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LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN AT LITTLE METIS (RIMOUSKI CO.), P. QUE
Authors: Winn Albert. F.
Published: February 2010

My collecting at Little Metis having been confined to July and August, my knowledge of the forms occurring there is necessarily very incomplete; but as the insect fauna of the Lower St.Lawrence seems to differ considerably from that of Ontario and the western part of Quebec, I venture to give a list of the species I know to occur there, and hope that in the event of my not going there again, some other entomologist will give us a list of additions.
NOTE ON GRAPHIPHORA, HUBN
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

On page 92 of the Bulletin U.S.N. Museum, No. 28, Prof. Smith says: “Mr. Butler says argur is the type of Graphiphora, Ochs., in which case the application of the name to the Taeniocampa series by Mr. Grote would be unwarranted.” I never fixed the type of Ochsenheimer's genus Graphiphora. What I did was to fix the type of Hübner proposes the name in the Tentamen for gothica, which, as it is the only species given, is therefore the type. Afterwards, in 1816, Ochsenheimer, 4, 68, includes ravida and 16 species not seperable from Agrotis.
NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF ECPANTHERIA SCRIBONIA, STOLL
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

The preparatory stages of this species do not seem to have been described. Mr. Hy. Edwards in his catalogue gives eleven references, but in none is the egg mentioned, or any but a single larval stage, and in only one the pupa. It will, therefore, not be amiss to briefly describe the several stages here. I would like first to call attention to the remarkable fertility of the insect in question, at least in Southern Florida where I met with it.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE COLLECTING OF 1890
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

A combination of causes prevented me from doing my usual amount of hunting around Hamilton last summer, and the reports of the collectors there left with me the impression that I was not losing much. I took many a stroll through the city, looking for, and expecting to find something, but invariably returned disappointed.
CANADIAN RHYNCOPHORA
Authors: Harrington W. H.
Published: February 2010

Since writing the notes on Rhyncophora which appeared in the Feburary issue, I have had an opportunity of obtaining Dr. Sharp's determination of the two species mentioned on pages 22 and 23. He writes to me as follows:- “The two weevils from Cape Breton are: 1. Otiorhynchus rugifrons, Gyll., 2. Sciaphilus muricatus, both common N. European insects. The Otiorhynchus is a slight var.; the Sciaphilus not distinguishable from Scottish specimens.”
PLATYNUS NEW TO CANADA
Authors: Harrington W. H.
Published: February 2010

Among the commoner beetles at Sydney, Cape Breton, if not indeed the most abundant, is a species which has, I think, not been recorded in Canadian lists. I refer to Platynus hardyi which was described by Leconte (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Vol. II., p. 53)from Newfoundland specimens received by him from Baron de Chaudoir. I cannot find any record of it from other localities.
NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF NOCTUIDÆ DESCRIBED BY FRANCIS WALKER
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

In Vol. XXXII. and XXXIII. of the list of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the British Museum, Mr. Walker described some species from “West Canada, in the Rev. Mr. Bethune's collection.” No records of specimens in the Museum are given, and the descriptions are of specimens apparently returned to the collector. On the chance of these specimens being still in existence I wrote Dr. Bethune, begging him for such assistance and information as was in his power to afford. He very kindly responded, saying, “I shall send you by mail to-morrow a box containing the few specimens that I have left that were named for me by the late F. Walker.
MELANISM AND HUMIDITY
Authors: Tutt J. W.
Published: February 2010

At different times considerable attention has been paid to the general darkening in colour of our British insects, compared with Centrall European and with American forms. In Britian, many species become much darker(some absolutely black) on various parts of the West Coasts of Ireland and Great Britian, and, as a general rule, the more humid districts produce the darker specimens, e.g. Acronycta (Viminia) euphorbiœ var. myricœ, Xylophasia polyodon vars. infuscata and nigra, Viminia rumicis var. salicis, etc.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF CANADIAN PIMPLINÆ
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Xorides caryœ, n. sp.

Female.—Length 11 to 16 mm. Black with yellowish-white markings. Head swollen, interior orbits, interrupted opposite antennæ punctured, between antennæ and ocelli polished; antennæ slender black. Thorax with the pectus and pleuræ finely punctate, polished; disc of mesothorax transversely rugulose; metathorax rounded, faintly sulcate medially and rugosely punctured and aciculated; sides of prothorax, two lines on mesothorax, two spots, sometimes confluent, on scutellum, the post-scutellum, the tegulæ and a broad stripe of pleura, contined on middle coxa, yellow-whitel legs, including coxæ, pale rufous or honey-yellow, anterior ones paler, the anterior coxæ stripe on middle coxæ outwardly, second joint of trochanters and the knees yellow, tibiæ and tarsi piceous or blackish, the former with a pale line within; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma black.
NEMATUS PALLIDIVENTRIS, FALLEN—A FRESH IMPORTATION
Authors: Fyles Thomas. W.
Published: February 2010

