bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MELITÆA FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Authors: Edwards W. H. 
Published: February 2010

Melitæa Augusta.Male.—Expands from 1.6 to 1.75 inch; belongs to Chalcedon group, but is an conspicuously red as the species Chalcedon is black; upper side black, the surface nearly covered with light red and pale yellow spots, disposed as in the group; the basal areas dusted with yellow scales which, on primaries, extend along both margins; costa of same wing edged red; both hind margins bordered by small red spots, varying in shape, sometimes narrow and as of a broken stripe, sometimes more or lesss rounded to ovate; the spots of second row ar small, lunular, largest of secondaries, edged with red, the interior being yellow, or they are nearly all red with a small yellow patch in middle; sometimes this yellow is thinly washed red; the third row on primaries is either wholly yellow, or yellow with red edges, particularly on the outer side; on secondaries wholly red, and often very deep, so as to make a conspicuous broad band; the fourth row on primaries is red, sometimes with the spots next the two margins either yellow or in put yellow; around the end of cell yellow spots four or five in number; in the cell spots of red and yellow alternately, four in all, the yellow one at base more or less stained red; two yellow spots below cell with black ground between, and nearer base a small duplex red one; the fourth row on secondaries is yellow, either of small spots or pretty large ones, and the three or four from costal margin are red on their outer side; a red stripe outside the cell from the end to costal margin; two small yellow spots inside cell, with a red one between them and a yellow spot below; fringes yellow, black at the tips of the nervules.
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B. 
Published: February 2010

As the description of this species is not readily accessible to students, I reproduce it here:-“Female rosy red; body densely clothed, and partly pale yellow beneath; head with a pale yellow band on the front; palpi extreemely short; thorax with six longitudinal pale yellow streaks; abdoment rosy, lanuginous and partly yellow to the base, extending much beyond the hind wings; fore wings with some pale yellowish streaks toward the base, with three exteriro whitish macular, very oblique bands; spots mostly cuneiform; cost straight; tips slightly acute; exterior borders slightly convex, extremely oblique; first and second inferior veins contiguous at the base; third very near the second; fourth remote from the third; hind wings whitish cinereous, slightly hyaline; veins and fringe slightly yellowish.
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA—NO. 6
Authors: Hamilton John 
Published: February 2010

Corymbites nigricornis Panz. (metallicus Payl. nitidulus Lec.)This species is widely distributed in North America, from Hudson Bay to Massachusetts, and westwardly to the Rocky Mountains through which it extends to New Mexico. It also inhabits Siberia, Central and Northern Europe. The typical form (European) is described as meatallic black, with the two basal joints of the antennæ and the feet rufous.
ON THE FOOD-HABITS OF NORTH AMERICAN RHYNCHOPHORA
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M. 
Published: February 2010

Orchestes niger and O. subhirtus are both found on willow when in bloom. (Harrington Can. Ent, 16, p. 119.)Orchestes niger and O. pallicornis were taken together in July on the leaves of low willows by Mr. Chittenden. O. ephippiatus was found in abundance on willow (Salix fragilis) by Mr. C.W Leng and myself on Staten Island, N.Y.
SOME NEW COLORADO MOTHS
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

Cossus Brucei, nov. spec.Expanse, male 2.50, female 3.00 inches.Ground color, very pale gray, almost white, no dusky shading over the wing. Fore wings crossed by a great number of fine black lines. In the male none of these form reticulations except a few along the basal half of the internal vein and near the outer margin. The female has a few more of the reticulations in the outer third of the wing. On the male one line more prominent than the rest crosses the wing through the middle from the costa to the posterior margin at the origin of the fourth median vein, forming a straight line.
ON CERTAIN STATEMENTS IN SCUDDER'S “BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND.”
Authors: Edwards W. H. 
Published: February 2010

As Mr. Scudder has charged me with blunders of one sort or other, I am compelled to notice the matter, as slience on my part would properly be construed as an acknlowledgement that he was right.O. On p. 1805, the synonymy of Argynnis (Brenthis) Freija is given, closing thus: “Argynnis Chariclea Edw., in his catalogues.” And on p. 180, under Chariclea: “Argynnis Freya Edw., in his cat.”
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE ARCTIIDÆ OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES
Authors: Smith John. B. 
Published: February 2010

