bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A NEW SPECIES OF MELANOPLUS FROM ARIZONA
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

Melanoplus Browinii, sp. nov.– General colour brownish fuscous. Head slightly prominent, witht the occiput elevated a little above the pronotum and with a black postcular stripe; interspace between the eyes no broader than the basal segment of the antennæ' fastigium moderately declivent and deeply sulcate except above, where it is biseriately punctate. Eyes large and somewhat prominent, distinctly longer than the infraocular portion of the genæ. Antennæ long, in the male as long or longer than the posterior femora. Pronotum equal in the anterior portion, but quite noticeably expanding on the metazona, truncate anteriorly, posteriorly obtuse angulate, the angle rounded; lateral lobes marked with a more or less interrupted black stripe which is continuous with the postocular stripe of the head. Median carina distinct only on the metazona, which is shorter than the prozona. Prosternal spine suberect, pyramidal, apically acuminate.
TWO NEW SILPHIDÆ FROM COLORADO
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

Silpha Coloradensis, n. sp.– Form of inæqualis, but more elongae, black, except the tip of the abdomen, which is orange-rufocus; above clothed with short black hairs. Head densely punctate, the punctures regular over the greater part of the surface, those in front of the inter-antennal line smalll and less distinct; occipital transeverse impression deep; labrum short, broadly emarginate; antennæ black, club four-jointed, the last three joints pubesecnt, the terminal one longer, compressed, tip sinuately rounded. Thorax about one one-half times as broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, sides broadly arcuate in front, more suddenly so behind, basal lobe slightly and very broadly emarginate. Surface somewhat irregular, densely and very regularly punctate, sides somewhat flattened. Scutellum slightly concave, densely puncutred. Elytra as wide as the thorax and fully twice as long, the sides nearly parallel, outer margins distinctly reflexed, apices conjointly rounded, but sinuate externally, punctuation less dense than that of the thorax, each puncture with a recumbent hair.
THE EGG OF THE WATER SCORPION (RANATRA FUSCA)
Authors: Pettit R. H.
Published: February 2010

In his “Insect Book,” Dr. L. O. Howard states that the egg of Ranatra has not as yet been described from the United States. It is hoped that the following note may be of itterest to someone :

On June 24, 1900, the writer was so fortunate as to find a large number of these eggs at Pine Lake, near Lansing, Mich. As the eggs were not recognized at first, they were allowed to hatch, and the nymphs allowed to become about half-grown.
LIFE-HISTORY OF LYDA FASCIATA (NORTON), FAM. TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Pearsall Richard. F.
Published: February 2010

Full-grown larvæ were taken on wild cherry (Prunus) in the latter part of September, 1901. Placed in a box over earth, they fed but a day or two, truned a deep green, and entering the earth two to three inches, formed rounded cells, in which they remained as larvæ all winter, transforming to pupæ just before emergence. They are gregarious, remaining in their web, filled with its mass of exuvia, untill full-grown, when, as their growth is completed, individually they drop from it and enter the ground. One which was kept under observation formed a pupa on April 28th, and emerged eight days thereafter. The pupal skin is very thin, showing distictly the parts of the enclosed imago. This brood commenced emerging April 25th, and a few individuals are still coming out, May 31st. In the eariler days the males predominated, later the females, Altogether, 134 males and 123 females have appeared. Copulation took place at once, the pair remaining in coitu from three to five hours.
SYNONYMIC NOTES
Authors: Lyman Henry H.
Published: February 2010

In 1834 Dejean proposed the name Euchætes for a genus of Coleoptera, and it had thus been preoccupied for seven years when Harris used it in 1841 for the moth named by Drury, Bombyx Egle.

In 1858 it was used for a third time by Sclater for a genus of birds, and in 1876 Leconte described another genus of Coleoptera under this same much-used name.

As it is a well-known rule of nomenclature that a generic name can be used only once in the animal kingdom, all subsequent use of the term for other genera is erroneous and must cease.

It therefore becomes necessary to give other names, and I propose the name EUCHÆTIAS, from a kindred Greek word, for the genus erected by Harris. It is not necessary for me to define the genus, as it is well known, and this is merely a necessary change of name, the type, of course, being Egle, Drury.
NEW SPECIES OF SEMIOSCOPIS
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

The following species of Semioscopis
(Epigraphia) seem undescribed. They were sent
for names by Messers. F.A. and H.D. Merrick, of New Brighton, Pennsylvania,
and have donated by them to the National Museum. These new species closely
resemble several of the European ones, yet seem all specifically
separable.
HYDROECIA AMERICANA SPEYER, OR HYDROECIA ATLANTICA SMITH
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

To whom should a species be credited: to the author who names it a variety and declares positively that it is not distinct from another, which he considers the stem, or to the author who first points out the specific characters and establishes its distinctness?

