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THREE NEW COCCIDAE
Authors: Ehrhorn Edw. M.
Published: February 2010

Nidularia (?) californica, n. sp.

♀ covered with wax resting on a thin white secretion. Colour orange-ferruginous, shiny, varying greatly in size and shape. The average specimens are about 3 mm. long, 1½ wide, and 1 mm. high; generally pyriform, but it is difficult to give any special form, as the insect adapts itself to the position on the plant.

After boiling in K. H. O. derm is colourless, mouth parts, glands and caudal portion remaining brown. There are indications of antennae, which are very small and very bristly, segmentation not visible. There are four large disklike spiracles on the ventral surface, each disk contains numerous glands. There is a row of thick, blunt spines on each margin, and one on the dorsum. These marginal spines are shaped like a spearhead set in a socket. With these there are several rows of round spinnerets. Rostrum attached to a prominence, which, however, varies with the position the insect adopts.
A NEW BUTTERFLY FROM UTAH
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

Melitea Maria, n. sp.—Male: Expands 1½ inches. Upper side. Primaries. The outer margin of the wing has along its edge about eight brick-red spots; internal to these is another row of yellow spots, separated from the former by a very small space. Next comes a row of yellow spots, the first four having an outward curve, and the lower three an inward curve. There then comes a row of quadrate brick-red spots, nearly parallel to the preceding yellow row. At the end of the cell are three yellow quadrate spots. The cell has in it two comparatively large red spots, outlined with black, and having a yellow patch between them and another toward the base. There is also a quadrate yellow spot with concave sides in the space below the third median nerve. The secondaries are marked in a similar manner.
WINTER BREEDING OF DIABROTICA VITTATA IN FORCING HOUSES
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In the “Journal of the New York Entomological Society” for June, 1896 (Vol. IV., No. 2, p. 68), the present writer recorded the occurrence, on December 28, 1895, of adults, and larvæ from one-half to two-thirds grown, of Diabrotica vittata, in a greenhouse near Cincinnati, Ohio, that was being used for growing cucumber for winter market. The injuries inflicted upon the young cucumber plants were very serious, and resulted in a nearly total destruction of the plants. On March 25, 1899, serious injuries were again reported by the proprietors of these same greenhouses, and the complaint was accompanied by speciments of what, to all appearances, were the larvæ of this same species.
THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH AGAIN
Authors: Johnson W. G.
Published: February 2010

Some few weeks ago I had an inquiry referred to me by the Editor of the American Miller from a Canadian correspondent, who stated that the flour moth was less than fourteen miles away from his mill, in Wellington (Ontario) district. I contributed a short article regarding this moth in the May number of the American Miller, in response to which two other localities have been discovered. One comes from York district, along the Lake, and one from Leeds district, along the St. Lawrence River. It seems clear to me that this insect is spreading along the watercourses of the lakes and inland along the railroads. Four other cases were reported to me, with larvæ and pupæ from each, from the United States side, one coming from Ohio, the first reported from that State, and three from New York.
ON THE RELATIONS OF A SPECIES OF ANT, LASIUS AMERICANUS, TO THE PEACH ROOT, LOUSE, APHIS PRUNICOLA
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

Some years ago, Dr. Erwin F. Smith called attention to the fostering of this aphis by a species of ant, Lasius claviger, and, although not able to actualiy witness the act, his studies of the actions of this ant about the roots of peach trees infested by this aphis led him to believe that the former brought the latter from below ground in spring and placed them upon the twigs, thus indirectly if not directly causing their diffusion in orchards.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

Unquestionably, this group is closely related to the Crabronidae, where most authorities have placed it; but, to me, the quiet different shaped head, the absence of the basal abscissa of the cubitus in the front wings, and the remarkable formation of the scutellum and postscutellum, characters not found in any other group, seem to justify one in separating it from the Crabronidae and treating it as a distinct family.

The group was first recognized as a subfamily in 1874, by c. G. Thomson, in his Skandinaviens Hymenoptera, Vol. III., p. 256.
A LIST OF MANITOBA MOTHS.–Part III
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

The Noctuids of this Province, as already known, make a very fair list, and include a number of rare moths, as well as a good percentage of new species. I have seen all Mr. E. F. Heath's things, and his additions to my list are quite numerous; these appear as taken at Carwright. The Rounthwaite records are Mr. L. E. Marmont's (I have seen his collection), and he has added some rare species. The Brandon records are in some cases my own, as I have visited there the last three summers; other are Mr. H. W. O. Boger's, of that place. I have seen paintings of a number of moths collected at the Douglas swamp by Mr. Criddle, of St. Alban's, Aweme, and these have given me a few extra names.

My best collecting here has been done at light, at Brandon on bloom on the prairies, and I have also had very fair success, both here and at Brandon, from sugaring late in the season (from the middle of August until early in October).
DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF HADENA MISELOIDES, GUEN
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—A little less than spherical, the base flat. Twelve sharp ribs run to the vertex, which is large, circular, reticulate, with a central elevation at the micropyle; one-third of the way down these ribs neatly alternate with twelve others, forming twenty-four ribs around the base. Ribs straight; space distinctly, regularly cross striate. Diameter .8, height .7 mm.

