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A REVISION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS ENARGIA HUBNER (LEPIDOPTERA, PHALAENIDAE, AMPHIPYRINAE)
Authors: Franclemont J. G.
Published: January 2010

My original intention was to describe a new species of the genus Enargia, but upon doing the genitalia of the “common widespread species”, I found that there were in reality two species and not one; Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod came to this same conclusion from a superficial examination of his material in 1905 (Can. Ent., xxxvii, (241-246) and further substantiated his conclusions in 1913 (Can. Ent., xlv, 130).
FIVE NEW RECORDS AND NOTES ON CANADIAN ACRIDIDAE FROM THE HIGDON RANCH, SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA
Authors: Tinkham E. R.
Published: January 2010

For a number of years the writer has awaited an opportunity to collect in the southeastern corner of Alberta with the expectation of finding there certain Acridids not previously recorded from Canada. That opportunity came on July 16, 1938, when the writer, accompanied by his brother, went into the Higdon Ranch, via Warner, Foremost, Orion and Manyberries and again on September 14, went into the same ranch via Havre, Wild Horse and Comrey.
HYDATICUS MODESTUS SHARP VERSUS HYDATICUS STAGNALIS FAB. IN NORTH AMERICA (COLEOPTERA, DYTISCIDAE)
Authors: Wallis J. B.
Published: January 2010

For many years I have felt reasonably certain that the North American species of Hydaticus identified as stagnalis Fab. was not that species, and I have become entirely convinced on this point since I have had the opportunity of a critical examination of a series of the true stagnalis kindly sent to me by the late Dr. Alois Zimmerman of Munich.
THE GENUS GRAPHODERUS AUBE IN NORTH AMERICA (NORTH OF MEXICO) (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Wallis J. B.
Published: January 2010

As it may not have come to the notice of all American coleopterists, may I first point out that the correct spelling of the name for the Dytiscid genus long known as Graphoderes Thomson should be Graphoderus, and its authorship should be accredited to Aubé. The above changes should be credited to Dr. F. Guignot of Avignon, France, who in his magnificent work “Hydrocanthares de France”, (Ouvrage couronné par la Société Entomologique de France), 1931-33 points out:—I translate freely—
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO
Authors: Baker A. W.
Published: January 2010

Our society really owes its origin to an enthusiastic interest in entomology on the part of two young men who were beginning a study of insects shortly after the middle of the last century, and to the support and encouragement given them by a college professor who himself had a non-professional interest in entomology. These two young men were Charles James Stewart Bethune and William Saunders. The former was to become headmaster of Trinity College School and later head of the Department of Entomology and Zoology at the Ontario Agricultural College.
PAPILIO BREVICAUDA IN CAPE BRETON ISLAND, N. S. (LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

I first made the acquaintance of Papilio brevicauda in Cape Breton in the summer of 1936 when engaged on an Insect Faunal Survey of this region. We (i.e., my assistant Mr. T. N. Freeman and myself) had made our head-quarters at the picturesque town of Baddeck on Little Bras d'Or Lake and on the afternoon of July 12th I decided to row over to the small island opposite the town, which forms the eastern side of the harbour; this island is heavily wooded down to the water's edge except for a small strip of sandy beach on the Irest side, which is grown over with various coarse grasses and numerous low plants, chief among which is a flourishing colony of lovage (Ligusticum scothicum), a plant which to my knowledge does not accur on the mainland in this region.
A FEW NOTES ON CHRYSOMELIDAE
Authors: Beaulne Jos. I.
Published: January 2010

The family Chrysomelidae was established by Redtenbacker in 1846, but its principal subdivisions and its definite limits were not fixed until 1848 when that eminent French entomologist, Lacordaire, gave us his “Monographie des Phytophages”.
DISTRIBUTIONAL AND TAXONOMIC NOTES ON SOUTHEASTERN DERMAPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA, AND A NEW SPECIES OF CYCLOPTILUM (GRYLLIDAE)
Authors: Strohecker H. F.
Published: January 2010

Most of the records which follow are the compilation of field work during the period of September 1936 to September 1937 and the summer of 1938 while I was a member of the faculty of the University of Miami. Several able Orthopterists, particularly J. A. G. Rehn, Morgan Hebard, W. T. Davis, A P. Morse, and T. H. Hubbell have collected widely in southeastern United States, describing many new species.
NOTES ON THE ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA AND NEWFOUNDLAND
Authors: Rehn John W. H.
Published: January 2010

The orthopterous fauna of this area of eastern Canada and of Newfoundland is exceedingly limited but at the same time is of considerable interest to those who are interested in the faunistics and ecology of this group.
NOTES ON SOME TROPICAL DRAGONFLIES
Authors: Whitehouse Francis Cecil
Published: January 2010

I spent December to April 1937—'38 at St. John, Virgin Island, W. I., and the same period 1938—'9 at Tahiti, French Oceania. The following paper records the species taken, with some notes as to habits and brief descriptions as to the colour pattern of the live insects. This I hope is justified, for too often the original description is of specimens long dead, when the body colour has faded and that of the eyes completely changed.
THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE MORMON CRICKET, ANABRUS SIMPLEX HALDEMAN, IN SASKATCHEWAN
Authors: Paul L. C. , Fox W. B.
Published: January 2010

Within the past few years an increase both in abundance and distribution of the Mormon cricket has occurred in Saskatchewan. This was especially conspicuous in 1938.
THE HISTORY OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO AS INTERPRETED BY A LONDONER
Authors: Detwiler John D.
Published: January 2010

