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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITES FROM WATER BEETLES
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

I can find no record of the breeding of Hymenopterous parasites from water beetles, in either the European or American faunas, and it is, therefore, with considerable pleasure that I here describe two distinct species of Hymenopterous insects, reared from water beetles by Mr. H. F. Wickham, of Iowa City, Iowa, belonging in genera not yet reported as occurring in our fauna.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA—No. 6
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

This paper contains the descriptions of the remaining new species of Ichneumonidæ from Vancouver Island. For the generic determinations of Amorphota, Semiodes, Phobetes and Hypocryptus, representing genera not hitherto reconized in America, I am indebted to Mr. Ashmead.
COLEOPTERA TAKEN AT LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Lake Worth is an elongated bay connected with the ocean, two and one-half miles from its northern end, and separated from it by a narrow elevated stirp of land, varying in width from two hundered to nine hundred yards. Its length is about 20 miles, while in width it averages about thirteen hundred yards.
SEXUAL CHARACTERS IN SCOLYTIDÆ.: (A Preliminary Contribution.)
Authors: Hopkins A. D.
Published: February 2010

It appears that comparatively little is knorvn regarding the external sexual characters of species in the family Scolytidæ. Indeed, the species of this family are among the most difficult of Coleoptera to study, or to properly identify, unless one has access to a large series of correctly named and classified examples.
FURTHER NOTES ON SCALE INSECTS (COCCIDÆ)
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The numbering is continued from page 193.

(13.) Tachardia cornuta, n. sp.—♀scales crowded on the stems of the plant, lively red-brown in colour, smooth and rather shiny, subtranslucent; elevated so as to form in outline a triangle, the base of which is greater than either side viewed from one side, but with the sides greater than the base when the scale is viewed from one end.
KENTUCKY BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Warner Hattie H.
Published: February 2010

The following list has for its foundation a collection belonging to the Experiment Station of the Kentucky State College. The diurnal Lepidoptera have not been made the object of special collecting by the Station entomologist, and doubtless a good many species will be added in the future:-

1.Papilio ajax, Linn. Common in all wooded regions throughout the State. High Bridge, Nortonville, Clay's Ferry, etc.
A FEW REMARKABLE VARIATIONS IN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Ehrmann George. A.
Published: February 2010

Papilio turnus, ♀, Linn.—I received a curious example of a ♀ P. turnus, which has the outer margin greatly produced towards the apex of the primaries; the secondaries are more rounded and not so elongate as in the typical form; and the black discal bars are broader and more suffused.
PARTIAL PREPARATORY STAGES OF HEMILEUCA CALIFORNICA, WRIGHT
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

The eggs are sub-globular, between that and sub-quadrate, shaped much like Luna and its allies; length, .06 inch; width, .06 inch, by .05 inch in height, smooth the apex flattened, but the base rounded. Colour, olive gree; those on one side of the twig, red tinted. They werr placed round a twig of food plant (willow) with one of the long ways across the twig. They were from California, and where deposited about the last of October. As they hatched the middle of the following April, this would give six months as the duration of this period.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PHYCIODES CARLOTA, REAKIRT (CHARIDRYAS ISMERIA, SCUDDER)
Authors: Edwards W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Pear-shaped, broad at base and rounded, tapering rapidly to a small, slightly depressed, truncated summit; marked by about twenty-four low, vertical, not sharply defined ribs, which extend a little more than half way from the top to base, but vary in individuals; below the ribs to base thickly covered with shallow and irregular (both as to size and shape) indentations, not separated by definite ridges or threads; colour, when laid, pale green. Duration of this stage, nine days.
SHALL WE USE THE NAME EUDRYAS?
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

So far as I have present references Berg is the first to use again the term Euthisantoia for Eudryas unio an I have shown, not congeneric with unio, but belongs to my genus Copidryas. More recently Neumoegen & Dyar use Euthisanotia and cite Boisduval's Eudryas as a synonym.
A CHECK LIST OF THE NEARCTIC COCCIDÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

It is ten years since Prof. Comstock published his list of North American Coccidæ*, and as the work done since that time is scattered through very various publications, it seems opportune to present a check list, form which the student can learn precisely what species are now credited to our fauna.
NOTES ON SOME SOUTH-WESTERN HEMIPTERA
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist, 1892, pp. 193–197, the writer published some notes on New Mexico Heteroptera an Homoptera. The notes on the fifty-three species in the present paper are additional and complete the list, so far as the names can be obtained, of all the Hemiptera collected by the writer in New Mexico and Arizona.
NOTES ON NOVA SCOTIAN DRAGONFLIES
Authors: Calvert Philip. P. , Sheraton William
Published: February 2010

(In 1889 and 1890, Mr. William Sheraton, of Wycliffe College, Toronto, collected some Odonata at Pictou, Nova Scotia, for me. At the end of the collecting season of 1889, he sent me a letter containing his field notes on the specimens captured. These observations are so interesting, in my opinion, that any publication in which they appear ought also to bear Mr.Sheraton's name as joint author. He has kindly acceded to my wish in this respect, although modestly protesting that his part has “been only such as any child could have done.” All notes in the present paper concerning localities, habits and dates are to be credited to Mr. Sheraton,
while I am responsible for the determinations and the few bibliographical notes.)
A STUDY OF THE GENUS MENISCUS
Authors: Davis G. C.
Published: February 2010

