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NOTES ON LYCÆNA SCUDDERII, EDW.
Authors: Lyman Henry. H.
Published: February 2010

Writing of this species in his magnificent work on the Butterflies of New England, Dr. Scudder said:

“ This butterfly is double brooded throughout the whole of its range, the first generation making its advent during the last week in May, the females emerging the first week in June, when the males are common. *** The second brood varies considerably in the time of its apparition. Mr. Saunders reports that the first butterflies appeared one year in London, August 2nd; while Mr. Lintner took the first at Albany on July 15th another year found them beginning to fly by the 7th, and one year even found them ‘very abundant’ on the 9th.***
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CORETHRA BRAKELEYI, Coq
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

On June 1st, 1901, while on a mosquito hunt with Mr. J. Turner Brakeley, at Lahaway, we investigated the little pools around the head of a swamp spring. The water was very cold, and our object was, mainly, to ascertain wheter Aedes larvæ occured in such localities, where pitcher plants were in the vicinity.

In the course of our dipping I found a very odd little wriggler, altogether different from anything I had ever seen befor, and soon Mr. Brakeley found the same thing. We took only a few of them at that time, and from their minute size I assumed they must be very yound. I afterward sent a specimen to Dr. Howard, and he appeared as much at sea concerning its location as I was. It seemed to be a Culicid larva, without much doubt; but that was as far as we could get. The specimens were about an eight of an inch in length, light reddish in colour, and very hairy in appearance. The head was very broad, and from it the body taped gradually to the short obtuse anal siphon.
WHAT IS A GENUS?*
Authors: Lyman Henry. H.
Published: February 2010

This question is one that it is extremely difficult to answer satisfactiorilly.

The great naturalist, Agassiz, in his Essay on Classification, wrote:

“Genera are mos closely allied groups of animals differing **** simply in the ultimate structural peculiarities of some of their parts.”

The Century Dictionary defines genus as “a classificatory group ranking next above the species, containing a group a species (sometimes a single species) possessing certain structural characters different from those of any others.” It goes on, however, to say: “The value assigned to a genus is wholly arbitrary–that is, it is considered generic and thus constitute a genus; and genera are constantly modified and shifted by specialists, the tendency being mostly to restriction of genera, with the constant multiplication of their numbers, and the coinage of new generic names.
A NEW COCCID FROM CALIFORNIA AT A VERY HIGH ALTITUDE
Authors: Ehrhorn Edw. M.
Published: February 2010

Exæretopus caricis, n. sp.

Adult ♀ salmon pink, shiny, about 2 mm. long and 1 mm. broad, elongage oval. Legs and antennæ light brown. ♀ secretes a mass of cotton all over her body, becoming so dense as to completely envelope the entire body, looking more like and elongated Eriococcus. This secretion extends caudad, forming a large egg-sac, which, including the whole insect, measures from 4 to 5 mm. Eggs salmon pink. Yound larvæ orange colour. Adult ♀ after boiling in K.O.H.derm remains light brown. Margin beset with fine, short, straight spines, incisions having two stout curved spines. There are numerous short conical spines scatterd over the derm with irregular rows of long fine hairs. Anal plates large and thick, each with four shor, stout spines. Anal ring with six very long, stout hairs, which extend to caudal end of plates. Antennæ long, slender, tapering, 8-jonted. Joint 3 always longest and joint 7 always shortet, each joint with one or more fine hairs, joint 8 with several long hairs.
A NEW SAWFLY OF THE GENUS XYELA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Ashmead has written thus of the Xyelidæ: “ the imagoes appear very early in the year, or in February, March and April, Deposit their eggs and then disappear, the consequence being that very few are taken, and only a few of the common forms are known.” Of the genus Xyela, as now restricted only one North American species, X. minor, Norton, has been described.

On May 1st of the present year, as we were going up to our classes in the Normal University at Las Vegas, N.M., my wife picked a small insect off my coat. It was at once transfered to the bottle which is never absent from the entomologist's person, and upon inspection later, proved to be a new species of Xyela, herewith described:
NEW CYCLORHAPHOUS DIPTERA FROM MEXICO AND NEW MEXICO
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In the course of identifyin a series of Diptera received by Dr. L.O. Howard, and collected in Mexico and New Mexico by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, a number of new forms were encountered, and as manuscript names of these will soon be sent out it is desirable that these forms should be duly characterized; accordingly, the descriptions are presented for publication herewith.
THE MAPLE COTTONY PHENACOCCUS
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

Phenacoccus acericola, n. sp.

Since 1880, when the above-named species was founded and described as the European Pseudococcus aceris, Geoff. (Phenacoccus), by Miss Emily A. Smith, it has untill recently been supposed to have been that species.

