bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARCTIA RECTILINEA, FRENCH
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Diameter, .03 inch; height, .03 inch; blunt conic; smooth. When first deposited white; after a few days yellow. Duration of this period, five days.

Young Larva.—Length, .07 inch. Cylindircal; head a little larger than body; six rows of tubercles bearing long hairs. Colour of body and hairs white; head black; a geminate black spot on top of joint 2. Duration of this period, three days.
PARTIAL PREPARATORY STAGES OF SMERINTHUS OPHTHALMICUS, BD
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

After First Moult.—Length .45 inch. Cylindrical, head with an elevated point upwards, in subpyramidal point, the top in two points and about a third higher than the body; when at rest the jaws under back part of head with the point obliquely forward. Eight transverse wrinkles to each joint; green studded with pale green points; a subdorsal pale line, as usual converging to caudal horn; on sides, oblique pale lines that nearly coincide with a series on the dorusm; the plae parts yellowish green; caudal horn reddish tinted; head with a pale stripe on each side of face, the two coming together above.
DESCRIPTION OF A MUSCID BRED FROM SWINE DUNG, WITH NOTES ON TWO MUSCID GENERA
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

On Dec. 14, 1890, I secured from the upper Piney Branch region (District of Columbia) a small quantity of swine dung that had been dropped in the edge of open woods, and seemed to be old enough to contain with probability larvæ or puparia of Diptera. This was placed in a large glass jar, with a few inches of sand in the bottom, occasionally moistened and kept in a moderately cool room in the house. The dung was soon noticed to be full of larvæ which in a short time crawled out of it entirely, cluseterd on the inside of the glass, or worked themselves down into the sand, manifesting a considerable migratory instinct, no doubt induced by the moisture and mild tempearture.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NOCTUID LARVÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

The moths bred from the larvæ here described were kindly determined for me by Prof. J.B. Smith.

Tœniocampa alia, Guen.

Stage I.—Head shiny, pale yellow; mouth orange; ocelli black; width, .3 mm. The abdominal feet are well developed only on joints 9, 10 and 13, so the larva walks like a Geometrid. Body whitish, appearing green from the food within, with many black, piliferous dots. Joint 12 is a little enlarged; cervical shield coloured like the head, but paler, Length, 4 mm. This larva was found May 3.
NOTES
Authors: Smith J. B.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Dyar's note and Mr. Grote's reply, concerning the identity of the above species with specularis, H. S., may make further notes interesting. Mr. Hy. Edwards informed me two or three years ago that Mr. Grote had redescribed Herrich-Shaeffer's species, and that he had a specimen. I suggested that he should print this note, and he promised to do so in connection with a number of other remarks on Bombycid species.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN CHERNETIDÆ
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

The two subfamilies may, I believe, be farther separated by the fact that the Cheliferinœ have the dorsal scutæ of the abdomen divided by a median line; while in the Obisinœ the scutæ are entire. Chernes pallidus, Banks which was descirbed as having the median line wanting, really has a median line, through on account of the light colour of the abdomen it is very difficult to trace. The Cheliferinœ have an apophysis or small stylet near the end of the mandibular finger.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—III
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

Lamenia Californica, n. sp.

Form and size of L. vulgaris. Black, shining, densely pruinose; head, pectoral pieces, and legs fulvos. Length, 4 mm.

Front but little wider across the middle than next the vertex. Head fulvous, tinged with brown on the vertex, apex of the clypeus, margins of the cheeks, and on the front each side of the central carina. Eyes dark brown. Pronotum fulvous, more or less embrowned on the disc; propleura, base of the intermediate femora and the claws dusky or blackish.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE.—I
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Limenitis lorquinii, Boisd.

Egg,—Nearly spherical, the base flat; covered with elevated reticulations from the intersections of which arise short spines. The depressions between the reticulations are rounded. Colour pale green with a silvery lustre. Diameter .9 mm. Laid singly at the extreme tip of a leaf on the upper surface.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA.—No. 8
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Panagœus crucigerus, Say.—The living beauty of this beetle is but feebly represented by the dull and faded examples usually seen in collectios. Its bright sparkling colours lose their brilliancy onward after life cases, for which no restorative has yet been discovered. It is not infrequent along the New Jersey coast, occurring sometimes in abundance. The mature insects may be found on Brigantine Beach from teh middle of July onward.
ON SOME DESTRUCTIVE LOCUSTS OF NORTH AMERICA, TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCES IN 1891
Authors: Bruner Lawrence
Published: February 2010

In introducing this subject it is my intention to speak shortly upon the various species of Locusts which have appeared in injurious numbers within the territorial limits to be designated with each species. Some of these species have covered a vast area of territory, and have caused extensive injury from time to time, while others have appeared over limited areas only, and have caused but slight injuries; but yet these have been sufficient to necessitate their mention amongst the destructive species of the country. Taking them altogether, we have exactly twelve destructive locusts within the territory designated.
A NEW SPECIES OF CERURA
Authors: Hudson George. H.
Published: February 2010

Cerura modesta, n. sp.

