bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A NEW CATOCALA FROM TEXAS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe 
Published: February 2010

Catocala moderna, n. sp.Allied to C. viduata, Guenée, but very much smaller, and at once distinguished by the pale angulated band of the under surface of hind wings reflecting through on upper surface, where it appears as a faintly yellowish mesial shade, distinctly outlined. Fore wings like C. viduata, of the same pale gray, with the black oblique shading running from costa at centre of median space outwardly to below apices, less marked than in its ally. Subreniform paler, more yellowish. Else the lines and markings copy in miniature its ally. Fringe to secondaries white. Collar darker, with black line; thorax pale gray.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HÆMATOPINUS
Authors: Osborn Herbert 
Published: February 2010

Hœmatopinus columbianus, N. sp.Head longer than broad, semicircular in front, wider and more depressed behind the antennæ, rostrum projecting; antennæ located in front of the middle of the head, the first joint large, deeply set in the border of the head, second joint the longest, third, fourth and fifth nearly equal, fifth slightly smaller; a strong bristle is borne on the postero-lateral angle. The pronotum is short, rather narrow, and the sternal plate is very broadly ovate, almost circular, but the sides posteriorly tapering slightly and the posterior border obtusely rounded or subtruncate. The second and third pairs of legs are nearly equal and considerably larger than the anterior pair, and their tarsal claws are broad and blunt or obtuse at tip.
PARTIAL LIFE-HISTORY OF DICHOGAMA REDTEN-BACHERI, LED.
Authors: Dyar Harrison G. 
Published: February 2010

The Pyralid genus Dichogama has not yet been reported from United States territory on the mainland, but at least three species occur in southern Florida. The following notes were made on the larva of one of them, D. Redtenbacheri.Stage II. (?)—Head flat before clypeus high, mouth pointed; luteous, ocelli black; width .4 mm. Body a little flattened, translucent, yellowish, a geminate lateral brown stripe. Cervical shield large, colourless, brown dotted on the tubercles and on lateral edge; anal plate small, not marked. Tubercles small, brown; setæ long, stiff, pale. Skin sparsely granular; segments scarcely annulate.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF JASSIDÆ
Authors: Osborn Herbert 
Published: February 2010

Deltocephalus apicatus, n. sp.—Head and pronotum yellow; scutellum and elytra reddish fuscons, the latter with hyaline apex. Length to tip of elytra, ♀ and ♂, 3 mm.Vertex about as long as width between the eyes, margin rounded, apex prominent; front with sides nearly parallel to below the antennæ, then curving sharply to the base of the clypeus; clypeus slightly narrowed to tip. Pronotum, width more than twice the length, lateral margin short, posterior margin straight. Elytra passing the abdomen, with fully formed apical areoles (macropterous), or reaching only to tip of abdomen, with the apical areoles very much abbreviated.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF EUPREPIA CAJA, L., VAR. AMERICANA, HARR
Authors: Gibson Arthur 
Published: February 2010

On the evening of the 31st July, 1899, while collecting moths at the electric light, close to the entrance to the Central Experimental Farm, I was fortunate enough to secure a female of Euprepia Caja, L., var. Americana, Harr. I enclosed her alive in a small box over night, and by the morning she had laid nine eggs. From these eggs five larvæ hatched, and as I have succeeded in bringing two of these through all their stages, my notes may be of interest to some of the readers of the Canadian Entomologist.Egg.—Semi-ovoid, about .75 mm. in width, at widest part; pale yellowish, smooth, shiny.
NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN CALIFORNIAN ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Scudder Samuel H. 
Published: February 2010

The species here brought together were most of them collected by Mr. A. P. Morse, in the summer of 1897, and as they belong to miscellaneous genera, none of which require special revision, the descriptions are here collected for publication.Loboptera americana Scudd.The single original specimen of this species was taken in Arizona, and was apparently collected in alcohol, as two fresh specimens taken by Mr. Morse at Cahon Pass, Cal., July 18, differ in colour and in the shape of the pronotum, requiring its partial re-description.
NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF ACRONYCTA IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Authors: Smith John B. 
Published: February 2010

