Entomological News

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION

OF THE

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VOLUME III, 1892

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

ADVJSORY COMMITTEE :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. CHARLES A. Bi AKI .

EZRA T. CRESSON. PHILIP P. CALM K i

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' PHILADELPHIA .
ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIEN
LOGAN SQUARE.

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INDEX TO VOLUME III.

GENERAL ENTOMOLOGY.

Abundance of insects . . 16, 17
Agricultural Exper't Sta'ns. . 152
Alaska, insects in . . 74, 139, 256

Analytic Keys 121

Angus Collection . . . . 60, 97

Cholera and flies 210

Colorado, Ento'y of 136, 202, 246

Deformities 166

Doings of Societies 22, 47, 72, 103,

128, 164, 190, 239.
Economic Entomology 97, 119, 122,

123, 152, iSr, 206, 209, 229, 261.
Editorials 41, 93,95, 118, 152, 165,

179, 205, 228, 260.

Edwards (Hy.) Collection . . 62

Entomological Literature 19, 42, 64,

71, 98, 123, 157, 183, 212, 235, 265.

Greenland, insects in . . . . 263

Incidents of work 119

Jamesburg, N. J., insects at. . 36

Mailing insects 41

Mexico, entomologizing in in, 131

Migration 234

Mimicry 208, 233

Mt. Washington, Ent'g on 232, 243
Newspaper Entomology . .120
Notes and News 15, 38, 60, 93, 119

154, 180, 209, 232, 263.
Obituary.

Bates, H. W 72

Bunker, R 104

Hurmeister, H. C. C. ." . .191

Dohrn, C. A 192

Resistance to cyanide . . . 16

Variation 25

Winter insects 40

ARACHNIDA.

Atypidce 147

New N. Am. species 163, 216,

Theraphosida- 147

Tholyphonus giganteus ... 47

COLEOPTERA.

Aspathinns ovatus 24

Hei'ibidinm, To collect . . .155
Blapstinus coronadensis n. sp. 242
Jj ruth us alhoscntellatns . . . 253
California, C. of . . . i^.jii
Carabus neinora/is .... 60

Cicindcla 25

Coccinellida; in California . . 143
Cazliodes acephalics .... 253
Corymbites ll'cidtii \\. sp. .
Crioceris iz-punctatus . . .207

Cychrus 6, 61

Dorcas parallelus 73

Eleodes inter nipla n. sp. . .241
A'/w/.v colitmbiensis n. sp. . . s.j
Jamesburg, N. J., C. at . . . 37

Leplinns testaceus 96

Macrodactylus subspinosns 122, 156

Mianis hispiduliis 25,;

New N. Am. species 12, 13, 21, 46,

51, 70, 84, 102, 127, 163, 189, 241,

268.

l\ he .\-tdins ii

A'. intiTineiiins n. sp. . . . 13
R. trogasteroidesn. sp. . . . 12

Rose chafer 122.

Seym nns lophanllue n. sp. . . 51
Strawberry weevil .... 262

T/ii>iol>ii<s u. sp -"51

Time of flight of Scarabaeids . -M

f 7/i s /a/n.^ n. sp

of olor markings .

DIPTERA.
vanderwulpi &, s|>.

11

INDEX.

Atrophopalpus n. gen. . . .130
A. angusticornis n. sp. . . - 131
Blepharipcza nigrisquamis n.

sp So

Cholera and flies 210

Criorhinia coquilletti n. sp. . 145
Dalinaunia ritiosa n. sp. . . 150
Deformities in Tachinidse . .166
Gastrophilns iiasalis .... 227
Hcematobia serrata .... 206

Horn fly 206, 261

Jamesburg, N. J., D. at . . . 37
Loewia globosa n. sp. . . . 129
Merisns in Eur. and Am. . . 97
Miltogramma decisa n. sp. . Si
Myothyria vanderwitlpi n. sp. 131
New N. Am. species 47, 69, So, 102,

127, 129, 146, 163, 189, 216, 239,

268.
Pachyophthahnls floridensis n.

sp So

Pseudohystricia e.vilis n. sp. . 146
Syrphidce, synonymy of . . . 145
Tachinida;, New N. A. 80, 129, 146

Throat bot 227

Trichobins ditgesii .... 177

HEMIPTERA.

Acanthia pipistrelli .... 154

Centrodontus n. gen 201

Efticocephalus schwarziin, sp. 191

Gargara atlas n. sp no

Jamaica, H. from 59

Membracidas, Studies in N. A.

108, 200.
New N. Am. species 102, 108, 163,

189, 191, 200, 239.

Platycotis niinax n. sp. . . . 109
J'otnia usixfa/is n. sp. . . .no
Pnbli/ia Incinctura n. sp. . . 200
Stictocephala gillettei n. sp. . 108
Stictofn-lta niannorata n. sp. . 201

S. nova n. sp no

Telanioiia rilcyi \\. sp. . . .108

HYMENOPTERA.

Amniophila gryplnis .... 47

Animophila, Habits of ... 85

Andricus celliihirins n. sp. . . 247

A.frequens n. sp 247

Aiithophora 61

Ants, Slave-making . . . .178

Ant, strength of 259

Astiphroninia pectoralis n. sp. 107

Bombus fervidus 181

Crabro excavatus n. sp. . . . 10

C. nitidinervis n. sp 9

Cynipidas, Colorado .... 246

Cynips Q-globulus 104

Formicidse from Jamaica . . 226

Fossorial H., new 170

Hexaplasta zigzag . . . 61

Jamaica, Formicidae from . . 226

Jamesburg, N. J., H. at . . . 36

Larradas 89, 138

Larropsis n. gen 90

Liris cox alls n. sp. . . . 90, 138
New N. Am. species 9, 22, 29, 47,

69, 90. 104, 107, 127, 163, 170, 189.

197, 216, 239, 247.

Odynerns aidrichi n. sp. . . 197

Ophionids, Two new .... 105

Plan iccps p/a>ia tus n. sp. . . 171
Plesiophthalmus paniscoides n.

sp 107

Pseudagenia blaisdelli n. sp. . 171

Slave-making ants 178

Sph<zrophthalmus antliracina

n. sp 172

Sphc.v ( Priononyx) fcmtgi-

neits n. sp 170

Tachytes 263

Thynniis ccilifornicus n. sp. . 104

Xy/ocopa, Calif, species of . . 17

7. t- thus s lo s son cr n. sp. . . . 29

LEPIDOPTERA.

Adirondacks, L. of .... 87

Africa, new Xeptis from . . 24*

Anthocharis gknutia .... 240

. lii n. gi'ii 258

. /. noctitifornns n. sp. . . . 258

. \rclia iiihu'ii n. sp 257

.... 218

JNDEX.

in

A. charic/ca 49

Arkansas L 13

Arzama obliquata larva . 195, 217

Attacus cynthia, Intrd. in U. S. 193

( \illimorpha 52

Calocampa briicei n. sp. . . . 252

Calosaturnia mendocino . . 165

Calpodes ethlins 78

Catocala insolabilis .... 180

C. near Pittsburg, Pa. ... 168

Cithcronia scpnlcralis . 165, 232

Colias hecla 49

Cossus brucei 165

Crambidia pallida 245

Danais archippus, swarms of . 234

Dasychira gronlandica ... 49

Datana ininisira 129

Drasteria erichto 63

Elementary Entomology 35, 53, 82,

114, 172, 198, 220.

Elliot Collection 97

Erebia. soft a 255

Erebus odor a 16

Felder Collection 154

Franconia, N. H., L. of . . . 155 ;

dlorcria ari~onensis .... 165

G/itp/iisia quinquelinea n. sp. . 158

G rapta v-albnm 239

Gunning for butterflies . . .211

Hulst Collection 38

Hydrcecia media/is, senilis,

nniuioda n. sp 251

Hyperchiria painina .... 165

H. zcphyrea 165

Hypoprcpia niiniafa .... 246

lihthyura bifiria 5

Is a fcxinla I

Larva hunting in Winter. 195, 217

Limacodidae i, 38, 62

Liincnitis arthcinis .... 17

Lotna sayi 23

Long-lived basket maker, A . 49

Lophopteryx elegans .... iSo

Mameslra fuscolutea n. sp. . 250

Mclitara dcntata, eggs of . . 208

Mimicry in moths 233

pha initchellii ... 49

biafra n. var. cuntin-

nata 249

A', uit'hriiira, ini.vophyt's, ni('n-

bule n. sp 249

New N. Am. species 22, 46, 69, KO.

158, 162, 174, 1 88, 216, 222, 250.
Nociua flavotincla n. sp. . . 252
Noctuidae, synonyms of . . . 16

Oiketicus abbotii 49

Oncocnemis in Colorado . . 136

O. extranea n. sp 251

O. nigrocaput n. sp 250

Pachylia Jicus, larva .... 4

Patnphila aaroiii 49

Carolina n. sp 222

errans n. sp. . . . 174, 175
leonardns n. sp. . . 209, 240

viaiiataaqiia 77

massasoit var. suffiisa . . 15

zabnlon 49

Papilio cresphontes .... 240

mylotes 105

polydainas 105

sinon 105

rcridroma nigra \\. sp. . . . 252
rieronia apposita n. sp. . . . 252
Protoparce cingulata . . . .217
Ptcrophora inclshciincrii . . i^
/ \ntiiifis a fa/a a fa . . . .232
l\ancora slrigata n. sp. . . . 25.;

Sphinx rustic a 193

Suggestions to Lepidopterists . 121
Thymelicus poweshiek . . . 232
Yentuivsonu.- Initterllics . 232, 264
Vosemitt.', coll. butt:rt]u-s in .

MYRIAPODA.

Nc\v X. Am. spt-cii-s ....

NEUROPTERA.

Albania colKvtioii ....
Nc\\- N. Am. species . <><>. i
Odonata of Maiiu- . . . 8, 91,
" of Massarlui-ii-Us .

I \intala liytnauca

IVathcmis triniacii/afa . . .

Sonmtochlora r.'./AV/// . . ,

Tetragoneuria cynosura . . .

IV

White ants, Ravages of . .

ORTHOPTERA.

Crickets, oviposition of . 261

Mantis Carolina 47

New N. Am. species . .69, 189
()(-canthns, species of ... 33
Orc/ic/iiniiin, change of name in 264

THYSANURA.

Smynthurusb-maculatan.sv. . 169
Tcmplclonia anicricana n. sp. . 57

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOL. III.

Aaron, C. 15., . . .264

Aaron, S. F., 4

Ashmead, W. H., 105

Banks, N., . . J 47

Bergroth, E ] 54

Blaisdell, F. E., . 51, '43- 24'
Blatchley, W. S., . . . m, 131

Brendel, E., l J

Bruce. D., l6 , ^6

Bruner, L, . . . ... 264
Calvert, P. P. (see 228), . . 264
Cockerell, T. D. A., . . 4, 78, 202

Coquillett. D. W., 150

Daggett, F. S., i?

Dunnington, F. P. 259

Dyar, H. G., 5, 3. 62 ' l68 > J 75, 180,

245-

Ehrman, G. A., 168

Fisher, E. R., 209

Fox, W. J., 9, 17, 36, 59, ^S, 170,

i S3, 197, 226.

Gillette, C. P 246

Coding, F. W., . . . 108, 200
Hamilton, J., . . % . . . .253

Hart, C. A., 33

Harvey, F. 1 57, 9 1 , Il6 > l6 9

Hitchings, E. F., . . . . 39
1 1. .Hand, \Y. I-, 248

INDEX.

233

Horn, G. H., . . . 25, 60, 73
Johnson, C. W., . . . -37-59
Kellicott, D. S., . . . 18, 123

Kellicott, W. E. iSo

Kunze, R. E., . 97, i95> 217, 263
Laurent, P., . . . . 15, 37, 77

Mason, J. T 5 2

McKnight, C. S., . . 87

McLachlan, R., . . . 259

Mofifat, J. A., . 1 6

Morse, A. P., 121

Morton, Miss E. L., i

Neumoegen, B. 258

Nolan, E. J 195

Ottolengui, R.., . . 223, 232. 243.
Patton, W. H., 61, 89, 97, 104, 181

Pilate, G. R., 209

Robertson, C., . . . . . 263
Rowley, R. R., . . 13

Ryder, J. A., ... 210

Sharp. Miss A. M., . ,120

Skinner, H 174-222

Slingerland, M. V., 63

Slosson, Mrs. A. T., . 49- J 55- 257
Smith, J. B., 1 6, 35, 38, 53, 62, 82,

94, 114, 156, 172, 198, 206, 220,

229, 250, 261.

Strecker, H., ... 39, 2l8 , 255
Troop,].,. 122

Tough, J., -63

Townsend, C. H. T., 71, 80, 129,

146, 1 66, 177, 227, 234.
\Yadsworth, Miss M.,
Walton, L. B., . . . 155

Webster, F. M 232, 234

Weed, H. E., . . . .119
\\Vnx.el, H. W., . 61

Wickham, H. F., . . 6, 139, 256
Willard, H. G., . . 232
Williston, S. W., . . -85, [45
Wright, \Y. G., 74

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. JANUARY, 1892. No. i.

CONTENTS:

Morton Notes from New Windsor i

Cockerell Note on the Larva of Pa-

chilia ficus 4

Dyar Preparatory stages of Ichthyura

bifiria 5

Wickham Note on Cychrus 6

Wadsworth Second Additions and

Corrections to the list of Dragonflies 8

Fox Hymenopterological Notes 9

Brendel Rhexidius n

Rowley Notes on Ark. Lepidoptera.... 13

Notes and News 15

Entomological Literature 19

Doings of Societies 22

NOTES FROM NEW WINDSOR.

EMILY L. MORTON, New Windsor, N. Y.
ISA TEXTULA H.-S.

Reading the last number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (October)
I noticed a short paragraph by Mr. Dyar on the genus Isa. Dr.
A. S. Packard having identified a small Limacodes for me as Isa
textula, and as the moth seems but little known, I have written
a short account of the species, which I have raised from the eggs
and back again through all its changes.

Isa textula is a small moth nine-tenths of an inch in expanse,
of a very satiny texture, with long fringes to all the wings, the
color a pale wood color as light as white pine; on some specimens
there is a faint indication of a t. p. and t. a. line broken and ex-
tending only half across the forewings, but in many specimens
this is entirely wanting. The eggs are laid singly, scattered
about, and, like most of the Limacodes eggs which I have seen,
are without form, looking like tiny drops of gelatine, or coagu-
lated dew, invisible to the naked eye on the leaves, but on white
paper having a slightly yellowish tinge, increasing with the growth
of the larva within, but nothing more than a tiny, irregular shin-
ing speck on the leaves, and hatch in from eight to ten days.

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The young larva when first hatched are also almost invisible,
and, even after the first moult, look only like a small, colorless
aphis on the leaf. The third moult shows a lilac mark in the
centre of the dorsum increasing with the growth, until the last
moult, when it resembles a rude maltese cross, of a pinkish or
purplish brown, surrounded by a yellow border with a central
square dot on the elipse-shaped pea-green larva.

The food-plants are the chestnuts, both horse and Castania,
visca, English and wild cherry, oak, basswood, and probably
other trees, as most of the Limacodes are very general feeders.
On wild cherry the larvae take from eight to ten weeks to come
to their growth; on chestnut a somewhat shorter period, but it
depends on what may be the heat or cold more than the food-
plant. I have usually fed the larva on wild cherry, as it is not
infested with aphides, and during the long period of growth from
egg to cocoon it does not require so much time and attention to
keep the food-plant clean and sweet. The larvae spin their co-
coons about September 5th to 2oth, a small, roundish, brown,
pod-like cocoon, with the usual lid of the Limacodes, and the
moths hatch the following season from the 8th to the 25th of July,
almost always in the afternoon, and remain hanging from the lid
or side of the cage, until between half past eight or nine o'clock
in the evening, when the males begin to seek their mates. Isa
textula hangs with its abdomen curled over its back after the
manner of Pterophora diversilineata.

Reading recently a number of the English monthly, " The En-
tomologist's Record," I was greatly interested in an account of
"assembling," and never having seen the process described be-
fore in any of our journals, I will describe my method, which I
hope may prove of interest, as the habits of the Limacodes seem
to be so little known. I use a large gauze-wire cage about 20 x
15 inches, and 1 8 or 20 inches high, a door in the front and back,
and painted a dark red or green, and place the newly-hatched
female textula therein. About 8.30 P.M. I station myself by the
cage with a glass tumbler and piece of pasteboard and watch for
the males to come. If the Limacodes is a common one, like E.
stimulea, P. fraterna, or .S. inornata, there will usually be a score
or more of males suddenly appearing, fluttering about the cage,
always settling on the top or side, where the 9 is resting, hust-
ling each other with their wings and endeavoring to reach the

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

coveted 9 inside the gauze. Now, if you want specimens, y<>u
catch them by putting the tumbler over them slipping the paste-
board under and transfer them to the cyanide bottle, but if you
want fertile eggs you shake the males from the glass into the
cage by the door opposite the lightest part of the horizon. After
the female has once paired no more males will be attracted, so
you must make up your mind beforehand whether it is specimens
or eggs you most desire. I never use a light if breeding is my
object, as there are scarcely any moths that will mate where a
light is used; this is the reason the cage is painted a dark color,
as you can see even in a very dim light the pale colored wings
of the tiny males as they flutter around and over the dark gauze.
Isa textula is a rare moth here, and I have rarely seen more than
three males attracted in one evening; a dark, still, warm evening
is always better for assembling, but even if it blows quite freshly
some of the Limacodes will be attracted provided your cage is a
little sheltered by trees or shrubbery, on the side from which the
wind is coming. With some of the Bombycidae and Sphingidae,
you may keep your cage in the house ; in an open window, but I
have never had any success with the Limacodes unless the cage
was in an open space away from the house. I do not see how
Sisyrosea inornata, however small, could ever be mistaken for
Isa texhda, being a very differently constructed Limacodes, a
very much slenderer and lighter built insect, the thorax only one-
tenth of an inch across while in inornata it measures half as much
again, and the abdomen of inornata is fully twice the size of that
of textula. I think it probable / textula has been confounded
with Limacodes flexuosa, but Dr. Packard has also identified tliis
for me, and my specimens are darker colored with shorter fringes,
narrower wings, the primaries more produced at the apex, espe-
cially in the 9 . The larva of S. inornata, Dr. Packard says in
his "Forest Insects," was first described in the Harris Corre-
spondence; it is one of the most beautiful of the Limacodes, but
though I have repeatedly had the eggs from captive frmak-s, I
have never yet succeeded in rearing more than two or three Ian .1
back again to the pupa. I, however, know its whole history, and
will some day write it out for the readers of K\ i o.\tm.o<;irAi.
NEWS. The larva bears not the slightest resemblance to that of
Isa textula.

4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Note on the Larva of Pachylia ficus (L.)

By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Kingston, Jamaica.

Pachylia ficus (Linn.) Length about So mm. Head shiny jet-black,
except the mouth parts, which are pale greenish. Thoracic shield dull
black; the short caudal horn and the anal plates are black. Spiracles
blackish. Body: back dull red, sides and under part dull pale bluish
green, the two colors sharply denned; with a pale red longitudinal line
near the lower edge of the red color on each side. On each of the last
eight segments is an obscure narrow whitish oblique line on the green
sides, crossing the spiracles. Legs pale bluish green, like the underside;
sides of body wrinkled.

Food-plant, Ficus sp.

Described from a mature specimen about to pupate, found in
Kingston, July 21, 1891. The moth emerged August i3th.
Another mature larva, also found in Kingston, was brought to
me by Anna Ashburn on the 2d of September.

The larva of this species is glaucous-green, whitish above, with
a narrow yellow stripe on each side; until shortly before it changes
to a pupa, when it assumes the very different coloration described
above. This change of color is almost certainly protective, the
red back being less conspicuous than whitish or green, as the
larva crawls about in search of a suitable spot to pupate in.

In Weismann's "Studies in the Theory of Descent," p. 232,
there is a foot-note by Prof. Meldola, in which this change is de-
scribed from Burmeister. This account does not quite agree with
the Jamaica larva, and if in South America the larva really changes
after the third stage, and lives on the tree and feeds after assum-
ing the red coloration, it apparently affords an instance in which
a phase of color has arisen as protective at larval maturity, and
has become so strong in the organization of the insect as to ap-
pear in some districts earlier in the life of the larva than is actually
of use. It would be a curious case if it could be shown that this
character had first appeared as useful, and had at length become
injurious by reason of its excessive development! However, it
is not so in Jamaica, and if the account of Burmeister' s larva is
correct, it may still be that there are some special conditions of
environment in the district where it was found, that render the
red useful not only at pupating time, but also on the tree. This
might be the case, for example, if it fed on a tree whose leaves
turned red at a certain time.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 5

PREPARATORY STAGES OF ICHTHYURA BIFIRIA Hy. Echv.
By HARRISON G. DYAR, New York.

Egg. Hemispherical or slightly conoidal, the base flat, but
rounded at its edges; smooth under a lens, but under the micro-
scope, covered with numerous, crowded, shallow depressions,
which form by their edges narrow, roundedly, hexagonal reticu-
lations. The color is dark gray before the egg hatches. Diam-
eter 7 mm.

First stage. Head shining black, labrum pale; width 35 mm.
Body slightly flattened, whitish, cervical shield black; a few pale
hairs; joints 5 and 12 are slightly enlarged dorsally; the lateral
region, and joints 5, 7 and 12 dorsally are wine-red. Thoracic
feet large, pale; the abdominal normal, all used in walking.
Length 2.5 mm. The larva hatches by eating a round hole in
the vertex of the egg, leaving the rest of the shell untouched.
It lives, singly, in a shelter constructed by spinning two or more
leaves together.

Second stage. Head black and shining, the central suture
deep; width 6.5 mm. Body flattened, pale whitish yellow, with
narrow triplicate dorsal, and very broad lateral bands of dull
wine color, as are also the humps on joints 5 and 12. Cervical
shield and anal plate black; venter dull greenish; legs black.

Third stage. Head flat in front, slightly bilobed, brownish
black, but paler centrally around the clypeus; a few dark hairs;
width 1.4 mm. Body pale yellow, joints 5 and 12 a trifle dorsal
line, broad lateral and confused triple subventral lines, all dark
brown. Cervical shield and anal plate blackish; scattered pale
hairs arise from smooth, low, round tubercles, concolorous with
the markings.

Fourth stage. Head pale brown, shaded with black in Inmt;
jaws and ocelli black; a white shade on each side of the clyprus;
width 2.6 mm. Body as before, but the lateral band is faintly
divided by a double yellowish line, and joint 13 is nearly all
yellowish. The round, smooth, piliferous tubercles are distinctly
yellow in the yellow markings. Cervical shield small, bisrctol.
pale brown; anal plate not distinguishable. Hair whitish, l>th
from body and head. As the stage advances the colors become
quite pale, and the appearance is much chun^-d; humps (.11
joints 5 and 12 very slight, dark purple. <'.n>und color \\luti-h

6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

gray, becoming pale purple, a triplicate dark purple dorsal line,
the central one most distinct, the others broader and diffuse. All
these lines are more or less broken into mottlings. A similar
stigma tal line with some purple mottlings subventrally; venter
paler; spiracles black. The piliferous tubercles are normal in
arrangement, much as the warts in Halesidota, row (4) small,
posteriorly to the spiracles, row (7) apparently absent. The head
is held out flat, as in Gluphisia.

Cocoon. Composed of several leaves spun together and lined
with threads.

Pupa. Nearly cylindrical, flattened a little ventrally, gradually
tapering posteriorly, but of nearly even width, no part enlarged;
last abdominal segments rounded, cremaster long and slender,
terminating in a knob that, under the microscope, is seen to con-
sist of a row of radiating, strongly recurved hooks, which hold
firmly to the silk of the cocoon. Color dark red-brown, the
thorax and cases nearly black. Length n mm.; width 3.5 mm.

Food-plant. Willow (Salix').

Larvae from Yosemite Valley, Cal. These larvae had but four
stages, and there are two broods in a year.

Ichthyura bifiria, as well as / brucei Hy. Edw. , must come
very near to /. vau Fitch, if they are not merely western forms
of it, but the larva of / van is still unknown, so that it is impos-
sible to compare the early stages.

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A NOTE ON CYCHRUS.

By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa.

' ' Arizona has not, to my knowledge, furnished even a speci-
men of Cychride;" (Dr. Horn, in Notes on the Biologia Cen-
trali-Americana, monthly Proc. of Ent. Sec. A. N. S. June,
1886, p. ix.) During the Summer of 1890, while in the Final
Mountains, about eighty miles from Tucson, my friend and com-
panion, Dr. E. D. Peters, took four or five specimens of a Cy-
chrns (^Scaphinotus), which I thought to be Snowii Lee., near a
little spring. Later in the day a search by myself resulted in the
finding of another specimen.

Our knowledge of the distribution of Cychrns has been won-
derfully extended during the thirteen years that had elapsed since

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the publication by Dr. Horn of his Synopsis in the " Transactions
of the American Entomological Society." At that time but three
species of the division Sphtzroderus were known, all from the
Atlantic region, none of them ranging farther south than North
Carolina. Since then the labors of Mr. Ricksecker have re-
sulted in the discovery of two more species (relictus and regu-
laris) from the Spokane River region of Washington, both ot
these having been also taken by myself at Cceur d'Alene, Idaho,
in company with the third western species only lately described
by Dr. Horn (" Ent. Am." vol. vi, p. 71) as Merkelii. This
shows Sph&roderus to be northern rather than northeastern in its
distribution, an equal number of species having been found on
each side of the continent, "none, however, being southern forms.

Scaphinotus, as is shown by the first paragraph, extends into
Arizona besides covering in its distribution the region assigned
to it by Dr. Horn, in his paper cited, from New York south to
North Carolina and thence west to Colorado a range afterwards
extended some distance southwards by the discovery of C.
{Scaphinotus} Snowii in New Mexico.

Doubtless, the division Pemphus will remain characteristic of
the north Pacific coast fauna, though Brennus supposed, until
lately, to be confined to the coast fauna proper, has been shown
by me (ENT. NEWS, vol. i, p. 33) to inhabit parts of Montana.
The species recorded, C. marginatus, has heretofore been reported
only from the stretch of coast from Oregon to Alaska, and its
occurrence in Montana is of great interest, adding, as it does,
another species to those common to the great central chain ol
mountains and the far north. During the glacial epoch, or ju-t
following it, this species probably inhabited the stretch of country
from the Rockies to the coast, but the gradual northward retreat
of the face of the glaciated area so changed the climate of this
intervening region that marginatus was unable to retain its place.
The Montana form already shows some minor differences from
those found on the coast, and only time seems needed to dillrr-
entiate it as a distinct species.

Until the discovery of C. Rickseckeri, the species of Cychrus
proper were limited in our fauna to two strictly Pacific forms,
angitlatus and tuberculatus, and one from Utah, C. Hcmphillii;
but the first-mentioned insect is reported by Mr. Ricksrckrr, in
a letter to me, to occur as far east as Clark's Ford, Mont. , though

8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

I believe the centre of its distribution to be the Cceur d'Alene
district of Idaho, where I took it on my visit in 1889. C. tuber-
culatus, reported from Vancouver Island, occurs also in the main-
land at Portland, Oreg. , and Tacoma, Wash., but is still rare.

A perusal of these lines will show that in this genus every one
of the divisions, except Pemphus, which contains but a single
species, has been found to have a distribution much wider than
that known to science when last written up, and I await further
developments with a great deal of interest. Cannot some of the
readers of ENT. NEWS furnish -us with more notes on geographical
distribution ? Too little attention seems to have been paid this
part of our science, and it is something in which every one can

help.

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Second Additions and Corrections to the list of Dragonflies
(Odonata) of Manchester, Kennebec County, Maine.

BY MISS MATTIE WADSWORTH.
(See ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, vol. i, pp. 36, 55, and vol. ii, p. n.)
5a. Amphiagrion saucium Burm.

1891, June 24, one 9 in road.
6c. Enallag-ma cyathigerum Charp. race annexum Hag.

1891, June 1 6, one $ in meadow.
6d. Enallagma exsulans Hag.

1891, June 26, one near Lake Cobbosseecontee.
6e. Nehalennia Irene Hag.

1891, June 9, one 9 in road, near meadow; June 15, three
9 9 in woods; June 19, one 9 in woods.
24a. Macromia illinoiensis Walsh.

1891, July 10, one 9 near brook.

32. This species called " Cordulia cynosura variety," in vol. ii, p. 11, is C.

(Tetragoneuria) spinigera Selys.

All taken in 1891 have been identified, as all others have been,
by Mr. PhiHp P. Calvert, of Philadelphia.

During the seasons of 1890 and 1891, additional specimens
have been taken of several species noted as quite rare in the pre-
ceding lists. These are mentioned below.
6n. Enallagma ebrium Hag.

1891, June 16, two in meadow.
66. Enallagma civile Hag.
1891, June 26, two $ 1 , one 9 near Lake Cobbosseecontee.

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13. JEschna (Basiaeschna) Janata Say.

1890, June 21, one taken near brook. 1891, June 5 to 15,
seven 9 9 . six taken near woods; June 15, a & devouring
a 9 GompJms exilis was taken.

17. Gomphus parvulus Selys.

1891, June 25, one 9 near brook.

25. Epitheca (Somatochlora) Walshii Scud.

1891, July 30, one in meadow near brook; August 5, one
seen flying.

26. Epitheca (Somatochlora) forcipata Scud.

1890, Aug. 14, one in meadow.

28. Cordulia (Somatochlora) lepida Selys.

1891, June, one ; June 26, one 9 by roadside.

29. Cordulia (Somatochlora) libera Selys.

1890, June 19, one in woods. 1891, June 5 to 30, quite
common in and near woods.

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HYMENOPTEROLOGICAL NOTES.-H.

By WM. J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

Crabro nitidiventris n. sp.

9. Black, shining; first two joints of the antennae entirely, line on pro-
thorax above, broadest laterally, tubercles, an elongated spot behind them,
dot on tegulze, spot at base of wing, line on the basal half of the scutel-
lum, two transverse spots on the upper surface of the metathorax, the
apex of anterior and medial femora, the tibiae and tarsi, and a large
macula on each side of segments 2-5, all yellow, the extreme apex of the
posterior tibiae and the apical tarsal joints, brownish. Head quadrate;
clypeus, front behind the antennae, and the posterior orbits witli bright
silvery pubescence, most dense on the former; head clothed with pale
fuscous hairs, finely and sparsely punctured, the punctures on the cheeks
very delicate, strongest on the front; vertex depressed, with a stn.n-,
pear-shaped pit on each side near the top of inner eye margin; trtmtal
impressed line deep; clypeus feebly carinated medially, the anterior m.ir-
gin armed with three teeth, which are widely separated; apical halt of
mandibles ferrugineus, the apex bidentate; scape of antenna- narrow
longer than the first three joints of the flagellum united, second joint ,.|
the flagellum nearly three times as long as the preceding one, and about
two and a half times longer than the succeeding one. Thorax aiul
sparsely clothed with pale fuscous pubescence, pertaining t i sih ery 01
pleurae and pectus; the thorax with fine, separated punctures, very line on
the pleura;; prothorax slightly emarginate above; postscutellum part.
by an impressed line; metathorax with two transverse enclosures on the

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upper surface, the medial sulcus very strongly marked, and is deepest
basally and on the posterior face, all the sulci marked with strong fovese,
the posterior face with the lateral edges marked with a series of rugae,
before the apex there are several very strong, transverse striae; the top
of the metapleurce marked by a series of strong foveae, which form an
angle at about the middle; wings hyaline, tinged with brownish along the
costa, nervures brown, the stigma black. Abdomen glabrous, sparsely
clothed with pale fuscous hairs, most dense beneath and on segments 4-
6 above; last segment above with a longitudinal, medial carina, which
does not extend beyond the middle. Length n 12 mm.

Two specimens, Camden County, N. J., July 5, 1891, and Il-
linois (coll. Amer. Ent. Soc.). The specimen from Illinois has
the middle clypeal tooth indistinct. Related to C, obsciirus and
C. contiguus.

Crabro excavatus n. sp.

9. Black; head transversely quadrate; front subopaque, with fine and
exceedingly close punctures; near the inner orbits, before the anterior
ocellus, there is a short, oblique sulcus; vertex shining, with deep sepa-
rated punctures; face very narrow in the region of the antennae, the space
between the eyes at this place is a little broader than the length of the
third antennal joint; clypeus well carinated, the anterior margin entire,
rounded out; antennas short, the third joint about two and a half times
longer than the second, and is a little longer than the two following joints
united; the ocelli situated in slight, but distinct, depressions; mandibles
strongly bidentate at apex. Prothorax emarginate medially; dorsulum
with very strong punctures, the punctures confluent anteriorly; scutellum
and postscutellum with strong, separated punctures, those on the post-
scutellum feeblest; metathorax roughened, with a strong medial sulcus,
which extends to about the middle, where it is interrupted by a transverse
ridge, the posterior face rugose, depressed medially; mesopleurae rugose;
wings subhyaline, nervures blackish. Abdomen shining, the segments
depressed at base and apex, with distinct, separated punctures, beneath
segments 2-5 smooth, with the exception of a series of strong punctures,
which extend from side to side at about the middle; the last segment
above strongly excavated; mandibles, except base and apex, prothorax
above, tubercles, an elongated oblique spot on the mesopleurae beneath
the tegulae, scutellum and two spots on the dorsulum at the anterior-lateral
angles of the scutellum, the postscutellum, legs, the tarsi lighter, the first
abdominal segment above, except the apical margin, which is black, the
second above and beneath, except apical portion, all reddish brown;*
scape and following two antennal joints, and a large, ovate spot on the
second abdominal segment, situated at about the middle, yellow; head

* This may be due to being left too long in the cyanide bottle, but as part of the antem.ae
and two spots on the abdomen are yellow, it is probable that it is the natural color.

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and thorax above clothed with short, erect, fuscous hairs; the clypeus,
face, cheeks and thorax beneath with silvery pubescence. Length 9 10
mm.

cf . Differs from the female as follows: joints five and six of the an-
tennas roundly emarginate beneath, the seventh joint slightly so; the third
antennal joint very slightly, if any, longer than the fourth; the metanotum
with eight or nine strong ridges, which extend from the base to the trans-
verse ridge; wings darker along the costa. Abdomen strongly punctured,
the punctures closer than in the female, the first segment, except the base
and apex, and a transverse fascia on segments 2-5 above, reddish brown,
the fascia on the third segment narrowest; beneath the abdomen is fun-h-
and rather closely punctured. Length 9 mm.

Described from two females and one male specimens. Col-
lected by Mr. Chas. W. Johnson, in Florida, in the vicinity of
St. Augustine.

(To be continued.)

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RHEXIDIUS.

BY EMIL BRENDEL, M. D.

This genus belongs to the second group of the tribe Trichonyni
according to the arrangement of Mr. Achille Raffray, the first
group having the posterior coxse distant and the first ventral seg-
ment large, including the genera Trichonyx and Amauronyx,
while the remaining genera, or the second group, have the pos-
terior coxse contiguous, or nearly so, and ( the first ventral seg-
ment very short, in some hardly visible. Among the latter group
my attention is called to the genera Trogastcr, Rhexidius, Oropns
and Prorhexiics.

Trogaster is characterized by having the first ventral segment
visible (according to Mr. Raffray), while in the others it is said
to be invisible, except as a button between the coxae. But this,
according to my investigation, does not apply to Rhexidius and
Oropus, on which, by lifting the femur it can be traced to tin-
sides of the abdomen, where it is even more vnsible than in tin-
middle. Thus the difference between the four genera is ratlin-
inconspicuous.

With the genus Trogastcr I am not acquainted, but by the
description of Dr. D. Sharp, it should have an analogous I'.uni
with Oropus and Rhexidius, and Capt. Casey indicated to in<
the differences: the pronotum having the lateral spinou^ tul.

12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

nearer the middle, the frontal sulcus not reaching the occipital
foveae and having different forms of the antennae in the sexes.

The only difference between Oropus and Rhexidius lies in the
possession of a minute spinous tubercle at the sides of the pro-
notum in a line with the lateral foveae. The length of the second
ventral segment, which ought to be measured at the sides, not in
the middle, where commonly intubation takes place, is larger,
but in length not much more than subequal to the third and
fourth ventrals; therefore Prorhexius is identical with Rhexidius.

Now I will describe a new species of Rhexidius which makes
the difference between the other two genera very doubtful, and
perhaps brings them very near to Trogaster.

Rhexidius trogasteroides n. sp.

<3\ The forms of the several parts of the body is exactly like Oropus;
uniformly reddish brown. Length 1.66 mm. Head and prothorax granu-
lated (as in Rhexidius granulosus), elytra densely punctured, abdominal
dorsum nearly smooth. The head very transverse, though less so than
in R. granulosus, occiput triangularly impressed at its base, occipital
fovese large, near the eyes and in a line with the anterior part of the eyes;
the frontal ridge and the subjacent arcuated sulcus limited half way be-
tween foveae and the supra-antennal swelling, the sulcus ending in a deep
puncture just in front of the respective fovea (Trogaster). Antennae as
long as the head and half of the prothorax; joint i as thick as the width
of the eye, cylindrical, longer than wide; 2 globular, two-thirds as thick
as the first; 3 and 4 equal, rounded, somewhat transverse, much smaller;
5 projecting inside in form of a wedge, half as long outside, and three
times as wide as the fourth; 6 as wide as 5, inflated inside, here as long
as the first joint, and outside at the insertion as long as second; 7-10
gradually increasing in width, transverse, trapezoidal, together as long as
the second, third and fourth conjointed; 7 as wide as the second; the loth,
or the base of the last joint as wide as the first; n as long as the four
preceding, and beyond the middle more than twice as wide as the first
joint ( Trogaster). Palpi as in Oropus. Prothorax as in Rhexidius in
sculpture, but the median sulcus has a deeper place in the anterior third,
and the sides are rounded anterior to the line of the foveae, here sud-
denly forming a sharp edge with a very short emargination producing a
tubercle similar to Oropus, except that the tubercle is not as sharply
pointed. Elytra as in Oropus, with four basal punctures. and the respec-
tive lines, the third longer than the second, the fourth short and recurrent.
Abdomen as in Oropus, with the dorsal border punctured, the penultimate
ventral with a transverse impressed line; 9 unknown.

Three specimens were discovered on Chestnut Ridge, Pa., by
P. Jerome Schmitt, who deserves great honor as a circumspect
entomologist.

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A comment as to the generic differences is unnecessary, but
there are two more specimens, and 9 , which were discovered
in Franklin County, Pa., by my friend, H. Ulke, who kindly
loaned them to me a year ago; they are in his cabinet, and may
bring these genera still nearer together.

Rhexidius intermedius n. sp.

Uniformly brown. Length of $ 1.5 mm.; $ 1.66 mm.

$ . Head as transverse as in Oropus, somewhat punctulate. Antennae,
without the last joint, as long as the width of the head, the last joint as
long as the first and second together. Eyes very much smaller than in
Oropus; occiput perpendicularly declining toward the neck in an angu-
lated line from the sides to the middle of the base. Prothorax little wider
than the head with a twice interrupted median sulcus and a straight trans-
verse sulcus, which is triangularly dilated in the middle, ending in pubes-
cent foveae laterally situated inside of a slightly ovate depression, the base
strongly punctured, the disc slightly uneven, impunctate; no crenulation
or a spine at the sides. Elytra as in Oropus. Abdomen at the base in
the middle depressed, the depression divided by a short carina; the bor-
ders of the first visible segment divergent; the first three visible segments
equal, one-quarter of their width long, fourth and fifth shorter; ventrals
nearly equal in length.

<$. Has the ninth and tenth joints of the antennas shorter, more trans-
verse, and the last longer than in the female. Head, prothorax and elytra,
more visibly punctulate. Eyes somewhat larger. Prothorax with the
median sulcus not interrupted, but abbreviated in the anterior third. Ab-
domen as in the female, but the junction of the fourth and fifth segments
transversely impressed.

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NOTES ON ARKANSAS LEPIDOPTERA.

By R. R. ROWLEY, Fort Smith, Ark.

Five hundred miles to the southwest of Curryville, Mo., where
the writer has spent half a score of years in the study of Ento-
mology and Geology of a most interesting region, is the " Bor-
der City," Fort Smith, Ark. A residence here since the middle
of September has given him but limited opportunity to niter into
the study of nature, but he could not, if he wished, close his eyes
on the fairy-like creatures that flit from blossom to blossom in this
city of flowers. The first finds. were two splendid larvae of that
magnificent moth, Citheroniaregalis, on a persirnmon tree, whirr,
from indications, a number of other caterpillars had been feeding;
t\vo larvae of Eacles imperialis on maple; two of Ccratomia

14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

amyntor and one of Telea polyphemus on elm; larvae and cocoons
of Actias luna on pecan, and one wandering caterpillar of Dei-
lephila lineata. A fine pupa of Macrosila cingulata was found in
a sweet-potato patch and several ragged images, brought to the
class-room by pupils, indicate an abundance of this beautiful moth.

The first butterflies noticed were Neonympha sosybius, flitting
aimlessly about the streets, and occasional specimens of Papilio
philenor and Limenitis iirsula. While Colias eurytheme was
quite common, C. philodice, Pieris protodice and P. rapes seemed
much less abundant.

In October, Callidryas eubule, Terias nicippe, T. lisa, Na-
thalis iole, Euptoieta claudia, Phyciodcs phaon, Pamphila huron,
P. phylceus and Pyrgus tessclata were plentiful, the first two spe-
cies at cultivated flowers and the others at the blossoms of He-
lenium tenuifolium, a thrifty weed about the streets and roads
here.

Three fine examples of Colias ctzsonia were taken at flowers,
one Grapta inter rogationis in the woods, one Paphia troglodyta
at mud, four Junonia ccenia by the roadside and on flowers, sev-
eral specimens of Pyrameis cardui, one P. huntera, two Erisia
texana, a few Phyciodes tharos and a number of Danais archippus
on Helenium tenuifolium blossoms.

A single 9 Agraulis vanilla was taken on Geranium flowers in
the shade, about five o'clock P.M., late in October. One dark
specimen of Pyrgus, probably a variety of Tesselata, was cap-
tured November yth. The last butterflies seen, were Terias lisa,
T. nicippe, Pyrgus tesselata and Nathalis iole on the i6th of
September. Spring and Summer will doubtless add many more
species to this list. The food-plant of Iole here is probably
Helenium temiifoliiim.

For assistance in the identification of a few of the species men-
tioned above, the writer is indebted to Mr. Wm. H. Edwards, of
Coalburgh, and Dr. Henry Skinner, of Philadelphia.

For the determination of a plant to Prof. Geo. Vasey, of
Washington, D. C.

" An electric insect killer is the latest novelty in that line. It is formed
by a cover of wire> gauze, which is placed over a lighted candle. The
gauze is an electric circuit, and when insects touch it they are killed."

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 15

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AFTER many unexpected and unavoidable delays, the new Check List
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ciated by entomological workers.

A NEW VARIETY OF PAMPHILA. Paitiphila iassasoit, var. suffusa
Laurent. The describing of the many variations of Lepidoptera caught
in the field is of value as well as of interest to the entomological world,
but the attaching thereto of a name to burden our already over-crowded
catalogues, seems to me to be little less than an entomological sin, but
where the form described teems in numbers, or is known as a local varia-
tion, I think the same should be given an appropriate name. In the
Pamphilas, particularly, there are several such forms or variations occur-
ring among the species found around Philadelphia. One of tlu-sc. l\un-
phila massasoit, var. suffusa, makes its appearance about July 4th. It is

16 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

found in low meadow- or swamp-lands. The variation consists principally
in the yellow markings of the under surface of the posterior wings being
almost obliterated by a suffusion of dark brown, while the under surface
of the anterior wings is of a uniform dark brown, the light colored margin
found in the normal form being entirely wanting. About one in every
ten specimens caught will be found to be snffusa; the variation is gener-
ally found among the males, but also occurs in the females, but more
sparingly where it occurs in the females. The insect is without the usual
yellow spots on the upper surface of the wings. PHILIP LAURENT, Phila.

SYNONYMS OF NOCTUID^E. Mr. W. H. Patton has given in ENTOMO-
LOGICAL NEWS, vol. ii, p. 206, a synonym of ^Homohadena infixa Wlk."
which requires correction. I have seen Walker's type, in the British Mu-
seum, and find it exactly like the type of Mr. Grote's H. kappa, which is
also in the British Museum. H. incomitata and H. badistriga are both
as good species as are usually found in the Noctuidae, and come at exactly
opposite ends of the synoptic table in my revision of the species (Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, 399). Harvey's type is not rubbed, and I have seen
any number of specimens just like it. That Xylophasia infixa Wlk.
probably referred to a species of Homohadena I indicated in my revision
of Xylophasia (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii, 446), but was not able to fix it
positively. It would be interesting to know upon what Mr. Patton bases
his synonymy. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

Prof. KELLICOTT'S " Note on Exceptions" brought vividly to my mind
the number of interesting varieties of Caberodes confusaria that had es-
caped from my collecting-bottle by its remarkable powers of resisting the
action of cyanide. I have often sought for an explanation, but without
definite results. In my observations, Hymenoptera and Diptera are the
most sensitive to the fumes of cyanide, which I have thought might arise
from their nervous activity producing rapid respiration. Water beetles as
a rule are slow to yield to its influence, which is probably the result of
their having a supply of pure air under their elytra which would last
for a while. Newly-hatched beetles may remain for a whole day in a
strong bottle and revive again when exposed to the air, the result of
their partially dormant condition. Caberodes confusaria is an active in-
sect, and therefore ought to breathe rapidly, and so get the full benefit of
the poison, but in its case neither the principle nor the poison works satis-
factorily. I. ALSTON MOFFAT, London, Ontario.

I THINK a "wave" of Erebus odora must have struck Colorado this
Summer. I have occasionally met with this species in the State before,
but not more than one example in a season. This year, however, was a
notable exception; one day last June I took one on the sidewalk at Colo-
rado Springs; the same evening I found one on the platform at Canon
City Depot. The next morning I reached Salida just at daybreak; during
the two days I stayed there I took about a dozen pretty fair examples.
These were resting on the lamp-posts, or on the ground close by. It was

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quite a rainy time in this part of Colorado, and I saw fragments of a good
many in the mud. The lamp trimmer told me they had been quite a
nuisance for more than a week, flying into houses and stores where tliere
was a bright light, in many instances causing alarm (lie called them hats).
On my return from southwest Colorado, two weeks later, our train stopped
at Salida at 9 A.M. ; during the "twenty minutes for refreshments" I looked
round under the lamps. In a coal-box, near one, were two battered ex-
amples of E. odora, but on the lamp-post, about seven feet from the
ground, was a specimen of the silken, gray beauty zoiobia, the first I had
seen alive. I have visited this district many times in the last seven years,
and my late friend, W. S. Foster, a keen collector, resided there tuo
years, yet we never saw either species there before, and I feel pretty cer-
tain that their occurrence this year is something unusual.

DAVID BRUCEj Brockport, N. V.

A SPECIMEN of Xylocopa. received from Mr. H. F. Wickham, bearing
the label Fort Yuma, Cal., turns out to be the Cuban A"", cubaccola Lucas.
To the best of my knowledge, this species has not been recorded from
any other locality, although it occurs, probably, in Mexico. The following
table will assist in determining the California!! species of Xylocopa:
Abdomen bottle-green, bronzed ; front in $ with a strong projection.
Length 22 25 mm. . . . californica Cr.

Abdomen bronze-purple ; frontal projection almost obsolete, having the
appearance of a faint tubercle. Length 18 mm. . purpurea Cr.
Entirely black 9 \ c? f cubaccola entirely fulvous, with fulvous pubes-
cence; e? of orpifex with the face and clypeus yellowish.
Ventral abdominal segments strongly carinated ; clypeus with the
punctures becoming somewhat obsolete medially; rf" fulvous.
Length 9 cf 1823 mm. . . . cubaecola Luc.

Ventral segments of the abdomen faintly carinated ; clypeus equally
punctured throughout; <$ with the thorax clothed with pale pu-
bescence. Length 9 c? 17 i S mm. . . orpifex Sm.

WILLIAM J. Fox.

WHILE on a trout fishing trip on the Nepigon River last July we broke
camp some forty miles up river, after three days' of showery weather, and,
with birch-bark canoes, started for Red Rock, the 1 [udson I'.ay Company'-
post at the mouth of the river. There are a number of rapids around
which canoes and camp equipage must be carried, and at whirl) tin- dil-
ferent meals are usually cooked, while the Indians are making the port
On July 1 4th, a hot day following the rains, we were prtaging around
Cameron Pool and rapids, when one of the party, who had descended
the higher land to the bank of a little creek, came rushing back with an
ordinary fish landing-net containing ten fluttering Lii'it
he had caught with one stroke. Of coin were mined, but the

entomologist of the party, upon investigation, found the ashes, where
camp fires had been made upon the banks of the creek, completely cov-

18 ENToMoLocicAL NEWS. [jariuafy,

iered with this beautiful butterfly, one space of about four and a half feet
in diameter being entirely hid by a gorgeous coloring of purple, black
and white, which shone beautifully in the bright sun. The first stroke of
the net disturbed them, but 47 specimens were taken as they hovered
about without moving from the spot, and over 100 were taken within a
space of 30 feet square. They seemed to be attracted by the brine or
water thrown from the pans after freshening bacon and salt pork at the
camp fires. Paddling down the creek we passed another congregation
of like proportions, but we had a forty-mile canoe voyage to complete by
ten o'clock that night in order to catch a steamer at Port Arthur, so they
were not disturbed. It is not often an entomologist stumbles upon a sight
so beautiful. FRANK S. DAGGETT, Duluth, Minn.

Perophora mclshcimerii. This elegant case bearing larva was taken
at Sugar Grove, O., September 26th, feeding on oak. The single larva
examined differs from that described by Harris in the absence of the an-
tenna-like appendages at the side of the head; this is also characterized
by Packard in "Forest Insects." It is also slenderer than others de'
scribed, nor are the "spiracles so situated as to be visible from above,'-
except the last pair. The prothoracic segment is not dark like the head,
but concolorous with the whole anterior third, i.e., pale brown with diffuse
lateral stripes. The case, too, whilst of the same general type as that
figured by Harris, is a more finished piece of architecture. One side, the
floor, is elliptical and plane; the opposing piece, the roof, is also elliptical,
but both longer and wider and cut with the mid-vein in the longer diam-
eter, so that when the edges of the two are sewn together it arches up,
forming a roof; the mid-vein thus forms the ridge of the roof; this also
projects at the ends constituting the verandas over the round openings.
The dimensions are: length, 28 mm.; width, 8mm.; height, 6mm.; di-
ameter of openings, 4 mm.

I have not seen the artificer at work. It would certainly be interesting
to observe how, with the simple tools at his disposal, so wonderful a house
is built. I imagine that the plan of procedure is about as follows: two
closely parallel leaves are selected; these are spun together along the
elliptical outline of the finished product, the plane one being first strength-
ened by a silken lining; then by cutting away the leaves about the outside
the case is set free. D. S. K.

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1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ig

Entomological Literature.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Nov. 2, 1891. The lateral eyes
of spiders, by K. Kishinouye, figs. On the anatomy of the male sexual
organs of the Honey Bee, by G. Koschewnikoff.

TRAVAUX ET MEMOIRES DBS FACULTES DE LILLE. I, No. 4, 1891. The
wax of Bees (analysis and adulterations), by A. and P. Buisine.

LE NATURALISTE (Paris), Nov. r, 1891. Protective resemblance in Eu-
ropean Lepidoptera, by F. Plateau; figs. Description of new Lepidop-
tera,* by P. Dognin; Lafajana n. gen. Development of Hydrophilns
piceus, by L. Planet; figs. Dec. i, 1891. Diagnoses of new Lepidop-
tera,* by P. Dognin. Habits and metamorphoses of Corczbus amethys-
tinus Oliv., by Capt. Xambeu.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Oct. 3, '91.
Two new species and a new genus of African Lepidoptera,* by F. J.
M. Heylaerts; Gymnelema n. gen. Melanges Entomologiques: VII.
Diagnoses of Coleoptera from the Congo,* by A. Duvivier; Djabiria,
Phrynctoides n. gen. Dichotomous table to aid in determining the Bel-
gian species of Coleoptera Heteromera (last part), by L. Coucke. Enu-
meration of the Hemiptera of Belgium, by E. Coubeaux; Heteroptera.
Papilio tnachaon var. marginalis, by M. Robbe.

NOTES ON CALOSPASTA Lee., by G. H. Horn, M.D. (reprint from Proc.
Amer. Philos. Soc. xxix, pp. 99-102), Oct. 27, 1891. A synoptic table of
the species is given. C. histrionica, C. morrisoni, S. Cal., n. sp.

REVUE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE L'OUEST, 4, October, 1891,
Paris. General considerations on the classification of the Acarines, fol-
lowed by an attempt at a new classification, by Dr. Trouessart (to be con-
tinued).

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), Nov. 20, 1891. Or-
ganization of a thoracic ganglion in some Coleoptera of the tribe Melo-
lonthina, by A. Binet. A peculiar Acariasis on Paduan fowls produced
by a new Acarine species, Lophopies patavinus, by P. Megnin; figs. On
the intermediate host of Echinorhynchus gig as in America, by C. W.
Stiles \_Lachnosterna\.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xvii, 21, November, 1891.
Some remarks on the German species of Calathus* by C. YcrhoHl.
List of a collection of Coleoptera from Cordoba in Argentina, by Dr.
Frenzel. On doubtful species of Rhizotrogus, a clear answer to Hen 1 :.
Brenske, by Dr. G. Kraatz. No. 22, November, 1891 .--A new contribu-
tion to the knowledge of the German Saldcc* by C. VerhoefT. Dipt* ru
collected by Herr F. Grabowsky in Hartz Mountains, by V. von K order-
* Contains new species other than North American.

2o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

New Singing Cicada; from Cameroon collected by Dr. Paul Preuss,* by
Dr. F. Karsch; Trisiiiarcha, Nablistes. n. gen.

DENKSCHRIFTEN DER KAISERLICHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENS-
CHAFTEN. MATHEMATISCH-NATURWISSENSC.HAFTLICIIE CLASSE, Ivii.
Wien, 1890 (1891). Comparative Studies on the Germ-band (Keimstreif)
of Insects, by V. Graber; 12 plates, 38 figures.

ERGAENZUNGSHEFT ZUM 68. JAHRESBERICHT DER SCHLESISCHEN GE-
SELLSCHAFT FUR VATERLANDiscHE CULTUR. Breslau, 1890 (1891). Con-
tributions to the knowledge of the European Zoocecidae and their distri-
bution, by G. Hieronymus.

VERHANDLUNGEN DES NATURHISTORISCHEN VEREINS DER PREUS-
SISCHE RHEINLANDE, WESTFALENS UND DES REG.-BEZIRKS OSNABRUECK.
xlviii, i. Bonn, 1891. Biological Aphorisms on some Hymenoptera, Dip-
tera and Coleoptera, by C. Verhoeff; 3 plates.

OFVERSIGT AF FINSKA VETENSKAPS-SOCIETETENS FORHANDLINGAR,
xxxii, 1889-90. Helsingsfors, 1890 (1891?). Contributions to the know-
ledge of the Coleopterous Fauna of Southwestern Siberia Curculionidae,*
by J. Faust

BERICHTE DER NATURFOKSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT zu FREIBURG I.
B., v, i. Freiburg I. B., 1890 (1891). On reproduction of the Diplopods
(Chilognatha), by O. von Rath; i plate.

AXTI DELLA R. ACCADEMIA DELLE SCIENZE DI TORINO, XXVI, 2, 1890-

91. The European species of the genus Chiysotoxum Meig.,* by Dr. E.
Giglio-Tos; i plate.

JAHRBUCHER DES NASSAUISCHEN VEREINS FUR NATURKUNDE, 44. Jahr-
gang. Wiesbaden, 1891. Observations on the manner of living and de-
velopment 'history of some indigenous species of beetles, by Dr. Budde-
berg. Macrolepidoptera of the lower Rhine country, 2d part, by A. Fuchs.
Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Japan, 2d supplement, by H. von Schoen-
feldt.

LA NATURALEZA, 2d series, II, i. Mexico, 1891. Description of indig-
enous Coleoptera, by Dr. D. Eugenio Duges (for new species, see post)\
2 plates.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 2d series'
III, i. Sept. i, 1891. Description of the larva of Dascy/lus darhisonii
Lee., and a record of its life-history, by J. J. Rivers; i plate. New species
of Scarabseidae, id (see post).

BULLETIN OF THE BUFFALO SOCIETY OK NATURAL SCIENCES, v, 3, 'gr.
List of the Macrolepidoptera of Buffalo and vicinity, by Edw. P. Van
Duzee.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 21

LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA OF BOREAL AMERICA, by John II. Smith, as-
sisted by Henry Skinner, M.D., Geo. D. Hulst, Ph. D., C. H. Fernald,
Ph. D., C. V. Riley, Ph. D. Philadelphia, Amer. Ent. Soc. 1891, 124 pp.,
6020 species listed.

CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A MONOGRAPH OF THE NOCTUID.K OF TEM-
PERATE NORTH AMERICA. Revision of the species of Mann.-stra, by John
B. Smith (from Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. xiv, pp. 197-276, pi. viii-xi), Wash-
ington, 1891 (for new species, see post).

DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW CYNIPID/E IN THE COLLECTION OF THE ILLI-
NOIS STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY, by C. P. Gillette, is.,i ;
i plate (see post).

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, I, i, Kingston, November,
1891. Notes on the transformations of some Jamaica Lepidoptera, by T.
D. A. Cockerell.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

COLEOPTERA.

Calospasta histrionica Horn, Proc. Amer. Pliilos. Soc. \.\i.\, p. 100, San
Diego, Cal. C. morrisoni, p. 102, So. California.

Biiprestis jimenezi Duges, La Naturaleza, 2cl series, II, p. 7, fig. 10,
Jalapa.

Melanophila nigra Duges, 1. c., p. 8, rig. II, Tupataro ( Guanajuato).

Acmczodera moesta Duges, 1. c., p. n, fig. 17, Guanajuato. A.jncn
p. 14, fig. 20, Acapulco. A. sinalocnsis, p. 14, fig. 21, Motag,-, SinaKa.

Chrysobothris sobrina Duges, 1. c., p. 19, Guanajuato. C. arinala, \>.
19, fig. 29, Chiapas. C. i^nofa, p. 20, fig. 30. Tupataro, Guanajuato.

Agrilus albofasciatus Duges, 1. c., p. 23, fig. 35, Guanajuato.
Borrei, p. 24, fig. 36, id. A. Sa/Ifi, p. 24, fig. 37, id.
p. 26, fig. 39, id. A.parviis, p. 26, fig. 60, id. A. hiniaci ?. p.
40, id. A.fossulatus, p. 27, fig. 41, id. . /. xcxnutculatu f, p. 27. ''.-
id. A. rnbrovittatus, p. 28, fig. 44, id. A'. ca/i^i>n>s r, p.
Tupataro. A. 'igneosigiiadis, p. 29, fig. 47, id. !'

30, fig. 48, id. A. tHpatarcnsis, p. 31, fig. 59- "' ' I'-

fig. 51, id. A. A'cririnansi, p. 3-', fig. V, "' ' I'- 3'i

53, Guanajuato. A. tarrascus, p. 33, fig. 54, Michoacan.
p. 33, fig. 55, Guanajuato. A. naints, p. 33, tig. 56, Tupataro.
inhieHS, p. 34, fig. 57, id. A. nonts, p. 34, fig- 5 s , i(1 -
fig- 59, id-

22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Taphrocerus leoni Duges, 1. c., p. 35, fig. 61, Siloa, Guanajuato, Mi-
choacan. T. Kerremansi, p. 35, fig. 62, Tupataro.

Brachys chapusi Duges, 1. c., p. 36, fig. 63, Tupataro. B. hexagonalis,
p. 36, fig. 64, Guanajuato.

Lygirus Bryanti Rivers, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2), III, p. 97, Lower
California.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Carphoxera n. gen. (Acidalinoe) Riley, Insect Life, iv, p. 112. C.
ptelearia, p. 112.

Maniestra delerminata Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv, p. 209, Col.
M. desperala, p. 221, Me., N. H., Cal. M. invalida, p. 225, Cal. M.
u~scripta, p. 228, Cal. M. quadrata, p. 248, Cal. M. circumcincta, p.
253, Cal. M. longiclava, p. 265, Col. M. orbiculata, p. 266, Col.

HYMENOPTERA.

Diastrophus scutellaris Gillette, Bull. 111. State Lab., N. H. ?, p. 192,
111. Antistrophus silphii, p. 192, 111. A. laciniatus, p. 194, 111. A. ntfits,
p. 195, 111. A. minor, p. 196. A. bicolor, p. 197, 111. Acraspis coni-
pressus, p. 197, Iowa. Dryophanta lanata, p. 198, Iowa. Chilasphis
ferrugineus, p. 200, Iowa. Aulax bicolor, p. 201, 111. Synergus mag-
nus, p. 202, Mich. S. villosus, p. 202, Iowa. Coptereucoila inarginata,
p. 203, 111. Eucoila "j-spinosa, p. 204, 111. Eucoilidea ritjipes, p. 205.

Doings of Societies.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
OF PHILADELPHIA. A regular meeting was held in the Hall, Oct. 22, '91,
Director Geo. H. Horn, M.D., presiding. Meeting called to order at
8.20 P.M. Members present: Martindale, Laurent, Ridings, Horn and
Skinner. Associates: Fox and Liebeck. The Publication Committee
reported favorably on papers No. 255 and 256, entitled " Notes on North
American Tachinidae, sens, str., with Descriptions of New Genera and
Species," by C. H. Tyler Townsend, and "Random Studies in North
American Coleoptera," by Geo. H. Horn, M.D. Paper 257 was presented
for publication. Mr. Nathan Banks, of Washington, D. C., was duly
elected an Associate of the Section. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

A regular meeting was held in the Hall, Nov. 25, 1891. The meeting
was called to order at 8.20 P.M. In the absence of the Director, Mr. Blake
presided. Members present: Messrs. Ridings, Laurent, Blake, Skinner
and Welles. Associates: Calvert, Nell and Haimbach. The report of
the Executive Committee was read and received. A number of American
and European Odonata were presented by Mr. Calvert; also the Jamaican
Odonata collected by Mr. Wm. J. Fox. Donations to the library were

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23

read. The Publication Committee reported favorably on a paper entitled
"A Revision of the North American species of Phlepsius" by Ed\v. P.
Van Duzee. Papers Nos. 258, 259 and 260, were presented for publication.

Mr. Calvert stated that in the Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xvii, p. 33, 1890,
he had first described the supposed female of Sor,ia!ochlora Walshii Scud. ,
remarking then that it was much like the female of S. forcipata Scud.,
specimens of which he had not then seen. During; the Summer of 1891
he had received the female and three males of forcipata from Prof. F. L.
Harvey, at Orono, Me. A comparison of the females of Walshii and
forcipata showed that the former was distinct. He knew of no evidence
that the female Walshii was other than he had described it to be. Miss
Wadsvvorth took a second male of Walshii at Manchester, Me., during
the season of 1891; the first male which she had taken was now in Mr.
Calvert's collection.

Dr. Skinner, Mr. Ridings and Mr. Laurent, were appointed a committee
to make nominations for the coming year. Mr. Ridings moved that, when
the Section adjourn, it adjourn to meet on the second Monday in De-
cember. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

A regular meeting was held in the Hall, Dec. 14, 1891, Director Geo.
H. Horn, M.D., presided. Members present: Messrs. Horn, Welles,
Martindale and Ridings. Associates: Calvert, Fox and Johnson. In the
absence of the Recorder, owing to sickness, Mr. J. H. Ridings acted as
such. The reports of the Treasurer and of the Joint Committee on K.\-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS were read. The committee on nominations named
the following to serve as officers for the ensuing year: Director, Geo. H.
Horn, M.D.; Vice-Director, Isaac C. Martindale; Recorder, Henry Skin-
ner, M.D.; Treasurer, E. T. Cresson; Conservator, Henry Skinner, M.D.;
Publication Committee: J. H. Ridings and Philip Laurent. On motion, the
Recorder was directed to cast a ballot for the Section, and the above were-
declared elected. J. H. RIDINGS, Recorder, pro ton.

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, November 5, 1891.-
Messrs. Theo. Gill and C. W. Stiles were elected active members of the
Society, and Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, of Port Hope, Canada, and Prof. H.
A. Morgan, of Baton Rouge, La., corresponding members.

Under short notes, etc., Mr. Schwarz exhibited some fine and complete
examples of the galleries made by Hylesinus sericeu s in the bark of .lines
menziesii from the Wahsatch Mountains of Utah. These galleries closely
resemble those made by the species of Scolytus.

The Secretary read a note by Mr. Wm. D. Richardson, of Fredericks-
burg, Va., corresponding member of the Society, on the life-history <>f
Loma Sayi. The food-plant of this species is Commolyna rirghiica; tin.-
eggs are laid singly on the leaves, and the larvae usually bore in the flower
stalks, ejecting their fcces from the entrance hole of the burn.w. Dis-
cussed by Mr. Schwarz.

24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Dr. Marx exhibited two remarkable spiders occurring in our fauna: (i)
a representative of the South American genus Nops characterized by hav-
ing but two eyes; (2) a puzzling species, the affinities of which he pointed
out. It resembles an Epeira, but is altogether different in characters.

Mr. Schwarz read a paper on the time of flight in Scarabceid beetles, in
which he related an observation made last June by Mr. H. C. Hubbard
and himself concerning an undescribed species of Lachnosterna which
flies before sunset in the alpine regions of Utah. He added remarks on
the flying habits of other species of Lachnosterna and of Scarabaeid bee-
tles in general. It appears that in this family the unity in habit regarding
the time of flight is generally maintained so far as genera are concerned,
and that there are comparatively few exceptions to this rule.

Mr. Schwarz also exhibited a species of the family Monommidas col-
lected on Key West and at Biscayne Bay, Fla., and stated that after a
careful study he has come to the conclusion that it is identical with Aspa-
f /lines ovatns Champion recently described from Central America, which
adds a new genus to our fauna. Discussed by Messrs. Marlatt, Howard,
Mann and Schwarz.

Mr. Howard read a paper on the " Habits of Molittobia," suggested by
Mr. Ashmead's communication at the proceeding meeting. He gave a
comprehensive review of the literature, showing all of the hosts of this
genus of parasites, proving that it is both parasitic and hyperparasitic.
He added an account of the rearing of M. pelopczi Ashm. from dipterous
puparia found in Pelopaeus cells by Mr. A. N. Caudell. Discussed by
Mr. Ashmead.

Mr. Banks read a paper entitled "A new genus of Phalangiidse from
North America," in which, under the name Caddo nov. gen. agilis n. sp.,
he described a peculiar Phalangid collected in woods near the seashore
on Long Island. Figures representing the peculiar features of the insect
were exhibited.

Dr. Marx gave some remarks on the geographical distribution of spiders,
and stated that the Drassidae, formerly supposed to be boreal in habitat,
were now found to occur in the tropics in abundance, and that in fact we
have not a single family that is entirely northern in range. In the Attidse,
however, certain genera may prove to be altogether boreal, but the family
is not well worked up. C. L. MARLATT,

Recording Sccrclarv.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NKWS for December was maili'd December 2, 1891.

ENT. NEWS. Vol. III.

PI. I.

CICINDELA.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. FEBRUARY, 1892. No. 2.

CONTENTS:

Horn Variations of Color-markings in

Coleoptera 25

Fox Hymenopterological Notes 29

Smith Elementary Entomology 35

Insects collected at Jamesburg, N. J.,
July 4, 1891 36

Dyar Collecting Butterflies in the Yo- ; Notes and News 38

Semite Valley 30

Hart On the species of O^canthus 33

Entomological Literature 42

Doings of Societies 47

Variations of Color-markings in Coleoptera.

By GEO. H. HORN, M.D.

Recently the subject of variation in coloration has been dis-
cussed before the Society of American Naturalists with the view
of eliciting an expression of opinion as to whether color variation
proceeded in a regular course, or was hap-hazard and accidental.

My observations have been that variation proceeds in regular
lines, easily demonstrable with sufficient material, produced by
external influences which are at present but partly understood.

There is probably no branch of zoology better fitted to illus-
trate this point than Entomology, from the abundance of species
and the frequent occurrence of genera with large numlxTs of
species in which a greater or less similarity of marking is ob>< r
vable.

As a beginning, in the illustration of this subject, it is brst to
select a genus well known to all collectors by the numbers of spe-
cies possible in most- collections. Cicmdela has therefore bcni
chosen.

Any one in glancing over his series will perceive that there is
a great similarity of marking between many species. This simi-

26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

larity, which may be considered as the type of marking and illus-
trated by fig. i of the plate, representing vnlgaris is the under-
lying pattern from which all the forms observed in our Cicindelae
have been derived.

Before going further it is well to present the following propo-
sitions that the argument and the illustrations may be understood.

i. The type of marking is the same in all our species.

2. Assuming a well marked species as a central type the
markings vary,

, by a progressive spreading of the white.

b, by a gradual thinning or absorption of the white.

c, by a fragmentation of the markings.

d, by linear supplementary extension.

3. Many species are practically invariable. These fall in two
series.

a, those of the normal type, as vulgaris, hirticoUis and tenui-

signata.

b, those in which some modification of the type has become

permanent, probably through isolation, as marginipennis,
togala and lemniscata.

4. Those species which vary do so in one direction only.
That is, supposing a species begins typically with markings
similar to vulgaris, the variation may be either in the direction
of thickening and increase of white as in hyperborea, generosa
and others, or in the direction of thinning or fragmentation of
the white with perhaps an entire loss of markings as in h<zmor-
rhagica, splendida, or obsoleta.

The first two propositions must be considered as applying to
the species of the genus collectively, the last two to the species
separately.

The accompanying plate has been prepared to illustrate these
propositions. It must, however, be understood that, in tracing
the derivations from the typical, it is not possible to use one spe-
cies as these modifications go on gradually through a number of
species, one sometimes beginning where another ends.

In the plate fig. i represents vulgaris, which is a fairly typical
species, following through generosa (2-3), pamphila (4), hyper-
borea var. (5), togata (6), gratiosa (7), canosa (8), we finally
arrive at a perfectly white elytron as seen in some varieties of
dorsalis.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 27

Following in the other direction through tenuisignata (9),
marginipennis (10), Hentzii (n), sexguttata (12), heemorrJiagica
(13), and splendida van (14), it will be observed that through a
gradual thinning or absorption of the markings, or by their
fragmentation and obliteration we arrive at the opposite result of
elytra without any white markings whatever, as in many forms
of obsoleta, scutellaris, pimdulata and hczmorrhagica.

Those species which vary from the type in having the markings
broken into spots, as iz-guttata or Hentzii, may lose the spots
by a gradual decrease of size, so that they all seem to disappear
nearly at the same time, or the spots may disappear successively,
those on the disc being the first to go, while the marginal spots
remain.

From our series it would be difficult to say which spot is the
most persistent, but it is probably the apical lunule, as there are
more with entirely dark elytra with slight traces of this spot than
with any other, as shown in abdominalis z\\& punctulata.

Forms like lemniscata (16) seem very far removed from the
type, but many forms of imperfecia (15) show how the markings
gradually leave the margin and tend by fusion to form a vitta at
first somewhat oblique, but finally becoming nearly median.

The last two figures on the plate represent the markings of
Gabbii (17) and Saulcyi (18), in which the ends of the bands or
lunules are greatly prolonged. The latter form, which represents
dorsalis as well, is but rarely seen so perfectly marked, the ten-
dency being toward a greater extension of the white. The other
species is scarcely variable, although equally a coast form.

Those species which retain a permanent divergence from the
normal standard, such as togata (6) or lemniscata (16), are doubt-
less descendants from a normal type which has varied, and in
which a variety has become isolated and perpetuated itself.

One result of an examination of my species with ideas here
explained has been the discovery that C. lunalonga Schaupp is
merely a variety of pusilla with markings a little better defined.
Specimens before me establish the lead very distinctly.

In view of all the facts here presented the question mi-lit be
asked, why do some species vary while others do not ? \Yhilc
this matter is worthy of some thought, it is not pos>il>K' to ^ive
a satisfactory answer. Some species doubtless vary from climatic
causes. A notable instance will be seen in hui/ion-lhi^ica, which

28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

extends from San Diego and Yuma in California northward to
the head-waters of the Yellowstone, passing through about all
possible varieties of climate and habitat, from sea-coast to 'moun-
tain. On the other hand hirticollis occurs from Hudson's Bay
to Arizona without variation, and the specimens of lepida from
the New Jersey shore are not separable from those found in Ne-
braska. It seems hardly possible to make any generalizations
on the subject. Doubtless the coast species vary to a greater
extent taking them collectively than do the inland species, but it
is impossible to go further in speculation as too many exceptions
arise on all sides.

The subject of variation might be considered at much greater
length with profit and more fully illustrated, but the desire to
bring the article within NEWS limits has caused me to be brief.

The figures have been drawn to illustrate markings only, and
no regard has been had to the form of the elytra, which varies
considerably, and would introduce an element not pertinent at
this time.

Should the method of thought which gave rise to the preceding
remarks produce in some others thoughts as to the possibilities
of variation, not only in color, but almost equally in form and
sculpture there would be less 'synonymy to be corrected and a
more truly scientific basis established for species.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE.

i. C. vulgaris 10. C. marginipennis

2 . C. generosa 1 1 . C. Hentzii

3. C. generosa 12. C. sexguttata

4. C. pamphila 13. C. h&morrhagia

5. C. limbata || 14. C. splendida

6. C. togata 15. C. imperfecta

7. C. gratiosa 1 6. C. lemniscata
8. C. canosa 17. C. Gabbii

9. C. tenuisignata 18. C. Saulcyi

A writer in Engineering says "that in sinking plumb lines down shafts
the accuracy of the work is often seriously impaired by spiders attaching
their webs to the lines and drawing them toward the walls, often with
sufficient tension to introduce material errors in the position of the plumb
bobs."

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 29

HYMENOPTEROLOGICAL NOTES.-III.

By WM. J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

(Continued from page n, vol. iii.)

Galliopsis abdominalis Cress.

A variety of this species occurs rather commonly in Gloucester
County, N. J. It differs from typical abdominalis as follows : the
thorax, with the exception of the tubercles and tegulae, is entirely
black; the abdomen has the base of the first segment above and
base of the second only, reddish fulvous, the apical margins of
segments i 5, broadly testaceous; the male has the abdomen
reddish fulvous, the segments each with a black fascia.

Numerous females and several males taken in Gloucester Co.,
N. J., from August i6th to September gth, 1891.

Epeolus pusillus Cress.

E. pusillus Cr., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. vol. ii, p. 398, 9.

The male of this insect, which has hitherto been undescribed,
differs from the female by its smaller size; the clypeus being cov-
ered with pale pubescence; the eyes more strongly converging
towards the mouth; the antennae, first three joints excepted,
testaceous beneath; tip of the abdomen reddish; nervures and
stigma testaceous; the antennae are shorter and stouter. Length
6 mm.

A male and female of this species taken in Gloucester County,
N. J., August 1 6th and September 5th.

Epeolus compactus Cress.

This species has only been recorded from Texas, Colorado,
Nevada, California. I have a specimen taken in Camden County,
N. J., during May.

Melissodes fimbriata Cress.

A male specimen of this insect was taken at Cape May, N. J.,
on June i4th. It has only been recorded from Texas.

Zethus Slossonae n. sp.

9- Black, a spot on each side of the clypeus, two transverse elongate
spots behind the base of the antennae, a dot in the eye nnargination, |>s-
terior orbits, line on the collar, much narrowed and slightly interrupted
medially, a large spot at the top of the mesopleunr, two small spots mi
the scutelluni and postscntellum, two large ones on the posterior face <>f
the metathorax, an irregular line on the apical margin of the petiole,
which extends up a little way along the sides, line on anterior femora
behind, and the middle tibiae, more or less, all yellow; the scape and fol-

30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

lowing two antennal joints, the mandibles, except apex, the tegulae, the
legs, except the posterior femora medially and the coxae, reddish brown;
clypeus rounded laterally, with sparse, shallow, punctures, its anterior
margin armed with three widely separated teeth, the middle tooth largest;
just above the antennae there is a strong, transverse ridge; the antennae
are situated just beneath each end of this ridge, and are therefore widely
separated; front with very large, deep, in some places confluent punctures,
the punctures becoming less strong on the vertex and are sparse and
shallow on the cheeks. Thorax punctured as on the front, on the sides
and beneath with silvery-sericeous pile; scutellum with an impressed line,
the punctures sparse; postscutellum with the posterior margin produced
into a strong angle; metathorax subopaque, with a medial impressed line,
with a few oblique, widely separated striations towards the sides, the
metapleurae with indistinct, shallow punctures; wings fuscous, with a vio-
laceous reflection, which is especially strong on the apical portion, brown-
ish along the costa, stigma yellowish, nervures black, second submarginal
cell very narrow at the top, the third submarginal cell broader above than
beneath; legs clothed with silvery pile. Abdomen clothed with sericeous
pile, the petiole much swollen medially, and is contracted before the apex,
a little broader than high, and with large, sparse, punctures above, the
pedicle of the second segment takes up less than a quarter of the seg-
ment, the base of the pedicle black; the remainder of the abdomen
claret-brown, shining, smooth above, beneath with large, sparse punctures.
<3\ Differs from the female as follows: the clypeus is entirely yellow,
the medial tooth not so large; the third antennal joint black, and is more
than a third longer than the fourth, joints 10-12 reddish, the hook black;
the eye emargination is narrower; the medial impressed line of the scu-
tellum is stronger; the legs without any trace of yellow; the second sub-
marginal cell is broader above than in the female. Length 9cT J6 mm.

Three specimens, one female, two males. Collected by Mrs.
Annie Trumbull Slosson, near Punta Gorda, So. Florida. It is
most closely allied to Z. azteca S., from which it differs by the
transverse ridge behind the antennae. It differs from Z. Poeyi
S. , from Cuba, by the toothed clypeus and the shorter pedicle of
the second abdominal segment.

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Collecting Butterflies in the Yosemite Valley.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

My wife and I spent four months of last year in the Yosemite
Valley, Cal., to enjoy the grand scenery and the pure air of the
Sierra Nevada and make collections of the Lepidoptera of that
region, and it has occurred to me that some notes of our expe-
riences might interest the readers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 31

The valley, as may be seen from a map, is situated on the west
slope of the Sierra Nevada, and through it the north branch of
the Merced River flows. The general course of the river is
southwesterly at this point and it plunges over two falls called the
Nevada and Vernal to a depth of about 3000 feet below the gen-
eral level of the surrounding country and flows, with but slight
descent, for a distance of five miles between nearly vertical walls
which are, on an average, a mile apart. This canon is the Yose-
mite Valley, and its level floor would be covered with fine trees
and shrubs were it not for the work which is being done by those
in charge of the valley, who, I am sorry to say, have already
succeeded in spoiling the once picturesque beauty of Mirror
Lake by means of a dam and Other improvements (?).

Lepidoptera were abundant during the first part of our stay,
more especially the butterflies; we found but few moths. Later
in the season they became much less common, and it was more
and more difficult to obtain larvae as nearly all the small plants
died by reason of the dry season which set in soon after we ar-
rived. We collected forty-nine species of butterflies, but not all
were found on the floor of the valley. Papilio nitulns and P.
eurymedon were common, but P. indra, which is a true mountain
species, and occurred about the edge of the valley at an altitude
of 7000 feet above the sea, was seldom seen there, although a
few examples wandered down. Neophasia mcnapia was common
towards the end of Summer flying slowly about the tops of the
Pinus ponderosa, or alighting on flowers. Picris beckcrii and
P. sisymbrii were found in considerable abundance on the summit
of Cloud's Rest, a peak 10,000 feet high, overlooking the vall'-v.
but I did not see them elsewhere. Several species of Antho-
charis occurred, but not in the valley proper. A. lanceolate \\ as
found on the talus at different altitudes, but they did not appear
in the valley, and it is surprising how closely they confined them-
selves to the rocks, as if aware that the marbled colors ot the
lower surface of their wings were only fitted to harmonize with
the gray granite of the broken rocks. The ubiquitous Colias
eurytheme was to be seen all Summer, and I captured one male
specimen of C. behrii\ to which I shall again refer, /lit /tin's
archippns was not uncommon, and two eggs of this speeie.s were
found on a wild gooseberry bush, where they had ITCH laid ap-
parently by accident (there was no milkweed mar). The lar\\e

32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

that hatched from them refused gooseberry, and would certainly
have died had I not supplied them with their ancestral food. Of
Argynnis, three species occurred, A. epithore in the Spring,
followed by what is probably A. monticola, though there seemed
to be two very closely allied forms, perhaps only varieties, in one
of which the marginal spots on the lower side of hind wings were
narrower than in the other and sometimes slightly touched with
silver. Both these forms were taken in coitu and always with a
mate of the same form. A. leto appeared still later, the first male
being seen July loth, and first female July 2ist.

Of the other species captured, I will notice only the most in-
teresting. Lemonias virgulti was common in the Summer on
flowers and sage brush bushes, more especially on the talus around
the valley and above Vernal Fall.

Thecla grunus occurred in swarms around the live oak trees
{Quercus chrysolepis} first appearing about July ist and continu-
ing all Summer. The full grown larvae were found in abundance
on young shoots of this tree about the first of June. Pyrgus
ericelorum was seen on only one day when we captured several
examples feeding on the flowers of the Pussy's Paws (Spraguea
umbellata), but saw none afterward, though we went to the same
place the next day.

About the middle of September, after nearly all my larvae had
stopped feeding, we took a trip to the high Sierras to climb Mt.
Lyell, a peak 13,000 feet high. We left Yosemite on hore-back
with Mr. J. B. Lembert, as guide, who owned a small farm at
Soda Springs, high in the mountains, near the head of the Tuo-
lumne River before the place was included in the National Park.
On September 2oth we made the ascent of the peak, and when
about a quarter of the way up on a spur of the mountain over-
looking the end of the glacier, a specimen of Colias bchrii was
started up which I succeeded in capturing. No more were seen
that day as the weather soon became threatening, and by the
time we reached the top of the glacier, the clouds had begun to
float in over the peaks. On another day, September 22d, we
went to some mountain meadows, 10,000 feet high, where Mr.
Lembert had formerly seen some of the " little green butterflies"
(C behrii), but met with no success, and were obliged to return
almost immediately in a dense snow storm.

When we returned to the vnlley after a day's ride from Soda

1892.]

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

33

Springs, I found that most of the larvae, which had not ceased
feeding when I left and which I had tied out in bags on their
food-plants, had been cut off and destroyed by a crazy Indian,
called " Loco" by the children of the valley. This made a rather
disastrous ending to an otherwise quite successful collecting
season.

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ON THE SPECIES OF OECANTHUS Sen.
By CHAS. A. HART, Champaign, 111.

Although the snowy, or tree cricket is commonly referred to
.as (Ecanthus niveus, there are three or four species quite com-
mon and widely distributed, one of which, CE. fascialus, is in
this State (Illinois) more abundant than niveus. I have just had
occasion to examine a large series of specimens in the collection
of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History including all
the species yet recorded from Illinois. After a fairly satisfactory
assortment of the specimens with the aid of the characters indi-
cated by Prof. Jerome McNeill in " Psyche," vol. vi, p. 6, I noted

that the coloration of the antennae
in each species had a perfectly dis-
tinct and invariable pattern of its
own in all specimens examined.
This character is not affected by
sex, and seems to be the most re-
liable and ready means of separa-
ting the species. Some of these
changes of pattern were noticed
by Dr. Fitch in his description of
CEcanthus niveus (Third Report
on Insects of N. Y. p. 95) as char-
acterizing varieties of that spcri<-,
but the specific identity of these
forms seems now wll established.
CE. bif>nnctiifns De G. has the
apex of the- scape prolonged be-

[EXPLANATION OF cur.J
Basal joints of antenna; of O-.canthiis,
under surface. (The difference in the su-
tures is due to the changing appearance neat h forming an acute blackish
of the sutural membrane in different po-
sitions of the antennae) i and z, fZ./oj- tooth. The lore \\ings are CO

ciatHS ; 3, CE. bipunctatus ; 4, CE. niveus:
5, CE. angustipennis ; 6, CE. latipennis.

jointly marked with a fuSGOUS spot
near middle, and .1 lartM- basal spot.
CE. fascia/us Fitch, presents an extraordinary range in depth

34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

of color, without, however, any actual change of pattern. In
the palest specimens, approaching niveus in color, the scape has
on its under surface an inner black longitudinal line, straight, or
with the basal end turned slightly outward. Exterior to this and
near the apex of the joint is a black dot. The second joint has
a similar pattern. The flagellum is luteous or olivaceous, never
annulated with darker wings exteriorly as in angustipennis and
niveus, though the sutures are often slightly paler. The legs
vary correspondingly from pale greenish to black. As the color
deepens, the outer dot in the antennae coalesces with the end of
the line, forming Dr. Fitch's var. b. The lines also thicken, the
dot enlarges, the black extends around the apex, and from the
dot toward the base, until the antenna becomes entirely black.
This species has strong hind tibial spines, the last joint of the
maxillary palpus is clavate, and the fore wings in the male are
wider than in angustipennis.

In CE. angustipennis Fitch, the scape has on its under side a
longitudinal black vitta, the basal end of which curves distinctly
inward; the second joint has a black oval spot beneath. The
flagellum is pale, the outer part annulated with brownish at the
tips of alternate joints. This species is also known by the very
narrow fore wings of the male and the weak spines of the hind
tibia.

Our palest species is niveus DeG. , which is almost colorless,
but in all specimens seen possesses a nearly circular black spot
on the under side of the first and second joints. The flagellum
is pale, usually annulated as in anguslipennis. The tibial spurs
are as \r\fasciatus, and the fore wings are moderately broad.

Our largest species, CE. latipennis Riley, lacks any distinct
markings on the first two joints. The flagellum is decidedly
suffused with reddish brown basally, but the outer portion is not
annulate with darker. The male has the fore wings slightly wider
proportionally than in niveus.

Pasciatus was very abundant this fall along the roadsides;
niveus and ang^lstipennis were taken this Summer at sugar in the
evenings; our specimens of latipennis are all from the southern
part of the State.

"I wish I was human," said the centipede. "It would ruin you," re-
turned the cricket; "just think of having to buy shoes for yourself."-
York Herald.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35

ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

All the Heterocera are commonly termed moths, and moths as
distinguished from butterflies rarely have a distinctly clubbed an-
tennae, and do not usually carry the wings upright, the upper
surfaces opposed, when at rest. In some of our Geometridae the
wings are sometimes carried butterfly fashion, but here there is
no trace of a club to the antennae, and where the antennae might
be called clavate, the posture of the wings is distinctly decum-
bent. The term " heterocera" means variously horned, and, in-
deed, all kinds of variation in antennal structure is found in the
series, save that in American forms there is no distinctly clavate
type represented. The terms expressive of antennal modifica-
tions are best explained when the necessity for their use arises.

Perhaps the most important character for the higher divisions
is found in the venation, and under our present system a know-
ledge of this is absolutely essential to a proper understanding of
relationships, or to enable an insect to be referred to its proper
family. Experience brings a certain knowledge of superficial
appearances which serves to place most specimens,' but even ex-
perienced lepidopterists have been not infrequently misled by
trusting too much to such appearances. Wings can be prepared
for the study of venation in various ways. On larger moths a
deft operator can remove enough of the scales with a camel's-hair
brush to enable him to make out the course of all veins readily.
Smaller moths, where the wings are for temporary use only, can
be soaked for a few minutes in carbolic acid, which will render all
but the veins transparent. The wings may be afterward thrown
away or mounted in balsam without further preparation. \Yhnv
permanent specimens are desired the wings are first placed in
alcohol a few moments to extract grease, then placed in a satu-
rated solution of chloride of lime until all color disappears. They
are then washed in clean water, dried, and are ready t<> mount
on cards with gum, on slides with balsam, or in any other way
fancy dictates. Where rapid bleaching is desired, a drop or two
of hydrochloric acid to the chloride of lime solution will lil rate
chlorine gas and cause an almost instantaneous bleaching.
will also cause an odor that will drive well disposed persons out

36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

of the room, and will further, unless watched carefully, eat into
the membrane of the more delicate wings. My practice, when I
want rapid results, is to get the wings into the lime solution, set
the dish on the window-sill outside, drop in my acid, and close
the window until chemical action ceases. The wings are then
ready for study. It is by no means necessary to go through this
process with every new form. When the general course of the
veins is known a few scales removed on the underside, at the
right spot, determines the matter. Where a wing is mounted in
balsam after bleaching, great care must be exercised lest weak
veins be rendered so transparent that they are overlooked, and
folds must not be mistaken for veins. A fold is often much more
distinct than a vein, but looks solid, with irregular edges, while
a true vein has clean cut edges and is a tube. For forty years
even the best European students had mistaken a fold for a vein
in some Zygcznidce until I pointed out the error, and on the other
hand I was caught napping and failed to see a true vein in Cera-
thosia because made too transparent in balsam.

If I have been somewhat diffuse on the subject of preparing
wings for study, it is only because in venation we have the key
to the present classification, and without it determination of
family is guess work, more or less correct according to the expe-
rience of the guesser.

In a normal heterogeneous wing the primaries have 12, rarely
13, the secondaries 8 veins. On the secondaries the number may
t>e increased to twelve or reduced to four, and it is in the secon-
daries that we find some of our most useful characters.

In the next paper the usual type of venation will be figured
and described.

o

Some of the Insects collected at Jamesburg, N. J., July 4, 1891.

HYMENOPTERA.

By W. J. Fox.
(The rarer species.)

Elis 4-notata Trypoxylon tridentatum

Pompilus fuscipennis Odynerus birenimaculatus

Pompilus virginicus

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

DIPTERA.
By C. W. JOHNSON.

Pachyrrhina incurva Argyramaeba analis

Tipula fasciata Geron macropterus

Chrysops vittatus Psilocephala albifrons

univittatus pictipennis

callidus Psilopus scobinator
niger " patibulatus

fallax Syrphus americana

flavidus Sphaerophoria cylindrica

obsoletus Eristalis dimidiata

Therioplectes trispilus Mesograpta geminata

Leptogaster favillaceus Platychirus hypoboreus

Stichopogon trifasciata Xylota anthereas

Dasyllis tergissa Rivellia conjuncta

flavicollis Tephronota humilis

Erax furax Colobata antennipennis

Proctacanthus rufus Lauxania obscura

Bombylius atriceps Trypeta bella

sp. Sapromyza compedita
Anthrax lateralis

COLEOPTERA.

By PHILIP LAURENT.

(Those species marked f were quite common.)

Cicindela punctulataf Podabrus rugulosusf

Gyrinus lugens ? f Telephorus scitulusf

Dineutes vittatusf Collops 4-maculata

Coccinella g-notataf Onthophagus hecatef

Scymnus terminatus Serica trociformis

Melanotus cribulosus ? Anomala lucicolaf
Limonius basillaris oblivia

Agrilus ruricollis Strigoderma pygmaea

Brachys aerosa Chlamys polycocca

Lucidota atra ? f Cryptocephalus venustusf
Pyropyga nigricans f congestus

decipiens Pachybrachys binotatus
Photuris pennsylvanica atomarius

Chauliognathus marginatusf Chrysochus auratusf

38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

Paria 4-notata Cistela sericea

" aterrima Mordella scutellarisf

Graphops pubescens Macrobasis unicolorf

Colaspis flavida Eugnamptus angustatusf

costipennis (rare) Pterocolus ovatus

Diabrotica i2-punctataf Lsemosaccus plagiatus

Haltica foliacea ? Centrinus scutellum-album

Dibolia aerea Eurymycter fasciatus (rare)
Odontota dorsalis

Notes and.

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ON a Continental forty-five dollar bill, issued on the i4th of January,
J 779) is represented an apiary in which two beehives are visible, and bees
.are seen swarming about. The motto is " Sic floret Respublica thus
flourishes the Republic." It conveys the simple lesson that by industry
and frugality the Republic would prosper. Harpers Monthly.

Dr. GEO. D. HULST has donated his collection of Lepidoptera to Rut-
gers College. He will retain for the present the families in which he is
working, but everything else goes to the college. The collection is one
of the richest in Catoca/a, and contains a very large number of types in
the Geometridae and Pyralidina. There are nearly 2500 named species
and much undetermined material, some yet undescribed. J. B. SMITH.

FOOD-PLANTS OF LIMACODID^;. So far as I have observed, the larvae
of moths of this family feed on the leaves of nearly all, if not all, decidu-
ous trees and shrubs, and readily change from one food-plant to another.
This is in accord with the observations of Dr. Kunze (ENT. NEWS, vol. ii,
p. 208) on Parasa chloris, as it will be noticed that all the plants mentioned
are deciduous trees, except the Bayberry (Myrica ccrifera), which is a
shrub. HARRISON G. DYAR.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39

"I HAVE never looked at this lovely thing (Papilio marchandii} with
its delicate form and brilliant hue, without my thoughts reverting to the
long past builders of the temples and altars of Palenque and Copan; the
butterfly flitted through the tropical groves in their day, as now, but the
inhabitants of the old dead cities have passed away, their names, their
history unknown! Birds, reptiles and insects now alone tenant the forest
where once stood the populous cities, the kings and priests of which, with
their slaves, sycophants, long ages ago have gone to rest; naught remains
of their past greatness but the moss-coated and time-worn ruins of altar
and idol, and the frail, golden butterfly hovers, suspended in mid-air, over
the monster face of some fallen dagon, which far back beyond even ' the
night of time,' received its meed of human sacrifice; in imagination, we
can see the temples restored, the long train of devotees, all the para-
phernalia of pagan worship, we can hear the sound of music, the shrieks
of the agonized prisoner about to be offered as a propitiation to some
monstrous conception of barbaric superstition; but all now is hushed;
priest, cacique and victim alike, are gone, fallen are the idols, giant trees
grasp with their roots the ruins of the temples, and creeping vines and
gorgeous flowers mingle with the sculpture of the marvelous shrines;
scarce a sound is heard save the rustling of some snake gliding stealthily
to its hole, or shimmering lizard running over leaf or twig." (Lepidoptera,
Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, H. STRECKER.)

LIST OF DRAGONFLIES taken at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass.,
during the seasons of '89 and '90.

1. Calopteryx czquabilis Say 21. Cordulegaster macnlatus Sdys

2. Argia putrida Hag. 22. Macrouiia illinocnsis Walsh

3. Isch ultra vcrticalis Say 23. Cordnlia seiniaqnca Hurm.

4. Enallagma Hageni Walsh 24. princeps Hag.

5. civile Hag. 25. cynosura Say

6. " signatnm Hag. 26. Libcllula e.viista Say

7. Nehalennia irene Hag. 27. quadrimaculata L.

8. Lestes hamata (Hag. 1862) 28. pitlchclla Dru.

9. " rectangularis Say 29. quadruplet Say

10. " vigilax Hag. 30. inccsta \ lag.

11. " nngniculata Hag. 31. Celithcmis cponina Dru.

12. " .forcipata Ramb. 32. clisa Hag.

13. Anax junius Dru. 33. Platheinis irimaculata De Geer

14. sEschna Janata .Say 34. Mesothemis simplicicollis Say

15. " coHstricta Say 35. longipcnnis Uurm.

16. " verticalis Hag. 36. LeucorhiniaproximaCaAv.

17. " herosYsb. 37. Dipla.v costifcra \ 'liler

18. Neuraschna vinosa Say 38. rubicundiila Say

19. Complins e.vilis Selys 39. scinicincia Say

20. " spinosus Selys 40. Perithemis domitia Dm.
They were identified by Miss Wadsworth, of Hallowell.

E. F. HITCH INGS, Bucksport, M<-.

40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,.

THE most beautiful as well as pleasing emblem among the Egyptians
was exhibited under the character of Psyche the Soul. This was origi-
nally no other than a butterfly, but it afterwards was represented as a
lovely female child with the beautiful wings of that insect. The butterfly,
after its first and second stages as an egg and larva, lies for a season in a
manner dead, and is enclosed in a sort of coffin. In this state it remains
a shorter or longer period; but at last bursting its bonds, it comes out
with new life, and in the most beautiful attire. The Egyptians thought
this a very proper picture of the soul of man, and of the immortality to
which it aspired. But they made it more particularly an emblem of Osiris,
who having been confined in an oak or coffin, and in a state of death, at
last quitted his prison and enjoyed a renewal of life. This symbol passed
over to the Greeks and Romans, who also considered the butterfly as the
symbol of Zephyr. Cowan, Curious Facts.

WINTER INSECTS. On a Winter day,, when the sere landscape is enli-
vened by an unclouded sun, let his genial rays tempt the reader to a stroll
in the Pennsylvania woods. He may be cheered by no bird song; no
plants except a few evergreen leaves may brighten his path, but insect life
will be there to welcome him.

Those merriest of dancers, the gnats, come forth from the moist earth
at the call of the sun. Mosquito-like, they have passed their immature
life in the water, and the cases of the little wrigglers are ready to burst
open and liberate the winged insects whenever the sun peeps forth from
the clouds. This may occur on a sunny day, even when the temperature
of the air is far below the freezing point.

Arctic explorers tell us that as far North as they have gone, away up in
the icy fields of Greenland, even where there is no vegetation, these gnats,
or species so closely resembling them that only naturalists can detect the
difference, are found dancing on wing in the sunlight or clinging to the
sides of boats and sledges.

As we continue our walk through the Winter woods we turn over a log
and find crawling about beneath it small, black beetles, a few tough-
skinned, hard-headed grubs, and now and then a spider. If the sun
shines brightly, even though snow may lie deep on the ground, wasps will
be tempted forth from crevices of bark in which they have lain dormant
with the cold, and after becoming thoroughly warmed they will take wing
through the woods.

A butterfly known as the Mourning Cloak, richly dressed in brown and
blue velvet, bordered with gold, comes forth from its snug retreat when
the Winter sun is bright and wings his way through the woods as gayly
as he would in mid-summer. His hiding-place has been in the wind-cracks
of an old chestnut tree or a bunch of clinging leaves. He may be seen
flitting about even when the snow lies several inches deep. Far off in the
Rocky Mountains and among the Alps of Switzerland butterflies of various,
species may often be seen flying over the snow and glacier ice.

If we displace the rustling leaves that cover the ground in the woods-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 4!

we notice now and then a large black beetle running quickly from under
our feet. If snow is on the ground we shall not see him, but in its ab-
sence we shall find him even on the coldest day. He evidently knows
where to hide himself when the unwelcome snow and ice appear.

This torpor of insects is a very different condition from the hibernation
of warm-blooded animals, such as the bear and the marmot. In the latter
a slow and feeble circulation and respiration are kept up, and the creature
lives on the fat that had been stored up in its body before the Winter
sleep came on.

Different insects are affected by cold in very different degrees. Many,
like the common house-fly, become torpid before the temperature falls to
the freezing point. Long before frost comes they succumb to the mod-
erate cold of autumn. There is no doubt that severely cold Winters are
attended with great loss of insect life, which in a milder season would
have survived. S. F. A. in Philadelphia Times.

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natura
Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Insects have been named for W. W. Newcomb, Henry C. Denslow,
Geo. Miller, D. S. Harris, W. M. Hill, J. H. Talmage, J. H. Bomberger.

ON SENDING INSECTS BY MAIL OR EXPRESS.

We receive so many insects in a broken condition, especially those sent
to the NEWS for determination, that we think a few words on packing and
transportation will be appropriate. We also think we should receive some
reward for our trouble in naming and not be compelled to drop the speci-
mens in the waste basket. Never send pinned or spread specimens by mail
in a single box without an outer cover. Have the box which is to contain
your specimens as light in weight as is consistent with strength; a good
plan is to glue little square uprights in each corner of the box and it will
then stand much pressure. Have the bottom of the box lined with quarter
inch cork and drive the pins well in; should one heavy specimen loos< n
it will ruin all the rest. I lave the si/e of box proportionate to the number
of your specimens, and pin them in as closely as you can without injury.
This box should then be placed in a larger one and the spare brtween
the two filled with some springy material such as hay, cotton, e\celsi>r
packing, etc., loosely packed in. Don't use an outer box without having
sufficient space between it and the inner, as it is a waste of time and nn >ne\-

42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

as it will be useless. Don't pack the springy material so tightly between
the two that it is useless as a preventive of jarring. Don't have them
come in contact on one side or on the bottom. If the specimens are
many and the box large, send by express. Small packages may be sent
in comparative safety by packing the box containing your specimens in a
large amount of excelsior cotton, etc., loosely around the box and then
making into a bundle by enclosing the whole with hardware paper or other
strong and heavy paper; in this way the postage on the heavy outer box
is saved. It is a good plan to always put a nice layer of raw cotton over
the cork, but never put this over the top of the specimens. When send-
ing Coleoptera with heavy bodies, or moths, always secure the body by a
wisp of cotton, which should be put on as follows: Take a wisp the re-
quired length and tease it out about one-half inch in width; run the pin
through on end and give it a couple turns around the pin so that it holds
tightly and lies close to the place where the pin issues from the thorax,
then bring it around the end of the abdomen and then fasten to the pin
above by a couple of turns. If the bodies are very large, as in the
Sphinges, a pin should be placed on either side to prevent them swinging
around on the pin. Always remember if one becomes loose it ruins
many, and that "one fine, faultless specimen is worth no end of trash."
Neuroptera Odonata should always have a bristle passed through the ab-
domen into the thorax when fresh, otherwise they are almost always broken
oft in transportation. Always put your name and full address on the box.

Entomological Literature.

HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP (London), December, 1891. An intro-
duction to the study of British Diptera, E. Brunetti, figs. European but-
terflies, R. B. P.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (London), December,
1891. On the structure of the ocelli of Lithobius, V. Willem.

MONOGRAPH OF ORIENTAL CICADID^E by W. L. Distant. Part iv, pp.
73-96, pis. 7-9.* London, Calcutta, Berlin, September, 1891.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Nov. 7, '91.
Causeries Odonatologiques, No. 5: Two new groups of Agrionina
from Madagascar, Nesolestes and Nesocncuiis* E. deSelys Longchamps.
Note on Amara convexior Steph. or confitnia Thorn., A. P. de Borre.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, December, 1891. List of writings of the
late Henry Edwards, W. Beutenmiiller. [This list does not contain Mr.
Edwards' paper " Inguromorpha Slossonii Hy. Edw.," published in ENT.
NKVVS, vol. ii, pp. 71-72, April, 1891, and which was probably the last
he ever wrote.] A catalogue of the Thysanoura of North America, A.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 43

D. Macgillivray. The genus Packardia G. & R., H. G. Dyar. I tescrip-
tions of some butterfly larvae from Yosemite iv., id. ( >n Cutocn/n /// A///.V
and C.fratercu/a, A. R. Grote. On some British Columbia Cok-<>ptrr,i,
Rev. J. H. Keen. Notes.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xvii, 23, December, 1891.
On the capture and preparation of Gallflies, E. H. Ruebsaamen. On a
Syrphus developing on Cirsimn* C. Verhoeff. Rhizotrogits atcr and
fiiscus, a reply to Dr. Kraatz, E. Brenske. No. 24, December. On Ger-
man Psocidae, H. Tetens.

MlTTHEILUNGEN DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN GESKLL-

SCHAFT. viii, 8, Schaffhausen, December, 1891. Some new Orthoptera,*
A. Pictet and H. deSaussure; Phannacus n. gen.; two new species of
Gryllacris are described from "America!" Description of some new
Snout Beetles,* Dr. G. Stierlin. Description of an unpublished species
of the genus Anaspis Geoffroy,* M. Guillebeau. Coleoptera Helvetia?,
pp. 225-256, Dr. G. Stierlin.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST (London), November, 1891. Tortrix done/ana
Carpenter, R. South. The Diamond-back moth (Plntella crucifeninii\,
]. Arkle. Captures at the electric light, R. Adkin. Notes on the syn-
onymy of noctuid moths, A. G. Butler (includes some N. American spe-
cies). Coleoptera collected by Mr. Pratt on the upper Yang-tsze-kiang,
and on the borders of Tibet, 2d notice,* H. W. Bates. December, 1891.
Early stages of Argyrolepia maritimana Guen., G. Elisha, i pi. Insect
pigments, T. D. A. Cockerell. Rearing Limenitis sibyl/a and Pararge
egeria, }. H. Fowler. Cure for the ravages of the larvae of Ncniatus
ribesii and Abraxas grossiilanata, }. N. Still. Reunion between the
same moths, R. Adkin. January, 1892. Mr. Butler's notes on synonymy
of North American Noctuidae, J. B. Smith. Local British lists, notes and
captures.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), November, '91.
Entomological notes from Port Darwin, J. J. Walker. Note on three
Australian Carabidae,* H. W. Bates; Eitrylychntis n. g. Sexual charac-
ters in the palpi of Mordellistena abdonrinalis F., G. C. Champion. N< >u s
on the British species of Haltica, }. Edwards. Further remarks on the
genus Eugaster Serville,* W. F. Kirby. Life-history of //r/>.v//V/V.v > n-
berata, N. M. Richardson. Addition to the list of British Ik-mipUTa, V..
Saunders. An earlier name for Tiuagina bctitlu-, II. T. Stainton. Mi-
cropteryx caledoniella: another new species, probablyfrom birch, ' :: A. !'.
Griffith. Notes on Enpcecilia sodaliana Haw. (auiandana II. S. i, with
description of the larva, W. G. Sheldon. Some new, etc., Lepitloptera
from Chili, \V. Bartlett-Calvert. December, 1891. Life-history of Pin-
fella aiunt latclla Curt., N. M. Richardson. A new genus of HisU-i i.la-,
G. Lewis; Epiechinns. An Asiatic /'.vnV/u/A/.v i /'.v. Innnana n. sji.i. I\.
McLachlan. A new species of Alenrodes* J. \\'. I )nugl.is, ti-s.

* Contains new species other than North American.

44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

tated list of British Tachinidae, R. H. Meade. Change of habit induced
by local conditions, R. McLachlan. January, 1892. Stylopized bees, R.
C. L. Perkins. Neuroptera observed in the Channel Islands in Septem-
ber, 1891, R. McLachlan. Two new British Hemiptera, E. Saunders.
On a toad killed by the larvae of blow-flies, L. G. Guthrie. Observations
on Coccidse, A. C. F. Morgan. Double-broodedness: whether influenced
by the state of the food-plant?, F. Merrifield. Local British lists, notes
and captures.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxii, 5, Buenos
Aires, November, 1891. New Hymenoptera of the Argentine and Uru-
guayan faunas,* Dr. C. Berg (continued); Procleticus, Lobepomis n. gen.
Argentine Dipterology (Syrphidse),* F. L. Arribalzaga (continued).

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA by F. Moore. Part viii, London, 1891, pp. 153-
176, pis. 57-64.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGEK (Leipzig), Dec. 14, 1891. Remarkable de-
velopment of Lucilia sylvanim Meig., G. Duncker. December 28th.
The reproduction of Peripatus Lcuckartii Sanger, A. Dendy. On the
embryology of insects, N. Cholodkovsky. Observations on the successive
coloring, etc., of the pupal wing cases of Vanessa urticez and lo, Dr. F.
Urech.

DIE TAGFALTER-RHUPALOCERA, von Georg Semper (Reisen im Ar-
chipel der Philippinen von Dr. C. Semper. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaft-
liche Resultate, v, 6) Wiesbaden, 1891,* pp. 239-270, pis. 39-46.

MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH CICAD/E OR TETTIGID.E, G. B. Buckton.
Part vii,* London and New York, Macmillan & Co., July, 1891. Vol. ii,
pp. 97-128, pis. 59-68.

DIE SPINNEN AMERIKAS BRASILIANISCHE SPINNEN von Graf. E.
Keyserling nach dessen Tode herausgegeben von Dr. George Marx.
Dritter Band. Niirnberg, 1891. Verlag von Bauer & Raspe (Emil
Kuester), 278 pp., 10 pis. Ten new genera and many new species are
described in this volume which treats of the Territelariae.

LEHRBUCH DER VERGLEICHENDEN ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE DER
WIRBELLOSEN THIERE von Dr. E. Korschelt und Dr. K. Heider. Spe-
cieller Theil. Zweites Heft. Mit 315 Abbildungen im text, Jena. Verlag
von Gustav Fischer, 1891, pp. 309-908. This textbook of Comparative
Development-histories of Invertebrate Animals has been very favorably
reviewed by Prof. E. Ray Lankester (" Nature," Dec. 17, 1891), who states
that an English translation is in preparation. This second number of the
special part treats of the Crustacea, Pakeostraca, Arachnoidea, Penta-
stomida, Pantopoda, Onychophora, Myriopoda and Insecta, and concludes
with general statements on the Arthropoda. The Insecta occupy pp.
761-890. To each of the above eight groups a chapter is devoted in which

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 45

the respective subgroups are discussed as regards their i, Embryonal
development; 2, Metamorphoses; 3, Parthenogenesis, Paedogenesis and
Heterogony; and 4, Summary of the group.

ATTI DELLA SOCIETA TOSCANA Di SciENZE NATURALI, vii. Processi
verbal!. 10 May, 1891. List of the Cicindelidae and Carabidce collected
near Livorno by Sign. N. Stoecklin and Dr. C. Lopez, C. Lopez. Con-
tribution to the study of the digestive tube of Arthropoda Histologiral
and physiological researches on the digestive tube of Orthoptera, O.
Visart.

OREGON AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin No. 14, En-
tomology, F. L. Washburn, Corvallis, Or., 1891.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1891, Part
III, Oct. i, 1891. On the Lycaenidse of the Solomon Islands,* H. H.
Druce, 2 pis. On an interesting example of protective mimicry dismv-
ered by Mr. W. L. Sclater in British Guiana, E. B. Poulton, i pi.

HIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part xcvii, November, 1891. Co-
leoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 345-360, G. C. Champion, pis. xiv, xv; pt. 3,
pp. 137-168,1 D. Sharp; vol. vi, pt. i, supplement, pp. 273-280^ M. C.
Jacoby. Hymenoptera: vol. ii, pp. 153-176, P. Cameron, pi. x. Lepid-
optera-Heterocera: vol. ii, pp. 9-24, H. Druce.

SOCIETE LINNEENNE ou NORD DE LA FRANCE (Amiens), 231, Septem-
ber, 1891. Entomological notes [Hymenoptera], L. Carpentier.

ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD (London), ii, 12, Dec. 15, 1891. Contains
usual numerous notes on variations and captures of British insects.

BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA, W. H. Edwards, 3d series, part xii,
1891. Contains Papilio americus, zolicaon, Chionobas U/ileri, vamna.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE (6), x, u- Tri-
mestre, Aug. 8, 1890. Descriptions of new or little-known Microkpidop-
tera,* A. Constant, i pi. Lepidoptera from the voyage of M. Ch. Allaud
to Assinie, West Africa, in 1886,* P. Mabille, 2 pis. Descriptions of four
new Lepidoptera,* id., Parnia n. gen. Formicida; from the voyage of M.
E.Simon to Venezuela, 1 887-88,* C. Emery. On Arachnids from Temen, i
E. Simon. Arachnids from the expedition of Comte S. Teleki in eastern
equatorial Africa in 1887-88,* id. Arachnids from the Marian Isk-s from
M. A. Marche,*f id. Bulletin of Proceedings. 2e Trimestre, Nov. 26,
1890. Orthoptera from the voyage of M. E. Simon to \Vmvnela, *t '
Bolivar, figs. Hemiptera-Homoptera from the same,* L. Lethirm.
Contributions to the Indo-Chinese fauna (ColeopU-ra),*t J. Bourgeois.
Description of the larva of Jtntomoscelis adonidis. Pall, and tin- nymph
of Quedius tristis Grav., P. Lesne, figs. Malachida? of Europe and
neighboring countries, E. Abeille de Perrin, 4 pis. (continued in the next

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new

46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

two Trimestres). New or little-known Diptera, J. M. F. Bigot (Doli-
chopodi)*f. Bulletin*-)-: Olfactiou in Lepidoptera, S. Alpheraky and in
36 Trimestre. 36 Trimestre, Feb. 25, 1891. Pselaphidae from the voyage
of M. E. Simon to Venezuela, *f A. Raffray. Essay on the classification
of Pyralidae,* E. L. Ragonot (continued in 4e Trimestre), 5 pis. Bulletin*!.
46 Trimestre, June, 1891. Supplementary note on the Coleoptera of
Obock,* L. Fairmaire. Chrysomelidse from the voyage of M. Ch. Allaud
to Assinie,* E. Allard. Bulletin.*!

THE LIFE-HISTORY OF SPALGIS S-SIGNATA HOLL. by W. J. Holland
(" Psyche," January, 1892, pp. 201-203, i pi.

ATTI BELLA SOCIETA VfiNETO-TRENTINA DI SCIENZE NATURALI RESI-

DENTE IN PADOVA, 1891. Araneids of Lesina, G. Castelli. New species
of Phytoptus* G. Canestrini.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE ZOOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE (Paris), xvi, 7, July,
1891. An error of sense in some insects of the family Dytiscidae, X.
Raspail.

IL NATURALISTASICILIANO (Palermo), ix, i, October, 1891. On Sicilian
Orthoptera, G. Riggio.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECPS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Copteodes Candida Wright, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2), iii, p. 34, S. W.
Calif.

New species of Geometridae, H. Druce, Biol. Centr. Amer. pt. xcvii.

Ulophora, U. Groteii, N. Car., p. vii; Glyptocera (type consobrinella Z.)
p. vii; Laodainia (type fcecella Z.), p. vii; Lcetilia (type coccidivora
Comst.), p. viii, new genera of Phycitidae, Ragonot, Bull. Soc. Ent.
France, 1890.

New genera and species of Pyralidae, Ragonot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France,
1890, pp. 435-546.