In 1875 Dr. A. Speyer, in his paper on “Europäisch-amerikanische Verwandschaften,” gives first, a list of American species which he cousiders distinct from European forms, a list of species occurring in both countries, a list of questionable forms, and then elaborates these lists by a series of notes. In the list of species common to both countries, he enumerates Hydroecia nictitans, and afterwards points out somer minor differences in the series before him, noting that Guenée had previously errumerated most of them. On page 152 of the volume he speaks as follows: “Als eigene Art wird sich die amerikanische Nictitans von der europaischen nicht trennen lassen, da ein völlig durchgreifender Unterschied zwischen beiden fehlt. Eine ausgezeichnete Varietat bildet sie aber jedenfalls.”
NEW BEES OF THE GENUS ANDRENA, FROM WISCONSIN
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

♀. –Length about 12 mm.; black; head and thorax with pale ochraceous or whitish hair, very short and thin on thoracic dorsum ; head ordinary, facial quadrangle square; vertex behind the ocelli finely roughened and punctnred; front below the ocelli punctured as well as grooved; facial foveæ broad, pale, closely adjacent to eyes; antennæ dark; clypeus thinly hirsute, shining, strongry but not densely punctured, no median smooth line; process of labrum truncate; maxillary palpi short; mesothorax shining, strongly but not densely punctured, metathorax very coarsely roughened, enclosure irregularly subreticurately ridged, but without a transverse bounding ridge; tegulæ dark, with a ferruginous spot; wings dusky with a yellow tint, nervures and stigma ferruginous, second submarginal cell broad; legs wholly dark; hind tibial spur of hind legs much curved; hair on inner side of basal joint of hind tarsi fulvous; abdomen shining, stronglyand closely punctured, finely pubescent at sides, but without dorsal hair-bands; fimbria fulvous.
SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN BEES—II
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

In my neighbourhood I find the typical Andrena Cressonii, Rob., and the form described below as A. dubia, the latter more rare. To compare this with the form described as A. Bridwellii,Ckill., I have obtained from Mr. Bridwell for examination thiry-three specimens taken by ghim at Baldwin, Kansas, and labelled A. Cressonii, A. Kansensis, and A. Bridwellii.

A. Kattsensis is the same as A.Cressonii, the colour of the pubescence being characteristic of unfaded specimetrs. Local specimens sometimes have the hind tibiæ and tarsi ferruginons in both sexes.
NOTES ON THE MOUTH-PARTS OF BOMBUS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. , M'Nary John.
Published: February 2010

We have lately studied the mouth-parts of a number of species of Bombus, both American and European, and adding our results to those obtained by Radoszkowski (1877) we find as follows :-

(1)Taking the first joint of the labial palpus of the ♀ as an index of the length of the mouth-parts (it is especially convenient for accurate measurement), we find that the longest-mouthed species is B. Gerstackeri, from the European Alps (our examples were collected by Friese at Engelberg), a species known to be the exclusive visitor of Aconitum lycoctonumin that region. The Aconitum (Knuth, Blütenbiologie, Vol. II., p. 53, fig.20) has the hood enormously produced, and is adapted only to bees with extremely long tongues.
A NEW GALL-MAKING COCCID
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Cryptophyllaspis Rübsaameni , n. sp.— ♀. Orange, oblong, caudal end sunken, overlapped at the sides by lobiform projections; no circumgenital glands; anal orifice broad-oval, about 17 μ long, and distant about 39 μ from the bases of the median lobes; lobes and squames formed just as in C. occultus and of the general type of Aspidiotus cyanophylli; three pairs of lobes, not even the median ones darkened in the least; median lobes slightly notched on each side; squames narrow and pointed, strongly fringed, beyond the third lobe are three double squames, each having the appearance of two squams united at the base; interlobular incisions with thickened edges, of the Diaspidiotus type; two rows of dorsal glands, not very numerous, on each side of the caudal end; spines small.
NOTES ON MR. LYMAN'S PAPERS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

I was much interested by Mr. Lynran's careful paper on a species of Gortyna, boring in burdcck. If aerala, Lyman, is a good American species it shoutd have an alternative food plant, since the burdock is imported from Europe. From Mr. Lyman's detailed statements, the distinction from necopina is assured. The differentiation form nitela is not so clearly given.

With regard to nitela, Mr. Lyman is quite correct, that Guenée first describes nebris and then nitela; and in my catalogue of 1874 I give the two as distinct species in the above order of their description. But in my Buffalo Check List of 1875 I place nitela first; and in 1882 I retain this sequence and record nebris as a variety of nitela. But I am not agreed with Mr.Lyman that nebris, the white-spotted type, represents the original form the species. I think the whit filling in of the ordinary spots a specialization, therefore a variation from the original form of the species.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

Pompilus, Fabr., is preoccupied, and the family name Pompilidæ must be changed to Ceropalidæ, as has been shown recently by Fox (vide Ent. News, Vol. XII., 1901, p. 268). In consequence, my subfamily Pompilinæ must be changed to Aporinæ.

