bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
NEW SPECIES OF PYRALIDÆ
Authors: Hulst Geo. D.
Published: February 2010

Myelois fructetella, n. sp.—Expands 16–18 mm. Head dark fuscous; maxillary palpi fuscous, becoming black on end member. Antennaæ and thorax fuscous-gray to dark fuscous; abdomen yellowish-fuscous, ringed with dark fuscous on anterior part of each segment; forewings light gray, heavily marked with fuscous and black; base to basal line, with black scales, which become very heavy within basal line along inner margin; middle field much darkened on posterior half, with fuscous continuing along both lines, broad and black at costa along basal line, and narrow and black at costa along outer line; outer field broadly black along costa outside of outer line, becoming lighter posteriorly and along outer margin; fringe very light gray; basal line white, straight in direction or somewhat denated, near middle distinct; outer line less distinct, with a large but not deep sinus outwardly at middle; hindwings translucent fuscous becoming darker at edges.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TACHINIDÆ, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES.—Paper V.
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

The Tachinidæ herein described and mentioned are from the more northern parts of the U.S.; from Colo., Kan., Dakota, Iowa, and Minn. to Ills., Mich., Pa., N.Y., N.H. and D.C.
CLERCK'S ICONES
Authors: Holland W. J.
Published: February 2010

Under the title “Icones Insectorum Rariorum cum Nominibus courm trivialibus, locisque e C. Linnœi Arch: R: et Equ: AurL Syst: Nat: allegatis.” Charles Clerck, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Upsala, commenced the publication at Stockholm, in the year 1759, of a series of plates intended to illustrate the species of exotic lepidoptera recently named by his distinguished fellow-countryman, the immortal Linnæus.
HERMAPHRODITE GYPSY MOTHS
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Two specimens of this moth (Ocneria dispar, L.) were taken in Medford, Mass., last summer, which are what Ochsenheimer called perfect Hermaphrodites. One is much larger than the other, having an expense of 52 mm., and has the right half of the body, with the wings and antennæ of that side, of the form, colour and markings of the female, while the left side of the body, with its wings and antennæ, are male. The other example has a wing expanse of 39 mm., and is a male on the right side and a female on the left. In both specimens the frenulum is single on the male side, but divided on the female.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA.—No. 1
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

Under this heading, I propose to give from time to time descriptions of new species in my collection, and such notes on other species as may seem of value to students of our fauna.

Notopygus americana, n. sp.— Female, length 10 mm.,; head, antennæ, thorax, coxæ and first segment of abdomen, black; remainder of abdomen and legs red; antennæ as long as head and thorax, filifrom, joints short and subequal; thorax elongate, shining; metathorax, rounded and obliquely truncate; wings; slightly infumated, with black nervures; abdomen shining, as long as thorax, triangularly clavate, truncate at apex, with the ovipositor curved upward; sheaths black.
OUR WINTER BEETLES
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

Though the winters of Iowa are quite severe, there are, nevertheless, always a few days when the weather is moderate enough to admit of the entomologist getting out for a few hours work at his favourite pursuit. When the sun comes out and the snow disappears in sheltered spots, a little investigation will yield much that is of interest, and throw considerable light on the habits of many of our insects.
DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW WEST AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Holland W. J.
Published: February 2010

1. E. castanea, sp. nov.

♂. The form of the wings is exactly like that of Senegalensis, H. S. Upperside.—The ground colour is rich chestnut-brown, marked by broad black series of spots and bands. Upon the primaries these markings are as follows:-In the cell a longtiudinal basal streak, a transverse line, a figure 8, a twice curved transverse line, and a broad bar at the end of the cell constricted in the middle; below the cell there is a short basal band curving inwardly; beyond the cell there is a wide band running from the costa toward the outer margin as far as the lower radial; and then abruptly turning and extending to the middle of the inner margin; beyond this is a broad band of diffuse spots, wide on the costa, narrower beyond the end of the cell, and gradually widening as it apporaches the inner margin; beyond this is a submarginal series of very black round spots.
A GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE KNOWN LARVAL FOOD–HABITS OF THE ACALYPTRATE MUSCIDÆ
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

In a short paper publihsed in the Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci., Vol. XIII., on the occurrence, in a single restirced locality in Arizona, of a species of Micropeza, I gave a very brief resumé of the food-habits of some of the better known families of Acalyptrate, Muscidæ, with the view of suggesting the possible habit of the species there considered. This prompted me later to bring together all avialble notes on the subject. As these small flies are of much economic importance, both as being injurious and benefical, I have left that a quite compelte summary of their larval food-habits would be of much use to the working entomologist, besides being of no little importance to those who may be making a special study of the diptera.
TRYPHON FLAVIFRONS, N. S
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

Antennæ, filiform, brown; number of joints, twenty-seven; scape, large, ovate, pale yellow beneath. Eyes naked, large and prominent, dark rosy brown. Clypesu, labrum, mandibles and palpi pale yellow. The lower portions of the epicranium are of the same colour. The occiput is black, smooth and glossy. Mesothorax highly convex, black, sparsely set with short, pale-brown, retrose hairs. Scutellum elevated. Tegulæ yellow. The under parts of thorax amber-coloured, as are also the legs, with the exception of the tarsi and parts of the tibiæ of teh hindmost pair, which are brown.
THE SONG OF THYREONOTUS
Authors: Davis William. T.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, in the Report of the Ontario Entomological Society for 1892, gives an interesting account of the “Songs of Our Grasshoppers and Crickets,” and kindly permits the stridulations of a number of Staten Island insects to be heard mid the general medley. There is however, an additional songster to be added to this list, as appears from the following.
NOTES ON LEUCANIA PSEUDARGYRIA, GUEN
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

