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THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

This family is of small extent, and the members are as a rule easily recognized by their peculiar habits. In the genera Lucanus, Dorcus, Platycerus and Ceruchus the males are marked by a greater development of the mandibles, associated in turn with a greater or less broadening of the head. The antennæ differ from those of the Scarabæidæ (to which family the Lucanidæ are closely allied) in not having the plates of the club completely opposable. In other words the club is pectinate rather than lamellate. These organs offer a good character for the division of the family into two divisions—the first containing those genera in which the antennæ are geniculate (i. e., crooked like a bent knee, the second and following joints forming an angle with the first, as shown in the figure of Lucanus dama, fig. 12), while the second is composed of those in which they are straight. The male antennæ frequently differ from those of the female, but it is not necessary to enter into details for the purpose of this paper.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MASSACHUSETTS COCCIDÆ.–III
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

(46) Aspidiotus hederœ, Vall.; 1829-1897. I.

This is a very common pest in all greenhouses at Lawrence, and no doubt in all greenhouses in the State. It is found at Lawrence on Ivy, Palms and Cycas. A variety determined by Prof. Cockerell as probably ericœ, Boisd., on heather (Erica) in a greenhouse at Lawrence. The scale is longer than typical hederœ, and of a yellowish cast, and also covered more or less with the epidermis of the plant. Hederœ has been recorded from Kansas, Utah, Illinois, California, Florida, Colorado, New Maxico, and New York, on Ivy, China-tree, Lemon, Oleander, Orange, Lace-fern=Asparagus plumosa, Acacia, Maple, Yucca, Plum, Cherry, Currant, Melia, Grass and Clover.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

The sessile abdomen, always without a constriction between the first and second segments, but above all the very large, free, triangularly elongated labrum, which is always much longer than wide at base, the sinuate or ≀-shaped transverse median nervure in the hind wings, and the aborted ocelli, at once distinguished the family.

Most authorities have confused, or at least included this family with the family Stizidæ, which also has a more or less prominent labrum; but in the Stizidæ the ocelli are always distinct, normal, the labrum is most frequently semicircular, always wider than long, while the middle tibiæ have two distinct apical spurs, characters of great taxonomic value, readily recognizable, and which at once separate them from the Bembicidæ.
A NEW SPECIES OF ASTEROSCOPUS
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

Lederer characterizes Asteroscopus essentially as follows: Narrow-winged owlets, resembling Bombycids in the shaggy, loose vestiture. Palpi short, not exceeding the front, drooping. Tongue short and weak. Eyes naked, with bristly lashes. Antennæ comparatively long, with a tuft of hair at the base; in the male with short pectinations to the tip; in the female with sharp, ciliated angles to each joint. Thorax broad, convex, clothed with long, woolly hair. Abdomen shaggy, untufted. Body beneath and legs with dense woolly vestiture. Legs short, anterior tibia with a long claw at the tip.
NOTES ON SOME HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Vespa diabolica, Sauss., mut. Fernaldi (Lewis).—Prof. C. H. T. Townsend collected last year some specimens of V. diabolica and V. occidentalis on the Rio Ruidoso, N. M. Among the former I find an example which exactly agrees with the description of V. Fernaldi, Lewis, but it is evidently only a form of diabolica.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF HADENA
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

Hadena (Xylophasia) runata, n. sp.

Ground colour smoky brown or blackish, varying in shade even to a reddish admixture. Head usually a little reddish, with a black band crossing the front. Collar usually paler at the base, crossed by a black line about the middle; usually tipped with paler scales. Thorax with a distinct divided crest, which often contains an admixture of lighter vestiture, patagiæ with paler tips, a blackish submargin, and a disk as dark as the general ground colour. Primaries powdery, mottled, with all the markings well defined; no contrasts, save that the median space is usually darker than the rest of the wing. Basal line geminate, black, including a few whitish scales, and reaching to a narrow, short basal line which ends at the point of junction with the tranverse marking. T. a. line black, geminate, the outer defining line well marked, the inner vague, except at the interval margin, where an oblique black shade extends inward along the margin.
IN RE SPILOSOMA CONGRUA, WALK
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

In reference to the present controversy my testimony is as follows: I examined, in 1867, Mr. Walker's material. This represented a form unknows to me, undoubtedly a Spilosoma, not a species or form of Hyphantria. I was so struck with this that I drew up a description and carefully compared the palpi and antennæ. From these and the slightly larger size, I felt confident that it was a Spilosoma unknown to me at the time. The description is published in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 1868, but I have no copy, unfortunately, at this writing, of the paper. My memory is vivid that I compared it with Hyphantria cunca, and it was not that species nor any form of it. I conjectured even, at the time, that the material might be European with a wrong locality, so dissimilar was it from S. virginica or S. latipennis, the latter form being known to me from Stephen Calverley's collections from Long Island before, long before its description by Stretch.
A PROLONGED SEASON OF OCCURRENCE FOR SCHISTOCERCA AMERICANA
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

