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

No species seems to be known in this family outside of the European and North American faunas, and very few species are described. The group was first treated as a subfamily by Newman as early as 1834.The imagoes appear very early in the year, or in February, March and April, deposit their eggs and then disappear, the consequence being that very few are taken and only a few of the commoner forms are known. With more careful collecting early in the season, however, the probabilities are that many more species will be discovered in our fauna.The imagoes of three distinct species of these insect, representing as many genera, have been bred recently from the larvæ by Dr. H. G. Dyar, and we are not only indebted to him for the first authentic life-history of a species in this group, but also for the first scientific description of the larva. His recent discovery of a large undescribed species in the rare genus Pleuroneura was most unexpected.
NEW COCCIDAE
Authors: Ehrhorn Edw. M. 
Published: February 2010

Eriococcus adenostomae, n. sp.♀ enclosed in an oval (at one end more or less pointed) sac about 3 mm. long and 1½ mm. broad, wooly, snow-white, of uniform texture.♀ oval, about half again as long as broad, dark purple, turning bright crimson when placed in K. H. O. Body about 1½ mm. long. Antennae light brown, 7-jointed, formula: approximately (347) (12) 56, joint 3 equal 5+6. Most of the joints with hairs; joint 7 with several comparatively long hairs.
NOTE ON THE LARVA OF MELANOMMA AURICINCTARIUM, GROTE.
Authors: Dyar Harrison G. 
Published: February 2010

This genus will have to be transferred to the Noctuidæ.Larva cylindrical feet normal on joints 7–10, 13, about equally developed. Tubercles minute, setæ long, fine, iv. opposite the lower edge of the spiracle, a little nearer to v. than to iii., and rather far behind the spiracle; setæ single, several on the smooth leg plates. Segments obscurely 5-annulate. All green; spiracles small, brown; no marks; cervical shield and anal plate uncornified, invisible. (Head broken off.) Feeds on “hockelberry” (Vaccinium?).
NOTES ON SOME ONTARIO ACRIDIIDÆ
Authors: Walker E. M. 
Published: February 2010

10. Arphia sulphurea, Fabricius.Gryllus sulphureus, Fab. Species Insectorum, I., 369 (1781).Acrydium sulphureum, Palisot de Beauvois. Ins. d'Afr., et d'Am., 145 (1817).Œdipoda sulphurea, Burm. Handbuch, II., 643 (1838).Locusta sulphurea, Harr. Ins. Inj. to Veg., 177 (1862).Tomonotus sulphureus, Sauss. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., XIII., 321 (1862).Arphia sulphurea, Sauss. Prodromus Œd. Ins., etc., 71 (1884).This species is one of the earliest to appear in the spring, making itself conspicuous on the wing by its bright yellow wings and rattling stridulation. It is quite common about Toronto in open, sandy, uncultivated lands, especially where these are scattered with low bushes and scrubby trees. I have never seen it about Lake Simcoe, though there are spots there which would apparently make a suitable home for it.
THE FREEZING OF INSECTS
Authors: Lyman Henry H. 
Published: February 2010

In the 22nd Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, being that for 1891, there appeared a paper from my pen under the title “Can Insects Survive Freezing?”I have recently come across further records of observations upon this subject, and deem them of sufficient interest to be republished in the Canadian Entomologist.In looking over and interesting book of travels entitled “A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north-west passage, etc., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772, by Samuel Hearne,” published in 1796, I came across the following interesting notes on page 397
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F. 
Published: February 2010

Resembles the preceding genus in form, but the angulation or tuberculation of the prothoracic flanks is better marked. The Canadian species are few. Mr. Leng has thus defined them, following, in the main, a previous arrangement of Dr. Horn:A. Front flat, mouth in same plane. Elytra without angular mark posteriorly, sides of thorax arcutate, the spine small and acute. Elytra without erect scales. .24–.48 in……… variegatus, Hald.
CHRYSOPHANUS THOK OF GRAY – WHY IS IT NOT C. HYLLUS, CRAMER?
Authors: Butler A. G. 
Published: February 2010

