bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW ICHNEUMONIDÆ
Authors: Cresson E. T.
Published: February 2010

Mesostenus Nubilipennis.–♀. Black ; anterior orbits, lower part of cheeks, spot on middle of face, most of clypeus and labrum, spot on mandibles, annulus on antennæ, line on sides of collar, spot on each side of prothorax above, spot on disk of mesothorax, most of scutellum, dot on post-scutellum, tegulæ, spot beneath, spot on sides of pleura, spot on each side behind posterior wing, two elongate marks on metathorax behind covering the prominent, obtuse and transversely compressed tubercles, the four anterior coxæ, spot on posterior pair above, annulus at base of posterior tibiæ, extreme base and apex of the first joint of posterior tarsi, the second, third and fourth joints entirely, and the apical margin of segments 1-6 of abdomen, all white ; front unarmed ; thorax opaque; mesothorax confluently punctured ; metathorax reticulated; wings hyaline, with a fuliginous cloud beneath stigma, areolet quadrate, closed; legs fulvous, extreme tips of posterior femora, their tibiæ except white annulus near base, most of basal joint of their tarsi, and the apical joint, black ; abdomen fusiform, rather shining, punctured, first segment considerably dilated at apex ; ovipositor shorter than abdomen.
NOTES ON SEVERAL SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HABITS, ETC
Authors: Dury Charles
Published: February 2010

This pretty and interesting species, described by Mr. G. R. Crotch from a single specimen in the collection of Prof. Ulke, of Washington, D. C., who received it from Kentucky ten years ago, has remained unique in his collection until I found it, together with its larvæ and pupa.

Its food is fungus ( Polypora) growing on logs. Its full-fed larvæ are 7/8 inch 1ong, rather slender, of light color, with the head brown; it eats out a cavity in the fungus, and there transforms to a pupa, which is of a pale flesh color.
ON THE PUPATION OF THE NYMPHALIDÆ
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In Ent. Mo. Magazine for August, 1878, is a paper by Dr. J. A. Osborne, respecting a discovery made by him oi the made by which the larvæ of the Nymphalidæ attach the chrysalis to the button of silk, and which is “altogether at variance with the account given in Kirby and Spence and other works.” Dr. Osborne relates : “In watching the transformation of V. Urticæ, I found that the chrysalis was attached to the old skin of the caterpillar by a membrane sufficiently strong and permanent to support the insect during the critical last moments of pupation, and fully explaining why it does not fall down when the tail of the chrysalis is withdrawn from the old skin and thrust up to be attached to the silk.”
NEW PYRALIDES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I am indebted to Mr. Jas. Behrens for some Californian Pyralides. Among them is a specimen of Orobaena octonalis of Zeller, hitherto found in Texas and Kansas. The specimen is labelled “San Diego, Aug., 1874.” Two specimens of Eurycreon chortalis: ”Soda Sp.,” and two of Botis unifascialis: “Sauzalito, May 27,” are also present.

In the present paper I continue my descriptions and corrections. There are yet a large nnmber of new species of Botis; I regret that I cannot identify many of Lederer's from his figures and descriptions.
NEW N. AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA, WITH NOTES ON A FEW LITTLE KNOWN
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Sphinx catalpae Boisd., pl. 2, figs. 1, 2 (1874).

This species is represented in the Collection of Mr. E. L. Graef by an example from Florida. It is smaller and darker than D. undulosa or D. Hageni, of a uniform butternut or olive brown tint.

Emydia ampla, n. s.

♀. Wings large, body linear, slight. Eyes naked ; palpi exceeding the front ; maxillæ weak.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

I have usually taken this species at the same place, about one or two specimens a year, and always within ten yards of the place where I first took it six years ago. The trees in the immediate vicinity were Gleditschia triacanthos, Ulmus americana, Prunus serotina and Celtis occidentalis, but it may have fed as larva upon some weeds or shrubs growing near. All of my specimens were taken about the 8th or 10th of July. This year, however, I have captured (June 14th) two specimens (perfectly fresh) on Gleditschia triacanthos at another place, where the nearest tree was Celtis occidentalis, growing some thirty yards away. Its larva and food plant, however, are not yet by any means certainly ascertained.
NORTHERN OCCURRENCES OF PAPILIO CRESPHONTES
Authors: Bean Thos. E.
Published: February 2010

The American Naturalist for November, 1877, contains on p. 688 the following paragraph:–

“Papilio Cresphontes in New England.–On the 6th of last September Mr. N. Coleman captured in the vicinity of Berlin, Connecticut, the only specimen of this Southern insect ever recorded from New England. As the larva is not known to feed on any other plant than the orange, the butterfly probably hatched from a larva accidentally transported with trees from Florida, or emerged from a chrysalis sent North as a curiosity.”

The writer of the paragraph appears to have mislaid certain pages of recent Entomological literature.
NOTES ON ARGYNNIS ALCESTIS EDW
Authors: Worthington C. E.
Published: February 2010

The occurrence of this species in considerable numbers in this vicinity has afforded an opportunity for comparison with A. aphrodite, the results of which are appended.

