bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
CLASSIFICATION OF THE HORNTAILS AND SAWFLIES, OR THE SUB-ORDER PHYTOPHAGA
Authors: Ashmead William H. 
Published: February 2010

This group was recognized as a sub-family by Newman as early as 1834, and as a distinct family by Haliday in 1839. It is represented at present by a single genus, Oryssus, Latr., which is apparenrly the stem from whence some of the parasitic Hymenoptera originated; i. e., the Megalyridae, Stephanidae, etc.I have now, however, the pleasure of indicating below another genus, indigenous to Africa.Although comparatively few species are described in the group, it yet appears to be widely distributed, species having been found in North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Aru, in the Malay Archipelago.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF THE GEOMETRINA OF NORTH AMERICA
Authors: Hulst Geo. D. 
Published: February 2010

Selidosema nigrescens, n. sp.Expands 31-33 mm. Palpi and front dark fuscuous; antennæ black above, fuscous below; thorax dark fuscous, patagiæ lighter; abdomen dark even fuscous. All wings dark fuscous, made by heavy coalescing striations of fuscous and blackish on a light fuscous ground; basal line black, quite distinct, rounded, wavy; a median shade passing through distinct black discal spot; an outer black distinct cross line, continued across hind wing, on fore wing sinuous, subparallel with outer margin, on hind wing nearly or quite straight; on fore wing beyond this line is a broad reddish-brown band, not always clear, however, sometimes showing faintly at middle of hind wing; a submarginal row of light, not distinct, lunules, edged within with darker; marginal lines black, distinct. Beneath fuscous, with faint line shadows, and a dark shadow spot near apex of fore wings.
ON SOME SMALL BEES FROM ARIZONA
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

Some time ago Prof. C. F. Baker sent me a lot of small bees collected by Dr. R. E. Kunzé at phoenix, Arizona, May 12, 1897, “on willows and various low herbs.” I have examined these with interest, as they belong to genera not recorded from that region; they prove to be as follows:(1.) Perdita salicis, Ckll., 1896.–♂. ♀. Very many specimens.(2.) Prosapis messilae, Ckll., 1896.–A few, mostly males.(3.) Halictus meliloti, Ckll., 1895.–One ♀.(4.) Halictus pseudotegularis, Ckll., 1896.–On April 12, 1897, I took at flowers of Sisymbrium, in Messila, N. M., a single Halictus which differed decidedly from Illinois H. tegularis, but, to my surprise, almost agreed with the Mexican H. pseudotegularis, except that the wings were clear. Now, among the Arizona bees I find examples of pseudotegularis with slightly dusky wings, as in the type, of that species; the second submarginal cell is noticeably smaller than in tegularis, and receives the recurrent nervure further from its end.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELIONIDÆ
Authors: Currie Rolla P. 
Published: February 2010

Brachynemurus brunneus, new species.Male.—Length, 40 mm.; expanse of wings, 55.4 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 6.4 mm.; length of antenna, 7 mm. Slender, prevailing colour fuscous, markings luteous; sparsely clothed with black and white hairs, more thickly so on abdomen.Face scarcely convex; lower part luteous; covered above by a broad piceous band which encircles the antennæ furrow between face and inner orbit of the eye fuscous. Circumocular area luteous, except along vertex, where it is mostly dark fuscous, and near the maxillary palpiger, where there is a fuscous spot. Clypeus luteous, rather short. Labrum transverse, luteous; rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly emarginate in front. Mandibles piceous, black at tips.
NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELIONIDAE.–I
Authors: Currie Rolla P. 
Published: February 2010

Brachynemurus Coquilletti, new species.Male.—Length, 33 mm.; expanse of wings, 44 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 5.6 mm.; length of antenna, 6 mm.; luteous, marked with dark fuscous; clothed with white hairs, thickly so on abdomen; apical segments of abdomen with some black hairs among the white ones.Face flat, luteous, bordered above by a pitchy-black band separating the antennae and narrowly bordering them in front and on the outer side; a longitudinal median black line extends from this band almost to the clypeus. Circum-ocular area luteous, except along the anterior portion of the vertex, where it is fuscous, and on the margin next the eye, opposite the middle of anterior joint of maxillary palpiger, where there is a fuscous spot. Clypeus rather short, luteous, on either side anteriorly an impressed spot; above, a few black bristles. Labrum transverse, luteous; rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly, nearly straight in front, where it is sparsely clothed with light-coloured hairs. Mandibles piceous, black at tips.
NEW, OR LITTLE KNOWN, ALEURODIDÆ—I
Authors: Quaintance A. L. 
Published: February 2010

