bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TACHINIDÆ, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES.—Paper V
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

Loewia ruficornis, n. sp., ♂.

Eyes cinnamon brown; frontal vitta brown, much narrowed posteriorly front at narrowest point one-half its width at vertex; sides of front, sides of face and facial depression black, thinly silvery-pollinose; cheeks blackish posteriorly, thinly silvery, the pregenal area very broad, brown, extending upward between sides of face and facial depression; antennæ and arista rufous, third antennal joint little more than one and a half times as long as second, with a somewhat darker shade on outer side; proboscis brownish, palpi rather fuscous, tips rupous; occiput black, black-hairy.
A CLASSIFICATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPIDERS
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

The author has frequently been asked why he did not make a key for the families of spiders. He has answered that a correct key was impossible.But as such questions are getting more numerous, and connected with a desire to know something about spiders, the author has decided to put together what he could as a contribution to the classification of our spiders, principally for the use of those who are unable to obtain the costly works necessary for study.
REVISION OF THE BOMBYLID GENUS EPACMUS (LEPTOCHILUS)
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist for May, 1886, I gave descriptions of the only two species of Leptochilus at that time known to inhabit North America. I am not aware that any additional species have been described since the appearane of that paper. My collection contains representatives of three as yet undescribed species which will be found duly characterized below.
WHICH SIDE OF THE TREE DOES PHLŒOTRIBUS LIMINARIS ATTACK?
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

Recently, while studying the habits of this beetle in the peach orchards of Catawba Island, on the south shore of Lake Erie, I was surprised to observe that the fall attack had invariably been made on the east or southeast side—which is here the land side of the trees—and old trees, where the bark of the trunks was very rough, were more seriously affected. On mentioning the fact of this apparent discrimination in point of attack to my friend Dr. D. S. Kellicott, he recalled that the same phenomenon occured about Buffalo, New York.
NEW SPECIES OF FOSSORIAL HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Fox W. M. J.
Published: February 2010

Myzine Thoracica.

♀.—Clypeus strongly and closely punctured, carinated or angular down the middle; front with large, coarse punctures, which become sparser on the vertex and cheeks; the ocelli deeply pitted, the hind pair almost hidden; prothorax, mesopleauræ, dorsulum and scutellum with large, separated punctures, those on the dorsulum by far the largest and sparest; metathorax above and behind entirely smooth, the metapleuræ with oblique striations; legs, especially the tibiæ, coarsely punctured, the outer side of the medial and hind tibiæ covered with strong, shor bristles, and in addition with a row of stout, short spines on the outer edge, the medial and hind tarsi with long bristles and spines; anterior tarsi with the spines stout, the longest equalling the length of the first joint of that tarsus; wings flavo-hyaline, somewhat fuscous apically, the nervures testaceous; abdomen wiht a beautiful iridescent sheen dorsally, with fine rather close punctures, the first segment and base of the following three impunctate; on the apical portion of segments 1–3 the punctures are sparse and stronger, those on the fifth segment stronger; ventral segments on apical portion with large punctures or holes, which form on segments 1–4 a transverse row, which is produced or holes, which form on segments 1–4 a transverse row, which is produced foward into an angle medially; last dorsal segment with fine longitudinal striations.
DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN NEW FORMS OF LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Neumoegen B. , Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

Vein la of primaries present; median 4-branched; vein 8 of secondaries arising from the subcostal, more than half the length of cell from base; ♂ antennæ pectinated to the tip.
NOMOPHILA NOCTUELLA, SCHIFF.: Order Lepidoptera. Family Pyralidina
Authors: Felt E. P.
Published: February 2010

This is one of the most common insects that flies throughout the summer months. It is also widely distributed; adults have been taken in widely separated parts of Europe, in Algeria, Caffaria, Bengal, Pondicherry, Brazil, and in the eastern and western parts of the United States. Packard writes of the species thus:-“Such cosmopolitan forms give rise to the suspicion that they are relics of a past geologic age, which is borne out by the fact that quite a gap separates it from its nearest allies.”
NOTES ON CHIONOBAS SUBHYALINA, CURTIS
Authors: Edwards W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

This species has long been lost sight of. It was described nearly sixty years ago from a single male “in good condition”. I never have heard of its forming part of any collection except that of the British Museum, and my own, and my specimens—a male and a female—were sent me from the Museum more than twenty years agp. In his Catalogue fo the Satyridæ, 1868, Mr. Butler says of this species: “We do not pposses the type, but our specimens agree exactly with Mr. Curtis's description.”
FIELD NOTES FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

In the summer of 1892 I spent a month on the line of the Southern Pacific R. R., between Morgan City, Louisiana, and San Antonio, Texas. While the collectiong was by no means of the best, a few notes may interest the readers of the Canadian Entomologist and give some idea of insect life in the Southern States during the hot months.
ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF CANADIAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Moffat J. Alston.
Published: February 2010

During the years 1891 and 1892 I have received the following names name to the Canadian list. Some of the specimens have been in my possession for several years, as I hoped to secure others of the same kind, whereby I might obtain their names without inconveniencing anyone by a request for their return. But they remain uniques with me to the present time; solitary witnesses to the fact that they are to be got, if looked for in the right place at the right time.
NEBRASKA MYRIAPODA
Authors: Kenyan F. C.
Published: February 2010