At Wooster, Ohio, this species was observed in the fieds on May 26, and at Alliance, nearly due east, on October 24, while at Bridgeport, in the extreme eastern central part of the State, it was found, active, on November 4, all during 1898. It appears to have been more numerous of late in the vicinity of the south shore of Lake Erie than elsewhere in the northern portion of the State, and more abundant than I have formerly observed it in the same latitude in Indiana and Illinois.
CHLORIPPE CELTIS (BOISD.-LEC.) CAPTURED ON MONTREAL ISLAND
Authors: Stevenson Charles
Published: February 2010

On the 21st of July, Mr. E. Denny, who often accompanies me on my entomological rambles, brought me a cyanide bottle full of butterflies which he had collected for amusement's sake. On looking at it I immediately saw a specimen that was new to me, and was congratulating myself on getting what I thought would be a new addition to the Satyrinae of my collection. My pleasure was increased, on consulting Dr. Holland's “Butterfly Book,” to find it was a Chlorippe celtis, Boisd.-Lec., ♀. or Hackberry butterfly. (Plate XXIII., fig. 4.) A species, he states, as found generally from southern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to the Gulf of Mexico. I immediately called my friend's attention to the specimen, and he remembered the particular place he had found it, because he thought at the time it was something he had not seen in my collection. So ever since we have watched the locality, but have not been successful in obtaining another. It was caught in the Outremont district, just outside the city limits of Montreal.
A NEW NOCTUID OF THE GENUS CIRROPHANUS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Cirrophanus Dyari, n. sp. — ♀. Expanse 34 millim. General colour and markings just as in C. triangulifer, Grote, except as regards the following particulars: The general colour is more ochreous — not so orange; the t. p. line curves inwards to a point not far from the middle of the wing, whence it rapidly bends outwards for a short distance, after which it again bends downwards and inwards to the inferior margin; the s. t. line is further from the margin, and deeply shaded about the middle with ochreous; the oblique dark line from the lower part of the t. p. line to the costa is distinct, and has a sharp zigzag near its middle. It results from the direction of the t. p. line that the light patch at the anal angle is more extensive than in C. triangulifer, but it is broken by a dark shade representing the lower part of the s. t. line. Hind wings strongly suffused with gray, with a curved gray line crossing the middle. Thoracic tufts deep brownish-orange. On the under side the primaries, except their margins, are strongly shaded with blackish.
LIFE HISTORY OF HYPSOROPHA HORMOS, HÜBN
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

H. hormos is not uncommon on the persimmon in Alexandria County, Virginia. The species is double-brooded.

Egg. — Less than hemispherical, domed; ribbed with about 48 ribs around the margin, rather low, distinct, diminishing by confluence in pairs toward vertex, very slightly waved. Cross striae faint lines crossing the hollows, scarcely indicated on the ribs. Micropyle somewhat broadly finely rouncled reticular, not ridged. Diameler .6 mm.
LIST OF COLEOPTERA FROM HALIFAX, N. S.
Authors: Evans J. D.
Published: February 2010

The beetles enumerated below were taken in 1897, some of them while the writer visited that city on the occasion of the annual meeting of The Royal Society of Canada, in June. Unfortunately, the weather was most unpropitious for insect hunting until the last day, when quite a number were taken, and later on in the season the list was increased by captures made by a brother, resident of the city.

While some of the species were well represented, very many were by only one or two specimens, and in a few cases by three or four. I feel very gratful to Prof. H. F. Wickham for kindly determining many of the species.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

Anyone with the use of my table of families ought readily to recognize any wasp falling in this family, and especially after reading my remarks under the family Mellinidæ. The only group that could possibly cause trouble or confusion would be the subfamily Gorytinæ, which closely resembles the Mellinidæ, but which may be easily separated from the latter by paying close attention to the shape of the first abdominal segment and examining the mesoplueura for the mesosternal suture or carina.
NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF NYCTERIBIDÆ AND HIPPOBOSCIDÆ
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Pterellipsis, n. gen.—Near Megistopoda, but with aborted wings. Head once and a half as high as long, in profile subhemispherical, covered with bristles which are longest on upper part of the front; eyes oval, situated on sides of head slightly behind the middle, no ocelli; antennæ one-jointed, flattened, elliptical, three-fourths as long as the head, once and a half as long as wide, covered with bristles and bearing a long one at apex. Thorax greatly compressed, strongly gibbous, the sternum flattened; its front end lamelliform and prolonged in front of the anterior coxæ, a longitudinal impressed median line and on each side, slightly behind its middle, is an impressed line extending from its obliquely outward and backward to the lateral margin just behind the middle coxæ wings narrow, projecting obliquely upward and forward, divaricate, once and one-third as long as height of thorax, four times as long as wide, with three veins besides, the costal, each of the median veins forked near the middle, the front fork of the anterior vein reaches the costa near the last fourth of its length, the posterior fork ends in the extreme tip of the wing; the forks of the following vein are united at their apices, and extended obliquely forward, reaching the wing-margin slightly below the tip; a short distance before this union the anterior branch is connected by a crossvein with the posterior branch of the preceding vein; the other vein extends along the posterior margin of the wing neary to its middle, then unites with the posterior fork of the preceding vein; veins bearing several stout bristles; halteres distinct; front femora considerably thickened, their tibiæ rather slender, femora rather robust, once and a third as long as the front ones, their tibiæ as thick as and nearly twice as long as the front ones, hind femora and tibiæ more slender than and nearly twice as long as the middle ones, each femur bearing several bristles, the tibiæ destitute of bristles; first four joints of the front and middle tarsi subequal in length, each slightly broader than long, together slightly longer than the fifth, which is considerably swollen; first joint of the hind tarsi twice as long as wide, as long as the two succeeding joints, the last joint swollen, as long as the three preceding ones; each tarsal claw bears a large lobe at the base of the under side.
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION OF SPILOSOMA CONGRUA
Authors: OTTOLENGUI R.
Published: February 2010

I have found the discussion of the identity of Spilosoma congrua, originating with the article by Rev. Dr. Fyles, most interesting, and am tempted to record certain facts not in consonance with the published views of the gentlemen who have already written.