Stage I.—Head rounded, mouth pointed; shining yellowish; width .5 mm. Body thickened at thorax and joint 12, robust, sharply tapering at joint 13, which is placed almost under joint 12. Translucent yellowish, shining and sticky like a slug, the food showing by transparency. Setae minute and pale, not glandular, tubercles obsolete. Rests curled on the back of the leaf; several larvae on the same leaf, but not gregarious. Hatched when found.
THE DIPHYLISM OF THE DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

Having brought my studies of the neuration of the diurnals to a preliminary close, I wish to place on record here the conclusions to which they have led. The diphylism is founded on the following characters:

A.–Butterflies having a short third anal vein on fore wings, curving downwardly from base to internal margin, and with only one anal vein on hind wings ......... Papilionides.

B.–Butterflies having a fork to the second anal vein of fore wings at base, sometimes incomplete, often disappearing through absorption, and with at least two anal veins on hind wings ......... Hesperiades.
SOME NEW DELTOCEPHALINAE (JASSIDAE)
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: February 2010

Deltocephalus Callidus, n. sp.

Form and general appearance of signatiforns nearly, more robust, venation slightly variable, resembling that of compactus. Length 3 mm.; width 1 mm.

Vertex obtusely angulate, one-sixth wider at base than its middle length, scarcely equalling the pronotum; front long and narrow, but slightly wider than clypeus below; pronotum more than twice wider than long; elytra equalling the abdomen, rather broad, outer claval area slightly reticulated, central anteapical cell usually divided.
A LIST OF MANITOBA MOTHS.—PART IV
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

Hadenella subjuncta, Smith. A few at light in 1897 about the beginning of July. (See page 323, Vol. XXX.)

Drybota stigmata, Grt. Cartwright.

Polia confragosa, Morr. Sept. 15th (1896). Three specimens at sugar in Elm Park.

Laphygma frigiperda, S. & A. Sept. 8th, one at bloom.

Eupsephopæectes procinctus, Grt. Cartwright. I think Mr. Heath has only taken one of these fine insects.

Trigonophora periculosa, Gn. Cartwright.

Brotolomia iris, Gn. June 19th, etc., several at light, also taken resting on walls of house.
ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BEES
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

During the last winter, in connection with the study of the local bees, I had occasion to write out my views in regard to their classification, basing my observation upon the recent Apidae catalogue of Della Torre. As the views then arrived at form a fair statement of my present opinions, I venture to offer them in connection with the recent paper of Mr. Ashmead on the classification of the bees.
NOTES ON PHILANTHUS
Authors: Dunning S. N.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadia Entomologist, 1899, p. 293, ff., Mr. Ashmead has divided, first Aphilanthops into Clypeadon, Patton, and Aphilanthops, Patton, and secondly Plilanthus into Epiphilanthus, Pseudanthophilus, Anthophilus, and Philanthus.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELEONIDAE
Authors: Currie Rolla P.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist for March, 1899, page 70, Mr. Nathan Banks describes a new species of Brachynemurus under the name tuberculatus. The specimen used in drawing up the description was a female, and as I find a male of this species in the National Museum collection, a description of it is given here:

Brachynemurus tuberculatus, Banks.

Male.—Length, 21.5 mm.; expanse of wings, 33 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 3.6 mm.; length of antennae, 4 mm. Much smaller and more slender than the famale.
A COCCID FROM THE FAR NORTH
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Eriococcus borealis, n. sp., ♀.—Sacs on twigs, closely felted, rather rough, broad oval, grayish-white, about 2½ mm. long. Gives no red colour on boiling in caustic potash. Skin after boiling, greenish or grayish, thickly beset with round to oval hyaline spots. Dermal spines only moderately numcrous, 27–45 μ long, the shorter ones more numerous than the longer. Caudal lobes long, brownish, irregularly, cylindrical, about 42 μ broad and 90 μ long. Buccal apparatus about 120 μ broad; rostral loop rather short; mentum rather long.
ODOUR OF SAN JOSE SCALE, ASPIDIOTUS PERNICIOSUS
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In the many accounts of this insect, I do not recall that attention has been called to the odour that is associated with insect, and which, in cases of excessive abundance, can be detected at a considerable distance away. Where the air is quiet it is often possible to detect the presence of a badly infested tree a yard away, and I presume that with more acute olfactories, such as insects are supposed by many to possess, even the presence of a more limited number of the scale might be detected at a much greater distance.
A LIST OF MANITOBA MOTHS.—Part II
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

This list was commenced on page 291 of Vol. XXIX of this magazine. Since then another season has come and gone, and Mr. Heath, of Cartwright, has kindly submitted all his moths to me for names. Some good collecting has also been done by Mr. Marmont, at Rounthwaite. The result is, as will be seen by a perusal of the subjoined list, a very respectable addition to the Sphingidae and Bombycidae of this Province.

