bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
NEW NEARCTIC CRANE-FLIES (TIPULIDAE, DIPTERA). PART XIII
Authors: Alexander Charles P.
Published: January 2010

The preceding part under this general title was in 1927 (Can Ent., 59: 184-193). In the present instalment, I wish to describe a few novelites that have come to hand in recent years and to add records of certain rare species of Tipulidae. As is the case with numerous recent papers that I have published on the Nearctic crane-fly fauna, the present report is based chiefly on certain very interesting species that were collected in Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee and Florida by Professor J. Speed Rogers. One interesting species of Erioptera was included in material sent to me for determination by Professor Painter. The new species of Dicranomyia was collected in Nova Scotia by Mr. Gibson and in Massachusetts by Mr. Johnson. The very interesting new Tipula from Alaska was secured by Dr. Aldrich. I wish to thank all of these gentlemen for their kind and appreciated co-operation in making known the involved crane-fly fauna of North America.
ON SOME FALSE SCORPIONS OF THE SUBORDER HETEROSPHY-RONIDA (ARACHNIDA-CHELONETHIDA)
Authors: Chamberlin Joseph Conrad
Published: January 2010

The following contribution is supplementary and complementary to a more extensive paper recently published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. An elucidation of the terminology and definitions of the higher categories employed may be found therein.
NOTES ON THE GENUS PHILAENUS IN AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO, (HOMOP., CERCOPIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Ball's treatment of the genus Philaenus (Proc. Ia. Acad. Sci., VI, pp. 223-226, 1898) contains a discussion of two species. Subsequently a third species described by Stearns (Ent. News, XXIX, 3, 1918) has been added and the genus reviewed by Stearns (Conn. St. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bul. 34, pt. IV, pp. 224-227, 1923). The present paper includes the description of a new Canadian species with a key to species and varieties based on material represented in the Canadian National Collection.
NEW CANADIAN ANTHOMYIDS BELONGING TO THE GENUS HYLEMYIA ROB.-DESV. (MUSCIDAE, DIPTERA)
Authors: Huckett H. C.
Published: January 2010

This species is very closely related to the following, differing only in a few respects from its description. The male has a small antenna, the third segment 1.25 times length of second. The vibrissae are more closely approximated, being separated by a distance about equal to length of third antennal segment. The prealar bristle is shorter than posterior notopleural bristle. The processes of fifth sternum are not glossy along inner margin. The mid tibia has no anterior bristle, and the hind femur has a proximal series of short posteroventral bristles, none of which are equal in length to breadth of hind femur where situated.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW CANADIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Male.—Length 10 mm.; antenna 8 mm.

Head shining; vertex feebly convex ; front with sparse weak punctures Malar space scarcely one-fourth as long as basal width of mandible. Thorax shining; sparse weak punctures on dorsal third of pronotum, meso-scutum, scutellum, anterior half of mesopleura, mesosternum and metapleura; propodeum with distinct rather dense punctures except for polished mid-dorsal area where punctures are obsolete.
A FEW MATCH BRUSH APHIDS FROM UTAH
Authors: Pack H. J. , Knowlton G. F.
Published: January 2010

This dark green aphid feeds upon the roots or underpart of the crown of match brush, Gutierrezia longifolia. Usually the colonies of this tiny aphid are within two inches of the surface of the ground, but individuals have been collected to a depth of four inches.
LABOPS VERAE, NEW SPECIES, WITH LABOPELLA, NICHOLIA, AND PRONOTOCREPIS, NEW GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN MIRIDAE (HEMIPTERA)
Authors: Knight Harry H.
Published: January 2010

Distinguished from allied species by the relatively narrow head and smaller eyes; width of head acrloss eyes about equal to basal width of pronotum; length of second antennal segment much greater than width of head.
TETRASTICHUS VERRUCARII, NEW SPECIES, A CHALCID PARASITE OF NEUROTERUS (CYNIPIDAE) ON BUR OAK
Authors: Balduf W. V.
Published: January 2010

According to Mr. A. B. Gahan this species is “close to (Hyperteles) Tetrastichus neuroteri Ashm., but the types of that species have two erect bristles on the submarginal vein, the hind tibiae mostly black, and the funicile joints not much longer than broad.”
A NEW SPECIES OF SCIARA FROM CANADA (DIPTERA)
Authors: Johannsen O. A.
Published: January 2010

♂. Head black, shining; ocelli in a flattened triangle behind the eyebridges and separated from them by a width greater khan the diameter of an ocellus; eye-bridges contiguous and three facets wide. Face black, in width extending farther laterad than the middle of the scape. Palpi brownish, first segment short; second broadest, but little longer than wide with distinct sensory spot; third segment not twice as long as broad; fourth more slender, about three times as long as broad.
REVISION OF THE SPECIES OF APHODIUS OF THE SUBGENUS DIAPTERNA (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

The following study of Diapterna is based upon the availabile types together with material in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and in the Canadian National and Owen Bryant Collections. The collections of F. S. Carr and J. B. Wallis have also been studied. Most of the characters presented by the species are not well adapted for use in keys, and many of them vary within the species. However, material can be readily and accurately determined without reference to the genitalic characters which, though often feeble, are very constant. It will be noted that the form of the male anterior tibial spur is characteristic in each species. In the descriptions which follow, no mention is made of this spur except a note as to whether or not the apex is turned caudad, a very important feature not shown in the accompanying figures.
A LIST OF THE CRANE-FLIES OF QUEBEC (DIPTERA.) I
Authors: Alexander Charles P.
Published: January 2010

