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NOTES ON TENTHREDINIDÆ, 1885
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

Read at the Annual Meeting of the Ent. Soc. Ont.

The earliest species which I noted during the past season, was the common and obnoxious currant saw-fly, Nematus ventricosus, which appeared on 15th May. Two days later I captured upon willow in bloom a specimen of Dolerus collaris, and on the 21st and 22nd found D. aprilis quite common on and about alders, with a few D. sericeus? and D. abdominalis. By the 24th May the strawberry saw-fly, Emphytus maculatus, and the raspberry saw-fly, Selandria rubi, were in considerable numbers, and at the same time appeared several less well known species in fields and woods, such as Hylotoma McCleayi. This species I found again on 2nd June and subsequent days, upon the flowers of choke-cherry. Later in the season specimens were found upon Spiræa. Selandria flavipes was captured on 10th June, and was abundant during the season. It could always be obtained by using a sweeping-net among the common fern. At the same time could be obtained in abundance upon the ferns greenish larvae which I have no doubt were those of that species.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE SPECIES OF ACARINA OF NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Osborn Herbert , Underwood Lucien M.
Published: February 2010

The Acarina, especially the more minute forms, have been but little studied in America, a fact which seems the more strange when we consider what interesting objects they form for microscopic work. As in most groups of Arthropoda, the pioneer work in this country was done by Thomas Say, whose descriptions of a number of the larger species appeared as early as 1821. Later on Dana and Whelpley (1836), and Haldeman (1842), contributed descriptions of a few species. More recently Dr's. Fitch, Leidy, Packard, Riley, LeBaron and Shimer, and Mr. Ashmead, have published descriptions of species and notes on habits, while quite lately Mr. Harry Garman has published a valuable paper on the Phytoptidæ, which it is hoped he will follow up by still more extensive study of this family.
NOTE ON XIPHYDRIA ALBICORNIS
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

This species was abundant from the middle of June to the end of July, and I observed the females ovipositing on our shade trees (maple) in various parts of the city. It appears to prefer trees which have been recently transplanted, and which are naturally not so vigorous as those which grow undisturbed. My next-door neighbor set out several young trees, from one to two inches in diameter, and upon these I took several specimens. On the other hand, I observed them, beyond the city, ovipositing in quite large and old maples, and even upon the limbs of an old tree which had been broken and blown down.
PROTECTIVE COLORATION IN THE GENUS CICINDELA
Authors: Townsend C. H. T.
Published: February 2010

In the summer of 1884, while collecting the green tiger-beetles in the woods, it struck me very forcibly how the Cicindelæ that inhabit such places—sexguttata Fab. here, campestris Linn. in England, others elsewhere—are for the most part of a beautiful green, so as to assimilate in color with the surrounding vegetation and herbage among which they may alight; while those that frequent the bare ground, banks, sand hills, sandy stretches, beaches, bars—vulgaris Say, repanda Dej., maritima Dej., and many others—are of the colors easily assimilative with those that surround them on the flats and stretches where they are found.
LARVA OF SEIRODONTA BILINEATA, Pack.
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Length 1.20 inches; cylindrical, rather slender, two warty elevations on the dorsum of joints 5 and 12, elsewhere the piliferous spots scarcely perceptible, except for the single hair that arises from each. Color green; a dorsal pale yellow line, bordered on each side on joints 3 and 4 by a purple line; outside this a pale yellow stripe that diverges on joint 2, gradually diverging again on joints 4, 5 and 6, where it reaches below the usual region of the subdorsal line, extending from this back to joint 11, from which it gradually converges to the elevations on joint 12, touching these on the outside, the diverging and converging referring to the stripes on both sides of the body. These stripes send more or less prominent deflections down the sides of joints 7 and 10. In some examples the space between these stripes and the dorsal line contains a pale whitish stripe each side of the dorsal; the deflections, and a little on joint 5 and the elevations, are reddish purple.
NOTES ON PAPILIO TURNUS AND PYRAMEIS CARDUI
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Previous to the summer of 1884, Papilio turnus and Pyrameis cardui had been quite rare in Orono, Me., and vicinity, not more than half a dozen of the former and two or three of the latter having been seen each year; but in June of that year P. turnus was so abundant that it was not uncommon to see a dozen or more flying together. In August of the same year fresh specimens of P. cardui were so abundant that in a small piece of red clover, not more than two rods from the house, I captured twenty-five in half an hour, and the numbers were not perceptibly diminished. The next day they were equally abundant, but the following day we had a cold rain storm, after which only a very few poor, faded examples were seen. The next summer (1885) P. turnus was again rare, and not one example of P. cardui was seen by myself, nor by any one in this vicinity. Parasites might have made the difference in the number of P. turnus, but could they have done so with that immense number of P. cardui, or did that storm so effectually destroy them before laying their eggs that there were none the next year, or is it possible that some epidemic attacked them, leaving none to perpetuate the race?
A MONOGRAPH OF THE APHIDIDÆ BY JULES LICHTENSTEIN, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
Authors: Monell J. T.
Published: February 2010

Judging by the first volume of this work, which I have lately received, it will prove of great value to American students of this difficult family. The first volume is illustrated by a number of finely colored plates, and Mr. Lichtenstein promises in his preface to use all such funds as he may obtain from subscribers to the work, in illustrating the second volume—thus practically making subscribers a present of the text. While the monograph will deal more particularly with European species, many notes will be given comparing nearly allied American with European forms.
DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES FOUND IN THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

I. Argynnis Semiramis.

Male.—Expands about 2.3 inches.

