourth. The species of this genus are decidedly ant-like in general appearance and strongly suggestive, in several ways, of Compsothrips bicolor IKarny, from Paraguay. Oedaleothrips, in fact, may prove to be a synonym of Compsothrips Reuter ; but I have been unable to secure a specimen of the Old World genotype for comparison. It is fitting that this interesting and striking species should be named for Mr. Jackson, whose careful collecting has done much to further our knowledge of the North American Thy- sanoptera. . Doctor Wiiliam Schaus. On February 27, the University of Pittsburgh conferred the degree of doctor of science upon Mr. Wm. Schaus, who is Honorary Assistant Curator of the U. S. National Museum, in charge of Lepidoptera. xxxvi, °25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS’ 139 Notes on Cerambycidae (Coleoptera). By A. B.'‘CHamprain, H. B. Kirk and J: Ni KNULL, Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant Industry.. (Continued from page 109.) XYLOTRECHUS ACERIS Fisher—This species was found infest- ing red maple (Acer rubrum), silver maple (Acer saccharinusn} and sugar maple (Acer saccharwim). The larval workings cause galls, usually after the species has emerged, on the smooth trunks and branches of the infested trees. Often stems four inches in diameter are attacked. This species, unlike the preceding, does not girdle branches, but mines the heart wood to such an extent that the part above the injury is often broken off by the wind. Several adults will often emerge from one infested area. X\yVLOTRECHUS COLONUS Fab.—Adults were reared May 22, from dead hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) log collected at Monte- bello, Pennsylvania. CLYTOLEPTUS TRISTIS Csy.—This is merely a black nen of C. albofasciatus Lap., and all color gradations of intermediate forms may be found. Many of these forms have been reared from the same infested grape stem in our cages, and we have observed them mating. It therefore seems quite logical to con- sider C, tristis Csy. a synonym of C. albofasciatus Lap. CLYTUS MARGINICOLLIS Cast.—An adult of this species was collected at Piseguit Brook, eighteen miles south of Bathurst, New Brunswick, on June 24. CyrTOPHORUS VERRUCOSUS Oliv.—Adults were reared from dead blue beech (Carpinus caroliniana) and redbud (Cercis canadensis) collected in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania. PURPURICENUS AXILLARIS Hald.—This species was found doing considerable damage to the lower branches of swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor) near Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, branches over two inches in diameter often being pruned. Ri One egg seems to be laid to a branch, and as the larva works. down toward the trunk of the tree it mines through the heart-. wood of the branch and branchlets as it goes, often pruning the 140 ‘ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, 725 latter. The large galleries, which are often over two feet in length, are tightly packed with frass. The larva usually falls in the pruned branch; however, it may remain in the stub. Larvae have been observed to work into the main trunks of infested trees from the branches. BaTYLE SUTURALIS Say—Reared from various species of hickory collected at Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. PSENOCERUS SUPERNOTATUS Say—Adults were reared from the dead branches of Ulmus, tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipi- fera), willow and Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia) collected in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. PSAPHAROCHRUS QUADRIGIBBUS Say—In the vicinity of Har- risburg, Pennsylvania, this species was found breeding in the wood of dead redbud (Cercis canadensis). AEGOMORPHUS DECIPIENS Hald.—Adults were reared from the dead wood of linden (Tilia americana), tulip poplar (Lirio- dendron tulipifera), black ash (Fraxinus nigra), sweet cherry and blue beech (Carpinus carolimana) at Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania. LEPTOSTYLUS ACULIFER Say—This species was reared from partly decayed redbud (Cercis canadensis) at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and from the trunk of a dead gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba) at Paradise Key, Florida. AstTyLipius PARVUS Lec.—In the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this species was reared from the dead branches of poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendron), box elder (Acer negundo) and elm. LEIOPUS VARIEGATUS Hald.—The species has been reared from the dead branches of Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia) and honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) at Har- risburg, Pennsylvania. LrEPTURGES SYMMETRICUS Hald.—Adults were reared from the dead branches of linden (Tilia americana) and box elder (Acer negundo). : LEPTURGES REGULARIS Lec.—This species was found breed- ing in the dead branches of buckeye (Aesculus glabra) at Columbus, Ohio. LEPTURGES SIGNATUS Lec.—In the vicinity of Harrisburg, xxxvi, 725 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 141 Pennsylvania, this species has been reared from the dead branches of red mulberry (Morus rubra), beech (Fagus ameri- cana), poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendron), box elder (Acer negundo) and hickory. LEPTURGES QUERCI Fitch—Adults were reared from the dead branches of the following trees collected at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: American elm (Ulmus americana), black wal- nut (Juglans nigra), butternut (Juwglans cinerea), ironwood (Ostrya virginiana), poison ivy (Ithus toxicodendron) and linden (Tilia americana). LEPTURGES FACETUS Say—Adults were reared from the dead branches of Crategus crus-galli collected at Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania. EUPOGONIUS VESTITUS Say—Adults were reared June 16 from dead honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) branches col- lected at Rockville, Pennsylvania, and from dead branches of poison ivy (Rhus toxtcodendron), American elm (Ulmus americana), linden (Tilia americana), white oak and black oak. EUPOGONIUS PUBESCENS Lec.—This species breeds in the small dead branches of linden (Tilia americana) in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. EUPOGONIUS SUBARMATUS Lec.—At Harrisburg, Pennsylva- nia, adults were reared from the dead branches of linden (Tilia americana). SAPERDA LATERALIS Fab.—Adults were reared from the dead branches of poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendron) collected at Hum- melstown, Pennsylvania. Genus OprereEA Muls.—Several of the species of this genus were found to have a two-year life cycle. The following is a list of host plants in which Oberea larvae were found working in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana), Prunus pennsylvanica, Prunus avi- num, Prunus americana, sweet cherry, Cornus amomum, Cornus alternifolia, Cornus florida, apple, peach, Viburnum dentatum, Viburnum acerfolium, Crataegus, Alnus, Ulmus fulva, Amelanchier canadensis, Aster macrophyllus, Collinsonia canadensis, Anemone virginiana, Solidago graminifolia, Soli- dago serotina, Solidago juncea, Solidago caesia and Scutellaria. 142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 OseEREA Myops Hald.—This species, which is often placed erroneously as. a variety of O. tripunctata Sived., does consider- abel damage to living Rhododendron in the nurseries around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It breeds in Kalmia also. OBEREA RUFICOLLIS Fab.—This species was found breeding in the stems of living spice bush (Benzoin aestivale). Adults were reared June 12 from material collected at Rockville, Penn- sylvania. Two New Spiders from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina (Araneina). By C. R. Crospy and S. C. BisHop, In 1923 the writers collected during October in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Two of the most interesting spiders taken on the trip ate described below. “The genus Leptoneta is represented in Europe by fourteen species, which are treated in an excellent monograph by L. Fapé (Arch. Zool. Exp. ser. 5, vol. 10: 479-576, 1913). Most of the species inhabit caves, but some are found above ground in the moss of deep forests in the mountains. Heretofore the genus has been known in America from one species described by Banks as L. californica from a single female from Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa County, California. The spiders of the genus Leptoneta are remarkable for the peculiar arrangement of the hairs on the tibia of the male palptis. On the side of this segment there is borne a long stiff hair, which toward the end is flattened, grooved and somewhat twisted. This grooved tip serves to hold the end of a long and vety slender hair which arises nearer the base of the seg- ment (Fig. 1). The function of this structure is probably auditory, and is doubtless an adaptation resulting from the subterranean habits of most members of the genus. It reminds one’of the radio device known as the crystal detector. The following species was collected by sifting decaying leaves undér Rhododendrons in deep woods. Leptoneta silvicultrix n. sp. d. .Length, 1.5 mm. Cephalothorax yellowish white lightly tinged with brownish near the margin, broadly oval, narrower BEX Vi, 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 143 in front, slightly constricted opposite the eyes, broadly rounded in front, truncate and slightly emarginate behind; seen from the side the highest point just back of the middle, steeply declived posteriorly, nearly level back of the eyes, clypeus slightly convex, steeply sloping forward. Anterior eyes in a recurved line, the median a little larger than the lateral, sub- contiguous, separated from the lateral by one-third the diameter. The posterior pair of eyes smaller than the others, oval, sub- contiguous, separated from the anterior lateral by the diameter of the latter. Sternum light yellow suffused with brownish, darker on the margin, broadly triangular. Labium broader than long, trape- zoidal, rounded in front. [Endites nearly three times as long as labium, broadened towards the tip; serrula- distinct, com- posed of 17 to 20 teeth. Chelicerae armed in! front with a few slender black spines near the furrow and towards tip; claw long and slender, upper margin of the furrow armed with seven teeth, the five nearer the tip of claw evenly spaced and two towards the base widely separated; the lower margin with three small teeth near the tip. Outer surface of chelicera finely striate, forming a stridulating organ with a small spine on the inner side of the trochanter of the palpus. Legs pale yellowish, slender. The paired claws armed with four slender teeth toward the base; the third claw short, strongly curved and unarmed. Onychium distinct. Abdomen regularly oval, light reddish brown ‘over a pale yellowish ground color, on the underside darker, especially in front of the epigastric furrow and around the spinnerets, except behind. Femur of palpus long, slender, armed distally on the outside with two rows of 4 black spines and one spine proximad of the group. Patella short, broad, armed on the outside near the base with a transverse row of four black spines. ‘Tibia a little longer than patella, slightly enlarged distally and armed on the outside on the distal half with a series of 5 or 6 long. black spines. Tarsus long, strongly constricted above. near the: mid- dle; beyond the constriction there is a large external branch squarely truncate at tip. The distal margin of the branch armed with six spines, the one on the inner angle the largest and slightly plumose towards the tip. The spine on the outer angle next in size and also slightly plumose. One small spine arises just back of and between the two inner ones on, the apical margin: On the outer angle of the branch there is an erect, short, black, blunt, slightly curved spine. Under high magnification the tip appears annulate with fine serrations on the inner side. Proximad of this spine there is a long spine 144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 enlarged and flattened distally with an acute point. Just back of this there is one ordinary spine. Proximad of the constric- tion there arises on the external side a very long spine which curves down around the bulb; the tip is flattened, broadened and grooved for holding the end of a very fine-tipped spine which arises nearer the base of the tarsus. The tip of the internal Fic. 1.—Palpus of Leptoneta Fic. 2.—Palpus of Microhexura silvicultrix n. sp. montivagus Nn. sp. branch of the tarsus armed with numerous large spines, two of which are plumose. (Fig. 1.) ?. Length, 2.3mm. Similar to the male in coloration; ster- num and underside of abdomen a little darker. Abdomen swollen over epigynum. Colulus slightly longer than broad, tapering to a blunt point, armed with two long spines near the middle. Holotype, male: Allotype, female. Oteen, North Carolina, 15 Oct., 1923. Paratypes: 1d and 2? same locality. 12 Minehole Gap, Buncombe County, 17 Oct., 1923. 2d and 12 Blowing Rock, 10 Oct., 1923. 1¢ Montreat, 16 Oct., 1923. All the localities in North Carolina. We spent the great part of one day sifting moss and decay- ing leaves in the evergreen forest near the summit of Mt. Mitchell at an elevation of 6,600 feet. Most of the spiders col- lected in this way are too small for determination in the field. On returning home we were surprised to find that, mixed with xxxvi, 725 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 145 the little Linyphias and Erigones, were several specimens of the minute tarantula described below. The spider fauna of Mt. Mitchell seem to combine at least two distinct elements. This tarantula, evidently an intrusion from, or a survival of a sub- tropical fauna was found associated with such distinctively northern species as Oedothorax montanus Emerton and Liny- phia nearctica Banks. Microhexura n. g. Median furrow of cephalothorax longitudinal. Chelicerae not provided with a rake, the furrow indistinct. Closely re- lated to Hexura but possesses only two pairs of spinnerets; the chelicerae are not enlarged ; the tibia of the first leg of the male armed with a long spur. Type M. montivagus described below. Microhexura montivagus n. sp. 3. Length, 2.7 mm. Cephalothorax oval, a little longer than broad ; longitudinal median furrow short, distinct. The radiat- ing furrows weakly developed but indicated by pigmentation. Ground color of cephalothorax yellowish suffused with dusky, darker on the margins and on wedge-shaped areas between the radiating furrows. V-shaped dark lines from the dorsal furrow to the posterior lateral eyes, between them a narrower median line that does not reach the furrow. Ocular area black. Anterior eyes seen from in front in a procurved line, the median one-half the diameter of the lateral, separated from each other by a little more than the diameter and from the lateral by half the diameter. Posterior eyes in slightly recurved line, the median a little smaller than the lateral, separated from each other by twice the diameter, subcontiguous to the lateral. An- terior lateral eyes a little larger than posterior lateral. Posterior median eyes, rounded behind, bluntly pointed in front, a little larger than anterior median. The anterior lateral eyes are the largest and the anterior median are the smallest. Median ocular area broader than long and wider behind than in front. Clypeus half as wide as ocular area, seen from the side straight slanting forward. Sternum vellowish suffused with dusky, broadly oval, bluntly pointed between hind coxae. Three pairs of sigilla, in- distinct, oval, at margin of sternum opposite base of first three coxae. Labium broader than long, rounded in front. Coxae of palpus with inner distal angle slightly produced. Chelicerae not swollen, normal, compressed; the furrow shallow, armed on the inner side with four small sharp teeth, on the outer side with a row of numerous small black denticles. 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May;) 25 Legs pale yellowish, slightly dusky above, rather robust, with- out scopulae, sparsely clothed with long slender hairs. .Tibia of first leg armed ventrally at the middle with a strong spur. which extends beyond the tip; metatarsus excavated slightly at base beneath. Palpus same color as the legs; femtr cylindrical, twice as long as broad; patella short, thick, wider distally; tibia’ fusiform, a little longer than patella; tarsus curved,:excavated: below. Palpal organ consists of a simple pyriform bulb which terminates in a slender curved embolus; no conductor present. (Fig. 2.) The basal division of the bulb represented on the lateral aspect by a small brown graduate sclerite deeply emar- ginate posteriorly (not shown in figure, which is of mesal view )..; Abdomen light reddish brown, ovate, widest back of the mid-: dle ; underside same color as above, lighter in, front. Only two pairs of spinnerets present. The anterior ones short, cylin- drical, and separated by a little more than the length. . Posterior pair long, half as long as abdomen, slender, tapering towards, tip, composed of three segments ; apical and basal segment of’ nearly equal length, middle segment a little shorter than the others. Apical segment with slight indications of annulations. ?. Two immature females were captured with the male. They are 2.5 and 2 mm. in. length. They resemble the’ male in color and form. The chelicerae are not enlarged. Holotype male. 1d, 2 immature °. Mt. Mitchell, North. Carolina, 6600 ft., 22 Oct., 1923. Collected by stiting moss. The drawings are by Mr. Albert W. Force. 179 What Becomes of Great Collections? Editor Entomological News.—It seems to me that it is- eee as important to know the whereabouts of the great collections which have changed hands as it is that they were formed. For this reason the writer is one of many persons who» would’ be: interested in learning through the News what becomes: of: them. It would be a great pity if collections such as those of Kerremans and Charles Oberthtir are not kept intact and placed in secure and permanent institutions. Men of: wealth’ should take heed of such opportunities. Epwarp A. KtaceEs, Crafton, Penna. [Mr. J. D. Sherman, Jr., in his latest catalogue of books for sale, states that the Sphingidae of the Oberthtir collection, have been bought by Mr. B. P. Clark, of Boston, and the types of North American species of Lepidoptera of other groups in the Oberthtir collection have been obtained for that: of ~ hese Barnes.—Ep1Tor. | _ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS re Pa... May, 1995, GIVE US ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS! From a valued letter received in response to the editorial in the: News for March we quote the following: Why not specialize on the news aspect of' your title'and make yours the one really indispensable entomological journal in the country? Take your cue from your present section on “Ento- mological Literature.” Expand your portion on reviews and notices'of new books and articles. Expand your’ portion on obituary and biography; and invite contributions on history of entomology, biography, etc. Develop news, personal notes, notices.of persons willing to determine specimens in the dif- ferent groups and of persons desirous of borrowing material for study, notices of entomological expeditions, museum’ col- lections, etc. Expand the editorial page as a portion on “Entomological Opinion.” « Solicit general articles on phylogeny and classification of insects,. general principles of taxonomy, etc. Leave the publication of life-histories, faunal lists, new species, synonymy, etc., to other journals; such articles are read only by the specialists in the various groups. I have written the above paragraph of suggestions just as’ it has-come-to mind. I realize that the time required: to: pre-: pare for publication such a journal as I propose would probably’ be greater than you and your assistants could give. But it would result ina journal that every entomologist would have to. have. As it is, your literature notices, “news,” etc/, make yours the journal that I consider most valuable of the: American: journals. Being a coleopterist, however, I don’t find much in! the rest of the journal (just two articles. on beetles GHpishes since October ). bey The above suggestions are so entirely in line with an ‘edit’ torial in the News for May,.1921 (page. 152),, that we :believe it not inappropriate to quote from it at this time: | ‘We have at various times emphasized one of the ideas ‘ine cluded in the original announcement of the News, that ‘tie of its chief functions was to give entomological news: »'We' do not indeed think it desirable’ to repeat items published’ in such’ of our contemporaries as are easily accessible to ‘our’ own readers. We are also mindful of the fact that in these: days: of “contracted volumes” it would not- be possible’ to” publish’. 147 148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 everything. Nevertheless, within these limitations, it is feas- ible to notice many topics of interest in our field. Entomologi- cal publications are appearing in many different places, ento- mological events of all kinds are occurring with which one or other of our readers is much more conversant than are the editors of the NEws. We try to give you what we can at the sacrifice of time for our own studies and researches. It would make this journal more useful and attractive to all if each one of you would send to the News a concise account of such important entomological happenings and researches in your own special field as come to your notice. Such items are given preference over formal papers and notes of more tech- nical nature. Reader—Will YOU not send us at least one note or article a year filling some one of the desiderata suggested above for the News? Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE Prof. and Mrs. Cockerell to Visit Argentina. From Science, March 27th, we note that Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, with Mrs. Cockerell, will visit Argentina during the coming summer to examine localities for fossil insects which have been discovered near the eastern base of the Andes. The New York State List of Insects. It is known that the New York State List of Insects is now definitely to be completed, and Dr. M. D. Leonard of the Department of Entomology at Cornell University, Ithaca, will be glad, to get definite records in all groups and will see that full credit is given to every cooperator. These records should be in his hands by June 1, 1925. III. International Congress of Entomology, Zurich, Switzerland, from July 19th to 26th, 1925. Presi- dent: Dr. A. von Schulthess-Schindler, Wasserwerkstrasse 53, Zurich 6. Membership 25 Swiss francs, associates accompanying mem- bers 12.50, Life-membership 250.00. Entomological Societies, Institutions and Departments of Entomology, Forestry, Agriculture, Horticulture and Hygiene are inyited to send Delegates. mos: °25 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 149 Notifications of papers and exhibits should reach the Gen- eral Secretary before July 12th. Applications for accommoda- tion in Hotels, etc., should be sent as early as possible. All communications to be addressed to the Secretary, Dr. Kutter, Zolliker Str. 76, Ztirich 8, Switzerland, or to the President. THe EXEcuTIVE COMMITTEE. (Dr. Leuzinger, mentioned in former communications as Sec- retary, will unavoidably be absent from Ztrich during the summer. ) The American Society of Parasitologists. A new society, the American Society of Parasitologists, was formed at a meeting of a number of those interested in Para- sitology held in Washington on Tuesday, December 30, 1924. As stated in its constitution, the object of the new society is the association of workers in the field of Parasitology for the presentation and discussion of new or important facts and problems in that science and for the adoption \of such measures as shall tend to the advancement of Parasitological teaching and investigation in this country. The members of the society are of two classes, active and foreign honorary. Any person interested in Parasitology is eligible for active membership. The dues of the society were set at one dollar a year, The Secretary-Treasurer is ready to receive applications for membership accompanied by. dues for the first year. Also, the council will be glad to receive suggestions from anyone inter- ested in regard to the policies or activities of the new society. W. W. Cort, Secretary-Treasurer, 310 W. Monument Street, Baltimore, Md. Entomologists Are Honest. When I began collecting dragonflies more than 30 years ago, I found I needed a lighter net than was then available, one that could be swung more quickly. I began making my own nets after various designs, and finally devised the detachable flat-wire rim that has long been known as the distinctive fea- ture of the Simplex Net. This net weighed but a few ounces, and was more durable than any of the heavy nets with jointed rims. I found it could be made and sold for less than half the cost of the others; so I arranged a little business under the name of the Simplex Net Co., to supply this net to entomolo- gists. It has been a little one-room business, managed mostly Looking over the records of the Simplex Net Co., now that by a succession of students at their odd hours. 150 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 a change in the business is imminent, I find in them a remark- able tribute to the honesty of entomologists. I find that 1,610 orders for nets have been filled, most ae them going to ento- mologists, and most of the orders being sent in on a post-card blank, and being mere promises to pay if the nets proved satis- factory. ‘Not a single entomologist has failed to pay! Two orders only, of the entire lot, remain unpaid; but these two did not go to entomologists. Recently, the A. I. Root Co. of “Medina, Ohio, has decided to go into the manufacture of supplies for entomologists (in- sect boxes, nets, etc.), and to do it on a scale large enough to enable them to sell cheaply. This company will ' hereafter be the source of supply for the Simplex nets. JAMes G. NEEDHAM, Ithaca, New York. An Enquiry. Mr. N..D. Riley,'5, Brook Gardens, Barnes, Tieton! S. W: 13, requests through The Entomologist information relative to Pyrameis atalanta. feeding upon thistle. He knows: of no record of such an-instance. Z Entomological Literature COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, howeyer, 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. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. Papers of systematic nature will be found in the paragraph at the end of their respective orders. Those containing descriptions of new genera and species occurring north of Mexico are preceded by an *. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on, Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. The titles occurring.in the’ Entomological News are not listed. 4—Canadian Entomologist. 6—Journal, New York Ent. Soc. 9—The ‘Entomologist. 10—Proc., Entomological So- ciety of Washington. 12—Journal of Economic Ent. 13— Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Claremont, Cal. ‘14— Entomologische Zeit., Frankfurt a. M. 17—Entomologische Rundschau, Stuttgart. 19—Bull., Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 25— Bull., Soc. Ent. France. 26—Entomolog. Anzeiger, Wien. 28—Ent. Tidskrift, Upsala.’ 33—Bull, et Annal. Soc. Ent. 3elgique. 33—Bull., Soc. Ent. Belgique. 36—Trans., Ent. xxxvij! 725 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 151 Soc., London. 39-—The Florida Entomologist. 45—Zeit. f. Wissenschftl. Insekentb., Berlin. 47—Neue Beitr. z. Syst. Insektenkunde. 49—Entomolog. Mitteil., Berlin. 50— Proc.,:U..S. Nat. Mus. 55—The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 64—Zeit., Oesterr.. Ent. Ver., Wien. 68—Science. 89— Zool. Jahrbucher, Jena. 101—Biolog. Bulletin, Woods. Hole, Mass. 103.—Proc., Zool. Soc. London. 105—Proc., Biol. Soc. Washington. 113—Jour. Agric. Research, Wash- ington.’ 151—Occas. Pap., Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 153— Bull., Mus. Nat. Hist. Naturelle, Paris. 154—Zoolog. An- zeiger. ‘(GENERAL.—Bang-Haas, A.—Obituary note of . 14, xxxviii, 99, 17, xlii, 9. 26, v, 37. Beebe, W.—Studies of a tropical jungle * * * at Kartabo, Br. Guiana, (Zoologica, New. York, -vi, 1-193.) Beyer, G.—Obituary, 6, xxxii, 165-6. Boving, A. G—A summer trip in Iceland south of Vatna- Jokul:: :10,.:xxwvii,-17-35. Cockerell, T. D. A.—The ertito- mology of the Gulf of California. 55, i, 139-41. *Cockerell, T. D. A.—Plant:and insect fossils from Green River Eocene _ of Colorado. 50, Ixvi, Art. 19. Cockerell, W.—The singing insects ef Japan.’ (Nature Mag., 1925, 220-2.) Crossman, S. S—Foreign travel and entomologists met while search- ing for enemies of the gipsy moth. 12, xviii, 164-72. Doane, R. W.—Scientific names of economic insects. 12, xviii, 158-62.. Dobroscky, I. D.—External parasites of birds and the fauna of bird’s nests. 101, xlviii, 274-81. Eder, R.— Haufig oder selten? 64, ix, 107-9. Escherich, K.—Zeit. f. angewandte entomologie, xi, Heft 1. Felt, E. P—The dis- semination of insects by air currents. 12, xviii, 152-8. Frost, S..W.—Frogs as insect collectors. 6, xxxii, 174-85. Gonner, P.—Blumen und insekten. 14, xxxvili, 99-101 (cont.) Grutzner, H.—Zu dem artikel des H. Leiberg uber den ametsenlowen. 26, v, 27-30. Gurney, R.—Modern zoo- logical nomenclature. (Tr. Norfolk & Norwich Nat. ‘Soc x, 335-52, 1915.) Handel, K. P.—Vogel als beste und natur- gemasse bekampfer der schadlinge aus dem insektenreiche. 14, xxxvili, 101-2. Handlirsch, A.—Fossilium catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 16: Insecta palaeozoica. 230 pp. Janeck, G.—Erlebtes und erprobtes. 14, xxxviii, 101. Schade, F.— Eine sammelexcursion nach den bergen von central Para- guay. 17, xlii, 6-7. Scott, H.—Notes on the habits of in- sects and spiders in Brazil. 36, 1924, 475-504. Sherman, J. D.—Some entomological and other bibliographies, 6, xxxil, 206-15. Simon, E.—Notas necrologicas. (Bol. R. Soc. Es- 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, 725 panola Hist. Nat., xxv, 67-70). Thienemann, A.—Drei en- tomologische kleinigkeiten. 45, xix, 191-2. Weese, A. O.— Animal ecology of an Illinois elm-maple forest. (Ill, Biol. Mon., ix, No. 4.) Weiss, H. B.—Ultraviolet and flower- visiting habits of insects. 6, xxxii, 195. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL, ETC.—Dia- konov, D. M.—Experimental and biometrical investigations on dimorphic variability of Forficula. (Jour. Genetics, xv, 201-32.) Eidmann, H.—Vergleichend-anatomische studien uber die pharynxmuskulatur der insekten. 154, Ixii, 49-64. Eidmann, H.—Die physiologie des kaumagens der insek- ten. (Sitz, Ges. f. Morph. u. Phys., Munchen, xxxv, 20-21.) Eidmann, H.—Untersuchungen uber wachstum und hau- tung der insekten. (Verh. Deut. Zool. Ges., xxix, 124-9.) Fink, D. V.—Metabolism during embryonic and metamor- phic development of insects. (Jour. Gen. Phys., vii, 527-43.) Gatenby, J. B—Spermatogenesis of Peripatus. (Nature, London, cxv, 381-2.) Gerhardt, U.—Uber das sinnesieben und die plastizitat der instinkte bei spinnen. (Verh. Deut. Zool. Ges., xxix, 64-9.) Jezhikov, I—Ueber die morpholo- gische bedeutung der larve der holometoba 49, xiii, 328-42. Kahn, R. H.—Kopftransplantation an Carausius morosus. 154, Ixii, 75-9. Pellew, C.—A note on the inheritance of ege-colour in the silkworm. (Jour. Genetics, xv, 233-5.) Philpott, A.—On an abdominal scent-organ(?) in Sabatinca and other primitive genera of lepidoptera. 36, 1924, 457-61. Pigorini, L.—Sur la presence ‘dune catalase dans les oeufs de Bombyx mori. (Arch. Ital. Biol., Pise, Ixxxiii, 121-25.) Pruthi, H. §—On the post-embryonic development and homologies of the male genital organs of Tenebrio molitor. On the development of the ovipositor and the efferent geni- tal ducts of T. molitor, with remarks on the comparison of the latter organs in the two sexes. 103, 1924, 857-69; 869- 84. Richards & Furrow.—The eye and optic tract in normal and “eyeless” Drosophila. 101, xlviii, 243-59. Surcouf & Fischer.—Notes sur la vie larvaire et nymphale du Tabanus bromius. 25, 1925, 232-37. Weiss, H. B.—The acidities within the alimentary tracts of insects. 6, xxxii, 220. Withy- combe, C. L.—Some aspects of the biology and morphology of the Neuroptera. With special reference to the immature stages and their possible phylogenetic significance. 36, 1924, 303-411. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA.—Miller, A. E.— The native host of the chigger. 68, Ixi, 345-6. xxxvi, 725 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 153 Chamberlin, R. V.—Notes on chilopods and diplopods from Barro Colorado Id., and other parts of the Canal Zone, with diag. of n. sps. 105, xxxvili, 35-44. Crosby, C. R.— A note on two gen, of spiders, Mysmena and Microdipoena. 4, lvii, 50. *Ewing, H. E.—New and parasitic mites of the gen. Laelaps. 10, xxvii, 1-7. Ewing, H. E.—The adult of our common N. Am. chigger, 105, xxxviii, 17-20. Mello- Leitao, Dr—Algumas aranhas novas do Brasil. (Bol. Mus. Nac. R. d. Janeiro, i, 275-81.) THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTA.—*Hood, J. D.—Four new Phloethripidae from New York (Thysanop- tera). 19, xx, 26-32. Lestage, J. A.—Notes trichopterolo- giques 7. 33, Ixv, 33-44. *McDunnough, J.—New Epheme- rella species. 4, lvii, 41-3. Navas, R. P. L.—Odonatos nue- vos o interesantes. (Mem. R. Ac. Cien. y Artes, Barcelona, xviii, No. 13.) Snyder, T. E.—Description of winged adult of Kalotermes approximatus. (lIsoptera). 10, xxvii, 14. Snyder, T. E.—New termites and hitherto unknown castes from the Canal Zone, Panama. 113, xxix, 179-93.. *Watson, J. R.—Additions to the Thysanoptera of Florida. XII. 39, viil, 50-2. ORTHOPTERA.—Carpentier, F.—Sur le double stig- mate de quelques orthopteres. 34, vi, 123-40. Stewart, A. M.—Blabera cubensis and its ootheca, 9, 1925, 57-8. Davis, W. T.—Melanoplus differentialis a new grasshop- pereto tie state of Nic Y. 16,’ xxxii, 215. Uvarov; B. P.— Notes on the O. in the Br. Mus. 4. Identification of types of Acrididae preserved in the museum. 36, 1924, 265-301. HEMIPTERA.—Hussey, R. F.—Hydrometra australis in New York state. 19, xx, 16. Torre Bueno, J. R.—A new food-plant of Ischnorhynchus geminatus. 19, xx, 60. - Barber, H. G—Hemiptera-Heteroptera from the Wil- liams Galapagos expedition. (Zoologica, v, 241-54.) Buys, J. L.—The Cicadellidae of the vicinity of Ithaca, with spe- cial reference to the structure of the gonapophyses. (Mem. 80, Cornell Univ. Agr, Exp. Sta., 115 pp.) *Cockerell, T. D. A.—(See under General.) Ferris, G. F—Observations on the Chermidae. (Homoptera.) 4, lvii, 46-50. Haviland, M. D.—The Membracidae of Kartabo, Br. Guiana, with descr. of n. sps. and bionomical notes. Zoologica, New York, vi, 229-90.) *Hoke, G.—A diaspine with legs (Coccidae). 10, xxvii, 36-40. *Hungerford, H. B—Notes on some N. Am. Corixids from the southwest. 19, xx, 17-25. *Knight, H. H. 154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 —Descr. of 30 new sps. and two n. gen. of No. Am. Miridae. 19, xx, 33-58. *McAtee, W. L.—Notes on Eupterygid leaf- hoppers with descr. of a few forms. 39, viii, 33-9. Muir, F. —On the gen. of Cixiidae, Meenoplidae and Kinnaridae (Fulgoridae). 55, i, 97-110. Schmidt, E.—Neue :zikaden- gattungen und arten. .Cicadidae, Cercopidae, Membracidae, Fulgoridae. 49, xili, 285-97. LEPIDOPTERA.—Atkinson, F. B.—Antics of the puss moth. (Nature Mag., 1925, 240.) Engelhardt, G. P.— Notes: on early spring collecting of Noctuidae. 19, xx, 59- 60. Forbes, W. T. M.—Two minor pests from Europe (Plu- tellidae). 6, xxxii, 173. Hoffmann, C. C.—Manual para el estudio y la:recoleccion:de L. en Mexico. (Mem. Soc. Cien. ‘“Antonoi .Alzate”, xli, 441-526.) Mousley, H.—Further notes on the orchids, ferns and butterflies of Hatley, Stan- stead Co., Quebec, 1924. (Can, Field-Nat., xxxix, 37-9.) Weigel, Broadbent, Busck, & Heinrich.—The greenhouse leaf-tier, Phlyctaenia rubigalis. 113, xxix, 137-58. Weiss, H..B.—The olfactory sense of the cabbage butterfly. 6, Xxx, 166. Barnes & Benjamin.—On the types of Pyrausta cafferii. Change of a preoccupied name (Aegeriidae). 10, xxvii, 7; 14.. *Barnes & Benjamin.—Two new Californian Lima- codid moths. Notes on some sps. of L. in relation to the sitatch Coll, 55, 1,.1120;. 127-38.) “Cockereli Ria hac new form of Smerinthus (Sphingidae). 9, Ivili, 37-8. Draudt, M.—Macrolepidoptera of the world. Faun. Amer., Pt, 160, Noctuidae, Gen. Polia to Epia. Kruger, E.—Bei- trage zur kenntniss der Colunbischen Satyriden. 17, xi, 10- 12 (cont.). Kaye, W. J— New sps. and subsps. of Trinidad Rhopalocera and Heterocera. 36, 1924, 413-28. Niepelt, W. —Eine neue Nymphalide von Columbien. 17, xlii, 7. Riley & Gabriel.—Catalogue of the type specimens of L. Rhopa- locera in the Bri. Mus.), Satyridae. (Br. Mus. Pub., 62 pp.) Stechel, H.—Zur systematik der Brassolidae. 47, iii, 58-60 (cont.) : “DIPTERA.—Anon.—The future of the study of flies. (Scott. Nat., 1925, 19-20.) Ballou, L. M.—Some dipterous galls of southern California. 13, xvii, 1-8. Bell, E. L.— Notes on Asilus sericeus. 6, xxxii, 219. MacGill, E. I.— A proboscis of Calliphora with two pairs of palps. 9, 1925, 49-50. Shannon, R. C.—Brief history of egg-laying habits of. Dermatobia, (Jour. Wash. Ac. Sc., xv, 137-8.) xxxvi, °25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 155 Borgmeier, T.—Um novo genero de Phorideos,do ‘Parana. ag Mus. Nac. R. d. Janeiro, i, 283-8.) *Cockerell, T. D. A.—(Sce under General.) *Curran, C. H.—New sps,, of Xylota (Syrphidae). Notes on some sps. of the gen. Eris- talis. 4, lvii, 44-5; 50. Czerny, L.—Monographie der Helo- myziden. (Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xv, 1-166.) Ed- wards, F. W.—Notes on the types of Mycetophilidae de- scribed by Staeger and Zetterstedt. 28, xlv, 160-8. Ed- wards, F. W.—British fungus-gnats, with a revised generic classification of the family. 36, 1924, 505-670. *Enderlein, G.—Zur klassifikation der Phoriden und uber vernichtende kritik. 49, xii, 270-81. *Felt, E. P—Key to gall midges (A resumé of studies I-VII, Itonididae). (New York “Sta, Mus. Bull., No. 257.) Greene, C. T—The puparia and lar- vae of sarcophagid flies. 50, Ixvi, Art. 29. Johnson, C. W.— Fauna of New England. 15, List of the D. or. two-winged flies. 151, vii, 326 pp. *Spuler, A~—No. Am. sps. of Bor- borus, and Scatophora. 19, xx, 1-16. COLEOPTERA.—Cockerell & Harris.—The wings of the meloid beetles. 105, xxxviii, 25-32. Davis, A. C.— Pleocoma behrensi. 55, i, 110. Knaus, W.—1923 collecting notes. 6, xxxii, 170-3. Larson & Fisher.—Longevity and fecundity of Bruchus 4-maculatus as influenced by different foods. 113, xxix, 297-305. Muir, F.—The male-genitalia of Cupes concolor. 6, xxxii, 167-9. Schilder, F. A.—Der zwei- punkt (Adalia bipunctata). (Die Umschau, xxix, 128-9.) Schjelderup-Ebbe, T.—Aufmerksamkeit bei kaefer. 14, xxxili, 93-4. *Chamberlin, W. J.—Notes on the Buprestidae of Oregon, with descr..of n. sps. 6, xxxii, 186-95... *Cockerell, T-"D.'A. —(See under General.) Desbordes, H.—Description un Saprinus nouveau de Amerique du Sud. (Histeridae). 153, 1924, 372-3. Fisher, W. S.——Two new Mexican Ceramby- cidae. 10, xxvii, 15-6. Fisher, W. S.—Buprestid beetles coll. by the Mulford Biol. Expl. in Bolivia. 50, Ixvi, Art. ,31. Hatch, M. H.—A list of C. from Charlevoix Co., Michigan. (Pap. Mich. Ac. Sc., iv, 543-86.) Reichensperger, A.—Zur kenntniss myrmekophiler Histeriden. 49, xiii, 302-8. *Swaine, J. M.—A n. sp. of Polygraphus. 4, lvii, 51. *VWan Dyke, E. C.—Studies of western No. Am. Carabidinae, with descr. ofn. sps. 55, i, 111-25. Weiss & West.—Notes on the rush weevil, Limnobaris rectirostris in N. J. 6, xxxii, 196-205. 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 HYMENOPTERA.—Bertin, L.—Faits nouveaux ou peu connus concernant les fourmis. (La Nature, 1925, 43-8.) Friese, H.—Ueber die nestzellen der blattschneiderbienen Megachile azteca. 45, xix, 193-4. Handel, K. P.—Sind die vogel feinde der bienen? 14, xxxviii, 97. Smith, J. N. D.— Bumble-bees’ unusual nesting sites. (Scott. Nat., 1925, 26.) Stadler, H.—Einiges uber wespenbauten. (Verh. Deut. Zool. Ges., xxix, 78-81.) Ducke, A.—Die stachellosen bienen (Melipona) Brasi- liens. 89, xlix, Syst., 335-448. *Sandhouse, G. A.—Can- adian bees of the genus Osmia. 4, Ivii, 33-41. (Cont.) Viereck, H. L.—The identity of Platycampus victoria (Ten- thredinidae). 4, lvii, 43. SPECIAL NOTICES. Diptera of New England.—This publication cited above under Diptera, by C. W. Johnson, will be of great use to students of this order, especially those interested in the dipterous fauna of the eastern United States. It is a faunal list, but there is a good bibliography included, and the systematic arrangement of the genera and species will greatly help in arranging collections. Entomologisches jahrbuch fur 1924 u 1925. von Dr. O. Krancher, Leipzig. This pocket size volume 208 pp. is a “kalender fur alle insekten-sammler auf die jahre 1924-25.” Altho treating of such subjects for European collectors, it also contains much of interest to all entomologists; espe- cially so is the monthly list of the birthdays of entomolo- gists, mostly of Europe and of general note. Index Animalium.—Another part of this important work has just appeared. This part 5 includes the index for C to Ceyl, 1801-1850. Instructions for collectors published by the British Mu- seum. No. 4 refers to insects in general, No. 8 to spiders, centipeds, peripatus, etc. Japan in 1923.—By T. D. A. Cockerell, Sci. Month., xx, 405-15. In this account of his travels in Japan, Prof. Coc- kerell makes mention of some of the more noticeable insects seen as well as giving interesting notes of his experiences with the natives and their customs. Note that beginning with June number we will present this literature list in a slightly different form. All morpho- logical and anatomical articles referring to insects of a particular order will be listed under that order. Taxonomic articles on North American insects will be headed by para- mVvi, 20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 157 graph (N) under their respective orders; those on South and Central America, by (S). Quebec society for the protection of plants, Sixteenth annual report, 1923-1924. This report of 147 pages contains many papers on insects, but are of economic nature and are not otherwise recorded here. Sarcophaginae in the Oriental region, Revision of. By R. Senior-White. Records of Indian Museum, xxvi, Part 3. This paper altho treating of the oriental species has some general notes and discussions which should be of interest to the students of this dipterous family. Satyridae.—Catalogue of the type specimens * * * in the British museum. (See Riley & Gabriel under Lepidoptera.) Theses entomologigues (Jepidopteres). Notes et re- marques sur les Agrias. Fascicle Fascicule I of this work dealing with many forms of the very attractive Agrias group is remarkable for the magnificent hand-colored plates which equal anything hitherto produced in entomological litera- tore, [Ex Edit, Bul. Hill Mus., i, No. 3]. The ReEvistA CHILENA DE Histor1rA NATURAL has com- pleted twenty-seven years of existence, vol. xxvii (1923), 261 pages, dated 1924 at Santiago de Chile, having been recently received. Its director, editor and founder, Prof. Dr. Carlos FE. Porter (who has recently been appointed Chief of the Department of Entomology at the National Museum of Chile) is to be congratulated on the success with which he has main- tained this journal. The Revista is dedicated to the promotion and cultivation of the natural sciences in the country whose name its title contains and this volume consequently, although including some articles of a general nature (such as that by Dr. E. Giacomelli on the mimetic significance of the eye spots, and in general of the lower surface of the wings, in the genus Caligo) is chiefly composed of contributions to the Chilian fauna, flora and biological bibliography. We note among them 21 on various insects and arachnids by Dr. Porter himself, Dr. J. Brethes,|\P. Herbst, F, Ruiz P., R. Martin, L. Navas, F. C [W.] Goding, H. Claude-Joseph and J. C. Chamberlin. One of the most extensive of these is “Los estudios sobre Neuropteros chilenos (Apuntes historico-bibliograficos),’’ by Dr. Porter, giving an alphabetical list of the authors who have written upon Chilian Neuroptera, the titles and places of pub- lication of their articles on this fauna, and notes thereon ac- 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, 25 companied by portraits of Emile Blanchard, René Martin and R. P. Longinos Navas. Seventeen new species of insects (3 Coleoptera, .7 Neuroptera Chrysopidae, 6 Hymenoptera, 1 Heiniptera)' and 2 new species of Pseudoscorpions from Chile are described in this volume. Pages 225-241 give an account of the foundation of the Sociedad Entomologica de Chile in May, 1922; and summaries of the proceetlings: of the meetings from June 4, 1922;.to: Dec. 9, 1923. P. P,, GALVERT. Fiyi-New ,ZEALAND ExpepiTIon by C. C. Nuttine, R. B. Wy.igz, A. O. THomas; Dayton Stoner collaborating. Unt- versity of Iowa Studies in Natural History, Vol: Xy: Nie? 5. Towa City, Sept. 1, 1924. 