Looking over one's mail is commonly a routine matter but a procedure that must be attended to if routine is to continue. Now and then, however, the unexpected happens and something that “is different” turns up. And so it was when the January number of the Canadian Entomologist, the Commemorative Number, was delivered.
ON SOME NEARCTIC SPECIES OF AGABUS, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE)
Authors: Leech Hugh B.
Published: January 2010

The possibility of the above synonymy was suggested in a letter from Mr. W. J. Brown of Ottawa. Through the kindness of Dr. K. G. Blair and Mr. J. Balfour-Browne of the British Museum, I have been able to study a male and a female ofA. elongatus(Gyllenhal), and to compare them with two male and two female paratypes ofA. bryantiCarr.
AN APPARENTLY NEW EPIPASCHID FROM NOVA SCOTIA (LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

For several years, as a result of various Insect Faunal Surveys in Nova Scotia, material of an undetermined Epipaschid of the genus Tetralopha has been accumulating in our collection. On a recent visit to Washington I could not match the species with any named material in the United States National Museum; in general appearance it is fairly close to Hulst's unique type of talleolalis but very considerably larger; although of approximately the same size as robustella Zell. it cannot be mistaken for this species on account of the very definitely geminate t. a. line, the paler median space and the clearly cut t. p. line, which latter character would also separate it from militella Zell.
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NATIVE PSAMMOCHARIDAE
Authors: Banks Nathan
Published: January 2010

If one compares the tarsal comb of a Psammochares with the front tarsus of a typical Anoplius he will see that in the Psammochares there is a spine from the middle of the second tarsal joint about as long as that from the tip of the first or tip of second joint, while in the typical Anoplius there are spines along the first joint and at the tip of the first and second joints that are fairly long; there is none from the middle of the second joint at all comparable to them.
TIME OF CUT AS A FACTOR INFLUENCING INFESTATION OF CONIFEROUS LOGS
Authors: Morley P. M.
Published: January 2010

During the summer months, dead and weakened trees and logs left in the woods are subject to attack by a variety of insects, mainly of the order Coleoptera. Some are wood-boring forms which cause a depreciation in the potential value of the lumber; others are barkbeetles which at times may build up in numbers sufficient to cause a primary attack on the living stand.
A NOTE ON PARASITISM OF THE LEAF MINER, AGROMYZA MELLAMPYGA LOEW
Authors: Boyce H. R.
Published: January 2010

On July 14, 1937, an infestation of Philadelphus (Mock Orange or Syringa) by a leaf miner was observed on the grounds of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory, Belleville, Ont.
STUDIES ON REPELLENTS FOR BITING FLIES
Authors: MacNay C. G.
Published: January 2010

In view of the known lack of effectiveness and doubtful value of many of the materials cited in literature as being of value as repellents for biting flies, a series of experiments was carried out at the direction of the Dominion Entomologist, during the past three seasons, with the object of determining which of the many materials recommended as repellents might be the most effective and which the most lasting in effect.
TICKS AS VECTORS OF ANIMAL DISEASES
Authors: Philip Cornelius B.
Published: January 2010

Ticks of various species are among the most important of the pests of animals, not only because of their direct effects as parasites, but also as a result of maladies they carry. Moreover, they are predisposing agents for attacks by important secondary invaders, such as foot-rot and screw-worm flies.
FOOD HABITS OF PHYMATA PENNSYLVANICA AMERICANA MELIN (HEMIP.)
Authors: Balduf W. V.
Published: January 2010

In a general way, the ambushing habits and preying adaptations of Phymatidae are familiar to all entomologists. Yet, as shown by the bionomic summary for this family included by Readio (27) in his paper on the feeding methods and life history of Phymata erosa fasciata (Gray) at Lawrence, Kansas, only a handful of food records have appeared in the literature, and studies of the conditions surrounding the preying process in nature are lacking entirely.
NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF THE GREAT BASIN TENT CATERPILLAR, MALACOSOMA FRAGILIS STRETCH (LEP., LASIOCAMPIDAE)
Authors: Swain Ralph B.
Published: January 2010

The great basin tent-caterpillar is the most abundant form of Malacosoma found in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. In Colorado, the species is often a serious pest of the aspen. It feeds upon a wide variety of deciduous trees and shrubs. In the foothills, Rhus trilobata and Prunus melanocarpa are frequently attacked. Whole aspen groves at higher altitudes are often defoliated by this species. In the mountains, the migrating larvae have occasionally been so numerous as to stop locomotives by greasing the rails with their crushed bodies.
A NEW SPECIES OF DICTYA (SCIOMYZIDAE, DIPTERA)
Authors: Steyskal George
Published: January 2010

Male. Wings with two brown spots in apical portion of subcostal cell. A row of about six short stout bristles on the distal half of the posteroventral surface of mid femora. Prosternum with a few hairs anteriorly and posteriorly, and a few hairs also present on the middle of the propleura in front of the spiracle. Genitalia similar to D. pictipes Loew, except the anterior claspers (see figure), which are bent forward hookwise, narrowly laterally expanded at the apex, and with a thin transparent web in the sinus of the hook.
CORRECTIONS TO THE GAHAN AND ROHWER LECTOTYPES OF PROVANCHER'S ICHNEUMONIDAE (HYMENOPTERA)
Authors: Townes Henry K.
Published: January 2010

In June, 1938, I was able to spend eight days at the Public Museum of Quebec studying the Provancher collection of Ichneumonidae. Mr. Pierre-Georges Roy (Director of the Museum), Mr. Paul Rainville (Assistant Director), and Mr. Noel-M. Comeau (Curator of Insects), were very cordial and gave me facilities and help that made it possible to accomplish much more than could otherwise have been done.
NOTES ON THE IDENTITY OF CERTAIN FORMS OF EUBAPHE
Authors: Wyatt Alex. K.
Published: January 2010

