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CONTENTS: 


4. 


Weiss—A Recently-Patented Collect- Townsend—New Muscoid Genera 
ATS VINE bicciafeistiaystetcien siciereieretereeiciinitecls 145 (Dips) 5s. Wain cin ecios staciofeisinie ciapietone 178 
Cresson— Descriptions of new Genera Cook—What the House Fly Did....... 178 
and Species of the Dipterous Fam- McDermott—The Unusual Prevalence 
ily Ephydridae—III. .............. 147 of Ground Beetles (Harpalus) dur- 
Girault—A new Genus of Eulophidae ing the Summer of 1913, at Hehlant, 
from the United States (Hym.).... 152 (AM ((Go bNsoscondgagnencaunodadas . 179 
Johnson—Insect Notes for the Season Cockerell—The Biota of Nantucket.... 180 
Of 1915 (Lep:, Coll, Dipt:):=-<<.<.0.6 154 | Cockerell—The Cactus-feeding Volu- 
Cockerell—A new Phalangid from the Gellines: (Dips )ien oases s'<aieieretre cininiaai 180 
Coronados Islands (Arach.)......- 158 | Girault—Proportion of the Sexes in 
Hebard—A new Species of the Genus Uloborus geniculatus Walck., with 
Neoblattella from Costa Rica (Or- a Few Notes (Arach., Aran.)...... 181 
thoptera, Blattidae)............-..- 159 | McAtee—Note on use of Antennae in 
Weiss—Additions to Insects of New Collops vittatus (Col., Malachiidae) 182 
METSEM AUN Ged is tacicisiciers ini tei cs ei sieiass 162 | Stoner—Additional Iowa Pentatomoi- 
Williamson—A new Cyanogomphus deay(Hem= sets) tcscsecescas cee sels 182 
(COGS TEXE) Wiarnocns oneronananeocrere 167 | Entomological Literature.............. 183 
Prof. Herbert Osborn Research Pro- Doings of Societies—Am. Ent. Soc..... 187 
SSO coonddandscnhos AaondesAogoocean 172 Feldman Collecting Social (Coleop., 
Notice of Disposal of Manuscripts, etc. 172 Ey nis) )iemies aletaisis sates ein cle cis lteste cre caie 187 
Ball—Some new Species of Athysanus Chicago Entomological Club (Col., 
and Related Genera (Homoptera) 173 IL{2/0)) snonnosconcdodobcandsoacosdasos 188 
Editorial—How many languages must Newarl Ent. Soc. (Lep., Hem.)..... 189 
an Entomologist know?...........- 177 A New Entomological Glibe. ee 190 
A Dipterous Larva Parasitic in Earth- The New Ecological Soc. of America 190 
MiG soodoodnCoeke sacbooGedbDanoOnOD 177 | Obituary—Miss Adele Marion Fielde... r9t 


A Recently-Patented Collecting Net.* 


By Harry B. Weiss, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 
(Plate VII) 

To collectors in general, but especially those of Lepidoptera, 
who are desirous of obtaining specimens in as perfect a con- 
dition as possible, the net recently patented by Mr. Marvin H. 
Mead, of Passaic, New Jersey, should not be without interest. 
The accompanying Plate VII shows so clearly the construction 
of the net that only a few words of description are necessary. 
The most important part is the specimen chamber or dome at 


Mead, Pas- 


*U, Sy) Pajtont Office, Patent No. 1143721, to Marvin H. 


saic, N. J., June 22, 1915. 


145 


146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 16 


the end of the net proper. The frame-work of this (see figure 
3) is constructed of light weight, flexible metal and covered 
with gauze, preferably of a transparent quality. The re- 
mainder of the net may be made of any suitable material such 
as is ordinarly used for butterfly nets. 

The net is used in the usual manner, but the addition of 
the specimen chamber secures the following advantages. It 
permits the collector to catch a number of insects simul- 
taneously or in succession without danger of mutilation or 
rubbing. In other words, the insects are free to fly to a certain 
extent while still in the net. By reason of this the rubbing 
and crushing actions of the folds in an ordinary net are avoid- 
ed. With a net of this kind, the operator can also readily 
introdtice a cyanide jar without danger of the insects escaping. 
On account of the spaciousness of the specimen chamber, the 
jar can be easily moved about inside and the insects gently 
tapped into it. ; 

‘For arc light collecting, it is impossible to overstate the ad- 
vantages of a net of this kind. It is not at all clumsy to handle, 
the additional weight of the specimen chamber, (diam. I ft., 
height, 6 in.) being negligible. Mr. Mead has used such a net 
for the past several years and has collected many specimens 
so perfect that he has been accused of breeding them. 

Figure I is a view of the net in perspective; figure 2, a view 
in perspective on a smaller scale showing the net in position 
to retain a captured specimen; figure 3, a view showing the 
form of the structure for insuring the dilation of the specimen 
chamber, and figure 4 illustrates the operator with a cyanide 
jar introduced in the net. 

A smaller cylindrical net for capturing microlepidoptera is 
shown in figure 6, this being five or six inches in diameter and 
eight to ten inches high. Figure 5 shows the light weight, 
flexible metal frame which is covered with fine gauze as shown 
in figure 6. Figure 7 shows the net grasped with the hand 
so as to form a special chamber into which the cyanide bottle 
can be thrust and the specimen removed in as good a condi- 
tion as when it entered the net. 


Vol. xxvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 147 


Descriptions of new Genera and Species of the 
Dipterous Family Ephydridae—lIII. 


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


TYPOPSILOPA n. gen. 

Allied to Psilopa from which it may be distinguished by the 
two well developed dorso-central bristles, arranged 1 + 1. 
The face is distinctly foveolate, with foveae well removed 
from the orbits; two distinct facial bristles each side, although 
the upper is much stronger. /Psilopa, typically, based on its 
genotype, Notiphila nitidula Fall., has no dorso-central bristles 
and the facial foveae if noticeable are very near the orbits, and 
the face has only one side bristle, very low. The present 
genus is apparently allied to Clasiopella Hendel, differing in 
the presence of two dorso-centrals. Whether the presence or 
absence of these bristles is of generic importance may be ques- 
tioned. 

Genotype—Typopsilopa flavitarsis Cress. 

Psilopa atra Lw. also belongs here. 

Typopsilopa flavitarsis n. sp. 

Black: knob of halteres white, all tarsi yellow or tawny, apices 
brownish. 

Similar to Psilopa atra Lw. Frons with the proclinate orbitals 
slightly below the reclinate frontals. Face about twice as long as broad 


and nearly as broad as vertex, with the upper bristles about at middle, 
in profile. Antennal spine as long as third joint. Length 3.0 mm. 


Type—é, Bill Williams Fork, Arizona, August, (F. H. 
Snow), [University of Kansas Collection]. 

Paratypes—3 8 , topotypical. 

In comparison with atra this species differs principally in 
the longer face, higher placed facial bristles and the contrast- 
ing yellow tarsi. The frons seems less shining, so that the 
opake frontalia are less differentiated; the face also is less 
shining and more or less irregularly wrinkled. 

Ilythea flaviceps n. sp. 


Similar to spilota but larger. 
Yellow; frons and thorax brown or darker; abdomen and all bristles 


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black. Wings with series of fuscous bars between veins; veins brown. 
Opake, yellow pruinose; thorax more or less shining; mesonotum and 
scutellum somewhat metallic-tinged; abdomen shining but obscured by 
gray dust. Face with patch of silver inside at base of upper bristles. 
Arista with 8 hairs. Wings with 4-6 bars in marginal cell, 4-6 in sub- 
marginal, 4 in first posterior beyond post. c.v. Length 2.5 mm. 


Type—?, Bill Williams Fork, Arizona, August, (F. H. 
Snow), [University of Kansas Collection |. 

This species in form simulates spilofa Curt. It however is 
quite distinct in having the legs as well as the face yellow. All 
the pruinose coating is yellow or golden through which the 
metallic tints of the mesonotum and scutellum are apparent. 


Discocerina parva var. nigriventris n. var. 

A variety separated on account of the palpi being mostly black and 
the abdomen more shining. The tibiae,.especially the hind ones, en- 
tirely shining black. 


This variety is probably confined to the Pacific coast region. 
Type—é, Berkeley Hills, Alameda County, California, 

April 11, 1909. (Cresson) [A. N. S. P. No. 6100]. 
Paratypes.—4 8 , 42, topotypical. 


Discocerina setigera n. sp. 

Black; base of third antennal joint, palpi, knees, apices of tibiae and 
all tarsi except apices, tawny; halteres whitish; wings hyaline, veins 
yellow, costa dark. 

Opake, cinereous; frons black or brown pruinose; orbits narrowly 
white; face and cheeks densely white; mesonotum brownish-tinged 
medianly; abdomen similar, becoming cinereous laterally; femora and 
tibiae cinereous. 

Frons broad as long; orbits parallel. Face narrower, concaved above, 
moderately prominent at middle, strongly retreating below; three pairs 
of converging bristles and another series of smaller laterally curved 
bristles nearer orbits; parafacials bare. Cheeks hardly as broad as 
third antennal joint. Arista with 4-5 hairs. 

Mesonotal setulae numerous, irregular; prescutellars present. Scutel- 
lum rounded apically. Abdomen ovate; segment 5 of ¢ triangular 
convex. Length 2.5 mm. : 


Tvpe— é, Mesa Grande, Sonoma County, California, May, 
1908 (P. C. Baumberger), [A. N.S. P. No. 6101]. 

Paratypes.—3 ¢, 52, topotypic. 

A species belonging to a group possessing a second series of 


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facial bristles directed laterally, 7. e., in opposition to the regu- 
lar converging series. The cheeks are rather narrow and the 
parafacials are not noticeably setulose above; the dorsum of 
thorax and abdomen cinereous or but faintly brownish. 


Discocerina argyrostoma n. sp. 

Black; apex of proboscis, bases of tarsi, tawny; halteres yellowish- 
white. Wings clear hyaline. 

Shining; front opake brownish, orbits whitish below; face opake 
silvery or grayish white; antennae white or gray pruinose. 

Frons longer than broad, with orbits parallel; one orbital bristle. 
Face as broad as frons, flat, slightly retreating below, with two bristles 
below middle; foveae weak or absent. Mesonotal setulae erect; pre- 
scutellar bristles near margin. Scutellum convex, triangular. Ab- 
domen ovate, apex acute; segments subequal; hypopygium incon- 
spicuous. Length 4.5 mm, 

Type—2é, Berkeley Hills, Alameda County, California, 
mprilert, 1908, (2. ©. Cresson;; Jr:), ~AsN: S. P.;No: 6102]. 

Puratypes.—1I 8 , 32, topotypical. 

This is not a typical Discocerina. The face is flat and broad, 
with no, or very weak, foveae. The shining black thorax and 
the lat, silvery white face will separate this species from all 
the others of the genus. 


Mosillus tibialis n. sp. 

Black; third antennal joint sometimes, tibiae except middle of hind 
ones, and tarsi except apices, tawny; halteres whitish; wings hyaline, 
lacteous, veins yellow. 

Polished, with faint metallic reflections; parafacials (but not the 
cheeks), ioveae, middle of face except prominence and lateral papil- 
lae, all outer surfaces of tibiae, silvery; third antennal joint and meso- 
notum somewhat faintly gray. Frontal triangle, mesonotum and scu- 
tellum subapake, minutely punctured. 

In other respects similar to M. subsultans Fab. 


Type— é, Wildwood, New Jersey, July 18, 1908, (E. T. 
Cresson. Jr-); | AccN.S. P- No. 6103): 

Paratypes—19 6, 5 2, topotypical. 

This name is proposed for the American species. It is 
possible that Walker may have described it. Our species dif- 
fers from the European subsultans in having the tibiae tawny, 
not black, and in general it is more distinctly sculptured espe- 


150 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 716 


cially on the frons, mesonotum and abdomen. The silver of 
the face is not noticeable on my specimens of subsultans. 

This species has been known in the American collections as 
Gymnopa nana Walk. and G. aenea Fall. It is not the latter but 
may be the former. Walker’s type cannot be located in the 
British Museum by Mr. E. E. Austen to whom I submitted 
specimens for comparison. 


Lytogaster willistoni n. sp. 

Black; third antennal joint except apex, knees, and tarsi except apices, 
tawny; halteres yellow with black knobs; wings clear hyaline with 
black veins. 

Subopake; abdomen shining; face gray with silvery orbits; pleurae 
sparsely gray. Disc of frons, two median thoracic stripes, disc of scu- 
tellum granulose; abdomen minutely pitted becoming very dense on the 
depressed dorsum of second segment. 

Abdomen very broad, convex and subglobose; lateral margins revo- 
lute; second and more or less of third segment depressed on dorsum 
with lateral lines of delimitation sharp; fourth segment very large, 
convex, two to three times as long as second and third together; fifth 
triangular, nearly as long as fourth, with two shallow depressions near 
apex. Length 2.3 mm. 


Type—é, Berkeley Hills, Alameda County, California, 
April 20, 1908, (E. T. Cresson, Jr.), [A. N.S: P. No. 61042 

Paratypes—4 6, 62, topotypical. 

This species is found in most collections under the name 
Ephydra or Pelina brevis Walker. As I do not know Walker’s 
species I cannot recognize the name. ‘he species is distin- 
guished by the large, shining, convex, subglobose abdomen, 
with the fourth segment much developed. The surface of the 
abdomen is minutely pitted as described. 


Parydra tibialis n. sp. 

Structurally similar to P. bituberculata Lw. 

Black; halteres, knees, tibiae and tarsi tawny; wings clear hyaline, 
veins tawny, cross veins not clouded. 

Shining, more or less sparingly obscured by gray or brown pollen, 
which on the face is dense and white, and on the abdomen and femora 
is variegated with minute bare dots at the bass of setulae. Mesonotum 
reddish coppery-tinged; abdomen greenish-tinged. Scutellum with two 
small bristle-bearing tubercles, well separated as in bituberculata; lat- 
eral bristles with or without minute tubercles. Length 4.5 mm. 


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Type.— 6, Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, 6000 ft. alt., Aug- 
ust, (F. H. Snow), [University of Kansas Collection]. 

Paratypes.—5 8 , 15 2, topotypical. 

