bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE SETON LAKE REGION, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Smerinthus cerisyi ophthalmicus Bdv. Four ♂, two ♀, June 24, 25, July 5, 13.

Paonias myops occidentalis Clark. One ♂, June 2.

Haemorrhagia diffinis rubens Hy. Edw. Three ♂, June 5, 6, July 7.

Proserpinus clarkiae Bdv. One ♀, captured in the daytime at D'Arcy, Anderson Lake, on June 17.
RECORDS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF CRANE-FLIES FROM ALBERTA (TIPULIDAE, DIPTERA). I
Authors: Alexander Charles P.
Published: January 2010

In the present report, I have begun the consideration of the very extensive collections of crane-flies from Alberta that have been received from the Canadian National Collection, through Mr. Curran ; tlie very extensive series collected by Mr. Owen Bryant; a series from Banff, collected by Mr. Garrett; and the collections of the University of Alberta, sent through the kindness of Professor Strickland. I wish to express my sincere thanks to all of the above mentioned gentlemen for this kind co-operation in making known the Tipulid fauna of Alberta, a list that will certainly exceed in numbers that of any other of the Canadian Provinces with the single exception of British Columbia.
A FEW CAPITOPHORUS SPECIES OF UTAH WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES (APHIDIDAE)
Authors: Knowlton George F.
Published: January 2010

This interesting aphid (2) is found quite commonly throughout Utah on rabhit brush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus). It was exceptionally abundant along the foothills of the Wellsville Mountains north of Brigham City during the fall of 1926. The oviparous and most of the viviparous forms observed are wingless, while the males are winged.
SOME AMERICAN HIPPOBOSCIDAE (DIPTERA PUPIPARA)
Authors: Ferris G. F.
Published: January 2010

The material here dealt with has all been obtained by various individuals in the course of bird-banding operations. The habits of these flies are such that their collection is rendered somewhat difficult, for they leave their hosts the instant that the latter appear to be in difficulty and their flight is extremely quick and erratic. Nevertheless, it appears that bird-banding can be made to yield an interesting by-product in the form of increased knowledge of these parasites.
BIOLOGICAL NOTES ON ZEIRAPHERA FORTUNANA KFT. AND RATZEBURGIANA RATZ. (EUCOSMIDAE, LEPID.)
Authors: Macandrews A. H.
Published: January 2010

On June 25th and 26th an old pasture supporting a thrifty growth of white spruce from 3 to 10 feet in height was inspected for spruce budworm injury. Very few budworm larvae were found but large numbers of Zeiraphera larvae were present. In the course of the study it developed that these were chiefly Z. ratzeburgiana with about 40% Z. fortunana. An older pasture adjoined and the growth was 15 to 25 feet in height. Here the relation was reversed. Z. fortunana formed over 75% and on the larger trees Z. ratzeburgiana was not found at all. No attempt was made to separate the larvae, and these figures are based on a study of the moths. In the case of old pastures where the small trees and reproduction were absent only Z. fortunana was found. Where the young growth was just taking possession and ranged from 3 to 8 feet, Z. ratzeburgiana was the dominant species.
NEW TRANSITION FORMS (LEPID., RHOPALOCERA)
Authors: Gunder J. D.
Published: January 2010

The half-tone illustrations of the butterfly transition forms, herein described, vary somewhat in size from the actual specimens; therefore, a reference to their wing expanse, as given in the text is advisable. The classification of these specimens follows that outlined in the November, 1927, Entom. News (Philadephia) and which was first suggested in that publication.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA
Authors: Curran C. Howard
Published: January 2010

Descriptions of several new species of two-winged flies from North America are presented herewith and keys to several genera or well-defined groups are given. I am indebted to Dr. J. M. Aldrich of the United States National Museum for comparing considerable Tachinid material with the types in collectiocs under his care and also for additional representatives of some of the new species.
TWO NEW CANADIAN TORTRICIDS (LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Male. Intermediate in maculation between glaciana Moesch. and bipartitana Clem. Basal area dark black-brown, outwardly angulate in central portion of wing; antemedian whitish band broad on the costa, more or less perpendicular, with a few dark strigae; median dark band much as in bipartitana; whitish terminal area also much as in this species with three dark costal streaks and a small dark apical spot; slight dark reticulations below apex and a narrow dark patch at middle of outer margin (only evident on right side). Secondaries smoky. Expanse 18 mm.
A NEW SPECIES OF MALLOCHIELLA (DIPTERA: MILICHIIDAE)
Authors: Curran C. H.
Published: January 2010

During the summer of 1926, while collecting in Orillia, numerous small flies were observed on old fence posts in the hot sun. It was presumed that they represented some common species of Agromyzinae and only six specimens were captured after much difficulty, four of these proving to belong to a beautiful undescribed species of Mallochiella. In Melander's key to the Milichiinae (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XXXI, 1913) the members of this genus trace to Hypaspistomyia Hendel, an Asiatic genus, but the oral margin is not retracted. The carinate lunule is variable both in size and color in M. halteralis Coq. but always separates the antennae.
A NEW SPECIES OF DELTOCEPHALUS (HOMOPTERA, CICADELLIDAE)
Authors: Deay Howard O.
Published: January 2010

In general appearance and coloration resembling D. spicatus DeLong and D. debilis Uhler, but with vertex much less sharply angled, and with tips of elytra slightly margined with fuscous. Length, female 3.5-3 7 mm.; male 3-3.2 mm.
NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA FROM ONTARIO
Authors: Braun Annette F.
Published: January 2010