The latter part of 1890, Prof. Cockerell wrote me that he believed our species was distinct from that of Europe, and suggested that I should describe it as new if upon further investigation no reason appeared to the contrary. At the meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists of 1891, at Denver, Colorado, he speaks of it as being without a name.
LARVA OF DATANA FROM ARIZONA IDENTIFIED
Authors: Kunze R. E.
Published: February 2010

In the March number fo The Canadian Entomoloigst, Page 74, I described a, to me, unknown larva, which, according to a statement of Mr. Wm. Beutenmuller, of the American Museum of Natural Histroy of New york, is that of Datana robusta, Strecker. Heretofore the imagoes of D. robusta had all been taken in Texas, and Dr. Dyar in Prof. Packard's Bombycine Moths, Vol. 1., page 120, is quoted as saying that the larva of Robusta was yet unknown. Some have claimed that the species described as Robusta too much resembled Perspicua, but it will be seen that the larva is distinct, and the imagines of both these species are entitled to the names as first described. The body colour fo Robusta larva in black, and the lines are yellow.
NOTES ON CICINDELÆ IN NORTH CAROLINA
Authors: Harris Edward. D.
Published: February 2010

In the early part of May of the present year (1902) the writer made an attempt to collect Cicindelæ in the pine belt of North Carolina. While opportunities for observing the distribution of species were too meagre to be of much practical value, certain facts were noted that may be of interest to those studyind the genus.

The first locality visited was Jamestown, a station on the line of the Southern Railway, distant about 220 miles from the coast and 40 from the Virgina line.On the sand bars and banks of Deep River, a tributary of Cape Fear River, beautiful specimens of repanda were taken in abundance. A single duodecimguttata and a single vulgaris of the typical size were taken on the same ground, and few specimens of sexguttata, both six-and eight-spotted, on sanday paths along the wooded banks of the river.
NOTES ON THE LARVÆ OF ARCTIA VIRGO, LINN
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

In Dr. Dyar's “Preliminary Notes on the Larvæ of the Genus Arcta” (Jour. N.Y. Ent. Soc., March, 1900), some interesting remarks are made in reference to the larvæ of Arctia virgo, as to the stage in which the larvæ hibernate, and if they ever posses a dorsal stripe.

Through the kindness of the late Mr. T.G. Priddey, of Toronto, we received on the 10th April, 1901, three larvæ of A.virgo, collected by him on the 5th April. Writing under date of the 8th April to Dr. Fletcher, Mr. Priddey says: “I shall probably get more larvæ, but even now the bank under the grass where they hibernate is quite solid ice.” The three specimens only moulted once before maturity, viz., on the 26th April, 30th April, and 8th May, respectively; so these, at any rate, hibernated in the penultimate stage. Mr. Dwight Brainerd tells me that “ at Montreal, A. virgo generally hibernates in its second to las skin; that is, it sheds its skin twice in the spring before going into pupation.” He also states that he has found specimens in the fallin the penultimate stage. In the Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario for 1869, on page 13, Dr. Fyles mentions that in the spring of 1891 he collected larvæ of this species at South Quebec, which moulted on the 4th May and again on the 20th May, the moths emerging on the 10th July.
ON THE TYPE OF THE GENUS COCCUS, L
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

The first attempt to separate the species given under Coccus in the 10th edition of the Systema Naturæ of Linneus, was made by Geoffroy, in his Histoire Abregée des Insectes, Vol. 1. (1762), where he placed a part of them under Chermes and left adonidum and phalaridis, with his new species ulmi, under Coccus. Of these species only phalaridis was given under the genus Coccus by Linneus in his 10th edition, and is therefore the only species that could be regarded as the type of Coccus so far as Geoffroy is concerned.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE VARIABLE CUTWORM, MAMESTRA ATLANTICA, GRT
Authors: Fletcher DR. James. , Gibson Arthur.
Published: February 2010

In the Report of the Dominion Entomologist for 1901 a notice was given of this insect, the moth of which has for some years at Ottawa been one of the commonest species of the genus found flying during the summer. Any species as abundant as this is must be injurious, should the caterpillars at any time attack a cultivated crop. The larvæ have occasionally been found in vegetable gardens, around peas and beet root, but no injury as yet has been noticed. The finding of a cluster of eggs last year by Mr. Gibson gave on opportunity of studying the life-histroy, which is herewith submitted.
TWO NEW ANTS'-NEST COCCIDS FROM TEXAS
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

Dactylopius Wheeleri,n. sp.– ♀ flesh colour, covered with a white, fluffy material, elongate oval,1¾ mm. long, 1 broad ½ high, convex, very flat beneath. Segmentation distinct. Boiled in potash, they turn brown; transferred to cold water, the internal juice becomes colourless. Pressed under cover-glass, the skin is colourless, with several long hairs anteriorly and on the caudal region above the anal ring and caudal tubercles. Anal ring normal, with six stout bristles. Caudal tubercles very prominent, with two long bristles 120 and 260 μ long. Legs stout, front leg coxa 140. Femur and trochanter 220. Tibia 148. Tarsus 100 μ long. Claw thin, sharp, with a distinct tooth near the end. Tibia and tarsus have several short hairs. Digitules of tarsus and claw very small. Labium small. Rostral loop exceedingly long.
A NEW MYODITES (RHIPIPHORIDÆ)
Authors: Pierce W. Dwight.
Published: February 2010

The specimens on which this description is based are in the collections of the University of Nebraska and of the author. I owe especial acknowledgments to Mr. J. C. Crawfrod, Jr., for specimens and field observations, andto professor Bruner for directing my work.A sixteen-power glass was used in determining characters.

