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A NEW PLANT LOUSE ON TOBACCO
Authors: Pergande Theodore
Published: February 2010

Dr. L. O. Howard, who is preparing a general article on the subject of insects affectin tobacco, for the Year Book of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1898, has called my attention to a plant louse feeding upon tobacco plants grown on the grounds of the Department, which he wishes to mention specifically in his article, and since it is a new species, at his request, I submit for pulication the following description.

I had been familiar with this undescribed species since 1897, and had found it on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture in smaller colonies on Rumex crispus, Leucanthemum vulgare, Forsythia viridissima, and also on the leaves of the apple, pear, and egg-plant. Specimens have also been received from Mt. Holly, Md., where they were reported to feed in immense numbers on the tomato plant.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE HORNTAILS AND SAWFLIES, OR THE SUB-ORDER PHYTOPHAGA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

Family XIV. Tenthredinidae.

This family is probably the most extensive of any of the families of the sawflies, and is of world-wide distribution, representatives of it being found in all parts of the world, although, as a whole, it is more numerously represented in the Palearctic and Neotropical regions than elsewhere.
NOTES ON COCCIDAE WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES
Authors: Tinsley J. D.
Published: February 2010

Eriococcus Tinsleyi Ckll.

Adult ♂. Length, 1.3 mm.; expanse of wings, 2.5 mm.; colour, head and abdomen purplish-gray; meso thorax light ochreus, some specimens show a wide longitudinal streak on the abdomen. Legs and antennae concolorous with body. Antennae 10-jointed. Joint 2 is bottle shaped, proximal end smallest, 70 μ long, practically identical with second joint of Phenacoccus solenopsis, Tins., except that E. Tinsleyi has a number of stout blunt spines interspersed with the bristles; joint 3 cylindrical, considerably longer than any of the others (130 μ long,) only differing from P. solenopsis in having the stout blunt spines; joint 4 often shorter than 5, but sometimes longer, 76–85 μ; joint 5, 81—87 μ long; joint 6 usually next, longer than 2, 68–78 μ long; Joint 7 shorter than 2.68 μ long; joint 10 usually next, 65 μ; next 8, 56 μ shortest 9, 50 μ. Joint 10 is flask shaped, tapering distally. All the segments bear the stout blunt spines, interspersed with rather stout bristles. Formula 3, 5, 4, 6, 2, 7, 10, 8, 9.
THE COCCID GENUS SPHAEROCOCCUS IN MASSACHUSETTS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. , King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

Sphaerococcus sylvestris, n. sp.

Much like an Eriococcus in shape. 2½ millim. long, 1½ wide, dark dirty brown, with a little white cottony down at its anal end, and on the mid-dorsal line a distinct longitudinal nearly white band. (King.)
SOME INDIANA ACRIDIDAE.–IV
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

Since the publication of the third paper of this series in the Canadian Entomologist for August and September, 1894, my time has been so fully occupied with other duties that but little opportunity has been presented for the collection and study of Indiana Orthoptera. Notes have been made and specimens taken only of such species as came readily to hand during field work in geology. A better knowledge of the distribution over the State of many of the Acrididae has, however, been gained, and seven species and one variety have been added to the number formerly listed, and to my private collection. Of these, one species and variety have been described as new by Prof. A. P. Morse, a second is described for the first time in the present paper, and a third has before been taken only in Montana and Nebraska.
SOME INSECTS, RARE IN CANADA, TAKEN AT HAMILTON BY MR. JAMES JOHNSTON
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

Having some correspondence with Mr. Johnston, he anticipating the interest I naturally felt in the entomology of my former residence, informed me of some things he head taken at Hamilton which were not to be got when I was a collector there; and the seemed to me to be of so much general interest that I desired him to make a note of them for publication. So, complying with my request, he has prepared the accompanying more extended statement on the subject. What a rapid change is taking place in the condition of the country! All my familiar and delightful hunting-grounds in that locality have been “improved out of existence.” With cultivation comes a change in the flora, which produces a change in the fauna, and in the insect fauna especially. So that future collectors will be able to form no correct idea of what was to be got by what is to be had. A thought that greatly impressed me was the persistent effort that insects are continually making to spread abroad and establish themselves in fresh territory. Most of these southern butterfies seem to have great difficulty in accommodating themselves to our shorter seasons. In the case of Colias caesonia there shoule be no trouble about food plants, as one of these is Trifolium; but in the south-west it is double-brooded, and it may perish in the attempt ot produce a second brood in this latitude, and it may take many years to bring it into harmony with its environment here.
COLLECTING AT LIGHT
Authors: Hutchinson H.
Published: February 2010

I have read with much interest a couple of papers by Mr. Hanham, of Winnipeg, on the capturing of insects “at light.” I had adopted this method in the Old Country with much success, and last season in this district, near the head of Lake Manitoba, I employed the same means and secured a goodly number of specimens. There is no doubt that light is most efficacious in securing to the one who makes use of it many insects that would otherwise be only rarely met with, but while engaged in thus making cautpres one cannot help being struck–a point to which Mr. Hanham alludes–with the effect light has upon many of the Lepidoptera, or rather with the different effects it has upon different individuals.
A NEW GRASSHOPPER FROM ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

Melanoplus abortivus, new species.—Size rather small, especially the male. Female nearly as large as M. femur-rubrum, but proportionately much stouter.