This subfamily is unquestionably the largest in number of genera and species of any of the groups of the family Ceropalidæ (Pompilidæ). Most of the species, in comparison with those found in the Pespinæ, are of medium size or small, few attaining much over an inch in length, while the vast majority are much smaller.
NEW COCCIDÆ FROM THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC AND PARAGUAY
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The Coccidæ herein descirbed were collected by Professor L. Bruner in 1867 and 1898. I examined the collection with more than ordinary interest, as practically nothing was known of the Coccidæ of the Argentine or Paraguay. The flora of the southern part of South America resembles in many respects that of the arid region of North America, and it was therefore not wholly unexpected that this resemblance should extend to the Coccidæ. The collection is too small to show how far such a resemblance may extend, but the species of Orthezia and Lichtensia, at least, are entirely representative of North American types.
NOTE ON DEILEPHILA GALII, ROTT
Authors: Fletcher J.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Percy B. Gregson, of Blackfalds, Alta., sends a painting, made by Mr. F.C. Clare, of Edmonton, of the larva of Deilephila galii, Rottemburg. Mr. Gregson writes that these large larvæ are luscious treat for prairie chickens in early autumn, and are quite often found entire, although, of course, dead, in their crops. These larvæ in the Northwest feed on the Giant Willowherb [Chamœnerion angustifolium (L.), Scop.], and it was from this food-plant that is more generally-known name of Chamœnerii was derived. I have read that these larvæ are also eaten regularly by some tribes of Indians in California. Some years ago I examined the contents of the crops of four prairie chickens from Western Mantioba, and found them stuffed with the hips of the prairie rose, the leaves of the alkali-loving Ranunculs [Oxygraphis cymbalaria (Pursh) Prantl.], and many specimens of Chrysomela lunata, Fab.
NOTES ON CANADIAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS APANTESIS (ARCTIA), WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE LARVÆ
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

9. Quenselii, var. turbans.—Probably one of the most interesting surprises we have had since studying these insects, is the fact that the form just mentioned has been taken, and not uncommonly, for some seasons, at several points in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. The first specimens we examined were collected “at light” at Calgary, by Mr. T. N. Willing. Afterwards Mr. F. H. Wolley-Dod, ofMillarville, Alta., forwarded us a beautiful series of nine specimens for study, and Mr. Norman Criddle, of Aweme, Man., also was good enough to send us four examples. Besides these 13, Mr. Willing forwarded seven specimens. While in Washington, in December, 1902, Dr. Fletcher submitted a series of the months to Dr. Dyar, who compared them with the original description of turbans, afterwards expressing himself as certain that our Northwestern form was this variety of quenselii.
SOME APHIDIDÆ OF THE GENUS NECTAROPHORA FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A
Published: February 2010

Hab.—Beulah, N.M., alt. 8,000 ft., very abudant on Rudbeckia ampla, A. Nelson. It is preyed upon by Hippodamia convergens. This species is easily known by its bright scarlet colour. Monell reports N. rudbeckia from many genera of Compositæ at St. Louis, Mo.; in New Mexico I have found it only on one species of Rudbeckia; even the species on Rudbeckia hirta is quite different.
A NEW SAWFLY
Authors: Cooley R. A.
Published: February 2010

The Sawfly here described is a common pest on the leaves of various speices of Populus in Montana, and a Bulletin dealing with its life-histroy and economic significance is about to be published from the Montana Experiment Station. We give here an outline of its life-history, followed by descriptions of the two sexes.

The adults appear on the foliage in May and continue there for about eight weeks. The female deposits her eggs singly on the very young, tender leaves, and at the same time stings, them in such a way as to cause the edge to fold under on the lower surface.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

1899. Myrmosidæ, Family, Ashmead; Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc., VII., p. 49 and 52.

1903. Mullidæ, Famille (partim), André; Wytsman's Gen. Ins. Fam. Mutillidæ.

This family, as here defined, is, I think, a natural one, although some of the genera have been placed previously, by different authors, in other families, with the Scoliidœ, Myzinidœ, Mutillidœ, etc.

The females in this family may always be easily recognized by the thorax, which is distinctly divided into itwo parts, while the males, except in three or four cases, are easily distinguished by the genitalia, the hypopygium terminating in a sharp aculeus, which curves upwards, as in males in the family Myzinidæ with which they are often confused.
THE OCCURRENCE OF THE PHORID GENUS AENIGMATIAS IN AMERICA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

The occurrence in Arizona of a representative of a very anomalous wingless genus of Phoridæ, of which but a single specimen was heretofore known, and that found beneath a stone in such a widely-separated locality as Denmark, is a problem in geographical distribution very difficult of solution. During the entomological excursion of Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and H.S. Barber to portions of New Mexico and Arizona in the summer of 1901, while collecting at the base of a hill of Flagstaff, Arizona, Mr. Barber obtained in his sweeping net a single speciment of the cockrach-like genus Aenigmatias. This specimen agrees closely with Dr. Meinert's original description and figures of his Aenigmatias blattoides*, except that it has only six instead of seven body-segments, not counting the genitalia.
GOT WITHOUT SEEKING
Authors: Moffat J. Alston.
Published: February 2010

As I was sitting in Victoria Park, London, Ont., on one of the early days of August, 1902, a sharp click on my straw hat indicated to me that a beetle had been suddenly arrested in its erratic flight. I took off my hat and found thereon a longhorn, with the familiar outline and ornamentation of the Clytus group. But there was something about it that seemed unusual to me, and the more I looked at it the more I was convinced of its novelty. So I secured it, killed and mounted it, and, as opportunity presented itself, endeavoured to determine it, but could find nothing with which it would correspond, and the books afforded me no relief. Having occasion to require the assistance of Mr. W. H. Harrington, Ottawa, upon some B.C. beetles, I sent my unique in order to secure his verdict upon it.
A NEW BOMBUS FROM COSTA RICA
Authors: Crawford J. C. , Swenk Myron. H.
Published: February 2010

