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ON THE GENUS LECANIUM
Authors: Fernald C. H.
Published: February 2010

In the preparation of my Catalogue of the Coccidæ I was not able to find where Illiger had proposed or described the genus Lecanium, although Burmeister in his handbook of Entomology, Vol. II., p. 69 (1835), used this genus, giving Illiger as the authority. Burmeister described the genus and placed under it hesperidum, Linn., and several other species. My husband, Prof. C. H. Fernald, wrote to Mr. Theodore Pergande, inquiring if he could give me any information whether Illiger had really published this genus, and if so where it could be found.
A RECENTLY DISCOVERED GENUS AND SPECIES OF AQUATIC HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Bradley J. Chester.
Published: February 2010

In the Annales Soc., Ent. de France, LXIX., p. 171, P. Marchal publishes an article entitled “Sur un nouvel Hyménoptère aquatique, le Limnodytes gerriphagus, n.gen., n. sp.”

Mr. Marchal is to be complimented on his discovery and observation of the habits of this very interesting insect, but it is deeply to be regretted that the generic name which he has chosen is preoccupied, hence it becomes widely known. The name Limnodytes was employed by Dumeril and Bibron in their “Erpétologie généralem“ Vol. VUUU., 1841, p.510, for a genus of salamanders, hence I propose in its place the term Tiphodytes, nov. name.
SOME GALL-INSECTS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Holcaspis Arizonica, n. sp.– Gall globular, 9 mm. diam, pale ochreous, not shiny, attached to the base of the petiole of a leaf of Quercus Arizonica, Sargent. There is a projecting point next to the place of insertion. Within, the gall is brown, fibrous, moderately dense, at least dithalamous.

Fly emerging April 19, two females. Body 3½ mm. long, wings 3⅔mm; antennæ 2 mm., 15-jointed, joint 3 considerably the longest. Length of joints in μ: (3·) 360, (4·) 240, (5·) 200, (15·) 170. The joints, especially the apical ones, with fine longitudinal ridges, between which are rows of minute punctures. Head ferruginous; thorax and abdomen piceous; margins of mesthorax, and two spots on scutellum, dull ferruginous; legs bright ferruginous; anterior tibiæ with an apical projection' anterior tibial spurs bent; claws of all the legs falciform, with a large triangular basal tooth.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA
Authors: Johnson Chas. W.
Published: February 2010

Macrocera immaculata, n. sp. – ♂ ♀. Head yellow, vertex brownish; antennæ dark brown, the two basal joints yellow. Thorax dark yellow, with the anterior margin and humeri light yellow. Abdomen dark brown, shining, with a wide yellowish posterior margin on each segment. Legs yellow, slightly brownsish at the tips of the femora, tibiæ and tarsi; legs and abdomen in the male with fine black hairs, which are less conspicous in the female. Wings yellowish hyaline, with a slight brownish stigma and very fine hairs. Length of body 5 mm., the antennæ and posterior legs each about double the length of the body.
A PRELIMINARY LIST OF ACRIDIIDÆ OF ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

Since the last of my “Notes on Some Ontalio Acridiidæ” were printed, five species have been added to the list, and the number of localities for those already recorded has been considerably increased. I think,therefore, that it will make the notes more complete to conclude them with a full list of the species of this family known to occur in the Province, with their distribution as hitherto recorded.

Only a small portion of the territory included in the Province of Ontario has been at all thoroughly explored by entomologists, but I do not believe there are very many native species of Acridiidæ not included in the present list. Doubtless, horvever, some of the Manitoba and Minnesota forms extend into the north-western part of Ontario, while it is extremely probable that there are unrecorded species in the south-west, and possibly a few in the east and extreme north.
A NEW BEE OF THE GENUS BOMBOMELECTA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Bombomelecta Arizonica, n. sp.– ♀. Length about 11 mm., black; head, thorax and legs with dull white hair, having a faint yellowish tinge; black hair on cheeks, lower sides of face, labrum and mandibles; hair of pleura, except its upper part, black; a conspicuous band of black hair between the wings; hair of anterior legs long and black, but the tarsimore or less silvery, and the femora with a conspicuous tuft of white hair near the end behind; middle tibiæ and tarsi largely silvery-white on theouter side, but the white and black pubescence are mixed, so as to produce a speckled effect; hind tibiæ and tarsi similar, except that the tibiæ have the outer apical half black ; tegulæ large, black, punctured; wings pale brownish, nervures piceous; abdomen heart-shaped, with sparse black hair, and conspicuous clear-cut patches of white hair; first segment with a broad band of yellowish-white erect or suberect hairs, interrupted in the middle; first to fifth segements with lateral patches of appressed snow-white hair, that on the second segment broad and deeply notched behind.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

1830. Proctotrypides, Family (partim), Leach. Edinb. Ency., IX., p. 145.

1830. Mutillidæ Family (partim), Leach. Opus cit., p. 147.

1839. Cenoptera, Tribe 6, Haliday. Opus cit.

1877. Cenoptera, Tribe 12, Forster. Ueber d. Syst. Werth d. Flugelg., p. 20.

The family was first defined by that astute British systematist, A.H. Haliday, who, as early as 1839, very correctly placed the family among the Fossores.

