bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE BOMBYCIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The subfulcate primaries ally this group to the Platypteryginœ, and a certain vague resemblance to the Geometridœ may be found in the tendency which the upper surfaces of the wings show to display the same pattern on both wings. The ocelli are absent, the oral structure undeveloped, the hind wings are without frenulum. The species form mostly large cocoons, and the characteristics of the family are pronounced in this sub-family of silk-spinners. The male antennæ are feathered to the tips, each joint bearing a double pectination.
NOTES ON DANAIS ARCHIPPUS, Fabr
Authors: Morton Emily. M.
Published: February 2010

Having been requested by my friend, Mr. Wm. H. Edwards, to make observations on Danais Archippus during the seasons of 1887 and 1888, and subsequently having written to him the result of such observations, he requested me to publish in the Canadian Entomologist the substance of what I had already written him in my letter. I wrote out a paper about July 5th, which, however, was lost in the mails, and the paper now sent is a partial copy of the original, though somewhat altered, as the first was over four months old.
JOHN ABBOT, THE AURELIAN
Authors: Kirby W. F.
Published: February 2010

In the August part of the Canadian Entomologist, pp. 149–154, I notice an article on this subject by my friend, Mr. Scudder, and I may, perhaps, be able to add some additional remarks.

The volume on Exotic Moths, published by Duncan in Jardine's “Naturalist's Library,” contains (pp. 66–71) a short account of Abbot's life and works, and incorporates the notice by Swainson, to which Mr. Scudder refers.
ARCTIIDÆ vs. NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Grote takes occasion in Can. Ent. vol. xx., p. 168, to criticise my reference to Cerathosia to the Arctiidœ, contending that it is a Noctuid. He complains that I do not give “the reason why it belongs to the family.” This I hasten to supply, and must beg Mr. Grote's pardon for having presumed him conversant with the characters separating the two families. All authorities give for the Noctuidœ a furcate dorsal or internal vein of primaries, while the costal vein of secondaries is from the root, sometimes united with the sub-costal a short distance from base.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGYNNIS EDWARDSII, Reakirt
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

EGG.—Shaped generally like the eggs of this Group, higher than broad, about as 15 to 13, the number of ribs 30, conodial truncated, the middle but little narrower than the base, the upper half sloping rapidly, and convex; about one third the ribs reach the summit, the rest end at from one half to two thirds distance from base; the spaces between the ribs excavated roundly, and crossed by many fine ridges; the micropyle in centre of a rosette of fine minute flat cells, outside of which are four irregular rings of excavated cells, generally long and narrow, varying from sub-crescent to five-sided; color greenish-yellow. Duration of this stage 10 to 11 days, in July.
NOTE ON LATE PAPERS ON THE NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

My last paper in the Proceedings of the Am. Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, contains a number of typographical errors, the most serious of which I corrected subsequently by an “errata” in a later volume, not being able to see the proofs. This paper reviewed the main and first two groups, leaving the Fasciatæ (Catocalinæ Pack.) and the Deltoids unrevised. I would recognise five very unequal groups both in structural value an extent. Adopting Packard's nomenclature so far as he went (this author excluded the Deltoids at the time), we may call these groups subfamilies, but in Europe my Thyatiridœ and the Brephidœ are taken out of the Noctuidœ as distinct families.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF CANADIAN PROCTOTRUPIDÆ
Authors: Ashmead WM. H.
Published: February 2010

The following paper is devoted to the description of new genera and species of parasitic. Hymenoptera belonging to the family Proctotrupidæ, collected at Ottawa, Canada, by my esteemed friend, Mr. W. Hauge Harrington, to whose liberality I am deeply indebted for sending me these and many other interesting forms in this family now in my collection.
MOTHS NEW TO OUR FAUNA
Authors: Smith John. E.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Hy. Edwards, on p. 12 of vol. xx,. of the Can. Ent., records three species of moths as additions to our fauna—two of them Sphingidœ, viz., Pseudosphinx tetrio and Philampelus typhon. Mr. Edwards is undoubtedly correct in the record of localities, and in calling attention to their capture within our faunal limits; but, with all due respect, I do not think that these species should be added to our faunal list. Erebus odora has been found in Canada, yet it would be an absurdity to cite it as a Canadian insect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGESOF DATANA DREXELII, Hv.Edw
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Similar to D. ministra; cannot be distinguished from it. Laid in masses on the under side of leaf.

Young Larva, after First and Second Moults.—Cannot be distinguished from D. ministra.

After Third Moult.—Little change except in size. The stripes are now confluent about the anal segments. Length 30 mm.