Dr. Fyles appears to argue that cunea may be congrua. He tells us, speaking of textor, that there is one brood in his locality usually spotless and measuring 14 lines, and then states that “southward there is a second brood of textor noted for its variations, this being supposed to be the cunea of Drury.” He then refers to Prof. Riley's figures of cunea (Forest Insects, page 245), and declares that with his series of bred specimens of congrua he can match all of Prof. Riley's figures in maculation, and especially in size.
THE ODOUR OF COCCIDÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Prof. Webster's interesting note on page 4 leads me to offer a few remarks. The species of the sub-genus Toumeyella of Lecanium have quite a strong musky odour; but ordinarily I have been unable to detect any marked odour in species of Coccidae. I suppose, however, that all possess some odour, and that its purpose is to attract the males to the females. This seems the more probable when we remember that in many species the male puparia are not on the same part of the plant as the famales. Here at Mesilla Park, also, I have lately seen a male of Margarodes hiemalis, Ckll. ined., run over the ground until it detected a spot where a female was buried, and them dig down to the female. It must certainly have detected its mate by the sense of smell.
COTRIBUTIONS TO COCCIDOLOGY.—I
Authors: Tinsley J. D.
Published: February 2010

Dactylopius sorghiellus, Forbes. Syn. D. Kingii, Ckll.

Dr. S. A. Forbes has kindly sent me the type material of this species, which I have examined with much interest. The material studied consisted of 4 specimens. As is usual with these subterranean forms the antennæ are quite variable, both in the number of segments and their relative length.

Only two of the antennæ of the 4 specimens were 8 jointed, the others being 7-jointed, and some plainly aborted. After careful measurement and study, I conclude that the forms described by Cockerell in Science-Gossip, Feb., 1897, p. 240, as D. Kingii, must be referred to this species.
EARLY STAGES OF TRIGONOPHORA PERICULOSA, Gn.
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

Eggs.—Laid dispersedly on the 11th of August. They were pinkish-white in colour; somewhat flattened; striated, and had cross indentations. They hatched on the 21st of the month.

Newly-hatched larva.—A half-looper; one-tenth of an inch long. Head bilobed, large. General colour a very pale olive-green, with numerous black warts on head and body, and a few white bristles. Mandibles amber-coloured. Feeds on Plantago major. Moulted August 28th.
NOTES ON SOME NEW MEXICO BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Lemonias Duryi, Edwards.—I have before me a ♀ taken by Mr. S. Macgregor in 1898 between Mesilla Park and the Organ Mts. N. M.; that is, in the exact type locality of the species, originally collected by Mr. Dury in 1881. The specimen expands an inch and a half, and is thus larger than Dury's but is otherwise the same. I do not know why Dr. Holland states (Butterfly Book, p. 230) that the ♀ L. Duryi figured by him is the only one known: Dury took several and Edwards described from both sexes.
THE ODOUR OF COCCIDAE
Authors: Johnson W. G.
Published: February 2010

I have been much interested in reading the notes upon the odour of scale insects by Professors Webster and Cockerell in the January and February issues of this journal. Durning my inspections in orchards and nurseries I have frequently detected the odour emitte by Aspidiotus perniciosus, mentioned by Webster, especially where the trees were badly infested, and have wondered what relationship it bore to the species. I have detected the most pronounced odours, however, in the genera Chionaspis and Lecanium. The odour produced by the Euonymus scale, Chionaspis euonymi, is very unpleasant to some persons. It is most marked upon badly infested, freshly cut twigs. If they are left in a tightly closed room for a few hours, the air will become very foul.
LIFE-HISTORY OF MARGARODES FLEGIA, CR.
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

This West Indian Pyralid occurred to me on the cemetery grounds in Key West, Florida. The larva was destructive to a large bush (Thevetia neriifolia), commonly planted there for ornament. The larva webs up a group of the narrow leaves into a tube, and eats the parenchyma from within, thus destroying much foliage and rendering the plants unsightly.
LARVÆ FROM HAWAII—A CORRECTION
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Meyrick's work on the Macrolepidoptera of the Hawaiian Islands is a revelation of our previous ignorance of that fauna, since he describes no less than 200 new species out of a total of 292.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

To this subfamily belong the giants of the family, although many species in it are of moderate or insignificant size. Here belong the “Tarantula Killers,” or Pompilids, belonging to the genus Pepsis, large, brilliantly coloured species, often with fiery red wings, or blue or black wings marked with white or red, etc., that prey upon the genuine Tarantulas and other large species of spiders.
SOME NEW JASSIDÆ FROM THE SOUTHWEST
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: February 2010

Phlepsius lascivius, n. sp.—Resembling altus, slightly larger and lighter coloured; margin of the vertex black either side of a light tip. Length 6 mm.; width 2mm.