Of a total of approximately one-hundred and fifty species of Microlepidoptera collected and reared by the writer in July, 1926 at Sparrow Lake, Severn Bridge, Ontario, the following seven species are described as new. Additional notes on a few previously described species are also included.
NOTES ON CERTAIN AGROTID GENERA AND SPECIES (LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

In connection with a revision of Agrotid genera (in sens. strict.) which I have been working on for some time and which has involved a study of the male genitalia of all our North American species, I have come across a number of discrepancies in the placing of certain genera and species which it is the purpose of this short paper to correct.
NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN NEARCTIC SPECIES OF TRICHOCERIDAE (DIPTERA.): PART I
Authors: Alexander Charles P.
Published: January 2010

The North American species of Trichoceridae belong to three genera, Diazosma Bergroth (subsinuata Alexander), Paracladura Brunetti (trichoptera Osten Sacken) and the dominant Trichocera Meigen, with numerous species, some of which are widely distributed throughout the Holarctic Region. The scope of the family, its phylogenetic relationships, and a key to the known genera, are all discussed in a recent paper by the writer. (The Trichoceridae of Australia; Proc. Linnean Soc. N. S. W., 51 : 299—304; 1926) and need not be considered further at this time.
ON THE IDENTITY OF SOME SPECIES OF CARTOSYRPHUS (DIPTERA)
Authors: Curran C. H.
Published: January 2010

Shannon's “Revision of the Chilosinae” includes keys to the species of the various genera of the group but in some cases no descriptiolls of the new species are included. In the key to Cartosyrphus the characters separating some closely related species are difficult to interpret. The male of C. similis Shan. is separated from tristis Lw. by the slightly more swollen first segment of the posterior tarsi. While this character is quite satisfactory in the female it cannot be relied upon in the male. In order to verify observations made several years ago when I compared specimens with the types of the two species mentioned I wrote to Dr. Banlis requesting information on the colour of the squamal cilia.
BLOWING EGGS OF LEPIDOPTERA.
Authors: Gunder J. D.
Published: January 2010

The preservation of the eggs of buttetflies and moths as objects for study, has always been found a very difficult matter. The structures of their shells are so delicate and porous that if the eggs are allowed to dry either naturally or otherwise, they shrink quite out of shape due to the evaporation of the fluid part of their contents and to prevent this shrinkage by immersing the eggs in various liquids has not been fonnd convenient for their later examination.
THE SUBGENUS PLATYDERIDES IN NORTH AMERICA (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

The subgenus Platyderides was erected to include those species of Aphodius in which the side pronotal margins are explanate. The group is better known as Horn's series I-a. The genus Aphodius does not lend itself well to subdivision, consequently Platyderides is not sharply defined. The only character of key value in defining the group is the explanate pronotal side margin, but this character is lacking in insolitus and feebly developed in several others. The species are usually strongly shining and medium sized or large for the genus.
A METHOD OF COLLECTING LIVING MOTHS AT SUGAR BAIT
Authors: Gorham R. P.
Published: January 2010

In collecting adults of the armyworm, and other moths for oviposition studies, a simple method of capture at baits was found useful. An electric flashlight, having a flat lens, was used with a flat-bottomed vial three-quarters of an inch in diameter, straight sided and about five inches deep. It will be found that when the bottom of the vial is placed against the lens of the flashlight both can be firmly grasped in the right hand.
KEY TO THE SPECIES OF DICYPHUS OCCURRING IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA (HEMIPT., MIRIDAE).
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

In attempting to determine specimens of Dicyphus using Blatchley's key (Heterop. East. N. Am. 1926, p. 908) difficulty was encountered and the following key is presented to facilitate the identification of the species occuring in Eastern North America. It has already been demonstrated by Knight (Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., XXII, 1927, p. 104) that D. notatus Parshley is a synonym of D. vestitus Uhler and that D. gracilentus Parsh. should not be confused with vestitus Uhl.
TWO NEW SIPHONAPTERA FROM COLORADO
Authors: Stewart M. A.
Published: January 2010

The author of this paper is indebted to Dr. C. P. Gillette of the Colorado State Agricultural College for the privilege of studying a part of the State College's collection of Siphonaptera, in which were found the two new species described below. Unfortunately the specimens of these two new species are somewhat mutilated but after careful examination it is possible to publish the following descriptions.
REVISION OF THE GENUS ODONTAEUS, DEJ. (SCARABAEIDAE, COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Wallis J. B.
Published: January 2010

“Geotrupes filicornis. Rufous; thorax tridentate; clypeus with an elongate horn.

Inhabits Upper Missouri.

Body pale brownish-rufous; clypeus, anterior and lateral margins punctured, entire; horn elongated, linear, slightly curved and compressed, longer than the greatest width of the head; thorax unequal; three tubercles, placed in a transverse series, the exterior ones compressed and longitudinal, intermediate transverse subemarginate; an indented line behind the middle tubercle, and a concavity each side; scutel triangular ; elytra with punctured striae. Length one fourth of an inch.
KEY TO THE SPECIES OF HADRONEMA UHLER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW SPECIES, (HEMIPTERA, MIRIDAE)
Authors: Knight Harry H.
Published: January 2010

In working up considerable material which the writer collected in the western United States certain new species of Hadronema have been recognized, with the result that a key is provided for the thirteen known species of which five are described as new. In 1918, Mr. E. H. Gibson published a key (Can. Ent., xl, pp. 81-84) to the species known to him, describing two new species. The writer examined these types in the U. S. National Museum during 1926 and found that Hadronema confraterna Gib. is in fact a good species of Lopidea, allied to Lopidea lepidii Kngt., but smaller and the left clasper somewhat differently shaped.
INSECTS FOUND UNDER BURLAP BANDS
Authors: Fisk G. H.
Published: January 2010

