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CYPHODERRIS MONSTROSA
Authors: Turley Louis W. 
Published: February 2010

Some time ago, I read a very interesting article, by Dr. S. H. Scudder, in the Canadian Entomologist, on Cyphoderris monstrosa. The rarity of the insect, as set forth by Dr. Scudder's article, has led me to write the observations, of myself and others in this section, on an Orthopteran identified by Professor Aldrich and Professor Bruner as the above-named insect.In June of 1899, while walking through a pasture near Moscow, at dusk one evening, I heard a great many short, intermittent chirps, similar to the song of Oecanthus fasciatus; but more subdued and ventriloquial, and with longer pauses between the measures. I supposed them to be the songs of crickets, but never before having heard songs like them, I decided to make an acquaintance with their authors.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF NANNOTHEMIS BELLA, UHLER
Authors: Weith R. , Needham J. G. 
Published: February 2010

1. Field Observations on the Habits of the Species, by R. Weith.Nannothemis bella, Uhl., is one of the smallest of dragon-flies. Of its life-history we have had no knowledge up to the present time. Until the publicetion of Williamson's Catalogue of the Dragon-flies of Indiana, last year, it was recorded only from our north-east Atlantic seaboard. I have frequently met with it in Elkhart and St. Joe Counties, the two northermost counties in Indiana; but, what has been most perplexing to me, only in a few very restricted areas, these areas not exceeding 50 yards in length by 25 yards in width from margin of lake. The only places I have met with it are at Simonton Lake, a distance of four and one-half miles from the City of Elkhart, Indiana, and Indiana and Baldwin Lakes, thirteen miles north-east of Elkhart, on the boundary line that divides Indiana from Michigan. In the latter place, on a smaller area than at Simonton Lake, the imago is very numerous. Frequent endeavors to find the species at other places where similar conditions prevail proved unsuccessful.
SOME NEW DIPTERA
Authors: Robertson Charles 
Published: February 2010

Zodion palpalis, n. sp.♀.—Black, gray pollinose; face yellow, cheeks yellow, one-half the eye height; front reddish yellow, a narrow black line on each side above; antennæ reddish, second joint shorter than third; palpi black, quite long, clavate; mesonotum without stripes; scutellum with about twelve slender bristles; legs black, knees testaceous; wings subhyaline; first four segments of abdomen with large, subtriangular opaque black spots, last segment black, shining. Length, 5 mm.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CATOCALÆ
Authors: Dodge G. M. , Dodge E. A. 
Published: February 2010

Catocala retecta, Grt.Food-plant, hickory. Length of mature larva, two and one-half inches. Head rather flat, as broad as first segment, gray striped with dark brown, and with a broad black band, ragged iu front, running up each side to top of lobe, but not continued over the summit.The dorsal stripe consists of a series of rounded, brown patches with a black central line; tubercles, although not large, tipped with white, and conspicuous; subdorsal stripes brown, interrupted and indistinct.
THE COCCIDÆ OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Authors: King Geo. B. 
Published: February 2010

Since writing my first paper on the Coccidœ of British North America, a very large amount of new and interesting scale insects have been sent to me for study by Dr. Fletcher and Mr. John Dearness. In nearly every instance the twigs sent showed beyond question that the insects occurred upon the food-plants infested in injurious numbers; especially so of those found on blackberry, hazel-nut, spiræa, viburnum and oak. The following are new to the Canadian list:Pulvinaria tiliœ, King and Ckll., 1898. (Native.) Mr. John Dearness sent these from Thedford, ont, on Cephalanthus occidentalis. IT was first recorded fronl Mass., found on Tilia Americana, Quercus and Ulmus, and described as a sub-sp. of P. innumerabilis, but further study proves it to be quite different from that species, and it should stand as P. tiliœ.
SOME PLANT-LICE AFFECTING PEAS, CLOVER AND LETTUCE
Authors: Sanderson E. Dwight 
Published: February 2010