Bombus leucomelas, n. sp.— ♀. Black, with deep black pubescence, except that on anterior half of mesothorax, which is grayish, tipped with black, and on abdominal segments 3–6, which is pure white; clypeus arched, weakly and very sparsely punctured; labrum basally with two widely separated tubercles; joint 1 of flagellum equal to 2 and 3 together; wings deeply infuscated, iridescent; basal joint of hind tarsi not pointed at apex; pubescence of legs black. Length 21–22 mm.
LEPIDOPTERA IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Successful collections of Lepidoptera were made in British Columbia this season at Kaslo by myself, with the assistance of Mr. Caudell and Mr. Currie, and under the advice of Mr. J. W. Cockle. Over 20,300 specimens rewarded our efforts. Of these a large part are Noctuidæ, collected at sugar, showing some very fine series. Nearly 200 larvæ were observed. The material will be worked up at the U.S. National Museum. The National collection has been further enriched by the donation of 548 specimens from Messrs. Taylor, Bryant, Hanham, Bush and Harvey, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at the close of the collecting season.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

The wasps belonging to this family, on account of the emarginate eyes in the females, and the abdomen being usually marked with yellow or white, closely resembles those in the families Myzinidæ and, scoliidæ, butmay be easily distinguished by the great difference in the legs, the middle coxæ being approximate, the outer face of the tibiæ being smooth,unarmed, without tubercles or spines, while the tarsi are without strong spines or bristles, and unfitted for digging.
ON THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE ORTHOPTEROUS GENUS AULOCARA, SCUDDER
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

Too late for correction, I find that in my recent paper on western Orthoptera* I have redescribed Scudder's Aulocara rufum as a new species under the name guanieri, placing it in the not very nearly related genus Heliastus. This unfortunate mistake was brought about by the uncertain position of the genus Aulocara, which possesses both tryxaline and Œdepodine characters. The generral aspect of the species of the genus is certainly very strongly œdipodinean and the characters of the declivate vertex, subperpendicular front, filiform antennæ, small round eyes, obsolete lateral carinæ, twice or thrice severed median carina, wrinkled pronotum, and of the generally present intercalary vein, all indicate close affinity to the Œdipodinæ.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

William E. Leach, and not Frederick Smith, Ernest André has it, was the first to establish the family Mutillidœ but none of these gentlemen correctly defined it, and all have included genera which do not belong to it. Some of the genera belong to the Bethylidœ, one belongs to the Thynnidœ, one to the Cosilidœ, and others to the Myrmosidœ.
NOTES ON CULICIDÆ AND THEIR LARVÆ FROM PECOS, NEW MEXICO, AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GRABHAMIA
Authors: Theobald Fred. V.
Published: February 2010

A small collection of mosquitoes has been sent me by Dr. Grabham, collected by himself and Mr. T.D.A. Cockerell at Pecos Canon, New Mexico, U.S.A.

This collection was made in June and contains five species, namely:

1. Theobaldia incidens, Thomson.

2. Culex Kelloggii, Theobald.

3. Culex consobrinus, Desvoidy.

4. Grabhamia Curriei, Coquillett.

5. Grabhamia vittata, nov. sp.
LIST OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA
Authors: Evans John. D.
Published: February 2010

6550, Orsodachna atra, Ahr., '79, '80.

*6590, Coscinoptera dominicana, Fab., '80.

*6592, Coscinoptera vittigera, Lec., '79.

6610b, Bassareus pretiosus, Melsh, '80.

6614a, Cryptocephalus notatus, Fab., 80.

*6626, Cryptocephalus confluens, Say, '79.

*6633, Cryptocephalus calidus Suffr., '80.

6683, Pachybrachys carbonarius, Hald., '79.

6690, Pachybrachys atomarius, Melsh., '80.
A NEW JOINT-WORM PARASITE FROM RUSSIA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

Homoporus Vassiliefi, sp. nov.— ♀ — Length, 2 mm. Head and thorax bluish, finely, closely punctured, the face and the pleura with a greenish metallic lustre, the metapleura decidedly brassy; antennæ brown, the scap yellow; legs concolorous with the thorax, the hind coxæ with a metallic greenish fringe, the apices of all femora, all tibiæ and tarsi, except the last joint, yellow, the last joint dark fuscous; wings hyaline, the nervures brown, the stigmal vein two-thirds the length of the marginal, the postmarginal vein very nearly as long as the marginal; abdoment aeneous black, tinged with metalic green basally at the sides, ovate, somewhat pointed at apex, very little longer than the thorax.
A NEW GENUS OF BEES
Authors: Crawford J. C.
Published: February 2010

Protandrenopsis, new genus. — Labial palpi four-jointed, 1 about twice as long as 2–4 together, 2–4 slightly decreasing in length; maxillary palpi 6-jointed, 1 and 2 subequal, longer than any of the following joints; 3, 5 and 6 subequal, 4 slightly longer; tongue long, lanceolate; mandibles simple; labrum transverse, process of labrum large, almost covering labrum; foveæ present, small; stigma large, well developed, nearly two thirds the length of the obliquely truncate, subappendiculate marginal cell, which is about as long as the two submarginals together; second submarginal fully one-third longer than the first, receiving the first recurrent nervure about one-third from base and the second near apex; median cell along the median nervure, a little longer than the submedian, the transverse median nervure joining the median just before the origin of the basal nervure; scopa on posterior tibiæ first joint of tarsi and on venter.
MISCELLANEOUS ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

There must be many facts known to entomologists which, though not sufficiently important to work up into an article for the entomological magazines, are still of much interest, and worthy of publication, and I would like to suggest that a page or part of a page at the end of each number of the “Canadian Entomologist” be set aside for this purpose, and that correspondents be invited to send brief notes of rare captures or other interesting items.*
A NEW NORTH AMERICAN CATOCALA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Professor N. J. Kusnezov, of St. Petersburg, Russia has recently described a new Catocala from Texas, with four figures. A reprint of the description of the species may be of interest to American collectors, hence I reproduce it below:

“Catacala orba, Kusnezov.—Expanse of male 48 mm; size of C. Judith. Strecker.