Male.—Front and vertex nearly white. Collar a little darker, tinged with a faint creamy yellowish-brown. Thorax dark stee-blue, almost black, with metallic purplish reflections, the orange scales forming so marked a feature in other species either entirely absent of with but a faint trace of their presence. Patagia concolorous with thorax, edged outwardly with white. Abdomen black above, or nearly so, the segments bordered behind with pale cinereous, thickly clothed with long fine white hairs, whitish beneath.
THE LARVA OF ZOTHECA TRANQUILLA, GROTE
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Eggs.—Laid in a mass, probably under the bark of the food-plant, for which purpose the long ovipositor of the ♀ moth seems fitted; the winter is probably passed in this state. Spherical, but some what misshapen from being closely pressed together; smooth, slightly shiny, under the microscope appearing irregularly indented; colour, yellow, becoming later reddish; diameter, .5mm.
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

The Entomological Club has reason to congratulate itself upon the favourable conditions under which it meets. We are here in our national capital, a city in which every American feels a pride, and the beauty of which can but favour our enjoyment. We are in the centre of entomological activity for the United States—and I am tempted to say for the world, for I believe we should have to make diligent search to find any community where so many skilfull entomologists are devoting their entire time to entomological problems.
LIST OF WRITINGS OF THE LATE HENRY EDWARDS
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M.
Published: February 2010

The present list of writings of the late Henry Edwards was compiled up to 1880 by the deceased, and the titles following were added by me. Mr. Edwards, at the time he gave me the list, told me that it lacked the titles of one or two articles he had written for some newspaper in Australia a number of years ago, but could not remember on what subject they were, nor in what paper he published them. His papers on Pafific Coast Lepidoptera, Nos. 23 to 30 inclusive, were not published by the California Academy of Sciences, except as author's extras.
VANESSA CALIFORNICA
Authors: Wright W. G.
Published: February 2010

It is reported from various quarters that V. Californica has within a year or two first been observed in British Columbia, where it is now regarded as something new and strange. It has been suggested to me that a few facts about it, as to California and Oregon, would be of interest.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE.—IV
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Heterochroa californicaButler.

Egg.—Nearly spherical, flattened a little at base; covered with hexagonal elevated reticulations, from the intersections of which arise short spines. Colour uniform leaf-green, with a silvery lustre; width 1.5 mm. Laid singly at the tip of a leaf on the upper side. Duration of this stage eleven days.
NOTES
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

In the proceedings of the Entomological Club of the A.A.A.S. at Washington, published in Canadian Entomologist, page 220, it is stated that I mentionded a suspicion that Asopia farinalis fed in clover, and asked if any one present had any knowledge of the matter.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EREBIA, AND NOTES ON THE SO-CALLED CHIONOBAS BORE OF COLORADO
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Erebia Ethela.

Male.— Expands 1.5 inch.

Upper side dark brown; both wings have a common extra-discal band of red-fulvous elongated spots, on primaries six, filling the interspaces from lower branch of subcostal to submedian, the second and third from the top a little longer than the others, these last being equal; at the end of the cell a small fulvous patch. Secondaries have five spots, the fifth being in second median interspace, the space three equal, sub-oval, the fourth about half the size of the third, and the fifth still smaller; fringes of both wings concolored.
NOTES
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

There is no doubt but that our specimens which go by the above name are referable to the European P. fuliginosa Linn.

Prof. Smith has noticed their superficial resemblane* which amounts to identity. I have compared examples from France with a series from New York and I can find no difference in ornamentation. Neither do they differ structurally. The venation is identical.† The genitalia of the male also are the same within the limits of variation of the species, which appear to be wide. In the specimen form Europe examined the supraanal plate is elongate-triangular, produced to a point concave below slightly curved down and bulging a little laterally at the base.
ON THE POSITION OF LIMENITIS PROSERPINA, EDW
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Scudder, in Butt. N. E., argues at length in favour of considering Proserpina as neither more or less than a hybrid between L. Arthemis and L. Ursula(called Astyanax). I differ from him, holding Proserpina to be a dimorphic form a Arthemis, just as Papilio Glaucus is a dimorphic form of P. Turnus.
TEN NEW SPECIES OF ORTHOPTERA FROM NEBRASKA—NOTES ON HABITS, WING VARIATION, ETC
Authors: Bruner Lawrence
Published: February 2010

Xiphidium modestum, n. sp.—Related to X. saltans Scudd. and X .stricutm Scudd., from both of which species it differs in its smaller size, slenderer form and in colour.

