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NOTES ON SOME ALBERTA BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Dod F. H. Wolley
Published: February 2010

Chionobas.—To hear of the occurence of Chionobas Macounii in the hill-prairie district south of Calgary will doubtless be as much of a surprise to most entomologists as the discovery of it here has been to myself. That a man who, like myself, is ever on the outlook for anything fresh in the way of butterflies, should have lived for five years in Macounii locality without knowing it surpasses my comprehension. whilst overhauling, relaxing, and setting last winter from the captures of the past two seasons, I came across, amongst some papered specimens that had been handed to me by a Mr. Hudson, an ardent collector here, a papered butterfly labelled “Chionobas Chryxus, ♀, July 4th 1896,” taken amongst the spruce about twelve miles west of here; that is to say, about 26 miles to the south-west of Calgary. Now, though I have never yet seen Chryxus here, I have always been expecting to come across it amongst the spruce, and was not much surprised. However, after relaxing and setting me specimen, lo and behold! it was not Chryxus, but agreed rather closely with some C. californica♂ ♂ that I have from Ft. Klamoth, Oregon.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW NOCTUIDS
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

Eutolype grandis, n. sp.

Ground colour an even, smooth, bluish-gray, washed with smoky brown. Head with a little admixture of brownish in front. Collar with a small central brown spot. Patagiac margined with brown. Basal tuft of thorax with an admixture of black scales. Primaries with all the ordinary markings obscured, the most evident Feature being a broad light gray band at inner third outwardly margined by a brownish shade, which is the darkest part of the wing. The basal space is uniformly smoky gray to the t. a. line, which is narrow, geminate, even,a little incurved between the subcostal and submedian veins. The included space is light gray, and light gray shade extends to the rigid median shade, including the orbicular. T. p. line narrow, geminate, denticulate, widely bent over the cell, then with a deep incurve beneath, narrowing the median shade at the inner margin. The entire median space beyond the gray band has a warm brown tint in which the large reniform is obscurely visible as a dull, lead-coloured blotch, outlined by paler gray scales. Beyond the t. p. line the wing is of the same dull gray as at base, interrupted by the diffuse, somewhat irregular s. t. line. There is a dusky line at the base of the fringes, which are alternately black and white marked at their tips. Secondaries smoky brown, much paler at base, and with a darker line at the base of the fringes. Beneath, primaries smoky blackish, powdered with bluish-gray scales in the terminal space, secondaries grayish-white, powdery, with a blackish outer line and discal spot.
NOTES ON COLLECTING “AT LIGHT.”
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

Until last year (1897), owing to the lack of suitable surroundings, I had made no attempt at systematic collecting “at light.” Now, as the result of this one season's capture, I am firmly convinced that this method of collecting is the very best way in which to make a large collection quickly and to secure in abundance species hitherto rarely met with or entirely new. For all night-flying species no other way of collecting has ever proved so profitable with me, and a short account of my experiences, with notes of some of the captures made, may be of interest. To begin with, this was my fourth collecting season in Manitoba, but until this year the good things taken at light were few and far between. Locality is everything, and my surroundings in previous years consisted of too much brick and mortar and too little of nature's clothing. At the end of May this year I moved to Fort Rouge, a surburb of Winnipeg, situated between the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Formerly the whole of this was “bush,” with some good timber along the river banks. I am, glad to say that a goodly portion of Fort Rouge is still “bush,” with here and there a little clearing, sufficient to allow of a residence or so; sometimes just enough only for the house, which when the trees are in full foliage may be completely shut in. Where I live the place is more settled, but still plenty of thick bush about, here and there, if only in small pieces. In June my yard (out of politeness perhaps it should be styled garden) was full of wild rose bushes, the flowers of which adorned our tables and perfumed our rooms for more than a month. The children stepped outside the back gate to pick flowers and wild strawberries; at the side of the house and along the roadway in front on both sides, white clover was everywhere in profusion, and the air was laden with the scent. And yet the roads is block-paved, and the electric cars pass along it, and a ride of eight minutes on my wheel will take me to my office in the heart of this city of 40,000 or more people.
ON THE DIPTEROUS GENUS EUSIPHONA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