369 pp., 58 half-tone plates. Obtain- able from the University Editor, Price, $3.00. ‘This volume is the fourth narrative in book form of expeditions sent out in the interest of natural science from the State University of Iowa. The first of these was ‘Explorations in the Far North,’ by Frank Russell, a narrative of a trip . . . in 1892-3 to the Barren Ground of Arctic America. . . . The second was a ‘Narrative and Preliminary Report of the Bahama Expe- dition’ by C. C. Nutting published . . . in January, 1895. .:. . The third . . . was the ‘Barbados-Antigua Expe- dition... =. “by CoC) Nutting published "im 1919. It has seemed that ce of interest has been lost to the general public by the failure of those in charge of scientific explorations sent out by our universities to recognize the claims of the gen- eral public to a more popular account of such work than is’ given in the series of technical reports customarily issued. To meet this need of easily assimilated general knowledge for the public at large these narratives have “been prepared and issued by the University of Iowa. . The Fiji-New Zealand Expedition consisted of six persons: Profs, Nutting and Stoner and Mrs. Stoner (zoology), Prof. Wylie (Bitar), Prof. Thomas and Mr. Glock (geology). Leaving Towa City, May 14, 1922, and Vancouver on May 19, the expedition proceeded to Honolulu (one day’s stop), Fiji, June’ 5—July 3, New Zealand July 7—August 15, and after brief stops at Rarotonga and Tahiti, returned to San Fran- cisco on September’ 4. "The narrative is divided into nineteen chapters, most of them by Prof. Nutting. Two are written by Prof. Stoner: Ornithological and Entomological Experi- ences in Fiji and New Zealand, respectively, in which the prin- cipal characteristics of the insect fauna of these islands in xxxvi,. 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 159 relation to other Pacific lands are stated with. notes: on- the’ most common or most striking species met. The generic and specific names of these are given so that, although the popular: character of the book is maintained, a precise: and: s¢ientific’ value also is secured. To entomologists these chapters ~will, therefore, be interesting and helpful and no doubt introductory: to the reports by specialists, on the extensive collections made, which we may expect in the future. The numerous-photographs ‘taken by the expedition add greatly to the interest of the volume. P. PL CALVERT: * Doings of Societies. The American Entomological Society. Meeting of Oct. 23, 1924, in the, hall-of the- Academy., of Natural Sciences of: Philadelphia. Dr. Henry Skinner presided, nine members and contributors present. ; Mr. Cresson for the Committee on Peoneren reported that the general entomological library had been rearranged, and the section of the journals had. been labelled. Photographs of the Fabre Memorial and of the J. D. Gunder. collection received. 145 Riker mounts presented by R. C. Williams, Jr., were received and sold. Numerous specimens of Plagiodera versicolor Linn., from Pennsylvania, were’ received from El- wood B. Chapman, Mr. Hornig reporting that this insect feeds on poplar and willow. Mr. Williams was tendered a vote of thanks for the. Riker mounts. A letter was read from Mr. Ezra T, Cresson requesting that he be relieved of his duties as Treasurer. Dr. Philip P. Calvert offered the following resolution which was seconded by Mr. Hebard and unanimously carried : The American Entomological Society hears, with deep. regret, the letter from the Treasurer. Mr. E. T. Cresson, dated October 20, 1924, requesting that he be relieved of. his’ office. This’ Society looks. on Mr. Cresson as its founder. It recalls’ the sixty-five years which he has devoted to its welfare.as a mem- ber of its Publication Committee, as Editor ofits Transactions and as Treasurer, the last for fifty. consecutive, years... His services have been given without salary or pecuniary reward. In acceding to Mr. Cresson’s request, this Society desires. to place upon record its appreciation of his, unselfish and untiring 160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS May, ’25 labors in its behalf, its pride in his long connection with the Society and in his numerous contributions to Entomology, and its best wishes that he may long remain with us as our most honored member. Mr. Williams moved that the chair appoint a committee of three to revise the By-laws and offer a brief of such proposed revision at the next meeting for consideration by the Society. His motion was seconded and carried. Mr. Rehn reported on the successful Entomological gather- - ing of the North Eastern Branch of the Association of Eco- nomic Entomologists, on July 30. CoLEopTERA.—Mr. Cresson reported the prevalence of Plagiodera versicolor Linn. at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, now becoming injurious to vegetation in this vicinity. Mr. Hornig exhibited specimens of Amphicoma vulpina from Riverton, New Jersey, there being only one previous record. LepiIpopTERA.—Dr, Skinner showed a black Colias philodice (nigridice) caught by Mr. Napier, also a Papilio glaucus, the left wing with ¢ markings and the right wing °, and a very aberrant black mottled ¢ of this species. Meeting of December 8, 1924, Dr. Henry Skinner presiding. Nine members and contributors present. Reports of the Treasurer, the Publication Committee, the Finance Committee, the Committee on Property and of the Committee on Revision of the By-laws were presented. The proposed By-laws were read and discussed, article by article, and some changes in phraseology were unanimously adopted. Dr. Henry Skinner was elected President, Mr. Philip Laurent was elected Vice-President. On account of the lateness of the hour, on motion by Mr. Hebard, seconded by Mr. Calvert, the Secretary was authorized to cast a ballot for the gentlemen nominated at the October meeting for the remaining offices and as members of Committees. This motion being carried, the following gentlemen were elected all to serve until the adoption of the new By-laws, at the next meeting, involving nomination and elections under those By-laws. Treasurer, R. C. Williams, Jr.; Recording Secretary, R. J. Titherington ; Corresponding Secretary, Philip P. Calvert; Finance Commit- tee, Morgan Hebard, J. A. G. Rehn, F. R. Mason; Publica- tion Committee, J. A. G. Rehn, Morgan Hebard, Philip P. Calvert; Property Committee, E. T. Cresson, Jr., Morgan Hebard, Philip Laurent. R. C. WitiiaMs, Recording Secretary. _ Bureau of Entomology New Series Bulletins—68, part 8; ge part 2; and 108. Technical series: oe 5% Circulars : ay 10; , STATE ENTOMOLOGIST, CAPITOL ANNEX, _ Madison, Wisconsin. — be, MORTIMER L. J. 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Vil os nas. =... 165 | Editorial—‘'Our Financial Column’’.. 184 The Third International Congress of Baumann—Information Wanted on Pa- PETAL ONLO) OPV eipreietelett dinate ore iesojoyeyscele 44> 167 pilio'troilus ((Lepidi)s2. sce cerck 185 Hubbell—Melanoplus stonei in Michi- deiGarnett—LvA belle os. oicnccnscens 185 Petri (Ome. AGTIG))\< jaro s\<10 sce 0d <0 168 Better Mailing Practices.........-:. 186 Andrews—McCook's Ant Mounds in | Entomological Literature........ . 186 Pennsylvania, Revisited (Hymen. ° Obituary— Paul Revere Myers........ 192 Hyaloscotes fumosa Butler (Lepidoptera, Psychidae). By Frank Morton Jones, Wilmington, Delaware. (Plate IV.) In 1871-72 Lord Walsingham travelled extensively through California and Oregon, devoting “much time to collecting Lepidoptera ;” so abundant was the material thus acquired, that, after an interval of more than fifty years, the British Muséum (where the Walsingham collection is now preserved, under the care of Mr. Durrant), in many groups has a better representation of the Lepidoptera of the Pacific coast, than it possesses from those Atlantic States where collectors and col- lections have been so much more numerous, and from which it has been receiving material for so many more years. Of the several hundred names based upon his collections, it is remarkable that so large and conspicuous an insect as Hyalos- cotes fumosa Butler (the tvpes taken by Walsingham in Shasta and Siskiyou counties, California) should have continued to elude observation for more than fifty years, and still to be un- recognized and apparently unrepresented in American collec- tions. Of fumosa, the type material consists of five males; in the 161 162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS _ [Juneseae British Museum (general collection), one specimen labeled “Mt. Shasta’? has -been designated as the type, the others, labeled “Siskivou’ Co.,” becoming paratypes; all are in good preservation, and are undoubtedly conspecific. Through the generosity of the Museum authorities, the writer was per- mitted to dissect one of the five specimens, and to bring an- other of them to the United States, where it will be accessi- ble for comparison whenever the insect is turned up by Ameri- can collectors. Though Butler referred fumosa to the Lithosu- dac, in our lists it has been correctly included in the Psychi- dae, though always with doubt’as to its position and relation- ship within the family. Study of its structure shows it to be specifically and generically distinct from all our other de- scribed Psychids whose males are known, excepting possibly pithopocra Dyar; that Butler did not recognize its true posi- tion is the more remarkable, not only because in all its charac- ters it is beyond question a Psychid, but also in that even in its superficial appearance it closely approaches several famil- iar European species; for fumosa Butler is very like Sterrhop- terix standfusst H.-Sch. Structurally, Hyaloscotes is sep- arable from Sterrhoptcrix and from the larger species of our own “short-winged’”’ Psychids, by the possession of a long. spine on the fore tibia, as well as (usually) by venational characters. Dyar (Insecutor, XI, 3, 1923) refers fumosa to ‘Pachytelia Westw., and Barnes & Benjamin (Contributions, V, (3), 186, 1924) suggest Canephora Hbn. as an alterna- tive; Hyaloscotes, however, with its slender build, its longer, rounded, and more translucent wings, the oblique outer mar- gin and shorter inner margin of its primaries, is fully as far removed, on the one side, from F'achythelia Westw. (genotype, villosella Ochs.), as the densely-scaled straight-margined Canephora Hbn. (unicolor Hufn., genotype) is on the other. The writer suggests, therefore, the retention of Hyaloscotes Butler as a valid American genus, and would amplify and correct Butler’s characterization of the genus and species by the following notes and the accompanying illustrations: xxxvi, 725] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 163 Hyaloscotes Butler (Lepidoptera, Psychidae). Of slender build. Antennae bipectinate, the branches of moderate length and decreasing gradually to the tip; shaft and branches sparsely clothed with narrow appressed scales. Legs slender, the first pair the longest, the third pair much the shortest ; the fore tibia with a long spine, the tibiae other- wise unarmed. Body-vestiture hairy, divergent. Wings pro- portionately large, semi-translucent, thinly clothed with nar- row scales which are denser on the veins and margins. Pri- maries elongate-trigonal, angles rounded; outer margin round- ed, oblique; inner margin short, the inner angle opposite the proximal origin of vein 3. Wings 11-7-veined, 6 absent from both wings; the anal vein of primaries sends a branch to- ward the inner margin, 1 b and 1 c¢ anastomosing opposite the proximal origin of vein 2, thence coincident to the inner angle; on the secondaries, an oblique bar connects 7 and 8, mid-way of the cell; veinlets in cell (both wings) simple. Genotype, fumosa Butler. Hyaloscotes fumosa Butler. Expanse 27 to 31 mm. (Butler's measurements, pin to tip, doubled; the wings of the type material are slightly de- flexed, and tip to tip measurements give a range from 25 to 28.5 mm.). The antennae have 24 joints. On the primaries, 8 and 9 are shortly stemmed to the cell, 7 usually arising from a point with the stem of 8 and 9; 4 and 5 of both wings usual- ly separate from their origin at the cell, but rarely stemmed to the cell; these two variations, where they occur in the type material, are in only one wing, the opposite wing normal. The abdominal plates are broad and entire, the 7th sternite much shortened and of unusual form; the 8th sternite is short and wide, its rods short, almost straight, and slightly divergent ; the genitalia are wide, the saccus short and taper- ing, the aedoegus thick and clumsy. Dyar’s association (/. c.) of this insect with fragmentella Hy. Edw. (and its supposed synonym, coniferella Hy. Edw.) will probably prove correct, when all three are bred. Frag- mentella has time priority over fumosa, page priority over coniferella, and is a valid name based upon a description of the pupa and larval case; coniferclla, based upon description of the larval case only (a structure manufactured by, not a 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS | ime; 25 part or stage of, the insect). is doubtfully valid in any event. In comparing pithopoera Dyar with fumosa Butler, Dyar (/. c.) was misled by an error in a sketch of the venation of fumosa, sent him from England. The two insects are iden- tical in venation and closely similar in appearance. Dr. Dyar has mounted a fore leg of the unique type of his species, and in this mount we are unable to detect the long tibial spine characteristic of funosa; but we do not consider this single mount necessarily conclusive, for these slender spines are some- times broken off, sometimes closely appressed and invisible in a balsam mount. In view of the otherwise close resemblance of these two insects when directly compared, and of their ob- vious differences from other North American forms whose males are known, pithopoera Dyar should be included under Hyaloscotes Butler until the acquisition and study of addi- tional material makes possible its satisfactory disposition. Through the courtesy of the American Museum of Nat- ural History in furnishing photographs of the type material, it has been possible to include on Plate III figures of the lar- val cases of fragmentella and coniferella Hy. Edwards, hither- to unillustrated. With these Hy. Edwards types is now de- posited in the American Museum the paratype of fumosa But- ler from the British Museum, so that the type material upon which the three names (all probably synonymous) are based, is now assembled in one place for future comparisons. EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. Psyche fragmentella Hy. Edwards. A. Larval cases (type gnaterial, eA vite Nt Psyche coniferella Hy. Edwards. B. Larval cases (type material, A. M. N. H.). Hyaloscotes fumosa Butler. * Male paratype; Ay iM: Nea. . Venation, wings of do, paratype, Brit. Mus. . Antenna, paratype, Brit. Mus. . Abdominal plates, paratype, Brit. Mus. . Genitalia, paratype, Brit. Mus. . Legs, paratype, Brit. Mus. mn B&B WN OD xxxvi, 725] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 165 Descriptions of New Genera and Species of the Dipterous Family Ephydridae. VII. Bye. EL CRESSON it Cerometopum lacunosum new species. Black; third antennal segment, palpi, middle and hind tibiae, all tarsi except apices, tawny to yellow. Wings yel- lowish with pale veins, and posterior cross-vein infuscated. Shining to polished. Frons and face strongly sculptured; mesonotum, scutellum and the bases of abdominal segments densely granulo-scabrous. Facialia with three deep, transverse depressions, leaving the medial area convex and granulose; - cheeks nearly one-third as broad as eye-height. Scutellum quadrate, rather flat with apical bristles emitted from small, elongate tubercles. Fore femora very turgid; the apical half of posterior flexor margin with fine, closely set spines. Length.—2.25 mm. Type—Male; Higuito, San Mateo, Costa Rica, (Pablo Schild), [U. S. National Museum collection, No. 28265]. Trimerinoides new genus. Genotype—Trimerina adfinis Cresson, 1922. Head in profile rather flatly ovate with frontal and fa- cial contour nearly vertical; eyes vertically elongate; vertex sharp; face long, transversely convex, with two bristles each side on lower part, the upper pair strong and cruciate ; meson- otum convex with setulae in series; scutellum flat; abdomen convex, with lateral margins revolute. Ceropsilopa adjuncta new species. Very similar to nasuta Cresson, 1917, but smaller; an- tennae shorter, scarcely attaining lower fourth of face; base of third segment yellow. Face more convex, not so prominent below middle, but in certain aspects with suggestion of a glo- bose swelling at middle; fore femora entirely black. Type—Male? Adjuntas, Porto Rico, June, 1915, [Amer- ican Museum of Natural History collection]. Paratypes.— 1.6? Manati, 1914, March; 1 2? Arecibo, March, 1914; 1 $? Naguabo, March, 1914; all from Porto Rico, [all Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.]. 166 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [june 725 Ceropsilopa staffordi new species. This differs from the more typical species in having the facial bristles low, below line of buccal orbit; the face is strongly convex but weakly so in profile; lunule not depressed ; antennal spine short; ocellar bristles situated between the an- terior and posterior ocelli. Black; antennae, basal segment of abdomen; legs, includ- ing coxae, and wing veins except base of costa, pale yel- low; halteres white; wings immaculate with yellowish tinge. Shining, but more or less obscured by cinereous pollen; frons and apex of abdomen polished; face densely cinereous. Length.—1.5 mm. Type.—Male; New Orleans, Louisiana, October 3, 1921, CETMW. Stattord).” [AL IN. S24 No. 6299)2 Glenanthe litorea new species. The species of this genus have the eyes strongly constricted below by a deep emargination at the post-buccal region. The present species is distinguished from the European G. ript- cola Haliday by the dark antennae and legs, and the more numerous mesofrontal setulae. Black; knees, tarsi except apices, yellow; halteres white; wings brownish, becoming lactaceous inferiorly, veins dark. Opaque, whitish gray, becoming brownish above. Length.— 1.7 mm. Type—Male; Wildwood, New Jersey, September 18, 1920, (Cresson; over wet salt marsh), [A. N. S. P., No. 6300]. Paratypes——Thirty-nine topotypical specimens of both sexes. Ditrichophora nadineae new species. In this species we have much to suggest the species of Psilopa, especially in the general build and the curvature of the second vein, and the latter, the pale antennae and tarsi, are the salient characters. Black; antennae, apex of femora, base and apex of tibiae, all tarsi including their apices, tawny; halteres whitish; wings clear, with pale veins. Shining species; frons subo- paque, brownish to grayish; face slightly brownish especially foveae; mesonotum more or less bronze, sparingly ochreous. Abdomen rotund. Second vein rather abruptly curving to costa, making second section of latter not twice as long as third. Length—2 mm. Rexvi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 167 Type.—Male; Berkeley Hills, Alameda County, Califor- ma, April’ 20, -1908, (Cresson), [A, N.S. P., No: 6348]. Paratypes.—1 3, 3 2; topotypical. ' I name this interesting species after Miss Nadine Isabel Westaway, my little friend and ideal companion on many of the collecting jaunts among the Berkeley Hills. The many specimens in the collection before me from this locality are a constant reminder of the enjoyable days spent in Califor- nia and of the acquaintances made there. Ephydra pacifica new species. Allied to E. atrovirens Loew in having a long, lateral, subbasal hair on the third antennal segment; differing from that species in having the face more projecting and distinctly retreating below, with the foveae and medial area equally shining. Black; halteres yellow. Frons and upper part of face metallic green or blue, faintly brown pruinose; lower portion entirely white; cheeks gray to greenish behind. Mesonotum metallic green, faintly pruinose; scutellum concolorous; pleura opaque brown, gravish below. Abdomen metallic green with brown dusting. Length.—6 mm. Type—Male; Vancouver, British Columbia, April 5, 1902, (kK. J. Crew), (A. N: S.P:, No. 6344]. The Third International Congress of Entomology. [Jz ve the announcement published in the News for May, 1925, page 148. | The Entomological Society of Belgium at its meeting of March 7, 1925, received the following report which was approved by the members present: Information is given to the meeting of this date that the permanent Belgian Committee on International Congresses of Entomology unanimously refuses its aid to, and participa- tion in, the Entomological Congress announced by foreign journals before it had been consulted; it disputes the oppor- tuneness of this Congress and denies its right to international representation. The committee recalls, moreover, the deci- sion of the Oxford Congress which designated Vienna as the meeting place of the Third International Congress of Ento- mology. (Bulletin and Annales, Soc. Ent. Belg. LXV, p. 55). 168 ENTOMOLOGICAL .NEWS [ Jtme; “25 Melanoplus stonei in Michigan (Orth., Acrid.). By THropore H. Huppert, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. The large collection of Orthoptera made at Sand Point, Huron County, Michigan, by the Michigan Biological Survey expedition of 1908, contained a series of fourteen specimens of a grasshopper which was determined by Mr. A. P. Morse as Melanoplus foedus Scudder. In 1911 these specimens were recorded under that name by their collector, Mr. A. F. Shull, in his report on the Thysanoptera and Orthoptera of the region. Since this constituted the only record for the species from east of the Mississippi River it was of considerable interest. In 1918 Mr. W. S. Blatchley requested the loan of the speci- mens for study. Regarding them he wrote: “I found that the specimens were correctly named Melanoplus foedus by Morse, but that name is a synonym of Melanoplus packardu Scudder. The specimens from Michigan agree exactly with red-legged specimens from Colorado, except in size, they being slightly smaller than average packardu.” In his “Orthoptera of Northeastern America” Blatchley has included Melanoplus packardu in his treatment of the eastern species of the genus on the basis of this one record, the only one for either foedus or packardu in the area covered. On August 26, 1919, I found a small number of specimens on the shore of Crystal Lake, Michigan, which were identified as packardu on the strength of Blatchley’s determination of the Huron County material, with which they entirely agreed. A short-time later other specimens of the same species were received from Miss Priscilla Butler, which were collected in July and August of the same year at Douglas Lake, Michigan. Specimens from all three of these localities were sent to Mr. J. A. G. Rehn to have the identification verified. They were named by him Melanoplus stonei Rehn, Mr. Morgan Hebard ~ concurring with him in this determination. Melanoplus stonei was described by Rehn in 1904 from the pine barrens of New Jersey. According to its author, it is ‘a member of the Packardii Group and related to /. packardu xxxvi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 169 and foedus, but distinguished by the smaller size, more com- pressed and excavated vertex and fastigium, the narrower frontal costa (which also has a distinct stricture below the junction with the fastigium), the smaller furcula, the greater interval between the mesosternal lobes in both sexes, and in the rich and striking coloration.” | have compared Michigan specimens of stonei with specimens of packardu from North Dakota, Oklahoma and Colorado, and it is evident that in spite of slight variation, especially in color, stonei is perfectly distinct in the characters pointed out by Rehn, and there should be no real difficulty in separating the two species. It is necessary, therefore, to drop Melanoplus packardiu from the eastern list, as the only record of the species east of the Mis- sissipp1 is based on a misidentification. Since 1919 extensive field work has shown that MJelanoplus stoneit has a rather general distribution in northern Michigan. It has been taken in a dozen localities, and has proved to be common and even locally abundant in its characteristic habitat. This is the more remarkable, since the surprisingly small num- ber of records of stonei published in the twenty years since its description seems to indicate that elsewhere it is either rare or very local in its occurrence. Melanoplus stonei is quite definite in its habitat preferences, and close observation of the species in the field soon enables one to predict with a fair degree of certainty whether or not it will be found in any particular situation. In New Jersey stonei is stated to occur only in the northern portion of the pine barrens, and Rehn notes that it is apparently rather abundant there in dry scrubby pine land. In Michigan I have found it in much the same sort of situations. Its favorite home is the great area of jeck-pine barrens in the northern part of the state. In the Huron Mountain region of Marquette County the species is common in burned-over pine barrens a short distance inland from the shore of Lake Superior. The dominant tree of the thin and irregular forest which covers these sandy plains is the jack-pine (Pinus banksiana), a close relative of the Jer- 170 ENTOMOLOGICAL .NEWS [June, “25 sey scrub pine. The more open portions (considerable areas are almost without tree growth) support a scanty ground vege- tation of blueberry bushes, bracken ferns, and clumps of xero- philous grasses, while much of the sandy soil is bare except for a covering of gray reindeer moss. Most of the Orthoptera associated with /. stone? in this habitat are species characteris- tic of bare soil or scanty vegetation—some of the more numer- ous being Camnula pellucida, Spharagemon collare scuddert, Circotettix verruculatus, Scirtetica marmorata marmorata,. Me- lanoplus mexicanus atlanis and M. fasciatus. In the lower peninsula A/. stonei was found to be abundant in a slightly less xerophytic type of habitat in Montmorency County. Here, in the burned-over barrens of this region, the species is most numerous in the more open country between the pine groves, where the scattered jack-pines are interspersed with an occasional scrubby oak, aspen, sand cherry or June- berry. There is more ground vegetation ; the sandy soil is cov- ered with a thin sod of grasses, while sweet fern, bracken, several species of blueberries, and a number of hardy flowering herbs grow here. Reindeer moss is not common. The greater supply of food and the less rigorous conditions of life are reflected in the larger number of species and individuals of grasshoppers found in this area. Melanoplus confusus ap- peared to be the dominant form, with M. stonei, Pseudopomala brachyptera and Orphulella speciosa common. Arphia sulphu- rea, Spharagemon bolli, Camnula pellucida, Melanoplus fascia- tus and M. dawsoni were also taken in numbers, while Chloe- altis conspersa, Scirtetica marmorata marmorata, Hesperotet- tix pratensis,! Melanoplus mexicanus atlanis, Phaneroptera pistillata, Conocephalus saltans, Gryllus assimilis and Nemobius fasciatus were less numerous. I have also found Melanoplus stonei in the dune belts along the shores of the Great Lakes in the straights region. The sit- uation in which it was found at Crystal Lake is fairly typical of the conditions under which I have taken it along the lake shores. Crystal Lake was formerly a deep arm of Lake Michi- Duly Wala 1923) 5g 5 O38 juve The Arent Michigan Seanad xxxvi, °25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AL gan, the mouth of which has been blocked by a high ridge of dune sand. On a portion of the north shore steep clay bluffs descend to the level of the broad sandy beach, and for a distance of several yards from the base of the bluff the beach is cov- ered with a thick but uneven growth of bearberry (Arcto- staphylos uva-ursi) and two species of scrubby Juniper (Jamni- perus horizontalis and J. communis depressa), with a few other characteristic beach plants. Melanoplus stonei was found in small numbers in openings in this mat of vegetation, among the dead leaves and twigs which litter the sand. Shull’s records state that his specimens were found “‘on bare or somewhat grassy beaches, or in sandy woods, always in dry places. Found on sand or soil, not on vegetation.” In 1922 I also found stonet common on Sand Point, in the grass and blueberry undergrowth of the open oak and jack-pine forests on the sandy ridges back of the beach. Rehn writes that he has never found stonei in the types of habitat frequented by packardu [open grassy prairie, pastures, cultivated land, weed thickets, etc.], but always in brushy woodland, generally on poor soil. At Godbout, Quebec, Mr. E. M. Walker found it “on the coarse grasses of a sea-beach, and sparingly in open jack-pine barrens.” In his excellent ecological study of the Acrididae of the Douglas Lake region, and in a subsequent paper in Entomo- logical News, Mr. A. G. Vestal has recorded Melanoplus angus- tipennis from Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan. He lists this species as a dominant form of the bracken-blue- berry habitat, and as frequent or occasional in bare soil, beach grass and ruderal grassland habitats. It is remarkable that, in the several rather large collections of Orthoptera which have been made by subsequent workers at the Douglas Lake Biologi- cal Station, I have never seen a specimen of M. angustipenms, while M. stonei, which Vestal does not mention, was well rep- resented. This makes me suspect that the species which he regarded as M. angustipennis may in reality have been M. stonei, whose habitat distribution, as I have observed it, seems to accord well with that which he gives for his MW. angustipen- 172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jiunte;» 725 nis. The latter species does occur in Michigan, as I have specimens from Berrien, Wayne, Oakland and Gratiot counties. All of these records are, however, from the southern portion of the lower peninsula, and in my own collecting I have never found it in the northern part of the state. The earliest Michigan record of adult specimens of Melan- oplus stonei is June 20 (Sand Point). On this date it was apparently just maturing, as many of the specimens seen were teneral, and late nymphal stages were numerous. In July and early August it reaches its greatest abundance in Michigan; but it 1s not known how late it may occur, as there has been no collecting later than August 26 in the parts of the state where it is found. The present status of the species is indicated below: Melanoplus stonei Rehn. 1904. Rehn, Ent. News, xv, 85. [Between Harris and White Horse, Burlington County, New Jersey (Type locality) ; Atsion, Burlington County, New Jersey. | 1910. Smith, Ann. Rept. N. J> State Mus, 1909) ie: | Stafford’s Forge, New Jersey.] [In the low scrub under mixed pine and oak and on bare sand near pine woods. | 1914. Fox, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1914, 514. [Re- stricted to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, and so far reported only from its northern portion. | 1920. Blatchley, Orth. Northeastern Amer., 432. [Chatsworth and Harris, New Jersey; Godbout, Quebec ; Ft. William, Ontario. ] 1921. Hubbell, 22nd. Rept. Mich. Acad. Sci.,; 1920, 125: [Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County; Crystal Lake, Benzie County; Sand Point, Huron County, Michigan. | Melanoplus foedus Shull 1911 (not of Scudder 1879), Mich. Geol. Biol. Surv. Publ. 4, Biol, Ser. 2, 227. [Saginaw Bay [Sand Point], Huron County, Michigan. | Melanoplus packardii Blatchley 1920 (in part, not of Scud- der 1878), 1. c., 430. [Saginaw Bay, Huron County, Mich. | ? Melanoplus angustipennis Vestal 1913 (?not of Dodge 1877), Biol. Bull., xxv, 145, 147, 149, 153, 163, 165, 168, mxxvi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 173 171, 173, 176. |Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, Michi- gan. Detailed ecological study. | 1914. Vestal, Ent. News, xxv, 108. [Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan. | The Michigan records are as follows: Northern Peninsula— Marquette County: ‘Huron Mountain Club, vii. 8-19. 1921 rN yl4 3,10) ¢. Mackinac County: St. Ignace, vii. 24..1921 (T. 9 2; Naubinway, vii. 29. 1921 (T.H.H.) 2 3, 2%. Southern Peninsula Cheboygan County: Douglas Lake, vii. 3-vili. 9. 1919 (Priscilla Butler) 1 ¢, 9 2; vii. 19. 1920 (H.H. Lu) 1 ¢. Emmett County: Big Stone Bay, vii. 30. 1921 (T.H.H.) Suey li7 ¢: Charlevoix County: High Island, vit. 7. 1922 (S. Moore) jue eSecn a Norwood twp. vii. 7, 1923 (Cl HH:). |b &. Monrmorency Gounty: 1.32 N.; R. 1 E., va. 10-12, 1923 GESEIOr. 946, 55) Alcona County: Harrisville, viii. 10. 1921 (F. M. Gaige) Biss 55.2. Benzie County: Crystal Lake, viii. 26. 1919 (T.H.H.) 2 GesGa a: Clare County: Lake George, vii. 10-24. 1921 (H. M. MacCurdy) 1 2. Huron County: Sand Point, vi. 22-viii. 3. 1908 (A. F. Slay word. 4a wa 2022/1 922):( TH: AY and: R» F: Eivssey)) ides H.H:) McCook’s Ant Mounds in Pennsylvania, Revisited (Hymen.: Formicidae). By E. A. Anprews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Among the remarkable native animals of the Eastern parts of the United States are the mound building ants which may be found in clearings, cut over woods, abandoned fields and little frequented areas not given up to agriculture or intensive grazing. With increase of human population these ant mounds seem doomed to ever greater restriction and ultimate extinc- tion, some phases of which process may be witnessed readily. Their headquarters along the Alleghanies seem less densely 174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [june 25 populated and the most famous center of their civilization has been decimated. One mile north of Holidaysburg, near Altoona, Pennsylvania, on the south-west base of Brush Mountain, in the summer of 1876, the Rev. H. C. McCook camped out one week in the middle of August and made a study of the great mounds built by the ant, Formica exsectoides. In about fifty acres he counted 1300 mounds and estimated that the number might be 1700; about 29 to the acre. The land, then owned by the Cambria Iron Company, was open woods of oak, pine, maple, dogwood, hickory; on sandy soil full of red-brown sandstones. This region was called the “Ant City” by the natives. One acre contained 33 mounds, another 25; average 29. McCook published six photographic plates in the Transac- tions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 6 (1877), showing the size, shape and groupings of some of the typical mounds as well as their internal structure, Another region, some twenty miles away from Holidaysburg, at Pine Hill and at Warrior’s Mark, was studied by a student, Mr. Edgar B. Kay, under Mr. McCook’s influence. There also the mounds were very numerous and large. Thus at War- rior’s Mark two acres contained 55 mounds; another region of 214 acres contained 74; with average of 30 to the acre. At Pine Hill the mounds were as extensive and as thickly placed as at Holidaysburg. Thirty acres were occupied; five were carefully surveyed and contained 293 hills; the average being 59 to the acre. It was estimated that the 30 acres had 1800 hills evenly over it. Measurements of these mounds showed that, while the be- ginning mound is but a handful of dirt, it is common to find them 10 to 12 feet in circumference and 2% to 3 feet high. The largest were at Pine Hill and Warrior’s Mark. One cone was 12 feet across and 30 feet around; another 15 across and 37 around. Two double mounds were 15 across lengthwise and 47 around base. Another double was 24 lengthwise and 58 in circumference, with height of 42 inches; the largest hill EX, 20] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS L735 of all and built upon an old charcoal hearth, quite level. These double hills were common and apparently occupied by one colony. One double hill at Warrior’s Mark, 19 by 47 feet, was deserted and washed down on the north but active on the south and south-east. Others showed this same difference in aspects, north and south. At this region fully one-fourth of the entire number were abandoned mounds, but at Holidays- burg very few were abandoned. The mounds photographed by McCook were very fine cones of regular shape; often one larger central and smaller outlying cones, four to six feet away. That the cone is not entirely symmetrical is shown by the measurements given. Thus one hill, Plate II, was 8 feet and 7 inches across, 25 feet around. Over the summit it measured 10 feet 3 inches, but the north face was 4 feet 3 inches, the south 4 feet 4 inches; the west 6 feet 9 inches and the east 3 feet 6 inches. McCook estimated that a mound took 5-7 years in the making, and that then the ants colonized and built up other mounds near by. This conclusion rested upon the fact that ground plowed in 1875 and 1876 was subsequently occupied by ant mounds, four of which were measured by farmer Prough and Mr. John McGinn. The rate of growth was calculated by McCook as 1% cubic feet per year in one case, 3 cubic feet in another, 1 cubic foot in each of the other cases. A trolley line from Altoona to Holidaysburg began to run June 14, 1893; and a prophesy was published that this fine community of ant hills at Holidaysburg would be killed out by the advent of the trolley line. To see what changes had taken place within 50 years, I visited this place and also War- rior’s Mark the past summer. July 3, 1924, an examination of the ant Araunel region on the base of Brush Mountain where McCook counted 1300 mounds, revealed now scattered mounds on interrupted parts of about 20 acres, both sides of the paved pike and double trolley line. The former wooded area now is partly taken up with suburban mansions and lawns with some woods left, even some oaks 2 feet in diameter. 176 ENTOMOLOGICAL .NEWS [June, °25 About 10 acres east of the trolley contained 33 active and 7 deserted mounds; a half acre near there contained 6 mounds, while adjacent four and a half acres contained 2 active, 1 young and deserted mound. The average size was about 13 inches in height and 24 inches in width; the largest was 26 in height and 18 feet in circumference, with an old deserted twin near it elongated to the south. Of the three new and rapidly growing mounds the smallest was 6% inches in height and 17 wide and full of grass. In fact most of the mounds had much grass growing upon them. But Japanese honeysuckle being entirely absent, the usual cleared area about the base of the mounds was. not so con- spicuous. Many of the deserted mounds were as usual full of holes at the base of the northerly face. In all there were on the east side of the road about 42 living and 8 dead mounds in about 15 acres, but others may have escaped notice, though much of the adjacent area is lawns and ornamental grounds free from mounds; and the wooded area possible to hold mounds was rather thoroughly explored. Many of these mounds show fine cones and measurements of the slopes of one were 45° on the North, 34° on the South, 31° on the West, and 35° on the East, taken with level and carpenters’ adjustable mitre angle. Over the road on the West the woods are less built up with houses as yet, and the ground les lower. Search near the road revealed 13 active and 2 dead scattered over some 5 acres; farther away from the road, others may have escaped notice. Among the 13 were two twin mounds and one very steep mound supported with grass growing about its lower parts. This one measured: height 21% inches, circumference 10 feet 8 inches, north-south diameter 32 inches. east-west diameter 36 inches. The north, a very steep descent of about 22 inches and angle of 60°; south slope only 471°; east 52° and west 43°. As far as seen the remnant of McCook’s 1300 mounds in fifty acres, is thus a mere 55 living and 10 dead over about 20 acres. Where were 39 are now but 3 to the acre. The area occupied is shrunken and the size of the hills diminished. mexvi, 29 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 177 The General Manager of the Electric Railway writes: “The ant hills were quite large. I believe some of the longest were enough to fill a one or two ton truck. They commenced dis- appearing as soon as houses were erected and human beings began to occupy this territory. At the present day they are almost gone and the few hills that are remaining would not fill a bushel measure.” This diminution is the more marked as the name on the station-house of the trolley line here is “Ant Hills” in remembrance of the phenomenal size and abundance of the mounds when first the trolley came through this wooded area, and it seems most probable that the clearing of the land for house and lawn building was the chief reason for the great reduction in extent of this large community of ants and their dwellings. In contrast to this clash of civilizations, human and formic, were the findings about Warrior’s Mark, where conditions of man’s making have not so greatly changed in the past 48 years. Along the road approaching Pennington Railroad Station from the west and nearing Warrior’s Mark, the cultivated fields on the left or north are in contrast with large cut-over areas on right or south, where close to the road are 26 good active mounds in some 2 acres of pasture thick set with sprout- ing stumps and small scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia. Here the ants were feeding on aphids with long black and white stripes, on white pine trees; and also upon minute young galls near tips of above oaks but few feet from the ground. This region reaches on toward the barren to be mentioned later as along the road to Birmingham and is probably the same general settlement of ant communities. Beyond Warrior’s Mark cross roads, ant mounds were found in various cut-over regions, but the great number were back to the west toward the above mentioned area stretching across the railroad to the south of Pennington Station. August 1, a fine mound was measured amidst twenty more toward the east of the above region and dozens more were noted along the side roads. The measurements of this mound were as follows: Height 26 inches, circumference 18 feet, 178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, °25 with an inconspicuous moat about the base, where the cows have grazed, while on the mound itself the short and sparse grass left only the apex more bare to the south. The tape down the north face from the summit was 3 feet 3 inches, down the south face 4 feet, the west 3 feet 4 inches, the east 3 feet 6 inches. The mound was of sand with fine vegetable fragments on the top, The slopes: N. 35°, S;. 