In September of last year I discovered the larvæ of a species of Nematus feeding upon a willow introduced from Russia by the late Mr. Charles Gibb. Like others of the genus these larvæ were gregarious and threw up the hinder parts of the body when disturbed. They were full fed and buried themselves on September 24th. The flies appeared in the end of March.
NOTES
Authors: Neumoegen B
Published: February 2010

In Entom. Amer., Vol. VI., p. 173, in my description of Euchaetes conspicua there is erroneously inserted: “This insect comes near E. cadaverso, Gr.,” etc., etc. This should read: “This insect comes near E. abdominalis, Gr. It is easily recognized by its conspicuous costal lines. E. abdominalis is a Florida insect, whilst this seems to be the Colorado representative.” Entom. Amer. having caeased to appear, you will confer a favour on me by publishing this in your esteemed paper.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF SMERINTHUS EXCÆCATUS, A. & S
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Oval; pale apple green, smooth shining; slightly flattened above and below. Width, 2 mm.; height, 1.50 mm.

Clemens, in his Synopsis of North American Sphingidæ, p. 182 (Journ.Ac. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1859), describes the egg as being “smooth, white, with an equatorial reddish-brown band, having a slender central white line.” All the eggs, about one hundered and fifty in number, which I examined were entirely green, with no indications whatever of the bands mentioned by Clemens.
ABOUT PSEUDOHAZIS AND ITS VARIATIONS
Authors: Neumoegen B.
Published: February 2010

The genus Pseudohazis, Gr.& R., has only two typical representatives so far known, one being Eglanterina, Bd., with the purple colouring, and the other the white Hera, Harr., from Utah's salt regions. Hera has to be considered a distinct species, for, aside from its white colour, its primaries are falcated, while those of Eglanterina are broad and blunt. All the rest of named insects are variations of Eglanterina,“Pica, Walk., being especially recognizable by its heavy black markings and black basal areas.
THE MALE GENITALIA AND THE SUBDIVISIONS OF AGROTIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

It is forty years ago since Lederer used the male genitalia to group the European species of Agrotis. According to the latest general work on the subject, the 127 European species of Agrotus fall into nine groups, characterized chiefly by changes in the form of teh male genitalic appendages. The failure to correlate these European groups with the American subdivisions of Agrotis, prevents me from considering Prof. Smith's recent revision as complete, since I have demonstarted the near relation between the two faunæ exhibited by Noctuinœ of the Old and New World.
ADDITIONS TO THE CANADIAN LIST OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Moffat J. Alston.
Published: February 2010

As I was in the habit of sending to the authorities, for determination, only such as I had in duplicate, thereby avoiding the inconvenience of returning them, and retaining single specimens of a kind as a reminder of what at look for, and in most cases where to look for them, I found that in Micros single specimens accumulated rapidly. Having changed my location, I wished to finish up with the old material and begin anew.
CERURA SCOLOPENDRINA, Boisd
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

I think I have satisfactorily identified this species. I captured a specimen at Yosemite, California, on June 5th, 1891, that bears out Boisduval's description. The specimen, however, is Cerura aquilonaris, Lintn., and these names will have to be considered as referring to the same species. I have also received a specimen from Mr. C. A. Wiley, of Miles City, Montana, so the species probably occurs from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE.—II
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Junoniacœnia, Hubn.

Egg.—Spherical, a little flattened at the base, with about twelve vertical ribs running to the micropyle; colour, shining pale green; diameter; .5 mm.

First Stage.—Head rounded, black and shiny; width, .25 mm. Body sordid greenish, with long black hairs curving forward, arising from small lustrous tubercles. Feet concolorous with the body.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ARGYNNIS FROM ALBERTA TERRITORY
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Argynnis Victoria

Male.—Expands two inches. Upper side pale fulvous, primaries a little obscured next base, secondaries largely, the dark area covering nearly the basal half; the black markings rather heavy; a common black marginal border, narrow on primaries, one-third wider on secondaries; a common series of small submarginal spots, sub-oval on primaries, crescent on secondaries, and on neither wing touching the marginal border; the rounded spots largest on primaries; the discal angular band on same wing heavy, on secondaries light; a bar on arc of cell of primaries, another crossing the cell a little within, a rounded elongated spot depending from subcostal, near middle of cell, and a crescent close to the base; in the submedian interspace an angular cross bar; on secondaries a V shaped spot at end of cells.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE.—III
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Phyciodes mylitta. Edw.

Egg.—Not observed; but laid about 50 together.

Frist Stage.—Head shining black; width .25mm. Body cylindrical; cervical shield and anal plate black; fine black hairs, slightly curving forward, arise from minute black elevated spots.

Second Stage.—Head black and shiny; width .40mm. The body is covered with rows of conical elongated tubercles, each with many bristly hairs, arranged as in the mature larva. Sordid greenish, shaded with black dorsally, the cervical shield, anal plate and tubercles black.
A TACHINID BRED FROM A CHRYSALIS
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

Meigenia websteri, n. sp.

