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Ent. News, Vol. XXVIII. Plate XXVIII.

NEW MALLOPHAGA FROM NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS.—mcGREGor.

1, 4, Goniodes zenaidurae. 2,5, Laemobothrium intermediun.
3, 6, Physostomum melospizae.

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VoL. XXVIII. DECEMBER, 1917. No. Io.
CONEENTS:

McGregor—Three new Mallophaga @hanges of Address. o.%..<csec(eloesieiewe< 461
from North American Birds....... 433 Stoner—A new Species of Apateticus
Skinner—Anthocharis genutia and a from Louisiana (Hem., Het )...... 462
new Variety (Lep.):.............-+ 438 Hampson—The Determination of Ge-
Crosby and Leonard—The Egg of By- neric Types in the Lepidoptera.... 463
turus unicolor Say (Col.)...... - 438 Editorial—The Convocation Week
Gibson—The Genus Harmostes Burm. WQS TMES Soocdos Gocdonooooseecrace 468

icoreidae, Heterop:)).....05.2 0000. 439 | Entomology in British Columbia...... 469
Brues—Three new West Indian Spe- Emergency Entomological Service.... 470
cies of the Ichneumonid Genus Entomological Literature.............-. 471

Eiphosoma (Hym.).......----.-. 450 Review of Tillyard: The Biology of
Chidester—Dytiscus as a Destroyer of DEAR OULMCSeieiteriaicteleistelelereisielslciieereiete 475

Mosquito Larvae (Col., Dipt.). 454 Laurent—Abundance of Sympetrum
Knight—New Species of Lopidea (Mi- rubicundulum (Odon.)............ 479

RIGAC ELEN P:)) cleriviers ew aie cio stew ela 455 Doings of Societies—Amer. Ent. Soc.
(Orthop., Odon., Lep.)..:......... 480

Three new Mallophaga from North American Birds.

By E. A. McGrecor, Bureau of Entomology, United States
Department of Agriculture.
(Plate XXVIIL.)
Goniodes zenaidurae n. sp. (PI. XXVIII, figs. 1, 4.)

Three females (Bishopp No. 5258) from a mourning dove,
Zenaidura macroura (L.), Aberdeen, South Dakota, June 3,
1915, W. E. Dove, Coll.

Type No. 21606, United States National Museum.

This species is nearest G. damicornis N. from which it dif-
fers in the occipital outline, shape of prothorax, character of
lateral abdominal plates, and the arrangement of hairs and
spines.

@. Total length 1.80 mm.; length of head .468 mm.; length of
prothorax .108 mm.; length of metathorax .252 mm.; length of ab-
domen .972 mm.; width of head across temples .666 mm.; width of
prothorax .360 mm.; width of metathorax .504 mm.; width of abdomen
765 mm.

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Head about two-fifths again as broad as long; front regularly
convex, with eight short prickles; antennae in a narrow, shallow
emargination with second joint longest; eye not noticeable, without
a prickle; from the antennal sinuses the temporal margins diverge con-
siderably and then converge most abruptly forming prominent angles
at which are located a short prickle and a long hair; between the
angle and the occiput another long hair, and a prickle at the inner
end of posterior temporal border; the occipital border is strongly
emarginate immediately before the lateral margins of the prothorax
with a resulting strong convexity between these. Head color pale;
with darker, broad marginal frontal bands, produced posteriorly on
each side as a much darker bar, which terminate opposite the hind
borders of antennal sinuses; temporal bands interrupted across the
bases of antennae but extending from the dark ocular blotches, in-
creasingly fainter, to the temporal angles; mandibles and oesophageal
sclerite amber-colored; a rather narrow, brown band along the con-
cave and convex portions of the occipital margin; broad, conspicuous
occipital bands extend nearly to the antennal bands.

Prothorax trapezoidal, with lateral margins converging somewhat
anteriorly, and posterior margin nearly straight; the latero-posterior
angles are narrowly truncate, and each bears a strong hair; broad,
dark lateral borders. Metathorax in outline resembling an acorn
cup. with posterior-lateral regions rounded, and each bearing a long
and a shorter hair; posterior margin produced on abdomen as a prom-
inently rounded lobe, and bearing a group of six strong spines; an
amber-colored yoke-like blotch involves the entire segment, and a
broad curving band extends along each side into the first abdominal
segment. Legs very pale, with somewhat darker marginal borders.

Abdomen elliptical, widest on fourth and fifth segments; middle
region of abdomen uncolored; faint lateral bands and trigger-shaped,
faint lateral blotches on segments three to six, inclusive, which en-
croach slightly onto the segments ahead; segments two to six, in-
clusive, also with a tad-pole-shaped blotch at each lateral posterior
angle; segment one bare of hairs; segments two and three with a
prickle at each angle: segment four with two shortish hairs at angles;
segment five with two spines and a long hair at each angle, and a
strong hair on each side nearly half way to the middle; segment six
with two strong hairs at the angles, and a strong hair on each side
nearly half way to the middle; segment seven with about eight hairs
along the rounded posterior margin.

Laemobothrium intermedium n. sp. (Pl. XXVIII, figs. 2, 5.)

A male and two immature specimens (McGregor No. 82,
or No. 271 of the Washburn Minnesota collection) from spar-
row hawk, Falco sparverius, and a single male (Bishopp No.

Vol. xxviii | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 435

3072) from the same host, Uvalde, Texas, March 8, 1914,
coll. D. C. Parman.

Type No. 21607, United States National Museum.

This species is probably referable to Laemobothrium on ac-
count of the presence of the prominent swellings before the
eyes, the absence of motile muscular lobes on the under side
of forehead, and owing to the body length exceeding 5 milli-
meters. On the other hand, the shape of abdomen, outline of
front of head, almost entire absence of ocular emargination,
and the general markings, are much more suggestive of Phy-
sostomum, and our species may well be the link that obliterates
the present separation into the two genera. Perhaps nearest
L. laticolle N. from Falco subbuteo.

2. Total length 6.03 mm.; length of head 1.140 mm.; length of
prothorax .585 mm.; length of metathorax .517 mm.; width of ab-
domen 3.735 mm.; width of head across temples 1.260 mm.; width of
prothorax 1.057 mm.; width of metathorax 1.35 mm.; width of ab-
domen 1.710 mm.

Head slightly wider than long; ground color pale amber; ocular
emargination almost lacking, head suddenly and greatly contracted
abreast of the mandible bases, sides of forehead converging to the
evenly rounded convex front; temples at first diverging slightly, and
then converging to the sharply rounded occipital corners; occipital
margin deeply concave with a slight median convexity; antennae con-
cealed in fossae; labial palpi barely projecting; mandibles pale with
teeth blackish: antennal fossae rimmed medially and posteriorly with
heavy black borders extending inward and backward to form Y-shaped
blotches; a black, cleft blotch on each side at inner angle of forehead
contraction: occipital border margined with blackish brown bands
which give off short rudiments of occipital bands; in front of
mandibles a crescent-shaped fossa, convex anteriorly; two strong spines
arise at each frontal.angle between which occur about 30 hairs and
prickles of various lengths, a score or more of long and short hairs
arise on the lateral prominences, two weak hairs at the front of each
antennal fossa, a long hair arising just over the emarginate eye, several
short hairs along the anterior half of temples, a long and a short
pustulated hair at the temporal angles, a long pustulated hair at the
base of the temporal lobe, and three or four longish hairs along the
temporal margins.

Prothorax roughly quadrangular, a sharp constriction at each an-
terior angle forms a sort of neck-like extension which fits into the
occipital concavity; the posterior halves of the lateral margins con-
verge quickly and end in the posterior-lateral lobes which are

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formed by the deep emargination of the posterior border; two long
hairs arise from the angle just behind the frontal constriction; two
black blotches on the front margin, a black fleck bordering the con-
striction inwardly, a large black blotch just behind constriction ex-
tending to center of lateral border and is continued fainter backward
and inward, a narrow, curving, underlying bar extends backward
and inward from a point before the anterior lateral flecks; a pair of
black anterior metathoracic blotches show plainly through the hyaline
posterior-lateral lobes, and from the inner points of these, fainter bars
run inward and backward, finally paralleling the median line; six long
hairs occur along the anterior portions of the lateral margins and
four shorter ones from the posterior lobes; a peculiar H-shaped plate
involves the entire segment through the cross-bar of which a faint
clear stripe intersects. Metathorax and mesothorax, which are indis-
tinguishably fused, are continuous with the abdomen; two _ short
spines at each anterior angle, twelve long hairs along the margin of
the segment and a central transverse series of six shortish hairs;
margined laterally by a dark brown border which widens greatly pos-
teriorly; a narrow band parallels this just mediad of same; another
narrow band arises inwardly on each side which runs backward and
inward, and meets transversely on the first abdominal segment; from
the hindmost end of the lateral border horn-like bars are projected
backward onto the first and second abdominal segments. Legs con-
colorous with ground color and thorax, with dark marginal borders.

Abdomen narrowly elliptical, with no marginal constrictions be-
tween segments; each segment with three or four long hairs and
three or four short hairs laterally; segments one to eight, inclusive,
with a transverse row of long spines at the posterior margin as fol-
lows: Segment one, 14; segment two, I4; segment three, 16; seg-
ment four, 16; segment five, 10; segment six, 14; segment seven, 9;
segment eight, 6; first and eighth segments the shortest: terminal
segment with a marginal fringe of about 20 hairs; segment one with
a median, triangular, brownish blotch whose apex invades the meta-
thorax; remaining segments (excepting the last) each with a trans-
verse band of same color, which are shallowly emarginate laterally,
thus leaving a clear region inside the brown lateral bands which are
lined within with a parallel, semi-hyaline edge.

Physostomum melospizae n. sp. (PI. XXVIII, figs. 3, 6.)

Two females (McGregor No. go, or No. 178 of the Wash-
burn Minnesota collection from the song sparrow, Melospiza
melodia, St. Anthony Park, Minnesota. Possibly nearest P.
sucinaceum Kell. from the western flycatcher; not at all like
the Physostomum of the golden-crowned sparrow.

Type No. 21608, United States National Museum.

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@. Total length 2.17 mm.; length of head .53 mm.; length of pro-
thorax .20 mm.; length of metathorax .30 mm.; length of abdomen
1.15 mm.; width of head across temples .45 mm.; width of prothorax
.36 mm.; width of metathorax .47 mm.; width of abdomen .50 mm.

Head a little longer than wide; front evenly rounded; and _ sides
of forehead somewhat concave; temples converging rotundately, but
produced very slightly backward with sharply rounded posterior
angles; occipital margin nearly a straight line; eye with a conspicu-
ous black fleck; palpi considerably passing the margins of head; the
labral lobes quite conspicuously passing the margin of head; ground
color transparent, with a large, amber-colored, urn-shaped blotch oc-
cupying center of head, at the anterior end of which occurs a straight,
transverse bar of the same color; antennal fossa bordered posteriorly
with a faint blotch which extends toward the occipital angles; a faint,
narrow band surrounds two clear, circular areas abreast of the palpi;
12 prickles occur along the front margin, four prickles arise on each
side even with the antennae; two long hairs and five short ones arise
from each temporal border between the eye fleck and the occiput; a
broad, pale band borders the occipital margin.

Prothorax, roughly hexagonal with rounded angles; the antero-
lateral facets with a weak hair and a longer one; a long hair and a
prickle at the postero-lateral angles; four prickles along the posterior
border; general color of segment faint amber, with a faint, narrow
band paralleling the margin, and with other faint, linear blotches.
Metathorax with a slight swelling on anterior third of sides, which
bear each two prickles; general color resembling that of prothorax,
with a central pale bordered blotch, and pale marginal bands. Legs
rather long, pale, with faint marginal bands.

Abdomen with sides very flatly convex, subparallel; a long hair on
the posterior angles of segments one to seven, inclusive, and with a
prickle at the angles of segments one to three, inclusive; terminal
segment bluntly rounded, with four longish hairs and a fringe of ten
prickles; lateral bands almost colorless.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVIII.
Fig. Female of Gontodes zenaidurae n. sp.
Male of Laemobothrium intermedium n. sp.
Female of Physostomum melospizae n. sp.
Left leg III of female of Goniodes szenaidurae n. sp.
(viewed ventrally).
5. Right leg II] of male of Laemobothrium intermedium n. sp.
(viewed ventrally).
6. Left leg III of female of Physostomum melospizae n. sp.
(viewed ventrally).
All figures drawn by the author with the aid of camera lucida with
little attempt at restoring symmetry.

Robo

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Anthocharis genutia and a new Variety (Lep.).
By HENRY SKINNER.

This pretty species was described by Fabricius in 1793 and
the original description says, “Habitat in India Dom. Drury.”
A. G. Butler, in his Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera describ-
ed by Fabricius in the collection of the British Museum, gives
the following: “‘Tllinois, United States.” The catalogue was
prepared with the view of identifying the species of Diurnal
Lepidoptera described by Fabricius, by a comparison with the
original type specimens, drawings, etc. The presumption is
that the type locality was Lllinois. Until recently I have not
seen any variation in this species from various parts of its
geographical distribution. On March 12th of the present year
Mr. W. J. Coxey caught two pairs at Savannah, Georgia, and
presented them to The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila-
delphia. In the males the orange tip is extended to the black
spot in the primary wing and extends a little above it into
discal cell. The upper side of the secondaries is washed
with orange, from the border, for about one-eighth inch into
the wing. The tips of the females are lightly washed with
orange. It will be interesting to learn whether all the speci-
mens found in the locality mentioned have the same markings.
I propose the name flavida for the variety.

The Egg of Byturus unicolor Say. (Col.).

On June 7, 1917, Mr. A. B. Buchholz reported a serious outbreak of
this beetle at Milton, New York. On July 3d we visited this place
and found the beetles still present in considerable numbers. Some
of the unripe berries were already
infested with the larvae and one
larva was observed just entering the
fruit. On careful examination of
the berries both eggs and egg-shells
were found.

The egg is deposited on the unripe fruit and is attached by one side
to one of the pistils. Only one egg was found on a berry. The
egg is 1.1 mm. in length by .4 mm. in width, elongate ovoid, dull
yellowish in color with the surface very finely roughened—C. R.
Crosgy and M. D. Leonarp, Ithaca, New York.

Egg of Byturus unicolor Say.

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The Genus Harmostes Burm. (Coreidae, Heterop.).
By Epmunp H. Gipson, U. S. Bureau of Entomology.

The genus Harmostes Burm. appears to be limited in its
distribution to the New World, its species being recorded only
from North, Central and South America, West Indies and the
Galapagos Islands. Central America is probably its region of
erigin as the greatest number of species is to be found there
and those occurring to the extreme north and south exhibit the
greatest differences in structure. The genus now contains 16
species, 8 of which are represented in North America north
of Mexico.

Harmostes is the largest and principal genus of the tribe
Harmostini Stal and in general its diagnostic characters are
those of Harmostini. Aufems Stal and Xenogenus Berg, the
other genera of the same tribe, may be separated from Har-
mostes as follows: Aufeius has the abdomen swollen or ex-
tended laterally beyond the hemelytra, and Xenogenus has a
more elongated body and ocelli elevated. The key character
for separating Harmostini from the remaining tribes of the
subfamily Corizinae is the posterior femora spined beneath.

In establishing a key to the species, the use of color and
color markings as diagnostic characters have been eliminated
and structural differences relied upon entirely; these include
principally the characters of the head and its parts, pronotal
margins and angles, and size. The color within a species is
quite variable, as is also the size, but the latter under certain
limitations may be used.

The haplotype of the genus is H. dorsalis Burm., 1835, but
which I now deem best to place in synonymy with serratus
Fabr., 1794. The original description of dorsalis Burm.
(Supra brunneus fusco-striatus, subtus flavus, pronoti margine
laterali lineaque media scutelli flavis; pectore linea laterali
fusca. Long. 3-34”) is so meagre in detail that it is not
possible to distinguish it from several other species. I there-
fore place it in synonymy with the oldest described species
which falls within the genus and which has the same distribu-
tion as that stated for dorsalis. The coloration of serratus

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Fabr. also fits that given for dorsalis Burm. The specimens
which I have seen labeled “dorsalis” were determined as such
by the late Mr. Otto Heidemann, but I am unable to distin-
guish them from serratus. W. L. Distant* states, “I have
with Stal been unable to identify this species (dorsalis) ; it
probably represents one of the preceding Mexican species; but
the description is too slight for any accurate decision.”

This paper is based upon specimens in the United States
National Museum which had been previously determined by
Messrs. P. R. Uhler, Otto Heidemann and R. M. Reuter, also
upon considerable previously undetermined material, and in-
cludes one new species the type of which is in the collection
of the U. S. National Museum. I am indebted to Mr. J. R.
de la Torre Bueno for the privilege of examining a small col-
lection of specimens in this genus, representing six species.

Genus HARMOSTES Burm.

Harmostes Burm., Handbuch der Ent., 1835.

The following is a translation by the author of the original
description by Burmeister:

Resembles Corizus Fall., Hahn, but differing from it in hav-
ing hind femora with pronounced spines. Antennae two-thirds
as long as body, the first joint short, stout, and the two fol-
lowing delicate and of equal length, the fourth shorter than the
preceding one and swollen at the apex. Ocelli near eyes.
Thorax with raised curved margins, also always sloping. Front
legs normal, the hind legs longer, with femora’ very thick, under
side spiny.

A redescription of the genus is not at all necessary. Dallas
gives as generic characters, besides those contained in the above
description: breast furrowed longitudinally for the reception
of the rostrum and rostrum reaching or passing the inter-
mediate coxae, with its third joint as long as or longer than
the fourth.

Key to the Species of Harmostes.

i Wateralsmarcins) Of pronotum crenulateds--.2. 2568 000eneeeeee ZA,
Lateral marecins of pronotum not crenulated..:............ a0 8.

* Biologia Centrali-Americana, Hem. Het. Part 1, p. 168.

Vol. xxviit| ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 441

QeRostrum extendine beyond metasternum.-:..2...2.0-.-.00-.006> a
Rostrum not extending beyond metasternum.................... vfs
PERSE AGE O10 MOU R. 4282 ll. see eles os oe os weg wlonies 4.
Speetes smaller, net exceeding 8 mm. long. ..:..02:.....-.540--+- 5.

4. First antennal joint considerably passing apex of head, and fourth
joint about twice as long as the first...........- nebulosus Stal.

First antennal joint about reaching apex of head, and fourth joint
Dieta ioncer than the first... 25... e6.s. es formosus Dist.
Eseconaeand third antennal joimts equal............. affinis Dall.
Second» antennal joint shorter than the third................... 6.

6. Posterior angles of pronotum broadly rounding....procerus Berg.
Posterior angles of pronotum angular............ prolixus Stal.

7. Species small, not exceeding 5 mm. long............ apicatus Stal.
Species larger, exceeding 5 mm: long..:.........-.- serratus Fabr.

8. Basal joint of antennae scarcely or slightly passing apex of
ICAI Rea. oe a cna ays Sar «320 alaiars aces ye cya vs fraterculus Say.

Basal joint of antennae extending considerably beyond apex of
IREAGCL, \Vc'5 ble,o Get ete CIES CR oe te ene pence eae eee 0.

9. Lateral angles of pronotum broadly rounded................... 10.
Lateral angles of pronotum not broadly rounded, angular...... ih,
Io. Second antennal joint shorter than third.......... subrufus Dist.
Second and third antennal joints equal.... ........ croceus n. sp.
Heespeciess sia, less than 7 mm: long...........- marmoratus Spin.
Speciecmlacoen 7M Ob) MOnerlOMGe aia. seie a2 sao +s he soe eels 12.
HOMES VECICSHOMIMIN LOM sical oe arcisvele «.d\etevers fos se 0:4 as 3 raphimerus Spin.
SpeClesmlessmenanie Oy MIM MONG acs cisc ce «occ acs Osis Soha ice eke 13.
13. Lateral margins of corium appearing very wide and distinctly
[MIPQOTS 2 o 6G Se Ge BR pero AE tie BAO Cee hE aor ieee bicolor Dist.
Pateralemanc@insaor (comm: tofinalas. a. 6 «+6 sce seecee ces on ae 14.
14. Bucculae prominent, long, not disappearing before line of the
VES ts ei tis SERED Slo a ert Fe RAS Ot ene reflerulus Say.
Bucculae short, disappearing before line of eyes...... minor Spin.