It should be stated that although the number referred to is small, yet the unrecorded comparison of over two hundred examples of both species during the past summer has agreed fully with this. In the line before me are five females each of alcestis and aphrodite. In every case the general color of the upper surface is duller in aphrodite, the basal shading heavier and more extensive, and the black markings on primaries heavier; in two examples the color approaches that of A. cybele, while the examples of alcestis exhibit a uniform clear color with hardly any variation.
ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SAMIA COLUMBIA SMITH
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

On the night of the 7th of last June my wife captured at light a fine female Samia columbia. The moth was at once secured, her wings pinioned, and she was placed in a cage with the hope that specimens of the other sex might be attracted, but none made their appearance; and on the night of the 12th she laid five eggs, glueing them to the gauze on the side of the cage, two in one place and three in another. During the following day (13th) none were laid, but on the night of the 13th she laid fourteen more in several different clusters, and on the night of the 14th she aid six more. None were laid during the following day and night, and as she was injuring herself with the pinion, she was killed and spread. Whether she would have laid any more had she been kept longer, or whether she had laid any before her capture, I cannot say.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

G. thoracefasciella Cham.

Sometimes the thorax is ochreous with a transverse brown band between the wings, instead of brown with an ochrey band, and the wings are blotched irregularly with ochreous. The proportion of the two colors varies.

G. ochrestrigella Cham.

In one specimen sent to me by Mr. Behrens the entire space from the end of the cell to the apex. between two of the discal branch veins, is brown.
NEW NOCTUAE
Authors: Harvey Leon F.
Published: February 2010

Agrotis Hilliana, n, s. ♀. All the tibiæ spinose. Allied to perconflua, but much brighter colored and with larger and distinctly annulated stigmata. Bright rusty ochre, shaded with lilac gray. A fine black basal streak reaches to the small black marginal claviform. Base of the wing ochreous,basal half line double, the inner line distinct blackish brown. Sub-basal space washed with lilac gray. Inner transverse line a little oblique, nearly straight with a slight outward curve below submedian vein on the margin, double, the outer line distinct, the inner fades out below costa. Median space rusty ochre; orbicular large, ochreous, with faint internal annulus, oblique, ringed with black; reniform similar in color, upright,very near the exterior line, which commences on the costa just above it. Exterior line lunulate, nearly straight, faintly indicated below costa. Sub-terminal space dark, washed anteriorly with lilac gray, contrasting with clear ochreous terminal space and fringes. Hind wings pale ochreous with faint lunule and double shaded lines. Abdomen above pale ochreous. Thorax rusty and dark. Head and collar pale ochreous.
THE BEATING NET
Authors: Bailey James S.
Published: February 2010

The uses of the beating net are obvious and can at once be appreciated in the collecting of Coleoptera and larvæ. A convenient and simple form is here presented, with directions for its construction.

This particular form of net was invented and presented to me by my friend, Mr. T. B. Ashton, of Tonganoxie, Kansas, who has not only distinguished himself as a Coleopterist, but has shown hirnself to be an excellent mechanic.

By grasping the net with the left hand, as shown in fig. 2, thrusting it under a shrub, and giving the bush a quick shake, or blow with a walking-stick, every living thing upon it wil1 instantly fall upon the apron of the net. If Coleoptera, they can be secured with the fingers or a small net held in the other hand for that purpose. If caterpillars, they can be gently rolled into a receptacle prepared for them.
LARVAL AND PUPAL HISTORY OF DARAPSA VERSICOLOR Harris
Authors: Hulst George D.
Published: February 2010

Last summer I was so fortunate as to obtain fifty eggs of the rare Sphinx, Darapsa versicolor. They were found between June 26th and July 20th, on the under side of the leaves of the common swamp button bush, Cephalanthus occidentalis Linn., and, with two exceptions, were laid singly. The egg is round and slightly flattened-about the size of rape seed. It is at first light green and translucent, afterwards milky and opaque; a few before hatching became, about the spot where the larva emerged, russety. The longest any egg continued without hatching was six days, and it is almost a certainty that the duration of the egg state is seven days.
NEW SPECIES OF ACOPA AND HELIOTHIS, AND NOTE ON HAMADRYAS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In Acopa carina Harvey, from Texas, the accessory cell on the primaries is smaller than in a new species which I have received from Prof. Snow from Southern Kansas. In this genus the body is linear and slight,tibiæ unarmed, ocelli small, male antennæ brush-like with distinct joints,thorax with a tuft behind, abdomen untufted, linear. Fore wings 12-veined with accessory cell, from the outer apex of which spring veins 7 and 8; 9 out of 8, a long furcation to costa. Hind wings 7-veined; median vein 3-branched; 8 out of 7 not far from the base. Primaries with oblique outer margin and produced apices. Front with a clypeal plate. Labial palpi narrow, linear, improminent; legs slender, tibiæ unarmed.
NOTES UPON GRAPTAS COMMA AND INTERROGATIONIS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Comma; dimorphic forms Harrish and Dryas, both figured in But. N. A., Vol. 1.

