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Voorn so <II, DECEMBER, Iog!Ilt. No. 10. CONTENTS: Obituary—Henry Christopher McCook 433 ter modestus......---.---.eeseeeees 449 Schaus—A new Papilio from Florida, Girault—Standards of the Number of __and one from Mexico...-.......--- 438 Eggs laid by Spiders—I. (Arach.) 461 Gillette—A new genus and four new Cockerell—An Aleyrodes on Euphor- species of Aphididae (Rhynch.).... 440 iba, and its Parasite (Rhynch.) .... 462 McCoy—A new Flea, Ctenophthalmus IDG xero Fl UnoeaobaUedS po aunos aaceaucoadoT 465 heiseri spec. nov. (Siphonaptera).. 445 | Notes and News....-..---.+++e++eeeees 466 Calvert—Studies on Costa Rican Odo- Entomological Literature ..........-.- 471 nata. I]I—Structure and Transfor- Doings of Societies .......+.-+eseereees 477
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Henry Christopher McCook.
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The Reverend Doctor Henry Christopher McCook died at his home in Devon, Pennsylvania, at a quarter past eleven o'clock, of the morning of October 31, 1911.
An editorial in one of the leading Philadelphia newspapers for the morning after his death justly remarks:
“In the death of the Rev. Henry C. McCook, D.D., Pennsyl- vania loses one of its most distinguished citizens. Doctor Mc- Cook was one of the “fighting McCooks” and saw himself ser- vice in the Civil War; he was a preacher of power; his long occupancy of one of the chief pastorates in Philadelphia en- deared him to thousands and thousands of Philadelphians; he was a fine man, citizen and patriot. Asa minister and preacher he occupied a high position, but his fame outside of Philadelphia and of the circles of his own denomination rests on wholly dif- ferent grounds, and it is likely to be enduring. He was one of the world’s eminent scientific observers and investigators. Es- pecially did he achieve distinction in the most interesting phase of that department of natural history—the lives and works of ants and spiders. It frequently happens that a man may write entertainingly of these or similar subjects on a slight basis of
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knowledge, and it also frequently happens that a man with deep and accurate knowledge may have no skill in description, nar- ration or exposition. But by a peculiarly happy conjunction of capacities Doctor McCook was profoundly equipped as in- vestigator and also a skilful writer. His works, therefore, are a happy, combination of scientific accuracy and of the charm which we usually look for only in romances.”
Henry C. McCook was the son of John and Julia Sheldon McCook, and was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, July 3, 1837. His father, a physician, was of Scotch-Irish descent ; his mother came from New England. He attended Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (now united with Washington Col- lege, at Washington, Pa.,) receiving an A.B., in 1850. He is said to have been a printer’s apprentice, then a student of law, but finally studied at the Western Theological Seminary, at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, until 1861. The Civil War breaking out, he assisted in raising the Forty-first Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, becoming a First Lieutenant and Chaplain therein. After being in charge of Presbyterian churches in Clinton, II, and in St. Louis (where he was exposed to much danger from cholera epidemics), he was called to the pastorate of the Tab- ernacle Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia, entering his new office in 1870. The church building was then at the southeast corner of Broad street and South Penn Square, where the Betz Building now stands, but the congregation moved to a new ed- ifice, at Thirty-seventh and Chestnut streets, in 1886. At this new location, Dr. McCook continued his ministrations until 1902, when ill-health compelled his resignation. Since then he resided at Brookcamp, Devon, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia, devoting himself to literary work.
Along with his pastoral duties, he found time to act as chap- lain to the Second Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, both at home and in Cuba, during the war with Spain, in 18908; to found and to act on the National Relief Commission in the same war; to reorganize a hospital in Havana; to re-arrange and mark the graves of American soldiers in Cuba; to serve as chaplain in other semi-military organizations; to take an
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active part in the establishment of the Philadelphia city flag; to participate in political reform and philanthropic movements ; to design the seal of the Presbyterian Church in America, and to make researches into the early history of the denomination ; to write theological essays like The Gospel of Nature and Ecclesiastical Emblems, romances as The Latimers and Quaker Ben, poems, and The Senator—A Threnody in Verse and Prose (for Senator Hanna).
From this rapid sketch of his principal activities—and Dr. McCook was first and chiefly a clergyman—it will be realized that his entomological interests were secondary in his life. He devoted himself in this latter field to the habits and taxonomy of spiders and the habits of ants. His studies on spiders ap- pear to have begun about 1873, to judge from expressions in the prefaces to his American Spiders and their Spinning Work. Professor Wheeler, in his recent comprehensive volume on Ants, cites twenty-one books and papers on these insects from Dr. McCook’s pen between 1876 and 1907, and at least one more title of later date must be added to this list. Dr. McCook’s _entomological work, therefore, commenced after his settle- ment in Philadelphia, and his technical papers on both spiders and ants appeared for the most part in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences and in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society. Dr. McCook became a mem- ber of the Academy in 1875, and served as one of its two vice- presidents, from May 23, 1882, to December, 1900. The other vice-president, for much of the same period, was the botanist, Thomas Meehan, and among other active scientific members were Leidy, Cope, Horn, Gibbons Hunt, Heilprin, Harrison Allen and Ryder.
Dr. McCook entered the American Entomological Society in 1877 ; was vice-president from 1884 to 1893, and president from 1898 to 1900. His last appearance at an entomological gath- ering was probably at the meeting, held in the rooms of the Society and Entomological Section of the Academy, on De- cember 29, 1904, at the occasion of the meeting of the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science.
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That part of his work on the habits of spiders and ants necessitating field observations was done almost wholly in the summers. As he wrote in one of the prefaces quoted above:
“The duties of my calling in a large city have held me rigorously away from the open country except during two months of the year. Summer vacations, and such leisure hours as a most busy life would allow, have been given to the pleasant task of following my little friends of the aranead world into their retreats, and watching at the doors of their fragile domiciles for such secrets of their career as they might happen to uncover. Occasional excursions at other times were unavoidably brief, and often broken off at the point of promised discoveries. I have, in part, indeed, overcome this obstacle by trans- porting and colonizing specimens, and by directing the observations of others. But, at the best, artificial conditions fall short of Nature’s fulness, and no faithfulness of assistants can quite equal personal investigations.”
So in August, 1876, he camped on Brush Mountain, near Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, to obtain the results recorded in his Mound-Making Ants of the Alleghenies, their Architec- ture and Habits (1877). Three weeks of the summer of 1877, spent near Austin, Texas, furnished much of the material for The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas, A Monograph of the Habits, Architecture and Structure of Pogonomyrmex Barbatus (1879), recording his conclusion that “I do not believe that the ants deliberately sow a crop, as Lincecum asserts. . . . . . ._ but, finally. [he thought] that there is nothing unreasonable, nor beyond the probable capacity of the emmet intellect, in the supposition that the crop is actually sown” (pp. 38, 39), and for the description of the Basilica Spider and her Snare (1878). The vacation of 1879, in the Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, Colorado, ultimately resulted in The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods and the Occident Ants of the American Plains (1882). Of this work, Professor Wheeler wrote (J. c. pp. 367-360).
“The first to publish a trustworthy account of this, or in fact any of our Myrmecocysti, was McCook. He discovered horti-deorum in
the Garden of the Gods near Manitou, Colorado....... effectively dis- pelled the notion that the repletes manufacture the honey which they COmlteimenra te [made] careful dissections and figures of the gaster
of ordinary workers, semirepletes (“semirotunds”’) and repletes
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and inferred....that the honey-bearer is simply a worker with an overgrown abdomen...... Although McCook gave excellent reasons for believing that the replete must develop from a worker of the or- dinary type, he did not actually witness the transformation.”
Dr. McCook’s opus magnus was his American Spiders and their Spinning Work. A Natural History of the Orbweaving Spiders of the United States with special regard to their in- dustry and habits, in three quarto volumes, dated 1889, 1890 and 1893 (1894). The first treats of “Snares and Nests,” the second of “Motherhood and Babyhood, Life and Death,” the third contains “Biological Notes, Descriptions of Species.” The whole is illustrated by 853 text figures and forty colored lithographic plates of 913 figures. The author explained that he “was induced to assume the disagreeable role of publisher by two considerations, the first the wish to be free to present the book ac- cording to his own ideas as to typography and illustration, which however, were too luxurious to meet the views of ordinary publishers. In the second place, as a commercial venture, the printing of a scien- tific work of this sort, with so limited a circulation, gave no prospect for remuneration for cost and care. It is indeed a work of love and must be carried forward chiefly from a desire to enlarge the bounds of truth. Morover, the cost was too considerable to warrant any Scientific Society to undertake the work of publishing from funds always too lim- ited. The author therefore accepted the burden of cost, together with the yet more uncongenial details of selling, as a part of his task.”
The edition was limited to 250 copies and the author had re- ceived subscriptions for about 140 of these at the time of pub- lication of the second volume.
Of this work, Professor Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., writes:
Dr. McCook’s studies on spiders, brought together in the three large and beautifully illustrated quarto volumes of his work, ‘American Spiders and their. Spinning Work,’ represent the most comprehensive accounts of the habits of spiders since the times of Blackwall and Menge. These contain a wealth of new observations particularly on the architecture of snares and nests, as well as a full taxonomic treatment, accompanied by colored plates, of the American Epeiride. This work is a classic of arachnological literature, and has been a powerful stimulus to other naturalists.”
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His later entomological publications were chiefly of a popu- lar nature. Such were Tenants of an Old Farm; leaves from the note book of a naturalist (1885): Old Farm Fairies. A Summer Campaign in Brownieland against King Cob-weaver’s pixies, A Story for Young People (1895); Nature’s Crafts- men, Popular Studies of Ants and Other Insects (1907); and Ant Communities and How They are Governed, A Study in Natural Civics (1909), in which the social activities of ants and of men are compared.
Washington and Jefferson College, his alma mater, gave him its LL.D.; Lafayette College made him D.D., and hon- orary Sc.D., and he was an honorary member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. McCook married in 1861, Emma C. Herter, who died in 1897. Two children, Mrs. William Slade Clark and Captain Paul McCook, of the United States Army, survive their par- ents. In 1899, Dr. McCook married Mrs. E. D. S. Abbey.— Peb ac,
A new Papilio from Florida, and one from Mexico (Lepid.). By W. Scuaus, London, England.
Papilio ponceana sp. n.
$, Palpi black ringed with ochreous before tip. Head, collar, and thorax black brown, with lateral yellow lines on frons continuing across vertex, collar, and along patagia dorsally. Abdomen dorsally black, laterally and underneath yellow.
Wings black brown, markings yellow. Fore wings: a narrow yellow fascia from close beyond cell and vein 5 to middle of inner margin; a spot above 5 more outset, and a large elongated spot above it contain- ing a fuscous brown spot anteriorly; lunular spots above and below vein 8, oblique towards apex; a spot close to cell above 7, surmounted by short costal streaks; subterminal small semilunular spots, very small above 6, and in a nearly straight line; terminal spots between the veins.
Hind wings: the medial fascia broader, irrorated with brown on inner margin; large subterminal spots, the one on costa inset; the spot between 4 and 5 projecting inwardly, those between 2 and 4 deeply
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lunular; the spot on inner margin elongated, shaded with rust brown, heavily towards base, partly divided by a transverse black spot, and surmounted by some bluish scales; terminal interspaces and margin of tail yellow; the tail straight and of even width.
Fore wings below yellowish; fuscous streaks in cell; a black shade at end of cell and along median, and on basal half of submedian; 2 broad postmedial black space from the much broader medial fascia to subterminal spots, its outer edge lunular; this black space is irrorated with yellow above vein 4, and from 6 to 8 forms two narrow lunules merely edged with black; termen narrowly black, with yellow spots.
Hind wings below yellow, showing the dark surface of upper side; a large black lunule at end of cell; an irregular brown postmedial space widest between 3 and 4, and almost obsolete on costa, cut by the yellow veins, and followed by light blue irrorations, narrowest between 4 and 5, widest between 2 and 3, separated from the brown space by an irreg- ular black line, and followed on inner margin and between 2 and 3 by a black shade, and a black lunule at anal angle; a broad marginal lunular black line; some yellow irrorations along vein 4 on tail. Ex- panse 78 mm.
Female browner; the subterminal spots on fore wings lunular, those on hind wings between veins 2 and 5 more deeply lunular. Hind wings below more ochreous yellow, especially on outer margin. Expanse 85 mm.
Hab., Miami, Florida.
Allied to P. aristodemus from Haiti, and P. temenes Godt. from Cuba, differing in the much narrower medial fascia, the straighter row of subterminal spots, and in the markings un- derneath. Types in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Papilio lopiusa sp. n.
6, similar to P. alopius G. & S., the tails however straight as in P. montezuma, not spatulate; the spots on hind wings close together, those between 6 and 7 almost suffusing; the inner row of spots larger than in alopius, and whiter. Underneath the single costal spot is white, - not red; the inner spots between 5 and 7 are large, lunular, and sut- fuse with the outer spots. Expanse 82 mm.
Hab., Guadalajara, Mexico.
This may possibly be a hybrid between alopius and monte- zuma. Typein U.S. Nat. Mus., Washington, D. C.
Both species were collected by the writer.
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A new Genus and four new Species of Aphididae (Rhynch.). By C. P. Girtrterre, Colorado State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo. (Plate XVI.) ATARSOS n. gen.
Lice in all stages without tarsi; a small pulvillus-like pad on the distal end of each tibia; moderately hairy, the hairs being capitate in all stages; cornicles short, tapering; antennz in all adults much shorter than the body and with numerous sensoria on joints 3, 4 and 5, and with spur little longer than the joint bearing it.
Type: Atarsos grindeliae, n. sp.
Through the kindness of Mr. J. T. Monell, I have been able to examine mounted specimens, alate and pupe, of Mastopoda pteridis Oest. Striking characters are the 6-jointed antenna with the very long third and short fifth joints, the very long filament, the long cornicles convex on the free end without flange, and the vestigeal tarsi on all legs.
Atarsos grindeliae n. sp. (Plate XVI, Figs. 1-6.) Described from specimens taken on leaves of Grindelia squarrosa, at Fort Collins, Colo., May 23, 191T.
Alate Viviparous Female—Color of abdomen dull or dusky green; head, thorax above and below, distal ends of femora, tibiae and anten- ne black or blackish; eyes very dark red; on the dorsum are numer- ous broken transverse dusky dashes, and lateral spots. Length of body 1.60 to 2 mm.; antenna I.lo mm.; joint 3 about equaling joints 4, 5 and 6 together (occasionally joints 3 and 4 are connate); joints 3, 4 and 5 with tuberculate sensoria about as follows: III, .40; IV, .18; V, .13; VI, .09; spur, .13 mm; terminal joints very scabrous; venation normal, the veins rather heavy and dusky; cornicles stout, cylindrical, sharply constricted close to the rather broad flange, .15 mm. in length; cauda short, broad at base and tapering to a moderately acute apex; all tibiae ending in a light pad, depressed at the center and protruding on the ventral surface and entirely without tarsi; hairs on all parts, except the cauda, capitate.
Apterous Viviparous Female—Pale shining green in color, with antennae, at least in distal half, distal ends of tibiae and cornicles dusky to blackish; eyes red; cornicles distinctly stouter at base than
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at tip; antennae about the same as in the alate form; numerous sen- soria on joints 3, 4 and 5; joints 3 and 4 often coalesced on one or both sides.
The most striking peculiarity of this louse is the entire ab- sence of tarsi in all stages. There seems to be no modification of form too difficult for nature to bring about if it is needed and if sufficient time be given. This louse is undoubtedly bet- ter able to travel over the sticky surface of the Grindelia leaves without tarsi than with them. Yet two other species of lice having well developed tarsi get along well enough on the same plant.
On June 17 and 18 at Fort Collins the lice were common among the young, tender leaves of the host plant, but no alate lice or pupze could be found. The alate lice were migrating freely two weeks ago. A rather common species from Fort Collins to Denver at least, and taken many times by both Mr. L. C. Bragg and the writer.
Brachycolus tritici n. sp. (Plate XVI, Figs. 7-9.)
Alate Viviparous Female——Specimens taken from leaves of Colorado blue-stem, Agropyron glaucum, at Fort Collins, Colo., May 24, 1911, by L. C. Bragg.
Head, thorax above and below, antenna, except basal portion of 3rd joint, eyes, tarsi, distal ends of tibiae, and the greater portion of the distal ends of the femora, cauda and anal plate black, and pow- dered with white. Wing veins also conspicuously black, stigma blackish and rather narrow and stigmal vein nearly straight; cubital twice forked; abdomen light green, the color of the leaves of the grass and lightly powdered with white; cauda stout, broad in basal portion, pointed, and more or less dusky; cornicles a little yellowish or brownish and slightly raised above the surface, not as long as broad; vertex broad and but little convex; no antennal tubercles; length of body 1.30 to 1.50 mm.; antenna .70 to .£0 mm.; joints 4, 5 and 6 about equal; spur a little longer than joint 4; joint 3 a little shorter than joints 4 and 5 together. There is an irregular row of about 8 sensoria on distal two-thirds of joint 3 and about 2 sensoria on joint 4; length of wing, 2.30 mm.