At the time of establishing this genus, in my recent revision of the Tachinidae, I had only two specimens before me; in both of these the wings are bent backward in such a manner as to prevent a critical examination of the longer calypteres, but as the specimens otherwise agree quite closely with the Tachinid genus Gymnophania, I concluded to place the present genus next to it. The recent examination, however, of a perfect specimen from Mr. Charles Robertson, of Carlinville, Illinois, reveals the fact that the lower calypteres are extremely small, being, in fact, rudimentary, and this genus must therefore be transferred from the Tachinidae to the super family Aclyptrata. In all the essential characters it agrees rvith the family Agromyzidae, and its proper place is evidently in the vicinity of the genus Desmometopa, from which it will be readily recognized by the strongly convex front and the excessively long, bristle-like proboscis.
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INSECT FAUNA OF OHIO.
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In the year 1889, Mr. Henry Tryon, Assistant Curator of the Queensland, Australia, Museum, in a report on the insect and fungus pests, published as report No. 1, by the Department of Agriculture of Queensland, pp. 89-91 describes a species of scale insect found on the peach, as the White Scale, Diaspis amygdali (fig 7). and reported its occurrence both at Brisbane, Queesland, and Sydney, New South Wales. Although described as the White Scale, the author continually refers to it as the peach scale, in his paper, and the latter name has been adopted in America for the species. Of its habits Mr. Tryon states that: “At first its presence is betrayed by small white spots or patches on the bark of the smaller branches; but as the insect increases these soon become in many places confluent, and the individual scales overlap one another, or are contorted by being squeezed together closely, or even appear to lie one over the other, and where the male scale insects crowd together these spots present a more finely chaffy appearance. As it will occur quite up to the tips of the branches, the complete destruction of any tree subjected to the attack of the peach scale, and owing to it, is only a matter of time. When already in patches on the branchlets prior to the formation of the leaves and fruit, in early spring, it does not hinder their formation; the leaves are green as usual, the fruit sets, but is soon retarted in its growth and shrivels up”. Writing me under date of November 7th 1897, however, Mr. Tryon has this to say of its present condition in Queensland: “This Coccid is far from being generally distributed in Queensland, and nowhere have I observed it to act very prejudicially to the trees that it attacks.
NOTES ON THE EXTERNAL CHARACTERS OF THE SAN JOSE SCALE, CHERRY SCALE, AND PUTNAM'S SCALE
Authors: Johnson W. G.
Published: February 2010

March 14th, 1898.—During the last two or three weeks, I have received inquiries from Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, and Canada, regarding the structural external character of the San José scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus), Cherry scale (A. Forbesi), and Putnam's scale (A. ancylus). I present, therefore, a few notes on these species, which I hope may be of some use to my fellow workers.
ON CUTEREBRA EMASCULATOR, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL ALLIED SPECIES
Authors: Coquillet D. W.
Published: February 2010

Cuterebra emasculator, Fitch.—This species was supposed by Dr. Brauer to be the same as his C. scutellaris, but an examination of Fitch's type, now the property of the National Museum, discloses the fact that it is identical with C. fontinella, Clark. When describing the hairs of the thorax as yellowish, Dr. Fitch had evidently examined them in a very bright light, under which conditions they have a deceptive yellowish appearance, but in reality are altogether black.
CONCERNING TICKS
Authors: Holland W. J.
Published: February 2010

The other day a distinguished artist friend of mine called upon me with a small bottle containing some whiskey, which by its odour I judged was good, when he first took it from his flask, and in it was what he denominated a “bug.” He told me that he had experienced “one of the most wonderful adventures of his life” in connection with the specimen he put before me, and went on to tell me that during the past summer, while sketching in the mountains, he had discovered one evening, when undressing, a small, dark swelling on his breast. He thought it to be a little abnormal growth on the skin and paid no attention to it. From time to time he noticed it afterwards, when retiring, and found to his considerable alarm that it was gradually growing larger, and evil thoughts of cancer, tumors, and what not, began to float through his mind. Finally, after some two weeks had passed, one evening, as he expressed it, “while fooling with the darned thing it came off” He laid it down on the dressing-case before him and was presently astounded to see it slowly crawling away from the spot. Then a small bottle was sought out, the whiskey flask was brought into requisition, and the “bug” was safely bottled, to be referred to me for an explanation. This proved not difficult to give. The specimen was a well-developed example of Ixodes albipictus, Packard. We had a hearty laugh together, and my friend assured me that he “would know better the next time, and not let such creatures establish such a lengthy abode upon his person.” His adventure recalled to me a letter which I have long had in my possession, intending to publish it, as it is very well written, and adds a touch of humour to the subject. The specimen referred to in the letter is in my collection, and proves to be an example of Ixodes bovis, a very common plague in the south-western part fo this country.
TAENIOCAMPA RUBRESCENS, WALK
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

This interesting species has at last been added to the collection of the Entomological Society of Ontario, by the industrious collecting of Mr. J. W. Bice, who took it at electric light in the season of 1898, and was recently identified for me by Dr. J. B. Smith. Taeniocampa alia, Guen.—incerta, Hubn.—was in remarkable profusion during the early part of that season; and ranging through an extent of variation that was quite confusing. Three good specimens of rubrescens were taken at the same time, each differing from the other in colour, and were picked out as possibly another variety of alia, but when seen by Dr. Smith, he pronounced my Nos. 3, 4, 5 to be T. rubrescens, and his remark on them was, “A very pretty series, No. 4 being a new form to me.”
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

In the Journal of the New York Entomological Society for March, 1899. I separated the Hymenoptera into ten superfamilies, viz.: I Apoidea, II. Sphegoidea, III. Vespoidea, IV. Formicoidea, V. Proctotrypoidea, VI. Cynipoidea, VII Chalcidoidea, VIII. Ichneumonoidea, IX. Siricoidea, and X. Tenthredinoidea.

