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CURIOUS BEHAVIOUR OF EUDAMUS PYLADES LARVA
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

When out on a short visit to Ausable Chasm, June 29th to July 1st, I noticed, on June 30th, a female of this species ovipositing, and secured three eggs. These eggs hatched in due course, one about a day in advance of the two others. The first larva was placed on a clover leaf in a tin-topped jelly glass, but refused to feed and dried up. I then arranged a homeopathic vial of water in a wine glass, with earth to steady it, and a few leaves of clover passing through a hole in the cork into the water, and placed the two other newly hatched larvæ upon the leaves. One immediately set to work constructing its nest, but the other seemed lazy and not inclined to make a nest for itselt or share in the construction of the other. The nest was soon complete, and the occupants hidden from view. What tragedy took place within that nest I know not, but at the first moult only one caterpillar remained, and I thought that possibly the energetic one had lost all patience with his lazy brother, and had eaten him up. The dates of the first three moults were not recorded, but the fourth one occurred on 3rd of August.
THE LARVÆ OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SAW-FLIES
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

It appears from a reference to the literature, that the larvæ of less than 25 per cent. of the Tenthredinidæ listed as inhabiting the northeastern United States and Canada have been described. Of the Western species, scarcely half a dozen are known.

It seems desirable that something should be done to increase interest in this neglected subject, and I have thought it well to prepare a synoptic table of the larvæ already known, to facilitate the recognition of specimens and better indicate those as yet undescribed, and therefore needing study.

In the following table the Western species are excluded. If, by good fortune, any student of this group should arise there, he would find the field practically clear.
TWO NEW CROCOTAS FOUND IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
Authors: Ehrmann George A.
Published: February 2010

Crocota rubricosta, n. sp.— ♀. Antennæ and eyes black; palpi and prothorax reddish-brown; head a little lighter than the prothorax; thorax dark brown, almost black; abdomen dark brown, tipped anally with red. Under side of abdomen and thorax, including the legs, light reddish brown.

Primaries: Upper side obscured with dark velvety-brown, slightly tinted, or dusted, with red on the costa. Secondaries: Dark brown, almost black, with a large red elongate spot on the costa—hence the name rubricosta.

Under side of primaries light brown; costa fiery red; the inner marginal area is also heavily dusted with red. Under side of secondaries fiery red, shaded along the anal margin with dark brown; the limbal space has a brown angulated bar, beginning at the discal cell and widening outwardly; discal spot dark brown, almost black; fringes dark brown. Exp., one inch and three-eighths. Hab.—Jeanette, Pa.
PROTECTIVE MIMICRY IN SPIDERS
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In the concluding volume of his admirable work on “American Spiders and their Spinning Work,” Page 47, Dr. McCook gives the experiences of Mr. H. O. Forbes, and myself, with two species of spiders, whose forms and habits of spinning webs on leaves, together with the peculiar coloration of their bodies, gives them a deceptive resemblance to the droppings of birds. Dr. McCook tries to account for the phenomena of this protective resemblance, by attributing it to the results of natural selection.
PREPTOS, TAMPHANA AND AROTROS — A REVIEW
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1892, Mr. W. Schaus describes as new 180 species of “Bombycid” moths from Mexico and various parts of South America, with three “new genera.” Of these, one is located in the Lasiocampidæ and two in the Bombycidæ. All these generic descriptions are utterly inadequate, and the question should be raised seriously whether names founded on such descriptions should be recognized. We are accustomed to believe that the classification of Herrich-schaffer is still used by lepidopterists, at least in its fundamental features; but in these descriptions the word “vein” does not appear. The description of the Lasiocampid is the longest of the three, yet the author gives but eight characters by which to identify his genus. Five of these are common to nearly all the genera of the family; two others appear in several genera already well known, and the genus must be distinguished from the one hundred and forty odd genera of Lasiocampidæ already catalogued, by the female having an expanse of wing of 95 mm., and a short abdomen, “not extending beyond the secondaries!”
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF EPIPASCHIINÆ AND PHYCITIDÆ
Authors: Hulst Geo. D.
Published: February 2010

Oneida luniferella, n. sp.—Tongue blackish with some light gray scales; labial palpi and face light gray; antennæ blackish gray; antennal protection light gray at base, becoming blackish gray towards summit; thorax gray, patagia lighter, becoming nearly white posteriorly; abdomen gray with black scales intermixed, somewhat washed with fuscous, and often stained with yellowish. Fore wings light gray at base to raised scale ridge immediately before the first cross-line; this line is white, rounded from costa to median vein, and thence to inner margin, edged on both sides with black and preceded by a scale ridge which is reddish brown in colour; middle field light gray, glistering, slightly powdered with blackish scales, this colour reaching to outer margin posterior to vein 5; near middle of field and between vein 1 and median vein a raised scale tuft, blackish.
CANADIAN COCCIDÆ.: III. A LECANIUM, PERHAPS IDENTICAL WITH L. RUGOSUM, SIGNORET
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

