I I Entomological News AND ,/ PROCEEDINGS OK THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. VOLUME XXI, 1910. EDITOR : HENRY SKINNER, M. D. PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Associate Editor. ADVISORY COMMITTEE : EZRA T. CRESSON E. T. CRKSSON, JR. J. A. G. RKHN. PHILIP LAURENT WILLIAM J. FOX H. W. WEN/EL. PHILADELPHIA: ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, LOGAN SQUARE. 1910. PRESS OF P. C. STOCKHAUSEN PHILADELPHIA INDEX TO VOLUME XXI. (Notes and articles on geographical distribution are indexed under the names of the States or countries concerned, and not under the species listed then in e* > )>t in thi- case of new or redescribed forms. * indicates new generic or specific n.i GENERAL SUBJECTS. Abnormal Structures 5 Academy of Natural Sci- ences of Philadelphia, En- tom. Section of 334, 429 Adult insects, Length of life of 239 Africa, Entomological re- search in 478 Agassiz Association I3 1 American Association of Eco- nomic Entomologists .192, 478 American Entomological So- ciety 333, 428 Arizona, Collecting in 97 Asolla vs. Mosquitoes 437 Behr Natural History Sum- mer Laboratory 280 Birds, Mallophaga from 51, 124, 459- Boston Society of Natural History Museum Expedi- tion of 1910 42i Brooklyn Entomological So- ciety T 93, 194 Causes of sculpture of in- sects ^ Congress of Entomology, First International 13, 46, TOO, 326, 327, 337, 363, 376, 434 and Plate XII. Congress of Zoology, Eighth Determination of insects, Dif- ficulties of 475 Economic, Entomology, Value of 232, 326, 363 Editorials 42, 132, 182, 230, 2J 326, 363, 418, 475 Entomological journals .... 278 Entomological literature 43, $7. 136, 187, 233, 280, 3JS. 3^4, ; 422, 470. Entnnii ill laical Society of America ')-', 47^ Entomology in Great Britain and Ireland, Instruction in 47^ Examination in Ent< Questions and answers from an Feldman Collecting 144, 146, 238, 239, 33'. 3 430, 483- Florida, Collecting in 337. 483- Food and flies Fossil insects Galls 34i Guerin's Iconographie. Pan- of publication of Hawaiian Entomological ciety 28 ' Heink Entomological Club Importance of study of sects International 47, 47^ | n j ;m ,ii,. paralysis .md "i- Convention of Entomologists at Decatur, 111. Costa Rica, Entomological re- searches in Customs duties on insects 135, 181, 231, 477- cts Japanese translation ol som's Entomo! London Ti't's n|1 Entor 11 INDEX Malaria and mosquitoes .... 232 Mammals parasitized by in- sects 279, 402, 459 Maxwell Lefroy's "Indian In- sect Life" 91 Mimicry 50, 98, 240, 334 Needham's "General Biology" 236 Newark Entomological So- ciety 95, 96, 97, 98, 384 Newspaper entomology 181, 183, 475- Nomenclature, Rules of ....383 Obituary : Conradi, Adolph .... 436 Kirkaldy, George Wil- liam 133, 240, 287 Thomas, Cyrus 387 Thomas, Lancaster . . . 290 Ulke, Henry 99 Ohio Lake Laboratory 225 Oxford University, Entomo- logical Department at 365 Pacific Coast Entomological Society 431 Pairings of different species 193 Pellagra conveyed by insects 323 Pennsylvania, New course in Medical Dep't., University of 476 Personals : Barnes, W 455 Bethune, C. J. S 71 Blaisdell, F. E 225 Calvert, P. P 273 Dickson, R 232 Dyar, H. G. 17, 84, 85 Ericson, I. B 300 Fletcher, J 85 Grossbeck, J. A. ..47, 344 Hardenberg, C. B. . . 364 Holland, W. J 327 Jones, F. M 279 Kerremans, C 390 McDunnough, J 455 Newell, W 84 Osborn, H 327 Roberts, C. H 194 Sanderson, E. D 420 Satterthwait, A. F. . . 86 Schaus, W 364 Skinner, H 327, 364 Smith, J. B. 17, 84, 85, 364 Van Dyke, E. C 225 Wheeler, W. M 59 Plants attacked or visited by insects : Acer sac char um 195 Ambrosia psylostachya 177 Arctostaphylos manza- nita 394 Artemisia dracunciiloi- des 47 Asclepias incaniata . . 144 Bromeliad 264, 365 Buckwheat 37 Calla 245 Cassava 268, 327 Cassia 145 Catalpa 484 Cat-tail 96, 238 Ceanothus spp 172, 174 Cladothrix 177 Cleome serrulata 68, 69, 74 Compte 327 Cycas 47 Dammar a australis . . 48 Eriogonum 37 False Solomon's seal . . 144 Gaillardia aristata .... 343 Grindelia 344 Helianthus lenticularis 343 Hclianthus occidentalis 74 Hickory k > 198 Horsemint 49 Ipornoea 160, 269 Lemna 245 Ligiistnim ovalifoliwn 255 Mak'astntm 70 INDEX in Manihot utilissima 268, 327 Mentzelia nuda 68 Mignonette 40 Monarda punctata .... 49 Morns rubra 22 Nasturtium 40 Opmitia IT, 386 Pecan 226 Pentstemon glaber ... 70 Phaseolus 146 Philotria canadense . . . 245 Pickerel grass 245 Pine 430 Poplar 387 Privet 255 Quercus agrifolia .173, 178 Rhododendron ponti- cum 255 Roses 384 Rudbeckia hirta 73, 74, 75 Sagittaria 245 Salix 178, 387 Scrub oak 146 Solidago 68, 6g, 71, 74, 34 1 Strawberry 145 Swamp milkweed .... 144 Symphoricarpus .... 70 T amar ix gallica 67 Tephrosia Virginia ... 5 C Tripsacum dactyloides 10 Vagnera racemosa ....144 Poems : A New Trust 187 Libellula "9 Portraits of western [U. entomologists Plate VII Protective coloration . 343 Puget Sound Marine Station 273 Rat in its relation to public health Replacement of species in same locality Rhode Island Entomological Society 9 2 Scientific amenities and ento- mological research 133 Seal's "Fishes in their rela- tion to the mosquito prob- lem" 286 Specific limits Squirrels and caterpil! Trypanosomiasis conveyed by insects, A new 420 Unnatural history 46 ARACHNIDA Alberta, A of 302, 393 Bank's "Arachnida of Indi- ana" 376 hiliucntii. Schizocosa 2 California, A. of celerior*, Schizocosa l : .nrylninns 156 fnnnosus*. Eurybunus 15" XVvada, Araneae from I New Mexico, A. of *rk. A. of ocreata, Schizocosa - sitittitri.r. Schicocosa -' Schizocosa i Texas, Phalan.uid from COLEOPTERA Alaska, C. from alaskainis, Pogonochents ... ^ Arizona, C. of 5, 7. 117, 323. arizonicus, P<>^n\,^-hcrux ... Beyer in* ' 'S or, l\'liynt-liitcs bituberctilntus. Pr\\jplitln>r: California, C, of . .. 6, 7. ^ calif oruiciis. 7 Calosoimi ami wantcil on -'.U, Canada, C. of Canthnri'la.-. ication >' -M t Cicindclidac. I >istrilmti"ii "7. I'M IV INDEX Clerus 321 Colorado, C. of 7, 8 cognata*, Cymatodera 320 Colymbetes 194 crinitus, Pogonocherus 7 Cyllene 332 Cymatodera 320 Dermestes 430 dorsalis, Leptotrachelus ... 96 Dryaphthorus 47 Eleodinii 60 fasciata, Megalodacne 98 Florida, C. of 321, 386, 483 Georgia, C. of 226 gerhardi*, Hydnocera 323 Gynaecomeloe* 217 Hawaiian Islands, C. of 49 Hippodamia 432 Hydnocera 321-3 Idaho, C. of 7 knabi*, Clerus ichneumoneus var 321 Length of life of C 385 Leptotrachelus 96 Lyttidae, Classification of ..211 maritima*, Hydnocera .... 321 Massachusetts, iC. of ..322), 484 Megalodacne 98 Meloidae, Classification of .. 211, 307- Microcoleoptera wanted 300 Mitrastethus 48 mlxtus, Pogonocherus 8 Nebraska, C. of 322 negundo, Pogonocherus 7 Nemognatha 72, 37 Nemognathinae 37 Nevada, C. of 320 New Jersey, C. of 75- 96, 145, 146, 387, 431, 484- New Mexico, C. of 7, 8 New York, C. of 194 New Zealand, C. of 47 North Carolina, C. of , 239 obscurus*, Pogonocherus ..5, 7 Oncideres 226 Oregon, C. of 7 oregonus, Pogonocherus .... 7 Oviposition of Oncideres . . . 226 penicellatus, Pogonocherus . . 8 Pennsylvania, C. of 144, 145, 201, 332, 333, 387, 431- pictus*, Pogonocherus . .6, 8 Plusiotis 97 Pogonocherus 5 propinquus*, Pogonocherus 6, 8 Relaxing C 331 Rhynchites 384 Sculpturing of C., Causes of 65 striata, Buprcstis 239 texana, Oncideres 226 tibiali-s*, Hydnocera 322 Tricraniodes* 219 Utah, C. of 320 vespa*, Beyeria 1 19 volitans, Pogonocherus / Wisconsin, C. of 73 Zenodosus* 321 DIPTERA Aeshnasoma 327 Alaskan flea 279 caesar, Lucilia 418 Cainptoneuroinyia 260 Cecidomyia 10, 268 Ceratophyllus 279 chain plainii*, Dasyllis 243 Chicago, Mosquitoes of .... 293 China, D. of 308 Collecting and mounting Mi- crodiptera 46 Cook Island, D. of 13 Copestylum 222 Culex 50 Dacus I2 Dasyllis 243 elsa*, Eurosta 3A 2 Eurosta 34 2 INDEX facialis*, Dacus 12 fenestella*, Oxyphora 308 Glossina 478 Green bottle fly, Develop- ment of 411 idahoensis, Ceratophyllus ... 279 Illinois, D. of 293 ipmoeae*, Schizomyia 160, 269 270. Johannsen's "Fungus Gnats of N. America" 286 Lasioptera IO manihot*, Cecidomyia 268 Mansonia 259 Maryland, D. of 343 melanotus*, Dacus 13 meridionalis*, Camptoneur- omyia 269 Mosquitoes 293, 437 New Jersey, D. of 145, 327, 332, 334, 342, 387, 430. New York, D. of . .247, 341, 343 Ontario, D. of 239 opuntiae*, Cecidomyia 10 Ovipositing Winthemia 146 Oxyphora 308 Pennsylvania, D. of 239, 243, 331, 332, 334, 387, 430. Polynesia, D. of 13 quadripustulata, Winthemia . 146 quinaria*, Trypeta 308 rivertonensis, Aeshnasoma .. 327 Schizomyia 160, 269, 270 Simulium conveying Pellagra 323 Texas, D. of 10 Tipulidae 247 Tonga Islands, D. of 13 tripsaci*, Lasioptera 10 Trypeta 38 Trypetid galls 34 1 virgatus*, Dacus 13 West Indies, D. of 268 HEMIPTERA aceris, Chaitophorus ........ amnesis*, Poliocoris ........ Amycl,- .................. Aphididae, Genera of . . 147, Aphis iiijuiiticits, Aphis ........... Ari/nna, H. of ............ arizonica*, Spinigcr ......... Aspidiotus ............... audax*, Zelus ............. aurantii, Chrysomplwlus .... beckii, Lepidosaphes ....... Callipterus ............. 190, caryaefoliae*, Callipterus . . . Chaitophorus ............... Cicada ................... Colorado, H. of ....47, 129, Cnnorhinus conveying Try- panosomiasis ............ Dates of Koch's genera t Aphidae ................ decorata, Disderia (Plia cits.) .................... Disderia* ................ Drepanaphis .............. cknomius*, C.octcnes ........ I:niesa .................. Empoasca ............ 265, cngelhardti*, Cicada ........ Eoctcnes fcrox*, Zelus .............. Fossil H ................... Georgia, H. of ............. Guiana, H. of .............. llclicoptera ........... Illinois, H. of ......... Jassidae ............. Kirkal.I; '.ilog of H. Koch's genera, Hates of ..... loinjipes, EIUCSJ .......... 14 130 317 325 22 I'.j 103 i'>S 14 457 181 420 ,\\7 21 20 196 40- -'7 266 45 s 1"-' J2Q "/" "^ iihili. lini; i niiiiittiis*, n VI INDEX Missouri, H. of 195, 198 modesta*, Pnirontis 3 2 4 mori*, Aspidiotus 22 negundinis, Chaitophorus ... 14 New Jersey, H. of 457 New York, H. of 325 North Carolina, H. of .. 457, 45 8 nymphaeae, Rhopalosiphum ..245 obtusa, Empoasca 265 Pachypsylla 180 Phalaecus IQ, 87 pinorum*, Helicoptera H7 Pnirontis 324 Poliocoris 13 Poliosphageus* 13 pothetias*, Teleocoris 130 pruinosa, Cicada 457 psychrus*, Poliosphageus . . . 13 1 pustulatus, Plvalaecus (Cimex) 18 rohweri*, Pachypsylla 180 rosae, Typhlocyba 267 Scale insects, Parasites of .. 162 Teleocaris* ' 129 Texas, H. of 23 Typhlocyba 267 vernalis*, Amyele H7 Virginia, H. of 324,325 Zelus 325 HYMENOPTERA Aelothynnus 347 aeratus, Eurys 47 1 Anthidium 45" Australia, H. of ...-349, 351, 467 belinda, Perga 4^9 bella*, Euryopsis 472 California, H. of 120, 272 cara*, Osmia 271 earnest*, Perissopterus 162 cadta*', Osmia 272 Cere onus J 7 Colorado, H. of ....71, 270, 420 cusackae*, Chelynia 270 dccepta*, Eurys 47 1 Diphamorphos* 473 distinctus*, Pterygophorus . . 469 eucnemidarum, Vnnhornia . 83 Euryopsis 47 2 Eurys 47 1 excavata*, Prosopis 7 flaviventris*, Physcus 162 froggatti*, Perga 468,469 gabrielis, Osmia 120 Glaphyrothynnus 347 grinnelli*, Osmia .... 120 grassicornis*, Prosopis 67 Guerinius 349 harbecki*, Anthidium 456 harbecki*, Pemphredon (Cere- onus) : 7 Idaho, H. of 86 inconspicua, Eurys 47 1 Integra, Osmia 270 Iswaroides 349 kobelei, Iswaroides 35 1 laetus, Eurys 47 1 Leaf cutter bees, Work of . . 86 leucomelas*, Perga 467 lucida*, Perga 468, 469 magniclavis*, Prosopis 68 McCook's "Art Communities and How they are govern- ed" 143 Megachile 86 megalotis*, Prosopis 69 metallica*, Neoeurys 473 Mimesa 168, 169 minor*, Diphamorphos 474 multiguttatus, Aelothynnus 347, 348. nassa*, Osmia 272 Nebraska, H. of 67-71 Neoeurys*, 47 2 Neoseleboria* 347 New Jersey, H. of 168, 456, 484 nigrescens*, Diphamorphos . 474 nigrescens*, Psen (Mimesa) 168 nitidus, Eurys 47 1 Osmia 120, 270-3 INDEX VII Parasitic H 162 pasadenae*, Osmia 122 Pemphredon 170 Perga 467, 468 Perissopterus 162 perplexa*, Psen (Mimesa) ..169 Pliyscits 162 pogonigera*, Osmia 121 Prosopis 67 Psen 168, 169 Pterygophorus 469, 47 putata*, Osmia -- 272 rubripes*, Perga 467 sanctae-rosae*, Osmia 120 subtristis*, Prosopis /o supracurta*, Prosopis 7 1 Tachynothynnus 349 Tasmania, H. of 467 Thynnidae 345 Thynnidea 347 Thynnoides 347 Thynnoturneria*, 474 Turner ella*, 349, 474 turneri*, Pterygophorus 47 Turner's Genera of Thyn- nidae 345 Vanhornia Wheeler's "Ants" Zeleboria 347 zonalis*, Pterygophorus 47 LEPIDOPTERA adequata*, Eupithecia 158 albaciliella*, Bucculatri.r ... 175 Alberta, L. of albifusa, Mamcstra, 358, 3o Aids l6 7 alfkenii, Perigea 400 amatrix, Catocala arnica, Catocala andrei, Cricula : Appeal for aid Argyresthia Arizona, L. of 360, 464, 465, 466 astarte, Argynnis 194 iitalii, Eitmacits \~>>, 3^7 atra*, Hamilcara 466 atrimacula*, Renia 122 1 larnes collection of L 385 :uulas, L. of brci'is, Lygranthoecia 343 Ilntish Columbia, L. of 160, 362, 396 Huccultitrir i,7U "77 California, L. of 30, 171-8, 274, 279, 309, 360, 404, 406 441, 404 catcniila 396, ,v>7 catcnuloidcs. f'ari'i-ntis .. Catocala 104. > S 5. 44' , , .;:;o//;i*, Xepticiilu ] cerogama, Catocala 105 .izata*, I:itpitliecia 44 Colorado, L. of 343. 344. 360- 2, 396 concumbens, Catocala Connecticut, L. of 58, 360 contagionis. Euxoa 396, 398 Cot isciuin -"" Cossidae 455. 4"3 Cricula 1O1 - ilifiasciae*. .\cpticnla T- Discharging liquid and suck- ing it, L dolorosata*. Eupitiiccia .... 155 diimctoniiii, Thccla Duration of puj liudulc Eumaeus I7 "' res 184 Florida! L. of '"" tji!c>isis*, Hamilcara .;, . 4' '3- 4U4 ''' \, Catocala Vlll INDEX Hamilcara*, 465 Heliothid moths 343 heteronea, Lycaena 37 Hypopta 465 ilia, Catocala 442, 445 Illinois, L. of 360, 396 incresata*, Eupithecia 159 innubens, Catocala 107, 453 Iowa, L. of 360, 452 Lake Tahoe, L. of 274, 309 licentiosa, Eupolia 400 lotto*, Givira 464 Lycaena 37 Lygranthoecia 343, 344 Maine, L. of 84, 360, 361 Mamestra 357,398 Manitoba, L. of 360, 396 marga*, Givira 464 Massachusetts, L. of 123, 239, 360, 386, 396, 429, 484. Megathymidae wanted 455 meodana, Mamestra 398 minuta, Catocala 116 minuta*, Givira 463 Missouri, L. of 47, 108, 441 morana*, Mamestra 361 Nepticula 172-4 Nevada, L. of 274, 309 New Hampshire, L. of ..58, 123 New Jersey, L. of 95, 96, 98, 105, 123, 360, 384, 385, 484- New Mexico, L. of 360 New York, L. of 158, 360 occluna, Taeniocampa 400 ochristrigella*, Bucculatrix . 174 oregonica, Mamestra ....358, 360 palaeogama, Catocala 108 palinata*, Hypopta 465 pahistriella*, Gracilaria 178 parta, Catocala 444, 446 Pennsylvania, L. of 238, 332 pifatella*, Argyresthia 171 punctulata*, Nepticula 174 Pyrausta 49 relicta, Catocala 109 Renia 122 reticulata*, Gracilaria 177 San Francisco, Cal., L. of . . 30 serotinella*, Coriscium 57 South Dakota, L. of 360 spaldingi,, \Hyppa 399 Strecker collection of L 386 tenisca, Mamestra 398 tetrella*, Bucculatrix 1/5 Texas, L. of 360 Thecla 36 Thysania 47 tityrus, Eudamus 50 transversata*, Bucculatrix . . 177 tria fascia*, Argyresthia 171 triafasciae*, Argyresthia .... 171 trifolii, Mamestra 357, 360 ultronia, Catocala 445, 447 Utah, L. of .. 159, 396 valariata*, Eupithecia 404 variabilis*, Bucculatrix 176 varieHa*, Nepticula 173 verrillata, Alois 167 vetusta, Porosagrotis 396 Washington, L. of .... 360, 362 Wood leopard moth 239, 386 Wyoming, L. of 362 zenobia, Thysania 47 MALLOPHAGA Colpocephalum 52 Docophorus 124 hirstum*, Menopon 55 jenningsi*, Menopon 461 latifrons*, Nitzschia 56 Laysan Is., M. of 124 Lipeurus 459 Menopon 55, 461 Michigan, M. of 51 minor*, Lipeurus assessor . . 460 Nitsschia 56 obscururn*, Colpocephalum spinuloswn 52 INDEX IX ocularis*, Colpocephalum ... 52 Panama, M. of 459 snyderi*, Docophorus i^ subpustulatum*, Colpocephalum 54 NEUROPTERA (Excl. Mallophaga and Odonata) Annandalia 389 Atropidae from rat 462 Balmas 300 buenoi, Psectra 390 delicatulus, Hemerobius ... 390 Eretmoptera 390 Nemopterella*, 390 Notiobiella 389 nowhalieri, Megalomus .... 389 Psocidae from rat 462 Psychopsis 390 setnlosus, Hemerobius 389 Synonymical notes 389 Zygophlebius 390 ODONATA Costa Rica, O. of 264, 335 Medstogaster 264, 365 Mexico, O. of 365 Michigan, O. of 134 modestus, Medstogaster 264, 365 Pennsylvania, O. of . . 429, 430 Plant-dwelling larva . . 264, 365 ORTHOPTERA Alberta, O. of 333 allardi*, Xifhidion 58 Autumn 352 Canada, O. of western . . 23, 333 Conoceplialus 291 Connecticut, O. of 183 crassus*, Diponthus 303 Diponthus 303, 304 elegans*, Trybliophorus 126, 164 Eotettix 337 Florida, O. of 103 fuscostiatus, Conoceplialus . . 291 Georgia, O. of . . 58, 291, 354 gracilicornis*, Orphula 301 Hawaii, O- of 4 s 1 1 il'crnating crickets 183 Idaho, O. of 333 Massachusetts, O. of Mclanoplus 4,, .\\-\v England, O. of Orphula 301 Paraguay, O. of 301 I'tirascopas 306, y 7 punctulatus. Mclanoplus .... 4-; siin\. Allen, M. 411 Banks, N 156. .u'4, Barnes, W Bergroth, E 18, 477 Berry, L 104, 44' Blaisdell, F. E 60, 434 Bradley, J. C Braun, A. F 171 Brehme, H. H .v^4 Bruner, L K>3, 3"' Calvert, P. P. 264, 366 and In<' Carriker, M. A.. Tr 51 Caudell, A. X Chamberlain. R. V i Chainplain, A- H Cockerell, T. 1 >. A 47. <~- '- 1 " 180, 270, 307. 343. 4^0. Coolirlt-. K R Coquillett, D. W 13, ('rau ford, J. C INDEX Cresson, E. T., Jr. 43, 87, 136, 187, 233, 280, 328, 366, 406, 422, 479- Crosby, C. R 420 Daecke, E 341 Davis, J. J. 14, 195, 245 Davis, W. T 457 Dietz, W. G 48 Dod, F. H. W 395 Dow, R. P 194 Dyar, H. G 17, 259 Ehrhorn, E. M 289 Ely, C. R 57 Falk, L. H 47 Fall, H. C 5 Felt, E. P 10, 160, 268 Fenyes, A 117 Fox, C 279 Fox, H 75 Fullaway, D. T 289 Gerhard, W. J 293 Girault, A. A 226 Graenicher, S 72 Greene, C. T 239, 327 Greene, G. M 50, 146, 240 332, 333, 387, 484- Grossbeck, J. A. 96, 97, 98, 386 Healy, J. L 179, 327 Hebard, M 103, 135, 184 Herrick, G. W 22 Holland, W. J 135 Howard, L. 162 Jones, F. M 165 Kellogg, V. L 124, 401, 459 Kirk, H. B 201 Kirkaldy, G. W 47, 129, 231 Knab, F 259 Kuhns, D. B 48, 49 Laurent, P 183 Lyman, H. H 84 Manee, A. H 117 McDunnough, J 463 Meiners, E. P 289, 290 Newcomer, E. J 274, 309 Oestlund. O. W 317 Paine, J. H 124, 401, 459 Pearsall, R. F 157, 404 Place, W., Jr 92 Rehn, J. A. G. 23, 43, 87, 103, 126, 136, 187, 233, 280, 328, 366, 388, 422, 479- Rohwer, S. A 168, 345, 467 Rowley, R. R 47, 104, 441 Schwarz, H 186 Shull, C. A 51 Skinner, H. 42, 92, 132, 144, 182, 278, 326, 333, 334, 337, 4^9, 428, 475- Smith, J. B 122,' 357, 437 Snyder, A. J 87 Stebbins, J. H. Jr., 101 Swenk, M. H 67 Terry, F. W 289 Torre de la Bueno, J. R. . . 242 Van Duzee, E. P 143 Walton, W. R 243 Watson, J. H 255 Webster, R. L 265 Wellman, C 211 Wickham, H. F 27 Williams, F. X 30, 279 Wilson, H. F 147 Wolcott, A. B 320 JANUARY. 191O. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Vol. XXI. No. 1. EDITOR : HENRY SKINNER, M. 13. PHILIP P. 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PALPAL ORGAN. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. XXI. JANUARY, 1910. No. i. CONTENTS: Bergroth Note on the Genu-- Pli.thu -. u-. Stal Chamberlain A new Lycosid from Ne- vada i Fall New Species of Pogonocherus, with Synoptic Table 5 Felt Two new Cecidomyiidae 10 Coquillett Three new Trypetidae from WicVham A Nut'- "ti I mesa lonf the Pacific Islands.... . 12 Williams The Butterflies of San ! Herrick A new species of Aspidic.tus. . 22 Kehn Records of Oitln.ptvr.i IH.IM Western Canada ................. Davis Chaitophorus negundinus Thos. vs. C. aceris Linn 14 cisco, Cal .......................... 30 F.ditorial .............................. Dyar Concerning Dr. John B. Smith at Entomological Literatm. . Dublin, New Hampshire 17 Notes and News. . Doings of Societies 48 A New Lycosid from Nevada. By RALPH V. CIIAMBERLIN. (Plate I) Three species belonging- to the genus Schizocosa have here- tofore been known; namely ocrcata Ilentz, saltatri.r Ih-nt/ and bilincata Emerton. Ocrcata and saltatri.r range fn.m New England south to the Gulf of Mexico and westward int" the Mississippi valley; while hUincnta. having the same rai westward, appears not to have been recorded from south the District of Columbia. The author was much interest- finding a fourth species in the Great Basin region during past summer (1909). The new species poi all the acteristic structural features of the genus previously known forms. Tn general aspect it mcx ocrcata. though in coloration it is more like structure of the geiiitalia of male and female tinctive. The male agrees with these of in having on the anterior tibiae a den (i) 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO hair which stands out upon the surface like the bristles on a brush, a peculiar feature, the signifiance of which is at present wholly problematical. Saltatri.v (the male of which Hentz figures as (yenustula) is thus alone in the genus in lacking this brush-like structure. In the new species the femur, patella and metatarsi, as well as 'the tibia, have the tegument black. The following key may facilitate the separation of the four species. MALES. 1. First tibia clothed densely with black hair standing out in brush-like form 2. First tibiae not so clothed saltatrix Hentz 2. Legs all distinctly annulate ; sternum dark ocreata Hentz. Legs not all annulate ; sternum yellow 3. 3. Tegument of femur, patella and metatarsi as well as tibia, of anterior legs, black ; metatarsus of fourth legs distinctly annulate with dark celerior sp. nov. Tegument of femora, patella and metatarsus of first legs not so col- ored ; metatarsus of fourth legs not distinctly annulate with dark bilineata Emerton. FEMALES. 1. Sternum yellow, either with or without two rows of dark spots conver- ging caudad 2. Sternum dark, reddish brown to black 3. 2. Cephalothorax more than 4 mm. long ; metatarsi of fourth legs dis- tinctly annulate with black celerior sp. nov. Cephalothorax less than 4 mm. long ; metatarsi of fourth legs not an- nulate, all legs without annulations .... bilineata Emerton. 3. Guide of epigynum much wider immediately in front of transverse arms than between anterior and posterior divisions of these arms ; anterior portion of septum not sinuous ocreata Hentz. Portion of guide or septum between anterior and posterior divisions of transverse arms much wider than immediately in front of arms ; septum sinuous or bent near anterior end. saltatrix Hentz. Schizocosa celerior sp. nov Female. Cephalothorax with a rather narrow blackish brown stripe in the tegument each side and meeting its fellow across the face ; eyes surrounded with black; the lateral dark lines leave between them a median longitudinal band of yellow which extends cephalad as a nar- row tongue between eyes of second and third rows behind the latter abruptly expanding to the width of the row, indented on each side a Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3 little in front of the dorsal groove and then weakly narrowing to pos- terior border where it ends trvmcately and is limited by a black tr. verse marginal line; below the lateral dark bands the a yellow with, a little above each margin a black line which may nut ex- tend cephalad upon the pars cephalica, usually a row of small dark dots below this line and in some a few similar dots above it; cl\ ; marked below each anterior lateral eye with a trinagular black spot, the two tending to be confluent across the middle; the median and lateral light bands of the cephalothorax densely clothed in life with bright white or grey hair, that of the median band extending over the pars cephalica and down the face to the first eye row. Tegument of the chelicerae reddish brown, a dusky stripe down the interior face of each; clothed with light hair intermixed with darker bristles. En- dites and labium yellow. Sternum and coxae of legs clear yellow, clothed in life with white or light grey hair. Legs yellow, without dis- tinct annuli excepting on the metatarsi of the fourth legs, each of which bears a distinct black annulus at its distal end and less strongly marked ones at middle and at proximal end, though in some there are indications on femora of obscure annuli detectable under lens. Tegu- ment of abdomen grey; black v-shaped stripe on anterior face, one arm of which passes over each lateral angle upon lateral portion of dorsum, there immediately diffusing into a wider longitudinal band formed of black streaks and dots which form a mesh-work dorsally, but which ventrad become isolated and more and more sparse; these lateral dark bands extending caudad to the spinnerets leave a median dorsal light band in the anterior portion of which is a lanceolate dark outline from back of the middle of each side of which extends a dark line cnudo- laterad into the dark band, a similar pair of lines from apex fonnii chevron mark which is followed caudad by several similar marks ; the lines forming the lanceolate and chevron marks are more or les^ broken. and in the spaces between them are a number of small black dots; venter clear grey, without any markings; epigynum reddish; spin- nerets yellowish; abdomen in life clothed chiefly with white or ' ; grey hair. Uiclicerae in length once and a fourth the height of the ftiee. First row of eyes much shorter than the second, strunglv pn>eurved. the dorsal edge of each lateral eye being ventrad of the the middle ones; anterior median eyes not fully their radiu< apart, a little closer to the lateral eyes; anterior lateral eyes about three- foiirtli - large in diameter as the median. Interior lateral eyes their diam I from anterior margin of clypeuv Kyes of second row their diameter apart. Cephalothorax about 3.25 times as long as the quadrangle of posterior eyes. Lower margin of furrow chelicerae armed with tin which 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO the first is commonly much reduced or sometimes wholly absent ; the upper margin with three teeth as usual. Legs rather long, the distal joints of posterior legs slender. An- terior tibiae armed beneath with the usual three pairs of spines, the relative lengths being much as in typical Pardosas; the distal pair short, the median and basal very long, their lengths being double the diameter of the joint and the proximal overlapping the median pair. Epigynum short. The septum short and wide, showing clearly a division into a narrow median part and broad lateral alae. The pos- terior division of transverse arms relatively very broad, and the in- cisions from ends of arms extending acutely mesad between these broad divisions and the alar portion of septum. Openings of the sper- matheca plainly showing. See Plate I, Fig. 1. Length of cephalothorax 4.5 mm.; width, 2.5 mm. Length of leg I, 12 mm. ; tibia plus patella, 4 mm. ; metatarsus, 2.5 mm. Length of leg II, 10 mm. Length of leg III, 9.7 mm. Length of leg IV, 15 mm.; tibia plus patella, 4.7 mm.; metatarsus 4.1 mm. Male. Coloration nearly as in the female ; the sternum more com- monly with a row of three black dots near each lateral margin, one dot lying opposite the interval between each two coxae ; the ground color of abdomen darker, of a more reddish cast, and the lateral dark bands more nearly solid for entire length. Anterior legs with the tegument of femora, patellae, tibiae and metatarsi black, the patellae and tibiae and also part of the metatarsi also densely clothed with black hair that stands out in brush-like form. For structure of palpal organ see Plate I, Fig. 2. Length of cephalothorax, 3.3 mm. ; width, 2.3 mm. Length of leg I, 10 mm. ; tibia plus patella, 3.5 mm. ; metatarsus, 2.4 mm. Length of leg II, 9 mm. Length of leg III, 8.7 mm. Length of leg IV, 15 mm.; tibia plus patella 4.1 mm.; metatarsus, 4. mm. Locality Southern Nevada (Las Vegas). Individuals of this species were observed in large numbers running across a footpath along a small stream at Las Vegas. They seemed especilly active after sunset, coming forth at that time from concealment. At the date of observation (early June) both males and females were common. No females with egg-sacs were taken. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ^ New Species of Pogonocherus, with Synoptic Table. By H. C. FALL. Four species of this genus ncgnndo, arizonicns, ciilifor- nicus and alaskaus have been more or less recently describ- ed by Mr. Schaeffer. Three more are made known in the present paper bringing the number of known form- within our faunal limits up to twelve. As only the live of tin- 1 I en sha\v List were known when Lcng and Hamilton presented the last synoptic table (Trans. Am. Knt. Soc. iS. 1351 a ni table is herewith appended. P. obscurus n. sp. Moderately stout, black, clothed n< 'isely \vitli ap]>r<--- blackish and ashy grey hairs, the latter pred< miinai 'ly in a slightly antcmedian discal area which extend- forward laterally to the humeri ; the elytra with four scries of small black urn-, of short < hairs, the inner series close to the suture, the thr<-<- outer ones occupy- ing the positions of the costae, which, 1 reel] evident in this species. Entire body above, antenna'-. I.--, and -id<-- of abdomen clothed with long flying hairs, which an- for the IT blackish on the upper surface and pale beneath. Antennae one-third longer than the body in the male, slightly longer than the body in tin- female, the longer joints in great part pale, tl Macl- apical half; scape more than four times as lou.y as wide. rax about as long as wide, lateral tubercles obtuse, discal ones modi Legs black, the tibiae variegated with pale hairs. Last ventral segment rounded at apex in the male, truncate with the apex beveled or "M .iuel\ ascending in the female. Length 7-9 mm.; width 2.6-^.4 mm. Described from 2 $ 's and i $ kindly given me i>y Schwarz. who took them at Bright Angel, Arizona. This species is rather closely allied to itc^iindo. but i- read ily separated by the tabular character- It is perha]>- even closer to calif or nicus, but as this latter is compared by its scriber with oregonus, 1 have so associated it in the f table. There is before me a specimen taken by Dr. in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. with some confidence to calif ornicus. It is very near rns, but the long hairs are shorter and les out, and all those arising from the antennae are in obscnrus they are brown and white, the bro pre nating. 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO P. propinquus n. sp. Piceous, elytra variegated with testaceous, somewhat thinly clothed with brown and grayish white recumbent hairs, the latter, however, condensed in a fascia at the anterior third of the elytra, running ob- liquely forward exteriorly to a point beneath the humeral umbone, but not reaching the side margin. The fascia is sharply denned posteriorly, but anteriorly merges into an area of pale hairs within the humeri. Behind the fascia the surface is irregularly variegated with pale and dark shades, the paler color predominating toward the apex. Entire upper surface with scattered longer erect blackish hairs, the legs and antennae with hairs of moderate length. Antennae as long as the body ( 9 ), joints pale at base, the scape nearly three times as long as wide. Prothorax slightly transverse, lateral and discal prominences moder- ately strong, but not acute, median line with a small oval polished tubercle at posterior third. Elytra tricostate, the lateral costae strong, the inner one much less so and bearing a series of four tufts of short erect black hairs, disk sparsely moderately punctured between the cos- tae ; elytral apices emarginate, the outer angle more distinct than the inner. Femora black, pale at base; tibiae annulate; basal joint of hind tarsi nearly as long as the next two. Abdomen without erect hairs, last segment ( $ ) with a transverse apical f ovea. Length g mm. ; width 3 mm. San Bernardino Mountains, California, 6200 feet. A single female collected by Mr. Joseph Grinnell. This species is rather closely allied to peiiiccllatus, but sufficiently distinct by the lateral costa subinterrupted at base, and by the different disposition of the pale markings. P. pictus n sp. Closely related to mixtus, and hitherto regarded as a form of that species. It seems 'to differ constantly from the latter in the denser whiter sub-basal area which broadly reaches the suture but fails to attain the side margin ; the dark areas are also blacker and contrast more strongly with the white mark- ings. The elytra are more evidently subcostate than in mi.r- tus, the lateral costa being quite well marked though obtuse, and the antennal scape is as a rule shorter and more thickened apically, being but slightly more than twice as long as wide. The size is little greater than in the average mi.vtus. Three specimens arc before me bearing labels as follows : "Telluride, Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL XF.WS. Colorado," 9000 feet; "Colorado," and "Cloudcroft. Xew M ico." There is a single example, labeled -imply "Col." in the Le Conte collection and placed with inixtns. This is evidently the form referred to by 1 Iamilt.>n ( "Trans. xxiii, p. 135) as Le Contes simplex; an erroneous detennina- tion, however, the true simpler being in no appreciable way different from ty])ical mixtus. In the original description of simplex the apices of the elytra arc- -aid to In.- rounded, but a recent examination of the type by the writer shows them t<> In- truncate and feebly sinuate, the sutnral angle -dightly pruini- nent. The following table is offered for the separation of the twelve species now known to us: SYNOPTIC TABLE. Elytra each with a strong subbasal discal crest ; sides of l>regon, California . . oregonns 1 Elytral apices emarginate, with more oi less distinct limiting Elytra each tricostate, the lateral costae stroi nnei on< ler and bearing a series of four 01 five tufl : M.u I 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO Lateral costa strong throughout, the antemedian pale spot or fascia sharply defined and not extending forward within the humeri . . 4)4-6 mm. Maine to Colorado. . penicellatus Lee. 6 mm. Alaska alaskanus Schaef. Lateral costa feeble or subinterrupted near the humerus ; ante- rior pale area less sharply defined, reaching the base within the humeri. 9 mm. San Bernardino Mis., California. propinquus n. sp. Elytra without strongly marked costae. Fulvous, thorax and elytra at sides with some darker spaces, each elytron with an anterior oblique pale fascia and behind this a row of three tufts of erect black hairs. 13 mm. Arizona. arizonicus Schaef. Brownish or piceous elytra without tufts of erect hairs. Subbasal pale area denser, not reaching side margin, antennal scape stouter, elytra subcostate. 5/^-7 mm. Colorado, New Mexico pictus n. sp. Subbasal pale area reaching side but usually not the suture ; scape less stout, elytra not costate. 4-7 mm. Greater part of United States mixtus Lee. According to Schaeffer alaskanus differs from penicella- tus in its "much darker color, the rounded apical angles of the elytra and the shorter first joint of 'the hind tarsi." The outer apical angle of the elytra is more or less completely rounded in some specimens of penicellatus and as no comparative meas- ' urements are given of the basal joint of hind tarsi, the charac- ters seem rather too vague to incorporate in the table. The length given for arizonicus 13 mm. - is very great for a species of Pogonocherus and is possibly an error. Penicellatus, alaskanus, propinquus and arizonicus agree among themselves and differ from all others in having a small smooth oval tubercle on the median line of the pronotum pos- teriorly. The first three further agree in having the elytra rather strongly costate and with a single subsutural row of tufts of short erect hairs. Arizonicus has a single row of such 'tufts, but the description does not say whether they are near the suture or not, nor does it mention any elytral costae; and since it is compared by its author with mixtus, the pre- sumption is that the elytra are without distinct costa as in that species. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL \F.\VS. , Secondary sexual characters in this genus are chieily mam- fest at the abdominal apex. The last ventral of the male i- not modified, the apex broadly rounded. In the female of all the species known to me except crinitns the last ventral i- either foveate or obliquely ascending- at apex, the mar- in in broadly rounded or truncate. In Mr. Schaefi'er'-, description of tie gund o the apex of the last ventral is said to be broadly emarginate in the male and broadly rounded in the female. It is probable that he mistook the sexes and the character- should be reversed. Le Conte says of uii.vtns "The male ha.- the thorax finely rugose," and of parrulns (merely a small ini.v- tus) "the thorax of the male is finely rugous, that of the fe- male smooth." Hamilton says that the thorax of the in (iiii.vtits) is very closely aciculate, that of the female -.month. These differences are not at all apparent in my own -erie-, an 1 I am forced to consider them imaginary; in fact I find that tin- two specimens of parvulus upon which Le Conte's observation - were made are both males. The antennae are as a rule but little longer in the males than in the females. The greater number of our species of this genus are knnun to occur on pines. Crinitns is found on live oaks, nc on box elder, and volitans from Lower California can hard- ly occur on conifers. These three species, moreover, differ from all following by the more strongly developed and acute lateral tubercles of the prothorax. Supplementary note on Pogonocherus. Since submitting the above to the NEWS, there has appeared an article by Mr. Schaeffer in the September issue of the Journal of the New York Ent. Soc. containing a table of the species of Pogonocherus together with the de.-cription of .still another new species concolor with doubtful locality but supposedly from California. I am unable to determine certainty where concolor should go in the above table. Schaeffer does not say whether the lateral tubercle of the pro thorax is acute or obtuse, but assuming that it is ohtn-e a- in the greater number of species, and that the erect hairs antennse and legs are not conspicuously Ion-, it \\.nil dated with orcgonus and culifornicus. from both of is at once distinguishable by its uniform yellowish cir coloration and the absence of elytra! tufts of setae. IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO Two New Cecidomyiidae. By E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. Lasioptera tripsaci n. sp. This dark brown, white-banded species was reared at Piano, Texas, August 12, 1909, from larvae occurring between the leaf blades of Gama or Sesame grass, Tripsacum dactyloides, and transmitted to this office by Prof. F. M. Webster under the number of 6,011. This species is easily separated from al- lied forms by the white margined abdominal segments, the unicolcrous tarsi, the 18 antennal segments, the fifth with a length three-quarters its diameter and the extended oviposi- tor, the latter being nearly as long as the abdomen. Larva. Length 3 mm., pale yellowish orange. Head small, narrowly rounded anteriorly. Antennae short, apparently uniarticulate. Breast- bone bidentate, the teeth widely separated, small, the shaft weakly chitinized. Skin coarsely shagreened. Posterior extremity produced as a conspicuous pair of fleshy, conical pseudopods. Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae fuscous yellowish, lighter basally ; 1 8 segments, the 5th with a length barely three-quarters its diameter, the terminal segment produced, evidently composed of two closely fused. Palpi ; first segment broadly oval, the second a little longer, narrowly oval, the third as long as the second, more slender, the fourth a little longer and more slender than the third. Mesonotum dark yellowish brown. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, postscutellum yel- lowish. Abdomen dark brown, the segments narrowly margined pos- teriorly and laterally, venter concolorous ; ovipositor yellowish. Wings hyaline, the third vein uniting with costa at the basal half. Halteres yellowish. Coxae fuscous yellowish, femora lighter, tibiae lighter than the coxae, tarsi pale straw, the distal segments fuscous ; claws stout, evenly curved, the pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen, stout, the terminal lobes with a length three times the diameter, tapering, thickly setose, minor lobes long, slender. Type Cecid. a2oi3, N. Y. State Museum. Cecidomyia opuntiae n. sp. This species was reared during June, July and August. 1909, from discolored areas accompanied by more or less do- cay, at the base of spines on Opuntia leaves received from Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. TI George V. Nash, head gardener of the Xc\v York Botanical Gardens at Bronx Park, N. Y. Apparently the eg^s are de- posited at the base of a spine, possibly near some recent wound and the larvae commence operations upon the t; their work being followed by decay and in some instances by the operations of a small Ptinid beetle belonging to the genus Catorauia. In the latter case the dead tissues are traversed by irregular galleries, the Cecidomyiid larvae being in the near ing vicinity of living cells. This species occurred in Xe\v York in the leaves of Opimtia banburyana from Italy and an Opnntia from British West Indies. It is probably American and presumable that the infestation originated in this country. The deep red male may be recognized by the short broad, tri- angularly emarginate ventral plate. Larva. Length 3 mm., deep red, rather stout. Head small ; antennae long, tapering, Inarticulate ; breast-bone stout, bidentate, the tei divergent, broadly rounded, the shaft well chitinized. Skin coar shagreened. Posterior extremity broadly rounded with submedian con- ical processes. Male. Length I mm. Antennae about as long as the body, thick- haired, dark brown; 14 segments, the fifth binodose, the basal portion of the stem with a length three-quarters its- diameter, the distal p with a length one-quarter greater than its diameter, the basal ml;; ment subglobose, subbasal whorl sparse, the subapical circumtilum stout, the loops moderately long, the distal enlargement subcylindric, tapering basally with a length twice its diameter, the subapical whorl sp the subbasal and subapical circumfili moderately stout, the loops mod erately short; terminal segment with the basal stem very short, the distal enlargement with a length three and a half times its diam. Palpi; first segment short, stout, the second with a length three t lim- its diameter, the third one-third longer, more slender, the fourth a little longer and more slender than the third. Mesonotum dark i dish brown, the submedian lines thickly haired. Seuti-llum yell red basally, postscutcllum dark brown. Abdomen thickly haired, red, dark brown basally, the membrane and pleurae Fuscous. \\ hyaline, costa fuscous yellowish. Malteres pale tinted basally and apically. Coxae slaty brown, femora and tibiae pale straw, slightly fuscous. Tarsi with the first segmenl pale the second and third fuscous yellowish, the fourth and fifth dark brown; claws slender, slightly curved, simple, the puhilli nrarls as the claws. Genitalia; basal clasp segmenl stout; termin. 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO segment moderately stout; dorsal plate short, broad, triangularly emar- ginate, the lobes broadly rounded, sparsely setose ; ventral plate short, broad, triangularly emarginate, the lobes truncate, sparsely setose ; style short, stout, tapering. Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the bod}-, rather thickly haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem about one-quarter the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length four times its diameter, is rather strongly constricted near the basal third; subbasal whorl sparse, subapical whorl scattering, smooth ; circumfili rather strongly arched near the basal third and apic- ally; terminal segment cylindric, with a length three times its diameter and a slender conical apex. Palpi yellowish, the first segment short, stout, the second subquadrate, with a length two and a half times its diameter, the third one-half longer, more slender, the fourth a little longer and more slender than the third. Mesonotum reddish brown. the submedian lines thickly haired. Scutellum orange yellowish, thickly haired, postscutellum dark reddish brown. Abdomen mostly dark brown, the segments rather thickly haired posteriorly, incisures and pleurae deep orange. Ovipositor yellowish, nearly as long as the ab- domen when extended, the terminal lobes slender, tapering to a 'nar- rowly rounded, coarsely setose apex. Wings hyaline, costa fuscous yel- lowish, subcosta uniting therewith at the basal half, the third vein just before the apex. Halteres yellowish orange. Legs mostly dark brown, the coxae and femora basally yellowish; claws long, slightly curved, simple, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Type Cecid., 21,975, N. Y. State Museum. Three New Trypetidae from the Pacific Islands. By D. W. COQUILLETT. The following- new species were received from Mr. Edward K. Carnes the Horticultural Examiner, at Sacramento, Cali- fornia. Dacus facialis n sp. Near oleac but the face unspotted in the male, while in the female the two antennal furrows are wholly black, in both there is no brown spot at the tip of the third vein, etc. Head opaque yellow, the middle of the front, the third antennal joint and the arista except at the base, brownish; an irregular blackish spot above the center of the occiput. Thorax yellow, the mesonotum except its sides black, gray pruinose except three vittae; a black spot on the pteropleura and one on lower part of the sternopleura; metanotum except its sides black, the middle usually yellowish; scutellum yellow, usually a median brown villa. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. T ^ Abdomen yellow, marked with three imperfect black vittae which sometimes dissolved into spots, ovipositor black. Legs pale yellow, the tarsi except their bases brown. Wings hyaline, the first basal cell above the second, the stigma, the marginal cell and narrow bonier to the costa to slightly below the tip of the wing, brown ; anal cell and a cloud on the apical portion of the sixth vein also brown. Length about 5 mm. Tonga Island, Polynesia. Two male and four female specimens, bred from gnavas. Type Xo. 12.737, I'. S. Na- tional Museum. Dacus virgatus n. sp. Very near facialis. but differing as follows: Thorax black, the hnmcri, a stripe along the mesoplcural suture and one over the hypopleura. bright yellow; mesonotum gray pruinosc except two vittae: scutcllum yellowish, the sides brown. Black vittae of the abdomen broad and continuous. Hind tibiae brown, the others tinged with brown. COM a of the wings not bordered with brown beyond the stigma. Length 7 mm. Tonga Island, Polynesia. A female specimen bred from a guava. Type No. 12.738, U. S. National Museum. Dacus melanotus n. sp. Head and its members yellow, the middle of the front, third antenn.d joint, arista except at its base, the proboscis and palpi toward their apices, brownish; upper half of the occiput largely black. Body black, the humeri, a stripe along the mesopleural suture and one over the hypopleura, yellow. Legs brown, the bases of some of the femora and of the hind tarsi sometimes yellowish. Wings as in facialis. Length about 7 mm. Cook Island, Polynesia. Two males and one female bred from oranges. Type No. 12.739, ^ T - ^. National Museum. The American Exposition in Berlin during June. July and August promises great things. J. Pierpont Morgan is the President and lli^ Royal Highness, Prince Henry of Prussia, is Honorary President the (ieruian Reception Committee. The Entomological Cong res have some very distinguished personages as 1'atrons and Honorary Presidents. The President of the Congres will he Prof. I an President of the Belgian Entomological Society. All American en- tomologists are invited to attend and become members of the C grcss. Those persons desiring further information may obtain the same by applying to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO Chaitophorus negundinus Thos. vs. C. aceris Linn. By JOHN J. DAVIS, Office of the State Entomologist, Urbana, Illinois. In ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for March, 1908 (Vol. xix, p. 131-132) Professor O. W. Oestltind gave a synopsis of the known life history of the dimorph of Chaitophorus aceris (testudinatus of Kessler) as worked out in Europe and sug- gested the possibility of Ch. negundinis, which produces dimorphs similar to those of aceris, being a synonym of the European species just mentioned. The dimorph of Ch. negundinis had previously been written about by Mr. L. C. Bragg in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS (Vol. xviii, Dec. 1907, p. 431- 432), and later by the writer in the Annals of the Entomolo- gical Society of America (June, 1908, p. 130-32), in both cases the so-called box-elder aphid, Ch. negundinis, being con- sidered distinct from the European maple aphids, Ch. aceris, et spp. At the same time I wrote to Dr. G. Del Guercio. sending him specimens of negundinis and requesting his opin- ion as to the distinctness of aceris (testudinatus of Kessler) and negundinis. He very kindly made a careful examination and reported the two species as distinct, and also sent me specimens of both the normal and the leafy dimorphic forms of aceris, together with sketches showing the variable dark patterns on 'the dorsum of the "normal" wingless viviparous females. Dr. Del Guercio writes, "In aceris, * * * * one will al- ways find it furnished with thin long hairs. The length of such hairs is about 20 microns and they lay about small tuber- cles, which are generally brownish, and distinct or indistinct, in a dark mass on the back. * * Ch. negundinis, at least in those sent me, are furnished with rather rigid and short hairs, which measure 6 to 7 microns. This characteristic seems to me very important and less variable than any other in the two species." Following 'this suggestion I have exam- ined all of the specimens of the winged viviparous temales of Ch. negundinis in my collection and find the length of the Jan., '10] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. longest hairs does not exceed .i6mm. and seldom are they that long, while the length of the similarly placed hairs on the wing-ed specimens of aceris received from Dr. Del Guercio were usually .30 or .31 mm. The difference in lengths of hairs on the wingless forms is also noticeable, but much less Chait, aceris, Dorsal surface abdomen. Antenna. Last antennal segment. Chait. nfgitndinis, Dorsal surface abdomen. Antenna Last antennal segment. so than in the winged forms. Another characteristic which 1 tind to be quite constant is the sensoria on antennal segment III of the winged viviparous female. In aceris there are 25 irregularly placed sensoria on III, while in negundinis there are but 7 or 8, which are more or less in a row. The rela- i6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '10 tive lengths of the base and filament of antennal segment VI in the two species is quite distinct as is shown by the following average measurements : SPECIES FORM ANTENNA III IV V VI base VI filament Ch. aceris Winged viviparous female .67 .42 .38 13 .46 mm. Wingless " " 63 33 3i .11 .36 " C/i. negundinis Winged .41 .28 .22 .10 .24 " Wingless .42 27 .22 . n .21 " Further, there are no dark abdominal markings on the dor- sum of the wingless females of negundinis, these markings being prominent, though variable, characters in aceris. The dimorphic forms, of the two species under discussion, although having a remarkable resemblance, are likewise quite distinct. The dorsal "plates" are very different as is shown in figures I and 2. The leaf-like flabellae on aceris are usually rounded while those on negundinis in most cases at least, are more or less pointed. Another very prominent dif- ference is the relative lengths of the base and filament of the last antennal segment (IV) as is shown in the following table and in figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 : ANTENNA Length of body Width of body III IV base IV filament Dimorph of Ch. aceris Linn. 0.147 0.065 0.070 0.64 0.32 mm. Ch. negundinis Thos. o. 106 0.058 O.IIO 0.63 0.31 " We have in America a Chait-ophorus on the Norway and hard maples, which is very closely related to the European aceris, but which appears to be distinct probably a variety of aceris. The writer wishes, however, to study the species throughout the year in its various forms before making any definite statements. Jan., 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I/ Concerning Dr. John B. Smith at Dublin, New Hampshire. By HARRISON G. DYAR. We dislike to take up space in scientific periodicals for purely personal discussions, but as the NEWS is not always strictly sci- entific and as such, matters are generally lively and no doubt interesting to some of our readers we will comment on Dr. Smith's comments. Dr. Smith is evidently "enjoying-"' the situation solely be- cause his name was not mentioned in my article. The omis- sion was intentional and made in the interest of accuracy. My examination of the territory and subsequent report were quite unifluenced by any expression of opinion on the part of Dr. Smith. It is easy for Dr. Smith to say, after the fact, that he pointed out the pond in question ; but at the time he merely said that it had a favorable appearance. Owing to an unfortunate coincidence, following the regrettable action of Dr. Stowell in desiring an examination by Dr. Smith without my knowledge and before my own examination was completed, I was obliged to enjoy the pleasure of Dr. Smith's company on the tour of inspection of the ponds and marshes conducted by Dr. Stowell. The marsh in which I discovered the breeding-place of Man- soiiia pcrturbans was the only likely place 'that we saw on the trip, and if Dr. Smith had not been of the opinion that it look- ed favorable, he would have exhibited less acumen than I sup- pose him to possess. It is, however, a gratuitous assumption for him to imagine that my judgment was influenced in the least by his opinion. His company was forced upon me, his advice was not asked, and any acknowledgment of his connec- tion with the matter in my report would have been both super- fluous and misleading. My idea of the giving of credit is that it is due in cases where some service has been rendered or some information given whereby the recipient has profited, and in such cases I always gladly give credit. But where expressions of opinion arc voluntarily proffered, which coincide with views already held by the recipient, even when such opinion proves l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO later to have been well founded, it is clear to me that no acknowledgment is due. In the present case I am the more disinclined to make any mention of Dr. Smith in the matter, even to state that he expressed a favorable prognosis, because he was injected into a situation which I considered well in hand, quite without my previous knowledge or desire. Dr. Smith states that all the information about Ulansonia pertnrbans comes from himself or his assistant, Air. Gross- beck. This is a most disingenuous statement. I happen to know that Air. Brakeley made all the discoveries in the case and sent his voluminous notes freely to Dr. Smith, and I am astonished that Dr. Smith should attempt to divert credit to himself from a most generous and warm-hearted, if non-pub- lishing, friend. For myself, who am neither generous, nor. I fear, at present particularly friendly toward Dr. Smith, the attempt to annex credit is explicable on the ground that Dr. Smith's point of view is too self-centered to allow him to read the situation in its true aspect. Note on the Genus Phalaecus Stal. By Dr. E. BERGROTH, Fitchburg, Mass. In 1773 De Geer described and figured a large and remark- able Pentatomid from Surinam under the name Cimcx pnstulatiis. Overlooking De Geer's description Stal describ- ed in 1855 a specimen of the same insect from an unknown lo- cality under the name Macropygium flavopustulatum. Later, in 1862, he found that the species has only a superficial resem- blance to the genus Macropygium and founded the new genus Plmlaccus upon it. identifying it with De Greer's species. In 1872 he published some additional characters of the genus, among others "tarsi biarticulati ?" This note of interrogation seems to indicate that his specimen was in poor condition, for the tarsi are really only two- jointed and very distinctly so. Up to the present date no more specimens of this rare insect had turned up, but in 1880 Distant described and figured from Central America what he considered a new species of Phalac- Jan., 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IQ ens, naming it Ph. dccoratus. Having recently received a specimen of Ph. pnstnlatns De G. from French Guiana and, through the kindness of Mr. Distant, a cotype of his Ph. dc- coratus, I find that there is neither affinity nor resemblance be- tween these two species which belong to widely different gen- era. Although Distant speaks of "the elevated meso and metasternum," neither of these sterna is elevated in decoratus. What Distant has taken for the meso-and metasternum is the basally depressed basal spine of 'the venter. It will not be out of place to give completer and more accurate data about these two genera. PHALAECDS Stal. Body broadly oval. Head small, distinctly narrower than apex of pronotum, sub-rhomboidal, a little exserted and broad- er than long, eyes not touching pronotum, postocular and ante- ocular part of equal length, lateral margins before the eyes slightly and broadly sinuate, juga longer than tylus, approach- ing but not quite meeting in front, blunt at apex, ocelli some- what more distant from each other than from eyes, bucculse, nearly reaching base of head, first antennal joint passing apex of head by about two-thirds its length and nearly as long as second joint, third joint longer than second and shorter than fourth, which is as long as fifth, rostrum reaching middle coxse, first joint reaching base of head, second joint a little shorter than third and fourth combined, fourth shorter than third. Pronotum about three and one-half times broader than head, deeply sinuate at apex with a short transverse im- pression on either side behind the apical margin, which is not raised, lateral margins narrowly reflexed, very feebly rounded, lateral angles rounded, scarcely prominent. Frena reaching beyond middle of scutellum. Prosternum longitudinally fore coxse. Metasternum sexangularly elevated in the middle, the elevated part tapering from base to apex and reaching the fore coxae. Metasternum sexangularly elevated in the middle, the elevated part broadly emarginate behind for the reception of the ventral basal tubercle. Orificial sulcus straight, rather long, its anterior margin thickened. Hemelytra with the cost- 2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO tal margin of corium strongly and acutely reflexed towards the base, apical margin straight, apical angle narrowly rounded, membrane with few veins. Abdomen much broader than hemelytra, almost the whole counexivum not covered by the hemelytra, the apical angles of the segments subrectangularly prominent, second ventral segment with a broad, flattened tubercle filling the posterior sinus of the metasternum, spira- cula more distant from the lateral margin of the segments than from the apical margin. Tibiae sulcated above. Tarsi two-jointed. Phalaecus pustulatus DeG. Shining, glabrous, above dark-ferruginous, beneath luteous, base of head and juga (except interior margin) yellow, pronotum with nine- teen yellow spots arranged in three transverse rows, first row with 4, second row with 6, and third row with 9 spots, those of the third row more elongate and irregular, scutellum with 5 elongate basal spots, an irregularly v-shaped median marking, a lateral spot at the middle, and the apex yellow, corium with about 6 larger and several smaller yel- low spots, conexival segments with a large median quadrate yellow spot, a duplicate spot at the base of the fore and middle acetabula, a single spot at the base of the hind acetabula, and spiracula black, ventral seg- ments with an irregularly and diffusely infuscated sublateral transverse patch inside the spiracula, antennae, rostrum and legs luteous, apex of second antennal joint, less than apical half of third joint, more than apical half of fourth joint, and apical half of fifth joint black. Head impunctate, juga transversely wrinkled, antennae shortly pilose. Prono- tum. scuttellum and corium rather sparingly punctured, the yellow spots impunctate. Underside smooth, except prosternum which is finely and sparsely punctured. Legs shortly setose. Length, 5 16 mm., width 10 mm. DISDERIA n. R. Body oblong-obovate. Head immersed to the eyes, one-third broader than its length, scarcely narrower than apex of prono- tum, strongly sinuate before the eyes, rounded at apex, anteo- cular part twice longer than postocular part, juga longer than tylus and narrowly meeting in front of it, ocelli more than twice wider apart from each other than from eyes, buccul?e almost reaching base of head, rovstrum reaching mid- dle coxae, first joint reaching base of head, second joint as long as third and fourth combined, fourth shorter than third. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 21 base of antennae visible from above, their first joint reaching a little beyond apex of head, third joint much shorter than sec- ond, fourth joint longer than second and shorter than fifth. Prono'tum a little more than twice broader than head, moder- ately sinuate at apex, apical margin scarcely elevated, but with a series of punctures immediately behind it, lateral margins re- flexed in the middle only, straight, lateral angles a little promi- nent. Scutellum with the apical part moderately broad, frena reaching beyond the middle. Prosternum on either side be- hind the apical margin with a transverse carina, the inner end of which is recurved. Neither mesosternum nor metaster- num elevated. Orificial keel long, straight, gradually taper- ing towards the end. Hemelytra with the costal margin scarcely elevated towards the base, exocorium with a double row of punctures except towards the base where there is but a single row, apical margin slightly rounded, apical angle acute, membrane with numerous veins. Abdomen a little broader than hemelytra, the apical angles of the segments with a short acute spine, second ventral segment with a strong spine reach- ing the fore coxae, the basal part of the spine depressed and subexcavated, the apical part laminately compressed, spiracula about equally distant from apical and lateral margin. Tibiae not sulcated above. Tarsi three-jointed. Type. Phalaecus decoratus Dist. This genus is not closely allied to any of the other Ameri- can genera having a basal spine to the venter. The fades is that of a Mormidea. The genus is named in memory of Disderi, whose biological "Observationes entomologicae" (1805-1809) on Hemiptera and other insects have fallen into undeserved oblivion. Disderia decorata Dist. Head, pronotum, scutellum and breast irregularly rather thinly punc- tured. Corium more thickly and regularly punctured. Venter smtli, the blackish sublateral band with strong scattered punctures. The first three antennal joints and the femora and tibiae dotted with broun. Connexivum yellow, the basal and apical segmenta'l margins black. Male gmital segment short, broad, arcuately sinuate. 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO A New Species of Aspidiotus. By GLENN W. HERRICK. (Plates II, III) Aspidiotus mori n. sp. Scale of female. Quite large, 2-2 ]/2 mm. in diameter; circular, flat, thin and very inconspicuous with the edges closely applied to the bark. It is reddish-gray in color and very like the bark of the mulberry. The exuviae are bright yellow and central. A thin, white ventral scale is present. Scale of male. Like that of the female, except that it is smaller and elongated. Female. The body is circular with a long, pointed and very charac- teristic pygidium (Plate III, Fig. 1), reminding one of the pygidium of Chrysomphalus perseae. The pygidium is rather strongly chitinized and has one pair of prominent lobes, the median ones. These are well developed, nearly parallel on their mesal edges and quite close together. The caudal margins are rounded and the lateral margins slope sharply toward the first incision and are conspicuously notched about one-third of the distance from the apex. These lobes, in shape and general ap- pearance, strongly resemble the median lobes of A. forbesi. There is a strongly curved, chitinous process at the inner base of each median lobe (Plate III, Fig. 3). The first incision is bounded on each side by a characteristic, club-shaped process, the inner one much the larger and more conspicuous. Two pore openings are present in the incision. The second incision is also bounded by two prominent club-shaped thickenings. There are two long, pectinae (furcated plates) in the first incision and three plates in the second. The spines, on the dorsal sur- face, are situated at the bases of the lateral margins of the median lobes and the very rudimentary second and third lobes. A fourth spine is situated about one-third of the distance to the penultimate segment and two more a little distance from the base of the pygidium. The ventral spines are a little laterad of these (Plate III, Fig. 3). The anal aperture is small and situated very low down below the apices of the two large club-shaped processes of the first incision. There were four groups of circumgenital pores (Plate III, Fig. 2) in all the specimens examined and they ran as follows in six average individuals : 13-14 11-12 15-13 15-11 12-12 11-14 8-7 9-8 9-8 7-8 7-8 10-9 The vaginal opening is conspicuous and is situated between the caudo- lateral groups of circumgenital pores. Described from many indi- viduals. Host plant. On the undersides of the branches of native red mul- berry trees (Morns rubra). ENT. NEWS, VOL XXI Plate II. PYGIDIUM OF ASPIDIOTUS MORI HERRICK. ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXI. Plate III. ASPIDIOTUS MORI N. SP. 1. BODY OF FEMALE. 2. PYGIDIUM. 3. MARGIN OF PYGIDIUM MUCH ENLARGED. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23 Locality. Banks of the Brazos River, six miles from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Texas. Remarks. The specimens were most abundant on the un- der sides of the lower branches of the trees which were subject to overflow and a great majority of the insects were dead as a result of the overflow of 1908. Some living females were present however, and one was found that had laid a number of nearly white or colorless eggs (May 4, 1909). Records of Orthoptera from Western Canada. By JAMES A. G. REHN. The material from which the following records were taken was collected on several different trips ; one made in portions of western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta by Dr. Henry Skinner in the summer of 1906 in company with the late Dr. James Fletcher, who published an itinerary of the trip* ; the other lot representing- material collected inci- dentally on two botanical trips made in Alberta and British Columbia by Professor Stewardson Brown during the sum- mers of 1906 and 1908. The localities represented are as follows : Western Ontario, Nepigon ; Manitoba, Aweme ; Saskatchewan, Radisson, Rudy and Kinistino ; Alberta, Banff and the upper Saskatchewan River ; British Columbia, Field and Beavermouth. The material is the property of the Academy of Natural Sci- ences of Philadelphia. Where no collector is mentioned the specimens were secured by Dr. Skinner. ACRIDIDAE. Acrydium bruuneri (Bolivar). Field. June 26, August 1-2 (Brown). One male, two fe- males. The male has a broad medio-longitudinal bar of ochraceous reaching from the fastigium to the apex of the pro- * Rep. Ent. and Botanist, Canada Dept. Agric., 1908, pp. 186-188. 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., *IO notum, the lateral angles also being narrowly outlined with the same color. The females are quite dull in color with a pair of more or less distinct trigonal blackish pronotal macu- lations. The species has been recorded from Laggan. Acrydium granulatum Kir by. Field. June 26, August 2 (Brown.) Two females. The June specimen is long-winged with the pronotum elongate, while the August individual has the pronotum and wings much shorter. Chloealtis abdominalis (Thomas). Radisson. July 30. Three immature females. This is the most northern locality from which the species has been recorded. Chorthippus curtipennis (Harris). Radisson. July 30. One immature specimen. Field. Au- gust i and 2 (Brown.) Two males. Gomphocerus clavatus (Thomas). Radisson. July 30, August 2. Five males, one female. Rudy. July 19. Two males, two females. One of the Radisson specimens is in the greenish phase of coloration. Previous Saskatchewan records of this species are from Moose Jaw (Caudell), Waldeck and Pasqua (Walker). Mecostethus gracilis (Scudder). Radisson. July 30. One male. Dr. Fletcher (Rep. Fnt. Soc., Ontario, 1907, p. 130) has recorded this species from the same locality Arphia frigida Scudder. Radisson July 31. Seven males, six females. Rudy. July 18. Two males, one female. Banff. June 12, 1906 (Brown), August 2, 1907 (Skinner). Five males, four females. All of these specimens have red wings, the Banff series having the disk more orange-red than the Saskatchewan in- Jan., 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 25 dividnals, while the sutural margins of the tegmina are without the pale edging in the Saskatchewan series and witli the same in all the British Columbia representatives except one August male. Dr. Fletcher has recorded this species from Aweme. Manitoba, Rudy and Radisson. Camnula pellucida (Scudder). Radisson. July 30. Two females. Beavermouth. July 15, 1906 (Brown). One male, two females. This species has been recorded from several localities in British Columbia, Manitoba and Alberta, and from Indian Head, Saskatchewan. Hippiscus tuberculatus (Palisot). Kinistino. July 25. One male. Three males and one fe- male taken at Nepigon, Ontario, July 9, 1907, by Dr. Skinner have also been examined. This species has also been record- ed from Calgary, Alberta, the Red River of the North, Great Slave Lake and the upper Mackenzie. Hippiscus zapotecus (Saussure). Rudy. July 19. One female. Dr. E. M. Walker has re- corded this species from Mill Valley, Manitoba, and Manitoba without further data. Hippiscus latefasciata Scudder. Aweme. July 13. One male, three females. Dr. Fletcher (Rep. Ent. Soc., Ontario, 1905, p. 103) has recorded this spe- cies from the same locality The caudal tibize vary in these specimens from pale yellowish touched with pinkish internally to carmine with the external faces flesh color. Hippiscus neglectus (Thomas). Aweme. July 13. One male. This specimen lacks the usual sutural stripe and is not quite typical in several other re- spects, but its separation without the evidence of additional material does not appear to be warranted. The only previous Canadian record for the species was from Fort McLeod, Al- berta. 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO Trimerotropis monticola (Saussure). Radisson. July 30. One male, four females. These specimens are distinctly smaller than Nebraska and Colorado individuals, but the material in hand is too limited to make any deductions from it regarding the constancy of the size differ- ence. Circotettix suffusus Scudder. Beavermouth. July 15, 1906 (Brown). Two males, one female. Field. August 2 (Brown). One male. Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder. Rudy. July 18-19 (Skinner). One male, one female. This species has been recorded from the Souris River, but the present record is the first from the Province with exact data. Melanoplus alaskanus Scudder. Banff. August 2 (Skinner). One male, four females. This is the first record of the species from Alberta. Melanoplus atlanis (Riley). Beavermouth. July 15 1906 (Brown). One male. Melanoplus extremus (Walker). Field. August 2 (Brown). Three males, six females. The series here examined belongs to the form junius. No pre- vious records of the species from British Columbia appear to have been published, although it has been recorded from Banff and Beaver Lake, Alberta. Melanoplus packardii Scudder. Radisson. July 30 (Skinner). Four females. This spe- cies has previously been recorded from Regina, Saskatchewan. Melanoplus infantilis Scudder. Rudy. July 19 (Skinner). One male, one female. Pre- vious records of this species were from Medicine Hat and Fort McLeod, Alberta, and Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Melanoplus minor (Scudder). Rudy, J u ly 18 (Skinner). One male. This species has previously been recorded from Winnipeg, Manitoba. KNT. NEWS, Vox, XXI. Plate IV. EMESA LON6IPES (H. F. WICKHAM) Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 27 Melanoplns bivittatus (Say). Rudy. July 19 (Skinner). One female. Radisson. July 30 (Skinner). Two males, two females. This species has been recorded from Medicine Hat, Alberta. TETTIGONIDAE. Cyphoderris monstrosa Uhler. Saskatchewan River, below junction of North Fork, Alberta. -June 18, 1908 (Brown). One male. The only previous Canadian records of this species were from Banff, Alberta, and Ainsworth and Peachland, British Columbia. The present rec- ord is the most northern for the genus. A Note on Emesa longipes. By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. (Plate IV) Last year, I found occasion to make a few notes on the life history of the thread-legged bug,' :: and since the season just past has offered opportunities for some additional observa- tions, they are brought together in this article as a contribution to the knowledge of the habits of a most unusual insect. In my back yard was an old shed of considerable size, used long ago to shelter two or three cows. This shed was of rather loose construction, open more or less to the weather, with a dilapidated loft partly filled with lumber of various sorts and thoroughly dusty rarely disturbed and thickly tenanted by spiders, wasps and such fry. The lower story was used prin- cipally to hold pieces of boards, old furniture and the like, while one compartment did duty through the winter as a coal bin. Trees of apple and elm shaded this ancient fabric, whose dusty rafters and web-hung walls afforded to many thread- legged bugs the quiet shelter that they seemed to enjoy. Anticipating a threatened collapse of the structure I decided to tear it down, and in June began the task of dismantling it *Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XXII, March, 1909, p. 255. 28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO piecemeal. This brought to view numbers of partly grown Enicsa, sometimes resting singly, sometimes in little groups of five or six, while their cast skins could be seen hanging from rough spots on the boards. Early in July I left for the sum- mer, and was unable to resume operations on the shed until the beginning of September, when I started work on a new building in the shade of a big walnut tree, only a few feet dis- tant from the old site. Since the processes of destruction and construction went on more or less intermittently and coinci- dently I had some chance to note the behavior of the bugs from day to day. The colony was, of course, dispersed by the dis- mantling of their home, but some clung to the scattered tim- bers until the frosts came and ended their lives. Unless disturbed, the bugs were not seen to move much dur- ing the middle of the day, but towards the end of the after- noon they would come out and fly slowly and awkwardly through the lane between the trees, their long legs and slender bodies retarding aerial progress despite the swift beat of the little wings. With the sun glinting against the coating of dust particles they made a curious and interesting sight like nothing else that I have ever seen. I was very anxious to see something of their feeding habits, since the published statements are somewhat vague or even contradictory. I did at last find one at rest upon a screen door, sucking a gnat about the size of the common mosquito of these parts, and it is probable that in general only small or fragile insects are attacked. Some of the numerous captive Ewiesae were seen to take juices from the bodies of dead flies and spiders with which they had been provided, but they were not seen to catch nor kill any of the living specimens of these insects which were put in with them. Eventually they fed upon their own kind, every morning I would find one or two dead bugs in the cage, one frequently serving as food to a living individual which was extracting the fluids by means of its short, sharp beak. I saw no evidence of attack, it may be that those dying of age or weakness were simply utilized as food by the survivors. Occasionally I saw free specimens of Emcsa Jan., 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2Q at rest in spiders' webs, not entangled, but ready to move when disturbed, still I never saw any evidence of the spiders being attacked nor of other insects being taken from the webs. Twice, however, I noticed remains of Eincsa in webs, one of which be- longed to Agalcna. The bugs had apparently been sucked dry. one of them chewed as well, the fragments being held together with bits of silk. Living specimens were seen out of doors as late as October 5, up to which date we had no heavy frosts. The copulating habits of these emaciated beasts seem to be undescribed. Just before 8 oclock, on the morning of Septem- ber 18, I found a pair of them on the kitchen screen. Union had already been effected when I came on the scene and lasted only about five minutes afterwards. In the meantime I had made some notes and a sketch which will give some idea of the curious pose assumed by the male. He stands upon his hind logs, some little distance behind the female, who is in her ord- inary resting attitude, his middle leg's cling by the tarsal claws to the hind legs of the female, which are grasped a little below the knee. The male abdomen is bent downwards at a sharp angle with the anterior part of the body, the tip overlapping the apex of the female abdomen on the left side. The front legs, in both sexes, are extended forwards, those of the male having the tibia folded back on the femur while in the female it is open. The female started to walk away, but the male wa-> equal to the emergency being able to accompany her and yet to hold his position by tip-toeing on his hind feet and releasing the hind legs of the female alternately or both at once when she moved. After the pair separated I put them into a large box in order to determine the number of eggs and the length of the period of deposition. The first were found on the morning of the second day after copulation and were either fresh laid or de- posited during the preceding night. In all nineteen were pro- duced the time consumed being between three and four days. The male died soon after, without, as far as I know, having resumed relations with his mate who used him as food and 3 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO may have been responsible for his death. A few clays later she also died, and the eg-gs have been removed to the new shed in the hope of starting a colony to replace the old one, dis- persed by the destruction of their home. It does not seem worth while to describe the eggs here, since they have already been briefly characterized in the article quoted, but it may be said that, as on former occasions, they were not laid in masses nor according to any system, but attached at random to the walls. The Butterflies of San Francisco, California. BY FRANCIS X. WILLIAMS, San Francisco. San Francisco (in law the city and county of San Fran- cisco) is situated at the north end of a peninsula about 30 miles long. It is roughly quadrate in shape, and occupies an area of about 42 square miles. A spur of the San Bruno Mountains, extending from the south into the city, reaches its highest point in Twin Peaks, over 800 feet above the sea level. The north and northwest shores, on the Straits of the Golden Gate, are quite precipitous and rugged, and still retain much of the native vegetation. Extending southwards from this point, and occupying a great part of the western half of the city, is a rolling country of sand dunes and brush, which, how- ever, is becoming rapidly cleared for human habitation. In the southwestern corner of the county is the Laguna de la Merced, occupying a fertile valley near the ocean. Much of this land has lately been converted into truck gardens. Lobos Creek, skirting the southwestern edge of the Presidio, the military reservation to the north, is still somewhat undisturbed by humanity, but Lone Mountain, an isolated sandy hillock, the classical resort of Lycacna screes, is situated too near the midst of the city to be left unmolested, and is frequently the scene of some autumnal grassfire, not very salubrious to the welfare of its now decimated insect population. San Francisco in early times was a hilly and barren waste, with no large trees, but much scrubby growth. Dr. Behr says Jan., 5 IO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3! (Fauna and Flora of California; Proc. Cal. Acacl. Sciences, 2nd series, P. 368, 1895) : "Up to the year 1856 a consider- able part of the neighborhood (now the city) of San Francisco was covered by a Chaparral consisting- almost exclusively of Ccanotltns ihrysiflorus. Part of this formerly impenetrable thicket has been removed by human agency, and to a great extent has been replanted by our California Cuprcssus macro- car pa, Finns hisignis, Australian Acaciae and Eucalypti." Besides Ccanothus were large tracts of scrubby Qucrcns ctgri- folia, much Inpinns arborcus and chamissonis, Rhamnns cali- -fornica, Baccharis pilularis, Ericaincria cricoidcs, etc. What remains of this growth is now practically confined to the western half of the city. Very little is left of the former large areas of Ccanothus, which at present is only found along the north and northwestern cliffs, and there in small patches. The other shrubs are still plentiful. As a consequence the in- sects are disappearing along with the destruction of their food, and the hunting grounds of the entomologist, though probably at no time very rich in this vicinity, becoming more and more restricted, and are soon destined to become a thing of the past. It was with this fact in mind, and at the suggestion of several of my entomological friends, that I have undertaken this little paper. This list could not have been made as ex- tensive as now presented, were it not for the efficient aid ren- dered me by Mr. James E. Cottle, whose long collecting ex- perience here, and consequently his knowledge of the butter- fles of the vicinity, has added much to this paper. Further- more, his acquaintance with Dr. Behr resulted in his obtaining much valuable information which otherwise would have re- mained hidden to us. The author believes that this list of diurnals is quite com- plete for the locality ; a list of the heterocera of the same place, though hoped to be published by the writer, must be deferred for a future date as a work more important and difficult. 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO The Flora of San Francisco has been thoroughly worked out and listed by Mrs. K. Brandegee (Zoe, vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 334- 386, 1892), but the butterflies only incompletely so by Dr. Behr in his "Fauna and Flora of California." The climate of San Francisco is rather cool, with an abun- dance of sea fog and strong northwest winds in the summer time ; the country immediately south of the city being likewise on the narrow peninsula much resembles it in physical aspect and otherwise; while to the north the higher and warmer ele- vations of Marin county, separated from San Francisco by the narrow straits, offer a greater variety of vegetation, more salubrious climate and many protected canyons free from fog for the richer insect fauna that inhabits the region. The list given below contains the names also of those but- terflies which once dwelt within the precincts of our city, but that at the present time are thought to be extinct here, or are so in fact. 1. Danais plexippus Linn. Tiehr says of this butterfly (Fauna and Flora of Cal., Vol. 5, 2nd series, pp. 371-2, 1895) : "Rare in the vicinity of San Francisco up to 1856, when suddenly great numbers appeared in the streets of San Franicsco. Since 1880 they have not vis- ited the city." This butterfly is frequently seen in San Fran- cisco, especially in the fall of the year, when it sometimes is, as at this writing (September, 1909), quite plentiful. The larva has been found in the nearby city of Oakland, and though it does not breed regularly in San Francisco, Dr. Behr re- ports finding a larva of this insect feeding on Gomphocarpns curassavlcus, an exotic asclepiad which was growing in a garden. 2. Brent his epithore Bdv. Taken a good many years ago by Messrs. Cottle and Muel- ler in the commencement of Golden Gate Park, but not met with since. Jan., 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 33 3. Melitaea chalcedon Db. and Hew. Still an abundant insect in many of those places where its food-plants Scrophularia californica and Castilcja latifolia grow. Feeds also on Diplacus glutinosns. I have taken the butterfly as early as March, but here they are most abundant in April and May. One male was observed September 9, igoQ. It is not destined to remain many years in San Fran- cisco. Lone Mountain, Lands End, Presidio, Lake Merced, etc. 4. Melitaea editha Bdv. This species has been taken here, but at present is not com- mon. 5. Melitaea palla Bdv. One male taken years ago in a garden by Mr. Cottle. To- day it cannot be said to be a resident of San Francisco, though common in the vicinity. 6. Phyciodes pratensis Behr. An abundant insect. 7. Phyciodes mylitta Edw. Perhaps commoner than the preceding and like it on the wing from early spring till late autumn. I have on several occasions bred these butterflies from larvae found feeding on the thistle, Cirsium occidentalc. Lone Mountain, Lake Mer- ced, Presidio, etc. 8. Grapta satyrus Edw. I have several times seen in Golden Gate Park a Grapta, probably of this species, and on July 26, 1909, caught a worn female in a garden. It may breed at Lobos Creek and other places here where nettles are abundant. 9. Vanessa antiopa Linn. Not uncommon. 10. Vanessa californica Bdv. This erratic insect has been observed here, and in early times, when Ceanothus thrysiflorus grew in profusion, was probably not uncommon. Dr. Behr has taken migrants of this 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO species in San Francisco. It is usually common in Marin county, flying over the chaparral slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. Edwards has written an interesting article on this insect, de- scribing its life history and remarking on its periodical abun- dance. (See Proc. Cal. Acad. Sciences, Vol. V, p. 123, 1875.) ir. Pyrameis atalanta Linn. Cannot be said to be a rarity here. 12. Pyrameis huntera Fabr. Strictly resident here and not uncommon. Larva on Gnap- haliiiin, which flourishes in sandy localities of sufficient moisture. 13. Pyrameis cardni Linn. This rapid flyer is quite common in certain locations, as Lone Mountain, where the larva feeds principally on Cirsinin occidentalc, but may also be found on Lnpimis arbor ens, Mal- vaceae and Urticac. Since its preferred food-plant is com- monly found on the outskirts of the city proper, the butterfly is not usually taken in populous districts like the following species. 14. Pyrameis caryae Hbn. The most common of the genus, and before the advent of Pieris rapac, perhaps the most characteristic butterfly of San Francisco. It is very commonly seen in gardens and public squares of the city, and is very fond of the blossoms of Helio- trope. It can be taken probably throughout the year, but, of course, most abundantly during the summer and fall. The larva, which varies in color, feeds on nettle and various plants of 'the Malvaceae, especially Malva borealis, which is of com- mon occurrence in uncultivated districts, and a noxious weed in public squares. The aberration muelleri described by Letcher is a seasonal form of striking aspect. As far as I am aware, this form in- variably makes its appearance in late fall, when the cold weather is setting in, and which in a measure is probably re- sponsible for the aberration. It is quite a rarity here, as it is Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35 but seldom met with. I have but two specimens of muelleri in my collections ; however, in the fall of 1904, Mr. Cottle cap- tured seven fine examples of the aberration in his garden. Perhaps the best method of finding it is to pay regular visits in the fall to those parks where the ordinary caryae is abun- dant, and thus possibly two or three specimens of muelleri may be taken in half as many years. 