After Fourth Moult.—Head jet black, cervical shield now chestnut brown instead of black; otherwise as in D. ministra. Length 40 m.m.
SAPERDA FAYI, S. CONCOLOR AND APHODIUS RUFIPES
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Saperda Fayi, Bland.—This beautiful Saperda breeds in the small limbs of Crataegus, especially crus-galli and tomentosa, as first observed by Mr. C. D. Zimmermann, Can. Ent., 10, 220; and should it, like some of its allies, acquire a taste for cultivated fruit trees, it would be a formidable enemy, as is evidenced by the way it depredates on thorn bushes. The beetles appear here the last week in May or the first week in June, according to the season, the males preceding the females three or four days.
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES ON COLEOPTERA.—No. 4
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Bembidium undulatum, Sturm. There are now about thirty-eight species of Carabidæ recognized as indigenous to North America and Europe, and some of them also to Asia. The most of these are arctic or very northern, this being one of the few that occur in temperate America, but now far northward it inhabits is unknown, as I know only of its occurrence here, though in Europe and Asia it is found in sub-arctic regions. Here it is taken abundantly in July and August under decaying vegetation in most alluvial places subject to occasional inundation. It is a Notaphus, .20 inch long, shining, elytra obscurely rufo-piceous, paler at apex with oblique pale mark, punctures of striæ obsolete behind middle and surface undulated. Identical with European specimens, and also verified by Dr. Horn.
SOME NEW NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Cucullia Hartmanni, n sp.

Expanse 1.75 inches, length of body .75 inch. General color of fore wings pale gray, so suffused in places with dark gray as to give the wings a moderately dark gray cast, but not so dark as C. intermedia, Spey. Lines black, basal half line only indicated on the costa. T. a line double; the inner part almost imperceptible; strongly dentate, from its origin projecting obliquely outward to a strong tooth on the fold in the discal cell, with a short tooth on the fold between the costal and subcostal veins; from discal tooth it receds to median vein a little nearer the body than its inception on the costa; from this it extends out in another tooth nearly twice as far out as the discal tooth, the point resting on the submedian fold, almost reaching the infection of the t.p. line, the points of both lines nearly obsolete in a white patch at this place that fades out into the general color; about the middle of the space from teh median vein to submedian fold a brownish black spur is sent our parallel with the median vein, terminating above the middle of the white patch; the line reaches the posterior margin by another inflexoon on submedian vein, and another outward tooth below the vein.
STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONIDÆ, Part 4
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

6. Brachynemurus nigrilabris Hagen. N. sp.

Very similar to B. peregrinus. Face yellow, above with a large black band, which is rounded below and reaches nearly the clypeus; this band is going between and around the antennæ and connected above with the black part covering the whole anterior half of the vertex; posterior half yellow with a broad black longitudinal band, dilated angularly in middle; the angle sometimes protracted on each side in fine line, which does not reach the eyes; labrum shining black; palpi yellow, last joint of the maillary cylindrical black; labials a little longer, last joint shining black, fusiform, sharply pointed, less inflated than in B. peregrinus.
ON THE DIAGNOSES OF N. AM. PHYCITIDÆ, BY E. L. RAGONOT
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I have received from the author a copy of this pamphlet in which a large number of North American species and genera are somewhat briefly described in anticiption of the publication of a general Monograph. That M.Ragonot is in a situation to materially increase our genral knowledge of the group cannot be doubted. He has long collected types and specimens, and has studied the characters of the Old World genera. I have deprecated the description of Phycidæ without giving the full structural characters, and in so far as this has been do I agree with M. Ragonot's introductory remarks.
NEW WORK ON JAPANESE BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Holland W. J.
Published: February 2010

The task of preparing and illustrating a work upon the Butterflies of Japan, after the model of Mr. Distant's Rhopalocera Malayana, has been undertaken by Mr. H. Prye, of Yokohama, who with persistent enthusiasm for the past seventeen years has been engaged in collecting the Lepidoptera of the Empire, and studying their habits. The work, entitled Rhopalocera Nihonica, will appear in three parts, 4to.
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF MELITAEAS BELONGING TO NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

1. M. Brucei.

Male.—Expands from 1.5 to 1.7 inch. Upper side brown-black, marked with spots of red and yellow in transverse bands; there are three well marked varieties, in one of which red predominates, sometimes almost to the exclusion of yellow; in another red and yellow, much as in other allied species; on the third much yellow, very little red; in all the spots are small, so that the black surface is more exposed than in many species.
ON THE NATURE OF SEASONAL DIMORPHISM IN RHOPALOCERA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

In studying the seasonal variation exhibited by various species of butterflies, I have been struck by the fact, that whereas in most instances the form emerging in the spring is darker and smaller than the summer brood, there are also exceptions to this rule, in which the vernal emergence is the lighter. Take, for instance, the genus Pieris. The vernal broods of P. napi and P. protodice are distinctly more dusky than those which have undergone their whole metamorphosis in a single season; but, on the other hand, the spring emergences of P. rapœ and P.brassicœ are wont to be pale, and the spring-emerging P. virginiensis is pale, and as Mr. W. H. Edwards remarks (“Papilio,” 1881, p. 97), more like the summer than the winter form of tis progenitor P. napi.
CAPTURES MADE WHILE TRAVELLING FROM WINNIPEG TO VICTORIA, B. C
Authors: Holland W. J.
Published: February 2010

It was my privilege last summer to accompany the expedition sent out by the National Academy and the U.S. Navy Department to Japan for the purpose of observing the total eclipse of the sun which took place upon the 19th of August, 1887. The route selected by our party was the one just opened to the far East over the Canadian Pacific R.R., and I was the first passenger booked in Chicago for Yokohama, and my coleague, Prof. Todd, was the first passenger booked in Boston for the same port, over the new line.
NOTES ON LYCAENA PIASUS, Boisd
Authors: Wright W. G.
Published: February 2010

