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Plate XVIII.

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NEW NORTH AMERICAN DOLICHOPODIDAE—VAN DUZEE.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

Vor. XV.

DECEMBER, 1or1q.

No. 10.

CONTENTS:

Van Duzee—New Species of North
American Dolichopodidae (Dip.)... 433
Changes of Address...... Biaetsiolelols erste 443
Williamson—Dragonflies (Odonata)
collected in Texas and Oklahoma
CEont trGGU PIAS lee mes cee ace icma > - 444
Dodd—A new Platygasterid Genus with
Remarkable Antennae (Hym.)..... 455
Williamson—Sympetrum obtrusum and
costiferum (Odonata) in Maine.... 456
Cresson—Descriptions of new North
American Acalyptrate Diptera—I.. 457
Additions to the Entomological Collec-
tions, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh 450
Girault—A new species of the Remark-
able Hymenopterous Genus Smi-
cromorpha with Correction of the
Generic Description.............-- 461
Grinnell—An Individual Variation of
Lorquin’s Admiral, Limenitis lor-
quinii Boisduval (Lep.)............ 462
Allard—Locust Stridulations (Orth.)... 463

The First Quarter Century of the
SNEWS) i occccs ccc cent ne nscincescnes. 467
Dusham—A Method of Injecting the
Tracheae of Insects.......-...+2--- 468
Skinner—Callosamia promethea and
aporulitera, (hep. ). << <ncieesme ssc s 468
Annual Meeting, Entomological So-
ciety of America..........----++-+. 469
Annual Meeting, American Association
of Economic Entomologists ....... 470
Local Arrangements for the Annual
MECLIN GE Sta ari closes cise cmioe niete eee 470
Entomological Literature.............. 472
Skinner—Review of Pierce’s The Geni-
talia of the Group Geometridae of
the Lepidoptera of the British
IR/ENGE Saascgaseoc Srososaocossooar 476
Calvert—Review of Williston’s Water
Reptiles of the Past and Present... 477
Doings of Societies—Entomological
Section, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada.

(Lep., Orth., Odon., Col.)......... 477
Cockerell—A Mite Gall on Clementsia Obituary—Dr. William Saunders...... 480
WAC Amal nae eo wattin veins eeeisone.s cnet Ae) NM) VBS Gea gcbooot oe ae dao Se aaoace 480
Editorial—The Annual Entomological
IR ANN ORS te craic ataaatnielele) ence isieioidinis/simb- 467

New Species of North American Dolichopodidae

(Dip.).
By M. C. Van Duzer, Buffalo, New York.
(Plate XVIII.)
Neurigona nigricornis n. sp. (Plate X VIII, Figs. 1, 4).
Eyes separated by the face in the male, antenne and dorsum of the
abdomen black, hypopygium and thorax reddish-brown. Length 2 mm.
@. Face narrow, dark green or blackish-green; palpi and proboscis
dark brown; front and occiput black; orbital cilia black, very short;
antenne black, third joint very small and clothed with rather long
pubescence; arista, also with long pubescence. inserted near the base
of the third joint; arista with two joints, the first of which is short.
Thorax, scutellum and metanotum reddish-brown, darker along the
front of the thorax, at base of the scutellum and on the flattened space
before the scutellum, the latter with a little gray pollen, the rest of
the thorax shining; pleure pale yellow below, becoming more reddish
above and with a black spot before the halteres; acrostichal bristles in
two rows; scutellum with two long bristles.

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Dorsum of the abdomen dark brown or black, sometimes the hind
margins of the first and second segments pale; venter yellowish, in
some specimens almost brown; hairs of the abdomen and the bristles
on the hind margins cf the first, second and fifth segments black;
hypopygium and its appendages reddish-brown (Fig. 4).

Coxz pale yellow, fore pair with minute black and several long but
extremely delicate pale hairs on the front surface, and black bristles
at tip; middle pair with black hairs and bristles near the tip in front;
hind coxz with a minute black bristle on the outer surface; legs yel-
low or yellowish-brown, femora paler especially at base; tarsi growing
darker towards their tips; hind legs rather hairy; hairs on the femora
mostly yellow; fore metatarsi three-fourths as long as their tibie;
hind tarsi with the second joint longer than the first.

Halteres yellowish-brown with brown knobs; tegule yellow with
their tips and cilia black, the cilia however appear yellowish-brown in
certain lights.

Wings grayish hyaline; veins brown; costa black; last segment of
the fifth vein about twice as long as the posterior cross-vein; third
and fourth veins parallel beyond the cross-vein; tip of the fourth vein
beyond the apex of the wing (Fig. 1).

Described from four males taken at Colden, Erie County,
New York, August 3.

This species differs from all other known North American
species in having the antennae and the cilia of the tegulae and
orbit black, also in having the knob of the halteres and the tips
of the tegulae infuscated. It resembles NV. dorsalis described
in this paper in the color of the abdomen and pleurae, also in
size. The hypopygium of these two species when drawn out

appears to be attached by a slender peduncle; NV. setosa V. D.
has about the same structure.

Neurigona dorsalis n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 3).

@. Eyes contiguous; thorax metallic green or purple on the dor-
sum; flattened space before the scutellum not very conspicuous;
hypopygium yellow, tipped with black; front tibiz with black bristles.
Length 2 mm.

Eyes meeting so as to almost obliterate the face; palpi with silvery
white pollen; proboscis yellow; front blackish with gray pollen; ocellar
bristles strong, divergent. Antenne yellow, first joint with a few black
bristly hairs above at apex, second joint short, third joint pointed,
about as long as broad, infuscated along the upper edge; arista brown-
ish, pubescent.

Dorsum of the thorax metallic green (in the type specimen reddish
purple on the most of its surface), dulled with gray pollen; pleure

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and humeri yellow, the former with a black spot in front of the hal-
teres which connects with the black of the black metanotum; scutellum
bronze-brown, black at base and on the lateral corners (in one speci-
men concolorous with the dorsum).

Dorsum of the abdomen greenish-black; more or less of the sides of
the first and second segments and the venter yellow; hypopygium yel-
low, rather large, with conspicuous black outer, and equally large, yel-
low inner appendages (Fig. 3).

Coxz and feet pale yellow, tips of the tarsi slightly darker; front
coxe with a few yellowish bristles on the anterior surface; in some
lights these bristles appear brown; middle coxz with a few black hairs
on the front surface and one large black bristle on the outer surface;
hind coxz with one erect black bristle on the outer surface; fore tib-
iz with a row of black bristles on top; these bristles, which are hardly
as long as the diameter of the tibia, do not reach the base or tip; fore
metatarsi hardly one-half as long as their tibie; hind femora with a
black bristle on the outside near the tip; hind tarsi hardly as long as
their tibiz, with the first joint a little shorter than the second.

Tegule, their cilia and the halteres yellow.

Wings grayish, hyaline, narrowed at base, the anal angle being obso-
lete; last section of the fourth vein nearly straight, approaching the
third vein towards the tip; posterior cross-vein about two-and-one-
half times its length from the wing margin measured on the fifth vein;
veins brown.

9. One specimen from Ithaca, New York, seems to be the female
of this species, but is in rather poor condition. The color is about the
same as in the male except that the dorsum of the thorax is black
where it is metallic in the male, but it seems to be a little greasy, and
I take that to be the reason for the difference; it also has the row of
small bristles on the fore tibie. The ovipositor is short and blunt,
shining, and of a reddish-yellow color.

Described from two males, one taken by me on the trunk of
a tree at Elma, Erie County, New York, on August 27; the
other in the Cornell University collection, taken at Ithaca,
New York, July 9. The female from Ithaca, New York, July 8.

This species runs to tibialis in the key of males in my paper
on this genus, but in this species the hypopygium is large with
the outer appendages black, while in tibialis the hypopygium
is small with small yellow appendages.

While working up the genus Newrigona last year I rejected
this species after describing it, as the flattened space in front
of the scutellum is not as conspicuous as in most of the other
species; the legs are somewhat stouter, and the first joint of

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the antennae has several stout hairs above, but I hardly think
that these differences justify the erection of a new genus. The
form of the hypopygium is typical of Neurigona, and the third
and fourth veins are converging, the acrostichal bristles in two

rows, the body color partly yellow, and the flattened space can
be traced quite readily.

Paraclius ovatus n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Figs. 5, 6).

@. Length 3 mm. Face covered with silvery white pollen; the
front and occiput dull green with white pollen, which is thicker on the
former; antenne reddish-yellow, third joint mostly brownish and
somewhat pointed; arista brown, pubescent; cilia of the inferior orbit
white.

Dorsum of the thorax metallic green, only thinly dusted with gray-
ish pollen; pleurze more blackish with white pollen; a large black bristle
above the fore coxe.

Abdomen metallic green with some coppery reflections, white pol-
linose on the sides below; hypopygium black (Fig. 5), somewhat shin-
ing, its lamelle large, oval, yellowish-white with a narrow black border
ou the lower and apical edge (Fig. 6), ciliate with black hairs.

Coxz yellow, the middle pair darkened on the outer surface; fore
and middle coxe with black hairs and bristles; hind coxe with a bris-
tle on the outer surface; legs yellow; the tarsi slightly darkened, mid-
dle femora with a preapical bristle; hind femora with two preapical
bristles, one near the upper and one near the lower edge; fore tibia
with a row of small and two large bristles; middle and hind tibiz with
a glabrous strip above between two rows of large bristles; hind tarsi
longer than their tibie and with the first joint shorter than the second.

Tegule and halteres pale yellow, the former with black cilia.

Wings grayish hyaline; posterior cross-vein about its length from
the wing margin measured on the fifth vein.

Described from two males from Decatur County, Georgia.
Taken by Mr. M. D. Leonard, July 16 and 19, 1912.

Paraclius angulatus n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 7).

4. Length 4 mm., length of wing 3 mm. Face wholly covered with
snow-white pollen, narrowed in the center, being about as wide, a little
above the middle, as the width of the third antennal joint; palpi, pro-
boscis and antennz black, the latter of moderate size, the third joint
somewhat pointed, about as long as broad; arista with scarcely per-
ceptible pubescence; cilia of the upper orbit black, of the lateral and
inferior orbit white; front covered with grayish pollen.

Thorax, abdomen and coxe dark metallic green, almost blackish-
green; pleure and coxe dull with whitish pollen; the spot of white

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pollen in the sutural depression conspicuous. Abdomen with consider-
able white pollen along the sides, and with the posterior margins of
the segments blackish in certain lights; hypopygium dull black; lam-
elle black, rather large, with the outer part subquadrate and the slen-
der stem at right angles to this outer part (Fig. 7).

Legs entirely black; fore coxe with black hairs and bristles; femora
with a slight greenish lustre; all the tarsi about as long as their tibiz,
the first joint of hind tarsi a little longer than the second.

Tegule and halteres yellow, the former with black cilia.

Wings strongly tinged with blackish, more hyaline on the basal and
posterior portions; fourth vein ending close to the tip of the third
vein, not at all recurved at tip. ‘

Q. Differs from the male only in having the face broader and with
the sides nearly parallel, and the pollen of the abdomen so laid on as
to leave the hind margins of the segments and the center of the dor-
sum darker colored.

Described from three males and one female taken at Colden,
Erie County, New York, August 3, 1913.

This species runs, in Prof. Aldrich’s key, to P. nigripes Ald.
and agrees with his description of that species in most points,
but the lamellae of the hypopygium are large and angulated,
while in migripes they are small and rudimentary.

Peloropeodes flavipes n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Figs. 8, 9).

@. Length 1.75 mm. Face wide above, narrowed below to about
the width of the small black proboscis, thickly covered with grayish-
white pollen, and with a subquadrate, brown spot above the palpi; palpi
small, white; front broad, covered with gray pollen; cilia of the infer-
ior orbit white, of the upper orbit black. Antennz brownish black,
about as long as the head and thorax, first and second joints short,
third joint very long, somewhat flattened, tapering, with long pale
pubescence (Fig. 8); arista apical, one-half as long as the third joint,
with long pale pubescence, and with a minute black spine at tip. (This
spine seems to represent the second joint of the arista.)

Dorsum of the thorax, scutellum and abdomen dark metallic green;
dorsum of the thorax dulled with gray pollen, which is thickest along
the fore part; pleurze black with white pollen; scutellum with one pair
of widely separated bristles; acrostichal bristles absent; other thoracic
bristles well developed; hypopygium black, with only a few minute
hairs and yellow appendages, hardly one-half as large as the abdomen
(Fig. 9).

Legs yellow with very short hairs; tarsi scarcely darkened at the
tips; fore cox yellow with a few pale bristle-like hairs on the front
surface; middle and hind coxe blackened at base; middle coxe with

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brown hairs on the front surface; middle tibiz with two and hind tib-
iz with three bristles on the upper surface; middle and hind femora
with a preapical bristle.

Tegulze yellow with black tips and brownish cilia; halteres yellow.

Wings grayish hyaline, with brown veins; rounded at tip.

Described from one male taken by Mr. Nathan Banks at
Falls Church, Virginia, on May 30.

I place this little species in this genus as it is closely related
to P. salax Wheeler, although his generic description would
have to be modified to receive it, as this species has but two
scutellar bristles and the wings are rounded at the tip. I
should give the characters of the genus as: Antennae of the
male as long as the head and thorax with thick terminal arista,
third joint and arista pubescent, first joint bare above; hypo-
pygium large, sessile, with small hook-like appendages ; wings
with the third and fourth veins parallel; sixth vein distinct;
posterior cross-vein perpendicular to the wing margin, distant
from the tip of the fifth vein about twice its length. Prof.
Wheeler does not mention the bristles of the thorax, but in
my species there are no acrostichal bristles; the other bristles
are strong.

PSILOPIELLA n. gen.

Wings with the fourth longitudinal vein forked, and the
sixth longitudinal vein present; posterior cross-vein twice its .
length from the wing margin, measured on the fifth vein; face
of female wide, scarcely narrowed below; front wide, vertex
not excavated; ocellar tubercle not prominent; there are ocel-
lar, vertical and postvertical bristles; antennae with the first
joint bare above, second joint with small bristles at apex, third
joint short in the female, pubescent; arista dorsal, pubescent.

Thorax with a small flattened space before the scutellum;
without acrostichal bristles; five dorsocentral, a humeral, a
very small presutural, two notopleural, and a supraalar bristle,
all these bristles rather small; a minute bristle above the fore
coxae; scutellum with a pair of large bristles and a pair of
small hair-like bristles outside of these.

Legs rather slender ; hind coxae with an erect bristle on the
outer surface; tibiae with one or two small bristles; first and

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second joints of hind tarsi of equal length. Abdomen partly
yellow.

This genus is related to Leptorhethum by the forking of the
fourth vein, and the vertex not being excavated ; to Neurigona
still more closely by the bare first antennal joint, the flattened
space before the scutellum and the yellow abdomen.

Type—Ps. rutila n. sp.

Psilopiella rutila n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 2).

9. Length 2mm. Face and front wide, thickly covered with white
pollen; palpi small, yellow with a few black hairs; antennz yellow with
the rounded third joint brown; arista brown; orbital cilia black above,
white below.

Thorax reddish coppery, thickly covered with gray pollen; bristles
black except the one above the fore coxz, which is yellowish; pleurz
black with white pollen, and with the hind edge a little yellowish.

Abdomen yellow, shining, with blackish bands on segments 2 to 5.

Coxe yellow with yellow hairs and bristles; erect bristle on the
hind coxz also yellow; each tibia with a small black bristle near the
knee; tarsi blackish towards their tips.

Wings grayish hyaline; fork of fourth vein rather weak and in a
straight line with the basal portion.

Described from one female taken at Bradentown, Florida.
in March.

Medeterus emarginatus n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 10).

¢. Length, exclusive of the ovipositor, 5 mm., length of ovipositor 2
mm. Face, palpi, proboscis and front black; proboscis shining with
several long pale hairs below and a row of short pale hairs along the
edge; antenne with the first joint reddish-yellow, second joint black,
the third joint brownish-black with an apical arista; orbital cilia black
above, pale below; four black bristles above the fore coxae.

Thorax black, but so thickly covered with brown pollen on the dor-
sum as to appear seal-brown with a broad, poorly-defined lateral
stripe of darker on each side; acrostichal bristles rather large; on the
front of the dorsum inside of the humeri is a space covered with short
black bristles; scutellum and flattened space before, pleurae and coxae
covered with gray pollen.

Abdomen black with gray pollen along the sides; ovipositor with two
small yellowish lamellae and about six long slender hairs at tip.

Coxae and legs black; extreme tip of middle coxae and of all femora
reddish-yellow; fore and middle coxae with black bristles at the tip;
hind coxae with one bristle on the outer surface; fore coxae with a

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circular emargination at tip; (Fig. 10) all femora with rather long
hairs below; middle tibiae with a pair of small bristles at basal fourth;
fore and hind tibiae without bristles; hind tarsi with the first joint a
little more than half as long as the second.

Halteres pale yellow with the stem brown; tegulae whitish, bordered
with brown, and with white cilia.

Wings grayish, hyaline; veins dark brown, a little paler at base
of wing; posterior cross-vein and distal segment of fifth vein of about
equal length.

Described from one female taken at Kearney, Ontario, July

6, 1909.
This runs in Wheeler’s key to the species of this genus to

M. maurus Wheeler, but differs from that species by the an-
tennae having only the first joint yellow, no trace of bluish on
the face or body, and by having brown pollen on the dorsum
of the thorax. The emargination of the fore coxae is, I think,
a character peculiar to this species.

The ovipositor in the described specimen is very much ex-
serted ; this may not be the case normally, but I think that it is.

Medeterus modestus n. sp.

@. Length 2.75 mm. Altogether brownish black; face shining
with a greenish luster in some lights, with gray pollen in the suture and
along the orbits below the suture; proboscis shining black, moderately
large; cilia of the lateral and lower orbits white; pleurae and coxae
with white pollen.

Dorsum of the thorax with brown pollen and black bristles; two
gray stripes are quite distinct on the forepart of the thorax in some
specimens; scutellum with greenish reflections and with four marginal
bristles.

Abdomen shining on the dorsum and with white pollen on the
sides ; hypopygium long and rather slender, the inner appendages some-
what yellowish.

Fore coxae with minute pale hairs on the front surface, those at the
tip bristle-like; middle coxae with whitish bristles on the front sur-
face; hind coxae with one erect whitish bristle on the outer side and
three or four pale bristles above the fore coxae; second joint of hind
tarsi about twice as long as the first.

Halteres brown on the outer surface, paler on the inner side in some
specimens; tegulae and their cilia brownish.

Wings grayish, hyaline, a little yellowish at the root; veins dark
brown or black, scarcely paler at the base of the wing; posterior cross-
vein straight, about as long as the distal segment of the fifth vein.

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Q. Length 3.25 mm., agrees with the male in all but sexual charac-
ters,

Described from two males and two females, taken at Avon,
New Jersey, September 27, 1908, by Mr. H. S. Harbeck.

This species comes close to M. migripes Loew, but has white
bristles above the fore coxae; the halteres and cilia of the
tegulae are brownish, and the fore coxae have minute but dis-
tinct white pubescence on their anterior surfaces, and pale
bristles at their tips; while migripes has black bristles at the
tip of the fore coxae which are otherwise bare, the bristles
above them are also black; the halteres and cilia of the tegulae
are whitish in migripes, and the first joint of the hind tarsi is
shorter in proportion than in this species.

Medeterus lobatus n. sp. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 11).

@. Length 2.3 mm. Proboscis and palpi small, brown; face rather
wide, metallic green; front blue, narrowly green along the orbits;
antennae black, first and second joints of about equal length, third
joint about half as long as the second and rounded at tip, pubescent;
arista apical, about as long as the height of the head, pubescent; or-
bital cilia black above, pale below; the bristle at the upper corner of
the eye large, curved forward.

Thorax and abdomen metallic green with coppery reflections, and
some bluish reflections on the pleurae and forepart of the dorsum;
thorax thinly gray pollinose; acrostichal bristles small, in two rows;
humeral bristle large; three dorsocentral, a posthumeral, one noto-
pleural, a presutural, and a postalar bristle, all black and rather large;
a small yellowish bristle above the fore coxae; scutellum yellow below
with four large bristles, the outer pair the smaller.

Hairs of the abdomen pale; hypopygium long, black, the basal part
somewhat metallic, the outer part opaque, appendages rather long, yel-
low.

Fore and middle coxae metallic green on their front surfaces with
yellow tips; hind coxae green at base; all the hairs and bristles of the
coxae pale, including the bristle on the outer surface of the hind
coxae; legs yellow; tips of the tarsi scarcely darkened; hind femora
with about five slender bristles near the base on the upper edge, and
a row of four stouter bristles on the outer surface towards the tip;
hind tibiae with two bristles at basal third and one preapical bristle,
all on the upper surface, also a row of yellow hairs on top which are
longer towards the tip; middle tibiae with two bristles at basal third;
fore tarsi longer than their tibiae, the second joint slightly enlarged,

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third joint with a flattened lobe on the front side, this lobe nearly as
large as the joint (Fig. 11); middle tarsi longer than their tibiae;
hind tarsi about the same length as their tibiae, with the first joint
nearly two-thirds as long as the second and with a bristle at tip below.

