bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ, Part 5
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

The face above the epistom blackish brown, shining; mouth and a ring around the eyes yellowish; palpi yellowish; maxillary thin, apical joint cylindrical nothced on tip; labial of same length, apical joint fusiform, the conical tip notched.

Antennæ as long as head and thorax, thicker at tip, which is clavate, fuscous, annulated with yellow, except on club; basal joint yellow above, second black; antennæ below largely yellow.
THE CHALCID GENUS RILEYA
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

My good friend Mr. Howard, in his article entitle “The Chalcid Genus Rileya,” published in the October Can. Ent., p. 191, makes several inaccurate statements; and, in the lines “An interesting interference in the adoption of the generic name Rileya has recently taken place between Mr. Ashmead and myself,” implies that I knowingly appropriated this name for a genus in the Eurytominœ, after he had decided to us it for one in the Encyrtinœ when I had no such knowledge, therby placing me in an unenviable position before my colleagues.
NOTES ON THE GENUS COLIAS
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

The discovery by Mr. W. H. Edwards that Colias Hagenii is only a form of C. Eurytheme, as detailed in the Canadian Entomologist for September, while very interesting in itself, serves also to show that this genus is still in a very unsatisfactory state. That a form which so closely resembles Philodice that nine entomologists out of ten would take it for that species, should turn out to be a variety of Eurytheme, emphasizes Dr.Hagen's statement “that reliable differences between these two well known forms are still a want.” Mr. Edwards has also comet to the conclusion that Hagenii is the same as teh form previously named C. Eriphyle by him, as detailed in the November number of the Canadian Entomologist. A glance at the history of this form will be found interesting.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF CATOCALA DESPERATA, Guen
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Eggs.—Diameter, .04 of an inch; low conoidal, the edges of the base rounded; striated, fifteen of the striæ reaching the micropyle, sixteen more that do not reach the apex, though but few of these are only half lenght; shallow transverse striæ. Color dull brownish olive. Duration of this period 201 days.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HEMILEUCA
Authors: Wright W. G.
Published: February 2010

Expanse, ♂, 2.40–2.50; ♀, 2.85–2.90. Head black. Antennæ, ♂, stem brown, pectinations black; ♀, wholly brown. Prothorax white. Patagia white in front, overlaying longer hairs of white and black. Thorax black, with tufts of rust-red hairs behind the patagia. Abdoment black, with a few scattered white hairs toward anal end, and with white or sometimes yellow hairs in segmental spots on sides beneath; ♂ with large anal tuft of rust-red, ♀ without tuft, but tip is hoary with short hairs of sordid white.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ. Part 4
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

Tibiæ calcarate; spurs as long as the two basal joints, or a little shorter; antennæ longer than head and thorax, stout, cylindrical, a little thicker to tip, which is bluntly pointed, but not clavate; palpi about equal, last joint of labials (except in B. longipalpis) with the basal two thirds inflated, fusiform; abdomen long, slender, about half longer than the wings (male); or as long as the wings (female); male appendages very short, less than half the lenght of last segment, stout, cylindrical, very hairy and spinous; a very small ventral triangular plate below and between them.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PAPHIA TROGLODYTA, Fabr. (GLYCERIUM, Edw., But. N. A., Vol. 1, Pl. 46; ANDRIA, Scud.)
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Nearly spherical, a little higher than broad, somewhat flattened at base and slightly depressed at top; surface smooth; crossed near the top—at about one fifth distance from top to base—by two to four parallel rows of raised points, about 22 in the full circle; these seem to be placed in vertical lines; in some examples the rows are nearer together than in others, and there is oftern irregularity in the number or position of the points, some of the series wanting, or misplaced, in this last case lying between the rows. Color pale green. Duration of this stage four to five days.
SOME OBSERVATIONS MADE IN 1887 ON DANAIS ARCHIPPUS, Fabr
Authors: Marsh WM. D.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Scudder, in his “Butterflies,” p. 136, says of this species: It is the longest lived of our butterflies. It leaves its winter quarters later in the season than other hibernating butterflies, and continues upon the wing until July and August, laying eggs all the time, so that the insect may be found in all its earlier stages most of the summer.
AN INTERESTING NEW CHALCID FROM CANADA
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

Among a small collection of parasitic Hymenoptera sent me by Mr. James Fletcher, the Dominion Entomologist, for names, I found an intereting Chalcid belonging to that remarkable Pteromalid genus Caratomus Dalman, no species of which has as yet been described as occurring in our fauna; and as the present species seems to be distinct from the European species, Caratomus megacephalus Dalm., I believe it to be underscribed, and submit herewith the following description:

Caratomus leucophthalmus, n. sp.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ, Part 4
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