Eubaphe immaculata was described by Tryon Reakirt in 1864 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. II., 372) and his description is more or less inadequate as are almost all original descriptions in this genus. However, the type is in the Strecker Collection at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and represents a species that is not at all rare in the Chicago area.
HELOPHORUS ARCTICUS BROWN, A LIVING FOSSIL (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: D'Orchymont A. , Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Helophorus arcticus Brown was described (1937, Can. Ent., LXIX, 109) from a single specimen taken by the describer in August, 1935, at Lake Harbour, Baffin Island, which is situated on the north shore of Hudson Strait at latitude 62° 50', longitude 69° 52'. The specimen was found beneath an old caribou horn resting on moss a few feet from the seashore.
RECORDS OF MALLOPHAGA FROM OKLAHOMA HOSTS
Authors: Emerson Kary C.
Published: January 2010

The Mallophaga listed were collected from birds and mammals in various parts of Oklahoma as indicated. Included in the records of the material collected by the author during the past three years are numerous records from material furnished by various students in the Entomology Department of Oklahoma A. and M. College. Previous records of lice taken from hosts in this state are very few, although there are numerous papers on species of this group found on birds and mammals of the states north and east of Oklahoma.
THE GENUS EPHORON
Authors: Spieth Herman T.
Published: January 2010

Williamson (1802) described the white fly Ephoron leukon. From his description of the insect and its habits, recent workers have been able to identify the species correctly. Hagen (1863) suggested that Baetis alba Say is a synonym of E. leukon Williamson. Eaton (1871, p. 124) was undecided as to the identity of E. leukon. In 1883 (p. 47), however, he indicated that leukon is a synonym of albus Say, which he considered to be a member of the genus Polymitarcys. This genus he had erected in 1868, employing Ephemera virgo Oliver as the genotype.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF LACCORNIS, WITH A KEY TO THE NEARCTIC SPECIES (COLEOPTERA, DYTISCIDAE)
Authors: Leech Hugh B.
Published: January 2010

The North American species were discussed by Fall (1923), under the nameAgaporusZimmermann (1919: 192) . However, as has been pointed out by Giugnot and F. Balfour-Browne,Agaporus, withHydroporus oblongusStephens as its type, is a synonym ofLaccornisDes Gozis (1914: 111). Des Gozis proposedLaccornisas a subgenus ofHydroporus, withH. oblongusas the type and only species mentioned.
NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF PLATYSAMIA COLUMBIA SM. IN THE OTTAWA REGION (LEPID., SATURNIIDAE)
Authors: Freeman T. N.
Published: January 2010

Platysamia columbia Sm. has not been recorded from southern Ontario nor from Quebec since the beginning of this century. At that time it was recorded as extending from Maine to western Ontario and south to southern Michigan. In 1937, Sweadner (Ann. Carn. Mus., XXV, 167-232) limited the distribution of columbia to include the region east of Winnipeg, Man., the northern shore of Lake Superior, the area around North Bay, Ont., and a small colony in Michigan and a similar one in Maine.
MODIFICATION OF A STREAM BOTTOM AND ITS EFFECT ON THE INSECT FAUNA
Authors: Wene George , Wickliff E. L.
Published: January 2010

Studies of stream bottoms as a factor in the abundance of aquatic insects is usually accomplished by random sampling of different kinds of pools and riffles. Various types of apparatus and methods are used. Ludwig (1922) used the hand-dip method in his studies. The Needham trap (1928) has also been used extensively in the study of rocky riffles. Gersbacher (1937) used the Peterson trap (1911) and the Ekman dredge (1911) for sand and mud bottom pools. At present the United States Bureau of Fisheries one foot trap, described by Surber (1937), is very popular in studying riffles.
A NEW NOCTUID FROM THE DESERT REGION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Authors: Sperry Grace H.
Published: January 2010

Male: Palpi dirty cream color; head and thorax clothed with smooth hair, cream white; abdomen cream white; legs cream white; fore tibia bears two long claws and one or two shorter spines on inside, three short claws and a spine on outside.
NEW NEARCTIC CRANE-FLIES (TIPULIDAE, DIPTERA). PART XIV.
Authors: Alexander Charles P.
Published: January 2010

The preceding part under this general title was published in 1929 (Can. Ent., 61: 15—22).The novelties discussed at this time were included in collections sent to me by my friends, Professor J. Speed Rogers, of the University of Florida, and by Dr. Henry K. Townes, of Cornell University. Except where indicated to the contrary, the types of the new forms are in the collection of Professor Rogers, to be placed eventually in the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan. I wish to express my deep thanks to the collectors for the privilege of describing these species.
BAETISCA ROGERSI, A NEW MAYFLY FROM NORTHERN FLORIDA
Authors: Berner Lewis
Published: January 2010

The remarkable nymphs of Baetisca rogersi were first found in the streams of northwest Florida in April, 1938. Several other nymphs were collected in June and November, but it was not until March of the following year that I was successful in securing adults. The nymphs are very hardy; those collected March 17 withstood an automobile trip of nearly three hundred miles and confinement in a small jar for almost three days with only a few casualties. In the laboratory at Gainesville, one male and two female imagoes were reared from the survivors.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF CANTHARIDAE AND CHRYSOMELIDAE (COLEOPTERA)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

A series of specimens of this genus from Churchill, Manitoba, includes males of piniphilus Esch., of heteronychus Fall, and of two species which are described below as new. I am unable to distinguish the females, all of which have each claw of each tarsus supplied with a broad basal tooth.
A NEW SPECIES OF INCISALIA FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (RHOPALOCERA, LYCAENIDAE)
Authors: Dos Passos Cyril F.
Published: January 2010

