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MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Primaries–The costa attains the margin before the middle ; the subcostal, which is faint towards the base, sends a branch to the margin from before the middle, two others near the end of the cell, another beyond the cell and becomes furcate before the tip, one of the branches going to each margin. Cell closed by a very short oblique discal vein without branches. The median sends two branches to the margin before the end of the cell, and becomes furcate behind it. Submedian furcate at base. Wing lanceolate, with moderately long ciliæ.
ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS. 9. THE DRAGON FLY—Libellula trimaculata, DeGeer
Authors: Williams J.
Published: February 2010

This insect belongs to the order Neuroptera, which term signifies nerve-veined, so-called in consideration of the netted structure of the wings. The members of the particular family (Libellulidæ) to which our specimen belongs, rival many of the Butterflies in their graceful shapes and brilliant colouring, while they excel them in rapidity of flight. These insects have received various popular names in different countries–the French call them Demoiseiles, the Germans Florfliegen or Gauze-flies, or Wasserjungfern or Virgins of the Water, while the Engiish style them Dragon-flies, Horse-stingers or Devil's Darning-needles.
NOTES ON COSMIA ORINA, Guenee
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Wm Saunders has sent me, under the number 115, specimens of a Noctuid “from larvæ found in oak, imago July 19th,” which I regard as this species. The moth is variable in general colour and the appearance of the discal spots, and hence Guenée's description wi1l not always literally apply. The only difference of importance I can see is that the two median trapezoidal lines on the fore wings are wider apart on the internal margin than in my specimens of the European trapezina.
NOTES ON COLLECTING
Authors: Andrews W. V.
Published: February 2010

I can endorse (not necessary, of course) Mr. Mead's “Notes on Collecting,” pub. p. 78, vol. 5 of the “Entomologist,” with right good will, having used similar methods myself for several years. I think I got my idea from H. Guard Knaggs.

A little improvement, However, may be made. If the collector, instead of putting in his “Cyanide of Potassinm” in “lumps,” will pound it to a fine powder, intimately mix it with the necessary amount of Plaster of Paris, and then pour in water till the mixture has by stirring assumed the consistency of cream, he will have a more efficacious, as well as a more lasting box (or bottle).
SOME REMARKS ON ENTOMOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

The papers on Nomenclature, letely published in the Canadian Entomologist, have much interested me, and doubtless many others, and as the subject is one that just now, for reasons well known, appeals especially to Lepidopterists, I beg to be allowed a little of your space to give my views thereupon, and to state what I believe is a practicable remedy for the evils complained of.

I am glad that this matter of Nomenclature was brought so prominently forward by the Entomologists present at the Meeting of the American Association for 1872, and that a Committee was appointed by the Entomological section to report a series of Rules for consideration at the next Meeting.
NOTE ON CATOCALA WALSHII, Edwards
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

I have received, through the kindness of Mr. C. V. Riley, a specimen of this fine species which has been heretofore unknown to me. It is, perhaps, a little larger than unijuga and very different in character (also, therefore, distinct from junctura, from my recollection of that species in the British Museum) ; it resmbles the European elocata in the appearance of the forewings : these are evenly intensely powdered with dark scales on a grey ground color which becomes yellowish brown over the median spots and subterminal space.
ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS
Authors: Saunders W.
Published: February 2010

This paper is the first of a series in which it is proposed, by members of the edirorial staff alternately, to describe some of our more common insects, to illustrate them with suitable cuts, and to make the descriptions of so plain a character that the most unscientific reader may be able readily to comprehend their meaning. Since it is one of our aims in publishing the Entomologist to popularize our favorite science, we shall offer no apology for introducing into our journal these readable papers, in which much material may from time to time appear, which, to the scientific reader, may look stale and uninviting.
ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOME GENERA OF CANADIAN INSECTS
Authors: Walker Francis
Published: February 2010

Isosoma.–So much has been lately written about this genus that it may be dismissed with a few words. The Eurytomidae, to which it belongs, were considered by Nees to be in a debatable state between the chalcidiae and the cynips tribe, and though they are now fixed with the chalcidiae, there is still matter for argument as to their maintenance by animal life, or by vegetable life, or as to how they are divided between these two means of existence.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA, No. 5
Authors: Cresson E. T.
Published: February 2010

æ.–Sanguineous, shining; head, antennæ, prothorax, surroundings of scutellum, pleura beneath, four anterior legs, including their coxæ, posterior trochanters and their tibiæ and tarsi, black; sides of mesothorax tinged with blackish; metathorax coarsely punctured above with four longitudinal carinæ, the two central ones approximate, flanks less coarsely punctured; wings uniformly fuliginous, with the usual hyaline angular streak beneath stigma; abdomen long, narrow, polished, with a purplish reflection; ovipositor longer than body. Length ·37 inch.
SPECIFIC NOMENCLATURE
Authors: Morrison H. K.
Published: February 2010

The publication of Mr. Scudder's Revision has caused much dismay among amateurs, on account of the numerous specific changes and minute generic sub-divisions which it proposes.