During the months of May and June, 1927, I was stationed with the gipsy moth scouts at Henrysburg, near Lacolle, P. Q. In connection with the control measures for this pest the trees in the infested area were banded with burlap. The bands were attached to the trees in the following way:—a strip of burlap about 7 inches wide was placed loosely around the trunk of the tree at a height of 5 feet from the ground. This was tied in place by a piece of twine passed around its centre. After this had been done the upper part of the burlap was folded down so that a double layer hung from the twine. It thus offered an excellent hiding place for insects during the day.
THE GENUS APHROPHORA IN AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO (CERCOPIDAE, HEMIPT.)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

The American species of Aphrophora were first reviewed by Ball (Proc. Ia. Acad. Sci., VI, pp. 209-217, 1898) in his paper entitled “A Review of the Cercopidae of North America North of Mexico” in which eight species are treated, three of them therein describecl as new. Stern's paper (Conn. St. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bul. 34, pt. IV, 211, 1923) deals with the same species discussed by Ball with especial reference to their occurrence in Connecticut.
REVISION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF ARCHYTAS (TACHINIDAE, DIPTERA)
Authors: Curran C. Howard
Published: January 2010

The genus Archytas was erected in 1867 with A. bicolor as type. In 1888 Van der Wulp established the genus Nemochaeta with dissimilis as type and in 1903 gave a key to the Cenrtral American species. Since that time no treatment of the species occurring in America has been presented and the description of the species are for the most part very unsatisfactory, resulting in uncertainty as to their identity. In most cases it is impossible to determine the described species without an examination of the types and until such time as these have been examined they must be considered unrecognizable.
A NEW SPECIES OF CRICOTOPUS WITH A KEY TO THE GENUS, (DIPT. CHIRONOMIDAE).
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Female. Length 1.5 mm., thorax and abdomen dark brownish black, the latter without lighter bands. Legs fuscous brown, all tibiae with broad pale bands.

Antenna. front and palpi dull blackish brown. Scutellum dull black, remainder of dorsum and metanotum dark brownish black, shining; pleura dark brownish. Coxae, femora, bases and apices of tibiae dark brown, each tibia with a broad fairly well defined dirty white band beginning at basal one fourth and extending to apical one third of tibia. A11 legs with subappressed fuscous hairs in length about equal to the diameter of the joint which bears them; leg hairs pale yellowish in region of the pale tibial bands. Anterior wing veins brownish; entire membrane infuscated. Halteres with base of stalk brownish, apex and knob pale lemon yellow.
ANTHIDIINAE COLLECTED MOSTLY IN CANADA (HYMENOP)
Authors: Schwarz Herbert F.
Published: January 2010

Through the courtesy of Dr. J. McDunnough I was recently privileged to examine the collection of Anthidiine bees in the Entomological Branch of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, including both identified and unidentified nraterial. The list of species determined or confirmed follows, with comments.
SOME CORIXIDAE FROM NORTHERN STATES AND CANADA
Authors: Hungerford H. B.
Published: January 2010

The following species are described as new:

Arctocorixa compressoidea sp. n.

Size: 5.4 mm. long.

Color: Dark. Seven light bands of pronotum narrower than the dark ones and caudal ones deeply impressed; third and fourth bands often united on ends ; longitudinal median pale line on pronotum. Pale transverse bands of clavus oblique and entire on basal half ; apical ones slender, broken, crooked and few in number. Pale lines of corium also slender, broken, sometimes mere transverse dashes arranged in longitudinal series. Membrane smoky brown, pattern almost obliterated. Elytral suture, line between corium and membrane and embollium reddish yellow. Vertex in all my specimens more or less darkened. Limbs and venter pale.
A NEW EUPHYDRYAS (LEPIDOPTERA).
Authors: McDunnough J. H.
Published: January 2010

In working over a collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera sent me by Mr. R. E. Hutchins of the Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, Mont. for identification I came across a small series of a Euphydryas species which represents an apparently undescribed race or species belonging, according to genitalia, in the nubigena-taylori-editha complex. This group of so-called species, as I recently pointed out (1927, Canadian Entomologist, lix, 156) is distinguished genitalically by the reduced uncus and the shape of the harpe (op. cit. Pl. III, fig. I), these two organs being practically similar throughout the group.
REVISION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF ARCHYTAS (TACHINIDAE, DIPTERA)
Authors: Curran C. Howard
Published: January 2010

Black, thorax thinly pollinose; pleura black haired, squamae white. Length 12 to 13.5 mm.

Male. Face and cheeks yellow; head white pollinose; hair black; occipital pile yellowish. Front as wide as either eye, the vitta rusty reddish. Palpi and basal two antennal segments reddish; third antennal segment black, convex above, shorter than second ; penultimate aristal segment elongate, the preceding segment only about one and a half times as long as wide.
EXTERNAL PARASITES ON CERTAIN BIRDS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Authors: Spencer G. J.
Published: January 2010

During June and July of 1926 while doing marine investigation at Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, I had the opportunity of examining certain birds for external parasites. The results from some hosts were so far removed from the normal Mallophagan population of most birds that it seemed worth while recording them at the time.
NOTES ON CANADIAN DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Judging by five specimens before me the early spring generation (April-May) from southern British Columbia shows several points of distinction from the second generation, appearing in the latter half of June. The size is notably smaller, (♂ 36-40 mm.; ♀ 40-42 mm.; as compared with 45-50 mm.), the discal spot of primaries, especially in the ♂, is much narrower, and more as in the European chloridice, and the green of the underside is brighter and even along the veins shows only faint yellow sprinkling.
DEAD POLLENIA RUDIS (FABR.) AS HOSTS OF DERMESTIDS
Authors: Spencer G. J.
Published: January 2010