In Can. Ent., v., 184, Oct., 1873, I gave the result of breeding this species from eggs laid by the form dryas, viz., 6 dryas, but many more of Harrisii, establishing the dimorphism, Since that time I have raised several broods from the egg, and both before and after 1873 recorded in my journal the history of several lots of larvæ found by me. I have therefore some material for illustrating the peculiarities of the species. At Coalburgh there are three broods annually, and the butterflies of the third brood hybernate. The hybernating females deposit their eggs last of April or early in May, and the first brood of the butterflies emerges from chrysalis about 1st June; but should the weather be cold during May, then from the middle to last of June.
ON A NEW ARCTIAN FROM FLORIDA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The student is referred to my papers on the Bombycidæ of cuba for remarks on a generic group closely allied to Halisidota (Halesidota) which I have called Euhalisidota, describing under it the species luxa, fasciata, scripta and alternata. Closely allied to the first of these is a species from Florida, the male of which I have from Mr. Schwarz, the female from Mr. Dury. It is hardly so large, and without the black thoracic marks, although I can make out two black points on the collar in one specimen. It seems to differ by the streak of dusky speckles about the median vein at the extremity of the cell, and the distinct subterminal series of isolated black dots. The color is dusky ochre, with the thorax darker and the inside of the fore tibiæ orange. The male antennæ are bipectinate. The secondaries are paler, with a slight apical mark in the male.
TORTRICIDÆ
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

The present is the first of a series of papers on the Tortricidæ of North America which the writer hopes to be able to prepare from the material now in hand, and collections that may be made hereafter by Entomologists in various parts of the country.

I was first led to the study of the Tortricidæ by the advice of Mr. A.R. Grote, who, with a generosity rarely met, placed his entire collection of Tortricids in my hands to work up, and further gave me his collection of European Tortricidæ for comparison, and loaned me his types for study. I fear I may never be able to make anything like an adequate return to this gentleman who has placed me under so great obligations.
NOTES ON LARVÆ, ETC
Authors: Siewers C. G.
Published: February 2010

Last summer, near the end of July, in skirmishing through a wood overgrown with White Snake-root weeds, I struck a large find of the Callimorpha interrupto-marginata moths, and collected some 50 specimens. Others collected as many more. The weeds were covered with their larvæ, of a bright yellow color, with a white lateral stripe, mottled along its upper edge with bright red, the anal end being also faced with red markings. The length about 1½inches. I collected altogether some 200 of them, but utterly failed to bring one to pupa. As they stopped feeding they were taken with a white scouring, leaving nothing but empty skins. Others tried them with like result. The bushes were also strung with their dead bodies. Still some must have escaped, as the brood this year was just as large. But the larvæ failed again to pupate. I think the fault is in the food plant, as cattle will not touch it, and such as are knocked off may take to other food and escape. Cannot some of your correspondents explain this?
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ANISOTA
Authors: Lintner J. A.
Published: February 2010

Anisota bisecta, nov. sp.

♀. Head sunken ; head and collar tawny. Antennæ short, simple, the joints showing as distinct rings. Thorax robust, globose, elevated in front, and projected over the head more than in A. bicolor or in A. Heiligbrodti. Shoulder-covers narrowly bordered above with brown. Abdomen short, not extending beyond the hind wings, concolorous with them.
DESCRIPTION OF PREPARATORY STAGES OF PHYCIODES NYCTEIS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg—Ovoidal, narrowing above, the base rounded, summit depressed ; the lower third smooth ; nearly a second third marked by irregularly hexagonal, very shallow cells; and the remainder by vertical ribs, slightly raised, terminating at the rim of summit ; color whitish-green. Duration of this stage 9 to 13 days.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

G. fasciella Cham.

G. 5-notella Cham.

With ten specimens of fasciella and two of 5-notella before me, with scarcely a trace of variation in the ten, but with the two differing from each other somewhat and both differing very decidedly from the ten, I had no doubt as to the distinctness of the two species.
ON CERTAIN HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Patton W. H.
Published: February 2010

On two occasions I have observed Allantus basilaris (Say) Nort. ♀ devouring another insect; in one instance the larva of a Chrysopa, in the other a small flower beetle of the genus Phalacrus. Although no such habit has been recorded previously in regard to any American species, it does not appear to be entirely without precedent among the European members of this family, for, according to Westwood, (Introd., ii., 109) “Various species, however, (T. viridis, scalaris, etc.) attack and devour living insects which frequent the same plants, as observed by St. Fargeau (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1834, p. 11) and Dahlbom (Prod. Hym. Scand., p. 38).”
NOTES UPON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF CERTAIN SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES. NO. 2.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

4. Melitæ Minuta Edw.—Figured in Mead's Report on Butterflies of Colorado. Syn. Arachne Edw.

Chrysalis.–Length .54 inch ; cylindrical; head case short, narrow, rounded at vertices, the sides sloping; mesonotum rounded, not prominent, followed by a shallow depression; the abdomen large, and offering several rows of short conical tubercles; color yellow-white or buff, marked with black; top of head case black, the antennæ cases same; mesonotum with two crescent spots on each side; on the wing case a central patch and dark border ; the segments of abdomen edged with black on dorsal side; a ventral longitudinal stripe and one on either side; the tubercles black at summit, orange at base.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

It has so happened that within a few years past Professors Zeller and Frey in Europe, and I in the U. S., have at about the same time described a large nunber of American species of Tineina, and as might have been expected under these circumstances, it has occasionally happened that the same species has been twice described under different names.
A NEW CATOCALA FROM FLORIDA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Catocala sinuosa, n. s.

