bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
NOTES ON LYCAENA PSEUDARGIOLUS AND ITS LARVAL HISTORY
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

On one of the last days of June, 1877, I observed a female pseudargiolus hovering about a flower-stalk of Cimicifuga racemosa, and it occurred to me that here might be the food plant of the summer brood of this butterfly, which I had for years been in search of. And thereupon I captured this female and confined her in a muslin bag upon one of the stalks. Two days after I found several eggs and also young larvæ, which last must have come from eggs laid some days before. This led me to examine other stalks, and I found quite a large number of both eggs and larvæ. The plant is called hereabouts “rattle-weed,” and grows abundantly in the edges of the woods throughout this region.
TETRAOPES TETROPHTHALMUS Forst
Authors: Devereaux W. L.
Published: February 2010

In the early part of June, 1876, while plowing through a patch of Asclepias cornuti (the plant upon which beetles of the above genus are found), I observed numerous cerambycidian larvæ in the bottom of the furrow, stirring about in the soil. Two of the larvæ were put in a glass jar with a growing milk-weed plant. Although they were put in the soil near the roots, they soon came to the surface and wriggled about for a week, and then pupated, and finally came out perfect specimens of T. tetrophthalmus.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW DREPANODES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Notwithstanding the variability of D. varus Grote, of which species D. sesquilinea is stated by Dr. Packard to be the ordinary male form, there can be no doubt that a very interesting species from Maine (prof. Fernald)and Massachusetts (Mr. Roland Thaxter) is distinct from any previously described. In this form the exterior line is without a costal angulation. It may be called Drepanodes Fernaldi n.s. ♀ Larger than the other species, light purplish brown. The two transverse lines composed of broken black lunules shaded with white. A black discal point on primaries. A median diffuse brown shade near the exterior line and continued on hind wings. The exterior line extends straight to costa near apices and is here not angulated; it is continued on hind wings, but merely as a white sub-lunulated line with black pointlets on the veins. Terminal space on fore wings shaded with brown. Fringes on both wings pale. Edge of secondaries brown. Beneath paler than above, sub-irrorate. A common white exterior lunulated line marked by black pointlets on the veins. Discal dots on both wings.
A NEW HEPIALUS FROM NEW YORK
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

This species is smaller and slighter than argenteomaculatas, and differs from any previously described from our territory by the gilded primaries, which are as brilliant as those of Plusia verruca. Dull lilac or pinkish fuscous. Fore wings falcate, with a fine brown line on submedian fold. Between the subcostal vein and submedian fold the wing is covered centrally with large patches of dead gold. There are two brown costal patches, between which are double pale lilac marks, the inceptions of the transverse lines, of which the outer beyond the outer brown patch is alone continuous, broad, irregular. Some dead gold patches about the discal mark, which is finely margined with brown, pyramidal, bright gilded. Three similar bright gilded, triangulate, brown-edged spots, form part of the subterminal line opposite the ceil. Else the s. t. line is narrow and brownish, broadly margined by dead gold shading on either side. Hind wings pinkish fuscous. with orange fringes. Beneath fuscous, without marks; external margin of primaries touched with orange; the short fringes shaded with orange on both wings.
LECANIUM TULIPIFERÆ
Authors: Cook A. J.
Published: February 2010

On page 218 of the “Revised Manual,” in speaking of other sources than flowers from which bees collect sweets, I remark that I have seen the bees thick about a large bark-louse, which attacks and often destroys one of our best honey-trees. This is an undescribed species of the genus Lecanium.

In the summer of 1870, this louse, which, as far as I know, has never yet been described, and for which I propose the above very appropriate name, tulipiferæ–the Lecanium of the tulip tree–was very common on the tulip trees about the College lawns.
A NEW GALL MOTH, AND NOTES ON LARVÆ OF OTHER GALL MOTHS
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

There have been described, thus far, three N. American moths whose larvæ produce galls, or more or ress decided enlargements of the stems of their food-plant. They are, frrst, Gelechia gallæsolidaginis, described by Riley, with cuts, in the First Mo. Rept. at page 173; accompanying the description is an account of six parasites. Second, Walshia amorphilla, described by Clemens in Proc. Ent. Soc. phil., vol. ii., page 419 ; also an account of larva habits, etc., with cuts, is given in the Second Mo. Rept. at page 132. Third, Paedisca (Euryptychia) saligneana, dsscribed by Clemens in Proc. Ent, Soc. Phil., vol. v., page 141 ; an account of it also occurs in the Second Mo. Rept., page 134.
NOTES ON PAPILIO CRESPHONTES AND CATOCALÆ
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

This season I have seen some peculiarities in rearing Papilio cresphontes that seem worth noting. I had at one time four of the larvæ in a cage of three different broods. The two older ones changed to chrysalids June 29th; one from the top of the box with the head down, number two on the side with head up. Number three pupated July 11th, on the side of the box, head up; number four changed July 14th, suspended from the top the same as number one, all of them at an angle with the object to which they were attached, as is usual with Papilios.
A FEW HINTS ON COLLECTING LARVÆ OF DARAPSA VERSICOLOR
Authors: Bunker Robert
Published: February 2010

For several years past I have searched carefully for larvæ of this species, only to be rewarded with damaged wardrobe and wet feet. This season I determined to try the plan of breaking off the button-bush branches and shaking them over paper spread on the ground. On my first trial I secured one nearly full-grown larva of versicolor, and six half-grown larvæ of promethea. Unfortunately I was unable to visit the bushes again until it was too 1ate. The advantages this method has over that of examining the bushes while standing are manifold.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GRAPHOLITHA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Grupholitha taleana, n. s.