Female.—Head a little wider than thorax and abdomen. Eyes brown, very sparsely hairy; front and face not quite one half the width of head; front a little prominent; frontal vitta about one-fourth the width of front, brown, lighter behind where it splits on each side of the ocelli; frontal bristles in a single row, descending a little below base of third antennal joint, some fine hairs on sides of front outside them; two orbital bristles; sides of front with a slightly brassy tinge; sides of face moderately wide; a little less than one-half the width of the facial depression, silvery, bare; face slightly receding, facial depression silvery, facial ridges cliliate to a little below base of third antennal joint; cheeks moderately wide, cinereous, hairy, with bristles on lower border; vibrissæ inserted at a little distance above the oral margin; antennæ not as long as the face, blackish, third joint slightly reddish at base; second joint not elongate, bristly; third joint not widened, more than three times as long as the second; arista black, microscpically pubescent, thickened more than half its length, three-jointed, the second joint hardly elongate; proboscis, brown, fleshy, not so long as height of head, labella well developed, palpi well developed flavous club-shaped, thickened and curved at the tip, black bristly; occiput cinereous, gray hairy below, with fringe of black hairs on orbital margins.
NOTES ON THE DYSDERIDÆ OF THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

The Dysderidœ is a small family of spiders occupying in a certain respect an intermediate postion between the Tetrapneumones and the Dipneumones; the openings to the tracheæ are just behind the lung-slits, so that they may appear to have four lungs. The eyes are six in all of our forms. The mandibles are not small, in Dysdera quite large. The male palpi are quite simple in structure.
NOTES ON A FEW CANADIAN RHYNCOPHORA
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Rhynchites bicolor Fab. has not that general distribution, in Canada at least, that is believed by Mr. Wickham, who remarks(Can. Ent., Vol. XXIL., p. 171): “In fact I doubt if there is a spot on this continent where roses grow that Rhynchites bicolor does not inhabti too.” On the Pacific coast it is certainly a very common insect, as I found at Victoria, V.L.., and New Westminster, B.C., in May and June, 1888.
INSECT LIFE IN THE HOT SPRINGS OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Authors: Hubbard H. G.
Published: February 2010

“The arrangements we had to make with the proprietors of the stage line gave us a trip of five days from Beaver Canon to the mammoth Hot Springs for $35 apiece, there being three of us. But if we stopped over anywhere it was $10 extral it was also $10 extra to make the trip to Yellowstone Lake. But I am very glad we did not omit this, as it is by far the most delightful part of the Park.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE INSECT FAUNA OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE, UTAH
Authors: Schwarz E. A.
Published: February 2010

The Great Salt Lake of Utah has been easily accessible for many years, and its shores have been visited by various entomologists; so that it seems strange that no one has hitherto published a comprehensive or even partial list of the insects occurring in that interesting locality. During the present summer, while on a short excursion to Utah with Mr. H. G. Hubbard, we had the opportunity of spending some time in the investiagation of the insect faune of the Lake.
LONGEVITY AND VITALITY OF ARGAS AND TROMBIDIUM
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary. E.
Published: February 2010

It seems incredible that creatures as highly organized as the ticks and mites should be able to live for months and even years without food, and, in the case of some of the former, are capable of surviving even a prolonged immersion in a somewhat acrid fluid.

As an illustration of this remarkable vitality I wish to call attention to the case of two species that have come under my observation during the past year.
NOTES ON TWO BORERS INJURIOUS TO THE MOUNTAIN ASH
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

In the late publication of the Department of Agriculture on “Foresttree Imsects” three species are mentioned as affecting the trunk of Pyrus americana, viz: The round and flat-headed apple-tree borers and an unknown longicorn larva. I have recently found two additional species fully as injurious as those mentioned. These are Podosesia syringœ and Zeuzophora semifuneralis.
A CATALOGUE OF THE THYSANOURA OF NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

There being no published list of the American species of Thysanoura, I have thought it advisable to bring my notes together in a connected form. The names adopted are based on a careful study of many specimens from all parts of the country, and the arrangement of families and genera is a combination of that of Tullberg, Lubbock, and Comstock. I have preceded the catalogue by a list of the more important papers containing descriptions of American species, and I have followed the names of all those species known to me by an exclamation point.
THE GENUS PACKARDIA G. & R
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

In the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. I offered a revision of the species of this genus, in which I reduced the number of species to five; but, from recent experience, I am of the opinion that this number will have to be still further reduced. I have bred a moth that forms an intergrade between P. elegans and P. fusca, and have noticed no difference between the larvæ that produces geminata and albipunctata.
ON CATOCALA FLEBILIS AND C. FRATERCULA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In describing C. retecta and C. flebilis, it appears from Mr. Hulst's statements, that I included certain dark shaded specimens, one or more or retecta, under flebilis. Mr. Hulst says:-“The typical specimens in Phila. cover both species.” This may be true, as also that Mr. Strecker figures a dark shaded retecta as flebilis. I have not his work. But there is not doubt in my mind as to what was flebilis, and there is no excuse for Mr. Hulst's renaming my species as luctuosa.
SOME BRITISH COLUMBIA COLEOPTERA
Authors: Keen J. H.
Published: February 2010

Last year (1890) I spent the months of July and August at Inverness—a saimon-canning station at the mouth of the River Skeena, and paid what attention I could spare to the beetles of the locality, a list of which I give below. For the identification of my specimens I am indebted to the courtesy of the British Museum authorities at South Kensington.
NEW N. A. MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Psecadia delliella n. sp.