The opening of a new highway along the coast from Monterey to San Luis Obispo, California, made it possible to collect in a hitherto rather inaccessible region. In 1938 Dr. Michael Doudoroff of the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California, took near Monterey, a few badly worn specimens of an Incisalia which he believed to be new. Returning the ensuing year in June and following the highway south about thirty miles below Carmel, he stopped near Big Sur, Monterey County, and there, after rather strenuous collecting on the precipitous seaward slopes of the mountains, he succeeded in taking a small series (eleven males and two females) of these butterflies. These he very kindly sent to me for determination.
THE EXTERNAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE IMMATURE STAGES OF THE BEE FLY, SYSTOECHUS VULGARIS LOEW, (DIPTERA, BOMBYLIIDAE), A PREDATOR OF GRASSHOPPER EGG PODS
Authors: Berg V. L.
Published: January 2010

During the grasshopper egg surveys conducted in Saskatchewan by the Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Saskatoon since 1932, bee fly larvae were commonly found destroying grasshopper egg pods. In the early years of these annual surveys little was known regarding the species, life-history or economic importance of these larvae. This prompted a study of the bionomics of the species, subsequently determined as Systoechus vulgaris Loew, and a morphological study of its immature stages.
ASTER AND GOLDENROD SEED-FEEDING SPECIES OF COLEOPHORA (LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: Braun Annette F.
Published: January 2010

Five species of Coleophora feeding on seeds of Aster and Solidago in Ohio and Kentucky are here distinguished. All may be easily differentiated by definite characters of the male genitalia, and less easily by the female genitalia; differentiating characters of wing and antennal markings, although present, do not afford sure separation. The wings are brownish or grayish ocherous, with longitudinal white lines following veins, fold and dorsal margin, often confluent in the costal area, and more or less dusted with fuscous scales. Antennae may or may not be annulate, but the character is constant for the species.
SOME NEW AND POORLY KNOWN SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Length 14 to 16 mm., the size large as in formosa manitoba Leng. Halotype, allotype, and eight paratypes the humeral lunule, middle band, and apical lunule completely confluent, the dark part of each elytron reduced to a triangular area extending to the apical third on the suture as figured; four paratypes similar but with feeble dark suffusions at the junction of each middle band with the humeral and apical lunules; one paratype with the middle band well separated from the lunules, the pattern in this specimen as in an average specimen of manitoba.
THE SHOT HOLE BORER, ANISANDRUS PYRI (PECK), IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (COLEOPTERA, SCOLYTIDAE)
Authors: Mathers WM. G.
Published: January 2010

The shot hole borer, Anisandrus pyri (Peck), which has been referred to as the American representative of the European species A. dispar (Fab.) and from which according to Swame (1918) it is doubtfully distinct, has long been known in the eastern parts of Canada and the United States. This species has also been present for a number of years in the West where its distribution is apparently confined to the coast districts. As it has become particularly troublesome during recent years in British Columbia, and as published accounts of its occurrence in this province are very meagre, the following notes may be considered timely.
THE NEARCTIC SAWFLIES OF THE GENUS NEUROTOMA (HYMENOPTERA, PAMPHILIIDAE)
Authors: Middlekauff Woodrow W.
Published: January 2010

While studying the undetermined sawfly material in the Cornell University insect collection, the author discovered what he believed to be a species new to science in the genus Neurotoma. This belief was kindly confirmed by Dr. H. H. Ross who said that he likewise had a single specimen. Since that time four years ago, the author has collected this same species in considerable numbers and has also collected the larvae from the host plant which is Crataegus sp. It is therefore proposed to name it Neurotoma crataegi.
TWO APPARENTLY NEW CANADIAN SPECIES OF SPARGANOTHIS
Authors: Freeman T. N.
Published: January 2010

Palpi, vertex, and thorax, fawn colored. Frons with appressed white scales, overhung with long ochreous scales.

Male. Fore wing above, light fawn; finely and uniformly reticulate with purplish black, two or three reticulations widened at the costal third, with the spaces between these reticulations reflecting cupreous and causing this area to appear as an indistinct costal spot; a similar costal spot two-thirds from the base, and one at the middle near the edge of the posterior margin; a small oblong discal spot at the end of the cell.
TWELVE NEW NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF OSCINELLA (DIPTERA, CHLOROPIDAE)
Authors: Sabrosky Curtis W.
Published: January 2010

The North American species of the large and complex genus Oscinella Becker (sens. lat.) were reviewed by Sabrosky (1936, Annals Ent. Soc. Amer., 29:707-728) in a synopsis based on his study of the types. Since that time, a large quantity of material has been examined, with the discovery of several undescribed species populations. Because of their close resemblance to known species, some of these have probably been confused with them in past determinations.
THE ARGYNNIDS OF THE CARIBOO REGION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

The Cariboo region comprises that section of Central British Columbia between the Fraser river and the mountains of the N. Thompson river, extending northward from Clinton to Quesnel; through it the old Cariboo trail (now a motor road) passes and railway communication with the south is afforded by the P. G. & E. Ry. Its altitude is around 2500 ft. and it consists largely of rolling, wooded country interspersed with numerous lakes; in the southwest in the vicinity of Jesmond, Mt. Bowman, a northern spur of the mountains back of Lillooet, rises to a height of about 7500 ft. The summer rainfall is slight, and the area belongs in the so-called “dry belt”.
ON THE IDENTITY OF MACROBASIS UNICOLOR (KBY.) AND SOME ALLIED SPECIES (COLEOPTERA, MELOIDAE)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