♂.Fore wings brownish fuscous; under the glass the scales are seen to be blackish with white tips. Thorax concolorous. Fore wings, with three orange-ochre costal lines; the outer two ante-apical, outwardly oblique and joining a marginal line of the same color; the inner a little less oblique, just without the middle of the wing. The marginal line only extends to the outer border of a black patch situate below the median fold and containing four or five ochre dots. Fringes silky, concolorous with the wings. Hind wings a little darker than primaries, immaculate. Beneath concolorous brownish fuscous, with the exterior margins of both wings shaded with pale. Costa of primaries above at apices narrowly yellowish, enclosing fuscous streaklets. No costal fold.
NOTES ON THE LARVA AND CHRYSALIS OF NEPHELODES VIOLANS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

During the last of April and through the month of May, 1877, I found the larvæ of this moth in grassy places in Washington county, Illinois. when full grown they were 1.75 inches long, robust, the head four-sevenths the width of the middle of the body. The color of the under side yellowish gray. Above the line of the lower part of the stigmata, four broad dark brown stripes alternating with three narrow grayish yellow ones, the latter in the dorsal and sub-dorsal regions, and much lighter at the extremities of the body. Head gray, mottled with brown, brown border to the inner part of eyes. cervical shield very dark brown, crossed by dorsal and sub-dorsal light lines. No hairs noticeable except with g1ass.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME MOTHS
Authors: Goodell L. W.
Published: February 2010

Euloncha oblinita Grote.

Larva, one specimen-Body black; a broad coral-red band on the back of each ring and a row of bright yellow blotches on the sides. The black ground color is variegated with White on the sides. On each ring are ten small warts, each of which bears about eight short, stiff, spreading brown spines, which sting severely when touched. Head roundish, coral-red, with two brown spots on the crown. Length when full grown, 1.4 inches. Feed on the smooth alder (Alnus serrulata). Changed to a pupa within a tough cocoon attached firm1y to a twig. Imago June 6.

I am indebted to Prof. A. R. Grote for the identification of this species, and to Dr. A. S. Packard, jr., for the following Geometrids.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Tortricina

It is not my purpose to enter upon the difficult field of this family. My acquaintance with the literature of the subject, and with the characters of the multitude of very unnatural genera into which it has been in modern times divided, is too limited to justify me in so doing; the more especially as Prof. Fernald is now working it up. But the two species mentioned below are sufficiently interesting to induce me to publish the following observation upon them.
ON EUPROSERPINUS PHAETON
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The fact that Mr. Strecker has seen fit to misstate the circumstances under which this species was named has induced me to correct the impression he may have created as far as possible.

In the descriptional part (p. 30) we say : “We are indebted to Mr. J. W. Weidemeyer for the information respecting this singular little species, which, we believe, has not been hitherto described, while an excellent figure, shown us by Mr. S. Calverley, enables us to present the present description and to fix the species. It appears that Dr. Boisduval has etiquetted a specimen in his cabinet as Proserpinus Phaeton.”
CAPTURES OF NOCTUIDÆ AT CLYDE, WAYNE CO., N. Y.
Authors: Devereaux W. L.
Published: February 2010

It is hoped the following list of Noctuæ, taken principally at bait, will prove of some interest to readers of the Can. Ent, although it is not a complete exposé of the fauna of this locality, having been compiled from but two years' catches—'75 and ‘76. During the season of ‘75 the weather was very favorable for sugaring, as there were always two or three nights out of a week in which the baits were swarming with moths, from May to October, but baiting was not followed very steadily or thoroughly.
OBNOXIOUS PESTS—SUGGESTIONS RELATIVE TO THEIR DESTRUCTION
Authors: Hagen H.
Published: February 2010

The question how to check the ravages of obnoxious insects is a very important one, and I am very often asked for advice in special cases. While occupied with a close examination of the proposed remedies and looking through a large number of scientific tracts, some of them fell into my hands and induced me to study them again. The present communication is the result of those studies.
OBSERVATIONS ON NEPHOPTERIX ZIMMERMANI
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

This pine-boring Pyralid was described by Prof. A. R. Grote in a paper read at the Nashville Meeting, 1877, of the American Assoc. for the Adv. of Science, and published in Canandian Entomologist, vol. ix., 161. During the summer and autumn of 1878, and again this year, I have made some observations upon the occnrrence, larval habits and parasitic enemies of this moth, and am able to state concerning them some additional facts of interest.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MELITAEA FROM TEXAS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Melitaea Fulvia.

Male.—Expands 1.5 inch.