Head as wide as the pronotum, vertex depressed at the base, anteriorly convex and rounding to the front, the apex slightly angled, hardly half longer than at eye, two and one-half times wider than long, more than half as long as the pronotum, front broad, convex in both diameters, roundingly narrowing below; clypeus with the margins straight; elytra rather stout and straight, flaring behind, the claval nervures parallel, not united.
DESCRIPTION OF THE FULL-GROWN LARVA OF GRAPTA J–ALBUM
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

On the 14th June, at one of the excursions of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club to Cumberland, Ont., I was fortunate enough to find beneath an elm tree (Ulmus americana), a full-grown larva of Grapta J.Album, of which the following is a description:

Length, one and one-half inches. Shape slightly fusiform, gradually tapering to the end from fourth segment. General colour, a delicate glaucous green, or white washed with green—with black spines, which from the size of the body appear to be rather sparsely distributed. The three dorsal series of spines black, springing from a bright yellow field, which is three times the diameter of the base of the spine.
A NEW SPECIES OF PLANT-LOUSE INJURIOUS TO VIOLETS
Authors: Pergande Theodore
Published: February 2010

Among several species of insects which have lately come to the notice of the Division of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, through their ravages upon greenhouse violets, is a little species of plant-louse known to florists as the black or brown aphis. The species is now very generally distributed in the United States and occurs in Canada, although it was not known until within five or six years from the time of writing. As it appears to be undescribed, I propose the specific name violœ, and have placed it in the genus Rhopalosiphum, to which it appears to belong. The following description is submitted, pending a more detailed account of the injuries and a consideration of remedies which it is expected will shortly be published by the Department of Agriculture.
TYPES OF NOCTUID GENERA
Authors: Grote A. Radoliffe
Published: February 2010

In reference to my previous paper (page 209), Mr. Louis B. Prout kindly draws my attention to the fact that Duponchel, Lep. Ent., March, 1829, also selects didyma as type of Apamea, Ochs., 1816. While it is gratifying that I had come independently to the same conclusion with regard to this type, I cannot follow Duponchel's selection in other cases. I merely state the fact here, reserving details for a later occasion.

It further appears from Mr. Prout's researches that Curtis, who publishes later than Duponchel, viz., in May, 1829, “chooses chrysographa” as type of Apamea.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF COCCIDÆ FROM BRAZIL
Authors: Hempel Adolph
Published: February 2010

Capulinia crateraformis, n. sp.

The ♀ makes a small crater-shaped gall in the bark of the limbs and twigs. This gall is about 1.5 mm. high, and consists of an outer circular ring from 1 mm. to 1.5 mm. in diameter, and a small cone within, which can readily be removed. The cavity inhabited by the insect is smooth and is lined with a white powder. The adult ♀ is small, oval in outline, pink, and is dusted with a white powdery secretion. Boiled in a solution of KOH it becomes colourless. Size, after boiling: length, .96 mm.; width, .73 mm.
SYNOPSIS OF FOOD-HABITS OF THE LARVÆ OF THE SESIIDÆ
Authors: Beutenmüller William
Published: February 2010

The larvæ are universally borers, but in the choice of food-plants there is the widest diversity; some bore through and devour solid wood, as do the larvæ of the Cossids; some prefer the pith of woody stems; others are found in the superficial woody layers; still others affect the roots of plants both woody and herbaceous, or are sometimes to be found in the borings made by other insects, as is the case with Memythrus tricinctus, Sesia pictipes, S. scitula, and others. The larvæ are yellowish or dirty white, beset with only a few short hairs. The head and cervical shield are chestnut brown. They hibernate in various stages of growth, but do not overwinter in the pupal stage, as far as the species of the northern States are concerned. The larvæ of Melittia satyriniformis hibernate fully grown in the cocoons. When fully developed they spin elongate oval cocoons composed of chips cemented together by a gummy secretion or silk. The cocoons are formed in the burrows or in contiguous places.
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. LOUIS
Authors: Trelease William
Published: February 2010

At the first meeting of the autumn, held on the evening of October 15, sixteen persons present, Mr. Wm. H. Roever, of Washington University, presented an elaborate paper discussing in detail the subject of the establishment of the method of least squares. Professor F. E. Nipher presented two papers, entitled respectively Positive Photography, with special reference to eclipse work, and The Frictional Effects oi Railway Trains upon the Air; and Mr. C. F. Baker exhibited an interesting collection representing nearly all of the species of fleas thus far known, which he had prepared for the United States National Museum.
CHANGE OF PREOCCUPIED NAMES
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

(1) Parasa prasina, Dyar, Psyche VIII., p. 273, 1898 (Central America), is preoccupied by Parasa prasina, Alph., Deut. ent. Zeit., 1895, p. 186 (Western China). The Central American species may be called Parasa wellesca.
NOTES ON NEOPHASIA TERLOOTII, BHR., FROM ARIZONA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW VARIETY
Authors: Poling Otto C.
Published: February 2010

