bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PREPARATORY STAGES OF EUCLIDIA CUSPIDEA, HUBN
Authors: Lembert John B.
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Pea-green colour; round, with deep longitudinal lines from the top to the bottom. Deposited in twos and threes up to us many as eight or nine at one laying before flying away. The eggs change next day to a mottled gray colour, resembling the dried plant stalks on which are they are laid. They are not deposited directly on the food plants, which are lupin and clover. They hatch out in nine days.

Larva, first stage.—A slender looper. Head quite large and bilobed, Light green from the head to the first segment back of the thoracic legs, which are six in number; thence dark green to the segment joining the four abdominal legs, lighter beneath; remainder of body light green. Length, about 6 mm.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN SIPHONAPTERA.—III
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

Mandibles short, not reaching ends of anterior coxæ spines in pronotal comb, 14 to 26.

Mandibles long, reaching to or beyond ends of anterior coxæ spines in pronotal comb, 16 to 20.

Spines in pronotal comb, 14 to 20. …A.

Spines in pronotal comb, 24 to 26 ; hind femora with a row of minute bristles on side; first two or three abdominal segments with minute teeth on disc above; first claspers of male without short black teeth; bristles on second antennal joint shorter than third joint; length, 3–3.5 mm.; colour dark brown … avium.
GENITALIC CLASSIFICATION
Authors: Hulst Geo. D.
Published: February 2010

In the August number of the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 26, p. 215, under the subject “An Omitted Phycitid,” Mr. Grote speaks disparagingly of my having established a subfamily upon differences in genitalic structure, and says: “Messrs. Scudder and Burgess first gave us genitalic species; Lederer used the genitalia for subgeneric and generic divisions, and latterly is followed by Smith. Now comes Mr. Hulst, whose mission seems to be to carry out the methods of other entomologists to extremes, and give us genitalic subfamilies.”
NEW TACHINIDÆ WITH A SLENDER PROBOSCIS
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

The Tachinidæ described below have a slender, rigid proboscis, of which the portion beyond the basal articulation is at least one half longer than the height of the head. All are from the Pacific Coast, and, except where otherwise stated, were captured or bred by the writer.

Siphona plusiœ,n. sp.—♂ ♀ Terminal section of proboscis—the part beyond the second geniculation—not more than three-fourths as long as height of head. Frontal vitta yellow, less than twice as wide as either side of the front next the antennæ; sides of front grayish pollinose, frontal bristles descending nearly to apex of second antennal joint, two pairs of orbital bristles; face whitish, the sides bare; vibrissæ inserted near the oral margin, only two or three small bristles above each; cheeks less than one-fourth as wide as height of eyes.
NOTES ON THE THYATIRIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

In describing the larval characters of this family (Proceedings of the Boston Society Natural History, 1894, p. 399),I followed the arrangement of generic terms in Smith's list; but I believe that it can be improved. So I would arrange the genera of this neat little family as follows (following Hampson):-

Fore wing with a tuft of scales at internal angle.
NOTE ON THE PLATYPTERYGIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society for 1874 is published a list of certain family groups of Bombycine moths, and I retained there the terem Platypterices, of Hubner, 1806, for the group to which now a distinct family value is given, and which should therefore bear the name Playpterygidœ. Already in 1868, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., I had proposed the subfamily terminaton to the correctd original term of Stephens: Platyptericidœ.
ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF U. S. HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

(1.) Smicra divisa, Walker.—On July 8th, 1892, Prof. C. H. T. Townsend collected some speceiments of a Simcra in the Grand Canon, Arizona; and on July 27th he obtained what is doubtless at ♂ of the same species, at the Zuni River, Arizona. These had remained in our collection unnamed, until Miss MacGilmore, a student in zoology, worked them over, and concluded they were probably Walker's divisa. I hardly agreed with this, rather thinking the insect was new, but Mr. Ashmead has now seen a specimen, and declares it is really divisa.
THE USE OF MEGALOPYGE
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In the able and original paper on “Evolution and Taxonomy,” by my friend, Prof. Comstock, published in 1893, is a note, on page 103, relating to the use of the generic title Megalopyge. The author says, refering to Berg'ss (not “Berge”) articles on Argentine Lepidoptera. “This monograph seems to have been overlooked by American writers.” This seems not quite correct.
NOTES ON CARAMA AND OTHER MEGALOPYGIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Recently. I was informed by a friend that he had a Carama from Washington, D. C. I naturally expected to see C. cretata, Grt.; but the specimen now before me proves to be Carama pura, Butl. This raises the question of the validity of the specific characters used in the genus. Caramas are rare in the United States, and it seems scarcely probable that we have more than one species. Mr. Baker, in his review of Carama, does not refer to cretata, Grt., though it is the fourth name in point of priority. It is evident from his synopsis, however, that cretata differs from ovina, Sepp., only in having the yellow colour confined to the vertex of the head, and from discrepans, Wall., in its smaller size and white front.
NOTES ON COLLECTING, AND NAMES NEW TO THE CANADIAN LIST
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