Full-grown larva.—Length, two inches. Colour greenish-brown above, greenish-grey beneath. Pale dorsal and side lines. Spiracles black. Head and scale on second segment light reddish-brown; jaws darker brown. This description agrees with that given by Mr.Caulfield in Vol, XIII. of the Canadian Entomologist, page 132.
TWO NEW CYNIPIDS FROM WASHINGTON STATE
Authors: Gillette C. P.
Published: February 2010

In February of last year I received a box of galls from Mr. Trevor Kincaid, of Olympica, Washington, for identification. The galls were taken from Rubus Nutkanus, and the flies reared from them early in the following March prove to be a new species, which I take pleasure in dedicating to Mr. Kincaid.
SYNOPSIS OF THE ASILID GENERA MALLOPHORA AND NICOCLES
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

With the expecitons of Mallophora ardens, Macq., and M. fulviventris, Macq., neither of which have been identified, the following table contains all the species belonging to this genus at present known to occur in America north of Mexico.
NORTH AMERICAN THYSANURA
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

Smynthurus spinatus, n. sp.

Olive. Head tinted with purple, lighter on the sides, olive around the mouth and eyes; coarsely and sparsely punctuate, punctures light olive, each bearing a white hair. Antennæ purplish, basal joint lighter, as long as the body; apical segment with from seventeen to twenty subsegments. Abdomen fuscous with lighter spots; the apical part with an olivaceus cloud, the remainder fuscous with whitish or olivaceous blotches; on the middle of the back a number of groups or circular white spots, and on the posterior part of each side a row of white spots, varying from four to ten.
FURTHER ON THE DIPTERA CONSIDERED AS THE HIGHEST INSECTS
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

In my article in Canadian Entomologist, 1893, pp. 7–8, as also in my previous note in Science, Vol. XIX., 1882, p. 320, I stateed that Hyalt and Arms were the first to point out that the Diptera were the most highly specialized insects, and consequently to be considered the highest in rank. It should be noted, however, that the same idea was advanced at the same time by the renowned insect anatomist, Mr. B. T. Lowne, well known for his work on the anatomy, etc., of the blow-fly.
A NEW GASTROPACHA
Authors: Rivers J. J.
Published: February 2010

Phyllodesma Dyari n. sp.—General apperance of the palest sienna or yellowish-ochre. Thorax and patagia thickly clothed with short hair of a uniform pale tone, the abdominal covering similar, but longer and finer, which gives to it a slightly silky appearance.

♂. Anterior wings with the anal angle deeply emarginate; three lines of dusky spots cross the disc ending near the costa, these being lines rather than bands.
THE BUTTERFLIES OF LAGGAN, N. W. T.; ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN SPECIES INHABITING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN LATITUDE 51° 25′
Authors: Bean Thomas. E.
Published: February 2010

Elevations in Vicinity of Laggan.—Altitudes near Laggan have in some cases been very incorrectly stated. In “Appleton's Canadia Guide-Book; Western Canada,” published 1892, the altitude of Louise Lake (Emerald Lake of the Geological Survey) is given as one thousand feet above Laggan, and the elevation of Agnes Lake is stated at three thousand five hundred feet above Laggan. Such statistics are worse than useless.
THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF VARINA ORNATA, NEUM.
Authors: Packard A. S.
Published: February 2010

For a specimen of this most interesting moth I am indebted to Mrs. Slosson, and after an examination of ti I am unable to find any Bombycine characters, except the heavily pectinated antennæ. In Prof. Smith's List of Lepidoptera it is placed in the Liparidæ between Artaxa and Lagoa, though it bears no resemblance to these moths except in the shape of the antennæ. It has also been regarded as allied to the Cochliopodidæ.
CATOCALINE MOTHS FROM GEORGIA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the collection of the Bremen Museum are a number of NoctuidŒ CatocalinŒ brought by Norwich, many years ago, from the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia, and belonging to species for the most part new to me. Nearly all are now identified by me as described by Guenée in the Species General, and their notice here can hardly fail to be of interest. I have previously remarked upon the fact that, as we progress southwardly, we are met by an increase in the number of species of Catocaline Owlet Moths, while the NoctuinŒ, or typical NoctuidŒ, diminish; the metropolis of the former seems to lie in the Tropical, of the latter in the North Temperate Zone.
DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Colias Behrii, Edw.

Egg.—Spindle shapted, a little contraced just before the tip, with low longitudinal and transverse ridges, which divide the surface into shallow, rectangular parallelograms. Length, 1.3 mm.; width, .6 mm. The eggs are laid singly on the upper side of the leaves of a species of ground huckleberry, its food plant.