Tegulae, their cilia, and the halteres yellow.

Wings hyaline, strongly tinged with yellowish-brown hack as far
as the fourth and fifth veins, leaving a broad hind margin hyaline;
veins brown; venation typical of the genus; posterior cross-vein one
and a half times it length from the wing margin, measured on the
fifth vein.

Described from one male, taken by Mr. H. S. Harbeck, at
Barnegat City Junction, New Jersey, on August 11, IgIo.

This interesting little species is related to M. aberrans
Wheeler, which was also taken in New Jersey, it having the
small proboscis and bright metallic coloring of that species.

Asyndetus harbeckii n. sp. (Plate X VIII, Figs. 12, 13).

@. Length 3.25 mm. Face subquadrate, metallic green with thin
gray pollen; palpi very small, brown with brown hairs; front metallic
green with coppery reflections in the center, shining; antennae black,
third joint brown; second joint long, arcuated, with a bristly basal
projection; third joint large, flattened, with short pubescence, rounded
below, with two points at apex, attached to the second joint near the
center of the upper edge; arista inserted near this central point, dis-
tinctly pubescent. (The third joint in the type specimen is larger in
the left than in the right antenna; it is hard to say which is the nor-
mal form. Figs. 12 and 13). Orbital cilia short and black above, below
forming a rather thick beard of a sordid white color.

Thorax metallic green with coppery reflections on the front of the
dorsum; pleurae and scutellum more blue-green, the former with brown
pollen; bristles of the thorax large; acrostichal bristles in an irregular
row; scutellum with a pair of large medial and a pair of small outer
bristles.

First three segments of the abdomen dark bluish-green, the last two
more bronze-black; hairs of the abdomen long, black, those at the sides
of the base longest; hypopygium small, with small black appendages,
bristles at the tip rather large.

All the coxae black with black hairs and bristles; fore coxae some-
what greenish at base; all femora metallic green, shining, ciliate with
bristlelike black hairs below; fore tibiae and metatarsi yellow, fringed
with long blackish hairs on the outer upper edge; last four joints of
the fore tarsi short with a few stout hairs at the tip of the fifth joint;
middle and hind tarsi black; middle and hind tibiae with two bristles
above, inserted at first and second thirds.

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Tegulae and their cilia whitish; halteres brown with a whitish knob.

Wings grayish, hyaline; venation about as in S$. syntormoides
Wheeler, except that the bend in the last section of the fourth vein is
a little more abrupt.

Described from one male taken by Mr. H. S. Harbeck at
Wenonah, New Jersey, June 26.

The location of the types of the new species described in this paper
1s as follows:

Asyndetus harbecku, Type in the collection of Mr. H. S. Harbeck,
Philadelphia.

Medeterus emarginatus, Type in the collection of the author.

Medeterus lobatus, Type in the collection of Mr. H. S. Harbeck.

Medeterus modestus, Type in Mr. H. S. Harbeck’s collection.

Neurigona dorsalis, Type in the author’s collection.

Neurigona nigricornis, Type in the author’s coliection.

Paraclius angulatus, Type in the author’s collection.

Paraclius ovatus, Type in collection of Cornell University.

Peloropeodes flavipes, Type in the collection of Mr. Nathan Banks.

Psilopiella rutila, Type in the author’s collection.

The location of the types of the new species described in the News
for November, 1914, pages 404-407, is as follows:

Gymnopternus flaviciliatus, Type in the Cornell University collection.

Leucostola terminalis, Type in the collection of Mr. Nathan Banks.

Systenus americanus, Type in the collection of Mr. Nathan Banks.

Thinophilus frontalis, Type in the author’s collection.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVIII.

Fig. 1. Neurigona nigricornis n. sp., wing.

2. Psilopiella rutila n. gen., n. sp., wing.

3 Neurigona dorsalis n. sp., hypopygium.

4. Neurigona nigricornis n. sp., hypopygium.

5. Paraclius ovatus n. sp., hypopygium, side view; 6, rear view of
the same, showing the form of the lamellae.

7. Paraclius angulatus n. sp., hypopygium.

8. Peloropeodes flavipes n. sp., antennae; 9, hypopygium of the same.

10. Medeterus emarginatus n. sp., fore coxa.

11. Medeterus lobatus n. sp., fore tarsus.

12. Asyndetus harbeckii n. sp., left antenna; 13, right antenna ot
the same.

Changes of Address.

Ernest Keil from Granville, Ohio, to 970 S. Villa St., Pasadena,
California.

F. E. Pomeroy from 551 Brighton Ave., Boston, Mass., to 342 Col-
lege St., Lewiston, Maine.

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Dragonflies (Odonata) collected in Texas and
Oklahoma.

By E. B. Wirttamson, Bluffton, Indiana.
(Continued from p. 415)
16. Argia agrioides.

Texas: Clifton, May 29, 30 and 31, and June 1, 37 6, 1 9; 13 @ in
alcohol, det. Calvert.

A. agrioides was first seen by me at Clifton on a small
stretch of hard, light-colored, barren, pavement-like ground,
from which all the lighter soil particles had been washed. This
ground had a slight slope towards a shallow dry gulley which
in turn led into the small stream mentioned in the itinerary
under date of May 31. These bright blue dragonflies were
resting on the ground, were restless, and, when flushed, were
followed with difficulty because of a sharp wind. On subse-
quent days I found them along the bed of the small stream.
This stream, near its mouth, has steep, washed sides and, at
the date when we collected, long pools of water. Towards its
source it dwindles rapidly, the channel is less deeply eroded
and vegetation occurs on the banks and in the stream bed.
Except for a few small marshy spots near its head it is a typi-
cal wet weather gully. In this insignificant gully, with its
generally apparently unfavorable conditions, 8 of the 15 spe-
cies and subspecies of Argia known north of Mexico were
taken in one day, June 1. Only 10 species of Argia were taken
on the collecting trip. Of the 2 species not taken June I, one
(tibialis) was taken on both sides of Clifton and I believe
will be found there, possibly a little later in the season. The
other (intruda) was taken only at Wister, Okla. Of the 8
species taken on June 1, 4 (translata, vivida, tmmunda and
agrioides) were not taken elsewhere than at Clifton; 1 (vio-
lacea) was taken also at Wister, Oklahoma; and 3 (moesta,
sedula and apticalis) were taken on both sides of Clifton. Of
the 4 not taken elsewhere, translata is of very wide distribu-
tion; vivida is of wide distribution in the western States and
into Mexico; twmmunda and agrioides are southwestern and
Mexican. Violacea is of wide distribution ; and of the 3 species

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taken on both sides of Clifton, moesta and sedula are of wide
distribution, while apicalis is of more restricted and northerly
distribution. The truly remarkable Clifton list thus results
from the meeting here of species of wide distribution with
western and southwestern species. The distribution generally
of dragonflies seems to be, within certain limits, determined
by temperature and impassable barriers, subject only to the
formation, age and extinction of suitable water habitats. Con-
sider, for example, the distribution of Jschnura kellicotti
known only from a few points in the extreme east, Indiana
and Oklahoma.

In 1905 I collected 14 species of Argia in Guatemala. Nine
species were taken at one point, Gualan, which, as in the case
-of Clifton, seemed favorably located to receive elements from
two directions. Of the 9 species, I was taken at Gualan only;
I was taken only in one direction; 4 were taken only in the
other direction, and 3 were taken in both directions.

17. Enallagma durum.

Texas: Bay City, May 24, 1 ¢; Williams Lake, May 26,1 9;
Matagorda, May 25,1 9.

18. Enallagma civile.

‘Texas: Brownsville, May 13 and 15,5 ¢, 2 9231 @Q in alcohol,
det. Calvert. Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart), 3 @, one of them teneral;
Black Bayou, May 18, 10,20, 21 and 23, 32 4,1 @; HM @, 2 9 in
alcohol, det. Calvert; Clifton, May 30 and 31,5 6,1 2; 1 ¢ in alcohol,
det. Calvert.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3, 1 $6, 1 9; Henryetta, Aug. 7 and 30,
and Sept. 22 (Collins), 7 4,1 -9.

19. Enallagma traviatum.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, 40 4, 4 9; 2 @ in alcohol, det.
Calvert. Flying over the water at source of outlet of artificial lake
in numbers, pairing.

20. Enallagma geminatum.

Texas: Williams Lake, May 26, 3 6,1 9.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3,2 ¢@,1 9,1 pair; 1 ¢ in alcohol, det.
Calvert.

21. Enallagma divagans.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3,7 6, 1 2; 1 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert.
22. Enallagma basidens.

Texas: Clifton, May 30 and 31, and June 1, 12 @, 1 pair; 2 @ in
alcohol, det. Calvert.

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23. Enallagma exsulans.

Texas: Clifton, May 20, 30 and 31, 12 6,1 9; 2 6,1 @Q in alcohol,
det. Calvert.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, 3 @ ; 24 in alcohol, det. Calvert.
24. Enallagma signatum.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 20, 2 ¢ ; Bay City, May 24, 1 teneral ¢.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4,5 6, 2 ¢ in alcohol, det. Calvert.
25. Enallagma pollutum.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3,1 ¢@.

26. Telebasis salva.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 17,1 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert; Clifton,
May 30 and 31, and June 1, 7 , 2 2; 3 6 in alcohol., det. Calvert.

27. Ischnura ramburii.

Texas: Brownsville, May 13, 3 ¢, 1 hom. 9, 2 het. 9, and var.
credula 1 @, all in alcohol, det. Calvert; Black Bayou, May 16, 21, 22
and 23, 10 6, 3 hom. 9, 3 het. 9; 1 g and1 het. ¢ in alcohol, det.
Calvert; Bay City, May 24 and 27, 17 ¢,1 hom. 9, 6 het. Q ; Mata-
gorda, May 25, 10 6, 3 hom. 9, 6 het. 9; Williams Lake, May 26,
5.9; 2 Hom: Cya5 Bet. 9.

28. Ischnura kellicotti.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, 14 6, 8 het. 9; 1 6, 1 het. Q
in alcohol, det. Calvert. On white water-lily leaves, identically as
observed and described from Indiana.

29. Ischnura posita.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 22, 3 4,3 93; Clifton, Jume 1,1 @.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3,12 ¢;2 @, 1 @ in alcohol, det. Cal-
vert; Henryetta, Aug. 7 (Collins), 1 9.

30. Anomalagrion hastatum.

Texas: Sealy, May 10, 2 ¢, 19 caught near the railroad station;
Brownsville, May 13, 1 @Q in alcohol, det. Calvert; Black Bayou, May
23, 3 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert; Bay City, May 27,2 ¢,1 9; Wil-
liams Lake, May 26, 2 9; Clifton, May 31, 3 9.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, 3 6, 3 9; 1 @ in alcohol, det.
Calvert; Henryetta, Aug. 7 and Sept. 22 (Collins), 10 @.

31. Neoneura aaroni.
Texas: Black Bayou, May 17,1 @;1 @ in alcohol, det. Calvert.

Several were seen but not taken on the same date and at the
same place,—a small lot of drift debris on one side of a rela-
tively deep pool in a small stream on the right bank of the Gua-
dalupe River. From the drift the Neoneurae flew out to
hover motionless above the deep water of the pool. As the col-
lector approached they would disappear, leaving him to guess
at the direction of their flight. I have collected several species

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of Neoneura and the flight and actions of all have been sim-
ilar. Their agility must be seen to be appreciated. And al-
most invariably they have been found about deep pools in
small streams with drift or overhanging bushes near at hand.
32. Hagenius brevistylus.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 3 and 5 (Collins), 10 @.
33. Erpetogomphus designatus.

Texas: Bay City, May 27, along Colorado River, 1 teneral 9 ; Clif-

ton, May 29 and 31, 4 ¢,1 Q, all very teneral.
34. Gomphus submedianus.

Texas: Bay City, May 24,1 ¢@,1 2; Williams Lake, May 26,1 ¢@.
Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4,3 ¢,2 Q.
35. Gomphus subapicalis.

Texas: Bay City, May 24 and 27,1 6, 1 2; Williams Lake, May
25) Ate tee

36. Gomphus militaris.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 18, 21, 22 and 23,6 4, 10 9, most of
them teneral or very teneral; Clifton, May 29 and 31, and June 1,
I ¢@,5 92, most of them teneral.

37. Gomphus graslinellus.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 5, 1 9.

This specimen has been studied by Dr. Calvert and myself,
and it seems safe to refer it to this species. Graslinellus about
Bluffton, Indiana, has been very numerous during its season
in past years, and, in the large number of specimens I have
examined, considerable variation in markings is shown. For
example, the black mid-dorsal thoracic stripe may be of uni-
form width, in which case the pale stripe on either side is
wider below; or the mid-dorsal stripe may be cuneiform, in
which case the pale stripe on either side is of uniform width.
The dark antehumeral and humeral stripes may be entirely
separated by a narrow pale stripe, or they may be partly joined
or entirely coalesced to form a wide dark band of nearly uni-
form width. There is some variation, but less in the develop-
ment of the 2 lateral dark stripes.

38. Gomphus externus.

Texas: Clifton, May 29,1 ¢.
39. Gomphus consanguis.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 17 and 19, 1 6, 1 9; Bay City, May 24
dee, 1 Di T. 9%,

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The specimens I have referred to this species, of which only
the type ¢ is known, were examined by Dr. Calvert, who sug-
gested they might be immaturely colored vastus. Their close
relationship to vastus is certain, the color pattern of the head
and thorax being almost identical, though the dark color is
much paler and more obscured in the Texas material. In the
male of vastus the genitalia of the second segment are black,
brown in the Texas specimens; and the anterior median angle
on the second hamule, seen in profile, is much stronger in
vastus. In color of abdomen the Texas specimens are much
paler than vastus, 7-10 being largely brownish yellow and yel-
low, with obscure pattern, instead of the largely black with
sharply restricted yellow markings of vastus. Moreover, in
profile, the superior appendages of vastus are slenderer than
those of-the Texas specimens.

The occiput of the female from Texas 1s
low, nearly straight, sloping gently from
either side to a slightly lower center. In
vastus the vulvar lamina is relatively nar-
rower than in the Texas specimens, figured
here, with the sides more nearly subparallel

see ee ee enna al

ry:

and the 2 points of the apex contiguous.

De Selys compared consanguts with fra-
ternus and adelphus. The latter species is
known to me only from descriptions. It is
smaller than consanguis. From fraternus, Conia: age ee

“SE Bayou, Texas, May
consanguis is separated at once by the 19, 1907.
colored face and the thoracic markings (the more developed
and cuneiform mid-dorsal stripe, and the complete, not inter-
rupted, first lateral stripe), as well as the abdominal colors
mentioned above in the comparison with vastus.

There is a fair degree of probability that the species here
identified is not really consanguis, but, until the latter species
has been positively determined and comparisons made directly
with the Texas species, there is no justification, though the
localities (North Carolina and Texas) are widely separated,
for describing the latter species as new. The 2 males and 2

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females from Texas in my collection are all teneral, and, in the
course of study, all the male superior appendages but one
have been lost. I am able to account for this only as a result
of their teneral condition which.seems to make the appendages
extremely fragile.

40. Gomphus plagiatus.

Texas: Bay City, May 27, very teneral ¢.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 2, 4 and 6 (Collins), 2 ¢,2 9.
41. Dromogomphus spinosus.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, and Aug. 2, 4 and 5 (Collins),
9 6,19; the @ and @Q taken in June both teneral.

42, Anax junius.

Texas: Kingsville, May 11,1 @ caught during a stop of the train;
Black Bayou, May 18, 1 6; Williams Lake, May 26, 1 pair.

Oklahoma: Henryetta, Aug. 30 and Sept. (Collins), 2 4,8 9."

43. Epiaeschna heros.
Oklahoma: Wister (Collins), 1 9.
44, Macromia australensis.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 3, 5 and 6 (Collins), 7 ¢@,2 9.
45. Macromia annulata.

Texas: Clifton, May 30,1 9.

Another individual, presumably of the same species, was
seen but not taken. The flight was very swift, and, though I
waited some time, the dragonfly did not return, nor were oth-
ers seen. In the brief glance I got of it, and, of the one cap-
tured, the effect was of a brownish or grayish insect, not at all
suggesting the Macromias I am better acquainted with in
Indiana.

46. Epicordulia princeps.
Texas: Black Bayou, May 21, 1 teneral ¢.
47. Platycordulia xanthosoma.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 4 and Aug. 2 (Collins), 2 @.
48. Tetragoneuria williamsoni.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, 2 $,1 Q9.

49. Libellula cyanea.
Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4, 46 6,4 9.
50. Libellula luctuosa.

Texas: Williams Lake, May 26, 2 ¢.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 2 and 4 (Collins), 2 4,1 9.
51. Libellula pulchella.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and Aug. 2, 4 and 5 (Collins), 4 ¢,2 2;
the single specimen taken June 3 is a teneral ? ; Henryetta, Aug, 30,

Ti idie

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52. Libellula incesta.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 2 (Collins), 46 @, 69 9. All the males
have the extreme apex of wings dark, and 2 have a trace of color
about the nodus in the front wings; otherwise the wings of all are
unmarked. In the females the basal streaks are best developed in the
front wings, sometimes being present in the front wings and wanting in
the hind wings; the nodal spot similarly is best developed in the front
wings. While in the females there is considerable variation in any one
of the wing markings, there is also variation in the combination of
these markings, as shown by the following tabulation, which is for
the 69 females:

1. No basal streaks, no nodal spot, apex dark; 11 specimens.

2. No basal streaks, more or less distinct nodal spot, apex dark; 4
specimens.

3. No basal streaks, nodal spot, area between nodus and stigma, and
apex dark; 5 specimens.

4. Basal streaks, no nodal spot, apex dark; 11 specimens.

Basal streaks, nodal spot, apex dark; 23 specimens.

Basal streaks, nodal spot, area between nodus and stigma, and

apex dark; 12 specimens.

7. Basal streaks carried in antenodals of second series to nodus;
nodus, area between nodus and stigma, and apex dark; 3 speci-
mens.

53. Libellula vibrans.

Texas: Williams Lake, May 26, 1 teneral @.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 2 (Collins), 17 6,8 9. Of the 17 Wister
males all have basal streaks, nodal spots and apex dark on all wings,
except that in one specimen the nodal spot is scarcely evident in the
hind wings. One specimen has the postnodals of all 4 wings edged
with color. In the females the apical brown is more extensive than
in the males. In one female the nodal spots are almost or quite want-
ing, and in 2 females there is some color on the postnodals.

54. Libellula auripennis.

Texas: Matagorda, May 25,1 9; Williams Lake, May 26, 1 ten-
eral 9.

55. Plathemis lydia.

Texas: Williams Lake, May 26, 3 ¢, 1 92; Clifton, May 31 and
Junest, 116.5, 09.

Oklahoma: Wister, Aug. 2, 5 and 6 (Collins), 9 ¢, 11 9 ; Henry-
etta (Collins), 1 ¢, 29.

56. Orthemis ferruginea.

Texas: Brownsville, May 15,1 ¢@, and Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart),
3 6,4 2; Black Bayou, May 17, 18, 21 and 22, 11 6,5 Q.

57. Perithemis tenera.

Texas: Brownsville, May 13 and 15,1 ¢,1 93 Black Bayou, May -

Cain

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17, 18, 22 and 23, 4 ¢,1 9; Bay City, May 27,4 4,2 9; Williams
Lake, May 26, 15 6,2 9.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and 4,9 6,3 9; Henryetta, Aug. 20 and
Sept. (Collins), 2 @.

The wing markings of the females from different localities vary
but little, and probably the variation is not associated with locality.
The female taken at Brownsville has the most yellowish of any, this
color surrounding the customary darker markings. The Oklahoma
females have the wing markings slightly less extensive than the others.
58. Erythrodiplax berenice.

Texas: Matagorda, May 25, 10 g, 12 9. Of the 12 females only 1
shows distinctly the clouded area near the nodus; another shows it
very indistinctly and the rest not at all. Of the 12, 9 are hetero-
chromatic. In these 9 there is more or less yellow at the wing bases;
in one only does this reach the first antenodal, and this is in the single
specimen having the colored area near the nodus. In the 3 homoeo-
chromatic females the brown at the base of the hind wings is the
merest trace and is entirely wanting on the front wings. In some
apparently older heterochromatic females the thoracic dark markings
are more extensive than in others and the abdomen is as dark as in
the homoeochromatic females. In the youngest homoeochromatic
female the thorax is shining black (dull in the others), and the abdo-
men is colored about as in the usual heterochromatic form. To sum-
marize—the constant differences between the two forms in this material
are confined to the head markings (as described by Calvert, B. C. A.
Neur., p. 269), the thorax and the wing bases.

Four females selected at random had the following characters of
the left wings tabulated (see Calvert, B. C. A. Neur., p. 268) :

Number of marginal cells between

Stigma and M2 Rs and M3 M4 and Cur
iow. 31)33,34, 30. baka Ws 23, 23022 23 fc We ONtO,? 7), 78
enw. 27,33; 35, 40. h. w. 24, 28, 26, 28. hiecwiea Galan.