The season of 1894 was, in this loaclity, of matter an unusual character. Spring appeared with March, lasting up to the 25th, when we had a series of light snow-storms and hard frosts, which continued to the 7th April. Then we had weeks of the most charming, moderate and enjoyable weather. After the middle of May we had frequent thunder-showers; the 28th was cold and snowy, with a killing frost at night. It remained cold to the 7th of June, when it changed to warm weather, and for the rest of June and throughout July we had an almost unbroken time of excessive heat. August was dry as well as hot, and its effects were seen in the coloured leaves of trees and bushes, and much more so in weeds and grasses. In the early part of September rain set in, which freshened vegetation greatly, but frosts followed at the end of the month.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

X. The Dytiscidæ (Dytiscini and Cybistrini) of Ontario and Quebec.

The species included in the above tribes are all large or moderate sized insects, and among them are found those in which the perfection of specialization of the ♂ tarsi reaches the highest pitch. The basal disks on the anterior feet often attain considerable dimensions, while occasionally we find three well-marked sizes of disks on the same foot—as, for example, in Acilius. These make beautiful preparations for microscopic study, the method of treating them being as follows: cut off the leg a little below the knee, and place the severed piece in an aqueous 25% solution of caustic potash for a few days, until it becomes nearly transparent. Then take out of the potash and place in soft water for twenty-four hours, next removing to strong alcohol for about the same length of time. If now placed in oil of cloves for several hours, it is ready to be mounted on a slide in the ordinary way for examination by transmitted light. A great deal depends on carefuily watching while in the potash solution; the specimen should not be so dark as to obstruct the light-rays to any very great extent, nor so transparent as to render the overlying parts to be separated with difficulty from the underlying, as in the latter case the chitin is often rendered so pliable as to lose the original form. Each species has its own arrangement of disk bearing hairs by which it may be separated from its congeners, though the resemblance is sometimes very close.
ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF PLATYCERUS
Authors: Casey Thos. L.
Published: February 2010

I am scarcely warranted in attempting a detailed table of this genus, because a number of species are known to me only by a single sex; but in looking over the material, it can be readily perceived that there are two sections, the first represented by quercus, oregonensis and depressus, being characterized by great sexual differences in the mandibles, and the second, represented by all the other species, having the mandibles unmodified in the male. The second section may be divided into three groups: the first, represented by Agassii, pacificus and parvicollis, which, judging by analogy, have the hind tarsi long and slender in both sexes; the second, composed of californicus and thoracicus, having the hind tarsi short, at least in the female; and the third, with stout and triangular tibiæ, at present represented by Keeni alone.
EUDRYAS STÆ. JOHANNIS REDIVIVUS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

Readers of the Canadian Entomologist will recall the controversy between Prof. Smith and myself as to the species described by Walker as Eudryas Stœ. Johannis, the type of which was examined in 1867 by Grote & Robinson, and pronounced a distinct species allied to grate. I had supposed the insect owed its name to the St. John's River, Florida, but,according to Mr. Smith (C. E., XXIV., 133), the type bore a label that it was taken on a church door in England. Mr. Smith, relying on the label, invented the theory that “in some way the pupa of the insect was transported to England, and through the vicissitudes encountered and aberration was produced.” This writer has “no hesitation in referring the species as a suffused aberrant grata.” There is no band on the hind wings, but, nevertheless, it is set down as a “suffused” specimen of grata, which always, so far as known, has a band! For my answer to this, see my paper, Can. Ent. XXV., 320, where, aided by Mr. Tutt's memoranda as to the given English locality on the label, I discussed the pro and con. of the above theory. Now I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. Schaus, that Eudryas Stœ. Johannis has been re-discovered in Mexico. My kind correspondent writes: “It will interest you to know that I have recently seen several specimens of Eudryas Stœ Johannis, Walk., from Mexico; they were sent to Mr. Druce by a native who is now collecting.” Thus the theory of the “vicissitudes of the voyage” vanishes; the specific validity of Stœ. Johannis asserted by us in 1868, before Mr. Smith was (entomologically speaking) born, is vindicated.
REMARKS ON APATELODES SUGGESTED BY AN ARTICLE BY MR. SCHAUS
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Schaus, in describing some new species of South American moths (Proc. Zool. Soc., Lond., 1894, p. 233), casualty refers the genus Apatelodes to the Eupterotidæ. As this genus has been placed among the Notodontidæ by American authors, it may be worth while to examine the arguments for this position.

The Eupterotidæ of Hampson are a series of mostly large moths from India, with geometriform markings, of a peculiar and rather characteristic appearance. The body is proportionately rather small and slender, and the fringes of the wings are long. Their hairy vestiture, broad wings and short cell suggest the Lasiocampidæ, where they are placed by Kirby. They are, however, frenate, and with the venation essentially of Notodontidæ, but without the accessory cell. Two genera, at least, are included (Gangarides and Cnethocampa), which differ considerably in habitus. In these, the body is stouter proportionately, the wings are narrower and the cell longer, while the general appearance suggests the Notodontidæ rather than the other Eupterotidæ. Mr. Hampson separates these families by the absence of the tongue in the Eupterotidæ; but, as this member seems to be equally lacking in the notodontian Melelopha (Ichthyura), the separation seems hardly very sharp.
ON A NEW SCALE–INSECT FOUND ON PLUM
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Some time ago, Prof. Gillette sent me a few specimens of an Aspidiotus found on plum at Cañon City, Colorado 31st Aug., 1894. They occurred on the fruit itself. He had previously sent the species to Mr. L. O. Howard, who had written that it was apparently new. The material sent was not altogether satisfactory, owing to the fact that the insect occurs solitarily on the fruits, and has to be collected by slicing off bits of the skin. Consequently it is inconvenient to obtain it in quantity, and not very easy to nicely preserve those obtained, However, the discovery of a new Aspidiotus on plums in the United States was a matter of importance, and deserved the most careful consideration.
A FEW POINTS IN COLLECTING ICHNEUMONIDÆ
Authors: Davis G. C.
Published: February 2010