Yellowish, slender faintly villous; face yellow; between the antennæ and a little above, a longitudinal median line, connected with a transversal one on the epistom, all black; palpi equal, pale, the apical joint of maxillary and this of labial, which is very little thickened in the basal half, somewhat brownish; antennæ longer than head and prothorax, in the male fuscous annulated with luteous, especially before the tip, which is clavate; shorter, more clavate in female; the two basal joints brown, shining; vertex elevated, rounded, yellowish with two blackish dots; prothorax little longer than broad, yellowish, with two dorsal black lines, ending on the anterior transversal sulcus; sometimes a darker spot in front of the lines; on each side and nearly below a black band connected with the lateral one of the thorax; two black maculose bands including yellow spots on the thorax; two black maculose bands including yellow spots on the thorax; mesothorax before wings black, with yellow spots; abdomen of male much longer than wings, faintly villous yellow, with a fine black median line, apical part blackish, yellow on articulation and some lateral marks; appendages less than half the length of last segment, cylindrical, yellowish, brown at abse, densely clothed with black hairs; below and between them a small triangular yellow plate;
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGYNNIS HESPERIS, Edw
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Conodial, round-topped, nearly as broad at base as high, the top depressed; marked by about 19 thin, elevated, vertical ribs, one half running from base to summit, the others but four fifth or more the distance; the spaces between crossed by many low horizontal ridges; the micropyle surronded by two or three circles of very fine depressions, outside of which are rows of very large four or five-sided depressed cells; color yellow-green. Duration of this stage about ten days.
A NOTE UPON AUTHOR'S TYPES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

It has occured to me to say a few words upon the subject of author's types. It sometimes happens that a specimen is labelled “type,” which is not the true type, i. e., the one (or ones) from which the original description was drawn up and which accords with that description. This is the criterion for types, that they do not contradict the original description. The late Mr. Morrison sent me at one time a “type” of Harris's Agrotis tessellata. Upon my wonder at his having such a specimen, I found it was merely a compared example, but it shold not have been labelled “type”.
ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF CITHERONIA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I wish to draw particular attention to this genus and its allies. I have, in 1865, drawn a parallel between the group and the Hawk Moths, from the young stages and the peculiar pupation, and in my pamphlet on “the Hawk Moths of North America,” I hae discussed the probabilities of their relationship. But I here wish to point out that the group is American; that in America we may except to find old types among that portion of the fauna which is indigenous, pre-tertiary, and to this Citrheronia belongs.
NOTES ON DANAIS ARCHIPPUS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Now that the observations of my yound friend, W. D. Marsh, on this species, have been given in the Can. Ent. (xx., p. 45), I think no reasonable person can dubt that it is at least three-brooded in New England, and that the late butterflies hibernate there. Very late in the fall of 1887, Mr. Marsh saw individuals flying, long after severe frosts had been felt, and still later, he had butterflies come from pupæ. These late fliers are the hibernators.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ, Part 4
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

8. Brachynemurus Carrizonus Hag., n. sp.

Yellow with black lines; face yellow, above with a transversal narrow black band, separated by a yellow crescent from the antennæ, and by a narrow yellow line between the antennæ from the vertex; a faint median black line goes from the black band nearly to the clypeus; labrum yellow; palpi short, pale yellowish, maxillary with apical joint, cylindircal, black except on tip, the two preceding joints with a brownish mark in the middle; labials a little longer, apical joint hirsute, black shining except on base, fusiform, thichened, the apical third thin, pointed; on the inflated part an ocelius like spot.
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO PREVIOUS PAPERS
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

The lapse of time and further observation on some of the things treated of in papers previously published in the Entomologist, render it desirable to make some corrections and additions.

Trogoderma ornata, Vol. XV., 91, and XVI., 37.— The treatment of this pest there detailed so completely annihilated it that it has not been seen since.
CATCHING BUTTERFLIES BY MEANS OF DECOYS
Authors: Denton Shelley. W.
Published: February 2010

It has long been a matter of fact to me, and one which has served a good purpose, and doubtless to other readers of the Can. Ent., that many butterflies, especially the larger kinds, are attracted by decoys resembling themselves in size and colour.
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE.: (First Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

We have seen in several of my previos papers that the Owlet Moths, or Noctuidœ of temperate North America, the United States and Canada, resemble most strongly those of Europe. The divergence lies chiefly in the greater number of species belonging to the Noctudiœ fasciatœ, or Catocalinœ; and this is a tropical feature, such forms becoming more plentiufl as we go southward, although Catacala, the typical genus of the group, does not seem to cross the equator, to which latter fact I have already called attention.
DROVES OF LYCÆNID CATERPILLARS HERDED BY ANTS
Authors: Mrs Wylly
Published: February 2010

The larvæ of Tarucus theophrastus Fabricus are cultivated and protected by the large, common black ants of Indian gardens and houses. The catepillar, which varies in colour from light pure green to a dark reddish tint [this is a common variation in Lycænid larvæ] is about threequarters of an inch long, louse-like in shape, and slow in movement, and it feeds on the Zizyphus jujuba, a small, thorny bush of the jungles with an edible, astringent, yellowish fruit, the “Byr-coolie” of the natives. Some Lycæindæ larvæ have the power of protruding and retracting at will two small, fleshy tentacles or horns, each tufted with a brush of fine hairs, from the upper surface of the tail segments.
IBALIA MACULIPENNIS, HALDEMAN
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