COLEOPTERA.

In Biologia Centrali-Americana, pt. xcvii (see ante), new species of
Mordillistena and Rhipidophoridae are described by G. C. Champion, of
Rhyncophora by Dr. D. Sharp, of Phytophaga by M. Jacoby.

Chevrolati Grouvellei, Croissandeau Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1890, p.
clvi, Mex.

Temnochilodes, T. Dugesi, Leveille, Bull. Socr. Ent. France, 1890, p.
clxxxiii, Morelia, Mex.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47

HYMENOPTERA.

New species of Crabronidae and Pompilidae, P. Cameron, Biol. Centr.-
Amer. pt. xcvii.

DIPTERA.

New genera and species of Dolichopodi, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France,
1890, pp. 261-296.

Doings of Societies.

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 1891. Under
short notes Mr. Howard recorded the capturing on the window-sill of his
residence, November i6th, an active female of J\ fa/it 'is (Stagnionnuttis}
Carolina Burm., thus giving a record of occurrence later than that previ-
ously recorded by Mr. Lugger, viz., November nth.

Dr. Marx read a paper entitled " Life-history of Tholyphonus giganteus
Lucas," in which, after dwelling on the importance of even fragmentary
records of the history of little known or rare animals, he gave an account
of his having kept in confinement the young of this arachnid for over a
year. The specimen came from Florida to Prof. Riley, and was, when
received, in its first stage and newly hatched. It fed readily on roaches
and refused flies. A description was given of the first stage and also after
the first skin had been cast, which did not occur for over a year.

Discussed by Messrs. Mann, Marx, Test, Ashmead, Schwarz, Howard,
Banks and Marlatt.

Mr. Pergande presented a note on the " Peculiar Habits of Ammophila
gryphus Smith." A very interesting description was given of the actions
of a female of this insect about the site of a completed and closed bur-
row, in which later examinations showed that she had deposited the full
grown larva of Heterocampa (sub-albicans Grt.) inanteo Doub., having
first deposited an egg about mid-way of the body of the host larva. A
figure was exhibited showing the larva with the egg in situ together with
the specimen itself and an example of the Ammophila.

Discussed by Messrs. Fox, Ashmead, Schwar/ and Marlatt.
Mr. Linell presented a note on the N. A. species of Valgus, in whirl],
after a reference to the bibliography of the three N. A. species of the
genus, a table for their separation was given. Discussed by Mr. Schwarz.
Mr. Banks gave some notes on Prodidomits nifus Hent/, a spider which
has not been seen since Hentz's time. His remarks comprised a refer-
ence to the bibliography of the species, a statement of its relationship
and characteristics together with a careful description based on immature
specimens found in a drawer among loose papers last Summer. I >is-
cussed by Messrs. Fox, Gill, Marx, Howard and others.

48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

Mr. Chittenden presented by title a paper on " Food-habits of Chryso-
melidse."

Mr. Schwarz called attention to a statement by Dr. M. Busgen (in the
latter's work on the honey-dew of Aphids) to the effect that the honey-
dew is not secreted from the nectaries as hitherto supposed, but ejected
from the anus. He also referred to an interesting work recently pub-
lished by C. A. Piepers on migratory movements of butterflies on the
island of Java, and gave a brief resume" of the author's explanation of
these phenomena which are comparable to the nuptial flight observed in
other insects.

January 7, 1892. Election of officers for 1892 resulted as follows :

President, C. V. Riley; First Vice-President, C. L. Marlatt; Second
Vice-President, Wm. H. Ashmead; Treasurer, E. A. Schwarz; Recording
Secretary, Nathan Banks; Additional members of Executive Committee,
Wm. H. Fox, Geo. Marx and B. E. Fernow.

The retiring President, Dr. Marx, delivered his annual address on "An
Introduction to a Monograph of the American Ticks (Ixodidae)." In an
introductory chapter the author drew attention to the absence of mono-
graphic works which would attract and facilitate the work of the begin-
ners in Arachno ogical studies, and also the inherent difficulties in the
obscurity of many of the classificatory characters. He pointed out the
nature and extent of the work already done in the various groups of
Arachnida and followed with a reference to the bibliography of the writings
both foreign and American on the ticks of this country.

A full chapter on the morphology of ticks followed, and also extended
notes on the biology of these parasites in which personal observations
were recounted, showing that ticks are not necessarily parasitic on warm-
blooded animals, but may reach full growth, and in fact complete the
cycle of their existence on a strictly vegetable diet, and also that ticks,
after being gorged with blood, may revert to vegetable food. The address
was discussed by various members.

C. L. MARLATT, Recording Secretary.

ERRATA.

Vol. II, p. 102, line 17 from bottom for not read but.

" " line 15 from bottom for at most read almost.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. MARCH, 1892. No. 3.

CONTENTS:

Slosson A Long-lived Basket Maker... 49

Johnson and Fox List of Hemiptera

Blaisdell A new species of Coleoptera collected in Jamaica 59

from California 51 j Notes and News 60

Mason Notes on Callimorpha 52 Entomological Literature 64

Smith Elementary Entomology 53 Review 71

Harvey An American species of Tem-

pletonia 57

Plate II represents some butterflies and moths selected to test
this method of illustration. The dark Hesperids in the centre
row do not show up very well, as they needed a longer exposure
than the remainder to bring out sufficient detail for proper iden-
tification. Some of the species represented are from Greenland,
and will be discussed in a paper to appear in the Proceedings of
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The list of
species is as follows : i, Dasychira gronlandica 9 ; 2, D. gron-
landica ; 3, D. gronlandica var. (this species has never
been in any of our American lists); 4, Colias heda var. pallida,
nom. in litt. ; 5, Pamphila zabulon upper side; 6, same, under
side; 7, Pamphila Aaroni ; 8, same, under side; 9, Argvnnis
chariclea var. gronlandica; 10, same, underside; n, Neonympha.
Mitchelli; 1 2, same, under side.

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A LONG-LIVED BASKET MAKER.
By ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON, New York City.

In the early part of February, 1890, at Punta Gorda, Fla., I
found a half finished "basket" of Oikcticus Abbotii Grt. The
larva was still at work, and I took him with his uncompleted
log-cabin to my room at the hotel. There, in a glass tumbler

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50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

covered with a bit of mosquito netting- and supplied with food
and building materials, he lived and throve during the rest of my
stay there. His food-plant was oak, but I have found this species
upon so many different trees, shrubs and herbs, that it may be
considered omnivorous. He ate freely and worked busily at the
construction of his home. He was not particular as to the sort
of building material, using bits of dried leaves, small twigs or
leaf petioles indiscriminately. When I left Punta Gorda I carried
the larva and case with me, going to Ormond and other parts of
Florida. Early in April I returned to New York. The larva
was then full grown and its case apparently finished. I could
procure no oak leaves at that early season, so tried various other
things, house plants of different kinds, and the dried leaves found
in boxes of pressed figs. Of all these the larva ate sparingly,
but enough to keep him alive and well. About the middle of
May I went to Franconia, N. H., and of course took my case
bearer along. He had, some days before I left home, suspended
his basket from the mosquito netting at top of tumbler and been
perfectly quiescent since. The journey by train and carriage did
not disturb him, nor did he show any sign of life for several weeks
after arriving in the mountains, I thought him dead or trans-
formed, but made no examination. Under these conditions I
ceased to cater for him, and he was entirely without access to food
for some weeks. One day in June I took off the netting which
covered the glass and forget to replace it. When I returned an
hour later and took up the piece of netting the basket had dis-
appeared. Every one in the house was questioned, but no in-
formation obtained, and I finally gave my Oikcticus up as lost.
That evening my eye was suddenly caught by a dark spot on the
white window curtain and there was my basket fastened neatly
by a strong silken cord, and hanging quietly. From that time
the life of Oiketiais was a series of surprises, and the unexpected
was always happening. For weeks he would remain utterly
motionless within his hanging case, then he would crawl down
to some dried leaves at bottom of the glass, bite off, one after
another, large semi-circular pieces and fasten them irregularly to
his basket Only at long intervals did he ever eat a particle as
far as I could see, though constantly supplied with fresh food.
In this \\ay he spent the whole Summer. He traveled with me
from place to place, was on the summit of Mt. Washington for

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several days, went to the Thousand Islands and Montreal and
returned to New York in October.

In the latter part of January I went again to Florida, and Oi-
keticus accompanied me. He had shown no sign of life for nearly
a month, and even the return to his native place did not at first
revive him. But in a few days I saw him crawling about, and
occasionally nibbling at a piece of dry leaf. Fresh food he
scarcely ever tasted. Again I returned North, and again my
larva came with me; after this he refused all food, but crawled
about his glass prison, and from time to time added a bit of deco-
ration to his house. Then he became quite motionless, and thus
remained, hanging from the netting for some six weeks. In that
state I carried him once more to Franconia. On a cold morning
in early May, among the northern hills, his lagging, prolonged,
creeping existence terminated, and he flew out a fine winged
imago, nearly fifteen months from the day I first found him in
southern Florida.

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A NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA FROM CALIFORNIA.

By F. E. BLAISDELL, M.D., Coronado, Cal.

Scyniuus lophanthae n. sp. Oval, slightly elongate, punctulate, pubes-
cent. Head, pronotum, and entire under surface rufo-testaceous. Mouth
parts piceous. Pronotum with a faint discal cloud occupying central por-
tion, reaching quite to apical border; sides parallel in posterior half, ar-
cuate anteriorly with apical angles slightly rounded. Elytra black, with
a strong metallic lustre; pubescence dual, consisting of blackish, erect
and recumbent flavo-cinereous hairs. Abdomen rather thickly set with
semi- recumbent hairs.

Female. Under parts testaceous. Length 2.2 mm.; width 1.7 mm.

Hab. San Diego. There is considerable variation in the dis-
tinctness of the pronotal cloud, it may be absent or very decided.
In many specimens examined the sternal and central abdominal
areas were quite dark; as a rule the color is lighter in tin- female.
My attention was first attracted to this very interesting species by
Wm. Vortriede, gardener in charge of the parks at Con>nad<>.
He had observed them feeding upon the San Jose Scale (.-/.</>/<//-
otus perniciosus) infesting the Acacia lophctnthct. Subsequent
observation fully confirmed his statements. The scale was ex-
ceedingly abundant, as was also the beetle in all stages of de-
velopment.

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NOTES ON CALLIMORPHA.

By J. T. MASON, Houston, Texas.

During the past season I learned something new, to me, about
Callimorphia LeContei* which may be of interest to some of
your readers, and if it is not out of place here, I would like to
suggest that if collectors would give their various experiences in
the field in non technical language, so that we unscientific readers
can understand and profit by it, it would prove both interesting
and instructive. I was anxious to get as many varieties of Le-
Contei this season as possible for my own collection. I have
over seventy, no two exactly alike, and I knew of a place in the
suburbs of this city, not more than four acres in extent, where I
had last year caught a large number, but all of the lemon variety.
I was anxious to find the white, and a friend told me that the
white came out first, and that I had missed the first brood last
year; I had made a note of the date, and I commenced watching
the place three weeks before the time I had set for their appear-
ance; they showed up on time, but were all lemon as before. I
caught what I wanted and then went to see my friend; he told
me that he had caught his white ones at the Crosstimbers, some
six or seven miles from town. The following day I drove down
to the place and made a thorough search, but failed to find a
single specimen. Towards evening I turned homeward, discour-
aged. In crossing the prairie the road passes through a few
scattered pines, and while driving through them I saw one cross
the road, a pure white one; I caught it and searched around
there, but found no more. I had not driven over two hundred
yards when another crossed in front of me, also white. I got
out and searched again, and found them in quantities. Now I
come to the. peculiar feature: while the first were all lemon, so
these were all white. Idid not find, out of possibly a thousand
caught, one single lemon one, notwithstanding that a few days
afterwards I found another lot of lemon on this same prairie no-t
over one mile distant from the latter, and there was no white
amongst them. Now the question I ask myself is, why do the
two colors keep separate? they are undoubtedly the same moth.
Here are two separate colonies within a mile of each other, on

* The two insects herein mentioned are C suffusa Smith and C. lactata Smith, which are
probably forms of Colona Hbn. = Clymene Esp. ED.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 53

the open prairie, absolutely no barrier between them, why do
they not mingle ? I caught among the lemons some that appeared
to be pure white, but when compared with the white, of the
white variety, they are a cream-white, and readily distinguished.
I note still another peculiarity. I have, as I said before, over
seventy with no two exactly like. We will take say the lemon,
we have the fully marked upper wings and the markings de-
crease gradually until we come to the pure white, or rather
cream upper wing and lemon under wing, and then the all cream,
both upper and under; the same is true of the white variety, ex-
cept that the pure white are by far the most plentiful. Still in all
this large variety of markings or parts of them if continued
would make the perfect pattern, as a friend remarked while look-
ing at them, that they looked as if the wing originally was white
and the color afterwards stenciled on, the feebly marked repre-
senting where the brush was full of coloring matter, and clown
through all the degrees of dashes and dots until finally we come
to the one without a mark.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

In examining the denuded wings, one of the first things noticed
is, that more supporting veins reach the outer margin than reach
the base; that while a very few trunks extend from the base to
the margin of the wing, two large trunks start from the base, but
rarely extend beyond two-thirds of the distance to the outer mar-
gin, giving off at that point a variable number of branches. These
main trunks that reach the base are called veins, whether or no
they reach the margin as well. The branches, which reach the
margin, but do not reach the base, are called venules. rieginning
at the anterior edge of the primaries we find a vein close to the
thickened front margin, extending from the base to tin- margin
always before the tip of the wing. This is the costal vein; it is
almost universally present, is never branched in my experience,
and has no modifications of systematic value save that there may
'be a cross branch extending between it and the costa. Next below
the costal vein at base is the subcostal, running parallel and some-

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

[March,

times very close to the costal, but rarely extending much beyond
the middle of the wing. This vein gives off, normally, six
branches, which are called the subcostal venules. Of these, one
or two usually separate from the main trunk before the end, and
the others are grouped at the tip. Sometimes, to facilitate this
grouping, a cell is formed around which the branches start, and
this, when present, is termed the accessory cell, marked a in the
figure. Sometimes, instead of all the branches reaching either
the vein or the accessory cell, a stalk may be sent out, which in
turn branches. So in the figure, branches 8 and 9 are from a
stalk out of the tip of the accessory cell; 6, 7 and 10 are out of
the accessory cell, while 1 1 is out of the subcostal itself. The
accessory cell is present in comparatively few families only, and
its presence or absence is of systematic value. The arrangement
of the subcostal venules is also used in classification, and quite
frequently some of them are wanting.

Below the subcostal at base is the median vein running parallel
to, but more or less diverging from the subcostal, and extending

usually about as far into the wing. The space between the sub-
costal and median veins is called the median cell. Quite usually
a slender transverse veinlet extends from the tip of one to the tip

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of the other, and the cell is then said to be closed, as in the figure.
When this transverse veinlet is wanting, the cell is said to be
open. The median vein gives rise to four branches the median
venules the first of them usually some distance before the tip,
the others, grouped more or less closely, from the end. The
arrangement of these veins is of systematic value, and especially
the position of the last of the branches, marked 5 in the figure.
This sometimes severs connection with the series to which it
belongs and arises, apparently out of the cross-vein; or, where
there is no distinct cross-vein out of the tissue itself, and it is then
called the independent. Sometimes it is nearer to 6 than to 4,
but never becomes one of the subcostal series; sometimes it is
altogether wanting, and it is one of the most valuable from the
systematic standpoint of the venules of the primaries.

Below the median vein at base is the submedian, extending par-
allel with the hinder or inner margin to the anal angle. It is
rarely absent, and never branches. It sometimes becomes forked
at the base, and this furcation is given great systematic value.
It is one of the distinctive characters of the Noctuidae, and its
absence Ivould be sufficient in most cases to exclude a species not
so characterized; sometimes a supplementary vein will be present
running parallel with the submedian, and between it and the
median. This is the second submedian, and its presence charac-
terizes a small number of families.

This makes the normal 12, or exceptional 13 veins of the pri-
mary. For convenience they are numbered as they reach the
margin, beginning at the anal angle. The submedian is number
i, the second submedian is ia; veins 2 to 5, inclusive, are median
branches; veins 6 to u, inclusive, are subcostal branches, and
vein 12 is the costal. The numbers are more convenient to use
in descriptive work, and, as the plan is so uniform, it is quite as
accurate and scientific.

Beginning at the base of secondaries, along the anterior margin
we find first the costal vein, usually reaching quite close to the
tip of the wing. This affords good characters. Sometimes it i>
entirely wanting; sometimes it is connected with the subcostal \<\-
a cross-vein; sometimes it does not reach the I>;IM- at all, 1-ut
unites with the subcostal, and sometimes it unites and separates
again, forming a small cell at the base as in the figure.

56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

Below the costal is the subcostal vein running- parallel with it
a variable distance and then forking at the tip, never into more
than two branches. One of these branches may also be obsolete,
and there may then be a single vein running from base to outer
margin.

Below the subcostal at base starts the median vein, and this in
its branchings is exactly like the corresponding vein of the pri-
maries. The median cell is also formed in the same way, and
may also be either open or closed. As in the 'primaries, vein 5,
the last branch of the median, is very variable in position, and
furnishes good characters. Below the median there may be one,
two or three submedian veins, and these furnish bases for large
divisions. The Tortricids and Pyralids, for instance, all have
three internal or submedian veins, while the macros rarely have
more than two. Sometimes one or the other of these veins forks
at the base, and this also is a good character. Counting all the
median veins as one, the secondaries have eight veins, the sub-
costal system being little developed as compared with the prima-
ries. Here also the numbering system is most generally used,
the numbers in the figure being those generally adopted.

At the base of the secondaries next the primaries, there is fre-
quently a spine or spur, which fits into a more or less evident
loop on the under side of the primaries, and serves to hold the
wings together. This is called the frenelum or frenum. There
is a curious sexual modification in this structure. In the males
it is always a single spine only. In the female it is never simple,
but there are two. three, or even four weaker spines, or even a
little bunch of stiff hair only.

The above is the typical venation to which all modifications
found in the Lepidoptera may be reduced. A few aberrant types
only, like the Hepialidae and Psychidae, will need special explana-
tion.

(To be continued.)

A St. Louis physician states that he has discovered peculiar microscop-
ical insects in cigarettes. This may account for the wormy look so many
ot" their consumers wear. }] r as]iington Post.

A canary with a swollen hind toe was brought to a bird fancier recently,
and he pronounced the trouble poisoning from a mosquito bite. He said
the thing was not uncommon. .\<T. ' York Situ.

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AN AMERICAN SPECIES OF TEMPLETONIA.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Maine.

Templetonia americana n. sp.

Mr. Macgillivray, in his recent catalogue of the Thysanourons
of North America (Can. Ent. December, 1891), makes no men-
tion of the occurrence of Templetonia in America. Having
studied a species of this genus the first season that is quite com-
mon about Orono, Me., we record the following observations
upon it :

Generic characters in every particular as recorded by Lubbock (Mom >-
graph Collembola and Thysanoura p. 142).

Specific characters. Silver} 7 white, sometimes pale, brownish or rusty
color, laid on in spots and streaks; a delicate pink reflection, especially
from young specimens; clothed with silvery iridescent scales; eye patches
very small, pale brown. Head nearly round, somewhat pointed in front,
broadest behind and somewhat longer than broad. Antenna; white, five
jointed, basal joint short, about one-fourth the length of the second;
terminal joint nearly or quite as long as the third and fourth together,
slender, and, in mature specimens, composed of seventeen sub-joints, the
basal and terminal sub-joints each one-fifth the total length of the joint;
the middle three-fifths composed of fifteen nearly equal sub-joints; in
younger specimens the terminal joint seems shorter and composed of
fewer sub-joints. Body elliptical and rounded anteriorly, widest at the
fifth segment; first, fifth and sixth segments long, third segment short.
Legs white, rather long; larger claw long and slender; elater long, basal
joint four-fifths the total length. Thoracic collar of numerous bowed,
club-shaped hairs; similar ones on the head, and a dense tuft of hairs
projecting forward between the antennae and reaching to the third joint;
scattered long hairs on the segments of the body.

Measurements. Total length 1.65.; head, .345 mm. long, .292 mm.
broad; antennas, .718 mm.; length of the joints in the ratio of 1-4-5-6-1 1 ;
elater, .8mm.; basal joint, .367 mm.; claw, .046111111. long; segments of
the body in the ratio of 15-10-6-10-15-13-7-3 in one specimen, and in
another 11-6-2-6-8-15-5-2.

The above measurements were made from the largest specimens seen,

Remarks. This is a smaller species than T. crystalline MiilK-r.
The largest ones we saw did not measure over 1.65 mm., while
the majority were never over 1.5 mm., and many less. I.ul>l>< k
gives the length of T. crystillina Muller as two and a quarter
millimetres. Our specimens are not obovate, but more elliptical
oblong, and widest at the fifth segment. The- antenna- of Lul>-
bock's species as figured in his monograph are considerable im .1 -<

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[March,

than half the length of the body and head, and quite slender.
In this species the antennae are thick and about equal to or less
than half the length of the body and head. The terminal joints
of the antennas as shown in Lubbock's figure are made up of
fully twenty-Jive sub-joints of about equal length; while this spe-
cies has in the largest specimens only seventeen joints and a less
number in smaller ones, while the basal and terminal sub-joints
are as long as described above.

Some of our specimens when alive showed traces of rusty
streaks and spots, but after being in alcohol for three months
there is no evidence of the reddish spots said to develop under

Fig. 2.

Fig. 3.

such conditions upon T. crystallina. Balsam specimens are a
beautiful pink color. The movements of this species are sluggish,
and though provided with a well developed spring it does not
seem disposed to use it, unless absolutely necessary.

We have not examined T. crystallina. Muller, but the smaller
size, shorter, thicker antennae with fewer sub-joints to the terminal

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segment, the more elliptical form of the body and the fact that it
does not develop red spots in alcohol, would seem to separate
this form from that species. Figs, i, 2 and 3 represent the dorsal,
ventral and side view of a young specimen i.i mm. long, magni-
fied forty-five times; i and 2 show the general form of the body,
somewhat too broad, and the terminal joints of the antemue in
all the cuts have fewer sub-joints than occur in adult specimens,
and the short basal or fifth joint to the antenna does not show.
The figures were made for the writer from line specimens by Mr.
J. H. Emeston, of Boston, Mass.

Found under boards at several places on the college campus at
Orono, also in abundance in the writer's garden in potato hills,
about the tubers affected by potato scab and potato rot. Some-
times nearly a dozen would be found on a single tuber in the de-
pressions made by the scab. Associated with Iratonia tricolor,
Lipura ambulous, Lepidacyrtis mctallicns, Tomocerus plumbeus
and an undetermined Achorutes. Many specimens examined
during September, October and November, '91, by F. L. Harvey.

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List of Hemiptera Collected in Jamaica, W. I.

By C. W. JOHNSON and WM. J. Fox.

The following Hemiptera were collected in Jamaica during
April and May, 1891. Most of the species were obtained at
Kingston, Morant Bay, and Port Antonio; those of common
occurrence are indicated by an asterisk (*). We are indebted
to the kindness of Prof. P. R. Uhler for the determination of the
species, which have been placed either in the collection oi the
American Entomological Society, or the Wagner Free Institute
of Philadelphia.

Sephina maculata* Dallas, Leptoglossus stigma Herbst, Anasa
bcllator Fab., A. scorbiitica Fab., Accratodes bijida : - Say, . /.
meditabunda Fab., Nezara marginala Bv., A<i/ms ni^crriiints
Dallas, Proxy s victor* Fab. , Thyanta perditor* Fab. , ( \itorliiutlia
gtittrita Fab., Euchistus crenator* Fab., Mormidca pict
Stal, Zicca t&niola Dallas, Alydns pallctccns Stal, Lygaw i-
color Fab. (var.), L. pulchcllns^ Fab., L. aulicus Fal>. , I., san-
darachatus* Say, Dysdercus mini its** Say, D.andrece* Linn., /'
sanguinarius Stal, Zc/us rubidit^- St. Farg., Harmosifs ncbit-

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losus Stal, Corizus sidce* Fab., Megaccelum rubrinerva Dist.,
Lygus sp. , Corimelcena minutd* Uhler, Plagiognathus indis-
tinctus* Uhler (MS.), Pycnoderes insignis Rent., Collatia expli-
cata* Uhler, Salda humilis Say (var. ), Rhogovelia collaris*
Burm., Parmera bilobata Say, P. parvula Dallas, Geocoris dis-
paratus Uhler (MS.), Tettigonia herbidd* Guer., T. flaviceps
Riley, T. robusta* Sign., T. robusta* Sign, (var.), T. n. sp. ?,
Agallia n. sp. ?, Ormenis pallescens Stal, Dascalia acuta Uhler
(MS.), Paroristes humilis* Uhler (MS.), Bothriocerus sp., Copi-
cerus thoracicus Guer. , Centrotus havanensis Guer. (var.), Ophi-
derma scutellatus* Uhler (MS.).

Notes and.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

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Mr. JAMES ANGUS, of West Farms, New York City, has presented his
fine collection of insects to the American Museum of Natural History.

TRANSACTIONS of American Entomological Society. Of volume xix
(1892) twenty-four pages have been printed, containing " Studies in Chryso-
melidas," by Dr. G. H. Horn, and the first pages of "A Study of Amara,
s. g. Celia," also by Dr. Horn. This volume promises to be an unusually
good one, and we propose to notice the progress made from month to
month.

CARABUS NEMORALIS Miill. In the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 126,
I made mention of having seen a specimen of C. hortensis Fab. ( == ne-
moralis Mull.} in the cabinet of Mr. A. Murray, of London, with the label
Hudson's Bay. Being unwilling on the evidence of one not very well
authenticated specimen to admit the species to our lists, no other record
than that above recorded has been made. In December last I received

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through the kindness of Mr. Henry S. Harbeck, of New York City, two
specimens of this species with the following information, which I tran-
scribe: "While on a business trip to St. Johns, N. B., in April and .May,
1890, Mr. C. B. Riker, of Maplewood, N. J., devoted his leisure time to
collecting Coleoptera, and among his captures were fourteen Carabits
nemoralis, which, as you say, is the first authentic case of its occurrence
in North America. He says that the beetles were quite common and
those that he took were collected in less than an hour." From this it is
evident that nemoralis is fairly naturalized in America, and should now
be added to our list and placed after limbatits. G. H. HORN.

HEXAPLASTA ZIGZAG (Riley). Although first made known as a native
of the cotton-growing States, this insect is a familiar inhabitant of New
England, being found during the first warm days of Spring upon the dan-
delion blossoms, and in July upon windows in company with two species
of Phora. The radial cell varies in being either open or closed. The
disc of the scutellum is convex. YV. H. PATTON, Hartford, Conn

NOTE ON CYCHRUS. In the January number of ENT. NEWS, Mr. H.
F. Wickham gives a note on the geographical distribution of Cychrus,
which is very interesting, and an invitation to the readers thereof to fur-
nish more notes on geographical distribution. This brings to my mind a
little incident which may be of interest to the readers. In the early part
of Spring, 1890, while collecting on an island, situated on the beautiful
sandy New Jersey coast, I was pleasantly surprised by the capture of
Cychrus clevatus Fab. I did not expect to find the genus inhabiting this
locality. Although carefully searching I could only find the one. The
next day, about one-half mile from where I found the first, I had the re-
ward of capturing the second. The specimens differ very much from
those found on the mainland proper, as they are minus that beautiful lustre,
and the thorax is not so well developed, in all they resemble somewhat
more the Pacific coast fauna. As these are the only specimens of Cychrus
that I know of as having been found on the New Jersey coast, it is very
interesting, and I should be pleased to hear if other species have been
found inhabiting the islands along the coast. H. \Y. WKNZEL, Phila.

Mrs. A. T. SLOSSON by this time has probably started on a trip t<> the
Southwest, taking in Louisiana, Texas, and perhaps Mexico. We suppose
that many bugs in those regions will have to deliver up some of their
interesting secrets.

THE Anthophora described by me in Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. v, is . /.
Ha/s/iii ?. I took A. Stni//iii in Kansas in iSSi, and have rovivnl
specimens of it from California, riistotrichia Mora \vitx, is a synonym of
Ant/i flphora; it differs merely in the individual aberration of the venation
described by me in Anthophora and Clisodon. \Y. H. Patton, Hartford. Ct.

62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

THE following has been extracted from a circular which has been sent
to entomologists and others. We hope the collection may be obtained
and provision made for its preservation: " Dear Sir, An effort upon the
part of a few professional and personal friends of the late Harry Edwards,
to purchase and present to the American Museum of Natural History (of
the city of New York) his magnificent Entomological Collection, has met
with so much encouragement that the Committee in charge ventures to
call your attention to the matter. A number of gentlemen have already
subscribed one hundred (|ioo) dollars each towards the sum required,
fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars, and it is hoped that you will be willing
to contribute a similar amount. The object of the movement is not only
to secure for the city of New York a treasure of inestimable value, but to
make smooth the declining years of the widow of our friend, and to raise
to the memory of an excellent actor, a distinguished scientist and a good
man, a worthy and lasting monument.

" (Signed) Edwin Booth, Jos. Jefferson, Theo. Moss, S. P. A very, YY.
C. Prime, Lawrence Hutton, A. M. Palmer, Treas., 29 \V. 3oth St., New
York City."

IN a letter from Mr. W. F. Kirby, of the British Museum, the following
may interest the readers of the NEWS, premising that everybody knows
that Mr. Kirby is at work on a catalogue of the Heterocera of the world.
" My first volume (Sphinges and Bombyces) will run to about 00 pages,
and include, I think, 28 families, some of them numbering over 200 genera.
All but four are now in the printer's hands, so that I hope the publication
of the book will not be much longer delayed." * * * "I have relegated
the Sesiidae to the neighborhood of the micro-lepidoptera. I doubt if
you have any Heterogymdae in America. Heterogynis is a small Euro-
pean genus with males like Procris, but with apterous females." Mr.
Kirby's book, when published, will form one of the most useful assistants
the working entomologist can have. JOHN B. SMITH.

A BIT OF HISTORY. Miss Morton's very interesting notes in the Jan-
uary number of ENT. NEWS show that there is some confusion among the
names of the smaller Limacodidae, and it may be interesting to briefly go
over the literature of these forms. In 1854, Herrich-Schaffer published
three figures as Limacodes texula, L. pallida, and L. flavula. In 1864,
Packard erroneously identified a specimen in the Harris collection as L.
t ex tula, and, believing it separable from the genus Limacodes, created
the genus Isa for it. In the same year he also described Heterogenea
shurtleffii, and made the genus Tortricidia for Herrich-Schaffer's species
pallida and flavula. In 1866, Grote & Robinson described Limacodes
iiioniata, and in 1876, Grote created the genus Sisyrosea for it. Finally,
in 1880, Grote described the species Limacodes cczsonia and L.fle.vuosa.
Now, as far as I know, there are but four species for all these names. The
larva of the first one was figured in Harris' "Entomological Correspon-
dence," and has been described by Mr. Hulst and by myself. The moth

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was first described as inornafa, but is the species for which the genus ha
was made, and should be known as Isa inornafa. The larva of the second
is unknown. It is Heterogenea shurtleffii, of which c&sonia Grt. is a
variety. The larva of the third is also unknown. It is the textula of
Herrich-Schaffer (not of Packard), and was redescribed by Grote as
flexuosa. It should be known as Heterogenea textu/a. The larva of
the fourth species is the one described by Miss Morton. It has also been
described by myself, and should be known as Tortricidia pallida H.-S.
T. flavula is only a variety of it, and represents the form without marks
on the wings which Miss Morton describes. These species are correctly
arranged in Prof. Smith's new List. H. G. DVAR.

DRASTERIA ERICHTO. Has this noctuid been satisfactorily identified
since Guenee"'s description of a single female in 1852 ? Some of our col-
lections, I am aware, contain specimens labeled erichto, that were deter-
mined by Mr. Grote. However, specimens of our eastern Drasteria
sent to Mr. Grote just before he left this country, and also those sent to
Prof. Smith since he became our recognized authority on the Noctuids,
have all been referred to erechtea. In 1873, Mr. Grote, in Bull. Buffalo
Soc. Nat. Sci. i, p. 155, admitted that he could not separate the two spe-
cies except in size, referring the specimens of the smaller Spring brood to
erichto. Of two specimens, a $ and 9 , in the University collection de-
termined by Mr. Grote as erichto, the 9 proves to be an erechtea. I pre-
sume other collections contain similar specimens. Recently Prof. Smith
wrote me that he had not tried to identify erichto and had not the slightest
doubt that erichto is the same as erechtea. During the past year I have
bred what I believe to be erichto. I thought I was breeding erechtea, but
recent study and comparisons of my bred specimens and a large series
of Drasteria caught in trap-lanterns has shown that \ve have two species
of Drasteria in our eastern fauna, both about equally common I think,
and differing considerably structurally and rather closely grading into each
other in markings. The structural differences are marked and very con-
stant. The genitalia of the males and the seventh abdominal segment
of the females differ strikingly in size and form. I find that the species
are easily separable by these characters and typical strongly marked speci-
mens of either sex may be quite readily identified by the markings on the
front wings. I hope soon to be able to illustrate some of these differences,
but I desire to make further observations upon the range of variability of
erechtea. M. V. SLINGERLAND, Cornell Insectary, Ithaca, X. V.

A PLEA FOR THE COLLECTOR. Prof. J. B. Smith's list of "The Lepid-
optera of Boreal America" came to hand a short time ago, ami lias
afforded me a great deal of pleasure and instruction. If I understand it
aright, this is the first complete list of the kind that has lu-.'ii published
in this country, and I am sure that 1'rof. Smith and tin- other learned gen-
tlemen who were associated with him in getting it up have -i\vn students
of this department of Entomology a work that may be relied upon as

64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

being as near complete and correct as can be got at present. Bearing in
mind the article entitled "Rocks," which appeared in the NEWS some
time ago, would not this list be a good foundation for a descriptive work
on the Lepidoptera of North America ? Could not the gentlemen who
got up this list be induced to publish a work, in monthly parts, containing
descriptions and plates of the Heterocera at least, if subscribers enough
could be got to ensure them against financial loss ? We already have
good works on the Butterflies, and they might, therefore, be left out, as
also the very small moths. The plates, of course, could not be colored,
except at a great cost, but plates such as have been appearing in the
NEWS, with a description attached, are every bit as good. A great many
who study this subject are business men who have not the time and skill
to identify their specimens without the help of plates, and I take it their
number would become legion compared to what it is now if such a work
could be got at a moderate cost. It may be objected that such a work,
when finished, would be incomplete on account of the new species that
are being constantly discovered, but if we were to wait ten or even twenty
years, the same objection would still hold good. In Europe, where the
Lepidoptera have been studied for a great number of years, new species
are still being discovered, and in spite of that a new work on the Lepid-
optera of Great Britain is just being commenced in London. If you will
kindly give this a place in the NEWS it may be the means of helping to
make such a work as I suggest a possibility at least, if not a probability
of the near future. JAMES TOUGH, Chicago, 111.

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural
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Entomological Literature.

NEUNZEHNTER JAHRESBERICHT DES WESTFAELISCHEN PROVINZIAL-
VEREINS FUR WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST FUR 1890. Muenster, 1891.
Observations on the occurrence of melanism among the macrolepidoptera
of the vicinity of Dortmund, K. Meinheit.

LA NATURE (Paris), Dec. 26, 1891. Influence of artificial lights on in-
sects, G. A. Poujade; figs.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 65

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Division of Entomology. Bul-
letin No. 24. The Boll worm of cotton. A report of progress in a sup-
plementary investigation of this insect. Made under the direction of the
Entomologist by F. W. Mally, Washington, iSgr, 50 pp. Hcliolhis aniii-
gera Hiib.

REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), Dec. 26, 1891. Insects destructive to
forests according to M. A. S. Packard, anon. A means of destroying
grasshoppers according to M. Decaux, anon.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Dec. 5, '91.
Heterocera exotica, new genus and species from the Dutch East Indie
F. J. M. Heylaerts; Gnophrioides n. gen. Melanges Entomologiqiu-s:
VIII. Diagnoses of Coleoptera from the Congo,* A. Duvivier. Notes on
indigenous Coleoptera malacoderma, E. Rousseau. Additions and anno-
tations to the lists of indigenous Larnellicorn and Carnivorous Coleoptera,
A. P. de Borre.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINXEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (2),
vi, i. Sydney, Sept. 9, 1891. Notes on a small collection of Hymenop-
tera from Narrabri, N. S. W., \V. \Y '. Froggatt. Description of a new
species of Tortricidce,* J. H. Durrani. Stray notes on Lepidoptera, A.
SO. lliff.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Jan., 1892. Can insects survive freezing?
H. H. Lyman. Descriptions of some butterfly larvaj from Yosemite (v),
and the life-history of Callidryas eubitle, H. G. Dyar. Revision of the
Bombylid genus Epacuws (Lcptochihis), 1). \V. Coquillett. Hctccriihi
americana [in Ontario], |. A. Moflfat. Canadian Cialls and their occu-
pants Aulax nabali N. S., W. Brodie. Entomology for Beginners, No.
i, J. Fletcher. An explan ition, A. R. Grote. MeUttea phaston, /</;<>-
phora silaceala, J. A. Moffat. Prof. J. B. Smith's list of Lepidoptera, ( '..
H. French. Larva of Anccryx fasciata Swains., T. D. A. Cockerell.
February, 1892. Entomology for Beginners No. 2, J. Fletcher. Two
new Orthoptera from Indiana, \V. S. Blatchley. Some Indiana Acridid.r
II, id. Further notes on Gelechia galleediplopappi, and description of a
new species of I>racon, Rev. T. \V. Fyles. Notes on tin- life-history of
Agallia sanguinolenta Prov., H. Osliorn and II. A. Gnssard. On the
Orthopterous fauna of Iowa, II. Osborn. How the female of (\n-<vcia
semiferana protects her egg clusters, C. P. Gillette. Notes on Coleoptera
No. 9, Dr. J. Hamilton. Notes on the Aegeridae of central Ohio, 1 >. S.
Kellicott.

ANNALEN DESK. K. NATURHISTORISCHKN HOFMUSI-:UMS, \i. .;, 4. \\'ien.
1891. To the knowledge of the Hymenopterous genus 1'lrilanthns I'aln.
(sens lat.),"-' F. F. Kohl. Bumble-bee Studies, A. Handlirscli, figs. African
Lepidoptera of the k. k. Natnrhistorisclie Hofinuseum,* A. !'. Kogeiihot. -i .
i pi.

* Contains new species other than North A inn i< an.
3*

66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP (London), January, 1892. Famous
collecting grounds for Dragonflies [by W. H. Bath].

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1891,
pt. iv, December, 1891. New species of Heterocera from the Khasia
Hills,* Col. C. Svvinhoe, i pi., Kalmina micronissa, Anthyperythra (War-
ren MS.), n. gen. On some cases of Dimorphism and Polymorphism
among Palaearctic Lepidoptera, S. Alpheraky. Effect of change of climate
upon the emergence of certain species of Lepidoptera, G. F. Mathew.
Descriptions of new species of holophthalmous Ascalaphidae,* R. Mc-
Lachlan; Campylophlebia n. gen. Descriptions of four new species of
the genus Fulgora* W. L. Distant, i pi. On the South American spe-
cies of Diabrotica, appendix, C. J. Gahan.

INSECT LIFE, iv, 5, 6, December, 1891. Wheat and Grass Sawflies, C.
V. Riley and C. L. Marlatt, figs. The importation of a Hessian Fly para-
site from Europe, S. A. Forbes. The origin and development of para-
sitism among the Sarcoptidse, H. Garman. Origin and development of
the parasitic habit in Mallophaga and Pediculidae, H. Osborn. The use
of grape bags by a paper-making wasp, Mary E. Murtfeldt. The methods
of pupation among the Chalcididse, L. O. Howard, figs. Notes on grass
insects in Washington, D. C., H. Osborn. An interesting aquatic bug.
Hominivorous habits of the screw worm in St. Louis, Mary E. Murtfeldt.
Another spider egg parasite, L. O. Howard.

BRITISH NATURALIST (London), January, 1892. Portrait and sketch of
Lord Walsingham. Notes and lists of captures of British insects.

NEUE ODONATEN VON ECUADOR,* von Dr. F. Karsch (Reprint from
Societas Entomologica vi, 14-16) Neuragrion n. gen.

BULLETIN OF THE ILLINOIS STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HIS-
TORY, vol. iii, art. xii. Sixth contribution to a knowledge of a life-history
of certain little known Aphididae, C. M. Weed. Vol. iv, art. i. Bacteria
normal to digestive organs of Hemiptera, S. A. Forbes.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZooLOGiEliii, 3, Leipzig, 1891.
-The development of the female sexual organs of Phyllodroinia (Blatla)
gertnanica L., R. Heymons, 3 pis.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1, 303, London, Jan. S, 1892.
A new mode of respiration in the Myriapoda, F. G. Sinclair.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), 49, January, 1892.
Notes on Longicorn Coleoptera of the group Cerambycin:e, with de-
scriptions of new genera and species,* C. J. Gahan. On some Japanese
species of ParoiiKtl/ts* G. Lewis. Descriptions of two new genera of
Scorpions, with notes upon some species of Pa/ain/i<rns*-\ R. I. Pocock,
i pi. Description of a new trap-door spider from Ceylon,* id.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 67

WIENER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITUNG, xi, i, }anuary, 1892. On the
pretended present decline of Entomology, E. Reitter. Analytical revision

of the European species of the Tenthredinid genus Schizocera Latr.,*
F. W. Konow. A new Leptis from Switzerland,* T. Becker. Colenp-
terological notes,* E. Reitter.

REVISTA DEL MUSEO DE LA PLATA, I, La Plata, 1890-91. Argentine
Dipterology [Culicidce], F. L. Arribalzaga.

STUDIES FROM THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES OF THE OWENS COL-
LEGE II, Manchester, England, 1890. The pupal stage of Cnlex, Dr. C.
H. Hurst, i pi.

REVUE BIOLOGIQUE DU NORD DE LA FRANCE, iv, 4, January, 1892.
Study on some galls from Syria [Acarocecidae],* Dr. H. Fockeu, figs.

NOTES FROM THE LEYDEN MUSEUM, xiii, 3, July, 1891. Description of
a new Curculionid,* W. Roelofs, i pi. New genus and species of the
group of Oxyopisthen* id. A new genus of Calandrinae, C. Ritsema Cz.
A new species of Rhyncophorus * id. Two new species of the genus
Helota from Borneo,* id. Synopsis and alphabetical list of the described
species of the Coleopterous genus Helota McL., id. Polyctcsis i^crro/a,
a new species of Buprestidae,* K. M. Heller. Contributions to the know-
ledge of the family Brenthidae,* Dr. A. Senna. On the Ceylon Cetonikku
collected by J. Z. Kannegieter,* J. R. H. N. van de Poll and J. Z. Kanne-
gieter. A new species of the Longicorn genus Neopharsalia v. d. Poll,*
J. Z. Kannegieter. Four new species of Gyrinidce of the genus Orccto-
gyrns* M. Regimbart. No. 4, October, 1891. Two new species of the
Lucanoid genus Cyclommatus Parry, C. Ritsema Cz. A new Oriental
species of the Coleopterous genus Chelonarium* id. Further contribu-
tions to the knowlege of the Helota species of Burma,* id. Loniotropa
vellerialis, new species of Pyralidae,* P. C. T. Snellen. Description <>\
nine new Elateridae from the Leyden Museum,* E. Candeze.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xviii, i, Berlin, January, 1892. De-
scription of some new varieties of butterflies from Bucovina and the \ i-
cinity,* C. von Hormuzaki. On some rare Tracheata from Rheinlancl, C.
Verhoeff. Five new African Mantodea,* Dr. F. Karsch; l\n'lyIopL
n. gen. Some biological fragments, C. Yerhoeff.

ZOE, ii, 4, Jan. 12, 1892. Some biological peculiarities of the l'liylli>\
and a method of utilizing them for the protection of vineyards, H. H. l.dir.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSIKAUX, \i\.
Adelaide, July, 1891. Description of a new species of Co
Tepper, i pi. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, \vilh de-scrip!
of new genera and species,*f Rev. T. Blackburn. Descriptions
Australian Lepidoptera,* E. Meyrick; Momopohi n. gen.

* Contains new species other than North Anui ic:m. t Contai:

68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

DIE KAEFKR VON MITTELEUROPA. Die Kaefer der oesterreichisch-
ungarischen Monarchic, Deutschlands, der Schweiz, sowie des franzoes-
ischen und italienischen Alpengebietes, Bearbeitet von Luclwig Gangl-
bauer. Erster Band. Familienreihe Caraboidea. Wien, Carl Gerold's
Sohn, 1892, 557 pp., 55 woodcuts.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin
33, Entomological Division, Ithaca, N. Y., November, 1891. Wireworms,
J. H. Comstock and M. V. Slingerband; figs.

NOTES UPON THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOME AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA
by W. J. Holland (from Psyche, vi, pp. 213-216, pi. 5).

ARCHIVES DE ZOOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE KT GENERALE (2), ix,
4, Paris. Note on the Pantopod genera Phoxichilus Latr. and Tanisty-
him Miers, W. Schimkewitsch.

BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT (Erlangen), Dec. 31, 1891. The amitotic
nuclear division in Arthropoda, H. E. Ziegler and O. von Rath. Jan. 15,
1892. Contribution to the anatomy and embryology of the PhalangicUe,
V. Faussek.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Jan. n, 1892. On sense organs
in the palpi and first pair of legs of Solpugidae, Dr. P. Bertkau, fig.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), Jan. 9, 1892. The
wandering cricket (Schistocera peregrina Oliv.) and its cryptogamic para-
site (Lachnidium acridioruin), E. A. Giard.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST (London), February, 1892. The past wet Summer
and its probable effect upon the development of Lepidoptera, R. Adkin.
Evolution of colors in the Vanesscz, W. W. Smith. Evolution of insect
colors, F. H. P. Coste. Us^ of the hairs of Acronycta alni, M. Fitz-
Gibbon. Notes on British insects, etc.

BOLLETINO DEI MuSEI DI ZOOLOGIA ED ANATOMIA COMPARATA DEI. LA

R. UNIVERSITA DI TORINO, 108, Sept. 20, 1891. Diagnoses of four new
genera of Diptera, Dr. E. Giglio-Tos.

UNTERSUCHUNGEN UEBER GLATTE UND VOLLKOMMEN QUERSTREIFTE
MUSKELN DER ARTHROPODEN von Dr. Julius Vosseler, Tubingen, 1891,
H. Laupp, pp. xii, 150, 6 plates.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), February, '92.
A new genus and species of Aleurodidae,* A. C. F. Morgan, T pi.;
Aleiirodicus n. g. Description of three new species of the genus riia-
naens Macleay,* B. G. Nevinson. Annotated list of British TurliinuU\
R. 1-1. Mcadr. Stylopized bees, F. V. Theobald. Oviposition of .Me/a
viridclla, T. A. Chapman. On the rearing of I'achctra Iciiiopluca from
the egg, VV. R. Jeffrey. Notes, etc.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 69

BULLETIN OK THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE Zool.ocv AT HARVARD

COLLEGE, xxii, 3, Cambridge, January, 1892. Amitosis in the embryonal
envelops of the scorpion, H. P. Johnson, 3 plates.

MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE KXPKKIMKNT
STATION, Bulletin No. 17. Insects injurious to stored grain, H. E. \Vi--d.
December, 1891.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIKTY, .\\iii, 4,
September-December, 1891. The species of Agri/iis of Boreal America,
G. H. Horn, M. D., i pi. On a collection of Hymenoptera made in
Jamaica during April, 1891, W. J. Fox. Notes on North American
Tachinidae sens. sir. with descriptions of new genera and species, C. H.
Tyler Townsend.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

NEUROPTERA.
Ptynx furciger McLachlan, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., '91, p. 509. \\\/..

LEPIDOPTERA.
Albuna modes/a Kellicott, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 46. Ohio.

HYMENOPTERA.

Aulax nabali Brodie, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 13. Ontario.

Cephus occidentalis Riley and Marlatt, Insect Life, iv, p. 177. Cala.

Acoloides emertonii Howard, Insect Life, iv, p. 202.

Bracon furtivus Fyles, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 35.

Pompilus propinquus Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, p. 339; /'. iciico-
pitypnrcits, p. 339; Salius opacifrons, p. 340; A^cuiii fompirsMi. p. 340;
Planiccps euferalis, p. 341; Epeolits mfoc/ypetts, p. 344; M,\^iiclnlc Mar-
tindafei, p. 344; M. multidens, p. 345; M. pcdalis, p. 347; all from Jamaica.

ORTHOPTERA.

Xiphidium Scuddcri Blatchley, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 26. Indiana.
ApHhcs Mc.\\-illi Blatchley, 1. c. p. 27. Indiana.
Pezottetti.r hoosieri Blatchley, 1. c. p. 31. Indiana.

DIPTERA.

Jtcrisinyia n. Ren., Stratiomyida.-, (iiglio-Tos, l'>i>ll. Mus. /.mil. Anat.
Comp. Aniv. Torino, vi, ioS, p. 2, lig. Type lift i^ aincrii ana Bell.ndi.

ti/iopa/osyrp/i/ts, p. 3, 1'igs. ; Onu-^asyrp/it/s, p. 4, tigs.; M^miifpo
p. 5, figs., n. gen. Syrphida-, C.iglio-Tos, 1. c. Types to be hereaftei
described.

yo ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

Epacmus concinnus, pellncidus, fumosus Coquillet, Can. Ent. xxiv, p.
9. California.

Tachinidas: Siphoplagia n. gen., Townsend, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii,
p. 349; S. anomala, p. 350, N. Mex. Goniochceta n. gen., p. 351; G. pla-
gioides, p. 352, N. Mex Tachina spinosula, p. 353, 111. Pachyophthal-
nius anrifrons, p. 354, 111. Miltogramma flavicornis, p. 355, 111. M.
argentifrons, p. 357, 111. M. cinerascens, p. 358, 111. Masicera nigrita,
p. 358, 111. M. sordicolor p. 359, 111. Hypertrophocera n. gen., p. 360;
H. parvipes, p. 361, N. Mex. Aphria ocypterata, p. 361, S. Dak., Minn.?
Exorista ciliata, p. 363, 111. Laccoprosopa n. gen., p. 365; L. sarcopha-
gitia, p. 366, 111. Frontinaacroglossoides, p. 367, 111. Siphona illinoensis,
p. 368, 111. Phasioclista n. gen., p. 369; P. inctallica, p. 370, 111., S. Fla.
Ennyomma n. gen., p. 371; E. clistoides, p. 371, 111. Clytia flava, p. 372,
111. Atrophopoda n. gen., p. 373; A. singularis, p. 374, 111. Epigrymia
n. gen., p. 375; E. po/ita, p. 376, Va. Drepanoglossa n. gen., p. 377; D.
lucens, p. 378, N. Mex. Ceratomyiella n. gen., p. 379; C. conica, p. 380,
111. Leucostoma atra, p. 380, 111. Vanderwulpia n. gen., p. 381; V.
atrophopodoides, p. 381, N. Mex.

COLEOPTERA.

Phanceus Flohri Nevinson, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), iii,, p. 33. Jalapa, Mex.
Agrilus. Synoptic table of species and twenty-one new species de-
scribed, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, 4.

BITTEN BY A TARANTULA. Bridgeport, July 2oth. As Louis Pastine,
a fruit dealer of Main Street, was moving a bunch of banannas at his store,
Saturday, a huge tarantula jumped out and stung him on the thumb of
the left hand. Pastine ran to the office of Dr. C. W. Fitch, who has lived
in Central America, and is an expert on the tarantula. Before he reached
the doctor's office the thumb had swollen to twice its natural size. Mr.
Pastine says that immediately after the sting the most excruciating pains
shot through his arm and both sides. In a moment the pains had pene-
trated even to his liver, which was seriously affected. Dr. Fitch cauter-
ized the wound, and expects that Mr. Pastine will recover. The Doctor
says that the tarantula's bite is not very dangerous, except when it is in
an excited condition, and that the one which bit Mr. Pastine was in a
rather torpid state. During his fifteen years in Central America he was
bitten twenty times by them. He knew how to treat the sting, and at-
tended to it immediately, which is essential. "If," said the Doctor, " you
can imagine yourself suffering a pain one hundred times as intense as a
wasp sting, you can realize what it is to be bitten by a tarantula. To test
the ferocity of the spider, I once cut a round hole in the centre of a news-
paper and placed the tarantula in the hole. Then I set fire to the paper,
and the insect finding itself hemmed in on all sides, threw its tail over,
and stinging itself on the back died instantly."

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 71

RKVI EW.

DIE ZVVEIFLUGLER DES KAISERLICHEN MUSEUMS ZU WlEN, V. VORAR-
BEITEN ZU EINER MONOGRAPHIE DER MUSCARIA SCHIZOMETOPA (EXCLU-
SIVE ANTHOMYID.E). PART II. By Prof. Dr. Friedrich Brauer and J.
Edlen v. Bergenstamm. Wien, 1891. I am indebted to the authors for
a copy of the above work, which has recently been published. It consists
of 140 quarto pages (no plates), and is in continuation of their work begun
in Part I, under same title, and published in 1889.* About 100 new genera
are erected, and not quite as many new species, these being entirely ad-
ditional, be it understood, to the new genera and species published in
Part I. One can only deplore the lack of order, uniformity and comprehen-
siveness displayed in the body of the work, which consists entirely of
corrections and additions to be interpolated at designated intervals
throughout Part I. The genera of other authors have been mercilessly
used. Mr. v. d. Wulp's recent genera (published in the Biol. C.-A.) are
torn to pieces bodily, and patched up from other quarters. The authors
are to be complimented on presenting at the end of their work a syste-
matic list of all the groups, genera and species which they have proposed
in Parts I and II. This is put in very comprehensive form, and is followed
by a still more convenient index of specific names leading to the genera
in which the authors have placed the species, and designating the genera
to which the latter were originally referred by their describers. The ruth-
less deposition of genera, in which the authors indulge, should not be
countenanced. Echinomyia is decapitated, and Tachina installed in its
place. Eutachina is created to fill the vacancy thus left by Tachina.
Numerous new genera are erected on trivial or insufficiently designated
grounds, at the expense of former well-to-do ones; or genera long ago
abandoned are raised from a condition of comparative obscurity, and
made to supplant those which have long been in use. Why the generic
term Latreillia should be preferred to Belvosia, when both were described
on adjoining pages by the same author in 1830, is beyond explanation, and
especially when we consider the time-honored usage of Belvosia, and the
fact that Latreillia was proposed by Roux, in 1827, for a genus of Crus-
tacea. The name Metopodia is applied to a new genus; this is apt to
become confused with Mctopodus Am. Serv. (Hem.) or witli Mctafiodius
Westvv. (Hem.) If the genus be a valid one, I would propose the use of
the term NEOMETAPODIA for it. As nearly as I can form an opinion,
without actually cataloging and classifying all the names, the new -CIICIM
and species proposed (usually insufficiently characterized) are divided
geographically as follows: N. Am. gen. 25, spp. 17; So. Am. gen. i\ spp.
18; Extra Am. gen. 59, spp. 61. If the authors would present full descrip-
tions, properly and systematically arranged, of their neu -I-IK r.i and spe-
cies, their work would be much more comprehensive and productive {
good. As it is, their labors can scarcely be appreciated by one who lias not
access to the collections in the Museum in Vienna. C. 1 1. T. Tc >u -\si -ND.

* For a notice thereof by Dr. Williston, sec ENT. NEWS, vol. i, p. 77.- I '

72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

A REGULAR MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL, SECTION OF THE A.
N. S. was held at the Hall Jan. 28, 1892. Dr. Horn, Director, presiding.
Dr. Horn donated to the cabinet a number of Mexican Coleoptera. Mr.
Calvert presented the second installment of European Odonata, number-
ing 29 specimens. Mr. Nell presented a specimen of Odonata new to the
collection. Mr. Martindale called attention to a paper by Dr. W. J. Hol-
land on a peculiar Lycsenid chrysalis from Africa, which had a Simian
aspect. Dr. Horn mentioned a paper he had recently written, on some
variations in the markings of Coleoptera, and spoke of some interesting-
points brought out. Dr. Skinner exhibited a pair of Parnassius sininthens
showing interesting variation from the normal. Mr. Martindale spoke of
a method of preparing naphthalin cones by heating the head of a pin and
thrusting it into the fused balls to be obtained at the druggists'; they are
clean, leave no debris, and cost about five cents per hundred. Mr. Cal-
vert stated that the dragonfly presented by Mr. Nell was GouipJius dilita-
tus, and was caught in the streets of the city in May, 1891; it is a Southern
species, and he had never heard of its being found before in this locality.