½. Length, 7.5 mm.; ovipositor, 7 mm. Black, polished; with orbital lines from occiput to middle of eyes in front, cheeks, clypeus, mandibles except tip, palpi, gula, cuneiform lines on mesonotum, tegulæ, spot in front, lines beneath extending irregularly back to posterior coxæ, sides of scutellum, line on lower pleauræ between anterior and middle coxæ, prosternum, anterior coxæ, middle and posterior coxæ except a black dash above and large spot inside, all the trochanters except black base, posterior tibiæ, posterior tibiæ except black annulus near base and black extremity, and tips of the abdominal segments beyond the first, yellowish-white. Remainder of legs fulvous, with a black spot at the base of all the femora and an annulus near the tip of the posterior femora; tarsi dusky.
NEW SPECIES OF TENTHREDINIDÆ, WITH TABLES OF THE SPECIES OF STRONGYLOGASTER AND MONECTENUS
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The following descriptions are offered, preparatory to publishing a list of the saw-flies of the Upper Cayuga Lake Fauna. The types are in the Entomological Collection of Cornell University.
SOME PSYCHODIDÆ FROM LONG ISLAND, N. Y
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Thomas Say described one species of Psychoda from the United States; Walker descrbied another from Hudson's Bay; and Dr. Williston, in Entom. News, 1893, described a third species from New York. I have noticed in the vicinity of Sea Cliff, N. Y., seven species, only one of which I have identified as previously described. Most of the forms I have collected are probably common elsewhere in the Eastern States and in Canada.
A NEW PERICOPID AND SOME NEW ZYGÆNIDÆ FROM CUBA
Authors: Neumoegen B.
Published: February 2010

My esteemed friend, Dr. L. Gundlach, has left to me the task of describing several nerv Bombyces, which he discovered within the last few years in Cuba. Some of the specimens which are uniques, are, unfortunately, in such a poor state that a thorough description was well-nigh impossible. In one case I had to refrain entirely, on account of the dilapidated condition of the insect. All the types belong to the Museo Cubano Zoologico de Gundlach, lately acquired by the Spanish Government.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

These two families immediately follow the Coccinellidæ in our lists, and are evidently related to them in many respects, the former, perhaps, the more closely, especially in tarsal strucutre. In habits there are, however, wide differences, the Coccinellidæ, as a already stated in a former paper, being chiefly aphidivorous, while the Endomychidæ and Erotylidæ are mostly fungivorous.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 26, page 184, the Rev. Thomas W. Fyles described a moth as new under the name of “Botysurticaloides.” Mr. Fyles has been so kind as to lend me his type for examination, and it proves to be identical with Metrea ostreonalis, described by Grote in “Papilio,” Vol. 2 p. 73, where he states that the type was taken by Mr. L. W. Goodell, in Amherst, Mass., and that he specimen, and also another one taken in Bangorm, Maine, by Mr. Fred. Eddy.
LIST OF THE DRAGONFLIES OF CORUNNA, MICHIGAN
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

Corunna is the capitl of Shiawassee County, in the central part of the Lower Peninsula, and approximately in 43° nort latitude. The town is situated on the Shiawassee River, which traverses the country and enters the Saginaw, as a chief branch.
NOTES ON ALYPIA MARIPOSA
Authors: Lembert John. B.
Published: February 2010

Food plant.—Clarkia elegans, etc.

Egg.—Shaped like a white table squash without the scollops; usually laid on the flower buds, the young larva feeding inside on the parts of the flower; hatched in eight to eleven days.
ON SOME AQUATIC LARVÆ, WITH NOTICE OF THEIR PARASITES
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

During the past summer, while on a visit to the northern portion of this State, my attention was attracted to the presence of numerous mudcells on the lower surface of stones lying along the bands of the Wapsipinicon River, These cells, most of them empty, with one end forced off, somewhat resembled the single one with which some or our common mud-wasps start their establishment of the ceilings of little-used rooms, or on the rafters of outhouses, but very much smaller. The largest measure about 12 mm, in length and 8 mm, in breadth, while the small ones are only 5 mm. long and 2.5 mm wide.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTH-REDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Monostegia quercus-coccineŒ, n .sp.

Eggs apparently inserted by a series of thrusts of the ovipostior parallel to the midrib of the leaf. The saw cuts under the upper epidermis are confluent, forming a long blotch over 1 mm. wide and about 20 mm. log, running close to the midrib. The larvæ feed gregariously, eating the lower epidermis and parenchyma.
THE GENERA PIERIS, SCHRK., AND EUCHLOË, HB
Authors: Tutt J. W.
Published: February 2010

In the Ent. Am.,1889, pp. 33–34, is a note by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, F.Z.S., “On the origin of the genus Anthocharis, Bdv., (= Euchloë, Hb.),” and from his remarks on p.34, it would appear that the larva of Pieris protodice and that of Anthocharis ausonides are practically identical, Mr. Cockerell's assumption being based on a letter received from Mr. W. H. Edwards.
NOTES ON “A REVISION OF THE GENUS ŒNEIS” (CHIONOBAS); “ BY HENRY J. ELWES, F. L. S., F. Z. S.. PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND JAMES EDWARDS, F. E. S.,” TRANS. ENT. SOC., LOND., 1893, PART IV. (DEC)
Authors: Edwards W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Elwes has again favoured us with one of his periodical Revisions of Genera, the last of which relating to Argynnis, was reviewed by me in the Can. Ent., XXII., p. 81, 1890.