Early this spring (1928) several complaints were received by the Department of Biology of the University of Toronto, of infestations of dwelling houses by Dermestids. The most pronounced case was in a new house in the newer section of North Toronto where beetles had been appearing in such numbers that their presence and continued reoccurrence was driving the tenants to hysterics and to the point of moving out of the house. Specimens brought in proved to be Anthrenus scrophulariae Linn. larvae and adults.
SOME NEW ODONATA NYMPHS
Authors: Broughton Elsie
Published: January 2010

The following descriptions have been taken from specimens in the collection of Professor James G. Needham at Cornell University. Brief diagnostic characters of each have been listed by him in his forthcoming Handbook of North American Dragonflies.
THE UNKNOWN NYMPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN ODONATA
Authors: Byers C. Francis
Published: January 2010

On the first of April 1927, the following letter, together with the tentative list of unknown nymphs referred to, was sent by the author to the following twelve Entomologists interested in American Odonata: Dr. C. S. Brimley, Dr. P. P. Calvert, Mr. W. T. Davis, Dr. Philip Garman. Dr. C. H. Kennedy. Mr. B. E. Montgomery, Dr. R. A. Muttkowki, Dr. R. H. Horve, Dr. R. C. Osborne, Dr. F. M. Root, Dr. E. M. Walker, and Mr. E. B. Williamson.
RECORDS OF CRANE-FLIES (TIPULIDAE) FROM ONTARIO (DIPTERA). PART II.
Authors: Alexander Charles P.
Published: January 2010

The first list of the crane-flies of Ontario under this general title was published in Canadian Entomologist, vol. 58, pp. 236-240; October 1926. In the present paper more than 80 additional species are recorded, based on the very extensive series of these flies contained in the Canadian National Collection, taken chiefly by Messrs. C. H. Curran, F. P. Ide and G. S. Walley. Species not included in the basic list are indicated by an asterisk (*) preceding the name. The total list of Tipulidae now known from Ontario is in excess of 150 but there are still more than 100 regional species that will undoubtedly be added to the list as a result of further collecting. As before, the collectors are indicated by initials following the record: C.H.C.=C. H. Curran; F.P.I.=F. P. Ide; G.S.W.:G. S. Walley.
SOME NOTES ON EXAMINATION OF TYPES OF COLEOPTERA IN THE LECONTE AND CASEY COLLECTIONS
Authors: Hopping Ralph
Published: January 2010

During January, 1927, the writer visited the collections of LeConte, at Cambridge, Mass., and of Colonel Casey at the National Museum at Washington, D.C. In the conclusions presented I have been influenced by an extensive correspondence with Mr. H. C. Fall and Dr. E. C. Van Dyke as to the interpretation of certain species.
THREE NEW SPECIES OF GLARESIS (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

The discovery of the forms described below increases greatly the known distribution of Glaresis on the North American continent. In the following descriptions, the middle and hind tibiae have not been described in great detail for their characters are shown by the accompanying drawings; the drawings are made in the same scale.
MELANCHROISM IN NOTONECTA BOREALIS BUENO AND HUSSEY (HEMIP.)
Authors: Hungerford H. B.
Published: January 2010

Melanchroism and leucochroism occur in Notonecta shooterii Uhler. In collections containing fairly good series of this species there will be two color sorts; one, a nearly concolorous pale luteous, and the other, deeply pigmented with violet-black. In a lot of 37 specimens taken in Cochise County, Arizona on July 29, 1927 by the University of Kansas Entomological Expedition 11 specimens are dark and the others are pale. Of these 11 dark ones 9 are females and 2 are males, while of the 26 pale specimens the sex distribution is even, 13 males and 13 females. This lot was captured from one pool.
NOTES ON PHYTOMYZA WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. (DIPTERA)
Authors: Frost S. W.
Published: January 2010

Attention is called to some characters used by the writer. The dorso-central bristles are numbered from the anterior edge of the mesonotum designating the bristle in front of the transverse suture as the first dorso-central. Hering (1927) numbers them in the reverse direction calling the bristle in front of the transverse suture the fourth dorso-central. Previous papers on the chaetotaxy of Diptera have not numbered the dorso-central bristles. The number and arrangement of the setae along the lower and hind margin of the cheeks also lend good characters. The writer speaks of the cheeks collectively as the portion between the eyes and the mouth including the gena or wangen arrd the bucca. The term occiput has been used to designate the whole of the back of the head. The color of the occiput has been found valuable especially when the yellow of the cheeks continues back of the eye. In some cases the yellow of the cheeks is interrupted near the vertex by the black of the occiput.
THE NYMPHS OF THE STYLURUS GROUP OF THE GENUS GOMPHUS WITH NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THIS GROUP IN CANADA. (ODONATA)
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: January 2010

The recent acquisition, through the kindness of Rev. L. M. Stöhr, of exuviae of Gomphus amnicola Walsh, accompanied by adults found emerging, led the writer to examine such specimens of allied forms in the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology as were available for comparison. As these proved inadequate for the purpose, I appealed to Professor C. H. Kennedy and Mr. E. B. Williamson and, through their kind and prompt response, I obtained sufficient material for the study of those species most nearly related to G. amnicola, viz., the members of the Stylurus group.
NOTES ON SPIDERS FROM THE LA SAL MOUNTAINS OF UTAH
Authors: Chamberlin Ralph V.
Published: January 2010