First stage.—Head rounded, dark brown; width; .25 mm. Body of normal shape, sordid whitish, apparently without marks; minutely pilose.
COMMENTS ON MR. VAN DER WULP'S RECENT DIAGNOSES OF NEW SPECIES OF MEXICAN PHASIIDÆ, GYMNOSOMATIDÆ, OCYPTERIDÆ, AND PHANIIDÆ
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

Mr. F. M. van der Wulp, the well-known Dutch dipterologist, has recently published, in the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, vol.35, pp. 183–195, short dignoses of a large number of new species and several new genera of Mexican Tachinidæ sens. lat. Of these, there are 33 new species and 4 new genera which belong to the above four groups. Of such well known and well-worked genera as Trichopoda, there are 4 new species; of Hyalomia, 10 new species; of Cistogaster 8 new species!
DESCRIPTION OF THE GRUBS OF CHRYSOMELA EXCLAMATIONIS
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

This species is quite common in New Mexico, where it feeds on the native sunflower (Helianthus sp.). On August 7, 1892, at Belen, N. Mex., I found the native Helianthus annuus badly infested with the adults and numerous light green grubs of this species, where were eating the leaves extensively.
A LIST OF SPECIES OF DIPTERA FROM SAN DOMINGO
Authors: Williston S. W.
Published: February 2010

Some year ago I received a small collection of diptera from San Domingo, made by Mr. F. Frazar, a list of the species of which it is composed I herewith give. Hitherto scarcely two score species have been recorded from the island.
FITCH'S TYPES OF N. A. MEMBRACIDÆ
Authors: Coding F. W.
Published: February 2010

During a recent visit to the city of Washington, through the kindness of Prof. C. V. Riley and his courteous assistants, I had the pleasure of examining typical exmaples of some of the Membracidæ described by Dr.Asa Fitch, the labels being in Dr. Fitch's own handwriting. Each specimen is numbered to agree with those given in the doctor's manuscript note-books, now in the possession of Dr. Riley and the Boston Society of Natural History.
NORTH AMERICAN THYSANURA.—II
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The genus Japyx has been of particular interest because of the apparent absence of rudimentary abdominal appendages. One American* writer says very decidedly. “Japyx has none”; a well-known English † writer considers these appendages as “represented by mere groups of stiff hairs.” The presence of these appendages was indicated as early as 1869, by Brauer, ‡ in his description of Japyx gigas. In 1889 there appeared a very important paper by Haase§, in which the rudimentary appendages are distinctly shown. These appendages can easily be seen in either of the species described below.
A NEW ASILID GENUS RELATED TO ERAX
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Among the species heretofore referred to the genus Erax is a small group in which the first submarginal cell is divided by an oblique cross vein into two cells. The venation is similar to that of the genus promachus, except that the foremost of the two apical submarginal cells is shorter, and teh third vein curves forward to the costa before the apex of the wing, instead of curving backward to the hind margin beyond the apex.
NOTES ON COLLECTING SOME OF THE SMALLER SESIIADÆ IN THE LONDON (ENGLAND) DISTRICT
Authors: Gibb Lachlan
Published: February 2010

The one most commonly met with is S. tipuliformis, and is to be found sunning itself on the leaves of the currant bushes at the time when the fruit is about two-thirds grown, and on a bright sunny morning about 10 o'clock, or afternoon about 4 o'clock, one can easily take from six to twelve in one or two hours. Once I found them assembling, and took some thirty or forty in a very short time. It is a little difficult to procure the larvæ, as they feed in the two-year-old wood, and, as this is the fruitproducing part, it is better not to cut it while the owner is about, and when you can cut, I have found so many blanks that the bushes have suffered more than the gain warranted.
A SUGGESTION AS TO THE IDENTITY OF CYCNIA DUEIA, WALKER
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

In Vol.XXII., p. 120, of Can. Ent., Prof. Smith calls attention to the fact that the above name awaits identification, and says: “There should be no difficulty in indentifying this species, should it turn up.” The moth was described by Walker as Cycnia, referred by Grote and Robinson to Phragmatobia, and lastly by Kirby to Estigmene (=Leucarctia). It has occurred to me that this form has already been turned up, and by Mr. Bruce, as described in Entom. Amer., Vol. III.m p. 140, where it was shown to be a form a Spilosoma virginica.
DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Ichthyura vau Fitch.

Egg.—The colour of the unhatched eggs is deep purplish-pink, pale around the bottom; slightly shining.

First stage.—Head bilobed, bearing a few hairs, shining black; width .45 mm. Dorsum broadly bluish-white, except the black cervical shield and anal plate and joints 5 and 12, which latter ar hardly enlarged, coloured vinous-brown. Whole lateral area also brown but paler, and broken into patches. Feet black outwardly. Hair fine, very long laterally, pale, darker dorsally, arising singly from black conical tubercles with the normal arrangement.
AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION
Authors: Field William. L. W.
Published: February 2010