The basic list of the Tipulidae of Quebec is that of Winn and Beaulieu, in which a total of two Ptychopteridae, two Trichoceridae and eighty-seven Tipulidae are recorded from the Provinnce. Certain of the records in this list are erroneous, a few others are synonyms, while still additional species are placed in incorrect genera.
NOTE ON A GENERIC TERM IN THE AGROTINAE (LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

In a recent article by Barnes and Benjamin (1929, Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., XXIV, 177) the generic term Trichofeltia is proposed for the species circumdata Grt.
II NEW COLEOPTERA FROM WESTERN CANADA
Authors: Hopping Ralph , Hopping Geo. R.
Published: January 2010

Several years ago Mr. H. C. Fall asked to see our Podabrus. A number were returned with MSS. names upon them, but Mr. Fall did not seem anxious to publish at that time and in fact did not publish until a year or two later.

No mention is made in the preface of having studied our material, although later under the several species are many references to specimens and localities in our collection.
EPHEMERELLA HECUBA EATON; DESCRIPTION OF VARIOUS STAGES. (EPHEMERIDA, BAETIDAE)
Authors: Shepherd David
Published: January 2010

While making a study of the aquatic fauna of Waddell Creek, Rancho del Oso, California, during the summer of 1928, the author collected, along with nymphs of several genera of Ephemerids, nymphs of Ephemerella hecuba Eaton figured by Eaton in his Revisional Monograph, page 133, Plate 40, figures 1-17, and by Needham in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 20, page 115, and in Bulletin 201, Utah Experiment Station, page 9. Inasmuch as the author was unable to find descriptions of the male and female imagoes in the literature he reared out adults, both male and female, in order to secure material for description. Subimagoes appeared July 11 and the imagoes issued July 12.
ANCISTROCERUS CAPRA AND THE LARVAE OF EPARGYREUS TITYRUS. (HYMENOP.)
Authors: Buckle J. W.
Published: January 2010

During the past summer I noticed that the wasp, Ancistrocerus capra (De Sauss) was frequently to be taken on the Locust Tree (Robinia pseudacacia), so one afternoon about the middle of August I thought I would try to discover what was the attraction. I did not have to wait long for a wasp and soon found one which appeared busy hunting. Many of the leaves on this particular tree had the edges folded over and swollen, the work of some gall maker; she examined these leaves very closely, but I hardly thought that what was in them would be of any use to a wasp the size of capra.
SOME APPARENTLY NEW MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Palpi head, thorax and primaries light brownish ochreous, the latter deepest in color along the basal half of costa. Maculation very indistinct, indicated merely in a shade of color slightly deeper than that of the remainder of the wing; orbicular recumbent, oval, reniform rather small, upright; t. a. line scarcely perceptible, rounded outwardly; t. p. line fairly clear, even, parallel to outer margin to beyond cell, bending inward strongly to base of vein 2, and then perpendicular to inner margin with a slight outward angle in the fold; two pale points on each side of this line on costa and another siimilar one above reniform; traces of a dark submarginal band, most distinct on costa where it forms a slight apical dark blotch; faint broken smoky terminal line; fringes dirty whiite, cut by a darker line near base.
TWO NEW FORMS OF THE GENUS ZASCHISONYX ASHMEAD. (TENTHREDINIDAE: HYMENOPTERA)
Authors: Ross Herbert H.
Published: January 2010

The genus Zaschisonyx Ashmead includes but a single nearctic species, Z. montana (Cresson), of which three forms are recognized in this paper. In all these forms the males are identical, as are also the saws of the females, so that only subspecific or varietal names can be given within the group.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF LISPOTHRIPS, REUTER FROM CANADA WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES
Authors: Moulton Dudley
Published: January 2010

Two species of the genus Lispothrips, Reuter have been recognized in Europe and it is interesting now to record two new species, making the first record of this genus in North America.
TWO NEW LITHOBIOID CHILOPODS
Authors: Chamberlin Ralph V.
Published: January 2010

The two chilopods described below were found in collections recently sent me for identification by the Federal-Horticultural Board and by Mr. R. D. Harwood of Cornell University. The types are in the author's collection.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF EREMOCORIS WITH NOTES AND A KEY TO THE SPECIES OF PERITRECHUS (HEMIP., LYGAEIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Female.—Length 8 mm. Vertex three-fourths as broad between eyes as distance from apex of tylus to middle of vertex at a point in line with posterior margins of eyes. Ocelli large, ocellocular line scarcely twice the diameter of an ocellus. Antennal segments proportioned from base, as follows:— 9: 14: 11: 11. Basal antennal slender, extending two-thirds its total length beyond apex of tylus. Bucculae not attaining bases of antennae. Rostrum attaining hind coxae, first segment reaching base of head. Rostral segments proportioned from base, as follows :—9 : 11 : 8 : 4. Vertex sparsely pubescent, somewhat shining, rather granulate becoming weakly transversely rugulose before eye and above antenna. A few scattered, shallow punctures on vertex between eyes. Genae smooth above becoming transversely rugulose toward gular region.
CONCERNING CICADELLA HIEROGLYPHICA VAR. DOLOBRATA BALL (HOMOPTERA, CICADELLIDAE)
Authors: Lawson Paul B.
Published: January 2010

This variety of C. hieroglyphica was described by Ball ( I ) as follows:

“Somewhat smaller than the preceding. Shining black, a few of the white markings of the typical form persisting, as follows : the margins of the clypeds, the genae, a line below the margin of the pronotum, the circle around the apex of head, a line against the eye, and the marking of the scutellum. Often there is part of a median line on vertex and a pair of slender lines running from the inner corner of the eye back across the pronotum to the light margined claval suture.”
LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION OF THE EGG PARASITE TRICHOGRAMMA MINUTUM RILEY
Authors: Wishart Geo.
Published: January 2010

The work on the production of Trichogramma minutum Riley was instituted at the Chatham lahratory in January, 1928. What has been done to date has been largely of a preliminary nature but we feel justified in describing the methods being used because of the very general and widespread interest in this insect at the present time.
STUDIES IN THE SCARABAEIDAE (II)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Length 6-7.2 mm.; width 3.6-4.2 mm. Broadly oval ; black, opaque above except as noted below, ventral surface and legs shining; pronotum and elytra with short, sparse, pale setae; venter with a few hairs. Head slightly more than half as wide as pronotum; genae not prominent.
MOUNTED GENITALIA ATTACHED TO SPECIMENS
Authors: Gunder J. D.
Published: January 2010

As a rule the genitalic organs of insects are mounted on standard glass slides. These slides have to be kept separate from the specimens they represent in a slide-box by themselves and for this reason there is always a chance of misplacement or loss due to eventual separation. Another point is that the all-glass slides are more easily breakable and are apt to “age” as the years go by.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF ANISOTA MANITOBENSIS. (LEPID.)
Authors: Brodie H. J.
Published: January 2010

The moth Anisota manitobensis was described by Dr. J. McDunnough of Ottawa in “The Canadian Entomologist” (Vol. LIII, No. 4) from four specimens taken by Mr. N. Criddle at Aweme, Manitoba. The early stages of this moth have been unknown up to the present. I have recently had the opportunity of studying these and the following notes are offered as a result.
NOTES ON PTEROPHORIDAE WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW OIDAEMATOPHORUS (LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: Braun Annette F.
Published: January 2010

In an earlier paper (1925, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., LI, 184) brief reference was made to larvae of Platyptilia fragilis in the seed-capsules of Pentstemon cyananthus, one of the common perennials of the sagebrush association. The presence of the larvae in the seed-capsules while feeding is not apparent, although a large portion of the seeds contained therein are eaten.
NEW SPECIES OF PSALLUS FIEB. (HEMIPTERA, MIRIDAE)
Authors: Knight Harry H.
Published: January 2010

Runs in my key to Psallus (Hemiptera of Conn., 1923, p. 462) to the couplet with morrisoni Kngt. and parshleyi Kngt., but differs from both in having the second antennal segment yellow except at base.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN CERATOPHYLLI (SIPHONAPTERA)
Authors: Stewart M. A.
Published: January 2010

In 1928 the writer described in The Canadian Entomologist, volume LX pages 148 to 151, two species of fleas from Colorado under the names Ceratophylius peromysci and Ceratophyllus citelli. Recent studies have shown that both of these names are synonyms.
NOTES ON PHYMATODES VULNERATUS LEC. WITH A NEW HOST RECORD (COLEOPTERA, CERAMBYCIDAE)
Authors: Leech Hugh B.
Published: January 2010

Early in 1928, at Salmon Arm, B.C., a thirty foot tree of Vine Maple (Acer circinatum Pursh.) which had been dead for three years, was found to be infested with Ceranibycid larvae. Accordingly the tree was felled, cut into two-foot sections, and portions from six inches to half an inch in diameter were put into a wire-screen cage under as natural conditions as possible, and in the shade. As it happened, this shady position seems to have been well chosen, as of seventeen infested maples examined during 1928-1929 only two occurred in the sun.
THE TOADHOPPERS OF THE GENUS PHYLLOSCELIS GERM. (RHYNCHOTA FULGORIDAE)
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: January 2010

The insects of this genus are all North American and are strikingly distinct from all other forms in this region in their almost hemispherical outline and leathery opaque elytra. Although they jump with great agility, when seen strutting about on their broadly foliaceous legs they appear awkward and grotesque in the extreme. They rest on the stems of the shrubs head upwards and the body inclined outwards at about a 30-degree angle.
A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THE COLLEMBOLA OF IOWA
Authors: Mills Harlow B.
Published: January 2010

The following survey is based on collections made in Iowa from March, 1929 to February, 1930. It isnot all-inclusive, as intensive collecting was carried on in only a very small area in central Iowa, in the vicinity of Ames. It is hoped however, that the list will be of value in extending the limits of distribution of several species.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE BIOLOGY OF ONTARIO MAYFLIES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Ide F. P.
Published: January 2010

During the summers of 1928 and 1929 a study was made of the mayfly fauna of several streams and lakes in Ontario, particular attention being given to associating the nymphal stages with the adults by rearing them in cages set in the stseams. In the course of the work the nymphs of twelve species, hitherto unknown in this stage, were found. These are described below. Three new species were taken and are also described.
CROESUS VARUS (DE VILLARET). (HYMENOPTERA)
Authors: Buckle J. W.
Published: January 2010

On August 8th, 1926, I captured a sawfly of the genus Croesus at the flowers of the common parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) at the foot of Mount Royal.
A NEW INSECT CAMERA OF COMPACT DESIGN
Authors: Gunder J. D.
Published: January 2010

