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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF TROCHILIUM
Authors: Strecker Herman
Published: February 2010

Trochilium Grande, n. p.—General appearance of T. Ceto (Melittia Cucurbitæ Harr.) but very much larger, expanding 1¾ inches.

Antennæ blackish. Palpi reddish orange. Head white in front, dark lustrous greenish gray on top. Collar red. Thorax above dark greenish same as top of head. Abdomen red, each segment outwardly edged with black.
NOTES ON AEGERIA PINI.
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

The description of this moth on page 7 of this volume was drawn from a single female specimen and that not in good condition. I have this season secured fresh examples of both sexes; from these I note some additions and corrections to the previous account.
ON TWO NEW CHALCID FLIES FROM FLORIDA, PARASITIC UPON THE LARVÆ OF SYRPHUS FLIES
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

Having continued my investigations on Orange Insects, I have made many other discoveries. Among these probably the most interesting is the breeding of two species of Chalcids from the larvæ of Syrphus flies.

Now, as a general rule, the Chalcididæ must be considered beneficial, the majority of them preying upon other insects injurious to the agriculturist, the species belonging to the Eurytomide genus Isosoma, being, I believe, the only vegetable feeders known among them.
ON A LARVA OF MORDELLA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

In previous numbers of the Can. Ent. (vols. ix, p. 232, and viii, p. 137) I have given an account of a singular larva found in thorns of Gleditschia triacanthos or Honey Locust. I have never succeeded in rearing the imago from the larvæ found in the thorns, but the same larva—or one that I have not been able to distinguish from it—lives also in the pith of the “iron weed” ( Veronia ) and also in that of the “hog weed ” or “horse weed,” Ambrosia trifida ; and in the pith of these stems is also found a Lepidopterous larva which I have not been able to rear to the imago state, but which does not seem to differ from that of Laverna gleditschæella found in the thorns.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

On the 11th of June I took a pair of Saperda Fayi upon thorn, a rather rare insect with Canadian collectors hitherto, I believe. Ten years ago or more I captured one, and had not met with it since, but this year amidst a general scarcity it seemed to be quite abundant here, the different collectors finding it well represented in every direction around the city.
IS LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS A DOUBLE-BROODED SPECIES?
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In Butterflies of N. A., Vol. 2, Part 8, 1879, I gave the history of Arthemis, and stated that it was single-brooded ; that the first butterflies of the season appear in the Catskills about the end of June; that they are abundant during July; that the eggs are laid last of July and early in August; that the larvæ from these eggs pass two moults and then go into lethargy in cases of their own construction ; that they come from these cases in spring and moult twice before chrysalis.
MR. SCUDDER'S “BUTTERFLIES.”
Authors: Peabody S. H.
Published: February 2010

This long promised and lately issued book wants little that the skill of artizan or the genius of artist can furnish. The Entomological brotherhood—those lovers of the net and flask, who, gentler than the historic angler, impale not even a worm until it has become insensible to pain—they and the general public will find some store of delightful reading within its pages.
ON A LATELY DESCRIBED SPECIES OF LIMENITIS
Authors: Strecker H.
Published: February 2010

Mr. W. H. Edwards' Limenitis Eros published in the Dec. (1880) No. of Can. Ent., p. 246–251, is the same insect described by myself two years since in the Synonymical Catalogue, p. 143, as follows : Limenitis Misippus “var. a. Floridensis, nob.—The form found in Florida and other parts of the extreme south. Whilst our more northern form is of the same color as Danais Plexippus, this southern variety exactly mimics in its dark coloration Danais Berenice, with which it associates.”
ON A NEW SPECIES OF PACKARDIA
Authors: Goodell L. W.
Published: February 2010

For several years I have had in my collection, among other undetermined specimens of Bombycidæ, a species of Packardia which did not seem to agree with any of the published descriptions that were accessible to me. Mr. Grote, to whom I lately submitted the specimen, kindly informs me that it is as yet undescribed.
NOTES UPON CLIMATIC INFLUENCES ON SAMIA GLOVERI OF UTAH AND S. CEANOTHI OF CALIFORNIA
Authors: Mundt A. H.
Published: February 2010

The summer of 1879 was quite warm and dry in Utah as well as California. This was very disastrous to the larvæ of S. Gloveri, which, it is well known, feed on the willows in Utah growing in or near swamps or near creeks in canons.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

I. Cecidomyia spec. on Aristolochia sipho.

Flat rounded galls on the under side of the leaves, pale, somewhat transparent, pale greenish, 4 mil. diam. On the upper side of the leaf the gall becomes a slightly elevated disk marked with dark red and having in the middle a small pale-bordered hole. The galls grow larger and more globular on the stems of the leaves, to globes of 8 mil. diam., some more elongated, 18 mil. long and 8 mil. broad. The larvæ are brick red, 3 mil. long, very agile. I find no species on Aristolochia described by Osten Sacken and others.
THE LARVA OF CATOCALA UNIJUGA
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

I obtained, June 16, 1880, from the trunk of a Populus candicans, at Buffa1o, N. Y., two larvæ which proved to be those of C. unijuga. They had passed their last moult when taken ; although they continued to feed in confinement for five or six days they increased in size but little during that time; their habits are strictiy nocturnal.
NEW SPECIES OF CYNIPIDAE
Authors: Bassett H. F.
Published: February 2010

Cynips (Q. Californica, n. sp.