Neophasia Terlootii was described a great many years ago, and the description being in Latin, it is not surprising that Dr. strecker overlooked it in the hurry to publish his description of the female I sent him, which he supposed had not been previously described. It is a little surprising, however, that Dr. Skinner, who had the first opportunity to examine one of my examples of Terlootii, should have failed to recognize the generic characters of the insect until Dr. Strecker's description as Neophasia epyaxa was published.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the course of my already-published studies, the probabilities as to the homology of the last anal vein of the Papilionides primary have varied. From preparations of the pupal wing of the Hesperiades, it has become clear that the fork to second anal at base is the remains of the third anal vein, which is irregular and more extended in the fore wing of the chrysalis and does not attain the outer margin. It is furcate aud connected with the second anal in the pupal stage. On the other hand, the downwardly curved, short, last and free anal vein of the Papilionid primary cannot be homologous with this, as, indeed, I originally contended. This vein reaches the internai margin, and is probably a survival of the fourth anal.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ARCTIA PHALERATA, HARR
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

On the 18th June, 1900, Mr. C. T. Hills, of Chicago, was kind enough to send me a batch of about 79 eggs of Arctia phalerata, Harr. The parent moth was captured on the 12th June, and enclosed in a box over night; on the next day, the 13th, the eggs were laid.

Egg.—.75 mm. in width, semi-ovoid, about as high as wide, shiny, smooth, creamy-white, concave at base.

The eggs hatched on the 20th and 21st of June. Duration of egg stage 7 or 8 days.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF PLATYMETOPIUS
Authors: Baker C. F.
Published: February 2010

Platymetopius ornatus, n. sp.

Length, ♂, 5.25 mm., of which the head occupies 1 mm.; width across base of elytra a little more than 1 mm. Vertex rather strongly obtusely angulate; width between eyes three-fourths the length at middle, which is more than twice length at eyes; the disc is evenly slightly convex. Face, viewed from the side, straight. Pronotal width two and a half times the length; the length little more than three-eights that of vertex. Pronotum about as broad as head, the anterior margin an even curve.
A STUDY OF HYDROMETRA LINEATA
Authors: Martin J. O.
Published: February 2010

Among the reeds and rushes that border quiet streams and ponds lives Hydrometra lineata, one of the least known of our North American Hemiptera. This insect is comparatively rare in collections, but common enough in nature, though owing to its small size and inconspicuous appearance it escapes all but the sharpest-eyed collectors. Its elongate body is borne on hairlike legs and resembles a bit of twig or grass more than a living insect. After the eye becomes accustomed to the odd shape, they are most easily distinguished, especially when they move about over the surface of the water. During the past summer I took over five hundred specimens of this insect without any special effort, finding them common through New York State, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
A NEW OAK-GALL FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Dryophanta Porterœ, n. sp.— ♀. Length, 2⅓ mm.; very dark brown; cheeks, tibiæ more or less, tarsi, and antennæ except tips, clear ferruginous; smooth and shining, parapsidal grooves distinct; head transversely quadrate, broader than long; antennæ 13-jointed, 13 a little longer than 11 and 12, 3 about a third longer than 4 (3 about 200 μ, 4 about 150 μ, 13 about 180 μ); scutellum prominent; ovipositor rather long, ferruginous, its apical portion with six rings, conuting the apex as one; wings delicately hairy, marked with blackish, nervures suffused with black, marginal nervure almost but not quite attaining the costa at its distal end; a suffused black cloud beneath the end of the marginal cell, a double one in the apical field, a small and indistinct one beyond the apex of the marginal cell, and a faint cloud on the lower part of the wing.
COLLECTING NOTES ON KANSAS COLEOPTERA.—II
Authors: Knaus W.
Published: February 2010

The past two seasons in Kansas have proved fairly profitable to the collector of Coleoptera. To the plains collector the “open” season for successful collecting extends from April 1st to October 15th. If he is so fortunate as to reside beside or near a wooded stream, his “open” season covers the cycle of the months, as winter sifting proves almost as profitable as collecting during the summer months, especially if he looks after the small things, and he is not possessed of the genuine collector's spirit if he does not look carefully after the minute things in insect life.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE GREENHOUSE LEAF-TYER
Authors: Fletcher James , Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

The larvæ of Phlyctœnia ferrugalis, Hbn., have been since 1897 the cause of some loss to roses in the large houses of Mr J. H. Dunlop, Toronto. References to this occurrence will be found in the Reports of the Entomologist and Botanist to the Dominion Experimental Farms for 1899 and 1900.

On the 12th November, 1900, a visit was paid to the above houses by Mr. Gibson, and specimens of the mature larvæ found feeding both on violets and chrysanthemums were secured, as also some larvæ in other stages of development. These all changed to pupæ and in due course the moths appeared, the pupal state lasting from 17 to 20 days.
THE AMERICAN BEES OF THE GENUS ANDRENA DESCRIBED BY F. SMITH
Authors: Morice F. D. , Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

“This I suspect is the ♂ of integra; area similarly strigose, and abdomen also corresponds; tubercle matches also!”