In 1893 the writer, in his Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidæ, followed the views of Prof. Westwood, and treated these insects as a subfamily in the Proctotrypidæ. Since that time, however, the extensive studies I have made into all families of the Hymenoptera have given me a much broader and more thorough knowledge of the families and their affinities, and I am now convinced that Haliday was right, that these insects are allied to the fossorial wasps, and have nothing to do with genuine Proctotrypoids; they are clearly alied to the Chrysididæ, through the Cleptinæ and Ameriginæ, and to the Sapygidæ, Tihiidæ, Cosilidæ, Thynnidæ, Myrmosidæ and Mutillidæ, –all parasitic families.
THE SCIENTIFIC NAME OF THE CHERRY FRUIT-FLY
Authors: Slingerland M. V.
Published: February 2010

In September, 1899, I published an account of a new cherry pest, which I called the cherry fruit-fly (Bulletin 172, Cornell Experiment Station). As stated on pp.31 and 32 of this bulletin, the identity of the adult insect insect not then been established, although the evidence strongly indicated that it was the fly known as Rhagoletis cingulata, Loew. I kept my breeding cages containing the hibernating puparia of the insect in the warm greenhouse or insectary all winter, and on March 9th, 1900, the first cherry fruit-fly emerged. It did not disappoint my expectxtions, for it demonstrated beyond further doubt that this new cherry-fruit pest is Rhagoletis cingulata, Loew. By May 31st nine more fo the files had emerged, and then cherries near the insectary were nearly half grown. The flies continued to emerge until July 11th in my cages, and on June 30th I received word from Geneva that they were abundant about the trees where the fruit was ripening. This correspondent caught quite a number of the files with sticky fly-paper hung on a shingle in a tree; he said they seemed to be attracted to any bright-coloured thing like a new straw that.
THREE NEW NOCTUIDS FROM BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

To the courtesy of some of my correspondents from British North America I owe a series of specimens, some of which proved undescribed. The species sent by Dr. Fletcher is of some economic importance, and its prompt description seems desirable. The other species have been in MSS. for sonle time, and were intended to form part of a lengthy deescriptive paper. Their publication together at this time gives this contribution a somewhat faunal character.
A FEW NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 1901 IN SOUTHERN MANITOBA
Authors: Heath E. Firmstone.
Published: February 2010

It is very curious and interesting to observe the waves of insect life that annually pass over this district. For instance, some four years ago the genus Acronycta was strongly represented in some ten or twelve species. The following sesson that genus almost disappeared, and its place was taken by the old genus Agrotis, with its now nutnerous subdivisions. Last year the various species of the genus Carneades were certainiy in the ascendant, and occasionally there comes a year like this, when perhaps only an odd species or two show up in any quantity, as was the case more particularly with Carneades pitycltrous, and while most of the great geuera lvere almost entirely absent, one's labours were rewarded by the capture of a ferv specimens of species comparatively rare hereabouts.
COLORADO BOMBIDÆ
Authors: Titus E. S. G.
Published: February 2010

During 1900–01 I made some studies on the Bombide occurring in Colorado. This paper is an abstract of those studies, the main body of which is in an unpublished thesis deposited with the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture at Ft. Collins, Colorado. The material used is in the collection at the State Agricultural College of Colorado, and in my own collection; also a few specimens at the U. S. Nat. Mus. Most of the collection passed through the hands of Mr. Wm. H. Ashmead, who corrected determinations and who very kindly looked over the table given below, not only making corrections in it, but adding some species I had not recognized.
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ARCTIA PHALERATA, HARR
Authors: Gibson Arthur
Published: February 2010

In the December number, 1900, of this journal, page 369, the writer published the life-history of the above Arctian. During the past summer, through the kindness of Mr. A. Kwiat, of Chicago, in forwarding eggs of A. phalerata (laid 18th June), I have had the opportunity of still further studying this species, and, as these larvæ varied considerably fromthose described in 1900, the following notes were made :

In the larval stages i, ii and iii those bred in 1901 answered well to my former descriptions. In stage iv the larvæ were not so black as the specimens reared the previous year, but many of them showed the dorsal stripe. This stripe was also present in stage v, besides which 40 of the larvæ possessed a series of pale orange spots on sides between tubercles ii and iii, and iii and iv, and the skin of the body in a line with the upper spots(between tubercles ii and iii) was slightly grayish, not black like the rest of the skin; this and the spots gave the appearance of a faint lateral band, distinguishable on all segments but 2 and 13. In stage v in 1900 none of the larvæ showed the dorsal stripe.
THE ECOLOGY OF INSECT SOUNDS
Authors: Lutz Frank. E.
Published: February 2010

“Ecology,” as it is coming to be universally considered, is the science of cause. It is constantly asking “Why?” and not until we can answer “because,” have we solved a problem in Ecology. It is the capping stone of the other branches of biological investigation. Morphology describesan organ or character; physiology shows us how it works and what it does; ecology, building on these, tells how and why the character or organarose. It, then, must be considered as more than the o1d Natural History. Although the value of the latter cannot be overestimated, more must sooner or later be done.
A PRESENT TO THE SOCIETY
Authors: Moffat J. Alston.
Published: February 2010

The Entomological Society of Ontario has been kindly remembered by Messrs. J. and H. Comstock, Evanston, Ill., in a contribution to its collection of a number of butterflies taken by themselves in a trip through Colorado during the season of 1902. Carefully done up in papers, named and dated, with the localities in which they were taken, these specimens are of special interest as representing much-discussed forms of that famous locality, which hitherto have been known to us only by name.
NOTE ON NORTH AMERICAN ATTACI
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

I repeat here, for the benefit of American readers, the descriptions of two abberations, given by me originally in the pages of the Insekten Börse, 1920.