Aleurodes mori, n. sp.Egg.—Length, .16 mm.; width, 08 mm.; elliptical, curved, light brownish in colour, marked with minute polygonal areas; pedicel short, about one-tenth length of egg.Larva.—Length, .43 mm.; width, .3 mm., varying somewhat; shape, elliptical; colour, whitish or yellowish white. Margin all around dentate, due to the usually short but acute incisions between the closely-set wax tubes. A very fragmentary marginal fringe frequently present; no submarginal rim as in pupacase.
CABINET PEST DETERRENT
Authors: Norris A. E. 
Published: February 2010

One of the most worrying things an entomologist has to put up with is that after carefully making a collection his most valued specimens are nearly eaten away, either with mites or the Dermestes beetle.For the benefit of my brother enthusiasts, let me give briefly my personal experience. Last June captures at light were very good and numerous. Many rare insects were taken and set out. The settingboards were placed on a shelf. By the morning the contents of three boards were literally eaten away by large black ants, house flies, and the little black and orange beetle. If my thoughts had been candidly expressed I am afraid my reputation would have been irretrievably lost, so I hunted around for a remedy and was soon successful in finding one.
TWO NEW COCCIDAE OF THE SUBFAMILY LECANINAE
Authors: Hempel Adolph 
Published: February 2010

Apparently related to Farmairia, Sign. ♀. Scale waxy, hard, brittle, cone-shaped with radial ridges and furrows. Antennæ five-jointed. Anal-plates curved; the two together forming a ring. Each plate is furnished with ten long hairs. Type, E. rugosa.Edwallia rugosa, n. sp.♀.—Scale white; wax hard and brittle, cone-shaped, having the appearance of a barnacle, and radially ridged or fluted like the shell of Pecten. The base is slightly oval in shape, being wider anteriorly than posteriorly; the anterior side is slightly convex, so that the top of the scale is caudad of the middle. A number of fine concentric rings run around the scale parallel to the base.
THE SYNHALONIA OF CALIFORNIA
Authors: Fowler Carroll 
Published: February 2010

The material for this study was collected by Mr. H. O. Woodworth and myself during the spring and early summer of 1898. At Berkeley the collecting was carried on in a systematic manner, so that the number of each species taken gives a fair representation of their relative abundance. S. albicans and S. Edwardsii are the only species heretofore recorded from California. The specis may be readily recognized by means of the following synopsis:Abdomen with distinct, white bands.
BOMBYX CUNEA AND SPILOSOMA CONGRUA
Authors: Smith John B. 
Published: February 2010

The paper in the May number of The Canadian Entomologist on the above subject is very interesting, but does not, in my opinion, entirely conclude the subject. Dr. Fyles proves definitely a considerable range of variability in what he calls congrua, and what is without any doubt antigone, Strecker. It seems to be certain that there are two species having a very similar range of variation—the insect that we call the fall webworm in the larval stage, and the insect bred by Dr. Fyles. Of the variability of cunea there is no doubt. I had not been aware, heretofore, that antigone had anything like the same range.In the matter of determining what species Walker had before him a number of factors must be considered, as we have not available for ready examination the actual specimens described. In the first place there but three examples, apparently similar, for no variations are mentioned; but all from Georgia, and there is a very considerable range of variation in size; that is, from 16 to 20 lines, or one-third of an inch in a small species.
OPHIOGOMPHUS
Authors: Needham James G. 
Published: February 2010

This genus of dragon flies is one of the groups whose members are accounted rare in collections, though quite abundant in nature. With the exception of three species, two of which have only been obtained in numbers by breeding, few imagoes have been taken. Although I have collected carefully for several years in localities where a few species were common enough, I have seen but three imagoes at large, but I have bred one species by hundreds, and have seen the exuviæ upon the banks of streams by tens of thousands.Nymphs of this genus seem to prefer the sandy or gravelly beds of clear, rapid streams, flowing through rocky woods. What becomes of the countless imagoes which issue from such places by night in early summer I have not as yet been able to find out.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MASSACHUSETTS COCCIDÆ.—IV
Authors: King Geo. B. 
Published: February 2010