This species is allied to C. coccinata, but very distinct from that and all other described species. Fore wings whitish gray, paler, but lines much as in coccinata.
TORTRICIDÆ
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Tortrix (Loxotaenia) Clemensiana, n. s.

Head and thorax above ochre yellow; palpi darker on the outside, lighter beneath ; antennæ dark ochre yellow, minutely pubescent in the male ; legs straw yellow, in some specimens the fore and middle legs are fuscons in front ; thorax beneath and abdomen above and beneath silvery fuscous, in some specimens very light straw color ; anal tuft light straw color.
DESCRIPTION OF PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGYNNIS EGLEIS, Bois.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

I received from Mr. Mead, 18th Aug., 1878, Nevada, several eggs and newly hatched larvæ of this species. The eggs had been obtained by ccnfining a female on Violet, and the female was also sent that I might identify the species. The larvæ became lethargic immediately after leaving the egg, as is the case with all our larger Argynnids whose history is known (at least in the late summer brood).
NOTES ON NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Hadena passer.

Mamestra passer Guen., Noct. I, 195.

Luceria loculata Morr., B. B. S. N. S., 2, 110.

I have received from M. Achille Gueneé an outline drawing of his Mamestra passer, and with the help of his description am enabled to make the above identification. The black marks tying the reniform to the t. p. line are variable, sometimes wanting; the color varies from pale reddish brown to dark brown ; the claviform is thick and usually solid, but sometimes open ; the lines are usually effaced, but sometimes quite noticeable ; the ornamentation is exceedingly simple. The eyes are naked, so that, with several other species referred by Gueneé to Mamestra, as I have previously shown, this form should be placed in Hadena.
ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME GEOMETRIDS
Authors: Goodell L. W.
Published: February 2010

Tetracis crocallata Guen.

Mature larva, one specimen—Head brown, much narrower than the body ; two large dark brown spots in front. Body stout and very slightly attenuated anteriorly, the 1st and 2nd rings much narrower than the rest and retractile into the 3rd.
NEW NOCTUIDS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Tamila velaris, n.s.

Thorax clothed with mixed scales and hairs. Middle and hind tibiæ armed. Fore tibiæ with a row of spines on each side, four in number, increasing in size to the end of the joint. Front full, thickly clothed with mossy scales. White ; with ochre shading.
IDENTIFICATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NOCTUIDÆ, WITH A NEW HETEROCAMPA, AND NOTES ON NEMEOPHILA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Prodenia phytolaccæ (Abbot & Smith, Vol. 2, 193, Pl. 97).

This species is sent me by Mr. Belfrage from Texas, under the number 706 (pink label). The insect has naked eyes, pellucid white and iridescent secondaries, the veins and external margin slightly-soiled. It cannot be referred to Xylomiges, the type of which genus, the European conspicillaris, has hairy eyes, as have all the species referred by me to Xylomiges in my “Check List” and elsewhere.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL CRABRONIDÆ
Authors: Patton W. H.
Published: February 2010

Hoplisus gracilis, n. sp.

♀. Length 10 mm. Black, clothed with an appressed brown pubescence as in Hoplisus phaleratus (Gorytes phaleratus Say) ; face with a very short silvery pile. Face, stripe between antennæ, anterior and posterior orbits, clypeus, labrum and mandibles (except the piceous tips), palpi, coxæ, trochanters and femora of anterior legs anteriorly, spot on intermediate coxæ, posterior margin of collar, a small and a large spot beneath anterior wings, broad bands on scutellum and postscutellum, large ovate spot on each side of metathorax (irregular and tinged with ferruginous within), broad band at apex of first segment of abdomen, sharply emarginate and bordered with ferruginous anteriorly, interrupted band at apex of second segment, small spot on each side of third segment and line on each side of second ventral segment, all pale yellow.
AN ANOMALOUS BOMBYLID
Authors: Williston S. W.
Published: February 2010

I have recently received from North Park, Colorado, two interesting specimens of Anthrax, one of which is remarkable for its neuration. They are of a new species of the A. halcyon group, and both apparently females.
DESCRIPTION OF PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGYNNIS IDALIA, Drury
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG–Shaped like that of Diana and Cybele; conoidal, truncated, rounded at base, the sides well rounded ; depressed at summit ; marked vertically by about 18 vertical ribs, somewhat wavy, half extending from base to summit, the remainder ending irregularly at about three-fourths the distance from the base ; between each pair of ribs are equi-distant, transverse, slightly raised striæ. Duration of this stage about 25 days.
THE SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF INSECTS
Authors: Hulst George D.
Published: February 2010

It is our desire in the present article to call attention to two pretty well established laws of nomenclature, that with a few seconding words on our part, the laws may, “to those whom it may concern,” preach the importance and necessity of their being observed and obeyed.
ON THE LARVAL HABITS OF LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS (WITH ITS CO-FORM PROSERPINA), AND ALSO OF L. DISIPPUS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

The larvæ of Arthemis feed on the leaves of willow, aspen, bassyood, and, it is said, on thorn. In the Catskills, the eggs are laid the last days of July or early in August, on young trees, and but one egg upon one leaf. This is placed near the tip, and the newly hatched larva eats away the leaf on both sides of the midrib.
THE SPECIES OF EROTYLA, SPRAGUEIA, FRUVA, XANTHOPTERA, EXYRA AND PROTHYMIA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The neuration of this European species is as follows : Fore wings 12-veined, 8 out of 7 well beyond the extremity of the accessory cell, 9 out of 8, a comparatively short furcation to costa. Hind wings 8-veined, 5 weaker than the rest, joined to the weak cross-vein which closes the cell; this latter is comparatively shorter than in Spragueia, veins 3 and 4 longer.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PAMPHILA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

P. Dion.

Male—Expands 1.2 inch.