Collections made by Mr. Criddle, at Douglas, and Mr. Hutchinson, at Kinosota, have not been seen yet; they no doubt will yield some new or rare species, especially as both localities should be good ones. At Douglas there is a very large spruce and tamarac swamp, and Kinosota is close to Lake Manitoba, and has besides extensive forest lands in the district.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

While the Canadian species of this family are not numerous, they are of considerable interest, and because of the scattered nature of the literature, often quite difficult to identify. The present paper, while containing little that is new, will serve to bring together in conscise form the information necessary to enable the beginner to examine his material intelligently.

In the Leconte and Horn “Classification,” the following characters are used as defining the family: “Mouth-parts normal, palpi flexible, front and middle tarsi with five, posterior with four joints. Anterior coxal cavities open behind, head not strongly constricted at base, middle coxae not very prominent.
A CLASSIFICATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELEONIDAE
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Some time ago in examining our species of ant lions I noticed that our two large genera, Myrmeleon and Brachynemurus, could readily be separated by the position of the origin of the radial sector; in one much nearer to the base of the wing than in the other. The characters previously used for Brachynemurns, as the forked costal veinlets, the length of the tibial spurs, etc., had not been satisfactory; and the discovery of this distinction led me to examine the other forms of the family with a view to their better classification.
SIX NEW OTTAWA PROCTOTRYPIDAE
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

The following descriptions of species which appear to be additions to our fauna were prepared more than a year ago, but were withheld in the hope that more material might be obtained last season. That hope was, however, not fulfilled; largely, perhaps, be it confessed, through lack of sufficient perseverance on the part of the writer in collecting:

1. Lygocerus pallipes, n. sp.

♀.—Length 1.5—2 mm. Black, finely punctulate and sparsely pubescent. Mandibles and palpi yellowish; antennae balck, except the scape at base and beneath; scape stout, first joint of flagellum about half as long as scape, second as long as pedicel, remaining joints subequal. Legs, including coxae, yellow. Wings subhyaline, stigma large, yellow. Abdomen stout, pointed at tip.
OBSERVATIONS UPON SPILOSOMA CONGRUA, WALKER
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

On the 29th of June, 1897, I found, in the Gomin Swamp, two Spilosomas, females, lying side by side. One of them was much spotted, and presented the exact appearance of the insect which is figured, with closed wings, in the original edition of Dru Drury's work, and named by him Bombyx cunea. The other was white, but on the median nerve, at the angle of the second fork, there was a small black dot, hardly perceptible. The thorax was clothed with light down; the abdomen was white and spotless. The eyes were black, as were also the under sides of the antennae and feet. The front of the thorax under the head was luteours.

This second moth laid eggs on the 10th of July, and the eggs produced larvae which, in due time, pupated. The moths appeared in the following spring.
LIFE-HISTORY OF THE SHEEP SCAB-MITE, PSOROPTES COMMUNIS
Authors: Gillette C. P.
Published: February 2010

I am not aware that the full life-history of this insect has been published, though I shall not be surprised to learn that such is the case.

In order to know how long a time should intervene between the first and second dippings for the cure of scab, we must know the period of incubation and also the entire time elapsing from the deposition of the egg up to the time that the mite from that egg, if a female, may be itself depositing eggs.
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF PHYCITINÆ
Authors: Hulst Geo. D.
Published: February 2010

Monoptilota, n. gen.—Palpi ascending, second article heavy, third short; maxillary palpi small; front broad, flattened, ocelli not discernible in undenuded specimens; antennæ of ♂, first joint much lengthened, swollen, followed by a decided, rather lengthened bend, hollowed on the inside into a deep furrow or pocket its entire length, the edges scaled, becoming tufted on posterior edges outwardly; beyond sinus filiform; from beyond basal joint the antennæ are unipectinate, the pectinations one on each segment, filiform, being longest just beyond sinus, and these five or six times the diameter of the stem, each armed with straight parallel hairs on each side; end segments ciliate. Antennæ of ♀ filiform ciliate.
A DECADE OF DOLICHOPODIDÆ
Authors: Melander Axel Leonard
Published: February 2010

The ten species included in the present paper are all from the collection of Dr. Wm. M. Wheeler, under whose management this work was performed. As a slight token of my appreciation of his generosity and kindness, it pleases me greatly to dedicate one of the forms to him.
SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF PHYCITINÆ
Authors: Hulst Geo. D.
Published: February 2010

Tetralopha formosella, n. sp.

Expands 18 mm. Head nearly pure white; thorax white with black scales intermixed; fore wings pure white, sometimes intermixed with black, and with black spot on costa to basal line; basal line black, with three long black teeth on outer side; middle field whitish, costa towards base black; along inner margin and reaching half way across wing, dull brick red, broken by median cross scale ridge, which is of intermingled black and white; outer line white, edged on both sides with blackish; outer field grayish, mixed with black, much darker along costa to apex; hind wings fuscous, much darker along outer edge; beneath fuscous on all wings, an outer lighter cross line showing on all wings.
THE GENUS CATOCALA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

It is 16 years since the Rev. G. D. Hulst undertook a revision of this genus along the lines of “Structural Characters.” As a new Check List of the moths is to be published soon, it seems proper that another arrangement of the genus be made. The structure of the genitalia as a basis of the separation of the species has been regarded by many eminent lepidopterists as of doubtful value. It is certain that in this genus its use was not warranted by larval characters or field observation. For these reasons the last revision has not been satisfactory to those who were familiar with many species in their native haunts, or who had bred them. The writer does not say, however, that the present revision will be faultless, for as yet too few of the species are known in their adolescent stages to make this much of an aid in classification.
NOTES ON IDIOCERUS (JASSIDÆ)
Authors: Baker C. F.
Published: February 2010

There has just come into my hands (April, 1900) the paper on this genus by Osborn and Ball in the Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., Dec., 1898. As some of my conclusions regarding the species of this genus do not coincide with those of the above authors, it may be of interest to present another view.