In the following pages I now propose to give a classification of the second of these superfamilies, or the Sphegoidea, a large group of wasps at one time confused with the genuine fossorial wasps, but which may be readily separated from them by having the hind angles of the pronotum not extending back to the tegulæ. Of all wasps these are the ones most closely allied to the bees.
OSPIDIOTUS CONVEXUS, Comsi.–A CORRECTION
Authors: Marlatt C. L.
Published: February 2010

The pioneer work done by Prof. Comstock on the Coccidæ of America has put all workers in this group of insects under lasting obligation to him. It was inevitable, however, that, taking up a new subject and handling a vast amount of material for the first time, mistakes should have occured. An instance in point is the curious mixing up of the material which occured in the case of the description of the species known as Aspidiotus convexus, Comst.
A NEW DACTYLOPIUS (FAM. COCCIDÆ) FROM ARIZONA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Dactylopius hymenocleœ, n. sp.—♀. Black when dry, entirely covered and concealed by the firm snow-white ovisac, forming a rounded mass about 4 mm. diam. These masses are adherent to one another, forming very conspicuous white cottony balls on the plant, having a diameter of from ten to twelve mm. The surface of the ovisac is rough, but not at all ribbed. The female, boiled and flattened under a cover-glass, is oval, about 4 mm. long. After being boiled in caustic soda, soaked in alcohol, and mounted in balsam, the insect is found to exhibit two different pigments: one a pale magenta, the other a dark bluish green. Skin with very numerous small circular glands, and a good many rather large dagger-shaped spines, in the caudal region. Legs and antennæ pale brown; legs fairly stout; coxa 99. Femur with trochanter 144, tibia 72, tarsus with claw 60 μ; claw digitules slender, with a very small knob; claw with a minute denticle on the inner side just before the tip; antennæ 7-segmented, the segments measuring as follows in μ:—(1) 28. (2) 25-30. (3) 23-25. (4) 23-31. (5) 15-19. (6) 24-28. (7) 59-64. Embryonic larva large.
DESCRIPTION OE LARVA OF INGURA DELINEATA, Guen
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

I have named my specimens in accordance with the material in the National Museum, arranged by Prof. Smith. The result is unsatisfactory, bacause this is the gum-tree larva described by Edwards and Elliott as I proepilata, Grt. (Papilio Ill., 135). The larva mentioned in Guenée as delineata has a different food plant. There is evidently some confusion here, which must be adjusted by the next monographer of the genus.
NOTES ON SOME ONTARIO ACRIDIIDÆ.—Part III
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

20. Schistocerca americana, Drury.

Gryllus americanus, Drury, Illustr. Nat. Hist., app. (1773).

Acridium americanum, Scudd. Mat. Mon. N. A. Orth., 466 (1862).

Schistocerca americana, Blatchley. Can. Ent., XXIII., 79 (1891).

This large and beautiful locust has been twice reported from Ontario, at London, (Can. Ent., XXVII., p. 52), and at Toronto(Can. Ent., XXIX., p. 89), a single example being taken in each instance. These were probably wanderers from the South, certainly in the case of the Toronto specimen, and the insect can hardly be regarded as a native of our Province, though it may be established in the extreme southern portion.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEDOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

The wasps belonging in this family have a peculiar habitus quite their own. The head is always wider than the thorax, the front wings have three cubital cells, while the abdomen, in nearly all the species, has usually a strong constriction between the first and second segments, the first segment being most frequently much narrowed. In only a single genus, Trachypus, Klug., is the abdomen distinctly petiolated. The eyes are large and normal, but occasionally exhibit a slight emargination within, and, more rarely, with a distinct emargination, or reniform as in Trypoxylon and Pison. Most of the species have the abdomen strongly punctured or punctate, and have also a constriction between all the abdominal sutures, although some also have the abdomen smooth and polished, and are without a constriction at the sutures.
COLEOPTERA IN SEPTEMBER
Authors: Knab Frederick
Published: February 2010

Genitalia: female, ultimate ventral segment nearly four times wider than long, posterior margin slightly emarginate with a short broad medium tooth; male valve broad, short; plates broad at base, concavely, attenuately pointed, two and one-half times longer than valve, equalling the pygofers, which are thickly beset with stout hairs.

Described from two females and two males from Holly., Colo. The small size and the black spot near the anal angle of the elytra at once distinguish this species.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SAWFLY LARVÆ
Authors: Young Chester
Published: February 2010

Macroxyela ferruginea.—Larva is about 1.5 cm. long and caterpillar-like, green with yellowish-white markings, prolegs on every abdominal segment, anal area smooth and concolorous with the body antennæ six-jointed. Feeds on Ulmus mericana.

Head green; antennæ green, except three brown distal joints and a brown ring around the middle of the second and third joints; mandibles rufous at the tips; ocelli black. Body green, with the following parts yellowish-white; two dorsal strpies, a substigmatal line extending along the substigmatal fold of skin from the head to about the third or fourth abdominal segment and the tubercles; a ventral line of pearly white extending from head to 4th abdominal segment.
THREE NEW COCCIDÆ FROM BRAZIL
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Icerya (Crypticerya) Hempeli, n. sp.,—♀. Exposed on bark, subglobose, much like a very large I. rosoe. Length 8, breadth 7½, height 5⅛ mm.; dark slate-gray, with a thin but rather dense coating of cream-coloured mealy secretion. Subdorsal areas marked by a longitudinal series of small round spots free from secretion. Legs piceous or dark brown.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The following notes relate in large part to additions recently made to the Canadian fauna through the activity of collectors in the Dominion. several species which their possessors were unable to identify by means of the tables have been submitted to me, and, proving new to the Canadian lists, are incorporated in these pages, that students may have access to the descriptions. The families are taken up in the order of their treatment in the Canadian Entomologist.
WEST AFRICAN MOTHS
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist, XXVI., pp. 69, 70, Mr. Geo. A. Ehrmann described as new three West African moths. Very recently this gentleman has been so obliging as to forward his types to me for examination. I should like to put on record a few observations on them for the benefit of students of the African fauna.
THE CICINDELIDÆ OF KANSAS
Authors: Knaus Warren
Published: February 2010