I have just received from Mr. James Fletcher a small bottle of scales found on plum at Queenston, Ontario. He writes concerning them: “Dead scales picked from a plum tree in the Niagara district, where it was very abundant on plums and much rarer on peach trees growing amongst the plums”

Directiy I saw these scales, they struck me as something unusual, and yet I rather expected they would prove to be some form of L. persicœ. Unfortunately they were full of the mycelium of a fungus (doubtless Cordyceps), as well as in some cases containing a Chalcidid parasite, so that their specific characters were very hard to make out. The fungus, which must be a very important check to their increase, was not noticed on examination with a lens; but on boiling the sacles in liquor potassæ, they stained the liquor brown, and a microscopic examination showed the fungus quite plainly. Of course, from mere mycelium no determination could be made. I saw in one case what looked like germinating spores, but perhaps in this I was mistaken.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF ROBINSONIA
Authors: Schaus W.
Published: February 2010

Robinsonia Grotei, sp. nov.—Head white, posteriorly shaded with yellow. Collar white, with a central brown spot. Thorax brown, with a central white line; patagia white, larerally edged with brown. Abdomen dorsally brownish-yellow, with a subdorsal row of small white spots, and a lateral row of small black spots; underneath whitish. Primaries above white, with the margins broadly brown, except at the apex, where the white extends to the fringe; an oblique brown band, from the costal margin at a third from the base to the inner angle, separates the white into two large spaces. Secondaries white, Primaries underneath white, showing indistinctly the markings of the upper surface.
NEW HAMPSHIRE TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The new species described below were contained in a collection of saw-flies recently from Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson, and were collected on Mount Washington and at Franconia, New Hampshire. The collection was of interest on account of the number of species it contained which are evidently related to a boreal fauna.

Macrophya mixta,n. sp.—♀ Black, with the following parts white: two spots on the clypeus, the labrum, a spot on each mandible, two spots on the occiput pseudocaudad of the ocelli, a narrow line on collar and tegulæ, the anterior coxæ at apex and a narrow line at side, the middle and posterior coxæ at apex, the trochanters, the distal halves of the anterior femora, the anterior tibiæ beneath, the knees of the middle, all the tarsi except the base of the first segment and the apices of the others, a large spot on the posterior coxæ.
PREPTOS, TAMPHANA, AND AROTROS
Authors: Schaus W.
Published: February 2010

In the February number of the Canadian Entonomoligist, Mr.Dyar very justly complains of the inadequacy of my descriptions of the above genera in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1892. Both Preptos and Tamphana belong to the Eupterotidæ. Preptos is most closely allied to theEastern genus Tagora, walk., and differs in the following particulars:—Primaries with veins 5 and 6 from upper angle of cell, discocellulars angled outwardly and then inwardly close below vein 5; secondaries with discocellulars very obiique. No allied forms of Preptos oropus have as yet been discovered in America, although the species has been redescribed as Tagora corax Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1893.
THECLA ONTARIO, EDW
Authors: Fletcher J.
Published: February 2010

In a small collection of butterflies sent to me for identification, I find a good example of this very rare Hair-Streak, which was taken by Mr. William Metcalfe, of Toronto at Grimsby, on 24th of June 1894. This record is important, as it is the first one of an exact date and locality. Mr. Metcalfe states that the exact spot was along the Grand Trunk Railway track, near Grimsby Park, at the back of Mr. Harry Griffith's farm. The specimen in question is a male in good condition, although slightly stained with cyanide on the upper side. The figure given by Mr. W. H. Edwards (in his Butt. N. America, I., pl. 2, Thecla) represents this specimen admirably, although slightly larger. Mr. Metcalfe's specimen expands 22 mm., and has the orange spot on secondaries above only faintly indicated by a few rusty scales.
SOME NEW ATTIDÆ
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Length, 13. mm.; ceph., 4.2 mm long, 3 mm. wide. Cephalothorax very dark brown, covered with blackhairs, clypeus with white hairs and some white scales on the lower sides; a bunch of stiff hairs behind the eyes of second row; mandibles red-brown, iridescent greenish near tip; sternum brown with black hairs. Abdomen black, a narrorw basal line of white, and broad side stripes of white which do not quite reach to the tip; just beyond the middle the side stripes indent the central black area; sides black and venter blackish; legs black, bases of metatarsi reddish. The cephalothorax is moderately high, narrower than in the allied species, the quadrangle wider behind, the anterior row much curved, the S. E. small and well separated from the M.E., the eyes of second row almost twice as near to the lateral as to the dorsal. The posterior metatarsi are more slender than usual, and spined only at tip.
ON THE POSITION OF THE GENUS DEMAS
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

In the March number of the Can. Ent., pp. 81–82, Mr. Tutt falls back upon the writings of Dr. Chapman to support his position for this genus as among the Liparidæ. As Mr. Tutt has thus gracefully retired from the discussion without making a direct answer to my facts, I can only, in reply, briefly notice Dr. Chapman's position.
SOME ARGYNNIDS OF PARK CITY, UTAH.: (Elevation, 7,000 feet.)
Authors: Snyder Arthur J.
Published: February 2010