Verticis, ramentosus and Striola are in the same condition Deltocephalus Melsheimeri used to be in: different authors might readily find many different forms that possibly fit the descriptions. Perhaps the types ramentosus and striola are in existence. I think more harm than good will come of attempts to identify these three forms without further data then the mere descriptions.
NEW NOCTUIDS FROM BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES ON SOME OTHERS
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

Of late years a few collectors have been sending material from various points in Western Canada, Manitoba and British Columbia. Mr. Dod at Calgary, Mr. Hanham at Winnipeg, and Mr. Heath at Cartwright, have collected many interesting species. Dr. Fletcher has sent me examples from other collectors in the same general region, so that we have now some little basis for a judgment as to the general character of the Noctuid fauna.
ON THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CHOREUTIS AND ITS ALLIES
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

About fifteen years ago I obtained from Dr. O. Staudinger a series of all the species placed under the Choreutidæ in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the European Fauna (1871), and made a critical study of their structure to aid in the arrangement of our North American species. This study also led me to look up the nomenclature of these insects, and the results are given in this paper.

There has been a growing tendency for some time to use the generic names proposed by Hübner, and while at first I was not inclined to adopt the genera in his Tentamen, I now feel compelled to do so. It is not necessary to argue this question, since both sides were so ably presented years ago in this journal.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN ORTALIDÆ
Authors: Johnson Chas. W.
Published: February 2010

Pyrgota Chagnoni, n. sp.

♂.—Head reddish, vertex reticulated with brown, cheeks and occiput yellowish, antennal foveæ brown; antennæ yellow, thorax and scutellum red; numerous fine brown specks are so arranged as to form two obsolete dorsal lines and two spots on each side divided by the suture; this character is especially noticeable when looking from the head toward the scutellum, and gives the disc of the thorax a rugose appearance. Abdomen narrow, brownish, shining, posterior margins of the second, third, fourth and sides of the fifth segment more or less blackish. Halteres yellow. Legs variable in colour, with thick black hairs, especially on tibiæ, anterior and middle coxæ, basal half of all the femora and tibiæ, and all except the terminal joint of the tarsi yellow; posterior coxæ and the terminal portion of the femora reddish; outer half of all the tibiæ and the terminal joint of the tarsi blackish; the outer portion of the posterior tibiæ is intensely black, while the black of the anterior tibiæ is due largely to long thick hairs. The wings can best be described by reversing that of P. valida, Harris, given by Loew (Monog., Pt. III., p. 75).
DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF TABANIDÆ
Authors: Hine James S.
Published: February 2010

The limits of the subgenus Atylotus as restricted by Osten–Sacken are not easy to determine. The presence or absence of the ocelligerous tubercle is the character which gives most trouble, for in some species it seems to be absent in the female and present in the male, and one could convince himself without a great amount of imagination that in some species it is present in one specimen and absent in another of the same sex. the type of the subgenus is bicolor, and associated with it are other equally peculiar species whose characters place them at once in Atylotus. They are small forms in which the usual banding of the eyes is lacking, as are also the frontal callosity and subcallous. The wings are glassy, transparent, resembling those of some other Tabanids when teneral.
HARPALUS CALIGINOSUS AS A STRAWBERRY PEST, WITH NOTES ON OTHER PHYTOPHAGUS CARABIDÆ
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In nearly all of our books relating to beneficial insects, published within the last twenty years, there is almost sure to be found, some where, the figure of a larva tragically devouring a smaller larva, the larger having been originally figured as that of Harpalus caliginosus. Although attention has for some time been called to the fact that the larva thus figured really belongs to another species, the true H. caliginosus being as yet unknown, yet the use of the figure in its old application still goes on. The carnivorous habits of the beetle itself, however, have been pointed out by Dr. Lintner, in his Twelfth Report, p. 209, where it is recorded as feeding on the army worm, and in Insect Life, p. 228, Vol. VII., as feeding upon grasshoppers. The writer has also observed it preying upon other insects. For this reason, notwithstanding its known fondness for seeds and grain, it has been looked upon, generally, as a beneficial species, its known vegetable food consisting either of seeds of no economic value, or the amount of grain being too small to be taken into consideration.
THE PRINCIPLE WHICH UNDERLIES THE CHANGES IN THE NEURATION
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

