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A HOUSE-INFESTING SPRING-TAIL: (Lepidocyrtus americanus, n. sp.).
Authors: Marlatt C. L.
Published: February 2010

In the course of a comprehensive study of insects frequenting dwellings, attention was early drawn to a very handsome little Collembolan, which occurs commonly in moist situations in houses in Washington. It may often be found on window-sills, especially if there is unusual moisture from the presence of window plants, or in bathrooms, and, in fact, whereever moist conditions prevail. This species is a very handsome one, and seems, from reference to the authorities, to be undescribed. From thé manner of its holding the head, bent downwards almost at right-angles to the thorax, it would seem to fall into the genus Lepidocyrtus, erected by Sir John Lubbock. In habit it has in Europe a close ally in Seira domestica, Nicolet, which, as its name implies, is a frequenter of houses, and is separated generically from Lepidocyrtus by rather unimportant characters.
STILL ANOTHER APHILANTHOPS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Aphilanthops concinnulus, n. sp. — ♀. Length, 9 mm. Rufous, with white markings, a rather obscure broad black band extending across vertex, including most of the ocelli, its lower margin concave, mandibles darkened towards tips, mid and hind tarsi darkened. The white or yellowish-white marks consist of a small spot on each lower corner of face, a small obscure suffused spot on mandibles near base, the prothorax above, the tegulæ except extreme base, the tubercles, a large patch behind tubercles having a linear oblique projection above, the anterior margin of scutellum, a spot on each side, the postscutellum, spots at the apices of anterior and hind femora, longitudinal bands on all the tibiæ, a large patch on each side of the first three abdominal segments, a band on the fourth, a broad quadrate spot medially on the fifth. Venter immaculate. Face with the usual silvery appressed pile. General structure, wings, etc., as in quadrinotatus, but the third submarginal cell is much less produced at its apex, and the third at its base, than in quadriuotatus, this character, however, being liable to variation. The anterior tarsi present numerous gray spatulate hairs. The apex of the abdomen is of the same type as in quadrinotatus.
A NEW PULEX FROM QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS
Authors: Baker C. F.
Published: February 2010

Belonging to Division II., group two of the genus as given in my Preliminary Studies. Nearest sciurorum.

Head without combs of spines, in the female normal, highest at the occiput, gradually sloping forward, then rapidly curved in front, anterior edge of face nearly perpendicular, but rounded; head in male flat above or slightly concave, strongly rounded in front, the anterior edge of the face slightly receding. Bristles on head few, these being on both sides of the antennal groove and on the occiput. Antennal groove open, bristles on joint 2 short. Mandibles equalling or slightly exceeding the fore coxæ. Pronotal comb of twenty-two spines.
AGRONOMA AGAIN
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

In 1895, according to Mr. A. R. Grote, “the European type of Agronama seems certainly to be vestigiatis.” This species was declared to be congeneric with the American species classed by me as Feltia, and the latter genus was dropped in favor of Agronoma, and Mr. Slingerland was scolded because he had adopted the generic name used by me. In the January (1896) number of the Can. Ent. I pointed out for Mr. Grote's benefit, and also for the information of American students, that there existed certain points of structural difference which had escaped Mr. Grote's examination, which made the declared type of Agronoma a member of the genus Agrotis as restricted by me, the latter genus being based upon the very species which Mr. Grote said was its type. As the result of this paper, it has become much less “certain” to Mr. Grote's mind that vestigialis is, after all, the type of Agronoma, and on reconsidering the matter, it seems to him that crassa had better be considered the type.
THE AGROTIS SUBGOTHICA OF HAWORTH, AGAIN
Authors: Slingerland M. V.
Published: February 2010

In the Can. Ent. for November, 1895 (Vol. XXVII., 301-307), I discussed all the evidence then accessible to me in regard to the identity of this insect. According to Prof. J. B. Smith, our American authority on American Noctuids, I showed “very conclusively that subgothica, Haw., is correctly used for our American species” (Can. Ent., XXVIII., 4). However, Mr. J. W. Tutt, who has written much about British Noctuids, in an opinionated reply (Can. Ent., XXVIII., 17), tries to prove that Haworth described a variety of tritici, a well-known European (not an American) insect. After a careful study of several authentic specimens of tritici, representing nearly as many varieties, from Dr. Staudinger, and after considerable correspondence with both English and American lepidopterists who are familiar with tritici, I became convinced that the species, in any of its numerous variations, never approaches near enough to what Americans have called subgothica, Haw., to be easily mistaken for the latter; their antennæ are quite different structurally. But Mr. Tutt states: “I can match exactly the specimens which Stephens figures, and Humphrey and Westwood copy, with undoubted genuine specimens of Agrotis tritici.” Naturally, I was anxious to see one of these specimens, and, under the circumstances, I anticipated that a request to examine one of them would be readily granted.
FURTHER ADDITIONS TO MY 1894 LIST OF WINNIPEG BUTTERFLIES, WITH NOTES FOR SEASON OF 1896
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

Neonympha eurytris, Fab.—Two. June 23rd and 26th. Both captured in Elm Park, near the City. These specimens differ somewhat from some I have taken near Quebec City. They are also larger.