(7) Chionapsis furfurus, Fitch; 1856-1869. N.A very common species in Massachusetts, recorded from Amherst, Worcester, Andover, Lawrence, and Methuen, on wild redcherry, pear, wild and cultivated apple, flowering quince, chokeberry, shad-bush, and black alder. It is known from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, New York, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Georgia, Utah, Kansas, New Jersey, and Washington, D. C., on choke-cherry, wild red cherry, wild and cultivated apple, crab apple, pear, peach, Japan quince, cherry currant, red flowering currant, and European mountain ash.
A NEW PLAGODIS
Authors: Dyar Harrison G. 
Published: February 2010

Plagodis approximaria, n. sp.Fore wings dark ochreous, paler about the faint purplish cloud that rests on internal margin; a cluster of blackish strigæ in centre of basal space on internal margin and a larger cluster in the balck cloud; otherwise the ground colour is without strigæ. T. a. and t. p. lines slightly curved, broad, somewhat clouded, nearer together than usual, blackish brown, the t. p. line the more distinct. Hind wings paler, largely overspread by a purplish shading that extends from a large cluster of dense blackish strigæ at inner angle. Thorax ochre, purplish in front and on the head. Expanse 50 mm.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H. 
Published: February 2010

This family has been associated usually, as a tribe, with the family Bembicidae, with which, however, according to my views, it has no relationship whatever. It is in reality much closer allied to the Nyssonidae, next to which I have placed it, and from which some of the species are separated with difficulty.The characters made use of in my table of families will, however, I think readily separate these three families, and it is unnecessary to repeat them here.
OBSERVATIONS UPON BOMBYX CUNEA, DRURY, ETC.
Authors: Fyles Thomas W. 
Published: February 2010

Messrs. Dyar, Smith, and Grote have given us much interesting information concerning Bombyx cunea, Drury, and insects associated with it. I have hoped that further particulars would be forthcoming, for the position these insects have held in our Entomological lists has not been satisfactorily established.It is very evident that much perplexity in regard to cunea, and the rest, has existed from Walker's day down to the present time.
COLLECTING NOTES ON KANSAS COLEOPTERA
Authors: Knaus W. 
Published: February 2010

An experience of eighteen years in collecting Coleoptera in Kansas would naturally lead to the discovery of several good collecting grounds, and to many interesting observations on the abundance of or scarcity of certain species for one or more years.I have found my most interesting and profitable ground on the salt marshes or flats of Wilson County in South-eastern Kansas, and Republic and Mitchell Counties in North Central Kansas; in the valleys of the Verdigris River in Wilson County, of the Republic an River in Jewell County, the Smoky Hill River in Wailace County and the Arkansas River in Hamilton County; the two latter in extreme western Kansas.
NOTES ON ARKANSAS TRUXALINAE
Authors: Mcneill Jerome 
Published: February 2010

This subfamily is rather poorly represented in Arkansas, only eight of the thirty-one genera recognized by me as occurring in North America having been found within its borders, and only one genus, Orphula, is represented by more than a single species.Mermiria rostrata, McNeill.—Has been found in the State, but its occurrence at Mackay, I. T., makes it altogether probable that it belongs to our fauna.
NEW, OR LITTYE KNOWN, ALEURODIDAE.–II
Authors: Quaintance A. L. 
Published: February 2010

Aleurodes graminicola, n. sp.Egg.—Size, .25x.13 mm.; uniformly brownish in colour; unmarked; oblong, truncate at base; pedicel short, attached to one corner; eggs held nearly upright on leaf by short pedicel and truncated end.Larva.—Length, .7 mm.; width, .3 mm.; oblong-elliptical in shape; colour, yellowish-white; eye spots reddish. There is a marginal fringe all around of white cottony waxen threads. No marginal rim, and but faint crenulation. In other respects, essentially as in pupa-case.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GOPHER MOTH
Authors: Smith J. B. 
Published: February 2010