A. stretchii Grt.1875—Grt., Can. Ent., VII. 197. Arctia1883—Neum., Papilio, III., 150. =intermedia.1886—Grt., Can. Ent., XVIII., 110, an var intermedia?Habitat—Texas.
APPENDIX TO THE NOTES ON INSECT FAUNA OF HIGH ALTITUDES
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A 
Published: February 2010

Mr. L. Bruner has kindly identified the following Orthoptera, found at 10,000 feet and upwards:-Circotettix undulatus Thos. near Micawber Mine, Aug. 6.Ceuthophilus maculatus Scudd.,♀, near Micawber mine.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW CANADIAN BRACONIDÆ
Authors: Ashmead W. M. H. 
Published: February 2010

The interesting new species of Branconid describedæ below, unless otherwise state, were all captured by my good friend. Mr. W. Hague Harrington, at Ottawa, Canada.Bracon Fabr(1)Bracon brachyurus n. sp.♀—Length 2⅘ mm.; ovip ⅕ mm. Black, polished; mandibles, palpi and legs, except the posterior coxæ and the basal two-thirds of their femora, yellowish-brown. Tegulæ honey-yellow. The head is transverse, the cheeks rounded off posteriorly. Antennæ 22-jointed. The parapsides are not sharply defined, only indicated by slight depressions in the mesonotal surface.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF CANADIAN PIMPLINÆ
Authors: Harrington W. Hague. 
Published: February 2010

Xorides caryœ, n. sp.Female.—Length 11 to 16 mm. Black with yellowish-white markings. Head swollen, interior orbits, interrupted opposite antennæ punctured, between antennæ and ocelli polished; antennæ slender black. Thorax with the pectus and pleuræ finely punctate, polished; disc of mesothorax transversely rugulose; metathorax rounded, faintly sulcate medially and rugosely punctured and aciculated; sides of prothorax, two lines on mesothorax, two spots, sometimes confluent, on scutellum, the post-scutellum, the tegulæ and a broad stripe of pleura, contined on middle coxa, yellow-whitel legs, including coxæ, pale rufous or honey-yellow, anterior ones paler, the anterior coxæ stripe on middle coxæ outwardly, second joint of trochanters and the knees yellow, tibiæ and tarsi piceous or blackish, the former with a pale line within; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma black.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF SMERINTHUS EXCÆCATUS, A. & S
Authors: Beutenmuller W. M. 
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Oval; pale apple green, smooth shining; slightly flattened above and below. Width, 2 mm.; height, 1.50 mm.Clemens, in his Synopsis of North American Sphingidæ, p. 182 (Journ.Ac. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1859), describes the egg as being “smooth, white, with an equatorial reddish-brown band, having a slender central white line.” All the eggs, about one hundered and fifty in number, which I examined were entirely green, with no indications whatever of the bands mentioned by Clemens.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE.—II
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Junoniacœnia, Hubn.Egg.—Spherical, a little flattened at the base, with about twelve vertical ribs running to the micropyle; colour, shining pale green; diameter; .5 mm.First Stage.—Head rounded, black and shiny; width, .25 mm. Body sordid greenish, with long black hairs curving forward, arising from small lustrous tubercles. Feet concolorous with the body.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ARGYNNIS FROM ALBERTA TERRITORY
Authors: Edwards W. H. 
Published: February 2010

Argynnis VictoriaMale.—Expands two inches. Upper side pale fulvous, primaries a little obscured next base, secondaries largely, the dark area covering nearly the basal half; the black markings rather heavy; a common black marginal border, narrow on primaries, one-third wider on secondaries; a common series of small submarginal spots, sub-oval on primaries, crescent on secondaries, and on neither wing touching the marginal border; the rounded spots largest on primaries; the discal angular band on same wing heavy, on secondaries light; a bar on arc of cell of primaries, another crossing the cell a little within, a rounded elongated spot depending from subcostal, near middle of cell, and a crescent close to the base; in the submedian interspace an angular cross bar; on secondaries a V shaped spot at end of cells.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE.—III
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Phyciodes mylitta. Edw.Egg.—Not observed; but laid about 50 together.Frist Stage.—Head shining black; width .25mm. Body cylindrical; cervical shield and anal plate black; fine black hairs, slightly curving forward, arise from minute black elevated spots.Second Stage.—Head black and shiny; width .40mm. The body is covered with rows of conical elongated tubercles, each with many bristly hairs, arranged as in the mature larva. Sordid greenish, shaded with black dorsally, the cervical shield, anal plate and tubercles black.
A TACHINID BRED FROM A CHRYSALIS
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler 
Published: February 2010