15. Junonia coenia Hbn. One specimen observed in the Lake Merced region Septem- ber 9, 1909. Occasionally seen in Golden Gate Park, but probably only a visitor here. 16 Limenitis lorquini Bdv. Occurs sparingly in the Lake Merced region. 17. Heierochroa californica Butler. Occasionally seen. It probably breeds in the oak thickets. 1 8. Satyrus sthenele Bdv. Dr. Behr says of this insect (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sciences; III, p. 163, 1864) : "Is rather common near San Francisco, where it is found in June. Only one generation annually." Near San Francisco in 1864 is at present within the city limits. This insect, to the best of my knowledge, has not been taken here within the last 30 years or more. Mr. Cottle says that the locality given him by Dr. Behr as the habitat of sthenele is in Golden Gate Park, south of Strawberry Hill. This re- gion, though quite grassy in places, has been much disturbed by man, and is now clothed for the most part with various trees, as Finns radiata, Acaciae, etc. I believe the butterfly extinct here. 19 Coenonympha California Db. and Hew. Have seen this insect quite close to the southern boundary line of the city, and Mr. Cottle says that it occurs south of Golden Gate Park, where there are many apparently suitable localities for it. 20. Thecla melinus Bdv. I took one example of this Hair-streak at Lake Merced. It has several times been observed in the city. 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO 21. Thecla iroides Bdv. Has been observed by Mr. Cottle in a nursery in the north- ern part of the city. It is very common across the bay in Marin county. 22. Thecla dumetorum Bdv. A common insect occupying a considerable area in the wes- tern portion of the city. Its larval food-plant here is Erio- gonum latifolium, which is very common in sandy places. During June and July of this year I collected a number of larvae of dumetorum. Mature larva Length (at rest) 13 mm., width 4.5 mm. Head small, deeply retracted into seg. I, pale subhyaline brownish, with the base of the antennae and a strip above labrum whitish. Body quite stout, slug-shaped, well ridged, somewhat concave subdorsal and rather depressed at posterior extremity, segmental incisions deep; ground color quite variable (as is often the case in the Lycacnidae}, usually rather pale bluish green or dull translucent pale grayish green. Dorsal line inconspicuous, a little paler than ground. From segs. 2-9, inclusive, the ridge on each side of the dorsum is topped with a coral red blotch (sometimes practically obsolete), which is enclosed by the whitish or pale grayish-white, broken ridge stripe, a part of which al- so runs through this blotch dividing it into the more conspicuous inner and the more obscure outer portion. The blotch is most pronounced at about seg. 4. The ridge stripe is subtriangular on each segment, parallel with the dorsal line on its inner side and sloping obliquly ventrad and caudad exteriorly. An oblique sublateral, dark green dash, plainest on the anterior portion of the segments and sometimes obsolete on their latter half or more. Lateral stripe whitish, distinct, extending from seg. 2 to end of body, in heavily marked specimens this stripe is bordered above and below by purplish. A strong sub- lateral fold. Cervical shield behind and often partly hidden by a bilobed fold, subquadrate, rose color or whitish, with rather sparse, little ring-like tubercles, some piliferous. Feet pale greenish gray, brown tipped. Body somewhat thickly clothed with rather smooth, stout, short pile of pale brown color with darker tips and arising from small plain tubercles. This pile is not of uniform length. In another larva the ground color is bright green, the dorsal blotches are rusty red in a broad broken yellowish-white stripe, lateral stripe yellowish-white with coral red borders, cervical shield rose color. Other larvae are pale green and fewer rose color. In one specimen the color is almost wholly coral red and rose and light grayish green ventrad. Described from living specimens. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 37 Pupa. Length 10.75 mm., width above the middle of the abdomen 5.85 mm. ; quite broad and stout, abdomen wider than high ; dull brownish black, making the coloration almost uniform, in some speci- mens, however, the color is brownish mottled with blackish ; stigmata brownish with pale yellowish rim. Body somewhat shining, quite roughened, indistinctly reticulate, well clothed with pale translucent brownish hairs of fair size, mostly pointed, often slightly clavate, and beset with short little spines, giving the hairs a roughened appearance. The hairs arise from small inconspicuous buttons. Described from living specimens. The larva of this butterfly, though often of various shades, mimics well the flower heads of the buckwheat; reclining as it does among the pale grayish-green and coral red colors of the flower it is often overlooked, though when once noticed the mimicry does not seem so strong and the larva is conspicu- ous enough. The larva of Lycaena behrii, antiacis and some others girdle themselves quite strongly, differing thereby from Thecla dumctorum, which girdles itself imperfectly, if at all, and pupates largely in rubbish, in contradistinction to the more exposed pupation of the former. None of my dunietorum pupae have as yet emerged, and it is probable that it passes the winter in the pupal state. 23. Chrysophamis helloides Bdv. Not uncommon in places where its food-plant grows. Lone Mountain, Presidio, Mountain Lake, Lake Merced, etc. 24. Lycaena heteronea Bdv. Not found here at present. The locality given by Behr is the hilly region in the vicinity of Mountain Lake. 'Mature larva. Length (at rest) 18.25 mm., width above middle 6 mm. ; pale translucent ultra ash gray, or with a slight greenish tinge, very nearly the color of the dorsal surface of its food-plant (Eriogonuni sp.) ; ordinary onisciform, though slenderer than the larva of Lycaena antiacis, behrii or Thecla duinetoruin ; rather rounded and somewhat thickly clothed with rather smooth slender white pile and less numerous little white dots, which under the microscope appear as ovoid tubercles with constricted bases. Under the naked eye the larva presents a rather fuzzy aspect ; segmentation not as distinct as in Thecla dumetorum; markings quite obscure. A pale ground color line on each side of the median one, then two more or less oblique 38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO ones of the same color. In the spiracular area the ground seems somewhat darker. Stigmata pale yellowish with a narrow, brownish rim. Lateral line (which is the plainest of the markings) whitish. A slight indication of purplish at cephalic end of the largest speci- men (described). I could find no indication of caudal cornicles for honey dew. A very sluggish larva. Described from several living specimens in the final instar, taken in Marin county, May 23, 1909. Pupa. Length 12 mm., width at abdomen 5.30 mm.; stout; thorax rather high and humped, rounded ; head gently rounded. Markings obscure, coloration pretty uniform, light green, pale greenish gray on wing covers, and most distinctly greenish on abdomen ; reticulated with grayish white, this latter color being distributed in about the same proportion as the ground color. Pale green dorsal thoracic line, with blackish where it meets the abdomen line, more obscure on abdomen where it is plainest caudad. Some small, darker greenish subdorsal spots, hardly in a depression. Stigmata obscure, cream color. An ill- defined pale greenish lateral stripe. Wing venation marked by very pale grayish white. An irregular ventral circle of rusty brown crot- chets. The raised reticulated surface is quite fine, in contradistinction to that of Thecla dumetorum. With the exception of the wing covers the pupa bears numerous little white spots, which, under the micro- scope are defined as little short-peduncled stellate discs. A smaller pupa is more heavily marked. Described from living material. The pupae were fairly well girdled and produced imagoes in June and July of the same year. 25. Lycaena pheres Bdv. Not uncommon in May and June in the vicinity of Lupinus chamissonis, upon which the larva feeds. This butterfly is subject to considerable variation on the underside of the wings. It is sometimes confounded with L. fiilla of the mountains. 26. Lycaena xerces Bdv. Quite rare, though formerly an abundant insect. Lone Mountain, Lake Merced, etc. 27. Lycaena antiacis Bdv. I have given the life-history of this insect in Entomological News, Vol. XIX pp. 476-482, 1908. This form is more Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39 abundant than the preceding, but is found with it. Like pheres it seems doomed to be never understood by many Lepi- dopterists. In Great Britain, as I am informed by a correspondent, Chrysophanus astrarche, Bgstr, with its variety artaxerxes, F. has in the one, eye-spots on the wings, beneath, with heavy black pupils, while in its var. the white spots are without pu- pils. He further informs me that in Durham, the same batch of eggs will produce both of these forms and also an inter- mediate. This European insect, therefore, would seem to bear much the same analogy to L. autiacis, xerccs and the in- termediate mertila, only in the latter case the test of breeding has not been sufficiently applied. 28. Lycaena sagittigera Feld. Mr. Cottle tells me that he took one specimen of this hand- some blue years ago, at Mountain Lake, near the Marine Hos- pital. None have been taken since. 29 Lycaena enoptes Bdv. Dr. Behr says (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. Ill, p. 282, 1867) that it is "to be found on the hills near Mission Dolores and in the San Bruno Hills. The species is rather scarce." I have taken one male at Lone Mountain in about 1902. None seen since. 30. Lycaena acmon Db. and Hew. Still quite common and widespread and enjoying a long sea- son. Larva on Lotus glabcr and Briogonum latifolium and other species. The fall brood of acmon is common in Sep- tember. 31. Lycaena piasus Bdv. Occurs in the Lake Merced region and probably also at Lobos Creek. Wanders occasionally into the city. Very common in the San Francisco Bay region. 32. Pieris napi Esper. The forms venosa Scudder and castoria Reak. have been observed at Lobos Creek. Uncommon. ,4O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO 33. Pieris rapae Linn. A very common butterfly in and about San Francisco, and quite a garden pest, its larva devouring the leaves of the cul- tivated Nasturtium, Mignonette and a host of others. In the fall of the year pupae are numerous along garden fences, walls, etc. In the southern parts of San Francisco where cab- bages are grown extensively, scores of these "Whites" may be seen flying over the fields. Here the insect is probably triple- brooded, and on warm winter days an occasional adult may be seen. I well remember the time when rapae was scarce about the streets of the city ; at present it is more abundant than Pyrameis caryae. 34. Anthocharis sara Bdv. Described from a specimen taken in San Francisco, where it is at present rare or extinct. 35. Golias eurytheme Bdv. This insect, with its several forms is quite abundant in the undisturbed districts. I have reared adults from larvae feed- ing on Lotus glaber. 36. Meganostoma eurydice Bdv. This insect probably never inhabited the city, and I mention it merely because I took a female on the ocean beach west of San Francisco, being evidently blown across the straits from Marin County where it is common enough locally. 37. Papilio philenor Linn. Not uncommon in the Lake Merced region where Aristochia calif ornica grows. It is very common iu Marin and Sonoma Cos. 38. Papilio zolicaon Bdv. Is a resident of San Francisco where it is scarce however. I have noticed its larva here on one occasion feeding on a large Umbellate. 39. Papilio rutulus Bdv. Observed by Mr. Cottle in the Lake Merced region where it is scarce or extinct at present. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 4! 40. Papilio eurymedon Bdv Same distribution as rutulus and at present probably ex- tinct here. The climate of San Francisco is probably too cool for these two species, and properly wooded land lacking. 41. Pamphila juba Scudd. Taken- by Mr. Cottle in a marshy area at Mountain Lake. May perhaps be still found there. 42. Pamphila sabuleti Bdv. A very cor/mon insect and frequently seen in gardens and public squares. The larva, as is well known, feed on grasses, and as lawns are quite plentiful in the midst of the city, this little insect has no difficulty in maintaining a secure existence here. It is quite generally distributed over the western half of the city. The females vary much in intensity of coloration. 43. Pyrgus tessellata Scudd. Quite plentiful. The larva feeds on Malva sf>. and prob- ably also on Sidalcea. 44. Thanaos propertius Lint. Not common at present. Probably breeds in the oak thick- ets. RESUME. Of the 43 species of butterflies given as inhabiting San Francisco at one time, probably not more than 30 could now be taken in the course of several seasons, and a newly arrived lepidopterist might well be surprised on learning that such butterflies as A. cpithore, S. sthenele, L. hcteronea and sagit- tigera formerly dwelt here. Furthermore, it is quite possible that such species as C. .vanthoides, L. amyntula, P. occidcn- tails, P. nemorum and others flew in this region. Before a decade has passed away there will be but little left of the insect fauna of our city, and therefore the importance and necessity of making local insect lists while the fauna is still extant and in an undiluted condition, cannot be too much emphasized. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thankfully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. The author's name will be given in each case, for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] To Contributors. All contributions will be considered and passed upon at out earliest convenience, and, 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 num- ber, three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five " extras," without change in form, will be given free, when they are wanted ; and this should be so stated on the MS., along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. ED. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1910. We said in a previous number that we thought it likely that the review of the literature that we formerly gave would be continued. In this number it has eventuated. The trouble has been to get someone who loved entomology and entomolo- gists enough to do this work. In the first volume of the NEWS, in the first two numbers, these reviews are signed E. M. A. Since that time a number of martyrs to the cause have spent good hours at the work. There is no doubt of the great value of a monthly review of the literature, but how often do those using it think of the person who has compiled it as a labor of love. At the present time we are fortunate in having a case of avatism in our midst. The gentleman who is conducting the Department of Literature at the present time undoubtedly inherited his entomology, as his grandfather was one of the founders of the American Entomological So- ciety and its first meeting was held in his father's home. We are very grateful for the many kind letters received in regard to the increase of price for the present volume and the very great interest shown in the News and its future. 42 Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 43 Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology, excluding Araci- hida and Myripoda, of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless treating of new genera, will not be noted. Con- tributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy- faced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont. 7. U. S. De- partment of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology Bulletin. 9. The Entomologist, London. 10. Nature, London. 13. Comptes Ren- dus, Societe de Biologic, Paris. 15. Biologia Centrali-Americana, London. 18. Ottawa Naturalist. 37. Le Naturaliste Canadien, Chicoutimi, Quebec. 38. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, Vien- na. 45. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology Circular. 50. Proceedings, U. S. National Museum, Washington. 58. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, Santiago. 72. Trans- actions, Kansas Academy of Science, Topeka. 81. Biologisches Centralblatt, Erlangen. 89. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 92. Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftlione Insektenbiologie, Berlin. 101. Rovartani Lapok, Budapest. 143. Ohio Naturalist, Columbus. 153. Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 158. Gardenflora, Berlin. 159. Bolletino, Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. S. Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici. 161. Proceedings, Biological Society of Washington. 162. Papers, American Society of Tropical Medicine. 163. American Journal of Science, New Haven, Conn. 164. Bulletin, University of Kan- sas, Lawrence. 166. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben. 167. O Entomologista Brasileriro, S. Paulo.- 169. "Redia." R. Stazione di Entomologia Agraria in Firenze. -170. Zoological Press Bulletin, Division of Zoology, Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture, Harrisburg. 171. The Museums Journal, London, 172. The American Museums Journal, New York. GENERAL SUBJECTS. Anon. Insectos uteis. Criacao de besouros para alimentacao de aves domesticas. 167, ii, 299. No- menclature of types (note), 171, ix, 222. Cockerell, T. D. A. Fos- sil insects from Florissant, Col. 153, xxvi, 67. A catalogue of the generic names based on American insects and Arachnids from the Tertiary rocks, with indications of the type species. 158, xxvi, 77. 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO Hoffmann, F. Ueber ein praktisches, billiges and vietseitig ver- wendbares paupenzuchtgefass, 166, iii, 217. Lucas, W. J. Natural orders of insects (note), 9, xlii, 293. Morris, F. J. A. Some guests at the banquet of blossoms, 4, xli, 409. Prochnow, O. Der erklarungswert des Darwainismus und Neo-Lamarckismus als the- orien der indirekten zweckmassigkeilserzeugung, 166, iii, 170, 254. Entomologie und tierschutz, 166, iii, 325. Rohwer, S. A. Three new fossil insects from Florissant, Col., 163, xxvii, 533. Tucker, E. S. Additional results of collecting insects in Kansas and Colorado, 72, xxii, 276, 396. Withington, C. H. Insect types and cotypes. A preliminary list of those in the Francis Huntington Snow Ento- mological Collection. 72, xxii, 327. ECONOMIC SUBJECTS. Anon. Economic Entomology in the U. S., 10, Ixxxii, 108. As Nossas florestas a primeira estacao biologica na America meridional . . . 167,, ii, 289. Chittenden, F. H. The parsnip leaf-miner (Acidia frabria Lw.). 7, No. 82, 9. The celery caterpillar (Papilo polyxenes Fab.). 7, No. 82, 20. The parsley stalk weevil (Listronotus latiusculus Boh.), 7, No. 82, 14. Hopkins, A. D. Insect depredations in North American forests and practical methods of prevention and control, 7, No. 58, 57. Ihering, H. von. As brocas e a arboricultura, 167, ii, 294. Leonardi, G. Altre noti- zie intorno alia Diaspis pentagona Targ. ed al modo di combatteria, 159, iii, 121. Manget, J. D. Dermatobia nozialis infection; report of a case contracted in So. Mexico, 161, iv. Phillips, W. J. The slender seed-corn ground-beetle (Clivina impressiformis Lee.), 7, No. 85, 13. Sanders, J. G. The euonymus scale (Chionaspis cuoityini Comst.), 45, No. 114. Skinner H. The relation of house-flies to the spread of disease (with bibliography), 162, iv.- Surface, H. A. Making the lime-sulphur wash. 170, No. 33. Dealing with the wolly aphis. 170, No. 33. About diagnosing tree ailments. 170, No. 34. Cost of spraying outfit. 170, No. 34. Webster, F. M. Aphides on gladiolas. 4, xli, 424. The lesser clover leaf weevil (Phytonomus nigrirostris Fab.). 7,, No. 1. NEUROPTERA. Buffa, P. Contribuzione alia conoscenza dei Tisanotteri (Due nuovi generi di Tubuliferi.- 159, iii, 194. I Tisa- notteri esotici esistentinel useo civico di storia naturale di Geneva. 169, v, 158. Enderlien, G. Neue gattungen und arten nord- amerikanischer Copeognathen, 159, iii, 329. Guercio, G. del. Con- tribuzione alia conoscenza dei Lachidi italiani. Morfologia, siste- matica biologia generale e loro importamza economca. 169, v. 173, ORTHOPTERA. Borelli, A. Forfkole raccolte dal Prof. F. Silvestri nell' America settentrionale e nelle isole Hawaii, 159, iii, 315. Griffini, A. Sulla Gryllacris rubrinerrosa Serv. con appunti sul gene Dibclona Brun, e sulle G. amcricanc. 169, vi, 183. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 45 HEMIPTERA. Ball, E. D. Some remarkable new leaf hop- pers of the family Fulgoridae, 161, xxii, 197. Banks, N. The fam- ily name Lygaeidae, 4, xli, 418. Dean, G. A. Coccidae of Kansas, 72, xxii, 265. Glenn, P. A. Influence of climate on the green bug and its parasite, 164, ix, 165. Hunter, S. J. The green bug and its enemies. A study in insect parasitism. 164, ix, 221. LEPIDOPTERA Bastelberger, Dr. Ein neues genus und ncun netie Afrikanische Geometriden aus meiner sammlung, 166, iii, 225. Braun, A. F. Phylogeny of the Lithocolletid group. (A pre- liminary survey), 4, xli, 419. Martelli, G. Contribuzioni alia cono- scenza della Dioranura I'inula Linn, e di alouni suoi parassit, 159, iii, 239. Rothschild, N. C. Beitrage zur Lepidopteren fauna Ungarns, 101, xvi, 139. Taylor, G. W. Note on Sphinx fericgans H. Edw. in British Columbia. 4, xli, 423. The Kupitheciae of Eastern North ' m erica. No. 3, 4, xli, 425. Wolly-Dod, F. H. Discourses upon the Lepidoptera II. Familiarity with local forms, 18, xxiii, 144. DIPTERA. Bezzi, M. Eine neue Empidide aus Paraguay. 38, xxviii, 319. Le specie dei generi Ccratitis, Anastrepha e Dacus, 159, iii, 283.- Cockerell, T. D. A. Fossil Diptera from Florissant, Col., 153, xxvi, 9. Cholodkovsky, N. Zur kenntnis des weiblichen ge- schlechtsapparatus der Musciden, 92, v, 333. Lutz, F. E. Experi- mental work with pomace flies, 172, ix, 234. Portier, P. Physiolo- gic de 1'appareil respiratoire des larves d'Oestre, 13, Ixvii, 568. Rothschild, N. C. A new species of Stephanocircus from Chili, 58, xiii, 181. Silvestri, F. Descrizione e cenni biologici di una nuova specie di Asphondylia dannosa al lupino, 159, iii, 1. Villeneuve, J. Variations chez quelques Dipteres Tachinaires, 38, xxviii, :'>:::>. COLEOPTERA Chagnon, C. Les Buprestides de la province de Quebec, 37, xxxvi, 145. Champion, G. C. Curculionidae (con- tinued), 15, Coleoptera, iv, pt. 7, 1-48. Pic, M. Supplement a la liste des Coleopteres de la Guadeloupe. Ptinides et Anobiides, 89, Ixxviii, 166. Pierce, W. D. Studies of North American weevils, 50, xxxvii, 325. Raffray, A. Nouvelles especesde Pselaphides, 89, Ixxviii, 15. Reitter, Edw. Neue Coleopteran aus der palaarktischen fauna, 38, xxviii, 303. Sicard, A. Revision des Coccinellides de la faune Malgache. II. Coccinellidae Aphidiplagae, 89, Ixxvii, 63. Weise, J. Eine neue Coccinellide aus Mexico. 159, iii, 205. HYMENOPTERA. Beutenmuller, W. The species of Holcaspis and their galls, 153, xxvi, 29. The species of Amphibalips and tlu-ir galls. 153, xxvi, 47. The North American species of Diastrophns and their galls. 153, xxvi, 135. The species of Biorhisa, I-'liiloni.r and allied genra and their galls. 153, xxvi, 24:i. Some North Ameri- can Cynpidae and their galls, 153, xxvi, 277. Breth.es, J. El jenero Pcpsis en Chile, 58, xiii, 201. Cockerell, T. D. A. Notes upon vari- 46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., 'lO ation of Melissodes hipina Cresson, 72, xxii, 305. Gahan, A. B. A new species of Pteromalidae, 4, xli, 431. Hewitt, C. G. Tent- building habits of ants, 143, xxiii, 168. Marnamara, C. Ant roads, 18, xxiii, 150. Masi, L. Contribuzioni alia conoscenza dei Calci- didi Italiani, 159, iii, 86. Silvestri, F. Appunti sulla Prospalta ber- lesei How. e specialmente sui primi stati del suo sviluppo. 159, iii, 22. Contribuzioni alia conoscenza biologica de gli Imenotteri parassiti II-IV, 159, iii 29. Vachal, J. Sur le genre Mclitoma S. F. et Serv. et sur les genres voisino de la sous-famille Anthophorinae, 86, Ixxviii, 5.- Wasmann, E. Ueber den Ursprung des sozialen parasitismus der Sklaverei und Myrmekophilii bei den Ameisen, 81, xxix, 683. Wheeler, W. M. Ants collected by Prof. F. Silvestri in Mexico, 159, iii, 228. Withington, C. H. Habits of parasitic Hymenoptera II. 72, xxii, 314. Notes and. News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OP THE GLOBE. THE November number of "The Border," published at Phoenix, zona, contains a very interesting sketch of Dr. R. E. Kunze, the en- tomologist and botanist. The title of the article is "The Cactus Man." "My little dog has fleas." the woman cried. "Do give me something that will cure them, please." And then the silly drug store clerk replied : "What seems to be the matter with the fleas?" THE coming summer promises to be a very interesting one in Europe. The First International Entomological Congress will be held in Brus- sels from the first to the sixth of August. At this time the Interna- tional Exposition will be held in the same city. MORE UNNATURAL HISTORY. "The sting of some insects will kill a gold fish in almost every instance. 'Snake feeders' and other insects fly close to the water in summer, and, when the tiny fish rise to the surface of the pond, as is their habit, an egg is laid, or a sting inserted, by one of these watchful insects. Either of these inflictions is fatal. "- "The Popular Magazine," October, 1909, page 89. THE United States Post Office Department has promulgated a new rule concerning mailing privileges for second class matter. This rule, which is reasonable and proper, provides that all subscriptions not paid for within a reasonable time shall be denied the second class mailing privilege. Kindly assist us in complying with the post office regulations by remitting promptly. Jan., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47 Tuo COCCIDAE NEW TO COLORADO. We are indebted to Mr. L. C. Bragg for specimens of two species of Coccidac new to the Colorado list, one a native : the other introduced and only occurring under glass, (i) Targionia hclianthi (Parrott). On Artemisia dracunculoidcs (a new food-plant). Fort Collins, 1909. (2) Diaspis zamiae Morgan, On Cycas in greenhouse. Fort Collins, 1909. T. D. A. COCKERELL AND L. H. FALK. THE Eighth International Zoological Congress will be held in Graz, Austria, August 15 to 20, and all persons interested in Zoology are invited to become members of the Congress. The meetings will be held in the great Stephaniensaal and there will be interesting excur- sions to Erzberg and the Leopoldstein See. Trieste and possibly to the Royal Castle of Miramar. Also special excursions to Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. WITH reference to Mr. Banks' note on the 'date of Guerin's ''Icono- graphie du Regne Animal," the correct date of the text is 1844. In a letter from Adam White dated London, January 9, 1845, and published in the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" XV. 1 19, he writes : "I have seen, for the first time, the text to Guerin's admirable 'Icono- graphie du Regne Animal' (a work which on the title-page bears the date of 1829-38, although I see on the wrapper it was not finished till 1844, through some mistake of the printer [?]." It is therefore evident that the text was actually published in 1844. The plates had been is- sued some time previously and were cited by the contemporary writers. G. W. KIRKALDY. DURING January and February the address of Mr. John A. Gross- lieck will be in care of Dr. William Barnes, Decatur, Illinois. Corre- spondents please take notice. A FULL size specimen of Tliysania ccnobia was taken at Louisiana. Mo.. November 10, 1909. It was resting on a board, with its wings flat against the surface, and from the appearance of the hind wings was quite fresh ; but, unfortunately, the boy who brought it to me car- ried it by the tip of one fore wing, and, in its struggles to escape, it had ruined both wings. Isn't it unusual to take this moth so far north? R. R. CROWLEY. NOTE on Dryica; the latter may be mesotypical or heterotypical of the aggregate, it all depends whether it takes its place as an intermediate or an extreme in the specific series. For example, the species carbonaria as a specific aggregate includes individuals which are comparatively smooth, others 64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO which are strongly and more or less roughly sculptured, these two extremes being connected by an unbroken series of inter- mediates in degree of sculpturing. It happens that the type specimen which served for Say's description, takes its place in the middle of the series and it is therefore mesotypical of the specific aggregate; the extremes being respectively the forma glabra and forma interstitialis of the present list. The individuals making up the specific aggregate do not necessarily breed true to any intraspecific degree of sculp- turing, as this is wonderfully influenced by environment and food supply. It has been observed that those individuals that develop in an exposed, open or dry region, where the body fluids are reduced to a minimum by evaporation during the closing chapters in the ontogenesis, especially after casting of the pupal skin, will develop a feeble or a comparatively smooth form of sculpturing; on the other hand, those individuals de- veloping in a moist, shaded or protected region or area, where the body fluids are conserved and abundant, evaporation be- ing reduced to a minimum, will have the integuments and ely- tral apodemes after the casting of the pupal skin, well dis- tended by the body fluids and the punctures and striae rela- tively deepened and more or less fixed in that condition during the hardening of the exoskeleton. In this way a more strongly punctured or strongly striate form is produced ; rapid evap- oration of the body fluids at this time tends to produce a wrinkling of the elytral wall. It is to be borne in mind that any given geographical area, small or large, will have relatively dry and warm, moist and cold conditions co-existing in different sections of that area. These data have been noted by my colleague. Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, as well as by myself in the field and laboratory. The individuals that constitute the specific aggregate, there- fore, are only those which really belong to a single species and will breed true within the limits of normal specific variation. The development of smooth and rough forms depending more upon meteorological conditions than anything else, nanoid Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 65 forms from lack of food, and other unfavorable conditions, large forms from abundant food supply and favorable condi- tions. True specific characters are inherent, but modified by the conditions mentioned above. Seasonal conditions determine the character of the domi- nant form of sculpturing. Some seasons developing a large per cent, of the smooth form, or a cold, damp season the more strongly punctured and striate forms. Rapid evaporation of the body fluids the rugulose forms. In each instance a varying per cent, of the intermediate forms. The progeny of any pair of individuals of either form will reproduce a certain per cent, of all the forms ; all these from eggs deposited by a single female. The per cent, of each form produced depending upon the peculiar environmental conditions prevailing during ontoge- nesis. The recognition of the above facts will be a check to the describing of slightly differentiated forms as distinct species, when they are not, and cannot be, unless the specimen should represent a new and heretofore unknown specific aggregate. If I were to mention an example of a distinct species of Eleodcs, I would name E. veterator. A collector comparing the specimens constituting his catch o>f this species would note that the series is distinctly homomorphic. A similar catch of Eleodcs carbonaria would present a decidedly heteromorphic series. Eleodcs nitida Casey is dolosa Blais. Casey's type is a male, and it agrees quite perfectly with my male type of dolosa and my name must be suppressed. Nitida bears the same relation to the carbonaria section that lustrans bears to the quadri- collis section. The female of nitida has the anterior spurs of the anterior tibiae small, while the female of lustrans has large anterior spurs. Com posit a Casey looks like a porcata in the character of its sculpturing. The thorax is more transversely convex, the sides especially, so that the pronotum looks narrow. The armed an- 66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO terior femora and sulcate elytra, place it as a race of hispilabris, most closely related to the var. sculptUis. Prominens Casey is a race of dentipcs. It is peculiar on ac- count of the prominent basal angles of the pronotum. In a series the angles pass into the normal form. Elegans Casey is a small, short and particularly symmetri- cal unique, somewhat resembling some individuals of parri- collis. In facies it is related to dentipcs, and is analogous to certain nanoid individuals of acuticauda. Subcylindrica Casey. The peculiar coloration of the types is due to immaturity. The two types are perfectly similar, the form of the pronotum is that of annata, the surface luster is dull and alutaceous. Specimens of annata collected by Prof. Wickham at Amedee, Lassen Co., Cal., and others collected in Nevada, southward to Arizona, have this same surface luster. The most striking character is the absence of teeth on the mid- dle and posterior femora. Otherwise I cannot see that they differ from numerous specimens of fully armed armata. I consider these specimens as subedentate armata. Remarks upon this variation will be found in my recent monograph. Before seeing the types I had no idea of their true relationship. Lecontei Horn. While in the East I had an opportunity of examining specimens of this species in the collection of Mr. H. W. Wenzel. They were identical with the specimen re- ceived from Mr Frederick Blanchard ; a specimen in the Horn collection was homomorphic. Mr. Chas. Drury informs me that he took this species at Trinidad, Colorado, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and that he distributed it in the East. He also remarks that hardly any two of them were exactly alike. Some were flat, and others up to the convex form, and that all had the same style of sculp- ture. I desire a large series of this species and also of snowii for a more critical study. I have included E. bchrii Grinnell in the present list as I believe it to be extant, and that careful collecting at Rosemary, Los Angeles Co., will bring specimens to hand. For the privi- lege of studying the Grinnell types, in the collection of In- Feb., 5 IO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 67 vertebrate Palaeontology of the University of California, I am indebted to the courtesy of Prof. J. C. Merriam. At this time I take the opportunity to correct the following Errata observed in the Monograph of the Eleodiini, namely : On page 18 the I2th line from the top should continue to read as follows : "At this point the pleural region is differentiated, less so in the fifth and not at all in the other segments." Omit line 13 from the top, same page. On page 19, in line 18 from the bottom, "inferior" should read "ventral," and "postero-inferior" likewise "postero-ventral." On page 86, in line 19 from the bottom insert before "abdomen," "first segment of ." On page 186, in line 9 from the bottom, read "tarsal grooves" in- stead of "tibial grooves." New Bees of the Genus Prosopis. BY MYRON H. SVVENK AND T. D. A. COCKERELL. Prosopis grossicornls n sp. $ . Length 4.5 mm. Supraclypeal mark very large, its breadth at base greater than that of lateral face marks at same level, continuing but slightly narrowed upward for a distance equal to its breadth when its margins abruptly and rapidly converge and terminate in a narrowly truncate apex. Lateral face marks filling the space between the clypeus and subquadrate portion of supraclypeal mark and the orbits, the up- ward extension very short, less than width of the lateral marks and barely attaining level of antennal socket, narrowly linear, curved, acu- minate at tip and divergent from the orbit. Both of these areas, to- gether with whole of clypeus, pale yellow, the labrum, mandibles, and tubercles black. Antennae very long, distinctly surpassing the tegulae, flagellum pale ferruginous beneath, dusky above, front of scape with a yellow line. Head round, opaque, finely roughened, face but little con- verging below. Legs black with the tibiae and tarsi yellow except for a dark spot on posterior face of anterior tibiae and dark rings around middle of intermediate and posterior tibiae. Thorax and abdomen wholly black, the former dull and rather coarsely shallowly punctured, the latter shining, its basal segment impunctate and following ones but feebly punctured, segments 4-7 with short sparse white hair. Wings somewhat darkened, nervures and stigma very dark brown. Tegulae black. Enclosure of metathorax rugose on basal middle, else- where smooth and opaque. Type. Lincoln, Nebraska, May 14, 1901, on Tamari.r gal- lica (L. Bruner). Collection University of Nebraska. 68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO This species differs from P. cressoni Ckll. [ = : pygmaea Cress.], specimens of which were taken at the same time as the unique type, principally in its much longer antennae, black tubercles and entirely different face marks. It is very similar to P. digitata fedorica Ckll., 1909, but differs in the larger up- ward process of the lateral face marks, with no basal angles at junction, with lateral marks, longer supraclypeal mark and larger, much paler antennae. Prosopis magniclavis n. sp. $ . Length, 4.5 mm. Very closely related to P. cressoni Ckll, but differing as follows : Upward extension of lateral face marks clavate, terminating in a large knob which curves around antennae ; whole of front of scape yellow, or nearly so ; face distinctly longer and narrower and more converging below ; supraclypeal mark longer, twice as long as wide, the subquadrate portion distinctly longer than basal width ; hind tibiae with only a broad dark ring on apical half. 9 . Length 5 mm. Differs from 9 of cressoni as follows : Collar always with yellow marks ; face rather longer and narrower, clypeus more produced ; hind metatarsus more or less yellow basally, not all dark; abdominal segments 3-6 more hairy, usually bearing abundant short pale pile ; enclosure less rugose. Types. Bad Lands, Sioux County, Nebraska, August 10, 1908, on Solidago (R. W. Dawson). Collection University of Nebraska. Paratypes. Type lot, i male and 6 females : Glen, Sioux County, Nebraska, August 13, 1906, on Cleome serrulata (M. H. Swenk), i male and I female; Crawford, Sioux County, Nebraska, July 28, 1901, on Mentselia nuda (M. Cary), i male and i female. The male of this species resembles P. bakeri Ckll. in the heavily clavate face mark extensions and yellow scape in front, but that species has the upward extensions much constricted at their junction with the face marks, meeting them at a con- spicuous angle and away from the orbit. The female is ex- ceedingly like the same sex of P. mesillae Ckll., indeed practi- cally indistinguishable from it, but the male is distinct from the male of P. mesillae. In P. mesillae the upward extension of the lateral marks resembles the end of a finger, and is not clavate. Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 69 Prosopis megalotis n. sp. $. Length 4.5-5 mm. Supraclypeal mark long, its upper edge abruptly converging and its apex narrowly truncate. Lateral face marks deeply notched about bases of antennae, the notch beginning at the point of convergence of the sides of the supraclypeal mark, and ex- tending inward for one-half the width of the mark, then curving slowly outward and upward nearly to vertex, forming extremely large ear-like upward extensions with the upper end broadly truncate. All of cly- peus, supraclypeal mark, lateral face marks, labrum and mandibles except extreme base, pale yellow. Antennae short, scarcely attaining tegulae, scape and pedicel wholly deep black, flagellum bright ferru- ginous. Tubercles, except for a central black dot, an uninterrupted line on collar, most of tegulae and a broad stripe on wing base, yel- low. Head rather coarsely punctured, thorax with close punctures. Tarsi,, except the terminal joints and claw, anterior tibiae, except for a large spot behind, middle and posterior tibiae, except for broad, dark subapical rings, yellow, rest of legs black. Wings perfectly clear, nervures and stigma fuscous. Abdomen shining black, with the apices of the segments broadly testaceous, first two segments distinctly punc- tured, third and following segments with very inconspicuous, short, sparse, pale hair. 9 . Length 5 mm. Agreeing in general with the $ , but clypeus, supraclypeal area, labrum and mandibles wholly black; the lateral face marks are long and narrow, extending from base of mandibles well beyond antennal bases and nearly to vertex, the upper end broadly rounded or subtruncate, the lower end acuminate, widest at middle near upper edge of clypeus where there is a slight tooth, pale yellow in color. Tubercles yellow, usually undotted. Tarsi more blackish, only the basal joint ever extensively yellow, the black rings on middle and posterior tibiae involving all but the upper ends of those joints. Apical margins of abdominal segments more conspicuously and exten- sively testaceous or rufotestaceous. Types. Glen, Sioux Co., Nebraska, August 17, 1906, on Cleome serrulata (M. H. Swenk). Collection University of Nebraska. Paratypes. Type lot, i male ; type locality, August 14, 1906, on Solidago (P. R. Jones), i male, do., August 15, 4 males and 2 females; do., August 17, i male and 6 females; do. (H. S. Smith), 3 males and 6 females; do., August 19 (P. R. Jones), 3 males and 4 females; do., August 20 (L. Bruner), i male and 3 females; do. (H. S. Smith), 9 males and n fe- 7O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO males; Fort Garland, Colorado, August 14, 1907 (L. Bruner), I female. This species is very distinct. The male face marks resemble in a general way those of P. episcopalis Ckll., but the two are quite distinct. The female resembles the same sex of P. asi- II ina Ckll. most, but the characteristic broadly rufotestaceous apices of the abdominal segments easily separate it from that species. From P. magniclavis, just described, the female may be separated by the uninterrupted yellow stripe on the collar, and from the females of zisiac, dunningi, sayi, iUinoiensis, polifolii, coloradcnsis, etc., by the partly yellow hind basitarsus. Prosopis subtristis n. sp. 2 . Length 7-7.5 mm. Lateral face marks short, extending from base of mandible to level of insertion of antennae, shaped like those of 9 cressoni, yellow. Remainder of head black. Collar wholly black. Tu- bercles yellow with a black spot. Tegulae with a yellow spot, wing bases wholly black. Legs black, the middle and posterior knees, espe- cially the latter, more or less yellow. Head and thorax coarsely, closely punctured. Abdomen black, two basal segments distinctly punc- tured and moderately shiny. Wings smoky, nervures and stigma black. Antennae short, not reaching tegulae, wholly black. Type. Warbonnet Canyon, Sioux County, Nebraska, July 13, 1901, on Pentstemon glaber (M. Cary). Collection Uni- versity of Nebraska. Paratypes. Type locality, July i, 1901, on Symphoricarpos (M. A. Carriker), i female; Jim Creek, Sioux County, Nebr., June 22, 1901, on Malvastrum (M. Cary), i female; Sioux County, 6 females. This species is very closely allied to P. varifrons Cresson, but differs in its darker, more reddish wings. Possibly it is only a variety of that species, which can best be determined after the discovery of the male. From cressoni and pasadenae it may be distinguished by its much larger size, from elliptica by its wholly dark clypeus and broader face marks, from mesillac, ziziae, dunningi, sayi, iUinoiensis, etc., by the wholly black collar. Prosopis excavata n. sp $ . Length 4 mm. Face marks yellow, rather long and narrow, ex- tending from base of mandible well beyond level of insertion of anten- Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Jl nae and almost to vertex, broadest at middle and filling space between clypeus and orbit, excavated for antennal sockets at upper edge of cly- peus and thence continued upward as a linear mark. Antennae short, not attaining tegulae. Head black, coarsely punctured. Thorax witli a scarcely interrupted yellow line on collar, yellow tubercles and spot on tegulae. Legs black with all the knees partly yellow. Abdomen very shining, first segment distinctly punctured, apices of the segments narrowly testaceous. Wings perfectly clear, nervures and stigma fuscous. Type. Monroe Canyon, Sioux County, Nebraska, August 23, 1908, on Solidago (R. W. Dawson). Collection Univer- sity of Nebraska. Distinguished by its small size, partly yellow collar, dark hind basitarsus, narrow face marks, clear wings and by the conspicuous excavations of the face marks about the antennal sockets. Most closely related to P. coloradensis Ckll. [ == tuer- tonis Ckll.] and P. polifolii Ckll., but differing from these species in the excavated face marks. Prosopis supracurta n. sp. $ . Length 5 mm. Very similar to the same sex of P. sayi Rob., but basal abdominal segment more strongly punctured, the apical tarsal joints strongly suffused with dusky, the nervures and stigma darker, blackish rather than brownish. Type. Ute Creek, Colorado, July 17, 1907 (R. W. Daw- son). Collection University of Nebraska. This is the western or mountain representative of P. sayi Rob. and may prove to be only a subspecies of that form. It is also related to P. episcopalis Ckll. and P. itniversitatis Ckll., but the lateral face marks of these species are distinctly dif- ferent. WE offer our heartiest congratulations to Dr. C. J. S. Bethttne, editor emeritus of The Canadian Entomologist and wish to express our deep appreciation of the work he has done for that journal and for ento- mology in America. It is not often that such men are found, and when they are we should pay tribute to their unselfish love and devoted labor. Dr. Bethune put forth the first member of the Canadian Entomologist in 1868, and brought to completion the 41 st volume. Twenty-eight volumes were edited by Dr. Bethune and thirteen by Dr. Saunders. 