To students of Lepidoptera the novel, and in many cases, original views advanced afford a fertile field for discussion. Mr. scudder has attempted to study the order by the same methods, and to correct its tangled specific nomenclature by the same principles which govern a1l other departments of Zoology.
ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOME GENERA OF CANADIAN INSECTS
Authors: Walker Francis
Published: February 2010

Before leaving the Canadian Chalcidiæ, in hope of returning to them when many more genera are discovered in Canada, I will mention Megastigmus, which very probably occurs there; it is a genus of Torymidæ, and, in some respects, connects that family with the Eurytomidæ, and is next to the latter in the interest with which it may be regarded in case there is a foundation for the report lately published concerning the seed-eating habits of the species which represent it in California.
NOTES ON COLLECTING
Authors: Mead Theodore L.
Published: February 2010

Last season, while in the Catskill Mountains, I made some experiments in sugaring for moths, which may be interesting to collectors.

The sugaring mixture employed was “molasses sugar” and water, in the proportion of three or four pounds to the gallon; I could not perceive that other additions, such as alcohol or preserved fruit, &c., were of any advantage.
SOME REMARKS ON CHANGES IN NAMES OF CERTAIN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Papilio Asterias. Now sought to be changed to Polyxenes, although from the time of Fabricius to the publication of Kirby's Catalogue (1871). no other name than asterias has been in use. The species has been repeatedly figured as asterias in these hundred years, and under this name is well known to everyone who takes the least interest in these things.
ON THE HABITS OF CERTAIN GALL INSECTS OF THE GENUS CYNIPS
Authors: Bassett H. F.
Published: February 2010

For ten years,past I have been studying the habits of the Cynipidæ to determine, if possible, whether there are one or two broods of these insects each year.

Several years ago I discovered the flies of C. q. operator in the act of ovipositing in the young acorns of Quercus ilicifolio, the oak on which the woolly galls of this species are generally found.
ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS: 5. THE GRAPE VINE PLUMB.—Pterophorus periscelidactylus
Authors: Saunders W.
Published: February 2010

During the latter part of this month ans early June those who have grape vines under their charge are often annoyed at finding the terminal leaves of the young and tender branches tied by means of silken threads into a sort of ball shaped mass, and within the hollow sphere thus formed is found a small whitish hairy caterpillar, which feasts on the tender leaves ans young blossom bunches. Usually but a single occupant is found in each enclosure, but occasionally we have found two, and, in one instance, three.
ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Morrison H. K.
Published: February 2010

Antennae serrate. Collar arched, ochreous at its base, brown above. Behind the collar the usual longitudinal sharp-edged thoracic crest. Abdomen with a thick, short tuft on its first segment. ♀ with an extended ovipositor. Anterior wings above brown, with feriuginous shades. All the transverse lines dark brown, regular and distinct. Half line present. Interior line undulate above the median nervure ; at the latter point it is bent inwardly, and advances in a nearly straight line to the inner margin. Median shade very distinct, broad, not clearly defined along its edges, strongly angulated on the median nervure, and then nearly touching the reniform spot.
THE PRESERVATION OF CATERPILLARS BY INFLATION.
Authors: Scudder Samual H.
Published: February 2010

Many persons are deterred from collecting caterpillars by the difficulty and expense of preserving them in the ordinary way. The easy and inexpensive method of blowing up and mounting the pellicle is so little known in this country, that at the last meeting of the American Association, only one entomologist besides myself had ever seen the operation; since then others have tried it, and been delighted with its simplicity. In the hope of inducing all our entomologists to experiment for themselves, the following explanation of the process hes been prepared.
TRANSLATION OF THE SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA OF EUROPEAN MYCETOPHILIDÆ
Authors: Walker Francis
Published: February 2010

The Diptera, generally considered,are less attractive than other orders of insects, and appear to be more insignificant, but are the most useful on account of their excessive abundance and of their purification of matter and thereby of the atmosphere. In like manner, the Diptera may be divided into more or less numerous and beneficial tribes, and the work assigned to the former is the removal of decaying substances. The fungus race is in subjection to the Mycetophilidæ, and are the means for the developement of the perfect state of the latter, according to the law whereby degradation precedes the attainment of a higher state, and this law is exemplified in minerals, plants and animals.
NOTES ON COLLECTING LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Dodge G. M.
Published: February 2010

In collecting Catocalas at Ohio, Ill., I have found them, during July, invariably abundant upon Black Locust (Robinia Pseudacacia), which, at that time, exudes considerable sap from the holes made by borers. Last season I pinned rags, dipped in molasses, to three or four of these trees, and from the middle to the last of July obtained from them over thirty Catocalas of ten species.
NEW CANADIAN NOCTUÆ
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

♂ ♀. The eyes are hairy, the tibiæ unarmed. The collar is cut out in front and there is a slight tuft in front, on the dorsum of the thorax, while the sides of the patagia are determinate. Dark leather brown ; thorax concolorous, with the inner edge of the patagia with a mole or less obvious bordering of dark scales. Forewings shining leather brown, deepening in tint over costal region, somewhat darker mottled. Lines distinct, continuous, geminate, with litac-grey centers distinctly contrasting.
CATOCALA WHITNEYI, N. sp
Authors: Dodge G. M.
Published: February 2010