The genus to which this very interesting species belongs differs so widely from the rest of the Cynipidæ that it has been separated from the them as a sub-family, under the title Ibaliinœ. Its members can be readily recognized by the cultriform abdomen and more strongly veined wings, as well as by their greater size. The cultriform—i. e., knife-shaped—abdomen is in itself remarkable enough to attract the attention of all who may chance to see the insects.
POPULAR AND ECONOMICAL ENTOMOLOGY.: WINTER COLLECTING
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

At the last annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, it was decided that every month there should be at least one short article upon the above subject. The Council consider it wiser not to increase the size of the Canadian Entomologist at the present time, but to take two pages from the space we now devote to Scientific Entomology. It is true the space at our disposal is all too small to accommodate the valuable articles sent in by our friends, but the demands are so frequent for articles are so frequent for articles of the nature mentioned, that it has been decided to try the experiment having them regularly, and it is thus hoped to largely extend the influence of the Society by inducing more lovers of nature to take up Entomology as a study, and by providing agriculturrsts and horticulturistss with short and simple accounts of their insect enemies and the latest discovered remedies.
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE.: (Second Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. E.
Published: February 2010

The sub-family Noctuinœ embraces the typical Noctuidœ and we may taken the genera Agrotis or Hadena as normal forms, from which we have a mass of more or less divergent structural groups. The characters which are made the basis of generic sub-division, according to a natural system which I find most plainly indicated in the writings of Stephens and Lederer, need not delay us here, for the reason that I have exposes them in previous writings.
ON EARLY STAGES OF SOME LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Beutenmüller W. M.
Published: February 2010

Chionobas Macounii, Edw.

Egg.—White, subglobose, slightly flattened above and below, with about seventeen longitudinal ridges, which are connected by numerous fine transverse ridges. Length, about 1.2 m.m. Width, about 1 m. Laid July 11. Emerged July 27.
SOME TEXAS, ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA MOTHS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Ameria Texana, nov. sp.

Expanse .80 inch. Of the size of shape of A. Unicolor; the hind wings more rounded at anal angle, in that respect more like Euphanessa Mendica; body slender, antennæ pectinate; palpi slender, short, projecting beyond the front less that in A. Unicolor. Color uniform gray drab, the wings diaphanous, antennæ concolorus except the inside of pectinations at base where they are black, sides of head, back of eyes and a little at base of fore wings and abdoment slightly ochraceous.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

The following paper is presented in order to get into shape the notes made by me at odd times for the five years last past. It includes, in the first place, all the references that I found to the species during that time, and such notes of synonymic interest as I have culled from teh publications examined. It has also been my practice, as specimens came into my hands, to use as were unfit for the cabinet, for purposes of study, and I have thus accumulated a great many notes, which I see no opportunity of using for some time to come, inasmuch as my studies on the Noctuidœ will probably fill very completely all the time I have for systematic work.
POPULAR AND ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY—No. 5.: THE TIGER-SWALLOW-TAIL (Papilio Turnus, L.)
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

Just about the time the lilac bushes open their fragrant blossoms the grand insect shown at figure 9 may be seen either hovering over gardens and sipping the nectar of flowers, or sailing majestically down some woodland glade. It generally appears at Ottawa about the first of June, and may be seen for a month or more. Farther to the north it comes later, not appearing at Nepigon, north of Lake Superior, until the end of June. This insect has many characters which make it of interest to the collector.
THE CLASSIFICATION OF OUR BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

At different times, in making notes for a general list of our Lepidoptera, I have taken up the arrangement of our butterflies, and, although such a list must now be undertaken by some one else, I think it worth while to set down the conclusions to which I had come.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF LEPTARCTIA CALIFORNIÆ Walker, WITH NOTES ON THE GENUS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Diameter .03 inch. Globular, smooth. Color whitish, with a pearly lustre. Duration of this period here four days, in the mountains of California six days.

Young Larva.—Length .07 inch. Cylindrical, six rows of tubercles from which spring hairs as long as the body. Color pale gary, head black, hairs gray. Duration of this period four days.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

As the descriptions are short and so generally unknown, I will reproduce them here:-

“Var, hybrida: Primaries of D. bella, but the yellow belts indistinct, secondaries of typical D. ornatrix, but with the ground colour red as in D. bella, and with a white edged, interrupted black belt across the discoidal cell.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF LEPTARCTIA CALIFORNIÆ Walker, WITH NOTES ON THE GENUS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

The first to express this belief and put it in a tangible shape before the public was Mr. A. G. Butler, who published a paper in the Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., based upon a collection of moths made by Lord Walsingham in Oregon. He states he does not hesitate to stay that he believes that the different forms do not represent several distinct species, but different forms or varieties of one extremely varaible species.
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE COMPARED.: (Fourth Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The pale or yellow coloured species of Gortyna, the caterpillars being internal feeders, pupating, however, in the ground, prepare us for the Nonagriini. We have, however, in North America, a pecculiar tribe which I have called Arzamini, and which I here interpolate. The caterpillar was first discovered by Prof. Comstock in Florida Lakes, in the leaf-stalks of the pond lily. This was the larva of A. vulniflca var. melanopyga, and subsequently in the lake at Ithaca, the larva of the typical vulnifica was observed by the same distinguished entomologist.
A NEW SPECIES OF NEONYMPHA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Neonympha Mitchellii n. sp.