37°, Wi. 35°, and E..3/>. This region is continuous with that about the Birmingham road. Along this road are very many mounds and so out to the west amidst burnt trees of cut-over barren and huckleberry bushes innumerable. One large mound of fine sand and vegetable fragments and no grass stood out conspicuously amidst the huckleberry plants and was measured as follows: Heighth 32 inches, circumference 27 feet. Surrounded only by burned trees, there was no shade on this mound and one fallen burned branch ran under the mound north to south. The angles of slope were: N. 23°, S. 24-5°, W. 27%°, E, 27°. The north side seemed steeper as it was short and lacking in talus which ran out on the southerly face. The tape over top north to apex was 3 feet 7 inches, south 5 feet, east 4 feet 4 inches, west 4 feet. No estimation of the numbers of mounds per acre, or in all, was made, but it seemed that this region east and west of the railroad and south of the pike might still contain some ap- proach to the numbers reported to McCook in 1876, though it is very doubtful if the mounds are either as large or as numer- ous as they then were. That all the mounds east and west of Pennington Station form one nation, or confederation of nations, or are made by ants not strangers to one another, may be indicated by the following experiments. Ants taken from the mounds west of Pennington, where the ants were feeding on galls of scrub oak, were kept over night in closed preserve jars and liberated after thirty hours on large mound near Pennington Station along road to Birmingham, thus several miles from native hill. They ran about actively and seemed to attack the natives and were not molested by them. mxKVI, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 179 However, ants carried from the large community in Mary- land, near Timonium, and kept in like jars about the same length of time, when liberated on this mound in several trials here and there over the mound, acted differently from the natives and were often seized by the antennae and dragged down to the base and into the openings of the mound. The same fate of Maryland ants was observed when they were liberated, about 30 hours after capture, on a small mound at Holidays- burg. They then ran about and solicited food from the Holi- daysburg ants, but often they were seized by the antennae and dragged down to the base. Others of these Maryland ants taken to the Pennsylvania ant mounds west of Pennington Station and liberated on mounds of above ants feeding on scrub oak galls, were seized by the natives and either carried off or dragged by the antennae down to the base of the mound and into the holes there. Thus over a large area the native ants of Pennsylvania may be introduced into each others’ hills without obstacle, but the ants from Maryland both acted differently from the natives and were generally differently received and taken in as if alien to the community. Assuming all these ants near Pennington to be of one stock as compared with those near Timonium in Maryland, the dimi- nution in size and in number of mounds may be compared to the dwindling of a tribe of American Indians. The mound dwellers of such a region form a widespread individuality expanding over acres under favorable conditions somewhat as _does an individual plant of the box huckleberry, Gaylissacia brachycera. But under present conditions this ant-tribe-indi- vidual is on the wane and may well disappear into the realm of the dodo and passenger pigeon, where observations are no more possible. Correction. Through an oversight the number of the News for March, 1925, is given)on the cover as Vol. XXXVI No. 2. It should have been Vol. XXXVI No. 3. The correct number is given on the first page (page 65) of that issue. Subscribers to this journal will please make this correction. 180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [}imes"*25 Notes on Some Little Known Thrips (Thysanoptera). By GLENN W. Herrick, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. During the past year, several species of thrips have come to my notice that are of considerable interest more especially on account of their distribution and food habits. In the June number of the Ganadian Entomologist (1924) the late Mr. Treherne described a new species of thrips found on: Mt. Mclean in British Columbia at an elevation between 6,000 and 7,000 feet as Taentothrips orionis. During the past summer Professor and Mrs. C. R. Crosby spent the month of August in Pingree Park, Colorado, and while collecting spiders Mrs. Crosby took many individuals ‘of a species of thrips in at least three different localities in the Park at elevations of from 9,000 to 10,000 feet. Apparently the species was very abundant nearly everywhere in that region even during the abnormally dry season of 1924. Many specimens were taken from Aquilegia coeruleum and many other individuals were taken in sweepings, from various plants. The species proved to be Taemothrips orionts, although the color is considerably darker than the paratype specimen that Mr. McDunnough of Ottawa was kind enough to loan me for comparison. It also differs somewhat in the shape of the abdomen but the color pattern of the antennae, legs, and wings is the same as in T. orionis and it seems to me that the two are identical with the slight variation noted due to differences, perhaps, in its geographical situation. It is interesting to find this species occurring at these high elevations and extending from British Columbia southward along nearly the same horizon. In October of 1923, Dr. M. D. Leonard sent me some speci- mens of thrips taken from Lilium canadense by Dr. A. B. Stout in the New York Botanical Gardens. I was unable to refer this to any native species of Liothrips and therefore sub- mitted some of the specimens to Mr. J. D. Hood of Rochester, New York, and to Mr. R. S. Bagnall of New Castle on Tyne, England, with the surmise that they might represent an in- troduced species. Mr. Hood at once referred them to Lio- thrips vaneeckei, a European species described from Leiden, mexyl, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 181 Holland. Some time later Mr. Bagnall wrote me “Your Lio- thrips is interesting and is referable to Priesner’s L. vaneecket, found in Holland, affecting bulbs of Lilium pardalinum, a very interesting confirmation of specialized pabulum.” Dr. Stout found them working in the scales of bulbs of Lilium canadense and causing some injury. Thus this thrips has probably be- come established in America and js proving true to its original habits of confining its work to lily bulbs for the present so far as we know. Whether it will change and broaden its food habits, perhaps becoming a pest to other plants, it is impossible to predict. An interesting gall-forming species of Liothrips occurs on Cornus stolonifera in certain bogs of central New York, notably in the Junius bogs south of Rochester. On June 22, 1922, Mr. S. C. Bishop collected: two individuals which came to my desk this summer. The thrips live on the leaves of the plant and apparently check the growth of the leaves and cause galls on them. The galls are in evidence on the upper sides of the leaves. The areas between the larger veins become contracted, wrinkled, and puffed up so that long, narrow, puffed-up ridges occur on the upper sides of the leaves, running with the course of the veins. It is probable that the thrips live on the under- sides of the leaves where their work of rasping the epidermis and of sucking out the sap causes the gall-like ridges along the upper surface. Adequate material is not at hand to enable me to definitely determine this species. It is certainly very close to L. umbri- pennis Hood. The wings are not black, however, in the basal half and each fore wing contains a light brown streak in the middle which extends for two-thirds of the length of the wing from the base. The head is fully 1.4 longer than wide. The species of the genus Liothrips tend to be confined, in general, to certain definite food plants within a rather narrow range. L. umbripennis is known from oak only, so far as published records go. It is likely that this species causing galls on Cornus stolonifera is an undescribed one. Opportunity will probably be afforded next season to obtain an abundance of material. The species Parthenothrips dracaenae is such a unique one 182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (june, 25 ~ among the thrips now found in this country that it deserves to be called anew to the attention of entomologists. The fore wings of the species of thrips in the family Thripidae are usually long, slender and pointed at the tips and the so-called ring-vein is usually weak. In the case of P. dracaenae the Fic. 1.—Fore wing of Parthénothrips dracaenae. fore wings are broad, very long, and rounded at the ends. Each wing is also plainly reticulated throughout the whole surface. (Fig. 1.) The costal margin of each front wing is distinctly notched at the end of the basal third of its length and at this point in the wing the veins are very dark and the reticulation is heavy and dark so that a conspicuous dark spot appears clear across each wing. About half way of the length of the wing the ring vein both on the costal and on the hind margins is again darkened while the reticulation is also heavy and dark thus forming a second dark spot on the wing not so conspicuous, however, as the first one. The hind wings are also long, and rounded at the ends and reticulated over the whole surface although faintly so, near the tips (Fig. 2). Fic. 2,—Hind wing of Parthenothrips dracaenae. zxxvi, “25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 183 The ring vein of the front wings is very strong and heavy. The wings are much longer than the abdomen in this thrips and project far beyond the body. Due to the long wide wings bearing the black spots as indicated the individuals re- semble, at first glance, spotted-winged Diptera or Hymenoptera more than they do thrips. We have found this thrips breeding in the greenhouse on the leaves of Anthurium and of the banana plant, Musa sapientum. It does not, at this time of year (January), at least, develop in sufficient numbers to cause any appreciable injury. During the past summer, the writer found plants of the so-called American white hellebore (Veratrum viride) much infested with a striking species of thrips which lived on the under sides of the leaves in the creases between the large ribs of the leaves. The thrips were abundant and had scarified the leaves of the plants and produced marked injury to the foliage. The species is a rather striking one because of its fairly large size, brown body and brownish or mouse-gray wings. It stands very close to Thrips impar Hood and may be only a variation of that species. Thrips impar was collected by J. D. Hood from the flowers of Jmpatiens sp. on Plummer’s Island, Maryland, in September. One specimen has also been taken hibernating in moss in Illinois. It is an interesting species because it is sexually dimorphic, the males being of a nearly uniform deep chrome color. Unfortunately no males of the thrips on Veratrum were present in June when the writer collected his specimens. Opportunity will be afforded next September to see if males are then present. The specimens collected by the writer differ from 7. impar in coloration of the antennae, in the decidedly shorter prothorax and in the longer wings. It is rather interesting to find this thrips on two such distantly related plants in two such widely separated localities. It will be of interest to see what the males are like. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Prof. J. D. Hood of Rochester University for his courtesy in allowing me to examine his collection of thrips and for his aid in determining species; also to Prof. J. R. Watson of Florida for his trouble in comparing specimens of the thrips on /’eratrum with species in his collection. . ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS” PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Jone, 1925. “Our Financial Column.” Another of our valued subscribers writes: Referring to your editorial in the March issue of the News, personally I am in favor of more pages and a higher subscription rate. | certainly would not like to see the number of pages reduced and am perfectly willing to pay more for the present number. The News has always been worth more than the subscriber has ever paid for it. I believe that it is poor economy for an entomologist to fail to support his technical journals because they cost three, four or five dollars, as these sums are not to be compared with what many of us squander each year in overeating and other forms of amusement. It is customary to bewail the rising costs of things, but we all end up by paying and if we get our money’s worth we soon become accustomed to the higher price and think nothing of it. Everything is operating on higher price levels now and I do not believe that entomologists expect to. pay pre-war prices for their journals when everything else is up. Certainly not when they stop, and think about it. So put your price up. I do not believe that you will lose any subscribers, because even though we are usually silent when asked to reply to editorials, we are aware that the News cannot be dispensed with and that it is more than worth what we pay. Since our April issue was published we have received wel- come letters from Messrs. E. P. Van Duzee, Z. P. Metcalf, Hi. Shapley, L.A. Stephenson, Hi. He Knight, J, Re dela Torre 3ueno, A. E. Miller, A. G. Weeks and F. M. Hull on this subject. We thank them for their interest and kind advice and shall be glad to hear from others also. Of sixteen subscribers who have expressed opinions, fourteen are in favor of increasing our subscription price and two are against it. 184 gecxvi,, 25] ’ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 185 Information Wanted on Papilio troilus (Lepid.). Editor, Entomological News: Some years ago, while living in Westfield, New Jersey, I caught an aberration of Papilio troilus of exquisite beauty. The butterfly was of a pale blue, the underside of the wings corresponding with the upper. At the time I sold the specimen to a Mr. Frank, president of the American Entomological Company in Brooklyn, New York. The firm does not exist any more and I wonder if there is any record of that butterfly and who owns it at present. Kart BAUMANN, Cottekill, Ulster County, New York. L’Abeille. As is well known, the journal “l’Abeille” is given over to taxonomic works on Coleoptera. The founder, Mr. S. de Marseul, desired that only monographs treating of the Coleop- tera of the Old World should be published. in this paper. However, Doctor Jeannel, the present director and editor, has made it known to me that he wishes the paper to be more universal, and although most of the works probably will con- cern the Old World fauna, monographs will be published on the North American fauna as well as on other faunas. Doctor Jeannel says that he can readily publish monographs in Eng- lish, especially if the manuscript be typewritten. The pur- pose of Dr. Jeannel’s communication is to secure subscribers, as at present the journal’s finances are rather inadequate to publish such elaborate papers. A sum received from the Min- ister of Public Instruction has tided the journal over for the time being. It seems to me that all good coleopterists should rally to the support of this journal, now in its thirty-second volume, especially as its field of vision has been enlarged. Each volume consists of about 320 pages illustrated with numerous figures and plates. The subscription is 30 francs per annum and should be sent to Mr. J. Magnin, Entomologi- cal Society of France, 28 rue Serpente, Paris, Vle, Seine. Any specialists who have monographs prepared which they desire published in the journal, should send them to Dr. R. Jeannel, Institut de Speologie, Universite de Cluj, Roumanie. Dr. Jeanne! desires especially to organise a scientific collaboration between entomologists of France and America and will be glad to receive communications from any of our coleopterists. He is at present working on a monograph of the Trechinae and would like to obtain American specimens.—RICHARD TOMPKINS DE GARNETT, A.B., Oakland, California. 186 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (June; 25 Better Mailing Practices. A letter, postcard, parcel, or newspaper, entering the mails is simply a piece of mail. If, because of inadequate or incorrect address, and, in the case of the package—improper wrapping—a piece of mail must be taken out of the regular postal machinery for ‘directory service’ or “hospital service,” it becomes a “nixie.” If the postal sleuths are able to correct the address, or return to sender for a better one, it again becomes a piece of mail—though “delayed mail” is the better sobriquet. If, after an exhaustive effort, the postal “detective” must give up the puzzle, and there is no return address, the piece of mail is consigned to the Dead Letter Office, where it again changes its name to dead letter or dead parcel, as the case may be. Its period of existence as a nixie is the most expensive one. It demands special attention from the very best clerks. Valuable time is spent in its behalf, time which — also may prove more costly to the mailer or intended recipient through the attendant delay. But in the long run, the postal service loses most. In Chicago 400 workers do nothing but handle nixies. In New York the service costs $500 daily. In all the nixie costs the government about $1,740,000 a year. U. S. Post OrricE DEPARTMENT. Entomological Literature COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published. : All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. Papers of systematic nature will be found in the paragraph beginning with (N). Those pertaining to Neotropical species only will be found in paragraphs beginning with (S). Those containing descriptions of new forms are preceeded by an *,. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. The titles occurring in the Entomological News are not listed. 4—Canadian Entomologist. 6—Journal, New York Ent. Soc. 7—Annals, Entomological Society of America. 8&— The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine. 9—The Entomol- ogist. 10—Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington. 12—Journal of kexvi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 187 Economic Ent. 14—Entomologische Zeit., Frankfurt a.M. 15—Insecutor Ins. Menstruus. 18—Internationale Ento- molog. Zeit., Guben. 19—Bull., Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 21— The Entomologist’s Record. 24—Annales, Soc. Ent. de France. 25—Bull., Soc. Ent, France. 33—Bull. et Annal. Soc. Ent. Belgique. 49—Ent. Mitteilungen, Berlin. 50— Proc. U. S. National Mus. 56—Konowia, Wien. 60—Stet- tiner Ent. Zeit. 64—Zeit., Oesterr. Ent. Ver., Wien. 68— Science. 75—Annals and Mag. of Nat. History, London. 77—Comptes Rendus d. Seances, Soc. Biologie, Paris. 89— Zool. Jahrbucher, Jena. 111—Archiv f. Naturg., Berlin. 124—Revue Suisse de Zool., Geneve. 126—Revista Chilena Hist. Nat. 149—Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasit., Liverpool. 154—Zoolog. Anzeiger. GENERAL.—Anguita, F.—La revista Chilena de his- toria natural sus Bodas de Plata el Prof. Dr. Carlos E. Porter. 126, xxv, p. xii-xxiv. Barber, G. W.—The eff- ciency of birds in destroying over wintering larvae of the European corn borer. 5, xxxii, 30-46. Barnes, T. C.—A preliminary note upon a honey-dew fungus. 4, Ivii, 69-71. Brehm, H. H.—Obituary note. 19, xx, 96. Casey, T. L.— Obituary notice. 10, xxvii, 41-3. Effenberger, W.— Schlupfwespen und wasserinsekten. (Der Naturf., 1924-25, 601-5.) Hasslein—Entomologische plauderei. 14, xxxviil, 109-8 (Cont.) Horn, W.—Ueber ordinarien der zoologie und volksschullehrer. 49, xiv, 1-5. Howard, L. O.—The needs of the World as to entomology. 7, xviii, 1-21. Kohl, F. F.—Obituary and bibliography. 56, iv, 89-96. Kohler, G.—Wasser als unfreiwilliger koder oder lichtreflex? 18, xviii, 284. Lindsey, A. W.—Some problems of taxonomy. (Denison Univ, Bull., xxiv, 289-305.) Meisel, M.—A bib- liography of American natural history. The pioneer cen- tury, 1769-1865. Vol. 1, 244 pp. Premier Pub. Co., N. Y. Myers, P. R—Obituary and bibliography. 10, xxvii, 66-7. Nicholson, C.—Novel method of collecting. 21, 1925, 58-9. Schade, F.—Eine sammelexkursion nach den bergen von Mentral-Paracuay. 17, xiii, 13: Seitz, A——-Ueber den-um- fang der sammel-ausbeuten. 17, xlii, 13-14. Simon, E.— Notice necrologique sur. 24, xciv, 73-98. Torre-Bueno, J. R—On a universal language. 19, xx, 98. Weiss, H. B.— Statistical method and entomology. Entomology in the diary of Samuel Pepys. 6, xxxili, 56, 59. Wiebe, A. H.— Artificial fertilization of aquatic insects. 7, xviii, 45-8. 188 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [June, “25 ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL, ETC.— Blackburn, K. B.—The chromosome basis of sex determina- tion. (Pro. Univ. Durham Phil. Soc., vii, 54-7.) Cajal & Sanchez.—Sobre la estructura de los centros opticos de los insectos. 126, xxv, 1-18. Ephrussi, B.—Sur le chondriome ovarien des Drosophila melanogaster et simulans, 77, xcil, 778-80. Whiting, A. R.—The ‘inheritance of sterility and of other defects induced by abnormal fertilization (Genetics, x, 32-58.) ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA.—Berland, L.— L’instinct maternal chez les araignees. (Rev. Scient., xvii, 161-6.) Giltay, L—Remarques sur ethologie des Lycosidae. 33, Ixv, 87-9. Rau, P.—A note on the moulting of the tarantula. Eurypelma hentzii. 5, xxxii, 1-3. Wehrle & Welch.—(see under Orthoptera.) (N) *Emerton, J. H—New spiders from Canada and the adjoining states. IV. 4, lvii, 65-9. (S) *Ewing, H. E—New chigger (Trombicula larva) from Brazil. 10, xxvii, 91-2. Joseph, C.—Moeurs des araignees Chiliennes. 126, xxv, 141-7. THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTA.—Brocher, F.—Appareil buccal des larves de Psylla pyrisuga. Etude anatomique et physiologique. 24, xciv, 55-72. Lozinski, P. —RHiustologische untersuchungen uber den darm der Myr- ne eqmidenl a wie (Bul, Intern. Ac. Polonaise: Sc) Let., Be 1921, 199-222.) Snyder, T. E.—Termites in buildings. 68, Ix1, 389. Tillyard, R. J——Primitive wingless insects. The orders Protura and Collembola. (N. Z. Jour. Sc. & Techn., vii, 298-303.) (N) *Hood, J. D.—New sps. of Frankliniella. (Thysan- optera.) 19, xx, 71-83. Kruger, L.—Sisyridae. Beitrage zu einer monogr. der Neuropteren-fam der. . . . 60, Ixxxiv, 25-66. Tillyard, R. J——Kansas Permian. insects. The order Paleodictyoptera: “(Am Jour? ce)” x 326-35.) (S) *Caudell, A. N.—A new species of myrmecophilous Thysanura from Bolivia. 10, xxvii, 43-5. *Hood, J. D.— New Neotropical Thysanoptera coll. by C. B. Williams. 5, xxx, 48-69. *Martin, R.—Sur les Odonates du Chili. 126, xv, 19-25. *Navas, L.—Algunos insectos de Chile. 126, xv, 443-5. *Snyder, T. E—New American termites, in- cluding an. subg. (Jour. Wash. Ac. Sc,, xv, 152-62.) Penvi, 2)| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 189 ORTHOPTERA.—Gadeau de Kerville, H.—(See under Coleoptera.) Wehrle & Welch.—The occurrence of mites in the tracheal system of certain O. 7, xviii, 35-44. HEMIPTERA.—Hoffmann, W. E.—Some aquatic H. having only four nymphal stages. 19, xx, 93-4. Myers & Myers.—The sound-organs and songs of N. Zealand Cica- didae. (Rep. 16, Meet. Austr, Ass. Ad. Sc., 1923, 420-30.) Torre-Bueno, J. R—Some winter bugs. 19, xx, 70. Van Duzee, E. P.—Notes on a few H. from the San Bernardino Mt., Cal. 19, xx, 89-90. (N) *Davis, W. T.—Cicada tibicen, a So. Am. sp., with records and descr. of No. Am. cicadas. 6, xxxiii, 35-51. *McAtee & Malloch.—Revision of the American bugs of the reduvitd subfamily Ploiariinae. 50, Ixvu, Art. 1. (S) *Baker & Moles.—Aleyrodidae of South America, with description of four new Chilean sps. 126, xxv, 609-56. *Porter, C. E.—Descripcion de un nuevo hemiptero Chileno. 126, xxv, 505-6. LEPIDOPTERA.—Adkin, R.—Artificial varieties of L. 9, Ilviii, 97. Barnes & Benjamin.—On the distribution of Feralia deceptiva. (Phalaenidae.) 19, xx,90. Dyar, H. G. —A note on the larvae of the Dalceridae. The larva of Heterocampa lunata. 15, xiii, 44-7; 47-8. Gadeau de Ker- ville, H.—Consequences de la decapitation de chenilles de Vanessa urticae et de Sericaria mori au moment de. la nymphose. 24, 1925, 79-80. Lindsey, A. W.—Trichoptilis pygmaeus and the neuration of the family Pterophoridae. (Denison Univ. Bull., xxiv, 187-92.) Pammel, L. H.—The extension of the yucca moth. 68, Ixi, 414-5.) Philpott, A.— The wing-coupling apparatus in Sabatinca and other primi- tive genera of L. (Rep. 16,-Meet. Austr. Ass. Ad. Sc., 1923, 414-19.) Schott, F. M.—Notes on Lepidoptera Hymen- optera. 6, xxxiii, 53-6. Schwartz, R. L.—Some hitherto undescribed habits of Meskea dysteraria. 5, xxxii, 70-4, Sich, A—A review of Pierce’s volume on the genitalia of the Tortricidae: 21, 1925, 49-58. (Cont.). Williams, C. B. —The migration of the painted lady butterfly. (Nature, Eendon, cxv, 535-7.) (N) Barnes & Benjamin.—Notes on diurnals. 4, lvil, 57-60. Barnes & Benjamin.—On the synonymy of Cerapoda oblita with notes on the type of “Agrotis insertans.” 19, 190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ June, #2 xx, 95-6. Busck, A.—On the genus Setiostoma. 10, xxvil, 48-50. *Busck, A—A new No. Am, genus of Microl. (Glyphipterygidae). 10, xxvii, 46-8. *Dyar, H. G.—Some new American moths. 15, xiii, 1-19. *Engelhardt, G. P.— Studies in No. Am. Aegeriidae. 19, xx, 61-9. *Ehrmann, G. A.—New No. Am. butterflies. 19, xx, 84. *Lindsey, A. W.—The types of Hesperoid genera. 7, xviii, 75-106. (S) Figueroa, C. S.—Revision de las especies Chilenas del genero Brenthis. 126, xxv, 462-70. Giacomelli, E.— Sobre el genero Dryocampa. 126, xxv, 79-81. *Gschwand- ner, R.—Zwei neue tropische Saturniiden. 18, xix, 7-9. Izquierdo, V.—Observaciones sobre la biologia de la Poly- thisana edmondsi. 126, xxv, 426-32. *LeCerf, F.—Races et formes nouvelles de Morphos. 25, 1925, 46-8. *Neustetter, H.—Neue Heliconius formen. 64, x, 11-14. *Rober, J.— Neue sudamerikanische falter. 49, xiv, 85-100. *Rober, J. —Neue schmetterlinge usw. 60, Ixxxiv, 94-6, DIPTERA.—Bischoff, W.—Ueber die kopfbildung der dipterenlarven. 111, 1924, A, 8, 1-105. Bischoff, W.—Eine bitte um Blepharoceriden nebst richtlinien fur die sammler. 154, Ixii, 138-43. Bonne-Wepster & Bonne.—Note on the predaceous habits of the larvae of Sabethoides bipartipes. 15, xjii, 32. Crampton, G. C.—A phylogenetic study of the thoracic sclerites of the non-tipuloid nematocerous D. 7, xviii, 49-74. Crampton, G. C.—Phylogenetic study of the labium of holometabolous insects, with particular reference to the Diptera. 10, xxvii, 68-91. Eggers, F.—Ueber die stielaugen der Diopsiden. 89, xlix, Syst., 493-500. Frison, T. H.—Intestinal myasis and the common housefly. 12. xviii, 334-6. Frost, S. W.—Study of the leaf-mining diptera of North America. (Cornell Univ. Mem. 78.) Hall, M. C. —The occurrence of cuterebrid larvae in dogs and cats, and the possible modes of infection. 12, xviii, 331-4. Sur- couf & Guyon.—Recherches preliminaires sur la morphol- ogie et le biologie des larves Oestrides. 24, 1925, 68-72. Townsend, C. H. T.—The inside history of No. Am. myiol- ogy. 6, xxxili, 1-10. (N) *Curran, C. H.—Revision of the gen. Neoascia. (Syrphidae). 10, xxvii, 51-62. *Johnson, C. W.—A new sp. of the genus Gaurax. 5, xxxii, 47. *Malloch, J. R— A new borborid from Maryland. 19, xx, 97. *Shannon, R. C.—The syrphid-flies of the subf. Ceriodinae in the USN. M. ‘Coll.'15, x11, 48-52. exxvi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 191 (S) *Dyar, H. G.—A new Sabethid from Panama. Some new mosquitoes from Colombia. III. Note on the occur- rence of tropical American Mansonia. Note on bromeli- colous Anopheles. Some mosquitoes from Ecuador. The subgen. of Mansonia, 15, xiii, 20-1; 21-4; 24-5; 25-7; 27-31; 40-3. *Kessel, Q. C.—A synopsis of the Streblidae of the World. 6, xxxiii, 11-34. Porter, C. E.—Sobre algunos Sir- fidos de Chili. 126, xxv, 446-7. COLEOPTERA.—Chittenden, F. H.— Note on the sweet- potato leaf-beetle and a related Mexican from. 19, xx, 91-2. Cloudman, A. M.—A preliminary report of the Ceram- bycidae foundin . . . Mt. Desert, Maine. (Maine Nat., v, 23-35.) Gadeau de Kerville, H.—Experiences sur la regeneration homomorphe des antennes de Tenebrio moli- tor et la regeneration homomorphe et heteromorphe des antennes de Carausius morosus. 24, 1925, 75-9. Gordon, R. M.—A note on two vesicant beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.. 149, xix, 47-52. Hintze, A. L.—The be- havior of the larvae of Cotinis nitida. 7, xviii, 31-4. Weiss & West.—Coleoptera in ocean drift. 6, xxxiii, 60. (N) Champion, G. C.—Notes on various Barids. 8, 1x1, 93-4. *Fall, H. C.—New sps. of Apion and‘ Apteromechus. 19, xx, 85-8. Heikertinger, F.—Die Halticinengenera Bestimmungstabelle der nordamerikanischen gattungen. (Kol. Runds., xi, 54-70. (S) *Arangua, E. V.—Contribucion al estudio de los Cicindelidae. Los Cincindelidae de Chile. 126, xxv, 28-61. *Barber, H. S.—Two n. sps. of Cent. Am. Melasidae. 10, xxvil, 62-4. *Brethes, J. Description un nouveau genre et une nouvelle espece de Ipidae du Chili, p.433-5. Catalogue synonymique des Coccinellides du Chili, p. 453-6. Sur trois coleopteres Chiliens, p. 457-61. 126, xxv. Campos, F.—Los Cicindelidae del Ecuador. 126, xxv, 448-52. *Champion, G. C.—Additions to the Curculonidae of Costa Rica and Panama. 75, xv, 425-43. *Fisher, W. S.—A revision of the W. Indian C. of the fam. Buprestidae. 50, Ixv, Art. 9. *Moser, J.—Beitrage zur kenntnis der Melolonthiden. 60, Ixxxiv, 114-64. *Ohaus, F.—Neue Geniatinen. (Rutelini- dae). 60, Ixxxiv, 179-86. *Polinski, W.—Neue Clausiliden aus. Peru. (Bul. Intern. Ac. Polonaise. Sc, Let., B, 1921, 121-42.) Porter, C. E.—Notas breves sobre longicornios Chilenos. 126, xxv, 495-501. *Sellnick, M.—Die gattung Sphaeroseius. 49, xiv, 5-11. 192 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ June," 25 HYMENOPTERA.—Bertholf, L. M.—The moults of the honeybee. 12, xvii, 380-4. Forbes, W. T. M.—The hypo- thetical wing of the H. 7, xviii, 22-30. Hutson, R.—The honeybee as an agent in the pollination of pears, apples and cranberries. 12, xviii, 387-91. Lovell, J. H.—The bees of Maine. (Maine Nat., v, 7-10.) Park, W.—The storing and ripening of honey by honeybees. 12, xviii, 405-10. Reinhard, E. G.—The wasp Nysson hoplisivora, a parasite relative of Hoplisus costalis. (Jour, Wash. Ac. Sc., xv, 172-7.) Schott, F. M.—(See under Lepidoptera.) Schul- thess, A.— Beitrag zur kenntnis der gattung Alastor. (Ves- pidae.) 56, iv, 57-65. Weber, H.—Der thorax der hornisse. 89, xlvi1, Anat., 1-100. (N) *Brues, C. T.—Some species of the genus Leucospis. 5, xxxli, 23-9. *Rohwer, S. A.—Five braconid parasites of the genus Heterospilus. (Jour. Wash. Ac. Se., xv, 177-82.) *Viereck, H. L.—New gen. and sps. of Ichneumonoidea in the Canadian Nat. Coll. 4, lvii, 71-8. (S) *Brethes, J—Hymenopteres nouveaux du Chili. 126, xxv, 128-9. *Herbst, P—Nuevos Pompilidos Chilenos, 126, xxv, 148-51. *Porter, C. E—Un nuevo Braconido Chileno. 126, xxv, 26-7. *Santschi, F.—Revision du genre Acromyr- mex. 124, xxx1, 355-98.) SPECIAL NOTICES. Egyptian Diptera, A Monograph of Family Trypaneidae. By H.C. Efflatoun. Mem. Soc. R. Ent. Egypte, Vo. 2, Fase. 2. This paper of 132pp, 5pls, (2 colored), altho treating of Egyptian species of this family may prove valuable to American students of this group of flies. OBITUARY. PAuL REVERE Myers, in charge of the Hessian Fly Labora- tory of the Federal Bureau of Entomology, at Carlisle, Penn- sylvania, died February 12, 1925. He was born at Harrisburg, in the same state, February 15, 1888, and served in the Penn- sylvania Bureau of Economic Zoology, in the United States National Museum and, from 1914, in the federal Bureau of Entomology. We take these data from an obituary notice in the April, 1925, issue of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, which includes a list of seven papers on parasitic Hymenoptera of which he was author. URTON COUNTY, NORTHERN ONTARIO ect in all orders. Many interesting specimens, and probably vy, to be | found there. 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XXXVI PULY);,.1925 7 CONTENTS Gunder—Several New Aberrant Lepi- 1D} 1300) 6 Vink Aenean ee OSC carers 209 doptera (Rhopalocera) ............ 193 | Gunder—Lower California (Mexico) Alexander—Undescribed Species of | Open to Entomologists..........- 211 Crane-Flies trom the Eastern Uni- Cresson—Another Record for the Fe- ted States and Canada (Dipt.: Ti- male of Glutops singularis (Dipt : BRUILCLAC)) SEAT Cals. clea, ole cicicieisis\s waieeZOO Leptidae) i ocecesgess tay tassdae seer 2u Harris—4 New Species of Nabidae Felt—New York State Collections cf (Costa) from the Western United INSECUSH cies Spools erotica s eiatereiat tees Grats 211 States (Hemiptera)................ 205 | Entomological Literature.............. 212 Champlain and Knull—A New Species Review—Snodgrass on Anatomy and of Lepturges (Cerambycidae, Cole- Physiology of the Honeybee. P 219 Gye) Hopnooeosunooccoogonddrnodeo 207 | Doings of Societies—Kans3s Entomo- Editorial—A Reminder for Collectors logists Organize State Society. ... 22° GIPUMSCEES facta evatelercsielelefe,<)o:e1e)-ia\; aaa ay Sapromiy zZidac Sea. eas 31 Ortalidae oa. ee 2 ee 33 Trypaneidae (ANN eee 22 Micropezidae= (eee 8 Sepsidae tO. yee anee ee 10 PSilidae e121") Fie ieee 5 Diopsidae 2's Saree Weaiete 1 Bphydridae "ft eeeaes 18 Chloropidaes 0: Sea 45 Conopiddes: (toa. ae 17 Drosophilidae 14 Geomyztdde Thy hierar Agromyzidae?')..! 22k LG Gta Lea e 977 species. F. M. Hutt, Dept. Entomology, Ohio State Univ. Columbus, Ohio. PMOKVI, 1/25 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 20 Lower California (Mexico) Open to Entomologists. A good dirt motor road has recently been completed into Lower California south of San Diego. Lower California is practically a new field for Entomologists in all orders. June or early July is perhaps the best time. There is no strict red tape to undergo with the Mexican authorities in crossing the border. The road leads south of San Diego, 86 miles to Ensen- ada, thence on 120 miles to a Ranch House where meals and accommodation can be had at reasonable prices. Entomologists contemplating visiting California might take this trip under ad- visement.—J. D. GuNpER, Pasadena, California. Another Record for the Female of Glutops singularis (Dipt.: Leptidae). While collecting in a woods along Dismal Run, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, last April 18th, I captured what I thought was a species of the Leptid genus Symphoromvyia fly- ing near a leaf covered brook. Upon examination in my study a few days later, I found it to be a female of Glutops singularis Burgess. This is the second record of the capture of this sex. The few published records of this rare species may be found in C. W. Johnson’s article on the record and description of the female (Psyche, xxvii, p. 153, 1920) from which we glean that the species has been found in Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire, Connecticut, and British Columbia. It would be inter- esting to hear of other records of this fly—E. T. Cresson, Jr. New York State Collections of Insects. The Erastus Corning collection of Lepidoptera has been transferred to the custody of the New York State Museum by a recent vote of the Executive Committee of the Albany Insti- tute and Historical and Art Society, title of said collection however to remain with the Society. The Corning collection of Lepidoptera comprises somewhat over 4000 specimens, the Sphingidae, the Catocalas, and the Bombycidae being particu- larly well represented. There are also a number of magnificent, exotic Lepidoptera, mostly Rhopalocera. This action places a magnificent collection where it will be given suitable care and moreover brings under one roof the work of three early, enthusiastic entomologists, namely, Messrs. J. A. Lintner, W. W. Hill and Erastus Corning, all co-laborers in the latter part of the last century. The Lintner collection is particularly strong in the Noctuidae, though it contains many 212 ENTOMOLOGICAI. NEWS Puly, 25 other forms collected by Dr. Lintner during the earlier. years of his entomological activities. The Hill collection comprises some 10,000 specimens representing over 3000. species, the Nymphalidae, the Lycaenidae, the Hesperidae, the Sphingidae and the Noctuidae being particularly well represented. An account of this last collection and a list of the species is given in N. Y. State Museum Bulletin 124, pages 61 to 117, 1908. EK. P. Feit, Albany, New York. ———<»—— Entomological Literature COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 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), including “Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. Papers of systematic nature will be found in the paragraph beginning with (N). hose pertaining to Neotropical species only will be found in paragraphs beginning with (S). Those containing descriptions of new forms are preceeded by an * : For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. The titles occurring in the Entomological News are not listed. 4—Canadian Entomologist. 5—Psyche. 6—The Ento- mologist’s Monthly Magazine. 9—The Entomologist. 10— Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington. 14—Entomologische Zeit., Frankfurt a.M. 15—Insecutor-Ins. Menstruus. 1/7—Ent. Rundschau, Stuttgart. 18—Internationale Entomolog. Zeit., Guben. 21—The Entomologist’s Record. 22—Bulle- tin of Ent. Research. 25—-Bull., Soc. Ent. France, 26— Ent. Anzeiger, Wien. 33—Bull. et Annal. Soc. Ent. Bel- gique. 45—Zeit. f. Wissenschftl. Insekentb., Berlin. 48— Wiener Entomol. Zeitung. 50—Proc. U. S. National Mus. 55—The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 58—Entomolog. Be- richten, Holland. -63—Deutsche Ent., Zeit, “iris... 64—— Zeit., Oesterr. Ent. Ver., Wien. 68—Science. 71—Novi- tates Zoologicae. 75—Annals and Mag. of Nat. History, London. 78—Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique. 101—Biolog. Bull., Woods Hole, Mass. 104— Zeit. f. wissen. Zool., Leipzig. 105—Proc., Biol. Soc. Wash- ington. 106—An. Soc. Cien. Argentina. 107—Biologisches Zentralblatt. 108—Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 111— Archiv. f. Naturg., Berlin. 113—Jour. Agric. Research, Washington. 126—Revista Chilena Hist. Nat. 130—Ohio cai 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 213 Jour. of Sciences. 133—Jour. Experimental Zool. 141— Amer. Naturalist. 144—Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., Paris. 151— Oc. Pap., Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.. 152—U. S. Dept. Agric. 153—Bull., Mus. Nat. Hist. Naturelle, Paris. 154—Zoolog. Anzeiger. GENERAL.—Berlese, A.—Gli insetti, Vol. 2, Fasc. 42-61, p. 849—fine vol. 11.. Bristowe, W. S.—Sound production by insects. (Nature, London, cvx, 640-1.) Bruhn, S.—An- schwemmen von insekten am meersstrand. 18, xix, 22-4. Clement, H.—Effluves a haute frequence et la capture des insectes. (Assoc. Franc. Avsn. Sci., Ses. 45, p. 724.) Cuno, W.—Erfolge und misserfolge in der raupenzucht. (Buchb. Ent. Zeit., 1924/25, 22-8.) _Descy, A.—La vie sociale chez les insectes. 144, viii, 87-104. Ferris, G. F—Content of systematic biology. (Sci. Monthly, xx, 653-8.) Hepp, A.— Sammelpraxis in fruheren zeiten. (Buchb. Ent. Zeit. F. a.M., 1924/25, 29-46.) Houard, C.—Collection cecidolo- gique du laboratoire entomologique du museum de Paris. (Assoc. Franc. Avan. Sci., Ses. 44, 1925, 304-6.) Jeffrey, E. C.—Polyploidy and origin of species. 141, lix, 209-17. Kennedy, C. H.—Distribution of certain insects of re- versed behavior. 101, xlviii, 390-401. Knoch, V.—Einige practische winke fur die sammlung. 18, xix, 38. Krausse, A.—“Staat” und “Recht.” 18, xix, 28-9. Lutz, F. E.—New insect groups in the American Museum. (Nat. Hist., xxv, 127-35.) Mortensen, T.—Some observations on protective mimicry. (Treubia, vi, 207-11.) Poche, F.—Zur begrund- ung dreier antrage zwecks einschrankung der zahl der namensanderungen und Abschaffung des liberum veto in der Internationalen nomenklaturkommission. 111, A, 6, 75-155. Porter, C. E.—Plantas que sirven de trampas a los insectos. 126, xxvii, 193. Poulton, E. B.—Insecta of the Falkland Islands. (The Falkland Islands By V. E. Boyson. Oxford, 1924, p. 362-71.) Rabaud, E.—Les phe- nomenes de convergence en biologie. 78, Suppl. vii, 1925, 165 pp. Shreve, F.—Ecological aspects of the desert of California. (Ecology, vi, 93-103.) Simon, E.—Discours ‘prononces aux obeseques de, 153, 1924, 426-9. Visher, S. S.—Tropical cyclones from an ecological viewpoint. (Ecology, vi, 117-22.) Weiss, H. B—Insect food habit ratios on Quelpart Island. 5, xxx, 92-4. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL, ETC.— Gates, R. R.—Species and chromosomes. 141, lix, 193-200. Glaser, R. W.—Hydrogen ion concentrations in the blood 214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, °25 of insects. (Jour. Gen. Phys., vii, 599-2.) Goldschmidt, R.—Problem der geschlechtsbestimmung. (Der Naturf., ii, 57-63, (cont.) Hering, M.—Regenerationserschein- ungen in minetigangen. (Mikrokosm., xviii, 161-6.) Mor- gan, Bridges, Serf eveney Genetics of Drosophila. (Bib- liogr. Genetica, The Hague, Dec. 2, 1-262.) Nath, V.—Cell inclusions in the oogenesis of scorpions. (Proc. -R. See London, Ser. B, xcviii, 44-58.) Ostenfeld, C. H.—Some remarks on species and chromosomes. 141, lix, 217-18. Paillot, A—Le probleme de equilibre naturel chez les in- sectes phytophages. (Rev. Gen. Sci. Pures et Appl., xxxvi, 206-11.) Peacock, A. D.—Animal parthenogenesis in rela- tion to chromosomes and species. 141, lix, 218-24. Pruthi, H. S.—Homologies of the genital ducts of insects. (Na- ture, cxv, 763.) Richardson, C. H.—Oviposition response of insects. (U.S. Dep. Agr. Bul. 1324.) Rosenberg, O.— Chromosomes and species. 141, lix, 205-8. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA.—Joseph, C.— Moeurs des araignees. 126, xxvii, 142-4. Kastner, A.— Studien zur ernahrung der arachniden. Die nahrungsauf- nahme einiger Phalangiden. 154, xii, 212-14. Remy, P.— Saignee-reflexé chez uh arachnide,, “Areas pretexus:” (Assoc. Franc. Avan. Sci., Ses. 45, 664-71.) (N) *Chamberlin, R. V.—The Ethopolidae of America north of Mexico. (Bul. Mus. Comp. Zool., lvii, 385-437.) *Ferris, G. F.—On two sps. of the genus Halarachne (Gam- asidae). (Parasitol., xvii, 163-72) (S) *Chamberlin, J. C—On two sps. of pseudoscorpion from Chile . . . . 126, xxvii, 185-192. *Sellnick, M.— Drei Oribata-arten aux Mexico. (Rev. Mex. Bio. ee v, 346-54.) Silvestri, F.—Notizia della presenza del genere Synxenus ((Mynopoda), “an ~ Cataloona. 5. Vo aGusens Mus. Cien. Nat. Barcelona, iv, No. 5.) *Snyder, T. joe New Cuban termite. 10, xxvii, 105-6. THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTA.—Cleveland, L. R——The feeding habit of termite castes and its relation to their intestinal flagellates. The effects of oxygenation and starvation on the symbiosis between the termite, Termopsis, and its intestinal flagellates. 101, xlviii, 295- 308; 309-26. Dodds, G. S.—Ecological studies of aquatic insects. Adaptations of caddisfly larvae to swift streams. (Ecology, vi, 123-37.) Howe, R. H.—Another instance of the northward migration of Odonata in the spring. 5, xxxii, Rexvl, 20 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS rap a) 113. Snyder, T. E.—Origin of the castes in termites. 105, XXXvili, 57-68. (N) *Collins, R. L.—A lower eocene termite from Ten- nessee. (Am. Jour. Sci., 1x, 406-10. Lestage, J. A—Notas trichopt. VIII. Etude du groupe polycentropiden et catal. system. des genres especes decrit depuis 1907 (in Gen. Ins.). 33, Ixv, 93-120. (S) Martin, R—Sur quelques Odonates dont la presense a A f.) . 6... 126, xxvii, 108-9. .*Navas, L.—Criso- pidos neotropicos. 126, xxvii, 110-6. *Snyder, T. E.—A new Rugitermes from Panama. 108, xv, 197-200. ORTHOPTERA.—Bodine, J. H.—Effect of temperature on rate of embryonic development of certain Orthoptera. 133, xlii, 91-109.) Criddle, N.