Expands I 4/5 inches. Primaries light gray, the outer third brownish, with a triangular gray spot near the apex. A narrow black line near the base of the Wing extends from the costa to the submedian vein. Parallel to this and farther out, a black patch, narrowest at the costa and broadest on the second median veinlet, extends nearly across the wing. ending at the submedian vein. A triangular black patch surrounds the brownish reniform spot, and immediately back of this a curved black line reaches from the sub-dorsal vein to the second median veinlet.
THE FOOD-PLANTS OF EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES.: Second Notice
Authors: Scudder Samuel H.
Published: February 2010

The third and concluding part of Kaltenbach's work (Die Pflanzenfeinde aus der Classe der Insecten), has just been received in this country, and contains the following notices of the food plants of European, butterflies, in addition to those previously given. The numbers in parentheses refer to the former list.
NOTES ON NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

♂ .Antennæ pectinate. All the tibiæ armed or spinose. Abdomen a little flattened. Body slender ; wings ample and wide. Nearest to Agrotis collaris, but with wider wings, and rarger and differently colored. Smooth, Pale brown. Transverse lines even, with coincident pale shades. Basal half-line evident ; on the sub-basal space a pale dot followed by darker scales situate on median nervure.
ON TWO SPECIES OF AGROTIS, ALLIED TO A. TRIANGULUM
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

Among the material submitted to me for determination by Professor Packard, from the Peabody Academy of Science, are specimens from Maine and Massachusetts of two species of Agrotis allied to, but distinct from A. triangulum. Agrotis attentus. N. sp.

The eyes are naked. The middle and hind tibiae are armed, but the fore tibiae are without spines; male antennae siurple, bristled and pubescent.
NOTES ON THE LARVA OF LEUCANIA PSEUDARGYRIA, Guenee
Authors: Caulfield F. B.
Published: February 2010

On April 18th of this season, while searching for insects on Montreal Mountain, I found under a stone at the foot of a hickory tree, a larva, of which the follorving is a description :

Length two inches. Form cylindrical, slightly annulated. Head reddish yellow, with two brown streaks, and marbled with lines and dots of the same color ; semi-tlansparent, shiny, slightty bilobed, with a few scattered hairs of a whitish brown color. Mandibles brown.
ENTOMOLOGICAL READINGS, Suggestive and Reflective
Authors: Andrews W. V.
Published: February 2010

“There are no satisfactory distinctions between some of the moths which enable any one to say that they are of such and such species, and very frequently they are separated into different kinds because they happen to feed on various plants, and because the moths are not all colored in the same manner. Of course the Entomologists that believe in the real nature of species have taken a vast deal of trouble with the Noctuina, but those who do not think a species to be anything more than an abstract idea, and that it really consists of the sum of the variations of a closely allied series of forms, do not see the use of this Natural History hair splitting.”
NOTES ON THE “LIST” OF 1868
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

Preparatory to a fresh edition of the “List of Lep.,” of 1868, a few memoranda of the necessary changes rvill be published.

Sesia uniformis, p iii. This species is distinct from thysbe, and has been noticed by Mr. Lintner in his valuable “Entomological Contributions.” Mr. Couper found it on Anticosti. This can not be Sesia ruficaudis Kirby, the description of which is given on p. 27 of the “Synonymical Catalogue” of 1865.
NOTES ON MEGACHILE CENTUNCULARIS
Authors: Gentry Thos. G.
Published: February 2010

Since so much has been written upon the habits of our ordinary Leaf-cutting Bee, it would seem presumptuous for me to offer anything further in connection there with. But a few facts which came to my notice recently are sufficiently interesting and important to merit publication.

During the latter part of June, 1873, several cells, a half dozen in number, were sent to me by a friend, who had accidentally brought them to light while digging underneath the shade of a Spiræ corymbosa.
DISCREPANCIES IN RECENT LISTS OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Kirby W. F.
Published: February 2010

The opponents of the law of priority in nomenclature have taken occasion, both in England and America, to argue against the restoration of obsolete names, on the ground that the names enployed in my Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera do not always harmonize with those used in Staudinger's Catalogue of European Lepidoptera.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

In the preceding paper on this genus I mentioned that I had found the larva of this species mining the leaves of Ampelopsis QuinQuefolia. Since that paper was placed in the hands of the Editor, many months ago, I have succeeded in rearing it from the mine.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

This species was bred from minute mines in the leaves of Persimmon trees (Diospyros virginiana),gathered in great abundance at the “Bee Spring” camp of the Kentucky Geological Survey, in Edmondson County, a few miles west of the Mammoth Cave. I have never met with it in Northern Kentucky, where the Persimmon tree also grows, but is comparatively rare.
ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS.: No. 15. THE 10 MOTH—Saturnia (Hyperchiria) 10, Fabr
Authors: Reed E. B.
Published: February 2010

This lovely moth is well worthy a place in the cabinet of the collector, and is always sure to attract notice and admiration. The larva, of which fig. 27 represents a full-grown specimen, is of a most delicate apple or pea green colour, with a broad, dusky white stripe at each side, bordered with liliac on the lower edge. The body is covered with clusters of green bristles, tipped with a black.
ON A NEW SPECIES OF CERAMICA
Authors: Morrison H. K.
Published: February 2010