Upper side has the disk, cell and basel areas pale fulvous, the latter much obscured ; costal margin also fulvous, but obscured, and inclining to red in the sub-costal interspaces; the apex and hind margin broadly bordered with fuscous; stigma long, narrow, formed by two velvety-black spots, the lower one a little back of the line of the other; the black arc of cell forms a continuation of stigma and joins a dark stripe which runs along upper side of subcostal to base, the whole forming a sub-triangular inscription such as is seen in Arpa. Secondaries have the disk to base obscure fulvous, but there is a clear fulvous ray on the outer part of this area.
ON GRAPHIPHORA AND NEW N. AM. NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

As our acquaintance with the numerous forms of this group increases the arbitrary division of the individuals into species and the species into genera becomes a matter of increasing difficulty. At the same time this does not absolve us from a careful study of the organism in all its parts, and a correction of former groupings becomes as obligatory as the publication of the original observation.
NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE BLISTER-BEETLES AND ON THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF HORNIA
Authors: Riley Chas. V.
Published: February 2010

At the Hartford (1874) meeting of the Association, Mr. Riley described the newly-hatched larva of some of our common Blister-beetles; but all attempts to trace their habits had proved futile, both in this and other countries, until 1877, when he discovered that they preyed on the eggs of locusts (Acrididæ).
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF CŒNONYMPHA GEMMA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG–Globular, smooth under a low power, but under a high one, seen to be reticulated in irregular hexagons, the ridges flat and broad, and having at the bottom of each depression a white point; color yellow-green. Duration of this stage in August 3 days, in October 6, in April 6. The egg is laid on grass, which is the larval food plant.
A NEW SPECIES OF ARCTIA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Arctia rectilinea, n. sp.

Average length, ♂, .50; ♀, .55 of an inch. Expanse of wings, ♂, 1.30; ♀, 1.50 inches. Head reddish flesh color, or in some lighter; eyes and palpi black ; antennæ dark brown or brown black.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED BY MR. H. K. MORRISON, IN NEVADA 1878; ALSO, REMARKS ON SOME ERRORS OF SYNONYMY AND ARRANGEMENT
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Argynnis Laura.

Male.–Expands 2.2 inch.

Upper side deep red-fulvous, obscured at base of primaries and still more at base of secondaries, the ground there being black with a slight dusting of fulvous ; the black markings as in the allied species, rather heavy, while the nervules of primaries, especially the discoidal, and the branches of median,–and on secondaries the branches of sub-costal, are widely bordered with black; the mesial band of secondaries confluent; fringes yellow-buff, black at the ends of the nervules.
SPHINX EREMITUS
Authors: Fyles Thos. W.
Published: February 2010

This species first came under my notice four years ago. I have met with it every year since, have raised it from the larva, and have taken the perfect insect at Honeysuckle. I find a drawing of S. eremitus in No. 13 of Strecker's Work on the Lepidoptera, and an account of the larva written by Prof. Snow, of Kansas.
NOTES ON THREE SPECIES OF XYLOCOPA
Authors: Patton W. H.
Published: February 2010

From Mr. L. Heiligbrodt I have received a specimen of X. purpurea, and it agrees in all respects with the female of micans. Accompanying this was a male, evidently of the same species.
THE SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF INSECTS
Authors: Claypole E. W.
Published: February 2010

Every effort to render the present hotch-potch of Entomological names more correct and elegant is welcome to students of the Natural Sciences whose knowledge of the classic tongues is sufficient to render the ear sensitive to the grating jargon of many of our so-called Latin terms. I was therefore pleased to see Mr. Hulst's article in a late number of the Canadian Entomologist. He has raised one point that has been little noticed, but well deserves attention.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Dicopis vitis, n. s.

Imago—Length .50 of an inch. Expanse of wings 1.35 inches. Head, prothorax and thorax gray, the second tipped a little with light and containing a fine dark line. Abdomen yellowish gray. Color of primaries below a line running from the outside of the basal line on the costa to near the hind angle, light gray ; above this line dark gray, with a slight smoky tinge.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES; ALSO, NOTES UPON CERTAIN SPECIES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Angynnis Hippolyta.

Male.—Expands 2 inches.

