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OPHIOGOMPHUS
Authors: Needham James G.
Published: February 2010

This genus of dragon flies is one of the groups whose members are accounted rare in collections, though quite abundant in nature. With the exception of three species, two of which have only been obtained in numbers by breeding, few imagoes have been taken. Although I have collected carefully for several years in localities where a few species were common enough, I have seen but three imagoes at large, but I have bred one species by hundreds, and have seen the exuviæ upon the banks of streams by tens of thousands.

Nymphs of this genus seem to prefer the sandy or gravelly beds of clear, rapid streams, flowing through rocky woods. What becomes of the countless imagoes which issue from such places by night in early summer I have not as yet been able to find out.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MASSACHUSETTS COCCIDÆ.—IV
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

(7) Chionapsis furfurus, Fitch; 1856-1869. N.

A very common species in Massachusetts, recorded from Amherst, Worcester, Andover, Lawrence, and Methuen, on wild redcherry, pear, wild and cultivated apple, flowering quince, chokeberry, shad-bush, and black alder. It is known from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, New York, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Georgia, Utah, Kansas, New Jersey, and Washington, D. C., on choke-cherry, wild red cherry, wild and cultivated apple, crab apple, pear, peach, Japan quince, cherry currant, red flowering currant, and European mountain ash.
A NEW PLAGODIS
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Plagodis approximaria, n. sp.

Fore wings dark ochreous, paler about the faint purplish cloud that rests on internal margin; a cluster of blackish strigæ in centre of basal space on internal margin and a larger cluster in the balck cloud; otherwise the ground colour is without strigæ. T. a. and t. p. lines slightly curved, broad, somewhat clouded, nearer together than usual, blackish brown, the t. p. line the more distinct. Hind wings paler, largely overspread by a purplish shading that extends from a large cluster of dense blackish strigæ at inner angle. Thorax ochre, purplish in front and on the head. Expanse 50 mm.
THE CLOVER-ROOT MEALY BUG.: Dactylopius trifolii, Forbes
Authors: Pettit R. H.
Published: February 2010

On July 1, 1893, the writer collected a number of mealy bugs on clover (Trifolium pratense) at Ithaca, N. Y. They were found at about the level of the ground between the several stems of the plant, and also on the roots under the soil. On July 17 of this year the same insect was found on the same plant at Agricultural College, Mich. As they were both supposed to be D. trifolii, Forbes, a comparison was made with the original description.
THE HABROPODA AND DIDASIA OF CALIFORNIA
Authors: Fowler Carroll
Published: February 2010

The following is a list of the species of these two groups occurring in California, with notes on those forms knows to me:

Habropoda, Smith.

A small group of bees, comparatively local in their habits, and in appearance very much like the larger species of Anthophora.
A NEW SPECIES OF TINGITIDAE
Authors: Heidemann Otto
Published: February 2010

Among the interesting species of Heteroptera which have been sent to the Division of Entomology by correspondents during the present season was a species of Tingitidae which has not hitherto been described. In accordance with an established custom of the the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the following description is submitted for publication in a periodical journal in preference to publishing it in a Departmental bulletin. Gargaphia angulata, n. sp.
BUTERFLY WING STRUCTURE
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

Since the season of 1894 (when I first discovered that the upper and lower membranes of a butterfly's wing could be separated), I have had a desire to test the accuracy of the conclusions reached by me at that time; so with the remarkable profusion of Anosia (Danais) Archippus, Fab., in the season of 1899, I was able to secure such an abundance of material to work with that I could repeat the observations until every doubt was satisfactority settled. I shall only give here a brief statement of results reached, as a full account of the various processes will be published in the forthcoming Annual Report of the Society for 1899.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

This family has been associated usually, as a tribe, with the family Bembicidae, with which, however, according to my views, it has no relationship whatever. It is in reality much closer allied to the Nyssonidae, next to which I have placed it, and from which some of the species are separated with difficulty.

The characters made use of in my table of families will, however, I think readily separate these three families, and it is unnecessary to repeat them here.
OBSERVATIONS UPON BOMBYX CUNEA, DRURY, ETC.
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

Messrs. Dyar, Smith, and Grote have given us much interesting information concerning Bombyx cunea, Drury, and insects associated with it. I have hoped that further particulars would be forthcoming, for the position these insects have held in our Entomological lists has not been satisfactorily established.

It is very evident that much perplexity in regard to cunea, and the rest, has existed from Walker's day down to the present time.
COLLECTING NOTES ON KANSAS COLEOPTERA
Authors: Knaus W.
Published: February 2010

An experience of eighteen years in collecting Coleoptera in Kansas would naturally lead to the discovery of several good collecting grounds, and to many interesting observations on the abundance of or scarcity of certain species for one or more years.