Eyes hairy ; collar and thorax reddish brown ; the thorax of my only specimen was injured in capture, so that the presence, or if present, the size of the tufts could not be ascertained. But apparently it was tufted, as there are traces of a meta-thoracic elevation. Abdomen yellowish, with a strong basal tuft; the labial and anal tufts tinged with carneous ; beneath red; anterior wings deep uniform red; lines obsolete; nervules distinctly black; a white dot on the costa at the base ; the interior line is only represented by a white dot on the costa and on the subcostal, median and submedian nervures.
A DISSERTATION ON NORTHERN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Couper William
Published: February 2010

The Swallow-tai1 Butterflies which occur on the Islands of Anticosti and Newfoundland, and on the north coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence are at present a subject of dispute, both as to species and position among the Papilionidæ. Having some knowledge of their localities and geographical range, I venture to state my opinion on the matter.
DESCRIPTION AND HABITS OF A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA OF THE GENUS SPHINX
Authors: Gentry Thomas G.
Published: February 2010

Des.–Body cylindrical, tapering gradually anteriorly, 12-jointed, exclusive of head. Head sub-elliptical, thickly punctured, moderately pubescent and of a yellwish brown color. Oral appendages largely developed. Antennæ 3-jointed, cylindrical, acuminate, the basal joint very long and quite thick. A dark purplish curved band passes from the crown of the head to the right antenna. Prothorecic segment surmounted by a transversely elongated, punctated, corneous saddle, concolorous with the head.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Primaries lanceolate ; the costa enters the margin about the middle discal cell narrow and closed by a nearly straight discal nervure. The subcostal sends off a long curved branch from about its middle, and which attains the margin behind the end of the cell. From the end of the cell the subcostal bends somewhat obliquely upwards to the costal margin. The median is furcate from the end of the cell, both branches being short and bending somewhat suddenly downwards to the dorsal margin, the inner branch being straight and continuous with the discal vein.
THE USE OF APHIS-EXCRETION AND BENEFIT DERIVED THEREFROM
Authors: Gentry Thomas G.
Published: February 2010

It is well known to the popular as well as scientific world that the Aphides secrete or rather excrete a peculiarly viscid and honey-like fluid which forms one of the chief delicacies of Ants. That it was originally designed to form an article of food for the latter is a supposition that cannot be entertained for a single moment ; bnt that it is in some way connected with the preservation of the soft and tender beings by which it is manufactured, there can be no reasonable doubt.
A DISSERTATION ON NORTHERN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Couper William
Published: February 2010

The confinement of the genus chionobas to high latitudes affords an example regarding distribution of species. Their food being lichens peculiar only to the Alpine regions, must confine them within a limited range. Mr. Scudder, in his “Revision of the hitherto known species of the genus chinobas, of North America”–proceed. Ent. soc. philad., vol. 5, pp. 26-28–gives them three or four localities; but these are either arctic, sub-arctic or Alpine.
OBSERVATIONS ON FORMICA FLAVA, AND INFERENCES DEDUCTED THEREFROM
Authors: Gentry Thomas G.
Published: February 2010

During the latter part of the month of May, of the spring of 1873, while reclining upon the ground beneath the shade of a tree growing on the outskirts of a thicket, the sun at the time beaming in all its glory and splendor overhead, my attention was suddenly arrested by the activity and excitement presented by a nest of the ordinaru yellow ant, Formica flave.
ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS.: 14. THE COMMON COCKCHAFER—Lachnosterna quercina, Knoch
Authors: Geddes Gamble
Published: February 2010

Onr readers will recognize at once in figure 8, (Lachnosterna quercina) the common May-bug in its different stages. I shows the chrysalis; 2 the larva, and 3 and 4 the perfect insect. It appears in some years in vast nnmbers, and is greatly complained of, whilst in other seasons it is comparatively rare. This depends chiefly on the long duration of its developement. The insect flies with a humming noise, so that one is aware of its approach at the distance of some yards.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

This genus, though closely allied to Stilbosis, Walshia, Elathista, &c., differs from them somewhat as to the palpi, and yet more as to the neuration of the wings. In the neuration it is near Stilbosis, but in many respects is nearer Walshia.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Both of these species occur abundantly in this locality; but the latter (my specimens can be nothing else) has the apical vein furcate before the apex, whilst Dr. Clemens says that it is simple. Mr. Stainton says it may be B. basilaris, Zeller.
ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS.: 15.—THE COCCINELLIDÆ
Authors: Rogers R. V.
Published: February 2010

“Of all the painted populace that live in fields and live ambrosial lives,” there is scarcely a family better known than those which compose the last of all the tribes Hard-shells, the Coccinellidæ. To the young and to the old, to the illiterate and to the scientist, they are equally familiar and equally interesting. Popular sympathy is extended towards them by the elders because they do much good in preventing the excessive multiplication of Aphides; by the juveniles because they are very pretty.
A DISSERTATION ON NORTHERN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Couper William
Published: February 2010