OBITUARY

HENRY WALTER BATES, F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc., died in London, Febru-
ary ijth. In this death England loses one of her ablest entomologists.
Beginning in 1848 his entomological contributions have been continued,
with interruption only during his long sojourn on the Amazons, until very
recently. His studies were limited to the Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera, and
to three large and difficult families of Coleoptera: Carabidae, Scarabaeidae
and Cerambycidae, in all of which he had accumulated much material,
especially rich in Amazon species. His industry and ability are well
shown in the volumes with their supplements in the " Biologia Centrali-
Americana" on his favorite families. His narrative of his sojourn on the
Amazons is filled with notes showing his acuteness of observation in the
field. For many years he has filled the position of Assistant Secretary
of the Royal Geographical Society. Those who knew him personally will
mourn the loss of a cultured man, a kind friend, and a genhil companion.

ERRATA.

On page 5, line 9, for 35 mm. read .35 mm.

5, line 18, for 6.5 mm. read .65 mm.

5, line 24, insert a comma (,) after joints 5 and 12.

5, line 24, for trifle, read triple.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NKWS for February, was mailed January 29, 1892.

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ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. APRIL, 1892. No. 4.

CONTENTS:

Horn Dorcus parallelus 73

Wright In Alaska 74

Laurent Preparatory stages of Pam-

phila manataaqua 77

Cockerell Notes on the life-history of

Calpodes ethlius 78

Townsend New N. Am. Tachinidse.... 80

Smith Elementary Entomology. 82

Angell Two n. sp. of Coleoptera 84

Williston Notes on the habits of Am-

mophila 85

McKnight Lepidoptera of the Adiron-
dack Region 87

Patton Notes upon Larradae 89

Harvey Odonata of Maine 91

Notes and News 93

Entomological Literature 98

Doings of Societies 103

Dorcus parallelus Say.
By GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

The plate forming the frontispiece of this number has been
prepared from material which, for the most- part, belongs to the
American Entomological Society. The reasons for presenting it
are : to settle finally the relationship existing between the names
parallelus, costatus and brevis, now in our lists to illustrate the
possibilities of variation in form and sculpture, and, finally, to
ascertain by experiment the adaptability of the various photo-
plate processes for illustrations taken from the objects themseh < 5.
Periodically the question is discussed, what is Dorcus brci-it, and
is it distinct from parallelus f It need hardly be said that this
question arises principally among those young in experience and
with small series, although species are frequently deseribed as
new with far less claim to distinctness than the extreme specimens
on the upper row. D. brevisis founded on males of full develop-
ment, broad thorax and smooth surface. The first t\v<> \\^\\
accurately represent Say's idea. As a rule the males have quite
a smooth thorax, while the females are rather closely punn
In the brevis form the elytra are also quite smooth, but the trausi-

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tion from this to the striate sculpture is gradual, and can readily
be traced even in the plate. D . costatus, although merely a cata-
logue name, is based on those females in which three of the in-
tervals on each elytron are a little wider and more prominent, as
faintly shown on the fifth figure in the second row. The terminal
figure is an exceptionally small female collected by Mr. Henry
Wenzel. The six specimens on the upper row and two on the
lower are males, as will be known by the more prominent mandi-
bles with a tooth on the upper side. Regarding the possibilities
of variation, the plate shows for itself, although far less than the
specimens themselves, and Dorcus parallelns is by no means a
good species for the illustration of varietal possibilities. The
use of any photographic method usually causes a loss of some
detail, but when form alone is to be illustrated more accurate
results for comparison can be obtained.

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IN ALASKA.

By W. G. WRIGHT, San Bernardino, Cal.

One might suppose that a trip to Alaska would afford an ento-
mologist abundant material for collecting, and that he might
write a book about what he saw through his entomological glasses,
and experienced in pursuit of his pet hobby. But having made
the trip, I am obliged to say that the results, both actual and
theoretical, were very meagre.

To begin with, the country from the Strait of San Juan de Fuca
to Yakatat Bay is all of a piece. The ground is all solid rock,
if I may so speak, islands and mainland alike, and the channels
through which the steamer sails most of the way are mere cracks
in the hard, black rock, some of them so deep that it is imprac-
ticable to anchor in them. How a tree can manage to find
root-hold upon such solid rock is a continual mystery, but they
do, and the whole country, whether level 'or side-hill (and most
of it is tilted up an angle frequently acute), is covered with the
same endless ranks of sombre fir trees, the very sight of which
at length becomes a weariness; and the trees, with horizontal
limbs down to the ground, come clear down to the water's edge,
so that a landing becomes a difficulty. The Japan current, or
some other cause, gives to Sitka about the same temperature as

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at Victoria. To that current the whole coast from Yakatat Bay
to the Columbia River owes a liberal allowance of fog and misty
rain, more at the North and less at the South, but otherwise the
thousand miles of northing from Puget Sound gives no notable
climatic difference. Therefore, it is easy to see that, with the
same geological formation, the same flora, and the same climate,
the same fauna must prevail; and so I have found it. So far as
my insect captures are determined I did not get a specimen in
Alaska but what is found about Puget Sound in greater abun-
dance than in Alaska. One Pieris, from Sitka, bears another
name from those of Puget Sound, but I regard it as the same
species; I will "lump" that much. The country inland is well-
nigh impenetrable, being, as I have said, mostly up edgewise,
and sometimes almost to the perpendicular, and densely wooded;
and underneath, a network of fallen trees thickly covered with
sphagnum or moss, which apparently never gets dried out, be-
cause of the rain and the dense shade. Five miles a day is good
traveling through these thickets. There are no clearings or
ranches, or farms; no room for a butterfly to stretch its wings.
In Coleoptera it is as bad. I got one Cychms marginatus at
Metlakahtla, and one at Loring, and a pair of C. angnsticollis at
Junean, but nothing of interest anywhere.

Wrangel is a green spot in my memory, because there I got
my first Alaskan butterflies. To be sure they were only a com-
mon Pieris, but it is noteworthy to get any butterflies in such a
rainy country. These poor Pierids were nearly starved by the
long season of rain, and were crawling about upon an umbel of
daucus trying to feed; they could not fly, because of the rain, so
I picked them off the flowers with my fingers, and took them in
out of the wet. Numbers of little geometrid moths were flying
about, but I had no net out in the rain, so I did not get them.
I met here, by chance the usual way, an eastern naturalist who
was skinning birds. He told me that he had seen in the vicinity
one specimen of Limenitis Lorquini. From that item we may
set down Fort Wrangel as the northern limit of that species.

About the town of Junean I caught a lot of Pierids, of the
same old species, but no other butterfly was seen. Then I fol-
lowed a mining road out into the country as far as time would
permit, but found nothing else. By the roadside lay some pine
blocks left by the axe-men. Under one of these I found the tine

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pair of C. angusticollis before spoken of, but no other beetles
worth naming.

Chillkat is the most northern of all the stopping places on this
Alaskan route; it is close to the 6oth degree of North latitude.
Here is a narrow grassy border along a moraine, and at the shore
line, and I forthwith went ashore with my net. A half dozen
Pierids were taken and then came a lull. Presently I began to
sweep the grass for beetles, and lo ! some Pterophoridae. So I
spent most of the time in getting that little thing, of which there
seemed to be several species. This was the most unexpected
find of the whole trip.

At Sitka I remained sixteen days, seven of which were mostly
sunny, a remarkable thing, as the people told me, as sunny days
are exceptional there. One species of Pieris was common about
the streets, P. Bryoncs. One gentleman excited my curiosity by
saying that the real Japan silk-worm moth was found there, and
so one day he showed me the " moth" flying about his cabbage
plants; it was this Pieris. I was also informed that this same
butterfly was found all along the vast chain of Aleutian Islands,
nearly to Siberia, in great numbers; that it feeds on honey-dew,
which is found on the leaves and twigs of Alder bushes, and that
he had seen the bushes white from the abundance of the butterfly;
all of which is credible. But about Sitka I found butterflies very
scarce. Beside this Pieris, I got only one other species, Chryso.
helloides, small in size, and almost black. The female, especially,
was so dark I could hardly believe it was that species, but the
male was rather more like the Southern form, and showed the
violet gloss faintly \_Chrys.florus? ED.]

Near Sitka, a few miles back, is a mountain, Mt. Verstovia,
3600 feet high. One fine day I climbed this mountain to above
timber line; here, at 3500 feet altitude, to see if a Parnasshts or
a Chionobas could not be found. Upon the alpine slopes above
timber line was a most lovely butterfly place. Some old snow-
banks yet remained here and there, but on many of the drier
slopes grass and flowers grew luxuriantly, and the air was so
mild, and the sun shone so delightfully, that it seemed as if there
must be a dozen Parnassius in sight at any moment, but not one
did I see; not a butterfly of any color. I never felt so disgusted
and discouraged in my life before. I just gave a big growl of
displeasure, and threw down my net and other butterfly traps in

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anger, and went off to a snow-bank and ate snow, and tried to
eat the waxen white blossoms of a heather which grew all about;
but it all didn't pay, so I came back to where the guide was
lolling on a dry bank by a spring, and ate lunch with him instead.
After that I felt better, but not to this day have I regained my
serenity of mind as to the outcome of that day's work. Every
thing was so favorable, so promising, and the possibilities so
great, and not even one poor little butterfly to bless myself with;
it was too bad.

North of the great chain of Aleutian Islands, about Norton
Sound, and even north of Bering Strait, and under the icy zone
of the Arctic Circle, at Kotzebue Sound, it appears that more
butterflies are found than at Sitka, because the islands deflect the
Japan current to the east and south, so that the more northern
regions mentioned are more free from the fog and rain than Sitka
is. But even Kotzebue Sound is not a good field for the ento-
mologist, and if any enthusiast should desire to go there, my
advice would be, " don't."

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Preparatory Stages of Pamphila manataaqua.

By PHILIP LAURENT, Phila., Pa.

On June 24, 1891, I secured two female Pamphila manataaqna ,
which I placed in a small cage containing a piece of grass sod;
during the night nine eggs were laid. The eggs are hemispher-
ical in shape, excepting that the apex is somewhat flattened. In
color the eggs are of an opaque-white with a greenish tinge.
When observed with the naked eye the egg appears to be smooth,
but observed through a glass of ordinary power it will be seen
that the egg is covered with minute depressions. On July sth
the young larvae emerged from the egg. The larvae are slender
and more cylindrical than those of most Pamphila. In color
they are the same as the egg, excepting the head, which is of a
dark brown color. The head, when observed through a strong
glass, is found to have a corrugated appearance. On the ii| .pel-
part of first segment immediately back of the head, a narrow
band of dark brown is observed. July 25th: Larva- are now
about a half inch in length; the body is of a dark or oil-gn en
color, while the head still remains brown, but of a lighter .shade
than when first observed.

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August 2d: Larvae are now about three-quarters of an inch in
length. On examining the larvae with a strong glass, it will be
seen that the larvae are covered with numerous irregular spots of
a dark lavender color; the body is also seen to be thinly covered
with hair, that on the sides of larvae being somewhat longer than
that on the top.

August 1 3th: Larvae are now full grown, and are about one
inch in length. In appearance there has been but little change
since August 2d, excepting in the fore feet, which are now dark
brown instead of light brown.

August 1 4th: The first larva changed to chrysalis to-day. The
chrysalis is of a greenish white color, the space occupied by head
and thorax, and wing-cases being somewhat darker than the ab-
domen. The eye space is very prominent; the tongue case is of
a light brown color and extends almost to the tip of abdomen.
The chrysalis is fastened among the grass stalks, and is dusted
over with a white silky powder.

Aug. 2Oth: The last of the larvae changed to a chrysalis to-day.

August 2gth: The first imago emerged to-day a male.

August 3oth: Another male appeared.

September ist, two males; September 2d, one female; Septem-
ber 3d, one male. The others are probably dead.

At no time was I able to discover the exact time of moulting,
or could I ever find any of the remains of cast-off larva skins; it
may be that the larvae devour the cast-off skins, but of this I am
not certain, so much of their life is spent in the little grass houses
that they construct for themselves, that it is hard to keep an eye
on them at all times. I thought perhaps the moulting took place
within these houses, but was never able to find any cast-oft skins

within them.

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Notes on the Life-history of Calpodes ethlius.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Kingston, Jamaica.

Mr. Scudder, in his "Butterflies of New England," p. 1750,
gives an interesting account of this species; a description of the
mature larva and pupa has also been published by the present
writer in the "Journal of the Institute of Jamaica," No. i, p.
29. Mr. I. I. Bowrey has kindly supplied me with eggs found
on Canna in his garden in Kingston, from which I have obtained

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the young larvae. Very many of the eggs never produce larva-,
but fall victims to a small hymenopterous parasite. This was
first observed by Mr. Bowrey, and is specially interesting, because
hitherto no parasite of C. ethlius seems to have been recorded.
I have not very carefully examined these egg parasites, but they
are evidently of the genus Trichogramma, or closely allied thereto.
A specimen, compared with Riley's figure of T. pretiosa, has a
broader head, and the thorax is larger in proportion to the ab-
domen (my specimen is probably a male); the upper wings are
apparently more truncate, and the lower seem more slender.
With the Trichogramma I found a broken specimen of a different
Chalcid, with a broad abdomen about a third longer than wide,
a thorax much the same size and shape, wings stretching con-
siderably beyond the tip of the abdomen, submarginal vein
rather stout, marginal curved away from the costa, stigmal long,
with a distinct, though small knob, last pair of legs very long,
stretching beyond the tips of closed wings. These notes, al-
though so fragmentary, may serve for comparison with parasites
of C. ethlius that may be found elsewhere. Certainly, these egg
parasites do much towards keeping down the Canna butterfly in
Jamaica. The Trichogramma is the important one; whether the
other species is common remains to be seen. Eggs of C. ethlius
brought to me by Mr. Bowrey on Oct. 24, 1891, were laid singly
on a leaf of Canna* They are, as stated by Dr. WittfiVM,
plainly visible. The egg is rounded, in section forming rather
more than half a circle, smooth, shiny, opaque, with fine im-
pressed microscopic punctures or lines, but no ribs. Diameter
\]^ mm., color white, with a purple-gray tinge, especially aboVe.
The egg-shell is white after the exclusion of the larva,
lately-hatched larva is 4 mm. long, and rests on the underside of
the leaf, near the edge, which it bends by spinning a transv<
thread 4 mm. long. It is pale green (Scudder says pale yellowish
brown) with a black shiny head, which has a deep longitudinal
sulcus on the crown. Thoracic shield black; body with onlv a
few very short and inconspicuous hairs. Thesha]"- is rylindnral,
with a large head; different from P. zabulon as figured by Fren.-h.
On November 30! the larva was 13 mm. long, cylindrical, looking

* On the same leaf I found the eggs of an unknown moth; these are smaller, and laid
in a group of eighty or more, very regularly in rows. f<|iiidi*tant, n> tw< t^s t.. tailing,
They have about twenty-four well-marked ribs. The larva: proved to be l.i,,|,mi;
tuids. but the imago was not reared.

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quite like a Pyralid. Head now brown instead of black, but the
narrow thoracic shield black; body pale glaucous-green; dorsal
vessel showing as a darkish line. Each segment has several
transverse grooved striae or wrinkles dorsally. There is very
little variation in the imago so far as Jamaican examples are con-
cerned. In a series obtained by Mr. Bowrey I find the expanse
varying from 53 to 61 mm. The largest vitreous spot on the
fore-wing is often subquadrate, as described by Scudder, but
often elongate, considerably longer than broad. Mr. Scudder
calls this "The Brazilian Skipper," but the Canna butterfly, or
Canna Skipper, would be a more appropriate name.

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NEW NORTH AMERICAN TACWNiD/E.
By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

The following are descriptions of South Florida and Jamaica
forms, collected respectively by Mr. Charles Robertson, of Car-
linville, III, and Mr. Charles W. Johnson, of the Wagner Insti-
tute, Philadelphia.

Blepharipeza nigrisquamis n. sp. <$. Eyes brown; frontal vitta blackish
brown; face, cheeks, and sides of front silvery white pollinose, darker in
some lights; facial ridges bristly half way up, sides of face bare, except
for descending frontal bristles; antennae and arista black, third antennal
joint about three times as long as the somewhat elongate second ; pro-
boscis black, labella large, brown; palpi rather stout, bristly, rufous,
blackish at base; occiput silvery, gray-hairy. Thorax purplish black,
faintly silvery pollinose, with four narrow black vittae interrupted at suture,
the outer pair more so than the inner pair; scutellum black, very bristly.
Abdomen wholly dense black, with a bluish or purplish reflection, thickly
set with macrochaetae. Legs black, claws and pulvilli a little elongate,
pulvilli tawny. Wings grayish hyaline, broadly and abruptly black at
base; tegulae and alulae black, halteres brownish. Length of body, 9 mm.;
of wing, nearly 9 mm.

Described from one specimen; Portland, Jamaica, April (C.
W. Johnson). This species differs from B. leucophrys in its
smaller size, blacker bases of wings, and somewhat stouter palpi.

Pachyophthalmus floridensis n. sp. J 1 Eyes brown; frontal vitta nearly
black, velvety, narrow, about one-third width of front, front about one-
fifth width of head; frontal bristles in double row; sides of front, face,
and cheeks silvery whitish, with slight brassy tinge on front; vibrissae dis-
tinct, decussate; antenna; black, third joint hardly one and a half times
as long as second, arista black; proboscis brownish, palpi blackish; oc-
ciput cinereous. Thorax and scutellum silvery cinereous, with three broad

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black vittae, which are continued over scutellum. Abdomen shining black,
anal segment rufous, whole abdomen clouded with silvery cinereous, giv-
ing the appearance of three broad, irregular, blackish vittee, interrupted
at the sutures; first two segments with a lateral pair and a median mar-
ginal pair of macrochsetae, third and anal with a marginal row. Legs
black, femora silvery cinereous, claws and pulvilli short. Wings slightly
grayish, nearly hyaline; tegulae whitish, halteres light brownish. Length
of body, 5 mm.; of wing, 4 mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

Miltogramma decisa n. sp. $ . Eyes reddish brown; front brassy golden;
less than one-third width of head, the frontal vitta nearly obsolete in front;
two orbital bristles; face and cheeks pure silvery white; antennae pale
rufous, third joint one and a half times as long as second, arista blackish;
vibrissae distinct, decussate; proboscis black, palpi rufous (so far as can be
seen); occiput cinereous, short and sparsely bristly. Thorax cinereous,
silvery pollinose, with three narrow median vittae and a heavier outside
one; scutellum more or less cinereous. Abdomen shining black, first
segment on sides and second segment entirely, except triangle in middle,
rufous; bases of segments two to four silvery white pollinose; first seg-
ment without macrochsetae, second with a median marginal pair, third
with a lateral pair and a median marginal pair, and with a marginal row.
Legs black, front femora silvery on outside, claws and pulvilli very short.
Wings grayish hyaline, tegulse white, halteres brownish. Length of body,
4^ mm.; of wing, 3^ mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

Anisia vanderwulpi n. sp. tf (?). Eyes cinnamon brown; frontal vitta
velvet blackish brown; sides of front and orbital margins of occiput brassy
golden; two orbital bristles; face and cheeks silvery white; antenna- ru-
fous, the third joint brownish distally and on front edge, arista brownish;
proboscis brownish, short, fleshy, labella large, pale tawny, palpi pale
tawny; occiput silvery, gray-hairy below. Thorax silvery white pollinose,
with four blackish vittae, the outer ones heavier and interrupted at suture,
humeri and pleune silvery white ; scutellum silvery white pollinose.
domen black, more or less silvery white pollinose, but particularly so at
bases of segments and more broadly on vertex, terminal portion of anal
segment pale rufous; first two segments with a lateral macrochaeta- and a
median marginal pair, the second segment with a median discal pair also;
third with a median discal pair, and a marginal row of about ten; anal
segment with a marginal and discal row of about eight, those in discal
row strongest. Legs black, coxa? and distal inferior half <>f f.-ni..ra light
rufous, femora more or less silvery; claws and pulvilli short, pulvilli
whitish. Wings grayish hyaline, tegulae transparent like isinglass, halteres
yellow. Length of body, 6 mm.; of wing, 5/2 nun.

Described from one specimen ; Portland, Jamaica (C.

Johnson).

(To be continued.)

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The first of the Heterocerous families is the Sphingidae. This
family comprises moths of rather large size, the thorax robust,
the abdomen elongate and tapering in most cases, and usually
considerably exceeding the anal angle of the secondaries. The
head is well developed as a rule, and the antennae are usually
fusiform and more or less prismatic; that is to say, they are
rather thicker in the middle and taper both to base and tip, more
so toward the tip, which is generally furnished with a little re-
curved hook. The prismatic shape is usually quite marked in
the species, and is a peculiarity of the family. The primaries,
or fore-wings, are rather long and narrow in most cases, often
more or less evidently lanceolate, the secondaries or hind wings
proportionately quite small and narrow. As a whole, the wings
are small, compared with the bulk of the insect. The venation
throughout the family is quite constant. The primaries may
have eleven or twelve veins, according as 9 is, or is not branched
near its tip. The entire subcostal series is crowded closely to the
costa, so that it is difficult to follow the course of all after vein 7.
Vein 5 is nearly midway between 4 and 6, and the cell is closed
in those species known to me. Vein i, the submedian or internal
vein, is furcate at base.

On the secondaries the costal and subcostal arise independently
from the base and run separately to their termination, joined,
however, near the base by an oblique cross-vein, which is char-
acteristic of the family. Here also vein 5 is from near the middle
of the cross-vein, and there are two internal veins.

The larvae of the Sphingidae are as easily recognizable as the
images by the curved spine or horn on the top of the terminal
segment. In the species in which this horn is wanting there is
a shiny tubercle or knob, occupying the position of the more
usual process. The pupation is subterranean in most cases.

Compact as is the family in general appearance and main struc-
tural features, it divides readily into a number of well marked
subfamilies.

The Macroglossinae are easily distinguished by the rather ob-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 83

viously clubbed tip of the antenna. They retain their prismatic
form and the little recurved hook, but are not fusiform. This
subfamily contains the clear-winged forms, Hemaris, and a small
series of opaque-winged species which have short, broad fore-
tibiae, armed at tip with long stout claws, Lepiscsia. The species
are largely diurnal in habit, flying swiftly in the bright sunshine
and hovering over the flowers, on the nectar of which they feed.
The tongue is well developed, and often nearly as long as the
insect itself.

The Chcerocampinae have the antennae more or less distinctly
fusiform, and the tongue well developed, often longer than the
body. There is a tendency to a bright, banded maculation, the
abdomen is often tufted, and the fore-wings have the outer margin
sinuate or angulate. In Enyo the thorax also is crested. It is
in this family that the larvae often have a knob or tubercle instead
of the usual horn. Many of the species are diurnal, as in the
preceding subfamily, and they are often as swift of flight.

Th^ Sphinginae all have fusiform antennae, and usually a long
tongue. In some of our species this organ is from six to eight
inches in length, and from that it dwindles until it becomes obso-
lete in Ellenia. The fore-wings are narrow and lanceolate, and
the markings are longitudinally strigose, not banded. They are
usually crepuscular, flying at twilight, and from their darting-
motions and their habit of hovering over the food-plant, the term
" Hawk Moths" has been derived.

The Smerinthinae are quite different in many respects. The
tongue is obsolete, unless for feeding in all forms, the antennae
are often serrated, and sometimes pectinated, and the primaries
are often quite broad and usually angulated or dentate. In Cres-
sonia the male antennae have two branches to each joint, as in
the Saturniidae.

A brief statement of subfamily differences is as follows .

Antennae distinctly clubbed at tip ... . Macroglossinae.

Antennae not distinctly clubbed, usually fusiform.
Tongue long and strong.

Primaries with outer margin sinuate or angulate . Chcerocampiuae.
Primaries with outer margin even . \ Sphinginae.

Tongue weak and short.

Primaries with outer margin even \ Sphinginae.

Primaries angulated or dentate . . Smerinthinae.

84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

TWO NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA.

By G. W. J. ANGELL.

Corymbites Weidtii sp. nov. Elongate oval, dark metallic bronze, with
greenish or crimson lustre; third joint of antennae shorter and narrower
than fourth. Head strongly and densely punctate, with an occipital fovea.
Thorax very convex and distinctly, but not closely punctured; anterior
angles broadly rounded, sides sinuate, posterior angles strongly produced
and divergent. Elytra at base s-lightly narrower than thorax; one-half
longer than wide, greatest width anterior to apical third; sides regularly
curved to apex, margin distinct and rather strongly reflexed posteriorly;
striae regular and distinct, more deeply impressed at base; intervals irregu-
larly, rather densely punctured, punctures confluent or linear, giving a
strigate appearance in some lights. Abdominal segments shining golden
green, punctate; punctures rather dense at sides, sparse at middle.

cf . Ventral segments more coarsely punctured; third and fourth seg-
ments with large, but rather shallow foveae near elytral margin.

$. Ventral segments more finely punctured; a small but deep fovea
on either side of third ventral near posterior angles of segment. Length
ii mm.

Cascade Range, British Columbia; altitude 7000 feet. This
species, by the structure of the antennae, naturally falls into Group
III of Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vol. iii, p. 319). It is
one of the many interesting captures of Mr. J. C. Weidt.

Elmis COlumbiensis sp. nov. Elongate oval, shining black, sparsely
pubescent. Thorax subquadrate, slightly wider than long, narrowed at
front; arcuate and divergent to middle, then subparallel to base, which is
strongly sinuate and slightly emarginate at middle; disc sparsely, but dis-
tinctly punctured, more densely toward margin; basal lines attaining the
middle and limited by two densely punctured foveas on either side of
impressed median channel. Elytra at base slightly wider than thorax,
hutneri rounded, sides subparallel to apical third, then slightly sinuate
and convergent to apex, which is broadly rounded and subtruncate.
Elytral striae deeply impressed, punctures large and rather distinct, inter-
vals very feebly and finely punctate; fifth, sixth and seventh intervals
costate. Elytral margin slightly testaceous; ventral segments feebly, but
densely punctate, rather densely pubescent at sides. Legs dark testa-
ceous, finely and lightly punctured. Length 2.6 mm.

Eraser River Valley, British Columbia; Mr. C. J. Weidt.

A truly dainty sportsman he,

The fields he never tries;
He takes scent bottles 'neath a tree

And squirts at butterflies. New York Herald.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 85

NOTE ON THE HABITS OF AMMOPHILA.

By S. W. WILLISTON, Lawrence, Kans.

Even the casual observer, to whom all insects are bugs, cannot
help but be struck by the great diversity and number of the fos-
sorial Hymenoptera of the plains. Water is often inaccessible,
trees there are few or none, and only in places is the vegetation
at all abundant. A much larger proportion of insects, hence,
find it necessary to live or breed in holes in the ground, than is
the case in more favored localities. Especially is this the case
with the Hymenoptera, great numbers and many species of which
thus breed in excavations made by themselves.

While packing specimens on an open space, uncovered by
buffalo grass, in the extreme western part of Kansas, the early
part of last July, the attention of a friend and myself was attracted
by the numerous wasps that were constantly alighting upon the
ground. The hard, smooth, baked surface showed no indications
of disturbance, and it was not till we had attentively watched the
insects did we learn what they were doing. The wasp is a very
slender one, more than an inch in length, with a slender, pedicel-
late abdomen; it is known to entomologists as Ammophila Yar-
rowi Cres. They were so numerous that one was distracted by
their very multiplicity, but, by singling out different individuals,
we were enabled to verify each detail of their operations. An
insect, alighting, ran about on the smooth, hard surface till it had
found a suitable spot to begin its excavation, which was made
about a quarter of an inch in diameter, nearly vertical, and car-
ried to a depth of about four inches, as was shown by opening a
number of them. The earth, as removed, was formed into a
rounded pellet and carefully carried to the neighboring grass ami
dropped. For the first half of an inch or so the hole was made
of a slightly greater diameter. When the excavation had been
carried to the required depth, the wasp, after a survey of the
premises, flying away, soon returned with a large pebble in its
mandibles, which it carefully deposited within the opening; then,
standing over the entrance upon her four posterior feet, she I
say she, for it was evident that they were all females) rapidly and
most amusingly scraped the dust with her two trout feet, " hand
over hand," back beneath her, till she hail tilled the hole above
the stone to the top. The operation so far was remarkable

86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

enough, but the next procedure was more so. When she had
heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction, she again flew away and
immediately returned with a smaller pebble, perhaps an eighth
of an inch in diameter, and then standing more nearly erect, with
the front feet folded beneath her, she pressed down the dust all
over and about the opening, smoothing off the surface, and ac-
companying the action with a peculiar rasping sound. After all
this was done, and she spent several minutes each time in thus
stamping 'the earth so that only a keen eye could detect any
abrasion of the surface, she laid aside the little pebble and flew
away to be gone some minutes. Soon, however, she comes back
with a heavy flight, scarcely able to sustain the soft green larva,
as long as herself, that she brings. The larva is laid upon the
ground, a little to one side, when, going to the spot where she
had industriously labored, by a few rapid strokes she throws out
the dust and withdraws the stone cover, laying it aside. Next,
the larva is dragged down the hole, where the wasp remains for
a few minutes, afterwards returning and closing up the entrance
precisely as before. This, we thought, was the end, and sup-
posed that the wasp would now be off about her other affairs, but
not so; soon she returns with another larva, precisely like the
first, and the whole operation is again repeated. And not only
the second time, but again and again, till four or five of the larvae
have been stored up for the sustainment of her future offspring.
Once, while a wasp had gone down the hole with a larva, my
friend quietly removed the door stone that she had placed by the
entrance. Returning, she looked about for her door, but not
finding it, apparently mistrusted the honesty of a neighbor, which
had just descended, leaving her own door temptingly near. She
purloined this pebble, and was making off with it, when the
rightful owner appeared and gave chase, compelling her to re-
linquish it.

The things that struck us as most remarkable was the unerring
judgment in the selection of a pebble of precisely the right size
to fit the entrance, and the use of the small pebble in smoothing
down and packing the soil over the opening, together with the
instinct that taught them to remove every evidence that the earth
had been disturbed.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 87

Lepidoptera of the Adirondack Region of the State of New York.

By CHAS. S. MCKNIGHT, Saratoga Springs, N. V.

The late W. W. Hill, of Albany, .N. Y., made extensive col-
lections of Lepidoptera in Lewis County in this State, and lists
of his captures are to be found in several publications.*

In addition to those therein enumerated I would add the fol-
lowing species taken by myself at Saranac Lake, Franklin Co.,
N. Y. ; elevation, 1500-1600 feet. Light and sugar were both
employed. In the early Spring, while the ground was still cov-
ered with snow, many of the hibernating forms were taken in
sugar camps at rest on the trees or from the sap pails.

Thyreus Abbotii Swains., light, July. Sphinx kalmiae 5". & A.,
light, July. S. drupiferarum >S. & A., light, June. S. gordius
Cram., light, July. S. luscitiosa Cram., rare, July. Ellema
coniferarum S. & A., larvae, September. Alypia octomaculata
Hbn., bred, June. A. Langtonii Coup., rare, June. Eudryas
grata Fab., light, July. Clemensia albata Pack., light, June.
Lithosia Candida Hy. Edw., light, July. Crocata brevicornis
Walk., light, July. C. rubicundaria Hbn., light, July. Arctia
virguncula Kby., light, July. Adoneta spinuloides H. S., light,
June. Ichthyura inclusa Hbn., light, June. Gluphisia trilineata
Pack., rare, light, July. Notodonta stragula Grt., light, June.
Phcesia rimosa Pack., rare, light, July. Ccelodarys biguttata
Pack., light, July. Lophopteryx elegans Strk. ,f S , light, June.
Heterocampa manteo Donb., rare, light, June. H. biundata
Walk., light, June. H. cinerea Pack. , light, June. Samia ce-
cropia Linn., bred, June. Telea polyphemus Cram., bred,
June.

* Thirteenth Annual Report of the N. Y. State Museum of Natural History, 1879.
Seventh Annual Report on the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region of the

State of New York, Colvin Albany, iSSo.
" Papilio," iii, p. 27.

t Determined by H. Strecker. In Prof. J. B. Smith's "Check List," 1891, .\
notaria Hy. Edw. (described in " Entomologica Americana," i, p. 17) taken in Colorado
by David Bruce, is given as a synonym of the above. In the Colorado spr< minis the pri-
maries are described as being of an "even mouse color." In the Adiron mple
they are suffused from base to subterminal space and below apex, with Linwiiish nun,
darkest along the costa and gradually fading toward the outer margin into the color of
the western form. I am unaware of any previous report of the capture of this spei
the east.

88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

NOCTUID^:.

Leptina Doubledayi Gin., light, June. L. ophthalmica Gm.,
light, June. Demas flavicornis Smith, light, June. Momophana
Comstockii Grt. , light, May 19. Agrotis attenta Grt. , light,
July. A. ochrogaster Gn., sugar, July and August. A. cine-
reomaculata Morr., sugar, July and August. A. lubricans Gn.,
sugar, August. A. velleripennis Grt. , sugar, August. A. al-
ternata Grl. , sugar, August. A. badinodis Grt. , sugar, July
and August. A. catharina Grt. , sugar, August. A. salicarum
Walk., at sap, April. Barathra curialis Smith, light, June.
Hadena ducta Grt. , sugar, July. H. nmbrina Gn. , sugar, Au-
gust. H. fractilinea Grt. , sugar, August. H. impulsa Gn.,
sugar, August. Oligia arna Gn., sugar, August. Dipterygia
scabriuscula Linn., sugar, August. Tricholita semiaperta Morr.,
sugar, August. Helotropha reniformis var. atra Grt. , sugar,
June. Arzama diffusa Grt., sugar, June. Platysenta atriciliata
Grt., sugar, July. Taeniocampa alia, sap pails and sugar, April
and September. T. subterminata, sap pails and sugar, April and
September. T. peredia, sugar, September. Homoglaea hircina
Morr., sugar, April. Himella thecata Morr., sugar, September.
Scopelosoma Pettiti Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and Septem-
ber. S. Morrisoni Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and Septem-
ber. S. devia Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and September.
S. Walkerii Grt., sap pails and sugar, April and September. S.
lidus Gn., April and September. Scoliopteryx libatrix Linn.,
sugar, June. Xylina Bethunei G.&R., sap pails, April. X.
laticineria Grt., sap pails, April. X. fagina Alorr., sap pails,
April. X. Thaxteri Grt., sap pails, April. Morrisonia vomerina
Grt., sugar, June. Calocampa curvimacula Morr., sap pails,
April. C. cineritia Morr., sap pails, April. C. cineritia var.
thoracica Put. Cram., April. Crambodes talidiformis Gn., sugar,
July. Aletia argillacea Hbn., sugar, July. Abrostola urentis
Gn., sugar, August. Plusia striatella Grt., light, July. Alaria
florida Gn., light, July. Erastria apicosa Harv., sugar, July.
Eucliclia cuspidia Hbn., sugar, June. Syneda graphica Hbn.,
light, July. S. adumbrata Behr.. light, July. Homoptera var.
lunata Dm., sugar, August. H. unilineata Grt., sugar, August.
H. Woodii Grt., sugar, September. Catocala gracilis Edw.,
sugar, August. C. retecta Grt., sugar, August. C. antinympha

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 89

Hbn., sugar, August. C. piatrix Crt., sugar, August. Parthenos
nubilis Him., sugar, August. Pseudanthrcecia coracias c;>i.,
sugar, September. Argillophora furcilla Grt., sugar, September.
Homopyralis discalis Grt., sugar, August. Pangrapta decoralis
Hbn., sugar, June. Pityolita pedipalalis Gn., light, July. 1'lii-
lometra longilabris Grf., light, July. Megachyta lituralis Hbn.,
light, July. Spargaloma sexpunctata Grt., light, July. Capis
curvata Grt., light, July. Herminia morbidalis Gn., light, Au-
gust. H. petrealis Grt., light, August. Renia restrictalis Grt.,
light, June. Heterogramma rurigena Grt., light, June. Bomo-
locha baltimoralis Gn., light, June. B. bigugalis Walk., light,
June. B. albalinealis Walk., light, July. Tortricodes bifidalis

Grt., light, June.

GEOMETRIDyE.

Eudropia effectaria Walk., June. Boarmia crepuscularia Tr.,
June. Therina eudropiaria G.&R., May. T. semimendaria
Walk., May. Lobophora vernata Pack. , May. L. anguilineata
Grt., May. Chcerodes climataria 6". & A., June. Aplodes
latiaria Pack., June. Orthofidonia exornata Walk., June. Me-
tanema carnaria Pack., June. M. inatomaria Gn., June. Cabe-
rodes confusaria Hbn., June. Corycia semiclarata Walk., May.
Azelina hubnerata Gn., June. Acidalia inductata Gn., June. Pla-
godis alcovlaria Gn., June. Fidonia notataria Walk., June.
Petrophora populata L., May.

By a comparison of these lists it will be evident that this region
affords a rich field for collecting. Many additional species, and
possibly new forms, may yet be discovered, especially when we
consider that the insect fauna of the mountainous portion is still

practically unknown.

o

NOTES UPON LARRAD/E.

By WM. HAMPTON PATTON, Hartford, Conn.

LIRIS.

This genus, founded upon a male type with peculiar tai>i, muv
be characterized as follows: Mandibles not dentate without, but
with a shallow median notch; 9 mandibles dentate within. $
mandibles not dentate within. Marginal cell pointed, not appen-
diculate, reaching as far as third submarginal cell. Ocelli ami
metathorax as in Tachytes.

4*

90 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

Liris coxalis n. sp. Clypeus rounded and somewhat produced at apex;
fore coxae of male separated by two slender processes of prosternum, of
female contiguous. Length about one inch; Florida. Black; mandibles,
except apical third, tawny; tarsi, at least in the middle, brown. Face with
tawny pile; posterior tibia; of 9 and anal valve of 9 with brown hairs,
anal valve of $ silvery; thorax and first segment with pale hairs; $ apex
of segments one and two, $ apex of segments one, two and three, silvery.
Tegulae and wings pale ferruginous, apical third fusco-violaceous. Re-
sembles Tachytes elongatus Cr. in coloration, and is but little longer.

TACHYSPHEX.

Represented in this country by Larra analis Fab. ; it is scarcely
a distinct genus. It differs from Larra only in the hind ocelli
being oval, and the metathorax resembling Lyroda. Other sec-
tions of Larra and Tachytes have as good a claim to a generic
"name.

LARROPSIS n. gen.

LARROPSIS TENUICORNIS {Larrada tenuicornis Smith) Type.
Second submarginal cell petiolate. Resembles Ammosphecidium
in many characters, but differs in many others. I have taken this
species in Connecticut and upon the calyx nectar-glands of Te-
coma in Virginia.

LYRODA SUBITA Say. This species is peculiar for its non-fos-
sorial tarsi, and may belong to Didineis (nee Alyson}. 'Its
method of carrying Nemobius, which it catches to feed its young,
is interesting. It holds the cricket by clasping the base of the
antennae between its mandibles and clypeus, the minute teeth here
preventing the antenna from slipping this explains the use of the
teeth on clypeus.

BOTHYNOSTETHUS = PlSONITUS Shkd. = SlLAON PicC.

Tachytes ccelebs Pttn. \s of T. ABDOMINALIS.

Larra divisa Pttn. is 9 of L. ^ETHIOPS Cress.

TACHYTES MANDIBULARIS Pttn. This species is common in
Hartford, forming hillocks, three or four inches in height and the
same in breadth of base, upon sidewalks and lawns about Sep-
tember first. It stores up Xiphidium for its brood.

Equatorial Africa promises another treasure to civilization. It is a much
scented plant, the branches of which carried about the persons will
frighten away mosquitoes. Philadelphia Record.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 91

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ODONATA OF MAINE.-II.

Specimens taken near Orono, Penobscot County, Me., 1891.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

(Continued from Vol. II, Nos. 3 and 4, 1891.)

Tribe L AGRIONINA.
Subfamily i. CALOPTERYGINA.

1. Calopteryx maculata Beauvois. Though very abundant
last year, was very scarce this season. Specimens were taken,
June 1 3th, in swamps in deep woods, but we visited the locality
about the same date where they were abundant last season, but
took none. Can it be that this species requires more than one
season to transform?

2. C. tequabilis Say. This species seems to be scarce; took a
single specimen June i3th.

Subfamily 2. AGRIONINA.

4. Argia putrida Hagen. Specimens taken June 2Oth, over
roads.

6. Ischnura verticalis Say. Taken June I3th, but no orange
forms observed until July 22d, when they were common, but were
not observed mating.

8. Enallagma Hageni Walsh. Taken June I3th and 2oth,
and July 22d.

39. Enallagma signatum Hag. July 23, 1891, Chemo Stream
near the lake; quite abundant. As many as fifty seen in patches
of Juncus and over lily pods. We were botanizing with some
friends, and had time to take only five specimens. We went to
the locality July 28th, and not a single specimen could be found.
There had been a heavy rain between the dates. Hagen gives
the habitat of this species as Georgia and Louisiana.* Mr. Cul-
vert writes that it occurs about Philadelphia, Pa. To find it abun-
dant so far North is certainly interesting.

40. Enallagma pollutum Hag. July 23, 1891, Chemo Stream
with the above, but not so abundant. Several seen, however,
but only three taken. On July 28th a single specimen was seen
and taken. This species is recorded only from Florida i I tagen,
1861, p. 84) so far as we know. To find this southern species so
far North, and no intermediate localities, is, indeed, remarkable.

* Baron deSelys (1876) adds Maryland and Illinois. 1'. 1'. C.

Q2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

Tribe II. /ESCHNINA.
Subfamily 3. yEscHNiNA.

17. sEschna {Basics schna) Janata Say. Reported from Col-
lege collection, but taken this season, July 6th and I2th, Orono
and Chemo Stream.

41. sEschna (Fonscolombia) vinosa Say. July i2th and 28th,
two females taken on window-screen in the evening. They seemed
to be attracted by the light.

Subfamily 4. GOMPHINA.

22. Gomphus exilis Selys. Reported from College collection,
but taken this season in abundance at Orono along the border
of woods, June 2Oth.

23. Gomphus spinosus Selys. Reported from College collec-
tion, but taken June I5th this season at Orono over a swamp.

42. Gomphus brevis Selys. June 2oth; border of woods,
and 9 One specimen, , differs from the type by being larger;
absence of the small tooth at the rear of the eye near the occiput;
the pterostigma dark brown instead of pale yellow, and the an-
terior femora entirely black instead of yellow below on the mid-
dle. Mr. Calvert, to whom the specimens were referred, says:
" They differ somewhat from the original description, but as this
was drawn up from a single $ from Schoharie, N. Y. , and a
single 9 (with the last 7 abdominal segments wanting) from
Port Neuf, Canada, the differences are perhaps only those of in-
dividuals." There is a single of this species in the collection
of the late Anson Allen, of Orono, Me., but the exact locality is
not given. This species is closely related to the following species
which was taken along with it and G. exilis the same day at the
same locality.

43. Gomphus abbreviatus Hagen. June 2oth, back of college
woods. Several males and females; associated with the above.
Orono, Me.

44. Cordulegaster maculatus Selys. June nth. Very abun-
dant over Sunk Haze Stream, Greenfield, Me. The specimens
were nearly all males, only one female was taken. They were fol-
lowing the stream up and down, and by our wading to the middle
in a shallow place, were readily taken.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 93

45. Cordulegaster (Zortena) diastatops Selj-s. A single $ of
this species is in the collection of the late Mr. Anson Allen, of
Orono, Me.', and was taken in the vicinity of Orono.

(To be continued.)

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collecting trip, with whom we can compare notes and show our inter-
esting captures; and there is also a generous rivalry which induces us
to put forth our best endeavors. At Jamesburg, students and collectors
who had corresponded or known of each other for years, had the pleas-
ure of becoming more intimately acquainted and a hearty hand-shake,
and a pleasant chat and a comparing of notes was seen on all sides. Now
what we propose, is to carry this idea farther and organize a National
Association, to be composed of the different State organizations. The
objects of such an association would be the encouragement of entomo-
logical studies, to bring about the acquaintance of those interested in
entomology in each State, for the purpose of studying geographical dis-
tribution of insects, purposes of exchange, social collecting or field meet-
ings, and for mutual encouragement. An annual dinner might be given
and papers read and discussed by the members. Much progress has
lately been made in entomology in this country, and its importance as a
study is being more fully recognized as time goes by. We hope soon to
see such an organization formed in every State and Territory in the Union,
with its president, treasurer and s cretary. The NEWS will be much
pleased to hear of any State taking the initiative, and will gladly publish
the name of its officers and members. Some time ago a prominent ento-
mologist from a Western State visited us, and, in talking over matters of
mutual interest, we found that he did not know of half those interested
in entomology in his own State. Now, it should be the duty of the State
secretary of the organization to keep a complete list of all entomologists
in the State, with their addresses and order or orders in which they are
interested, and send a printed copy to each member, and from time to
time notify them of additional names. This article is only in the way of
a suggestion, and many other interesting outcomes of the plan may appear
and details carried out later on. ED.

ROCKS. An entomological friend, to whom I once sent a letter bristling
with questions, replied, after a long silence, in explanation: " Remember
it is about 999 times easier to ask questions than to answer them !" The
questions and problems suggested by Messrs. Mason and Tough in EN-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS, are easily asked or stated, but there the simplicity
ends.

In an old country like Europe, where there is a large population, with
many that are interested in Entomology, illustrated works such as those
suggested are feasible, and are in existence. In some cases wealthy
amateurs publish expensive works, beautifully illustrated, without hope
or expectation of return; while in others, the comparative cheapness of
reproductive methods allows of publications at a reasonable price, with a

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 95

less sumptuous illustration. In our country the number of those inter-
ested is so small, that publication must be at a loss even if the illustrati >ns
be of the least expensive character consistent with accuracy and definition.
Photography will do much, but there are many species, especially among
the moths, in which it can give us an outline, and in which it fails to give
shades or even contrasts of color where the two colors affect the plate
similarly. The orthochromatic plates help somewhat, but do not solve
the problem entirely.

I think I can safely say that all of my colleagues in the work on the
" List" would be willing to contribute to publications such as suggested,
could they be ensured against financial loss recompense they would not
expect. I know of at least two monographic works that cannot be issued in
the shape in which they were planned, simply because of the cost and
the absolute hopelessness of getting back the outlay. No publisher will
touch them, except at the authors' expense, and the authors are not
wealthy. But, after all, are the "Rocks" so formidable, and would the
illustrations really do much to advance the study of Entomology? Mr.
Meyrick is opposed to all illustration of species because he thinks the
figures will be used to identify specimens without recourse to the text for
a knowledge of characters. While I do not agree with him fully, I think
there is no reasonable cause for complaint where monographic works on
a family are at hand, even if not illustrated. Of course it means study,
but no one who is really interested will shirk study. That interest which
goes only to the collection of specimens and naming them by pictures,
without any further object, is scarcely worthy of much attention. We
have books enough for those who want to study, and never have- there
been so many papers of a monographic character issued, as in the tew
years last past. The fact that our fauna is incompletely known is no ob-
jection to monographic work. A very serious trouble, however, which
is really the greatest " Rock," is the fact that the publications that do
exist, are usually not accessible, except in large cities, and often not then.
Yet, even this trouble is gradually disappearing, and the newer puMii a-
tions, on which ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS keeps its readers posted, largely
render reference to older and more rare works unnecessary. .Meanwhile,
I will suggest that there is scarcely a specialist who will not gladly name
for the collector such material as is sent him, or who will not give what
aid is in his power to the young student. Finally, I will make a definite
proposition: If three hundred and fifty subscribers could be obtained tor
a monograph of the Noctuidie to be issued in monthly parts, each pan to
cost fifty cents, and to be illustrated by at least one quarto plate uitli
necessary descriptive matter, I would agree to prepare such a work
Number of parts not stated. JOHN B. SMII n.

THE special bulletin of the Massachusetts Agricultural College just
issued contains an interesting account of the gypsy moth, Oanria
by Prof. C. H. Fernald. The State of Mass.irhu-.etts is making a
fight against this most destructive insect. Two years ago the State ap-

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propriated $50,000 for this work; last year $50,000, and it has lately ap-
propriated $75,000 for the work of the coming year. They are doing
everything possible to disseminate a knowledge of this insect among the
people, having published a special report, with colored figures, of the
insect in its various stages. Prof. Fernald, in his interesting account, says
that there is a statement in the second volume of the "American Ento-
mologist," published in 1870, "that only a year ago the larva of a certain
Owlet moth (H. dispar), which is a great pest in Europe, both to fruit and
forest trees, was accidentally introduced by a Massachusetts entomologist
into New England." He then gives an interesting account of its distri-
bution, food-plants, enemies, how to destroy them, etc. This method of
introduction should be a warning to entomologists. We have had sent
to us from foreign countries living injurious insects packed in paste-board
boxes which were partly crushed in the mails and in the best possible
condition for naturalization.

Mr. CHAS. DURY, in vol. xiv, p. 183 of the " Cincinnati Journal of Natu-
ral History," gives an interesting account of the inhabitants of a field
mouse nest: " I went to an old orchard, and under the first log rolled over
I discovered a nest, and secured a mouse as she rushed out. She proved
to be the 'short-tailed meadow shrew,' Blarina brevicanda (Say). I
lifted the nest into the sifting-net and sifted it over a sheet of white paper,
and was overwhelmed at the result. The fine debris was a jumping,
crawling mass of insect life: beetles, fleas, ticks and larvae. There were
over a hundred large, vicious-looking fleas, most energetic biters. How
the mouse could live in such a den is a mystery. There were 107 Lep-
tinits testaceus. The other beetles associated with the Leptinus were
Staphylimdae, or ' rove' beetles of species new to me."

Mr. THOS. E. BEAN contemplates collecting during the Summer of 1892
on the mountains of the central range in the vicinity of Laggan and
Hector (Can. Pacif. Railway), at summit of Kicking Horse Pass, and in
the most accessible part of the Bow Valley. He will give particular at-
tention to alpine work, and collect all orders of insects.

IN the March number of the NEWS, on page 70, there appeared a short
article put in by the printer to fill out the page, and he neglected to label
it "Newspaper Entomology." This describes a most curious hybrid
insect (probably hybrid between a tarantula and a scorpion) which stings
and bites with one end and stings with its tail at the other. If it were not
stated that the insect was a spider we would think the Doctor specialist
who treated the sting or bite, had a scorpion in his mind. It is very
doubtful whether a scorpion can sting itself in the back as the sting points
the wrong way for this manoeuver. We see many curious insects de-
scribed in the daily press, and one we described in the NEWS turned out
to be a new genus and species (Electricia totnfooleryt'nsis}, vol. ii, p. 54.

Mr. Pun. IP LAURKNT, of Philadelphia, thinks of going to Colorado on
a collecting trip, during the coming season.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 97

Prof. C. H. FERNALD is writing a descriptive work on the Microlepid-
optera, to be entitled " Manual of the Microlepidoptera of N. America "
This will be a very important contribution to the subject, and should
greatly increase the number of persons interested in this department of
Lepidoptera. Prof. Fernald will be his own publisher.

TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892).
Pages 25-40 inclusive, have been printed since our last issue, containing
the conclusion of Dr. Horn's " Study of Amara, s. g. Celia," and the first
pages of his " Random Studies of North American Coleoptera."

PREVENTION OF THE PEACH YELLOWS AND ROSETTE, AS CAUSED BY
THE YELLOW$ MITE. The Peach Yellows is caused by the mite firiobia
pratensis, as noted by me in ENT. NEWS for December, 1891. Its orange-
colored eggs cover the bark in Winter. The mite is also destructive to
grass and clover, as noted in "Insect Life" for September, 1890. The
Peach Rosette is an after effect of the Yellows, hence the cause is the
same. Trees rarely live more than a year after the mites attack them.
The mites are classed among those that spin silk, and are readily trans-
ported from tree to tree by the wind carrying them upon their silken webs.
It has been recommended to root up infested trees, and New York
State has a law requiring it, but the discovery of the cause of the Yellows
will require a modification of the law, as other remedies may be easily
applied. Carbolic soap washed upon the trunks and twigs in Winter will
readily destroy the mite eggs, and whitewash similarly applied will also
be a good preventative. A spraying of kerosene emulsion, or of pyre-
thrum in solution, upon the affected trees would also destroy the mites.
An investigation of the hatching of the eggs in Spring is needed. The
orange-colored mites in contrast with the green of the leaves produces
the yellow tint giving rise to the name of the disease. W. H. PATTON.

PASSENGERS on the Ninth Avenue elevated road, New York, h.i\<
watched for the past three years a sightly pile slowly growing into shape
in Manhattan Square. Those who did not know already what the build-
ing was, easily learned from their neighbors that it was the new addition
to the Museum of Natural History. On the fifth floor will be arran.u* >1
the ethnological and entomological collections. The recent additions to
the latter ar<" many. Among them are the Elliot collection of N'eu York
butterflies, presented by the widow of Mason S. Elliot, of Brooklyn. It
contains 30,000 specimens. Her husband's collection of 10,000 volumes
of natural history was part of the gift. The Angus collection of 14,000
moths and butterflies is another new exhibit. Of Catocake alone, Mr.
James Angus informed me that there were over noo specimens, the lal><>r
of forty years' collecting, and that he never took any at su^.tr.

U. E. KIN/.E.

MERISUS IN EUROPE AND IN AMERICA. It seems pn.lubk- that the
importation of the European parasite of the Hessian Fly will result a>
unfortunately as did Prof. Riley's introduction, some years ago, of the

98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

European Apanteles parasitic on the cabbage butterfly. In the latter case
the only result was the discovery that the insect had been well known in
America for fifty years past. So with the Hferisus, there are no specific
characters to separate nigripes from our well-known M. destructor (Say)
and all the species referred to this genus in this country are synonyms.
In fact the genus contains but one species. The subgenus Homoporus
was founded upon dessicated or worn specimens, and the other subgenus
named by Thomson was similarly founded upon imperfectly developed
individuals. I have bred M. destructor Say from the chrysalids of Orgyia
leucostigma at Hartford; an hitherto unknown host for the species, afford-
ing- the peculiarity of many (often up to 100) flies emerging from one pupa,
whereas in the Hessian Fly each pupa affords room for but.one parasite-

WM. H. PATTON, Hartford, Conn.

Identification of Insects (Jmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor j
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III.
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

Insects have been named for W. W. Newcomb, W. E. Longley, Geo.
Miller, D. S. Harris, W. M. Hill, H. Caracciolo, H. C. Denslow, A. A.
Wright, H. E. Weed, W. Metcalfe, A. Sheriff, Frank H. Johnson, A. G.
Weeks, Jr.

Entomological Literature.

To those who can master the German language there is no work pub"
lished in recent years which will give greater assistance to the student of
Coleoptera than the " Coleoptera of Middle and Southern Europe," by
Dr. L. Ganglbauer. The work is filled with useful tables, and abundantly
illustrated by well-executed wood-cuts of details, which will be found
extremely useful. It would be difficult to make any adverse criticism,
except that based on purely personal opinion, and to this extent his method
of separating the tribes of Carabidae seems not that which will enable the
student to make the most certain progress. The first volume, containing
the Cicindelidae, Carabidce and Dysticidre, is all that has thus far appeared.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 99

ACTA SOCIETATIS PRO FAUNA ET FLORA FENNICA, VI, Helsingfors

1889-90. Enumeration of the Brachelytrous Coleoptera of Finland: II.
Pselaphidse and Clavigeridse,* J. Sahlberg (1889).

SCHRIFTEN DES NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN YKKKIXS FUR SCHLEE-

wic-HoLSTEiN, viii, 2, Kiel, 1891. Contributions to the insect fauna of
Schleswig-Holstein, iv, v, W. Wuestnei.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), Jan. 29, 1892. On a
Stratyomid Dipter (Beris vallata Forster) imitating a Tenthrid (Athalia
auaiilafa Fabr.), A. Giard. The wandering cricket (Schistocerca /V/r-
grina Ohr.) and its changes of color, J. K. d'Herculais. Feb. 5, 1892.
On a hemipter-heteropter (ffalticus minutus Renter) which ravages the
arachid plantations in Cochin China, A. Giard. Feb. 20, 1892. Struc-
ture of an abdominal ganglion of Mclolontha, A. Binet.

LE NATURALISTS (Paris), Feb. i, 1892. Papi/io machaon L. and its
different varieties, L. Austaut. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera,* P.
Dognin. Feb. 15, 1892. The woody cecids of Rnbus, E. Halle, figs.
Deformities observed in Coleoptera, L. Planet, figs. March i, 1892.
Descriptions of new Lepidoptera,* P. Dognin.

TERMESZETRAJZI FUZETEK xiv, Budapest, 1891. Exotic Myriapoda in
the zoological collection of the University of Heidelberg,* Dr. E. v.
Daday, i pi. New Tenthredinidse and Siricidae,* A. Mocsary.

ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, vi, 1-4, New York,
1891. Coleopterological notices, T. L. Casey.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xviii, 2, January, 1892.
New Histeridas (Coleoptera),* J. Schmidt. On the occurrence of halo-
philous Saldae'm Lorraine, J. J. Kieffer. 3. February, 1892. Notes on the
beetle fauna of Brunswick, Dr. K. M. Heller. Ichneumonid and Try-
phonid studies, Dr. Kriechbaumer. The Zoocecidai of Lorraine iii, J. ].
Kieffer.