Archilithabius malterris, sp. n.—Prosternal teeth, 2+2. Ocelli, 10–12, arranged in 3 rows. Antennal articles, 21. Coxal pores, 2, 3, 3, 2–3, 3, 4, 3, or 10–13, round. Spines on the first pair of legs, 2, 3, 1; on the penultimate pair, 1, 3, 3, 1; on the anal pair, 1, 3, 2, 0. Claw of female genitalia entire. Slender light chestnut, head darker. Joints of antennæ rather long. Length, 12—13 mm.
LARVÆ OF PAPILIO PHILENOR BECOMING LARVO-PHAGOUS
Authors: Kunze Richard. E.
Published: February 2010

Truly wonderful is the adaptability of some individuals when placed under circumstances tending to diminish the reproduction of their race. Desrious of raising larvæ of Papilio philenor, I planted two years ago five vines of Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia sipho) in my back yard, which in the summer of the present year (1892) covered a wall and fence 16x7 feet with luxuriant foliage.
A NEW LAC–INSECT FROM JAMAICA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The lac-producing Coccidæ are usually referred to the genus Carteria, Signoret, but as this name is pre-occupied in Protozoa, Signoret (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1886) substitued for it the term Tachardia.
NOTES ON TAXONUS NIGRISOMA AND T. DUBITATUS
Authors: Jack J. G.
Published: February 2010

The following notes of observations of some stages of these two little saw-flies are fragmentary and incomplete, but they are now given as they may be of some assistance to others working upon this group of insects.

Taxonus nigrisoma, Nort., Larva.—The fully grown larva is cylindrcal, and 10 to 12 millimeters long. It is of a pale green colour above, very slightly darker towards the sides above the spiracles, the spiracle line being marked by very minute dark dots one to each segment; and the under side (including the abdominal or prop legs) is of a dull whitish colour.
NOTE ON COPIMAMESTRA AND EULEPIDOTIS
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In discovering a North American representative of the European Brassicœ, I proposed for this latter and our Occidentis the generic title Copimamestra, based on the tibial claw. In the Philadelphia List the term Barathra is resuscitated out or Hübner's Verzeichniss, p. 218, for the genus, but incorrectly. Hübner refer two species, Brassicœ and Albicolor, to his genus, and I was free to use for one of them the new term. I need not state that Hübner took no note of the structure of Brassicœ, and that Albicolor differs structurally.
SOME INTERESTING COLOUR-VARIETIES IN THE GENUS CROSSIDIUS
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

While engaged in the re-arrangement of some boxes of Cerambycidæ recently, the peculiar modifications of the ordinarily very simple pattern of coloration in the genus Crossidus brought about the desire to see to what extent and under what circumstances certain of these modifications were carried on or existent. The results of the studies ensuing thereupon are presented in the present paper.
NOTES ON TWO SPECIES OF TENTHREDINIDÆ, FROM YOSEMITE, CAL
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Eigth examples bred from larvæ in the Yosemite Valley differ from Mr. Cresson's description in having both wings unifrom smoky blackish, about as dark as the hind wings of Hylotoma scapularis, Klug. In the ♀, the pale parts of the legs are not white, but of an obscure sordid whitish, tinged with brown, and not contrasting with the black body parts; the abdomen is obscurely banded with brwon between the segments.
FITCH'S TYPES OF N. A. MEMBRACIDÆ
Authors: Goding F. W.
Published: February 2010

No. 3123 is Ophiderma flava, Godg.

No. 4416 is the type of Thelia cratægi. Fh.

No. 1875 is the type of Ceresa brevicornis, Fh. The brief description given by Fitch is correct, but not sufficiently complete. Good characters are present for separating it from its congeners.
SYNOPSIS OF THE DIPTEROUS GENUS THEREVA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

The following table contains all the species of Thereva known to me as occurring in this country north of Mexico. Thereva tergissa, Say. (corusca, Weid.), and T. crassicornis, Will (non Bellardi), belong to Psilocephala.
THE PHALANGINÆ OF THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

The family Phalangidæ is readily seperable from the other families of Phalangida by having but one simple (not compound) claw at the end of each tarsus and having a claw af the end of palpus.
The Species of Eucoptocnemis
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In 1874 I proposed the generic term
Eucopteocnemis for the
Heliophobus fimbriaris of Guenée, Noct. I.,
172. whose statement that the species had two terminal spines on the
anterior tibiæ rendered its reference to the genus
Heliophobus of Boisduval imporbable. In
reality our species appears not congeneric with the European
Heliophobus hispidus. At the time of
proposing the genus I had no material.
THE LARVA AND CHRYSALIS OF CHRYSOPHANUS DIONE
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

Some time ago Mr.Henry G. Willard, of Grinnell, Iowa, very kindly sent me of the full grown larvæ of this species. I made a few notes at the time which may be of use, owing to the fact that nothing has been publihsed in regard to the early stages of this butterfly. The food plant at the home of the insect is Rumex longifolius, but they readily ate our common species of dock found here. The full grown larva were onisciform in shape, grass greein in colour, and 20 mm in length. Most of them had a narrow, claret-coloured dorsal stripe, and the entire body, under a glass, was seen to be clothed with minute black hairs.
SYNOPSIS OF THE DIPTEROUS GENUS PSILOCEPHALA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