The Ichneumonidæ have habits and peculiarities as distinctly their own as other families and orders of insects. In collecting them one will find, after a little experience, that certain species or even groups will
frequent certain places where conditions are favourable and their host is likely to be found.
LIST OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED AT MASSETT, QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B. C.
Authors: Keen J. H.
Published: February 2010

The beetles enumerated below were all taken within a circle of five miles' radius from Massett, on the Northern Shore of Graham Island—the most northerly of the Queen Charlotte group. This area, though small, is considerably diversified, and favourable to coleopterous life. The island here is flat, and covered with a forest of spruce and hemlock, with a sprinkling of alder. The soil is sandy, and for the most part dry. The coastline includes a stretch of level sand reached only by the highest tides, and strewn with driftwood; a protected pebbly beach and a tract of rough stones, also covered by the high tides. The sandy beach I find most productive, many even inland insects appearing to fall on the loose sand, and, being unable to rise, crawl for shelter under the driftwood. Hills and fresh-water streams (of any size) are absent, and I quite expect these situations, which occur in other parts of the island, to yield, when examined, several additional species.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES
Authors: Moffat J. Alston
Published: February 2010

Mr. C. G. Anderson, of this city, has a friend who is an electric-light trimmer, and began last summer taking the insects that he could conveniently secure whilst on his rounds of duty. When looking over this material recently, Mr. Anderson observed a sphinx moth that seemed strange to him; so he brought it to me to determine, when it proved to be Dilophonota ello, Linn., which is the first reported appearance of this Southern moth that I have heard of since the autumn of 1886, when a number of specimens of it were taken by various persons in different parts of the country.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM SAUNDERS, F.R.S.C., F.L.S., ETC.
Authors: Harrington W. Hague.
Published: February 2010

We take great pleasure in presenting this month a likeness of Prof. Saunders, who must be well-known, if not presonally, certainly by reputation, to every reader of the Canadian Entomologist. He was one of the founders of the Entomological Society of Ontario in 1863, and became its President in 1875, which position he held continuously till he was appointed Director of the Experimental Farms of the Dominion in 1886. From 1874 to 1886 he was the General Editor of this Magazine, and conducted it with singular ability and success.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN MYCETOPHILIDÆ
Authors: Coquillett D. W.
Published: February 2010

Platyura lurida, n. sp ♀. Head and antennæ black, first two joints of the latter and the mouth parts somewhat yellowish. Thorax, pleura, scutellum, abdomen and legs, pale yellow, the tarsi toward the apex brownish-yellow, the thorax marked with three reddish-yellow vittæ. Wings hyaline, slightly tinged with yellowish toward the costa, otherwise unmarked; tip of auxiliary vein nearly twice the length of the humeral cross-vein beyond the base of the third; sub-costal cross-vein nearly three times the length of the humeral beyond the latter; anterior branch of the third vein oblique, ending its own length beyond the tip of the first; sixth vein reaches the wing margin. Length, 6 mm. Washington. A single specicmen from Prof. O. B. Johnson.
ON THE SUBGLOBULAR SPECIES OF LECANIUM
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

The genus Kermes of modern authors contains about a dozen subglobular forms, found on oaks, with one exception. These insects might be taken for species of Lecanium, but a microscopial examination of their characters, especially in the larva, shows that they are quite distinct from that genus.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Eighth stage.—Head shining black, yellowish punctured around the mouth, antennæ yellowish; eye and jaws black; width, 1.8 mm. Body ochreous yellow, 6-annulate with irregular quadrate sub-dorsal (two per segment) and lateral (one per segment) black spots, confluent on joint 13; sub-ventral ridge faintly discolured; anal plate blackish. No white secretion. The larvæ do not feel in this stage, but seek for soft wood in which they bore their galleries for pupation.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN SIPHONAPTERA—VII
Authors: Baker Carl. F.
Published: February 2010

The following list embraces all described species of the order Siphonaptera. For descriptions of all species known at the present time, see the preceding papers of this series, where will also be found a partial bibliography. For the complete bibliography and synonymy of all species published up to 1880, see Taschenberg's Die Flohe.
THE GENERIC TYPES INCLUDED IN APATELA
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

In 1875–61 I pointed out that the earliest name for the genus, which is commonly called “Acronycta” by authors, is Apatela, Hubn., 1806; the type and sole species cited in the Tentamen being the European A. aceris. My attempts to group the American species and brings them into correspondence with the European forms under subgeneric titles are unsatisfactory, as I have not been able to compare sufficiently the European species in all stages with our own.
NOTES ON PSYCHODA
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: February 2010

Mr. A1ex. D. MacGillivray has sent me some Psychodidæ from Ithaca, N.Y., for names.

Psychoda Slossonœ, Will.