Samia Californica, ab. parvimacula—The male specimen is of a lighter red than usual, and the lunate discal spots are so reduced on all four wings as to appear half the usual size. They are, in fact, narrow, and only about 5 mm. in length, squarish in form. The antennæ are greatly reduced, the usual length being about 20 mm., while here they are only about 14 to 15 mm., and the pectinations appear to be proportionately reduced. The expanse is normal, about 95 mm., but at first sight the specimen suggests a different species.
A DAY'S COLLECTING IN FEBRUARY
Authors: de la Torre Bueno J. R.
Published: February 2010

February 12th (Lincoln's Birthday), of this year, was unusually warm and spring-like. The temperature rose as high as 52°, and the clear sky and little wind made it a joy to be out in the open, in the sunshine.

I went to Staten Island that day, with the intention of working up some Orthoptera with Mr. W. T. Davis, but the feel of spring in the air was irresistible, and as I was anxious to secure aquatic Hemiptera as early in the season as possible, we went by trolley to some woodland ponds near Richmond. The fields were very wet on the way, but hopping among the dry leaves were yound grasshoppers, emerged from their winter's sleep. Some Diptera also were hiding among them, and they were quite active when disturbed.
ÆGIALITES DEBILIS, MANN
Authors: Keen J. H. , Metlakatla B. C.
Published: February 2010

Leconte and Horn, in their “Classification,” say of this beetle: “It is of such extreme rarity as to have been by but few entomologists.” It was with considerable interest, therefore, that I captured my first specimen one March afternoon in 1894. I came upon Æ. debilis on the under side of a stone. From Leconte'e description I felt prety sure that my identification was correct, and it was subsequently confirmed by Dr.Fletcher, or Ottawa. Leconte says the beetle is black, but he had probably seen only dried specimens. Freshly-taken specimens show a distinctly green tinge. The insect is about .15inch long, and in general shape suggests a small carabid.
NEW NOCTUIDS FOR 1903, No. 3—WITH NOTES ON SOME DESCRIBED SPECIES
Authors: Smith John. B.
Published: February 2010

The first paper of this series is in the January number of this Journal (pp. 9–14); the second is in the April issue of the Journal of the New York Entomological Society. The present instalment deals chiefly with species found in the Western Provinces of British America and a few others that are likely to occur there. The determination of a new species of Rancora from Calgary and Manitoba makes some general remarks on that genus timely. There is a number of excellent collectors now hard at work on th Noctuid fauna of that general region an extending westward to Vancouver, whose work deserves the greatest praise and to whose efforts is due the development of a totally new faunal region for this family of moths.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

1894. Myrmosini, Tribe II. (partim), Fox; Proc. Acad, Sci., Phila., p. 273.

1896. Myrmosini, Tribe II. (partim), Ashmead; Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., XXII., p. 179,180.

1899. Methocinæ, Tribu 3e (partim) André; Spec. Hym. d'Eurr Tom. 8,p. 58 and 71.

1903. Methocinæ, subfamille (partim). André; Wytsman's Gen. Ins. Fam. Mutillidæ, p.6.

Mr. Ernest André's conception of this subfamily is erroneousl he has placed in it a number of genera that do not belong to the family Thynnidæat all, but are genuine Myrmosids, and represent my tribe Chyphotini. Moreover André has incorrectly classifed all of these genera in the family Mutillidæ an error Fox and myself also fell into years ago, before we had studied the Thynnidæ.
SOME NEW RECORDS OF COCCIDÆ
Authors: King Geo. B.
Published: February 2010

The following list of Coccidæ, which have been sent to me for study, adds considerably to the known range of a large number of species, while several new food-plants are indicated; and as no records of the species herein cited have appeared, to my knowledge, other than in one or two instances in some of my published papers on the Coccidæ, it seems, therefore, that these miscellaneous results should be recorded. It will also show to some extent what is being done in a private laboratory for the advancement of science.
GYNANDROMORPHISM IN LUCANUS ELAPHUS
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

Some time ago, while in St. Louis, I called on Dr. Geo. W. Bock, and saw in his collection a remarkable specimen of a female Lucanuselaphus, from Popiar Bluff, Mo. On my expressing interest in the matter, the Doctor very kindly gave me the insect, and I wish to put the case on record.
NEW APOIDEA FROM MONTANA
Authors: Morrill Austin. W.
Published: February 2010