Belonging to the bituberculata-group, and distinguished 
from its congeners by the clear wings and tawny tibiae and 
tarsi. The entire surface in general obscured by the sparse but 
distinct coating of gray pollen. 


Ephydra niveiceps n. sp. 

Similar to E. subopaca Lw. 

é. Black; metallic green; halteres, knees, bases of tibiae, tarsi ex- 
cept apices, tawny. 

Opake, gray or whitish; frons polished, with gray orbits; mesonotum 
subopake with metallic tinge, with broad more whitish median stripe; 
abdomen more obscured but metallic color evident. Face and cheeks 
glistening silvery or snowy white when seen from above. 

Frons nearly horizontal; prefrontal bristles well developed, nearly 
equalling frontal orbitals. Face in profile, projecting greatly, nearly 
equalling horizontal diameter of eye; parafacialia broad, at least one- 
half length of third antennal joint in width; bristles normal; cilia of 
posterior orbits normal. Mesonotal acrostichals in well defined series 
anteriorly; posterior margin of mesopleuron with only 4-6 bristles. 
Abdominal segment 5 not longer than 4; genitalia not noticeably de- 
veloped. Length 5.0 mm. 

@. Similar, but the gray face not so glistening. 


Type.— 6 , Wawawai, Washington, [A. N. S. P. No. 6105]. 

Paratypes.—1 @, topotypical. 

I have also seen a series of 3 males, 1 female, from 40 miles 
north of Lusk, Wyoming, July, 1895, [Kansas Univ. Coll.], 
and a female from Manitou Park, Colorado, [Kans. Univ. 
Galt:|'. 

This may possibly be only a variety of E. subopaca Lw. or 
of E. milbrae Jones. The general gray color, not brown; the 
snowy white projecting face; the broad facial orbital areas 
and seriated acrostichal setulae are noticeable in the material 
before me, as differing from the above mentioned species. 


Ephydra pectinulata n. sp. 

Similar to niveiceps. 

Opacity more brownish, especially on the frons and thorax; the grays 
not whitish except on the face; abdomen more olivaceous, not opake. 


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Frons less horizontal, face not so projecting being white but not 
glistening snow-white. Cilia of posterior orbits developing into two or 
three stout bristles at buccal extremity. Mesopleural fringe, of more 
numerous bristles, especially of 2, is very dense and close. 

Scutellum of @ longer and more acutely pointed with noticeably 
long pile. Bristles of fore femora very long. Length 4.7 mm. 


Type-—é, 40 miles North of Lusk, Wyoming, July, 1895, 
(U. of K. Lot 425), [Univ. of Kansas Coll. | 
Paratypes.—2 6 , 62, topotypical. 


DIMECOENIA n. gen. 

This genus is proposed for the reception of Caenia spinosa 
Loew, its type species. It differs from Coenia, as based on 
its genotype, Ephydra palustris Fallen, in the absence of pul- 
villi and having the claws long and nearly straight. In these 
respects it resembles Ephydra, but in the present genus there 
are only two frontal orbital bristles and no post-humeral or 
prescutellar bristles. The pre-frontal bristles are strongly 
developed. The genus seems intermediate between Coenia 
and Ephydra but is constant in the characters mentioned. 

Here also belongs Ephydra austrina Coquillett, of which 
Caenia virida Hine is a synonym. I have examined the cotypic 
series of Coquillett’s and Hine’s species. It is strange that 
both authors overlooked the characteristic tufts of hair on the 
hind tarsi of the male of this species. This is described by 
Aldrich in his paper en “Two Western Species of Ephydra.”’* 


A new Genus of Eulophidae from the United States 
(Hym.). 
By A. A. GrrauLt, Washington, D. C. 
PSEUDOLYNX new genus. 
Belongs to the Omphalini and is characterized by its robust- 
ness, the elongate stigmal vein and middle tibial spur. 


1. Pseudolynx io new species. Genotype. 
2.—Length 3.00 mm. Robust. Head a little wider than long, large. 
Dark metallic green except the reddish brown femora, tibiae, tarsi 
and scape (except above along more than the distal half). The fol- 


*JOUreN. Y. Ent. Soc) xx, TOL, 1912. 


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lowing parts reddish yellow: Mouth, margin of the eyes very narrowly, 
a narrow line across the vertex from the eyes and behind the lateral 
ocelli, the large prepectus except a spot dorso-cephalad, the dorsal mar- 
gin broadly of the cephalic of the two mesothoracic sclerites, a narrow 
line across the face about halfway between antennae and cephalic 
ocellus, lateral margin of scutum at about cephalic third (a triangle), 
mesal margin of each parapside from near cephalic end, broadening 
caudad (thus ‘a longer triangle), lateral margin narrowly and caudo- 
lateral corner broadly of each axilla, lateral and apical margins of scu- 
tellum narrowly, postscutellum excepting a large area filling the entire 
meson. 

Fore wings with a smoky area under the marginal vein, ending 
against the stigmal and not extending quite halfway across the wing; 
it extends more suffusedly proximad. 

Marginal vein somewhat shorter than the submarginal, the stigmal 
long, over half the length of the marginal, the postmarginal somewhat 
shorter than it. 

Hind tibial spurs double, stout, very unequal. 

Head densely scaly, below the antennae with many thimble punctures 
of moderate size, the genal suture distinct. Antennae inserted a little 
above the ventral end of the eyes, 9-jointed with two ring-joints and 
three club-joints, the flagellum thick, the club large-oval, obtuse at 
apex, wider than but not quite as long as the funicle whose joint I is 
elongate, somewhat over twice longer than wide, 2 somewhat longer 
than wide, the pedicel a little shorter than it; club 3 a hemisphere. 
Ring-joints large. Mandibles rude, tridentate. 

Thorax coarsely scaly, the axillae advanced, large, the propodeum 
rather short at the meson, with a delicate median carina and no others, 
longer laterad. Scutellum simple, large. 

Abdomen conic-ovate, produced beneath, as long as the rest of the 
body, densely, finely scaly like most of the propodeum. 


Described from one female in the United States National 


Museum from North Saugus, Massachusetts, May 24, 1907 
(J. C. Crawford). 


Type: Catalogue No. 19630, U. S. N. M., the’ female. on 
a tag, the head, a pair of wings and the hind legs on a slide. 


2. Pseudolynx flavimaculatus new species. 

@—Length 4.50 mm. Differs from the preceding in being larger, 
the mouth more broadly yellow and a broad oblique line runs from each 
corner of it to the end of the eye, between the antenna and the genal 
suture; the propleuron is yellow except ventrad, the axillae are mar- 
gined with yellow all around and the lateral margin of the parapside is 
rather broadly yellow (very obscurely and narrowly in the other spe- 


T54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, ’16 


cies) ; the scape is all yellow and the lower half of the pedicel. The 
infuscation of the fore wing is narrower, more along the venation 
(marginal and stigmal veins, mostly, against and beneath them). There 
are also on the abdomen above, near base, two obscure marginal spots 
of ochreous and along the sides a rather conspicuous broken stripe of 
the same color (ventro-lateral aspect), the spots of which it is com- 
posed being much longer than wide on segments 2 and 5; this stripe 
does not extend to the apex by some little distance. Otherwise about 
as in io. Both species have a glabrous plate, wider than long, just 
cephalad of the spiracle and there are thimble punctures on the scu- 
tellum in longitudinal lines laterad (two lines in 70, one of three or four 
punctures in this species). Submarginal vein distinctly, abruptly broken 
in regularity in both species. In this species, the middle tibial spur is 
very long and slender (also in 70). 

Described from one female in the U. S. N. M., labeled 
“Olynx flavimaculata Ashm., Ramsey County, Minnesota.” 

Type: Catalogue No. 19631, U. S. N..M., the specimen on . 
a tag; middle and hind tibiae and the antennae on a slide. 


Insect Notes for the Season of 1915 (Lep., Col., Dip.). 
By Harry L. Jounson, South Meriden, Conn. 
Abundance of Feralia jocosa, etc. (Lep.). 

I have taken jocosa sparingly for a number of years on the 
common hemlock (Tsuga canadensis?). <A little grove of 
these trees is situated on the Oregon* Road on a cliff of rocky 
formation overlooking the Connecticut River and I have made 
it a point to visit this place each year for this species, usually 
securing two ‘to three a day for several days. This year, 
however, I decided to visit what is known as Hemlock Grove, 
situated about halfway between Meriden and South Meriden 
in a park known as Terrace Garden. This grove is also on 
high rocky ground overlooking a stream, so that locality and 
surroundings being similar, I expected good results. 

Three warm, sunny days in April were selected as best for 
collecting. On the first day, April 7th, some twenty-six speci- 


* Oregon is a small cliff-enclosed valley bounding South Meriden on 
the northwest. This place has always gone by the name of Oregon or 
the Oregon road. Possibly the place took its name from this road, 
which goes through it. The place is very thinly settled and is desig- 
nated on the map of Meriden as Cheshire Road, although it is always 
spoken of as Oregon. 


Vol. xxvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 155 


mens of jocosa together with several Phigalia titea and three 
Nyctobia limitata were taken from the grove from three to 
four o’clock in the afternoon. Most of the jocosa were found 
low down on the bases of the trees but P. titea was usually 
higher up. The Joker moths were easily bottled as they are 
sluggish, but Phigalia titea and Nyctobia linutata required the 
use of a net, as they were inclined to fly up when one got to 
within several feet of them. The second day, April 8th, was 
still warmer and clear but the result was not as anticipated as 
only about ten specimens of The Joker were secured. On the 
third day, April 9th, which was decidedly cooler but still clear, 
I took over eighty specimens of jocosa from the grove, prac- 
tically all of them freshly emerged specimens. 

When pinning and spreading these specimens care has to be 
taken to remove with cotton all the oily substance which exudes 
from the wings, around the pin, etc., as otherwise the wings 
stick to the spreading board when dry, spoiling the specimen 
by tearing the wings. 

This species is well named The Joker, as it forms one of the 
most natural mimics of the insect world, being almost a perfect 
copy of the lichen found on hemlock. 


Euchloe genutia Fab. (Lep.). 

A pair of Euchloe genutia fell to my lot for the first time 
this year. On April 24th while walking along the track of the 
“Cannon Ball” express in Oregon I spied a butterfly which 
did not seem familiar and as it was a slow flier I captured it 
and found it to be the male of E. genutia. On the next day I 
happened along the same route and took the female in practi- 
cally the same place, but although I visited the region steadily 
after that, I could not add more to the number. 


Vanessa milberti Godart. (Lep.). 

Vanessa milberti was also present in my vicinity this year 
although I have never seen it here before. One specimen was 
taken on the blossoms of wild plum near Hanover Park on 
April 29th, and later in the season I took several fresh speci- 
mens near the same locality on the flowers of alfalfa. These 
last were undoubtedly of a second brood. 


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Pieris napi, aberrant form virginiensis? Edwards. (Lep.). 

Another butterfly new to me, P. napi virginiensis, fell to my 
lot this year, making three new butterflies in one season. Six 
specimens of this species were secured on the Oregon road. 
They are somewhat smaller and weaker fliers than P. rapae 
and are readily told from them and as easily taken with the 
net. 


Abundance of Melitaea phaeton Drury. (Lep.). 

This butterfly has always been rare with me until this year. 
One or two specimens each season was all that I cculd pos- 
sibly obtain even by the most strenuous hunting. These single 
specimens I always found on swampy land in Oregon. ‘This 
year I was fortunate in discovering a new place for this spe- 
cies on the road to Meriden. While walking along this road I 
saw a single specimen around a wet place in the road and after 
taking it noticed two more further along, then three, then sev- 
eral more. Knowing their habits I began to investigate and 
found their gathering place in a marshy field of grass about 
three feet high on the side of the road. Phaeton was here in 
abundance flying lazily around and alighting on the blades of 
grass. I took thirty on July 11th inside of fifteen minutes; on 
the 12th I took twenty and thirty-five more on the 13th. All 
this helps to prove the theory that nothing is rare 1f you know 
where to find it. 


Tenacity of Life in the Spice Bush Silk Moth. (Lep.). 

On returning home from work one July noon, I noticed an 
unfamiliar object through motions made by an insect which 
was partly concealed in the leaves near the house. On a closer 
inspection I found it to be a Callosamia promethea which I 
had taken the previous day and had thrown away after sup- 
posedly killing it. The family cat seeing the specimen had 
deprived it of its head, all the legs and three of its wings, leav- 
ing only the body and one wing and the insect apparently dead 
at the time. That it was not dead was proven by its lively 
actions when I rediscovered it. It kept up continual motion, 
the lone wing flopping from side to side; causing the body to 
jump around somewhat resembling a sailboat in a choppy sea. 


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Deciding to see how long this action would keep up I left the 
specimen and on returning at six o’clock that night the mangled 
specimen was as active as before, whereupon I crushed it with 
my foot as I was satisfied that it was fated for several more 
hours of torture whether painless or otherwise. 

Calosoma sycophanta Linn. (Col.). 

While collecting at light in Hemlock Grove on May 14, I 
took a specimen of this beautiful European beetle which has 
been imported to fight the gypsy and brown-tail moths. This 
insect is reputed to be a good climber which seems to be upheld 
by the fact that the specimen was more than halfway up an 
electric light pole when captured. Mr. Britton, of the Con- 
necticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven, 
states in a letter concerning the specimen, “Apparently you are 
correct in regard to the specimen of Calosoma sycophanta 
Linn. I did not suppose that it had yet reached a point so far 
west as Meriden. A colony was liberated in Stonington in 
1914. None were planted in the town of Thompson but the 
beetles were found there in moderate numbers in 1914 as the 
result of spreading from Massachusetts towns.” 


Curious Food Habits of Musca domestica (Dip.). 

Having occasion to use a quantity of gummed labels in the 
course of some work on my collection I was surprised to find 
that any uncovered labels which J left on my table over night 
would be minus the mucilage in the morning. Sometimes the 
mucilage was removed in spots and blotches but almost always 
the paper was entirely cleaned as theugh with a vacuum 
cleaner. This condition and its cause baffled me for quite 
awhile and I was on the point of laying it to a cockroach which 
I knew to be in the room when, happening to go to the study 
after dark one evening, I was astonished to discover a group 
of house flies on the labels. After watching them a few min- 
utes I was convinced that they were feeding on the sticky sub- 
stance. The weather being quite warm the mucilage on the 
labels was somewhat soft, allowing the flies to remove it. Not 
having heard of this habit of the housefly before I reccrd it 
here. . 