It is stated that Mr. James Edwards is responsible for the matter of what are called “clasps” of the male, meaning the claspers of other authors; and these parts of the whole body of abdominal appendages are the only ones treated of, or relied on. He has also given a comparative table at the end, based partly on the facies, and partly on the claspers.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF LAPHYGMA FLAVIMACULATA, HARV., AND OTHER NOTES
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Laphygma flavimaculata, Harvey.

Determined by Prof. J. B. Smith. Eggs of this species occured to me in the Hawaiian Islands at Kaawoloa, Kona, Hawaii and at Honolulu, Oahu.

Egg.–Nearly spherical, flattened at base, densely striated vertically; of a flesh-coloured tint, and covered with gray down; diameter, 0.6 mm. Depostied in a large mass on a grass stem.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN TRYPETIDÆ
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Trypeta (Acidia) tortile, n. sp., æ. Wholly yellow except a black dot above each wing; ovipositor brown; bristles black; scutellum bearing four bristles; thorax and abdomen shining; ovipositor flat, very borad, nearly as long as the last two abdominal segments. Wings hyaline, the anal cell, bases of marginal, sub-marginal, and of the final basal cell, also the apex of the second basal cell, yellow; a black spot on furcation of the second and thrid veins, and one on lower half of vein at apex of anal cell; a brown band commences on cossta between apices of auxiliary and of first vein, and extends to the discal cell, going over the small cross-vein and continuing as a yellowish streak into the discal cell; a second brown band commences on the costa between apices of the first and second veins, and crosses the wing, passing over the posterior crossvein, and near its terminus sending a spur into the third posterior cell; apex of wing from slightly before apex of the second vein to beyond tip of fourth vein, brown; first and third veins bristly. Length, 5 mm. Washington (O. B. Johnson). A single specimen.
THE ODONATA OF ITHACA, N. Y
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Most of the species recorded below were collected by the writer in the vicinity of Ithaca, N. Y. during the years 1888 and 1889. I have seen the collections of others and have found in them some forms that I had not collected. I have also examined the collection of Cornell University, and found several species not previously seen from the locality. This list is not complete, as undoubtedly more species will be found in the Cordulidæ and Gomphidæ.
NOTE ON COPIDRYAS PLATENSIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I have suggested in “Papilio” that this South American species belongs to Copidryas, and is congeneric with our C. Gloveri. Berg's original description says of the frontal structure:- “Fronte valde prominenti, supra cornu complanato depressione declivi marginata fuscaornata.” This character agrees well with Copidryas, but not with Eudryas, in which latter the front is not horned.
COCCINELLIDÆ OF DODGE CO., WISCONSIN
Authors: Snyder Will Edwin
Published: February 2010

Anisosticta strigata, Thumb. Very abundant, found under stones, bark and other objects in nearly all pasture and meadow lands. I have never taken it while feeding. A colony of over fifty was taken from under one stone the past summer.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—NO. VII
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

1. Idiocerus Amœmus, n. sp.

Allied to I. suturalis, but smaller. Female of a uniform pale yellow colour, pronotum and scutellum tin gedwith fulvous or ferruginous, the former with a spot behind the inner angle of each eye and a median vitta, pale. Mesonotum with a black band bordering the scutellum, at least posteriorly; extreme tip of scutellum yellow. Elytra hyaline very slightly tinged with fulvous, becoming smoky toward the apex; nervures pale yellow. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent. Eyes rufous. Oviduct ferruginous.
AN ENTOMOLOGICAL TRIP TO COPPER CLIFF, ONT
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

In June, 1892, in company with Mr. Fletcher, who was anxious to obtain Erebia Discoidalis, Kirby, I made a visit to the famous Sudbury mining region. Leaving Ottawa on the 15th, at 3.40 p.m. we arrived at Copper Cliff at 5 a.m. the following day. As the hour was so early we tried a little collecting before calling on our friend, Mr. J. D. Evans, manager of the copper and nickel mines, who had kindly invited us to stay with him.
NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF ARGYRIA NIVALIS, DRURY
Authors: Felt E. Porter
Published: February 2010

This moth was rather common at Ithaca, New york, in 1892 and 1893. The moths fly in the afternoon and early evening of the latter part of June and most of July. They are attracted to lights to some extent, but those taken are mostly males. The eggs are laid in clusters upon blades of grass. They are firmly attached to the leaf, and the five or six in a cluster over-lap more or less.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF CATOCALA RETECTA, GROTE
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Diameter, .035 inch by .02 inch high. Low conoidal, so much flattened as to be somewhat lens shaped, ribbed longitudinally with 37 striæ, 18 of which reach the micropyle, the striæ marked transversely with shallow cross striæ. Colour, dull olive. Duration of this period, 221 days.
MOUNTING INSECTS WITHOUT PRESSURE
Authors: Rennie R. W.
Published: February 2010