One of the most popular families among the Coleoptera to the student and collector is that of the Cicindelidœ. Generally bright coloured and handsomely marked, quick to take flight and rapid runners, it requires some skill and considerable patience to become a successful hunter of the “tiger” beetle. Their capture is generally attended with considerable personal discomfort, as their favourite haunt is the muddy bank of a stream, the hot sand bar or dune, or the burning flat of a salt marsh, from which the noon-tide breezes on a July or August day seem to remind one of the temperature of the home of the evil-doer in the hereafter. It is in the hottest part of the day from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., that most species of this family appear in the open.
AN ENTOMOLOGICAL MUDDLE: A REVIEW
Authors: Lyman Henry H.
Published: February 2010

I fear that any one reading the various papers which have appeared during the past year on the Cunea–Congrua–Antigone–Textor controversy would not be very greatly impressed with the lucidity of entomologists. This controversy illustrates remarkably well the difficulty of carrying on a discussion about species or forms whose status is disputed without rendering confusion worse confounded, for the simple reason that different persons use the same name in different senses. For instance, when Dr. Fyles writes of cunea, Drury, he does not mean the insect which Drs. Smith and Dyar understand by the same name, the moth which Harris called the many-spotted ermine moth of the South, Phalæna punctatissima, A. & S., but the individual moth whicir served as Drury's type and which he chooses to believe did not belong to the genus Hyphantria at all, but to have been a Spilosoma, and from this springs much of the misunderstanding which has arisen between these gentlemen.
METZNERIA LAPPELLA, L.—A CURIOUS LIFE-HISTORY
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

In the beginning of September, 1898, I discovered, in the heads of burdock (Lappa major, Gætn.), a curious larva, of which the following is a description:

Head bilobed, brown. Mouth organs large. A brown plate, marked longitudinally with a white line, on the second segment. Body rounded, much crinkled, of a fatty appearance, having a few white hairs along the sides. Anal segment small and protruding. The legs small and weak. The pro-legs seemingly atrophied into mere pseudopodia. Length of larva, two and a half lines.
THE “ENTOMOLOGICAL MUDDLE”—A REJOINDER
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

I thought I had “said my say” on the Cunea-Congrua question, but Mr. Lyman's attack upon me demands a reply.

Mr. Lyman has made a military allusion in rather questionable taste. I would remind him that the reason the Boers have stuck to their guns is that, until now (May, 1900), their opponents have not been able to capture their guns, but have, on the other hand, furnished the Boers with new artillery and fresh stores of ammunition.
NOTES ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF TINEIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

About the time that Lord Walsingham's valuable paper on Acrolophus and Anaphora appeared (Trans. Ent, Soc., Lond., 1887, 137–173), Mr. Beutenmüller was working on the same group; but neither author has since attempted to recognize the species named by the other, so far as I am aware. In Prof. Smith's List Lep. Bor. Amer., 1891, the group is recognized as a family—Anaphoridæ—but this can hardly stand. The genera will fall in the Tineidæ, in the more restricted sense (see Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1897, 139–175).
ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF MANITOBA BUTTERFLIES, WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

Euptoieta claudia, Cram.—This species had never even been observed in previous years, but this season appeared plentifully at Bird's Hill in June, and again in August (16th) and September (4th); it was also met with at St. James, just outside the city limits. The species is usually common in prairie districts farther west.

Melitœa Harrisii, Scud.—Taken at Bird's Hill on July 1st, 1899. This season I came across a larva in the act of pupating, but missed the butterflies.
A POPULAR NAME FOR CLISIOCAMPA DISSTRIA
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

Sir,—I am much interested in Mr. Slingerland's note on the new popular name for Clisiocampa disstria in the Canadian Entomologist for January. I once wrote an editorial for “Insect Life” on popular names (Vol. VII., pp. 363, 364), in which I gave utterance to a certain distaste for “book names” and to a preference for the popular name which grows up among the people. Such names are rarely specifically distinctive, but they are usually catchy, frequently phonetic, and more or less descriptive.
NYMPHS OF NORTHERN ODONATA, STILL UNKNOWN
Authors: Needham James G.
Published: February 2010

This is a word in season to collectors of aquatic insects, who may be afield during the months of spring and early summer.