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A new Phalangid from the Coronados Islands (Arach.). 
By T. D. A. CocKEreti, Boulder, Colorado. 


Last August my wife and I visited the South Island of the 
Coronados group, off the coast of Lower California, Mexico. 
Among the interesting arthropods collected was a Phalangid 
of the family Trogulide, which proves to be an undescribed 
member of the genus Ortholasma Banks (Psyche, 1894, p. 11.) 
It may prove to be peculiar to the islands. 

The table given by Banks (Pomona Coll. Jn. Entom., 1911, 
p. 417) may be enlarged and modified to admit the new species 
as follows: 


Process of eye-tubercle relatively long and narrow, with six or more 

transverse ribs on each side; femora and tibie not banded, 
rugosa Banks. 
Process of eye-tubercle relatively broad, spoon-shaped............. I 
1. Femora and tibiz banded; apical projections of process of eye- 
f tubercle beyond rim longer than broad...... pictipes Banks. 
Femora and tibie not banded; apical projections of process of eye- 

tubercle beyond rim much broader than long, 
coronadensis n. sp. 
Ortholasma coronadensis n. sp. 

Length of body 3.5 mm., 4 mm. if process of eye-tubercle is in- 
cluded. Process dull white, constructed as in pictipes, with the same 
number of ribs, but even broader, the outline not far from circular 
(excluding the narrower base), and the projections beyond the rim 
very broad and short, with sloping sides; anterior spine-like processes 
of cenhalothorax as in pictipes. 

Legs sepia-brown, without bands. Body sepia-brown, the dorsal 
surface with numerous white tubercles, the principal ones in two 
longitudinal rows of six each; these tubercles are connected with 
transverse somewhat darkened ridges in the cephalothoracic region, 
and on abdomen are situated on a lattice-work pattern of dark ridges, 
forming a net-like structure with square meshes, the corners directed 
laterad, caudad and cephalad; ‘the margin of the body posteriorly is 
furnished with a row of pallid blunt processes, connected by dusky 
transverse bars, like a fence; the body beneath, including the coxe, 
is densely beset with pallid round tubercles; palpi bristly, last joint 
short; legs minutely hairy, trochanters strongly tuberculate. 


Type in the author’s collection. 
Found in a cave-like hollow under a large rock, a consider- 
able distance above sea-level. 


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A new Species of the Genus Neoblattella from Costa 
Rica (Orthoptera, Blattidae). 
By Morcan Heparp, Philadelphia, Pa. 


In studying material of the family Blattidae, accidentally in- 
troduced in the United States, an undescribed species of 
Neoblattella has been encountered. As we desired to describe 
the species, if possible, from material taken at a locality at 
which it is native, we have gone through the undetermined 
material which we have and have found the additional series 
recorded below. 


Neoblattella fratercula new species. 

This species is apparently rather closely allied to N. brun- 
neriana. When compared with specimens before us which we 
believe to represent that species', the present insect is readily 
distinguished by its smaller size, tegmina and wings with cross- 
veinlets less strongly indicated?, slightly iridescent wings and 
very distinctive male genitalia.3 

mpeg ¢); isla de Cocos, Costa ‘Rica, January, 1902.  (P. 
Biolley.) [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Type No. 5208.] 


Size medium small for the group, smallest of the more nearly related 
species; form rather slender. Interocular space wide; ocellar spots 
weakly defined. Maxillary palpi very elongate; third and fourth joints 
subequal in length; fifth (distal) joint about two-thirds as long as 
fourth, obliquely truncate to near its base. 


1From San Rafael in Vera Cruz, Mexico; Port Limon, Reventazon, 
Juan Vifias and Azahar near Cartago, Costa Rica. 

2In brunneriana very numerous and conspicuously defined in darker 
brown distad, both on tegmina and wings. 

* The only male of brunneriana before us is from Port Limon, Costa 
Rica. It has the sides of the subgenital plate nearly vertical and sud- 
denly abruptly truncate, leaving mesad a quadrate aperture; the bottom 
margin of which (representing the mesal portion of the distal margin of 
this plate) is irregularly truncate, with a small mesal knoblike projec- 
tion, slightly longer than wide, and styles briefly distant on each side, 
of almost the same size and form as this projection. From within the 
plate, near this margin, spring aciculate, chitinous, somewhat decurved 
projections, which reach a short distance beyond the margin of the 
plate, projecting from the narrow channels between the styles and the 
small median projection of the distal margin. 


160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 716 


Pronotum with disk very weakly raised, the whole surface in nearly 
the same plane; cephalic margin moderately truncate, weakly convex; 
angles broadly rounded, the cephalic more so than the caudal; caudal 
margin truncate, very weakly convex. 

Tegmina very delicate; with seven longitudinal discoidal sectors (this 
including the median vein, all its branches and the production of the 
ulnar vein); cross veinlets very weak; wings very delicate; six of the 
costal veins rather heavily clubbed distad, ulnar vein with four 
branches, intercalated triangle small, axillary vein with three branches 
which are directed away from the costal margin. 

Abdomen with dorsal surface little modified; sixth segment more pro- 
duced than the others, with distal margin broadly and weakly convex 
lateral and broadly and more decidedly concave mesad; seventh segment 
somewhat narrower, with distal margin sinuous; eighth segment still 


Fig. 1.—Lateral outline of subgenital plate of Fig 2.—Ventral outline of subgenital 

type. ¢. (Greatly enlarged). plate of type. #. (Greatly enlarged). 
narrower and normally almost completely concealed, broadly cleft 
mesad; ninth segment very much narrower, very little produced; 
tenth segment (supra-anal plate) distinctly transverse, triangularly 
weakly produced with blunt apex. Subgenital plate with lateral mar- 
gins weakly elevated and declivent distad forming small and narrow 
emarginations at their juncture with the mesal portion, within which 
emarginations are situated the styles which are minute almost micro- 
scopic pegs with apices acute; the remaining mesal portion of the plate 
is produced latero-distad in acute-angulate weakly divergent thin 
plates, the remaining very brief mesal portion of the margin between 
these transverse. 

Limbs very delicate with delicate spines; ventro-cephalic margin of 
cephalic femora with long, slender, widely spaced spines in a little more 
than proximal half, which slightly decrease in size distad, remaining 
distal portion with very much smaller and more closely set spines. 


Allotype: Same data as type. [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.] 


Agrees with male except in following features. Dorsal abdominal 
segments not differing greatly in outline, supra-anal plate very small, 
strongly transverse, weakly triangularly produced, with lateral margins 
weakly convex and apex briefly and very shallowly notched. Subgeni- 


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tal plate very large and strongly produced, in general form scoop- 
shaped; distal margin strongly convex latero-proximad, then nearly 
straight for a decidedly greater distance to broadly convex apex. 


Measurements (in millimeters). 
Length of Lengthof Widthof Lengthof Width of 


oes body pronotum pronotum tegmen tegmen 
Sip RO rarelalafuintelolelainiste/afcletelcieleieiaicteye 8.3 2.4 3.3 10.7 3.1 
EE AEPPES) (5) cierslainiule|s'sis'aleie(sia/e 8.-9.3 2.3-2.4 3-2-3.3 10.-10.3 2.8-3. 
JLNTeC ie Ee aoosacceosuocas 9.4 2.7 3-7 11.4 3-4 

LE 
ALE Pr¥onn so kn OOCOCOCOROndOCOC 8.5 2.6 3.4 10.2 3. 
ANALY DES! (5) sicisleieclaiceisiaicie viaie 9.5-10.8 2.7-2.8 3.4-3.6 9.8-10.3 ae 
SiS. Penacoresi(2))-0-26.ce6 10.10.2 2.9 3.7-3.8 II.1-11.3 3-4 


The specimens taken away from their native habitat were 
almost certainly from the east coast of Central America, those 
from the S. S. Tenadores were taken on at either Bocas del 
Toro, Panama, or Limon, Costa Rica. The measurements 
would indicate that the species on the Isla de Cocos averages 
somewhat smaller than material from the mainland. 

Coloration: General color warm buff+, lateral margins of 
pronotum and all of the tegmina clear translucent warm buff ; 
disk of pronotum antimony yellow, with a few slightly darker 
(buckthorn brown) markings and very few much darker 
(mummy brown) minute dots. Wings hyaline with a very 
slight iridescence, veins and distal cross-veinlets translucent 
very pale brown. Head warm buff with a very slightly darker 
diffused broad brown band ventrad between the eyes, a similar 
but much narrower band between the ocellar spots and on the 
face traces of two interrupted very narrow bands of the same 
shade. Abdomen buckthorn brown, ventrad with a large dif- 
fused dark brown marking proximad and with a dark brown 
dot laterad on each segment. Antennae and limbs warm buff. 

Specimens Examined: 15; 7 males, 8 females. 

Isla de Cocos, Costa Rica, January, 1902 (P. Biolley), 6 2, 
692, TYPE, allotype, paratypes, [A. N. S. P. and Hebard Cln.] 


Material adventive in United States.® 
Lincoln, Nebraska, July 15 (introduced in bananas, prob- 
ably from Central America), 1 ¢ [Hebard Cln.]. 
©: 5: Fenadores, en route New, York, N.Y... to, Jamaica, 
October 19, 1913 (Hebard; dead in hold), 22 [Hebard Cln.] 
4 These colors are all taken from Ridgway’s Color Nomenclature. 


°In these specimens the eyes are slightly wider and the abdominal 
colors slightly paler than in the typical series. 


162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 716 


Additions to Insects of New Jersey, No. 4.* 
By Harry B. Werss, New Brunswick, N. J. 


Mr. Raymond C. Osburn informs me that the genus Tubi- 
fera Meigen, 1800 (Dip.), has priority over Helophilus 
Meigen 1804, owing to the acceptance of the 1800 paper, so 
that all records under Helophilus in Smith’s 1909 list should be 
placed under Tubifera. 

Gracilaria azaleae Busck recorded in Additions to Insects of 
New Jersey, No. 2 (Ent. News, vol. 26, p. 262), has been re- 
‘duced to a synonym of Gracilaria zachrysa Meyrick. 

To Mr. E. R. Sasscer and Mr. Rust I am indebted for the 
determination of certain scale insects and mealy bugs; to Mr. 
C. A. Frost for identifications made in the Coleoptera; to Mr. 
L. C. Bragg for the identification of Rhopalosiphum ligustri 
Kalt., and to Mr. J. A. G. Rehn for the determination of the 
two species recorded in the Orthoptera. 

‘Inasmuch as it is convenient to have the references to the 
New Jersey fauna as complete as possible, attention is called 
to Additions to the New Jersey Tipulidae (Diptera), by M. 
D. Leonard (Ent. News, vol. 24, p. 247), in which eleven spe- 
cies are recorded. i 

Order MECOPTERA. 
Panorpa latipennis Hine. Hewitt, June 18 (Davis). (Bull. Brook. 

Soc. vol. 10, p. 109). 

Panorpa subfurcata West. Ramsey, June 23, Hewitt, June 18 

(Davis). (Bull. Brook. Soc. vol. 10, p. 110). 

Merope tuber Newman. Chester (Dickerson). (Bull. Brook. Soc. 

vol. 10, p. 111). 

Order THYSANURA. 


Achoreutes armatum Nicolet. The Mushroom Spring Tail. Occurs 
in mushroom cellars in New Jersey. 
Order NEUROPTERA. 
Conwentzia hageni Bks. Rutherford, May 30, bred from evergreens. 
E. L. Dickerson. 
Order HOMOPTERA. 
Cicada auletes Germar. This should replace C. marginata Say of 
the 1909 list. (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vol. 23, p. 2) Davis. 


* Nos. 1-3 were published in the News as follows: XXvi, IOI-107, 
March, 1915; 260-262, June, 1915; xxvii, 9-13, Jan., 1916. 


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Cicada pruinosa var. latifasciata Davis. Cape May County, Davis. 
This record should replace C. pruinosa Say in the 1909 list. (Jour. 
N. Y. Ent. Soc. vol. 23, p. 8) Davis. 

Livia vernalis Fitch. Trenton, July 2. E. L. Dickerson. 

Pachypsylla celtidis-mamma Riley. Makes leaf galls on Celtis. 
Riverton, June 25. E. L. Dickerson. 

Pemphigus ulmifusus Walsh. Elizabeth. Gall on leaf of Ulmus 
pubescens. H. B. Weiss. 

Aphis hederae Kalt. In greenhouses on English ivy. Not common. 
H. B. Weiss. 

Aphis houghtonensis Troop. Riverton, on gooseberry. T. J. 
Headlee. 

Aphis nerii Fonsc. In greenhouses on oleander. Not common. 
H. B. Weiss. 

Aphis rufomaculata Wils. Green aphis of chrysanthemum, in 
greenhouses. H. B. Weiss. 

Rhopalosiphum ligustri Kalt. Jersey City, July 15, on privet. H. B. 
Weiss and E. L. Dickerson. 

Macrosiphum sanborni Gill. Black aphis of chrysanthemum, in 
greenhouses. H. B. Weiss. 

Myzus rosarum Kalt. On roses in greenhouses. H. B. Weiss. 

Aleyrodes mori Quaint. var. maculata Morr. Palmyra, August 6, 
on sweet gum. E. L. Dickerson. 

Pseudococcus kraunhiae Kuwana. Rutherford, July, 1915, on 
Taxus cuspidata. Evidently introduced from Japan, H. B. Weiss. 
Antonina crawi Ckll. On Bambusa henonis and B. aurea. Riverton, 

Aug. 6. Evidently introduced from Japan. H. B. Weiss. 

Eucalymnatus tessellatus Sign. On palms in greenhouses. H. B. 
Weiss. 

Coccus pseudohesperidum Ckll. Rutherford, South Orange, Sum- 
mit, in greenhouses on Cattleya orchids and other greenhouse 
plants. H. B. Weiss. 

Toumeyella pini King. Asbury Park, July 26, on pine. E. L. 
Dickerson and H. B. Weiss. 

Aulacaspis zamiae Morg. On Cycas revoluta in greenhouses. H. B. 
Weiss. 

Chrysomphalus rossi Mask. On orchids, rubber plants in green- 
houses. H. B. Weiss. 


Order HEMIPTERA (HETEROPTERA). 