Nectarophora lactucœ, Walk.(Pl. III., 8.) Several writers have listed S. lactucœ, Kalt as an American species. That of Thomas is noted below. Dr. J. B. Smith gives the species in his Insects of New Jersey. Whether the species occurs in this country or not is open to question. It should be noted here that Kaltenbach's Aphis lactucœ is a Rhopalosiphum. Buckton gives both Siphonophora lactucœ, Kalt. and Rh. lactucœ, Kalt., though Kaltenbach described but one species. Walker (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 2, p. 49, 1849) in his description of the species confused it with Rh. lactucœ, Kalt., as Passerini has pointed out. Walker described it as Aphis lactucœ, Linn. and as a synonym of A. lactucœ, Kalt., though Kaltenbach had already shown A. lactucœ, Linn. to have been invalid, and that his species was entirely distinct. Walker also gives A. ribis-nigri, Mosley (Gard. Chron. I., 684) as a synonym. Mosley's description is hardly recognizable, but evidently is the same as some of the varieties described by Walker, both undoubtedly referring to Rhopalosiphum ribis, Linn., and Myzus ribis. Unfortunately, Walker describes only the coloration of his species. Part of his species is evidently, however, N. lactucœ. Passerini's description is too brief to be recognizable, but probably refers to the same species, as Buckton thought. Why Buckton described the species as S. lactucœ, Kalt., is not clear. Buckton follows Walker in giving Ribes nigrum and grossularia as food-plants, and remarks that Walker states that the cornicles are enlarged at the middle, but does not otherwise seem to confuse the species with others as did Walker.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF HIPPISCUS
Authors: Scudder Samuel H. 
Published: February 2010

Since the publication, in Psyche for 1892, of my study of the Orthopteran genus Hippiscus, a few additional species have come to light, and they are herewith described. The first species belongs to the subgenus Hippiscus, the others to the subgenus Xanthippus.Hippiscus citrinus, sp. nov.—A compact and stout though rather small form. Head rather stout and full, broad above, luteo-testaceous, more or less infuscated above, dark fuscous in a stripe behind the eyes, the carinæ more or less infuscated; summit of head obscurely punctate, the vertical scutellum obscure and, with the foveolæ, much as in H. compactus; frontal costa broad, flat, punctate, depressed at the ocellus, where it is slightly enlarged, but otherwise subequal; antennæ ferruginous in basal, blackish in apical half.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CARNEADES
Authors: Smith John. B. 
Published: February 2010

Carneades fusimacula, n. sp.Resembles redimicula in most points, but with the colours of divergens. The collar has the broad median black shade fo redimicula; but the primaries do not have the pale costa. Sub-costal and median veins gray. Ordinary spots outlined in gray, the orbicular oblong, oblique, open inferiorly and fused with the reniform, the outline being continuous. The spots are gray powdered and are preceded by black shadings in the cell. A blackish basal streak, to which is joined a long claviform extending half way across the median space: this is blackmargined but concolorous. S.t. line not marked, apex grayish, terminal space else nearly concolorous. In other characters much like divergens, with which, also, it agrees in size.
MR. GROTE'S CRITICISMS
Authors: Lyman Henry. H. 
Published: February 2010

As Mr. Grote has done me the honour to make certain criticisms on some of my recent papers, I would ask space for a brief reply.In regard to Gortyna Ærata,I have no doubt that it has an alternative food-plant, but possibly it may never be discovered. Mr. Bird has made the same point, that as burdock is an introducted species it could not be the original preferred food-plant of any American species. But, while I admiit that an introduced species could not be the original food-plant of an American insect, I see no reason why it should not be the preferred food since its introduction, just as Doryphora Decemlineata prefers the potato to its original food-plant.
THE EGG OF THE WATER SCORPION (RANATRA FUSCA)
Authors: Pettit R. H. 
Published: February 2010

In his “Insect Book,” Dr. L. O. Howard states that the egg of Ranatra has not as yet been described from the United States. It is hoped that the following note may be of itterest to someone :On June 24, 1900, the writer was so fortunate as to find a large number of these eggs at Pine Lake, near Lansing, Mich. As the eggs were not recognized at first, they were allowed to hatch, and the nymphs allowed to become about half-grown.
SYNONYMIC NOTES
Authors: Lyman Henry H. 
Published: February 2010

In 1834 Dejean proposed the name Euchætes for a genus of Coleoptera, and it had thus been preoccupied for seven years when Harris used it in 1841 for the moth named by Drury, Bombyx Egle.In 1858 it was used for a third time by Sclater for a genus of birds, and in 1876 Leconte described another genus of Coleoptera under this same much-used name.As it is a well-known rule of nomenclature that a generic name can be used only once in the animal kingdom, all subsequent use of the term for other genera is erroneous and must cease.It therefore becomes necessary to give other names, and I propose the name EUCHÆTIAS, from a kindred Greek word, for the genus erected by Harris. It is not necessary for me to define the genus, as it is well known, and this is merely a necessary change of name, the type, of course, being Egle, Drury.
HYDROECIA AMERICANA SPEYER, OR HYDROECIA ATLANTICA SMITH
Authors: Smith John B. 
Published: February 2010