Epizeuxis gopheri, n. sp.Ground colour a very pale mouse-gray, the wings with the appearance of being thinly scaled. On the thorax is a slightly warmer, more brown or reddish tinge, while the under side is darker and somewhat more smoky throughout. Primaries with all the lines diffuse and vague, except the s. t., which is distinct and very sharply dentated. The basal line is wanting. The t. a. line is pale, without defined margins, and crosses the wings with scarcely an out-curve. The t. p. line is yet more feebly marked except on the costa, and crosses the wing with a feeble outcurve, a little more marked than the outer margin of the wing itself. In the male this line seems to be better defined than in the female. The s. t. line is whitish, distinct, and irregularly toothed in both directions; that is, inwardly as well as outwardly — as a whole keeping al about the same distance from the outer margin throughout. The ordinary spots are very feebly marked; the orbicular a faint yellowish dot, and the reniform a somewhat larger blotch of the same colour; but in both cases indefinite. The secondaries are distinctly paler, more washed out and becoming almost whitish at the base.
NEW TINEIDÆ, WITH LIFE-HISTORIES
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary E. 
Published: February 2010

Laverna argentimaculella, n. sp.Imago: Antennœ dark brown, slightly paler on under side. Palpi pale silvery, terminal joint in strong light appearing minutely ringed with dark blue. Head and face smooth, the former dark blue above, face pale golden-metallic, in the ♂ usually darker than in the ♀, in the latter often with bluish tinge. Thorax dark blue with metallic reflections. Fore wings with a generally “shaggy” appearance, beautifully variegated in dark and light blue and rich bronzy brown, with more or less conspicuous, irregular, appressed, silvery spots, that, at the base of the apical third, form an irregularly margined fascia, broader and more brilliant in the ♂ than in the ♀. Upon the cell, especially of the ♂, are two prominent tufts, bluish silvery at base, shading to brown, and near the outer margin two still larger tufts, almost connected, forming a ridge across the wing. Just before the fringes is an indefinitely angular, silvery streak, the apex directed outward. The pattern of coloration is so variable that it is difficult to exactly characterize it. Hind wings and abdomen rich bronzy brown, the former with pale brown fringes. Legs brown, annulate on tibiæ with two broad and on tarsi with three narrow white bands. Alar expanse, 8 mn.; length, 4 mm. A beautiful species and probably rare.
NOTES ON SPECIES OF THE TETTIGIAN GROUP OF ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Hancock J. L. 
Published: February 2010

An interesting addition to Orthopteran distribution in the West Indies is the finding by Mr. R. J. Crew of the species Neotettix quadriundulatus, Redtenbacher, on the Island on Haiti.Eight specimens, kindly presented to me, were taken around Port au Prince, and, as Mr. Crew informs me, were “swept from plants along the banks of a small stream.” I have identified this species, which was first described by Brunner and Redtenbacher, 1892, from the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies, in “Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,” and an excellent figure is to be found on Plate xvi., fig. 10.
A PARASITE THE SUPPOSED CAUSE OF SOME CASES OF EPILEPSY
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

Gastrophilus epilepsalis, n. sp.Larva: Length, 1-12 inch; of the shape shown in the accompanying figure (Fig. 30), with twelve joints besides the head, or thirteen joints; head rounded, with two brown-black hooks, the side view of the cut showing only one of them; head a little longer than broad, rounded; the first incisure with a patch of bristles below the hooks, but not anywhere else; incisures 2 and 3 without bristles; incisures 4 to 12 armed with several rows of minute bristles, all very short except those on 12, pointing backward; joint 13 rounded. Extending back from the hooks and of the same colour, only in places paler, is a marking that seems to be a chitinoid support for the hooks, beneath the cuticle. Colour a dirty yellowish white.
NEW HISTORIES IN HYDRŒCIA
Authors: Bird Henry 
Published: February 2010

Hydrœcia rutila, Gn.This was the next discovery of the season, and as work in former years had never unearthed more than one new larval condition per seasou, it became evident 1899 was being especially fortunate. We may well say unearthed, as it was actually necessary to do considerable digging to get at these fellows, so far down were they in roots below the surface. The preferred food-plant is Solidago sempervirens, a plant particularly local to the Atlantic seaboard, and it was naturally supposed we had to deal with an insect thus restricted in its range. Other things conspired to get ideas rather elevated, for it was not known, of course, before the moth appeared what species the larva might prove. There seemed an unusual feature in that among the numerous stems arising from one root cluster, when one was found infested, there would surely be two examples—no more, no less—found in the bunch. This happened in every case, and occurs so often as to lose the aspect of being any coincidence. Many times but one larva would be found at first; further searching, however, always disclosed a mate. Burrowing well down in the roots, they still have quite an extended gallery high up in the stem.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H. 
Published: February 2010

