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NEW JASSIDÆ FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN AND PACIFIC REGION
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: February 2010

The following species, with a few exceptions, were taken by Mr. E. P. Van Duzee and the author while on a very interesting and successful trip through southern and western Colorado during the latter part of July, 1900. These species are all strictly south-western in distribution as far as known, and most of them were found feeding on one or another of the peculiar plants of that region. While collecting in the valley of the Grand River, a number of species of Homoptera were taken, hitherto only known from the Californian region, and it is very probable that in turn several of these species, which were taken along with them, will, eventually, be found in California.
TABLE TO SEPARATE THE GENERA AND SUBGENERA OF COCCIDÆ RELATED TO LECANIUM
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. , Parrott P. J.
Published: February 2010

The following table of the forms related to Lecanium must be regarded as provisional, pending a thorough study of the different stages of the now very numerous described species.
NEW HISTORIES IN HYDRŒCIA
Authors: Bird Henry
Published: February 2010

Continuing under this heading, the writer would offer a few remarks subservient to a fuller knowledge of the early stages of this genus, which may be considered supplementary to some former papers that have appeared. There is some discussion at present in the current literature as to whether the term Gortyna, Och., should not replace Hydrœcia, Gn., and it is to be hoped definite conclusions may be reached and the proper one fully established. The following early histories are perhaps unknown, or at any rate remain as yet unpublished.
NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF LEPIDOPTERA, ETC., IN SOUTHERN MANITOBA
Authors: Heath E. Firmstone
Published: February 2010

A greater contrast between the last two seasons—those of 1899 and 1900—could hardly have obtained. The spring of 1899 was unusually wet, and the consequence was that the Manitoban prairie flea took refuge in our houses out of the rain, and life became almost unendurable between the armies of fleas inside and the clouds of mosquitoes without. So bad were the latter that, seasoned as I am to their attacks, all my night collecting was done under difficulties, for after covering myself as far as possible (rather a nuisance on a hot, close night), I had to bathe every square inch of skin that had of necessity to be exposed, with a strong solution of alum. This last year, through the unusually dry spring and early summer, to be bitten by a mosquito was quite an event. The fleas too took advantage of the fine, dry weather, and resumed their usual prairie life, and left us in our houses in peace. It may not be generally known, but some parts of the country swarm with fleas, while in others they are hardly to be found. In the olden days, before the railways, when we had to fetch our supplies from the nearest towns—Emerson, in my case—by waggon, camping on the prairie as we went along, I was several times cautioned by old settlers on no account to camp on certain spots, or in certain localities, if it could be avoided, by reason of the swarms of fleas that had taken up their habitation there. These places were invariably those that would be selected as resting places, being dry, sandy or gravelly spots. Still, Manitoba cannot by a long way equal Southern Europe for fleas.
ON THE USE OF EUPETHECIA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

In reference to recent “protest” in the pages of the CAN. ENT. (Vol. XXXIII., p. 263) against a change in the generic name Eupethecia, I believe its abandonment, in favour of a Hübnerian name chosen cut of the Verzeichniss by Mr. Meyrick, to be invalid. I retain it myself in the collection here for the reason that its date is certain, and there is a rule of the German zoological code that if exact dates cannot be ascertained (and this is the case for that part of the Verzeichniss which contains the Geometrids), preference shall be given to the genus which has a type cited. This is reasonable, and custom has correctly sanctioned the use of Eupethecia. I an indebted to Mr. L.B. Prout, of London, England, for the information that Curtis himself, in founding the genus Eupethecia, explicitly chooses absinthiata, L., as type of the genus, April 1, 1825. In my study of the Geometrid genera (1895–96), only a fragment of which appeared in the Transcations of the Entomological society of London, I pointed out some of the errors into which I have reason to believe Mr. Meyrick has fallen.
FENARIA SEVORSA AND EUSEMIA SABULOSA
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

I was in error in referring these species as synonyms in 1894. The latter now stands as Tuerta sabulosa, Boisd., in Hampson's Cat. Lep. Phal., and is credited to New Mexico and California, besides other more southern localities. Very possibly the species may occur within the limits of the United States, but I have no specimens from our territory, all being from Mexico. Fenaria sevorsa, Grote is however, not the same insect, and the name must be restored from the synonymy. It has been subsequently described and well figured in the Biologia Centrali-Americana as Diamuna aedessa, Druce. This position, in the Noctuidæ, in undoubtedly correct, as the antennæ are shortly pectinated, without any trace of enlargement. The genus Diamuna is an Agaristid, and Druce's species is therefor improperly referred to it. The genus Fenaria, Grote must be subsituted for Diamuna, Druce (nec Walker).
NOTES ON SOME SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Rehn James A. G.
Published: February 2010

The following specimens were collected at San Diego. California,during the year 1901 by Mr. G. W. Dunn, and are now in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The terms used in the descriptions are those adopted by Comstock and Kellogg in their recent work, “Elements of Insect Anatomy”.
COCCIDÆ OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Authors: King George. B.
Published: February 2010

Eulecanium fraxini, n. sp.–Adult ♀ scale 6 mm. long, 5 broad,2 high; some individuals are practically circular in outline and variable in size. In July the scales are well covered with a grayish powdery secretion; this being removed they are reddish brown, considerably wrinkled and pitted, surface shiny, texture thick.