Vertex or cone of the head not quite so broad and shorter than in saltans, its closest ally; pronotum with the sides less bulging, and not reaching as low as in that species.
NOTES
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

In reference to Mr. Harrington's remarks on Rhynchites bicolor, I may say that it has been taken at Hamilton regularly for quite a number of years, never very plentiful but not considered rare. I always obtained my specimens when beating second growth oak and hickory. There are wild rose bushes in that locality, but I do not remember ever beating a rose bush; if I had known enough I might have found it more abundantly.
SOME INDIANA ACRIDIDÆ
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

But little attention has heretofore been given to the Acrididæ inhabiting Indiana by the working scientists of the State. No record of any published paper relating to them can be found, and it is believed, we suppose, that because Indiana lies next to Illinois, where Dr. Cyrus H. Thomas did much of his work, that most if not all of the species of the family found in this State are included in the two lists of the Orthoptera of Illinois prepared by him.
SILVER-TOP IN GRASS AND THE INSECTS WHICH MAY PRODUCE IT.
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

The common affection of various grasses, commonly known as “Silver-top,” has received the attention of such well-known investigators as Professors Comstock, Lintner, Forbes, Fletcher and others, and it is not with the expectation of completely solving the problem which has perplexed these careful students that I venture to present my experience, but in the hope that by comparisons of experience and observation we may arrive at a better knowledge of a subject at once important and complex.
SOME INDIANA ACRIDIDÆ
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

22. Melanoplus femur-rubrum, De Geer. The Red-legged Grasshopper.

Acrydium femur-rubrum, Harris Ins. Inj., 1862, 174, fig. 80.

Caloptenus femur-rubrum, Thos., Syn. Acrid. N. A., 1873, 163.

Id., Ninth Rep. St. Ent., Ill., 1880, 124, figs. 22, 23.

Riley, Rep. U.S Ent. Comm., I., 1877, 50, pl. II.

Melanoplus femur-rubrum, Scudd., Proceed. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hıst., XIX., 1878, 284.
CAN INSECTS SURVIVE FREEZING?
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

In a foot note to his paper on “The Butterflies of Laggan” (Can Ent., XXII., 129), Mr. Bean says: “I hope none of my younger readers entertain the absurd mediæval superstition that hibernating caterpillars pass the winter in a frozen condition. In succesful hibernation they do not get near to such a condition; but if they do absolutely freeze, then are they undone caterpillars.
HOW TO TAKE THE OIL OR GREASE OUT OF SPECIMENS, OF NATURAL HISTORY
Authors: Fisher P. H.
Published: February 2010

When a specimen has become oily (Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera, etc.,) use a bottle with a neck wide enough to let the specimen slip through easily, pin and all. Put in this bottle enough common naptha to fully cover the insect, and introduce it into the fluid. Leave it in the bottle from 10–12 hours. Then take it out, and lay it on some blotting paper, where it will soon dry. If not yet clean, introduce in fresh naphtha once more.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, LARVÆ, ETC
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

2. Argynnis Oweni, n. sp.

Male—Expands 2.25 inches.

Upper dull side red-fulvous, not much obscured by brown at base; the markings rather heavy, the two marginal lines on both wings more or less confluent. Under side of primaries either yellow-buff from base to the row of ronded spots, the nervules being red-brown, or the interspaces are very ligtly washed with this colour over the buff ground; the subapical patch dark brown with a small imperfectly silvered spot; the five submarginal spots also are of same character; sometimes the silver is wholly wanting.
TWO DISTINGUISHED SETTLERS
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

In the March number of Entomological News Dr. Horn records the capture at St. John, N.B., of Carabus nemoralis, Mull, by Mr. C. B. Riker in April or May, 1891. I can confirm the occurrence ot this species in the locality mentioned and can add from it a second species to our lists. On the 6th Sept, 1891, having the forenoon to spend in St. John I made a visit to the celebarated falls which pour up or down the river, according to the state of the tides, for which the Bay of Funday is noted. I spent about half an hour searching for Coleoptera, and among the Carabidæ found under drift wood were two species of Carabus.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN HESPERIDÆ
Authors: Aaron Eugene Murray
Published: February 2010

From time to time for the past ten years I have been in the habit of receiving, from various collectors in this country and Europe, speciments of North American Hesperidœ for comparison and identification with my large collection, which has been justly famous for its completeness. As this collection is now no longer in my possession, being now the property of my friend C. B. Aaron, of Philadelphis, and as I have transferred my allegiance from entomology to ethnology it has occurred to me that it will be well fro me to give here to the students of the Hesperidœ the benefit of such tables, nots teh compilations as have, in years past, been of value to me in the identification of the species in this difficult family.
CANADIAN GALLS AND THEIR OCCUPANTS—AULAX NABALI, N. S
Authors: Brodie W. M.
Published: February 2010

Gall at the base of the stem of Nabalus altissimus, usually in masses surronding stem, often extending down on main root, rarely on main fibres of root, usually about an inch under the ground, sometimes partly above the ground. Galls roughly spherical, 5 mm.—10 mm in diameter each containing 1–10 cells, usually aggregated in irregular cylindrical masses of 2–14, resembling small knobby artichokes or irregular small white potatoes.
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BOMBYLIDÆ
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Exoprosopa, Macq.—At the present time no little confusion exists in regard to those species in which the brown of the wings does not form crossbands, and I am unable to give a table for separating these species that would be of much use to the student.
A SARCOPHAGID PARASITE OF CIMBEX AMERICANA
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

Recently Professor Aldrich, of Brookings, So. Dakota, sent me two specimens of a Sarcophagid which he had bred from Cimbex. They prove to belong to the old genus Sarcophaga, and are described below. It seems impossible to identify them positively with any of the published descriptions.
NOTES ON MELITTIA CETO, WESTW
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