The mounting of insects (which are naturally semi-transparent) without pressure has always appeared to me to be a far more satisfactory method than the process so generally in use, viz., the soaking the specimen in liquor potassæ until clear, and then pressing it flat between two glass slips. The liquid partially, or wholly, destroys the internal organs, and the flattening process completes what the liquid failed to accomplish; that is, in so distorting the insect that the flattened skin on the slip but very remotely resembles the natural insect.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The Colymbetini, which follow the Hydroporini in Dr. Leconte's scheme, are immediately distinguished therefrom by the distinctly five-jointed tarsi, and also, as a rule, by the much greater size. The males have the anterior, or middle tarsi, variously modified, but not forming regularly rounded disks as in the following group.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN SIPHONAPTERA.—IV
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

A. Abdominal segments each with three dorsal rows of bristles; whole insect very heavily spined and bristles; antennal groove in middle of head; bristles on joint 2 of antennæ longer than joint 3; maxillary palpi in female with joint 2 four-fifths of 4, and 3 two-thirds of 4; labial palpi reaching to one-third of anterior femora; pronotal comb of 20 spines; in anterior tarsi joint 3 two-thirds of 2 and shorter than 1,5 twice 4 and less than 1 and 2 together.
A NEW PULVINARIA FOUND ON ORCHIDS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A
Published: February 2010

♀ scale rather like Lecanium hesperidum, elongate-oval, flattish, plae olive-brown, 2½ mm. long. Ovisac white, firm, elongate, parallelsided, distinctly longitudinally grooved, 8 mm. long, 2 broad. Derm colourless, not tessellate. Margin with a double row of easily-deciduous, strong, usually large, blunt spines, which are, near the lateral and posterior clefts, more or less branched at their tips. Spines of lateral clefts in threes, one very long and large, two very short and small. Anal plates brown, longer than broad, their outer sides meeting at about a right angle.
THE INSECT FAUNA OF THE SUDBURY DISTRICT, ONTARIO
Authors: Evans John D.
Published: February 2010

Prior to the advent of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the year 1883, this district was entirely unsettled, being, in fact, a terra incognita to all except servants of the Hudson Bay Co., officials of the Geological Survey, and Provincial Government surveyors. But it had been devastated to a large extent by forest fires, which occurred at intervals during a period of some fifty or sixty years previously. These fires entirely destroyed the virgin forest (which consisted chiefly of white pine) over large tracts, by killing the trees and leaving them susceptible to the attacks of their insect enemies, and presenting at that date (1883) a desolate appearance, caused by the thickly-standing tall bare trunks and stubs of trees, among which had sprung up a thick growth of saplings of white birch, poplar, etc.
NOTES ON HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

The advent of another collecting season finds me with a very large proportion of my last year's captures still undetermined, and in many instances even unexamined. A few remarks, however, in regard to my success with the Hymenoptera may induce some of our younger members to pay more attention to this order. Probably 500 species were collected, a large proportion of which were of the smaller forms, and it seemed, indeed, that many of the larger species were much less numerous than in some seasons. Special attention was given to the collection of the microhymenoptera, for these are so poorly represented in canadian collections. In making a rough summary of the species, I find about 125 species belonging to the Aculeata, and 100 to the Phytophaga the remainder being distributed among the different families of parasitic forms. There are many interesting additions to my collection, and many gaps have been filled in. Mr. Ashmead's monograph of the Proctotrypids has made it abundantly evident that the knowledge of the Canadian species was very limited, and I made a special effort to obtain as many examples as possible. I took altogether about 350 specimens, and now find that over 50 species are represented. This will give any collector an idea of what he may expect to secure if he have the necessary patience to preserve and mount so much small and inconspicuous material.
SPRING COLLECTING IN ALBERTA
Authors: Dod F. H. Wolley
Published: February 2010

Perhaps the following short account of a few days' spring collecting here may be of interest to readers of the Canadian Entomologist.

The locality I have worked from during the two years that I have been in the country, is close to the mouth of Fish Creek, about twelve miles south of Calgary, and a mile from the right bank (south) of Bow River. I have a fellow worker about nine miles further west, near the head of Pine Creek, by name Mr. Arthur Hudson, a keen observer, and, I believe, the only entomologist besides myself who has ever collected here for a whole season, and between us we are at present almost daily increasing the list of macro-lepidoptera found around Calgary. We have already over fifty species of butterflies on the list, with three or four more doubtful species, and are confident that we shall be able to make several additions during the coming season. Of the moths, more particularly the Noctuidæ (and their name here is certainly Legion!), new comers never cease, as I think Prof. Smith can testify. When Mr. Elwes paid me a visit in July, 1893, he asked: “Treacle is not much used here, is it?” I replied that I had only been “at it” for a month, and was fairly well pleased with the result, though of course my take might have been exceptional. Were I asked the same question now, I should, without hesitation, reply: “Well, just isn't it, that's all, and from June to October, too!” During last July I not unfrequently counted from sixty to eighty moths on a treacle patch about eighteen inches long and three or four wide, comprising about fifteen or sixteen species. A sight such as that, however, certainly is exceptional. However, I have other modes of collecting to speak of now, as at this early date treacle is scarcely worth working.
A NEW AEGIALE (MEGATHYMUS)
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