Harmostes nebulosus Stal.

Harmostes nebulosus Stal, Hem. Mexicana, p. 307, Ent. Zeit, Nos. 7-9,
1862.

Head nearly twice as long as width between eyes. First joint of
antennae passing apex of head and about one-half as long as fourth
joint, second shorter than third, fourth not as swollen as the first.
Rostrum extending beyond metasternum with darkened apex. Buccu-
lae very prominent and rounding anteriorly and posteriorly. Lateral
margins of pronotum crenulated. Pronotum coarsely and evenly punc-
tate, median line distinct but not greatly raised. Membrane spotted
with fuscous. Hind femora greatly incrassated, spined beneath with

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four large prominent spines between which are three smaller ones.
Size large, 9-10 mm. long. General color above light to dark brown,
varying considerably within the species. Paler beneath. Lateral
margins of corium spotted with fuscous.

Occurs in Mexico, Guatemala and Salvador.

Harmostes formosus Dist.
Harmostes formosus Dist., Biol. Cent.-Amer., Hem. Het., Vol. 1, p.
167, 1893.

“Head ochraceous. Antennae with the basal joint incrassate, dark
ochraceous, and about reaching apex of head; second and third joints
subequal in length, testaceous; apex of second joint fuscous; fourth
joint short, a little longer than the first, thickened with fuscous.
Pronotum ochraceous, finely punctate and obscurely wrinkled, sub-
granulose near anterior margin, with the lateral angles rounded and
strongly reflexed; angular margins fuscous, lateral margins luteous
and crenulated, anterior angles prominent; a central pale longitudinal
line which is raised and levigate near anterior margin; posterior mar-
gin narrowly pale luteous. Scutellum ochraceous, with a central
longitudinal line and apical margin pale luteous. Corium lutecus,
sparingly and finely punctate (clavus thickly so), with a large, elon-
gated, fuscous spot on disk, a row of small fuscous spots on costal
margin, and a larger spot of the same color near apical angle. Mem-
brane pale hyaline, with obscure fuscous spots. Under side of body
pale luteous, lateral margin of head and sternum strongly punctate; ab-
domen with a few scattered black punctures on anterior margin of
disk, and stigmata black; femora luteous, with their apices, tibiae, tarsi,
and rostrum testaceous. Rostrum just passing posterior coxae, with
the apex pithy. Posterior femora with their apical halves strongly
spined, four spines being longest, strongest, and luteous in color.
Long. 9 mm., lat. pronot. ang. 3 mm.”

The above is copied from the original description by Distant.
This species has been recorded only from Mexico.

Harmostes affinis Dall.
Harmostes affinis Dallas, Cat. Hem. Brit. Mus., p. 522, 1852.

Head small and strongly convex in both directions. First joint of
antennae passing apex of head, second and third joints about equal in
length, fourth longer than the first but not greatly swollen. Rostrum
extending beyond metasternum. Lateral margins of pronotum crenu-
late, and with a deep but gradual curve; posterior portion of thorax
prominently raised and evenly punctate. Hind femora incrassated
and spined beneath. Size, rather small, about one quarter of an inch
long.

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General color light brown but quite variable. Scutellum and apex
of corium dark. Thorax and corium spotted with small red dots.
Membrane spotted with fuscous. Beneath pale, with prominent red
spots well scattered; abdomen more or less mottled with fuscous.

Its range includes Southern United States, Mexico, Colom-
bia and Paraguay.

Harmostes prolixus Stal.
Harmostes prolixus Stal, Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-Traktens. Hem.
Fauna, p. 37, 1858.

Head broad, first joint of antennae passing apex of head, second
shorter than third, fourth one-half longer than first joint. Rostrum
extending beyond metasternum. Bucculae short, ending before line
of the eyes. Eyes prominent. Lateral margins of pronotum crenu-
lated to posterior angles. Median dorsal line almost disappearing in
center of thorax. Thorax, scutellum, and corium finely and evenly
punctate. Hemelytra widest at the middle. Membrane hyaline with
faint fuscous spots. Hind legs with femora greatly incrassated and
with three large prominent spines beneath, between which are from
two to four smaller ones. Size about 7 mm. long. General color above
dark brown but may vary to lighter shades. Beneath lemon yellow
mottled with fuscous laterally. Posterior two-thirds of hind femora
dark brown to black.

This species is reported from Rio Janeiro. I have also seen
specimens from Mexico, Porto Rico and Paraguay.

Harmostes procerus Berg.
Harmostes procerus Berg, Hem. Argentina 1879, p. 9I.

No specimens of this species have been examined, but by the
original description it can readily be placed in the key to spe-
cies and should be easily recognizable. A synopsis of the orig-
inal description is here given:

Head moderately long, second joint of antennae shorter than the
third, beak extending beyond the metasternum. Lateral margins of
pronotum strongly crenulate, posterior angle broadly rounded. Mem-
brane subhyaline with an obsolete median fuscous line. General color
yellowish, corium tinged more or less with green. Size 5-614 mm.
long.

The most pronounced character by which the species may be
separated from H. prolixus is the broadly rounding posterior
angles of the pronotum.

Berg records its occurrence at Buenos Ayres and in Pata-
gonia.

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Harmostes apicatus Stal.
Harmostes apicatus Stal, Freg. Eug. Resa. Ins. p. 238, 1850.

Head broad, first antennal joint considerably passing apex of head,
second and third joints about equal in length, fourth slightly longer
than first. Beak not extending beyond metathorax. Bucculae disap-
pearing at line of the eyes. Lateral margins of pronotum prominently
raised and crenulated. Thorax and corium coarsely punctate. Hind
femora greatly incrassated and spined beneath. Size 5 mm. long.
Color light brown to russet above, somewhat paler beneath. Mem-
brane hyaline with faint fuscous spots.

Its distribution includes Chile, Paraguay, Brazil and Argen-
tina.

Harmostes serratus Fabr.
Acanthia serratus Fabr. Ent. System., iv., p. 75, 1794.
Harmostes perpunctatus Dall. 1852, List Spec. Hem. Ins.
Part 2)
Coreus gravidator Fabr. Ent. System., iv., p. 133, 1794.
Harmostes dorsalis Burm. Handbuch der Ent. 1835.
Head long with long lateral spinous processes between eyes and
antennae. First joint of antennae stout, but slightly passing apex of
head, second joint shorter than third, fourth about equal to first in
length. Beak not extending beyond metasternum. Bucculae not prom-
inent, disappearing at line of eyes. Lateral margins of thorax crenu-
lated, posterior margin wide. Pronotum, scutellum and corium coarse-
ly punctate. Hind femora incrassated slightly before the middle mak-
ing anterior portion of femora appear long. Size 7-8 mm. long.
General color above dark brown, paler beneath. Membrane hyaline
with fuscous spots. Costal margin of corium pale.

3rit. Mus.

The range of this species includes Brazil, Argentina, Para-
guay, Galapagos Islands, West Indies, Central America and
practically the entire United States.

Harmostes fraterculus Say.

Syromastes fraterculus Say, Desc. New Spec. Het. Hem. of N. A. New
Harmony, Ind., 1831, p. 324.

Harmostes fraterculus Stal, Enum. Hem. 1, 221, 1870.

Head rather short, first antennal joint scarcely or slightly passing
apex of head, second and third joints about equal in length, fourth
joint only slightly longer than first and strongly pubescent. Buccu-
lae small, ending before the line of eyes. Beak extending beyond meta-
sternum. Lateral margins of pronotum not crenulated. Median line of
pronotum distinct, becoming very prominent on scutellum. Thorax

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and corium coarsely punctate. Hind femora incrassated with rather
short spines beneath. Size less than one-fourth of an inch. Color
above a russet brown tinged more or less with rufous. Paler beneath.
Membrane marked with a longitudinal obsolete brown line and small
fuscous spots.

It is well distributed over the United States and south

through Central America.

Harmostes subrufus Dist.
Harmostes subrufus Dist., Biol. Cent.-Amer. Hem. Het. Vol. 1, p.
167, 1893.

“Head, pronotum, and scutellum luteous, sparingly but coarsely
punctate. Antennae ochraceous; basal joint incrassated and consider-
ably passing the apex of head; second joint a little shorter than the
third, fourth a little darker in color, thickened and about equal in
length to the first. Pronotum with lateral angles rounded, sub-
prominent, and slightly reflexed, a central longitudinal line and
posterior margin narrowly pale luteous; two obscure fuscous fasciae
near lateral margins. Scutellum with the lateral and apical margins
and a central longitudinal line pale luteous. Corium testaceous, ner-
vures and costal margins luteous. Membrane pale and hyaline. Under-
side of body and legs luteous: lateral margins of head and sternum
strongly punctate. Long. 8 mm.”

The above is a copy of the original description by Distant.

The species is known to occur in Mexico, Guatemala and
southwestern United States. Four specimens in the collection
of Mr. Bueno are the only ones of this species which I have
examined, one of which is now deposited in the collection of
the U. S. National Museum.

Harmostes croceus n. sp.

Resembles subrufus, but can be readily separated from it by
the following characters: Second and third antennal joints
equal, and lack of definite color markings or dark striations,
its head, thorax, scutellum and corium being ochraceous and
practically concolorous.

Basal joint of antennae extending beyond apex of head, second and
third joints equal in length, fourth slightly longer than first and darker
in color. Bucculae rather prominent, disappearing at line of eyes.
Pronotum with lateral angles well rounded, slightly reflexed; lateral
margins not crenulated. Veins of corium prominent. Posterior tibiae
spinous. Rostrum not extending beyond metasternum. Breast fur-

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rowed longitudinally for reception of rostrum. Antennae, head,
thorax, scutellum and corium ochraceous, practically concolorous.
Apex of corium slightly tinged with dark brown. Membrane hyaline.
Ventral side of body light orange to yellow, concolorous. Length 7-9 mm.
Sternum coarsely punctate.

Described from seven specimens from southern California.
Have seen a single specimen from Oregon and one from Brew-
ster County, Texas. Type and paratypes in collection of U. S.
National Museum.

Harmostes marmoratus Spin.
Merocoris marmoratus Spin., Hist. de Chile, Gay, Vol. 7, p. 166,
1851.
Harmostes corazonus Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 85, 1893.
Head short, apex acute. First joint of antennae considerably pass-
ing apex of head, second and third joints short and about equal in
length, fourth only slightly shorter than the third. Eyes prominent.
Bucculae small. Beak not extending beyond metasternum. Lateral
margins of thorax wide, entire, not crenulated. » Posterior angles of
thorax somewhat angular, not prominently rounded. Thorax coarsely
punctate. Costal margins of corium practically parallel. Width be-
tween tips of corium greater than basal width of scutellum. Hind
femora incrassated but not as pronounced as in other species. Size
5-6 mm. long.
General color above dark brown, corium except for the inner borders
paler, beneath yellow, finely flaked with rufous. Membrane hyaline
spotted with fuscous. Fourth antennal joint dark.

This species occurs in Chile.

Harmostes ranhimerus Spin.
Merocoris raphimerus Spin., Hist. de Chile. Gay, Vol. 7, 1851.
Harmostes montivagus Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 85, 1893.

Head long, first antennal joint stout but considerably passing the
apex of head, second shorter than the third and inflated at the base,
fourth joint one-half the length of the third. Bucculae small. Beak
extending to posterior margin of metasternum. Lateral margins of
thorax entire, wide, and flaring. Posterior angles of thorax somewhat
angular. Hemelytra widest at the middle. Hind femora not greatly
incrassated, spines subprominent. Size 8-9 mm. long.

General color above yellowish brown, corium tinged with rufous
posteriorly. Antennae ochraceous. Membrane hyaline, with faint fus-
cous spots.

This species occurs in Chile.

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Harmostes bicolor Mist.
Harmostes bicolor Dist., Biol. Cent.-Amer., Hem. Het., Vol. 1, 1893.
“Head testaceous, obscurely punctate. Antennae with the basal joint
considerably passing the apex of the head, and much shorter than
the second joint. Pronotum testaceous, coarsely punctate; lateral
margins, a central longitudinal line, and posterior margin (narrowly)
pale luteous; lateral angles subprominent. Scutellum testaceous, with
the lateral and apical margins pale luteous. Corium pale luteous;
clavus, inner apical angles, and a series of small spots on costal margin
testaceous. (In the type specimen described, the left corium has a
large testaceous basal patch on lateral margin, which is followed by a
subquadrate spot of the same color.) Membrane pale hyaline. Under
side of body pale greenish, with a few scattered black punctures; legs
ochraceous. Long. 7 mm.”

The above is a copy of the original description by Distant.
Its range in the United States includes southern California,
New Mexico, Colorado and Texas. It also occurs in Mexico.

Harmostes reflexulus Say.

Syromastes reflexulus Say, Desc. New Sp. Het. Hem. of N. A., New
Harmony, Ind., p. 323, 1831.

Harmostes costalis H. S., Wanz. Ins., ix, p. 270, 1853.

Harmostes bruesi Bergr., Ent. News, Vol. 24, p. 267, 1913.

Harmostes virescens Dall., List Hem. Ins. Brit. Mus. Part 2, 1852.

The following is a copy of the original description by Say
and is in such detail that a redescription is not necessary:

“Reddish-brown; head carinate before. Inhabits Pennsylvania.
Body reddish-brown, with rather large confluent punctures; head not
extending more than half the length of the basal joint of the antennae,
obviously carinate between the antennae, tubercles each side of the
antennae acute: antennae, first joint robust, rough, much narrowed,
second joint shorter than the third: terminal joint half as long as the
third: thorax lateral margin a little reflected, the edge concavely
arcuated: posterior angles rounded; anterior angles prominent, acute:
scutel narrowed before the tip: hemelytra, corium yellowish, rufous
near the scutel; nervures very distinct; lateral edge a little reflected:
membrane hyaline: beneath greenish-yellow; feet pale rufous; posterior
thighs dilated; spinous beneath. Length one-fourth of an inch. The
rostrum hardly reaches the posterior coxae. The last joint of the
antennae is elongate-oval and much shorter than the preceding joint,
as defined by Latreille in this genus.”

This species is distributed over the entire United States.

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Harmostes minor Spin.
Merocoris minor Spin., Hist. de Chile, Gay, Vol. 7, p. 165, 1851.
Harmostes chilensis Dall., List. Hem. Ins. Brit. Mus. Part 2, 1852.

Head short, apex acute, first antennal joint considerably passing
apex of head, second and third joints about equal in length, fourth
about two-thirds the length of the third. Bucculae short, disappearing
before line of the eyes. Beak extending beyond metasternum. Thorax
coarsely punctured, lateral margins entire, wide, and somewhat flaring,
posterior angles distinctly angular. Hind femora incrassated and with
strong spines beneath. Size about 7 mm. long.

General color above greenish yellow to yellowish brown. Thorax
tinged with rufous, scutellum distinctly yellow. Posterior border of
thorax dark. Inner margins of corium distinctly rufous. Membrane
hyaline. Yellow beneath.

Distribution includes southwestern United States, Chile and
Argentina.

Harmostes obliquus Say.
Syromastes obliquus Say, Desc. New Sp. Het. Hem. of N. A., New
Harmony, Ind., December, 1831.

There is considerable doubt as to this species. If it rightly
belongs in Harmostes it could be distinguished from all other
species by its remarkably small size, less than three-twentieths
of an inch long. I have seen no specimen labeled “obliquus”
and the original description is too meagre in structural details
for me to attempt to place the species where it rightly belongs.
I therefore simply append this species to the list of those be-
longing to this genus until the matter can be cleared up. Mr.
VanDuzee, in his recent check list, inserts a question mark be-
fore the species. The following is a copy of the original de-
scription by Say:

“S. obliquus—all above punctured: rostrum and head rather short
Inhabits the U. S.

“Body pale yellowish-rufous; head obviously punctured, not extending
to the tip of the first joint of the antennae; antennae, first joint robust;
second hardly two-thirds as long as the third; thorax with rather
large punctures; no obvious transverse impressed line; hemelytra, on
the corium with large separate punctures; posterior edge very oblique
and elongated; membrane immaculate, undulated by the nervures;
beneath more obviously tinged with rufous; feet paler; rostrum hardly
reaching the intermediate coxae. Length less than three-twentieths of

an inch. It may be distinguished by the remarkable obliquity of the
terminal line of the corium.”

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Three new West Indian Species of the Ichneumonid
Genus Eiphosoma (Hym.).

By Cuartes T. Brues, Bussey Institution, Harvard
University.

The peculiar genus Eiphosoma is widely distributed in the
American tropics, whence twelve species have already been de-
scribed’. In addition to these I obtained two others in Jamaica
some years ago, and Dr. W. M. Mann discovered one
in the neighboring island of Hayti. These are described on
the following pages. The types are in the author’s collection.

Eiphosoma luteum sp. nov. (Fig. 1).

é. Length 12 mm. Almost entirely luteous, paler on the head
and lower portions of the thorax; antenne black, the scape and pedi-
cel light brown below, darker above; basal joints of flagellum faintly
tipped with pale yellow; ocellar area, connected with a large trans-
verse marking on the occiput, black; teeth of mandibles black; middle
lobe of mesonotum with a black spot in front, shading into a brown
stripe behind; lateral lobes each with a brownish stripe; second and
third abdominal segments black on upper edge except at tip; follow-
ing segments similarly marked with piceous; tip of abdomen fuscous,
external genitalia black; hind trochanters and femora at base and
tip marked with fuscous; hind tibie dark above and their tarsi en-
tirely dark fuscous. Wings hyaline, with a weak, but distinct infus-
cated area at tip.

Head broad and thin; ocelli large, the lateral ones removed by
less than their diameter from the. eye, twice as far from one another
as from the eye. Antenne reaching to middle of the second abdom-
inal segment, about 37-jointed. Face shining, sparsely punctate, al-
most smooth medially; clypeus strongly protuberant medially; malar
space two-thirds as long as width of mandible at base.

Mesonotum sparsely punctate medially, shining, on the lateral lobes
almost without punctures. Scutellum smooth and shining. Propodeum

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subshining, microscopically rugose punctate, with a distinct but not
very deep median longitudinal depression; with a complete lateral
carina just below the spiracle and a transverse one before apex;
basally with a less distinct carina on each side, enclosing a large area
on each side of the median depression; spiracle elongate-oval; tip
of propodeum extending to the basal fourth of the hind coxa. Pleurae
shining; mesopleura sparsely, coarsely, punctate anteriorly and below,
its oblique impression transversely striated except below; metapleura
impunctate.

Abdominal petiole very little enlarged at tip and without punc-
tures; its spiracles at the posterior third very prominent: following
segments clothed with stiff black hairs; claspers rounded at apex.
Tooth on hind femur acute, but not long. Wings without areolet;
median and submedian cells of nearly equal length.

Type collected by the writer near Kingston, Jamaica, British
West Indies. It was obtained in sweepings from the vegeta-
tion near the sea-coast in an extremely arid area at the mouth
of the Hope River.

This species is easily recognized by its very pale color, punc-
tation of thorax, and prominent petiolar spiracles. It is quite
similar to the following species:

Eiphosoma jamaicense sp. nov. (Fig. 2).