To whom should a species be credited: to the author who names it a variety and declares positively that it is not distinct from another, which he considers the stem, or to the author who first points out the specific characters and establishes its distinctness?In 1875 Dr. A. Speyer, in his paper on “Europäisch-amerikanische Verwandschaften,” gives first, a list of American species which he cousiders distinct from European forms, a list of species occurring in both countries, a list of questionable forms, and then elaborates these lists by a series of notes. In the list of species common to both countries, he enumerates Hydroecia nictitans, and afterwards points out somer minor differences in the series before him, noting that Guenée had previously errumerated most of them. On page 152 of the volume he speaks as follows: “Als eigene Art wird sich die amerikanische Nictitans von der europaischen nicht trennen lassen, da ein völlig durchgreifender Unterschied zwischen beiden fehlt. Eine ausgezeichnete Varietat bildet sie aber jedenfalls.”
SOME NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN BEES—II
Authors: Robertson Charles 
Published: February 2010

In my neighbourhood I find the typical Andrena Cressonii, Rob., and the form described below as A. dubia, the latter more rare. To compare this with the form described as A. Bridwellii,Ckill., I have obtained from Mr. Bridwell for examination thiry-three specimens taken by ghim at Baldwin, Kansas, and labelled A. Cressonii, A. Kansensis, and A. Bridwellii.A. Kattsensis is the same as A.Cressonii, the colour of the pubescence being characteristic of unfaded specimetrs. Local specimens sometimes have the hind tibiæ and tarsi ferruginons in both sexes.
NOTES ON THE MOUTH-PARTS OF BOMBUS
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. , M'Nary John. 
Published: February 2010

We have lately studied the mouth-parts of a number of species of Bombus, both American and European, and adding our results to those obtained by Radoszkowski (1877) we find as follows :-(1)Taking the first joint of the labial palpus of the ♀ as an index of the length of the mouth-parts (it is especially convenient for accurate measurement), we find that the longest-mouthed species is B. Gerstackeri, from the European Alps (our examples were collected by Friese at Engelberg), a species known to be the exclusive visitor of Aconitum lycoctonumin that region. The Aconitum (Knuth, Blütenbiologie, Vol. II., p. 53, fig.20) has the hood enormously produced, and is adapted only to bees with extremely long tongues.
NOTES ON MR. LYMAN'S PAPERS
Authors: Grote A. Radcliffe. 
Published: February 2010

I was much interested by Mr. Lynran's careful paper on a species of Gortyna, boring in burdcck. If aerala, Lyman, is a good American species it shoutd have an alternative food plant, since the burdock is imported from Europe. From Mr. Lyman's detailed statements, the distinction from necopina is assured. The differentiation form nitela is not so clearly given.With regard to nitela, Mr. Lyman is quite correct, that Guenée first describes nebris and then nitela; and in my catalogue of 1874 I give the two as distinct species in the above order of their description. But in my Buffalo Check List of 1875 I place nitela first; and in 1882 I retain this sequence and record nebris as a variety of nitela. But I am not agreed with Mr.Lyman that nebris, the white-spotted type, represents the original form the species. I think the whit filling in of the ordinary spots a specialization, therefore a variation from the original form of the species.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H. 
Published: February 2010

Pompilus, Fabr., is preoccupied, and the family name Pompilidæ must be changed to Ceropalidæ, as has been shown recently by Fox (vide Ent. News, Vol. XII., 1901, p. 268). In consequence, my subfamily Pompilinæ must be changed to Aporinæ.This subfamily is unquestionably the largest in number of genera and species of any of the groups of the family Ceropalidæ (Pompilidæ). Most of the species, in comparison with those found in the Pespinæ, are of medium size or small, few attaining much over an inch in length, while the vast majority are much smaller.
A NEW SAWFLY
Authors: Cooley R. A. 
Published: February 2010

The Sawfly here described is a common pest on the leaves of various speices of Populus in Montana, and a Bulletin dealing with its life-histroy and economic significance is about to be published from the Montana Experiment Station. We give here an outline of its life-history, followed by descriptions of the two sexes.The adults appear on the foliage in May and continue there for about eight weeks. The female deposits her eggs singly on the very young, tender leaves, and at the same time stings, them in such a way as to cause the edge to fold under on the lower surface.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREDACEOUS AND PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY VESPOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William. H. 
Published: February 2010