The nots of this species by Dr. Kellicott, in the February number of the Canadian Entomologist, induce me to place on recod some of the observations made by me during the past year and used in my annual report; and also to call attention to very old record that in part answers the question—Is the species double-brooded?
A NEW ISCHALIA FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Ischalia Vancouverensis, n. sp. Length 7½ mm. Flavo-testaceous, abdomen, disc of elytra and middle of antennæ purplish-black. Head deflexed, polished, prominently rounded between antennæ; eyes moderate, emarginate, coarsely granulated; antennæ reaching to apex ofhumeral pale spot, stout, first joint swollen, second small, remaining joints more elongated, gradually shortened, terminal joint acutely pointed, three basal and two terminal joints rufo-testaceous, intervening six blackish or piceous.
SYNONYMICAL NOTES ON SOME HETEROCERA IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

During the latter part of September, and early in October, 1891, I spent two weeks in London, and most of the time in the entomological rooms of the British Museum. My aim was, primarily, to identify the noctuids described by Walker, and in this I succeeded, the MSS. incorporatig the notes there made being now in the hands of the printer. So large is the material in this magnificent collection, that I found opportunity for only a very hasty glace at other families of the Heterocera, and on a few species only I made brief notes.
DESCRIPTION OF FOUR INSECT MONSTROSITIES
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The following cases of insect monstrosities have come under my notice, and I have thought it best to make them known in order that those interested in this work might have access to the descriptions. While but little seems to have been written on the subject in this country beyond the describing a number of interesting forms by Jayne (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., VIII.) and Henshaw, Scudder and Hagen (Psyche), it has attracted considerable attention in Europe, many writers having published accounts, with figures, of more or less interesting cases.
NEW SPECIES OF PHORA
Authors: Aldrich J. M.
Published: February 2010

The following table includes only the species of Phora described by Leow, and four new ones—ten in all. Phora atra of European entomologists, together with P. cornuta, Bigot, fuscipes, Macq., and rufipes, Meigen, are said to occur in North America—the second in Cuba, the last two in the Hudson Bay region—but I have not seen the descripitons.
THE MOLE CRICKET—GRYLLOTALPA BOREALIS
Authors: Doran E. W.
Published: February 2010

In the January Canadian Entomologist Mr. James Fletcher had an interesting article on his “pet” mole cricket. At his suggestion I send a few notes upon the larval from of the same species.

On January 4 last, Mr. A. I. Hayward, connected with our State Experiment Station, brought me five larvæ of the mole cricket, which were found in rather a peculiar situation. He had a number of men putting up ice. The ice had been removed from a considerable space, when, wading around in the water with tall rubber boots on, he found the yound mole crickets swimming around upon the water.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA—NO. 10
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Platynus reflexus, Lec., and variety a.— This species may be found in the bed of nearly dry hill-side streams and the debris along theri banks, June being the time of its greatest abundance. In Dr. Leconte's synopsis of Platynus (Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., Il.,) a variety in noted as a, with four elytral punctures, while reflexus has but three—nothing further being stated. This form occurs here, not as an individual variation, but at least as a race, perhaps a species.
“BUTTERFLIES THAT BATHE”
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In Goldthwaite's Geogl. Mag., Vol. 2 p. 738 (Nov., 1891), is a paper on “Butterflies that Bathe”, giving observations of M. G. Lyell, Jr., in Australia, on certain butterflies, species not stated, that “ backed into the water unitl the whole of the body and the lower part of the hind legs were under water, the two forelegs only retaining their hold on dry land.
A NEW SPECIES OF EUDAMUS
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

Eudamus coyate: Expands 2⅛i inches. Primaries dark glossy brown, several shades darker than Eudam. bathyllus; fringes of same colour as the wings. The apices of the wings run more to a point than in other species of the genus. There are no markings on the primaries, although there are some very faint indications of markings, which are not brought out by transmitted light. Secondaries immaculate and same colour as primaries, but with well marked dirty white fringes.
AN EXPLANATION
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

On the Report of the Entomologial Club, as given in the Canadian Entomologist for November pp. 246–247, I would make the following remarks:-

Mr. Smith's statement that there are two distinct series in the Sphingidœ, as also that the Smerinthinœ have their probable orgin in Ceratocampid forms of the Bombycidœ are both original with myself. The series Hemaris, Choerocampa and Smerithus belong together. So far as I know, I am the first to show, from imaginal and larval characters, that Choerocampa and Smerinthus are allied, and I am the first to describe an ocellated Choerocampid from Brazil.
INSECTS ATTRACTED BY FRAGRANCE OR BRILLANCY OF FLOWERS FOR PURPOSES OF CROSS–FERTILIZATION
Authors: Kunze Richard. E.
Published: February 2010

Nowehere in the flora or insect fauna do we see it better illustrated than by some of our Argynnids and Asclepiadaceœ. It must therefore be admitted that these Asclepiads are striking example of entomophilous of insect-loving plants, and anyone in quest of insects will not be disappointed by dilgently studying the distribution of the Milk-weed family. Lepidoptera and hymenoptera visit these plants.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Pyrausta nigralis, n. sp.