Robertson thought this might be A. platyparia: but, he said, the description applied even better to Salicis, and nearly as well to mandibularis. It cannot well be salicis, as that has the abdomen impunctate; if it is the ♂ of integra, it cannot well be mandibularis; it may perhaps be platyparia.

Andrena frigida, Smith, 1853.

“♂ abdomen rugulose and punctured, clothed with long adpressed hairs; tubercle slightly emarginate (?); area dull granulose; ♀ ditto. (Very near fuscipes, perhaps identical with it.)” This agrees with what I had already identified from Smith's description. It seems to argree with the description of A. simillima, Sm., even better than with that of fuscipes, but I doubt its actual identity with either.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MACRO LEPIDOPTERA OF ALBERTA, N.-W. T.
Authors: Dod F. H. Wolley
Published: February 2010

1. Danais archippus, Fab. A few migrants seen almost every yeat. June. Have never seen a locally-bred specimen.

2. Euptoieta claudia, Cram. Two specimens on Pine Creek, July, 1897, and June, 1900; probably migrants. Lacombe, June 29th, 1900 (Gregson).

3. Argynnis cybele, Fab. Not common; very rare in some seasons. In the hills, July and August; Lacombe, June 29th (Gregson). Mr. Elwes has seen this form and considers it correctly named. It resembles cybele that I have from Iowa, but is slightly smaller.

3a. [A. leto, Behr. Recorded by Geddes from Macleod. The record may perhaps refer to cybele.]

4. A. cypris, Edw. Not common. July and August. Whatever may be the correct name for this species, it is certainly distinct from anything else here listed.
HOW TO GET RID OF FLEAS
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

Reading in the April number of the Canadian Entomologist, Mr. Heath's account of the plague of fleas in Manitoba, recalled what I had read in the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales. It appears that in the Australian bush fleas are as great a nuisance as they are in some parts of Manitoba. A settler, who had suffered greatly from their presence, wrote to the Gazette that he had occasion to use tar paper in his dwelling, when he discovered that fleas would not stay in the house with it, and from that time he had no more trouble with fleas in his house, although they were as plentiful out of doors as ever. Last autumn, or early winter, one of our local members, on his regular visit to the Society's room, started the enquiry as to what was the best way to get rid of fleas, as his house had got overrun with them from having allowed their dog to sleep in the cellar. I thought of what I had then recently read, hunted up the number of the Gazette, found the reference, and showed it to him, when he said he would try it.
NEW GENUS INCLUDING TWO NEW SPECIES OF SALDIDÆ
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

Head narrower, eyes nearer together than in Salda, ocelli approximate, frontal ridge weak, becoming obsolete at base of tylus, bucculæ enlarged; antennæ with the two distal joints incrassate, rostrum as in Salda, basal joints very thick, second elongate, terminal very slender. Prothorax bearing two very prominent conical tubercles on anterior lobe, which is narrow, cylindrical, not carinate anteriorly; posterior lobe short, carinate laterally, widening rapidly to humeri.
NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ALSOPHILA POMETARIA, Peck
Authors: Hinds W. E.
Published: February 2010

THe eggs of this insect were found on a small branch of golden willow in Beverly, Mass., March 14, 1900, in a nursery, close to fruit stock of various kinds. The mass, consisting of 220 eggs, was kept at the temperature of the laboratory, which was considerably higher than that outside. Notwithstanding this fact, none of the eggs hatched till April 23, within forty-eight hours of which time, however, all the larvæ had emerged.

Egg (Plate 4, Figs. 1 and 3).—Eggs placed close together in regular
rows, forming a compact mass, in this case about twice as long as broad and in one layer. Egg about .6 mm, long and .45 mm, broad at top, which is nearly flat. Just inside the rounded edge of the top a brown ring encloses an area bright steely gray in colour, and containing a small brown depression in its centre; lateral surface of egg and rounded edge steely gray.
THE XIPHIDIINI OF THE PACIFIC COAST
Authors: Morse A. P.
Published: February 2010

In the summer of 1897 I devoted several weeks to a rapid Orthopterological reconnaissance of the Pacific Coast, collecting material at various points from Yuma to Victoria, B. C., and the following paper is based upon the specimens secured at that time. At the request of Mr. Scudder, to whose collection and mine the types belong, I have studied the material, with the results given below.

So far as I am aware, no species of this group has hitherto been recorded from west of the Rocky Monntains, although it is exceedingly improbable that specimens are not to be found in entomological collections from that region. In the following paper, four well-defined species are noted, one of them extending entirely across the continent. Two others are of especial interest, from the great variation presented by them according to locality, and students of the group will do well to collect material in considerable series.
ON LABELING INSECTS
Authors: Brunetti E.
Published: February 2010

There is a great lack of uniformity in labeling insects; owing to which it is often impossible to distinguish the name of the locality from that of the collector; and with reference to the date of capture, it is impossible to discover what is meant (when the day of capture is less than the 13th), on account of some collectors placing the day of the month first, and others the month.

For instance, a specimen taken on May 10, 1901, would by some be labeled 10, 5, 1901, and by others (chiefly amongst Americans) 5, 10, 1901. On passing from one collection to another, the recipient would be undecided as to whether the figures referred to May 10 or Oct. 5.