Apterous Viviparous Female—Body long and narrow, nearly paral- lel-sided, and rather densely covered with a fine white powder; length about 1.88 mm.; width .60 mm. The general color is pale greenish to
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pale yellowish; the head, distal one-half of antenna, most of the rostrum, the anal plates, cauda and legs, especially the tarsi, dusky; eyes black. In most specimens an impressed line just inside the lateral margin extends nearly the full length of the thorax and abdo- men. ‘The legs are very short, the hind femora measuring about .34 mm.; the hind tibiae .43 mm.; length of antenna .59 mm.; joint III slightly the longest; joints IV, V and VI sub-equal; beak just sur- passing the second coxae; cauda rather broad and flat, pointed, a little longer than the width at the base; length .10 mm.; cornicles very small, tuberculate, located upon joint 6; in color like the body or a little dusky.
Described from specimens taken on wheat at Fort Collins, October 10, 1908. Winged specimens have also been taken early in June and in July.
Apterous Oviparous Female.—Apparently the apterous oviparous females are exactly like the viviparous form. At least they are so nearly alike that I do not notice any marked difference in characters.
Apterous Male.—A few males were present in the colony studied. They are more yellow in color with less powder upon their bodies. The antenna is entirely black or blackish, and the other parts that are dusky in the females are dark in color in the males. Length about 1.10 mm.; width .40 mm.; length of antenna and the various joints as in the viviparous female above, or slightly shorter; the rostrum attaining the third coxae; hind femora, including trochanter .29 mm.; tibiae .40 mm. I have not been able to distinguish any sensoria upon the antenna except the cluster at the distal end of joint 6.
This is seemingly a rather rare species occurring upon grasses, and has been taken several times by L. C. Bragg upon the leaves of blue-stem, Agropyron glaucum, and upon wheat during the summer months in the vicinity of Fort Collins.
Chaitophorus agropyronensis n. sp. (Plate XVI, Figs. 10-12.)
This louse differs so much in general appearance from typi- cal Chaitophorus species that is scarcely seems right to place it here, but I dislike to establish a new genus for it.
Alate Viviparous Female—General color of abdomen, green; the black or blackish parts are head, thorax above and below, antenna (except basal portion of joint 3), tarsi, distal ends of tibiae, entire “femora, cornicles, a spot on each lateral margin of the abdominal segments, a rather broad but much interrupted band on the abdominal segments after the first, and narrow transverse dashes between the segments, and the knobbed cauda. The wing veins and the stigma are
Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. . 443 also black or blackish. The body is everywhere set with stout gray hairs much as in the apterous form, and is also everywhere covered with a white pulverulence. The cornicles are conical, the length being less than the basal diameter; wing venation normal, the cubital usually with two forks but the second fork sometimes lacking; the cubital cell shallow, the vein being somewhat recurved; legs short and stout; length of body 1.65 to 1.90 mm.; wing 2.50 mm.; antenna .65 mm.; hind tibiae .60 mm.; tarsi unusually long, measuring .20 mm.; joints 3 and 4 of antenna coalesced into one with no indication of the union in most examples before me, and equal in length to joints 5 and 6 and the spur combined, the spur being a trifle shorter than the joint which bears it, and this joint is fully as long, or a trifle longer than the joint preceding it; hairs of body short and stout with acute points. Cauda short with knob broad and not narrowly constricted at base; the long third joint of the antenna with 4 to 5 small circular or oval sensoria. The pupa is greenish yellow, set with gray hairs, and has very black wing pads; black markings of abdomen very similar to the alate form; a pair of very conspicuous black patches on mesothorax.
Described from specimens taken on Agropyron glaucum at Fort Collins, Colo., May 30, 1911. Fairly common.
Apterous Viviparous Female—A rather long narrow bodied louse, of a rather uniform rusty yellow color when fully mature but with a distinct darker brown, somewhat broken stripe extending longitudi- nally the whole length of the body on either side of the median line; eyes dark red; legs and antenna dusky yellow, the latter with the terminal joints blackened; number of joints 5; joints 4 and 5 and the spur sub-equal. Antenna less than one-third the length of the body; legs short and rather weak; cornicles raised but little above the sur- face, broader at base than they are long; cauda knobbed; the entire surface of body set with short, stout gray hairs.
A letter from Mr. E. O. G. Kelly, dated Wellington, Kansas, October 6, 1908, states that he has taken this louse in several places throughout the Northwest, both last year and the pres- ent summer.
Agropyron glaucum is the only food plant upon which we have taken this louse. The colonies rest upon the upper sur- face of the harsh leaves of this grass and are usually accom- panied by small ants.
Chaitophorus artemisiae n. sp. (Plate XVI, Figs. 13-16.) Alate Viviparous Female—Abdomen cinnamon brown, head and thorax brownish black; tibiae and basal portion of third joint of
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antenna pale yellowish; tips of tibiae and tarsi very black; veins and stigma of wings dusky; cornicles short and stout and broadest at base, where the diameter just about equals the length. Length of body 1.40 to 1.50 mm.; wing 2.25 mm.; antenna I.70 mm.; hind tibiae .85 mm. Joints of antenna: III .40; IV .29; V .27; VI .11; filament .58 mm.; sensoria about 4, on joint 3.
Described from specimens taken at Boulder, Colo., June 1, 1911, by L. C. Bragg. I have taken the alate lice at Fort Collins as early as May 25.
Apterous Viviparous Female-——General body color almost uniform brownish black, highly polished throughout; antenna black in distal portion to the middle of the third joint; legs black except the proximal one-half of the tibiae which is yellowish in color; cornicles colored like the body, tuberculate, not longer than broad, cylindrical, without flange; prothorax with stout, blunt tubercles; body, legs and antennae with a few weak hairs; antennae not upon distinct tubercles; vertex moderately convex; cauda small, broader than long; antennal joints about:.as follows: IIT :34) LW c265 Wese3: “Vil cigs” Vill sais length of body 1.70 to 2 mm.; antenna I.40 mm.; sensoria I or 2, on joint 3. Figure 13 is of a stem Q.
Apterous ¢ ¢ and oviparous 2 2 were seen in September upon the same host plant but have not been described.
While this louse does not seem to be very common, it fre- quently becomes very abundant upon individual plants of Ar- tenusia dracunculoides.
The younger larvae are decidedly green in color.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVI.
Atarsos grindeliae: 1, alate agamic female; 2, apterous form of same; 3, antenna; 4, cornicle; 5, footless tibia of alate form; 6, antenna of apterous form.
Brachycolus tritici: 7, apterous, and 8, alate viviparae; 9, antenna of alate form.
Chaitophorus agropyronensis: 10, alate and II, apterous viviparae; 12, antenna of alate form.
Chaitophorus artemisiae: 13, stem-mother; 14, alate agamic form; 15, antenna of alate form; and 16, third joint of antenna of apterous summer form of same louse, but in most examples there is but one sensorium.
All the figures of lice are enlarged 15 times; figures of antennae and other small parts, 52 times.
Drawings by Miss M. A. Palmer.
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A New Flea, Ctenophthalmus Heiseri spec. nov. (Siphonaptera). By Greorce W. McCoy,
Passed Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, San Francisco, California.
Ctenophthalmus heiseri sp. n.
Female. Head—Occiput is very gently rounded, and forms with the front of the head a distinct angle at which the occiput slightly overlaps the anterior margin. A row of five large bristles is found extending from just in front of and below the upper extremity of the antennal groove to the insertion of the maxillary palpi. Two
or three bristles are found about one-third of the distance from the posterior margin of the occiput; the upper near the midline, the lower further forward and about midway to the upper end of the antennal groove. Posterior to these is a row of about five bristles extending slightly forward; the lower being about midway between the upper extremity of the antennal groove, and the pos- terior border of the occiput. The posterior inferior curved margin
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of the gena carries a row of five stout spines. The origin of the upper one is apparently overlapped by a chitinous projection. The three succeeding ones are of about the same length. The lowest one is somewhat shorter than the others. Near the middle of the front margin of the gena is a very large bristle. The antennal groove is about five-sixths of the depth of the head, and is not connected with the opposite antennal groove by a furrow extending across the head. Labial palpus extends beyond three-fourths the length of the an-
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terior coxa. The maxillary palpus is about as long as the first four joints of the labial palpus. The first joint of the maxillary palpus is longer than any of the succeeding joints. The eye is wanting. Thorax.—Pronotum carries a row of about ten bristles just pos- terior to the middle, and on the posterior margin a row of twenty stout spines. The mesonotum bears two rows of very fine hairs near the anterior margin; back of these there is a row of stouter hairs, and still further back a row of about twelve heavy bristles. The metanotum is similarly clothed except that the two rows of
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fine hairs are wanting. The epimerum and the episternum of the mesonotum are joined by a strongly marked suture. The epimerum bears one hair, the episternum none. The episternum of the metanotum carries one hair near the posterior superior angle, and a very large bristle just below this.
Abdominal segments—The first tergite bears from before back- wards an irregular row of hairs, a row of about 12 long bristles, a row of shorter bristles, and six stout pegs or teeth between which are long bristles. The second tergite carries about eight teeth between which are small hairs, and behind these a row of bristles. The third carries an anterior irregular row of hairs, then a row of bristles and behind these a row of six teeth. The fourth has bristles like the third, and four stout teeth. The fifth has similar hairs and bristles, and two stout teeth near the midline. The sixth has about six long hairs on each side. The seventh carries two antipygidial bristles on each side. The second, third and fourth tergites have two bristles below the stigma; the fifth and sixth have one. The sternites each carry a row of long bristles.
Modified segments—The eighth tergite is quite hairy. The style is cylindrical and carries a long hair at the point.
Legs—The hind coxae have several irregular rows of short, stout bristles on the inner side below and toward the anterior margin. Hind femur has three or four hairs on inner side. The last hind tarsal joint has six spines on either margin, the last being a little shorter than the preceding ones. Between the two distal spines are two rather small spines.
Relative lengths of hind tarsal joints, 22, 14, 8, 5, 9. Relative lengths of middle tarsal joints, 11, 8, 6, 4, Io. Length—2.4 mm. e Color, dark brown.
Type specimen in the collection at the U. S. National Mu- seum, Catalogue No. 14,154. Host unknown. Locality, Mo- jave, California.
The specimen was sent to the Honorable N. Charles Roths- child, who kindly examined it and pronounced it a new spec- ies of Ctenophthalmus.
Judged by the description of C. fraternus, Baker (1), the flea described here stands nearer to it than to any other American species.
1. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 27, 1904, page 423.
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Studies on Costa Rican Odonata.
III. Structure and Transformation of the Larva of Mecistogaster modestus. By Puiie P. Catvert, Pu.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. (Plates XVII-XIX) The early stages of this long-bodied dragon fly whose dis- covery and habits have been described in the News for Novem- ber, pages 402-410, furnish the following
DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF M. MODESTUS.
Material Studied: (a) From Juan Vifias, Costa Rica.
Total length Body length including caudal excluding No. gills. caudal gills. ai ES GRE Co (gills lacking) II mm. 49 2 8 So BROS C eee 15 mm. Les 54 2 OO ee ToOSh me Gi ay Gat CU AR pe (gills lacking) ZnSe 56 ¢ partly transformed ........ sy © SSE Ane 25 mm. To:5. ““ Me ante) (ee 23 i: EQo a PIUCEMIE AS = ls Scie ee ee (gills lacking) SPR ELT ee e sd 1g9:57 * Greed) extivia of March 13-16.... “ cs (in fragments) nog: RGAE) ees Dern te 2I mm. 29 Cs BAe acne ees 24 % oor ES 3 9 RMN estes So gE wid arore 308 75 TAP @ exttvia of April 28...... (gills imperfect) (distorted) 9 e MIRE TT says foro isle 23.5 mm. 19.5 mm. é ¥ “es Ve (gills lacking) (distorted) tor ? larva recovered from crop of INIGL. 1 we BEARS eee (in fragments)
(b) From Orosi, Costa Rica, March, 1o1t, collected by Sr. C. Picado T., and forwarded by Prof. J. F. Tristan.
Q exuvia dimensions as above, 20.5 and 18 mm.
@ exuvia dimensions as above, 23 and 19.5 mm.
(c) From Cordoba, Mexico, April, 1908, bred by Mr. F. Knab. (See Calvert, 1910.)
@ exuvia (distorted).
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Mature larva. =
Description based on larve Nos. 1, 2 and 58, and exuvie of 55, 57, 59, April 28, May 1, Orosi (2) and Cordoba.
Color, pale yellowish- to reddish-brown, according to the length of time which has elapsed since moulting, posterior ends of abdominal segments darker.
Head concave in the middle posteriorly for the reception of the prothorax, angles of the hind margin rounded off and clothed with short hairs and short spines. Compound eyes distinct. Ocelli indi- cated by three pale yellow spots.
Antenne 7-jointed, ratios of the lengths of the joints in an antenna detached from larva No. 1 and in alcohol under a cover-glass: 18, 20, 33, 26, 19, 12, 7; joints I to 7 successively decreasing in thickness (Pl. XVII, Fig. 3), the distal ends of joints 3-6 a little thicker than the proximal ends; naked, except for a whorl of long and very deli- cate hairs on the middle of the 2nd and 7th joints and near the distal ends of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and, in some, also the 3rd, joint; in dry exuvie, e. g. after metamorphosis, these hairs are often matted down on the antenne and not visible except under a compound microscope.
Ventral surface of each gena with a row of about twenty short spines parallel to the posterior margin of the compound eye, the spines directed forward.
Mandibles one-branched, apex of left mandible with five teeth, first (counting from the dorsal margin) and third shorter than the other three, ventralmost longest; apex of right mandible with four teeth more nearly equal in size, ventralmost longest.
Maxille very similar to those of the larva of Cora described and figured* in the first study of this series, except that the attenuate tip of the inner lobe bears two, instead of three teeth.
Labium, when at rest, reaching almost or entirely to the hind edge of the prothorax; mentum about twice as wide at the level of the articulations of the lateral lobes as at its proximal end (Pl. XVII, Fig. 6), strongly produced distad to form the median labial lobe which lacks the slightest trace of a median cleft, but bears 32-41 crenulations on each side of the median line (Pl. XVII, Fig. 2), usually a short blunt spine in the excision between each crenulation and the next; three or four pairs of setae near the middle and other shorter setae situated more proximad and more laterad, and a number of very short pointed spines near the crenulated distal margin, on the dorsal mental surface; each lateral mental margin in the distal half with 14-21 short conical articulated spines, which series is continued mesad by about 4 similar spines on a thickening near the articulation of mentum and lateral labial lobe; on the ventral mental surface are two pairs of moderately long setae, one pair proximal to, the other pair distal to, the level of articulation of the lateral labial lobes, and many small
*Ent. News, XXII, p. 53, pl. III, Figs. 29, 31.
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setae. Lateral labial lobes (Pl. XVII, Fig. 5) with a long tapering terminal articulated spine and two tapering distal teeth, the inner (mesial or ventral) of which is the longer, 6-7 setae between the terminal spine and the base, and a group of 4-6 (8-9 Cordoba) short conical spines on the lateral margin opposite the most proximal seta.
Thorax without well-developed tubercles or other peculiar struc- tures. Mesostigmata latero-dorsal, between prothorax and mesothorax, elongated transversely. Metastigmata smaller, lateral, close to the anterior margin of the somite. In the alcoholic larve, the front wing- pads reach to slightly posterior to the middle of abdominal segment 4 (Nos. 1 and 2), or to the anterior edge of 5 (No. 58), the hind wing-pads to the hind end of segment 4 (Nos. 1 and 2) or to the mid- dle of 5 (No. 58). In the (metamorphic) exuvize, the point reached by the front wing-pads varies from the anterior edge of 4 to one- fourth the length of 4, and that reached by the hind wing-pads from one-third to one-half the length of 4. These differences between the larve and the exuvie are probably due to the distortion produced by the process of exuviation.
Legs slender, with very short hairs on the longitudinal carine, tarsi three-jointed with two untoothed claws which are curved and very sharp at the apex (Pl. XVII, Fig. 1), no empodium; on the distal part of the tibiz and on each lateral margin of the plantar surface of the tarsal joints are one or more rows of strong, trifid (or less frequently quadrifid or pinnate) spines (Pl. XVII, Fig. 4), whose length ranges from .07 mm. to .I5 mm.
Abdomen subcylindrical, of ten complete segments, decreasing grad- ually in width and in height from 1 to Io, without dorsal or lateral hooks, covered with minute hairs .1 mm. long. Viewed ventrally, the lateral margins of each of segments 1-7 widen caudad from the an- terior end to two-thirds or three-fourths of the segment’s length and thence narrow to the posterior end. Hind dorsal margin of Io in the middle shallowly concave and produced upward (dorsad).
Rudiments of accessory male genitalia visible under the chitin on the ventral side of abdominal segment 2. Male gonapophyses rep- resented by two strong sharply-pointed spines on the ventral side of 9, situated at three-fourths of the segments’ length, about half as long as 9 and projecting ventrad and caudad to the level of the middle of Io.
Female gonapophyses: ovipositor, in the alcoholic larve, reaching to the middle (No. 2), or to seven-eighths (No. 58) of abdominal seg- ment 10, in the exuvie to seven-eighths of 10, or to beyond this seg- ment for a distance equal to about one-eighth of the length of 10; the sharply-pointed genital valves reach to the middle of 10 (No. 2), or to barely beyond 10 (No. 58), or in the exuvie to beyond Io for as much as one-third of the length of Io.