Expanse of wings, 21 mm. Palpi white, with the outside of the first two joints black, Head white. Antennæ brown, white above basally. Thorax snow white, with two black bands, one across the middle and the other across the scutellum.
FOOD PLANTS OF SOME BOMBYCIDÆ AND NOCTUIDÆ NOT INCLUDED IN H. EDWARDS'S CATALOGUE
Authors: Thaxter Roland
Published: February 2010

The following brief list of food plants of Bombycidæ and Noctuidæ, not included in the recently issued catalogue of Mr. Henry Edwards, may be of some interest to persons engaged in rearing Lepidoptera. When not otherwise stated the insects have been found and reared, or reared from the eggs by myself, and were mostly collected at Kittery, Maine:-

Bombycidæ
TEN NEW SPECIES OF ORTHOPTERA FROM NEBRASKA—NOTES ON HABITS, WING VARIATION, ETC
Authors: Bruner Lawrence
Published: February 2010

A trifle more than two years ago the writer first entertained the idea of preparing a synopsis of the Orthoptera of Nebraska, with the intention of publishing it as a special bulletin from the Agricultural Experiment Station. With that end in view, work was immediately begun; and in the course of a few months the greater portion of the manuscript was ready for the printer. At this time other matters that were considered of more immediate importance came up at the Station, and that of the Orthoptera was laid aside. It has now been lying nearly two years.
REMARKS ON PROF. JOHN B. SMITH'S REVISION OF THE GENUS AGROTIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

To the great kindness of Prof. French I owe a copy of the Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum No 38, which contains Prof. Smith's Revision of the North American Species of Agrotis. In view of the fact that out of the 252 species reviewed by Prof. Smith, no less than 110 are credited to myself, besides five species “not placed,” it might be reasonably supposed that I was interested to receive this publication and that I must regret not having received it before publishing my New Check List.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA—NO. 7
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Philonthus quediinus Horn. A male specimen of this fine species was taken here As the anterior marginal puncture of the thorax is placed so unusually far behind the margin, and on a line with the three discal ones, the discal punctures are apparently four. In this speciment the singular bunch of bristles on the penultimagte ventral segment consists of about six, all differing in length, and rising from a small median pit resembling somewhat that seen in the male of some species of Dermestes.
TEN NEW SPECIES OF ORTHOPTERA FROM NEBRASKA—NOTES ON HABITS, WING VARIATION, ETC
Authors: Bruner Lawrence
Published: February 2010

Orchelimum gracile, n sp.— A slenderer and somewhat smaller insect than either O. vulgare or O. concinum, from both of which it differs in the form of its pronotum and of the ovipositor. The tubercle of the vertex is short, broad, and has the apex rounded. The tegmina and wings are of moderate length, very delicate in texture, and in the male furnished with an inconspicuous musical apparatus very similar in proportions to that of agile and longipennis. Legs slender, the posterior femora not quite reaching the tips of the closed tegmina.
NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF LEPISESIA FLAVO-FASCIATA, BARNSTON
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

Havin been asked by Sir William Dawson to look over two collections of insects which had been sent in in competition for a prize, I was delighted to find in one of them a speciment of this very rare moth.

Knowing that everything in connection with the capture of such a rarity would be of interest, I asked Sir William to ascertain from Mr. R. McDougall, the collector, all the facts that he could furnish in connection with such an interesting event, and I duly received, through Sir William, a letter about it, from which I extract the following account:-

“The moth was caught at Ormstown, Chateauguay County, and was the only one observed during the summer.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF DATANA PERSPICUA, G. & R., AND CERURA BOREALIS, BOISD
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Datana perspicua.—Egg: In general shape subpyriform; flattened at base and top, depressed centrally at vertex, the usual black spot small and indistinct, situated at the bottom of the punctiform depression; the whole surface punctured. Colour white, the lid-like top of a somewhat brighter white. Width .9 mm., height .8 mm. The egg is of the type of D. major, but resembles the type of D. ministra in coloration by possessing a discolorous lid-like top. This is the part of the shell eaten by the yound larva in hatching. Laid in masses of varying numbers on the under side of the leaves of the food plant.
THE MOOSE FLY—A NEW HÆMATOBIA
Authors: Snow W. M. A.
Published: February 2010

Entomologists will be interested to learn of the occurrence of a near relative of the Horn Fly, HŒmatobia serrata, in the middle of the great cranberry swamps of Northern Minnesota. These vast low areas extend for hundreds of square miles in the vicinity of the Lake of Woods. They are the favored home of the American moose, and the hope of obtaining some specimens of this animal for the museum of the University of Kansas led Professor L. L. Dyche of that institution to traverse these dangerous marshes. Professor Dyche has recently returned after remaining for over three months in the very centre of the swamps, camping upon the occasional sand ridges which cross the region; and to him I am indebted for specimens of a new HŒmatobia.
THE HABITS OF A GROUND-HORNET
Authors: Davis W. M. T.
Published: February 2010