Stephanitis pyrioides Scott (azaleae Horv.). Rutherford, Arlington, 
Palmyra, Riverton, Nutley and other parts of the state. August to 
November. Feeds on foliage of azaleas. Originally imported from 
Japan. H. B, Weiss & E. L, Dickerson. ; 


164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, ’16 


Sphaerobius quadristriata Barber. Lakehurst, July 4, Sept. 7 (Davis 
& Barber). (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vol. 19, p. 24). 

Jalysus multispinosus Ashm. Lakehurst (Barber). (Jour. N. Y. 
Ent. Soc. vol. 19, p. 23). 

Pseudocnemodus canadensis Prov. Lakehurst, July 11 (Davis). 
(Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vol. 19, p. 26). 


Order ORTHOPTERA. 

Pycnoscelus surinamensis Linn. Rutherford, in greenhouses. H. B. 
Weiss. 

Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa Linn. Rutherford, May, June, July, August. 
Lives in burrows underground and cuts off the roots of various 
plants. The European mole cricket, introduced from Europe. 
H. B. Weiss. 

Order COLEOPTERA. 

Molamba fasciata Say. Tenafly, June 5, in bark of maple tree. 
EO} Bond: 

Phaedon (Plagiodera Redt.) versicolor Laich. Arlington, Eliza- 
beth, Aug. 13, Irvington, July 28. Dickerson & Weiss. Adults 
-and larvae destructive to the foliage of poplars and willows. 
This is the common P. armoricae of Europe. 

Eugnamptus collaris Fab. var. fuscipes Pierce. Egg Harbor, June 
155) Ee Bs Wieiss: 

Eugnamptus collaris Fab. var. nigripes Melsh. Egg Harbor, June 
15 SEs iB. Weiss: 

Magdalis barbicornis Latr. Burlington, May. H. B. Weiss. 

Ceutorhynchus affluentus Dietz. This should replace C. rapae Gyll. 
in the 1909 list as Mr. Dietz states that C. rapae so called is not the 
same as the EKureopean species of that name. C. A. Frost. 

Xyleborus saxeseni. Tuckahoe, Oct. 5, in dead sugar maple. T. J. 
Headlee. 

Order LEPIDOPTERA. 

Apatela (Acronycta) afflicta Grt. Passaic, Rutherford, July 2, at 
light. M. H. Mead. 

Hadena misera Grt. Rutherford, Aug. 3, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Baileya doubledayi Guen. Passaic, May, June, at light. M. H. 
Mead. 

Semiophora tenebrifera Wlk. Passaic, April 26. M. H. Mead. 

Noctua fennica Tausher. Passaic, July 2, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Euxoa redimicula Morr. Passaic, July 28, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Mamestra assimilis Morr. Rutherford, July, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Mamestra capsularis Guen. Passaic, May 27, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Xylina baileyi Grt. Passaic, Oct. 12, at light. M.H. Mead. 

Epiglaea pastillicans Morr, Lakehurst, Oct. 17. (Buchholz and 
Lemmer). 


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Orthosia lutosa Andrews. Passaic, June 30, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Parastichtis discivaria Wlk. Passaic, July 31, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Calymnia orina Guen. Passaic, July 13, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Bomolocha deceptalis Wlk. Passaic, July 26. M. H. Mead. 

Cissura spadix Cramer. Passaic, May 6, at light. M. H. Mead. 
Probably a visitor. 

Melalopha strigosa Grt. Passaic, May 29, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Schizura apicalis G. & R. Passaic, May 26, at light. M. H. Mead. 

Coenocalpe magnoliata Gn. Lake Hopatcong, July 15. Lemmer. 

Pinipestis zimmermanni Grt. Eatontown, Aug. 5. Larvae in ter- 
minal shoots of Austrian and other pines. H. B. Weiss. 

Eois demissaria Hbn. Elizabeth, Aug. 15. Lemmer. 

Orthofidonia exornata Wlk. Lyons Farms, April 29, May 2. Lem- 
mer. 

Pero marmoratus Grossb. Irvington, Aug. 10. Lemmer. 

Plagodis fervidaria H. S. Passaic, April 28, May 3, at light. Mead. 

Plagodis alcoolaria Gn. Passaic, May 19, at light. Mead. 


Order HYMENOPTERA. 

Tenthredella nortoni Smulyan. New Jersey. (Canad. Ent. vol. 47, 
p. 321). 

Strongylogaster alboannulatus Rohwer. Brown’s Mills Jc. Daecke. 
(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 43, p. 238). 

Pteronus hudsonii Dyar. Rutherford, Aug. 19, Trenton, Aug. 20. 
Larvae on poplar. H. B. Weiss. 

Acordulecera caryae Rohwer. Ft. Lee, larvae on new shoots of 
pignut hickory. Dyar. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 43, p. 248). 

Acordulecera nigritarsis Rohwer. Brown’s Mills Jc., May 30, Roh- 
wer. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 43, p. 250). 

Acordulecera parva Rohwer. Ft. Lee, Sept. 3, larvae on young 
leaves of black oak. Dyar. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 43, p. 248). 

Acordulecera quercus Rohwer. Ft. Lee. Larvae on young leaves of 
black oak. Dyar. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 43, p. 251). 

Diastrophus fragariae Bt. Athenia, August, E. L. Dickerson. The 
strawberry leaf petiole gall maker. 

Spalangia muscidarum Richardson. Bred from pupae of Musca 
domestica at New Brunswick. C. H. Richardson. 


Order DIPTERA. 
Lasioptera corni Felt. Mountainville, Sept. 24. Dogwood leaf gall. 
On leaf of Cornus paniculata. H. B. Weiss. 
Neolasioptera perfoliata Felt. Mountainville, Sept. Boneset stem 
gall. H. B. Weiss. 


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Dasyneura parthenocissi Steb. Different parts of state. Muidrib 
gall of Virginia creeper. H. B. Weiss. 

Hormomyia crataegifolia Felt. Kingston, Aug. 20. Cockscomb gall 
on Crataegus leaf. H. B. Weiss. 

Hormomyia verruca Walsh. Mountainville, Sept. 24. Gall on wil- 
low leaf. H. B. Weiss. 

Neocerata rhodophaga Coq. The rose midge. Found in green- 
houses. Maggots in leaf and flower buds of rose. H. B. Weiss. 
Phytophaga violicola Coq. The violet gall midge. Maggots curl 

leaves. Found in greenhouses. Not common. H. B. Weiss. 

Prosimulium hirtipes Fries. College Farm, May 10. C. H. Rich- 
ardson. 

Hydrophorus intentus Ald. Atlantic City, May 6. Johnson. (Psyche, 
April, 1911, p. 51). 

Eristalis arbustorum Linn. Palisade, Lakehurst, Ramsey (R. C. Os- 
burn), Fairlawn, Sewell (E. L. Dickerson).- (Jour. N. Y. Ent. 
Soc. vol. 23, p. 142). 

Eristalis latifrons Loew. Snake Hill, July 16 (Grossbeck). (Jour. 
N. Y. Ent. Soc. vol. 23, p. 145). 

Hypostena tortricis Coq. Cliffwood. Endoparasitic upon larvae of 
Bellura obliqua. H. H. Brehme. 

Sarcophaga bullata. Mans. College Farm, May 19, July 18. C. H. 
Richardson. 

Sarcophaga dalmatina Schiner. College Farm, Aug. 21. C. H. 
Richardson. 

Sarcophaga falculata Pand. College Farm, July 27. C. H. Richard- 
son. 

Sarcophaga scoparia Pand. College Farm, July 18. C. H. Richard- 
son. 

Sarcophaga utilis Ald. College Farm, May 25, Oct. 5. C. H. Rich- 
ardson. 

Ravinia communis Parker. College Farm, May 19 to Sept. 26. Also 
reared from cow and pig dung. C. H. Richardson. 

Ravinia latisetosa Parker. College Farm, May 19 to Aug. 7%. Also 
reared from cow and pig dung. C. H: Richardson. 

Bottcheria latisterna Parker. College Farm, Sept. 28. C. H. Rich- 
ardson. 

Coquillettina plankii Walton. Pasadena, Aug. 8. Reared from 
grasshoppers. H. K. Plank. (Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc. vol. 17, 
p. 104). 

Leptocera (Limosina) ferruginata Steub. New Brunswick, July to 
Sept. C. H. Richardson. 

Lonchaea deutschi Zett. College Farm, July 22, Aug. 25. C. H. 
Richardson. 


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A new Cyanogomphus (Odonata). 


By E. B. Wittiamson, Bluffton, Indiana. 
(Plates VIII, IX) 

Three specimens of Cyanogomphus have been recorded. 
Each is the type of a new species. The genus was establishea 
by de Selys in 1873 (Trois. Add. Syn. Gomph.) for the new 
species waltheri, known from a single male from Rio Janeiro, 
Brazil. Its relationships with Epigomphus and Agriogomphus 
were discussed and analyzed for several characters. Perhaps 
the most striking single character of C. waltheri is the remark- 
able shape of the tenth abdominal segment where the lower 
posterior border is cut out with the resulting peculiar relative 
positions of the bases of the superior and inferior appendages. 

The second specimen was described by de Selys (Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Belg. xxxviii, 1894) as C. ? demerarae. This specimen 
was from Demerara, British Guiana, and unfortunately lacked 
the last four abdominal segments. (The text is confusing on 
the extent of the injury; at one place it is stated 7 segments 13 
mm.; at another the 5th-1oth segments lacking; in the text 6 
segments are described.) The anal triangle is 2-celled, and 
brief mention is made of the accessory genitalia. It is much 
smaller than C. waltheri and de Selys remarks, “C’est une des 
plus petites Gomphines connues,” adding that it will be neces- 
sary to know the abdominal appendages before deciding cer- 
tainly that it belongs to the genus Cyanogomphus. 

The third specimen is a female from Atoyac in Vera Cruz, 
Mexico, described by Calvert (B. C. A.) as C? tumens. The 
specific name refers to a peculiar swelling on the rear of the 
head above, behind the eyes “‘the swollen portions continuous 
with the occiput and extending outward and downward along 
each posterior eye margin to about the level of the upper sur- 
face of the frons; when the head is viewed from the side the 
point where the swelling ceases inferiorly is seen to coincide 
with a posteriorly directed obtuse angulation of the posterior 
eye margin.” This character is not mentioned for de Selys’ 
two species, though I believe it probably exists in both. In 


168 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, ’16 


tumens the most remarkable venational character, in the light 
of its probable relationship, is the relative position of the 
arculus and the proximal angle of the subtriangle—in the 
front wings the arculus is widely basal to the proximal angle, 
and in the hind wings they are about on the same level (com- 
pare with wing venation in the two species figured in this 
paper.) This is the only reason I see for holding the generic 
position of the species in doubt. It has the distal side of the 
triangle of the front wing straight as described for C? 
demerarae. 


Cyanogomphus conchinus* n. sp. (Plates viii, ix, figs. 1, 6-11). 

é. Abdomen 32 mm.; hind wing 23.5 mm. 

Face greenish brown, labrum slightly paler and clearer green, brown- 
er at base, extreme lower edge black or dark brown; rhinarium 
browner, the nasus again lighter and the frons in front darker; genae 
brown. Frons above, vertex and occiput obscure reddish brown; frons 
in-front shaded greenish; antennae black; transverse keel posterior to 
lateral ocelli distinctly tri-lobed; occiput posteriorly straight, without a 
posterior keel or edge, but rounded off, with short scarcely discernible 
hair; occiput laterally on either side behind the eyes swollen as de- 
scribed by Calvert (B. C. A.) for tumens (see note above under that 
species). Rear of head reddish brown; labium dull yellow. 

Prothorax brown, markings if any obscure. 

Thorax robust; above brown, on either side, starting at the antealar 
sinus, an obscure bluish stripe reaching about two-thirds the distance 
to the mesothoracic crest; its lower end just inside the upper end of a 
short yellow stripe which extends down on to the mesothoracic crest; 
a bluish or greenish obscure mesothoracic half-collar, divided at the 
middle and not joined, or if so very obscurely, with the yellow dorsal 
stripe at either extremity. An indistinct narrow pale bluish ante- 
humeral stripe which passes below on to the humeral suture; a very 
narrow and more obscured posthumeral stripe of the same color. 
Mesepimeron black or nearly so, obscurely pale yellow over a very re- 
stricted area above, and more extensively and clearer posteriorly be- 
low. Mesinfraepisternum nearly black, paler below. Metepisternum 
similar to mesepimeron, but yellow below more extensive and clearer; 
metinfraepisternum largely yellow, brown bordered. Metepimeron 
broadly brown along the second lateral suture, except above where the 
brown shades out into yellow which occupies the balance of the scler- 
ite. Beneath pale yellow. 


* Referring to the shell-like first hamules. 


Entr. NEws, VOL. XXVII. Plate VIII. 


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Abdomen slender; 1 yellow, light brown above to level of the auri- 
cles, except at the extreme base which is pale; 2 similar, dorsal pale 
brown narrower on anterior half of segment, extreme posterior border 
brown on the sides as well as above; 3 brown, fading out anteriorly 
into clear light yellow, especially on the sides which are nearly one- 
half the lighter color, while on the dorsum the brown, grown very pale, 
reaches the anterior border of the segment; 4-7 black, bright yellow at 
base of each segment, where it is very narrowly divided by black in the 
mid-dorsal line, this black line a narrowed continuation of the apical 
black which occupies two-thirds to three-fourths of each segment; the 
yellow and black encircle each segment; 8-10 dull obscure brown with- 
out definite markings, sides slightly paler, yellowish; 7 similarly paler 
basally; 8-10 dark at extreme apex. Superior appendages pale dull 
green, black beneath and basally; inferior black or dark brown. 

Stigma brown; venation black. Femora brown, first pair greenish 
beneath, all alike armed with numerous short equal spines; tibiae and 
tarsi black (right hind tibia and tarsus pale brown). First hamule and 
horizontal shaft of second hamule very pale brown or flesh colored, 
second hamule at the subapical elbow shading darker, becoming black 
at the apex. The hamules are both remarkable, but the first probably 
more so. It consists of a short cylindrical, truncated base, the inner 
side of which is produced in a large, thin, shell- or leaf-like expanded 
plate with its concave face directed outward, and its apex bilobed. 