Myodites solidaginis, n. sp. – Female: Length, 7.9 mm. Head depressed, finely and evenly punctate, clad with dense yellowish-white, perpendicular pubescence; antennæ pectinate, ten-jointed, pubescent, very finely punctate, third joint with base of tooth yellowish; vertex between antennæ elevated; mandibles with the exterior side finely punctate, densely pubescent, grooved, in front and on interior sides shining glabrous. Thorax densely punctate, with median groove, but becoming mesially carinate behind the centre, clad with dense, upright, yellowish-white pubescence.
REMARKS ON THE THIRD VOLUME OF TUTT'S BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

The third volnme of Mr. J. W. Tutt's “A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera,” etc., is marked by the same care and fullness of detail as the previous volumes. The detail with which the subject is treated appears in the fact that this volume of 540 pages treats of but 14 species of months. It is veritable storehouse of information.

Mr. Tutt has quoted my views on the larval charaters in several places and has raised certain questions in this connection on which I wish to remark.
CALLOSAMIA ANGULIFERA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

Through the great kindness of a friend, I have received cocoons of
Callosamia angulifera. These are stemless,
and at once distinguishable from those of C.
promethea. This character bears out the
theory (see Can. Ent. for April, p.
94) that C.angulifera
is the older, more generalized form in the genus. In my work on the
Saturnians, June, 1896, I tried to show that the stemmed cocoons of
Philosamia,
Attacus and C.
promethea were specializations and a more
modern development, and gave probable reasons for acquirement of the habit
of fixing the cocoon to the branches, so that it might not fall with the
leaf in the autumn(1.c., pp. 15–16; also Plate 1.)
NOTES ON SOME GENERIC NAMES EMPLOYED BY SERVILLE, IN THE REVUE
METHODIQUE, AND FIEBER, IN THE SYNOPSIS DU EUROPAISCHEN ORTHOPTERAN
Authors: Rehn James. A. G.
Published: February 2010

As has been shown by several previous writers, the Synopsis published in
instalments by Fieber, in Lotos, Volrtme III., all appeared on or before
August 1853. Such being the case, all his new generic names have precedence
over those of L. H. Fischer,* the preface of whose work bears the date,
November, 1853, and which is unlikely to have appeared before 1854.
THE BEE GENUS DIALICTUS
Authors: Crawford J. C.
Published: February 2010

D. anomalus, Robt. Specimens from Dr.
Granicher, collected at Milwaukee, wwere examined.

D. occidentalis, n. n. for
D. anomalus,
Ckll.

Ann and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, VII, 126 (Jan., 1901).

This differs from the true anomalus in its
large size, more densely punctured mesothorax, finer and more numerous lines
on the metathorax, dark tegulæ, abdomen distinctly punctured, quite closely
on the second segment; denser pubescence on the abdomen nearly concealing
the surface on the apical segments; apical margins of abdominal segmentgs
testaceous.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN BEES
Authors: Viereck H. L.
Published: February 2010

Coelioxys Foxii, n. sp.

Coelioxys vigilans, Fox, not Sm. Tr. Am. Ent.
Soc, XVIII., 344, 1891, ♀ ♂.

Conspicuous by its deeply-punctured thoracic dorsum and the orange to
yellowish pubescence.

♀ Length, 10.5 mm. Clypeus rugose, with close, large, poorly defined
punctures, covered with a fine whitish pubescence, and having a whitish
moustache; sides of the face covered with a yellowish appressed pubescence;
near the ocelli this becomes erect; around the latter the hairs and dark
brown, and form and erect fringe; a raised space in front a auterior
ocellus, tapering down in front to a point terminating between insertion of
antennæ, has longitudinal impressed line along the middle on its lower half,
and branches up to each side of the anterior ocellus impunctate, dullish,
the space between and surrounding punctured; an impunctate space between
lateral ocelli and eye margins; top of the head punctured, dullish, the
punctures smaller than those on dorsulum, almost bare; cheeks with appressed
pubescence paler than that on sides of face.
SOME NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Viereck H. L.
Published: February 2010

Hammaniella relativa, n. sp. – Face and dorsum subopaque. punctured, front opaque, the pleura more shining, longitudinal raised line on metapleura distinct, terminated abruptly, the mesothorax not appearing sharply truncate. The longitudinal medial lines on metanotum converging.

♂–Length 14 mm. Clypeus with a few punctures, somewhat shining, transversely impressed, anteriorly though not strongly. Face closely punctured, front opaque. Cheeks impunctate on the eye margin,otherwise with distinct, small, separated punctures, shining malar space punctured, opaque. Dorsulum almost opaque, the punctnres tolerably small, closely arranged. The scutellum more strongly punctured. Mesoplenra shining, with well separated, to smaller closer punctures. Metanotnm with converging, crude, longitudinal medial carinæ becoming obsolete before the apical margin, transverse carina strong. Metapleura separated from the metanotum by a distinct raised line, which stands out prominently, being margined on each side by a more or less distinct channel.
AN ABERRATION OF ACTIAS LUNA
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