This is in California the first buttefly to emerge in the spring, appearing in Feburary, though it is accepted representative of the Eastern Neglecta, which is not the first to appear there. Piasus is double brooded; the second brood coming in the latter part of April, and between it and the first brood a few days intervene when no Piasus are seen. Both broods are very fond of water, being always found on damp sands of wet places, and at the bookside crossings.
HEMIPTERA FROM MUSKOKA LAKE DISTRICT
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

This list is presented as a slight contribution to our knowledge of the geographical distribution of the North American Hemiptera. As our literature of this order is by no means overburdened with faunal lists, I trust that the present will find sufficient excuse for its appearance in the mater it contains. I have made every effort to have the list as accurate and complete as possible, under the circumstances. The material was accumulated during brief collecting tour in the Muskoka Lake District of Canada, in the interval from July 25th of August 3rd, 1888.
ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA
Authors: Kilman Alva. H.
Published: February 2010

By frequent trips to the woods and marshes in spirng, to gather and sift the moss for hibernating coleopterta, by minutely examining the debris on the shore of Lake Erie, and by the use of umbrella and sweeping net later in the reason, I have added to my collection of beetles, since 1886, several hundred good species, The following list contains those of my captures that do not appear in the lists of Candadian Coleoptera.
NOTES ON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF CARTEROCEPHALUS MANDAN
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

Amongst some fertile eggs of butterflies obtained during the past summer of gently pressing the abdomen of ripe females, was one of the above species, the larva of which was carried through four moults up to hibernation. The information gathered is incomplete; but as there is nothing published concerning the preparatory stages of C. Mandan, it seems worth recording, if only to assist others who may be fortunate enought to secure eggs of this rare butterfly. Although widely distribtued over North America, I know of no locality where it is abundant.
POPULAR AND ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY—No. 3.: CUT-WORMS
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

Of all the injuries committed year after year upon field and garden crops, none are more annoying than those due to the ravages of the various caterpillars known as Cut-worms. These are the larvæof dullcoloured, active moths, belonging for the most part of the three genera, Agrotis, Hadena, and Mamestra, and in North America alone constitute an army of no less than 340 different described species, many of which are, at times, very abundant.
FURTHER NOTES ON CHIONOBAS JUTTA
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

Our President has asked me what methods I adopted for the raising of C. jutta from the egg. I will endeavour of describe them.

As it is well known the larvæ of the genus Chionobas feed on grasses, my first care was to determine what grasses were to be found in the haunts of Jutta, and to notice the circumstances under which they grew. I found several, all rooted in the sphagnum of the swamp. I took home roots of ever kind, and potted them in sphagnum, being careful to close the hole in the bottom of each flower pot with a cork, and to soak the plants throughly with rain water.
A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF PHILADELPHIA, PA
Authors: Skinner Henry , Aaron E. M.
Published: February 2010

Appreciating the value to students in geographical distribution of faunal lists of a given region, with notes thereon, on the interest that such lists have for beginners in the same field in after years, we have concluded to publish here a list of the Diurnal Lepidoptera known to us to have been taken in the vicinity of Philadelphia. A circle drawn around the new City Hall, with a radius of ten miles, is the line of limit to the “vicinity” here treated of.
ONE WORD MORE ABOUT RILEYA
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

Without entering further into the discussion of priority, beyond stating that Mr. Ashmead is wrong in the points(1), that my original communication was read after the publication of his synoptical table, (it was read two days before the receipt of the number of Entomologica Americana, in which the table was published), and (2), that his full description was published before mine; (mine was published nine days before the receipt of the Kansas bulletin).
ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA
Authors: Kilman Alva. H.
Published: February 2010

3443—Trogoderma tarsale Melsh. Not rare.

3683—Carpophilus antiquus Melsh. Rare; under bark of dead maple andbeech.

3686—Colastus maculatus Er. Rare; took three or four from the stump of a maple tree, cut while the sap was running.

3712—Eupurœa peltoidesHorn.

3753—Cryptarcha strigata Fab.

3823—Corticaria pumila Lec.

3871—Bactridium striolatum Reit.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF EUPLEXIA LUCIPARA, Linn
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Nearly spherical, flattened at the base, marked with about twenty-five longitudinal ribs and numerous transverse ridge, the former somewhat irregular and running to a depression on the summit; color whitish, with a circle around the middle and a spot on top of purplishbrown; these marks more or les confluent. Length about .5 mm.
NOTE ON THE GENERA GORTYNA AND OCHRIA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I have lately had on opportunity of examining bred specimens of the European Ochria ochracea(flavago). The clypeal tubercle may be felt with a fine pin or seen under the glass when the frontal scales are partly removed. We have two North American species agreeing with Ochria, viz., Sanzalitae, from California, and Buffaleonsis, from the east. With the former, the European species has a nearer resemblane externally; our eastern species differing much in colour.
A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF PHILADELPHIA, PA
Authors: Skinner Henry , AARON E. M.
Published: February 2010

Pyrameis Cardui— Usually common; some years quite rare.

