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CONTENTS:

Laurent—Notes on Variations and Ab- Funkhouser—A New Membracid on
normal Forms of Three Species of yoress (HOMOps)ecieceeee erie ce rie 185
Saturmidae ((lep.)sacmec= ccc seo 161 | McDunnough—A Review of Reviews

Blaisdell—Studies in the Tenebrionid (Woe Web po abaostsuccoUBEnadeecenas 187
Tribe Eleodiini, No. 3 (Coleop.)... 162 | Mosquitoes and the War.......--...... IgI

Cockerell—Some Bees of the Genus Editorial—The Forms of Generic and
Panurginus (Hym.)) 2-2. ccs. -i<c0s 169 OLSPECihie NAMES jocqeeec nan els 192

Membership in the Association of Eco- Weiss—Additional Acarina found in
NOMICPBIOOLIS(Se sc «ciara = eae elas /elatera © 17I INGWinErSGVicese ods asan essa <p ecarac 193

Knight—New Species of Lopidea from Entomological Literature.............. 104
Arizona (Hemip. Miridae) ---- 172 | Doings of Societies—American Ento-

Townsend——A New Muscoid Genus mological Society ( Dip., Orthop.,
from theChiricahua Mountains, Ari- Odonata’ Veps)) casssasese let 197
ZOTMAN GOLDS eta rrcciaetscinte misele eee oie 177 Entomological Section, The Acad.

Aldrich—The Anthomyid Genus Pogo- Nat. Sci. of Phila. (Lep., Orthop. 198
MIOUAV TAG (CLVIPIS )larsie cisielelarsisisisiele.cisisicte eis 179 Feldman Collecting Social—Coleop.,

LEE ID ee roasouscatbacsos qoodr 199

Notes on Variations and Abnormal Forms of Three
Species of Saturniidae (Lep.).
By Puitip LAvurRENT, Philadelphia. Pa.
(Plate IX.)

During the past forty years I have bred a few thousand
specimens of Callosamia promethea, Philosamia cynthia and
Samia cecropia, and have obtained many specimens differing
from the normal forms. A specimen of Callosamia promethea
in which the basal half of all four wings is blackish, the color
of the male, and the outer half of the wings purplish red, as in
the female, is one of the interesting variations. Two speci
mens of Philosamia cynthia have the ground color of the wings
dark gray instead of drab-gray: while the white and lilac col-
ored lines and markings are wanting. An oddity in the way
of a five-winged Samia cecropia, with four perfect wings and

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one imperfect, was secured a few years ago. This year (1917)
there emerged in one of my cages an abnormal Samia cecropia
differing from any specimen I have ever seen. The cocoon
from which the moth was bred did not differ from any of the
hundred or more other cocoons that I had, all of which were
collected on the outskirts of Philadelphia. A description of
this specimen is not necessary, as it is well figured in this num-
ber of the News (Plate IX, upper figure).

Studies in the Tenebrionid Tribe Eleodiinit No. 3
(Coleop.).
By F. E. Braispett, Sr., San Francisco, California.

Eleodes pimelioides Mann., var. brevisetosa n. var.

Oblong-ovate, very densely and rather finely sculptured, dull black,
the legs dark nigro-piceous.

Head very densely and confluently punctate, punctures rather fine.
Antenne moderate in length.

Pronotum about one-fifth wider than long; disc moderately convex,
rather finely and very densely punctate, punctures more or less con-
fluent, the intervals being mere lines; sides more or less angulate at
middle, thence evenly and moderately arcuate to apex, conversely
oblique, convergent, straight or feebly sinuate to the basal constric-
tion, the latter distinct and about one-seventh of the total length, with
sides straight and parallel.

Elytra slightly oblong, two-sixths longer than wide, vertically de-
clivous posteriorly; sides broadly, evenly and moderately arcuate;
humeri obtuse and not in the least prominent; disk widest at the mid-
dle third, moderately convex on the dorsum, broadly and arcuately
rounded at the sides; surface densely sculptured with tuberculiform
granules, which are bright and shining at their summits, each bearing
a short seta. On the central part of the disk the granules are less de-
veloped and more asperately punctate, the asperities are absolutely
without an orderly arrangement. Otherwise as in brunnipes.

Measurements.— $6 —Length, 11.0 mm.; width, 4.75 mm. ¢@—Length,
12.0-15.0 mm.; width, 5.0-7.5 mm.

Types in my own collection. Collector F. W. Nunen-
macher.

Habitat. Lassen County, California (type locality), May;
Verdi, Nevada, April. 21 specimens studied.

In the male the first joint of the protarsi bears a moderate

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tuft of golden pubescence at tip beneath; the second joint has
a narrow transverse tuft. The basal joint of the mesotarsi
bears a very small tuft which does not wholly interrupt the
plantar groove.

The female referred to under brunnipes in my monograph
of the Eleodiini (Bull. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus.), and which was
collected at Verdi, Nevada, belongs here. It was doubtfully
referred to brunnipes and did not not agree with my speci-
men of that species which was collected at Buena Vista, Colo-

rado.

Eleodes nunenmacheri n. sp.

Robust, subovate, densely sculptured and dull black. Elytra tuber-
culate throughout, body setigerous throughout.

Head rather small, less than one-half the width of the prothorax,
very densely punctate, punctures rather small, subperforate, and more
or less coalescent; intervals very narrow or more or less obsolete;
feebly and broadly impressed along the line of the frontal suture. An-
tennae a little longer than the head and pronotum, moderate in stout-
ness, outer four joints moderately compressed, very feebly incrassate;
third joint as long as the fourth and fifth taken together, fourth to the
seventh inclusive subequal in length and obconic, eighth triangular,
ninth and tenth about as long as wide, eleventh obovate.

Pronotum wider than long, widest just in front of the middle;
sides broadly and evenly arcuate anteriorly, oblique and converging
posteriorly, and just noticeably arcuate to straight—not reéntrant,
constricted in basal twelfth, sides of the constriction straight and
parallel, sinuate only at the junction of the obliquely directed sides
and the constriction, arcuately subangulate at middle; disk evenly and
moderately convex, densely punctate, punctures moderate, subperforate,
more or less coalescent and minutely setigerous, intervals very narrow
to subobsolete, with scattered small smooth areas as if a puncture was
now and then obsolete; apex very feebly sinuate and not beaded;
base subequal to the apex, transverse and not beaded; apical angles
obtusely and narrowly rounded; basal angles rectangular and not prom-
inent.

Propleura opaque, densely and finely punctate, punctures minutely
setigerous; surface rugulose at the acetabula.

Elytra slightly longer than wide. quadrato-ovate, widest in middle
third; base truncate, slightly wider than the contiguous prothoracic
base; humeri subangulate and not prominent; disk moderately con-
vex on the dorsum, broadly and arcuately rounded laterally, arcuately
and abruptly declivous posteriorly; surface strongly tuberculate

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throughout, tubercles moderate in size, nearly simple, bearing small
setae, laterally and on the apical declivity more distinctly muricate,
setae longer, feebly reclinate, more strongly so at the extreme periphery,
with minute tubercles scattered between the larger ones, all smooth and
more or less shining, general surface minutely reticulate.

Epipleura very sparsely muricato-tuberculate, gradually narrowing
from base to apex; surface minutely reticulate.

Sterna finely and densely punctate.

Parapleura finely and less densely punctate.

Abdomen smooth and shining, rather densely punctate, first segments
distinctly so, fifth finely and moderately densely punctate.

Legs moderate in length and stoutness.

$.—Less robust, somewhat narrower. Abdomen rather less than
moderately convex, impressed at middle of the first two segments,
slightly oblique to the sterna. First two joints of the prctarsi clothed
with a tuft of golden pubescence at tips beneath. First joint of the
mesotarsi without tufts.

9.—Robust. Abdomen quite strongly convex. First joint of the
protarsi distinctly thickened at apex beneath and evidently clothed
with coarse short setae; second joint with a narrow transverse tuft
which is cleft at middle, plantar groove distinct basally, but obsolete on
the first joint which is convex beneath.

Measurements. 6 —Length, 9.5-11.0 mm.; width, 4.5-5.0 mm. Q9—
Iength, 12.5 mm.; width, 6.5 mm.

Habitat—Klamath and Lake counties, Oregon; Lassen and
Modoc Counties, California. 17 specimens studied.

Types 6 and 2 in my own collection ; type locality, Klamath
County, Oregon. F. W. Nunenmacher, collector.

The males have the prothorax rather more strongly con-
stricted before the base, but the sides in all instances are
straight or feebly arcuate between the middle and the con-
striction and not re-entrant, as in cordata and pimelioides.
The prothorax appears relatively wider as a result.

Nunenmacheri differs from pimelioides in the shape of the
pronotum and in its denser punctuation; the tuberculation of
the elytra is also more regular and less muricate. It should
follow pimelioides and its races in our lists.

FBleodes nunenmacheri, var. verrucula n. var.
Form as in nunenmacheri. Punctuation of the pronotal disk slightly

finer. In the female the form of the pronotum is the same as in
ninenmachert, while in the male the basal constriction is more ab-

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ruptly formed; as a result the sides behind the middle are somewhat
more strongly convergent and straighter, and the sides of the con-
stricted portion are straight and parallel. The basal angles are rec-
tangular.

The elytral disk centrally and along the suture is somewhat sub-
obsoletely tuberculo-rugulose, peripherally muricato-tuberculate, the
tubercles being more reclinate than in nunenmacheri, their summits are
bright and shining and about one-half as large as in the typical race;
very small tubercles are scattered between the larger ones. The
general surface is microscopically granulato-reticulate. Laterally the
tubercles are setigerous, the setae are reclinate and in length about
equal to the height of the tubercles; on the central part of the disk
the setae are more hair-like.

The inter-coxal process of the prosternum is not mucronate in the
specimens at hand.

6.—Abdomen oblique to the sterna, rather feebly convex and quite
strongly impressed on the first two segments. The basal two joints of
the protarsi bear tufts of golden pubescence at tips beneath; basal
joint of the mesotarsi bears a small transverse tuft.

2 —As in nunenmachert.

Frequently the apical tarsal tufts are piceo-fuscous, but usually
become golden yellow after immersion in chloroform.

Measurements.— 6 —Length, 9.5-11.0 mm.; width, 4.5-5.0 mm. 2—
Length, 12.5 mm.; width, 6.5 mm.

Habitat—Lake and Klamath Counties, Oregon; Lassen and
Modoc Counties, California; 78 specimens studied.

Types ¢ and 2 in my own collection; type locality, Lake
County, Oregon. F. W. Nunenmacher, collector. The speci-
mens were collected in May. :

Eleodes propinqua n. sp.

Ovate, twice as long as wide, distinctly pubescent throughout, densely
sculptured; elytra moderately scabrous.