72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO On the Habits of Beetles of the genus Nemognatha. BY S. GRAENICHER, Public Museum, Milwaukee. These Meloid beetles are of unusual interest in more than one respect. The larvae of the Meloidae, as also of the Rhipi- phoridae and Stylopidae are parasitic in their habits, and pass through a series of transformations known as hypermetamor- phosis. This subject has been thoroughly dealt with in a paper on "Some Hypermetamorphic Beetles and Their Hymenopter- ous Hosts," University Studies (Nebraska), Vol. 4, No. 2; April, 1904. Comparatively little is known of the life history of those Meloid beetles that pass their larval stage in the nests of bees or wasps, as for example species of Meloe, Cantharis, Sitaris and Zonitis. In its first stage (instar) such a larva has the terminal joints of its feet fitted with claws whereby it is enabled to cling to some insect with which it may come in con- tact. In this form it is called a triunguline, and is found on flowers, awaiting its chance to attach itself to a flower visiting insect, thereby to be transported to the nest of its host. To my knowledge nothing has been reported so far concern- ing the larval life of the beetles belonging to the genus Nemog- natlia. In the adult stage these insects show in structure and habits a remarkable degree of adaptation to flowers. Atten- tion was called to this fact about 30 years ago by Hermann Mueller, the well-known naturalist, to whom we owe such a wealth of information concerning the mutual relations between insects and flowers. After considering the structural peculi- arities of the flower visiting beetles of Europe, Mueller states that some tropical and sub-tropical beetles present much more thorough adaptation to flower-food. Thus in a species of Nernognatha which my brother Fritz Mueller observed sucking flowers of Convolvulus at Itajahy (in South Brazil), the outer maxillary lobes (galeae) are modified into sharp grooved bristles (12 mm. long), which when apposed form a suctorial tube like the proboscis of a butterfly, but of course incapable of being rolled up" (Fertilisation, etc., p. 33, note). In the southeastern part of Wisconsin Nemognatha seems to be represented by one species only, A^. vittigcra Lee., and Feb., 'lo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 73 this is apparently of rare occurrence. Two years ago I came across this beetle for the first and only time in this part of the State. It was visiting the flowers of Rudbeckia hirta L. (black- eyed Susan) on a prairie in Racine Co., about 20 miles south of Milwaukee (visit recorded in "Wisconsin Flowers and Their Pollination. Compositae." By S. Graenicher. Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., April, 1909, pp. 27 and 64) . In the beetle collection at the Public Museum of Milwaukee 14 species of Nemo gnat ha from different parts of the United States are rep- resented, among them N. vittigera with 5 specimens, 4 of which are from Missouri and i from Wisconsin. This is the only representative of the genus that has heretofore figured in this collection. As a member of the Milwaukee Public Museum collecting expedition along the St. Croix River in the northwestern part of Wisconsin (6 weeks in July and August of the present year) I was agreeably surprised to find this beetle of rather common occurrence near the mouth of the Yellow River in Burnett Co., Wis. I came across 4 specimens of another spe- cies, N. nemorensis Hentz, at the same locality where 5 days were spent, from July 29 to August 3. N. vittigera was also met with farther south in the pine barrens at Randall, Burnett Co. Altogether 22 specimens of this species were secured, and these show a great diversity in length, ranging from 7 to 1 1 mm. As to the length of the tongue (suctorial tube) an aver- age of 4 mm. was found. In one specimen the tongue was a trifle shorter, and in six a trifle longer, but of main importance is the fact that increase or decrease in tongue length does not run along with an increase or decrease in body length. The length of the tongue seems to be a rather constant factor withi-n the species and to develop independently of the body as a whole. These beetles were observed as regular visitors at the flowers of Rudbeckia hirta, the tubal florets of which have a length of about 3.5 mm. As stated above, the tongue of the insect is about 4 mm. long, and therefore perfectly able to reach the nectar at the bottom of the florets. Some of the beetles were seen on the flowers of two other species of Compositae, of the 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO sunflower Helianthus occidentalis and the goldenrod Solidago graminifolia, but the great majority were paying their atten- tions to the flowers of Rudbeckia which were present in large numbers in that particular locality. The four specimens of Nemognatha mcmorensis referred to above do not differ at all in size, they have a body length of 8 mm. and a tongue length of 3.5 mm., and they too were visit- ing the flowers of Rudbeckia hirta. Both of these species of Nemognatha are, so far as the length of their mouthparts is concerned, very nicely adapted to the tubal florets of Rudbeckia, as also of some other composite flowers of similar structure and dimensions. Of the 14 species represented in the collection of the Public Museum of Milwaukee, two have been dealt with already, and I herewith present the figures for the tongue length of the remaining twelve species : N. cribricollis Lee 1.5 mm. N. sparsa Lee 2.5 mm. N. immaculata Say 2.5 mm. N. scutellaris Lee 3.0 mm. N. nigripennis Lee 4.0 mm. N. apicalis Lee 4.0 mm. N. piezata Fab 6.0 mm. N. cribraria Lee 7.0 mm. N. dichroa Lee 8.0 mm. N. lutea Lee 8.0 mm. N. lurida Lee 8.0 mm. N. bicolor Lee 10.0 mm. These figures show a gradual increase from the short- tongued cribricollis to the long-tongued bicolor, and the tongue length in the latter falls only 2 mm. short of that of the Bra- zilian species, which, according to Hermann Mueller, was ob- taining nectar from the flowers of a morning-glory. Among other beetles observed by W. D. Pierce (loc. cit., p. 24) on the flowers of a goldenrod, Solidago rigida, at Lincoln and West Point, Nebraska, are Nemognatha immaculata and N. sparsa. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell (Flower and Insect Records from New Mexico, ENT. NEWS, Feb., 1901, p. 40) has seen Nemognatha bicolor, a long-tongued species, at the flowers of Cleome serrulata Pursh. at Las Vegas, New Mexico. These are the only records of the visits of North American beetles of this genus that I have been able to come across in Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 75 the literature. The species with the longest tongues (8 and 10 mm.) might be expected to visit flowers with tubes of a corresponding length, such as are adapted to long-tongued bees or butterflies. The behavior of these beetles when at work on the flowers presents additional evidence of the high degree of adaptation. Immediately after alighting on a flower, on the head of a Rudbeckia for example, the insect proceeds to insert its tongue into a tubal floret for the purpose of sucking. After a short while the head is lifted upward, the tongue withdrawn, and with a downward movement thrust into a neighboring floret. These upward and downward movements are carried out with much precision, with little or no loss of time, and much in the same manner as the corresponding movements of the highly specialized flower-flies of the genera Systoechits, Sparnopolius, Anthrax, E.roprosopa, etc., belonging to the Bombyliidae. These beetles surpass in this respect any of the flower visiting beetles of our region, except possibly their 'nearest relatives, those belonging to the Meloid genus Gnathium, which are also equipped with long tongues, of the habits of which, however, we have no information. Observations on Cicindelidae in Northern Cape May County, N. J., during the Summers of 1 908-09. HENRY Fox, PH. D., Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. During the past two summers I made a series of observa- tions on the occurrence, abundance and distribution of Cicin- delidae with reference to the physical features of northern Cape May County. These observations were made almost continuously from early in July to September gth in 1908, while in 1909 they were extended at intervals until October 3. The physical features of the region may be broadly grouped as follows : I The Barrier Beaches. II The Maritime Marshes. Ill The Interior Uplands. IV- -The Cedar and Sphagnum Bogs. I The Barrier Beaches I use this term to designate the long sandy islands immediately facing the ocean. The par- 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO ticular beaches on which my observations were made were Ludlams and Seven-mile Beaches. Both consist of a fine, white quartz sand, overlying a floor of dark, maritime marsh mud, patches of which may often be seen exposed on the seaward side at low tide. From the standpoint of Cicindelid distribution the beaches show three well-defined zones, which I have designated as (a) the lower strand, (b) the upper strand, and (c) the dune area. The lower strand includes all that part between mean high and low tides. It consists of a firm, compact sand with a relatively smooth surface and is, of course, destitute of all vegetation. Of Cincindelas the characteristic species of this zone is C. dorsalis, which during the proper season occurs there in swarms. Much less frequent in C. hirticollis, while on rare occasions I have observed C. marginata. The upper strand includes that portion between mean high tide and the outer limit of the grass-covered dunes. It is composed chiefly of loose white sand, which is piled up here and there in small hillocks about the clumps of various halo- phytic plants, the most abundant of which is the sea rocket, Cakile ede lit ula. In this area there are numerous tidal de- pressions and in these the sand is more compact and of a darker hue. In these depressions we have the favorite haunts of C. hirticollis. Individuals of both C. dorsalis and C. repanda may also occur in this zone, but they are not so abund- ant as C. hirticollis. The upper strand with Cakile cdentula as the characteristic plant is not equally developed at all points. It is most clearly marked where the beaches as a whole are low, while in places where the dunes are high and approach close to the water's edge the zone is narrow or absent. The Dune Area occupies the greater part of the barrier beach, extending landwards to the border of the maritime marsh. It is typically covered with the dune grass, Ammo- phila arcnaria. Within the dune area are numerous more or less extensive depressions which harbor a vegetation resem- bling that of the marshy tracts bordering the maritime marshes. Cicindelas are apparently rather scarce in the dune area and are almost entirely limited to the higher, dry portions, where the grass is not particularly thick. The most abund- Feb., 'id] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 77 ant species here was C. repanda, but C. punctulata also occur- red, especially where artificial alterations had introduced spe- cial conditions. On the seaward sand ridges C. hirticollis also occurred, but not so regularly as on the upper strand. Local- ly, as at Peermont, where the dunes are very high and dry, C. lepida may occur in considerable numbers. II The Maritime Marshes in northern Cape May form a zone about three miles in width. The greater part of the marshes is covered with the characteristic salt-marsh grass, Spartina, but here and there, especially near the seaward edge are numerous, more or less extensive patches of bare sandy flats on which a thin crust of dried and decayed vegetation is often present. On these flats C. niarginata is typically found. Less abundant and usually limited to the banks of the various creeks and thoroughfares are C. repanda and C. punctulata. Ill The Interior Uplands include the higher dry land be- tween the landward edge of the maritime marsh and the shores of Delaware Bay. The region as a whole is sandy and, except in the more cultivated districts, is covered with scrubby woodlands, composed largely of second-growth oaks and pines with a sprinkling of hickories and sassafras. There is usually a dense undergrowth formed partly of saplings of the above trees and of various shrubs, such as huckleberries, blueberries, azaleas and sweet fern. These woodlands are traversed by numerous sandy roads or paths and along these, at the proper time, such Cicindelas as C. punctulata, C. vulgaris, C. purpurca and C. niodesta are common. On the more open paths, espe- cially in the vicinity of swamps or stream. C. repanda also occurs. South of the Great Cedar Swamp and especially along the coastal and bay strips much of the interior is under cultivation. Here the artificial conditions are very favorable to two species, C. punctulata and C. repanda. The former is very abundant everywhere on the roads and in the fields, while C. repanda is mostly confined to the vicinity of streams, lakes or swamps. IV. The Cedar and Sphagnum Bogs are lowlands of the in- terior, originally occupied mostly by the white cedar, but since the almost complete extermination of the latter overgrown by a thick jungle of low trees and shrubs. Xo Cicindelas have been observed by me in these bogs. 7$ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO I have collected the following species of Cicindelas in the region under consideration : C. dorsalis C. vulgaris C. lepida C. pur pur ea C. hirticollis C. scutcllaris modesta C. punctulata C. fonnosa generosa C. marginata C. patruela C. repanda C. dorsalis. This is the dominant insect of the lower strand, where at times it occurs in immense numbers, the various individuals darting rapidly about over the wet sand just above the reach of the surf. In 1908 it was abundant from early July until the middle of August when it became less numerous and in early September had apparently become scarce. Thus on Septem- ber 8 during a trip between Sea Isle and Townsend's Inlet I counted only twenty-five individuals, all but one being ob- served at the Inlet, which had always proven a favorite spot for them. In 1909 they were not common on July 3, but by the end of that month and in August they were very abun- dant and were not uncommon as late as September 7. I also saw a few individuals as late as September 25. The 1909 brood was therefore, apparently about two weeks later than the 1908 brood both in its appearance and disappearance a difference which I think may be attributed to the more re- tarded spring and early summer of 1909. Although characteristic of the lower strand this species is not infrequently found on the dry upper strand associated with the there more common C. hirticollis. In such a location I caught a larva, which I think belongs to this species. No individuals were seen inland, though Smith states they are local there on pure white sand. All of my specimens are apparently normal with normal markings. No clearly immaculate individuals were observed, nor did I observe any clear difference in the intensity of the markings between individuals collected in early summer and those collected in September. Davis (Ent. News, xiv, p. 273) suggests that as the season advances the elytral markings dis- Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 79 appear by the wearing action of the sand, and he adds that late in the season he got heavily immaculate specimens. It would be interesting to learn how far this explanation accords with the experience of collectors. On both Lucllam and Seven- mile Beaches the sand is blown about almost constantly, but in- dividuals taken in late September do not show any perceptible difference in the intensity of the color from those taken in mid-summer. The light coloration of C. dorsalis has been cited as an ex- ample of protective coloration, in adaptation to the white sand of the beach. This would be satisfactory if the animals were frequenters of the dry sand of the upper strand, but, although they are found there, they are much more abundant on the lower wet strand, where the sand is a deep gray. Here, al- though their colors partly blend with that of the sand, they do so much less perfectly than those of either C. liirticollis or C. inttrginata, both of which are exceedingly difficult to detect when they alight. C. dorsalis, on the other hand, can be read- ily seen. It might be suggested that it is of more value to C. dorsalis to be better protected on the upper strand where it probably deposits its eggs than on the lower strand. In the latter place its enemies seem to be few, while on the upper beach they are perhaps more numerous. This is especially true of the large robber-flies which frequently kill the Cicin- delas. C. lepida. In 1908 I found only two individuals of this species, both taken on the outer sand dune at Sea Isle on July 6. On July 3, 1909, I found the species fairly common on the high sand dunes at Peermont. A few \vere seen near the same place on August 26, of which two were taken. One was seen at Ava- lon as late as September 9, but was not captured. This species is never very abundant and, so far as my ob- servations go, is confined to the more seaward dunes, espe- -cially those which are relatively bare. It is most common in early summer, but soon becomes scarce so that in August and September it is rarely encountered. 8o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO G. hirticollis. This is the characteristic species of the upper strand, where it especially frequents the tidal depression facing the outer line of the dunes. Here the sand is rather damp and of a grayish hue, with which the colors of the beetle blend per- fectly. Although common in its favorite haunts during the entire summer and early fall C. hirticollis never seems to occur in such swarms as C. dorsalis. It is also more locally distributed, in some places it will be abundant, while in others, apparently equally favorable, it will be rare or absent. This species is also found in smaller numbers on both the lower beach and the more exposed dunes. At the inlets it is found on the sandy shores of the thoroughfares. It also oc- curs on the shores of Delaware Bay, where I have taken it near ( ircen Creek. According to Davis (ENT. NEWS, xiv, '03, p. 272-273) those individuals of C. hirticollis "which live on white sand are marked with wide white bands, while those which live on mud- deltas are heavily black for purposes of protection." My own specimens were all collected from the situations mentioned be- fore and, while some show clear white markings, others have the markings brownish, in some cases so dark as to be seen only by careful examination. So far I have never seen any correlation between the intensity of the color markings and the colors of the surroundings, the differently tinted individ- uals being found indiscriminately and in about equal numbers in the same places. For example, of eight specimens taken on August 26, 1909, on the clear white dunes at Peermont not one showed the clear white bands and in three of them the bands were moderately dark. No specimens were taken in- land. G. marginata. This form is characteristic of the bare sandy or mud flats on the seaward borders of the maritime marshes. Its color is in close harmony with the dark gray tints of such places. Of all the species I have met it is the most difficult to detect. It is Feb., *IO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 8l very wary and when closely pursued, will often escape cap- ture by hiding in the thick grass (Spartina} surrounding its habitat. This species also occurs in fair numbers on the roads cross- ing the marshes and on neighboring sand banks. On rare oc- casions I have also caught it on the ocean front in associa- tion with C. dorsalis. C. marginata appeared to persist in about equal numbers through the entire summer though it was at no time very abundant. It also appeared to be more or less locally distrib- uted. Thus it was fairly common on the numerous mud flats close to the old biological laboratory at Sea Isle and on some newly-made sand banks at Peermont, while at Townsend's In- let in situations apparently similar it was seen only once or twice. G. punctulata. This is the common summer resident of the interior, where it was exceedingly abundant in such locations as fields, gardens, lawns, roadsides, sandy paths and woodland clearings. None was found in the bogs or on the paths leading through them. On the beaches it was moderately abundant where it usually occurred on the less frequented streets and sidewalks. Some were taken on the railroad embankments and sand banks facing the salt marshes. This species I have found as late as early October but it is much less common in the early fall than in mid-summer. In the 1899 edition of the insects of New Jersey Smith states that this species' is "common almost everywhere, but seems locally absent in the southern counties." My experience in Cape May County is rather at variance with the latter part of this statement, as I found C. piiiictnlata abundant at such lo- calities as Ocean View, Sea Isle Junction, Dennisville, Cedar Grove, Cape May Court House, Dias Creek, Green Creek and Rio Grande, also in the dry districts north of the Great Cedar Swamp. C. repanda. This species, although not rare is rather local, being most frequently encountered in the vicinity of water. In Cape May 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO County I have not yet seen it in July, but it was common in August and September. It occurs in the interior uplands, usually in the vicinity of lakes, streams or bogs, and on the barrier beaches, where it is most common in the dune areas, especially along paths. Occasionally individuals were taken on the upper strand in company with C. hirticollis. C. vulgaris. This is one of the early fall species, no individuals having been observed in the summer months. In September it was found in large numbers on dry sandy paths through the wood- ed portions of the interior uplands. I have never seen this species on the beaches or in the more cultivated districts. C. purpnrea. This species appears to me to be the most abundant of the early autumn forms, though C. vulgaris is a close second. It is found in the same localities and at the same time as the lat- ter species. Smith reports this species as "reported from all points be- tween April and July and again in September, though hardly abundant anywhere." So far as my experience goes the last part of this statement does not apply to northern Cape May County. G. scutellaris modesta. This is another early autumn species the first individuals having been observed in late August. In September it was common in the same situations as C. purpurea and C. vitlgaris, but less abundant than these two forms. * C. formosa generosa. In this form we have another autumn species. So far I have found generosa in only moderate numbers in northern Cape May, where I have seen it only in September. It ap- peared to occur most regularly in the more open places in the oak-pine districts of the interior. C. patruela consentanea. Only two individuals of this species were taken September 7, 1909, on a sandy road in the oak-pine district between Mt. Pleasant and Formosa Bogs. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thankfully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. The author's name will be given in each case, for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] TO CONTRIBUTORS. All contributions will be considered and at our earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published date of reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, bers and circumference, as to make it necessary to put "copy" into the printer, for each number, three weeks before date of issue. This membered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue, "extras," without change in form, will be given free, when they are this should be so stated on the MS., along with the number desired, of all papers will be acknowledged. EB. passed upon according to both in num- the hands of should be re- Twenty-five wanted; am! The receipt PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1910. Vanhornia eucnemidarum Crawford. In accordance with our custom we have selected this species as being the most remarkable submitted to us. It was described and figured in the Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. XI. 63, 1909. The figure of the species will appear on the cover of the NEWS during the present year. It represents a new genus as well as a new species. The specimens were found in Maryland and Virginia. We are disappointed that more entomologists do not send in their species for representation on the cover. When they do apply it is generally too late to have the figure on the cover of the January number. 83 84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. ONCE MORE CULEX PERTURBANS. Concerning the suggestion made by Dr. Dyar in the January number of the NEWS, that I had failed to credit Mr. J. Turner Brakeley with observations made on this insect, let me refer to my report to the New Jersey Experiment Station for 1907, pp. 546-553, and for 1908, pp. 410-415, where full abstracts of Mr. Brakeley's notes are given. It is no habit of mine to steal the work of others. A quotation or two from a letter received from Dr. Stowell, under date of October igth, may be informing: "When the Laboratory report is finally published you will see that in my mind and also the opinions of my Laboratory Committee, the help we got in the discovery of the breeding place of perturbans came from Dr. John B. Smith, when his trained eye selected the most typical pond in Dublin, in which to seek for perturbans eggs.".***** "As to the article ; Dr. Dyar sent me the printer's proof all marked as if it had been already set in type. I wrote him objecting to the omis- sion of mention of the part that you and Mr. Grossbeck had taken in the discovery of the perturbans here. If there is a footnote to the article I do not know of it and I did not authorize it, whatever it states." "I begged you to come to help us because I felt that our problem was so complicated that only the eye of special experience would be able to solve it." And the fact remains that after two seasons of work Dr. Dyar "dis- covered" a breeding place of perturbans the day after I had pointed it out and told how to look for the insects. January 10, 1910. JOHN B. SMITH. I BEG to advise that, after January 31, 1910, my address will be Col- lege Station, Texas, U. S. A., instead of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. WILMON NEWELL. RARE BUTTERFLIES IN MAINE. If Mr. George R. Minot, who con- tributed some notes on the above subject to the December NEWS will refer to Dr. C. H. Fernald's "Butterflies of Maine," published in 1884, he will see that Junonia coenia and Euptoieta claudia are both included in it, the latter on my authority, I having taken it near Portland in that State in August, 1882. I also took a specimen of the former in the same place in August, 1876, it being included under the name lavinia, as used by Harris, in my "List of Diurnal Lepidoptera taken in the vicinity of Portland, Maine," in Can. Ent. XII, 7. August is rather late to look for Limenitis arthemis, it should be sought for early in July. HENRY H. LYMAN, Montreal. Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 85 AT a meeting of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, held December 9, 1909, it was decided to erect a drinking fountain consisting of a granite sbaft with bronze medallion inscription, etc., at the Central Experi- mental form, as a memorial to the late Dr. James Fletcher. ON AN EPISODE. THE CHARGE. Said Doctor Smith to Doctor Dyar : I'm amused and yet I'm sad ; I found the pond where wiggletails disport themselves, and had Assigned myself the arduous task of telling to all men, How such things court, and what they eat, and how they feed, and when. Then you appeared upon the scene ('Twas strange to find you there!) I welcomed you and smiled on you and showed you where they were ; Yet when I looked your paper through, my Coddington in hand, I failed to find that you had this sufficiently explained. Your presence there was passing strange, but this was stranger still ; I've wondered ever since if you intend to treat me ill. THE RETURN. Said Doctor Dyar to Doctor Smith : You surely must be leery ; Your conduct quite reminds me of our townsmen, Cook and Peary; Your name's not in my paper and the search you may forego ; I left it out on purpose and am free to tell you so. If I had been a blind man and deaf and dumb beside, A roaming round the country with no kind friend to guide, And you had chanced upon me and grasped me by the hand. And led me round the boggy ground right to the small pond's side, Your name had been emblazoned in my paper without doubt, In letters large and very black, a 'steenth inch tall about ; But since I see like anything, indeed I saw through you, My perspicacity alone had brought the pond to view ; Besides, I'll have to tell you, and with purpose most pacific, (Though this journal more's the pity's not so very scientific). Neither your name nor my own name should by good right be there, Since another found the wigglers and showed us both their lair. AU REVOIR. Said Doctor Smith to Doctor Dyar : I'm grieved, but yet I'm cheery. Said Doctor Dyar to Doctor Smith : You're Cook and I am Peary. My steed is a little lame and needs currying. In truth for fiftoni odd years she has been tied in her stall and has had only dry feed. Please make some allowance for this. THE AUTHOR. 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO MR. ALFRED F. SATTERTHWAIT, of Middletown, Pa., has withdrawn from the position of Assistant Economic Zoologist of Pennsylvania. He will continue to do entomological work and is open for an engagement in that line. WORK OF THE LEAF-CUTTER BEES IN IDAHO. (Megachile Species.) The settler in the reclaimed sagebrush lands of the West and South- west, usually turns his first efforts to raising windbreaks and planting trees, if he has any idea of a permanent home, where once was naught but the sage brush, the coyote and the sage hen, "that couldn't get away." Among the first trees set out about our house were two ash trees. As soon as foliage began to appear these trees were attacked by Leaf-cutter bees which completely defoliated one and nearly the other. First, we noticed circular holes in many of the leaves, but it was not long until, on going near the trees, one noticed the noise made by the bees at work, almost like a swarm of bees intent on gathering honey. Sometimes we would see a bee with a section of leaf so large it could hardly fly, but working diligently, carrying its burden to a sandy spot just outside the yard, where the bees had their tunnels. During the heat of the day they were so numerous, near their tunnels, that one passer-by was alarmed and inquired what so many bees were doing there. The bees continued their work all the first summer when we had no water for irrigation, but confined their cuttings almost or entirely to the two ash trees. The following season, however, I found them working on cherry, apple and poplar trees in same way, but either not so energetically, or their efforts were distributed among more trees, for, on no other trees near us was their work sufficient to de- foliate them. We made some effort to protect the trees by covering with netting but fear the ashes have been killed by the persistent work of the Leaf- cutters. The past summer I stopped to talk with a friend some fifteen miles from here, who complained that the grasshoppers were taking the leaves from his maple trees. On examination, I found that here, again, the bees were the mischief-makers. We are wondering whether the bees will increase in numbers suffi- ciently to do serious injury, but hope that as irrigation progresses, and more trees are planted, their work will be so distributed that the injury will not be worthy of notice. So far as observed, but one species of Magachile has appeared. These reclaimed tracts of land offer an excellent opportunity for the student of insects to observe how the species natural to a locality Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 8/ change. The real estate agent talks about new land, ''where no old bugs have reared their little buglets," but the settler must class his statement with the other fiction propagated by the promoter. Even the one-time desert, has its insect life, and weeds spring up to replace the sage, even if the settler is careful not to introduce the worst varieties. The persistent Russian thistle rolls for miles across the plains and distributes its seed, and, use all the care you may, the insect pests soon follow the production of crops and planting of trees. I have wondered what desert plants the Leaf-cutter bees used to line their tunnels before the coming of the settler with trees, but have not been able to find their former upholstering materials. ARTHUR J. SNYDER, Springfield, Idaho. ERRATA. In Dr. Bergroth's article in the January, 1910, ENT. NEWS, seventh line from bottom of page where description begins " Prosternum longitudin- ally for coxae" read Prosternum longitudinally raised in the middle. Me- sosternum elevated in the middle, the elevated part tapering from base to apex and reaching the fore coxae. Metasternum sexangularly elevated in the middle, the elevated part broadly emarginate behind for the reception of the ventral basal tubercule. Entomological Literature. COMPLIED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology, excluding Araci- hida and Myripoda, of the Americas (North and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless treating of new genera, will not be noted. Contri- butions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether re- lating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavyfaced type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all dated 1909, unless otherwise noted. For complete record of Economic Literature, see the experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 2 Transactions, American Entomological Society. 5 Psyche. 6 Journal, New York Entomological Society. 8. Entomologist's Entomological Magazine. 9 The Entomologist. 10 Nature, London. 11 Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 42 Journal, Linnean Society, Zoology. 45 Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 46 Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 47 The Zoolo- gist. 50 Proceedings, U. S. National Museum. 78 Gardeners' Chronicle. 92 Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiolo^u-. 143 Ohio Naturalist. 157 Meddelanden, Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 174 Bulletin, U. S. National Museum. 175 Aus 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO der Natur, Berlin. 176 Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen, Leipzig. 177 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, London. 179 Journal, Economic Entomology. 180 Annals, Entomological Society of America. 181 Guide to Nature, Sound Beach, Conn. 182 Revue Russe d'Entomologie. 183 Glasgow Naturalist. 184 Journal of Experimental Zoology, Philadelphia. 185 Journal, Quekett Microscopical Club, London. 186 Journal of Economic Biology, London. 187 Jahrbucher des Nassauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde, Wiesbaden. 188 Bulletin International, Academic des Sciences de 1'Empereur Francois Joseph I, Prague. 189 Pomona Journal of Entomology, Claremont, Cal. 190 Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift '"Iris." 191 Natur, Munchen. 192 The Cairo Scientific Journal, Alexandria. 193 Entomologische Blatter. 194 Genera Insectorum. GENERAL SUBJECT. Baldwin, D. A. Observations on grasshoppers and ants, 118, ii, 306. Bartels, C. O. Auf frisher tat beobachtungen aus der niederen tierwelt in bilderserin nach natur- aufnahmen. Cockerell, T. D. A. New fossil insects from Floris- sant, Colo., 180, ii, 251. Kempers, K. J. W. Nog iets over het adersysteem der kevervleugels, 46, Hi, 272. Howard, L. O. Notes on a flying trip to Russia, 202, xl, 192. Schneider, K. C. Vorle- sungen ueber Tierpsychologie, Insekten, Leipzig, 106-160, 1909. Zhuravsky, A. V. Essai d'une critique des principes de la geo- graphic biologique comparee (Russian), 182, ix, 35. NEUROPTERA. Bagnall, R. S. On two new genera of Thys- anoptera from Venezuela, 42, xxx, 329. Crawford, D. L. Some new Thysanoptera from South California, 189, i, 100; Some Thysan- optera of Mexico and the South, 189, i, 109; Notes on California Thysanoptera, 189, i, 120. Forster, F. Beitrage zurden gattungen und arten der Libellen, 187, Ixii, 211. Handlirsch, A. Zur kenntnis fruhjurassischer Copeognathen und Coniopterygiden und ueber das schiksal der Archipsylliden, 22, xxxv, 233. Klapalek, F. Beitrag zur kenntnis der gattung Pteronarcys, 188, xii, 150. Kolbe, H. Ueber unberveglich gehause von Trichopterenlarven, 175, v. 550. Patch, E. M. Chermes of Maine spruces, 5, xvi, 136. Pierce, W. D. A monographic revision of the twisted-winged insects com- prising the Order Strepsiptera, Kirby, 174, No. 66. Valikangas, Y. I. Muistiinpanoja tvarmininen Odonati-elaimistosta, 157, xxxv, 74. Williamson, E. B. The No. American dragonflies (Odonata) of the genus Macronia, 50, xxxvii, 365. ORTHOPTERA. Davis, W. T. A cricket new to New Jersey, 6, xvii, 187. Przibram, H. Aufzuch farbwechsel und regeneration der ^ottesanbeterinnen (Mantidae, iii), 176,, xxviii, 561. HEMIPTERA. Distant, W. L. Descriptions of Oriental Cap- Feb., 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 89 sidae, 11, iv, 89. Essig, E. O. Combating the citrus mealy-bug, 189, i, 89; Aphididae of So. California III, 189, i, 98. Gadd, G. Contri- butions a 1'anatomie comparee des Cigales I. Appareil salivaire (Russian), 182, ix, 138. Gillette,, C. P. Plant louse notes, family Aphididae, 179, ii, 385. Hambleton, J. C. Life history of Corizus lateralis, 180, ii, 272. Heidemann, O. Two new species of No. American Aradidae, 202, xi, 189. Matausch, I. Gynandromorphic Membracidae, 6, xvii, 165. Sanders, J. G. The identity and syn- onymy of some of our soft scale insects, 179, ii, 428. Schumacher, F. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der vervreitung und biologic der ein- heimischen Poeciloscytus-arten, 92, xiv, 380. LEPIDOPTERA. Anon. Lord Walsingham's collection of Micro-Lepidoptera, 10, Ixxxii, 194. Busck, A. New Micro-Lepi- doptera from New Mexico and California and a synoptic table of the No. American species of Heliodines, 202, xi, 175; Two ne\v species of Mexican Tienids, 202, xi, 212. Britton, W. E. The co- coons on the sassafras tree, 181, ii, 304. Dyar, H. G. The life-his- tory of an Oriental species of Cochlidiidae introduced into Mass. (Cnidocampa flavescens), 202, xi, 162; Description of another un- identified Notodotian larva, 202, xi, 171; Description of the lavra of Eustrotia caduca, 202, xi, 200; A new species of Acrobasis, 202, xi, 214. Fiske & Thompson Notes on the parasites of the Satur- niidae, 179, ii, 450. Forbes, W. T. M. Notes on a few of the rarer New England Lepidoptera, 5, xvi, 134. Hampson, G. F. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum; Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the collection of the Br. Museum; Vol. viii. Jacobson, E. Beobachtungen ueber den polymorphis- mus von Papilio memnon, 46, Hi, 125. John, O. A generic sub- division of the genus Palpangula Stgr, 182, ix, 115. Pagenstecher, A. Ueber die verbreitungsbezirke und die lokalformen von Par- nassius apollo, 187, Ixii, 116. Pfurtscheller, Dr. Die verwandlung des koplweisslings, 175, v, 515. Poulton, E. B. Mimicry in the butterflies of No. America, 180, ii, 203. Reiff, W. The relation of sex to heliotropism in the brown-tail moth, 5, xvi, 115. Reval, W. P. Ein beitrag zur kenntnis der gattung Eupithecia; Vergleich- ende untersuchung der generationsorgane, 190,, xxii, 203. Sander- son & Jackson The oblique-banded leafhopper (Archips rosa- ceana), 179, ii, 391. Sleight, C. E. Catocalla herodias at Lakehurst, N. J., 6, xvii, 166. DIPTERA. Austen, E. E. Illustrations of African blood-suck- ing flies, other than mosquitoes and testse-flies (British Museum Publication). Back, E. A. The robber-flies of America north of Mexico belonging to the subfamlies Leptogastrinae and Dasypo- goninae, 2, xxxv, 137. Balfour, A. Mosquitoes: with reference to 9O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO imigration and horse sickness, and notes on the destruction of their larvae by fish in the Sudan, 192, iii, 242. De Mejere, J. C. H. Drei myrmecophile Dipteren aus Java, 46, Iii, 165. Dyar & Knab. De- scriptions of three new American mosquitoes, 202, xi, 173. Hendel, F. Ueber eine neue palearktische Cordylurinen gattung, 45, 1909, 777. Hewitt, C. G. The structure, development, and bionomics of the house-fly (Musca domestica), pt. Ill, 177, liv, 347. John- son, C. W. The rediscovery of Glutops singularis, 5, xvi, 132. Lundstrom, C. Beitrage zur kenntniss der Dipteren Finlands, IV, Suppl. Mycetophilidae, 178, xxxii, No. 2. Malloch, J. R. A divis- ion of the Dipterous genus Phora into subgenera, 183, i, 24. Townsend, C. H. T. Description of some new Tachinidae, 180, ii, 243. Wesche, W. Notes on the life-history of the tachinid fly Phorocera serriventris, and on the viviparous habits of other Dip- tera, 185, x, 451. COLEOPTERA. Aaron, S. F. The under-bark grub (Dendro- ides canadensis), 181, ix, 302. Bickhardt, H. Beitrage zur kennt- nis der Histeraden III, 193,, v, 220, 240. Bruch, C. Neue Bupresti- den aus Argentinen nebst synonymischen berichtigungen,' 45, 1909, 746. Borchmann, Dr. Systematische und synonymische notizen uber Lariiden und Alleculiden, 45, 1909, 712. Bouwman, B. E. Ueber die lebenweise von Methoca ichneumonides, 46, Hi, 284. Bovie, A. Family Curculionidae, subfam. Brachycerinae, 194, fasc., 99; Curculionidae, subfam. Nanophyinae, 194, fasc. 98. De Groot, G. J. Das nervensystem der Cicindelalarven, 46, Hi, 294. Fall, H. C. A new Platycholeus, 5, xvi, 133. Felsche,, C. Neue und alte coprophabe Scarabaeiden, 45, 1909, 751. Fenyes, A. Two new spe- cies of Aleocharinae from California, 202, xi, 197. Gates, B. N. The rose cuculis (Rhynchites bicolor) in Mass., 179, ii, 465. Hagedon, M. Diagnosen bisher unbeschrieben berkenkafer, 45, 1909, 733. Kerremans, Ch. Monographic des Buprestides, IV, No. 3-4. Schaeffer, C. Three Cuban Coleoptera new to the fauna of the U. S., 6, xvii, 148. Schenkling, S. Coleopterorum catalogus, Pars. 4. Ipidae. Semenov-Tian-Shansky, A. Coleoptera nova faunae Luranicae, 182, viii, 295. Shoebotham, J. W. The life-his- tory of Callidium violaeeum, 186, iv, 144. Smirnov, D. A. La vie et les metamorphoses de quelques especes du genre Rhinoncus, 182, ix, 100. Spath, F. Kritische studien uber Chelymorpha, und die verwandten gattungen, 45, 1909, 715. Strohmeyer, O. Be- schreibung zweier neuer Phloeoberus-arten und erganzung der diagnosen eindger bckannten . . . der secundaren geschlecht- scharaktere, 193, v, 248. Tucker, E. S. Additional notes upon the breeding of the coffee-bean weevil, 179, ii, 373. Wagner, H. Zur synonymic der gattung Apion, 45, 1909, 766. Weber, L. Ueber Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 9! den leuchtkafer Phosphaenus hemipterus speziell dessen mannlich- en geschlechtsapparatus, 45, 1909, 784. Zaitzev, P. Analytische uebersicht der mirbekannten arten der gattung Sternolophus nebst bemerkungen uber die anderen arten diesergattung, 182, viii, 228. HYMENOPTERA. Cameron, P. Some Odyneminae of the Southwest U. S., 189, i, 122. Crawford, J. C. New parasitic Hy- menoptera, 202, xi, 203. Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. Formica san- guinea, at Bewdley, with an account of a slave riad and de- scription of two gynandromorphs, 47, xiii, 463. Gales, B. N. Notes on honey bees gathering honey-dew from a scale insect (Physokermes piceae, 179, ii, 466. Girault, A. A. A new Chalci- doid genus and species of the family Mymaridae from Illinois, parasitic on the eggs of the weevil Tyloderma foveolatum, 6, xvii, 167. Girault & Sanders The Chalcidoid parasites of the common house or typhoid-fly (Musca domestica) and its allies, 5, xvi, 119. Kieffer, J. J. Family Ceraphronidae, 194, fasc. 94; Family Serphi- dae, 194, fasc. 95. McGillivary, A. D. A synopsis of the American species of Scolioneurinae, 180, ii, 259. Ross, H. Pflanzen und Ameisen un tropischen Mexiko, 74, xxiv, 822. Schmiedeknecht, O. -Family Chalcididae, 194, fasc. 97. Schrottky, C. On the bee- genus Centris, 202, xi, 160. Viereck,, H. L. Hymenoptera for the N. J. List of insects, and other Hymenoptera, 202, xi, 208. INDIAN INSECT LIFE. A manual of the insects of the plains, Tropical India. By H. Maxwell-Lefroy, M. A., F. E. S., F. Z. S., Ento- mologist, Imperial Department of Agriculture of India. Author of Indian insect pests, etc. Assisted by F. M. Hewlett, B. A., F. E. S., Second Entomologist, Imperial Department of Agriculture for India. Published under the authority of the Government of In- dia. Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa. W. Thacker & Co., 2 Creed Lane, London. This great work of 786 pages, 84 plates and 536 text cuts, make a fine addition to the literature of Entomology and a valuable addition to the papers on Economic Entomology in India. It will have a stimulat- ing effect not only on the study of species in that country, but in other tropical lands. The plates and figures appear to be excellent and ac- curate and the subject matter well written. The author says, "I shall be glad if those who see omissions or errors will point them out, as it may be that a better volume will be built up on this basis, when the study of Indian Entomology is further advanced. 1 may also empha- size the fact that where little is said little is known and the blanks in the books are designedly prominent to emphasize the enormous scope there is for work. 1 also trust that the volume may be a real stepping 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO stone to better things and may help those who are advancing our knowledge of insect life in India." A wonderful foundation has been laid and this foundation will undoubtedly be a great stimulus to bring- ing about the future work. Entomology is advancing rapidly and is breaking down politico-geographical lines and we are glad to see the increasing number of entomologists who are interested in .Entomology in its broad sense. The authors are to be commended and congratulated on the production of this valuable and epoch making volume. Now that Economic Entomology is being taken up the world over we hope to see similar works from some of the other tropical countries that have official entomologists. H. S. Doings of Societies. A meeting of the Rhode Island Entomological Society was held in the offices of the Providence Forestry Co. on Monday, November 22d, at 8 P. M., eight members being present. After the minutes had been read and approved, Mr. Billson read a most interesting paper on "The Destructive Habits of the larva of Pieris rapae," which pointed out the tremendous amount of damage done annually by this insect and also showed the rapid rate at which it has covered the continent. Mr. Place then exhibited some Lepidoptera, which was viewed with interest. The new cabinet which is to contain the society's collection of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera and which had just been de- livered was carefully inspected by all the members present who pronounced themselves well satisfied. After a brief social talk the meeting adjourned. WILLIAM PLACE, JR., Secretary. The fifth meeting of the Entomological Society of America was held at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, December 3Oth and 3ist, 1909. The President, Dr. Henry Skinner, pre- sided throughout the sessions. The President announced the deaths of Wm. H. Edwards, an Honorary Fellow ; Prof. Mark Vernon Slingerland, a Fellow ; B. H. Guilbeau, W. Bro- die and H. M. S. Seib, members. Suitable resolutions on the deaths of Mr. Edwards and Prof. Slingerland were adopted. Feb., 'lo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Q3 The report of the Executive Committee showed among' other things that sixteen new members had been received during the year and twenty-two memberships had terminated, not includ- ing those who had died. Also that a memorial drawn up by Mr. W. C. Wood regarding the tariff on insects and signed by the President and Secretary had been productive of no ac- tion by Congress. The question of appointing delegates to the approaching In- ternational Congress of Entomology was referred to the Ex- ecutive Committee. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. John R. Smith; First Vice-President, Dr. S. A. Forbes; Second rice- President, Prof. Y. L. Kellogg; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. C. R. Crosby. ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Prof. J. H. Comstock, Prof. J. M. Aldrich, Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Rev. Prof. C. J. S. Bethune, Mr. E. A. Schwarz, Prof. Lawrence Bruner. MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell (to succeed himself.) The report of the Committee on Nomenclature concerning the nomenclature of gall insects read at the Baltimore meet- ing, and printed in the Annals for 1909, was adopted as printed, with the provision that the Society express itself as standing with the majority of the Committee in Section V. Mr. Brues suggested that Prof. Felt submit a list of names of gall insects that he thought could be accepted as standard. Moved and carried that the request of Dr. Stile's, published in Science, for the preparation of a list of one hundred im- portant names to be adopted by the Congress of Zoology as standard be referred to the Executive Committee. The following amendment to the Constitution was adopted : Article V, Sec. 3. Election of Officers. All officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting for the term of one year and shall be eligible for re-election. Their term of office shall commence with the first of June following their election. 94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO The Secretary was instructed to take a mail vote of all mem- bers and Fellows of the Society as to whether the present ar- rangement of paying separate dues and subscriptions to the Annals should be continued, or a single membership fee of two dollars be charged, and members receive without further ex- pense the publications of the Society. Prof. Sanderson suggested the adoption of a uniform style of button for both the entomological societies meeting in affilia- tion with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Referred to the officers. The following papers were read during the sessions : R. MATHESON. "Remarks on the External Anatomy of the (Haliplidae." W. M. WHEELER. "On the Effects of Parasitic and Other Kinds of Castration in Insects." A. H. MORGAN. "Some Correlations of May-fly Structure and Habit." C. R. CROSBY. "Some Observations by the Late Prof. Slinger- land and the Speaker on the Life-History of "Hetcrocor- dylus malinus" (Read by title). C. J. TRIGGERSON. "The Life-cycle of the Oak Hedge-hog Gall-fly (Acraspis erinacea)." F. L. WASHBURN. "A Jumping Seed-gall on the Burr Oak." A. D. MAC&LLIVRAY. "The Female Reproductive Organs of Corydalis cornuta." W. L. W. FIELD. "The Offspring of a Captured Female of Basilarchia proserpina." H. H. LYMAN. -"An Improved Drawer for Insect Cabinets and a New Substance for Lining Them." C. T. BRUES. "Some Notes on the Geological History of the Parasitic Hymenoptera." J. C. BRADLEY.- : 'The Plaiting of the Wings of Hymenoptera." T. J. HEADLEE. -"An Apparatus for the Determination of Optimums of Temperature and Moisture for Insects." A. D. MAcGiLLiVRAY. "The Radical Sector in Phlcbatrophia mathesoni." Feb., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 95 W. T. M. FORBES. "A Structural Study of Some Caterpillars." M. J. ELROD. "The Blackfoot Glacier as an Entomological Burying Place" (Read by title only). J. J. DAVIS. -"Chaitophorus populifoliae. Fitch versus Cliaito- phorus populifoliac Oestland" (Read by title only). L. HASEMAN. "The Life-History of a Species of Psychodi- clae" (Read by title only). A. G. HAM MAR. "Notes on the Life-History of Fidiobia fla- I'ipcs Ashmead. an Egg Parasite of the Grape Root Worm (Fidia viticida Walsh). A very interesting and extensive exhibition was held in con- junction with and under the auspices of the Cambridge En- tomological Club in rooms adjoining the meeting hall. The Annual Public Address was given by Dr. John B. Smith on the evening of December 30 in the hall of the Boston So- ciety of Natural History, title "Insects and Entomologists: Their Relations to the Community at Large." On Tuesday evening the visiting entomologists were the guests of the Cambridge Entomological Club at a most enjoy- able smoker held in Copley Hall. J. CHESTER BRADLEY, Secretary-Treasurer. A meeting of the Newark Entomological Society was held September 12, 1909, in Turn Hall, Newark, N. J., the presi- dent in the chair and fifteen members present. Mr. W. D. Kearfott presented the Society with a bound set of his papers on micro-lepidoptera. Mr. Buchholz reported the capture of the following species of Lepidoptera in New Jersey: Lakehurst, Pamphila attains Edw., Lapara coniferarnm S. & A., Eucalyptcra bipnncta Morr., MonolcHca semifascia Walk. all July 17. Elizabeth. Mamestra rosea Harv., June 10, M. lorea Gn., June 21, Bellura gortynoides Walk., Aug. 9, Papaipema rutila, Gn. Sept. Plain- field, Phtythyris ocnlatana Clem., Acronvcta incrcta Morr., both on July 5. Newark, Pacctcs ocnlatri.v Gn., July i. He also showed specimens of Schinia brevis in their natural atti- 96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO ttide on the blossoms of the New England aster. The color and ornamentation of the moths harmonizes with that of the flowers, and it is only with difficulty that they can be detected. Mr. Brehme exhibited types of his new Anisota which he is calling neome.vicana. Mr. Grossbeck showed some Lepidoptera taken during the summer. Among them were Polychrisia formosa Grt, Lake Hopatcong, July 4, Cirrhophanus triangnlifera Grt., New Brunswick, Aug. 2, A crony eta hast ulif era Sm. & Abb., Pater- son, July 21, Or eta irrorata Pack., New Brunswick, June 4, Racselia minuscula Zell., Plainfield. June 29, Memythrus asili- pennis Bois., Maurer, May 16 and Thecla polios C. & W., Mill- town, April 8. JOHN A. GROSSBECK, Secretary. The October meeting of the Newark Entomological Society was held in Turn Hall. Newark, N. J., on the loth of the month with twenty-five members and the following visitors present : Dr. Henry Skinner, Frank Haimbach and Henry and Harry Wenzel, of Philadelphia; Chas. J. Martin and Chas. E. Olsen, of New York ; F. Wintersteiner, of Brooklyn ; Wm. T. Davis, of Staten Island ; Geo. Domidion, of Jersey City, and Ignaz Matausch, of Newark, N. J. Mr. Bischoff gave an extended talk on collecting Coleoptera locally and dwelt upon the importance of ascertaining the life- histories of the various species. No species is really rare when these are known, Mr. Bischoff asserts, and he cited a number of instances where innumerable examples of species ordinarily regarded as rare were secured after the breeding habits had been discovered. Leptotrachelus dorsalis, for example, he found literally by the hundred between the sheaths of cattail on which plant the species breeds. Mordella octopunctata, also, while not especially rare, is never taken in any numbers ; yet he found the larvae and pupae in great abundance in an old, fallen tree at Maurer, N. J. Mr. Bischoff further recorded the capture of Staphylinus violaceus at Rah way, April 25 and at Maurer, April 16. Feb., 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 97 Mr. Buchholz read a paper on Collecting in Arizona. He drew a strong contrast between collecting in that region and in New Jersey. Sugaring, which usually brings such excellent results here in the East, was an absolute failure in the West, and collecting on tree trunks was also as good as useless there. Lights proved to be a prolific collecting ground. 'Mr. Kearfott remarked that the secret of collecting at lights was to secure a locality where lights were recently installed. In contrast to Mr. Buchholz's collecting in the West Mr. Doll spoke of his experiences in Arizona many years ago. At that time it was utterly impossible to attract insects of any kind to light, while on sugar they abounded. Mr. Harry Wenzel outlined his trip with Mr. Koeber to Arizona for Coleoptera. On their arrival everything was bar- ren and insects scarce, but with the advent of rain vegetation sprang up everywhere and with it came the insects. Numbers of beetles were found under logs and cactus leaves. Cicindcla obsoleta var. santaclarae was found after five weeks' search on the plains among the high grass. They fly with the locusts which were also present among the grass and were distinguish- ed therefrom by the former's higher and more prolonged flight. Many water beetles were concentrated in puddles on the verge of drying up. Plnsiotiis gloriosa was taken in some numbers and in one instance twenty-seven were clustered on a beheaded cedar tree. After the meeting the members and visitors adjourned to the dining hall where dinner was served in honor of the Twenty- fifth Anniversary of the Society. Music was furnished by Professor Wormsbacher and his pupils. Speeches were made by many of the members and most of the visitors. JOHN A. GROSSBECK, Secretary. The November meeting of the Newark Entomological So- ciety was held on the I4th of the month with seventeen mem- bers present. Mr. Bischoff remarked on a dipterous insect which he ob- 98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO served ovipositing on fungus. Later he examined the fungus to obtain the larvae, but they had already left. In examining some decomposed material in the hollow of the tree directly under the fungus he found, not the pupae of a dipteron, but those of a beetle, Mcgalodacnc fasciata, as was proved when the adults emerged. This beetle becomes mature late in fall and soon after issuance seeks winter quarters. JOHN A. GROSSBECK, Secretary. The December meeting of the Newark Entomological So- ciety was held in Turn Hall, Newark, N. J., on the I2th of the month. Nineteen members were present. The officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows : For President, Otto Buchholz ; vice-president, Edwin Bischoff ; secretary, John A. Grossbeck ; financial secretary, T. D. May- field ; treasurer, Geo. J. Keller ; librarian, Win. H. Broadwell. Mr. Buchholz exhibited a series of Eudulc inendica and meridiana, showing that in markings the two species almost run together. He said that he has been taking the latter species at Elizabeth, N. J., for the past three years and that it is triple brooded, appearing in May, in July and again in September. He further recorded the capture of Epiglaca dccliva at Eliza- beth on November 13 and a specimen of Lciiconia cxtincta at the same place. Mr. Ignaz Matausch showed a considerable number of su- perb water color enlargements of Membracids and their nymphs. He spoke at length on the time of their occurrence, their abundance, rarity and distribution, and of the specific characteristics and habits of each. In his belief there are three species of Smilia in this country instead of only two, one of the supposed variations being in reality a distinct species. One drawing illustrated a hermaphrodite of Tclcniona ampclop- sidcs. Mr. Bischoff remarked that the membracid, Thclia biinaculu- ta, mimics the thorns of the locust tree, and until this fact is discovered it is not readily seen. JOHN A. GROSSBECK, Secretary. 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VOL. XXI. MARCH, 1910. No. 3. CONTENTS: Obituary Henry Ulke 99 Stehbins The Life History of Cricula trifenestrata 101 Rowley and Berry Further Study of the Catocalae 104 Manee Two new Fulgorids (Hcmip- tera-Homoptera) 117 Cockerell New Bees of the Genus Os- mia from California 120 Smith Description of a New Deltoid Moth 122 Kellogg and Paine Mallophaga from the Birds of Laysan Island 124 Rehn A New Species of the Genus Trybliophorus lOrthoptera) from Surinam 126 Kirkaldy Three New Hemiptera-Het- eroptera from the Miocene of Colo- rado 129 Editorial 132 Notes and News 133 Entomological Literature 136 Doings of Societies 144 HENRY ULKE. (Plate VI) I Fairy Ulke died at 8 o'clock, February i8th, in Emergency Hospital, at Washington, D. C., of concussion of the brain, due to a fall at his home, 411 Fifteenth street northwest, last Sat- urday. Mr. Ulke was born in Frankelstein, Germany, 89 years ago. His father was a prominent naturalist. In 1849, with his father, he came to this country. The father soon returned to Germany, and young Ulke came to Washington, where his talent as an artist soon gained recog- nition. At the time of the accident that caused his death Mr. Ulke was, considering his advanced age, in excellent health. Satur- day he fell and struck the side of his hea'd against a door. He was found by his son in an unconscious condition, and was taken to the hospital, where he died without regaining con- sciousness. Mr. Ulke belonged to the first generation of American Coleopterists, having been a charter member of the Entomo- logical Society of Philadelphia and was intimate with the mai 99 100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'id of that day, such as Leconte, Horn, Ridings, Bland, Cresson, Wlenzelj Wilt and Feldman. He was a noted collector, par- ticularly of the smaller Coleoptera, such as the Pselaphidae, Scydmaenidae and Silphidae, and also a master in technic. His collection and material were frequently used by the sys- tematists of the time. Many references to it will be found in the writings of Cresson, Leconte and Horn, as well as in those of Dietz and others. Many rare and interesting specimens were presented by him to the collection of the American Entomolog- ical Society, the first lot being donated in 1861. He was the owner of a famous collection of Coleoptera, the work of a lifetime. It is now in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa. He had a large circle of scientific friends and was ad- mired and respected by all. Perhaps no portrait painter in this country was better known in the last generation that Henry Ulke. He was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, portraits of many of whose cab- inet members he painted. One of Mr. Ulke's most famous portraits that of President Grant, until the building of the new executive offices last summer, hung in the private office of the President. It now hangs with the White House collection, in the long gallery. Mr. Ulke painted more than 100 portraits, notable among them being those of Secretaries Sumner, Chase and Stanton, of Lincoln's cabinet; James G. Blaine, John G. Carlisle, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, Chief Justice Taney, of the Supreme Court ; Robert Ingersoll, and W. W. Corcoran, founder of the art gallery that bears his name. He is survived by three sons. THE First International Entomological Congress to be held in Brus- sels from the ist to the 6th of August is sure to be a success. Dele- gates from Canada and the United States have signified their intention to be present. Seven subscriptions have been received from Africa and seven more are expected. India, Japan and the British West Indies will be represented. The Entomological Society of America will appoint delegates, and it is hoped that other American Ento- mological Societies will do the same. Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS IOI The Life History of Cricula trifenestra. BY JAMES H. STEBBINS, JR V PH.D. Through the courtesy of Dr. G. Lagai of The Kny-Scheerer Co. I came into possession, on April 10, 1909, of a dozen live cocoons of Cricula trifenestra which he had shortly before received from India. The cocoons were firmly spun of silk, and were of a bright yellow color. In size they were 35-40 mm. long by 14-16 mm. wide. The first moth to emerge from its cocoon was a male, and it made its appearance on the night of June 6, 1909, and the remaining moths emerged thereafter on the following nights : June 7, a male and a female ; June 8, a female ; June 9, two females; June u, a female; June 25, a male; June 27, a fe- male; June 28, a male. Two cocoons did not develop at all, and among those which did develop four were males and six females. On June 23d a male and female were found in copulation, and on June 25th the female began ovipositing. The ova were small, white and spherical. There were only 40-50 of them, and they were deposited in small scattering clusters. July 8, 1909. The ova laid on the 25th inst. began to hatch out, thus making the egg period 14 days. The larvae obtained were about % inch long. The head was large and black, with a slender body gradually tapering towards the anus. The color of the body was brownish-yellow, with a blackish collar on the thoracic segment. There were four tubercles on each segment, surmounted by dark colored setae, and a dark spot on the eleventh segment and anal shield. The legs were black, and the props greenish-yellow, while the anal shield is dark colored. Not knowing the food plant of this larva, several were tried, among which I would mention lilac, lettuce, wild cherry, hick- ory, maple and oak leaves, but they refused everything except- ing the oak leaves, which they devoured with great relish. They all feed in a row, quite close together, forming quite a sociable 102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO family and starting at the outer edge of the leaves they gradu- ally eat inward toward the midrib. July 16, 1909. Eight days after hatching the larvae have moulted for the first time. They are now about half an inch long and quite slender, and of a dark velvety-brown color, with four tubercles surmounted with whitish hairs on each segment. The props are of the same color as the back. The legs are whitish, and the anal shield dark brown. They devoured all their skins excepting the heads. At this stage of the larva's development it was discovered that if the larva's setae accidentally come in contact with the tender portion of the skin, that a pronounced stinging sensation is felt, followed by a slight reddening of the same. July 24, 1909. On the sixteenth clay the larvae have moulted for the second time. They now appear about the same as be- fore, but are considerably longer. Their heads are now brownish-red instead of black, and each segment has become covered with minute yellow dots. They again ate most of their skins. July 31, 1909. On the 23d day the larvae have moulted for the third time. They are now over an inch long, but still quite slender. Their heads are now red, their bodies black, with numerous bright yellow spots, and there are now 6 tubercles on each segment surmounted with white setae, thus giving them a red and black banded appearance. The props, legs, abdomen and anal shield are brownish-red. August 7, 1909. On the thirtieth day the larvae have stop- ped eating, and have begun moulting for the fourth time. They are now about 2 inches long and quite slender, but show no other marked change. August 14, 1909. Thirty-seven days after hatching the lar- vae are now moulting for the fifth time. They are now about 3 inches long and much thicker, but otherwise their appear- ance has changed very little. August 20, 1909. After a couple days' abstinence from food the larvae have begun spinning their cocoons. These are smaller than the original ones, and not nearly as heavily or compactly built. Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS IO3 September 12, 1909. Two male moths emerged from their cocoons. They are much smaller, and of a somewhat different color than the originals. The male with wings extended, meas- ures 50-52 mm. from apex to apex of the primaries, and the length of body is 17-20 mm. The line markings are less pronounced, but the translucent spots are well defined, but smaller than ra the originals. The larvae are quite hardy, and though our summer at Clay- ton, N. Y., was a cold one, and the variations in temperature at times considerable, but very few were lost. September 12-14, 1909. A number of males and females emerged from their cocoons, and on the I4th a male and female were found in copulation. September 15, 1909. The female fertilized on the I4th inst. deposited sixty eggs, and on September 30, 1909, fifteen days later these eggs hatched out. The young larvae were very small, but had the same general characteristics as the previous brood. It will thus be seen that Cricula trifenestra is double-brooded in these latitudes. Owing to my return to New York just at this time, I was unable to follow up the development of the second brood of larvae for lack of the necessary food-plant, but hope to renew my investigations upon this subject during the summer of 1910.* THREE NEW RECORDS OF BLATTIDAE (ORTHOPTERA) FOR THE UNITED STATES, by James A. G. Relm and Morgan Hebard. Ceratinoptera diaphana (Fabricius). An adult female of this species, in the Hebard Collection, was taken from under a coquina boulder in heavy scrub in Key West, Florida, January 20, 1904, by the junior author. The species has been recorded from Cuba and a number of the other Greater and Lesser Antilles south as far as Barbados. Fhoctalia laevi- gata (Palisot). A female of this West Indian species from Key Largo, Florida, taken March, 1898 by C. L. Pollard, is in the collec- tion of the United States National Museum. Blaberus cubensis Saus- sure. A male of this species taken at Key West, Florida is in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences. *Just after concluding this article, my attention was called to another one relating to this subject, entitled "The Breeding of the Cricula Larvae," by J. English, Entomologische Zeitschrift, Sept. 25, 1909, p. 120, but as the results obtained by me differ somewhat from those obtained by English, I feel justified in giving my observations pub- licity. IO4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO Further Study of the Catocalae. BY R. R. ROWLEY AND L. BERRY. In the late summer and fall of 1908, the senior author re- ceived from various European sources, eggs of Catocala sponsa, dilecta, fnlminca, fra.nni, electa, pacta, pucrpcra, and clocata, and remembering the experiences of the previous spring, kept the eggs on a cold cement floor till the foliage of the food plants had burst the bud coverings and was ready to supply larvae with abundant food. The first egg to hatch was of pacta, April 27th. Sponsa was next on May 2d, then fnlminca on May 5th, fra.vini on the 6th, nupta on the 8th, electa on the 13th, on the same day di- lecta, and lastly puerpera and elocata on the 23d. The growth of these larvae was very satisfactory except in the last two, the author scoring a signal failure on these as far as securing chrysalids was concerned, still there was some sat- isfaction in the fact that the larvae lived almost to maturity. There was a worse disappointment in the dilecta which readily matured and pupated and then perished without giving a single imago. Especially gratifying were the beautiful series of sponsa, fulniinea, fraxini, electa and pacta moths. Pacta, fitlininca, and fraxini seemed to be unusually hardy as caterpillars and were a source of much interest to the author. The imago of pacta is a beautiful little creature with pink hind wings and pink abdomen, while the larva of fnlminea is a strange departure from the typical "Cato-worm'', in the posses- sion of long dorsal tubercles. The caterpillar of puerpera is almost white and it was not a matter of much surprise to learn that the front wings of the moth are very light. The first imagoes of fnlminca were on June 21 st and the first pacta on the 22d. The first sponsa on the 24th. However, it is the intention of the authors, in this article, to record their observations on such American species of Catocala as they "were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to study during the spring and summer of 1909. Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS IO5 The eggs of cerogama, rclicia, palaeogaina, ilia, and cara were obtained by the junior author from moths captured the summer before, in the neighborhood of Vinton, Iowa, while double lots of eggs of ainatri.r and concumbens were furnished by both the junior author and Mr. C. Leonhard, Kearny, X. J. The first eggs to hatch were those of ilia on May 2d, and, despite the fact, the senior author kept the jars well filled with fresh young leaves of both bur oak and chestnut oak, few of the larvae reached the first moult. To all appearances they traveled themselves to death and, with the exception of the caterpillars of relicta, were the most active Catocala larvae the author ever handled. The larvae of most Catocalae are very active just after hatching, but those of relicta lose none of their activity till well grown. The junior author had better success with ilia and secured several chrysalids from larvae fed on bur oak and, on June 4th, she found well grown larvae of this species lying in the grooves of the trunks of bur oak trees, partly concealed by the shaggy outer bark. Without concealment, these caterpillars would probably be conspicuous in their light color, at maturity. Larva rests with head upward. It seems that the oak-feeding larvae, as a rule, are much more difficult to rear than larvae feeding on other plants, unless it be the walnut caterpillars. Of course, Catocala larvae only are meant. About half of the willow and poplar feeders are easy to bring to maturity, all of the locust and most of the hickory "worms." At least, this is the experience of the senior author. On the 4th of May the first cerogama egg hatched and the little caterpillar was light smoky yellow with a black head. Later, but before moulting, the body of the larva became quite dark brown with black pro- and true legs. After first moult, but near the second, the caterpillar is light brown, striped longitudinally with white. The head, gray with black dots and marks while on the top of the last two abdomi- nal segments are distinct black points or granules. True legs dark, tipped with black. Pro-legs, flesh color. Between moults in this larva the time is from four to five days. After the second moult the larva is short, thick, and much IO6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO unlike a Catocala "worm", yellow, striped with longitudinal lines of a dark brown color. Head brown with lighter streaks, The dorsal portion of the first thoracic segments bright yellow and without the stripes. The tubercles on the top of the first thoracic segment and the last two abdominal segments, black, True legs black, pro-legs, yellow with black tubercles. A strange looking Catocala larva. The young cerogama larvae have the habit of hiding in the leaf buds and the older ones down in the foliage. After the third moult the larva is yellowish with longitudinal black parallel lines. The top of the first thoracic segment has a yellow collar-like surface with black dots or points. The pro- legs, color of the body. True legs with black tips and dark out- side. The pair of tubercles over the eighth abdominal segment, short, black horns. The top of the caudal shield yellow with back dots as with the first thoracic segment but not so distinct. A very sluggish larva. After the fourth moult the color is unchanged. Head, mot- tled yellow, brown and white and much larger than just before the moult, without any black dashes. True legs, shiny black. The two dorsal tubercles over the eighth abdominal segment, black pointed, prominent, horn-like. The larva still has the bright yellow collar with black dots over the first thoracic seg- ment. The ventral surface is a light green with small, not very dark, mid-ventral spots. The grown larva of cerogama is fully two inches long, thick, dark purplish brown with interrupted longitudinal lines of black, very fine. A pair of short tubercular dark brown spines on the top of the last spiracular segment (8th abdominal). The yellow collar and yellow caudal shield, with black dots or low tubercles. Head mottled, white, yellow and black (black streaks). True legs black on the outside. Pro-legs, body color. Ventral surface, yellow-green (light) with an almost entire absence of the mid-ventral spots. The caterpillar is very tame and lazy. The spiracles of the grown larva of cerogama are very noticeable, being rather large, black and surrounded by a yellow ring. (The mid-ventral spots, when present are light brown). Mar., 'TO] ENTOMOLOCUCAL NEWS 107 After spinning and before pupation the larvae are quite green along the side and greenish all over. The caterpillars began spinning on May 3ist and the last one was not ready till June 6th. The chrysalis of ccrogama is from one to one and one-fourth inches long, brown. Light reddish- brown over the abdomen. Pupa covered by a slight prunescence. The larvae spun both in paper in the bottom of the jar and in the folds of leaves. When first freed of the larval skin the chrysalis is a beautiful light green. But few of the larvae died, two of the pupae, however, failed to give imagoes. The food plant is linden or basswood. The first imago appeared on the 6th of June, having spent a month in the chrysalis state. The last pupa gave an imago on the I3th. The first innubens egg hatched on May 7th and the larva passed its moults on the I2th, I7th, 22d, and 27th, and began spinning on June ist. Before the first moult, the larva is light gray, streaked longi- tudinally with a darker color. Head, light. True and pro- legs gray. No hump, larva very small. After second moult, the caterpillar is very light gray, almost white. Head, legs and pro-legs, white or gray. The tubercles show up as dark points. After the third moult the larva differs little from the full grown larva, is light gray or almost white with a slight hump over the fifth abdominal segment. The lateral body stripe darker than the dorsum. Black dots or small tubercles show distinctly over the dorsal white. Head, gray, streaked with delicate black lines. After the fourth moult the dorsal gray has an under shading of light brown while the lateral stripe is a beautiful red-brown. The hump over the 5th abdominal segment is rather strong. Tubercles small, black. Head, light reddish-brown. True k-g^ light brown. Pro-legs gray with reddish-brown dots. When well grown the larva is almost white, dorsally, with a lateral yellowish or orange stripe. Black dots and interrupted lines are in the dorsal stripe. Over the 5th abdominal segment is a slight hump with dark patches about it. The top of the first thoracic segment is orange. True legs, orange. Pro-legs, yel- I08 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO low. The ventral surface is cream-yellow with large black spots. Head, light yellow with fine longitudial lines, gray or black. The larvae of innubens are the hardiest of the hardy, and while there were no deaths in the brood, there wasn't a scintillans among the imagoes. The chrysalids gave moths from June 2/th to July 1st. Individuals of this species are the most abundant Catocala moths in the forests of Pike County, Missouri. The food plant of the larva is honey locust. The larvae of palaeogama began hatching on the I5th of May and were dark blue or dove color with white legs, white pro-legs and white ventral surface. The head not quite as dark as the body color. Longitudinal lines hardly discernible. After the first moult these larvae are black with indistinct longi- tudinal lighter lines. Head black. Both true and pro-legs light, almost white. Little or no change in these larvae after the first and second moults save an increase in size and a little lightening of the ground color. After the third moult, general color bluish-gray with black head, lined with fine white marks, dark thoracic segments, dark dorsal patch on both 5th and 6th abdominal segments and dark sides to the 8th and Qth segments and dark loth segment. The 3d and 4th pro-legs black, the ist and 2(1, gray. True legs dark brown. Tubercles black. A slight hump over the 5th abdominal segment. After the fourth moult, the larva entirely loses its bluish color and becomes dark gray with the three thoracic segments, a cross band between the 5th and 6th abdominal segments and the 8th, Qth, and loth ab- dominal segments black. Head gray, streaked with dark brown. True legs, dirty yellow. Pro-legs, of the general body color. A slight cross ridge over the 5th abdominal segment and prominent black tubercles over the 8th abdominal segment. Tubercles black. In a few hours after the moult they resume their bluish-white color. After the fifth (?) moult, the palaeo- gama larva is light red-brown over the abdominal region to the 5th segment, where a cross black band covers half of the 5th and half of the 6th segments. The thoracic segments, as well as the 8th, Qth, and loth abdominal segments, are dark brown, Mar., 'I0] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS IOQ quite black. The head, true and pro-legs are flesh color. Head large and round and without a lateral black dash. No hump. The tubercles are whitish and yellowish and very prominent, the dorsal pair over the 8th abdominal segment being the strongest and somewhat brown in color. Stiff bristles but no lateral row of setae. The eggs from which the above larvae were obtained were found by the junior author in a crowded cluster under the loose outer bark of shag bark hickory, but the larvae were fed to pupation on pecan and were quite free from disease. The caterpillars began spinning on June I5th to 24th. The chyrsalis is one and a fourth inches long, light brown, wing cases lighter than the rest of the body. The whole pupa covered by a slight prunescence. The larvae spun either at the bottom of the jar between folds of paper or above, between leaves. The chyrsalids began to give imagoes on July loth and continued to the i/|.th. Among the imagoes were two phalanya and one or two very dark forms, on the hind wings of which the yellow cross band was almost eliminated. The junior au- thor fed a brood through on walnut and pignut hickory. The first larva of Catocala relic ta hatched on the I3th of May and was green with a light chestnut head. True and pro- legs light. Caterpillar very small and exceedingly active. The hatching from this first batch of eggs continued for a number of days. The mother of the brood was a light moth. The first egg from a dark female hatched on the igth of May and others hatched, one or two a day, for some time. After the first moult, the larva was pale yellow or chestnut with a head a little deeper in color. The legs colored as the body. After second moult, the caterpillar is gray, longitudinally streaked and with very light chestnut colored head. True and pro-legs slightly brown- er than the body color. No hump. After third moult, the larva is an inch long, grayish brown with a small flat head like that of the Cara larva, lobed above and yellowish at the lobes. Behind the yellow tips or lobes, the head is black. There is a small cross hump over the 5th ab- dominal segment, quite black, and set in a large, dark, dorsal spot. The true and pro-legs, body color. Over the 8th ab- no ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'io dominal segment is a slight ridge like elevation with a black line behind it. The top of the ist thoracic segment is dark. A row of stout setae are along each side. Body dots minute, dark. After fourth moult, the larva is yellowish gray with black or dark brown head, less flattened than at third moult, with bright yellow lunules at the upper lobes. The top of the ist thoracic and 2d abdominal segments darker than the body color. A cross band of dark brown, almost black, envelops the hum}) over the 5th abdominal segment and a cross streak of black be- hind the double dorsal tubercle over the 8th abdominal seg- ment. True legs, reddish gray. Pro-legs, body color. Tuber- cles not noticeable. At this stage the larva is much like that of Catocala fraxini. There is a lateral fringe or row of short setae. Later, probably after the fifth moult, or rather, at the fifth moult, is one and a half inches long, whitish yellow. Head black, large and much as in C. fraxini with yellow-white lunules at the lobes above. True and pro-legs, body color. A slight hump over the 5th segment, with a small yellow-brown spot on top, enveloped in a cross band of dark, a black line crossing the 8th abdominal segment as a shade line behind the two dorsal tubercles which are not strong. The rest of the body tubercles cream color and inconspicu- ous. A dark shade line crosses the front of the 2d abdominal segments, a dimmer one at the front of the 3d abdominal seg- ment. Two small dark spots are on the top of the 7th abdomi- nal segment. The front of the head, that is about the mouth, is grayer than above. Tubercles darker than the body color. Row of short lateral setae. Full grown larvae two and one- fourth inches long and the first began to spin on the 22d of June. The full grown larva is greenish gray with an indistinct double V of dark dots on the tops of the ist and 2d abdominal segments and a slight dark patch of dots on the side of the ist thoracic segment. A cross band of black, invaded by the body color, mid-dorsal and laterally, crosses the back of the 5th and front of the 6th abdominal segments, extending onto the third pro-leg. A slight mid-dorsal cross black line on the 7th ab- Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS III clominal segment and a stronger one on the 8th, forming a blunt V. Black lines bound the anal pro-legs. The true legs are flesh color with green at the joints. Pro-legs, body color. Head, black above, except at the lobes, where a dirty reddish yellow lunule is conspicuous. About the mouth, the color is lighter, flesh color and appears in dots and streaks. The ven- tral surface is pale green with black spots. This larva from the time of hatching to the time of spinning is the most active I have ever had anything to do with, but is apparently without fear, as it seems to prefer to crawl on one's fingers. You can't leave one for a minute and expect to find it again. It is strongly like the larva of C. jraxini, differing only in minor details. In spinning, it seems to prefer the top or middle of the jar and the willow leaves, to paper. It seems to be hardy on black willow, except that it does not reach the size of the aspen feeder. On the 25th of June ants destroyed seven grown larvae of this species, all the "worms" in one jar. The pupa of C. r dicta is rather long and slender, dark, reddish brown with whitish prunescence. Wing cases not darker than the body. The chrysalis when disturbed is quite a wriggler, like the larva. The first imago was a white one and on July 2Oth and the last one was a dark one and on August 5th. The imagoes straggled like the larvae. From the eggs of the white female all the moths, save one, were white, and from the eggs of the dark female most of the moths were dark. There was no difference in the size or color of the larvae of the two varieties. The junior author had larvae quite three inches long, fed on aspen, but no luck in securing imagoes as her larvae died when full grown. She finds the imagoes in the woods among the larg- est of Catocala, but bred on black willow by the senior author, they were no larger than concumbens. By striking a smart blow on the tree just over a resting rclicta moth the junior author was surprised, on several occasions, to see the moth drop to the ground and remain motionless, even allowing itself to be picked up. On the 24th of May the first larvae of concumbens hatched. 