In the above tabulation the first figure in each case is that of one
individual, the second figure of another, and so on.
59. Erythrodiplax umbrata.

Texas: Brownsville, May 13 and 15,4 ¢@,1 9; Black Bayou, May
Pmeane 23,1 4,1 9.
60. Erythemis simplicicollis.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 16, 18, 21 and 22, 2 6, 4 2; Bay City,
May 24,1 ¢; Matagorda, May 25,1 ¢ ; Williams Lake, May 26,3 ¢.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and Aug. 2, 4, 5 and 6 (Collins), 2 ¢,
2352.
61. Erythemis verbenata.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 21,1 9.

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62. Lepthemis vesiculosa.

Texas: Brownsville, May 13, 1 9, and Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart),
1 ¢; Black Bayou, May 17, 18 and 21, 30 4,7 @.

This species was very abundant and very wary at the lake
or pond where it was taken May 21. During the afternoon a
short but heavy rainstorm came up and the Lepthemus at once
took shelter in the alders, where they hung, often with the
water pouring in a miniature stream from the apex of the
abdomen. So drenched they were easily caught in the hand,
but with cessation of the rain and the immediate appearance of
the sun, they all took to the wing with unabated if not in-
creased vigor.

Frequently they were observed feeding on a common fly,
which has kindly been identified for me by Professor Hine as
Anthrax fulvohirta. Lepthemis vesiculosa and Erythemis sim-
plicicollis are the most voracious feeders known to me among
the dragonflies. Both are grass green, both hunt in vegeta-
tion, especially simplicicollis, and I have seen vesiculosa strike
like a falcon and kill dragonflies as large as itself.

63. Sympetrum corruptum.

Texas: Brownsville, Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart), 5 $, 3 9, one of
the males teneral; Bay City, May 24, 1 ¢.

Oklahoma: Henryetta, Sept. (Collins), 5 ¢.

64. Pachydiplax longipennis.

Texas: Brownsville, Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart), 2 2, one of them
teneral; Black Bayou, May 16, 17 and 18,4 ¢,2 9; Bay City, May
24 and 27,4 4,1 9; Williams Lake, May 26,1 ¢.

Oklahoma: Wister, June 3 and Aug. 5 and 6 (Collins), 1 6, 17 9.
65. Celithemis eponina.

Texas: Williams Lake, May 26,5 ¢,1 9.

66. Brachymesia furcata.

Texas: Brownsville, May 13,1 g ; Black Bayou, May 21,1 ¢. The
one taken at Black Bayou rested in grass and low vegetation and was
very wary and active.

67. Brachymesia batesii.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 18,1 4, the only one seen.
68. Brachymesia gravida,

Texas: Brownsville, May 13 and 15,2 ¢,1 9; the latter has one
stigma with a cross vein; Black Bayou, May 18, 20, 21 and 22, 12 6,
7 2, most of them teneral; Williams Lake, May 26,9 ¢.

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On May 20, at the lake where we collected, this species
greatly exceeded in numbers all other species. -They were all
recently emerged and many were scarcely able to fly. These
tenerals, as might be expected, kept themselves closely to the
vegetation, only a few of the more mature resting on the tips
of the bulrushes. With maturity this species commonly selects
more lofty resting places, and at Brownsville and also at the
lake at Black Bayou, visited on May 18 and 21, individuals
were seen resting on the tips of bushes out of reach of the in-
sect net. In fact, one was shot from such a lofty perch within
a few yards of the spot where B. furcata was taken resting in
the grass.

69. Dythemis fugax.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 22,1 fine 6, taken near the section house,
resting on the tip of a twig of a low bush in late afternoon; the only
one seen.

70. Dythemis velox.

Texas: Clifton, May 20, 1 teneral 9, the only one seen.
71. Pantala hymenaea.

Texas: Brownsville, May 15, 1 9; Black Bayou, May 17 and 22,
2 9; Williams Lake, May 26,1 ¢.

Oklahoma: Henryetta, Sept. 29 (Collins), 1 9.

72. Pantala flavescens.

Texas: Brownsville, Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart), 1 ¢ ; Black Bayou,
May 18, 1 ¢; Matagorda, May 25, 1 teneral 9.

Oklahoma: Henryetta, Sept. (Collins), 2 ¢.

73. Tramea cophysa.

Texas: Black Bayou, May 17, 18 and 21, 12 ¢, 3 9; Matagorda,
May 25,1 ¢.

In all the males the frons above is metallic violet, though the area
is reduced in one individual. The lateral thoracic stripes are evident
in 10 males; in 3 males these stripes, especially the second, are scarcely
evident. In 3 males the basal hind wing color reaches A2 and posteri-
orly it is on a level with the arculus; in 10 males the color reaches
A3 and posteriorly it scarcely attains the level of the arculus.

In the 3 females the lateral thoracic stripes are evident; the frons
above at base is rich reddish brown, in front bright yellow; the basal
color on hind wing reaching A2 in 1 individual, and A3 in 2 indi-
viduals.

In Ent. News, September, 1903, p. 228, No. 46, I have re-
corded Tramea abdominalis from Nashville, Tenn. This speci-

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men belongs to the same species as the Texas specimens here
determined as cophysa.

74. Tramea onusta.

Texas: Brownsville, Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart), 1 teneral 9 ;
Black Bayou, May 17, 18, 19 and 21, 21 , 4 9; Bay City, May 24, 2 2.

Of 23 specimens examined for mites, 9 were infected.

In 1 male the basal color on the hind wings reaches only mid-way
between the first and second antenodals, the supertriangle is scarcely
colored, and the enclosed pale basal area reaches A3, at which point
the colored area is only 1 cell wide. In 10 males the basal color
reaches the second antenodal; in 9 males it reaches the third. In 11
males the color extends to the distal angle of the triangle; in 8 it
extends 1 cell beyond. In 1 male the median space and the area be-
yond the upper limb of the arculus are colored; in all other males
these areas are hyaline.

In the females the basal color reaches the second antenodal in 5
individuals; the third in 2 others. Color extends to the distal angle
of the triangle in 5 females; a short distance beyond in 1. The median
space and the area beyond the upper limb of the arculus are colored
in only 1 female, hyaline in the others.

75. Tramea lacerata.

Texas: Brownsville, Nov. 25, 1910 (C. A. Hart), 2 ¢; Black Bayou,
May 18, 2 ¢.

[Notes on a Gomphine Exuvia from Williams Lake, Mata-
gorda Co., Texas.

The exuvia was collected on vegetation in the water May 26,
1907, by E. B. Williamson. No adults collected the same day
throw any light on its identification. It comes close to the
two exuviae described by Hagen (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. XII,
p. 277, 1885) as “Aphylla producta (supposition).” The
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has a dried
larva from Kissimee River, Florida, which agrees with this
description. From the description quoted and the Kissimee
River larva, the Texas exuvia differs as follows:

Smaller size, 43 mm. long; 6 mm. broad (in front of bases of wing
pads).

“Palpus” of the “mask” with three teeth instead of four before the
end hook; teeth shorter, less equally stout, the first and second proxi-
mad to the end hook being more slender than the third proximad to
the end hook (i. e., the most proximal tooth of all.)

Abdomen shorter (30.5 mm.), 1oth segment shorter (11 mm.). (The
Kissimee larva has the roth 20 mm. long.)

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The exuviae of Hagen’s description and the Kissimee River
larva may just as well be the early stages of the Gomphoides
recorded by Pollard* from North Carolina as they may be of
producta. The Texas exuvia is somewhere near these, but it
is impossible to say what the species may be—Puuitip P.
CALVERT. |

A new Platygasterid Genus with Remarkable
Antennae (Hym.).
By Aran P. Dopp, Nelson, via Cairns, Queensland.
MIRAMBLYASPIS nov. gen.

¢ —Head transverse, a little wider than the thorax; eyes
large; ocelli rather wide apart, the lateral ones distant from
the eye margins by no more than their own diameter ; mandi-
bles bidentate.

Thorax twice as long as wide, narrowed anteriorly; pro-
notum distinctly visible from above, especially on the sides;
mesonotum longer than wide, parapsidal furrows wanting;
scutellum lengthened, projecting over the metathorax and
terminating in a straight, sharp spine.

Abdomen broadly rounded behind; a little longer and dis-
tinctly wider than the thorax; petiolate; first segment twice
as long as wide, with two carinae; second segment occupying
two-thirds the abdominal length, scarcely longer than wide.

Legs extremely long; all trochanters lengthened; anterior
tibiae not much lengthened, anterior tarsi fully three times as
long as their tibiae; middle tibiae lengthened, middle tarsi
about twice as long as their tibiae; posterior legs nearly twice
as long as the whole body, posterior tibiae very long, their tarsi
scarcely longer than the tibiae; tarsi 5-jointed.

Forewings very long, extending well beyond apex of abdo-
men; without venation.

Antennae 13-jointed, very long, as long as the posterior legs ;
filiform; scape, pedicel, eight funicle joints, and between each
of the four apical funicle joints there is a small joint, resem-
bling a ring joint, quite distinct, small but a little longer than

*Ent. News, xxii, p. 79. IQII.

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wide; scape extremely long, about ten times as long as wide,
as long as the next four joints combined ; pedicel only twice as
long as wide; funicle joints very slender, giving off long hairs,
the hairs being several times as long as the width of the joints;
the three small joints between the apical funicle joints without
hairs ; first funicle joint one-half longer than the pedicel; sec-
ond one-half longer than the first; third shorter than the
second, as long as the first; fourth extremely long, five times
as long as the third, as long as the scape, but much narrower,
about twenty times as long as wide; fifth about three-fifths as
long as the fourth; sixth three-fourths as long as the fifth;
seventh almost as long as the sixth; eighth longer, as long as
the fifth. The antennae are remarkable on account of the
small joints between the apical four funicle joints.

Type.—Miramblyaspis mirabilis sp. nov.

Miramblyaspis mirabilis sp. nov.

2. Length, 2.00 mm.

Shining black; neck of pronotum, posterior edge of mesonotum, api-
cal two-thirds of scutellum, and base of abdomen ferruginous. Legs
(including coxae), mandibles, and first five antennal joints golden yel-
low; apex of posterior femora, and apical third of posterior tibiae,
black. Thorax rather densely pilose; first abdominal segment pilose,

the rest smooth. Forewings long and broad; a little infuscated; mar-
ginal cilia rather long; discal cilia moderately fine and dense.

(From 1 specimen, 2-3-inch objective, 1 inch optic, Bausch
and Lomb.)

Habitat—North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). De-
scribed from one ¢ caught by sweeping on edge of jungle,
July 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd).

Type.—tIn the South Australian Museum, a ¢ ona tag, plus
a slide bearing head, antennae, and forewings.

Sympetrum obtrusum and costiferum (Odonata) in Maine.

In the Catalogue and Bibliography of the Odonata of Maine (The
Univ. of Maine Studies, No. 4, August, 1902), obtrusum is recorded
from York Harbor and Fryeburg. The capture establishing the Frye-
burg locality is recorded on p. 276, ENt. News, Nov., 1901, “a single
specimen taken at Fryeburg, Me., August 10, 1899 (Harvey).” In the
Harvey collection is a male costiferum, labeled, in Harvey's hand,
“Sympetrum obtrusa, Fryeburg, Me., Aug. 14, 1899, F. L. Harvey.”
This is doubtless the specimen, erroneously determined as obtrusum,
upon which the Fryeburg record is based. Ris, Coll. Selys, Libellulinen,
p. 686, records as in his collection 1 ¢, 2 9Q obtrusum, Manchester,
Maine, Miss Wadsworth, collector—E. B. WILLIAMSON.

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Descriptions of new North American Acalyptrate
Diptera—I.

By E. T. Cresson, Jr., Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia.

These descriptions are published now and in this form
mainly to establish priority and to eliminate the necessity of
circulating manuscript names. The types are in the collection
here unless otherwise noted.

Sepedon pacifica n. sp.

Cinnamon-brown to tawny. Opake with head and abdomen shin-
ing. Two spots above foramen, spot at base of frontal bristles sil-
very, tinged with yellow. Head higher than long. Front broader
than long, orbits slightly divergent; the para- and meso-frontal areas
separated by sharp and well-defined ridges running laterad from the
ocellar tubercle and evanescent at lunular margin; thus the frontal
bristle is situated in the depressed parafrontal. The spot laterad of
antennae round and velvety black. Otherwise similar to fuscipennis
Loew, but larger and wholly darker in color. Wings deeply tawny, and
the spines on femora beneath more developed and series more extend-
ed basally. Length 9 mm.

Holotpye—é, Redwood Canyon, Marin Co., California,
May 17, 1908 (Cresson). Type No. 6076.

Distinct from fuscipennis Lw., to which it is closely allied,
by the broad front having the deeply sunken orbital and middle
areas separated by distinct longitudinal ridges, the latter area
being much more than one-third the width of the front.

Coelopa vanduzeei n. sp.

Black, opake to subopake; lunule, first and base of second joints of
antennae, proboscis, trochanters and articulations of legs, yellowish-
brown. Halteres yellow. Wings gray with costa, veins I and 2 yel-
low. Squamae white with yellow cilia. Legs of female brown with
tarsi decidedly more yellowish. All surfaces, especially of body, cov-
ered with ochreous dust with mesonotal impressed lines black. Front,
except at vertex, velvety black in certain aspects; ocellar tubercle, or-
bits and apices of fore and hind femora somewhat shining. Cheeks
with short bristles, but those at anterior margin longer.

The three impressed mesonotal lines distinct in male. Second noto-
pleural and postalar bristles strong; humeral, first notopleural, an-
terior postalar and sternopleural bristles very short. In the female all

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these are equally strong and the scutellum has lateral bristles besides
the erect apical pair.

Femora and tibiae of male, especially of fore and hind legs, stout
and very strongly spinose, each spine emitted from a conical tubercle
at its base; outer surfaces of middle femora with short spines; middle
tibiae and tarsi, especially on flexor surfaces, thickly pilose with long
curved pile. Female with legs more slender, the spines limited to the
flexor and extensor angles and more bristle-like; no pile on middle
legs. Only apical margin of fifth abdominal segment with long bris-
tles. Length 5-7 mm.

Holotype. é, La Jolla, California, March 7, 1914. (E. P.
Van Duzee). Type No. 6077.

Paratypes—2 6, 1 2%, with same data.

Differs from all the other species recorded from North
America by the strongly spinose legs and the long pile on the
middle pair. These spines are strong and straight, not curved

bristles as in frigida. It seems allied to parvula Hal. in col-
oration.

Tetanops carbona n. sp.

Black, more or less shining, front as broad as, or broader than, eye,
opake except at vertical angles, not punctate or wrinkled; the broad
median yellow stripe limited laterally by narrow lines of brown which
end just laterad of the antennae. Orbits broadly white, which color
extends down to the cheeks, the broad median carina of face of same
color; foveae shining and darker, translucent. Cheeks and lower oc-
ciput yellower, rather shining; occiput above nearly shining brown.
Palpi yellow, proboscis brown. Antennae tawny to brown with apex
darker; third joint twice length of second.

Thorax, abdomen and legs excepting knees and articulations shining
black, but mesonotum more or less white pruinose. Squamae whitish;
halteres tawny. Scutellum triangular, convex, with four bristles. 3
pair prescutellars, I postalar, 2 supraalars, 2 notopleurals, 1 propleural,
humeral, mesopleural and sternopleural each.

Wings yellow-hyaline; marked with brown spots as follows: a spot
in apex of costal cell extending faintly to vein 4, a small spot at
apex of vein 1; a larger spot in apex of marginal cell extending nearly
to vein 3 and along costa to apex of 4, its proximal margin about op-
posite post c. v.; stigma yellow; vein 1 setulose. Fore femora only
setulose beneath. Length 6 mm.

Holotype— 46, Carbon County, Wyoming. In collection
American Museum of Natural History.
Paratype-—1 é, with same data.

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Differs from all the other species in having the front and
thorax smooth, without any wrinkles or punctures or puncti-
form dots.

Calobata nasoni n. sp.

Shining black with front, face, cheeks, mouth-parts, antennae,
humeri, halteres, venter of abdomen, claspers and legs, whitish yellow
to tawny. Head slightly longer than high, eyes round; occiput swollen,
one-half diameter of eye. Front one-third of width of head, opake,
yellow becoming tawny medianly toward ocelli; orbits silvery white
continuing as stripes to a spot behind ocelli; ocellar tubercle on line
with posterior orbits; orbital bristles not discernible. Face, lower
occiput and palpi opake white. Antennae with third joint slightly longer
than broad; arista black, short plumose basally.

Thorax narrower than head and twice as long; mesonotum polished,
with a broad median stripe divided anteriorly and passing over humeri,
notopleural stripe and pleurae, white pruinose, as is also the scutellum
and metanotum.

Abdomen of male one and one-half times as long as thorax, broadest
at segments 3 and 4; genital segments subglobose; claspers separated,
broad at base, abruptly attenuate and bent forward into a long fili-
form apex, sparsely hairy. Between hind coxae of male posteriorly is
an elongate pointed process. Genital segment of female one-half length
of abdomen, subcylindrical, with cavity at base beneath, flattened lat-
erally toward apex.

Legs very slender; posterior femora three-quarters of length of
wing, with brown subapical rings, their tibiae nearly as long; other
tibiae equalling their femora.

Wings hyaline, yellowish, longer than abdomen; vein 2 entering costa
in a straight line midway between post. c. v. and apex; veins 3 and 4
separated apically half length of post. c. v. Length 4-6 mm.

Holotype— 6, Algonquin, Illinois, June 11, 1909 (W. A.
Nason, No. 171.) Type No. 6078.

Paratypes—3 6,2 2, with same data.

This species averages smaller than pallipes Say, which it
closely resembles. It cannot be Say’s species, as the vertex
is tawny and the mesonotum has a broad median whitish prui-
nose line, while the lateral margin is only narrowly so. The
differences in the genitalia will readily separate the two species.
Taeniaptera divaricata n. sp.

Black with metallic blue and black reflections. In form and size
similar to antennaepes Say but more robust, especially as to head and

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thorax, also not so highly polished. Front subopake, dark brown, the
opake mesofrontal much narrower than parafrontal, scarcely at-
taining lunule or narrowly so. Face opake, tawny to brown with faint
spots laterad of antennae and narrow oral margin black; orbits and
cheeks not noticeably silvery. Antennae with second and base of third
joints tawny to brown, latter two-and-one-half times longer than
broad.

Thorax opake above, entirely subcinereous; prothorax, humeri, post-
alar region and scutellum tawny to brown. Sternopleural comb dense.

Abdomen metallic blue to black, subcinereous with third and fourth
segments subopake, brown; broad apical band on first densely cine-
reous.

Fore coxae and femora, middle and hind femora translucent tawny
to brown with yellow subapical and basal bands; fore tibiae and base
of their tarsi black leaving the remaining apical joints snow white;
middle and hind tibiae black, towards their apices and tarsi yellow to
tawny.

Wings fuscus becoming diluted posteriorly, from base to apex of
auxiliary vein, narrow band over anterior c. v., another narrow band
beyond apex of first vein, hyaline. First vein ending slightly beyond
the more or less oblique posterior c. v. First posterior cell closed in
margin; anal cell long, ending less than length of post. c. v. before
margin. Length 8-10 mm.

Male claspers short with anterior appendages as figured for angulata
Lw. (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc., XXXIV, pl. ii, Fig. 12, 1908.)

Female with base of ovipositor three times as long as broad.

Holotype — é, Billy’s Island, Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia,
June, 1912. In the Cornell University Collection.

Paratypes—4 8,7 2, with same data.

Differs from antennaepes Say in having the base of fore
tarsi black, longer anal cell, longer antennae and in the form
of the male claspers, as well as by other characters mentioned.
It should not be confused with lasciva Fab., a neotropical and
apparently very closely related species, but which has a much
longer anal cell and simple claspers.

Additions to the Entomological Collections, Carnegie Museum,
Pittsburgh.

The 17th Annual Report of the Director, Dr. W. J. Holland, for
the year ending March 31, 1914, states that during the year there have
been added about 53,000 specimens of insects, the largest addition
for any year since the purchase of the Ulke collection of Coleoptera.

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A New Species of the Remarkable Hymenopterous
Genus Smicromorpha with Correction
of the Generic Description.
By A. A. Grrautt, Nelson (Cairns), Queensland, Australia.

The genus Smicromorpha Girault is the type of a new tribe
in the family Chalcididae and was described from two broken
specimens. Lately, a pair of a second species were captured
from jungle in North Queensland, and these allowed the recog-
nition of the sexes which formerly had been identified by ana-
logical likenesses of the eyes to those of many male and female
Diptera. It turns out, however, that the analogical likeness
does not hold as may have been expected, since it is the female
with the large eyes and the male with normal ones. The orig-
inal description then should be corrected, the terms male and
female turned about. The two sexes are alike except that the
male has only 7-jointed antennae, the club solid, the funicle 4-
jointed, no ring-joint, the antennae setiform as in the female.
But also, besides the much larger eyes in the female (resem-
bling those of many male Diptera), the abdomen is stouter
distad, the ovipositor distinct but not exserted. The mandi-
bles are alike in both sexes but very peculiar in shape, having
two teeth, the first long, acute, subfalcate, the second a half
shorter, rather broad, obtusely rounded at apex and separated
from the first by a long, narrow sinus.