Boiled in potash the derm becomes very clear and transparent, showing some large gland-pits 24 μ in diameter. Mouth-parts, legs and anal plates tinged with yellow.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

This family is restricted to the paper-making wasps, all social species living in large communities and having three distinct sexes, female, worker and male, thus agreeing with the social bees, the Apidæ and Bombidæ, and with many ants, Dorylidæ, Myrmicidæ, Formicidæ, etc.

In some species, too, like the ants, there appear to be two forms of the worker.

Deceived by their habits, for structurally they are widely separated, Westwood and Packard thought the social wasps were allied to the Apidæ, and in their scheme of classification have placed them next to the bees, with which they having nothing in common.
NOTE ON THE LARVÆ OF PENTHINA HEBESANA, WALK
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

During the winter of 1900–1901 the larvæ of this pretty Grapholithid were rather abundant at Ottawa, hibernating in the heads of. mdlein (Verbascum thapsus). Full-grown specimens were collected by the writer and Mr. C. H. Young in April, which pupated in the office on and about the 25th April, the first moths appearing on the 11th May, and the last specimen emerging on the 22nd May.

These larvæ were found in the seed-pods, and had been feeding onthe seeds; numbers were present in the same head, As far as the writer knows, this is the first record, at least in Canada, of the caterpillars feeding on mnllein. Dr. Horvard writes that Mr. Coquillett has reared the species from Stachys palustris, and Mr. Coquillett from a species of flag. He adds: “It evidently has several food-plants, and sometimes it does injury to plants after they have been pressed for the herbarium.”
A TORTOISE-BEETLE NEW TO QUEBEC
Authors: Fyles Thos. W.
Published: February 2010

In July last I noticed that the leaves of the burdocks on the Heights of Levis were riddled as if from a discharge of small shot. On examination, I found that the damage to the leaves was caused by numerous larvæ of a species of Cassida. The creatures were there in strength, each supporting, by means of the forked prolongation of its anal segment, its “stercoraceous parasol.” Towards the end of the month the grim-looking pupæ were to seen, bristling round their edges with white branched spines, and attached to the leaves by a natural cement. In the present month (August) the beetles have appeared. They are about eight millimetres in length and five millimetres in breadth.
TWO NEW MEALY-BUGS FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Phenacoccus cevalliæ, n. sp.

♀. Oval, 4 to 5 mm. long, pale olive green, but covered with white
secretion, with lateral tassels and thick caudal tassels; placed in alcohol,
they stain the liquid pale green; alcoholic specimens appear strongly
segmented, with two longitudinal blackish bands, best marked in rather
immature specimens. Eyes prominent; skin with many small circular glands;
the lateral patches consist of about twelve glands each, but are without
spines; a few rather large bristles scattered about the body; legs and
antennæ reddish-yellow; denticle on inner side of claw rudimentary, just
visible; antennæ 9-jointed, the club 2-jointed. Measurments of antennæ and
legs in μ: Anterior legs, femur and trochanter 470, tibia 330, tarsus 130;
hind legs, femur and trochanter 540, tibia 440, tarsus 135.
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. LOUIS
Authors: Trelease William
Published: February 2010

At the meeting of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, on the evening of January 6, 1902, Mrs. Wm. Bouton, on behalf of herself and a considerable number of other persons, presentd to the Academy a collection of 633 butterflies mounted on Denton tablets, on condition that the collectio should be made accessible to the public.
THE GENUS COCHLORHINUS, UHLER, AND ITS ALLIES (JASSIDÆ)
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: February 2010

Some time ago Dr. Uhler was kind enough to lend me the types of C.pluto for study in connection rvirh some aliied material from the National Museum. This new material, while generically distinct, is so closely allied to Cochlorhinus in many ways, and at the same time possessing more nearly the typical Acocephaline characters, that it is now possible to assign this unique genus to an approximately correct position in the group,and give its characters from a comparative standpoint.

It is apparentiy a rare form, as the three original females taken more than twenty-five years ago are the only known specimens of the species. To make this nondescript form more accessible to the workers in the group, and as a basis for the comparisons in tlie descriptions that follow,it has been thought best to give a comparative description of the genus and species, and also a figure of the type, together with its more important details.
NOTES ON CANADIAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS APANTESIS (ARCTIA), WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE LARVÆ
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

This paper is not by any means intended to be a full treatment of the species of the genus Apantesis, occurring in Canada. There is so much yet to be learned about many of the forms that the preparation of such an article is still quite impossible. The intention, therefore, is merely to present the rather incomplete notes we have made at Ottawa, with the hope that they may be of some use to students who are, or who may become, interested in these insects, and also that it may be seen at a glance what work has been done on some of the species, as well as what is still lacking with regard to others. There is considerable doubt as to the validity of some of the species of this genus, and these doubts as to the validity of some of the species of this genus, and these doubts can only be dispelled by careful and extensive breeding from the egg, taking accurate notes of the larvæ (in their different stages), the pupæ, etc. Large series of many of the so-called species will have to be bred before definite knowledge can be acquired.
SYNOPSIS OF NOMADINÆ
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

This paper is intended to give the results of the study of the local species.