é. Length 17 mm. Head, thorax and four anterior legs light
yellow; abdomen and hind legs mostly fulvous. Body marked with
black as follows: teeth of mandibles, wide stripe on front above
antenne enlarging to include the ocelli and widening to include most
of the upper half of the posterior surface of the head, antenne ex-
cept scape and pedicel below and faint ring at tip of first two or
three flagellar joints, a broad stripe narrowed behind on each meso-
thoracic lobe, groove at base of scutellum, anterior margin of propo-
deum and a longitudinal band on its dorsal surface extending from
near the base to well beyond the middle, spot on posterior coxa above,
upper edge of posterior trochanter, their tibie except for their spurs
and a broad band at the middle, and their tarsi, spot at apex of ab-
dominal petiole above, line on upper edge of second segment except
at apex and claspers. Posterior femora fulvous, with an incomplete
dark band near base, a narrower one before apex and pale yellow tip.
Wings hyaline, not distinctly infuscated at tip.

Ocelli in a low triangle, the posterior ones separated by about twice
their own diameter, and removed by one and one-half times their
diameter from the eye; face and sides of front coarsely punctate,
the punctures more sparse near the middle of the face and on the

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clypeus; antenne 43-jointed; sides of face slightly convergent below;
malar space slightly shorter than width of mandible at base.
Mesonotum coarsely and sparsely punctate, the punctures few and
far apart on the lateral lobes; scutellum smooth. Propodeum coarsely,
but indistinctly rugose-reticulate, with a transverse basal carina that
touches the basal margin medially and curves backward just outside
the spiracle to join a lateral carina that is continuous with a trans-

verse subapical one; median depression well marked, almost entirely
smooth; tip of propodeum extending to the basal fourth of the coxa.
Pleure polished, mesopleura in front and below with irregular sparse
punctures; oblique impression smooth.

Petiole of abdomen slightly and gradually enlarged at tip; its spiracles

Fig. 1.—Ziphosoma luteum sp. nov. Fore wing of type.
Fig. 2.—Eiphosoma jamaicense sp. nov. Fore wing of type.
Fig. 3.—Eiphosoma haitiense sp. nov. Fore wing of type.

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at the posterior third, not prominent; third and following segments
with moderately prominent hairs; claspers with parallel sides, evenly
rounded at tips. Tooth on hind coxe small, but very acute. Wings
with a large areolet; submedian cell slightly longer than the median.

Type from near Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies.

This species resembles E. montaguense Ckll. from Guate-
mala, but differs in the form of the claspers. It agrees quite
well in color with Cresson’s description of E. vitticolle (Proc.
Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, 1865, p. 53), but Cresson refers to the
areolet as minute in vitticolle, while it is larger than usual in
the present form.

Eiphosoma haitiense sp. nov. (Fig. 3).

Q. Length (extended) 11 mm. Head, thorax and anterior legs
lemon-yellow, marked with black; abdomen and hind legs fulvous,
varied with black. Antenne 42-jointed, black except underside of
scape and pedicel. Black body markings as follows: stripe above an-
tenne, half as wide as the front, including anterior ocellus; trans-
verse spot enclosing posterior ocelli, narrowly separated from the
frontal stripe; two almost contiguous spots on vertex, well separated
from the ocellar spot; three stripes on mesonotum, the lateral ones
narrowed behind; anterior margin of propodeum, suddenly enlarged
laterally and almost contiguous with a lateral stripe extending back
from the spiracle; median depression of propodeum; swollen part of
petiole, a long stripe on mesopleura enlarged above, upper margin of
second segment except tip, upper margin of third on anterior half and
sheaths of ovipositor. Base and apex of hind femora above and hind
tibiz except for lighter middle part, fuscous; hind tarsi piceous. Wings
strongly infuscated at apex.

Eyes barely convergent below; sides of front rather closely punc-
tate; face sparsely so, especially toward the middle; malar space
slightly shorter than the width of mandibles at base. Ocelli in a low
triangle, the lateral ones much closer to one another than to the eye-
margin from which they are removed by a little less than their own
diameter.

Median lobe of mesonotum closely punctate anteriorly, lateral lobes
shining, impunctate except for a very few punctures near the middle.
Propodeum highly polished, the median depression broad but only
moderately deep; anterior transverse carina at the basal third, angularly
bent forward near the middle and extending to the front margin to
form the sides of a small area that is closed behind by a short trans-
verse carina; posterior transverse carina complete, sinuous; lateral
carina below the spiracle complete; pro- and mesopleurz highly polish-
ed, the latter with a few widely scattered punctures below. Apex of
propodeum extending to the basal fourth of the hind coxa.

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Petiole of abdomen rather strongly, but very gradually widened at
apex, its spiracles at the posterior third not at all prominent. Ovipositor
as long as the three basal segments of the abdomen taken together.
Hairs on abdominal segments sparse and weak. Tooth on hind femora
well developed, acute; spurs of hind femora subequal, barely over one-
third the length of the metatarsus. Wings with a rather large oblique
areolet; median and submedian cells of equal length.

Type from Cape Haitien, Haiti; collected by Dr. W. M.

Mann.
This is similar to E. aztecum to which it will run in Cock-

erell’s table? and in my own’, but differs from the Mexican.

species by its much smaller size and in the color of the legs.

Dytiscus as a Destroyer of Mosquito Larvae (Col., Dipt.).

Larvae of dytiscids or diving beetles, the water tigers, have long been
considered important enemies of the mosquito. Dr. J. B. Smith and
others have performed laboratory experiments in which they showed
that a single water tiger placed in a jar containing many mosquito
larvae will kill or devour large numbers of them. Smith mentions (Re-
port New Jersey State Agr. Exp. Station, 1904) a single experiment in
which a water tiger killed or devoured 434 mosquitoe larvae in two
days. He considers the water tigers as extremely important agents in
the control of the salt marsh and fresh water mosquitoes.

The writer has observed in the field that many larvae are found in
pools also occupied by the dytiscids. A few laboratory experiments
showed that a single water tiger placed in a small jar containing many
mosquito larvae did kill or devour tremendous numbers.

Three experiments were then performed in the laboratory using a
few larvae only. Aquarium jars I1 inches in diameter and 7 inches in
height were filled to about two-thirds their capacity with water. In
each of them five water tigers were placed and were allowed to accus-
tom themselves to their environment for a period of about an hour.
Then to each of the jars were added 20 mosquito larvae of the second
molt of the species Culex pipiens. At the end of 8 days jar No. 1 still
contained 12 active mosquito larvae, jar No. 2 contained 9g living indi-
viduals and in jar No. 3 but 2 larvae remained. All the water tigers
survived the experiment. Later experiments performed with single
water tigers and the same number of mosquito larvae gave approxi-
mately the same results.

It would seem that the dytiscids may be of great importance in kill-
ing larvae when present in tremendous numbers, but that where the
larvae are distributed pretty widely, there is little liability of their
complete extermination by such an enemy.—F. E. Curpester, Rutgers
College, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

2P roc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 46, p. 62, (1913).
3Psyche, vol. 18, p. 21 (1911).

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

The writer here takes occasion to name and distinguish
certain species of Lopidea, which are found in the eastern
United States. In his studies on the structure of the male
genitalia the writer. has found characters which will give some
structural basis for distinguishing the genus Lopidea. The
broad and more or less flattened left genital clasper with bifur-
cated tip (figs. 1-3, 5), appears to be characteristic of all the
species including media Say, the type of the genus. On the
other hand, the structure of the right clasper gives a wide
range of variation and thus good specific characters are ob-
tained.

The genus Lomatopleura Reuter has supposedly been sep-
arated on the basis of the incrassate form of the second an-
tennal segment. On that basis the writer has found it difficult
to place one or two species in either Lopidea or Lomatopleura
where the antennae are only slightly incrassate. The antennal
character is further rendered more doubtful by the fact that
each species in both genera has antennae of slightly different
thickness. The thickness of the antennae has been found use-
ful to separate the females of species which are otherwise
very similar in coloration and structure. Thus far the writer
has noted no difference in the thickness of the antennae be-
tween the sexes of a given species.

The species caesar, type of the genus Lomatopleura Reuter,
has the same type of left genital clasper (figs. 1-3. 5) as that
found in Lopidea media and other species of the genus as
robimae, confluens and cuneata. If instabilis were only the
type of the genus Lomatopleura it might well stand on the
basis of genital characters but unfortunately this is not the
case. At present the writer prefers to consider all the species
that have been placed under both genera as belonging to the
genus Lopidea Uhler (1872).

*Contribution from the Department of Entomology of Cornell Uni-
versity.

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The figures of the male genital claspers are all drawn to
the same scale.

Lopidea heidemanni new species. (Fig. 1.)

In general appearance, most closely resembling media, but
larger and usually with more fuscous; certain color phases of
the female sometimes difficult to distinguish from the females
of media.

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FIG. I. FiG. 2.
Fig. 1.—Lofidea heidemannt, male genital Fig. 2.—Lopidea salicts. male genital clas-
claspers—a right clasper, dorsal aspect. pers—a right clasper, dorsal aspect.
6 right clasper, caudal aspect. 4 right clasper, caudal aspect.
c left clasper, ventral aspect. c left clasper, ventral aspect.
d left clasper, dorsal aspect. d \eft clasper, dorsal aspect.

¢@. Length 6.7 mm., width, 2.74 mm. Dark red, having more fuscous
on the pronotum and scutellum than in media; larger and more elon-
gate than media, the hemelytra always showing a strong tendency to
shrivel and wrinkle longitudinally. The species may always be dis-
tinguished by the form of the male genital claspers (fig. 1); the right
clasper showing a close relationship to cuneata and salicis.

2. Length, 6.2 mm.; width, 2.08 mm. Slightly more robust than the
male, otherwise very similar; the costal margins of the hemelytra
frequently pale as in media; in certain color phases, dull orange red
with fuscous.

Near Batavia, New York, the species was found breeding
on elm (Ulmus), the nymphs feeding and maturing on the
tender terminal growth, usually of young trees. At Four Mile,
New York, nymphs were taken on Yarrow (Achillea mille-

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folium) and when reared were found to be this species. This
would indicate that the species has a wide range of food plants.
The species was also taken in considerable numbers on Soli-
dago rugosa in company wth media where both forms were
evidently breeding.

The species is named in honor of Mr. O. Heidemann, who
was the first to recognize this form as an undescribed species.
It is to be regretted that he never found time to publish on
this and other forms that he knew.

Holotype: 8, June 20, 1916, Batavia, New York (H. H.
Knight) ; author’s collection.

Allotype : topotypic.

Paratypes: 34692 topotypic. 16649 July 4-5, Four Mile;
36 22 June 27, Honeoye Falls; 9 June 27, Portage; @ July 16,
Conesus Lake; 2 June, 1911, Ithaca, all in New York and all collected
by the writer. 26 29 June 1, South Meriden, Connecticut, (H.
Johnson). 2 June 24, Bennington, Vermont, (C. W. Johnson).
Q June 4, Westfield, New Jersey, (Wm. T. Davis). 2¢ @ June 4,
Washington, and 2 June 12, Brightwood, District of Columbia; ¢
Hensen Creek and ¢ May 24, Glen Echo, Maryland (O. Heidemann) ;
also several other specimens in the Heidemann collection from the
vicinity of Washington, D. C. 22 June, Black Mts., North Carolina
(Beutenmiller). ov May 18 2 May 24, 492 June & @¢
22 June 17, Plummers Island, Maryland; ¢ May to, Great Falis, and
@ June 6, Mount Vernon, Virginia (W. L. McAtee). ¢ June 10,
Tazewell, Virginia; ¢ Branchville to Beltsville, Maryland, (L. O.
Jackson). 2@ May 22, 23, Four Mile Run, Virginia; @ June 8,
Conduit and Potomac Roads, Maryland, (A. Wetmore). ¢ May 31,
Falls Church, and @ June 7, Great Falls, Virginia, (Nathan Banks).
24, Cleveland, Ohio.

Lopidea salicis new species. (Fig. 2.)

Closely related to cuneata but differs in the form of the
male genital claspers and in having more orange color on the
pronotum and sides of the hemelytra.

é. Length, 5.7 mm.; width, 1.94 mm. Black, sides of the pronotum
and basal angles of the disk orange colored; embolium and half of the
cuneus yellowish to orange: species distinguished by the form of the

male genital claspers (fig. 2).
@. Very similar to the male in size and coloration, sometimes

slightly more robust.

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The species was taken by the writer only on the black wil-
low (Salix nigra), and is apparently very scarce. The writer
puzzled over the females for two years before the male was
taken and the status of the species determined. The speci-
mens from Honeoye Falls were taken on black willows found
growing along the banks of a small stream that ran through
an open pasture.

Holotype: &, June 27, 1916, Honeoye Falls, New York,
(H. H. Knight) ; author’s collection.

Allotype: taken with the type.

Paratypes: 2@ 52, topotypic. @ June 30, 1014, Batavia, New
York, (H. H. Knight). 22 June 23, 1914, Rochester Junction, New
York, (M. D. Leonard).

Lopidea davisi new species (Fig. 3).
Short and robust, about the size of media but more robust;
very similar to confluwens in coloration.

@. Length, 5.5 mm.; width, 2.0 mm. Yellowish orange to reddish;
antennae, legs, front of the head and rostrum, black: calli, base of the
pronotum, scutellum, clavus, inner half of the corium and the mem-
brane, fuscous; species distinguished by the form of the male genital
claspers (fig. 3).

9. Very similar to the male only more robust.

+

This species is named in honor of Mr. Wm. T. Davis, who

Fic. 3. Fic. 4
Fig. 3.—Lofidea davist, male genital clas- Fig. 4.—Lopidea staphyleae, male genital
pers—a right clasper, internal lateral aspect. claspers—a right clasper, dorsal aspect.
4 left clasper, dorsal aspect. 6 left clasper, caudal aspect.

is noted for his wide interest in collecting, he having taken
the first specimens of this species seen by the writer.

ae

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Holotype: 8, June 20, Cabin John Run, Maryland (Wm.
T. Davis) ; author’s collection.
Allotype : topotypic.

Paratypes: 2, Half Way Hollow Hills, Long Island, New York
(Wm. T. Davis). ¢ 32 July 6, near Chevy Chase Lake, Maryland (W.
L. McAtee). 2¢ June 20, 24, Great Falls; g July 2, Glencarlyn, and
62 July 13, 832 September 14, Falls Church, all in Virginia
(Nathan Banks).

Lopidea reuteri new species. (Fig. 5.)

Very close to caesar in size and color but differing greatly
in the form of the male genital claspers (fig. 5).

4.Length, 7.1 mm.; width,
2.54 mm. Deep carmine red,
fuscous on the scutellum and
- bordering the commissure oi
the hemelytra; not so broadly
fuscous on the corium and cu-
neus as in caesar. Head mostly
black, calli fuscous. Legs
black; sternum, genital seg-
ment and usually the low-
er side of three adjoining seg-
ments blackish.

Antennae: segment I, length,
.65 mm.; width, .17 mm.; II,
2.42 mm.; greatest width, .14
mm.; inctrassate, tapering from
the middle toward the apex;
III, 1.60 mm., linear and slen-
der; IV, .60 mm.; black, the
first two segments clothed with

FIG. 5. : be
Fig. 5.—Lopidea reuteri, male genital claspers. Prominent coarse hairs; almost

a right clasper, lateral aspect. c : eter apneeiairr
Ree he alnsser, dorsal aspect. identical in structure to caesar.

c left clasper, ventral aspect. @. Structurally and in color
d left clasper, dorsal aspect. ate

very similar to the male; no
antennal differences between the sexes. Very hard to distinguish
from the female of cacsar, which species usually has less fuscous shad-

ing on the scutellum.

In Missouri the species was-found breeding on witch-hazel
(Hamamelis virginiana) and probably has the same food plant
in the northern localities.

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Holotype: 8, July 22, 1915, Hollister, Missouri, (H. H.
Knight) ; author’s collection.
Allotype: taken with the male.

Paratypes: 2, 189, topotypic. ¢July 22, Ramapo (Wm. T.
Davis), and @ July 27, Lake George (A. K. Fisher), New York.
é July 16, Southbridge; ¢ Aug. 3, Sharon; 2¢ Aug. 8, Chester;
9 Aug. 11, Fall River; ¢ 9 Aug. 31, Rutland; 9 Aug. 7, Williams-
burg, all in Massachusetts, (C. W. Johnson). ¢@ July to, Portland
(A. E. Moss), and 9 Aug. 10, Portland (B. H. Walden), in Con-
necticut. @ July, Hewitt, and @ July, Newfoundland, New Jersey
(Wm. T. Davis). 9 Sept. 6, Red Rock, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania
(Wm. T. Davis). 3 July 25, Glencarlyn, and @ July 25, Peonian
Springs, Virginia (Nathan Banks).

Lopidea staphyleae new species. (Fig. 4.)

Resembling robiniae in general appearance but slightly larg-
er and not so black on the dorsum; the male genital claspers
distinctive of the species (fig. 4). The claspers of this species
are not typical of the genus Lopidea, but until more work is
done on the genitalia in the various genera it does not seem
wise to erect new ones.

é. Length 6.5 mm., width 2.05 mm. Orange yellow, fuscous on
the calli, narrowly at the base of the pronotum, scutellum, apical two-
thirds of the clavus, inner half of the corium, and membrane; anten-
nae, tylus, two bars on the front, base of the head, rostrum, and legs,
black; the fuscous shading on the dorsum much paler than in robiniae;
genital claspers distinctive of the species (fig. 4).

Antennae: segment I, length .71 mm.; width .15 mm.; II, 2.48 mm.,
width .10 mm., tapering slightly smaller toward the apex; III, 1.82
mm., slender and almost linear; IV, .52 mm.

9. Length 6.8 mm., width 2.2 mm. Similar to the male in structure
and coloration, but usually slightly larger. Sometimes very similar
in size and coloration to the female of confluens; but the length of
the first antennal segment in confluens is shorter than the width of the
vertex, while in staphyleae its length is as great as, or slightly longer
than, the width of the vertex.

Holotype:8, July 29, 1916, Batavia, New York (H. H.
Knight) ; author’s collection.
Allotype: July 30, topotypic.

Paratypes: 24 59 July 18, 2 July 20, 9 July 21, all reared: 122
339 July 20,44 62 July 30, 1916, ¢ July 23, 1913, Batavia, New

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York, all collected by the writer. ¢ July 13, 2 July 14, 9 July 109,
29 Aug. 9, Plummers Island, Maryland; g¢ Aug. 2, Scott’s Run,
Virginia (W. L. McAtee). 292 June 27, Great Falls, Virginia; 9?
June 23, 9 July 1, High Island, (Virginia?), (Nathan Banks).

This interesting species was found breeding on the Ameri-
can Bladder nut (Staphylea trifolia) from which its name is
derived. The nymphs were found feeding on the tender foli-
age during July, 1916, north of Batavia, New York, the first
adults maturing on July 18. The nymphs are bright orange
yellow with legs and antennae black, being very large and ro-
bust in the fifth instar. It was noted that many of the adults
left the host plant shortly after maturing and were found con-
gregating on nearby hickory trees where several pairs were
taken in copulation.

Lopidea staphyleae var. sanguinea new variety.

Male genital claspers not differing from the typical staphy-
_ leae but the yellow color replaced by bright red; much resem-
bling reuteri and caesar, but differing in the thickness of the
antennae.

4. Size, structure of the antennae and male genital claspers not
differing noticeably from the typical staphyleae, but the yellow colora-
tion replaced by bright red.

@. Similar to the male in structure and coloration; very much re-
sembling the females of rewteri and caesar, but the more slender form
of the antennae will serve to distinguish this variety.

Holotype: &, July 4, Brookline, Massachusetts; author’s
collection.

Allotype: July 24, Mt. Carmel, Connecticut (W. E. Brit-
ton).

Paratypes: g, topotypic; 2 July 14, Mt. Tom, Massachusetts.

Changes of Address.

G. W. Barber to U. S. Ent. Laboratory, Hagerstown, Md.

J. E. Hallinen, Cooperton, Kiowa Co., Okla.

Dr. H. M. Parshley to Biological Hall, Smith College, Northampton,
Mass.

M. R. Smith to Care of Truck Crop Insect Division, Bureau of
Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agric., Washington, D. C.

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A new Species of Apateticus from Louisiana
(Hem., Het.).