Male.—Upper surface grayish wood-brown, rather dark, without spots or marks, except that the spots on the underside of the hind wings and the dark lines bordering the terminal dark yellow line on the same wings show through a little. Fringes concolorus, in certain lights a little smoky tinged. Under surface slightly paler than the upper, a little more of the mouse order of color, sprinkled with buff scales. Both wings are crossed by four transverse brownish-yellow stripes, so dark on the fore wings as to be yellow-brown, occupying the same position as the same lines in its ally, N. Areolatus, the first and second uniting by a rounded end about a tenth of an inch from the inner margin of hind wings, the two outer—one terminal and the other sub-terminal—also uniting before reaching anal angle.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF TINEIDÆ FROM THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M.
Published: February 2010

Head and palpi olive gray; legs olive gray, tibiæ annulated with fuscous; body fuscous. Primaries olive gray, becoming paler toward the outer margin; above the fold is a broken fuscous basal streak, running to a little beyond the middle to the wing; at the end of the cell a small fuscous spot, limited beneath by a white patch. Cilia olive gray. Secondaries grayfish fuscous. Underside of wings grayish fuscous. Cilia of the primaries tipped with greenish gray.
NOTES ON BOMBYCIDÆ
Authors: Clarkson Frederick
Published: February 2010

The habits of insects present an attractive and fruitful field of discovery illustrating in many remarkable ways their pecuilar instincts governed by heredity, and more or less conditioned by environment. The power which we call instinct, controlling the habits of insects, has a regularity of action governed by ordinaly conditions, but there are frequent manifestations of adaptation to circumstance, as conspicuous in the several orders of insects as in the various races of mankind.
DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF DATANA MAJOR G. & R
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Young larva.—Body dark reddish, inclining to black; otherwise as in the following stage.

Before last moult.—Body black or reddish black, with eight longitudinal clear white stripes, as broad as the intervening spaces or broader, with the exception of the dorsal space. Beneath are three partly obsolete white lines, two of them interrupted by the legs. The head and cervical shield all dark mahogany red, as are also the abdominal feet, the bases of the thoracic feet and two spots on segments 4,5,10 and 11. Thoracic feet black.
NOTES ON SOME CALIFORNIA MOTHS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

This new form was founded by my friend, Mr. James Behrens, of San Francisco, at Upper Soda Springs, Sisikiyou County, near Mount Shasta. The hind wings and abdomen are wanting, but the fore wings are present and in a very fair state fo presevation.
MR SMITH ON CERATHOSIA
Authors: Grote A R , Bremen A M
Published: February 2010

In reply to Mr. Smith's paper, somewhat inappropriately styled “Arctiidœ vs. Noctuidœ,” I would state that my origintal paper in Entom. Amer. on Certhosia had for its main object the pointing out of the errors contained in Mr. Smith's original description of the genus in the neuration. When these errors are corrected according to my statements (which latter in the main seem to be acknowledged by Mr. Smith as correct), the probability that the moth is an Arctian next to Uteheisa is weakened, and, as I have shown it is not a Lithosian, the chances are we must look for its position elsewhere.
A FINAL WORD ABOUT THE GENUS RILEYA
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

In the last isse of the Can. Ent. Mr. Howard, with a commendable solictiude for my entomological reputation, and under a heavy discharge of deadly parllel columns, seeks to evade the question at issue between i. e., who has priority in the use of the generic term Rileya; and not-withstanding the opportunity the was afforded him to rechristen his interesting genus, he seems loath to do so, and again, by a misrepresentation, makes a claim of priority in publication.
COLIAS CÆSONIA, Stoll
Authors: M'Neill Jerome
Published: February 2010

Somewhat to my surprise I found this species not uncommon here during the collection season of 1887. Although my entomological interest lies in another direction, and I have, consequently, made no special effort to obtain Lepidoptera, I find Ihave ten specimens of this striking Colas in my collection, all of which I have taken during the summer and fall of 1887. On looking over the collection I discover that these specimens were taken at three different times.
ON THE CITATION OF LOCALITIES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

It is the custom nowadays to look down with great contempt on those old authorities, who considered “North America” or even “North America,” or even “America,” a sufficently accurage locality to give when describing a species; but, perhaps, we of the present age of not quite blameless of similiar and (with our means of obtaining information) less excusable carelessness in, that we often think it enough to give the name of the state or region only.
AGAIN RILEYA
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