I have found my most interesting and profitable ground on the salt marshes or flats of Wilson County in South-eastern Kansas, and Republic and Mitchell Counties in North Central Kansas; in the valleys of the Verdigris River in Wilson County, of the Republic an River in Jewell County, the Smoky Hill River in Wailace County and the Arkansas River in Hamilton County; the two latter in extreme western Kansas.
LEPISESIA ULALUME, STRECKER, IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

In a box of Lepidoptera sent to the Division of Entomology, for identification, by Mr. W. A. Dashwood-Jones, of New Westminster, B. G., was a specimen of the above named sphingid. The specimen was kindly named by Dr. J. B. Smith, who wrote of it, saying: “It is a genuine rarity, and in 1888 there was not a specimen known save the type. If I remember rightly, this is the first specimen other than the type that I have ever seen.” Mr. Dashwood-Jones states that this season he took seven specimens of ulalume; and, further, that he takes them every year in his garden, on white lilac blossoms. He mentions that he has never seen this moth anywhere else, but that for a few days in spring they appear to be fairly plentiful.
NOTES ON ARKANSAS TRUXALINAE
Authors: Mcneill Jerome
Published: February 2010

This subfamily is rather poorly represented in Arkansas, only eight of the thirty-one genera recognized by me as occurring in North America having been found within its borders, and only one genus, Orphula, is represented by more than a single species.

Mermiria rostrata, McNeill.—Has been found in the State, but its occurrence at Mackay, I. T., makes it altogether probable that it belongs to our fauna.
NEW, OR LITTYE KNOWN, ALEURODIDAE.–II
Authors: Quaintance A. L.
Published: February 2010

Aleurodes graminicola, n. sp.

Egg.—Size, .25x.13 mm.; uniformly brownish in colour; unmarked; oblong, truncate at base; pedicel short, attached to one corner; eggs held nearly upright on leaf by short pedicel and truncated end.

Larva.—Length, .7 mm.; width, .3 mm.; oblong-elliptical in shape; colour, yellowish-white; eye spots reddish. There is a marginal fringe all around of white cottony waxen threads. No marginal rim, and but faint crenulation. In other respects, essentially as in pupa-case.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GOPHER MOTH
Authors: Smith J. B.
Published: February 2010

Epizeuxis gopheri, n. sp.

Ground colour a very pale mouse-gray, the wings with the appearance of being thinly scaled. On the thorax is a slightly warmer, more brown or reddish tinge, while the under side is darker and somewhat more smoky throughout. Primaries with all the lines diffuse and vague, except the s. t., which is distinct and very sharply dentated. The basal line is wanting. The t. a. line is pale, without defined margins, and crosses the wings with scarcely an out-curve. The t. p. line is yet more feebly marked except on the costa, and crosses the wing with a feeble outcurve, a little more marked than the outer margin of the wing itself. In the male this line seems to be better defined than in the female. The s. t. line is whitish, distinct, and irregularly toothed in both directions; that is, inwardly as well as outwardly — as a whole keeping al about the same distance from the outer margin throughout. The ordinary spots are very feebly marked; the orbicular a faint yellowish dot, and the reniform a somewhat larger blotch of the same colour; but in both cases indefinite. The secondaries are distinctly paler, more washed out and becoming almost whitish at the base.
HYDRŒCIA STRAMENTOSA
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

Sir,—I am in receipt of a communication from A. Radcliffe Grote, M. A., Hildesheim, Germany, anent the determination of Hydrœcia stramentosa for Canadian collectors. He points out to me that the fact of its being under Apamea in our list indicates the source from whence the name was obtained, as he was the only author that ever used that generic term for the group to which stramentosa belongs, proving that he knew of its being taken in Canada, having received specimens from collectors there to name; which is more than likely, as Mr. Grote was at that time the recognized authority on North American Noctuidœ.
THE LARVA OF EUSTIXIA PUPULA, HUBN.
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

The larva of this not uncommon little Pyralid feeds on the seeds of the peppergrass. It has not been described heretofore; the name as given by Packard (American Naturalist, IV., 229) is an error of identification, the species which he represents, copied from Abbot's manuscript drawing, being Enœmia crassinervella, Zell., a Tineid. The true larva of E. pupula lives singly in the heads of the peppergrass in a loose open web, eating the unripe seeds out of the flat pods, forming two holes in each pod on the upper side. The larvæ, though fully exposed, are difficult to see, as their colours harmonize well with the general appearance of the flower heads. The delicate open web is not conspicuous.
NEW TINEIDÆ, WITH LIFE-HISTORIES
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary E.
Published: February 2010

Laverna argentimaculella, n. sp.

Imago: Antennœ dark brown, slightly paler on under side. Palpi pale silvery, terminal joint in strong light appearing minutely ringed with dark blue. Head and face smooth, the former dark blue above, face pale golden-metallic, in the ♂ usually darker than in the ♀, in the latter often with bluish tinge. Thorax dark blue with metallic reflections. Fore wings with a generally “shaggy” appearance, beautifully variegated in dark and light blue and rich bronzy brown, with more or less conspicuous, irregular, appressed, silvery spots, that, at the base of the apical third, form an irregularly margined fascia, broader and more brilliant in the ♂ than in the ♀. Upon the cell, especially of the ♂, are two prominent tufts, bluish silvery at base, shading to brown, and near the outer margin two still larger tufts, almost connected, forming a ridge across the wing. Just before the fringes is an indefinitely angular, silvery streak, the apex directed outward. The pattern of coloration is so variable that it is difficult to exactly characterize it. Hind wings and abdomen rich bronzy brown, the former with pale brown fringes. Legs brown, annulate on tibiæ with two broad and on tarsi with three narrow white bands. Alar expanse, 8 mn.; length, 4 mm. A beautiful species and probably rare.
A NEW SPECIES OF KERMES
Authors: Bogue E. E.
Published: February 2010