Among the nymphs of Odonater occurring in the North-eastern States and Canada, there remain a number of good discoveries to be made. In any locality where these nymphs are common their discovery will not be a difficult matter.
THE NEURATION OF ARGYNNIS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

In my examination of the types indicated by Mr. Scudder I have been quite unable to separate Acidalia niphe, Scudd., Gen. 101, from the type of Argynnis. This latter type, A. aglaia, L., is characterized by the second radial branch of primaries running so close to the main vein, for a distance beyond the median cell, as to form a minute false accessory cell above the angle of the radius which the crossvein joins. Since this, as well as all other features, are repeated in the wing of niphe, I conclude the genus Acidalia of Hübner, as founded on this species, must be dropped. Another type, Dryas paphia, can hardly be retained as distinct from Argynnis from the neuration. The only difference is, that the second radial branch, in running propinquitous, leaves the main vein at somewhat before the point chosen in aglaia and niphe. Indubitably paphia is a species belonging to the same phylogenetic group, a trifle isolated. On the other hand, neither Issoria lathonia nor Brenthis hecate share the character of the appressed second radial branch of Argynnis and should be separated from this genus. The differences in the neuration between Issoria and Brenthis are very small and comparative; in both the second radial branch is not appressed and leaves the main vein above the median cell before the point of juncture of the crossvein. The point of departure in Issoria is a little outwardly removed and the propinquity is so great that one can see that it requires but little to make the branch decumbent. Issoria differs further by the angulate papery wings and by the fact that the crossvein on hind wings is but a faint scar between second median branch and cubitus.
ON SOME ARIZONA ACRIDIIDÆ
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

The following species of Acridiidæ were recently purchased by the writer from the collector, Dr. R. E. Kunze, of Phœnix, Arizona. There are thirty-two specimens, representing eleven species, one of which is apparently undescribed, representing a new genus. Several of the species are, for various reasons, quite interesting and all are herein listed. They are as follows:

1.—Hippiscus leprosus, Sauss.

Xanthippus leprosus, Sauss. Prodr. Oedip., 92 (1884).

Hippiscus leprosus, Scudd. Psyche, VI., 334 (1892).

One female; Pinal Mts., Gila Co.; July 24, 1900.

This species was determined by Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, of Philadelphia.
SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

The first attempt at an arrangement of the N. Am. Lepidoptera, including a reform in the nomenclature, which I published in 1896, calls for some corrections. In the present list I have endeavoured to supply these, but, doubtless, there are others which have escaped me. Since 1896, Lord Walsingham and Mr. Durrant have fixed the types of the genera Tortrix, Tinea, Alucita and Pterophorus, in the two former confirming my doubtful determination of 1895 and correcting the type of the last named genus to monodactyla. I have followed Dyar, in Can. Ent., in using Hipocritidæ instead of Arctiidæ. I cannot find the sure type of Geometra or Noctua. I reject, however, the latter name, since it was differently used by Klein in 1753, and the assumption of 1758 as the basis of nomenclature is arbitrary. The present arrangement is based on that of the Syst. Lep. Hild., 1895. The views of Dyar with regard to the value of the larval tubercles are adopted. The superfamilies are regarded as parallel growths. It seems probable that the Hesperiades, Sphingides, Saturniades and Bombycides (Agrotides) are separate developments from the Tineid phylum. The subfamilies mark breaks in the sequence. This latter is arbitrary, but no scientific reason has been adduced for changing the general Linnæan plan, which is practically the most convenient. With regard to the family names, the oldest term, employed in a collective form and not preoccupied, is retained. At a time when new Catalogues are preparing, the publication of systems will be useful. The diurnals are arranged according to the diphyletic classification of 1897, the sequence and value of the groups are given by me in April, 1900. With regard to the origin of the Lepidoptera, the Micropterygides show hymenopteriform and trichopteriform, the Hepialides neuropteriform characteristics.
THE AMERICAN BEES OF THE GENUS ANDRENA DESCRIBED BY F. SMITH
Authors: Morice F. D. , Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

[In 1891 Mr. Chas. Robertson wrote (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., XVIII., 49); “After careful study, I have been unable to determine more than two of Smith's species” of Andrena; and went on to explain that Smith's descriptions omitted certain characters which were necessary for the exact determination of the species. It is probable that Mr. Robertson did not have before him many of Smith's species, and hence, naturally, could not recognize them in his material; but it is nevertheless true that the determination of Smithian Andrenœ from the description alone is often a matter of great uncertainty.
FURTHER ABOUT THE TYPES OF ACRONYCTA
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Prof. Smith's remarks in the May Canadian Entomologist contain two separate counts. He implies that I might be led by personal views to an improper treatment of the collection in my charge. This implication I indignantly repudiate, and leave Prof. Smith to explain his breach of etiquette as best he may. While Prof. Smith's lack of humour has led him to misunderstand my views, he has no right to imply that with any personal views whatever I would not properly conserve the National Collection. This collection, rapidly becoming the finest in the country, will continue to be conserved with the greatest care. As to the synonymy of the Acronyctas, Prof. Smith makes two assumptions. First, that the specimens now in the British Museum labeled as Guendée's types are still as labeled and described by him; second, that if so, they are properly types. As to the first assumption, I am not in a position at present to dispute it, though I think that some admixture or confusion might have easily arisen in transference, and considering the length of time that has passed. As to the second assumption, I regard it as debatable in the cases where Guenée described larvæ.
THE COCCIDÆ OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

Ripersia, Sign.