The following notes are based upon a collection made by Dr. Vasco M. Tanner and associates during the early part of the summer of 1927 in the La Sal Mountains of San Juan County, Utah.
ON THE NESTING HABITS OF CALLANTHIDIUM ILLUSTRE (CRESSON) (HYMENOP.)
Authors: Hicks Charles H.
Published: January 2010

Quite a little is known concerning the nesting habits of Anthidiine bees of the genus Anthidium and Dianthidium, but less of those of related genera, such as Callanthidium, Heteranthidium, Paranthidium, and Anthidiellum.
THREE NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS (FAMILY LINYPHIIDAE)
Authors: Crosby C. R. , Bishop Sherman C.
Published: January 2010

Male. Length, 2.1 mm. Cephalothorax dusky orange, very lightly marked with radiating lines; viewed from above, rather broad, evenly rounded on the sides, narrowed towards the front, broadly rounded in front; viewed from the side gently rounded to the posterior eyes. Clypeus straight and slightly protruding. A tooth on the face of the chelicera.
NOTES ON SOME DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK AND THE ADJACENT REGIONS OF MONTANA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

The following notes were compiled while working over a collection of Lepidoptera taken by me in the Yellowstone Park, Wyoming and the Upper Gallatin Canyon, Montana during the latter half of July and the first part of August of the summer of 1928.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Length 2.5-3.4 mm.; width 1.2-1.4 mm. Short and robust. Dorsum dark brown, scarcely bronzed; head, pronotum and elytral intervals with closely placed, round, green spots; venter dark reddish brown; legs brown, the femora dark, the tibiae and tarsi pale.
NEW SPECIES OF SCATOPHAGIDAE (DIPTERA)
Authors: Curran C. H.
Published: January 2010

Black; parafacials and cheeks yelllow; frontal vitta obscure reddish on lower half. Length, 5 to 5.5 mm.

♂. ♀. Face and cheeks white, the occiput and parafrontals, greyish pollinose; frontal vitta with thin whitish pollen in some views. Palpi and antennae blackish. Thorax cinereous pollinose, with darker vittae from posterior view ; acrosticals in two rows; hair black; apical pair of scutellars as long as basal pair, cruciate. Legs black, thinly cinereous pollinose; tibiae sometimes brownish. Wings cinereous; veins brownish red: first vein setose on apical section. Abdomen thinly greyish pollinose. Outer genital forceps with two angular productions apically (fig. I). Female genitalia shining black.
A NEW CYLINDROCOPTURUS (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Carr F. S.
Published: January 2010

The vestiture is of two kinds : The first consists of narrow flattened hair-like scales found in the striae, one before each puncture; these are closely appressed to the elytra. The second consists of a very dense covering of flat scales, broadly elliptical in shape, covering densely the elytra, the thorax, the under side of the body, the head except for the beak, the legs except for the under surface of the tarsi which are covered with black pubescence.
NOTES ON THE ASILID GENERA BOMBOMIMA AND LAPHRIA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES AND TWO NEW VARIETIES (DIPTERA)
Authors: Bromley S. W.
Published: January 2010

The collection from which this study was made was obtained through the courtesy of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, and was of particular interest in that it not only contiained excellent series of many of the described forms but also several undescribed species. Descriptions of the latter are submitted in the present paper together with notes on some of the others.
NEW CANADIAN ANTHOMYIDS BELONGING TO THE GENUS HYLEMYIA ROB.-DESV. (MUSCIDAE, DIPTERA)
Authors: Huckett H. C.
Published: January 2010

Male grayish; head densely grayish pollinose with reddish black reflections; frontal vitta opaque black, viewed from below with grayish pruinescence; antennae with second segment obscurely reddish apicad, third segment blackish: palpi blackish ; proboscis lightly pollinose. Thorax grayish pollinose, with black reflections; viewed from the side, the mesonotum with three brownish vittae. Abdomen more densely grayish pollinose, with dark reflections, each tergum has a broad subtriangular fuscous mark. Legs blackish, tibiae obscurely reddish, pulvilli tinged. Wings clear ; veins yellowish brown ; calyptrae tinged ; halteres yellow.
A NEW CAMPOPLEGIDEA PARASITIC ON ELLOPIA FISCELLARIA GN. (HYMEN., ICHNEUMONIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

The following description is presented for a new species of Campoplegidea of the sub-genus Vicreckiana, bred from larvae of the heinlock looper (Ellopia fiscellaria Gn.) by Mr. Karl Schedl, during the summer of 1928.
A NEW CALLIPTERINE FROM VICTORIA, B.C. (HEMIPTERA-APHIDIDAE)
Authors: Glendenning R.
Published: January 2010

This beautiful little aphid was colllected in 1927, by Messrs. J. Stanley and H. Hulbert, and further material was also received from Mr. W. Downes from an American elm growing in the grounds of the Empress Hotel, Victoria, B. C.
LARDER BEETLE INFESTATIONS ARISING FROM TENT CATERPILLARS
Authors: Strickland E. H.
Published: January 2010

In a recent article Spencer records the Dermestid A. scrophulariae L. breeding in houses upon the dead hc'clies of the Cluster fly P. rudis Fab. A similar relationship between Dermestis lardarius L. and the dead adults of several species of Calliphoridae has twice come to the attention of the writer in Alberta.
A NEW SPECIES OF ODONTAEUS, DEJ. (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Wallis J. B.
Published: January 2010