Frontal costa nearly reaching the clypeus, subequal, though sometimes a little contracted toward the vertex, plane except a slight depression at the ocellus, or in the male generally slightly sulcate from just above the ocellus, rather thinly punctate. Vertex witht the margins slightly elevated, gently expanding in front of the eyes for a distance about equal to or somewhat less than that between the eyes in the female, rather greater in the male.
ASPIDIOTUS FERNALDI (Ckll.), Sub-sp. COCKERELLI. Sub-sp. Nov.
Authors: Parrott Percy J.
Published: February 2010

♀ scale nearly circular, somewhat flattened, little convex, roughish, dark gray above bark, reddish-brown below bark, 2 mm. diameter; exuviæ little exposed, often concealed by whitish secretion, orange, placed to one side of centre; ventral scale, delicate and white; old scales dark brown, often almost black. Scales are thickly massed.

♀ oval, white, marked with irregular light yellow spots; first and second lobes, and margin of last segment, yellowish.
FOUR NEW DIASPINE COCCIDAE
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

aspidiotus cueroensis, n. sp..—♀. Scale diam, slightly over 1 millim., circular, slightly convex above and beneath, with the margin somewhat elevated, like an oyster; very pale gray or grayish- white, quite a delicate shade, exuviae more or less to one side, covered, inconspicuous, but appearing as a dark spot on the inside of the scale. ♀. Shape ordinary; black when dry. No circumgenital glands. Anal orifice elongate oval, moderately large, distinct from bases of lobes about 1½ times its length. Only one pair of lobes, these and the area about their base remaining dark brown after boiling; lobes rather large, but short and broad, contiguous at the base, but thence diverging to their rounded apices, whence they slope downwards to the comparatively short outer side, the shape of the lobes being almost as in A. ostreaeformis.
ASPIDIOTUS (TARGIONIA) HELIANTHI, sp. nov.
Authors: Parrott Percy J.
Published: February 2010

♀ scale 1.6 to 1.8 mm. in diameter, .5 to .6 mm. in altitude, circular, quite convex, roughish, a light brown with slight tinge of pink; ventral scale thick, white at centre with brown on margin, not easily separated from scale, when detached from host plant leaves but a very slight trace of white; exuviae sublateral, often nearly marginal, orange, covered with whitish secretion.

♀ oval, deep yellow, with dark brown on margin of posterior segment, and yellowish brown about mesal lobes and region of proboscis. When boiled in caustic potash becomes transparent, with mesal lobes a yellowish brown, and region of proboscis a reddish brown.
THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ORPHULELLA
Authors: Scudder Samuel H.
Published: February 2010

By the kindness of Prof. L. Bruner I have recently been able to study specimens of the South American Orphula pagana Stal., the type of the genus, and so to compare its structure with that of our native species latterly referred to Orphula. By this it appears, as Mr. Bruner has pointed out to me in correspondence, and as Mr. A. P. Morse has suggested (Psyche, VII., 407), that our species should be referred rathar to Orphulella, separated by Giglio-Tos from Orphula in 1894, though this was afterwards regarded by him as having only a subgeneric value Orphula in the stricter sense of the term is not, so far as I know, represented in the United States. Orphulella is the most widely distributed genus of North American Trypalinae and the most abundant in species. Those known to Prof. J. McNeill in his recent revision of our Tryxalinae were well separated by a table which I have here made the basis of a new one to include a considerable number of new forms. Besides describing these, I have added notes of distribution of the others, based on the collections in my hands, and given their principal synonymy.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

The absence of a distinct ridge, carina or crest on the mesopleura just in front of the middle coxæ, an important structural character first made use of by Kohl, the recurrent nervure in the front wings joining the first cubital cell at or at least nearer the middle than the apex, and the great difference noticeable in the antennæ and the metathorax, readily separate this group from the Crabroninæ.

To me the Thyreopinæ seem to represent a large and distinct group, allied to the others it is true, but yet quite distinct, and divisable into many easily recognizable subgenera. It will be seen also that instead of suppressing the genera erected by some of the older entomologists, which fall into this group, and lumping them with Crabo, as has been done by Kohl and Fox, I have instead recognized all the genera of Latreille, Dahlbom, Lepeletier, etc., and besides have founded some additional genera.
FIVE NEW COCCIDÆ
Authors: Ehrhorn Edw. M.
Published: February 2010

Ripersia arizonensis, n. sp.

♀ enclosed in a broadly oval snow-white waxy sac, about .3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 1½ mm. high, sac widest between middle and caudal end.