Junonia cœnia.— Quite local; never very common. Mr. Scudder, on page 501, speaks of its “rapid, strong and enduring flight.” This would seem to indicate that the habits of this insect in the New England States differ materially from those in this locality or further south. It is rare that this butterfly is here observed over a foot from the ground, and then its flight is most erractic, and usually consists of a new fluttering strokes of the wing followed by an idel sail. This is also the manner of flight from Virginia to Florida, according to the observtions of E. M. Aaron.
POPULAR AND ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY—No. 4
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

Amongst insects which every year make theri presence noticeably apparent by their injuries, and thus win the distinction of being “Firstclass Pests” to the fruit-grower, not one, perhaps, is better known, nor, when not checked in its operations, more annoying than the currant worm, the larval state of the imported currant saw-fly, Nematus Ribesii, Scop. (=N. ventricosus, Klug).
ADDITIONS TO THE CANADIAN LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Moffat J. Alston.
Published: February 2010

The collection season of 1888 was, in this locality, somewhat peculiar. It opened up about the 10th of May with great promise—early moths appearing in considerable numbers. This was soon reversed— early moths appearing in considerable numbers. This was soon reversed—cool, dry weather setting in; and not until the second week of June did the weather become warm enought to produce a marked development of insect life.
OBSERVATIONS ON SOME NORTHERN DERBIDÆ
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

The small group of Homopterous insects included by Fabricius in his genus Derbe, but now separated as a sub-family from the other Fulgoridæ under the name of Derboides Spinola or Derbida, Stal have always been objects of interest to students of this order, partly on accoutn of their delicate from and peculiar strutcure, but their almos universal rarity has doubtless added much to their atractiveness.
EARLY STAGES OF GRAPTA J-ALBUM
Authors: Denton Shelby. W.
Published: February 2010

Since the food plant and early stages of Graptaj-Album appear to be unknown, perhaps the following notes (incompletee as they are owing to my ignorance of the species larvæ I was rearing) may still be of some value of shed a little light on the early stages of this fine butterfly.
OBSERVATIONS ON SOME NORTHERN DERBIDÆ
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

Otiocerus Wolfii, Kirby. A pale specimen of this frail little form was beaten by me from a beech tree September 3, 1888, at Lancaster, N. Y., and Mr. Uhler has kindly sent me a fully colored individual, presumably from Md., taken on the 6th of August. The antennæ in this species are very short, with a single appendage.
A NEW CLOTHES BEETLE
Authors: Cook A. J.
Published: February 2010

One of the most interesting studies of teh scientific entomologist—more interesting because of its economic importance—relates to variation of habits of insects, consequent upon variation in their environment. The carpte beetle, Anthrenus scrphulariœ Linn, feeds on flowers in its native Europe. In the new atmosphere of America, it feeds and thrives upon carpets, shawls and other woollen goods. The apple maggot, Trypet pomonella, feeds upon our wild haw and other wild fruits. Civilization exterminates its old-time aliment; and it betakes itself to our apples, cherries and plums/ The curculio, apple-tree borers, bark lice, etc., are other illustrations of the same truth.
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA.: (Third Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The tibiæ are usually all spinose, the eyes naked, the body untufted, the form normal, the male antennæ of various structure, pectinated, brushlike simple. The European species are refered by Lederer all to one genus, Agrotis or Hübner. Nervertheless, I think the yellow-winged forms may well be separated under Hiria and Tryphœna. Of these yellow-winged forms, with flattened abdomen, we have only one T. Chardinyi, from Anticosti and Maine, considered identical with the Siberian species of the same name, described orginally by Boisduval under Anarta.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

In the previous paper I explained the sense in which this term is used, and nothing further in the way of definition need be said on that head.

Genus Crocota Hbn.

1816—Verzeichniss; Samml. Eur. Schm., III., 254.

This genus is in a sad state. It is almost impossible to identify species satisfactorily, and yet new species are constantly described. The matter has been further confused by Mr. Grote's persistent refusal to refer to Mr. Reakirt's species, for without referring them positively as synonyms to any species, he says he cannot believe that they refer to species different from those recognized by him, and therefore he ignores them altogether.
NOTE ON THE LARVA OF THYATIRA PUDENS, Guen
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

As far as I am aware no description of the larva, of this insect has been published, and hence I present the following:-

T. pudens.—Mature larva. Head white, with four black spots, two covering the eyes and the others near the summit of the head. A few short, whitish hairs. Body semitransparent, whitish, flecked with opaque white spots on the dorsum and more thinly on the venter. Stigmatal space covered by a blackish shading, more distinct anteriorly; a darker dorsal line. Spriacles pale brown. Cervical spot whitish, concolorous with body. A few short pale hairs.
THE LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNÆ OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

The study of representative species of butterflies and moths shows us that very different grades of resemblance exist between allied forms inhabiting Europe and North America. I have shown that the modification shows itself sometimes mainly in the larval state; again the perfect insects depart more or less strongly. I have also ventured to decide that these representative species are entitled to specific rank in our nomenclature. They fulfil the conditions of species, since they do not intergrade, and they can be distinguished quite surely by competent specialists.
THE ASSOCIATION OF OFFICIAL ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS
Authors: Smith John B.
Published: February 2010

will hold its first annual meeting in the City of Washington, D.C. on November 12th, 1889, at 11 o' a.m., in the Entomoloigcal rooms at the U.S. National Museum.