Ripersia lasii, Ckll, 1896. (Native.) Originally described from ant-nests in Mass.; was found in an ants' nest (Lasius Americanus, Em.) at Toronto, Canada, in 1897, by Mr. R. J. Crew. It has been found infesting the roots of China asters in Mass.

Bib.—Can. Ent., xxxi. (1899), 110.

Dactylopius, Costa.

Dactylopius longispinus, Targ. (Introduced.) The greenhouse Mealy bug, fouud throughout the civilized world, occurs in Canada in all the Provinces where greenhouse plants are grown; it is recorded from South Quebec.

Bib.—29th Annual Report, Ent. Soc., Ont., 1898, 43.
AN ANTIDOTE TO INSECT-BITES
Authors: Stevenson Charles
Published: February 2010

During a trip to Paraguay to strudy the mosquito pest, Prof. Voges, the Director of the National Board of Health at Buenos Ayres, accidentally discovered a remedy for mosquito bites. He had a supply of all kinds of substances, among which was naphthalene, a chemical of no use whatever against the mosquito itself. A surprising result was produced on rubbing this chemical ou mosquito bites. Even when the part stung was greatly inflamed, it had the effect of neutralizing the insect-poison. By rubbing it on the spot immediately after a person has been bitten, the swelling that usually follows does not arise.
NEW DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FROM BOLIVIA
Authors: Weeks A. G.
Published: February 2010

Papilio Cochabamba, sp. nov.

Habitat: Bolivia. Expanse, 4.00 inches.

Front of head dark, greenish black. Between the eyes, two dots of greenish white, and another dot at “collar,” followed by two more similar dots on front of thorax. Antennæ greenish black, extreme point slightly brownish. Thorax, above, dark greenish black; beneath, black with a large yellowish spot at base of costar nervule, another also at base of costal nervule of hind wing, both with a small white dot above them. Legs, black above; beneath, whitish, the white extending on to thorax as a dash.
BEES FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, VISITING FLOWERS OF ERIOGONUM AND RHUS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Southern California has its dry season in the summer, and comparatively few flowers are to be seen. Among those that remain, and are attractive to insects, the bushy species of Eriogonum are especially noteworthy, and I was fortunate in obtaining from them several bees.

Eriogonum fasciulatum was determined for me by Mrs. K. Brandegee. The Mt. Lowe species, which look very distinct from fasciculatum, is kindly identified by Miss Susan G. Stokes as E. fasciculatum polifolium, “one of the intermediate forms.” This is the E. polifolium of Bentham.
NEW DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FROM BOLIVIA
Authors: Weeks A. G.
Published: February 2010

Pedaliodes primera, sp. nov.

Habitat: Bolivia, near Cusilluni. Expanse, 2.25 inches.

Head and palpi, dark brown, nearly black, Antennæ, above, nearly black; beneath, dark rust colour. Legs, brownish. Thorax, black with brownish hairs. Abdomen, the same but lighter beneath.

Upper side of fore wings, entirely dark blackish brown. The hind margins are dentated, especially so on lower wings, The marginal interspaces of fore wings have a prominent white thread.
NEW BEES OF THE SUBFAMILY ANTHOPHORINÆ FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Anthophora catalinœ, n.sp.— ♀. Length 14 millim., black (including face, mandibles and antennæ), with fulvous, yellowish-white and black pubescence. Pubescence of face dull yellowish-white, a few black hairs at the sides of the clypeus, a long pale fulvous tuft on each side of the anterior ocellus; hair of vertex long, erect and black, of occiput yellowish-white, of cheeks yellowish-white above and white below; hair of thorax pale fulvous, mixed with black on mesothorax and scutellum; lower half of pleura clothed with black hair; abdomen with dense pale fulvous hair-bands at the apices of the first four segments; apex with black hair; ventral surface of abdomen with black hair, except at the sides, where the pale apical bands of the upper surface are combined for a short distance; legs clothed beneath with black hair, above largely with pale; fringe of anterior tarsi wholly black; long hair on outer side of hind tibia and basal joint of tarsus black on the anterior half (extending longitudinally) and shining very pale yellowish on the posterior half.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF ALBERTA, N.-W. T.
Authors: Dod F. H. Wolley
Published: February 2010

Calgary (altitude 3,400 ft.) is strictly a prairie city, situate at the junction of the Bow and Elbow rivers, about 40 or 50 miles from the true base of the Rocky Mountains. For several hundred miles to the east, the prairie is, with the exception of a few spots on river bottoms, absolutely void of either timber or scrub. A very few miles to the west the country becomes decidedly hilly, and in places densely covered witli dwarf willows. Still further west the hills increase in height, shrubs become proportionately more abundant, and several species of poplars make their appearance, the north and west sides of the hills being usually densely wooded. By far the greater portion of the material from which this list has been compiled has been taken by myself and Mr. A. Hudson during the past seven seasons amongst these hills (3,600-4,000 ft.) near the head of Pine Creek, about sixteen miles to the south-west of Calgary. This “hill-prairie,” as I will call it, and which may be looked upon as the boundary between the prairie and the foothills, is well watered by numerous creeks, and the valleys and hillsides—where not too steep—are largely grazed and cultivated, but otherwise splendid hunting grounds for the entomologist.
LABELS
Authors: Lutz Frank E.
Published: February 2010

Anyone who has had even the slightest experience in attempting to get intelligent notes to accompany his acquistions by exchange has doubtless been sorely vexed–to put it no more strongly. Anyone who has tried to keep a careful record of the conditions under which his own collections were made has also doubtless felt the need of some better scheme than the regulation notebook. It is for these reasons that I suggest an idea whic I find very useful.