Any time before the middle of June, entomological studies in the mountains are apt to be interrupted by snowfalls; but from that time to September, one will seldom find a better or more interesting place for study. The climate is delightful, and though the common opinion is that no rain falls upon the great plateau, here as elsewhere, suppositions are not facts.
ITHYCERUS NOVEBORACENSIS, FORST.
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

In former years I had found this beetle, the largest and most conspicuous weevil of our fauna, to occur only upon beeches, as noted in my sketch of the Rhyncophora, in Eleventh Annual Report. Such, also, was Mr. Chittenden's record [Ent Am., Vol. VI., 168]. Its infestation of the twigs of oak had been recorded by Riley, who described the larva. Its occurrence upon hickory is noted by Mr. Beutenmuller [Can. Ent., XXII., 201], and it is known as injurious to apple and other fruit trees. On June 9th. 1895, I observed a pair in coitu upon the trunk of a hickory (Carya amara), where there were no beech trees near by, and on carefully examining other hickories in the immediate vicinity I found five more pairs.
NOTES ON NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

With the exception of some undetermined gallflies and parasites, the following list of 86 species contains all the Hymenoptera collected (and bred) by the author, in the South-west, of which it has proved possible to get the names, except four mentioned in Can. Ent., 1892, p. 200. The gallflies and parasites above referred to will be recorded in some papers to be published in the future. The cottonwood, Blennocampa, mentioned in Can. Ent., 1893, P. 304, and in Zoe, iii., pp. 234–236, should also be included in the above exception.
LEPYRUS
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

The species of Lepyrus in North America have not heretofore been well understood. The genus has recently been treated monographically by an American writer, several forms being described for the first time: one of these has since been discovered to be identical with the European capucinus, Schall, and geminatus, Say, to be palustris, Scop.
THE CIGAR CASE-BEARER OF THE APPLE (COLEOPHORA FLETCHERELLA)
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

In 1889 I received from the late William Brown, of Charlottetown, P. E. I., some larvæ of a small case-bearer, which he had found in large numbers upon his plum trees, and which also occurred in his pear and apple orchards. Since that time this insect has made itself well-known by its injuries in apple orchards in various localities in the Maritime Provinces, and in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. A beautifully illustrated and carefully prepared bulletin has been issued by Mr. M. V. Slingerland, of Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, in which the life history of this most interesting but very serious enemy of the fruit grower is fully described. The above illustration, kindly lent by the editor of the Canadian Horticulturist, is copied from that bulletin.
THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH, EPHESTIA KUEHNIELLA, Zeller, STILL IN CANADA.
Authors: Johnson W. G.
Published: February 2010

The determined and energetic fight carried on by the miller, the entomologist, and the Local Government in 1889, to stamp out this destructive mill pest in Ontario, is too fresh in the memory of those who witnessed that outbreak to warrant a repetition of the particulars. Suffice it to say that the flour moth is still very abundant in certain Canadian mills. I have received it recently in flour sent me direct from a milling firm in Valleyfield, Quebec, with an urgent appeal for help. The mill has been obliged to shut down several times during the present year to clean out the enormous accumulations of matted flour and webs in the spouts and elevator legs. The mill is a new one and has been running a very short time. It is said the pest came from a neighboring firm. My experience with this moth in California and other places convinces me that it is the worst pest millers have to combat, and this note should be a signal warning to all those interested in the milling business. I have also recently discovered the same pest in Southwestern New York State, where it has done considerable mischief this year, and is still spreading. It has occasioned much loss on the Pacific Coast also the present season. If something is not done to arrest and destroy thisadvancing enemy in the United States and Canada, I predict very serious results to the milling industries of both countries.
NEW AMERICAN PARASITIC CYNIPIDÆ (ALLOTRIINÆ).
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

All of the species described below were taken in Colorado. For most of the specimens I am indebted to the industry of my wife, who has done a large amount of work with the sweep net in Northern Colorado. No American species have yet been described as belonging to any of the genera mentioned, though some of the species described under Allotria may possibly be referable to some one of them. A number of species of Allotria in my collection are left until such time as the already described forms are more fully elucidated.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The species included here are of rather short, cylindrical form, sometimes suggesting in shape the Cryptocephalini, though easily separated, so far as our genera are concerned, by the shorter and stouter antennæ. Most of them are Southern or Western in distribution, and the few genera recorded from within our limits may be known among themselves by these characters:—

A. Front coxæ contiguous.
FIVE NEW BEES OF THE GENUS CALLIOPSIS, FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Calliopsis meliloti, n. sp., ♀.—Length, 5 mm.; head and thorax wholly black, abdomen very dark brown, with yellowish-white markings. Head, thorax, legs, and sides of abdomen with abundant long dull white hair. Clypeus prominent, shining, with conspicuous sparse punctures, its upper portion longitudinally sulcate in the middle, its whole surface appearing bare, with only very short, inconspicuous hairs. On each side of the clypeus is a shining bare eminence. Vertex closely punctured. Mandibles brown. Antennæ quite short, the hairy scape not much less than half as long as the flagellum, the last joint of which is truncate and somewhat flattened.
NEW HAMPSHIRE HESPERIDÆ
Authors: Fiske W. K.
Published: February 2010

All of the following species occur in the town of Webster, about ten miles north-west of Concord:—

Carterocephalus Mandan, Edw.—This is one of the rarest species in this section. It occurs in but one locality—a grassy bank by the roadside. Middle of June.