At the time of my study of the genus Odontæus (published in the Canadian Entomologist, May, 1928) there was before me a single female from Alabama which appeared to be different from anything else in the material.
NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORDS OF ARADUS (ARADIDAE, HEMIPTERA)
Authors: Parshley H. M.
Published: January 2010

This paper is intended to bring up to date our knowledge of the Nsorth American species of Aradus, and it is supplementary to my Essay on this group published in 1921. (Trans. American Ent. Soc., XLVII: 1-106, pls. I-VII.) It is based largely on Canadian material sent to me by Dr. J. McDunnough, William J. Gerhard, and W. Downes. Although collectors have shown a considerable interest in the genus, very few new species have come to light; and so it seems likely that our knowledge in this direction is nearly complete. However, those who have access to collecting grounds which are comparatively unmarked by civilization may still discover new forms; and their activities are the more to be urged, since these insects are undoubtedly becoming extinct, as forests disappear and suitable habitats are more and more restricted.
FEEDING EXPERIMENTS ON POLISTES WASPS
Authors: Rau Phil.
Published: January 2010

The behavior of Polistes pallipes is extremely interesting when they are fed on larvae of the same species from other nests.

The wasps experimented with were made distinguishable from one another by little smears of paint on their bodies. Thereafter it was most convenient to make and keep Indian-like names for them based upon their distinguishing marks. The nests were fastened about the laboratory window frames, just above a porch roof.
NOTES ON A FEW MINNESOTA COLEOPTERA
Authors: Fletcher Frank C.
Published: January 2010

The following short list with the accompanying notes is based upon a collection of some 2100 species collected by myself during the past eighteen years. My original intention was to publish a list of Minnesota Coleoptera, but lack of time renders this project not likely of accomplishment.
THE CANADIAN SPECIES OF MACROPOGON (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Length 6 mm.; width 2.1 mm. Elongate oval, moderately convex. Black, the legs in parts and antennae brown. Entire body clothed with brownish-yellow hairs.
THE BIOLOGY OF CANADIAN BARK-BEETLES: THE SEASONAL HISTORY OF DENDROCTONUS SIMPLEX LEC
Authors: Simpson L. J.
Published: January 2010

The larch bark-beetle, Dendroctonus simplex Lec., is a black beetle with reddish elytra, approximately 4.7 mm. in length, with the front convex, the pronotum constricted in front, elytra slightly wider than the pronotum, the striae moderately impressed, the strial punctures small and deep, the elytra sparsely covered with erect hairs, with the pubescence distinct. It is abundant in dying larch throughout the larch areas of Eastern Canada from the Atlantic westward across Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan and northern Alberta.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE GENUS ORNITHOICA (DIPTERA: HIPPOBOSCIDAE)
Authors: Ferris G. F.
Published: January 2010

I have in various earlier papers dealt with species of the genus Ornithoica. In doing so, while endeavoring to elucidate these species, I have succeeded at least in adding my full portion of errors to the existing literature. It is the intention here to call attention to these errors and to correct them as far as may be on he basis of the additional information now available.
SOME NEW NEARCTIC DIPTERA
Authors: Curran C. H.
Published: January 2010

Related to crassipes Meigen, to which it traces in my key (Tr. Royal Can. Inst., XV. 252, 1926). It is readily distinguished by the wholly black posterior femora, presence of abundant erect black hair on the upper surface of the anterior tarsi and in having the basal segment of the anterior tarsi shorter than the following three segments instead of longer than the apical four segments. Length 4.75 mm.
NOTES ON THE IDENTITY OF THE PROVANCHER SPECIES OF ARCTOCORIXA (CORIXIDAE, HEMIPT.)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

While collecting during the spring and early summer of 1927 in the vicinity of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the writer secured large numbers of two species of Corixidae which on verification proved to be Arctocorixa bilineata Prov. and Arctocorixa trilineata Prov. To Mr. George Maheux, Provincial Entomologist for Quebec, Canada, the writer is indebted for his comparison of this material with the Provancher types in the Quebec Public Museum.
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES IN THE GRACILARIIDAE (MICROLEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: Braun Annette F.
Published: January 2010

Head rough tufted on crown, face smooth. Antennae four-fifths the length of the fore wings, basal segment slightly thickened, with pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, drooping, filiform, blunt pointed. Maxillary palpi minute. Middle tibiae with closely appressed scales. Posterior tibiae with closely appressed scales above, short loose hairs beneath. Fore wings lanceolate, elongate; 3 absent, 4 absent, 5 and 6 long stalked, 8 connate with 7, 9 twice as far removed from 8 as from 10, 11 absent. Hind wings about one-half, linear lanceolate; 3 absent, 4 absent, 5 and 6 stalked.
A NEW CALIFORNIA EUPHYDRYAS (LEPID., RHOPALOCERA)
Authors: Gunder J. D.
Published: January 2010

The chain of Rocky Mountains extending south from Canada through western Montana. Wyoming, Colorado and into northern New Mexico produce a series of butterflies which are at prespnt referable under an anicia-brucei classification. Various races from this supposed parental stock are found in southwestern Colorado, Utah, the Great Basin of Nevada and elsewhere with members of the clan branching down into New Mexico. For several years I have been hoping to find representatives of this group reaching over into the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. In 1927 when on Alta Peak in Sequoia National Park, I took two males and in 1928 Mr. Walter Ireland captured four females in the same locality which I find to be closely related to the above mentioned breed.
A NEW SYRPHID FROM CANADA
Authors: Curran C. H.
Published: January 2010