Upper side brown-black over basal area of each wing, somewhat dusted rvith fulvous; or the ground color is partly replaced by fulvous, especially in the cells ; the costal margin and apex of primaries black, and both hind margins are narrowly edged by black ; all the nervures and branches black ; remainder of wings fulvous ; both have a submarginal series of fulvous spots, preceded by a black line, those of primaries at apex replaced by yellow, or obsolete ; beyond the black line a complete common series of small yellow spots ; a second on the disk, larger, and on secondaries elongated, sometimes very much so, and more or less confluent with the spots of the outer row ; on primaries a large yellow spot, edged with fulvous, next inside arc of cell, and two or three small yellow spots below this ; in cell of secondaries a small similar spot, but sometimes wanting ; fringes alternately and equally black and white.
ON CECIDOMYIA LEGUMINICOLA, n. sp.
Authors: Lintner J. A.
Published: February 2010

Cecidomyia trifolii, Canandian Entomologist, vol. xi., p. 44. 1879.

I am indebted to Dr. Hagen, of Cambridge, Mass., for the information that the name which I had selected for the clover-seed fly was preoccupied by Franz Loew, in Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Gesell., Wien, 1874, vol. xxiv., where he describes (p. 142) the male and female, larva, pupa and gall of a species occurring in a folded leaf of Trifolium pratense, and figures (pl. 2, f. 4) the deformation of the plant.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

A. biviella Zell.

I have received both sexes of this species from Prof. Fernald, of Orono, Maine. It is a prettier species than A. bella Cham., with the fasciæ much more distinct. Zeller describes only the ♂.
A SUCCESSFUL MOTH-TRAP
Authors: Westcott O. S.
Published: February 2010

Many attempts have been made to devise something by means of which to capture the Noctuidae, but the results have been usually so meagre that the contrivances have been abandoned in disgust. I have been using a contrivance this season which will really abundantly repay one for the trifling trouble and expense involved in its construction.
THE TYPICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE DIPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA IN THE MUSEUM IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
Authors: Hagen H.
Published: February 2010

The new edition of the Catalogue of the described Diptera of North America, by the Baron Osten Sacken, Washington, 1878, ranges doubtlessly among the most important works published on the North American Fauna. A very detailed and elaborate preface tells only in brief manner the immense amount of work done by the author since the publication of the first catalogue in 1858. A large part of new information is given at the end of the Catalogue in 335 notes.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW FOSSORIAL WASP
Authors: Patton W. H.
Published: February 2010

Chlorion aerarium.

Length one inch. Bronzed-purple ; antennæ, mandibles, tegulæ and feet black, postscutellum blue; wings dark brown, with a purple reflection, Clypeus terminated by a row of five teeth, the lateral teeth a little more remote from the intermediate teeth than the intermediate teeth are from the median tooth.
INJURIOUS AND BENEFICIAL INSECTS FOUND ON THE ORANGE TREES OF FLORIDA
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

Since my discovery of the mite found preying upon the eggs of the Orange Scale Insect (Aspidiotus Gloverii), I have been studying the insects found on the Orange tree, and my study has resulted in bringing to light many curious insects, of which I submit the following brief description. Those interested will find a full account of their habits in the Florida Agriculturist.
REMARKS, CRITICAL AND SUGGESTIVE, ON THE GENUS LIMENITIS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Authors: Grey Robert M.
Published: February 2010

Demonstrations from examples taken by me during the past three years, and from examples taken in Farmington, Conn., twenty years ago, give indubitable evidence that our Limenitis are plastic forms of one species, accommodating themselves readily to the environment, assuming colors from climatic effect or different seasons and localities, or for purposes of protection—the form L. disippus being mimetic of plexippus, as already suggested by authors.
PARASITES OF THE COTTON WORM
Authors: Riley C. V.
Published: February 2010

Among the parasites so far found to attack and destroy Aletia argillacea Hübn., aside from two not reared to the perfect state, are the following: Obtained from the egg, Trichogramma pretisa n. sp. from the larva, Tachina aletiæ n. sp., and Sarcophaga sarraceniæ Riley ; from the pupa, Pimpla conquisitor (Say), Cryptus nuncius Say, Chalcis ovata Say and, Cirrospilus esurus, n. sp.
ANOTHER BEE ENEMY
Authors: Cook A. J.
Published: February 2010

About one year ago I received a small bug from a gentleman in Maryland, together with the information that it was a serious enemy of the honey bee. It was stated that this bug would lie concealed among the flowers, and upon occasion would grasp a bee, and, holding it off at arm's length, would suck out its blood and life.
ON A NEW PSOCUS
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

In my investigations of the insects of the Orange tree, I have discovered another curious insect on some branches infested with Scale Insects, and given me by Major A. J. Russell. I at first took them to be Aphides, but on closer examination they proved to belong to Psocus.
THE CLOVER-SEED FLY—A NEW INSECT PEST
Authors: Lintner J. A.
Published: February 2010

In the summer of 1877, my attention was called to some “worms” which had been discovered in the heads of red clover (Trifolium pratense), and were said to be preying upon the seeds. They were found to be minute maggot-like creatures, hidden within the seed-pods and entirely destroying the seeds which they attacked.
NOTES FROM WOLLASTON, MASS.
Authors: Sprague F. H.
Published: February 2010

During the season of 1878 I have found at this place, situated within two miles of the limits of Boston, some species of butterflies which are seldom found in this vicinity. On the 8th of October I obtained a nice specimen of C. eurytheme, which had probably left the chrysalis but a short time before.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

L. Murtfeldtella Cham.

Miss Murtfeldt favors me with the following notes upon the larva of this species : “It feeds in the flowers of the Œnotheras both wild and cultivated, and is especially destructive to Œ. Missouriensis, which is now extensively cultivated.
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO SPECIES OF AGROTIS, AND TWO OF APATELA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Agrotis vocalis, n. s.

