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NEW ASILID FLIES OF THE GENUS ABLAUTUS WITH A KEY TO THE SPECIES
Authors: Wilcox J.
Published: January 2010

Three of the species of Ablautus Loew described here have been on hand for several years and, as no additional material has become available, there seems to be no reason for delaying their description longer. These small robber flies inhabit the more arid regions of the West and Southwest and seem to prefer sandy localities in the sage brush. Osten Sacken commented on the fact that Ablautus mimus O. S. was associated with Lestomyia sabulonum O. S. on sandy soil and seems to mimic it; and Melander says, regarding Cyrtopogon ablautoides Mel., “The species presents a curious superficial resemblance to Ablautus mimus O. S., with which it is associated in the sandy desert region.”
SOME NEW MYCETOPHILIDAE
Authors: Shaw Frank R.
Published: January 2010

In the course of my studies of this interesting group of flies, some new species have been described which I wish to record at this time.

Sciara townesi sp. n.

Male. Length 3½ mm. Shiny in appearance.

Head black, palpi brownish. Antennae black, covered with silvery pubescence. Thorax black. Pteropleurite slightly lighter. Legs yellow, ventral surface of trochanters black. Fore tibia with one spur, meso and metathoracic tibia with two spurs. Prothoracic basitarsus shorter than tibia. Wing, length 3 mm. Costa extends about 4/5 distance from Rs to M1+2. Hypopygium (fig. I) brownish black.
NEW CANADIAN PERLIDS (PART II)
Authors: Ricker William E.
Published: January 2010

Length to tip of wings: ♂ 12 mm. ♀ 14 mm.; expanse ♂ 21 mm., ♀ 25 mm.

Head (exclusive of eyes ) somewhat wider than prothorax, yellow with obscure light brown markings; lateral tubercles small, pale; ocelli ringed with black, the black sometimes extending a short distance forward and/or toward the eyes. Antennae yellow at base, brown toward the tips, palpi brownish.
A REVIEW OF THE NEARCTIC GEOSARGINAE (DIPTERA, STRATIOMYIDAE)
Authors: James Maurice T.
Published: January 2010

The subfamily Geosarginae forms a troulesome complex in the New World tropics, and much work will be necessary before certain generic and specific relationships can he determined. In the Nearctic region, however, conditions are not so serious; for, in spite of the fact that certain of the genera are not very satisfactorily defined, the species are comparatively few and, for the most part, quite distinct. It is hoped that the present review will serve to identify the species found in America north of Mexico.
SOME PACIFIC COAST PANURGINUS (HYMEN., APOIDEA)
Authors: Michener Charles D.
Published: January 2010

Numerous species of bees, commonly referred to Panurginus, must, as has been shown by Crawford, be referred to Pseudopanurgus. This is brought out, not only by venation, but also by characters of the genitalia and sternites. It is possible that these insects are to be separated subgenerically from the coarsely punctate, typical, Pseudopanurgus, but their relationship is not with Panurginus. The South American species which I have seen are also Pseudopanurgus.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF ELEODES FROM THE PACIFIC COAST REGION (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE.)
Authors: Blaisdell Frank E.
Published: January 2010

The following new species of Eleodes have recently, come to hand and are described as follows:

Eleodes indentata n. sp. (Subgenus Blapylis Horn.)

Female—From ovate, about twice as long as wide, widest across middle of the elytra. Color deep black, luster polisheci ancl shining.

Head slightly widest across the eyes, before the post-ocular line a little more than twice as wide as long; sides of the front scarcely as prominent as the eyes, arcuately convergent to the oblique sutures and there broadly sinuate; sides of the epistoma straight and convergent, angles evenly. rounded, apex broadly sinuate : frons feebly convex, s1ight1y and broadly impressed within the moderatc supra-antennal convexities, very densely punctate, punctures coarse and more or less coalescent, smaller on the occiput. Labmrum transverse, densely punctete in apical one-half, thence to base smooth and very sparsel punctate.
NOTES ON THE NATIVE HOSTS OF SOME ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH PARASITES
Authors: Putman WM. L.
Published: January 2010

Within the last few years parasites have become of increasing importance in the control of the oriental fruit moth, Grapholitha molesta Busck. Dr. Van Steenburgh, in a paper to be published in the Report of the Entomological Society of in Ontario for 1934, has reviewed their importance in Ontario and has shown that Glypta rufiscutellaris Cress. is the predominant native species, ranking next to the introduced Macrocentrus ancylivorus Roh. Cremastus minor Cush. is of secondary importance, while the other species occur only in small numbers.
FIVE NEW SPECIES OF BRACONIDAE WITH HOST RECORDS OF ADDITIONAL SPECIES
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

In recent rearings by officers of the Entomological Branch several new species of Braconidae have been secured as well as records of species hitherto little known in Canada. The writer wishes to express his indebtedness to Dr. C. W. F. Muesebeck for his assistance in examining three of the species described below. Paratypes of all the species are deposited in the United States National Museum.
NOTES ON COLLECTING DRYOPIDAE (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Musgrave Paul N.
Published: January 2010

Increasing interest in limnology, aquatic biology and related sciences, has been one of the main factors in turning the attention of systematic coleopterists to this family of small beetles. Many new species have been added to the catalogue recently, and it seems probable that there are many more nearctic species yet to be described. It is with the idea of fostering the growing interest in this group that the following notes are offered from an experience of severa1 years' searching for these small, slow-moving, inconspicuous beetles.
THE EFFECTS OF THE COLD WINTER OF 1933–34 ON THE ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH
Authors: Dustan G. G.
Published: January 2010