According to the resolution of the Association at the Toronto meeting, the annual meeting was to be held on the date and at the place where the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations should nex meet.
THE NORTH AMERICAN CALLIMORPHAS
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

Since my article of the North American Callimorphas appeared in the Canadian appeared in the Canadian Entomologist for October, 1887, a number of papers upon the same subject, and containing certain criticisms of my views, appeared in subsequent numbers of this magazine, and in Entomologica Americana; and, in addition, I received certain letters upon the same subject from entomologists to whom I had sent copies of my article.
NOTE ON THE PREDATORY HABITS OF CHÆTOPSIS ÆNEA (Wied)
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

In the beginning of July last I discovered in a bed of Typha latifolia, in the neighborhood of Montreal, a large number of the larvæ of Arzama obliquata. I have visited the spot repeatedly, and have had the larvæ under daily observation. One remarkable circumstance concerning them is that they are liable to attacks from the maggots of a fly belonging to the Ortalidæ, viz.:—The Cheœtopsis œnea of Wiedman, the Ortalis trifasciata of Say.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF PYRAMEIS CARYE, Hübner
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

The eggs are deposited by the butteflies, singly, on the upper surface of the leaves of the food-plant, the Malwa. They are nearly cylindrical, but thicker in the middle, the base and top quite flat, and rather abruptly rounded. The longitudinal ribs project beyond the summit; color green, of a slightly bluer tint that the leaves. Length 7 mm.
BUTTERFLIES AT QU'APPELLE, ASSA
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

The following is a list of butterflies caught near Fort Qu'Appelle, Northwest Terr., by Mrs. Cora E. Rose and her two little sons. Mrs. Rose describes the locality as follows:—“Those sent were all caught within a radius of about half a mile, in the territory of Assiniboia, thirty miles north of an old Hudson Bay Post called Fort Qu'Appelle, and distant west from Winnipeg some three hundred and twenty-five miles; the only foliage is willow and poplar.”
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA.—No. 5
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Cincindela. A glance over the catalogue shows many names marked as varieties of others, and a glance into the boxes of any fair collection shows these same to have a diversity of appearance, that in many instances requires an educated experience to reconcile with their being specifically identical; as for example, a green C. sex-guttata and a black consentanea, or an immaculate green unicolor and a black modesta.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF COLIAS MEADİİ, Edwards
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Fusiform, thick in the middle tapering to a small rounded summit, the base small, flat; ribbed longitudinally after the manner for the genus; colour yellow-green. Duration of this stage four to five days.

Young Larva.— Length at 24 hours from egg, .06 inch; cylindrical, even; colour brown-green; thickly covered with black points, from each of which a short fine hair; head rounded, blackish-brown. Duration of this stage five days.
LENGTH OF LIFE IN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Scudder Samuel. H.
Published: February 2010

Aurelians are fequently asked how long butterflies live. By this is generally meant what is the length of life of the mature insect. As is generally known, each species passes through one cycle of its existence once a year, though it very frequently happens that two, three, or even more generations succeed one another during a single season, and it has been supposed (though never proven) to be the case with some that two or more years are required for this cycle; as is known to be true of some other insects.
ON SPECIFIC NAMES
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Dr. Williston, in his painstaking work on the Syrphidœ says: “There are no generic and specific limitations in nature”, and illustrates the statement by the present knowledge of the family with which his synopsis deals. And what Dr. Williston brings forward is a mere quota of the mass of evidence brought out by natrualists generally, and entomologists dealing with the different order of insects.
DR. CHRISTIAN ZIMMERMANN
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

There exists no biography nor necrology of this excellent entomologist, as far as known to me, though he lived for thiry-nine years in the United States. I am much indebted to Dr. Geo. C. Horn for Zimmermann's notebook which, with his library, came into the hands of the late Dr. J.L. Leconte.

Only a very short abstract of the contents, which are written wholly in German, can be given. The entries begin with Zimmermann's earliest boyhood and end in 1843, followed by a few pages for 1865.
NOTES FOR COLLECTORS VISITING THE PRAIRIES AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Authors: Geddes Gamble
Published: February 2010

Now that the winter is well advanced and before many weeks are over spring will be upon us, it reminds me of many enquiries made during the last few years about the localities and dates of diurnals captured by me in the North-west in 1883 and 1884. These particulars are nearly all to be found at the National Museum of the Gelogical Museum at Ottawa, but for the benefit of those who may be visiting the North-west with a view to collecting diurnals, I propose to gie such information about the rarest species as my notes supply, and as my limited time will permit.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGE GALATHEA, Linn., WITH NOTES ON CERTAIN SATYRINÆ
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Sub-ovid, boradest on lower third, the base flattened; covered with a very slight rhomboidal network over the upper third, with low knobs at the angles; on the middle the network is still more slight, but the knobs are distinct, and on the lower third the knobs are minute and unconnected by lines; summit flattened, concave; the micropyle in centre of very fine network without knobs; colour bone-white. Duration of this stage about 20 days.
DR. CHRISTIAN ZIMMERMANN
Authors: Hagen H. A.
Published: February 2010