Upper side fulvous, obscured by brown at bases of wings ; the discal area of each wing lighter than elsewhere; the black markings rather heavy; the marginal lines more or less confluent; the silver spots of second row indicated on upper side by oblong spots of a pale color.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

L. argentinotella Clem.

This species varies in color from very pale golden yellow to reddish saffron, and in size from about one-fourth of an inch to about one-third. Likewise as to the size and distinctness of the marginal streaks on the fore wings and as to the dark margins of these streaks.
ON A NEW SPECIES OF POLIA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the collection before me are the following species referred to Polia, but in the absence of a series of the European forms I am not clear that they are finally to be left in this genus. I have separated under the name of Pachypolia atricornis a stout and shaggy species, taken by my friend, Mr. Westcott, which has strongly pectinated antennæ, a character not accorded by Lederer to the European species, but one which is only doubtfully of generic value.
NATURE-PRINTED BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

The season of warm days, flowers and butterflies is over now, and the look-out is cold, bleak and bare. Apparently there is little for the scientific lover of nature to do in the way of collections at this time of year ; such, however, is far from being actually the case, as all who have collected will testify.
LARVAL HABITS OF A GOLDEN-ROD BORING PLUME
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

The Golden-rods in the vicinity of Buffalo—especially observed on Squaw Island—harbor the larvæ of two plume moths, one boring the branches, stem and root, the other using the foliage. I have sent the moths to Mr. Charles Fish, of Old Town, Maine, for determination ; he concludes that they are both unnamed, and he will describe and name them in a general paper in preparation on the American species. As a somewhat more detailed account of their habits than a technical paper will allow seems to be desirable, I have prepared these notes, relating mostly to the borer.
A NEW ENEMY OF THE BLACK SPRUCE, ABIES NIGRA
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

An enemy of Abies nigra sent to me by Mr. C. S. Sargent, from the Arboretum of Harvard University, induced me to compare the literature about the enemies of this tree. To my surprise, all that is published consists of two very excellent papers by Mr. Ch. H. Peck, Albany.
FUNGOID DISEASES OF INSECTS:—A RECLAMATION
Authors: Leconte John L.
Published: February 2010

The following extract is from the American Entomologist, vol. iii., p. 138 (June, 1880):

“ … in which article, by the way, may be found the first “suggestion that we are aware of in this country, of the practical utilization of fungus diseases, so that Walsh really anticipated LeConte in this suggestion.”
A MYSTERY IN REFERENCE TO PRONUBA YUCCASELLA
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

Last summer Dr. Geo. Engelmann saw some parts of the biological collection here, and was so kind to promise me his help to obtain some species, which I was very eager to possess, viz., Pronuba yuccasella in its different stages, and Phylloxera. By his request, I received through the kindness of Mr. Thos. Meehan, in September, two bundles of the stems of Yucca filamentosa and angustifolia.
EARLY APPEARANCE OF CATOCALAS
Authors: Johnson James S.
Published: February 2010

Several of your correspondents have given you articles on.the early appearance of Lepidoptera this season, and as the Catocalas are my favorites, I will give my experience with them. According to good authority and report, C. epione had the honor of being the first to appear-but I find in this locality a very strong argument against that theory. By referring to my diary I see that C. ilia has the precedence.
SOME NOTES ON COLEOPTERA FOR BEGINNERS
Authors: Siewers C. G.
Published: February 2010

In answer to a query in the March Entomologist as to the rearing of larvæ of wood-boring beetles, I would say that it is very difficult to do after they have been removed from their burrows. Try damp sawdust of the same wood. The better plan where infested timber is found, is to saw it into short lengths, pack in tight box and cover with a wet cloth. Many kinds cannot bore in dry wood.
DESCRIPTION OF PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGYNNIS CYBELE, Fabr.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG—Conoidal, truncated, broad at base, the sides moderately rounded ; depressed at summit; marked by about eighteen prominent, vertical, slightly wavy ribs, half of which extend from base to summit and form around the latter a serrated rim ; the remainder end irregularly at two thirds to three quarters distance from base ; between each pair of ribs are equidistant transverse striæ. Broader at base than Alcestis or Idalia. Duration of this stage 12 to 17 days.
CRAMBIDÆ.
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Chilo crambidoides, n. s.

A large stout species with the aspect of Crambus. Fore wings pale ochre with two parallel curved, dusky, interrupted extra mesial lines ; a row of terminal black separated dots ; fringes concolorous. Hind wings pure white, with white fringes. Head and thorax pale ochre. Beneath very pale ; the veins conspicuous.
ON LIGHTNING BUGS
Authors: Leconte John L.
Published: February 2010

Since the publication of my synopsis of Lampyridæ in 1851 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila, 1851, 331), but few species of the family have been described in this country, and no very important improvement has been made in their classification ; about the same time I published in the Journal of the same Society (New Ser., i., 73) a synopsis of Lycidæ, one of the sub-families of Lampyridæ.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF EUPELMUS, WITH REMARKS UPON E. (ANTIGASTER) MIRABILIS, WALSH.
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

Eupelmus reduvii n. sp.—Female.—Average length of body 2.4 mm. Average wing expanse 4.6 mm. Head slightly wider than thorax, which is of equal width with abdomen. Antennæ sub-clavate, as long as thorax. Collar rather long, much narrowed in front and concave above. Anterior half of mesothotacic scutum convex ; a broad, longitudinal depression posteriorly, the anterior corners of which are extended on in the parapsidal furrows. Scutellum small, much narrowed in front.
ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF SATYRUS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

I. Nephele.—Kirby, Faun. Bor. Amer., 1837, described this species as follows : “Wings brown ; primaries both above and below with a paler submarginal broad band including two eyelets ; the upper ones surrounded by a paler atmosphere, with a black iris and white pupil ; on the under side the atmosphere of the eyelets is most distinct and forms a kind of glory round them,” etc.
NOTES ON ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Thomas Cyrus
Published: February 2010

Œdipoda obliterata, nov. sp.