Galls: Polythalamous, sessile on the branches of the Californian White Oak (Quercus Hindsii ?) Sub-globular, but varying much in form and size. A common form is what may be termed balloon-shaped, the upper part perfectly globular, the lower tapering more or less to the sessile base. They often occur of a long compressed oval form: these are placed longitudinally on the branch and the length is two or three times their breadth or thickness.
COENONYMPHA ELKO
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Male : Expands .95 to 1 inch.

Upper side pale ochre-yellow, immaculate ; fringes concolored.

Under side of primaries nearly same ochre-yellow over basal area and part of isk, limited without by a slightly sinuous and crenated edse of deeper color, much as in the allied species; outside this, stightly ochraceous next inner angle, but yellow-buff over apical area.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EUDAMUS
Authors: Lintner J. A.
Published: February 2010

Eudamus Electra, n. sp.

Size of small Nisoniades Juvenalis. Primaries narrower than in Eudamus Pylades Scudd. ♀, more rounded on the costa, and more oblique on the hind margin. Secondaries rounded, not prolonged at the anal angle as in E. Pylades, nor excavated opposite the cell as in most of the Nisoniades.

General color dark brown, approaching that of E. Pylades ; the fringe concolorous with the terminal portion of the wings, a little paler at their tips.
ON A NEW SPECIES OF APHIS AFFECTING THE PINE
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

Among our native forest trees, none, unless it is the oak, suffer more from the depredations of insect enemies than the pine. Distributed as it is—from the Arctic to the Tropics—climatologically speaking, it becomes a prey to every conceivable form of insect life.
PTEROPHORIDÆ
Authors: Fish Charles
Published: February 2010

About three years ago I commenced the study of the “featherwings,” with the intention of preparing at some future time a monograph of the North American species of this family. While adhering to my original intention, I have decided to so far modify it as to publish in advance certain new species which have accumulated on my hands, and I am induced to this course the more because it may be a considerable time before sufficient material will have been obtained to justify me in publishing my general paper.
NEW CYNIPIDAE
Authors: Bassett H. F.
Published: February 2010

Cynips Q. pomiformis, n. sp.

Globular, polythalamous galls, sessile on the twigs of Quercus Agrifolia, much resembling small round apples except that the apex is not depressed as is usuaily the case in this fruit. Size from one to two inches in diameter. Color various shades of brown, depending upon the degree of exposure to the sun. The smoothish surface sometimes with a few small, hard, scattered wart-like points.
NOTES ON COCCIDÆ
Authors: Comstock J. Henry
Published: February 2010

There occurs in certain orange groves in southern California a species of Aspidiotus which infests the bark, leaves and fruit of the orange and which from the extent of its ravages has created great alarm. This insect is popularly known by the fruit growers of that section as the red scale, although this name does not well describe its color.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF APATURA FLORA, Edw.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Similar to egg of Clyton; nearly spherical, flattened at base, marked by 18 or 20 slightly prominent vertical ribs, and by many fine equi-distant striæ ; color yellow-green. Duration of this stage 6 to 7 days.

Young Larva.—Length .8 inch; cylindrical, tapering from segment 3 ; pubescent : color pale green, translucent; head twice as broad as next segment, sub-globose, bilobed, the surface thickly pitted with shallow excavations ; color shining yellow or ochrey-brown.
ON A GIGANTIC CHALCID FLY INHABITING FLORIDA
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

In the spring of 1880, while collecting Coleoptera, I secured a ♀ of a large species of Chalcid belonging to the genus Smicra, which is apparently unknown to the scientific world.

The specimen was captured on an oak shrub, in close proximity to an empty polyphemus cocoon. Could it have hatched from it ? This is not improbable, as Prof. C. V. Riley's Smicra mariœ was bred from this moth, and other species of the genus are known to be parasitic upon the larvæ of our larger moths.
NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE IN THE ZUTRAEGE.—FOURTH AND FIFTH HUNDREDS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Oria sanguinea, 9, fig. 613–614.

“Georgia.” This species has been generally recognized. Oria is used for maculosa in the Verzeichniss, from which sanguinea is distinct structurally. I have referred the latter as the type of Porrima in the Chheck List, No. 664. The doubtful reference there to Fitch's volupia must be struck out.
NEW CYNIPIDAE
Authors: Bassett H. F.
Published: February 2010

Cynips tenuicornis, n. sp.