The winter of 1933-34 was the coldest to which the oriental fruit moth has been exposed in Canada since its discovery in the Niagara peninsula in 1925, and we were naturally very interested to see how it survived. Unfortunately we have to report that it survived very well indeed, although we are glad to say its larval parasites, both native and imported, also survived.
ADDITIONS TO THE HISTERIDAE OF LOWER CALIFORNIA. (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Hinton Howard E.
Published: January 2010

In 1894 Horn (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, IV) recorded twelve species of Histeridae as occurring in Lower California. One, Carcinops viridicollis Mars., was omitted, but Lewis (1888) and Leng (1920) Both record it from lower California, and one, Iliotona beyeri Schffr. (1907), has since been described from this region. In the present paper, one known and three new Histeridae are added to the list, thus raising the total numher from this region to eighteen.
NEW COLEOPTERA FROM WESTERN CANADA. V
Authors: Hopping Ralph
Published: January 2010

Length 5-6 mm. A slender elongate species, head and body piceous with testaceous prothorax, medianally black on the pronotum and ventrally testaceous to black, the elytra dark brown and faintly shining. The head is rather finely,sparsely punctured, the antennae slender, piceous to brown, with the third segment 2½ to 3 times the length of the second and longer than the fourth, extending to approximately the middle of the elytra.
SOME METHODS OF LABELLING AND HOUSING LARGE INSECT COLLECTIONS
Authors: Jaques H. E.
Published: January 2010

The Iowa Insect Survey has, for more than ten years, been studying the seasonal and geographic distribution of Iowa insects. The records are card indexed and come from various sources, chief of which is the survey collection made up by frequent collecting trips covering the entire state. In this way at least some preliminary work has been done in each of the 99 counties of Iowa. Many of these counties have been rather thoroughly worked for special groups.
AMERICAN SPECIES OF LUDIUS; THE SEMIVITTATUS AND NITIDULUS GROUPS (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

This group includes, besides semivittatus Say, trivittatus Lec., and the recently described castanicolor Fall, two species which have been confused with semivittatus and two others which have been identified as fuscu1us Lec. The species agree well among themselves in body form, type of sculpture, and type of aedfagus, and differ from each other mainly in characters of the antennae and vestiture and in color.
REVIEW OF TULARAEMIA IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A RECENT HUMAN CASE
Authors: Moilliet T. K.
Published: January 2010

Since its discovery in rodents by McCoy3 in California in 1911, tularaemia has been found to have a widespread distribution in North America. The same year it was described by Pearsd12 as an insect-borne disease. Francis1. in 1919- 1920 correlated these two manifestations and to him we owe most of our knowledge of the disease. It is now known to be contracted by man either by contact with infected animals or by the bites of flies or ticks which have become carriers through biting diseased rodents prior to attacking man, or even from the excreta of these insects.
STUDIES ON NORTH AMERICAN MORDELLIDAE, I. (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Ray Eugene
Published: January 2010

This is the first of a series of papers on North American Mordeliidae. It is intendled that the entire family will, in time, be taxononically covered and that keys to the members of various genera will be included.

Unless otherwise noted types of species hereafter described are to be found in the collection of the writer.
THREE UNDESCRIBED PEDICULOIDID MITES FROM THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
Authors: Jacot Arthur Paul
Published: January 2010

In a recent number of the Canadian Entomologist I presented a generic key to the female Pediculoididae and described a new species of Pygmephorus. I now add three more species to this genus. Types are to be deposited at the United States National Museum.
OBSERVATIONS ON PODALONIA VIOLACEIPENNIS (LEP.) (SPHECIDAE) AND VESPULA MACULATA (LINN.) (VESPIDAE)
Authors: Balduf W. V.
Published: January 2010

On a visit to lake Winnibigoshish, Minnesota, on August 26, 1932, my attention was attracted by numbers of this wasp engaged in dragging the mature larvae of the Notodontid moth, Symmerista albifrons S. and A. over the sandy surface of the broad beach. The lake shore is about 300 feet wide at that place and composed of several distinct levels. The lower areas nearest the water are covered with low growths of willow and poplar, among which the wasps seemed to prefer to bury the paralysed caterpillars. The latter had developed on the oaks in the forest bordering the lake and several were seen crawling on the sand below the trees, presumably seeking places for pupation. The wasps doubtlessly seized their victims on the ground.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF NOTOXUS (COLEOPTERA: ANTHICIDAE.)
Authors: Blaisdell Frank E.
Published: January 2010

Form elongate, moderately slender, sides of body parallel, three times as long as wide. Color usually nigro-piceous, at times more or less rufo-piceous ; prothorax varying from rufo-testaceous to rufo-piceous; palpi, antennae and legs rufo-testaceous, at times clouded with fuscus. Luster more or less shining throughout. In palerspecimens a rather broad, black transverse fascia is more or less distinct just behind the middle third of the elytra, this extends along the suture to base, gradually widening- in basal third to involve the inner one-halfof each elytron and scutellum: when the elytra are more or less rufotestaceous the apical area remains piceous and when entirely nigro-piceous the maculation may be more or less defined by brownish hairs. Pubescence for the most part pale throughout, decumbent, of moderate length, not coarse and not concealing the surface; beneath more closely recumbent, denser on the apical margins of abdominal segments and mesosternal parapleura; shorter, finer and closely appressed on the legs. Head and pronotum with quite long, bristling, sparsely scattered setiform hairs; those of the elytra semierect and of moderate length.
TABANUS RHOMBICUS AND RELATED WESTERN HORSEFLIES
Authors: Philip Cornelius B.
Published: January 2010