One male (June). The wings are clothed with blackish hair, and with two broad irregular white bands. The fringe on the posterior margin is blackish (in superba whitish); the abdomen clothed with white hairs (in superba with black); the legs are paler and with more white hair than in superba; and the white hair on head and thorax is not as long nor as dense asin P. superba. A female (Aug.) which is larger and more thickly clothed with white hair is, perhaps, the same as Williston mentions, and is, I think, the female of this species.
NOTES ON COLLECTING BUTTERFLIES IN WESTERN COLORADO, WITH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN PAPILIOS
Authors: Edwards W. M. H.
Published: February 2010

In Vol. XXV., p. 253, I gave some account of the dimorphism of P. Bairdii, mainly from the observations and experiments of Mr. David Bruce. From what he had seen at Glenwood Springs, Coloradom he had satisfied himself that not only Bairdii and Oregonia were one species, but that P. Hollandii, Edw., formed part of the same. Though the two first named differ in facies more decidedly that do Turnus and Rutulus, and Rutulus and either Eurymedon or Daunus. Hollandii looks on the upper side like Bairdii, but beneath, while in general like Bairdii, the yellow spots are larger, making the surface much gayer.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON COCCIDÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

(1) Lecanium caryœ, Fitch, var. canadense, v. nov.

♀ scale smooth, shiny, red-brown, convex, malleate, but not or hardly plicate. Length 4, breadth 3, height 2 mm., varying to length 5, breadth 4, height 3 mm. (Some Maine specimens 6 mm. long.) Removed from the twigs, the scales leave an oval white mark. (Nappan scales are paler and more yellowish, also somewhat smaller. Posterior incision perhaps a little longer; scales also rather more tending to be plicate.)
THE BOREAL AMERICAN SPECIES OF PAMPHILA
Authors: Skinner Henry
Published: February 2010

There seems to be some misapprehension in regard to the validity of our species of Pamphila, and inasmuch as I have been studying our Hesperidæ for some years past, I thought some remarks on the subject would not be inappropriate. We now have in this genus ninety-six species as they would apper in a list according to the generally accepted specific values. With the exception of about two groups, I consider the species remarkably well defined and constant, and if you one become thoroughly familiar with them, there is not the slighest difficulty in separating any of them at sight.
SOME NOTES ON BRUCHUS IN NEW MEXICO
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

A number of the bur-like fruits of Glycyrrhiza lepidota, a species of licorice native to Arizona and parts of New Mexico, were collected in the Mesilia Valley of the Rio Grande River, north of Las Cruces, in the fall of 1892. The following May, there were found issued from these burs many specimens of a Bruchid, which was identified at the Agricultural Department in Washington as Bruchus alboscutellatus, Horn. There were also many parasites issued, which were determined by Mr. Ashmead as Bruchophagus mexicanus, Ashm. I am indebted to Mr. Coville for the determination of the plant.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF ALYPIA LANGTONII, COUPER
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G.
Published: February 2010

This larva is a close ally of A. octomaculata, but differs from it in thepale head, the black bands broken in the subdorsal region, the small size of the subventral white spots and the absence of the conical tubercles which are represented by black spots. The food plant is the fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium).
REVIEW OF A FEW MORE PROVANCHER TYPES OF ICHNEUMONIDÆ
Authors: Davis G. C.
Published: February 2010

In making a study of the Provancher types of Ichneumonidæ while at Quebec a year ago last winter, the type of many of the more recent descriptions was not found in the collection. Since that time types of many of the Abbé's latest descriptions have been found to be with the ones who sent the material, and are not lost, as was at first feared. Mr. W. H. Harrington, of Ottawa, has quite a number of these types, and through his kindness and generosity I have been privileged to study the types in his possession. The following notes are the result of this review:

Ichneumon citrinus ♂ = Hepiopelmus, Wesm.—This would be an Amblyteles by Cresson's synopsis.
SYSTEMATIC VALUE OF THE LARVA OF SPERMOPHAGUS
Authors: Patton W. M. Hampton
Published: February 2010

The seeds of Gleditschia triacanthus frequently show a narrow scar upon the surface. Rarely two of these scars are found upon the same seed. These scars are about one-eighth of an inch long; and indicate the presence of Spermophagus gleditschiæ, a Bruchid beetle, of a mottled, tawny appearance, frequently bred from these seeds in the spring. The grub remains in the seed over winter, changes to pupa in the spring and soon emerges, as a perfect beetle, through a rounded hole in the side of the bean-seed.
NOTES ON A TRIP TO THE BAHAMA ISLANDS
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

Comparatively little is known of the insect fauna of the Bahama Islands, since most of the collectors who have gone to the West Indies have confined their attention chiefly to larger and better settled members of this great group, and as a consequence we have a tolerably fair knowledge of such of them as Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, and Guadaloupe, with scarcely any records from the little rocky islets of which the Bahamas proper are composed. Late researches on the coast of Florida have shown a close affinity between the fauna of that region and of the Antilles, so that the study of the insects of the latter has now a direct bearing on that of those of our own domain. The short sketch which follows is intended merely as a preliminary account of a collecting trip to certain points in the British West Indies, and no more is hoped for than to give the reader a general idea of the coleopterous fauna of these at the time of year during which the collections were made. Only occasionally was it possible to land and work the country for insects, as the main object of the expedition, of which the writer was a member, was the study and collection of the marine invertebrata, and most of the time was necessarily devoted to them.
LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN AT SUDBURY, ONT
Authors: Evans John. D.
Published: February 2010