Carterocephalus mandan, Edw.—Two. June 18th and 20th. The first in Elm Park.

Pamphila hobomok, Harr.
A MEXICAN ALEURODICUS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Aleurodicus Dugesii, n. sp.—Length, 1⅔ mm.; length of anterior wing, 2¼ mm.; its greatest breadth nearly 1½ mm. Pale grayish-ochreous, covered with while meal, abdomen beneath shining silvery. Wings white; upper wings iridescent, with markings similar to those of A. ornatus, but very pale gray and quite different in detail. There are four gray bands crossing the wings, of which only the third and fourth are joined by a longitudinal band. The first (basal) band bends abruptly inwards after crossing the main nervure, which branches so near the base of the wing that there are practically two nervures, the first gray band failing in the angle between them, but strong again beyond the second. Second gray band broad as far as the first nervure, just beyond it interrupted broadly, but continued as a large, nearly circular, gray patch, the greater part of which is above the second nervure, and passing thence as an oblique narrow band to the margin.
NOTES ON THE PHYLOGENY OF THE SATURNIANS
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Grote's remark (Can. Ent., XXVIII., p. 294) that the stinging spines of Hemileuca and Automeris mar have been separately evolved is not in accordance with my views, and I wish to compare his genealogical tree of the Saturnians with the larval characters more at length than was possible in the review of his paper, “Die Saturniideu.” I reproduce first his tree: At I there is a dichotomous division, the genera on the right having vein IV2 in the middle of the cell or but slightly moved (generalized); those on the left with vein IV2 considerably moved toward IV1. It is not proved that this movement of IV2 took place only once in the Saturnians, but it is so assumed, and the construction of the tree depends upon the assumption.
THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF ISOTOMA
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The genus Isotoma, as far as known, is confined to the Northern Hemisphere and to the more northern part of this region. Thirty-one species are recorded from Europe and Asia, while the same number is recorded in the present paper, from the Eastern United States.
REMARKABLE WORK OF INSECTS
Authors: Trelease William
Published: February 2010

At the meeting (of February 3rd) of the Academy of Science, of St. Louis, Mo. (President Gray in the chair), Mr. Trelease exhibited several specimens, about three feet square, of a curious silk tapestry, taken from the ceiling of a corn-storing loft in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, by Dr. Francis Eschauzier, stating that he was informed that the larger specimen had been cut from a continuous sheet over twenty yards wide and about four times as long. The specimens, of a nearly white colour, and of much the appearance and feeling of a soft tanned piece of sheepskin, were shown to be composed of myriads of fine silken threads, crossing and recrossing at every conceivable angle, and so producing a seemingly homogeneous texture.
A NEW COCCID FROM TEXAS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Aulacaspis texensis, n.sp.— ♀ scale circular, 123 mm. diameter, very slightly convex, dull brownish-gray or sepia-brown, becoming transparent at the edges; sometimes entirely whitish. Exuviæ exposed, sepia-brown, not far from central, 1st skin to one side of 2nd, but wholly on it, with some white secretion extending over the centre of the 2nd.
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF NORTH AMERICAN SYRPHIDÆ
Authors: Hunter W. D.
Published: February 2010

Male.—Eyes contiguous for about two thirds their width above, densely long, white pilose, with a sharply defined vertical black band about one-fifth their width; above, the two bands are confluent. Occiput shining olivaceous, white pilose. Ocellar area with a tuft of ferrugineous pile. Spot above the antennæ bare, shining black. Face shining black, except the tip of the indistinct tubercle, which is opaque; covered, except an indistinct median stripe, and more densely below, with abundant long light yellowish pile; very indistinctly concave below the antenné. Cheeks shining olivaceous, except ati anterior velvety cross-band and an indistinct spot below the lowest margin of the eyes; long yellow pilose. Palpi clavate, testaceous at base, apical half black.
NOTES ON PREDACEOUS HETEROPTERA, WITH PROF. UHLER'S DESCRIPTION OF TWO SPECIES
Authors: Kirkland A. H.
Published: February 2010

During the month of May, 1896, while making field observations in Malden and Medford, Mass., upon the insects known to attack the gypsy moth (Porthetria dispar), I found that many of the common predaceous bugs upon emerging from hibernation greedily availed themselves of the food supply offered by the tent caterpillar and destroyed large numbers of this insect. Podisus placidus, P. serieventris, P. modestus, Dendrocoris humeralis, Euschistus fissilis, E. tristigmus, E. ictericus, E. politus n. sp., Menecles insertus and Diplodus lividus were often found feeding upon partially grown tent caterpillars. Podisus placidus and P. serieventris enter the tents and prey upon the inmates, but the other species generally attacked the larvæ while they were feeding. The species of Euschistus are the least predaceous and it is probable that they naturally feed more upon plants than upon insects.
GRAPTA INTERROGATIONS
Authors: Snyder Arthur J.
Published: February 2010

Under the title “Notes on Vanessa Interrogationis,” in the February number of Can. Ent., Mr. W. F. Fiske gives some interesting statements corresponding to observations made here. I kept bait for moths on the trees in and near my yard from the beginning of the year 1896, and captured Noctuids during January, February, and March.