Aegiale Streckeri, n. sp., ♂.—Expands from2¼ inches to 3 inches. Upper side.—Superiors rich brown, but not as bright, nor has the brown as much red in it, as in yuccœ. There are three sub-apical costal white spots; a lemon-yellow spot at end of cell; there is a row of five yellow spots running across the wing, parallel with the exterior margin; the upper two are small and square in shape; the lowe three are small and triangular, and there is one in each of the three median interspaces. The inferiors have a yellow marginal border about 1/8 inch in width, the wing being otherwise immaculate, and is clothed with long, silky brown hair. Under side.—Superiors have the spots repeated. Inferiors are gray with a varying number of small white spots—one specimen having two and the other five. The female is larger and has the same number of spots as the male; the three sub-apical spots are white and the remainder yellow; in the female the five spots on the wing are in two series, the two upper being nearer the exterior margin, and the three lower are nearer the base; in the other words, they do not form a continuous line as in the male. This species has been confounded, in collections, with cofaqui, Strecker, which was described froma female. The male of cofaqui, is marked practically like the female, but the male has the long hair on the inferiors as in the new species.
LOSSES CAUSED BY DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In the May number of The Century, Vol. L., No. 1, p. 89, 1895, there is recorded an item of interest to economic entomologists that is liable to be overlooked and lost, although it deserves a better fate. In an article by Mr. William E. Smythe, on “The Conquest of Arid America,” there is given a carefully-compiled table of all of the expenditures of “the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” in Utah, the figures being furnished, at the author's request, by Mr. A. Milton Musser, Church historian, and by him submitted to the inspection of the Presidents and Bishops of the Church, prior to publication.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

XI. The Hydrophilidæ of Ontario and Quebec.

These water-beetles differ from Dytiscidæ especially in having the antennæ terminated by a distinct club instead of being filiform; and while, as the name implies, they are usually found in ponds or streams, they are much more feeble swimmers than the Dytiscids, and are exponents of a more generalized type. Several genera are truly terrestrial in habit, the beetles occurring about decomposing animal matter or in manure. The larvæ somewhat resemble those of the Dytiscidæ in general appearance, but differ so far as my experience goes in having toothed mandibles instead of the single suctorial ones characteristic of the other family. Pupation takes place on land in an underground cell, or in a cavity scooped out beneath a stone or piece of wood.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN SIPHONAPTERA.—VI
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

Genus Hystrichopsylla, Tschb.

1880. Taschenberg, Die Flohe, p. 83.

This genus has but a single species:—

Hystrichopsylla obtusiceps, Ritsema

1826. Curtis Brit. Ent., III., No. 114 (Pulex taipæ).

1831. Macquart, Ann. d. Sci. Nat., XXII., p. 405 (Pulex terrestris).

1868. Ritsema, Tijds. voor Entom., 2 ser. III., p. 173 (Pulex obtusiceps).

1880. Taschenberg, Die Flohe, p. 83 (Hytrichopsylla obtusiceps).

This remarkable flea has a heavier covering of spines and bristles than occurs in any other species. The head combs are on the discs of the cheeks with the spines pointing backward (as in Typhlopsylla gracilis and fraterna), instead of on the lower edges, there being 10 spines on either side. The first joint of the maxillary palpi is the longest. Pronotal comb with 20 spines on either side. The comb on the first abdominal segment consists of 20 spines on either side; that on the second segment, of 12 on either side, and that on the third segment, of 7 on either side. The tarsi are slender. Colour, chestnut-brown. Length of male, 3.5mm., of female, 5–5.5mm. It has been reported as occuring on Talpa europœa and Arvicola arvalis, in various parts of Europe.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN SIPHONAPTERA—I
Authors: Baker Carl P.
Published: February 2010

The following will form the first of a series of papers on the Siphonaptera, in which will be mentioned all known species, together with such, new species as have come to my notice. Besides what has been drawn from theexamination of a large series of specimens in my own collection, and many kindly sent me by Taschenberg, Howard, Bruner, Osborn, comstock and others, I have borrowed freely from previous papers on the subject, and especially from Taschenberg's “Die Flohe.”
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Cladius (Trichiocampus) gregarius, n. sp.