The dark or grayish bodied horseflies, superficially resembling Tabanus rhombicus O. S. or its variety osburni Hine, are among the abundant and trouble some species encountered in western and boreal North America. Four new species and the previously undescribed males of 6 others, together with a rather widely scattered literature have suggested the value of bringing together some notes on this rather heterogeneous group. Most of the species have 3 rows of pale markings on the abdomen, but a few are black with little or no indication of pattern; all here included have been placed in the subgenus Therioplectes, with hairy eyes in both sexes and an ocelligerous tubercle in the females. The numbers of specimens actually seen by me from various western states are included.
AMERICAN SPECIES OF LUDIUS; THE PROPOLA GROUP
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

The species considered here are closely allied to those of the fallax and triundulatus groups and to the strongly characterized vernalis Hentz, hamatus Say, planulus Lec., and nigricollis Bland. All of these together form a natural group characterized by the general body form and type of vestiture and sculpture. The body is never cylindrical or very elongate. The posterior pronotal angles are short, broad basally, not at all convex, and not or very finely carinate. The propleura are not or only very shallowly emarginate at base, and the lateral margins of the elytra aremore broadly reflexed than usual. The vestiture is fine and abundant. The punctures of the pronotum and venter are quite fine and close, and the punctures are not or scarcely closer on the sides of the pronotum than at the middle of the pronotal disk.
NOTES ON A EUROPEAN WEEVIL, CEUTORHYNCHUS ASSIMILIS PAYK., RECENTLY FOUND IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
Authors: Baker WM. W.
Published: January 2010

During May, 1935, C. F. Doucette collected a few adult weevils on flower heads of mustard growing at the edge of a bulb field near Lynden. Wash. These weevils were recognized by the writer as apparently different from any of the species listed from North America, and a trip was made to Lynden on June 1, 1935, to obtain additional specimens. Specimens were also collected on mustard close to the northern limits of Bellingham, at two points between there and Lynden, north of Lynden, and in the vicinity of Nooksack, all in Watcom County. On the following day two specimens were collected on mustard at Big Lake, Skagit County. Big Lake is practically in the seed-growing section of the county, where a large portion of the cabbage seed used in the United States is produced. Weevils were determined by L. L. Buchanan asCeutorhynchus assilmilisPaykull, and Mr. Buchanan stated that this species had not previously been reported from North America and that it appeared to be of considerable economic importance in Europe.
FURTHER NOTES ON THE GENUS AMELETUS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES (EPHEM.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

The work of my assistant, Mr. A. N. Gartrell, in southern British Columbia during the season of 1935 has resulted in considerable additions to our knowledge of the genus Ameletus in thisprovince; not only have the nymphs of A. oregonensis McD. and vernalis McD. been tied down, but two new species have been discovered.

It is proposed to deal with these in the present article but before doing SO it might be well to call attention to an error which has crept into Traver's key to the adults (1935, Biology of Mayflies, 447) ; in this key the first caption reads “Several cross-veins in forewing margined with brown, so that wing appears speckled” and under this heading is included as first species validus McD. This is incorrect as the wings of validus are not speckled but lightly and evenly suffused with brownish-amber, and the species, if properly keyed, would fall into caption 6, where it is distinguished from shepardi Trav. apparently by the darker-colored abdominal segments. Similior McD., as second species under caption I, is also wrongly keyed; in this species the wings are practically clear hyaline and the correct keying would lead to caption 13 (alticolus McD.) to which species it is allied but differs in genitalic characters.
EGG PLACING BY DIBRACHYS BOUCHEANUS RATZEBURG
Authors: Marsh Frank L.
Published: January 2010

While studying the hymenopterous parasites associated with Samia cecropia Linnaeus in the Chicago area (described by Marsh, '34), the writer had an unusual opportunity of observing the egg-laying technique of the cosmopolitan chalcid Dibrachys boucheanus Ratzeburg. This occasion is taken to describe in some detail the actual placing of the eggs.
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE TREATMENT OF NORTH AMERICAN PARNASSIUS SPECIES BY FELIX BRYK IN DAS TIERREICH, PART 65
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

A monograph of the lepidopterous genus Parnassius has recently appeared as Part 65 of that monumental undertaking “Das Tierreich.” The volume in question comprises nearly 800 closely printed pages and 698 illustrations. The author, Felix Bryk of the Zoological Museum of Berlin, Germany, has long posed as a specialist in this genus of butterflies and is the editor of a publication, “Parnassiana.”
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OUTGROWTHS ON THE PROTHORAX OF ECDYONURUS VENOSUS FABR. (EPHEMEROPTERA)
Authors: Ide F. P.
Published: January 2010

In 1930 Dr. R. H. Emslie turned over to the author a small collection of mayfly nymphs collected by him in streams in Scotland. Among them was a small series of nymphs of Ecdyonurus venosus Fabricius in different instars collected at Tummel Bridge and Bridge of Weir. This species is unique in having prominent postero-lateral extensions of the prothorax resembling the wing-pads of the meso- and metathorax (Figs. 1 & 8).
LABORATORY BREEDING OF ASCOGASTER CARPOCAPSAE VIER. WITH NOTES ON BIOLOGY AND LARVAL MORPHOLOGY
Authors: Boyce H. R.
Published: January 2010