Bombus Cooleyi, n. sp.— ♀. Length, 16–17 mm. Integument black; clothing black, yellowish white, pale ochreous yellow and rusty yellow. Head, seen from in front, about as wide as long. Malar space abont one-sixth the length of eye. Third segment of antenna one-half longer than fourth, and scarcely longer than fifth. Face thickly clothed with pale yellowish-white hair, on the sides mixed with black. Vertex clothed with yellowish-white hair, which is fringed in front with black. Cheeks clothed with brownish-black, sometimes slightly mixed with whitish, hair. Clypeus shining, sparsely punctured, labrum fringed on free edge with rusty yellorv hair. Clothing of thorax above and on sides yellowish white, mixed with black in front of insertion of wings. A broad patch of black berween the wings surrounds the smooth, polished mesothoracic disc and extends back in a point over the middle of metathorax. On each side of metathorax is a tuft of yellowish white bair.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF CULEX
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Culex cantator, new species.—Female. Near sylvestris, but the seventh abdominal segment almost wholly yellow scaled, etc. Head black, oral margin and base of antennæ yellow, remainder of antennæ and the proboscis black, palpi brown, its scales chiefly concolorous, no cluster of white hairs or scales at their apices; narrow scales of middle of occiput golden yellow, the upright ones chiefly black, sides of occiput covered with depressed whitish scales and with a small cluster of black ones; thorax reddish brown, scales of mesonotum golden yellow, becoming pale yellow in front of the scutellum and on teh pleura; abdomen black, its scales black, except a crossband of yellowish white ones at base of each segment, the bands considerably narrowed at the middle, similar scales scattered over the sixth and nearly the whole of the seventh segment and alng apices of the two preceding segments; legs yellow basally, becoming brown on the tibiæ and tarsi, scales of femora chiefly pale yellow, of the tibiæ mostly black, those on the hind side pale yellow, on the bases of the tarsal joints whitish, those on the second joint of the hind tarsi covering about one-fourth the length of the joint, front tarsal claws toothed; wings hyaline, lateral scales of the veins long and narrow, hind crossvein nearly its length from the small crossvein, petiole of first submarginal cell from one-half to four-fifths as long as the cell; length, 4 mm. One specimen bred May 6, by, Mr. LaRaue Holmes.
CORRECTIONS AND NOTES ON DR. DYAR'S LIST OF NOCTUIDS.—II
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe.
Published: February 2010

Page 99. Apatela. As might have been expected from the inconspicous markings and uniform gray colour of the moths, the identifications of species of Acronycta, described by Walker and Guenée, have proved difficult and often contradictory. I am now inclined to waive all objections and accept Dr. Dyar's list as it stands. The only point I make is, the difficulty I have in believing that, having identified xyliniformis, Guen., already and orginally for Riley, I should have described specimens at a later period as pallidicoma; it seems to me yet possible that two forms are here “mixed up,” although I know xyliniformis to be inconstant.
NOTES ON CULEX KELLOGGII, THEOBALD
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist for August, Mr. Theobald described a Cullex Kelloggii as new; the description agrees well with the specimens on which I founded Culex tarsalis*, and undoubtely refers to the same species.

My specimens were from the same lot as the one which Dr. Williston described as Culex, n. sp. †, to which description Lieut. Giles applied the name of Culex Willistoni, n. sp.‡ the latter name is therefore also synonym of tarsalis.
EUTHRIPS AND HEDYCHRIDIUM IN NEW MEXICO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Euthrips tritici (Fitch.).— At Las Vegas, Hot Springs, N.M., on May 17, 1903, I found Ribes cereum, Doughl, presenting numerous flowergalls of rather pumpkin-like form and greenish-white colour, about 9 mm long and 8 broad. These consisted of the swollen and deformed flowers, the walls of the calyx being thickened and greatly inflated. I rather expected to find in them dipterous larvæ, but they contained nothing but thrips, which, I am sure, is responsible for the damage. After careful comparison with the published accounts, and especially that of Mr. W. E. Hinds, I am quite unable to separate the thrips from the well-known Euthrips tritici.
EUCORETHRA, A GENUS OF CULICIDÆ
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Eucorethra, Underwood*

Intermediate between Corethrella and Sayomyia, having the antennæ 14-jointed, as in the former, but the spaces between the verticels almost bare, as in the latter; differing from each in the much shorter second joint of the antennæ, which is only slightly longer than wide. Antennæ of male rather robust, submoniliform on the basal half, the first six joints only slightly longer than wide, the remaining joints increasing in length and decreasing in diameter toward the apex, the antepenult about half as long as the penult, verticels composed on numerous very long bristly hairs except on the last joint; antennæ of female nearly cylindrical, the joints gradually increasing in length to the apex, scarcely thickened at the insertion of the verticels, which consist of a few rather short bristly hairs; probosics about one and one-half times as long as height of head, palpi inserted near three-fourths of its length, 4-jointed; first tarsal joint much longer than the second; venation as in Culex.
LIST OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA
Authors: Evans John. D.
Published: February 2010

Gyrinidœ

1505, Gyrinus minutus, Fab., '80.

*1514 Gyrinus aquiris, Lec., '80.

Gyrinus sp., ' 80.

Hydrophilidœ

1542, Helophorus oblongus, Lec, '79, '80.

1543, Helophorus lacustris, Lec., '80.

1546, Helophorus linearis, Lec., '80.

1597, Hydrocharis obtusatus, Say, '80.

1614, Berosus striatus, Say, '80, '81.

*1622, Laccobius ellipticus, Lec., '80.

1653, Hydrobius fuscipes, Linn., '79, '81.