The meeting with Papilio turnus on the Island of Anticosti, astonished me, as I did not expect to find this butterfly so far north in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Only two specimens were taken during the season. and old settlers say that it is ahvays rare. Anticosti is evidently its most northerly limit, as it does not occur on the opposite shore of Labrador. It is common at Halifax, N. S., and in many localities along the south side of the St. Lawrence, until we reach the lake and rocky regions on the heighth of land from which the Assomption river flows north of Montreal.
TINEINA FROM TEXAS
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

I define this new genus with great hesitation and doubt as to the propriety of so doing. The only reason for separating the species described below, and which I place in this genus, from Evippe (vid. E. prunifoliella, ante v. 5, p.185) is found in the neuration. The other characters are those of Evippe, and, as stated below, it is very near to E. prunifoliella in ornamentation. The neuration of the forewings is exactly that of Eidothea vagatioella (loc. cit. sup.p. 187), which it also resembles in ornamentation, but less closely than it does Evippe prunifoliella.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF DRYOCAMPA
Authors: Bowles G. J.
Published: February 2010

Head, thorax, abdomen and wings above, of a creamy white, without any trace of bands or markings. Beneath, the body and wings are also creamy white, the costa of both fore and hind wings being near the base very faintly tinged rvith yellowish pink. The legs are also slightly pinkish. Antennae pale brown. Palpi and other parts of the mouth yellowish.
ON ORTHOSIA RALLA, Gr. & Rob
Authors: Lintner J. A.
Published: February 2010

In the April number of this journal, page 79, it is asserted by Mr. Morrison that “the well known orthosia ferruginoides Guen. is redescribed as Xanthia ralla Gr. & Rob.”

Having examined the type specimen of ralla, in the possession of the Buffalo Society of Natural sciences, I am able to pronounce it entirery distinct, and further, that it differs so much from the species to which it is above referred that there would seem to be no valid excuse for the erroneous reference.
ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF HOMOPTERA
Authors: Morrison H. K.
Published: February 2010

Expanse 40 m. m. Length of body, 18 m. m. Palpi long and slender, the second joint light and contrasting, the third dark, tipped with light. Thorax as usual in the genus. Abdomen cylindrical, with slight white dorsal tufts. Anterior wings uniform dull gray-brown, sprinkled with black atoms; the usual black clear-cut transverse lines are obsolete, the subterminal line only is seen as a black diffuse shade crossing the wings; some basal black markings; ordinary spots black, very distinct, close together; the orbicular a round spot, the reniform a subiunate black mark; a series of black dots before the concolorous fringe.
NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

I am able to complete the history of M. phaeton, part of which I communicated to the Can. Ent. in Jan'y, 1869, vol. 1, p. 59.

The eggs are laid in large clusters of from 200 to 400 each, upon the under side of leaves of chelone glabra. They are sub-conical, truncated, ribbed on upper half, yellow when laid, but soon turn to crimson. In 19 or 20 days, as Mr. Scudder informs me, they hatch As the eggs found by me (13th June) had been deposited some days, I could not verify that point.
NOTES UPON SOME BUTTERFLY EGGS AND LARVÆ
Authors: Mead Theodore L.
Published: February 2010

During the past month (July) I have endeavored to obtain the eggs and the larva of some of the butterflies common near.this place (Hunter), in the catskill Mountains, and have met with considerable success.

The most interesting discovery was that of the food plant Phyciodes tharos, which had baffled my endeavors for the past four or five years during which time Mr. Edwards and myself have tried a great number of plants without avail.
METHODS OF SUBDUING INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE
Authors: Leconte John L.
Published: February 2010

In accordance with the predictions made at the time of its first appearance in the immediate Mississippi Valley, the Colorado potato beetle continues to extend its area of distribution. It has during the last and present seasons reached the Atlantic Coast of the Middle States, and is preparing an invasion in mass of the maritime parts of New England, which will soon be overrun with the same ease with which it has conquered the Western and Middle States. Meanwhile the farmers are anxiously inquiring for means of destroying the invader.
ON A CANADIAN SPECIES OF AGROTIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Mr. George Norman has sent me specimens of a species of Agrotis allied to tessellata, which were taken at orillia, I propose to call the species Agrotis vennipellis. The male antennae are brush-like, eyes naked, all the tibiae spinose. The thorax and tegulae are dark brown; collar with a blackish shade in front, below which it is ashen.
ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM FLORIDA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The following species were collected by Mr. Schwarz and Mr. Bela Hubbard, of the Detroit Scientific Association, among other most valuable scientific material, obtained during a recent visit to Florida. Megathymus yuccae (Bdv. & Lec.) Scudd.