My friends have not always forgotten me, but have occasionally sent me live Saturnian chrysalids, spun up no doubt with the intention of the insect to emerge in America. Instead, the poor deluded creatures appeared as months in my German room, allowing me to deceive myself for the moment that in my German room, allowing me to deceive myself for the moment that I was at home. Cynthia, promethea, cecropia, polyphemus, io and even imperialis, came out as in America. The only difficulty I had was with my few cocoons of luna, the moths in some cases failing to expand their wings. But, if my memory does not fail, this accident happens also more especially with luna in the breeding cage at home. Amont the examples which emerged here is one small male, expanding 78 mil., which is the most curious example of the species I remember to have seen. The wings are almos prefectly expanded, a little unevenness of the costa of the right primary, which is somewhat concave, and a slight crumpling of the costal region of both secondaries, are traces of retarded development; the “tails” are fully out.
NOTE ON PITYOPHTHORUS CONIPERDA, SCHWARZ
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

This species was described in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Vol. III, p, 144, 1895, and the author stated: “I offer herewith a description of this species, being solely tempted thereto by the interest attached to its life-history; for, as far as I am aware, there is no other Scolytid known which normally develops within the cones of pine trees.” Possibly since that time a similar habit may have been observed in regard to other members of the Scolytidæ, but I cannot recall any reference to such observations. The beetle in question was first collected by me on May 24, 1884, and its capture was quite accidental. Mr. Fletcher and myself had that day visited a grove of white pines on the Gatineau, a few miles north of Ottawa, with the special object of collecting the somewhat rare little butterfly, Thecla Niphon, of which we succeeded in capturing several good specimens.
A CANADIAN ANOPLONYX
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Among Hymenoptera which I sent to Provancher in 1855 was a sawfly which he determined as Nematus malacus, Nort. As it did not correspond to the description of that species, it was set aside with some undetermined material. While rearranging my Nematidæ, I recently examined the insect to ascertain its position, and found that it had simple claws. As it has not the appearance of Gymnonychus, I was somewhat puzzled until, on examining the wings, I found the lanceolate cell was widely contracted as in the subfamily Cladinæ, instead of petiolate as in the Nematinæ. The insect, therefore, must be placed in the genus Anoplonyx, which Marlatt has separated from Camponsicus, which has bifid claws. As no representatives of these genera were known to Marlatt when he published his Revision of the Nematinæ (Technical Series No.3; Dept. Agric, U.S., 1896), the following description of this Canadian form is submitted:
CHANGES IN THE COLOUR OF BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

While studying the specializations of the wing in the Papilionides, the general results of which are published in the Proc. Am. Philosophical Society, Jan., 1899, I found that Iphiclides, Ajax, Marcellus, etc., differed so strongly from the type of Turnus as to be generically separable. Ajax is, in fact, allied to species having a greenish or yellowish white ground colour, from South America and the Old World, while Turnus is evidently related to the black North American forms, Troilus, etc., with which it flies. This fact enables me to draw the probable conclusion that Glaucus represents the original colour of the species, which, so to speak, is turning into Turnus, The black ♀ Glaucus is the more conservative whereas the males are already, with very rare exceptions, of the yellow tape of Turnus. It is different with certain cases of so-called “melanism,” now spreading in Europe, as Eubyja var. Doubledayaria and Aglia vars. fere-nigra and melaina. Here the original ground colour is changing to black indifferently in both sexes.
THE DECTICINEAN GENUS EREMOPEDES
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

The genus Eremopedes was established by Scudder in 1894, CAN. ENT., XXVI., p. 178,181. It was founded on a femal specimen in the National Museum, but the species was not described till 1900. Previous to that date Mr. Cockerell described a species from New Mexico, together with a colour variety of the same, and I can now add a third species to the genus. In connection with its description it may be well to give a short account of the genus, which may be characterized as follows:

Insects of medium size. Head with the fastigium moderately prominent. Thorax with the prosternum unarmed.* Pronotum smooth, moderately rounded, nearly as much arched posteriorly as anteriorly, and without carinæ. Legs moderately spinose, hind pair long, the femora extending far beyond the tip of the abdomen, usually as much as half their length. Fore tibiæ spinded above on the outer margin only, the spines three in number. Ovipositor moderately curved upwards.
A FEW LAST WORDS TO DR.WASMANN
Authors: Casey L.
Published: February 2010

I have read with some interest Dr. Wasmann's “Last Reply” in the March number of this journal (page 74), and hasten to say that I was by no means “angry” when I wrote the answer referred to. I was only pained to think that a man of Dr. Wasmann's eminence in the scientific world would stoop to send to a colleague a specimen without marks of any kind for identification, in order to have him commit himself to an opininon when deprived of the subtle influence of at least a locality label.
THE TOMB OF THOMAS SAY
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

I have just noticed Prof. Webster's note an the tomb of Thomas Say, and it may be of interest to your readers to know that I have recently visited New Harmony, Ind., and met Mr. John Crobin, the owner of the old Maclure home, where stands the tomb of the father of American descriptive entomology. Mr. Corbin, as Prof. Webster states, is much interested in the proper preservation of this tomb, and is much interested also in the history of Thomas Say. In fact, I found many people in the little village of New Harmony who knew about Say, and who were distinctly of the opinion that his residence in their village sheds lustre on its history. The village library is an admirable one, housed in a beautiful building, and among the treasures of the library are certain of Say's manuscripts, among others, one written upon the day of his death.
SPINNING METHODS OF TELEA POLYPHEMUS
Authors: Cockle J. Wm. , Kaslo B. C.
Published: February 2010

In reply to the query suggested by Prof. Grote, in the April number of the Entomologist (page 110), with reference to the spinning methods of Telea, I have discussed the subject with Dr. Fletcher, whose opinion is that only some of the cocoons are so suspended, but recent search has decided me that in locality this is the case with the majority.