Sitzus speciosus is the largest native ground-hornet, and its formidable appearance and great activity generally secure it undisputed possesion of the square rod where it happens to alight. It is from an inch to an inch and one-half in length; the head and thorax are brown, and the abdomen is black with six irregular yellow blotches.
NOTES
Authors: Rowley R. R
Published: February 2010

In August, 1886, while visiting in Louisiana, Mo., I made frequent excursions to damp places along a neighboring book in search of butterflies. It was the droughty season, and there were but a few stagnant pools, damp gravel beds, and moist clay slopes at which insects could slake their thirst. At one of the last named places I noticed a great bunch of Coliads (mostly Colias philodice with an occasional Eurytheme), and a few specimens of Pieris rapŒ, which my advance started out put to flight. As a few individuals did not take to wing, but seemed unable to rise though they fluttered violently, my curiosity was aroused and a closer investigation showed the bank and gravel bed below to be strewn with mutilated specimens of Philodice, scores of individuals, detached wings in some cases, in others the head and thorax remained intact.
SOME RARE LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN NEAR MONTREAL
Authors: Winn A. F.
Published: February 2010

Thecla laeta, Edw. I was fortunate enough to take a female of this rare and beautiful butterfly on the top of Beloeil Mt., 22 miles east of Montreal, on May 24th, 1888. I again visited the place on the same date in 1889 and 1890, but on both occasions the weather was too cloudy for anything to be on the wing.

Thecla acadica, Edw. I took two specimens at St.Rose, July 7th, 1889, flying over a field of oats, among which there was a quantity of wild mustard in flower, and the butterflies visited the latter occasionally, but only for a moment, and then dashed off.
CHIONOBAS UHLERI
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Mr. W. H. Edwards, in his most interesting account of Chionobas whleri, (Butt. N. A. Pl. XII., Vol.3) remarks that he can find no evidence that it is found in the south of Colorado. It may, therefore, be as well to record that I found it near Swift Creek, in Curster County; and Mr. H. W. Nash informed me that it occured at Rosita, in the same county. These localities are just north of 38° N. Lat.
HETÆRINA AMERICANA
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

There was brought to me by Mr. T. H, Hill, of this city, one of our young collectors, a dragon fly captured at Delaware, a village a few miles west of here. It was one I had not seen before. On referring to Glover's Plates I found it there, figured and named. It is Hetœrina Americana, Fab., the Lestes basalis of Say, in the family Agrionidæ; a beautiful creature. Its most noticeable characteristics are the bright sangineous colour on the base of the wings, the clear copper colour of the thorax, and the brilliant gem-like ornamentation of the head.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA—IV
Authors: Van Duzee E. P.
Published: February 2010

Gnathodus impictus, n. sp.

Green, or yellow greein in the dried specimen; scutellum and all beneath quite strongly tinged with yellow. Corium whitish hyaline, nervures green and strong, especially in the male. Wings white, iridescent, nervures pale. Eyes balckish. Anetnnæ and legs soilded yellow tinged with green, especially on the posterior tibiæ. Otherwise immaculate.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS—PACKING INSECTS FOR TRANSPORTATION
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

By request of Mr. Fletcher I add a few remarks to his article in the January number on “Killing, Preserving and Relaxing Insects,” though the subject is so well treated there as to leave little room for additional comment.

The action of the cyanide bottle cannot be depended on as effectual in such a short time as Mr. Fletcher mentions, except in the case of the most tender insects, many Rhynchophora will live there for several hours unless the bottle is quite freshly prepared, and I know of one case in which a Coelocnemis remained alive all night confined in a bottle strong enough to quickly overcome the large southwestern species of Cleonus.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Teras comandrana, n sp.

Expanse of wings 13 mm. Head, palpi thorax, and basal half of forewings, light yellowish-brown or fawn coloured. A large cinnamonbrown tringular spot rests on the costa, extending from the middle to the outer fourth, and the apex extends nearly half way across the wing. The outer part of the wing is light cinnamon-brown, and the whole surface is crossed by numerous oblique, irregular metallic band, which are visible only in an oblique light. A row of minute black tufts alon ghe inner side of the costal spot, two or three more near the fold below, one on each side of the fold at the basal third of the wing, and three near the middle of the wing at the outer fourth. Fringe concolorous with the outer part of the wing.
OVIPOSITING IN THE GENUS ARGYNNIS
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

I wish to make a contribution to the literature of the subject of “egg dropping,” and place on record in an entomological journal an observation I made nine years ago. I do this with the object of calling general attention to this subject, which I think an interesting one, and in hope that lepidopterists may be on the look out for this method of ovidpositing in all the species of the genus.
CANADIAN GALLS AND THEIR OCCUPANTS—EUROSTA SOLIDAGINIS, FITCH
Authors: Brodie W. M.
Published: February 2010

“Attacking the Solidago or Golden Rod.” “Quite common in eastern New York.” “Slender, straigh, smooth stalks of the Golden Rod quite often have one and sometimes two large, round galls or ball-like swellings upon them, an inch in diameter, when the stalk above and below is less than a quarter of an inch.” “In the winter season most of them are found to be empty, with a round hole perforated in them, the worm having completed its growth, and the winged fly having come out through this perforation the preceding autumn.
A NEW DASYLOPHIA FROM FLORIDA
Authors: Slosson Annie Trumbull
Published: February 2010

Dasylophia puntagorda, n. sp.