Meigenia websteri, n. sp.Female.—Head a little wider than thorax and abdomen. Eyes brown, very sparsely hairy; front and face not quite one half the width of head; front a little prominent; frontal vitta about one-fourth the width of front, brown, lighter behind where it splits on each side of the ocelli; frontal bristles in a single row, descending a little below base of third antennal joint, some fine hairs on sides of front outside them; two orbital bristles; sides of front with a slightly brassy tinge; sides of face moderately wide; a little less than one-half the width of the facial depression, silvery, bare; face slightly receding, facial depression silvery, facial ridges cliliate to a little below base of third antennal joint; cheeks moderately wide, cinereous, hairy, with bristles on lower border; vibrissæ inserted at a little distance above the oral margin; antennæ not as long as the face, blackish, third joint slightly reddish at base; second joint not elongate, bristly; third joint not widened, more than three times as long as the second; arista black, microscpically pubescent, thickened more than half its length, three-jointed, the second joint hardly elongate; proboscis, brown, fleshy, not so long as height of head, labella well developed, palpi well developed flavous club-shaped, thickened and curved at the tip, black bristly; occiput cinereous, gray hairy below, with fringe of black hairs on orbital margins.
LONGEVITY AND VITALITY OF ARGAS AND TROMBIDIUM
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary. E. 
Published: February 2010

It seems incredible that creatures as highly organized as the ticks and mites should be able to live for months and even years without food, and, in the case of some of the former, are capable of surviving even a prolonged immersion in a somewhat acrid fluid.As an illustration of this remarkable vitality I wish to call attention to the case of two species that have come under my observation during the past year.
NEW N. A. MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Fernald C. H. 
Published: February 2010

Psecadia delliella n. sp.Expanse of wings, 21 mm. Palpi white, with the outside of the first two joints black, Head white. Antennæ brown, white above basally. Thorax snow white, with two black bands, one across the middle and the other across the scutellum.
FOOD PLANTS OF SOME BOMBYCIDÆ AND NOCTUIDÆ NOT INCLUDED IN H. EDWARDS'S CATALOGUE
Authors: Thaxter Roland 
Published: February 2010

The following brief list of food plants of Bombycidæ and Noctuidæ, not included in the recently issued catalogue of Mr. Henry Edwards, may be of some interest to persons engaged in rearing Lepidoptera. When not otherwise stated the insects have been found and reared, or reared from the eggs by myself, and were mostly collected at Kittery, Maine:-Bombycidæ
NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF LEPISESIA FLAVO-FASCIATA, BARNSTON
Authors: Lyman H. H. 
Published: February 2010

Havin been asked by Sir William Dawson to look over two collections of insects which had been sent in in competition for a prize, I was delighted to find in one of them a speciment of this very rare moth.Knowing that everything in connection with the capture of such a rarity would be of interest, I asked Sir William to ascertain from Mr. R. McDougall, the collector, all the facts that he could furnish in connection with such an interesting event, and I duly received, through Sir William, a letter about it, from which I extract the following account:-“The moth was caught at Ormstown, Chateauguay County, and was the only one observed during the summer.
SOME RARE LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN NEAR MONTREAL
Authors: Winn A. F. 
Published: February 2010

Thecla laeta, Edw. I was fortunate enough to take a female of this rare and beautiful butterfly on the top of Beloeil Mt., 22 miles east of Montreal, on May 24th, 1888. I again visited the place on the same date in 1889 and 1890, but on both occasions the weather was too cloudy for anything to be on the wing.Thecla acadica, Edw. I took two specimens at St.Rose, July 7th, 1889, flying over a field of oats, among which there was a quantity of wild mustard in flower, and the butterflies visited the latter occasionally, but only for a moment, and then dashed off.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA—IV
Authors: Van Duzee E. P. 
Published: February 2010