Upper side bright fulvous, very little obscured at base; the black markings much as in Adiante, that is, slight on primaries, and still nore so on secondaries, the spots on disk and to base being scarcely more than streaks.

Under side of primaries cinnamon-red at base and along inner margin to median, the upper two median interspaces more or less buff in middle; this red also crosses basal half of cell, and borders median to the arc; the remainder of cell and the discoidal and costal interspaces buff; a brown sub-apical patch, and hind margin brown; the sub-marginal crescents brown, and near apex lost in the ground color, from upper branch of median containing imperfectly silvered spots, the others without silver; the two spots on the patch well silvered.
COLEOPTERA FOUND IN DEAD TRUNKS OF TILIA AMERICANA L, IN OCTOBER
Authors: Townsend C. H. T.
Published: February 2010

Having examined a good number of dead trunks of the basswood or American linden, Tilia Americana L., here this fall, I have found quite a list of Coleoptera in them either under the bark or in the decayed wood. The following is the list, which embraces thirty-four species taken from 13th October to 3rd November, 1885. Some of the species are only of accidental occurrence in the trunks, but will be readily known, and are given to record them from this locality. The determinations are mostly by Dr. Horn:—

Tachys flavicauda Gyll. Colonies or scattered individuals mixed with colonies of Silvanus planatus Germ., or by themselves, under the bark of the less decayed trunks.
NOTES ON HYMENOPTERA, COLLECTED NEAR OTTAWA
Authors: Guignard J. A.
Published: February 2010

Within the first year of work in this branch of entomology in the Ottawa district, I was able to make acquaintance with all the 26 orders into which Hymenoptera are divided in Mr. Brodie's Canadian list; and now at the end of our second year, out of 247 genera, only about 70 remain unrepresented, while 13 genera are added not yet before met with in Canada, two of which have never been described.

I shall leave out the Uroceridœ and Tenthredinidae, and not include them in the following figures, as Mr. W. H. Harrington has given especial attention to those two orders, and has already published an article on them.
DESCRIPTION OF A SEEMINGLY RARE AND UNIQUE MOTH
Authors: Fischer Ph.
Published: February 2010

Brotis vulneraria Hüb.

This moth appears to be the only one of its genus so far known in the United States.

Head small, yellowish red, almost hidden between the large and prominent eyes, which are naked; palpi medium, slender, lighter colored; thorax long, covered with long fine hair; abdomen much shorter than the anal margin and Hesperi-shaped. Posterior wings elongated, costa straight, somewhat curved at apex, outer margin straight, inner margin somewhat rounded. on anterior wings the anal margin is longer than upper and outer margin, the latter being strongly rounded.
NOTES ON ANT LIONS
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

As my former notes on the Ant Lions were of interest to some of your readers, perhaps a few additional particulars on the same subject may not be objectionable to them. Having had another opportunity of observing their habits, I made the best use I could of it. The abdomen of the nymph is somewhat heart-shaped, flat beneath and very much rounded above, thickest near the thorax, and sloping off suddenly to the sides and tail, which is an acute point. The thorax is long, and with the head is narrow and flat above, a form no doubt well adapted to its requirements. Its mode of travelling is backwards, always “advancing to the reat,” one side contracted, which produces a circular movement, so that when one was placed in the centre of,the palm of the hand, it made two rounds before it dropped over the side. As soon as it touched the sand it put itself instantly out of sight under the surface, where it lay for a short time perfectly quiet. When it began the formation of its pit, which I watched to its completion, it commenced by a jerk of the head and thorax, which threw the sand off and exposed them to view. It lowered them at once, made a sudden start back, when the sand covered them; then another jerk and another backward move rapidly executed, always throwing the sand to the outside.
NOTES ON CERTAIN COLEOPTERA OE THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF GALESBURG, ILL
Authors: Strumberg C. W.
Published: February 2010

Lebia divisa Lec.—Twenty-nine specimens of this beautiful Carabid were taken during July (1884) with the sweeping net, on various weeds along the edge of a slough. One specimen was found under a board. Towards sunset seemed to be the only time they could be captured, differing in that respect from some of the others of the genus, which are about at all hours of the day. My first specimen was taken in 1876 in same locality.