Ancyloxypha Numitor, Fab.—Common around very wet, grassy swamps in June and again in August.
ON TWO INTERESTING NEW GENERA OF SCALE INSECT PARASITES
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

Nearly all the Chalcidid parasites of Coccidæ belong to the subfamilies Aphelininæ and Encyrtinæ. So universal is this rule that it is remarkable to rear anything else from a Coccid (excluding, of course, hyperparasites). One or two Mymarids and the species of the curious subfamily Signiphorinæ live in the eggs of scale insects, and we are just beginning to realize that there is a peculiar group of genera allied to the old subfamily Pireninæ which also have this habit.
ON AGROTIS TRITICI, Linn., AB. SUBGOTHICA, Haw., AND AGROTIS JACULIFERA, Gn.
Authors: Tutt J. W.
Published: February 2010

I have read with interest the paper by Mr. Slingerland, Can. Ent., XXVII., p.p. 301–308, and as my name is occasionally mentioned, I trust to the courtesy of our Editor to allow me to reply.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

A large group, containing numerous genera and species; the North American forms have been recently studied by Dr. Horn, and the following generic table is a condensation, with a few modifications, of the one given by him.
NOTES ON SOME MOTHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. A. BOLTER
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

This species exhibits a well-marked local variation. Before discussing this I would correct the account in Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc., II., 168, in respect to the synonymy of confusus. This form is really the same as roseicaput, N. & D., as the description shows. How we were misled into referring the name as a strict synonym, I cannot now recall. It may be well, moreover, to retain a distinct name for the American form until its life-history is known and we can be certain whether it is or is not the same as the European ganna.
THE SMALLER BEES OF THE GENUS ANDRENA FOUND IN NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

None of the species herein described or listed are as much as 10 mm. long.

I. Marginal cell truncate: The species of this section are not true Andrena, but will form a distinct genus, apparently as near to Prosapis as to Andreua. Two of the larger species, A. asclepiadis, Ckll., and A. mexicanorum, Ckll., are congeneric. I have before me also a species from Texas.
TWO NEW HESPERIDS
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

Male.—Expands 1.50 inches. Upper side: Superiors tawny with a fuscous border a little more than one-eighth inch in width; there are from one to four small subapical tawny spots in the fuscous border; at end of cell a dark spot which may or may not be connected with the stigma; stigma rather more than an eighth inch in length, very narrow and unbroken, and extending to inner margin. Inferiors have the same fuscous border and tawny central area. Under side: Superiors with tawny central area and border same as upper side; there is a large triangular spot extending into the wing from the base. The tawny colour above this spot is of a darker hue than that below and outside of it. Inferiors very light brown, generally with four or five very faint tawny spots in the central area.
NEW BEES OF THE GENERA XENOGLOSSA AND PODALIRIUS (Anthophura)
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Xenoglossa patricia, n. sp.—♂. Length about 22 mm., very stoutly built; head and thorax black, densely covered with short fulvous pubescence; abdomen and legs bright chestnut red. Head broad, eyes black, orbits somewhat converging above, ocelli very large, a linear groove descending from middle ocellus, vertex obscurely tessellate; clypeus broad, yellow, its upper margin suffused with orange, and its anterior margin narrowly rufous; surface of clypeus rough so as to look like the skin of a lemon; labrum yellow, with appressed, very short, pale fulvous pubescence; mandibles long, simple, with a large yellow patch near the base, suffused outwardly into a reddish tongue, which gradually loses itself in the black of the tips. Antennæ hardly reaching beyond tegulæ, piceous, with the scape, funicle, and first and last joints of flagellum, rufescent. First joint of flagellum longer than the two following, but not so long as the three following. Sculpture of thorax cannot be seen for the pubescence.
A NEW GRAIN BEETLE
Authors: Chittenden F. H.
Published: February 2010

The recent discovery that the grain-feeding tenebrionid, Palorus melinus or depressus of American collections and literature, was in reality composed of two distinct species, as announced by the writer in the May number of Entomological News (Vol. VII., p. 138), finds a parallel in the recognition of Silvanus mercator, Fauvel, in local collections with S. surinamensis, Linn.
NOTE ON MAMESTRA COMIS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

This species is described by me in Bull. Buff Soc., N. S., III., 85, not in the Geological Survey, as quoted in the Washington Catalogue. A comparison of the description proves that the insect before me could not have been M. olivacea. Its terms, both as to colour and markings, completely cover the description of M. circumcincta. There can, of course, be no reasonable doubt that the existing so-called “type” of comis is a specimen of olivacea, in which case the type label has been certainly transferred to another specimen after the type of comis was returned to Mr. Hy. Edwards. I do not remember that my type of comis was peculiarly set. The species was so much more vividly coloured that it did not even suggest to me olivacea, a species of which I possessed a long series.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