♂.—Head and thorax appearing palest gray from admixture of pure white with cinereous. Abdomen, secondaries and ground colour of primaries sordid white. Primaries streaked longitudinally with blackish, which contrasts violently with ground colour. A diffuse, heavy, blackish shade rund obliquely from apex inward. A curved blackish line, reaching neither costa nor internal margin at outer three-fourths of wing.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS—No. I.: NOTES ON KILLING, PRESERVING AND RELAXING INSECTS
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

The editor informs me that he wishes to publish in this year's volume of the Canadian Entomologist several short articles for the benefit of beginners and many others, who, although they do not aspire to being considered entomologists, yet would like to know something about our common insects, and the best way to preserve such interesting specimens as may chance to come in their way, until they may have on opportunity of mounting them for their own collections or giving them to interested friends. I have been asked to send some notes on the above subject.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF GORYTES
Authors: Fox W. M. J.
Published: February 2010

The monograph of this genus, published by Handlirsch,* necessitated the working-up of the unidentified species in the collectin of the American Entomological Society. This author has merged several genera into Gorytes, viz., Euspongus, Hoplisus, etc. I have followed him, as several of the species described herein belong to what was once the genus Hoplisus. There are serveal other new species contained in the Society's collection, represented by single specimens only.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ANTHOOHARIS
Authors: Wright W. G.
Published: February 2010

A. Flora, n. sp.

♂, expanse 1.40–1.75. White. Forewings blackish at base; many black scales along costa; bar broad, at costa reaching inwards, and at the middle with an angle outwards into the orange, with a broadening, vaguely-edged stripe connecting it to the margin near inner angle; orange patch very large, deep reddish coloured, the colour extending to costa and also to outer margin near the angle; apical margin black with obtuse serrations inside, the lower end becoming maculate of merely of roundish spots in the edge of teh orange patch; fringe whie and black.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TACHINIDÆ, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES.—Paper VI.
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

This paper contains descriptions entirely of Southern New Mexican forms, with the exception of two from the State of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Sarcomacronychia sarcophagoides, n. sp. ♀.

Eyes brown; frontal vitta narrow, blackish, front one-fourth width of head; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white; the double rows of frontal bristles nearly equal; vibrissæ distinct, short, decussate, inserted well above oral margin; antennæ and arista blackish, second antennal joint slightly rufous at ends, third one and a-half times as long as second; proboscis black, labella brown; palpi slender, brown; occiput cinerous, short black-bristly.
THE LARVA OF ANCERYX FASCIATA, SWAINS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

In July, 1891, Mr. I. I. Bowrey gave me a sphingid larva, about to pupate, which I described as follows:-

Larva.— Chœerocampa like, ground colour pale ochreous, sides immaculate. Dorsal region (sharply defined from sides) dark, from a close, fine black marbling or mottling, which tends to run in anteroposterior lines. A band-like process of this marbling enters the side area on each segment, obliquely projecting towards, but hardly reaching the spiracle.
NOTES ON AEGERIADÆ OF CENTRAL OHIO—II
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

The first collection of notes on the Aegeriadæ of Central Ohio was published in the current volume of Canadian Entomologist. Since the former notes left my hands additional observations have been made, and a few more species collected. Inasmuch as I shall have something to say of the destructive habits of the larvæ of these species; this seems to be the appropriate place to present these notes.
ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE—ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT
Authors: Schwarz E. A.
Published: February 2010

At the Ann Arbor meeting of our Club, in the year 1885, Prof. John B. Smith proposed as a subject of discussion “How shall we create and foster an interest in the study of Entomology?” In the discussion a rather gloomy view was then generally taken by the members regarding the general lack of interest in entomology in this country, Prof. Riley alone expressing himself hopeuflly as to the future outlook. As the best means for creating such interest the production of a popular compendium of North American insects was recommended, but the discussion only dwelt upon the diffculties in the way of producing a popular and yet valuable work.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS—No. 2.: The Northern Mole-Cricket (Gryllotalpa borealis, Burm.)
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

Anyone finding the strange-looking insect shown at fig.1 will at once recognize it as the Northern Mole cricket. It is apparently an uncommon insect in Canada, and it is partly to ascertain from the readers of the Canadian Entomologist whether or not this is the case that I am writing these notes upon a specimen which I have had in confinement for some months. I have been trying for years to get living speciments, but only succeeded last autumn when I had a fine female sent to me by Mr. W. W. Hilborn, who had caught it in his garden at Leamington, in Essex County, Ont.
SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ASTATUS, LATR
Authors: Fox W. M. J.
Published: February 2010