Galls : Densely hairy hemispherical masses attached by a single small point to the upper or under surface of the leaves of an unknown species of oak found in Arizona. They are from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter. One specimen in my collection is nearly globular, but all the others are hemispherical, the flat side lying close upon the surface of the leaf.
THE PICKLED FRUIT FLY—DROSOPHILA AMPELOPHILA, Loew
Authors: Bowles G. J.
Published: February 2010

In August, 1879, I met with a small Dipterous fly, Drosophila ampelophila Loew, in considerable numbers, and as the subject is of interest to entomologists, I give the result of my observations. I have to thank Professor Hagen, of Cambridge, for the determination of the species and other information, and also Professor Lintner, of Albany, for a copy of his article in the “Country Gentleman” of 1st Jan'y, 1880, on this insect, and from which I have largely drawn.
NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I have indicated in this short paper where the types of my Geometrid species are to be found, to the best of my knowledge, and I have given such additional information as I am possessed of with regard to the species. I have followed the classification of Dr. Packard, except in a few instances where I have found reasons to prefer other names. I refer to my paper, Can. Ent., 8, 152, for a review of the synonymy of certain species. Two species, one described by Dr. Harvey (viz., Endropia Warneri), have been re-named by Dr. Packard, who calls Dr. Harvey's species Apiciaria. As to whether we must put the terminations aria and ata (accordingly as the ♂ antennæ are pectinate or not) I cannot attempt to decide. I think it is advisable to bear this rule in mind when naming species, but I would not change therefore any names already in use. Especially do I think it unadvisable to place the termination after a proper name. I should call the Endropia, E. Warneri, not E. Warneraria.
THE OLDEST FIGURES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

The Gazophylacium of Jacob Petiver, Apothecary in London (died 1715) is a very rare book, as the plates and the catalogues were printed and published at different times between 1695 and 1715. They were collected later and published by Mr. Empson, an officer of the British Museum and a natural son of Sir Hans Sloane, in 1764, in London, with the title, “Jacobi Petiveri Opera, etc., or Gazophylacium, 2 vol. fol.” A small volume in 8vo contains the original sheets published by Petiver between 1695 and 1706. The library of the Museum of Comp. Zool. at Cambridge possesses a copy presented, June 1765 by Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian of the Royal Society, to Thomas Knowlton. The collection of J. Petiver, at least the Lepidoptera, is still preserved in the British Museum, and was seen by me in 1857. Every butterfly is placed between two thin plates of mica, fastened with a small band of paper around the margin, and glued with one flying slip to the pages of a book in quarto, so that every species can be examined above and beneath.
A PHYSIOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF INSECTS
Authors: Swinton A. H.
Published: February 2010

Having in times gone by perused with interest certain essays from the pen of the late Edward Newman on the subject of a true or physiological arrangement of Insecta, may I now be allowed to call attention to the additional evidence adducible from the recent investigations of their organs of sensation, a matter I had latery the honor of placing before public attention in my book, Insect Variety.

Viewed in this new light, the presence of auditory organs and welldeveloped eyes place the Orthoptera first in this list; and these would be followed by a group of the Homoptera, the Cicadidœ, where we find the auditory organs are highly developed, but sight less potent. Next to these appear to come Lepidoptera, where the Nocturni stand first as having well-defined auditory organs, and the Diurni second from reason of their excellent optic organs. Then would follow Coleoptera, which as far as Europe is concerned, certainly give evidence of possessing auditory apparatuses in two of their groups, the Lamellicornia and, Longicornia, although in the latter the visual organs are imperfect. As far as I can learn, the species of Hymenoptera, Neuroptera and Diptera, have the auditory sense, if present, much less potent; but sight, smell and touch are evident and variously developed. This perfectly harmonizes with Newman's circular view, given in the Entomologist, vol. iv., p. 236.
MR. S. H. SCUDDER'S NOMENCLATOR ZOOLOGUS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Science is much indebted to Mr. Scudder for a great deal of very dry and tiresome work in the preparation of Catalogues. We have already from his pen a list of the generic names used for Butterflies, and now in a thick octavo volume of 376 pages we have a “list of generic names employed in Zoology and Palaeontology to the close of the year 1879, chiefly supplemental to those catalogued by Agassiz and Marschall, or indexed in the Zoological Record.”

The list is beautifully and clearly printed and the proof reading has been exceedingly careful. After having gone over a number of names and after spending some hours with the book, I have found but one error of spelling. The labor of compiling the list has been evidently great, and Mr. Scudder speaks of it in terms which shows how arduous it really was. The author was helped by those to whom he applied for lists of the generic names proposed by them, however, and Prof. Marsh went to the trouble of printing the references to his own numerous genera.
ON A RECENT SPECULATION AS TO RANK IN INSECTA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The reader will have noticed, in the June number of the Canadian Entomologist, a paper on the “Physiological Arrangement of Insects.” The author there places the Orthoptera first in this list, owing to the presence of auditory organs and well developed eyes. The “arrangement” which follows is exceedingly “mixed,” but the object of the present remarks is to point out that the author mistakes when he considers the presence of sense-organs as the crucial test of rank. And for this reason, that, within the different Sub-orders, there is great variation in this respect. For instance, in the Pyralidœ we have forms almost identical, such as Chryseudenton and Cataclysta, which differ by the absence or presence of simple eyes. I do not wish to follow out the argument at length; the environment seems to effect comparatively easily the sense organs; Cave-insects are frequently blind.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF COPÆODES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Copæodes Wrighth.

Male.—Expands .9 inch.

Upper side yellow-ochre color; costal margin of primaries black on the edge, and hind margins of both wings edged black, scarcely more than a line; costal margin of secondaries broadly bordered black; the ends of the nervules on primaries edged black for a little distance; on the disk a black sexual narrow bar, broken into three parts, and crossing obliquely the lower median and submedian interspaces; fringes pale black shading into whitish.