Head rather finely and densely punctate, feebly convex. Antennae ex-
tending a short distance beyond the base of the pronotum, slightly
compressed and feebly dilated in the outer three joints, scarcely in-
crassate; third joint just the least longer than the combined lengths
oi the fourth and fifth, fourth to the seventh joints inclusive subequal
in length and width, eighth triangularly obconical, ninth triangulo-
oval, tenth slightly wider than long, the eleventh short obovate.

Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest just in advance of the
middle; disk moderately convex, more strongly so in the lateral thirds,
closely and not finely punctate, intervals narrow, feebly convex but
not rugose, somewhat scabrous laterally; base and apex subtruncate,

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scarcely margined; sides subangulate, more or less feebly arcuate and
convergent before the middle to apex, somewhat oblique, straight or
feebly arcuate to the marked constriction posteriorly, the latter about
or less than one-sixth of the total pronotal length; apical angles ob-
tuse; basal angles rectangular.

Propleura rather densely punctato-rugose and submuricate.

Elytra oval, about one-fourth longer than wide, widest at middle
third; base truncate, distinctly wider than the contiguous pronotal
base; humeri obtuse and not in the least prominent; sides evenly ar-
cuate, apex not broadly rounded; disk moderately convex on the dor-
sum, evenly and broadly arcuate laterally and vertically declivous pos-
teriorly; surface densely sculptured, punctato-scabrous centrally about
the suture, tuberculate laterally, tubercles rather small, somewhat muri-
cate, more strongly so on the apical declivity, each tubercle or punc-
ture with a moderately long semi-erect hair.

Epipleura subscabrous and not strongly defined from the elytral
disk.

Sterna and parapleura shining and densely punctate.

Abdomen glabrous and shining, more or less densely punctate,
especially on the first segment and basally on the others.

Legs moderate and rather slender. Anterior tarsi dissimilar in the
sexes.

$.—Somewhat narrow. Abdomen feebly oblique to the sterna and
impressed at middle of the first two segments. Protarsi with the
first two joints scarcely thickened at tips beneath, each with a tuft of
pubescence, tufts piceo-flavous, that of the first joint rather broadly
truncate, that of the second transverse and subtruncate; first joint
of the mesotarsi with a small rounded and truncate tuft at tip be-
neath.

9.—Broader and ovate. -Abdomen horizontal. First joint of the
protarsi somewhat thickened at tip, with the apico-marginal tufts
of spinules contiguous at the median plane and blocking the plantar
groove.

6 .—Length, 9.5-10.5 mm.; width, 4.5-5.0 mm. 9@.—Length, 10.0-12.0
mm.; width, 5.0-6.5 mm.

Habitat—Modoc County, California. Collected May 15,
1913, by F. W. Nunenmacher; 52 specimens studied.

Types 6 and Q in my own collection; type locality, Modoc
County, California.

In a single female the joints of the protarsi are
wholly denuded of spinules. The plantar grooves are not de-
fined on the first four joints, which are evenly and smoothly
convex from side to side, the first is subhemispherically promi-

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nent in the apical two-thirds; the fifth joint is alone margined
beneath.

Propinqua is related to caseyi, from which it differs in its
coarser sculpturing, more strongly sinuate sides of the prono-
tum and many other details which can be determined by com-
parison of the two descriptions. The elytra are noticeably
pubescent.

Eleodes brevisetosa, nunenmachert, verrucula and pyopin-
qua belong to the subgenus Blapylis.

Eleodes hispilabris Say, var. imitabilis n. var.

Syn. F. hispilabris forma laevis.

In order to express the relationships of the races of his-
pilabris properly, it becomes necessary to consider the smooth
form (forma laevis) as a race instead of a forma. The origi-
nal diagnosis given in my Monograph of the Eleodiini is as
‘follows:

Robust, integuments decidedly black, thick and alutaceous, also quite
smooth. Thorax rather large. Elytra usually evenly convex from side
to side, sulci very shallow and subobsoletely punctured; intervals
very feebly convex and with a single row of widely spaced punctures,
that become minutely but distinctly muricate laterally and on the
apical declivity. Legs somewhat slender.

Measurements.— 6 —Length, 23.0 mm.;*width, 8.0 mm. 9%—Length,
23.0-26.0 mm.; width, 9.2-10.0 mm.

Habitat—Utah (Salt Lake, June, Coll. Hubbard and
Schwarz); Oregon (The Dalles); State of Washington
(Walla Walla, Coll. Chas. Fuch and F. E. Blaisdell).

Types in my own collection; type locality, The Dalles, Ore-
gon.

While there are very close resemblances between the two
sexes as to general form, a difference is obvious. The males are
slightly narrower and the abdomen less convex. FE. hispila-
bris forma elongata of the Monograph (Bull. 63, U. S.
Nat. Mus.) is a variation of imitabilis and not of the type-
species. Its relationship may be expressed as follows:

E. hispilabris, var. imitabilis, forma elongata.

The essential diagnostic characters are as follows:—General form
distinctly elongate and narrower as compared with the typical race.

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Integuments thick, dull black and alutaceous. Elytra sulcate, but
less so than in E. hispilabris var. sculptilis, and slightly more so than
in imitabilis. The elytral intervals are more or less feebly convex.
The prothorax is noticeably larger and the legs stouter. The general
form is the same in both sexes,—the female is depressed on the
dorsum as in the male and the elytra are but slightly wider than those
of the male. There is here less sexual differentiation, as has already
been mentioned in connection with other species or races, as &.
(Blepylis) neotomae for instance.

Eleodes hispilabris Say, var. attenuata n. var.

Elongate, subfusiform, shining, black; elytra more or less slightly
sulcate, moderately convex; integuments weak.

Head finely and sparsely punctate, punctures coarsest on the epis-
toma and finest on the vertex. Antennae long and as in hispilabris.

Pronotum widest at about the middle; disk smooth and more or
less alutaceous, moderately convex, finely, very sparsely and irregularly
punctured, narrowly granulate and opaque along the marginal bead;
apex slightly narrower than the base, feebly emarginate and obsoletely
beaded; sides evenly and broadly arcuate, becoming slightly sinuate
before the basal angles, which are subrectangular, distinct but not in
the least prominent, marginal bead more or less strong; base feebly
beaded and feebly arcuate; apical angles subacute and not dentiform
to moderately dentiform, not or feebly everted.

Propleura smooth, subopaque, finely punctulate, and more or less
feebly rugulose.

Elytra ovato-fusiform, about twice as long as wide, widest at the
middle; base very feebly emarginate and just the least wider than the
contiguous base of the pronotum; humeri minutely dentiform; sides
evenly arcuate, feebly and broadly sinuate before the apex, the latter
subacute, slightly dehiscent and the suture impressed; disk feebly con-
vex on the dorsum, broadly and rather evenly rounded laterally,
gradually and arcuately declivous posteriorly; surface more or less
sulcate; sulci shallow and with a single row of small, very closely
placed punctures, intervals feebly to moderately convex and with a
single row of widely spaced punctures. The deflexed sides are more
coarsely, irregularly punctate, subsulcate and more or less asperate.

Sterna and parapleura more or less finely punctate.

Abdomen more or less glabrous, finely and sparsely punctate, punc-
tures denser and rugulose on the first segment.

Legs slender; profemora armed. Tarsi grooved and similar in the
sexes.

é—Slender, fusiform. Elytral apex more attenuate and the disk
more gradually declivous on the dorsum. Abdomen horizontal and
feebly convex. |

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9 —Less elongate, broader. Abdomen more strongly convex.

Measurements.— 6 —Length, 20.5-23.0 mm.; width, 6.0-6.5 mm. ?—
Length, 20.0-24.0 mm.; width, 6.2-7.0 mm.

Habitat—Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, August
and September, 1906. Eleven specimens studied. Collected
by F. W. Nunenmacher.

Types in my own collection; type locality, Nogales, Arizona.

Attenuata can be recognized by its smoother sculpturing,
more attenuate and fusiform body.

Some Bees of the Genus Panurginus (Hym.).
By T. D. A. CocKERELL, Boulder, Colorado.

It is a remarkable thing that the northern genus Panurginus
has penetrated to Southern South America; while Perdita, so
rich in species in our southwest, appears to be wholly absent
from the South American desert regions.

Panurginus callurus sp. n.

2 .—Length nearly 5 mm., with broad abdomen; head and thorax
black, abdomen clear orange-ferruginous, without hair-bands; flagellum
short, bright ferruginous beneath, darker above; mandibles bright fer-
ruginous, with the apex broadly black; hair of head and thorax whit-
ish, scanty, abundant on postscutellum; facial quadrangle much broader
than long; head and thorax shining and finely punctured, the mesothorax
and scutellum polished; eyes gray; tegulae light rufo-testaceous; wings
hyaline, nervures and stigma testaceous; b. n. falling far short of t. m.;
base of metathorax with irregular plicae, and the surface microscopi-
cally reticulate; legs ferruginous, the anterior femora dusky; scopa of
hind tibiae loose, of simple curved hairs, which are microscopically an-
nulate; hind basitarsus about as long as the other joints together, and
much broader; claws cleft; abdomen with very little hair except at
apex. The stigma is smaller than in P. vagabundus.

Carcarana, Argentina (L. Bruner 76). United States Na-
tional Museum. Easily known by the red abdomen. P. rufi-
ventris Friese has also a red abdomen, but the head and
thorax are dark blue. It is from Mexico.

Panurginus vagabundus sp. n.

$é.—Length about 5 mm., anterior wing 4; black, the hind margins of
the abdominal segments rather obscurely castaneous; pubescence scanty,
whitish; eyes slaty black; clypeus pale lemon yellow with two dark

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dots, the surface rugoso-punctate, not polished; mandibles rufescent;
labrum black, polished and shining: facial quadrangle about as broad
as long; flagellum bright ferruginous beneath, reaching as far as base
of wings; mesothorax and scutellum shining, finely punctured; base
of metathorax rugulose, dull, with feeble plicae; tubercles faintly red-
dish or wholly black; tegulae rufotestaceous; wings hyaline, very
faintly dusky apically; nervures and the large stigma ferruginous; b. n.
falling a little short of t. m.; knees pale yellowish; anterior tibiae in
front, and their tarsi, light reddish; the other tarsi whitish on outer
side and light ferruginous on inner; abdomen shining, finely punctured,
without hair-bands. Claws cleft; hairs on hind tibiae delicately plu-
mose.