♀ oval, about one-third longer than broad, shiny, light purplish-brown, about .3 mm. long. When boiled in K. H. O. turns reddish-brown. Derm colourless, with numerous bristles scattered over the dorsum. Antennæ 6-jointed: 6 longest, joint 4 shortest; formula 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 4. Each joint with several hairs, joint 6 quite bristly.
A SERVICEABLE INSECTARY
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

With the constantly increasing activity in applied entomology in America, the necessity for rooms or apartments especially adapted for the study of the development of insects is becoming each year more imperative. The insectary has, in fact, become almost as necessary to the working entomologist as has the laboratory to the chemist. While it is especially true in entomological investigations that one must “study nature where nature is,” it is equally true that on cannot, in all cases, watch with the necessary care and constant application in the fields that he will be able to do in a faily well equipped insectary. Not only can forms be transported thousands of miles while in an inactive state and their development watched at close range, as it were, but eggs and larvae may be brought in during late autumn or winter and studied through their various stages, frequently long before they have appeared outside; and in cases of uncommon or unfamiliar forms this will give the investigator a vast amount of information that he can use to great advantage when the species appears in the fields under a natural condition, perhaps months later.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW PSILOPA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Psilopa petrolei, new species.

black, polished, not light coloured, pruinose except the lower part of the occiput, cheeks and sides of face, which are thinly grayish pruinese; halteres yellowish, the knobs white. Eyes densely hairy, most approximate at middle of face. Third joint of antennæ slightly longer than the second, the spine of the latter not reaching beyond the apex of the antennæ. Wings hyaline, tinged with gray on nearly the costal half, except sometimes a spot toward apex of the submarginal cell; apex of second vein nearly twice as far from the first as from the apex of the third vein. Length, 2 mm.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF GEOMETRIDÆ
Authors: Hulst Geo. D.
Published: February 2010

Tephroclystis plumbaria, n. sp.

Belongs to the absinthiata group, and is close to that species. Of a blackish fuscous colour, wings broad and rounded, lines faint, parallel with outer margin, evenly scalloped, the outer one most distinct and whitish. Costa with small black spots at beginning of the lines; discal spots on fore wings black, lengthened, on hind wings black points. Beneath lighter, smoother, the lines showing more evenly, more broadly and lighter. Dist. of Columbia, taken July 5th. Type number, in National Museum, 4701.
NOTE ON GORTYNA EREPTA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

This species was described from material collected by Prof. Snow in Douglas Co., Kansas, and the type is in Coll. British Museum. It is now suspected that Gortyna erepta may be the same species with Hydrœcia lunata, and it is to be regretted that an opportunity of examining the type in British Museum Coll. has been passed over. The appearance of the reniform is characteristic in this genus. In erepta it is described as “small, a white half-moon in a blackish shade.” In lunata, “narrow, white oblique lunule, margined by black scales.” The reniform spot thus seems to be identically described in both cases. In erepta the lines are described as fuscous, simple. In lunata as single and whitish. I never saw a noctuid in which the lines were white or paler than the wing, but there is a following pale shade which sometimes persists when the dark line itself becomes obliterate. It seems as though this discrepancy might be explained away.
FOUR NEW COCCIDÆ FROM ARIZONA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Dactylopius Irishi, sp. n.

♀.—Adult dark red, forming a very convex chalk-white ovisac about 3 millim, long and 2½ high, the sacs clustered on the twigs of the plant at the nodes, from two to ten at a node. Eggs and newly-hatched larvæ pale yellow.

Adult ♀, after being boiled and flattened on a slide, nearly circular, about 2 mm. long. The insects do not stain the liquor potassæ on boiling, but the body contains a dull crimson pigment, partly retained in boiled specimens.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist, during the year 1898, I gave a series of papers on the classification of the horntails and sawflies, representing the superfamilies Siricoidea (Xylophaga) and Tenthredinoidea (Phyllophaga); while the past year, 1899, I gave a classification of the entomophilous wasps, or the superfamily Sphecoidea (incorrectly spelt Sphegoidea).
A NEW GENUS OF APHELININÆ FROM CHILE
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

Since the publication of the writer's “Revision of the Aphelininæ of North America” (Bulletin 1, Technical Series, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1895), the discovery of new forms, and especially of new genera, has been of very infrequent occurence. Species have been received from all parts of the world, owing to the extraordinary and world-wide development of interest in scale insects, which are the principal hosts of the Aphelininæ, yet nearly all of the forms thus received have been species already described, which have been carried with their hosts upon live plants to many different regions. It is, therefore, interesting to discover a new genus, even from a country like Chile, whose parasitic Hymenoptera are so little known. A most interesting feature of the discovery is that the new genus was reared from Aspidiotus hederœ (nerii) together with three of the cosmopolitan forms, namely, Aspidiotiphagus citrinus (Craw); Coccophagus immaculatus, How., and Prospalta aurantii, How. The writer is indebted to Mr. Edwyn C. Reed, of Rancagua, Chile, for this sending, as well as for many other favours.
INSECT BITES AND THE EFFECTS THEREOF
Authors: Lounsbury Charles P.
Published: February 2010

The letter from Dr. Behr, under the caption, “A Californian Tick,” in the August issue of the Canadian Entomologist, bears on a subject becoming fraught with interest to many investigators engaged in public service. It is with the object of stating my crude ideas on the matter, that of serious and exceptional effects sometimes following insect bites, and of relating my experience with man-attacking ticks, that I contribute this note. First, I think that a distinction should be drawn between the sting or bite of insects (I use both “bite” and “insects” broadly) that seek their prey for food only, as mosquitoes, ticks, and bugs, and those whose attack is primarily and purposely to inflict injury, as centipedes, spiders, and many hymenopterous insects. It is with the former class only that I now concern myself.
A NEW CATOCALA FROM TEXAS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

Catocala moderna, n. sp.