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Rudiments of the superior appendages or ‘cercoids’ of the imago viewed dorsally half as long, or less than half as long, as 10, digitate, bent more or less ventrad near the middle of their length in the male, nearly straight in the female, pale brownish-yellow. (PI. XVII, Fig. 8) sa)
The three caudal gills much darker in color than the abdomen, lozenge-shaped or diamond-shaped in transverse section of the an- terior portion or stalk (which comprises one-half to three-fifths of the total length of the gill), the vertical diameter greater than the horizontal, the four angles distinctly keeled or carinate, the carine minutely serrate (less marked on the lateral carine of the median gill and on the mesial carina of each lateral gill), each serration bearing a short hair; on the two lateral gills the dorsal serrations are larger and fewer than the ventral serrations, while on the median gill the dorsal serrations are smaller and more numerous than the serrations of the ventral edge. The height of each gill (i. ¢., its vertical diam- eter) increases gradually from the base caudad to one-half or three- fifths of the total length and then expands more abruptly into the thinner, foliaceous, terminal portion (Pl. XVII Figs. 12, 13, Pl. XVIII, Fig. 10), which may taper rather rapidly to an acute apex or may end as a fully rounded convexity. The lateral carine of the anterior stalk of the gill are not continued on to the terminal foliaceous por- tion, but the dorsal and ventral carine are continuous with the non- serrated but sparsely hairy dorsal and ventral edges of the foliaceous part. The maximum height of the foliaceous part is about twice the maximum height of the stalk. The caudal gills are held in life so that the foliaceous part is vertical (Pl. XVIII, Fig. 11).
The following viscera are described from larva No. 1, the only one which has been dissected as yet.
The fore-gut reaches to the middle of the third abdominal segment, the mid-gut to the anterior end of the seventh abdominal segment (Pl. XVII, Fig. 8). The distinct gizzard is armed with eight larger and eight smaller longitudinal chitinous folds, all bearing teeth (PI.
a i 5 + 23% XVII, Fig. 9), whose formula may be written 8 (F : f= (cf. Higgins, 1901, pages 132, 133, 136.)
The rectum opened longitudinally and spread flat has three wider cellular (glandular?) longitudinal areas, one of which is mid-dorsal, the other two right-ventral and left-ventral respectively, separated by narrower, non-cellular, longitudinal bands (Pl. XVII, Fig. 10). The nuclei of the cellular areas can be seen in the unstained rectum, but become much more distinct after staining (alum carmine was em- ployed). Each of these three cellular areas is supplied with a branch- ing trachea which for the ventral areas is a derivative, direct or in- direct, of the lateral trachea of the same side of the body (Pl. XVII,
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Fig. 7); the origin of the mid-dorsal rectal trachea was not deter- mined. The three non-cellular longitudinal bands of the rectum had, when the viscus was first opened, the shiny, silvery appearance which suggests enclosed air, but no trachee could be followed into these bands. The chitinous lining of these bands was much wrinkled into short folds.
The crop of this larva (No. 1) contained fragments of a smaller larva of the same species which belong undoubtedly to the small larva referred to on page 407 as having been collected at the same time; these fragments were identifiable as follows: A large part of the head, most of the mentum with left labial lobe and much of the right labial lobe still attached, groups of two or more abdominal segments, and two of the caudal gills. The crop also contained a mosquito larva 4.2 mm. long, comprising head, thorax and abdomen all in one piece; and most of the body of a copepod measuring .3 mm. long. The size of these fragments is such as to excite. wonder that they were not more minutely subdivided by the mouth-parts, unless indeed their size is due to unusual ‘bolting’ by the larva under the stimulation of cap- ture. Behind the gizzard the contents of the alimentary canal were much smaller particles and if the food fragments in the crop were not abnormally large, there is here more evidence of a subdividing function in the gizzard than I was able to adduce on another occa- sion (Calvert, 1899, p. 416).
The arrangement of the principal tracheze is indicated in Pl. XVII, Figs. 7, 8. It does not differ in any important features from that shown in a large-scale (unpublished) drawing which I made many years ago from a living larva, 2 mm. long, of the European Agrion puella. The chief trachee of two caudal gills have also been figured (Pl. XVII, Figs. 12, 13) from the preserved material. Unfortunately, no study of the finer tracheoles was made from life, when alone they can be distinctly traced.
The ventral nerve cord consists of suboesophageal, pro-, meso-, and metathoracic pairs of ganglia (these last three in their respective somites and very distinct from each other), and seven pairs of ab- dominal ganglia as follows: the first in the middle of segment 1, the second near the hind end of 2, the third at the articulation of 3 and 4, the fourth to the seventh in the extreme anterior ends of 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively.
Developmental Changes in the Larva. Comparison of larvae Nos. 48, 49, 54, 3 and that (No. ror) recovered from the crop of No. 1 and the exuviae of 58 and
61 listed on page 449, have furnished only the following differ- ences from the above description of the mature larva:
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In this table the forms compared have been arranged in or- der according to size from the smallest to the largest. The in- crease in total length and in body length is accompanied with increases in the number of crenulations and of spines of the mentum and in the lengths of wing-pads and of female gonapo- physes except in larva No. 3. Miss Butler (1904) has found an increase in the number of distal mental crenulations to take place with increasing age in the larva of Lestes uncatus, while a lack of constant correlation between increased size and in- creased length of wing-pads has been noted by Balfour-Browne (1909, p. 278) and Backhoff (1910, p. 654) for larvae of sev- eral species of European Agrionines.
A comparison of the last two columns of the table is inter- esting as showing the amount of change which can take place within ten days after a moult.
General Features of the Larva.
In spite of their unusual habitat, the larvae of M. modestus show very few differences from the general Agrionine type of larva, the stalked caudal gills of the later stages being one of these. As in most, perhaps all, Zygopterous larvae, the caudal gills may be lost without interfering with growth, development and transformation (Pl. XVIII figs. 1-7, Pl. XIX fig. 8). Only two features of the larvae seem to be distinct adaptations to their environment, viz., the divided spines of the tarsi and dis- tal ends of the tibiae, and the strongly-curved, sharply-pointed tarsal claws, both classes of structures being apparently of as- sistance in moving up and down the steeply-inclined or verti- cal surfaces of the bromeliad leaves. So little has been done, however, in comparing the minuter details of Odonate larvae that it is not certain that these features are peculiar to Mecisto- gaster. It is also important to note that the larva shows nothing of the hypertrophy of the abdomen which is so striking a char- acteristic of the imago. This great increase in abdominal length is accomplished only at metamorphosis and is clearly brought out by the figures on Plates XVIII and XIX.
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TRANSFORMATION.
As related on page 407 the larvae collected at Juan Vilas were brought to Cartago and placed in glass tumblers, The opening of each tumbler was covered with a piece of net- ting. In the early days of April, 1910, we noted that some of these larvae showed signs of approaching metamorphosis, so we took care that some leaves of the small bromeliad in each glass touched the netting and thus afforded a means whereby the larva could reach the latter and there attach itself for transfor- mation.
On April 4 larva No. 59 had so attached itself and at 8.15 A. M. the splitting of the cuticle on the thorax began. By 8.30 A. M. the thorax, head, legs, wings and first four abdominal seg- ments were disengaged and hanging from the exuvia which was attached to the under side of the netting, the body of the imago being sustained entirely by the hind end of the abdomen which was still within the exuvia; the wings were about 10 mm. long. At 8.40 A. M. the imago was completely free from the exuvia and clinging to the netting by its legs. In the mean- time we had set up our camera in a convenient position in our room; then pinned the netting cover with the exuvia and ex- panding imago on it to the door of the wardrobe and obtained the photographs which are reproduced as figure 8, Plate XVIII, and figures 1-8, Plate XIX. The imago made its first flight at 1.53 P. M. It lived in captivity until April 11.
Larva No. 55 transformed April 6 and, with the experience obtained from No. 59, we were able to secure photographs of earlier stages in metamorphosis (Pl. XVIII, figs. 3-7). The whole series of figures on these Plates, together with their ex- planation, may dispense with further description here. As will be seen from an examination of them, the great length of ab- domen of the imago is a relatively sudden acquisition and is not foreshadowed by the size of the larva. This may be still more appreciated by comparing our figures with those of the trans- formations of other Odonata as given, for example, by Latter (1904) and Ward (1910). The decrease in thickness of the abdomen between the stages represented in Pl. XIX, figs. 6 and 7 is also noteworthy.
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On page 410 a hypothesis as to the usefulness of this long imaginal abdomen has been suggested.
Efforts to secure a pairing between ¢ 55 and 2 59 were un- successful.
THE SpEcIFIC IDENTITY OF THIS MECISTOGASTER.
In the Biologia Centrali-Americana (Calvert 1907, p. 354) I was doubtful as to whether Costa Rican examples of M. mo- destus should be referred to the race iphigenia Selys or not. In describing iphigenia (from Bogota and Panama) de Selys wrote (1886, p. 22): “La seule différence 4 noter en com- parant ces exemplaires au type [de modestus] du Mexique, cest que dans les deux sexes. la raie humérale interne est reduite a une virgule basale trés courte,” and on the following page he states, “9? Le bout des quatre ailes blanc laiteux.”
The material now before me is more extensive, so far as Costa Rica is concerned, than that available when the Biologia was written and consists of the following imagos:
Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (2 3 No. 55 and April 28, rg1o, and 32 2 Nos. 57, 59, and May 1; also the @ by Bruner quoted in Biol Cent. Amer.), Orosi (1 @ by Sr. Picado) and Tuis (1 pair in coitu and 12 June, 1907, by Mr. C. H. Lankester, for- warded by the late Prof. Biolley and now in the Acad. Nat. Sci, nila.)
Guatemala, Purula (34 32) and Cubilquitz (1) cited in Biol. Cent. Amer.
Mexico, Presidio in Vera Cruz (2¢ 22) and Atoyac (1 2 ) cited in B. C. A., Cordoba (fragments of two individuals reared by Mr. F. Knab).
The pair from Tuis and the Juan Vifas male of April 28 have fully colored thoraces and on comparing them with the equally well colored examples from Presidio and Atoyac, the internal humeral ray is no shorter in the former than in the lat- ter. The Juan Vifias female by Bruner has this ray of the same length as the other Costa Rican specimens.
As stated in the Biologia volume, page 57, one female from Presidio has the tips of the wings milky, as described by de Selys for iphigenia; this female has the pterostigma creamy-
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white. The other Presidio female and the Atoyac female have the pterostigma reddish and brownish respectively, but the tips of the wings are not milky. All the Costa Rican females now before me have the veins at the apices of the wings white but in none of them is the membrane of the wing as milky as in the first mentioned Presidio female which has the veins at the apex brownish or blackish. My belief, as expressed in the Biologia, p. 57, 1s that reddish and brownish pterostigmata in this species indicate greater age than a white stigma. None of the Costa Rican females before me have red or brown pterostigmata, al- though two of the males have them dark brown.
Judged by the length of the internal humeral ray there seems to be no reason for separating the Costa Rican specimens from the Mexican, and as milkiness at the apex of the wings of the females is evidently not a geographical character, whatever else its significance may be, I refer all the Costa Rican specimens to modestus.
LITERATURE, QUOTED.
BackHorF, P.—1gto. Die Entwicklung des Copulationsapparates von Agrion. Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zool., xcv.
BALFOUR-BROWNE, F.—1909. The Life-History of the Agrionid Drag- onfly. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. August.
Burtier, H.—1904. The Labium of the Odonata. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxx. June.
Catvert, P. P.—1899. Odonata from Tepic, Mexico, with Supple- mentary Notes on those of Baja, California. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) Zool. I. May.
Ip.—1907. Biologia Centrali-Americana: Neuroptera. London.
Ip.—r1910. Plant-dwelling Odonate Larvae. Ent. News, xxi, pp. 365-306. October.
Hiccrns, H. T.—1901. The Development and Comparative Structure of the Gizzard in the Odonata Zygoptera. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. April.
Latrer, O. H.—1904. The Natural History of some Common Animals. Cambridge. :
SELYS-LONGCHAMPsS, E. pE—I886. Revision du Synopsis des Agrio- nines Premiére Partie. Mem. Couron. Acad. Roy Belg. xxxviii.
Warp, J. J.—rto10. The Life Story of a Dragon-fly. The Strand Magazine. October.
ENT. NEws, VoL. XXII. Plate X VIE.
MECISTOGASTER MODESTUS—caLvert.
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EXPLANATION OF PLates XVII-XIX. (All three Plates refer to Mecistogaster modestus Selys).
Piate XVII.
Fig. 1. Tarsus and distal end of tibia, larva No. 2. x 33.
Fig. 2. A little more than the right half of distal margin of mentum, dorsal surface, larva No. 1. x 28.
Fig. 3. Right antenna, larva No. 1. x 18.
Fig. 4. A single trifid spine from the proximal tarsal joint of fig. 1, length .o7 mm. x 370.
Fig. 5. Lateral labial lobe from exuvia of larva No. 49. x 14. Fig. 6. Labium, larva No. I. x 8. Fig. 7. Principal tracheae supplying the rectum, larva No. 1. The
outlines of the ileum and rectum are shown by broken lines. The left dorsal trachea (/dt) has been turned to the left out of its normal position. x 9Q.
Fig. 8. Some of the principal viscera of larva No. 1. The outline of thorax and first seven abdominal segments has been shown on the right side only, the dorsal body-wall being supposed to have been entirely removed from these segments, but its right half retained and spread out to the right in segments 8-10. The dorsal trachea is in normal position on the right (rdt), but turned over out of position (Idt), and the lateral trachea (J/t) also exposed, on the left. The dotted lines on the head show the outlines of the compound eyes. x 4%.
Fig. 9. One-fourth of the gizzard armature as seen when the viscus is cut lengthwise and spread out flat, larva No. I. x 45.
Fig. 10. Inner surface of the rectum, larva No. 1, cut lengthwise to the right of the mid-dorsal line and spread out flat. x 16.
Fig. 11. A caudal gill of larva No. Iol. x 9.
Fig. 12, 13. Caudal gills from larvae Nos. 48 or 49 and I, respec- tively. x 9.
All these figures drawn by camera lucida and compound microscope.
Abbreviations : ab, abductor muscle. mcgt, trachea to median caudal ad, adductor muscle. gill.
mdrt, mid-dorsal rectal trachea. mg, mid-gut. mssp, mesostigma.
br, brain (cerebral ganglia). dv, dorsal vessel. fg, fore gut.
g7, seventh abd. ganglia il, ileum.
Icgt, trachea to left caudal gill.
Idt, left dorsal trachea. llt, left lateral trachea.
lurt, left ventral rectal trachea.
mt, Malpighian tubules.
mtsp, metastigma.
og, optic ganglion.
r, rectum.
regt, trachea to right caudal gill. rdt, right dorsal trachea.
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rit, right lateral trachea. | 2nd and 8th abd. segs., rurt, right ventral rectal trachea. | respectively. sa, superior appendages (cercoids) | t, trachea. of imago. wp, wing pads. Sp. 1, Sp. 2, sp. 8, spiracles of Ist, |I-X, abdominal segments 1 to Io.
Piate XVIII.
Figs. 1, 2. Larva No. 55, placed on the netting out of water for comparison.
Figs. 3-7. Larva No. 55, transforming April 6, 1910. Figs 3-5 show the tracheal linings being pulled out of the right thoracic spiracles as white lines.
Fig. 8. Larva No. 59, transforming April 4, 1910, 9.05 A. M. (For continuation of this series see Plate XIX).
Fig. 9. Ventral surface of metamorphic exuvia No. 55.
Fig. 10. Dorsal surface of metamorphic exuvia No. 57. After transformation the exuvial coverings of the gills as they dry become shriveled. In this case special care was taken to spread them out on a piece of paper that they might dry in approximately natural shape attached to the paper.
Fig. 11. Larva No, 57 photographed alive in water, March 2, rg1o.
PLATE XIX.
Figs. 1-7. Larva No. 50, transforming April 4, 1910. Between the taking of photographs 3 and 4 the netting was shifted to bring the imago into side-view.
Fig. 8. Metamorphic exuvia of No. 59 after transformation, April 4, 1910, at 10.46 A. M.; 20 mm. long.
All figures on Plates XVIII and XIX from photographs by Amelia S. Calvert.
THE PEcCKHAM COLLECTION OF SpIDERS.—The Public Museum of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has recently received a donation of great value. This is the entire collection of spiders, chiefly Attide, from all parts of the world, of Dr. George W. Peckham, whose work on Solitary Wasps and Spiders is so well known. The collec- tion includes many thousands of spiders, among them many species determined by Simon. The types, of which a few are still in the col- lection, will be sent to Cambridge, where the rest of Dr. Peckham’s have been sent. Dr. Peckham included his entire library on Arach- nida in this donation. He expects to leave shortly for Central Ameri- ca, probably Guatemala, where he will stay for six months.
R. A. Murrxowsk!, Milwaukee, Wis.
Plate XVIII.
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MECISTOGASTER MODESTUS—CALVERT.
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Standards of the Number of Eggs laid by Spiders.—I. (Arach.).
Being Averages Obtained by Actual Count of the Combined Eggs from Twenty Depositions or Masses.
By A. A. Girautt, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
I, EPEIRA SERICATA Clerck. (=SCLOPETARIA Clerck.).
| l l No. coun i :
No. |Date 1911) ee Su ceeere | eee tees | Max. Min. | Range I | July 22 236 236.0 26: 300 2 227 463 221s | 3 | 239 702 234.
4 SY/ | 1039 | 259-7 5 182 le i227 244.2 6 254 1475 246. 7 166 | rO4qr | 234: 8 247 | 1888 236. 9 | 182 2070 | 230.
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II 279 2649 241.
12 261 | 2910 242.5
13 189 3099 238. |
14 114 3213 229 5 114
15 236 3449 | 230. |
16 292 3741 234.