If all controversial writings were as happy as Mr. Ashmead's last, readers of the Canadian Entomologist would not regret the space occupied, and I am glad that one side of the controversy in interesting reading. I hope I may be allowed space to say that Mr. Ashmead admits in conversation that he has erred in his statement that my first publication of the description of Rileya was in Canadian Entomologist for Oct., 1888, as I have shown him the last page of Entomologica Americana for July 1888.
NOTE
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Later on there will certainly be more to be said respecting certain points touched upon by me in the Can. Ent. for 1888, but there, are four things it will be useful to refer to now. Since writing on Nathalis iole (p. 156) I have found that there exists a form of the ♂ in which the “orange sport” is yellow during life.
POPULAR AND ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.—No. 2.: THE APPLE TREE TENT CATERPILLAR—THE AMERICAN LACKEY MOTH (Clisiocampa Americana HAR.)
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

There are two kinds of caterpillars which every year commit serious depredations in our Canadian apple orchards, although they by no means confine their attentions to that tree. These are the larvæ of the American and Forest Lackey Moths, two species of brown moths which frequently fly into houses at night during July, and draw attention by their headlong, reckless flight, dashing themselves against the ceiling and the walls, and very often finishing up by getting into the lamp chimney.
THE LARVA OF LIMACODES INORNATA, G. & R
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Larva.—Elliptical and much flattened, the sides rising slightly to two dorsal ridges, only a little elevated, these ridges diverging somewhat towards the anterior and posterior portions of the body. Around the outline of the body is a series of flattened pointed projections forthe last eight segments, furnished on their sides with fine, short hair. These projections occur on each segment after the fith, the two on the last segment some what longer than the others, and directed nearly straight backwards.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

Head small, not retracted, with rough vestiture. Eyes small, yet somewhat bulging or prominent. Tongue moderate in length, but weak. Palpi short, straight, scarcely projecting beyond the clypeus, clothed with short, thin vestiture. Ocelli present. Antennæ moderate in length, the ♂ rather lengthily bi-pectinated. Legs unarmed, subequal, the posterior longest, rather closely scaled, the spurs distinct.
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA COMPARED.: (Seventh Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

We have now passed in brief review the bombyciform Noctuidœ, or Thyatirinœ, and the typical Noctuidœ, or Noctuinœ (Noctuœ nonfasciatœ). The former group differs in certain details of the neuration, and the question comes up as to the value of this character for classification. In all other repects, this small assemblage of moths must be considered as belonging to the Noctuidœ.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

Soiled white. Antennal depression, a dot on each ocellus, a pair of large round spots on the vertex, an angular spot behind each eye, the basal angles of the scutellum, the tergum and disc of the pleural pieces, black; the elytra whitish hyaline generally with fuscous nervures. Length about 6 mm.
NOTES ON SIGALPHUS CURCULIONIS AND SIGALPHUS CANADENSIS
Authors: Gillette C. P.
Published: February 2010

I reared from Conotrachelus nenuphar last summer a number of parasites, which were determined for me by Dr. Riley as Sigalphus curculionis Fitch, and S. curculionis, var. rufus. Full descriptions of both of these may be found on page 27 of Riley's Third Missouri Report, and upon page 67 of the Supplement to the Missouri Reports.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

1873—Stretch, Zygænidæ and Bombycidæ, 118.

Head small, hardly retracted; eyds inconspicuous, bulging; ocelli distinct; vestiture thin, loose and divergent; tongue weak and short, spira; palpi weak, short, drooping, with thin divergent vestiture; legs sub-equal, posterior slightly the longest; middle and posterior tibiæ each with minute terminal spurs only.
ARGIOPE RIPARIA AND ITS PARASITE ICHNEUMON ARANEARUM, AND ITS PARASITE A CHALCID FLY
Authors: Clarkson Frederick
Published: February 2010

The nests of Argiope riparia were unusually abundant las autumn in the neighborhood of this city. During the preceding summer this gayly colored, but atrocious looking spider, could be seen stationed in the centre of its well formed geometeric web on nearly all of the low shrubbery in the uncultivated portion of Centra Park.
CASES OF LONG PUPAL PERIODS AMONG LEPIOPTERA
Authors: Rowley R. R.
Published: February 2010

In May, 1888, I received from Mr. W. H. Edwards, of Coalburgh, two larvæof Anthocharis genutia which were feeding on pepper grass. On the 22nd (May), both larvæ pupated, having suspended two days before.
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

Definite Marks of the ♀.—Observation of 62 caught specimens enables me to supplement, in some degree, Mr. Strecker's description. The smallest measures 46 mm., equal to 1.8 inch. The largest is 58.5 mm., or 2.3 inches. The average expanse of the 62 is 52.5 mm., or 2.07 inches. The cell spot above primary is larger than in the males, and has never that semi-obsolete appeaarnce which it presents in some of the males; it varies from a small but definite spot of .5 mm. in diameter to a spot of 1.5mm., is usually sub-rotund, sometimes sub-linearm and is frequently centered with yellow in moderate degree.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

1816—Hübner, Verzeichniss, 192.

1864—Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc., Phil., III., 122.