The eyes are large and naked; caputal squamation of mixed flattened scales and hair. I cannot find any ocelli. The cylindrical, scaled antennæ are capitate, without terminal inflection or hooklet. The tibæ and tarsi are strongly spinose; hind and middle tibiæ with terminal claw.
ON CATOCALA VERRILLIANA, WITH NOTES ON CATOCALA RELICTA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The smallest N. Am. red-winged species known. It has a resemblance to polygama and fratercula in the ornamentation of the primaries. Fore wings gray, shaded with blackish; lines black. A diffuse basal black shade. T. a. line diffusely shaded with black. Reniform small, yellowish, more or less distinctly double ringed. Sub-reniform small, yellowish, disconnected with the t. p. line. T. p. line shaped much as in Polygama. Hind wings bright red.
ON NEW SPECIES OF AGROTIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

♂. Allied to A. bicarnea Guen,; smaller and distinguishable by the evenness of the t. p. line. Fore wings dead brownish black. T. a. line rigidly oblique to submedian fold, not rounded as in its ally, and with a less prominent tooth on internal margin. A very faint yellowish shading to the line and also on the costa at inception of t. p. line, where A. bicarnea is strongly marked with carneous. T. p. line shaped as in its ally, but even, geminate, the inner line not scalloped; the component lines include a pale shading.
ARGYNNIS MYRINA AND ITS ALLEGED ABNORMAL PECULIARITIES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In the Am. Nat., Sept., 1872, Mr. Scudder published an essay entitled “The curious History of a Butterfly,” in which it is stated that in two N. American species of the “genus Brenthis,” namely, myrina and bellona, occurs a phenomenon considered by the author to be quite unique among butterflies : there being two sets of individuals, each following its own cycle of changes,:apparently with as little to do with the other set as if it were a different species; each set having its own distinct seasons and thus giving rise to the apparition of two or three successive broods in the course of the year.
NOTE ON DATANA PERSPICUA G. & R
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Since the original illustration and description of this species, ten years ago, in the Proceedings of the E ntomological Society of Philadelphia, it has not been noticed, except by the late Mr. B. D. Walsh, in the same
Proceedings, vol. 5, p. 194-5. I have been since last year indebted to Prof. C. V. Riley for a number of specimens of perspicua, raised from larvæ found on Sumach. It is enough to say that the specimens bear out the specific validity of a form which is perhaps the most easily recognized among the difficult species of this genus.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HADENA FROM THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
Authors: Morrison H. K.
Published: February 2010

Eyes naked, with short lashes. Antennæ in the female simple. Palpi gray, the third joint very short. Collar whitish beneath, above bearing a transverse, partially interrupted black line. Thorax mingled light and
dark gray; no prothoracic tuft, metathoracic tuft low and longitudinally furrowed; sides of the thorax deep black and very conspicuous. Abdomen light gray, with several slight dorsal black tufts, and one very strong one, tipped with white on the third segment.
THE LUNA MOTH (Actias luna)
Authors: Rogers R. V.
Published: February 2010

As supplementary to my remarks on this pretty creature in the August number of the Can. Ent., I would say thaton June 6th a friend gave me a captured female Luna. For two or three nights I used her as a trap to entangle unwary males, but in vain as far as my cabinet was concerned; the weather was cold. On the 7th,8th and 9th, during the silent watches of the night, she deposited in her place of confinement, in all, about 100 eggs of a dark brown or chocolate color, flattened at the sides, smooth and about .005 of an inch in length: the sides were of a lighter shade.
CATOCALA NEBRASKA, Dodge
Authors: Dodge G. M.
Published: February 2010

Expanse, 2.70 inches. Primaries scalloped, apparently brown being densely sprinkled with black scales on a reddish gray ground. Reniform tinged with red, clouded anteriorly with black, and having a black central spot. Sub-reniform indistinct. Terminal line nearly obsolete, the grayish band which precedes it showing plainest on the costa. All the transverse lines are black, and a curved row of seven black dots appears on the interspaces along the outer margin. Fringe dark, tipped with white.
THREE NEW GALLS OF CECIDOMYIÆ
Authors: Sacken C. R. Osten
Published: February 2010

I hardly need an apology for presenting from time to time to the entomological public descriptions of galls of Cecidmyiæ, even when I did not succeed in rearing the fly. Such observations, unless published soon, are very apt to be lost; once published, they gradually accumulate and furnish a welcome material for the future monographer. To facilitate reference, I give here a list of my previous publications on the galls of North American Cecidomyiæ
ON NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF PLUSIA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Allied to precationis and ,gamma. It differs by the distinct yellow shaded geminate t. p. line having but a single acute tooth at vein 2 ; the line running more outwardly at this point, and being othewise even throughout. Also by the shape of the metallic spot ; this is open, silver bordered, running outwardly obliquely from the median vein to the t. p. line at vein 2, sub-triangulate, the bordering lines fusing outwardly to a point, forming an oblique uneven V. The median space below and beyond the metallic mark is shaded longitudinally with obscure chalceous.
ON SCOPELOSOMA AND ALLIED GENERA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The shape of the fore wings is like Scoliopteryx, and the ornamentation is like that genus, while the stigmata are well defined, the course of the lines being similar in the two genera. This is a much more robust form than the European Atethmia xerampelina, and has different shaped, more dentate primaries. Eyes naked, tibiae unarmed. Eucirroedia pampina(Guen.) has the colors of Fodia.
AGROTIS RUBIFERA, N. S
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Allied to rubi and conflua. Taken by Mr. Norman in Canada, and considered to be identical with the European rubi in former writings. Abdomen and hind wings paler than in conflua. Fore wings of a darker purply-reddish brown; t. a. line geminate, a black spot before the orbicular and usually the disc between the spots is black stained. Claviform indicated. Subterminal pale, more waved, but like conflua, differing from rubi; beneath the common line is not diffuse as in conflua.
TINEINA FROM CANADA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