Cercyon, sp., '81.
CONCERNING GASTROPHILUS EPILEPSALIS, FRENCH
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Mr. Washbrun's note in the November number (p. 320) induces me to state the Gastrophilus epilepsalis, French, is no Gastrophilus at all; in fact, not the larva of an Œstrid. The figure shows that it is a Muscid larva, very probably of Calliphora, certainly so if the figure is correct. The species cannot be identified untill more of these forms are reared. French's figure indicates that it is very close to the European C. vomitoria as figured by Pipers. There is no definite character known to identify Œstrid larvæ of some Muscidæ can be separated from the Œstridæ.
THE COCCINELLID GENUS SMILIA, WEISE
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The small Coccinellidæ commonly known as Smilia are among the more important natural enemies of the Coccidæ. The name Smilia properly belongs to a well-known genus of Homoptera, so in Science Gossip, 1900 p. 606, I proposed to call the Coccinellid genus Epismilia. I now learn from the Index Zoologicus that Epismilia was used in 1859 for a genus of Coelenterates. I therefore propose another name for Smilia, Weise, namely Microweisea. The North American species are Microweisea misella (Lec.), M. marginata (Lec.), M. coccidivora (Ashm.), M. ovalis (Lec.), M. atronitens (Casey), M. minuta (Casey), M. planiceps (Casey), Mreversa (Fall); all standing in our lists under Smilia.
NEW HISTORIES IN PAPAIPEMA (HYDRŒCIA)
Authors: Bird Henry
Published: February 2010

There are certain species here and there among our months which are possessed of a sort of will-o'-the-wisp evasiveness, and one would as soon think of encountering them in nature as of finding the mythical pot of gold at the rainbow's end. The causes that bring about such conditions are, of course, varied, and these species often stand represented by some unique type in a distant collection. That the British Museum has long taken first rank in sheltering may of these uniques goes without saying, hence the matter of a rediscover becomes of more than ordinary moment. Further, an additional satisfaction arises, if at a second meeting with the reculuse the early history is exposed as well, and we find the way open to a more extended acquaintance, the while getting an insight into the specific standing, had that ever been questioned.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

General colour very dary blackish brown, with a sight purplish tinge, quite smooth and somewhat shinny. Ordinary marking jet black, but not conspicuous, owing to the similarity in shade with the ground colour. The distinct black, more or less solidly filled claviform and the yellow-filled reniform are the most conspicuous features in teh maculation. Basal line present through fragmentary, represented by two blackish dots on costa, in one speciment with some whitish scales between them, forming a more or less evident dot, in the other speciment this si not so noticeable, the line is also evident between the median and submedian veins, though in a lighter, diffused sort of way.
SOME NOTES ON APHIDIDÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Macrosiphum ambrosiœ (Thomas).— Siphonophora ambrosiœ, Thomas, Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., 1878, p.4.

Found at Pecos, New Mexico, on Lactuca. The following account is based on the Pecos specimens:

Very dark brown, very shiny; legs, antennæ and nectaries black, except that the basal part of legs, to near middle of femora, is brownishwhite; stigma pale green; cauda of winged ♀ yellowish-white.
A NEW GENUS AND SOME NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

All of the Hymenoptera described in this paper were received from Father W. A. Stanton, Who captured them in the Observatory Garden at Manila, P. I.

Family X.—Stelididæ Cœlioxys, Latr.

œiCœlioxys Manilœ, new species.—♀. Length 6.5mm. Black; the cheeks, temples, clypeus and the fae upwards to the front ocellus, the mesopleura, sternum, coxæ, metathorax, and the apical margins of the ventral and dorsal abdominal segments, clothed, rather densely, with a whitish pubescence, sometimes tinged with yellow; there are also triangular spots of a yellowish pubescence on the anterior and posterior margins of the mesonotum and on the base of the scutellum; the head and thorax are rather coarsely, closely punctured, opaque, while the abdomen is shining, although distinctly punctate, the puncutures sparse and separated; the pygidium is bi-impressed at apex with a short median carina separating the impressions, the punctures being coarser and closer in the impressions or towards apex; the mandibles medially and the legs are red, the femora beneath and the tibiæ outwardly being clothed with a short, fine, dense, whitish pubescence.
NOTES ON THE LOCUSTIDÆ OF ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

The Locustidæ (Tettigonidæ Rehn), comprise the long-horned or green grasshoppers, katydids and camel or stone crickets. They have for the most part of southern distribution, and hence are but poorly represented in Ontario, except in the south-western part, to which the majority of the species are confined.
THE BEE-GENUS APISTA, AND OTHER NOTES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The genus Apista was proposed by F. Smith in 1861, to contain the species Apista opalina, Sm., which was described from a single female from Ega, Brazil. So far as I know the specimen is still unique. In Dalla Torre's Catalogue the genus is placed just after Melipona, which is the reason, no doubt, why Schrottky says nothing about it in his work on the solitary bees of Brazil. Ashmead, in his tables, places it in the Andrenidæ, and I have no doubt that this is its correct position.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF ALBERTA, N.-W. T
Authors: Dod F. H. Wolley
Published: February 2010

It is now over three years since I published a list of Albertan butterflies under the above title. The list gave promise “to be continued,” and it was fully intended at the time to publish the continuation the same year, but for a variety of reasons it had to be postponed. The delay, however, has not been without advantages. Not only have a number of species come to hand that had not been recorded here up to that time, but many that were then standing under names by which I had known them for years, have been found to be wrongly named, and several of them have been described as new species. Closer study, too, of long series, has resulted in a better understanding of nearly allied forms; and it is hoped that some of the notes here appended, though they have no claim to perfection, will enable some obscure species to be more easily separated than they have been hitherto. At the same time, I much regret that I have not been able to make more comparison of local material with that from other districts. Not only has it been hard to spare the time which much exchanging calls for, but it has often proved a very difficult, if not impossible matter, to get by exchange some of the commonest species, their very commonness seeming to render them, so to speak, scarce, at least in collections. I hope, however, to pay more attention to exchange in the future, and when more forms from other localities have come to hand the result of their study, and comparison with their Alberta representatives will probably be published from time to time.
NOTE ON HAPLOA CONTIGUA, WALK
Authors: Lyman Henry. H.
Published: February 2010