Carcarana, Argentina (L. Bruner, 40 and 72.) United
States National Museum. This is separated from its nearest
relatives as follows, the table based on males:

Tees black: Otis ae eel the mick es bse e dake ols) neon ere see ie
Legs’ partly. yellow or pale reddish -.. 22.225. «025-2. oe epee eee 2
reaGlypeusnyellowa: taccise 6 shee clsisisicie dye cose eee eee saltensis Friese.
Oly meus: whitess tim cnek see clos 3 oecisian aa ee eee deneiventris Friese.
2 Dubercles syellow,; wiles dark’ 2... s.255,. tet eee steinbachi Friese.
Tubercles not yellow, wings clear ...........<.... vagabundus Ckll.

In Meadow Valley, northern Mexico, Prof. C. H. T. Town-
send took three species of Panurginus. One is the Rocky
Mountain P. bakeri Ckll., while the other two are new.

Panurginus nitescens sp. n.

@ —Length a little over 7 mm.; shining black, with scanty pale hair;
eyes obscure green; clypeus polished, with large distinctly separated
punctures, and a faintly indicated median groove; antennae black; an
impunctate area on each side of the ocelli; mesothorax polished, with
distinct but widely scattered punctures; area of metathorax rugosopli-
cate, with a prominent smooth shining rim; tegulae dark, with a large
reddish spot; wings clear, nervures and stigma dull rather pale red-
dish; legs black, with pale hair; spurs ferruginous; abdomen shining,
hind margins of segments 2 to 4 broadly reddish.

Meadow Valley, Mexico (Townsend). United States Na-
tional Museum. This species is best distinguished by com-
parison with several others which it greatly resembles, as
follows: :

Middle of flagellum bright rufous beneath; wings brownish,
perlaevis Ckll.

Flagellum not thus marked; wings clear, or (piercei) slightly dusky. .1.

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1. Second s. m. narrowed fully half above, first r. n. joining second
s. m. much more than twice as far from base as second r. n. from
apex; mesothorax very smooth, without conspicuous punctures,
piercet Crawi.
Second s. m. not thus narrowed above, first r. n. joining second s.
m. nearer base (especially in innuptus); mesothorax distinctly
DWITNCMEREGL S55 COG OO DORE Oto UCT COI EaRI tera ener anes
2. Area of metathorax without a shiny rim; tegulae testaceous,

mnuptus Cklil.

Area of metathorax with a shiny rim; tegulae reddish fuscous,
nitescens CkIl.

Panurginus planatus sp. n.

¢@ —Length about 6 mm.; slender, black; quadrate spot on labrum,

large spot at bast of mandibles, clypeus entirely, lateral face-marks
(pointed above at an angle of about 50 deg.), a lobe on inner side of
lateral marks (representing part of dog-ear marks) and lower part of
supraclypeal area (pointed above), all pale yellow; the yellow patch on
labrum is the process, which is broadly truncate, slightly emarginate,
with a submarginal row of black spots; pubescence scanty and pale:
antennae long, black; mesothorax polished, with strong punctures;
area of metathorax with strong plicae, more or less branching, but
without a shining rim; knees broadly, tibiae at apex, anterior tibiae
in front, and the basitarsi, light yellow; tegulae rufopiceous; wings
dusky, nervures and stigma fuscous; abdomen shining, sixth ventral
segment with a large median depression.

Meadow Valley, Mexico, September (Townsend.) United
States National Museum. Related to P. concinnus Fox, but
especially to P. rudbeckiae Rob. The three are separated
thus :

Flagellum pale testaceous beneath. .concinnus Fox (Lower California).

Sa Clear egress etovaee otaher cee RoR lace arate Smads Son anteater acta Seen ore I.
. Clypeus with a strong median sulcus ..rudbeckiae Rob. (Illinois).
Signeds without such’ av sulcus: * 1.0% on oes he oes ole planatus CkIl.

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New Species of Lopidea from Arizona (Hemip.
Miridae).*
By Harry H. Knicut, Ithaca, New York.
(Plate X.)

The writer did considerable collecting in Arizona, while
with the Cornell Biological Expedition, and in the present
paper gives the results of his studies on the species of Lopidea
taken in that region. This interesting genus presents a num-
ber of species having great similarity of coloration and gen-
eral form but with very distinct genital structures, characters
which must be used if we are to determine the species con-
sistently.

Lopidea arizonae new species (Plate X, Fig. 1).

Suggestive of marginata but much larger and with bright
red on the basal half of the pronotum: genital claspers dis-
tinctive of the species.

é. Length 7 mm., width 2.3 mm. Head white, the sutures, sides
of tylus, heavy bar each side of the median line of the front and the
base of the head black; rostrum blackish with pale on the first seg-
ment, eyes brownish to black; antennae black, second segment linear.
Pronotum with the basal half bright red, shining, narrow basal margin
fuscous, anterior margin white, calli black. Scutellum fuscous, pale
median stripe on the apical half. Hemelytra dark red shaded with
fuscous, more red bordering the embolium and on the inner half of
the cuneus; embolium and outer margin of the cuneus ivory white;
fine pale pubescence with short black bristles on the white embolium;
membrane fuscous. Coxae and femora more or less pale and marked
with fuscous and black; femora fuscous on the front margin with a
row of black dots beneath and usually two rows on the upper side,
tibiae and tarsi black. Venter marked transversely with alternating
bands of fuscous, reddish and pale.

@. Very similar to the male in coloration, only more robust, the
pale color more extended on the venter.

This species was taken by the writer on Robinia neomexi-
cana in Post Creek canyon near Bonita, Arizona. It occurs
apparently in several mountain ranges of Arizona at altitudes
of 6000 to 7500 feet.

*Contribution from the Department of Entomology of Cornell
University.

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Holotype— 6, July 16, 1917, near Bonita, Arizona (H. H.
Knight) ; Cornell University Collection.

Allotype—Taken with the type.

Paratypes—3 4, 22 2, topotypic; 2 6,1 2, July 27, Sa-
bino Canyon, altitude 7800 feet, Mt. Lemon, Santa Catalina
Mountains, Arizona (H. H. Knight). ¢ @, July 29, Hua-
chuca Mountains, Arizona (H. G. Barber). 14 ¢ 2, Arizona
(H. K. Morrison, 1883, Cornell Collection). ¢, June 15,
Jemez Springs, New Mexico (Woodgate).

Lopidea apache new species (Plate X, Fig. 2).

Very similar in general appearance to arizona but differs in
having the anterior margin of the pronotum more reddish and
the basal half of the disk more fuscous; male more reddish,
including the embolium and cuneus.

6. Length 6.8 mm., width 2.1 mm. Head nearly as in arizona but
with the black on the tylus and front more extended. Pronotum deep
dull red, calli black, the disk somewhat darkened with fuscous. Hem-
elytra as in arizona, but all white of the embolium, cuneus and scu-
tellum replaced by red. Legs more fuscous and sides of the venter
with more red than in arizona; genital claspers distinctive of the
species (fig. 2).

2. Length 7.2 mm., width 2.3 mm. Hemelytra with more fuscous
than red, embolium and outer half of the cuneus pale, inner half of
the cuneus red; disk of the pronotum having the red darkened with
fuscous, anterior margin more pale with reddish.

This species was taken in company with arizonae on Robinia
neome.vicana and at the time was thought to be the same spe-
cies. It is possible that apache was merely attracted to the
plant to feed on the flowers and does not breed there.

Holotype— 8, July 16, 1917, near Bonita, Arizona (H. H.
Knight) ; Cornell University Collection.

Allotype—Taken with the type.

Paratypes—6 6, 31 2, taken with the types.

Lopidea navajo new species (Plate X, Fig. 3).

Very similar to apache but slightly smaller, darker colored
and with less red; male genital claspers distinctive of the
species.

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é. Length 6.5 mm., width 1.9 mm. Head marked nearly as in
arizona, but the pale areas more yellowish. Pronotum with the disk
more fuscous than reddish, the anterior margin pale yellowish and not
conspicuously white as in arizona. Scutellum and hemelytra mostly
dark fuscous as in apache, but the embolium and more than half of
the white, claval suture margined with pale. Legs and venter nearly
as in arizona.

Q. Very similar to the male in coloration and only slightly more
robust.

This species was found breeding abundantly on Robinia
neomexicana near Williams, Arizona. The writer has never
seen any species of Lopidea so abundant as was this one on the
trees of R. neomexicana around the camping grounds set
aside in the forest preserve two miles west of Williams.
Nymphs as well as adults were taken clustered on the tender
flower shoots where they preferred to feed. Strangely enough
L. arizonae was not taken here though the botanists determined
the trees as identical with those from which arizonae was taken
at Bonita.

Holotype— é, August 4, 1917, Williams, Arizona (H. H.
Knight) ; Cornell University Collection.

Allotype—Taken with the type.

Paratypes—Numerous specimens taken with the types.

Lopidea lateralis new species (Plate X, Fig. 4).

$6. Length 5.0 mm., width 2 mm. Black, the embolium and onter
half of the cuneus ivory white. Pronotum with the side margins of
the disk strongly margined, narrowly pale; basal angles of the disk
and posterior half of the sides orange red; extreme base of the corium
and the articulations brownish to orange. Second antennal segment
slightly thicker at the base, tapering gradually to the apex; genital
claspers (fig. 4) distinctive of the species.

9. Length 6 mm., width 2 mm. Very similar to the male in col-
oration. A few females have the membrane much abbreviated, ab-
ruptly rounded and scarcely reaching over the tip of the venter
(length 4.7 mm., width 2 mm.).

This species was swept from a wild raspberry (Rubus sp.)
and a few from flowering herbaceous plants growing on the
slopes of Mt. Lemon at an altitude of 7800 feet.

Holotype— ¢, July 27, 1917, Sabino Canyon, altitude 7800

Mol! xxix | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 175

feet, Mt. Lemon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona (H. H.
Knight) ; Cornell University Collection.

Allotype—Taken with the type.

Paratypes—26 6,17 2, topotypic; ¢, August 4, Williams,
Puona (Hdd. (Knight). 3 ¢,1 9, Arizona (H.-K. Morri-
son,, 1883, Cornell Collection).

Lopidea garryae new species (Plate X, Fig. 5).

A small fuscous form having some of the color characters
of nigridca but differs in several respects; genital claspers dis-
tinctive of the species.

6. Length 5.1 mm., width 1.5 mm. Fuscous, the head and anten-
nae black, legs fuscous to blackish; bordering the front of the eyes,
sometimes the sides of the face, sides and front margin of the pro-
notum, dull pale yellowish. Hemelytra and scutellum fuscous, embo-
lium and frequently the base of the clavus and corium pale yellowish
to reddish brown; cuneus reddish, membrane fuscous. Venter fus-
cous with reddish on the sides.

2. Length 5 mm., width 1.6 mm. Very similar to the male, the
embolium paler with the head and venter more blackish.

This species was found breeding on Garrya wrightii in Post
Creek Canyon, altitude 7000 feet, near Bonita, Arizona.