The second species of the genus is described herewith.
Smicromorpha cadaverosa new species.

2. Length 5.00 mm. Like the type species, but with a more distinct
pattern on the thorax (no pattern or practically none in the female
type species): all of each parapside except margins, cephalic portion
of each axilla, cephalic half of scutum except along margins and
meson, caudal third of scutum except along meson and margins, form-
ing two elongated oblique spots, one on each side, and a minute dot
in the center of propodeum, dorso-laterad, dusky black; the spot on
the fore wing is more distinct than in the type species. Otherwise, the
same. First funicle joint tapering from apex to base.

@. The same, but the hind coxae shorter and stouter, dusky black,
the dot on propodeum absent. (The dark reddish scutum described

for the male of the type species is no doubt due to fading and there
is no real pattern.)

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Described from a single pair captured a quarter of a mile
apart by sweeping in a jungle pocket, July 28, 1913 (A. P.
Dodd). The species is most probably, like its congener, para-
sitic upon ants.

Habitat——Nelson (Cairns), Queensland.

Types—tIn the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above
specimens together on a tag, the two heads on a slide.

Note: The female of the above species had asymmetrical
antennae, one of these latter bearing but eight joints, the other
nine; the missing joint appeared to be the sixth funicle. I
have reexamined the antennae of the female type species and
both were 9-jointed and alike.

An Individual Variation of Lorquin’s Admiral, Lime-
nitis lorquinii Boisduval (Lepid.).
By Forpyce GRInNELL, Jr., Los Angeles, California.
Limenitis lorquinii (Boisduval).

Individual Variant. 9. Expands 72 mm. Upper side, forewings:
Velvety blackish-brown, with the usual red apex, extending over about
the same area, but there is considerable variation in this in specimens
from the same locality. There are two white apical spots, next to the
red, the upper longer and quadrangular, the lower oval; above the
upper spot is a faint indication of the white continuation of the red.
The band of white spots across the wings is much the same as in the
typical form, but the spots are reduced in size and elongated and
sprinkled with black scales. Only a faint indication of the white discal
spot. Hind wings: velvety brownish-black, with only faint indications
of the last three spots of the white band; and a comparatively large
red anal spot clove-shaped.

Under side, forewings: The apex entirely red with no usual row
of white crescents; a semi-circular area extending from the base to
the inner angle and to the cell, blackish-brown; with the usual white
and red spots, but much obscured with black scales.

Hindwings: Entirely red, with the row of median white spots and
the two basal white spots very faintly indicated.

Habitat—Arroyo Seco Canyon, San Gabriel Mts., near
Pasadena, California, 1700 feet altitude, July 23, 1913; col-
lected by Rutherford Moore, vice-president of the Lorquin
Natural History Club for boys, in whose collection is this in-
teresting specimen.

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Locust Stridulations * (Orth.).

By H. A. Atrarp, U. S. Dep’t. of Agriculture, Washington,
|B ae

In August, 1913, while living at Clarendon, Virginia, just
west of Washington, the writer studied the stridulating habits
of Conocephalus robustus Scudd. This species is very com-
mon in the grass and herbage everywhere along the roadsides
in this vicinity. Its note is a strong, humming z-z-z-z-z-z,
which may continue several minutes without pause. It is
considerably louder, more penetrating and droning in quality
than the prolonged dry, snappy z-z-z-z-z of Conocephalus
triops L., although probably not as strong and penetrating as
the z-z-z-z-z-z of C. fusco-striatus Redt. C. robustus is scat-
tered everywhere along the roadsides, rather than in well de-
fined colonies, and stridulates most freely during the dusk of
evening and early in the night.

At Clarendon, Virginia, the writer also located a small col-
ony of Conocephalus exiliscanornus Davis, in a dense thicket
of reeds and shrubs near a small meadow. Early in the eve-
ning the males advertised their presence by their brisk, vehe-
ment lispings, for the notes of this Conocephalus are brief,
intermittent and rather soft. This cone-headed grasshopper
appears to be strongly gregarious in its habits, as the writer
has found it only in small, widely separated colonies around
Washington, D. C. Wherever these colonies occur a very
striking similarity in the conditions obtains. A thicket of
shrubs in low grounds with an undergrowth of grasses seems
to be quite indispensable to these interesting locusts.

In 1911 (1) the writer described the stridulations of Xiphid-
ion strictum Scudd., from a single individual heard late in the
fall. More recently the writer has again studied the stridula-
tions of this locust at Arlington, Virginia, and finds, as previ-

(*Identifications were made by Mr. A. N. Caudell, of the U. 5S.
National Museum.)

(1) Xiphidion Stridulations. Proc. Ent. Soc. of Washington, Vol.
XIII, 1911.

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ously reported, that no staccato lisps precede the long, lisping
monotone s-s-s-s-s-S-s-s-s-s, Which may continue several min-
utes without pause.

The notes of this Xiphidion are much louder than those of
any Xiphidion the writer has yet become acquainted with.
The long persistent monotone without the preceding staccato
lisps makes the habit of stridulation of this Xiphidion similar
to that of the species of Conocephalus which have acquired
the habit of prolonged stridulation. Although the Xiphidions
usually keep well within the grass and low herbage of fields
and meadows, the writer has observed Xiphidion strictum
resting several feet from the ground in shrubs during stridula-
tion.

Very noticeable differences in the manner of stridulation
characterize many of the species of Xiphidion. According to
the character of the notes these insects may be grouped into
three classes.

Xiphidions in the first class always produce a few, brief
staccato lisps followed by a more or less prolonged lisping,
monotone, or in the case of X. nemorale, the staccato lisps
precede from two to thirty-two brief phrases rapidly repeated.
A number of Xiphidions in this class stridulate in quite the
same manner as the more common species of Orchelomum.
Although barely audible, the stridulations of X. fasciatum in
delivery and duration are an almost perfect reproduction of
the staccato lisps and succeeding monotone characteristic of
Orchelimum vulgare or O. molossum.

The notes of Xiphidions in the second class consist of weak,
lisping phrases alone, as staccato lisps are quite wanting. The
stridulations of X. allardi are of this character. Among the
Orchelimums this is also the habit of stridulation of O. minor.

In the stridulations of Xiphidions of the third class, staccato
lisps are also wanting, but the note is a long-continued, lisping
monotone similar to that of some of the cone-headed grass-
hoppers, although not nearly as loud and penetrating. X.
strictum stridulates in this manner. This habit of stridulation

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among the Xiphidions is a close approach to that of the cone-
headed grasshoppers Conocephalus triops and C. robustus.

From the preceding remarks concerning the musical habits
of the Xiphidions, it is evident that the stridulations of these
little locusts are, similar to the stridulations of the Orcheli-
mums on the one hand and to those of the cone-headed grass-
hoppers Conocephalus on the other.

Stridulation unquestionably plays a very important role in
the mating activities of the musical Orthoptera. It is a part
of the active courtship behavior of the males. In the imme-
diate presence of the females, the males, under the influence
of strong sexual excitement, sometimes become very energetic
in their stridulatory activities. At such times, however, the
notes are often interrupted and irregular, and may not repre-
sent the characteristic mode of stridulation of the species.
From a study of various katydids in confinement, it is evident
that something akin to a keen sense of rivalry exists between
the males of a species.

A single male katydid or locust of almost any species when
confined in a room will stridulate very vigorously in response
to other males out-of-doors, and sooner or later will make its
way to the screened window in an attempt to escape and seek
its noisy rivals. Among the musical Orthoptera this sense of
rivalry in a great measure appears to be one of the strongest
impulses leading to the act of stridulation. The writer has
spent much time among colonies of different species of musical
locusts and katydids, closely observing the various movements
of the individuals. In general, the females are not prone to
move about as actively as the males. The males, however, as
soon as the time for stridulation has arrived, become alert,
restless and climb or fly more or less actively from point to
point, stridulating more or less persistently in the meantime.
Observation has shown that many of these movements have
been made in order to approach rival males in the vicinity.
The writer has repeatedly noted these movements in colonies
of Microcentrum rhombifolium, Amblycorypha oblongifolia,

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rotundifolia and uhleri; and in colonies of Oecanthus and
Conocephalus species.

From a study of the stridulatory habits of various musical
Orthoptera it has been learned that some species voluntarily
change their notes from time to time. This is true for Scud-
deria texensis, Scudderia furcata, Amblycorypha rotundifolia
and A. uhleri, so far as the writer has observed. An abrupt
change by one male is very likely to call forth similar responses
from other males within hearing. Just what these volitional
modifications signify in the social relationships of the species
is not clear.

It is quite plain, however, that stridulation in one way or
another has become intimately associated with the mating
activities of the musical Orthoptera. Throughout the lives of
the males the greater part of all attention and interest is con-
cerned with courtship and stridulation. Although the noisy
performances of one male may excite and attract another, as
it would seem in many instances, this simply means that the
courtship of the female is the ultimate aim in the life of every
male. Stridulation thus serves to bring more than one male
within the immediate society of the female, and at the same
time tends more or less toward community aggregation for
many species.

A Mite Gall on Clementsia (Acarina).

The Red Orpine, Clementsia rhodantha (Gray), is a Crassulaceous
plant which abounds at high altitudes in the Rocky Mountains. On
July 7, 1914, I found it at timber line (about 11,200 feet alt.) on the
side of Mt. Martha Washington, Colorado, and observed that most of
the heads, instead of producing the normal pink flowers, were aborted
to a dense round mass of a dark crimson-lake color, consisting of
excessively tuberculated floral parts, inhabited by an Eriophyid mite.
In Central Europe and Italy a similar deformation of Rhodiola rosea
is produced by Eriophyes rhodiolae (Canestrini); and judging from
the brief accounts given by Nalepa and Houard, it seems very prob-
able that we have to do with the same species of mite. The number
of cross-lines is about the same, and the only apparent discrepancy
I note is in the great length (about 65 microns) of the first ventral
setae (Nalepa says they are “mittellang”). I have not access to Cane-
strini’s figures —T. D. A. CoCKERELL,.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, I9QI4.

The Annual Entomological Meetings.

Again the Christmas holidays approach, bringing the annual
meetings of the Entomological Society of America and the
American Association of Economic Entomologists, in affilia-
tion with the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and in conjunction with many other Societies of
kindred interest such as the Botanical and Zoological. We
print announcements of the two entomological societies on
other pages of this issue. Philadelphia has the honor and
pleasure of acting as host this year and the University of
Pennsylvania will offer more ample and convenient facilities
for the occasion than were hers on the last previous occasion
in 1904. The meetings of a decade ago led to the formation of
the Entomological Society of America and the birthplace will
gladly welcome the sturdy child of ten years and her older
sister.

The First Quarter-Century of The “News.”

This present December number completes the twenty-fifth
volume and the twenty-fifth year of ENromonocicaL News.
We, who have done the work of editing and proof-reading, of
caring for subscriptions and the other financial interests of the
journal, find a difficulty in realizing the length of the period
which has elapsed since the first slim, pink-covered number,
of sixteen pages, appeared on January 14, 1890. But on the
other hand, as in many similar retrospections, we have become
so used to the monthly toil and the monthly appearance that
we find it equally difficult to realize the time when the News
was not. Without boasting, we feel that this journal has aided
in the development of Entomology in America. We hope that
it may continue to play this role for many years to come.

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Of the six names of editors and advisory committee borne
on the covers of the first three numbers, three are still to be
found there, and among our subscribers and contributors we
have the pleasure of counting some who have been with us
continuously from the very beginning. All thanks to our
friends, near and far, whose support has enabled the veterans
and their later associates to increase and to carry on the NEws
unto this present. May their aid and that of their successors
continue to us and to those who shall take our places!

Notes and News.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

A Method of Injecting the Tracheae of Insects.

In working on the internal anatomy of various insects, I stumbled
upon a plan for injecting the tracheal system, which renders it com-
paratively easy for the dissector to follow this system to its smallest
branches.

Place the insects in a flask and pour in just enough India ink to
cover them. In the case of Coleoptera and Hemiptera it would be
better to first remove the wings. Connect up the flask with an aspirator
which is attached to a common water faucet. On turning on the
water, the air is withdrawn from the flask by the aspirator, creating
a vacuum. At the same time the air is withdrawn from the tracheae
of the insects, and is replaced by the India ink. On opening up the
insect, the tracheae will stand out clear and black, and can readily be
followed.—E. H. DusHAm, Instructor in Entomology, Pennsylvania
State College, State College, Pa.

Callosamia promethea and angulifera (Lepid.).

During the spring I collected some cocoons of promethea hanging
on spice-bush in my garden. They were placed in a hat box and the
box covered with mosquito netting. The box was kept in a corner of
a room on the third floor of my home at Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
On June 27th a male and female of promethea emerged, and in the
evening between eight and nine o’clock moths were noticed flying
against the wire screen of the window of the room where the pro-
methea were kept. The screens were raised and fifteen male anguli-
fera came into the room and were captured. The windows were then
closed. How many more would have entered had they been left open,
it is not possible to say. The exact relationship between these two

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has always interested me and many experiments could be carried on
in relation to them. Were the male angulifera deceived by the female
promethea? If the attraction.is so great, what happens to the hun-
dreds and perhaps thousands of specimens of these two in nature?
Are the males of promethea attracted in the same way by the female
angulifera? What are hybrids between the two like? Are such hy-
brids fertile? It is sometimes difficult to differentiate the females of
the two. Perhaps it is foolish to speculate in regard to such matters
when it is possible to ascertain the truth by direct experiment and
observation. My only excuse is that this note may stimulate an inter-
est in the subject and when opportunity affords, breeding experi-
ments may be carried on—HENRyY SKINNER.

Annual Meeting, Entomological Society of America.

The ninth annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America
will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thursday and Friday, De-
cember 31st, 1914, and January Ist, 1915, in affiliation with the meetings
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and
other Societies. Meetings will begin at to A. M. on Thursday.

Blanks for abstracts of papers will be sent by the Secretary to the
members, and should be returned to him not later than December
15th, in order that the program may be included in the general pro-
gram of the A. A. A. S. Papers will be limited to 15 minutes in
delivery.

The by-laws provide that there shall be held at the annual meeting
a technical exhibit of entomological materials and methods. Photo-
graphs, drawings, specimens, novelties, apparatus, or other matter of
interest to entomologists will be heartily welcomed. This exhibit will
be open from December 28th to January Ist, under the charge of
Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Zoological Hall, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa.

The business meeting will be held Friday morning, January Ist,* for
the reports of the executive committee, treasurer and auditing com-
mittee, the election of new members and of officers and the transaction
of all other business.

The annual public address will be given on Wednesday evening,
December 30th, at 8 P. M., by Professor Stephen A. Forbes, of the
University of Illinois, State Entomologist of Illinois. His subject
will be, “The Ecological Foundations of Applied Entomology.” Fol-
lowing this address, Dr. Henry Skinner, at the request of the Execu-
tive Committee, will present a history of the Society. At the con-
clusion, the entomologists of Philadelphia will tender a smoker to all
visiting entomologists. The addresses by Professor Forbes and Dr.

*The Secretary-Treasurer writes that the date announced for the
business meeting on the notices which he sent out is incorrect; it
should be as given above. P. P. C.

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Skinner and the smoker will be held at the Academy of Natural Sci-
ences, Nineteenth and Race Streets.
The other meetings will be held at the University of Pennsyl-
vania (see below).
Atex. D, MacGrtivray, Secretary-Treasurer, University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois.
Puitip P. CALvert, President, University of Pennsylvania, Philadel-
phia, Pa.

Annual Meeting, American Association of Economic Entomolo-
gists.

The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the American Association of
Economic Entomologists will be held at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, Philadelphia, Pa., December 28th to 30, inclusive. The program
will be arranged as follows:

Monday, December 28th, at 1.30 P. M. Opening session, at which
will be delivered the address of the President, Dr. H. T. Fernald,
which will be preceded by the transaction of the regular business of
the meeting. At 8 P. M. of the same day, the meeting of the section
on Apiary inspection will be held.

Tuesday, December 29th, at 10 A. M. and 1 P. M., the regular ses-
sion of the Association will be continued. At 8 P. M. the opening ses-
sion of the section on Horticultural Inspection will convene and an-
other session of this section will be held at 10 A. M. on the following
day.

Wednesday at 1 P. M. the closing session of the Association will
be held. Thursday evening, December 3ist, is left open temporarily,
in case the program is too long to be disposed of at the sessions
already arranged, in which case papers will be presented at a session
to be held on that evening.

The meeting of the section on Horticultural Inspection will be in
charge of Dr. W. E. Britton, chairman of this section, and communi-
cations in regard to program and other matters relating to the sec-
tional meeting should be addressed to Prof. J. G. Sanders, Madison,
Wis., who is Secretary of this section.

The section on Apiary Inspection will be in charge of Prof. Wilmon
Newell, College Station, Texas, and communications in regard to the
sectional meeting should be addressed to Mr. N. E. Shaw, Columbus,
Ohio, Secretary of this section.

In accordance with our usual custom, the time allowed for present-
ing a paper should not exceed 15 minutes.

A. F. Burcess, Secretary, Melrose Highlands, Mass.
Doctor H. T. FERNALD, President, Amherst, Mass.

Local Arrangements for the Annual Meetings.
The meetings of the Entomological Society of America (except
that of Wednesday evening, December 30th, as announced above)

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and all the meetings of the American Association of Economic Ento-
mologists will be held in Class Room D, Veterinary Building, Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Thirty-ninth Street and Woodland Avenue,
Philadelphia.

Hotel headquarters for both the entomological societies have been
taken at the Hotel Walton, Broad and Locust Streets. The rates, for
rooms only, are as follows: Single rooms, without bath, one person,
$1.50 and up per day, or with bath $2.00 and up per day. Double
rooms without bath, two persons, $3.00 and up per day, or with bath,
$3.50 and up per day. All rooms have hot and cold running water.
The Walton is three blocks from the Pennsylvania Railroad (Broad
Street) Station, five blocks from the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
way (Market Street) station, eleven blocks from the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad (Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets) station. It is
advisable to engage rooms early.

A list of other hotels, with their rates, will be found in the Pre-
liminary Program of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.

The Veterinary Building, the meeting place for both societies, is
reached, without change, by the electric cars, Route 13, on Walnut
Street (one block north of the Walton), or by those of the Market
Street Subway (three blocks north of the Walton), westbound, Routes
11 and 37, to Thirty-ninth Street and Woodland Avenue.

The University of Pennsylvania extends a cordial invitation to
members of the A. A. A. S. and of all affiliated societies to take lunch
during the meetings at the Gymnasium, Thirty-third and Spruce
Streets, as its guests. The Gymnasium may be reached from the
Veterinary Building direct by electric cars of Route 40, eastbound, on
Spruce Street, one block north.

While it has not been possible to arrange for the entomological
meetings without conflicting with meetings of allied interests, by
grouping such societies in nearby buildings, attendance at different
meetings will be possible with very little loss of time. The American
Society of Zoologists (December 29-31), Section F, Zoology, of
the A. A. A. §. (December 29-31) and the American Society of
Naturalists (December 31st) will meet in the Zoological Laboratory,
on the opposite side of Woodland Avenue, from the Veterinary Build-
ing. The Botanical Society of America (December 29-31), The
American Phyto-pathological Society (December 30-January 1) and
Section G, Botany, A. A. A. S. (December 29) will meet in the
Medical Laboratory on Hamilton Walk, two blocks from the Veter-
inary Building. The annual dinner of the Naturalists will take place
on Thursday evening, December 31st.

Pump P. Catvert, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
(Member of the Local Committee on Meeting Places.)

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., 774

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

Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the
Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En-
tomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and
Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted;
but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how-
ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded.
The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered
in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all
dated the current year unless otherwise noted, always excepting those
appearing in the January and February issues of the News, which are
generally dated the year previous.

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

The records of systematic papers are all grouped at the end of each
Order of which they treat, and are separated from the rest by a dash.

For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record,
Office of Experiment Stations, Washington.

1—Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila-
delphia. 2—Transactions, American Entomological Society, Phila-
delphia. 38—The American Naturalist. 4—The Canadian Ento-
mologist. 5—Psyche. 6—Journal of the New York Entomological
Society. 8—The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London. 10
—Nature, London. 11—Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
London. 14~—Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
18—Ottawa Naturalist. 21—The Entomologist’s Record, London.
86—Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 40—
Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 50—Proceedings of the U. S.
National Museum. 92—Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insekten-
biologie. 97—Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig.
102—Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
119—Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 166—Internationale En-
tomologische Zeitschrift, Guben. 177—Quarterly Journal of Micro-
scopical Science, London. 179—Journal of Economic Entomology.
180—Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 184—
Journal of Experimental Zoology, Philadelphia. 189—Journal of
Entomology and Zoology, Claremont, Calif. 198—Biological Bul-
letin of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. 230—
Revista, Museo de la Plata, Buenos Aires. 268—Proceedings,
Hawaiian Entomological Society, Honolulu. 278—Proceedings,
Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh. 274—Archiv fur Zellfor-
schung, herausgegeben von Dr. R. Goldschmidt, Leipzig. 313—
Bulletin of Entomological Research, London. 869—Entomologi-
sche Mitteilungen, Berlin-Dahlem. 420—Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus: A monthly journal of entomology, Washington. 489—
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster.