The following is a list of the entomological works of Dr. C. Zimmermann:-

1. Monographie der Carabiden, Erstes Stueck, Berlin and Halle, 1831, 8vo., pp. 8 and 76, contains the family Zabroides, five genera, with twenty-six species; review in Oken Isis, 1832, vol v., p. 539, vol. x, p. 1117; extraced in Silbermann Revue, 1833, T.I., p., 45–47. The author's copy belongs to the library of the museum.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARGE GALATHEA, Linn., WITH NOTES ON CERTAIN SATYRINÆ
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

How then can Mr. Sudder claim that this feeble relic of the tertiaries, stranded, as he tells us, on the loftiest peaks at east and west at the close of the glacial period, unchanged in all respects since that, its imago showing itself but onec in two years, the individual living at most but a few days, always in tribulation and peril, saved only from extinction by its acquired habits of dropping into a crevice, or of clinging to the rocks by the feet, its wings of sacrcely any use whatever, but a constant source of danger—that this miserable creature stands at the head of its genus, its sub-family, its family, of the American fauna, and in fact of the world, the ideal butterfly!*
NEW SPECIES OF CANADIAN TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

1. Nematusocreatus.—♀. Testaceous or honey-yellow; length, 0.35 inch.

Head polished, sutures behind ocelli well defined; ocelli in a slightly curved line with the lower one on the rim of a large shallow basin; face below antennæ, another between them, and one on edge of occiput; antennæ slender, two-thirds as long as body, black with basal joints paler; joints three and four subequal; five shorter.
BALANINUS—ITS FOOD HABITS
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

All the described species of Balaninus in habiting America north of mexico when larvæ live in the fruit (nuts and acorns) of the various species of Quercus, Castanea, Corylus, and perhaps Fagus of the order Cupuliferœ and Carya of the Juglandaceœ. Acorns, somewhat largely used in this country in the arts and in the manufcture of certain dietetics, are mostly imported, the native production being rendered almost worthless by these larvæ; and our chestnuts as soon as collected must be kiln-dried or otherwise treated, which renders them greatly inferior to those of foreign countries.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ARGYNNIS FROM CANADA
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Belongs to the Chariclea group.

Male.—Expands 1.9 inch. Upper side pale yellow-fulvous; the markings as in Helena, but pale black, reduced; the mesial stripes on both wings interrupted, macular; the extra discal rounded spots on primaries minute, the sub-marginal crescents wanting, and represented by small clusters of scales at the summits only, leaving a clear space to the margin, which margin is edged by an even stripe; on secondaries the rounded spots are large, and the crescents are represented by larger clusters of scales; the marginal border is extended on each nervule so as to encroach on and make narrow the clear space.
FOOD PLANT OF MELITÆA TAYLORI EDW
Authors: Danby W. H.
Published: February 2010

Havin been asked by Mr. Jas. Fletcher, of Ottawa, to look for the larva of M. Taylori, with the purpose of discovering its food plant, &c., it was with much pleasure that I accepted the commission, and now have the gratification to inform you of my sucess.
TWO INTERESTING MONSTROSITIES
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Many minor malformations of wings, elytra, etc., have been observed in examining insects, but recently I have met with two monstrosities which seem worthy of record. The first insect is a ♀ Fœnus tarsitorius Say., given to me by my friend, Mr. Guignard, and captured by him on 24th June, 1885. In this speciment the left posterior tibia becomes trifid about one-fourth of its length from the base, the side branches diverging at an angle of about 30°.
APHIDIUS GRANARIAPHIS, N. SP
Authors: Cook A. J.
Published: February 2010

Black above, yellowish brown beneath. The antennæ are black, the front, mouth parts and legs yellowish brown. Rarely the femora and tarsi are dusky, and the ventral surface quite dark. Very rarely the dorsal surface is brownish, except the pedicel and tip. The occiput or collar is brown. The antennæ are sixteen-jointed in the female, and seventeen in the male, and are cylindrical, recurved, and thickly set with short, light colored hairs. The first two joints are shorter and larger that the others; the succeeding joints are cylindrical, close together, and equal in length, except the last, which is longer and conical.
SOME NEW MOTHS
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Crocota Rosa, nov. spec.

Expanse .80 of an inch.

Upper surface of fore wings, thorax, collar, upper and front of head and terminal joint of palpi pale yellow-brown or fawn color, the only trace of a discal dot is a little duskiness at the end of the cell. Hind wings red, pale, a little dusky, somewhat rosy tinted. Abdoment concolorous with the hind wings; fringes concolorus with the wings.
ON THE LISTS OF COLEOPTERA PUBLISHED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, 1842–1888
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

During nearly fity years the Geological Survey of Canada has been engaged in exploration, and since Confederation it has had practically an unlimited field for its operations. The investagations of the fauna and flora of the Dominion, and the formation of a museum of natural history, are included in the plan of its present organization, but its equipment has hitherto permitted but a partial accomplishment of these departments of its work.
A NEW PSEUDOSCORPION
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Upon looking over the specimens of this family, which I had collected during the past few years near Ithaca, I discovered a new species of Chernes, which may be characterized as follows:-

Chernes pallidus, nov. spec. Length about 2 mm.; body ovate oblong; cephalothorax a little broader behind than in front; finely serrulate on the margin; body finely granulate and furnished with short, yellowish, clavte hairs.
ON THE LISTS OF COLEOPTERA PUBLISHED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, 1842–1888
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Diplochila major Lec. [Rhembus]. A.O.