Holotype— é, July 16, 1917, near Bonita, Arizona (H. H.
Knight) ; Cornell University Collection.

Allotype—Taken with the type.

Paratypes—5 4, 2 9%, taken with the types.

Lopidea lepidii new species (Plate X, Fig. 6).

Very similar to media in size and coloration but differing
distinctly in the structure of the male genital claspers.

4. Length 52 mm., width 1.7 mm. Head and antennae black, juga,
lorae, genae and bordering the eyes yellowish to reddish; second an.
tennal segment nearly linear. Thorax, hemelytra and venter bright
red, with the calli, scutellum, sternum, apical half of the clavus and
inner half of the corium darkened with fuscous. Legs dark fuscous
to blackish; genital claspers (fig. 6) distinctive of the species. |

@. Length 5.6 mm., width 1.9 mm. Slightly more robust than the
male, the red color more of an orange. This species has very rarely
if ever the white embolium so frequent in media.

Holotype— 4, July 17, 1917, near Bonita, Arizona (H. H.
Knight) ; Cornell University Collection,

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Allotype—Taken with the type.

Paratypes—Numerous specimens taken with the types. 14
é ?, Arizona (H. K. Morrison, 1883, Cornell Collection). ¢,
July 13, Palmer Lake; 3 3, July 31, Ridgway; ¢, June 1o,
Fort Lupton, Colorado.

The writer found the species breeding on Lepidium thirberi
which was growing around the adobe ruins of old Fort Gra-
ham, near Bonita, Arizona. A short distance away was found
an extensive growth of the same plant as determined by the
botanists on the expedition, which was abundantly infested by
Lygus elisus V. D., but no specimens of Lopidea lepidit were
to be found. It would seem from this that the species breeds
only in favored spots.

The writer has seen specimens of both media and lepidti
from Colorado where the species appear to overlap. In the
eastern States there is only one species that could be taken for
media Say, it having the inner hook on the right clasper very
long and more slender than in /epidii, the same clasper having
also near the tip a distinct dorsal projection with five or six
serrate teeth at the top.

Lopidea minima new species (Plate X, Fig. 7).

Very small, reddish with fuscous and black, resembling
media in coloration ; genital claspers distinctive of the species.

6. Length 3.8 mm., width 1.4 mm. Black, the basal half of the
pronotum orange to red; hemelytra red, bordering the commissure,
membrane and scutellum, fuscous.

Holotype— é. July 23, 1917, Sabino Canyon, altitude 5500
feet, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona (H. H. Knight) ; Cor-
nell University Collection.

Paratypes— 8, topotypic. 2 ¢, Arizona (H. K. Morrison.
1883, Cornell Collection).

The writer took the species on Coursetia microphylla which
is probably the food plant. At that date the species was not in
season, the two specimens taken probably being stragglers of

the brood.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE X.
Male genital claspers of Lopidea. A, left clasper, dorsal aspect.
B, right clasper, dorsal aspect. C, right clasper, posterior aspect,

Ent. NEws, VOL. XXIX. Plate X.

AAS

\L. axizonw

No gorryae

A =
|

ee minima a Lepidit |

NEW LOPIDEAE FROM ARIZONA.—KNIGHT.

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A New Muscoid Genus from the Chiricahua Moun-
tains, Arizona (Dip.).
By Cuaryies H. T. Townsenp, U. S. Bureau of Entomology,
Washington, D. C.

On August 4, 1917, while seeking shelter in a shallow cave
under overhanging rock walls of South Fork Cave Creek,
Chiricahua Mts., Arizona, at an altitude of about 5500 feet, the
writer found a single female of a very remarkable fly resting
on the roof of a pocket at one end of the cave. Diligent search
made subsequently in similar situations failed to disclose addi-
tional specimens. The reproductive system was extracted and
proves the fly to belong to one of the Calirrhoid groups, as
indicated by the external head characters.

CHIRICAHUIA new genus.

Head in profile nearly twice as high as its length, in front
view almost as wide as its height. Eyes proportionately small,
thinly but distinctly hairy, extending about as low as tips of
antennae or about two-thirds’ way to vibrissae. Lower profile
of head rounded, bulged downward. Vibrissal axis equal to
antennal axis. Clypeus broad, rather elongate-oval in outline,
widened below, in nearly same plane throughout, feebly cari-
nate on upper half. Epistoma in front view very short and
restricted, in same plane with clypeus, not produced, about
level with vibrissae. Facialia widely separated, only slightly
curved inward below, with sparse downwardly-directed bris-
tles on lowest third, the vibrissae widely separated and a little
longer than the bristles below them. Proboscis very short, less
than one-third head-height. Palpi reaching nearly to end of
proboscis, moderately stout, subcylindrical. Antennae inserted
far above eye-middle, extending scarcely over half way to oral
margin, second joint but little elongate, third joint about two
and one-half times length of second and of even width. Arista
bare, basal joints short, inserted nearly half way down third
antennal joint. Front very broad, taking up nearly half the
head-width at vertex, widening anteriorly, scarcely as long as
its average width. Parafrontalia averaging somewhat broader
than frontalia, narrowing posteriorly. Frontal bristles descend-
ing to base of third antennal joint. Outer vertical well devel-

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oped, directed strongly outward and a little forward. Three
proclinate frento-orbitals, the hind one directed more outward
and representing the ordinary reclinate pair, a very small one
between the front two and some microchaetae outside. Front-
alia extended into narrow divergent prongs behind, the ocellar
area occupying half their length. Ocellars present, proclinate.
Parafacialia rather broad, averaging about one-third width of
clypeus, with row of downwardly-directed bristles along front
edge, this row paralleled on lower half by a short row behind it
near lower end of eye. Cheeks almost as wide as eye-length,
nearly as wide as vibrissal axis. Occiput broadly bulged be-
hind eyes. Occiput and cheeks sparsely clothed with short
bristles.

Two sternopleurals, three postsuturals. Four marginal pairs
of scutellars, the apical pair slightly longest. No costal spine,
third vein bristled about half its length, other veins bare.
Apical cell narrow, attenuate on distal third, open, ending in
wing-tip, the fourth vein only gently sinuate, the third vein
curved strongly backward distally. Hind crossvein straight,
nearer to small crossvein than to cubitus. Tegulae smatler
than average. Legs short, front tarsi but little wider than
others.

Abdomen of four segments, the last two segments a little
longer than the first two; without macrochaetae, with only
bristly hairs which are a little longer and more erect on anal
segment.

Chiricahuia cavicola new species.

One female, in small cave in rock cliffs of South Fork Cave
Creek, Chiricahua Mts., Arizona, 5500 feet, August 4, 1917
(Townsend). Holotype, No. 21580, U. S. N. M., TD. 5130.

Length of body, 5 mm.: of wing, 4.5 mm. Lemon-yellow; the ab-
domen, mesoscutum, scutellum, tibiae and tarsi brown;. the pleurae,
antennae and palpi light rufous. Frontalia brownish-rufous. Ptilinal
suture conspicuously brown. Wing veins yellow, a small slight cloud
at stigma; hind crossvein conspicuously clouded, also second, third
and fourth veins evenly so on apical fifth of wing. Tegulae watery-
white. In some lights the abdomen and scutellum appear yellow and
the mesoscutum polished black.

This strange fly appears to belong in or near the Melano-
phorinae, and may be parasitic in some cave-frequenting host.

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The Anthomyid Genus Pogonomyia (Dip.).*
By J. M. Avpricu, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, West
Lafayette, Indiana.

The genus Pogonomyia was established by Rondani in 1870
(Bull. Soc. Ital., ii, 336, xxiii) for a single species, alpicola,
which was designated as type; it came from Mont Cenis in
the Alps. The main characters are repeated by Van der Wulp,
Biologia, Dipt., ii, 334, 1896, and by Meade, Desc. List. Br.
Anth., London, 1897, p. 29. I translate the entire description
from Rondani’s Prodomus Dipt. Ital., vi, 37, 1877:

“Eyes bare, almost contiguous onthe front in male. Front prom-
inent. Oral margin, especially at the sides of the epistoma, with dense
erect beard. Antennae short, the second segment with rather long

- setulae; arista nearly bare. The hind calypter a little longer than the
front one. Anterior crossvein directly behind the tip of the first vein;
sixth vein rather long but not reaching the margin. Front and middle
femora of ordinary structure, the hind ones with a row of setae below;
middle tibiae with setae behind and on outer side; hind tibiae some-
what incurved toward tip. Apex of abdomen setose but not densely
villous.”

Dziedzicki and Schnabl (Die Anthomyiden, IQII, 196) ad-
mit several rather divergent species, so that the gents in their
conception is difficult to define; they recognize two subgenera,
Pogonomyia and Pogonomyiella.

Stein, in his classic work on North American Anthomyidae
(Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xiii, 1897, 169, 170) mentioned two spe-
cies found in the N. A. collections sent him. The first, from
Idaho, he identified doubtfully as alpicola, a species with which
he was not acauainted; the other he recognized only in two
females and did not describe. As I furnished the Idaho ma-

- terial, most of it was returned to me, and I collected more
“specimens in the West in later vears. Only a couple of years
ago I sent some to Professor Bezzi, and he informed me that
they were not the European alpicola, and sent me a pair of
the latter to support his opinion. Later I found alpicola in

Colorado.

* Published by permission of the Chief of Bureau,

180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, ’18

Van der Wulp described (loc. cit.) a Pogonomyia aterrima
from northern Mexico (Ciudad Durango, 8100 feet) ; as his

description agrees and I have the northern species from as far
south as Southern California, there is no reason to question
that aterrvima is the same as the Idaho species. I redescribe
it farther on.

Stein’s other North American species was even more un-
fortunate, as he described the male in the same paper under
the name Spilogaster nitens (p. 199); auite recently, more-
over, one of the females with Stein’s label “Pogonomyia n. sp.”
came under the eye of Mr. Malloch, and as he had the male he
described the species under the name Pogonomyia flavinervis.
This synonymy I made out from the type of nitens (which,
by the way, is from Toronto and not Massachusetts as Stein
gives it) ; it has been rubbed on the most accessible side of the
head, and consequently does not show as many bristles on the
epistoma as is characteristic of the genus, which doubtless ex-
plains the mistake.

Generic Characters. Alpicola shows the following charac-
ters in both sexes, which I consider of generic importance (see
figure of head) :

Entirely shining or subshining black color ; epistoma strongly
produced and upturned, the
vibrissae above the lower
edge of the head; bucca and
back of head with abundant
long bushy hairs; sides of
epistoma with bushy hairs,
some of which are directed
upward; parafacial wide;
front prominent, antennae
short, the arista nearly
bare; eyes bare; acrostich-
als merely hairs except the
hindmost pair; calvpters un-

Pogonomyia alpicola —Head of Male. equal, the hind ones rather
strongly projecting behind the front ones; halteres black;
scutellum bare below; dorsum of abdomen bearing rather

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numerous long, slender, upright bristles, irregularly ar-
ranged except a row along the hind edge of each segment ;
hind tibia bearing among others a row of strong bristles down
the inner hind side; no costal spine; third and fourth veins al-
most parallel; sixth vein well developed at base, becoming
evanescent and disappearing at about two-thirds the distance
to the margin.