Lebia tricolor, pleuritica and analis seem to be rare. Have taken them with the sieve late in October.
NOTE ON STATEN ISLAND NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

My earliest collecting field was the south side of Staten Island, where I found many rare insects, especially among the Coleoptera. This south beach of the Island is visited by the warm spring coming from the south very early in the year, and is a good collecting field. Staten Island is a continuation of the Jersey coast, and one finds on it southern species of butterflies such as Argynnis Idalia, which are less frequent on Long Island, the next extension of the coast to the north. So far as the fauna is concerned, I am inclined to class Staten Island with New Jersey, rather than with New York. It forms the beautiful southern boundary of New York Harbor. At the same time Mr. Davis informs us that the Red Squirrel, not uncommon on the mainland of New Jersey, is not found on Staten Island, and thus has not crossed the narrow Kills. But I have abundant faith it will yet turn up on the Island, where all good things naturally live. I have collected on Staten Island a good many of those kinds of moths which come up our coast with the warmer weather and the Gulf Stream. I have in various papers called attention to the seasonal migration, from south to north, of many species of moths, which adds so much to the fauna of the United States.
NOTE ON PRIONOXYSTUS ROBINIÆ
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

Having recently examined the European Cossus (Xyleutes) ligniperda, the generic differences between Cossus and Prionoxystus impressed me quite forcibly. The Cossidæ or Teredines of Hübner (Grote, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., Nov., 1874), form a sub-family group of the “Spinners” or Bombycidœ, and are generally characterized by the wood-eating habit of the larvæ, which are provided with powerful mandibles for the purpose. The moths are generally of a clumsy build and are usually of a gray color, resembling the bark of trees on which they rest, and are more or less reticulated with darker shade lines, peppered and spotted so as to give the idea of protective imitation. The ocelli are wanting and the tongue is rudimentary. In the gents Cossus, and in most of the genera of the group, the vestiture of the body is close, thick and hairy. Although gray is the prevailing color, some Australian species have the hind wings especially of a reddish-brown hue. The European Zeuzera Aesculi is white, spotted over wings and thorax with steely blue. The North American genus Prionoxystus differs at first sight by the sparse, thinly laid on, scaly vestiture.
ON PLAGIOMIMICUS RICHII
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

This species I have mistaken, according to Mr. J. B. Smith, for Polenta Tepperi in several of my papers. The moth is easily recognized, being of a delicate green color and having the transverse lines similar to Plagiomimicus Pityochromus, which is a blackish fuscous and stouter species. P. Richii has the anterior tibiæ armed with a claw and the clypeus provided with a cup-like expansion, less prominent than in Pityochromus. P. Richii occurs in Texas, FloriCa, and I have seen it also from the Southwest. The genus may be further known by the tips of the patagia being somewhat relieved, and belongs to the Stiriinœ, a group of Noctuidœ which I have fully discussed in the pages of the Canadian Entomologist. I regret that I have been mistaken in my identification of Polenta, thus needlessly criticizing Mr. Morrison and afterwards Mr. J. B. Smith.
THE EARLIEST BUTTERFLIES AT THE WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Authors: Scudder Samuel. H.
Published: February 2010

A few years ago a visit was made to the Glen, in the White Mts. of New Hamphire, in the early spring, just as the first tender leafage was appearing (June 2–5), and a report of the thirteen butterflies then found was publishe in Psyche, 1874. vol, 1, p. 13–14, 18–19. Wishing to secure eggs from some of the wintering butterflies abundant in that place, which I then failed to secure from being too early, another visit was made last spring to the same place, and at the same date (June 3–7), as the season was evidently sufficiently advanced to make it practically at least a week later; and so it proved, the vegetation at the Half-way House, at the upper limit of forest growth on the Mt. Washington carriage road, being this spring exactly at the stage at which I found it in the valleys at the previous visit, the difference in elevation being over fifteen hundred feet. The sky was equally sunny in both cases.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

I have never seen this species, except the couple from Arabia Felix in the Berlin Museum, described by Klug, Symb. Phys., iv., pl. 35, f. 2 and 3. Rambur, p. 369, No.5, described the species after Klug's figures, Rambur and others, not excepting myself, believed that the male did not belong to the same species as the female. Klug calls it a variety. After a thorough study of the species in Berlin, I arrived at the conclusion that Klug was right, and P. cephalotes Klug shows a similar but not so exaggerated differnce between both sexes. I have carefully compared the types with the figures, and found them to be very exact.
NOTE ON MISTAKEN IDENTIFICATIONS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the course of my studies I have been able to point out of number of cases in which the species illustrated by earlier authors have been identified with allied forms inhabiting the Middle and Eastern States and parts of Canada, I must think wrongly. Dr. Harris has furnished a number of instances in point, chiefly, perhaps, in interpreting the figures of Abbot. It must not be forgetten that the locality has much to do with the forms of Lepidoptera. The different climate and physical conditions of the Southern States could not fail to impress the Lepidopterous fauna of that region.
HINTS ON COLLECTING HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

To have the specimens in a collection look well, and at the same time be in a condition such as to render their examination as easy as possible, it is necessary that they should be properly collected. The ordinary cyanide bottles prepared either with plaster of Paris, or sawdust, which are used for Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, do not furnish good specimens of Hymenoptera, and those collected in alcohol are less satisfactory.
NOTES ON THE GENUS EXOPROSOPA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In my paper on “The North American Genera of Anthracina,” which appeared in the last volume of the Can. Entomologist (pp. 157–159), I proposed the nave Velocia for those species of Exoprosopa which have four submarginal cells in each wing. Through the kidness of Dr. Williston, I have been put in possession of a paper by Prof. Camillo Rondani, entitled “Dipterorum Species et Genera Aliqua Exotica.” published in 1863 in the Archivio per la Zoologia, Vol, iii, and on pages 56 and 57 of this paper Prof. Rondani proposes the name Hyperalonia for the above group; this name being the earlier, must supersede the one proposed by me.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ, Part 2
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