Kermes trinotatus, n. sp.—Female scale variable in size, averaging about 5½ mm. long, 6 mm. wide, and 4½ mm. high; rounded above, somewhat flattened behind, convex beneath, front turned down into a more or less beak-like prominence; median groove obscure or broad and shallow; colour varies from bright argillaceous to dull gray; surface uniform, more or less conspicuously speckled with black; segmentation obscurely or plainly marked with dark spots. When the median groove is present it is crossed with more or less dark lines showing segmentation. There is a rounded dark spot on each side of the front, and an elongated dark blotch extending for a short distance above and below the anal opening: hence the specific appellation.
A NEW SESIA FROM ALASKA
Authors: Beutenmuller William
Published: February 2010

Male.—Head, palpi and thorax entirely black. Abdomen black with a very narrow white ring at the posterior edge of the second and fourth segments Anal tuft black. Legs black, with the hind tarsi dirty white. Fore wings transparent, with black borders and a broad black transverse mark. Hind wings transparent, with a narrow black margin. Under side of fore wings washed with golden yellow, basally. Hind wings same as above. Expanse, 20 mm.
SOME SPECIES OF DIPTERA INHABITING OR FREQUENTING THE WHEAT FIELDS OF THE MIDDLE WEST
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

The swarms of small Diptera that are to be found in the fields of fall wheat in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, during late autumn and in early spring, seldom fail to attract the attention of the entomologist who has occasion to visit these fields at the above mentioned seasons. That some species are attracted to these fields as mere visitants is indicated by the accompanying list, but that many others breed there, either upon the living or the dead portions of the wheat plants, is as clearly apparent.
NOTES ON SPECIES OF THE TETTIGIAN GROUP OF ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Hancock J. L.
Published: February 2010

An interesting addition to Orthopteran distribution in the West Indies is the finding by Mr. R. J. Crew of the species Neotettix quadriundulatus, Redtenbacher, on the Island on Haiti.

Eight specimens, kindly presented to me, were taken around Port au Prince, and, as Mr. Crew informs me, were “swept from plants along the banks of a small stream.” I have identified this species, which was first described by Brunner and Redtenbacher, 1892, from the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies, in “Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,” and an excellent figure is to be found on Plate xvi., fig. 10.
A PARASITE THE SUPPOSED CAUSE OF SOME CASES OF EPILEPSY
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Gastrophilus epilepsalis, n. sp.

Larva: Length, 1-12 inch; of the shape shown in the accompanying figure (Fig. 30), with twelve joints besides the head, or thirteen joints; head rounded, with two brown-black hooks, the side view of the cut showing only one of them; head a little longer than broad, rounded; the first incisure with a patch of bristles below the hooks, but not anywhere else; incisures 2 and 3 without bristles; incisures 4 to 12 armed with several rows of minute bristles, all very short except those on 12, pointing backward; joint 13 rounded. Extending back from the hooks and of the same colour, only in places paler, is a marking that seems to be a chitinoid support for the hooks, beneath the cuticle. Colour a dirty yellowish white.
NEW HISTORIES IN HYDRŒCIA
Authors: Bird Henry
Published: February 2010

Hydrœcia rutila, Gn.

This was the next discovery of the season, and as work in former years had never unearthed more than one new larval condition per seasou, it became evident 1899 was being especially fortunate. We may well say unearthed, as it was actually necessary to do considerable digging to get at these fellows, so far down were they in roots below the surface. The preferred food-plant is Solidago sempervirens, a plant particularly local to the Atlantic seaboard, and it was naturally supposed we had to deal with an insect thus restricted in its range. Other things conspired to get ideas rather elevated, for it was not known, of course, before the moth appeared what species the larva might prove. There seemed an unusual feature in that among the numerous stems arising from one root cluster, when one was found infested, there would surely be two examples—no more, no less—found in the bunch. This happened in every case, and occurs so often as to lose the aspect of being any coincidence. Many times but one larva would be found at first; further searching, however, always disclosed a mate. Burrowing well down in the roots, they still have quite an extended gallery high up in the stem.
NOTE ON THE GENUS DYARIA, NEUM
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

In re-examining the old slide from which the figure of venation (Can. Ent., XXV., 214) accompanying the original description of this genus was made, I see distinctly three internal veins in the hind wings. It would appear as if one of them must have been obliterated by the balsam in the fresh mount, or else an error of observation was made. The correction refers the genus to the Pyralidæ and, according to Hampson's classification, to the Epipaschiinæ, where it appears allied to the Indian genus, Cœnodomus, Wals. (Hamps. Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1896, 467.) I would not lay any stress on the apparent presence of the accessory cell in Dyaria. Vein 10 runs so closely approximated to the stalk of 6–9 that it is impossible to be sure whether there is a true anastomosis toward the tip or not in the single specimen mounted.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

The majority of the species falling in this subfamily are usually smaller and much less conspicuous than those in the other subfamilies, and with totally different habits. None are true diggers, but, on the contrary, build small oblong, or oval, clay cells, beneath the loose bark of old trees, under stones, or in crevices in old stone walls, etc., not unlike some of the Potter wasps (Eumenidœ).

The group comes evidently nearest to the Pepsinœ, the females having, as in that group, a transverse grooved line, impression or emargination on the second ventral segment. From that group, however, it is at once separated by the difference in the legs, the hind tibiæ being smooth, never serrate or spinous, or with a longitudinal ridge, but, at the most, with only a few very minute, scarcely perceptible spines.
NEW COCCIDÆ FROM CALIFORNIA
Authors: Ehrhorn Edw. M.
Published: February 2010

Xylococcus quercus, n. sp. (Plate 7, figs. 1 and 2.)