Unless otherwise indicated, vein a = basal nervure; vein V2= transverse medial nervure; vein rm= first cubital nervure; cell III1+2= marginal cell; cell III5 = second cubtial cell; “joint” refers to antennæ; “segment” refers to abdomen.

There has been enough confusion in this group to suit the most stupid of lumpers. It takes a mystagogue to identify a species from a description of its oranaments. Such descriptions are regular pitfalls—regular synonym-traps.
COLOUR-BLINDNESS AMONG ENTOMOLOGISTS
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

It is well known that a small percentage of the people in this country, and perhaps in all countries, are more or less colour-blind, and it is a noteworthy fact that such persons are often entirely unconscious of it or do not fully appreciate its disadvantages. The officials of the railroads and certain other corporations test the applicants for situations, and if they are found to be colour-blind, or not able to distinguish colours accurately, they are not employed. It will be readily seen that if a railroad engineer or the officer of the deck on one or our large passenger ships could not distinguish between red and green signal lights in the night, most disastrous accidents might be the result.
MERISTIC VARIATION IN CORYDALIS CORNUTA, LINN
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

Records of duplication of members in hexapod larvæ are so rare that I submit the subjoined account, drawn up from a specimen of the young of Corydalis cornuta, captured in the river near Iowa City, several years ago. The insect is one of a number that I took for class dissection, and as far as noted, the remainder did not depart from the ordinary type. A notice of the case was prepared at the time and sent to a scientific journal on the eve of its suspending publication, so that I think the article was never printed.
NOTES ON FIVE SPECIES OF MEGACHILE
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

I have spent more time than I like to think about identifying bees of the genus Megachile, so I have no apology to make for offering somenotes which will, I hope, make the process easier for others:

Megachile frugalis, Cresson.— This species was described from the male. I have before me a female collected by Dr. Davidson at Lancester, California. It practically agrees with the description of M. zaptlana, Cresson, ♀, except that it has no lines of white pubescence on the thorax. M. occidentalis, Fox, ♀, is very similar, and has the lines of white pubescence, but it has a different clypeal margin, and the very scanty hair on the disc of the clypeus is white. In M. frugalis, ♀, the clypeus has long black hair; the ventral scopa is creamy white, black on the last segment. These bees are all of the elongate narrow type. The anterior margin of the clypeus in frugalis, ♀, can hardly be called excavated, but presents three gently-rounded prominences, the margin between them being slightly concave.
CULEX CONSOBRINUS AGAIN
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In the July number of the Canadian Entomologist, Prof. J.M. Aldrich attempted to rescue Dr. Williston's Culex inornatus, from the synonymy by referring the true Culex eonsobrinus, Desvoidy, as a synonym of Culex pipiens, Linné, and denying that any of the other species which the writer originally placed in the synonymy of consobrinus is identical with inornatus.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA
Authors: Ball E. B.
Published: February 2010

Phlepsius collitus, n. sp.— Resembling fulvidorsum, but smaller and paler. Colour fulvous, elytra brown, with two imperfect light bands. Length,♀, 6 mm.; width 2 mm. Vertex short, obtusely rounded, but little longer on middle than against eye, three times wider than long; disc convex; the anterior margin distinct, but not sharply angled; elytra rather long and narrow; venation distinct, claval veins separate, parallel. Colour: vertex fulvous, sometimes with faint brownish mottling; face unifrom dull brown; pronotum fulvos, usually mottled with brown on the disc; scutellum fulvous.
TWO NEW PHYTOPHAGOUS HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

Xiphydria erythrogaster, sp. nov.— ♀. Length, 9.8 mm. Head and thorax black, marked with yellow as follows: The black of the head is confined to the occiput, a large spot on the crown is dilated on each side, but does not quite reach the eye, while the yellow is confined to the cheeks, the face to above the insertion of the antennæ, the front orbits and a V-shaped mark above the eyes. Mandibles yellow, with black teeth; prothorax yellow, with a black line on collar above and a black mark in the lateral depressions; mesonotum black, with two yellow spots on the disc; scutellum with the axillæ yellow; meso- and meta-sternum yellow, with black marks.
QUEBEC DIPTERA
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

I have taken, in the Province of Quebec, the undermentioned species of two-winged flies, the names of which do not appear in the Toronto Check List
NOTES ON THE STRIDULATION AND HABITS OF RANATRA FUSCA, PAL. B
Authors: De La Torre Bueno J. R.
Published: February 2010

Little is known regarding the sounds produced by the Rhynchota, and that little refers almost exclusively to the Cryptocerata, of which Corixa has had the most attention; and some few observations have been made on Nepa, Sigara and Notonecta. It seems to me, therefore, that it would be well to put on record the observations and notes made by me on the stridulation of Ranatra, together with a few other remarks on this insect.
CASSIDA VIRIDIS LINNEUS
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W. , Que Levis. P.
Published: February 2010

In the October number of the Canadian Entomologist, I told of the appearance at Levis of a tortoise-beetle new to this Province.