In developing a general view of the changes in the neuration of the lepidopterous wing, the mass of detail in any one paper may obscure, for the reader, the statement of the assumed plan of progression. This seems to be, briefly, a simplification of the longitudinal systems of veining, and attained through a process of reduction. Where this progress would interfere with the serviceableness of the organ, the dormant tracheæ in the tegument may, in speciar cases, develop accessory veins, such as the humeral spurs of the Lachneids, the cross branches and extra veins in Tineides, and, as I have suggested, the so-called precostal spur (at one time vein I. of Comstock) on the hind wings of the diurnals. The cubital and discal cross-veins may be, however, survivals of a former system of cross-veins, since we apprehend them in various stages of retrogression. But they may be also what I call sub-secondary: produced at one time to be abandoned at another. Still, this latter is a rather violent theory. It is better to adopt the view that there is a general simplification going or controlled by mechanical causes and subsidiary to tlie habit and changes in habit of the organism, and which includes these two cross-vetns.
NOMADA SAYI AND TWO RELATED NEW SPECIES
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

In Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 20: 276, 1893, I described Nomada Sayi from eight female and fifteen male specimens. At present I have fortyfive female and ninety male specimens which I have referred to this species, but which I now propose to describe under the three following names:

Nomada Sayi, Rob.— ♀. Mandibles simple, antennæ long, joint 4 longer than 3 or 5, as long as 12; or nearly so, pygidium rather broadly truncate; scutellum sub-bilobed, prominent; enclosure of metathorax coarsely reticulated at base, finely roughened beyond; head and thorax closely and coarsely punctured; abdomen shining, rather sparsely and finely punctured; ferruginous, the scape, front and middle legs, tubercles and tegulæ, more yellowish; about antennæ, about ocelli, occiput, band on mesonotum, middle of metathorax sometimes, band from wings to middle and hind coxæ, base of femora behind more or ress, sometimes hind metatarsi, base of abdomen, sometimes apical margins of segments more or less, and sutures, generally blach or blackish; segments 2 and 3 of abdomen with a yellow spot on each side; wings hyaline, marginal cell and apical margins clouded, basal nervure ending before transverse median. Length, 6–8 mm.
ON TWO GENERA OF MITES
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

In 1871, Thorell published his description of Rhagidia in a paper entitled, “Om Arachnider fran Spetsbergen och Beeren-Eiland.” He placed it in the family Eupodidœ, from the other genera of which it differed principally in the great size of the mandibles. In 1876, Cambridge, in his paper “On a new Order and some new Genera of Arachnida from Kerguelen's Land,” described Pœcilophysis as the type of a new family and a new order. He was unaware of Thorell's mite, yet there is but one prominent difference between them, Pœcilophysis is said to have eyes on the frontal tubercle. Neither of these authors gave any reference to any species of Koch's genus Scyphius, to which their forms bear a great resemblance. Koch described about a dozen species of this genus, many of which are doubtless only forms of one species. In the modern European literature, nothing is done with Koch's species of this genus, save by Oudemans (1897), who identifies four of the Kochian names. Oudemans, however, appears to be ignorant of the fact that there were several other names for this genus besides Scyphius, for he thinks, since Scyphius is preoccupied, that the genus must have a new name.
NOTES ON COLORADO BEES
Authors: Titus E. S. G.
Published: February 2010

The following table is intended to serve as a means of separating the species of the genus Agapostemon, Smith, occurring in Colorado: Body green or blue-green.
A QUESTION OF NOMENCLATURE
Authors: Aldrich J. M.
Published: February 2010

The status of Professor French's Gastrophilus epilepsalis, described in the September number of this journal, has interested me especially, as I am preparing a new catalogue of North American Diptera.

I am convinced that it was decidedly premature to assign a specific name to this larva. In the first place, it was very small and immature, and the earlier larval forms of Oestridæ are much less known than the later, so that we do not possess the data that would enable us to separate this species, for instance, from G. nasalis.
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PURSLANE SAWFLY, SCHIZOCERUS ZABRISKEI
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

On page 54 of the current volume of the Canadian Entomologist, I called attention to the sudden and almost total disappearance of this species at Wooster, Ohio, where it had for several years been excessively abundant, even up to the latter part of August and early September of last year, 1899. This abrupt termination of the period of activity was at the time attributed to the effect of a parasitic species, Ichneutes, sp. ?, which had in the meantime become also excessively abundant.
NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF EPHYDRIDÆ
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Psilopa flavida, n. sp. ♂.—Yellow, polished, the third joint of antennæ, except the lower side, dark brown; hairs and macrochætæ black, a vitta reaching from humerus to insertion of wing, and another on middle of pleura, black; abdomen, except first segment and middle of the second, black, with a strong violaceous tinge; knob of halteres greenish yellow; wings grayish hyaline, unmarked; two pairs of dorso-central mocrochætæ; length 2.5 mm. New Bedford, Mass. A single specimen collected by Dr. Garry de N. Hough. Type No. 4292. U. S. Nat. Museum.
ADDITIONS TO THE WESTERN JASSID FAUNA
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: February 2010

Thamnotettix chiragrica, n. sp.—Form and size of T. parallela nearly, superficially resembling Cicadula punctifrons, var. Americana. Length, 6 mm.; width, very nearly 2 mm.