OUTLINES OF ENTOMOLOGY. Prepared for the use of farmers and hor-
ticulturists, at the request oi the secretary of the State Hoard of Agricul-
ture and the State Horticultural Society of Missouri. By Mary K. Mm t-
felclt, Kirkwood, Missouri. Jefferson City, Mo. Tribune Printing Co.,
State printers and binders, 1891. Pp. ii, 132, iii, 48 wood-cuts. Tin's ele-
mentary work describes the structure of insects in general, after which
each order is separately considered as regards its various groups with
their chief characteristics and habits.

A List of some of the catalogues and local lists of North American '
leoptera. I. (A-G) II. (H-P) III. (R-Z) T-y John Hamilton ami Samuel
Henshaw (Psyche, October, December, 1891; January. 1892).

* Contains new species other than North American.

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BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS (8), iii, 4, 1891.
Contributions to the embryogeny of the Chalcidians, preliminary note, L.
F. Henneguy, figs.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Feb. i, 1892. To the knowledge
of the biological relations between host and parasitic bee-larva?, C. Ver-
hoeff. On the American Intermediate Host of Echinorhynchus gigas,
C. \V. Stiles \_Lachnosterna\. Feb. 15, 1892. Self-mutilation among
grasshoppers, F. Werner. To the knowledge of cone-lice (Lac /inns'), N.
Cholodkovsky.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), ix, 50, February,
1892. Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidas contained in
the British Museum collection,* W. Warren.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Jan. 8, 1892.
[misprinted 1891] New species of Heterocera from the Dutch East In-
dies,* F. J. M. Heylaerts. The Coccinellidas of Chota-Nagpore,*| J.
Weise. List of the Hemiptera of Belgium: II. Homoptera, E. Coubeaux.

SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST on the Noxious
and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois. By S. A. Forbes, Spring-
field, 111., 1891. Pp. 90, 36, ix. , 7 pis. i portrait of Wm. LeBaron.

REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE DU BOURBONNAIS II, 2, Moulins, February, 1892,
Bittacus tipularius, R. Martin.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xix, i.
Philadelphia, Feb., 1892. Studies in Chrysomelidae, G. H. Horn, M.D.

BRITISH NATURALIST (London), February, 1892. Portrait of H. T.
Stainton. Preliminary list of Hymenoptera-Aculeata of Lancaster and
Cheshire, W. Gardner. Dragonflies, F. Milton.

ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS. By A. S. Packard, M.D., Ph.D. Third
edition. Revised. New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1890. Pp. xvi, 367.
273 figs.

ENTOMOLOGISK TIDSKRIFT (Stockholm), xii, i, 2, 1891. New Brazilian
species of scorpions, *t T. Thorell, i pi. New Longicorn Coleoptera,*f
C. Aurivillius, figs.; and papers in Swedish on Scandinavian insects.

PROCEEDINGS U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM xiv, SSi, Washington, 1892.
The biology of the Hymenopterous insects of the family Chalcididae, L.
O. Howard.

SPECIAL RRPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Boston,
1892. On the work of extermination of the Ocneria dispar or gypsy
moth by C. H. Fernald, 26 pp. 6 pi.

ATTI D. REALE ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI (Rome), Rendiconti, Jan. 17,
1892. On Termite societies, B. Grassi.

* Contains new species other than North American. + Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NF.US.

IOI

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA (Kingston), i, 2, Feb., 1892.
A Tachinid bred from Protoparce Jainaicetisis Bull, in Jamaica, C. H.
Tyler Tovvnsend. A first contribution to the entomology of Bath. Jamaica,
T. D. A. Cockerell. The larva of Danais Jainaicoisis Bates, C. B. Taylor.

IOWA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bulletin Xo. 15. Des
Moines, November, 1891. Reports on injurious insects, H. Osborn and
H. A. Gossard.

ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), March, 1892. On
the origin of ants' nests, W. W. Smith. Notes on the synonymy of sev-
eral West-African Lycaenidae, H. H. Druce. Another addition to the
British fleas, E. Saunders. Synonymical notes on Cynipida- and For-
micidae, P. Cameron. Migrations and new localities of some Coccids,
W. M. Maskell. Annotated list of British Tachiniidae,* R. H. Meade.
Neuroptera of the Channel Islands, W. A. Luff, R. McLachlan. The
butterflies of Rawal Pindi and the Murree Hills (Punjab), N. Manders.
Notes.

MEMORIAS v REVISTA DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIKICA " Antonio Alzate,"
v, 3 and 4, Mexico, 1892. General protective resemblance in the Mexican
Lepidoptera of the genus Ithoinia, Prof. A. L. Herrera.

COMPPE RENDU. ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES (Paris), Feb. 22, 1892.
Structure of the larval nervous system of Straliomys strigosa, F. Hen-
neguy and A. Binet.

YERHANDLUNGEN DER K. K. .ZOOL.-BOTAN. GESELLSCHAFT IN \Yn N,
xli, 3, 1891. New Termitophilous insects, with a review on Termite
guests,*! E. Wasmann, i pi. 4, 1891. On the grasshopper swarms in
Algeria, Dr. C. B. v. Wattenwyl. Descriptions of new varieties of Bom-
bycidae from Syria, A. Rogenhofer. Swimming butterflies, Dr. S. Klem-
ensiewicz.

BULLETIN OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION OF THE UNI-
VERSITY of Tennessee, iv, 3, July, 1891, Knoxville, Tenn. The true bugs
or Heteroptera of Tennessee, H. E. Summers, figs.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, March, 1892. Miscellaneous notes on but-
terflies, larvae, etc., \V. H. Edwards. I\wipliila inanitoha Scud, an.l its
varieties, H. H. Lyman. New species of Pyralidce, G. I). Hulst. Notes
on N. American Tachinidas, etc., v, C. H. T. Tovvnsend. Getting but-
terfly eggs, W. G. Wright. Amblyoponc pallipcs Hald., W. H. Harrin- 1< >n.
' THE ENTOMOLOGIST (London), March, 1892. Ephestia kuhniella R.
Adkin. Entomological pins, Dr. D. Sharp. Arcl'ui i -a/a, }. Arkk-. Notes
on the synonymy of Noctuid moths, A. < >. Butler. Coleoptera fnmi Cen-
tral China and the Korea,* Rev. H. S. Gorham. Notes, etc.

SITZUNGS-BERICHT D. GESELLSCHAFT NATUKF)RSCMI-.NI>MS FKKUNDE
zu BERLIN, Jan. 19, 1892. Insect remains from the peat strata of Klinge,
H. Schaeff.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

MYRIAPODA.

Spirostreptus flavocingulatus Daday, Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek xiv, p.
137, tab. vii, fig. 4, Calif. Rachis calif ornicus, p. 142, tab. vii, fig. 12,
Calif. Scolopendra viridi/imbata, p. 148, N. Am.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Pyralidae: Monocona n. gen. Warren, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p.
173. M. rubralis id., p. 174, Calif. Minwschinia n. gen. p. 174; type
Botys thalialis Wlk. Noctnelia flavifimbrialis, p. 174, Calif. Aporodes
versicolor, p. 175, Washington. Pyransta cocci ttia, p. 176, Calif. Sylly-
thria snbricalis, p. 177, Calif. Myelois fructetella Hulst, Can. Ent. xxiv,
p. 59, Ariz., Tex. M. elegantella, p. 59, Washington. M. texanella, p.
60, Tex. M. leucophaeella, p. 60, Iowa. Acrobasis cirroferella, p. 60,
Tex. Salebria levigatella, p. 61, Mass., Wis. >S. purpurella p. 61, N.
Mex. Zophodia bella, p. 61, Mass. Ocala n. gen. p. 61. O. dryadella,
p. 61, Fla. Diviana nymphaeella, p. 62, Fla. Chipeta n. gen., p. 62. C.
perlepidella, p. 62, Fla. Lipographis subosseella, p. 62, Bahamas, W. I.
Paralipsa decorella, p. 63, N. Y., Ont. Loxostege baccatalis, p. 63, Tex.

Papilio Hollandii Edwards, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 50, Col.

HEMIPTERA.

Halticus Uhleriior H. minutus Popenoe (preoc.), Giard, C. R. Soc.
Biol. Paris (n. s.), iv, p. Si.

Aspidiotus articulatus Cockerell, Journ. Ins. Jam. i, p. 54, Jamaica,
Barbadoes.

COLEOPTERA.

Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vi, pp. 9-214, desoribes 3 n. sp. of Cu-
cujidse; i n. sp. Elateridae; 3 Scarabasidse; 6 n. gen., 46 n. sp. Cerambyc-
idae; 2 n. gen., 54 n. sp. Cistellidae; i n. gen., 7 n. sp. Meloidaa; 28 n. sp.
Curculionidae; from all parts of U. S.

Euryscopa pusilla Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 16, Tex. E. snb-
filis p. 17, Calif. Amara Belfragei, p. 19, Tex. Saxinis politula, spccn-
lifera p. 10, Calif. Coscinoptera seininiida, p. 13, Ariz.

DIPTERA.

Masicera protoparcis Townsend, Journ. Ins. Jam. i, p. 70, Jamaica.

Blepharipcza exul Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 64, N. H. Conia
saga.v, p. 65, Iowa. Pseudogonia ruficauda, p. 66, S. Dak. Plagia
aurifrons, p. 67, Pa. Trixia gillettei, p. 68, Col. Milfogramma katisoisis,
p. 68, Kan. Mctopia Luggeri, p. 69, Minn. Thryptocera americana,
p. 69, D. C.

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Doings of Societies.

A REGULAR MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES was held February 25th. Meeting
called to order at 8.30 P.M., Dr. Horn, director, presiding. Members
present: Ridings, Skinner, Martindale. Associates: Calvert, Johnson,
Nell and Fox. Mr. Calvert presented the third lot of European Odonata,
twelve specimens of Gomphits, which makes the representation of
this genus pretty full. Dr. Horn presented thirty-six specimens of
Coleoptera from Mexico, being lot No. 2. Specimen of Triptogon
occidentalis presented by H. Skinner. Fifteen species of Tachinidce;
twenty-one specimens by C. H. Tyler Townsend. These are type-
specimens, and will make a valuable addition to the collection of
Diptera. Mr. Calvert exhibited drawings representing the neuration in
his new genus of dragonflies, Ortholestes and two allied genera of Agrio-
nina. He pointed out the generic differences as shown by variation in
the neuration. It was also stated that Dr. Karsch had recently described
a new genus of AGRIONINA, Neuragrion from Ecuador, and the speaker
pointed out the characters on which the genus was based. The capture
of a specimen of Pantala flavescens was reported from Fairmount Park.
Dr. Horn spoke of the mechanism of the veins in NEUROPTERA, in refer-
ence to their utility in flight, and in regard to the strength of the wing.
The subject was further discussed by Messrs. Horn, Calvert and Martin-
dale. The director announced the death of Henry Walter Bates on Feb-
ruary lyth. Messrs. C. YV. Johnson and Charles Liebeck were proposed
for membership. HENRY SKINNKK,

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1892. Under
the head of short notes, Mr. Ashmead made some interesting remarks
on Eunotus, a peculiar chalcid genus, new to the United States. It was
his opinion that it belonged to the subfamily Apheliniiue. Dr. Stiles
noted a report that a man in Germany had been bitten by the common
house fly and died within twenty-tour hours. Much discussion folio-
throwing considerable discredit upon the story. Mr. Hanks exhibited a
male specimen of Loxosceles which had but six developed legs. 1 >r.
Marx exhibited a peculiar Theridid spicier which had extremely Ion-
mandibles. Dr. Stiles made some instructive remarks on a liver-fluke
story that was circulating in certain papers. According to this story tin-
young stages of the liver-fluke were passed in the house-lly. wln-ivas they
are passed in snails. Mr. Mally read a paper on "An Insectivorous Prim-
rose." He drew attention to the fact that (F.uotlicra spcciota raptured a
small Dipterous insect upon its gummy style and stigma. Hut one species
was seen trapped. As the insect could not be eaten by tin- plant the
author thought that the insects must, in some way, aid the t'-i tili/ation , ,f
ovules. Discussed bv Messrs. Ashmead, Test, Srhwarx. .Marx, Hnvard,
Stiles and Marlatt. Mr. Howard contributed an important paper <>n

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"Spider Parasites," being a complete revision of our knowledge of these
interesting insects, both European and American. Lists and breeding
notes were given and specimens exhibited. He also called attention to
the habits of Manfispa and some Acroceridce, which, in Europe, are
known to be parasitic on spiders. Discussed by Messrs. Ashmead, Mar-
latt, Test, Schwarz, Fox and Marx. Dr. Stiles made a few remarks on
the various Nematode genera parasitic on spiders. Dr. Marx made a few
additions to his paper on ticks. Prof. Summers was invited to speak,
and made some instructive remarks on collecting and labeling.

NATHAN BANKS,

Recording Secretary.

CYNIPS Q-GLOBULUS Fitch. The galls of this species I have found upon
the European oak, Q. pedunculata, planted in Hartford, Conn. From
them I have reared a small inquilinous Cynipid and a species of Callimome.

WM. H. PATTON.

THYNNUS IN CALIFORNIA. This genus has not hitherto been found
north of the Equator in either hemisphere, nor has any of the family
Thynnidae. A specimen received from Dr. F. E. Blaisdell from Poway,
San Diego County, Cal., is the first intimation of its occurrence in North
America. It is a small black species with hyaline wings, and may be
named Thynnus calif ornicus. W. H. PATTON.

OBITUARY

ROBERT BUNKER died at his home in Rochester, N. Y., March 6th,
aged seventy-one years. He was a native of Columbia County, New York.
When five years of age his parents removed to Rochester and took up
their residence on the site where he died. Mr. Bunker was a cooper by
occupation, but spent all his spare time making entomological collections
and a few years ago presented his collection to the Academy of Science
at Rochester, of which institution he was a charter member. He con-
tributed occasional papers to the "Canadian Entomologist," and to EN-
TOMOLOGICAL NEWS; these showed that he was an acute observer of
insect life. He was, personally, a man of strong traits of character; up-
right and honorable in every relation of life; broad-minded, yet positive
in hir, opinions: genial and courteous in his intercourse with friends and
neighbors. His death will be sincerely mourned by his entomological
friends, and by the community in which he lived.

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VOL. in. MAY, 1892. No. 5.

CONTENTS:

Ashmead Two new and Remarkable

Ophionids 105

Coding Studies in N. A. Membracidse 108
Blatchley Entomologizing in Mexico., in
Smith Elementary Entomology 114

Harvey Odonata of Maine 116

Editorial. 118

Notes and News 119

Entomological Literature 123

Doings of Societies.... 128

Our illustration this month represents three species '.of Papilio
which are visitors to our fauna, and for which collectors should
be on the lookout. Papilio poly damas has been found on the In-
dian River, Florida, arid P. sinon has also been found 'in southern
Florida. P. myloles\s said to have been taken in southern Cali-
fornia. Polydamas and sinon are West Indian species, and the
home of mylotes is in Central America. The $ mylotes is of a
rich black, and the spots on the superior wings are bright green;
those on the inferiors are carmine. The spots on the superiors
of the 9 are cream color, and those on the inferiors of a lighter
shade of carmine than in the . P. polydamas is dark bottle-
green, with light green, spots on inferiors, and the spots on the
superiors are cream color with a tinge of green. The negative
was kindly made for the NEWS by Dr. Benjamin Sharp of the
Academy. ED.

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TWO NEW AND REMARKABLE OPHIONIDS.

By WM. H. ASHMEAD.

In 1868, Dr. Arnold Forster, of Aachen, published a remark-
able work entitled, "Synopsis der Fnmilk-n uud Gattungen d<-r
Ichneumonen," in which no less than 36 familii ^ and 522 -ciu-ra
were recognized.

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The work evidently took years of patient labor and research,
and it has been too long neglected by European and American
writers on these insects, as it contains excellent tables and hints
and ideas on the classification of this difficult group, which, it
worked out thoroughly, would undoubtedly aid materially in ad-
vancing a systematic knowledge of these insects. In separating
the Ichneumons into so many families and genera, Forster prob-
ably went to the extreme, and this may account for the little value
placed on the work by his contemporaries, but from the little
study I have as yet given to his work, I am fully convinced that
many of his so-called families will hold good, with some modifi-
cation, as Tribes, in the sense of LeConte and Horn.

His family 2oth, or the Mesochoroidae for instance, will form a
natural tribe, Mesochorini, in the subfamily Ophioninae, distin-
guished by the large, rhomboidal areolet, and by the two promi-
nent projecting anal styles in the males.

I have been led to these views by a somewhat careful study
of some of the families characterized in his work, and by the
discovery of two remarkable male insects that for a long time
baffled me in placing one in the National Museum and the other
in my own collection but which I find, with the aid of Forster' s
tables, belong to two new genera briefly characterized in his work.

In describing these two insects I have deemed it advisable to
give below not only a table of the genera of this tribe, but a full
generic description of these two imperfectly known genera, so
that other students may easily recognize them.

Tribe MESOCHORINI.
Table of Genera.

Vertex narrowed, lateral ocelli close to the margin of the eye ; claws

pectinate G. i. Plesiophthalmus Forster.

Vertex not narrowed, lateral ocelli distant from the margin of the eye.
Claws pectinate; first abdominal segment with lateral carinae extending
backward from the spiracles; transverse median nervure in hind
wing broken . . . . G. 2. Astiphromma Forster.

Claws simple; first abdominal segment without lateral carina?; trans-
verse median nervure in hind wing not broken.

G. 3. Mesochorus Grav.

Plesiophthalmus Forster. Head transverse, not wider than the thorax
across the wings, antero-posteriorly thin; the frons foveated; clypeus not
separated; ocelli large, prominent, the laterals close to the eye margin;

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eyes large, narrowed oblong, reaching almost to the base of the mandi-
bles, sinuated within opposite the base of the antennae; mandibles oblong,
bidentate at tip; maxillary palpi long, 5-jointed, the second joint swollen
two-thirds the length of the third, the following joints slender, cylindrical,
the third and fifth about equal in length, the fourth a little longer; labial
palpi 4-jointed; metathorax completely areolated, with linear spiracles;
areolet in front wing large, rhomboidal, subpetiolate; the second and
third discoidal cells about equal in length, the second abscissa of the cu-
bital nervure strongly curved upwards; transverse median nervure in hind
wing broken below the middle; tibial spurs i, 2, 2, large, those on the
middle and hind tibiae subequal; claws strongly pectinate.

P. paniscoides sp. nov. rj\ Length 13 mm. Pale yellow ferruginous,
polished, impunctured; the head above the insertion of the antennae and
the cheeks, the last two abdominal segments and the two long anal styles
black; antenna? as long as the body, slender, tapering and involuted at
tips, pale at base, but becoming fuscous toward tips; the first flagellar
joint is the longest, the following subequal. Thorax very slightly trilobed
anteriorly, but the parapsidal furrows not distinctly impressed; scutellum
convex, connected with a mesonotal ridge or carina at the sides, but with
a transverse fovea at base; metathorax smooth, but distinctly areolated.
Legs very long and slender. Wings clear hyaline, iridescent, the stigma
and venation pale yellowish; the stigma is lanceolate, with the radius
springing from a little before the middle. Abdomen slender, subclavate,
subcompressed beneath at tip, twice the length of the thorax; petiole
long, slender or subclavate, the spiracles situated at the middle; second
segment a little shorter than the petiole; third, two-thirds the length of
the second; the following segments subequal.

Hab. Massachusetts. Type in coll. Ashmead.
Described from a single specimen received from Mr. Samuel
Henshaw, and labeled as having been collected by ' ' Bowditch."

Astiphromma Forster. Head very broadly transverse, the frons deeply
impressed, the clypeus not separated; ocelli large, close together in a
triangle, the laterals their width from the eye margin; eyes large, ohltmg-
oval, extending to the base of the mandibles; mandibles stout, bidentate
at tips; maxillary palpi very long, 5-jointed, the second joint clavate, the
third the longest joint, the following subequal; labial palpi .|-j>int<-d, tin-
second joint the shortest and stoutest, the last the longest; metatlu>ra\
with a median and a posterior area; areolet of wings large, subsessil.
rhomboidal; the second and third discoidal cells equal in length; the s. mud
abscissa of the discoidal nervure strongly curved upwards and nut broken
by a "stump of a vein" at the middle; tibial spurs i, 2, 2, large and equal;
claws pectinate.

A. pectoralis sp. nov. JV Length 7 mm. I '.lack, shining, impunrtmvd;
scape and pedicel beneath, tlu- face and mandibles, except the teeth, yel-
low; palpi and tegukc white, prothorax and meso- and in.-u-pleura- pale

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ferruginous. Legs pale ferruginous, the anterior and middle coxae and
trochanters luteous or white; posterior legs more or less distinctly red,
the apex of the tibia;, spurs, and tips of the tarsal joints, fuscous or black.
Abdomen black, the extreme apical edge of the second and third seg-
ments white; ventral segments 2 to 4 pale ferruginous, the extreme apical
edges of the following segments whitish; spiracles of first segment small,
round, placed at the middle; the two anal styles a little longer than the
second tarsal joint, black. Wings hyaline iridescent; the stigma large,
subtriangular, brown, the other nervures paler brown.

Hab . Texas. Type in National Museum.
Described from a single specimen in the National Museum,
donated by Dr. C. V. Riley.

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Studies in North American Membracidae. I.

By F. W. CODING, M.D., Rutland, 111.

STICTOCEPHALA Stal.

Stictocephala gillettei n. sp. 9- Convex in front; on each side a lateral
carina posteriorly, uniting far back of middle; superior surface of pro-
thorax nearly flat; apex extends almost to tip of tegmina, very slender,
strongly curved downward and triquetrous; along posterior half of carina
is an impressed line. Head reticulate with yellow, apex hairy; a semi-
circular line with termini each side of apex; just above eyes on prothorax
a scar; ocelli equidistant from each other and the eyes. Prothorax very
coarsely punctured, grass-green; tegmina glassy-green, second and third
apical cells subequal, fourth nearly as long as the two; all of tegmina
more or less punctured, base coriaceous. Chest brownish green, hairy;
femora green, covered with coarse hairs; tibiae light brown, tarsi light
brown, tips black. Abdomen green, ovipositor fuscous. Length 7 mm.

Hab. Colorado. Described from one 9 presented by Prof.
C. P. Gillette, in whose honor this beautiful species is named.
It may be readily separated from its congeners by the depressed,
extended form, lateral carinae extending nearly to apex; no semi-
circular lateral impressions, and long, very slender, strongly
curved downward apex, and deep grass-green color.

TELAMONA Fitch.

Telaniona rileyi n. sp. Similar in size and form to coqnillctti God'g;
the markings are less prominent, lateral horns much less produced.

$. Greenish yellow, marked with ferruginous lines, punctured. Head
greenish yellow, lightly punctured. Prothorax yellowish green, mottled
with ferruginous, and a number of ferruginous, longitudinal, elevated

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lines; dorsal carina percurrent, a deeply impressed dot on each side of its
base; dorsal crest somewhat elevated, much compressed, strongly com-
pressed anteriorly at base and posteriorly behind middle, the highest
point of crest at beginning of posterior third, from which point it gradu-
ally slopes anteriorly in a gentle curve continuous with anterior third of
prothorax, posteriorly sloping for a short distance, then forming an obtuse
angle; at the base another obtuse angle is formed, from which the median
carina curves gently to the apex; lateral angles a little prominent; tegmina
with basal half coriaceous, apical half subcoriaceous, a brown spot at
apex. Chest below is dark yellow, coxae piceous. Legs yellow and hairy
Abdomen yellow. Length 6 mm.

Hab. Mario County, Cal.

Described from one from Dr. Riley, who has so kindly
favored me with much valuable material from the National collec-
tion (type in collection of F. W. G.).

This species resembles coquilletti; the dorsal crest is reclined,
while in that species it is upright.

Telamona mexicana Stal. (?) $.

In the material sent to me recently from the National Museum
by Dr. Riley, for determination, is a $ member of this genus,
which agrees very closely with the description of mexicana 9
in Bid. Memb. K. p. 249, No. i. It differs, however, in the ab-
sence of the brown spot on tegmina, and the legs are immaculate
yellow, tips of tarsi piceous; dorsal crest nearly thrice as long as
high at base.

I believe this to be the of mexicana; if it should prove to
be undescribed it may be called pnlchra. Length 7 mm.

Hab. California ?

PLATYCOTIS Stal.

Platycotis minax n. sp. ?. Pale yellow, densely punctured, very much
depressed, appearing broad and flat. Head bright yellow, with a longi-
tudinal median carina. Prothorax light yellow, a transverse linear im-
pression just back of base on each side of carina, the impression almost
a fascia; anterior horn extending upward and forward, much compressed,
anterior edge nearly straight, posterior ed.^e convex and brown; on each
side of horn two or three lateral canna- extending from base to apex;
horn about two and a half times as long as broad; at posterior base is an
obtuse angle, behind which is a slight convexity, thence straight to apex,
which does not reach tip of abdomen; tegmina subcoriaceous, extend far
beyond tip of abdomen, light yellow, veins darker; below yellow. Length
to apex of tegmina 5 mm.; including anterior horn 6.5 mm.

Hab. California.

Described from one 9 presented by Dr. Riley.

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POTNIA Stal.

Potnia asodalis n. sp. <j\ Dirty yellow, prothorax gibbous anteriorly,
gibbosity greenish. Head yellow, sculptured. Prothorax yellowish an-
teriorly near the base; median carina percurrent, nearly obsolete poste-
riorly; on each side of carina near the base two large brown punctures;
in front, superiorly a large gibbosity occupying about one-half of protho-
rax, greenish; median carina at this point very prominent and brown; on
each side, behind lateral angles a large impression, above which is a
second small gibbosity; apex obtuse, not reaching tip of abdomen; punc-
tured; tegmina with basal half coriaceous veins; apex extends beyond
tip of abdomen; below yellow; tibiae spined. Abdomen yellow. Length
5 mm.

Hab. Mario County, Cal.

Described from one presented by Dr. Riley (type in collec-
tion F. W. G.).

STICTOPELTA* Stal.

Stictopelta nova n. sp. $. Very near to cruenta Burm. Head bright
yellow; ocelli dark brown. Prothorax convex, with base yellow; just
above base on each side of obsolete median line a broad, irregular, trans-
verse, shining black line; from base of tegmina posteriorly the lateral
borders are white, apex brown, otherwise green and shining; tegmina
vitreous, veins of corium black; below yellow; tibiae with outer surface
brown; tarsi brown. Abdomen yellow. Length 6.5 mm.

9. Differs from $ only in having a broad semi-circular band of a little
darker green than ground color, anteriorly, the convexity of which is
forward, broken in four spots, the bases of this arched band being above
the lateral angles, which are slightly produced.

Hab. San Bernardino County, Cal. Described from two ex-
amples.

These were presented to me by Dr. Riley.

GAROARA Am. et Serv.

Gargara atlas n. sp. <$. Head black, a yellow spot below each eye;
eyes yellow. Prothorax ferruginous, base broadly piceous; median carina
percurrent, above shoulders a very large irregular gibbosity, posteriorly
long and narrow; tegmina opaque, clouded with piceous; a large light
yellow (white?) spot at base of tegmina, and one on the external border
near apex; below black; femora black, base ferruginous; tibiae and tarsi
ferruginous, tips of latter black. Length 3 mm.

Hab. Kern County, Cal.

Described from two examples from Dr. Riley.

* Stictopelta is one of Dr. Ftal's subgenera of Darnis. I consider it of sufficient value
to be recognized as a distinct genus.

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This species is very near to variegata Sign, from Calabar, both
having a prominent lobe on the prothorax anteriorly, which may
place them in a new genus. In atlas the tegmina are not vitreous,
and have a whitish band near the base; also smaller.

Duplicates of all the new species described in the foregoing
paper, excepting Stictocephala riridis, may be examined under
the above names in the National collection. I am deeply indebted
to Dr. Riley for his kindness in allowing me the privilege of
studying the duplicate material in the National collection.

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ENTOMOLOGIZING IN MEXICO.

By W. S. BLATCHLEY, Terre Haute, Ind.

He who would see in the shortest possible time insect life in all
its phases, from the few depauperate forms which dwell in the
barren regions bordering the realms of perpetual snow to the
countless thousands which bask in the genial warmth and amidst
the luxurious vegetation of a tropical clime, should visit Mexico.

In less than a week one can pass on foot from the summit of
Pico Orizaba, 18,000 and better feet in air, where the mercury
marks daily throughout the year many degrees below the freezing
point, to the level of the sea at Vera Cruz, where the mean an-
nual temperature is above 80 degrees. In this journey the num-
ber and size of the insects met with would be increasing at every
onward step, and, if carefully collected, the series would at the
end represent forms from every zone on earth.

It was not my good fortune, while a member of the recent
Scoville expedition to Mexico, to make this journey, but I col-
lected in various localities from the height of 2500 feet at Cordoba
to the lower limit of snow on the mountain. On account of a
press of other duties no special work has as yet been done with
the insects taken, and, in the present article, I propose to give
some of my experience while collecting; to mention some of the
most pecular and bizarre forms taken, and to note in a general
way the results of the trip.

In the beginning, let me say that, whoever visits Mexico to
collect insects should, unless he be a millionaire, take all necessary
material with him, for, in the town of 15,000 inhabitants where
we made our headquarters for two weeks, chloroform was one

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dollar per ounce; a cheap pine handle for a net cost twenty-five
cents; empty cigar boxes were ten cents each; potassium cyanide
could not be purchased, except by a special permit from the
mayor, while the native alcohol was too weak to do anything but
put on a temporary drunk the specimens immersed in it.

It was the late afternoon of the 2oth of July when our party
of four, after a long ride of over 3100 miles, passed down the
slope of the Mexican railway and entered Orizaba, one of the
most charming of the smaller cities of Mexico, situated as it is in
a little valley in a semi-tropical region 4000 feet above sea level,
and surrounded on every side by lofty mountains. Our hopes
were high for the real work of the party, namely, the collecting
of the different forms of animal and plant life of the region was
to begin on the morrow. Those hopes were somewhat dampened,
however, by the information that the rainy season was but well
begun, and that the chances were that it would rain every day
for a month or longer.

The first insect seen, after we had found a hotel where English
was spoken and had washed some of the dust and cinders of the
journey from us, was a handsome male of Dynastes tityus Linn,
which the landlord, who was in high good humor at getting the
four of us for the modest sum of fourteen dollars each per week
to partake of his hospitality, brought alive to me. He assured
me that his brother, who resides at Mexico City and has the
largest collection of Coleoptera in the country, had sold,scores
of them in Europe for five dollars a pair, but when I informed
him that the same species is found frequently in Kentucky, and
at times in southern Indiana, he seemed somewhat taken back.
However, he graciously presented it to me and volunteered to
accompany me after the seven o'clock dinner for a stroll about
the electric lights, where, he assured me, numerous specimens of
tityus, as well as of many other large beetles, were to be found.

When we set out to visit the lights the rain was falling in a
steady shower; but few insects were flying, and they were mostly
the smaller moths. A half dozen or more large brown beetles,
a species of Xyloryctes which I afterwards found to be very com-
mon were, however, taken from the ground beneath the lights,
and a few earwigs from the walls of the houses from which the
light was reflected.

On the morrow, as soon as our breakfast of bread and coffee,

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all one ever gets for that meal in Mexico, was despatched, I sallied
forth net in hand, and, coming to the outskirts of the city entered
an unfenced garden containing about half an acre and began
operations. The first insects seen were many of the half-grown
young of a gigantic grasshopper, Rhomalea sp. ? black in color
and in life streaked on the sides with bright crimson. They
seemed to be a social sort of creature, as thirty or forty of them
would be found feeding together on a single stalk of corn in much
the same manner as the larvae of certain of our moths feed in
communities or droves. Unlike the young grasshoppers of this
country they were very sluggish in their action, being easily cap-
tured with the fingers. After scooping up a number of them,
together with many of the young and adults of a large Hemip-
teran, Sagotylus confluentiis Say, which were making a meal on
the leaves of a gourd-vine, I gave my attention to the butterflies,
and passed the morning in that one garden, securing about seventy
specimens, representing half that number of species of those at-
tractive insects for which I was primarily in search.

And right here let me say that during that whole morning, yes,
during the whole of my collecting in Mexico, I was impressed
with a feeling which probably comes to every collector in a strange
country a feeling of being lost among such a multitude of forms
of which one is actually in search, but knows but little about.
After a naturalist has been in one locality for some time he be-
comes familiar with the different forms of life about him; knows,
for example, most of the plants, birds and insects, if not by name
at least by association. He thus becomes able to detect in an
instant anything which is new or rare, and a certain thrill of de-
light comes to him when such a form is seen. But in a country
where everything is new, where one may pick up the most com-
mon species thinking it to be rare, or, happening upon a small
group of something rare, take some of them and let the rest
alone believing them to be common, and afterwards, when too
late, find out and regret the mistake; in such a locality the col-
lecting, to me, loses a certain degree of its charm.

Numerous as are the insects in a tropical country, it is impos-
sible for one person in a short time to make anything like a thor-
ough collection in all the orders, even in a restricted locality.
Lepidoptera and Orthoptera were what I wanted especially, and
of them I collected every species I could find. I also took such

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Coleoptera and Hemiptera as came readily to hand, while of the
Diptera, Hymenoptera and Neuroptera, I took scarcely any,
although large numbers of each of those orders were seen.

Of the diurnal Lepidoptera, or butterflies, over 600 specimens,
representing 85 species, were taken in the eleven days spent in
the vicinity of Orizaba. During that time it rained two whole
and seven half days, so that the facilities for collecting them were
none of the best. Of these but eight are found in Indiana,
namely, Papilo turnus; three species of Pyrameis, two ot which,
atalanta and cardui, are cosmopolitan; the handsome Callidryas
eubule, which is very rare in this State; Junonia coenia, also a rare
species with us; Terias lisa and Ancyloxypha numitor, the latter
being, there as here, the smallest and one of the most abundant
of the Hesperidae.

During one forenoon I took 168 specimens, over forty species
from a single field near the outskirts of the city. It was filled
with brilliant flowers, and the margin, where occasional clumps
of bright red flowers grew, was a favorite lurking place for many
of the larger and rarer kinds. One of the most striking species,
on account of its size as well as its so-called ' ' protective mimicry,
was a large and handsome Callidryas light yellow above and of
a greenish hue beneath, which, when resting with folded wings,
could scarcely be distinguished from a leaf so closely did the
color and the prominent veins on the underside resemble those
of a leaf.

(To be continued.)

ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

Following the Sphingidae in our catalogues and lists come the
Sesiidee. They were originally included with the clear winged
Sphinges on superficial characters, and, though long since sepa-
rated from them, are yet, as a rule, placed next to them. In
fact, except for the superficial resemblance, there is nothing war-
ranting any close association of the two families. So far as I am
aware the larvae of the Sesiidae are borers, living in roots, stems
and trunks of vines, shrubs and trees, sometimes maturing two

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broods in one season more usually annual, and rather more rarely
passing more than one year in the larva state.

The images have moderately long antennae, gradually and va-
riably thickened medially, more slender apically, the tips often
with a brush of hair. Rarely they are setaceous, or thread like.
In the male they are often furnished with lateral tufts of bristles
and sometimes with lamellae or pectinations. The head is vari-
ably developed, usually quite small; ocelli present; tongue vary-
ing from a well developed organ to a mere rudiment. The latter
character is of great importance in the systematic study of the
family. The thorax is usually robust and quite closely scaled.
The abdomen is long and comparatively slender in most cases,
often brightly banded. The wings are narrow, the primaries
longer than, but not so broad as the secondaries. They are
wholly or in part transparent as a rule, and this, combined with
the bright, banded maculation, gives them a wasp-like appearance
that may be protective.

The venation is distinctive, and of a low type. The median
cell is well develpped, and all, or nearly all, the veins arise from
it separately. The internal vein is wanting, or forms the internal
margin itself. In the secondaries we have a very similar type of
venation; but here the costal vein is missing, and there may be
two or three internal or free veins. Vein 5 is often absent as well.

The legs, as a whole, are well developed, the posterior often
markedly longer than the others, while the anterior are actually,
as well as relatively, short without being weak.

The sexes sometimes differ quite markedly, not only in size,
but in color and maculation, and it is not unlikely that some of
our numerous species represent sexes of others. In habit the
insects are diurnal as a rule, but have been occasionally attracted
to light. The characters of most of the American genera have
been given by me in " Entomologica Americana," iv, 9-13.

Somewhat allied to the Sesiidae, in habit and appearance, are
the Thyridae. The relation between the two is superficial merely,
and vanishes on study. They are small and stout, with long,
strong tongue, large, projecting, bristly palpi and spindle-formed
antennae, the basal joint much enlarged. In the male they are
singly pectinated. The ocelli are wanting. Thorax robust, ab-
domen conic and comparatively short. The legs are stout, clothed
with long, stiff hair, middle tibiae with one, posterior with two

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pairs of spurs. The wings are usually quite short and broad,
small in comparison to the robust appearance of the insect, and
with an irregular outer margin.

The primaries are 12-veined, all the veins (save the costal and
submedian) separately out of the median cell. Internal, or sub-
median vein, forked at base. The secondaries have two internal
veins, and the costal free from the base the full length of its course.
In color the species are black and white, or a peculiar yellowish
brown and whitish.

-o-

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ODONATA OF MAINE.-II.

Specimens taken near Orono, Penobscot County, Me., 1891.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

(Continued from Vol. Ill, page 92.)

Tribe III. LIBELLULINA.

Subfamily 5. CORDULINA.

46. Macromia (Didymops} transversa Say. June 6, 15, 20.
Abundant in the woods, Orono, Me.

47. Cordulia ( Tetragoneuria) semiaquea Burm. Quite abun-
dant over Chemo Stream during July; Bradley, Me.

28. Cordulia \Neurocordulia) Uhleri Selys. Reported last
season from specimens in the College collection. This season
taken on several dates in June over swampy road in College
woods, Orono, Me.

48. Cordulia {Somatochlora) lepida Selys. July 1 2th one male ;
July 28th several males; one pair was seen mating and taken in
the net, but the female, unfortunately, escaped. No other females
seen; Chemo Lake near the outlet. The wind was blowing hard,
and they had collected in an opening in the woods and were
easily taken.

49. Cordulia (Somatochlora) forcipata Scud. June 13, 15,
16, over swamp in College woods; July 22, over Chemo Stream,
Bradley, Me. This is the Epitheca forcipata of Hagen's Synopsis
of 1875. It seems to be abundant about Orono, Me.

50. Leucorhinia hudsonica Selys. June ist seven males. Over
a road near a small pond, Old Town, Me. On the Veazee Rail-
road half way between Stillwater and Old Town. My attention

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was called to this species by Mr. J. M. Rondlette (Class 92), who
saw them flying the last of May, and was with me when the speci-
mens were taken. This species seems to emerge very early.
Only one female seen, but not taken. These specimens showed
much brighter colors than those assigned to them in the books.

51. Leucorhinia frigida Hagen. A single specimen ( ) of
this rare species was taken July nth over Chemo Stream, Brad-
ley, just above the dam.

52. Diplax costifera Uhler. Many specimens taken July i2th
along Chemo Stream, Bradley, Me.

53. Celithemis elisa Hag. A single 1 July 22cl, and July 28th
a dozen males. No females taken; Chemo Stream where it leaves
the lake. Our specimens were much brighter than the colors
assigned to this species in Hagen's description (Neur. N. A. p.
182, 1861).

REMARKS.

Additional notes upon species repeated in ENT. NEWS, Vol.
II, Nos. 3 and 4, 1891, are numbered to agree with those of that
article. Species reported for the first time in this article are num-
bered from 39 to 53.

The species found the past season include some rare forms and
others remarkable for their occurrence so far North. There seems
to be good reason for believing that the New England insect
fauna extends along the coast of Maine and there mingles with
boreal forms. The species reported above swell the number of
species of Odonata to date known by us from the vicinity of
Orono to fifty.

As we have made no special effort to collect these forms the
indications are that the State is rich in species.

We are greatly obligated to Mr. P. P. Calvert, Philadelphia,
Pa., for examining specimens and for other professional courte-
sies, and to Mrs. Anson Allen, of Orono, Me., for the privilege
of examining the Odonata collected by her husband.

AN exchange says that Jerry Simpson, the "sockless statesman" of
Kansas, it is rumored, will petition Congress for a $2, 000,000 appropriation
for the purpose of experimenting in crossing honey-bees with lightning-
bugs, under the impression that should he succeed the bees will be able
to work nights. Richland i/<>r,'<?)

Jl8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

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Published monthly (except July and August), by the Entomological
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PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, 1892.

Entomological rubbish. Why is it that in this country our entomologists
get so many poor and imperfect specimens? and when they do secure
them make matters worse by running pins through them out of all pro-
portion to the size of the insect. In Europe they do these things far better,
but it may be said that Europe is an older country, and that they have had
many years in which to learn entomological technique; true, but the dif-
ference in the perfection of the specimens and in the mounting seem out
.of all proportion to their respective ages. Some time ago a well-known
collector wished to know why so many poor specimens came in exchange
from Philadelphia entomologists; our reply was, that none of them were
caught in Philadelphia, but had been received from other parties. He
already had all our local species and those sent were from other places.
It is time we had learned dexterity in catching specimens so that they are
not ruined. Neatness in pinning, expanding and mounting, will greatly
enhance the value of a specimen, and it will receive more respect and be
much more likely to be preserved. If a large, heavy species has a No. i
pin in it and you attempt to move it from place to place, the chances are
the pin will bend and the specimen be ruined. It is a common thing to
find No. 4 pins put through our smaller moths and butterflies, and these
pins pointing at the cardinal points of the compass. Seek your specimens
at the proper time, while they are fresh, and catch and kill them in such
a manner that they wont look as though the cat or the baby had been
playing with them. Use a pin in proportion to the size of the insect, and
remember it goes through either the middle of the thorax or the right
elytron, and should be exactly perpendicular. Always have a uniform
length of pin above the thorax (^ inch.), and it is best to make a little
measure to test this if you wish your specimens to look well and be a
uniform height on the pins. For Macrolepidoptera use Nos. 2, 3 and 4,
Klaeger pins, and for Micros use the silver pins (Klaegur) that come spe-
cially for them. These micro pins are fastened to an ordinary No. 3 or 4

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pin. Any insect that is too small for a No. 2 Klaeger pin should be
mounted on card-board; in other words, never use a finer pin than a No.
2 in any of the orders. In spreading Lepidoptera be careful to have the
inferior margins of the superior wings make a straight line. Let us
inaugurate an era of well-caught and nicely-mounted specimens. It is
almost as easy to do the thing right as wrong, and the NEWS hopes to live
to see the time when entomological rubbish will be a thing of the shadowy
past. ED.

Notes and.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit, and will thankfully receive items
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To Contributors. All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our
earliest convenience, atid as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep-
tion. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfer-
ence, as to make it necessary to put " copy"' into the hands of the printer, for each number,
three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im-
portant matter for certain issue. Owing to low subscription rate, " extras" will be charged
for, and when they are wanted, it should be so stated on the MS. along with the number
desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. ED.

INCIDENTS OF WORK. In the fall of 1890 I visited a country place in
the southern part of the State for the purpose of investigating the habits
of the screw worm (Coinpsomyia macellaria). Desiring to watch the work
of the species without interruption, I secured a nearly dead sheep in the
shade of a tree about fifty yards back from the public road and sat myself
down beside the sheep to watch the larvce in their work. Occasionally
flies were caught in the hand and put in the cyanide bottle, or when a full
grown larva dropped from the wounds for pupation it was put into earth
in a bottle brought for that purpose. Thus a full half day was spent
beside the sheep. But my doings had not been unobserved, as passers by
had watched with amazement a stranger in their midst catching flies from
a nearly dead sheep, and it was soon known in the little hamlet that the
bug man who had arrived the night before was catching flies to eat. Im-
agine my surprise after reaching my hotel to be surrounded by a group
of listeners who asked if the flies were really good to eat? how long had
I lived oil such truck ? and if the flies were eaten to cure any disease, etc.?
My explanations, however, were satisfactory to most of those present,
although when I explained that the parents of the screw-worms were
small flies and exhibited specimens, several knew as well as they knew
anything that I was mistaken, as a prominent physician of the town had
shown that the parent of the screw-worm was a species of wasp. The

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physician had actually shown this to be the case by squeezing a live screw-
worm from the abdomen of the wasp. One of the listeners was so sure
that the parent of the screw-worm was a wasp that h was willing to back
up his statement with a good financial consideration. But upon my offer
to put up a like amount, he was afraid to have the subject decided by
trial owing to the difficulty it would be to get the right species of wasp.
A merchant recently told me of a conversation he had had with a farmer
about a recent bulletin of the Station treating of the black weevil (Calan-
dra oryzce}, which was about as follows :

Farmer: " I never tried this remedy, but I know one thing he is off on."

Merchant: " What is that?"

Farmer: "Why, he says them 'ere corn weevils is produced by eggs
which are laid by the old weevils. That's not so, and I know it. Them
'ere weevils come from the vital force in the grain and grow after the corn
has been put in bins, in the same way as seeds sprout in the Spring."

Merchant: "What makes you think that?"

Farmer: "Why, I know it's the vital force in the grain that grows the
weevils, because you never see the weevils in rotten kernels."

It would be hard work to pound sense into a stone, and the merchant,
realizing this, proceeded to tell the farmer that we lived on a small or-
ganism known as a bacterium, but when we were sick the bacterium lived
on us. Surely " where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise."

HOWARD EVARTS WEED, Agricultural College, Miss.

NEWSPAPER ENTOMOLOGY. I do not like to see unreliable entomo-
logical statements designated in the NEWS as "newspaper entomology."
If I were asked to state what I thought to be the greatest incentive to the
popularity of entomological study during the present century I would un-
hesitatingly say the newspapers. By this I mean papers usually known
and spoken of as newspapers, and more especially the agricultural press.
The entomological question is here discussed mostly from an economic
standpoint, yet interest in the science is pretty sure to be awakened, and
study and research will not stop at the point of injurious and beneficial
species. Purely scientific works and periodicals treating the subject are
accessible but to the few, and are not to be found in the homes of the
masses, while the homes without newspapers are few and far between.
As to the reliability of scientific articles diffused through this medium,
why are they not to be depended upon as much as are other matters from
the same source? If the paper is reliable, its statements can nearly always
be depended upon. Most of our eminent entomologists have at some
period of their career addressed the public through the medium of the
newspapers, and I venture to say have had larger and more appreciative
"audiences" than when the fruits of their researches were disseminated
by means of the strictly scientific periodicals or books. To the science
dl entomology much of my spare time has been given, and, in an humble
way, I do not hesitate to declare that, aside from personal research, by
far the greatest in entive to additional study has been "newspaper ento-

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mology," not of the Electricia tomfooleryensis kind, but such as is printed
in the entomological columns of the Prairie farmer and other agricultural
'papers, and which have at one time or other included the writings of many
of the highest authorities in our beautiful science.

In conclusion, I would most earnestly beg our editor to refrain from
labeling preposterous statements as " newspaper entomology," as thereby
doubts are cast upon the veracity of such standard authorities as the
Prairie Farmer and other reliable newspapers to which due credit is given
even in text-books of entomology (see " Packard's Guide to the study of
Insects"). We all know that mistakes are apt to occur in newspapers as
well as elsewhere, and will not deny that gross exaggeration is often prac-
ticed by unprincipled journalists, but these are the exceptions and not the
rule. Long live ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS and " newspaper entomology !"

ALDA M. SHARP, Gladbrpok, Iowa.

An article labeled "newspaper entomology" simply shows its source,
and is not intended as a reproach. ED.

Mr. SYDNEY SMITH could not appreciate an entomological paradise
when he characterized insects as the curse of the tropics. "The bete
rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are
covered with ticks, chigoes bury themselves in your flesh and hatch a
large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They will not live together,
but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion
of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose.
You eat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches and
snakes get into the bed, ants eat up the books, scorpions sting you on the
foot. Everything bites, stings, or bruises; every second of your existence
you are wounded by some species of animal life that nobody has seen
before, except Swammerdam and Merian. An insect with eleven legs is
swarming in your tea-cup, a nondescript with nine wings is struggling in
the small beer, or caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hasten-
ing over the bread and butter. All nature is alive, and seems to be gath-
ering all her entomological hosts to eat you up as you are standing, out
of your coat, waistcoat and breeches. Such are the tropics. All this
reconciles us to our dews, fogs, vapors and drizzles, to our apothecaries
rushing about with gargles and tinctures, to our old British constitutional
coughs, sore throats, and swollen faces'."

A SUGGESTION TO LEPIDOPTERISTS. In connection with the article by
Prof. Smith, in the NEWS for March, on the Lepidoptera, it has occurred
to me that some ideas which presented themselves while studying that
order might be useful or suggestive to others, particularly to those con-
structing keys or tables for popular use. While using such keys (and it
is true of many descriptions also) I have often had my patience severely
taxed by the propensity of the writer to put the cart before the horse; in
other words, to ignore tin- proper sequence of words and phrases. Not
only that, but some keys contain many needless repetitions of the same

122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

phrase or set of phrases, often ingeniously arranged by the author (for
variety, I presume, I hope not with malicious intention) in all the com-
binations possible, adding immensely to the amount of time consumed in
their use without any beneficial results. Uniformity is sometimes much
to be desired. It is desirable here. There is enough to be done in our
science without needlessly wasting any time. As a remedy for the first
evil I would propose two or three rules for guidance in writing descrip-
tions, and for the second the use of abbreviations. The rules are brief
and easily borne in mind. The abbreviations are few and suggestive. I
am well aware that the use of rules and abbreviations when many and
complicated is unwise; but if few, simple, suggestive and labor-saving, it
has many advantages. A letter or figure appeals to the mind more quickly
and surely than a word. Take for instance :

A broad, submarginal band of buff on the lower surface of hind wings.
Proper sequence :

Under surface of hind wings with submarginal band of buff broad.
Now let

A above = upper surface of wings,

B == below == lower surface of wings,

i = front wing, and 2 == hind wing,
And we have :

B 2 with submarginal band of buff broad.
The rules I would suggest are :

Proceed from the general to the particular; and (usually) from the more
obvious to the less so. Locate a peculiarity before describing it.

These are not to be considered inflexible, and should be applied to
phrases which present a single idea to the mind rather than to single
words. I would invariably, however, refer to the surface first, the wing
second, and the details last, for reasons too obvious to need mention.
The abbreviations I would recommend are as follows :

A (above) upper surface of wings.

B (below) == lower surface of wings.

1 =- primary == front wing.

2 = secondary == hind wings.
c = cell.

v == vein.

Thus B i, c 6, refers at once to cell six on the under surface of the front
wings.

These abbreviations are, of course, chiefly of value in reference to the
Lepidoptera, especially the butterflies. Perhaps the plan can be adapted
to other orders, at least it seems likely to be applicable to some of them.
The other suggestions apply to all. A. P. MORSE, Wellesley, Mass.

AILANTHUS FOLIAGE AND THE ROSE-BEETLE. In Bulletin No. 32 of
the New Jersey Experiment Station, discussing the rose-chafer (J/acro-
dactylus subspinosus) Prof. Smith states that some other things "decoc-
tions of peach leaves and the blossoms of Ailanthus were found to be

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valueless in destroying the beetle." This is the only reference I have
been able to find to this tree, in this connection, until recently. While
attending a farmer's institute at Martinsville, Ind., my attention was called
to the fact that during last Summer the rose-chafer was very troublesome
in that vicinity, defoliating whole vineyards, as well as doing much damage
to roses and other cultivated plants. There seemed to be no remedy for
the pests, but later on the}' were found to be feeding in countless numbers
on the foliage of an Ailanthus glandulosus tree which stood in the court-
house yard, and it was also discovered that in a very short time the beetles
commenced falling to the ground dead; and, as the janitor of the court-
house expressed it to me, "the ground under the tree was literally cov-
ered with dead insects, and they did not recover again either." I was
shown the tree, which was certainly Ailanthus glandulosus. May it not
be possible that the foliage of this tree, if not the blossoms, possesses
poisonous properties which may render it an effectual remedy for this
insect? Prof. J. TROOP, Indiana Experiment Station.

Cossid or Hcpialid?- I have found in northern New York what appears
to be a Cossid or Hepialid larva boring the trunks of black ash growing
in swamps. They work in young and vigorous trees; the pupal shells,
seen protruding near the ground, indicate a size nearly that of P. robinicz.
Does any reader of this note know what species has this habit ? D. S. K.

TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892).
Pages 41-88 inclusive, have been printed since our last issue, containing
the conclusion of Dr. Horn's " Random Studies of North American Co-
leoptera;" also "The North American species of Ceropalcs" by W. J.
Fox; "A Revision of N. American species of Phlepsius (with a plate),"
by E. P. Van Duzee; "The Mouth Parts of Copris Carolina, with notes
on the homologies of the mandibles (with two plates)," by John B. Smith;
and the beginning of " Notes on North American Tachinidce, Paper III,"
by C. H. Tyler Townsend.

Entomological Literature.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part xcviii, December, 1891. Co-
leoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 361-368, pi. xvi, G. C. Champion; pt. 3, D.
Sharp, pi. vi; vol. vi, pt. i, pp. 281-312, M. Jacoby. Lepidoptera-Heter-
ocera: vol. ii, pis. xlii, xliii, H. Druce. Diptera: vol. iii, pp. 1-56, S. VV.
Williston. Part xcix, February, 1892. Araclinida-Araneidea, O. P. Cam-
bridge, pi. xi. Coleoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 369-392, G. C. Champion;
vol. vi, pt. r, supplement, M. Jacoby, pi. xlii. Diptera: vol. iii, pp. 57-72,
S. W. Williston, pi. i.

TRANSACTIONS OK THK YORKSIIIKK NATURALISTS' UNION. Part 16.
Leeds, November, 1891. List of the ColropU-ra of Yorkshire (cont.1,
pp. 49-64, Rev. W. C. Hey.

124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. |JVl a y>

BIBLIOTHECA ZooLOGicA (Cassel), viii, 3, 1891. Researches on mim-
icry as a basis of a natural system of Papilionidae, Dr. E. Haase.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER (Leipzig), Feb. 29, 1892. On the develop-
ment-history of the parasitic Hymenoptera, N. Kulagin; of the Pedipalpi,
Dr. A. Strubell. March 14, 1892. On the development of the Lung-
Books in Scorpio fulvipes, M. Laurie, figs. Preliminary communication
on a new German species of Chordeuma, C. Verhoeff. Supplementary
remarks to my communication on sense organs in the palpi and first pair
of legs of Solpugidse, Dr. P. Bertkau.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, ix, 51, March, 1892.
On some spiders from the Andaman Islands, collected by E. W. Oates,
Esq.,* Prof. T. Thorell.

COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE (Paris), March 4, 1892. The
"intermediary body" of Flemming in the seminal cellules of Scolopetidra
and Lithobius, M. Prenant. March 18, 1892. The "central corpuscle"
of E. von Beneden in the seminal cell$ of Scolopendra, A. Prenant.

REVUE LINNEENNE, viii, 86, Lyons, Feb. 15, 1892. Description of a
new Saturnia from China, L. Sonthonnax. Study on the genus Stenop-
terus Steph., M. Pic. Habits and metamorphoses of Aphodius granarius
L., Capt. Xambeu.

MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH CICADA OR TETTIGID^;, by G. B. Buck-
ton. London, Macmillan & Co. Eighth and last part, December, 1891.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, xxxv, Brus-
sels, 1891. Hymenoptera collected on the Lower Congo by the expedi-
tion under the auspices of the king of Belgium,* A. Schletterer. Cata-
logue of the Curculionidae belonging to the genus Zygops* ]. D. des
Loges. Compt. Rendu. Feb. 6, 1892. Myrmecological notes,* A. Forel.
Heterocera exotica, new species from the Dutch East Indies,* F. J. M.
Heylaerts. Note on the African Chrysodemidae referred to the genus
Iridottenia*^ C. Kerremans. Diagnoses of two Buprestids from the
region of Lake Tanganyika,* id. New Coleoptera from the Congo,* A.
Duvivier. Clavicorni from Bengal, A. Grouvelle. Note on the ants of
Belgium, A. Lameere. The Brachymera of Belgium and the neighboring
regions, E. Coucke. Third note on some Coleoptera Heteromera of
Belgium, L. Coucke. Enumeration of the Hemiptera of Belgium (concl.),
E. Coubeaux.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN (Berlin), xviii, 4, February, iS<>2.
An excursion in the vicinity of Nagasaki, Dr. A. Seitz. Further researches
on the process of completion of coloration, C. Verhoeff. The ZoocecicUe
of Lorraine (cont.), J. Kieffer. No. 5, March. On some new and rare
P'ossoria,* C. Verhoeff.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST (London), March, 1892. The Pterophorina
of Britain (cont.), J. W. Tutt. British spiders (cont.), Rev. F. O. P. Cam-
bridge. Notes. April, 1892. Portrait and sketch of Miss E. A. Ormerod.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

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The Diptera of Dorsetshire, C. W. Dale. Heterocera of the Island of
Man, H. S. Clarke. Lepidoptera of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire,
W. Reid.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, xix,
signatures 4-7, Phila., March, 1892. A study of Atnara s. g. Cclia (cont.),
G. H. Horn, M.D. Random studies in North American Coleoptera, id.
The North American species of Ceropalcs, with a catalogue of the de-
scribed species of the world, W. J. Fox.