“ Antennæ of male ciliate, gray, scaled above, with slight tuftings of hair below. (Palpi broken off.) Front densely covered with whitish-gray hairs. Patagia and front parts of tegulæ and mesothorax dark brown; vertex gray; the rest of tegulæ, nota, and crest on metathorax, whitishgray. Upper part, sides and crests of the abdominal somites dark gray; anal tuft long, dark gray, lighter below. Thorax on the under side and femora thickly clothed with long, dirty white hairs and scales. (Fore tibiæ broken off.)
MALE WASP WITH FEMALE ANTENNÆ
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Among some hymenoptera recently received from Mr. A. Gordon Leavitt, of St. John, N. B., is a very interesting male of Thyreopus latipes, Smith. The sexes of this genus are readily separated, as the males have the anterior legs remarkabty modifed; the tibiæ: especially being developed in broad shields, or leaf-like expansions. The antennæ are simple in the female, but those of the male have the flagellum fusiform and compressed. In T. latipes the basal joints are broad, and the flagellum narrows from the second joint to the apex.
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
Authors: Marlatt C. L.
Published: February 2010

The members of the Association of Economic Entomologists and the local Entomologists of Washington connected with the Entomological Society of Washington, at the conclusion of the meeting of the first-named Association, met in an informal reunion and smoker at the residence of Mr. Wm. H. Ashmead, on the evening of December 27th 1902. At this meeting the subject, first broached in the concluding session of the Association of Economic Entomologists, of reviving the Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S. was considered, and in the absence of the last President of the Club, the Rev. C.J.S. Bethune, Mr. Schwarz was made Chairman of the meeting for the purposes of this discussion. A general desire was manifested on the part of those present to have the Entomological Club revived or some other similar organization instituted.
A Sketch of the History of the Entomological Club of the American Association
Authors: Schwarz E. A.
Published: February 2010

Since the majority of the Entomologists present at this meeting belong to a younger generation, who have never attened any ot the meetings of the old Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S, a short history of the Club may not be out of place on this occasion. These notes I have prepared from a hasty persual of the most readily available entomological literature, and more especially from the volumes of the Canadian Entomologist, to which periodical the Club is deeply indebted for the faithful preservation of its records through a long number of years.
TWO REMARKABLE NEW COCCIDÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Of the two Coccidæ now described, the first is the type of a very peculiar new genus; the other is a very beautiful and interesting lac-insect.

Stictococcus, n. g. —An aberrant genus of Lecaniinæ, with the anal orifice in the middle of the back, not connected with the hind margin by a slit or groove. Anal ring with six hairs in larva; none in adult. Anal plates so modified in adult as to be unrecognizable. Legs small, but well developed. Antennæ with 5 or 6 joints. Margin with long bristles, and flattened bifid or palmate plates or spines. Dorsum with numerous large pits.
NOTE ON CTENUCHA CRESSONANA AND VENOSA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

In Sir George Hampson's volume on the Syntomids, Cat. Lep. Phalænæ, Vol. I., London 1898, Ctenucha Cressonana is referred as a synonym to C. venosa, but erroneously so. Both species inhabit our Nort American territory, but C. venosa has the wider and more southern range, extending probably from Arizona, through Mexico, into South America. I know C. Cressonana from Colorado and New Mexico only; this larger form is also variable in the colors of the stripes of the wing, whereas C. venosa is quite constant, so far as the examples I have been able to examine are concerned.
A NEW BUTTERFLY FROM TEXAS
Authors: Dodge G. M.
Published: February 2010

Nisoniades Llano, n.sp.

Expanse about one inch. Primaries with inner to two-thirds black, marked by a triangular brown patch near base, resting on internal margin; a large similarly-coloured patch at outer end of cell, touching the costa, and bordered by a pale-brown line, which, starting from the costa about one-third of the distance from the apex, curves outward opposite the discal cell, and runs diagonally across to about the middle of the inner margin, and is twinned at its lower extremity by a similar line, which precedes it, and extends from inner margin to just across the median vein.
NEW NOCTUIDS FOR 1903.—No. I
Authors: Smith SC. D. John. B.
Published: February 2010

Feralia Columbiana, n. sp.—Ground colour a bright emerald green, the maculation black and white. Head with a black interantennal spot. Collar with a black patch at its centre and at the base of each primary: tipped with whitish. Behind the collar there is a black edging to the disc and the loose basal tuftings are black marked. The edges of the patagia are black along the disc and at the base of the wings. The thorax itself is small and quadrate, the maculation just described forminga black square in its centre. The abdomen is deep smoky brown,yellowish or whitish at tip. Primaries with all the lines black, prominent, yet fragmentary. Basal line single, accompanied by a few white scales, becoming diffuse at the inner margin. T. a. line single, followed by a white line, out curved as a whole and irregularly bent or curved outwardly in the interspaces.
THE TOMB OF THOMAS SAY
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

Entomologists in general, and Americans in particular, are much interested in all the pertains to one who has justly become known as the father of American entomology.