Vertex twice wider than lone, half longer on middle than against eye, disc convex slightly sloping, rounded to the face, front very broad and short, width at base and length about equal, the disc convex. Pronotum a third longer than the vertex, over twice wider than long; elytra long, almost parallel margined to the apex, venation distinct, apical cells short, their bases truncate, the anteapicals long.
VARIATIONS IN SOME COMMON SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Ehrmann Geo. A.
Published: February 2010

Papilio asterias, Fabr. Var. semi-alba, ♂, nov. var.

On July 31st, 1899, I captured a very interesting form which is out of the ordinary run of the variation which prevails in this species. The size and markings are the same as the normal form, but all the maculations on the primaries are pure white, while the markings on the secondaries are of a deep golden yellow. The under side is the same, but not so conspicuous. Two males in my collection.
REMARKS ON PSOROPHORA CILIATA, WITH NOTES ON ITS EARLY STAGES
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

Psorophora ciliata, Fabr., is the only species of the genus Psorophora known to occur in the United States. It is a widespread species and is known to the writer to occur in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Vilginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nebraska, Texas and California. It is, however, rare in its northern range and seems to be a lower austral form. It may have a tropical range, but among many mosquitoes received by the writer during the past year from Mexico, Nicaragua and Cuba, this species does not occur. In his “Notes on the Mosquitoes of the United States” (Bulletin 25, New Series, Division of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture), published August 23rd, 1900, the writer calls attention to the fact that Psorophora and Megarhinus have not been studied by investigators engaged in working upon the transfer of Haematamoebæ by mosquitoes, and urges that physicians and bacteriologists in our Southern States pay some attention to the mosquitoes of these genera.
THE DESTRUCTIVE GREEN–PEA LOUSE
Authors: Johnson Willis G.
Published: February 2010

Perhaps never in the history of economic entomology has an undescribed species of insect appeared so suddenly and over such a wide area, and in such destructive numbers, as the “destructive green-pea louse,” the popular name I have given the insect herein described. It has occurred, during the past season, in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Cerolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York (Long Island), Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, Ohio, and Canada (Ottawa).
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS UPON BOMBYX CUNEA, DRURY, ETC.
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

To make my way clear I beg to state the objects I had in view in writing the article that appeared under my name in the number of the Canadian Entomologist for last May. They were these:

I.—To establish the identity of the Spilosoma Antigone of Strecker with the Spilosoma congrua of Walker.

II.—To show that Dr. Riley's series of wings in Fig. 87, Packard's Forest Insects, does not afford a proof conclusive that cunea, textor, punctata and punctatissima are one and the same species of insect.

III.—To bring into notice a Spilosoma which answers to the figure given by Drury of his Bombyx cunea.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MASSACHUSETTS COCCIDÆ—SUPPLEMENTARY TO CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MASSACHUSETTS COCCIDÆ
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

The object of the present list is to bring together all the published records found by me to treat of, or give any reference to, Coccids known to inhabit Massachusetts up to August, 1899. Since then others have appeared and will be published when sufficient material is collected.

Cockerell, Theo. D. A., 1893.—Insect Life, Vol. VI., p. 103, he lists Pinnaspis pandani, Comst., from Mass. under glass.
NOTE ON CYANIRIS PSEUDARGIOLUS OF BOISDUVAL AND LE CONTE
Authors: Butler Arthur G.
Published: February 2010

In 1782, Cramer described and figured a Cyaniris (Pl. CCLXX., figs. D, E), and incorrectly gave the Cape of Good Hope as its locality.

In his “Rhopalocera Africæ Australis,” Mr. Trimen described the species form a single example labelled “S. Africa” in the British Museum collection, and stated that this was the only example he had seen. In his later work this species is ignored, Mr. Trimen having evidently satisfied himself that it never came from any part of Africa. On looking up the authority for the locality of the specimen mentioned by Trimen in our oldest “Register of Accessions,” I find it entered as “P. Landon, Cram., n., S. Africa?” the locality having evidently been entered on Cramer's authority.
PYRAMEIS HUNTERA, N. VAR. FULVIA
Authors: Dodge G. M.
Published: February 2010

Expanse one and six-eighths inches. It differs from the usual form of Huntera by its smaller size, its paler colour, and by being more broadly fulvous. The fuscous of the primaries is reduced to a black crescentic line at end of discal cell, a dark costal border and a small patch at apex enclosing the white spots. This apical patch is pale, and is outwardly invaded by fulvous.
NOTES ON CAPTURES OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Heath E. Firmstone
Published: February 2010

A constant succession of surprises has taken place during the year 1899, owing to the absence of species and even whole genera that I have taken in previous years in some abundance, their places being occupied by forms new to me. I thought that the list of Manitoba Lepidoptera by Mr. Hanham, now being published, would be fairly complete, considering the amount of material at his disposal; but my work of last summer, so far as I have identified the result, will add several species to the list, and I have yet a number of specimens, about which I am in doubt, to submit to Dr. J. B. Smith, who has very kindly undertaken the task of naming my new things.
LIFE—HISTORY OF XYLINA BETHUNEI, G. & R.
Authors: Lyman Henry H.
Published: February 2010

On the evening of 17th of April, 1898, a ♀ of this species entered my room, and was bottled and not looked at again until the morning of the 19th, when it was found that the cyanide in the bottle was exhausted and that the moth was still alive and had laid a considerable number of eggs. The eggs were distributed through the cotton wool at the bottom of the bottle, and this had to be carefully pulled to pieces thread by thread to secure the eggs.
A NEW PLANT-LOUSE INJURING STRAWBERRY PLANTS IN ARIZONA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Mysus fragœfolii, n. sp.