Most of the members of this tribe are of at least moderate size, and are often quite ornately coloured. In form they are usually robust and convex, while lacking the rotundity of the Cryptocephalini. The genera of Eastern Canada may be arranged thus, the characters used being in the main drawn from the Leconte and Horn “Classification”:—

A. Anterior coxal cavities closed, metasternum long; reddish-yellow above, with black stripes. Entomoscelis.
THE “BOMBYCES”: WHAT ARE THEY?
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

It might be better to say “what were they?” in an article addressed to readers of to-day, since the name in its old sense will not be found in the most recent writings of Packard, Comstock, Chapman, Grote, and other authors. However, the group is adopted in our latest check-list (Nos. 877–1459), although without its name, Prof. Smith stating that he could not limit the group to his satisfaction. Also, as recently as 1893, Dr. Packard published an “Attempt at a new classification of the Bombyces,” including in the group all the families formerly included, but altering their sequence. Following the arrangement of suborders proposed by Prof. Comstock, and the division into superfamilies which I have suggested and which Mr. Grote has adopted with improved nomenclature, let us see where the families of “Bombyces” fall.
INDEX TO THE MANTIDÆ OF NORTH AMERICA, NORTH OF MEXICO
Authors: Scudder Samuel H.
Published: February 2010

In 1889, Westwood, in the Synopsis of the then known Mantidæ, prefixed to his Revisio insectorum familiæ Mantidorum, credits to North America, north of Mexico, nine species belonging to five genera,— Gonatista, Oligonyx, Thesprotia, Mantis, and Stagmomantis. several species were overlooked by him, and in reality up to the present time twenty-three nominal species have been at different times credited to this region and referred to ten genera,—Ameles, Empusa, Phasmomantis, Stagmatoptera, and Theoclytes, besides the foregoing. Several of the species, however, have been erroneously credited to this country, such as Empusa gongylodes and Mantis gemmata, both of which are East Indian. Several of the names, moreover, are synonyms of others, so that the number of species these references represent is speedily reduced more than one-half. All of these but Mantis Wheeleri Thom., Phasmomantis sumichrasti Sauss., and Oligonyx Uhleri Stal, I have seen, and to them can add several more not before recognized in the region in question, six of them being apparently hitherto undescribed, together with one genus. The total number of species is fifteen or sixteen, and of genera, eleven, only three of the genera—Litaneutria, Stagmomantis, and Oligonyx—having more than one species; undoubtedly more forms will be found in the West and South.
A VARIETY OF HEPIALUS ARGENTEO-MACULATUS
Authors: Heath E. F.
Published: February 2010

When Mr. Fletcher was looking over my cases of moths during the short visit he paid me last summer, he particularly noticed a series of Hepialus argenteo-maculatus, and suggested that a short description of a variety that I have taken here would be interesting.
NOTE ON EUTOLYPE ELECTILIS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

Prof. Roland Thaxter has sent me a specimen of what may be E. electilis, Morrison, and says: “The Eutolype is, as I suppose, electilis, and is subject to very great variation as to the depth and disposition of the darker shades and the clearness of the maculation, some being more or less obliterate and others on the plan of Coelodasys biguttatus, var. cinereofrons.” This is the first specimen I have had, and I can only say it represents a species distinct from Rolandi or depilis. Unfortunately, the abdomen is missing, and I cannot say if it is tufted. The black dash described by Morrison is incomplete. I saw the type in the Tepper collection, but had no opportunity of comparing it with the others. It reminded me, on a very cursory examination, of muralis, but as all the species have the peculiar facies of the group, this comparison goes for nothing.
NEW COCCIDÆ FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

In Europe and in New Zealand species of the genus Ripersia have been found, which lived in the nests of certain ants. It had always seemed to me singular that nothing of the kind should occur in this country; but Mr. G. B. King has proved that they merely wanted looking for, his researches in Massachusetts having led to the discovery of three species, here briefly described.
A SUMMARY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENUS CHILOSIA, MEIG., IN NORTH AMERICA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Hunter W. D.
Published: February 2010

Eyes bare, arista plumose, scutellum with long hairs on the margin, third antennal joint very large, bright yellowish-red. Legs black.