In my Catalogue of Fabrician Diurnal Lepidoptera, p. 173, I (in 1869) unhesitatingly identified examples of a Chrysophanus in the British Museum collection with Cramer's Papilio hyllus, and at the present time I do not see the slightest valid reason for altering that decision.In his “Butterflies of the Eastern United States,” Dr. Scudder, at the end of his synonomy of Chrysophanus thoe, says, “Not Papilio hyllus, Cram.”; but, in his account of the species, I find no reason adduced for this assumption, though I can readily believe that the incorrect locality, “Smyrna,” given by Cramer, and the somewhat careless drawing of the spots across the disk of primaries, may have influenced him.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF DELTOCEPHALUS
Authors: Ball E. D. 
Published: February 2010

Resembling imputans, Osb. & Ball, but with a much longer vertex; vertex longer than in producta, Walk. Olive green, a spot on the middle and another at the tip of each elytron and all below balck. Length, ♀, 4 mm.; ♂, 3.5 mm.; width, 1.75 mm.Vertex flat, strongly acutely angled, the tip rounding, almost twice as long as the pronotum, fully twice longer than width between eyes, margin sharp, angle with the face acute; front depressed, almost as much above the ocelli as below, lateral margins straight, continuous with those of the clypeus; lorae small, two-thirds the width of the clypeus; pronotum over twice wider than long — half the length within the anterior curve; elytra flaring, venation of the reflex-veined type, the second cross nervure wanting.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MASSACHUSETTS COCCIDÆ.–III
Authors: King Geo. B. 
Published: February 2010

(46) Aspidiotus hederœ, Vall.; 1829-1897. I.This is a very common pest in all greenhouses at Lawrence, and no doubt in all greenhouses in the State. It is found at Lawrence on Ivy, Palms and Cycas. A variety determined by Prof. Cockerell as probably ericœ, Boisd., on heather (Erica) in a greenhouse at Lawrence. The scale is longer than typical hederœ, and of a yellowish cast, and also covered more or less with the epidermis of the plant. Hederœ has been recorded from Kansas, Utah, Illinois, California, Florida, Colorado, New Maxico, and New York, on Ivy, China-tree, Lemon, Oleander, Orange, Lace-fern=Asparagus plumosa, Acacia, Maple, Yucca, Plum, Cherry, Currant, Melia, Grass and Clover.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENTOMOPHILOUS WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY SPHEGOIDEA
Authors: Ashmead William H. 
Published: February 2010

The sessile abdomen, always without a constriction between the first and second segments, but above all the very large, free, triangularly elongated labrum, which is always much longer than wide at base, the sinuate or ≀-shaped transverse median nervure in the hind wings, and the aborted ocelli, at once distinguished the family.Most authorities have confused, or at least included this family with the family Stizidæ, which also has a more or less prominent labrum; but in the Stizidæ the ocelli are always distinct, normal, the labrum is most frequently semicircular, always wider than long, while the middle tibiæ have two distinct apical spurs, characters of great taxonomic value, readily recognizable, and which at once separate them from the Bembicidæ.
SOME NEW SPECIES OF HADENA
Authors: Smith John B. 
Published: February 2010

Hadena (Xylophasia) runata, n. sp.Ground colour smoky brown or blackish, varying in shade even to a reddish admixture. Head usually a little reddish, with a black band crossing the front. Collar usually paler at the base, crossed by a black line about the middle; usually tipped with paler scales. Thorax with a distinct divided crest, which often contains an admixture of lighter vestiture, patagiæ with paler tips, a blackish submargin, and a disk as dark as the general ground colour. Primaries powdery, mottled, with all the markings well defined; no contrasts, save that the median space is usually darker than the rest of the wing. Basal line geminate, black, including a few whitish scales, and reaching to a narrow, short basal line which ends at the point of junction with the tranverse marking. T. a. line black, geminate, the outer defining line well marked, the inner vague, except at the interval margin, where an oblique black shade extends inward along the margin.
LIFE HISTORY OF HYPSOROPHA HORMOS, HÜBN
Authors: Dyar Harrison G. 
Published: February 2010

H. hormos is not uncommon on the persimmon in Alexandria County, Virginia. The species is double-brooded.Egg. — Less than hemispherical, domed; ribbed with about 48 ribs around the margin, rather low, distinct, diminishing by confluence in pairs toward vertex, very slightly waved. Cross striae faint lines crossing the hollows, scarcely indicated on the ribs. Micropyle somewhat broadly finely rouncled reticular, not ridged. Diameler .6 mm.
LIST OF COLEOPTERA FROM HALIFAX, N. S.
Authors: Evans J. D. 
Published: February 2010