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GENERAL SUBJECT. Crampton, G. C.—On the misuse of
the terms parapteron, hypopteron, tegula, squamula, patagium and
scapula, 6, xxii, 248-61. Felt, E. P.—Notes on forest insects, 179,
vii, 373-75. Fernald, H. T.—Notes on some old European collec-
tions, 180, vii, 89-93. Howard, L. O.—An incident in the search
for foreign gipsy moth parasites, 179, vii, 378-82. Report on para-
sites, 180, vii, 86-8. McDermott, F. A.—The ecologic relations of
the photogenic function among insects, 92, xviii, 303-7. Morgan,
T. H.—Sex-limited and sex-linked inheritance, 8, xlvili, 577-83.
Muir, F.—The effect of parasitism on the struggle for existence
and natural selection, 268, iii, 30-42. Perkins, R. C. L—Abnormal
coupling in insects, 8, 1914, 250-1. Townsend, C. H. T.—Note on
a classification of sexual characters, 102, xvi, 138-9. Saunders, W.
—Obituary by C. J. S. Bethune, 4, 1914, 333-6.

ARACHNIDA, ETC. Banks, N.—Acarians from Brazil, 5, xxi,
160-2. Emerton, J. H.—New spiders from the neighborhood of
Ithaca, N. Y., 6, xxii, 262-4. Ewing, H. E.—The geographical
distribution of our common red spider, Tetranychus telarius, 189,
vi, 121-32. Merian, P—Les Araignees de la Terre de Fue et de la
Patagonie, 230, xx, 7-100.

Bacon, G. A.—The distribution of Collembola in the Clare-
mont-Laguna region of California, 189, vi, 137-180.

APTERA AND NEUROPTERA. Butler, H.—Three n. sps. of
Odonata, 4, 1914, 346-8. Houser, J. S—Conwentzia hageni. Life
history notes and variations in wing venation, 180, vii, 73-6.
Jorschke, H.—(See under Orthoptera.) Ris, F.—Zwei neue neo-
tropische Calopterygiden, 369, iii, 282-5.

Walker, E. M.—New and little-known nymphs of Canadian Odo-
nata, 4, 1914, 349-57 (cont.).

ORTHOPTERA. Glaser, R. W.—Forficula auricularia in Rhode
Island, 5, xxi, 157-8. Jorschke, H.—Die facettenaugen der Orthop-
teren und Termiten, 97, cxi, 154-280. Tumpel, R.—Bau und wir-
kungsweise der punktaugen bei Acridium aegypticum, 92, xviii,
275-82.

Caudell, A. N.—O. of the Yale-Dominican Expedition of 1913,
50, xlvii, 491-5. Davis, W. T.—Notes on O. from the east coast of
Florida, with descriptions of two n. sps. of Belocephalus. Addi-
tions to the O. known to occur in North Carolina, 6, xxii, 191-205,
265-6. Fox, H.—Data on the Orthopteran faunistics of Eastern
Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, 1, 1914, 441-534.

HEMIPTERA. Awati, P. R—The mechanism of suction in
the potato Capsid bug (Lygus pabulinus), 14, 1914, 685-733. Bacot,

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A. W.—The iniluence cf temperature, submersion and burial on
the survival of eggs and larvae of Cimex lectularis, 313, v, 111-18.
Browne, E. N.—The effects of centrifuging the spermatocyte cells
of Notonecta, with special reference to the mitochondria, 184,
xvii, 337-42. Childs, L—The anatomy of the diaspinine scale insect
Epidiaspis piricola, 180, vii, 47-60. Foot & Strobell—Preliminary
report on crossing two hemipterous species, with reference to the
inheritance of a second exclusively male character, 198, xxvii,
217-34. Moore, W.—A comparison of natural control of Toxoptera
graminum in South Africa and the United States, 180, vii, 77-85.
Parshley, H. M.—List of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Maine, 5,
xxi, 139-49. Van Duzee, E. P.—Mr. Crawford’s recent work on the
Delphacinae, 5, xxi, 163-6. Webster & Stoner—The eggs and
nymphal stages of the dusky leaf bug Calocoris rapidus, 6, xxii,
229-34.

Funkhouser, W. D.—New So. American Membracidae, 4, 1914,
357-63 (cont.). Heidemann, O.—A n. sp. of No. Am. Tingitidae,
102, xvi, 136-7. King, G. B—The eleventh kermes from California,
189, vi, 133.

LEPIDOPTERA. Bryk, F.—Ueber das abandern von Par-
nassius apollo, 119, 1914, A, 5, 129-60. Chapman, T. A.—A contri-
bution to the life-history of Agriades thersites. On a new form of
seasonal (and heterogoneutic) dimorphism in A. thersites, 86, 1914,
285-308, 309-13. Dyar, H. G.—The life histories of the N. Y. slug-
caterpillars—XX, 6, xxii, 223-9. Fassl, A. H.—Biologiches Boli-
vianischer tagfalter, 40, xxix, 75-6. Gibson, A~—The burdock gele-
chid. An insect seed-destroyer, 18, xxviii, 96. King, J. L._—Con-
tribution to the life history of the lesser peach borer in Ohio, 179,
vii, 401-3. Mosher & Webber—The relation of variation in the
number of larval stages to sex development in the gipsy moth,
179, vii, 368-73. Pierce, F. N.—The genitalia of the group Geo-
metridae of the L. of the British Islands, 88 pp. (Liverpool, 1914).
Seiler, J—Das verhalten der geschlechts-chromosomen bei L., 274,
xiii, 159-269.

Bethune-Baker, G. T.—Notes on the taxonomic value of genital
armature in L., 36, 1914, 314-38. Dyar, H. G.—Descriptions of n.
sps. and gen. of L. from Mexico. L. of the Yale-Dominican expe-
dition of 1913, 50, xlvii, 365-409, 423-6. Utetheisa in Porto Rico.
Note on Hemihyalea and some species of Amastus, 420, ii, 129-31,
146-51. McDunnough, J.—Notes on the synonymy of Boisduval’s
North American species of Lycaenidae, 21, 1914, 194-203. Mey-
rick, E.—Descriptions of South American Micro-L., 36, 1914,
229-84.

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DIPTERA. Alexander, C. P.—Biology of the No. American
crane flies, 189, vi, 105-120. Hyde, R. R.—Fertility and sterility in
Drosophila ampelophila, 184, xvii, 343-72. Illingworth, J. F.—
Further notes on the breeding of the tachinid fly, parasitic on the
cane beetle borer, 179, vii, 390-98. Knab, F.—Ceratopogoninae
sucking the blood of other insects, 102, xvi, 139-41. Metz, C. W.—
An apterous Drosophila and its genetic behavior, 8, xliii, 675-692.
Morgan, T. H.—A third sex-linked lethal factor in Drosophila,
184, xvii, 315-324. Muller, H. J—A gene for the fourth chromo-
some of Drosophila, 184, xvii, 325-36. Severin & Severin—Relative
attractiveness of vegetable, animal and petroleum oils for the
Mediterranean fruit fly, 6, xxii, 240-8. Taylor, M.—The chromo-
some complex of Culex pipiens, 177, Ix, 377-98. Townsend, C. H. T.
—Progress of verruga work with Phlebotomus verrucarum, 179,
vii, 357-67. Woodcock, H. M.—Studies on avian haemoprotozoa:
No. I1I.—Observations on the development of Trypanosoma noc-
tuae (of the little owl) in Culex pipiens, 177, 1x, 399-434. Woods,
W. C.—A note on Rhagoletis pomonella in blueberries, 179, vii,
398-400. Zetek, J— Dispersal of Musca domestica, 180, vii, 70-2.

Aldrich, J. M.—A new Leucopis with yeliow antennae, 179, vii,
404-5. Alexander, C. P.—A revision of the American species of
Tanypremna and Megistocera, 6, xxii, 205-18. Banks, N.—A new
ortalid fly, 102, xvi, 138. Johnson, C. W.—A new Stratiomyiid, 5,
xxi, 158-9. Knab, F.—Two No. American Syrphidae, 420, ii, 151-3.
Malloch, J. R—The early stages of Metriocnemis lundbecki. Forci-
pomyia propinquus, a correction, 102, xvi, 132-6, 137-8. Walton,
W. R—A new tachinid parasite of Diapheromera femorata. Neo-
celatoria ferox a synonym of Chaetophleps setosa, 102, xvi, 129-32,
138. Whitney, C. P.—Descriptions of four new Tabanidae, with
remarks upon Chrysops cursim, 4, 1914, 343-6. Willard, F—Two
n. sps. of Platypeza found at Stanford University, 5, xxi, 166-8.

COLEOPTERA. Dow, R. P.—The greatest coleopterist, 6,
xxii, 185-91. Gossard, H. A.—Orchard bark beetles and pin hole
borers, 489, Bul. 264. Grieve, S—The occurrence and distribution
of the beetle, Passalus unicornis, in the Antilles and the northern
portion of South America, 278, xix, 159-60. Matheson, R.—Notes
on Hydrophilus triangularis, 4, 1914, 337-43. Molz & Schroeder—
Beitrag zur kenntnis der biologie des blattrankaefers (Sitona line-
ata), 92, xviii, 273. Munro, J. W.—Notes on the reproductive
organs of the pine weevil (Hylobius abietis), 278, xix, 161-69.
Smith & Hamm—Studies in the experimental analysis of sex.—
On Stylops and stylopisation, 177, Ix, 435-61. Wolcott, G. N—The
cotton boll weevil in Cuba, 102, xvi, 120-22.

Clavareau, H.—Coleopterorum catalogus, Pars 59: Chrysomeli-
dae: Eumolpinae, 215 pp. Fisher, W. S.—A n. sp. of Callichroma

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from Texas, 102, xvi, 97-8. Heinrich, C—A new Californian C. on
plum, 420, ii, 145. Lewis, G—On-new species of Histeridae and
notices of others, 11, xiv, 283-89. Mequignon, A.—Coleopterorum
catalogus, Pars 61: Rhizophagidae, 16 pp. Pierce, W. D.—Descrip-
tions of two n. sps. of Strepsiptera parasitic on sugar cane insects,
102, xvi, 126-9. Wickham, H. F.—Twenty new Col. from the
Florissant shales, 2, xl, 257-270.

HYMENOPTERA. Doncaster, L.—The determination of sex
in the gall fly “Neuroterus lenticularis,” 10, xciv, 115-16. Natzmer,
G. V.—Das kokonspinnen der Ameisenlarven, 166, viii, 130. Trig-
gerson, C. J—A study of Dryophanta erinacei and its gall, 180,
vii, 1-46. Webster, F. M.—An unrecorded parasite of Toxoptera
graminum, 179, vii, 403-4. Wolcott, G. N.—Notes on the life his-
tory and ecology of Tiphia inornata, 179, vii, 382-89.

Crawford, J. C.—Notes on the chalcidoid family Callimomidae, °
102, xvi, 122-6. Cushman, R. A.—A revision of the N. Am. species
of the braconid genus Habrobracon, 102, xvi, 99-108. Ellis, M. D.
—New bees of the genus Halictus from United States, Guatemala
and Ecuador, 6, xxii, 218-23. Girault, A. A.—Descriptions of new
chalcid-flies, 102, xvi, 109-19. MacGillivray, A. D—New genera
and species of sawflies, 4, 1914, 363-7. Myers, P. R.—Results of
the Yale-Peruvian expedition of 1911—Addendum to the H. Ich-
neumonoidea, 50, xlvii, 361-2. Rohwer, S. A.—Vespoid and Sphe-
coid H. collected in Guatemala by W. P. Cockerell, 50, xlvii,
513-23. Descriptions of two parasitic H., 102, xvi, 141-2. Wheeler,
W. M.—New and little known harvesting ants of the genus Pogo-
nomyrmex, 5, xxi, 149-57.

THE GENITALIA OF THE GROUP GEOMETRIDAE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE
British IsLtanps. An Account of the Morphology of the Male
Clasping Organs and the Corresponding Organs of the Female. By
F. N. Pierce. Liverpool, F. N. Pierce, The Elms, Dingle, 1914.
Mr. Pierce is the author of a similar work on the Genitalia of the

British Noctuidae, published in 1909. The present volume consists of

88 pages and 48 plates. There is an introduction of 12 pages, describ-

ing the genitalic anatomy and the nomenclature of the parts. Then

follows the classification of the British Geometridae based on the
structure of the male and female genitalia. The genitalia of the spe-
cies are described as well as accurately figured. The whole work is
largely original and shows careful study. There can be no question
in regard to the wonderful aid afforded by the genitalia in systematic
work. This fact is now well established by the work of careful stu-
dents of the Lepidoptera both in Europe and America. One of its
great values is to establish maculation and other characters between
species not readily separated, but now readily differentiated by an
examination of the sexual appendages. So far as we are aware, the
first studies in this line in America were made by Scudder and Bur-
gess in 1870, but they attracted little attention. In the future it will
be impossible for students to neglect this fertile field of study.—H. S&S.

Vol. xxv] ENTOMOLOGICAT, NEWS 477

WatTER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT. By SAMUEL WENDELL
WILLISTON, Professor of Paleontology in the University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. Published
October, 1914. 8vo, pp. viii, 251. 131 figures. $3.00 net, postage
extta, weight 2 lbs., 5 oz.

Although this volume has heen sent “to the literary editor for edi-
torial use,’ we confess that we would find it impossible to notice it in
an entomological journal were it not that its author is a famous dip-
terologist. Perhaps the word “insects” may occur in it elsewhere than
on page 141, but if it does it is hardly likely to be more than the inci-
dental mention of the class to be found there. It is not given to many
men in our day to achieve distinction in two groups so distinct as the
Diptera and the Reptilia, and we regret that Prof. Williston has more
or less abandoned the former for the latter. Certainly the extinct
reptiles, of which this work chiefly treats, appeal more strongly to the
imagination, by reason of their size and often grotesque shape, than
do the flies, even though the influence of the latter on human exist-
ence has been, and is, a thousand fold greater. Prof. Williston’s non-
entomological book is very interesting both to the entomologist and
the non-entomologist, and the most general chapter in it—Chapter V,
on the “Adaptation of Land Reptiles to Life in the Water’—has sug-
gestions of value even for the first kind of readers.

There is one feature of the book which we must criticise unfavor-
ably, just as we did in speaking of another production of the same
University Press in the News for February last. This is its great
weight avoirdupois. We urged then, and we repeat now, that books
intended to be read should have light weight paper for the text, the
heavy sort to be used only as plates for half-tones, if necessary at
all—P. P. C. (Advertisement.)

Doings of Societies.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, ACADEMY OF
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA.

Meeting of March 26, 1914. Mr. Philip Laurent, Director,
presided. Eight persons were present.

Dr. Skinner exhibited a race of Ambulyx strigilis (Lepid.)
from Florida, taken at Miami, by Mr. Morgan Hebard. This
is the form called carteri by Rothschild and Jordan.

Mr. R. C. Williams exhibited specimens of Argynmis laurentt
from Park County, Montana, taken July 5 to 7, 1913. Also
Coenonympha hayden and Erebia epipsodea from the same
locality.

Mr. Rehn said he and Mr. Hebard had lately been studying
the genus Melanoplus. The last monograph was by Scudder
in 1897, while Morse has done considerable work on the genus.

478 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec.57a—

The genitalia are of great importance in differentiating species.
These were largely used by Scudder in his work. In certain
forms the genitalia are moderately variable.

Meeting of May 28, 1914. Mr. Philip Laurent, Director,
presided. Ten persons were present.

Dr. Calvert exhibited some colored drawings which he had
made from living males of Anisagrion allopterum Selys (Odo-
nata) in Costa Rica, which illustrate what he believes to be
changes in color accompanying advancing age of the imago.
The recently transformed individuals with softer chitin and
no pruinosity are predominantly pale cinnamon brown. Those
with firm chitin and some pruinosity are chiefly black. Both
these extremes, as well as many intermediates, were obtained
in the vicinity of Cartago.. The pale. brown forms were de-
scribed by Selys as variety rubicundum. The speaker had sug-
gested in the Biologia Centrali-Americana that such color
changes as above indicated probably occurred in this species,
but he did not then have the evidence in support of this view
which he now possesses. If this be correct, Anisagrion allop-
terum furnishes a parallel to other species of that genus and
to Hesperagrion heterodoxum whose color changes have been
described in the Biologia.

Dr. Calvert also exhibited a few Costa Rican Dynastine
Scarabaeidae (Coleop.) showing marked development of the
cephalic or prothoracic horns and, after remarking on the very
scanty information which exists as to the functions of these
horns, read the verbatim statements of such observations which
have been recorded for this group in different parts of the
world. These indicate that in different species the horns are
used as weapons, as instruments for scraping through bark,
for anchoring the beetle, or for carrying the female. Photo-
graphs from a living male of Dynastes perseus which had been
kept in a room in Cartago, Costa Rica, for a month, feeding
on sugar cane, were also shown.

Mr. Laurent showed some cocoons of Callosomia angulifera
that had holes in them that he thought were made by wood
mice.

Vol. xxv] ENTOMOLOGICAI, NEWS 479

Meeting of September 27, 1914. In the absence of the Di-
rector and Vice-Director, Dr. Philip P. Calvert presided. Six
persons were present.

Mr. G. M. Greene made some remarks on Sandalus petro-
phya (Col.). Mr. Liebeck said he supposed the species was
always found on beech.

Mr. Rehn explained a method of collecting Orthoptera by
trapping, recommended by Mr. W. T. Davis, by means of
setting a Mason fruit jar into the ground with the opening level
with the surface. A small quantity of New Orleans molasses,
with a few drops of fusel oil, is placed in the jar. He said
many little known species are collected by this method, spe-
cially mentioned the genus /schnoptera and made some remarks
relating to it. ;

Mr. Cresson reported on the progress of arrangement of
the local collection.

Dr. Calvert exhibited specimens of the Odonata Gynacantha
gracilis, G. trifida, Philogenia carrillica and Protoneura re-
muissa, all of which he had taken in the same piece of dark
forest on the Banana River, Costa Rica, November 9, 1909.
The actual body lengths of these four individuals is 88, 63, 57
and 37 mm. The sizes of their eyes may be appreciated by
giving their heights, viz.: 7.44, 5.76, 2.88, 1.11 mm. The eyes
of the two Gynacanthas meet on the top of the head, those of
Protoneura and of Philogenia are separated by a distance
equal to the width of one eye. In spite of the smaller size of
the lenses (facets) in Protoneura, he calculated that roughly
the Protoneura eye has only half, or less than half, the number
of facets of G. trifida and between three-sevenths and one-
third as many facets as G. gracilis. Taking various factors
into consideration, he concluded that the eyes of the Gyna-
canthas are more efficient organs than those of the other two
genera. Since other dragonflies (Anax, Aeshna) with eyes al-
most as large as those of Gynacantha, are found in well-lighted
places, we cannot suppose that the large eyes of Gynacantha
are a result of shadow-haunting habits. Rather must we look on

480 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ Dec., ’14

their large eyes as giving them an advantage over insects with
less efficient visual apparatus when they took to living in dark-
ness. He also exhibited Costa Rican specimens of Lepidop-
tera: Callitaera menander found only in dark woods, whose
eyes are not as large as those of Callidryas argante and Dapto-
neura iliaire, creatures of about the same total size, living in
bright sunlight; shade-loving Ithomiine butterflies, like Epis-
cada apuleia, whose eyes are not absolutely or relatively large;
Sphinges and Thysania agrippina with the largest eyes of the
order, so far as the speaker’s collection was concerned, yet
which are not as large as those of Gynacantha gracilis in spite
of the heavier body and greater wing-spread of the moths.
Mr. J. W. Green, of Easton, Pa., was elected an Associate —
HENRY SKINNER, Secy., and E. T. Cresson, JRr., Secy. pro tem.

OBITUARY.

We learn from the Canadian Entomologist for October,
1914, of the death of Dr. WiLtI1AM SAUNDERs at London, On-
tario, on September 13, 1914, in the seventy-ninth year of his
age. Beginning life as a retail druggist, he became also a
fruit-grower, a Professor of Materia Medica, a public analyst,
an organizer of the Entomological Society of Ontario, an edi-
tor of the Canadian Entomologist and Director of the Ex-
perimental Farms of the Dominion of Canada. His “Insects
Injurious to Fruits” has been favorably known since its ap-
pearance in 1883. His bibliography comprises some hundreds
of additional titles. The account of his active and useful ca-
reer by Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, which is accompanied by a por-
trait, furnishes a striking example of the attainment of honor-
able success by one whose advantages at the beginning of life
were very few, and is an incentive to all to make the best of
our opportunities.

5 OS ee
ERRATA.

Page 387, line 3 from bottom for “finely,” read “densely.”

Page 431, for line 7 substitute: the ants about 5-16 inch long; when
disturbed the beetles grasp

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INDEX TO VOLUME XXV.