Nothing is more aggravating than to be compelled, soon after completing a monographic work, to make changes in the nomenclature and synonymy; yet this is the purpose of this paper concerning the genus Acronycta, which was monographed by Dr. H. G. Dyar and myself in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI., pp. 1–194, 1898.It was explained in the introduction to this paper that, because of its interesting early stages, the late Dr. C. V. Riley had been, for years, accumulating material for a thorough study of Acronycta; therefore I had made no effort to become closely familiar with the species. Some time before, Dr. A. G. Butler, of the British Museum, attracted in the same way by the larval difference, had divided the species among several genera, referred to several families; allowing superficial and secondary characters to mislead him, as be has since admitted. In 1886, while arranging the Grote material, Dr. Butler made comparisons with other types in the Museum, the results of which were published in 1887 in “Entomologica Americana.”
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS IN THE APHELININÆ
Authors: Ashmead William H. 
Published: February 2010

Myiocnema, new genus.This new genus falls in a table of the genera of the Aphelininæ next to Encarsia, Forster, the antennæ being 8-jointed and the club in the female being 2-jointed.The head is transverse thin antero-posteriorly, the occiput concave, the vertex impressed; the thorax has several long bristly hairs, and the parapsidal furrows are distinct but very delicate, almost invisible; the front wings have a large discoidal cloud beneath the marginal vein as in Coccophagus orientalis, Howard, the stigmal vein is distinct, not very short, but still shorter than the marginal vein and a tittle shorter than the post-marginal, the marginal vein being a little longer than half the length of the submarginal vein.
A NEW PULVINARIA FROM NEW MEXICO
Authors: King Geo. B. 
Published: February 2010

Pulvinaria Tinsleyi, n. sp.Shriveled adult female scales on the twigs, light brown, elliptical, convex. Ovisac, clear white, texture as in P. innumerabilis. After boiling in K. O. H., derm colourless, not pitted or tessellate. Legs and anal plates tinged with yellow. Spines of lateral cleft in threes, one long and curved; 76 μ long, two quite short, 28 μ long. Margin with one row of stout blunt spines 40 μ long, 6 broad. Anal plates heart shaped, each 100 μ broad and 136 μ long, Antennæ 7-jointed, width quite constant, but the length of the joints seems to be quite variable. I have examined ten, with the following results in μ: Joint (1) 24 to 40, (2) 40–60, (3) 68–80, (4) 52–64, (5) 28–36, (6) 28–40, (7) 44–52. Formula 3472651. Joint 3 is always longest, while 4 is nearly as long, but never equal; 1 is always the shortest, 5 and 6 are next and sometimes nearly equal. Joints 2 and 3 have two long hairs each; 5 and 6 have 3 each; 7 seems to have 9, the terminal one very long.
NOTES ON NEW MEXICO BEES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

Bombomelecta larreœ, n. sp.♀.—Length 12½ mm.; general build and structure of B. thoracica, but the scutellum is convex with a central depression, and wholly without spines; while the claws have the inner division short and broadly truncate. The maxillary palpi are 6-jointed, and the mandibles have a strong tooth on the inner side. Black; pubescence of the face and vertex pale brown; of the occiput, labrum and clypeus, black; of the pleura, metathorax and scutellum, black; of the post-scurtellum, yellowish, especially noticeable at the sides; of the mesothorax, orange-fulvous, short, dense and conspicuous in front, thin behind. Abdomen with broad but inconspicuous ochreous bands on segments 2 to 4, more or less interrupted in the middle on 2 and 4, represented on the first segment by lateral patches, and a few ochreous hairs even in the middle; fifth segment with black hairs. Antennæ entirely black, apex truncate, the corners of the truncation rounded. Legs black, with black pubescence; spurs black, hind spur of hind tibia larger than the other, and somewhat bent. Wings dark fuliginous, with hyaline patches on the third transverso-cubital and second recurrent nervures; venation resembling that of B. thoracica, var. fulvida, except that the first recurrent nervure joins the second submarginal cell almost at its apex.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN SPIDERS
Authors: Banks Nathan 
Published: February 2010

Sergiolus bicolor, n. sp.Length, ♀, 8 mm. Cephalothorax and legs pale reddish-yellow, mandibles and sternum scarcely darker, basal half of abdomen pale gray, apical half and spinnerets jet black, the line separating the two slightly convex in front; venter pale gray except the apical two-fifths, which is black, but broadly indented by the gray in the middle. Cephalothorax rather slender, about one and three-fourths as long as broad, plainly longer than patella plus tibia IV., not much narrowed in front, no trace of a dorsal groove. Posterior eye-row plainly recurved, the P. M. E. round, about twice their diameter apart, and about as far from the scarcely larger P. S. E. Anterior eye-row much shorter than posterior, nearly straight, the A. M. E. slightly smaller than P. M. E., more than their diameter apart, and rather nearer to the slightly larger A. S. E., several stiff black bristles in eye-region.
ON SOME BEES OF THE GENUS AUGOCHLORA
Authors: Titus E. S. G. 
Published: February 2010