I have quoted, Synops. Hemerob., p. 457, as belonging to Pamexis, a new species figured in Seba Thesaur., vol. iv., pl. 86, f. 20. The explanation says, “Color pallide subfuscus, maculis suture fuscis.” I can not here compare a colored copy of Seba's work, nevertheless the figure proves to be a male of a species of Pamexis without antennæ. The figures of insects in Seba are not good; but as the species belongs surely to Pamexis, and is larger than the other known species, and different from them, I wish to draw attention to the existence of a new species of this curious genus.
A PRACTICAL NOTE ON COLLECTING INSECTS
Authors: Claypole E. W.
Published: February 2010

In reference to two notes on collecting in the June number of your Entomologist, will you allow me to make a few remarks? Entomology is with me a secondary subject, my time being for the most part occupied with another science. Perhaps this has led me to devise means for economizing time and labor more than I should otherwise have done; but the study of insects has great attraction for me, and I spend no little time upon it.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN HETEROCERA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Edwards Henry
Published: February 2010

Allied to F. denudata, but differing greatly in important particulars, Fore wings are bright shining seal-brown, deep orange along the costa for the basal half. At the middle of the wing at base in a narrow denuded space, and the internal angle is also devoid of scales, but much more narrowly so than in denudata. The transparent space is golden yellow in shade. Lower wings transparent golden yellow, with very bright but dark opalescent reflection. The margin and spot at the extremity of cell dark brown. Antennæ bluish black, orange brown at the base. Head, disk of thorax, and the upper portion of the abdominal segements, black. Eyes black, palpi with black at their base. Front of head, collar, sides and base of thorax, posterior edges of abdominal segments bright orange. Feet and legs wholly orange without any black bands.
NOTE ON THECLA AUGUSTUS
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

I beg to record the capture, by myself, in the neighborhood of Bergerville, Province of Quebec, of two specimens of Thecla Augustus. I am indebted to Mr. W. H. Edwards for the identificaiton of the insects.
SOME EUROPEAN BEETLES IN AMERICA
Authors: Henshaw Samuel
Published: February 2010

On PAge 114 of the present volume of Canadian Entomologist Mr. A. R. Grote in his “Note on Mistaken Identifications,” mentions Dr. Harris' record of the capture of Carabus auratus Linn, in Massachusetts, and implies that Dr. Harris has made an erroneous, or “curious,” identification. This, however, is not the case, and it would be impossible for so careful an observer as Dr. Harris to make a mistake about a species so well known.
ON THECLA FALACER AND INORATA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The object of this note is to draw attention to a paper printed at Demopolis, Ala., Dec., 1870, in which I endeavored to reply to Mr.Scudder's objections to our determination of Hübner's Plate of calanus. I say: “The chances are against Hübner's having figured both sexes of the ususally unspotted T. inorata with the spotted secondaries of calanus nob.
THE NORTH AMERICAN CALLIMORPHAS
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

The North American species of the genus Callimorpha are exceedingly interesting both from their beauty and from the extreme variations to which some of the species are subject, and which has given rise not only tot he creation of numerous synonyms, but also to distinct species being regarded as merely varieties of other forms.
A NEW VARIETY OF PAPILIO AND A NEW CATOCALA FROM THE PACIFIC COAST
Authors: Behrens James
Published: February 2010

I have received form Mr. Behrens, of San Francisco, the following descriptions for publication, and with them the specimens to which they refer. The Papilio is a very extraordinary aberration, probably owing its color to a change in the food plant. I learn from Mr. Behrens that four specimens were obtained, all agreeing with each other. The Catocala is, I have no doubt, the form referred to by me (Pacific Coast Lepid., No.14, Proc. Cal. Acad Sc., 1875) as having been seen by the late Baron Terloo at San Jose, Cal. I think it a good species, and in this view I am sustained by those excellent authorities on Catocala, the Rev. G.D. Hulst and Prof. G.H. French.
NOTE ON THE EUROPEAN GRAPTA C ALBUM
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In the Entom. Mo. Mag., xxiii., p. 186, Jan., 1887, is the statement by Mrs. Hutchinson, of Leominster, to this effect: that the writer caught a femal CAlbum which was hovering about currant bushes, and obtained from her many eggs, laid between 27th April and 6th May. The eggs hatched between May 5th and 11th, and the larvæ were full grown from 17th to 23rd June.
COMPARATIVE TABLES FOR THE FAMILIES OF BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Scudder Samuel. H.
Published: February 2010