When I was working on the Haploas, previous to the publication of my paper on “The North American Callimorphas” (Can. Ent., XIX, 181–191), I appealed to Mr. A. G. Butler for information in regard to Walker's types, and he very kindly sent me sketches of the types of Contigua and Confinis as then standing in the British Museum collection, but as what was shown as the former was practically the same as the latter, I wrote that I thought there must be some mistake, and sent a drawing of what we, in this country, understood to be Contigua. Mr. Butler, in replying, said I was quite right, and that Mr. Walker, with his usual carelessness, had got the Contigua label on the wrong specimen, and thanked me for calling his attention to the error, which he had corrected.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H.
Published: February 2010

This subfamily is readily separated from the Mutillinœ by the difference in the abdomen, both sexes having the first segment much narrowed, or petioliform, and separated from the second by a more of less distinct constriction or furrow; it is never broadly sessile with the second as in the Mutillinœ.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN TABANIDÆ
Authors: Hine James. S.
Published: February 2010

Chrysops fulvistigma, n. sp—Female. Palpi yellowish, antennæ slender, first segment yellowish, slightly darker at apex, second and third segments brown, annulate portion nearly black. Face shining black, covered next the eyes and on the anterior parts of the cheeks with yellowish-gray pollen. Front yellowish-gray pollinose, callosity and region surronding the ocelli, shining black. Thorax dark, nearly black, with grayish pollen above, giving the impression of stripes before the suture; coxa, basal two-thirds of femur and base of tibia of anterior leg, and nearly the whole tibia and base of tarsus of middle leg, yellow; remainder of legs dark, nearly black. Wing alomost hyaline, costal margin from base to apex, and a narrow cross-band abbreviated behind pale brownish, stigma conspicuously brownish-yellow.
THE DIPTERA OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Authors: Hine James. S.
Published: February 2010

During the summers of 1901–2, while at the Minnesota Seaside Station of Vancouver Island, Professor Raymond C. Osburn collected a number of Diptera, and during the these same seasons and the past summer Professor R. V. Harvey, of The Queen's School at Vancouver, British Columbia, collected in the same order. Since so little has been published on the Diptera of that province, we have thought that even a short paper on the Dipterological fauna would be of interest and probably of some value.
A NEW SPECIES OF XYLINA
Authors: Engel Henry
Published: February 2010

Xlina nigrescens. sp. nov.— Two males and one female.

Upper part of head and thorax stone-gray, front of head light brown, surmounted by a well-defined umber brown line beneath base of antennæ. This line is continuous along lower margin of patagiæ and ver contrasting from the gray thorax. The thorax is rather short and square. Thoracic vestiture intermixed with flattenedhair. Thoracic crest slightly raised and defined by a patch of dark brown hair. Collar with a faint line near tip, not contrasting. Palpi are reddish-gray, strongly marked laterally with an umber-brown line outwardly.
MANITOBA MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Kearfott W. D.
Published: February 2010

The following list of Micro-Lepidoptera taken in the Province of Manitoba, is published for the purpose of recording the distribution of species, as well as an incentive to the collectors of the locality to make more than ordinaly efforts to add to the number. The work that has already been done is most gratifying, and compares very favourably with local lists of many of the States, from which a great deal mor would have been expected.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Barnes William
Published: February 2010

Stiria aliaga, n. sp.—♂. Expanse, 30 mm.

Ground colour even chrome-yellow, a shade lighter beyond t.p. line. Small ochraceous spot at inner thrid of cell, one towards its outer end and traces of one beyond. These are about equidistant from each other. T. p. line the only other marking on fore wing. This is quite faint, ochraceous, wavy and cannot be followed to costa in the speciments before me. The fringe is darker than wing, of a somewhat “Ashes of Roses” colour.
SOME NEW OR LITTLE–KNOWN BEES.—V
Authors: Robertson Charles
Published: February 2010

Prosopis eulophi, sp. nov.—æ—Front coxæ simple; eyes long; cheeks narrow; metathorax with a distinct enclousre bordered by a raised line; dorsal segment i minutely puntured, without lateral white pubescent fasciæ; black; flagellum testaceous beneath; pale yellow marks as follows: lateral face marks about equally narrowed above and below, two lines on collar, tubercles, dot on tegulæ, bases of tibiæ, and base of hind metatarsus; wings hyaline; length 5 mm.
A NEW ROACH FROM PORTO RICO
Authors: Caudell A. N.
Published: February 2010

Ischnoptera adusta, n. sp.—Description—Male: Colour dark yellowish, with eyes black and the disc of the pronotu slightly mottled with fuscous and the tips of the elytra and wings fuliginous. Anterior femora beneath of the inner margin armed on the apical two-thirds with about ten semiequal, equidistant spines, the basal third unarmed. Subgenital plate roundly incised apically; apical styles long, slender rigid spines extending about half their length beyond the apex of the subgenital plate; cerci long, fusiform.
OBSERVATIONS ON LAMPYRIDÆ
Authors: Knab Frederick
Published: February 2010