Diurnals came to the bait for the first time on April 12th. Vanessa Antiopa led the van, followed closely by the Graptas and Pyrameis Atalanta, In a few days Interrogationis and Atalanta were abundant. Grapta Comma appeared on the 17th of April.
A NEW CŒLIOXYS FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Cœlioxys menthœ, n. sp.— ♀. Length 9⅓ mm., black with the legs and base of abdomen ferruginous. Pubescence scanty, dull white, rather dense and tinged with ochraceous on face. Head rather large; vertex shining, with large, well-separated punctures; mandibles bifid at ends, ferruginous except tips and extreme base; antennæ black, flagellum faintly rufescent beneath towards the end; mesothorax shining, with extremely large, well-separated punctures; a band of dull white pubescence at base of scutellum and a patch above base of wings; scutellum shining and sparsely punctured, without any trace of a keel, rounded behind, with a very small tubercle at the middle (representing the median tooth of aperta, etc.), lateral teeth large, flattened and rounded at tips; enclosure of metathorax distinct, very finely granular, with a basal series of large pits; tegulæ apricot colour; wings dusky hyaline, the apical margin broadly smoky, nervures piceous, stigma fuscous, marginal cell more produced at tip than in altilis; coxæ more or less darkened, legs otherwise entirely bright ferruginous, with the pubescence extremely scanty; abdomen shining, segments 2–5 with transverse sublateral grooves; punctures sparse, largest and densest at sides, rather small and numerous on dorsum of first segment, absent on dorsal middle of segments 2–5, except for an apical row and on 2 an imperfect basal one; sixth segment with sparse minute punctures.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF NORTH AMERICAN SYRPHIDÆ—II
Authors: Hunter W. D.
Published: February 2010

An interesting part of this paper will be found to deal with some material from Alaska. During the summer of 1896 Prof. L. L. Dyche, of the University of Kansas, the well-known taxidermist, made an expedition to Cook's Inlet, Alaska, and from there inland. A number of species of Syrphidæ were taken simply as a side issue, the expedition not being an entomological one at all. Unfortunately, during the long journey back many of these specimens were damaged beyond all hope of recognition. The material that came through, however, without damage, although consisting of only thirteen species, makes quite a contribution to the knowledge of the Dipterous fauna of that interesting region. Although some of the orders of insects, notably the Coleoptera, have been quite assiduously collected in Alaska, and extensive reports written upon them, in the Syrphidæ, as is the case in all of the families of Diptera, no collections of importance have been made.
LIBELLULA DEPLANATA OF RAMBUR
Authors: Needham James G.
Published: February 2010

In December, 1896, Mr. Adolph Hempel sent me from Orange Co., Fla., some full-grown dragonfly nymphs which were apparently not to be referred to any of our known genera. At my request he undertook to breed some of them, and soon had imagoes of the species named above. In the letter which accompanied his bred specimens he recorded some careful observations, which are so interesting and valuable I deem them worthy of permanent record. The following account of the habits of this species is from Mr. Hempel's letter:

This species frequents small ponds and the borders of adjacent woods. Imagoes fly, when undisturbed, quite leisurely. They will hover over one spot, then dart a few feet aside and hover again and again. The males are often found in low places about ponds, resting on the ground with wings aslant downward and forward. Sometimes they rest on reeds or snags in the water; sometimes out in the pine woods several hundred yards from water; they may be found resting on the sand warmed by the sun, on logs or on trees.
THE COLUMBINE BORER (Hydrœcia purpurifascia, G. & R.)
Authors: Slingerland M. V.
Published: February 2010

In 1894, Mrs. J. J. Glessner, Littleton, N. H., called my attention to a “worm” which was feeding in the roots and stems of her columbines. It was not until July, 1895, however, that she succeeded in getting specimens of the “worm” for me. The “worm” proved to be a caterpillar which was unfamiliar to me, and in accordance with my usual practice in such cases, it was described and photographed. The photographs, giving dorsal and lateral views of the caterpillar, twice natural size, are reproduced on the plate.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF N. AMERICAN GOMPHINÆ
Authors: Needham James G.
Published: February 2010

Examples of the emphasized importance of larval life better than that furnished by the subfamily Gomphinæ of Odonata are few even among insects. The nymphs live under the sediment (mostly organic debris) which falls to the bottom of ponds and streams. They are aquatic burrowers which live at such slight depth that their anal respiratory orifice is never beyond the reach of clean water. This thin stratum, which forms their home and which they only leave to transform, is one of great biologic richness. In it they have found room for development in enormous numbers and necessity for extreme specialization. They are, at least when well-grown, among the more powerful members of its teeming hidden population. The imagoes emerge, flit about under cover for a few days, lay their eggs and die. They emerge largely by daylight and are subject to great decimation of numbers at this time, and are sought later by numerous powerful enemies. The females which live to oviposit lay a very large number of eggs. A female of Gomphus fraternus laid for me in a watch glass of water over 5,000 at one time. The imagoes of the ancient genus Gomphus are regarded as a race of weaklings. Their nymphs, on the contrary, are splendidly equipped for the battle of life. And it is to the perfection of their adaptation that the prevalence of Gomphines with us is due.
FOOD PLANTS OF THE SAN JOSE SCALE (Aspidiotus perniciosus) IN OHIO, EXCLUSIVE OF FRUIT TREES
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