Again, now that exchange abroad is much more common than formerly, it is insufficient to give simply the village or wood in which the insect is taken.
A LIST OF MANITOBA MOTHS.—Part V
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

The Geometers of this Province, in respect to both my own captures and those of other collectors which I have been privileged to see, appear to be fairly well identified.

In December last I was honoured by a flying visit from Mr. Hutchinson, of Kinosota, on Lake Manitoba. He brought in a whole collection of things with him, some for names, others for my benefit. Among the moths we were unable to tackle satisfactorily were a few Geometers. Our friend is developing into an enthusiastic entomologist, and we look for some good work from him in the near future. Few of us, I fancy, would care to be hampered with numerous cases of insects, in addition to other “impedimenta,” when undertaking a seventy-mile sleigh drive in bitter weather to reach the nearest railway station.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CATOCALÆ
Authors: Dodge G. M. , Dodge E. A.
Published: February 2010

Catocala Clintonii.

Egg, deposited June 21st, 1900, is a disc concave below and convex above. The ornamentation consists of a series of ridges converging from the slightly upcurved edge to a central depression which has in its centre a slight tubercle. Colour dark, or blackish. Harched April 17, 1901.

Larvæ escaped by cutting a hole at one side of the centre above.

Newly-hatched larvæ slender, nearly ¼ inch in length, dark pruinose. Head paler, no marks apparent.

After first moult they are somewhat lighter in colour. The two rows of dorsal tubercles appear as black dots. The head is light, the lobes surmounted with black.
A NEW CECIDOMYIID ON GUTIERREZIA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

♀.—Length slightly over 3 mm.; antennæ pale brown, 2 + 15 jointed, the first two joints darkened; eyes united on vertex; thorax reddishbrown, dorsally shining, naked, with four very thin longitudinal bands of hairs; femora pale brown, tibiæ and tarsi darker; wings well fringed with hairs; abdomen nearly naked, bright red, ovipositor and a dorsal apical patch white; ovipositor moderately long.
ACRONYCTA AND TYPES
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

In his note on p. 191, Dr. Dyar raises an interesting question, concerning which I would like a general expression of opinion for my own guidance.

Among the material received for study by M. Guenée from the British Museum, perhaps also from other sources, was a considerable number of specimens and drawings collected, bred or drawn by John Abbott, of Georgia.

Not all of the Abbott drawings went to the British Museum, for I saw some in Paris ten years ago, and not all the Abbott drawings have been identified, for I saw in the British Museum many pictures representing insects thet have not been taken since, so far as I know, while I identified a few recently described, among these century-old drawings.
A NEW XIPHIDIUM FROM FLORIDA
Authors: Morse A. P.
Published: February 2010

Xiphidium gracillimum, sp. nov.—Very slender. Brown above, face and sides greenish, wing veins purple; a conspicuous dark brown middorsal stripe on the head and pronotum, bordered by broad pale bands, sometimes with dusky or purplish markings on the cheeks, sides of pronotum and middle of face. Antennæ brown, extremely long and slender. Eyes very prominent, in side view circular in outline. Fastigium of the vertex ascending, strongly advanced (about the length of the eye seen from above), very narrow (about one-fourth the distance between the eyes), its sides parallel or slightly convergent. Lateral lobes of the pronotum usually triangular in outline by the exceptional reduction of the anterior ventral angle and the straightening of the posterior margin, which forms a line with the hind margin of the posterior process, the humeral sinus distinct but shallow.
ON TYPES OF ACRONYCTA, ETC.
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

The following comments upon Prof. Smith's paper in Can. Ent. for Nov., 1900, 333, have suggested themselves to me. The types of Acronycta there discussed are the specimens in Brit. Mus. Coll., and in several instances my determinations are now adopted by the author.

A. pallidicoma, Grote.

This name is cited without comment, except that the type is a small female (334). It would have been more to the point if this name had been identified with one of the “two series into which xyliniformis allows itself to be so prettily divided” (Sm. and Dyar, p. 149).
TWO NEW BLIND BEETLES, OF THE GENUS ADRANES, FROM THE PACIFIC COAST
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The species of Adranes are to be looked for in nests of ants belonging to the genrs Lasius. They are helpless creatures, lacking eyes and with much reduced mouth-parts, dependent probably upon the ants for their supply of food. They are carefully attended by their hosts, to whom they give requital in the form of a secretion, much appreciated by the ants, which collects on certain patches of hair situated on the tips of the elytra and on the base of the abdominal dorsum. The antennæ are much modified, consisting of only two joints, the second of which is very large and heavy, varying in form in different species.
A NEW GENUS IN THE CŒLIXINÆ
Authors: Titus E. S. G.
Published: February 2010

Chrysopheon, new genus.