Egg quite large, of a light orange colour.

Young larvœ dark orange-red, active, body broadly oval, abont ⅔ mm. long. Legs and antennæ light brown, well developed. Antennæ short, 6-jointed. Joint 1 stoutest, joint 6 longest, and joint 4 shortest. Formula: 651234. Joints 2 and 5 with three bristles. Joint 6 with numerous long stout bristles. Legs moderately long, with femur quite swollen. Tarsus longer than tibia. Digitules of tarsus fine hairs; those of claw long stout clubs curved upwards. Each segment of abdomen bears a backward directed short stout spine. On each side of anal tube is a long fine bristle. Anal tube large, with numerous stont spines. Stigmatal tubes well developed.
THE PURSLANE SAW-FLY—SCHIZOCERUS ZABRISKEI, Ashm., MS.
Authors: Webster F. M. , Mally C. W.
Published: February 2010

Just when this species first became abundant in Ohio we are unable to say, but it was not until June, 1898, that we began a study of its habits. The insect is quite generally distributed in Ohio, as we have observed it at Alliance, Wooster, Tiffin, Fremont, and Clyde, and perhaps over the eastern and western parts of the United States, as it is found at Washington, D. C., where Dr. Chittenden is making a careful study of it, and Mr. Mally observed it in abundance in the summer of 1899, at Des Moines, Iowa.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO COCCIDOLOGY.—II
Authors: Tinsley J. D.
Published: February 2010

During the past summer I have had the opportunity, through the kindness of Dr. Howard, of working over the unnamed material of the genera Dactylopius, Ripersia, and Phenacoccus, belonging to the collection of the Division of Entomology, U. S., D. A. I wish to record here the identity of D. vastatar, Mask., with D. filamentosus, Ckll., and two species which I believe to be new. I hope in a subsequent paper to give further notes on some of the other species found, and also to record the new host plants found for a number of species.
A NEW SPECIES OF SINEA
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

Sinea complexa, s. sp.—Length, ♂, 8 to 9.5 mm., ♀, 9.5 to 11 m.m; width, ♂, 3 mm., ♀, 3.5 to 4.5 mm. General colour ranging from a very dark brown to pale cinnamon. Head armed with three pairs of anteocular spines, the posterior pair the longest, with smaller ones interspersed. Behind the eyes, with several sharp spines, one near each ocellus being almost as long as those of the posterior anteocular pair. Neck spinose. Antennæ somewhat pallid, with a slight rufous cast at the distal ends of the segments.
A NEW POPULAR NAME FOR CLISIOCAMPA DISSTRIA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

In the January number, Prof. Slingerland proposes a new common name for the “forest tent-caterpillar,” and proposes “forest tentless-caterpillar.” The objection would be, that “tent-caterpillar” is an English equivalent for Clisiocampa, and need not be altered whether the particular species makes a tent or not. What is needed in names is fixity, not relevancy. Another objection is, that tentless is not the antithesis to tent, but to tented.
LECANIUM WEBSTERI, CKLL. AND KING, N. SP., WITH NOTES ON ALLIED FORMS
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

In Canadian Entomologist, 1895, p. 255, Prof. Cockerell gave some notes and briefly described a species of Lecanium, found by Prof. Webster and others, as L. ribis, Fitch. Later, in April, 1899, in “The Industrialist,” p. 234—5, he again describes it and gives measurements of the antennæ and legs, and states that Mr. Pergande has some doubt about the identification. In November, 1900, Prof. Cockerell sent me two lots of Lecanium, collected by Prof. W. D. Hunter at Ames, Iowa. These I determined as L. ribis (based on Prof. cockerell's notes), and sent a statement of my determination to him. Very soon I received a reply, in which he cited Fitch's description of L. ribis, and stated that under the circumstances the species which he called L. ribis apparently must be something else, and suggested for it the name Lecanium Websteri, based on the species from Ohio, described in “The Industrialist,” April, 1899, p. 235. On receipt of this letter, I wrote to Dr. Howard, requesting him, if possible, to let me have some of Fitch's L. ribis. His reply was as follows: “Mr. Pergande says that he is unable to decide which of our Eastern species is identical with L. ribis, Fitch. Fitch's type has been destroyed, and there is nothing left but a fragment of the twig on which the species was found, showing only the original size, which must have been between 5 and 6 mm. in diameter. Since Fitch's short description appears to agree with L. armeniacum, Mr. Pergande thinks it to be that species, or a pale form of L. cerasifex, which is our most common Eastern species.” At the same time, Dr. Howard kindly sent me some of prof. Cockerell's L. ribis. These, together with specimens from Dr. Fletcher, P. J. Parrott, and those found by me in Massachusetts, were critically studied.
ON CERTAIN IDENTIFICATIONS IN THE GENUS ACRONYCTA
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Prof. Smith has been to London, and now radically changes the synonymy in the genus Acronycta, which I had hoped was to have been finaliy settled in the revision which was published by him and myself. The chanses involve the identification of three of Guenée's species and one of Walker's. As to impleta, Walk., we must accept Smith's identification as luteicoma, G. & R. I would suggest that the type ought now to be destroyed, lest future changes in the synonymy result. Guenée described eighteen species of Acronycta from North America, of which the larvæ of six were mentioned. In a genus like Acronycta, where the imagoes are so similar as not to be readily differentiated by description, while tire larvæ are very diverse, the larval descriptions are relatively important. Of the three species now changed (clarescens, Gn.; hamamelis, Gn.; brumosa, Gn.), two have original larval descriptions. As to clarescens I have no comment, especially as Grote's first identification is now restored. But the others are different. Hamamelis, formerly referred to an oak-feeding species (inclara, Smith), is now transferred to afficta, Grt. But Guenée's description contradicts afflicta in the colour of the hind wings, whereas it fits well the species named subochrea by Grote, better even than it fits inclara, and to this the larva also applies. As to brumosa, Smith says (Revision, p. 118) “the original description will fit either one of two or three species.” The characterization of the larva should then be allowed to prevail and the name be referred to inclara.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Morse A. P.
Published: February 2010