The best way to “remember” some rare butterfly or other insect type which you may examiine in a distant collection is to possess a good upper and under side photograph of it. Clearly taken pictures never deceive and they make later identification relatively simple. It costs time and money to travel around the country and inspect types in the various museums and for this reason it is well to “bring home” at the time a lasting reference, especially if the procedure of taking the pictures is easy and inexpensively worth while. Nowadays any entomological specialist of repute must know what neighboring names stand for before he can apply new ones and for this reason, and in order to write strictly modern descriptions of comparative nature, a photograph of related objects is the best mental guide to have in lieu of actual specimens.
TWO NEW WATER BUGS FROM THE WESTERN U. S. A. (NEPIDAE AND NOTONECTIDAE)
Authors: Hungerford H. B.
Published: January 2010

In the routine work of sorting and determining Aquatic Hemiptera from the western United States, I was quite surprised recently to discover two new species in genera which I supposed were fully known. In a lot consisting of 110 Ranatra tahen by Doctor R. H. Beamer and his parties on the Biological Survey trips into the southwestern United States during the last two or three years I found one specimen of a very distinct and new species.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE BIOLOGY OF ONTARIO MAYFLIES WITH DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Ide F. P.
Published: January 2010

Eurycaenis. Three male adults of this genus were taken swarming at the edge of a small lake at Daventry, Ont. early in the morning of September 5, 1929. These specimens have the characters set forth by Ulmer in his key to the genera of mayflies (Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung. 81. 1920). namely “Prosternum very broad, twice as broad as long, so that the coxae of the forelegs are widely separated: second antennal segment three times as long as the first segment.” In Caenis the second antennal segment is less than three times the length of the first segment and the prosternum is longer than wide.
NEW CANADIAN COLEOPTERA.—I
Authors: Carr F. S.
Published: January 2010

Length 7 mm.; width at the humerus 3.2 mm. Elongate, with the sides of the elytra almost parallel. Black with a slightly aeneous lustre; the lateral bead of the pronotum, the sides of the elytra and the two spots on the head, reddish; the labrum is cream; the antennae are pale with the apices of the segments beginning with the sixth, infuscate; the palpi are pale with very slightly infuscate apices; the legs and coxae are pale red with the femora darker. The under surface is black except for the posterior borders of the abdominal segments which are narrowly reddish. The pronotum is notably unicolorous except for the marginal bead.
NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF COLEOPTERA IN FLORIDA WITH NEW ADDITIONS TO THE KNOWN FAUNA OF THAT STATE
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: January 2010

My last paper on the Coleoptera of Florida mas prepared in the autumn of 1927, and published in the Canadian Entomologist for March, 1928. I spent the winter of 1927-28 in California and did not return to Florida until November, 1928. During the winter of 1928-29 circumstances were such that I did little collecting, and that only about Dunedin, until March, when I made a visit to Gainesville, Fla.
THE NYMPH OF THE MAYFLY GENUS CINYGMA EATON
Authors: Ide F. P.
Published: January 2010

In early June of the summer of 1928 an immature nymph of the genus Cinygma was dredged from tlie sedges along the edge of a mill pond at Horning's Mills, Ontario. All attempts to get more material here were unsuccessful. Next year, however, on June 7, I met with some full-grown nymphs in a deep rock-pool by the edge of a stream which flows into Lake Nipissing, Ontario from the south. About fifteen individuals were reared between the 10th and the 20th of June and the species proved to be Cinygma bipunctata McD. The description of the type fits these individuals very well.
SOME NEW WORLD HIPPOBOSCIDAE (DIPTERA PUPIPARA)
Authors: Ferris G. F.
Published: January 2010

For the material here reported upon I am indebted to Dr. L. H. Dunn, of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and Prof. C. H. Vorhies, of the University of Arizona.
A SEASON'S WORK ON THE COLONIZATION IN ONTARIO OF MACROCENTRUS ANCYLIVORA ROHWER, A PARASITE OF THE ORIENTAL PEACH MOTH (LASPEYRESIA MOLESTA BUSCK.)
Authors: Steenburgh W. E.
Published: January 2010

Since the discovery of the Oriental Peach Moth in Ontario in 1925, yearly studies have been conducted to determine the extent to which our native parasitic hymenoptera have transferred their attention to this new source of host material. These studies have disclosed 15 of our native species attacking the Oriental Peach Moth, but as yet, little assistance in the form of actual control has developed from their efforts. During 1929 only 2.2 per cent. of 3298 larvae reared were parasitized by them; thus it seemed advisable to attempt the introduction of species which have proven of major importance in controlling the pest in areas of older infestation.
NEW SPECIES OF DOLICHOPODIDAE FROM NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES
Authors: van Duzee M. C.
Published: January 2010

Male: Length 2.6-3 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen, legs and feet thickly white pruinose, but the ground color showing through; face moderately wide, wholly pollinose, this pollen yellow in the middle, reaching the orbits at the suture, sides of upper part narrowly, below the suture widely white pollinose, sonsetimes the yellow pollen covers most of upper part and extends onto the inner part of the palpi; palpi with snow white pollen, each nearly as large as upper part of face; antennae wholly yellow, small, arista whitish; orbital cilia white, rather long on the sides; occiput, front, thorax and abdomen reddish coppery, posterior margins of abdominal segments sometimes green ; bristles of thorax small, black; hairs of ahdomen very short, white; pleura and coxae black with ground color nearly concealed with white pollen, tips of coxae yellow; hypopygium small, with a long, straight, black appendage extending forward under the abdomen and small yellowish appendages inside of this long one; femora, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, last two joints of all tarsi blackish; the minute hairs on all femora and tibiae white, the small bristles on tibiae black; fore tibiae with a row of long white hairs on upper surface, which are as long as diameter of tibiae and extend to fourth tarsal joint, becoming shorter towards the end; apical joint of middle tarsi very slightly widened; pulvilli not enlarged ; joints of fore tarsi as 20-8-6-5-7 ; of middle ones as 32-14-9-6-6; joints of posterior pair as 25-19-11-6-7.
SOME INFLUENCES OF LOCATION UPON LIGHT TRAP CATCHES
Authors: Cook William C.
Published: January 2010