1874—Strech, Zyg. & Bomb., 191.

The head is small and retracted; tongue obsolete, palpi very small and weak; antennæ moderately long, bipectinated in the male, simple in the female; the pectinations are long and extend to the tip; legs short and weak, all the spurs present, but very short: the two paris of the posterior tibiæ close together. The tarsal claws are as in Spilosoma, and, indeed, there is no structural difference between these two genera. Antarctia has shorter, broader wings, somewhat longer vestiture, and is not white!
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA COMPARED.: (Eighth and Last Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In this tribe the secondaries are oftenest gaily coloured (mostly yellow) and banded, still subordinated to the primaries which show, more or less adequately, the usual Noctuidous ornamentation. The abdomen is rarely tufte. On account of the shape of the primaries, the form of the abodmen, the abdominal tuftings, the pattern of the wings beneath, the apporacth to Ophideres, I regard the genus and species Euparthenos nubilis, Ann N.Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., as entirely distinct from Catocala sp.
NOTE ON THE LARVAL ORNAMENTATION OF THE N. AM. SPHINGIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In my “Hawk Moths of North America,” I have assumed that the caudal horn is a prolongation of the skin itself, stiffened by chitine (p. 41). It supports a bristle, or pair of bristles, and Dr. W. Müller, whose valuable work on the Nymphalidœ of South America in their larval stages (Zoologischen jahrbuchern, 1886.) I have noticed in these pages, figures the horn of Dilophonota, p. 249, and regards it as a prolongation of the base supporting the two normal bristles of the eleventh segment.
A REPLY TO MR. W. H. EDWARDS
Authors: Elwes H. J.
Published: February 2010

I am surprised to see in the May number of the Canadian Entomologist a criticism of my paper on “Argynnis” in a style which is not easy to reply to, and which is certainly not justified by the paper itself. Mr.Edwards seems to think that no one has a right to question his opinions on butterflies unitl they have seen the so-called types from which his original descriptions were made, and that the practical monopoly which he has lately held in the description of new species in the United States gices him the positon of an oracle.
DESCRIPTIONS OF LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVÆ
Authors: Beutenmüller W. M.
Published: February 2010

Mamestra lorea, Güen.

Head black, with dirty, whitish, irregular markings, antennæ pink. Body of a dirty, creamy, brown color, except the first three segments blackish. Along the dorsum is a series of lozenge shaped blackish patches, one on each segment; on the dorsum are also two rows of minute piliferous spots and two rows along each side, where there is also on each segment an ill-defined, oblique, blackish stripe. Underside semitranslucent whitish, with a number of minute piliferous spots which bear a short pale brown hair, as also do the spots above.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

Head small, retracted; tongue short and weak, membraneous; palpi very short and feeble. Legs moderate, rather short; tibial spurs present but very feebly developed. Fore tibiæ unarmed. Antennæ moderately long, bipectinated in the male, simple or serrate in the female. The tarsal claws are toothed in all the species examined. In virginica the posterior tarsi only, in vestalis all are toothed.
A SUGGESTION AS TO THE GENERIC NOMENCLATURE OF INSECTS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Sucdder's recent admirable work on the butterflies of New England has, naturally enough, given rise to fresh discussion of the question of generic nomenclature, without, however, leading to any very decisive result. Mr. Scudder's views on the sub-division of hitherto-accepted generic units are certainly extreme, and probably few will be found to follow him entirely. On the other hand, many no doubt feel that Mr. W. H. Edwards's genera require some sort of sub-division, and would compromise matters by admitting some, and rejecting others, of Mr. Scudder's divisions.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

E. elagans Str.

1873—Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb., 189. pl 8, f. 6, Euchaeles.

1875—Butler, Cist. Ent., IL., 37, Echhaetes.

1876—Stretch, Wheeler's Rept. Surv., west 100 mer., V., 797, pl. 40 of 5 and 6, Euchaetes.
NOTES ON ARGYNNIS FREYA, CHARICLEA AND MONTINUS
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

As is well known to readers of the Canadian Entomologist, Mr. Scudder, in his sumptuous work on the Butterflies of New England recently published, stated that Mr. Edwards had confused the two northern species, Argynnis Freya and Chariclea. This was denied by Mr. Edwards in the April number of this journal and Mr. Butler's authority was invoked to prove that Mr. Scudder had himself transposed these names.
ON THE LISTS OF COLEOPTERA PUBLISHED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, 1842–1888
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Onthophagus Hecate Panz. A.O., W., S.M.

Aphodius fossor Linn. St. L.

validus Horn. W.

fimetarius Linn. A.O., St.L., T.L.

ruricola Melsh. W.
ON THE FOOD-HABITS OF NORTH AMERICAN RHYNCHOPHORA
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M.
Published: February 2010

In the present paper I have attempted to bring together all the FoodHabits of North American Rhynchophora (except the Scolytidæ) that have been placed on record in the various entomological publications, with the addition of my personal observations on the subject.