Sir, —The Henry Edwards Entomological Corresponding Chapter of the Agassiz Association invites entomological students who read this notice to join its ranks. Members are expected to keep each other informed of the progress of their work in special lines of study, and to contribute to the published reports. During the winter one or more courses in Elementary Entomology will be conducted. The initiation fee is 50 cents.
SYNOPSIS OF THE ASILID GENUS ANISOPOGON
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Anisopogon ludius, n. sp. ♂.—Black, the tibiæ and tarsi dark reddish brown. Face gently convex, white pilose, bristles of lower part black; first joint of antennæ slightly longer than the second, the third joint tapering to the tip, three times as long as the second, the style slender, seven-eights as long as the third antennal joint; pile of occiput, thorax, pleura, coxæ and venter white; upper side of each front tarsal joint with a dense covering of appressed white hairs; upper side of middle femora toward its apex with a dense covering of short appressed black hairs, which, however, leave a large elliptical naked space between the apex and the middle; middle tibiae white pilose in front, and above the middle ornamented with a large patch of appressed black hairs and bristles, which form an inner and an outer fringe; inner side of hind tibiae near the tip, and also of the hind metatarsi, densely bright yellow pubescent; wings smoky brown, lightest at the apex and along the hind margin; all posterior and the anal cell open.
SOME NOTES ON MICHIGAN INSECTS, PRINCIPALLY COLEOPTERA, AFFECTING FOREST TREES
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

The following notes were presented to the Entomological Society of Washington, May 1, 1980, under the title of “Some insects affecting certain forest trees.” They are herewith somewhat revised and sifted for publication, since the matter which follows is of some value.
NORTH AMERICAN THYSANURA.—III
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The family Japygidœ has representatives in
almost all parts of the world. Nearly a dozen species have been descirbed,
the majority of which are from Europe. The species are local and rare, and
not usually found north or south of about 40° of latitude. Only a single
genus is known—Japyx.
A NEW SPECIES OF HYPOPTA
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

An interesting species of Hypopta has been sent to me by Mr. T.D.A.
Cockerell, from Las Cruces, New Mexico. It appears to be
undescribed.
A NEW LECANIUM FROM CANADA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

In a box of Canadian Coccidæ lately sent to me by Mr. J. Fletcher, there
are several species of Lecanuum, including one
which appears to be new, and is described herewith.

Lecanuium Fletcheri, n. sp.
ON SOME LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVÆ ON ALFALFA
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

During the last two years a considerable number of rather small
lepidopterous larvæ have been found on alfalfa (Medicago
sativa) in Southern New Mexico. In the material collected
there are nine distinct species represented. None of them have been bred.
These larvæ are of considerable economic importance, as they occasion a
certain amount of injury to the alfalfa crop, which is the surest and most
paying crop of the Mesilla valley.
A NEW FORM OF PRIONIA, AND NOTES ON PLATYPTERYX ARCUATA AND P. GENICULA
Authors: Hudson George. H.
Published: February 2010

Prionia levis, n. var. or sp.

Primaries without the delicate frosted or silvery appearance, and without the numerous short, fine, strigate, brown lines of bilineata. The brown scales are present, but are uniformly and evenly distributed, save where they form the two brown lines which cross the wing, and a little darker shading near the outer edge and apex. These two transverse lines are about a third wider apart that in bilineata, the second narrowly edged externally with the clear, pale yellow ground-colour of the wing.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Hemichroa americana, Provancher.

(The alder saw-fly).

Descirbed as a Dineura, but the lanceolate cell is contracted in the middle, not petiolate. The second recurrent nervure is received very near the end of the second submarginal cell, almost at the intersection of second and third submarginal cells.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF NEME-OPHILA SCUDDERI, PACK
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

Eggs laid July 9–10. Round, considerably flattened at base, honey-yellow, shining, under a microscope very slightly and irregularly pitted, of an inch in diameter.

Hatched July 17–18, egg period eigth days.

Young larva—Length, about one-tenth of an inch. Head brown, rather lighter below. Body, dull greenish-yellow, with lead coloured warts and long hairs of a brown colour.
NOTES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The genus Melanchroia has been associated in our lists with Gnophaela to form a family Pericopidœ. As a matter of fact it is a veritable geometer, with little more relation to Gnophaela than is expressed in the statement that both are Macro-Heterocera! This has, indeed, been recognized in Europe, and Mr. Butler, when identifying my specimens as M. cephise, added the remark “belongs to the geometrites”.
LIST OF COLEOPTERA TAKEN AT SPARROW LAKE, ONT
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Sparrow Lake is an expansion of the Severn river, situate a little south of lat. 45° and east of 80° longitude. Gelogically, this part of Ontario belongs to the Laurentian formation, and that of a very rugged type. The southwest side of the lake, where these coleoptera were taken, save in a few spots among the rocks, is wholly uncultivated and uncultivable to the Georgian Bay, a distance of from 20 to 30 miles. Till recently it sustained an immense forest growth, mostly pine, which has now disappeared, and has been succeeded by a dense and almost impenetrable jungle of briars and bushes of many deciduous species.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—NO. VI
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

1. Amalopota Fitchi, n. sp.

Closely allied to A. Uhleri. Smaller; elytra smoky, about twice banded with white; nervures carmine, ocelli apparently wanting. Length, 6 mm.