Odontoxiphidium, gen. nov.—Allied to Ziphidium, from which it is probably derived. Distinguished from that genus by the form of the anal cerci of the male, which are elongate, straight, with the lateral tooth reduced in size, and an additional tooth upon the dorsal side near the base; and, in the type, by the form of the pronotum, which is sub-sellate and prolonged backward, covering the base of the abdomen both above and on the sides, in correlation with the absence of flight-organs. The type is O. apterum, described below.
THREE NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

Prof. Charles P. Loundsbury, Government Entomologist, of Cape Town, South Africa, has recently sent to Dr. L. O. Howard, U. S. Entomologist, a lot of bred parasitic Hymenoptera for names, among which were found three new species, which, at the reqnest of Dr. Howard, are characterized below:

Family LVII.—Platygasteridæ.

Genus Allotropa, Förster.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF PULVINARIA
Authors: King George B.
Published: February 2010

Pulvinaria Hunteri, n. sp.—Old, dried and wrinkled female scales, cream-colour, more or less mottled with patches of red-brown, and the outer margin practically red-brown. Ovisac clear white, texture as in innumerabilis, and not so large. The size of the scale, cleared and spread under cover class, practically hemispherical, is from 6 to 7 mm, in diameter. The texture of the scale is quite thin and requires little boiling in caustic potash to make it very clear and colourless.
A NEW VARIETY OF LYCÆNA AMYNTULA, WITH OTHER NOTES
Authors: Grinnell Fordyce
Published: February 2010

Lycœna amyntula, var. Herrii, n. var.— ♀ expanse, 1.25 in.; differs from typical amyntula by the replacement of the dark area of the primaries by a narrow black band about 1 mm. wide, and on the secondaries by only two red crescents instead of five as in typical amyntula. On the under side the markings are all much heavier.

♂ expanse, 1.00 in.; differs from ♂ of typical amyntula in having a black margin about 1 mm. wide, whereas there is none in typical amyntula, or, if any, a very slight trace. On the under side the markings are much more heavy. The male of this variety is also much smaller than the male of typical amyntula, and the tails seem more distinct in this variety.
NOTES ON SOME ONTARIO ACRIDIIDÆ.—Part IV
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

16a Spharagemon collare, Scudd., race Wyomingianum, Thomas.

Oedipoda Wyomingianum, Thom. Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V. 462 (1872).

Spharagemon oculatum. Scudd. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII., 470 (1875).

Spharagemon oculatum. Morse. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat, Hist., XXVI., 232 (1894).

Spharagemon collare, race Wyomingianum, Morse. Psyche, VII., 298 (1895).

In September, 1899, I found this species fairly plentiful on sand dunes, in Rondeau Provincial Park, Kent Co., on the shore of Lake Erie. The sand dunes occupy a considerable area there, and in some places near the lake shore are thinly wooded with red cedar (Juniperus virginianus).
NEW COCCIDÆ FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Orthezia lasiorum, n. sp.—♀. About 2 millim, long; pale orange; ovisac (in specimens seen) not very long; two very long median white caudal lamellœ, about two-thirds length of body, curving over ovisac, but not attached to it. Dorsum covered with waxy secretion, but it is so easily deciduous that I have never found an adult with it sufficiently in place to describe. Middle leg with femur + trochanter 300 μ, tibia 240, tarsus (without claw) 180. Antennæ 7-jointed, the last joint with a terminal spine; joints measuring in μ: (1.)75–90. (2.)72–75.(3.)84–95. (4.)60. (5.)48.(6.)45.(7.)120–129. I have never found one with 8 joints, though I should expect such to occur.
A NEW GOOSEBERRY PLANT-LOUSE
Authors: Cockerell W. P. , Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Myzus Neomexicanus, n. sp.—Winged form. General colour of head and thorax black; prothorax sage-green with a transverse black shield, narrowest in the middle; sides of thorax green; antennæ black; wings clear, stigma and nervures very dark brown; abdomen sage-green, four quadrate black marks on each side anterior to honey-tubes, the last sometimes a mere speck; honey-tubes blackish, darkest basally; segment bearing honey-tubes with a few black spots, this and the following two segments with transverse black bands; legs black, tibiæ brown. Ocelliferous tubercle prominent; frontal tubercles low and broad, these and first antennal joint very slightly gibbous. Honey-tubes not swollen, 300 μ long and 40 broad, 200 μ short of tip of abdomen, cingulate. Body about 2100 μ long, antennæ about 1030, half length of body. Tibia of anterior leg 700, of hind leg 880 μ. Antennal joints (counting the so-called 7th joint as 6b) measuring: (1) 70, (2) 60, (3) 270, (4) 190, (5) 184, (6a) 100, (6b) 270.
THE EFFECTS OF SCORPION VENOM
Authors: Barrett O. W.
Published: February 2010

The prevailing belief in regard to scorpion stings seems to be correct: dangerons, but seldom fatal.