Calathus gregarisu Say. L'O., St. L.

ingratus Dej. N.C., C.L., O.K., O., N., R. A.

race confusus Lec. B.C
A MONTH ON VANCOUVER ISLAND
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

But little seems to have been written on the fauna of this interesting island, and therefore I hope that a few notes bearing on the subject may not be without interest to the readers of the Canadian Entomoloigst. It was my good fortune to spend nearly a month in the vicinity of Victoria last summer, and I append some account of observations made at the time.
NOTE ON THE GENUS CROCOTA AND PROF. J. B. SMITH
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Readers of Mr. Smith's papers will have noticed the frequent critical remarks at my expense, and it may have appeared to them that I have been often most culpable. But, in every case, although I have not the pleasure of knowing all of Mr. Smith's publications, these criticisms can be shown to be perversions of the case.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—II
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

Cinerous varied with fuscous; apex of the front and basal angles of the scutellum black; pronotal rugæ distinct. Length 4½-5 mm.

Male.— Face with coarse rugose punctures, arranged in oblique lines on the base of the front; front black, cinereous at base and next the eyes, with a broad, curved, transverse white band, including th ocelli; clypeus, loræ and cheeks whitish, the former sometimes tinged with pale green. Form of teh pronotum about as in insignis; cinereous clouded with fuscous on the apex and along the posterior margin, with an elongated black spot behind the inner angle of the eye; rugæ composed of profound elongated puncutres.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF TOLYPE VELLEDA, STOLL
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Cylindrical, ends rounded; .06 inch long by .04 inch in diameter, smooth. Colour chestnut-brown. Duration of this period about 195 days.

Young larva.—Length .15 inch; cylindrical, a little larger at anterior part; each joint with six tubercles from which arise spreading hairs, varying in length from short ones, that are not longer thant the diameter of the body to those that are as long as the body, the two kinds distributed over the whole body; the short ones white and long ones grey; the longest hairs at the anterior and posterior parts of the body a little longer than the long ones on the middle; colour grey, black. Duration of this period three days.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

A. doris Bdv.

1869—Bdv., Lep. Cal. (Ann. Soc. Ent., Belg.), 77. Chelonia.

Habitat—So. California.

I am not aware that any reference of this species to the rank of synonyms has been made. It refers almost certainly to one of our western species now known under another name. Mr. Grote has omitted the species from his list.
DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF TRIRHABDA TOMENTOSA, L
Authors: Beutenmüller W. M.
Published: February 2010

Body elongated, subcylindrical, rounded above and flattened beneath; color above steel blue, with a series of transverse elevated ridges along the dorsum, two on each segment, and along the sides are three rows of tubercles, all steel blue. Body beneath, dirty brownish white; cervical shield also steel blue.
NOTES ON THE INSECT FAUNA OF HIGH ALTITUDES IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The faunæ of high altitudes always posses a peculiar interest by virtue of the light they throw on problems of geographical distribution, and especially the distribution in ancient times of what is now a strictly Arctic and Alpine fauna. For this reason, the following lists of species, fragmentary as they are, may be of some value as a contribution to our knowledge of the Alpine fauna of Colorado, and for comparison with Arctic and Alpine faunæ in general.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

Aplacentia A. & S.

1797—A. & S., * Ins. Ga., II., 129 pl., 65, Phalaena.

1816—Hübner, Verzeichniss, 180 Heraclia.

1856—Wlk., C.B. Mus., Lep. Het., III., 610, Arctia.

1860—Clem., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phil., XII., 529, Arctia.

1862—Clem., App. to Morris, Syn. 337, Arctia.

1863—Saund., Syn. Can. Arct. 5, Arctia.
NOTES ON THE INSECT FAUNA OF HIGH ALTITUDES IN CUSTER COUNTY, COLORADO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

(2) Near Micawber Mine, Aug. 6 —

Lysiphlebus salicaphidis Ashm.

Lipolexis chenopodiaphis Ashm.

Limneria montana Cr.

Periclistus sp.

Apanteles sp.

Diaeretus atricornis Ashm.

Megachile sp.

Andrena sp.

Halictus sp.

Sapyga aculeata Cr.

Camponotus vicinus Mayr.

Camponotus vicinus sp.

Perilampus platygaster Say.

Habrocytus rosœ Ashm.

Passalœcus mandibularis Cr.

Lysitermus coloradensis Ashm.