Ascogaster carpocapsae Vier. was not known to have spread naturally over the mountain barriers into the apple growing districts of British Columbia, and it was considered that the introduction of this species might aid in the control of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella Linn.) which has become a serious pest in that area during recent years.
NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF ELATERIDAE (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Following are some additions and corrections to my arrangement of our species of Eanus (1930, Can. Ent. LXII. 161). Diacanthus parvicollis Mann (1853, Bull. Moscou XXVI, 230, from the Kenai peninsula of Alaska, is undoubtedly the male of decoratus Mann. As pointed out by Mr. Fall (1934, Jour. N. Y. Ent. SOC. XLII, 36), subarcticus Brown is a synonym of estriatus Lec.
A NEW RACE OF PARNASSIUS SMINTHEUS FROM CALIFORNIA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

While working over long series of the various forms of P. smintheus, con- tained partly in the Canadian National Collection and partly loaned for study from various sources, I came across two male specimens, received in exchange several years ago from R. F. Sternitzky of San Francisco, and collected at Castle Lake, Siskiyou Co. Calif., a rather isolated locality at an altitude of about 6000 ft. in the mountains opposite Mt. Shasta to the west, and close to Mt. Bradley. As these specimens showed several unusual characters I at once got in touch with Mr. Sternitzky and other California collectors and was able to secure a good series for study; these specimens had apparently all been collected by Messrs. L. Martin and W. B. Davis and were recorded by the latter (1932, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. XXX, 93) under the name of sminthcus var. magnus Wgt. As these additional specimens show in the main the same distinguishing features that had been noted in the original two, I believe that a good race is indicated, and, in spite of the fact that 1 have been recently rather critical of certain European authors for establishing races of smintheus on inadequate characters, 1 venture to describe it,taking much pleasure in naming it after the enthusiastic collector from whom the specimens were first received.
THE BEES OF ALBERTA.—I
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: January 2010

It is proposed to offer a series of papers, based primarily on the material collected by Professor E. H. Strickland of the University of Alberta at Edmonton.

Chelynia nitida (Cresson). This genus of parasitic bees has over twenty species in North America, the majority from the Pacific Coast region. There are two closely allied species described from females, black with cream-coloured abdominal bands. For some years I have had in my collection a male from Tolland, Colorado, July 1915, at flowers of Frasera, collected by L. A. Kenoyer, determined by me as C. nitida (Cress). I now receive a very similar but distinct male from Professor E. H. Strickland, collected by O. Peck at Beaverlodge, Alberta, July 6, 1931. I conclude that this must be the genuine C. nitida, and the Tolland one the undescribed male of the related C. idahoensis Swenk.
NOTES ON THE OVIPOSITION AND LIFE HISTORY OF PHLEPSIUS DECORUS O. & B. (CICADELLIDAE)
Authors: Swain Ralph B.
Published: January 2010

The writer is not aware that observations on the exceedingly interesting oviposition habits of Phlepsius decorus O. & B. have ever been published. A single female of this species was captured on a sunflower plant at Webster Groves, Mo., June 30, 1933. It was placed in a celluloid, cylinder cage enclosing the terminal bud and young leaves of a half-grown sunflower plant where it began feeding at once.
TWO NEW BEES FROM HAY RIVER
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: January 2010

Looking at the map, I have often wondered what bees might be found in those great northern regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan, from which few collections have been seen. Professor E. H. Strickland has sent me numerous species of Andrena from the region about Edmonton and thence southwest to Lethbridge. But he has also included two species obtained in the far north, in a latitude about the same as that of the southern tip of Greenland. They are quite different from the more southern species, and so far as I can see, they have not been described. It would thus appear that there is a distinctive northern Andrena fauna, probably of few species.
SPRUCE LITTER REDUCTION
Authors: Jacot Arthur Paul
Published: January 2010

For some time I have suspected that spruce needles were eaten out by Oribatoid mites. h recent lot of spruce litter from the Great Smoky Mountains (North Carolina-Tennessee) made possible this investigation with the following results.

Firm, undecomposed needles hold no mites. They are first acted upon by fungi which reduce the cell contents and a good deal of the mesophyll. In this condition the needles are soft and punky. It is only then that the mites are able to lay their eggs in the needles. Most punky needles examined sheltered an immature Phthiracarid mite (October 28th), sometimes two. These mites were found at one end of their excavation, having left behind them a completely dismanted needle and a litter of faeces. They leave the walls intact so that each of these soft, white mites is completely sheltered within its needle. The last molt is effected intra muros. Adults may thus be found within an undamaged needle. When hard and brown the adult cuts its way out and seeks a mate in the wide, moist world of the lower litter layer. The entire life of such a species is thereiore spent in the one horizon of the forest floor (the F2 layer). The leaf is left, a thin walled tube, its central stele and sclerenchymatous tissues completely eaten out and reduced to a thin litter of minute faeces (less than 0.1 mm. long).
SOME WESTERN BEES OF THE GENUS OSMIA
Authors: Michener Charles D.
Published: January 2010

The types of the spcies described below are in the author's collection except for the Acanthosmioides, which are in Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell's collection.