—Field crickets in Manitoba, 4, lvii, 79-84. (N) Hoffmann, C. C. et al—Informe de la comision cien- tifica exploradora de la plaga de la langosta en el estado de Veracruz. (Mon. Inst. Higiene, Mexico, No. 3, 140 pp.) (S) *Uvarov, B. P.—Two‘new O. from British Guiana. 75, xv, 680-3. HEMIPTERA.—Hungerford, H. B.—Notes on the giant water bugs. 5, xxxil, 88-91. MacGillavry, D.—Over brachypterisme bij Gerris. 58, vi, 346-52. Riley, C. F. C.— - Some aspects of the general ecology and behavior of the water-strider, Gerris rufoscutellatus. 21, xxxvii, 65-72. (Cont.) WanDuzee, E. P.—Third record for Emphoropsis depressa., p. 155. Luceria tranquilla, p. 185. 55, i. (N) *Ball, E. D.—Some n. sps. of N. Amer. treehoppers (Membracidae). 108, xv, 200-5. Drake & Hottes.—Five n. sps. and a n. var. of water striders from N. A. (Gerridae). 105, xxxviii, 69-74. *Knight, H. H.—Descr. of a n. gen. and eleven n. sps. of N. Am. Miridae. 4, lvii, 89-97. Descr. of 14 undescribed sps. of Parthenicus (Miridae). 130, xxv, 119-29. Morrison, H.—Classification of scale insects of the subfamily Ortheziinae. 113, xxx, 97-160. (S) Goding, W.—Synopsis of the Membracidae of Chile. 126, xxvii, 118-23. *Laing, F.—Descr. of two sps. of Coc- cidae feeding on roots of coffee. 22, xv, 383-4. *Metcalf, Z. P.—Notes and descr. of the Cercopidae of Cuba. 5, xxxil, 95-105. *Porter, C. E.—Insecto nuevo de la fam. Bertidae, p. 20-1. Una filoxera nueva? p. 25. Sobre el Gerris Chilensis. p. 38. Phrygilanthus y coccidos, p. 107. 126, xxvii. 216 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, ’25 LEPIDOPTERA.—Dampf, A.—Estudio morphologico del gusano del maguey (Acentrocneme hesperiaris). (Rev. Mex. Biol., iv, 147-59.) Dziurzynski, C—Melanismus und nigrismus bei Zygaena. 64, x, 48-50. Forbes, W. T. M.— Pectinate antennae in the Geometridae. 5, xxxii, 106-12. Giacomelli, E.—Sobre el significado mimetico de las man- chas. ocelares .-. . en Yel ‘wenero -Caligo., ~ 126, (xxvii 16-19. Hayward, K. J.—Migration of butterflies. 9, 1925, 147-9. Meyrick, E.—Wegener’s hypothesis and the distri- bution of micro-lepidoptera. (Nature, cxv, 834-5.) Schoen- ichen—Klassenzimmertechnik beim unterricht in der in- sektenkunde. (Der Naturf., Berlin, 1925-26, 31-3.) Schultz, G. M.—Qualitats—und praparationsfragen. 18, xix, 30-2. Titschack, E.—Untersuchungen uber den temperaturein- fluss auf die kleidermotte. (Tuineola biselliella.) 104, cxxiv, 213-251. (N) Barnes & Benjamin.—Addenda to notes on some sps. of L. in relation to the Stretch collection. 55, i, 164-9. Robertson, C.—Note on Panurgidae. 5, xxxii, 113. Seitz, A.—Die grossschmetterlinge der erde. Faun. Amer., Lief. 167-168. Vol. 6, p. 417-48. Seitz, A—Das system der schmetterlinge. 17, xlii, 18-20 (Cont.). (S) *Hoffmann, C..C.—Lepid. nuevos de Mexico. (Rev. Mex. Biol., iv, p. 69-73, 1924.) *LeMoult, E.—Deux races nouvelles de Morpho.du bas Orenoque, Venezuela. 25, 1925, 109-10. *Prout, L. B—Geometrid descript. and notes. 71, xxxii, 31-69. *Schawerda, K.—Eine neue Saturniide aus Columbien. 63, xxxix, 57-8. DIPTERA.—Bradley, G. H.—Larva of Aedes thibaulti. (Culicidae). 15, xiii, 89-91. MacGregor, M. E.—Mosquitos under winter conditions. 22, xv, 357-8. Rimsky-Korsakow, A. P.—Einige beobachtungen an zweifluglern aus der gat- tung Chionea. 45, xx, 69-76 (Cont.). (N) *Aldrich, J. Mi.—New Leucopis from San Francisco. 55, 1, 152. *Cole, F. R.—Notes on the dipterous family Therevidae. 4, lvii, 84-8. Enderlein, G—dZur klassifikation der Tabaniden. 154, Ixii, 180-1. *Enderlein, G.—Weitere beitrage zur kenntnis der Simuliiden und ihrer verbreitung. 154, Ix11, 210-11. Frost, 8. W.—A study of the leaf-mining D. of N; Am..,. (Cornell’ Univ5 Ag” Exp. Stay, Miemse73>) Johnson, C. W.—North Am. varieties of Volucella bomby- lans. 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Plate VI. stridular area--{--__ Zp a ~~ tarsus. --\---coza Clarence Q Bare deb FRONT LEGS OF BUENOA SPECIES (NOTONECTIDAE, HEMIPTERA).—BARE. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Mor. XXX I OCTOBER, 1925 No. 8 CONTENTS Bare—A New Species of Buenoa (He- Muscoid Flies (Diptera)........... 239 miptera, Notonectidae)............ 225 | Editorial—Evolutionary Entomology.. 244 Alexander—Undescribed Species of Hatch—A Catologue of the Coleoptera Crane-Flies from the Eastern Uni- Of Michigan vecuercestcnece seek meee 244 ted States and Canada (Dipt.: Ti- Ghangesiof Address’ iosccie-eaeisocnene 245 WITS) eel Ey Nese fesatetel aie wie nivinieretela ae 225 | Blatchley—Two changes of Names Gilmer—Note on the Poison Apparatus (Heteroptera, Coleoptera).. ....... 245 of Lagoa crispata Pack. (Lepid.: Dr. W. M. Mann, Superintendent,..... 245 NE SAO DY P1GAS)) cemecilele eteicinsi siete oie 231 | Entomological Literature.............. 245 Goe—KEight Months Study of Earwigs Doings of Societies—The American En- (OD ernratera) recites nicteee 234 tomological Society (Odonata, Co- Huff—The ‘*‘Sun-Ray”’ Structure in the leoptera, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera) 254 Posterior Larval Spiracles of some Obituary—Arthur Gardiner Butler..... 256 By CLARENCE O. Bare, Dept. of Entomology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. (Plate VI.) In the year 1923-24 the author collected many backswimmers in the ponds about Lawrence and other places in Kansas. This collecting was preparatory to a thesis concerning the oxy- haemoglobin cells and to other studies of the genus Buenoa of the Notonectidae. At that time authors credited Kansas with but two species of Buenoa, B. elegans (Fieber) and B. mar- garitacea Bueno. The specimens collected, and especially those taken near Lawrence during the autumn and winter of 1924-25, showed the predominance then of a new species herewith described. The collections show it to have been in Kansas since 1922 and to extend at least from Lawrence to as far south as Colo- rado County, Texas. It is very similar in general appearance, size and habits to B. margaritacea for which it has been mis- taken. It is slightly smaller and the males are especially dis- tinct from the latter because of the great difference in the stridular area on the inner faces of the front femora. The shape of the stridular area in the new species resembles very much that of an old-fashioned Turkish sword. 225 226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct:,"225 Dr. Hungerford some time ago noted that there seemed to be two sizes of what was called B. margaritacea Bueno and studies have verified his observation. Bueno in 1909 wrote (JrN. Y.Ent. See, XViL ip: 7/7 jethatas lim ithessoutieand west there are a number of forms very close to B. margaritacea .’ Hungerford (Ent News, XXVIII, Pl. XI, figs: 5-6, p. 182) figures the stridular area on the front femur of B. margaritacea Bueno. The figures submitted herewith of the front legs of B. margaritacea and of this new species should aid in its identification. Buenoa scimitra species new. S72¢ 5, Lengtn.6:5) to 7.5 0anin,, awidths\def5: fOm-2-20. cane Females somewhat larger than the males. Color: Notocephalon light; eyes brown or dark; anterior parts of scutellum, dorso-lateral parts of metathorax, and dorsal parts of abdomen all black or fuscous; elytra and pos- terior parts of pronotum pearly or hyaline; caudo-lateral mar- gins and dorsal part of scutellum orange or reddish yellow; anterior part of scutellum showing through posterior part of pronotum dark; remainder of dorsal and lateral parts of light or reddish yellow color; legs and undersides of body mostly light; fringes of setaceous hairs bordering ventral air chan- nels, underside of abdomen, small areas near humeral angles of wings, tips of tarsal claws of front and middle legs, inner and outer faces of front femora and coxae respectively, labrum, and tip of beak all fuscous or black; caudal sternite and parts of pleurites of each abdominal segment yellowish; spiracular openings light; anterior part of median ventral carina light. Shape: Dorsum considerably arched; width across eyes slightly less than that of pronotum; shape in general almost identical with that of B. margaritacea Bueno to which it seems very closely related. Structural characters: Head and eyes large and nearly as wide as pronotum; notocephalon diverging from synthylipsis and then slightly converging toward vertex; notocephalon in male, from cephalic view, width at narrowest point ventrad from vertex about one-half that at widest point dorsad from vertex; in female not quite so narrow; tylus prominent and full. Two rows of short spines along caudal margin of hind femur, about seventy spines in each row (hind legs extended laterally) ; femur about one-seventh longer than tibia; a num- << eaxviy 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 227 ber of short combing spines at distal end and anterior surface of tibia; tibia about twice length of tarsus; tarsal segments subequal; tibia and tarsus fringed with swimming hairs. In museum material sides of pronotum in males somewhat depressed leaving distinct lateral ridge on each side, otherwise slightly tricarinate; in females and live specimens pronotum scarcely impressed; anterior median angle of pronotum pro- jecting cephalad and slightly raised to point near synthylipsis ; caudal margin of pronotum sinuous; surface punctate. Scutellum smooth and about one-seventh longer than pro- notum ; claval orifice less than one-third length of scutellum; elytral suture hirsute and about one-third longer than scutel- lum ; elytra smooth and hyaline or pearly; wing veins pale. In male, a slender black spine present on caudo-sinistral margin of seventh abdominal tergite, same as found in male only of all other Buenoae examined; abdominal sternites cov- ered with minute microscopical setae except small clean area caudad of fourth abdominal spiracles; fourth sternite nearly divided by median anterior projection of the fifth; in males, a small, round, black, glandular mass encircling a minute open- ing at junction of pleural sclerites in groove beneath edge of wing, about laterad of hind coxa and beneath lateral edge of large sclerite over base of hind leg. Labrum hirsute; in male, lateral prongs of beak with stridu- lar area in juxtaposition with tibial prong when front lee is flexed; on front leg of male, a minute spine on outer lateral surface and near base of coxa in juxtaposition with a long sword-shaped stridular area consisting of fine transverse ridges across inner lateral face of femur; in male, front tibia angu- late at base and somewhat flattened; female tibia not so angu- late; tibial prong of male containing about twenty setaceous teeth ; tibia about as long as trochanter and femur together, a little longer than tarsus and claws together; first tarsal segment about one-half as long again as second which is nearly one-half as long again as the digitate claws; whole front leg somewhat stouter than that of B. margaritacea Bueno; a minute comb on inner flexed surface at distal end of tarsus and near base of claws. Middle legs rather slender; femur slightly longer than tibia ; tibia subequal with tarsus and claws together ; first tarsal seg- ment about one-third longer than second; second tarsal seg- ment twice as long as claws; claws one-half diameter of those of front legs in male, in female subequal; two minute combs consisting of five or six small setae set closely together on outer distal end of tibia. 228 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oey 425 Holotype: 3, Union Pacific Railway pond, Douglas County, Kansas) Oct 25,1924 Allotype: &%, Smith’s pond, Douglas County, Kansas, Nov. 19, 1924. Paratvpes: 10 specimens, Union Pacific Railway pond, Douglas County, Kansas, Oct. 25, 1924. 31 specimens, Smith’s pond, Douglas County, Kansas, viz.: 21 on Oct. 25, 1924, 7 on Nov. 19, 1924, and 3 on May 20, 1923. 7 specimens Colorado County, Texas, May 19, 1922, taken by Mrs. Grace Wiley. Holotype, allotype and some paratypes in University of Kansas collection; some paratypes in the private collections of Dr. VER 5? Eungertord) and? the, author, The following key is proposed to include the species now found and described in the United States. It is probable B. platycnems (Fieber) does not exist here. A. Scutellum broad and as long or longer than the pro- notum. B. Pronotum in the male with four depressions, appear- ing tricarinate, C. Head with eyes in male nearly as wide as pro- notum, a little narrower in female; legs robust; length a9 fll ee een ete he ete B. carinata (Champion). CC. Head with eyes somewhat flattened and distinctly narrower than pronotum in both sexes; legs slender ; pale color; length 6.5 mm.....8. albida (Champion). BB. Pronotum almost unimpressed, lateral carinae in some males. C. Small oval stridular area on front femur of males; lenoth.62/-Gol Mid, Swerve. ce a B, margaritacea Bueno. CC. Long sword-shaped stridular area across front femur of males; length, 6.5-7.5 mm. B. scimitra n. sp. AA. Scutellum reduced and narrow and not as long as pronotum. B. Species over 6 mm. long. C. Pronotum of male large, inflated, and smooth; length 6.25-7 mm. .... B. limnocastoris Hungerford. CC. Pronotum of male tricarinate ; large tibiae in front ; length well over 6 mm. . B. macrotibialis Hungerford. BB. Species less than 6 mm. long .. B. elegans (Fieber). XY, 125 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 229 Undescribed Species of Crane-Flies from the Eastern United States and Canada (Dipt.: Tipulidae). Part I. (Continued from page 204.) By. CHarites P. ALEXANDER, Amherst, Massachusetts. Ormosia carolinensis sp.n. | dg. Length about 2.6 mm.; wing 4.2 — 4.4 mm. Belongs to the meigenii group and is very closely related to O. serridens Alexander among the described species, differ- ing in the details of structure of the male hypopygium. Outer dististyle of male hypopygium heavily chitinized, aris- ing from a broad paler base, beyond the short neck dilated into an oval body that bears an acute black spine at each end, the lateral spine about twice as long as the mesal spine which is situated on the caudal or outer face of the lobe just before the apex. Habitat—North Carolina. Holotype: 3, Guilford College, Guilford County, March 18, 1918 (J. Speed Rogers); Coll. No. 34. Paratopotypes, 2 3d. Molophilus (Dasymolophilus) niphadias sp.n. 3. Length about 1.6 mm.; wing 2.2 mm. Related to M. (D.) ursinus (Osten Sacken), from which it is told by the very small size and pale coloration. The head is brownish testaceous. Mesonotal praescutum reddish, the lateral margins and pleura obscure yellow. Wings indistinctly dimidiate, the basal half whitish subhyaline, the cells beyond the cord distinctly infumed; veins a little paler. Anal angle of wing lacking. Venation; r and the perpendicular basal deflection of Ry + 2 in transverse alignment and lying a little proximad of the basal deflection of Ry and r-m, which are like- wise in alignment; cell 1/3 very deep, its fork approximately opposite r-m, the petiole thus being very short; cell 2nd A very narrow. Abdomen yellowish testaceous, the terminal segments and hypopygium more brownish black. Habitat.—Michigan. Holotype: 3, Cascade Glen, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, June 24, 1920 (J. Speed Rogers) ; Coll. No. 10. Paratopotypes, 4 dd. M. (D.) pusillus Edwards (Scotland) is a larger species though similar to M. niphadias in the pale coloration. The subgenus Dasymolophilus Goetghebuer includes besides its type, 230 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (Oct-25 M. murinus (Meigen), M. niphadias, M. pusillus and M. ursinus (Osten Sacken), the second and last named being Nearctic species. Molephilus (Molophilus) foridensis sp.n. General coloration dark brown, sparsely pruinose, the ante- rior margin of the praescutum yellowish; antennae of male elongate; wings tinged with brown; basal section of Ms longer than r-m,; male hypopygium with two apical dististyles, each appearing as a flattened blade terminating in an acute beak. 3. Length about 2.6 mm.; wing 3.4 — 3.5 mm. %. Length about 3.8 mm.; wing 4 mm. Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae of male elongate, if bent backward extending to some distance beyond the base of the abdomen, dark brown throughout. Head dark brown, the vertex largely blue-gray pruinose. Pronotum yellowish brown. Mesonotum and pleura dark brown, more or less pruinose, the antero-lateral margins of praescutum light yellow. Halteres pale, the knobs a little infuscated, Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellowish testaceous ; remainder of legs black, the femoral bases narrowly obscure yellow. Wings with a brown tinge, the base and costal region somewhat more yellowish; veins slightly darker brown. Vena- tion: Basal deflection of Ws. + 4 longer than r-m; vein 2nd A jong and nearly straight, ending about opposite the fork of Cu. Abdomen brownish black, the hypopygium a little brighter. Hypopygium with the basistyles elongate, on the mesal face with a fleshy lobe set with about 15 stout black spines and additional setae; a long flattened basal dististyle lying in a groove on the face of the basistyles; two apical dististyles of approximately similar shape, being flattened, with the apical angle produced into a slender acute beak, the inner of these styli larger and with a longer beak, the outer style covered with microscopic appressed setae, the inner style nearly glab- rous, with but a few scattered setae. Habitat.——Florida. Holotype: 3, Gainesville, Alachua County, February 28, 1922 (J. Speed Rogers) ; Coll. No. 17. Allotopotype, ¢, March 8, 1924. Paratopotypes, 28 3%, with the allotype. This fly bears a superficial resemblance to M. nova-caesar- iensts Alexander but is a very different species, being much more closely allied to members of the pubipennis group. xxvii, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Za Note on the Poison Apparatus of Lagoa crispata Pack. (Lepid.: Megalopygidae). By Paut M. Gitmer, New Mexico College of Agriculture. A very interesting article appeared in the December (1924) number of the Annals of the Entomological Society of America on the poison apparatus of Lagoa crispata Pack. This paper is by Dr. Baerg of Arkansas University, who has made espe- cial study of poisonous Arthropods. It so happens that the same form came under my own ob- servation some months ago in the preparation of my paper, now published, on the structure of poison apparatus of Lepidop- terous larvae. Since my work was primarily a comparative study I naturally had at hand material and data which previous workers on the Megalopygidae could not have had access to. As a result a number of the apparent anomalies of structure in these forms is explainable upon a basis which does no vio- lation to the generally accepted ideas of insect morphology. The previous works of Packard, 1894, von Ihering, 1911, and Foote, 1922, all agree in that their authors were convinced that the poison secreting cell was the gland-like cell found beneath the spines in the hypodermal layer. Dr. Baerg, how- ever, and also myself have both noted that these gland-like cells appear not only beneath the toxic spines, but also beneath the non-toxic elements such as plume hairs, etc. Since this is the case it seems highly improbable that these cells can con- stitute the poison-secreting apparatus, and Baerg, in his paper, remarks upon this fact. My own work has shown me that these cells differ very considerably from the usual type of poison cell structure, in that they lack the very heavy infiltra- tion with granules, which take nuclear stains so heavily. A careful examination of a series of sections through the tubercles bearing the spines show a number of notable facts. First the cuticula is very heavy, of a thickness not often reached in insect body wall. The poison spines are perched on top of this thick cuticula, with the so-called ‘theca’ about two-thirds buried in the secondary cuticula, but coming far short of reaching the hypodermal level. The ‘theca’ is com- 232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Och <5 posed of a thin cellular sac which is continuous with the flattened hypodermal lining of the spine proper. At first glance these cells seem completely isolated from the body wall hypo- dermis proper, an indeed anomalous type of structure in insects ! A more careful examination under high dry lens will show a number of peculiar striae running obliquely across the usual ‘grain’ of the cuticula, that is in the general direction away from the hypodermis and toward the primary cuticula. These striae seem to end at the bulbous cavity containing the ‘theca,’ while exactly similar striae also pass up to the small sub- triangular pockets containing the trichogen cells of the plumose hairs, which lie at the same level as the ‘thecae.’ Finally scattered along the line of these striae will be noted small iso- lated cells, which, upon careful examination, appear to consist almost wholly of nuclear material. Let us examine the meaning of these facts. The small iso- lated cells constitute the nuclear portions of the much drawn out hypodermal cells which fill the very narrow pore canal between the ‘theca’ and the hypodermis proper. The striae are simply these pore canals containing very much drawn out cytoplasmic matter in direct connection with these pocketed nuclei. In fact these threads are double, as would be expected and the presence of two nuclei in a single pocket is not uncommon. The ‘theca,’ then, is simply a continuation of the hypodermal layer, and is in direct communication with it through the drawn out cells occupying the pore canals. This is exactly in accord with the structures demonstrated for other forms, and is the interpretation given the structures by von Thering. The ‘theca’ and spine hypodermis is merely an evagination of ordinary body wall hypodermis, and the ‘theca’ itself be- comes merely an enlarged cavity in the pore canal. The question at once arises why this enlargement appears. Heretofore all workers have considered it merely a storage sac for the poison. Baerg also is inclined to this position. There are two objections to it. First, except for the possible secretion of small amounts by such forms as Euproctis chrysorrhea Linn. mexxvi, 725] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 233 and a few of its close relatives, we have no well authenticated case of actual secretion of the poisonous element as such, the cytoplasm serving always as the carrying agent. By analogy then it is doubtful that it is secreted in Lagoa. The second is the question of the origin of so large a quantity of poison. The theca cells are not gland cells, the gland-like cells beneath are common to both venomous and nonvenomous structures and lack the characteristics common to all poison gland cells in other Lepidopterous larvae. If these cells are not the poison cells, and Baerg is convinced they are not, whence is its origin? This is the point where Baerg, as have all other workers so far, has failed in his observations. Comparative material, such as was at my hand in plenty, first gave the hint. The granular mass contained in the ‘theca’ is not secreted poison. It is the gland cell itself. The granules are so plentiful and take the nuclear strains so heavily as to usually completely obscure the rather small much lobate nucleus. Among some two or three hundred preparations of Megalopygids I found only three preparations where the nucleus was at all visible. This will give some idea of the reason why former workers have over- looked it. Without the hint given by other forms it is probable that I should have missed it as completely as have Packard, von Ihering, Foote and Baerg. With the above explanation the form at once drops into its appropriate niche in the series of forms showing the develop- ment of the poison spine from a primitive form possessing a poison seta only. In fact, the ancestral seta is stilk present as the penetrating tip of the spine. I am taking this oppor- tunity of amending Dr. Baerg’s paper while the matter is still fresh in the minds of entomologists interested in the structures involved. My own paper, which has appeared within a short time,* gives a more extended discussion of the forms together with plate and half tone cuts of the structures involved. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Barre, W. J., 1924: On the Life History and the Poison Apparatus of the White Flannel Moth, Lagoa crispata Packard. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 18: No. 4, 401-411. Patna nat. Soe, Amer XV LN 203-39. 234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS POoiss25 VON IHERING, R., 1911: As tatoranas e um remedio contra suas querimaduras. Chacaras e Quintaes. 3: No. 3. Foote, N. C., 1922: Pathology of the Dermatitis Caused by Megalopyge opercularis, a Texas Caterpillar. Jour. Exp. Med., Soc oNion oS Packarp, A. S., 1894: A Study of the Transformations and Anatomy of Lagoa crispata, a Bombycine Moth. Proc. man MPhil, Secu sAe2/a2202) Eight Months Study of Earwigs (Dermaptera). By Mitton T. Gor, Portland, Oregon. Early in the Spring of 1924 my wife and I resolved to get some live earwigs for the purpose of finding out by actual observation if the female does nestle on her eggs to hatch them. During this period of life study we learned many interesting things about this insect which we believe the public should know, This article is written from notes taken from time to time and is as nearly correct as patience and vigilance can make possible. In our endeavor to get the real scientific facts we did not confine ourselves to the study of the insects in cap- tivity, but made observations wherever these insects could be found. On the sixteenth day of March we secured two males, which we placed in a wide-mouthed pint fruit jar containing about two inches of soil: for a cover we used a piece of thin muslin held in place by a rubber band. In each jar we placed a small chip of wood for them to hide under. These containers were used during our whole course of experimental study. These are the so-called “European Earwigs,’ Forficula auricularia. They are three-fourths of an inch in length and about one-eighth of an inch in breadth and of a brownish color. Although they have well developed wings we have never seen them fly. The males*have strong curved forceps thickened at the base and notched on the inside. The forceps of the females are nearly straight, slender and unnotched. The first thing we did after caging them was to try to find ee maxi, 125] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS FE Ys their proper food. Believing them to be vegetable feeders we placed leaves of rose, violet, primrose, iris and wallflower in the jar. We had been told by a gardener that they ate holes in his most choice plants, but they did not feed upon any of these. Next we put in flowers of daffodil, wallflower and primrose. Upon careful examination we found they would not eat any of these flowers. Remembering that Dr. L. O. Howard in The Insect Book, editions of 1901-1910, said he believed them to be carnivorous, we supplied them with a piece of fresh raw beef which they soon found and immediately began eating. This was on the 23d day of March, and up to this time they had eaten nothing since being captured March 16th. From this time on we fed them principally with fresh raw beef or pork, they seeming to have no choice between fat and lean. We found them fond of dead slugs, dead flies, dead grasshoppers and live aphids. They are delicate feeders and live on small, soft-bodied, live insects and dead insects of any kind. In one instance we knew of their beginning to feed upon a grasshopper which was still alive and kicking. Although they assume a threatening attitude when disturbed, they are very timid and noncombative. Later in the season we placed various kinds of fruits and flowers in with them and upon examination through a lens we could find no trace of their having been touched. Among the flowers with which we tempted them were roses, carnations, pinks, and sweetwil- liams. They do eat molasses, as do many other carnivorous insects. We found that they like to crawl into the deep recesses of flowers of various kinds, which nearly always harbor tiny insects which make dainty food for them. They often remain in the dark, cool corolla of flowers sleeping during the hot summer days. When flowers are carried into the house, unless they are carefully shaken, earwigs may also be carried in with them. They are also carried into houses on wood, limbs of fruit trees and occasionally in fruit that is split. They are not naturally a household pest like the cockroach, and when a reasonable amount of care is exercised not to carry 236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Oct; 225 them into the house, dwellings will be unmolested by them. During March, April, May and the early part of June they may be found under loose stones, old boards, pieces of cloth, paper, in hollow stems of any kind, and around all kinds of rubbish. In the latter part of June or early July they begin climbing trees, shrubs and flower stalks, as we believe, in search of aphids and other small insects which are quite plentiful in these places at this time of the year. During this period they may be found under loose bark of trees, cracks and crevices of old buildings as well as places mentioned before. Finding a nest of little black ants, we put some eggs and pupae in one jar and in two other jars eggs, pupae and a few ants. The next morning the eggs and pupae were gone in the jar where there were no ants but in the other two we found the ants had gathered the eggs and pupae into a heap and were nearby guarding them. We then removed the ants and the following day these eggs and pupae had also been eaten. It was reported that earwigs ate holes in laundry while out on the line and that they destroyed carpets on floors. We placed pieces. of cotton cloth and woolen cloth in jars with the earwigs and withheld their food for some time, and after we again began feeding them we left these pieces of cloth in the jars for weeks but neither the cotton nor the woolen cloth was molested. We even dampened the cotton cloth to make it more like laundry but we could not entice them to eat it. March 26, we found two undeveloped males, and April 2, nine more males some developed and some not. Although we were looking for female earwigs every few days, the first we found was on the 10th day of April, when we found two that were not fully grown. These females were placed in separate jars each with a male. The forceps of both male and female are opened wide and raised high and threateningly over their bodies when disturbed, but to the best of our knowledge, they are never used in com- bat. We endeavored to get them to close their forceps on some objects but were never successful. RK xXVL, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2h In mating, the male backs up to the female and seizes her between his wide open forceps, ventral sides of male and female being opposed: the notched forceps of the male being used for claspers. In pairing earwigs we often had to change them three or four times before finding two that were congenial. To win the admiration of the female, we saw one male walk over and around her, rub himself against her, stopping occasionally to preen himself. ' Earwigs do not feign death when molested but scamper away. When awake they are easily disturbed and move very quickly. During the early morning hours they sleep so soundly as to appear dead. They clean themselves frequently and during stormy weather enter the soil, remaining there until after the storm. On May 3, we found 48 small, round, creamish white eggs. These were laid in a heap in the soil. These eggs were re- moved carefully to another jar and kept for nearly a month but none of them hatched, and from this we take it for granted that the presence of the female is necessary for the hatching of the eggs. No more eggs were laid by this female. Only one female laid a second batch of eggs and two laid no eggs at all. These two were adults when we got them and were probably mothers of some of the partially grown insects found at the time we found them, in early Spring. About eight o’clock in the morning of May 6th we searched the jars for eggs, but no eggs were to be found; but later in the morning, about nine o'clock, while changing the soil we found that female number 2 had laid a batch of eggs under a small piece of pork. She made a nest about the length and breadth of her body by removing particles of dirt with her mouth. She, then, placed the eggs in one by one laying them evenly on the soil. After getting the eggs all in the nest she began to arrange them. She would take out one egg, some- times two, lay aside, remove some soil and then replace them. For four hours we watched her, as she slowly and carefully worked her eggs down into the soil. About eight o’clock that 238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oebew25 evening she had them at the bottom of the soil in the jar and was sitting on them, as at this time she could be seen through the jar. The following morning there was still a small open- ing where she went down but she could not be seen. When the eges were first laid she chased the male away, but later allowed him to come near. The females, during the period of incubation, which is from 15 to 18 days, and for several days after the eggs are hatched, seldom come to the surface, but remain in the soil with their brood. The males seldom enter the soil during this period, but are more often seen directly over the nest than elsewhere. This, we believe, accounts for the appearance of the males in early Spring before any females are to be seen. The young were so small and so active that we could not change the soil nor count them. We found that they did better in soil that was only slightly moist. The young are almost white just after moulting. It was impossible for us to record the times they moulted, but it requires about five months for them to mature. In Portland, we have two natural enemies of the earwig in the insect world: the genus Omus, of the Cicindelidae, which is nocturnal, and some species of Staphylinidae. The habits of these insects are nearly the same as that of the earwig. We placed earwigs in jars with these insects and in each case they were devoured. It is no easy matter for the rove beetle to cap- ture his prey in the open as the earwig is about as quick as the rove beetle. We watched the unsuccessful attempts of one of the roves to capture an earwig for about thirty minutes ; then he made a tunnel into which the earwig crawled and was quickly captured and devoured. It seems to us, that the tunnel was made for a trap, but whether it was or not is a. question. ; We know nothing definite of the life history of the earwig during December, January and February, but believe they lay and hatch a brood during this period. We killed the ear- wigs we had in captivity on the 23d day of November. At this time they had good appetites and were as active as at any time. meexvi, 2. | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 239 The “Sun-ray ” Structure in the Posterior Larval Spiracles of Some Muscoid Flies (Diptera). By Cray G. Hurr, Department of Medical Zoology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland In this paper, will be presented the results of observa- tions, together with certain inferences which may be drawn, upon the very fine and delicate chitinous rays found in fairly constant positions on the posterior larval spiracles of some of the common Muscoid flies such as Phormia regina, Calli- phora crythrocephala and Lucilia sericata. In the spiracles of most species, these rays are easily overlooked; for they are on a slightly higher plane than the more conspicuous, darker parts of the spiracle, and are quite transparent. However, by us- ing high magnification and continuously manipulating the fine adjustment of the microscope, the author has found them on the spiracles of species in which he had repeatedly over- looked them previously. Perhaps, the most striking charac- teristic of these rays is the fact that they are never parallel; but on the contrary, they either radiate from a common cen- ter or diverge from a convex line upon which they have their origins. The cases in which they radiate from a common Pineus ‘are, iby ‘far; the commoner. The “foci” or centers from which they radiate are fairly conspicuous and are often visible in preparations in which it is impossible to see a trace of any of the rays. These “foci” are four in number in all of the cases which have been examined by the author. Their positions in reference to the ring are variable with the dif- ferent species. In Morellia micans, and Stomoxys calcitrans, they appear as small slit-like or ellipsoid openings in the opa- que ring; while in Muscina stabulans, Calliphora erythroce- phala, Phormia regina and Lucila sericata, for example they occur within the ring, usually near the slits. Since Calliphora erythrocephala is fairly typical of this second group, the rays will be described as they occur in it, in more detail. (Fig. 1). Beginning on the inner side of the spiracular plate, the groups will be numbered consecutively. 240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (Ochym25 The first, third, and fourth have their “foci” in the edge of the inner, middle and outer slits, respectively; the first being on the inner edge of the inner slit, while the third and fourth are on the outer edges of the middle and outer slits. The “focus” of the second set of rays is at the outer edge of an ellipsoid, chitinized body between the inner and middle slits. The areas from which the rays arise are clear; but they are Figure 1.—Posterior larval spiracle of Calliphora erythrocephala. (x98.) Figure 2.—Posterior larval spiracle of Drosophila hydet. (x438.) Figure 3.—Second ‘‘sun-ray”’ structure of Phormia regina. (x438.) Figure 4.—Second interspiracular bristle of Drosophila hydet. (x438.) b.—button; i.—interspiracular bristles; r.—ring; s,—slit; x.—‘'sun-ray "’ structure. encircled or partially encircled by a chitinous ring, a part of which is formed, in the first, third, and fourth, by the edge of the slits. The rays are generally three to six in number at each ‘‘focus” and are branched, usually dichotomously. They are much alike in most of the species which have been ex- amined in this study. In some, however, because of the opaque condition of the underlying structures, only the ‘foci’? and the tips of the branches which extend beyond the ring may be seen. MeKVI, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 241 Froggatt (1918) has described these rays under the name of 2} the “sun-ray” effect, as follows: “The rounded end (of the intermediate structure) in- closes a clear space, the margin of which shows under a low magnification, a ‘sun-ray’ effect. This is due to fine bands of chitin radiating outwardly to the band. The inner ends of these chitinous bands project over the rim of the clear space and would seem to support some soft structure in life, which is vYestroyed in the preparation. In most species, also, a space resembling a blister occurs on the side of the slits. This ‘blister-structure’ also shows the ‘sun-ray’ effect referred to in the ‘intermediate structure.’ ”’ Evidently, the “blister-structure’ of his description is the portion of the edge of the slit which is mentioned in this paper as constituting part of the “focus.” In the literature upon larval spiracles known to the author, there is no refer- ence to be found other than that of Froggatt, to these rays which have just been described. However, Dr. F. M. Root has often noted them in working with posterior larval spiracles and he was responsible for directing the author’s attention to their study. He has very kindly loaned material from his collection of spiracles to aid in this study. Examinations of these rays in various species have often shown them folded back over the ‘‘foci,’ and in some cases they have been visible for considerable distances outside of the ring. This fact indicates that these rays do not, as Frog- gatt thought, “support some soit structure in life.” This belief is further strengthened by certain homologies which exist between these “sun-ray” structures and structures occurring in corresponding positions in the spiracles of other groups. Metcalf (1913) refers to structures in the Syrphi- dae occurring between the spiracles as imterspiracular bris- tles, spines, or ridges. In his first report on the Syrphidae of Maine, this same author (1916) mentions interspiracular or- namentations of the species, Pepiza pisticoides, Tropidia qua- drata, and Syritta pipiens among the Syrphidae, as having distinctly a bristle-like form. Particularly striking are his figures of the last two of the above named species. It seems 242 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oet.s 725 that the homologies existing between the interspiracular bris- tles of these species and the “sun-ray”’ structures which have been described above must have some significance, That these “sun-ray” structures are probably homologous to bristles is still more strongly indicated by a comparison of them with similar structures on the spiracles of certain species of the genus Drosophila examined by the author. The larval spiracles of this genus, as is well known, are situated on long, raised processes. They resemble the larval spiracles of other Muscoid flies in that they have a distinct ring with a button and three slits with rudiments of anastomosing bars. But most significant 1s the fact that, from positions corresponding to those of the “sun-ray” structures in other larvae, there arise four long bristles. (Fig. 2.). Sturtevant (1921) says, in speaking of these bristles: “Each process ends in a chitinized tube that has at its tip three spiracular openings that are surrounded by very slender outwardly directed chitinous rays. When the larva is feeding it lies buried in the food, with only the tips of these spiracular processes exposed to the air. The rays around the openings evidently serve to prevent the openings themselves from sinking below the surface and thus cutting off the air-supply of the larva.” Figures 3 and 4 represent the second “sun-ray” structure of Phormia regina and the second “interspiracular” hair or bristle of Drosophila hydei respectively. In general, these two struc- tures resemble each other (1) in having about the same position in the spiracle; (2) in having the “focus” of the former and the base of the latter very much alike; (3) in having approximately the same number of main branches; (4) in the nature of their branching; and (5) in the fact that the branched ends are free. In investigating the function of the bristles of larval spiracles of Drosophila, the author has observed the larvae in liquid and semi-liquid media, both from the side and from above, under fairly high magnification While under the medium in which they are feeding, these larvae keep the long, interspiracular bristles closely folded back along the lateral surface of the TEXVI,| 20 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 243 chitinized tubes; but as soon as the tubes are thrust above the surface of the liquid, these hairs are raised to a horizontal position and may be seen to lie along the surface of the liquid for their entire length. That the adhesion of the water to them is very slight, is shown by the distinct convex meniscus around each one; and their function is apparent to one as soon as he has seen them in this position. From these observations, it seems very probable that the “sun-ray’’ structures in the larval spiracles of the Muscoid flies are homologous to the bristles found on the spiracles of various species of Drosophila and of some species of the family Syrph- idae. Whether there is a corresponding analogy or not, the author has not ascertained ; although the small size of the “sun- ray” structures would indicate that they do not, in the species which he has examined, serve the same function as the inter- spiracular bristles of the Drosophila larvae. If this homology be accepted, it is the belief of the author that the structures previously called “sun-rays” should henceforth be designated as interspiracular bristles. The “foci”? which have been de- scribed in this paper and the “blister-structure” of Froggatt’s description should then be nothing more than the somewhat modified bases of the interspiracular bristles. The distribution of these bristles over the various groups of Muscoid larval spiracles, and the significance which they may have in the question of the interrelations of these groups are being subjected to further investigation. BIBLIOGRAPHY Froccatt, JoHN L., 1918. A study of the External Breath- ing-Apparatus of the Larvae of Some Muscoid Flies. Proc. Linnean Soc. N. S. Wales XLIII, pt. 3, pp. 658-667. (see p. 660). Metcatr, Ciett L., 1913. The Syrphidae of Ohio. O. Biological Survey. Vol. 1, Bull. 1, pp. 1-123. (see p. 19). Ip. 1916. The Syrphidae of Maine. Maine Agri. Exp. Sta. Bull. No 253, pp. 194-264. (see plates 36 and 37). Sturtevant, A. H., 1921. The North American Species of Drosophila. Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Publ. No 301, pp. fi50h (seep. 20). ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1925. Evolutionary Entomology. One should not, perhaps, expect to find thoroughly accurate statements of entomological fact and theory in the “popular” magazines, although why their editors and publishers should not demand and require strict adherence to accuracy is an in- teresting question. We shall not, however, discuss it here. But when a journal like The Atlantic AJonthly publishes a mislead- ing entomological article, we feel justified in calling attention to it. ‘The article alluded to is in the July number and is en- titled “The Bee’s Knees,” by Charles D. Stewart, with an epi- logue in the issue for September (p. 430). We call it a mis- leading article, for the reader unacquainted with bees and their relatives will get from it the idea that there are no “progressive stages,” no “stages of incompletion” leading up to the highly complicated organs possessed by the honey bee, such as the antenna-cleaner (Mr. Stewart's own example). Throughout his consideration of “Darwin’s theory of evolution,” which is the moral to Mr. Stewart’s interesting account of the structure and functions of the bee’s legs, there appears to be a total for- getfulness of the fact that there are Hymenoptera, of suc- cessively increasing complexity, leading up to the honey bee and that the explanation of Mr. Stewart's riddles, for which he seeks in vain, is to be found in a comparison of these different degrees of complexity. It is to be hoped that some competent student of bees may be induced to treat the question more broadly than Mr. Stewart appears able to do, and that the editor of The Atlantic may give the readers of that magazine an opportunity to look at the “Mystery” of the bee—and of life in general—from the stand- point of one possessing wider information. -—@-- A Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Michigan. ae A. W, Andrews of Detroit and the writer are working A Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Michigan. They would Se it if persons having Michigan material of this order would submit a list of species rand localities, or, if their material is undetermined, would favor them with the loan of the speci- mens for the purpose of determination. Proper credit will be given in every instance—Mervit_e H, Harcu, Department of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 244 xxi, 725) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 245 Changes of Address. E, D, Ball, Ent. Laboratory, Sanford, Florida. Frank R. Cole, Box 491, Orlando, Florida. Henry Fox, Japanese Beetle Lab., Riverton, N. Kenneth A. Salman, Glenwood Road, Needham, Mass. George Seamann, R. F. D., 3, Quincy, Florida. Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., R. D. 2, Box 63, Salem, Virginia. Lyle A. Stephenson, 1183 E. 10th Street, Kansas City, Mo. Two Changes of Names (Heteroptera, Coleoptera). In a recent letter from Dr. E. Bergroth, Ekenas, Finland, he states that my /schnodemus pusillus (Entomological News, XXXVI, 1925, p. 45) is preoccupied by I. pusillus Dallas, a South-African species. I therefore propose in its stead the specific name minutus. Mr. Chas. Schaeffer informs me that my name Haltica aenescens (Coleoptera of Indiana, p. 1202) is preoccupied by Weise for a variety of the European H. lethri Aub. I there- fore change it to H. aencola. W.S. BLatcHLey, Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. W. M. Mann, Superintendent. Dr. William M. Mann, formerly entomologist in the De- partment of Agriculture, is now superintendent of the National Zoological Park, Washington, succeeding Dr. Alexander Wetmore. Entomological Literature COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. Papers of systematic nature will be found in the paragraph beginning with (N). Those pertaining to Neotropical species only will be found in paragraphs beginning with (S). Those containing descriptions of new forms are preceded by an *. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. The titles occurring in the Entomological News are not listed. 1—Trans., The American Entomological Society. 4— Canadian Entomologist. 6—Journal, New York Ent. Soc. 7—Annals, Entomological Society of America. 8—The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine. 9—The Entomologist. 246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Ochs 10—Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington. 12—Journal of Economic Ent. 13—Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Claremont, Cal. 14—Entomologische Zeit., Frankfurt a.M. 16—The Lepidopterist. 18—Internationale Ent. Zeit., Guben. 21— The Entomologist’s Record. 22—Bulletin of Ent. Research. 25—Bull., Soc. Ent. France. 33—Bull. et Annal. Soc. Ent. Belgique. 39—The Florida Entomologist. 45—Zeit. f. Wissenschftl. Insekentb., Berlin. 49—Ent. Mitteilungen, Berlin. 50—Proc. U. S. National Mus. 54—Boletin, Soc. Ent., Espana. 56—Konowia, Wien. 59—Encyclopedie Ent., Paris. 67—Bulletin, Soc. Ent. Egypte. 69—Comptes Rendus des Seances, Acad. Sci. Paris. 75—Annals and Mag. of Nat. History, London. 89—Zool. Jahrbucher, Jena. 104—Zeit. f. Wissen. Zool., Leipzig. 107—Biologisches Zentralblatt. 120—Ann., Naturh. Mus., Wien. 123—Bul., Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambridge, Mass. 124—Revue Suisse de Zool., Geneve. 126—Revista Chilena Hist. Nat. 130— Ohio Jour. of Sciences. 133—Jour. Experimental Zool. 137—Archiv f Zoologi, Stockholm. 138—Amer. Mus. Nov- itates, New York. 141—Amer. Naturalist. 154—Zoolog. Anzeiger. GENERAL.—Adkin, R:-—Entomology, ancient and pres- ent day.—Proc. So. London Ent. & Nat. Hist. Soc., 1924-25, 28-44. Auten, M.—Insects associated with spider nests.—7, xviil, 240-50. Bodenheimer, F. S.—On predicting the devel- opment cycles of insects.—67, 1924, 149-57. Boyer, J—La transformation des insectes en bijoux. Une curieuse in- dustrie parisienne—lLa Nature, 1925, No. 2674, p. 1-4. Butler, A. G.—Obituary.— 8, 1925, 167. C. W.—Modern entomology.—Nature, cxvi, 163-4. Casey, T. L.—Obitu- ary.—8, 1925, 136. Cornetz, V—Un anniversaire: experience de Pieron.—Bul. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. d. Nord., 1925, 132-45. Cragg, F. W.—Obituary.—12, xviii, 563. Doflein, F.— Obituary and bibliography.—89, xlvii, Anat., 191-211. Donisthorpe, H.—Remarkable flight of insects at light—8, 1925, 162. Emery, C.—Obituary notice —33, Ixv, 198-9. Harder, O.—Noch einige bemerkungen zum koderfang.— 18, xix, 52-5. Horn, W.—Uber insekten-nadeln aus “nicht- rostendem stahl’.—49, xiv, 105-7. Koebele, A.—Obituary, with portrait.—12, xviii, 556-62. Kohl, F. F.—Obituary and bibliography.—120, xxxviul, 174-9. McAtee, W. L.—Notes on drift, vegetable balls and aquatic insects as food product of inland waters—Ecology, vi, 288-302. Moore H. C.— Very great importance of economic entomology.—Bul. Maryland Acad. Sci., iv, 12-14. Mosher, F. H.—Obituary.— Powis; 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 247 12, xvili, 562. Payne, N. M.—Can insects survive freez- ing.—4, lvu, 157-8. Poulton, E. B.—Insect mimicry and the Darwinian theory of natural selection. —Pop. Sci, Month., xxi, 19-25. Price, W. A.—Sense of smell again.—12, xviii, 448-50. Rothschild, N. C.—Obituary and portrait—Jour. Northants Nat. H. Soc., xxii, 135-41. Snodgrass, R. E.— Insect ‘musicians, their music and their instruments.—An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1923, 405-42. Twitchell & Crockett.— Some of the results of the first season’s work at the Univ. of Maine summer biological station at Desert Isl—Maine Nat. Jour., v, 65-90. Woukassovitch, P—Observations bio- logiques sur quelques insectes predateurs des Pucerons et leurs parasites et hyperparasites—25, 1925, 170-2. Walsh, G. B.—Study in insect oecology. The coast coleoptera of the Br. Isles—8, 1925, 137- 44, Wasmann, E.—Kritische bemerkungen zur kenntnis der myrecophilen und termito- philen.—107, xly, 136-43. Weiss, H. B.—John Buncle’s droll account of a battle between a flea and a louse.—6, xxx, 114-5. Wilson, C. C.—Improved insect net.—12; xviii, 546-7. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL, ETC.— Baldi, E.—Studi sulla fisiologia del sistema nervoso negli insetti.—Bol. Istit. Zool. Univ. Roma, Livorno, ii, 1-37. Du Buisson, M.—Observations sur le mecanisme de la ventilation tracheenne chez les insectes—Acad. R. Belg., Bul. Sci., x, 635-56. Guthrie, J. D—Asymmetry of the small-eyed condition in “eyeglass” drosophila. ii 307-14. Hauber, U. A.—Analysis by selection and crossing, of genetic factors involved in defective venation. . . — Genetics, x, 91-116. Jeannel, R.—Sur les homologies des articles de la patte des insectes.—69, clxxx, 1867-9. “Jeffrey, E. C.—Drosophila and the mutation hypothesis.—Science, Ixii, 3-5. Morgan, L. V.—Polyploidy in Drosophila melano- gaster with two attached X chromosomes.—Genetics, x, 148-78. Orr, P. R.—Critical thermal increments for oxygen consumption of an insect, Drosophila—Jour. Gen. Phys., vii, 731-4. Pieron, H.—Effets de la suppression unilaterale d’un oeil et des antennes chez les insectes.—Feuil. des Na- tural., Paris, 1924, 33-4. Pilewiczowna, M.—Influence de jeune et de alimentation sur le metabolisme respiratoire des insectes.—Pub. Inst. Nencki, Warszawa, No. 39, 1925. Reth- feldt, C—Entwicklung der insektenlarve im ei—Mikrosk., xvili, 201-5. Snodgrass, R. E.—Insect musicians; their music and their instruments.—Smiths. Report, 1923, 405-52 248 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oets25 Strauss, M. B.—Fertility and toleration of temperature in inbred drosophila.—141, lix, 379-84. Sturtevant, A. H.— Effects of unequal crossing over at the bar locus in Droso- phila—Genetics, x, 117-47. Zavrel, J.—Konvergenzer- scheinungen beim gehausebau der chironomiden u. der trichopterenpuppen.—154, Ixii, 267-72. -ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA.—Brown, B.— Luminous spider.—Nature, cxv, 981. Gruger, E. W.— Spiders as fishermen and hunters.—Nat. Hist. New York, xxv, 261-75. Oke, C.—Migration of spiders.——Victorian Nat., xli, 35-6. Wills, L. J—Morphology of the carbon- iferous scopion Eobuthus.—Jour. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., xxxvi, 87-96. (N) *Chamberlin, J. C——On a collection of pseudo- scorpions from the stomach contents of toads.—Univ. Cal. Pub., Ent., 111, 327-32. *Chamberlin, R. V.—Diagnoses of new American Arachnida.—123, Ixvii, 211-48. Genera Lith- obius, Neolithobius, Gonibius and Zinapolys in America north of Mexico.—123, Ixvii, 441-504. *Crosby & Bishop.— Studies in New York spiders Genera-Ceratinella and Ceraticelus—N. Y. State Mus. Bull., No. 264. *Garman, P.—New gen. and sp. of Trombidiidae (Acarina).—6, xxx1iii, 85-6. Larrousse, F.—Triatomes d’Asie; Description d’une NOUV. ESPeCE Pow An. Par, Ham: jet (Comps wearisnan (1924), 62-70. Verhoeff, K. W.—Klassen und ordnungen des: trerireichs:.. ...<).... .Bdad Abt, 2. pilis30-6b6.sMivrie— poda. (S) *Leitao, M.—New So. Am. solpugid.—126, xxviii (1924), 140-3. *Mello Campos, O.—Scorpions of Brazil— Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, xvii, 237-363. THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTA.—Barthellier, M.—Sur l’epoque de la determination des castes chez Macrotermes gilvus.—69, clxxxi, 54-5. Keilholz—Massen- zuge von libellen—14, xxxix, 38-9. Killington, F. J—Notes on the prey of dragonflies —9, lviui, 181-3. Montgomery, B. E.—Records of Indiana dragon-flies—Pro. Indiana Ac. Sci., xxxiv, 383-89. (N) Hine, J. S—Dragonfly, Tachopteryx thoreyi, re- corded for Ohio, with notes on its near relatives.—130, xxv, 190-2. *McDunnough, J.—New Canadian Ephem- eridae with notes.—4, lvii, 168-76. *Morgan, A. C.—Six peevi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 249 n. sps. of Frankliniella and a key to the American sps.—4, lvii, 136-47. *Needham & Claassen.—Monograph of the Plecoptera or stoneflies of America north of Mexico — Thom. Say Foundation, No. 2, 397 pp. *Tillyard, R. J.— Kansas permian insects. . . . Orders Protodonata and Odonata—Am. Jour. Sci., x, 41-73. (S) *Morgan, A. C.—A new genus, a new subgenus and 7 new sps. of Thysanoptera from Porto Rico —39, ix, 1-9. “Navas, R. P. L.—Mas Crisopidos de Cuba.—54, viii, 85-8. *Algunos insectos de Chile—126, xxviii (1924), 12-16. Porter, C. E.—Los estudios sobre tisanopteros Chilenos.— 126, xxvii (1924), 36-42. ORTHOPTERA.—Cappe de Baillon, P.—Probleme de teratogenese. Monstre double de Phasmide.—77, xciii, 163-4. Middleton, H. T.—Bit of mantis biography—Nature Mag., 1925, August, 89-90. Morgan, W. P.—Further ob- servations on the function of the earwig forceps.—Pro. Indiana Ac. Sci., xxxiv, 347-8. Pehani, H.—Geschlechts- zellen der Phasmiden.—104, cxxv, 166-238. (N) Hebard, M.—Genus Taeniopodae as found in the U. S.—1, lii, 1-12. (S) *Rehn, J. A. G—Notes on West Indian Dermaptera with the descr. of a n. sp. of Vostox.—1, lii, 19-26. *Werner, F.—Zur kenntnis amerikanischer mantodeen.—56, iv, 160-8 (Gon)! HEMIPTERA.—Ewing, H. E.—Factors of inheritance and parentage as affecting the ratio of alate to apterous individuals in aphids.—141, lix, 311-26. MHorsfall, J. L.— Life history and bionomics of Aphis rumicis.—Univ. Iowa Stud., xi, No. 2. Hough, W. S.—Internal anatomy of the clover root mealybug, Trionymus trifolii—22, xvi, 25-9. Knight, H. H.—List of Miridae and Anthocoridae from Alberta, Canada.—4, lvii, 181-2. Leon, N.—Sur l'appareil buccal de la punaise des lits (Cimex lectularius).—An. Par. Hume: Comp: Paris, 1 (1924), 71-3. Riley, C. F. C. Some aspects of the general ecology and behaviour of the water strider, Gerris rufoscutellatus.—21, xxxvii, 107-15. (N) *Hussey, R. F.—Some new or little known hemiptera from Florida and Georgia.—6, xxxiii, 61-7. Larroussee, F. —Description de la femelle de Triatoma maxima.—An. Par. Hum. et Comp., Paris, ii (1924), 207-10. *McAtee & Mal- 250 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Octvaws loch.—Revision of bugs of the family Cryptostematidae in the. & ses) olUiS: IN ak =50) leva Aria St (S) *Laing, F.—Descriptions of some n. g. and sps. of Coccidae.—22, xvi, 51-66. LEPIDOPTERA.—Bolanos, A. G.—Como se cazan las mariposas con la lampara y la red?—Bol. Soc. Est Biol., Mexico, i, 8-10. Bouvier, E. L.—Contributions a la con- naissance des metamorphoses chez les saturniens Hemil- eucides.—59, Lep., i, 3-10. Coolidge, K. R.—Life history of Danaus bernice strigosa—1l, lii, 27-33. Ege, R.— Respirationsforjoldene hos Hydrocampa nymphaeata (Jarve og puppe).—Vidensk. Med. Dansk. Naturh. For: Kobenh., Ixxvi, 29-42. Esaki, T.—Uber die mimese der Kallima- arten.—45, xx, 110-13. Gerould, J. H.—Right-left gynan- dromorph of the alfalfa butterfly, Colias eurytheme var alba.—133, xlii, 263-92. Gilmer, P. M.—Comparative study of the poison apparatus of certain lepidopterous larvae.—7, xviii, 203-39. Hasebroek, Dr.—Prinzipielle loesung des problems des grossstadt- und industriemelanismus der schmetterlinge.—18, xix, 78-80. Kuhn u. Ilse——Anlockung von tagfaltern durch pigmentfarben.—107, xlv, 144-9. Mol- liard et Rabaud.—Reaction des antennes de papillons aux temperatures elevees ou aux chocs.—Feuil. des Natural., Paris, 1924, 32-3. Riley, N. D.—Seasonal variation in but- terflies—Proc. So. Lond. Ent. & Nat. Hist. Soc., 1924-25, 67-81. Savin, W. M.—A remarkable partnership between the spanish. bayonet.and, the yucca.moth. 24) -.q0eaer Hist. New York, xxv, 276-82. Schepp, O.—Nochmals zur praparation der falter u. s. w.—18, xix, 76-7. Suffert, F.— Geheime gesetzmassigkeiten in der zeichnung der schmet- terlinge.—124, xxxii, 107-11. Verity, R.—Remarks on the evolution of the Zygaenae and an attempt to analyze and classify the variations of Z. lonicerae and others subsps.— 21, xxxvii, 101-4 (cont.). Wunschik, H.—Erhohung der wirksamkeit der knollchenerreger unserer schmetterlings- blutler durch passieren der wirtspflanze.—Centralb. Bakt., Parasit. us Infekt., Abt. 2, lxiv, 395-445. (N) *Barnes & Benjamin.—Notes and new species.—10, xxvii, 123-9. *Braun, A. F.—Some undescribed microlepid- optera and notes on life histories.—1, lii, 13-17. New microlepid. from the southwest.—4, 147-50. *Cassino & Swett.—Some new Geometridae.— 16, iv, 33-56. “Holland and Schaus.—Epipaschiinae of the western hemisphere; a ocx) 29 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Zo synonymic catalog of the sps. hitherto described, with figures of many, which have not heretofore been depicted.— An. Carnegie Mus., xvi, 49-130. *Neustetter, H.—Drei neue Heliconius formen.—18, xix, 60-1. *Polaeck, E. R.— New aberration of Junonia coenia—Bul. Maryland Acad. Sci, iv,l0=11, (S) *Bouvier, E. L.—Heliconisa bedoci sp.n-—59, Lep., 1, 35-6. *le Cerf, F.—Nouveau Papilio de Guayne Francaise. 99, Lep. 1, 49-52. de Fleury, P.—Notes sur les premiers etats de quelques L. de la Guinee Francaise —59, Lep., i, 41-8. Michael, O.—Studien uber die familie der Agrias— 14, xxxix, 53-5 (cont.). *Schaus, W.—New sps. of Epi- paschiinae in the Carnegie and National museums.—An. Carnegie Mus., xvi, 9-48. DIPTERA.—Alverdes, F.—Schutzinstinkt der kocher- fllegenlarve —107, xlv, 149-54. Andrews, H. W.—Flies and disease.—Proc. So. Lond. Ent. & Nat. Hist. Soc., 1924-25, 45-62. Kligler & Theodor.—Effect of salt concentration and reaction on the development of Anopheles larvae.—22, xvi, 45-9. Matheson, R.—Notes on Chaoborinae (Culi- cidae).—4, Ivui, 159-60. Matthey, R.—Biologie de Tachina larvarum.—An. Par. Hum. et Comp., Paris, ii (1924), 202-6. Parent, O.—Etudes sur les Dolichopodides de la collection Meigen.—S9, Dip., 11, 41-58. Thompson, W. R.—Les larves primaires des tachinaires a oeufs microtypes—An. Par. Hum. et Comp., Paris, ii (1924), 185-201, 279-306. Ville- neuve, J—Oestridomorphisme. p. 1-4. Variations dans la longueur des antennes des Tachinidae. p. 4-5.—59, Dip., ii, 1-5. (N) *Aldrich, J. M.—Two n. sps. of the tachinid genus Lixophaga with notes and key.—10, xxvii, 132-36. “Curran, C. H.—New Tachinidae in the Canadian Nat. Coll. Buck- ellia, an. gen. of Asilidae.—4, Ivii, 150-6. *Enderlein, G.i— Studien an blutsaugenden insekten. I. Grundlagen eines neuen systems der Tabaniden.—Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, x1, 255-409. *Felt, E. P.—New gall midges.— 13, xvii, 15-20. *Hull, F. M.—Notes on the N. Am. sps. of the gen. Didea, with the descr. of a n. sps.—7, xvii, 277-81. *Malloch, J. R.—Synopsis of new world flies of the genus Sphaerocera (Borboridae).—10, xxvii, 117-23. Neveu-Lemaire, M. Evolution de la classification des Culicidae—Ann. Parasit. Hum. ef Comp.; Paris, i°(1923), 90-107 Painter, R. H.— 252 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oet:;225 Review of the genus Lepidophora (Bombyliidae).—1, ii, 119-27. *Spuler, A~—N. American sps. of the subg. Scoto- philella. (Borboridae).—6, xxxiii, 70-84. (S) *Brethes, J—Sur quelques dipteres Chiliens.—126, xxvili (1924), 104-11. *Curran, C. H—New D. in the © Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.—138, No. 176. *Krober, O.— Chrysops-arten Sud-und Mittelamerikas nebst den arten der inselwelt und Mexikos.—s6, iv, 210-56 (Cont.). “Malloch, J. R.—Exotic Muscaridae. Acalyptrata.—75, xvi, 81-100. Porter, C. E—Enumeracion de sirfidos colectados en San Jose de Maipo.—126, xxviii (1924), 98. COLEOPTERA.—Balachowsky, A.—Note sur la pres- ence accidentelle de Eburia quadrigeminata (Ceramby- didae) de Amer. d. Nord a Alger.—Bul. Soc. Hist. Nat. Af. du N., 1925, 107. Falcoz, L__Etudes sur les Cryptopha- ginae. Essai sur les larves de Cryptophagus.—Ann. Soc. Linn., Lyon, 1924, 120-7. Good, H. G—Wing venation of the Buprestidae.—7, xviii, 251-76. Kolbe, H.—Beitrage zur kaefergallenkunde (Agrilus) und zur kenntnis der brut- ptleg (N) Banninger, M.—Neunter beitrag zur kenntnis der Carabinae: die Nebriini.—49, xiv, 180-95. *Blatchley, W. S. Notes on the distribution and habits of some Florida C. with descr. of n. sps—4, Ivii, 160-8. Notes on the Rhyn- chophoera of eastern No. Am. with descr. of n. sps.—6, xxxiii, 87-113. Brisley, H. R—Notes on the Chrysomelidae of Arizona.—l, li, 167-82. Chittenden, F. H.—Chalcoides fulvicornis.—6, xxxiii, 120. *Chittenden, F. H—Genus Coccotorus.—10, xxvii, 129-32. Mutchler & Weiss.—Beetles of the genus Conotrachelus known to occur in N. Jersey.— N. J. Dept. Agric. Circ. No. 87. Pic, M.—Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars. 81, Rhipiceridae. *Schaeffer, C——Revision of the new world sps. of the tribe Donaciini of the : family Chrysomelidae.—Brook. Mus. Sci. Bull., iti, 45- 165. Schenkling, S.—Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars. 80: Ela- teridae I. (S) *Brethes, J—(See under Hymenoptera). *Fisher, W. S.—New West Indian Cerambycidae. (Lamiinae).—138, No. 174. Porter, C. E.—Sobre un coleoptero Chileno poco conocido.—126, xxviii (1924), 112-14. *Ruiz, F.—Notas biologicas sobre algunos insectos Chilenos. El genero Idiostoma en Chile.—126, xxviii (1924), 76-80; 99-101. SKI, 25| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 253 *Thery, A.—Descriptions de genres nouveaux de Bupres- tides.—25, 1925, 122-6. HYMENOPTERA.—Burrill, A. C.—Honey bees follow wood bees for nectar.—Science, Ixii, 134. Evenius, J.— Entwicklung des zwischendarms der honigbiene.—154, |xiii, 49-64. Genieys, P.—Habrobracon brevicornis.—7, xviii, 143-202. Joachim u. Evenius.—Kryptenzellen und _ epi- thelregeneration im mitteldarm der honigbiene.—154, Ixii, 250-6. Verlaine, L.—Instinct et intelligence chez les hymenopteres.—33, Ixiv, 197-237. Instinct et intelligence chez les hymenopteres——Acad. R. Belg., Mem. viii, Fasc. 2. (N) Bequaert, J—Genus Ancistrocerus ¢Vespidae) in N. Am., with a partial key to the species—1, lii, 57-117. *Carter, W.—Records of Alberta Sphecoidea with descr. of n. sps. of Crabronidae.—4, lvii, 131-6. Dohzhansky, T.— Zur kenntnis der gattung Ciccinella—154, Ixi, 241-9. Schmiedeknecht, O.—Opuscula ichneumonologica—Fasc., 39, 40. *Viereck, H. L.—New bee of the Gen. Andrena i [from Arizona].—1, lii, 135-6. Preliminary revision of the Campopleginae in the Canadian Nat. Coll., Ottawa.— 4, lvii, 176-81. (S) *Brethes, J—Quelques insectes du Paraguay.—126, xxviii (1924), 67-72. *Frison, T. H.— Contribution to the classification of the Bremidae of Central and So. America.— 1, lii, 137-65. “Viereck, H. L.—Wasp-like insects or H., exclusive of ants, collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expd. im 1918.—Univ. Iowa ‘Stud., xi, No. 4, p. 7-11... *Wheeler,; W. M.—Neotropical ants in the Coll. of the R. Mus. of Stockholm.—137, xviiA, No. 8. SPECIAL NOTICES “Kos (Dawn)”, La Rivista Espanola de Entomologia, is a quarterly deveted to all classes of Arthropoda. The first number appeared March, 1925, and includes four papers— one on Hymenoptera, one on Coleoptera, and two on Orthoptera. Annual subscription, foreign is 20 pesetas and is published by the Entomological Section of the Museo Nac. de Cien. Nat. Madrid. The Kansas Entomological Society was formed recently at a meeting of entomologists at the Kansas Agricultural College. The Society will hold its meetings annually in connection with those of the Kansas Academy of Science. —Science. [See The News for July, 1925, p. 221.] 254 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS POEs Fas Doings of Societies. The American Entomological Society. The following meetings were held, as usual, at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Meeting of Jan. 22, 1925. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Skinner, President. Nine members and visitors present. The reports of officers and committees followed. The new by-laws were read as revised at the last meeting. Dr. Calvert moved that each article be adopted as read. Motion carried. Except for the following articles the by-laws were adopted as read without discussion. Art. 4, Chapt. 2 was adopted after ‘discussion without change; Art. 6 was added to Chapter 1; Chapt. 5, Art. 1. On motion the by-laws were adopted collectively. On motion it was ordered that the by- laws be printed with the act of incorporation under one cover. Mr. Rehn moved that the publication committee be sug- gested to consider a special price for publications to members ; carried. Mr. Cresson moved that the motion passed at the special meeting of Jan. 19, 1925, in regard to dates of meetings, viz.: that regular meetings be held the fourth Thursday of the month except when this day is a legal holiday in which case it shall he held on the preceding Thursday, be readopted and the hour be fixed at 7.30 P. M. Adopted. After some discussion. it was decided that under the new by-laws new officers and committees must be elected. The following nominations were made: Dr. H. Skinner, President; P. Laurent, Vice President; Dr. P. P. Calvert, Corresponding Secretary; R. J. Titherington, Recording Secretary; M. Hebard, Treasurer; E. T. Cresson, Jr., Librarian; R. C. Williams, Curator. Binance Committee? i. -C@, Willrams;, FR. Mason, [5 Ae.G, Rehn. > Publication Committee: J. A. G. Rehn, P. P. Calvert, M. Hebard. Library Committee: R. C. Williams, P. Laurent, M. Hebard. These nominations were all seconded without comment and on motion the secretary cast a ballot, and the nominees were declared elected. Mr. Rehn moved that the committee on by-laws be discharged with thanks. Adopted. Dr. Calvert presented on behalf of Dr. F. M. Root the type specimen of Enallagma dubium Root, 1924. TeV) 20 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2 cn un Dr. Skinner gave an interesting talk on. the relation of names to biological characteristics in variations. Mr. Rehn spoke on the relation of this subject to the Orthoptera, and showed an interesting series of grouse locust variations obtained by breed- ing. Mr, Rehn also showed plates for a publication on West Indian Blattidae. Meeting of February 26, 1925—Called to order by Dr. Skinner. Seven members and visitors present. Mr. Williams, as former Treasurer, reported having turned over the securities to Mr. Hebard, who stated that the society was in good condition financially. Mr, H. Hornig and Mr. Kisliuk were elected to membership unanimously. OponaTta: Dr. Calvert gave an interesting talk on observa- tions made on our latest autumn dragon-fly, Sympetrum vicinum, He exhibited specimens and showed some slides to illustrate his communication in which he told of trying to find some relation between lateness of survival, sunshine and tem- perature.* CoLEoPpTERA: Mr. Kisliuk presented some specimens of Euscepes batatae, including larvae, pupae and adults. This insect is injurious to sweet potatoes. Meeting of March 26, 1925.—Called to order by Dr. Skinner, Twelve members and visitors present. On the matter of collecting trips for 1925, Mr. Cresson, Jr., proposed three trips in the spring, April 18, May 16 and June 13. The first to Dismal Run Woods, Media. Mr. R. T. Davis was elected a resident member of the Society and Mr. E. T. Cresson, Sr., an honorary member. Mr. Calvert presented a photograph of the Entomological Society of America taken at their meeting in Washington in December. Mr. Cresson, Jr., spoke about the Thomas oy Casey ~ collection which he had seen while in Washington lately. At a meeting of entomologists held there it was recommended that the “collection be kept intact until properly catalogued, after which material might be taken out by responsible per- sons. Dr. Skinner showed a branch of a species of birch from Kamchatka having on it a scale-like parasite. He also made some interesting observations on some South American lepidoptera. *A paper on this eroieer will be Peed in Eons. aon 256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS fOckerZe Meeting of April 23, 1925.—Called to order by Dr. Skinner. I*ifteen members and visitors present. Mr. Cresson, Jr., reported the receipt of the following speci- mens: 301 Anthomyiidae, including 39 specimens new to the collection, from the Boston Society of Natural History, 8 Dip- tera of genera rayra and Raphum from C. H. Curran, 2 specimens Spilographa electra from H, Hornig, 10 specimens of Astalis snow from Kansas University. Mr. Cresson reported for the Committee on collecting trips that on the scheduled trip to Dismal Run Woods, Media, with the Leidy Club, four members of the Society participated. The following were elected to resident membership in the Society by unanimous vote: Arthur B. Wells, John H. Brown- back, E. H. Cienkowski, R. G. Schmieder, F. M. Jones, P. A. Turner, T. E. Winecoff, C. W. Fenninger, and Ernest Baylis. OrTHOPTERA.—Dr, Calvert presented on behalf of Dr. A. M. Norton. a specimen of a black grasshopper which had been collected Aug. 19, 1924, at Somerset, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rehn answered a number of questions and suggested that it might be a black form of Melanoplus femoratus. LrepIpDOPTERA.—Mr. Cresson, Jr., showed a copy of a Ger- man Entomological Year Book, also a copy of a de luxe edition with colored plates of Lepidoptera, called Thesis Entomolo- gique. Dr, Skinner brought out two cases of South American Lepidoptera (Agrias) with which he illustrated an interesting short talk. Mr, Hornig showed the specimens which he took on the Media trip. R. J. TITHERINGTON, Sec’y. PACER OBITUARY. The English entomological journals for July, 1925, contain obituary notices of ARTHUR GARDINER BUTLER, Assistant in the British Museum of Natural History 1865-1879, Assistant Keeper in charge of Arthropoda 1879-1901. He was born June 27, 1844, and died at Beckenham, Kent, May 28, 1925. While he wrote upon many of the groups of animals under his care, his publications concerned chiefly the Lepidoptera, especially the Pierid and Lycaenid buiterflies. He is credited with having described upward of 1000 species of Pieridae, many of which are now regarded as seasonal variations. His writings, more than 500 in number, include generic revisions, faunal papers and one separate work, Lepidoptera Exotica, 1869-1874, issued in parts, quarto, by Janson, London. HIN -D. SHERMAN, Jr. ~ 132 Primrose Avenue dar. 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EXAMPLE OF HOPPIN’S WORK FROM JAEGER’S “LIFE OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS.” ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS: VoL. XXXVI NOVEMBER, 1925 CONTENTS Weiss—Washington Hoppin, M.D., Il- lustrator of Jaeger’s ‘‘ Life of North ANMENICAM INSCCESH rclsicisis secs siecisele © 257 Hungerford and Beamer—Report of Collections of Aquatic Hemiptera taken in Cherokee Co., Kan., and other New Records from the State, 262 Johannsen—A New Sciarid from the Eastern United States (Dipt.: My- GOLODBHIGA ) io aiien cs + sissce saicisjeisis oe 266 Dodge—Notes on the Life-History of Catocala whitneyi( Dodge) (Lepid.: INGCEIIGAE) er areieicclaisicieie cise sine siveleisivis 267 Satterthwait—Two New Species of Ca- lendra (Col., Curculionidae)....... 269 Editorial—The Protection of Insects... 272 Barnes and Benjamin—On “Dysodia No. 9 Gunder—Calpodes ethlius in California Hesperiidae (Lepid.)...........0. 273 Zoological Record Part Insecta......... 274 Howard—Wanted, Live Cocoons of Giant Silk Worms (Lepid.)........ 274 Ghangesiof AdGressans. och scseines tees 275 Balduf—The Feeding of a Common Tiger Beetle (Colep., Cicindelidae. 275 The Van Duzee Collection of Hemip- RQ Viet win olelateleralerolaia/sictaistsieiaiaisiesialelstiatelais’s 276 Gunder—Avoiding Name Priority Con- fusion (Lepid., Rhopalocera)...... 276 Entomological Literature.............- 277 Review, Imms’ General Text Book of ESTILO RXIGIO DY Nore te: 2:31 =fa\=)orayatavatelsvalcleielaieteis 283 Doings of Societies—The International Entomological Congress at Zurich 286 granulata Neum. (Lepid., Thyridae 273 Washington Hoppin, M. D., Illustrator of Jaeger’s “Life of North American Insects.” By Harry B. Weiss, New Brunswick, New Jersey (Plate VII). On Page 41 of Benedict Jaeger’s “Life of North American Insects” ( Providence, R. I. 1854), which has only a historical value now,* one finds the following statement: “But, before speaking of the Insects themselves, I cannot omit a passing tribute of gratitude to the ingenious friend through whose valuable aid I have been enabled to spread them out before my readers in all their lifelike attire. Most of the Insects presented in this and the succeeding Plate, and many that will appear hereafter, have been originally drawn and painted from nature by my friend, Washington Hoppin, M. D., of this city, who, although an amateur, only relieving the monotony of pro- fessional life by an occasional display of this, his native talent, has nevertheless drawn and painted these specimens from my cabinet with the skill of the most experienced professional artist; and this he has done from the disinterested purpose of aiding me in rendering more valuable and popular this important *See Weiss, “Prof. Benedict Jaeger, Early Entomologist of New Jersey,” Proc. N. Jersey Histor. Soc. VII, no. 3, pp. 196-207, July, 1922, 257 258 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Niow.,. 25 department of Natural History. In return for his kindness, I beg to offer him here my sincere thanks, assuring him that I take great pleasure in associating with this work the name of Hoppin, a name not undistinguished in the annals of American Art.” Thus did Professor Jaeger record his indebtedness to his friend and artist. Six colored plates accompany the book, I, II and III being devoted to beetles, IV to Hemiptera, V to Orthoptera and VI to Lepidoptera. Although Jaeger does not state specifically that all of the illustrations were made by Doctor Hoppin, it is evident that some of them were drawn by the same person. Hoppin was not the first illustrator of North American insects, being preceded by Mark Catesby, an Englishman whose work is found in “The Natural History of Florida and the dahama Islands, Containing Figures of the Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Insects, and Plants, etc.” London MDCCXXXI- MDCCXLIIT; by Abbott, also presumably an Englishman whose plates are found in “The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia,’ London, 1797, by Smith & Abbott ; by Peale, a distinguished American naturalist and artist who is the author of approximately twenty-eight plates of Say’s “American Entomology,” 1824, the remaining plates being credited as follows: Nine to C. A. Lesueur, a French- man by birth, nine to W. W. Wood whose nativity is in doubt and two to H. LB. Bridport, who was born in London. Another early illustrator was the father of Dr. J. L. Leconte, Maj. Jno. Eatton Leconte, most of whose drawings were never published. Mr. W. R. Walton has gathered together many interesting facts about these early illustrators and his accounts will be found in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 69-99) under the title “Ento- mological Drawings and Draughtsmen, Their Relation to the Development of Economic Entomology in the United States.” This brings us to 1854, the publication date of ‘““The Natural History of New York” illustrated by Emmons as draughtsman and R. H. Pease as lithographer. The fifty plates of this volume are severely and justly criticized by Walton, although at first oat, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 259 glance one is impressed by the neat arrangement of the figures. The colors of the butterflies are especially absurd. Harris’ “Insects Injurious to Vegetation” was published previous to this and the work of the artist, Antoine Sonrel, has been highly praised. It is manifestly unfair to compare Hoppin’s plates, printed in 1854, with present day standards because their deficiencies are bound to be overemphasized but Hoppin’s work is contemporaneous with that of Sonrel and Emmons. It will not bear comparison with the illustrations in Harris’ work, those by Hoppin being on the whole inaccurate as to detail and, from a technical standpoint, poorly drawn and colored. The arrange- ment of the figures on the beetle plates is peculiar, the illustra- tions for the most part being at the extreme corners and sides of the pages with nothing but blank space between them. There is little or no attempt at symmetry and it is evident that some of the specimens provided by Professor Jaeger, as models, were not mounted or preserved with much care. It is also obvious that Dr. Hoppin was not interested in detail, the venation of the hind wings of the cicadas on Plate IV for instance being impossible; in fact, all of the figures are woefully inaccurate with respect to detail and proportion. Professor Jaeger plainly exercised no supervision over the work prob- ably having no interest in anatomical minutie. Some of Hoppin’s work will be found on the plate accompanying this article and one can see from this, the inaccuracies noted above. In comparison with the work of Emmons, the neat- ness is lacking but Hoppin’s few Lepidoptera are certainly not as ridiculously colored as those of Emmons. It should be kept in mind, however, that Jaeger’s book was probably the first one that attempted to popularize entomology in this country. It was written for the general reader and the colored plates also were for the general reader; and, as such, they probably gave satisfacticn, especially as the mental im- pression gained by looking at some of the figures enables one to identify what one supposes to be the species with little or no trouble. So far as I have been able to learn, Dr. Hoppin made no other drawings of insects and it is easy to imagine 260 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., ’25 that the illustrations for Jaeger’s book were done in a spirit of friendliness at the earnest solicitation of the author. Dr. Washington Hoppin was born on April 1, 1827, in Providence, Rhode Island, being one of the sons of Thomas Coles and Harriet Dunn (Jones) Hoppin. His father, a merchant of Providence, was the son of Capt. Benjamin Hoppin of the Continental army; his mother, the daughter of Capt. William Jones, also of the Continental army and governor of Rhode Island from 1811 to 1817. Washington came of an artistic family. His brother, Augustus, cari- caturist, artist and author, born in Providence, July 13, 1828, graduated from Brown in 1848, studied and practised law for a time in Providence but abandoned it for art. After study- ing in Europe he gained a high reputation as an illustrator of books and drew the designs for “The Potiphar Papers” (1853), “Nothing to Wear” (1857), etc. He also published a series of illustrated sketch books. He died at Flushing, New York, April 1, 1896. Another brother, William Jones, born April 21, 1813, studied at Yale and Middlebury College, Vt.,.and obtained the degree of LL. B. from Harvard in 1835. He was one of the founders of the “Century Asso- ciation of New York” and frequently visited Europe and contributed articles on art subjects to American and European periodicals. From 1876 to 1886 he was secretary of the United States Legation at London. Another brother, Thomas Frederick, born August: 15, 1816, studied art in Philadelphia and Paris under Delaroche. In 1837 be returned to this country and lived in New York City where he made the designs of the four evangelists which compose the great chancel window of Trinity Church. He modeled the first piece of sculpture ever cast in bronze in the United States and produced statues and groups in plaster, etchings in outline and pictures representing American life and history. It is said that Washington Hoppin possessed great ability as a caricaturist. Elis son, Howard Hoppin of Providence, advised me that his father showed great artistic talent in black and white illustrating, painting and particularly in xxvii, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 261 silhouettes. He studied medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in the class of 1850, two years after the founding of the college in 1848; and practising in Providence, R. I., in partnership with a Dr. Barrows, where he was very successful in the treatment of children. Being a homceopathic physician, he was not a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society. Homoeopathy was introduced into this country by a Dr. Hans Birch Gram, a native of Boston educated at Copenhagen, who opened an office in New York City in 1825. It flourished more rapidly in this country than in Europe but in spite of this the early converts to homceopathy were subjected to storms of opposition and, in order to strengthen their cause, the American Journal of Homceopathy was started in 1835 and the American Institute of Homceop- athy, the oldest national medical association in the country was organized in 1844. Although Dr. Hoppin pursued his profession some six years later than 1844, he practised at a time when Homeeopathy was looked upon with suspicion by many and considerably before the differences between the two schools of medicine began to disappear. Dr. Hoppin married Louise Clare Vinton, daughter of Major Jenn Rogers Witton, U.S) AC, on “October. 14, 1852, and their issue consisted of six children, Helena Lucretia (died young), Howard, Louise Clare, Washington (died 1914), Harriet Dunn (Mrs. Robert Jacob) and Francis Laurens Vin- ton. He died April 1, 1867, on his fortieth birthday, and is buried at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R. I. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am very grateful to Mr. Howard Hoppin of Providence, R. I., for information about his father in a letter dated Decem- ber 15, 1924. The standard cyclopaedias contain very little about Dr. Hoppin and in my search for information I was aided by Mr. John S. Brownne, Librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine and Mr. H. M. Chapin, Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society, whose help is deeply appre- ciated. In addition the facilities extended by the State Library 262 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov 25 at Trenton, New Jersey, the library of the Philadelphia College of Physicians and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society are gratefully acknowledged. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography Bulletin, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia, December 1906, p. 64. Fishbein, The Rise and Fall of Homeopathy, American Mercury, vol, 11, No. 6, pp. 150-154, 1924. National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. New International Encyclopaedia, 2nd ed. Providence Journal, April 3, 1867. Transactions of the Twentieth Session of the American Institute of Homeeopathy, vol. 1, N. S. 1868. Walton, Entomological Drawings and Draughtsmen, ete. Proc. Ent. Soc., Washington, vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 69-99. EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII, Examples of Hoppin’s work from Jaeger’s “Life of North American Insects.” Report of Collections of Aquatic Hemiptera taken in Cherokee County, Kansas, and other New Records from the State. By H. B. HunGerrorp and R. H. Beamer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, In August of 1920 the writers spent a few days collecting in the southeast corner county of Kansas and as a result added a number of species new to our University collection of Kansas insects. Most of these species have never been recorded as occurring in Kansas, and this paper is prepared for the purpose of placing on record these interesting finds. We are adding also some of the more notable collections that have been made from time to time by various collectors and reporting some structural characters that we have found of specific value in determining difficult species. The first list of aquatic Hemiptera of Kansas formed a por- tion of a list of the Heteroptera prepared by E. A. Popenoe in 1883-84 under the title “Contributions to a Knowledge of xxxvi, “25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 263 the Hemiptera Fauna of Kansas” which appeared in the Trans- actions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Volume IX, p. 62. A second list of aquatic forms was given in F. F, Creve- coeur’s paper, “Additions to the List of the Hemiptera Fauna of Kansas.” This was published in Volume XIX of the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science in 1904. Thus it has been twenty years since any formal list of addi- tions or corrections to the water bug fauna of the state has been published. Both of these lists were short and both appear to have been omitted in Van Duzee’s great “Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America North of Mexico”, 1917. Because of this omission, and because they represent the foundation lists upon which to build, they are repeated below: PorENOE’s List, 1883-84: Salda signoretti Guer. Ranatra quadidentata “ deplanata Uhl. Stal. Galgulus oculata Fab. Nepa apiculata Harris (?) Naucoris poeyi Guér. Notonecta undulata Say. “ Belostoma americana Leidy e sp. undet. Ge) Anisops platycnemis Fieb. y Zaitha fluminea Say Corixa alternata Say. y n.sp. Uhl CREVECOEUR’s List, 1904: ‘Hygrotrechus remiges Say. On water in streams. May. ‘Limnotrechus marginatus Say. On water in streams. April, Oct. “Hebrus pusillus Burm. About a spring on Creek bank. April. Salda interstialis Say, On sandy beach. June. “humilis Say. In swamp. May. ~Mesoretia bisignis Uhl. On water in stock pond. August, Ranatra fusca P. B. In ponds and streams. April. Corisa scutellata. In stock pond. March, October. * harristi Uhl. In stock pond. March, October. Thus we see that Popenoe’s list included thirteen species, eleven of them named. Of these eleven names, seven are probably correct, though the generic name has been changed in six of the seven cases. In Crevecoeur’s list there are nine names. Of these, one 264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., ’25 is a naked name, one a species not recognized from America atid one has suffered so greatly from typographical errors that it might not be recognized. In 1909 G. W. Kirkaldy and J. R. de la Torre-Bueno ptb- lished a “Catalogue of American Aquatic and Semi-aquatic Hemiptera.” In this, Kansas is mentioned in the habitat lists for the following species: Acanthia deplanata Uhler. Microvelia americana Uhler. i“ signoretu Guerin. \Gerris marginatus Say. Lethocerus uhleri Mont. All the above would indicate a neglect of the aquatic Hemip- tera in Kansas. In Van Duzee’s catalogue, 1917, the following species are recorded from Kansas in addition to those given by Kirkaldy and Bueno. ‘ Mesovelia mulsanti White. Notonecta undulata Say. Notonecta variabilis Fieb. Plea striola Fieb. In the Kansas University Science Bulletin, Volume XI, the senior author mentioned a number of aquatic and semi-aquatic species that had not hitherto been recorded for Kansas. Since he mentioned them in connection with life history or behavior studies, and thus casually in the body of a large paper without calling attention to the fact that the species were being reported for the state for the first time, they seem to have been un- noted. They are as follows: Hydrometra martim Kirk. Benacus griseus Say Gerris remigis Say Buenoa margaritacea Bueno Trepobates pictus Uhl. Pelocoris caroiinensis Bueno Rheumatobates rileyi Bergr. Ramphocorixa acuninata Microvelia borealis Bueno (Uhl.) Some of the species collected by us in Cherokee County, Kansas, were sent to Mr. J. R. de la Torre-Bueno and reported by him in Entomological News XXXII, p. 272, 1921. They were: Ranatra kirkaldyi Bueno Gelastocoris oculatus Fabr. (Reported by Popenoe 1884) Buenoa elegans (Fieb.) Tenagogonus hesione Kirkaldy xxxvi, 725] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 265 Another species of the Cherokee County collecting trip, Hy- drometra australis Say, was reported by the senior attthor in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 1922, under the note “Both Hydrometras in Kansas.” Following are further interesting records of aquatic Hemip- tera: HEBRIDAE. This family of tiny surface striders is not very richly repre- sented in our collections. Crevecoeur reported one species in 1904 under the name Hebrus pusillus Burm. This species is now called Hebrus burmeisteri L. and S. On October 8th and 9th, 1923, the writers took 135 specimens. of Hebrus con- solidus Uhl. from the margins of a small pool known as Rock Pool near Lawrence, Kansas. Whether Crevecoeur’s H. pusil- lus is really the species we have found, we are not able to say. Hebrus burmeistert L. and S. was described from Pennsyl- vania. The species taken at Ithaca, New York, by the senior author and called H. concinnus Uhl. by him is quite distinct from our Kanas species. The New York species has the lateral margins of the prothorax more constricted, the scutel- lum more plainly notched at tip and nervures of wing of dif- ferent shape.. Hebrus concinnus is described as being 2% to 2% mm. long and the New York species is not as large. We are now inclined to believe that the New York species should be called Hebrus burmeisteri L. and S. although there is practi- cally no description of this species and it must be a guess at the best. A single specimen taken by the senior author at Rock Creek, Douglas County, Kansas, several years ago is unlike either of the above species and runs to Hebrus sobrinus Uhl. The genus Merragata was reported for the United States by Doctor Drake in 1917. He described two new species from Ohio. A single specimen of Merragata foveata Drake was from Fort Collins, Colorado, and this is the only record for the genus outside of Ohio. We are able to report two speci- mens of the above species from Estes Park, Colorado, taken on the margins of Mary’s Lake, August 22, 1919, by Hunger- ford, two specimens from the historic “Hole in the Rock” Douglas County, Kansas, April 29, 1923, and one specimen 266 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., ’25 from Rock Pool, near Lawrence, Kansas, on October &th. Other specimens of this species were taken by the senior author at St. Paul, Minn., July 16, 1921. Merragata brunnea Drake has been taken in Doniphan County, Kansas, by Mr. Beamer and by Mr. Jean Linsdale, and in St. Paul, Minnesota, by the senior author. Two species of this genus described from the United States are much alike. M. brunnea Drake is the smaller species and is easily separated from M. foveata Drake by the nervures of the wing. (To be continued) A New Sciarid from the Eastern United States (Dipt.: Mycetophilidae). By O. A. JoHANNSEN, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Sciara similans n. sp. 3 Length 2 mm. Head and antennze including the basal segments black. Antennae elongate, about seven-eighths as long as the wing measured from the humeral crossvein ; inter- mediate flagellar segments over three times as long as wide, Palpi short, dusky yellow, paler apically, terminal segment about twice as long as wide, the third segment a little shorter. Mesonotum, scutellum and upper half of pleura subshining black, remaining parts of the thorax duller black. Abdomen, including the genitalia, dull brownish black. Hypopygium resembles that of Sciara pauciseta, differing in having no distinct median ventral papilla and with the median bristles less closely crowded ; the clasper less slender, resembling that of S. johannseni Enderl. (fig. 125, Bul. 200, Me. Agr. Exp. Sta. 1912), with the mesal margin nearly straight but with the apical tooth rather shorter than shown in the figure mentioned. Legs subfuscous; coxae and trochanters, particularly of the anterior pair, more yellowish; outer side of basal articulatory process (artis of MacGillivray) of the femora distinctly black and conspicuous; fore tibia with oval setiferous patch at the base of the spur as in S. pauciseta. Wings grayish hyaline, veins subfuscous, distinctly yellow. at the base. Media and cubitus without setae, base of the radial sector at a point two-thirds distad from the humeral crossvein to tip of the anterior branch of the radius, the latter ends over one-eighth of wing-length proximad of the base of the fork of the media; petiole of cubitus about one-half the length of the base of the media; costa extends over two-thirds the distance SKI, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 267 between the tips of the radial sector and anterior branch of the media ; radial sector ends slightly proximad of .85 the length of the wing and slightly proximad of the tip of the posterior branch of the media. Halteres yellow. %, Differs mainly in being a little larger, with relatively broader wings, with the tip of the radial sector more retracted, with a shorter petiole of the cubitus and with relatively less distance between the tip of the anterior branch of the radius and the base of the fork of the media. Antennae less than five-eighths as long as the wing, the intermediate segments but little more than twice as long as wide. The male of this species will fall in the couplet with S. pauciseta of Dr. F. W. Pettey’s key (Annals Ent. Soc, Amer. 11:1918) but may readily be distinguished by the characters given above. A number of bred specimens. Holotype, allotype and para- types in the Cornell University Collection. Paratypes in the U.S, National Museum, and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. The original specimens from which stocks were reared were obtained by Dr. C. W. Metz at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. Notes on the Life History of Catocala whitneyi (Dodge) (Lepid.: Noctuidae). By E. A. DopceE, Santa Cruz, California. Mrs. O. F. Hiser of Arnolds Park, Iowa, last spring kindly sent me eggs of Catocala whitneyi. The same lady having previously furnished me seeds of its food plant, Amor pha fruticosa, I was enabled to rear this handsome species to maturity. ; The egg is hemispherical, flattened at base, with eighteen vertical ribs reaching nearly to the micropylar area and with a few short ribs between. Larvae commenced to emerge April 30th. Young larvae very restless. Head and thorax light yellow. Abdomen green. Fifth day: Head pale orange. Middle of body deep green, striped longitudinally with white lines. wate Soon after this date the larvae assumed with little change the colors and markings of the mature larvae. Full grown larva cream white. Head white with a slight pinkish shade on lobes. Ornamentation consists of longitudinal, double, greenish brown lines, composed of numerous dots set close together. The space between has a row of dots through the 268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 725 middle. These bands are divided by a stripe of the body color having with one exception a row of dots through the middle. Dorsal band irregular, contracted at divisions of segments and widening in the middle, forming oval figures. This band con- tracted on second thoracic segment, becoming a single line over first segment, and joining the line down the face. Also contracted to a single line over last segment. Subdorsal band a double band of dark brown dots. This band contracted at head, forming a double, much branched band over head and ending in a point near jaws. Next band much lighter and also runs along side of head. The spiracular band is composed of very black dots with the reddish spiracles on lower line. This crosses the head near the jaws. Below this band a broad band of cream white with no row of dots through center. This is bordered below by a double line of light brown dots and several short lines above the prolegs. Prolegs spotted with black. Anal prolegs bordered behind with black. Full grown larva one and three-fourth inches long. Under side greenish white thickly sprinkled with light brown dots. A black spot, longer than wide and pointed in front, on each of the body segments. First and second spots long and narrow. Proleg segments larger. Last segments mere black lines. Tubercles orange. The spiracular band and the broad white stripe of body color below it are the most distinctive features and look like a band of black followed by a white band along the side of larvae. No filaments. Pupa deep reddish brown; slight pubescence on thorax. From emergence from egg to spinning in leaves, thirty-five days. Life in pupa thirty-seven days. Doubtless our cold California coast temperature has something to do with the unusual length of time of development. A more strongly marked larva shows an orange shade over lobes of head and over first segment. The ground color of this larva is distinctly yellowish and all spots are larger and darker. Of the six imagoes three are of the light, and three of the dark form. By comparing this description with the description of Catocala nuptialis, as published by Mrs. O. F. and J. S. Hiser in the Lepidopterist of October 25, 1918, many points of resemblance will be noted between the two species in the larval form. xxxvi, 725] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 269 Two New Species of Calendra (Col., Curculionidae). By A. F. Sattertuwait, U.S. Bureau of Entomology. Incidental to the investigation of the life histories of the numercus North American species of Calendra Clairv. and Schellenb.*, (Sphenophorus Authors), it has been the privilege of the writer to study many collections of the species of this genus, through the courtesy of institutions and of individual entomologists. Several appear to be new species, and of these the following are now offered for publication : Calendra multilineatus, new species. Tibiae broadly rounded at outer apical angle, third joint of hind tarsus scarcely wider than, and that of front tarsus at least twice as wide as, basal joint of corresponding tarsus. Elytral intervals more or less alternately elevated and each with impressed line or groove between its row of punctures and the stria. The odd intervals show this line as a narrow, coated groove from near base to near apex except next to suture, beginning about one-third back. The even intervals show this as the lateral termination of a broad band of gray coating, the row of punctures appearing as fine black dots in middle of this band. The portion of the even intervals between this groove and the stria is elevated and deeply indented by the punctures of the stria. Thorax with three distinct raised vittae, the median expanded about middle, widest before middle, the laterals with branches reaching outer basal angles, though sometimes coated. Vittae finely punctured, polished except sometimes the branches of the laterals, interspaces thinly coated, coarsely, sparsely punctured. * Calendra Clairville and Schellenberg, 1798, Ent. Helv., p. 62, takes priority over Sphenophorus Schonherr, 1838, Gen. et Sp. Curc., vol. 4, p. 874, as shown by Dr. W. D. Pierce, in Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 21, p: 26, Feb., 1919, to which the writer has made reference in his papers, “Notes on the Habits of Calendra pertinax Olivier,” in Jr. Econ. Ent., vol. 13, p. 280, June, 1920, and “Food Plants of Certain Billbugs,” in Ecology, vol. 2, p. 198, July, 1921. The fixation of Calendra abbreviata Fabricius as type for this genus by Latreille, 1810, Consid. Gen., appears final. A further manuscript by Dr. W. D. Pierce, to appear in Pro- ceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, courteously sub- mitted to the writer, confirms this conclusion. Dr. R. T. Cotton courteously submitted to the writer a portion of his monograph on Sitophilus, citing the error of the name Calandra on the plate and the name Calendra in the text and indicating that many scientists feel the authors intended the spelling to be Calandra. The writer feels, however, that with the change from Sphenophorus to Calendra or Calandra, the name should be the text name Calendra The writer wishes to thank both Dr. Pierce and Dr. Cotton for their generous submission of manuscripts. 270 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., “Zo Beak arcuate above and below, slightly prominent over scrobes, moderately compressed, postapical angle about 85 degrees, preapical angle slightly convex to flat. General color black, overlaid with thin ashy gray coating in depressions. Measurements in millimeters: %, Beak, width at middle, 0.38, apex, 0.47, base, 0.90, length, 4.26; pronotum, width, 4.61, length, 4.75; elytra, width, 5.42; length, 6.99; total length, 13.83: Locality: “Minn.” Described from the larger of two females submitted through the courtesy of Professors A. G. Ruggles and H. H. Knight, of the University of Minnesota. Type No. 27826, U. S. National Museum. Paratype in the University of Minnesota Museum. Other specimens of this species studied by the author are: a female in the U. S. National Museum, from ‘Utah Lake, 6/9, Coll. Hubbard & Schwarz, No. 556”; one specimen ‘“S. Haven, Mich., 9.74,” one, “Wis.,” two, “Ill.” and one without printed or written data, in the LeConte Collection in the Cambridge Museum of Natural History; a female from “Dune Park, Ind., Oct. 7, 01, W-S: B.,” in Mr. H. R. Painter’s collection; one male and two females determined by Dr. Geo. H. Horn as robustus H. and two males and one female subsequently added to the series, all — from “Ill,” in the Horn collection of the American Ento-— mological Society, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This species closely approaches Calendra robustus (Horn), but differs in that each interval of the elytra is divided into three nearly complete sub-intervals and the coating 1s ashy gray, thin and very incomplete, while robustus has the “surface evenly clothed with ochreus or plumbeus — sub-sericeus exudation.” | Calendra medoraensis new species. Front tibiae truncate at outer apical angle, third joint of hind tarsus one-and-a-half times, and that of front tarsus twice, as wide as corresponding basal joints. Elytral intervals distinctly alternately elevated, strial punctures small. Thorax with three distinct, raised, black, sinuous vittae, the median nearly as wide as laterals, the latter with branches strongly defined to outer basal angles, interspaces nearly as mov, 25)| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Zp wide as median vitta, rather sparingly punctured with punctures nearly like punctures of elytral striae. Beak moderately compressed, postapical angle about 90 de- grees, preapical angle flattened, arcuate beneath, the upper contour with a prominence over scrobes and another about one- fifth from apex. Elytra with odd intervals elevated, black, polished through- out, very finely punctulate, portions of first and third con- fusedly bi- or tri-seriate, the balance uniseriate, sometimes irregular. Metasternum and first and second sternites of male concave, the metasternum hairy, the concavity of first sternite with longer hair, especially near lateral margins, second sternite with short hair, scarcely visible, third, fourth and fifth sternites with hair not visible in profile; pygidium hairy, longest at extreme edge of outer apical angles. The female differs from the male in having the abdomen convex beneath and hair of the sternum not visible in profile except on last sternite, very slightly, and the pygidium distinctly tapering, with the tufts of long hair at outer apical angles connected by a line of fairly long hair substantially back from the apex. General color, dull red, overlaid above with black, polished elevations and with yellowish-gray coating in interspaces. Measurements in mm.: male, beak, width at middle, 0.28, apex, 0.32, base, 0.64, length, 2.76; pronotum, width, 2.83, length, 3.05; elytra, width, 3.30, length, 4.71; total length 9.03. Female, beak, width at middle, 0.29, apex, 0.35, base, 0.70, length, 2.79; pronotum, width, 2.80, length, 3.11; elytra, width, 3.39, length, 4.53; total length, 9.37, Locality : “Medora, Ks. 5-12-93” [Kansas]. Described from a male (type) and a female, both bearing the same data. De- posited in the U. S. National Museum through the courtesy of Professor C. L. Corkins, of Wyoming University. Type No. 27827, U. S. National Museum, This species closely approaches Calendra costicollis (Chttn. ) var. callosipennis (Chttn.), but has all odd intervals elevated and polished from base to apex of elytra. It closely approaches C. villosiventris (Chttn.), but the ventral surface of the male lacks the long hair of the second and fifth sternites and has the hair of the first sternite arranged in lateral bands, nearly as occurs in C. costipennis (Horn). The shape of the beak is nearly identical to that of some examples of costipennis, ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER, 1925. The Protection of Insects. The American Entomological Society recently received the following circular letter: British Museum (Natural History), London, S.W.7. May, 1925. The British Correlating Committee for the Protection of Nature, which is composed of representatives of the Societies in Great Britain (among them being the Entomological Society of London) interested in the protection of animal and plant life, has learnt with grave concern of the serious effect on the numbers of certain beautiful species of butterflies in the British Isles resulting from the use of the wings of these insects for jewellery and similar purposes. Some of the most active dealers in these insects are in Canada and the United States. Accordingly the British Correlating Committee and the Entomological Society of London appeal to Entomological and Natural History Societies in Canada and the United States to use their utmost influence to prevent the threatened extermination of the coveted species. Inasmuch as legislation would be difficult both to secure and to enforce, use must be made of moral suasion. The dealers themselves would no doubt be fully alive to the disadvantage from the commercial point of view of a serious diminution in the number of these butterflies, and would be willing to cooperate in any reasonable measures to secure the end in view. For the British Correlating For the Entomological Society Committee for the Protection of London of Nature Rothschild, E. B. Poulton, Chairman. President. G. F. Herbert Smith, S. A. Neave, Hon. Sec.-Treas. Hon. Sec. In response to this appeal, The American Entomological Society, at its meeting of September 24, 1925, adopted the following : 272 Kikxviy: 25) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 273 Wuereas there is grave danger of exterminating some of the most beautiful species of insects for use in works of art and jewelry ; Resolved, that The American Entomological Society strongly disapproves of such practice and herewith places itself on record as opposing the use of insects for decorative purposes. In accordance with this action, the News henceforth will not print advertisements and offers of exchange of insects for decoration. On Dysodia granulata Neum. (Lepid., Thyridae). Dysodia granulata Neum. 1883, Neumoegen, Pap., III, 137, Platythyris. 1913, Dyar, Ins. Insc, Menst., I, pp. 37, 39, 45, Dysodia. race igualensis Dyar. 1913, Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menst., I, pp. 37, 41, Dysodia. D. granulata was described from Fort Huachuca, Arizona. We possess specimens from the Huachuca Mts., Paradise, Chiricahua Mts., and Baboquivari Mts., Arizona, which agree with the original description, and have a specimen compared with type by Dr. Barnes. During the past two seasons, Mr. O. C. Poling has been sending specimens from the Baboquivari Mts., Pima Co., Ari- zona, varying from much darker than typical granulata, thru all transitional shades, to much paler ocher and rufous colors. We ere informed by Mr. William Schaus that the ochreous specimens agree with the type of igualensis Dyar, described from Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. Whereas all intermediates are present, and the ochreous specimens seem as common as the darker ones in Poling’s Baboquivari material, other Arizona localities have only supplied us either like the type of granu- lata, darker, or with somewhat more red on them, In view of intermediates in the Baboquivari Mts., we see no reason to retain igualensis as a distinct species, but because of either the rarity or total absence of it from the type locality of granulata, we consider the name to be of subspecific sig- nificance. It should be added to our lists. Ww». Barnes and F. H. Benyamin, Decatur, Illinois. Calpodes ethlius in California (Hesperiidae, Lepidoptera). Calpodes ethlius can now be definitely recorded from Cali- fornia, as specimens were taken (larva bred) near Long Beach, Les Angeles County, California, September 12, 1924.—J. D. GUNDER, Pasadena, California, 274 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 725 Entomology by Radio. The first of the radio talks of the Smithsonian Institution for the season, entitled “Flies,’ by Dr. J. M. Aldrich, was: given from Station WRC on October 1 (Science). Zoological Record Part Insecta. The “Insecta” part of the ‘“Zoclogical Record” (as distin- guished from the complete volume) will in future be published by, and only obtainable from, the Imperial Bureau of Ento- mology. The price for the part will be 15/-, as heretofore. It is, however, proposed as an experiment to break up a limited number of copies into the following sections, which will be sold as follows: Section A. List of Titles and Subject Index .. 4/- Section &B.¥ Coleopteraly ices. 05h canes 6/- section (Cr jeepidoptera. .cca Se eae ee 6/- Section .D. Hymenoptera and Diptera... J... 4/- Section E. Hemiptera, Orthoptera and remain- meyvOrders!: ck) no ateiieien oe 4/- The above division has been instituted for the benefit of those entomologists who are interested in a portion only of the sys- tematic part of the work. It is in the nature of an experiment only and cannot be continued unless it is widely supported. All orders for the “Insecta” part, or any sections of it, should be addressed to the Assistant Director, Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 41, Queen’s Gate, London, S.W.7. Orders for the complete volume of the “Zoological Record” should continue to be sent to the Zoological Society of London, London, Regent’s Park, London, N.W.8. Wanted—Live Cocoons of Giant Silk Worms (Lepid). Prof. Joanny Petrequin, Professor of Sericiculture in the Laboratory for Silk Studies, No. 36 Rue Childebert, Lyon, France, and a member of the Committee on Propaganda of the Linnean Society of Lyon, and a group of his colleagues, are anxious to get this winter live cocoons of Attacus luna, Samia cecropia, Philosamia cynthia, Samia gloveri, and Telea polyphe- mus, also of Automeris, in order to enable them to continue certain experiments which were being carried on before the war and which they are about to resume. The effort is a sound scientific one, and American entomologists should be glad to help. I thing that a notice about this might very well be published in ENromoLoeicAL News. L. O. Howarp, Chief of Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C. Sev 25)] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 275 Changes of Address. C. F. Adams to 3820 Harrison Boulevard, Kansas City. Franklin Sherman to Div. Entomology, Clemson College, South. Carolina. Austin P. Smith to Hotel Lafayette, Havana, Cuba. The Feeding of a Common Tiger Beetle (Coleop., Cicindelidae). While making studies in chinch bug control for the Illi- nois State Natural History Survey in the summer of 1923, our most plentiful tiger beetle, Cicindela punctulata Oliv. was com- monly seen in the furrows of the chinch bug barriers. On the afternoon of July 23, a specimen of this beetle was observed in the process of getting a full meal. Sheltered from the hot afternoon sun by tall corn, this individual was observed to catch and consume nine large black nymphs and one adult of the chinch bug, in a period of twenty-six minutes. Most of the bugs present were of the last nymphal instar. The smaller individuals were obviously much more difficult to catch than the larger forms. The predator took a position on a flat, slightly elevated spot from which it spied bugs from two to three inches away. The prey was reached by long rapid strides, but the aim of the mandibles was not always straight, and at times several efforts were necessary to secure the bugs. When the first effort failed, the bug feigned death momentarily, in which case the beetle was not able to relocate its intended victim. In all in- stances the bugs were moving when they first drew the preda- tor’s attention as were they also when pursued and caught. When the bug was successful in evading its enemy by “play- ing possum,” the tiger beetle quite promptly pursued another nymph. But the bug did not always remain motionless until the beetle went in pursuit of another, so that there occurred instances of failure as well as of success of tactics on both sides. When the beetle secured its victim in its mandibles it usual- ly returned to the point from which it started. Thereupon the bug held in the jaws was struck briskly against the ground several times in rapid succession. This act may have served to stun or kill the prey, but probably rather aided in trans- ferring it from the terminal portion of the mandibles to the much shorter maxillae. During the act of consuming the bugs the beetle’s mandibles moved medio-laterad upon one another 276 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 725 simultaneously with the action of the maxillae, although they performed no further part in the process of eating the victim. As far as could be observed, only the soft interior parts were torn or chewed off by the maxillae. A pellet consisting of the dark exoskeleton was dropped to the ground below the beetle’s head when the consumption of each bug was complete. The wings of the one adult were also discarded. When the beetle began its meal the bugs were caught, de- voured and the inedible parts rejected at the rate of one vic- tim in thirty to fifty seconds. , However, when five or six had been eaten the predator’ was less voracious and spirited, an-1 a longer time elapsed in the intervals between consuming one bug and catching another. While catching and eating ten bugs, Cicindela stayed within a circle six inches in diameter. The repast finished, the beetle ran several feet up the furrow. Here it stopped and during a five minute period seemed to take a nap. Thereupon it spent fifteen minutes divided be- tween resting and grooming itself with its legs before it was routed from the furrow. W. V. Bavtpur, University of Illinois, Urbana, Tl. The Van Duzee Collection of Hemiptera Mr. E. P. Van Duzee has presented his entire collection of Hemiptera to the California Academy of Sciences. After each specimen is labeled “E. P. Van Duzee Collection,” they are to be incorporated into the systematic collections of the Academy and are not to be used for exchange or for exhibition purposes. He has the privilege of temporarily withdrawing for study any of the specimens he may need for use at home. Avoiding Name Priority Confusion (Lepid., Rhopalocera). In my last paper on Butterfly Aberrations published in the News, July, 1925, I referred, in comparative text only, to several of Dr. John Comstock’s newly named California butter- flies. To wit: Euph. chalcedona, ab. supranigrella Euph. chalcedona, ab. fus!secunda Euph. sierra, ab. umbrobasana Pleb. chlorina, form carolynae Some name priority confusion may arise because of the fact that the technical descriptions of these specimens have not as yet appreared in print. However, long prior to July, 1925, colored plates of these butterflies with their names specifically given below them, were distributed to most of our Western oe macy, 725 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 277 Lepidopterists and given out freely at meetings of the Lorquin Entomological Club of California. I understood also from Dr. Comstock that a number of the plates were sent to Eastern people and further that any accredited Lepidopterist who wishes to aquaint himself with these new forms need only apply to him at the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., and the desired colored. plates will be sent at once. The bound plates and complete text matter are to appear later. I consider the distribution of these named plates as sufficient publication to establish the names and give priority of author- ship to Dr. Comstock. These plates serve admirably to identify the specimens and are superior in that respect to any amount of description. Further; Article 16, Division B, of the Inter- national Rules states—“that in absence of a definition in words, the name he accompanied by a figure.” J. D. Gunper, Pasadena, California. Entomological Literature COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. Papers of systematic nature will be found in the paragraph beginning with (N). Those pertaining to Neotropical species only will be found in paragraphs beginning with (S). Those containing descriptions of new forms are preceded by an *. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. The titles occurring in the Entomological News are not listed. 4—Canadian Entomologist. &8—The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine. 9—The Entomologist. 11—Deutsche Ent. Zeitschrift. 12—Journal of Economic Ent. 14—Ento- mologische Zeit., Frankfurt a. M. 18—Internationale Ent. Zeit., Guben. 19—Bull., Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 29—Annual Rept., Ent. Soc. of Ontario. 33—Bull. et Annal. Soc. Ent. Belgique. 36—Trans., Ent. Soc., London. 3/—Proc., Hawaiian Ent. Soc. 41—Bulletin, Societe Ent. Suisse. 42Fnt. Meddelelser, Ent. Forening, Kjobenhavn. 49— Ent. Mitteilungen, Berlin. 50-——Proc. U. S. National Mus. 55—The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 60—Stettiner Ent. Zeit. 61—Proc., California Acad. of Sciences. 63— 278 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 725 Deutsche Ent. Zeit., “Iris”. 75—Annals and Mag. of Nat. History, London. 89—Zool. Jahrbucher, Jena. 100—Proc., Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia. 101—Biolog. Bull., Woods Hole, Mass. 107—Biologisches Zentralblatt. » 111—Archiv f. Naturg., Berlin. 113—Jour. Agric. Research, Wash- ington. 116—Ann. of Applied Biology. 118—Die Natur- wissenschaften, Berlin. 151—Oc. Pap., Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 154—Zoolog. Anzeiger. GENERAL.—Adkin, R.—Dispersal of butterflies and other insects—Nature, cxvi, 467. Aue, A. U. E.—Ento- mologisches allerlei—14, xxxix, 89-90. Bequaert, J.— Arthropod enemies of mollusks, with descr. of a new dipterous parasite from Brazil—Jour. Parasitol., xi, 201-12. Fernald, H. T.—Rapidity of flight of a dragonfly. Flights of onion thrips.—12, xviii, 638. Horn, W.—Et meminisse et vaticinari liceat: Ueber ein echo—49, xiv, 201-2. Lind- holm, W. A.—Vorschlage zur genaueren bezeichnung der genotypen.—154, Ixiii, 161-5. Maheux, G.—Entomology in the rural schools in the province of Quebec.—29, lv. 73-5. Meissner, O.—Einige entomologisch-etymologische bemer- kungen.—18, xix, 163-4. Meyer, R—Fundortetiketten—ein notschrei.—18, xix, 144. Ochmann, O.—Einrichtung eines brauchbaren u. billigen thermostaten fur warme- und hitze- experimente.—18, xix, 130-31. Schroder, C.—Handbuch der entomologie. Lief. 17-18. Sherborn, C. D.—Index animalium. VI, Index, Ceyl.-Concolor. pp. 1197-1452.— London, Br. Mus. Third international congress of ento- mology.—9, 1925, 220-4. Weiss, H. B.—Entomology in the fables of John Gay.—4, lvu, 183-5. Wucherpfennig, F.— Ernst Garbe, Sao Paulo, Obituary.—14, xxxix, 69-70. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL, ETC.— Alverdes, F.— Korperstellung und lokomotion bei insekten nach eingriffen am gehirn.—107, xlvi, 353-64. Breiten- becher, J. K.—Inheritance of sex-limited bilateral asym- metry in Bruchus.—Genetics, x, 261-77. Breitenbecher, J. K—Inheritance of a macula mutation concerned with elytral spotting and latent traits in the male of Bruchus.— 101, xlix, 265-74. Feuerborn, H. J—Thorax der aptery- goten u. myriapoden. Zugleich ein ausblick zu den arachno- ideen.— 154, Ixiv, 29-50. Feuerborn, H. J.—Problem der segmentalen gliederung des insektenthorax.—154, lxiii, 169-82, 273-92. Frisch, K. v.—Sinnesphysiologie und “sprache” der bienen.—Verh. Ges. Deut. Naturf. u. Arzte, rev 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 279 Berlin, 1924. Guthrie, J. D—New leg mutant in Droso- phila melanogaster.—Am.-Nat., lix, 479-80. Hilton, W. A.— Nerve endings in insects——Trans. Am. Micro. Soc., xliv, 132-7. Knoll, F.—Blutenokologie und sinnesphysiologie der insekten.—118, 1924, 988-93. Mavor, J. M.—Attack on the gene.—Sci. Month., xxi, 355-63. Warren, E.—Sperma- togenesis of spiders and the chromosome hypothesis of heredity.—Nature, cxvi, 395-6. Wheeler, W. M.—Evolution des insectes sociaux.—Rev. Sci. Ill., 1925, 548-57. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA. (N) *Chamberlin, R. V.—New N. American spiders. Expedition of the Cal. Ad. Sci. to the Gulf of California in 1921. Phalangida.—61, xiv, 105-42; 171-73. (S) *Vitzthum, H.—Acarologische beobachtungen. 8.— PUT 924 SAY 10; ASS. THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTA.—Crawford, D. L.—Notes on California Psyllidae.—37, vi, 30-1. Storch, O.—Libellenstudien. Die eiablage von Somatochlora metallica—Akad. Wiss. Wien, Abt. I, cxxxiii, 57-85. (N) *Cockerell, T. D. A.—New fossil dragonfly from Florissant.—9, 1925, 205-6. *Hood, J. D.—Notes on New York Thysanoptera, with descr. of new genera and sps.— 19, xx, 124-30. (S) *Emerson, A: E.—Termites of Kartabo Bartica District, Br. Guiana.—Zoologica, vi, 291-459. Navas, A. F. L.—Neuropteren, megalopteren, plecopteren u. trichopteren aus Deutschen Ent. Inst.—49, xiv, 205-12 {Cont.). *Navas, R. P. L.—Insectos exoticos nuevos. 0 poco conocidos.—Mem. R. Acad. Cien. y. Artes, Barcelona, xix, 181-200. *Priesner, H.—Thysanopterologica—89, Syst., 1, 305-19. ORTHOPTERA.—Carpentier, F.—Sur le double stig- mate de quelques orthopteres.—33, Ixv, 205-8. Heymons, R.—Orthopterologische ‘bemerkungen.—11, 1925, 163-66. Rockwood, L. P.—On night flying and attraction to light in Acridiidae and the relation of meteorological conditions thereto.—55, ii, 36-8. (N) *Hebard, M.—Orthoptera of South Dakota—100, Ixxvii, 33-155. *Hubbell, T. H.—New sp. of Pristoceu- thophilus from the Olympic mountains, “Wash.—S5, ii, 39-42. 280 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Niow7.,( 225 (S) Campos, F.—Estudios sobre la fauna entomologica del Ecuador. Orthopteros——Rey. Col. Nac. V. Rocafuerte, v, No. 11, 3-43. HEMIPTERA.—Chittenden, F. H.—Note on Lixus fimbriolatus. Note on the behavior of Leptoglossus oppo- situs.—19, xx, 123; 148-9. Davis, W. T—Note on Podops cinctipes and Solubea pugnax.—19, xx, 147. Jensen- Haarup, A. C.—Hemipterological notes and descriptions. [Descr. new Argentine sps.]—42, xiv, 323-38. Muir, F.— On the status of the anterior processes of the male genitalia in Homoptera —37, vi, 41-5. Singh-Pruthi, H.— Morphology of the male genitalia in Rhynchota.—36, 1925, 127-268. Valssiere, P—Note preliminaire sur les Mono- phlibinae (Coccides)—An. Epiphyties, ix, 419-29. Van Duzee, E. P.—The Van Duzee collection of Hemiptera. Two Arizona Hemiptera.—S5, ii, 15; 22. (N) *Hungerford, H. B.—Study of the interrupta- harrisii group of the gen. Arctocorixa with descr. of n. sps. (Corixidae).—19, xx, 141-5. *Mason, P. W.—Revision of the insects of the aphid genus Amphorophora.—S0, 1xvii, Art. 20. *Osborn, H.—New Acinopterus from southern Cali- fornia.—55, 11, 22. *Van Duzee, E. P.—New mirid from Arizona.—S55, ii, 35.. *Van Duzee, E. P—New hemiptera from western North America.—6l, xiv, 391-425. (S) Campos, F.—Notas biologicas sobre el Triatoma dimidiata—Rev. Col. V. Rocafuerte, v. No. 13, 1-Z. Goding, F. W.—Sinopsis de los Cercopidae del Ecuador. —Rev. Col. Nac. V. Rocafuerte, v. No. 11, 45-52. *Hussey, R. F.—New hydrometrid genus from Honduras.—19, xx, 115-19. LEPIDOPTERA —Bethune-Baker, G. T.—On the scent-sacks in the genus Rhodogastria.—36, 1925, 321-29. Chopra, R. L.—On the structure, life-history, economic importance and distribution of the cocks-foot moth, Gly- phipteryx fischeriella—116, xii, 359-97. Coolidge, K. R— California butterfly notes——19, xx, 146-7. Ellis, W. O.— Some lepidopterous larvae resembling the European corn borer.—113, xxx, 777-92. Eltringham, H.—On the ab- dominal brushes in certain male noctuid moths. On a new organ in certain Lepidoptera. On the source of the sphragidal fluid in Parnassius apollo. On the abdominal glands in Heliconius. On the structure of the ocelli in Plusia gamma.—-36, 1925, 1-6; 7-10; 11-16; 269-76; 277-81. xxxvi, 725] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 281 Farmiloe, C.—Ailanthus silkworm.—19, xx, 120-3. Guth, F.—Parthenopolis.—18, xix, 132. Hamlin, J. C.—Impor- tant Opuntia insects of the U. S.: Biological notes on the moth-borers (Pyralidae).—55, ii, 1-11. Muller-Rutz, J.— Ueber genitaluntersuchungen bei schmetterlingen.—41, xili, 429-34. Philpott, A—On the wing-coupling apparatus of the Hepialidae.—36, 1925, 331-40. Schuster von Forstner, W.-—Schlangenaugen der schwarmerraupen.— 18, xix, 157-8. Twinn, C. R.—Observations on the host- selection habits of Pieris rapae.—29, lv, 75-80. (N) *Barnes & Benjamin.—New and rare L. from the southwest. Notes on Arizona Phalaenidae.—55, ii, 12-15; 16-21. *Blackmore, E. H.—New noctuid from Br. Colum- bia.—4, lvii, 205. *Comstock, J. A.—Studies in Pacific coast L.—Bul. So. Cal. Ac. Sci., xxiv, 37-8. (S) *Hering, M.— Synopsis der amerikanischen Zygaeniden mit beschr. neuer arten.—63, xxxix, 152-68. Hoffmann, F.—Ueber die lepidopterenfauna von Sud- brasilien.—14. xxxix, 83. *Kruger, E.—Einige neue falter- formen aus Kolumbien und Surinam.—63, xxxix, 146-51. *Lathy, P. I—Castniidae of Trinidad and Tobago.—75, xvi, 242-3. *Lindsey, A. W.—Cornell Univ. entomological expedition to So. America of 1919-20.—Denison Univ. Bull., xxi, 71-114. Riley & Gabriel— Catalog of the type specimens of L. Rhopalocera in the Br. Mus. II, Danaidae. —British Mus. Pub., Catalogues. *Roeber J.—Neue falter. —60, Ixxxv, 184-90. DIPTERA.—Isaac, P. V.—Head and mouth-parts of the larva of Tabanus rubidus. Mechanism of suction in the larva of T. tenens. Male and female genitalia of T. tenens.—Mem. Dep. Agr., India, Ent. Ser., viti, 93-108. Puri, J. M.—On the life history and structure of the early stages of Simuliidae.—Parasitology, xvii, 295-334 (Cont.) Steenberg, C. M.—Etude sur deux especes de Phronia dont les larves se forment de leurs excrements une couche pro- tectrice—Vid. Med. Dansk Nat. Foren., Ixxviii, 1-68. Thompson, W. R.—Larves primaires des Tachinidae du groupe des Echinomyiinae——An. Epiphyties, ix, 137-201. (N) *Alexander, C. P.—Crane-flies of New England: First supplementary list.—151, v, 169-74. *Shannon, R. C. —No. American Sphecomyia (Syrphidae).—55, ji, 43-4. *Van Duzee, M. C.—Scellus virago and two forms closely related to it.—61, xiv, 175-83. 282 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 725 (S) *Bequaert, J—(See under General.) *Borgmeier, ‘T.—Neue myrmecophile phoridengatting aus Brasilien.— 49, xiv, 237-9. *Curran, C. HNew American Diptera.— 75, xvi, 243-53, 338-54. *Saunders, L. G.—On the life historv, morphology and systematic position of Apelma and Thyridomyia (Ceratopogoninae)—Parasitology, xvii, 252-77. COLEOPTERA.—Chamberlin, W. J.—Coniferous trees of the U. S. with the scolytid beetles said to attack them.— 55, ii, 23-35. Chittenden, F. H.—Occurrence of Meligethes aeneus, in the U. S.—19 xx, 149. Fall, H. C.—Aptero- mechus microstictus.—19, xx, 123. Hatch, M. H.—An out- line of the ecology of Gyrinidae—19, xx, 101-14. Lenger- ken, H. v.—Vorstulpbare stinkapparate der imago von Tenebrio molitor—107, xlvi, 365-9. Rosenberg, E. C.— Contributions to the knowledge of the life-habits, develop- ment and systematics of the C.