Allied to C. viduata, Guenée, but very much smaller, and at once distinguished by the pale angulated band of the under surface of hind wings reflecting through on upper surface, where it appears as a faintly yellowish mesial shade, distinctly outlined. Fore wings like C. viduata, of the same pale gray, with the black oblique shading running from costa at centre of median space outwardly to below apices, less marked than in its ally. Subreniform paler, more yellowish. Else the lines and markings copy in miniature its ally. Fringe to secondaries white. Collar darker, with black line; thorax pale gray.
THE COCCIDÆ OF THE IVY
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

In Entomological News, Vol. V., 1894, p. 210, Prof. Cockerell cited all of the Coccids known to infest ivy (Hedera). Since then other species have been found, and with his consent I have prepared the following notes for publication. Leaves of Hedera helix sent to Prof. Cockerell from Brazil, coll. Dr. F. Noach, May, 1898, proved to be infested by Chrysomphalus distyospermi, Morgan. And Mr. A. Hempel, of St. Paul's, Brazil, sent C. aonidum, L. Just recently he wrote me that C. dictyospermi, var. jamaicensis, Ckll. (minor, Berlese), was received by him from Lord Walsingham, infesting ivy at Cannes, France. Aspidiotus rapax (camelliœ) was found by E. E. Green on ivy in Ceylon (Coccidæ of Ceylon, p. 44. Dactylopius citri, Risso., was found at Kew Gardens, England, on a variety of ivy called Hedera amurensis (Newstead, Ent. Mo., May, 1897, p. 73).
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HÆMATOPINUS
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

Hœmatopinus columbianus, N. sp.

Head longer than broad, semicircular in front, wider and more depressed behind the antennæ, rostrum projecting; antennæ located in front of the middle of the head, the first joint large, deeply set in the border of the head, second joint the longest, third, fourth and fifth nearly equal, fifth slightly smaller; a strong bristle is borne on the postero-lateral angle. The pronotum is short, rather narrow, and the sternal plate is very broadly ovate, almost circular, but the sides posteriorly tapering slightly and the posterior border obtusely rounded or subtruncate. The second and third pairs of legs are nearly equal and considerably larger than the anterior pair, and their tarsal claws are broad and blunt or obtuse at tip.
SOME NOTES ON “THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY, VOL. VI.”
Authors: Barrett O. W.
Published: February 2010

On page 365, Dr. Sharp states that the Hesperid larva “frequently forms a rudimentary cocoon.” It does not appear to be generally known that Doberes Mexicanus, Feld., a Hesperid (near Eantis) common to Central Mexico, makes a decidedly complicated cocoon. Constructed of tough gray silk, and very closely woven, the cocoou is formed between two leaves (or, rarely, two sides of one folded leaf) of the “zapote blanco” (Casimiroa sp.), and suspended from a twig by a strong silk thread 70 mm. to 90 mm. in length. The mouth is closed by an exceptionally well made chevauz-de-frise and turned at nearly right angles to the axis of the cocoon, which is 33 mm. in length, and at the middle, 13 mm. in breadth by 9 mm. in thickness.
A NEW POPULAR NAME FOR CLISIOCAMPA DISSTRIA
Authors: Slingerland M. V.
Published: February 2010

For many years this insect has been popularly known as “the forest tent-caterpillar.” During the past two or three years it has attracted much attention in New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York, from its ravages in maple forests, city or village maple shade trees, and in many orchards. In orchards it has often worked with its near relative, the apple tent-caterpillar (Clisiocampa americana). Every one who critically observes the habits of these two species of caterpillars soon discovers that “the forest tent-caterpillar” is a very misleading name for Clisiocampa disstria, because its caterpillars never make a tent, while the apple tent-caterpillars always do. Several who have seriously discussed these insects recently have felt the necessity of a new popular name for Clisiocampa disstria.
PARTIAL LIFE-HISTORY OF DICHOGAMA REDTEN-BACHERI, LED.
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

The Pyralid genus Dichogama has not yet been reported from United States territory on the mainland, but at least three species occur in southern Florida. The following notes were made on the larva of one of them, D. Redtenbacheri.

Stage II. (?)—Head flat before clypeus high, mouth pointed; luteous, ocelli black; width .4 mm. Body a little flattened, translucent, yellowish, a geminate lateral brown stripe. Cervical shield large, colourless, brown dotted on the tubercles and on lateral edge; anal plate small, not marked. Tubercles small, brown; setæ long, stiff, pale. Skin sparsely granular; segments scarcely annulate.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF JASSIDÆ
Authors: Osborn Herbert
Published: February 2010

Deltocephalus apicatus, n. sp.—Head and pronotum yellow; scutellum and elytra reddish fuscons, the latter with hyaline apex. Length to tip of elytra, ♀ and ♂, 3 mm.

Vertex about as long as width between the eyes, margin rounded, apex prominent; front with sides nearly parallel to below the antennæ, then curving sharply to the base of the clypeus; clypeus slightly narrowed to tip. Pronotum, width more than twice the length, lateral margin short, posterior margin straight. Elytra passing the abdomen, with fully formed apical areoles (macropterous), or reaching only to tip of abdomen, with the apical areoles very much abbreviated.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF EUPREPIA CAJA, L., VAR. AMERICANA, HARR
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

On the evening of the 31st July, 1899, while collecting moths at the electric light, close to the entrance to the Central Experimental Farm, I was fortunate enough to secure a female of Euprepia Caja, L., var. Americana, Harr. I enclosed her alive in a small box over night, and by the morning she had laid nine eggs. From these eggs five larvæ hatched, and as I have succeeded in bringing two of these through all their stages, my notes may be of interest to some of the readers of the Canadian Entomologist.