The need of a better knowledge of the acutal structure of butterflies among those in this country who follow their study, is shown by the persistence with which an antiquated classification is adhered, to,— a classification whose only value is historical, which coceals affinities and takes no account of the progress of investigation. In the hope of stimulating the examination of objects and not of books, the following Table for the determination of the four families of butterflies, originally prepared for my forthcoming work on the New England species, is here published.
THE NUPTIALS OF THALESSA
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

For several years I have observed with much interest the oviposition of our large and handsome “long-stings,” but not until this summer have I been able to witness their actions preparatory to this duty. Although the males are frequently numerous when the femals are ovipositing, the sexes pay no attention to one another, and this fact led me frequently to wonder at what time mating occurs. Last year I had, in compnay with Mr. Fletche, observed the males in strange positions, with the tip of the abdoment applied to the bark, or inserted in a crevice, and had suggested that they were awaiting the emergence of the female. The supposition was, however, not proven, and the actions observed wer still a matter of conjecture and for further observation.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ, Part 3
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

The following species are very interesting, as they posses no spurs at the end of the tibiæ. From N. America are for species, two not yet described. All agree in the following characters: They are very slender, more or less hairy or villous, head small, narrow; antennæ long, as long as head and thorax, or at least prothorax, stout, cylindrical, becoming gradually thicker but not clavate; labial palpi a little longer than the maxillary ones; last joint very little thickened to the middle, where a superior depression makes the apical half about cylindrical, legs short, not very thick, with numerous spines and bristle, but no spurs; first joint of tarsi longer than the following, but shorter than the apical one; abdomen of male considerably longer, of femal shorter than the wings; appendages of male short approximatel cylindrical with storng hairs and spines, enlarged at the base to reach the dorsum of abdomen; between them below a very small triangular plate; female with two short flat appendages inferiorly; upper part rounded, split in the middle; wings elongate, narrow, enlarged to the bluntly pointed tip; post-costa oblique; venation dense, and sprinkled more or less with brown; costal space of front wings with two series of areoles (one species) or with one series, but the transversals in the apical half (or less) forked; at the extreme base of the hind wings of the male is a small white free knob, homologous to the larger and darker knob of Palpares and Acanthaclisis. The larva of one species is known; it differs from all others and was described by me as perhaps belonging to Acanthaclisis congener.
HISTORY OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF COLIAS ALEXANDRA, Edw
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG.—Fusiform, thick in middle, tapering both ways, the base a little broader than the summit; some examples have the side convex from middle to either end, but other have the upper half a little incurved; ribbed longitudinally, the number of ribs sixteen, three or four of which end at about four fifts the distance from base; ribs low; narrow, the spaces between flat, and crossed by many fine ridges; top rounded; the micropyle is in centre of a rosette of fine cells, outside of which is a ring of larger ones; color yellow-green. Duration of this stage four days.
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON ORYSSUS SAYI
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

During the past season I endeavored, as opportunity offered, to confirm and supplement the observations upon this recorded in the May issue of the Canadian Entomologist, pages 81–86. The insects appeared at least ten days earlier than in 1886, and on 29th May I captured, upon the old sugar-maple near Hull therein mentioned, four males, which were entirely black—var. affinis.
ELAPHIDION VILLOSUM, Fabr
Authors: Clarkson Frederick
Published: February 2010

In support of the record relating to the periods of transformation of this beetle, and the probable cause of their pruning the branches of the Oak, which I had the pleasure to contribute to the XVII Vol. of this journal, I now add some further facts, resulting from a recent visit to Clermont, N. Y.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF COENONYMPHA AMPELOS, Edw
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Conical, truncated, the top nearly flat, slightly depressed, covered with a fine network of irregular six-sided meshes; these form fourrings about the central rosette, in middle of which in the microplye; the lower part and base rounded and thickly covered with shallow indentations; the sides ribbed, the number of ribs about 34, vertical, slightly sinuous, more so at lower end, narrow with rounded spaes between, which are crossed by many fine lines; color yellow-green. Duration of this stage about 12 days. The egg is like that of Galactinus, but has fewer ribs.
ON THE GENUS RICHIA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

After examining the European Ammoconia caecimacula (in which the ♂ anntennæ are dentate and furnished with pencilled setae or hair; the form stout; the tibiae, of the middle and hind legs only, spinose; the thorax and abdomen with slight dorsal tuftings), I find that my species are not congeneric, and I accordingly refer them to this genus named in memory of a Brooklyn Entomologist, Harvey J. Rich, who died while yet young, and whom I knew “before the war.” The type of Richia is Chortalis and its probable dimorphic form Aratrix, though we do not know quite surely whether the two are so related or not; they occur over the West and Southwest, to Texas.
LIMOCHORES PONTIAC AND ATRYTONE KUMSKAKA
Authors: Scudder Samuel. H.
Published: February 2010

In 1863, Mr. W. H. Edwards described a male Hesperian from Michigan under the name of Hesperia Pontiac, closely resembling the species figured by Boisduval and LeConte, under the name of Arpa, as well as the larger Florida species Edwards subsequently described under the name of Pilatka. In the same paper in which Pontiac was described and immediately preceding it, he described, also from Michigan, a female under the name of Hesperia conspicua.
A NEW HOMOHADENA
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Homohadema Elda, n. sp.