—42, xiv, 375-88. Schilder, F. A.—Rhipiphoriden-studien: Monographie des; genus Ptilophorus—11, 1925, 129-46. Voss, -E.—Unterfamilien Attelabinae und Apoderinae.—-60, Ixxxv, 191-304. [n. sps. described from other faunae]. Walker, J. J—Longevity in a buprestid beetle —8, lxi, 183. Williams, F. X.—A pro- thetelous larva of Monocrepidius exsul (Elateridae).—37, Vi, 21 tet2: (N) *Blaisdell, F. E.—Studies in the Tenebrionidae. No. 2,—61, xiv, 369-90. *Hopping, R.—New C. from western Canada.—4, lvii, 206-8. *Swaine, J. M.—New species of Ipidae.—4, lvii, 192-7. (S) *Blaisdell, F. E—Expedition to Guadalupe island, Mex. in 1922. Coleoptera.—61, xiv, 321-43. Campos, F.— La especie buscada.—Rev. Col. Nac. V. Rocafuerte, iv, No. 10, 3-7. Campos, F.—Catalogo sistematico y sinonimico de los Cicindelidos del Ecuador concidos hasta el dia— Rev. Col. Nac. V. Rocafwerte, vi, No! 15!-3-23) (*Zimmer- mann, A.—Drei neue dytisciden aus Sao Paulo, Brasil.— 49, xiv, 254-6. HYMENOPTERA.—Andrews, E. A.—Ants and the community idea—Nature Mag., Oct. 1925, p. 217-20. Bequaert, J.—Eumenes dyscherus, a neotropical, not an African wasp, and other notes on synonymy.—19, xx, 134- 40. Bristowe, W. S.—Solitary wasps and their prey, with xxxvy 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 283 special reference to the mantid-hunters.—75, xvi, 278-85. ’ Burkill, H. J.—Experimental work on oak-galls of the Cynipidae.—9, 1925, 219-20. Frisch, K. v.—Sinnesphysio- logie und “sprach” der bienen.—118, 1924, 981-7. Parker, R. L.—Marking honeybees for behavior studies. 12, xviii, 587-90. Phillips, E. F.—Review: Anatomy and physiology of the honeybee. By R. E. Snodgrass.—Science, |xii, 309- 10. Plath, O. E.—Role of bumblebees in the pollination of certain cultivated plants—Am. Nat., lix, 441-51. Robert- son, C.—Honey bees and perforated flowers.—Science, Ixii, 287-8. Verlaine, L.—Instinct et intelligence chez les Hymenopteres.—33, Ixv, 251-60. Wheeler, W. M.—Find- ing of the queen of the army ant, Eciton hamatum.—101, Ixix, 139-49. (N) *Bequaert & Plath.—Description of a new Psith- yrus, with an account of P. laboriosus, and notes on bum- blebees.—Bul. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixvii, 265-88. *Cockerell T. D. A.—Bees in the Coll. Cal Ac. Sci. Anthidiine bees in the Coll. Cal. Ac. Sci—61, xiv, 185-215; 345-67. *Cocke- rell, T. D. A——Descriptions and records of bees.—75, xvi, 228-33. (S) *Santschi, F—Nouveaux Formicides Bresiliens et autres.—33, Ixv, 221-47. *Timberlake, P. H.—Description of new chalcid-flies from Panama and Hawaii.—37, vi, 173- 94. *Wheeler, W. M.—New guest-ant and other new Formicidae from Barro Colorado island, Panama.—101, ixix, 150-81. A GENERAL TEXTBOOK OF ENTOMOLOGY, Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Development and Classification of Insects, by A. D. Imms, D. Sc., Chief Entomologist, Rothamsted Experiment Station, Harpenden, England. Published by Methuen & Co., 36 Essex St., London,England. Pages x4 698. Illustrations, 604. Price, 36 shillings. The subject matter is apportioned as follows: to “Anatomy and Physiology,” pages 1-156; to “Development and Metamor- phosis,” pages 157-198; to “Classification,” pages 199-667. An index of authors is given on pages 669-675, and a general index on pages 676-698. This book ranks with Comstock’s revised “Introduction to Entomology” as the best of the recent books dealing with Entomology in general; and while Comstock’s “Introduction” will doubtless be more widely used by American students, 284 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 725 Imms’ “Textbook” will probably be more widely used in England and the Colonies, since its scope, material and method of treatment make it betier adapted for the latter purpose. In America, the tendency is to emphasize the study of external morphology, since this phase of the subject is of more value in classification. European entomologists, on the other hand, are inclined to lay greater stress upon the study of internal anatomy, histology, etc., since these are of more value in the study of physiology, behaviour, bionomics, and similar phases of Ento- mology. Imms’ book shows the European influence in that two- thirds of the figures in the part dealing with ‘““Anatomy and Physiology” are of internal features, and even in the figures dealing with the venation of the Diptera, for example, there is a tendency to neglect the labelling of the veins, thereby making it somewhat more difficult for students to use the keys—a matter to which an American author, such as Comstock, would give more attention, due to his greater concern over the taxonomic phase of the subject. The standard of scholarship maintained in Dr. Imms’ book is extremely high, and one marvels that in addition to his research and administrative duties, he could have found the time to read through and digest the immense amount of literature evidently thoroughly studied in the preparation of this work. The insular viewpoint is commendably absent from Dr. Imms’ book, and it is gratifying to note that in it many of the old familiar misconceptions have been wisely discarded, due to the fact that its author has kept abreast of the times; and it is hard to sympathize with the attitude of another reviewer who deplores the fact that in Dr, Imms’ lists of references ‘‘We miss the names of many of the older writers, and find instead a vast number of people quoted of whose existence we were unaware.” (See the “Ientomologists’ Monthly Magazine,” page 117 gf the May, 1925, issue. ) There is but little in Dr. Imms’ book that merits adverse criticism, and the only serious fault in it should be laid at the door of the publishers, not the author—namely the fault of making the binding so weak that it will not readily withstand the assaults of careless students! The price is quite high, and it is doubtful that every student can afford to purchase his own copy, so that many of those who use the book as a work of reference, will have to borrow a copy from the library, or from one of their more fortunate fellows, and it is to be feared that the book will not be returned in very good seexviy! ZO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 285 condition if the reviewer’s copy is typical of the binding of the entire edition! In other matters, however, the book is very satisfactory. The printing is good, and the illustrations are asa rule excellent and are well chosen. There are a few typo- graphical errors and mistakes which can readily be remedied in the next edition— namely, the transposing of the words mesothorax and metathorax in the description of the Dipteran thorax on page 592, the incorrect spelling “Anopleura’” (for Anoplura), etc. It is inevitable that a book covering so wide a field will con- tain statements to which some specialists might take exception ; and as a morphologist, the reviewer would disagree with a few of the interpretations of the parts given in certain of Dr. Imms’ anatomical figures. Thus, in Textfigure 8, the structure inter- preted as the “prostheca’” of Slatta, is assuredly not the homologue of the structure called prostheca in beetles, nor is the sclerite interpreted as the “‘subgalea” in the same figure of Blatta the homologue of the sclerite interpreted as the “subgalea” in beetles (e. g., Textfigure 10). It is also unfortunate that Dr. Imms did not know of the fine monograph of the thoracic sclerites of the Diptera by Dr. Young (to whom no reference is made in the “Literature on Diptera’) for Dr. Young’s investigations have cleared up the uncertainties concerning the interpretation of the thoracic sclerites of the Diptera. of which Dr. Imms complains. It is to be hoped that such poorly constructed ordinal terms as ‘““Ephemeroptera,” ‘“Psocoptera,” etc., will not be perpetuated in subsequent editions, and it is also to be hoped that in the preparation of the next edition of the book, Dr, Imms can find the time to investigate the matter of the relationships of the various orders of insects a little more throughly. Thus, for example, the Isoptera are much mote closely related to the Blattids and Mantids than Dr. Imms has indicated, and it is more than doubtful that the Grylloblattids should be grouped with the Cursoria rather than with the Saltatoria, their next of kin. Furthermore, the Mallophaga are extremely closely related to the Psocids (in fact Kellogg regards them as de- generate Psocids) and this relationship should be indicated, rather than to group the Mallophaga with the biting lice as members of the order Anoplura. In the section dealing with the classification of insects there are likewise some improvements to be made in a subsequent edition. Thus the key to the major groups of the Lepidoptera, 286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., ’25 for example, is not very reliable for the American forms, and it would have been well to give a figure of the much-used setal maps which are invaluable in the classification of Lepidopterous larvae, etc. These matters, however, are of minor importance, and do not constitute any serious objections to a book of which its author may justly feel proud, and one which will remain a standard work of reference for many years to come. The reviewer would unhesitatingly recommend Dr. Imms’ book as one of the best texts dealing with Entomology in general, and no student who intends to make Entomology his life work, can afford to be without 1t—G. C. CRAMPTON. Doings of Societies. The International Entomological Congress at Zurich. The Third Internaticnal Entomological Congress was held at Ziirich, Switzerland, last summer from July 19th to July 25th The congress was largely attended. About two hundred men and about fifty women took part in its various functions. The majority of the delegates were from England and her depend- encies, from Germany, and, naturally, from Switzerland, al- though Denmark, Holland, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Estland, Finland and Czechoslovakia were represented. From the United States there were present, in addition to the writer, Prof. O. E. Johannsen, Dr. W. R. Thompson, Mr. S. M. Dohanian, and Dr. E. Graenicher. By the way, this representation of the United States is of interest as indicating the cosmopolitan character cf our country, from the fact that Professor Jo- hannsen is of Scandinayian descent, Doctor Thompson was born in Canada, Mr. Dohanian is of Armenian descent, and Doctor Graenicher was born in Switzerland. The absence of delegates from Italy, France and Belgium, all nearby countries, is explained almost solely by the un- fortunate condition of the monetary exchange as affecting those countries, and not on account of hostility to the German language which prevailed at the congress. The present par condition of the Swiss franc made it so extremely expensive for people of these nations that they were obliged to stay at home. xmav, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 287 In spite of this fact, the congress was a great success. More nations were represented than at the previous meetings at Brussels and Oxford. Dr. A. von Schulthess, of Zurich, presided. He has an im- pressive personality, and carried on the sessions of the congress with much dignity, tact and courtesy. The local committee had made excellent arrangements, and the different meetings went on without the slightest friction. It was a great pleasure to meet many distinguished men, all old pre-bellum friends, for the first time since the peaceful years antedating 1914. Anton Handlirsch, of Vienna, for example, who was to have been the president of the congress which was to have been held in 1915 in Vienna, Horvath and Jablonowski of Budapest, Walther Horn and C. Boerner of Berlin, Reh of Hamburg, Eckstein of Eberswalde, Escherich of Munich, Prell of Tharandt, Spaeth of Vienna, and others. There was a very large delegation from England and the English dominions and colonies. Dr. Karl Jordan was there of course, Lord Rothschild, Prof. Poulton, Rev. F. D. Morice, Gao Fee Nuttall.Ge A. K Marshall; S.A. Neave; Balfour= Brown, James Davidson, Hugh Scott, Waterston, Edwards, Laing, Munro, MacDougall—all men whom the writer was especially glad to see—and then Williams from Cairo, Urich from Trinidad, Fletcher from India, and many others, the British delegation numbering more than fifty. The writer was especially glad to see his old friend, Dr. Y. Sjostedt of Sweden, and his more recent friends, Ivar Trag- ardh and his charming wife, of the same country. From Holland came Father Wasmann, who read several papers and took part in a number of discussions, Professor van Bemmelin of Groningen who charmingly and vigorously discussed certain mimicry questions with Dr, Poulton and Prof. T. Schoevers, the secretary of the International Conference of Economic Entomologists and Phytopathologists at Wageningen in 1923; and Ed. Everts, now of Caen, France, was also there to greet his old friends. J. P. Kryger of Denmark was also present: but the writer 288 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., ’25 missed his old friend S. Mokrzecki of Warsaw (formerly of Simferopol) who was taken ill just before starting. He sent his greetings however by Dr. R. Bledowski. Spain was represented by the veteran Father Longinos Navas, Candido Bolivar and his delightful wife and sister, and by two younger men, M. M. de la Escalera and J. da Silva Tavares. As at the Oxford Congress, general sessions were held in the mornings and sectional sessions in the afternoons. An excellent account of the meeting by R. Stewart MacDougall was published in Nature for August 15th, and the readers of the NEws are referred to this article for some account of certain of the principal papers read. Doctor MacDougall, however, in his account, modestly refrains from mentioning his own prominent part in the congress. He presided at one of the meetings of the section on economic entomology and gave a very important address. He took part in the general discussions at the general sessions on several occasions, and made a capital speech at the final banquet. He is a man of force, is a charming speaker and a most lovable character, The social functions of the congress were delightful. Those which the writer was able to attend, namely the opening gather- ing on Sunday night, the 19th, the boat ride on the lake, and the final dinner, were joyous affairs. The writer was obliged to leave’ Ztirich on the morning of the final day and so is not informed authoritatively as to the resolu- tions adopted at the closing session. He was told the previous day by members of the Executive Committee that the Congress will be glad to meet in the United States in 1928, provided that the entomologists of this country are able greatly to lessen the expense of the journey to the Europeans. He was also told that the officers for the next Congress will not be chosen until the meeting place is selected. As to the results of the committee work, we must wait for the official announcements which will probably be published in some of the European journals before the probably delayed publication of the volume of proceedings. L. O. Howarp. ROPICAL LEPIDOPTERA COLEOPTERA, ETC : From South America and Various Countries Some of the rarest and most beautiful species known for scientific purposes. indly let me know your wants and they will be filled, if it is possible. orpho, Prepona, Heliconia, Catagramma, Papilio, Caligo Batesia, rippe, Peroamia, Urania, etc. andetc. Have 1000 of Divita bifasciata, e most beautiful little moth @ 3% cents each. Among the beetles are Macrodonta dejeani. Apply to _ HERBERT S. PARISH, 81 Robert Street, Toronto, Canada A-aeD . ABERR ATIONS iris aovantaccous To vispose OF THese : ODDITIES SEPARATELY. THEY BRING GOOD OF BUTT MONEY. SEND MEA DESCRIPTION OR BETTER OF BUTTERFLIES STILL, A SIMPLE PENCIL SKETCH OF YOUR fap ee SPECIMENS. a WANTED JEANE D. 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DECEMBER, 1925 No. 10 CONTENTS Bequaert—Neotermes Injurious to Living Guava Tree with Notes on | Editorial—Coleman T. Robinson...... : : 309 Beamer—The Overwintering of Ves- other Amazonian Termites........ 289 pula communis var. flavida Sladen Hungerford and Beamer—Report of (Hym:© Vespidae) ico csmecnesienesas 309 Collections of Aquatic Hemiptera | Weiss—Coleoptera New to New Jersey 310 taken in Cherokee Co., Kan., and | Entomological Literature.............. 10 other New Records from the State, 295 | Review, A Monograph of the -Plecop- Frost—Convergent Development in tera of America North of Mexico.. 314 Leaf-Mining Insects......:.....-.. 299 Review—A Bibliography of the North Knight— Description of a New Species American Hemiptera-Heteroptera. 315 of Plagiognathus from the Eastern Doings of Societies—The American En- United States (Hem., Miridae)..... 305 tomological Society: Diptera, Cole- Hasey—A New Species of Trogus optera, Economic, Orthoptera..... 316 (Hym.: Ichneumonoidea)...-....- 306 | Obituary—Carlo Emfery...............- 318 Viereck—Recent Impressions of the | Obituary—Henry W. Wenzel.......... 320 British VOUSEMIN: scl ceeceltensess ess 308 Neotermes Injurious to Living Guava Tree, with Notes on other Amazonian Termites. By J. BEQUAERT, Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard University Medical School. (Plate VIII.) During the Third Hamilton Rice Expedition to South America, in conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard Medical School, I had occasion to make a few observations on termites which may be of interest to others. The species were identified by Mr. T. E. Snyder, of the United States Bureau of Entomology. I gratefully acknowledge his help and also wish to thank him for valuable information re- garding some of the habits recorded. The trip, made from July to September, 1924, was confined to the immediate banks of the Amazon and its affluents, the Rio Negro and Rio Branco. The alluvial, central portion of the Amazon Basin, although densely wooded, is so low that much of it is covered by the flood for several weeks in succession. The highest level is said to be reached in May or June, when 20 to 50 feet of water. The some 20 to the forested banks are beneath alluvial valley then forms a major bed to the river, 289 290 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec.i225 40 miles wide, where the water flows swiftly between the trees. Of course, these peculiar conditions have been frequently described and they are merely noted here because they, explain the scarcity of termites in the part of the country which I have visited, as contrasted with their abundance in the higher-lying forest of Guiana or the grass-lands and dry woods of southern Brazil. Periodically inundated land, much; of which remains swampy throughout the year, is highly unsuitable for terrestrial termites, and I have found that even arboreal species are scarce in such areas. In places that are permanently above water—on so-called “terra firma”—termites did not impress me as particularly abundant either. Although the small number of species ob- tained may be largely due to lack of diligent collecting, I was struck with the absence of hilly clay-nests and arboreal termi- taria of carton, which are so conspicuous a feature of the Congo forest, for example. Furthermore, in the houses, even of the smaller towns, the depredations of the termites were not by any means as spectacular as in tropical Africa and I did not notice that the inhabitants worried a great deal about them. In Manadés particularly these insects appeared to do but little damage. I am inclined to believe that in the Amazon valley, terrestrial and arboreal termites are to a considerable extent kept in check by the formidable array of true ants (Formicidae). That keen observer of Amazonian life, Richard] Spruce, noted that ants “deserve to be considered the actual owners of the Amazon valley, far more than either the red or the white man.” (Notes of a Botanist on the Amazons and Andes, IT, 1908, p. 366). The leaf-cutting and! fungus-growing attine ants seem to be everywhere, and termites with a similar diet could hardly hope to compete with them. It is not surprising, therefore, that fungus-growing termites, which are extremely abundant in the Old World tropics, are not known with certainty from America. In addition, South America possesses very many species of large and aggressive ecitonine and ponerine ants, almost wholly restricted to carnivorous food and for which termites are a particularly welcome and defenceless prey. An excellent ac- xxv, 725] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 291 count of ants as enemies of termites has been given by E. Hegh (Les Termites, 1922, pp. 573-586). K ALOTERMITIDAE. Neotermes castaneus (Burmeister). On August 7th, I noticed in the garden of Dr. H. W. Thomas’ laboratory, at Manads, a guava tree (Psidium guayava Raddi; “goiabeira” of the Brazilians), which on one side of the main trunk, sorne four to six feet above the ground, presented many irregular holes. Although plugged up with dark grayish dirt, these holes seemed to exude sap. When opened they led through the healthy bark and cambium into narrow galleries gnawed in the live wood. Tt was at first thought that the tree was attacked by wood-boring beetle larvae, until at one of the holes appeared the head of a termite, which, when I attempted to capture it with a forceps, retreated at once in the trunk of the tree. When a hole was opened, atermite would soon appear, back up to the entrance, and void from the tip of the abdomen excremential matter which rapidly hardened into a gray, earthen-like substance. By sawing off one of the limbs of the tree, many larvae, nymphs and winged adults of Neotermes castaneus were obtained ; but soldiers were much less numerous.! The central portion or heart-wood of the limb was honeycombed with wide galleries, burrowed in the hard and apparently sound wood (Fig. 1). The galleries extended far up the tree, into branches which were but 2 inches thick. The largest of the cavities were partly filled with moist, decaving. dark brown wood-pulp. The internal labyrinth connected with the openings in the bark by means of horizontal and fairly straight channels. These entrances help in the ventilation of the nest and serve to evacuate some of the material removed by the gnawing of the galleries, the wood first passing through the digestive tract of the workers. They are found on the main trunk and larger limbs only and all crowded together on one side, facing the northeast on the main trunk and placed on the under side of the limbs. All the activities of the termites are carried on inside the trees and the ee The Kalotermitidae differ from the other termites in having no worker caste differentiated as such. The larvae function as workers, but eventually develop into nymphs, which give males and females. 292 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS fDec:, 25 insects do not build covered passageways on the outside of the trunk. The guava tree appeared to be in a sickly condition, though still well alive. Even on some of the limbs that were completely honeycombed in the center, the smaller branches were still (it yt | + Fig. 1. ‘Three cross-sections and a longitudinal section of living guava limbs, honeycombed by Neotermes castaneus (Burmeister ). The longitudinal section illustrates the progress of the galleries in the sound wood. One-half of natural size. covered with leaves, as shown in one of the photographs (Plate VIII). I am inclined to believe that the labyrinth of internal galleries forming the nest of the termites was but little in- jurious to the plant, since it nowhere approached the sap- wood, cambium and bark. The damage was probably chiefly due to the many holes drilled through the outer layers of the stem. So far as known the diet of termites is exclusively vegetarian. Yet they but seldom attack living tissues of plants and the few recorded cases all refer to Kalotermitidae. The majority of the SoKeevi,.\°25)] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 293 members of that family, however, still prefer dead, dry, or decaying wood. Kalotermes militaris Desneux attacks the tea- trees in Ceylon in exactly the same fashion as Neotermes castaneus does with the guava tree (see E. Hegh, Les Termites, 1922, p. 46, footnote) and several other species of that genus are known to gnaw galleries in living wood (E. Hegh, op. cit., pp. 339-344). No such observations have as yet been published on Neotermes castaneus, but Mr. Snyder informs me that he found it “infesting hving red mangrove treed in a swamp at Miami Beach, Florida, in 1916, 1917, and 1918. Both roots (above ground) and trunk were attacked and the termites burrowed through living cambium.” The intestinal tract of the larvae of Neotermes castaneus, examined by Dr. R. P. Strong, Mr. Ralph Wheeler, and myself at Manaos, revealed several species of Protozoa in great abundance. Spirochaetes were represented by at least two types’ (see R. P. Strong, Science, LXI, 1925, p. 103). Of flagellates there were large trichonymphids, most easily observed in the drops of fecal matter, which the workers void when even slightly disturbed ; also a much smaller, bi-flagellate form. The wall of the intestine was lined with a gregarinid, apparently of the genus Stylocephalus (Stylorhynchus), pro- vided with a long, snout-like appendage or epimerite, fixed in the epithelium. This parasite is perhaps as yet undescribed. The only gregarinid reported from termites is “Gregarina” ternutis Leidy, which is very superficially known (see Minnie Watson Kamm, I]linois Biolog. Monogr., VIT, 1, 1922 p. 56), and may have been based upon sporonts of a Stylocephalus. RiINOTERMITIDAE, Leucotermes tenuis (Hagen). A few workers and soldiers of this small species were found among decaying grass under stones, in a waste place at Manaos. ‘They are probably the termites which in the Amazon valley most commonly do damage in human habitations. Rhinotermes nasutus (Perty). A small colony, with workers and soldiers, was observed in a decaying tree stump, 294 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dees 725 near the edge of a forest clearing at San Alberto, at the mouth of the Rio Branco. TERMITIDAE. Syntermes grandis (Rambur) and Syntermes brasiliensis Holmgren. Both these large species of termites were observed ° at Vista Alegre, on the Rio Branco, September 6th. They were foraging in broad daylight and sunny weather, between 9 and 10 A. M. The, soldiers and workers had spread over the soil, but not in very large numbers, and were busily engaged in collecting stalks; and leaves of grasses and other low plants. The two species, of which S. grandis is much larger, were work- ing but a short distance apart, although on quite distinct areas. In each case the termites carried their burdens into a number of large openings leading into deep vertical channels in the sandy soil. The nest itself could not be reached. I also observed a column of the large ponerine ant, Neoponera commutata (Roger) (identified by Prof. W. M. Wheeler), preying upon these termites, apparently attacking the workers only, of which they carried off many individuals. Soon after the ants appeared on the scene, the termites withdrew completely under the ground. . The Syntermes were only found in the savanna country— so called campos—which cover much of the Upper Rio Branco basin, as far south as Vista Alegre. The foraging habits of certain Old World termites have been described by several observers, beginning with Koenig, in 1779, and Smeathman, in 1781. Some of these species are known to work in broad daylight (see E. Hegh, Les Termites, 1922, pp. 225-261). But little seems to have been published concerning similar habits in South American termites. Mr. T. E. Snyder informs me that Dr. W. M. Mann collected two species of Syntermes on the Mulford Expedition to Brazil and Bolivia, with some date, on foraging. EXPLANATION OF PLate VIII. Injury to living guava tree by Neotermes castaneus (Bur- meister). Cross-section of a limb (right) and surface of the bark, showing the holes leading into the galleries (left). Si tale tal = ? Rava, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 295 Report of Collections of Aquatic Hemiptera taken in Cherokee County, Kansas, and other New Rew Records from the State. >y H. B. HuNGeErRForp and R. H. BEAMER, University of Kkansas, Lawrence, Kansas. (Continued from page 266.) HypDROMETRIDAE, Hydrometra martini Kirk. This species was reported for Kansas several years ago by the senior author. We took sev- eral specimens at Topeka, Kansas, May 26th, 1923, and on October 8th at Rock Pool, east of Lawrence, Kansas, we found the species very abundant. We brought in 135 specimens, but left most of them at the pool. Fully winged forms are quite common in this lot. The senior author has taken great num- bers of this species about Douglas Lake, Michigan, and at various places in Minnesota. Neither of these places are mentioned in Van Duzee’s Catalogue. Dr. R. F. Hussey re- ported the species from Michigan. This species was taken in Morton County, Kansas, by Mr. Clarence O. Bare and by Mrs. Grace Wiley in Colorado County, Texas. Hydrometra australis Say, This species is not as common nor as wide spread as the preceding. From Cherokee County we got 18 males and 7 females on August 15 and 16, 1920. Mr. Beamer got one female from the same locality in Decem- ber, 1920. Other Kansas records are: R. H. Beamer, Chautauqua County, 1916, Leavenworth County, July 1, 1924, and Atchison County, July 11, 1924; J. B. Norton, Riley County, August and September; H. B. Hungerford, Douglas County, at Rock Creek, July, 1922; and E, P. Breakey, Leavenworth County, July 1, 1924. These two species are about the same size and gencral ap- pearance, but the following table to the North American spe- cies taken from the Canadian Entomclogist for March, 1923, will enable the collector to identify his catch. A. Pits on side above middle coxa numerous and irregu- larly placed; length more than 13 mm. (13% to 15% HEBORE, ) pees. cis, ral done, suas sniteaeeetc anes H, wileyt Hungerford. 296 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Decs<"25 AA. Pits on side above middle coxa seldom more than four; length less tran 12 mm. (8 to 11 mm.) B. Pits on side above middle coxa normally two. Two thin plate-like elevations on under side of sixth seg- inent ta Male AA Ase ee ee Oe H. martin Wark. BB. Pits on side above the middle coxa normally four ; Two conical elevations on underside of sixth segment Ith GMa WO aves Dhak eine bei he ce ae Hi. australis Say. MESOVELIIDAE. Mesovelia bisignata Uhler (= M. mulsanti White?) is com- mon in Kansas and is wide-spread over the United States. It is in our collections from Texas, Michigan, Minnesota and New York, For a long time this has been the only representative of the family known in the United States, but recently the senior writer has described two beautiful little species from Michigan.* VELTIDAE. Of the four genera in the United States three are repre- sented in Kansas—Velia, Rhagovelia and Microvelia. The junior author secured a single specimen of Velia watsom Drake in Cherokee County, Kansas. This slender little species was described from Florida. Rhagovelia rivale Bueno, recently described, was collected by the senior author in Douglas County, Kansas. The genus Microvelia is represented through- out the state. It must be stated here that the colored drawing on Color Plate III, Figure 7, of the senior author’s “Biology and Ecology of Aquatic and Semi-aquatic Hemiptera,” Uni- versity of Kansas Science Bulletin, Volume XI, is not Micro- velia borealis Bueno but Microvelia hinei Drake. The latter species was undescribed at the time Mr. Bueno determined the species from which the drawing was made, This clears up a point in question concerning the number of molts (see page 139 of above bulletin). This little Kansas species goes through five nymphal stages. Bueno reported four for M. boreals. OCHTERIDAE. This family contains but three species for the United States * See Annals ae Ecomolonel Society of America, Vol. XVII, pp. 453-456. meexvi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 297 and we have in our collections no specimens taken from Kan- sas. Dr. Carl J. Drake has in his collection a female Ochterus americanus (Uhler) from Kansas and we give it here as a new record for the state. GERRIDAE, Metrobates hesperius Uhler was taken by us August 15, 1920, in Cherokee County, Kansas, and by the senior author at Dykeman’s Bridge, Douglas County, Kansas, in July, 4022. N AUCORIDAE, We did not take any species of this family in Cherokee County, Kansas. Mr. Beamer got Pelocoris carolinensis Bueno at Coldwater, Kansas, in July, 1916. On September 7 and 8, 1923, Mr. Clarence O. Bare brought in from the same pool 68 specimens, all but seven of which were adult. NOTONECTIDAE, Genus Notonecta: Notonecta undulata Say is common all over the state and Notonecta variabilis Fieb. is recorded in Van Duzee as occurring in Kansas, All of the specimens labeled as N. variabilis Fieb. in collections of Kansas insects have been pale specimens of N. undulata Say. In December, 1922, the junior author took several very small specimens that run down to N. raleigh Bueno and have structural details like N. variabilis Fieb., but not like N. undulata Say. In Rock Creek in Cherokee County, three miles south east of Columbus, Kansas, we took a single specimen of Notonecta irrorata Uhl., a new record for the state. Most diligent search for more specimens of this beautiful species failed. One of our students, Jean Linsdale, recently collected a specimen in Doniphan County, Kansas. Genus Buenoa: We took a considerable series of the Buenoa margaritacea Bueno group which possesses the large scutellum. Mr. Bueno has placed these in two species, The larger ones he calls B. margaritacea and the smaller ones B. platycnemts (Fieb.). Buenoa elegans (Tieb.), which is much smaller and has a small scutellum, was taken by us in Cherokee County and has been reported by Mr. Bueno. We find this species quite abundant in two ponds about Lawrence. 298 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec 25 Genus Plea: We did not secure any specimens of Plea striola Fieb. Mr. Beamer got a series in a pool near Cold- water, Kansas, in 1916. Mr. Beamer and Dr. P. B. Lawson collected 9 specimens in a pool six miles east of Yates Center, Woodson County, Kansas, July 30, 1924. NEPIDAE. In Larson’s pond, which is a half mile south east of Colum- bus, Kansas, we took a long series of Ranatra, the first the writers had ever taken in the state. Larson’s pond is a spring- fed pond, an acre or two in extent. Pond lilies and Sagittaria are common and cattails grow at the upper end. Much of our Cherokee County material came from this fine pond. Here we took Ranatra kirkaldyi Bueno and Ranatra nigra H. S. (= R. protensa Mont.). In December, 1922, the junior writer visited this pond and secured a single specimen of fF. nigra H. S., but in a small creek just 75 yards away he col- lected a long series of Ranatra including the following species: R. kirkaldyi Bueno, R. fusca P. B. (= R. americana Mont.), R. nigra H. S. (= R. protensa Mont.) and R. australis Hun- gerford. This is a remarkable record. Four species of Ranatra in one day’s collecting is an unusual catch! The first record for Ranatra in Kansas was in Popenoe’s 1883-84 list—R. quadridentata Stal. (this is Rk. fusca P. B. probably). On (a recent field trip, (October 22, 1923, to a pond-near Lawrence, Kansas, the writers secured a long series of R. fusca P. B. The junior author took 14 specimens from a single tumble weed that had lodged in the water near the shore. A single specimen of R. nigra H. S. was taken on this date. On December 28th, 1923, the junior author visited the collecting place in Cherokee County again and secured seventy- two Ranatra from the creek. They belong to three species as follows: 2 Ranatra australis Hungerford (1 male and 1 fe- male); 8 Ranatra nigra H. S. (2 males and 6 females) ; 64 Ranatra kirkaldyi Bueno (25 males and 39 females). BELOSTOMATIDAE. In our Cherokee collecting we took Belostoma flumineum Say. On December 27th, 1922, Mr. Beamer brought back xo, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 299 from that country a considerable series of Belostoma. These appear to belong to two species, the smaller of which we call Belostoma flumineum Say and the larger one we have sent to Mr. J. R. de la Torre-Bueno for study. This larger form is broader across the abdomen and in lateral view the head is seen to extend farther before the eyes than in B. flumineum Say. Mr. Beamer’s December collection has 40 of the large form, both sexes, and 32 of B. flumineum Say, both sexes. On December 28th, 1923, Mr. Beamer secured from the same place 6 specimens of the large species and 3. specimens of Belostoma flumineum Say. The larger species has been de- termined for us by Mr, J. R. de la Torre-Bueno as Belostoma lutearum Stal. Convergent Development in Leaf-Mining Insects. By S. W. Frost, Pennsylvania State College. All leaf-mining insects, by their nature, living between, the two epidermal layers of a leaf, are subject to similar modi- fications for their life processes. The laying of eggs, the get- ting of food, the disposal of waste material and the provision for transformation are life habits to which all must adapt them- selves, in their peculiar manner of living. Extreme modifica- tion and specialization have been made in all lines but none are perhaps peculiar to leaf-mining except the getting of food and the disposal of waste material. These two become problems to all boring and leaf-mining insects. It is not strange there- fore that we find noteworthy parallelisms in the development of the mining habit in the different orders of insects. The leaf-mining habit naturally developed independently in the various orders and no doubt has arisen several times in the different orders, unless it be the Hymenoptera where we find a homogeneous group of species differing little in their habits except in a few individual cases. In the Coleoptera there is evidence that the mining habit has arisen at least three times; the Buprestidae present a highly specialized type while the Curculionidae and the Chrysomelidae represent more primitive forms. In the Lepidoptera and the Diptera there is strong evidence that the habit has arisen independently many different times. 300 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec.c725 Taking for granted, therefore, that the mining habit has arisen independently in the four orders, it is interesting to trace the development of parallel habits in these orders. These habits are centered about the principal life processes of the insects and are summarized in the following table. A SUMMARY OF THE HABITS OF LEAF-MINING INSECTS. LAYING OF GETTING OF FOOD. Kggs. Larvae. | Laid Laid ‘Sap | Faren-| Enter | Feed c Orders. within on feed- | chyma| new after Petes Tien leaves. | leaves.| ers. | feeders.) leaves. | mining. : : Hymenoptera ... some some none | all some none all none Lepidoptera ..... some some | some | some | some some | some | some Coleoptera ...... some some none all | none none some some Diptera rtsterelere some | some none all | some none some some — DISPOSAL, OF TRANSFOR- x DD. pen SE GPU Bee WASTE, MATION. Larvae. Adults. | Digi- | Tenti- | Feed Frass | Frass | Pupa | Cocoon Orders. tate | form on Frass | ina scat- in | cut fr. miners. miners. Leaves. @Jected.| Jine. | tered. | leaves.| leaves. i] Hymenoptera ...| none none none some | none some some some Lepidoptera ..... some | some | none some | some | some some | some Coleoptera ...... none none all none | none all some | none Diptera’ 252.3% | one none | some none | some some some | none Tue LAyING oF Eccs, It makes little difference to a leaf-mining insect whether the eggs are laid upon or within the tissues of the host. In the one case, the female is provided with a specialized ovipositor adapted for piercing the leaf and inserting the eggs within the tissues of the plant, in the other case, the young larva is pro- vided with saw-like mouth hooks or mandibles suitable for gaining an entrance into the interior of the leaf. The develop- ment of both methods can be traced through the four leaf-min- ing orders. The manner in which the leaf-mining Diptera gain entrance to their host, has been discussed by the writer in a previous paper*. The Trypetidae and Agromyzidae have ovipositors which are more or less elongated, highly chitinized and suited for piercing the leaf and inserting the egg within the host. In *Frost, S. W. Cornell Agric. Exp. Sta. Memoir 78, 1924. xxi, 225] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 301 Phytomyza varipes Meig., a European species, the ovipositor is as long as the remainder of the abdomen, a remarkable development for this group. In the Anthomyiidae, however, the ovipositor is generalized, membranous and _ telescoped within the fifth abdominal segment and is not suited for punc- turing the leaf. To compensate for this deficiency, the larva of the first instar has highly developed saw-like mandibular sclerites which permit it to readily gain entrance to the host. In the mining Lepidoptera, both types of ovipositors are found. The species laying eggs on the surface of the leaf are represented by forms such as the Micropterygidae. These are very primitive Lepidoptera and exhibit the extreme lack of ability, on the part of the female to insert her eggs within the tissues of the plant. The tip of the abdomen is generalized, ending in two retractile segments without the trace of an ovi- positor. The other extreme is found in Eriocrania and Incur- varia, species which insert their eggs within the tissues of the host. In these the abdomen of the female terminates in a horny, piercing ovipositor with powerful mucles. In the Coleoptera, we likewise find both habits developed. Probably all the Buprestidae and Chrysomelidae lay their eggs upon the surface of the leaf, while the Curculionidae, as far as the writer knows, insert their eggs within the tissues of the host. The type of ovipositor, adapted for inserting eggs within the tissues, reaches its highest development in the Hymen- optera. The saw-like ovipositor of the Tenthredinidae is a well known and most efficient instrument for this purpose. While most American writers believe that all of the Tenthredinidae insert their eggs within the leaves, Cameron (1882)* and other European workers state that some of the species lay their eggs upon the surface of the leaves. Tue GETTING OF Foon. Certain remarkable habits, associated with the getting of food, have arisen in the leaf-mining insects. Some species have developed the faculty of entering fresh leaves when their * Cameron, P. British Phytophagous Hymenoptera, 1882. 