Eugnamptus collaris and E. angustatus I have found plentifully upon the foliage of hickory and butternut trees.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

Head rather well developed; palpi exceeding front; tongue moderate, but somewhat varaible in the species. Antennæ of ♂ long, lengthily bipectinated to the tip, a single branch to each side of each joint. Legs short and stout, posterior longest and weakest; spurs normal, but short; claws of tarsi simple.
THE BUTTERFLIES OF INDIA.
Authors: Scudder Samuel. H.
Published: February 2010

Some three years or more ago, we noticed a work on the above subject by Marshall and de Nicéville, of which two volumes had been published, the last by de Nicéville alone. A third volume of over 500 compact pages has just come to hand, the most notable thing about which, at least to a dweller in temperate regions, is that it is wholly concerned with the Lycaenidæ, of which eighty-two genera and over four hundred species are described.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MELITÆA FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Melitæa Augusta.

Male.—Expands from 1.6 to 1.75 inch; belongs to Chalcedon group, but is an conspicuously red as the species Chalcedon is black; upper side black, the surface nearly covered with light red and pale yellow spots, disposed as in the group; the basal areas dusted with yellow scales which, on primaries, extend along both margins; costa of same wing edged red; both hind margins bordered by small red spots, varying in shape, sometimes narrow and as of a broken stripe, sometimes more or lesss rounded to ovate; the spots of second row ar small, lunular, largest of secondaries, edged with red, the interior being yellow, or they are nearly all red with a small yellow patch in middle; sometimes this yellow is thinly washed red; the third row on primaries is either wholly yellow, or yellow with red edges, particularly on the outer side; on secondaries wholly red, and often very deep, so as to make a conspicuous broad band; the fourth row on primaries is red, sometimes with the spots next the two margins either yellow or in put yellow; around the end of cell yellow spots four or five in number; in the cell spots of red and yellow alternately, four in all, the yellow one at base more or less stained red; two yellow spots below cell with black ground between, and nearer base a small duplex red one; the fourth row on secondaries is yellow, either of small spots or pretty large ones, and the three or four from costal margin are red on their outer side; a red stripe outside the cell from the end to costal margin; two small yellow spots inside cell, with a red one between them and a yellow spot below; fringes yellow, black at the tips of the nervules.
PARTIAL PREPARATORY STAGES OF ERYCIDES BATABANO, Lef
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Egg.— Nearly, spherical the base flattened a little. Around the sides are eighteen vertical ribs, every other one shorter, not reaching the summit. The natural color could not be ascertained.
TENTHREDINIDÆ COLLECTED AT OTTAWA, 1889
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

The past season was not a favorable one for the collection of Hymenoptera. The early spring was very fine and warm, but was followed by prolonged spells of cool and rainy weather, which not only made collecting diffcult, but appeared to destroy many of the insects. This will be seen by the following list, in which a large proportion of the species are represented by single specimens. It contains about eighty species, or nearly two-thirds of those have so far been taken in this locality.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

As the description of this species is not readily accessible to students, I reproduce it here:-

“Female rosy red; body densely clothed, and partly pale yellow beneath; head with a pale yellow band on the front; palpi extreemely short; thorax with six longitudinal pale yellow streaks; abdoment rosy, lanuginous and partly yellow to the base, extending much beyond the hind wings; fore wings with some pale yellowish streaks toward the base, with three exteriro whitish macular, very oblique bands; spots mostly cuneiform; cost straight; tips slightly acute; exterior borders slightly convex, extremely oblique; first and second inferior veins contiguous at the base; third very near the second; fourth remote from the third; hind wings whitish cinereous, slightly hyaline; veins and fringe slightly yellowish.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA—NO. 6
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Corymbites nigricornis Panz. (metallicus Payl. nitidulus Lec.)

This species is widely distributed in North America, from Hudson Bay to Massachusetts, and westwardly to the Rocky Mountains through which it extends to New Mexico. It also inhabits Siberia, Central and Northern Europe. The typical form (European) is described as meatallic black, with the two basal joints of the antennæ and the feet rufous.
GELECHIA GALLÆDIPLOPAPPI (N. Sp.)
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

Length of body four lines; expanse of wings eight to nine lines.

Head white, eyes black, labial palpi recurved; first joint large and white; lower half of second joint white; upper brown, with white tip; antennæ filiform ringed light brown and black.
SUBDIVISION OF GENERA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

I was pleased to see Mr. Cockerell's article on this subject in the September number of the Canadian Entomologist, and hope we may hear from others on the question. It seems to me that a genus should, as far as possible, represent a natural division of a group of plants or animals so distinct from other groups that the species forming the genus are easily referred to it.
A NEW FORM OF CERURA FROM CALIFORNIA
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Cerura cinereoides n. var. or n. sp. Head, collar and tegulæ light cinereous; thorax above largely mixed with orange and metallic blue scales, below somewhat paler cinereous; tarsi ringed with black; abdomen concolorous with the thorax, the segments banded behind with paler cinereous, the last segment in the female sprinkled with black scales, the anal tuft in the male nearly white.
ON THE FOOD-HABITS OF NORTH AMERICAN RHYNCHOPHORA
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M.
Published: February 2010

Orchestes niger and O. subhirtus are both found on willow when in bloom. (Harrington Can. Ent, 16, p. 119.)