♂ ♀. This species seems allied to albalis and lagena. The hind wings are whitish; the fore wings are mixed gray, black and white. The lines are black, thick, single, dentate, the subterminal obsolete. A slight black basal submedian streak.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW PROCTOTRUPIDÆ AND CHRYSIDIDÆ
Authors: Patton W. H.
Published: February 2010

Proctotrupes crenulatus.

♀.—Length of body 10 m. m. Red ; eyes, ocelli, antennæ (except basal joint), sides and apical margin of scutellum, the post-scutellum, metathorax, extreme base of abdomen and tip of ovipositor, black ; mesopleura, disk of mesopectus and spiracles of metathorax, piceous ; terminal joints of the tarsi fuscous.
COLLECTING ABOUT CHICAGO IN 1878
Authors: Worthington C. E.
Published: February 2010

The early appearance of Lepidoptera gave indication of an unusually good season for field work, but the cold and wet weather in May and June apparently depopulated the woods and fields. Papilios were rare, and the Argynnidæ that usually fly in clouds above the prairies were conspicuous by their absence. The number of species taken was not much reduced, but my notes show a less number of examples in proportion to the time given to their pursuit than in any previous season.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

Lithocolletis Scudderella F. & B.

Knowing this species only by Prof. Frey's description, I have in previous notices treated it as identical with L. salicifoliella Cham. But among the specimens submitted to me by Dr. Hagen is one of Prof. Frey's Scudderella, and being thus enabled to compare it with salicifoliella, I find that they are sufficiently distinct.
ON A MITE PREYING ON THE ORANGE SCALE INSECT
Authors: Ashmead Wm. H.
Published: February 2010

About the last of March my friend, Mr. Allen Curtiss, a botanist, brought me some Orange twigs infested with the Orange Scale Insect (Aspidiotus Gloverii). On examining them with my pocket lens, I was surprised to see numerous small black mites running in and out of the scales, and which no doubt prey upon the eggs of the Scale Insect, and probably prevents their increase.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS
Authors: Bethune C. J. S.
Published: February 2010

Almost everyone, I imagine, has had at some time or other his wonder and curiosity excited by the strange-looking pupa of the Tomato Worm, as it is familiarly termed. It is frequently discovered when digging potatoes in the autumn, or disturbing the soil where tomatoes have been grown. This singular object, which is very correctly represented in the figure, is about two and a half inches long and half an inch diameter, of a chestnut brown color, and round in shape, tapering towards both ends ; from one end, which is the head of the specimen, there proceeds a long curved proboscis like the handle of a jug; the other end is divided into broad rings and terminates in a point.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES
Authors: McBride A. S.
Published: February 2010

I find Dorytomus mucidus Say running on and flying about Cottonwood trees early in April and again in August. In October it is found under dead bark of trees, in winter quarters. Common.
ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF SATYRUS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Conclusion.—The North American species of this genus may be divided into three Groups, with several sub-groups. Group 1 comprises Pegala and all the larger species. Group 2 Silvestris and others. characterized by their small size, and the peculiar outline of the discal band on under side of hind wings, there being two long serrations against end of cell. This division will throw Meadii into Group 1, in which the band has a rounded prominence against cell. Group 3 comprises Sthenele only.
NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDÆ IN THE ZUTRAEGE.: SECOND AND THIRD HUNDREDS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Anomis erosa, 19, fig. 287–288.

“Savannah.” I have identified this species from specimens taken in Georgia and Alabama. Hübner figures the variety in which the wings are orange except the s. t. space. Usually they are terminally darker shaded. The species is compared with A. exacta, by Hübner. Mr. Thaxter caught this species in Jamaica, W. I.
DESCRIPTION OF PREPARATORY STAGES OF AGRAULIS VANILLAE, Linnæus
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg—Conoidal, truncated, the top a little arched ; the sides more or less convex, varying; the height to the breadth as 9 to 7; marked by 14 straight ribs, which are compressed and elevated, and run from base to top ; crossed by about 11 striæ, horizontal, rather prominent ; the spaces between the ribs and striæ are quadrangular, the shortest side being with the long axis of the egg; these spaces are depressed and are either flat or slightly convex ; the summit is covered with rows of cells, concentric, those of the outer two rows large, hexagonal and irregular, of the third row small, hexagonal ; within these are 8 small cells, not depressed, irregularly rhomboidal and forming an eight-rayed star ; in the centre a minute star of six rays. Duration of this stage 4 to 5 days.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS.: MIGRATORY INSECTS
Authors: Bowles G. J.
Published: February 2010

The migratory instinct, common to so many species of birds, and even of mammalia, is also exhibited by many species of insects. In the case of birds and animals it has mostly to do with variations of climate, or the necessity of suitably providing for the raising of their young; in the case of insects the causes of migrations are not so evident, and observation is required in order to decide the point, if, indeed, it can be decided at all.
NOTES ON THE LARVA OF AGROTIS LUBRICANS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Several times during the last of August and the fore part of September, while working in my garden, I found a caterpillar that without the use of the lens was green with a white stripe on each side. A more minute description would be as follows :