By Dayton Stoner, State University of Iowa, Iowa City,
Towa.

In a small collection of pentatomids recently sent me by
Mr. O. W. Rosewall, of the Department of Zoology and Ento-
molagy, University of Louisiana, I found a very interesting
and peculiar specimen which I was unable to satisfactorily de-
termine. A short time ago I sent this specimen to Mr. H. G.
Barber, who confirmed my suspicion that it might be a new
species. It is quite unlike any of our other species of the
genus Apateticus and displays some interesting features.

Apateticus ludovicianus new species.

Elongate, narrow; general color above pale brown with a slightly
olivaceous tinge; head and anterior one-half of pronotum pale clay
yellow; humeri produced into acute, rounded points; costal margin of
hemelytra with a conspicuous ivory-white line extending from base to
membrane; median ventral spine very short, blunt.

Head elongate, depressed, sides nearly parallel, the juga only very
slightly surpassing the tylus; an impressed line either side of the tylus
and just outside this and parallel to it is a rather regular row of
black punctures extending from base of head to tip

of tylus. Outside each of these rows is another

row of punctures extending from base of head to
near apex and which is partly interrupted by the
reddish ocelli; these punctures gradually become
smaller and a little before the apex of the tylus the
rows on either side become confluent. Dorsal sur-
face of the head between the rows of punctures
impunctate with rather sparse but fine subtransverse
lines. Lateral margins of head with a row of black
punctures extending from eyes to apex. An irregu-
lar, iridescent, greenish mark, deeply and coarsely
punctured on outer side of antennal tubercle in
front of eye. Eyes prominent, fuscous. Antennae

with basal segment very short, pale clay yellow, a

greenish-fuscous patch on outer side, which is con-

tinuous with the greenish mark on the tubercle; sec-

. ond segment a little more than four times as
long as the first, vandyke brown, becoming dark-
er toward tip, covered with fine, pale yellowish
hairs; third segment about as long as_ second,
blackish, paler at base and very thickly covered
with pale hairs. The remaining antennal segments are missing.
Rostrum heavy, pale yellow, darker toward apex, which reaches just
to posterior end of metasternum.

Apateticus ludovicia-
nus N. Sp.

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Pronotum pale brown behind the humeri where the fuscous punc-
tures are rather dense and uniform; basal half strongly convex; an-
terior half pale clay yellow, irregularly and less densely punctate; a
smooth, pale, transversely elongate spot either side of the median line;
the acute, rounded humeri which are not at all inclined forward are
joined by a raised, pale, calloused ruga in which are a few punctures;
lateral margins nearly straight, evenly crenulate; a submarginal row
of deep black punctures begins at the anterior border behind the eyes
and becomes gradually evanescent as it approaches the humerus which
it does not attain. Below the margin a row of black punctures with
greenish reflections extends for about the same distance posteriorly as
does the row of black punctures above; side pieces of thorax deeply,
sparsely punctate. Scutellum long, narrow, olivaceous, regularly and
deeply punctate with fuscous, the punctures diminishing in size toward
apex; a median longitudinal paler line on posterior half.

Hemelytra a little narrower than widest part of abdomen, slightly
darker than scutellum, irregularly punctured; costal margin with a
uniform ivory-white line extending from base to membrane, this line
finely, sparsely, irregularly punctate with reddish brown; membrane
hyaline, translucent, without longitudinal vitta.

Venter pale clay yellow, irregularly punctured with fuscous, more
sparsely and lightly punctate on disk; black spots on mid-ventral line
small but sharply defined; the first and second are at the anterior
edges of the fourth and fifth visible ventral segments respectively,
while the third is very narrow and elongate, extending backward
about two-thirds the length of the last segment. Connexivum pale yel-
low; immaculate at the angles, bordered within by a green, iridescent,
heavily punctured area.

Legs pale clay yellow, impunctate. Apical tarsal segments and under
sides of two proximal segments black, the upper side of these two
segments yellowish.

Length to tip of membrane, 16.6 mm.; width across humeri, 8.75
mm.; length of head, 2.9 mm.; length of rostrum, 6.3 mm.

Described from a single female specimen collected at Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, May 24, 1916. The specimen is now in my
collection.

The Determination of Generic Types in the
| Lepidoptera.

By Srr Georce F. Hampson, Bart., 62 Stanhope Gardens,
London, S. W., No. 7.

In the News, Vol. xxvii, No. 9, pp. 393-400 (November,
1916) Mr. J. H. McDunnough gives a list of corrections of

Ite
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the names of genera of Noctuidae from those used in my vol-
umes in the “Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the Brit-
ish Museum.” It is instructive to compare his paper with what
he wrote in the “Contributions to the Natural History of the
Lepidoptera of North America,” Vol. 1, No. 6 (1912). The
corrected names have since appeared in the most useful “Check
List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America,” published by Dr.
W. Barnes and himself. Many of his corrections are wrong,
judged by his own method of selecting the types of genera as
fixed by the “law of the first reviser.” Of this, however, I
will only give a single instance: in Haworth’s description of
the genus Phytometra, Lep. Brit., p. 254 (1809), the charac-
ters given for the genus include those of the larva and the
generic name is taken from the habits of the larva. Now
Haworth only knew the larvae of two of the species on his
list, festucae and gamma, therefore one of them must be the
type of the genus. Mr. McDunnough places both of them in
the genus Autographa Hiibr., and it was “ultra vires” on the
part of Stephens and Westwood to “fix” the type of Phyto-
metra as oenea = viridaria Clerck, of which Haworth did not
know the larva, and Mr. McDunnough is wrong in following
them. Plusia Treit., type amethystina, is the same as Telesilla
H. S. and has priority over it as stated in my Vol. xiii, p. 452.
Ochsenheimer’s generic names in the Noctuidae are nondescript
and should date from Treitschke’s descriptions in 1825, except
such as were described by Latreille, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat.
xxiii (bef. Sept. 1, 1818) and Zineken in Ersch and Gruber,
Allg. Encyc. Wiss., Vols. i, iii, iv (aft. Sept. 1, 1818) ; in the
Geometridae, however, as Treitschke is naming Schiffermiller
and Denis’ sections in the Wien. Verz., his names will date
from 1825 and not from 1827-8.

The “law of the first reviser’” claims that the first reviser,
even if he does not “fix” a type for the genus, restricts the avail-
able species of the original author’s list to such species as have
the characters of the part for which he uses the restricted
name, and that if there is only one such species on the original
author’s list that species automatically becomes the type of the
genus, and so on with subsequent revisers till a type is “fixed”
agreeing with the characters given by the original author. It
would therefore be necessary to know not only all the charac-
ters of each species on the original author’s list but to follow
them through each subsequent revision. It is, I think, only
necessary to state this in set terms to prove the absurdity of
“the law of the first reviser” as a practical working system.

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The revisions of the older genera are scattered through hun-
dreds of books and periodicals, many of which are extremely
rare, and many are in the various editions of old Encyclope-
dias. The advocates of the law mostly little know the hopeless
morass they would land themselves in when attempting to use
it. What the law really means is that the generic names to
which its advocates are accustomed are sacred and to justify
their use they quote a mass of old authors so that it would take
an expert with a complete library at his disposal a week to
unravel each case he wished to prove or disprove.

The only practical system for an individual author is when
the type of a genus is not stated or clearly indicated by its
author to take the first species on his list which agrees with the
characters he gives as the type. The only alternative to this,
if the “law of the first reviser” is finally adopted, is that an
International Congress shall first lay down clearly the principles
on which the types of genera are to be selected (not the half-
thought-out recommendations of the Monaco Congress), then
appoint small committees of experts in each order to draw up
and publish lists of the genera in which the types have not been
stated with their types as fixed on those principles, and that
the work should be so well done that it will command almost
universal acceptance ; this will certainly not be done in the life-
time of the present generation.

There is another matter which will have to be settled if zoo-
logical nomenclature is to be rescued from the almost hopeless
muddle into which it has been allowed to drift by each author
and country using the generic names to which they are accus-
tomed without any guiding principles, and that, if nondescript
generic names are to be accepted or not, and, if not, whether
they are to be considered as preoccupying the name for future
use. In the whole of zoology these nondescript generic names
are, I believe, used solely by the micro-lepidopterists and by
some other American authors; the decision in this matter is of
almost equal importance with that of the method of “fixing”
the types of genera.

I am glad to see that Mr. McDunnough in the preface to Dr.
Barnes and his Check-List of North American Lepidoptera
discards Hiibner’s “Tentamen,” but the status and date or dates
of publication of Hitbner’s “Verzeichniss” is of far greater im-
portance. The real genera for which structural characters are
given in the “Verzeichniss” are the “Stirps’” and Hubner’s
lower divisions, ‘“Familiae” and “Coitus,” are mere form and
color sections and so considered by Hiibner himself, and should

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not, strictly speaking, be treated as generic names. In fact,
Hiibner’s nomenclature, as also that of Linné, is only called
binomial by a time-honored fiction. It is instructive to note
that many of the old authors used the term “Family” as a
subdivision of “Genus,” as indeed is its proper meaning.

The date, or dates, of the publication of the ‘“Verzeichniss”
have always been open to much doubt and the dates given by
D. Sherborn and L. B. Prout in the “Annals and Magazine of
Natural History” (8), ix, pp. 179-80 (1912) are merely the
approximate dates of the printing off of the various parts and
not of their issue. As clearly pointed out by S. H. Scudder in
his “Historical Sketch of the Generic Names Proposed for But-
terflies,” Salem, 1875, pp. 95-8, Hiibner, in his preface to the
first century of the “Ziitrage,”’ p. 5, dated December 22, 1818,
refers to a work of the nature of the “Verzeichniss” as an un-
published desideratum and further not only are all the butter-
flies (with a few exceptions) of the first century of the “Zi-
trage” referred to by number in the “Verzeichniss” but a spe-
cies—Lycus niphon—figured in the second century, which is
dated December 23, 1822, is referred to both by number and
name. Yet Scudder uses the date 1816 “for mere convenience
and uniformity.” The first two dates given by Sherborn and
Prout, 1816 for pages 1-16 and 1818 for pages 17-80, are,
therefore, proved to be erroneous. In 1820 Hubner stated that
it was getting on very slowly; in 1825 he stated in Franck’s
Catalogue that 18 Bogen, i. e., 288 pages, were on sale ( ? print-
ed off and ready for sale). In “Isis,” xx, p. 103 (jamuee@
1827), there is a review of the “Verzeichniss” complete except
for the Anzeiger (Index) of 72 pages. (?, an advance copv
whilst the index was being prepared). There is no mention of
the “Verzeichniss” in contemporary literature, such as the
“Allgem. Liter. Zeitung,’ with its reviews of the scientific
work of the period, before 1828, when Treitschke begins to
quote it in his Vol. vi (2), p. 72, after which he quotes it regu-
larly. Ochsenheimer in the preface to his Vol. iv, p. 8 (1816)
says that he had not seen a copy of Hiibner’s ““Tentamen’” till
after his Vol. ii1 (1810) was in print; otherwise he would have
quoted it before, and he quotes the genera from that date,
therefore there was no prejudice against Hiibner’s methods as
has been alleged. The only conclusion to be drawn is that no
part of the “Verzeichniss” was published till some time in 1827
by Geyer after Htbner’s death, and all the evidence there is
is against its having been published before that date. which
should be accepted unless some independent contemporary evi-

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dence turns up. Plenty of copies exist in the original state of
issue. They are all ina single blue paper wrapper without any
printing on it, none in several wrappers.* Stephens in his
Plll, Brit. Ent. Haust.,” Vol. iv, p. 386 (1835) has a note on
the “Verzeichniss” and gives an abstract of it and says that he
had not been able to obtain it before; after this he quotes it
systematically.

American authors, in the Lepidoptera at all events, and, I be-
lieve, universally, are to be congratulated on not having adopted
the insidious German specific polynomial nomenclature, by
which the specific name is broken up even unto the sixth degree
(vide R. Verity’s “Rhopalocera Palaearctica’’), to which we
in Britain have to a considerable extent succumbed of late years.
There is no necessity whatever to give names to local, seasonal,
sexual, polymorphic, hybrid, etc., forms, though in dealing
with a species its local and other varieties should of course be
described. There is no such thing in nature as a subspecies, 1f
a form is not connected by intergrades with its nearest ally in
another locality and does not interbreed with it, then it is a
species ; if this is not the case then it is a variety, geographical
or otherwise, and the term “subspecies” is merely a confession
of ignorance as to whether a form is a species or variety. The
naming of minor varieties is rapidly reducing the whole subject
to an unworkable farce and it is to be hoped that one of the
minor benefits of the present war will be that we in Britain
will return to a simple binomial nomenclature and purge our-
selves from this form of “Kultur.”

* Extract from letter dated November 12, 1894, from Sir M. Holz-
mann, librarian at Marlborough House, to H. M., the late King Ed-
ward VII, to the Lord Walsingham in reply to enquiries as to the dates
of Hiibner’s works, as to the results of his enquiries at the Berlin Roy-
al Library.

“As nothing is said about the works being in their original wrap-
pers, I conclude this is not the case. I confess that from the begin-
ning I had my doubts on this point, as I know that in Germany books
appearing gradually in parts used very rarely to be published in wrap-
pers, but if so the wrappers had no printing at all. Even up to so
late a time as 50 or 40 years ago the parts were issued just as they
came from the press, each sheet separate, not even stitched or prop-
erly folded, and frequently with the title page and date of publication
on the first sheet, although the last sheet might come out years after
the publication of the first. I, myself, have bought many books in
that condition when it is, of course, quite hopeless to attempt fixing
the actual date of issue of each part.”

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, I917.

The Convocation Week Meetings.

The annual meetings of the various national societies whose
interests are wholly or partly entomological are announced
for Pittsburgh and for Minneapolis.

At Pittsburgh will meet:

The Entomological Society of America on Friday and Saturday,
Dec. 28 and 29; Secretary, Prof. J. M. Aldrich, West Lafayette,
Indiana;

The American Association of Economic Entomologists on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 31, Jan. 1 and 2; Secretary, Mr. A. F.
Burgess, Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts;

The American Society of Naturalists on Tuesday and Wednesday,
Jan. 1 and 2; Secretary, Prof. B. M. Davis, University of Pa., Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania;

The Ecological Society of America on Saturday, Dec. 29, Monday,
Dec. 31, and Tuesday, Jan. 1; Secretary, Dr. Forrest Shreve (ad-
dress, Nov. 1-Dec. 27: Easton, Maryland);

These four societies meet in affiliation with the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science whose sessions extend from
Friday, Dec. 28 to Wednesday, Jan. 2, both inclusive; Secretary, Dr.
§. O. Howard, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

At Minneapolis (University of Minnesota) will meet:

The American Scciety of Zoologists on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, Dec. 27-29: Secretary, Prof. Caswell Grave, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland:

On the same days will occur the meetings of the Federation of
American Societies for Experimental Biology and the American As-
sociation of Anatomists.

Additional expenses of various kinds, including that of rail-
road fare, will doubtless disincline many from being present
at these meetings, but the various Secretaries rightly urge the

duty of attendance in view of the special stress of the times
and the necessity for upholding scientific associations.

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In recent years the News has given, usually in its February
number, a classified list of all the papers of an entomological
bearing presented at the preceding Convocation week meet-
ings. Owing to our reduced size in 1918, as announced in our
November issue, page 424, this list will be omitted next year,
but we hope to give the usual brief summary and statistics of
papers.

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

Entomology in British Columbia.

I am having sent to you a copy each of the Annual Report of the
British Columbia Provincial Museum of Natural History for 1915 and
1916. The latter has only just come off the press. These reports
contain illustrations of some of our rare and uncommon British Col-
umbian insects and J thought that they may be of interest to you,
especially as some of the figures are types and paratypes which are
here illustrated for the first time. For the past two years I have been
looking after the entomological branch of the Provincial Museum in
my spare time. This branch had been rather neglected previously,
but is now assuming a more complete aspect. I have persuaded the
Director to have at least two plates each year devoted to the illustrat-
ing of rare and uncommon insects occurring in the Province, and as
the general aspect of the report has been altered, I think that it may
prove of some value to entomologists in general—E. H. BLACKMoRrE,
President, British Columbia Entomological Society, Victoria, B. C.

[The Report for 1915 notes the insect collections made by E. M.
Anderson at Atlin in 1914 and at Sahtlam, Vancouver I., in 1915; by
J. A. Munro at Okanagan Landing and C. Garrett at Cranbrook. Of
the well-printed half-tone plates, one is devoted to types and paratypes
of Geometridae described elsewhere by L. W. Swett, two to rarer
butterflies (chiefly) and one to three new species of B. C. Diptera,
described elsewhere by C. H. T. Townsend. The Report for 1916
indicates that Mr. Anderson made insect collections in the vicinity of
Lilloett while Mr. Munro continued his work at Okanagan Landing;
it contains also records of Noctuids from the vicinity of Victoria and
of Geometridae from various B. C. localities by Mr. Blackmore. Ta
each of these families a half-tone plate is devoted. We heartily sec-
ond the hope expressed by Mr. Blackmore in another place in his let-
ter that the B. C. Entomolozical Society may, in spite of its difficulties,
soon issue numbers 8 and to of its Bulletin —Fb.]

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Emergency Entomological Service.

Numbers 6 and 7 of these Reports, similar to the earlier issues men-
tioned in the News (c. g. Oct., 1917, page 375), dated Oct. 1 and
Nov. 1, contain descriptions of the clean-up operations at Hearne,
Texas, to exterminate the pink boll worm (Pectinophora gossypiella),
presumably introduced with cotton seed from the Laguna district of
Mexico. This pest was found in two fields near Hearne. Federal
and State appropriations render it possible to establish a cotton-free
zone as rapidly as the need of such a zone can be shown.

The present year has been one of the lightest boll weevil years since
the pest entered the country. The first record of this species in
South Carolina is given and data on the northern line of dispersion
in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia; a
complete statement of the infested territory, together with a map.
is promised as soon as all the data have been received and compiled.

In California cotton has suffered materially from the activity cf
three sucking bugs, Euschistus impictiventris, Chlorochroa sayi and
the tarnished bug, Lygus pratensis, which puncture the carpels and
the green seed, resulting in complete destruction of the embryo, serious
discoloration of the lint and premature opening of the bolls.

The State of Florida has issued a quarantine against sweet potatoes
infested by the weevil Cyclas formicarius which occurs only in a few
counties but is gradually gaining ground. The Federal Horticultural
Board has under consideration a quarantine against sweet potatoes
and yams from all foreign countries and from Hawaii and Porto
Rico in view of the widespread ravages of this species and of the
weevil Euscepes batatae.

Extension work in Entomology is being planned in States as far
apart as Arizona and New Hampshire; this aims to give demonstra-
tions at many places of the measures necessary to check or forestall
insect ravages.

Numerous reports of injury to stored corn and wheat indicate that
the more common grain weevils will be unusually prevalent during
the coming winter.

The Bureau of Entomology’s work is revealing the great economic
importance of North American termites as destroyers of timber.

There are the usual reports on many spieces of injurious insects
from 11 states in No. 6 and 22 states and territories in No. 7. We
quote from one of these by Mr. A. L. Melander in No. 6: “I have
just [September 18th] returned from an extended scouting trip which
began about the middle of June. During the summer we have covered
nearly 4000 miles, practically all in Washington, and over 3300 have
been done by the little automobile. . . . In the State of Wash-
ington, [the weevil] Otiorhynchus ovatus extends from north to
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extending westward to Montesano. Most of the strawberry fields of
this region are infested. In the region immediately east of Seattle,
where the insect first entered the State fifteen years ago, the berry
industry has been taken over almost entirely by Japanese who shift
their fields as the weevils kill their plants. . . . Commercial
cranberry growing in this State, although in its infancy, has already
totaled over a million dollars invested. The principal trouble is
occasioned by the fire worm which, in its several generations, drops
the leaves, buds, blossoms and fruits, destroying not only the year’s
crop but, by attacking the terminal buds, prevents the next year’s
berries from forming. The growers certainly need advice and assist-
ance as much as any people can. They are enthusiastic but helpless
before this insect. They have equipped their bogs with piping and
have installed engine sprayers so as to be in a position to carry on
excellent spraying, but what is best and safest to use and just when
the spraying should be applied are unsolved problems for which the
growers are crying for professional advice, especially since this year
their avertable losses have amounted to hundreds of thousands of
dollars. . . . Perhaps the most valuable part of the summer’s
expedition was the information received and given during the personal
visits with hundreds of farmers. The car enabled me to get off the
beaten tracks and to run down scores of reported insect problems.