1899. Myrmosidæ, Family, Ashmead; Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc., VII., p. 49 and 52.1903. Mullidæ, Famille (partim), André; Wytsman's Gen. Ins. Fam. Mutillidæ.This family, as here defined, is, I think, a natural one, although some of the genera have been placed previously, by different authors, in other families, with the Scoliidœ, Myzinidœ, Mutillidœ, etc.The females in this family may always be easily recognized by the thorax, which is distinctly divided into itwo parts, while the males, except in three or four cases, are easily distinguished by the genitalia, the hypopygium terminating in a sharp aculeus, which curves upwards, as in males in the family Myzinidæ with which they are often confused.
NOTES ON CULICIDÆ AND THEIR LARVÆ FROM PECOS, NEW MEXICO, AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GRABHAMIA
Authors: Theobald Fred. V. 
Published: February 2010

A small collection of mosquitoes has been sent me by Dr. Grabham, collected by himself and Mr. T.D.A. Cockerell at Pecos Canon, New Mexico, U.S.A.This collection was made in June and contains five species, namely:1. Theobaldia incidens, Thomson.2. Culex Kelloggii, Theobald.3. Culex consobrinus, Desvoidy.4. Grabhamia Curriei, Coquillett.5. Grabhamia vittata, nov. sp.
LIST OF CANADIAN COLEOPTERA
Authors: Evans John. D. 
Published: February 2010

6550, Orsodachna atra, Ahr., '79, '80.*6590, Coscinoptera dominicana, Fab., '80.*6592, Coscinoptera vittigera, Lec., '79.6610b, Bassareus pretiosus, Melsh, '80.6614a, Cryptocephalus notatus, Fab., 80.*6626, Cryptocephalus confluens, Say, '79.*6633, Cryptocephalus calidus Suffr., '80.6683, Pachybrachys carbonarius, Hald., '79.6690, Pachybrachys atomarius, Melsh., '80.
A NEW NORTH AMERICAN CATOCALA
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

Professor N. J. Kusnezov, of St. Petersburg, Russia has recently described a new Catocala from Texas, with four figures. A reprint of the description of the species may be of interest to American collectors, hence I reproduce it below:“Catacala orba, Kusnezov.—Expanse of male 48 mm; size of C. Judith. Strecker.“ Antennæ of male ciliate, gray, scaled above, with slight tuftings of hair below. (Palpi broken off.) Front densely covered with whitish-gray hairs. Patagia and front parts of tegulæ and mesothorax dark brown; vertex gray; the rest of tegulæ, nota, and crest on metathorax, whitishgray. Upper part, sides and crests of the abdominal somites dark gray; anal tuft long, dark gray, lighter below. Thorax on the under side and femora thickly clothed with long, dirty white hairs and scales. (Fore tibiæ broken off.)
TWO REMARKABLE NEW COCCIDÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

Of the two Coccidæ now described, the first is the type of a very peculiar new genus; the other is a very beautiful and interesting lac-insect.Stictococcus, n. g. —An aberrant genus of Lecaniinæ, with the anal orifice in the middle of the back, not connected with the hind margin by a slit or groove. Anal ring with six hairs in larva; none in adult. Anal plates so modified in adult as to be unrecognizable. Legs small, but well developed. Antennæ with 5 or 6 joints. Margin with long bristles, and flattened bifid or palmate plates or spines. Dorsum with numerous large pits.
A NEW BUTTERFLY FROM TEXAS
Authors: Dodge G. M. 
Published: February 2010

Nisoniades Llano, n.sp.Expanse about one inch. Primaries with inner to two-thirds black, marked by a triangular brown patch near base, resting on internal margin; a large similarly-coloured patch at outer end of cell, touching the costa, and bordered by a pale-brown line, which, starting from the costa about one-third of the distance from the apex, curves outward opposite the discal cell, and runs diagonally across to about the middle of the inner margin, and is twinned at its lower extremity by a similar line, which precedes it, and extends from inner margin to just across the median vein.
THE TOMB OF THOMAS SAY
Authors: Webster F. M. 
Published: February 2010

Entomologists in general, and Americans in particular, are much interested in all the pertains to one who has justly become known as the father of American entomology.As is generally known, the tomb containing the remains of this famous naturalist is on the grounds of the o ld Maclure home, in the city of New Harmony, Indiana.* This has recently changed owners, and the old house in which Say died has been remodelled, the older portion having been torn down. This was mede necessary by the crumbling of the walls, but the new owner, Mr. John Corbin, has only allowed this to be done where it became absolutely necessary. Fortunately, Mr. Corbin fully appreciates and reveres the historic old structure, and, as he stated recently to me. “has desecreated it just as little as possible.”
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CATOCALÆ
Authors: Dodge G. M. , Dodge E. A. 
Published: February 2010