Male.—Front prominent, opaque, strongly sulcate medially, very indistinctly punctulate, long black pilose. Face shining black, pollinose on the sides and pilose on orbital margin below; below the antennæ deeply concave to the tip of the tubercle, thence gently concave to the epistoma. Tubercle projecting somewhat beyond the base of the third antennal joint, round. Cheeks shining, sparsely whitish pilose. Ocellar area black pilose.
NOTES ON SAWFLY LARVÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Two flies have emerged from cocoons which had passed two winters. Last summer I noticed an example of mistaken instinct. The eggs of this species are laid under the lower epidermis by saw-cuts in the edge of the leaf. Several eggs so laid were found on Ilex verticillata. In due time the larvæ hatched, but refused their food, and would undoubtedly have perished had I not recognized them and supplied them with willow, which they attacked voraciously.
SOME NOTES ON INSECT ENEMIES OF TREES
Authors: Hopkins A. D.
Published: February 2010

The study of forest and shade tree insects is a line of entomological work demanding especial attention in the State of West Virginia. During the past two years I have carried out quite an elaborate line of investigations and experiments on this subject. The first object was to conduct investigations with reference to the forest conditions, the distribution of forest trees, and the relation of certain kinds of forest growth to the occurrence and range of the several life zones, and minor divisions of the same in the State. Second, to ascertain as far as possible the principal insect enemies of forest growth and their habits, as well as to study the climatic and other conditions that might be favourable or unfavourable for their multiplication; or the extension of their depredations. Third, to determine by experiments and otherwise some improved and practical method of preventing the losses that are occasioned by the more destructive kinds, especially those caused by bark and wood infesting insects.
EXOMALOPSIS, A NEOTROPICAL GENUS OF BEES IN THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The genus Exomalopsis, Spin., was founded in 1851 on a couple of bees from Para, Brazil. Three years later, F. Smith described three additional species, also from Brazil. More recently, species have been described or recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, and Mexico, but none hitherto from the United States. One species, E. pulchella, Cr., has a remarkable range, being found in Cuba (Cresson), Jamaica (Fox), and Lower California (Fox). I myself have taken it in Jamaica.
SOME NEW NEMATIDS
Authors: Marlatt C. L.
Published: February 2010

The following descriptions of sawflies belonging to the subfamily Nematinæ include, with one exception, a number of species which have been reared from the larvæ by Mr. H. G. Dyar. Mr. Dyar is anxious to publish the descriptions of the larvæ, and the technical descriptions of the species presented herewith are made to enable him to assign his larvæ to described species and avoid the difficulties which would arise from the description of larvæ before the adult insects have been characterized. The very valuable work which Mr. Dyar is doing in rearing larvæ is resulting in the clearing up of some puzzles in the classification of insects, and has no more interesting outcome than the fact that many of his rearings, at least in the line of sawflies, prove to be of species hitherto undescribed, showing how little we really know of the insects of this group in this country. The adults of most sawflies rarely leave their food-plants, and live but a few days, and hence it is not at all to be wondered at that so many species occurring on common plants have not been taken by collectors. The collected species, in fact, are usually only those which happen to frequent flowers and those taken by random beating, which, with insects of quick flight, like many sawflies, is not a very successful method of collecting.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA—No. XII
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Liparocephalus cordicollis, Lec.—This species does not differ in any way from L. brevipennis, Mæk., except in its pale colour, and the two forms must be united, as intimated in a former paper (Can. Ent., XXIV., 158). Since the publication of that paper more than thirty examples of brevipennis and several of cordicollis have been examined and compared. Apart from colour, not a single character of general applicability has been observed by which to separate them into species. The synoptic characters given by Capt. Casey (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., VII., 354) are without value otherwise than as descriptions of those of some individuals. When a sufficient number of each form is present, all the elements, without exception, tabulated by him to differentiate cordicollis exist in examples of brevipennis, and the reverse.
BUTTERFLIES TAKEN AT ORILLIA, ONT.
Authors: Grant C. E.
Published: February 2010

I have been collecting Lepidoptera in Orillia and its vicinity for over thirty years, off and on, and thinking that it would be of interest to my brother collectors to have an idea of the fauna of this district, I send you a list of the diurnal Lepidoptera taken by me as far as identified.
NOTES ON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF EREBIA EPIPSODEA (Butler)
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

In Part IX. of the 3rd series of Edwards's Butterflies of North America is given a very full and beautifully illustrated history of this species from the egg to imago; but as I have bred this species during the summer of 1895, through all its stages, and as the life-history, as worked out by me, differs in certain important particulars from that recorded by Mr. Edwards, I think it advisable that I should give my experience in the rearing of this very interesting species.
THE GYPSY MOTH IN MASSACHUSETTS
Authors: Kirkland A. H.
Published: February 2010

At the eighth annual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists, held at Buffalo, August 21st and 22nd, 1896, a part of one session was devoted to the consideration of the work of exterminating the gypsy moth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The subject was presented for discussion by the President, Prof. C. H. Fernald, at the morning session of the second day. Prof. Fernald referred to the action of the Association at its Springfield (1895) meeting, and stated that at the legislative hearings of the past spring, held with reference to determining the size of the appropriation to be granted for continuing the work of exterminating the gypsy moth, no representations made by the Gypsy Moth Committee, the Director, or himself, carried a fraction of the weight that the endorsement of the Association afforded. The legislators recognized the Association as a body of eminent scientists, and accordingly valued the opinion of its members.
NEW SPECIES OF NOMADA AND CHYPHOTES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The two following descriptions were intended to be included in articles discussing at some length the Nomada, spp , of New Mexico, and certain Mutillidæ; but poor health having caused these to be indefinitely postponed, the descriptions are presented herewith.
DESCRIPTION OF TWO REMARKABLE ABERRATIONS OF COLIAS PHILODICE
Authors: Brainerd Dwight
Published: February 2010

We were fortunate in taking a very peculiar pair of Colias philodice this summer. They were captured at Edgartown, Mass., in a litrle salt marsh, August 10th and 14th respectively, and, though hatched during the hot wave, we believe are blood relations — part of a sport brood.