A single specimen with the palpi broken off. Head pale yellowish tinged with fuscous. Thorax brown, with the apex whitish. Fore wings gray brown, under the lens appearing yellowish white and brown in irregular blotches, with a distinct white spot on the fold at aout the basal fourth, the usual opposite white costal and dorsal spots at the beginning of the ciliae, a small white spot at the apex, and two others at the base of the dorsal ciliae. Ciliae sordid white, with a narrow brown hinder marginal line about their middle.
NOTES ON AN INTERESTING EASTERN VARIETY OF ONCOCNEMIS CHANDLERI
Authors: Morrison H. K.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Fred. Tepper has just sent me for examination a very interesting pair of insects taken on the sea shore of Long Island, which approach so nearly the type of O. chandleriin my colle ction from the mountains of Colorado, that I cannot separate them specilically, although there are certain differences, v'hich I give below. The capture is the more valuable since the species of Oncocnemis, so far as known, inhabit only the mountains of Europe, Siberia, Colorado and California.
GRAPTA SATYRUS (Edwards)
Authors: PEARSON C. W.
Published: February 2010

On Dominion Day, while at Chateaueuay Basin, I collected a number of larvæ which were found feeding on nettle. I secured them in my larva box, and took a quantity of the food-plant with me. When I reached home in the evening I was too busy to examine them carefully, and the next day I found that quite a lot of them had changed to chrysalids.
LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

♂ . A small frail form with ciliate antennae no ocelli, and long, dependent palpi, their second joint thickly squamous. Fore wings grayish white, with their inner line black, fine, angulated. Outer line denticulate, followed by a pure white shade. A pure white shade in the place of the subterminal. Hind wings dusty white. Beneath the fore wings are pale fuscous, immaculate; hind wings whitish with a discal dot. Expanse 16 m.m. Canada, Mr. Saunders. This species differs decidely from the N. Am. species described by prof. Zeller; I do not find descriptions of N. Am. species in any other author.
EXCURSION OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH TO CHATEAU-GUAY BASIN, ON DOMINION DAY
Authors: Pearson C. W.
Published: February 2010

Those of the members who accepted Mr. Jack's kind invitation to visit him on Dominion Day, left town on Thursday, the 30th June, by the 5 p. m. train, for Lachine, where they took the boat and had a delightful sail up the Chateauguay River as far as the Basin, where they were met by Mr. Jack, who conducted them to his beautiful residence, where they were warmly welcomed by the rest of his family.
TINEINA FROM TEXAS
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

r have only examined the neuration of one of the species which I here place in this genus, but they are all evidently congeneric, and the neuration of L. lyonetiella while not that of L. cephalonthiella, nor of either of the three species figured Ins. Brit., v.3., does not differ therefrom more than they differ from each other. The limits of the genus are perhaps not so clearly defined as might be wished in respect to the neuration and the raised tufts on the primaries, but as the genus is at present recognized, the proper location of these species is in it.
NEW OR INSUFFICIENTLY KNOWN NEARCTIC SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF AGABUS (COLEOPTERA, DYTISCIDAE)
Authors: Leech Hugh B.
Published: February 2010

Two subspecies of Agabus seriatus (Say) are recognized, A. s. seriatus from Manitoba eastward and southward, and A. s. intersectus (Crotch) from Manitoba west to British Columbia and south to New Mexico. A. pandurus, allied to brevicollis Leconte, and A. vandykei, allied to verisimilis Brown, are described from California.
SUGARING FOR NOCTUÆ
Authors: Norman Geo.
Published: February 2010

Having been requested by the worthy Editor of this journal to contribute a few hints on sugaring for Noctuæ, I have endeavored to put together a few notes may prove servicable to those who may not have been sucessful in this method of capture. To begin with, it ought to be a golden rule never to abandon a locality, even should it yield nothing for a few nights. Often have I sugared a new locality night after night, with absolutely no results, but by presevering the moths have become attracted to the place, and, in course of time, were swarming on every tree.
HINTS ON COLLECTING COCOONS OF THE LUNA MOTH—Tropœa luna
Authors: Bunker Robert
Published: February 2010

Many Entomologists are under the impression that the cocoons of this species and polyphemus are exactly alike in appearance. This is a mistake; and the collector who has been misled by writers on the subject and has got together by careful searching a dozen cocoons, expecting at least to get a small share of lunas from them, is greatly disappointed when they change to find them all polyphemus.
TINEINA FROM TEXAS
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Since the preceding portion of this paper, as well as much of that which follows in this and some following numbers, were placed in the hands of the Editor of the Can. Ent., I have received from Mr. Belfrage another collection of Tineina from Basque County, Texas, containing additional specimens of species found in the first collection, and several new species. The only species contained in this last collection which has been previously described from more western localities, and were not contained in the former collection, are Gelechia solaniella ? Cham. and strobisia iridipennella Clem. and Theisoa bifasciella.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Eyes large and close together on the vertex. palpi, base of tongue and large basal joint of the antennæ, head and upper surface of the thorax, clothed with long blackish hairs, darker than the fore wings are, except at their base. The antennæ are more than twice the length of the wings and silvery white, the basal third dotted above with blackish. Wings and legs rich dark brown, changing with the light to green, blue, violet, bronze and golden.
NOTES ON LITODONTA, WITH REMARKS ON ONCOCNEMIS
Authors: Harvey Leon F.
Published: February 2010