Length when full grown, 1.25 inches, the shape of the body very much like that of A. saucia.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS
Authors: Rogers R. Vashon
Published: February 2010

Among the Coleopterous hosts there is a family called Long-horns, or Capricorns, in vulgar parlance ; or Cerambycidæ, when we are talking learnedly. They derive these names from the fact that they possess very long antennæ (sometimes longer than their bodies), which are generally re-curved like the horns of a wild goat (the Latin Caper).
DESCRIPTIONS OF NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Before describing Noctuidæ the structure of the front or clypeus, between the compound eyes, must be examined. In a few genera it has a projection, or again a cup-like depression. The presence of ocelli, behind the antennæ, must be ascertained, and the compound eyes must be viewed under the microscope to see if the surface is naked or hairy.
THE HESSIAN FLY NOT IMPORTED FROM EUROPE
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

The official publication of Bulletin 4, “The Hessian Fly,” by Dr. A. S. Packard, for the N. A. Entom. Commission, has induced me to study again the question of the importation of this insect by Hessian troops at an early period of the war. The excellent memoir by Dr. A. Fitch was believed to have settled this question in a final manner; therefore his opinion was accepted by all subsequent American writers.
NEW SPECIES OF N. AM. MOTHS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Trochilium lustrans, n. s.

Larger than tipuliformis, with long black antennae, which are whitish before the tips. Abdomen black with six yellow bands, the two terminal ones broader than the rest and continued beneath. Anal tuft black and yellow. Legs yellow, marked on tibiae and femora with black. Thorax black with yellow inner edge to the tegulae. Head black with a yellow ring behind and yellowish stripe on each side of the clypeus.
ON THE EARLY STAGES OF FOUR GEOMETRID MOTHS
Authors: Goodell L. W.
Published: February 2010

Ochyria designata, Pack.

Mature larva, five specimens.—Head roundish, flattened, as wide as the first segment, yellowish green ; jaws brown. Body thickest at the 9th segment, attenuated anteriorly; yellowish green, the dorsal and subdorsal spaces reticulated and lined with brown ; a narrow stigmatal brown line and a dorsal row of triangular brown spots, one each on the 4th, 9th and 10th segments, and two on each of the intermediate ones; a minute substigmatal black spot on the anterior part of each segment from the 6th to 9th.
WALSINGHAM'S PTEROPHORIDÆ OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
Authors: Fish Charles
Published: February 2010

I desire to call the attention of Entomologists to a very valuable contribution to Entomological literature recently made by Lord Walsingham. The work is entitled Pterophoridæ of California and Oregon, and is published in an octavo volume very neatly gotten up, and containing sixty-six pages of letter press, fully illustrated by forty-eight colored figures on three plates. Forty-one species are figured, of which three do not belong to the Pacific fauna as far as known, but are given for convenience of comparison. Twenty-seven new species are described.
NOTES ON LYTTA (BLISTER-BEETLES)
Authors: Claypole E. W.
Published: February 2010

During the present summer three species of Lyita have been very abundant and destructive here. The Striped Blister-beetle ( Lytta vittata) in the early part of the season, about the end of June, began to do mischief to the Potato plants, especially where they were weedy. Later on, about the middle of July, this species was joined by the White-edged Blister-beetle ( L. marginata ), and both together fell upon the later kinds of Potato (in my garden the Buckeye).
ON “THE WHITE SCALE OF THE ORANGE.”
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

Coccus rusci Linn., Sys. Nat.; Fab., Syst. Ent. (1775); Id., Spec. Ins. (1781); Id., Sys. Ryng. (1803); Id., Mantis. Ins. (1787); Id., Ent. Sys. (1794); Modeer., Act. Goth. (1778); Gmelin., Syst. Nat. (1791); Oliv., Encyc. Meth. (1791.) C. caricæ Fab., Ent. Syst. (1794); Id., Syst. Ryng. (1804); Bernard Mem. Hist. Nat. et. Mem. Acad. (1775); Fronscol Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (1834); Boisduval Ent. Hort. (1868).
NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Oncocnemis levis, n. s.

Primaries much shaded with black over dusty ochrey. Markings fine, neat, distinct. The lines black, with narrow included dusty ochrey shades. Half-line present. Anterior line with three dentations. Claviform long, reaching to posterior line, having a pale dusty ochre annulus edged outwardly with black, brown interiorly.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMONIDÆ
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Microgaster utilis, n. sp.

Length .11 of an inch. Head, thorax and abdomen of the males uniform black, the females the same with the exception that the under side of the second and third basal joints of the abdomen are tawny. Antennæ fuscous, somewhat rufous at base. Legs and feet tawny, rather pale, the knees of the hind pair dusky, the most so in the males.
ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF SATYRUS
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Pegala.—At the extreme south, and restricted principally to the southern part of the Gulf States and Florida, this species appears. Fabricius described it in 1775, in Syst. Ent.; says it is fuscous, the fore wing with a rufous (rufa) band and a single ocellus ; the hind wing with a single ocellus above, 6 below, with ferruginous irides and white pupils.
ON THE DESCRIBED N. AM. SPECIES OF THALPOCHARES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Thalpocharas patruelis Grote, Can. Ent., viii., 27.