This list embraces all the species of diurnals captured, viz., 51, and those of the nocturnals, 125, but of the latter possibly as many more are as yet undetermined. To Mr. Jas. Fletcher for the butterflies, and Mr. J. B. Smith and Rev. Geo. D. Hulst for the nocturnals, I am indebted for their kindness in making determinations; to the first named I am aiso deeply grateful for many kindnesses extended at various times and for counsel and advice.
THE SECOND ANACRABRO, AND THE SMALLEST AMERICAN OXYBELUS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: February 2010

Anacrabro boerhaviœ, n. sp. or var.—♂ about 7 mm. long; differs from ocellatus by the yellow markings, which are as follows:—Dorsum of prothorax and tubercles yellow, the tubercles with a black central dot. Mesothorax all black, except a small yellow spot on each side at hind border, adjacent to yellow spot of scutellum. Scutellum with a pair of large yellow spots. Postscutellum yellow. Inner side of anterior half of anterior femora yellow. Tibiæ yellow, with more or less black behind. Tarsi yellow, slightly tending to orange. Segments 1-6 of abdomen presenting a yellow spot medially, and a large yellow patch on each side. The median spot on first segment is round, that on 2-3 transversely oval, that on 4 transversely spindle shaped, that on 5 broad with truncate ends, that on 6 nearly square, but slightly constricted on each side. Lateral patches more or less bifid at their inner ends, and produced to a point below on lateral margin of abdomen. Strongly punctured, much more sparsely on pleura. Pubescence of face and cheeks silvery. Eyes very large, at least as near together on middle of face as the two upper ocelli are to one another.
BUTTERFLIES OF SOUTHERN MANITOBA
Authors: Heath E. F.
Published: February 2010

The following is a list of Diurni taken in Southern Manitoba about Section 35, Township 2, Range 15, W. of the first principal meridian, near the Village of Cartwright, and collected at intervals during the last ten or twelve years:—

Papilio oregonia, Edw.—Only once seen, and taken three years ago—a rather worn specimen. Taken in July.
ACTIAS LUNA
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

on 24th May Mr. Lachlan Gibb took a female, which he left alive to get eggs, a number of which were laid between the 25th and 29th. On the 14th June the eggs were hatching, and the larvæ were offered butternut leaves, which they eat readily, and matured very rapidly. About the 27th of the month, Mr. Gibb kindly gave me four of these larvæ which were then apparently more than half grown. They moulted once only, so far as my observations went, after I received them, and on 12th July three spun their cocoons, the fourth doing this on the 16th. Early in August Mr.Gibb asked me to take charge of his cocoons, and keep them with mine, as giving a better opportunity of getting another lot of eggs next season, and on 20th August I was surprised to find that one of Mr. Gibb's cocoons had disclosed the imago, a ♀.
NOTES ON THE INSECT FAUNA OF SOMERSET CO., MAINE
Authors: Laurent Philip
Published: February 2010

The following notes and observations were made during a twoweeks' stay in this county, ending on August 29th. The greater portion of our collecting was done in the neighbourhood of King & Bartlett Lake, and along the road leading out to Eustis. This section of Maine, if not the entire State, is anything but an “entomologist's paradise.” The country is mountainous and covered for the most part with a dense growth of spruce, pine, birch, etc. Very little land in the entire county is under cultivation, so that those insects which we naturally look for in such places are almost entirely wanting. Many beautiful lakes are to be found in this part of Maine, but here again the entomologist is doomed to disappointment, as the water of the lakes is of an icy coldness, and very few aquatic insects are seen. The nights are invariably cold and but few insects are attracted to light. In a heavilytimbered country, such as we find in Somerset Co., Maine, it would naturally be supposed that the fallen trees would yield au abundance of insect life, particularly Coleoptera.
NOTES ON APHILANTHOPS
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

Within a short time two very interesting species (4-notatus, Ash., and taurulus, Ckll.) have been added to this genus. I have lately received another new species from Mr. Chas. Palm, of New York City, collected in S. W. Utah, which is even more interesting than the two above mentioned. I describe it herewith:

Aphilanthops utahensis, n. sp.—Male: Length, 7.5 mm. Rufous; region of ocelli, mesonotum, metapleura, and fifth and sixth abdominal segments above, blackish. Markings pale lemon-yellow. Head evenly, somewhat sparsely punctate, covered with silvery pubescence, which is very dense on the face, extending over the bases of the mandibles in two pointed tufts. Clypeus with a yellow spot on either side, the median lobe strongly tridentate, the teeth short and blunt. Antennæ with scape yellow; flagellum slightly darker above.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF PAMPHILA MANITOBA, SCUDDER
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

I think that I am the first man who has witnessed the hatching of the eggs of Pamphila Manitoba. I take pleasure in the belief; and I am glad to add another chapter to the history of our North American Rhopalocera.