The beetles enumerated below were taken in 1897, some of them while the writer visited that city on the occasion of the annual meeting of The Royal Society of Canada, in June. Unfortunately, the weather was most unpropitious for insect hunting until the last day, when quite a number were taken, and later on in the season the list was increased by captures made by a brother, resident of the city.While some of the species were well represented, very many were by only one or two specimens, and in a few cases by three or four. I feel very gratful to Prof. H. F. Wickham for kindly determining many of the species.
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION OF SPILOSOMA CONGRUA
Authors: OTTOLENGUI R. 
Published: February 2010

I have found the discussion of the identity of Spilosoma congrua, originating with the article by Rev. Dr. Fyles, most interesting, and am tempted to record certain facts not in consonance with the published views of the gentlemen who have already written.Dr. Fyles appears to argue that cunea may be congrua. He tells us, speaking of textor, that there is one brood in his locality usually spotless and measuring 14 lines, and then states that “southward there is a second brood of textor noted for its variations, this being supposed to be the cunea of Drury.” He then refers to Prof. Riley's figures of cunea (Forest Insects, page 245), and declares that with his series of bred specimens of congrua he can match all of Prof. Riley's figures in maculation, and especially in size.
COTRIBUTIONS TO COCCIDOLOGY.—I
Authors: Tinsley J. D. 
Published: February 2010

Dactylopius sorghiellus, Forbes. Syn. D. Kingii, Ckll.Dr. S. A. Forbes has kindly sent me the type material of this species, which I have examined with much interest. The material studied consisted of 4 specimens. As is usual with these subterranean forms the antennæ are quite variable, both in the number of segments and their relative length.Only two of the antennæ of the 4 specimens were 8 jointed, the others being 7-jointed, and some plainly aborted. After careful measurement and study, I conclude that the forms described by Cockerell in Science-Gossip, Feb., 1897, p. 240, as D. Kingii, must be referred to this species.
EARLY STAGES OF TRIGONOPHORA PERICULOSA, Gn.
Authors: Fyles Thomas W. 
Published: February 2010

Eggs.—Laid dispersedly on the 11th of August. They were pinkish-white in colour; somewhat flattened; striated, and had cross indentations. They hatched on the 21st of the month.Newly-hatched larva.—A half-looper; one-tenth of an inch long. Head bilobed, large. General colour a very pale olive-green, with numerous black warts on head and body, and a few white bristles. Mandibles amber-coloured. Feeds on Plantago major. Moulted August 28th.
SOME NEW JASSIDÆ FROM THE SOUTHWEST
Authors: Ball E. D. 
Published: February 2010

Phlepsius lascivius, n. sp.—Resembling altus, slightly larger and lighter coloured; margin of the vertex black either side of a light tip. Length 6 mm.; width 2mm.Head as wide as the pronotum, vertex depressed at the base, anteriorly convex and rounding to the front, the apex slightly angled, hardly half longer than at eye, two and one-half times wider than long, more than half as long as the pronotum, front broad, convex in both diameters, roundingly narrowing below; clypeus with the margins straight; elytra rather stout and straight, flaring behind, the claval nervures parallel, not united.
DESCRIPTION OF THE FULL-GROWN LARVA OF GRAPTA J–ALBUM
Authors: Fletcher James 
Published: February 2010

On the 14th June, at one of the excursions of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club to Cumberland, Ont., I was fortunate enough to find beneath an elm tree (Ulmus americana), a full-grown larva of Grapta J.Album, of which the following is a description:Length, one and one-half inches. Shape slightly fusiform, gradually tapering to the end from fourth segment. General colour, a delicate glaucous green, or white washed with green—with black spines, which from the size of the body appear to be rather sparsely distributed. The three dorsal series of spines black, springing from a bright yellow field, which is three times the diameter of the base of the spine.
TYPES OF NOCTUID GENERA
Authors: Grote A. Radoliffe 
Published: February 2010

In reference to my previous paper (page 209), Mr. Louis B. Prout kindly draws my attention to the fact that Duponchel, Lep. Ent., March, 1829, also selects didyma as type of Apamea, Ochs., 1816. While it is gratifying that I had come independently to the same conclusion with regard to this type, I cannot follow Duponchel's selection in other cases. I merely state the fact here, reserving details for a later occasion.It further appears from Mr. Prout's researches that Curtis, who publishes later than Duponchel, viz., in May, 1829, “chooses chrysographa” as type of Apamea.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF COCCIDÆ FROM BRAZIL
Authors: Hempel Adolph 
Published: February 2010