In the first place, I write (or print with a hand stamp) my own locality labels so that I can fix the places definitely. The ordinary entomologist, unless he has a large collection from precisely the same limited locality, can scarcely afford to have special labels printed, and general ones are useless when the collection is to be used for more than a purely æsthetic exhibition.
MORE CONCERNING LABELS
Authors: Laurent Philip
Published: February 2010

It was with interest that I read the article by Mr. Frank E. Lutz in the April number of the Canadian Entomologist entitled “Labels.”

It is not so very many years ago (perhaps thity) that we were satisfied if specimens sent to us only bore a State label, the State label as first used being nothing more or less than a coloured disk, a different colour for each State. A few years more, and we have the abbreviated State labels – N.J. for New Jersey, Can. for Canada, etc. Not long after, we asked our friends to mark the label in such a mnner that we might know from what part of the State the insect came. Then it was that the collector with pen and ink would mark the label in one of the corners, or perhaps make a mark in the centre, thus designating as to what part of the State the insect had come from. This was not a bad plan, and to-day may such labeled specimens can be seen in the “Horn Collection.” as well as other collections in New York and Philadelphia.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

This subfamily comes nearest to the Aporinæ, and a few of the males are easily confused with and mistaken for some males in the latter group.

The head is, however, lenticular, very thin antero-posteriorly, the temples being very flat, while the antennæ are always placed much closer to the mouth, on or below an imaginary line drawn from the base of the eyes. These characters ought to enable the student to recognize readily a wasp falling in this group.

Some males in the subfamlry Aporinæ have a lenticurar head, but in these the antennæ are inserted above this inraginary line, never on orbelow it.
NEW DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FROM BOLIVIA
Authors: Weeks A. G.
Published: February 2010

Pamphila barbara, sp. nov.

Habitat: Bolivia. Expanse: 1 12 inches.

Head, thorax and abdomen abovd, dark brown; below, gray. Antennæ dark brown, with white annulations at base of each joint. Club brown, white near base.

General colour of upper surface blackish brown. Hind Marginal fringe of ground colour.

Upper side of fore wing has an indistinct white dot in apical area. Near centre of wing, under the end of discoidal space, are two prominent white dots, the upper being under median, the other being in next lower interspace, larger than the first and somewhat nearer base.
NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF ACARIANS
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

In the following pages I have included descriptions of a few new genera and species of mites that have been in my possession for some time. Several of the genera are for the first time recorded in America. A note is added on two species of Trichotorsus. Of the two new genera, the Liroaspis is a very remarkable form, and funds its nearest allies in certain tropical species.

Trombidum granulatum, n. sp.– Bright blood red, the legs are clothed with scale-like hairs, those on the basal joints are white, elsewhere they are red, except on the apical joint of leg I., which is mostly white; the palpi and mouth-parts are mostly white, but reddish toward the trip. The body is covered above with rounded elevated granules, subequal in size and height; on the under side they are more scarce and there are some short red hairs. The body is hardly twice as long as broad, broadest at humeri, slightly constricted over base of the third legs, and broadly rounded behind; the dorsal outline at juncture of head and abdomen shows very little depression; on the cephalic part there is a median grove, and each side are two sessile eyes.
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEES
Authors: Crawford J. C.
Published: February 2010

The specimens on which this paper is based are in the collection of the University of Nebraska, unless otherwide stated. Especial acknowledgments are due to Prof. Cockerell for specimens and suggestions, to Prof. Titus for specimens, and to Prof. Bruner for overseeing my work.

Halictus Montanus, n. sp. –Female: Black, head closely coarsely and deeply puncutred on the vertex, coarser along the inner orbits, less closely on the face below the antennæ clypesu sparsely and more coarsely punctured, fringed with golden hair at the apex; mandibles black, reddish at tips; antennæ black flagellum dark brownish beneath towards tip; pubescence of head and thorax griseous, slightly tinged with ochraceous on the thorax, thin on the disc of mesothorax, dense on pleura and cheeks; thorax closely and rather coarsely punctured; base of metathorax enclosed and finely rugose, truncation finely roughened and with large punctures; tegulæ large, testaceous, and with punctures anteriorly; wings slightly yellowish, clouded apically; nervures and stigma bright testaceous; legs black, tarsi and hind tibiæ behind ferruginous; pubescence of legs slightly ochraceous, on inner side of tarsi and hind tibiæ golden; inner hind tibial spur with many short blunt teeth; abdomen black, very finely punctured, apical margins of segments with yellowish-white hair bands, bases of segments 2–4 also showing slight hair bands; pubescence at base of first segment griseous, on discs of other segments black, not showing plainly except from the sides. Length, 12–14 mm.
SYNOPSIS OF HALICTINÆ
Authors: Robertson Charles.
Published: February 2010

In connection with the study of the pollination of flowers by insects, for several years and in several journals I have published notes on the local Halictinæ, with descriptions of new species and the missing sexes of some which were only known in one sex. This paper is intended to bring my results together in a brief form.