7) 145 3886 229.
18 165 4051 226.
19 153 4204 | 221.
20, | 238 | 4442 222 ee 114
20 238 4442 222. 300 114 | 186 | Finals
All of the egg masses of this spider were collected at one time from the sides of windows and beneath the sills, from the under sides of piles of lumber stacked up on the ground, from the sides of wooden structures under projections of all kinds and from other similar situations in a limited area on the west- ern shore of Lake Michigan occupied by an experimental sew- age pumping station, Sanitary District of Chicago, Chicago, II- linois. The collection was made during the afternoon of July Be IOie.
The spider was extremely abundant in this situation, espe- cially along the elevated boardwalks and platforms leading to and from the several experimental sewage filters back of the
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plant and bordering on the shores of the lake. Here, after nightfall, their webs were very abundant. An abundance of aquatic dipterous and neuropterous insects in the imaginal stage afforded an ample supply of food. These latter were partly from the sewage and partly from the lake.
Since a single female of this spider probably deposits sev- eral or more masses of eggs during its life, the average given should not be taken as the average total progeny of a pair but rather as the approximate average number of eggs per mass.
An Aleyrodes on Euphorbia, and its Parasite (Rhynch., Hym.).
By T. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
A short time ago Mr. FE. Bethel collected at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, some material of Euphorbia robusta badly infested by an Aleyrodes. I was able to breed out the adults of the Aleyrodes, and also large numbers of an undescribed parasite. This appears to be the first record of Aleyrodes on Euphorbia in this country, though A. euphorbiae Loew was found on Euphorbia peplus in Austria. Euphorbia robusta is also the food plant of the very interesting moth Doa ampla (Grote), which I have bred at Boulder. Dr. Dyar, who kindly determined the moth, will describe the larva.
Aleyrodes pruinosus euphorbiarum n. subsp.
Adult Q.—(measurements in microns). Length of body 1200; head and legs grey, thorax grey with the scutellum light yellowish; abdomen light clear lemon yellow, with the apex broadly grey, and dorsal markings as in A. pruinosus; eyes completely divided; third antennal joint 160; joints 4 to 7 subequal, all together 224; length of antennae about 432; anterior wing about 1595 long and 640 wide; main vein distinctly angulate beyond middle (about 770 from base), but with no upper branch, though this is represented by a slight fold; anterior wings white with a faint greyish patch in apical field; border of wing as in pruinosus.
Pupa.—Broad-oval, 1280 microns long, 1040 wide, or sometimes
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smaller; nearly black, but variably brownish, becoming brown at sides; usually no fringe of wax, but there is a very easily deciduous fringe in good specimens, about 30 across, finely striate; no dorsal wax; an obscure median keel, and the usual strong transverse sutural marks; a more or less evident pale marginal zone, the edge of which is finely crenulate. Immature specimens are brown. Vasiform orifice triangular ; operculum very broad (62 broad and 30 long), truncate apically, much as in A. amnicola, except that the sides form a much wider angle with the truncation; lingua 30 broad at broadest part, and extending 27 beyond operculum, the apex broadly rounded, very minutely irregularly beaded, slightly notched on each side just above widest part, below which it rapidly narrows; a dark band crosses the lingua at the widest part.
I had regarded this as a new species, but it was so close to A. pruinosus Bemis, found on Heteromeles in California, that | thought it prudent to send specimens to Mr. Quaintance to be compared with type material of pruinosus. Mr. Quaintance kindly replies that it seems to be structually identically with pruinosus, though there are differences in color. He adds that probably A. spiraeoides Quaintance will prove to be conspecific with pruinosus. A. spiraeoides, also from California, has a bright lemon-yellow pupa and the anterior wings of the adult have two dusky spots. On comparing the Euphorbia species with the description and figures of A. pruinosus, it seems to dif- fer in having the pupa flatter (certainly not “very convex”), the vasiform orifice more produced apically, and the operculum different. These characters are, however, somewhat evasive, and it seems probable that the insect does not deserve more than subspecific rank. It is rather contrary to expectation, that the form from the arid interior of the country should be character- ized by its extremely dark coloration in the pupa.
The parasite, reared from this species in great numbers, sca member of the interesting group Aphelinine. On looking it up, I found that it would not fit well into any known genus, but combined the characters of Encarsia and Coccophagus. Speci- mens were accordingly submitted to Dr. L. O. Howard, who re- plied: “The truth is, it belongs to a new genus. It has the an- tenn of Coccophagus, but its wing veins are quite different. I suggest that you make a new genus for ifs
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MIMATOMUS nn. gen.
Runs in Howard’s table (Bureau of Entomology, Tech. Ser. No. 12, part iv), to Coccophagus, having the wings without a hairless line, the antennz 8-jointed, with the slender club 3- jointed, the stigmal vein well developed, the marginal a little longer than the submarginal, the hind tibiz normal, etc. The small size and the parasitism on Aleyrodes suggest Encarsia; so also does the large stigmal vein, which is directed apicad and is without a definite knob. The tarsi are 5-jointed ; eyes very dis- tinctly hairy, the hairs quite long; ovipositor projecting very little beyond the abdomen.
Mimatomus peltatus n. sp.
9 —(measurements all in microns). Length 670; width of head 312; length of anterior wing 720, its breadth 312; length of fringe on its lower margin 30; length of submarginal vein 176, of marginal 208, of stigmal 30, end of stigmal vein to end of wing 304; length of antennal club 152; ovipositor projecting beyond abdomen 27. Black, with the scutellum bright yellow, suffused with brown basally, its sur- face with an irregular coarse network sculpture; wings clear; antenne ferruginous; legs pale yellowish or ferruginous, the hind femora and coxae brown. Antennal joints with longitudinal dark lines; scape ordinary; pedicel moderately swollen; funicle joints successively long- er, all conspicuously longer than broad; parapsidal grooves straight; axille formed as in Howard's figure of Prospaltella murtfeldtit; mid- dle tibia 256 long, its spur about three-quarters the length of the basi- tarsus, but very slender and sharp apically.
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ENTOMOLOGICAL THESES For DocTroRaTES IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. —According to the list of theses offered by those who received the degree of doctor of philosophy from American Universities in I9I1, published in Science for August 18, 1911, the following bore entomo- logical titles:
University of Chicago, Robert Kirkland Nabours, Mendelian In- heritance in Orthoptera. ;
Columbia University, Charles Virgin Morrill, The Chromosomes in the Oogenesis, Fertilization and cleavage of Coreid Hemiptera.
Cornell University, Robert Matheson, The structure and Metamor- phosis of the Fore-intestine of Corydalis cornutus L. Edith Marion Patch, Homologies of the Wing-veins of the Aphididae, Psyllidae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae. ;
Harvard University, Edward Gaige Titus, Monograph of the species of Hypera and Phytonomus in America. 4
University of Cincinnati, Annette Frances Braun, Observations on the Development of Color in the Pupal Wings of Several Species of Lithocolletes.
University of Pennsylvania, Norman Eugene MclIdoo, Lyriform Or- gans and Tactile Hairs in Araneads.
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There are at least two kinds of sermons, one of them the hortatory. As man is prone to fall into the same evil ways year after year, he must be continually exhorted to reform the same particular bad habit. Herein, we see the chief practical value of sermons hortatory.
So also there are at least two kinds of entomological editor- ials, one of them the hortatory. Persuaded of the necessity of this sort of editorial utterance, as of the hortatory sermon, we shall make no apology for saying one and the same thing many times in this column, if it appear desirable to do so.
Now we say: Label your insects carefully and fully.
A well-known entomologist writes:
“So much of the material that comes to hand is poorly labeled and it is even common for collectors to send in a lot of speci- mens to a specialist and expect him to label them all in ac- cordance with data given in a letter. Let every man label his own things! (Exceptions may be made for lots of unmounted specimens of the same species).”
In these days when special printers of entomological labels exist and when many have their own micro-printing outfit, there is no excuse for not labeling even a long series of specimens. Each label should bear the name of the locality (nearest town, village or postoffice, if no other exact designation is available)
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county, state or country, altitude if not readily and exactly as- certainable from a geographical hand-book, date including year (and the month should never be indicated by Arabic numerals. for an American abbreviates October 9, by 10-9, and an Eng- lishmen, 9-10,—not that these are unfailing national characters), and the name of the collector as a clue to the specimen’s his- tory.
Some insects will require additional information, as to the plant or the nature of the soil, or the species of animal on which they were taken.
No specimen intended for preservation should be ticketed with a number only and all the information separately recorded under that number in a book. The chances are in favor of book and specimen following different paths in the maze of life whereby the specimen soon passes into the limbo of forgot- ten things.
To recur to the sermon again: What I say unto You, I say unto All—LAaBEL!
Notes and News.
ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE.
MosourrorEs Fep sy ANTs.—The Javanese ant, Cremastogaster diffor- mis Smith, excavates its nests in ends of dead branches. When these nests are placed in unfavorable places they become filled with rain- water, and are abandoned by the ants. In this water the mosquito, Harpagomyia splendens de Meijere, lays its eggs, and is not known to occur elsewhere than in association with this Cremastogaster. Breeding the ants and the mosquitoes together, E. Jacobson found that the mosquitoes spent much time on an upright rod supporting the ants’ nests, rocking their bodies gently to and fro, until an ant ran along the rod between a mosquito’s legs. The ant was then caressed and produced a drop of liquid between its wide-opened jaws, which was sucked up by the probosis of the mosquito. The operation is figured by some photographs and drawings on three plates (Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, liv, pp. 158-161, taf. 11-13, 1911). In a description of the larva and pupa of this Culicid, following Jacobson’s paper, Prof. de Meijere points out, as of special interest, that, although the adult Harpagomyia possesses neither mandibles nor maxillae, rudiments of these mouth parts are present in the pupa.
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THE Mone or INFECTION BY THE CAyor Worm.—Doctors Rodhain and Bequaert conclude, from their observations in the Congo State, that Cordylobia anthropophaga (Griinberg) lays its eggs on the ground. The larvae, known generally as Cayor worms, crawl over the soil un- til they come in contact with man or a mammal, penetrate the skin and lie in the subcutaneous tissue, causing the formation of tumors. On reaching full growth, the larvae leave the host, fall to the ground, bury themselves and there pupate. This Muscid fly is said to be the most common cause of human or animal myiasis in tropical Africa, from Senegal to Natal. In the region of Bas-Katanga where these inves- tigations were made, dogs appeared to be the principal hosts, although Cordylobia larvae were found also in guinea-pigs, a monkey and two white men. The larvae are always localized on those parts of the hosts which come in immediate contact with the soil. (Ann. Soc. Entom. de Belgique, lv, pp. 192-197, I91I).
THE OccuRRENCE oF PoLYNEMA CONSOBRINUS GIRAULT IN GEORGIA.— Professor A. L. Quaintance, in charge of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, had loaned to me some time ago several specimens of species of Mymaridae among which was a female of the above named Poly- nema. The specimen has been referred to in print before as a Poly- nema reared in connection with Polynema piceipes Girault (Psyche, 1905, p. 92). Only recently have I been able to identify it. It has been remounted in balsam from a tag and bears the labels, “Fort Val- ley, Ga. J. H. Beattie, VI, 20, 1905. Quaintance No. 774. Reared in connection with eggs of Anthonomus quadrigibbus Say in Crataegus fruit.” As the species consobrinus has been recorded as a parasite of the eggs of Enchenopa binotata Say, it is probable that this specimen came from some membracid or jassid egg concealed within the fruit of the hawthorn.
This specimen is worthy of mention not only because it extends the known distribution of the species, but also because it appears to be a variant. Thus, the proximal tarsal joint of the caudal legs is dis- tinctly longer and more slender than usual, the second tarsal joint of the same legs longer than the distal joint, the first joint subequal in length to the combined lengths of the other three joints, facts which are not true for the comparatively large number of specimens of consobrinus which I have seen so far. But the relative length of the joints of appendages is by no means constant in Mymaride, there being considerable variation in some cases and because of this I have little doubt that the specimen under consideration is but a variant and not a distinct species. The discal ciliation of the fore wing in this specimen disappears farther out from the base of the wing than is usual, but this also varies somewhat and has no specific value in this case—A. A. GIRAULT.
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ANTS PARALYZED BY THE SECRETION OF A Buc.—E. Jacobson has observed that a Holoptiline Heteropter, Ptilocerus ochraceus Montan- don, of Java, possesses, on the underside of the second abdominal segment, a tuft of yellow hair (a trichome), which apparently secretes some substance with a flavor agreeable to ants of the species Dolicho- derus bituberculatus Mayr. On the approach of one of these ants, “the bug is at once on the alert; it raises half-way the front of the body, so as to put the trichome in evidence. * * * The ant at once proceeds to lick the trichome. * * * At this stage of the proceed- ings the bug does not yet attack the ant. * * * It is surprising to see how the bug can restrain its murderous intention as if it was knowing that the right moment had not yet arrived. After the ant has indulged in licking the tuft of hair for some minutes the exuda- tion commences to exercise its paralyzing effect. * * * As soon as the ant shows signs of paralysis by curling itself up and drawing in its legs, the bug at once seizes it with its front legs and very soon it is pierced and sucked dry.” (Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, liv, pp. 175-179, 1911). An accompanying paper by the late G. W. Kirkaldy describes and figures the Ptilocerus.
PARASITIC ORTHOPTERA——The rareness of the parasitic habit in this order of insects makes additional information concerning it very welcome. The most famous Orthopterous parasite is Hemimerus, for which de Saussure proposed the formation of a new order— Diploglossata. Prof. Dr. Richard Heymons, of the Royal Museum fur Naturkunde, at Berlin, describes his observations on the habits of Hemimerus talpoides Walk. in Heft II of the Deutsche Ento- mologische Zeitschrift for 1911. Dr. Heymons kept in a cage, an East African hamster-rat, Cricetomys, infested with 20-25 Hemi- meri. ‘The behavior of these insects with relation to their host, light and food is discussed at length, and the conclusion is drawn that Henumerus can be considered as neither injurious nor useful to its host. It is not regarded as a parasite in the narrower sense of the word, because it does not injure the rat. On the other hand, the idea of Jordan (1909) that Hemimerus and Cricetomys are symbionts and that the former benefits the latter by consuming fungi found on the skin of the mammal, is rejected. Heymons, indeed, found spores of fungi in the alimentary canal of Hemimerus, but he believes that their occurrence there and on the exterior of the host is incidental to the habits of life of Cricetomys. The principal food of Hemimerus is the upper horny epidermis of its host, but as the insect not in- frequently leaves the rat for short excursions, it consumes other things in addition, Heymons finding plant-cells and chitinous pieces in its digestive tract. Hemimerus is quiescent while its host is ac-
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tive, and the insects seemed to seek the inguinal region of Heymon’s Cricetomys at such times, but when the rat was sleeping or quiet, wandered over all parts of the body, rarely attracting any response from the rat. Heymons agrees with Hansen (1894) in considering that Hemimerus is most nearly related to the Forficulidae—earwigs— and in this connection it is worth while to mention the discovery, within the last two years, of an earwig, Arixenia esau, found in the breast pouch of a naked bat in Sarawak, described by Dr. K. Jordan
in 1909, and exhibited at the Entomological Society of London, Feb. 2, Igio.
A RAT-FLEA AS THE INTERMEDIATE HOST OF TAPE-WORMS.—The dog- flea and the human flea have long been known to serve as hosts of the cysticercoid stage of the tape worm Dipylidium caninum. Dampf recently found a Cysticercoid, supposed to be that of Hymenolepis nana, in the flea, Mesopsylla eucta, from the jerboa, Alactaga jaculus. Nicoll and Minchin have now found two species of Cysticercoids in the body cavity of the rat-flea, Ceratophyllus fasciatus.
One of these Cysticercoids has been proved to be the larval form of Hymenolepis diminuta; it “occurred in about four per cent. (8 in 207) of all the fleas examined during a period of thirteen months. It was found in the body cavity and usually only one specimen at a time. As many as three, however, had been found in one flea.” Feeding experiments to determine the identity of the Cysticercoid _were performed on a litter of young rats, separated from their mother, isolated, and kept under observation until it was certain that they were free from tape-worms. After three months, fleas were mashed up with their food, and nineteen days later mature tape-worms (Hymenolepis diminuta) and their ova were found in the intestine of the rats and in the rats’ feces respectively. It is thought that only the oldest and largest flea-larvae are capable of ingesting the tape-worm eggs and that no development of these eggs takes place until the beginning of the pupal stage.
Of the other Cysticercoid, only one specimen has been found in Ceratophyllus fasciatus. From a microscopic examination and com- parison with the known tape-worms of rats, “the authors were forced to the conclusion that this Cysticercoid must either be referred to H[ymenolepis] murina or to some other as yet undescribed form, the scolex of which was indistinguishable from that of AH. muyina.” This discovery is of special interest; first, because it has been believed that H. murina dispensed altogether with an intermediate host, passing its encysted stage in the walls of the intestine of the rat itself; sec- ond, because some have considered H. murina to be identical with H. nana, a dangerous tape-worm of man; and third, because no inter-
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mediate host has yet been discovered for H. nana. “Rats certainly ingested a large number of fleas from time to time, but it was diffi- cult to imagine that they would acquire a very large infection with H. murina by this means; and if H. nana be identical with H. murina it was scarcely conceivable that a human being could accidentally swallow a sufficient number of fleas to give rise to an infection of over a thousand tape-worms, as was frequently found to be the case. It would still, therefore, be necessary to admit that the develop- ment of H. murina usually took place without an intermediate host, but that occasionally the rat-flea might function as such. With such a conclusion the life-story of H. murina became even more re- markable than before.” (Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1911, part I, pp. 9-13, with figures of the two Cysticercoids.)