The following table contains all the species of
Psilocephala known to me as occurring in
America, north of Mexico, with the addition of one species form Jamaica,
West indies.
NOTES ON ZARÆA AMERICANA.—CRESS
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

The young larva of Zarœa Americana appears in the beginning of July on Menyanthes trifoliata. It lies curled on the underside of the leaf. Its head is black, and its body lead-colour above and greenishwhite beneath. It develops into the most beautiful larva of any of the Tenthredinidae that I am acquanited with.
WASHINGTON TENTHREDINIDÆ AND UROCERIDÆ
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The specimens on which the present paper has been based were collected by Mr. Trevor Kincaid, of Olympia, Washington. They were all collected near that city except a few, which were taken along the Skokomish River. Great credit is due Mr. Kincaid for bringing together so large a collection. The specimens are deposited in the entomological collection of Cornell Univerisity.
A NEW SPECIES OF OLIGOLOPHUS
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Very few Phalangids have been collected on our mountains, and so it is not surprising that a new species of a genus which in Europe lives in high altitudes should be found on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. Early in September 1893, Mrs. Annie T. Slosson kindly sent me several vials of arachnids from the White Mts., and among them o vial from Mt. Washington containing six specimens of a beautiful new species of Oligolophus. It differ from the other American species which have been referred to that genus in lacking spines to the femur of the palpus, thus resembling some alpine European forms.
NOTES ON A POLYMORPHIC PAPILIO
Authors: Edwards W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

For two or three years past Mr. David Bruce, in S. W. Colorado, has been taking Papilio Bairdii in company with a very different form, P. oregonia, as we have called it, and also with the form I described recently as P. Hollandii, which last is in general like Bairdii, but has the abdomen either with a broad stripe of yellow or almost completely yellow, instead of spotted yellow in rows, as in the Asterias group, and as in typical Bairdii.
THE CLOVER-LEAF WEEVIL, PHYTONOMUS PUNCTATUS (FABR.) IN ITALY
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

When Dr. J. A, Lintner prepared his first annual report in 1882, he, with the aid of Drs. Hagen and Le Conte, failed to discover any record of the clover-destroying habit of this species in Europe, and it was supposed at that time that this was a newly acquired habit, and occurring only in this country.
FEMALE OF CROCOTA ROSA, FRENCH
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

In describing this species in Vol. XXII., page 133, of the Canadian Entomologist, I had before me two males, one from Texas and one from Ohio. I have now before me a fine fresh female from Champaign, III., the first of this sex I have seen, and I will give here some additional characters of the species. The forewings are fawn, a little darker than in the type, but the latter was evidently a little faded. The hindwings have a few dusky scales in the outer border near the anal angle.
NOTES ON A POLYMORPHIC BUTTERFLY, SYNCHLOE LACINIA, GEYER (IN HUB. ZUTR.), WITH DESCRIPTION OF ITS PREPARATORY STAGES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

“Godman and Salvin, Rhopal. I., p. 177, 1882, under teh specific name Lacinia, place Saundersii and Tellias, Bates: Quehtela and Ardema, Reakirt; Paupera, Felder; Mediatrix and Misera, R. Felder; Pretoria, Boisduval; Crocale, Edwards; Adjutrix, Scudder, and Adelina, Staudinger; all of which they consider but inconstant forms of one species.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA—No. 2
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

Coleocentrus canadensis, n. sp.

Female.—Length, 20 mm. Black, with red legs. Head transverse, as wide as thorax; cheeks as wide as eyes; face slightly swollen below antennæ, clothed with short pubescence, and with the inner orbits faintly yellowish below; palpi and inner edges of mandibles and labrum rufous; vertex and cheeks polished, the area of the ocelli without noticeable depressions or sutures; antennæ long and moderately thick, the joints about forty and subsequal. Thorax polished above; the lobes of the mesothorax prominent, the central sulcate; pleuræ and pectus rugose or subaciculate, but without definite striæ; scutellum moderately large and elevated; metathorax with acute carinæ; the area enclosed by the two discal carinæ about twice as long as wide; in the area enclosed by the two lateral carinæ the elongate spiracle may be plainly seen almost in centre; the areas between lateral and discal carinæ transversely rugose; legs slender with robust coxæ, entirely rufous with exception of hinder tibiæ and tarsi, which are somewhat brownish; wings faintly yellowish, stigma and nervures brown, areolet small, triangular and pedicellate, receiving the recurrent nervue at outer angle.
NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF HEPIALUS THULE, STRECKER, AT MONTREAL
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

In the part of Mr. Strecker's Lepidoptera, Indeigenous and Exotic, dated Feb. 22nd, 1875, is the description, and on the accompanying plate on excellent figure, of this species from a female sent to that author by the late Mr. Caulfield, and which was probably taken in the previous summer. The speciment was found in Phillips Square, which is about two miles from its nearest known locality, by the caretaker, from whom it passed to the taxidermist of Natural History Society, who gave it to Mr. Caulfield.
THE MESILLA VALLEY COTTONWOOD LEAF-MINER DETERMINED
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

Among the first insects which I found upon my arrival in the Mesilla Valley of New Mexico, in March, 1891, was a small sawfly. My notes on this species were made as follows at the time:-