1. Marginal cell as long or long or longer than the first submarginal (if shorter it is scarcely noticeable). 2

Marginal cell always much shorter that the first submarginal .6
ON EUDRYAS STAE. JOHANNIS, WALK
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

I saw the type of this species in the Britsh Museum and considered it to represent a distinct species, allied to E. grata. Prof. Smith says, Can. Ent., 134., “I have no hesitation in referring the species(?) as a suffused aberrant grata.” Now the hindwings want the band and are immaculate, hence there is no “suffusion” on the secondaries. The forewings resemble grata, but the markings differ.
A REARING OF MELITTOBIA
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

On the 21st September, 1891, on opening a small box of neglected insects, etc., I caught a glimpse of several minute black files as they flew out. At the time I could not imagine what they were. The next day I collected a lot of pupæ of Tachina flies and enclosed them in tin boxes to transform to imagines, but instead of the perfect fly appearing, the boxes were filled with the same small flies as I had observed issue from the opened box on the day previous, and then, as I remembered having had some of those Tachina puparia in the box, I readily understood whence the flies came.
THE ELM LEAF BEETLE.: (Galeruca xanthomelæna, Schrank.)
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

My first practical acquaintance with this species began at New Brunswick, N.J., in the spring of 1889. In the Rutgers College campus there are a considerable number of elms, many of them grand old trees, which for several seasons ins succession and up to 1888 had been defolidated by Galeruca xanthomelœna, larva and imago. A double row of young trees, many of them elms, extends from the College campus to the Theological Seminary, a distance of about 280 yards, and at the beginning of this row, most distant from the Seminary, the Experiment Station building in situated. There are also a considerable number of elms among the other shade trees in this part of the city.
THE LIFE HISTORY OF XENOS
Authors: Hubbard Henry. G.
Published: February 2010

How often, in turning over the pages of his check-list, has the American collector of beetles allowed his eyes to rest a moment upon those lines of type which announce the existence in our fauna of the mysterious family Stylopidæ, with its two genera, Stylops and Xenos; each represented by a single species; but, recognizing in these names only the records of captures almost legendary in their antiquity, he has turned the page with a feeling that they represent to him unattainalble rarities.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN MOLE-CRICKET—GRYLLOTALPA BOREALIS
Authors: Doran E. W.
Published: February 2010

Although this is a common insect in many parts of the United States, it is not generally found in great numbers in any locality, and, notwith standing its general distribution, the various staes of the insect seem not to have been describe or figured.

While I am not yet able to clear up all the points in its history, I have studied the insect in all its stages, though I have not reared it from the egg to maturity, on account of the time required for it to develop—in all probability three years.
NOTE ON A BORER IN THE STEM OF THE RED CURRANT
Authors: Claypole E. W.
Published: February 2010

For several years I have observed traces of a borer in the tips of the tiwgs of my red currant bushes, whose habits did not correspond with those of any insect with which I am acquainted. My knowledge of the subject is very limited, and I consulted the department at Washington. In reply it was suggested that possibly it was the same insect which infested the tips of the raspberry, Oberea tripunctata. But the facts not quite agreeing with this reference, I wrote to Prof. Riley, stating the facts in the case.
NOTES ON THE INSECT FAUNA OF THE MISSISSIPPI BOTTOMS
Authors: Weed Howard Evarts
Published: February 2010

Geographically the State of Mississippi divided into what is known as the hills and the swamps. The hills comprise the middle and eastern portions of the State, while the swamps comprise the western border or the country adjacent to the Mississippi River, the larger portion of which is overflowed every year.

The insect fauna of this region presents many things of interest, there being an absence of many species found in other parts of the State, doubtless owing to the inundation and consequent drowning out in the spirng of the year. Indeed, how it is that some of the species which are quite common in this region survive an overflow lasting from three weeks to two or over three months, I leave for other to explain.
THE WEB-WORM TIGER (PLOCHIONUS TIMIDUS, HALD)
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary. E.
Published: February 2010

It would seem appropriate that this hitherto somewhat rare and inconspicuous little carabid should be brought to the notice of the Entomological Club of the A.A.A.S. in its new role of a benefactor.