Male: Vertex shorter and broader posteriorly than in Uhleri, hind margin very feebly emarginate, apex of the pronotum not advanced beyond the base of the lateral keels; frontal keel, viewed from the side, broader and more strongly rounded, with a more conspicuous notch at the base of the clypeus than in Uhleri.
ON A SEEMINGLY MICROLEPIDOPTEROUS LEAF-MINER OF THE NARROW-LEAFED COTTONWOOD
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

In the same leaves of Populus angustifolia in which were found the tenthredinid (lepidopterous?) leaf-miners,* in the Canada Alamosa, northern Sierra county, N. Mex., in June, 1892, there were also found speciemns of a very distinct leaf-miner. It bears of striking resemblance to the leafminer of the vine found in the Mesilla valley of the Rio Grande. It possesses the sucker-like mouth of that miner. After being mounted in glycerine on a slide for several days, however, the outer portion of the distended sucker-like organ became transparent, exposing within what appear to be two stout rounded mandibles with teeth on their inner edges.
HYBLŒA PUERA, CRAMER
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Butler (P.Z.S., 1892, p. 133) remarks concerning the Hyblœidœ (Hyblœinœ, I would rather write) as follows:-

“The position of this family is somewhat doubtful; the aspect of the species forcibly reminds one of the Tortrices, but the neutration does not altogether correspond with that of the Tortricidœ; at the same time the Hyblœidœ do not appear to be true Noctuites.”
ON SOME UNDETERMINED BOMBYCES
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Andrew Bolter, of Chicago, has kindly sent me the type of this species for examination. It proves to belong to none of our families of Bombyces, as I had suspected.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA OCCURRING NEAR ALLEGHENY, HERETOFORE UNDESCRIBED
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Preparatory to the publication of a list of the Coleoptera of this vicinity, it has been thought proper to characterize and name the following forms:-

Bembidium postfasciatum.—Coppery-bronzed, dark beneath, elytra pallid, two dark fasciæ. Head convex, impunctate, longitudinally impressed on each side between the eyes, coppery-bronzed; antennæ wit three basal joints pale, the others fuscous; thorax quadrate, base and length equal, wider at middle, base truncate, basal striæ double, hind angles rectungular, carinate, dorsal line deep, coppery-bronzed, often tinted greein in the basal impressions; elytra pallid, silvery white in life, elongate oval, broadly deeply impressed transversely behind scutellum, deeply striate, striæ dilated before middle and coarsely punctured, punctures finer towards apex, intervals convex, third bipunctate, a broad undulated dark fascia behind middle, another before apex sometimes interrupted at the suture and sides; underside dark, oftern with a greenish reflection; legs entirely pallid.
NOTES AND QUERIES
Authors: Holland W. J.
Published: February 2010

I have just received a specimen of an Erebus odora, which was captured last Wednesday evening (Sept. 27th) in the lecture-room of the first united presbyterian Church, in the city of Allegheny, where its appearance caused no little consternation among the devout “mothers in Israel” who were at prayer meeting, and who thought it was a bat, of which evil things are said by the unsophisticated.
EXOCHILUM MUNDUM, SAY, ATTACKING THE FALL WEB-WORM
Authors: Kirkland A. H.
Published: February 2010

One hot afternoon in the early part of August, 1893, while out collecting, I found a large web of the Fall Web-Worm (Hyphantriacunea, Drury), on a young apple tree. Reaching up to cut off the twigs to which the web was attached, my attention was attarcted by an unusual disturbance among the immates of the web. Closer insepection revealed the fact that a medium-sized Ichneumon fly had intruded within the family circle, and was proving herself a most unwelcome visitor. Tearing into the web with her feet she would force her way along until she arrived under the skeletonized leaves upon which the larvæ were resting and through which they were plainly visible.
THE LARVÆ OF THE CLISIOCAMPÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

As has been shown by Mr. R. H. Stretch, the North American species of Clisiocampa are best separated by larval characters, and this paper will deal chiefly with them. I refer to Mr. Stretch's paper in volume 1. of Papilio, which contains about all that has been known reagrding the species.
ASTATUS BICOLOR, SAY
Authors: Fox William. J.
Published: February 2010

In reply to Mr. Charles A. Hart, who has shown, in the last number of this journal, that in his opinion I am in error regarding the identification of Astatus bicolor, Say, I would say that the stigma of the ♂ only is “yellowish-rufous”, while that of the ♀ varies from reddish-black to deep black. If he will again consult my synopsis of the genus Astatus he will find that I used the words “stigma of wings black” in separating those of the female sex. In regard to my new species, A. pygidialis, which Mr. Hart suggests may be an exteme variety of bicolor, it differs not only in the slight characters mentioned by him, but also in the shorter and triangular pygidium, and the more feeble armature of the legs; the scutellum is not furrowed down the middle, and the insect itself is much smaller.
NOTE UPON THE REVISION OF THE GENUS CUCULLIA
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

The “Revision of the Genus Cucllia,” by Prof. Smith, in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XV., pp. 33.et.seq., raises the number of described North American species sto 14, and is an interesting addition to the knowledge of our Noctuidœ. Larger collections from the west have come to hand since my study of the species and have admitted of fuller comparisons. Although the species of Cucullia are not among the commonest Owlet Moths and seem to fall less easily a prey to the collector's efforts than those of many other genera, still we may conclude that the above figures give, at least approximately, the N.American representation of the genus.
THE MEMBRACIDÆ OF ST. VINCENT ISLAND, W. I
Authors: Coding F. W.
Published: February 2010