However, there are scorpions and scorpions. Moreover, much depends upon the season and the part stung. Generally speaking, a sting in the dry season is much worse than one in the rainy season, because the venom becomes concentrated during the period of lesser activity. And for obvious reasons a sting in the head, neck or trunk of body is worse than one in the extremities.
CYPHODERRIS MONSTROSA
Authors: Turley Louis W.
Published: February 2010

Some time ago, I read a very interesting article, by Dr. S. H. Scudder, in the Canadian Entomologist, on Cyphoderris monstrosa. The rarity of the insect, as set forth by Dr. Scudder's article, has led me to write the observations, of myself and others in this section, on an Orthopteran identified by Professor Aldrich and Professor Bruner as the above-named insect.

In June of 1899, while walking through a pasture near Moscow, at dusk one evening, I heard a great many short, intermittent chirps, similar to the song of Oecanthus fasciatus; but more subdued and ventriloquial, and with longer pauses between the measures. I supposed them to be the songs of crickets, but never before having heard songs like them, I decided to make an acquaintance with their authors.
ON SOME GENERA OF STAPHYLINIDÆ, DESCRIBED BY THOS. L. CASEY
Authors: Wasmann E.
Published: February 2010

1. In his Coleopterological Notices, V., p. 594, Mr. Casey described a new genus of Aleocharini under tire name of Myrmobiota (crassicornis, Cas., n. sp.) as allied to Homœusa, Kr. The only specimen was captured at Iowa City (Iowa) by Mr. H. F. Wickham. Some time afterwards I received three specimens of an insect very like our Homœusa, under the name of Myrmobiota crassicornis, Cas., one directly form Mr. Wickham (captured at Iowa City, June 6, 1896), two through the kindness of Rev. P. J. Schmitt (captured by Wickham at Iowa City, bearing Wickham's number, 9561). After having compared this species attentively with our Homœusa acuminata, I could not doubt that it belonged to the same genus as the latter. I publisherd a note on this subject in the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, XLI., 1898, p. 11, declaring Myrmobiota to be the same genus as Homœusa.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF NANNOTHEMIS BELLA, UHLER
Authors: Weith R. , Needham J. G.
Published: February 2010

1. Field Observations on the Habits of the Species, by R. Weith.

Nannothemis bella, Uhl., is one of the smallest of dragon-flies. Of its life-history we have had no knowledge up to the present time. Until the publicetion of Williamson's Catalogue of the Dragon-flies of Indiana, last year, it was recorded only from our north-east Atlantic seaboard. I have frequently met with it in Elkhart and St. Joe Counties, the two northermost counties in Indiana; but, what has been most perplexing to me, only in a few very restricted areas, these areas not exceeding 50 yards in length by 25 yards in width from margin of lake. The only places I have met with it are at Simonton Lake, a distance of four and one-half miles from the City of Elkhart, Indiana, and Indiana and Baldwin Lakes, thirteen miles north-east of Elkhart, on the boundary line that divides Indiana from Michigan. In the latter place, on a smaller area than at Simonton Lake, the imago is very numerous. Frequent endeavors to find the species at other places where similar conditions prevail proved unsuccessful.
NOTES ON THE GENUS OSMIA
Authors: Titus E. S. G.
Published: February 2010

The maxillary palpi of Osmia (sens. lat.) are given by most authors as four-jointed. I have examined the maxillary palpi of sixteen species in this group, and find in every instance that these palpi are five-jointed. The first joint is usually small, sometimes globular in shape, and visible with a hand-lens only under very favorable conditions. The following species were examined: From the coll. of the State Agr'l College of Colorado—O. armaticeps; Cr.; Coloradensis, Cr.; dubia, Cr.; fulgida, Cr.; integra, Cr.; lignaria, Say, and mandibularis, Cr., all from Colorado.
THE EASTERN SPECIES OF PSYCHODA
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist for December, 1894 (Vol. XXVI., page 329), I presented the species of Psychoda then known to me from Long Island, N. Y. In the following year, in the November number (Vol. XXVII., page 324, I added some notes and described one more species. Since then nothing has been published on our Eastern species. Prof. Kincaid, however, has been active in studying the Western species.
SOME NEW DIPTERA
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

Zodion palpalis, n. sp.

♀.—Black, gray pollinose; face yellow, cheeks yellow, one-half the eye height; front reddish yellow, a narrow black line on each side above; antennæ reddish, second joint shorter than third; palpi black, quite long, clavate; mesonotum without stripes; scutellum with about twelve slender bristles; legs black, knees testaceous; wings subhyaline; first four segments of abdomen with large, subtriangular opaque black spots, last segment black, shining. Length, 5 mm.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CATOCALÆ
Authors: Dodge G. M. , Dodge E. A.
Published: February 2010

Catocala retecta, Grt.

Food-plant, hickory. Length of mature larva, two and one-half inches. Head rather flat, as broad as first segment, gray striped with dark brown, and with a broad black band, ragged iu front, running up each side to top of lobe, but not continued over the summit.