March, 1891.—Specimens of a small yellowish and brownish sawfly were found quite abundant flying everywhere from middle to last of March. They were not found on any plant, but their numbers make it probable that they will turn up as injurious to some plant.
NORTH AMERICAN THYSANURA—IV
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

Most modern European writers follow Tulleburg in placing all the Collembola in the family Poduridœ, and including the Poduridœ, Lipuridœ and Anouridœ of Lubbock in the subfamily Lipurinœ. It would seem more natural to restrict the name Poduridœ to those genera bearing the saltatory apparatus on the antepenultimate abdominal segment, instead of the penultimate, and then to include those genera in which the saltatorial apparatus is wanting under the name Aphoruridœ*
ON THE EUDRIINÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In an original memoir on the Zygaenidœ, published by the Essex Institute, Dr. Packard explained the relation of Castnia and allied genera to the European genus Zygaena, and contended for the solidarity of the group as the equivalent of the large family of Bombycidæ in the Latreillean sense. The view, advocated by Agassiz, that form was a family criterion, not only form in general, but form of parts undelying form in general, obtained.
LIST OF COLEOPTERA TAKEN AT SPARROW LAKE, ONT
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

In our last number, pages 272–5, the lists of Coleoptera were unfortunately disarranged in making up the forms.
SYNOPSIS OF THE ASILID GENUS BLACODES
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Blacodes cristatus, n. sp.,♀

Wholly black, the tibiæ slightly piceous. Head light gray pollinose, that in middle of the front dark brown; face moderately convex, mystax black and white, very dense and extending nearly to the antennæ first joint of antennæ slightly longer than the second; third joint lanceolate, three times as long as the second joint; style slender, slightly over half as long as the third joint. Thorax very convex, gray pollinose and marked with a broad blackish-brown geminate median stripe, which is considerably dilated outwardly behind the middle; on each side of this stirpe is a broad, irregular, blackish-brown stripe extending but little in front of the middle of the dorsum; the median brown stripe bears numerous black and light yellow pile, which, on the anterior portion, forms a nearly erect crest; bristles of thorax black and light yellow; pleura mottled light gray and dark brown pollinose, the pile white; the fan-like row of bristles in front of the halteres is white.
NOTES ON SOME INJURIOUS INSECTS OF TEXAS
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

The following fragmentary contributions to a knowledge of a few of the destructive insects of this most interesting State are given here, not so much on account of their present individual value, as for the purpose of drawing attention to the riches in store for the entomological worker who may drift within its borders. In new countries travellers, in passing through, blaze or bark a tree here and there along the way to guide those who may follow after. These notes may be but blazes, but if they prove of aid to others in the future, they will have served their mission.
SOME NEW ADDITIONS TO THE GENUS CLISIOCAMPA, CURT
Authors: Neumoegen B.
Published: February 2010

C. Mus, nov. spec.

♂. Head palpi and thorax whitish gray. Antennae brown, with whitish stems. Abdomen gray, intermixed with black hair. Primaries dark gray, with veins indicated more or less by white. A broad blackish transverse band between two whitish lines, which are slightly toothed at intersections of veins. Basal space whitish, with black tings along costa. Fringes gray, with brown accentuations at termius of subcostal and median veins. Secondaries dark chestnut-brown, fading into whitish tinges along anal margin and in basal space. A faint, whitish mesian line. Fringes gray and brown alternating.
A TRYPETID BRED FROM GALLS ON BIGELOVIA
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

A round, white, woolly gall was found on stems of Bigelovia (sp. probably graveolens)in several localities in western New Mexico the past summer, from June 19 to 22. Those found June 19 were old galls, and were met with near Luera Spring, in Socorro county. On June 21 the fresh galls were found in numbers near Gallo Spring. Sometimes two or three were found near each other on the same stem or twig of the plant, and in one case three galls were found joined together, forming a triple gall. On June 22 they were found extremely common west of Apache Spring, thus seeming to increase in number in a westerly direction, as did also the patches of Bigelovia, every plant of which was full of them.
A STATEMENT IN CORRECTION
Authors: Grote Aug. R.
Published: February 2010

In that most useful paper, the “Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects,” by Dr. C. V. Riley, Washington, 1892, occurs the statement, on page 137, that the periodical, the North American Entomologist, was “published by the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.” The fact is that the little monthly, which only reached its first volume, was edited by myself, and printed and published by Reinecke & Zeschm a Buffalo printing house. The material was written or collected together by myself, and the few plates, mostly contributed by the authors, were gotten up at my sole trouble, and even expense.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA.—No. 3
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

In my last paper (see page 32) I unfortunately repated the erro made by Provancher in giving Vancouver as the habitat of Ecihrus provancheri. I overlooked its correction (Can. Ent., Vol. XVII, page 160) by Mr. Brodie, who obtained the insect from Muskoka.