Augochlora Coloradensis, n. sp. (subg. Augochlora).♀.—Green, often tinged with pulple; face finely and confluently punctured above the base of the antennæ, more coarsely, confluently so below, supraclypeal space sometimes not confluently punctured; clypeus with large punctures, black at tip; basal process of labrum subquadrate, broadly rounded, rufopiceous; mandibles black, rufous at tips; antennæ black, flagellum near the tip fulvotestaceous beneath; striation of the disc of the metathorax reaching to the summit, posterior truncation rounded above, lateral portions rounded, truncation not shining, rugosely punctured; tegulæ, often with a black dot in the centre, stigma and nervures testaceous; legs piceous, femora and tibiæ sometimes with a greenish cast, knees testaceous, tips of tarsi generally inclined to rufous; hind tibial spurs of posterior leg finely serrated; abdomen shining, polished, finely punctured; ventral segments black; pubescence of face, sides of thorax, tarsi partly, and abdomen, whitish; scutellum and first dorsal abdominal segments very fine and short, margins of segments fringed with white hairs; hair on tarsi often inclined to be rufous. Lenglh, 6–7 mm.
A NEW CANADIAN TINEID
Authors: Busck August 
Published: February 2010

Anacampsis lupinella, n. sp.Antennœ bronzy black with white annulations, slightly serrate, especially towards the tip.Labial palpi long, smooth, recurved; second joint somewhat thickened, with appressed scales, dark ochreous brown; terminal joint longer than second, acicular, dark brownish, with tip black.
NOTE ON THE RESPIRATION OF ALEURODES CITRI
Authors: Woodworth C. W. 
Published: February 2010

The effort to control the “white fly” of the orange (Aleurodes citri) by hydrocyanic acid gas, naturally suggested an inquiry into the respiration of these insects. The author was enabred to pursue this inquiry, while recently in Florida, under the auspices of trre Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.The only account of the organs of respiration in the young of this family is a brief note with a figure in Burmeister's Handbuch, which is very incomplete and not entirely accurate. Some very interesting and quite unique features are presented by these insects, not the least of which are the breathing folds, that are very conspicuous structures, and have been heretofore incorrectly interpreted. The view suggested by Riley and Howard (Insect Life, 1893, Vol. 5, pp. 219–226), that the anterior folds represent the original division between the head and thorax, is the one usually accepted. In rearity they are wholly thoracic in position, being nearer to the pro-mesothoracic line than to the head-thoracic boundary, and they are by no means vestigial structures, but specially developed organs of respiration.
SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN BEES
Authors: Robertson Charles 
Published: February 2010

Andrena krigiana, n. sp.♀.—Black; mandibles rufous at tips, toothed near the apex; basal process of labrum short, subquadrate, emarginate; clypeus somewhat shining towards apex, where it is rather distinctly punctured, elsewhere opaque and reticulated; face before ocelli longitudinally striate; facial foveæ quite short, not descending below insertion of antennæ, filled with a fine pubescence which appears black; antennæ short, joint 3 as long as the next three together, or nearly so, apical joints dull testaceous beneath; thorax throughout opaque and finely reticulated; enclosure of metathorax poorly defined, but rather strongly rugose; pubescence of head and thorax rather thin and dull fulvous; wings subhyaline, nervures and stigma honey-yellow, second cubital cell about one-third as long as the third, oblique, receiving the first recurrent nervure at, or a little before, or a little beyond, the middle; abdomen shining, rather sparsely and rather evenly punctured, apical margins of segments pale testaceous, hardly subfasciate, fimbria fulvous; scopæ pale, the hairs of hind tibiæ rather strongly plumose. Length, 8 mm.
SOME NECESSARY CHANGES AND CORRECTIONS IN NAMES OF ORTHOPTERA
Authors: Rehn James A. G. 
Published: February 2010