A question as to the identiy of this insect having been raised, I asked Professor E.A. Popenoe, of Kansas State Agricultural College (to whom i was sending specimens), for his opinion upon it. I also sent specimens to the Coleopterist of the British Museum, with a like request. Both gentleman very kindly answered me.
A NEW ŒCANTHUS FROM ILLINOIS
Authors: Titus E. S. G.
Published: February 2010

Œcanthus Forbesi, n. sp. — ♂. General colour pale yellow. Length to tip of wings 17 mm.; greatest widht across closed wing-covers, 3.5 mm. Very slender, elongate in general shape, somewhat resembling Zabea bipunctata (DeG.), but the outline of the closed wing-covers is more elongate.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF MAMESTRA LAUDABILIS, GUENEE
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

The eggs of this species were received from the Rev. R. W. Anderson, of Wando, North Carolina. They hatched May 22, and the larvæ were matured by the middle of July. The larvæ are coloured to resemble a piece of wood or bark, and remain all day motionless, hidden on the ground. They are remarkably sluggish, can be handled free for a considerable time without making the slightest motion. They are general feeders.
A NEW ANOPHELES WITH UNSPOTTED WINGS
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Anopheles Barberi, new species.—Near Walkeri, but only about half as large, the upright forked scales of the occiput chiefly yellowishwhite, body devoid of scales, etc. Black, the base of the antennæ, clypeus, stems of halteres, coxæ and trochanters yellow, thorax and scutellum yellowish-brown, front portion of the former and the pleura more yellowish, occiput devoid of appressed scales; thorax somewhat polished, thinly bluish-gray pruinose, the hairs and bristles chiefly black, those of the abdoment mostly yellowish, of the coxæ yellow; femora with a distinct bluish tinge, tarsal claws simple; wings hyaline, the scales brown, the lateral ones lanceolate, petiole of first submarginal cell about one-third as long as that cell, base of the latter much nearer the base of the wing than that of the second posterior cell, hind crossvein less than its length from the small crossvein; length, 3 mm.
NOTES ON THE ENTOMOLOGY OF PECOS, NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

A single specimen was collected one evening at Las Vegas, at a flower of Gaura coccinea. I then remarked of it: “Face narrower than type; possibly a distinct species.” It seemed strange that it should be visiting the Gaura, but it did not occur to me that I had a genuinely vespertine bee. On June 22, 1903, at Pecos, I was astonished to see a number of bees busily collecting pollen from the flowers of Galpinsia fendleri (a large yellow evening primrose)after sunset, at 7.30 p.m. I collected some, and found that they were my “Halictus amicus, var. a, ” which is evidently a distinct species. It is readily known from H. amicus by the narrower face and more sparsely punctured clypeus.
NEW ORIENTAL ALEURODIDÆ
Authors: Quaintance A. L.
Published: February 2010

Aleurodes Marlatti, n. sp.

Egg.— Size about. 1 mm. × .2 mm., exclusive of stalk, which is quite short, holding egg in upright position of leaf; regularly elliptical in outline. Colour, dirty yellowish brown, as seen on leaf; under transmitted light, yellowish. Shell without markings or sculpturing of any kind.

Larva.— Broadly elliptical. Colour, except in first stage which is yellowish, brownish to brownish black, varying in some specimens to an iridescent blue black; in later stages, margined all around with a short, rather squarely-trimmed, white waxy secretion, from the marginal wax tubes.
MY LAST REPLY TO MAJOR CASEY
Authors: Wasmann E.
Published: February 2010

In Dr. David Sharp's “Zoological Record, Insects," 1901, I find in the list of my publications of that year, under the title, 1449, “On some genera of Staphylinidæ described by Thos. L. Casey,” the following note: “Casey replies to this, l.c. pp. 312, 313.”

As I do not receive American journals here, I tried to get the respective nos. of the Canadian Entomologist from one of my friends. Being informed now of the contents of Major Casey's “reply,” I understand why he did not send it to me, although I had sent him a copy of my critic paper “On some genera of Staphylinidæ” already, Nov. 2nd, 1901.
A NEW ANAPHORID, AND A NOTE ON AN OLD ONE
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Eulepiste Kearfotti, n. sp.

Gray, with a reddish ochreous tint, brighter in an obscure streak beyond cell and on submedian fold. A series of black strigæ along the costa and on fringe; a small dash beyond cell, and an oblique bar in submedian fold beyond middle. Hind wing blackfish, fringe long, pale, interlined with blackish. Below, blackish, with a pale line at the base of the fringe. Expanse, 22 mm.

Two males from Mr. W.D. Kearfott's collection, “Yuma Co., Ariz. Desert.”

Larger than the other species of Eculepiste, and differing in the genitalia, Uncus a single long spine, curving downward, opposed to a broad, concave basal plate. Side pieces strap-shaped or slightly concave, curved downward, and with a distinct spine on the lower angle.
LARVAL CHARACTERS OF PACHYGASTRIA TRIFOLII AND AGLIA TAU
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

I have postponed replying to Mr. Bacot's communication (Can Ent., XXXV., 44–47) until I could examine his preparations. He has kindly sent them to me, and they seem definitely to settle the two points that remain at issue. The Agliatau is in fluid, and shows a number fo secondary setæ as described by Mr. Bacto. These setæ are short and unusally weak, so that in my own specimen, which is dried, inflated they had become partly shrivelled, partly broken in transit. I do not think, after examining Mr. Bacot's specimen, that they can be regarded otherwise than as true setæ, and I am very willing to acknowledge myself corrected. This correction, if applied to my synoptic table of Saturnian genera (Tutt, Brit, Lep., III., 272), makes my division stronger and sharper than before, allying Aglia more strongly than ever with Attacus and Saturnia.
LEPIDOSAPHES versus MYTILASPIS
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

The genus Lepidosaphes was established by Dr. Shimer, in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. I., p. 372, Jan., 1868, with one species (conchiformis =ulmi, Linn., 1758). Although the generic description is not all that could be desired, it is certainly more satisfactory than the descriptions of many genera of insects in this and other orders which have been accepted without question.