Having recently restudied and rearranged my Ottawa collections of Phyllphaga and Xylophaga, so as to prepare for publication in the Ottawa Naturalist a complete list of the local species, I have made some notes which may be of more general interest. There are also several species, apparently new, which I prefer to describe here, as I think that all new species should be described (or at least redescribed) in some publication devoted entirely to Entomology, and accessible to all students.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TOLYPE
Authors: Neumoegen B.
Published: February 2010

P. tolteca, nov. sp.

♂. Antennae light brown. Eyes black. Head, prothorax and thorax snowy white. Tegulae snowy white, with black hairy centre band, connecting it with the black haired abdomen, just like in T. velleda, Stoll. Abdomen metallic black, clothed with long hair and long drawn out analtuft. The latter intermixed with white hair. Primaries dark slate, especially in the interspace formed by a marginal and double central transverse line as well as along costa and internal margin. Veins white. A lunulate white discal spot, and whitish tinges around it.
NEW CHERNETIDÆ FROM THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Since my last article ont his group Can.Ent., Aug.,1891), I have obtainded quite a number of forms; some of the new ones are described in this article. Two genera, new to the U.S., are recorded, both of which occur in South America. Chelifer alius, described by Leidy in Proc. Phil. Acad. Sci., 1877, agrees, as far as description goes, with Chelanosp oblongus, Say and with no other form known to me, therefore I consider it a synonym of C. oblongus.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW BRACONIDS BRED BY PROF. A. D. HOPKINS
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

In the following pages I describe the new Bracondis bred by Prof. A. D. Hopkins, of the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, as recorded by him in Insect Life, Vol. IV., pages 256 to 259.
SYNOPSIS OF THE ASILID GENUS DIOCTRIA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Dioctria parvulus, n. sp. ♂.

Wholly black, shining. Pile of head light yellow, that on sides of face very sparse, extending to base of antennæ. First two joints of antennæ subequal in length, the third joint as long as the first two taken together; style one-sixth as long as the third joint, thick and blunt. Pile of thorax rather abundant, that on abdomen very sparse and short, bright yellow. Base of wings to beginning of fifth posterior cell yellowish-white, beyond this blackish; all posterior and the anal cell open. Length, 4 mm. Los Angeles County, Cal. Two specimens.
A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLEOPTERA
Authors: Patton W. M. Hampton
Published: February 2010

Coleoptera may be described as Mandibulate Insects, with the forewings horny and the two basal abdominal joints invisible on the venter.

A reduction in the number of abdominal joints at the tip and in the number of joints in the tarsi indicates advancement in rank among Coleoptera. Likewise, a specialization of the antennae to clavicorn or lamellicorn indicates advancement, as well as does the degradation of the larva.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

Expanse of wings, 26 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and fore wings dullochre-yellow. The palpi are darker on the outside, and the subcostal, median and veins 5 to 10 are white. A stripe of lead-coloured scals extends from the base of the wing just above and parallel to vein 1 to the outer cross line, and a similar stripe occurs between this and the hind margin. Two lines cross the wing. The first is dark brown, and arising from a point a little before the middle of the costa forms an outward angle very near the costa and an inward angle on the subcostal vein, then a second outward angle is formed at the end of the median vein and from this point the line runs more or less distinctly across to the middle of the hind margin.
THE BUTTERFLIES OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
Authors: Wolcott Robt. H.
Published: February 2010

Grand Rapids, Michigan, is situated in the western part of the State, thirty miles from Lake Michigan, in N. lat. 42° 58′, in W. long. 85° 40′, with an altitude of between 600 and 700 feet. The underlying formation, outcropping in the bed of the river, is the subcarboniferous limestone, and the soil is for the most part a sandy or gravelly loam. The surface of the surronding country is rolling and diversified by numerous small lakes, with tamarack swamps and peat bods scattered here and there. The timber is mainly hard wood, but now and then an aged, solitary, pine or a group of younger pines in an out-of-the-way nook reminds us of the fact that we are within the limits of the pine region, while much of the land formerly covered by pine is now occupied by a growth of low oak scrub.
NOTES ON PIERIS AND ANTHOCHARIS
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

After reading Mr. J. W. Tutt's note on page 47 of Can. Ent., I have looked over many of our species of Pieris and Anthocharis with the following result:-Our genus Pieris is probably entirely pure and congeneric with the European. The majority of our species of Anthocharis are congeneric with Euchloë cardamines, as figured by Mr. Tutt, but some species are different and should be removed from the genus. I have not examined seven of the species given in Prof. Smith's list, but those which I have seen separate in synoptic form as follows:-Mr. Tutt's nomenclature of the veins differs from that in use here, as will be seen by a comparison of my figures (Figures 9 and 10) of Anthocharis sara with the figures on page 47 of Can. Ent.
TRYPETA SOLIDAGINIS, FITCH, AND ITS PARASITES
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

In April of last year I found on the banks of the Ottawa River, at Como, Province of Quebec, a number of very fine stems of a species of Golden-rod. These stems were bare and dry, and bleached by the winter storms. Their attraction for me lay in this—nearly every one of them was burdened with a fine large Trypeta-gall. On some of them two such galls were to be seen.
A REPLY TO MR. W. H. EDWARDS
Authors: Elwes H. J.
Published: February 2010