Under side pale yellow-ochre of one shade; a little dusky near base of primaries, otherwise immaculate.
NOTES ON THE LARVA OF BUCCULATRIX AMBROSIÆFOLIELLA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

This species was described by me in the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, v. 2, p. 119, and it was said to feed upon the leaves of Ambrosia trifida, in the larval stage. Afterwards, in a note in the American Entomologist, I suggested that as it had only been bred from a collection of leaves of that plant, and had not actually been seen feeding, and as some species of Bucculatrix sometimes crawl away from their food plants to pupate, it was possible that it might turn out that this larva did not feed upon Ambrosia. This summer, however, I have been fortunate enough to find the larva mining the leaves of A. trifida, and also of several varieties of Helianthus; indeed it is much more numerous on Helianthus than on Ambrosia. Lithocolletis ambrosiœella and L. helianthivorella feeding on the same plants, many would consider only varieties of one species; as also many would consider Tischeria ambrosiœella and T. heliopsisella, which feed on the same plants, and on Heliopsis, varieties of one species.
IS PAEDISCA SCUDDERIANA A GALL-MAKER?
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

A gall from a Golden-rod, out of which a moth of this species has escaped, is figured in Second Report Insects of Missouri, page 134. In the accompanying description the author says: “There are some doubts in my mind as to whether it is a real gall-maker, or an inquiline, or an intruder on my true Solidago gall-maker (Gelechia gallœsolidaginis).” “My reasons for thinking this insect an intruder are, first, because if it were a true gall-maker, we should naturally expect to find its gall more common; second, because on several occasions I have found within the Gelechia galls,a pale worm very different from the true gray gall-making larva.” In the Can. Ent., x., 202, I asserted, perhaps too abruptly, that this moth is not an intruder, but the cause of the gall in which it resides during the larval and pupal states. In the paper cited I gave my reasons for this conclusion, reasons which I considered sufficient, namely: that it was very abundant about Buffalo, that I had followed the larvæ in the galls from soon after hatching and soon after they had pierced the stem until final transformation, and that their gall habits were somewhat characteristic.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF NEONYMPHA AREOLATUS, Smith–Abbot
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg—Nearly globular; the surface smooth under a low power, but under a high one, thickly covered with shallow depressions, which are irregular in size and also in form, being pentagonal, rounded or oval; color pale green. Duration of this stage about 6 days.

Young Larva.—Length .12 inch; cylindrical, nearly even, tapering a little posteriorly, the last segment bluntly forked; color delicate green; over the surface many white hairs, and among these are black clubbed hairs disposed in longitudinal rows, four on the dorsum of each segment, two in front, two in rear; feet and legs green; head large, about twice as broad as any body segment, sub-globose, a little depressed at top; on each vertex a short semi-ovoid appendage, at the top giving out two divergent black hairs; just below vertex, on the front, is a similar smaller appendage with single hair, and on the side half way down is a second; color black. Towards the end of this stage the color of body changes to decided green, and several longitudinal stripes appear; on either side of a dark green medio-dorsal stripe is a whitish one, a similar one on middle of side and another along base. Duration of this stage about 8 days, but depending on the weather.
CLOTHES MOTHS
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Nearly a year ago my attention was especially called to the insects which prey upon woolen fabrics, and which are generally known as “clothes moths.” In going over the literature of the subject at that time and comparing it with the notes which I had made from time to time, I became convinced that what we have in our books pertaining to these insects is very imperfect and faulty, and that there was need of a thorough revision. This held true, not only of the species which destroy clothing, but also of many other species in the family Tineidœ.

I therefore obtained, by purchase and otherwise, as large a collection as possible from all parts of the United States—over twelve hundred specimens—and sent them to Lord Walsingham, in England, for comparison with the European species. This collection has just been returned to me, and the notes and descriptions which his lordship has made on it will soon appear in the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc.
ON THE MOUTH OF THE LARVA OF CHRYSOPA
Authors: Saunders William
Published: February 2010

Recently I had the opportunity of watching in a live box, under a low power of the microscope, the seizing and devouring of some plant-lice by the larva of an undetermined species of Chrysopa, and was interested in the manner in which it emptied the body of its victims. The jaws are large, hooked, pointed and tubular, with a small opening at or near the points. Approaching its prey the body of the Aphis is grasped by the hooked mandibles which at the same time pierce it. The Chrysopa larva remains stationary, and proceeds to pump its victim dry. At the base of each of the mandibles the integuments are dilated into a sac-like form capable of expansion and compression at will, a portion of the thorax is similarly constructed, and it is by the repeated dilating and compressing of these sacs that the fluid contents of teh body of the Aphis are transferred through the tubular mandibles to the stomach of the Chrysopa larva.
NEW MOTHS, CHIEFLY FROM ARIZONA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Hadena idonea, n. s.