The following notes concern the four northern species that fall to unicolor (Kby.) in Horn's key to the species of Macrobasis (1885, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XII, 110). These species are more or less confused in most collections, and while all have been described, there remains some confusion regarding their nomenclature. It appears that the name unicolor (Kby.) is preoccupied and that it must be replaced with the name murina (LeC.).
THE EFFECT OF HAILSTORMS ON GRASSHOPPERS
Authors: Spencer G. J.
Published: January 2010

The effect of a violent hailstorm on Camnula pellucida Sc. was noted at 2:15 P. M. on July 6, 1930, at a time when enough instruments were on hand to make a few records. The area was an observation station on the open range in Chilcotin, British Columbia, at an elevation of 3,400 feet; range cover was slight, consisting of a closely cropped, overgrazed turf of Poa running to an alkaline patch of Distichlis.
A NOTE ON THE EFFECT OF CERTAIN FOODS UPON FECUNDITY AND LONGEVITY IN MICROCRYPTUS BASIZONIUS GRAV. (HYMENOPTERA)
Authors: Finlayson L. R. , Green Thelma
Published: January 2010

In April, 1939, a trial was made of feeding the honey-sugar-agar mixture, formula 3, devised by Holloway (1939) for feeding adult parasitic insects. The test was made with the laboratory propagated Microcryptus basizonius Grav., a parasite of conifer-feeding sawflies. The routine food used in this work is seeded raisin, in addition to water, as reported by Green (1938). An initial investigation indicated that the parasites preferred the prepared food to raisin and that they devoured it avidly.
A NOTE ON THE BIOLOGY OF POLISTIPHAGA ARVALIS CRESSON (HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEOMONIDAE)
Authors: Gaul A. T.
Published: January 2010

In the course of collecting several nests of Polistes fuscatus Fabricius and P. fuscatus var. pallipes Lepeletier (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), six were found to be highly parasitised by Polistiphaga arvalis Cresson. The female Polistiphaga normally deposits from two to six eggs either on the Polistes larva or in the cell with the larva (oviposition has not heen observed).
A NEW PSEUDEXENTERA FROM HICKORY (EUCOSMIDAE, LEPID.)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

When checking over recently our species of the Eucosmid genus heretofore known as Exentera Grt. but which must now be called Pseudexentera Heinr., I came across two females, bred from Carya ovata by our field officer, Mr. W. L. Putman, which on genitalic characters appeared to belong to an undescribed species.
A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE ODONATA OF SASKATCHEWAN
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: January 2010

For many years the writer has been endeavouring to obtain collections of Odonata from all parts of Canada as a basis for a study of their distriburion.

Preliminary lists have been published for most of the provinces but very little has hitherto appeared on the odonate fauna of Saskatchewan. The nearest approach to a list of the species from this province is contained in an early paper by the writer ('12b) in which records of nineteen species from Saskatchewan are given.
ODONATA FROM THE PATRICIA PORTION OF THE KENORA DISTRICT OF ONTARIO WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF LEUCORRHINIA
Authors: Walker E. M.
Published: January 2010

During the summer of 1938 the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, Toronto, organized an expedition to the little-known region of Favourable Lake, in the Patricia portion of the Kenora District, about 70 miles from the Manitoba boundary (53° 50' N. Lat., 93° 40' E. Long.). In 1939, two small parties were sent out by the Museum, one to Attawapiscat Lake, also in the Patricia country (52° 10' N. Lat., 88 E. Long.), and the other to various stations in the Cochrane District, from Cochrane northward to Moosonee on James Bay.
A NEW GENUS OF THE FAMILY DOLICHOPSYLLIDAE (SIPHONAPTERA) FROM CANADA
Authors: Stewart M. A. , Holland G. P.
Published: January 2010

This new genus is apparently more closely related to the genus Dolichopsylla Baker 1906 than to any other known North American genus of Siphonaptera. But one specimen, a female, has been collected; however, it is so distinctive that the description of the genus is warranted.
VARIATION IN THE NORTH AMERICAN ODYNERUS (RYGCHIUM) DORSALIS (FABRICIUS) (HYMENOPTERA, VESPIDAE)
Authors: Bequaert J.
Published: January 2010

Odynerus dorsalis, one of the largest of North American Eumenine wasps, may be recognized by the following characters.

Clypeus of female about one and one-third times as wide as long, the straight apical margin about one-fourth of the grearest width, with slight, blunt edges, the surface flattened medially and with scattering, medium-sized punctures; of male, slightly wider than long, the apical margin very slightly curved inward or almost straight, with the edges more prominent and sharper than in the female, the surface flattened medially and much more sparsely punctate than in the female.
NOTES ON THE AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION OF SOME SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA COMMON TO THE EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENTS
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

It has long been known to collectors of Coleoptera that European species unknown to other parts of North America may be taken in the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada. Some of these species are abundant, and virtually all who have collected in the region have had some experience with them. The region of the Lower St. Lawrence and adjacent parts of the Province of Quebec have also supplied the first North American records of a number of European species. Because these species are of some special interest, I have compiled the list given below.
SOME NEW DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FROM THE RIDING MOUNTAINS AND THE SAND RIDGE, MANITOBA
Authors: Chermock F. H. , Chermock R. L.
Published: January 2010

For many years the authors have been studying the butterflies of the Riding Mountains and of the Sand Ridge and have found numerous forms and races new to science. In a paper read some time ago at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, many of these forms and races were described. To make these descriptions available to more students, Dr. J. McDunnough suggested that we use the “Canadian Entomologist”. All the holotypes will be deposited in the Canadian National Collection and the allotypes in the Carnegie Museum.
AN APPARENTLY NEW ALASKAN PLATYPTILIA (LEPIDOPTERA, PTEROPHORIDAE)
Authors: Lange W. H.
Published: January 2010