The so-called genus Halictus of authors seems to be altogether too heterogenous. I restore Lasioglossum and propose two other new genera. I think that the several genera must stand or fall together. The venation shows that Agapostemon and Augochlora are more closely related to Halictus, as here limited, than are Lasioglossum, Evylaeus and Chloralictus.
HYDRŒCIA NELITA, STRECKER
Authors: Lyman Henry. H.
Published: February 2010

In Supplement No. 1 to his work “Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indigenons and Exotic,” dated Sept. 15th, 1898, Dr.Herman Strecker described a species under the above name as follows:

“At first glance might be taken for a small Nitela, but it is a darkr, warmer colour, more towards a rich chestnut. The t.p. is not so conspicuous, and is much more upright, and its course is rather from the costa outwardly oblique than inwardly oblique. One example has the space from the base to t.p. chestnut brown, exteriorly the t.p. is accompanied by a broad, paler ashen shade, beyond which the brown again prevails. In another the whole wing is brown, the t.p. only being discernible on the closest inspection. Beyond what I have mentioned, the differences between this and Nitela, excepting size, are not very marked. Expands one inch. Types, two examples from Chicago, Illinois.”
THREE NEW GOMPHINES
Authors: Needham James. G.
Published: February 2010

Herewith I offer descriptions of three new species of dragon-flies of the subfamily Gomphinæ of Odonata. Figures of the appendages of all will appear in my forthcoming handbook of the dragon-flies of North America.

Gromphus lentulus, n. sp.

Colours obscure (due in part to fading of specimen); face obscure yellowish, shining; frons above and occiput and the ridges above the lateral ocelli yellow, the remainder of the vertex brownish. Prothorax brownish, with a double median spot of yellow on the dorsum. Thorax obscure yellowish, with a faint indication of a pair of narrow stripes of brown beside the middorsal carina, and of broader antehumeral and humeral stripes; a brown pale line on the third lateral suture.
THREE NEW SPECIES OF CULEX
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Culex atropalpus, new species.

♀. Black the halteres, apices of coxæ, and bases and under side of femora, except toward the apex, yellowish white; scales of palpi black, occiput covered with board, appressed whitish scales and with a patch of black ones near the middle of each side, the middle of the upper side covered with narrow yellowish scales, the upright forked scales yellow; scales of mesonotum golden yellow and with an median vitta of black ones; scales of abdomen purplish black, and with a narrow fascia of whitish ones at the bases of the segments, becoming much broader on the venter; scales of legs black, those at base and on under side of femora, except toward the apex, also to extreme apices of femora, both ends of tibiæ and of the tarsal joints, except the last two and apex of the third on the front and middle tarsi, white those on last joint of hind tarsi wholly white; claws of front and middle tarsi toothed, those of the hind ones simple; wings hyaline, lateral scales of the veins long and narrow, first submarginal cell slightly over twice as long as its petiole.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

Peridroma canities n. sp. – Form and markings of the Texan P. annexa, but of a different, dusty gray, colour and a little shorter winged. Primaries dusty gray, with a slight dusky shading along costa, against which the pale dots, marking inception of transverse lines, are relieved. T.p. line tolerably distinct, indentate interspaceally, with included pale shade. Veins marked with fuscous. T. a. line double, with a strong outward inflection above internal margin. Claviform blunt, filled in with fuscous. Orbicular with central dot. Reniform moderate,filled in with fuscous. Cell slightly darker shaded. Marking inconspicuous, concolorous. Hind wings (♀) white.
THE HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITES OF PHENACOCCUS CAVALLIÆ, CKLL
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

About the first of October, Prof. T.D.A. Cockerell sent me for names several parasites bred by him from a Coccid, Phenacoccus cavalliæ Ckll., collected at Rosewel, New Mexico. In the lot where four distinct species of Chalcids, two being new, but one of these in hyperparasite, as follows: (1) Blepyrus phenacocci, sp. nov.; (2) Cheiloneururs dactylopii, How.; (3) Signiphora dactylopii, Ashm.; and (4) Tetrastichus blepyri, sp. nov. The new species are described below:

Blepyrus phenacocci, sp. n.– ♀. Length, 1.3 to 1.4 mm. Stature and general appearance similar to B. mexicanus How. Aeneous black, the thimble-like punctuation of the head more or less metallic greenish; antennæ, except the pedicel and the club, all tarsi, and the extreme tips of middle and hind tibiæ, honey-yellow; the pedicel is obconical, about thrice as long as thick at apex, brown-black; the funicle is 6-jointed, the joints transverse, gradually widening to the club, the latter being large, stout and black. Wings hyaline, the tegulæ black, the veins dark brown, the marginal vein very short, hardly twice as long as thick, the postmarginal and stigmal veins long, about equal.