Related to medius Jones but lacking a brown, inverted Y shaped frontal vitta, the lower two thirds of the front yellowish pollinose, the lower fourth to third yellow in ground color. Length 11 to 12 mm.
HABITS OF PERDITA ZEBRATA WITH DESCRIPTION OF LARVA
Authors: Custer Clarence P.
Published: January 2010

It is during the month of August that one can find the wild bee, Perdita zebrata, nesting in the sandy soil at White Rocks near Boulder, Colorado. The nests are usually found together in groups of eight to ten, one female to a nest. Those studied last summer were located in a sandy field sloping to the south at the base of the cliffs.
SYNONYMIC NOTES ON CANADIAN EUPITHECIAS (GEOMET., LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

The excellent results obtained by a study of both male and female genital organs when determining specimens of this difficult genus in connection nith my paper on the “Lepidoptera of Seton Lake, B. C.” have led me to continue this work with a view to clearing up the numerous synonymical tangles in our Canadian species. The variability within the limits of a single species, the poor condition of much of the type material, and the failure of authors such as Taylor, Pearsall and Swett not only to recognize each other's species, but to realize the wide-spread distributiion of the individual species, hare all contributed to produce a muddle of specific names which has been almost impossible to unravel by a mere study of external characters.
NOTES ON THE HABITS OF ANTHIDIUM COLLECTUM HUARD
Authors: Hicks Charles H.
Published: January 2010

Dr. Herbert F. Schwarz has recently considered the relationship of Anthidium collectum Huard and A. angelarum Titus. After a study of the facts at hand, he says: “I think tliere can be little doubt that the insects represent one species to which the name collectum applies by virtue of priority.” From a review of the literature there seems to be no record of the nesting habits of this bee.
NOTES ON A FEW SPECIES OF MYZINI (APHIDIDAE) FROM UTAH WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES
Authors: Knowlton George F.
Published: January 2010

This black cherry aphid is common in nearly all localities in Utah where cherries are grown and causes many of the apical leaves to curl. Small numbers of this species remain on the cherry leaves throughout the summer at Brigham City and Farmington, but are present in much greater numbers during the spring.
NEW CANADIAN ANTHOMYIDS BELONGING TO THE GENUS HYLEMYIA ROB.-DESV. (MUSCIDAE, DIPTERA)
Authors: Huckett H. C.
Published: January 2010

Many new species of the genus Hylemyia Rob.-Desv. are herewith described as a result of a study of Canadian Muscidae in the National Collection at Ottawa. This family is represented by a large number of specimens in the collection, and by a representative number of species belonging to the Canadian zone. No doubt the number will be doubled within the next few years as collecting progresses.
THE FIRE BRAT, THERMOBIA DOMESTICA PACKARD, (LEPISMIDAE) IN CANADA
Authors: Spencer G. J.
Published: January 2010

The Fire Brat, Thermobia domestica Packard, seems to have been in Eastern Canada for some time. Since, as its nick-name indicates, it is a heat-loving species, favouring steam-heated buildings, it has probably been established in the country for a long time although the records of its distribution in Canada are few and are all fairly recent.
LIFE HISTORY NOTES ON THE WASP, POLISTES ANNULARIS
Authors: Rau Phil
Published: January 2010

The fact that the petiole of the nest of P. annularis is thickened from time to time as the weight of the nest increases shows that the wasps can adapt their behavior to the needs of the day, even though their chain of work is interrupted. The first part of the nest to be made is the petiole; this is made by the queen long before the first workers emerge.
REVIEW OE EPHEMERELLA NYMPHS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA (EPHEMEROPTERA)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Studies by Eaton (1884), Dodds (1923) and Needham (1905, 1927) have contributed much to our knowledge of the nymphal forms of Ephemerella occurring in Western North America. Needham's recent paper on “The Rocky Mountain species of the Mayfly genus Ephemerella” contains a valuable discussion of the nymphs of that region and is the first attempt to treat of the species in a comparative manner.
THE CHIRPING RATES OF THE SNOWY TREE CRICKET (OECANTHUS NIVEUS) AS AFFECTED BY EXTERNAL CONDITIONS
Authors: Allard H. A.
Published: January 2010

The common snowy tree cricket (Occanthus niveus) of North America has made a prominent name for itself in American scientific literature. In fact none of our crickets have been so much discussed as this interesting pearly winged insect. There is something in its solemn, rhythmic, time-marking chirping that commands attention, so that all become impressed with its rhythmic music.
ECOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIOR NOTES ON THE WASP, POLISTES PALLIPES
Authors: Rau Phil
Published: January 2010

The season of activity of P. pallipes begins about the last of April. My notes show that on April 24, 1920, a survey of the Wickes region discovered no wasp enterprises whatsoever; April 28 in 1921 found a few queens out on the flowers and a few just beginning their nests; the most progressive had completed three cells.
A NEW SPECIES OF EUXOA AND SOME NOTES ON CHORIZAGROTIS (LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: Cook William C.
Published: January 2010

During the past four or five years, several puzzling specimens of a form of Euxoa closely related toplagigeraandoblongostigmahave been collected in various parts of Montana. Some examples were submitted to Dr. McDunnough in the writer of 1927-8, and he reported as follows:

This form has always puzzled me; it occurs in Utah and I believe it to be a brown form ofplagigerabut some run very close tooblongostigmaand are very hard to separate without genitalic slides.
ANOPHELES QUADRIMACULATUS SAY IN COLORADO. (DIPTERA)
Authors: Walker C. R.
Published: January 2010