Capulinia crateraformis, n. sp.The ♀ makes a small crater-shaped gall in the bark of the limbs and twigs. This gall is about 1.5 mm. high, and consists of an outer circular ring from 1 mm. to 1.5 mm. in diameter, and a small cone within, which can readily be removed. The cavity inhabited by the insect is smooth and is lined with a white powder. The adult ♀ is small, oval in outline, pink, and is dusted with a white powdery secretion. Boiled in a solution of KOH it becomes colourless. Size, after boiling: length, .96 mm.; width, .73 mm.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ARCTIA PHALERATA, HARR
Authors: Gibson Arthur 
Published: February 2010

On the 18th June, 1900, Mr. C. T. Hills, of Chicago, was kind enough to send me a batch of about 79 eggs of Arctia phalerata, Harr. The parent moth was captured on the 12th June, and enclosed in a box over night; on the next day, the 13th, the eggs were laid.Egg.—.75 mm. in width, semi-ovoid, about as high as wide, shiny, smooth, creamy-white, concave at base.The eggs hatched on the 20th and 21st of June. Duration of egg stage 7 or 8 days.
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF PLATYMETOPIUS
Authors: Baker C. F. 
Published: February 2010

Platymetopius ornatus, n. sp.Length, ♂, 5.25 mm., of which the head occupies 1 mm.; width across base of elytra a little more than 1 mm. Vertex rather strongly obtusely angulate; width between eyes three-fourths the length at middle, which is more than twice length at eyes; the disc is evenly slightly convex. Face, viewed from the side, straight. Pronotal width two and a half times the length; the length little more than three-eights that of vertex. Pronotum about as broad as head, the anterior margin an even curve.
THE LIFE-HISTORY OF THE GREENHOUSE LEAF-TYER
Authors: Fletcher James , Gibson Arthur 
Published: February 2010

The larvæ of Phlyctœnia ferrugalis, Hbn., have been since 1897 the cause of some loss to roses in the large houses of Mr J. H. Dunlop, Toronto. References to this occurrence will be found in the Reports of the Entomologist and Botanist to the Dominion Experimental Farms for 1899 and 1900.On the 12th November, 1900, a visit was paid to the above houses by Mr. Gibson, and specimens of the mature larvæ found feeding both on violets and chrysanthemums were secured, as also some larvæ in other stages of development. These all changed to pupæ and in due course the moths appeared, the pupal state lasting from 17 to 20 days.
THE AMERICAN BEES OF THE GENUS ANDRENA DESCRIBED BY F. SMITH
Authors: Morice F. D. , Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

“This I suspect is the ♂ of integra; area similarly strigose, and abdomen also corresponds; tubercle matches also!”Robertson thought this might be A. platyparia: but, he said, the description applied even better to Salicis, and nearly as well to mandibularis. It cannot well be salicis, as that has the abdomen impunctate; if it is the ♂ of integra, it cannot well be mandibularis; it may perhaps be platyparia.Andrena frigida, Smith, 1853.“♂ abdomen rugulose and punctured, clothed with long adpressed hairs; tubercle slightly emarginate (?); area dull granulose; ♀ ditto. (Very near fuscipes, perhaps identical with it.)” This agrees with what I had already identified from Smith's description. It seems to argree with the description of A. simillima, Sm., even better than with that of fuscipes, but I doubt its actual identity with either.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MACRO LEPIDOPTERA OF ALBERTA, N.-W. T.
Authors: Dod F. H. Wolley 
Published: February 2010

1. Danais archippus, Fab. A few migrants seen almost every yeat. June. Have never seen a locally-bred specimen.2. Euptoieta claudia, Cram. Two specimens on Pine Creek, July, 1897, and June, 1900; probably migrants. Lacombe, June 29th, 1900 (Gregson).3. Argynnis cybele, Fab. Not common; very rare in some seasons. In the hills, July and August; Lacombe, June 29th (Gregson). Mr. Elwes has seen this form and considers it correctly named. It resembles cybele that I have from Iowa, but is slightly smaller.3a. [A. leto, Behr. Recorded by Geddes from Macleod. The record may perhaps refer to cybele.]4. A. cypris, Edw. Not common. July and August. Whatever may be the correct name for this species, it is certainly distinct from anything else here listed.
NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ALSOPHILA POMETARIA, Peck
Authors: Hinds W. E. 
Published: February 2010