The fore wings are 12-veined, no accessory cell, 9, 10 out of 8, costal nervules rather crowded, cell open. Hind wings 8-veined, vein 5 a little weaker than the rest, independent. This little species, of which I have both sexes, is rusty ochrey, the hind wings sub-pellucid, washed with ochrey externally.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS.: TIGER BEETLES
Authors: Rogers R. V.
Published: February 2010

There are probably over ninety thousand different species of Beetles in the world, and first and foremost of this mighty legion stand the Cicindelidæ. Well, therefore, might they demand our attention from their high position in the Coleopterous world alone ; but they have many other claims on our consideration.
LIST OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN IN THE VICINITY OF PORTLAND, MAINE.
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

From 1868 till 1876 I spent from six to eight weeks of the summer on Cape Elizabeth, near Portland, Me., the visits extending from July 14th or 16th to Sept. 5th or 8th, and the following list of Diurnal Lepidoptera is compiled from my diaries :

1. Papilio asterias F. Formerly somewhat common, latterly very scarce ; July and August.
A FEW NOTES ON N. AMERICAN ACRIDII
Authors: Scudder Samuel H.
Published: February 2010

I have long had upon my desk a partly completed revision of the Calliptenoid series of N. American Acridians. The task I have undertaken in the study of our fossil insects has hitherto prevented its completion ; and as it bids fair to be long delayed, the following notes are published for the assistance of students of that special group, which is remarkably developed in the United States, from whence I have about one hundred species, while Europe scarcely possesses a dozen.
NEW NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Xylomiges dolosa, n. s.

Professor C. H. Fernald has sent me a fresh female specimen which evidently belongs to an undescribed species of Xylomiges, and for which I propose the specific name dolosa. The species is black and grayish white, the black dull and lustreless. Eyes hairy, abdomen a little flattened, the tufts are not discernible.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS.: SOME WOOD-EATERS.
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

It is to the Hymenoptera that the student must look for the most varied and interesting phases of insect life. Here he finds numerous avocations conducted with much intelligence, and in many families sees strong social instincts developed. It is not, however, of these latter that I intend now to speak, but of a few solitary ones. Even those just entered upon the study of insect life must be fully aware of the continual destruction of our fruit and timber trees, both alive and in process of manufacture, by the boring, wood-eating larvæ of various insects.
THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF MAMESTRA, Ochs.
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The species of this genus have hairy eyes, unarmed tibiæ and a tufted thorax. The dorsum of the abdomen is more or less tufted, but in some species the tuftings are not noticeable. Several species which seem to me to belong to Graphiphora (Taeniocanpa) have been referred to this genus ; among these I may mention orobia of Harvey, modesta, incincta and thecata of Morrison, and the species described by me as rufula and puerilis.
NEW NOCTUIDÆ, WITH LIST OF THE SPECIES OF PERIGRAPHA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Agrotis nanalis, n. s.

♀. The smallest species known to me. All the tibiæ spinose ; eyes naked; body untufted. A slender species which may be compared with opaca. The fore wings are blackish with the lines lost. The stigmata are concolorous, difficult to make out. The orbicular is elongate, the reniform vague, upright, broad; the spots are picked out by a brown shading which fills the cell and marks the subcostal and median veins.
ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF CHALCIDIDÆ FROM FLORIDA
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

Eurytoma vagabunda, n. sp.—♀. Length .10 inch. Deep black. Head and thorax coarsely punctate ; antennæ 8-jointed, black and pubescent; eyes black; thorax black, very coarsely punctate, collare transverse quadrate, parapsidal grooves indistinct, scutellum hardly separated from the praescutellum, convex, narrowing but rounded posteriorly ; metathorax coarsely punctate ; abdonmen black, smooth, and highly polished, peduncle short, a series of very fine punctures along the basal margin of 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments, only perceptible with a high power, tip pubescent ; wings hyaline, iridescent ; veins slightly yellowish, no stigmal spot ; legs reddish yellow, tibiæ slightly paler, feet pale.
NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Graphiphora agrotiformis, n. s.

♀. This form reminds one of Agrotis collaris or versipellis. Eyes hairy; tibiæ unarmed ; tuftings obsolete. Fore wings blackish brown to the continuous, black, upright, uneven subterminal line ; beyond with the fringes brownish. Median lines geminate, faint. Orbicular round, paler than the wing ; reniform moderate, outwardly excavate, upright, pale-ringed with dark centre ; the cell between the spots black-shaded; the stigmata are comparatively small.
PTEROPHORIDÆ
Authors: Fish Charles
Published: February 2010

Œdematophorus lugubris, n. s.

Front of head and palpi very dark fuliginous, the vertex slightly lighter. Form of palpi as in O. Baroni. Antennæ dotted above with white and blackish scales, tawny brown beneath. Thorax color of vertex. Abdomen slender, with scales slightly raised at extremities of joints, dark fuliginous brown, rather copiously sprinkled with black scales.
ON THE APHIDIDÆ OF FLORIDA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

In the April number of the Canadian Entomologist I described a new Aphis affecting Pinus australis belonging to the Section Lachnini.