The generic name Mytilaspis was first published, without a word of description, by Signoret, in his Catalogue of the Coccidæ in the Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (4), Vol VIII., p. 841 (1868). This paper was presented to the Society at the Seance of March 25th, but was not published till later in the year. A description of this genus was given by Signoret in the above-named work for 1870, page 91. This article was presented to the Society at the same time as the Catalogue.
LIFE-HISTORY OF SABULODES ARCASARIA, WLK.: (Sabulodes arcasaria, Wlk., ♀. Sabulodes sulphurata, Pack., ♀.)
Authors: Seifert Otto
Published: February 2010

On April 24th two ♀ ♀ of this month were found resting on the ground within a cluster of Sumach-brush, at Wooside, Long Island, N. Y. Their bright yellow colour had faded to pale ochre.

Eggs were deposited from April 24th to 28th, only during the night. According to circumstances they are secreted within the fissures of the leaf-buds and narrow crevices of bark, or into the folds of decaying leaves of the food-plant. In the first case the nearly elliptical eggs are fgastened erect, close together, in a single row; when attached to a broader surface they are arranged in small regular patches or rows, but deposited lengthwide, the next one always overlapping the preceding one with its, blunt, micropylar end.
NEW TORTRICIDS FROM KASLO, B. C., AND THE NORTHWEST
Authors: Kearfott W. D.
Published: February 2010

Through the courtsey of Dr. Harrison G.Dyar I have had the privilege of examining and assisting in the identification of all the specimens of the family Tortricidœ collected and bred by him and his assistants during the past summer at and in the vicinity of Kaslo, B.C. A completed list of all species will be included in Dr. Dyar's comprehensive paper on his summer's work, which is in course of preparation. All of the species that appear to be unknown are described in the following paper. Prof. C.H. Fernald has very kindly read over the MSS and examined the types, and confirmed my generic determiantions, and in the case of one species made a correction, for all of which I am glad to acknowledge my obligation.
ON THE GENUS PROTEOPTERYX
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

This genus was established by Lord Walsingham in Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Hetercera in the collection of the British Museum, Part IV., North American Tortricidæ, p. 68 (1879), with emarginana, Wlsm, the only species under it. This variable species was taken in Mendocino and Lake Counties, California, in considerable number (about 40 speciments) in June, 1871, and five varieties were described. His Lordship had the great kindness to give me several examples representing the different varieties.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF CANADIAN BUTTERFLIES.
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

I submit herewith descriptions of 3 species and 3 varieties of Canadian diurnal Lepidoptera, speciments of which have been in my collection for many years, and of which a continued study convinces me that it is wise to characterize them for the benefit of other students of Canadian butterflies. It is possible that some of these may be only local races, but they are so constant that I believe them to be well worthy of recognition. In describing these forms, I have endeavorued to compare them with their nearest allies, as a description, even when accompained by a plate, is more intelligible when a new form can be compared with a well-known standard.
THE CRICKETS OF ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

The crickets, or Gryllidæ, like the other families of Orthoptera, have received so little attention from Canadian entomologists that very few species have been reported from the country, and most of these few records are of little value, as they were made at a time when the family had been little studied, and the species wre ill define. Much has been done of late, however, by American entomologists, notably Sucuder and Blatchely, to unravel these difficulites, although the family is still a very diffucult one to deal with, and much patience and close observation is necessary in order to separate the species satisfactorily.
ANOTHER GEOMETRID COMBINATION
Authors: Pearsall Richard. F.
Published: February 2010

By a recent article in this Journal giving the life-history of Sabulodes arcasaria, Walk., Dr. Otto Seifert demonstrates the need of careful study of some of our species of Geometridæ. A similar case has come under my notice. In June, 1896, I gathered in beating ten rough-looking mahogony-red larvæ from a small group of oaks(Quercus nigra). They were exactly alike in form and colour, and apparently well-grown, so I carried them home, supposing they would quickly mature. They had no thought of it.
THE COCOON OF THE RAY SPIDER (THERIDIOSOMA GEMMOSUM)
Authors: Scheffer Theo. H.
Published: February 2010

The Ray Spiders live a retired life along the banks of some creek, where overhanging bushes and projecting rocks afford the gloom which they seem to seek. In such locations, especially in the dark recesses under clusters of roots, we may look for their cocoons in midsummer. They are among the most interesting to be found—little golden-brown balls, about one-eighth of an inch in diameter, suspended by a single glossy-white thread nearly an inch long.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

In order to avoid needless repetition, I wish here to express my sincere thanks to Prof. John B. Smith and Dr. H. G. Dyar for numerous favours, and also to Mr. O. C. Poling for his great liberality in furnishing me with many of the species here described. Mr. Poling has made a number of collecting trips to little known parts of Arizona and Utah, and in addition to many new species has turned up many rare forms discovered years ago by Morrison and Doll. The fauna of Southern Arizona is essentially Mexican, and as there is at present no collection of Mexican Lepidoptera in this country worth mentioning, one in describing apparently new species from that region is certain to make synonyms.
A REVIEW OF OUR GEOMETRID CLASSIFICATION
Authors: Pearsall Richard. F.
Published: February 2010

Since any work in this group must of necessity be a review of that done by the late Dr. Geo. D. Hulst, I want to state in this begining of mine, that it is not to be regarded as a criticism.