♂ ♀. This species is similar in size to verbascoides and cariosa; it is very like the latter only instead of reddish brown the color is of an ochrey brown, rather pale, the stigmata concolorous, rather wide, illdefined, separated by the dark median shade. The claviform spot is open, and stretches across the median field nearly touching the even t. p. line. Lines geminate, marked on costa. A slight, irregular basal streak and one below it on internal margin. Terminal field dark shaded, obtaining twice, opposite cell and at internal angle. Fringes dark cut with pale. Hind wings very dark, with paler fringes, concolorous, an indication of discal mark; beneath with faint double extra-mesial lines; the narrow terminal space paler on both wings. The costa of fore wings is more or less pale. Abdomen tufted. This species is more ochrey than vulgaris. Texas, Kansas, Wisconsin.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF GPAPTA COMMA, Harris
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Conoidal, the base flattened and rounded; marked by 10 vertical ribs which near the base are low, but on upper third are considerably elevated, inclease gradually in prominence and terminate abruptly around a small flat space at summit; these ribs are thin and their sides are cut by grooves perpendicular to the surface of the egg; the spaces between them crossed by many fine striæ; color green. Duration of this stage 5 days in April, 4 in July.
NOTES ON A GALL MITE OF THE NETTLE TREE (Celtis occidentalis)
Authors: Fyles T. W.
Published: February 2010

Gall, formed on the under side of the leaf, pear-shaped, half an inch long, forms a cup-like indentation on the upper surface. I have counted eighteen galls on one leaf. One mite in a gall.

Mite, one-tenth of an inch long. Eyes large and protuberant, light red. Antennæ moniliform, ten-jointed—the basal joint and that next it being much larger than the rest. Proboscis for suction. Four undeveloped wings—mere protuberances in the case of some (probably younger) specimens—generally translucent, but in some instances smoky brown. Legs, six in number, hairy, semi-transparent. Abdomen much enlarged, topshaped, the three last segments reddish brown. Tuft of terminal spines of the same color. The creature has a gelatinous appearance; and this, together with its agitation when disturbed, reminds one of Young Blight's description of Old Dolls: “All a-shaking like glue monge.” It attains its growth in August and becomes quiescent.
EARLY STAGES OF FIDONIA NOTATARIA, Walk
Authors: Goodell L. W.
Published: February 2010

Eggs.—Oblong, covered with hexagonal depressions and bright green in color. Length 0.6 mil.; width 0.3 mil. Duration of egg stage 12 days.

Young Larva.—Length 2 mil.; head twice as wide as the body, round and deep ochre yellow; body dull yellowish green with a faint paler stigmatal stripe.

Mature Larva.—Body of uniform thickness, deep green with a narrow sub-dorsal and stigmatal white stripe, and a dorsal greenish-white hair line; dorsal space pale green; ventral space yellowish green. Head brownish green with a lateral white stripe which is a continuation of the sub-dorsal stripe of the body. Length at rest 25 to 26 mil.; when crawling, 26 to 27 mil. Food plant, Pinus strobus. Duration of larva stage, 35 to 40 days. Described from 57 specimens.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF GRAPTA INTERROGATIONS, Fab.
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Conoidal, the base flattened and rounded; marked by 8 or 9 vertical ribs, which near the base are low, but on upper third are considerably elevated, increase gradually in prominence and terminate abruptly around a small flat space at summit; these ribs are thin and their sides are grooved perpendicular to the surface of the egg; color pale green. Duration of this stage from 3 to 4 days in summer, in April and early May 10 days.
NOTES ON CERTAIN BUTTERFLIES, THEIR HABITS, ETC
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

1. Papilio Philenor.

On 21st May, 1881, I saw a female Philenor fluttering about a low plant in the edge of the woods near my house. Apparently it was a vine just out of the ground—some four or five inches high—and three eggs were laid on the stem. I sent the plant to Mr. Scudder for determination at the Botanical Gardens, but he reported that there was not enough of it for that purpose.

On 1st Aug., I saw a female coursing over the hill side, alighting on various species of plants for an instant; sometimes on clover heads or other flowers, then flying again in short circuits, touching a leaf here and there. Perhaps it was ten minutes before she lingered on one plant longer than usual, though then but for three or four seconds, and I found on examination three eggs laid on the stem just below the terminal leaf. The plant was of the same species I had noticed in May, and I dug it up and planted it in the garden. When at Cincinnati, at the meeting of the A. A. A. S., I learned from Dr. H. S. Jewett that this must be Aristolochia serpentaria, a common plant about Dayton, O., and later I received from him several dried examples of it.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PYRAMEIS ATALANTA, Linn
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Barrel-shaped, the ends narrowing equally and rounded; the base flattened over a little space; from the edge of this start nine vertical and straight ribs, at first low, but gradually rising in elevation and after the middle rapidly, till at the top they are very prominent, and terminate abruptly about the rim of the depressed summit; these ribs are thin and grooved on both sides perpendicularly to the surface of the egg; between them the surface is a little excavated, and smooth; color green. Duration of this stage 5 days in May, 3 to 4 in July.