Described from a single male in my collection, taken near 
Wismar, British Guiana, January 31, 1912. Between Wismar 
and Christianburg is a small stream flowing into the Demerara 
River and crossed by the footpath between the two towns. In 
the afternoon the backward flow of the river due to tides 
makes this stream almost unwadable near its mouth. We were 
attracted to this muddy, log-choked creek by the beautiful 
Diastatops dimidiata which we found nowhere else. The 
banks of the creek are generally covered with impenetrable 
brush and the exposed margins are slippery and treacherous, 
due to the rise and fall of water over them. At places logs 
are piled so indiscriminately in the creek that progress is slow 
and difficult; and at places the overhanging bushes completely 
shade the stream. While working through one of the log piles 
I flushed the only Cyanogomphus seen, which flew weakly to a 
bush on the bank, alighting on a leaf at an elevation of 10 or 
12 feet. The specimen is apparently young, though I believe 


170 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ' [April, ’16 


fully colored, and has suffered an injury at emergence, by 
which the fifth segment is spread out flat and bent at a right 
angle. Apparently the body cavity is completely separated at 
this point. The injury will explain its weak flight. 

C. conchinus, as a comparison of the figures will show, has 
the peculiar characters of the genitalia and appendages of 
waltheri still more exaggerated. It is separated at once by 
these characters from waltheri. From démerarae it is separ- 
‘ated at once, so far as I can judge from the description, by 
the sectors of the arculus less widely separated, by the convex 
distal side of the triangle of the front wings, and by the 3- 
celled, not 2-celled, anal triangle. There are some differences 
in the color of the abdomen, and the striking hamules of cen- 
chinus could hardly have escaped de Selys’ notice. From 
tumens it is separated at once by the venational character 
mentioned above under tumens—the position of the arculus 
relative to the proximal angle of the subtriangle. C. deme- 
rarae, hind wing 23, is a smaller species than waltheri, hind 
wing 27, and is separated from the latter by the anal triangle, 
2-celled in demerarae, 3-celled in waltheri. Apparently both 
are separated from tumens by the closely approximated sec- 
tors of the arculus of twmens. 

In the figure of the wings of waltheri the cross-veiu shown 
in the supertriangle is undoubtedly not normally present. ‘The 
brace vein at the stigma is less marked in conchinus than in 
waltheri; in waltheri the sectors of the arculus are widely 
separated at their origin, in conchinus they are still separated 
but are very close together; conchinus has the proximal angle 
of the subtriangle more basal, relative to the arculus, than 
waltheri, which in turn has it more basal than tumens; in the 
number of distal rows of cells posterior to Cu2 in the front 
wings, twmens and conchinus are alike with 2 rows, waltheri 
has 3 rows; but in the hind wings waltheri and tumens have 3 
rows, while conchinus has but 2; in waltheri there are 2 rows 
of postrigonal cells in the hind wings, and 1 row in tumens and 
conchinus. 

The grand genre Gomphus of de Selys has long been a prob- 


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lem to taxonomists. De Selys in 1873, largely on the size and 
form of the male abdominal appendages, divided ihe asso- 
ciated genera into 2 major groups, the latter of which was di- 
vided into 5 subgroups, one of these being in turn divided into 
2 groups and one of these subdivideda on geographical grounds. 
I believe that these groupings have little basis in fact, but that 
two groups of real taxonomic value can probably be distin- 
guished on the basis of the number of cross-veins between M1- 
3 and M4. In the larger number of genera the number is re- 
duced in the front wings and in the hind wings there is nor- 
mally only one, which is strengthened and definitely placed. 
In the remaining genera the number of these cross-veins is 
relatively larger (the complexity cf venation must be taken 
into account), and in the hind wing there are always two or 
more, instead of one definitely piaced cross-vein. These 
genera known to me are Macrogomphus, Microgomphus, Lep- 
togomphus, Epigomphus, Cyanogomphus and Agriogomphus 
—a group of striking and remarkable forms. Microgomphus 
and Agriogomphus have much in common, including the un- 
symmetrical forking of M1-2 and M3, and the single row of 
cells in the anal area of the front wings; in Microgomphus 
there are two rows of postrigonal cells, one row in Agriogom- 
phus. The remaining genera have a basal antenodal cf the 
second series present in all wings. In only one, Cyanogom- 
phus, has the stigma a brace vein, aud in this genus alone the 
distal thickened antenodal is the fifth. being mere distal in the 
others. In Epigomphus and Macrogomphus there are two 
cubito-anal cross-veins in addition to the inner side of the sub- 
triangle. 

To summarize, the genus Cyanogomphus, as a member of 
the legion Gomphus, may be venationally defined briefly as 
follows: Cross-veins between M1-3 and M4 numerous; stigma 
with a brace vein; M4 and Cur divergent; basal subcostal 
cross-vein of second series present; one cubito-anal cross-vein 
in addition to the inner side of the subtriangle; anal area of 
front wing proximally one cell wide, distally two or three 
cells wide; three postanal cells in hind wing, distal to postanal 


172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 16 


cells two or three rows wide, two rows of postrigonal cells in 
front wing, one or two in hind wing; distal thickened ante- 
nodal the fifth; anal angle well developed in the male, the tri- 
angle 2- or 3-celled (the venation of C? demerarae known to 
me only from de Selys’ brief description). 

The figures of C. waltheri have been prepared for me by 
M. Menger at Bruxelles through the good offices of Dr. F. Ris. 


EXPLANATION OF PLATES VIII anv IX. 
All the figures are of males. 

1. Wings of Cyanogomphus conchinus, n. sp. 

2. Wings of Cyanogomphus waltheri. 

3 and 4. Abdominal segment 10 and appendages, in profile and dor- 
sal views, of C. waltheri. 

5. Abdominal segment 2, in profile, of C. waltheri. 

6. Diagram of thoracic color pattern of C. conchinus, n. sp. 

7. Abdominal segment 2, in profile, of C. conchinus, n. sp. 

8. Abdominal segments 9 and 10 and appendages, in profile, of C. 

- conchinus, n. sp. 

g and 10. Dorsal and ventral views of abdominal appendages of C. 
conchinus, n. sp. Notice in fig. 10 the curved basal projections of 
the superior appendages which overlap the broadened base of the 
inferior; apparently the only way in which the superiors can be 
released is by a wide spreading in the dorso-ventral direction of 
the superiors above and the inferior below. 

11. Tarsal claw of C. conchinus, n. sp. 


Prof. Herbert Osborn Research Professor, Ohio State University. 

The Ohio State University has recently inaugurated a plan providing 
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Entomology. He will be relieved from routine, class and department 
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students in his particular field. 


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Vol. xxvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 173 


Some new Species of Athysanus and Related Genera 
(Homoptera). 
By, B.D. BALL, Lagan, Utah. 


In working with the leaf hoppers the writer has found that 
the species are as a rule either confined to a single plant or else 
to a group of closely related plants. The few exceptions to 
this rule include many of our most injurious species. These 
forms being able to change from one plant to another are not 
restricted in location or season. Fortunately for us the num- 
ber of these polyphagous forms is very small compared with 
the total number of leaf hoppers. Some of our most injuri- 
ous species are on the other hand very restricted in their food 
habits. The grape leaf hoppers and beet leaf hoppers are ex- 
amples of the latter class. The beet leaf hopper is a striking 
example of a rare and almost unknown insect becoming a seri- 
ous pest under the influence of civilization. This insect is a 
native of the alkali deserts of the Southwest and was unknown 
until 1895. Soon after this, sugar beet raising was introduced 
into the region and this insect quickly transferred its affections 
from the desert plants of the beet family to the beets them- 
selves, causing losses running into the millions of dollars in 
favorable seasons. 

The writer is attempting to work out the food plants of all 
the leaf hoppers of the Western region, and in doing so has 
discovered a number of new forms that must be named before 
they can be included in the list. 

The types of these new species are in the writer’s collection. 
Athysanus calvatus n. sp. 

9. Resembling symphoricarpae, but with a broader and much more 
inflated vertex and front. Straw color. Length 5 mm. 

Vertex distinctly broader than in symphoricarpae, the apex obtusely 
roundly inflated, about two-thirds the length of the pronotum; front 
very broad, much inflated, the margins only slightly narrowing until 
just before the apex, where they are abruptly constricted to the clypeus. 
As seen in profile the apex of the front is distinctly above the clypeus 
and bulges so that it meets the rounding vertex margin at almost a 
right angle. Elytra rather long, venation simple, as in vaccinit, often 
an extra nervure or two on clavus to the suture and occasionally an 
extra cell in the outer anteapical, apical cells long. Female segment 


174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | April, ’16 


moderately long, the outer angles prominent, the posterior margin with 
a slight median production, margins usually dark-marked. 

Color: vertex bright straw, or lemon yellow, a pair of angular black 
spots well back of the ocelli and a pair of smaller ones behind these 
near the base, occasionally a trace of transverse brown band on disc. 
Face bright straw, sutures dark and occasionally a trace of brownish 
arcs on front and a pair of spots near apex. Pronotum all clear straw 
or dirty straw with the anterior light margin set off by dark spots. 
Elytra pale subhyaline straw, the nervures inclined to be lighter. 


Described from four females from Logan and Richfield, 
Utah, collected by the writer. The inflated shining front and 
vertex gives this insect a distinctly “bald-headed” appearance, 
which is its most distinctive character. 


Athysanus shastus n. sp. 

Size and form of varus, nearly resembling striatulus in pattern, but 
with fewer markings. Stout, rusty straw with darker margins. Length 
4.5-5 mm. 

Vertex broad slightly roundly right-angled, with the apex narrowly 
actitely produced, three-fourths the length of the pronotum. Front 
broad not inflated, narrowing regularly into the broad clypeus. Face in 
profile almost flat, acutely angled with the vertex. Pronotum long, the 
anterior margin curving deeply into head. Elytra very broad and ex- 
tending well beyond the pygofers, broadly rounding behind with short 
apical cells. Venation strong, resembling arctostaphyli, but with a large 
number of irregular cross nervures on clavus and occasional super- 
numerary cells in the outer anteapicals, second cross-nervure often 
present. Female segment broad, moderately long, truncate, the apical 
angles slightly produced, pygofers very short strongly angularly in- 
flated. Male plates together spoon-shaped, narrowed apically. 

Color: vertex dirty straw, a transverse black band just back of 
ocelli, another just before this broken forward in the middle, both bands 
inclined to be emphasized at the end and against a narrow median line 
which bisects them; occasionally nothing is left but these enlarge- 
ments. Front black with a triangle at apex and short arcs straw color. 
The rest of face straw color with sutures and an oval spot on clypeus 
dark. Pronotum rusty straw, darkening posteriorly to a dusky cloud 
on disc, anterior submargin with a few irregular black marks. Elytra 
smoky subhyaline, the nervures light, very narrowly lined with fuscous, 
emphasized in the smaller cells. 


Described from two females and two males from Dunsmuir, 
California, collected by the writer. The broad form with short 
inflated pygofers renders this distinct species somewhat of a 
connecting link between the obsoletus and striatulus groups. 


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Athysanus escalantus n. sp. 

9. Resembling simplarius, but much shorter and stouter, straw col- 
ored, The vertex margin with a black line above and below. Length 
4 mm. 

Vertex twice wider than long, margins almost parallel, disc flat, an- 
terior margin between the dark lines broadly rounding to the flat, re- 
treating front. Front rather narrow, wedge-shaped, margin continu- 
ous with the clypeus margin. Pronotum scarcely longer than vertex, 
distinctly narrower than the head with eyes. Elytra broad and short, 
just equalling the pygofers, narrowing apically. Venation deltocepha- 
loid, the central apical cell elongate, slightly constricted, apical cells 
short. Female segment short, apparently truncate. 

Color: vertex straw yellow, a spot on each side against the eye and 
just back of the margin, a pair of elongate, partly coalescing spots in- 
side these on each side, forming a slightly interrupted sub-marginal 
black band. Pronotum and scutellum soiled straw color. Elytra pale 
greenish subhyaline showing the rusty straw of the dorsum set off by 
two round black spots on the pygofers. Face straw yellow, slightly 
tawny, a narrow dark line under the vertex margin with a black spot 
just below and against each eye. 


Described from a single female taken at Richfield, Utah, by 
the writer. In its broad head this species resembles parallelus 
and its allies, but in other characters it is distinctly allied to 
osborni. 


Athysanus lassus n. sp. 

Resembling sexvittatus in size and form. Brown and white with 
a pair of large, round, black spots on each of vertex, pronotum and 
scutellum. Length 4 mm. 

Vertex obtusely angled, the apex rounding, shorter than sexvittatus, 
only a little longer on middle than against eyes, two-thirds the length 
of the pronotum, slightly acutely angulate with the front, the margin 
blunt. Front broader than in sexvittatus, margins slightly rounding 
but continuous with those of clypeus. Elytra equalling or slightly 
exceeding pygofers, nearly parallel-margined, flaring. Venation delto- 
cephaloid, the central anteapical slightly constricted, sometimes divided, 
but not extending much beyond the adjacent cells. Female segment 
short, lateral angles rounding, posterior margin excavated with a 
broad, short, median tooth. ‘Male plates broad at base obtusely tri- 
angular, the apices acutely produced. 

Color: vertex creamy, a pair of round black dots just back of the 
apex, a pair of large round black spots on the margin between the 
dots and the ocelli, sometimes another pair of black dots behind the 
first and often traces of brown stripes towards the base. Pronotum 


176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 16 


milky, a pair of large, round, black spots on the anterior margin 
behind the two on vertex, usually two pairs of brown stripes, the 
inner pair arising some distance behind the eyes and curving slightly 
to join the inner pair just over a pair of black spots on the scutellum 
partly hidden by the pronotum. Elytra milky, an indistinct brown 
stripe on each clavus and usually two on the corium omitting the 
WEIS)" 

Described from two females and two males from Quincey, 
California, collected by the writer. The three pairs of black 


spots will at once distinguish this species. 


Platymetopius compactus n. sp. 

Q. Resembling abruptus and nasutus but broader, with the short 
vertex of a brevis. Broad, short, dark above and below. Length 4.5 
mm. 