Many specimens were examined at the time, but no other departures from the type found.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The Canadian species of Meloidæ are few in number, but offer considerable difficulty to the student, chiefly from the fact that some of them are extremely variable in colour and size, while in the genus Meloe we meet with a group in which the specific characters have never been accurately determined. The family is characterized by the vesicant or blistering properties of its members (the “Spanish fly” being perhaps the best known in this connection), and, under the name of cantharides, blister-beetles are to be found in every drug store. To the agriculturist they are often a pest, Macrobasis unicolor often doing considerable damage to potatoes. The naturalist finds in the curious modifications of the antennæ of the males, a theme worthy of his careful study.
THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF GNATHODUS
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

The genus Gnathodus, as at present accepted, includes forms closely allied to Cicadula, but differing in having only two apical cells in the wing. They are of a weaker build than species of Cicadula, and a characteristic appearance from above makes them readily distinguishable from any of that genus. The species are very variable and difficult to define. They are small, more or less slender, greenish, yellowish, or whitish Jassids, usually without distinct markings. The ocelli are distant from the eyes. The clypeus usually somewhat exceeds the genæ. The ovipositor rarely exceeds the pygofers. In the United States at least, most of the species are of very wide distribution.
CONCERNING FELTIA, AND OTHER MATTERS
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

The questien asked by Mr. Slingerland in his very interesting paper in the Can. Ent., XXVII, p. 301, is in great part answered by himself. I think he shows very conclusively that subgothica, Haw., is correctly used for our American species, and has given us a very full statement of the evidence upon which he bases his conclusions, thus removing the matter from the domain of unsupported opinion. From the nature of the case, and in the absence of Haworth's actual type specimen, the proof cannot be absolute; but until something more definite is supplied, I think the conclusions of the paper on the identity of subgothica, must be accepted. As to the synonymy, I think Mr. Slingerland is also correct. I have not found the A. O. U. Code clear on this matter, though it is as to genera in the same case; but, after consulting Dr. C. Hart Merriam, a recognized authority on questions of nomenclature, I am assured that Guenée's name jaculifera must sink as a synonym.
NEW CULICIDÆ FROM NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In the course of identifying the Culicidæ in the National Museum collection and those received by Mr. L. O. Howard from various correspondents, for mention in a paper which he is about to publish, entitled, “Notes on the Life-history of Culex pungens, with remarks about other Mosquitoes,” three forms were met with which elearly represent new species; and as Mr. Howard desires to exclude all matter of a purely technical nature from his paper, it was deemed abvisable to publish the new species in one of our scientific periodicals.
CEUTORHYNCHUS NAPI OR CEUTORHYNCHUS RAPÆ
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

In the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1888, p. 136, Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt gives some notes on the development of Ceutorhynchus napi, Gyll., which had worked serious injury to cabbage in Missouri, the species having been determined, as stated by Miss Murtfeldt, by the late Dr. C. V. Riley, at that time United States Entomologist. Prior to the publication of Miss Murtfeldt's notice, she had informed me of her “find,” and on my writing to ask her if there was not a mistake, and if she did not refer to rapæ, she replied that she, too, had not felt sure of the correctness of the determination until she had written Dr. Riley a second time with reference to the species, and the determination had been reaffirmed. This appeared to settle the matter, and I was satisfied that napi must be correct, though not before known to occur in North America.
A FEW NEW SPIDERS
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Length, 3.6 mm.; ceph.: long, 1.4 mm.; broad, I mm. Cephilothorax, sternum, femora i. and ii., blackish; rest of legs i. and ii. pale yellowish; legs iii. and iv. yellow-brown, the femora scarcely darker; abdomen black above, with a narrow white band across the middle and a white spot on each anterior lower side; venter pale. Cephalothorax broad, in ♂ a little narrower; posterior row of eyes procurved, the P. M. E. oval, fully their diameter apart, and about as far from the P. S. E.; anterior row strongly procurved, the A. M. E. fully their diameter apart, and about as far from the larger A. S. E. Sternum oval, pointed behind; legs of moderate length, femora i. and ii. stouter than others, femora iii. slightly excised before the tip behind. Abdomen not constricted, quite broad, somewhat depressed, epigynuin appearing much like M. montana, Em., but the openings are farther apart and more oblique. Tibia of ♂ palpus has short projection at tip on the outer side; the bulb is triangular in side view, the red parallel marks are along the outer edge; near the middle is a short tube.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The above family is of immense extent and attains, in the tropics, a considerable development in the size of its members, though not equalling in this respect its wood-eating neighbours, the Cerambycidæ. Towards the north, many groups fade out entirely and the large or gaily-coloured species decrease in number. Nevertheless, the representation in Canada is quite considerable, and since many of the species are closely allied and separate with some difficulty, while tables of genera are widely scattered, or, in many cases, not readily accessible, it has been deemed worth while to bring together the salient characters by means of which the collector in Eastern Canada may hope to identify his captures.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA, NO. 7.
Authors: Harrington W. Mague
Published: February 2010