General shrape and appearance of an Epeolus; labrum very long, rounded transversely, labial palpi 4-jointed, first joint longest, third and fourth subequal; maxillary palpi 2-jointed, second joint longest and tapering, maxillæ long, sickle-shaped and convoluted; scutellum with two short slightly-incurved spines, postscutellum produced medially into a short, sharp, upturned tooth; marginal cell rourded, not attaining the costa, second sub-marginal cell longer than first, narrowed above; receiving both recurrent nervures, claws bifid, inner tooth shortest, no pulvilli; abdomen convex, densely pubescent and banded, last segment of female bare, narrowed slightly and emarginate a very little at tip.
CONCERNING PROTESTS AND OTHER THINGS
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

There never yet was anything new or revolutionary advanced or suggested that was not met with a “protest” from some quarter. When machinery was introduced the hand-workers protested; when railroads supplanted stage coaches the coachmen protested; and so on. So we never had a new list in any order of insects, where changes in nomenclature were made, which was not denounced by someone who found himself or herself compelled thereby to take new views or learn new names.
NEW BEES OF THE SUBFAMILY ANTHOPHORINÆ FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Diadasia rinconis, subsp. opuntiœ, nov.—♀. About 15 millim long, varying to 13 millim.; tegulæ light reddish-brown, varying to darker; wing-nervures piceous, second submarginal cell variable, but always small and usually very narrow, and narrowed above; third submarginal cell long, very strongly elbowed at end; labrum with only a few scattered hairs, or sometimes more hairy; mesothorax strongly and quite densely punctured, much more so than in rinconis; scutellum closely punctured; abdominal bands as in rinconis, with curved anterior margins; hair at apex of abdomen yellowish fuscous.
NOTES ON THE GENITALIA OF HALISIDOTA HARRISII, WALSH
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

I see by Mr. Lyman's address (1899) before the Entomological Society of Ontario that he is a convert to the view of the specific distinctness of Halisidota tesselaris and H. Harrisii. I berieve this to be correct.
NOTES ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF SIOUX COUNTY, NEBRASKA
Authors: Cary Merritt
Published: February 2010

While connected with expeditions sent out by the Department of Entomology and Ornithology, University of Nebraska, it has been the writer's good fortune to spend a portion of the summers of 1900 and 1901 in the extreme north-western corner of Nebraska in collecting the insects, birds and mammals of the region. Naturally the butterflies, the study of which has been something of a “hobby” with him for some years past, came in for no little share of attention.
NOTE ON BÆUS
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

About ten years ago, in sifting swamp mosses for Coleoptera, I met with certain active little insects which, despite their wingless form and almost microscopic size, were recognized as members of the order Hymenoptera. Some of the individuals so captured were afterwards described by Ashmead, in his Monograph of North American Proctotrypidæ, as Bœus minutus and B. piceus. Subsequently, B. americanus, Howard, and B. niger, Ashmead, were also discovered at Ottawa. My solitary example of the former species was found sluggishly crawling on the under surface of a stone in the chilly temperature of early spring, and one example of B. niger was taken with a sweeping-net at the end of September. With these two exceptions, all my specimens of the genus were taken from moss collected at the beginning of winter. All were females, as might be expected, for it is the females oniy of bees and wasps, and probably of all hymenoptera hibernating in the imago condition, that survive the winter in these northern lands.
SPECIES OF BRACHYCISTIS (FAM. MYRMOSIDÆ) FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Brachycistis gaudii, n. sp.—♀. Length about 6½ mm.; shining black, brown on prothorax, at bases of wings, and at extreme (usually covered) bases of abdominal segments; antennæ long, dull reddishbrown, first joint of flagellum equal to second; head broader than thorax; eyes very prominent; ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the area between them elevated; edge of clypeus, and mandibles, dark ferruginous, the latter tridentate; mesothorax shining, hairs and punctures very sparse; metathorax minutely transversely lineolate; tegulæ light ferruginous; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures pale except the costal, stigma large, dark brown; three submarginal cells and two recurrent nervures, the second recurrent sometimes failing below; marginal cell extremely short, broader than long, its greatest diameter about half length of stigma; first submarginal large, extending along stigma to marginal; second submarginal minute, triangular, entirely cut off from marginal; third submarginal minute, long and narrow, its tip reaching marginal; first recurrent nervure joining first transverso-cubital, second joining third submarginal cell near its base; abdomen shining, very sparsely punctured, with long sparse yellowish hairs; first segment swollen, about twice as long as broad, with a deep constriction between it and the second; apical curved spine long, ferruginous; legs black, knees, apices of tibiæ and tarsi light brown.
SOME EXPERIMENTS IN THE EXPORTATION OF BENEFICIAL INSECTS
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

I do not wish by this title to imply that there is not to be another phase to this experiment, but owing to climatic differences between Ohio and South Africa, whereby our winter months are their summer months, the export side of the problem came first. Next autumn, in South Africa, but spring rvith us, the tide of transportation will set in in the other direction.
THE CANADIAN SPECIES OF TRIMEROTROPIS
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

As only three specimens of Trimerotropis, Stal, have been reported from Canada, and as the writer has taken several others, of which three seem to be undescribed, the present paper may be of some value as a preliminary notice of the Canadian species of this genus.

The following table will serve to distinguish the species of Trimerotropis known to occur in Canada. It is artificial, but as the species enumerated are few, the table will perhaps be of greater service than would a more natural one. In the notes following the table the species are arranged according to MC Neill's recent. “Revision of the Orthopteran Genus Trimerotropis,” the new species being placed according to their nearest affinities.