Since 1923 the writer has operated a light trap at Bozeman for the purpose of recording fauna and seasonal fluctuations in the population of Phalaenid moths. This trap, known as the “Field Trap,” is located on the east edge of a large agricultural experimental field which is cut into many plots. The trap is about 100 yards west of the nearest building, and is on a pole with the light about six feet above the ground.
AN ECOLOGICALLY ANNOTATED LIST OF THE PHALAENIDAE OF MONTANA (LEPID.)
Authors: Cook William C.
Published: January 2010

1999 C. florea Guen. Two specimens from Malta in July.

2001 C. omissa Dod. One specimen from Hamilton, July 11, 1928.

2004 C. similaris Sm. Scattered specimens from all parts of the state except the southern Plains region. July-August. Rather common at Malta in 1928. It is quite probable that some of these records refer to montonae.
A NEW MAYFLY GENUS FROM NORTH CAROLINA
Authors: Traver Jay R.
Published: January 2010

This paper records the capture and rearing of a new genus and species of mayfly iroin the mountains of North Carolina, to which the name Oreianthus purpureus is herewith assigned. The nymph of this new genus has been taken at but two stations. It was first found in Davidson River in Transylvania Co., within the borders of Pisgah National Forest, and near the little town of Pisgah Forest.
SUBTERRANEAN INSECTS OF MARSH GRASS (SPARTINA MICHAUXIANA HITCHCOCK)
Authors: Hendrickson George O.
Published: January 2010

During the summer of 1929 it occurred to the author to collect the subterranean insects of stands of marsh grass (Spartina Michauxiana Hitchcock). No large areas of this grass were found in the vicinity of Ames, Iowa. The places of study hence were restricted to a half dozen small spots along the fence lines of tilled fields near Ames. The soil was a black loam and not well-drained at these places. The digging in this tough sod proved rather a slow procedure. With a spade a piece of sod about six by eight inches was loosened at a time and the mass of rootstocks, roots and soil was separated at the side of the road to bring the insects into view. This method did not lend itself to quantitative study.
NOTES ON THE CHERMIDAE (HEMIPTERA: HOMOPTERA). PART II
Authors: Klyver f. D.
Published: January 2010

In the second paper of this series I have selected for discussion the nymphal stages of three species. The first of these is Paurocephala fremontiae F. D. Klyver, the adults of which are described in the preceding paper. The other species considered are Psylla pyricola Förster and P. mali Schdbg., both of which are of special interest because of their economic importance. The nymphal stages of neither species have been adequately figured nor described in detail.
MOSQUITO CONTROL IN EASTERN UNITED STATES
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: January 2010

For several years, I have had the pleasure of attending the annual meetings of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association. These meetings are held at Atlantic City, usually about the middle of February. This year the 18th annual meeting was held on February 18, 19 and 20. One would think from the name of the organization that problems discussed at these annual meetings are concerned with mosquito control within the state of New Jersey.
A NEW BAIT TRAP FOR NOCTUID MOTHS
Authors: Wood A. A.
Published: January 2010

Previous to the present year noctuid moths were collected for breeding purposes and flight records, in various ways, entailing long hours spent in the field at night. The methods employed were variations of the old practice of “sugaring” and collecting from bloom. Fairly good results were obtained by systematic night collections, but it seemed desirable to devise a method whereby material might be secured in sufiicient quantities without so much night work. During the past winter the trap under discussion was designed and constructed as an experiment towards simplifying moth collections and flight records.
NEW CANADIAN SPECIES OF ARENETRA (HYMEN.; ICHNEUMONIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

The following new species of Arenetra have come to hand in working over some miscellaneous material in the Canadian National Collection. The genus Arenetra is referable to the tribe Lissonotini as defined by Cushman and Rohwer (Proc. U. S. N. M., 57, 392, 1920). The characters mentioned by Ashmead (Proc. U. S. N. M., 23, 50, 1900) will aid in separating species of Arenetra from related genera. Of importance among these are the non-areolated propodeum, sessile abdomen, distinct areolet, non-pectinate tarsal claws and long erect whitish or black pile on the head and thorax.
APHID GALLS AS A NOCTUID FEEDING GROUND
Authors: Manson G. F.
Published: January 2010

For the past several years live moths have been collected at the Entomological Laboratory, Lethbridge, Alta. for the purpose of securing eggs. Both light trap and bait have been used to make these collections.
THE PAPAIPEMA SPECIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. (LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: Bird Henry
Published: January 2010

While it is not unlikely that additional species will be discovered in the Pacific Coast region, perhaps well northward in Alaska, the Papaipema fauna which reaches the Atlantic seaboard of our country will doubtless remain much the richer comparatively.
THE EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS EPHEMERELLA AND THEIR NYMPHS (EPHEMEROPTERA)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

In a recent paper (1931, Can. Ent., LXIII, 30 et seq.) I reviewed the bicolor group of the genus Ephemerella and in the present one I purpose dealing with the remainder of our eastern species and tabulating the results of breeding experiments, carried on during the past three years by Messrs. Walley, Milne and myself, as far as they relate to this genus.
INVALUABLE WORDS
Authors: Bailey Stanly P.
Published: January 2010