Young Yarva.—Length .08 inch; cylindrical, tapering posteriorly from 4th segment; each segment rounded; color greenish-brown, semitranslucent; furnished with ten rows of black curved hairs, of which two are close together on middle of dorsum, two are lateral above spiracles, one is partly in line with, partly below spiracles, and one below this; on 2 is a sub-oval black chitinous patch, with four hairs on either side the medio-dorsal line, three others in vertical line below the patch; 3 and 4 have five hairs on each side in vertical line, but from 5 to 12, while there are five hairs, they form two lines, the 1st, 3rd and 5th being in front part of the segment; the anal segment shows two hairs on the side, and a black dorsal patch, on either half of which are about five hairs; two small hairs over each foot and proleg; on 2 to 4 the hairs are curved forward, on the other segments back, but on all the lowest row is turned down; so on 2 to 4 the next row is turned down; head rounded, black, with a few black hairs. Duration of this stage in May 4 days, in August 3.
NEW SPECIES AND NOTES ON STRUCTURE OF MOTHS AND GENERA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Campometra Amella Guen., 3, 25, pl. 18, fig. 8.

This genus and species I have accidentally omitted from the “New Check List.” I have never identified the species with certainty. For some time I have conjectured it was the same as Eubolina Stylobata Harvey. With regard to the genera separated from Homoptera by Gueneé, I have merely insisted on the validity of Zale in former papers. But I am averse to throwing them together until we know the early stages upon which Gueneé seems to have relied, using Abbot's drawings. Another reason with me has been (as I have pointed out) that Homoptera is a term used in another Sub-order of Insecta. Probably Pheocyma will have to be adopted, as the insect I have identified as Lunifera (figured by Gueneé) does not seem to me to differ generically from our other species arranged under Homoptera.
NOTE ON CHIONOBAS VARUNA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

After the description of this species in the Jan. No. was in type, I received a letter from Mr. A. G. Butler, to whom I had sent an example, with request to be informed if it was Tarpeia, spoken of in his Catalogue of Satyridæ as being N. American. Mr. Butler writes: “Your Chionobas is very distinct from C. Tarpeia; the latter comes nearer to C. Chryxus, being quite a fulvous species, with blind ocelli on under surface.
NOTE ON LIMENITIS URSULA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In my paper on L. Arthemis and its alleged second brood, in Dec., 1881, I stated that some caterpillars of L. Ursula did go on to chrysalis and butterfly late in the year, in Ohio, though others of same lot went into their hibernacula when half grown; and that I had dissected one female Ursula which emerged in September last, and could discover no signs of eggs, or at any rate, there were no formed eggs. Also that I had sent a second female of same lot to Prof. Minot for examination. I now have his report, as follows: “There were certainly no ripe eggs in the abdomen, although there were a great many eggs in an immature condition.” I stated in the above mentioned paper, that the existence of the species Ursula did not depend on these late, or September butterflies; and the reason is, that the female coming so late, and with immature eggs, the season would either not allow the eggs to ripen, or if it did, and they were impregnated, which would be doubtful, it would not allow the larvæ to hatch and to reach the hibernating stage.
A NEW APPLE TREE PEST
Authors: Dodge Charles R.
Published: February 2010

As if the apple tree with its sixty or more insect enemies were not sufficiently afflicted, a distant relative of the Canker-worm has been making itself so notorious in Georgia, as to give apprehension of the total destruction of apple orchards in the locality infested. The insect complained of is Eugonia subsignaria Pack., a measuring worm which at times has been a veritable nuisance upon shade trees in New York and Philadelphia.

In pursuance of my duties as a Special Agent of the Census Office (in the fruit interest), and through subsequent correspondence, the following facts were obtained from Mr. Adam Davenport, of Fannin County, in the State named. In his first communication, received some months since, it is stated that the worm made its appearance upon Rich Mountain, a spur of the Blue Ridge, about four years ago, attacking forest and fruit trees; and that it had since spread over a large area, doing great damage. Apple trees in June last were as destitute of leaves as in mid-winter, the fruit growing to the size of marbles and falling off.
ON THE CHALCIDIDÆ OF FLORIDA
Authors: Ashmead Wm. H.
Published: February 2010

Prof. Westwood, in his Generic Synopsis, characterizes this genus as follows: “Antennæ 13-jointed, clavate, third and fourth joints minute; club ovate; thorax long-ovate; collar moderate; thorax depressed in the middle; abdomen long-ovate; ovipositor exserted, wings with stigmal branch distant from the union of the subcostal nerve and the costa.”

In view of the recent controversy between Prof. Riley and Mr. Howard, in regard to this genus and the genus Antigaster of Wa1sh, I deem it advisable to publish the above from Westwood, verbatim etliteratum. Just beginning my entomological studies, I do not pretend to take issue with either of these gentlemen, but merely desire to draw their attention to the ovipositor in this genus, which both seem to have entirely overlooked, and which, according to above description, is exserted.
ON SOME CHALCTDIDÆ
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

In the January number of the Canadian Entomologist I described two new species of this interesting family under the names of Isosoma Allynii and I. Elymi. Professor C. V. Riley, to whom a pair of the first were sent, writes me that they belong to the genus Eupelmus instead of Isosoma. From a re-examination of my specimens I think he is correct, and the species will be known as Eupelmus Allynii, instead of as first described. They have 11 joints to the antennæ, and the prothorax short.