MEANS OF TRANSPORTING FUNGI BY THE AMBROSIA-BEETLES.—In the current volume, No. 7, of Entomologische Blatter (which describes it- self as an International Monthly for the Biology of European Beetles with special reference to Forest Entomology), Strohmeyer describes and figures in halftone some of the very curious bunches of bristles to be found on the heads of the females only of various species of Platypodidae. As in certain species (Mitosoma sp.) he found clumps of Ambrosia fungus always adhering to the bristles, he infers that the latter serve to transport the fungus from one place to another. In conclusion he remarks that in a very large number of Platypodidae, perhaps in more than half of all the species, a special apparatus for the transport of fungus is lacking. Why are not all Platypodid females so provided? To answer this question it is necessary to glance at the habits and character of the food of these beetles. According to the mutually confirmatory researches of Hubbard* and Negerj the fungi of different Ambrosia beetles are different, the species of fungus depending not on the kind of tree in which the beetle lives, but on the species of beetle. It therefore results that the introduction of the fungus into new brood-tunnels must be brought about—unconsciously of course—by the beetle itself. Dr. Neger has shown that the fungi which are associated with the German species of Xyleborus and Xyloterus discharge their spores not as dust but in slimy balls, which easily adhere to the unevenesses of the elytra and to the hairs. A fun- gus with such peculiarities requires no special apparatus for its transport on the part of its symbiotic beetle. Only when the fungus is wholly or in part unable to be attached to the beetle does the need of some special modification of the insect arise.
* The Ambrosia beetles of the United States. Bull. No. >, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1897.
+ Aus der Natur IV, p. 921, 1908. Zeitschr. f. Land- u. Forstwirtsch., 1908, p. 274. Zentr. Bact. Par. Abt. IT, Bd. XX, p. 279.
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To the Entomological Research Committee the Natural History Museum owes a beautiful enlarged model of the tropical rat-flea (Xenospylla cheopis), which appears to be the main vehicle in the conveyance of bubonic plague to the human subject. The species is believed to have been a native of North Africa, but is now practically cosmopolitan. The model is about 12 inches in length. (Nature, July 13, IQII).
Entomological Literature.
COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN.
Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form.
For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington.
2—Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 4—The Canadian Entomologist. 6—Journal, New York Entomo- logical Society. 7—U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 9—The Entomologist, London. 10—Nature, Lon- don. 11—Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 12— Comptes Rendus, L’Academie des Sciences, Paris. 14—Proceed- ings, Zoological Society of London. 21—The Entomologist’s Record, London. 22—Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig. 35—An- nales, Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 40—Societas Ento- mologica, Zurich. 50—Proceedings, U. S. National Museum. 68— Science, New York. 7 —Transactions, Kansas Academy of Sci- ence, Topeka. 84—Ento ologische Rundschau. 92—Zeitschriit fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie. 102—Proceedings, Ento- mological Society of Washington. 107—Revista, Museu Paulista, S. Paulo, Brazil. 152—California Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley. 159—Bollettino, Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agararia della R. S. Superiore d’Agricoltura in Portici. 179—Jour- nal of Economic Entomology. 180—Annals, Entomological So- ciety of America. 198—Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 251—Annales, Sciences Natu- relles, Zoologie, Paris. 271—Fauna Artica, herausgegeben von Dr.
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F. Romer und Dr. F. Schaudinn, Jena. 846—Fauna Exotica, Mit- teilungen aus dem Gebiete der exotischen Insektenwelt, Frankfurt am Main. 848—State of Connecticut Geological and Natural His- tory Survey, Hartford, Conn. 349—Zoologische Annalen, Zeit- schrift fur Geschichte der Zoologie, Wurzburg.
GENERAL SUBJECT. Bethune-Baker, G. T.—“The latest in nomenclature,” 21, 1911, 263. Britton, W. E.—Guide to the insects of Connecticut, Pt. I, 348, Bul. No. 16, 38 pp. Gillett, J. A.—In- sects feeding on “slime flux” of trees, 10, 1911, 516. Gregory, J. W. —The scientific misappropriation of popular terms (mentions in- sects), 10, 1911, 538-541. Luederwaldt, G—Os insectos necro- phagos Paulistas, 107, viii, 414-533. Pocock, R. I—On the palata- bility of some British insects, with notes on the significance of mimetic resemblances; with notes upon the experiments by E. P. Poulton, 14, 1911, 809-868. Prout, L. B.—Descriptions or figures? 21, 1911, 263-265. Scudder, S. H.—Obituary by H. J. Turner, 21, 1911, 255-256. Obituary by T. D. A. Cockerell, 68, 1911, 338-342. Shelford, R.—Sparrow v. butterfly, 21, 1911, 245. Silvestri, F.— Contributo alla conoscenza dei mirmecofili del Messico, 159, v, 172-195 (*). Smith, J. B—Report of the Entomological Depart- ment of the N. J. Agr. College Exper. Station, New Brunswick, N. J., for the year 1910, 300-424 pp.
APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Hilton, W. A.—The struc- ture of the central nervous system of Corydalis larva, 180, 1911, 219-256. Navas, L.—Neuropteros del Brazil por el Reo Padre, 107, 476-481. Parker, W. B.—California redwood attacked by Termes lucifugus, 179, 1911, 422-423. Silvestri, F—Contributo alla cOnoscenza dei Machilidae dell’America settentrionale, 159, v, 324- 352 (*). Materiali per lo studio dei Tisanuri. Un novo genere e undici specie nove di Japygidae dell’America settentrionale, 159, v, 72-87 (*). Wodsedelek, J. E.—Phototactic reactions and their reversal in the may-fly nymphs Heptagenia interpunctata, 198, xxi, 265-271.
ORTHOPTERA. Allar, H. A.—Studying the stridulations of Orthoptera. 102, 1911, 141-148. Shelford, R.—The latest in nomen- clature, 21, 1911, 241-242. Walden, B. H.—The Euplexoptera and Orthoptera of Connecticut, 348, Bul. No. 16, pt. 2, 39-169 pp.
HEMIPTERA. Barber, T. C.—The Coccidae of Louisiana (2d paper), 179, 1911, 448-451. Crumb, S. E.—The Jassoidea of Kan- sas, 72, xxiii, 232-238. Gahan, A. B.—Notes on two important parasites of economic insects (Telenomus quaintancei & Alphidius nigripes), 179, 1911, 423-425. Heidemann, O—Some remarks on the eggs of N. A. sp. of Hemiptera-Heteroptera, 102, 1911, 128-140. An. sp. of N. A. Tingitidae, 102, 1911, 180-181 (*). Hempel, A.—
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Descripcao de um novo genero e uma nova especie de coccidas, 107, viii, 52-53. Leonardi, G.—Contributo alla conoscenza delle cocciniglie della Republica Argentina, 159, v, 237-284. Lindinger, L.—Beitrage zur kenntnis der schildlaus und ihrer verbreitung, IJ, 92, 1911, 244-255 (cont.). Martelli, G—Notizie sull’Aphis brasse- cae, e su alcuni suoi parassiti ed perparassiti, 159, v, 40-54. Ma- tausch, I.—The effects of parasitic castration in Membracidae, 6, 1911, 194-196. Silvestri, F.—Sulla posizione sistematica del genre Termitaphis, con descrizione di due specie nuove, 159, v, 231-236. Smith, P. E.—Specific characters used in the genus Pseudococcus, 180, 1911, 309-327.
LEPIDOPTERA. Banks, C. S—A manual of Philippine silk culture, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Science, Manila, 53 pp. Barnes & McDunnough.—New species and genera of N. A. Lepidoptera, 6, 1911, 151-162 (*). Bethune-Baker, G. T.—Lepi- dopterology, 21, 1911, 271. Bordas, L—L’appareil digestif et les Tubes de Malpighi des larves des Lepidopteres (suite et fin), 251, xiv, 193-273. Bryk, F.—Apollinische liebe, 40, 1911, 50-52. Chap- man, T. A.—Lepidopterology—no description of a species valid without a figure, 21, 1911, 239-240. Viviparous butterflies, 21, 1911, 233-234. Forbes, W. T. M.—A structural study of the caterpillars, II: The Sphingidae, 180, 1911, 261-279. Grossbeck, J. A.—Utetheisa bella var. nova, 6, 1911, 196-198. Hampson, G. F.—Descriptions of new genera and species of Syntomidae, Arctiadae, Agaristidae and Noctuidae, 11, 1911, 394. Hormuzaki, C. F.—Die systematische und morphologische stellung der bukowiner formen von Melitaea athalia und M. aurelia, 92, 1911, 213-218. Michael, O.—Lebens- weise und gewohnheiten der Morpho des Amazonasgebietes. Be- obachtungen uber vorkommen und lebensweise der Agriasarten des Amazonasgebietes, 271, i, 13-20 (cont.). Pierce, F. N.— Viviparity in Lepidoptera, 9, 1911, 309-310. Pocock, R. I.—The distastefulness of Anosia plexippus, 10, 1911, 484-485. Prell, H— Biologische beobachtungen an Termiten und Ameisen, 22, 1911, 243-253. Reiff, W.—Experimente an uberwinternden Lepidoptera- puppen, 92, 1911, 235-237 (cont.). Smith, J. B.—New species of Noctuidae for 1911, No. 1, 6, 1911, 133-151 (*). Strand, E.—Eine neue, riesenhafte Gelechiide aus Ecuador, 84, 1911, 151. Zwei neue sudamerikanische formen von der lepidopteren-familie Riodinidae (Erycinidae), 84, 1911, 150. Walker, E. M.—Rare captures of Lepidoptera, 4, 1911, 340. Wolley-Dod, F. H.—Further notes on Alberta Lepidoptera, 4, 1911, 329-339.
DIPTERA. Bezzi, M.—Restaurazione del genre Carpomyia (Rond) A. Costa, 159, v, 2-33. Felt, E. P.—Three new gall midges, 6, 1911, 190-193 (*). Hosts and galls of American gall midges.
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New sp. of gall midges, 179, 1911, 451-484 (*). Herms, W. B.—The house fly in its relation to public health, 152, Bull. No. 215. Keéilin, D.—On the parasitism of the larvae of Pollenia rudis, in Allolo- bophora chlorotica, 102, 1911, 182-184. Knab, F.—Dr. A. Lutz’s studies of Brazilian Simuliidae, 102, 1911, 172-179. Payne, F.— Drosophila ampelophila bred in the dark for 69 generations, 198, xxi, 297-301. Roubaud, E.—Nouvelle contribution a l’etude biolo- gique des Glossines. Quelques donnees sur la biologie des G. morsitans et tachinoides du Soudan nigerien (note), 12, 1911, 637- 639. Smith, R. I—Formaline for poisoning house flies proves very attractive when used with sweet milk, 179, 1911, 417-419. Strick- land, E. H.—Some parasites of Simulium larvae and their effects on the development of the host, 198, xxi, 302-330. Townsend, C. H. T.—Review of work by Pantel and Portchinski on repro- ductive and early stage characters of muscoid flies, 102, 1911, 151-170. Corrections to my paper in the June (1911) issue of the Annals E. S. A., 180, 1911, 328-329. Tucker, E. S—Description of a new fly of the family Dolichopodidae, 72, xxiii, 105-107 (*).
COLEOPTERA. Coblentz, W. W.—The color of the light emitted by Lampyridae, 4, 1911, 355-360. Cushman, R. A.—Studies in the biology of the boll weevil in the Mississippi delta region of Louisiana, 179, 1911, 432-448. Gahan, C. J—On some recent at- tempts to classify the Coleoptera in accordance with their phylo- geny, 9, 1911, 312-314 (cont.). Hartzell, F. Z—The use of sweet- ened poisons against the grape root-worm and the rose chafer, 179, 1911, 419-422. Kerremans, C.—Monographie des Buprestides Polybothris, Tome V, 449-512 pp. Knaus, W.—Additions: to the list of Kansas Coleoptera for 1909, 72, xxiii, 108. Lameere, A.— Revision des Prionides, Genre Derobrachus, 35, 1911, 260-277. Leng, C. W—A n. sp. of Luperodes, 6, 1911, 193-194 (*). Lueder- waldt, G.—Quatro lamellicorneos termitophilos, 107, viii, 405-413. Moulton, D.—The California peach borer, 7, Bull. No. 97, pt. 4. Palmer, M. A.—Some notes on heredity in the coccinellid genus Adalia, 180, 1911, 283-302. Pic, M.—Coleopterorum catalogus, Pars 36: Anthicidae, 102 pp. Weise, J—Aufzaehlung von Coccinellen aus dem Museu Paulista, 107, viii, 54-63. Wheeler, W. M.—Notes on the myrmecophilous beetles of the genus Xenodusa, with a description of the larva of X. cava. An ant-nest coccinelid (Bra- chyacantha quadripunctata), 6, 1911, 163-174.
HYMENOPTERA. Brethes, J.—Quelques nouveaux Ceropa- lides du Musee de Sao Paulo, 107, viii, 64-70. Chapman, T. A— Showers of peppercorn oak-galls, in England, 21, 1911, 214. Cor- netz, V—Das problem der ruckkehr zum nest der forschenden ameise, 92, 1911, 218-223 (cont.). Gahan, A. B.—A note on Xylo-
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crabro stirpicola, 179, 1911, 431. Girault, A. A—Descriptions of No. American Mymaridae with synonymic and other notes on de- scribed genera and species, 2, xxxvii, 253-324 (*). Miscellaneous notes on the Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea: the genus Arthrolytus; Horismenus microgaster, 4, 1911, 346-354. Notes on the Hymen- optera Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of several n. g. and sp., 6, 1911, 175-189 (*). A new Mymarid genus and species from N. A. allied with Anthemus, 102, 1911, 185-187. von Ihering, R.—Algu- mas especies novas de Vespas solitarias, 107, viii, 462-475. Knab, F.—How Emphor drinks, 102, 1911, 170. Lozinski, P—Ueber einen eigentumlichen nestbau von Osmia_ bicornis, 92, 1911, 223-230 (cont.). Macgillivray, A. D—New species of Empria, II: Western Species, 4, 1911, 341-346 (*). Marchal & Feytaud.—Sur un parasite des oeufs de la Cochylis et de l’Eudemis, 12, 1911, 633-636. Meiss- ner, O.—Ameisen und Ameisenlowen, 84, 1911, 151-152. Rohwer, S. A.—New sawflies in the collection of the U. S. National Mu- seum, 50, xli, 377-411 (*). Santschi, F.—Formicides de diverses provenances, 35, 1911, 278-287. Schmidt, A.—Neue Aphodiinen und eine synonymische bemerkung, 40, 1911, 52-53 (cont.). Schrottky, C.—Descripcao de abelhas novas do Brazil e de regioes visinhas, 107, viii, 71-88. Ichneumonidarum species quatuor novae, 159, v, 35-36. Schulz, W. A.—Zweihundert alte Hymenopteren, $49, iv, 1-220. Silvestri, F.—Della Trigona cupira, e di due aspiti del suo nido nel messico, 159, v, 65-69. Szepligeti, G—Zwei neue Braconiden aus Brasilien, 159, v, 285-286. Trotter, A——Contributo alla conoscenza delle galle dell’America del Nord, 159, v, 100-133 (*). Turner, C. H—Experiments on pattern-vision of the honey- bee, 198, xxi, 249-264. Wood, H. P.—Notes on the life history of the tick parasite (Hunterellus hookeri), 179, 1911, 425-431.
A Manual of Philippine Silk Culture. By Charles S. Banks (from the Entomological Section, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands), 53 pages and Ig plates.
The introduction of silk culture into these islands, if it could be made a profitable industry, would be very desirable. This work is intended to collate data and interest those who may wish to take up the commercial production. “The Bureau of Science made the first attempt to import and to propagate mulberry silkworms into the Philippine Islands six years ago.” A historical account is given of the attempts of the missionaries in the early eighties and also of the later efforts. The life history of the species is given in detail. An account is also given of the eri or castor silkworm (Aftacus ricint) and of the wild silkworms of the islands. The proper “silk house” is described and also the varieties of mulberry and their cultivation. The manufacture, reeling, etc., and the quality of silk is also discussed.
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In summing up the author says “We have now carried on a sufficient number of experiments with both mulberry and eri silkworms in the Philippines to warrant the statement that this industry can be carried on here under conditions as favorable as those which obtain in the best silk producing countries of the world and with the added advan- tage that no disease has appeared among the insects, or on the trees used for feeding them.” The work is a very useful one and will doubtless stimulate an interest in the subject.—H. S.
THE EUPLEXOPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA OF CoNNECTICUT. By Benjamin Hovey Walden. Bull. No. 16, Connecticut State Geol. & Nat. Hist. Survey, Guide to the Insects of Connecticut, pt. II, pp. 41- 169, Pls. VI-XI, 63 text figures. IgQII.
The author of the above paper and the editor of the Guide to the Insects of Connecticut, Dr. W. E. Britton, are to be congratulated on the appearance of this very interesting and useful work. In an introduction of three pages the author reviews previous work which had been done on the Connecticut Orthopterous fauna, as well as giv- ing such acknowledgements and abbreviations of collectors’ initials as are necessary. The systematic treatment is comprehensive, with keys to the genera and species and diagnoses for each, while the distribu- tion within the state is summarized in the more generally distributed forms and the localities indicated in the scarcer and more localized forms. The arrangement is in accordance with Scudder’s 1900 Cata- logue, while the keys of genera and species are chiefly from Morse and Blatchley.