Egg.—Semi-ovoid, about .75 mm. in width, at widest part; pale yellowish, smooth, shiny.
NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN CALIFORNIAN ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Scudder Samuel H.
Published: February 2010

The species here brought together were most of them collected by Mr. A. P. Morse, in the summer of 1897, and as they belong to miscellaneous genera, none of which require special revision, the descriptions are here collected for publication.

Loboptera americana Scudd.

The single original specimen of this species was taken in Arizona, and was apparently collected in alcohol, as two fresh specimens taken by Mr. Morse at Cahon Pass, Cal., July 18, differ in colour and in the shape of the pronotum, requiring its partial re-description.
NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF ACRONYCTA IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

Nothing is more aggravating than to be compelled, soon after completing a monographic work, to make changes in the nomenclature and synonymy; yet this is the purpose of this paper concerning the genus Acronycta, which was monographed by Dr. H. G. Dyar and myself in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI., pp. 1–194, 1898.

It was explained in the introduction to this paper that, because of its interesting early stages, the late Dr. C. V. Riley had been, for years, accumulating material for a thorough study of Acronycta; therefore I had made no effort to become closely familiar with the species. Some time before, Dr. A. G. Butler, of the British Museum, attracted in the same way by the larval difference, had divided the species among several genera, referred to several families; allowing superficial and secondary characters to mislead him, as be has since admitted. In 1886, while arranging the Grote material, Dr. Butler made comparisons with other types in the Museum, the results of which were published in 1887 in “Entomologica Americana.”
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS IN THE APHELININÆ
Authors: Ashmead William H.
Published: February 2010

Myiocnema, new genus.

This new genus falls in a table of the genera of the Aphelininæ next to Encarsia, Forster, the antennæ being 8-jointed and the club in the female being 2-jointed.

The head is transverse thin antero-posteriorly, the occiput concave, the vertex impressed; the thorax has several long bristly hairs, and the parapsidal furrows are distinct but very delicate, almost invisible; the front wings have a large discoidal cloud beneath the marginal vein as in Coccophagus orientalis, Howard, the stigmal vein is distinct, not very short, but still shorter than the marginal vein and a tittle shorter than the post-marginal, the marginal vein being a little longer than half the length of the submarginal vein.
A NEW PULVINARIA FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

Pulvinaria Tinsleyi, n. sp.

Shriveled adult female scales on the twigs, light brown, elliptical, convex. Ovisac, clear white, texture as in P. innumerabilis. After boiling in K. O. H., derm colourless, not pitted or tessellate. Legs and anal plates tinged with yellow. Spines of lateral cleft in threes, one long and curved; 76 μ long, two quite short, 28 μ long. Margin with one row of stout blunt spines 40 μ long, 6 broad. Anal plates heart shaped, each 100 μ broad and 136 μ long, Antennæ 7-jointed, width quite constant, but the length of the joints seems to be quite variable. I have examined ten, with the following results in μ: Joint (1) 24 to 40, (2) 40–60, (3) 68–80, (4) 52–64, (5) 28–36, (6) 28–40, (7) 44–52. Formula 3472651. Joint 3 is always longest, while 4 is nearly as long, but never equal; 1 is always the shortest, 5 and 6 are next and sometimes nearly equal. Joints 2 and 3 have two long hairs each; 5 and 6 have 3 each; 7 seems to have 9, the terminal one very long.
NOTES ON NEW MEXICO BEES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Bombomelecta larreœ, n. sp.

♀.—Length 12½ mm.; general build and structure of B. thoracica, but the scutellum is convex with a central depression, and wholly without spines; while the claws have the inner division short and broadly truncate. The maxillary palpi are 6-jointed, and the mandibles have a strong tooth on the inner side. Black; pubescence of the face and vertex pale brown; of the occiput, labrum and clypeus, black; of the pleura, metathorax and scutellum, black; of the post-scurtellum, yellowish, especially noticeable at the sides; of the mesothorax, orange-fulvous, short, dense and conspicuous in front, thin behind. Abdomen with broad but inconspicuous ochreous bands on segments 2 to 4, more or less interrupted in the middle on 2 and 4, represented on the first segment by lateral patches, and a few ochreous hairs even in the middle; fifth segment with black hairs. Antennæ entirely black, apex truncate, the corners of the truncation rounded. Legs black, with black pubescence; spurs black, hind spur of hind tibia larger than the other, and somewhat bent. Wings dark fuliginous, with hyaline patches on the third transverso-cubital and second recurrent nervures; venation resembling that of B. thoracica, var. fulvida, except that the first recurrent nervure joins the second submarginal cell almost at its apex.
NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