“Apterous female and larvæ white or faintly yellowish. Eyes dark brown. Antennæ concolorous with body or faintly brownish; apex of the fifth, the sixth and its spur pale dusky. Tarsi dusky, their apex black.

“Winged female: slightly more yellow, the head, thoracic lobes and sternal plate blackish brown. Antennæ black; the two basal joints of colour of body, or with a faintly dusky tinge. Legs pale dusky; the terminal third or half of the femora pale dusky; apex of tibiæ and the tarsi black. The abdomen is marked with a small, squarish, dusky spot in front of nectaries. Stigma pale dusky, veins black.” (Theo. Pergande MS.).
REVISION OF THE GENUS CATOCALA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

On page 191,Vol.XXXII., of the Canadian Entomologist (1900), Dr. Grote describes a new species of Catocala from Texas, C. moderna, related to C. viduata. If we place this as No. 7 in our list of the former article, and push the rest one number forward, it will bring C. relicta No. 21 instead of No. 20.
SOME RECENT WORK IN THE GENUS CATOCALA
Authors: Poling Otho C.
Published: February 2010

Since the revision of this genus by the late Dr. Hulst, in 1884, contributions to our knowledge have not been extensive, while the material gathered in recent years has been very great. The popularity of the genus among students of Lepidoptera had made the necessity for a revision very keenly felt, so that when Prof. French generously undertook the work, a year or so ago, a feeling of gratitude was aroused by enthusiasts, who have known the thoroughness with which his work would be attended.
TYPES AND SYNONYMY
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

Two papers in the last (April) number of the Canadian Entomologist are of great interest to me, and both on the same general topic applied to very different species. Mr. Lyman makes an earnest effort to save Mr. Walker's name Spilosoma congrua, and gives all the facts relating to the name, its publication and subsequent history; upon which facts Mr. Lyman and Sir George Hampson reach opposite conclusions. I have no liking for Mr. Walker's species, but I think I would side with Mr. Lyman in this case, because, with all the examples before them, Messrs. Grote and Robinson separated out a good species with which a specimen of another, previously knolwn, was erroneously associated. By removing one example, a good species remained, to which the name given by the author could be correctly applied.
CYPHODERRIS MONSTROSA
Authors: Scudder Samuel H.
Published: February 2010

From time to time during the last two or three years, Dr. James Fletcher has sent me specimens of a curious Locustarian taken at Banff, Alberta, by Mr. N. B. Sanson, curator of the Government museum in the National Park at that place. The specimens were all wingless and apparently immature females, but quite unlike anything known from that region. A study of their structure showed that they belonged to the Stenopelmatini and were most nearly allied to the genus Cyphoderris. Now, Cyphoderris, though described by Uhler thirty-six years ago, is a rare creature and was on record from only two localities, Oregon and Wind River, Wyo., and only males had hitherto been taken. The probability that these immature and wingless females belonged with the winged males appeared to me, however, so great that in my recent catalogue of North American Orthoptera I recorded the species given in the title above as found in Alberta.
INSECTARY REARINGS OF TWO SPECIES OF MORDELLISTENA
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

Mordellistena pustulata, Mels., was reared June 6th, 1899, from stems of Ambrosia trifida, Giant Ragweed, collected October 13th, 1898. From the same species of plant collected November 10th, 1899, this insect was reared April 4th, May 12th and 31st, 1900.

Mr. Coquillett has found larvæ of this species in plant stems, under circumstances that render it highly probable that they were feeding on Lepidopterous larvæ. The stems of the Giant Ragweed are populated by Lepidopterous, Dipterous, Coleopterous and Hymenopterous larvæ. In my case only by Coleopterous and Hymenopterous larvæ.
SOME ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS BY GUENÉE
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

The supposed “types” of Guenée in the British Museum have been examined, with the result that some well-established names of Noctuids have been displaced by an uncertain determination. Guenée's collection, which I saw in cbateaudun during the lifetime of the author, is now with M. Oberthier, and should be looked through. But the only evidence we have which is vital is the original description; where this is inapplicable the name should not be used. Only on this evidence can we assume that any of the British Musenm specimens are the real types of either Walker or Guenée, because the collections have not been kept intact as Walker left them, and because no type labels were attached by the latter to the specimens. In these pages I have, I hope successfully, rehabilitated Mamestra lubens, and, by publishing the following translations, perhaps other undoubted names may be restored to their rights. I maintain, for instance, that whatever may be written on the subject, a name like Apatela subochrea should always be retained for the species, in reference to the contradictory opinions which have appeared in print. What we want is certainty in designating the object, and, when circumstances clearly admit of doubt and authors disagree, the sure title should be preferred in every case. There is now far more confusion as to specific titles of our Noctuids than formerly, when the current determinations were mainly supplied by me.
THE COCCIDÆ OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