Dr. Hulst made (for him) some curious errors, which will be noted later on, but the immense work he did in untangling the synonymy of this variable group, and in his two trips across the ocean to study the types, cannot be overestimated, and by it mine is rendered easy.
MOSQUITO NOTES
Authors: Ludlow C. S.
Published: February 2010

Laboratory of the Office of the Surgeon-General U.S. Army, Washington.

From one of the smaller of the Philippine Islands comes a new oMegarhinus, which is noticeable for its dark caudal tuft and banded tarsi, and with it a specimen of Stegomyia fasciata, Fabr., accurately marked in all points except the hind tarsi, which lack all the white bands except those on the metatarsi, while from Jolo is sent a new variety of Desvoidea.
THE SO-CALLED HUMAN FLEA, PULEX IRRITANS, INFESTING THE OPOSSUM, DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

While engaged in studying the still enigmatical insect, Platypsilla castoris, along Devil's River, Texas in the spring of 1891, on opossum was treed by the dogs one evening, and shot. The following morning I found the animal, which was a female, and though herself dead, the young were still alive and in the pouch of the mother. While examining these I observed that the pouch also contained numbers of fleas. Specimens were captured and sent to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, I being at the time employed by the Division of Entomology.
THE CRICKETS OF ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

This genus contains the common large black field crickets and the house cricket, which has been introduced into this country from the Old World. But three species have been taken in Ontario. All of these are dimorphic as regards wing-length, the shor-winged from being the normal one in the field crickets, the long-winged form in the house cricket.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

Fore wings chrome yellow, a pink patch at base of wing, about 3 mm. wide; this is most marked on costa and between median and submedian veins. A subterminal pinkish band, broad at base, where it is confluent with the pink fringe; at centre is narrow and furthest removed from margin, at inner angle it broadens out, becoming again confluent with fringe. Fringe pink, in one speciment slightly paler inwardly. Hind wings pale yellowish white, firnge concolorous.
LIST OF ADDITIONAL MANITOBA LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Heath E. Firmstone.
Published: February 2010

Since Mr. A. W. Hanham published his lists of Manitoba Lepidoptera in the Canadian Entomologist (1897–1901), many additional species have been taken in the Province by myself and other. Where no special locality is given in the following list, the capture was made by me on my farm on the Long River, and in almost every instance the identification has been made by Dr. John B. Smith, to whom my warmest thanks are due for the kindly that he has taken with my material.
BEETLE DRIFT ON LAKE MICHIGAN
Authors: Needham James. G.
Published: February 2010

The ill wind that blows insects into a lake may blow the entomologist some good if he be on hand to collect them when they are cast upon the beach. During recent years I have gathered much material for class use from the drift line upon the beach at Lake Forest, with great economy of time and labour. After every on-shore breeze following sunshiny summer weather some insects are cast up by the waves, and occasionally there is a great accumulation of them. Twice I have observed accumulations of them quite out of the ordinary; the first time, in August, 1899, when the drift was predominantly crickets of a single species (Nemobius fasciatus)*, and a second time in June, 1904, when it was predominantly May beetles of a single species(Lachnosterna fusca). It is the purpose of this paper to record some observations on this occurrence.
THYREOPUS LATIPES, SM
Authors: Viereck Henry L.
Published: February 2010

♀ and ♂ new to Vancouver. Hitherto only the male of this fossorial wasp had been known. The males recorded in the literature came from Nove Scotia, Cananda; Montana, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. The female is related to T. medius, Fox, but differs in size, sculpture and ornamentation, particularly in the contrast between the deep median sclcus on the metanotum and the regular subdued sculpture adjoining. In medius the sclcus is not sharply outlined, nor is there a strong contrast between it and the sculpture of the adjoining area which is rough. The female of T. latipes is much like the male, and is readily referred to its fully described sex. Prof. Harvey sent one female taken 21st June, 1903, and one male 19th June, 1903, to Dr. Henry Skinner, who referred them to me for identification.
NEW SPECIES OF HEMEROBIUS
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Preparatory to a revision of the Nearctic Hemerobiidæ I present descriptions of a few new species of Hemerobius. A few of the names have been used already elsewhere, but without description. Outline figures of the male genitalia will be given in the forthcoming revision.