As is generally known, the tomb containing the remains of this famous naturalist is on the grounds of the o ld Maclure home, in the city of New Harmony, Indiana.* This has recently changed owners, and the old house in which Say died has been remodelled, the older portion having been torn down. This was mede necessary by the crumbling of the walls, but the new owner, Mr. John Corbin, has only allowed this to be done where it became absolutely necessary. Fortunately, Mr. Corbin fully appreciates and reveres the historic old structure, and, as he stated recently to me. “has desecreated it just as little as possible.”
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

This family, althougn quite distinct, is closely allied to the two which follow— the Myrmosidœ and the Mutillidœ— and it will probably be difficult for the student to separate at once the wingless females from some in the families mentioned. Some authorities, having been unable to find good characters to separate these wasps, have classifed all together as a single large family under the name Mutillidœ; but I think incorrectly so.
THREE NEW ICHNEUMON FLIES FROM RUSSIA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Jacob Schreiner, of St. Petersbug, Russia, has been sending me for names some of his rearings of parasitic Hymenoptera, among which are many interesting species.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CATOCALÆ
Authors: Dodge G. M. , Dodge E. A.
Published: February 2010

Catocala obscura, Strecker. — Larvæ taken under hickory bark. Foodplant hickory. Described June 1st, 1903.

General colour, gray with pale brown and black markings.

No transverse band and no elevation of eighth segment.

Head broad as first segment, flattened, gray, with a black dash on each cheek, extending from mouth two-thirds of the way to top of head, and ending in a point.

Tubercles white, but not prominent; the dorsal tubercles being in a brownish stripe that is fairly distinct the entire length.
RECORDS OF AMERICAN BEES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

♀. — Length about 8 mm., black, with distinct narrow white hairbands on abdomen. Middle of anterior margin of clypeus curved upwards, presenting a point from which the sides slope gently for some distance, and then abruptly nearly vertically, the whole, seen from beneath, having about the outline of a low house seen from one end; some distance on each side of this structure is a low projection of the margin. In general, the insect looks just like Ashmeadiella bucconis, but the second tooth of the mandibles is short, and the front and vertex are as densely punctured as it is possible for them to be. The last joint of the labial palpus is conspicuously longer than the penultimate one.
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN CHOREUTINÆ
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Frons smooth and rounded, with the scales inclining downward, not closely appressed, erect on the vertex; labial palpi ascending, the second segment with more or less separated scales beneath, recalling the genus Choreutis, third segment a little shorter, naked and somewhat pointed; maxillary palpi present; proboscis very short; eyes hemispherical; ocelli absent; antennæ not quite half the length of the costa, ciliate, the ciliæ nearly as long as the diameter of the shaft; thorax with a small tuft at the end above.
THE SPINNING HABITS OF NORTH AMERICAN ATTACI
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

The note in the Canadian Entomologist for April 1903, by the late Prof. A. R. Grote, the one by Mr. J. Wm. Cockle, in the May number for the same year, and the one in the April 1904, number, all relating to this subject, have interested me greatly.

Over 25 years ago I observed and recoreded for the first, I believe, the destruction of the pupæ of our very common Samia cecropia by the Downy Woodpecker, by puncturing the cocoons and feasting on the juices of the occupant. The habit of the insect in attaching its cocoon firmly to and parallel with the twigs and smaller limbs of trees places them at the mercy of these birds, especially during that part of the year when the trees are devoid of foliage.
A COUPLE OF QUERIES
Authors: Taylor G. W.
Published: February 2010

In his Monograph of the Geometrid Moths, Dr. Packard described and figured two moths as Metanema quercivoraria, Guenée, and Endropia textrinaria. Grote and Robinson. He placed them in different genera and had apparently no doubts as to their distinctness.
NOTES ON GENERIC CHARACTERS IN THE LYCOSIDÆ
Authors: Chamberlin Ralph. V.
Published: February 2010

Scarcely any two men who have studied the Lycosidæ have interpreted or defined the genera of the family wholly in the same way. The purely relative nature of the characters most frequently used in separating the species into genera leaves room for much diversity in opinion and usage; and, in consequence, it is not surprising to find that genera used without question by one arachnologist are by others unhesitatingly relegated to synonymy.
NEW NOCTUIDÆ FOR 1904.—I
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

Noctua dislocata, n. sp.— Ground colour bluish, ash-gray, marked and more or less suffused with reddish. Head gray, tending to reddish on the vertex; palpi deep brown at the sides. Thorax mouse at fawn gray or reddish, immaculate. Primaries in a general way are gray to the middle of the wing and reddish beyond; but they may be an even reddish-gray throughout. All the normal maculation is present, but not contrasting. Basal line geminate; but the outer line is obscure and only the inner is dark brown and obvious. T. a. line narrow, brown, single, preceded by a narrow paler line, just a little outcurved between the veins and a little outcurved as a whole.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF TABANIDÆ
Authors: Whitney C. P.
Published: February 2010

Chrysops lupus, n. sp.—♀.— Length, 8–9 mm. Face shining yellowis ferruginous, callosities outside of suture, and cheeks black. Antennæ black, base of first joint fulvous. Front grayish pollinose, callesity black. Thorax black, with the usual glaucous stripes. Scutellum black. Abdomen yellow, first segment with a black spot wider anteriorly and connecting on second segment with a subquadrate spot deeply emarginate posteriorly, which does not attain the posterior margin of the segment.
A NEW GELECHIID, TRICHOTAPHE LEVISELLA, n. sp
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