On April 2nd I found two cocoons on a small willow bush, one suspended, with the leaves firmly attached to the stem; the other had been spun between the overhanging sides of a large leaf that had fallen across the limb, thus forming a complete conopy, but the cocoon was firmly fastened to the twig with a lot of silk. Diligent search amongst the leaves on the ground failed to reveal any fallen cocoons.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF CROCIGRAPHA NORMANI, GRT
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

On the 6th May, 1901, a cluster of 30 eggs of Cricigrapha Normani, Grt., was found by the writer. Six of these had been destroyed and the contents eaten, probably by some hemiptetrous insect. The eggs were laid in rows close together, touching each other, on the upper side of a leaf of Caulophyllum thalictroides, Michx., and formed almost a completed square, an average of six eggs being in each row. They looked as if they had just been laid. Yound maple, ash and birch trees were growing near by.
A COLEOPTEROUS CONUNDRUM
Authors: Slosson Annie. Trumbull.
Published: February 2010

A year ago, May 1902, I had a peculiar entomological experience. I had returned from Florida to my home in New York about the middle of April, had spent two or three weeks arranging and classifying my captures of the winter, sending off duplicates and doubtful species to specialists, and preparing my collection for the summer months of my absence. A full fortnight must pass before I should leave town for my New Hampshire summer home, and I already pined for a little collecting. Suddenly I recalled the existence of some old boxes of insects which had been crowded out of my regular collection-room some years before. They were in a closet opening from a hall on the second floor. This closet had been built especially for the preservation of woollen clothin and its protection from ravages of the devouring moth, its walls, shelves and drawers being made of red cedar.
A NEW CULICID GENUS RELATED TO CORETHRA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

The genus Corethra was founded by Meigen in 1803,* on Tipula culiciformis, De Geer, and in April, 1844, Leow erected the genus Mochlonyx† on Corethra velutina, Ruthe, basing it on the shortened first joint of the tarsi, a character mentioned by Ruthe in his original description. The characters of the tarsi of culiciformis cannot be ascertained from De Geer's description and figures.‡ On page 386 of the same volume of his Memories, which contains the account of this species, is a description and brief account of a related species, which he named Tipula crystallina, with a reference to Reaumur's Memories, V., plate 6, figures 4–15, where at 4 and 7, a more slender larva without a trace of a subanal respiratory tube in shown, contrasting with the broader larva furnished with a large respiratory tube, as represented in De Geer's figures of culiciformis,; the descriptions and figures which these authors give crystallina do not indicate the characters of the tarsal joints of the adult.
DO WE KNOW CULEX CONSOBRINUS, Desv.?
Authors: Aldrich J. M.
Published: February 2010

Desvoidy published this species in 1827, in the Memoirs of the Society of Natural History of Paris, Vol. III., p. 408. The entire description is as follows:

27. Culex Consobrinus, R.D.

Simillimus præcedenti; palpis, tarasique bruneis.
A NEW OAK-GALL
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Dryophanta rydbergiana, n. sp.—Gall: on leaf of Quercus rydbergiana, Ckll. (Torreya, Jan., 1903). solitary, 6 mm. diameter, spherical, faintly shiny, light ferruginous, with a microscopically tessellate surface and a scattered stellate pubescence; base concave, point of attachment small; contains a single large cell; the space between the cell and the exterior filled with spongy tissue, which is light green within and ferruginous outwardly.
A SUPPOSED MIGRATION OF PIERIDÆ WITNESSED IN VENEZUELA IN THE SUMMER OF 1901
Authors: Clark Austin. H.
Published: February 2010

The erratic migrations of certain insects, often in countless swarms, have been noticed and put on record by many observers. In a country where, perhaps, they are scarce, or, it may be, almost wanting ordinarily, they may suddenly put in an appearance in such numbers as to defy all attempts at computation; or immense swarms of them may sometimes be seen far out at sea, flying steadily in a direction which may take them out so far as to effectually prevent any return.
NOTES ON THE COCCIDÆ
Authors: Fernald Mrs. C. H.
Published: February 2010

In an article on the genns Lecanium, Published in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 34, p. 177 (1902), I stated that I inferred that Costa proposed generic names for the Coccidæ in his Prospetto di una nuova descrizione metodica del genera Coccus L., work I had not seen at that time, as no copy could be found in the libraries of this country or in London. Mr. Fernald has, however, recently secured a copy of this exceedingly rare work, published in 1828, from Naples, Italy.
SOME CORRECTIONS TO DR. DYAR'S LIST OF NOCTUIDS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

In Dr. Dyar's recent very full and careful List of North American Noctuids, Wash. Cat., pp. 98–247, are a few errors which I would briefly point out in this journal. They have mostly arisen from a neglect of a couple of papers in Can. Ent., and one in Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., 1895, as well as from a two literal following of Prof. Smith's Washington list. With regard to the general sequence of the order adopted, I have given that preferred by myself in these pages, and can only repeat here that the Noctuid series (Lithosia—Noctua) affords a parallel to that of the blues and skippers in the butterflies, and that I should place them below the series Bombyx, Lachneis—Geometra, disturbing as little as possible the older classifications.
A NEW PARANOMIA FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