Melitœa Chalcedon, ab. fusimacula.— Variations of Chalcedon are very common, but the ones I now describe are so striking that they are certainly worthy of a varietal name, especially as they do not seem to be so very uncommon. In the first of these, to which I have given the name Fusimacula, there is a tendency to obliteration of the spots on discs of both wings, and to a fusion of the three outer rows of spots in a horizontal direction. The ground colour of the upper surface is of the same rich black as Chalcedon. There is a complete absence of the spots in the cells of both fore and hind wings in males, and there are but faint traces of them in the females. On the fore wings the fusion takes place as follows: The two outer rows unite to form a yellow band, which is joined at about its middle by a yellow demi-band from the costa, which is composed of the fusion of the two inner rows.
ORCHELIMUM, SERV.
Authors: M'neill Jerome
Published: February 2010

This genus of Orthoptera is confined almost entirely to North America, where it is represented by twenty or more species. Joseph Redtenbocher in his “Monographie der Conocephaliden,” published in 1891, united Orchelimum, Serv., to Xiphidium, Serv. This action seems scarcely justified, as the two groups are quite as distinct as many other Orthopteran genera, and Redtenbocher's authority has not been generally recognized in this country. The species are distinguished with difficulty and the descriptions are widely scattered. These considerations have led me to attempt to make a key for their identification. It is quite possible that some of the species indicated are synonymous, but I am inclined to believe that all I have recognized are good, and I believe there are a considerable number undescribed. Many forms which differ from each other by very few structural differences are distinguished by some peculiarity of song or habit or habitat, and it is certain that a considerable number of them have been overlooked.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN SPIDERS
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Sergiolus bicolor, n. sp.

Length, ♀, 8 mm. Cephalothorax and legs pale reddish-yellow, mandibles and sternum scarcely darker, basal half of abdomen pale gray, apical half and spinnerets jet black, the line separating the two slightly convex in front; venter pale gray except the apical two-fifths, which is black, but broadly indented by the gray in the middle. Cephalothorax rather slender, about one and three-fourths as long as broad, plainly longer than patella plus tibia IV., not much narrowed in front, no trace of a dorsal groove. Posterior eye-row plainly recurved, the P. M. E. round, about twice their diameter apart, and about as far from the scarcely larger P. S. E. Anterior eye-row much shorter than posterior, nearly straight, the A. M. E. slightly smaller than P. M. E., more than their diameter apart, and rather nearer to the slightly larger A. S. E., several stiff black bristles in eye-region.
THE LINNÆAN GENUS GRYLLUS
Authors: Rehn James A. G.
Published: February 2010

The Linnæan genus Gryllus, as first recognized in the tenth edition of Systema Naturæ, was composed of a number of sections which, while some have been recognized, are generally discarded. These names are used in the sense of subgenera, and as such are entitled to recognition. The case in hand being a deeply involved one, we must find some guide to be used as a standard in properly handling these names, and as to-day the Code of the American Ornithologists' Union is generally recognized as the vade mecum, we shall follow that. Canon XIX. of this Code is to the effect that a name “once established is never to be cancelled in any subsequent subdivision of the group, but retained in a restricted sense for one of the constituent portions.” With this before us we must proceed to find on what a name should be retained. As was the case with the earlier writers (and is frequently the case with modern writers), Linnæus specified no types, and we must refer to the Code for help. Canon XXIV. informs us that “when no type is specified, the only available method of fixing the original name to some part of the genus to which it was originally applied is by the process of elimination, subject to the single modification provided for by Canon XXIII.” The last mentioned Canon is as follows: “If, however, the genus contains both exotic and non-exotic species—from the standpoint of the original author —and the generic term is one originally applied by the ancient Greeks or Romans, the process of elimination is to be restricted to the non-exotic species.” Of the six Linnæan subgenera—Mantis, Bulla, Acheta, Acrida, Tettigonia and Locusta—four are classic: Mantis, Acheta, Tettigonia and Locusta.
ON SOME BEES OF THE GENUS AUGOCHLORA
Authors: Titus E. S. G.
Published: February 2010

Augochlora Coloradensis, n. sp. (subg. Augochlora).

♀.—Green, often tinged with pulple; face finely and confluently punctured above the base of the antennæ, more coarsely, confluently so below, supraclypeal space sometimes not confluently punctured; clypeus with large punctures, black at tip; basal process of labrum subquadrate, broadly rounded, rufopiceous; mandibles black, rufous at tips; antennæ black, flagellum near the tip fulvotestaceous beneath; striation of the disc of the metathorax reaching to the summit, posterior truncation rounded above, lateral portions rounded, truncation not shining, rugosely punctured; tegulæ, often with a black dot in the centre, stigma and nervures testaceous; legs piceous, femora and tibiæ sometimes with a greenish cast, knees testaceous, tips of tarsi generally inclined to rufous; hind tibial spurs of posterior leg finely serrated; abdomen shining, polished, finely punctured; ventral segments black; pubescence of face, sides of thorax, tarsi partly, and abdomen, whitish; scutellum and first dorsal abdominal segments very fine and short, margins of segments fringed with white hairs; hair on tarsi often inclined to be rufous. Lenglh, 6–7 mm.
A NEW CANADIAN TINEID
Authors: Busck August
Published: February 2010

Anacampsis lupinella, n. sp.

Antennœ bronzy black with white annulations, slightly serrate, especially towards the tip.