The dorsal stripe consists of a series of rounded, brown patches with a black central line; tubercles, although not large, tipped with white, and conspicuous; subdorsal stripes brown, interrupted and indistinct.
THE COCCIDÆ OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

Since writing my first paper on the Coccidœ of British North America, a very large amount of new and interesting scale insects have been sent to me for study by Dr. Fletcher and Mr. John Dearness. In nearly every instance the twigs sent showed beyond question that the insects occurred upon the food-plants infested in injurious numbers; especially so of those found on blackberry, hazel-nut, spiræa, viburnum and oak. The following are new to the Canadian list:

Pulvinaria tiliœ, King and Ckll., 1898. (Native.) Mr. John Dearness sent these from Thedford, ont, on Cephalanthus occidentalis. IT was first recorded fronl Mass., found on Tilia Americana, Quercus and Ulmus, and described as a sub-sp. of P. innumerabilis, but further study proves it to be quite different from that species, and it should stand as P. tiliœ.
A NEW GENUS OF MYRMELEONIDÆ
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Hagen, in his “Stray Notes on Myrmeleonidæ,” published in the Canadian Entomolgist for 1887 (Vol. XIX., p. 210), called attention to the fact that there are several species of ant-lion-flies in this country which lack tibial spurs. He placed these species in Maracanda, McLach., a genus based on one species from Turkestan. McLachlan's description of the genus agrees moderately well with our forms, except in a few minor particulars. But on examining the figure of the Turkestan insect it is at once apparent that our forms are not congeneric with it. The figure [Fedtschenko's Reise in Turkestan, Neuroptera, Plate 1, fig. 1] shows that in Maracanda there are five or six crossveins before the origin of the radial sector, and that the first branch of the radial sector arises far beyond the end of anal vein. These characters place the genus in a different section from the species we have included in Maracanda.
CURIOUS EFFECT OF THE ATTACK OF AN ASILUS FLY ON COLIAS PHILODICE
Authors: Winn Albert F.
Published: February 2010

During the last week of my holidays at Biddeford, Maine, this summer, Colias philodice was abundant and in fine condition, and a great many were taken, in the hope that among them there might be some C. interior, but none of this species were found.
THE COCCIDÆ OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

Eulecanium Fitchi, Sign. This seems to be a very serious pest. The specimens sent by Dr. Fletcher came from Mr. J. D. Evans, of Trenton, Ont., and the scales were infesting a plot of six acres of blackberry bushes, just as they were about ready for the market. Fortunately, however, of the first lot received, over one half of the scales were destroyed by a fungus, and of the second lot, about one third at least. Trenton is a new locality for this scale. In addition, the scale insects were infested to a remarkable extent by two species of Hyperaspis and two species oi Chalcid parasites.
NOTE ON THE GENERIC TITLE BURTIA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

The generic title Burtia was proposed by me in the first part of the Notes on the Zygænidæ of Cuba, read February 12, 1866, before the Ent. Soc. Phil., and published in July of the same year. The genus is, however, incorrectly dated “1867” by Kirby in his catalogue of 1892, where B. rubella seems also wrongly given as a synonym of Gundlachia cruenta, H.-S., the two species being presumably distinct. Now, Moeschler had previously, in 1890 (Lep. Porto Rico, p. 349), given “Horamia plumosa, H.-S.,” as a synonym of B. rubella, and “G. cruenta” as a synonym of Callicarus pennipes, thus according to my paper priority over Herrich-Schaeffer's in the Correspoudenz Blatt, although these reversed references may chiefly show that Moeschler could not make out H.-S. descriptions, which are usually scanty.
ON SOME DIPTERA BRED FROM COW-MANURE
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

In the summer of 1889, while engaged in an investigation of the habits and life-history of the horn fly of cattle (Haematobia serrata), the writer at various times brought to Washington from different points in Virginia, large quantities of cow-manure collected in the field, and eventually succeeded in working out the complete life-history of the horn fly, as displayed in Insect Life, Vol. II., No.4, October, 1889. In this article the statement is made, in concluding, that the observations were greatly hindered and rendered difficult by the fact that fresh cow-dung is the nidus for a number of species of Diptera, some about the same size and general appearance as the horn fly, and that no less than twenty distinct species of flies had been reared from horse- and cow-dung, mainly the latter, and six species of parasitic insects as well.
SOME PLANT-LICE AFFECTING PEAS, CLOVER AND LETTUCE
Authors: Sanderson E. Dwight
Published: February 2010

Nectarophora lactucœ, Walk.

(Pl. III., 8.) Several writers have listed S. lactucœ, Kalt as an American species. That of Thomas is noted below. Dr. J. B. Smith gives the species in his Insects of New Jersey. Whether the species occurs in this country or not is open to question. It should be noted here that Kaltenbach's Aphis lactucœ is a Rhopalosiphum. Buckton gives both Siphonophora lactucœ, Kalt. and Rh. lactucœ, Kalt., though Kaltenbach described but one species. Walker (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 2, p. 49, 1849) in his description of the species confused it with Rh. lactucœ, Kalt., as Passerini has pointed out. Walker described it as Aphis lactucœ, Linn. and as a synonym of A. lactucœ, Kalt., though Kaltenbach had already shown A. lactucœ, Linn. to have been invalid, and that his species was entirely distinct. Walker also gives A. ribis-nigri, Mosley (Gard. Chron. I., 684) as a synonym. Mosley's description is hardly recognizable, but evidently is the same as some of the varieties described by Walker, both undoubtedly referring to Rhopalosiphum ribis, Linn., and Myzus ribis. Unfortunately, Walker describes only the coloration of his species. Part of his species is evidently, however, N. lactucœ. Passerini's description is too brief to be recognizable, but probably refers to the same species, as Buckton thought. Why Buckton described the species as S. lactucœ, Kalt., is not clear. Buckton follows Walker in giving Ribes nigrum and grossularia as food-plants, and remarks that Walker states that the cornicles are enlarged at the middle, but does not otherwise seem to confuse the species with others as did Walker.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF HIPPISCUS
Authors: Scudder Samuel H.
Published: February 2010