Paranomia Venablesii, sp. nov.— ♀. Length 10.5 mm. Black; abdominal segments 1–4 at apex with bands of a golden-yellowish pubescence; the head in front, the cheeks, the occiput, the thorax in front at the sides, the postsctellum the legs, and the abdomen beneath, all clothed with a pale or whitish pubescence. Wings hyaline, fuliginous at apex, the costæ and parastigma black, the stigmal and internal veins testaceous. Legs mostly black, the stigmal and internal veins testaceous. Legs mostly black, with tarsal joints 2–5 mostly yellowish. The head is rather finely, sparsely punctate, the thorax more closely and densely punctate, but with the punctures finer on the scutellum, while the metathorax in shagreened, opaque. The abdomen has the first segment minutely punctulate, the following segments being more or less alutaceous.
SOME DIPTERA FROM ARIZONA
Authors: Hine James. S.
Published: February 2010

In a collection of Diptera, taken in Arizona by J. Thomas Lloyd, of Cincinnati, Ohio, during the summer of 1902, I find some species of sufficient importance to warrant recording notes concerning them at this time.

Chrysops proclivis, O.S.—Specimens of this species were taken in Oak Creek Canyon, July 5th. I have not seen a record of the species from this territory heretofore.
TWO NEW PTINIDÆ
Authors: Schaeffer C.
Published: February 2010

A number of new species. either entirely new or known only from Mexico or Central America, have been brought back by me from the lower Rio Grande. The description of these new species, together with a list of the species known to occur in that region, will be published by me in the Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn Inst. of Arts and Sciences. The two following species are here described in advance, in order that they may be included in the revision of the Ptinidæ on which Prof. Fall is at work.
CULEX CONSOBRINUS: A REJOINDER
Authors: Aldrich J. M.
Published: February 2010

In the August number of this journal, Mr. Coquillett has given his reasons for not accepting Culex inornatus as the proper name for the species which he has called C. consobrinus. He bases his claim for the name consobrinus on a supposed error of Desvoidy's in the indentification of pipiens, relying on the length mentioned, 3 lines, as proof that Desviody's species could not have been the real pipiens. My own article on the subject, in the July number, had intimated that Desvoidy had erred in the measurment given. Since then I find that Theobald (Mon. Culicidæ. II.; 135) gives 6 mm. as the maximum length of pipiens; this, of course, is equivalent to Desvoidy's 3 lines.
THE GENUS PLATYLABUS, WESMAEL, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES
Authors: Bradley J. Chester.
Published: February 2010

The table which I here present of the genus Platylabus must be considered merely as a preliminary or working table of the species in the collection of the American Entomological Society,or in my own cabinet. The other species, known to me only by description, I have included for the sake of convenience, and have placed a star before their names. I cannot vouch for the correctness of these.
SYNOPSIS OF EPEOLINÆ
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

Segment 5 with a more or less evident bevelled or truncate space, false pygidium, which is rather sparsely short, bristly and fuscous, purplish or sericeous in certain lights; ovipositor (applied here to one of a pair of appendages often exserted one on each side of the sting) setiform, fimbriate, apex with several curved divergent spines; mandibles simple; maxillary palpi 3-jointed; scutel finely punctured, sub-bilobed; segments 1–4 with apical fasciæ of pale appressed pubescence
GASTROPHILUS EPILEPSALIS, French
Authors: Washburn F. L.
Published: February 2010

Dr. Burnside Foster, of St. Paul, a short time since sent me three Dipterous larvæ taken from the cutaneous tissue of a three-weeks-old infant, born on the seventh mont, at Superior, Wisconsin. I at first thought the insect to be Lucilia, but being in doubt, and having no biological collection in this group for reference, I immediately sent it to Washington, receiving a telegramin reply that Mr. Coquillett had identified it as Gastrophilus epilepsalis.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

This tribe, to the initiated, is readily distinguished by the eyes, which are usually quite differently shaped, rarely smooth and shining, and always distinctly facetted, although a few females have small ellipsoidal or somewhat rounded eyes, as in the tribes Photopsidini and Sphaerphthalmini, and therefore, if the greatest care is not given to other characters, could be confused with certain genera in those tribes.
A NEW SPECIES OF HYPOLÆPUS, KIRBY
Authors: Bradley J. Chester.
Published: February 2010

Hypolæpus Viereckii, sp. nov.—Dark, abdomen whit beneath, legs partly white, wings hyaline, nervures whit at base. Length, 7–8 mm.