Allied to Cladius viminalis, Fallen. The larval habits are also identical, as seen by Dr. J. A. Lintner's account of viminalis in his Fourth Report, p. 44 (as Aulacomerus lutescens). The fly, however, is differently coloured; the larva differs but slightly, in that the lateral black spots are larger than the subdorsal ones, whereas in viminalis the reverse appears to be the case.
OCCUPANTS OF THE GALLS OF EUROSTA SOLIDAGINIS, FITCH
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

These conspicuous spherical galls occur somewhat rarely at Ottawa upon the stems of Solidago rugosa, and have been found to yield only the handsome fly with produces them, and its parasite Eurytoma gigantea, Walsh. The 24th May last I spent at Casselman, about thirty miles southward from Ottawa, with Mr.Fletcher, and we found the galls abundant upon Solidago serotina, upon the banks of the South Nation.
THE GENERA IN THE NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

It must be conceded that there is a want of correspondence between authors as to the generic names employed in the Noctuidœ; perhaps a greater than in other families of Lepidoptera. The main cause appears to lie in the two systems of classification. The old system, under which the species were assorted into genera from their superficial characters, found its highest expression in the works of Guenée. The new system, commenced by Stephens and Lederer, deals with the ultimate structure of certain parts, and is yet working out its results in the direction which all systems must pursue, that of perfectly reflecting in our books the order which obtains in nature itself. To this end the new system must extend itself, and is extending itself, witness the work of Packard and Dyar, to a study of the insect in all its stages. Here a narrow insistence on any one character must defeat the general aim.
ON THE CABBAGE-SHAPED GALL OF CECIDOMYIA SALICIS-BRASSICOIDES, AND ITS OCCUPANTS
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

On July 9, 1892, I found in the Grand Canon, Arizona on the Hance trail, near the Colorado River, numbers of the green galls of this species on the narrow-leafed Salix sp. (probably S. longifolia.) Three that were picked on this date measure 19 to 20 mm. in length, and 11 mm. in width on widest portion near base. They preserve their light green colour, except for their whitish, thick pubescence. Some last year's galls were also found in the canon on the willows near the stone cabin. They measure 16 to 17 mm. in length, and 10 to 11 mm. in width. They are more spread out apically; therefore not conical in outline, and are reddish-brown in colour, probably from being weathered.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

XII. The Hydrophildæ of Ontario and Qubec (concluded).

This paper can scarcely be considered in any sense an original one since it consists almost entirely of tables published in greater detail by Dr. Horn in his reviews of this portion of the Hydrophilidæ. By removing the extra-limital forms, I have been able in some cases to modify the synopses so as to make them a little easier to follow, and it is hoped that they will prove of use to many students of the Canadian fauna who may not see the more complete originars. with this prelude, which will place the credit where it properly belongs, we may proceed.
LIST OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED AT MASSETT, QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B. C
Authors: Keen J. H.
Published: February 2010

2931. Ptenidium pullum, Makl.—Not rare. In grass tufts in winter.

2951. Trichopteryx xanthocera, Matth.—Rare. Under log in Feburary.

2952. Trichopteryx parallelopipeda, Matth.—Rare. In grass tufts in February.

2953. Trichopteryx diffinis, Matth.—Common in November in seed pods of fox glove.
DILIGENCE REWARDED
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

Ever since Mr. Elliot disclosed the fact that Platysamia Columbia was to be found in this locality, a sharp lookout has been kept by the collectors here on the Tamarack trees, of which there are several clusters in this vicinity, for cocoons of that moth.
NOTES ON SOME SOUTHERN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Oiketicus Townsendi. Cockerell.

1893—Dyar, Ent. News, IV., 321 note. (No name.)

1894—Dyar, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., VIII., 205 (fig. of larvel setœ).

1895—Cockerell, Bull. 15, New Mex. Agr. Ex. Sta., pl. fig. 7, 7a.

1895—Cockerell, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XV., 208.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The Cleridæ are a rather small family of beetles, but make up for their comparatice scarcity by the beauty of form and colour shown by many of them. As a rule, they may be easily recognized by their resemblance to a few common types such as are found in all cabinets, and agree in possessing the followiong family characteristics: The antennæ are usually serrate, with the outer joints enlarged, forming an open or more rarely a compact club; the tarsi are five-jointed, the first or fourth joint often very small and indistinct, all but the fifth furnished with membranous appendages.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The Cucujidæ constitute a small family of beetles of depressed, often elongate form, the antennæ lengthened in many species, giving them a somewhat characteristic appearance, which, while recalling the Cerambycidæ, renders them, nevertheless, easily recognized. They may be technically distinguished from the allied Clavicorn families by the long elytra, the five-jointed tarsi (the hind ones sometimes only four-jointed in the males), the rounded or oval anterior coxæ, the middle ones with externally open cavities and the posterior separate. The ventral segments are sub-equal in length. The larvæ, so far as known, are flattened grubs, with distinct antennæ and several ocelli; the terminal segments often with hooks or tubercles.
NOTES UPON THE NORTH AMERICAN SATURNINA, WITH LIST OF THE SPECIES
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

Of the three families of Saturnina found in North America, only the Saturnidæ occurs in the European fauna. Conversely no analogue of the European Aglia tau* has been found in America. In a very interesting paper, Ann. Mag. N. Hist., Vol. XI., 1893, Dr. Packard says of this species: “Aglia appears to be a Ceratocampid in its earlier larval stages, the caterpillar in its final stage, however, and the moth being closely related to the Saturnians”. This being so, it is clear that Aglia cannot be classed as a subfamily of Cithernidœ, from which the habit and struture of the moth and the mde of pupation seem to exclude it.
STUDIES IN N. A. MEMBRACIDÆ—III
Authors: Goding F. W.
Published: February 2010