112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Maf.,'lO They were at first greenish, getting darker, with a light chest- nut head, as in young C. rclicta larvae. True and pro-legs con- colorous with the body. After the first moult, the larva is al- most black with fine longitudinal whitish lines, the dorsum being a little lighter than the sides. Head dark brown. True legs brown. Pro-legs black. A white dorsal streak just back of the head and another one on the top of the last three or four body segments. After the second moult the caterpillar has a yellowish brown dorsum and a dark lateral stripe. Body mark- ed longitudinally. Head dark, flattened as in cara, lobed above and streaked. Yellowish lunules at the lobes with dark dot in the crescent. Body and head streaked longitudinally but indis- tinctly. True legs lighter than the lateral stripe. Pro-legs dark with dark yellow. A cross black ridge over the 5th abdomi- nal segment. The ridge over the 8th abdominal segment not distinct. Ventral side cream color with intensely black spots. After the third moult, the larva is one and one-half inches long, light yellowish brown with a reddish yellow cross band, inclosing the orange hump over the 5th abdominal segment. Hump with a dark line encircling the base. Black dashes at the pair of dorsal tubercles over the 8th abdominal segment. Pro- legs body color with yellow central surface. True legs, red- brown. Head, gray with brownish lateral dash and reddish-yel- low spots at the lobes above, and flattened as in cara. Tuber- cles reddish. Larva very much like that of cara. Whitish be- neath and with black round spots. Short lateral fringe. At this stage of its life, the larva of concumbens is hardly distin- guishable from that of amatri.v at the same stage. After the fourth moult, the larva is less than two inches long, dark yellowish-brown about the middle and dark brown about the anterior and posterior ends. The tubercles are deep red-brown with yellowish tops. Head flat as in cara, colored like the body, with red lunules at the lobes above and shaded on the outside by black dashes that extend from the mouth en- tirely around above. True legs, flesh red. Pro-legs, body color with indistinct light spot outside. Over the 5th abdominal seg- ment is a cross elliptical raised yellow place or hump surround- ., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 113 ed by or flanked behind by, rather, a cross band of deep yellow. Ventral side reddish with the central black spots (almost pink- ish below). The tubercles over the 8th abdominal segment rather strong, flanked behind by a strong cross line of black. The lateral setae very short, almost absent. After the fifth (?) moult, the larva of conciunbens has the same colors and marks as after the fourth moult, except that the body color is a shade lighter. Length from two to two and a fourth inches. On the 23d of June, ants killed the last jar of conciunbens larvae. Grown larvae of concnmbcns received from the junior author were from two and a half to three inches long, brown with faint reddish tinge. Tubercles deep red-brown. A cross band of light red-brown over the back half of the 5th abdomi- nal segment. The cross elliptical hump over the 5th abdominal segment is hardly noticeable, reddish yellow with a darker basal girdle. The two dorsal tubercles on the 8th abdominal seg- ment scarcely stronger than the rest but with a cross line of black for a back boundary. True legs reddish yellow. Pro- legs, body color. Head, body color, flattened as in car a with a lateral boundary line of black from the mouth around to the mouth, not broken above. The horn-like lobes of the head above orange yellow. Ventral side of the body, beautiful pink with black central spots. Bristles not long. Lateral fringe of short setae. The junior author had better luck with her larvae of concnmbcns, securing pupae and imagoes, feeding her lar- vae on broad leaf willow while the senior author fed his brood on black willow. Four chrvsalids of conciunbens sent bv mail J from Vinton, Iowa, to Louisiana, Mo., produced as many beau- tiful imagoes while chrysalids of ainatri.r, rclicta, and piatri.r either perished on the road or died later, but the weather was intensely warm when these pupae started through the mails. Among a number of pupae of ncogama, sent under similar circumstances, three produced moths. On the 25th day of May the eggs of ainatri.r began to hatch. The young larva is light brown with lighter longitudinal streaks. Head, chestnut or light brown. True and pro-legs, colored as the body. Much darker than most other willow feeders at this stage, that is, before first moult. 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO The aniatn.v eggs from a minis female began hatching on the ist of June. After first moult, the larva changes from a light chestnut color to almost black with a mid-dorsal cream colored stripe from the head half the length of the body. Head, dark brown. True legs, dark brown. Pro-legs, black. After second moult, the caterpillar is reddish brown with a somewhat lighter mid-dorsal line from the head to the middle of the body length. There is a very black lateral longitudinal band. Head darker brown than the body. The lateral black band crosses over the body at the 5th abdominal segment in a slight hump. The pro-legs, black. The true legs dark brown. At this stage of its growth it is a very pretty larva. The larva of rums is light yellowish brown before first moult, lifter first moult, it is almost black with head a little lighter. _ Pro-legs, black. True legs, dark, almost black. Longi- tudinal streaks absent or indistinct. After third moult, the larva of ainatri.v is nearly two inches long, yellow brown, with a yellow elliptical cross ridge or hump over the 5th abdominal segment and a cross brownish band in- closing the hump. Tubercles reddish yellow. A dark shade line behind the tubercles on the 8th abdominal segment. Head, brownish gray and flat as in cara, with red-brown lobes above. True legs, red brown. Pro-legs, body color. Larva very much like that of cara. After the fourth moult, the larva is over two inches long, dark brown with a faint reddish tint and with reddish tubercles. Flesh colored legs 'and with pro-legs of body color. The cross elliptical hump over the 5th abdominal segment is about hali as large as that in concumbcns of the same length, yellow in a dark red-brown cross band, rather, the cross band is behind the hump. The dorsal tubercles over the 8th abdomi- nal segment rather strong red and with a black cross shade line behind. Lateral fringe short. Head flat with reddish border, bounded behind by a black, line or dash that goes all the way around from one side of the mouth to the other. Ventral side of the body deep red with the black spots. The description at this stage is much like that of concumbcns at the same stage. Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 115 By June 2ist the amatrix and concumbcns larvae were dy- ing fast and not a single one of the larvae of either, handled by the senior author ever pupated. The eggs of rclicta, amatrix, and concumbcns hatched slowly, a few a day for weeks, it seemed, and the larvae were just as slow to develop. All three of these were fed on black willow. Another larva of amatrLv after fourth moult, was gray with a faint reddish tint. Tubercles, red. True legs, flesh color, also pro-legs. Head flat as in cara and with strong black dashes from mouth to lobe above but not across the top. Head, gray in front with pale reddish lobes above. A brownish band crosses the 5th abdominal segment. The hun.p is small and pink- ish but not including the lateral tubercles, in fact, the hump is scarcely larger than a tubercle. Sho-t lateral fringe. Ventral surface paler at^ front than above and with strong black spots in brownish yeL^w. A handsome larva. A peculiarly banded larva of amatrLv found by the junior author on the i6th of July on blue willow was two and a half inches long, very light gray with four lateral, rather narrow longitudinal dark, almost black bands, two to the side, the light gray appearing as broader bands. Head concolorous with the body and with a strong lateral black dash. Head, as in cara, but with small gray spots or low tubercles at the upper lobes. Body dots dark. Tubercles, white. The hump over the 5th abdominal segment not otherwise than the body color. The strong tubercles over the 8th abdominal segment, dark gray. True legs and pro-legs, light gray as body. On the back half of each body segment, the dark bands become black. Ventral side of the body pinkish with black central spots. By compar- ing this description with the one of the grown larva of Amatrix in our last year's article, a great difference in color will be found. Two of these striped larvae were found by the junior author, but the one sent to the senior author had succumbed to six fat, parasitic dipterous larvae, larger than the full grown maggots of the common house fly. The other larva gave the junior author a chrysalis and an amatri.r moth in due time. We had hoped it might be something else. After all, there is much variation in the larva of this species. It is somewhat Il6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO strange that the larvae of amatrlv, cam, parta, concumbens, piatrix, and neogama are so peculiarly subject to a deadly dysentery, so much so that in ordinary years it is almost impos- sible to secure imagoes from larvae fed in breeding jars, and it is almost certain that the larvae in nature fare little better, at least here in Missouri, considering the scarcity of the imagoes and knowing that each female lays from 500 to 900 eggs. The junior author had better success with her larvae of con- cunibcns, amatrix and parta, securing imagoes from all three. On the 3d of September, the senior author saw in the woods a magnificent specimen of minis fully four inches expanse and the following day captured a battered specimen, the first he ever took on the wing. On the 9th of May, the senior author collected from honey locust sprouts, twenty-five larvae of Catocala illecta, eight of them being past fourth moult. At the same time, a single larva of C. innubus, past second moult, was found. The first of these illecta pupated on the 2ist and 23d of May and gave the first imago on the Qth of June. The first warm days of April hatch the illecta eggs and the little caterpillars struggle through bit- ing frosts and even severe freezes but they escape many of the parasitic foes and diseases that come with warm weather. Catocala minuta. Larvae of this little moth were found on honey locust by the junior author. When fully grown, the caterpillar is one and a fourth inches long, very dark, especially about the head and from the 5th abdominal segment back. Head almost black. The dorsal portion of the body lighter than the side. Longitudinal bands of lighter and darker brown. Pro-legs, body color. True legs, red-brown. A hump over the 5th abdominal segment. Dorsal tubercles almost white. The pair over the 8th abdominal segment the strongest and of a red color. Under side with the black spots. The larva reared by the senior author spun between leaves and the pupa was brown with the usual prunescence. The larva pupated on the 1 3th of June and the chrysalis gave an imago on the 26th. The junior author secured three imagoes from bred pupae. Since 1901 this Catocala has been scarce about Louisiana. Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 1 17 Two new Fulgorids (Hemiptera-Homoptera). BY ABRAM HERBERT MANEE. Amyele vernalis n. sp. Length from tip of head to end of body 14 mm.; head 5 mm., ex- panse 27 mm. ; head brown, prolonged to nearly twice its width at base and tapering from base to outer third where from a slight broadening it tapers to rounded point; upper side of head with carinal edges and two carinae which approach from front run parallel to first third, then separate to outward curve as if to enclose the strong carina of pro- thorax : under side of head with carinal edges and strong central car- ina ; eyes large, longer than wide; legs brown, hollowed on inside, hind tibiae with five spines ; abdomen above black centered broadly with orange tipped with brown, under side brown sprinkled lighter; fore wings brown, veins prominent ; hind wings clear, broadly based with pink and tipped with fuscous. Southern Pines, N. C. Early April. Five specimens, one at National Museum sent by author, one in possession of Dr. E. B. Wilson of Columbia University, one collected by R. S. Woglum and two in possession of author. Helicoptera pinornm n. sp. Length 9 mm., expanse 20 mm. ; eye round, in diameter 54 mm., )4 mm., round-pointed, carina]- edged, a central canal formed by 2 parallel carinae; prothorox with three carinae forming similar aspect to upper and under sides of head ; under side of head piceous with broad ivory- white band which includes the extruded antennae and suffuses bases of legs; legs brown, hind tibiae with a median spine; bodv b- upper part light ; fore wings brown, sprinkled lighter, and light spot at apical third of edge, veins prominent; under wings clear with tips smoky. Southern Pines, N. C. September. Four or five specimens taken by author. A New Staphylinid (Col.) Genus from Arizona. BY A. FENYES, Pasadena, Cal. Mr. G. Beyer of New York has sent me lately two speci- mens (one in fragments) of a very odd-looking- beetle, which evidently belongs to a new genus of the subfamily Aleocharinae (Staphylinidae) . Mr. Beyer writes me that he took four speci- mens in the Rincon Mountains in Arizona (5,000 feet above sea level) in August, 1907; the beetles came to the camp-light with a number of wasps of the same size and color, the two insects being scarcely distinguishable when on wing. n8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '10 The above two specimens were accompanied by two draw- ings (made by Mr. I. Mattausch of New York), which will give a good conception of the general outline of this peculiar, almost surely inquilinous beetle. Following is the description of the new genus, based on the two above specimens. BEYERIA gen. nov. Labrum transverse, moderately sinuate at tip. Mandibles apparently simple. Inner lobe of the maxillae on the inner side with comb-like teeth ; outer lobe on the inner side and tip with fine and long spine-like hairs. Maxillary palpi 4- jointed; joint 2 short, thick, cup shaped ; 3 very long, three times longer than 2, almost cylindrical ; 4 sub- ulate, more than half as long as 3. Mentum transverse. Li- gula not clearly visible in my specimen, apparently absent. Labial palpi moderate, 3-jointed ; joint i the thickest, about as long- as 3 ; 2 a little shorter than I or 3. Head with the eyes wider than the prothorax, very elon- gate, much longer than wide, behind the eyes gradually nar- rowed; above deeply and al- most entirely, longitudinally, widely excavated ; eyes moder- ately small, coarsely facetted ; tempora much longer than the eyes; genae not at all margined. Prothorax about as long as the head, sides almost parallel, be- Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS IIQ hind a little wider; base and hind angles rounded; sides near the epipleurae longitudinally, deeply impressed, the impres- sion reaching neither apex nor base. Elytra about as long as, and together considerably wider than, the prothorax, together longer than wide ; shoulders and outer hind angles rounded. Abdomen strongly pedunculate, the peduncle apparently con- sisting of the third segment; segments 4-8 forming a short oval, above flattened, below convex mass. Legs and all their parts very long; all the tarsi five jointed. Mesosternal process moderately projecting between the middle coxae, at tip slightly rounded. Metasternal process moderately produced, at tip broadly rounded. I cannot assign to this genus the proper systematic position in the tribe Aleocharini; Gastrorhopalus Sol. and Ecitophya Wasm. are, to my knowledge, the only other genera of the tribe having a similar abdomen. The type species of the genus is Beyeria vespa sp. nov. Slender, elongate, winged ; entirely yellowish brown ; shining. An- tennae elongate, longer than head and prothorax together; scarcely incrassate distally; joint i long, thick; 2 short, conical, about one-half as long as 3; 3 elongate; about as long as i; 4-10 approximate to each other, gradually slightly shorter, from a little longer than wide to a little wider than long; n as long as 9 and 10 together, acuminate, with moderate pubescence. Head, smooth, sparsely pubescent. Prothorax, with uneven, shallow and indistinct punctures, sparsely pubescent. Ely- tra, with sparse, coarse and shallow punctures. Abdomen smooth. Legs, with long and delicate hairs. Length, 3.5 mm. Rincon Mts. in Arizona. Type in my collection. LIBELLULA. 'Round and 'round in a figure-of-eight, Over the hemlock pool ; Gauzy wings in the sunshine gleam Where, here and there, a fitful beam Pierces the shadows cool. 'Round and 'round in a figure-of-eight, Playfellows blue and green, Evenly matched in a tireless jig, A perfect mechanical whirligig, The liveliest ever seen. I2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO New Bees of the Genus Osmia from California. BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. Osmia gabrielis sp. nov. ?. Length about 13!!- mm., width of the rather long and nearly paral- lel-sided abdomen about 4 mm.; color a fine dark indigo blue, brilliant on the abdomen, suffused with purplish on the face, and with greenish on the anterior part of the mesothorax ; pubescnce all black, except on inner side of anterior tarsi, where it has a coppery tint ; in some lights there is an appearance of pale hair here and there, owing to reflection from the surface of the coarse black bristles; head and thorax' very densely punctured, the punctures on the mesoththorax conspicuously finer than those on the vertex ; head rather large, the cheeks broad ; mandibles with the two apical teeth well developed, but the others nearly obsolete ; clypeus simple, its lower margin black ; antennae black ; tegulse black; wings fuliginous, broadly more or less hyaline along the veins, especially the outer ones ; first r. n. entering, second s. m. nearly twice as far from base as second from apex ; legs black, the femora strongly tinged with blue; second abdominal segment purplish basally. A very distinct and beautiful species, having the general form and appearance of 0. armaticeps Cresson, but without the cephalic peculiarities of that insect. Hab. San Gabriel Mountains, California, alt. 3000 ft., June 16, 1909 (F. Grinnell, Jr.*). At the same time and place, Mr. Grinnell took 0. quadriceps Cresson. Osmia grinnelli sp. nov. 5 . Length about 10 mm., rather robust, with a short abdomen ; head and thorax black, with feeble metallic tints, strongest at sides of face, where the greenish contrasts with the black of the clypeus; abdomen dark bluish, the first two segments partly brassy ; hair of head and thorax inconspicuous, black mixed with shining white; a tuft of white hair behind the wings, but that 011 sides of metathorax and on pleura black; hair of abdomen black, even on first segment, hut some white hairs forming a little tuft at sides of first segment near hind margin ; legs black, with black hair, that on inner side of anterior tarsi copper-rid: tegulae dark; wings hyaline, more or less stained along the nervures, b. n. exactly meeting t. m. ; second s. m. low, receiving first r. n. only a little more remote from base than second from apex; antennae black; mandibles with only the two apical teeth well developed, these far apart; clypeus with very large punctures, smaller and extremely dense toward lower margin, next to which is a median broad shining pit or depression. Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 121 A very ordinary looking species, easily known from O. nig- rifrons, wilmattae, pikei, etc., by the disc of the mesothorax, which has large well separated punctures, with extremely small punctures between them. It is related to O. leonis Ckll., but that is larger and has the clypeus much more densely punc- tured. Hab. Strawberry Valley, San Jacinto Mts., California, 6000 feet, July 16 (F. Grinnell, Jr.}. Osmia saiictae-rosae sp. nov. 9 . Length about 8M; mm., moderately robust, fine deep indigo blue, the abdomen brilliant and shining, though not equal to that of O. cohnl- tina; pubescence black, including inner side of front tarsi and tuft be- hind wings, but a little short glittering white hair on hinder part of disc of thorax, and a quite conspicuous little pale patch on each side of hrst abdominal segment, along the hind margin; mandibles evenly tridentatc, the teeth all strong; clypeus normal, two little tufts of orange hair be- neath lower edge ; punctures of head and thorax small and very dense ; antennae black; tegulae shining blue; wings dilute fuscous, paler along the veins ; second s. m. receiving first r. n. at least twice as far from base as second from apex ; legs black, femora blue behind ; beneath the femora have large concave smooth and shining areas for the reception of the tibice ; scopa black. Related to 0. tristella Ckll., but with no white tuft behind the wings, legs partly metallic, and venation different. The less brilliant colors separated from O. cobaltina Cre,sson. Hab. Santa Rosa Mountains, California, 7500 ft., June 26 (F. Grinnell, Jr.} 0. cobaltina was taken by Mr. Grinnell on Mt. Wilson, California, June 5, 1909. The male has the same parallel-sided form as the female. Osmia pogonigera sp nov. $. Superficially like O. ivilmattac, with which T at first confused it, but readily separable as follows: abdomen narrower and bluer, less closely punctured; wings redder; hair of under side of prothorax white; face with much glistening white hair, though coarse black hairs are in- termixed; pleura denuded in type, but with some short white hairs, es pecially behind; cheeks beneath with some white hair, but also with long curled black bristles, forming a conspicuous beard. The last char- acter is absolutely distinctive. Length about 10 mm.; legs black; sides of metathorax with white hair; ventral scopa black; tegulae partly blue. 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., *IO Hab. Strawberry Valley, San Jacinto Mountains, Califor- nia, 6000 ft., July 17 (F. Grinnell, Jr.}. 0. wilmattae Ckll. (A variety with hair on inner side of hind tarsi; dark) was taken by Mr. Grinnell in the San Gabriel Mountains, Califor- nia, at 3000 ft., June 16, 1909. Osmia pasadenae sp. nov. $ . Length a little over 8 mm., olive-green, the mesothorax more bluish-green ; head and thorax with abundant long pale hair, which is dorsally pale ochreous, lighter laterally, and white ventrally ; no dark- hairs on head or thorax ; hair of abdomen and legs also all pale, without any black, forming distinct through thin bands on segments 3 to 5 ; hair on inner side of hind basitarsus pale orange ; antennae black, the ftagellum slender, not at all moniliform; head and thorax very densely punctured ; tegulse shining black ; wings dilute fuscous ; second s. in. long and low, receiving first r. n. not twice as far from base as second from apex ; legs (except hind coxae) not metallic ; tarsi ordinary, except that hind basitarsus has a small tooth as in the subgenus Ceratosinia (to which the insect is not otherwise closely allied) ; abdomen rather nar- row ; sixth segment somewhat reflexed, and feebly emarginate ; seventh bidentate, the teeth rath-er short and far apart ; first ventral segment ob- tusely triangularly produced at apex ; margin of third ventral undulate. In general appearance similar to 0. inurbana Cresson, but smaller, with a narrower abdomen, and readily distinguishable by several structural characters above described. Hab. Pasadena, California, April 2, 1909 (F. Grinnell, Jr.). 0. olivacea Ckll. also has the tooth on the hind basitarsus, and must be closely allied, but it is easily separated by the black hair on the abdomen, etc. Also at Pasadena, April 8, 1909, Mr. Grinnell took O. ben- nettae Ckll., new to California. Description of a New Deltoid Moth. BY JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D. Re uia airimacula n. sp. Dull reddish gray tending to mouse-grey. Palpi darker at sides, antennal tuft darker. Primaries with maculation clearly defined, the ordinary spots blackish and contrasting. T. a. line slender, blackish, single, nearly upright, sometimes a little diffuse outwardly. T. p. line consists of a slender blackish line, followed by a more diffuse Mar., 'lo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 123 yellowish line, a little outward bent over custa, then slightly bisinuate and nearly parallel with outer margin ; very even in course. S. t. line very close to t. p. line, pale, irregular, preceded by a blackish shading which darkens most of the s. t. space. A broad, evenly ob- lique, somewhat diffuse median shade. A series of black interspaceal terminal lunules. Orbicular small, round ; a blackish spot without defi- nite outline. Reniform of good size, kidney-shaped, blackish, with- out definite outline. Secondaries a little paler and less densely scaled than primaries, with a dull, diffuse antemedian darker shading, an ob- lique dusky extramedian line followed by a yellowish shading, and a sub-marginal pale line preceded by a dusky shading. There is also a broken, blackish terminal line. Beneath whitish, coarsely powdered with brown; all wings with a narrow blackish discal lunule, a nar- row brown extra-median line and a broader dark s. t. shade. Expands 1.04 i.io inches=.26 27 mm. Habitat Hampton, N. H., VII, 26 (S. A. Shaw) ; Cohasset, Mass.,VII. 21 (W. T. Bryant) ; Sussex Co., New Jersey, VIII. 13 (S. T. Kemp). Two males and one female ; one $ in good condition, the others passable only. This species is allied to flavipunctalis Geyer, and exserta Sm., the course of the lines resembling the former most nearly. It differs from both in the conspicuous dark ordinary spots which are also different in shape from those of its allies. This makes the third species of Renia occurring in the east- ern U. S., in which the median lines are even, slender and ac- companied by a broader pale shading which renders them some- what conspicuous. Of these, flavipunctalis Geyer, is the most common and widely distributed. Both the others are known to me in few examples only; but it is not at all improbable that they are represented in collections under Geyer's name. Judg- ing by my description in Bull. 48, of the U. S. N. Mus., I had something very like this among the material there listed as flavipunctalis, and it will require a re-examination of the types of the species now listed as synonyms to make certain that all the names do really refer to one species. The description is offered at this time, to warrant the in- sertion of the name into the forthcoming edition of the list of insects found in New Jersey. 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '10 Mallophaga from the Birds of Laysan Island. BY VERNON L. KELLOGG AND JOHN H. PAINE, Stanford University, Cal. A small lot of Mallophaga collected from maritime birds by Prof. John O. Snyder and Dr. Walter K. Fisher, on the Stan- ford-Albatross Expedition of 1902, to the Hawaiian and adja- cent islands. The specimens were collected immediately after the birds were shot and while the Mallophaga were still alive. In the lot are represented eleven species, one of which being new, is described and figured herewith. Docophorus snyderi n. sp. (Fig?, i and 2). Six specimens from a tern, Sterna lunata, (Laysan Isl.). This species greatly resembles D. melano- cephalus, but may be easily distinguished from it by the rounded but distinct me- dian angle of the posterior margin of the prothorax and by the concave clypeal front. Female. Length 1.7 mm., width .64 mm. head, length .6 mm, width .58 mm ; clypeus nar- rower than in melanocepJialus, concave, trans- parent in front of signature with a short hair arising near the termination of the colored lateral band and reaching to the margin ; an- other hair arising a little posterior to the anterior angles of the signature and within the signature ; two more clypeal hairs at about the middle of the lateral margin, one marginal * and the other arising just within the margin; and still another very minute hair in front of the suture; trabeculae narrow, extending to about the middle of the second joint of the antenna?, temporal margins broadly rounded; two hairs, one of which is very short, arising from the eye; three more on the temporal margin, the anterior two being close together, of which two the posterior one is minute. Prothorax with middle of posterior margin strongly though f 7* WJ * i)i T 1 | roundly angled; a single long hair arises at the posterior lateral angles. Metathorax with pos- terior margin nearly parallel to that of the pro- thorax though the angle is slightly more acute; a row of about sixteen Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 125 long hairs on the posterior margin. Abdomen resembles that of melanoccplialus. The transverse blotches of the first segment meet and those of the fourth segment are shortest; the eighth segment is uniformly colored. Male. Length 1.4 mm., width ,5 mm.; length of head .54 mm., width .52 mm. Posterior margin of prothorax is angled as in the female. The abdomen is smaller in proportion to the head than in the female. Nirmus gloriosus Kellogg and Kuwana. Two specimens, both female, of this handsome species taken from Sterna Innata. (Laysan Isl.). Lipeurus ferox Giebel. A number of this large Lipeurus from several specimens of Diomedca nigripes and Diomedea immutabilis. (Erben Bank 33 deg. 15 min. N., 132 deg. 30 min. W., and Laysan Isl.). Lipeurus densus Kellogg. One female taken from Diomedea immutabilis. (Laysan Isl.). Lipeurus gracilicornis var. major Kellogg. Three females from Fregata aquila (Necker Isl.), and one male from Sterna lunata. (Laysan Isl.). Lipeurus confidens Kellogg. Many specimens from Diomedea nigripes. (Erben Bank), and several from Sterna lunata. (Laysan Isl.). Lipeurus concinnUS Kellogg and Chapman. A number of specimens from Diomedea immutabilis. (Lay- san Isl.). Lipeurus potens Kellogg and Kuwana. One male specimen from Snla piscator. (Laysan Isl.). Eurymetopus taurus Nitzsch. The most abundant species; taken from Diomedea nigripes. (Laysan Isl.), and Dioemdea immutabilis. (Laysan Isl. and Erben Bank). Ancistrona gigas Piaget. One male from Acstrclata hypoleuea. (Laysan Isl.). Menopon invadens Kellogg and Chapman Several specimens from Acridotheres tristis. (Molokai). 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '10 A New Species of the Genus Trybliophorus (Orthop- tera) from Surinam. BY JAMES A. G. REHN. Trybliophorus elegans n. sp. Type: ? ; Surinam, May-September. (Hebard collection). Allied to T. octomaculata Serville, from Cayenne, but differing in the larger size and different coloration, while from T. pcni- viana Bruner* it differs in the following particularsf : Slightly smaller, comparatively shorter pronotum with a shorter an- terior lobe and more profusely punctate hind lobe, narrower costal field of the tegmina, much slenderer and acuminate valves of the ovipositor, larger and more prominent eyes, less strongly punctured front, paler colored, narrower and more in- terrupted flavous bands on face, cheeks, sides of pronotum and pleura; more decidedly marked face (yellow) in having the fastigium, upper portion of frontal costa, antennae and upper posterior margins of lateral lobes of pronotum tinged with car- mine and in the paler and more strongly serrate hind femora. Size rather large ; form robust ; surface generally rugoso-punctate. Head with the occiput arched, distinctly elevated dorsad of the disk of the pronotum, interspace between the eyes hardly more than half the fastigial width; fastigium slightly declivent, produced, longer than broad, apex truncate when viewed from the dorsum, a slightly medio-longitudinal sulcus present, when viewed from the lateral aspect the fastigium is seen to round into the produced dorsal portion of the frontal costa, this pro- duced arcuate portion being distinctly compressed, not sul- cate but with a few large punctures near the ocellus, a distinct transverse arcuate depression crosses the face FIG. i. Trybliophorus elegans n. sp. Lateral view of type (x 2). * Described on page . t Kindly supplied by Prof. Bruner. Mar., 'lo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 127 ventrad of the ocellus, and ventrad of this line the frontal costa is absent and the face very deeply and irregularly punctate ; eyes ovate in shape, quite prominent when viewed from the dorsum, in length almost half again that of the infra-ocular portion of the gense; antenna; about twice the length of the pronotum, slightly depressed, rather heavy. Pronotum with the greatest dorsal length about one-and-one-half times the greatest dorsal width of the disk ; cephalic margin truncate with a very slight and hardly appreciable median emargination, caudal margin produced into an acute-angulate process with a broadly rounded apex ; complete trans- verse sulci three in number, a broken sulcus also present im- mediately caudad of the cephalic margin, metazona nearly half again as long as the prozona, median and lateral carinae absent ; lateral lobes distinctly longer than deep, cephalic margin slightly sigmoid, ventral margin arcuate with a very slightly cephalic emargination, ventro-caudal angle very broadly rounded; lateral angles of the mctazonal disk very slight. Tegmina about twice as long as the greatest length of the pronotum and falling very slightly short of the tips of the caudal femora, coriaceous ; costal margin slightly arcuate proximad ; sutural margin very slightly arcuate, apex nar- rowed and evenly rounded ; surface punctate with only the prin- cipal veins indicated. Wings reaching almost to the tips of the teg- mina. Interspace between the mesosternal lobes slightly transverse, the angles slightly rounded ; interspace between the metasternal lobes slightly transverse, subcuneiform. Ovipositor jaws each with an ac- cessory shoulder but without distinct sharp teeth on the margins. Cau- FIG. 2. Trybliophorus clcgarts n. sp. Dorsal view of head and pronotum of type (x 2). dal femora considerably inflated, robust, the greatest width contained about three times in the length, scabrous, dorso-median carina serrato- dentate, lateral face with the pattern partially indicated by the dis- tribution of punctures, ventro-lateral carina with a number of denti- form tubercles, ventro-internal carina minutely serrate, genictriar re- gion inflated, arcuate lobes rectangulate ; caudal tibia? distinctly shorter than the femora, robust, supplied on the lateral margin with seven 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO spines, one of which is apical, and on the internal margin with seven or eight spines; caudal tarsi slightly over half the length of the tibiae, second joint slightly longer than the first, third joint about as long as the first and second joint together, large arolium present. General colors green, redbrown and yellow. Head with the post- ocular region and the lower part of the genje vandyke brown, an irregular bar of gamboge yellow extending on each side from the insertion of the antenna? along the ventral border of the eye caudad, an expanding area of olive-yellow extending from a point on the fastigium broading caudad and covering the greater portion of the occiput; fastigium with the front and sides carmine, the olive-yellow median area lined laterad with blackish ; face burnt carmine with four small but distinct and regularly placed points of yellow ; mandibles blackish, each with a proximal yellow point; eyes hazel; an- tennae maroon. Pronotum with the continuation of the light dorsal bar of the head regularly expanding caudad and paris green in color, olive-yellowish along the sides and on the margin cephalad; continuation of the postocular bars subequal with those of the head and of similar color but washed with maroon cau- dad, the transverse sulci carrying the brown color in narrow lines com- pletely across the green dorsum; ventral half of the lateral lobes red brown with the gamboge yellow cephalic bars continued over them in a broken irregular fashion, the yellow being present only on the cicatrix-like nodes and points. Tegmina with slightly more than the sutural half bice green, costal area bay, darker brown mesad, ming- ling with the green distad, an intermediate proximal area maize yel- low, the principal veins dark brown proximad. Wings smoke brown. Venter very dull olive-green ; abdomen dull wax yellow. Cephalic and median limbs very dark brownish glaucons, the tibiae washed with maroon. Caudal femora wax yellow ; caudal tibiae very dull clay color, darker distad, spines touched with black ; tarsi buffy touched with reddish. MEASUREMENTS. Length of body 34.5 mm Length of pronotum 10. mm Length of tegmen 21.2 mm Length of caudal femur 18.5 mm The type is unique. His PRINCIPAL FEATURE. Scott "See that man who just went by? He landed in this city with bare feet and now he's got a million." Mott "Great Jupiter ! That beats the centipede to a frazzle." Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Three New Hemiptera-Heteroptera from the Miocene of Colorado. BY G. W. KIRKALDY. The following fossils were among some interesting forms sent to me for examination by Prof. Cockerell. I have de- scribed them as well as I found possible, but the more accurate determination of Heteroptera will always, apparently, be diffi- cult, as the characters, upon which modern Hemipterology founds genera and species, are rarely visible in fossils. Two of the following belong to the Cimicidae (or Pentatomidae as some authors persist in misnaming it), and the other to the Reduviidae. TELEOCORIS gen nov. The general form is very much like that of certain Tessara- tominae (a sub-family very sparsely represented in America), but the head is much larger than anything I know in it ; it seems to come into the tribe Halyini of the Pentatominae, but in the absence of a ventral view, it is not certain. The form of the head, in conjunction with that of the pronotum and scutel- lum, separates the genus from any known to me. Elongate oval, the head prominent, longer than its width between the eyes, but it is possible that it is exerted from pres- sure. The central lobe is very slightly longer than the lateral lobes, and converges gradually to the apex where it is acute; the impressed line dividing them extends down as far as the eyes. The lateral lobes are fairly straight, and not much nar- rowed towards the apex. The antennae are inserted just apical of the eyes (which are somewhat remote from the base of the head), the first segment not quite reaching the apex of the head. The pronotitin is slightly more than three times as wide as the base of the head, and a little more than twice as wide as its length, the basal margin slightly roundedly emarginate, the lateral margins rounded, more prominent anteriorly than pos- teriorly, and distinctly laminate. The scutellum extends to half the length of the abdomen ; it is regularly triangular, the hind angles acute, and not at all rounded. The abdomen is 130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar.,'lO nearly truncate apically, and the specimen seems to be a $ . The pronotum is strongly and coarsely punctured, the head and abdomen less so. T. pothetias sp. nov. Head testaceous, lateral margins and median lobe, as well as the lateral margins basal of the eyes, mostly black. Pronotum testaceous, strongly punctured and clouded with black ; scutellum., etc., black, pleu- rites partly testaceous. Length, 16 mill. ; width across shoulders, 7 mill. Hab. Miocene shales of Florissant, Colorado, Station 13 B. (W. P. Cockerell). POLIO CORIS Ren. nov. I should have allied this to Tclcoschistits; had not Scudder stated that the scutellum does not reach halfway to the apex of the abdomen. Ovoid : Head longer than wide between the eyes, the lobes about equally long, the head rounded apically ; the lateral lobes strongly sinuate laterally, the first segment of the antennae reaching just beyond the apex of the head, the second about four times as long as the first. The pronotum is roundly emar- ginate apically, snbtruncate behind, lateral margins rounded and not prominent, the base about three times as wide as the apical margin. The scutellum reaches halfway to the apex of the abdomen, and is apparently somewhat rounded posteriorly ; it is closely punctured (as apparently also the pronotum). Teg- mina typically Pentatomine, the membrane with many parallel longitudinal veins. Fore tibiae sulcate, the tarsi bi ( ? tri) seg- mentate, the apical segment much the longest and thickest. P. amnesis sp. nov. More or less dark, how much so is difficult to say. The antennae are apparently banded. Tegmina pale fuscous. Length, 14^ mill. ; breadth, 7 mill. Hab. Miocene shales of Florissant, Station 14. (W. P. Cockerell}. POLIOSPHAGEDS gen. nov. This seems to agree fairly well with recent species of Rcpip- ta, but the antennal proportions are different, mentate, the apical segment much the longest and thickest, but the antennal proportions are different. Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS The first segment of the antennae is scarcely longer than the head (though extending well beyond it), and the second seg- ment is much longer than the first. The form of the pronotum is as in Rcpipta, and there is a posterolateral spine (about as large as in R. gracilis}. The tegmina extend far beyond the apex of the abdomen and have much of the form of those of Rcpipta, but are not so much constricted. The hind legs are very long (as in R. miniata). The fore femora are rather stouter in proportion than in any species of Rcpipta. The genus seems thus to differ from Repipta, or any of its allies with spined pronotum, by the shorter first segment of the an- tennae, and the long second segment. It has somewhat the ap- pearance of Spiniger, but the first segment of the antennae is much longer, and the legs are different. P. psychrus sp. nov. Largely dark; antennae pale fuscous; membrane pale, infuscate basal- ly. Length, 16^/2 mill. ; breadth, 4 mill. Hab. Miocene shales of Florissant, Station 13 B. (W '. P. Cocker ell}. - -- VACATION FOR RECREATION AND EDUCATION. You are familiar with the famous school established years ago by Louis Agassiz on the Island of Penikcse. An account of the opening exercises has been per- petuated in the tender, expressive poem, "The Prayer of Agassiz," by John Greenleaf Whittier. The Agassiz Association in honor nf that great scientist is, at South Beach, Connecticut, continuing, in nann' and in spirit, the work begun in his school. The second session will begin Tune 27th and will include courses for the general public and for children, as well as for technical students. Two daughters and a grandson of Louis Agassiz are among the many members interested in the establishment of this school, and in the other work of The Agassiz Association, and have contributed libcrallv toward defravintr the expenses. President David Starr Jordan, of the Leland Stanford Junior University, California, is one of the trustees of the Agassiz Association and dean of the council. President Jordan was a pupil of Louis Agassiz at the Island of Penikcse. The school is established under one very novel condition in that the price of tuition is left for the pupil to decide. The contributions last year ranged from twenty- five cents to one hundred dollars, and the studies that we offered were those easily understood by a kindergartner or by the scientific specialist who came many miles to take special courses. Further particulars may be obtained by addressing The Agassiz Association, Arcadia, Sound Beach, Connecticut. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thankfully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. The author's name will be given in each case, for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] TO CONTRIBUTORS. All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published according to date of reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in num- bers and circumference, 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 re- membered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form, will be given free, when they are wanted- P- this should be so stated on the MS., along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. EB. PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1910. "The value of farm products for 1908-9 was according to Secretary Wilson's report estimated at $8,760,000,000 and if insects take a toll of ten per cent, they destroy in value $876,- 000,000. This does not include crops in storage, forests and forest products which would probably add another $100,000,- ooo making the total annual tax chargeable to insects $1,076,- 000,000." Now that looks like big money. Entomologists study insects and they doubtless do some good. They collect them and write about them and classify them. On the whole entomologists are of some benefit. Now suppose one of these entomologists wishes to import a few in- sects for study what happens? He is called upon to pay duty on them and is annoyed in many ways and very likely the in- sects are ruined and he at last pays the Government thirty cents which, doubtless, aids in repairing this loss due to injurious in- sects or else prevents foreign species of insects from com- peting with home industries. Tf there is any sense in having a duty on insects, imported for study by an individual, and not for sale, we would like to know what it is. Unfortunately little can be done in the matter as the people controlling such affairs have neither the interest nor intelligence to bother about the thing. We have ample evidence to show that this statement is true. 132 Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 133 Notes and News. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OP THE GLOBE. MR. GEORGE WILLIS KTRKALDY died suddenly in San Francisco, February the second in his thirty-sixth year. THE Kosmos Natural Science Establishment of Herkimer, New York, has issued an attractive little catalogue of its entomological wares. Mr. Richard Lohrmann is the manager. CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC AMENITIES & ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH. The writer welcomed the recent increase in the subscription price of the News because, having always believed that he got more than the worth of his money, he saw no reason to suppose that such a condi- tion not would also prevail in the future. It may be true, as a recent contributor intimated, that the News is not always scientific. It is cer- tainly nearly always interesting. No reader will object to the occupy- ing of space (for which in the last analysis, he pays), by notes or ar- ticles in which, perhaps, he has but a remote interest, or none at all, because he knows that some among the readers of the magazine are interested and helped by those same articles. In the case of two articles, however, that have recently appeared under the names of Dr. J. B. Smith and Dr. H. G. Dyar,* the writer feels that he expresses the feeling of many, perhaps a majority of the readers of the News in saying that they are neither edifying nor help- ful and while he would not presume to attempt to instruct either of the gentlemen in the ordinary amenities of scientific intercourse, he feels that he has a right to protest against the occupying of space in the News by such matter if only on the ground that it takes up room that might be occupied by something more worth while, and that he is therefore defrauded to a certain degree of the equivalent for his subscription. Human interest is purely relative and while it may be intensely in- teresting to Drs. Smith and Dyar to contest as to who saw a mud puddle first, it is assuming a good deal to believe that the rest of the scientific world is equally interested. Seriously, it is the chance afforded by such things as this that give the newspaper paragrapher his oppor- tunity and contribute to the poor opinion which the ordinary Philistine has of the "bug hunter." If Dr. Dyar holds Dr. Smith in such low esteem that he cannot feel "at present particularly friendly" toward him, it isn't necessary to oc- cupy valuable space in a scientific journal telling the rest of us about * ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, December, 1909, page 425, and January, 10.10, page 17. 134 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'io it. Let them both retire behind the barn and settle the matter in the old approved way; or if that seems unscienific, let them draw lots in the presence of seconds, it being agreed that the loser then expose himself, minus his shirt, for one hour to the attentions of Culex (Mansonia) pcrturbans beside the "ideal spot" near Dublin, N. H. This would make the punishment fit the crime and revive interest in the "American Duel." J. F. ABBOTT, U 7 as!iingtou University, St. Louis. A FEW RECORDS FROM NORTHERN MICHIGAN IN THE ORDER ODONATA. During the summer of 1903, while doing general Entomological work at Pequaming, Baraga Co., Michigan, I made an effort to collect a representative series of the Odonata of that region. Dr. Philip P. Cal- vert has been very kind in determining Odonata for me, and it is through his kindness that I am able to publish the following records. All specimens are from about Pequaming. unless otherwise stated. Lestes unguiculatus. Found among high grasses. July 8 and 9, 3 male, 3 female. Lestes uncatus. July 26, 2 female. Nehalcnnia ireuc. In fields, July 2, 2 pairs; in Great Marsh, July 6 3 male, 6 female. Enallagiua liagcni. Field, July 2, I pair ; Great Marsh, July 6, i female. Aeschna sitchensis. Woods, July 6, i male; July 8, I female. Aeschna clepsydra. Woods, July 6, i male; Pequaquawaming Point, July 8, i female. Anax jnnius. End of Point Abbaye, rocky shore, July 7, 3 male, 2 female. SoHiatodiloin franklini. Near foot of Point Abbaye, pines on shore, July 8, i female. Cordiilia shurtlcfU. Field. July 4. 2 male; white pine forest on lake shore, July 6, 4 male, i female. Near foot of Point Abbaye, pines on shore, July 5 and 8, 2 male, I female. Dorocordulia libera. Woods on shore, July 14, I female ; near foot of Point Abbaye, pines on shore, July 8, i female. Libellula quadrimaculata. July 4, i female; Great Marsh meadow, July 6, 3 male ; along lake shore woods, July 6, 4 female. Nannothemis bella. Foot of Point Abbaye, pines on shore, July 8, i female. Leucorhinia hudsonica. Woods, July 5, i male; July 6, 2 males, 2 female ; July 8, i female ; July io, 2 male ; July 14, i male. Near foot of Point Abbaye, July 26, I male. Leucorhinia frigida. Field, July 2, I female; woods, July 2, I female; July 6, i female ; Great Marsh meadow, July 6, 7 male, 2 female ; July 4, i female. Near foot of Point Abbaye, pine woods on lake shore, July 8, i male, 6 female. Mar., 'io] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 135 Libellnla pulchella. Field, July 2, i female; Great Marsh, July 6, 2 male ; along wooded lake shore, July 6, i male ; End of Point Abbaye on rocky shore, July 7, i male. Leucorhinia glacialis. Great Marsh meadow, July 6, i female. Sympetrum nibicundulm. Brook, July 2, I female; woods, July 6, i female ; July 14, I female. 6". nibicundulm Var. assiiiiilatuin. Brook, July 2, i female; field, July 4, i female; woods, July 6, I female.; Great Marsh, July 6, I female; July io, i female. Sympetnnn obtrusum. Brook, July 2, 2 male; marshy ground, July 18, i uair. MORGAN HEBARU. "THE newspaper reports about my trouble on the occasion of my last arrival from Europe with a lot of insects were amusing, but as Mark Twain said of the report of his death, somewhat exaggerated." Sir George Hampson requested me before I started for Europe last fall to bring over with me the types of some two hundred African Noctuidae which I described a number of years ago and which he was unable to recognize among the material at his command, that he might study and figure the same for his work on The Moths of the World. I did this, and I brought back the bundle containing the boxes with me. My belongings were quickly passed at the custom house with the exception of this package. The inspector assigned to me had his doubts, and compelled me to stand on the dock for a half hour while he went to search for an appraiser. A newspaper reporter of the New York Herald, and another one representing the Sun, happened to spy me and asked me what the trouble was, to which I replied that I was the victim of stupidity, that these customs gentlemen did not know the law which makes natural history specimens, the property of a museum, free from duty. When finally, after waiting thirty minutes and being chaffed somewhat unmercifully by my friends, the appraiser turned up, he simply laughed and told me I was right, there was no duty upon my specimens, and that ended the matter, though I and six people who were waiting to accompany me to the hotel lost an hour each out of our time. It was one of those annoying little incidents which sometimes occur, but I do not think I said "damn" as the Sun reporter intimated that I looked as if I would like to say. I think it is simply outrageous that the gentlemen who are in charge of the affairs of the United States government should impose a duty upon the few natural history specimens which individuals import for the purposes of scientific study and research. The thing is to the last degree petty. It is unjust to scholarship. It is putting a burcle-n upon scientific research when carried on by individuals." DR. W. J. HOL- LAND, IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR. 136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless treating of new genera, will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. The numbers in Heavy- Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This () following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new genus; while this (*), that of a new North American form. For complete record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 3 The American Naturalist. 4 The Canadian Entomologist. 7 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 9 The Entomologist, London. 10 Nature, London. 11 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 16 Bulletin, Societe Na- tionale d'Acclimation de France, Paris. 20 Bulletin, Academic Imperilae des Sciences de St. Petersburg. 22 Zoologischer An- zeiger, Leipzig. 32 Bulletin, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 37 Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec. 38 Wiener Entomologi- sche Zeitung. 45 Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 50 Pro- ceedings, U. S. National Museum. 51 Novitates Zoologicae, Tring, England. 62 Handlinger, Konglige Svensk Vetenskaps-Akadem- iens, Stockholm. 67 Entomologiske Tidskrift, Stockholm. 81 Bi- ologisches Centralblatt, Erlangen. 85 Bulletin, Societe des Sciences Naturelles de 1'Ouest de la France, Nantes. 96 Bulletin, Trimes- triel, Societe d'Histoire Naturalles de Macon, France. 173 Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde, von A. Seitz, Stuttgart. 193 En- tomologische Blatter, Nurnberg. 194 Genera Insectorum. 195 Bulletin, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 196 Arkiv for Zoologie, Stockholm. 197 Proceedings, Royal Society, Biological Sciences, Series B., Lon- don. 198 Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 199 Bulletin, Societe Scientifique et Medicale dc 1'Ouest, Rennes. 200 Bulletin, Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, Paris. 201 Memoires, Societe Entomologique de Belgiquc. 202 Annales de Paleontologie, Paris. 203 Bulletin, Societe des Sciences de Bucarest-Roumanie. 204 New York State Museum Bulletin. 205 Kansas State Agricultural College, Ex- periment Station. GENERAL SUBJECT. Anon Anteckningar rorande verksam- Mar., 'lo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 137 heten vid Centralanstaltens for jordbruksforsok entomologiska afdelning, 1908, 67, xxx, 193, 1909. Anon The local collection of insects, 172, x, 19. Banks, N. A list of works on No. American Entomology, 7, Bulletin, No. 81. Brues, C. T. The insect pests of museums, Proc. American Association of Museums, iii, 33, 1909. Felt, E. P. Control of household insects, 204, No. 129, 1909. Twenty-fourth report of the State Entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York, 204, No. 134, 1909. Kirk- aldy, G. W. On some preoccupied generic names in insects, 4, xlii, 8. Meunier, F. Nouvelles recherches sur les insectes du Terrain Houiller de Commentry (Allier), 202, iv, 125. Newell, W. (et al.) Third biennial report (1908-09) of the secretary, State Crop Pest Commission of Louisiana (containing papers pertain- ing mostly to the control of cotton pests), 1909, Baton Rouge, La. Tullgren &. Dahl Forsok med Karbolineum och andra insektdo- dande medel, 67, xxx, 96, 1909. APTERA. Holmgren, N. Termitenstudien 1, Anatomische untersuchungen, 62, xliv, No. 3, 1909. Mjoberg, E. Studien ueber Pediculiden und mallophagen, 22, xxxv, 287, (). Silvestri, F. Die fauna sudwest-Australiens, Isoptera, ii, 279, 1909. NEUROPTERA. Comes, D. S. Sui movimenti di maneggio e sul loro significato, nella teoria segmentale, 81, xxx, 81. Holm- gren, N. Das system der Zermiten, 22, xxxv, 284. Mjoberg, E. Svensk insektfauna, Neuroptera, Planipennia (Illustrations and tables), 67, xxx, 131, 1909. Needham, J. G. A peculiar new may fly from Sacandaga Park (New York), 204, No. 134, 71, 1909 (*). ORTHOPTERA. Griffini, A. Revision des types de certaines Gryllacris decrites par F. Walker, existant au Musee d'Oxford, 45, 1910, 82. Jordan, K. Description of a new kind of apterous ear- wig, apparently parasitic on a bat, 51, xvi, 313, 1909 (). Jordan, K. Notes on the Anatomy of Hemimerus talpoides, 51, xvi, 327, 1909. HEMIPTERA. De La Tarre Bueno, J. R. Some records of Heteroptera, 4, xlii, 29. Distant, W. L. Descriptions of Oriental Capsidae, 11, v, 10 (). Horvath, G. Description of a new bat- bug from Br. Columbia, 8, xlvi, 12 (*). Kirkaldy, G. W. Cata- logue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) Vol. 1, Cimicidae, 1909. Kirkaldy, G. W. Hemiptera new and old, No. 3, 4, xlii, <>3. Mon- tando, A. L. Hydrocorises de 1' Amerique du Nord. Notes et descriptions d'especes nouvelles, 203, xviii, 180, 1909 (*). Nasonov, N. V. Sur les transformations de Kermes quercus. (In Russian), 20, 1910, 47. Nusslin, O. Zur biologic dcr gattung Chermes, 81, xxx, 16, 64. Parker, J. B. Chinch Bug, 205,, Circular No. 5. Stevens, N. M. A note on reduction in the maturation of male 138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO eggs in Aphis, 198, xviii, 72. Tullgren, A. Aphidologische studien, 196, v, 14. LEPIDOPTERA. Andre, E. Elevage des Vers a soie suavages (completed), 96, iii, 185, 1909. Chagnon, G. Erebus odoratus ou odora, 37, xxxvi, 181, 1909. Cockerell, T. D. A. A syntomid moth imported with bananas, 4, xlii, GO (*). Deegener, Dr. Konnen die schmetterlinge horen? 191, heft. 7, 111. La Baume, W. Ueber den zusammenhang primarer und sekundarer geschlechtsmerkmale bei den Schmetterlingen und den ubrigen gliedertieren, 81, xxx, 72. McCracken, I. The manifestation of the flight-function in the silk worm (Bombryx mori), 198, xviii, 121. Peyron, J. Zur morpho- logic der Skandinavischen schmetterlingseier, 62, xliv, No. 1, 1909. Rebel, H. Neue palaearktische Pyraliden Zortriciden und Tineen, 190, xxiii, 1 (). Swett, L. W. Geometrid notes a new variety, 4, xlii, 68 (*). Taylor, G. W. Descriptions of three new species of Eupithecial from Western America, 4, xlii, 57 (*). Taylor, G. W. Stray notes on Geometridae, No. 1. On Plagodes keutzin- garia, 4, xlii, 38. Warren, W. Opigena, Hermonassa; Amphitrota, 173, I, Fauna palaeartica, Ft. 56, 1909. DIPTERA. Cockerell, T. D. A. A new Dipterous parasite of bats, 4, xlii, 59 (*). Coquillett, D. W. New species of No. Ameri- can Diptera, 4, xlii, 41 (*). Graenicher, S. Some new and rare Diptera from Wisconsin, 4, xlii, 26 (*). Johannsen, O. K. Family Myceteophilidae, 194, fasc. 93, 1909. Stein, P. Zur kenntnis der gattung Fucellia R D, 38, xxix, 11. Trotter, A. Marcellia Revista, internazionale di Cecidologia vii, fasc. iv, v, 1909. Wahlgren, E. Svensk insektfauna. Diptera. Cyclorapha Syrphidae. (Tables and illustrations), 67, xxx, neft 1-2, 1909. COLEOPTERA. Bowditch, F. C. Further notes on Pachy- brachys, 4, xlii, 53 (*). C, G. H. A study of bark-beetles, 10, Ixxxii, 378. Griddle, N. Habits of some Manitoba tiger beetles (Cicindelidae) No. 2, 4, xlii, 9. Eichelbaum, F. Katalog der Staph- liniden-gattungen nebst angabe ihrer literatur, synonyme, arten- zahl . . . , 201, xvi, 71, 1909. Fall, H. C. New Silphidae of the tribe Anisolomini, 4, xlii, 4 (*). Gahan, C. J. Notes on Cleridae and descriptions of some new genera and species, 11, v, 55. Grou- velle, M. A. Description d'un Lathrididae mexicain nouveau, 32, 1909, 245. Hagedorn, M. Diagnoscn bisher unbeschriebener Bor- kenkafer, 45, 1910, l. Houlbert et Monnot Faune entomologique armoricaine Coleopteres, Carnivora, Carabides (continued), 199, xviii, 243, 1909. Jordan, H. Ueber "extraintestinale" verdauung im allgcmeinen und bei Carabus auratus im besonderen, 81, xxx, 85. Kleine, R. Die Lariiden und Rhynchophoren und ihre nah- rungspflanzen, 193, vi, 4. Lameere, A. Revision des Prionides. Mar., 'TO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 139 Treizieme memoire: Derancistrines, 201, xvi, 1909. Lea, A. M. Die fauna sudwest-Australiens, Curculionidae, ii, 215, 1909. Luder- waldt, H. Actinobolus trilobus n. sp., 45, 1910, 95. Mason, F. R. Collecting beetles in Mexico, 4, xlii, 22. Mjoberg, E. Om Pis- sodes validirostris Gyll. en i. Svenrige hittillo obeaktad skadeinskt pa tall janite en ofversikt af ofriga skadliga arter af samnia slakte, 67, xxx, 243, 1909. Pasquet, O. Varieties de Cicindela germanica, trouvees dans la manche sur les bords du couesnon et de la selune, 199, xviii, 61, 1909. Peneau, J. Coleopteres de la Loire-Inferieure, 85, ix, 73, 1909. Pic, M. Coleopteres de la famille des Anthicides recueillis par Germain en Bolivie, 32, 1909, 253. Pic, M. Diag- noses d'un Coleoptere Hylophilus et de cino Coleopteres Anthi- cides exotiques, 32, 1909, 250. Reitter, E. Eine neue gattung der Coleopteren-familie der Tenebrionidae. Zugleicht ein vertreter einer neuen tribus bei den Lachnoguni, 193, vi, 20 (). Rungius, H. Ueber eine bsonderheit des larven-darmes von Dytiscus mar- ginalis, 22, xxxv, 341. Sanders, G. F. Notes on the habits of Disogmus pubescens, 4, xlii, 48. Spaeth, F. Neue arten der gat- tung Hemisphaerota, 45, 1910, 55. Swaine, J. M. Catalogue of the described Scolytidae of America, north of Mexico, 204, No. 134, 76, 1909. Swaine, J. M. A new species of Eccoptogaster, 4, xlii, 30 (*). Tremoleras, J. Coleopterologische skizze von Uruguay, 193, vi, 22. Von Schonfeldt, H. Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 7: Brenthidae. Wellman, F. C. On the synonymy of the Meloi- dae, 45, 1910, 22. HYMENOPTERA. Adlerz, G. Nya iakttageker ofver Am- mophila (Micsus) campestris, 67, xxx, 163, 1909. Bachmetjew, P. Die statistisch-analytische methode im Dienste der Bienankunde, 45, 1910, 15. Brues, C. T. The parasitic Hymenoptera of the tertiary of Florissant, Colo, 195, liv. 1 (*). Cameron, P. On some Asiatic species of the Braconed sub-families Rhogadinae, Agath- inae and Microgasterinae and of the Alysiidae, 38, xxix, 1, (). Clement, M. Fecondation des Meres-Abeilles en captive (note), 16, Ivi, 478, 1909. Cockerell, T. D. A. Some bees of the genus Augochlora from the West Indies, 50, xxxvii, 489. Cockerell, T. D. A. Descriptions and records of bees, 11, v, 22 (*). Cockerell, T. D. A. The bee fauna of Calgary, Alberta, 4, xlii, 25. Cockerell, T. D. A. The fossil Crabronidae, 9, xliii, 60 (*). Doncaster, L. Gametogenesis of the gall-fly (Neuroterus lenticularis), 197, Ixxxii, 88. Friese, H. Einige neue Tetrapeclia-arten, 45, 1910, 62. How- ard, L. O. Parasites reared or supposed to have been reared from the eggs of the gipsy moth, 7, Tech. Ser. No. 19, Pt. 1. Meade-Waldo, G. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the Br. Museum, 11, v, 30 (). Morley, C. On the hymenop- 140 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO terous parasites of Coccidae (cont.), 9, xliii, 27. Rabaud, E. Notes critiques sur les moenrs des pompiles, 200, xliii, 171, 1909. Rohwer, S. A. Notes on Tenthredinoidea with descriptions of new species. Paper viii. New species from California, 4, xlii, 49 (*). Shull, A. F. Do parthenogenetic eggs of Hymenoptera produce only males?, 3,, xliv, 127. Sanders, G. E. A new Proctotrypid in the family Scelioninae, 4, xlii, 15 (*). REVIEWS. KIRKALDY'S CATALOGUE OK THE HEMIPTERA. An appreciation with di- gressions.* The appearance of volume I of Mr. Kirkaldy's Catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world marks an epoch in the study of this group of insects, not alone on account of the quantitative enumeration of the described forms but even more for the foundation it gives us for an up-to-date classification of our Hemiptera. I have ventured to criticise a few features of this catalogue, but I do so no? to find fault with a work which is of the highest quality, but as a conservative in matters nomenclatural, I believe a catalogue of this kind should not represent the extreme views of a radical. However, this is but my private opin- ion and I am well aware that most of our students may prefer the sweeping changes here proposed. Of. greatest interest are the forty pages of introductory matter be- ginning with a complete but succinct statement of the rules of nomen- clature followed by the author. If we cannot agree with all his con- clusions we must admit that he has led us a long way toward a stalilr nomenclature in this order. Following this is a discussion of the classi- fication adopted, a partial Bibliography, an incomplete list of abbrevia- tions and an appendix giving the author's reason for the selection he has made of types for many of the genera, an item of much importance. The catalogue proper occupies 361 pages and embraces the family Cimicidae (Pentatomidae) only. It covers the same ground as volume I of the Lethierry and Severin Catalogue, except that the Thyreucori- dae (Cydnidae) and Urolabididae are relegated to the second volume, an unfortunate, although doubtless necessary procedure. Following this catalogue are 23 pages of additions and corrections bringing the list down to the end of 1907, and including most names published in 1908 and 1909. At the end is an index to genera, the specific index being held for the second volume. * Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and ana- tomical references, lists of food plants and parasites, etc. Prefaced by a discussion on nomenclature and an analytical table of Families. By G. W. Kifkaldy. Volume I, Cimicidae. Berlin, Felix L. Dames, 1909. Mar., 'TO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 141 On looking over this catalogue one is impressed by the remarkable industry, and by the accuracy as well, of the author, but it is a cnjes- tion if he does not lean too much toward the purely bibliographical side of his work. This is especially noticeable in his selection of geno-types, where, for instance, he practically make Fabricius redescribe his own genus Acanthia as Salda. We must bear in mind that the earlier ento- mologists fixed no types for their genera. That was a later invention which came with the multiplicity of generic names, and we have no right to so fix the types of these earlier genera as to change their mean- ing. Fabricius founded Acanthia for the Cimex lectularius of Linneus and the name must fall as a synonym of Cimex. When he founded Salda in 1803 he was simply separating out a group of species from his old genus Acanthia which he recognized as generically distinct from lectularius. In the same way I must disagree with our author in his use of the name Cimex- This was the ancient classical name of the bed bug which Linneus certainly considered representative of his genus and Fabricius had no more right to apply this generic name to bidens and its allies than had Latreille to fix sosterae as the type of Acanthia. We have had no more able student of the Hemiptera than Stal, and he in his mature work uses the name Cimex for lectularius. There is one course adopted by my friend Kirkaldy against which I wish to record my strongest protest. He says on page xiv that the names of families, tribes, etc., should be formed from the root of the "oldest generic name in the respective group." This is contrary to the rules of zoological nomenclature now almost universally adopted, and is also contrary to the rule of priority for which our talented author is elsewhere so strong an advocate. The family and tribal names should be formed from the "type genus" which I take to mean the genus con- sidered most characteristic by the founder of the family. For in- stance, the family name Capsidae has priority over Miridac and is founded on a more typical genus and there is no valid reason why it should be replaced by the later name. Our author claims that by fol- lowing this plan "we would have a family Lygaeidae which did not con- tain a genus Lygaeus", which is incorrect as Art. 5, of the Code pro- vides that "the name of a family or sub-family is to be changed when the name of its type genus is changed." In the matter of the emendation of generic names Mr. Kirkaldy has, T think, taken the right stand, but perhaps he has carried it too far when elsewhere he adopts the form Cyrtoisa for Cyrtosia, when the former was obviously a typographical error. This is taking the re- sponsibility out of the hands of the author and placing it on the type- setter and to be consistent, we should use the name of such typesetter or of the proofreader as authority for the name rather than that of the author. 142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO I wish also here to enter a protest against allowing a name given to the immature form of an insect to replace a later one founded on the adult. If we find an egg or larva new to us we should endeavor to raise it to maturity and learn to what species it belongs. If we have not the ambition or industry to do this we have no right to claim the species. We cannot but admire the strong stand our author has taken on the subject of priority and in the recognition of specific names except as noted above this rule probably cannot be too rigidly applied, but when we come to genera the personal element comes so prominently to the front in the selection of geno-types that it proba- bly is hopeless to look for unanimity. There will be many cases which could well be submitted to an unbiased authoritative commission who could undertake to decide each controverted case upon its merits. I do not feel competent to discuss the system of classification adopted by Mr. Kirkaldy which differs radically from that of the Lethierry and Severin Catalogue. It is founded on the Schodtean system and is probably the most philosophical thus far proposed. I would, however, like to suggest a few slight changes in the arrange- ments of the families and in doing this I have restored certain names which I think he has unwarrantably altered. Assuming his phylogeny to be substantially correct, I would list the families as follows : 1. Cydnidae (Thyreocoridae). 14. Nepidse. 2. Pentatomidae (Cimicidae). 15. Anthocoridae. 3. Urolabididae. 16. Cunicidae (Clinocoridae). 4. Aradidae. 17. Polyctenidae. 5. Coreidae. 18. Aepophilidae. 6. Pyrrhocomke. 19. Capsidas (Miridae). 7. Lygaeidae. (Myodochidae). 20. Dipsocoridas. 8. Tingidae. 21. Saldidae (Acanthiidse). 9. Nabidae. 22. Octeridae. 10. Gerridse. 23. Naucoridse. 11. Reduviidae. 24. Belostomidae. 12. Phymatidce (Macrocephalidae). 25. Corixidae. 13. Enicocephalidae. 26. Notonectidae. It seems to me that the representation of the relationship between various groups of insects of the same category by a phylogenetic tree, printed in two dimensions of space only, on the page of a book is but litlte more satisfactory than the linear arrangement of a cata- logue. A phylogenetic tree to be at all true to nature must be in three dimensions, and in my opinion, many, if not most of its branches, must anastamose at various points with the adjacent branches. This will sound to some like ignoring the principles of evolutionary develop- ment, but I do not see how we can escape from this view if we study Mar., '10] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 143 the more recent and plastic generic groups where each genus will be found to connect with related genera through intermediate species which may not necessarily have reverted to their parent stock but which do combine the characters of both genera and are character- istic of neither. One student will place such a species in one genus while the next will locate it in another and both may be equally cor- reect. These transition species serve to show us how artificial our generic groups are, and must be if we wish them to be of the great- est service in the classification of our insects. But to return to the catalogue before us. The enumeration of the genera and species we find to be remarkably complete and accurate and shows a marvelous industry on the part of the author. I have not been over it for omissions or errors and incidentally have noticed but one or two. On page 187 my Platycoris scutellahis is listed as a synonym of Poecilotoma grandicornis, whereas it is a distinct but closely allied species of that genus, and my Dictyotus (. ? ) pallidus (page 43) belongs to Bergroth's recent genus Eurynannus (page 204). Under each genus the species are arranged in alphabetical order, a purely artificial method which has its disadvantages but the use of sub-genera and sectional divisions in a measure compensate for this. Under the specific name the full binomial used by the author is given which will be a great convenience to the student. Another very use- ful feature is the naming of the types for each genus and sub-genus. On the other hand, our author has used "1. c." much too freely for ~-Hv reference, and each generic and specific name should have been followed by its authority. We also note that he has given us no table for distinguishing the superfamilies enumerated on page xxi. We are grateful to Mr. Kirkaldy for this first volume of his great catalogue and will look anxiously for the appearance of the later volumes. Since sending this review to the printer I have learned with deep regret of the untimely death of my friend G. W. Kirkaldy. We have faint hope that someone may be found who can take up the biblio- graphical work he so ably inaugurated and give us an authoritative catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world. E. P. VAN Dt'ZEE. ANT COMMUNITIES AND How THEY ARE GOVERNED A study in Na- tural Civics. By Henry Christopher McCook, author of "Na- ture's Craftsmen," "Tenants of an Old Farm," etc., etc. Illus- trated from nature. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York and London, 10x19. This is a book of 321 pages and is illustrated by 97 figures. The kind of entomology that is here set forth appeals to everyone as it re- 144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '10 lates in charming style the wonderful communal life of these very in- teresting insects. It is natural history divested of all dryness, and yet truly scientific. We also look upon it as a comparative study in civics and firmly believe that important facts have been gleaned that have and will be of benefit to that higher animal man. We believe that this book should be in the hands of youth as well as those of ma- ture years, as it can't fail to fascinate, instruct and interest all. Ento- mologists will find it a story told in delightful literary style, and it may induce some to take up similar studies. The last chapter, "A Note in Review", will call forth much thought and reflection, and if our human communities were made up of men like the author of this work how much ''law" would we need ? Would we not have the ideal community he mentions? The author has been a student of such prob- lems since 1874, when he communicated his first paper to the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., and during an active and exacting career in the minis- try has found time to write twenty-four books and memoirs. He has been honored for his valuable work, having been President of the American Entomological Society, Vice-President of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, Professor of Entomology in the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and in addition to D.D., has re- ceived the honorary degrees of Sc.D. and LL.D. We hope to see other interesting works from his facile pen. H. S. Doings of Societies. At a regular meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, held December 15, 1909, at 1523 South Thirteenth street, Philadel- phia, twelve members were present. Mr. W. Beutenmuller, of Mew York, visitor. President Harbeck in the chair. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. Mr. Beutenmuller described "the collection of insects found within a radius of fifty miles of New York" in the American Museum, recently entrusted to the care of the New York Entomological Society. Mr. Daecke exhibited specimens of Brnchits biviilneratus Horn, collected by Mr. A. B. Champlain at Enola, near Harris- burg, Pa., on blossoms of False Solomon's Seal (Vagncra racc- mosa Linn), VI. 12, '09, and stated that Mr. W. S. Fisher had collected this Bruchus on blossoms of Swamp Milkweed (As- clcplas incarnata Linn). VII, 7, '08, at Highspire, Pa., in the evening just before dark. Other members of the social said Alar., '10] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 145 that they had always taken this species on a species of Cassia. Mr. Daecke also exhibited a very unusual staphylinid ; Trigo- nodrsimts striatus LeC. It was collected by Mr. W. S. Fisher under driftwood October 14 on the Susquehanna River, at Harrisbnrg, Pa. Prof. Smith exhibited strawberry weevils (Anthonomus signatns Say) showing color variations, saying the species is injurious to the strawberries in southern New Jersey, but thinks this is not its natural food plant but only attacks it be- cause it is the earliest plant to blossom. It also attacks black- berry and dewberry blossoms. Said that many specimens bred were found to contain a hymenopterous parasite. Dr. Skinner said he had been questioned as to whether there were any Lepidopterous parasites and believed there was an Australian moth whose larva was parasitic on the roach but could find no reference, but found where larvae of some Epi- pyropidae were parasitic on Homoptera. Also mentioned a Coleopterous ( ?) larva supposed to have been blown from the nose of a consumptive person which led to a discussion of articles published by doctors which show a great lack of learn- ing on their part about Entomology. Mr. Huntington exhibited a small bottle of evaporated milk which contained a very much alive specimen of Dcnncstcs don- gatus LeC. Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited the following interesting Dip- tera : Platypeza tacniata Snow, Clementon X. 3, '09 ; Eupci- tcnus atcr Macq., Riverton IV, 9, '05; Asihis manccl Hine, Malaga VIII. 4, 07, coll. by Geo. M. Greene; Hyctodcsia palli- dula Cog., lona V. 16, '09, and H. 7'anf>cs Coq., lona IX. 12, '09. Dr. Skinner mentioned a species of Colydhini which had bred from a board on which was wrapped expensive cloth and eaten its way through the whole bolt, leaving many holes when the cloth was unwrapped. Mr. Wenzel said the Canadian trip had turned out better than at first supposed and he was working out the material as the authorities up there were going to publish a list and has 146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO identified over 200 species and believes that he will have over 300. Said that they had collected many species which were recorded by Hubbard and Schwarz in their paper on Mar- quette, Mich., and Lake Superior District. Specially men- tioned a species of Amara which is represented in the Horn collection by a specimen from Mass, and Europe, also Cymin- dis unicolor Kirby and six species of Magdalis. Also recorded Mctachroma lurida Oliv. from DaCosta, N. J., VII. 4, '09, about fifteen specimens taken on Scrub Oak. Dr. Skinner said that on January 6th the Brooklyn Ento- mological Society are to give a testimonial to Mr. Roberts and the Philadelphia entomologists are invited to attend. GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. At a regular meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social held November 17, 1909, at 1523 S. I3th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., fourteen members were present. President Harbeck in the chair. Prof. Smith exhibited two larvae of D at ana ministra Dru., the heads and last abdominal segment of which were covered with eggs of a Dipteron, Winthemia IV-pustulata Fabr. Said he had noticed flies buzzing around a group of these larvae and upon looking closer discovered that the flies were all females and were depositing their eggs. Described the man- ner of doing this and mentioned how uneasy the larvae seemed as soon as a fly approached. Mr. Wenzel exhibited some of his Canadian material re- cently collected by himself and H. A. 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S ^ oS o 1 , 8 ;ROUP OF WESTER UPPER 1 or Zoology and Botany, tructor in Entomology, r Experiment Station, L [essor Zoology, Oregon ssor Economic Entomo LOWER Professor Entomology ifessor Entomology, Col rolessor Entomology, SI tant Entomologist, Cali or, Arkansas Experime Entomology, Universit u i-c>r\'iic. Pass. >3 and others (nat. Pass. 1860) see Canad. Ent. Vol. April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 69. Hystrichiella subg., Borner, 1908, Zool. Anz., Vol. XXXIII, p. 609, t. Ph. spinulosa Targ. 70. Hyalopterus, Koch., 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 16, t. A. pruni Fab. Hyalopteris, Hunter misprint. 71. Idioptcrus, Davis, 1909, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., Vol. II, p. 198, t. nephrelepidis Davis. 72. Kallistaphis, Kirkaldy, 1905, Canad. Ent., Vol. XXXVII, p. 417, t. A. betulicolae Kalt.* 73. Kaltenbachiclla, Schouteden, 1906, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., Vol. 12, p. 194, t. menthae Schout. 74. Kesslcria, Lichtenstein, 1886, Mon. Pucer, Du Peupl., p. 16, t. P. spirothecae Pass. 75. Lachnus, Burmeister, 1835, Handbuch, Entom. II, p. 91, t. pnncta- tus Burm. 76. Lcptopteryx, Zetterstedt, 1840, Ins. Lapp., p. 625, t. nivalis Zett. 77. Liosoiuaphis, Walker, 1868, Zoologist, p. 1119, t. berberidis Kalt. 78. Lowia, Lichtenstein, 1886, Mon. Puceng. r on du Peupl., p. 37, t. passeriui Signoret. 79. Loxemtes, Ralinesque, 1817, Amer. Mon. Mag., Vol. I, p. 362, A. Diervilla-lutea Raf. 80. Macchiaticlla, Del Guercio, 1909, Rivista di Patol Vegatali, Anno IV, Num. i, p. 5, t. a. rliainmi Boyer. 81 Macrosiphum, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 27, t. a. rosae Linn. 82. Macrosiphum, Oestlund, 1886, Minn. Geol. Surv. Rept. 14, p. 27, rubicola Oest. 83. Mastopoda, Oestlund, 1886, Minn. Geol. Surv. Rept. 14, p. 52, t. pteridis Oest. 84. Mcgoura, Buckton, 1876, Mon. Brit. Aphides, Vol. I, p. 188, t. viciae Buckton. 85. Melanoxanthus, Buckton, 1879, Mon. Brit. Aphides, Vol. II, p. 21, t. a. salicis Linn. 86. Melanoxatherinum, Schouteden, 1901, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., Vol. XLV, p. 113, n. n. for Melanoxanthus (used in 1836 in Ela- teridae). 87. Melaplns, Walsh, 1886, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. VI, p. 281, t. rhois Fitch. 88. Microparsus, Patch, 1909, Ent. News, Vol. XX, p. 337,1. variabilis Patch. 89. Microsiphon, Del Guercio, 1908, Redia, Vol. IV, p. 192, t. a. tomentillae Pass. 90. Microslphum, Cholodkovsky, 1902, Jahr. d. St. Petersburger, Forst. Inst. Lief. 8, p. S3, 1902, Redescribed and figured in Zool. Anz., Vol. XXXIII, p. 687. 1908. * According to Kirkaldy Callipterus Buckton, 1881, Mon. Brit. Aphid., Vol. Ill, p. 12, not containing Koch's type. 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO 91. Mimaphidius, Rond, 1844, Nouv. Annal. Sci. Nat. Rend. ser. II, p. ?. 92. Mindartts, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 277, t. abietinus Koch. 93. Monaphis, Walker, 1870, The Zoologist, p. 2001, t. a. antennata Kalt. 94. Monellia, Oestlund, 1887, Minn. Geol. Surv. Bull. 4, p. 44, t. caryella Fitch. 95. Mordwilkoja, Del Guercio, 1909, Rivista, Pathol. Vegt. Anno. IV, no. i, p. n, t. P. vagabundus Walsh. 96. Moritsiella, Borner, 1908, Zool. Anz., Vol. XXXIII, p. 608, t. cortlcallis Kalt. 97. Mysocallis, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 28, t. coryli Goetze. =Mysocallis Rondani, 1874, Bull. Ital., Vol. VI, p. 62. 98. Myzoxile, Arvilly, 1834, Die Moysoxile, p. I, t. lanigera Hausm. 99. Mysoxyle, Blot. 1824, Mem. Soc. Linn., Calvados I, p. 114, t. lanigera Hausm. 100. Mysus, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 27, t. cerasi Fab. 101. Nectarophora, Oestlund, 1887, Minn. Geol. Surv. Bull. 4, p. 78, n. n. for Siphonophora Koch. 102. Nectarosiphon, Schouteden, 1901, Annalis Ent. Soc. Belg., Vol. XLV, p. 112, n. n. for Macrosiphum Oestlund. 103. Nipponaphis, Pergande, 1906, Ent. News, Vol. 17, p. 205, t. dis- tychii Perg. 104. Pachypappa, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 269, t. marsupi- alis Koch. 105. Panaphis, Kirkaldy, 1904, The Entomologist, Vol. 37, p. 279, n. n. for Ptychodes Buckton. 106. Paracletus, Heyden, 1837, Mus. Senkb. II, p. 295, t. cinciformis Heyd. 107. Pemphigus, Hartig, 1841, Zeit. Ent. Ill, p. 365, t. bursarhis Linn. =Pemphilus Kalt. 1843, P- 180. 