The numerous text figures, a portion of which are original, assist very greatly in a clear understanding of the text, making the work of value to the specialist as well as to the local student.
The number of species treated is one hundred and nine, of which one hundred have been recorded from the state, the remaining nine being included on the probability of their occurrence within the state.
From the nomenclatural standpoint the names are not in all cases those used by most authors at this date, 1.e., Tettix instead of Acry- dium, Stenobothrus instead of Chorthippus, Locustidae instead of Tettigonidae, and Xabea instead of Neoxabea, but this is probably due to a close adherence to Scudder’s Catalogue, although other recent changes, as Blattella for Phyllodromia, have been made.
The general character of the work is excellent and it will stand with Blatchley’s Orthoptera of Indiana as the best type of a state cata- logue of insects, more of which we hope will be forthcoming in the future.
The only suggestion we can make for the authors of such works in the future, and one based on considerable experience in mapping the distribution of Orthoptera, is that enough localities be cited for
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even the commonest and most widely spread species to enable those studying the distribution of species in a comprehensive fashion, to utilize such records in their own work. Frequently a general state- ment of distribution must later, when more evidence is in hand, be qualified by zonal or environmental restriction. (J. A. G. R.)
Doings of Societies. FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL.
Meeting of June 21st, 1911, at 1523 South Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia. Fifteen members present, Mr. John Green, of Easton, Pa., visitor. President Haimbach in the chair.
Dr. Skinner described his recent visit to the Carnegie Mu- seum in Pittsburg, Pa., where he studied the Edwards collec- tion of Lepidoptera. He said he had had his doubts as to the validity of certain species which Edwards described and men- tioned one, as being satisfactorily placed by himself before studying the type material; Pamphila viris which is a topo- morph, a northern form of a California species described by Boisduval. The collection as a whole is very poorly arranged.
He also said that Nodonota puncticollis Say (Col.) has been very destructive to rose bushes at Ardmore, Pa., since 1909, eat- ing everything but the roots. Dr. Dixon had reported it to him as feeding this year on the tops of red oaks at Black Rock Farm, Gladwyn, Pa.
Mr. Daecke exhibited a box of several orders of insects show- ing the diversity of one day’s catch at Inglenook, Pa., May 30, 1911, and pointed out the following as interesting: Leptura octopunctata Say, and Toxotus trivittatus Say (Col.) both found on Viburnum acerifolium Linn. the former common and the latter rare, saying they were so thickly covered with pollen as to look like lumps on the flower; Emmesa labiata Say (Col.) one specimen; a Microlepidopter, a species of Micropteryx, and the following Diptera: Coenom’yia ferruginea Scop., Xt- phura fumipennis O. S., Nephrocerus daeckit Johnson (of which there are only six specimens known), Laphria sericea Say
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(quite common) and several Syrphids. A shrub, Hydrangea arborescens Linn. along a path seems to be the favorite feed- ing place of Trichius bibeus Oliv. (Col.).
Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited and recorded the following Dip- tera: Nephrocerus daecki Johnson, Roxboro, June 10, 1911, and Temnostoma pictula Williston, same place, June 11, I9I1, both collected by himself.
Mr. Hoyer exhibited several specimens of a species of Platyptera, Chauliodes fasciatus Wlk., saying it was very com- mon along Cobb’s Creek west of Sixty-ninth Street, May 28th.
Meeting of September 20th, 1911, at 1523 South 13th Street, Philadelphia, President Haimbach in the chair, thirteen mem- bers present.
Mr. Daecke mentioned a trip to Hunter’s Run, Pa., July 2, 1911, where, although the place had been burned over, collect- ing was very rich. Among the rarities were Neoclytus scutel- laris Oliv. on oak, and Leptura emarginata Fab. (Col.)
Mr. Harbeck described the trip taken by himself and Mr. C. T. Greene this year to Pocono Lake, Pa., the week of July gth, to collect Diptera, saying that many species rare here are com- mon there, and many of those common there are not found here at all. A box of various orders was exhibited.
Mr. Hoyer said that two specimens of Goes tigrina De G. (Col.) had been taken flying around a house in the neighbor- hood of Haines and Chew Streets, Germantown, Philadelphia, about July 8th.
Mr. Schmitz said that at Anglesea, September 3, he had wit- nessed the nuptial flight of ants which lasted about an hour, from 6 to 7 P. M. He had seen a Mantis Paratenodera feed- ing upon a Cicada.
Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited and recorded the following Dip- tera from Pocono Lake, Pa.: Pyrophaena granditarsus Fors- ter, VII, 12, and Sericomyia militaris Walker, VII, 11, both collected this year by himself and thinks they are the first rec- ords from this State.
Mr. H. A. Wenzel described in detail his trip to Texas with
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Mr. Green, of Easton, and the hardships they encountered there. Photographs and colored cards of some places visited were shown, also the material so far mounted, among which were sixteen specimens of Plusiotis woodi Horn and two of P. gloriosa LeC., the latter being about half the size of those taken in Arizona——Geo. M. GREENE, Secretary.
AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
Meeting of June 12, 1911. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, president, in the chair. Eight persons present.
Mr. Cresson reported the death of Mr. J. W. McAllister, on May 28th, aged seventy-five years. He was an organization member, and served many years as a member of the Finance Committee.
The death of John Meichel, a member, who died in October, 1909, was announced.
The President reported the death of S. H. Scudder, on May 17th. He was elected a member of the Society, October 14, 1861.
Dr. Skinner made some remarks on the destructiveness of Nodonota puncticollis in Montgomery County, Pa.
Dr. Calvert exhibited four excellently preserved fossil wings of the dragonfly Phenacolestes from Florissant, Colorado, sent by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell for study. This genus belongs to the legion Podagrion of De Selys. As far as the speaker had been able to compare these fossils with living forms, they showed a greater number of resemblances to the genera Phil- ogenia, of Costa Rica and Tropical South America, Mega- podagrion of Tropical South America and Argiolestes of Cele- bes, New Guinea and Australia than to any others known to him.
Meeting of October 26, 1911. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, presi- dent, in the chair. Twelve persons in attendance. Mr. Wenzel referred to some remarks made by Dr. Skinner
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at the last meeting of the Feldman Social, on the destruction of hickory trees at Ardmore, Penna., by a bark beetle and said an illustrated article on the subject of the destruction of trees of this species had appeared in the issue of “Country Life in America,” for October 15th.
Mr. West exhibited speciments of Catocala, among them be- ing the beautiful C. nivea from Japan; also some Pierids in Denton glass mounts.
Mr. Rehn exhibited a specimen of Acridoxena hewaniana, a peculiar Locustid from the Cameroons, West Africa, and a pair of Corycus abruptus, another Locustid, from tropical Africa. The latter species exhibits great sexual dimorphism, the male tegmina being enormously inflated and modified into sounding boards for the tympanum, while in the female the tegmina are single, vertical and unmodified.
Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., exhibited a specimen of Clanoneu- rum (Diptera) which he determined as infumatum Becker, and said it was curious that the species occurred in America as it was identical with specimens described from Egypt under that name. He gave a history of the genus, which was erected for the Egyptian infumatum of Becker. A species from the Bal- kan region has also been described by Strobl, and Czerny found a form in Spain and suggests that they are all the same species. The speaker coincided in this opinion, having found a repre- sentative in Arizona and Southern California, which in every respect agrees with Becker’s description of infumatum.
Dr. Calvert made a communication on Bromeliad insects found in Costa Rica (published in the News for November and December).
Mr. C. T. Greene reported the capture of Trichopoda lan- ipes at Castle Rock, Penna.
Mr. Andrew Gray Weeks, of Boston, presented some en- eravings of the late W. H. Edwards and S. H. Scudder.
The Curator reported that the work of removing the insects to temporary quarters began yesterday, and that it would take a week to remove everything in the entomological rooms.—
HENRY SKINNER, Recording Secretary.
INDEX TO VOLUME XxXIl.
(Notes and articles on geographical distribution are indexed under the names of the States or countries concerned, and of under the species listed therein, except in the case of new or redescribed forms. * indicates mew generic, specific or subspecific names.)
GENERAL SUBJECTS.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Entomo- logical Section, 46, 138, 379.
Id., Entomological Lectures at 86
African Entomological Re- search Committee
American Association Eco- nomic Entomologists, 190, 421
American Entomological So- GICL VAs 5. 138, 284, 335,
American Society of Zoolo- ISAM W aches, os ova: sjsi « 05
Animal Behavior, Journal of 84
Antilles, Expedition to ...... 423
Arcadia
Arizona, Collecting in South-
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479
ee
GO Osho 058 ee one 330 Bat as host of earwig ....... 469 Bermuda. Insects of ........ 284
Birds following insects, 287, 420 Birds, Insect parasites of ..10, 75 Books, Insects injurious to, 41, Vike : Bromeliadicolous animals. 405-411 Brooklyn Entomological So-
GUE? Soo 0c ge eecrEseCenEae 139
Cell-studies on Insects ...... 95
Coition between different spe- SLES) a5 ¢ ce Ap oae a OneSSaeee 272
Colorado State Biol. Survey 277 Disease and Insects, 45, 92, 181, 228, 333, 432, 467, 460, 471. Editorial Changes Editorials, 41, 83, 130, 276, 325, 360, 417, 465.
177, 225,
Entomological building for Massachusetts Agricultural College
Entomological Literature, 39, 40, 42, 84, 86, 87, 131, 134, 177, 179, 180, 182, 183, 232, 279, 326, 328, 369, 371, 374, 423, 471.
Entomological Society of NNR Lon cnacee 187, 416, 421 Faeces’ and) flies =... 2-2 2500: 228
Feldman Collecting Social, 47, 94, 188, 285, 383, 477.
Fish captured by Bug ....... 372 Fungi transported by Am- brosiay beetles oe. . sees ene o 470
Gall insects (see under Dip- tera and Hymenoptera). Genotypes, Determination of. 278 Georgia, List of Insects of.. 309 Guiana, Expedition to ....... Gypsy Moth, Destroying the. 225 Hamster-rat, Orthopterous
PvE GH Bacdeoasoasoor 468 Honorary degrees for Ento- MOlOSIStS eae EEeE Cee 371
House-flies, Campaign against 373 Instruction, Entomological, in
Europe, 188, in U. S., 97.
International Anti-Locust Commission! si.6./cekie fan 327 International Entomological COneness! «40. coe Sens on. s 66 Jelly: rain “fof eggs]... -..... 420 Labeling specimens ......... 465 Lake Laboratory, Ohio State Wniversitvatnel. vaciacos ch 179 Le Conte; echt waacuceetccs 276
ii : INDEX.
Le Conte, J. L., Portrait of... 277
Local Distribution, Possible Caises Sor ieacte ces. gees 229
Mershon expedition to the Charity Islands, Lake EAT OMN oc cise ren oe 230
IMimicnyes ee cuckcene ce cre 336, 384
Myrmecophilous insects, 274, 466, 468. Newark Entomological So-
CICEY Wats wiaives oto ee 139, 286 New Species, Publication of.. 325 Nomenclature question ..... 130
Number of Eggs laid by in-
Gee ci ctosnesono dao dinace.oc 14
Nursery stock in Europe, In- GrdcstomeGhe qanoaadsdoousas 144
Obituary: Goqrullett. D> W. .2..- B37, Gironit-c eee tere eee 192 eveillesaisa vAGr see a LO2 McAllister, J. W....... 479 WieCecile Wb (Cs soncad- 433 MieichelOiy saactee cee ne 479 Paik 1. oo acadcacec 239 Perini As del scer ere 192 Piageb thoy oe.. coer cee 288 Plateatt, 1h cn ister seer: 239 Reed VEG. oe... 192 Scudder, S. H., 288, 2809, 479.
Selys-Longchamps, M. BR Gencrates tee 179 Atta Win ecercorentctic.s IOI
v. d. Weele, H. W. ... 287 Personals:
Aldrich, J. Me sees 180 Avebury, ordi seener 133 Bonds qi AE, oteseniee 131 Bradley, J: (C.)s..veeen 373 Brown tS: a. ee aeeeeee 131 Bisel As 2h2-¢ eae 4 Calvert. oP WP. oS aeeneee 2 Crampton, ‘G:C: 2c. 216
GressoniiEs' TT; Jroze ce 2
Daeckes Bee asec toe 2 Benyes, “AS ets eee 227 Gates) sbseN eee eee ae 178 Geddes, Jz: M. 2.0..2- 423 Gillins ieee 131 Girailt, JAS Ancor 373 Hardenberg,. 'C. Boe. .Ae EHebard) Mo eee eere 47 Hollandy\Vear)eeeeeee 226 Howard, 2,0" teoceee 371 MacGillivray, A. D. .. 373 MeMillan sD eke: 230 Michelson Ace AL eee 83 Moore? Jit / Poe 87 Newstead) (Rate eee 371 Pilsbry, Jee PA see 86 Porter; -Avapeyeereeee 423 RehnjeOAvGi a aa 47 Robinson Viena 357 Schwarz, 2A eee Scuddemmon ee ere 224 Skinner, H. ...2, 82, 86, 371 Snoderasssineue eee 17s oT FiImen whee eee ee 217 WelimanmCs eee ee 413 Wheeler, W. M. ...... 27 Willing; il INeS ao eet Wright, HW iia eects 12 Phoreésie - 6559-2 eee 104 Plants attacked or visited by in- sects: Agaricus’ Sik. Co aoe 274 Agropyron glaucum .. 44%, 442, 443 Alder 200 hte poe eee 210 Apple «ix s<+ s.seeee 173, 174 Artemisia dracunculoides, 444. AGH Ti ..thce eee 174 Beanth 4. See eee 176 Birch: . 5d: heer eee 176 Blackberry.’ << .:tk eyes 114
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Blue-stem ......... 441, 442 Phen” fee ee oe 174, 176 Bromeliads, 96, 381, 402-410 Prickly: ast panccaces ts 174 JOGO 7 172 Ouercus, 82, 242, 245, 477; Bugle weed .......... 173 478. Carynota mera ........ 143 Ranunculus acris ..... 300 Citharexylum quadran- Rhododendron cataw-
CLIUMTAD. CSc Re OES 301 Bicnser eee. oh ts. os 273 Coffea liberica ........ 305 Roset Gs seesch Nounesies 477 Colorado blue-stem, 441, 442 Sarracenia sledget ..... 194 WCRAMICOUS a sdcios suas 467 Sassafras tat -cs)0/<- 172, 176 Enchanter’s nightshade, 173 Smilacina racemosa ... 346 Euphorbia robusta .... 462 Sweeb Sm! ..ciuece: 143 Evening primrose 112 shamMaAtO meee aoe te GOS Meverwort ............ 176 Trumpet vine ........ 285 middiewood .........- 301 PSUGM AeA ates aoe 286 Fraxinus velutina ..... 120 Veronica beccabunga, 309 202 S¢- cae eae 384 Viburnum acerifolium.. 477 Grindelia ee O55.» 440 Wialidtee see eee 176 Hickory ees eee 172, 480 Wiheat! = ceeceen sane 442 ee Sa Willow ote ee 176 Elo os 174 P 5 Pineeweedarhorescens 478 | ost ean, Entomological eee Japanese Hemlock .... 386 Preparation of Scientific Ll 350 DANES ss deese ees ac 360 Ledum groenlandicum ..217 | Preservatives against Der- Lycopersicum esculen- MeStdSh eee een re 418
ye 303 | Puget Sound Marine Sta- Lycopus europaeus .... 300 HOU 2 onstrate se ecko oe 202 Mamtenan eels oss. . 173, 176 | Rat fleas and tapeworms .... 469 Mentha spp. ........- 309 | Reviews: Mimusops hexandra .. 224 Banks’ Manual of Phil- Oaks (see Quercus) ippine Silk Culture.. 475 Oenothera biennis ... 112 Blatchley’s Coleoptera Oieanders S522... :.': 167, 168 GE Indiana, <53 628. 46 WMIVEd 2 sae cooks ee 167, 168 Boyce’s Mosquito or Mietaee sts sss... 167, 168 1 Cr ee erene Ae See me Q2 HIGACHMNMES cores sa. alse 383 Burr’s Orthopt. of West “RE VE eae 134 Burepet i3.29-0 0d 185 SPREE sod eccccs.s. 167, 168 Doane’s_ Insects and Reppermink 5....6..6<. 173 Disease? as cae cae 45 ieesimmon ........ 172, 176 Hancock’s Nature Eaecner plant ......... 194 Sketches in Temper- VOLS oh RAO ae as 173 ate ‘America! 22.2220 334
iv INDEX.
artis: “Last “of VAN. Amer. Cicindelidae .. Horvath’s Taxonomy of Family Names Howard’s House —Disease Carrier ... 333 Kellogg’s The Animals
283
eval Iwlehal Secaoo 4c ite, 9335 Kirby’s Catalogue of
Ogthopreray ees. coy. 158 Ross’ Reduction of
Domestic Mosquitoes, 432 Smith’s Report on the Insects of New Jer-
SEya eet ees 93, 182 Walden’s Euplexoptera and Orthoptera_ of
Connecticut Week’s Illustrations of
Diurnal Lepidoptera, 284 Salt and Alkaline Lakes of
U. Ss Tnvestication of: 14... 180
Sexual dimorphism, Great, 480 Silk Culture, Banks’ Manual of Philippine Viiccec. .sco.. 475 Simplified spelling .......... 262 Sleeping Sickness Commis- SIOM sear e usin Risser 226 Snails, Dipterous larvae para- SitiCuIni Choe eae ae cae ome 326
St. Louis Entomological Club, 383
Students in Entomology, INumbersot ss. crease eco 17 Tapeworms, Fleas as_ inter- mediate hosts of -......... 460 Termitophilous insects ...... 274 Theses for doctorates, Ento- MOLOLICAl sr Aen eee 464
Transvaal, Entomology in ... 41 Tropical Entomology, Liver-
pooluchairiinl asc. eee 84, 371 Venezuela, Bond Expedi- HOBREG 065. s hehe ones 131
United States Dep’t of Agri- culture
ARACHNIDA.