THe eggs of this insect were found on a small branch of golden willow in Beverly, Mass., March 14, 1900, in a nursery, close to fruit stock of various kinds. The mass, consisting of 220 eggs, was kept at the temperature of the laboratory, which was considerably higher than that outside. Notwithstanding this fact, none of the eggs hatched till April 23, within forty-eight hours of which time, however, all the larvæ had emerged.Egg (Plate 4, Figs. 1 and 3).—Eggs placed close together in regular
rows, forming a compact mass, in this case about twice as long as broad and in one layer. Egg about .6 mm, long and .45 mm, broad at top, which is nearly flat. Just inside the rounded edge of the top a brown ring encloses an area bright steely gray in colour, and containing a small brown depression in its centre; lateral surface of egg and rounded edge steely gray.
THE XIPHIDIINI OF THE PACIFIC COAST
Authors: Morse A. P. 
Published: February 2010

In the summer of 1897 I devoted several weeks to a rapid Orthopterological reconnaissance of the Pacific Coast, collecting material at various points from Yuma to Victoria, B. C., and the following paper is based upon the specimens secured at that time. At the request of Mr. Scudder, to whose collection and mine the types belong, I have studied the material, with the results given below.So far as I am aware, no species of this group has hitherto been recorded from west of the Rocky Monntains, although it is exceedingly improbable that specimens are not to be found in entomological collections from that region. In the following paper, four well-defined species are noted, one of them extending entirely across the continent. Two others are of especial interest, from the great variation presented by them according to locality, and students of the group will do well to collect material in considerable series.
ON LABELING INSECTS
Authors: Brunetti E. 
Published: February 2010

There is a great lack of uniformity in labeling insects; owing to which it is often impossible to distinguish the name of the locality from that of the collector; and with reference to the date of capture, it is impossible to discover what is meant (when the day of capture is less than the 13th), on account of some collectors placing the day of the month first, and others the month.For instance, a specimen taken on May 10, 1901, would by some be labeled 10, 5, 1901, and by others (chiefly amongst Americans) 5, 10, 1901. On passing from one collection to another, the recipient would be undecided as to whether the figures referred to May 10 or Oct. 5.Again, now that exchange abroad is much more common than formerly, it is insufficient to give simply the village or wood in which the insect is taken.
A LIST OF MANITOBA MOTHS.—Part V
Authors: Hanham A. W. 
Published: February 2010

The Geometers of this Province, in respect to both my own captures and those of other collectors which I have been privileged to see, appear to be fairly well identified.In December last I was honoured by a flying visit from Mr. Hutchinson, of Kinosota, on Lake Manitoba. He brought in a whole collection of things with him, some for names, others for my benefit. Among the moths we were unable to tackle satisfactorily were a few Geometers. Our friend is developing into an enthusiastic entomologist, and we look for some good work from him in the near future. Few of us, I fancy, would care to be hampered with numerous cases of insects, in addition to other “impedimenta,” when undertaking a seventy-mile sleigh drive in bitter weather to reach the nearest railway station.
NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CATOCALÆ
Authors: Dodge G. M. , Dodge E. A. 
Published: February 2010

Catocala Clintonii.Egg, deposited June 21st, 1900, is a disc concave below and convex above. The ornamentation consists of a series of ridges converging from the slightly upcurved edge to a central depression which has in its centre a slight tubercle. Colour dark, or blackish. Harched April 17, 1901.Larvæ escaped by cutting a hole at one side of the centre above.Newly-hatched larvæ slender, nearly ¼ inch in length, dark pruinose. Head paler, no marks apparent.After first moult they are somewhat lighter in colour. The two rows of dorsal tubercles appear as black dots. The head is light, the lobes surmounted with black.
ACRONYCTA AND TYPES
Authors: Smith John B. 
Published: February 2010

In his note on p. 191, Dr. Dyar raises an interesting question, concerning which I would like a general expression of opinion for my own guidance.Among the material received for study by M. Guenée from the British Museum, perhaps also from other sources, was a considerable number of specimens and drawings collected, bred or drawn by John Abbott, of Georgia.Not all of the Abbott drawings went to the British Museum, for I saw some in Paris ten years ago, and not all the Abbott drawings have been identified, for I saw in the British Museum many pictures representing insects thet have not been taken since, so far as I know, while I identified a few recently described, among these century-old drawings.