The following list includes forest and ornamental trees and shrubs, upon which the San José scale has been found breeding in Ohio. Nearly all of these have been found either by myself or my assistant, Mr. C. W. Mally, in sufficient numbers to indicate that the insect might thrive on any of them.
FURTHER NOTES ON SECTIONS OF AUGOCHLORA
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

Since my note on the Mexican bees of the genus Augochlora was published I have been informed by Prof. Cockerell that he would not reply in this journal, but probably elsewhere. This conclusion seems to me to be remarkable, but I shall take this occasion to say what more I have to say on the subject and then leave it.
SUCCESSFUL COLLECTING AT ELECTRIC LIGHT
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

I herewith give a full list of the Lepidoptera new to the Society's collection, taken by Mr. J. W. Bice at electric light during the season of 1896.

Mr. Anderson and I picked out from amongst Mr. Bice's captures of about 2,000 mounted specimens of good material what seemed to be new to us; and after comparison with named specimens, or illustrations, having failed to recognize them, they were laid aside for others more competent than we to decide upon them.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF N. AMERICAN GOMPHINÆ
Authors: Needham James G.
Published: February 2010

Face and frons above entirely yellow; a broad black band between the eyes, including the ocelli; antennæ black, the extreme rim of their cuplike insertions yellow. Occiput yellow, its border convex, ciliated with black. Rear of eyes brown, paler externally.

Prothorax fuscous, with a median twin spot greenish.

Thorax bright green, very thinly clad with brownish hairs, and faintly striped with brown. Dorsal and both lateral stripes subobsolete. Ilumeral stripe complete, irregular; antehumeral, isolated above, and separated from the humeral by a narrow green line. Subalar and antealar carinæ brown.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

With this genus begins a series of beetles in which the neck is longer than in Encyclops, owing to the constriction of the head being near the eyes. B. scalaris, Say, is a very fine insect, varying in length from .75 to 1.20 inch. The form is slender, the elytra tapering greatly to and rounded at tip, deeply sinuate at sides, the tip of the abdomen uncovered. The prothorax is bell-shaped, with prominent, rather flattened hind angles. Colour brownish; most of the head, the greater portion of the fore and middle legs, the bases of the hind femora and the bases and tips of the ventral segments inclining to reddish or even yellowish. Antennæ rufous. Elytra brownish, with a large common, lighter (golden-sericeous), wedge-shaped mark (wavy on the edges and sometimes interruped at about one-third its length by a transverse brownish band) which extends about two-thirds to tip. The body is finely and densely, in most places rugosely, punctured, clothed with fine golden pubescence, which is much denser on certain parts, notably the abdomen. Recorded as breeding in birch, and has been seen ovipositing in maple stumps.
DIPTERA FROM YUCATAN AND CAMPECHE.—I
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

A few specimens of Diptera were taken in the Yucatecan region, in April and May, 1896, by the writer. The present paper describes the new species. More material from that interesting fauna will doubtless be secured in time, and will form the subject of future papers of this series. For an account of the peculiar bio-geographical aspects of the Yucatecan fauna and flora, the reader is referred to the writer's second paper on the Bio-geography of the Southwestern U. S. and Mexico (Trans. Texas Acad. Sci., 1897).
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

With this paper we begin the consideration of the Lamiinæ, the third great subfamily of Longhorns. They have recently been worked up by Mr. Leng and Dr. Hamilton in a joint publication which has been largely used and followed in the preparation of the succeeding pages. The essential characters are to be found in the oblique sulcation of the outer side of the front tibiæ, the lack of prothoracic margin and the cylindrical pointed terminal joint of the palpi. None of the Canadian forms offer exceptions to the above rule. It will also be noticed that the front of the head is usually vertical instead of being oblique or nearly horizontal. Compare a Prionus, Romaleum and Saperda and this point will be made clear.
A GENERIC REVISION OF THE HIPOCRITIDÆ (Arctiidæ)
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

The earliest use of the term Arctiidæ is referred by Dr. Packard to Leach (1815). This is antedated by Hübner's Tentamen terms, Hipocritæ and Hypercompæ. The latter is unavailable, as Hypercornpa becomes a synonym. I do not find any plural terms for the family before Hübner.
A RARE CATOCALA
Authors: Snyder Arthur L.
Published: February 2010

Early last July, while examining the collection of Prof. G. H. French at Carbondale, Ill., I saw for the first time a specimen of Catocala Sappho. Being espcially interested in this genus of the Noctuids, I was somewhat surprised to see for the first time so striking a species, and felt sure that I would have no difficulty in recognizing the species should I ever see another example.
BROOD XV. OF CICADA SEPTENDECIM IN OHIO
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