Araneus, Use of name ...... 418 CostagkRicawACnOt eee 405 Courtship in Tarantulas ..... 127 Beira’). he eee 461 Eriophyes) Hanes. ees 12 Illinois, Spider from ........ A6I Number of eggs laid by
Spider -......J00t i eee eee 461
Peckham collection of Spiders, 460
sericata, petra ois0use et... 401 COLEOPTERA. abruptus, Enoclerus ........ 121 acerbus,*, Emoclerus .......-. 119 Aen eSalacOrig eee eee 132 Ambrosia beetles transporting FUNGI oeca ction ee eee 470 anglis,-Emoclerus se andecne 120 Arizona, ‘C. of, 72, 117, 122) 275 320. Aithous (Jee omc yee set eee 275 australis*, Pleocoma ........ 65 Mgion <br eeeeesie Anes ve 71 bagoiformis, Listronotus .... 178 beyert, Plustotis ......:..:-- 326
Biologia Centrali-Americana,
Curculionidae Gf. <..45.<-. 223 bipunctata, Cymatodera ..... 117 bituberculata, Hydnocera .... 123 brevis, DOrcus act eceest her 354 California, C. of, 64, 117, 118, 110,
227,
Galotiliuskh ¢ cceka 343 8e eee II5 carolinae*, Scaphisoma ..... 275 Carrion-feeding C. ...... 324, 336 castoris, Platypsylla ..... 227, 288 Catalogus Coleopterorum ... 86 Chrysomela ...... so<sGneeses 305 Prcindale 2): <n e meee 271, 283 Colorado, Cot Gclsenen ae 72, 118 Casta Rica, C. Of 22.) cen 405 (Cyunatodera. .qctoae ie 116, 117
damicornis, Orthopleura .... 134
INDEX. b
delicatula, Cymatodera ..... 116 Dermestids, Preservatives ROSE Aes Se Ss: sc ana ae na 418 DD OR EMSEND PAI Cs ole wccaio hice 354 eburneocinctus*, Calotillus ... 115 cin i 123 L208 2S 118 WIMMUPHAMMES) <5 (fl cis cisco Se ees cs 124 Pioeimeoilection. .2..........- 374 flammula*, Hyperaspis later- IES oc SO ceR CODED EEE EEE 72 iit 116, 189 foveolatum, Tyloderma ..... 112 PAGUNIEG HOrMa +. ....6.-. 16 (Gasrsig. (C. OlSa anaes 727 he IELG ENE. 3 oo RDA OCDE LOveL7, 132 IENMONOCENG ceec.s: 06s. 122) 129 UPUPERASPIG) Soa ccc s slew cee. 72-74 llisiners. (Cs Ch 72 incompletus*, Axion ........ 71 (angie. (C30) 46, 74 ESATIGASHE OSE OED ser. calc ego ss « 15 koebelei*, Psyllobora ....... 71 laticornis, Ellipotoma ...... 123 PEER IMOMS 8 38 P osteo 275 IL GOUT) 5 ao AR eee 16 laine (Co Ol So pede noe ean 119 marutha*, Cicindela ........ 272 mexicana*, Hydnocera ...... 122 Mexico, C. of, 116, 117, 119, 122, 123, 125, 326. Iulic mezigls (Coon: aa 72
Nevada. Of ..::73, 74, 117, 120 New Jersey, C. of 230, 354, 355, 383, 384.
Memmimexics, ©, of ........ 122 Mewawenre ©. Of .......... 272 North Carolina, C. of ....273-275 Moavaeaeotia ce. Of ......... 306 ocreatus, Enoclerus ......... 118 opifex, Enoclerus .......... 120
Pennsylvania, C. of, 47, 48, 94, OF 134, 383, 384, 477, 478, 479.
PHOLPESIE? 355.2585 228 2202S ee es 194 EVCOCOMGR de ona ate Se 64 PiCAtG) (CRIGNIYS: ne saat ae 114 ploribunda*, Hyperaspis .... 74 PIUSTOUS AS acne 326, 356, 479 PHIONOSHERACUST —o Fo Nal iocice we 125 pulchellus*, Eurycranus ..... 124 EZ SUICU OL tance Jae a teeter: 71 rufiventris, Enoclerus quadri-
LOTT SI im AO IDOLE BH OGL 119 santa-clarae, Cicindela ....... 271 SCUPHIOMMGEUS. soe tance oe cose 275 SCapHSOMEre eases tc. ena. 275 Schilsky collection .......... 373 South Carolina; G of 25.4.2). 226 spinolae, Enoclerus.......... 119 staphylea, Chrysomela ...... 306 superba*, Hydnocera ....... 122 TexasiG< of i2..% 120, 350, 478-9 turbata, Cymatodera ........ 117 Plo Perma oss eee See ae II2 WiahwGuck ish.ssn4-oae4 120, 178 virescens*, Pinacodera ...... 275 vulturina, Cicindela ......... 271 wellmani*, Hyperaspis ...... 2 wolcotti*, Hyperaspis ...... 73 woodw, Plisiotis .....:.. 356, 479
DIPTERA.
abdominalis*, Endaphis ...... 128 LZIDELPIOMGAG® in jaiar = « fee © araiet alee 352 americana*, Endaphis ....... 12 AN OPNELES se scatterer 05 ATIzOnas Ds -Oleasmeiseeeee 129, 480 ALS PHONOVUW ae oases eae 109, 301 Calttormias Dot is. anee 447, 480 California, New flea from ... 447 Cate flea Aoki aee.aeye Oeeoemierecs 226 Cayor “Worm -aas-eee. ese 467 Ceylon: Doiteren = cee 22 Chironomid larvae parasitic
dfs SATS erste ree tele te tri 326 coffeae*, Hyperdiplosis ...... 305
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Gontarinid ae netiee see eee 303 Costa Rica, DOF ete eae 405 CrLOTIANG ieee oahes oils sits istetoreveks 318 Gtenocephalusena- coe ec se 226 Ctenophthalmus ........+.2+- 445 Culley aera wine Cie cee eis iers 95 Dasiyneuragieer aceon 210, 346 Dog’ feat. monte sis oreo 226 Eggs of chironomids, Jelly PAM COL Seen cores mesiewte 421 Endaphis SM ath howe Cae 128, 224 eupatorii*, Hyperdiplosis .... 110 BuUsiqQlomyia 2.5. 2-025 cous oae 321 fasciatus, Ceratophyllus ..... 46G fisherit*, Syrphus ..c00..220- 319 Havay SAOCOnGAGO eb ee bee eet 351 Bled’ 2vows olor 226, 445, 460, 471 Flies and disease ...228, 333, 467 RUD, IAS se00n0000000 133 fungicola*, Toxomyia ....... 302 Gall midges, Io, 109, 128, 210, 224, 301, 346. heiseri*, Ctenophthalmus .... 445 Wartoa*®, Endapys. cern <0 n\010e 224 Hyperdiplosis .:......+.- II0, 305 NDANG Bo xsi eet Gow etic oebiae 320 infumatum, Clanoneurum ... 480 laetus; Macrodon ... 06. <cs 319 Westodiploses priieeeiaetiicie: ois 10 LAMAN ODIO. slajs crea, sicrevheiee aetsiioe 85 lycopersici*, Contarinia ...... 303 margimata*, [dana ..........- 320 melanocerus, Tabanus ....... 133 Maastor Nanvae (nie cele 227 MaACrod on. wae tyeccinentecitie weno 319 Mosquitoes fed by ants ...... 466 New Jersey, D. of, 48, 182, 188, 285, 384. New York, D. of, 85, 227, 346, 340- 354. nigriventris*, Criorhina (Pen- PROSHUD) os. ccnkivk ask EEE 318 oestriformis, Eristalis ....... 209
parietina, Limnobia
pattersoni*, Asphondylia .... 301
Pennsylvania, D. of, 48, 188, 318- 322, 384, 477, 478, 480.
Renthestiiige eee ee ee eee eee 318 ‘Peru, 0): Of. seen neers 10, 128 peruviana*, Lestodiplosis .... 10 Phoresie’ 2c bose eee oes 194 Pypelia.. oe vo Re eee er 321 v. Roeder collection and li- Dray <ceeeceacer oer 373 SGCONdAGG eee eee eee 349 senilis, Adelphomyia ........ 352 serena, Pyreilig nape ime nes oe 321 serrulata, Dasyneura ....... 210 smilacinae*, Dasyneura ..... 346 Tabanus. o.cce2v en ee 133 Theopaldigaeen-s eee oes 95 ROLOMVIGE A cea eke eee 302 trimaculatus, Tabanus ...... 133 Tseztse fliesiesa tcp eee 277 vincenti*, Asphondylia ....... 109 vittipes, Eustalomyia ........ 321 Westiindiess sD vole ce- 109, 301-5 HEMIPTERA. (See Rhynchota). HYMENOPTERA. Amp hibolips ] 5 tee eek enn oe 198 amygdalina*, Caliroa ....... 263 ANGOTUS {ac oe ee 207, 209 Anaphes 2. Sec AE ee ee 364 Annphowmens ica ceo eee 215 ARGFICES Jos eo eee 69, 70, 108 Anthophora, Parasites of ..17, 132 Ants car cerere 143, 405-7, 419, 478 Ants, Coleoptera associated With Mao eet 8 OEE 274 Ants, Green Tree, of North Queensland <.. 2.ecueeemee 327 Ants, Mosquitoes fed by .... 466 Ants paralyzed by secretion ORB ie ss sc a he eee 468
INDEX. vii PPIETOSHGMG! 2.2... ..-.- 406 fn. | Migration of Ants ...... 419, 478 aspidioti*, Polynema ....358, 367 | Mimatomus ..............+.. 464 E0505 5 in 26 | multipunctata*, Dryophanta .. 67 etal OF eae dice a's st 407 fn. | New Hampshire, H. of ...211-215 brittanum*, Polynema ....... 366 | New Jersey, H. of ........ 70, 95 caepulaeformis*, Andricus .. 69 | New York, H. of ........ 18, 211 Caliorma, H..of ...... 67-60, 357 | nigra*, Amphibolips ........ 198 californica*, Philonix ....... GO) I} NOMmagi he Boe ee ia oe 2 26 So cig A Se 263 || Nomadosoma® «2. ...0.00.<5.< 24 chrysolepidis*, Holcaspis .... 68 | Nomenclatural changes ..... 218 clavula*, Dryophanta ........ G7, || North? Carolina, Loft 5-2. -- 214 Gelamiag, 1. Gt ....82, 210, 462-4 | Oregon, H. of .......4...... 357 confertus, Sphecodes ....... ET ||" OSI Te aoe a cits Sao oe 18 consobrinus, Polynema ..... 467 | paraplesius*, Sphecodes ..... 213 Rare nical! Of .....:. AOL AOTZ, le OSULE Shr metre tra ancitaciee ache 24 (Clie. Jeb Ogee 6s 2 peltatus*, Mimatomus ....... 464 ENMBSCUS) LETEUS). . 2 << 200.050 s 363 | Pennsylvania, H. of ....198, 321 diana*, Anaphoidea ......... DUCA) CAO were ates eae eras aicke 69 Loca S i BAMN| NOTESIG@L. oa) joss «raises ASereroe 194 DDENOEOSINMS: 2.2 < 2. - +2005 197) ||| piltpes:, Pasites: 4.4.20. se. 24 BO 67, 357 | pisiformis*, Andricus ....... 70 durangensis*, Andricus ...... 198 | Polynema ...... 358, 365, 366, 467 Papiand) (Hof ....... 216, 363-8 | pratensis, Anaphes ....... 364, 368 FS S| OS TEE SOS OPIS oS oa saan gee 213-215 Eriocampoides .............. 263 | pulchella*, Dryophanta ...... 357 euchariforme, Polynema..365, 368 | punctum, Anaphes .......... 364 favus*, Dryocosmus ........ raze | Ouchee: Hw Gtr orc. ots care 349 UA 5 18 | Rhode Island, H. of ........ 213 SoS a 67, 82, 197, 357 | Saunders’ collection ......... 272 Geneiypes of He. ........... 218 | shawi*, Sphecodes .......... 212 Swse. Ee AGF | SERECODES A ons = arma 211-213 halitus*, Dicopus ........... 347 spirtius*®, Anagrus .........- 209 Piewmumade ............... 26 | Striaticorne, Polynema ...365, 367 heterus*, Sphecodes ......... 212 | SnitGmaspiSags = psiea eier = 82 Ags Se 68, 82 | telepora*, Prosopis .......... 213 incarnatus, Anagrus ........ 207 | Tenthredinoidea, Genotypes of 218 Indiana, H. of ...... 70, 211, 213 | Texas, i. OR, ci ones 4II a tit 363 | warrent®, Syntomaspis ...... 82 lon: 95 l) WisconSints blatO tee eee 215 Louisiana, H. of ....198, 263, 265 | LEPIDOPTERA. Massachusetts, H. of ........ 70; || Achalarus. i: c2ec sae ace ee 3 mehiiia*, Prosopis ......... ZEX || Acronyeia. 25.0 ce pee ce eee 300 Mesto. Of .......... FOS: - 359.04 Gelphaa stacaamadttaca vetoes 414
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Albettay 0) Of a. ss % 108, 231, 400 amicora*, Acronycta ......-- 312 amnemonella*, Diatraea ..... 203 ANOCTUSNS” Kactcrcenss cee aie 125 angustella*, Diatraea ........ 205 ATCRVUS Oh Sched te deca wee ee 265 ALG YRINS! Soa te oe ecice oat o's 108 Arizona, L. of, 3, 266, 267, 293, 312,
379, 415.
TASTED RAMA OCS EOL OC 229 (OM dip PANELS CERO DO BEAD ODOOC 229 battoides, Lycaena .......... 259 Wait, (GORIS” scandncoudane ac 220 bellifactella*, Diatraea ...... 205 Dellus, Wastor <cth chow tyes 267 berthellus*, Diatraea ........ 206
beutenmulleri, Catocala ..140, 180 Brazil, of; 125, 202, 203; 205- 207.
bredowi, Adelpha ........... 414
Breedme whe J a eee ees 172-176
British Columbia, L. of, 108, 390, 400.
California, L. of, 11, 220, 228, 259, 293, 415.
californica, Adelpha ........ 414 Ganadas Es tot its shee ce cies 316 Cannibalismian eee ee eee 174 carteri, Protambulyx ....... 4I Catalogus Lepidopterorum, 379 Catalparspininscees ease erie 47 Catocala ...139, 140, 175, 180, 371 CeLnUurad, EMChIOe eee e cece II CHAO em ives row eeRepievetenet as = eearet 206 chlorina*, Stenoma .......+- 126 CIVTIE. PRECIO ee hits crei te eee 203 COMBS ones culos cane ee ceon mies 220
Colorado, L. of, 220, 259, 268, 311, 400, 413, 462. .
Connecticut (oteee sees 370 continens*, Diatraea ......... 202 Costa RucayWya Ons anche 258, 405
dacotae*, Pamphila sassacus.. 412
INDEX.