♀. — Head shining black; face below the insertion of the antennæ, a narrow band between the antennæ and the eyes, head above the eyes, and the temples, white; antennæ black, nine-jointed, third slightly arcuate, thicker and longer than the fourth, which is in turn longer than the fifth, and so on to the last. Thorax shining black, laterally in front of wings white; wings hyaline, nervures brown, whitish at base of wing; first transverse cubitus transparent, without colour, second submarginal cell receiving two recurrent nervures, lanceolate cell petiolate, only one marginal cell; legs dark brown, all coxæ and trochanters, tibiæ execpt tips and basal third of posterior femora, white; posterior tibiæ slightly enlarged, longitudinally sulcate, first joint of posterior tarsi as long as the other three combined, the last joint being especially short.
CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

The new Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of North America which I have prepared has been issued as Bulletin No.52 of the United States National Museum. It comprises 740 pages. The edition is being distributed by the Smithsonian Institution, without charge. Those not receiving the publications of the National Museum regularly, and who are interested enough in entomology so that this publication would be of practical use to them, will be cheerfully recommended by me to receive a copy, on making application to the undersigned.
ENTOMOLOGICAL BRANCH OF THE OTTAWA FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB
Authors: H W. H.
Published: February 2010

The members of this section of Club are endeavoring to create a more active interest in the study of entomology by holding fortnightly meetings, at the residences of the members, for the exhibition of specimens, discussion thereon, and the presentation of brief papers. The movement has so far proved most satisfactory, and the benefit of it has been felt by every individual, in reviving and quickening their love for the subject, and in affording opprtunity for solving of problems which every collector meets with in examining insects which he has not specially stuided. Three meetings have already been held; the first at the residence of Dr. Flecther, who was the principal mover in organizing the meetings; the second at Mr. Harrington's and the third at Mr.Hulkett's. They were all most enjoyable and instructive, and the two hours allotted to each were fully occupied, and the discussions and exhibits will undoubtedly bear fruit in improved work in future by the members. They also look forward to more systematic collecting in the approaching season, and to the holding of more frequent sub-excurisions.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Brues Charles. T.
Published: February 2010

Dryinus nigrellus, sp. nov.—Femal. Length 4.25mm. Wholly black, except tarsi, part of antennæ and mandibles. Head black, finely rugulose, faintly silvery pubescent and sub-shining. Vertex impressed; front wiht a short median impressed groove above the antennæ. Cheeks roughened; mandibles pale yellow, with the tip of the teeth black' quadridentate, the outer tooth the larger and the inner one extremely minute; palpi black.
AN ARBOREAL ORCHELIMUM
Authors: Davis Wm. T.
Published: February 2010

Those who visit the pine-barrens of New Jersey know what a pleasure it is to ramble along the narrow wooded-ppaths among the pine trees ; old paths that after once being made continue for many years, and may seldom entertain a pedestrian. Along these paths and by the side of the sandy roads, any time during late summer arrd until frost, one may hear a faint, lisping little song from a grasshopper corning from the pines, often from their topmost branches. It is an easy matter to climb the pitch-pine, which is usually arranged admirably for the purpose, and the grasshopper is also friendly to investigation, and commonly continues to stridulate.
NEW TORTRICIDS FROM KASLO, B. C., AND THE NORTHWEST
Authors: Kearfott W. D.
Published: February 2010

Enarmonia Cockleana, sp. nov.— Palpi pale fawn, tipped with black, Front of head or face very pale fawn, top of head and thorax a shade deeper. Fore wing rich reddish chocolate brown, by refracted light, scales prismatic, like burnished copper. A broad fawn-coloured fascia from costa at inner third obliquely to dorsal margin beyond half. A second oblique fascia parallels the first, begins on costa at outer two-thirds, and ends at anal angle; this is broader on costa, and lower half is not so well define.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN STRATIOMYIDÆ
Authors: Melander A. L.
Published: February 2010

While arranging the flies of this family contained in the Garry de N. Hough collection of the University of Chicago, together with my own material, a number of notes have been made, which are here given. This family, like a number of other dipterous groups, needs monographic study owing to the confused and scattered descriptions of most of the forms. Of recent years the number of genera has been multiplied, although the authors have neglected to sift out the older species belonging to these new groups. Accordingly, the older genera, like Sargus for example, contain species of several of the modern subdivisions.
SYNOPSIS OF BEFS OF OREGON, WASHINGTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER.—II
Authors: Viereck H. L. , Cockerell T. D. A. , Titus E. S. G. , Crawford J. C. , Swenk M.
Published: February 2010

The species here treated belong to genera previously “lumped” under Andrena.

Three submarginal cells.

♀ with joint 3 of the antennæ shorter than 4 and 5; ♂ with joint 3 shorter than 5, rarely as lon gas 4; sculpture in both sexes with few exceptions coarse, enclosure usually ridge, depressions fo abdominal segment usually sharply defined; ♀ with a simple tibial.
APHODIUS ERRATICUS, LINN., ON MONTREAL ISLAND
Authors: Stevenson Charles
Published: February 2010

With the opening of the season, my son, Kenneth R. Stevenson, has proceeded to keep up his reputation as a Coleopterist by finding two specimens of Aphodius erraticus, Linn., on the first of May under stones on a waste piece of ground in Maplewood, near Montreal.
NOTES ON GENERIC CHARACTERS IN THE LYCOSIDÆ
Authors: Chamberlin Ralph. V.
Published: February 2010

In Lycosa there is in most cases present a small, apically more or less rounded flap or lobe at and pressing against the base of origin of the embolus. This lobe, which may be spoken of as the palea, is often small or but weakly developed; but in L. pulchara it is very long and conspicuous. Here it embraces and supports the embolus along much of its length, being at the same time shifted ectad from its usual position. This special development of the supporting palea in L. pulchra is associated with the pecuilar position of the embolus, which instead of curving back to rest along the lectus in the ususal manner, here arches foward and outward (i. e., ventrad) free from the bulb, only its apical part, which turns forward and rests obliquely across the auricula, being at all in contact with the lectus.
THE DIPTERA OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.: Second Part.—The Syrphidæ
Authors: Osburn Raymond. C.
Published: February 2010