Barnes and Lindsey in their monograph of the American Pterophoridae mentioned the fact that they had examined a series of a Platyptilia in the Fernald collection from St. George and St. Paul Islands, Alaska, which was scarcely recognizable as P. pallidactyla Haw., but was placed under this species because of the poor nature of the series.
HIBERNATION PECULIARITIES OFPLATYSAMIA GLOVERISTR. (SATURNIIDAE, LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: Duncan James B.
Published: January 2010

Recent observations ofPlatysamia gloveriStr. have brought out some interesting facts on the varying length of hibernation periods. Thegloverimoth is restricted almost entirely to the Rocky Mountain Region of the western United States. This implies in general, therefore, the ability to withstand subzero weather throughout the lengthy winter season.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRIDAE WITH NOTES, III
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Typical imitata from Vancouver Island and the southern interior of British Columbia is brownish in coloration with at times a slight purplish tinge. There is before me a specimen from Santa Barbara Co., Calif., in which the entire upper surface is definitely tinged with olive-green; this, in combination with a very indistinct type of maculation, gives it a decided mossy appearance. Genitalically it does not differ from the topotypical form. As it probably represents a race from the southern regions of California I give it the above name.
THE COCKROACH SUPELLA SUPELLECTILIUM (SERVILLE) IN QUEBEC (ORTHOPTERA, BLATTIDAE)
Authors: Chagnon Gustave
Published: January 2010

This cockroach was found on November 2 last in a house in the City of Montreal by Mr. E. R. Bellemare. Immature individuals as well as adults were numerous.
NOTES ON NEARCTIC TABANINAE (DIPTERA), PART I. STENOTABANUS, ATYLOTUS, AND TABANUS S. STR.
Authors: Philip Cornelius B.
Published: January 2010

Following are comments, descriptions, or new information on species of Nearctic Tabanidae, anticipating compilation of a catalog of the family for the region. Also included is a description of a new species from Mexico which may be taken ultimately in the extreme southwestern United States.
SOME NEW NOCTUIDS FROM NEW YORK STATE WITH NOTES ON OTHER WELL KNOWN SPECIES (LEPIDOPTERA, PHALAENIDAE, AMPHIPYRINAE)
Authors: Franclemont JOHN G.
Published: January 2010

The following notes and descriptions result partly from this summer's collecting by Mr. L. R. Rupert and myself and from previous studies in the group.
A NEW RACE OF PARNASSIUS SMINTHEUS FROM THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS OF WASHINGTON (LEPIDOPTERA, RHOPALOCERA)
Authors: Burdick W. N.
Published: January 2010

In 1936 the author collected a large number of Parnassius smintheus at an elevation of about 7,000 feet on the bleak ridges of the Olympic Mountains in the state of Washington. These insects are so different in appearance from other P. smintheus that a racial name seems appropriate.
NEW SPECIES OF CANADIAN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Freeman T. N.
Published: January 2010

From our insect faunal surveys of the maritime provinces of Canada, we have accumulated a long series of a species of Eubaphe which inhabits the cold sphagnum bogs, and being quite unlike any so far described, I propose for it the name:

Eubaphe lamae n. sp.

Male. Antennae black, light above. Palpi, head, thorax and fore wings dark brown with a slight orange tinge more noticeable along the costa; usually a well defined subcircular white spot just below the origin of Cu2; an obscure black spot at the upper end of the cell, beyond which is a faintly orange area.
NEW SPFCIES OF HERCOSTOMUS FROM WESTERN NORTH AMERICA (DIPTERA, DOLICHOPODIDAE)
Authors: Harmston F. C. , Knowlton G. F.
Published: January 2010

The following paper deals with six apparently undescribed species of Hercostomus collected from localities in the western United States and Canada.

Hercostomus chaetilamellus n. sp.

Male. Length, 4 mm.; of wing, 3.8 mm. Face wide, silvery white. Front silvery white, concolorous with face. Antennae black, the third joint about as long as broad, evenly rounded below. Orbital cilia white, the uppermost bristle black. Palpi and proboscis yellow.
NOTES ON THE EFFECT OF DROUTH UPON THE NESTING HABITS OF ANTS
Authors: Weber Neal A.
Published: January 2010

The drouth in the prairie states and Canadian provinces in the early years of the 1930's had a marked effect upon ants which seems not to have been noted. My notes on this are very brief but are perhaps worth putting on record because of the apparent passing of this phase of a meteorological cycle.
NOTES ON NEARCTIC TABANINAE (DIPTERA), PART II. TABANUS S. LAT. AND HYBOMITRA.
Authors: Philip Cornelius B.
Published: January 2010

The gilanus group and T. sequax Will. are elements obviously divergent from T. bovinus L., genotype of Tabanus s. str., but which are provisionally retained in the genus s. lat. for reasons stated previously (Philip, 1941). The three following new species (one from northwestern Mexico) are related to the gilanus group.
APHID FLIGHTS OBSERVED IN NEW BRUNSWICK
Authors: Gorham R. P.
Published: January 2010

The fact that most species of aphids at some time each year develop winged forms and that these winged aphids move from plant to plant is common knowledge. That the development of aphid infestations, on annual plants grown from seeds and on certain other plants commercially grown from cuttings of underground tubers, generally results from visits made by winged aphids is also well known.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DIFFERENTIAL FEEDING ON MATURING WHEAT VARIETIES BY GRASSHOPPERS
Authors: Jacobson L. A. , Farstad C. W.
Published: January 2010