Labial palpi long, smooth, recurved; second joint somewhat thickened, with appressed scales, dark ochreous brown; terminal joint longer than second, acicular, dark brownish, with tip black.
NOTE ON THE RESPIRATION OF ALEURODES CITRI
Authors: Woodworth C. W.
Published: February 2010

The effort to control the “white fly” of the orange (Aleurodes citri) by hydrocyanic acid gas, naturally suggested an inquiry into the respiration of these insects. The author was enabred to pursue this inquiry, while recently in Florida, under the auspices of trre Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.

The only account of the organs of respiration in the young of this family is a brief note with a figure in Burmeister's Handbuch, which is very incomplete and not entirely accurate. Some very interesting and quite unique features are presented by these insects, not the least of which are the breathing folds, that are very conspicuous structures, and have been heretofore incorrectly interpreted. The view suggested by Riley and Howard (Insect Life, 1893, Vol. 5, pp. 219–226), that the anterior folds represent the original division between the head and thorax, is the one usually accepted. In rearity they are wholly thoracic in position, being nearer to the pro-mesothoracic line than to the head-thoracic boundary, and they are by no means vestigial structures, but specially developed organs of respiration.
SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN BEES
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

Andrena krigiana, n. sp.

♀.—Black; mandibles rufous at tips, toothed near the apex; basal process of labrum short, subquadrate, emarginate; clypeus somewhat shining towards apex, where it is rather distinctly punctured, elsewhere opaque and reticulated; face before ocelli longitudinally striate; facial foveæ quite short, not descending below insertion of antennæ, filled with a fine pubescence which appears black; antennæ short, joint 3 as long as the next three together, or nearly so, apical joints dull testaceous beneath; thorax throughout opaque and finely reticulated; enclosure of metathorax poorly defined, but rather strongly rugose; pubescence of head and thorax rather thin and dull fulvous; wings subhyaline, nervures and stigma honey-yellow, second cubital cell about one-third as long as the third, oblique, receiving the first recurrent nervure at, or a little before, or a little beyond, the middle; abdomen shining, rather sparsely and rather evenly punctured, apical margins of segments pale testaceous, hardly subfasciate, fimbria fulvous; scopæ pale, the hairs of hind tibiæ rather strongly plumose. Length, 8 mm.
THE GENERIC NAMES VATES AND THEOCLYTES
Authors: Rehn James A. G.
Published: February 2010

Recently the writer made the statement (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XXVII., p.87) that the generic name Theoclytes was a synonym of Vates, the latter being the older by one year. A further examination has shown that the matter should have been examined closer.
SOME NECESSARY CHANGES AND CORRECTIONS IN NAMES OF ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Rehn James A. G.
Published: February 2010

Miomantis, Saussure. Bull. Ent. Suisse, III., p. 64, 1870.

Preoccupied by Miomantis, Blanchard. D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., VI., Ins., p. 209, 1842 (Coleoptera). To fill the deficiency, I propose the name Calidomantis.

Harpax, Serville. Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII., p. 45, 49, 1831.

Preoccupied by Harpax, Parkinson. Organic Rem., 1811 (Mollusca). I have not been able to examine the first edition of Parkinson, but in the second the name Harpax occurs on page 221 of volume III. To replace Serville's genus, I propose the name Australomantis.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF LUCANIDÆ FROM CALIFORNIA
Authors: Fall H. C.
Published: February 2010

Some two years ago I received from Mr. E. A. Schwarz a single example of a curious Lucanide bearing labels “Kaweah, Cal.,” and “Ceruchus (?), n. sp.” This specimen, as I have since learned, was one of a considerable number taken by Mr. Ralph Hopping six years ago on grain and wild grasses growing near the grain on a small sandy hill at the locality indicated. In a letter just received from Mr. Hopping, he states that he has this year taken four fresh specimens, May 17–20, at the same place, one flying in the bright sunshine shortly after noon, the others at twilight. Mr. Hopping has kindly sent me three more specimens, and I have seen two others in the collection of Mr. Fuchs, also from the same source. These specimens are all males, and I have little doubt that Mr. Hopping's entire catch is of this sex.
A REPLY TO DR. WASMANN
Authors: Casey Thos. L.
Published: February 2010

Truth may be likened to a bull's-eye—it is much more difficult to hit than to miss. The “splitters” frequently throw their shots too high and the “lumpers” too low, and there are many other sources of aberration which cause the careless worker to miss the bull's-eye. It has sometimes been my misfortune to aim a little too high in monographic work, where the familiarity engendered by long and close investigation may have led to the assignment of too great weight to certain differential characters, but, in the case of the genera allied to Homœusa (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., VIII., p. 53), I feel myself obliged to dissent from the views advanced by Mr. Wasmann in the September number of this journal.
A NEW GORTYNA, AND NOTES ON THE GENUS
Authors: Lyman Henry H.
Published: February 2010

I use the name Gortyna in preference to Hydrœcia as, without pretending to be an authority upon the question, it appears to me that there is better authority for the former, as used by Mr. Grote, than for the latter. My acquaintance with the moths of this genus, which I have always admired, dates back about thirty years, but in spite of that length of time my knowledge of them up till last year was of the most meagre description, and apart from the species which has stood so long in our collections under the name Nictitans, and a few specimens of Velata, Walk., I only possessed about half a dozen specimens, mostly in poor condition, representing Immanis, Stramentosa, Rigida, Nebris, Rutila, and a form which Mr. Bird believes to be new.
NEPTICULA POMIVORELLA, Packard; ALIAS MICROPTERYX POMIVORELLA, Packard
Authors: Busck August
Published: February 2010

During a visit to Professor Fernald, in Amherst, Mass., last spring, he showed me a Nepticula, bred from Apple, which he had described in manuscript as a new species, but which he afterwards had suspected to be Micropteryx pomivorella, Packard.