The object of this paper is chiefly to record some observations, made last summer, on a few parasitic forms, but mention is first made of two phytophagous species.
ON THE STRUCTURAL AFFINITIES OF THE GENUS DEMAS
Authors: Tutt J. W.
Published: February 2010

In the Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. III., pp. 130–131, Mr. Harrison G. Dyar writes as follows: “Prof. E. B. Poulton has shown that dorsal eversible glands are of general occurrence throughout the Lymantriidæ (Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1887, p. 300) on the tenth and eleventh joints (segments), or rarely only on the eleventh joint (Dasychira pudibunda). Probably these structures are characteristic of the family, but Prof. Poulton did not find them in Demas. This genus has been considered to belong to the Noctuidæ, but English authors assume it to be a Lymantriid.
PHOTOGRAPHS WITHOUT SHADOWS
Authors: Rumsey W. Earl
Published: February 2010

A large percentage of the half-tone reproductions from photographs, for illustrating Experiment Station Bulletins, are greatly reduced in value because of a lack of detail caused by heavy shadows, resulting from the use of opaque backgrounds near the objects photographed. To overcome this difficulty and to make such pictures of more value to specialists working in the fields of entomology, botany, and horticulture, a device, which is the outcome of combining several well-known principles, is here represented.
A NEW TYPHLOPSYLLA FROM MEXICO
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

Belonging to that group of the genus having head combs arising in front of the antennal grooves in a line nearly perpendicular to the long axis of the head, instead of along the lower margins of the cheeks, and which includes the two species gracilis and fraterna.
LIST OF HYMENOPTERA TAKEN AT SUDBURY, ONT.
Authors: Evans John D.
Published: February 2010

In the following list 283 species are enumerated, 34 not determined specifically, and there are 8 species unknown, making a total of 325 species. I am much indebted to Mr. W. H. Harrington for his very great kindness and valued assistance in identifying these insects.
THE CRINKLED FLANNEL MOTH (Megalopyge crispata, Pack.)
Authors: Slingerland M. V.
Published: February 2010

September 3rd, 1895, I received several nearly full-growns specimens of the curious, sluglike caterpillars of this beautiful moth, so aptly named by Professor Comstock, “the crinkled flannel moth.” The cunning brown caterpillars were placed in a cage here at the insectary, where they fed freely on apple leaves, although they were feeding on quince when found at Worcester, Mass. Since Dr. Packard described the insect in its different stages in 1864, its life-history has been worked out in detail by Dr. Lintner (Ent. Contrib., II., p. 138, 1870), and recently by Dr. Packard (Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. for : 894, p. 275). In this last paper Dr. Packard has described and figured in detail the extra two pairs of abdominal legs (seven pairs in all) possessed by the caterpillars, and some curious lateral glandular processes.
SOME ANTS AND MYRMECOPHILOUS INSECTS FROM TORONTO
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

During the summer of 1896 I received specimens of ants collected by Mr. R. J. Crew, of Toronto, in exchange for such Coleoptera as I could find for him in my locality. He writes me that he noticed no insects with the ants other than the Coleopteta and some aphids in a nest of ants, but did not capture any.

I have found, however, upon looking them over, they contain several very interesting species of various orders: some truly myrmecophilous, some occasional, while others were brought into the nests by the ants, to be used by them for food; this will apply to a number of Hemiptera collected by Formica subsericea, Say.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

This genus is easily recognized among its neighbours by the fact that the eyes are divided by a deep emargination into an upper and a lower portion, these parts being connected only by a narrow band from which the granulations or lenses have been lost. The Canadian T. cinnamopterrum, Kirby, is brown, the wing-covers often much lighter than the head and thorax; the entire body is pubescent. Length .50–.70 inch. The head and thorax are slightly shining, distinctly punctured, the punctures regular, usually close but distinctly separated. Elytra opaque or extremely feebly shining. Sculpture much finer than that of the prothorax. The sexes differ especially in the somewhat shorter antennæ and the broader and more strongly rounded prothorax of the female. The species occurs on or under bark of pine logs.
NOTES ON PHILÆNUS
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

Philanus spumarius, L. — From various localities in the New England States I have large series of the typical form of this species, and also specimens representing the well-marked varieties, leucocephala, L., and lineata, Fabr.

Philænus objectus, Uhl.— A portion at least of the material recorded under Lepyronia angulifera in the Prelim. List Hemip. Colo. belongs to this species. I have taken it at Fort Collins, Colo., and in the adjacent foothills, in May and June. The specimens from this locality are uniformly darker than the type.