Head broad, with an angle on each side below the eyes, margins parallel from base to apex, which is largely produced in a spoon-shape; base of the head nearly straight; ocelli a trifle nearer the eyes than to each other, on a line above the centre of the eyes I head, at inner edge of each eye, furnished with a compressed, dentiform tubercle projecting directly forward; head inflexed below the eyes. Prothorax convex, elevated some above lateral angles, at summit, on each side armed with a short, stout (truncated?) horn, the sides of which are continuous with those of the prothorax, projecting upward, and parallel; densely punctured; basal margin projecting in a transverse carina; furnished with a percurrent median carina; posterior process gradually narrowed to the apex, which is briefly recurved in a compressed tooth or lobule; the base almost completely covering the scutellum; dorsum of posterior process furnished with two rounded tubercles, the first located at the base of the anterior convexity, the second midway between it and the apex. Tegmina coriaceous, narrow, punctured, opaque, veins irregular and numerous; barely passing abdomen, far surpassing the apex of the posterior prothoracic process; corium with the venation very irregular towards apex, there being numerous discoidal and terminal areas varying greatly in size, and three basal areas; clavus attenuated gradually to apex; wings with four apical areas, the second minute, triangular. Front tibiæ moderately dilated, with a row of fine spines along the edges.
NEW TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

Periclista, Knw.—This name was proposed by Knonow in his monograph of the European Blenocampids, published in the “Winer Ent. Zeit.,” V. 1886, 186, for those species having the lanceolate cell petiolate, the eyes more or less remote from the bases of the mandibles, and the posterior wings with the outer cells closed by a marginal vein. This name had already been used by Forester, 1869, tor a genus of Cynipidæ, and I therefore propose the name Mogerus (μογερός) to take its place.
OENECTRA FLAVIBASANA, FERN
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

On the 20th of June, 1895, Mr. Balkwill brought to me some Tortricid moths which he found at rest upon honeysuckle in his garden. They were new to me. He asked if I wanted any more? I said I would take all he liked to bring of that kind; so by the 27th I had got about three dozen of them. Being desirous of learning something about them, I applied to Prof. C. H. Fernald for information, and sent some of the moths. He replied: “They are Oenectra flavibasana; Fern. That he had two specimens in his collection; the types: one from Texas and one from Illinois. That nothing is known of their early stages or food plants, and would be glad to have published all that was known on these points.” Up to the present time I can give nothing with certainty upon these points. Presumably, the larvæ had fed upon the honeysuckle, as chrysalids were found in the connate leaves with a thin silken web spun over them, one of which I raised to the moth. There is plenty of evidence of feeding having been done upon the plant, but nothing positive as to what did it. A lookout is being kept upon the plants for the next brood.
SUMMARY OF THE U. S. PHASMIDÆ
Authors: Scudder S. H.
Published: February 2010

The following table, adapted frorn Brunner von Wattenwyl and Stal, will enable any one quickly to determine the genera in his collection of U. S. Phasmidæ. Our species are few in number and all apterous. Only one of them, Diapheromera femorata (Say), extends into Canada.

A1 Tibiæ not furnished at apex beneath with a sunken areola to receive the base of the tarsi when bent upon them. (All of our genera of this division belong to the Bacunculidæ, in which the antennæ are much longer than the anterior femora and furnished with at least thirty joints, and the median segment is much shorter than the metanotum.)
ALYPIA MARIPOSA, LARVA
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Mr. J. B. Lembert has kindly sent me some alcoholic larvæ of A. mariposa, and I may record a few points in comparison with the eastern A. octomaculata. Mr. Lembert has given the life history quite fully in the December number of the Canadian Entomologist, but our species have not been compared. The larva is especiaily interesting, as being the second one discovered in this genus. We have long been familiar with that of A. octomaculata, and everybody has described it; but the other species, though somewhat numerous, have remained unknown.
NOTES ON MR. E. F. HEATH'S COLLECTION OF BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

In August last, when visiting Mr. E. Firmstone Heath, of The Hermitage, near Cartwright, Man., I had an opportunity of examining his fine local collection of Lepidoptera, which consists of twelve cases of well-set and preserved butterflies and moths. Among the butterflies were some species, the occurrence of which in Southern Manitoba surprised me very much.