The Broad-leaved Aster (Aster macrophyllus, L.) grows in patches of considerable size in the woods around Levis. In the month of June, 1902, I noticed that many of the large ground leaves of the plant were folded over from both sides and crinckled. On opening one of them I found that a larva had truned the leaf into a cool and pleasant tent for itself, and was feeding upon the parenchyma of the leaf.
SOME ORTHOPTERA TAKEN AT MOOSE JAW, ASSINIBOIA
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

Last summer, on August 24th, a few hours were spent at Moose Jaw collecting Orthoptera. But few species were taken, and they are here listed for the locality. They were all taken on the open prairie, out a short distanace from the town.
SYNOPSIS OF PROSOPIS AND COLLETES, WITH SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

This paper belongs with the series on local species—Andreninæ, Megachilidæ and Bombinæ, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., 28: 187;29: 163; Sphecodinæ, Ent. News, 14: 103; Balictinæ, Nomadinæ, Epeolinæ, Anthophila, Can. Ent., 34: 245; 35: 172, 284; 36: 37.
THREE NEW LYCOSIDS
Authors: Chamberlin Ralph. V.
Published: February 2010

Brief preliminary descriptions of the following species are given in order that the names may be used in another palce.

Lycosa permunda, sp. nov.— ♀. Cephalothorax dark brown; a pale narrow median line extending backward from first eye now, widening abruptly in front of dorsal groove, and then gradually narrowing to a point at posterior margin; a broad light-coloured marginal stripe on each side not extending forward farther than the third eye row, its upper margin coarsely dentate, the lower border broken by a few dark dots, but not limited below by a continuous dark line or stripe at margin.
A NEW PROTEOPTERYX
Authors: Kearfott W. D.
Published: February 2010

Proteoptervx Willingana, sp. nov.

♂, 18 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, antennæ and fore wings, same shade of very light tan or pale brownish-fuscous, overlaid with a few blackish brown scales.

Palpi: outer joint short, obtusely pointed; tuft on second joint flattened and appressed, lower scales extending to outer end of outer joint. Head roughtly scaled. Eyes black with coppery reflection. Antennæ annulated with fuscous and brown. Thorax smooth.
A HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITE OF THE GRAPE-BERRY MOTH, EUDEMIS BORTANA, SCHIF
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

Thymaris Slingerlandana new species—♀. Length, 4.5mm.; ovipositor about one-third the length of the abdomen. Black, subopaue, the head and thorax very finely, microscopically punctate, with a sparse, glittering, white pubescence, which is dense or more distinct on the lower part of the face, the cheeks, the pleura and the metanotum; ocelli pale or opalescent; palpi whitish; scape and pedicel of antennæ the tegulæ, the front and middle coxæ and tronchanters, the hind trochangters except at base of first joint, and all tarsi, except as hereafter noted, honey-yellow, the hind coxæ, base of hind trochanters, a spot at base of hind tibiæ outwardly and at apex, and the apices of hind tarsl joints 1, 2 and 3 and joints 4 and 5 entirely, black; rest of legs pale ferruginous; wings hyalime, iridescent, the stigma and veins light brown, metathorax incompletely areloated, the areola alone complete or distinct pentagonal; abdomen subfusiform longly petiolated, about one-half longer than the thorax, subcompressed towards apex and entirely black, except the ventral fold, at apex of the petiole and on segments 2 and 3, which in honey-yellow.
A REVIEW OF OUR GEOMETRID CLASSIFICATION—No. 2
Authors: Pearsall Richard. F.
Published: February 2010

In my former paper a preliminary discussion of certain genera in Geometridæ made plain the need for a general rearrangement of this group. But this cannot be done as regards all of the species without much close study and comparison of types. Therefore, I venture at this time only to outline what seems to me the most rational method of arrangement into sub-families and genera—to include new material and to correct many errors in definition, and in some cases identification of generic types, as given by Dr. Hulst (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxiii., 245, 1896). I claim nothing original in my work, for I consider the general scheme, as devised by Dr. Hulst, the best that can be produced, nor do I need to add to his introduction of it, as given in the article referred to, except to say that I am strongly in accord with him when he states that this family are most nearly related to the Noctuidæ. In my arrangement of genera I place, therefore, Paleacrita at the head of the series.
THE BEE-GENUS APISTA, ETC
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

When writing (p. 330) on the genus Apista, F. Smith, 1861, I unfortunately overlooked the fact that the generic name is long preoccupied (Apista, Hübn, 1816, and the similar Apistus, Cuvier, 1829). The bee genus from Brazil may therefore be known as Egapista, n. n., type Egapista opalina (Apista opalina, Smith).

I find that the name of the African bee-genus Serapis, F. Smith, 1854, is also preoccupied (Serapis, Link, 1830); it may be changed to Serapista; type Serapista denticulata (Serapis denticulatus, Smith).