Osmia (Acanthosmioides) uncinata n. sp.

Male: Length 10 mm.; head and thorax green, the cheeks and pleura bluer, the abdomen blue, slightly greener posteriorly, the posterior margins of the tergites concolorous; flagellum crenulate, the under side brownish red; mandibles black, their bases greenish; legs black except for the green femora and rufescent claw joints of tarsi; hind tibiae perhaps faintly greenish basally; tegulae black, green anteriorly; hind basitarsus widest apically, tapering basally; head and thorax closely punctate, but the vertex and scutum not blackish; wings hardly dusky, the basal vein meeting transverse median, the second abscissa of cubital vein nearly twice as long as fourth; scutellum with a longitudinal median line, which is not distinctly polished; pubescence of head and thorax white, that of clypeus dense and erect as in other species of this subgenus; pubescence of abdomen white, the third tergite with a few black hairs posteriorly on dorsum, tergites four to six with more abundant black hairs intermixed among the pale; venter of abdoinen with some dark hairs among the pale; apex of abdomen normal for the subgenus, the teeth of seventh tergite rounded; process of second sternite not compressed apically, but rather narrowly rounded when seen from below, the base (in same view) widened; seen from the side, the apex of the process is minutely hooked on ventral side; ventral side of process, especially basally, somewhat excavated, but not grooved.
NEST BUILDING OF TRYPOXYLON POLITIFORME ROH
Authors: Fattig P. W.
Published: January 2010

On Tuesday morning, July 17, 1933 I noticed a Trypoxylon politiforme Roh. starting to build its nest against the side of a vertical cement pillar in our basement, by Friday night, July 20, 1933 the first row of cells was completed.

This wasp builds a mud cell about one inch long and somewhat larger in diameter than a lead pencil. It provisions this cell with paralyzed spiders, then it closes the cell leaving about one-fourth inch of the cell projecting. It then extends the cell for another inch, and fills the second compartment or cell with paralyzed spiders, closing this second cell off with another mud partition. The first row of cells were slightly more than seven inches long, and contained seven cells. The second row of cells was started on Saturday morning, July 21, these being built along the side of the first row. I noticed two wasps bringing in mud. I dropped some white Duco paint upon one of the wasps, which later I found to be a male.
NESTING HABITS OF CERTAIN WESTERN BEES
Authors: Hicks Charles H.
Published: January 2010

The nesting habits of many of our wild bees still remain unknown. Their importance, from an ecological as well as from an animal behavior standpoint, is great. Each species is adjusted to a set of environmental conditions which the kind and location of the nest helps to assure it. The young are protected from extremes of heat and moisture, as well as from parasites and predators by the materials composing the cell, by the manner of its construction and by the nesting site selected by the mother bee. The following account consists of brief notes on the habits of certain western species.
A NEW HAPLOPTILIA WITH NOTES ON TWO OTHER SPECIES (LEPID)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

In the middle of June, 1934, while spending a few days at Annapolis Royal. N. S., I collected some Haploptilia cases of the pruniella type from the foliage of Kalvnia. Half a dozen or so of these cases were attached to the upper-side of the previous year's leaves; they were dull gray-brown in color and the apical portion was noticeably weather-worn as if the cases had hibernated; there was no sign that living larvae were within them as they remained perfectly quiescent on the leaves. A few other cases, found at the same time, showed evidence that living larvae were still within; these cases were brighter brown in color and appeared to have been more recently constructed as the apical portions showed clearly the smaller cases of one, and sonletimes two, previous instars, attached in the usual holster-like manner to the much larger and broader basal portion. These latter larvae crawled about in the receptacle and fed slightly but soon in their turn became quiescent. The accompanying figures give some idea of the two forms of cases.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN CORIXIDAE WITH NOTES (HEMIPTERA)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

In the following paper descriptions are presented for three apparently undescribed species of Arctocorixa. Notes are included on some additional species and a redescription presented for Corisella tumida (Uhler).

Arctocorixa bicoloripennis n. sp.

Male.—Length 5.75 mm. Form and color pattern simulating A. penniensis Hungfd. but size a little smaller. Head short, vertex from above broadly arcuate continuous with margin of eyes. Width of vertex posteriorly between eyes equal to its median length. Face with a weak concavity extending dorsally slightly beyond lower margin of eyes and with greatest width distinctly less than interocular space. Inner margins of eyes only very slightly diverging ventrally. Post-ocular space narrow. Head with a few fine punctures and a few fine pale hairs, surface minutely coriaceous, shining. Antennae with apical segment slender, two-thirds as long as subapical segment.
LAPHRIA VULTUR OSTEN SACKEN AND TWO RELATED SPECIES (DIPTERA-ASILIDAE)
Authors: Wilcox J.
Published: January 2010

Recently in checking material in the genus Laphrin apparently two species were found under the name uvltur Osten Sacken. Marston Bates kindly examined the types of uvltur in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and, on verifying my observations, sent part of their material for study. Two of Osten Sacken's specimens ( ♂ ♀ ) are uvltur and the third speciimen is herein described as new, and notes on several other closely related species are given.
SAWFLY BIOLOGIES.: I. NEODIPRION TSUGAE MIDDLETON
Authors: Hopping Geo. R. , Leech H. B.
Published: January 2010