Expanse of wings, 18 mm. The entire body and wings above and beneath, black; pecuts and base of the palpi, snow white. The outer line is represented by a nearly straight, snow white stripe, which starts from the outer third of the costa and extends nearly halfway across the wing and a spot on the fold near the outer third of the hinder margin below a similar spot on the endo of the cell.
NEW FORMS OF ICHTHYURA
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Ichthyrua multnoma N. SP.

Ground colour of primaries dark “ecur drab” (Ridg. iii., 21, * but much darker), heavily irrorate with “clove brown” (Ridg. iii., 2.) scales which almost entirely obscure the ground colour at the basal portion fo the wings as well as outside the third and fourth lines. First (basal) transverse line faintly yellowish, inwardly arcuate from internal margin to median vein, then rectangularly bent towards the base and following the median vein for about 1.5 mm, when it is again bent at right angles and proceeds straight to costa.
THE FIRST LARVAL OR POST–EMBRYONIC STAGE OF THE PEA AND BEAN WEEVILS
Authors: Riley C. V.
Published: February 2010

In No. 9–10, Vol. IV., of “Insect Life,” an account was given of the post-embyronic larva of the Bean Weevil, attention being called to some most interesting characteristics of this larva, which is possessed of temporary thoracic legs and some other strctures which admirably serve its locamotive needs until it has entered the bean, when, with a cast of the skin, they are lost and larva assumes the ordinary apodous form of weevil larvæ.
SOME NOTES ON THE MARGINED SOLDIER-BEETLE (CHAULIOGNATHUS MARGINATUS)
Authors: Riley C. V.
Published: February 2010

Since the larval history of this beetle was published by Walsh in 1868 it has been generally known that the larva is carnivorous, feeding, as Walsh showed, upon the Plum Curculio, and, as I showed, on the Apple Worm among other insects, so that it must be included among our benefical species. The larva is also one of those which is quite often found during the winter months upon the surface of snow. The beetle is one of the most common species during the summer months upon many kinds of flowers, but particularly upon those of Yucca, feeding principally on pollen, but also sipping the slight amount of nectar which is found at the base of the pistil, or the sweetened exudation which is also quite frequent upon the tip of the petiole of the flower after this has dropped.
THE SPECIES OF MAMESTRA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

By favour of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, I have received a copy of the “Revision of the species of Mamestra by John B. Smith, Professor of Entomology, Rutgers College, Washington, 1891 ”. There are one or two points only upon which I desire here to comment. As a whole the determinations agree with my own. The genus Dianthoecia is merged with Mamestra, as I at one time proposed from the variability in the same species of the ovipositor. But, as I pointed out in my last Check List, p. 13, the characters of Dianthoecia, Bdv., are taken from the habit of the larva, the button-like termination of the wing cases in the chrysalis and the extended ovipositor in the moth.
MR. WALKER'S TYPES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the Can. Ent., p. 136, Prof. Smith says that our reference of Edema? transuersata, Walk., in 1868, to lignicolor is an error. In other cases e. g. Apantesis radians, etc., our testimony is borne out, and now comes up the question of a changing in specimeus since 1868. Mr. Walker's specimens are not marked type, but placed merely above the label. They can have been changed, and the question is, whether a name of Walker's can be employed which in any way contradicts in its description the supposed species. In my Revised Check List 4, I say: “Clearly there is room for misapprehension of what specimens are really types had we not a check for the reference. This is the criterion for types, that they do not contradict the original description,”
MELITÆA PHAETON
Authors: Moffat J. Alston.
Published: February 2010

About the first of July I was informed by Mr. W. E. Saunders that shortly before, when out on one of his Ornithological and Botanical excunsions, he had seen Melitœa phaelon, in a cedar swamp, two miles from Komoka station, which is ten miles west of London, on the Grand Trunk line. I took the first favourable opportunity of getting a sign of that insect alive, which occurred on the ninth. I found the swamp, and soon saw the butterflies disporting themselves in the sunny spots, seemingly quite plentiful. They would not have been difficult to secure had the footing been solid, but a previous heavy rain had set that afloat. I took five, and saw quite as many more during the short stay I made in the woods.
OVIPOSITING OF MELITÆA CHALCEDON IN PAPER ENVELOPES
Authors: Kunze Richard. E.
Published: February 2010

In March number, Vol. XXIV, of Canadian Entomologist, Mr. W. G. Wright of California, mentions a number of genera of diurnals not requiring plants for oviposting thereon. Those enumerated belong to Parnassisu, Argynnis, Euptoieta, Neonympha, Cœnonympha, Hipparchia, Satyrus, Chionobas, and, in part, Chrysophanus. I can add Melitæ to his list, which oviposited on two different occasions under circustmances extraordinary but exactly the same.
LEPIDOPTERA FROM MARSHALL PASS, COLORADO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The late Mr. W. S. Foster sent me some years ago a list of Lepidoptera taken by himself in 1888 at Marshall Pass, Colorado, which deserves to be put on record as a contribution to the knowledge of alpine entomology. The collecting was done at altitudes from 10,000 to 13,000 feet, on the slopes of the Continental Divide and Mt. Ouray, on the north side of the railroad track. This is in Saguache county, and about forty miles from the district in Custer county, of which the alpine insects are recorded in Can. Entom., 1890.
BIOLOGIC NOTES ON NEW MEXICO INSECTS
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

All of the following species were determined by Dr. P.L.R. Uhler:- Lioderma ligata, Stal.