The material forming the basis of this paper was sent to me last October by Prof. C. V. Riley for determination. The species were collected by H.H. Smith in St. Vincent, West Indies, and are among the most interesting forms of this remarkable family.
CAN THE DIPTERA BE CONSIDERED THE HIGHEST INSECTS?
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

In the Nov., 1892 number fo the Canadian Entomologist, pp. 269–70, there is printed a paper which was read by Professor H. Osborn before the Entomological Club of the A.A.A.S. at its Rochester meeting in August, 1892. It is entitledL “Honey-bee or House-fly”. In this article Professor Osborn questions the view, first advanced by Hyatt and Arms, that the Diptera are to be considered the highest insects.
NOTES FROM THE CORNELL INSECTARY.: I.—SOME RESULTS OF A TRAP LANTERN EXPERIMENT
Authors: Slingerland M. V.
Published: February 2010

May 1, 1889, the Entomological Department of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station set sixx trap lanterns, at considerable distances apart, on the University farm for the purpose of determining their value as an insecticide. Each trap consisted simply of a common lantern set in a pan of water whose surface had a thin film of kerosene upon it to facilitate the destruciton of the insects caught/ The lanterns were kept burning every night until Oct. 15, 1889, or until no more insects were attracted.
NOTES
Authors: Gibb Lachlan
Published: February 2010

Driving from Hudson to Como on the 23rd of Septemberm, 1892, about 8 p.m. the night being warm and damp, I was much surprised to see on the hard road something luminous, emitting quite as strong a light as the glow-worm in England. We stopped quickly, but before I could get back the few yards it had disappeared. Some half mile further we passed another, which also, before I could get to it, disappeared. Can any of your readers say what these were? Their sudden disappearance and our failing to find them, though we struck a mathc in both cases, would lead me to think they were some sort of earth worm, as these draw themselves quickly into their holes when disturbed. How else is their sudden disappearance to be accounted for?
SOME NEW LOCUSTIDÆ FROM INDIANA
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

During the past four years the writer has been getting together a collection of Locustidæ from various parts of the State of Indiana, with a view a preparing a general descriptive paper of the species of that family found in the State. In working over the material thus gathered thirty-seven species are found to be represented, four of which are evidently new to science. Of the four, three belong to the genus Orchelimum and one to the genus Conocephalus. The former genus is represented in the collection by ten specis and the latter by four. Below is given a descritption of each of the four species believed to be new, together with such notes concerning the distribution of each as I find in my field note-book.
ON SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ NOT HITHERTO DESCRIBED
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Phyciodes carlota, Reak.

Larva.—Head subcordate, apices slightly produced, mouth parts small; rough, tuberculate, hairy; colour black, a narrow white line above the mouth. Body robust, with short and thick conical, densely-bristly spines, arranged thus: on joint 2 one short stigmatal and one substigmatal, besides tubercles on the cervical shield; on joints 3–4, subdorsal, lateral and subventral; on 5–11, dorsal (single), suprastigmatal, substigmatal, 2 subventral; on 12, two dorsal (in line), subdorsal, superstigmatal, substigmatal and subventral (small); on joint 13, two subdorsal (in line). Cervical shield, anal plate, feet outwardly and spiracles black; body brownish red, with a dorsal and subdorsal black shaded line, most distinct in the segmental incisures.
HINTS ON COLLECTING COLEOPTERA DURING THE WINTER
Authors: Ford A.
Published: February 2010

During the winter the coleopterist in Britain finds a great deal to do in the way of collecting, as many species are to be met with at this season, which will probably not be found at any other period of the year. One of the principal methods of collecting during the winter is “tuft-cutting”, and it is astonishing the number of beetles which pass through the winter in tufts of grass. Those growing in damp places in woods and on the borders of ponds and streams are generally the most productive. They should be cut off close to the roots, then shaken and pulled to pieces over a sheet fo paper, which shold be very carefully examined, otherwise many ot the more minute species will be passed over.
OUR QUARTER CENTENARY
Authors: Harrington W. H.
Published: February 2010

With the December number, the Canadian Entomologist completed its twenty-fifth volume. The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario have endeavored to make it as useful as possible to the working entomologists of North America. The publications of our Society consist chiefly of the Annual Report published by the Hon. Minister of Agriculture and Arts of Ontario, in his annual report to the Legistaure, and the monthly magazine, the Canadian Entomologist. The former of these is devoted particularly to papers of economic interest, and is distributed not only to our own members, but to every member of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, to members of Parliament, the Mechanics's Institutes, etc., making an issue of about 6,000 copies.
NOTES ON PARNASSIUS CLODIUS
Authors: Lembert John. B.
Published: February 2010

After a journey of ten miles over snow and snowbanks from four to eight feet deep, I arrived in the latter part of June, on my summer and fall collecting ground on the Fuloumne Meadows, which lie on the edge of the area wherein the high Sierra species of Lepidoptera are most numerous. The Paranassius was one of the first I began to collect, as the butterflies had just commenced to issue, and were flying in the grassy and shaded timber-covered portions of a rocky side hill slope.
NOTE ON THE PROPOSED NEW GENUS CALOTARSA
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