Hemerobius transversus, n. sp.—Face shining black, vertex and antennæ pale yellowish; thorax pale, a black stripe across front part of the mesothorax; abdomen brownish; legs pale yellowish. Wings with the margins faintly but broadly clouded with brown; the gradate series marked with dark brown, and a brown band between the first and second first.
DIFFUSION OF THE HAWK MOTHS IN NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In the issue of Psyche for April,1903, I published a paper on the diffusion of insects in North America, in which reference was made in a footnote to the probable trend of diffusion in the Sphingidæ, and this may be looked upon as supplementary to that publication. In the former paper I could not deal with this phase of the problem of diffusion of insects, to the extent that this family deserves, nor am I certain that this is possible even now, but it seems desirable to point out some suggestive features of the present distribution and probabale diffusion of this interesting family of moths.
CONCERNING SOME PHILIPPINE MOSQUITOES
Authors: Ludlow C. S.
Published: February 2010

In connection with the work on the Philippine mosquitoes carried on by the authority of the Surgeon-General, U.S. Army, and “for and with the co-operation of the Medical Corps, U.S.A.,” a lot of mosquitoes recently received from Cottabato, Mindanao, P.I., makes it possible to describe a new Myzomyia; to state definitely all the differences between Stegomyia scutellaris, Walker, and the variety Sumarensis, Ludlow; and to make a small correction in the description of Myzorhyncus pseudobarbirostris, Ludlow.
THE YOUNG LARVA OF ARSENURA RICHARDSONI, DRUCE
Authors: Packard Alpheus. S.
Published: February 2010

The eggs of this rare species were kindly sent me from Tacubaja, Mexico by Mr. O. W. Barrett. The food-plant of the caterpillar was unknown to him. Heretofore we have only had the figures of the mature larva of three species of this genus, and four sketches of the caterpillar of A. armida, the better known species of this interesting genus, which ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The larva figured by Madam Merian, Stoll, Burmeister, and by Peters, is represented as being smooth, without any tubercles, horns, or hairs.
GASTROPHILUS EPILEPSALIS LARVÆ AND EPILEPSY
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

In the October number of the St. Paul Medical Journal, Dr. Burnside Foster, the editor, gives a very interesting case of larvæ found in the cutaneous tissues of a three weeks old infant, that a specialist in Dipterology identified as the above species. The case was not one of Dr. Foster's patients, but was from Superior, Wis. If the identification is correct, and I see no reason why it should not be, for the specialist was the same one who identified the first larva found in the boy at Chester, Illinois, as a Gastrophilus, and he had one of the types before him for comparison, the case is important. How they came to be in the child's skin is an interesting question, and in a brief note in reply to Dr. Foster's article, I suggested an examination of the excreta of the mother.
NOTES ON HYDROMETRA MARTINI, KIRK. (= LINEATA, SAY)
Authors: De La Torre Bueno J. R.
Published: February 2010

The peculiar facility of the older entomologists, the fathers of the Sciences, for discarding each other's generic and specific names has in this instance, as in many others, given rise to be complicated synonymy, of which I give above that covering this extremely interesting little waterstrider. It is given more in detail in The Entomologist (London Eng.) for June, 1900, on Page 176, in which Kirkaldy elucidates it, relegating Say's specific name to synonymy, as it unfortunatley has been preoccuupied by Eschscholtz, who in 1822 described Hydrometra lineata from Manila, Philippine Islands. In the paper mentioned hereafter, Mr. J.O. Martin discusses the generic synonymy.
MOSQUITO NOTES.—No. 3
Authors: Ludlow C. S.
Published: February 2010

Stethomyia pallida, n. sp.— ♀. Head light testaceous, a few white flat lanceolate scales on the vertex, othewise clothed with sparsely set slender hair-like curved brown scales, nearly as long as the very slender fork scales which occur on the occiput; two light brown bristles project foward between the eyes, and a few around the eyes. The head shows no sign of having been denuded, and besides the slender hair-like scales is covered with a short fine tomentum or frostiness, such as is oftern seen of the thorax of Anophelina.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

Fore wings white, with small orange patch at apex, marked with black dots and bars as follows: Six spots on costa, about equidistant, the basal one slightly removed from costa and the second smaller than the others, a round spot in cell, followed by four short parallel transverse bars beyond it, lying close together, the third one joining spot on costa. A short longitudinal dash on inner margin at base, followed by five transverse bars from median vein to inner margin, the first, however, not quite reaching it. Of these the third and fifth are narrower than the others and in the male especially tend to become broken, probably in some specimens they would be almost or quite wanting.
PRACTICAL AND POPULAR ENTOMOLOGY.—No. 6.: The Struggle with the Codling Moth
Authors: Lochhead W. M.
Published: February 2010

Everyone recognizes the destructive work of the Codling Moth, but everone does not know how to fight it. Much has been written about it, for the great loss occasioned by this one insect has compelled not only fruit-growers but also governments to investigate its habits and to determine practicable methods for its control. As a result of the labours of many scientific observers, its life-history is now fairly well known, and its control is now no longer a matter or mere chance.
A NEW CECIDOMYIID ON COTTON
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

During the past winter Dr. L. O. Howard received specimens of a Cecidomyiid from Sir Daniel Morris, Director of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, with the statement that the larvæ live in the cambium layer of cotton plants. Up to the present time no representative of this family has been recorded as depredating upon cotton so far as I am awar, and at the request of Sir D. Morris the species is duly characterized herewith:

Porricondyla (Epidosis) gossypii, new species.
A NEW SPECIES OF BUCCULATRIX
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary. E.
Published: February 2010