Pamphila Manitoba is a sub-Arctic species. The first specimens taken in the neighbourhood of Quebec were captured by Mr. Hanham and myself in September, 1892 (See 23rd Rep. Ent. Soc., Ont., p. 31). The species had, in previous years, been taken at Riviére-du-Loup en bas, Cacouna, Metis, and Gaspé (See Mr. H. H. Lyman's article, 22nd Rep. Ent. Soc. of Ont., p. 27). In 1893, it appeared at Quebec on the 5th of August, and this year a specimen left the chrysalis, in my house, on the 21st of July. It would seem as if change of climate and locality were bringing forward the insect's time of appearance.
NOTE ON THE SETÆ OF THE LARVÆ OF THYATIRIDÆ, AND A CORRECTION
Authors: Dyar Harrison G.
Published: February 2010

Recently I have examined the larvæ of some European Thyatiridæ, and find the setæ arranged exactly as in our species. [See Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 1894, p. 399.] The supplementary seta behind iii. varies a little in position, but is uniformly present. The species examined are Habrosyne derasa, Thyatira batis, Bombycia or, B. duplaris, Asphalia ruficollis, and A. fluctuosa. A correction must be made in my description just referred to (pp. 400–401). The species there described in all its stages as “Thyatira scripta” is really Pseudothyatira expultrix. The following list may straighten out the matter:—

Habrosyne scripta.

1883. Thaxter, Papilio III, 10. Describes egg and sixth stage.
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES IN THE APHELININÆ
Authors: Howard L. O.
Published: February 2010

I recently received from Mr. T. D A. Cockerell, Las Cruces, New Mexico, a minute parasite of a Ceroplastes on Euphorbia hypericifolia from the Red Hill district of Jamaica, which was transmitted to him by Dr. M. Grabham. Both genus and species prove to be new, and are printed separately, partly for the reason that my revision of the Aphelininæ of North America has recently been published and I do not expect to do any extensive work on the subfamily again for some time, and partly for the reason that Mr. Cockerell wishes to use the names in the Journal of the Institute of Jamaica.
ON THE COLEOPTERA OF NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA, INCLUDING BIOLOGIC AND OTHER NOTES
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler
Published: February 2010

A paper giving biologic notes on some New Mexico Coleoptera was published in “Insect Life,”, Vol. V., p.37–40; and a paper treating of the blister-beetles or meloids of New Mexico and Arizona, in “Psyche,” 1894, p. 100–102. The species mentioned in the latter not at all. These three papers, therefore, will serve as a catalogue, or list with notes, of all the Coleoptera observed by the writer in New Mexico and Arizona except a few, the names of which it has been impossible to get from those to whom they were sent for determination.
LECANIUM FLETCHERI, CKL
Authors: Fletcher J.
Published: February 2010

In the September (1893) number of the Canadian Entomologist, page 221, Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell described under the above name a Lecanium found at Ottawa upon an ornamental cedar on the Experimental Farm. Only a few specimens were found at that time upon three or four bushes of a shrub which we have tunder the name of Thuja Sibirica.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN SIPHONAPTERA.—II
Authors: Baker Carl F.
Published: February 2010

A. Eyes well developed; antennæ with circular iucisions or cleft only on one side; head and thorax usually stout and compact; head rarely angulated in front; lower edge of head and pronotum behind sometimes with combs, abdominal segments and discs of cheeks without … Pulex.

AA. Eyes wanting, or very rudimentary; antennæ with circular incisions.

B. Eyes entirely wanting; head and thorax stout and compact; head angulated in front, truncate several abdominal segments with combs of numerous spines, the whole body heavily bristled … Hystrichopsylla
NOTES ON SOME REARED HYMENOPTERA, LARGELY PARASITIC, AND CHIEFLY FROM OHIO
Authors: Webster F. M.
Published: February 2010

Elachistus ohioensis (MS.)Ashmead.—Reared from pupæ, in which stage it probably passes the winter; found November 7th, within the shells of beech-nuts, the kernels of which had been attacked and eaten by some kind of larva which had burrowed out these kernels, leaving only a mass of excrement. A hole in the shells indicated an attack similiar to that of some species of Balaninus, though, as I found no larvæ of them, it was impossible to learn their exact nature. Locality, Wooster, Ohio.

Cirrospilus flavicinctus, Riley.—This was described in Lintner's First Report as being reared from Bucculatrix pomifoliella, Clemens, in Missouri, and also New York. My rearings were from Aspidisca splendoriferella, Clem., the cocoons of which were collected near Cleveland, Ohio.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F.
Published: February 2010

The above-mentioned families of carnivorous water beetles are taken up here by request of the Editor and Committee, because of the great difficulty most students of Coleoptera, especially if they are beginners, find in identifying any of their captures in these groups, or even in separating the species with approximate accuracy. It is to be feared that with marry it will prove difficult to follow the tables herewith presented; but they have been made as plain as circumstances will allow, and care has been taken to follow the best authorities in the selection of characters supposed to mark the respective species, so that by diligent attention to details the user of the paper may hope to co-relate his collcction with our lists.
THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF PERINEURA
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D.
Published: February 2010

The Abbe Provancher described two species of Synairema from North America, one from the Atlantic region and one from the pacific region; a second species, from the Pacific region, isdescribed below. The genus Synairema is considered as a synonym of perineura, by Kirby.
IN REPLY TO MR. HULST
Authors: Grote A. R.
Published: February 2010

Mr. Hulst has been at the pains of taking a sentence of mine as the text of a discourse as to the value of genitalic characters in classification, in the January number of the Canadian Entomologist. Whether this sentence will really bear the edifice Mr. Hulst has erected upon it, is a matter which hardly concerns me. Before either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hulst wrote, I had pointed out the value of the genitalia in generic groupings, in this following Lederer, as an accessory character. My opinion had been (but this is only an opinion) that morphologically the characters drawn from the male anal appendages were of similiar value to those drawn from the antennæ
VARIATION IN NEMEOPHILA PETROSA AT LAGGAN IN WESTERN ALBERTA
Authors: Bean Thomas E.
Published: February 2010