From reading the description and life-history of packard's species, I felt sure that it was a Nepticula and presumably the same as Professor Fernald's species, and a week after, while studying the collection in the Agassiz Museum, Cambridge, I obtained definite proof that we were right.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

♂, expanse 2⅜ in.; ♀, 2½ in. Fore wings long, pointed, apices depressed, of a uniform pale, rather dirty yellowish colour. There is a row of short intravenular dashes which form a narrow blackish line from apex to inner margin close to thorax. In the females this is almost straight, in the males it has somewhat of a downward curve. Another row of somewhat sagittal-shaped spots forms a second dark band from apex to inner margin a little within inner angle. Hind wings yellowish, semitranslucent, inner third dusky. Discal dot small, black. These markings, while distinct, are not heavy or pronounced. Thorax a little darker than wings. Abdomen dusky above, anal tuft yellowish. Beneath as above, only fainter. Thorax, legs and abdomen same, except inner side of fore femora, which are somewhat orange. Palpi dusky at extreme tip. Antennæ dusky, narrowly bipectinate in ♂, broadly so in ♀. The ♂ has the dusky shades darker than in the ♀, the abdomen being quite dark blackish brown above, contrasting with the light anal tuft. Types 2 pair in my collection from Huachuca Mt., Arizona. I take pleasure in naming this species after Mr. Otho C. Poling, of Quincy, Ill., as a slight token of my appreciation of the many favours he has done me.
CICADIDÆ — AMERICAN GENERA AND SPECIES
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The following bibliographical catalogue was prepared several years ago, and thinking that other workers might find it of use, it is offered for publication at this time. A table of the genera, compiled from the writings of various systematists who have dealt with this famiiy, is added to make the paper more complete.
NOTES ON WALKER'S TYPES OF SPILOSOMA CONGRUA, AND A FEW OTHER TYPES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Authors: Lyman Henry H.
Published: February 2010

Having arranged for a two months trip to Europe during the past summer, I determined to visit the Natural History Branch oi the British Musenm, to endeavour to clear up the doubt surrounding Walker's spilosoma Congrua, taking with me a number of specimens of S. Antigone, Strecker; a pair of the heavily-spotted Gomin form of Spilosoma, which Dr. Fyles calls Cunea, lent to me by Mr. Winn; a typical female specimen of S. Prima, kindly given to me by Mrs. Slosson; and a small series of Hyphantria Cunea, Drury. I reached London late on the 26th June, but on the morning of the 29th received a cablegram which necessitated my immediate return home. After making my arrangements to sail from Liverpool on the 30th, I found I had a few hours to spare, and so paid a very hurried visit to the Museum, and was shown what was supposed to be the three types of Congrua by sir George Hampson, who kindly remained after the closing hour to accommodate me.
EULECANIUM LYMANI
Authors: Lymman H. H.
Published: February 2010

SIR,–Permit me to correct a slight error into which Mr. King has fallen in regard to the locality where I found the scales of Eulecanium Lymani, as the tree was not, as stated, at Quebec, but at St. Hilare, a station on the line of the Grand Trunk Railway, about twenty-two miles east of Montreal. I shall be happy to send specimens of this scale to anyone interested in scale insects.
WEST COAST AND OTHER JASSIDÆ (HOMOPTERA)
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: February 2010

Most of the material upon which the following descriptions are based belongs to the National Museum, and the species are here described at the request of the curator, Dr. W. H. Ashmead.

Eutettix pannosa, n. sp.–Resembling saucia and scaber in general appearance, smaller, darker, and with longer vertex and more generally reticulate elytra. Length, ♀ 4.5 mm., ♂ 4 mm; width, ♀ 1.5mm., ♂ 1.25 mm.

Vertex right angled, apex blunt, three-fifths as long as its basal width, two thirds as long as the pronotum, half longr on middle than against eye, disc slightly sloping, flat, with the apex elevated. Face retreating, forming an acute angle with the vertex, front rather broad. Elytra rather short, comirressed at the apex, venation weak, irregniarly reticulate, the second cross nervure sometimes present.
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF PERLIDÆ
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

In going through the accessions to my collection, I have found several new species and new localities for some known forms. Most of these are included in this paper.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN FULGORIDÆ
Authors: Ball E. D.
Published: February 2010

Some lime ago, when about to publish a synopsis of the genus Scolops, the writer discovered that Dr. Uhler had the same genus in hand and his MSS. read for the press. As the result of the correspordence,the writer dropped his work for the time, and Dr. Uhler promised to send his types as soon as his paper was published. (Proc. Md. Acad. Sc., p. 401, 1900.) With his usual thoughtfulness, the Doctor sent on the types,and with the aid of these and a fine series of eastern forms received from Mr. Otto Heidemann the author has been able to definitely place all the described species and recognize a number of nerv ones.

The genus is found in its greatest abundance the border line of plain and mountain region, and so many rew forms have been found here in the past few years that there are no doubt many more to be found on further search.