Bucculatrix Ainsliella, n. sp.—Antennæ about the fithts the length of the fore wings, annulated in dusky brown and dull yellow. Eye caps golden white, expanded. Apical tuft long, projecting foward, dark brown in centre, shading outwardly to dingy white. Face satiny cream white. Thorax cream white, more or less dusky, overlaid with dark brown scales, with small but distinct dark brown spot on centre of dorsum, two rather narrow marks of same colour forming a triangle or open V on posterior joint, back of which is a silvery white band.
A NEW NORTH AMERICAN TAENIORHYNCHUS
Authors: Ludlow C. S.
Published: February 2010

From the heart of the Sierras, in California, comes a new mosquito of the genus Taeniorhynchus, which is here described:

Taeniorhynchus Sierrensis, n. sp.—æ. Head brown, a median line of white curved scales extending up between the eyes, immediately followed laterally by a patch of flat brown scales, a narrow white stripe laterad, followed by a brown stripe, narrow white line around the eyes, white forked and curved scales on the occiput; the general effect is of two brown submedian spots, and the curved scales are confined to this comparatively narrow median line; antennæ brown, and white not really banded, giving the effects of white bands, verticels brown, pubescence white, basal joint white scaled; palpi brown with white tips, and a narrow light band about midway; proboscis dark brown, clypeus brown, eyes brown.
MANITOBA MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Kearfott W. D.
Published: February 2010

Exentera apriliana, Grote.—Aweme, IV, 30, to V, 21; Beulah. Thirteen specimens. This is a particularly interesting caputre. Grote's descripiton is remarkably brief, and his generic description, occurring on the same page, is misleading on account of an error. He states: “Hind wings 7-veined, 5 wanting.” I know of no Tortricid genus in which 5 is absent; frequently 3 and 4 are coincident or stalked for their entire length, but even this is not the case in any one of these specimens; 3 and 4 are stalked from a quarter to a half.
THE LARVA OF EUPITHECIA INTERRUPTOFASCIATA, PACKARD
Authors: Fletcher James , Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

On May 19, 1904, Mr. W. Metcalfe found some green Geometrid larvæ, at Hull, Que., feeding on the common Juniper (Juniperus communis, L). These were handed to the writers, who succeeded in bringing them to maturity. Three of the bred moths were sent to the Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Wellington B.C. for identification.
NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA, CHIEFLY FROM THE SOUTHWEST
Authors: Fall H. C.
Published: February 2010

The following species of Coleoptera are sufficiently isolated or conspicuous to warrent their description apart from any monographic treatment of the genera to which they belong. The types of the three species sent of Prof. Snow remain in his collection, or rather that of the University of Kansas; the types of the remaining species are in the writer's collection.
SYNOPSIS OF BEES OF OREGON, WASHINGTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER.—IV
Authors: Viereck H. L. , Cockerell T. D. A. , Titus E. S. G. , Crawford J. C. , Swenk M. H.
Published: February 2010

Ceratina submaritima, Ckll.— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 352, 1897.

Corvallis, Or., ♀ ♀, 29th May, 4th June. 1897 24th, 25th May, 7th June, 1898; ♂ ♂, 15th May, 1897; 25th, 27th April, 7th May, 1898; 21st May, 3rd, 9th June, 1899. Elkton, Or, ♀ ♀ and ♂ ♂, 17t January, 1897.
NEW HYMENOPTERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

The good work on the Hymenopterous fauna of the Philippine Islands, begun by Father W. A. Stanton, S.J., is being contiuned by Father Robert E. Brown, S.J. and I have now the pleasure of describing below two new genera and twelve new species captured by him in the Observatory Garden at Manila.
WHOM SHALL WE FOLLOW?
Authors: Pearsall Richard. F.
Published: February 2010

The recently-published article from the pen of Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, giving a rearrangement of the species now included under the genus Venusia, Curtis, under the same caption used by me in a previous paper, gives me, I think, a right to protest. He refuses to accept the separation of 12-lineata, Pack.? under a new genus, as given by me; but if the two male specimens, which were sent through the kindness of Mr. Geo.
A NEW DEXIID PARASITE OF A CUBAN BEETLE
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Black, the antenn♀, palpi, labella and front corners of the first two abdominal segments pale yellow, the last segment and hind edge of the preceding orange yellow. Front at narrowest part one-fifth as wide as either eye, the upper three pairs of frontal bristles much larger than the others, one pair beneath insertion of antenn♀, facial ridges strongly diverging below antenn♀ slender, almost as long as the face, the third joint five times as long as the second.
A REMARKABLE FLIGHT OF CORISA, “WATER BOATMEN”
Authors: Lange D.
Published: February 2010

Between 2 and 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Oct. 11, 1904, I observed remarkable flight of “Water Boatmen” at St. Paul, Minn. Thousands of them were flying hither and thither over several asphaltpaved streets, which had just been watered, and on which the sun was shining; the temperature was about 60°F in th shade, the sky was clear, and there was no wind. The insects evidently mistook the wet asphalt for water. Thousands of them alighted, and were held fast by the flim of mud until they died. About 5 o'clock I noticed on one street a struggling “Boatman” to every square inch of surface.