With the camp outfit carried along we were made independent of

hotels and railroads and thus were enabled to reach into many a
region I never before have had the opportunity of visiting.”

+ 0m +

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.

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

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

For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record,
Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En-
tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento-
mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B.

1—Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
3—The American Naturalist. 4—The Canadian Entomologist.

8—The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, London. 9—The En-
tomologist, London. 10—Nature, London. 11—Annals and Maga-

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zine of Natural History, London. 21—The Entomologist’s Record,
London. 51—Novitates Zoologicae, Tring, England. 68—Science,
New York. 87—Bulletin, Societe Entomologique de France, Paris.
105—Videnskabelige Meddelelser, Naturhistoriske Forening i
Kjobenhaven. 121—Archives des Sciences Physiques et Natur-
elles, Geneva. 150—Transactions, Royal Society of Edinburgh.
153—Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
169—‘‘Redia,” R. Stazione di entomologia Agraria in Firenze.
177—Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, London. 179—
Journal of Economic Entomology. 189—Journal of Entomology
and Zoology, Claremont, Calif. 198—Biological Bulletin, Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 204—New York State
Museum, Albany. 304—Annals, Carnegie Museum. 313—Bulletin
of Entomological Research, London. 344—U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 411—Bulletin, The Brooklyn En-
tomological Society. 420—Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus: A
monthly journal of entomology, Washington. 490—The Journal
of Parasitology, Urbana, Illinois. 532—Proceedings, National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington.
5388—Lorquinia. Los Angeles. 540—The Lepidopterist, Official
Bulletin, Boston Entomological Club. 546—TIllinois Biological
Monographs, Urbana. 551—Memorie, Pontifica Accademia
Romana dei Nuovi Lincei, Rome. 552—Science Progress, London.
553—Florida Buggist, Gainesville, Fla.

GENERAL SUBJECT. Cameron, S. E.—The insect associa-
tion of a local environmental complex in the district of Holmes
Chapel, Cheshire, England, 150, l1i, 37-78. Chandler, W. J.—Inves-
tigations of the value of nitrobenzol as a parasiticide with notes
on its use in collecting external parasites, 490, iv, 27-32. Chapman,
T. A—Two males paired with one female, 21, 1917, 182. Davis, A.
—Insect collecting on a mountain trail, 538, ii, 17-18. Felt, E. P—
Household and camp insects, 204, Bul. 194. Gibbs, A. E.—Obituary
notice, 9, 1917, 95. Grinnell, F.—The spirit of the naturalist and of
natural history work; a suggestion for observation and record,
540, i, 53-4; 70. Krogh, A.—Injection preparation of the tracheal
system of insects, 105, Ixviii, 319-22. Meyrick, E.—A question of
Latinity, 9, 1917, 114-5. Pickard-Cambridge, O.—Obituary notice,
9, 1917, 96. Rowland-Brown, H.—Insect disappearances and re-
appearances, 9, 1917, 92-4. Wodsedalek, J. E.—Five years of star-
vation of larvae, 68, xlvi, 366-7. Waterhouse, C. O.—Obituary
notice, 9, 1917, 71-2.

PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY. Gatenby, J. B——The
degenerate sperm-formation of moths as an index to the inter-

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relationship of the various bodies of the spermatozoon, 177, Ixii,
465-88. Muller, H. J—An oenothera-like case in Drosophila, 532,
ili, 619-26. Taylor, M.—The chromosome complex of Culex
pipiens. II, Fertilisation, 177, Ixii, 287-301. Warren, D. C.—Mu-
tations in Drosophila busckii, 3, li, 698-703.

MEDICAL. Wilson, E. E.—The anopheles mosquito in relation
to Malaria and agriculture, 553, i, 18-19, 22-3.

ARACHNIDA, ETC. Berlese, A.—Centuria di Acari nuovi,
I-III, 169, xii, 19-67; 125-177; 289-338. Chinaglia, L.—Revisione
del gen, “Hydrozetes,” 169, xii, 343-59. Cohen, H.—Vitality of lice,
10, C, 66-7. Savory, T—Further notes on captive spiders, 552, 1917,
322-24.

Ewing, H. E.—[Six] new sps. of economic mites, 179, x, 497-501.

NEUROPTERA, ETC. Hirst, S—Remarks on certain sps. of
the genus Demodex (of man, the horse, dog, rat and mouse), 11,
xx, 232-5. Longinus Navas, R. P.—Neuroptera nova Americana,
551, 11, 59-80. Tillyard, R. S.—The biology of dragonflies. (Cam-
bridge Univ. Press), 396 p. Williams, C. B.—A new thrips damag-
ing orchids in the West Indies, 318, viii, 59-61.

ORTHOPTERA. Hebard, M.—Dermapterological notes; Notes
on Mexican Melanopli, 1, 1917, 231-50; 251-75. Rehn & Hebard—
Studies in West Indian earwigs, 158, xxxvii, 635-51.

HEMIPTERA. Baker, A. C.—Some sensory structures in the
Aphididae, 4, 1917, 378-84. The correct name for our apple-grain
aphis, 68, xlvi, 410-11. Bodkin, G. E—Notes on the Coccidae from
Br. Guiana, 818, viii, 103-10. Gibson, E. H.—The collection of
Hemiptera in the U. S. Nat. Mus., 179, x, 502-3. Gregory, L. H.—
The effect of starvation on the wing development of Microsiphum
destructor, 198, xxxiii, 296-303. Heidemann & Osborn—Rhynchota
of the Isle of Pines, 304, xi, 346-55. McAtee, W. L.—A few notes
chiefly on the names of Nearctic Tingidae, 411, xii, 78-9. New-
stead, R.—Observations on scale-insects, IV, 313, viii, 1-34.

Ferris, G. F.—A new genus and sp. of Coccidae, 4, 1917, 375-8.
Gibson, E. H.—The family Isometopidae as represented in N.
America [3 new], 411, xii, 73-7. Guercio, G. del—Contribuzione
alla conoscenza degli afidi [1 new], 169, xii, 197-277. Knight, H.
H.—Notes on species of Miridae inhabiting ash trees, with de-
scription of a new sp., 411, xii, 80-2.

LEPIDOPTERA. d’Auriol, H.—Etude sur les Pierides du Jura,
121, 1917, 32-47. Benedict, R. C.—An outline of the life history of

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the clothes moth, Tineola biselliella, 68, xlvi, 464-6. Cassino &
Reiff—New L. from the Jacob Doll collection, 540, i, 68-9. Clarke,
A. F.—Butterfly v. wasp, 10, C, 85. Grinnell, F.—Lorquin’s admiral
(Basilarchia lorquinii), 538, ii, 20-21. Hampson, G. F.—Descrip-
tions of new Pyralidae of the subfamilies Hydrocampinae, Scopa-
rianae, etc., 11, xx, 265-82. Joicey, J. J—-New sps. and forms of
Sphingidae, 11, xx, 305-9. New subspecies of Caligo, 21, 1917,
180-2. McClymont, J. R—Remarks on evidences of intelligence in
certain butterflies, 9, 1917, 212-3. Marchand, W.—Entomological
notes, 540, i, 70-71. Mott, G—Cold destroys lepidoptera larva and
eggs in So. Florida, 540, i, 69. Ottolengui, R—-The reminiscences
of a lepidopterist, 540, i, 85-7. Prout, L. B—New South American
Geometridae, 51, xxiv, 374-92. Reiff, W.—Colias philodice, rothkei,
540, i, 84. Reiff & Cassino—Two weeks at Rockledge, Florida, 540,
i, 59-61, 72. Rowland-Brown, H.—Collateral colour variation of
Argynnids. Resting habit of Pierids, 9, 1917, 207. Skinner, H.—
The species of Argynnis in America, 4, 1917, 342-4. Stowers, N.—
A sugaring trip for Catocalas, 540, i, 87-9.

Barnes & McDunnough—Some pyralid notes [1 new], 4, 1917,
371-4. Cassino, S. E.—New sps. of Catocala [3 new], 540, i, 61-4.
Dyar, H. G.—Descriptions of some L.’larvae from Mexico; A new
Pyralid from California, 420, V, 128-32. Ehrmann, G. A.—Some
new No. American butterflies [2 new], 540, i, 54-6. Grinnell, F.—
Two unnamed California butterflies, 4, 1917, 349-51. Swett, L. W.—
Geometrid notes [1 new], 4, 1917, 351-2. New Geometrids [2
new], 540, i, 52-3.

DIPTERA. Dyar & Knab—Notes on Aedes curriei, 420, v,
122-5. Howard, C. W.—Hibernation of the house-fly in Minnesota,
179, x, 464-68. Howard & Hutchison—The house-fly, 344, Farm. B.,
851. Kahl, H.—Notes on the genus Leucophenga with descriptions
of some new species from So. America, West Africa, and the
Philippine Islands, 304, xi, 364-393. Malloch, J. R—The anthomyid
genus Phyllogaster, Addendum, 4, 1917, 352. Marchand, W.—An
improved method of rearing tabanid larvae, 179, x, 469-72. Nielsen,
J. C.—Undersogelser over entoparasitiske muscidelarver hos
arthropoder, VI, 105, Ixviii, 23-36.

Dyar, H. G.—The mosquitoes of the Pacific northwest [3 new];
Notes on Aedes at Lake Pend d’Oreille, Idaho; Notes on the Aedes
of Montana [2 new]; A new Aedes from the Rocky Mountain
region, 420, v, 97-121; 127-8. Johnson, C. W.—Species of the genus
Brachyopa of the eastern U. S. [2 new], 4, 1917, 360-2. VanDuzee,
M. C.—New No. Am. species of Dolichopodidae [5 new], 4, 1917,
337-42.

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COLEOPTERA. Achard, J.—Descriptions de deux Chrysome-
lides nouveaux de l’Amerique du Sud, 87, 1917, 230-1. Chagnon, G.
—A preliminary list of the insects of the Province of Quebec, III.
Coleoptera (Suppl. Rept. Quebec Soc. Protect. Plants), 161-277.
Champion, G. C.—A new barid from a Costa Rican bromeliad, 8,
1917, 223-4. Nicolay, A. S.—Buprestidae and Cerambycidae from
Maine, 411, xii, 92-5. Notman, H.—Coleoptera illustrata, Vol. 1, No.
3, Carabidae, 50 pls. Shelford, V. E.—Color and color-pattern
mechanism of tiger beetles, 546, iii, No. 4, 134 pp. Tower, W. L.—
Inheritable modification of the water relation in hibernation of
Leptinotarsa decem-lineata, 198, xxxiii, 229-57.

Chapin, E. A.—Studies in the Hydnocerini. The hydnoceroid
genera [2 n. g. 1 n. sp.J, 411, xii, 83-5. Fall, H. C—New Coleop-
tera, VII [7 new], 4, 1917, 385-91. Schaeffer, C—On some new and
known Melandryidae [4 new], 4, 1917, 357-60.

HYMENOPTERA. Berlese, A.—Aspidiotiphagus How. e Pros-
paltella Ashm., 169, xii, 1-13. Bray, H—List of bees from Clare-
mont, Laguna region, 189, ix, 93-100. Cockerell, T. D. A.—De-
scriptions and records of bees, LXXVI-LXXVII, 11, xx, 235-41,
298-304. Frohawk, F. W.—Destruction of wheat by wasps, 9, 1917,
132-3. Girault, A. A.—A new West Indian chalcid-fly, 4, 1917, 356-7.
Malenotti, E.—Sopra un caso di endofagia dell’ “Aspidiotiphagus
citrinus” sul “Chrysomphalus dictyospermi,” 169, xii, 15-18. Water-
son, J—A n. sp. of Paraphelinus, from Br. Guiana, with a dis-
cussion of the genus and the allied Aphelinus, 318, viii, 43-58.

Beutenmiiller, W.—Descriptions of new Cynipidae [5 new], 4,
1917, 345-9. Girault, A. A.—Descriptiones hymenopterorum chal-
cidoidicorum cum observationibus [2 new], 9, 1917, 36-8. Three
new chalcid flies from N. America. New chalcid flies, with notes
[10 new], 411, xii, 85-89. Malloch, J. R.—Three n. sps. of the new
genus Andrena from the U. S., 411, xii, 89-92.

THe Biology of DRAGONFLIES (ODONATA OR PARANEUROPTERA) by R.
J. Tirttyarp, M. A. (Cantab.) B. Sc. (Sydney), Macleay Fel-
low in Zoology to the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Cambridge [England]: at the University Press 1917. New
York representatives: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 8vo, pp. xii, 396,
4 pls. (2 colored), 188 text figs. Price 15 shillings net. (Cam-
bridge Zoological Series, General Editor: Arthur E. Shipley.
Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge).

This volume whose appearance was alluded to in the News for
October, page 353, contains the most complete general account of
the Odonata ever published. Many of its contents are very sugges-
tive and a much longer time must elapse before they can be properly

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considered and tested. Such consideration might easily postpone the
writing of an adequate review until the volume no longer had the
charm of novelty, but we feel that it would be an injustice to the
talented author, to his originality and his industry, to defer calling
it to the attention of American entomologists until the reviewer
felt that he had even partially digested its contents.

The book is an essential to every biological, zoological or ento-
mological library. Its scope is shown by the following table of con-
tents: Chapter I. Introduction, 8 pages; II. The Imago, external
features and skeleton, 29 pp.; III. The Wings, 29 pp.; IV. The Larva
or nymph, 33 pp.; V. The Alimentary and Excretory systems, 20 pp.;
VI. The Nervous system, 17 pp.; VII. The Sense organs, 20 pp.;
VIII. The Circulatory system, 9 pp.; IX. The Respiratory system, 36
pp.; X. The Bodywall and Muscles, ro pp.; XI. The Reproductive
system, 17 pp.; XII. Embryology, 14 pp.; XIII. Coloration, 15 pp.;
XIV. Classification, 23 pp.; XV. Zoogeographical distribution, 20 pp.;
XVI. The Geological record, 20 pp.; XVII. Bionomics, etc., 17 pp.;
XVIII. British species [included presumably on account of the book
forming one of the series above mentioned], 15 pp.; XIX. Collecting,
rearing and biological methods, 10 pp.; Appendix A. Bibliography,
13 pp.: B. Glossary, 5 pp.; C. Some important synonyms, 1 p. Index
of illustrations, 4 pp., Index of text, 12 pp.

Among the novelties adopted* may be mentioned the suggested
phylogenetic succession of the pterostigma (pp. 52-53) and of the
abdominal appendages of the imagos (pp. 35, 37); the view that the
original Odonata were anisopterous as the Protodonata were (pp.
49, 51), that the basal fusion of veins R and M “was probably brought
about, like the reduction in Sc, by the adoption of the aquatic habit
by the larva, and the consequent shifting of the course of the oxy-
gen supply of the developing wing from the costal to the anal end
of the alar trunk,’ “owing to the larval gills being situated at the
anal end of the body” (pp. 56, 46); the figuring of the hatching of
the larva of Anax (p. 68); the treatment of the rectal gills of the
larvae of the Anisoptera (pp. 178 et seq.), of their ontogeny (p. 186)
and of the caudal and lateral gills of Zygopterous larvae (pp. IG0-200) ;
the phylogenetic treatment of color patterns (pp. 246 et seq.); the

* Many of these, indeed, have already appeared in Mr. Tillyard’s
numerous papers in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Vew
South Wales for recent years, and in the Journal of the Linnean
Society of London, Zoology, vol. xxxiii. Mr. Tillyard’s interpreta-
tions of certain venational features are not discussed in this review;
they have been criticised by Prof. Needham in the News for April
last, pp. 169-173, and by Mr. Campion in a review of the present book
in The Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine for September, pp. 212-215.

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correlation of colors with habits both imaginal and larval (pp. 248,
256), including change of color in the larva induced by color changes
in its environment; in chapter XIV, alterations is classification where-
by the family Lestidae is separated on entirely new characters, the
genus Epiophicbia of Japan being included therein, and the elevation
of many of de Selys’ legions to the rank of subfamilies; the discus-
sion of zoogeographical distribution under the headings of the palaeo-,
ento- and ectogenic faunae (chap. xv); a new phylogenetic diagram
(p. 319); an estimate of the flight-speed of dragonflies which in
Austrophicbia is placed at “nearly sixty miles per hour” (p. 323).

Admirable features are the numerous original illustrations, some
of them due to Mrs. Tillyard, the great majority of all the figures
in the book having been made by the author from new material, as
those of many wings, larvae, parts of the nervous system, sense or-
gans and many viscera; the elaborate tables of equivalents in nomen-
clatures of wing-veins and -areas (pp. 40-43), of the muscles of the
entire body of the imago (pp. 206-209) and of the census of the
Odonata of the world (p. 300) in which the total number of species
is placed at 2457 in 429 genera.

So excellent is this book that the reviewer wishes for it a wide and
an intensive use and he would fail in his duty if he did not point out
some details which seem to him to require correction, that it may
be of the greatest value. The first sentence of chapter I implies
that Linnaeus recognized a family Libellulidae, but Linnaeus’ cate- -
gories included no families and no group names terminating in idae;
these are post-Linnean. Baron Edmond de Selys-Longchamps died
December II, 1900, not in 1890 (p. 2).

In the table on p. 92, the—sign for the appendix dorsalis in the col-
umn “Imagines Zygoptera” should be replaced by a X_ sign for
“rudimentary” (cf. Hagen & Calvert, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, xxxix,
pl. I, figs. 18 and 18c and explanation thereof, p. 119, under v). The
statement that “In Zygopterid larvae the rectum is undivided” (p. Io,
footnote) will require some modification, as work by Mr. Mitchell
Carroll, not yet published, shows. The problem of “the missing ab-
dominal ganglion,” stated (p. 132) as solved in Petalura, had been
solved in 1903 in the note cited as No. 28 of the bibliography on page
364.

Those interested in the physiology of the nervous system (pp. 135-
136) will find additional data in the work of Babak and Foustka (1907)
and of Matula (1011), as well as in Babak’s summary in Winter-
stein’s great Handbuch der vergl. Physiologie (1912-13). The expres-
sion “Closed System” applied to the dorsal vessel hardly seems ap-
propriate, since the latter is truly said to open “into the haemococle”
(p. 157). Contributions to knowledge of spermatogenesis (p. 213)
have been made since Biitschli by Lefevre and McGill (1908, 1912)

478 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dees ag

and by Gross (1912). In the discussion of germ bands (p. 233), the
fact that other Odonate embryos than the one chiefly described
(Calopteryx) have not immersed, but superficial, germ bands is not
mentioned. Brandt’s text and figures (reproduced as G and H on p.
231), as well as a consideration of the mechanics involved, necessi-
tate the thickening and contraction of the serosa after, and not before
(p. 238), the rupture of the fused amnion and serosa. The length
of embryonic life is often more than three weeks (p. 242), in coun-
tries with a marked winter; the reviewer is accustomed to obtain
young larvae of Sympetrum vicitnum in Philadelphia for class work
from eggs laid in late September or early October: kept indoors,
these hatch in December and January; in their natural surroundings
the embryonic period must be still longer. Semi-Arians of the twen-
tieth century may reject Mr. Tillyard’s “homochrome” (pp. 254, 257)
for “homoeochrome,” but, irrespective of orthodoxy, it may be ques-
tioned why “heteromorphic” should be employed in the sense of
“ganer. (ps 257):

The characters for many of the taxonomic groups given in chapter
XIV, such as “Triangles short” or “Triangle not excessively nar-
rowed,” without any accompanying mention of some neighboring
structure or detail to be used as a scale in measuring the shortness
or the narrowing, are not sufficiently precise to be available for pur-
poses of identification, however meaningfull they may be to those al-
ready acquainted with the Odonata. The non-comparative nature of
the tribal characters of the Libellulinae (pp. 269-273) makes determi-
nation of specimens exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. There
is not space within the limits of this review to discuss the classifi-
cation itself.