I did not suppose that anything I worte on North American Butterflies was likely to find favour in Mr. Edward's eyes, but in a long cirticism of my paper on Œneis, which I have just seen in Canadian Entomologist, there are two or three points on which he has so much misunderstood or misrepresented me that I cannot pass them by, as I shall do the greater part of his remarks, as unworthy of notice.
NOTE ON ACRONYCTA CRISTIFERA, WALK
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Thanks to the identifications of Prof. Smith with the British Museum collection which contains Walker's types, we have now a certainty as to the correct names of almost all our species. It is clear from different remarks in the catalogue that under Mr. Butler's rearrangement of the material some shifting of the specimens described by Walker has taken place, and this shifting has equally certainly led here or there to an accidential shifting of label.
THE BUTTERFLIES OF LAGGAN, N. W. T.; ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN SPECIES INHABITING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN LATITUDE 51° 25′
Authors: Bean Thomas E.
Published: February 2010

My local material allied to the European Aphirape consists of 22 males, 11 females. These have been studied in comparison with 3 ♂, 1 ♀ typical Aphirape from Germany, 2 ♀ 2 ♀ Aphirape var. Ossianus from Northern Finland, 1 ♂ Ossianus from Sweden, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ Aphirape var. Triclaris from Labrador, and 3 ♂ 1 ♀ Triclaris collected by Mr. H. K. Morrison in souther Colorado.
A METHOD OF SECURING MOTHS' EGGS
Authors: Lembert John. B.
Published: February 2010

A practical way of procuring moths's eggs under my observation last season and the season before, though an Arctia ornata ♂ that I sent to Mr. Dyar while he was in Portland, Oregon.

When I take an Arctia ornata ♀, and she is ready to lay eggs, the moment she shows signs of being stupefied in the Cyanide bottle I take her out, close the wings over her back, and place her in a paper envelope; as soon as she revives, she will commence to scratch the paper with her legs; I then shake the envelope, and if she has given up some eggs, I take them out, give her another dose of Cyanide fumes, and when she revives a second time I have found as many as 125 eggs in the paper.
WASHINGTON PHALANGIDA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SOUTHERN LIOBUNUM
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

During the past few years Mr. Trevor Kincaid, of Olympia, Washington State, has kindly sent me many interesting arachinds from that region. Among them quite a number of phalangids, some of which have been described, others will be given in this paper.
FLORIDA APHORURIDÆ
Authors: Lönnberg Einar
Published: February 2010

During my sojourn in Florida, 1892–93, I happened to collect some small insects, Collembola, of the family Lipuridæ. As I suppose very little, if anything, is known about the representatives of this group from that country, I presume every little contribution to the knowledge must be of a certain interest, and I thus take the liberty of writing you this letter.
NOTES ON THE NEURATION AND RELATIONSHIPS OF PIERIDI AND ANTHOCHARIDI
Authors: Tutt J. W.
Published: February 2010

I little thought when I wrote my short note (ante pp. 47–48) that the American speceis of Anthocharidi were in such a muddle as Mr. Dyar has quickly proved them to be. It will be very necessary to go much further now with the question, and I would suggest that those who have the opportunity should, during this season if possible, and next season if it be now too late, examine critically and make drawings of the eggs, larvæ and pupæ of the Anthocharids in question and publish them in the Candian Entomologist, where they can be examined by British workers and compared with European speices.
NEW SPECIES OF NOTHOCHRYSA
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

Since 1861, the date of Hagen's Synopsis, only three additional species of Chryospidæ have been recorded from the United States— one from Florida, one from Texas and one from California. During the past summer I received a short note from Mr. A. P. Morse, of Wellesley, Mass., enclosing a few specimens of Chrysopidæ which he thought might prove new to our collection.
SOME UNDESCRIBED STAGES OF NOCTUID LARVÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Raphia frater,var. coloradenis, Put.-Cr.

Mature larva.— Head rounded, partly retracted under joint 2, waxy greenish-white, ocelli black; mouth white. Body of nearly uniform width, joint 13 smaller; segmental incisures deep. Colour translucent, clear green, with many yellow piliferous dots, on joints 3 and 4 the dorsal ones tipped with red, and a central pair of these are prolonged into short, contiguous processes. On joints 5, 9 and 12 each, a transverse, curved, yellow band, reaching to the first dot above the spiracle.
ON CHIONOBAS ALBERTA, ELWES
Authors: Edwards W. H.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Wolley Dod has recently sent me from Calgary quite a number of specimens of this form, and I consider it a valid species. The description, however, of Alberta (♂) is quite inadequate. There is great variation in expanse of wing, and in colour. Some examples are dark brown, some are yellow-white, like the pale N. Ridingsii; some are decidedly fulvous, like Varuna.
AN OMITTED PHYCITID
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

My type is in the British Museum, where it has been examined by M. Ragonot, who compares it in his description with the European D. abietrella, from which this authority finds it to differ structurally. The figure in M. Ragonot's magnificent work seems to me excellent. I take this occasion to express my dissent from the classifaction adopted in the Philadelphia List.
THE MOTTLED UMBER MOTH.: (Hibernia defoliaria, L.)
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

Some years ago I received from the Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Victoria, Vancouver Island, a specimen of the Mottled Umber Moth. This had been named by the Rev. G. D. Hulst, of Brooklyn, and was, I believe, the first speciment of the species recorded as taken in America. Later, in 1889, two specimens were forwarded from the same place by Mr. W. H. Danby.
ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CHIONOBAS
Authors: Strecker Herman
Published: February 2010