The western hemlock sawfly, Neodiprion tsugae Middleron, first came to our notice from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. In 1931, reports of the dying of hemlocks over large areas came from rangers and timber operators of this region. A survey conducted by Mr. W. G. Mathers of the Dominion Entomological Branch, in September and October of that year, indicated that the injury extended over approximately forty square miles. In 1932, the outbreak showed definite signs of subsiding, and had practically disappeared by 1933, although many trees were killed during the peak year of 1931, indicating that this is a primary enemy of western hemlock, and that outbreaks may be expected from time to time in the Pacific Northwest.
A NEW AMERICAN COENONYMPHA (LEPID. SATYRIDAE)
Authors: Davenport Demorest
Published: January 2010

Above brighter ochre than any American form except subfusca Barnes and Benjamin, from Arizona. The entire upper surface is a tawny ochre that in some males is dusted with gray near the margins. The fringes are nearly white and contrast sharply. Under side of the primaries lighter ochre, crossed by a very distinct, long postdiscal band of white; the margins are washed with gray-white. Lower surface of the secondaries gray or brown dusted over with grayish white and crossed by an irregular median band of white that in some specimens sends projections into the basal anea. Apical ocelli on the primaries and submarginal ones on the secondaries are strong, obsolescent or not present at all.
THREE NEW SPECIES OF APHIDS
Authors: Miller Forrest W.
Published: January 2010

Color : Entire body light yellow tinged with pale green; legs pale yellow; wings hyaline.

Measurements : Alate viviparae-Body length, 2.18 mm. ; width across eyes, .435 mm.; hind tarsi, . 115 mm.; antenna, 1.49 mm.-1.51 mm.; 111, .53 to .57 mm. ; IV, .30 to .34 mm. ; V, .33 to .35 mm. ; VI, .184 plus .I15 mm. ; cornicles, .023 mm. long. Cauda .06 mm. from neck, .115 mm. entire length.
FURTHER NOTES ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF SOUTHERN NEWFOUNDLAND
Authors: Dos Passos Cyril F.
Published: January 2010

The Diurnals of southern Newfoundland were briefly commented upon last year (1935, Can. Ent. LXVII : 82). Another summer's catch by the same collector at Doyles Station has increased the number of species reported from the Island by two and possibly helped to clear up the confusion in the genus Lycaena.
AMERICAN SPECIES OF LUDIUS; THE FALLAX AND TRIUNDULATUS GROUPS
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

This group, as here defined, includes those species having the prosternal sutures excavated in which the basal margins of the propleura are truncate rather than emarginate near the posterior prothoracic angles. They are closely allied to tessellatus L. (holosericeus Oliv.) of Europe. In all of the species, and in these species only, the hairs of the elytra are variously directed in whorls or partial whorls to produce a variegated appearance. The whorling tendency is well developed and very distinct on the elytra of all species except medianus in which only feeble traces of it are evident. The whorling seems equally developed in all examples of each species, but the spots resulting show some variation in their distribution and size. The hairs of the pronotum are strongly whorled in mirabilis only; in the other species, one sees a bright spot at each angle, one at the center, and one at the middle of the pronotal base which are due to directed hairs.
NOTES ON THE WHARF BORER (NACERDA MELANURA L.)
Authors: Balch R. E.
Published: January 2010

September 23, 1935, the writer exaimined the wharf of the Atlantic Sugar Refineries Limited at Saint John, N.B., which was under reconstruction owing to “decay” of the timbers. The officials of the company had discovered that these timbers had been riddled by borers which proved to be the larvae of an oedemerid beetle, Nacerda melanura L. As the references to this insect in the literature are scant and there is uncertainty as to its economic importance, the following notes are presented.
THE GENUS SMICROPLECTRUS IN CANADA (HYMEN.: ICHNEUMONIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Except for one species described by Cresson as Cteniscus californicus, but apparently referable to this genus, all the known American species occur in Canada. A study of the material contained in the National Collection has revealed several species which appear to be new. Descriptions of these are given below together with notes on the previously described species and a key is provided for the separation of all species except californicus. According to the original description of californicus it differs from the species here treated in having the mesoscutum prominently marked with two reddish longitudinal stripes.
MENDELIAN 3-1 RATIO OF STRIPED LARVAE AND A MODIFYING FACTOR (LEPIDOPTERA: SATURNIIDAE)
Authors: Wickwire Harriet A.
Published: January 2010

In 1935 some notes were published on the heredity of striping in 1st instar larvae of Tropaea luna. The majority of the material obtained up to 1936 gave a 1-1 ratio of striped and unstriped larvae when the character appeared. The exception was a whole brood of striped larvae.
A NEW NORTH AMERICAN FLY BELONGING TO THE GENUS RIVELLIA (OTITIDAE)
Authors: Blanton F. S.
Published: January 2010

The specimens upon which this paper is based were received from various parts of four Western States. Those of the first lot were from South Dakota and were sent to the writer by Prof. H. C. Severin of Brookings, S. Dak. Among these was one specimen labeled “Rivellia sp. n.?” by the late Dr. J. M. Aldrich. Later, other specimens were received from H. E. Jaques, Iowa; C. W. Sabrosky, Kansas; Maurice James, Colorado; and one specimen from North Dakota, received from C. E. Mickel.
A NEW NORTH AMERICAN AGABUS, WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES. (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE)
Authors: Leech Hugh E.
Published: January 2010