Having been studying the Aphididae of Florida for the past two years, a quantity of new material has accumulated on my hands, representing nearly all the known North American genera.
DESCRIPTION OF PREPARATORY STAGES OF HELICONIA CHARITONIA, Linn.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg—Cylindrical, one half higher than broad, flat at base, tapering very slightly from base to about three fourths the length, then conoidal, the top flattened and a little depressed; marked by 14 vertical ridges, straight, narrow, not very prominent, and extending from base to the middle of the cone ; below the cone are horizontal striæ, which with the ridges enclose long, rectangular spaces ; there are nine tiers of these, each space roundly excavated; above the base of the cone are similar spaces in one tier, but they are higher and more nearly square and more deeply excavated ; next these is a tier of seven cells, irregularly pentagonal; the flattened top is composed of three concentric rows of small spaces, the outer one largest, and this and the next formed of pentagons; the inner row is made of rhomboids with the micropyle in the centre ; color yellow. Duration of this stage 3 days.
NOTES ON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PAPILIO CRESPHONTES, Cram.
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg—Spherical, a little flattened at base, .06¼ inch in diameter, pale ochre with sometimes a greenish tinge, at others inclining to orange. Duration of this period six days.

Young Larva—Length .11 inch ; the body covered with tubercles from which project small spines; color dark brown, the tubercles on all but the first of the anterior joints a little lighter, joints 6 and 11 straw color. Duration of this period three days.
CARBOLIC ACID AS A PREVENTIVE OF INSECT RAVAGES
Authors: Cook A. J.
Published: February 2010

One year ago I gave at the Boston meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science the results of some experiments in the use of London purple to destroy the codling moth larva, and bisulphide of carbon in fighting the cabbage maggot and squash borer. These experiments have been repeated the present season, and with results no less favorable than those reported one year ago. I think it is an established fact that the methods recommended are valuable. They not only seem reliable, but they promise to be the cheapest and most desirable modes that can be made practicable on all occasions.
ON THE EARLY STAGES OF PLUSIA PRECATIONIS, Guenee.
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Flattened-globular or button-shaped, sometimes with an impressed spot in the centre of the upper side ; upper part grooved, grooves narrow, interspaces roughened ; milky white ; transverse diameter about ½ m. m.

Larva.—First stage : Body deep green, two dorsal, a subdorsal and stigmatal white line, the latter the most distinct ; piliferous spots green, usually tipped with black, each bearing a short black hair; venter deep green, unmarked; head pale green. Provided with only 12 legs.
ON THE LIFE DURATION OF THE HETEROCERA (MOTHS)
Authors: Lintner J. A.
Published: February 2010

I have been requested by Mr. Edwards, who has presented to the Association an interesting and valuable paper, “On the Length of Life of Butterflies,” to supplement it with some remarks on the Life Duration of the Heterocera.

The period of time passed by insects in their perfect stage, is an item in their history to which, so far as I know, very little attention has been paid.
ON THE APHIDIDÆ OF FLORIDA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

The species belonging to this interesting family have received very little attention from Entomologists generally, and considering the extent of the North American fauna, comparatively few species have been described. Of these almost nothing is known of their habits and development.
NOTES ON SOME NOCTUID LARVÆ
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Mamestra trifolii, Esp.

Length when full grown 1.10 inches. In shape and appearance very much like the larvæ of Agrotis lubricans. Color uniforn grass green marked as follows : a rather broad substigmatal line of creamy white, having at times a slightly pinkish tinge ; a dorsal line of dark green. There is no trace of a subdorsal line except that the place of that line is a very little lighter on the first three joints when the larva is crawling. Stigmata narrowly edged with black. Head rather small, a little paler than the body. Piliferous spots very small.
NEW SPECIES OF TINEIDÆ
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary E.
Published: February 2010

Gelechia Chambersella.—In some notes on the larvæ of certain Tineids, published in Vol. vi., No. 12 of the Canadian Entomologist, I referred to an interesting species found on Ambrosia artemesiæfolia, which I proposed soon to describe under the above name. The description was indefinitely delayed by a vexatious accident by which I lost all my perfect specimens.
ON THE EARLY STAGES OF GRACILARIA STIGMATELLA, Fabr.
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

As elsewhere stated, the species formerly described by me as Gracilaria purpuriella is G. stigmatella Fabr. In the Natural History of the Tineina, vol. viii., p. 35, Mr. Stainton gives the following account of it: “The larva feeds in and upon willows, sallows and poplars. On the white poplar I have had an opportunity of observing the mine of the young larva, which is a small blotch not very unlike the mine of a Lithocoletis larva. (Italics my own.)
NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Botis lethalis, n. s.