Vertex scarcely longer but somewhat narrower than in brevis, form- 
ing a slightly sharper angle, length slightly more than the basal width, 
about equalling the pronotum, angle with the face about as in brevis, 
the face in profile almost straight. Elytra broad and rather short, 
venation normal except that the fourth apical cell is extremely wide, 
due partly to the first reflexed veinlet being placed far forward and 
partly to the extremely narrow base of the third apical which appears 
to be cut off by a dark marking to form a small circular cell. Female 
segment very short and almost truncate, disc slightly convex with the 
posterior margin raised, giving a concave effect. 

Color-pattern of nasutus nearly, vertex heavily irrorate with fuscous, 
omitting a transverse light band before the eyes narrower and more 
uniform than in nasutus, and an ivory spot at apex. Pronotum paler, 
irregularly irrorate with fuscous, omitting the anterior margin. Scutel- 
lum irrorate with fuscous, omitting a pair of spots on disc and 
the apical margin. Elytra milky, nervures and coarse vermiculations 
dark, the reflexed ones margined with black. A dark irrorate cloud on 
clavus and in the apical cells, omitting two pairs of round spots along 
the sutural margin, the first apical cell, a round spot at the base of 
the other apicals and one in each end of the anteapicals as well as the 
costal margin before the middle of the fourth apical. Whole face 
heavily irrorate with brownish fuscous, omitting a narrow margin 
against the vertex and a triangle below the apex. Below dark except 
the disc of female segment. 


Described from a single female taken at Dunsmuir, Califor- 
nia, by the writer. The short vertex and wide apical cells will 
separate this from any other species. 


(to be continued) 


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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 


PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, I9I6. 


How many languages must an Entomologist know? 

It would seem to one who lays no claims tq successful pre- 
diction or seership that the present European conflict will re- 
tard progress toward internationalism, cosmopolitanism, the 
adoption of a universal language, the Parliament of Man. It 
will continue the effects alleged to have been caused when the 
Tower of Babel was checked in its upward growth and will in- 
tensify the use of its peculiar tongue by each of the many tribes 
inhabiting this terrestrial ball. We were never especially at- 
tracted by Esperanto and similar artificial dialects and evident- 
ly entomologists must make up their minds that they must, 
individually or by proxy, enlarge their acquaintance with Euro- 
pean and Asiatic languages. We are moved to these reflections 
by the recent receipt of an installment of a large and ambitious 
monograph on the Odonata of Russia and neighboring coun- 
tries, whose scope, in spite of the title, appears to be wide 
enough to include the description of a new species from Ohio 
in six lines of Latin and forty-four lines of Russian, follow- 
ed by twenty-one lines of comparative notes, also in Russian. 
To be sure there are two figures of details, but 

We blame neither the Russians nor the Japanese for using 
their own vernaculars; we do the same. But the languages of 
science are a heavy burden to us whose memories balk at the 
acquisition of words utterly unlike those of western Europe in 
form and spelling. 


SE oe 


A Dipterous Larva Parasitic in Earthworms. 

At the meeting of the Biological Society of Washington, Dec. 4, 
1915, Dr. L. O. Howard called attention to the cluster-fly (Pollenia 
rudis), an insect resembling the house-fly but collecting in houses in 
autumn and leaving a yellow stain when crushed. Its life history was 
unknown until recently a foreign entomologist has shown that the 
larvae are parasitic in earthworms in France. Dr. Howard is having 
large numbers of earthworms examined for such larvae, but so far 
without success. He hoped that anyone finding any grub parasitic in 
earthworms would communicate with him. (Science, March 3, 1916, 
Pp. 330). 

177 


178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 716 


Notes and News. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 
OF THE GLOBE. 


New Muscoid Genera (Dip.). 


The characters of the following new genera are given in a paper 
which has been submitted for publication, but which will be consider- 
ably delayed: nat 
Myocerops gen. nov.—Genotype, Musca carinifrons Fall—Europe. 
Sumichrastia gen, nov.—Genotype, Hystrichodexia aurea Gig.-Tos— 

Mexico. he 
Pilatea gen. nov.—Genotype, Masicera celer Cog.—Louisiana. 
Masiceropsis gen. nov.—Genotype, Masicera pauciseta Coq.—So. Cali- 

fornia. 

Cnephalogonia gen. nov.—Genotype, Gonia distincta H. E. Smith— 

Connecticut. 

Dichoceropsis gen. nov.—Genotype, Dichocera orientalis Coq.—Mass- 
achusetts. 
Megistogastropsis gen. nov.—Genotype, Megistogaster wallacet BB.— 

East Indies. 
Pseudoservillia gen nov. 

Java. 

Sericotachina gen. nov—Genotype, Paratachina vulpecula Wulp—W. 
ava. 

SHE gen. nov.—Genotype, Euthera mannii Mik—So. Europe. 

Gerocyptera gen. nov.—Genotype, Trichoprosopa marginalis Walk.— 
Amboyna. 


Genotype, Echinomyia flavopilosa Big.— 


Cuaries H. T. TowNnsenp, Washington, D. C. 


What the House Fly Did. 


Last year our class in Zoology began a campaign against the fly, 
We started out with the idea that advertising would be our main means 
of getting the campaign started, and we were right, for very soon the 
campaign seemed to fairly take care of itself. Students from the class 
made speeches before all the Patrons’ Clubs in the city during the 
month of February. One of our prominent daily papers promised to 
print everything we handed in on the subject. The class working to- 
gether wrote weekly articles that were spicy and interesting. These 
attracted such attention that other papers demanded articles on the 
house fly. An insurance company requested that they be allowed to 
print pictorial posters on the subject, and that these be distributed 
about the city. The Electric Company asked to be allowed to give 
away fly swatters. One of the local theatres presented moving pic- 
tures of the fly, especially for the school children. Later the various 
clubs of the city asked to be represented in the movement. Finally a 
federation of clubs was formed to make this campaign an annual event, 
But right here is where disaster came to the enterprise, for the work 
of last year at least. Two factions arose, each demanding that certain 
officers be elected and certain policies be carried out. The feeling wax- 
ed so strong that when officers were finally elected, and policies were 
finally presented, everyone was far too angry to carry out anything, 
This smacks somewhat of other campaigns in our national affairs where 
very little is accomplished for the general good. This all goes to show 
that even though the teacher interests the parents most keenly, the 
parents are harder to work with than the children—Nett1e Coox in 
School Science and Mathematics, xv, 146. February, 1915. 


—— 


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The Unusual Prevalence of Ground Beetles (Harpalus) During the 
Summer of 1913, at Ashland, Ohio. (Col.). 

While in Ashland, Ohio, during the summer of 1913, the writer ob- 
served that there was a rather unusual number of the common ground 
beetles, mainly Harpalus pennsylvanicus and its near relatives, and a 
few specimens of what appeared to be Diplochila major, to be found 
under stones, bark, etc, in the surrounding country. Small stones 
would frequently hide a dozen or more, often representing one insect 
to every two square inches of ground covered by the stone. Unusual 
frequency in the city of Ashland was not noted until about a week 
after this observation; then one evening about the first of August, 
swarms of the insects appeared around the arc-lamps in the business 
part of the city, and during the following two evenings spread to the 
other sections. The house at which the writer was staying was about 
a quarter of a mile from a wooded patch of a few acres, and about 
seventy-five feet from an arc-lamp, the latter being the last one out in 
the direction of the woods. On the second evening of prevalence the 
insects struck this section of the city, and the arc-lamp near the house 
was the center of a swarm. The side of the house illuminated most 
strongly by the arc had hundreds of the beetles running over it, and for 
perhaps an hour the sound of them alighting on the walls, floor and 
tin roof of the front porch was suggestive of rain or scattered hail. 
Parties out for automobile rides were forced to return on account of 
the inconvenience produced by the number of beetles flying about. The 
writer attempted to walk up the road toward the wooded path (going 
away from the arc-lamp), but the insects were encountered in such 
numbers coming toward the arc, that after going only a few hundred 
feet and extracting several beetles from his hair and collar, he decided 
that discretion was the better part of valor, and returned to the house. 

After the third evening of unusual prevalence, the number of these 
beetles seemed to diminish rather suddenly, and while quite common, 
they did not appear in excessive numbers during the rest of the writ- 
er’s stay, to August 17th. It is reported that the insects were very 
plentiful also in the Pittsburgh district about the same time. The only 
unusual condition which seems to have prevailed in the places where 
these swarms were noted, was the heavy rains and following floods in 
March previous; the Ohio district had also had a very heavy rain and 
flood on the 13th of July, previous. That the flood conditions should 
admit of an abnormal number of these insects coming to maturity does 
not seem probable, or at least the connection is not very clear at this 
time. The writer was again in this town during about the same period 
of 1915, but there was nothing resembling what had occurred during 
1913, nor was there any report of similar conditions during 1914. The 
summer season of I915 was very rainy in this locality. 

F. Avex. McDermott, Washington, D. C. 


180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, ’16 


The Biota of Nantucket. 

For a number of years past Mr. Eugene P. Bicknell has been publish- 
ing in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club a series of papers on 
the vascular plants of Nantucket, in which he has brought out a num- 
ber of very interesting facts. Intensive study has not only yielded 
much of interest in connection with distribution, but has brought to 
light a number of new species, belonging to such genera as Amelan- 
chier, Ilex, etc., conspicuous members of any Flora. It can hardly be 
doubted that a similar study of the animals, and particularly the in- 
sects, would yield like results. Sorting over some material which 1 
collected on Nantucket several years ago, I found some species which 
it may be worth while to record. 

Hymenoptera (bees): Halictus capitosus Smith, 9, smaller than 
usual; H. pilosus Smith, 9. 

Neuroptera: Chrysopa harrisi Fitch, det. Banks. 

Araneina (Spiders, all very kindly determined by Mr. N. Banks): 
Epeira pratensis Hentz, E. trivittata Keys., Zilla atrica Koch, Plectana 
stellata Hentz, Theridium frondeum Hentz, Ceratinella emertoni Cam- 
bridge, Agelena naevia Walck., Clubiona sp., juv., Xysticus triguttatus 
Keys., Phidippus podagrosus Hentz—T. D. A. CocKErELL, Boulder, 


Colorado. 
The Cactus-feeding Volucellines (Dip.). 


South Coronado Island (Lower California) is extensively overgrown 
with cactus, apparently Opuntia littoralis. When my wife and I visited 
the island on Aug. 21, we found what appeared to be a single variable 
species of Volucelline fly very abundant. Several were collected, and 
on examination prove to represent two genera and species, namely 
Volucella avida O. S. and Copestylum marginatum Say. At Boulder, 
Colorado, July 19, I collected a superficially similar insect (more like 
the Copestylum than V. avida) at flowers of Helianthus annuus; this is 
Volucella fasciata Mcq., a variety with dark reddish antenne. On 
looking up the literature, I find that all these three insects feed in the 
larval state on cacti. They form a peculiar group, and in all respects 
appear to be closely related, except for the extraordinary antenne of 
Copestylum. The latter genus surely evolved from Volucella, but who 
can say how the change came about, or what purpose it serves? There 
was, so far as we know, no change in habits. One is reminded of cer- 
tain strange modifications of the antenne of chrysomelid beetles, pro- 
duced by Professor Tower under experimental conditions at Chicago, 
and whoily without functional significance, so far as we can learn. One 
of the females of V. avida from S. Coronado is quite small, no larger 
than V. fasciata. 

The Atriplex bushes on S. Coronado carried many galls, doubtless 
belonging to Asphondylia atriplicis Twns., as no difference was appar- 
ent—T. D. A. CockEreLt, Boulder, Colorado. 


Vol. xxvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 181 


Proportion of the Sexes in Uloborus geniculatus Walck., with a 
Few Notes (Arach., Aran.). 

The collections tabulated below were made in a single dwelling house 
in Nelson (Cairns), Queensland, Australia. The sex in the young is 
recognizable after one or two molts, but the very young were ignored. 
The individuals were killed after being recorded. 


MALE FEMALE 

Dates Adult Young Total Adult | Young Total 
April 26, 1913 17 22 39 49 19 68 
May 1, se 16 19 35 58 28 86 
May 20, ‘ 4 3 7 10 9 19 
May 23, “ 8 25 33 15 58 73 
June 2, se 3 3 8 8 
Sept;27,, “‘* 10 5 15 6 3L 37 
Oct. 14,. .‘‘ 13 3 16 5d 42 ey 
Dec. 8, at 1 1 10 11 21 
sees 1 i 4 5 9 
ZS a 1 3 4 3 2 5 
May 5, 1914 1 1 2 5 1 6 
LA 3 ee 3 12 15 13 22 35 
Totals 7t3) 96 171 228 236 464 


Out of 635 individuals 171 were males, or about 27 per cent., less than 
a third. In 303 adults, 75 or about 24 per cent. were males; 96 males 
occurred in 332 young, or 28 per cent. Males appear to be more num- 
erous when young. 

I haven’t any notion how mating occurs with this species, but the 
sexes from an early age inhabit separate nests and the males being less 
numerous, cannot be wasted. The males differ in coloration, but on ac- 
count of their scarcity, wastage in sexual selection would seem poor 
economy. Yet, one selected male might fertilize many females and 
more than offset any wastage. 

The egg-sacs of this species are of a lilac color and star-shaped, one 
side flat, the other conically raised centrally into a blunt cone or nipple. 
There may be from five to eight points to these star-shaped sacs and 
some of the points are occasionally bifid at apex. When just hatched 
the young spiders are white, with lilac abdomens. The young escape 
from the sac through a single hole. The eggs are white, gradually 
turning to lilac when the embryo is perfect. All females do not make 
their egg-sacs alike, for in one nest three sacs were found bearing 
6, 7 and 8 points, respectively. 

The young can live considerable periods without food. Six of them 
isolated from birth lived 20, 23, 30 and 34 days. Six others lived in 
this manner, 27, 29 and 32 days. Two adult females taken when feeding 
and kept without food, lived slightly over a month. The egg stage is 
about eleven days (one case).—A. A. GirAutt, Washington, D. C. 


182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 716 


Note on use of antennae in Collops vittatus. (Col.: Malachiidae). 