In a collection sent by Mr. Belfrage from Bosque Co., Texas, are 15 generally fresh specimens of this genus which i have carefully examined. The type of hydromeli ♂ is numbered 527 (violet label). the ♀ 246 (red label). The orange dots following the fuscous blotches of the subterminal line are less evident in the male, and at the base of the wing the orange powdering is less prominent. I am inclined to consider seven specimens, two males, five females, captured from May 3rd to May 21st, as typical.
NOTES ON ENTOMOLOGICAL, NOMENCLATURE
Authors: Edwards W.H.
Published: February 2010

In coitus 26 are 4 species, 3 of which are put in Myrina Fab., one of the genera of the Lycaeninæ, and 1 in Euselasia Hüb., of the Lemoniinæ. But the coitus Euselasia is in the other Tribe, and third Stirps of same, the Napaeæ.
NEW SPECIES OF NEBRASKA ACRIDIDÆ
Authors: Bruner Lawrence
Published: February 2010

Elytra and wings longer than body; elytra spotted; wings blue at base, gradually merging into black.

Female–Vertex broad; middle foveola circular, open in front with a slight median carina; frontal costa rather narrow, somewhat expanded at ocellus; sulcate, expanding at lower extremity. Lateral costa nearly parallel to frontal, Median carinn of pronotum crested, as in Œ Carolina, only much higher ; cut in front of middle by last transverse incision of pronotum.
INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE GENERA OF MR. SCUDDER'S “SYSTEMATIC REVISION.”
Authors: Peabody S. H.
Published: February 2010

Soon after the issue of the “Systematic Revision,” and while I was trying to master the intricacies of its analysis, it occurred to me to tabulate the generic descriptions in some family, if, haply, I might thus discover the exact points of discrimination, By chance I took first the tribe Adolescentes, producing the table which accompanies this paper. In this table, if any expression or word which could distort the obvious meaning of the author, has been omitted or wrested from its proper connection. such change has been through inadvertence or mistake.
NEW NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Harvey Leon F.
Published: February 2010

Eyes hairy; antennæ pectinate. Thorax and wings grayish fuscous, color of trifolii; basal half line white, t.a. line geminate, widely seperated; t.p. line consisting of a series of white points; subterminal irregular, terminal line black. Orbicular spot large, white ringed with dark centre; reniform constricted at the centre, white margined with a dark filling.
NEW PYRALIDES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Fore wings whitish yellow and olive brown. The median field whitish yellow except a costal blotch of the darker tint. Base narrowly whitish yellow, succeeded by an oblique olive: brown band. The outer line bordering the median space is nearly upright, a little irregular and slightly notched opposite the cell and again at internal margin. It is followed by the broad olive brown subterminal space. The subterminal line is yellowish, brought near the margin, flexuous, and the veinlets on the terminal space are marked with yellowish.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Palpi with the outer suface of the second joint dark bluish brown or blackish, dusted sparsely with white, the inner surface being white dusted with blackish scales; third joint blackish. Head and tongue white, the vertex with a faint purplish tinge, and dusted with dark brown. Thorax very pale ochreous and white, dusted with blackish scales, and with the anterior margin shining black.
ON FOUR NEW CALIFORNIAN HEPIALI
Authors: Behrens James
Published: February 2010

The species described in this paper are from Mendocino. The genus seems to be more numerously represented on the West than on the East Coast of North America. Some of the new forms resemble the Eutopean. To none of these species can I refer Dr. Boisduval's descriptions of hectoides or californicus.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Basal joints of fore legs ochreous red; femora and tibia dark brown, obscurely marked with white; tarsi white dusted and annulate with brown. Intermediate legs like the first pair, except that the basal joints are brown. Intermediate legs like the first pair,except that the basal joints are brown; hind legs and the under surfaceof the abdomen white dusted with dark brown, the tarsi tinged with yellowish and the upper surface of the abdomen brownish.
ON GENERA
Authors: Hagen Dr. H.
Published: February 2010

There will hardly be a naturalist who has not spent considerable time to study the questions–What is a genus, and what are generic characters? Indeed, work is nearly impossible without having taken a position with regard to these questions. A full record of the literature, even the most condensed one, would be here out of p1ace, but I have been induced by a recent and most surprising discovery bearing upon this question to make this communication.
THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF LYCAENA COMYNTAS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Last year I observed a female comyntas depositing eggs upon Desmodium Marilandicum Gray, a common and troublesome weed in this region, called “shoestring” by the country People, from its toughness of stem,and bearing a sticking burr in the fall. On 9th July, 1876, I set a female in a bag over a stem of this plant, and several eggs were laid on the tender tenlinal leaves. Mr. Mead noticed that this butterfly laid also on red clover, and a number of eggs were obtained by the same process, on the 13th July, deposited on the young leaves and on the flowrets of the head.