Two species of fire-flies are abundant in western Massachusetts in the early summer and often their display of light presents a magnificent spectacle. Theses species are Photinus scintillans, Say, and Photuris Pennsylvanica, De Geer. Photinus scintillans becomes active very early in the evening, and long before twilight begins its orange-coloured light may be seen flashing among the shrubbery. It is only active during the twilight hour and some time before total darkness has set in its lights have disappeared.
TWO NEW HOMOPTERA OF THE FAMILY CHERMIDÆ, ONE OF ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
Authors: Kirkaldy G. W.
Published: February 2010

Trioza Kobelei, sp. n. — The figures of the tegminal neuration and of the male genital segment in profile, and the following brief description, will distinguish this destructive form from the three other North American Trioza species. Head and thorax varying from dark fulvous to blackish polished, shining. Antennæ testaceous, exceptapically. Tegmina and wings hyaline, colourless, nervures brownish. Femora dark fulvous or blackishbrown, tibiæ and tarsi testaceous, except the apices of the apial tarsal segments. Abdomen smooth, polished and shining, black, with a dark bluish-green gloss.
MANITOBA MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Kearfott W. D.
Published: February 2010

Diastictis argyralis, Hbn.— Beulah, IX, 14.

Nomophila noctuella, Schiff.—Cartwright.

Loxostege chortalis, Grt.— Aweme, VI, 6, to VI, 19; Souris.

Diasemia plumbosignalis, Fern.— Aweme, VII, 1; Souris; Wattsview.
NOTES ON NEW PHILIPPINE HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Brown Robert E.
Published: February 2010

Dr. W. H. Ashmead, of the National Museum, Washington, D. C.., has published from time to time in the Canadian Entomologist descriptions of new genera and new species of Hymenoptea from the Philippine Islands. As the great majority of these new insects were either collected or bred in the garden attached to the Manila Observatory, perhaps the life histories of some of them will not be without interest and value.
WHAT IS EUCHŒCA COMPTARIA, WALKER?
Authors: Taylor George. W.
Published: February 2010

In 1874 Dr. Packard described two nearly allied species of Geometrid moths, one a Larentia duodecimlineata, the types being from California, and the other as Larentia perlineata, from New York. There can be no doubt, I think, as to the insect he had before him when describing perlineata. That species seems to be a distinct and easily recognized one, although there is a pretty and not uncommon variety of it which is sometims confused with Euchœca lucata by those who are not very familiar with this group of moths.
NITIDULA BIPUSTULATA IN A NEW ROLE
Authors: French G. H.
Published: February 2010

One day last summer I received a letter from a physician in a town near Carbondale, stating that one of his patients had voided some live beetles, and asking me if I cared to see them. Assuring him that I did, he sent me several specimens of the species above mentioned. Not having this species in our collection, one of them was sent to Dr. F.M. Webster, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, who identified it for me, but doubted its being an intestinal parasite.
PRACTICAL AND POPULAR ENTOMOLOGY.—No. 3.: How do Insects Pass the Winter?
Authors: Fletcher James
Published: February 2010

There are few things in nature quite so remarkable as the hibernation of insects and animals in a torpid condition. That life should still persist when animationis reduced so low, as must necessarily be the case, with these small creatures in close contact with frozen substances or even imbedded in solid ice, would be quite incredible, were there not so many instances which can be examined by those who wish to do so, every day throughout our long and cold winters.
MOSQUITO NOTES.—No. 3
Authors: Ludlow C. S.
Published: February 2010

In a very interesting collection of mosquitoes lately sent me from the Philippine Islands by Dr. Eugene R. Whitmore, 1st Lt. Asst. Surg. U.S.A., occur a couple of forms which seem entitled to position as new genere, and some others of merely specific interest. The new genera are separated, in the first instance by a combination of values that makes it seem secure, while in the second case it lies between Finlaya and Macleaya, and the differences are not so marked.
A NORTH AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGISTS' UNION
Authors: Lyman Henry. H.
Published: February 2010

When seven years ago I had the honour of occupying the Presidential chair of this Society, I ventrued in my annual address, as some of you will doubtless remeber, to suggest the formation of a North American Entomolgists' Union on similar lines to those on which the American Ornithologists' Union has been so successfully carried on; and in my second address the following year I again returned to the subject.
A FIRST LIST OF ONTARIO ODONATA
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: February 2010

The following list of Odonata is mainly the result of four seasons collecting in various parts of Ontario, but chiefly in three localities, viz: Toronto, De Grassi Point, Lake Simcoe, and Algonquin Park.

Although most of the material was collected by the writer, the list has been considerably lengthened by the records of captures made by other collectors. Among these should be mentioned the collections of Dr. Wm. Brodie, in the Educational Dept., Toronto; many specimens taken in Algonquin Park by Prof. Macoun in 1900, and by Mr. Paul Hahn in 1903–4; a considerable number from the collection of the Biological Dept. of the University of Toronto, consisting chiefly of alcholic specimens of nymphs and imagoes taken at the Biological Experiment Station at Go Home, Georgian Baym and a few collected and presented to the Department by the late Mr. R. T. Anderson; and finally, a small collection from Thessalon, Algoma, belonging to Miss Rounthwaite, of Toronto.
THE BURROWS OF CICINDELA RUGIFRONS AND CICINDELA MODESTA
Authors: Davis Wm. T.
Published: February 2010