The majority of the species falling in this subfamily are usually smaller and much less conspicuous than those in the other subfamilies, and with totally different habits. None are true diggers, but, on the contrary, build small oblong, or oval, clay cells, beneath the loose bark of old trees, under stones, or in crevices in old stone walls, etc., not unlike some of the Potter wasps (Eumenidœ).The group comes evidently nearest to the Pepsinœ, the females having, as in that group, a transverse grooved line, impression or emargination on the second ventral segment. From that group, however, it is at once separated by the difference in the legs, the hind tibiæ being smooth, never serrate or spinous, or with a longitudinal ridge, but, at the most, with only a few very minute, scarcely perceptible spines.
NEW COCCIDÆ FROM CALIFORNIA
Authors: Ehrhorn Edw. M. 
Published: February 2010

Xylococcus quercus, n. sp. (Plate 7, figs. 1 and 2.)Egg quite large, of a light orange colour.Young larvœ dark orange-red, active, body broadly oval, abont ⅔ mm. long. Legs and antennæ light brown, well developed. Antennæ short, 6-jointed. Joint 1 stoutest, joint 6 longest, and joint 4 shortest. Formula: 651234. Joints 2 and 5 with three bristles. Joint 6 with numerous long stout bristles. Legs moderately long, with femur quite swollen. Tarsus longer than tibia. Digitules of tarsus fine hairs; those of claw long stout clubs curved upwards. Each segment of abdomen bears a backward directed short stout spine. On each side of anal tube is a long fine bristle. Anal tube large, with numerous stont spines. Stigmatal tubes well developed.
THREE NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Authors: Ashmead William H. 
Published: February 2010

Prof. Charles P. Loundsbury, Government Entomologist, of Cape Town, South Africa, has recently sent to Dr. L. O. Howard, U. S. Entomologist, a lot of bred parasitic Hymenoptera for names, among which were found three new species, which, at the reqnest of Dr. Howard, are characterized below:Family LVII.—Platygasteridæ.Genus Allotropa, Förster.
A NEW VARIETY OF LYCÆNA AMYNTULA, WITH OTHER NOTES
Authors: Grinnell Fordyce 
Published: February 2010

Lycœna amyntula, var. Herrii, n. var.— ♀ expanse, 1.25 in.; differs from typical amyntula by the replacement of the dark area of the primaries by a narrow black band about 1 mm. wide, and on the secondaries by only two red crescents instead of five as in typical amyntula. On the under side the markings are all much heavier.♂ expanse, 1.00 in.; differs from ♂ of typical amyntula in having a black margin about 1 mm. wide, whereas there is none in typical amyntula, or, if any, a very slight trace. On the under side the markings are much more heavy. The male of this variety is also much smaller than the male of typical amyntula, and the tails seem more distinct in this variety.
NOTES ON SOME ONTARIO ACRIDIIDÆ.—Part IV
Authors: Walker E. M. 
Published: February 2010

16a Spharagemon collare, Scudd., race Wyomingianum, Thomas.Oedipoda Wyomingianum, Thom. Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V. 462 (1872).Spharagemon oculatum. Scudd. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII., 470 (1875).Spharagemon oculatum. Morse. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat, Hist., XXVI., 232 (1894).Spharagemon collare, race Wyomingianum, Morse. Psyche, VII., 298 (1895).In September, 1899, I found this species fairly plentiful on sand dunes, in Rondeau Provincial Park, Kent Co., on the shore of Lake Erie. The sand dunes occupy a considerable area there, and in some places near the lake shore are thinly wooded with red cedar (Juniperus virginianus).
THE EFFECTS OF SCORPION VENOM
Authors: Barrett O. W. 
Published: February 2010

The prevailing belief in regard to scorpion stings seems to be correct: dangerons, but seldom fatal.However, there are scorpions and scorpions. Moreover, much depends upon the season and the part stung. Generally speaking, a sting in the dry season is much worse than one in the rainy season, because the venom becomes concentrated during the period of lesser activity. And for obvious reasons a sting in the head, neck or trunk of body is worse than one in the extremities.