Gnathodus impictus, n. sp.Green, or yellow greein in the dried specimen; scutellum and all beneath quite strongly tinged with yellow. Corium whitish hyaline, nervures green and strong, especially in the male. Wings white, iridescent, nervures pale. Eyes balckish. Anetnnæ and legs soilded yellow tinged with green, especially on the posterior tibiæ. Otherwise immaculate.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS—PACKING INSECTS FOR TRANSPORTATION
Authors: Wickham H. F. 
Published: February 2010

By request of Mr. Fletcher I add a few remarks to his article in the January number on “Killing, Preserving and Relaxing Insects,” though the subject is so well treated there as to leave little room for additional comment.The action of the cyanide bottle cannot be depended on as effectual in such a short time as Mr. Fletcher mentions, except in the case of the most tender insects, many Rhynchophora will live there for several hours unless the bottle is quite freshly prepared, and I know of one case in which a Coelocnemis remained alive all night confined in a bottle strong enough to quickly overcome the large southwestern species of Cleonus.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Fernald C. H. 
Published: February 2010

Teras comandrana, n sp.Expanse of wings 13 mm. Head, palpi thorax, and basal half of forewings, light yellowish-brown or fawn coloured. A large cinnamonbrown tringular spot rests on the costa, extending from the middle to the outer fourth, and the apex extends nearly half way across the wing. The outer part of the wing is light cinnamon-brown, and the whole surface is crossed by numerous oblique, irregular metallic band, which are visible only in an oblique light. A row of minute black tufts alon ghe inner side of the costal spot, two or three more near the fold below, one on each side of the fold at the basal third of the wing, and three near the middle of the wing at the outer fourth. Fringe concolorous with the outer part of the wing.
A NEW DASYLOPHIA FROM FLORIDA
Authors: Slosson Annie Trumbull 
Published: February 2010

Dasylophia puntagorda, n. sp.♂.—Head and thorax appearing palest gray from admixture of pure white with cinereous. Abdomen, secondaries and ground colour of primaries sordid white. Primaries streaked longitudinally with blackish, which contrasts violently with ground colour. A diffuse, heavy, blackish shade rund obliquely from apex inward. A curved blackish line, reaching neither costa nor internal margin at outer three-fourths of wing.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ANTHOOHARIS
Authors: Wright W. G. 
Published: February 2010

A. Flora, n. sp.♂, expanse 1.40–1.75. White. Forewings blackish at base; many black scales along costa; bar broad, at costa reaching inwards, and at the middle with an angle outwards into the orange, with a broadening, vaguely-edged stripe connecting it to the margin near inner angle; orange patch very large, deep reddish coloured, the colour extending to costa and also to outer margin near the angle; apical margin black with obtuse serrations inside, the lower end becoming maculate of merely of roundish spots in the edge of teh orange patch; fringe whie and black.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TACHINIDÆ, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES.—Paper VI.
Authors: Townsend C. H. Tyler 
Published: February 2010

This paper contains descriptions entirely of Southern New Mexican forms, with the exception of two from the State of Chihuahua, Mexico.Sarcomacronychia sarcophagoides, n. sp. ♀.Eyes brown; frontal vitta narrow, blackish, front one-fourth width of head; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white; the double rows of frontal bristles nearly equal; vibrissæ distinct, short, decussate, inserted well above oral margin; antennæ and arista blackish, second antennal joint slightly rufous at ends, third one and a-half times as long as second; proboscis black, labella brown; palpi slender, brown; occiput cinerous, short black-bristly.
THE LARVA OF ANCERYX FASCIATA, SWAINS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

In July, 1891, Mr. I. I. Bowrey gave me a sphingid larva, about to pupate, which I described as follows:-Larva.— Chœerocampa like, ground colour pale ochreous, sides immaculate. Dorsal region (sharply defined from sides) dark, from a close, fine black marbling or mottling, which tends to run in anteroposterior lines. A band-like process of this marbling enters the side area on each segment, obliquely projecting towards, but hardly reaching the spiracle.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN MOLE-CRICKET—GRYLLOTALPA BOREALIS
Authors: Doran E. W. 
Published: February 2010

Although this is a common insect in many parts of the United States, it is not generally found in great numbers in any locality, and, notwith standing its general distribution, the various staes of the insect seem not to have been describe or figured.While I am not yet able to clear up all the points in its history, I have studied the insect in all its stages, though I have not reared it from the egg to maturity, on account of the time required for it to develop—in all probability three years.
NOTES ON THE INSECT FAUNA OF THE MISSISSIPPI BOTTOMS
Authors: Weed Howard Evarts 
Published: February 2010