Certain invaluable words and phrases as “apparently”, “seems to be”, and “it appears” have become to be an almost necessary part of the equipment of scientific invesigators and writers. The majority of the articles that come to hand are liberally sprinkled with such words, and perhaps not unnecessarily so.
AN IMPORTANT BREEDING PLACE OF CLOTHES MOTHS IN HOMES
Authors: Spencer G. J.
Published: January 2010

Clothes moths are the chief household pests in Vancouver, British Columbia. Two species occur, Tineola biselliella St. the webbing clothes moth and Tinea pelionella L. the case-making clothes moth; the former is uncomfortably abundant while the latter is rare.
A NEW TAENIOTHRIPS ON GLADIOLUS
Authors: Moulton Dudley , Steinweden John B.
Published: January 2010

Female holotype: Color: head and prothorax dark brown, pterothorax dark brown with some red hypodermal pigmentation, abdomen uniformly brolwn. Antennal segments uniformly dark brown with the exception of the third which is yellowish brown. Legs concolorous with body except the tarsi and distal ends of fore tibiae which are light yellowish brown. Fore wings brown, light in basal third. Ocelli with orange red crescents. Body spines dark brown.
SOME NOTES ON BEES OF THE GENUS ANDRENA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: January 2010

Andrena nubecula race tristicornis n. race. Flagellum entirely black. Lakeside, Que., Aug. 20, 1929 (J. W. Buckle). Also from Milwaukee, Wis., July 26, 1902 (Graenicher). The specimens are females. The Lakeside specimen has curiously aberrant venation.
THE REACTIONS OF SOME INSECTS TO RAIN
Authors: Allard H. A.
Published: January 2010

In a region where heavy rains constitute an elenlent of the climate, it is imperative that all creatures meet these exigences with protective responses. The responses of many insects to rain are very interesting. Naturally their activities are usually favored by fair weather and sunshine. During, rains many insects withdraw to protected places and await the return of sunshine to begin their activities.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN GENERA AND SPECIES IN THE GROUP FORMERLY CALLED PLATYMETOPIUS (RHYNCHOTA, HOMOPTERA)
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: January 2010

Resembling calliandrus in size and form but light with vertex slightly acute and twice banded with ivory. Length 4 mm.

Vertex slightly acute but shorter, broader than in loricatus with a rounding apex, only slightly exceeding the pronotum in length. Color: grey much lighter than in calliandrus with the appearance of three or four transverse light bands, the first of which, half way between the eyes and apex of vertex, is made up of an ivory semi-circle around a dot on the margin, on either side and two pairs of dashes between these: the second is on tlie basal third of vertex; the third across the scutellum and soinetimes a narrow one on the disk of pronotum.
THREE NEW CANADIAN PROPHRYGANEA (PHRYGANEIDAE, TRICHOPTERA.)
Authors: Milne Lorus J.
Published: January 2010

During a recent study of the material in the family Phryganeidae in the Canadian National Collection, three nondescript species of the genus Prophryganea ganea Martynov have appeared. One of them, viz. P. deflata nov., is so close to P. improba (Hagen) as to be inseparable on any but the genitalic character illustrated herewith. As the range of P. deflata is very much that of P. improba (Hagen), it is questionable if the five ♂ co-types of the latter are conspecific; that one therefore which was deposited in the Canadian National Collection some years ago by Doctor Nathan Banks, is here designed lectotype, and its genitalia and alar nervation illustrated. This specimen and the genitalic slide are being returned for deposition in the Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology.
CORIXIDAE FROM THE ENVIRONS OF HUDSON BAY (HEMIP., CORIXIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

To Mr F. Johansen I am indebted for a small collection of Corixidae obtained by dissecting the stomach of a 28 centimeter male specimen of the Arctic Grayling (Thymallus signifer Richards.) captured in a small tributary near the mouth of the Churchill River, Manitoba. Three species are represented, one of which is described below.
SOME ERYTHRONEURA (GRAPE LEAF HOPPERS) OF THE MACULATA GROUP. (HOMOPTERA CICADELLIDAE)
Authors: Beamer R. H.
Published: January 2010

General ground color yellowish white to semihyaline. Color markings orange to red. Vertex with three white spots more or less surrounded with bands of color. Pronotum with almost rectangular median band touching pasterior margin and semblance of vitta from each anterior corner toward anterior margin, usual marks behind each eye. Scutellum with spot at tip, basal angles yellow more or less bordered with red or orange.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA
Authors: Curran C. H.
Published: January 2010

In a recent contribution in this Journal, I described a few new Diptera from Canada. The present paper contains descriptions of six new Canadian species and two from the United States, the types of the Canadian species being in the Canadian National Collection. The descriptions of two of the species of Ptiolina in this paper have been prepared by Dr. M. D. Leonard and are included in order that the key to species may be complete. From our study of this genus it seems probable that there are other species to be found, especially in the north where so little collecting has been done.
A HANDY TYPE OF OVIPOSITION CAGE
Authors: Dustan G. G.
Published: January 2010

The cage shown in the accmpanying photograph was devised by the writer as an oviposition cage for Oriental peach moths, and for this purpose proved to be very satisfactory. It has also been used with codling moths and strawberry leaf-rollers, and probably could be used with many other insects.
THE BICOLOR GROUP OF THE GENUS EPHEMERELLA WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE NYMPHAL STAGES (EPHEMER OPTERA)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