Since the publication, in Psyche for 1892, of my study of the Orthopteran genus Hippiscus, a few additional species have come to light, and they are herewith described. The first species belongs to the subgenus Hippiscus, the others to the subgenus Xanthippus.

Hippiscus citrinus, sp. nov.—A compact and stout though rather small form. Head rather stout and full, broad above, luteo-testaceous, more or less infuscated above, dark fuscous in a stripe behind the eyes, the carinæ more or less infuscated; summit of head obscurely punctate, the vertical scutellum obscure and, with the foveolæ, much as in H. compactus; frontal costa broad, flat, punctate, depressed at the ocellus, where it is slightly enlarged, but otherwise subequal; antennæ ferruginous in basal, blackish in apical half.
NOTE ON CTENUCHA CRESSONANA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

In the Catalogue of the Lep. Phalænæ, p. 528, this species is incorrectly referred to C. venosa. The specimens there recorded are probably all C. venosa, at least those from my collections are. Mr. Geo. Francke sends me two fresh specimens of C. Cressonana. In these, as stated in my original description, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phil., June, 1863, the third stripe of C. venosa is wanting. The stripes on cubitus and branches and along anal region of primaries may vary from white (as I described them) to yellow, and the costa may be yellow (in the first instance)or red. For the yellow-striped from with red costa I propose the name var. Iutea. The fringes in C. Cressonana are entirely white, and I was careful to point out other differences from C. venosa, which should not have been overlooked by the author of the Catalouge above referred to.
NEW HISTORIES AND SPECIES IN HYDRŒCIA
Authors: Bird Henry
Published: February 2010

In searching out the boring larvæ of the Noctuid genus Hydræcia,that large and showy species, speciosissima, has continued to prove a decided engima. This great tawny fellow, with its distinctive white spots, must in the early stage leave some flagrant evidence of its whereabouts behind, yet try as we may all efforts seemin vain, and the conclusion was finally reached that Rye could not number this species in its local list. So the few records that Rye could not number this species in its local list. So the few records of its capture are looked up, and the determintion is made to have a trial elsewhere. Tin 1868, Grote and Robinson described this species, together with inquæsita, under the generic term Gortyna (Trans. Am. Soc. I., 342), and relate receiving their types from seekonk, Rhode Island. Knowing the tenacity with which a colony clings to a favourite resort, a couple of days in July, 1900, were taken for a flying trip to that place; the writer believing that should conditions yet remain favourable, the desiderata might still be found.
ECOLOGICAL LABELS
Authors: Needham Jemes G.
Published: February 2010

I have been greatly interested in reading the suggestive article by Mr. Lutz, in your last (April) number, on labels. It voices a need, whichevery student of ecology will have felt, for more information than accompanies the specimens in the usual collection. No one can collect insects carefully without making observations that are new to science, andit is unfortunate that such observations are generally left unrecorded. Mr.Lutz proposes a plan that would make the observations of tlte amateur collector available for comparison, and that would wonderfully enhance the value of his cabinet. It is, in short, proposed that the collection shall be its own expositor, that pin labels on the specimens shall tell at a glance what usually, if recorded at all, has to be hunted throught the leaves of an accompanying catalogue. Nature's label is, of course, already on every specimen, but we are not yet skillful enough at reading the imprint of environment as written in bodily form and structure, and need to be told in our own language.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CARNEADES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

Carneades fusimacula, n. sp.

Resembles redimicula in most points, but with the colours of divergens. The collar has the broad median black shade fo redimicula; but the primaries do not have the pale costa. Sub-costal and median veins gray. Ordinary spots outlined in gray, the orbicular oblong, oblique, open inferiorly and fused with the reniform, the outline being continuous. The spots are gray powdered and are preceded by black shadings in the cell. A blackish basal streak, to which is joined a long claviform extending half way across the median space: this is blackmargined but concolorous. S.t. line not marked, apex grayish, terminal space else nearly concolorous. In other characters much like divergens, with which, also, it agrees in size.
MR. GROTE'S CRITICISMS
Authors: Lyman Henry. H.
Published: February 2010

As Mr. Grote has done me the honour to make certain criticisms on some of my recent papers, I would ask space for a brief reply.

In regard to Gortyna Ærata,I have no doubt that it has an alternative food-plant, but possibly it may never be discovered. Mr. Bird has made the same point, that as burdock is an introducted species it could not be the original preferred food-plant of any American species. But, while I admiit that an introduced species could not be the original food-plant of an American insect, I see no reason why it should not be the preferred food since its introduction, just as Doryphora Decemlineata prefers the potato to its original food-plant.