“Nebraska” (p. 282) is an error for “Nevada,” and “Diastatomma
Brauer” (p. 307, footnote) for “Diastatomma Burmeister-Charpentier.”
The fact that one specimen of Phenacolestes parallelus has been
found with wings outspread* does not seem to the reviewer to jus-
tify the conclusion that this extinct genus used to rest in that position
(p. 315). The condition shown by the fossil may only mean that the
insect had been softened by water and its wings floated out into the
attitude in which they are now found. Mr. Tillyard’s own observa-
tions that females emerge, on the average, a few days before the
males (p. 326) and that birds seldom succeed in catching dragon-
flies (p. 330) are not in accord with records from other sources. His
method of “bristling” specimens, which does not include the head
and prothorax (p. 355), is surely faulty, as everyone who has worked
with the older collections, including that of de Selys himself, can

* Reference is doubtless made to figure 4, page 574 of volume xlii,
The American Naturalist, Sept., 1908.

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testify. Nor can the keeping of insects in large tobacco boxes (p.
356) be endorsed, unless the Australian boxes are very much tighter
than those of this part of the world, even if our practice does not
always agree with our preaching! The presence of decaying vege-
table matter is surely not essential in rearing the eggs of all Odonata
(p. 358); in the annual case of Sympetrum vicinum mentioned above,
ne vegetable matter is employed.

The title of No. 22 in the bibliography (p. 364) is incorrectly
given; the paper in question had not the wide scope which the mis-
quotation implies. The larger German text-books are so extensive
that the student will have some difficulty in finding the Odonata on
“pp. 380 et seg.” of No. 81 in the same list (p. 367); “Allgemeiner
Theil, 4te Lieferung, 1910,” at least should be added to the citation.
Some mention should be made in the bibliography, even with its
limitations as laid down in the preface (pp. vii-viili), of the work of
A. N. Bartenef on the Palaearctic fauna. In view of the use of th:
word cell in two distinct meanings on the same page (e. g. 244), il
would seem desirable to include both meanings in the glossary (p.
377), as those who need the one would also require the other. On
page 378 is the remark that the word exuviae does not exist in the
singular and, although the Century Dictionary (not to quote others)
supports this statement, yet eruvia and exruvium appear in at least
one American entomological glossary and it is difficult to see why thi;
is not as good neo-Latin terminology as many of our accepted generi-
and specific names.

Mr. Tillyard says in his preface (pp. ix-x): “Readers will . . . not
fail to discover a very strong Australian ‘flavour’ in the book. Those
who know how rich and varied the Australian Dragonfly-fauna is,
will look upon this rather as an advantage than otherwise. While
care has been exercised in selecting, for general description, well-
known genera of wide distribution, yet there has been no hesitation
in making use of the more archaic Australian forms, when these
latter could throw new light on the phylogeny of the Order.”

We welcome the Australian flavor and the ectogenic, if not ento-
genic, Australian authorship on this and other grounds as well. We
look to younger continents, as well as to younger men, for new
points of view, for liberation from the thralldom of stereotyped ideas,
and Mr. Tillyard has assuredly given us these in plenty in his Biology
of Dragonflies —P. P. CALVERT.

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Abundance of Sympetrum rubicundulum (Odonata).
Sympeirum rubicundulum Say was exceedingly common in my gar-
den as well as in those of my neighbors, at Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania,
during the month of September, 1917. The nearest breeding place is
at least a half mile from my home.—Puiip Laurent, Philadelphia, Pa.

480 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., ’17

Doings of Societies.

The American Entomological Society.

Meeting of June 11, 1917, in the hall of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia. Dr. Henry Skinner, President, in the chair;
nine persons present. Mr. C. W. Frost was elected a member.

The donations from Mr. Harry B. Weiss of specimens of
Diorymellus laevimargo Champ. and Megastigmus aculeatus Swed.
and from Mr. Albert F. Swain of a collection of paratypes of Cali-
fornian aphids were announced.

Orthoptera.— Mr. J. A. G. Rehn exhibited the Hebard collection
of North American Blattidae, containing all the known species, and
made interesting remarks on the history of the nomenclature and the
distribution and habits of the species.

Odonata.— Dr. P. P. Calvert exhibited the type of Miocora peraltica,
new genus, new species, from Costa Rica, described in Entomological
News for June, 1917, and spoke briefly of its habitat and its generic
differentials. He also exhibited two larval exuvie of Hagenius brevis-
tylus which he had found on stones below a dam, on the banks of
Darby Creek, above Heyville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, June
18, 1916, and a female imago which he had taken on the bank of
Crum Creek near Castle Rock, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1916, and sug-
gested that members be on the lookout for this species of which there
was only one previous record of its occurrence in the vicinity of
Philadelphia, that of a nymph found in Fairmount Park in 1893, by
the late C. F. Seiss (Ent. News, V, p. 324).

Lepidoptera—Dr. H. Skinner exhibited the pupal skin of Megathy-
mus cofaqui from which the insect, shown at a previous meeting,
emerged June 8th. It was sent from Venice, Florida.

General.— Dr. P. P. Calvert exhibited some vials of alcoholic speci-
mens of Arthropods from Costa Rican bromeliads and commented on
them briefly, also parts of bull’s horn thorn (Acacia spp.) and the
ants (Pseudomyrma spp.) which inhabit this plant, from the same
country. Referring to a course on the history of entomology which
he had just been giving during the closing academic year at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, he named the following naturalists selected
for discussion in this course as having had great influence on the prog-
ress of entomology: Aristotle, Malpighi, Leeuwenhoek, Swammer-
dam, Redi, Reaumur, Roesel von Rosenhof, Ray, Linnaeus, Fabricius,
Latreille, Cuvier, Lamarck, Savigny, Darwin, Wallace, Haeckel,
Weismann and Lubbock; the time limits of the course prevented the
inclusion of others——R. C. WitiiaMs, Jr., Recording Secretary.

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INDEX TO VOL. XXVIII.

(* indicates mew genera, species or varieties.)

AInsLiE, C. N. Notes on the construction of the cocoon

aE rT MME eye ae a Chars he su, views kv see winks fe, fos age pM EMS 304
eee Co On the Chinese gall (ill. pe... 02.02... 5. 385
Banks, N. New mites, mostly economic (ill.)......... 193
Bernpem, J. L. Swarms of butterflies (ill.) .......... 339
BiackmoreE, E. H. Entomology in British Columbia... .469
RestsnetiH. B, “A correction in Omus.......0.0..6-- 234

Studies in the tenebrionid tribe Eleodiini, No. 2....... 221
BLAISDELL and Reynoitps. A new Omus (ill.)......... 49
Bruges, C. T. Three new West Indian species of the ich-

memmenid, sens Hiphosoma (ill.). . 2. 2c cease oe can 450
BuewHoLz, © A new species of Acronycia............ 183
Catvert, P. P. Advances in knowledge of fossil insects. 80

OS WE. TERS Re ee oe een nem reer 185
aapreryy dimidiata, Apicdlis . 2.2. esc eee tvns esas 266
Mie convocation week meetingS -........0.06..6. 77, 468
Mies lack Gf entomologists (editorial) ............:.. 373
The national defense against and by insects ........... 283
MiemNews: tor 1O17 (editorial) ...2.c00ec.ec8. anndee 39
eNews fOr LOLs. (editorial)... cs ccwies Sele dss epee 424
Review: Tillyard’s Biology of dragonflies ........... 475
Specituearion, im entomology ..... 3... ..+.aeecse ene 140
Studies on Costa Rican Odonata. VIII. A new genus

pam P (MUL Yl os Se scioh ae ay sents as aes vp ae « Ge ee 259
CHAMBERLIN, W. J. A correction in Trachykele........ 234

Notes on some Buprestidae of northern California.129, 166
Cuipester, F. E. Dytiscus as a destroyer of mosquito

RR Pe so tala Cc oe Sor ior oe Re a) ae eu eee 454
CockEeRELL, T. D. A. Entomology at the United States
SUE mmntcilesNUCSCUNT: / 5. oc0c'e ter. '.) « 21S. aioe Shaan Nae 55
emembees REO: COStE RICE. 5 ani wages vie distsleecuud so ae siel 200
A second Colletes with spotted wings................ 363
peme bees of the genus. Psaenyihia.........-..+.+00- 302
481

482 INDEX

Crampton, G. C. A phylogenetic study of the lateral head,
neck and prothoracic regions in some Apterygota and
lower ptetyzota (Gill) 2:25.05 50 so) A So See ap ee 398

Cresson, E. T., Jr. Descriptions of new genera and spe-
cies of the dipterous family Ephydridae, IV........ 340

Opening up a new field [Review of “Sarcophaga and
its -alliesin North Amentea: |): 20-2225. Soa eee 86
Cresson and REHN. (See Entomological Literature.)
Crospy and Leonarp. The egg of Byturus unicolor (ill.) .438

An egg parasite of the sumac flea-beetle (ill.)........ 368
Davipson, W. M. Early spring Syrphidae in California
and a new Pipiza (Cle) 322s eee so. eee 414
DEAN, G. A. The Knaus collection of Coleoptera........ 263
Dickerson and Weiss. The azalea lace-bug, Stephanitis
Pyriowdes (NOC Ree cee See eee eee IOI

Dickerson, E. L. (See also Weiss & Dickerson.)

Dietz, W. G. Key to the North American species of the
tricolor group of the dipterous genus Tipula, with de-
sctiptions of four new species (ill.) ...<.-...2-eneee 145

Dottey, W. L. The rate of locomotion of Vanessa antiopa
in different luminous intensities and its bearing on the

“continuous action theory” of orientation .......... 83
Drake, C. J. Key to the nearctic species of Gargaphia
with the description ofvajnew species ,.. .. A... eee 227
Dunn, L. H. A simple method of identifying the Anophe-
les mosquitoes of the Canal”Zone -:.........5 56s 14
Duntar,; KY Ai new biological journal :...- 4.2 sae 284
EMeErRTON, J. H. Spiders in the Adirondacks ........... 59
Fatt, H. C. A new genus and species-of Buprestidae.... 68
Feit, £.-P2 New Indiag’ gall amidees 2229.3. soe 73, 300
Gipson, E. H. The genus Harmostes .......:)2.3eee 439
A new species of Corythuca from the Northwest...... 258
GirRAULT, A. A. New chalcid flies from Maryland... .20, 255

The North American species of Trigonoderus, females. 396
The occurrence of the genus Monobaeus in No. Am...106
Gor, W. T. “Adult Chrysopidae do. eat 2.24. . 522 eee 184
GREEN, J. W. A new Trithodes......0. tees sa eee 367

INDEX 483

Hampson, G. F. The determination of generic types in

EMME PHMOPLCTAM A... caatarcet eo Wee WASh Ss gies Qa tlotes 463
Harrison, J. W. H. Egg-masses of the vaporer moths
WOE IDSEG) ole Sapa iis Mae ak ge acon ea ema Lenore Ee mS RO fe I51
Haseman, L. Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis larvae as para-
PRecnOi tbe NiUMAt MECSENE vos). os. o's bon dei « 343
Hesarp, M. A new species of Myrmecophilous blattid
Mle Ete or 5) hs neste eee vl bys os ener ened, de ORS EONS 300
Notes on the earwigs of North America, north of the
Premicanebemnaaty (tls. i os Sak sie CIR Roti 311
Hess, W. N. Origin and development of the photogenic
Organs of Photuns pennsylvanica ..... 0.066000. oes 304
Hiser, O. F. and J. S. Erebus odora and its larvae in
Reet ee res NS ao ded vc 5, SASSI RIES tas WSS ORNS 79
Hotitoway, T. E. Abundance of the fall web worm... .425
ewer 1 O.8 An active ant-Killer i... .). 0... .cee ed odes 310
Becuenin, J. C.. A new Catocala net (ill.) 2.0.05... 71

Huncerrorp, H. B. The egg-laying habits of a back-
swimmer, Buenoa margaritacea, and other biological

Mone eeonceniine it (ill: sees A ae.e lee, ba eee 174
The life history of the back-swimmer, Notonecta undu-
Biren GRIN) BN SIR Sia oo iatalate' We le kd ab She Leak Rereee 207

JoHannseEN, O. A. Some North American Anthomyiidae. 323
Kennepy, C. H. Notes on the penes of damselflies, No. 2.
The close relations inter se of the Hawaiian Agrio-

IRS UUN NE occ S)5)8 oz asides We Wy ae Ss oem ce aR! Bib Varela CEE 9
Notes on the penes of Zygoptera. No. 3. The penes in
Neaneura and related genera (ill.)rs. 0.4.2). 086 n22 289
Knicut, H. H. New and noteworthy forms of North
JASTD STIG Ii gil Ca pean lowe eee rer me ore igs res 3 3
enmapecies of Lopides ((lli.) \: a/20)) nk ees. Bee 455
Laurent, P. Collecting insects by the aid of molasses
LDS) | hte. tale ae a Or PRCT A Wen 81
Abundance of Sympetrum rubicundulum ............. 479
Lronarp, M. D. (See Crosby & Leonard.)
Linpsay, A: W. A list of the butterflies of Iowa....... 347

McDunnoucu, J. R. Synonymic notes on North Ameri-
SAME ICO PECL A a 5 onsarp ocho svar deo a eae ace wieks GaN hae Oe

484 INDEX

McGrecor, E. A. Three new Mallophaga from North
American’ finds (aHiys aeons ele 0 a et as eee 433
Mercatr, C. L. Two new Syrphidae from eastern North
Americas (hig). fe Sante fue Pea eee. Soe 209
Morse, A. P. Review: Hebard’s Blattidae of North
ATHETICAR OS. isioueew he oe Die ae eae 430
NeepHAM, J. G. Notes on some recent studies of dragon-
fly cwang.ttacheation :2 Jt... sasase ees 2 ee 169
Newcomes; .cH., Emily Le Mortom 25 222.14. eee 97
OrroLencur, R. The distribution and synonymy of Auto-
grapha WACCmis pe). NAS Gaye ae <r 29

Parker, R. R. Seasonal abundance of flies in Montana. .278
ParsHLey, H. M. A species of Macrotracheliella found

in: New Englands) .....c205, toe, oko eee GE
Porter, B. A. The host of Ablerus chisiocampae........ 186
ReEHN, J. A. G. On Coelophyllum simplex and certain of
its allies: (ill). keke desis photic tee. Ge ee ee 152
Some critical notes on the giant katydids forming the
eroup “Steirodontia (ills) siec ven. Hahei!) gee 107

(See also Cresson and Rehn.)
Reynotps, L. R. (See Blaisdell and Reynolds.)

Ricu, S. G. A further note on Zonocerus elegans. 2
Ripiey, L. B. Notes on the feeding habits of adult Chry-
Sopidad- kis ken bie sheen sea ee 4. te rr 35
Rosertson, C. Feeding habits of adult Chrysopidac. ...301
The “generic/ bugbeates.c.)2.500.~ 61a. 2 285
RoHuwer, S. A. Two new species of Macrophyz......... 264

SEAMANS, H. L. A new species of Tropidia from Montana. 342
Suinji, G. O. Mating habit of the cottony cushion scale. 162

New ‘aphids from California »(ill.) 2222454... eee 61
SKINNER, H. Anthocharis genutia and a new variety ....438
Insects: and "war, (editorial); taspiecs 1. ey. a ee 330
Lycaena lygdamus and its races with a description of a
Hew ONEe......90 VE Bee a ee eee 212
New species of Lepidoptera, 4 aa22 ™ 254.00 1a 52 ae 328
Pupal ‘differences sin “egqatiiymits.. 0) 15> 3: ae 232

Some ‘synonymy, in thesElespendae:. 4. 52.242 eee 82

INDEX 485

Review: Barnes & McDunnough’s Check List of Lepi-

Same Lebel AMehICan A... maa ae 4+ sys.eid sbereldes 190

PeamevaemM ne UseMidoplerist: 65 s.0. «0s elywas so dante 45
STEVENS, O. A. Preliminary list of North Dakota wasps

SeeMMEierOn umenidae 2525 shsnajsck sada sir eee 419

Stites, C. W. Notice to the zoological profession of a
possible suspension of the International rules of zoo-
logical nomenclature in the cases of Musca and Calli-

DOE. 9 ee ee 20 a: ee we ee ee 231
STONER, D. A new species of Apateticus from Louisiana
IRM Assia «ana shouanis Seis sx ascehs «Some Se ores 462
irxArD, Ke JP Phylogeny of ant lions ......:...28¢4s 42
DE LA ToRRE BuENoO, J. R. Life-history and habits of the
RaePer Water-strider (Gerris VeEMIgise sc acts. dens 201
Life-history and habits of the margined water-strider
EL IHON GME LUSH Has te occas he (hlees On eee eer 295
Life-history of the northern microvelia—Microvelia bo-
AS CLES ORO OS Re RET Cerne oe eer ane eer 354
New York Scoloposthethi (Lygaeidae: Heter.) ...... 65
Tucker, E. S. Outbreaks of the elegant looper (Phil-
traea elegantaria) on privet in Louisiana............ 394.
Van Duzer, M. C. New North American species of
Miniteheponidae LCi), 0.5 es, lay senthee le ac tnaratebe anemone 123

WarreEN, J. C. Habits of some burrowing Scarabaeidae. .412
Wetss, H. B. Additions to insects of New Jersey, No. 5..214

Eeeorrecuon in-spelline Acythopeus 22. 2.604 ce sce 106
Sere aanastal Orchid IMSECtS 6) .20s- i uae a oe cae © 24
(See also Dickerson and Weiss.)
Welss and Dickerson. Psyllia buxi in New Jersey.... 40
Westcott, O. S. Sex attraction overcome by light stim-
PEABO EROT Scho oso ete ad, cena hese om eld ae ee Se eee 374
Witiiamson, FE. B. Correction of the specific name of a
CPELEAO TG Ree ere OR gm eget aero too, Seka ie 8
Some species of Leptagrion with descriptions of a new
Sens anda mew species (ily) ce +5 sce. cme 241
Wirtner, M. A new genus of Bothynotinae, Miridae .... 33

Wotcort, G. N. Influence of rainfall on abundance of a
REGO YGIR GEG See Palas ots Uae ccs taraine. hs ova os UAV ope carte ea ES ae 161

486

GENERAL SUBJECTS
Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia. (See En-
tomological Section.)
Additions to Insects of New

jersey wNOe sites setae 214
Aid in the Entomology of
INe@wrchenseymnece aces 122
American Entomological So-
Cle byte eee eae 45, 237, 383, 480
Animal Life in the Katmai
IDncirics, MNkgk) Goodscpcec 70
Animals, except man, attack-
ed@ibyaelinsectsimae sence 433
Apterygota, A phylogenetic
Std 1G in ee mene ice 2098
Biological Journal, A new .. 284
British Columbia, Entomol-
OQ Valin Wepcine erect eye 469
Butterfly Club in Los An-
TCLESH meee erates hie poe oho 383
Collecting trip in Colombia,
13, 18, \WalbemmeormS 5454c¢ 230

Collections of the University
of Michigan, Entomologi-
Calle ea a eeee per rey 425
Collector’s Exchange
Convocation week meetings,
77, 87, 468
Doings of Societies,
44, 87, 191, 237, 382, 431, 480
Emergency entomological
Service =...0- 283, 331, 375, 470
Entomological literature,
4283) TAI, 1875, 2345) 28059332)
377, 426, 471.
Entomological Section of the
Acade Nat Ci ee4 7.3624 3i
Entomological Section, Lor-

qumnmiNat bist (Clubmerceee 432
Entomological Society of No-

Vale SCOtlam ane oes 431
Entomological Workers of

Ohio. Mex Ac ese cies ae 192

INDEX

Entomology as a National de-

TTT eR CE Acetic 229
Feldman Collecting Social,
94, 191, 239, 383
Florida Entomological Socie-
GYM apc SheVauctoeichaeh. Cush icratorpeteners 432
Fossil insects, Advances in
knowledge gots aio: eee 80
Generic btigbeat )... sseseee 285
History of Entomology ..... 480
Insects Jandiawate faeseeee eee 330

Insects attacking insects,
186, 203, 220, 258, 310, 368, 454
Johnson (O. B.) entomologi-

Cale collectionh eeereeeeorcee 41
Knaus collection of Coleop-
tela, 5/24 ea eae eee 263
Lack of entomologists ...... 373
Lorquin Natural History
Club (see Entomological
Section of)
Man, Insects that attack ... 343
Medal awarded for entomo-
logicale jesearchy jee ae eee 353

Michigan, Entomological col-
lections of the University

OLS (aidisw a suenent castes ee 425
Molasses traps, Collecting in-

Sects bys the aidsiok.-o seer 81
Myrmecophilous insects ..... 360
National defense against and

bye unlSeGES. &.. sec: ee 283
National defense, Entomolo-

CV AS ae. oh ee ee eee 229
Newark Entomological Socie-

id) OIG oct 46, 96, 238
INeEws fom OMe. aor ee ener 39
INewsmior LOIS) 4-cme aero 424

Ohio State University, The
new head of the department
of Zoology and Entomology 184
Orchid insects, Some unusual 24
Photographs received for the
album

INDEX 487
Phylogenetic study in some ap- | Ven” Dues Fo Oe eka. 2 282
terygota and Pterygota | Williamson, E. B. ...... 32, 230
ILD Site A 208 |
Physiographic divisions of REVIEWS.
io: UGS 3". ia rs 303 | Aldrich: Sarcophaga and al-

Plants attacked by insects, 24, 35,
40, 62, 73, 79, 95, 120, 166, 174,

194, 215, 232, 238, 285, 371, 394. |

425, 456.
Plants visited by insects, 258, 301,

414, 420.