Expanse 1.30 inches. Apex very slightly produced, the posterior angle rounded; eyes naked; palpi oblique, projecting beyond the head in their natural position about the width of the eyes; tibiæ unarmed; abdomen equalling the hind wings; covering of thorax mostly scales. Color, warm gray, slightly wine tinted; basal half line black, not very distinct, strongly angulated outward on the subcostal vein, a black basal dash crossing the lower end of this line, the space enclosed between the costa and these two lines sordid white;
NOTE ON THE SAW FLY, HYLOTOMA DULCIARIA, Say
Authors: Fyles T. W.
Published: February 2010

On page 38 of the February number of last year's Entomologist, is a note, written by myself, concerning an injurious Saw-fly larva which had appeared in abundance in the neighborhood of Quebec. I preserved quite a number of the cocoons of the species, hoping to obtain the perfect insect from them. Some of the cocoons were kept in a box in my study, others in a tin case placed in the cellar, and yet others in a glass jar half filled with moist earth.
NORTH AMERICAN TACHINIDÆ.: GONIA
Authors: Williston S. W.
Published: February 2010

The genus Gonia is one easily recoginzed by reason of its peculiar structure of the head and antennæ unfortunately the separation of species is a much less simple matter. As is so frequently the case, isolated specimens frequently furnish grounds for much more decided opinions that a richer mateiral will sustain. I describe in the present paper five species that present characters sufficiently decisive to render their recognition not doubtful; other species I forbear to namy till my material is richer.
TEXAN FORFICULIDÆ
Authors: Scudder Samuel. H.
Published: February 2010

Only seven species of this family of Orthoptera are as yet known from Texas. More species must occur along the southern border, but so little attention has been paid to this family that it may be long before the fauna is fairly well known. Perhaps the publication of this list may help to swell the number. One species is described more fully than ever before for readier identification.
PARTIAL LIST OF CAPSIDÆ TAKEN AT BUFFALO, N. Y
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

For the last two seasons I have turned my attention more particularly to collecting the Hemiptera; and very naturally became deeply interested in the family of the Phytocoridæ, or Capsidæ, as they are generally called. They are the most distinctively northern family of the Heteroptera, as the Jassidæ are of the Homoptera; but they seem to have been neglected by European as well as American Entomologists, probably because of the variability of the species, and their frail structure which makes them difficult of preservation.
SOME FURTHER NOTES ON PHYSONOTA
Authors: Caulfield F. B.
Published: February 2010

On May 23rd of the past year (1886) I again found Physonota helianthi, Rand., on its food plant (Helianthus decapetalus) in the same locality as in the previous year. The insects were now in the spring, or what I would call their nuptial dress, and were entirely of a bright golden green, with the exception of the margin, which is transparent with pearly reflections. In the fall dress the elytra are black, irregularly spotted with white, the thorax white with five black spots. In the spirng dress the thorax is concolorous with the elytra, and bears only three black spots, the anterior double spot being entirely absent.
ORYSSUS SAYI, Westwood
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

At the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario in October, 1885, I read a brief note on Oryssus Sayi, which was afterwards publihsed in the Canadian Entomologist (vol. xviii, page 30). It recorded the capture of two ♀ and one ♂ on cedar telegraph poles, and suggested that they might have emerged therefrom. During the arly summer of 1886, I added several specimens of Oryssus to my collection, and what is of much more importance, succeeded in gaining a more definite knowledge of the habits of our species. As no account, other than the brief note just cited, has ever appeared in the Entomologist of these handsome and interesting insects, I propose to give a brief paper upon them.
ADDITIONS TO LIST OF MONTREAL LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Bowles G. J.
Published: February 2010

During the years 1875, 1876 and 1877, Mr. F.B. Caulfield published in the Canadian Entomologist lists of the Lepidoptera occuring at Montreal and vicinity, as far as the end of the Bombycidæ. Since that period the following species have been taken here, and are now added so as to make the list as complete as possible to date. Chateauguay is on the south shore of the St. Lawarence, directly opposite the upper part of the Island of Montreal, and only a few miles distant.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ
Authors: Haren H. A.
Published: February 2010

1. Palpares inclemens Walk., p. 303, No. 4.

This is one of the largest species. Length of body, male 75 mm.; fem., 60; exp. al., 145–160 mm. I have before me a couple collected by Dr. Krauss, Stuttgart, on Cap. b. sp., from the collection of the late Dr. Schneider, Breslau; and two females from Zanzibar, collected by Mr. C. Cooke, Salem, and a female from Zanzibar Island, from Mr. Thorey, Hamburg. It belongs to this species, P. latipennis, Gerstaecker, Insects from Zanzibar, 1873, p. 55; a female from the Galla land, 2° latit., which is compared with the male described by myself in Peters' Voyage, P.99.
HISTORY OF PHYCIODES THAROS, A POLYMORPHIC BUTTERFLY
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In the month of July, 1875, I chanced to be in the catskill Mts., when Mr. Mead discovered the food-plant of tharos, as detailed by him in Vol. vii, Ent., p. 161, this being the common wild Aster. A. Novaangliæ, and I obtained from him a cluster of eggs; also afterwards got others for myself by trying the females in bags over the stems of the same plant. The larvæ hatched, and while in their younger stages I brought them to Coalburgh. On the journey, stopping at several points, I had to give them leaves of such species of Aster as I could find, and they are any and all readily–even German Asters from the garden.
NOTES ON MELOE ANGUSTICOLLIS
Authors: Brodie W.
Published: February 2010