Having had the opportunity of working out the distribution of broods V., VIII. and XXII. in Indiana, brood XV. in Ohio possessed a peculiar interest for me, as in studying it I was able to profit considerably by my acquaintance with the others. I perhaps ought to say a word in regard to the three other broods mentioned, as one of them (XXII.) is treated of at considerable length in the Report of the Entomologist of the United States Department of Agriculture for the year 1885, and it was while connected with the Department as one of its special agents that these three broods were studied. Brood XXII. covered the entire State of Indiana, except a narrow strip of land around the lower end of Lake Michigan, from ten or fifteen to twenty miles wide, which area was exactly covered by brood V. in 1888.
A LIST OF THE COLEOPTERA OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ISLANDS, WITH NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Fall H. C.
Published: February 2010

Early in May of the present year (1897) the Pasadena Science Club sent three of its members on a month's general collecting trip to certain of the Santa Barbara islands lying off the coast of Southern California. While none of the members of the expedition were, strictly speaking, entomologists, a considerable experience in collecting, combined with some preliminary instruction, enabled them to devote intelligently a portion of their time to the collection of insects, more especially of the Coleoptera.
A PRINCIPLE TO OBSERVE IN NAMING GALLS: TWO NEW GALL-MAKING DIPTERA
Authors: Patton Wm. H.
Published: February 2010

Œdaspis-solidago atra.

Galls do not differ from those of Œ. polita, as described by Osten Sacken (Tr. A. E. Soc. ii., 301; 1869).

This is an addition to the list of gall-making Trypetas given by Osten Sacken in Psyche for April, 1880. I bred both sexes from Solidago galls, Sept. 8, 1875, in Connecticut.
NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF COLIAS INTERIOR, Scud.
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

When in New York, towards the end of May, 1894, I paid a visit to Mr. B. Neumegen, who, though suffering considerably from the fatal disease to which, after a brave fight, he finally succumbed, received me kindly, and after a short conversation sent me upstairs to Mr. Doll to get the names of certain species which I had brought for determination.
THE LIFE HISTORY OF EPIRRANTHIS OBFIRMARIA, Hbn.
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

Epirranthis obfirmaria is a swamp insect. I take it in “The Gomin” near Quebec, where, in ordinary seasons, it is on the wing from early in June till the close of that month. The following is a brief description of this beautiful insect:

♂. Expanse of wings one inch; length of body half an inch; length of antennæ three-tenths of an inch. Colour a rich, warm brown. The primaries have a broad ochreous band, widest at the costa, outlined with dark brown. In this band, not far from the costa, is a dark brown spot. The secondaries have the outer third of the same warm brown as the primaries, with an ochreous patch at the outer angle of it. The rest of the wing is ochreous, clouded towards the base. The marginal dark brown line of this ochreous portion is somewhat angulated. In the part of lighest colour in the wing is a conspicuous dark brown spot. The antennæ are pectinsted.
NOTES ON VANESSA INTERROGATIONIS
Authors: Fiske W. F.
Published: February 2010

I remember about ten years ago to have taken several large specimens of a Grapta, probably G. interrogationis, but they were lost without being identified. I saw no more of the species until August, 1895, when I took a fine example of the form Fabricii. It proved to be the forerunner of a “wave” of the species, and from that date until frost a number were seen, perhaps in all twenty or more, but all but two of them were of the form Fabricii. This spring I watched the hibernating butterflies closely, hoping to obtain a fertile female and rear a brood of larvæ, but although there were many G. comma and j-album, and a few progue and faunus, on the wing throughout April, I did not observe one interrogationis amongst them. By the middle of May the other species of Grapta had disappeared, or were represented by a few specimens worn almost beyond recognition.
ANOTHER NEW SPECIES OF PROTANDRENA, Ckll.
Authors: Dunning S. N.
Published: February 2010

♀.—Length 9–11 mm.; not as stout as Cockerelli, Dun.; a few gray hairs on face and cheeks and on under side of thorax, hair bands on seg. 2–3–4, seg. 5–6 covered with hair growing rufous towards tip, legs and venter with sparse rather longer hairs; black except a T-shaped mark resting against upper edge of clypeus, spot on tegulæ, tubercles, and four anterior knees which are pale yellow. Head subquadrate, broader than high, venter witlr fairly deep, not close, punctures; clypeal and sub-ciypeal punctures larger and shallow, mandibles piceous; antennæ black at base, growing brownish towards tip, 1st jt. flagellum not as long as 2nd and 3rd combined. Mesothorax deeply and closely punctured; scutellum with large, coarse punctures; post-scutellum not smooth, shining; metathorax with a smooth, shining spot on upper lateral angles, closely and finely punctured, a narrow suture extending upwards. Abdomen finely and closely punctured; venter with large shallow punctures. Wings subhyaline, much darkened outwardly (very much more so than in Cockerelli); stigma and nervures ferruginous, a light spot before the stigma.
SOME NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN COCCIDÆ COLLECTED BY PROF. C. H. T. TOWNSEND IN MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The Coccidæ herein described were collected by Prof. Townsend in 1896, and kindly transmitted to me for study by Dr. L. O. Howard. The collection made by Prof. Townsead will be fully enumerated in a paper to be published by him elsewhere, so the present contribution is confined to descriptions of the new species and descriptive notes on one hitherto imperfectly known. I have also included the description of a new variety of Comstockiella from Mexico, not found by Townsend.
EARLY STAGES OF BREPHOS INFANS
Authors: Brainerd Dwight
Published: February 2010