During the course of breeding experiments in Ephemeroptera which we have been carrying on during the past few years, considerable nymphal and associated adult material of the genus Ephemerella has been accumulated. The main source of these collections has been the district around Knowlton, Que. where the diversified nature of the country has been particularly favorable for our studies; in addition material is also at hand from the Lachine-Taudreuil section of the St. Lawrence Valley and from the Gatineau region in the vicinity of Wakefield., Que.
TWO VERY COMMON MISTAKES OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WRITERS
Authors: Hopping Ralph
Published: January 2010

Two mistakes have become so prevalent among entomological writers that it would seem to justify the following observations. I. The use of the word “punctuation” instead of “punctation”. There are few North American writers who have not made this mistake. Notable exceptions are Dr. LeConte, possibly because he generally wrote his descriptions in Latin, and Dr. Horn, who generally used the words “punctate” or “punctured”.
ON THE CLYPEUS AND LABIUM OF PRIMITIVE INSECTS
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: January 2010

The following observations and reflections on the primititive composition of the clypeus and labium of insects were made during the course of a study of the head capsule and its appendages, together with their musculature, of Grylloblatta and other orthopteroid forms.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN EPHEMEROPTERA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Male.—Head and thorax deep black, the membranous portions of the pleura being slightly tinged with ruddy. Abdomen dorsally dirty whitish, the segments crossed by broad and slightly oblique bands of deep smoky which leave traces of ground color only on anterior and posterior margins, thus giving to the naked eye the appearance of a smoky-black abdomen ringed with whitish; ventrally more evenly smoky-black with posterior margins of segments narrowly pale.
CANADIAN SARCOPHAGIDAE
Authors: Hall David G.
Published: January 2010

Several interesting records on Canadian Sarcophagidae have come to hand during the past several years. Two of these records, with the description of an undescribed species from Canada, are as follows.
A HYMENOPTERON OF AQUATIC HABITS
Authors: Chagnon G.
Published: January 2010

In July 1931, while collecting beetles of the genus Donacia on rushes growing on the border of Lake of the Two-Mountains, near St. Placide, Que. I noticed a Hymenopterous insect alighting on one of these plants. It immediately walked down the stem, entering into the water and continued walking down, clinging to the stem of the plant, until it disappeared from view. Its movements under water were quite rapid. The water was about 24 to 30 inches deep.
CHRYSOPIDS AS A FACTOR IN THE NATURAL CONTROL OF THE ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH
Authors: Putman Wm. L.
Published: January 2010

During the summer of 1930 it was observed that large numbers of eggs of the Oriental fruit moth (Laspeyresia molesta Busck.) were being destroyed by some enemy which pierced the shell and sucked out the contents. The presence of many chrysopid larvae on the trees indicated that these might be responsible for the destruction of the eggs.
THE BIOLOGY OF THREE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF MESOVELIA (HEMIPTERA-MESOVELIIDAE)
Authors: Hoffmann Clarence H.
Published: January 2010

Incubation.—Eggs laid in the laboratory January 25 required only 12 days to hatch. This is apparently the length of the normal incubation period. The embryo does not completely fill the egg until shortly before hatching, and its white color forms a contrast against the transparency of the egg shell.
SOME ERYTHRONEURA (GRAPE LEAF HOPPERS) OF THE MACULATA GROUP. (HOMOPTERA, CICADELLIDAE)
Authors: Beamer R. H.
Published: January 2010

The foliowing is the original description: “Markings of head, thorax and scutellum as usual inthe maculata type, yellow; tegmen with a streak along claval suture auteriorly, an oblique dash at base of corium and another at anterior end of costal plaque, yellow; dot at posterior end of plaque, and in base of fourth apical cell black; and the following markings red, broad vitta based on costal plaque, extending inwardly and crossing clavus as oblique broad band, and a straight narrow stripe, connected narrowly behind to a spot which spreads so as to fill spaces betuween sectors anterior to third and fourth apical cells, also ramose marking on cross veins ; costal plaque dusky bluish hyaline, apical cells fumose. Color below pale yellow. Length: 2.75 mm.
SOME ERYTHRONEURA (GRAPE LEAF HOPPERS) OF THE MACULATA GROUP. (HOMOPTERA, CICADELLIDAE)
Authors: Beamer R. H.
Published: January 2010

This rather small species was named from specimens taken from apple near Lawrence, Kansas. It has since been taken from the same host near Bentonville Arkansas.

General ground color semihyaline to yellowish white marked with reddish orange. Vertex with semblance of five white spots more or less surrounded with orange bands.
THE OCCURRENCE OF THE ODD BEETLE AND A BRIEF NOTE ON OTHER DERMESTID SPECIES IN CANADA
Authors: Twinn C. R.
Published: January 2010

The occurrence in Canada of that unique and interesting species, Thylodrias contractus Mots., which Felt (2) has dubbed “the odd beet1e”, is a matter worthy of note.