In coitu on mesquite (P. juliflora), July 14. It was found numerous on Chinese cabbage on college farm July 16.

Mozena obtusa, Uhler MS.

Taken in July on Prosopis juliflora. In coitu July 8.
PROF. J. B. SMITH's LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

While I recognize the fact that each one of us has a right to make lists of insects to suit himself, and others are not obliged to follow them, errors of identity are not a matter of opinion, and are therefore subject to criticsm. With this view wish I to point out a few errors in the genus Catocala in Prof. John B. Smith's new “List of Lepidoptera.” First, var. Virens, French, is not a variety of Cordelia, Hy. Edw., but of Amasia; and Cordelia is not the one figured by Dr. Strecker, pl. 9, p.12.
A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES FOUND AT MARSHALL, MISSOURI, AND VICINITY
Authors: Staley Oliver. J.
Published: February 2010

Marshall is the county seat of Saline county, about twenty miles south of the Missouri River and eighty-nine miles east of Kansas City, and situated among woods and fields; on the west and south open farming country, and on the east and north for three or four miles woods.

I have been collecting here for three years, and believing that a list of butterflies which are found here may be interesting to others I present this list.
SOME BEAUTIFUL NEW BOMBYCIDS FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST
Authors: Neumoegen B.
Published: February 2010

Melia, n. gen.

Head small, sunk in prothorax, hairy. Front narrow and hairy. Antennæ plumose. Palpi minimal. Thorax stout and very pilose. Abdomen stout, tapering off.

Primaries oblong, half as broad as long, well rounded at angle. Costa straight, apex rounded. Four submedian nervules, vein 5 apparently issing out of cross vein. Three subcostal nervules, vein 5 apparently issuing out of cross vein. Three subcostal nervules, two of them forking off near apex. Secondaries nearly as broad as long, well rounded at apex. Anal angle well pronounced, like in the Notodontidæ. Median cell weakly connected by cross vein, looking like an open cell on a superficial glance. Three median veins, the fourth being replaced by a small groove or fold, which runs through entire wing from base to anterior margin, thus equally dividing it. Subcostal vein bifid near apex. Two submedian veins.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF CATOCALA STRETCHII, BEHR
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Diameter, .04 inch, about .03 of an inch high; roundish conoidal, base broad but rounded, striated from base to micropyle, thirty-two striæ on the broadest part, sixteen of which reach the micropyle but a few are emitted just as they reach the circle; with very shallow cross striæ. Colour of micropyle whitish, a broad zone below this of purplish-red, next a narrow whitish zone about half the width of the red zone, then another red zone below the whitish, the last a little less than half the height of the egg. Duration of this period 157 days.
PHLEGETHONTIUS 5–MACULATUS
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

As an illustration of how insects will at times survive what seem to be the most unfavourable conditions, I may state that in October last there was given to me a chrysalid of the Tomato Sphinx, P. quinquemaculatus, Harris. Having no convenience for keeping it in a natural condition, I took a bit of cotton batting and made a bed for it on the bottom of my hatchery, which is a paste-board box with a gauze cover. The location of the box is on top of a high book-case, hence it gets the full benefit of the heat of the room during winter, which was sufficient to mature some Platysamias by the 10th of April.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF CALOTHYSANIS AMATURARIA
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

The preparatory stagees of this pretty Phalenid are not given in Packard's “Monograph of the Geometrid Moths”, nor cited by Henry Edwards in his “Catalogue of the Preparatoy Stages of N. A. Lepidoptera”; and, since they differ in some regards from the general characters of the caterpillars of the genus as given by Guenée, I have drawn up a brief account of larva and pupa.
INSECTS REARED FROM GALLS ON MUHLENBERGIA MEXICANA
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

Eight years ago, in Indiana, I found a gall on this grass that had somewhat the appearance of a diminutive ear of corn with the husks, but more pointed and minus the silk. The husks (I can find no better term for them) were imbricated and pointed, being placed regularly, one over the other, leaving the junctures along the margins. In this gall I found a pupa or, as seems now more probable, a puparium, but reared no insect therefrom.
THE INHABITANTS OF A FUNGUS
Authors: Hubbard Henry G.
Published: February 2010

In the forest-clad portions of the Pacific Coast Range, from the Columbia River northwards inot British Columbia, there are frequently seen on the trunks of pine trees which have been injured and blackened by fire, small white fungi almost globular, or slightly flattened and kidney shaped, varying much in size, but frequently attaining the dimensions of a pigeon's egg. This fungus, kindly determined for Mr. E. A. Schwarz and myself by Prof. Galloway, is Cryptoporus (Ployporus) volvatus, Peck., var. obvolutus, Peck.
TWO NEW ORTHOPTERA FROM INDIANA
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

Xiphidium Scudderi, nov. sp.