Since writing the descriptions above referred to I have had a number of wingless insects hatch from my wheat straws, and it is now evident that the description of chrysalids, and perhaps larvæ, as given under Isosoma Allynii, can not apply to that species, but to these wingless specimens. In a recent letter Professor Riley states that he has bred wingless specimens of an Isosoma from wheat received from Kentucky, and it is probable these are the same. I am inclined to think they belong to Isosoma Elymi that I obtained from the stalk of Elymus Canadenis, though it will be difficult to say positively without more specimens of Elymi or winged specimens of the other.
NOTES ON LAST YEAR'S COLLECTING
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

No one I think can have been long engaged in collecting insects without having noticed the remarkable diversity in the products of different years, not only in quantity, but in kinds. Each summer seems to bring its own particular species to the front, so that if a person wishes to get a moderately correct idea of the insects of any locality, it is necessary for him not only fo hunt diligently all the season, but every season for a considerable length of time; and if he has from any cause missed one, he may be sure he has missed something which it may be years before he will again have an opportunity of securing, or securing in the same abundance. The causes of these variations seem as yet to a great extent a mystery.
NOTES ON PEMPHIGUS TESSELATA, Fitch
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

Chermes alni Kalm. Travels into North America, English translation, vol. 1, p. 154; p. 121, 2nd ed.

Eriosoma tesselata Fitch. 4th Report State Cab. Nat. Hist., N. Y.

Eriosoma tesselata Glover. Ag. Rept., 1876, p. 39.

Eriosoma tesselata (or imbricata) Glover, unpublished plates Homoptera iii., fig. 19.

Schizoneura tesselata Thomas, 8th Report Insects of Illinois, p. 139.

Apparently the first record of this insect is given by Kalm., as cited above, where he says under date of Oct. 3rd, 1748: “I saw to-day the Chermes of the Alder (Chermes alni) in great abundance on the branches of that tree, which for that reason looks quite white, and at a distance appears as it were covered with mold.” This reference, in all probability, is to P. tesselata, and the reference to the European species, Chermes alni L., a mistake, since there are no later records of the European species being found here, and this one is specifically distinct from the one described by Linnæus.
PSEPHENUS LECONTEI
Authors: Gehring J. Geo.
Published: February 2010

A few notes as to the habits and whereabouts of this inhabitant of the rapids of Niagara may perhaps be of interest to such collectors as may visit this locality the coming season. This interesting beetle being but rarely represented in collections, I felt induced to make extra exertions during a few hours sojourn there last August, to find it, and was finally rewarded by finding it in numbers. Although my time did not allow me to reap the benefit of my discovery, still if others are enabled to Profit by these notes, the result will be the same.

By turning over the small rocks which lie in the small rapids close by the Goat and Sister Islands, the flat, crustacean-like larvæ will be found in great numbers adhering tightly to the under surface in all stages of development, and it is here one would naturally look for the perfect insect, but only to be disappointed.
ON CERTAIN FORMS OF NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDÆ, INTERESTING FROM THE STRUCTURE OF THE CLYPEUS AND TIBIÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The following genera seem to fall in between Heliothis and Plusia. They appear to be distinctively American, and there is nothing like them in the European or Asiatic faunæ, so far as appears in literature. The white species inhabit the West and South-west; and the fore wings are remarkable for their lustre, the markings consisting often of black dots, in this recalling Emydia and certain Lithosians.

Bessula Grote.

Vestiture hairy. Eyes naked. Front full, without excavation or tubercle, the infra-clypeal plate plominent. Tibiæ spinose, the fore tibiæ with a claw. Thorax untufted. Antennæ simple. Fore wings dull. Aspect of the Arctiid genus Pareuchaetes. One species from New Mexico, Luxa, Grote. Primaries very light and fady yellow. The t. p. line indicated by a curved series of faint ochrey dots. Two cellular dots and one or two more in place of t. a. line. Beneath costa and apices dusky yellowish. The coloring is very pale and the dotted markings tend to become lost. Consult: Papilio, I., 176.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS: “LONG–STINGS”
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

Among the conspicuous insects which attract the attention of even non-entomologists, there are few more interesting in their structure and habits, as well as in their relations to other groups, than the large “longsting” ichneumons with their long triple “tails.” Our two largest species belong to the genus Rhyssa (of the Hymenoptera), and as, so far as I am aware, no accounts of them have yet been published in the Entomologist, a brief description of their appearance and habits may not be undesirable.

They may be easily distinguished from their relatives (often their victims), the “horn-tails”—Uroceridæ—as they are much more slender in body and appendages. The female, readily determined by the extraordinary development of the ovipositor, has the abdomen stouter than that of the male, with the posterior segments dilated and curved under, and bearing the ovipositor, which is constructed essentially of the same parts as is that of a “horn-tail,” only that they are greatly lengthened.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF DEBIS PORTLANDIA, Fabr
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Obovoid, the base a little flattened, and under the middle thereof is a slight rounded protuberance of lesser diameter; surface smooth; color greenish-white. Duration of this stage 4 to 6 days.