(* Indicates mew genera, species or varieties.)

momo, J. iM.) Bibliography of Diptera: iim: . «as cass 104
ALEXANDER, C. P. The Neotropical Tipulidae in the Hun-
pagian National viaseum LIL-IV “Seenie. ws: «22s 205, 351
eens. Au Mocust, Stridulakionsy sek aac oe waetrasd ats 463
Banks, N. Neuroptera and Trichoptera from Costa Rica.149
Ben tiew opecices of Psychoda 21)... see ess Peterlee os 127
Barnes, W. & J. McDuNNoucH. A Note on Argynnis
BNENED eau el ohh iiss 2,5 again He nfaretertlg »i a ahha Hany hee 324

Berry, L. (See Row ey, R. R.)

BETHUNE-BAKER, G. T. Monograph of the Chrysoph-
RESUS o's ait oes & eas ae a aera ers eee e dae aes 299

BLAISDELL, F. EK. Minutes of the Pacific Coast Entomo-
logical Society. (See under General Subjects.)

Bowmrcen, F.C. ‘Corrections in Phytophaga ........... 284
Braun, A. F. Notes on No. American Tineina, with de-
EeinptOns “Of MGW Species 4... mal = ered obs Seb oan om aes 113

Brues, C. T. The Bethylid genus Mesitius in So. America. 119
Burcess, A. F. & H. T. FeErnatp. Annual Meeting, Ameri-

can Association of Economic Entomologists ...3....470
feeuert, bP. Aids to ‘Scientific work” o2%...< 2 as ieee 372
The Annual Entomological meetings ................. 467
ahevurst quarter century of the NEWS «2/0... 0.05) 467
Editorials. (See under General Subjects.)
Uheunfiuence of insects on civilization. ...%5.0.......%. 74
Local arrangements for the Annual Meetings ......... 470
Notes on a Gomphine exuvia from Williams’ Lake, Mala-
IRCCS RR PES cI ee Nie ee Re oh eo 454
Obituary: E. Olivier, EF. A. Popenoe and A. G. Hammar. 240
mee ye AChatles, S, Welles: c-5).inis<i0ndhas. a Asian = «rs 192
Prevention of insect-borne diseases in the Army in
RRMERMEECAI Ns Lerses 1502 hu. Patery seater ovate Wits Ais v's pena aE Reece ny Saas 283

Review: Adam’s Guide to the Study of Animal Ecology 82
Review: Braun’s Evolution of the Color Pattern in the
Microlepidopterous Genus Lithocolletis............. 236

iv INDEX.

Review: Picado’s Les Bromeliacées Epiphytes Con-

sidérées comme Milieu Biologique ............-.+0- 87
Review: Shelford’s Animal Communities in Temperate
America. 32) ons eee oes a Feeee
Review: Williston’s Water Reptiles of the Past and
Preseniti. Cai. 5 o/s oN premade lee eels sale ec ue nt en 477
Side lights: on: Entomology ...22...:...:...2.5:s——— 229
Studies on Costa Rican Odonata ..........:. : eu 337
The Waterfall-Dwellers: Thaumatoneura imagos and
possible male dimorphism .................. 337

(See also MacGillivray & Calvert.)
CAMPBELL, R. E. A new Coccid infesting Citrus trees in

Californias... s...0.clece «epee cies = +o = + ote nnn 222

CHAMBERLIN, R. V. Notes on Chilopods from the East
Ties «.4c<beiec sors sis'c*etetarete's/s?atstenese sole ts «ple 385
CurysLeR, M.A. Side lights on Entomology ... > 72amgee 229
CxiaGcceT, G. A spider swathing micé......... 2 ase 230
CLEMENCE, V.L. A new Lycaena from Arizona ........ 28
CocKERELL, T. D. A. A mite gall on Clementsia ........ 466
A new: Coccid from :Afizona ............. 7) nn 110
A new wasp from Colorado .............. nn 32
Schima gloriosa 2. os. 0 oe. od es a 2 38

Suggestions for the Bibliographical Dictionary of Ento-
molopists:. .. .. seine ges Sta ss 52 is ee 325

CocKERELL, W. P. An adventure while collecting bees
in ‘Guatemala ...50) 2250.25.05. --- 2 > ne 217

Crampton, G. C. Notes on the thoracic sclerites of wing-
ed insects

weaekls Peace buee tes lets 15
CrawForp, D. L. A recently described Psyllid from East
Africa; ... S022 2100. 29R eee 3s ee 62
Cresson, EF. T., Jz. “Daddy-long-legs?” -. 22.27 38
Do house flies‘ hibernate? .......%...... soe en 231
Descriptions of new genera and species of the Dipterous
family Ephydridae .’...............52 5s 241
Descriptions of new No. American Acalyptrate Diptera. 457
The male of Syringogaster brunnea from Peru ....... 26

More nomenclatorial notes on Trypetidae.............. 323-

SS

INDEX. Vv

eviews “Wytsman's Genera Insectorum ist. 2.23. 2... - 230
Some nomenclatorial notes on the Dipterous family Try-
Petes at ES SR t ah ctrl ssw hte fatal abdtiate’s'statatelelers By

Cresson, FE. T., Jr, and J. A. G. REHN. Entomological
Literature. (See under General Subjects.)
Crossy, C. R. The identity of two insects, each described

by Ashmead as Megastigmus flavipes .............. 27
Dopp, A. P. A new genus of Platygasteridae from Aus-

S82 io} NUR, et ae reggae ey ale > eae me aa 416

A new Proctotrypoid genus from Australia............ 120

A new Platygasterid genus with remarkable antennae. .455
A new Proctotrypoid egg-parasite from the West Indies. 350

Mew Proctotrypoidea from Australia’ :.....5....2..2% 251
DusHam, E. H. A method of injecting the tracheae of in-
VE CEE Ma acl id on ga nL Ab ney A Ne ae eer Peta 468
Eiuis, M. D. New American bees of the genus Halic-
MSN GES apd oye td ieee SIE oS ehin 2, Shaye avidin ee acebape re aie es. 5 OF, “E51
Emerton, J. H. Recent collections of spiders in New-
messi title aeiGlt Sea eaAGoe i950 ays,t ce ae ss a 93 2) os EL?
EVERMANN, B. W. A note on the abundance of the thistle
PALES, LYE OCIS: COROUL Fo hess feed ea bee aie sc wee 415
Eyer, J. R.& C.H. Menxe. Adelocephala bisecta ...... 156
FELT, E. P. Review: Kieffer’s Cecidomyiidae in the Gen-
ante SLCIS CCL OG TEDy ra aes areowitts to Me a ateeg Sots ws ee 3 ds 185
Peenary, tH 1: Parasites of the San Jose Scale........ 39
(See also Burgess & Fernald.)
PEANZEN, J. W. Minnesota butterflies” .....0..........- 363
eretee, .r.. lwo Colorado plant lice ..........5.... 269
GirAULT, A. A. Fragments on North American in-
NERS RIMM ei aet nx sie ele corte aed tee e ic: 180, 268, 283
Length of the pupal stage of Adalia bipunctata ........ 155
MMMMISECR A VINS COOS Tee T+ we santie o70 Povvig bo 6 0 50s eR
Remetpmesalene and fleas 0... 0223's pee geese tees he 130
A new Chalcidid genus and species of Hymenoptera
ee? ARVISth abla) ba un Gem amioeaan toe eRe. «wns 30
A new genus of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera of the family
Seeotyiudae from “Amtraliat fica... seam... 06. 396

A new Megastigmid from Queensland, Australia ...... 25

vi INDEX.

A new species of the remarkable Hymenopterous genus
Smicromorpha with correction of the generic descrip-

ION 25 aigsdh . «See EE: Scns! > whe re 461
Overwintered cocoons surviving forest fire ........... 148
Standards of the number of eggs laid by insects (Pert-

planeta australastaé) sa.% s+ 56s. :-+ >= -s en) een 296

Standards of the number of eggs laid by spiders III ... 66
Supposed diseased eggs of Thyridopteryx ephemerae-

formis and records of parasites ............. «ane 167

The twentieth Australian species of Elasmus.......... 32
Gopinc, F. W. Catalogue of the Membracidae of Uru-

Ch es ee ee 397

GREENE, G. M. Minutes of the Feldman Collecting So-
cial. (See under General Subjects.)
GRINNELL, F., Jr. An individual variation of Lorquin’s

Admiral, Liumenttis lorquinu ..............5 =n 462
Obituary: J. J. Rivers 3. ..:.........202 == 143

Hancock, J. L. Some corrections in names of So. Ameri-
can Tetrigindé . 2.000056 5 ests ose. tse 3 328

Haskin, J.R. Butterfly collecting in Mojave Co., Arizona. 300

HeBarD, M. (See J. A. G. REHN.)

HucuEnIn, J. C. Notes on Calligrapha sigmoidea ...... 419
Observations on an insectivorous larva .............. 327

HUNGERFORD, H. B. (See F. X. WILLIAMS.)

Jounson, C. W. Notes on inadequate locality labels ....123

Ketiocc, V. L. & S. Nakayama. Mallophaga of the Viz-

CAC 5... 5 «ose sh wm oie Bie soak ale od pecan er 193
Lenr, W. Critical Remarks on Seitz’ Macrolepidoptera
of the World. ......24.....25.% 55 seus e > 5 een 138
LeussLER, R. A. An improved method of caring for speci-
mens of butterflies on extended collecting trips ...... 202
LovELL, J. H. The origin of Oligotropism ....555250e 314
Why do honey bees discriminate against black? ....... 407

McDunnoucH, J. (See Barnes, W.)

MacGILuivray, A. D. & P. P. CALvErtT. Annual Meeting,
Entomological Society of America .. 4 a. 3eeee eee 469

Marv, F. & HaAnpiirscn, A. Third International Con-
gress of Entomoldgy.........,..«++ 6s5 a0 420

INDEX. vii

MALLocH, J. R. A new Borborid from Panama ....... 31
Pea einict teat Wiper... ses bee es a tere 072
Notes on North American Agromyzidae ............. 308

Maruatt, C. L. The alligator pear-weevil—a correction... 37
MENKE, C. H. (See Eyer, J. R.)

MutrkowskI1, R. A. Obituary: G. W. Peckham ...... 148
NAKAHARA, W. A new Dilar species from Japan ....... 297
NAKAYAMA, S. (See V. L. KELLoae.)

ReEuN, J. A. G. & M. Heparp. On the Blatta aegyptiaca

RV ee rn 6 Soa oyseel Sins wie Wie a 2% Sp baol Reed al & 121
Guthe genus Phoctaha of authors?+: 4.222.020 onset o. 216
A new species of true katydid from Western Texas ...292

IPGEERTSON, (Com A new IMelissedes -Fosjt4 oss sicgtss ee ae 373

minim of Cheotrapy Of WEES): i a28 «wa nese carslomerek 67
Rouwer, S. A. The Nearctic species of the Hymenop-

FETOUS, CEMUSA SMP NAIOA L.y Rota saa ade t Suh. oS ered A 168

Row.ey, R. R. & Berry, L. 1913 as a Catocala year... .157
ScHMALTz, R. Mantis religiosa in Rochester, New York,

BUEN er Potetan se tues. he, Sedye aia aye aucdeio a digs ene a aes 178
ScHroers, P. A. Preliminary list of Heterocera captured
i and acgaundy ot. (Louise Mo. i220 sade cd sci he. 59
Simms, H. M. Euptoieta claudia at Montreal ......... 10g
An aberration of Pyramets huntera: 262.5. -63 <5... 33
SEINNER, H. Ambulyx strigilts.in Florida .....:...... 229
Callosamia promethea and angulifera .............4.. 468
Colas euryiheme: and its varieties 2c sje... . 20. sls se 325

Minutes of the American Entomological Society. (See
under General Subjects.)

Minutes of the Entomological Section of the Academy
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (See under Gen-
eral Subjects.)

penote on Argynms lourentt .20.ts Deviate cba ss 324
Notes on Lycaena xerces, antiacis, polyphemus ....... 326
Cimtuary: Dr. J. Brackenridge Clemens). 22. +. ...... 289
eacuary: Eiri. Wyman. os oy. et tae. sa a kd 335
ae Writitie’ WIStOTYy iastiai Mamens ee eee wack S hc 129
meirasites Gf the. SalvijOse; Semel nats ues «sa vn ade 39

Review: Legros’s Fabre, Poet of Science ............ 81

viii INDEX.

Review: Oberthiir’s Etudes Lepidoptérologie Com-

Pare -\.).c lye! .:. IR ere RI es se Pls oe ne 47, 379
Review: Patton & Cragg’s Text-book of Medical Ento-

mology j.28 . 02.0 eee es os oo oo se 333
Review: Pierce’s The Genitalia of the Geometridae of

the British Islands «72. ¢2202 20% «|... 476
Sariitation' in! Vera Cruz; Mexico 35>.) ...: aoe eee 417

(See also E. M. Swainson.)
Swainson, E. M. & H. SKINNER. The larva of Papilio

homeruss 2 ips edie cites see) see es 1 ee 348

DE LA TORRE BUENO, J. R. The collection of the late G. W.
Kirkaldy oo }224.'. oS teas BE RD 418
British -Guiana: Heteroptera’ ¢...2.°.0).....: eee 257

European Heteroptera alleged to occur in the U. S. ...230
TOWNSEND, C. H. T. Human case of Verruga directly

traceable to Phiebotomus verrucarum ........++.+0+ 40
Sequelae of human verruga case traceable to Phleboto-
MUS VETFUCOTUM Li kes jee oes sb es oe 131
Species limits in the genus Luctha .........:..00.—— III
The species-status and the species-concept ............ 9
Van Duzere, M. C. New species of North American Do-
hchopodidae: 5 F 0. UU oe 2 Oe 404, 433
VestaL, A.G. Notes on habitats of grasshoppers at Doug-
las Lake Mich. 2255..32% Doig tae vio vee 105
Welss, H. B. Insects found on Nursery stock imported
into New. Jersey during 1913 ........... 4/0 392

Some facts about the egg nest of Paratenodera sinensis .279
WILLIAMS, F. X. & H. B. HUNGERForRD. Notes on Coleop-

tera *‘from*Western Kansdas!).). >). [2.00 s I
WiILLiAMs, R. C. One hundred butterflies from the Jamez
Mountains, New Mexico .|.......1...3). 12 dew 263
WiLiiAMsoNn, E. B. Dragonflies collected in Texas and
ORlahoma. v5. fs - SM OR 411, 444
Gomphus pallidus and two new related species ........ 49
September dragonflies about Mesa, Arizona .......... 225
Sympetrum obtrusum and costiferum in Maine ....... 456
Witson, H. F. A new sugar cane aphis*..72. (eee 298

ZiMMER, J. T. Cimex pipistrelli in North America ..... 418

INDEX. ix

GENERAL SUBJECTS.
Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia (see Ento-
mological Section).

Aids to Scientific Work .... 372
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
and Affiliated Societies,
Papers presented at the
Atlanta Meeting ™......... 92
American Entomological So-
erety,. Minutes 2..-..... 188, 427
Bibliographical Dictionary of
Entomologists ......... 227.5 325
Carnegie Museum, Pitts-
burgh, Entom. Additions
BD Re ee So yl arce cickecd oaks 460
Comstock Memorial Library
AES ohare cee otic ee a tie Gs 321

Convocation Week Meetings 92
Discrimination against black 407
Disease in the Army in Mexi-

co, Prevention of Insect-
OLMEH CF odin e tae ects ne ears 283
Economic Entomologists, An-
nual Meeting, American
NSSOCIAMONGOL, 25:0 sesle eis s 470

Editorials, 34, 74, 120, 170, 227,
283, 322, 372, 417, 467.
Entomological Society of

SET sore seen et) caters 469, 470
Entomological Meetings, 467, 469,
470.

Entomological Section of the
Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 141, 477
Entomologist’s Monthly Mag-

aoe, Jubilee... .h55 te 325
la 4. Ga ee eee 480
Ethics of publication ........ 179
Eye-size and habits ......... 479

Fabre, Proposed Monument to 321
Feldman Collecting Social, 88, 237,
334, 429.

France, Entomological Society

ORGY sc hon Medee senonkcekoteenete ecto.
Guatemala, Adventure in ....
Hagen, Scattered Writings of

DRE ET AC ae aici 2 poner 262
Honorary Fellows of the

Lonsom society 7... = 351+ 120
Influence of insects on civili-

Z AITO AN me sie ois xe tet ache 74
Injecting the tracheae of in-

Ce he La as 468
Insect-borne Diseases in the

Army in Mexico, Preven-

RTC) hiteeys stsere tanto e eens ah ecae 283

Insects affecting mammals, 193, 418

Insects found on Nursery
Stock imported into New
Jersey during 1913

International Congress of En-
tomology, Third 420

Literature, Entomological, 41, 75,
134, 180, 231, 284, 320, 373, 421,
472.

Ci eC as

Locality labels, Inadequate .. 123
Mammals and Insects ...193, 418
Napthaline and Fleas ........ 130
Number of eggs laid by in-
SECESWe re ee oe occ Sine ees 2096
Oligotropism, Origin of...67, 314

Pacific Coast Entomological
WORIRbyg Eee... {dirs eve eees 380
Photographs received ....... 37

Quarter Century of the News 467
Sanitation in Vera Cruz,
MCKIE Gi ee ieye srs Sat oaths sae
Side lights on Entomology .. 229
Species-status and _ Species-
concept
Summer work on Lake Erie 231
Theses on Entomology in
American Universities in
IQI4
Thoracic sclerites of winged
gasects, (plditd oo. nt 35% 15

x

Verruga traceable to Phle-
HOLGNIUS , Lie eee ee 40, 131

What is a-Species#.. .. ceaee 322

Zoological Nomenclature, In-
ternational Commission on 371

OBITUARY NOTICES.
Chun, C.

53. ee Ae ee 335
Clemens; J) BGillsssse) 289
Desbrochers des Loges, J. ... 48
Pachs, (C03) YOSser 384
ul a oN een oe 432
Grossbeck, ij: HAs aus 2 oe 288
Planers s Ali (agen ose 240
TADS: ck Alas: eg ALE 288
Toying) SEF a epee eed 335
Moestt; Sho, oS yeee ee 335
Olivier, “tiarseecs Oe eon 1 240
Pagenstecher Act. ee 144
Peckham, G. W. (illus.) ...96, 145
Popenog, "Ei Aeme o* Ate 240
Reuter; “OM Mii 06 EN Ge a 48
Rivers... jae. ee 143
Saunders, We 2. * i ae 480
Welles, "(iS creer 24'S ae 192
PERSONALS.
Barher, “gst Mo. eae 292
Comstock: (J. ee 7.) ees 321
Cressans i) ives 2 190, 201
Créssony 1 OB ais): are 201
DolleyaiW teen: ... eee 419
Essig ie OR Paes < e 349
Bracket) SSB rae C5. Cee 419
Glaser RaW ess bod ae 419
Handlirschyinw © :. ae) en 371
Melander acts ..e SS 419
Pattie, 6 aitason . 23 )o8 here 419
Quayle ied vo), Yk ee 292
Restei7O.. We .28. Lee 65
ochiize, tee: ion, iced 371

Semenoff Tian-Shanski, A. P. 120
Skinner, H. 110

INDEX.

pinith, R. AG oan. See 419
Townsend; C:nH. rt. 2. aa 349
Wallace; “Ay Reo series, J: eee 34, 65
Wenzel, H.W.) 5302: Laveen 29

PLANTS ATTACKED
VISITED.
Plants affected by Insects ...

OR

ACAMNOS icn.c. ss ee ee ee 309
Alligator pear <.......- cee 37
Aspleniim ..... 200s 12 ae 311
Aster 2 eA. coses oe 104, I17
Bid@nsS «vec one. oes eee 319
Bigelovut, ~. oa. .\scee 301, 307, 320
Boltonia. ...::...<.00s eee 69
Camptosorus .....+--2s5eeee 311
(O71 Is oc - 73
Chimarrhis .....:...9-seeeee 349
Clementsia | 3. ..%5422 02020 466
Cleomé ... 2.222320 062s n eee 31g
CHACUS 5.3... > ee 69
Coffee-tree (see Gymnocladus)
Coreopsis .....:. 12h eee 69
Croton: 202.5... 0340 158
Dandelion (see Taraxacum)
Datura 2 .00s05se ve eRe 152
(8 de) RR) S55 II5
Elymus ....... 25> cee eee ITS
Erigeron ...:. 0c... eee 117
Eryngium ........0s0eeeeeee 402
Fern (see Camptosorus, Asplen-
ium)
Ficus .. ch oes Tee 64
Fig (see Ficus)
Fraseva —..22532.95: | oe 99
Gall-berry (see Ilex)
Gledttischia: 2.0. 2...2 eee 156
Guiterrena ..::2¢.. eee 320
Gymnocladus .... ccs eee 156
Hehanthus..J..02.5238 69, 153, 319
Heracleum .....2.5.03ee 99
Fiabiscus |: 2... cae 71, 349
Mackory | 22.40. eee 430

Honey locust (see Gleditschia).