Last December Mr. H. J. Elwes gave a revision of the genus Chionobas in Trans. Ent. Soc., London, to which Mr. W. H. Edwards, in the March number of the Can. Ent., gives “notes” or rather exceptions, in which he still contends that Gigas, Californica and Iduna are three distinct species, but now allows Nevadensis, which he formerly considered also to be distinct, to be a synonym of one of these, but does not know of which Elwes has placed these four or one species, just as they are in the “Synonymical Catalogue” issued by me in 1878, nor can I understand how anyone can imagine there is more than one species under the four names; there is absolutely no point by which any of the examples can be separated, whether they come from California, Washington, Oregon or elsewhere; were they to be mixed indiscriminately, without locality labels, no one could say from whence came this or that exmaple, or which was this or that so-called species.
SOME INDIANA ACRIDIDÆ.—III
Authors: Blatchley W. S.
Published: February 2010

Among the species of Pesotettix occuring in Indiana, there is one which I have never been able to place satisfactorily to myself. In my first paper on Indiana Acrididæ I called it P. rotundipennis, Scudder, upon the authority of Mr. S. H. Scudder, to whom specimens had been sent.
LIFE HISTORY OF PAPILIO ZOLICAON
Authors: Jordan Alice. M.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—On September 2nd, 1893, it was found back of Napa College Laboratory, laid singly on the stem of the flower of wild anise. Nearly spherical, base slightly indented, smooth, bluish-white with grayish shade on one side. Diameter, 1.245 mm. It hatched September 5th, bursting the shell in halves; the shell was white.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

In this group we have in some of the genera a return to the cephalic and thoracic ornamentation by horns or tubercles in the males, as shownin the Coprophaga I however, none of the Canadian species would be thus misplaced by anyone having even a slight acquaintance with the family, as aside from this character the resemblance is slight. From some of the Melolonthinæ they are not so readily distinguished, except by the position of the spiracles, as defined in a previous article.
PLATYSAMIA COLUMBIA
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

During the winter of 1891–2, I received from Miss Morton, of Newburgh, N, Y., six cocoons of P. columbia, which she had reared from ova, received from one of her correspondents in Ann Arbor, Mich. They were the first cocoons of that moth I had seen. Their extremely smali size as compared with Cecropia, their natty appearance and dark colour, relieved by flecks of white silk, was quite novel to me, so I frequently showed them to visitors.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

V. The Coccinellidæ of Ontario and Quebec.

This family includes a moderate number of beetles, usually of compact, convex and often more or less hemispherical form, coloured as a rule in striking patterns of yellows or reds and black. In most cases the surface is glabrous, though in Scymnus and some less extensive genera it may be plainly pubescent. Technically, the family may be known by the clavate antennæ, the three-jointed tarsi with dilated second joint and the partially membranous dorsal abdominal segments; the ventaral segments are free, the first usually with coxal lines, and the claws ordinarily appendiculate or toothed.
ON THE LARVÆ OF TWO SPECIES OF ARACHNIS
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

The larvæ of two species of Arachnis, from Mexico, were given to me by Mr. Jacob Doll. They are the following:-

Arachnis aulea, Geyer.

Egg.—Shape of two-thirds of a sphere, with flat base. Shining, pearly, irirdescent. Diameter, .6 mm. The reticulations are rounded, moderately distinct, of quite uniform size, but smaller at apex. On the angles of the reticulations a series of short, stiff spines (½inch objective).
SOME LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES OF ŒNEIS
Authors: Elwes H. J.
Published: February 2010

On page 224 of Canadian Entomologist, Volume XXVI., Mr. Herman Strecker has some remarks on Chionobas, in which I am glad to say, he supports my views, except in two points. First, with regard to the subhyalina of Curits, I cannot coceive on what grounds he supposes that the description of subhyalina refers to Erebia fasciata, and as W. H. Edwards's suggestion that the example from Guenée's collection sent to me by Oberthur as the type of subhyalina is not really so, rests on no evidence whatever; I still maintain that subhyalina is the proper name for the insect hitherto called crambis, Freyer, found, as far as we know at present, from Newfoundland along the Labrador coast to Hudson's Straits and other parts of Eastern Arctic America.
A NEW ATTID SPIDER FROM JAMAICA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Saitis Annæ, n. sp.—Length 3½mm.; width of abdomen, 1 mm. Cephalothorax, about as long as, but perhaps not quite so broad as abodemen. Abdomen broadly oval. Cephalothorax, about 1½times as long as broad; broadest between 2nd and 3rd rows of eyes. General colour grayish brown, not metallic.
NOTES ON QUEBEC COLEOPTERA
Authors: Hanham A. W.
Published: February 2010

These notes relate chiefly to species taken in the vicinity of Quebec City, all to species taken in the Province of Quebec during 1892–1893. I am greatly indebted to Mr. W. H. Harrington for the identification of many of the following:

Cicindela longilabris, Say. June 5 and 8. Fort woods, Levis.
ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOME COMMON SCALE INSECTS
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

Owing to the extensive commerce in nursery stock and fruits, which has been carried on all over the world for many years, it has become a matter of very considerable difficulty to form any adequate idea of the original Coccid fauna of any given part of the globe. Restriction of the imporations of diseased nursery stock and fruit is new, and for years plants and fruit, carrying thousands of scal insects, have been landed almost daily at most large seaports.
STAPHYLINUS CÆSAREUS, CEDERH., AND S. ERYTHROPTERUS, LINN., IN CANADA
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