Eggs laid April 25th, side by side, packed closely together on the twig at fork of leaf bud. The moth standing head downwards with half opened wings and “see-sawing” out a string of from three to twelve eggs. Between times it runs all over the twig as do the Tineids. Egg oblong, rounded at both ends, length .87 mm., width .46 mm. Slightly roughened and punctured like the skin of an orange. Colour at first a delicate pea-green turning yellowish. The number deposited at the base of each leaf varied considerably. Hatched Hay 3rd to 5th. At birth larva 1.6 mm., semi-transparent, light sap-green with evanescent purple shades. Body cylindrical, of same approximate size throughout, ending in a strongly bifurcate anal segment. Head light yellow-brown; 1st and 2nd epicranial and 1st clypeal setæ rudimentary, the remaining eleven primary setæ well-developed blunt bristles. Ocelli prominent, dark brown. Shield concolorous. True legs transparent, with dark claws; 4th prolegs fleshy, rimmed with brown; the others not showing.
LARVAL STAGES OF AMPHION NESSUS (Cr.)
Authors: Beutenmüller William
Published: February 2010

Egg. —Pale green, almost globular; very similar to that of Everyx myron, but smaller. Young larvæ collected at Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, June 25th. Length, 1 mm.

Stage I.—Pale apple-green, with numerous minute white dots and a narrow white subdorsal stripe along each side, beginning at the anterior part of the first segment and running to the base of the caudal horn, which is black, and brown at the base. Length, 9 mm. Moulted June 28th.
THREE INTERESTING STAPHYLINIDÆ FROM QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS
Authors: Keen J. H.
Published: February 2010

At the request of Dr. James Fletcher, I am writing a few notes to accompany the three figures which have been made at his instance, and kindly presented by him. They represent three Staphylinidæ taken by me at Massett, on the Queen Charlotte Islands, and were prepared under the direction of Mons. A. Fauvel, the well-known specialist in that order, to whom also I am indebted for the determination of the beetles themselves.
ON THE GENERIC POSITION OF SOME BEES HITHERTO REFERRED TO PANURGUS AND CALLIOPSIS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Having lately received from Mr. Friese, of Innsbruck, a number of European bees, I have been led to re-examine certain of our species, in order to determine their relationship to a number of old-world genera not supposed to occur in America. The result is extremely interesting, and seems to show that we have for many years been placing bees in genera to which they by no meaos belong. The following table may be used provisionally to separate the genera under discussion:

A. Tongue more or less short and broad, tapering at the end. (Andreninæ).
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The “jumping beetles,” or “flea beetles,” constitute the above subtribe, and are separated from the genuine Galerucini by the fact that the hind thighs are greatly enlarged and thickened for leaping. Most of the species are quite small, though a few are of moderate size for this family, and a considerable number of them are prettily coloured. They are of great importance from an economic standpoint, a number of them being quite injurious. The identification of some of the members of this group is attended with considerable difficulty, yet most of the genera have a peculiar facies, which, once grasped, renders the proper location of additional specimens tolerably certain.
A NEW SPECIES OF PROTANDRENA, CKLL.
Authors: Dunning S. N.
Published: February 2010

Protandrena Cockerelli, n. sp.—♀. Length, 12 mm.; shining black. Upper half of clypeus, lower portion of supraclypeal area, and part of side pieces, bright yellow, all forming a band across the face one-half broader than high, and of equal breadth throughout; knees yellow spotted. Head rounded, broader than high, and covered with a short growth of gray hair, longer on cheeks and thickest at bave of antennæ; lower haif of clypeus and two small dots near lower edge of band black, not deeply or closely punctured; antennæ black at base, becoming brown towards the tip; first joint of flagellum not quite as long as the second and third combined; mandibles black; vertex deeply but not very closely punctate.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF CANADIAN PROCTOTRYPIDÆ
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

The following new genera and species of Proctotrypidæ were all collected in Canada by Mr. W. Hague Harrington, of Ottawa.

Scorrioteleia, gen. nov.

Abdomen with five visible segments; the last three segments long, slender, cylindrical, together as long as the second, and resembling the tenninal segments of a scorpion; the third segment is about as long as the fourth and fifth segments united, the fifth pointed. Front wings with the marginal vein shorter than the marginal cell, and scarcely twice as long as the first abscissa of radius, which is slightly oblique. Antennfæ 15-jointed, filiform, the first joint of flagellum the longest, about half the length of the scape, the following joints to the last very gradually shortening, the penultimate joint being about twice as long as thick, the last joint oblong-oval, one-half longer than the preceding.
MAMESTRA CIRCUMCINCTA, Smith
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

The above species was described by me in the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, Vol. XIV., page 253, in my revision of the genus Mamestra. Recently Mr. Grote has questioned the distinctness of this species from olivacea. I could hardly credit this as being serious, and barely referred to the matter in the September, 1896, number, of the Canadian Entomologist, page 240. In the December number, page 301, Mr. Grote returns to this subject, and again suggests that circumcincta may be either olivacea or comis. He refers to the fact that the description resembles that of both the species cited by him, and brings in Mr. Beutenmüller to testify to the fact that my species closely resembles olivacea. Mr. Beutenmüller is not a specialist in the Noctuidæ, and not entitled to an opinion that would carry decisive weight. Furthermore, it was not fair to Mr. Beutenmüller to ask him to make the comparison without first referring him to my description. Mr. Grote speaks as if the statement that circumcincta, or its description rather — for he has never seen the species — resembles olivacea was an important one and a discovery of his own.
MONODONTOMERUS IN APPALACHIA
Authors: Patton W. H.
Published: February 2010

Monodontomerus stigma (Fabr.).