The male has a narrow front and the female has cruciate
frontals; but these are less important characters than some at
least of the preceding list.

Schnabl and Dziedzicki include two species with yellow hal-
teres, one with vlumose arista, one with wide front in male.
We are not concerned with these at present. The four species
herein treated agree very well in characters, and unquestionably
belong together. The genus belongs to Phaoninae, differing
from Phaonia mainly in the protuberant epistoma with up-
curved bristles, the black halteres and the general intense black
color. Most Phaonias have hairy eyes, and none of the forty
species in my collection has black halteres.

Table of Species. Male and Female.
1. Parafacial as wide as the length of the third antennal joint; front

tibia with 4 bristles on outer hind side in male, 3 in female....2
Parafacial narrower than length of third antennal joint; front
tibia with 2 bristles on outer hind side (rarely 3 in female)....2

2. Front of male twice as wide as distance between hind ocelli; mid
basitarsus with two rows of stout spines below, which in the
male are longer than the width of the joint, in the female not
Baitetso lone (Colorado) 720. 9..1.6 sae oe spinitarsis n. sp.

Front of male not as wide as the distance between the hind ocelli,
mid basitarsus in both sexes without unusual spines (Europe,
Colorado) = si c6 jas oe AG a eke ct tte te oe alpicola Rondani

3. Eastern species (Ontario to Wisconsin and Illinois) ; parafacials sur-
passing the width but not equaling the length of the third anten-
nal joint; palpi elongate; wings yellow, especially the veins;
abdomen in male brownish-gray pollinose with narrow median
pee SERED eee cc ce osteo re ie pseannle ria ae oun gopalorerevsmeei = 31 nitens Stein

Western species (British Columbia to Mexico and Colorado) ; para-
facials as wide as third antennal joint; palpi usually not elon-
gate; wings infuscated; abdomen subshining black,

aterrima Van der Wulp

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Pcogonomyia aterrima V. d. Wulp.
Van der Wulp, Biologia, Dipt., ii, 334, 1896.
Stein, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xiii, 169, 1897 (? alpicola).

8. (First see generic characters and table of species above.)
Wholly black, mostly subshining. Front only slightly protuberant be-
low, at the narrowest above about as wide as the distance between
the hind ocelli; orbits silvery, very narrow; about 12 pairs of erect
frontal bristles, beginning slightly below ocelli; second antennal joint
with three or four long erect hairs; parafacial silvery, about as wide
as third antennal joint; transverse impression extending narrowly below
the eye, very distinctly set off from the shining, bushy-haired bucca,
which extends forward to form the side of the protuberant epistoma;
front edge of epistoma forms a sharp projecting rim; palpi of ordi-
nary size, with a few hairs; proboscis rather slender, with ordinary
labella; back of head flat above, bulging below, covered with bushy
hair.

Thorax above with very thin brown pruinosity, almost shining, its
hairs erect and long, not very numerous, its bristles large; post dc 3,
ant dc 2, inta 2, supa 2, posta 2, hum 3, inthum 1, presut 1, npl 2; stpl
1 large behind and one more slender in front, together with several
irregular slender ones. Mesopleura hairy and bristly above a diagonal
line from the upper anterior to the lower posterior angle; pteropleura
and metapleura bare. Scutellum with one marginal and one apical
pair of bristles, the latter close together. Calypters and their fringe
white.

Abdomen moderately broad and flat, the two middle segments about
2% times as wide as long; hypopygium small, rounded, turned under,
both its segments subshining, the first with rather coarse, the second
with very fine hair; inner forceps (obere Zangen, D. & S.) short and
blunt, the outer (untere Zangen, D. & S..—homologous with the acces-
sory plates of Parker’s and my Sarcophagid work) shining brown,
stout, not tapering, almost truncate at tip, straight, the hind edge
excised to fit against the inner forceps. Fifth sternite not much devel-
oped, with a shallow excision apically.

Middle femur with a row of bristles on the whole length of the
front lower edge, smaller at tip where there are some larger above
them; and on apical third of front lower edge a row of about 5, be-
ginning large and decreasing. Hind femur with an entire row of
long bristles below, another on the upper front edge, and one on the
hind side which dwindles toward tip. Front tibia with three setae on
outer hind edge; middle tibia with about eight on outer hind side,
three on inner hind side, one small or none on outer front side; hind
tibia with a strong row on outer hind side, another on inner hind
side, four or five on outer front side (well outwardly), and usually
a few erect hairs on inner front side. Pulvilli grayish brown moder-
ately elongated, on the front feet only.

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Wings strongly blackened on front and basal portion.

Length 5.5-6 mm.

9. Front nearly as wide as one eye, velvet black, a shining triangle
in front of the ocelli; parafrontals and parafacials wider than in male;
frontal bristles eight or nine, large. Middle tibia with three or four
setae on outer front side, otherwise as in male; hind tibia without
erect hairs on inner front side. Wings slightly and rather evenly in-
fuscated. Length 6-7 mm.

84 specimens, of both sexes: SASKATCHEWAN: 2 Farewell
Creek, August, 1907. IpaHo: 11 Moscow, April 23 to May
22; 1 Craig’s Mt., June 21-25, 1894; 2 Lawyer’s Canyon, June
16, 1909. CaLirorNiIA: 5 Claremont (C. F. Baker). Coto-
RADO: 61 Tennessee Pass, July 24-26, 1917.

Variations: The cruciate frontal bristles of the female are
sometimes absent; some females show the palpi lengthened as
in nitens; the pubescence of the arista is occasionally almost as
long as in nitens.

Pogonomyia nitens Stein.
Stein, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xiii, 199, 1897 (Spilogaster).
Malloch, Bull. Ill. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., 1915, 356 (flavinervis).

This species differs from aterrima in so few characters that
a full description is superfluous. The main differences have
already been presented in tabular form; I should add that the
palpi in nitens are longer and more slender than is usually the
case in aterrima.

Ten specimens, both sexes: one female, Algonquin, I1linois,
paratype of flavinervis, from Mr. Malloch; eight specimens,
Polk County, Wisconsin, collected many years ago by Prof. C.
F. Baker, which I found in the collections at Stanford Univer-
sity; one female, Waubamic, Ontario, June 14, 1915 (H. A.
Parrish, Coll.), furnished by Professor Melander.

I have also seen several Wisconsin specimens in the collec-
tions of Professors Marshall and Wilson, in the University of
Wisconsin, and Mr. Malloch recently informs me that he has a
‘long series from Illinois; but I have never found it in Indiana.
All of the recorded dates of collection are in quite early sum-
mer, and this is also true for aterrima if the altitude is con-
sidered.

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Pogonomyia alpicola.
Rondani, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., ii, 337, 1870; Prod. Dipt. Ital., vi,
33, 1877 (both male only).
Pokorny, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xliii, 7, 1893 (female).

See list of generic characters already given, and also table of spe-
cies. Front of male at narrowest somewhat wider than the anterior
ocellus, widening rapidly toward antennae; in female about a third
the head-width above, slightly more anteriorly. Parafacials silvery,
parafrontals not; side of epistoma with about 20 long upcurved bris-
tles in male only 6 or 8 shorter in female.

Thorax and abdomen black with thin brownish pruinosity, same in
both sexes, and upright long hairs in male which are but little devel-
oped in female. Chaetotaxy: ps de 3 or 4, ant de 2, acr in female only
a prescutellar pair, in male numerous tall hairs in front, those behind
the suture becoming somewhat like slender bristles; hum 2 or 3, npl 2,
intal 2, supal 1 and a long prealar, scutellum with 2 lateral and 1 api-
cal, postal 2, mesopleura and sternopleura in male with abundant long
hair approximating the length of bristles, no distinct separation be-
tween them and the few bristles; in the female stpl 3, mspl with a
row behind and 2 or 3 in front. Calypters white with pale yellow
rim and fringe. :

Abdomen unstriped, fourth segment longest in ‘female, sternites in
male with long, dense hair. Mid tibia of male with 3 bristles on
outer front side, 5-6 on outer hind, 6-8 on inner hind, 4-5 slender on
inner front; the female has one or two less in each of these rows.
Hind tibia of male with numerous rows of bristles standing in all

directions except directly toward the flexor and extensor surfaces,.

especially a few characteristic erect, long hairs on inner and outer
flexor, an incipient “villosity”; the calcar is one of a row on the inner
extensor side. The female has on the hind tibia only three rows—
4 in meso-extensor, 5 on latero-extensor, and 5-6 on latero-flexor. A
slight spine below on hind basitarsus. Wing strongly infuscated at
base, gradually less so toward apex, no costal spine.

Length 6 to 7% mm.

Two males, one female, Tennessee Pass, Colorado, July
24-26, 1917; one male, one female, Europe, from Professor
Bezzi.

Pogonomyia spinitarsis n. sp.

Closely allied to alpicola, from which it differs by the characters
given in the table and ‘a few others. The upcurved bristles of the
epistoma are only about 8 in male, 5 in female; arista with very short
pubescence; palpi short.

Thorax of male not with the striking long hair of alpicola male,

— ee ——)

Ent. NEws, VOL. XXIX. Plate XI.

STICTOLOBUS TRILINEATUS sp. Nov.—FUNKHOUSER.

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more like the females of the two species. Tibiae in both sexes with
bristles about as in alpicola, but with mid and hind tarsi more spiny
beneath, which attains its greatest development in the mid _ basitarsi
of the male, where there are 10-12 striking spines in each of two rows.
Wings as in alpicola. Size the same.

One male, one female, Square-Top Mt., Grant, Geneva
Park, Colorado, July 24, 1916. Altitude 11,500 feet. Collected
by L. O. Jackson. Types in the Bureau of the Biological
Survey, Washington, D. C. They were sent me for study by

J. R. Malloch.

A New Membracid on Cypress (Homop.).

By W. D. FunKHouser, Cascadilla School, Ithaca,
New York.
(Plate XI.)

Through the courtesy of Mr. H. H. Knight, of Cornell Uni-
versity, | have been permitted to examine a series of specimens
of a very interesting species of Membracidae collected from
cypress in Louisiana in the summer of 1917.

The insect has apparently not been described and is of inter-
est not only because it is the first membracid recorded on this
host but also because it proves to be another representative of
the genus Stictolobus erected by Metcalf in 1916* to accom-
modate Membracis subulata Say.