108. Pentaphis, Horvath, 1896, Wien. Ent. Zeit., Vol. XV, p. 2, t. F. marginata Koch. 109. Pentaphis, Del Guercio, 1909, Rivistadi Patol Vegetale, Anno III, p. 332, t. tychea trivialis Pass. 1 10. Pentalonia, Coquerel, 1859, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. Ser. 3, Vol. VII, p. 239, t. nigronervosa Coq. in. Pergandea, Subg. Borner, 1908, Zool. Anz. Vol. XXXIII, p. 610, t. conica Shinier. 112. Pcrgandeida, Schouteden, 1903, Zool. Anz., Vol. XXVI, p. 685, t. ononidis Schout. 113. Periphyllus, Von der Hoeven, 1863, Tijdschr, Ent., Vol. VI, p. 7, t. testudo. April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 153 114. Peritymbia, Westwood, 1867, Gardner's Chronicle, p. 681, t. viti- sana Westw. 115. Phorodon, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 27, t. humuli Schrank. 116. Pliloemyzus, Horvath, 1896, Wien. Ent. Zeit., Vol. XV, p. 5, t. passerinii Sign. 117. Phloeophthridiuni, Von der Hoeven, 1850, Haub. Dierkunde, I, P- 509. 118. Phyllaphis, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 248, t fagi Linn. =Plrillaphis of others. 119. Phyllophora, Fernie, 1852, Morris, Nat., Vol. II, p. 265, t. testu- dinacea. 120. Phyllophorus, Thornton, 1852, Proc. Ent. Soc. London, n. s. II, p. 78, t. testudinatus. 121. Phylloxera, Boyer, 1834, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., Vol. Ill, p. 222, t. quercus. 122. Phylloxera, subg. Borner, 1908, Zool. Anz., Vol. XXXIII, p. 608, t. Ph. quercus Fousc. 123. Phylloxerina, Borner, 1908, Zool. Anz., Vol. XXXIII, p. 607, t. Ph. salicis, Licht. 124. Phymatosiphum, Davis, 1909, Annals Ent. Soc. Amer., Vol. II, p. 196, t. monelii Davis. 125. Pineus, Shimer, 1869, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. II, p. 383, t. pinicorticis Fitch. 126. Polyocellaria, Imhof, 1900, Biol. Centralblatt, Vol. XX, p. 527, not a valid Genus. 127. Prociphilus, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 279, t. bumeliae Schrank. 128. Psylloptera Ferrari, 1872, Anno, del Museo Civ. de Stor. Nat. di Geneva, Vol. Ill, p. 85, t. quercina Fer. 129. Pterocallis, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 28, t. alni Pass. 130. Pterochlorus, Rondani, 1848, Nouv. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, (2) Vol. VIII, p. ?, t. roboris Rond. 131. Pterocomma, Buckton, 1879, Mon. Brit. Aphid., Vol. II, p. 142, t. pilosa Buckton. 132. Ptychodes, Buckton, 1881, Mon. Brit. Aphides, Vol. Ill, p. 39, t. juglandis Kalt. 133. Rhizaphis, Planchon, 1867, Compt. Rend. Paris, Vol. XVII, p. 5&*. t. vastatrix. 134. Rhizobius, Burmeister, 1835, Handb. Entom. II, p. 87, t. pilo- sellae Burm. 135. Rhizocera, Kirk, 1897, New Zealand, Dept. Agrl. Leaflets for Gardners no. 20, p. 3 ; also in Vol. 6, 1898, Rept. Dept. Agrl. N. Zeal., p. 178, n. genus for P. vastatrix Plan. ICJ4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'id 136. Rhizoctomis, Mokrezhetsky, 1897, Horae Soc. Ent. Vol. XXX, p. 438, t. ampelinus Mokr. See also Horvath Wein, Ent. Zeit. XV, p. 5- 137. Rhizonhma, Hartig, 1857, Thander Forstliches Jahrb. Bd. 5, p. 177, not located in above publication. 138. Rhizopthiridium, Von der Hoeven, 1850, Handb. Dierkunde 1, p. 508, n. n. for Rhisobius Burm. 139. Rhizotcrus, Hartig, 1841, Zeit. Ent. Ill, p. 363, t. wcca Hartig. 140. Rhopalosiphum, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 23, t. cicntae Koch. : : Rhopalosiphon Scuclder 1882. 141. Rhizoicus, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 30, t. souchi Pass. nn. for Rhisobius Burm. 142. Sacciphantcs, Curtis, 1844, Ruricola Gardner's Chronicle, Vol. IV, p. 831, t. abietis Linn. 143. Schizoneura, Hartig, 1841, Germars Zeit. Entom. Ill, p. 365, t. ulmi Linn. 144. Schlechtendalia, Lichtenstein, 1883, Stett. Ent. Zeit., Vol. XL1V, p. 240, t. chineesis Licht. 145. Schoutedenia, Rubsamen, 1905, Marcellia, Vol. IV, p. 19, t. ralu- inensis. 146. Sipha, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 28, t. glyceriae Kalt. 147. Siphocoryne, Passerini, 1860, Gli Afidi, p. 28, t. nymphaeac Linn. 148. Siphonophora, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 150, t. dip- lanterae Koch. 149. Smynthnrodes, Westwood, 1849, Gardner's Chronicle, p. 420, t. betae Westw. 150. Stagona, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 284, t. xylostei De- geer. 151. Stomaphis, Walker, 1870, The Zoologist, Vol. 28, p. 2000, t. quercus Linn. 152. Subcallipteriis, Mordwilko, 1894, Rab. Lab. Zool. Kab. Varch. Univ. (K. Faune Anat. sem Aphid.) p. 63, t. alni Fab. (sub genus). 15.1- Symdobius, Mordwilko, 1894, Rab. Lab. Zool. Kab. Varch. Univ. (K. Faune Anat. sem. Aphid., p. 54., t. oblongus Heyd. 154. Tcnuitdphis, Wasmann, 1902, Tijdschr. Ent., Vol. XLV, p. 105, t. circumvallata Wasm. 155. Tetranenra, Hartig, 1841, Zeit. Entom. Ill, p. 365, t. ulmi DeGeer. 156. Tetraphis, Horvath, 1896, Wien, Ent. Zeit., Vol. XV, p. 6, t. betulina Horv. 157. Thccabius, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 294, t. populneus Koch. 758. Thelaxes, Westwood, 1840, Intr. Mod. Class Ins. Synopsis, Vol. II, p. 1 18, t. qucrcicola Westw. April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 155 159. Therioaphis, Walker, 1870, The Zoologist, p. 1999, t. m. ononidis Pass. 160. Toxoptera, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphiden, p. 253, t. aurantuie Koch. 161. Traina, Heyden, 1837, Mus. Senkb. II, p. 293, t. troglodytes Heyd. 162. Tranaphis, Walker, 1870, The Zoologist, Vol. V, p. 1999, t. salici- vora Walk. 163. Tricosiphum, Pergande, 1906, Ent. News, Vol. 17, p. 206, t. anonae Perg. 164. Trifidaphis, Del Guercio, 1909, Rivista di Fatal, Vegetale, Anno. Ill, p. 332, t. P. racidicola Essig. 165. Trychoides, Schouteden, 1906, Mem. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., Vol. 12, p. 194, n. n. for Tychca Pass. 166. Tychea, Koch, 1854, Die Pflanz. Aphid., p. 296, t. graminis Koch. 167. Tuberculatus, Mordwilko, 1894, Rab. Lab. Zool. Kab. Varch. Univ. (K. Faune Anat. Sem. Aphid.) p. 50, t. quercus Kalt. 1 68. Uraphis, Del Guercio, 1907, Redia, Vol. IV, p. 192, t. Aphis genis- tae Kalt. 169. Vacuna, Heyden, 1837, Mus. Senkb. II, p. 289, t. coccinea Heyd. 170. Viteus, Shinier, 1867, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., Vol. XIX, p. 6, t. vitifoliae Shim. 171. Xerampelus, Del Guerecio, 1900, Notiv. Rel. Staz. Fir., Vol. 11, p. 80, t. vastator Planchon. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. 1. Acanthaphis, Del Guercio, 1908, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. Anno. XXX- VIII, (p. ?) 153-185, Taf. I-III. t. Ph. spinulosa Targ. 2. Borneria, Grassi and Foa, 1908, Atti. Reale. Accad. nei Lincei. Rend., Vol. XVII, p. 685, t. danesii, G. and Foa. 3. Callipteroides, Mordwilko, 1908. Annuaire Musee Zool. L'Academ. Imp. Des. Sci, Tome XIII, p. 377, t. nigritarsis Heyd. 4. Chaitophoroides, Mordwilko, 1908, Annuaire Musee Zool. L'Aca- dem. Im. Des Sci, Tome XIII, p. 382, t. c. lantanac Koch. 5. Euphylloxera, Del Guercio, 1908, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. Anno. XXX- VIII, p. ?,) 153-185 Tom. I-III, t. Ph. fovcola Pg. Ph. conica Pg. 6. Guerdoja, Mordwilko, 1908, Annuaire Musee Zool. L'Academ. Imp. Des Sci., Tome XIII, p. 361, t. a. populi, Del Guer. 7. Longistigma, Wilson, 1909, Canad. Ent., Vol. 41, p. 385, t. L. caryae Harris. 8. Notabilia, Mordwilko, 1908, Annuaire Musee Zool. L'Academ. Imp. Des. Sci., Tome XIII, p. 363, t. Ph. notabilis Perg. 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO 9. Oregma, Buckton, 1893, Ind. Mus. Notes, Vol. Ill, p. 87, t. bam- busae Buck. 10. Schizolachnus, Mordwilko, 1908, Annuaire Musee Zool. L'Academ. Imp. Des. Sci., Tome XIII, p. 375- 11. Tuberolachnus, Mordwilko, 1908, Annuaire Musee Zool. L'Academ. Imp. Des. Sci., Tome, XIII, p. 374, t. viminalis Boyer. A Handsome Species of Phalangidae. BY NATHAN BANKS. Not many of our harvest-men can be called handsome or beautiful, but many are remarkable and curious. Mr. Crosby has sent me for naming a truly handsome species taken by Prof. Comstock in Texas. The other species of the genus occur in Mexico and California. Eurybunus formosus n. sp. Dorsum rich dark brown, a median elongate white spot near tip, trun- cate at base, pointed at tip, and slightly widened in the middle, the side- margins of dor sum just behind legs is also white. Coxae and basal part of venter pale, rest of venter brown. Mandibles pale or brownish, a dark spot each side at base of claw, and apical half of claw black. Palpi pale brownish. Legs with coxae, trochanters, femora, and patellae yel- lowish white, except patellae II and apical half of femora II which are brown ; all tibiae brown, with white tip, tibia II with apical third white ; metatarsi also brown, but paler, and with white tips; broader on leg II; tarsi pale brownish to pale yellowish, darkest on basal part. Dorsal shield rather elongate, slightly constricted over coxae IV ; abdomen tapering behind. All of dorsum minutely spinulose ; more prominent spinules near the front margin of cephalothorax, and a clus- ter each side near middle of front, and a transverse row behind the eye-tubercle. Behind this row are about eight rows of spinules. All joints of legs (except tarsi) with rows of large spinules, a few still larger ones near tips of coxae, femora, and patellae. Palpi also spinu- lose, except apical joint, eye-tubercle with spinules above. Legs rather heavy; the tibiae heavier than the femora; but femora I and III are much heavier than the others ; femur II nearly as long as body ; femur I much shorter than the width of cephalothorax. Length, 7 mm. Several examples from near Austin, Texas, taken by Prof. Comstock, through whose kindness and that of Mr. Crosby, I am describing the species. April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 157 Eupithecias that appear to be undescribed. BY RICHARD F. PEARSALL, Brooklyn, N. Y. Eupithecia dolorosata n. sp. Expanse 16 mm. In form and color resembling coagulata Guen., but lacking the roseate blush of that species. Palpi moderate, stout, dark brown with extreme tip, white. Vertex white. Front pale gray, with a dusky line between antennae, which are ashen, ringed with black at joints and, bifasciculate, the fascicles of hair slender and short, not bushy as in miserulata Grote. Thorax darkened by a mixture of black scales. A large white scutellae spot and a white dorsal line along anterior segments of abdomen which is uniformly gray above, a narrow black line on either side nearly to tip, beneath soiled white. Ground color of all wings, ashen, sprinkled with black atoms, densely along costa of primaries, where they form six nearly equidistant black clusters, the beginning of cross lines which are hardly traceable beyond centre. Be- tween spots two and three from base pale twin lines, separated by a fine gray line, cross costa above the small faint discal dot, running di- rectly toward it, then turn sharply outward curving around cell, fading out in crossing, with a basal trend but in a direct line to inner margin half way out. From this line the fifth or extra discal is a little more widely separated at costa, but follows the same course, gradually nar- rowing the space between them toward inner margin. These two lines are more distinct than any others, markedly so near costa and the ground color between them is paler. Beyond extra discal the usual geminate pale lines parallel it, but are fine and faint. Subtermin- al space very narrow, the white line barely traceable close to mar- gin and ending in a pale dot below vein two at anal angle. Marginal line black broken at veins. Fringe slightly paler than ground color, silken darker in spots opposite veins. The secondaries show only faint traces of intra and extra discal cross lines, with pale space between as in primaries. The geminate pale line is near to outer margin, runs parallel to it, with a strong curve toward base just before it reaches inner margin. Outer margin flattened between veins three and seven. Marginal black line heavy, unbroken. Fringe as in primaries. Discal dots very small and faint. Beneath, paler than above, the entra and extra discal lines faintly reproduced on primaries. In secondaries they are more distinct, the intra discal making a regular basal curve from inner margin to discal dot, thence at right angles, straight to costa at centre, the extra discal and faint line outside it, indicated by spots on veins. Between these the geminate pale lines show plainly ; all paral- lel to outer margin. Marginal lines distinct black, broken narrowly at veins. Fringes as above. Discal dots small jet black, linear on pri- maries, round on secondaries. Body and legs soiled white, the fore legs heavily washed with black, all tarsi ringed with yellowish white. 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO Type : A perfect $ captured at light in Big Indian Valley, Catskill Mountains. VIII, 12, '09, by the author and in his col- lection. Eupithecia adequata n. sp. Expanse 20-22 mm. In wing form and somewhat in style of mark- ings, resembles multiscripta Hulst, but about one-half as large. Palpi moderate, rather stout, gray and white scales, tipped with white. Front, vertex and thorax above, white with scattering gray scales. The latter nearly clear white centrally, where are clustered at summit a few pale brown scales, the scutellar region tipped with pure white. Antennae slender, silver gray, with dots of black scales dorsal- ly, shortly biciliate in $ , very short in $ . Abdomen above white and pa'Ie gray, each segment ringed with clear white posteriorly, the second with a narrow ring of jet black anteriorly. All wings above with ground color pure white, overlaid with black and gray scales, forming the cross lines, and having within basal area and outside extra discal line, a band of bright brown scales, the outermost clearly defined. The basal line with outward curve from costa, turns sharply inward to base. Outside this is the brown band a little broadened toward inner margin, then a well marked black line outside it crosses costa about one-third out, turns sharply toward apex and at cell centre, abruptly backward to inner margin touching it barely one mm. from base. A similar intra discal line crosses costa just above discal dot, makes a sharper, longer spur toward apex, and turning, passes backward close beneath discal dot, parallel to previous lines and close to it, broaden- ing and darkening as it reaches inner margin. Beyond this line, a broad, clear space crosses both wings, traversed by four fine parallel gray lines, outwardly denned by heavier black lines parallel to preceding lines, but much waved. The pale central space like a broad band is a conspicuous mark of this species, and has a spur projecting from its costal angle, toward outer margin just below apex. The costal and space above this is darker and dashed with black lateral streaks. The geminate pale lines seem fused into a single broad, wavy white line, and beyond this the brown line clear across wing, waved to just within ana; angle. A narrow white line succeeds this and the very narrow submar- ginal space is gray. Marginal line fine jet black hardly broken at veins. Fringes long, gray, darker at base, traversed centrally by a white line. Discal dots small, linear, jet black. Secondaries, like primaries, have a dark basal area, succeeded by broad pale band, bordered with black at inner margin, and traversed by two fine gray Unes, all of which fade out before reaching wing centre. A broad shade line of gray, outside pale band, runs parallel with outer margin, fading out costally and outwardly bordered by the single broad white April, 'lOJ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 159 line. Submarginal space narrow gray. No brown line, but centrally tiaversed by a broad, wavy, white line as on primaries. Marginal line and fringe as on primaries. Discal dots barely visible. Beneath the primaries are dusky, the intra and extra discal and a central submargin- al line as above, dark and well defined. The central broad, pale band and the geminate pale lines, outside extra discal, are clear white. Secondaries more dusky, the lines as above darker, but crossing wing entire, the extra discal with a strong outward curve about cell, the central space and geminate lines clear white. Body, legs and abdomen beneath white thickly sprinkled with dark brown and gray scales. Discal dots larger and distinct on all wings. Types $ and 2 taken at Eureka, Utah (Spalding) V. 9, '09 and V. 10, '09. Cotypes from same locality 10 $ and 3 9 V. 6 to 30, '09, all in author's collection. I have compared this species with m-nltiscripta in wing shape and style of markings, but the pale central band with its spur to apex would mark it as an intermediate form between that species and acutipennis Hulst and allies. It is easily identified by this peculiarity and by the bright brown bands on primaries. Eupithecia incresata n. sp. Expanse 18-20 mm. Primaries somewhat produced at apex outer margin strongly sloping inward, the anal angle falling much within the outer curve of secondaries which are rather long but well rounded. Palpi moderate, bushy dark brown. Vertex, front and thorax dark brown and gray scales mixed. Antennae brown, stouter and faintly black ringed in. $, flattened and shortly ciliate ; slender and without rings in 9. Abdomen clothed above and beneath with yellow and dark brown scales mingled with whitish. Basal segments above, nearly clear white. No black ring on second, though in the $ the dorsal tuft is enlarged giving that appearance otherwise they are small, black. Body and legs grayish white, thickly sprinkled with dark brown. All wings above gray, thickly sprinkled with dark brown and blackish scales. In $ there is strongly apparent, a washing of yellow brown, costally and subterminally on all wings, in 9 not so distinct. In both the covering is soft, without definite lines. Basally there is a darkened area, outlined by a faint intra discal line which, crossing costa above discal point suddenly curves outward around and beneath it, thence in waves to inner margin over one-half out. Extra discal indicated by a few black dashes centrally on veins, and by a dark spot on costa. Basally on costa, along median vein, and on vein one, l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO are also scattered dashes of black. Geminate pale line cross costa wide apart. The inner suddenly cuts off the outer at this point, makes a long angle toward apex and crosses. Wing in a single broad, firmly marked white line parallel to outer margin. Subterminal space slightly darkened, traversed centrally by a much broken pale line ending in a white spot between veins i and 2, which is accentuated by a cluster of dark scales on inner or basal side. This spot is also present at anal angle on secondaries which are crossed by a single whitish wavy line parallel to outer margin, and forming the inner boundary of the subterminal space, which, as on primaries, is slightly darkened, and centrally traversed by a very indefinite pale line. A few black scales at inner margin toward base. Marginal lines on all wing black widely broken at veins, followed by a fine clear white line at base of fringes, which are long, silken, brownish gray, heavily clouded with black spots opposite veins. Discal clots very small ; on primaries slightly linear black, on secondaries barely visible. Beneath the primaries are dusky, toward apex washed as above with yellow brown. The geminate pale lines broad at costa, and outlined across it by black scales. The inner is lost before reaching wing centre, the outer entire and well defined, not wavy, and its angle below costa more obtuse than on upper sur- face. Secondaries whitish ash, crossed by three lines of dusky spots, outside the discal spot, the two inner parallel with a sharp outward angle opposite cell, are succeeded by the broad pale line as above, and this by a dusky line of spots parallel to outer margin. Discal dots black more apparent than above. Fringes paler with dusky spots large and very distinct. Type $ taken at Princeton Summit, B. C, VII. 9, '09, the 5 in Skagit Basin, B. C., VII, 19, '09, in author's collection. In the male of this, and some other species, I have noted that the hind tibiae are short and stout and the upper spurs placed in a depression, which causes it to look twisted. If proven con- stant this feature may form a basis for grouping by the scient- ist who will monograph this genus and its allies twenty years hence. (To be continued) Schizomyia ipomoeae n. sp. BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The interesting species described below was reared in large numbers by William W. Pattersons, of St. Vincent, B. W. I., from flower buds of Ipomoea. It is most easily distinguished April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l6l from American forms by its small size, the reddish brown ab- domen and in particular by the varicolored antennae, the seg- ments basally being a more or less distinct yellowish. Male. Length, 1.2 mm. Antennae as long as the abdomen, rather thickly haired, dark brown, the segments basally dull yellowish, the fifth segment with a length about six times its diameter, thickly clothed with short, even setae and with heavy, irregular circumfili ; terminal segment tapering, with a length seven times its diameter. Palpi ; first segment short, stout, irregular, the second a little longer, swollen near the mid- dle, the third half longer than the second, slender, the fourth half longer than the third. Eyes large, black. Mesonotum reddish brown. Scutel- lum and post-scutellum dark brown. Abdomen a variable reddish brown. Wings hyaline, costa light brown, the third vein uniting with the margin just beyond the apex. Halteres whitish transparent. Coxae, femora and tibiae a variable yellowish or fuscous yellowish, the tarsi slightly darker. Claws long, slender, simple, the pulvilli shorter than the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment stout, distally thickly setose ; terminal clasp segment subapical, short, stout, irregularly bifid ; dorsal plate short, narrowly incised, the lobes obliquely truncate, setose at the angles ; ventral plate long, narrow, deeply and narrowly emarginate, the lobes long, slender, tapering; style short, acute. Female. Length, 1.75 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, thickly clothed with short hairs, dark brown, the basal fourth of seg- ments three to six yellowish, the fifth with a length six times its diam- eter, thickly clothed with short hairs and with low circumfili near the basal third and apically; I2th segment with a length three times its diameter; I3th with a length half greater than its diameter, the Hth with a length only a little greater than its diameter. Palpi ; first seg- men short, with a length three times its diameter, the second twice the length of the first, stout, the third and fourth slender, each successively slightly longer. Mesonotum, scutellum, postscutellum and abdomen a little lighter than in the male. Ovipositor when extended as long as the body, the basal portion pale orange yellow, the distal part tapering to an acute apex. Basal plate weakly chitinized. Other characters nearly as in the male. Exuviae. Length, 2.5 mm., whitish, stout. Antennal sheaths stout, indistinctly annulate and extending to the second abdominal segment Cephalic horns moderately stout, slightly curved. Wing pads extending to the third abdominal segment, the leg cases to the sixth. The dorsum of abdominal segments 2 to 8 inclusive, with an irregular, narrow, trans- verse band of heavily chitinized spines. Type Cecid 3.2022, N. Y. State Museum. l62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO Two New Aphelinine Parasites of Scale Insects. BY L. O. HOWARD. In the course of his almost constant journeying in different parts of the world searching for beneficial insects, Mr. Geo. Compere, Agent of the State Board of Horticulture of Cali- fornia and of the Department of Agriculture of Western Aus- tralia, finds many curious and interesting parasitic Hymenop- tera. Many of these he sends to the writer for determination, and in a lot received quite recently there occur two new Aphe- linines which it seems desirable to name at once. The de- scriptions follow : Genus PHYSCUS Howard. PJiyscus Howard. Bulletin No. i, Technical Series, Bureau of Ento- mology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1895, page 43. Type Coccophagus variconis Howard (Annual Report, De- partment of Agriculture, 1880, page 360. Physcus flaviventris n. sp. Female. Length 0.97 mm. ; expanse 2 mm. ; greatest width of fore- wing 0.3 mm. Somewhat slenderer than varicornis. Head and thorax dark brown nearly black. Abdomen above and below orange-yellow, brown at sides. Scape brown; pedicel and all three funicle joints pallid; club brown, pale at tip. Fore femora and base of fore tibiae brown; remainder of front legs and all of middle and hind legs pallid, tinged with yellowish. Wing veins not colored, transparent. Type No. 12,167, U. S. N. M. Described from two female specimens reared by George Compere from Chrysomphalus aurantii Mask, Manila, P. I. Genus PERISSOPTERUS Howard. Perissopterus Howard. Technical Series No. i, Bureau of Entomo- logy, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1895, page 20. Type Aphclinits pulchellns Howard, Annual Report, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1880 page 356. Perissopterus earnest n. sp. Female. Length 0.81 mm.; expanse 1.83 mm.; greatest width of fore-wing 0.198. Resembles Perissopterus jai'cnsis Howard (Techni- cal Series No. 12, Part IV, 1907, page 88), but differs in having the tip of the first tarsal joint of the middle legs yellow and the fourth April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 163 tarsal joint brown. This tarsus being thus colored, 4th and 5th joints and all of 1st joint except tip brown; 2nd and 3rd and tip of ist yellow. Type. No. 12,108, U. S. N. M. Described from three female specimens reared by George Compere from Lepidosaphes beckii, China. The specific name is given in honor of Mr. Edward K. Carnes who has charge of the admirable insectary of the California State Board of Horticulture at Sacramento, Cal. The Genus Trybliophorus Serville, and its Species. BY LAWRENCE BRUNER. Trybliophorus Serville, Rev. Meth. Orthopt., p. 83 (i83i) ; Ib., Hist. Nat, Orthopt., p. 631 (1839); Stal, Syst. Acrid., p. 43 (1878); Brunner, Rev. Syst. Orthopt., p. 136 (1893); Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, XIII, No. 311, p. 43 (1898). Stegastris Gerstaecker, Bemerkens, Orthopt., p. 63 (1888) ; Brunner, Rev. Syst. Orthopt., p. 136, foot note (1893). This genus is characterized chiefly by having the disk of the hind lobe of the pronotum flattened and extended in the form of a triangle backwards so as to reach the front edge of the first abdominal segment. The apical joint of the maxillary palpi is ampliate and much flattened, while the antennae are very heavy and elongate. Recently while studying a small collection of locusts from Peru, South America, that had been submitted to the writer for determination, a single female specimen of the genus Tryblio- phorus was encountered among other interesting forms. An examination of this insect showed it to be an undescribed spe- cies. It was accordingly named T. peruviana, and a description of it drawn up and sent, along with others, to Prof. Nicholas Iconnicoff, of the University of Moscow, for publication. In the meantime Mr. James A. G. Rehn, of Philadelphia, has sub- mitted to me for examination and description, if I so desired, another specimen of the same genus. The latter insect, also a female, comes from Surinam or Dutch Guinea. An examination of the several descriptions heretofore pub- 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO lished, together with the two specimens here referred to, has enabled me to draw up the annexed synoptical table for the separation of the known species : Synopsis of the species of Trybliophorus. A Sides of the face, pronotum and pleura varied by pallid or yellow lines or maculations. b Size smaller (9 25-28 mm.). The face, cheeks and sides of prono- tum and pleura in advance of the insertion of the hind femora adorned by a row of four whitish maculations [Cayenne, French Guiana) i. OCtomaculatus Serv. bb Size larger (9 32-39 mm. or more). The face, cheeks, sides of pronotum and pleura adorned with yellow bands or macula- tions. c Size medium (9 32-34 mm). d Hind femora pale coral red, the tibiae dark blood-red with brownish apices and black spines (Fontehoa, Amazonas]. 2. corallipes Gerst. dd Hind femora testaceous, the tibiae barely tinged with red, the spines black tipped [Surinam or Dutch Guiana]. 3. elegaus Rehn. cc Size large ( 9 39 mm. or more). d Antennae reddish brown. Wings only faintly infuscated [North Central Peru] 4. peruviana Bruner. dd Antennae purplish red. Wings blackish [Brazil]. 5. bivittatus Walk AA Sides of the face, pronotum and pleura unadorned by pallid or yel- low lines or maculations [Ega, Amazonas] . 6. voluci'is Gerst. The species octomaculatus Serville is, of course, the type of the genus, while corallipes Gerstaecker and elegans Rehn are both quite nearly related to it. In fact, it is rather difficult to decide just which one of these two should immediately follow the type when the species are arranged in sequence. The spe- cies peruviana Bruner and bivittatus Walker are both larger than the other four, but are also quite similar in general color and markings to the type and Gerstaecker's and Rehn's species just referred to. The species volucris Gerstaecker is unique in lacking the pallid maculations on the face, sides of the head, pronotum and pleura. Whether it should precede octomaculata in the arrangement of the species or remain at the end of the list has not been definitely decided. April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 165 The Macrolepidoptera of the Bermudas. BY FRANK MORTON JONES, Wilmington, Delaware. The nearest point of land to the Bermudas is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 575 nautical miles distant. Considering- the variety of the vegetation, the apparent lack of climatic bars to the establishment of a wide variety of insect life, and the fact that comparatively fragile forms have been known to cross over from the mainland, the fauna is a meager one and the entire absence of many widely distributed groups is remarkable. In 1902 Prof. A. E. Verrill published (Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., XI) a list of the insects of Bermuda, based on his own collec- tions and on all previously published records. He lists forty species of Macrolepidoptera ; of these, however, one species is duplicated as a synonym ; three were not positively identified ; three others have not been recorded for more than fifty years, the specimens were not seen by Prof. Verrill, and the correct- ness of their identification requires confirmation; of the re- maining thirty-three species several occur as stragglers only and are not established on the islands. In a stay upon the Islands extending from December 7, 1908, to May 20, 1909, I was able to confirm the presence of many of the previously recorded species and to add materially to the list. Several hundred specimens were collected for me in the summer of 1909, but with the exception of a single spe- cies this material duplicated my captures of the winter and spring. I am indebted to Dr. H. G. Dyar, Dr. J. B. Smith and Mr. J. A. Grossbeck for identification of specimens ; to Prof. Stewardson Brown for identification of food-plants ; to Miss Estelle Jones, Messrs. Louis Mowbray, Clifton Astwood and Francis Hutchings for specimens and notes. It is of course possible that careful summer collecting will add considerably to the following list : Agraulis ranillae Linn. Not heretofore recorded; believed locally to be of recent introduction ; now the most abundant butterfly, in all stages throughout the winter; foodplant Passiflora um- brosa L. Danais berenice Cram. Recorded on previous lists ; not seen, 1908-9. l66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO Danais plexippus Linn. Well established, breeding throughout the year; larvae on (introduced) Asclepias. Vanessa antiopa Linn. Not seen, 1908-9. Pyrameis atalanta Linn. Not abundant; fresh specimens, April and May. Pyramids cardui Linn. Not abundant ; fresh specimens, December and March. Junonia coenia Hbn. Abundant, all stages throughout the winter; foodplant plantain. Pieris rapae Linn. Listed by Prof. Verrill as seen but not captured; if established on the Islands, still rare. Catopsilia cubule Linn. Probably not permanently established. Terias lisa Bdv. Often an abundant summer species; two cases are recorded of vast flocks of this butterfly arriving and spread- ing over the Islands (Oct. 10, 1847 an d Oct. i, 1874) ', re- ported to me as abundant for a few days only, 1909. Colias philodice Godt. Not seen, 1908-1909. Papilio cresphontes Cram. Prof. Verrill records a single specimen. Therctra tersa Linn. In all stages throughout the winter. Dilophonota ello Linn.. Not rare; larvae on "Joseph's Coat," Poin- settia heterophylla. Phlegethontius cingulata Fabr. Present in all stages. Chlaenogramtna jasm'mcarum Bdv. Recorded in 1876; probably a straggler. Lycomorpha pJiolus Dru. Also not recorded since 1876. Utetheisa bella Linn. Recorded as an abundant summer species; not seen, winter and spring, 1908-9. Isia Isabella S. & A. Probably a recent introduction ; Mr. Mowbray has found several larvae. Perigea sutor Gn. Occasional at light. Perigea circuita Gn. At light, sugar and bread. Perigea subaurea Gn. Recorded by Butler, Challenger Exp., 1884. Prodcnia commelinae S. & A. Prodenia eridania Cram. Abundant, all stages; favorite food of larva, castor-oil plant. Prodcnia ornithogalli Gn. Abundant, all stages. Laphy^ina c.vigua Hbn. Recorded by Butler. Agrotis ypsilon Rott. Not abundant, 1908-9. Peridroma saucia Hbn. Bred; well established. Peridroma incivis Gn. Bred and at sugar. Feltia annexa Gn. Not rare ; bred. Feltia malefida Gn. Not rare. ,! I law. Well established. April, *IO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 167 Leucania latiuscula H. S. (subpunctata Harv.) Well established; bred. Heliothis obsolcta Fab, (Not found, 1908-9). Autograplia ou Gn. Abundant; bred; larvae on Parthenium hystero- phorus L. Autographa rogationis Gn. Abundant. Autographa brassicae Riley. Not frequent. Anomis erosa Hbn. Callopistria floridensis Gn. Gonitis cditrix Gn. The showy larvae abundant on Triumfetta semi- triloba Jacq. Remigia repanda Fabr. Bred and at sugar; abundant and variable. Thermesia monstratura Wlk. Recorded by Butler. Tetanolita mynesalis Wlk. Occasional at light. Bonioloclia citata Grt. Larger and more strongly marked than usual; possibly distinct; larvae abundant on Sida rhombifolia. Percnoptilota ftuviata Hbn. Not rare. Gypsochroa sitellata Gn. Not rare. Cosymbia myrtaria Gn. Bred; large and dark, like Florida specimens. Scelolophia purpurissata Grt. (formosa Hulst). Eois laevitarm Hbn. (floridata Pack). This beautiful little Geometer locally abundant, Warwick Marsh, May. Eois crossii Hulst. Not rare ; bred from larvae on Lantan. Villeneuve, J. Etudes dipterologiques, III A propos de quel ques Tabanus types de Brauer, 38, xxix, 79. Dipteres nouveaux (Calaiu-innrilla n. g.), 38, xxix, 87 (). Vimmerz, A. Larva bed- lobytky Cordyla fusca, 212, vi, 148, 1909. Wellman, F. C. Un- usual parasitic habits of an African Ephydrid (translation), 5, xvii, 8. Williams,, F. X. The anatomy of the larva of Cecidomyia resinicoloides, 180, iii, 45. April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 191 COLEOPTERA. Bernhauer, M. Zur Staphylinedenfauna von Sudamerika. 6. Beitrag, 69, xl, 225, 1909 (). Blackburn, T. Fur- ther notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species, 210, xxxiii, 18, 1909 (). Gahan, C. J. et al. Ruwenzori expedition reports 14. Coleoptera, 209, xix, 185, 1909 (). Gunther, E. Biologisches ueber Dytiscus marginalis, 24, liv, 176, 1909. Hinds, & Turner Carbon di-sulfid fumigation for the rice weevil in corn, 179, iii, 47. Jeannel, R. Contribution a 1'etude des Silphides cavernicoles d'Espagne, 208, ix, 462, 1909 (). Kerre- mans, C. Monographic des Buprestides. Tome iv, No. 5-6. Kleine, R. Die Lariiden und Rhynchophoren und ihre nahrungsp- flanzen, 193, vi, 42. Olivier, E. Coleopterorum catalogues. Pars. 9. Lampyridae; Pars 10. Rhagophthalmidae, Drilidae. Pic, M. Descriptions de Cantharides (Telephorides) Americains nouveaux, 55, xxxii, 43 (*). Reitter, E. Siagonadia, nov. subgen. von Mac- rosiagon, 38, xxix, 131. Smith, J. B. Amara avida as a strawberry pest, 179, iii, 97. Spaeth, F. Beschreibung neuer Cassididen nebst synonymischen bemerkungen, 44, lix, 364 (). Sternberg, C. Neue Dynastiden-arten, 35, liv, 33. Tremoleras, J. Coleopterologische skizze von Uruguay, 193, vi, 39. Van Roon, G. Coleopterorum catalogus Pars 8. Lucanidae, 1910. Wassmann, E. Staphylinus- arten als Ameisen-rauber, 92, vi, 5, 37. Wildermuth, V. L. The clover-root Curculio. (Sitones hispidulus), 7, Bulletin, No. 85, pt. 3. Xambeu, C. Moeurs & metamorphoses des Coleopteres de la tribu des Chrysomeliens, 55, xxxii, 41. Yathers, M. A. Notes on Lixus marginatus, 4, xlii, 69. HYMENOPTERA. Cameron, P. On some Asiatic species of the sub-families Spathiinae, Doryctinae, Rhogadinae, Cardiochilinae and Macrocentrinae in the Royal Berlin Zoological Museum, 38, xxix, 93 (). Cockerell, T. D. A. New American bees. IX, 9, xliii, 90. A tertiary leaf-cutting bee. 10, Ixxxii, 429. Some bees of the genus Augochlora from the West Indies, 50, xxxvii, 489. Girault and Sanders The Chalcidoid parasites of the common house or typhoid fly (Musca domestica) and its allies (continued), 5, xvii, 9. Kleine, R. Ichneutnoniden in den eiersackcn von Arachnoiden, 24, liv, 117, 1909. Morley, C. On the Hymenopterous parasites of Coccidae (continued), 9, xliii, 94. Rohrwer, S. A. Notes on Tenthredinoidea, with descriptions of new species, 4, xlii, 88 (*). Ruggles, A. G. The larch saw-fly (Lygaeonematus erichsonii) in Minnesota, 4, xlii, 93. Schmidt, H. Beitrag zur biologic der Steinobst-Blattwespe (Lyda nemoralis), 92, vi, 17. Schmeideknecht, O. Opuscula Ichneumonologica. Fasc. 24. Viehmeyer, H. Bemerkungen zu Wasmanns neuester Arbeit: 192 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO Ueber den ursprung cles sozialen parasitismus, der sklaverei und der myrmecophilie bei den Ameisen, 22, xxxv, 450. Webster & Reeves The western grass-stem saw-fly (Caphus occidentalis), 7, Circular, No. 117. Doings of Societies. The twenty-second annual meeting of the American Asso- ciation of Economic Entomologists was held at the Harvard Medical School, (Brookline) Boston, Mass., December 28 and 29, 1909. The first session was called to order by Presi- dent W. E. Britton, of New Haven, Conn., who presided throughout the meeting and who delivered the annual address on "The Official Entomologist and the Farmer." The program was crowded with papers which were of great economic im- portance to the entomologist and the agriculturist, although a few were more technical in character and dealt with some of the fundamental principles of scientific investigation of entomolog- ical matters. A discussion of different methods used in re- search work was of particular interest, as were also the reports of the progress that is being made in the field and parasite work in New England for the purpose of controlling the gypsy and brown-tail moths. A report by Dr. W. P. Headden, of Colorado, concerning the injury to fruit trees caused by arseni- cal spraying and the discussions that followed brought out many new ideas on this important subject. An exhibit made by the local entomologists and members which was held in an adjoining room contained samples of apparatus and breeding devices, as well as insect collections, which added much interest to the meeting. On Tuesday evening the association and the Entomological Society of America were the guests of the Cam- bridge Entomological Club, and on Thursday morning the members had the opportunity of witnessing a spraying demon- stration at Arlington with high-power sprayers, as the guest > of Mr. H. L. Frost. The attendance at each session numbered over 100 members and visitors, nearly every section of the United States and Canada being represented. April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 193 The association commended the work which is being < clone to control the gypsy and brown-tail moths in New England, endorsed the bill before Congress to provide for the establish- ment of standards of purity of insecticides and fungicides, and advocated the passage by Congress of a national law to pre- vent the importation of dangerously injurious insects and fungus diseases from foreign countries. The report of the secretary showed that the association was increasing in membership and was in good financial condition. The Journal of Economic Entomology* which is the official organ of the association, was also reported by the business manager to be in a thriving condition. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, Prof. E. D. Sanderson, Durham, N. H. ; first vice- president, Dr. H. T. Fernald, Amherst Mass.; second vice- president, Prof. P. J. Parrott, Geneva, N. Y. ; secretary, A. F. Burgess, Washington, D. C. The annual meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society was held at 55 Stuyvesant Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., January 6th, with sixteen members and five visitors present. The following officers were elected unanimously : President, John B. Smith; vice-president, Geo. P. Engelhardt ; treasurer, Chris. E. Olsen ; corresponding secretary, A. C. Weeks ; re- cording secretary, R. P. Dow; librarian, F. M. Schott ; curator, Geo. Franck. John B. Smith was re-appointed delegate to the New York Academy of Sciences. It was voted to amend the by-laws, making the meetings on the second Thursday after the first Tuesday of each month. This change makes the meeting full nine days later than those of the New York Entomological Society, whereas in the past the meetings were two days apart. Robert Schmaltz reported that he had mated a cyntliia and cecropia moth, obtaining several hundred fertile eggs. The larvae were distinctive, but all save two died when about hall grown. One died in cocoon and one is still alive. 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO Mr. Dow exhibited three specimens of Cicindela from Sul- livan County, N. Y., which are greenish brown and which are either a local race of ancoclsconensis or between that species and rcpanda. No attempt will be made to give it varietal rank until additional material is secured. They are not uncommon but confined to one mountain side. From the same region but 500 feet lower a race of C. harrisii was found, many of which were so bronze hued as to suggest a natural hybrid with pur pur ca. Following the meeting a supper was served and a silver loving cup presented to Christopher H. Roberts, who retired as treasurer after thirty-one years of service. R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. The Brooklyn Entomological Society met at 55 Stuyvesant Avenue, February loth, with eighteen members and three vis- itors present. A. E. Allen, a lepidopterist, was elected an active member. F. H. Wolly Dod, of Calgary, Canada, spoke of his collect- ing experiences there covering a period of sixteen years. He spoke particularly of Argynnis astartc, the fastest flyer of the genus. The males frequent the mountains above the timber line and probably above the limits of growth of violets. C. H. Roberts read a paper on Colymbetcs. The genus is divided into three groups, divided by appearance of front and middle tarsi : First, with three rows of hairs and no pallets, paykulli, loiujnlns, scininiger, obscuratus (not seen by Leconte, Sharp or Roberts) ; the second has two rows of pallets and one row of hairs and includes strigatus, crotchii, c.varatus, and one species from the Yellowstone not yet described; the third group has four rows of pallets and no hairs ; it includes sculptilis, rugipennis, dolobratus, greenlandicits, thomsoni and three species still undcscribed. The tarsal claws present a character by which alone every species can be accurately de- termined. R. P. 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