M. viridæneus, Prov., Canada.

Common in New England. In the District of Columbia I have reared it from the cell of Militoma euglossoides, var. taurea, Say.

The genus Oligosthenus cannot remain separated, the fine dentitions of hind femora king more or less indistinct.

A frequent variety has no cloud about stigma. The abdomen varies in the amount of purple.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The form alone of these little beetles is amply sufficient for their separation from the other tribes of Chrysomelidæ. They are more or less wedge-shaped, the elytra often broadly and squarely truncate behind and with rows of deep punctures, sometimes costate as well. Only two of the North America genera have been recorded from our territory, Microrhopala, with 8-jointed antennæ (owing to the fact that the last four joints are closely connate), and Odontota, in which the antennæ are 11-jointed. The middle tibiæ are straight in both of these genera.
ON THE MEXICAN BEES OF THE GENUS AUGOCHLORA
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

In the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, XX., 147, after notes and descriptions of five species of Augochlora, I gave the following note: “All of the species of Augochlora mentioned above agree in having the hind spur serrate with numerous fine teeth, and form a distinct section of the genus. Another section, to which belong A. lucidula, Sm., A. sumptuosa, Sm., and A. humeralis, Pttn., is characteried by having this spur provided with four or five long teeth.”
NOTES ON EUPOEYA AND THE MEGALOPYGIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

I have had occasion to refer three times in these pages to the genus Eupoeya, placing it, with some doubt, in the Megalopygidæ. Very recently I have been so fortunate as to discover the larva in Florida on the mangrove. It is a true Eucleid, contrary to my expectation, but in confirmation of Dr. Packard's original statements. This genus, then, removed from the Megalopygidæ, renders it possible to define the family by the branching of vein 1 of primaries, instead of by the pectinations of the antennæ to the tip, which proves to be a fallacious character.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

This tribes includes a number of species which are, as a rule, easily distinguished by the peculiar appearance given by their soft integuments and usually somewhat elongate form. A number of them are pubescent, while others, on account of the peculiar sculpture of the surface, are quite opaque, the effect on the eye being, at first glance, the same in each case. The elytra in our species are longer than the abdomen, the prothorax is margined, the antennæ approximate, inserted on the front, the hind legs with rather slender thighs, not fitted for leaping. It will be remembered in this connection that I consider the Halticini as a distinct tribe.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The size and beauty of the Longhorns are in themselves sufficient to render them objects of interest to a beginner; adding to this the fact of the great abundance of certain species and the destructive work of their larvæ, we can readily understand their importance to all who are in any way interested in Entomology, whether as a pleasant recreation for leisure hours or a serious pursuit for gain. Although usually easily recognized by sight, the family is, as stated by Dr. Leconte, almost impossible to define. The tarsi are apparently four-jointed, the fourth joint being very small and connate with the fifth. The antennæ are usually very long, especially in the males, filiform or serrate, often borne on large frontal tubercles. The eyes are frequently deeply emarginate. Tibial spurs are present. The larvæ are grub-like, living in burrows or chambers which they excavate for themselves in the woody tissues or in the pith of plants, the pupa resting in a cell constructed by the larva in its gallery.
NEW COCCIDÆ FOUND ASSOCIATED WITH ANTS
Authors: King George B. , Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

[The species described below were all collected by Mr. King. The notes on the microscopical characters were prepared by Mr. King, but have been extended and rewritten from Mr. King's mounts by Mr. Cockerell, who is also responsible for the comparisons with allied species. The notes on the living insects, habitat, etc, are all by Mr. King.]
ON REARING DRAGONFLIES
Authors: Needham James G.
Published: February 2010

Field work in Entomology is full of delightful opportunities, and none, just at present, is more inviting, none more certain to repay well even a little effort, none more sure to yield discoveries of scientific value, than work upon the life-histories of Dragonflies.

Of the species occurring throughout the central tier of States, a majority perhaps has now been bred; but of the Canadian, far western and southern species the known nymphs are few and far between.
CALLIMORPHA AGAIN.: Larva of Haploa fulvicosta and notes on the male genitalia
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

The difficulty of defining species in this genus is increased by the constancy of the local form or races. I have elsewhere referred (Ent. News, VII., 218) to the race of fulvicosta which Mr. O. D. Foulks has discovered at Stockton, Md. Mr. Foulks was so kind as to send me over 100 hibernated larvæ, from which I bred a long series of moths. The type form is large, the size of reversa and colona, both wings immaculate yellowish-white, head, collar and the tips of the abdominal rings ochre-yellow.