MeyGHODIOIORY . ..cjic ees cg 284
Pterygota, A phylogenetic study
Oi GOE, cere ECC eee 308

Questions and answers, 40, 78, 141

Return of animal life to the
Katmai district, Alaska .. 70

Specialization in entomology. 140

Summer work on insects .... 266
United States National Mu-
seum, Entomology at 55
Whiteman INSECtS -..-6...c0c 33¢
OBITUARY NOTICES.
SSG) Oe 2 337
ERO Ny. aieccic< alee situs nag 337
TG” UA a er ee 338
HWedemann., ©) (ll!) .. 52... 2 I
Hefastsore Oo Bo. os eccecincis s 338
WeConte: Helen) G. ....0.2... 384
Pickard-Cambridge, O. ..... 384
RoppiSe Bs OR. a... sacplcos.s 338
Rodgrenezs ia Wi ose ceases le 335
TNFTTEVEIT See Eee eee 338
Miaterhouses iG. ©; /...a0si.. 237 |
PERSONALS.
Earnie (eh. 461
LEVIS) Lo Bae oe re 266
Isley iiaesct YS ae a 461
[Sires Ne 263
IWA@ SEAT) LES De S507;
Bansileyn He Mi... cb... ss 461
Sir Ee 2 461
pinta eee is <2, 10 aie wires 353

lies in North America .... 86
Barnes & McDunnough:

Check List of Lepidoptera

of Boreal America ....... 190
Hebard: Blattidae of North

PRICES 95 che aly tes bles «ais 430
Wepidopterist: es04 cae oon on 45
Tillyard: Biology of Dragon-

FICS is 3.hcp scene eT ae 475

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBU-
TION.

Arachnida: Fla., 196*; La., 195*;
N2oY:. Sots) hex. star sve. Ie.
HOVERS Cs AN lo y-S

Coleoptera: Cal., 49*, 69*, 129,
10; 224%, 283: Bila 2 Tons Gas
191; Kans., 412; Md., 94; N. J.,
25, 47,, 94, 95, 96, 217, 383; N.
Mex., 46, 96; N. Y., 438; Oreg.,
2208 venti, (62) (04 ia lee agar
Tex., 191, 367*; Va., 240; Wash.,
221*.

Diptera Can. 3255 Cale 126%:
146*, 341*, 417*; Col., 126, 150*;
Conn., 327; Idaho, 341*; Ind.,
325; - Me. 210s: sass. aaq*
3257. . Mich... 146") “Mo. 343°
Mont., 278;.3427; N. Ji, 25,. 95,
2207 N.Y... 140,325: N.C. t49*.
210*; Ohio, 327; Penn., 95, 327;
C.,Ame 1A: 5. Am, 34h Lndias

73°, 369".
Hemiptera: Can., 67; Cal., 61%,
162, 228%, 445%; Col.) 67, 447;

La., 462*; Mass., 38*, 68, 461*;
Md., 458*; Mo., 450*; N. J., 24.
40, 96, 101, 215, 238; N. Mex.,
447; N. Y., 5*, 65, 456*; Oreg.,
445; Penn... 34*;, Tex., 6*. 445-

488 INDEX

Wash., 258*; Mex., 441; C. Am.,
441; S. Am., 443; China, 385.

Hymenoptera: IIl., 397*; Md., 20%,
255%) 30 /aaeeLich>.. 510675) 2005
Mo., 264*; Neb., 266; N. J., 47,
210s NS Yeu2oo. ONG Dal 4To:
Va., 308*; W. Ind., 450*; Mex.,
3637; ~G, Ams 200t S) Ams
302*.

Lepidoptera: Can., 214; Alaska,
FAWN (Gail Anil, eee | ashe
Cols Bias?) tia 4802) 2a
430°; Ul, 214; lowa, 70; 3475
La., 304, 425; Md, 46,- 238;
Minn., 214; Mont., 214; N. H.,
30; NE Wh 25) 40) 04: 100) ose.
ZIG. 2309 Ne Mexe 23075 Oness
214; Penn., 47, 94, 191, 230, 240,
3035 Mex, 3408 Vas 25s era.
329*; Wash., 213*; W. Va., 214;
Wisc., 214; Cuba, 82.

Mallophaga: Minn., 436*; S. Dak.,
433"; Tex., 435*.

Neuroptera: Conn “35:7 N> J.
215; Australia, 42.

Odonatas) Flas (834 N., Je 206;
Penn., 470, 480; C. Am., 260%,
480; S. Am., 244*.

Orthoptera:, (Gan...) 31720 Cal236,
B15 Ariz Sion Dele give iia.
Sieh igh ster (Cala aie Ibe) o sires
Maine, 316; Mass., 316; Miss.,
Bie ion Ea eye eAli7/ae IIe CIN. ww NC
a12r! Penns 40.055 Sls enen
Suis IGS Site Nei shiz Wiriges
317; We nds) “rie 1567 Wvitex;,
300; CP Am iin, 2565, 308+: 0:
ATi ON TSAR Ose chil Cas 2s

ARACHNIDA
Acheles ees Greer Ber he 197
Adirondacks, Spiders in the 59
antillarum*, Tetranychus
Ci) ARE ee eye eee 194

Ant-killer, An active ....... 310
apicalis, Tetranychina (ill.).. 195
IBrVODIG 152i hacen Cee 196
Cahgonusips Ss... 2a 197

celarius*, Stigmaeopsis (Ill.) 196

Chortoglyphus (see graci-
lipes).

decepta*, Tetranobia (ill.).. 194

Eremobates (see magnus).

Eutetranychus* ....-.. .7208 197
gracilipes*, Chortoglyphus
(ill: ete oe 199

Iphiopsis (see obesus).
latus*, Spelaeorhynchus (ill.) 197

magnus, Eremobates ....... 310
Mites, mostly economic, New 1093
Neophyllobius 2.2.12 2. eee 196
Notophallus (see viridis).
obesus*, Iphiopsis (ill.)..... 198
Olkigonychus\)-... 2 ee 197
Paratetranychuis 9.42.0 eeee 107
Raphignathus”, 2224-22 eee 196
sacchari*, Tyroglyphus (ill.). 198
Schigotetranychus .......... 1097
Spelaecorhynchus (see latus).
SGMACOPSIS 22.52 eee 105
(See also celarius.)
SHOMGCUS 5.1... oe ee ee ee 197
Renuspalpus ..225.05 eee 196
Betranobvig 3 3. o30 eee 194
(See also deccpta.)
Tetranychind, 2:22.20 eee 195
(See also apicalis.)
iietranychaides, .- sen eee 197
Tetranychopsis ............. 107

Tetranychus (see antillarum).
Tyroglyphus (see sacchari).
viridis, Notophallus (ill.).... 193

COLEOPTERA
Acmaeodora (see angelica,
hepburnu, acuta, connexa,
labyrinthica, plagiaticauda,
variegata, vandykei, mari-

ee

INDEX

posa, dolorosa, hornt, ge-
mina.

acuta, Acmaeodera .......... 167
Acypotheus (see orchivora).
Acythopeus, Correction in
Sell Cerys see eye 106
adjecta, Buprestis .......... 133
adulterima, Eleodes ......... 224
adeneogaster, Anthaxia ...... 135
Agrilus (see politus, wvittati-
collis, walsinghami, neva-
densis).
ZANTE EO ACT ee ASE Eee 68
(See also cylindricollis.)
angelica, Acmaeodera ...... 166
angulicollis, Chalcophora ... 129
Anthaxia (see aeneogaster,
deleta, sublaevis).
atropurpurea, Melanophila .. 134
bicinctus*, Trichodes ....... 367
Blepharida rhois, Egg para-
SUS ZONE | his eee eee 368
Bradycinetus (see fossator).
Buprestidae, A new genus and
SMEClESMOle ey aeeeriet: ceo fn 65
Buprestidae of Northern Cali-
fornia, Notes on some .... 12)
Buprestis (see gibbsii, con-
nexa, laeviventris, rustico-
rum, langti, lauta, conflu-
ens, adjecta).
Burrowing Scarabaeidae . 412
Byturus unicolor, The egg of
Gill). o 83 ci GBIS Erteedersioe eeeee 438

californica, Chrysobothris ... 135
californica, Polycesta
Canthon (see lecontet).

caymyjes%, Phanaeus ........ 412
cattleyae, Cholus (ill.)...-.. 23
caurina, Chrysobothris ...... 135
Chalcophora (see angulicol-

lis).
Cholus (see cattleyae).
Chrysobothris (see femorata,

489

contigua, dentipes, califor-
nica, caurina, sylvania, mali,
pubescens, deleta, cyanella,
prasina, monticolae, dolata,
pseudotsugae, laricis,
viridicyanea).
Chrysophana (see placida).
Collecting by the aid of mo-

nixa,

lasses traps. = -eeeenor oe: 81
confluens, Buprestis ........ 133
connexa, Acmaeodera ....... 167
comnexa, Buprestis 140.66. 131
consputa, Melanophila ...... 133
contigua, Chrysobothris .... 135
cupreomtens*, Omus (ill.),

49, 234
cyanella, Chrysobothris ..... 139
cylindricollis*, Ampheremus. 69
delciaw Anthaxian eae see 135
deleta, Chrysobothris ....... 139
dendrobu, Diaxenes ........ 28

dentipes, Chrysobothris ..... 135
Diaxenes (see dendrobit).
Dicerca (see prolongata, sex-
ulis, tenebrosa, hornii, pec-
terosa).
difformis, Phanaeus ........ 412
Diorymellus (see laevimargo).
dolata, Chrysobothris (ill.).. 136
dolorosa, Acmaeodera ...... 168
drummondi, Melanophila .... 134
Dytiscus as a destroyer of

mosquito larvae .......... 454
Egg of Byturus unicolor .... 438
Eleodes (See manni, variolosa,

adulterina, hybrida, trita,

papillosa).
Eleodiini, Studies in the .... 221

Eucactophagus (see graphip-
terus).

femorata, Chrysobothris .... 135

ferrea, Poecilonata cyanipes. 131

fossator, Bradycinetus

genuna, Acmacodera

490 INDEX

gentilis, Melanophila ....... 134
gibbsu, Buprestis .......... 131
graphipterus, Eucactophagus
(ilk )e cance ee: sees 25
Habits of some burrowing
SGarapacidaele-ceeeeee 412
hepburnit, Acmaeodera ..... 167
hornu, Acmaeodera ........ 168
horns Dicercas senna ae ee 130
hybridat®, Eleodes 3.3-.2-.-2- 225
Knaus collection of Coleop-
22) 72 eres eb as Seat aS 263
labyrinthica, Acmaeodera ... 167
laevimargo, Diorymellus (ill.) 27
laeviventris, Buprestis ...... 132
langu, Buprestis ......-+.-..- 132
laricis, Chrysobothris ....... 138
lauta, Bupresivs <...5.56.--%- 133
leconter, Canthon. ..........- 413
longipes, Melanophila ....... 133
malt, Chrysobothris ......... 139
MONS PENCO UES ar nia sie eee 221
mariposa, Acmaecodera ..... 168
Melanophila (see consputa,
longipes, atropurpurea,
drummondi, gentilis).
Molasses traps, Collecting by
the sarGwOikn ee cama eee 81
monticolae, Chrysobothris ... 136 |
mormon, Strategus ......... 413
nebulosa, Trachykele ....131, 234
nevadensis, Agrilus ......... 169
mimbosa, Trachykele ....... 234
nixa, Chrysobothris ......... 138 |
OmuSFEASNEW: oer ne eens 49
(See also cupreonitens.)
opulenta, Trachykele ....... 130

orchivora, Acypotheus (ill.). 26

Origin and development of

the photogenic organs of

ER OEUEIUS: 1 Sat eines tise Arete 304
papillosa*, Eleodes ......... 226 |
pecterosa,. Dicere@ ~.-....-.- 130
pennsylvanica, Photuris ..... 304

Phanaeus (see difformis, car-

nifex).

Photogenic organs of Photu-

ris pennsylvanica ........:. 304
Photuris pennsylvanica, Pho-
togenic organs of ........- 304
placida, Chrysophana ....... 166
plagiaticauda, Acmaeodera .. 167
Poecilonata (see ferrea).
pohiuss Agrilusse... 22 2s 168
Polycesta (see californica).
prasina, Chrysobothris ...... 139
prolongata, Dicerca ........ 129
bseudotsugae, Chrysobothris.. 138
pubescens, Chrysobothris .... 139
rhois, Blepharida: .....5.2..+¢ 368
rusticorum, Buprestis ....... 132
Scarabaeidae, Habits of...... 412
Sex attraction overcome by
heht stimulation... see 374
sexules, Dicerca, J. sn eee 130
Strategus (see mormon).
Studies in the tenebrionid
tribe: Eleodiini, No. 2... 57225
sublaevis, Anthaxia ......... 135
Sumac flea beetle 322.32 eee 368
sylvania, Chrysobothris ..... 139
Tenebrionid tribe Eleodiini,
Studses.i. 2 s).) 2s2. ee 221
tenebrosa, Dicerca .........- 130
Trachykele (see opulenta,
nebulosa).
Trichodes (see bicinctus).
insta, Pleodes: Vo 232 coc steer 225
unicolor, Byturus - 2-222. 228 438
vandyket, Acmaeodera ...... 167
| vartegata, Acmaeodera ...... 167
variolosa, Eleodes 2. s.524ee 223
virldicyanea, Chrysobothris... 138
vittaticollis, Agrilus .......-. 169
walsinghami, Agrilus ....... 169
DIPTERA.
Abundance of flies, Seasonal 278
albimanus, Anopheles ....... 18

te Fae

INDEX

- alexandriana*, Tipula (ill.).. 146 | Ephydridae,

andropogonia*, Dyodiplosis . 371
Anopheles (see pseudopunc-
tipennis, eisent, malefactor,
apicimacula, argyritarsis,
albimanus, tarsimaculata).
Anopheles of the Canal Zone.
Anthomyiidae, Some North
J:NTTNESAT CED OVS | CepeReene OREO Co
apictmacula, Anopheles 17
arcuatus*, Campsicnenuts (ill.) 125

arcuatus, Syrphus .......5.,- 415
arelate, ‘Prosalpia ....+...3.- 325
argyritarsis, Anopheles ..... 18
aspidoptera, Tipula ......... 145
EU CRIP UP AELGD! aAKI. 3 opcbate cts « SS ote 146

californica*, Pipisa (ill.) .... 417
Calliphora and Musca, Sus-
pension of rules in cases of 231

caloptera, Tipula ....... 2... 146 |

Campsicnemus (Key to N.
AMIE SIDE CIES) Pas Seok Bone 124
(See also arcuatus, nigri-

pes).

carolinensis*, Cinxia (ill.)... 209

cattleyae, Parallelodiplosis
(GUIUD Rites sic icicys cr aehs « eo5 oro ee 25

Baro P Sto par... a. 55 as. wsie 340

Cheilosia (see occidentalis).
Cinxia (see carolinensis).
cleoae*, Sphaerophoria (ill.) 210

comanche, Tipula .........-- 145
conspicua*, Tipula (ill.) 149
cooleyi*, Tropidia ....0..+-- 342
cornea*, Pseudhormomyia 76
Destruction of the house fly. 231

Dialyta (see flavitibia).
Dolichopodidae, New North
American species of (ill.).. 123

domestica, Musca ........... 231

Dyodiplosis (see andropogo-
nia).

eiseni, Anopheles ........... 17

het GROG i ESC 146

491

Descriptions of
new genera and species of 340

erythrocera, Lispocephala
UETNG eat aaeter man eet

flavitibia, Dialyta 327

Flies, Seasonal abundance of 278
fluitans*, Lasioptera ..... Rees:
fluvialis*, Pseudhormomyta ...74
jraterna, Inpul@ 208.3. 26s 146
fulvolmeata, Tipula ......... 145
Gall midges, New Indian.73, 369
haemorrhoidalis, Sarcophaga. 343
Hammomyia (see paludis).
Hormomyia (see ischaemi).
House fly, Destruction of... 231
Hydrellia (see tibialis).
hydrophilus, Liancalus (ill.). 127
| Identifying Anopheles of the
Canal Zones eee eee 14
Indian gall midges 73, 249
ischaemi*, Hormomyia ...... 309
Lasioptera (see fluitans).
Liancalus (Key to N. Am.
SPECIES), sta e Oe eee 126
(See also hydrophilus, lim-
batus).
limbatus*, Liancalus (ill.)... 127
Limnophora (see torreyae).
EIS OCG NTH! S55 55 caeead ose 326
(See also werna, erythro-
cera, pallipalpis).
malefactor, Anopheles ...... 1?
Mesorhaga (Key to N. Am.
SPECTESN Rak avoen tee a ters 123
(See also varipes, nigripes).
Mosquito larvae, Dytiscus as
a destnoyer Oly jacana aee 454

Musca and Calliphora, Sus-
pension of rules in cases of 231

Mydaea (see pectinata).

nasuta*, Ceropsilopa

nigricans, Phaonia 327

nigripes*, Campsicnenus (ll.) 126

nigripes, Mesorhaga 124

ee wee wes

492

Notice of a possible suspen-
sion of rules of zoological
nomenclature in cases of
Musca and Calliphora .....

occidentalis, Cheilosia .......

pallipalpis, Lispocephala alma
paludis*, Hammomyia ......

Parallelodiplosis (see cattle-
yae).

Parasites of the human intes-
tUNIES Eanes one Pee

pectinata, Mydaea .:........

Phaonia (see nigricans).

Pipiza trom California. . 2.5
(See also californica).

Prosalpia

(See also arelate, silvestris).