Male and female. Length to tip of elytra 1.50, to tip of abdomen 1.10 to 1.30. Pale reddish-brown or dull yellowish tinged with rufous, with irregular transverse bands of dark fuscous spots.

Occiput not prominent. Vertex broad, moderately deflexed, margins with sharp carinæ forming a distinct sub-quadrate, median foveola, which is divided into two equal sections by a distinct longitudinal, median carina that extends back part way upon the occiput; sides of the foveola parallel between the eyes, and bending abruptly inward toward the fastigium in front, continuous with the sides of the frontal costa; fastigium with a double indentation.
NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Jewett H. S.
Published: February 2010

Euchaetes collaris. Fitch.

On Jnne 7th, 1879, I obtained some eggs from a ♀ captured the day before. The eggs were smooth, pale green, spherical in shape and inch in diameter. The eggs hatched on the 12th. Larva ⅛ inch long, pale green, largest at middle of the body and tapering slightly towards both ends. Head slightly bilobed, of a faint brownish color, with a dark brown spot on each side.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF EUPTOIETA CLAUDIA, Cramer.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG—Conoidal, depressed at top, flat at base, shaped generally like the eggs of Argynnis ( Idalia, Cybele, &c.), but taller in proportion to its breadth than in the species named, with the sides less rounded ; marked by about 20 prominent, vertical, straight ribs, half of which extend from base to summit, forming around the depression a serrated rim, the rest ending irregularly at two fifths to four fifths the distance from base, the shorter ones occasionally joining the others ; marked horizontally by numerous prominent stræ. Duration of this stage from 5 to 12 days, according to the season.
NOTES ON CATOCALA HUNTING
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

A few of the members of my zoology class and myself have taken here 821 specimens of Catocalæ in nine consecutive days, collecting from August 16th to August 26th inclusive, omitting Saturday and Sunday, during which no collecting was done. These were all taken in the afternoons, usually from one to four o'clock, by whipping the trees, and all within easy walking distance from the University.
NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Packardia Goodellii, n. s.

Entirely blackish with a faint brown shading about internal angle, where are two white unequal spots as in geminata. Fringe blackish, concolorous, interlined with pale and with a distinct white fleck or spot below apices ; this distinguishes the moth from any of the genus.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

It is related by a celebrated traveller and naturalist that, in the dreary islands of Terra del Fuego, the only vegetable food to be obtained by the wretched inhabitants, with the exception of a few berries, is a fungus which grows in great abundance on certain trees. This fungus appears on the bark in the shape of bright yellow, globular masses of the size of small apples, and at a certain stage of development is gathered and eaten uncooked.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

Entomology seems to be gradually throwing off the veil of contempt under which it has been so long hidden. The Botanist has always to a certain extent been deemed a philosopher from the important part plants play in Pharmacy ; the Geologist and Mineralogist, too, from the possibility of their discovering precious metals have been treated by the outside unscientific world as sages worthy of some respect. Entomologists, however, have not thus been honored by the masses.
THREE NEW SPECIES OF BOTIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Botis oppilalis, n. sp.

♂ ♀. Allied to the feudalis, s-linealis group. Pale ochrey, opaque, powdered with deeper ochre and fuscous scales. Discal dots small, indistinct, orbicular a solid point, reniform an open ring. Lines acutely dentate. Outer line exserted opposite the cell, forming an inward tooth at vein 2, and again another at vein I, on primaries.
ALYPIA MACCULLOCHII, Kirby
Authors: Couper William
Published: February 2010

On plate iv. of the “Fauna Boreali-Americana,” Kirby gives a figure of the ♀ of the above species. In June, 1878, while collecting at the Godbout River, Lower St. Lawrence, I captured two males of this species, both on the same day. While Alypia Langtonii, Couper, were abundant in the same locality, no other specimens of A. MacCullochii were seen.
ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME MOTHS
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In the following descriptions I have made use of certain terms which will need explaining. The subdorsal line is midway between the dorsal line and the spiracles ; the stigmatal line includes the spiracles ; the subdorsal space lies between the dorsal and subdorsal lines; the stigmatal space is between the subdorsal line and the spiracles.
A LIST OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA INHABITING THE STATE OF ILLINOIS
Authors: Worthington C. E.
Published: February 2010

The following list is furnished in compliance with the request of the Editor of the Canadian Entomologist, published some time ago, some unsettled questions regarding species and distribution having delayed its preparation from time to time.

The list is intended to be as complete as possible, and to include all described species known to have been taken within the State limits, or so nearly adjacent thereto as to certainly belong to the Illinois Fauna. In order to roughly designate the distribution within the State I have attached an to all species from the northern portion, of whose capture I have personal knowledge, and have further affixed a to such species as are not known to occur in the southern portion of the State.
ON THE NEURATION OF EUSTROTIA SECTA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Eustrotia secta Grote, Can. Ent., xi., 199.