Grasshopper damage to grain is usually considered as occurring almost entirely during the growing period immediately following seeding. There is, however, considerable damage during the period from first head emergence to maturity, which may be caused through leaf defoliation, cutting of heads, or actual feeding on the glumes and kernels. The dropping of heads is usually caused by migrating grasshoppers and is noticed throughout entire fields, causing a loss of what would have been harvestable grain.
COMMENTS ON THE SUPRA-SPECIFIC CATEGORIES OF NEARCTIC TABANIDAE (DIPTERA)
Authors: Philip Cornelius B.
Published: January 2010

As material increases and taxonomic information is refined in any group of organisms, it is a natural corollary that the systematic arrangement by its students should be in the direction of progressive limitation, restriction, or subdivision to facilitate either or both recognition and knowledge of natural relationships.
IMPORTED CARABID BEETLE MAY BE A POTENTIAL PEST
Authors: Morrison F. O.
Published: January 2010

Early this year a complaint was received from Mr. George A. Cameron of Inverness, Nova Scotia, that black beetles were numerous in the basement of his home. They were crawling into stored milk and meat, as well as into flour bins; in fact, they showed a great liking for places difficult of access. On occasions they appeared in other rooms of the house, even dropping down into the shades of lighting fixtures. Similar trouble had been experienced the previous year. No actual damage was reported aside from waste when the presence of beetles necessitated the discarding of food stuffs.
THE GENUS GRAMMOTAULIUS IN NORTH AMERICA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES (TRICHOPTERA, LIMNEPHILIDAE)
Authors: Denning Donald G.
Published: January 2010

Four species of the Genus Grammotaulius, one of which is now considered a synonym, have been recognized in North America. These have been recorded only from Greenland, Canada, and northwestern United States. In August, 1940, Dr. C. E. Mickel and Mr. H. E. Milliron collected a series including both sexes of a new species in Colorado.
NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN NORTH AMERICAN JAPYGIDAE (THYSANURA)
Authors: Fox Irving
Published: January 2010

There are few North American insects so little known as the members of the family Japygidae. In the United States the entire family has heretofore been represented by hardly a dozen species and from Canada not a single species has yet been recorded. American entomologists have devoted scarcely any attention to the group, and as a consequence, few collections have been made.
A NEW PARASITIC BEE FROM COLORADO
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A.
Published: January 2010

Female. Length about 8 mm., anterior wing about 5.5 mm. The following parts are ferruginous: labrum, mandibles, lower margin of clypeus, scape, flagellum beneath (above it is dusky reddish), tubercles, scutellum, axillae, area of metathorax (except apical part), upper part of sides of metathorax, region below wings, a very broad band across pleura, legs, first two abdominal tergites and base of third, apex of abdomen and all of abdominal venter.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON CHAOBORUS PUNCTIPENNIS SAY (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE)
Authors: Miller R. B.
Published: January 2010

Aquatic biologists have long been familiar with the beautiful and interesting larvae of Chaoborus which are found in most of our lakes. Their peculiar habit of migrating daily krom the bottom of the lake to the surface and back again is well known. The data reported here are concerned not so much with this interesting habit but rather with the general ecology of the species.
NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS, MOSTLY CALIFORNIAN
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

I have recently had occasion to examine a good deal of Californian material sent me for determination by those two excellent and enthusiastic collectors, Messrs. E. C. Johnston and William Bauer. In the course of identification work some apparently undescribed species were discovered; this present paper deals with these and with a few other things that have been accumulating in our collection.
A NEW SPECIES OF MIRAX PARASITIC ON COPTODISCA ARBUTIELLA BSK. (HYMENOPTERA, BRACONIDAE)
Authors: Walley G. Stuart
Published: January 2010

In rearing the lepidopterons leaf miner Coptodisca arbutiella Bsk. from the leaves of the Madrona (Arbutus menziesii Pursh.) at Vancouver, B. C., Mr. W. G. Mathers and Professor G. Spencer obtained specimens of a Braconid parasite which on examination proved to be an undescribed species of the genus Mirax. The species in question is very similar to Mirax ectodemiae (Roh.) and examples were submitted to Dr. C. F. W. Muesebeck who has kindly compared them with ectodemiae and has supplied additional data concerning that species.
A NEW CANADIAN STRYMON (LYCAENIDAE, LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

The Strymon species now called falacer Godt., but until recently better known as calanus Hbn. was the subject, in the days of Scudder and Grote, of much controversy. It is not my intention at the present time to enter into the details of this discussion and the names involved; suffice to say that, after a careful study of the literature, I am of the opinion that the present synonym, as given in the 1937 Check List, is correct. The species has been figured on various occasions, but probably the most reliable figure is that given by Austin Clark (Butterflies of the District of Columbia and Vicinity, Pl. XXIV, Fig. 7, 8).
A NEW SPECIES OF TICK FOUND ON SHREWS
Authors: Gregson J. D.
Published: January 2010

FEMALE. Dimensions of unengorged holotype–1.2 mm. (to tip of scapula) x .78 mm. Colour–pale, dirty white, engorged specimens pale and yellowish.