Female.—Front and sides of head and body dark reddish-brown; vertex, disk of pronotum and tegmina greenish-brown in life,(dull yellow after immersion in alcohol). A dark reddish-brown stripe extends from the front extremity of the fastigium to the posterior border of pronotum, and contrasts strongly with the general colour of vertex and disk of pronotum. Femora greenish-brown punctate with many dark brown impressions on their upper surface; the tibiæ darker. Antennæ with the basal third reddish, the remainder fuscous.
NOTE ON THE SPECIES OF ACANTHIA
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

I desire to call attention to the species of this genus, in order to get further information, if possible, as to the occurrence of the species in this country. The species of the genus that were described by Jenyns (Annals of Natural History, 1839, III., p. 241–244) have often been considered simply as the common house-bug occurring upon the different animals which they were described as infesting—the bat, the pigeon, and the swallow.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—No. V
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

Male: From of Th.quadrinotata, Fab., but with the vertex shorter and more depressed. Greenish-yellow; head yellow with a transverse black band on the anterior edge; body black the segments edged with yellow. Length 4½ mm.

Head rounded before, very little longer at the middle than next the eye. Vertex a little depressed, anterior edge subacute; apex of the front two-thirds the width of the base, sides nearly parallel below the antennæ. Clypeus strongly widened apically where the width is but slightly less than the length, edge of the cheek rectilinear either side of the prominent lateral angle. Pronotum rather long, hind edge but moderately concave, the angles obvious.
SOME INDIANA ACRIDIDÆ.—II
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

Since my first paper on “Indiana Acrididæ,” which was published in the Entomologist for April and May, 1891, was prepared, six additional species have been taken in Vigog County. Of these, one is new to science; a second has been known in the United States only from Florida and Nort Carolina; of a third, but one specimen, a female, has hitherto been recorded, and from it Dr. Thomas described the species; while a fourth has not before been taken west of New Jersey.
ON DEMODEX FOLLICULORUM VAR. BOVIS IN AMERICAN CATTLE.—
Authors: Stiles C. W.
Published: February 2010

In most books which treat of D. folliculorum, considerable space is given to a description of the lesions it produces in man, dogs, cats and sheep, while its presence on cattle is simply mentioned with the remark that Claus and Gros state that it is occasionally found on these animals.

Gros seems to be the first who observed it on cattle. His original article is not at my disposal, but I quote from Blanchard.
AN ADDITIONAL NOTE ON THE BEAN WEEVIL
Authors: Riley C. V.
Published: February 2010

In the note on the post-embryonic larvæ of the Pea and Bean Weevils, published in the August number of the Canadian Entomologist, (p. 185). I have stated that the eggs of the Bean Weevil “are primarily laid upon the bean pod in the field, but chiefly, if not entirely, upon those which are already matured and ripening.” This statement was based upon the finding of the eggs upon more mature bean pods in years gone by, and represents the current belief hitherto held. A more careful examination of the eggs thus found the present season, after the note above referred to had been sent to the editor, showed that they did not entirely agree with the eggs of the Bean Weevil as laid on stored beans, the difference being sufficient to justify a doubt as to the former being those of the ordinary Bean Weevil, and to cause me to look into the matter more fully, which I have done in my own garden the past summer.
FENISECA TARQUINIUS
Authors: Weeks A. G.
Published: February 2010

Mr. S. H. Scudder, in his “Butterflies of Eastern U.S.” states that “Feniseca Tarquinius” has never been captured east of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. Other writers mention it as rare in New England. It may interest some of your readers to know that I found it very commonon the Glen Road near Jackson, N.H., in the second week in June. I also found a specimen on a window of the Boston Athletic Club, which seems a strange place for it. The building is on new made land, nowhere near any alder growht, in fact, in the ciy. I have collected a number of years in the suburbs of Boston, but have never seen a specimen.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA—No. XI
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Baptolinus Pilicornis, Payk.

Till lately this species has been known in our literature as B. macrocephalus, Nord. It has a very wide distribution across the northern part of the continent, from Alaska to New Hampshire, and through the Alleghanies as for south as southern Pennsylvania, and probably much further. In Europe it ascends to 68°, and is spread over all Siberia to the Amur. It does not seem to be abundant anywhere. It is very variable in colour, and to some extent in the fineness or coarseness of the general punctuation. I took two examples here recently under the bark of a mosscovered decaying oak, and several a few days afterward on the mountains, in the same situation. All these are black and shining, with the mouth parts, antennæ and legs pale, corresponding to the description of Paykull's type. Four examples from Vermont have the mouth parts and the antennæ rufous, and the elyta, rufous, grading imperceptibly to rufo-piceous at the apex and sides.
PARTIAL PREPARATORY STAGES OF CATOCALA ILLECTA, WALKER, WITH NOTES
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Three days before that last moult, the larva is 1.30 inches; after the last moult and three days before pupating, 2 inches. Nearly cylindrical, tapering from the middle to both ends, the under side a little flattened, a slight fold above the legs but no fringe on the sides. The markings in the two last stages are the same, except that the orange is a little heavier in the last stage. The ground colour of dorsum, sides except below stigmata, and venter sordid white, below stigmata clear white; striped transversely over the back as low as the stigmata, thus leaving a clear white substigmatal stripe, eight of these stripes and these somewhat double, some broken and others partly continuous; a subdorsal and substigmatal row of orange patches, two of each row on each joint, the lower of each side of the stigma on the anterior part of the body, but on the posterior part these patches connect above the stigma, gradually passing from one from to the other; on joint two, instead of two pathces, the anterior half of the joint is orange with a row of black spots; joints three and four with an irregular row of orange across near the middle of the joint.
NOTES ON THE HABITS OF SIPHONOPHORA CUCURBITÆ, MIDDLETON
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