Dr. George H. Horn described* the structure of the curiously modi- 
fied second (or as he says really the third) segment of the antennae in 
males of the genus Collops in 1870, and assumed their function to be 
grasping the female antenna during copulation. Another use to 
which they certainly are put appears from an incident observed 
by the writer on Plummer’s Island, Maryland, on July 7, 1912. 
A male and female of Collops vittatus (Say) were found on a leaf 
over the surface of which they advanced and retreated, constantly 
maintaining a head-to-head contact. Upon close inspection, it was 
seen that the female had her mandibles widely spread and that the tips - 
of them rested in depressions in the anterior surfaces of the modified 
antennal joints of the male, the antennae of the latter being held 
straight out in front and approximately parallel. Ii one of the pair re- 
treated, the other followed, preserving the relation of the parts as de- 
scribed. They were also observed to separate and to resume the same 
posture. This behavior probably is a mating ceremony, and may per- 
haps be properly regarded as a Collopid soul-kiss—W. L. McATEE, 
Washington, D. C. 


= Additional Iowa Pentatomoidea (Hem., Heter.). 

During the past two years the writer has indicated from time to 
time some Pentatomids that have not before been recorded within the 
borders of the State. As a partial result of collecting done during 
the past summer the following additions to the State fauna may be 
given at this time. 

Cydnus obliquus Uhler. This fine Cydnid, which commonly occurs 
in the western States and which has recently (1910) been recorded 
from Nebraska by Zimmer, was found in some numbers in a sand area 
near the Iowa River, two miles north of Iowa City. All the speci- 
mens collected were found among the roots of a Rush Grass, Sporo- 
bolus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray, which grows in considerable abund- 
ance in this small uncultivated area. In two instances, four individuals 
were found about the roots of a single plant, but usually not more than 
one or two were found under one plant. None of the bugs were ob- 
served on the open sand. On May 31 a pair of these bugs was found in 
copula. Thirty-six specimens are at hand, collected in May and No- 
vember. 

Euschistus tristigmus var. pyrrhocerus H. S. This variety seems 
much less common than the typical tristigmus Say. Five Iowa speci- 
mens, collected in August and November at Iowa City and Solon, are 
at hand. The specimens collected in August were taken on wild rasp- 
berry; those in November from under dried leaves. All five speci- 
mens have the antennae entirely pale, the humeri spinose and average 
somewhat smaller than tristigmus. 


*Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. III, p. 80, June, 1870. 


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Vol. xxvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 183 


Prionosoma podopioides Uhler. Two specimens of this western 
species have been taken in Iowa. One was collected in June at Ft. 
Madison, near the extreme southeastern corner of the State. The im- 
mediate region bordered a wooded area and was somewhat sandy and 
overgrown with rank weeds. Later in the season, October, a second 
specimen vas found under the leaves of a mullein plant in a cultivated 
sand area near Iowa City——Dayton Stoner, State University of Iowa, 
Iowa City, Ia. 


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. 4 

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. 

Unless mentioned in the title, the number of new species or forms are 
given at end of title, within brackets. : 

For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, 
Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- 
tomology, Series A, London. : j 

For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied 
Entomology, Series B 

1—Proceedings, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 
phia. 2—Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadel- 
phia. 3—The American Naturalist. 4-The Canadian Entomologist. 
5—Psyche. 8—The Entomologists’s Monthly Magazine, London. 
9—The Entomologist, London. 11—Annals and Magazine of Nat- 
ural History, London. 12—Comptes Rendus, L’Academie des 
Sciences, Paris. 18—Comptes Rendus, Societe de Biologie, Paris. 
16—Bulletin, Societe Nationale d’Acclimation de France, Paris. 
18—Ottawa Naturalist. 87—Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec. 68 
—Science, New York. 1538—Bulletin, The American Museum of 
Natural History, New York. 166—Internationale Entomologische 
Zeitschrift, Guben. 179—Journal of Economic Entomology. 195— 
Bulletin, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. 200—Bul- 
letin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, Paris. 216—Ento- 
mologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt a. Main. 267—Memorias, Real 
Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Madrid. 285—Nature 
Study Review, Ithaca, N. Y. 3138—Bulletin of Entomological Re- 
search, London. 836—Board of Agriculture, Trinidad. 344—U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 3894—Parasitology, 


Cambridge, England. 401—Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae 


184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, ’16 


in the British Museum, London. 411—Bulletin, The Brooklyn En- 
tomological Society. 447—Journal of Agricultural Research, Wash- 
ington. 479—Washington University Studies, St. Louis. 522— 
Association Francaise pour l’Avancement des Sciences. 


GENERAL SUBJECT. Bagnall, R. SA note on Mr. Walsh’s 
observations on the survival, etc., of insects, 8, 1915, 267. Blaisdell, 
F. E.—Minutes of meetings of Pacific Coast Entomological Soci- 
ety, 12 pp. Herrick, C. W.—The need of a broad, liberal training 
for an economic entomologist, 179, ix, 15-23. Loyer, M.—L’Expo- 
sition internationale d’insectes vivants, de poissons...., 16, 1915, 
355-65. Russell, F. W.—Obituary notice, 5, 1916, 25. Webster, F. 
M.—Obituary by S. A. Forbes, 179, ix, 239-41. Zukowsky, B.—In- 
sekten und bliiten, 166, ix, 119-20. 


PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Dehorne, A.—Sur les 
chromosomes de “Corethra plumicornis” (Dipteres Nemocere), 
522, 1914, 527-9. Fernandez-Nonidez, J—Los cromosomas goniales 
y las mitosis de maduracion en Blaps lusitanica y B. Waltli, 267, 
x, 149-87. Lecaillon, A.—Sur la ponte des oeufs non fecondes et 
sur la parthenogenese du Bombyxae du murier (Bombyx mori), 
12, clxii, 234-6. Wenrich, D. H.—The spermatogenesis of Phryno- 
tettix magnus, with special reference to synapsis and the individu- 
ality of the chromosomes, 195, 1x, 57-133. 


MEDICAL. Shircore, T. O.—A note on some helminthic dis- 
eases with special reference to the house fly as a natural carrier of 
the ova, 394, vili, 239-43. Townsend, C. H. T.—Recent questioning 
of the transmission of Verruga by Phlebotomus, 318, vi, 409-11. 

ARACHNIDA, ETC. Cummings, B. F.—Note on the thorax in 
Anoplura and in the genus Nesiotinus of the Mallophaga, 11, xvii, 
171-4. Dow, R. P.—The weaver of the web, 411, 1911, 6-10. 


Nuttall, G. H. F.—Relating to the genus Ixodes and including 
a description of three n. sps. and two var., 394, viii, 294-337. 


NEUROPTERA, ETC. Howe, R. H., Jr.—A preliminary list of 
the Odonata of Concord, Mass., 5, 1916, 12-15. Patch, E. Mi—A 
Psyllid gall of Juncus (Livia maculipennis), 5, 1916, 21-2. Snyder, 
T. E.Termites, or “white ants,” in the U. S.; their damage, and 
methods of prevention, 344, Bul. 333. 


ORTHOPTERA. Urich, F. W.—Locusts or grasshoppers, 336, 
Bul. XIV, 120-28. 


Rehn & Hebard—Studies in American Tettigoniidae, VII. A re- 
vision of the species of the genus Atlanticus (Decticinae) [1 new], 
2, xlii, 33-100. 


Vol. xxvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 185 


HEMIPTERA. Baker & Turner—Morphology and biology of 
the green apple aphis, 447, v, 955-93. Leonard, M. D.—The imma- 
ture stages of Tropidosteptes cardinalis (Capsidae), 5, xxiii, 1-3. 
Paddock, F. B.—Observations on the turnip louse (Aphis pseudo- 
brassicae), 179, ix, 67-71. Parker,-J. R—The western wheat aphis 
(Brachycolus tritici), 179, ix, 182-7. Patch, E. M.—Concerning 
problems in aphid ecology, 179, ix, 44-51. Rosen, H. R.—The de- 
velopment of the Phylloxera vastatrix leaf gall, 68, xlili, 216-7. 
Weiss, H. B.—The Coccidae of New Jersey green-houses, 5, 1916, 
22-4. Whitmarsh, R. D.—Life-history notes on Apaleticus cynicus 
and maculiventris, 179, ix, 51-3. 


Abbott, J. F.—A biological reconnaissance of the Okefeenokee 
swamp in Georgia. The Corixidae [4 n. sps.], 479, ii, 81-6. 


LEPIDOPTERA. Ainslie, G. G.—Notes on Crambids, 179, ix, 
115-119. Briggs, F. J—Means of expansion of wings of L., 9, 1916, 
38-39. Brittain & Gooderham—An insect enemy of the parsnip 
(Depressaria heracliana), 4, 1916, 37-41. Felt, E. P—Climate and 
variations in the habits of the codling moth, 179, ix, 107-110. 
Gerould, J. H.—Mimicry in butterflies, 3, 1, 184-192. Hoffmann, F. 
—Das ei von Vanessa antiopa, 216, xxix, 86. Keith, E. D—The 
dance of the ghost moth (Hepialus argenteomaculatus), 411, 1916, 
21-2. Meder, O.—Gibt es geschlechtsunterschiede bei schmetter- 
lingseiern, 166, ix, 118-119. 


French, G. H.—A n. sp. of Catocala, 4, 1916, 72. Hampson, G. H. 
—Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae and Litho- 
sianae) in coll. of Br. Mus., 401, Suppl. Vol. I, 858 pp. Wolley Dod, 
F. H.—Noctuid notes from western Canada, with descriptions of 
two n. sps. and a variety, 4, 1916, 58-70. 


DIPTERA. Fitzsimons, F. W.—The house fly: a slayer of men, 
89 pp. (Longmans, Green & Co.). Guppy, P. L.—Breeding and 
colonizing the Syrphid, 336, Bul. xiii, 217-26. Hodge, C. F.—Con- 
trol of flies as a nature study problem, 285, 1916, 79-95. Hyslop, 
J. A—The host of Zelia vertebrata (Dexiidae), 5, 1916, 24-5. Keilin, 
D.—Recherches sur les larves de dipteres cyclorhaphes, 200, xlix, 
25-198. Lagendre, J.—Sur un nouveau mode de transport des 
larves de moustiques, 18, Ixxix, 26-7. Schoene, W. J—The econom- 
ic status of the seed-corn maggot (Pegomya fusciceps); Notes 
on the biology of P. brassicae, 179, ix, 131-3; 136-9. 


Alexander, C. P.—New or little-known crane-flies from the U. S. 
and Canada: Part 2 [many species], 1, 1915, 458-514. New nearctic 
crane-flies (Tipulidae) [11 new], 4, 1916, 42-53. A biological recon- 
naissance of the Okefeenokee swamp in Georgia. The Tipulidae 


186 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, ’16 


[1 n. sp.], 479, ii, 97-8. Cresson, E. T., Jr.—Studies in American 
Ephydridae. 1. Revision of the species of the genus Paralimna, 2, 
xlii, 101-124. Lutz, A~-Commissao de Linpas Telegraphicas Estra- 
tegicao de Matto Grosso ao Amazonas. Annexo No. 5. Hist. Nat. 
Zool. Tabanideos, 9 pp. Malloch, J. R.A new gen. & sp. of 
Helomyzidae, 411, 1916, 14-16. Townsend, C. H. T.—New and note- 
worthy Brazilian Muscoidea collected by H. H. Smith, 158, xxxv, 
15-22. Van Duzee, M. C.—A biological reconnaissance of the 
Okefeenokee swamp region in Georgia. The Dolichopodidae [5 n. 
sps.], 479, ii, 87-96. 


COLEOPTERA. Davis, A.—The genus Pleocoma, 411, 1916, 
11-12. Dow, R. P.—Note on Psenocerus supernotatus, 411, 1916, 20. 
Germain, F.—Buprestidae known to occur in the Ottawa district, 
18, xxix, 129-30. Histerides capturés a Ottawa et dans les environs, 
37, xlii, 103-5. Hayes, W. P.—A study of the life-history of the 
maize bill-bug (Sphenophorus maidis), 179, ix, 120-130. Herrick, 
G. W.—Observations on the life history of the cherry leaf beetle, 
447, v, 943-9. Hyslop, J. A.—Prothetely in the Elaterid genus Me- 
lanotus, 5, 1916, 3-6. Johnson & Ballinger—Life history studies of 
the Colorado potato beetle, 447, v, 917-25. Lameere, A.—Les car- 
acteres sexuels secondaires des Prionides, 200, xlix, 1-14. Walsh, 
G. B.—Observations on some of the causes determining the survival 
and extinction of insects with special reference to the C. (cont.), 
8, 1915, 257-61. Sell, R. A.—A migration of beetles, 285, 1916, 55-6. 


Casey, T. L.A new sp. of Baryodma, 4, 1916, 70-1. Fall, H. C. 
—Three new C. from Washington state, 411, 1916, 13-14. Hyslop, 
J. A.—Elateridae and Throscidae of the Stanford University expe- 
dition of 1911 to Brazil, 5, 1916, 16-21. Leng, C. W.—A list of the 
families of C. in America north of Mexico, 411, 1916, 1-5. 


HYMENOPTERA, de la Baume-Pluvinel, G.—Sur les formes 
larvaires de certains Hymenopteres parasites internes des larves 
de Dipteres, 522, 1914, 510-14. Howard, L. O.—Further notes on 
Frospaltella berlesei, 179, ix, 179-81. McColloch & Hays—A pre- 
liminary report on the life economy of Solenopsis molesta, 179, 
ix, 23-38. Wheeler, W. M.—[Review of] British ants, their life- 
history and classification by Donisthorpe, 68, xliii, 316-18. 


Cockerell, T. D. A.—The bees of the Coronado Islands [3 new], 
4, 1916, 54-58. Two new bees from New Jersey, 411, 1916, 11. 
Gaige, F. M.—The Formicidae of Charity Island, Lake Huron, 507, 
No. 5, 29 pp. Wheeler, W. M.—Ants collected in British Guiana 
by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 
during 1911, 158, xxxv, 1-14. 


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Doings of Societies. 
American Entomological Society. 

Meeting of December 13th, 1915, at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
Philadelphia. Seven persons present. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, President, 
in the chair. 

The annual reports of the Treasurer, Librarian, Curator and Corres- 
ponding Secretary were read and ordered filed. 

The death of Charles Kerremans, a corresponding member, was an- 
nounced. 

A new Agreement with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia was adopted and the President and Recording Secretary auth- 
orized to sign the same. It was voted that House of Representatives 
bill no. 528, to discontinue the use of the Fahrenheit scale thermometer 
in Government publications, be endorsed. Dr. Witmer Stone was 
proposed for membership in the Society. Mr. R. C. Williams, Jr., and 
Prof. Clarence E. McClung were elected members. 