At 5,000 feet altitude, in the vicinity of Laggan, Nemeophila petrosaflies during July. This is one of our commoner moths, and appears to be the only bombycid of common occurrence in the district. Although occasionally round near timber 1ine, it is rare at that elevation. Under natural conditions only one flight occurs in the season, and larvæ from eggs of that flight hibernate principally at an early stage. In the house, with a warmer night temperature, larvæ resultant from the July flight will go to imago late in October instead of hibernating. Inthe wild environment, a second flight is prevented by the low night temperature. Petrosa frequents moist banks, ditches, margins of old roads, and open ground well supplied with plants. A great majority of the individuals seen in flight are males, the disparity in relative number of males and females observed resulting from the quieter disposition of the females. The males are very restless and readily take flight, thereby attracting observation.
COLEOPTERA OF LAKE WORTH, FLORIDA
Authors: Slosson Annie Trumbull
Published: February 2010

I was much interested in Dr. Hamilton's paper on Lake Worth Coleoptera (Can. Ent., XXVI., 250). I spent twelve days at Palm Beach, Lake Worth, last spring, and did a little collecting. I took 57 species of Coleoptera between March 9th and 21st. Of these, 36 are not included in Dr. Hamilton's list. I append the names of these, and add a few notes. I am indebted to Mr. Chas. Lubeck for identifications.
ON THE TERM CYDOSIINÆ
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe
Published: February 2010

In my check list, New york, May, 1882, I first proposed the collective term Cydosiœ, having for its sub-family type the wellknown Cydosia nobilitella. I associated with it penthetria, Hy. Ed., not from any study of this genus, unknown to me in nature, but merely on the strength of certain of Mr. Edwards's remarks. This latter genus, under the name Tantura, Kirby, is now referred to the Lithosiidœ by Neumoegen and Dyar, and probably correctly. I excluded the gents Oeta, previously referred here, as I believed it to belong to the Tineidœ, as indicated by Zeller. To this sub-family Cydosiinœ, Grote, the genus Cerathosia is also referred by Neumoegen and Dyar, following Smith's more recent opinion.
PIERIS RAPÆ AND AGRAULIS VANILLÆ
Authors: Wright W. G.
Published: February 2010

P. Rapæ, the introduced “European cabbage butterfly,” on its westward march across this Continent, was first taken in Nebraska on August 3, 1881. (See Can. Ent., 1882, 39.) In May, 1883, I took one male in Southern California. At that time I did not know its name, but I spread it and placed it in my cabinet as unknown. In a few years an Eastern Entomologist called on me, and at once identified it as P. Rapæ. It was yet other years before I saw another specimen in flight, though collecting diligently every season. About 1890 or '91 other specimens were observed, and thereafter every year brought them in rapidly increasing numbers, till now they are extremely abundant, flying early and late in the day, and early and late in the spring and fall, and at times, as in cold or cloudy weather, when only a very few of the native species can fly, indicating that it is more hardy than the native species, and that it will eventually dominate. As might be expected, the larvæ feed in good part on cabbage plants, but yet they are not at all dainty or particular as to food, and many other plants are used. Last year I raised some fine specimens from eggs laid on leaves of common nasturtiums, in the garden, and wholly fed upon those leaves.
A CANADIAN TRIGONALYS
Authors: Harrington W. H.
Published: February 2010

Male.—Length, 10.5 mm. Black with yellowish markings. Head transverse, as wide as thorax, about twice as wide as long when viewed from above; face above the antennæ, and vertex, polished, impunctate, without apparent sutures and with sparse blackish pubescence; the cheeks and under surface with pubescence more dense; clypeus polished; palpi slender; antennæ as long as head and thorax, rather stout, eighteen-jointed, segments subequal; eyes small but prominent; ocelli small, in a triangle on a line with the posterior margins of the eyes. Thorax rugose with coarse, irregular punctures, those of the pleura and pectus smaller and more numerous; posterior angles of prothorax yellow; legs rather slender, coxa and femora black, remainder yellow, the tips of tibiæ and tarsi somewhat dusky; wings subhyaline, with dark stain covering marginal cell and extending slightly beyond each end of it, stigma and costal nervures black, remaining nervures reddish, second and third submarginal cells subequal; scutellunl abruptly rounded posteriorly, postscutellum yellow, prominent, subpyramidal, notched at apex, in suture on each side several deep shining foveæ; metathorax very short and rounded at sides, without prominent angles, a small yellow spot on each side. Abdomen polished, impunctate, apparently with six segments; second segment as long as all the following and with a yellow central band, or elongated spot on each side; a yellowish spot at lateral base of segments 3 and 4, very faint on the latter; venter slightly pubescent, with double row of yellow spots on segments 1 to 5, largest on 2nd.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF PAPIRIUS
Authors: Folsom Justus Watson
Published: February 2010