This genus is peculiar in showing the pronotal characters of
a Cyrtolobus and the wing structure of a Stictocephala. The
anterior elevation of the pronotum is obtusely rounded as in
Cyrtolobus and the general appearance of the insect suggests
that genus. The forewings, however, are entirely free, as in
Stictocephala, although there are no indications of carinate
sides on the metopidium.

The series consists of thirty-seven specimens. Seven males
and thirteen females were collected at Bogalousa, Louisiana,
on June 15, 1917, and eleven males and six females were
taken at Colyell, Louisiana, on June 16. All were found on
cypress.

os Metcalf, Ze. hhe Rediscovery of Membracis subulata Say, with
a Description of a New Genus (Homop.). Entomological News, Jan-
Mary, 1910, Vol. xxvii, No. 1, 1-3 pp., Pl. I.

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The species is reported as being comparatively abundant in
the type locality on the dates given and may be described as
follows:

Stictolobus trilineatus sp. nov. (Plate XI).
Near Stictolobus subulatus Say but differing in color, in
markings, in punctuation and slightly in wing venation.

Bright green with three longitudinal white stripes; posterior process
of pronotum castaneous, tip brown; tegmina hyaline, bases slightly
punctate, veins broadly marked with brown, tips fuscous; thorax and
legs greenish-yellow; under surface of abdomen yellow.

Head yellow-green margined with lighter, impunctate, slightly stri-
ate; basal line adjoining prothorax much elevated in middle half;
prominent swelling above each ocellus; median sulcus faint; inferior
margin smooth; eyes deep brown, prominent, extending laterally be-
yond the humeral angles; ocelli prominent, reddish, a little nearer to
each other than to the eyes and situated on a line extending through
centers of eyes; clypeus long, extending as far below the inferior
margin of the face as its projection above the margin, hirsute at tip.

Pronotum bright green, deeply and uniformly punctate, gradually
rounded in front with no indication of carinations on sides; meto-
pidium wider than high, smooth callosities above eyes joining in nar-
row line in center; humeral angles not prominent, rounded ;- posterior
process gradually acuminate, deflexed, extending beyond tip of ab-
domen but not reaching apices of tegmina, sharply carinate above.
bright castaneous with tip brown; semicircular impression on each
side of pronotum very pronounced; median carina not percurrent, be-
ginning at about middle of dorsal line and becoming prominent and
strong posteriorly; three prominent greenish-white lines extending
longitudinally on the pronotum, one on the median dorsal line begin-
ning at base and extending to the point at about the middle of the
dorsum where the median carina begins, one on each side arising just
above the eye, extending over the shoulder and ending at the middle
of the lateral margin, all of these lines strongly punctate.

Tegmina entirely free from pronotum, hyaline, base greenish and
slightly punctate, tip fuscous in external border: middle half of radial
and cubital veins broadly marked with brown, costal margin white; tip
acute, middle apical cell triangular and petiolate, other apical cells
varying greatly within the species; hind wings entirely hyaline, exter-
nal border wrinkled, apical cell usually but not always truncate.

Sides and under surface of thorax greenish-yellow; pubescent; legs
brownish-yellow, tibiae greenish, claws fuscous; abdomen yellow,
under surface concolorous yellow, apical end tinged with greenish.

Sternal plate of male acute, smooth, tip brown; lateral valves incon-

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spicuous; apical tergum armed with a tooth on each side below;
oedeagus long, narrow, brown, very slightly swollen at tip, styles nar-
row and pointed.

Last ventral segment of female sharply notched in middle, rounded
on either side of notch; tip of abdomen green, lightly pubescent; ovi-
positor brown.

Length to tip of tegmen 6.7 mm. Width between humeral angles
2.4 mm.

Type—Male. Type locality: Bogalousa, Louisiana. Female
does not differ in size or markings.

Type, allotype and twenty-one paratypes in author’s collec-
tion; ten paratypes in Mr. Knight’s collection; four paratypes
in Cornell University collection.

The wing venation in this species shows considerable varia-
tion as represented in Plate XI, Figs. 1, 6, 7 and 8. In the
fore wing M3 and M4 are often separated, making six instead
of the normal five apical cells (Fig. 8) and changing the shape
of the cells in the apical end of the wing. In the hind wing
R4+5 is usually coalesced with M172 (Fig. 6) to form a
truncate terminal cell, but occasionally they are separated,
leaving the terminal cell petiolate (Fig. 7). The forewing in
no case shows the three discoidal cells as found in the wing of
Stictolobus subulatus Say.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI.
Stictolobus trilineatus sp. nov.

Fig. 1. Lateral view. Fig. 6. Hind wing, normal yvena-
Fig. 2. Frontal view. tion.
Fig. 3. Dorsal view. Fig. 7. Hind wing, showing va-
Fig. 4. Male genitalia — caudal riation.

view. Fig. 8. Fore wing, showing va-
Fig. 5. Female genitalia, ventral riation.

view.

A Review of Reviews (Lep.).
By J. McDunnoucu, Ph.D., Decatur, Illinois.

My paver in E-NtomMoLocicaL News, xxvii, 393, has been
the partial subject recently of three articles by well-known
lepidopterists; two of the authors, H. G. Dyar (Ins. Insc.
Menstr., v, 42) and G. Bethune-Baker (Ent. Rec., xxix, 219)

188 ENTOMOLOGICAT, NEWS [| May 718

commend my method of selecting generic types but are strongly
against disregarding Hitibner’s “Tentamen” as unpublished ;
the third writer, Sir George Hampson (Ent. News, xxviii,
463), finds my action in discarding the Tentamen entirely jus-
tifiable, but, as was to be expected, seriously objects to my
method of fixing generic types.

These three articles serve to further emphasize the great
necessity for the leading systematic entomologists in each
group of insects “getting together” and trying to evolve some
common method on which to base their work. Co-operation
is just as vital in entomology as it is for the Allies in the pres-
ent war, and the muddled synonymy and constant changes of
nomenclature in the Lepidoptera can just as certainly be traced
to the insistence of each systematist on “ganging his ane gait”
as the allied reverses (according to military critics) are attribu-
table to the lack of co-ordination of the several war fronts.
Sir George Hampson expresses the hope that one of the minor
benefits of the war may be to bring us back to a simple binom-
inal nomenclature ; I should like to express the hope that ento-
mologists will be taught by the war the necessity of co-opera-
tion and the value of discarding possibly one of one’s own pet
theories for the sake of the general good.

With regard to Hiibner’s “Tentamen” I have already ex-
pressed the hope that some definite action concerning this work
may soon be taken; my own reason for rejecting it at the
time of issuing my list of Noctuid tvpes and later in our
“Check List” was not because I regarded the generic names
as nomina nuda but because there is no evidence in the pam-
phlet itself, such as place or date of publication, to show that
it was anything more than a sample sheet prepared for Hub-
ner’s own use and of which possibly one or two copies fell at
a later date into the hands of co-workers for some reason or
other; personally I should just as soon accept the names
therein proposed as not, but with half the svstematists clamor-
ing for its rejection and the other half just as loudly insisting
on its retention the only certainty is that, whichever course is
followed, is going to cause adverse criticism.

A few of the remarks in the critical articles above men-

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tioned call for a rejoinder by myself. Dr. Dyar’s review, con-
sisting as it does largely of personal items, may be advantage-
ously disregarded. Mr. Bethune-Baker comments on the ar-
rangement of Aegeriidae in our “Check List”; in this we fol-
lowed, more or less blindly, Mr. A. Busck’s Synoptic Tables
of the group published in 1909 (Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc., xi.
115) and must refer him to Mr. Busck personally for further
details. Sir George Hampson charges that the tvpe of the
genus Phytometra Haw. cannot possibly be aenea as specified
by Westwood, since it was based on larval characters, the only
two larvae known to Haworth being those of festiucae and
gamma, he would therefore place the genus as prior to Auto-
grapha; I must confess that Haworth’s “Lepidoptera Britan-
nica” is entirely unknown to me and [| doubt if a copy exists in
this country; if so, I have been unable to find it. This being
the case, I cannot comment on Hampson’s remarks but would
note that he certainly raises a delicate point which may call
for a special ruling by the committee on International Nomen-
clature. With regard to Hampson’s non-acceptance of Och-
senheimer’s generic names published in 1816 as nomina nuda
I quote Article 79 of Banks and Caudell’s Entomological Code
which says that “A generic name becomes valid when publish-
ed in connection with or with reference to a valid (= described
or figured) specific name or to replace a valid generic name.”
The first portion of this article clearly covers Ochsenheimer’s
generic names which were published in connection with sev-
eral valid specific names; I believe that the general entomolog-
ical usage in this country upholds me in regarding them as
valid and I must refuse to accept Hampson’s reference of them
to Treitschke (1825).

With regard to Hampson’s remarks on the dates of Htb-
ner’s “Verzeichniss” I should like to point out that he has
overlooked several important points in this connection. In
the first place I would refer him to a pamphlet published in
1905 by Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Amherst, Massachusetts, on
the dates of Hubner’s “Sammlung Eur. Schmett.”; in this
pamphlet are reprinted several of Htthner’s dated prospectuses,

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advertising his works for sale, which were found in the copy
of Hiibner’s “Sammlung” in the Royal Library at Berlin;
Prospectus IV, dated Augsburg, 6th April, 1809, contains a
reference to “Beitraege zur Sammlung Ex. Schmett.,” stating
that two plates were completed and for sale at 36 kr. a plate;
obviously from this the “Beitraege” or “‘Zutraege,” as they
were later called, were commenced at a much earlier date than
that of the title-page to the first century (December 22, 1818)
and it seems probable that this date indicates the completion
rather than the commencement oi the century, especially as
Prospectus V, dated 22nd December, 1823, announces two
complete centuries of the “Zutraege.” as it is now called, for
43 fl. 24 kr., and the date on the preface of the second century
is 1822. Accepting this evidence as conclusive, Hampson’s
remarks concerning the incorrectness of Sherborn & Prout’s
fixation of the dates of the early pages of the “Verzeichniss”
as 1816 and 1818 are fallacious ; the text of the ‘‘Verzeichniss”
preface distinctly shows that it was written prior to the re-
mainder of the work and it is just as distinctly dated Augs-
burg, 21st September, 1816; the fact that he refers by number
in the ‘“Verzeichniss” to certain plates of the “Zutraege” shows
that these plates were issued prior to 1816 or 1818, as the case
may be. Instead therefore of dating all the plates of the first
century of the “Zutraege’’ 1818 we must use the dates 1809-
1818 and for the second century 1818-1822, the reference to
Lycus niphon (Zutr. 203, 204) on page 74 of the “Verzeich-
niss,” clearly showing (if we accept Sherborn’s “Verzeichniss”
dates) that the first plate of the second century was ready late
in 1818; up to page 160 of the “Verzeichniss” the latest refer-
ence to the “Zutraege” I have found is on page 149 to figures
213-4 which at least would make 1820 the latest date possible
for the first three plates of the second century.