Mr. Heath's residence is situated in a beautiful wooded valley, and on the bank of a small winding river, the Indian name of which means the “Long River which runs crookedly.” The trees on the banks of the valley, which is about a mile wide at The Hermitage, are chiefly scrub oaks (Quercus macrocarpa), ash-leaved maples, aspen and balsam poplar (white and black poplar of the settlers), Saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia), white thorn (Cratœgus coccinea), wild plum, a few American elms, choke-cherry, and various willows. The locality is undoubtedly a rich one, presenting a great variety of natural habitat for insects. The general character of the country surrounding the valley is a rolling grassy prairie, here and there broken by farms, and bluffs of white poplar.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO THE SATURNIANS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

Since writing my paper (Can. Ent., 263, ante) I have been able to examine a specimen of the Asiatic A. selene. The moth differs from luna, chiefly in the pointed apices of fore wings, the outer margin sweeping inwardly in an even curve. I cannot consider this character of generic value, since precisely the same separates the South American Eacles magnifica from our E. imperialis. In the same species of certain Papilionides, a similar variation has been noted. The exterior bands appear faintly also in certain examples of luna, while the whiter colour is shown by the variety Rossi. Whether this tendency to white is reversionary in its nature, may be questioned. The tails are more developed in the Asiatic species, but (without denuding) I cannot find any neurational differences. I conclude, then, that Leach's term Actias is also applicable to A. luna. On the other hand, the European isabellœ seems to admit of a distinct genus.
COLEOPTERA TAKEN AT LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA—No. II
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

The latitude stated in the former paper should have been 26° 40°. This winter my location was six miles south from Pitt's Island, where the collecting was done last season. From February 1st to May 6th is the time included. During February and March few beetles occurred, as the temperature ranged from 52° to 74° and on one occasion fell to 27°. From the 10th to the 24th of April no collecting was done, and all but a few of the species enumerated were taken between the latter date and May 4th. The species not known to the writer to occur north of Florida are marked with a *; those extending westward around the Gulf, with a †; the others have a wide northern aud western distribution. Philonthus micans is to be erased from the previous list, as that species does not occur in Florida, the black form of alumnus having been erroneously so determined.
NOTE ON THE LARVA OF HEMILEUCA CALIFORNICA, WRIGHT
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

In Can. Ent., 1894 (Vol. XXVI ., p. 293), Prof. G. H. French described the early stages of this species, but failed to get the larvæ past their second moult. Prof. French kindly sent me eggs, and I have raised the larva through all its stages. It is, however, exactly like the normal H. maia, already described by Prof. Riley and Dr. Lintner, as we might expect from the position to which the moth has been assigned. I will, therefore, not take up space to redescribe the several stages in detail. The characters of the tubercles and setæ are such as I have described for the Hemileucidæ (Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., XIV., 55), and are the same as in Pseudohazis. In my account of the genus (Psyche, VII., 91), the statements about the arrangement of the setæ are inaccurate, owing to insufficient amplification (only a lens was used). I add, therefore, figures of the thoracic and abdominal setæ, stages I. and II. of Hemileuca, showing the true arrangement, and these may be considered to stand also for Pseudohazis.
THE PLUM-TWIG GALL-MITE: Phytoptus phlœocoptes, Nalepa
Authors: Slingerland M. V.
Published: February 2010

In January, 1895, I received from a fruit grower at Industry, Pa., several plum-twigs which were badly infested with what was to me a new pest. Two of these twigs are shown, natural size, on the accompanying plate. It will be seen that a ring of small, sub-spherical excrescences encircles the base of each bud and also the bases of two short shoots. The correspondent wrote that he had 400 trees badly infested, and a majority of the plum trees in his neighborhood were affected. The Damsons seem especially subject to attack, but all varieties suffer more or less.

The excrescences were then of a dark brown colour, with a slight reddish tinge. Usually a slit-like opening could be distinguished on the surface. Upon carefully cutting through one of the excrescences, I was surprised to find a cavity in the interior that was packed nearly full of very minute whitish creatures, which proved to be four-legged mites or Phytoptids. Thus, these excrescences were the galls formed by the mites, and in which they were then hibernating. There were hundreds of the mites in each gall and all of them in a dormant condition. Thus, each twig was harbouring thousands of the little creatures. The fleshy portion of the galls, between the cavity and the onter skin, is of a dark magenta colour. The galls vary in size, some of the larger ones containing two or three cavities.
CANADIAN COCCIDÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

In 1869 Signoret described a species from Switzerland as Chionaspisalni It was found on the bark of the alder (Alnus communis). This species has never been seen in America, but in 1883 Comstock announced a form from alder and Viburnum as Chionaspis Lintneri. Since the latter date our knowledge of the matter seems to have remained without additions. Mr. James Fletcher has just sent me a Chionaspis plentifully infesting the bark of Betula papyrifera from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, about 46° N. lat. I examined this with interest, owing to the locality and the host plant, and on comparing it with Comstock's account of C. Lintneri, I have no doubt that it is the same.
PARTIAL PREPARATORY STAGES OF SOME MOTHS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Full-grown larva.—Length about one inch. As in most Catocala larvæ, seven stripes, the dorsal gray, lilac tinted; the next blackish-gray, paler on the middle of the joints; the next about the same colour, but tinted with the reddish-orange that forms the broad bordering lines between the stripes; the next also blackish and below this dull orange. The bordering lines on the back whitish, distinct white on the folds; lateral fringe orange tinted. Piliferous spots orange, the posterior pair to each joint more prominent than the anterior pair; the anterior pairs on joints 6 to 8 paler. The posterior part of joint 9 elevated and white between the spots; back of the elevation, and reaching down to the legs, orange tinted black. Head dull lilac-gray, mottled with white, a blackish patch above on each side and in front two black spots on each side. Venter yellowish-white, with black patches in centre of joints.