In var. A the fore wings are nearly pure white, the hind wings much yellower, suggesting conscita, though never so dark as that form.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BOTIS ALLIED TO FLAVIDALIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I have received from Mr. Frank W. Langdon, of Madisonville, Ohio, a specimen (♀ ) of a new species of Botis, which I name Botis Langdonalis after its discoverer. It is one of the largest and most striking forms yet made known, and belongs to the group of flavidalis, with which it agrees in the general color of body and wings. The fore wings from base to first transverse line are clouded with fuscous, and stained with ochreous. The two discal marks are present, the orbicular a dot, the reniform a streak. The space between the exterior transverse or elbowed line and the subterminal line is much wider than usual, and this space is filled in with a broad fuscous band crossing the hind wings as well ; the lines are only indicated by the contrast of color
ON A NEW CANADIAN CRAMBUS ALLIED TO CONCHELLUS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Wm. Saunders has collected a species of Crambus, which is apparently unnoticed by Prof. Zeller or Dr. Clemens, who have written most frequently on our American species. The new species, which I call C. interruptus, is very easily recognized and has been figured by Prof. Townend Glover on his Plates of Lepidoptera. The head is white ; palpi inwardly and beneath white, outwardly dark brown. Thorax white, patagia bright brown. Hind wings and abdomen pearly gray. Fore wings bright brown with a longitudinal white median band obliquely interrupted at the middle of the wing by the ground color.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

The nearest known ally of this species is the European C. Brongniardellum, not C. calicella St., as I suggested before I knew Brongniardellum. Albanotella makes a large, somewhat tentiform mine, on the under surface of oak leaves (Q. obtusiloba and Q. alba); the mine is at first long, winding and Nepticuli-form, ending in the large tentiform blotch. The lanva, before leaving the mine, becomes pinkish red. In the breeding cage it pupates in a cocoonet which it spins on the surface of the leaves. I have never met with the pupa elsewhere, nor have I ever, although I have seen hundreds of the mines, found one on the upper surface of the
leaf.
ON SAMIA GLOVERI AND COLUMBIA
Authors: Hagen H.
Published: February 2010

The type ♀ specimen of Samia Gloveri having been presented by Mr. Strecker to the collection in the museum of which I have charge, I have most carefully compared it with the type ♀ specimen of S. columbia. I am bound to state that I cannot find any difference except the rosy color of Gloveri, and there are no charactcrs which I consider of value to separate the two species. I freely admit that the examination, however carefully made, of only two specimens, both of which are old and in poor condition, is scarcely sufficient to determine this point, but I wish to draw the attention of students who may have a larger amount of material for comparison, to the facts states, with the hope that the true relationship of these insects may be determined.
TINEINA FROM TEXAS
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

In a former paper I have mentioned the fact then known to me only through Dr. Packard's “Record,” that prof. Zeller had described a large number of American Tineina, some of which would no doubt prove to be identical with some described by me. since then, by the kindness of Dr. Hagen, I have obtained Prof. Zeller's paper., and such species as I have been able to identify by means of his figures and descriptions, are mentioned below, and in addition thereto I think it probable that a few (not more than three or four) other species will be found to have been described by both of us I but of these I am not by any means certain. I do not recognize Xylesthia Clemensella Cham.
INSECTS FEEDING ON GLEDITSCHIA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

My observations on both of these species scarcely permit me to doubt that their larvæ feed in some way on the Honey Locust (Gleditschia tricanthos), though neither of them has been bred from the larva. I have, however, met with a larva from which I have not succeeded in breeding the imago, and which I believe to be the larva of one of these species. It is a Gelechia-like, about half an inch long, with sixteen feet, and feeds inside the seed-pods of the Gleditschia, on the honey-like substance found in them, and not, so far as I have observed, on the seed.
HISTORY OF PHYCIODES THAROS, A POLYMORPHIC BUTTERFLY
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

I have had upwards of 500 examples of the species before me in making these comparisons, most of them bred, but many taken in the field during several years past, since my attention has been attracted to the variation manifested. Many others I have brought together from localities as far apart as those mentioned. And I can well corroborate the words of Drury, applied to tharos, now more than an hundred years ago: “In short, Nature forms such a variety of this species that it is difficult to set bounds, or to know all that belongs to it.”
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HESPERIAN FROM TEXAS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Upper side blackish-brown ; primaries have the costal margin to cell and nearly to apex densely covered with fulvous ; the basal area and the inner margin sprinkled with fulvous scales; and the cell wholly deep fulvous except towards the outer end, where through the middle runs an oar-shaped blackish stripe; midway between cell and apex an elongated yellow-white spot, cut into three by the sub-costal nervules, the one of these spots nearest costa nearly lost in the fulvous ground ; across the disk an oblique band of yellow-white spots, the upper one small and in the upper discoidal interspace, placed a little outside the costal spot, the lower one in the submedian interspace, the spots widening as they proceed towards inner margin, and the 3rd and 4th deeply excavated on the outer side.