Pseudhormomyia (see fluvia-
lis, cornea).

| verna, Lispocephala
| vicina*, Tipula (ill.)

| variabilis*, Scatophila

INDEX

tera, comanche, bella, sube-
luta, caloptera, strepens,
conspicua, eluta, xanthostig-
ma, fraterna, tricolor, wvi-
trea).
Tipula, Key to the N. A. spe-
cies of the tricolor group..
torreyae, Limnophora
Tricolor group of the genus
Tipula, Key to the species of
tricolor, Tipula
Tropidia, New species from
Montana

varipes*, Mesorhaga ........

| wutrea it pul eee aoe

| vomitoria, Calliphora

pseudopunctipennis, Anophe-
LESTE Ohne ee Es ee 16
Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis
larvae as parasites of the
humanaintestine sy... 4. 62s 343 |
Scatophila (see vartabilis).
Seasonal abundance of flies in
Montanai- => sae oho 278
Sericomyia (see Cinzia).
stluestms. Prosalpia, 2a.-3 58. 325
Sphaerophoria (see cleoae).
sivepens, Iapula Sesceme. soe 146
subeluta: Utpula est oee oe. 146
Suspension of the Interna-
tional rules of zoological
nomenclatures ashe. see-s 231
Syrphidae from eastern North
IAAMETICAS PE ec eee meron 209
Syrphidae in California and
a newibipiza: selene eee 414
Syrphus (see arcuatus).
tarsimaculata, Anopheles .... 18
tibialis*, Elydrelhia 2.0.0.2. 341

Tipula (see fulvolineata, ale-
xandriana, vicina, aspidop-

xanthostigma*, Tipula (ill.)..

HEMIPTERA
affinis, Harmostes
affinis, Scolopostethus
albescens*, Gargaphia .......
angulata, Gargaphia
Apateticus, A new

from Louisiana (ill.)
Aphids from California, New
apicatus, Harmostes
atlanticus, Scolopostethus

species

Azalea lace-bug, Stephanitis

pyrioid ess (alls) Wea ere
Backswimmers (see Voto-
necta).

bicolor, Harmostes
bicolor, Tenthecoris (ill.)...
borealis, Microvelia
Bothynotinae, A new genus of
Buenoa margaritacea, and oth-
er biological notes concern-
ing it (ill.)
(See also platycnemis, ele-
gans).

145
326

145
146

342
341
123
326
148
146
231
150

354

174

ee wi

INDEX

(eas IEG ee ee re 40
californiensis*, Thomasia (ill.) 61
Giineses gall (Glls)p .s..03022.- 385
chinensis, Melaphis (ill.) 301

Clivinema (see regalis).

Corythuca, New species of.. 258
(See also pura.)

Cottony cushion scale, Mating

AE O lb SiS orev he ceatiee eves 162
eGroceus*, Harmostes .......' 445
ast SLOT Gideas <<<. <cis ace 7
davist*, Lopidea (ill.) ....... 458
diffidens, Scolopostethus 67
dorsalis, Harmostes ........ 439
Egg-laying habits of a back-

SMITA ts. Miche oe peneseal ai 174
elagams, Bueno) oss. 5. 5 284- 176
essigt®, Myzocalis ....-52..: 62
formosus, Harmostes ....... 442
fraterculus, Harmostes ..... 444
Gall; Chinese (ills), o2. sccce+s 385
Gargaphia, Key to species .. 227

(See also albescens, solani,
angulata, tiliae, opacula,
iridescens.)

Gerris marginatus, Life his-
tory and habits of
(See also remigis.)

Habits and _ life-history of
Gerris remigis ......-...-.

Habits of Gerris marginatus

Harmostes, The genus ......
(See also dorsalis, nebulo-

sus, formosus, affinis, pro-
lixus, procerus, apicatus,
serratus, fraterculus, sub-
rufus, croceus, marmora-
tus, raphimerus, bicolor,
reflexulus, minor, oblh-
quus.)

295 |

heidemanni*, Lopidea (ill.).. 456
hyalinus, Myzocalis ......... 64
Icerya (see purchasi).
iridescens, Gargaphia ....... 228

Largidea (see davtisi).

| Notonecta

' platycnemis, Buenoa

Life-history and habits of the
larger waterstrider, Gerris
EMAGIS Ahi kee ee

Life history of Gerris margi-
WAUUS. Shs Nesaychate dans Sorte eat eee

Life history of Microvelia bo-
RUA CUI O Wate Ben OER eee

Life history of Notonecta un-
UN OUEEE © 2 strat nage Choe ces

Lopidea, New species of

ludovicianus*, Apateticus (ill.)

Macrotracheliella found in
New England, A species of
(See also nigra.)

margaritacea, Buenoa (ill.)..

marginatus, Gerris

Margined water strider
Gerris marginatus).

marmoratus, Harmostes

Mating habit of the cottony
Cushion sal Camuee eerie

Melaphis (see chinensis).

Microvelia borealis, Life his-
tory (ill.)

minor, Harmostes

(see

| Miridae, New and noteworthy

LOIS Oty seas ae oe
modestus*, Neobothynotus
Myzocalis (see essigi, wood-

wortht, hyalinus).

Nearctic species of Garga-
phia, Key to the species....

nebulosus, Harmostes

IN@ ob OthYNO US ee eee ee
(See also modestus.)

nigra*, Macrotracheliella ...

noctuans, Sericophanes

| Notonecta undulata, Life his-

CORY: Oe ca en eee Re
(see undulata).

obliquus, Harmostes ........
ocellatus, Sericophanes
opacula, Gargaphia .........
pictus, Scolopostethus

493

201
295
354
267
455
462

37

174
295

38

267

494

Plea (see striola).

procerus, Harmostes ....... 443
prohaus; Harmostes.:.5.4 2 443
Psyllia buxi in New Jersey.. 40
pura*, Corythuca ..:./-:.... 258
purchasi; Terrya 2. 5st 162

pyrioides, Stephanitis (ill.).. 101

raphimerus, Harmostes ..... 446
reflexulus, Harmostes ...... 447
regalis*, Clivinema ........- 5
Femigis, GErris 22222 ee ele 201
reuteri*, Lopidea (ill.) ..... 459
salicis*, Lopidea (all.) .2..... 457
sanguinea*, Lopidea staphy-
Deis: Shh B fole sete 461
Scolopostethi, New York .... 65
Scolopostethus.o022.0.2 S28 65
(See also thomsoni, atlanti-
cus, diffidens, pictus, af-
finis.)
Sericophanes (see ocellatus,
noctuans).
serratus, Harmostes ........ 444
Solan, Gargaphia ...:....... 227

staphyleae*, Lopidea (ill.)... 460
| Eiphosoma, New West Indian

Stephanitis (see pyrioides).

SEVIOTU; PRICE A. Rae 176
subrufus, Harmostes ....... 445
Tenthecoris (see bicolor).
Thomasia (see californiensis).
thomson, Scolopostethus 67 |
tsleae; GOrgapHia: 2. a... 8 227

undulata, Notonecta (ill.) .176, 267 |

Water strider (Gerris remi-
gis), Life history and hab-
its 201

woodworthi*, Myzocalis (ill.) 63 |
HYMENOPTERA
Ablerus clisiocampae, Host of 18
Achrysocharis (see divina).
aegeriae, Trigonoderus ..... 306
algonquinia*, Trigonoderus .. 3096
MUS VS: eRe eee

185

INDEX

Aprostocetus (see marilandi-
cus).
argenticoxa*, Spalangiolaelaps
Bees from Costa Rica
biguttus*, Eupelmus
Blattotetrastichus
Carlyleia*
(See also marilandica).
Chalcid flies from Maryland..
Chalcid flies, New
Chrysocharomyia
ganta).
clisiocampae, Ablerus
Cocoon of Praon, Construc-
tion of
Colletis with spotted wings..
conicus*, Trigonoderus
Construction of the cocoon of
Praon
conura*, Epicharis 22:22:52.5
crawfordi*, Psaenythia thora-
cica
divina*, Achrysocharts
Egg parasite of the sumac flea
beetle

Ce CN MO

eleganta*, Chrysocharomyia.. .

| Epicharis (see phenacura, co-

nura).

| Epomphaloides (see ischnop-

terae).
Eupelmus (see biguttus).
haitiense*, Eiphosoma (ill.).
hegeli*, Monobaeus
Host of Ablerus clisiocampae
Ichneumonid genus Eiphoso-

ma, New species of
ischnopterae*, Epomphaloides
jamaicense*, Eiphosoma (ill.)

List of North Dakota wasps
exclusive of Eumenidae ..
luteum*, Eiphosoma (ill.) ...
Macrophya, Two new species
Of “fu. Bek eee eee ee
(See also raui, simillima).

sen eee

453 °

ott ae

INDEX

martlandica*, Carlyleia
marilandicus*, Aprostocetus..

21

marilandicus*, Sceptrophorus. 256 |

mediogutta*, Neomphaloidella 235

Miscogaster (see ungutta).

Monobaeus in No. America.. 106

Neomphaloidella (see medio-
gutta).

nonstylatus*, Trigonoderus... 307

ovipransus*, Tetrastichus (ill.) 368

pachycephala*, Psaenythia ... 302
phenacura*, Epicharis ....... 200
iPraoms Cocoon: Ob) wks... =. 364

Psaenythia (see pachycephala,
crawfordi).

raui*, Macrophya ........... 264

Sceptrophorus (see marilandi-
cus).

simillima*, Macrophya ...... 265

Spalangiolaelaps* ........... 22
(See also argenticoxa).

spiloptera*, Colletis ......... 363

Tetrastichus (see ovipransus).
Trigonoderus, North Ameri-

CANE SPECIES Ol: ars stss weg te ee 306
ungutta*, Miscogaster ....... 23
unguttus*, Trigonoderus 306
Wasps of North Dakota .... 419
West Indian species of Ei-

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LEPIDOPTERA
Abundance of the Fall web
worm 425
Acronycta, A new species of 183

TT OMIENGOCNG. < of. eco elc senate 213
americana, Malacosoma ..... 186
PntMOmyla 0. soc ese 233
Anthocharis genutia and a
MEWMEVALICLYHR a j4cr ceclaks a 6 438
(See also flavida).
antiopa, Vanessa ........... 83
Argynnis (see californica).
amiat) Melitaea ~So... 04.2 9: 328

{

| Lycaena

Autographa (see olivacea,
vaccinit).
bachmani, Libythea
badia, Orgyia
behri, Lycaena
californica*, Argynnis
callidus, Thanaos
Castnia (see therapon).

Catocala net, A new

eevee ofa eile,

ale, 656 abe

eee ee ee eens

ee)

| Cerapoda (see oblita).

Clouds of butterflies
cofaqui, Megathymus
columbia*, Lycaena lygdamus
couperi, Lycaena
Determination
types
Diatraea (see saccharalis).

of generic

eee ee eee ese ere eer es ces

Distribution of Autographa
DOCCHAL aceasta ec
Egg-masses of the vaporer
moths -wanted) ..oi.@s.es:

495

233
233

I51

Elegant looper (see Philtraea).

elegantaria, Philtraea
Erebus odora and its larvae

in Iowa
Erythroecia (see hebardi).
Fall web worm
flavida*, Anthocharis
genutia, Anthocharis
Graefia
hebardi*, Erythroecia
Hesperidae, Some synonymy

in
Hyphantria (see textor).

Larvae of Erebus odora in
LOWalt ¥o fetes Sone ee
Libythea bachmanit, Swarms

of (ill.)
List of the butterflies of Iowa

Locomotion of Vanessa in
different luminous intensi-
ties

@ nie fer(e uile) mae, €ye) eo 0; 0 0) = (0 0,00

lygdamus and_ its
races with description of a
new one

82

79

339
347

496

(See also behri, oro, cou-
pert, afra, columbia).

lygdamus, Lycaena .......... 212

Malacosoma (see americana).

Megathymus, Pupal_ differ-
etices Ansa: fee eee 232
(See also yucca, cofaqui,

stephensi.)

Melitaea (see arida).

Net, A new Catocala (ill.).. 71

Notolophus (see Orgyia).

obitta, (Cerapoda 29.2454. 234

OMOTOs MERCDWS Wane nie nee ZS

olivacea*, Autographa ...... 329

Orgyia (see vetusta, badia).

OPO CE NCRENI icine Cee ee 213

Outbreak of Philtraea ele-
gantaria on privet in Loui-
Siatiay bead eek ce cee 304

Philtraea elegantaria on privet 394
polyphemus, Telea .......... 374
Pupal differences in Megathy-
EUS TRE ree ee ed 232
Rainfall on abundance of a

moth, Influence of ........ 16
saccharalis, Diatraea ........ 16:
Sex attraction overcome by

hehe stimulations 96-24 52215 + 374
Southwestern States, Data

wanted on material from.. 122
stephensi, Megathymus ..... 232
Swarms of butterflies (ill.).. 33¢
Synonymic notes on North

(Ammericannlceas aoe ae 232
Synonymy in the Hesperidae. 82

Synonymy of Autographa vac-
CANDIDA Semis SOR ese nets 29
Telea (see polyphemus).

textor, Hyphantria ......... 2

Thanaos (see callidus).

therapon, Castnia ........... 2:

Types, Determination of ge-
MEOLICH Ts ht foe eee ae ee ee 463

vaccinui, Autographa ....... 29

INDEX

Vanessa antiopa, Locomotion

Of seetos 1 eee ee eee 83
vetusia, Orgyia: \-. 205 sock I5I
qwanda*, Acronycta ......... 183
yucca, Megathymus 232

MALLOPHAGA
Birds, New Mallophaga from 433
Goniodes (see zenaidurae).
intermedium*, Laemobothrium

Gi) Watt Seep ale at ee Ree 434
Laemobothrium (see interme-
dium).
Mallophaga from North
American birds essere 433
melospizae*, Physostomum
(il) toe cece score 436
Physostomum (see melospi-
sae).
senaidurae*, Goniodes (ill.).. 433
NEUROPTERA
Ant lions, Phylogeny of..... 42

Chrysopidae do eat, Adult.. 184

Chrysopidae, Feeding habits
Of eas setae eee 35, 301
Feeding habits of Chrysopi-
dae: 4:5. xi oti eee 35, 301
Phylogeny of ant lions ...... 42
ODONATA
Abundance of Sympetrum
rubicundulum Jo. 222 seeker 479
Aecolagrigum Asn. 90 ee eee 242
(See also dorsale, flamme-
um, demararum. )
Agrionines, Relations of the
Hawattan- Gills) 22a G
andromache, Leptagrion (ill.) 243
apicalis, Calopteryx dimidiata 266
byrsonima, Metaleptobasis .. 8
Calopteryx (see apficalis).
Cercion, Drawings of the
penesoL /Gll)) meee eee 14

Coenagrion, Drawings of the
penes of (ill.)

INDEX

Cora, A new genus allied to 259
Correction of specific name of

2), aheornily Golusadae ose bor 8
Costa Rican Odonata, Studies
Gil eqnese se dd CRO eee 259
croceum, Leptagrion (ill.) 241
demararum*, Aeolagrion (ill.) 244
dispar, Leptagrion (ill.) 243
dorsale, Aeolagrion (ill.).... 248
elongatum, Leptagrion (ill.). 243
flammeum, Aecolagrion (ill.) 250
Groin JUG ANS 0 BBR OB eee 263
Leptagrion, Some species of. 241
(See also macrurum, elon-
gatum, andromache, por-
rectum, dispar, croceum.)
macrurum, Leptagrion (ill.). 242
Megalagrion, Drawings of the
MEMEMMOlin cielo setters og Seis ss 12
Metaleptobasis (see byrsoni-
ma).
WWOCORGS, Se aeencon ae COE 250
(See also peraltica.)
Neoneura and related genera,
ietemnes. that (GUID) Senocaaeaoe 280 |
Penes in Neoneura (ill.) .... 280
Penes of damselflies, Notes on
Gil) GSa acetates coor mae 9

Penes of Zygoptera, Notes on

(GHUIB) peretsetyae ye citis evs 6 ed re 289
peraltica*, Miocora (ill.) 260
(POUSHIMOIAEE Boe od ae aaoee 263
porrectum, Leptagrion (ill.). 243
rubicundulum, Sympetrum .. 479
TGCE. 5 a5 ROE OOOO 263

Tracheation, Studies of wing 169
Wing tracheation, Notes on

some recent studies of..... 169
Zygoptera, Notes on penes of
COILS See ee re 280
ORTHOPTERA
aculeatum, Doru ............ 322
amazgonicum*, Coelophyllum
MIB PPO cosisie, sce tyaisisersie s-6 5.0 154

Anisolabis (see maritima).

annulipes, Euborellia ....... 312
apicedentatus, Spongovostox.. 315
arachidis, Prolabia .......... 320
auricularia, Forficula ........ 32
Didems: WWabudurd ons. ces oe 313
bilobata, Steirodonopis (ill.). 120
Blattid, New species of ..... 369
brunneipennis, Vostox ...... 314
campodeiformis, Grylloblatta. 401
champion, Peucestes ........ 115
Chelisoches (see morio).
citrifolius, Posidippus ...... II7
Cnemidophyllum* ........... 118
(See also lineatum.)
Coelophyllum simplex and
Gentain OL its) allies’ 22... -- 152
(See also amazonicum, cre-
nulatum, costaricense, pe-
ruvianum, simplex.)
costaricense*, Coclophyllum
(GC eS er ree ee 156
couloniana, Stilpnochlora (ill.) 111
| crenulatum, Coelophyllum 156
Critical notes on the group
Sreiaoralormie: (MIL) Soosccose 107
GUFUIGAUAG, GDI ieee 319
COBUSE IDO. cooacacanecbcocc 322
degeerti, Frontinus (ill.) .... 119
dentatus, Peucestes ......... 115
Dermaptera of North Amer-
Ce, INIOLOS: Oil nGooncccooses 311
Doru (see lineare, aculea-
tum, davist).
Earwigs of North America,
INGtES OMe ane neice sectors 311
elegans, Zonocerus ...-..-.-« 2
Euborellia (see annulipes).
Forficula (see auricularia).
FEV. aduneot oso 6ostonos II

(See also degecri.)
Grylloblatta (see
formis).

campodei-

498 INDEX

IKkatydids forming the group
Steirodontia (Gil) 22.5225. 107

Labia (see munor, rehm, cur-
vicauda).

Labidura (see bidens).

laurifolium, Stilpnochlora
CULL DRE ee este eee teen 112
lineare: DOTU. Been eae 321
lineatum*, Cnemidophyllum
GU) ed sexe aoe eae ee 119
marginella, Stilpnochlora (ill.) 110
maritima, Amsolabis ........ 212
(iwi, ILE Sagoaastyoa hose 310
morio, Cheltsoches .......... 321

Myrmecoblatta (see wheeleri).
Myrmecophilous blattid, New

SPECIES (Ola Mastek cea ee oke 360
Pandictyoptera mmc cece see i. 408
‘Panorthopteray ea. eset. eee 409
iRanplecopterag eee eee eee 408
peruvianum*, Coelophyllum

(Gil peer beer tees 159

Peucestes (see striolatus, den-
tatus, champion).

Posdippus <2 tae eee 116
(See also citrifolius, vali-
dus.)
Prolabia (see pulchella, ara-
chidis, wudentata).
pulchella, Prolabia (ill.) .... 319
guadrata, Stilpnochlora (ill.). 111

renmi*. Labia Gills) 2 eee Bay
simplex, Coelophyllum ...... 160
Steiwodone inSain 114
Stewodonopts. D5. ink eee 112

(See also bilobata.)
Spongovostox (see apiceden-
tatus).
Stilpnochlora (see also mar-
ginella, quadrata, couloni-
ana, laurifolium).

Stilpnochlorg 3-2 3n..enehe ee 107
striolatus, Peucestes ........ 114
unidentata, Prolabia (ill.) .. 318
validus, Posidippus ......... 118

Vostox (see brunneipennis).

wheeleri*, Myrmecoblatta
(HL) wes 4 ce ee pee 360
Zonocerus elegans, Note on.. 2

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