Catocala obscura, Strecker. — Larvæ taken under hickory bark. Foodplant hickory. Described June 1st, 1903.General colour, gray with pale brown and black markings.No transverse band and no elevation of eighth segment.Head broad as first segment, flattened, gray, with a black dash on each cheek, extending from mouth two-thirds of the way to top of head, and ending in a point.Tubercles white, but not prominent; the dorsal tubercles being in a brownish stripe that is fairly distinct the entire length.
THE SPINNING HABITS OF NORTH AMERICAN ATTACI
Authors: Webster F. M. 
Published: February 2010

The note in the Canadian Entomologist for April 1903, by the late Prof. A. R. Grote, the one by Mr. J. Wm. Cockle, in the May number for the same year, and the one in the April 1904, number, all relating to this subject, have interested me greatly.Over 25 years ago I observed and recoreded for the first, I believe, the destruction of the pupæ of our very common Samia cecropia by the Downy Woodpecker, by puncturing the cocoons and feasting on the juices of the occupant. The habit of the insect in attaching its cocoon firmly to and parallel with the twigs and smaller limbs of trees places them at the mercy of these birds, especially during that part of the year when the trees are devoid of foliage.
THREE NEW LYCOSIDS
Authors: Chamberlin Ralph. V. 
Published: February 2010

Brief preliminary descriptions of the following species are given in order that the names may be used in another palce.Lycosa permunda, sp. nov.— ♀. Cephalothorax dark brown; a pale narrow median line extending backward from first eye now, widening abruptly in front of dorsal groove, and then gradually narrowing to a point at posterior margin; a broad light-coloured marginal stripe on each side not extending forward farther than the third eye row, its upper margin coarsely dentate, the lower border broken by a few dark dots, but not limited below by a continuous dark line or stripe at margin.
A NEW PROTEOPTERYX
Authors: Kearfott W. D. 
Published: February 2010

Proteoptervx Willingana, sp. nov.♂, 18 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, antennæ and fore wings, same shade of very light tan or pale brownish-fuscous, overlaid with a few blackish brown scales.Palpi: outer joint short, obtusely pointed; tuft on second joint flattened and appressed, lower scales extending to outer end of outer joint. Head roughtly scaled. Eyes black with coppery reflection. Antennæ annulated with fuscous and brown. Thorax smooth.
THE BEE-GENUS APISTA, ETC
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

When writing (p. 330) on the genus Apista, F. Smith, 1861, I unfortunately overlooked the fact that the generic name is long preoccupied (Apista, Hübn, 1816, and the similar Apistus, Cuvier, 1829). The bee genus from Brazil may therefore be known as Egapista, n. n., type Egapista opalina (Apista opalina, Smith).I find that the name of the African bee-genus Serapis, F. Smith, 1854, is also preoccupied (Serapis, Link, 1830); it may be changed to Serapista; type Serapista denticulata (Serapis denticulatus, Smith).The name Eumorpha proposed by Friese for a group of bees, is also preoccupied. The group Rhodocentris, Friese, includes the type of the prior Heterocentries, Ckll.; so the latter name must be used for the group, unless (as seems probable) it can be divided.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON APHROPHORA PARALLELA, SAY
Authors: Girault A. Arsene. 
Published: February 2010

This Spittle insect of the Pine was abundant on two trees on the campus of Blacksburg, Virginia, last summer, and an attempt was made to observe its oviposition and to work out its complete life-history.Owing to lack to time this was not successful, but the following notes may be of some interest:The Protective Secretion.—The material under which the nymphs live consists of a cler albuminous liquid, exuded by the insect, mixed intimately with bubbles of air introducted by the nymph after secretion; it is tasteless, or slightly salty.
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN STRATIOMYIDÆ
Authors: Melander A. L. 
Published: February 2010

1. O. binotata, Loew.Chicago, Ill. (July); Austin, Tex. (May); Colo.2. O. cincta, Olivies.Chicago and Algonquin, Ill. (June).3. O. dorsalis, Fabricius.Hayti4. O. arcuata, LoewChicago, Ill, (July); Colo.5. O. nigrirostris, Loew.Chicago, Ill.; Austin, Tex.; Colo.; Lusk, Wyom. (August).
NOTES ON THE LOCUSTIDÆ OF ONTARIO
Authors: Walker E. M. 
Published: February 2010

22. Atlanticus pachymerus, Burm.— The Shield-back Grasshopper.Decticus pachmerus, Burm, Handb. der Ent., II., 1838, 712.Thyreonotus pachymerus, Scudd., Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862, 453.Atlanticus pachymerus, Scudd., Can. Ent., XXVI., 1894. 179.