This species, which is frail and wide-winged, has much the appearance of a Thalpochares, but the primaries have an accessory cell.
DESCRIPTION OF PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGYNNIS ALCESTIS, Edw.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG—Conoidal, truncated, not so broad at base as Idalia, the sides less rounded ; depressed at summit; marked vertically by about eighteen prominent, slightly wavy ribs, half of which extend from base to summit and form around the latter a serrated rim; the remainder end irregularly at two thirds to three quarters distance from base, sometimes squarely at one of the striæ, but usually curve towards and unite with the long ribs; between each pair of ribs are equi-distant transverse striæ.
ON THE DESTRUCTION OF OBNOXIOUS INSECTS BY YEAST
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

The paper published Canad. Ent., vol. xi., p. 110-14, was reprinted with some additions as a pamphlet, Cambridge, December, 1879. The recorded experiment on the Potato Bug made by Mr. James H. Burns, proved evidently the poisonous character of the yeast-fungus. The fifty beetles which were sprinkled with it died mostly on the eighth day, and the rest in the four following days.
NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDÆ IN THE ZUTRAEGE.: FIRST HUNDRED
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Schinia gracilenta, 8, fig. 5-6.

“Georgia.” I have identified this species among Belfrage's Texan collections.

Drasteria graphica, 8, fig. 11-12.

“Georgia.” The hind wings are rusty-yellow, “rostgelb”; whether it is the species which passes under the name in our collections might admit of some doubt from the color of secondaries, but the s. t. line is followed by pale dots on the veins as in graphica ; the band on hind wings is broken in the figure.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF GRAPTA PROGNE, Cramer.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG.—Conical, the base ronnded; marked by 8 or 9 vertical ribs, which near the base are depressed, but on upper third are considerably elevated, increase gradually in prominence and terminate abruptly around a small depression at summit ; these ribs are compressed and their sides are cut by grooves perpendicular to the surface of the egg; the spaces between them crossed by many fine striæ ; color green. Duration of this stage 5 days.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PAPILIO PALAMEDES, Drury. (Calchas, Fab.)
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg—Spherical, a little flattened at base ; color greenish-yellow. Duration of this stage four to five days.

Young Larva—Length .1 inch ; near the end of the stage .28 inch, and then cylindrical, greatly thickened from 3 to 6; after 6, tapering to 12, then thickening to end, the back and sides after 6 a little incurved; 2 has a thin square ridge and on each curve of same a thick fleshy process, longer than others on body, thickly beset with straight hairs; there are two rows of similar processes, sub-dorsal, smallest on the narrow segments, colored as the segment they stand on, those on 12 and 13 considerably larger than any others except on 2 ; besides the subdorsal rows, are two dorsal, running the whole length of body, and one row on side, another along base ; all these are small, simple tuberculations with hair on end; color of body brown-yellow marked with white ; a white band, not very clearly defined, especially on its lower edge, passes along the side of segments 3 to 8, turning up on 8 to edge of dorsum, the two extremities there not quite meeting; 12 and 13 are white; under side greenish-brown ; feet and legs same ; head obovoid, a little depressed at top, smooth, shining, color yellow-brown, a shade darker than body. To 1st moult about 4 days.
NOTES ON A PARASITE OF PYRAMEIS CARDUI
Authors: Heustis Caroline E.
Published: February 2010

I send you a few specimens of an insect which I have found parasitic on the larvæ of P. cardui. For several successive summers I have reared a number of these caterpillars, with which our thistles in most seasons abound. I observed variations in size and color of the larvæ found feeding on the same plant, which led me to suppose that they might not belong to the same species.
LARVÆ OF CERURA OCCIDENTALIS Lint., AND C. BOREALIS, Bd.
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

During the past season I have had an opportunity of raising the larvæ of these two interesting species of insects, and as I do not know of any easily accessible description of either in the larval state, I give below the descriptions from my note book for the benefit of the readers of the Entomologist.
LIST OF N. AMERICAN SARCOPHAGIDÆ, EXAMINED BY R. H. MEADE, ESQ., BRADFORD, ENGLAND
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

The Deyrolle carton containing the specimens, which are in the same position as returned by Mr. Meade, bears the inscription by the Baron von Osten-Sacken : “This collection was arranged at my request by Mr. R. H. Meade, especially with a view of ascertaining whether any of the species are common to Europe and N. America.” I have published this list for the same reason as the Anthomyidae.
ON SIMULIUM
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

I have received from Mr. H. G. Hubbard some larvæ and pupæ, with the case, labeled as follows: “The Simulium larvæ and pupæ were collected on the rocks at the foot of the fals of Michipicotin River, Lake Superior, in shallow pools and gutters of rapid water. There were large patches of rock suriace densely covered with either the larvæ or pupæ, so closely packed as to resemble a growth of aquatic vegetation. The black flies were very abundant in the woods.”
LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BOMBYCIÆ OF HUBNER
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Since I first catalogued our species of Bombyciæ, under Herrich-Schæffer's later designation of Cymatophorinæ, in the Proc. of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia for May, 1863, there have been but few additions to the group. Nor have the then debatable points been settled. The validity of expultrix as a “species” is still doubtful.