I have been observing its habits for two years, and am confident that to it, more than to any other agent, do we, in the neighborhood of St.Louis, owe our present comparative freedom from the Web-worm nuisance. Whereas formerly almost every other tree would, at this season of the year, be infested with one or more of the disfiguring nests, they are now so few and far between that it requires some search to find one.
GALERUCA XANTHOMELAENA POLYGONEUTIC AT WASHINGTON.
Authors: Riley C. V.
Published: February 2010

It will be remembered that at the meeting of the Club a year ago, Professor J. B. Smith gave the results of his observations for that year upon the Elm-leaf Beetle at New Brunswick, N. J., and concluded that it was single-brooded there. His observations were so carefully made that his conclusions could not well be doubted; yet they did not agree with those made at Washington, where the species had been found to be at those made at Washington, where the species had been found to be at least double-brooded. In the article which I had published upon this insect in Bulletin 6 of the Division of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture, I had discussed the evidence as to number of broods, both from European sources and my own experience; but Professor Smith's observations were so conclusive, so far as his locality is concerned, that I felt the need of more accurate notes than any that had been published hitherto, and of teh desriability of setting the question as to number of broods at Washington by a series of carefully-planned indoor experiments, where, by breeding from one generation to another, there could be no question of an erroneous conclusion.
A PRELIMINARY GROUPING OF THE DESCRIBED SPECIES OF SAPROMYZA OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH ONE NEW SPECIES
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

The following is a purely provisional grouping of the described North American species of Sapromyza, made up from the descriptions alone. As such, it is offered for publication. The practical use of this kind of work does not need pointing out. It greatly facilitates the identification of species where the descriptions are scattered through various works. In the determination of the single new species described at the end of this paper, it was necessary to consult each description separately. It required but little additional labour to tabulate the leading points in the descriptions, thus relieving later students from the necessity of going through the same laborous process.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF HALISIDOTA HÜBN
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Neumoegen and myself are at work upon this genus, with a view to present a revision of it; there are, however, some points upon which I should like to make a few independent remarks. The genus Halisidota is exclusively American, its stronghold being in the South. Indeed, the whole sub-family, the Phægopterinæ, are strongly, American, there being no European species and but few African, While still fewer reach through the East Indies to Australia.
DISCOVERY OF THE GENUS CRATÆPUS FÖRSTER IN AMERICA, AND THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES
Authors: Ashmead W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

In 1878 Dr. Arnold Forster, in his “Kleine Monographie”, erected many new genera in the family Chalcididæ that have been either overlooked by subsequent entomologists, or, at least, not included in any recent tables of the genera of this family, amongst which is a genus he calls Cratœpus placed by him in the Tetrastichoidœ, and which I am pleased to announce also occurs in America.
CNICUS DISCOLOR AS AN INSECT TRAP
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

It is a well known fact that certain plants, as Sliene antirrhina, L., and allied species, exude a sticky, viscid substance of stalk or peduncle for the purpose of preventing ants, small beetles, and other honey-loving intruders, which are too small to aid effectively in fertilization, from creeping up to the flower and robbing the honey-glands of their precious nectar. Other plants, as the Sundews, Drosera rotundifolia, L. etc., excrete a smiliar substance with which they attact insects, which are caught and afterwards utilized as food by the plant.
A NEW GENUS OF DIPTERA ALLIED TO RHAPHIOMIDAS
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In the “West American Scientist” for January, 1891, I gave a brief description of Rhaphiomidas acton n. sp. comparing it with the only other described species R. episcopus O.S. The description was drawn from a single male speciment now in the National Museum at Washington, but during the past season I was fortunate enough to capture four additional specimens of this species, three males and a female, all of them having been taken on the wing while hovering over flowers in the hottest part of the day, the time being the first week in July. The possession of these specimens permits me to make a few corrections to my publihsed description.
HOW THE FEMALE OF CACOECIA SEMIFERANA PROTECTS HER EGG-CLUSTERS.
Authors: Gillette C. P.
Published: February 2010

The Box Elder Leafroller, Cacoecia semiferana, was very abundant in many places in Colorado last summer, and in July the moths were swarming in the trees in the evening, presumably to deposit their eggs. The eggs were found beneath a gluey mass, somewhat similar to that used by the tent caterpillar in protecting her eggs, but it was largely covered with what appeared to be scales from the moth, placed like the shingles on a roof.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA.—No. 9
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Philydrus, Can, Ent., XVI., 186.—The paragraph commencing with “Philhydrus” should be corrected as follows:- Philydrus perplexus, Lec., and P. Hamiltoni, Horn, are found [on Brigantine Beach] in the fresh water pools which form at the base of the sand-hills, with Hydrophilus glaber and Copelatus glyphicus; while Philydrus reflexipennis occurs in the salt marshes under pieces of wood and recent tide-drift, seeming to inhabit salt of very brackish water, as it has not been taken in fresh water with the species mentioned.
NOTES ON THE ÆGERIADÆ OF CENTRAL OHIO
Authors: Kellicott D. S.
Published: February 2010

The Lepidopterous family to which these notes pertain is a homogeneous and distinct one, clearly and sufficiently separated from other families. The larvæ, so far as known, are borers in roots, stems, branches, or excrescences of trees, shrubs or annuals, yet all strictly retain the structure and appearance of the young of their order. Most of them pass the winter buried in the food plant.
PAMPHILA MANITOBA, SCUD., AND ITS VARIETIES
Authors: Montreal H. H. Lyman
Published: February 2010

In 1874 Mr. Scudder published his paper on “The Species of the Lepidopterous Genus Pamphila” in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, in which the following species were described as new:-Nevada, Colorado and Manitoba, and Sassacus; Ottoe, Juba, Comma of Europe, and Sylvanoides were also treated of.