Miomantis, Saussure. Bull. Ent. Suisse, III., p. 64, 1870.Preoccupied by Miomantis, Blanchard. D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., VI., Ins., p. 209, 1842 (Coleoptera). To fill the deficiency, I propose the name Calidomantis.Harpax, Serville. Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII., p. 45, 49, 1831.Preoccupied by Harpax, Parkinson. Organic Rem., 1811 (Mollusca). I have not been able to examine the first edition of Parkinson, but in the second the name Harpax occurs on page 221 of volume III. To replace Serville's genus, I propose the name Australomantis.
NEPTICULA POMIVORELLA, Packard; ALIAS MICROPTERYX POMIVORELLA, Packard
Authors: Busck August 
Published: February 2010

During a visit to Professor Fernald, in Amherst, Mass., last spring, he showed me a Nepticula, bred from Apple, which he had described in manuscript as a new species, but which he afterwards had suspected to be Micropteryx pomivorella, Packard.From reading the description and life-history of packard's species, I felt sure that it was a Nepticula and presumably the same as Professor Fernald's species, and a week after, while studying the collection in the Agassiz Museum, Cambridge, I obtained definite proof that we were right.
WEST COAST AND OTHER JASSIDÆ (HOMOPTERA)
Authors: Ball E. D. 
Published: February 2010

Most of the material upon which the following descriptions are based belongs to the National Museum, and the species are here described at the request of the curator, Dr. W. H. Ashmead.Eutettix pannosa, n. sp.–Resembling saucia and scaber in general appearance, smaller, darker, and with longer vertex and more generally reticulate elytra. Length, ♀ 4.5 mm., ♂ 4 mm; width, ♀ 1.5mm., ♂ 1.25 mm.Vertex right angled, apex blunt, three-fifths as long as its basal width, two thirds as long as the pronotum, half longr on middle than against eye, disc slightly sloping, flat, with the apex elevated. Face retreating, forming an acute angle with the vertex, front rather broad. Elytra rather short, comirressed at the apex, venation weak, irregniarly reticulate, the second cross nervure sometimes present.
SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN FULGORIDÆ
Authors: Ball E. D. 
Published: February 2010

Some lime ago, when about to publish a synopsis of the genus Scolops, the writer discovered that Dr. Uhler had the same genus in hand and his MSS. read for the press. As the result of the correspordence,the writer dropped his work for the time, and Dr. Uhler promised to send his types as soon as his paper was published. (Proc. Md. Acad. Sc., p. 401, 1900.) With his usual thoughtfulness, the Doctor sent on the types,and with the aid of these and a fine series of eastern forms received from Mr. Otto Heidemann the author has been able to definitely place all the described species and recognize a number of nerv ones.The genus is found in its greatest abundance the border line of plain and mountain region, and so many rew forms have been found here in the past few years that there are no doubt many more to be found on further search.
A RECENTLY DISCOVERED GENUS AND SPECIES OF AQUATIC HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Bradley J. Chester. 
Published: February 2010

In the Annales Soc., Ent. de France, LXIX., p. 171, P. Marchal publishes an article entitled “Sur un nouvel Hyménoptère aquatique, le Limnodytes gerriphagus, n.gen., n. sp.”Mr. Marchal is to be complimented on his discovery and observation of the habits of this very interesting insect, but it is deeply to be regretted that the generic name which he has chosen is preoccupied, hence it becomes widely known. The name Limnodytes was employed by Dumeril and Bibron in their “Erpétologie généralem“ Vol. VUUU., 1841, p.510, for a genus of salamanders, hence I propose in its place the term Tiphodytes, nov. name.
SOME GALL-INSECTS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

Holcaspis Arizonica, n. sp.– Gall globular, 9 mm. diam, pale ochreous, not shiny, attached to the base of the petiole of a leaf of Quercus Arizonica, Sargent. There is a projecting point next to the place of insertion. Within, the gall is brown, fibrous, moderately dense, at least dithalamous.Fly emerging April 19, two females. Body 3½ mm. long, wings 3⅔mm; antennæ 2 mm., 15-jointed, joint 3 considerably the longest. Length of joints in μ: (3·) 360, (4·) 240, (5·) 200, (15·) 170. The joints, especially the apical ones, with fine longitudinal ridges, between which are rows of minute punctures. Head ferruginous; thorax and abdomen piceous; margins of mesthorax, and two spots on scutellum, dull ferruginous; legs bright ferruginous; anterior tibiæ with an apical projection' anterior tibial spurs bent; claws of all the legs falciform, with a large triangular basal tooth.
A PRELIMINARY LIST OF ACRIDIIDÆ OF ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M. 
Published: February 2010