In the first 16 pages of the “Verzeichniss,’ for which the
date 1816 is claimed, the latest reference to the “Zutraege” is
Sicyonia apseudes Hbn. (Zutr. 141, 142); 25 out of the 35
plates of the first century were therefore published prior to
September, 1816, the first two plates being prior to April, 1809;

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for American Lepidopterists this is important, a number of
North American species having been figured on the early
plates. I utterly fail to agree with Hampson that the whole of
the ‘“Verzeichniss” should be credited to 1827 simply because
he has found no previous reference in the contemporaneous
literature; Hubner’s method of distributing his work in smal
portions has been too fully commented on by Herrich-Schaef-
tem (Corr. Bl Zool. min. Ver: Revens.. 1860, p. 200) and
others to permit of the doubt that the parts were not distrib-
uted as they appeared from the press but were held over until
the completion of the volume. Until therefore some much
more conclusive contrary evidence is given, I believe the dates
given by Sherborn and Prout (1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8),
ix, 179-180) should be accepted as correct.

In conclusion I should like to state my conviction that the
generic names proposed in the “Zutraege” are perfectly valid:
they are proposed in connection with a specific name of which
a perfectly identifiable figure is given and in most instances are
definitely monobasic ; in my opinion they should certainly take
priority over the same names often used at a later date in the
“Verzeichniss.”

re

Mosquitoes and the War.

Kreeing the Hog Island shipbuilding zone of disease-breeding
mosquitoes was decided upon at a meeting of the State war board
in Harrisburg yesterday. The work will be done under the direc-
tion of the State Department of Health with experts who aided
Surgeon General William C. Gorgas in cleaning up the Panama Canal
zone.

It will be the biggest fight against mosquitoes ever undertaken in
Pennsylvania. The State war board has in charge the $2,000,000 war
defense appropriation. It decided to contribute $75.000 to the $2rI0,-
o00 fund being raised to wipe out the pests. The State Health De-
partment will put $25,000 into this project, the city of Philadelphia
$50,000, the Emergency Fleet Corporation $50,000 and the Westing-
house Electric Company $10,000.

The appropriation was made following conferences arranged by
acting Commissioner of Health Royer and the engineers of the Fed-
eral Government, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and this city relative
to the elimination of the mosquitoes, which if allowed to breed would
stop the night shifts working on the Federal ships and cut the effi-
ciency of the plant down by half.

The money will be expended in a drainage and pumping station.
Two wells will be dug and two pumping stations erected and the

reated with oil to kill the larvae.
ou —Public Ledger, Philadelphia, April 18, 1918.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., MAy, 1918.

The Forms of Generic and of Specific Names.

In view of the forms of generic and specific names in arti-
cles recently submitted for publication in the News and in
other entomological journals, it seems necessary to call the
attention of authors and others to the rules of zoological no-
menclature governing these forms. The examples are of our
own selection.

Of the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature
(Proceedings, Ninth International Zoological Congress, Mo-
naco, 1913), Article 8 reads: “A generic name must consist of
a single word, simple or compound, written with ar initial cap-
ital letter, and employed as a substantive in the nominative
singular.”

Example: Johannsenia, Nor Johannseni.

Article 14 of the International Rules reads: “Specific names
ane:

a. Adjectives which must agree grammatically with the
generic name.”

Example: Lopidea minima, NoT minimus; Pogonomytia spinitarsis,
NOT spinitarsus; Johannsenta aurea, NOT auret.

“b. Substantives in the nominative in apposition with the
generic name.”

Example: Lopidea navajo. L. arizona is, perhaps, admissable, but
L. arizonae is better (see Article 16 quoted below).

ce

c. Substantives in the genitive.”
Example: Lopidea garryae (because found breeding on the plant
Garrya wrightit).

“Tf the name is given as a dedication to one or several per-
sons, the genitive is formed in accordance with the rules of
Latin declination in case the name was employed and declined

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‘n Latin. If the name is a modern patronymic, the genitive
is always formed by adding, to the exact and complete name,
an 7 1f the person is a man, or an ae if the person is a woman,
even if the name has a Latin form; it is placed in the plural ii
the dedication involves several persons of the same name.”

Examples: Eleodes nunenmacheri, Cydimon pocyi.

“Recommendation. The best specific name is a Latin ad-
jective, short, euphonic, and of easy pronunciation. Latinized
Greek words or barbarous words may, however, be used.”

Examples: Panurginus planatus, Tetragoneuria cynosura.

Article 16: “Geographic names are to be given as sub-
stantives in the genitive, or are to be placed in an adjectival
form.”

Examples: Halictoides novacangliae, Pleurotropis kansensis.

Article 20: “Recommendations. The prefixes sub and pseudo
should be used only with adjectives and substantives, sub with
Latin words, pseudo with Greek words, and they should not
be used in combination with proper names. The terminations
oides and ides should be used in combination only with Greek
or Latin substantives; they should not be used with proper
names.”

Examples: Nemoria subcroceata, Lycaena pseudargiolus, Sphaeri-
dium scarabaeoides. Pseudamericana and pseudimitans are bad.

Additicnal Acarina Found in New Jersey.
To the lists of New Jersey mites published in the “Entomological
News,” vol. 26, p. 149 and vol. 27, p. 109, can be added the following:
Trombidium sericeum Say. “Pine Barrens” of New Jersey. The
“red bug.”

Eriophyes nyssae Trott. Lakehurst, August 18. Galls on leaves of
sour gum. (Dickerson & Weiss).

Eriophyes buxi. Rutherford. On boxwood.

Eriophyes sp. Kingston, August 22. On flowering currant. (Dicker-
son & Weiss).

Eriophyes sp. or disease. Lakehurst, August 18. Witch’s broom on oak.
(Dickerson & Weiss).

Eriophyes sp. or disease. Lakehurst, August 18. Witch’s broom on
Rhus copallina. (Dickerson & Weiss).—Harry B. WEIss,
New Brunswick, N. J.

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Entomological Literature.

COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN.

Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the
Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En-
tomology of the Americas (North end South), including Arachnida and
Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted:
but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how-
ever, whether relating to American or exotic species. will be recorded.

The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered
in the following list, in which the papers are published.

All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their
first installments.

The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the
end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title,
the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico is given at
end of title, within brackets.

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.

2—Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia.
3—The American Naturalist. 4—The Canadian Entomologist. 5—
Psyche. 9—The Entomologist, London. 11—Annals and Magazine
of Natural History, 9th series, London. 18—Ottawa Naturalist.
37—Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec 67—Entomologiske Tid-
skrift, Stockholm. 69—Bolletino, Societa Italiana Entomologica.
68—Science, New. York. 73—Archives, Zoologie Experimentale et
Generale, Paris. 121—Archives des Sciences Physiques et Natu
relles, Geneva. 128—Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South
Wales, Sydney. 141—Proceedings, Indiana Academy of Sciences,
Indianapolis. 142—Report, Michigan Academy of Sciences, Lan-
sing. 153—Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New
York. 184—Journal of Experimental Zoology, Philadelphia. 195—
Bulletin, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 223—Bro-
teria, Revista de Sciencias Naturaes do Collegio de S. Fiel. (Ser.
Zoologica). 288—Anales, Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Buenos
Aires. 259—Publication, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
313—Bulletin of Entomological Research, London. 322—Journal
of Morphology, Philadelphia. 324—Journal of Animal Behavior,
Cambridge. 344—U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C. 405—University of Toronto Studies, Biological Series.
407—Journal of Genetics, Cambridge, England. 447—Journal of
Agricultural Research. Washington. 491—-Transactions, American
Microscopical Society, Decatur, Illinois. 509—Revue Generale des
Sciences pures et Appliquees, Paris. 582—Proceedings, National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washing-
ton. 540—The Lepidopterist, Salem, Mass. 558—Journal, Straits
Branch Royal Asiatic Society.

GENERAL SUBJECT. Cockerell, T. D. A.—Invertebrate pale-
ontology, 68, xlvii, 319-20. Crampton, G. C.—A phylogenetic study
of the terga and wing bases in Embiids, Plecoptera, Dermaptera
and Coleoptera, 5, xxv, 4-12. Fagan, M. M.—The uses of insect

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galls, 3, lii, 155-76. Lameere, A—La vie des insectes aux temps
primaires, 509, xxix, 5-13. McMurrich, J. P.—Provancher chez
nos compatriotes de langue anglaise, 37, xliv, 131-35. Moore &
Graham—Toxicity of volatile organic compounds to insect eggs,
447, xii, 579-87. Provancher, L.—Notes biographiques, 87, xliv,
136-41. Sheldon, W. G.—Formaldehyde for fixing the wings of
entomological specimens, 9, 1918, 68-9. Tavares, J. S.—Cecidologia
Brazileira, 223, xvi, 21-48. Tullgren, A.—En enkal apparat for auto-
matiskt vittjande av sallgods, 67, xxxvili, 97-100. Turner, C. H.—
Literature for 1916 on the behavior of spiders and insects other
than ants, 324, vii, 405-19. Wells, M. M.—Literature for 1916 on
ants and myrmecophils, 824, vii, 420-43.

PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Hagan, H. R.—Ob-
servations on the embryonic development of the mantid Parateno-
dera sinensis, 322, xxx, 223-44. McEwen, R. S.—The reactions to
light and to gravity in Drosophila and its mutants, 184, xxv, 49-
105. Nakahara, W.—Studies of Amitosis: its physiological rela-
tions in the adipose cells of insects...., 322, xxx, 483-526. Payne,
F.—The effect of artificial selection on bristle number in Droso-
phila ampelophila and its interpretation, 532, lv, 55-8. Thompson,
C. B— Origin of the castes of the common termite, Leucotermes
flavipes, 322, xxx, 83-155.

MEDICAL. MacGregor, M. E.—Insects as carriers of disease,
491, xxxvii, 1-17.

ARACHNIDA, ETC. Criddle, N—Some habits of two burrow-
ing spiders in Manitoba, 18, xxxi, 104-7. Hansen, H. J.—On the
trichobothria (auditory hairs) in Arachnida, Myriopoda and In-
secta, with a summary of the external sensory organs in Arach-
nida, 67, xxxvili, 240-59.

NEUROPTERA, ETC. Banks, N.—New neuropteroid insects
[many newl, 195, Ixii, 22 pp. Brocher, F—(See under Coleop-
tera.) Clemens, W. A.—An ecological study of the mayfly, Chiro-
tenetes, 405, No. 17, 43 pp. Horton, J. R.—The citrus thrips, 344,
Bul. No. 616. Tillyard, R. J—On the morphology of the caudal
gills of the larvae of zygopterid dragonflies, 128, xlii, 31-112 (cont.).