Young Larva.—Length .13 inch; cylindrical; head twice as broad as any other segment, body tapering slightly from 2 to 13; each segment from 3 to 12 several times creased, making 6 flat ridges, of which the foremost one is broadest, and on this and the fifth ridge each is a minute tubercle and rather long white hair, bent forward, the whole series forming two subdorsal rows, one a little below the other, from 3 to 13; on the middle of side a similar row, one hair to each segment and placed on the second ridge, all of them bent forward; lower down a third series, one to each segment, placed on the fourth ridge, all bent down and back; two short hairs over each pro-leg; on segment 2 are four long hairs on each side, nearly in line, two being subdorsal, the others lateral; on 13 are four hairs in cross row, all curved back, and one on either side behind these; this segment is roundly excavated at extremity, making on either side a sharp point, which sends back a straight hair; color of body whitish-yellow, in a few hours changing to pale green; head sub-globose, flattened and depressed at top, broadest at base, a little broader than high, the vertices rounded, and on each a slight protuberance, with long curved hair; a similar hair a little below and nearer the suture, and two rows of shorter hairs across face, four in upper, six in lower row; surface corrugated; color yellow, somewhat brown-tinted. Two days later, as the body was changing to green, the head changed to yellow-green. Duration of this stage 6 to 8 days.
ON THE APHIDIDÆ OF FLORIDA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Ashmead Wm. H.
Published: February 2010

The species of this genus already described from North America are as follows:

1. S. rudbeckiœ, Fitch.

2. “ambrosiœ, Thomas.

3. “rosœ, Reaum. A variety of this species I find here on cultivated roses and on the wild Cherokee rose. It differs very considerably from Prof Thomas' description, and may be known as S. floridœ.

I submit following description:

S. rosœ, var. floridœ, n. s.

Wingless female.—Length .07 inch. Elongate ovate; pale shining green; eyes red; beak very pale and short, not reaching to middle coxæ, widening before tip, tip black; antennæ 7-jointed, reaching to base of honey-tubes, annulated with brownish-red at joints; honey-tubes long, reaching beyond tip of abdomen, pale greenish, very slightly infuscated at tip; style short, conical, pale green; legs uniform pale green, feet very slightly infuscated.
THE HOP-VINE BORER
Authors: Dodge Charles R.
Published: February 2010

The casual reader, calling to mind only the half dozen hop-vines usually seen about the kitchen garden, or trailing upon some farm outbuilding, can hardly realize the possible losses to hop growers by insects. According to the last census (for 1879) New York State alone had over 39,000 acres in hop yards, producing nearly 22 millions of pounds of hops, which, at an average of 28c. per 1b., would aggregate a value of over six million dollars. Bearing these figures in mind, with an annual loss of 10 per cent. from only one insect—the hop borer—(and 25 to 50 per cent. of injury has been reported) a loss of $600,000 would result in this single State.

With such a destructive agent in the hop field, is it not a little singular that there is little or nothing “in the books” on the subject, and that the pest is in all probability an unknown and undescribed species? I am not able to give its name—Prof. Comstock writes me he is working it up—but as I have accumulated a mass of interesting data on the subject in my census work, I deem it proper to make known now the experience of intelligent growers in different sections of the country, for the benefit of those who have not yet learned how to fight the pest, leaving the scientific name and details of habits and natural history to be supplied hereafter.
NEW TABANIDÆ
Authors: Marten John
Published: February 2010

Tabanus Allynii. Length 15 mm.

Female.—Eyes naked, no ocelligerous tubercle. Front yellowishgray; callosity chestnut, nearly square, with an unconnected, spindleshaped line above. Face and cheeks yellowish-gray. Antennæ reddishyellow, annulate portion black. Palpi yellowish with white hairs. Thorax and scutellum grayish-black with minute golden-yellow pubescence; humerus reddish-brown when denuded; pleurae and pectus grayish with white or yellow hairs. Abdomen yellow, segments 4–7 black with yellow hind margins, which are expanded into triangles on the middle of segments 4 and 5; first segment black under the scutellum; second segment with a black triangle on the middle, and the third segment with a dark spot on each side of the middle. Venter yellow with a black line through the middle and tip dark. Legs—femora balck, yellow at the tips; tibiae yellow, darker at the tips; outer half of front tibia black; tarsi brownish, front ones black. Wings hyaline; stigma yellowish.
NEW SPECIES AND NOTES ON STRUCTURE OF MOTHS AND GENERA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Synedoida Mucronata, n. s.

Eyes naked, lashed. Labial palpi with long cylindrical narrow third joint; second joint heavily scaled. Abdomen untufted. Of an inconspicuous fuscous or brownish gray, sprinkled with pale points, markings all concolorous with the wing. The t. p. line is brown and distinct at costa, forming a strong tooth opposite cell, below this it is rounded over median nervules and fainter. Sub-terminal line straight, distinct, even, brown, and well marked. Reniform concolorous, constricted, with pale edging. T. a. line even, slightly arched. A terminal dentate line; fringes brownish. Hind wings sub-pellucid, irridescent whitish, with soiled veins, with vague brownish borders, beneath with dark dots on primaries, which become a clouded spot. Body brownish gray. This species has the form of Mr. Morrison's Tœniocampa vegeta, but is of an ochrey fuscous gray, not at all reddish, or brown with a red tinge. Arizona. Coll. B. Neumoegen, Esq. Expanse 33 mil. Tibiæ apparently unarmed.