VNGG2 ) at ERAT et BOLO E
HOY FUT) ERO OOF 0 ORE
Lepidospartum ..........: oe os.
Mahoe (see Hibiscus).
NROMOT GG scaalanicic «ctoitee eis 5:2 «2
Moosewood (see Dirca).

IN AG) Ts BOBS. 108 Oe Doe
Oak (see Quercus).
QEAMTREFG 5 oo dee ts aslo’ sos
Orpine (see Clementsia).
AMES Yard a a5 olay ste apelin eS > 5 cisin we
IPELQNOSTEANOMW See tais ss. 05 Soi00s
(bitin ee teec eee oir ss aero

PO DUUS © stood ctatatste Wa eitts GRO ae
[2X Oe) 1 a Aces os REAL Oe OO
PU SOT. = stata savers ois. > avayeitre
OUETEUS 2x don Sorte hoe heats
SOCCHOTUM. J2h. cactenst stains
0] (i ea TA eA eE pac Re 73)
SMB oo eratela 5 oetuersie «oe Shae
MOHGAGOS say: -acele en son |99,
OPAC = ie ate ce opera ea havens
Strophostyles. oc as ws snes a3
SIN GUNME. ncn) eas Sati ah
TOVALOCHMNE a: oe Sto eae oak
PEC DONG ea eek ere eek) oe sr0rs
AAG TIA be CE EOE
VCH OEM ar oe owl a et ete toes
LTR 1 arms MSC AOR Oe
PRD OT OUND Ee ee cls servo aes
Vareinia creeper a .-.2- ate.
Wild rye (see Elymus).
Willow (see Salix).

REVIEWS.
Adams: Guide to the Study
of Animal Ecology .......
Braun: Evolution of the Col-
or Pattern in the Micro-
lepidopterous Genus Litho-
BOWES - <3 sti cs nea
Keiffer: Genera Insectorum,
Cecidomylidae »...6,6agee5<

INDEX. xi

114

104

82

236

185

Legros: Fabre, Poet of Sci-
CHCOM Ie oe acts eee es ore hee 81
Oberthir: Etudes Lepidop-
terologie Comparée .....47, 379
Patton & Cragg: A Textbook
of Medical Entomology... 333
Picado: Les Bromeliacées
Epiphytes Considerées
comme Milieu Biologique. 87
Pierce: The Genitalia of the
Group Geometridae of the
Lepidoptera of the British

islands. st Sexe. rtie creo 476
Seitz: Macrolepidoptera of
(dave Word Gl cas Geceacceen Ee 138

Shelford: Animal Communi-
ties in Temperate America 82

Williston: Water Reptiles of
the: Past-and Present..... 477

Wytsman: Genera Insectorum 236

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRI-
BUTION.

Arizona: Col., 432; Hem., 110;
Hym., 103; Lep., 28, 300; Odon.,
225.

California: -Col.,.381, 382,383;
384; Dipt., 383, 457, 458; Hem.,
222 > Etytii., 154, 362; Lep.,. 327,
380," 381, 415, 419, 462.

Canada: Dipt., 440; Lep., 33, 109.

Colorado: Arac., 466; Hem., 269;
Flvinteees2,) 07, 171.

Connecticut: Dipt., 230.

Dela anew © Oly caves as ees 432

District of Columbia: Hym., 172.

Florida: Dipt., 439; Lep., 220, 477;
Odon., 53, 454; Orth., 189, 191.

Georgia: Dipt., 405, 436, 460;
Odoii., 53.

Illinois: Dipt., 310, 459; Odon.,

54.
EMO a se CIGRMG oy <pcus wadinns 53
INEITEAIOE® Cail. Sar pee rer I

xii INDEX.

Kentucky: Lep., 116; Odon.. 54 480; Neu., 149; Odon., 348, 428,

abrador:: iAirae: AA 3: cere 117 478, 479.

Louisiana) Elem: see: ee 53, 208 | East Indies: Arac. ......... 385

Maine: (Odon: -ee-pace «cece 456 | Jamaica: Hym., 100; Lep... 348

Maryland: Col, 268, 382; “Dipt, | Japan) Neu. ....:s055:~-een 207
128, 208; Hym:, 283; Lep., 180, | Porte Rico Hym: aco: 155, 350

283; Neu., 268.

Massachusetts: Odon. ...... 54
Michioane (Orth re see. 105
Minnesota: “Lepie era -seern- 363
Missouri: Lep., 59; Odon... 54
Montanate Weps aucecreser <i 477
Nebraskalesblem aero 5. er 418
Newfoundland: Arac. ...... 1a)

New Jersey: Col., 89, 91, 237, 334,
430, 432; Dipt., 90, 174, 430, 441,
2, 443; Odon., 238.
New Mexico: Col., 238; Dipt.,
173; ym, 104, 151; Lep:, 263:
New York: Dipt., 128, 311, 434,
435, 437; Orth., 178, 238.

Ohion eps seek cee ee 114
North Carolina: Dipt. ...... 404
Oklahoma: Odon. ...54, 411, 444
Oreconew hi yimseeeacceee eee 170

Pennsylvania: Col., 89, 90, 237,
238, 334, 335, 430, 431, 432; Dipt.,
88, 90, 141, 175, 238, 309, 427,
429, 430, 431; Hym., 432; Lep.,

90, 91, 431, 468; Odon., 52, I4I. |

Tennessee: -Odon J.-...: 54, 453

Texas: (ol ssn oy... Teer
Odon., 54, 411, 444; Orth., 203.

Virginia: Col., 89; Dipt., 405, 438;
Hym., 89; Orth., 463.

Washinstomeaibiyim. ... 0.25. 170
Wyominge: Dipteees. once. 458
AStricaets Nei opeiitets oci<cice noice 62

Australias “Hyms, 25, 30, 32, 126;
251, 396, 416, 455, 461; Orth.,
206.

Central America: Col., 141, 478;
Dipt., 31, 244; Hym., 102; Lep.,

South America: Dipt., 40, 205,
243, 351; Hem., 257, 397; Hym.,
119; Mall., 106.

ARACHNIDA.
Eggs laid by spiders ....... 66
geniculatus, Uloborous ...... 66
Mite gall on Clementsia .... 46€
rhodiolae, Eriophyes ........ 466
Spider swathing mice ...... 230

Spiders, Standards of the
number of eggs laid by .. 66
Swathing of mice by a spider 230

COLEOPTERA.

Adalia (see bipunctata).

Alligator pear weevil (see
Heilipus lauri).

Amblychila cylindriformas,
Larval burrows and Feed-
ing habits (illus.) ..- 22s ASS

Antenna-cleaners ........ 141, 142

apicalis, Asphaera .......... 284

Asphaera (see apicalis, mar-
ginata, vartabilis).

bipunctata, Adaha .....seen 155

bivulnerus, Chilocorus ....... 268

Calligrapha (see sigmoidea).

Chilocorus (see bivulnerus).

cylindriformis, Amblychila .. 2

Dendroctonus (see montico-
lae).

Forest insect depredations in
the Hetch Hetchy watershed
of the Yosemite National
Park |. o.3...4000. 00 132

gigantea, Hormia (illus.) .... 1

Heilipus (see lauri).

Hornia (see gigantea).

INDEX. xiii
Horns of Scarabaeidae, Func- Bibliography of D.........:. 104

ELON SO E4 si ai sho) sie. ears uh eas ee ers 478 | bispinosa*, Pseudostenophora. 173
laure, Pheilipus x... Sete s - 37 |' borealis, Agromyza .......-. 311
marginata, Asphaera ........ 284 | brunnea, Syringogaster (il-
monticolae, Dendroctonus 133 HTS?) ire See» ata kei rstakeint = sote bier oe 26
Nephrica (see marginata (As- Calobata (see nasont).

phaera) ). calverti*, Philygria (illus.) . 247
Pachyteles (see seriatoporus). campa*, Tipula (illus.) ...... 358
Phytophaga, Corrections in.. 284 | carbona*, Tetanops ......... 458
Post pupal development in Garphotrtcha) <<. . i254 «2552532 3% 323

Chilocorus bivulnerus ...... 268 | Cerometopum* (see mosilloi-
Pupal stage of Adalia li- des).

PUNUEGTAE SS SEs 5s bes 155 | chrysoptera, Eriocera (illus.). 214
seriatoporus, Pachyteles 141 | Coelopa (see vanduzeet).
sigmoidea, Calligrapha ...... 419 | conspersa, Limnophila ....... 213
variabilis, Asphaera ......... 284 | consularis, Pachyrrhina ..... 362

cordillerensis, Epiphragma ... 213

DIPTERA. cressoni*, Hydrotaea ....... 172

abnormis*, Lecteria (illus)... 211 | Culicid pupa out of water ... 268
abortiva*; Tipula 22.02... 00s 358 | curinao*, Tipula (illus.) ..... 360
Acalyptrate D., New North Diptera at high altitudes .... 205

Amenteaniegee at nace «oe BAT HeAS 7 MH OStFTGH Ce norie <2 rages She eters oe 323
Agromyza (see borealis, dubit- divaricata*, Taeniaptera ..... 459

ata, felti, favonigra, fumt- Dolichopodidae, New species

costa, longispinosa, margin- On Be ae ey ec er te 404, 433

alis, melampyga, pleuralis, dorsalis*, Neurigona (illus.)

quadrisetosa, xanthophora, 434, 443

young). dubitata, Agromyza ........ 313
Agromyzidae, Notes on No. emarginatus*, Medeterus (il-

IAIN GICTh Iga Mleak ea SEeree 308 DISA) so eae ge ee 439, 443
amazonica, Microtipula ...... 362 | Ephydridae, New genera and
ambiguus*, Planinasus (illus.) 246 SPECIESMONe s 2 osiayaeeyeis sett ons 241
americanus, Systenus ....404, 443 | Epiphragma (see cordillerensis).
angulatus*, Paraclius (illus.) Eriocera (see chrysoptera,

436, 443 ohausiana, perdecora, sub-
annulipes, Erioptera ......... 205 lima).
Aphiochaeta (see submani- Erioptera (see annulipes).

cata). felte®, AGromyad. «0... nase. 310
apterogyne, Tipula .......... 358 | faviciliatus*, Gymnopternus
aymailloris, Lecteria.s.scccens 211 404, 443
Asyndetus (see harbecku). flavidus*, Molophilus (illus.). 205
aterrima*, Psychoda ......... 128 | flavipes*, Peloropeodes (illus.)
autumnalis*, Psychoda ...... 127 437, 443
basalis*, Philygria (illus.) ...246

Xiv
flavonigra, Agromyza ....... 311
Fleas, Napthalene and ...... 130
Poreilia:s: 522 cee 323
frontalis*, Thinophilus ..406, 443
fumicosta*, Agromyza ....... 310
Gastrops (see willistont).
girraulit,. Eucilig, 228 112
gladiator*, Tipula (illus.) .. 356
glabra, Mallochiella ......... 309
Gnophomyia (see luctuosa,
maestitia, pervicax).
granulosus*, Lytogaster ..... 249
guaranm*; Tipula 35. s:. 357
guatemalensis, Molophilus (il-
Tas) Fees: So es 207
Gymnopternus (see flavicilia-
tus).
halteralis, Mallochiella ...... 309
harbeckii*, Asyndetus (illus. )
442, 443
Hibernation of house flies .. 231
Holorusia (see flavicornis,
laevis, orophila, peruviana).
Hoplogasicy. (eee ee 323
House flies hibernate? Do... 231

Hungarian National Museum,
Neotropical Tipulidae in the
205, 351
Hydrotaea (see cressont).
illudens*, Rhabdomastix (il-
lus.)
infuscata, Lucilia 112
kerteszi,* Limnophila (illus.). 212
laevis*, Holorusia (illus.).... 353
Lecteria (see abnormis, armil-
laris).
Leptocera (see subpiligera).
Leucostola (see terminalis).
Limnophila (see conspersa,
kerteszi).
Limosina (see also Leptocera).
lobatus*, Medeterus (illus. )
441, 443
310

longispinosa, Agromyza

ee eee

INDEX.

Lucilia (see giraulti, infus-
cata, morrilli, terraenovae).

luctuosa, Gnophomyia ....... 207
Lytogaster (see granulosus,
pallipes).
Macromastix (see pygmaea).
maestitia*, Gnophomyia (il-
TiS) ME ees... Saree 208
Malaria investigations, Tech-
nical assistant in’ Us sic meee 128
Mallochiella (see glabra, hal-
teralis).
marginalis, Agromysa melam-
PV GOA yi. mieten % 1s wishes = -domeneteeee 311

Medeterus (see emarginatus,
lobatus, modestus).

melampyga, Agromyza ...... 311
Mesocyphona (see also Enri-
optera).
Microtipula (see amazonica).
modestus*, Medeterus ...440, 443
Molophilus (see flavidus, gua-
temalensis, sagittarius, tau-
rus).
morrili, Lucilia ........s.«- 112
mosilloides*, Cerometopum
(alas... shes: ot Se 242
nasoni*, Calobata ..........% 459
nemorosa*, Psilephydra (il-
1S.) 2.25 .checkkee eee 244
Neotropical Tipulidae ....... 351
Neurigona (see dorsalis, mi-
gricornis) .
New American D?...2.22eeee 172
nigricornis*, Neurigona (il-
IS.) .coa ste sees 433, 443
Nomenclatorial notes on Tip-
tilidae: ». 2) 22s pate ee 275, 323
oblique-fasciata, Tipula ...... 358
occulta*, Sigmatomera (il-
lus.) 2.2... 0 3: one Se 209
ohausiana, Eriocera ......... 215
Oplochaeta: ......... 23550 ee 323
orophila*, Holorusia 354

ovatus*, Paraclius (illus.)

436,
Pachyrrhina (see consularis).
pacifica*, Sepedon ..........
pallipes*, Lytogaster ........
pallipes*, Sphaerocera ......
2 AUR T Oe e 277.

Paraclius (see angulatus, ova-
tus).
Paraspinophora (see pennsyl-
vanica).
Peloropeodes (see flavipes).
pennsylvanica*, Paraspino-
LL ane a a rr
perdecora*, Eriocera (illus.)
peruviana*, Holorusia
pervicax*, Gnophomyia (il-
Df ROL he
Philygria (see basalis, calver-
ti).
Phlebotomus
um).
MW elas!) es a
piro*, Tipula ‘(illus.) .......
Planinasus* (see ambiguus).
pleuralis*, Agromyza ........
Pseudostenophora (see bispin-
osa).
Psilephydra (see nemorosa).
Psilopiella* (see rutila).
Psychoda (see aterrima, au-
tumnalis).
pygmaea*, Macromastix. (il-
oo A ee
quadrisetosa, Agromyza .....
Rhabdomastix (see illudens).
rutila*, Psilopiella (illus.)
439,
Molophilus (il-

(see verrucar-

sagittarius*,
[0 RRS er a a
Sepedon (see pacifica).
Sigmatomera (see occulta).
Species limits in the genus
Lucilia

CC ee ee re)

INDEX.

443
457
248

31
323

175
213

Bib)

208

323
360

311

351
310

443

207

XV
Sphaerocera (see pallipes).
Spilagrapkha-=.2 yey hatecere- 323
sublima*, Eriocera (illus.) 214

submanicata*, Aphiochaeta .. 175
subpiligera*, Leptocera
Syringogaster (see brunnea).
Systenus (see americanus).
Taentaptera (see divaricata).
taurus*, Molophilus (illus.) .. 206

hs ae ep rer se ree 277
terminalis*, Leucostola ..405, 443
terraenovae, Lucila ......... 112
Tetanops (see carbona).
Thinophilus (see frontalis).
Tipula (see abortiva, apter-
ogyne, campa, curinao, glad-
lator, guarant, oblique-fas-
ciata, piro).
Tipulidae in the Hungarian
National Museum ....205, 351
LPR PONER Ain cce' ee 278
eppeta poet 15. ones 276
Trypetidae, Some nomencla-
torial sasotes Yom. 2.3.0: 275328
vanduzeet*, Coelopa ........ 457

verrucarum, Phlebotomus 40, 131

willistoni*, Gastrops ......... 250

xanthophora, Agromyza ..... 310

youngi*, Agromysa ......... 312
HEMIPTERA.

acaciae, Pyranthe ........5+: 401

Acutalis (see variabilis).

acutula, Cryptoptera ........ 401

Aphis (see bituberculata).
arechavaleta*, Phormophora. 400
Argante (see
tremolaris).
Asiphum (see pseudobyrsa).
bituberculata*, Aphis (illus). 298
brunnicornis, Ceresa 390
cavicormis, Ceresa ...........
Ceresa (see brunnicornis, cavi-
cornis, pauperata, uruguay-
ensis).

incumbens,

Xvi

Cimex (see pipistrelli).
ctiricola*, Coccus ...-2-+...-
clavigera, Cyphomia .........
Coccid infesting citrus trees
in’ California 4245..\..-2 seer
Coccus (see citricola).
Cryptoptera (see acutula).
Cyphonia (see clavigera).
Enchophyllum (see imbelle).
Enchenopa (see monoceros).
European Heteroptera in the
WieiSs occa eee 230,
gladiatum, Macrohomotoma..
imbelle, Enchophyllum
incumbens, Argante .........
Kirkaldy, Collection of the
lates GaWe woes are ee
latilinea, Stictopelia .........
limbata, Stictopelta
Macrohomotoma (see gladi-
atum, nyasae).
Membracidae of Uruguay...
morruli*, Palaeococcus ......
monoceros, Enchenopa
New Coccid from Arizona ...
nyasae, Macrohomotoma (il-
lus.)
Palaeococcus (see morrilli).
pauperata, Ceresa ...:.......
Phormophora (see arechaval-
eta).
Phyllaphis (see quercifoliae).
piptstrelli, Cimex ....-0 2.004%
Plant lice, Two Colorado ..
popult, Schizoneura .........
proxima, Smiliorhachis ......
pseudobyrsa, Asiphum (illus.)
Pyranthe (see acaciae).
quercifoliae*, Phyllaphis ....
San Jose Scale, Parasites of.

ee nee

wie e,0, 460.0 60d = = ce 0 Sia) te o

Smiliorhachis (see proxima).

Stictopelta (see latilinea, lim-
bata).
Sugar cane aphis

222

418

63
403
402

418
401
401

397
110

403
IIo
63

399

INDEX.

tremolaris*, Argante ........ 402
uruguayensis, Ceresa .......- 309
variabilis, Acutalis ......... 399
HYMENOPTERA.
abortus*, Torymus ......... 27
Adventure while collecting
bees in Guatemala ........ 217
agromyzae*, Sympha ........ 171
Anagrus (see spiritus).
An afit¢story ’.))/. 2. bee 129

Anteon (see coriaceus, giraul-
ti, parvulus, rufiscapus).

asteris*, Melissodes ......... 373
aureus*, Plastogryon ..-.-s 256
australicum*, Sparaison ..... 255

Baeoneura (see giraulti).
Baryconus (see exsertus, fas-
ciatus, fuscus, simplex).

belfraget, Sympha ........-- 169

Bethylid genus Mesitius in
So: America...;:<.25-2eeee 119

bicolor*, Telenomus ........ 251

cadaverosa*, Smicromorpha .. 461
Catolaccus (see thyridoptery-
gis).
Ceratoteleia
fuscus).
Chalcidoid H. of the family

Cleonymidae ....2.. Soeeeee 306
Chalcitelloides (see nigriscut-

um).

Cleonymidae from Australia,

A -genus "of 2... eee 396
cortaceus, Anteon .......-... 251
crassiceps*, Halictus
Cremastoscelis (see nigripes).
deceptor*, Halictus .23a.).ae 101
Dissolcoides (see flaviner-

UUs).
diversopunctatus*, Halictus .. 154
doddi*, Elasmus ....2ee- .se 32
Dryudella (see millsi).
Egg-parasite from the West

Indies

(see fasciatus,

—

INDEX.