On the 24th of last September Mr. Ernest Shoemaker and I went insect-collecting along the edge of the meadow on the south side of Long Island, not far from the Brooklyn City line. We were searching particularly for Cincindelas but, the day being rather cold, we did not see as many as we had expected.
STUDIES IN THE GENUS INCISALIA
Authors: Cook John. H.
Published: February 2010

The genus Incisalia was proposed by Minot in 1872, to separate from the unwieldy genus Thecla thos small butteflies which, on a basis of general similarity of structure in teh imago, seemed to be most intimately related to Hübner's niphon, which stands as the type.
LIFE-HISTORIES OF NORTH-AMERICAN WATER-BUGS
Authors: De La Torre Bueno J. R.
Published: February 2010

At every turn, since beginning my studies in the aquatic Hemiptera some four years ago, my attempts to verify some observation have been balked by the extreme meagreness of the information on the subject running all through the field of entomological literature. This lack is far more noticeable with reard to the immature stages of the Cryptocerata and of the aquatic and semi-aquatic forms of the Gymnocerata.
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW GEOMETRID MOTHS FROM ALBERTA
Authors: Taylor Geo. W.
Published: February 2010

Palpi and front dark gray, with a plentiful intermixture of brown scales. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen above dark gray, beneath lighter gray.

Fore wing: ground colour gray, but almost entirely obscured by blackish-brown scales.

The basal area is darkened by about four parallel wavy fuscous lines; the space between the basal and intradiscal lines is paler and crossed by two dark lines parallel with the basal.
A FOSSIL WATER-BUG
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Among the fossil insects collected at Florissant, Colo, by Judge J. Henderson and Dr.F. Ramaley, of the University of Colorado, is a species of Corixidæ, represented by numerous individuals. It occurred, as Judge Henderson informs me, in the first railroad cutting east of Florissant, a little above the middle of the seciton there exposed. The shale containing the speciments is very much lighter than that in which the other Florissant fossil insects seen by me are imbedded, and it is believed to belong near the top of the series.
A NEW TORTRICID FROM TEXAS
Authors: Busck August
Published: February 2010

Cydia grindeliana, sp. nov.—Antennæ blackish brown, with short greenish cilia. Labial palpi light greenish yellow, tipped with black. Head and thorax light greenish yellow. Fore wings light straw-coloured, overlaid and streaked with light greenish yellow, and in some specimens with light olive. Costal edge from base to apex with short black and silvery-white strigulæ. Ocellus light shining yellow, edged anteriorly and posterioly by narrow perpendicular silvery-metallic lines, and containing three short black dashes, two on the anterior margin and one of the apical margin; above this is a small area, thickly mottled with dark brown scales, and the whole is surronded by a narrow silvery line.
STUDIES IN THE GENUS INCISALIA
Authors: Cook John. H.
Published: February 2010

Time of flight.—Species single brooded; butterflies to be found during late April and early May. I have taken the male as early May. I have taken the male as early as th 11th of April, but usually the first imagoes appear about the 20th. They become abudant by the first of May, after which time the females may be observed oviposting, and the males rapidly disappear. After May 10th worn individuals only are seen, some of which may endure even to the end the first week in June.
NOTES ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE PERLIDÆ
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

In a recent paper on the genus Chloroperla I divided this genus, as it had been used, into two genera; neither of which being a true Chloroperla, I proposed the names Isoperla and Alloperla. The character I used in this division was one proposed by Prof. Needham to separate the Perlini from the Nemourini. This is the condition of the median vein near the base of fore wings, whether united to the radius, or running parallel to the radius.
PRACTICAL AND POPULAR ENTOMOLOGY.—No. 15.: Mites Affecting Farm Homesteads
Authors: Jarvis Tennyson D.
Published: February 2010

Of late years there has been a considerable demand for information relating to insects which are found in houses, and which either annoy the occupants by their direct attacks or are injurios to household goods and provisions. It is therefore hoped that the contents of this article will be found of interest and practical benefit to those who have experienced the ravages of these minute insects.
A REVIEW OF DR. WALTHER HORN'S “SYSTEMATISCHER INDEX DER CICINDELIDEN”
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The above-named paper which has lately appeared in the Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschrift (1905, II, pp. 1–56), is of the highest value of American students of the Coleoptera, though in these days of minute subdivision and endless creation of genera and species upon the lightest pretext, it come as a surprise to those who have consluted only our American publications on the subject.
PRACTICAL AND POPULAR ENTOMOLOGY—No. 10.: The Dragon-flies and Damsel-flies (Order Odonata)
Authors: Sherman Franklin
Published: February 2010

In most parts of temperate North America the true Dragon-flies are among the most conspicous members of the insect class in any community where water is at hand. Strong of flight, quick as a thought in their darting movements, wary in the highest degree, they are usually well known to all by sight, yet not often captured by the amateur collector unless he takes the time to devote his special attention to them at some favourable place.
SYNOPSIS OF BEES OF OREGON, WASHINGTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER.—V
Authors: Viereck Henry. L. , Cockerell T. D. A. , Titus E. S. G. , Crawford J. C. , Swenk M. H.
Published: February 2010

This portion of the synopsis was kindly prepared by Mr. J. C. Crawford, and is based on material, in the main, from Dr. Cordley, of Corvallis, Oregon; Prof. Harvey, of Victoria, British Columbia, and Mr. Venables, of Vernon. B.C. A species from Montana is also described.