The following list of the Coccidæ found to inhabit Canada is complete, so far as the published records show, together with some other information derived from corresponding with Prof. Cockerell, Dr. Fletcher, and Mr. John Dearness. Much, however, has been obtained from material sent to me for identification. In reviewing the list it will be seen that Ontario has 25 species of Coccids credited to her; while Ottawa has 18; Toronto, 6; Quebec, 3; Prince Edward Island, 3; Nova Scotia, 4; New Brunswick, 2; and British Columbia, 6. One has been found in an ants' nest, 8 in greenhouses, and there have been 8 new species described from Canada. There are 46 species, 27 of which are native to North America, 14 are introduced, and 4 whose home is unknown, but which were probably introduced. The large majority of the species have been found by Dr. Fletcher, or at least have passed through his hands. Much credit, however, is due Mr. John Dearness, who has taken great interest in looking for these very injurious insects, and has sent me several very interesting species.
MORE ABOUT THE RED-WINGED CATOCALÆ
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

At the time of writing my article on the “Red Wing” species of Catocalæ I was in doubt about a few forms, as there were some I had not seen. Since writing that, Mr. O. C. Poling, of Quincy, Ill., kindly sent me for examination some of these, and many others from his large collection; besides enriching my cabinet with several species it did not before contain. To bring the “Red wings” into what seems to be their proper relationship my last article needs a revision, which I will here make before taking up the “Yellow Wing” forms.

Marmorata should probably precede Concumbeus, where it may be found in this series. Mr. poling's new species, Frenchii, should follow Californica and its varieties. Mr. Heury Edwards described both Jessica and Portia as related to Californica. These, with Mr. Poling's species, Hippolyta and Luciana, it seems ro me should constitute what might be called the Californica group.
A NEW VARIETY OF CICINDELA VULGARIS
Authors: Harris Edward Doubleday
Published: February 2010

A undescribed variety of Cicindela vulagaris, Say, is reported from the basin of the Rogue River, in S.-W. Oregon. Twenty specimens taken during the month of April of this year, and closely representative of the local tribe, present no differences except a slight one in shade of colour, indicating, apparently, that the variety is well established and worthy of a descriptive name. The elytra markings are identical with those generally recognized as possessed by vulgaris proper. It is slightly narrower and the upper surface more convex than the type. The colour is a dull coppery green, the metallic hue being more apparent, as is usual in other species, at the edges of the elytra. It seems to be a connecting link between the type and variety vibex, Horn. Its habitat suggests the name C. roguensis.
THREE NEW SPECIES OF CULICIDÆ
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

During his extensive investigation of the mosquitoes of this country, Dr, L. O. Howard eucountered three apparently new forms, and in order that these may be referred to intelligently in his correspondence and otherwise, he has instructed the writer to name and chalacterize them in one of our entomological journals. The descriptions are therefore offered herewith:

Psorophora Howardii, new species.
NEW SPECIES OF EVANIIDÆ
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

Mr. J. Chester Bradley has begun, in the May number of the “Entomological Student,” a monographic revision of the Evaniidœ of North America, a work badly needed by our students.

On learning from me that I had several new species in this family, he has requested that I should publish them at once, so that they may be incorporated in his monograph, which will be published in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia.
SOME PLANT-LICE AFFECTING PEAS, CLOVER, AND LETTUCE
Authors: Sanderson E. Dwight
Published: February 2010

The “Green Dolphin” is one of the best-Known pests of peas and vetches in Europe, though but little concerning its economy has been recorded by European writers. In this country, N. pisi, Kalt., has been noted by Thomas, Oestlund, and Williams, but as their specimens were never compared with any from Europe, and as plant-lice are exceedingly variable and descriptions of them are, therefore, often of but little value even when accurate, the identity of their specimens with the European forms has been somewhat in doubt.
NEW DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOUTH AMERICA
Authors: Weeks A. G.
Published: February 2010

Habitat: Bogata district, Colombia. Expanse: 1.50 inches.

Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen above, dark mouse colour; beneath, nearly white. Between the eyes are three white dots. Antennæ black. Legs grayish white.

Upper side of fore wing dark mouse colour. There is a broad prominent yellowish-white band extending from costa down to submedian nervure, its inner edge straight, the outer edge swelling outwards somewhat. The interspaces between this distinctive band and the hind margin, also the interspaces upwards towards costa, are heavily dusted with light monse-coloured scales. The nervures and nervules are nearly black. The hind margin bears a slight hairy fringe and a very slight darkish thread.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ARCTIA VIRGUNCULA, KIRBY
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

On the 22nd June, 1901, I received from Mr. A. Kwiat, of Chicago, a batch of eggs of Arctia virguncula, Kirby. These eggs were laid on the 18th June and hatched on the 25th and 26th. The following notes on the early stages of the species were taken. A brief description of the mature larva was published by Mr. Coquillett, in the first number of Papilio, in 1881.
A NEW MEALY-BUG ON GRASS-ROOTS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. , Cockerell W. P.
Published: February 2010

Form and size abour as in D. Citri; pink, distinctly segmented, with a slight covering of mealy powder; caudal tassels short but well-developed; lateral fringe of tassels very short, irregular, but plainly visible in fresh specimens. Females full of young show no signs of producing ovisacs.