302 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec:, 725 food supply is exhausted. This habit is highly developed in the Diptera and occurs only occasionally in the Lepidoptera and the Hymenoptera. The Lepidoptera and the Hymenoptera feed for a large part on the leaves of woody plants which do not wilt as readily as do the leaves of herbaceous plants. They probably found it unnecessary to enter fresh leaves and con- sequently this habit has developed only to a slight extent in these orders. A few Lepidoptera of the genera Acrocercops, Argyresthia and Scythris have developed the habit of entering fresh leaves, f None of the leaf-mining orders present such diversity of lar- val feeding habits as the Lepidoptera. They are, for a large part, peculiar to this order and are too numerous for detailed discussion here. The sap-feeding habit of the order has resulted in great modifications of the head, labrum and mandibles. The habit of many larvae mining when young, later feeding exter- nally or boring in stems or bark, is singular in the Lepidoptera. The type of mine properly enters in a discussion of food getting, as the mine indicates the manner in which the larva feeds. The types of mines are numerous but of no interest in this dis- cussion. The persistance of certain types throughout the four leaf-mining orders is, however, worth noting. The blotch type is common to all orders. It is the only type that exists in the Hymenoptera with the exception of small linear mines made by the young larvae which later change to blotch mines. The digitate mine is common in certain Lepidoptera, as Parectopa, Epinotia and Gracilaria and occurs at least once in the Diptera. Scaptomysa adusta Loew., makes a very pretty digitate mine on the leaves of the Cruciferae. Tentiform mines are peculiar to the Lepidoptera where considerable silk is spun within the mine. Certain Hymenoptera and Coleoptera make vaulted, inflated or puffed mines but none produce true tentiform mines. The snail trace mines produced by Phyllocnistis are closely approximated by certain Diptera. Agromvyza laterella Zett., makes a very shallow, silvery mine on Iris that resembles a snail-trace, A few other Diptera have similar habits, xeevi, “25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 303 Tue DIsposat or F Rass. In insects, a wide range of habits exist in connection with the disposal of frass. The removal of the waste material is almost as necessary as the getting of fresh food. Some larvae feed on highly concentrated foods and do not void their waste until the last molt, while a few do not produce any excrement at all. Many void pellets, using these for some useful purpose as the construction of feeding cases or pupal chambers. Still others discard their frass as useless or as obnoxious. The majority of the leaf-mining larvae belong to the latter class although a few Lepidoptera mine, then construct cases of their frass. The leaf-mining larvae, in their limited quarters, have devel- oped unique methods of disposing of, or avoiding their frass. A few forms, especially in the Diptera, have acquired a sort of immunity and seem to be able to exist in its midst with little or no discomfort. A glance at the common dock leaf-miner, Pegomyia calyptrata Zett., will impress one with this fact. One of the simplest methods larvae have adopted to avoid their frass is the abandoning of old mines and entering fresh leaves. This method, however, has developed only occasionally in the Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera and not at all in the Coleoptera. As pointed out before, this habit probably originated in an attempt on the part of the larva to secure fresh food, rather than to avoid its excrement. The scattering of the frass in various manners has been developed throughout the orders. The simplest form is the grouping of the frass in small piles between the larger veins of the leaf, or in unoccupied parts of the mine. This is the typical method of avoiding the frass among the Hymenoptera and the Coleoptera. A higher development of this method is the arrangement of the frass in a single or a double line through the center of the mine. In such cases the larva progresses in a forward direction, leaving its frass behind. These so called linear or serpentine mines occur commonly in Nepticula and Bucculatrix. They also occur in certain Diptera and present a peculiar arrangement in Phytomyza obscurella var. nigritella Zett. Here the frass occurs in a distinct dotted line through 304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dee Ya5 the center of the mine. In some Lepidoptera the turning of the body from one side of the mine to the other, often deposits the frass pellets in neat concentric arcs at the edges of the mine. The form of the mine may also aid the larva in avoiding its frass. In the digitate mines of certain Lepidoptera as Parectopa and in a few Diptera, the frass is voided in fingerlike processes which leaves the center of the mine clean for the larva. In a similar fashion, some Lepidoptera as well as Diptera, deposit their frass in the center of the mine and feed about the edges. The vaulted mines of the Lepidoptera and the bladder-iike mines of the Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, make it possible for the larva to feed without coming in contact with its frass. This method of frass disposal reaches its highest development in the species of Lithocolletis. The ejection of frass is a comparatively simple process in leaf-mining insects and does not involve such highly spe- cialized structures as the anal comb of certain external feeders. The larva cuts a slit or a circular hole through the mine through which the frass is expelled. Such methods of frass disposal are common in the Lepidoptera occurring in the Tischeriidae and the Cosmopterygidae. The writer has noticed this habit in Lyonetia speculella Clem., which frequently mines the leaves of apple. The larva pushes its frass from) a slit on the under side of the mine. It issues in a series of pellets which are at first linked together but later become massed. PREPARATION FOR TRANSFORMATION. The leaf-mining larvae, imprisoned within their mines, have the choice of transforming within their mines or making an exit and seeking a transformation place elsewhere. In either case a cocoon may or may not be constructed. Certain Bup- restidae, for example, pupate within their mines without the formation of cocoons. These pupae rattle within the leaf, like seeds ina pod. The puparia of the Diptera are often formed within the mines but these are fastened to one of the surfaces of the mine. Many of the Lepidoptera and certain of the Hymenoptera as Phyllotoma, and certain Coleoptera, as Pachyschelus and Orchestes, pupate in their mines but construct xxxvi, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 305 silken cocoons. Still others have gone a step further and cut a case from the mine including the cocoon. This occurs in Phyl- lotoma (Hymenoptera) and Coptodisca and Antispila (Lepi- doptera). Still others make an exit through a hole in the leaf and fall to the ground where they may or may not form cocoons. Description of a New Species of Plagiognathus from the Eastern United States (Hem., Miridae.)* 3y Harry H. Knicut, Ames, Iowa. Plagiognathus ilicis new species. Distinguished from all described species by the short rostrum and pale tibiae with brownish spines; color nearest that of blatchleyi var. nubilus Knet., but scutellum fuscous and size smaller. Distinguished from Microphylellus by the pubescence, shorter head, and more robust form of body. 3. Length 3.4 mm., width 1.5 mm. Head: width .77 mm., vertex .37 mm.; shorter and more vertical than obscurus Uhler. Rostrum, length 1.07 mm., just attaining posterior margins of intermediate coxae, yellowish, apex blackish. Antennae : seg- mente weneth 20mm; 11, 95 mm. 5 M1; .53 mm; LV, 31 mm.; greenish yellow, apical half of segment IT becoming dusky, last two segments brownish to fuscous. Pronotum: length .63, width at base 1.21 mm. General coloration yellowish to greenish yellow, anterior and narrow lateral margins of pronotal disk more greenish, basal half of disk fusco-brownish; scutellum fuscous, narrow base and mesoscutum yellow; hemelytra pale yellowish trans- lucent, apical half of corium and embolium pale fuscous to fuscous, apical half of clavus pale fuscous; cuneus yellowish translucent, inner basal angle pale translucent ; membrane uni- formly light fusco-brownish, nearly clear bordering apex of cuneus, veins nearly concolorous with membrane. Clothed with simple, rather soft, yellowish to golden brown pubescence, becoming fusco-brownish on dark apical area of corium. Ventral surface yellowish to greenish yellow, xyphus pale green. Legs rather uniformly pale yellowish, femora rather obscurely dotted with small, pale fuscous spots; tibiae pale, impunctate, spines yellowish brown, with barely a trace of brownish at base of spines; tarsi pale yellowish, clavus brown. Genitalia distinctive of the specics, right clasper and the later- * Contribution from. the Department of Zoology and Entomology, lowa State College, Ames, Iowa, 306 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dees 25 ally directed apex of aedeagus very similar to obscurus Uhler, but the left clasper broadly projecting laterally, the dorsal surface broadly sulcate and loosely clasping the tip of aedeagus. ?. Length 3.7 mm., width 1.53 mm. Head: width .77 mm., vertex .41 mm. Antennae: segment IT, length .88 mm. Pro- notum: length .71 mm., width at base 1.38 mm. More robust than the male and lighter colored; dorsum rather uniformly yellowish, hemelytra paler and sub-translucent, scutellum and a cloud on apical area of corium fusco- brownish ; membrane and veins uniformly pale. Holotype: & July 13, 1920, Ringwood, near Ithaca, New York (H. H. Knight); author’s collection. Allotype: same data as the type. Paratypes: a good series taken with the types on /lex verticillata found growing in the bog at Ring- wood near Ithaca; specimens deposited in the Cornell Uni- versity collection, U. S. National Museum collection, and the Iowa State College collection. In some respects this species is intermediate between Plagiognathus and Microphylellus, while the left genital clasper is of a form quite different from either genus. The general form, color and pubescence is that of Plagiognathus while the tibial characters approach Microphylellus; the yel- lowish brown spines with brownish at base of each which scarcely forms distinct spots, may cause some difficulty in tracing ilicis through the generic key. A New Species of Trogus (Hym.: Ichneumonoidea), By W. H. Hasey, B.S.* Trogus nigrocinctus n. sp. Holotype: One male specimen collected by J. H. Comstock and now in the collection at Cornell University. Head: Entirely black. Clypeus flat: lateral edges but slightly * Contribution oe the Baomniecel Laboratory of the Reeeaete setts Agricultural College. An extract from a paper on the Species of Trogus of America North of Mexico, presented as a thesis for the degree of Master of Science by Mr. Hasey. Mr. Hasey lost his life in the war, and his thesis has never been published as a whole. This extract is given in connection with the publication of the New York State List of Insects —H. T. FERNALD. SRV) 20] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 307 sunken : lower margin straight with a small knob-like protuber- ance in the middle: lower half sparsely coarsely punctured: upper portion more finely and closely punctate: clothed with short, semi-decumbent, black hairs. Frons smooth and shiny ‘and deeply concave around antennal pits: sparsely coarsely punctured above and slightly convex in the middle: downward projections flat. Vertex rather closely and coarsely punctured and clothed with short semi-decumbent hairs. Cheeks broad and buccate: rather closely, coarsely punctured and clothed with short semi-decumbent hairs. Labrum reddish brown: rather strongly exserted but quite narrow: rather closely punctured with a row of long brownish bristle-like hairs on the lower margin. Mandibles black: dusky ferruginous, smooth and shiny at the tips, coarsely punctured in the middle and finely punctured at the base. Antennae fulvous: dusky at tips: scape black with paler spot at base: middle segments slightly serrate: with 18 patch-like sense organs. Thorax.—FEntirely black. Pronotum rather sparsely coarsely punctured and clothed with short semi-decumbent, black: hairs: pronotal ridge distinct, as is also the groove lying behind, which is smooth and shinv in the center. Propleuron with a prominent median ridge dividing the plate into the two typical areas. Mesonotum broadly rounded: slightly convex at anterior center: closely finely punctured and clothed with very short semi-decumbent hairs. Scutellum quite strongly raised and rounded: entire surface covered with sparse, rather fine punctures and erect black hairs. Mesopleuron sparsely coarsely punctured above and rugose below: mesopleural pit shallow with a prominent raised smooth and shinv area above: gutter- like groove near posterior margin distinct with prominent parallel transverse ridges. Median area of nostscutellum strongly raised, closely finely punctured and clothed with short, erect hairs: lateral grooves shiny and quite deep, with but mere traces of cross ridges. Metapleuron coarsely punctate and slightly rugose: clothed with erect black hairs: median ridge wanting. Propodeum strongly raised anteriorly : apical area very small, smooth and shiny: lateral margins diverging to a point near the apex, then converging to the base of the petiole: median, lateral and marginal areas deeply rugose or sculptured: clothed with erect, black hairs: spiracles long and linear. Abdomen.—Fulvous except the base of the petiole and a narrow band at the base of the three following segments, black. 308 “ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [| Dees >25 Petiole strongly raised to a point before apex: segments not constricted at the base: dorsal surface finely punctured and clothed with short, decumbent, vellowish hairs: ventral surface flat, closely, finely punctured and clothed with a few scattered, short hairs: spiracles oval : gastrocoeli prominent on second seg- ment. Wings.—Dusky fuliginous with an aeneous reflection: veins almost black. Legs.— Black: tibiae and tarsi brownish: lighter beneath especially on fore legs: very sparsely coarsely punctured and clothed with short, semi-decumbent hairs: tibiae armed with short scattered bristles. Habitat: New York. The above description was prepared from a single male specimen, the type. This species is apparently very rare. The only specimen seen was captured in September, 1885, by J. H. Comstock. It is readily distinguished by the narrow, black bands at the base of the second, third and fourth dorsal abdominal segments; Recent Impressions of The British Museum. During my recent visit to the entomological section of the 3ritish Museum, I had the pleasure to be welcomed and aided by Dr, Gahan, who has charge of Entomology, Dr. Waterston, who is in charge of the Hymenoptera, Mr. Hartley Durrant and Mr. W. H. T. Tams. Dr. Guy Marshall, who is Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology and of the Insecta part of The Zoological Record, has his office in the Entomological Section in the Museum; consequently I enjoved the kind atten- tion of Dr. Marshall. I was deeply impressed with the wealth of material available in the Museum and with the efficient way in which that mate- rial is being preserved and studied. Dr. Gahan and his col- leagues are imbued with the ambition to reveal to the world the details of the historic treasures in their Museum and as a result of their published work and their future work I feel sure that many of our difficulties in identifying old genera and species will disappear. I look forward to the time when I will again visit England. Henry L. Viereck, Ottawa, Canada. _ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS re Pa. DECEMBER, 1925. Coleman T. Robinson. (See cever of NEws.) Coleman T. Robinson was born in Putnam County, New York, 1838. He was a stockbroker in New. York City and amassed a large fortune. He was greatly interested in the lepidoptera and actively pursued this avocation while engaged in business. He wrote some excellent papers! and among them a valuable article on the North American Tortricidae, with six lithographic plates containing eighty-six illustrations. It was his intention to figure in color as many species as possible but this was prevented by his early death. In conjunction with. Augustus R. Grote he published five papers of “Descriptions of North American Lepidoptera” in the Trans- actions of The American Entomological Society, with one hundred illustrations, He travelled extensively abroad and also spent some time at the University of Berlin. He was elected a Corresponding Member of The American Entomological Society on February 13, 1865, and served as President in 1869. He will always be remembered by the students of the Ameri- can Bombycidae, Sphingidae, Noctuidae and Tortricidae. He died May 1, 1872, at the early age of 35. His early decease probably lost to entomology a great patron of the study. He willed to the Buffalo Society of Natural History the sum of ten thousand dollars. Ef. Ss +-—@—< The Overwintering of Vespula communis var. flavida Sladen (Hym.: Vespidae). Six female specimens of Vespula communis var. flavida Sladen were found in December, 1923, overwintering in curled- up elm leaves. The individuals had crawled into the chambers made by the curling of the leaves and were thus found while the writer was searching for hibernating grape leaf hoppers. It 1 See (arabes Eutomolueise 1872, IV; pages 109 and 118. 309 310 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Preet.” "25 was not the peculiar situation in which these wasps were found to which the writer desires to call attention, but the very unique manner in which they were taking care of their wings. These were folded longitudinally, as is natural, but instead Hi lying, as cne would expect, on the back of the individual, they were tucked away very neatly on the under side of the abdomen and carefully held in place there by the last pair of legs. This rather unusual way of caring for the organs of flight, which are so necessary to these overwintering queens in order that they may properly build their nests, feed themselves and their young, and thus perpetuate their kind, was new and interesting to the writer and this opportunity is taken to record the observation. Thanks are dua Mr. S. A. Rohwer of the United States National Museum for identifying these wasps. Two of the specimens are deposited at the U, S. N. M. and the others are in 1 the collections at the University of Kansas. R. H. Beamer, University of Kansa Coleoptera New to New Jersey. Mr. C. A. Frost recently identified for me, two species of beetles that do not appear to be recorded from New Jersey. One is a staphylinid, Piilonthus varians Payk., collected at Seaside Park, N. J., May 29 and mentioned in Smith’s “List of the Insects of New Jersey,” but without locality. The other isa nitidulid, Brachypterus cinereus, Heer., collected at Seaside Park, (N.. J:, May 29.1) Bothvare European. Harry B. Wess, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Entomological Literature COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR. 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), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published. All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. Papers of systematic nature will be found in the paragraph beginning with (N). Those pertaining to Neotropical species only will be found in paragraphs beginning with (S). Those containing descriptions of new forms are preceded by an *. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. Papers published in the Entomological News are not listed. 4—Canadian Entomologist. 6—Journal, New York Ent. Soc. 7—Annals, Entomological Society of America. 9— Bevis, 125] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS St The Entomologist. 10—Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington. 12— Journal of Economic Ent. 14—Entomologische Zeit., Frankfurt a. M, 15—Insecutor Ins. Menstruus. 19—Bull., Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 24—Annales, Soc. Ent. de France. 25— Bull., Soc. Ent. France. 26—Ent. Anzeiger, Wien. 69— Comptes Rendus des Seances, Acad. Sci. Paris. 78—Bull. Biol. de la France et de la Belgique. 104—Zeit. f. Wissen. Zool., Leipzig, 107—Biologisches Zentralblatt. 108—Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 118—Die Naturwissenschaften, 3erlin. 130—Ohio Jour. of Sciences. 133—Jour. Experi- mental Zool. 138—Amer. Mus. Novitates, New York. 154— Zoolog. Anzeiger. GENERAL.—British correlating committee for the pro- tection of nature.—4, lvii, 234. Heikertinger, F—Ueber die begriffe “mimikry” und “mimese” mit besonderer beruck- sichtigung der myrmekoidie.—107, xlv, 272-89. Horn, W.— 3ericht den dritten internationalen kongress fur ento- mologie in Zurich 1925.—118, 1925, 836-8. Morrill, A. W.— Commercial entomology on the west coast of Mexico.—12, xviii, 707-16. Pruvost, P.—Fossil insects of the carbonifer- ous period. —Nature, cxvi, 526-8. Reichensperger, A.— “Ameisenmimikry” und “metoke myrmekoidie.”—107, xlv, 290-303. Sherman, F.—Progress on state insect survey with comparative data on other animal groups.—Jour. Mitch. Soc., xli, 129-34. Snyder, T. E—Communism among in- sects.—Sci. Month., xxi, 466-77. Vickery, R. A.—List of parasitic insects reared from host insects collected in the vicinity of Brownville, Tex.—10, xxvii, 137-41. Weiss, H. B. —Insect food habit ratios in Death Valley and vicinity.— 130, xxv, 253-4. Zoological Record, Insects of vol. 61, 1924, alZepp: ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL, ETC.— Gatenby & Stopes.—Spermatogenesis of spiders.—Nature, cxvi, 499, Hilton, W. A.—Functional divisions of the nerv- ous system of insects.—Science, Ixii 372-73. Peacock, A. D.—Haploidy in the male sawfly and some considerations arising therefrom.—Nature, cxvi, 537-8. Ross, R.—Mos- quito-theory of malaria and the late Prof. G. B. Grassi.— Sci. Progress, London, xx, 311-20. Singh-Pruthi, H.—Stud- ies On insect metamorphosis. III. Influence of starvation.— 3r. Jour. Exp. Biology, iii, 1-8. Swingle, H. S.—Digestive enzymes of an insect.—130, xxv, 209-18. Yonge, C. M.—The S12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (Decwt2s digestion of cellulose by invertebrates.—Sci. Progress, Lon- don, xx, 242-8. - ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA.—Emerton, J. H.— Spider collections of F. W. Waugh.—Can. Field-Nat., xxxix, 139-40. Hulse, E. P. & Brown, B.—Luminous spiders.— Sciences last. 329: (N) *Ewing, H. E—vTwo new chiggers (Trombicula larvae).—10, xxvii, 145-6. *Petrunkevitch, A——New Erigo- ninae from Tennessee.—6, xxxiii, 170-6. *Petrunkevitch, A. —Descriptions on new or inadequately known American spiders.—7, xvili, 313-23. THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTA.—Davis, W. T.—Pantala flavescens captured by Anax junius.—6, xxxiii, 189. Dodds, G. $S.—Ecological studies on aquatic insects. Altitudinal range and zonation of mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies in the Colorado Rockies.—Ecology, vi, 389-90. Lacroix, L.—Note detachee sur les oeufs des Chrysopides. —25, 1925, 227-32. Smith, R. C-—Neuroptera and Mecoptera of Kansas.—19, xx, 165-71. Traver, J. R—Observations on the ecology of the mayfly Blasturus cupidus.—4, lvii, 211-18. (N) *Hood, J. D—Four new Phloeothripidae from the U. S. (Thysanoptera).—4, lvii, 218-22. (S) *Denis, J. R——Sur les Collemboles du Mus. de Paris. —24, xciv, 261-90. ORTHOPTERA.—Cappe de Baillon, P.—Sur embryo- genese des monstres doubles chez les Phasmides (Carausius morosus ).—69, clxxxi, 479-81. Davis, W. T.—Female of the roach, Parcoblatta caudelli, and the occurrence of the spe- cies on Long Island, N. Y.—6, xxxiu, 188-9. Fulton, B. B.— Physiological variation in the snowy tree cricket, Oecanthus niveus.—7, xvili, 363-83. Vogel, R.—Bemerkungen zum weiblichen geschlechtsapparat der kuchenschabe (Peri- planeta orientalis)—154, Ixiv, 56-62. HEMIPTERA.—Bergroth, E.—On the ‘“‘Annectant bugs” of McAtee and Malloch—19, xx, 159-64. Clark, L. B. —Note on tropisms in Plea striola—19, xx, 186-7. Gris- wold, G. H.—Study of the oyster-shell scale, Lepidosaphes ulmi, and one of its parasites, Aphelinus mytilaspidis.— Cornell Univ. Mem. No. 93. Knowlton, G. F.—Digestive tract of Longistigma caryae (Aphididae).—130, xxv, 244-52. Myers, J. G.—Biological notes on Arachnocoris albomacu- latus (Nabidae).—6, xxxiii, 136-46. Poisson, R.—Contribu- ~ Sev, 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Jus tion a l’etude des hemipteres aquatiques—78, Iviii, 47-204. Torre-Bueno, J. R.—Food plant of Corythucha marmorata. Velia watsoni—a new record—19, xx, 179, 185. (N) *Ball & Delong.—Genus Dikraneura and its allies in No. Am.—7, xviii, 324-40. *Ferris, G. F—Notes on Cocci- dae XI.—4, lvii, 228-34. (S) *Harris, H. M.—Two n. sps. of Carthasis [from Cuba] (Nabidae)—19, xx, 172-4. *Moreira, C.—Pulgoes do Brasil.—Inst. Biol. Defesa Agr., Bol. No. 2. LEPIDOPTERA.—Bird, H.—Some little known noctuid larvae of the genera Chabuata, Gortyna and Archanara., 6, uk 182-7. Lemmer, F.—Acronycta_ lanceolaria.—6, xxxill, 181. Minnich, D. E.—Reactions of the larvae of Vanessa antiopa to sounds.—133, xlii, 443-69. Roeher, A.— Uber den zusammenhang von farbung, sinnen und lebens- weise bei den schmetterlingen.—26, v, 138-9 (Cont.). Wat- son, J. H.—On the pouch-forming (sphragidal) fluid in Parnassius.—9, lvili, 246-8. Weiss, H. B.—Butterfly collect- ing by Sha Abbas the Great.—6, xxxiii, 187. (N) *Engelhardt, G. P.—Studies of No. Amer. Aegerii- dae.—19, xx, 153-8. (S) *Ferreira d’Almeida, R.—Quelques rectifications sur les Actinote de la partie orientale de Amerique du Sud.—24, xciv, 333-54. DIPTERA.—Brumpt, E.—Capture des larves de culici- des par les plantes du genre Utricularia—An. de Parasitol. Hum. et Comp., Paris, im, 403-11. Reith, F.—Die entwick- lung des Musca-eies nach ausschaltung verschiedener eibe- reiche.—104, cxxvi, 181-238.- Rudolfs, W.—Relation be- tween temperature, humidity and activity of house mos- quitoes.—6, xxxili, 163-9. Vickery, R. A.—(See under Gen- eral.) (N) Malloch, J. R—Addition to the Sapromyzidae of the Dist. of Columbia.—10, xxvii, 152. *Malloch, J. R—A new No. Am. sp. of Hydrotaea—19, xx, 184-5. *Spuler, A.— No. Amer. sps. of the subgenus Scotophilella (Borboridae). —6, xxxiii, 147-62. *“West, L. S—-New Phasiidae and Tach- inidae from New York State.—6, xxxiii, 121-35. (S) *Alexander, C. P.—Studies on the crane-flies of Mex- ico.—7, xviil, 341-62. *Dyar, H. G.—The mosquitoes of PRanama*—15, xiii, 101-95. ) 314 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dees o25 COLEOPTERA.—Ainslie, C. N.—Notes on the habits and life history of Calligrapha pnirsa.—4, lvii, 209-11. Brauer, A.—Studies on the embryology of Bruchus quad- rimaculatus.—7, xvili, 283-312. Schjelderup- -Ebbe, T.— Biologie von Geotrupes.—14, xxxix, 97-8. ‘* (N) *Chittenden, F. H.—New sp. of Trichalophus.—10, xxvii, 141. *Fisher, W. S—Change of name in Buprestidae. —10, xxvii, 144. *Fall, H. C—New sps. of Helmis.—6, xxxili, 177-81. *Fall, H. C——New sps. of Col. of recent dis- covery.—19, xx, 180-3. — (S) *Pic, M.—Melanges exotico-entomologiques, Fase. 44, Nouveautes diverses, 32 pp. s HYMENOPTERA.—Arbuckle, H. B.—Life and habits of the honey bee.—Jour. Mitch. Soc., xli, 47-63. Chamberlin, T. R.—Some observations upon Necreninus leucarthros (Eulophidae ).—10, xxvii, 142-4. Descy, A.—Recherches sur la sexualite et l'instinct chez les hymenopteres. —78, lvii, 1-37. Frisch, K. v.—Sinnesphysiologie und “sprache” der bienen.—Verh. Ges. Deut. Naturf. u. Arzte, Berlin, Ixxxviu, 1924, 981-87. Frost, S. W.—Leaf-mining habit in the hymen- optera—7, xviii, 399-416. Griswold, G. H.—(see under Hemiptera). Howes, P. G.—Master architects of the jungle. —Nature Mag., 1925, 274-6. Nolan, W. J.—Blood-rearing cycle of the honey hee =U)! S. Dep. Agr., Bull. No. 1349. Parker & Thompson.—Notes on the larvae of the Chalci- doidea.—7, xviii, 384-98. Peacock, A. D.—Studies in the parthenogenesis and sexuality of the saw-flies—Br. Jour. Exp. Biology, ii1, 61-84. Robertson, ee bees. —Ecology, vi, +12- 36. Vickery, R. A.—(see under General). Weld, L. H. gall that secretes honeydew.—19, ex, 75-9) (N) *Cushman, R. A.—Some generic transfers and synonymy in Ichneumonidae. 108, xv, 388-92. *Fouts, R. ~M.—New serphoid parasites from No. and So. America. 10, xxvii, 147-52. *Swenk, M. H.—Two new bees of the genus Colletes, oligotropic upon Petalostemum.—138, No. 186. A MonoGRAPH OF THE PLECOPTERA OR STONEFLIES OF AMERICA NORTH OF Mexico. By J. G. NEEDHAM and P. W. CLAASSEN. The Thomas Say Foundation of the Entomological Society of America, Established 1915, Volume II. Lafayette, Indiana, 1925, 8vo, 397 pages, 50 of which are occupied by ~ SKI 25] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 315 line-engraved plates, and 29 text figures. To be obtained from the ae asurer of the Foundation, Prof. J. J. Davis, at Lafayette, Ind. Price $5.00. The appearance of a monograph on a group of our native insects so little studied in North America as the stoneflies is a noteworthy event and will doubtless result in more attention being paid to this primitive order. It is needless to say that just such works as this monographic revision are greatly needed and that when produced they should be added to every zoologi- cal and entomological library. The introductory portion of the volume occupies 22 pages (Biology 1%, Collecting and Preserv- ing 34 and Diagnostic Characters 19—15 of these on Venation and variations therein in a few species and 3 on Genital Characters). Classification and taxonomic descriptions extend from page 30 to page 278, in which keys are given to the families, genera and species. On pp. 286-289 is a “List of the Species herein treated,’ 207 in number and indicating their grouping under a series of subgenera not mentioned in the body of the work, hence liable to be overlooked, and not characterized nor with type species designated. One genus, Clioperla, and 28 species are described as new. There is a bibliography (pp. 279-284), a comparative table of classifications of Plecoptera from that of Pictet, 1842, to the present volume (p. 285), and a table showing the number of species of each of the 24 genera recorded for each of the United States and of the Provinces of Canada. The figures in the text show chiefly whole ‘insects ; those on the plates depict the wings and genitalia and, in a goodly number of species, the eggs, head, prothorax, mouth parts, feet, antennae or tails, and are pronounced ‘ ‘good” by a specialist. Alphabetical Index, pp, 392-7. A regrettable error has been made in} the lettering on the back of the book, from which it would appear that this is the second volume of a work on the Plecoptera of North America, whereas the real meaning is, as stated on the first title page, that this is Vol. I] of the Thomas Say Foundation. Puitie P. CALVERT A Bretiocrapiy OF THE Nortr AMERICAN HEMIPTERA- HeETEROPTERA. By Howarp Mapison ParsHuey, Se.D., Asso- ciate Professor of Zoology in Smith College. Smith College Fiftieth Anniversary Publication. Northampton, Mass., 1925. 8vo, pp. ix, 252.—In 1917 the University of California pub- lished Mr. E. P. Van Duzee’s Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico. Now Smith College honors itself 316 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Deck a 25 and a brilliant member of its faculty in this bibliography intended primarily to supplement Van Duzee’s ‘Catalogue,’ and undertaken at the instance of the author of that work.” About 2250 titles by 600 authors are included. How complete this bibliography is must be left to specialists to determine, although its author himself modestly suggests that “the opportunities for error and omission are multitudinous.” We hope that he has overestimated these and are sure that this work will be of service to those classes of students and librarians whom he has in mind in page viii of his preface. Beyond the contents of this beautifully printed and carefully prepared volume lies a further Utopia not yet existent—in print—we believe. That is a subject index to the contents of the publications here listed. Not a taxonomic index, for that is provided by Van Duzee’s Catalogue, but an anatomical, physio- logical, ecological and general biological index is what we have in mind. On this topic we’may have more) to say in a future number of the News, but this Bibliography would, of course, provide an excellent foundation for such a Utopia. PHiInipsP.. CALVERE: Doings of Societies. The American Entomological Society. Meeting of May 28, 1925. Dr. Henry Skinner, President, in the chair; eleven members, three visitors present. Mr. Cresson, for the Cemmittee on Excursions, reported that the trip to Dr. Skinner’s home on May 16, had been successful, with excellent weather, twelve members being present. He showed photographs taken. Messrs. John C. Lutz, Francis M. James, Jr., Emil Fred Schaff and John C. West were elected resident members. Diptera. Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., showed his mounted specimens taken on the Media trip. Among these was a female of Glutops singularis, of which only one other specimen is known in collections.* CoLeopTeRA. Mr. Hornig told of trips to Tacony Park, Philadelphia, made in answer to an inquiry in regard to Jap- anese beetle larvae. He found the larvae very abundant, havy- ing destroyed grass over considerable areas by eating the roots. Mr. Hornig also noted that birds (starlings, purple grackles, flickers, sparrows, robins) were digging out the iaevae and ating them. * See Ent.: News, xxxvi, p. 211, July, 1925. xxxvi, 25] _ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Shy. Economic. Dr. Calvert showed a piece of rope which had been sent to him with an inquiry as to injury which was supposed to have been caused by insects and asked members for sugges- tions. No one present could say anything definite. _ Leprmportera. Mr. Williams made some remarks on the aedeagus of the Hesperidae. Roperr TITHERINGTON, Secretary. Meeting of September 24, 1925, Dr. Skinner presiding; fif- teen members and visitors present. A joint letter from the British Correlating Committee for the Protection of Nature and the Entomological Society of London, regarding protection of butterflies was read. The following resolution was proposed and approved: Whereas there is great danger of exterminating some of the most beauti- ful species of insects for the use in works of art and jewelry, be it resolved that the American Entomological Society strongly disapproves of such practice and herewith places itself on rec- ord as opposing the use of insects for decorative purposes. It was moved and approved that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Correlating Committee. Mr. Carl Ig was elected a resident member. CoLEOPTERA.—Dr. Calvert exhibited a luminous larva (?) found near Corning in the Perkiomen valley, Pennsylvania, agreeing with a specimen in the Horn collection thought to he a female of Phengodes laticollis Lec. The specimen was col- lected by Dr. R. E. Cleland and was given to the speaker who had kept it alive in a glass for two months. Dr. Calvert also spoke of specimens of Dynastes tityus in Pennsylvania and of the S. S. Rathvon collection of Coleoptera preserved in the science building of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In the discussion that followed Mr. Brownback reported that he had found five specimens of Phengodes, females, at Falls of French Creek, Pennsylvania, during the latter part of July. Unfortunately these specimens were lost. Ortioprera.—Mr. Brownback also mentioned an observa- tion on Melanoplus femur-rubrum. He estimated that there were about 10,000 specimens resting on the sunny side of twelve panels of a three rail fence during the first part of September at Trappe, Pennsylvania. R. TITHERINGTON, Secy. Ww — (92) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Dec. yz OBITUARY. Carito EMeEry. Qn the eleventh of last May the world lost one of its most distinguished entomologists, Professor Carlo Emery, from acute uricaemia. He was born at Naples, October 25, 1848, of Swiss parents, who had acquired Italian citi- zenship. After pursuing courses in general medicine he decided, about 1872, to specialize in ophthalmology, but biological studies soon attracted him more powerfully and he became professor of zoology in the University of Cag- liari, in Sardinia. This post he held from 1878 to 1881, but on the death of his father he moved to Bologna, where he occupied the chair of zodlogy in the ancient university till his retirement several years ago. He married an Italian lady and leaves two very promising children, Lucia and Luigi. Professor Emery was unusually talented. He spoke and wrote admirably Italian, French, German, English and Spanish, besides possessing a reading knowledge of several other languages, including Russian. His great skill as a draftsman enabled him to enrich his monographs with many figures so accurate as to permit ready identification of the most closely related species; and his linguistic knowledge enabled him to pen descriptions so concise that there is very rarely any question as to the identity of the forms he was observing. Although he published a valuable text- book of general zodlogy (second edition, 1904), a well-known monograph on the singular fishes of the genus Fierasfer (1880) and papers on the anatomy of vipers (1873) and the luminescence of fire-flies (1884), the 300 papers which he contributed to Entomology during the past 56 vears (1869- 1925) are almost entirely devoted to the Formicidae. And although he was chiefly occupied with the taxonomy, morphol- ogy and geographical distribution of ants, he published several interesting papers on their habits and instincts. There is scarcely a country to a knowledge of whose ant- fauna he did not make important contributions. His work mex VI, 25 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 319 throughout is of the highest quality, because he was not interested primarily in securing priority in the description of species—though he described many hundreds of them— but in monographic revision of groups of species or whole faunas and a precise definition of the known forms, their relationships and distribution. He was exceedingly con- servative in creating genera and species and made great use of subgenera, subspecies and varieties as provisional categories. His long and intricate taxonomic studies cul- minated in the magnificent volumes on the Formicide in Wytsman’s “Genera Insectorum,” which contain a list of all the known species, subspecies and varieties of ants and their genera, with many new and profound considerations on their natural grouping in tribes and subfamilies. No entomologist of the past or present generation has done such a large amount of very accurate taxonomic work and work so worthy of being taken as a model by younger men, especially in the United States, and no active ento- mologist has created fewer synonyms or introduced less confusion into the science. Although I owe a great deal to Professor Emery, with whom I have corresponded since 1899, and who has helped me on innumerable occasions with his very expert opinion, as he has helped every living myrmecologist, I unfortu- nately had no opportunity to meet him and have had to draw many of the facts in regard to his life from a brief necrologue by Professor Forel (Bull. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 65, 1925, p. 198-199). Both of these eminent entomologists were born in the same year and both, building on the secure foundations laid by Gustav Mayr, cooperated in enormously extending and deepening our knowledge of the ant faunas of all parts of the world and in encouraging younger men to take up the study of these fascinating insects. In the following paragraph Professor Forel gived some more in- timately personal details in regard to a singular parallelism between his life and that of Professor Emery: “I made his acquaintance about 1871 at the Chateau de 320 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., ’25 Prilly, near Lausanne, which his father still owned, though it has since been sold. There we learned that as children we had both observed the ants, he at Prilly and I at Lonay or at Vaux sur Morges, that is separated only by a distance of less than eight kilometers, without suspecting each other's existence or our mutual myrmecological predilections. But the parallelism of our lives did not end there. C. Emery had scarcely been made professor at Cagliari when in 1879 I was elected professor at Zurich. Both of us employed our days and weeks of vacation in studying our little friends, the ants, he in Itaiy mainly, | sometimes on long voyages. In 1906, while sojourning in Switzerland, at Bois-Bougy sur Rolle, he was suddenly prostrated by a very severe apoplectic stroke. I was called and thought he was lost and my son aided his wife in caring for him under the supervision of a physician at Rolle. But although he was aphasic and remained paralyzed on the right side,; he not only learned to write with his left hand, but succeeded a year later in performing experiments on ants, describing and even drawing them (with his left hand) with indom- itable perseverance and all his former sagacity. And then I myself, in 1912, was prostrated by an attack which para- lyzed my right arm and vocal organs. After that I imitated Emery in all respects, except in my incapacity to draw with my left hand. Since that time our correspondence has been left-handed. In Italy, C. Emery attracted many stu- dents who will continue his work. As I learn today, he had ordered before his death that there should be no funeral, no religious intervention, no discourse, no music, no flowers, except those given by his family. It is odd that, without knowing of this, I had long ago made the same arrangements in regard to myself.” Witt1AM Morton WHEELER. Henry W. WeENzEL, well-known collector of Coleoptera and active spirit in the Feldman Collecting Social (1887-1925), died in Philadelphia, November 7, 1925. We hope to present a longer notice in a later number of the News, INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVI. (*indicates new genera, species or varieties) ALEXANDER, C. P. Undescribed species of crane-flies irom the eastern United States and Canada.......:'. 200 Anprews, E. A. McCook’s ant mounds in Pennsylvania, COVLS CEU. A Os a Peer i eae te Le. 173 Batpur, W. V. The feeding of a common tiger beetle. . 275 DARE Oe. ©.) A new species of Buenoa (lly... 4.2. 225 Barnes & BENJAMIN. A new subspecies of Brenthis ORE eee NS Se Ore OS ok ee 2 Bae 44 Notes on two butterfly names omitted from recent lists. 118 @nCOMIVOTONMIOSG 6... oc oe St. cs teen eee ee 2S BauMANN, K. Information wanted on Papilio troilus.... 185 Beamer, R. H. The overwintering of Vespula communis Bae MEME CCLCNOME Ph So Sy Foo 9 ie un. wis, 3c. a Wa Oe Gayle ee wee 309 (See also Hungerford & Beamer.) BenyAMin, F. H. (See Barnes & Benjamin.) BEQUAERT, J. Neotermesa injurious to living guava tree, with notes on other Amazonian termites (ill.)........ 289 BisHopeo. C. (See: Crosby & Bishop: ) BiatspeLt, I. E. Coleoptera of the Pacific coast, notes EMMITT GLO TNG Ci he Beko ti pap tale sthe dae ad oh oes Gn fy neta 79 BLATcHLEY, W.S. Some additional new species of Heter- optera from the southern United States, with char- HeremZAtion Of. ad MEW SEWUS <. ... 5 vss cieb es cas eee els 45 Tiemenanoes Of NAMES. 2.25 se bie ohcw dees wed woe 245 Brimuey, C. S. New species of Diptera from North SUT dace as ney aat eles pace alae Gee eee 73 Wagieta totes trom North Carolina... :-.2i.c--n2..20% 85 Catvert, P. P. Editorial: Entomology at the convoca- tion week meetings, December, 1924 ....:......... 55 Editorial: Evolutionary entomology .........5.....:- 244 Editorial: Give us entomological mews .............. 147 ioedinem Mos FLO De * 2 xh) 2h. o akice hee aii eke 122 Editorial: How to meet the rising costs of publication. 27 Editorial: An international congress of entomology in Sey ee aM IE ep nae cee we. SPP eee sie iin ete 322 INDEX Editorials, Opgtinancial coltmin yep.) e sere eee Editorial: A reminder for collectors of insects........ Obittiery AcE tieene, Simon. ayes tage. 2 See ae menage es Obituary: Paul Reweres Myers) a4. ee ee orien ee ee ce Review: Bibliography of the North American Hemip- tera TTECERODECT AY Ne hse e aus ao ae ie PME enero eae nema eee Review: Fiji-New Zealand expedition .y5. sep. ts eee Review: An introduction. to-eutomoloiy; =. 2c. es ste Review: Monograph of the Plecoptera of America NOTENCOrM MERIC Wiel eneaeus ade ee het eee epee Review: Report of the proceedings of the fifth ento- molosical meeting held at Pusa 22. .4.0. -.- ese ee Review: Revista Chilena de historia natural 2. ...... CHAMBERLIN, R. V. A new lthobiomorphous chilopod hom: Ueusiay vt eee ee Pee eee oe ee ee eee CHAMPLAIN, KirK & KNuLL. Notes on Cerambycidae 105, CHAMPLAIN & KNULL. A new species of Lepturges . CocKERELL, T. D. A. . Diploplectron in California ...:. Review = Liandbook of the tsetseuues «seus eee eee Cooringe,.. KR... 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