Since the last of my “Notes on Some Ontalio Acridiidæ” were printed, five species have been added to the list, and the number of localities for those already recorded has been considerably increased. I think,therefore, that it will make the notes more complete to conclude them with a full list of the species of this family known to occur in the Province, with their distribution as hitherto recorded.Only a small portion of the territory included in the Province of Ontario has been at all thoroughly explored by entomologists, but I do not believe there are very many native species of Acridiidæ not included in the present list. Doubtless, horvever, some of the Manitoba and Minnesota forms extend into the north-western part of Ontario, while it is extremely probable that there are unrecorded species in the south-west, and possibly a few in the east and extreme north.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H. 
Published: February 2010

1830. Proctotrypides, Family (partim), Leach. Edinb. Ency., IX., p. 145.1830. Mutillidæ Family (partim), Leach. Opus cit., p. 147.1839. Cenoptera, Tribe 6, Haliday. Opus cit.1877. Cenoptera, Tribe 12, Forster. Ueber d. Syst. Werth d. Flugelg., p. 20.The family was first defined by that astute British systematist, A.H. Haliday, who, as early as 1839, very correctly placed the family among the Fossores.In 1893 the writer, in his Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidæ, followed the views of Prof. Westwood, and treated these insects as a subfamily in the Proctotrypidæ. Since that time, however, the extensive studies I have made into all families of the Hymenoptera have given me a much broader and more thorough knowledge of the families and their affinities, and I am now convinced that Haliday was right, that these insects are allied to the fossorial wasps, and have nothing to do with genuine Proctotrypoids; they are clearly alied to the Chrysididæ, through the Cleptinæ and Ameriginæ, and to the Sapygidæ, Tihiidæ, Cosilidæ, Thynnidæ, Myrmosidæ and Mutillidæ, –all parasitic families.
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ARCTIA PHALERATA, HARR
Authors: Gibson Arthur 
Published: February 2010

In the December number, 1900, of this journal, page 369, the writer published the life-history of the above Arctian. During the past summer, through the kindness of Mr. A. Kwiat, of Chicago, in forwarding eggs of A. phalerata (laid 18th June), I have had the opportunity of still further studying this species, and, as these larvæ varied considerably fromthose described in 1900, the following notes were made :In the larval stages i, ii and iii those bred in 1901 answered well to my former descriptions. In stage iv the larvæ were not so black as the specimens reared the previous year, but many of them showed the dorsal stripe. This stripe was also present in stage v, besides which 40 of the larvæ possessed a series of pale orange spots on sides between tubercles ii and iii, and iii and iv, and the skin of the body in a line with the upper spots(between tubercles ii and iii) was slightly grayish, not black like the rest of the skin; this and the spots gave the appearance of a faint lateral band, distinguishable on all segments but 2 and 13. In stage v in 1900 none of the larvæ showed the dorsal stripe.
NOTE ON NORTH AMERICAN ATTACI
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe. 
Published: February 2010

I repeat here, for the benefit of American readers, the descriptions of two abberations, given by me originally in the pages of the Insekten Börse, 1920.Samia Californica, ab. parvimacula—The male specimen is of a lighter red than usual, and the lunate discal spots are so reduced on all four wings as to appear half the usual size. They are, in fact, narrow, and only about 5 mm. in length, squarish in form. The antennæ are greatly reduced, the usual length being about 20 mm., while here they are only about 14 to 15 mm., and the pectinations appear to be proportionately reduced. The expanse is normal, about 95 mm., but at first sight the specimen suggests a different species.
A DAY'S COLLECTING IN FEBRUARY
Authors: de la Torre Bueno J. R. 
Published: February 2010

February 12th (Lincoln's Birthday), of this year, was unusually warm and spring-like. The temperature rose as high as 52°, and the clear sky and little wind made it a joy to be out in the open, in the sunshine.I went to Staten Island that day, with the intention of working up some Orthoptera with Mr. W. T. Davis, but the feel of spring in the air was irresistible, and as I was anxious to secure aquatic Hemiptera as early in the season as possible, we went by trolley to some woodland ponds near Richmond. The fields were very wet on the way, but hopping among the dry leaves were yound grasshoppers, emerged from their winter's sleep. Some Diptera also were hiding among them, and they were quite active when disturbed.