On pp. 50—52 of the present volume of this journal, I described the new genus and species Calotarsa ornatipes, which I then supposed to be an anomalous syrphid. I am, now convinced that it is a platypezid. At the time of writing the paper, which was sent in in the fall of 1892, I overlooked the ciliate alulae of the wings, the apical spur of middle tibiæ, and the similarity of venation with the Platypezidæ.
NOTES ON NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

My types of albalis, now in collection Brit. Mus., belong to a western species showing a charactertistic white downy surface of the primaries, obscuring the ornamentation. My single type of cloanthodies in coll. Graef, belongs to a smooth-winged from with distinct, sordid or brownishblack Cloantha-like markings. It does not appear that albalis has an European representative, while cloanthoides is not unlike Agrotis signifera, of which latter it may be the American representative.
NORTH AMERICAN THYSANURA—V
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

In a previous paper there were given analytical tables to the genera of the families Aphorouridæ and Poduridæ; in the present paper will be found a table to the families and a table to the genera of the Entomobryidæ. The Smynthuridæ and Papiridæ are each represented by a single genus.
BUTTERFLIES COMMON TO NORWAY AND ARCTIC NORTH AMERICA.
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In his “Fortegnelse over Norges Lepidoptera” (Christiania Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger for 1893, No. 13), Dr. W. H. Schoyen, State Entomologist of Norway, has given us a list of 1267 species of Lepidoptera that inhabit his country, tabulated to show the Provinces in which they occur, and the exact latigude over which each species is known to be distributed. The interest which this list posesses for the American entomologist is in the number of species it contains that are common to both countries.
SOME NOTES ON THE COLLECTING SEASON OF 1893
Authors: Moffat J. Alston.
Published: February 2010

After the long, steady and severe winter we had in this locality, every one hoped for an early spring; but in that we were disappointed, things generally being no futher advanced at the end of May than they usually are in the middle. June came in warm, but with such continuous rains as to prevent collecting to any extent.
NOTES ON SOME SCALE INSECTS OF THE SUB-FAMILY DIASPINÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The following notes are intended to throw further light on the affinities of certain little-known species, which I have lately examined:-

(1.) Chionaspis major, Ckll.—Found on Heliotrope at Antigua by Mr. C. A. Barber. The ♀ resembles that of Diaspis lanatus, but may be distinguished from it without difficulty.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA, No. VIII
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

1. Athysanus Anthracinus, n. sp.

Head shorter and more rounded before than in plutonius, closely punctured. Vertex ⅓ longer on the middle than next the eye, sloping and strongly rounded to the base of the front, median carina very feeble; ocelli and two dots on the hind margin fulvous.
ZETHUS AZTECUS IN FLORIDA
Authors: Patton W. M. Hampton
Published: February 2010

The male differs little from the female in colour (specimens from Indian River, Fla., Dr. Wittfeld); the described differences being all variations. The male clypeus is often black at base and in middle.
FOLDED WINGS IN FŒNUS
Authors: Patton W. M. Hampton
Published: February 2010

Aside from the wasps distinguished by their folded wings (Diploptera) and the Chalcidian genus Leucospis, there is no record, unless of distant date, of any Hymenopterous insect having the wings folded. In Coptera the “longitudinal fold” described by Say is in reality a pleat of ridge; the wings, as I have repeatedly observed in the living insect, being laid flat upon the back and never folded.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

1. The CicindelidÆ of Ontario and Quebec.

[The following is the first of a series of papers which Mr. Wickham is specially preparing for this magazine. It is intended that they should treat of all the more conspicuous families of Coleoptera and present in tabular form the genera and species that are found in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec; a descriptive list will also be given of the species, so far as known, that are to be found in the other provinces of the Dominion of Canada.
NEW CYNIPIDAE
Authors: Gillette C. P.
Published: February 2010

R. arefactus, n. sp.

The galls are dense, corky enlargements of small shoots, usually close to the stem from which the shoot arises, and the shoot is usually dead beyond the gall when the latter is mature. The galls are irregular in shape, vary from one-half to seven-eights of an inch in diameter, and are polythalamous.
REMARKS ON ZETHUS SLOSSONÆ
Authors: Fox W. M. J.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist for May (page 140) there appears an article by Mr. Wm. H. Patton, entitled “Zethus Aztecus in Florida,” in which the author attempts to prove that Zethus Poeyi, Slossan♂ and aztecus are the same species. As I am the authority for one of these species, it was but natural that I should make a study of the trio, in order to ascertain if Mr. Patton's assertions were correct.
ON OCHYRIA FERRUGATA, CL
Authors: Prout Louis. B.
Published: February 2010

I have recently been investigating the synonymy, and the natural history generally, of the two species of geometers which are frequently confused under the above name,* and as Packard was not quite clear about the matter, it seems desribale to call attention to the true position of their American representative.
A PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF THE NORTH AMERICAN DECTICIDÆ
Authors: Scudder Samuel. H.
Published: February 2010

Having recently put my own collection of Dectcidæ into systematic order and treated the collection of the U. S. National Museum entrusted to me by Dr. C. V. Riley in a similar manner, I have thought it would assist n obtaining better material for a future monogroph if I were to publish at least a generic discriminatio of the material at hand. At the same time I am able to clear up most of the synonymy of the species and assign to therir proper location the various described species, very few of which (7 out of 23) will be found to hae been originally placed in the genera to which they are here assigned.
BOTYS URTICALOIDES, N. S
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