A species of medium size, elongate-oval, sub-parallel, piceous to rufo-testaccous, usually aenescent. Head large. Antennae and palpi rufo-testaceous, slightly infuscate; clypeus, and labrum anteriorly, rufo-testaceous; two spots on the head rufous; pronotum and elytra with the side margins diffusedly rufo-testaceous in their anterior halves; elytra without pale spots; tarsi, tibiae and femora rufo-testaceous, sometimes clouded with piceous medially, the hind legs darker than the anterior pair. Abdominal sternites three, four and five paler posteriorly.
UNDESCRIBED SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

It has long been known that the species figured by A. Gibson under the name incorrupta Hy. Edw. in his excellent paper on Canadian Apantesis species (1903, Can. Ent. XXXV, p. 145, Pl.) is not the true incorrupta, which is a synonym of geneura Stkr. (1916, B. & McD. Contrib. III (3), 158). As there is apparently no name available for our Canadian prairie species I propose the above one in honor of one of the pioneer workers in this group in Canada.
INSECT PHOTOGRAPHY
Authors: Bird R. D.
Published: January 2010

Photography is rapidly gaining in importance for record and descriptive purposes in scientific work. A good, clear photograph will convey much more to the reader of a text than pages of descriptive mattter. Until recent years drawings have held priority as illustrative material, and perhaps still do, but with the rapid advance of photography photographs are assuming a leading role.
NEW CANADIAN ICHNEUMON FLIES WITH SOME NOTES ON SYNONYMY (HYMEN.: ICHNEUMONOIDEA)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Traces to section 77 in Muesebeck's key (Proc. U.S.N.M., LVIII, 493, 1920) but differs from all species falling under that section as follows: at once distinguished from etiellae and cassianus by having the ovipositor sheaths as long as abdomen; differs from victoriae in having the wings clear hyaline and from monticola which it appears to resemble more closely, in being somewhat larger, with scutellum impunctate, propodeum without a trace of a median carina and the radius of fore-wing uniting with transverse cubitus in a rounded obtuse angle.
THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ANISOTOMA (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

The species considered below are those which are listed in Leiodes in the Leng Catalogue of Coleoptera and which were treated under the name Liodes by Horn (1880, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. VIII, 296). Since the appearance of Horn's synopsis, they have been neglected, and only one species, interstrialis Hatch, has been described. In the following synopsis, three species are described as new, several changes in nomenclature are suggested, and a number of important characters not noted by Horn are described.
NOTES ON SOME TROPICAL NOCTUIDS IN NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Richards A. Glenn
Published: January 2010

The following notes are written to place on record certain authentic records of tropical species taken in the southern United States. Most of these species are not at present recorded in the North American lists. Unless otherwise stated all specimens are in the author's collection.
THE SUBIMAGO OF EPHORON LEUKON WILL., AND A DISCUSSION OF THE IMAGO INSTAR. (EPHEM.)
Authors: Ide F. P.
Published: January 2010

Lameere (1917), in a paper dealing with the evolution of mayflies recognizes the moult between subimago and imago as a mere delamination of the outer layer of cuticle resulting in a lighter more fragile imago. Needham (1935) agrees with this contention and states that the subimago “does not represent a growth period and is therefore not a true instar.” Further, “It is only a casting of the delaminated, hairy outer cuticle.” This is a recent view and at variance with the more conventional one that both the subimago and imago represent separate insttars.
THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE ADULT OF DIPRION POLYTOMUM (HARTIG)
Authors: Reeks W. A.
Published: January 2010

In 1930, the spruce sawfly, Diprion polytomum (Hartig), was found severely defoliating spruce trees in the interior of the Gaspe Penninsula in Quebec. At that time it was estimated that some 2,500 square miles were affected. Since then the infestation has increased in intensity and extent, and in 1936 the sawfly was known to be present throughout most of the spruce forests of north eastern America from the eastern boundary of Ontario to Nova Scotia (I).
MACROSIPHUM APHIDS INFESTING CHRYSOTHAMNUS AND GUTIERREZIA
Authors: Smith C. F. , Knowlton G. F.
Published: January 2010

The following report deals with species of Macrosiphum collected upon Chrysothamnus and Gutierrezia in Utah and nearby areas of the West.
THE BEES OF ALBERTA II
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: January 2010

Beaverlodge, July 19, 1931. I ♀ (Strickland.) This was described in 1878 as Panurgus maurus from specimens taken in Colorado. A related species is H. campanulae Ckll., from Washington State. In 1924 (Psyche XXXI, p. 243) I described H. crassipes from Oregon, supposed to be a member of this group. I no longer have access to a specimen, but I now think it is to be called Betheliella crassipes. The genus Betheliella was based (Entom. News, XXXV, 1924. p. 169) on B. calochorti Ckll., visiting Calochortus (Mariposa lily) in California.
NOTES ON CERTAIN MALES OF NORTH AMERICAN HORSEFLIES (TABANIDAE). II THE AFFINIS OR “RED-SIDED” GROUP OF TABANUS SENS. LAT., WITH A KEY TO THE FEMALES
Authors: Philip Cornelius B.
Published: January 2010

Species of horse flies resembling Tabanus affinis Kby. and its allies with hairy eyes and red sides are among the abundant but taxonomically troublesome, North American Tabanidae, especially in the boreal regions. McDunnough (1921) did much to clarify the status of females of the most prevalent species, but omitted discussion of the scarcer males. Information on a few additional species and the availability of males of all species treated by him, make further discussion propitious at this time.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUID GENERA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