MlTTHEILUNGEN AUS DEM NATURHISTORISCHEN MUSEUM IN HAMBURG,

ix, i, 1891. Spiders from Madagascar and Nossibe,* Dr. H. Lenz, 2 pis.
The Termita, Odonata and Neuroptera collected by Dr. F. Stuhlmann in
East Africa,* Dr. A. Gerstaecker. The Collembola of South Georgia
[Antarctic] from the collections of the German station of 1882-1883,* Dr.
C. Schaeffer, i pi.

NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEWOCHENSCHRIFT( Berlin), March 20, 1892.
On the voracity of Liparis inonacha L., R. Rittmeyer.

GEOLOGISKA FOERENINGENS i STOCKHOLM FOERHANDLINGAR, Bd. 14,
2, 1892. On an Hemiptera from the Lower Graptolitic Slates of Sweden, *f
J. C. Moberg.

LE NATURALISTS (Paris), March 15, 1892. Habits and metamorphoses
of Xyloperta pnstnlata Capt. Xambeu. Two new Sphingida; from Eastern
Asia,* L. Austant. Carnivorous caterpillars, F. Plateau, figs.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADEL-
PHIA, 1892, pp. 133-135. Report on the Hymenoptera collected in West
Greenland, W. J. Fox.

REVUE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE L'OUEST. II, i, Paris, January,
1892. General considerations on the classification of the Acarina, followed
by an attempt at a new classification, Dr. Trouessart. Extends to families
and subfamilies.

ARCHIVES DE ZOOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE ET GENERALE (2), x, i, Paris,
1892. Notes on the life and habits of insects : Observations on Atinuo-
phila affinis Kirby, Dr. P. Marchal.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires i,
xxxii, 6, 1891; xxxiii, i, 1892. New Hemiptera of the Argentine and
Uruguayan faunas, *f Dr. C. Berg; Glyphcpomis, l\ircnthi-ca n. gen.
Argentine Dipterology (Syrphida/), F. L. Arribalzaj;:i.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Out., April, 1892. Notes on North
American Tachinidce, with descriptions of new genera and species, v, C.
H. T. Townsencl. Clerck's Icones, W. J. Holland. Hermaphrodite
Gypsy Moths, C. H. Fernald. A classification of the North American
Spiders, N. Banks. Canadian Hymenoptera, i, W. H. Harrington. Our
Winter beetles, H. F. Wickham. Chionobas Uhleri, T. D. A. Cockerell.
How to take the oil or grease out of specimens of natural history, P.
Fisher.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
OF ONTARIO, Toronto, 1892. Noteworthy injuries caused by insects
during the past season, C. J. S. Bethune. A microscopical examination
of an unexpanded wing of Callosatnia promethea, J. A. Moffat. Notes
on Japanese insects, W. H. Harrington. Numerous articles on Economic
Entomology by various authors.

NEW MEXICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS,
Bulletin No. 5, Las Cruces, N. Mex., March, 1892. Notices of importance
concerning fruit insects, C. H. T. Townsend.

ENTOMOLOGISTS' RECORD, London, March 15, 1892. Effects of tem-
perature on the coloring of Lepidoptera, F. Merrifield. Classification by
neuration, J. W. Tutt. The genus Hepialus, J. E. Robson. Numerous
notes on variations in British insects.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, IRIS, Dresden, iv, 2, Ber-
lin, February, 1892. A new form of Morpho* Dr. O. Staudinger. The
development of the butterfly after leaving the pupal envelope, W. Peter-
son. New African Lycaenidae,*f Dr. O. Staudinger. New species and
varieties of Lepidoptera of the palaearctic faunal region, *f id., 2 pis.

SUPPLEMENTARY APPENDIX to Travels among the Great Andes of the
Equator, by Edward Whymper. London, John Murray, 1891. This
volume is made up of a series of papers by a number of specialists, and
baseo! on some of the zoological and mineralogical collections made by
Mr. Whymper among the Ecuadorian Andes, for the most part at eleva-
tions above 8500 feet. The greater part of the book is entomological,
the groups treated being Coleoptera*f by (the late) H. W. Bates, D.
Sharp, Rev. H. S. Gorham, A. S. Olliff and M. Jacoby; Formicidae*t by
P. Cameron; Lepidoptera* by F. Du C. Godman and O. Salvin ; and
Rhynchota*t by W. L. Distant. The general entomological results as
bearing on questions of Geographical Distribution are discussed in an
introduction by Mr. Bates. Numerous excellent wood-cuts, engraved by
Mr. Whymper hftnself, illustrate the text.

PUBLICATIONS DE L' INSTITUTE ROYAL GRAND-DUCAL DE LUXEM-
BOURG, xxi, Luxembourg, 1891. Materials for the entomological fauna
of the province of Belgian Luxembourg: Coleoptera, third century, A.
P. de Borre.

KNOWLEDGE (London), April, 1892. The life of an Ant, E. A. Butler.

ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (London), April, 1892. Anno-
tated list of British Tachiniidas, R. H. Meade. Notes on collecting Tor-
trices (the Pole system), C. Fenn. On some new species of Histericla 1
and one new genus,* G. Lewis. Notes on some British and exotic Coc-
cidse, J. W. Douglas. On an Indian Ant-mimicking Hemipteron,* E.
Bergroth. Note on Pentaria badia Rosenh. (= sericaria Mills.) with de-
scription of a second species from the Ea^t Pyrenees,* G. C. Champion.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 12J

ENTOMOLOGIST (London), April, 1892. Portrait and sketch of Henry
Walter Bates. Hellebore as an insecticide, W. W. Smith. "Assem-
bling" in Lepidoptera, H. D. Sykes. Notes on Lepidoptera taken in
1891, Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. Notes on British Lepidoptera, Mc-
/anippe, R. South. Notes on the synonymy of Noctuid Moths, A. G.
Butler. Descriptions of some new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera
and synonymic notes,* M. Jacoby.

SOCIETE LlNNEENNE DU NORD DE LA FRANCE (Amiens), No. 232, Oc-

tober, 1891. Contributions to the local fauna (Arachnida), M. Du Roselle.

ZOOLOGICAL RECORD for 1890. Published by the Zoological Society,
London, 1892. Insecta by D. Sharp. Arachnida and Myriapoda by R.
I. Pocock.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

COLEOPTERA.

Nine n. sp. Rhipidophorus, Ncmognatha, Zonitis, Mex., Centr. Am.,
Champion, Biol. Centr. Amer., Coleop. iv, pp. 361-368. Phytophaga,
n. genera and species, Jacoby, id., vi, suppl., pp. 281-312.

Zygops (Apatorhynchus} leopardinus des Loges, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.
xxxv, p. 40, Mex.

Amara femoralis Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 30. A. robitsfiifa,
p. 32, Calif. A. nupera, p. 33, Col., N. Mex. A. imitatrix, p. 34, Calif.,
Wash., Vancouver. Trechus barbara", p. 41, Calif. Platyniis inyniie-
codes, arizoncnsis, langnidus, p. 42, Ariz. Pinodytes Hamilton!, p. 45,
Pa. P. pusio, p. 45, Cal. Dendrophilus californicits, p. 46, Cal. Aitla-
cosce/is purpurea, p. 46, Ariz. Notoxits Sc/ra'arzi, p. 47, Utah.

DIPTERA.

Syrphidae: n. gen., sp. and synopses of genera, Williston, Biol. Centr. -
Amer. Diptera, III, pp. 1-72.

One new genus (C/isfoinorpha) and ten new species of Tachinidce, U.
S., Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, pp. 77-82.

Hcematobia aids, Snow, 220! Rep. Ent. Soc. Out., p. 96, Minn.

HYMENOPTERA.

Cercopales Stretchii, Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 52, Cal.

Nematus borea/is Marlatt, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1892, p. 133, Disco Is.

Ichneumon Jisca'Hsis Fox, Proc. Acad. Phila 1892, p. 134, Disco Is.

Nolopygiis aiiicricana Harrington, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 98, rrionopoda
canadensis p. 98, Ischyrocnemis otlawaensis p. 98, Pimpla cllophc p. 99,
Can.

* Contains new species other than North American.

128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

Doings of Societies.

A REGULAR STATED MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES was held March 24th at the hall
S. W. cor. Nineteenth and Race Streets, Dr. Horn, director, presiding.
Meeting called to order at 8.20 p. M. Members present: Laurent, Ridings,
Blake and Skinner. Associates: Calvert, Fox and Nell. A letter was
read from Prof. C. H. Fernald, in which he stated that he had finished
studying the Pyralidae belonging to the American Entomological Society,
and had returned them correctly named. Prof. Fernald says: "It is a
valuable collection, and I have put a great deal of work on it so as to
have everything accurately named, and have written and put a label on
each individual specimen, so that no confusion nor doubt can arise about
any specimen. The collection contains about 1200 examples, and I added
a large number of species from my own collection which were not repre-
sented in the collection, and have followed the order and names in the
new catalogue. Where I felt certain an insect was a type I have so
marked it, but Grote and Robinson did not mark their types, so that there
may be types in the collection which I have not marked as such. The
fact is, a part of the types went to the New York Museum, and I fear may-
have been destroyed, but I have no means of knowing what ones. I care-
fully compared these in your collection with the original description, and,
where I felt quite sure, marked them; anyway, 1 believe all their species
are represented by authentically named specimens, whether types or
otherwise." Mr. Calvert presented the fourth lot of European Odonata.
Mr. Laurent exhibited a large number of specimens of Coleoptera which
he had collected by sieving earth. Dr. Horn exhibited the type material
used in writing his paper on Eumolpini. This is the first time the group
has been treated in its entirety. They are a difficult lot for study, of more
recent geological time, being feeders on plants of the present period.
Nineteen genera were considered. Mr. Calvert stated that five years had
elapsed since his election as an associate of the Section, and it was ap-
propriate that he should make a statement of the growth and present
status of the Society's collection (Odonata) and his own. The Entomo-
logical Society's collection contains, at present, identified specimens of
Odonata representing in all 77 genera and 189 species. This total is made
up of 62 genera and 147 species from America, 21 genera and 37 species
fromj Europe, 3 genera and 3 species fro'm New Zealand, 4 genera and 6
spec es from Japan (13 genera and 4 species being repeated in this sub-
division). According to present calculations, there are in America North
of Mexico 58 genera and 245 species. Of these 54 genera and 136 species
are represented in the Society's collection; of the remaining four genera,
two are represented by European species and one in his own collection,
leaving but one genus, Oxyagrion, represented in N. America by but one
species, O. rufuhim, from northern California, but even this locality is
considered to be very doubtful by the best authority. In the Society's
collection and his own collection together, there are represented 57 genera
and 164 species of the Odonat fauna of America North of Mexico, that is,
sixty-seven per cent, of all the species. The Odonata of the European
faunal district (/. e., geographical Europe, N.Africa, Asia Minor) includes
36 genera and 103 species. Of these the Society's collection has 21 genera
and 37 species. My own collection includes 31 genera and 77 species,
that is. seventy-five per cent, of the species. Of the other five genera,
two are represented by species from other parts of the world leaving three
unrepresented. The Society's collection does not include any species
from the European fauna not represented in his own collection. Mr.
Chas. Liebeck and Mr. C. W. Johnson, were duly elected members of
the Section. HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for April, was mailed March 31, 1892.

. NEWS. Vol. III.

PI. V.

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DATANA MINISTRA.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. JUNE, 1892. No. 6.

CONTENTS:

Townsend New N. Am. Tachinidse 129

Blatchley Entomologizing in Mexico.. 131

Bruce Oncocnemis in Colorado 136

Fox Notes on the Larradse 138

Wickham Collecting in the far North. 139
Blaisdell Notes on the Coccinellidae... 143

Townsend New. Jamaica Tachinidse.... 146

Banks Atypidae and Theraphosidae 147

Coquillett A new Dalmannia from Cal. 150

Editorial 152-

Notes and News 154

Entomological Literature 157

Williston A n. sp. of Criorhinia 145 i Doings of Societies 164

OUR illustration this month represents part of the life-history
of Datana ministra. The plate was made from a photograph
of a drawing' found among the unpublished plates of the late T.
R. Peale, of Philadelphia.

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NEW NORTH AMERICAN TACHINID/E.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, Las Cruces, N. Mex.

(Continued from page Sr, Vol. Ill, No. 4)

Loewia globosa n. sp. rf 1 . Eyes cinnamon-brown, thickly short hairy,
edges touching in front of ocelli; frontal villa light brown, vertex blackish;
anterior pair of ocellar bristles stronger than frontal bristles, directed
strongly forward, decussate; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white;
the prae-genal area very large, brownish, encroaching on sides efface and
extending narrowly to bases of antenna'; sides of face with fringe of
bristles; antennae and arista brownish, second anlennal joint orange ru-
fous, third joint one and one-half times as long as second, more or less
rufous on sides; proboscis about two-thirds bight of head, slim, brownish,
labella developed; palpi curved, thickened apically, brown, bristly; oc-
ciput blackish, black-hairy. Thorax and sculellum black, with a faint
purplish shade, scutellum with an apical decussate and a lateral pair of
macrochcuUe. Abdomen shining greenish black, in some lights dark me-
tallic-green; second segment with a median marginal pair and a weak
lateral pair of mam ichaetae; third with a stn mger lateral pair and a median

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marginal pair; anal with a submarginal row of six. Legs black, claws
and pulvilli rather elongate, pulvilli whitish. Wings grayish hyaline, basal
portion and wing veins yellowish; tegulse soft brownish yellow, halteres
tawny. Length of body 4.5 mm.; of wing 4 mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson). This
genus differs from Ennyomma Twns. in the closed apical cell,
which terminates just before tip of wing.

ATROPHOPALPUS n. gen.

Considerably resembling Ccratomyiella, but differs in the char-
acter of the palpi. Belongs in Phytoinae. Head more or less
triangular in profile. Front rather prominent, narrow in $ ,
about one-fifth width of head, widened before, face widening at
same angle; frontal bristles in a single row, descending on sides
of face to lower border of eyes; vertical and next two pairs di-
rected backward, rest forward and inward, the descending ones
downward; no orbital bristles (.$). Face receding, epistoma
somewhat prominent; facial depression two-thirds width of face,
not deep; facial ridges bare, except a bristle or two next vibrissse,
latter inserted at constriction of ridges about on oral margin,
rather stout, decussate; sides of face narrow, bare except for the
fringe of descending frontal bristles; cheeks nearly one-third eye-
hight, hairy. Eyes very thinly hairy, almost bare. Antennae
as long as face, second joint not elongate, third about five times
as long as second, narrow; arista thickened on basal third, mi-
croscopically pubescent, apparently only 2-jointed, basal joint
short. Proboscis somewhat elongate, about as long as hight of
head, not very stout, labella present; palpi very small, short fili-
form, terminating in a long bristle. Thorax about as wide as
head; scutellum with an apical decussate, and two lateral pairs
of macrochaetae. Abdomen narrower than thorax, elongate cy-
lindro-conical, first segment not shortened; macrochaetae only
marginal; hypopygium more or less exserted. Legs rather long
and slender, not very bristly; claws and pulvilli of $ rather elon-
gate, front ones apparently longest. Wings a little longer than
abdomen, with costal spine, third vein bristly half way to small
cross-vein; apical cell closed in border at tip of wing, fourth vein
bent at wide angle, without stump or wrinkle, apical cross-vein
very slightly concave; hind cross- vein nearly straight, rather
oblique, nearer to bend of fourth vein. Type, A. angusticornis
n. sp.

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Atrophopalpus angusticornis n. sp. tf. Eyes light brownish; frontal vitta
dark brown, narrow; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white, except
brownish prae-genal area; antennae grayish black, second joint more or
less rufous apically, arista blackish; proboscis dark brown, palpi appar-
ently grayish; occiput cinereous, silvery on edges, gray-hairy. Thorax
silvery, with four black vittae, scutellum silvery, clouded with blackish.
Abdomen shining black, segments two to four narrowly silvery white at
base, all segments very faintly silvery, anal segment light rufous; first
segment with a lateral macrochaeta surrounded with bristles, second with
a lateral one and a median marginal pair, third with a marginal row of
about six, anal with marginal row of eight. Legs black, front and middle
femora faintly silvery below, pulvilli fuscous. Wings grayish hyaline,
tegulae translucent white; halteres pale brownish at base, knobs luteous.
Length of body 4% mm.; of wing 3% mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

Myothyria vanderwulpi n. sp. $ (?). Eyes light brownish; frontal vitta
blackish, narrow, one-third width of front; front hardly one-third width
of head, equilateral, face widened; two orbital bristles; sides of front,
face and cheeks dark cinereous, slightly silvery; antennae and arista black,
third antennal joint about two and one-half times as long as second; pro-
boscis brownish, fleshy, not as long as hight of head; palpi brownish,
testaceous at tip; occiput blackish, thinly black-hairy. Thorax black,
cinereous pollinose, scutellum black. Abdomen black, bases of second
to fourth segments silvery-white; first two segments with a lateral pair of
macrochastas, the second with a median marginal pair; third with a mar-
ginal row; anal with several lateral submarginal, and a median discal pair.
Legs black, claws and pulvilli very short. Wings grayish hyaline, with
costal spine, tegulae nearly white, halteres blackish, tawny at base. Length
of body 3% mm.; of wing 3^ mm.

Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson).

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ENTOMOLOGIZING IN MEXICO.

By W. S. BLATCHLEY, Terre Haute, Ind.

(Continued from page 114, Voi. Ill, No. 4)

Other interesting and typical tropical forms were the Heliconias
with their brilliant colors and long and narrow wings. As many
as a dozen of them were often seen fluttering about a clump of
flowers, and four or five would at times be captured with a single
scoop of the net. The Nconymphas were- also well represented,
two .or three species being found everywhere living close to the
ground with that queer jerky flight so characteristic of tin- mem-
bers of that genus. Among the Nymphalidae, however, the spe-

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cies of Argynnis, Melitcea and Limenitis, were the most common,
and some of them exceedingly brilliant in color. The genus
Eudamus was especially well represented among the Hesperidae,
E. proteus Linn, being most noticeable on account of its num-
bers, the long tails of its hind wings, and the surprising swiftness
of its flight.

At Fortin, a station nine miles below Orizaba, the difference in
level being 700 feet, a number of species were taken which were
not found at the higher altitude. Among them was a long-beaked
Libythea, a genus which is represented in all the eastern United
States by but a single species, and a large and beautiful Caligo,
which, at that height, was very rare, but two specimens having
been seen. At a still lower level, however, it is said to be one
of the commonest of species.

To the average Mexican a collector of " chinches" or " bugs,"
was a somewhat novel sight, and many were the curious eyes
which followed my every movement. At night, especially when
I set out to seek what I might find about the electric lights, I was
sure to be followed by a motly crowd of all ages, sizes, sexes and
conditions. They would watch me capture a specimen or two
with the net and then each one would rush after the largest and
finest moth to be seen and endeavor to catch it with, his hands.
The moths were usually taken from the sides or walls of houses
near the lights. The houses were mostly of stone, plastered and
whitewashed on the outside, and jut right onto the street with no
yard intervening. The light, reflecting from the walls, would
attract the insects and often fifty or more of them were to be seen
on the sides of a single building. I usually captured the smaller
moths by inverting over them a wide mouthed cyanide bottle
into which they would flutter quickly, and in less than half a
minute would be dead. The larger ones were captured with the
net and chloroformed. Of course every specimen caught with
the hands was ruined, and when the natives went after them or
brought me fluttering specimens with half the scales knocked off
their wings, I would shake my head and inform them as best I
could that when thus captured the insects were sure to be " rote,"
i.e. broken, and therefore worthless. Then the older persons
would cease trying to catch them, but it was hard work to keep
the boys back when a large or showy specimen settled near them.

Oftentimes they would attract my attention to a large moth

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which I had not noticed by clapping me on the shoulder and
pointing to it, at the same time uttering in a whisper, as if afraid
the insect would hear, the words " Esta ime grande, esta unc
grande, esta, esta, esta, esta," which were: "There is a large
one; there is a large one, there, there, there." If a small one
they would say ' ' esta chica, esta chica, ' ' and if a very small one,
" esta chicita, esta, esta, esta."

The houses have the windows very low and protected by
gratings which extend out six or eight inches from the wall. The
boys often aided me by climbing upon these gratings and reaching
with the net a large specimen which had settled close up under
the projecting eaves.

On one occasion, about twelve o'clock at night, a drunken
fellow with two or three companions came along, and grabbing
the handle of the net, he insisted on climbing the window grating
of the most palatial residence of the town for a large brown moth
which was high upon the wall. I remonstrated with him as best
I could, but no policeman being near he insisted on his point,
and I finally had to yield. Up he clambered, making noise
enough to be heard half a square away, and I fully expected to
see him shot by one of the occupants of the dwellings. How-
ever, he finally got within reaching distance of the moth, and
after several ineffectual attempts, during which he came near
falling, succeeded in getting it into the net, and brought it down
in triumph to me. I thanked him graciously, and, getting hold
of the net, quickly left the scene, although half a dozen desirable
specimens were in view.

About 1 200 moths, representing 160 species, were taken during
my stay at Orizaba, but as yet little has been done towards
mounting or classifying them, and hence nothing is known as to
the number of rare forms taken. Among the larger ones were
numerous species of Sphingidce, some of which were exceedingly
abundant. Of these the largest species taken was Sphinx leuco-
phreataf, which expands seven inches. A number of its larvae
were taken from the trunk of a shrub which is extensively used
for hedges. When discovered they were stretched out side by
side on the trunk of the shrub, and were as close together as they
could lie.

Four hundred Coleoptera, representing one hundred and
twenty-five species, were taken in the vicinity of Orizaba. As

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mentioned above, no attempt was made to take a full series of
them, but only those as happened in the way were picked up.
Of those taken by far the larger numbers were Chrysomelidae, a
family which is extensively represented there, almost every kind
of plant having some species which feeds upon it. A Doryphora,
very similar to decimlineata Say, but smaller and darker, was
found feeding upon a cultivated species of Solammi, showing that
that genus of plants is the favorite food of these beetles. Of the
Carabidae, the family most largely represented in Indiana, but
half a dozen species were collected, although a person looking-
for them especially, could undoubtedly have found many more.
The largest and most striking beetles taken were the Dynastes
and Xylorycies already mentioned, of which the latter were very
common about the lights at night, though more were seen during
the day; and the gigantic long-armed beetle Acrocimts longimanus,
three specimens of which were also taken about the lights. A
single male of the handsome and peculiar Scarabaeid Inca clath-
ratus, was also secured.

Of the Orthoptera, forty species of Acrididae or locusts, were
taken, the giant of this number being Rhomalia auricornis Walk.,
which was not found above Fortin, but was quite frequent at Cor-
doba. Unlike most of our species it is not found on the ground,
but on tall weeds and bushes, upon whose leaves both adults and
larvae feed. Like all the larger locusts it is very clumsy in its
movements being easily captured with the fingers. Locustidae,
or "Katydids," were common, especially about the lights, and
some of them were of enormous size. The Blattidae, or cock-
roaches, are represented in the collection by six or seven species,
the most abundant ones seen being the well-known Croton bug
and the Oriental cockroach (Periplancta orientalis L.), both of
which are cosmopolitan. The " earwigs," formerly classed under
this order, but now placed by themselves under the order Der-
maptera, are with us very rare insects, but in Orizaba they literally
swarmed on the sides of the houses, and three or four species of
them were secured.

Sixty species of Hemiptera, or ' ' bugs' ' proper, were taken as
opportunity offered. Leaf and tree hoppers were to be seen by
thousands, and varied much in size and color. Pachycornis tor-
ridus Scop, and Stiretru.r anchorago Fab., which are among the
most brilliant of the Heteroptera, and so variable in color, that

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each has been described under at least half a dozen names were
taken in small numbers, while that pest of the market gardener,
Murgantia histrionica Hahn. was present everywhere. Belos-
toina americanum Leidy, the "electric light bug," is becoming
as well known in Orizaba since the advent of the lights as its con-
gener, Benacus griseus Say, which bears the same common name,
is known to the inhabitants of our northern cities. Nor can we
forbear mentioning, while speaking of Hemiptera, those species
of Acanthia which were felt on various occasions, but were diffi-
cult, to capture.

If a Mexican discovers that an American or " Gringo," desires
to secure any special article or group of articles the price of those
articles suddenly advances one thousand per cent. "Bugs,"
which were quoted away below par before our advent into the
city of Orizaba took an upward impetus in value each day of our
stay, and every street urchin and many men began to deal in
them, or rather to try and deal in them. One day the landlord
informed me that a native was in the office who had ' ' an exceed-
ingly rare butterfly" which he wished to dispose of. I went
down and found that he had a small gray moth with a silvery
band across its wings. I looked at it and asked him ' ' quantoT
(how much?) "Unpeso" (one dollar) was the answer. I did
not care to purchase, but offered him a " media,' 1 '' six cents. He
walked out with a look of disgust, carrying the precious insect
with him, and that night I captured five of them from the side of
our building. Another native had a large click beetle with enor-
mous mandibles, which he asked me two dollars for. I finally
offered him fifty cents, but he evidently thought I would give
more before I left the city and refused the offer, although he did
not appear as if he had seen fifty cents in as many months.

After eleven days spent in collecting in the vicinity of Orizaba
we left that fair city with many regrets and made our way to the
town of San Andres, 4000 feet higher up the slope. The differ-
ence in the numbers and variety of insects which this ascent of
4000 feet made was remarkable. During two day's collecting
about San Andres not more than half a dozen species of butter-
flies and as many of beetles were taken, while the other orders
were as sparingly represented. As the ascent continued this
number became gradually less. At a camp at 12,000 feet a half
day's search was rewarded with four species of beetles which

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were captured from beneath the bark of logs; one small brown
butterfly, a Chionobus ?, whose range was between 9500 and
13,000 feet, and one species of locust, a Pezotettix, which was
there quite abundant, and a single specimen of which was after-
ward taken near the 14,000 feet level.

At the latter point, which was near the lower limit of snow and
as high as I ascended two species of rough-backed beetles be-
longing to the genus Phellopsis f ; one species of Phalangidae, or
harvestmen; the Pezotettix mentioned above, and three species
of small-sized myriopods were found during several hour's search,
the beetles and myriopods being quite common beneath the bark
of logs and beneath rocks. A few half-grown specimens of a
Centhophilus, a genus of wingless Locustida, were also secured.
These were evidently the bulk of the species of insects found at
that altitude at that season of the year, though Dr. Scoville saw
at the top of the mountain, 18,000 feet, two specimens of a small
white butterfly, but was unable to capture either of them.

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On the Species of ONCOCNEMIS in Colorado.

By DAVID BRUCE.

As the Noctuid genus Oncocnemis Lederer is not very abun-
dantly represented in the majority of our collections, perhaps a
few observations on the species I have taken in Colorado may be
acceptable.

1. O. Haycsii Grt. Not very rare at light and over flowers
at night in central Colorado, August and September. I took
two examples in July this year in western Colorado flying round
flowers by day.

2. O. Dayi Grt. Abundant, flying over flowers by day in
South Park at 10,000 feet elevation; it has all the habits of Plusia
Snowi and P. Hochenwarthi, and can scarcely be distinguished
from these species until captured. I have seen it no place but
at the locality named, August and September.

3. O. fasciatus Smith. One beautiful example flying over
flowers by day August 2oth, southwest Colorado.

4. O. tenitifascia Smith. Common just at timber line in South
Park, flying with Dayi over flowers in bright sunshine; looks
extremely like a Botis when flying, August and September.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 137

5. O. tcrminalis Smith. Not uncommon at Boulder and vi-
cinity; sitting on rocks by day, and have taken several at light
at Denver, August.

6. O. levis Grt. Common in August at Golden City and
Denver; can be found in plenty by day by examining crevices
and under projections near electric lights.

7. O. tricolor Smith. This beautiful species is sometimes
abundant at Denver; I have picked off more than a dozen ex-
amples from a building near an electric light in one morning,
August and September.

8. O. homogena Grt. I met with this species in some numbers
near Aspen, flying over flowers in the sunshine; have also taken
a few examples at light in Denver, August.

9. O. Glennyi Grt. Occurs in the greatest profusion during
September and October at light in Denver City. Walls and
fences near electric lights are spotted with thousands in the early
morning, the moths flying off or hiding in crevices as the sunshine
gets on them. This species is a positive nuisance every fall; the
store windows and hallways of hotels are covered with them.

10. O. occata Grt. Occasionally at sugar in Platte Canon. I
met with a few fine examples this Summer near Canon City, flying
by day over flowers, August.

11. O. Chandleri Grt. Occasionally at light in the western
part of the State; this year I found it common in July by beating
old cedars; they were hiding under the ragged bark.

12. O. major Grt. Several on buildings and in crevices of
sidewalks near electric lights at Salida, July. I have also -taken
it flying by day.

13. O. cibalis. Not common; have taken one or two every
Summer near the foothills in the eastern part of the State; they
start up from the herbage like Crambodes talidifonnis.

14. O. Colorado Smith. Not uncommon at light in central and
western Colorado in July and August.

15. O. atricollaris Harr. Occasionally at light in various parts
of the State, August.

1 6. O. umbrifascia Smith. Two examples only, last July, at
light in southwestern Colorado.

I have also two or three species taken this Summer, the names
of which I have not yet learned; they are probably undcscribed.

138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

Notes on the LARRAD/E, by William H. Patton.

By WILLIAM J. Fox.

In the April number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, under the
title " Notes on the Larradae," Mr. Patton has made several as-
sertions which, if not corrected, would ultimately cause much
confusion, as they are entirely in error. In correcting these state-
ments I wish to state that I do it in the best of good-will and
friendliness to Mr. Patton, to whom I had written some time
ago, pointing out the errors.

Liris Fab. I am not acquainted with this genus, but accord-
ing to Kohl, who must certainly be acquainted with it, the outer
edge ol the mandibles are without a notch; both sexes have the
mandibles bidentate within, not only those of the 9 . In the
original description, or in any other of this genus, no mention
whatever is made of the tarsi, yet Mr. Patton states that it is
" founded on a male type with peculiar tarsi."

Liris coxalis Patt. is synonymous with Tachytes aurulenta Fab.

Tacky sphex Kohl. This genus is characterized and distin-
guished from Tachytes, to which it is allied, by the more slender
form and more feeble hairing; the anterior femora of the are
notched near the base beneath; the fore tarsi 9 having very long,
flexible spines, and the pygidium being naked. It is certainly
not represented in this country by Larra analis Fab. as an ex-
amination of that species will show.

Lyroda subita Say certainly does not belong to Didineis,
which belongs to the Nyssonidae. The hind femora are toothed
near the apex in Didineis, which is not the case in Lyroda subita.

I am not acquainted with Pisonitus and Sylaon, so again refer
to Kohl. Pisonitus Shuck, is a synonym of Pison Spin. Sylaon
Pice, and Bothynostelhus Kohl, differ from Pison in having the
marginal cell appendiculate, and a pygidial area on the last dorsal
segment 9. Bothynostethus differs from Sylaon by having a.
notch on outer margin of mandibles.

"Larra divisa Pttn. is 9 of L. ccthiops Cress." How can this
be ? The type of (zthiops is a 9 , ^nd is distinct from divisa in
having the pygidial area differently shaped.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 139

COLLECTING IN THE FAR NORTH.

*

I. THE ALASKAN COAST.

By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa.

By request of the Editor of ENT. NEWS I place before the
reader some account of a Summer trip to Alaska and that part
of British Columbia lying back of it drained by the Stikine Cor
Stikeen) River. Although some parts of the territory are quite
easy of access, the distance from all centres of trade and ordinary
routes of travel have combined with the general ideas as to climate
and the unattractiveness of the insect fauna, to keep entomolo-
gists from visiting them consequently comparatively little has
been done to increase our knowledge in this direction since the
time of the Russian explorations. The following notes are in-
tended simply to convey an idea as to the general character of
the places visited from an entomological standpoint, but by the
kindness of Dr. Horn, in giving his aid in identifying beetles, the
correctness of what is placed on record relating to the Coleoptera
is secured. A complete list of these insects is in preparation, and
will be presented at as early a date as practicable, so that any
indefiniteness of specification in this paper will be remedied.

Leaving Tacoma about the middle of June, a run of four days
brought me to the first stopping-place in Alaska the Yes Bay
cannery and as the steamer was to remain a few hours unloading
freight, I went ashore to get some insects if possible. The rugged
surface of the land with its heavy growth of conifers and thickets
of blueberry intermixed with a vile plant known as the "devil's
club" (Fatsia horrida) is not conducive to either ease or comfort
while collecting, and the excessive dampness forms still another
drawback. The ground is covered everywhere with a luxuriant
carpet of moss, often many inches deep, into which the feet sink
at every step. But little was found here, only a half dozen Ptcr-
ostichus castaneus, a few Staphylinidae, twenty or thirty little
moths, a fly or two and a couple of Hymenoptera. The moths
were flying around the flowers of the devil's club," and before I
had taken all the whistle of the steamer called me back. Shortly
after we touched at the Loring cannery, where I took nothing
but one or two Scolyticlae flying around newly-cut timber.

Early the next morning we were running along the shore of
Wrangel Island, which lies close to the mainland of Alaska, the

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upper end being directly opposite the mouth of the Stikine River.
On the seaward side, only a very few miles from the river mouth,
the town of Fort Wrangel lies on a narrow strip of beach, backed
by high hills covered with the usual conifers and blueberry un-
dergrowth; close to the beach this growth is replaced by thickets
of salmon-berry and thimble-berry, the fruit of both being used
as food by the native and white residents, but supporting little in
the way of insect life. The great nettles, taller than a man, which
are plentiful in these thickets, make the task of forcing a way
through them or searching the ground anything but pleasant.
However, I expected to make this place my base of operations
for some weeks, and so made preparations accordingly.

Investigation showed the insect fauna of the island to be by no
means varied, and to present nothing remarkable as compared
with other points in the North Pacific. A number of Carabidae
may be taken, mostly along the edge of the beach, just above
high-tide mark; among them may be mentioned Cychms angus-
iicollis, C. marginatns, Loricera io-punctata, Nebria sp., Pteros-
tic/ms crenicollis, P. vitreus, P. riparius, Bembidium fimereum,
B. flavopictum, B. cautnui, Patrobus septentrionis, P. aterrimus,
Platynus erasus and Amara littoralis. Of the Dytiscidae only an
Agabus and a few specimens of Hydroporus oblitus were found,
and these not in water, but under stones or pieces of wood in
very wet places the use of a net in pools and streams yielding
nothing. Search under seaweed and other debris cast up by the
sea proved much less productive than I had anticipated, very
little except a few Staphylinidae being taken here. Trichopteryx
parallela and a species of Ptenidium were found sparingly under
logs and chips, while Cryptohypnus musadus occurred in some
numbers under the shingle.

Just within and along the outskirts of the brush, Athous ferrn-
ginosus is seen quite commonly, flying where footsteps disturb
the quiet of the spot. On rolling over sticks or small logs here,
which were deeply imbedded in moss and much overgrown with
grass, these insects would fly around in numbers, alighting on un-
clothes and very easily captured they often came from resting
places near or upon the ground, running up the stems of plants
until a good place was reached from which to take wing, when
they would let go and fly slowly around the spot, something after
the manner in which Myodites may be seen about golden-rods in

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the States during Autumn. Occasionally Podabrus piniphilus
may be found in the same localities as the Athous, but not in such
large numbers. Far back in the woods but little can be found,
except Pterostichus castaneus, and this only in small numbers,
the growth of moss being so rank as to greatly obstruct search,
and by it any logs that may chance to lie on the ground are soon
bound down so lightly as to defy efforts to move them. Aphodius
aleutus occurred once or twice in the first, also an Eros of a
species not yet determined.

Experience proved it more profitable to set traps for certain
kinds of beetles rather than to go after them in their almost in-
accessible haunts. With an eye, therefore, to the capture of such
species as live in carrion, I piled up a great heap of carcasses of
birds in a little thicket a few feet from my cabin-door, every day
looking them over carefully and sifting the soil on which they lay,
that nothing might escape. The results were far above what I
had hoped, numerous species of Staphylinidae being thus obtained
in large numbers, also many Cercyon fulvipennis, some C. aduin-
bratum, Choleva egena, Ptilium columbianum, and occasionally
other Trichopterygidae. Taking into account the seeming dearth
of Coleopterous life on the island, the number of specimens taken
in this way was really surprising.

Little in the way of wood- or leaf-eating beetles was seen on
the island, though careful search was made for them. A couple
of specimens of Opsimus quadrilincatus were found, one of them
under the wharf at Wrangel, the other resting on a fence, and a
single dead Phymatodes was taken on a window. Not a single
Chrysomelid \vas secured, and beating trees yielded only two
specimens of a Magdalis. T\vo Hylobiini were taken from low
sprouts. But little can be said of the insect fauna of the place as
regards the other orders. Hymenoptera were scarce, Lepidop-
tera by no means common, and Dipteni numerous only in indi-
viduals. A large species of Dragon-fly was the chief representa-
tive of the Neuroptera, while of Orthoptera there seemed to be a
total lack. The few Hymenoptera that were taken were mostly
Humble-bees, captured around the blossoms of white clover.

Having spent several clays on the island I determined to make
a trip to the mainland, and engaged, for the purpose, a white
trapper and an Alaskan Indian, intending to send them after
mammals while I employed my own time collecting insects. We

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left Fort Wrangel early one morning, and about half past four
next afternoon reached our destination about twenty-five miles
from Fort Wrangel which was to be my stopping place for two
days. Next morning I sent my men across the bay with instruc-
tions to ascend the snow-capped mountains opposite, in search
of the mountain goat, and to bring back any insects that they
might come across. Then, as it was raining and all vegetation
was soaked, I could do little but turn over a few logs along the
beach and search under seaweed for Staphylinidae. I was re-
warded by finding a Liparocephalus , but took little else, and filled
out the day by skinning birds shot on the way down.

The night passed without interruption, except that caused by
the cries of a captive baby seal which we had placed in a pen
back of the camp cries of the most homesick intonation, calcu-
lated to melt the heart even of an entomologist without babies
of his own. Morning dawned clear at last and promised a good
day for collecting, so I lost no time in getting out and to work,
with better success in some directions than on the island. By
beating I took a few Syneta simplex, Corymbites caricinus, C.
tarsalis and Anaspis rufa. A number of Anthobiums were found
and one or two examples each of Leptalia macilenta and Pachyta
monticola, but this was about all of the beetles, the remainder of
the catch consisting of flies, moths and a few Hymenoptera.
Midges and mosquitoes were an almost intolerable nuisance, and
it was quite a relief to get back to the cabin, build a " smudge"
and look over the day's catch. In the evening my men came
back without the goat, though they had shot one away up towards
the summit of the mountain and found the difficulties in bringing
down the skin and necessary parts of the skeleton so great that
the attempt was abandoned. However, they brought down a
Donacia, which they had found in a snow-bank at a considerable
altitude, an Eros and a Rhyncholus, all of interest from the locality
in which they were taken. Both men were so weary that they
said they were too tired to pick up any of the " bugs" they came
across on the way down. Our return trip took us only a single
day, and next day I was on hand to resume my entomological
labors at Fort Wrangel.

Leaving the Stikine River country for discussion in another
paper, but two points remain to be spoken of Hunter's Bay on
Prince of Wales Island (if we may rely on the information as to

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locality given by officers of the steamer), and Metlakahtla or
Port Chester, a large Indian settlement under direction of a mis-
sionary. At Hunter's Bay a few hours were spent with fair suc-
cess, the same general character of country obtaining as in other
places spoken of though some of the species of beetles were not
found elsewhere. Pterostichus castancus, P. amethystinus, Epurtea
truncatella, a fine Byrrhide, Pedilophorus acuminatus, a Scyd-
msenid of considerable size, and a number of Xyloterus bivittatus
were seen. At Metlakahtla the rain again interfered, but a few
other species were added to my list, among them Pterostichus
validus and Megapenthes stigmosns. All of the narrow coast
strip as well as the islands which constitute southern Alaska con-
sists of rocky and rugged hills with very little variety of soil or
vegetation, so that an entomologist would hardly expect to find
a great variety of species. Every spot seems, however, to yield
something not found at others, and doubtless much that is new
yet remains to be discovered. The difficulties of exploration
have rendered anything more than a superficial examination out
of the question, except in isolated localities, and the day is yet
far distant when we shall be able to say that our knowledge of
the Alaskan insect fauna approaches completeness.

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Notes on the COCCINELLID/E observed in San Diego Co., Cal.

By F. E. BLAISDELL, M.D.

Anisosticta seriata Melsh. Plentiful in September. Occurring
along the bay-shore in favorable localities. Large numbers are
on the wing during warm sunny days; when at rest, clustered in
the tops of small shrubs and in the ice-plant {Mesembryanthemum
crystallinum).

Megilla maculata DeG. Rare. Occurs in the eastern portion
of the country, along the Colorado River.

Megilla vittigera Mann. Quite plentiful in Summer on sedges
along water courses.

Hippodamia ambigua Lee. Common everywhere.

Hippodamia convergens. Guer. Abundant. Interbreeds with
the preceding species ; both congregating during the colder
months of the year under bark on trees, and in the dead leaves

144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

heaped about the bases of clumps of sycamores, where they can
often be observed in immense numbers.

Hippodamia parenthesis Say. Very rare. Occurs on squash
vines at Povvay. Identical with eastern examples in my collection.

Coccinella q-notata Hbst. Plentiful. Confined to the coast
region ; not observed in the interior at least, fourteen years' col-
lecting has failed to discover it at Povvay (fourteen miles from
coast, elevation 700 feet) and higher altitudes.

Coccinella californica Mann. Very common. This species,
besides being aphidivorous, feeds upon the buds of the wild sun-
flower {Helianthus californica}. Interbreeds with the preceding
species.

Coccinella sanguined Linn. Plentiful throughout the county.

Coccinella abdominalis Say. Not common. Frequents citrus
groves, loco-weed (Astragalus leucopsis), and pig-weeds (Cheno-
podiuni).

Psyllobora ttzdata Lee. Plentiful on plants along water courses
and in vineyards. Have observed them feeding upon a small
aphis infesting the under surface of the grape leaf, where the
beetle was also noticed in all stages of development.

Chilocorus cacti Linn. Quite abundant in certain localities
upon Agave americana, Astragalus leiicopsis, and citrus and olive
trees infested with the Black Scale.

Exochomus pilate i Muls. Rare. Occasionally taken with the
preceding species on Astragalus leucopsis.

Exochomus marginipennis Lee. Moderately common on dif-
ferent flowering shrubs, especially Primus demissus.

Scymnus lophanthce* Blais. Vortriede's Ladybird is not widely
distributed, occurring mostly on the Coronadian peninsula. In
color, the elytra are a shining black, with a feeble purpurescent
lustre, and not strongly metallic as stated in my descrption in
ENT. NEWS, March number p. 51. Post-coxal arcs distinct in
outline, semi-circular; outer margin feebly concave, terminating
at apex of metathoracic episternuin.

Scymnus marginicdllis Mann. Plentiful everywhere.

Several undetermined species ot Brachyacantha, Hyperaspis
and Scymnus.

* We are informed by the Agricultural Department at Washington that this is one of the
introduced Australian species, the name of which has not yut been ascertained. ED.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 145

A new species of CRIORHINIA and Notes on Synonymy.

By Dr. S. W. WILLISTON, Lawrence, Kan.

Criorhinia coquilletti n. sp. cf. Front separated by nearly the width of
the ocelli; ocellar prominence shining black; front below and the face
covered with dense, light yellow pubescence and pollen, and, on the sides
of the face above, with long, light yellow pile; cheeks broadly shining
black. Antennae brownish red, first joint but little longer than the second,
third joint much broader than long, produced somewhat acutely above to
the base of the arista. Proboscis moderately elongate. Thorax deep,
shining black; on the dorsum, metallic; the color, however, is largely
concealed beneath dense, long pile, which is yellow in front of the wings,
both on dorsum and on the pleurae, and black behind the wings. Abdo-
men deep black, shining, somewhat metallic, on the fourth segment
markedly so; pile long, moderately dense, on the first three segments
black, [slightly intermixed on the third], on the fourth segment yellow.
Legs deep reddish brown or reddish black; the knees, the narrow base
of the tibiae, and the basal joints of the four anterior tarsi yellowish; pile
black. Wings brown on' the anterior and distal parts; subhyaline behind.
Length 9 10 mm.

Hab. Southern California. The specimen upon which the
foregoing description is based, was sent me by my friend, Mr. D.
W. Coquillett, who had recognized it as belonging to a new spe-
cies. The species is closely allied to C. lupina Will., but differs
in having the first antennal joint less elongated, in having the
third joint more acute above, a shorter proboscis, and in the ab-
sence of the facial stripes, etc. I have seen but very few species
in this family since the publication of my " Synopsis." Several
of these, of not a little interest, will be shortly described by Mr.
W. A. Snow. Since my studies of the North American forms,
however, I have had the opportunity of studying nearly three
hundred species from Central America, the West Indies and
South America. The nomenclature of a few North American
species is affected by the results of these studies, as follows:

Melanostoma stegnum Say, Journ. Acad. Phil, vi, p. 163; Com pi. YVr. ii,
p. 358 \_Syrphits~\ ; \Yilliston, Biol, Centr.-Amer. Diptera, iii, p. io.=ltfe-
lanostoma tigrina Osten Sacken, Western Dipt. p. 323; Williston, Syn-
opsis, etc., p. 47, pi. iii, fig. 8.

Melanostoma mellinum Linne", etc. I identify M. prninosuin Bigot as a
closely allied, but distinct species.

Baccha clavata Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 298 [Syrphns]; Syst. Antl. p.
298; Wiedemaun, Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 94; Schiner, Reise d. Xovara,

6*

146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June,

Diptera, p. 341; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p. 270; Biol. Cent.-
Amer. Diptera, iii, p. ^.^Baccha babista Walker, List, etc., iii, p. 549;
Williston, Synopsis, p. 117, pi. iv, fig 9. =Baccha facia/is Thomson,
Eugen. Resa, Ins. p. sv\.=Spazigaster bacchoides Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent.
Fr. 1883, p. 326.

Ocyptamus trigonus Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 125 \_Syrphus\\
Schiner, Reise d. Novara, Diptera, p. 346; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent.
Soc. xv, p. 265; Biol. Centr.-Amer. iii, p. $o.=Baccha torva Williston.
Synopsis, etc., p. 124. Males which seem to be of this species have the
wings hyaline.

Volucella pallens Wiedemann, Auss. Zvveifl. Ins. ii, p. 204; Williston,
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p. 275; Biol. Centr.-Amer. Diptera, iii, p. 53,
= 1'olncelia sc.vpunctata Loew, Wien. Ent. Monatschr. v, p. 38; Centur. vi,
37; Williston, Synopsis, etc., p. 141, pi. vi, fig. 2.

Eristalis vinetorum Fabricius, etc. Eristalis thoracica Jaenuicke is not
a synonym of this species, but of E. obsoletus Wiedemann.

Eristalis albifrons Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 189; Roeder,
Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1885, p. 341; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p.
283; Biol. Centr.-Amer. iii, p. 62.= Eristalis albiceps Macquart, Dipt.
Exot. ii, p. 56; Williston, Synopsis N. Amer. Syrphida;, p. i72.=Erisfalis
seniculus Loew, Centur. vi, p. 63.

Eristalis scutellaris Fabricius, Syst. Ami. p. 190 {_Milesia}\ Wiedemann,
Auss. Zweifl. Ins. ii, p. 159; Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, 2, p. 41; Schiner,
Novara Exped. p. 364; Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xv, p. 279; Biol.
Centr.-Amer. iii, p. d$=Palpada scutellata Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt, i,
p. 513; Dipt. Exot. ii, 2, p. 38 [Eristalis~\. =Eristalis fascithorax Mac-
quart, Dipt. Exot. 4 Suppl. p. \y).=Doliosyrphus scutcllatus Bigot, Ann.
Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. 222.=Do!iosyi-p/iits rilcyi Williston, Synopsis, p.
1 78, pi. viii, fig. 8. A wider acquaintance with allied species makes me
disinclined to accept the genus Doliosyrphus Bigot.

Trojridia albistylum Macquart, is a distinct species, a specimen of which
is in the National Museum.

Xylota elongata Williston, Synopsis, p. 234, is a synonym of A", angus-
lircutris Loew.

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NEW JAMAICA TACHINID/E.-I.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

The following species was transmitted to me by Mr. Cockerell.
Curator of the Museum, with the record that it was taken at
Cinchona, Jamaica, a place which is high up in the mountains.

Pseudoliystricia exilis n. sp. $. Eyes brown, with some bronzy reflec-
tions, pubescent; front averaging one-third width of head, frontal vitta
blackish, velvety, hardly one-iifth width of front; five posterior pairs of

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frontal bristles directed backward, two orbital bristles; front, face and
cheeks of a clear golden-yellow, shading to brassy or cinereous in spots
on front, pile on sides of face and cheeks golden-yellow; antennce brown-
ish, first two joints dark, base and posterior half of third rose-rufous,
third joint one and a half times as long as second; arista blackish, first
two joints elongate and of equal length; proboscis black, palpi elongate,
widened and enlarged toward tip, rufous-yellow, occiput brassy, thickly
clothed with brassy pile. Thorax black, thinly silvery, with four narrow
vittse, the outer ones heavier and interrupted at suture; humeri and pleurae
black, very faintly silvery; scutellum deep brownish rufous, very spiny.
Abdomen deep brownish rufous, with purplish reflections, densely beset
everywhere, except on sides anteriorly, with spiny macrochaetae; venter
with macrochastae on median portion and on sides posteriorly. Legs
black, front femora somewhat silvery on outside, tibiae spiny, especially
middle and hind pairs, claws and pulvilli a little elongate, pulvilli tawny
yellowish; front tarsi not dilated. Wings brownish fuscous, veins blackish
at base; tegulas fuscous, halteres rufous. Length of body n mm.; of wing
9.5 mm.

Described from one specimen; Cinchona, Jamaica. Collected
by Mr. W. Fawcett, Head of the Botanical Department of

Jamaica.

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Our ATYPID/E and THERAPHOSID/E.

By NATHAN BANKS, Washington, D. C.

These two families of spiders contain what are commonly called
tarantulas, the Mygalidae of older authors. They have four lun^-
. sacs, the fang of the mandibles moves vertically, the legs are
short and stout. The two families may be tabulated thus:

Maxillae broadened at base, palpi lateral . . . Atypidae.

Maxillae not broadened at base, palpi terminal, or almost so. Theraphosidae.

Of Atypidae we have but one genus, Atypus; two species of
which have been described from the Western States. A. bicolor
Lucas may, if any one is fortunate enough to obtain a specimen,
form another genus on account of the arrangement of the eyes.
It is probably the species to which Hentz refers as the "A. rujipes
found by Mr. Milbert." A. bicolor Lucas is black, with red Ic^s;
only known from "Philadelphia." A. niger Hentz is wholly
black; from Mass., Md., D. C., Va., N. C.

The Theraphosidae may be divided into two subfamilies:
Inner distal angle of maxillae slightly prolonged, palpi somewhat lateral.

Eriodontiuee.
Inner distal angle of maxillae not prolonged, palpi terminal. Theraphosinae.

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The Eriodontinae are represented by three genera:

A. S. E. the largest eyes ......... 2.

A. M. E. the largest eyes ....... Anthrodiaetus.

2. S. E. farther apart than M. E. .... Myrmekiaphila.

S. E. not farther apart than M. E ...... Nidivalvata.

In Anthrodicetus the S. E. are widely separated, the anterior
row is longer than the posterior row and recurved. One species,
A. unicolor Hentz is described from Alabama. Myrmekiaphila
has the S. E. widely separated, but the anterior row is not longer
than the posterior row, and is slightly procurved. One species,
M. foliata Atk. is described from North Carolina. Nidivalvata
has the S. E. close together or touching, anterior row procurved,
a little shorter than the posterior row. Two species are described,
both from North Carolina, by Prof. Atkinson:

S. E. and P. M. E. touching, in one group . . . . N. marxii.
S. E. and P. M. E. distinctly separated N. angustata.

The Theraphosinse may be divided into two tribes:

Three claws to tarsi ......... Trionchi.

Two claws to tarsi ......... Dionclii.

The Dionchi have one genus, Eurypelma, in Western States,
of which five species are described. These are the genuine ta-
rantulas. As the species are extremely close, a key will not be
given, but the species arranged in two series according to locality.
California: E. californica Auss., E. rileyii Marx, E. leiog aster
Auss. Southern W. S. : E. hentzii Girard, La., Tex., Kans. ; *
E. steindacherii Auss. , N. Mex. E. kentzuis'the most common;
E. mordax Auss. is the same as E. hentzii Girard.

The Trionchi are divided into two groups:

Median groove longitudinal ...... Mecicobothri.

Median groove transverse ....... Aepicephali.

Group MECICOBOTHRI.

Spinnerets four ...... . Brachybothriiun.

Spinnerets six ............ 2.

2. Eyes about equal in size, third article of spinnerets hut little longer

than second ......... Atypoides.

A. M. E. much smaller than others, third article of spinnerets much

longer than second ........ Hexiira.

Brachybothrium is represented by two species, one B. pacijicum
Simon from Wash. State, the other B. accentuation Simon from

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North Carolina. Hexura and Atypoides have each one species:
H. picea Simon from Wash. State; A. riversi Cambr. from Cala.

Group AEPICEPHALI.

Tibia III flattened at base .... . Pachylomerus.

Tibia III not flattened at base ... .... 2.

2. Lip much longer than broad at base ...... 5.

Lip at most as long as broad at base . ... 3.

3. Abdomen truncated behind . . . Cyclocosmia.

Abdomen rounded behind ... ... 4.

4. Mandibles pointed in front . . ... Cteniza.

Mandibles rounded in front ... . Bolostromus.

5. Eyes crowded together in two curved parallel rows . Madocjnatha.

Eyes more separated, in two rows not parallel . . Clllosterochilus.

Cyclocosmia truncata Hentz from Alabama. Cteniza calif ornica
Cambr. from California. Bolostromus fluvialilis Hentz from
Alabama. Maclognatha abbottii Lucas from Georgia and " Phila-
delphia." Chlosterochilus gracilis Hentz from Alabama. Chlo-
sterochilus pertyii Lucas, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. , Second Series,
Vol. Ill, 1845, p. 60; not Vol. VI, p. 377, as given by Marx in
the Catalogue. This was described as Actinopus by Lucas, but
the eyes do not differ in arrangement from Ch. gracilis; the A.
S. E. are, however, much larger than the A. M. E., while in Ch.
gracilis the A. S. E. are about equal to the A. M. E. It was
de.-cribed from " Amerique du Nord." Dr. Marx, in his Cata-
logue, also places Pachyoscelis nifipes and Theragreteswalkenaerii
(the male of Sphodros abbottii according to Walckenaer) as in
our fauna. This is not the case, as may be seen from the follow-
ing quotation from Lucas in his article on the subject: . . . " car
1'espece que M. Walckenaer regarde com me le male du 6". ab-
bottii 9 se trouve dans le meme localite que mon Pachyloscclis
rufipes, 1'un et 1'sutre out ete trouves au Bresil dans les Campos
geraes. ' '

Of Pachylomerus we have two species. There seems to be
considerable trouble in the genus. Prof. George Atkinson de-
scribed three species as new, and redescribed P. carolinensis
Hentz, and suggested that P. solstitialis Hentz was the male of
the same species. It is very probable that P. carolinensis and
P. solstitialis are the same, though there may be a slight differ-
ence in the proportionate width of the cephalothorax. But as
P. solstitialis comes before P. carolinensis in the descriptions,

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and as it is a male, I think there is no doubt but what the species
should be called P. solstitialis Hentz. Moreover, the species
identified, described and figured by Prof. Atkinson as P. caro-
linensis does not agree with Hentz's figure of that species. But
P. turris Atk. does agree with Hentz's figure of the eyes. There-
fore I consider P. turris = P. carolinensis = P. solstitialis. I
see no characters of specific value between Prof. Atkinson's P.
carabivorus, P. carolinensis and P. quadrispinosus. The varia-
tion of width in the cephalothorax is so slight as to be of no
value; the arrangement of spines and teeth on claws are not of
specific importance. The males are not known. There is no
great difference in the eyes. I thus write the species under one
name, P. carabivorus Atk., at least until the males show differ-
ences in the palpal structure. The two species may be separated
thus:

P. S. E. as near to A. S. E. as to P. M. E. . . . P. solstitialis.
P. S. E. nearer to P. M. E. than to A. S. E. . . . P. carabivorus.