Expanse of wings one and one-fourth inches. Length of body sixtenths of an inch. Head and antennæ black. Thorax, above black bordered with white, beneath white. Legs white. Wings white, satiny, translucent. Primaries have a slight tinge of yellow. On the costa, near the middle, are two black or drk brown blotches; below these, towards the inner margin, are two other blotches, sometimes united—the whole forming a broken, transverse band.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

A single fly, bred from a larva on oak at Boston, Mass., appears to belong to this species. The fly differs from Mr. Cresson's description in that all the tarsi are blackish; the abdomen above is largely blackish; there is no luteous tint discernible on the laterl margin of middle lobe of mesothorax; the anterior and posterior margins of the luteous stigma are blackish and the veins are nearly black.
FURTHER NOTES ON SCALE INSECTS (COCCIDÆ)
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The numbering of these notes is continued from p. 132.

(9.) Chionaspis ortholobis, Comst. In the middle of March Prof. Bruner sent me a Chionaspis, which he said was common on cottonwood in Nebraska, being also occasionally found on the white willow. It appeared to me to be a new species, and I was about to name it after its discoverer, but Mr. L.O. Howard, to whom I had sent specimens, delared it was ortholobis.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA—No. 4
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

My last paper dealt chiefly with Ottawa sawflies, and in the present article I venture to describe a few Western species which have been for some time in my collection, and which seen to be unnamed. Synoptic tables are added as an aid to collectors of these insects.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA.: II. The Scarabaeidæ of Ontario and Quebec
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The beetles of this family are more characteristic of Southern latitudes than of cold climes like Canada; of about six hundred species known from America, north of Mexico, only ninety-six are recorded from the Provinces whch form the subject of the present paper. From all other families they may at once be known by the antennæ, terminating in a club composed of lamellæ or plates, which are capable of close opposition or of separation at the will of the insect.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA—No. 5
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

This paper contains descriptions of some apparently new species of inchneumons from British Columbia. Most of these are contained in a very interesting collection made by the Rev. G. W. Taylor, during his residence at Cedar Hill, near Victoria. V.I. When Mr. Taylor left Ottawa to return to Victoria, about three years ago, he very generously handed over to me his Hymenoptera, only asking that I should publish a list of the species. To enable me to fulfil this request, I have found it necessary to first prepare descriptions of the new species.
SUBDIVISION OF THE PIERINÆ BASED ON PUPÆ
Authors: Tutt J. W.
Published: February 2010

An oversight (ante p. 167, line 27) leads me to state that it is in the Aporid section of the Pierinœ that the pupa has the adbominal segments 5 and 6 moveable, whilst in the Pierids proper only 5 is moveable. The Pieridi have until now alwasy included the Apord section; as a matter of fact, many Europen systematists have placed our Aporia crataegi in the genus Pieris.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF DORYCEPHALUS
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

♂—Head produced and very flat, rounded in front, wings reaching tip of abdomen; colour gray-brorvn. Length, 9 mm. Length of head, 2.3 mm.

Head thin foliaceous, margins very thiu, a median, thicker space, which beneath widens to base of head, forming a convex keel. Eyes touching prothorax.
SOME INDIANA ACRIDIDÆ.—III
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

In the two preceding papers of this series 36 species and 3 varieties of Acridiæ have been recorded as occurring in Indiana. Since the last paper, published in the Entomologist for February, 1892, appeared, five additional species have been taken within the State, and many lacts have been gathered concerning the life history, habits and range of the species previously recorded. Moreover, my private collection has been largely increased by exchange for specimens from other parts of the United States, and I have possessed myself of almost all the literature extant upon the group, so that I am enabled to clear up a few mistakes in synonymy rvhich crept into my first papers.
A LEAF-TISSUE GALL ON MOUNTAIN COTTONWOOD
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

A fleshy leaf-tissue gall was found on terminal twigs of Populus Monilifera(?) June 18, 1892, a few miles to the north of Ojo Caliente, in Southern Socorro county, New Mexico. This gall is somewhat similar in method of formation to one that has been found on Rhus microphylla, which possesses a cock's-comb-like appearnce.
NOTES ON SOME OF THE NOCTUÆ IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM COLLECTION
Authors: Tutt J. W.
Published: February 2010

Some remarks made by Mr. Grote in his “Note on Acronycta cristifera” lead me to support his contention that in the British Museum “types may have become misplaced.” I am, of course simply a specialist at European NoctuÆ, and only such material from outside countries as helps my work (more especially with the British species) has any great interest for me, and only so far as this can any remarks that I make be considered of value.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The members of this group are distinguished, as already stated, by the position of the abdominal spiracles, which are placed in part on the superior poriton of the ventral segements, the rows feebly diverging; the last spiracle usually visible behind the elytra.
NEW CYNIPIDÆ
Authors: Gillette C. P.
Published: February 2010

Galls of this species were sent me by Mr. Trevor Kincaid, of Olympia, Washington, who writes that they were collcted from the twigs of Quercus garryana. The galls are ellipsoids, from 5 to 7 mm. in greatest diameter; they are smooth, monothalamous and snuff coloured, both externally and internally, and are attached by a small projection to the side of small twigs.