Geographically the State of Mississippi divided into what is known as the hills and the swamps. The hills comprise the middle and eastern portions of the State, while the swamps comprise the western border or the country adjacent to the Mississippi River, the larger portion of which is overflowed every year.The insect fauna of this region presents many things of interest, there being an absence of many species found in other parts of the State, doubtless owing to the inundation and consequent drowning out in the spirng of the year. Indeed, how it is that some of the species which are quite common in this region survive an overflow lasting from three weeks to two or over three months, I leave for other to explain.
THE WEB-WORM TIGER (PLOCHIONUS TIMIDUS, HALD)
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary. E. 
Published: February 2010

It would seem appropriate that this hitherto somewhat rare and inconspicuous little carabid should be brought to the notice of the Entomological Club of the A.A.A.S. in its new role of a benefactor.I have been observing its habits for two years, and am confident that to it, more than to any other agent, do we, in the neighborhood of St.Louis, owe our present comparative freedom from the Web-worm nuisance. Whereas formerly almost every other tree would, at this season of the year, be infested with one or more of the disfiguring nests, they are now so few and far between that it requires some search to find one.
CANADIAN HYMENOPTERA.—No. 1
Authors: Harrington W. Hague 
Published: February 2010

Under this heading, I propose to give from time to time descriptions of new species in my collection, and such notes on other species as may seem of value to students of our fauna.Notopygus americana, n. sp.— Female, length 10 mm.,; head, antennæ, thorax, coxæ and first segment of abdomen, black; remainder of abdomen and legs red; antennæ as long as head and thorax, filifrom, joints short and subequal; thorax elongate, shining; metathorax, rounded and obliquely truncate; wings; slightly infumated, with black nervures; abdomen shining, as long as thorax, triangularly clavate, truncate at apex, with the ovipositor curved upward; sheaths black.
DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW WEST AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Holland W. J. 
Published: February 2010

1. E. castanea, sp. nov.♂. The form of the wings is exactly like that of Senegalensis, H. S. Upperside.—The ground colour is rich chestnut-brown, marked by broad black series of spots and bands. Upon the primaries these markings are as follows:-In the cell a longtiudinal basal streak, a transverse line, a figure 8, a twice curved transverse line, and a broad bar at the end of the cell constricted in the middle; below the cell there is a short basal band curving inwardly; beyond the cell there is a wide band running from the costa toward the outer margin as far as the lower radial; and then abruptly turning and extending to the middle of the inner margin; beyond this is a broad band of diffuse spots, wide on the costa, narrower beyond the end of the cell, and gradually widening as it apporaches the inner margin; beyond this is a submarginal series of very black round spots.
NORTH AMERICAN THYSANURA
Authors: Macgillivray Alex. D. 
Published: February 2010

Smynthurus spinatus, n. sp.Olive. Head tinted with purple, lighter on the sides, olive around the mouth and eyes; coarsely and sparsely punctuate, punctures light olive, each bearing a white hair. Antennæ purplish, basal joint lighter, as long as the body; apical segment with from seventeen to twenty subsegments. Abdomen fuscous with lighter spots; the apical part with an olivaceus cloud, the remainder fuscous with whitish or olivaceous blotches; on the middle of the back a number of groups or circular white spots, and on the posterior part of each side a row of white spots, varying from four to ten.
A NEW GASTROPACHA
Authors: Rivers J. J. 
Published: February 2010

Phyllodesma Dyari n. sp.—General apperance of the palest sienna or yellowish-ochre. Thorax and patagia thickly clothed with short hair of a uniform pale tone, the abdominal covering similar, but longer and finer, which gives to it a slightly silky appearance.♂. Anterior wings with the anal angle deeply emarginate; three lines of dusky spots cross the disc ending near the costa, these being lines rather than bands.
DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Colias Behrii, Edw.Egg.—Spindle shapted, a little contraced just before the tip, with low longitudinal and transverse ridges, which divide the surface into shallow, rectangular parallelograms. Length, 1.3 mm.; width, .6 mm. The eggs are laid singly on the upper side of the leaves of a species of ground huckleberry, its food plant.First stage.—Head rounded, dark brown; width; .25 mm. Body of normal shape, sordid whitish, apparently without marks; minutely pilose.