Staphylinus erythropterus, Linn. This beetle has been but once recorded in America, the speciment being noted from Detriot. I have now to record it as inhabiting this section of Canada, and, at the same time to correct an error which has been put in circulation through my agency. When Dr. LeConte visited me in July 1883, he named a beetle for me as S.cœsareus, Cederh. (ornaticauda, Lec.), remarking that it has only once been found in America.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA
Authors: Stromberg C. W.
Published: February 2010

There are still a few species of Agrilus in our fauna whose food plant is unknown, Any contribution in that direction may, therefore, be of interest. It is a genus that seems to be much neglected bv collectors, owing undoubtedly to the difficLrlty met with in separating some of the species. There are several seemingly difiicult ones, however, which are stamped with such distinct characters as to make their study exceedingly interesting. With Dr. Horn's valuable paper, “The Species of Agrilus of Boreal America,” and a well-trained eye, one should be able to get along without much assistance. That does not apply to myself, for it was only after Mr. Blanchard kindly undertook to help me out that my material was properlY labelled,
NOTES UPON LYCÆNA EXILIS, BOISDUVAL, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME OF ITS EARLY STAGES
Authors: Edwards W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

On July 24th, 1893, I received a number of puapæ of Exilis, made of the road, and three nearly adult larvæ (after the last moult), sent me by Mr. T.D.A. Cockerell, at Las Cruces, New Mexico, and found on flowers of Atripex canescens, of which a plentiful supply was also sent.
FOOD PLANTS OF SOME CALIFORNIAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Lembert John. B.
Published: February 2010

I have observed the egg laying of the following species of Lepidoptera in the vicinity of the Yosemite Valley, California.:-

Danais archippus.—Oviposits on the tender leaves near the flower bud of Gomphocarpus cordifolius.

Argynnis epithore.On the underside of the leaves of Viola ocellata.

Argynnis egleis (Highland variety).—On pine burrs, pine leaves, sticks and stones, on the shaded side and as far underneath as is possible for the ♀ to get.
ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA.—PART II
Authors: Kilman A. H.
Published: February 2010

As a supplement to my list of additions to Canadian Coleoptera published in Can. Ent., Vol, XXI., I beg to submit the following list of species taken since 1889, in Canada, and, as far as I can learn, not recorded in any of the published lists.

In the identification of species I have been aided by Mr. Ulke and Dr. Hamilton.
A VERY REMARKABLE AND ANOMALOUS SYRPHID, WITH PECULIARLY DEVELOPED HIND TARSI
Authors: Tyler C. H.
Published: February 2010

In a lot of flies sent me from Illinois, by Professor S. A. Forbes, I find a most remarkable species, which I am satisfied must be located in the Syrphidæ, though the wing shows no sign of the spurious vein, and the first posterior cell is open. The third antennal joint bears a terminal arista, which character is shared by only two previously known North American genera; but the remarkable charater of the fly lies in its hind tarsi.
THREE NEW WEST AFRICAN MOTHS
Authors: Ehrmann George. A.
Published: February 2010

Syntomis hilda, n. sp.

♂.— Antennæ, head and throax black; first and fifth segments of the abdomen white, the rest metallic green; primaries dark brown with three ovate vitreous sports on the sub-apical area; discal space has two large triangular vitreous spots, the largest being near the inner margin.
NOTES ON NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Prof. Smith says that he uses the name Xylina in preference to Lithophane, because both are catalogue names and Xylina has priority, since the Verzeichniss was not published until 1818 at least. My argument is, that Ochsenheimer took the name Xylena from Hübner's which is not a Lithophane, but a Hadena.
A TERATOLOGICAL TRIO
Authors: Harrington W. Hague
Published: February 2010

For those interested in teratology I wish to record three instances of malformations of the antennæ of Coleoptera. The beetles presenting these have been kindly given to me by Mr. W. Simpson, an energetic and observant yound collector of this city.
THE LIFE HISTORY OF RIVULA PROPINQUALIS, GN
Authors: Felt E. Porter.
Published: February 2010

This rather common moth seems to have attracted little attention, though the larvæ are voracious feeders. The moths may be seen flying over grass lands in the afternoon and early evening during June, July and August. They are attracted to lights but very little, only a few being taken in the trap-lanterns at* Ithaca, N.Y., in 1889.
SYNOPSIS OF THE DIPTEROUS GENUS PHORA
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In Osten Sacken's well-known catalogue of Diptera ten species of Phora are credited to our fauna. Of these I have been unable to find any Phorid described by Fabricins under the name of atra., The author who first used this name appears to have been Meigen; in his Klass. Besch. Eur. Zwei. Insect (1804), this author describes a Trineura atra, but in his later work (Syst. Besch. Eur. Zwei. Insect, 1830) this name is relegated as a synonym of Musca aterrima, Fabr. (Ent. Syst., 1798). In the recent revision of the Austrian Phoridæ, by Strobl (Wiener Ent.Zeitung, 1892, pp. 193–204), no mention is made of a Phora atra, Fabr. The reference in the catalogue should therefore be credited to Meigen, and transferred as a synonym of Trineura aterrina, Fabr.