Dakota, 1. of South: ....2:- 412 DGG xh 05 Ate fe ee a 300 Dtatrdew « ss25262522220%2 5% > 199 dissimilis*, Stenoma ........ 126 enoptes, Lycaend ...........- 259 Bpcbus 282000155 eee 370 EG OSE O78 As bie Pos Poe ee 412 Buchwerta- 2222202 -> a-eee 13 1 AYIA LY SRS AOAC Il EWP CHIOVUS SNe 5 2s ap da es 2 ate 193 faunellus*, Crambus ........ 207 Florida, L. of ...41, 111, 226, 439 Gas lamps’ for attracting moths, . hs s28s2. aes 87 Geéorgias L; OF}. S203... adeees AI2 glaucon, Lycaenad ........<-- 259 grandiosella*, Diatraea ...... 205 grenadensis*, Diatraea_ sac- CHOTQHUIS Joists ole te tas =5-clo's ore tee 200 Guiana, 1. of .....%. 202, 203, 206 Gypsy sinoth: cet eee 225 HeterocnroG ois 2.> Jseneee 414 Hiibner’s Exotic Butterflies.. 379 Fivperchirta. ost. 2326 eoreee vs 144 Idaho, Is:«08) £25/-25 eeeee eee 413 theringi*, Anacrusis ......... 12 Tikinois; of Le seeeece 359, 399 immaculata*, Parnassius .... 108 incarnata, Hyperchiria ...... 144 Mes. dL hecla=* 4: shee Poe a ae 293 instructella*, Diatraea ....... 201 Towaj.J54 Ob + 25a eae ares oe 412 jouw, (Catocdla ~245..ceeee. oe 140 yuaith,Catocala .23-ss.28.<- 140 leda; Theclay ..-4 22a eae 203 lopmusa*, Papilio 2.2.2. 3teas- 439 Eyeaena 22.3 62.5222 238, 259, 359 lygdamus, Lycaena ......... 359 magnifactella*, Diatraea .... 201% Manitoba, L. of, 300, 314, 315, 399, 400, 401. Massachusetts, L. of........ 316 WESTOP. rctcreicrcrah oooh Ave ais See 267
INDEX. ix WRERTITIYRUS oo cece cee wane quer | phylace, (Mason 2 2. <2 <ais\>+'<\ 267 NERUDA te a ae See eine’ 1 cee ea eas es « 285 mewa™, AfOnytia ......... 31 | ponceana*, Papilio .......... 438 Mexico, L. of, 144, 201, 202, 204, | pseudocellus*, Achalarus . 3 205, 293, 415, 439. | quinquemacula*, Pamphila 413 Microlepidoptera, Methods of ISG apa er D.OnO ODE EOC 266 capturing and breeding ... 141 | Resemblance of L. to a caddis Migrations of L. ....48, 371, 415 Hy ied rc de ade Oa ee oe 8 ee 384 minimifacta*, Diatraea ...... 202 | Rhode Island, L. of ........ 399 Mrssissippi, I. Of ...:....... 194 | saccharalis, Diatraea ....199, 200 Missouri in 1910, L. of, 170, 322, | Sakuntala*, Argynnis ........ 108 370. Saskatchewan I °Or-.. 2.7... 400 montana*, Pamphila pawnee, 413 | seminole*, Eresia texana 412 Myriads of moths .......... 371 | soctalis, Euchaeria .......... 13 navajo*, Megathymus ...... 300 | South Carolina, L. of ....... 203 neomexicana*, Datana ...... 300 | South Dakota, L. of ........ 412 ic 397 | Starlings picking Arctia co- INVER Gs ILA ae 250 | COOUS Beste «) erst ctotale aici etatol cial oi aiete 287 New Jersey, L. of, 47, 48, 140, I4I, | SHZGONEES eas cad afew eae Whee 126 142, 238, 383, 384. streckeri, Colias nastes ..... 231 New Mexico, Tusgi(oh rie . 268, 300, 413 | strigipenella*, Diatraea ...-. 206 Niearagia, L. of ............ 200 | tabernella*, Diatraea sac- epee ee .. 266 | _chardlis ....0.0...00eee0 200 North Carolina, L. of ....... 203 | Lallant collection of Lep., 41, 81 Number of yearly broods of tener, Archylus ......-.0i%- 205 L. in New Jersey ........ 238 | Tennessee, L. of ........ 142, 316 DOGRE EPCOUS <0. 22.205. e es 370 | Texas, L. of ............05- 415 remem iy of ..2....-... 250, 415 | Lhecla ..........2-...e eee 203 oslari*, Chionobas alberta ... 220 | Timetes .......--2.000s Bld; 226 Pairs, Pupation in .......... 370 | tracyi*, Eurycttarus ........ 193 ampbila wl 2022. es. 412, 413 | tristis*, Acronycta .......... 316 Pearamede: (Ofickes, s.. rs. 20m | turpis*, Aeronycta .......--. 311 pallida*, Pamphila mystic ... 412 | Utah, L. of ......... 250, 312, 413 pallidostricta*, Diatraea ..... 205 | utahensis*, Pamphila sylvan- Palpi, Libythea bachmani - 0 SOLOS Hse ok shat ert ictal o Oe a) 413 ie. 379 Wirsiniane le sOt ccccesse sere 203 oe A 140 warneri, Catocala ....... 140, 180 2 os a 438, 439 Washington, L. of ...... ote SIE pedibarbata*, Diatraea ...... Bae |) oes) Mastatces et Exar ‘ ; 76 Ga Be ge ar oss SN 2 2 284 pedidocta*, Diatraea ........ aaa eet Tadicciale mee 200, 202, 203 Pennsylvania, L. of, 229, 371, 399, Witsconsin® (enote ee ee 370 415, 422, 477. Wyong, L. of 2::.50.0.... 108 RES os ce ay seca e neo eele 196 | zeacolella*, Diatraea ........ 203
x INDEX.
MALLOPHAGA.
agonus, Goniodes ........+.. 23 Bolivian birds, M. from ... 19 Californian birds, M. from .. 75 Colpocephalum sp. .........- 77 IDNEGAVOFUS. Saackoosac¢ 19, 75, 76 epiphanes*, Lipeurus ........ 21 fissi-signatus*, Docophorus .. 19 PAR OULU: | cote tas feSoiayne shes oom oy6 21 monachus*, Docophorus per-
HOSS “So g6b0 600 COsNaO000GC 75
stictum*, Colpocephalum .... 77
NEUROPTERA (excl. Mallophaga and Odonata). Bromeliadicolous caddis-worm 411
fasciatus, Chauliodes in Phila- delphia 24h scien nee 478
North Carolina, Panorpa of.. 274
Pennsylvania, Trichoptera of, 384
Termes, Coleop. associated With, sc nevenvee neve caste renee 274 ODONATA.
ACOGYION EH Ret eran on ee eee 344 angustipennis, Calopteryx ... 148 ANISOPIEUTE scence com eee eer 149 BAVGCera re oe eee ee 150 Biologia Centrali-Americana,
Odon Mot Wer nes bet aaely vay 39 Biel © Ol isoosessodouns 303, 305 brimleyi*, Gomphus ......... 221 Caloptervie \Farue seca ons ee 148 Causes of Local Distribution
Of “Odon mts VERA LER ee 220 cavillaris, Gomphus ......... 222 chinensis, Neurobasis ....... 147 chirrepa: (Coral Als coc aeioe 51, 58 comes, Antsopleura ......... 140 Goramlarvaseeer 49, 96, 138, 153
Costa Rica, O. of, 49, 96, 380, 381, 402-410, 449-458.
(CORA OAUMHE Besontcsgdoanscec 304 Gomphowdes: i... skies sock 79, 303 GOMPRUS 305 BS eNO ee 221
High altitudes, O. from ..380, 381 PCH IMS Ac. 3 ceca om ateee rene 395 Mlin@is=(O: cote sect aeeeee 395
India, O. of, 147, 149, 150, 153, 342- 344, 394, 395.
Indica Bayadera. =. eee 150 iphigenia, Mecistogaster ..... 457 eto, (Oh Gi sonsacccas4s5 I51 Kentucky, ©O=tofsee re eeeree 148 lineatus, Onychogomphus ... 395 Macrogomphus ........0e00 306 Mecistogaster, 96, 381, 402-410, 449-460. Mexico @ of > ee 402, 449, 457 MisrationvorOl ee seer 419
modestus, Mecistogaster, 96, 381. 402-410, 449-460.
Niewrobasts: 155 Ssanee eee 147 New. Jersey, O) ot... eee: 420
North Carolina, O. of ....79, 222 Nymphs, 49, 96, 138, 147, 153, 342,
392, 449. Ontholestes se seee eee eee 152 Pennsylvania, ©} of -ee- eee 336 Phenacolestes: h--nnsee een e ee 479 Phaloganiaw.-cseceee eRe 153 Plant-dwelling larvae, 402-410,
449-458.
Podagrion nymph ...........- 342 Pseudagrion’) saa cee eee 344 ORTHOPTERA.
abortivus, Nemobius fascia-
i) AERIS ACen SiS. AS Se te) AGimantus: Layne ohn coe eeek oe 251 Atrica: (Owe? 2. sence ee 480 Africa, O. of Lake region of
Géntral, «<i Jch eee Oe 237 agraecioides*, Bertoniella ... 255
angustipennis, Melanoplus ... 9
atlanis, Melanoplus ......... 8 atlas*, ‘Hormetica. 22.0 eees 248 Bertoniella® 2x .c. cme eee 255 Bilatella, <a Gokcx on tue wee 14
INDEX.
collare, Spharagemon Columbia, O. of District of, 37, 157 Connecticut, Walden’s O. of, 476
mseicr ©. Of 0.2. csee0. 405 esau, Arixena, on bat ...... 469 GRAIG APIA 2.0550 00005% 7 Georeias Oo i4...s B15 132) 155 germanica, Blatella ......... 14 gracilicormis, Sisantum ...... 250 IEICTATLG ALS BAD OC EELS 468 JEL FLLGHIGN)! (ein BORO DIU 248 indiana @= Of .- ccs 50s 381 NiTimr@sa OF Of aes «cs ac cs che’ 381 IISHHIBNC. vos 65 SACO OEE Ro EOEe 252 Kirby’s Catalogue of O. .... 158 ILGROSE ERS OAC OB Ee 257 maculatus, Hippiscus ....... 7 Manitoba OY Of .5..55.-< 0. 5 Massachusetts, ©: of ...:.... 28 melanochloris*, Isophya 252
Musical Habits of O. ..... 28, 154
neglectus, Gryllus pennsyl- GETEELIS Soe ROC CHOSE 9 New England, O. of ........ 28 Nemmvark= ©. of —...95....% 28 Nomenclatural changes in O.. 158 North Carolina, O. of ....238, 387 OMMETECHO Wa. o55)s sc. 0's 251 ERIN OL. .... ois avs « 247 paranensis*, Lutosa ......... 257 IRASHHICM ON S88 caciecisyiecie sso 468 Paratenodera feeding on Ci- CHES, ooodonos Cente Sno nnee 478 Pennsylvania, ©. of ...... 190, 237 Resemblance of O. to Mem- (PARIGAE? bs 4bns Ono eee 330 Sexual dimorphism, Great ... 480 srmplex, Eritettix .........6 238 SASOMEUIN Han 6 arsys.0 ois 6 os ode e's 250 virens, Omme-xecha ........- 251 vitticeps, Adimantus ........ 251 Western Europe, O. of ..... 185 Mitertern UW. 5. O. of ........ 47
xi
RHYNCHOTA.
Africa, R. of 416 agropyronensis*, Chaitophorus, 442 Aleyrodes americanus, Lethocerus (Be-
loSEOMa) eee on ets o's: Arizona, R. of arizonensis*, Dendrocoris, 269, 270
artemisiae*, Chaitophorus ... 443 PAS PAULO LUS Yad tetero ose Sas wets 385, 386 Val ZAG PRE Be GROG DORAN ORAE 440 Atlantic States, R. of ....... 246 Belostoma captures fish ..... 373 Blackscale! 32 ese cieeee 167 BYAENVGCOWWS) Mss yo ee ase 441 British Columbia, R. of ..... 246 Duenort «Gers insu << falco 246 7 Galitomntay, RevOfien - se seer 167 Gapyella ache Mle cies oe 416 Ghattophorus... 2201044 442, 443 Cicada, Mantis feeding on ... 478
Coccidae, Parasites of, 10, 224, 358 Colorado, R. of Columbia, R. of District of .. 245 Con onhintsianeiia ae ore eek Costa Rica, Heteroptera of .. 405
Pendnocorts: «sanas<s tosses 268 euphorbiarum*, Aleyrodes PYMAMOSUS DV HH davsroare set etsieker are 462 AUS CHASEUS. aacieyotactaeas foes 95 QOS Sarthe Siosrcttoe Os eeetontie 2416 grindeliae*, Atarsos ......... 440 Mim o1ss (RevOteas epee 241, 245 Keansacue Re iOteveet.erie aioe 443 ledi*, Pseudococcus ......... 217 Membracidae Habits of 143 Membracidae, Models of ... 228 Membracidae, Resemblance of Orthoptera to. 725-2 -6- 336 Moulting of Membracidae ... 143 New Jersey, R. of ....... 142, 1890 New Yorke Re ob fe5e oe. 217 novella*, Capyella .......... 416
xii INDEX.
olegey “SaisSevia enetenae eer 167 Periodical cicada ....142, 177, 189 ehvilaphis taco secs 243, 245 IPSEWAOGOGGUS waite ee) vate 217 pteridis, Mastopoda ......... 440
Ptilocerus ochraceus, Ants paralyzed by secretion of .. 468
querci, EvioSOMG .......0000 241 reticulatus*, Dendrocoris, 269, 270 Sis CHG! warahraraereure ens Hanae 167 Saunders? collection, ..:.¢.2: 272 Taxonomy of Family Names, 431 tritici*, Brachycolus ........ 441 tsugae*®, Aspidiotus ....600.- 385 SIPHONAPTERA. (Indexed under Diptera). AUTHORS. Mexanders ©, (Bs 2 aces 86, 349 AWlard: Hie Aen Stiaasaitederer 28, 154 BankesatNiiynserrcteroccet tees 194, 419 Barbers py letsm Gey a acecd ete erero eke tote 268 IBennars,’ WW “Go addouadosn 265, 267 xYSreArony IDs 5 oahaadaoconoce 416 Beutenmuller, W. ....67, 197, 357 ISH OMY Sit Cun sc ois sun'le Be Mpls 8 340 Bower ipblerdMi . oe.3/2. paettetarele 359 Brehme ws Weluereie ats 144, 287 Brimley, iCy "Ss. oa sis o's wee 133, 387 Britton We (Hs be carectesascs 373 Bueno; J. JR. Teenssicteteuneerier 246 Burgesss Ai. Fe skccio. navel ae 422
Galvert; P) P., 40; 40) 181) 83h 230)
177, 223, 325, 335, 370, 402, 417, 420, 438, 440, 465 and Index.
Caudell,. Ak INe\ 4s. snctisiees 159 Chanipion, |G: Gawebsn eter 132, 178 Glemence:: Vie Li.) .citak lah 3, II, 226
Cockerell, T. D: A., 18) 82) 217, 462.
Coolidge, K. R., 3, 11, 40, 226, 327, 339.
Cresson, EB. Ty Jty 42°87, 134) 183, 233, 279, 328, 338, 374, 423, 471.
Davish iis J eatica Na carant teres 241 Dod, FF. Hi Wa. iee ie vor Mae 307 19/0) | el Pan oe Ran SoS. ob a clot 300 Dow, RaiPRs Wassy. dae ee 130) 275 Diiirys "Ge aeskerettate Sao eee 273 Dyary Els Give, Syke eset 199 Pall? EL x eee aerate 64
Felt, FE; -P., 10,) 100; 428) 227, 232; 301.
Bemyes CAs ate ares ee ee eels 227
Gillette; Ge (Pes cc.ncc ade overs 440
Girault, A. A., 14, I12, II4, 207, 215, 347, 358, 363, 411, 461, 467.
Greene, G. M., 48, 95, 190, 286,
384, 479. Grinnell WE npr.) oe soe eeeee 293 Grossbeck;-9J. (AH tax-os eee 143 Baskin; J, RA eas. a: uss 203 lébardsiMi.. Ba. 8s. aeare carers 5 Bill MEDS: Fes oe wee 421 Howards W:4Ob tse euss- eee: 97 We. 1G kebab A eas S220 Ones: J SME Fs 3 toe rat one ere 193 Rearfotti iW. Die eee 125 Relloge;V. is 2 eSee eee 19; 75 Rotgkaldys (Gs Wiss eerste tee 246 Bey Be Sater cee inde cates 3006 Bavell, he ddyiske vices a. is 211 MacGillivray. AS Ds) sesso 188 Marlatt ©. Le 2.6% .243824 385 Mirc@oyaGreWerenctecn neat 445 McDunnough, J. ...180, 265, 267 Meiners: sE: GR: to. et eee ee 370 Montgomery, ©: H:, Jr. .:.08 437 Miérton;, IK fz ssecees See 4II Misttkowskis aRe. eee aes 221, 460 Needham, J. G. ....145, 342) 302 Nunenmacher, F. W. ........ 71 O'Brien; UR: Aas saiieecates 327 Qsborn, dee Ek ce ieee 179
Paine: J. Ta lal yee 19, 75
INDEX. Xili Petrankevitch, A. .......... '2% i). Sherman: sede fees awer'es = 387 leila. (GS ene Seoepeanne 371 | Skinner, H., 1, 46, 47, 94, 108, III, i ol 2S) Deer 79 138, 130, 220, 225, 226, 231, 277, UD iri eee 87 283, 284, 202, 300, 334, 354, 381, HAGIONO EIST since ect esscce se 167 412, 414, 415, 432, 476, 480. 225d. 10) So 370) Ae SIOSSOMSS AG eliirs cto ciciam eisis este 3 4l Peau, 5, 42,. 97, 134, | Smith, J. B. ...<+. 6.06554 309 eteemteS 1 163, 167, 233, | Stamm, J. CG. ....0....e0.2- 423 Bigee7on 20%, 328, 374, 423, 471, | Stiles, C. W. ..<.2...5%. 13I, 278 477. Vani Duzees Baebes... sete 432 Rarer \\e 12 Rear eeiae AG. | Vato Wiyices VB Go arcs a'c Sctais 220 PME PA, ear cie cece ences O3hi. Waltons Wea eee. sce 182, 318 vonmwerno. JA: oc. s..<. 2AM 21S, 203) |e Wiashburi. (Be Ion sosee cs 422 Lee iS eee 7H We NWellnaaths Criscare ule oes Sakic’ ae 15 Raye ENE Gr) (5 -<a\s ciaveial caress 230 | Wheeler, W. M. ...406 fn., 407 fn. SoC SoS 0 el eee S/o) |) \Whidieenias, 1B IRN ose aoauane 17, 46 ScHaliSeWese cs ss -.s 200% 2072-430) Williamson; Bi. 0B: 2... 2. 3.1. - 229 Scovass D2. i es Som Woleate, As Bs, is. oc see <i II5 Saline. IEDR SSR eee ees BOSC AV OLE = deltas mere. acne s ccnin Sass 420 SCHdder GOA” chic ss sees cee's 277
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