The following were elected officers for the ensuing year: Prest- 
dent, Henry Skinner; Vice President, J. A. G. Rehn; Treasurer, E. T. 
Cresson; Curator, Henry Skinner; Corresponding Sec’y, Morgan Heb- 
ard; Recording Sec’y, R. C. Williams, Jr.; Librarian, E. T. Cresson, Jr. 
Executive Committce, Philip Laurent, D. M. Castle and H. W. Wen- 
zel; Finance Committee, J. A. G. Rehn, D. M. Castle and Morgan 
Hebard; Publication Committee, J. A. G. Rehn, E. T. Cresson and P. 
P. Calvert—HENry SKINNER, Recording Sec’y. 


Feldman Collecting Social. 


Meeting of December 15, 1915, at the home of H. W. Wenzel, 5614 
Stewart St., Philadelphia. Ten members present; Pres. H. A. Wenzel 
in the chair, 

Coleoptera—Mr. H. W. Wenzel said it was surprising that a very 
large insect could remain in collections for years wrongly identified but 
such is the case with what we have known as Cotinis mutabilis Gory. 
Col. Casey, in his Memoirs, vi, has pointed out that this species never 
reaches as far north as the United States and our form is really two 
species which he describes as new: arizonica with narrow yellow mar- 
gin and texana with half yellow elytra. 

Adjourned to the annex. 


Meeting of January 19, 1916, at the same place. Eleven members 
present; Pres. Wenzel in the chair. 

The present officers were re-elected to serve for 1016. 

Coleoptera—Mr. Daecke exhibited a specimen of Soronia ulkei 
LeC. from Rockville, Pennsylvania, v-14~11._ Mr. Wenzel has a speci- 
men from the District of Columbia and H. A. Wenzel has collected it 


188 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 16 


at Tybee Island, Georgia. There are several records from New Jersey 
—Ins. N. J., p. 273, 1910. Mr. H. W. Wenzel said the only specimen he 
had seen of Buprestis connexa Horn was the type in the Horn Collec- 
tion, but recently he had received a specimen labeled Corvallis, Ore- 
gon, collected by G. F. Moznetti; this was exhibited. 

Hymenoptera and Coleoptera—Mr. Kaeber exhibited Liopus 
fascicularis Harr. bred from sumac collected at Clifton, Delaware 
County, Pennsylvania, v-23-15. The Liopus began emerging May 27 
and continued to about June 2. The first parasite noticed was on June 
2 and continued emerging for about one week. Of all the specimens 
reared about 15 per cent. were parasites; these were identified by Mr. 
Rohwer as Capitonius ashmeadu D. T. 


Adjourned to the annex. 
Gro. M. GREENE, Sec’y 


Chicago Entomological Club. 

Meeting of December I9, 1915, at home of Charles Krueger. Fifteen 
members present. 

Coleopterists had as a subject the families Endomychidae and 
Erotylidae. Notable among local captures reported were Rhymbus 
minor Crotch, Rhamis unicolor Ziegl., Phymaphora pulchella Newm., 
Mycetina perpulchra Newm., Stenotarsus testaceus Ziegl., Langura 
uhlerii Horn, Mycotretus sanguinipennis Say and Tritoma mimetica 
Crotch. Mr. A. B. Wolcott also exhibited the type of Symbiotes duryi 
Blatchley, described in 1910 in The Coleoptera of Indiana. The same 
species was later re-described as new by Mr. L. B. Walton in The Ohio 
Naturalist, Vol. XII, p. 463 (Feb. 1912) under the same name, giving 
locality as Gambier, Ohio, and making no mention of the real type lo- 
cality, Lafayette, Indiana. 

Lepidopterists had the Notodontidae as a subject, local captures 
reported (other than Datana and Melalopha) being as follows: 


Schizura ipomoeae 

angelica telifer 

Hyperaeschra stragula cinereofrons 
georgica (rare) semirufescens 

Odontosia elegans unicornis 

Notodonta simplaria (1 A. Kwiat) 3 badia 

Pheosia dimidiata leptinoides (rare) 


Apatelodes torrefacta 


oe 


Lophodonta angulosa 
Nadata gibbosa 
Nerice bidentata 
Symmerista albifrons 
Heterocampa obliqua 
eo biundata 
guttivitta 
bilineata 
Tanassa lignicolor 


oe 


ce 


Hyparpax aurora 
Cerura multiscripta (1 E. Beer) 
e occidentalis 
Harpyia borealis (rare) 
4 cinerea 
scolopendrina (rare) 
Fentonia marthesia (1 A. Kwiat) 
Gluphysia septentrionalis 
Ellidia caniplaga 


“ 


WAGE b FP rer 


Vol. xxvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 189 


Meeting of January 16, 1916, at home of Mr. Frank Psota. Sixteen 
members present. 

Coleopterists reported 44 species of Histeridae as having been 
taken locally. Mr. Wolcott showed the type of Saprinus illinoisensis 
and also a gigantic species of the same genus, the description of which, 
he stated, will soon appear. 

Lepidopterists exhibited their specimens of Liparidae and allied 
species, local captures reported being as follows: 


Habrosyne rectangula Malacosoma.americana 
Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides " disstria 
i expultrix Heteropacha rilevana (C. Krueger) 

Orgyia leucostigma Gastropacha americana 
Parorgyia plagiata (Fox Lake, Enudeilinea herminiata 

Illinois. A. Kwiat) Oreta rosea 
Tolype velleda “ marginata 

7 laricis (Millers, Indiana. : irrorata (2 A. Kwiat) 

E. Liljeblad) Drepana arcuata 

= gemcula 


A. Kwrat, Secretary. 


Newark Entomological Society. 

Meetings held in Newark, New Jersey, Public Library, December 12, 
1915, and January 9, 1916. Pres. Buchholz in chair; average attendance, 
Ir members. At the December meeting, the following officers for 1916 
were elected: Pres., Otto Buchholz; Vice-Pres., Henry H. Brehme; Sec., 
H. B. Weiss; Fin. Sec., T. D. Mayfield; Treas., G. J. Keller; Librarian, 
Louis Doerfel; Curator, Chas. Rummel; Trustee, Geo. Stortz. At the 
January meeting, Mr. Herman H. Brehme:read a paper on. Collecting 
at Morgan, New Jersey, during I9g15. 

Lepidoptera—At the December meeting, Mr. Rummel exhibited 
Lycaena pseudargiolus (ladon Cram.) taken May 14 and the forms 
lucia Kirby, marginata Edw., violacea Edw., taken from April 16 to 
July, and also Nonagria oblonga Grt., all from Montclair, New Jersey. 
At the January meeting, Mr. Lemmer recorded the following captures 
in New Jersey; Glaea inulta Irvington, Oct. 21; Epiglaea pastillicans 
Morr., Lakehurst, Oct. 17, (Buchholz and Lemmer) ; E. tremula Harv., 
Lakehurst, Oct. 17, (Buchholz and Lemmer); E. apiata Grt., Lakehurst, 
Oct. 18; Coenocalpe magnoliata Gn., Lake Hopatcong, July 15; Eois 
demissaria Hbn., Elizabeth, Aug. 15; Orthofidonia exornata Wlk., Ly- 
ons Farms, April 29, May 2; Pero marmoratus Grossb., Irvington, Aug. 
10; Homochlodes fritillaria Gn., Irvington, July 27, Aug. 12. Mr. Weiss 
exhibited Japanese postal cards decorated with Colias hyale ., Radena 
vulgaris Butl., and Junonia lemonias 1,., the color and markings having 
been transferred perfectly to the cards. 

Hemiptera—Mr. Weiss exhibited specimens of  Stephanitis 


190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 716 


pyrioides Scott (azaleae Horv.) which is firmly established in different 
parts of New Jersey and which feeds on the foliage of hardy azaleas, 
this species having been introduced from Japan; also Leptoypha mutt- 
ca Say which was taken in large numbers while feeding on the fringe 
plant during the past summer at Hammonton, New Jersey. This spe- 
cies is recorded as rare in Smith’s list. 

Harry B. Weiss, Rec. Secretary. 


A New Entomological Club. 

Editor of Entomological News :—I wish to call to your attention the 
formation of the “Boston Entomological Club.” Meetings are held on 
the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 8 o’clock P. M. at 
the home of Prof. William Reiff, 366 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Massa- 
chusetts. Although an entomological club we are especially interested 
in the collection of Lepidoptera. Entomologists visiting Boston will be 
welcomed at the Club meetings. At the annual meeting the following 
were elected officers for the coming year: Rudolph C. B. Bartsch, pres- 
ident; W. F. Eastman, vice president; E. F. Knight, secretary; H. J. 
Law, treasurer; Prof. William Reiff, superintendent of sales; Ernst 
Grebner and Nathaniel Stowers, members at large-—E. F. KNicut, 
Secretary, 9 Fairfield St., North Cambridge, Mass. 


The New Ecological Society of America. 

A meeting of ecologists was held at, Hotel Hartman, Columbus, 
Ohio, December 28, 1915, under the chairmanship of Prof. J. W. Harsh- 
berger, for the purpose of considering the organization of an ecologi- 
cal society. About fifty persons were present, nearly all of whom 
were enthusiastically in favor of forming such a society. Over fifty. 
others who could not be present had notified the Secretary of their in- 
terest in the movement. In view of these facts it was definitely voted 
to organize under the name The Ecological Society of America. The 
new society has an initial membership of more than one hundred bot- 
anists and zoologists interested in ecology. The constitution adopted 
declares that membership “shall consist of persons interested in ecol- 
ogy,” that an annual meeting and field meetings shall be held and fixes 
the annual dues at $1.00. The officers chosen were President, Prof. V. 
E. Shelford, University of Illinois; Vice-President, Prof. W. M. 
Wheeler, Harvard University; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Forrest 
Shreve, Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. 

The charter membership has been doubled since the Columbus meet- 
ing, and there is every prospect for an active and influential organiza- 
tion. The roster of names indicates that the collective interests of the 
society will be of the broadest character, embracing every phase of the 
relation of organisms to their environmental conditions. The Ecologi- 


Vol. xxvii} ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I9I 


cal Society represents the union and co-operation of men who are in- 
terested in animal and plant material, in marine and terrestrial organ- 
isms, in the broader floristic and faunistic problems, and in the precise 
experimental study of organisms or the exact measurement of environ- 
mental conditions. Such an organization will be able to do much 
toward emphasizing fundamental problems of general ecology, and 
toward placing this science in a position correlative with that of gen- 
eral physiology. 

The constitution admits of great freedom with regard to the holding 
of field meetings, and it would be difficult to overestimate the value 
that they may be made to possess. There will be an added stimulus to 
travel, there will be profit for every ecologist in seeing new regions 
under the guidance of men who know them well, and there will be 
profit for the science of ecology if the students of plants and animals 
can unite frequently for a consideration of the biota as an indivisible 
unit. 

There will be a field meeting at Chicago in June, under the leader- 
ship of Dr. H. C. Cowles; one on the Pacific Coast in August, probably 
at San Diego. The Secretary will give early announcement of the de- 
tails of these and of any others that may be initiated by different 
groups of members. The first regular annual meeting will be held in 
New York during the next Convocation week. 

The Secretary is gathering information from the members as to their 
past ecological work and that in progress, their specialties, their willing- 
ness to undertake identification of material, their knowledge of various 
geographical areas and kindred topics, all to be published as a Hand- 
book of the Society. 

The membership of all interested in ecological work is desired. 

[From circulars issued by the Secretary, Dr. Forrest SHREvE, Tuc- 
son, Arizona; temporary address, 2753 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, Md.] 


OBITUARY. 


Miss ADELE Marion FIErnpdeE died in Seattle, Washington, 
February 24, 1916. Born in East Rodman, New York, March 
30, 1839, and graduated from a New York State Normal School 
in 1860, she taught in her native State for some years and 
then went out as a Baptist missionary, first to Siam in 1866, 
and later to China, especially in Swatow. Having become 
deeply interested in the theory of evolution she returned to 
America in 1883 and, at the suggestion of Dr. David Starr 
Jordan, pursued studies in biology in Philadelphia, especially 


1g2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ April, 16 


at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Here she made the ac- 
quaintance of Dr. Edward J. Nolan, librarian of the Academy, 
who has paid a warm tribute to her memory in the columns of 
the Philadelphia Public Ledger for February 28, 1916. Dr. 
Nolan relates that it was Miss Fielde’s desire for work in 
biology that led to the foundation of the Biological Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania, although she never became 
a student therein. 

She returned to China in September, 1885, but in October, 
1892, engaged in science teaching in New York and studied 
and lectured during the summers of 1900-07 at Wood’s Hole 
These years witnessed her chief entomological work—on the 
senses, activities and behavior of ants. She set forth the view 
that “the antennae of the ant are a pair of compound noses, 
certain segments having each a special function,” restating it 
in a paper On certain vesicles found in the integument of ants 
in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia for January, 1915, accompanied by a list of twen- 
ty-three papers which she had published, chiefly in the same 
Proceedings and in The Biological Bulletin, on this group of 
insects. Her interest in the olfactory sense developed by these 
researches is to be seen in two other short papers in the Pro- 
ceedings for 1915, one concerning dogs, the other entitled 4 
new hypothesis concerning butterflies. 

These were not Miss Fielde’s only contribution to entomolo- 
gy, however, for during her second period of residence in China 
she addressed to the Academy brief communications on the 
preparation of Fishing lines from the Silk-Glands of Lepidop- 
terous Larvae by the Chinese (Proceedings, 1886, pp. 298-9), 
On an Aquatic Larva [Hydropsyche?| and its Case (1887, pp. 
293-4), An Aquatic Insect, or Insect-Larva having jointed dor- 
sal appendages (1888, pp. 129-130, plate viii) and On an Insect- 
Larva Habitation (I. c., pp. 176-177), all recording observa- 


tions made at Swatow. 
PS eae 


—_——————<9 > ——___ 


Correction. ENt. News, vol. xxvi, p. 445, 13th line from bottom, 
for “1892” read “1852.” 


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Liberal exchange given for Lepidoptera needed for the collection of 
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Wanted—rz2 pair of Argynnts idalia, 3 pair Arg. diana, 2 pair Arg. 
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