Younger specimens dark purple above with pearly markings, lavender or lilac beneath; older ones maroon to almost black above, sides mottled with several shades of purple and brown. Head free, purple, with a broad, white transverse band across the front; oral region whitish; vertex with a distinct, white, sagittate mark from antennæ to prothorax; a black ocellus-like speck on the middle of the vertex; a few short bristles upon vertex and front; eyes dark, close behind antennæ upon a black patch narrowly surrounded by purple. Antennæ longer than the body, except in largest individuals, segments variable in relative length, but approximately in the ratio of 1:6:7:1.5 or 1:7:9:2; basal segments stout, as long as broad, brownish, with short, white bristles; second brownish at base, purple at middle, pearly apically, hairy distally; third purple, hairy, with obscure, whorled subsegments on apical half, broadening towards apex, penultimate subsegment swollen on one side; terminal segment purple, lanceolate in outline with five to seven distinct, whorled subsegments. Body ovate dorsally with a re-entering angle.
ASPIDIOTUS PERNICIOSUS, Comstock, and AONIDIA FUSCA, Maskell: A QUESTION OF IDENTITY OR VARIATION
Authors: Maskell W. M.
Published: February 2010

In the “Report of the Entomologist of the United States Department of Agriculture for the year 1880,” Professor Comstock described (p. 304) an extremely injurious insect of the family Coccidæ, to which he gave the name Aspidiotus Perniciosus, or “the pernicious scale,” and he stated that this insect attacked a very large number of deciduous fruittrees in California, “excepting peach, apricot, and black tartarean cherry.” Later, this pest was observed, described and discussed by many persons interested in horticulture, and in America it is generally known by the trivial name of “the San José scale,” and is looked on as a most troublesome thing.
THE LARGER SPECIES OF ARGYNNIS, AND THE MYSTERY OF THEIR LIFE HISTORY
Authors: Lyman H. H.
Published: February 2010

Although the larger species of Argynnis which fly in the Eastern part of this Continent are known in all their stages, through the most valuable labours of Mr. William H. Edwards, there are certain problems in regard to their life history which have baffled the efforts of all the entomologists who have attempted to solve them.
TRYCHOSIS TUNICULA-RUBRA, N. S.
Authors: Fyles Thomas W.
Published: February 2010

While studying the habits of Gelechia gallæ-diplopappi, I have repeatedly met with a parasite, in the galls of the moth, that I have not found elsewhere.

I have submitted imagos of the species to several of our most eminent hymenopterists, and all agree that the species is new to science and undescribed. To Mr. Ashmead I am indebted for the information that it will properly come into Föster's genus Trychosis.
NOTE ON TRIGONOGENIUS FARCTUS
Authors: Schwarz E. A.
Published: February 2010

Thirty years ago Dr. Leconte described (New Species, Smithson Misc. Coll., 167, p. 100) the Ptinid Trigonogenius farctus from specimens received from San Francisco, Cala. Most specimens in our cabinets come from the same locality, but I have seen others from Alameda and Los Gatos, Cala. The collectors of the specimens never published anything on its mode of occurrence, and I fail to find in the literature a single record of its habits. Quite recently, however, Dr. James Fletcher, while on a visit to Washington, D. C., showed me two species of Coleoptera found living in red pepper, in Victoria, Br. Col. One is Tribolium ferrugineum, a common cosmopolitan Tenebrionid, which has been found before under similar conditions; but the second species proves to be Trigonogenius farctus. Several specimens of this were obtained, thus showing that its occurrence in the pepper was not accidental, and I have no doubt that upon further research the earlier stages of the beetle can also be found in the pepper.
LEPYRUS ALTERNANS AND CAPUCINUS, LIXUS FOSSUS, CREMASTOCHILUS HARRISII AND POLYPLEURUS NITIDUS
Authors: Hamilton John
Published: February 2010

Lepyrus alternans, Casey.—In a former paper (p. 125) the form described under this name was united with Capucinus, Schall, owing to an error of observation in regard to the wings. The example then examined was somewhat broken and it is now evident the wings had been removed. A recent dissection of a perfect specimen exhibits a welldeveloped pair of wings. This form is closely related to palustris (perhaps not more than a geographical variety), differing in the form of the thorax, which, instead of being conical, is much wider at middle than at base (subangulate); the rostrum is perhaps stouter and the mesosternum less elevated—both characters somewhat opinionative; there is no femoral tooth in any of the examples seen; the elytral intervals are less regular, either not obviously inequal or the first and third wider, the others narrower and some of them longitudinally sulcate along the middle; the strial punctuation is usually finer and closer, and the striæ seem to be acutely impressed when the elytra are perfectly denuded. In vestiture ornamentation and other characters the two forms seem identical.
NOTES ON APHILANTHOPS AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES
Authors: Dunning S. N.
Published: February 2010

♂. Length, 8.5–10 mm.; of anterior wings, about 6–7 mm. Black with bright yellow markings. Head nearly quadrate, a little wider than high, closely and finely punctate. Eyes entire, elongate oval, inner margins parallel, inclined to light olive green. Ocelli in a triangle, the first a little larger than the last two, and located at the base of a slight cavity. A small cavity back and on the outer side of each of hind ocelli. Head covered with a sparse growth of long whitish pubescence, becoming thicker on face and back of eyes. Clypeus yellow and rounded, with two distinct lobes, each just inside of an imaginary line drawn straight down from base of antennæ, also a small but less distinct lobe between these two, very slightly blackened between, and including lobes. Mandibles yellow outwardly, rufous tipped.