Allied to atropurpuralis. Fore wings purply brown to the exterior line, which is distinct, nearly straight, a little bent submedially, dark brown followed by a whitish coincident shade tine. Subterminal space pale brown, shaded with whitish. A terminal whitish shade before the broken terminal line.
LIST OF N. AMERICAN ANTHOMYIDAE, EXAMINED BY R. H. MEADE, ESQ., BRADFORD, ENGLAND
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

Mr. R. H. Meade has kindly examined the N. American Anthomyidæ of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, forwarded to him by the Baron von Osten Sacken. The collection was returned last year by the Baron to the Museum. The species are separated carefully and accompanied by a list giving the genera and species, the latter not named except when identical with European species.
COLLECTION NOTES FOR 1880
Authors: Bell James T.
Published: February 2010

The early months of 1880 were especially favorable to the acquisition of the hybernating Coleoptera, and those which have their permanent habitat among the moss of our woods and swamps. The early disappearance of the snow laid bare their hiding places, while the frosts which succeeded formed an ice-bridge which gave access to their places of refuge, which in ordinary seasons remain covered with snow tiil the general break-up of the winter, when they are rendered inacessible by being surrounded or covered with water.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF TERIAS NICIPPE, Cramer.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG.—Long, narrow, fusiform, thickest in the middle, tapering about equally to either end ; the two ends nearly equal, small, blunt, the upper one rounded ; the sides marked by many low, narrow, longitudinal ribs, about 30 in number ; in shape much resembles egg of Colias Philodice, but the ribs are more numerous and less prominent, and there are no cross striæ. Color, when first laid, greenish-yellow; after a few hours turning to red. Duration of this stage in midsummer 2 to 3 days.
NOTES ON CRAMBUS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Crambus sericinellus Zeller.

I am indebted to Professor Fernald for specimens of this species from Maine. It appears in two forms ; one in which the thorax and fore wings are pure satiny white, which, from Prof. Zeller's description and a specimen sent him for identification, is the typical sericinellus ; the other, in which the white is somewhat faded, having a slight yellowish or fuscous cast.
LIMENITIS EROS versus VAR. FLORIDENSIS
Authors: Mead Theodore L.
Published: February 2010

Among the generally accepted canons of nomenclature is the rule that if a description includes two or more species, it shall be valid for neither as against subsequent authors who discriminate the forms properly.

While all of us may not be willing to push this rule to its limit and reject the first name altogether, it certainly is a wholesome restriction against a custom which has prevailed in some quarters, notably in France, of making loose and indefinite descriptions, waiting until some more careful writer has separated one of the forms as distinct and named it, and then declaring that the latter was the species really intended by the indefinite description, thus at one stroke of the pen creating a synonym and finding a new species to be named.
NOTES ON SCIOMYZIDAE WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Day L. T.
Published: February 2010

Tetanocera clara Lw. Mass., Conn. Specimens of this species with typical frontal markings, have the posterior transverse vein nearly straight and perpendicular, as in valida. In a single specimen there is an incomplete brownish-black abdominal stripe, interrupted at the incisures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PAPILIO PHILENOR, Linn.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG—Spherical ; the surface much covered with a rough crust which rises to a summit, either small and pointed, or rather large and truncated ; the sides of this crust irregularly melon-ribbed ; color of surface russet, of the crust bright ferruginous. Duration of this stage 7 to 9 days.
NOTES ON APHIDIDÆ
Authors: Monell Joseph
Published: February 2010

Aphis loniceræ Monell. Riley & Monell, Notes on the Aphididæ, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey, Vol. v., Jan., 1879, p. 6.

This species is the one mentioned by Prof. Thomas in the eighth Ill. Ent. Rept. p. 104, under the name of Chaitophorus lonicerœ Mon'l Mss.

Phorodon mahalek Fonsc. This European species has been very abundant at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis. I believe that it has not before been definitely reported as occurring in the United States.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF HOMOPTERA LUNATA, Drury
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Diameter, .03 inch. Globular in shape, slightly flattened at the base, the apex having a punctured space but no depression; a series of longitudinal ridges from near the base, 20 of which reach the apical space. As these ridges are the same distance apart, there are between those reaching the apex several shorter ones, the number not noted. The depressions between the ridges show slight punctures. Color pale green. Duration of this period 5 days.

Young Larva.—Length .15 inch, slender, 12 legs, the first and second pair of pro-legs mere points. A looper in motion. Color of the middle of the body from joint 2 to 11 pale dull yellow, with a slight leaden hue; head, joint 1 and the anal joint slightly reddish, these parts lacking the leaden hue. All the feet pale. Hairs arising from piliferous spots gray. Head about one third broader than the body. Duration of this period 3 days.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FOR THE SUMMER OF 1881
Authors: Claypole E. W.
Published: February 2010

I came only last year on the premises where I am now residing, and though I had a small crop of cherries, they were so badly infested with the weevii (Conotrachelus nenuphar) that only a few quarts could be found free from the grub and fit for canning. This year a fair crop was promised, the spring was late and the danger of frost little. I proposed therefore to make war upon the enemy, and as soon as the blossom was over prepared a larse sheet of cheese-cloth, and for about three weeks jarred the trees before breakfast almost every morning. As the result, I have now nearly 2,000 weevils peacefully reposing in a bottle, after a composing draught of benzine. Only about 10 per cent. of my cherries this year were unfit for use. I carried the war into the orchard, and simply by way of experiment, jarred some of the early apple trees and captured a great many of my enemies. I am more than repaid for my labors both on the cherry and apple trees by the quality of the apples, when last year, with a larger crop, I only obtained knotty, gnarly fruit. I have this year round, smooth, well-shaped apples. I have never heard that anything has been done, at least in this neighborhood, to trap the weevils on the apple trees. Those who live in the north have no idea of the mischief wrought here by the weevil in the orchards.