Aspilota obscuripes Ashm.
THE NOCTUIDÆ OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA COMPARED.: (Sixth Paper.)
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

This tribe is, so far as I know, exclusively American. The thorax is elevated, the patagia usually deflected. The eyes are naked; the front embossed; the legs thinly scaled, with a claw on front tibiæ; the abdomend somewhat short and weak, untufted on dorsum; the wings pointed at tips. The genera seem to fall in between Calpe and Plusia* They are: Basilodes, Stiria, Stibadium, Fala, Plagiomimicus, Acopa. The genus Cirrhophanus probably belongs to the Heliothini; we do not know the larva, but the moth is allied to Chariclea delphinii, by the Hübnerian charcter of the pattern of ornamentation.
NOTES ON “A REVISION OF THE GENUS ARGYNNIS,” BY HENRY J. ELWES, F. L. S., F. Z. S., Etc
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

So much of the text of Mr. Elwe' paper as relates to North American Species has recently been printed in Psyche (March), but the synonymic list, which is most important for a full comprehension of the state of mind of the author, was omitted. I applied to the editor of the Can. Ent. to print the list, but it was found that it would occupy nearly one-half the space of a number, and it was not thought expedient to give it.
PREMILINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

The typical genus of the family—a general favorite with collectors and the source of a good deal of worry and uncertainty to describers. I have seen very large series of specimens of many species, and have seen nearly all the species. From a rather careful study of the species I can see no reason why they should not be as easily recognizable or limited as those of any other Lepidopterous genus—indeed, the problem strikes, me as a remarkably easy one, the key to which lies in the fact that no amount of obsolescence of maculation authorizes a species, while change of pattern can be easily detected even in speciments with the markings much broken.
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF TWO SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA NEW TO MONTREAL
Authors: Hausen J. F.
Published: February 2010

Platynus crenistriatus, Lec. I took a speciment of this interesting little beetle (fig.1) here late in October, at the foot of a stump. It is not unlike in October, at the foot of a stump. It is not unlike in appearance certain small Pterostichi but may be at once distinguished by having the elytral margin behind sinuate and simple, without the interruption and route fold usually seen in Pterostichus. It seems to me to be, in fact, one of those less specialized forms still exhibiting characters in common with some species of that genus.
LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS, ETC
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

The paper by Mr. W. H. Edwards in the March number of the Canadian Entomologist brought back to me vividly my collecting days in the Catskills, and as I have also taken arthemis, proserpina and ursula, perhaps my experiences may not be entirely uninteresting. It was sixteen years ago that I set out for a two weeks' tramp in the mountains, and as it was my first experience with them, the memory of that trip is yet more distinct than of many subsequent excursions.
ATTRACTING BUTTERFLIES IN COLORADO
Authors: Bruce David
Published: February 2010

I had generally considered Papilio indrato be a rare insect in Colorado, and from the inquiries of correspondents would think it wanting in many collections. While collecting at about 7,000 feet elevation, in June, '89, I occasionally saw one go past me like a flash up the mountain sides; but one sultry afternoon I took several examples in a narrow canon as they sat upon a small piece of sandy ground that had been soaked by a thunder storm in the morning.
VANESSA CALIFORNICA IN VANCOUVER ISLAND
Authors: Danby W. H.
Published: February 2010

Noticing the remarks of Mr. W. G. Wright in the Feburary number of the Canadian Entomologist respecting V. Californica, I considered it would be of interest to give particulars of its capture at Victoria B. C. During 1890 it was scarce in this vicinity, though probably common enough on higher elevations. The specimens taken by me were captured at Beacon Hill, amongst or near the fir trees that compose the wooded part of the Park, and situate some sixty feet above the sea level.
ARCTIA ARIZONENSIS, STRETCH
Authors: Bruce David
Published: February 2010

I obtained eggs from a worn ♀ taken at light near Salt Lake City, Utah, in June; these gave me a fine lot of imagines early in September, and I again got eggs from them, and had larvæ feeding which produced a number of moths at various times during the winter. Some of the larvæ ceased to feed when one-third grown, and I dumped them out among weeds by my orchard fence to take their chances.
NEW RHOPALOCERA AND HETEROCERA
Authors: Neumoegen B.
Published: February 2010

Catopsilia neleis, var. floridensis ♂ ♀.

A beautiful variety of C. neleis, Boisd. It differs from its tropical types considerably.

The ♂ ♂ have a bright sulphur-yellow in basal half of primaries, the broad anterior space beingof a creamy white instead of the citron colour in the typical form.

The same is the case with the secondaries, except that three-quarters of the area of wings are of bright sulphur.

♀ ♀ are not yellow, but creamy-white with large black discal spots, black rimmed apices and anterior margins of primaries, and with prominent citron tinge of the basal area of secondaries.
A NEW BUTTERFLY FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA
Authors: Weeks A. G.
Published: February 2010

Pyrgus pelagica, n. sp.

Habitat: San José del Cabo, Lower California.

Expanse, 1.25 inches.

Descripition.—Under side of palpi and head covered with whitish hairs; top of same blackish-brown gray; forehead with some whitish hairs mixed with the darker. Thorax and abdoment blackish above, end of abdomen shading into gray, beneath whitish. Legs covered with whitish hairs, brownish at end. Antennæ blackish, with small white annulations at abse of each joint; club above blackish, tipped with light brown, below light brown down to joint.