A careful study of the genotypes of a number of the Noctuid genera, at present employed for North American species, with particular reference to the male genitalia, has revealed the fact that in frequent instances the generic names have been misapplied. With a view to correcting certain of these errors (as listed in our 1917 Check List, following Hampson) the following notes are offered.
NOTES ON CERTAIN MALES OF NORTH AMERICAN HORSEFLIES (TABANIDAE). II THE AFFINIS OR “RED-SIDED” GROUP OF TABANUS SENS. LAT., WITH A KEY TO THE FEMALES
Authors: Philip Cornelius B.
Published: January 2010

T. melanorhinus Big. I have a specimen from north-eastern Oregon which I suspect is the male of this species although the red on the sides of the abdomen is much more extensive than I have observed in any female (see Philip, 1936) involving the first four tergites and most of the venter, the rows of pale spots only suggested as a pale pollinosity in this sex.
TWO TYPES OF VENATIONAL ABERRATION IN THE SATYRINAE
Authors: Chadwick Leigh E.
Published: January 2010

About a year ago Mr. F. M. Brown called the writer's attention to the aberrant venation of one secondary of a specimen of Erebia magdalena Strecker. The aberration, of the type shown in Figure I, consists in the presence of an extra cross-vein connecting veins Rs and M1 a few millimeters beyond the end of the cell. Later, in studying series of other species of the genus, a similar variation from the normal (Figure 2) turned up in several specimens. The facts are presented in the following table, in which the results of examination of some material from the genus Oeneis is also included.
PHASMID INJURY TO THE HUMAN EYE
Authors: Stewart M. A.
Published: January 2010

It has long been known that some of the Phasmidae discharge a fetid fluid from certain glands. King (1867) published a note on his observations of a phasmid in Jamaica, identified as Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) but which Bates believed to be a true Phasma, in which he stated that the prothorax contains two glands, secreting a fetid fluid which is discharged through two elevated pores and serves as a defensive agent. This author further stated that these nocturnal, or crepuscular, and gregarious insects are almost always found in the adult stage in copulation.
THE BEES OF ALBERTA.—III
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: January 2010

Triepeolus helianthi Robertson. Lethbridge, Aug. 11 (G. A. Mail.) Described from Illinois, but known to be widely distributed.

Triepeolus stricklandi n. sp.

♀. Length about 8 mm.; black, including mandibles (except a dull red band in middle), antennae, tegulae (except red spot on outer side) and legs (except small joints of tarsi, which are red) ; eyes pale green, with a purplish suffusion below; pubescent markings pale cream-colour, pure white in region about antennae, the under side of abdomen without light markings; spurs black.
A NEW SPECIES OF NEMOBIUS FROM ONTARIO (ORTHOPTERA)
Authors: Urquhart F. A.
Published: January 2010

Size, medium; form slender. Head small but prominent; face shining piceous, the area below the eyes slightly lighter in colour; the occiput uniformly dark piceous, but distinctly trifasciate in one specimen; vertex with a number of long stout black bristles; the entire head clothed with short pale-coloured hairs. Eyes small, prominent and oval. Antennae uniformly dark fuscous. Maxillary palpi dark fuscous, the two terminal joints sometimes slightly paler.
THE LAUXANIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN QUEBEC AND ADJACENT REGIONS
Authors: Shewell G. E.
Published: January 2010

Male: Ground color dark brown ; head broader than thorax at humeri; frons opaque, brownish pruinose, especially on the frontal plates, around the ocellar triangle and along the margins of the eyes grayish pruinose in some lights, above the antennal bases narrowly reddish; face retreating, grayish pruinose, parafacials and cheeks with a silvery sheen, the latter about one-third the eye height, two reddish brown lines appear in some lights. dividing the face from the parafacials; two dark brown bars from antennal pits to eyes; oral margin quite noticeably produced, narrowly dull reddish on the rim; clypeus dark brown and prominent; mouthparts dark brown, palpi black; antenna and arista dark brown, the latter nearly bare; occiput gray pruinose, silvery between the paracephalic sutures.
NEW CHRYSOPIDAE AND SPECIES NEW TO THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: January 2010

In identifying Chrysopidae from the South and West I have come across some new species, a few specimens have been in the collection for years, but more specimens have shown their distinctness. Correction is made of a misidentification in my Revision of the Chrysopidae and three Cuban forms have been taken in Florida.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF AGABUS FROM HUDSON BAY. (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE)
Authors: Leech Hugh B.
Published: January 2010

A small (6-7 mm.) brownish testaceous species, with semi-transparent elytra and pronotum, and narrow metasternal lobes. It has somewhat the facies of colymbus described in this paper, but is not closely allied to it or to any described North American species.
NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM ARIZONA
Authors: Sperry John L.
Published: January 2010

Expanse 27-31 mm. Palpi short, stout porrect, vestiture heavy, light brown. Head: front maroon, vertex light brown. Thorax and tegulae red brown, collar light brown; abdomen gray-brown, reddish laterally. Primaries very distinctly maculated, bright reddish brown, veins marked with silver gray, (heavily through terminal area), speckled sparingly with dark brown ; basal line dark maroon edged outwardly with white, very close to base; space to t.a. line maroon; t.a. line dark red-brown, edged inwardly with white; four distinct outward scallops between costa and inner margin, costal pair slight, that between vein I and cell very pronounced with heavy white inner edging and with point of scallop slightly extended outwardly, that between vein I and inner margin, moderate.