In Part I. of this paper Professor Jas. S. Hine has given a list of the Diptera of British Columbia in all the families except the Syrphidæ. While connected with the Minnesota University Seaside Station at Port Renfrew, on Vancouver Island, during ghe summers of 1901 and '02, the present writer paid especial attention, as far as time permitted, to the collection of Syrphids, hence the list of species in this family is much more complete than in other families which were picked up incidentally.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

Cucullia oribac, n. sp.—General type of maculation like agua, differing, however, in important particulars; moreover, it seems to be of a less stumpy, stocky build, the wings being longer in proption to their width and the abdomen considerably longer. It is quite possible that it may be but a variety of agua, and were it not for the fact that the species of Cucullia, as a rule, run quite true to type I should hesitate to describe it.
THE DIPTERA OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.: Second Part.—The Syrphidæ
Authors: Osburn Raymond. C.
Published: February 2010

43. Sphœophoria micrura, Osten Sacken.— Two females from Port Renfrew, one July 6, 1901, the other Aug. 16, 1902. The male was taken at Seattle, Wash. July 15, 1901.

44. Sphœrophoria sulphuripes (Thompson).— One male specimetn, taken at Glacier, July 20, 1901, belongs here questionably. It lacks the characteristic bunch of yellow pile on the hypopygium of cylindrica, but otherwise resembles that species quite closely.
MOSQUITO NOTES.—No. 2
Authors: Ludlow C. S.
Published: February 2010

Among the new genera lately separated by Theobald from Ædes and Uranotœnia, the differences seem at times puzzling, and without an opportunity to study the types, it is not always easy to feel sure of the position of a new insect. It is also to be noted that in some of these genera the male is unknown, and it may possibly happen that they belong to the class having long palpi in the male. This is very definitely suggested by a mosquito received recently from Bayamban, Pangasinan, P.I., which, while having long palpi in the male, flat scales (no curved ones) on the head, curved scales only on the scutellum, still has the wing characteristics of Uranotœnia.
NOTES ON SOME BEES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Spending the summer in England, I have, of course, hastened to examine the types of F. Srnith, and other bees contained in the collection of the British Museum. The following notes elucidate some species which had puzzled American entomologists, who had access only to the descriptions:

Chelostomoides rugifrons (Smith)

Chelostoma rugifrons, Sm., type ♀.—Would be large for Chelostoma; a transverse ridge, with large punctures, below the antennæ, and below this a smooth shining impunctate depressed area, bounded on each side by a vertical ridge, so that one gets the impression at first that the clypeus is very broadly and deeply emarginate; the long labrum, seen from above, looks like the end of an elephant's trunk, being broadened at the end, and presenting a median elevation; the “tooth near the base within” of the mandibles is a shining tubercle; the recurrrent nervures join second submarginal cell at about distances from its base and apex respectively; the basal nervure just falils to reach transverso-medical; claws broad and angled basally, but not cleft; no pulvillus (Chelostoma florisomne has a large pulvillus); first abdominal segment with a distinctly margined though shallow concavity.
ON SOME NEW COLEOPTERA, INCLUDING FIVE NEW GENERA
Authors: Casey Thos. L.
Published: February 2010

The principal motive in publishing the present paper in the desire to fulfill a promise made to Rev. J.H. Keen, several years agom to write a description of an apparantly new and very interesting Staphylinid discovered by him in British Columbia. For one reason or another I was compelled to defer this work, but having now an opportunity to comply with the wished of my valued friedn and correspondent of many years, the present occasio is made available to draw up a little paper, containing in addition a number of novelties received from various collectors from time to time.
THE ORDER DIPTERA
Authors: Sacken Osten
Published: February 2010

Dipeta during the past century have gradually risen in public estimation, especially among men of science. The superiority of their organization has been recognized by systematists, and observers of living specimens have noticed peculiarities in their behaviour which prove a higher development of their faculties than of those of other order.
THE ROSEBUD FEATHER-WING.: (Platyptilia rhododactyla, Schiff.)
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary. E.
Published: February 2010

Scarcely a season passes that some newly-introducted, pernicious insects from across the eastern or western oceans are not reported in the United States or Canada. These immigrants, leaving being them their natural enemies, and apparently greatly invigorated by the change of climate, usually multiply with rapidity and soon prove exceedingly destructive.
A NEW BEE IN THE GENUS DIPHAGLOSSA
Authors: Crawford J. C. , Titus E. S. G.
Published: February 2010

Spinola in 1851 described and figured Diphaglossa Gayi as a new species and new genus closely related to Anthophora. It was founded on males and females collected in northern Chili, “Santa Rosa, Coquimbo, etc.” He figures the insect (natural size), face view of head and mouthparts, wing, antennæ and leg.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
Authors: Brainerd Dwight
Published: February 2010

As the Editor expresses willingness to receive notes on any entomological subject, I give my experience with “vertical” inflation of caterpillars. I have done a great deal of inflating, and find three bad faults with the common horizontal ovens.

Ist. The air pressure necessary to extedn the caterpillar oftern is enough to force the skin out of shape.