A study of the distribution of mosquitoes from Colorado discloses many areas which have not as yet been reported. Among the collections we find only one report of Anopheles and its identification has been uncertain. Cockerell lists seventeen species of mosquitoes from Colorado or Wyoming. Among these is listed Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say taken at Hotchkiss and Delta in Delta County by G. P. Weldon and recorded by Howard, Dyar, and Knab. He states: “We have so far found no trace of Anopheles in our collections.”
NOTES ON UTAH LACHNEA (APHIDIDAE)
Authors: Knowlton George F.
Published: January 2010

The hypothetical ancestor of the Aphididae was probably a large generalized form, always winged, both sexes occurring in each generation, and with only a few generations each year. Migration would be lacking, and the development of the aphid ancestor would probably be tied up with one of the primitive types of plants occurring in that early period.
NOTES ON THE CHERMIDAE. PART I. (HEMIPTERA: HOMOPTERA)
Authors: Klyver F. D.
Published: January 2010

The series of papers entitled “Observations on the Chermidae (Hemiptera: Homoptera)” is to be considered as closed. Mr. Fred Klyver, author of the accompanying paper, will continue the series under the general title of “Notes on the Chermidae (Hemiptera : Homoptera).” There is appended herewith a bibliography of the former series and other papers on the Chermidae by the present writer.
STUDIES IN THE SCARABAEIDAE (IV)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Length 6-6.3 mm. ; width 2.6-2.7 mm. Oblong, moderately convex and elongate, parallel. Black; the legs and elytra very dark reddish brown, almost black; shining.
THE BIOTA OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: January 2010

I have just received from Professor M. L. Fernald two papers of extra-ordinary interest, on “Some Relationships of the Floras of the Northern Hemisphere” (Proc. Internat. Congress of Plant Sciences, 2, pp. 1487-1507, 1929) and “Unglaciated Western Newfoundland” (Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Jan. 23. 1930, 6 pp.).
A NEW METHOD OF MAKING WING PRINTS OF THE WINGS OF BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Hutchins Ross E.
Published: January 2010

Sometime ago while experimenting on ways and means of making butterfly wing-prints I discovered a process which I believe to be new and simpler than any yet devised. Several methods have been used in the past, notably by Denton in his butterfly and moth books. One of the chief methods and one which has been described in several places is that of coating a matt surface paper with a solution of gum arabic and pressing the butterfly or moth wing upon this surface under a screw press. After being allowed to harden the paper with the wing adhering is removed from the press and the wing stripped off leaving the scales sticking to the gum-coated surface of the paper.
COLEOPTERA OF THE NORTH SHORE OF THE GULF OF THE ST. LAWRENCE
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

It was my privilege to spend the summer of 1929 collecting insects on the north shore of the Gulf oi the St. Lawrence. This insect survey extended from Trinity Bay in the west to Bradore Bay in the Straits of Belle Isle. Particular attention was given to Coleoptera. Except where otherwise stated, the author is responsible for the determinations in the following list.
A NEW TACHINID PARASITIC ON A SAWFLY
Authors: Curran C. H.
Published: January 2010

The species herein described was reared from the immature stages of a sawily collected at Mont Laurier, Quebec, by Mr. M. B. Dunn. It is the fifth species belonging to the genus Spathimeigenia Townsend.
NOTES ON UTAH HEMIPTERA
Authors: Pack H. J. , Knowlton G. F.
Published: January 2010

This paper records the Hemiptera of the superfamily Scutelleroidea (Burmeister) now in the collection of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. The writers wish to thank Dr. E. P. Van Duzee for his kindness in determining a series of specimens, by comparison with which the remainder of the collection was named. The purpose of this list is to give additional information as to the occurrence, distribution, abundance, and note damage by the forms of economic importance.
LIFE-HISTORY OF THE COW GRASSHOPPER (CHRYSOCHRAON ABDOMINALIS THOM.) IN MANITOBA
Authors: Criddle Norman
Published: January 2010

The name cow grasshopper has been chosen for this insect because of the habit of the female in selecting cattle “chips” or dung in which to place her eggs. On account of this habit, cattle have become an important factor in the spread and perpetuation of the grasshopper and to associate it with the name of its unconscious benefactor seems appropriate.
AN ECOLOGICALLY ANNOTATED LIST OF THE PHALAENIDAE OF MONTANA (LEPID.)
Authors: Cook William C.
Published: January 2010

The material upon which this list is based has accumulated since 1900 in the collection of the Montana Experiment Station, and has been collected by workers too numerous to list. However, the basic collection was made by R. A. Cooley at Butte in 1900, and all of the species captured there in two or three nights have not yet been recaptured.
AN ECOLOGICALLY ANNOTED LIST OF THE PHALAENIDAE OF MONTANA (LFPID.)
Authors: Cook William C.
Published: January 2010

E. ternaria (group). Two specimens so named were captured at Three Forks Aug. 19, 1925 and Sept. 4, 1926.

1310 E. atropulverea Sm. One specimen in Smith collection taken at Butte, Aug. 28. 1900, by R. A. Cooley. One specimen from Bozeman, Aug. 27, 1929. 1310. I E. setonia McD. One specimen taken at Three Forks July 22, 1926 by C. B. Philip.
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES OF ARCTOCORIXA FROM ONTARIO AND QUEBEC (HEMIP., CORIXIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

The literature contains but few definite records of Corixidae from Eastern Canada although many species have been described from adjacent territories and without doubt are present in the Canadian fauna. Recent collecting at various points in Ontario and Quebec has resulted in procuring new records for several species of Arctocorixa. The following constitutes a preliminary list of the Arctocorixa species of this region.