The name Eumorpha proposed by Friese for a group of bees, is also preoccupied. The group Rhodocentris, Friese, includes the type of the prior Heterocentries, Ckll.; so the latter name must be used for the group, unless (as seems probable) it can be divided.
POGONOMYRMEX OCCIDENTALIS
Authors: Popenoe E. A.
Published: February 2010

On page 351 of this magazine Professor Cockerell notes his observation of the Pogonomyrmex occidentalis at Ruleton, within twelve miles of the western limit of Kansas, and considers this as the indication of the eastern limit or beginning of the arid region. Our investigations of the range of this large ant in Kansas have shown us that its eastern limit is found far to the east of the point mentioned. The species occurs as far east in this State as the Sixth Principal Meridian, or in the counties of Republic, Ottawa, McPherson and Sedgwick, on a line about two-fifths of the length of the State from the eastern border. One would scarcely be acquainted with climatic conditions in Kansas who should consider this ant as a mark of the “arid region,” as west of the line indicated are found some of the best farming lands of the State. Especially is this true of the wheat lands, as the counties named are among those famous for the production of this cereal. Notwithstanding its occasional occurrence along the extreme eastern limit above indicated, the favoured home of the species is really within the western hundred miles of the State, and thence west to the mountains, where in specially suitable localities it sometimes occurs in astonishing abundance.
SYNOPSIS OF ANTHOPHILA
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

This is one of a series of papers—Andreninæ, Tr. Am. Ent., Soc. 28: 187; Halictinæ, Can, Ent. 34: 245, 1902: Sphecodinæ, Ent. News 14:103; Megachilidæ and Bombinæ. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 29:163; Nomadinæ Can. Ent. 35:172; Epeolinæ, Can. Ent. 35: 284, 1903— intended to bring together the results of studies of the bees of the neighbourhood of Carlinville, Illinois.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON APHROPHORA PARALLELA, SAY
Authors: Girault A. Arsene.
Published: February 2010

This Spittle insect of the Pine was abundant on two trees on the campus of Blacksburg, Virginia, last summer, and an attempt was made to observe its oviposition and to work out its complete life-history.

Owing to lack to time this was not successful, but the following notes may be of some interest:

The Protective Secretion.—The material under which the nymphs live consists of a cler albuminous liquid, exuded by the insect, mixed intimately with bubbles of air introducted by the nymph after secretion; it is tasteless, or slightly salty.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN STRATIOMYIDÆ
Authors: Melander A. L.
Published: February 2010

1. O. binotata, Loew.

Chicago, Ill. (July); Austin, Tex. (May); Colo.

2. O. cincta, Olivies.

Chicago and Algonquin, Ill. (June).

3. O. dorsalis, Fabricius.

Hayti

4. O. arcuata, Loew

Chicago, Ill, (July); Colo.

5. O. nigrirostris, Loew.

Chicago, Ill.; Austin, Tex.; Colo.; Lusk, Wyom. (August).
THE METAMORPHOSES OF ÆGIALITES
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

Within the past few weeks I have received from the Rev. J. H. Keen a number of fresh specimens of larvæ and pupæ of Ægialites Californicus, Mots., or as it has been called for years, Æ. debilis, Mann. These had been taken by Mr. Keen somewhere in the vicinity of his home at Metlakatla, B.C., and were especially welcome to me sice they gave an opportunity for the study of the early stages of a beetle whose position has always been considered problematical.
TÆNIOCAMPA COMMUNIS, DYAR
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

The number of types given for this species as 3,500 is erroneous. The correct number is 3,430, as the Kaslo specimens number 3,425, not 3,495 as incorrectly written. A species as common as this has naturally been often taken before, and I may state that it is generally known as T. furfurata, Grt., but incorrectly so.
COLLECTING MOTHS IN THE AUTUMN AND WINTER
Authors: Engel Henry
Published: February 2010

During October and November, 1904, I had the pleasure of learning some interesting features of the habits of a certain group of moths which appear at that season of the year. The abundance of these species under seemingly very unfavourable climatic conditions was a great surpise to me. The observations made on these hardy creatures of the insect tribe may prove interesting to Lepidopterists who are willing to exert a bit of energy in the pursuit of their hobby. During the last few years I have learned that we must take the topography of the country into account in selecting a place to bait for the months, which appear after we have observed the first autumn frosts on the landscape.
NOTES ON THE LOCUSTIDÆ OF ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

22. Atlanticus pachymerus, Burm.— The Shield-back Grasshopper.

Decticus pachmerus, Burm, Handb. der Ent., II., 1838, 712.

Thyreonotus pachymerus, Scudd., Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862, 453.

Atlanticus pachymerus, Scudd., Can. Ent., XXVI., 1894. 179.
THREE NEW COCCIDÆ FROM COLORADO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

A series of tables for the identificaiton of Rocky Mountain Coccidæ has been prepared for publication by the University of Colorado. Even now, while these tables await publication, I find myself obliged to add three new species, found here at Boulder; two of them representing genera new to our region. It is a rule of the University of Colorado publications that new species shall not appear for the first time therein, so I present herewith brief diagnoses of the three forms just mentioned.
PRACTICAL AND POPULAR ENTOMOLOGY.—No. 4.: Notes on Collecting, Preserving and Rearing Aquatic Hemiptera
Authors: De La Torre Bueno J. R.
Published: February 2010

I suppose that in due course I shall acquire much los and honour and not a little fame for harping in season and out of season to the tune of “Waterbugs.” But I shall feel that my labours have not been in vain if by so doing I can induce others to lauch themselves on the study of theese forms, which are in many respects the most interesting and easily observed and collected of the Heteroptera. In these families much remains to be done.