In the Editor's “Notes on Cantharides,” published in the December No. of the Entomologist, there are some particulars in reference to Meloe angusticollis which differ somewhat from my own observations on this species, extending over a period of seven years. According to my experience, Meloes make their appearance in the perfect state about the end of August or beginning of September, when they feed greedily on Ranunculus acris. Later in the season, when the abdomens of the females are much enlarged, they pair, and later still–sometimes after the first frost–they deposit their eggs and invariably die that season.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TEXAN ANISOTA
Authors: Harvey Leon F.
Published: February 2010

The following species, new to the fauna of the United States, have been collected by Mr. L. Heiligbrodt, in Bastrop Co., Texas, and the types are contained in the beautiful collection of my friend, Mr. Otto Meske, in Albany.

Anisota Heiligbrodti, n. s.

♂ ♀. The antennæ of the male are broadly bipectinate, except at the tips ; those of the female are simple. This species differs from its allies by its purely gray color and by the fore wings being covered by two narrow blackish lines. The first of these is sub-basal, irregularly sinuous, produced on the disc; the second is regularly scalloped, interspaceally waved, and runs from apical third to internal margin. The wide median space has a more purely whitish ground, while the wing everywhere is thickly dusted with duskily cells.
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF GEOMETRÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Last fall I obtained a few eggs from a female L. proserpina, in Sept., while in the Catskills, and raised eight larvæ to hybernation, which took place after third moult. This spring I have carried four of these to maturity with the following results : 'fhe first chrysalis gave butterfly this morning (April 29th), a male arthemis. For some hours before the emergence the white band of arthemis was distinctly seen through the wing case. The second was but a few hours younger and during this afternoon has given proserpine male. I expected this, as here there was no white band on the wing case.
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF GEOMETRÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

This genus of Geometræ resembles Tornos; the fore wings are larger and with the apices more produced; the external margin is longer and more oblique. The hind wings are narrow and lanceolate, with the apices pointed and a little depressed ; external margin straight or a little incurved. The female abdomen is like that of Tornos, and is thickly tufted at the extremity. This singular genus, which I name for Mr. Meske, may be at once distinguished by the pointed secondaries, narrower in proportion than in any other genus of the group, while the primaries are disproportionately large with straight costa and produced apices.
CENTER, N. Y., ENTOMOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED
Authors: Bailey James S.
Published: February 2010

Center is situated on the line of the New York Central Railroad, midway between Albany and Schenectady. The road in reaching this point traverses a distance of eight miles from Albany, and attains an elevation of 315 feet above tide-water.

During the warm months there are two daily trains stopping at this station, going east and west, and are so arranged as to give the scientist the advantage of the first half of the day on the ground. The place itself is not in the least attractive, consisting of but a few dwellings erected for the accommodation of the Railroad employes.
REMARKS UPON THE CYNIPIDÆ
Authors: Bassett H. F.
Published: February 2010

In an article published in the Entomologist for May, 1873, I gave the results of my observations upon the genus Cynips, so far as they related to the agamous reproduction of certain species.

I showed that at least two-gendered species, C.q. operator O.S. and a species nearly related to, if not identical with, C. q. batatus Bassett, were followed in the next generation by a brood composed entirely of females.
ON A NEW SPECIES OF COSSUS
Authors: Lintner J. A.
Published: February 2010

Five years ago, I discovered at Center, in the trunks of poplar trees (Populus tremuloides) several pupal cases of a Cossus, which, by their differing from the other cases known to me, of C. Robiniæ and C. querciperda, I had reason to believe was an undescribed species. This year, on the 14th of June, on examining some infested trees, several pupal cases were discovered projecting half-way from the trunks, and an imago, which had apparently just emerged, and was resting on the stump of a broken limb. The colors of the moth so exactly simulated the surface on which it rested that it was with difficulty observed, even when looking directly at it.
NOTICE OF MR. BUTLER'S REVISION OF THE SPHINGIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The object of this notice is to call the attention of American Entomologists to a most excellent and complete “Revision of the Family Sphingidæ,” by Arthur G. Butler, of the British Museum, which has appeared in the Transactions of the Zoological Society, London, in quarto form. A proper arranqement of the Sphingidæ of the world is a work requiring both extensive material and great experience and tact, of which Mr. Butler has shown himself to be equally possessed.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