Elasmus (see doddi).
Epicaudonia* (see scelestus).

cophilust, Halictus ......... 153
euryceps*, Halictus ......... 08
exsertus*, Baryconus ....... 254
fasciatus, Baryconus (Cerato-
MEM sods dee eens es os 254

flavinervus*, Dissolcoides .... 253

flavipes, Megastigmus ...... 27
flavus*, Phanurus ........... 350
flavus*, Spilomegastigmus .. 25
fuscus, Baryconus (Cerato-
REE) 4 8 Sirs € Seas oo, Lb voee.0:s 253
gtraulti*, Anteon ........... 251
giraulti, Baeoneura ......... 255
Ffalictus (see crassiceps, de-
ceptor, diversopunctatus,
eophilus, euryceps, jamai-
cae, microlepoides, pallidel-
lus, perparvus, proangularis,
sophops).
Honey-bees discriminate
ee aITISET Diack: siseemisn ss se 407
jamaicae*, Halictus ......... 100
MMécida*®, Sympha@ ....0.0c000. 16G
mariae, Smicra ..... 167, 283, 420
Megastigmid from Queens-
Big oe eee Se a 25
Megastigmus (see flavipes).
Melissodes (see asteris).
Mesitius (see neotropicus).
microlepoides*, Halictus .. 152
mallss®, Dryudella ........... 32
mirabilis*, Miramblyaspis .... 456
Miramblyaspis* (see mirabil-
is).
neotropicus*, Mesitius ....... 119
New American bees of the
genus Halictus ........ 97, I5I
niger*, Plastogryon ........ 257
nigriceps, Opisthacantha 255
nigricornis*, Sympha ....... 170
nigripes*, Cremastoscelis .... 256

XVil

nigriscutum*, Chalcitelloides.. 30

oenone*, Telenomus ........ 252

oeta*, Telenomus ....6...00- 252

Oligotropy of bees ....... 67, 314

Opisthacantha (see nigri-
ceps).

otho*, Telenomus .......600 252

pallidellus*, Halictus ........ I5I

Parasites of eggs of Thyri-
dopteryx ephemeraeformis.. 167

Parasites of the San Jose
SOWIE sis, aston Haves Seis oe 39
Paridris (see rufiventris).
parvulus, Anteon ...0........ 251
perniciost, Prospaltella ...... 30
perparvus*, Halictus ........ 102
Phanurus (see flavus).
planus*, Platytelenomus .... 126
Plastogryon (see aureus, nig-
er).
Platygasterid genus with re-
markable antennae ........ 455
Platygasteridae, A new genus
Olficrc te cee: cio oe eee 416
Platytelenomus (see planus).
portlandica*, Sympha ....... 170

proangularis*, Halictus ...... 155
Proctotrypid genus from Aus-

trahatwAMnewres ss. he yR ne 126
Proctotrypoid egg parasite .. 350
Proctotrypoidea from Aus-

traligs.s Mees dckcard Ages 251
Proctotrypoids with wings

folded upon emergence .... 180
Prospaltella (see perniciosi).
Remarkable antennae of a

new platygasterid genus .. 455
Remarkable hymenopterous

genus Smicromorpha, New

POCCIER GO. mata suns vis views 461
rufiscapus, Anteon .......... 251
rufiventris*, Paridris ........ 253
scelestus*, Epicaudomia ...... 306

XVili INDEX.

scutellaris*, Trichacoides ... 416 | cardui, Pyrameis ......1.0008 415
sericea, .SWmpuag 2.2.2 2eeeee- 171 | Caring for specimens of but-
simplex*, Baryconus ........ 254 terflies on extended collect-

Smicra (see mariae).
Smicromorpha (see cadaver-
Osa).
Sparaison (see australicum).
Spilomegastigmus (see flav-
us).
spirttus, Anagrus ..........+: 39
Sympha (see agromyzae, bel-
fragei, lucida, nigricornis,
portlandica, sericea).
Telenomus (see bicolor, oen-
one, oeta, otho).
thyridopterygis, Catolaccus .. 167
Torymus (see abortus).
Trichacoides* (see scutellar-

1s).
sophops*, Halictus .........- 97
LEPIDOPTERA.
Abundance of Pyrameis car-
DUDS EC oe eee 415

Acrocercops (see strigosa).
Acrolepia (see incertella).
Adelocephala (see bisecta).

aholibah, Catocala ........... 164
Ambulyx (see strigilis).

angulifera, Callosamia ...... 468
antiacts; EVCdend: 20 020i 326

Argynnis (see kriemhild, laur-
entt).

Argyresthia (see media).

Athi (GOMGS “Sus paeaaascoe 325
Attacus (see cecropia).

australis, Calephelis ........ 306
autumnalis, Colias ...... eegee
bachmanni, Libythea ........ 305

bisecta, Adelocephala (illus.) 156
Calephelis (see australis).
californiana, Colias ......... 325
californica, Synchloe ....... 303
Callosamia (see angulifera,
promethea).

INS CLIPS io, akegneien © ae ee 202
Gatocola in ‘1913 4¢s.5..25e 157
Catocala (see aholibah, resi-

dua, verecunda).
cecropia, AtiacUS oo. -eeeeee 148
Chrysophanids, Monograph of |

the” ois sees ee eee 209
claudia, Euptoieta ........... 109
Colias (see ariadne, autumnal-

is, californiana, eriphyle,

eurytheme, flava, flaves-

cens, hageni, intermedia,
keewaydin, philodice).

Collecting in Mojave Co.,
ATIZONA ..0hs.ccce eee 300
dircella*, Leucanthiza ....... II5
dispaceus, Heliothts ......... 327
dorsimaculella, Heribeia .... 114
Early stages of Catocala .... 164

Eggs of Thyridopteryx ephem-
eraeformis supposed to be
diseased © ...:.. 0... cee 167

Elachista (see praematurella).

Epargyreus (see tityrus).

ephemeraeformis, Thyridop-
LEVYS cakes seen ee 167
eriphyle, Colts) 7... eee 325
Euptoieta (see claudia).
eurytheme, Colias .......... 325
faunus, Grapta ..:.29aee oe 266
flava, Colas ..4.0s age ee 325
flavescens, Coltas .....0..... 325
florencia*, Lycaena ...%....3 28
Forest fire, Cocoons surviv-
ing? ods ae ee ee 148
garita, Thymelicus ......:... 266
gloriosa, Schintam. eee. ee 38

Gracilaria (see pennsylvaniel-
la).

Grapta (see faunus).

hagem, Colias \..¢eeeeee 325

halesus, Thecla 3. 0ceeee oe 306

INDEX.

Heliothis (see dispaceus).
Heribeia (see dorsimaculella,
incertella).

homerus, Papilio ...........- 348
huntera, Pyrameis .......... 33
immaculatus*, Pamphila 267

incertella, Acrolepia (Heri-
MIN hors | ones clove a ss + 114
Individual variation of Li-
menitis lorquinit .........- 462
Insectivorous larva .......... 327
intermedia, Colias .......... 325
REPINGIHOUS, ......2...5---- 308
keewaydin, Colias .......... 325
kriemhild, Argynnis ........ 324
laurenti, Argynnis .......... 823
MA CLIG. 2.2.2. <3. o>: 307
Lemonias (see mormo, pal-
meri).
Leucanthiza (see dircella).
Libythea (see bachmannt).
Limenitis (see lorquinit).
lorquinii, Limenitis .......... 462

Lorquin’s admiral, Variation
Di. 2 Pe SR OE aererece
Lycaena (see antiacis, floren-
cia, polyphemus, xerces).
margarita, Pamphila
media*, Argyresthia
Melitaea (see
sinefascia).
mormo, Lemonias
Nathalis (see iole).
neumoegeni, Melitaea
palmeri, Lemonias
Pamphila (see
margarita,
gatet).
Papilio (see homerus).
Parectopa (see pennsylvaniel-
la).
pennsylvaniella,
Cen cavid) a vive ionesvuds
persius, Thanaos
philodice, Colias

ee eee eee

Amn a see wie

neumoegent,

immaculatus,
vestris, wood-

Parectopa

117
268

325

ee ee

xix
Pieris (see rapae).
polyphemus, Lycaena .....--- 326
praematurella, Elachista ..... 114

promethea, Callosamia ..180, 468
Pyrameis (see cardui, hun-
tera).

TaPGC; FAAS: Sic. 25h ae nee 189
PEGE OCHA: & orseccaniatestieinne orl 38
residua, Catocala ..........-- 166
sanguinea, Schinia ........-- 38

Satyrus (see silvestris).
Schinia (see gloriosa, regia,
sanguinea).

silvestris, SQtyfUs .....0.5+5+ 266
sinefascia*, Melitaea fulvia .. 265
strigilis, Ambulyx ......-+..-- 229
strigosa*, Acrocercops .....-- 116
Synchloe (see californica).
Thanaos (see persius).
Thecla (see leda).
Thymelicus (see garita).
Thyridopteryx | (see . ephem-
eracformis).
Tineina, Notes on No. Am-
CRIGATIM PRs an a islets sucks ators 113
tityrus, Epargyreus ......... 283
verecunda, Catocala faustina. 165
vestris, Pamphila ........... 267
woodgatei*, Pamphila ...... 266
werces, LyCAend ........++++- 326
MALLOPHAGA.
alpinus*, Gyropus (illus.) 196
breviceps, Trichodectes ...... 201
echinoderma, Trimenopon ... 195
Gyropus (see alpinus).
jenningsi, Menopon ........- 195
Mallophaga of the Vizcacha . 103
parumpilosus, Trichodectes .. 201

Philandesia* (see townsendt).
townsendi*, Philandesia (il-
iG.) seen tee. we 0% vile os
Trichodectes. (see breviceps,
parumpilosus).
Trimenopon (see
derma, jennings).

echino-

XX INDEX.

MYRIOPODA.
barbouri*, Otostigmus (illus.) 386
brevilabiatus, Orphnaeus .... 391
Chilopods from the East In-

iS ae cies = ere 385
cribrifer, Ethmostigmus ..... 389
dehaani, Scolopendra subspin-

ED OS née nite ahei emo Orie weer’. 9 390
Ethmostigmus (see rubripes,

cribrifer).
gracillima, Scolopendra ..... 390

immarginata, Trematophychus 389
indiae*, Trachycormocephalus
Cilltts: 2c :esbsee eee nee 390
longipes, Trematophychus ... 389
malayanus*, Otostigmus (il-
Luss) alee aceacne ees ate ee 387
Mecistocephalus (see puncti-
frons).
melanostomus, Otocryptops.. 385
moluccanus,* Otostigmus (il-

lus.) @ o96' 3 0 6 ie wme os @aeneee éd@eae 388
morsitans, Scolopendra ..... 389
nemorensis, Otostigmus ..... 386

Orphnaeus (see brevilabiatus).

Otocryptops (see melanosto-
mus).

Otostigmus (see _ barbouri,
malayanus, moluccanus, ne-
morensis, punctiventer).

punctifrons, Mecistocephalus. 391

punctiventer, Otostigmus .... 385

rubripes, Ethmostigmus ..... 389

Scolopendra (see dehaam, gra-
cillima, morsitans, subspin-
ipes).

subspinipes, Scolopendra .... 390

Trachycormocephalus (see in-
diae).

Trematophychus (see immar-
ginata, longipes).

NEUROPTERA (excl. Mallophaga
and Odonata).

Ant lion without food ...... 268

calverti*, Leucochrysa ....... 150

Chrysopa (see effusa).
Colobopterus (see trivialis).
Dilar (see nohirae).

Husa, Chrysopa neds. s. oe oe 150
Leucochrysa (see calverti).
nohirde*, Dilar ......+.e0e0 207
trivialis, Colobopterus .....4+- 149
ODONATA.

aaroni, Neoneura .......0000% 446
agrioides,: Agia ...e.«sseere 444
allopterum, Anisagrion ..... 478
Anisagrion (see allopterum).
annulata, Macromia ......... 449

Argia (see agrioides).
Argia, Distribution of Texan

SPECIES: 2.24... -0es. 444
berenice, Erythrodiplax ..... 451
Brachymesia (see gravida).
Color changes with age ..... 478
consanguis, Gomphus (illus.) 447
cophysa, Tramed ....0.s9008 453
costiferum, Sympetrum ...... 456
Dimorphism in Odonata, Pos-

siblé:male ....<.:+<ceeeeeee 337
Dragon flies collected in Tex-

as and Oklahoma ...... All, 444

Erythrodiplax (see berenice).
Gomphine exuvia from Tex-
QS) sees vibla: 0 bie ors 60 ake eters ene 454
Gomphus (see consanguis,
graslinellus, pallidus, subap-
icalis, submedianus, villo-

sipes).
graslinellus, Gomphus ....... 447
gravida, Brachymesia ...... 452
incesta, Libellula ........«.-. 450
inopinata, Thaumatoneura Cil-
1s.) ...s estes erence 338, 346

Lepthemis (see vesiculosa).
Libellula (see incesta, vibrans).
Macromia (see annulata).
Neoneura (see aaroni).
obtrusum, Sympetrum ...... 456
onusta, Tramead ..s<sneumes «= 454
pallidus, Gomphus (illus.) .. 49

—

INDEX.

pellucida, Thaumatoneura (il-

FS Nae ie eR IIRC c 338, 345
Perithemis (see tenera).
saturata, Libellula .........+. 226

September dragonflies about
Mesa (Ariz0ndes few ds cts os 225

subapicalis*, Gomphus (illus.) 54

submedianus*, Gomphus (il-

METS eo Pikes ea Voto eer ee: 2s 54
Sympetrum (see costiferum,
obtrusum).
tenera, Perithemts .......... 450
Thaumatoneura (see inopin-
ata, pellucida).
Tramea (see cophysa, onus-
ta).
vesiculosa, Lepthemis ....... 452
wmbrans, Tibellula ........... 450
villosipes, Gomphus (illus.) . 52
Waterfall dwellers ......:.. 337
ORTHOPTERA.
abbreviatus, Sclerotettix 328
aegyptiaca, Blatta ........... 121
allardi, Xiphidion ........... 464
Amblycorypha (see oblongi-
folia, rotundifolia, uhleri).
angustipennis, Melanoplus ... 108
apicale, Apteropedon ........ 328
Apteropedon* (see apicale).
Arphia (see pseudonietana).
atlanis, Melanoplus .......... 107
australasiae, Periplaneta 206
bivittatus, Melanoplus ...... 108
Blatta (see aegyptiaca, drur-
yt).
bolli, Spharagemon ......... 106 |
Camnula (see pellucida).
carolina, Dissostetra .......- 106

Chloealtis (see conspersa).
Circotettix (see verruculatus).
circumvagans, Wattenwyliella 217
Conocephalus (see exiliscan-
ornus, robustus).
conspersa, Chloealtis

xxi
curtipennis, Stenobothrus ... 105
differentialis, Melanoplus 108
Dissosteira (see carolina).
dvurys, Blatia |... 00 ssaiess es 121

Egg nest of Paratenodera sin-

PUSS Sees oa SPOOR REO
ERNCHAGIDRE®. Cede ieee 328
excelsa*, Pterophylla (illus.). 293
exiliscanornus, Conocephalus. 463

fasciatum, Xiphidion ........ 464
fasciatus, Melanoplus ....... 107
femur-rubrum, Melanoplus .. 108
furcata, Scudderia .......... 466
Gladiotettix (see hancocki,
turgidus, unicristata).
Habits of grasshoppers ..... 105
ISM RT OWEG BP oA AGO nOAt 328
hancocki, Gladiotettix ....... 328
Hippiscus (see tuberculatus).
infuscatus, Sclerotettix ...... 328
tslandicus, Melanoplus ....... 107
Katydid from Western Texas 293
laevigata, Nauphoeta ....... 216
laevigata, Nyctibora ......... 123
Laying eggs, A locustid ...... 321
limbata, Nyctibora .......... 121
NOVELL TNS Solos ores Ree oe 328
Ocustmsthidilations. s.oeensse 463
IGOPISOT CBee sorters SR oars 328
luridus, Melanoplus ......... 108
Mantis (see religiosa).
marmorata, Scirtetica ....... 107
Melanoplus (see angustipen-
nis, atlanis, bivittatus, differ-
entialis, fasciatus, femur-
rubrum, islandicus, luridus,
minor).
Microcentrum (see rhombifo-
lium).
minor, Melanoflus .......... 108
minor, Sclerotettix .......... 328
molossum, Orchelimum ..... 464
nemorale, Xiphidion ......... 404

Nyctibora (see laevigata, lim-
bata, sericea).

xxii

Nymphal pronotum, Reten-
tion of

oblongifolia, Amblycorypha..

Orchelimum (see molossum,
vulgare).
pallida, Wattenwyliella ...... 216 |
Paratenodera (see sinensis).
pellucida, Camnula .......... 106

Periplaneta (see australasiae).

Phoetalia of authors ........ 216
Podisma (see variegata).
Preteens ee 328
pseudonietana, Arphia ...... 106
Pterophylla (see excelsa). |
religiosa, Mantis ............ 178 |

rhombifolium, Microcentrum. 465 |
robustus, Conocephalus 463 |
rotundifolia, Amblycorypha... 466
Rytinatettix
Scirtetica (see marmorata).
Sclerotettix* (see abbreviatus,
infuscatus, minor).
Scudderia (see furcata, tex-
ensis) .

INDEX.

sericea, Nyctitera ..-..+.--- 123
sinensis, Paratenodera ...... 279
Spharagemon (see bollt).
Stenobothrus (see curtipen-

nis).
strictum, Xiphidion ......... 463
Stridulation of locusts ...... 463
Tetriginae, Some corrections

{1 TADIES OL. «a8 nie eee 328
texensis, Scudderia ......... 466
Trap tor O: .... tee eee 479
tuberculatus, Hippiscus ..... 106
turgidus, Gladiotettix ....... 328
uhleri, Amblycorypha ....... 466
unicristata, Gladtotettix ..... 328
variegata, Podisma glactalis .. 107
verruculatus, Circotettix .... 107
vulgare, Orchelimum ........ 464
Wattenwyliella (see pallida,

circumvagans).

Xiphidion (see allardi, fascia-
tum, nemorale, strictum).

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desired. The regular dimensions, SusaIes; are 9x 13x23 in. deep, but can be furnished
any size.

WOOD INSECT BOX.—We do not assert that this wooden box has all the quali-
ties of the metal box, especially in regard to safety from smoke, fire, water and damp-
ness, but the chemically prepared material fastened to the under edge of the lid makes

_ a box, we think, superior to any other wood insect box. The bottom is cork lined.

Outside varnished. For catalogue and prices inquire of

“BROCK BROS., Harvard Square, Cambridge. Mass.

WARDS NATURAL OGIENGE ESTABLISHMENT

84-102 COLLEGE AVENUE
ROCHESTER. N. Y.

Having purchased the entire‘stock and trade of the American Entomo-

- logical Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., we are in a position to furnish entomological

specimens of all kinds.

LIFE HISTORIES OF INSECTS of Economic Importance.—We

supply all other dealers with same. We are also manufacturing the only genu-
_ ine Schmitt Insect Boxes, Cabinets and Exhibition Cases of the highest

standard and the American Entomological Company Insect Pins—The
quality of these is known to all entomologists.

\RIKER MOUNTS at the lowest possible prices.

Living pupae in season. If you are in need of Natural History speci-
mens or supplies of any kind, send us a list of your requirements.

Ward’s Natural Science Establishment
FOUNDED 1862 INCORPORATED 1890

. When Writing Please Mention ‘‘ Entomological News.”

K-S Specialties

THE KNY-SCHEERER COMPANY

Department of Natural Science

North American and Exotic Insects of all orders in perfect condition
Entomological Supplies Catalogue gratis

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INSECT BOXES—We have given special attention to the manufacture of insect cases and can — re
guarantee our cases to be of the best quality and workmanship obtainaule.

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NS /3085—Piain Boxes for Duplicates—Pasteboard boxes,com- = ——~CS
pressed turf lined with plain pasteboard covers, cloth os
hinged, for shipping specimens or keeping duplicates. ~—
These boxes are of heavy pasteboard and more carefully ne fs
made than the ones usually found in the market.

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NS /3001—Lepidoptera Box {improved museum style), of wood, <
cover and bottom of strong pasteboard, covered with

bronze paper, gilt trimming, inside covered with white

glazed paper. Best quality. Each box in extra carton.
Sizé 10x12 i., lined with compressed turf (peat).
Per dozen

PEE Pe Pete re eS 5.00
Size 10x12 in., lined with compressed cork.

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Per d0zei 4 <izy.i-.«.- .ss¥ens ee Re 6.00 :
Caution :—Cheap imitations are sold. See our name and address NS /309%
in corner of coyer. "
(For exhibition purposes) Ne / et
=/3121—kK.-S. Exhibition Cases, wooden boxes, glass cover .
Sitting véry tightly, compressed cork or peat lined, coy-

ered inside with white glazed paper. Class A. Stained
imitation oak, cherry or walnut.

Size Bx11x204 i in. (or to order, 334x1034x294 = PP yeie j
Size 12x16x2/2 in. (or to order, 13515x2% 1

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Size 14x22x244 in. (or to order, 14x22x2 4 ID.)eeweees

NS /3121 Special prices if ordered in larger quantities.

THE KNY-SCHEERER co. .

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCE.
G. LAGAI, Ph.D., 404 W. 27th pom New York, N. ¥::

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PARIS EXPOSITION ;

PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION
Eight Awards and Medals

ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION: Grand Prize and Gold Medal
ENTOMOLOGICAL SUPPLIES AND SPECIMENS

North American and exotic insects of all orders in perfect condition. ae
Single specimens and collections illustrating mimicry, protective coloration, —
dimorphism, collections of representatives of the different orders of insects, Rees.

Series of specimens illustrating insect life, color variation, ete.©§
Metamorphoses of insects. Sears aay
We manufacture ail kinds of insect boxes and cases (Schmitt insect boxes” 4 oar \
Lepidoptera boxes, etc.), cabinets, nets, insects pins, forceps, etc.. 2
Riker specimen mounts at reduced prices. ae
Catalogues and special circulars free on application. =e Sas

Rare insects bought and sold. er >
FOR SALE—Papilio columbus (gundlachianus), the brightest colored American Page. wee

are, perfect specimens $1.50 each; second quality $1.00 each.

When Writing Please Mention “Entomological News.”

P. C. Stockhausen. Printer, 53<55 N. 7th Street, Philadelphia.