P. audouiniiLueas, 1837, described from "Ameriquedu Nord;"
if from W. S. may be one of the above species. Lucas placed it
in Actinopus; Ausserer says it is a Pachylomerus; why, I do not
know.

A NEW DALMANNIA FROM CALIFORNIA.

By D. W. COQUILLETT, Los Angeles, California.

Up to the present time only two species of the Conopid genus
Dahnannia have been reported from America north of Mexico.
To these I now add a third, and present a table for identify ing
these three species :

1. Scutellum and humeri marked with bright yellow . . . .2.
Scutellum and humeri wholly black .... vitiosa n. sp.

2. The yellow on hind margins of abdominal segments three and four

prolonged forward each side, nearly crossing the segments; cheeks

of male yellow picta Will.

The yellow not prolonged forward each side; cheeks of male with a
large black spot nigriceps Lw.

Dalmamiia Vitiosa n. sp. r?\ Front yellowish brown, darkest on the
upper half, where the dark color forms two indistinct stripes; antenna?
black, apex of style yellowish; face and cheeks yellow, the former with
two brown median stripes; occiput black. Thorax, pleura, breast and
scutellum wholly black. Abdomen black, hind margin of the second,

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third and fourth segments yellow; segments three, four and five each with
a median yellow stripe and a broader one each side; venter yellow, a
basal triangle and sides before the apex, black. Legs yellow, apices of
middle and hind femora, upper side of front femora, tibiae, except at the
apex of each, and whole of tarsi, brownish. Wings grayish hyaline;
halteres brown, the knob yellow. Length 4 mm.

Los Angeles County, California. A single specimen.

The second basal and discal cells are united in each wing, but
whether this is a permanent character, or simply a defect of this
individual specimen, I am unable to say. In all other structural
characters it agrees perfectly with Dalmannia picta Williston,
originally described from Arizonia, but which I have collected in
various parts of southern California.

NOVEL SMUGGLING. The account of the smuggler recently arrested
by the Customs authorities in this city, who had a quantity of diamonds
under a porous plaster on his back, reminds me of an even more in A el
device that came to my knowledge some years ago. A Philadelphia
physician was attacked by that most seductive craze, the collector's mania
for beetles and bugs. After this had been going* on for some years and
the result had become one of the finest collections of Coleoptera anywhere
extant, he began to find that the mad desire for very rare specimens to
rill up the occasional gaps in his otherwise perfect series of creeping
things was too great a drain on his exchequer. To be sure he was a
bachelor, under light expenses, and already blessed with a fair inheritance.
Then, too, he had built up a considerable practice in that branch of medi-
cine which he described as " leading man at baby matinees." Still, rare
bugs come high, and he could not afford the continually increasing drain.
Just at this juncture some one seems to have hit upon a very novel expe-
dient. Whether the fertile brain belonged to the doctor, or to a young
friend, a scion of one of Philadelphia's oldest and proudest families, who
was and is a member of a prominent house of jewelers, I never learned.
However that may be, the interest of the story hinges on the fact that
certain rare beetles came in from South Africa the Kimberly diamond
fields, in fact nicely packed in raw cotton, and some of the largest of
these were most unaccountably heavy. While the outer anatomy was of
most interest to the doctor, who valued these rare specimens as such, the
inner anatomy appeared to be of far greater interest to his friend. A
careful investigation, I am told, resulted in demonstrating the fact that the
added weight in these specimens was due to a certain undigested mineral
substance that was found in the abdominal cavities of some of the largest
specimens. Though these specimens were pronounced to be herbifenms,
still when certain cutting and polishing processes were finished 1 heard
that these mineral substances were found to be "of good color and the
first water." Whether the method of thwarting the watchful Customs
agents is still in use I cannot say. AViv York Toicn Topics.

152 [June,

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We publish below an interesting extract from the "American Farmer,"
which has a direct bearing on Entomology, and shows the magnitude and
importance of agricultural experimentation. We predict that in the future
the interest in Entomology will be largely increased, and also the number
of students of this branch of natural history, more especially as it is now
being more fully recognized as a study of practical value.

The iiiiigiii/itiff of t/i<' .l^rii'iillnral l<~.\-f>eriinenl Station aw/- /;/ the
U. S. Few persons reali/e the vast proportions to which agricultural
experiment work has grown in this country. The chief part of the growth
has been within the last live years, since the Hatch bill went into opera-
tion. Jiy the terms of this law there are appropriated annually by the

I8g2.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 153

General Government $15,000 to each State and Territory that shall accept
the terms of the grant and establish and maintain an Agricultural Experi-
ment Station. There is also established in Washington a central office,
called the Office of Experiment Stations, in which the results of the station
work in the various States are digested and tabulated, and which also has
a consulting and advisory interest in the progress and execution of the
work.

Under the act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887. known popularly
as the Hatch bill, agricultural experiment stations are now in operation in
all the States and Territories with the exception of Alaska, Montana and
Idaho. In a few of the States more than one station has been established,
so that in all 49 are now in operation. In Alabama, Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey and New York, separate stations are maintained
wholly or in part by State funds. The total grant of money made last
year by Congress for the experimental work amounted to $728,000 for the
Hatch bill stations and the office of experiment stations, and $50,000 for
the sugar experiments. The amount expended in experimental work by
the grass stations and entomological division is not accurately known, but
reaches probably not less than $20,000, making the total expenditure by
the Department of Agriculture for experimental work in round numbers
$800,000. In regard to the particular amounts expended by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in direct co-operation with the experimental work in
the several States, the following list will be found reliable: For entomo-
logical work Nebraska, $600; Iowa, $600; Ohio, $1500; Michigan, 5ioco.
For botanical work Texas, $700; Arizona, $700; Colorado, $1000; Utah,
$500; South Dakota, $500; Wyoming, $500; North Dakota, $500; New
'Mexico, $500; Louisiana, $750; Florida, $250; Georgia, $500; North Caro-
lina, $500; Mississippi, $1600. In addition to this the State and private
contributions to this work amount to fully $200,000, making in all the sum
of $r,ooo, ooo devoted annually to thecauseof the experimental promotion
of Agriculture. Five hundred persons are employed actively in this work.
Among these are 71 directors, 120 chemists, 47 agriculturists, 50 horticul-
turists, 30 botanists, 36 entomologists, 22 veterinarians, 14 meteorologists
(excluding all employed by the Weather Bureau), 4 biologists, etc. During
the year 1891, excluding publications coming directly from the Depart-
ment, the stations published 49 annual reports and 255 bulletins. The
mailing list of the stations (exclusive of the Department lists) now con-
tains 350,000 names. About 40,000,000 pages devoted to information on
agricultural subjects were printed and distributed during tin- year, not
counting the Department publications. This does not include the hun-
dreds of newspapers which publish accounts of the work. It is safe to
say that at least 10,000, ooo of our reading people read moiv or less ol tin's
work every year. In addition to this acid the number reached directly by
the Department, and the vastness of the interests of this work, measured
by the number of people directly benefited, is at OIK e apparent.

154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. |_June,

Notes and.

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Mr. E. V. B BALES, of Denver, Col., is doing a good work in trying to
interest the boys and girls of his city in Entomology by means of popular
articles in the Denver Sun. It is said that many nets are to be seen in
Denver this Spring. This should stimulate others to try and make young
entomologists in the same way.

Rev. C. J. S. BETHUNE, editor of the " Canadian Entomologist," spent
the month of March in the Bermudas in order to get over an attack of
grip. We are glad to say he has returned in good health.

BARON VON FELDER, of Vienna, has sold his famous collection of but-
terflies to Hon. Walter Rothschild, of London, for $25,000. The Baron,
who is now seventy-eight years of age, believed that he was too old to
care for his collection properly. It is said that Hon. Walter Rothschild
intends to leave his collection, now the finest in the world, to the British
Museum when he dies. Newspaper clipping.

Miss PALMER'S " SILK WORMS." Chambersburg, Pa., January 28th.
Pretty Miss Aloysius Marguerite Palmer, formerly of this city, and whose
parents still reside here, was yesterday convicted in the Federal Court at
Topeka, Kan., of fraudulently obtaining $3000 from E. E. McClelland, of
Topeka, claiming that she sold him silk worm eggs, though she really-
sold only mustard seeds. She is liable to imprisonment for from one to
five years. Newspaper clipping.

TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892).
Pages 89-128 inclusive, have been printed since our last issue, contain-
ing the continuation of C. H. T. Townsend's " Notes on North American
Tachinida;. Paper III."

DOES ACANTHIA PIPISTRELLI OCCUR IN NORTH AMERICA? 111 ENT.

NEWS, Vol. I, pp. 26-27, is a note by Mr. C. P. Gillette, stating that he
has found numerous specimens of an Acanthia in the nests ol Barn Swal-

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 155

lows, and that Mr. Ashmead had determined the species as A. pipistrelli
(notpapishitta, as the name is written in KNT. NEWS). As A. pipistrelli
does exclusively live on Bats (/ --'espcrtilio pipistrcllns and other species)
and in their nests, the American specimens must certainly belong to A.
hintndinis, which is not uncommon in the nests of Barn Swallows in North
and Central Europe. A. pipistrelli is a rare species, which has been found
in Central Europe and once in great abundance in Sweden in an old hol-
low tree inhabited by bats. It is, however, very possible that both A.
pipistrelli and A. columbaria, which lives in dove-cots, also occur in N.
America, although they have been overlooked. Descriptions and figures
of these three species are published by Jenyns in Annals of " Natural His-
tory" 1839, pp. 241-244, and by Schenck in " Entom. Nachrichten" 1877,
pp. 182-183. Dr. E. BERGROTH, Tammerfors, Finland.

FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC EN-
TOMOLOGISTS. In accordance with an action of the Association, taken at
the Washington meeting, the fourth annual meeting will be held at Roch-
ester, N. Y., two days prior to the meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. All members intending to present
papers are requested to forward titles to the undersigned before August
ist, in order that the program may be prepared in proper season. The
proceedings of our meetings are attracting the attention of working en-
tomologists of other countries, and it is to be hoped that members will
spare no efforts to make the coming meeting even better than those which
have preceded it. Owing to the continued ill-health of President Lintner,
and in order to relieve him of as much labor as possible, all correspond-
ence, unless of a nature necessitating his attention, may be addressed to
the Secretary, F. M. Webster, Columbus, Ohio.

I FIND from Dr. McKnight's paper in April NEWS concerning the Le-
pidoptera of the Adirondacks, that the fauna of that region is very similar
to ours at Franconia. I have taken there every moth of his list with these
exceptions : LUhosia Candida, Adoncta spinuloides, Arzaina di/fitsa,
Pseudanthroecia coracias, Pityolita pfdipalalis, Tortricodes bifutalis, and
perphaps three or four species of Agrotis, Ticniocampa and Iladcim, us
these last are not yet fully identified in my collection. Of Lophoptcryx
elegans Strk. 1 have a fine pair, male and female. They were taken at
light in June, 1886, and were named for me by Mr. Hy. Edwards. Like
Mr. McKnight's specimen, mine are suffused with brown from base to
subterminal space. In other respects they answer to description of .\'<>-
todonta simplaria Hy. Edw. ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON.

CAPTURING BEMBIDIUM AND OTHER SMALL COLEOPTERA. It may pr< ive
a help to some of our numerous Coleopterists to know how to i-asily col-
lect these active little beetles which are so common along the shores < >f
lakes and rivers. Is there a collector who lias not endeavored to pick
them up between his (her?) thumb and forefinger and transfer the speci-
mens to the cyanide or alcohol bottle, only to find them >ion <>/ just as

156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

he supposes they are safely inside. Here is a method that worked very
successfully with me while at Chautauqua, N. Y., during July and August
of last Summer. Procure a two-drachm vial one-quarter full of chloro-
form or ether; a larger bottle containing alcohol and a penny camel's-hair
brush. Now, having found a locality where the beetles are plenty, drop
the brush in the ether and apply it to the specimens wanted. It is sur-
prising to see how quickly they are put to sleep. Almost immediately
they may be transferred to the alcohol bottle on the tip of the brush and
you are ready for more. In this manner hundreds can be taken within a
short time, and I am sure it would work admirably with the insects of
other orders besides Coleoptera, especially where the species are minute,
but too quick to take in the usual manner. Try it. LEE B. WALTON,
Kenka College, N. Y.

AILANTHUS FOLIAGE AND THE ROSE-BEETLE. Concerning Professor
Troop's note in the May number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, the New
Jersey experience has been that the insect favors the blossom in prefer-
ence to the leaves, which are little eaten. With us the Ailanthus is know r n
as the " tallow tree," and the observation that dead beetles in abundance
were found under the trees, led to the experiment with decoctions of the
blossoms. The secret of the effect observed is in the word " later," that
is, only late in the season the worn out specimens feed on Ailanthus and
die naturally. I have seen the ground beneath a chestnut tree strewn in
the same way; but all specimens were old, and had died of some senile
weakness rather than from any poison contained in the food. The fox
glove only seems to act as a poison on the virile insect, and this used as
a decoction acted too slowly to be effective in protecting vineyards. Yet,
it may be well to try a decoction of Ailanthus foliage. Finally, a printer's
error makes it Bulletin "32" instead of 82. Prof. J. B. SMITH.

Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions: ist, The number of speci-
mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta-
tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. Ill-
Address all packages to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan
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Insects have been named for F. D. Twogood, D. G. Cox, D. B. Young,
Charles U. Clark, J. S. Hine, W. T. Davis, M. Y. Slingerland, J. H. Bom-
berger, C. H. T. Townsend, Henry Bird, C. M. Weed.

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Entomological Literature.

INDIAN MUSEUM NOTES, II. Calcutta, 1891. No. i. (i pi.) Economic
Entomology: Miscellaneous Notes, E. C. Cotes, figs. A new species of
Tineidje,* Lord Walsingham, figs. The Baluchistan Melon Fly,* }. M.
F. Bigot. American blight, E. T. Atkinson. Descriptions of new Coc-
cidce,* W. M. Maskell. A Darjiling Sal pest, G. C. Dudgeon. A new
Psychid injurious to Sal,* F. Moore. No. 2. The wild silk insects of India,
E. C. Cotes, 14 pis. No. 3. On white insect wax in India, E. C. Cotes, i
pi. NO. 4. The locusts of Bengal, Madras, Assam and Bombay, id, i pi.
No. 5. Methods adopted in Tunis for destroying locusts, R. Drummond-
Hay.

ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY (6), i.x, 52, London,
April, 1892. Description of a new genus and some new species of Het-
erocera from Central America, H. Druce. Descriptions of new genera
and species of Pyralidae contained in the British Museum collection, *f W.
Warren. On some undescribed Cicadidae, with synonymical notes,*! ^ -
L. Distant.

THE IRISH NATURALIST, I, i, Dublin, April, 1892. Edited by George
H. Carpenter and Lloyd Praeger. The Coleoptera of the Armagh dis-
trict, Rev. W. F. Johnson.

LE NATURALISTE, Paris, April i, and May i, 1892. Cabbage worms, P.
Chretien, figs. Dichotomous tables for determining the European species-
of Colias (con't.), K. Bramson. Description of new Lepiduptera,* P.
Dognin. On difference in development in Coleoptera, L. Planet, figs.

HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP, London, April, 1892. A few remarks,
on our commonest spiders, K. H. Jones. Secreting glands in the feet of
flies, W. Jenkinson, figs.

WEST VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bull. No. 21,
Charleston, W. Va., 1892. Methods of dealing with injurious insects, A.
D. Hopkins.

COMPTE RENDU, L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, Paris, March 28, 1892.
On the mode of articulation of the abdominal rings (zigzag articulation)
in Hymenoptera, G. Carlet.

COMPTE RENDU, SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE, Paris, April i, 1892. Origin
of the achromatic nuclear spindle in the seminal cells of Scolopendra, A.
Prenant. The alar nerve in some apterous Coleoptera, A. Binet. April
30th. Comparative researches on the organization of the brain in the prin-
cipal groups of Arthropods, H. Yiallanes. The nerve of the balancer in
some Diptera, A. Binet.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

BULLETIN DE L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DE BELGIQUE (3), xxiii, 2, Brussels,
1892. Protective resemblance in the animal kingdom, F. Plateau.

JOURNAL OF THE TRINIDAD FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB, I, i, Port-of-
Spain, April, 1892. This is the first number of a new journal issued under
the direction of a publication committee consisting of Henry Caracciolo,
Esq., president, Prof. P. Carmody, F. I. C., Syl. Devenish, Esq., M. A.,
.and Mr. R. R. Mole. The journal has for its object to keep those mem-
bers of the Club in Europe, America, Venezuela, and throughout Trinidad
en rapport with what the Club accomplishes. One of its special features
will be Economic Entomology. Mr. Caracciolo is a valued correspondent
of the NEWS, and we wish him and his colleagues success in their new
undertaking.

SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, Compte Rendu, March 5,
1892. The African Gomphina,*t E. de Selys-Longchamps. Insects of
western Bengal: xv, Coprophagous Lamellicornia, H. von Schoenfeldt;
xvi, Hydrocanthari,* Dr. M. Regimbart; xvii, List of a collection of Le-
pidoptera, Dr. H. Robbe. Lepidoptera from the Congo,* id. Materials
for a study of the Tabanidse of Belgium, L. Coucke.

OREGON AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, Bull. No. iS, Corvallis,
Ore., 1892. Economic Entomology, F. L. Washburn.

JOURNAL OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Columbus, Ohio, Decem-
ber, 1891. Insect parasites, F. M. Webster, figs.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xviii, 6, Berlin, March, 1892. Bra-
chyta bifasciata Oliv. v. cancasica, C. Rost. List of Lucanoidas, Sca-
rabeidse, Buprestida? and Cerambycidas collected near Nienghali in South
China,* A. F. Nonfried. 7, 8, April, 1892. A new variety of Lyc<zna
from Russia,* L. Krulikowsky. Sawfly studies,* Dr. Kriechbaumer. A
new Psilomastax, id. On Tryphon puuctiis Grav., R. v. Stein. Contri-
butions to the Coleopterous fauna of Africa and Madagascar,* A. F. Non-
fried. Preliminary descriptions of three new Lepidoptera from Bismarck-
burg in Togoland, German West Africa,* Dr. F. Karsch.

NATURE, London, April 7, 1892. On insect colors II, F. H. P. Coste.
April 21, 1892. Pigments of Lepidoptera, F. G. Hopkins.

LEPIDOPTERA INDICA, by F. Moore, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1892.
Pt. ix, pp. 177-208, pis. 65-71.

ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER, Leipzig, April n, 1892. The development
of the coxal gland in Phalaii^iinn, J. Lebedinsky, ligs. New observations
on symbiosis between Ants and Acacias, Dr. C. Keller. The Acacia-
Crematogaster by Prof. Keller from Somaliland,* A. Forel. April 25th.
Labial palps of Hemiptera, Dr. N. Leon, fig. May 2(1. Systematic list

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 159

of the Canarian Dermaptera and Orthoptera, with diagnoses of new
genera and species, *f Dr. H. Kraus.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSEXSCHAFTLICHE ZOOLOGIE, liii, 4, Leipzig, April
5, 1892. On the phylogeny and ontogeny of the wing-veins of butterflies,
Dr. A. Spuler, 2 pis.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Phila., March, 1892. Descriptions of new
North American Bees, C. Robertson.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST, London, May, 1892. The secondary sexual
characters of the British Coleoptera, J. W. Ellis. Local lists, etc.

BERLINER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, xxxvi, 2, Berlin, March,
1892. New African, Central American and East Asiatic Melolonthidae and
Rutelidae,* A. F. Nonfried. To the knowledge of the willow gall-flies,*
J. J. Kieffer, i pi., figs. Communications on gall-flies,* id., figs. Arach-
nida from Ceylon and Minikoy collected by Drs. P. and F. Sarasin,*f Dr.
F. Karsch, 3 pis. Second notice on the Apiocerina, C. R. Osten Sacken.
Arota rosaura Karsch, Dr. F. Karsch, fig. Review of the Locustodeas
collected by Dr. Paul Preuss at the Barombi Station in Cameroons,*f id.,
figs. List of the Rutelidae described after the publication of the Munich
Catalogue, and Additions to the same, A. F. Nonfried. Further contribu-
tions to the beetle fauna of southern Asia and New Guinea,* id. On gall-
fly larva?, E. H. Ruebsaamen, i pi. New gall-flies and galls,* id. Syn-
opsis of the described genera and species of the Blepharocediae, C. R.
Osten Sacken. On the Chretotaxy of Caco.renns iiidagator Lw., id.
Synonymy of Antocha O. S. and Orimargiila Mik., id. Additions and
corrections to the catalogue of the described species of South American
Asilicke by S. W. Williston in the Trans. F.nt. Soc. xviii, 1891, id. New
Rhopalocera,*t E. G. Honrath, i pi. Little-known butterflies, id. A
new Notodonta* id. A local variety of Biston hirtarius, H. Heymons.
Two new Chinese dragonflies of the family Calopterygidae,* Dr. F. Karsch.
Results of the anatomical research on a lateral hybrid of SincriiitJiits
populi L. with some general considerations, H. Tetens, i pi. figs. Epi-
nephclc lithonns var. mincki, T. Seebold.

REVUE D'ENTOMOLOGIE, CAEN, x, pp. 199-236. Description of a new
species of Tropideres* Fr. Guillebeau. Contributions to the study of
the Pentatomida-,* Dr. E. Bergroth. Third note on the genus Phalcria.
C. L. Rey.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, April 15, 18*92. The genus
Acronycta and its allies, Dr. T. A. Chapman. Ammonia, verdigris and
black pins, W. H. Harwood, J. \V. Tutt. A. Robinson.

INSKCT LIFE, iv, 7 and S, Washington, April, 1892. The potato-tuber
moth \Li/a sofancl/a Bd.), Eds., figs. A genus of Mantis c-gg-p.irasites,
* Contains new species other than North American, t Contains new genera.

160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

id., figs. Notes on the grain Toxoptera, F. M. Webster. The larger
digger-wasp, C. V. Riley, figs. The habits of Elasmus, L. O. Howard,
figs. Bees of great value to fruit and seed growers, F. Benton. Some
bred West Virginia Braconidae, A. D. Hopkins. Notes on the habits of
some California Coleoptera, D. W. Coquillett. Early published refer-
ences to some of our injurious insects, F. M. Webster. The color of a
host and its relation to parasitism, C. W. Stiles and A. Hassall. The
usual numerous notes.

YERHANDLUNGEX DER K. K. ZOOL.-BOT. GESELLSCHAFT IN WIEN, xlii,
i, April, 1892. On the so-called " stand still stage" in the development of
Oestrid-larvae, Dr. F. Brauer. Four new species of Hymenoptera,* Dr.
R. Cobelli. Communications on gall-flies,* E. H. Ruebsaamen, i pi.
figs. The Austrian species of the genus Hilara Melg.,* Prof. G. Strobl.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA-
DELPHIA, 1892, pt. i, January-March. The spider fauna of the Upper
Cayuga Lake basin, N. Banks, 5 pis. Drexelia, a new genus of spiders,
Rev. H. C. McCook, D. D. Greenland Lepidoptera, H. Skinner, M. D.,
and L. W. Mengel.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1892,
pt. i, March, 1892. New species of Heterocera from the Khasia Hills, *f
ii, Col. C. Swinhoe, i pi. Additional notes and observations on the life-
history of Atypus piceus, F. Enock. Notes on Lyccena (recte Thecla]
rhyinnus, tengstrcemii and pretiosa, G. T. Bethune-Baker, i pi. The
effects of artificial temperature on the coloring of several species of Le-
pidoptera, with an account of some experiments on the effects of light,
F. Merrirield. On variation in the color of cocoons of Eriogaster lanes-
iris and Saturnia carpini, W. Bateson. On the classification of the Geo-
metrina of the European fauna,! E. Meyrick, i pi.

ARCHIVES DE PHYSIOLOGIE NORMALE ET PATHLOGIQUE (2), iv, 2, Paris,.
April, 1892. The intermediary body of Fleming in the seminal cells of
Scolopendra and Lithobiiis, A. Prenant, i pi.

ZOOLOGISCHE JAHRBUCHER, vi, 2, Jena, March 30, 1892. The tree
whiting, Aporia crattzgi Hb., Dr. K. Eckstein. Tegonotus, a new Phy-
toptid genus,* Dr. A. Nalepa, i pi.

BOLLETINO DELLA SOCIETA ROMANA PER GLI STUDI ZOOLOGICI, I, I

and 2, Rome, 1892. On species of Hemiptera of the R. Museo Zoologico
of Rome, Dr. C. de Fiore.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. Louis, v, 3-4,
1892. Transformations of a Carabid (Plochiotius fiinutns) and observa-
tions on a Coccinellid enemy of the red spider, J. C. Duffey.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l6l

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., May, 1892. Miscellaneous
notes on butterflies, larvae, etc., W. H. Edwards. Two distinguished
settlers, W. H. Harrington. New North American Homoptera, iv, E. P.
Van Duzee. Packing insects for transportation, H. F. Wickham. Notes
on North American Hesperidae, E. M. Aaron. New North American
Microlepidoptera, Prof. C. H. Fernald. Notes and descriptions of Bom-
hylidae, D. \V. Coquillett. A Sarcophagid parasite of Cimbc.v americana,
C. H. T. Townsend. Ovipositing in the genus Argynnis, H. Skinner,
Notes on Mclittia ceto Westw., }. B. Smith. A new Ischalia from Van-
couver Island, W. H. Harrington. Obituary of Abbe Provancher, id.

CANADIAN RECORD OF SCIENCE, v, i, Montreal, January, 1892. List
of Coleoptera collected in the vicinity of St. Jerome, Que., J. F. Hausen.

NOVA ACTA ACADEMIC CAES. LEOP.-CAROL. GERMANICS NATUR/K
CI/RIOSORUM, Iv, Halle, 1891. New gall mites,* Dr. A. Nalepa, 4 pis.

BOLLETINO DEI MUSEI DI ZOOLOGIA ED ANATOMIA COMPARATA D. R.

UNIVERSITA DI TORINO, No. 115, March 9. 1892. On the variability of
the metasternal apophysis of Dytiscus i>iargina/is L., A. Griffini, figs.
116, March 15. On the parasitism of a larva of Aricia in a Cant bus, Dr.

E. Giglio-Tos. 117, March 18. A new genus of Syrphidae, id. 118,
March 24. On two genera of Syrphidae Rhopalosyrphus and Oinegasvr-
p/ius, id.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxiii, 2, 3, Buenos
Ayres, February, March, 1892. New Hemiptera of the Argentine and
Uruguayan faunas (cont.),* Dr. C. Berg. Argentine Dipterology, Syr-
phidae (cont.), F. L. Arribalzaga.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, May, 1892. Note on generic characters
in the Noctuidae, J. B. Smith. On some Macro-Lepidoptera collected at
Rannoch in 1891, R. Adkin. Notes on British Lepidoptera, the genus
Melanippe (cont.), R. South. Preliminary list of the insect fauna of Mid-
dlesex (cont.), T. D. A. Cockerell. Green and brown pupce of Papilla,

F. \V. Frohawk, F. P. Bedford.

BULLETIN OF THE OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION (2), v,
4, Columbus, Ohio, April, 1892. Insects which burrow in the stem of
wheat, F. M. Webster.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, May, 1892. Our
Rush-feeding Colcophuree* }. H. \Yood. Further notes on l-lnf>ithecia
extcnsaria, G. T. Porritt. On a new Onthophilus from Mexico, G. Lewis.
Annotated list of British Tachiniichi- u-ont ), R. H. Meade. The butter-
Hies of Rawal Pindi and tin- Murree Hills, Punjab iomt.i, N. Manders.
On new or little-known Coccidae, chiefly English-2,* K. NYwsteud, i |)1.

* Contains new species other than North American.
6**

162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

SEVENTH REPORT on the injurious and other insects of the State of
New York by J. A. Lintner, Ph.D., State Entomologist, Albany, 1892.
Pp. 200-404, 40 figs.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE VAUDOISE DBS SCIENCES NATURELLES (3),
xxvii, Lausanne, February, 1892. Origin of the existing Ant fauna of
Europe, C. Emery.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1891, pt. 4,
April i, 1892. On the Micro-Lepidoptera of the West Indies, Lord Wal-
singham, i pi. On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent, E. Simon, i
pi. Descriptions of new butterflies collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F. Z.
S., in British East Africa during his recent expedition, II, E. M. Sharpe,
i pi. On the association of Gamasids* with Ants, A. D. Michael, 2 pis.

TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS AND REPORT OF THE ROYAL SO-
CIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, xiv, 2, Adelaide, December, 1891. Further
notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and
species, Rev. T. Blackburn.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Aegeria armasata Druce, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p. 275, Ae. mardia
p. 275, Melitta beckeri p. 276, Durango, Mex. Metosamia (n. g. Satur-
niidae), p. 276, M. godmani, p. 277, Oaxaca, Mex. Telca aure/ia, Phassits
marcius, p. 278, Durango.

Pyralidse: Sericoplaga n. gen. Warren, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p.
295. S. externalis, p. 296, Tex.

Anarta besla, Skinner and Mengel, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1892, p. 158;
Glancopteryx immaciilata, p. 159, Greenland.

Argynnis oweni, Edwards, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 105, Cal. A. Cornelia,
106, Col.

Teras comandrana Fernald, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 121, Mass., Pa., Tex.
Caccecia magnoliana, p. 121, N. Y. Pyrausta inagdalena, p. 122, Tex.,
Fla. Coleophora fletcherella, p. 122, Ont., N. Y.

Four n. gen. 8 n. sp. Pterophoridae, 4 n. gen. 31 n. sp. Tineidas, Wal-
singham, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1891, pp. 492-549, West Indies.

* Contains new species other than North American.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 163

DIPTERA.

Sarcophaga helicis Townsend, Psyche vi, p. 221, Ohio. -S". imbicis
Townsend, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 126, S. Dak.

Exoprosopa grata, Coquillett, Can. nt. xxiv, p. 124, Cal., Wash.
Geronfasciola, p. 125; G. capax, p. 126, Cal.

Camerania n. gen. Syrphidte, Giglio-Tos, Bull. Mus. Zool. Anat. Com p.
Univ. Torino, No. 117, for Temnocera megacephala? Loew.

Blepharipeza rufescens Townsend, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 90,
Md. Hystricia aldrichi, p. 91, S. Dak. Atropharista n. gen. TachinidcC,
p. 92; A. jurinoides, p. 92, S. Dak. Echinomyia dakotensis, p. 94, S.
Dak. Tachinoinyia n. gen. Tachinidae, p. 96; T. robusfa, p. 96.

HYMENOPTERA.

Eleven n. sp. Halictus, i n. sp. Andrena, i n. sp. Ca/liopsis, i n. sp.
Melissodes, Robertson, Amer. Nat. xxvi, pp. 267-274, U. S.

Ceropales cressoni Fox, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 58, Neb., Wash.

HEMIPTERA.

Fourteen n. sp. Phlepsius Van Duzee, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, pp.
63-82, U. S.

Dendrocorisfruticola Bergroth, Rev. d'Ent. x, p. 228, Fla.

Gnathodus imp ictus, abdominals, Van Duzee, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 113,
N. J. Athysanus comma, p. 114, la.; A. bico/or, p. 114, Kan., Miss.; A.
obtusus, p. 115, Miss. Deltocephalusflavocostatus, p. 116, Miss.

COLEOPTERA.

Isonychus prasinus Nonfried, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxvi, p. 223; Ceraspis
elegans, p. 223; C. imitatrix, p. 224; Epectinaspis hondnrce, p. 231;
Phyllopertha latitarsis, p. 233; P. sericeo-micans, p. 233, Honduras.

Isclialia vancouverensis Harrington, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 132, Yanc. Is.

Onthophilus julii Lewis, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), II, p. 124, Mex.

ARANEINA.

One hundred and fourteen n. sp., Banks, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,
1892, pp. 11-81, 5 pis.

Drexelia n. gen. for Epeira dirccta Hentz, McCook, id., p. 127.

Fourteen n. gen. 31 n. sp. Simon, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1891, pp. 549-
575, St. Vincent.

164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

Doings of Societies.

A MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF
NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA was held April 28th Meeting:
called to order at 8.20 p. M. In the absence of the director Mr. James
Ridings was called to preside. Members present: Ridings, G. B. Cresson.
Liebeck, Skinner, Laurent. Associates: Calvert, Fox, Dr. Castle. Mr.
Henry Bird, of Rye, N. Y., presented two specimens of Gortyna itiqucs-
.?//<?. Four specimens of Hymenoptera were presented by Mrs. Annie
Trurnbull Slosson, including an undescribed species from Florida. Mr.
Calvert presented a paper for publication in the "Transactions" of the
American Entomological Society, which refers to material (Odonata) col-
lected by the U. S. Eclipse Expedition to the Congo and by Dr. W. L.
Abbott at Zanzibar and in the Kalimanjaro region. Inasmuch as the paper,
in its entirety presented to the U. S. National Museum for publication,
would be long in coming out he had, by permission from Dr. Riley, pre-
sented an abstract to night. Mr. Calvert reviewed the contents of the
paper and made drawings on the black-board to illustrate points in the
neuration of the old world genus Orthetrum. The characters of some of
the species were dwelt on at length. Mr. Calvert also exhibited a speci-
men of Pantala hymencza Say, which had been obtained from Mr. C. \V.
Johnson, to whom it had been presented by Mr. H. D. Coyle, a park guard.

who had captured it in Fairmount Park.

HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. The seventy-ninth reg-
ular meeting was held March 3, 1892, at the residence of Mr. E. A.
Schwarz. Mr. Wm. Ross Harris, of Texas, was elected a corresponding
member of the Society. Dr. Stiles gave a talk on the " Histology of
Ticks." He made some blackboard sketches and exhibited a number
of slides illustrating the subject. He dwelt especially on the cuticular
tissue, alimentary canal, stigma, excretory organs and glands of the head.
Discussed by Dr. Marx. Dr. Theo. Gill presented a paper on "The
Larva of Insects as an intercalated Stage." He quoted and criticised
certain statements in Agassiz, "Class, of Animals from Embry. Data."
From these criticisms he argued to show that the larva of insects was an
added or intercalated stage. He had prepared a table giving the distri-
bution of fossil insects. This showed that the Orthopteroid, Neuropteroid,
Hemipteroid and Coleopteroid insects were not only the insects of the
PaUeozoic, but also the prevailing insect types of the Mesozoic age. The
I >iptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera, which have a larva or caterpillar
stage, were later developments. Discussed by Messrs. . \shmead, Banks
and Gill. NATHAN HANKS, A'< ,;-<//;/<,' St-cirtary.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for May, was mailed May 2, 1892.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. III.

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ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. SEPTEMBER, 1892. No. 7.

CONTENTS:

Townsend Some Deformities in the 1 Dyar. Preparatory stages of P. errans 175

Abdominal Segments of Tachinidse 166 Townsend Note on Trichobiusdugesrt 177

Dyar A new Gluphisia 168 Editorial.... i->>

Harvey A new Symnthurus 169 Notes and News oo

Fox Description of Fossorial Hymen. 170 Economic Entomology

Smith Elementary Entomology 172

Skinner. A new species of Pamphila... 174

Entomological Literature 183

Doings of Societies : igo>

OUR picture this month represents some rare moths generously
loaned for illustration from the fine collection of I. C. Martindale,
Esq. The negative was kindly made for the NEWS by Dr. \V.
D. Robinson, of Philadelphia. Glorcria arizonensis is a -ray
moth, and its name indicates its home. Calosaturnia mcndocino
is fqom California; the primaries are dark smoky-brown, and the
inferiors tawny, with a black band as shown in figure. Cithcronia
sepulcralis is found from Pennsylvania southward; the primaries
are dove color, and the secondaries are same color, but lighter,
and the markings are wine color. COSSHS brucri, irom Colorado,
is white with black lines. Hypcrchiria -j'-p/ivrid is Irom .\Yw
Mexico, and was discovered by Prof. F. PI. Snow. The \\hite
line across the primaries is quite characteristic. ffv/>cir/iii-ia
paniiiia is readily distinguished by its pale color; it is a very
pretty species. The NK\VS hopes to publish figures of moths, as
there is such a demand for figures in the Heterocera. As the
methods improve we will descend in the scale and study the
smaller species. The figures on plate are somewhat smaller than
the normal si/c of the insects/ KD.

166 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

Some Deformities in the Abdominal Segments of Tachinidae.

By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND.

In the examination of material in the Tachinidae, I have run
across several cases of deformity in the abdominal segments,
which are worthy of being placed on record as a contribution to
the subject. Four specimens, belonging to as many different
species and genera, are noticed below.

Echinomyia thomsoni Will. A 9 , taken June 8th, Las Cruces,
N. M., exhibits the following peculiarities : The first segment is
normal; the right half of the second segment is quite normal,
but the left half is very considerably lengthened and joins the
fourth segment for nearly one-third of its width, crowding out
the third segment entirely on that side ; the third segment is
represented by about two-thirds of that segment on the right
side above, and about one-half of the segment below; the fourth
or anal segment is but slightly lengthened on its left one-third.
Thus the abdomen appears drawn up on the left side, the anal
segment being set on to the second, on the left, at an acute angle
to supply the deficiency in the third segment. None of the
macrochaetae belonging to the third segment are present at the
suture between the second and fourth segments, and this suture
is abnormally deep and wide, and presents the appearance of a
scar.

Hyphantrophaga hyphantricz Twns. A 2 , bred from Hyphan-
tria cunea, issued August 25th, Las Cruces, N. M., presents a
more peculiar deformity. In this specimen the abdomen is drawn
up on the right side; the first segment is somewhat lengthened
and bulging behind on the right side, making the suture between
the first and second segments sinuate: the second and third seg-
ments are separated by a suture on the left side extending hardly
to the median line, while on the right they are merged into a
single long segment about two-thirds the normal length of thr
two; the anal segment is quite normal in its proportions, but
points a little to the right in consequence of that side of the ab-
domen being shortened. The normal hind marginal macrochaetae
of the second and third segments are wholly wanting on the right
side. The ventral portion presents the same appearance.

Clytia flava Twns. A S, from S. Illinois (Robertson), ex-
hibits a still more marked deformity. The second segment seems

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 67

to be split diagonally by an abnormal suture running from the
left anterior corner to the right posterior one; a blind suture on
the right side occupies nearly the place of the normal one between
the first and second segments, while a similar suture on the left
side occupies the position of the normal one between the second
and third segments; these two sutures reach only to -the median
line and there disappear; the anal segment is quite normal in
form, but is somewhat inclined toward the right, as the posterior
margin of what should normally constitute the third segment is a
little oblique to the median line and is inclined anteriorly on the
right. There is no special abnormal feature in the disposition of
the macrochaetae, except that the normal median marginal pair
of the second segment is obsolete and that of the first segment
nearly so. The ventral portion does not share the deformity to
such a degree as the dorsal. This specimen shows an inclination
toward either an absorption of one abdominal segment, or the
acquisition of a fifth one.

Eustomatodexia insulensis Twns. ms. A , from Jamaica (C. \
\Y. Johnson), May, shows the following peculiarities: The first
segment' is lengthened by one-fourth on the right half, where it
joins the right side of the third segment, its posterior suture
being sinuate; only the left half of the second segment is present,
extending to and including the median line, its anterior and pos-
terior sutures uniting in a curve on the median line; the right
side of the third segment is lengthened by one-third, which still
leaves the right side of the abdomen somewhat shortened or
drawn up, on account of the absence of the second segment on
that side; the fourth or anal segment is normal. The venter
agrees with the dorsum; the macrochueUt on hind mar-ins of last
two segments are normal; the normal lateral marginal one on each
side of first segment is present; the Literal marginal pair of the
second segment is present only on the lett side, while the normal
median marginal pair is represented by a Mn^le macrochaeta.

The last mentioned individual is a d<\\iid. In all of the><- spe-
cies the normal number of abdominal segments is lour. I have
referred to the antero -posterior diameter ot the M -nients as the
length, although it is the lesser diameter.

In all probability the deformities above described were due to
injuries received in the larval, not in the pupal >tate.

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A new GLUPHISIA from the Pacific coast.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Gluphisia quinquelinea n. sp. <$. Head and thorax dark gray without
marks. Abdomen and legs paler gray; fore wings even gray, not quite
as dark as thorax, black and whitish scales and hairs mixed, not anywhere
distinctly irrorate. A space at the base between median and internal
veins, for a short distance on both sides of the basal line, as well as the
lower half of median space is shaded with an obscure flesh-colored tint.
Basal line black, starting on costa 2 mm. from base, strongly inwardly
dentate on subcostal, thence proceeding straight towards internal margin,
slightly widened and marked with a few bluish metallic scales on subme-
dian.fold, but ending at internal vein; transverse anterior line black,
rather broad, nearly straight from costa to internal margin, arcuated in-
wards a little across internal vein; median line blackish, rather obscure,
parallel with t. a. line slightly undulate and diffuse centrally; transverse
posterior line black, nearly straight from costa to internal margin, slightly
undulate and inwardly produced on submedian fold. It is slightly oblique
to the median line, starting from the costa at 2 mm. distance from it, and
nearly joining it at internal margin. The t. a. median and t. p. lines are
each marked with a few bluish metallic scales in the submedian interspace;
subterminal line black, broken by the gray veins, outwardly arcuate from
costa to vein 5 and again from vein 5 to vein 2, then straight to anal an-
gle; fringe gray, faintly spotted with blackish. Secondaries pale gray,
whitish at base, shading into blackish at anal angle. Below uniform
whitish gray, darker on the costa of fore wings. Expanse 31 mm.

Described from one male, Portland, Oreg. A table to separate
the. American species of Ghiphisia will appear later in " Psyche."

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A Local List of the Genus CATOCALA.

By GEO. A. EHRMAN, Pittsburg, Pa.

The genus Catocala is well represented in western Pennsylvania
as the following list will show. I have taken all the species and
varieties quoted, during the last twelve years of my entomological
labors. Prof. John B. Smith has listed seventy-eight species
apart from the varieties that are found in Boreal America. Of
his list I have taken thirty-two species in Allegheny Count}-, Pa.,
not mentioning numberless variations.

CATOCALA.

nubilisJt\\)\\. , common; gracilis Eclw., rare; in inn fa Ed\v., rare;
grynea Cram., rare; cerogama Gn., rare; nltronia Hbn., rare;

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cocci nata Grt., rare; ilia Cram., common; parta Gn., common;
unijuga Walk., rare; briscis Ed\v., rare; concnmbcns Walk.,
rare; caraGn.., common; amatri.v Hbn., rare; tristis Eclvv., rare;
epione Dru., common; antinywpha Hbn., rare; serena Ed\v.,
common; habilis Grt., common; innubens Gn., common; v. C,
scintillans G. & R., rare; paleogama Gn., common; v. A, pha-
langa Grt., rare; neogama S. & A., common; snbnata Grt.,
common; piatrix Grt., rare; nebnlosa Edw., rare; Judith Strk.,
rare; robinsonii Grt. , rare; mVrfo Grt., rare; v. A, flebilis Grt.,
rare; vidua S. & A., rare: lacryinosa Gn., rare; v. D, paulina
H. Edw., rare; insolabilis Gn., rare; obscura Strk., common;
v. A, residua Grt., rare.

I have followed in the footsteps of Prof. John B. Smith for my
classification of this list, and no matter how much I dislike the
system of his Rhopalocera, I find his system for the Heterocera
is the best that we ever have had for the American student up to
the present time.

A NEW SMYNTHURUS.

By F. L. HARVEY, Orono, Me.

Smynthurus 6-maculata n. sp. Deep blue-black, with four conspicuous
enamel-white spots on the body and two smaller ones between the eyes,
located as shown in the cut. The posterior pair of spots on the body
largest, both pairs on the body somewhat renifbrm in outline with the
sinuses on the dorsal side. Antenna; and le^s paler, shaded with purple.

Eye patches conspicuous and darker than
the coloring of the head. Head broader
than lout;-, nearly in the ratio of 3:2. Body
broad behind, where the breadth about
equals the length, abruptly narrowing
from the broadest part to the last seg-
ments. Ant'-niKe slender, nearly t\\o-
thirds tin- length of the body and head.
The joints in the ratio of 2:3:4:8, and el-
bowed between the third and fourth. The
terminal segment composed of about nine
subjoints. Elater Ion-, slender, the
bran<-|ies i if the fork widely spr'-.ulinu;,

second and third joints equal, the terminal segment i-oiiira', slender and
ending in a point. Legs rather Ion;; and stout; claws lar_

Measurements. TO\A\ length .7 i mm. Parts of a full grown specimen
about as follows: head .2 mm. IOHL;, .3 mm. broad; antenna-, h mm.; ratio

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of segments 2:3:4-8; body .8 x .8 mm.; spring .45 mm.; second and third
segments each .16 mm.; largest white spot on body about .18 mm., or
nearly one-fifth the body and head.

Hab. Orono, Me., July, August and September, 1891, F. L.
Harvey. Under bark on stumps and on herbage in the woods.
Several specimens examined. One specimen was taken July 7,
1891, with Papints mannoratus Pack, under the loose bark of a
fir tree stump. During July, August and September, they were
occasionally seen upon grass and other plants in the woods.
The accompanying cut was drawn for the writer from live speci-
mens by Mr. J. H. Emerton, Boston. It shows the insect mag-
nified about thirty times and a little too broad, due to compression
necessary to hold it still while drawing.

This species is apparently related to 6". quadrimaculata Ryder
(Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 335), but differs in the
larger size, broader body, purplish color and white spots between
the eyes. The dark blue-black color of the body, cleared by
balsam, appears decidedly purple, while the antennae and legs are
pale purple naturally. This form is rather sluggish, but jumps
well when disturbed. A beautiful species, not easily detected
because of its small size and dark color.

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Description of four new species of Fossorial Hymenoptera

from California.

By WILLIAM J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

Sphex (Priononyx) ferruginous n. sp. ?. Ferruginous; tips of mandi-
bles, ocellar region, antennae, except joints one, two and basal half of
third and two longitudinal marks on metanotum black; front, face, clypeus
and the thorax densely covered with bright silver)' pubescence. Wings
hyaline, nervures brownish; clypeus strongly convex, its anterior margin
rounded, entire; inner eye margins distinctly converging towards the cly-
peus; frontal furrow strong, beginning from a depression before the ante-
rior ocellus; scape of antenna; long, but much shorter than first joint of
flagellum, this latter a little longer than the two following ones united,
these joints in length about equal; prothorax above very broad and (-mi-
vex, not impressed; dorsulum with two parallel, raised, smooth, broad
ridges, which extend from base almost to apex; srutellum strongly and
widely furrowed medially, having the appearance of being bituberculate;
metanotum obliquely striated, the stria- are only seen where the inetaiiotum
is Mack, being covered by the silvery pubescence elsewhere; first recur-
rent nervure received by the first submarginal cell a little before the apex

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the second recurrent nervure interstitial; third submarginal cell much
narrowed at the top; petiole nearly as long as joints i and 2 of hind tarsi
and slightly curved; all the tibia: and tarsi spinose, the anterior tarsi
ciliated with abundant, fine, whitish bristles on the outer side, the inner
side of first joint with several stronger, but shorter bristles, the femora
and tibiae sparsely clothed with long, pale hairs; longer spur of hind tibia;
within on the apical half with several blunt spines, the basal half with
close-set bristles. Length 19 mm.

Described from one specimen, Los Angeles, Cal. ( D. \Y. Co-
quillett). The U. S. National Museum collection contains six
other specimens of this species.

Pseudagenia Blaisdelli n. sp. 9- Ferruginous; ocellar region black;
clypeus convex, the anterior margin slightly incurved; frontal furrow dis-
tinct, though not strong; space between eyes at top and beneath about
equal, if anything wider at the bottom; first joint of flagellum less than
one-third longer than the second, this latter about one-filth longer than
the third; inner eye margins strongly incurved; ocelli rather small; poste-
rior margin of prothorax slightly angular, scutellum with a feeble, longi-
tudinal, raised line, medially; metathorax rounded behind. Wings sub-
fuscous, the apical margins darker, first recurrent nervure received by the
second submarginal cell at the middle, the second recurrent nervure is
received by the third submarginal cell a little beyond the middle; third
submarginal cell narrowed nearly one-half at the top; the medial and
posterior tibia; very feebly spinose; posterior tarsi very long, the first two
joints united being as long, or a little longer than the hind tibia,-; longer
spur of hind tibia; about one-third as long as the first joint of hind tarsi;
the claws armed with a strong basal tooth. Abdomen with a sparse,
sericeous pile. Length 9 10 mm.

San Diego, Cal., Aug. 23, 1891, sent me by Dr. F. E. Blais-
dell, of Coranado, to whom I take pleasure in dedicating this
pretty species. There are other examples in the collections <>f
the Amer. Ent. Soc. and the U. S. Xat. Museum. It is related
to Pseud, mclanoccphala Cam. from Mexico.

PlanicepS planatllS n. sp. .'.' . Hlack with bluish and purplish n-lk-ctioiis;
clypeus planate, shining, with a few scattered punctures, its anterior mar-
gin truncate medially, the sides rounded; behind the antenna- there is a
short, longitudinal, dimple-like impression; antenna- situated in two strong
excavations; the clypeus produced back between these excavations; s<
shining, the remainder of the antenna' opaque, first joint of llagelhnn
about one-fifth longer than the second, narn wed to the base ; when viewed
from the front tin- occiput i-- depressed medially; mandibles reddish, pos-
terior margin of prothorax subarruate, nearly transverse; ni'-tailiorax
with a slight trace of an impressed line ..n upper suiii e, the

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face with strong, transverse folds, which become obsolete medially; suture
between meso- and metapleune marked by small fovece; last dorsal and
ventral segments with long, black hairs. Legs black, the tibiae and tarsi
more or less armed with distinct spines; the anterior tibiae and tarsi
clothed with a sericeous pile; tarsal claws armed with a large, acute tooth
at base. Wings very dark, with a slight violaceous reflection, apical
margins darker. Length 14 mm.

Two specimens; San Diego, Cal. (Blaisdell) Related to P.
Icevifrons Cr. and P. vicinus Cr. The fact of this species having
three submarginal cells would place it in Parapompilus Cress,
(non Smith), which is but a section of Planiceps. Parapompilus
Sm. has the wings much abbreviated.

Sphaerophthalma anthraciua n. sp..J\ Entirely black, densely clothed
with long, black pubescence. Head strongly punctured; scape clothed
with black pubescence; thorax strongly punctured, the metathorax with
very large punctures or pits, with the pubescence sparser. Wings strongly
fuscous, with three submarginal cells, the third of which has the outer
nervure angulate. Abdomen strongly punctured; first abdominal segment
sessile with the second. Length 9 mm.

Two specimens; San Diego, Cal. (Blaisdell) This is our only
species that is entirely black.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The Agaristidae, as they are represented in our fauna are rather
unsatisfactorily denned, and the position of Eudryas and allies is
not settled. Good authorities have referred these forms to the
Bombyces or Noctuidse, and tl*e characters allying Eudryas to
Alypia are in the larva rather than the imago state. Species of
Alypia are found in all parts of our country and the family char-
acters are drawn from this genus. The antennae are slender,
thickened beyond the middle and then gradually drawn out to a
point. The body is moderate in size, the head rather small, with
.1 pointed front; ocelli present, palpi distinct. The primaries are
12-veined, the internal (v. i) simple, not forked at base, ^, 4 and
5 rather close together from the end of the median; 6 to 10 sur-
rounding or out of an accessory cell at the tip of the subcostal.
This is almost exactly as in the Noctuida- save that the internal

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vein in the latter family is forked at base. The secondaries have
eight veins, the two internal veins counting as one, vein 5 is almost
midway between 4 and 6, and the costal in out of the subcostal a
short distance from the base. The venation of the secondaries
is Bombycid rather than Noctuid in character. The antennal
structure is the best and most obviou> character. The species
strictly belonging to this family are usually black in color with
white or yellow spots or blotches and often irrorate with blue
scales. They fly by day as a rule, and our common eastern spe-

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cies is, as a larva, quite destructive to grape.

The Syntomidae are poorly represented in our fauna, but are
rich in genera and species in the tropics of both hemispheres.
They are rather small insects with filiform antennae, ocelli some-
times absent, but more usually present, body usually stout, pri-
maries large and secondaries usually proportionately small. The
secondaries have only one internal vein and lack the costal vein

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altogether. There are never more than seven veins all told and
sometimes only four. The primaries have one internal vein;
veins 2 to 5 are quite widely separated, veins 7 to 10 from one
stalk and crowded together close to the apex. Most of the genera
are found only in the southern part of our country, but Lyco-
morfyha, which is an aberrant member of tin- family, extends into
Canada. Our common species is L. pholus. and has the wings
yellow at base and black toward the tip. Though this species
belongs, structurally, to the Syntomidar, it gives but a very feeble
idea of the beautiful forms that are allied to it in more congenial
climes. Often the wings are transparent or nearly so, and bright,
even striking colors abound. Odd and interesting structural
modifications are common, and one of these I have described in
volume i of " Entomologica Americana," where will be found a
complete study of Cosmosoma omphale.

The Pyromorphidae are moderate or small-sized insects, often
with thinly scaled semi-transparent win-.->, lender body and fili-
form antenna-, which in the male are olten lengthily pectinated.
The head is small but distinct, and the ocelli are large and promi-
nent. The venation is distinctive. < >:i the primaries then- are
two inner or free veins, and on the secondaries there are three
such veins. The costal vein of the secondari-^ is wanting, making
a combination not parallel* d in any other family. The >pi
are rare as a rule, and are mo>tlv southern or southwestern, a

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few only extending 1 to the New England States. Harrisina

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americana is the most common and best known species, and dif-
fers from the typical genus in the much narrower wings. Black
colors with reddish or yellowish shades basally and on the collar
predominate in this family.

The Ctenuchidas contain species of larger size making a very
distinct step toward the Lithosiidae. In external appearance and
habitus they are very like the Pyromorphidae, Scepsis having
almost precisely the form of Harrisina, and in this family the
male antennae are also lengthily pectinated. But the venation is
entirely different, the primaries having only one, the secondaries
only two internal of free veins. The secondaries yet lack the
costal vein. The species of this family are represented in all
parts of our territory and some of them are locally common.
Ctenucha virginica and Scepsis fithicollis are of our best known
eastern species.

All the families mentioned in this paper were formerly included
under the term Zygaenidae. A more detailed statement of char-
acters, with figures illustrating the same, can be found in the
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xii, p. 77.

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A NEW SPECIES OF PAMPHILA.

By HENRY SKINNER, M. D.

Pamphila errans n. sp. . Expands i% inches (being the dis-
tance from the middle of thorax to tip of one wing, doubled);
female a little more; upperside dark brown; superiors have two
small yellowish spots on the costal nervures about one-third the
distance from tip to thorax, and an interrupted row of four spots
of the same color on an imaginary line running from the tip to near
the middle of the interior margin; the uppermost of these is a
mere dot, and is situated at end of discoidal, just below the point
of cell. The second is wedge shaped with the point of wedge
inward, and is at the junction of two nervures running into a
point at the discoidal cell. The third spot is nearly quadrate
and larger than the other two. The fourth is resting on the sub-
median nervure and is nearly a rectangle. The fringes are yel-
lowish white, darker towards the tips. Interiors are immaculate,
with the inner two-thirds covered by long hairs of a lighter shade;

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underside is considerably lighter in color, and the neuration is
yellowish and quite distinct. The spots on the superiors are the
counterpart of those above, except that there are two small spots
instead of the first one of the row above. The inferiors have
three spots of same color, the first in the third subcostal space;
the second in the fourth subcostal space, and the third in the first
median interspace. Fringes of superiors dark, and oi interiors
same as above. Body and antennae above dark brown; below
body, palpi and antennae yellowish, with a dark stripe down the
centre of the abdomen.

The species above is almost the exact counterpart of ocola Edw.
but smaller, and below is very close to panoquin and panoquin-
oides. I have specimens from California received from Mr. H.
G. Dyar and Dr. Blaisdell, and also specimens from Texas.

PREPARATORY STAGES OF PAMPHILA ERRANS Skinner.

By HARRISON G. DYAR.

Egg. Elliptic-oval, flattened at base, a round, slightly de-
pressed spot on vertex. Smooth, slightly shiny, sordid white,
more distinctly white on top and in several obscure vertical
streaks on the sides; under the microscope covered with little
regular raised reticulations, becoming less distinct at the micro-
pyle. Diameter .8 mm. Laid singly on the upperside near the
base of a blade of the food-plant.

First lamtl stage. Head rounded triangular, nearly pointed
at vertex, which surpasses the body, lobes not separate: smooth,
dark brown, blackish in front; a small, indistinct, whitish line
above the mouth; width .45 mm. Body at first small, entirely
pale yellow; later long, cylindrical, of uniform si/e; feet normal.
but short; segmental incisures shallow, color uniform pale yel-
lowish green, with double dorsal and single subdorsal, narrow,
even yellowish lines. Anal plate large, circular, projecting and
bearing a few pale hairs. The little larva rests on the upperside
of a blade in the fold near its base, feeding entirely or mainly
during the night.