Capitulum. Length 340 microns (tip of hypostome io dorsal ridge); width (at cornua) 300 microns. Surface of basis capituli smooth and impunctate. Cornua heavily chitinized but not prominent.
CLISTOMORPHA, PSALIDOPTERYX AND ALLIES (DIPTERA, TACHINIDAE)
Authors: Brooks A. R.
Published: January 2010

The genus Clistomorpha, as considered by Curran in 1927 (Can. Ent., LIX, 297), contains representatives of a number of distinct genera, namely Clistomorpha Townsend and Hyalomyodes Townsend of the Gymnosomatidae, as well as of Psalidopteryx Townsend and Neopsalidopteryx n. gen. of the Exoristidae.
NEW DESCRIPTIONS OF LARVAE OF FOREST INSECTS, V, EUPITHECIA, HYDRIOMENA (LEPIDOPTERA, GEOMETRIDAE)
Authors: McGuffin W. C.
Published: January 2010

The geometrid larvae feeding on spruce form a large and varied group. In collections taken from all parts of Canada where spruce is found, the Forest Insect Survey has identified 31 species (Brown, 1). To the best of the author's knowledge, there are descriptions for only 16 of these species. In this and the two following papers, seven more are described and two are redescribed.
A NEW COLOR FORM OF POLISTES FUSCATUS FROM CANADA
Authors: Bequaert J.
Published: January 2010

In my introductory study of North American Polistes (1940, Jl. New York Ent. Soc., XLVIII, pp. 1-31) I discussed the variation of the yellow markings in Polistes fuscatus var. pallipes Lepeletier (p. 29). I mentioned specimens with small, free, yellow spots on the disk of the second tergite. Many more wasps of this type were received during the past two years. They are particularly common in Canada, very rare or unknown elsewhere. For this reason and also because this variant is likely to be confused with var. variatus Cresson, it seems proper to distinguish it by name.
THE USE OF FRASS IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF FOREST INSECT DAMAGE
Authors: Morris R. F.
Published: January 2010

The forest entomologist is often called upon to inspect insect defolialion late in the season at a time when the feeding stage of the defoliator is no longer present in the trees.
FURTHER NOTES ON MARITIME COLEOPHORIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Since the publication of my paper dealing with the Coleophoridae of the Maritime province (1940, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. Sec. V, pp. 53-68) I have continued my studies in the group during field work in these provinces in 1940 and 1941.
THE AMERICAN SPECIES OFENTOMOSCELISANDHIPPURIPHILA(COLEOPTERA, CHRYSOMELIDAE)
Authors: Brown W. J.
Published: January 2010

Authors have followed Kirby in referring American specimens ofEntomoscelisChev. to the EurasianadonidisPallas.. One female, without label, and two male examples ofadonidisfrom the Elbruz Mountains of northwestern Persia are before me, and they differ from American specimens, which are described below asamericanan. sp., in the form of the aedeagus and in slight characters of color and sculpture.E. adonidisis said to occur from southern France and Germany to Persia and southern Siberia. There is no reason at present to believe that its distribution is continuous with that of the American form.
ON HOPLOCRABRO, A SUBGENUS OF CROSSOCERUS (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE: PEMPHILIDINI)
Authors: Pate V. S. L.
Published: January 2010

Thomson, in his review of the Scandinavian Hymenoptera, recognized four genera of Pemphilidine wasps: Rhopalum, Entomognathus, Lindenius and Crabro, the last of which he divided into a dozen subgenera. Two of these, Coelocrabro and Hoplocrabro, were propounded there as new.
PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE NATURAL CONTROL OF THE EUROPEAN SPRUCE SAWFLY BY SMALL MAMMALS
Authors: Morris R. F.
Published: January 2010

The importance of small mammals as natural control factors for forest insect pests has been indicated by several investigators, particularly by Hewitt (8) and Graham (5) with respect to the larch sawfly, Pristiphora erichsoni Htg. and by Sim (9) with respect to the Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newm.
A NEW RACE OF COENONYMPHA AMPELOS FROM THE MONO BASIN OF CALIFORNIA (LEPIDOPTERA, RHOPALOCERA)
Authors: Burdick W. N.
Published: January 2010

For a number of years the fact has been known that colonies of a Coenonympha related to ampelos Edw. inhabit the Mono Basin of California, along the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. Although the members of these colonies, which are alike, possess characteristics that distinguish them readily from ampelos or any other race of Coenonympha, this fact has somehow escaped the attention of entomologists.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF TWO EUPITHECIA SPECIES (LEPIDOPTERA)
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

The spring of 1941 in the Ottawa region, being continuously warm and dry, was very favorable for early species of Lepidoptera. Filmata Pears., usually a great rarity, was taken in considerable numbers in a spruce grove, adjacent to a cedar swamp, about 10 miles southwest of Ottawa.
NEW NEARCTIC CRANE-FLIES (TIPULIDAE, DIPTERA). PART XVII
Authors: Alexander Charles P.
Published: January 2010

The preceding part under this general title was published in 1941 (Can. Ent., 73: 206-213). In the present instalment, I am discussing species included in extensive series of these flies taken by Mr. H. Elliott McClure at Fort Churchill, Manitoba; by Dr. Mont A. Cazier in California and Nevada; by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Sperry in Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico; by Dr. and Mrs. Henry K. Townes in Washington; and by Mr. John W. Zukel in Idaho.
TWO UNDESCRIBED CANADIAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: McDunnough J.
Published: January 2010

Venation as in Meyrick's figure (Handbook Brit. Lep. 712) except that on primaries vein 9 is connate with the stalk of 6-8 from apex of cell. Unicolorous light ochre-yellow. Head and palpi somewhat paler than forewings. Antennae faintly smoky with traces of brown annulations. In well marked specimens the forewings show the merest traces of irregular, whitish, median and subterminal bands. Secondaries pale smoky. Fringes on both wings light yellowish. Abdomen yellowish, including anal tuft. Traces of smoky shadings on pectus and basal portions of legs. Expanse 9-10 mm.