In “The Bulletin of the Geo. Survey,” v. 3, p. 134, I have referred to two species or varieties of Batrachedra found by me in Colorado. Some of these specimens found at Colorado Springs I referred doubtfully to the European species B. præangusta. others found higher up the mountains I named B. Clemensella, stating, however, the doubt whether the two forms were really distinct. After the grerter portion of that paper was in the hands of the publisher, I received from Mr. Stainton two specimens of præangusta, by which I was enabled to recognise my B. Clemensella as a variety simply of that species, and to increase my doubts whether the supposed species were really distinct
NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

This form, or species, belongs to the series of walkeri and vinulenta, of the former of which I was at first disposed to consider it a variety. It is distinguished by the presence of all three of the ordinaly spots. Rusty ochre; t. a. line single, evcn, blackish with the small rusty outlined claviform attached. Orbicular rusty-ringed, with pale centre, sma11. Reniform pale ochre, rusty-ringed, well sized, of the ordinary shape, with a black inferior stain. Median shade a little waved, joining the reniform above and issuing from it inferiorly.
A NEW LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECT INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the months of June and July the Red Pine (Pinus resinosa) and the white Pine (Pinus strobus) show by the exuding pitch that they are suffering from the attacks of an insect. The wounds occur on the main stem below, the insertion of the branch. On cutting into the bark the injury is found to be caused by a small larva, which, when full grown, measures 16 to 18 millimetres. The head is shining chestnut brown with black mandibles. The body is livid or blackish green, naked, with series of black dots, each dot giving rise to a single, rather stout, bristle.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PHYCIODES HARRISII, SCUDDER
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

I received, 25th June, from Mr. C. P. Whitney, New Milford, N. H.,a cluster of about 50 eggs of this species, laid on the under side of a leaf of Diplopappus umbellatus, date of deposition not stated. The larvæ hatched 28th June. The food plant not being obtainable by me, I gave them leaves of Chelone glabra, on which phaeton feeds, but so long as the least bit of the dry leaf of Diplopappus on which they hatched remained, the larvæ declined the Chelone, and then after starving many hours they attacked it vigorously. But, meantime, for want of proper food, several died.
NOTES ON THE LARVA AND PUPA OF EUCHAETES COLLARIS
Authors: Van Wagenen G. H.
Published: February 2010

I have, for three seasons, raised Euchaetes collaris from the larva, it being very abundant in this locality, and present the following notes as the result of my observations :

The larvæ feed on the Apocynum androsaemifolium, or Spreading Dogsbane. They will in confinement feed on Asclepias, but I have never, after careful search, found but one of the larvæ on it in the field. They feed at night, leaving their food-plant and hiding themselves during the day.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES BELONGING TO THE N. AMERICAN FAUNA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Upper side black, marked and spotted with deep red fulvous, much as in P. vesta,.both wings have a submarginal series of small crescents, the one on middle of primaries considerably larger than any other; on primaries this series is preceded by a sinuous row of small spots, and next by a bent row of larger ones; a fourth row curves round the end of the cell, and there are some spots in and below cell. Secondaries have two rows of irregular small spots across the extra discal area, and across the disk a broad band; some spots in cell and on basal area; fringes fuscous alternating with white.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

With ten specimens of fasciella and two of 5-notella before me, with scarcely a trace of variation in the ten, but with the two differing from each other somewhat and both differing very decidedly from the ten, I had no doubt as to the distinctness of the two species. A larger series, however, induces the belief that they belong to the same species. The difference between them may be thus stated: In fasciella the base and apex of the fore wings are brownish-gray, and between these portions are three brownish-gray and four white fasciæ, all very distinct and well defined. ln 5-notella the whole dorsal half of the wing is white, there is a small brown spot on the base of the costal margin, another further back, and stil1 further back another which in the middle of the wing is produced backwards to the gray-brown apical part of the wing, which encloses two small white costal streaks.
NOTES ON NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

This species has the thoracic vestiture mixed with hair-like scales, and it agrees in all respects with C. iaspis as to structure and pattern of ornamentation. It differs from Bryophila lepidula in these respects and in that the abdomen is more strongly tufted. I have taken all these species in June and July in the vicinity of Buffalo.
AN ACCOUNT OF SOME FARTHER EXPERIMENTS UPON THE EFFECT OF COLD IN CHANGING THE FORM OF CERTAIN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

In May, of the present year, at Coalburgh, I bred a large number of larvæ from eggs laid by tharos, var. marcia; also several from eggs laid by ajax, var. Walshii; and from eggs laid by Lyc. pseudargiolus; and all of the chrysalids of tharos, and part of those of the other two species, were placed in small tin boxes as they formed, and at different intervals thereafter, 10, 20, 60 minutes up to some hours, and one and two days, were laid in the ice box on top of the ice. The box was supplied with ice once a day.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T.
Published: February 2010

I have received both sexes of this species from Prof. Feraud, of Orona, Maine. It is a prettier species than A. bella Cham., with the fascia much more distinct. Zeller describes only the ♂. It has the head and palpi dark brown, with a very faint purplish tinge; the antennæ with annulations of dark purple and silvery white ; the body and legs dark purple, the legs annulate with white ; hind wings pale purplish with darker ciliæ ; thorax and fore wings rich deep purple, appearing in some lights to be thickly dusted with brightly scintillating golden scales.