ORTHOPTERA. Glaser & Wilcox—On the occurrence of a
mermis epidemic amongst grasshoppers, 5, xxv, 12-15.

HEMIPTERA. Gibson & Holdridge—The genus Narnia and a
key to the genera of Anisoscelini, 5, xxv, 1-4. Ferris, G. F—A
note on the occurrence of abdominal spiracles in the coccidae, 4,
1918, 85-8. Richardson, C. H.—The pulsatile vessels in the legs of
Apmididac-.5, xxv. U5-17. - >

Gibson, E. H—The genus Corythucha (Tingidae) [21 new], 2,
xliv, 69-104. The genus Hadronema (Miridae) [2 n. sps.], 4, 1918,

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81-4. Gillette, C. P—Aphis saliceti, Siphocoryne pastinacea and
allied species [2 n. sps.], 4, 1918, 89-94. Swain, A. F.—[Nine] new
Aphididae from California, 2, xliv, 1-22.

LEPIDOPTERA. Barnes & McDunnough—Life histories of
N. American species of the genus Catocala, 158, xxxviii, 147-77.
Beutenmiller, W.-—Notes on the larvae of Catocala and their hab-
its, 540, ii, 17-20. Hawkes, O. A. M.—Studies in inheritance in the
hybrid Philosamia (Attacus) ri¢ini x P. cynthia, 407, vii, 135-52.
Ljungdahl, D.—Etwas uber die oberflachen-skulptur einiger
schmetterlings-puppen, 67, xxxvili, 217-28. Pictet, A.—Influence
de la pression atmospherique sur le developpement des L., 121,
xliv, 413-54. Tillyard, R. J—The wing-venation of L. (Preliminary
report), 128, xlii, 167-74.

Ellsworth, A.—Three new forms, 540, ii, 21-2.

DIPTERA. Ball, S. C.—Migration of insects to Rebecca shoal
light station and the Tortugas Islands, with special reference to
mosquitoes and flies, 259, No. 252, 195-212. Bergman, A. M—Om
renens oestrider, 67, xxviii, 1-32, 113-46. Cresson, E. T., Jr—Costa
Rican Diptera, II1]—Ephydridae, 2, xliv, 39-68. Felt, E. P—Notes
and descriptions of Itonididae in the collection of the Am. Mus.
N. H., 153, xxxviii, 179-82. Tetley, H.—The structure of the
mouth-parts of Pangonia longirostris in relaticn to the probable
feeding-habits of the species, 313, vill, 253-68.

Malloch, J. R.—A partial key to species of the genus Agromyza
[3 n. sps.]; Supplementary note on the anthomyid genus Phyllo-
gaster, 4, 1918, 76-80; 81.

COLEOPTERA. Brocher, F.—Etude experimentale sur le fonc-
tionnement du vaisseau dorsal et sur la circulation du sang chez les
insectes. I. Le Dyticus marginalis. II. Les larves des Odonates,
Nouvelles observations sur la respiration des Dyticides, 78, lvi,
1-24; 247-58; 445-90. Champion, G. C.—The C. of the Falkland
Islands, 11, i, 167-86. Goldsmith, W. M.—Field notes on the dis-
tribution and life habits. of the tiger beetles of Indiana, 141, 1916,
447-55. Grave, B. H.—Zeugophora scutellaris, 322, xxx, 245-61.
Marshall, G. A. K.—A new weevil pest of sweet potatoes in Ja-
maica, 313, vili, 269-72. 2

Leng & Mutchler—Insects of Florida, V—The water beetles
[2 n. sps.], 158, xxxvili, 73-116.

HYMENOPTERA. Bruch, C.—Costumbres y nidos de _ hor-
migas, 238, xxxiv, 154-68. Burkill, I. H-—A rote upon the way
in which bees settle on flowers of Derris thyrsiflora, and the in-
jury resulting upon their search for honey, 558, 1917, 263-4. Cock-
erell, T. D. A.—Neotropical bees, principally collected in Argen-
tina, 2, xliv, 25-28. Santschi, F.—Description de quelques nouvelles

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fourmis, 238, Ixxxiv, 276-83. Wheeler, W. M.—A list of Indiana
ants, 141, 1916, 460-6. ay a eo

Cockerell, T. D. A.—Descriptions and records of bees —LX XIX
[2 new], 11, i, 158-67.

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A Stuby oF THE JAPANESE LASIOCAMPIDAE AND DREPANIDAE. By
Kikujiro Nagano. Bulletin No. 2 of the Nawa Entomological Labora-
tory, Gifu, Japan, December, 1917.—This important contribution is in
English and Japanese. There are ten plates; five delineate the species
and larvae in color and the others show anatomical details. A num-
ber of new genera and species are described. Valuable features of
the work are the descriptions of the larvae, the life histories and dis-
tribution. The excellent colored plates are the work of the author.

—H. S.

Doings of Societies,

American Entomological Society.

Meeting of December 10, 1917, in the hall of The Academy of Nat-
ural Sciences of Philadelphia; eight persons present, the President,
Dr. Henry Skinner, in the chair. Donations to the collections of the
Academy of 135 specimens of 37 species of Corythucha from Mr. E. H.
Gibson, and 5 myriopods, 11 insects from the Belgian Congo from
Mr. Morgan Hebard were reported.

The following were elected to serve as officers and on standing
committees for the year 1918: President, Henry Skinner; lice-Presi-
dent, J. A. G. Rehn; Corresponding Secretary, Morgan Hebard; Re-
cording Secretary, R. C. Williams, Jr.; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson;
Publication Committee, J. A.G. Rehn, E. T. Cresson and P. P. Calvert;
Finance Committee, J. A. G. Rehn, D. M. Castle and Morgan Hebard;
Property Committee, E. T. Cresson, Jr., Morgan Hebard and Philip
Laurent.

Meeting of February 28, 1918, in the same place; eleven persons
present; Dr. Henry Skinner, President, in the chair.

A communication was read from Dr. Ann H. Morgan, of Mount
Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., announcing the loss of their
library and collections by fire, and soliciting material and literature.
Mr. Rehn moved that the requirements of the College be ascertained
through Dr. Morgan, with a view to assisting them with pamphlets
and material. This motion was carried.

The following motion was ordered spread on the minutes:

“The American Entomological Society hears with regret of the
death of Dr. Samuel Gibson Dixon, President of The Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, on February 26, 1918.”

Diptera.—Mr. Hornig reported that the first flies of the season,
presumably Musca domestica, emerged February 27th.

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annual loss of wheat exceeding in value one million dollars. It is
spreading over the entire southeastern wheat region. It winters as
larvae in grain in granaries and barns; constructs cocoon within grain,
and starts to transform to pupae in May. May 10-20 large number
of pupae found. First generation emerges in late May and early
June coincident with the heading of the wheat. Females deposit their
eggs under the glumes which protect the green wheat. Number of
eggs per female ranges from 36 to 148, with an average of 92. Most
of the eggs are deposited the first and second days after mating.
Hatching occurs in 7 to 9 days. Young larvae gnaw their way into
the green wheat and feed on the milky contents. Life cycle requires
40 to 50 days, and in some instances longer. A second generation oc-
curs at harvest time, and this for the most part emerges after the
wheat has been carried into the barns. This leads to the development
of three more broods, so that in all there are five broods of moths
each year, and there is evidence that we have as many as six broods,
as moths were found in the barns as late as mid-December. The
great destruction of wheat by this insect is done while the unthreshed
wheat remains in the mow.

Mr. Daecke exhibited pitch nodules of Evetria virginiana Busck and
E. comstockiana Fernald, stating that those of the latter are always
found on one year old shoots, while those of the former are on two
to five year old branchlets. This led to the observation that it takes
virginiana two years to mature. He exhibited also the small thin-
walled nodules of virginiana at the end of their first year and at the
time when the two year-old insects are emerging.

Diptera. The larvae and pupae from pig manure exhibited by Mr.
Hornig at the December meeting have emerged and prove to be
Chrysomyza demandata Fabr.

Coleoptera. Mr. Hornig exhibited a bottle containing milk tablets
which has been in a desk since 1912. Upon examination this was
found to contain live Anthrenus larvae. Prof Sanders said there is
a record of Trogoderma larvae living five years without food.

Mr. J. W. Green exhibited the Ligyrus mentioned at the January
meeting and a Florida specimen from Dr. Castle’s collection, the
genitalia of which agree with his specimen. Sketches of the genitalia
were also shown proving that gibbosus DeG. and neglectus LeC.
are distinct.

Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited four pairs of Clerus lactus Klug (ab-
ruptus LeC.) which superficially appear to be four different species.
Those from Boulder, Colorado, were light; from Southeastern Ore-
gon had dark elytra; from Round Mt., Texas, had dark elytra and
thorax, while the Chisos Mts., Texas, form had dark elytra and thorax
but were much larger—Gero. M. GREENE, Sec’y.

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Cicindelidae Wanted—I wish to obtain for purposes of study,
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Wanted—North American Coleoptera for exchange. Please send
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South American Erycinidae and Lycaenidae are offered in exchange
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Wanted—Monog. des Buprestides—Kerremans, Vol. II, Pt. 1;
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Wanted—Friendly correspondence and exchange of Lepidoptera.
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For Exchange—A few specimens, mostly Sphingidae and Satur-
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the country.—Dr. Elmer T. Learned, Fall River, Mass.

Lepidoptera—I have for exchange first class specimens of
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Apatela tritona, Leucania pilipalpis, extincta, subpunctata, Gortyna
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Catocalae—For exchange perfect specimens of C. pura, C. aspasia
and var. sara, C. faustina var. lydia, C. praeclare. Desire other
Catocalae. Some of the common species wanted.—John H. West,
2057 Ba York St., Phila., Pa.

Wanted to Exchange—I wish to exchange Rhopalocera from
eastern United States for those of the western and southern part.
Correspondence desired. Paul N. Musgrave, Pennsboro, W. Va.

Wanted in series for cash or exchange beetles of the genus
Serica (Scarabaeidae) from all parts of North America. Cicindela
lincolniana Casey among the exchanges offered. R. W. Dawson, De-
partment of Entomology, University Farm, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Prof. Dr. Carlos E. Porter, Directeur des “Anales de Zoologia
Aplicada,” Casilla 2974, Santiago, Chile, is anxious to secure sys-
tematic papers on entomology, especially on the Thysanoptera,
Coccidae, Aleyrodidae, Acarina, Chalcididae, Agromyzidae, Syr-
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and publications.

Change of Address.—FE. G. Titus from Logan, Utah, to Box 453, Idaho
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