Orchestes niger and O. pallicornis were taken together in July on the leaves of low willows by Mr. Chittenden. O. ephippiatus was found in abundance on willow (Salix fragilis) by Mr. C.W Leng and myself on Staten Island, N.Y.
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA COMPARED.: (Fifth Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The vestiture is woolly, and in this lies a distinguishing character from the Argotini and Hadenini, which some genera much resemble, while the body is hardly tufted; the rather broad throax has sometimes a median ridge. The colours of the moths are often shades of brown, red and yellow, like the autumn foliage, in which many of the hibernating species hide. The eyes of the first genera are hairy; in several the tibiæ are spinose, the reverse being usually the case.
POPULAR AND ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.: THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH (Ephestia kühniella, ZELLER)
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

During the summer of 1888 considerable anxiety was caused amongst North American millers by the alarming intelligence that the small Pyralid moth, bearing the name given above, had made its appearnce in one of our large Candian milling centres. There are two or three well-known insects which attack manufactured cereal products; but none of these, have ever occurred in injurious numbers in Canada.
SOME NEW COLORADO MOTHS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Cossus Brucei, nov. spec.

Expanse, male 2.50, female 3.00 inches.

Ground color, very pale gray, almost white, no dusky shading over the wing. Fore wings crossed by a great number of fine black lines. In the male none of these form reticulations except a few along the basal half of the internal vein and near the outer margin. The female has a few more of the reticulations in the outer third of the wing. On the male one line more prominent than the rest crosses the wing through the middle from the costa to the posterior margin at the origin of the fourth median vein, forming a straight line.
ON CERTAIN STATEMENTS IN SCUDDER'S “BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND.”
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

As Mr. Scudder has charged me with blunders of one sort or other, I am compelled to notice the matter, as slience on my part would properly be construed as an acknlowledgement that he was right.

O. On p. 1805, the synonymy of Argynnis (Brenthis) Freija is given, closing thus: “Argynnis Chariclea Edw., in his catalogues.” And on p. 180, under Chariclea: “Argynnis Freya Edw., in his cat.”
A RAINY DAY ON THE MOUNTAINS
Authors: Bruce David
Published: February 2010

There is a tradition extant in Denver that the sun shines in Colorado nearly every day. This last summer was a woeful exception, however, for, from the middle of April until the end of June, the weather would have been thought respectable only in Labrador, but the unusal wet and cold springs, although it retarded the insects, gave such an impetus to the growth of flowers and herbage on the mountain sides and tops, that, when the hot weather set in, all species of diurnals appeared to be unusally abundant, and every kind seemed to be flying at one time.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

A. stretchii Grt.

1875—Grt., Can. Ent., VII. 197. Arctia

1883—Neum., Papilio, III., 150. =intermedia.

1886—Grt., Can. Ent., XVIII., 110, an var intermedia?

Habitat—Texas.
CORRECTION OF AN ERROR
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Mr. H. J. Elwes has recetnly published a paper in Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 1889, p. 535, entitled “A Revision of the Genus Argynnis,” and on page 574 writes as follows:- I have also specimens of Arge Strecker, from Strecker and Mr. Holland, both from Spokane Falls and Californa, which are, undoubtedly, the same as Erinna, which has described in 1883 as a var of Eurynome by Edwards, and in his catalogue of 1884 is put down as a variety of Montivaga.
APPENDIX TO THE NOTES ON INSECT FAUNA OF HIGH ALTITUDES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A
Published: February 2010

Mr. L. Bruner has kindly identified the following Orthoptera, found at 10,000 feet and upwards:-

Circotettix undulatus Thos. near Micawber Mine, Aug. 6.

Ceuthophilus maculatus Scudd.,♀, near Micawber mine.
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

The Locality.—Laggan is a telegraph station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 956 miles west of Winnipeg as the railway runs, and six miles east of the British Columbia eastern boundary. A mile west of Laggan the railway leaves the Bow River Valley, and turns more directly west into the valley of Noore's Creek to cross the central range of the Rocky Mountains, the summit of the pass being six miles from Laggan.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW CANADIAN BRACONIDÆ
Authors: Ashmead W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

The interesting new species of Branconid describedæ below, unless otherwise state, were all captured by my good friend. Mr. W. Hague Harrington, at Ottawa, Canada.

Bracon Fabr

(1)Bracon brachyurus n. sp.

♀—Length 2⅘ mm.; ovip ⅕ mm. Black, polished; mandibles, palpi and legs, except the posterior coxæ and the basal two-thirds of their femora, yellowish-brown. Tegulæ honey-yellow. The head is transverse, the cheeks rounded off posteriorly. Antennæ 22-jointed. The parapsides are not sharply defined, only indicated by slight depressions in the mesonotal surface.