This species was first discovered in North America, in May, 1902, by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson, who found the insects in a box of neglected entomological specimens stored in an old closet in her home in New York.
NOTE ON TWO CANADIAN SPECIES OF EUPITHECIA (GEOM., LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

At the time of writing my “Synonymic Notes on Canadian Eupithecias” (1929, “Canadian Entomologist”, lxi, 49) I omitted, through ignorance of the types, any reference to the following two species. Recently through the kindness of Mr. S. Cassino, in whose collection the types are, I have been permitted to study them and make slides of the genitalia with the following results.”
A NEW SPECIES OF CICINDELA FROM ILLINOIS (COLEOP.)
Authors: Liljeblad Emil
Published: January 2010

Somewhat similar to C. celeripes Lec, but with fully developed wings. Brownish bronzed, the punctured part on thc elytra greenish white or greenish blue; antennae with four basal joints bronzed, apical joints dark, hairy; palpi pale, yellowish, apical joints dark at tip; elytral markings grayish white, somewhat variable, but usually with a narrow marginal line or dash at middle, an apical line or lunule, the marginal line usually connected with the apical lunule, twelve of the thirty-three specimens have an indication of a humeral lunule and trace of a median spot, suggesting that a median band may be found on some future specimens.
PROGNATHISM AND HYPOGNATHISM IN INSECTS
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: January 2010

It is generally admitted that the primitive position of the Arthropod mouth and its associated appendages is ventral, this position being evident in the early embryonic stages of all groups and retained in the adult stages of many forms, particularly among the Crustacea. It is by no means to be inferred from this, however, that this ventral position of the mouth is the primitive one in the Insecta as a class. Great variability exists among insects in the postembryonic stages in respect of this feature. The mouth and jaws are usually directed more or less forward and downward but vary from a wholly anterior position to a definitely ventral one, or they may even be directed posteriorly.
A CORRECTION TO BRADLEY'S MANUAL OF THE GENERA OF BEETLES
Authors: Cooper Kenneth W.
Published: January 2010

On page 81, of the Manual, it will be noticed that the key to the genera of Tochyporini is somewhat ccnfused. The alternate to the fitst series of characters refers us to number seven of the key. As there is no number seven, I have thought it advisable to publish the key in corrected form. It seems obvious that Bradley in re-arranging the key desired to follow Leconte and Horn's sequence of genera, viz. Tachinus, Tachyporus, Leucoparyphus (Cilea), Physetoporus, Erchomus, and Conosoma.
A MOTH SEIZED BY A BIRD AND REJECTED UNHARMED (LEPID.: ARCTIIDAE.)
Authors: O'Byrne Harold
Published: January 2010

The recent publication by McAtee on protective adaptations should stimulate field observations on warning coloration, mimicry, and kindred phenomena. The incident described below should be of interest because of its bearing upon this subject.
A NEW APHODIUS FROM CALIFORNIA
Authors: Barrett R. E.
Published: January 2010

Oblong, convex, shining black. Head convex without trace of tubercles, closely punctate; clypeus feebly emarginate, the angles broadly rounded, genae moderately prominent, antennae black. Pronotum one and one-half times as wide as long, side margins not explanate, hind angles distinct but obtuse, base feebly arcuate, basal marginal line entire and distinct, disk evenly convex, puncturation rather coarse and dense less so on vertex. Scutellum small.
NEW CANADIAN TRYPHONINAE (HYMENOP.; ICHNEUMONIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

Rather slender bodied. Head shining, punctate, punctures unevenly distributed, widely separated on clypeus; more dense on tumid portion of frons below antennae, in malar space and between ocelli and antennae; ocellocular space polished, impunctate; cheeks and temples obscurely punctate. Clypeus poorly defined at base, apically broadly rounded, slightly angulate and elevated at middle of free edge.
RECORDS OF ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN SAWFLIES IN AMERICA AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW VARIETIES OF NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES
Authors: Ross Herbert H.
Published: January 2010

This species has apparently been introduced in recent years and become established as a pest of the common native alder (Alnus rubra) on the west coast of Washington and British Columbia, particularly in the lower part of the Fraser River Valley. The earliest specimens I have at hand are a series of 15 females taken at White Rock, B. C., June 28, 1929, collected by Mr. G. Beall.
THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF GLISCHROCHILUS (COLEOP.)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

The following stucly is based on the material in the Canadian National Collection supplemented by specimens from the collections of Messrs. Carl G. Siepmann, F. S. Carr, and G. Stace Smith. No new characters for the separation of closely allied species are offered in this paper. The most valuable characters known are those of the so-called flagellum of the male genitalia; the most useful for key purposes are presented by the elytral markings.
SOME NOTES ON ACTIAS LUNA (LEPID)
Authors: Birdsong Robert E.
Published: January 2010

Elliott and Soule in ‘Caterpillars and their Moths’ say of the luna eggs—“Luna eggs are as purely white as its own white scales. We have had many eggs of luna, and never one which was not white.”
EVALUATION OF THE FOREST FLORA POPULATION
Authors: Jacot Arthur Paul
Published: January 2010

In all the quantitative studies of the forest floor, sod, and soil faunas, the Acarina or mites have been grouped under one head as useful in reducing dead leaves and twigs to crude mineral matter, in spite of the fact that it is well known that some of the floor Acarina are eaters of mildews and moulds (minute fungi), some are predaceous, and some feed on living plant tissue.
NOTES ON SOME DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FIGURED IN HOLLAND'S REVISED BUTTERFLY BOOK
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Oeneis semplei Holl. As far as can be judged by a study of a figure of the underside of the male type (Butt. Book, Pl. LXIIi, fig. 3) this is the species referred to by Benjamin and myself as melissa Fabr. (Can. Ent. 1925, Vol. LVII, p. 58). In the series of four males and four females from the east coast of Labrador in the Canadian National Collection it is true that none show quite as definite a subapical ocellus as figured by Holland for the female of semplei but in two instances indications of this ocellus are clearly visible on the underside; in other respects the maculation appears to be identical. A slide of the genitalia should settle the question.