Second stage. Head rounded triangular, very slightly notched
on vertex, somewhat shiny, minutely punctured and furnished
with scattered pile; pale whitish with a yellow tinge, a broad

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brown band from above base of antennae to vertex, joining the
one from the other side below the apex of the head and another
similar fainter band behind and parallel to this passing behind the
vertex; mouth brown, width .7 mm. Body light green, not
shiny, transversely annulated, the two dorsal and subdorsal lines
distinct, narrow, pale yellow, with even edges; they run the whole
length of the body, and the subdorsal line is slightly wider than
the dorsal one. Anal plate rounded, projecting with some pale
hairs.

Third stage. Head rounded triangular, bulging in front and
at the sides, clypeus not depressed, pale green with many minute
blackish dots, the brown bands as before, but much less distinct;
labrum whitish, jaws and ocelli black; surface minutely pilose,
width i.i mm. Body much as before, but more of the color of
grass, covered with very minute, dark green dots; the pale yel-
low lines are as before, rather more distinct with their edges de-
fined by a darker green line; they begin on the anterior edge of
joint 2, but the dorsal one terminates at the beginning of the
anal plate. There is a substigmatal ridge, above which is a band
slightly darker green than the ground color, and below it a broad,
distinctly greenish yellow band, which becomes more distinct as
the stage advances.

Fourth stage. Head as before, but the brown bands entirely
absent; grass-green, minutely wrinkled and covered with very
small brown dots; jaws and ocelli black, labrum white; width
1.6 mm. Body grass-green, with the four narrow yellow lines
bordered obscurely with dark green, the space between them and
do\vn the sides as far as the lateral region thickly dotted with
dark brown; along the subventral ridge is a broad greenish yel-
low band, shading off above into the ground color.

Fifth stage. Head rounded triangular, bulging; clypeus small,
grass-green, minutely clotted with black; labrum whitish, jaws
black, ocelli black, ringed with white, five in number, the lower
one remote from the others; width 2.4 mm. Body shaped as
before, the anal plate very large (1.5 mm. loni; I, projecting half
its length beyond the last pair of abdominal feet, ridiM-d by the
subdorsal line, but concolorous with the body. Feet short, grass-
gRvii, tinged with yellow, the lines as before, namely, a double
dorsal and single subdorsal line, narrow and ratlu-r ob>cure, yel-
lowish, i-d-rd with green; the body is densely dotted with green,

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darker than the ground color, and there is a darker superstig-
inatal shade. Substigmatal band along the riclge pale yellow,
distinct, dotted with green; spiracles small, and situated on the
upperside of the stigmatal ridge, the spiracles on joints 2 and
12 being larger than the others, the one on joint 12 situated above
the ridge.

Chrysalis. Fastened by cremaster and a loop of silk to a stem
or blade of grass, on which a mat of silk had- been previously
spun. Cylindrical, slightly flat ventrally, long and slender. Ab-
domen tapering, thickest at thorax; a tapering process like a
horn projecting from the head in front; wing cases not projecting,
the leg cases extending a little further along the abdomen than
the wing cases; eyes prominent; cremaster broad, flat, excavated
below and ridged subdorsally. much resembling the anal plate of
the larva; width 3.5 mm.; length 19 mm.; length of "horn"
1.5 mm. The color of the living chrysalis was not ascertained,
but is presumably green.

Food-plant. Grass growing near the sea (species not deter-
mined). Another larva had its head 1.9 mm. wide in the fifth
stage and died while preparing for another moult. It would thus
have had six stages if it had lived. Larvae from Santa Barbara
County, Cal., on the grass very near the sea, where they were
in reach of the salt spray; none found outside this region.

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Note on Trichobius dugesii Twns.
By C. H. T. TOWNSEND.

U-W "

It will perhaps be remembered by some that an articlc.in the
last volume of ENTOMOLOGICAL NK\VS (vol. ii, pp. 105-6) on a
new hippoboscid from Mexico, which I described as Trichobins
n. gen. dugesii n. sp. , adopting the generic name Trichobius,
which was apparently long ago proposed by Gervais, but of which
no description, or reference to such, could be tound.

Quite recently 1 >r. Alfredo Dugvs, who originally sent me the
hippoboscid, very kindly communicated to me the following in-
formation which will throw much li-lit on the original use of this
generic term, and for which I am under main- obligations to him.

Dr. Duges, who had labeled the specimen " Trichobius sp.,"
had searched in vain at different times during- the la^t y< -ar for the

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description, or figure, which had led him to label it thus. Finally,
while looking by chance in the ' ' Atlas de Zoologie op collection
de 100 planches . . . par M. Paul Gervais, Paris, 1844," he found
a figure labeled " Trichobie parasite'' and also the following
reference in the text: " Trichobius parasiticus Gerv., de la Guiane.
Petit insecte diptere de la famille des Mallophages de Nitzsch,
trouve parasite sur une chauve-souris de la Guiane appelee Des-
modus rufus. II n'a pas encore 6te" decrit. "

Therefore, to Dr. Duges is due the credit for at last finding the
source of this name. He says, in conclusion: " L' insecte res-
semble beaucoup a celui que je vous ai envoye, et que vous avez
decrit le premier."

THKY HAVE SLAVES WHO ATTEND TO ALL THEIR WANTS. Certain war-
like species of ants, as Formica sanguined and F. rufescens, have sub-
jugated a negro species, F.fusca. Here again ants, while behaving like
men, have never allowed themselves the abuses of force to which men
are accustomed. They never enslave adult ants; they seize upon the
pupa;, bring up the young, treat them gently, and thus turn them into
docile and zealous servants. The slave ants who have never known the
city from which they sprang, do all the inferior work of the community
with eager alacrity, care for the larva;, carry their mistresses, feed them,
barricade the approaches in case of siege, receive the victorious amazons
with joy when they return from a fruitful expedition, and relieve them of
the pupa; captured in the raid. They are so thoroughly on the side of
their employers that it is believed they molest those who return from an
expedition with empty mandibles. As for these slaves their labor is purely
domestic. In some English ant hills the slaves never leave the nest. In
Switzerland some go aphis hunting, a business scorned by the warrior
ants. The warriors always seem to consider the black ants who serve
them as their property, and though they may allow themselves to be car-
ried by their slaves, these soldiers, in their turn, do not disdain to carry
their servants for safety's sake when changing house, or in case of a siege,
to drag them hastily down into the depths of the subterranean dwelling.
This system of slavery has certainly lasted for many centuries in the ant
world, but it has not existed always, as is attested by certain survivals,
because in certain species, that pampered progenetrix, the queen, partici-
pates in the labors of the community exactly like a humble worker.

Prof. J. B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. |., is engaged on a monographic
revision of the Deltoid group of the Noctuida-, and desires material from
all parts of the country. He will name and return all material sent him
for the privilege of retaining such specimens as may be needed for de-
scription or for completing the collection of the U. S. National Museum.

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PHILADELPHIA, PA., SEPTEMBER, 1892.

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Mr. W. F. KIRBY, in an article in the August number of the "Ento-
mologist" entitled, "On the Identification of Attacus atlas Linn, and its
allies, with remarks on some other species of the genus" says "Attacus
splendidus Beauv. from St. Domingo may prove to be distinct (from
ery ciiia Shaw), when we receive a series from that island; its alleged
o:currence in Texas is certainly an error."

EARLY CAPTURE OF C. insolabilis. While running over lists giving
dates of capture of Catocake, I find none earlier than July ist for the
latitude of central Ohio. June 22, 1892, I took the above-named Catocala
resting on Robinia pseudacacia on the State University campus. This
species is comparatively rare in this vicinity, Columbus, O., June 2jth.
\Y. E. KELLICOTT.

Lophopteryx elegans. In ENT. NEWS for April, page 87, Dr. McKnight
records the capture of this moth in Franklin County, X. V., and, in a foot-
note, notes the difference between his specimen and the description of
X. notaria Hy. Edw., from Colorado. In his original description of the
species Dr. Strecker says, under var. grisea, " The color of the head and
primaries slate-gray instead of brownish." which would correspond with
the description of A 7 ! notaria. Hence the synonymy of this species should
. be :

Lophopteryx elegans Strecker.

iSS^. Streck., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 285.
1891. Smith, List Lep. No. 1273.

var. grisea Strecker.
1884. Stri-rk., Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phil. p. 286.

iiotiiritt Hdwards. 4

1885. Hy. Edw., Ent. Amer. vol. i, p. 17.
1891. Smith, List Lcp. pr. syn.

HARRISON G. I )YAR.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l8l

Bombus fervidus Fahr. Tlie males referred to this species by Cressmi
really belong to B. borcalis Kby. Mr. Robertson suggests A. clatnx Fabr.
as a more nearly related male, ENT. NEWS i, 41. B. perplc.vns and /!.
hndsonicus. of which the females are unknown, may belong \.ofci"'u1ns;
they belong to the section containing B. vagans Sm. W. H. PATT<>.\.

A FATAL MOSQUITO BITE (Bacillus of Anthrax communicated to a man
by the insect). New York, August 4th. A man has just died in Bellevue
Hospital, according to the doctors, as a result of a mosquito bite. While
the case is a very unusual one, it is not unprecedented, they say. The
mosquito had absorbed the microbes of a dangerous disease, which he
transmitted to the patient in the biting process. A fatal case of menin-
gitis was developed as a result. The bacillus of Anthrax is the scientific
name of the poisonous germ in this instance. The patient was Peter
Kennedy, sixty-nine years old. It was about ten days ago when he was
bitten on the left cheek by the mosquito. "The case is a very interesting
one," said Dr. DeLaney, senior surgeon at Bellevue, to-day; "but it is
not an isolated case of death resulting from the bite of a mosquito. Such
cases are rare, but there are several clearly defined ones. "Anthrax is
a disease of cattle. When we know that mosquitoes feed on dead horses
there is nothing remarkable in their absorbing the disease germs of ba-
cillus of Anthrax, which are germinated in the putrifying Mesh. After the
mosquito has absorbed the bacilli or poisonous ptomaines, it is not re-
markable for them to be transmitted to the human system. The germs
multiply rapidly and soon extend to nearly all parts of the body." Public
Ledger.

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NOTES ON ECONOMK ENTOMOLOGY.

Prof. LAWRKNCK BKUXKR, in his report upon Insect Depredations in
Nebraska for 1891, gives the following interesting account of a remedy for
the cabbage butterfly (Picris ;v/>,r : 'These insects u< .-re nut <->prcially
numerous over the State during the year, but are referred to hen- simply
because I wish to call attention to a reported 'new' rein. -d\ -against them."
To say the least, it is unique as well as simple, if it pro\es as etl'-ctnal as

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182 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

is claimed for it. This remedy was brought to my notice about two weeks
ago while at West Point, my old home, on business connected with my
work for the Division of Entomology. The remedy i:; simply this: The
cabbage plants are sprinkled with ordinary corn-meal while they are wet
with dew or immediately after a rain, so that the meal will cling to the
leaves at all points. My informant certainly had nice cabbages that were
free from worms, and all he had done in the way of a preventive or
remedy was to use this corn-meal as above directed or explained. He
claimed that in a few days after sprinkling on the meal all the worms
would be found dead and turned black, clinging to the leaves of the plants.
Several cabbages that had purposely been left untreated were rather full
of the caterpillars of different sizes. In order to test the corn-meal remedy
for myself I treated these. On the loth of October I received the cab-
bages thus treated by express, just as they were when cut from the roots.
The accompanying letter reads as follows : " The worms seem to become
torpid at first, at least inactive, and then seem to dry up. How the meal
acts on the worms I cannot say. Cannot say whether they eat it by itself
or whether it gets mixed up with the leaves they eat, or whether the meal
that gets on them by adhering to them, acts like a poison on them. The
meal does not seem to do any good unless there is a heavy dew on the
cabbages, and it will adhere well. Perhaps they get killed by the meal
getting on them while the dew is on them. But I think not." When the
cabbages were received by me the worms were dead and partly dried up,
just as they had been described to me. I do not know what to think of
the matter, and give the facts as they appear here.

POTASSIUM IODIDE FOR BEE STINGS. I have never seen this salt men-
tioned as a sting-cure, but having heard of its use by a bee keeper of forty
years standing, whose verdict was " relief and cure instantaneous," I tried
it. I have only used it in three cases, in all of which it was successful. A
juvenile cousin aged seven, was stung on the hand, land the cure was so
effective that the sting only "tickled" next day, as he expressed it, though
he looked as if the tickling was too much for him at the time. In my own
case the relief was instantaneous, and no swelling ensued the first time,
when the remedy was applied at once, and very little the second time,
when applied about five minutes after. The method of application is
simply to hold a crystal of the iodide to the wound. H. E. W. in the
"British Bee Journal," June 23, 1892.

SOAPSUDS FOR CABBAGE LICE. "Some tiim- ago we undertook a line
of experiments against them, using kerosene emulsion of different
strengths. The result was that a weak emulsion had little or no effect,
while a stronger one thoroughly applied killed the lice, but at the same
time ruined the cabbage by giving it a flavor of kerosene which remained
\vht-n it was brought on the table. After some further study a trial was
made of strong soapsuds alone, and this proved highly efficacious, giving
much better satisfaction than any other remedy for the pest ever used at

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 183

the station. While water alone will roll off from the insects without
wetting them, the addition of soap gives a compound that penetrates
readily (Bull. No. 30, S. Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station)."

Calandra reniotepunctata Gyll. it seems has not been noticed heretofore
attacking grain, although two allied species, namely, C. oryzte and C.
granaria, are famous for their depredations. Recently my attention was
called to a number of small weevils, which were found in freshly-made
soup, and on enquiry being made, it was ascertained that the barley, ob-
tained from a near-by grocery, contained numerous specimens of this
insect. It is evident that this species has heretofore been confused with
C. oryzt? by observers. WM. J. Fox.

A CURCULIO REMEDY. "The curculio flies," says a plum grower,
" are our greatest enemy. But in Florida I learned of a curious method
of saving the fruit, which the flies kill when it is very young, just as the
bloom is falling off, and when the plums are no larger than marrowfat
peas, half a dozen small tin cans, empty tomato cans will do, two-thirds
full of molasses and water, with a tablespoonful of vinegar added, must
be hung from the branches of each tree. The curculio fly will be attracted
by the mixture and eat it greedily, forgetting at the same time to sting the
baby plums." AVri 1 York Tribune.

Entomological Literature.

AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, May, 1892. A spider enemy of
Oeneis semidea S. \Y. Denton.

HAKDWICKE'S SCIENCE GOSSIP, London, May, 1892. Famous collect-
ing grounds for Dragonflies, iii (W. H. Bath). The constancy of the Bee,
G. \V. Bulman.

GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, London, May, 1892. On a neuropterous in-
sect from the lower Lias,*t H. Woodward, i pi.

MKMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 1891-1892 (4), v, i. Hymenoptera orientalis;
or Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Indian zo-
ological region,* P. Cameron, i pi.

VERHANDLUNGEN UND MrrTHEii.r.\r.KN DES SIEBENBURGISCHEN YE-
REINS FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN IN HEKMANNSTADT, xli, 1891. On
the Coleopterous fauna of the vicinity of Schaessburg, Dr. K. Petri.

THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATTKAL HISTORY (6), ix, 53, Lon-
don, May, 1892. On some new species of Histei-ida-,* G. Lewis. On
the scale-like and flattened hairs of certain Lepidopterous larva-, A. S.
Packard, rigs. On Ophidercs princeps Guen. and its utter dissimilarity

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new

184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

in structure and pattern from Ophideres princeps Boisd., A. G. Butler.
Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidae contained in the
British Museum collection, *f W. Warren. On the anatomy and embry-
ology of the Phalangidae, V. Faussek (transl.). On the genus Polychrysia
Hiibn. (a group of Plusiid moths), A. G. Butler.

JAHRESBERICHT DES YEREINS FUR NATURKUNDE zu ZWICKAU IN
SACHSEN. (1891), 1892. The gall formations of German vascular plants;
additions and corrections, Dr. D. v. Schlechtendal. On the oviposition
of Lvodes females, id.

AXTI D. R. ACCADEMIA D. SCIENZE FlSICHE E MATEMATICHE (2). iv,

Naples, 1891. Miscellanea Entomologica,* iii, A. Costa (Hymenoptera*
and Blattidae*), i pi.

DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 1891, 2, Berlin, March,
1892. Remarks and Additions to the Catalogus Tenthredinidarum Eu-
ropae,* F. W. Konow. The Beetles collected by Dr. A. Stuebel in Hauran
and Tulul-es-Safa in Syria in 1882, Dr. L. v. Heyden. Letzneria lineata
Letzn. var. Weisi Heyden, id. Is it necessary to find a new generic name
for Platycenis raraboides L. and its allies?, G. Albers. A new Lucanid
from the Philippines, id. Second supplement to the Mylabridse or Bru-
chidce, F. Baudi. The palaearctic representatives of the Coleopterous
genus Zonitis F.,* K. Escherich. A new Liinnobaris from Dalmatia, J.
Faust. To the characterization of the genus Omotemnus Chevr., id.
The genera and species allied to the Rutelid genus Singhala Burni.,*f
Dr. K. M. Heller, i pi. Further notes on Dorcadion l&ve Fald., id.
Remarks and Additions to the Monograph of the palaearctic Cicindelidae
by himself and H. Roeschke, W. Horn. First contribution to the know-
ledge of the Cicindeletae, id. On the African Cicindelid genus Enry-
Diot-pha Hope, Dr. G. "Kraatz. On the genus Sta/aginosoniaRurm., id.
Chineosoma, new Melolonthld genus, id. New species,* id. Contribu-
tion to the knowledge of some new exotic Coleoptera, A. F. Nonfried.
List of the Lucanidae described from 1875 to the end of 1889, id. New
species,* Nonfried, C. Rost, A. Kuwert. New Melanotus from the palae-
arctic zone,* O. Schwarz. New Coccinelliclse,*f J. Weise. Cryptoceph-
alus species from West Africa,* id. Contributions to the knowledge of
the genus Orina, id.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUK, xxxvi, 4,
Brussels, April 5, 1892. On a hew species of Histeridas of Bengal,* G.
Lewis, figs. Descriptions x>f Coleoptera from the vicinity of Akbes
(Syria),* L. Fairmaire. Rhynchota Aethiopica,* E. Bergroth. Diagnoses
of new Coleoptera from the Congo, *f A. Duvivier.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND
LETTERS, viii, Madison, Wis., 1892. On the appendages ot the first ab-
dominal segment of embryo insects, W. M. Wheeler, 5 pis.

* Contains new species other than North American. ' i "iitains ne\v genera.

l8Q2.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 185

THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD, London, May 16, 1892. the genus
Acnntycla and its allies, Dr. T. A. Chapman. The genus Hepialus. }. E.
Robson. The British Coccinellida?, G. A. Lewcock. Classification by
structure of imago, E. Meyrick, J. \V. Tutt.

MATKKIAUX POUR LA FAUXE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE LA PROVINCE o'Ax-
VERS. Coleopteres 46 Centurie par A. P. deBorre, Bruxelles, 1891.

ZOOLOGISCHER AxzEiGER Leipsic, May 16, 1892. On Lebedinsky's
' The development of coxal glands in Phalangimn" Dr. P. Bertkau. To
the knowledge of the male sexual organs in Diptera, N. Cholodkovsky.

: SOCIETATIS ENTOMOLOGIC/E ROSSIC.E, xxv, St. Petersburg,
1891. Biology of Russian Lepidoptera, I. Portschinsky, figs. New
Asiatic Coleoptera,* B. E. Jakowleff. Description of new species of the
palaearctic fauna of the genus Sphenoptera Sol.,* id. On some Feronia
of the palaearctic fauna, T. Tschitscherine. Remarks on some Feronia
of South Africa and Madagascar,*! id. Some additions to the "Essay
on Feronia of Australia and New Zealand" by Baron de Chaudoir,*f
id. Description of a new species of Feronia (Latr.) Dej.,* id. Diag-
noses of new Coleoptera from central and eastern Asia,*f A. Semenow.
[Several new Coleoptera,*] id. On Astrakhanish Fossoria,* Dr. F.
Morawitz. On some species of Sphc.v, id. Revision of the copulatory
armature of the males of the genera Cilissa and Psendocilissa*\ Gen. O.
Radoszkowski. [The" same] of the genus Colletes* id., figs. 2 pis. Hy-
menopterological studies: Descriptions of new species of the Russian
fauna,* id. figs. Contributions to the knowledge of the beetles of Euro-
pean and Asiatic Russia, including the coasts of the Caspian Sea (con-
tinued),* J. Faust. Contribution to the Lepidopterous fauna of the gov-
ernment of St. Petersburg, R. Lang. Two new Coleoptera,* L. Ganglbauer.
New Aphodina?,* D. Koshantschikoff. New Lepidoptera recently col-
lected in central Asia,* G. Grum-Grshimailo.

BULLETINO DELLASOCIETA YENETO-TRENTINA DI SciEXZE N.\TUKALI.

v, 2, Padua, 1892. -On two new species of Phytoptus, G. Canestrini.

ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIEXTIFICA ARGENTINA, xxxiii, 4, Buenos
Ay res, April, 1892. New Hemiptera of the Argentine and Uruguayan
faunas (cont.),* Dr. C. Berg. Argentine Dipterology, Syrphida; (cont.),*
F. L. Arribalzaga.

BULLKTIXO DELLA SOCIETA ENTOMOLOGICA ITAI.IANA. \\iii, 3, 4, Flor-

ence, April 25, 1892. Contributions to the Coleopterous fauna of Trent
icont.i, S. Bertrolini. Anatomico-pliysiological note on Ixodini, A. I
telli, fig. Hymenopterological contributions: new or littlt-known species
of Hymenoptera-Diploptera,*f iv, G. Gribodo.

LK NATURALISTE, Paris, May 15, 1892. Habits and metamorphoses of
Chrysochus pretiosus F., Ca]>t. Xambeii. New Lepidoptera/- P. Dognin.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

CENTRALBLATT FUR PHVSIOLOGIE, Leipsic and Vienna, May 7, 1892.
An automatic centre for the production of light in Lnciola italic a L., M.
Verworm.

COMPTE RENDU. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, Paris, May 16, 1892.
The roots of the alar nerve in Coleoptera, A. Binet. On the origin and
the formation of the chitinous coat in the larvae of Libelliitee ]. Chatin.

IL NATURALISTA SICILIANO, Palermo, November-December, 1891.
Description of new Lepidoptera from Sicily, R. Pungeler. Materials for
an entomological fauna of the vicinity of Noto, V. Assenza. Modern
scientific correspondence of the animals figured in Cupanis' " Pamphyton
Sciculum" (1713), Dr. G. Riggio. January, 1892. Catalogue of Sicilian
Coleoptera (cont.), E. Rogusa.

OTTAWA N^CTURALIST, May 31, 1892. Fauna Ottawaensis Hemiptera,
\V. H. Harrington.

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS (8), iv, i, 1892.
On the muscles of the limbs and on the homology of the joints of Arach-
nids, P. Gaubert.

JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, Kingston, i, 3, May, 1892.
A Dexiid parasite of a longicorn beetle, C. H. T. Townsend. Caf/ictryas
senna", E. S. Panton. Notes on some Lepidoptera captured in Jamaica
by Dr. Percy Rendell, J. J. Weir.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST, Philadelphia, June, 1892. Notes on
harvest spiders, C. M. Weed.

BULLETIN OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, Jamaica, No. 30, King-
ston, April, 1892. The sugar-cane borer (Diair&a sacchara/is Fabr. ), T.

D. A. Cockerell.

ICONOGRAPHIE DE QUELQUES SAUTERELLES VERTES*f par AlphoilSC

Pictet et Henri de Saussure, Geneve, 1892, 26 pp. 3 pis.

CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, London, Ont., June, 1892. Synonymical
notes on some Heterocera in the British Museum, J. B. Smith. Canadian
Galls and their occupants Eurosta solidaginis Fitch, W. Brodie. De-
scription of four insect monstrosities, H. F. Wickham, figs. New species
of Phora, J. M. Aldrich, figs The Mole Cricket Gryllotalpa borealis,

E. W. Doran. New North American species of Goryfes, \\ . ]. Fox.
Catocala aiica, A. R. Grote.

BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, Pt. C, March, 1892. Coleoptera:
vol. iv, pt. 2, pi. xvii, G. C. Champion; vol. vi, pt. i, Supplement, pp.
313-344, M. Jacoby; vol. vii, pp. 161-168, pi. i.\, II. S. Gorham, Pt. CI,
April, 1892, Arachnida-Araneidea, pp. 89-96, O. P. Cambridge. CoU-
optera: vol. ii, pt. i, pi. xiii, D. Sharp; vol. vi, pt. i, Supplement, pp.
345~374> etc., M. Jacoby. Neuroptera: pp. 1-16, pi. i, A. E. Eaton.

* Contains new species other than North American. t Contains new genera.

1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 87

ZEITSCHRIKT FUR WISSENSCHAFTEN, 64 Bd. 3 heft. Halle-Saale, 1891.
Communications on new or known gall-flies and galls,* E. H. Rueb-
saamen, i pi.

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT, MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, St. Louis,
1892. The Yucca Moth and Yucca pollination, C. Y. Riley, 10 pis.

ANNUAL REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE for
1891. Report of the Entomologist on insect enemies of corn, L. Bruner,
pp. 240-309, 88 figs.

II JAHRESBERICHT DES WIENER ENTOMOLOGISCHEN YEREINES, 1892.
On the first stages of some Geometridce, H. May. Description of the
larva of Dyschorista suspecta Hub., A. Meztger. Contributions to the
Lepidopterous fauna of Slavonia, O. Bohatsch. Local papers.

ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, Berlin, xviii, 9. Brief characteriza-
tions of new Bugs collected by Dr. Paul Paul Preuss in Cameroons,*t Dr.
F. Karsch. Contributions to the Coleopterous fauna of Africa and Mada-
gascar (cent.),* A. F. Nonfried. No. 10. Brief characterizations of new
Mantidse collected by Dr. Paul Preuss in Cameroons,*f Dr. F. Karsch.
On some new genera and species of Melolonthidae,*f E. Brenske.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ; DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY,
Bulletin No. 27. Reports on the damage by destructive locusts during
the season of 1891. By L. Bruner, D. \V. Coquillett and H. Osborn,

Washington, 1892.

SCIENCE, New York, May 20, 1892. Notes on local Jassidae, E. B.
South wick. June 3d. Notes on local Bythoscopidae and Cercopida?, E.
B. Southwick. The systematic position of the Diptera, C. H. Tyler
Town send.

MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Bulletin, No. 19, Amherst,
May, 1892. Report on Insects, C. H. Fernald; figs, and pi.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, xxv,
January, 2oth. The tertiary Rhynchophora of North America, S. H.
Scudder.

THE ENTOMOLOGIST, London, June, 1892. Color variation in the ova
of Biston hirtaria, R. Adkin. A preliminary list of the insect fauna of
Middlesex (cont.), T. D. A. Cockerell. The genus Mclanipfe (cont.), R.
South. Spring Lepidoptera in Italy, H. Rowlands-Brown. Notes on the
synonymy of noctuid moths (cont.), A. G. Butler.

ENTOMOLOGISKE MEDDELKLSKK, iii, 3, Copenhagen, 1892. The Danish
species of I.ophynts, H. Borries. Ins<-< t life in \\-ncxiit-la. I-'. Meinert.

* Contains new species other than North American. ntaitis new genera.

1 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

THE ENTOMOL-OGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, London, June, 1892.
Two new English species of Hornalomyia* G. H. Verrall. Annotated
list of British Tachiniidas (cont.), R. H. Meade. Entomological notes
from Tasmania, J. J. Walker. A new genus of Eustheninae,*f E. Bergroth.
A new species of Helopeltis, Dr. O. M. Renter.

THE BRITISH NATURALIST, London, June, 1892. Portrait and sketch
of J. W. Douglass. The Pterophorina of Britain (cont.), }. W. Tutt.
The secondary sexual characters of the British Coleoptera (cont.), J. W.
Ellis. Local lists.

ZOE, San Francisco, April, 1892. Notes on the Cicindelidae observed
in San Diego County, Cal., F. E. Blaisdell.

LE NATURALIST, Paris, June i, 1892. The appendages of Arachnids,
A. Goux. New Lepidoptera,* P. Dognin. The artichoke worms,* P.
Chretien.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Baltimore,
1891, Remarkable new Homoptera. 1892, Jan. 2oth, Preliminary survey
of the Cicadida; of the United States, Antilles and Mexico. Observations
on some remarkable Heteroptera of North America, all by P. R. Uhler.

BERLINER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, xxxvii, i, May, 1892.
Contribution to the knowledge of the genera Lepidiota and Leucopholh^
E. Brenske. The species of the Coleopterous genus Brahmina Bl.* id.
A new Odonat of the genus Macromia discovered by Dr. Paul Preuss
near Buea in the Cameroon Mountains,* Dr. F. Karsch. On Cryptos-
tenima Gur. as some recent representatives of the fossil Arachnoid order
of Meridogastra Thor. , id., i pi. List of the Orthoptera captured by Dr.
P. Preuss in the Cameroons," :: 'f id., figs. Monographic review of the
Prionid genus CallipogonS&v., A. F. Nonfried, i pi. Capnodes Schilleri,
a new German Perlid,*f E. Rostock. A contribution to the knowledge
of the genus Chordenma (Diplopoda) and some notes on the German
Diplopod fauna,* C. Verhoeff, i pi. On Sabnlicola Cirsii mihi. id.

ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, xxxvi, 5,
Brussels, May, 1892. Buprestidae of India,* C. Kerremans.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS DESCRIBED
IN THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Ebulea fumipennis Warren, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), ix, p. 392. California.
E. ? sfrauiinea, p. 393, California. Udea indistinctalis, p. 394, Sierra
Nevada. Cybolomia e.vforris, p. 395, western United States.

* Contains new species other than North American. f Contains new genera.

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Dasylophia puntagorda Slosson, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 139, Florida.

Anthocharis flora Wright, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 154, Washington.

Pronuba synthetica Riley, 3d Rep. Mo. Bot. Garden, p. 141, California.
Prodoxns pulverulentus, p. 150, California. P. Y-inversus, p. 151, N.
Mex. P. reticutatiis, California. P. coloradensis Col., p. 152. P. sor-
didits p. 153, California.

COLEOPTERA.

Hoplia i sp., Serica 2 sp., Lachnosterna 4 sp., Gyinnefis i sp., Dero-
brachus i sp., Honduras, Psiloptera i sp. Hayti, Nonfried, Deut. Ent.
Zeit. 1891, pp. 257-276.

Botynella (n. gen. Coccinellida;) Weise, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. 286.
B. $-punctata, j-punctata, p. 287, Cuba. Sinilia n. gen. ; S. Felschei, p.
288, Florida.

Three genera, seventy species Phytophaga, Mexico, Central America,
Jacoby ; Biol. Cent. -Am. Coleop. vi, pp. 313-374.

Five species Coccinellidae, Mexico, Central America; Gorham, Biol.
Cent. -Am. Coleop. vii, pp. 161-168.

Callipogon Hanseri p. 20, C. Friedlaenderi, p. 22, Honduras; Non-
fried, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxvii.

DIPTERA.

Eighteen new genera, twenty-three new species Tachinicke, Townsend,
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, 13-15, United States.

Sarcodexia (n. gen. Dexiidce) Townsend, Journ. Inst. Jam. i, p. 105.
S. sternodontes p. 106, Jamaica.

riiora cimbicis Aldrich, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 143, S. Dakota. P. setact-a,
p. 144, S. Dakota. P. liiggeri, p. 145, Minn. P. ininuta, p. 146, S. Dak.

ORTHOPTERA.

Acanthoprion (n. gen. Pseudophyllidae) Pictet and Saussure, Icon.
Sauter. vert., p. 26. A. aztccum p. 26, fig., Oudonga, Mex.

HYMENOPTERA.

Goryfes nci>adensis Fox, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 150, Nev. G. atrifrons, p.
151, Nevada. G. inirandus, p. 152, Nevada. G. albosignafus, p. 152,
Montana. G. nifocinctiis, p. 153, Washington.

NEUROPTERA.

Eight species Ephemeridae, Ari/ona. Mi-\i<n, Central America; i-'.aton,
I'.iol. Ct-nt.-Am. Nt-unip. pp. 1-16.

HEMIPTERA.

Issida: Tic id a n. gen. Uhler, Trans. Mil. Acad. >i i. [891, p. 143. T.
t'iii^ulata, p. 144, California. Belonocharis t p. 145; />. finnida, p. 146,
California.

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Cicada cine tif era Uhler, 1. c., 1892, p. 156, N. Mexico, California. C.
retictilaris, p. 157, Jamaica. Tibicen cruentifera, p. 161, Nevada. T.
Blaisdellii, p. 163, California. Odopoea cariboea, p. 169, San Domingo.
O. doiningensis, p. 172, id. Cicada sordidafa, p. 175, Florida. C. reperla,
p. 177, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana.

Henicocephalina: Uhler, 1. c. p. 180, Hymenodectes n. gen.; H. culicis
p. 181, United States; Hymenocoris, p. 181, H. formicina, p. 182, Cali-
fornia. Capsidte: Hadronema pulverulenta, p. 183, United States.

Doings of Societies.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 7, 1892.
Mr. George D. Bradford, of New York, was elected a corresponding
member of the Society. The discussion of Dr. Gill's paper entitled,
' The Larva of Insects as an Intercalated Stage," engendered at the pre-
ceding meeting of the Society, was taken up and participated in by Messrs.
Stiles, Riley, Gill and Banks. Dr. Riley presented two papers, one "On
certain peculiar Structures of Lepidoptera," and the other, " Descriptions
of new Prodoxidce." He spoke of various interesting structures of the
Prodoxidae, calling attention more particularly to the saw-like ovipositors,
the maxillary tubercles, the cenchri-like spots on the thorax and certain
radiate and chitinous bodies in the receptaculum seminis. The remarks
were illustrated by large figures. He also spoke of the resemblance of
Pronuba synthetica to certain saw-flies. Specimens of the insects de-
scribed were exhibited. Prof. Riley's second paper was read by title only,
and was presented for publication. The discussion of these papers was
participated in by Messrs. Howard, Marlatt and Stiles. Prof. Riley also
presented a paper on "Coleopterous Larvae with Dorsal Appendages,"
in which he described the larva of various species of Mordellistena hav-
ing rows of tubercles on the back which facilitate moving more readily in
the hollows of plants and the larger burrows of other insects. Discussed
by Messrs. Smith and Schwarz. Mr. Doran read a paper entitled "On
the Heat Produced by Sylvanus cassia," in which he recorded some ob-
servations which he had made on the amount of heat produced by these
beetles in meal, but offered no definite explanation of the phenomenon.
Discussed by Messrs. Marlatt, Riley, Austin and Schwarz.

Thursday, May 4, 1892. Prof. H. E. Summers, of Champaign, 111.,
was elected a corresponding member of the Society. Mr. Ashmead pre-
sented some notes on the genus Enicocephalus Westw. Biographical
and critical notes were given, and the announcement was made of the
discovery of representatives of this genus in material sent to Dr. Riley
from St. Vincent, and announced also the discovery of a new species in
Utali by Mr. Schwarz. The genus cannot be included in any of the pres-

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ent subfamilies in the Reduviicke, to which it belongs, and the ne\v sub-
family Enicocephalime was erected for it. The new species was named
Enicocephalus schwarzii. Discussed by Messrs. Schwarz, Riley, Asli-
mead, Hubbard and Heidemann. Mr. Malley read a paper on Microinus
hispidiis, pointing out some observations on the food and life-habits of
this insect made in the South, where he found it feeding on Aphides.
Discussed by Messrs. Ashmead and Riley. Mr. Howard presented a
note on "The Hibernation of Carpenter Bees," showing that the males
as well as the females winter over. Discussed by Messrs. Riley, Ashmead,
Hubbard, Marlatt and Howard.

A paper by Dr. Bergroth, of Tammerfors, Finland, entitled "Notes
on the Nearctic Aradida?," was read by the Corresponding Secretary, to
whom it had been sent for publication in the Proceeding of the Society.

Mr. F. M. Webster had forwarded a paper for presentation at this
meeting of the Society on "The food-plants of the Lixi." The commu-
nication gave a view of the knowledge of the habits in this respect of this
genus of beetles, both of foreign and American species. Discussed by
Mr. Schwarz.

Mr. Hubbard presented a note on the larva of Atnphizoa, and gave an
interesting resume of the disposition of this anomalous insect in syste-
matic classification by various authors, together with the arguments ad-
duced in support of the diverging views. He presented drawings of the
larva and described its habits. The communication was discussed at
some length by Mr. Schwarz, and also briefly by Messrs. Ashmead, Gill,
Riley and others.

Mr. Masius gave his recent experience with the poisonous bite of Ren-
acus griseus. In handling specimens of this insect he had received a
severe sting on the hand which proved to be very painful. The pain and
swelling increased for two or three days and became so troublesome that
a physician was consulted. In five days the trouble had nearly disap-
peared, although at the time of the meeting the injured part was still sore.
Discussed by Messrs. Howard, Ashmead. Riley and others.

C. L. MARLATT,

A'cY. Secretary, pro. tern.

OBITUARY

"Prof. HERMAN CARL CONRAD BURMKISTKR was born at Stralsuml,
Jan. 15, 1807, and died from the result of an accident at IHieiios Ayres,
May 2, 1892. Prof. Burmeister was the author of many valuable works
on entomology. He was Professor of Natural History at Halle, ha\ in-
been elected to the chair in 1842. About 1850 failing health induced him
to spend two years in Bra/il. In iN6r lie resigned his professorship at

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Halle, and finally settled at Buenos Ayres, where he became director of
the Museum of Natural History, a position he held to within a few days
of his death. He continued to publish on Entomology, the insects of his
new home Affording ample materials for many valuable papers, both in
publications of the National Museum and in European journals, and also
a work on the physical features of the Argentine Republic with an atlas,
which latter included two parts devoted to the Lepidoptera of the country.
The Royal Society's catalogue of scientific papers enumerates no less
than 164 articles (exclusive of separate works) from his pen down to 1883,
and there have since been many more. He has been succeeded as Di-
rector of the Museum by Dr. C. Berg."

JUST after the MS. of our June number went to the printer we learned
of the death of Dr. CARL AUGUST DOHRN, at Stettin, in the 86th year of
his age. Dr. Dohrn was interested in Coleoptera, but he had a regard
for insects of other orders, if only for the reason that it brought him in
communication with the lovers of them. On the death at the compara-
tively early age of 39, of Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, the first president of the
Entomological S< ciety of Stettin, which had been founded in 1839, C. A.
Dohrn, who was then officiating as secretary of the society, was selected
for the vacant post, and at the ensuing anniversary meeting, Nov. 5, 1843,
was duly elected president, a position he continued to hold for upwards
of forty years. The " Entomological Zeitung," which is the organ of the
Stettin Society, was edited by Dr. Dohrn as long as he remained president,
and contains copious articles by him, many of them descriptive of new
species of beetles, and man}' relating to authors and their works and notes
on travel. His own collection of Coleoptera was very extensive, almost
unique in completeness of families and genera. Dr. Dohrn besides being
an entomologist, was an accomplished linguist, litterateur and musician.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for June, was mailed May 27, 1892.

EXT. NEWS, Vol. III.

PI. VII.

SPHINX RUSTICA.

. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. in. OCTOBER, 1892. No. 8.

CONTENTS:

Nolan The Introduction of the Allan- i Cockerell Entomology of Colorado-.. 202

thus Silk Worm Moth 193

Kunze Larva hunting in Winter 195

Fox A new Solitary Wasp 197

Smith Elementary Entomology 198

Coding N. American Membracida; 200

Editorial 205

Economic Entomology 206

Notes and News.. 209

Entomological Literature 212

OUR plate this month represents the upper and under side of
Sphinx rustica Fabr. , with its larva and chrysalis. The original
drawing was made by the late Titian R. Peale, the artist ento-
mologist. The plate represents the objects reduced in size, the
moth expanding five inches and the full-grown larvae being about
four and a half inches in length.

The Introduction of the Ailanthus Silk Worm Moth.

By EDW. J. NOLAN, M. D.

The attention of Dr. Thomas Stewardson, then Corresponding
Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia,
having been drawn,- in 1860, by various notices published in the
" Bulletin of the Society of Acclimation" and other French
journals, to the recent introduction of the Ailanthus Silk Worm,
Attacus cynthia, into France, he succeeded in obtaining from
Mons. Guerin-Meneville specimens of the caterpillar, the fly, the
cocoon and the silk in various stages of preparation.* In lune
of that year a number of eggs were also sent to him from Paris,
but they were nearly all spoiled in consequence of being hatched
on the voyage. Another lot sent a fr\v days later reached him

* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 525.
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in good condition, and from these, with the assistance of a silk
manufacturer in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, he succeeded
in raising a few worms, which formed their cocoons in July.

Toward the middle of August the moths made their appear-
ance, and the eggs laid by them hatched their worms from Au-
gust 3oth to September 3d. Some of these were placed by Dr.
Stewardson on a tree in a private garden; some were set out on
trees in the suburbs, and others were fed by him in a room at
his house. Of the first lot, nearly all came to maturity; many
of those placed in the country were destroyed by birds, and about
forty cocoons were secured from those raised in the house. The
success with the worms placed on the trees, except for the attacks
of birds, was entirely satisfactory, and proved to the experi-
menters, apparently, the possibility of raising two crops of the
insect during the proper season if reasonable care were taken to
preserve them from injury.

On the appearance of the first crop of caterpillars in the Spring
or early Summer of 1862, Dr. Stewardson was still sufficiently
interested in them to supply them with food, but the work was
becoming irksome. As Corresponding Secretary of the Academy,
most of his leisure time was spent in the room in the northeast
corner of the building, which was then situated at Broad and
Sansom Streets, and now forms part of the Lafayette Hotel.
My duties as Assistant Librarian placed me in constant commu-
nication with the doctor, and I became intensely interested in his
caterpillars, their growth and their work. I was, therefore, de-
lighted when the opportunity was given to me to take charge of
them and look after their allowance of Ailanthus leaves. The
supply was abundant, and fresh, crisp leaves were placed in glass
jars in the Librarian's room as often as a change was necessary.
The work was continued during the fall of 1862 and the Spring
and Summer of 1863. In the Autumn of the latter year I began
the study of chemistry with Dr. Robert E. Rogers, in the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, preparatory to matriculating as a student
of medicine. My time was then so occupied that it was increas-
ingly difficult to look after my pets, which, in spite of the fact
that not all of the successive broods had been preserved, num-
bered at the time some hundreds and required constant attention
to save them from starvation.

The yard of Dr. Roger's laboratory, at the back of the Medi-

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cal Department of the University, which was then located on
Ninth Street above Chestnut, where the Post-office now stands,
adjoined the yard of a house formerly occupied, it is said, by the
distinguished chemist, Dr. Hare. A large Ailanthus tree grew
here, the branches of which extended over the premises of the
laboratory. The more vigorous of the silk worms (so called)
were selected, and, with the consent of Dr. Rogers and the occu-
pant of the house referred to, were placed on the branches of
this tree early in October, 1863, to the number of a couple of
hundred. Here they were left to their fate, and, in truth, entirely
forgotten in the press of other interests until the Winter of the
following year (1864), when, on examining the tree, about forty
cocoons were found, the petioles of the leaves on which they were
spun being fastened to the otherwise naked branches by strands
of silk in the way so characteristic of the Ailanthus moth. They
were left here undisturbed, the survivors of the original colony
of the year before. The tree was vigorous, was secluded from
storms and visited by few birds. There is, therefore, no reason
to doubt that a large number of flies had been distributed from
this point during the preceding season, and it may, therefore, be
considered the main centre from which this interesting and beau-
tiful addition to our local fauna has proceeded, although some,
of course, have descended from the out-door colonies placed by
Dr. Stewardson himself.

The species was brought from China to Turn in 1857, and its
cultivation in France was begun the following year. Dr. Stew-
ardson hoped to benefit his fellow-citizens by bringing the insect
to America, but its introduction does not seem to have produced
much practical result, although the fly, with increasing frequency,
forms an interesting feature of the local collector's cabinet, and
may therefore be regarded as having come to stay.

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LARVA HUNTING IN WINTER.

By RICHARD E. KUNZE, M. D., New York.

With the swamps well frozen over, although light snowsqualls
made it disagreeable enough, I hunted the larvae of Arzama ob-
liquata the first time this Winter, Feb. 7, 1892. They bore the
stems of Typha /at (folia or Cat- tail flag, and Great Reed Mace,
so called. Inasmuch as they hibernate in the galleries bored out

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of the pithy part of the stalk of Typha, which line the shores of
small creeks and rivers traversing the saltmeadows of the Atlantic
sea-board, they are readily found. Dr. Kellicott, regarding hi-
bernation of obliquata, states that the larva leaves the stem in the
fall and crawls into the earth or old wood to hibernate until April
or May, vide "American Naturalist," vol. xvii, p. 1172, 1883.
On Long Island this larva is abundantly found hibernating in the
stem of Typha throughout the whole Winter. I have taken
larvae out of galleries only a few inches above the frozen water
line, and with thin sheets of ice formed by the moisture of the
stem, completely surrounding the outstretched larva, which so
filled up this gallery, that it seemed to be tightly wedged in place.
Removing a part of the stem and carrying it in my pocket a short
time, the larva soon showed great activity by moving up or down
the narrow gallery at a lively speed, either backwards or forwards
at pleasure. Have found them as high as two feet above water
line, in the borings of thick stems, free from moisture, and all
these stalks exhibit a number of openings as large as thickness
of a pencil, so that they are easily singled out. I find more near
where the fresh and brackish waters meet, than in the open salt
meadows where Typha grows thickest. In fact, a few Cat-tails
of very vigorous growth in a fresh-water swamp adjoining salt
meadows, are preferable to an acre of the former. In an hour's
time I found seven larvae, and on examining some Typha stems
I brought home for another purpose I found three more, making
ten in all, of which one represented another species.

Perhaps it is not superfluous to state that the larva is mature
before hibernating and pupates in the stem ol Typha, if undis-
turbed, early in Spring. I found lots of empty pupa cases in
stems more than a year old. The woody fibre of these withstands
the effect of elements fully two years. In hunting larvae I have
often split open a two-year old stem in a mistake, my benumbed
fingers not readily detecting the softer texture of the latter from
the more firm and newer growth.

Sometimes more than one larva is found in a stem, and I think
the flower-bearing stalk being strongest, yields more than the
leaf-bearing kind. In the stronger stems I found larvae three
feet above the ground. I place the collected larvae in wide-mouth
bottles containing sphagnum, leaving those which have not been
disturbed in their respective stems. After pupation, which some

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do in the moss and others in their galleries, the imago has an
opportunity to crawl upon the stem and develop after emerging.
I place the larvae in a cold hallway or out-house, during Winter.
Have collected such from December up to late in April.

Dr. Riley states in "American Naturalist," vol. xvii, p. 1169,
that A. obliquata also bores the stems of Stigiftaria (Arrow-head)
and Pontederia (Pickerel Weed), whereas Dr. Kellicott, in the
same work, mentions another food-plant, Sparganiimi (Bur Reed),
but it is bored much less so than Typha.

This larva, and other species of such borers, could not well
hibernate in either Sagittaria or Pontederia, the stems of which
are too succulent and perish with the first killing frosts of Winter.

(To be continued.)

o

Description of a new Solitary Wasp.

By WM. J. Fox, Phila., Pa.

Odynerus ( Odyncrus} Aldrichi.

1 . Clypeus with coarse, separated punctures, with longitudinal folds
or stria?, which are more obvious when viewed from certain positions,
bidentate anteriorly and with a rather strong depression just behind the
teeth ; head coarsely and closely punctured, the punctures becoming
sparse on the cheeks; first joint of flagellum equal in length to the two
following united; thorax punctured like the head; scutellum strongly im-
pressed medially; postscutellum when viewed from the front, crenulated;
metathorax strongly depressed, with a strong, somewhat triangular exca-
vation at base, rugose towards the sides, the metapleurae with irregular,
oblique striations; when viewed from behind the lateral margins of the
metathorax are seen to be emarginate below the middle; hind coxa; armed
with a strong tooth near the base on outer edge; first abdominal segment
above with coarse, separated punctures, those on the second much finer,
on the third segment the basal half is microscopically punctured, while
on the apical portion it has coarse, close, shallow punctures; beneath the
basal portions of the segments are finely punctured, the apical portion
strongly so; black; two transverse, curved spots on clypeus at base, two
minute dots behind antenna;, inner eye orbits on lower portion, large spot
at top of cheeks, prothorax above, anteriorly, teguke, except outer mar-
gin and a spot near base which are brown, spot on mesopleurse above,
posterior margins of scutellum and postscutellum, the marks narrowed
on each side, all bright yellow; a large spot on each side of first abdom-
inal segment also yellow, connected by a greenish white band on apical
margin of the segment, apical margins of dorsal segments 2-5 and a lar_v
spot on apical margins of ventral segments 2, 3 and 4, laterally, also

198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

greenish white; scape beneath and the legs, except coxae, trochanters and
base of femora, rufo-testaceous; wings subhyaline, apical margins fus-
cous; nervures and stigma deep black; the median cell of fore wings with
a ferruginous stain, the costal and median nervures beneath colored like
the legs.

(j\ Clypeus deeply and roundly emarginate anteriorly, with fine, sparse
punctures; first joint of flagellum scarcely as long as the two following
united; clypeus entirely, scape beneath, and coxae beneath yellow; legs
with a yellowish tinge; flagellum beneath testaceous.

Var. Greater part of legs and hind margins of the abdominal segments
yellow.

Brookings, S. Dakota (J. A. Aldrich); Colorado (coll. Amer.
Ent. Soc.). The color of the legs will distinguish this species.
Appears to occur abundantly from May 3Oth to June loth, as Mr.
Aldrich sent me about thirty specimens.

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ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY.

LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA (Moths).
By Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, New Brunswick, N. J.

The little family Heterogynidae belongs, in most respects, to
the Zygaenid series. In it the primaries have two, the secondaries
three internal veins, as in the Pyromorphidae. It differs, how-
ever, in having a distinct, free costal vein to the secondaries,
while the absence of this vein is one of the distinctive features in
the immediately preceding group of families. It is, perhaps,
questionable whether we have any true Heterogynidae in North
America.

Following these, comes a small series of what may be termed
Arctiid families. All agree in having only a single internal vein
to the primaries and two in the secondaries. The costal vein of
the primaries arises from the subcostal about one-third the dis-
tance from base. In one instance, Euerythra, it is altogether
wanting. Vein 5, in both primaries and secondaries, belongs to
the median series, and arises close to vein 4. The larvae, in the
majority of instances, are hairy caterpillars, usually transforming
in a loose cocoon, in the manufacture of which the hairy clothing
is used to eke out the scanty supply of silk. To facilitate this,
the hair is quite commonly barbed or branched, so that it felts
easily.

The Nycteolidae are small moths that are usually puzzles to the

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amateur. They have the wing form of Tortricids, and much of
their habital appearance, but have the venation above described.
Unlike all the other Arctids, however, the internal vein of the
primaries is forked at the base. That is to say, two parallel veins
start at the base and unite a short distance beyond into the nor-
mal single vein. The ocelli are present. We have as yet but
two genera with three species described from our fauna, and of
these Sarrothripa lintncriana is the common eastern species.

The Pericopidae are very uncertainly separated from the Arc-
tiidas. In venation they differ chiefly in that veins 3 and 4, and
7 and 8, of the secondaries are stalked; that is, a single vein only
starts at the point of origin, and this divides on its way to the
outer margin. The species are often rather frail and long-winged,
and have been compared to the Heliconinse of the diurnal Le-
pidoptera. Some of the species, American and foreign, which
were formerly referred here, have been of late proved to be
Geometridae!

The Lithosiidae differ from the Arctiidae by the absence of ocelli,
but agree with them in almost all other structural characters. In
the typical genus the primaries are narrow and elongate, while
the secondaries are broad and proportionately large, but in our
American forms we have all gradations from this to a really geo-
metriform wing. It may not be amiss to say that here, too, an
interesting amount of uncertainty exists whether some species
are not Geometridae rather than Lithosiidse. Some of the spe-
cies resemble Noctuidae, and others are sometimes mistaken for
micro-lepidoptera. A reference to the venation will, in most
cases, settle the question at once. There is a tendency in this
family towards a loss of some of the veins of the secondaries,
indicating an approach to the Syntomidae, already treated.

The Arctiidae differ from the Lithosiidae by the presence of
ocelli. They are larger, as a rule, but sometimes with very
similar wing form. Indeed, almost any desired variety of wing
form can be found in this family, which, by its bright and often
strongly contrasting colors, is one of the most attractive to col-
lectors. Two subfamilies are indicated in the American fauna:
the Cydosiinae, which have a roughened or tuberculate front, and
the Arctimae, in which the head is normal, not rough or tuber-
culate. In many of the species in this family there is a tendency
to a reduction in the spurs of the hind tibke, and irdjuently one
of the pairs is wanting.

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In volumes xxi and xxii of the " Canadian Entomologist," will
be found an annotated catalogue of the Arctiidae, in which the
genera are described in some detail and the venation of the lead-
ing types is figured, and to this I would refer the student for
further information concerning this family.

o

STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN MEMBRACID/E, II.

By F. W. CODING, M.D., Ph.D.

PUBLILIA Stal.

Publilia bicinctura n. sp. Similar to modestns Uhler; more depressed
and slender, with t\vo diagonal white bands. Head broadly oval, un-
equal, blackish brown, with three smooth, slightly elevated, light spots,
arranged in a triangle; eyes black; prothorax light green, with two whitish
bands, the first originating near middle of inferior border passes diago-
nally forward and upward, crossing the median carina in the sulcus, the
second starting about midway between the first and the apex parallel to
it; both are narrowly bordered with dark brown, and several longitudinal
lines of the same color mark the surface posterior to the first band; apex
more attenuated than in its congeners; base of prothorax with .a short,
impressed, black line above each eye; tegmina clear, veins white; below
piceous, upper surface of femora black. Legs otherwise light brown.
Abdomen dark brown. Length 5 mm.

Described from two males and two females. Collected by Prof.
Gillette in June and August, on Glycyrrhiza lepidota.

Hab. Fort Collins, Colorado.

One example had the bands obsolete, and two had the dorsum
largely ferruginous (types in coll. F. W. G.).

STICTOCEPHALA Stal.

Stictocephala gillettei Godg. $. Differs from $ as follows: impressed
lateral line extends from base of tegmina to apex of thorax; lateral
carinas meet at about the middle, and apex is less curved. Head grass-
green, surface unequal; prothorax clouded with yellow; tegmina trans-
parent with a tinge of green, and densely punctured; chest .very pale
green; femora yellow, covered with hairs; tibia; marked with brown, tarsi
light brown.

Collected by Prof. Gillette at Trinidad, Col., May 14, 1892.

HELIRIA Stal.

Heliria scalaris Fin. rf. Castaneous, speckled with yellow. Head
yellow, mottled with castaneous, very broad between eyes, which are
black, ocelli nearer each other than the eyes; prothorax castaneous, mot-
tled with yellow, anteriorly with the yellow predominating, densely punc-

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tured; median carina prominent, mostly shining black; crest compressed
vertically just behind middle; above each eye a black impressed dot; a
yellow stripe along posterior edge of crest halfway to apex; sides poste-
riorly with several longitudinal carina; ; about middle of lateral borders a
dark brown spot surrounded by a yellow ring; lateral angles produced;
tegmina vitreous, punctured, veins piceous, base with piceous spot and
posterior fourth nearly black; chest yellow, marked with piceous, hairy.
Abdomen black, posterior edges of segments yellow, last segment brown.
Legs testaceous, mottled with brown, tibia.- triquetrous and spined, tips
of tarsi piceous. Length 8 mm.; width between lateral angles 4 mm.;
altitude 5 mm.

Had. Fort Collins, Col. Described from a $ taken by Prof.

Gillette, July 4, 1892.

STICTOPELTA Stal.

Stictopelta marmorata 9> n. sp. Form similar to nova; castaneous,
mottled with yellow, the latter color predominating in anterior part. Head
yellow, nearly quadrangular, a semi-circular line around apex, a spot con-
tiguous to each ocellus, and a spot between these and each eye, dark
brown; eyes very dark green, surrounded by a yellow ring; prothorax
castaneous, mottled with yellow, darkest posteriorly; at the base, above
each eye, is a shining, irregular, impressed scar; lateral borders white,
this color extending from above base of tegmina nearly to apex, the tip
of which is black; punctured lightly throughout; tegmina vitreous yellow,
veins of corium piceous, apex lightly clouded; chest and abdomen yellow,
ovipositor castaneous; femora yellow, tibia; same color, outer surface
brown, except the anterior pair; tarsi yellow, tips darker. Length 9 mm. ;
width 4 mm.; altitude 3 mm.

Described from one 9 collected by Prof. C. H. T. Townsend.

Hab. New Mexico.

Subfamily CENTROTINJE Stal.

Centrodontus n. gen. Head broad, short, almost spindle shaped, eyes
large, globular; prothorax superiorly developed int