During the last days of August, Dr. Kellicott and myself, in studying the Squash borer, Melittia ceto, transplanted to a large breeding cage a number of roots and portions of the stems of Squash vines, on one of which was a leaf or two. The cage was filled with earth, dug up in the field, and when the vines were properly transplanted, the cage was covered with fine Swiss muslin, and placed in the Insectary. I soon noticed Siphonophora on the stumps of the vines, and before long there sprung up, from the soil in the cage, numbers of plants of Capsella bursapastoris and Nepta glechoma.
BUTTERFLIES ON GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Authors: Mead Theodore. L.
Published: February 2010

Grandfather Mountain is one of a group of mountains rising to a height of over 6000 feet, in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, and forming the topmost crest of the Alleghanies. The rocks are chiefly granitic, and the crags and peaks, naturally of a grayish cast, but rendered more sombre by innumerable blackish foliaceous lichens (Umbilicaria sps). At the bases of the summit crags the forest begins; black spruces and balsam firs, alternating with open meadow-like fields of the sand myrtle (Leiophyllum buxifolium), characterize the upper levels, and enormous hemlocks from 5000 feet down; but everywhere is a wealth of magnificent deciduous trees that can hardly be matched elsewhere on this continent.
FURTHER NOTES ON GELECHIA GALLÆDIPLOPAPPI, AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF BRACON
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

In a paper entitled “A Day in the Woods,” I brought under the notice of the Entomological Society of Ontario, at its annual meeting held in London, on the 27th of August, 1890, the galls formed by G. gallœdiplopappi, and gave an account of the chrysalis and perfect insect. I also alluded to two kinds of parasites preying upon the species. The description of the moth was reproduced in the December number of the Canadian Entomologistof that year (Vol.XXII., p. 248).
NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF AGALLIA SANGUINOLENTA, Prov.
Authors: Osborn Herbert , Gossard H. A.
Published: February 2010

This leaf-hopper is considered a clover pest, but is also known to feed on beets, rutabagas, cabbages and blue grass. It is active even in midwinter on sunshiny days. The eggs are thrust beneath the epidermis of the food-plant, and the first brood of larvæ appears from the middle of May until July 1st. The earliest individuals of the brood are nearly mature by the first of July and are supposed to begin egg-laying a little later. Larvæ can be found in all stages of growth from this time until the advent of winter, but most of the individuals are believed to be included in two broods.
ON THE ORTHOPTEROUS FAUNA OF IOWA
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

The preliminary List of the Orthoptera of Iowa, published by Prof. C. E. Bessey in the Seventh Biennial Report of the Iowa Agricultural College, is revised, a number of species being added and a number of names taken from incorrectly determined specimens rectified.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, LARVÆ, ETC
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

1. An albino male Colias Philodice.

I received this example from Mr. H. E. Wilford, of Batavia, N.Y., last fall. Mr. Scudder, Butt. N.E., p. 1285, says:-“Instances of albinism are confined, so far as we yet know, to the Rhodoceridi” (which term he uses to include Colias, under his name of Eurymus). “and to the female sex.” In colour this male is white, with no tint of yellow; the borders of both wings are of median width, and solid—in all respects like the usual border of the yellow male.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE (V.), AND THE LIFE HISTORY OF CALLIDRYAS EUBULE
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Pyrameis cardui, Linn.

The life history of this well known species has not been written, to judge from the references given by the late Mr. Henry Edwards in his useful catalogue, so I present it here:-

Egg.—Cylindric-conical, the base flat with the usual vertical ribs: colour pale yellow; diameter .6 mm. Laid singly.
GETTING BUTTERFLY EGGS
Authors: Wright W. G.
Published: February 2010

It is generally understood, I believe, that to get eggs the requisite plant must be also enclosed in the gauze bag with the female insect. Such is often, but not always the fact, and it will lighten the labours of the biologist and simplify his methods if a more correct statement be made. That one genus of butterflies should not use or require living plants to receive their eggs, while others will fret and die without ovipositing if their peculiar plant be withheld, indicates a relationship, or gives a hint as to grouping of genera upon natural lines.
NOTES.: ADDITIONAL NOTE ON AMBLYOPONE PALLIPES, HALD
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

On page 138, Vol. XXIII., is mentioned the finding, in rotten logs, of colonies of this species. The fate of the speciments taken on 30th April may be related. Unfortunately the individuals then taken were not counted, but they consisted of workers and larvæ, the latter being more numerous. The box was examined on 1st June and it was found that many of the larvæ had formed cocoons, and that the remainder were feasting on a green caterpillar, which had been dragged down into the nursery.