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DESCRIPTIONS OF CERTAIN LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Ichthyura vau Fitch.Egg.—The colour of the unhatched eggs is deep purplish-pink, pale around the bottom; slightly shining.First stage.—Head bilobed, bearing a few hairs, shining black; width .45 mm. Dorsum broadly bluish-white, except the black cervical shield and anal plate and joints 5 and 12, which latter ar hardly enlarged, coloured vinous-brown. Whole lateral area also brown but paler, and broken into patches. Feet black outwardly. Hair fine, very long laterally, pale, darker dorsally, arising singly from black conical tubercles with the normal arrangement.
A NEW FORM OF PRIONIA, AND NOTES ON PLATYPTERYX ARCUATA AND P. GENICULA
Authors: Hudson George. H. 
Published: February 2010

Prionia levis, n. var. or sp.Primaries without the delicate frosted or silvery appearance, and without the numerous short, fine, strigate, brown lines of bilineata. The brown scales are present, but are uniformly and evenly distributed, save where they form the two brown lines which cross the wing, and a little darker shading near the outer edge and apex. These two transverse lines are about a third wider apart that in bilineata, the second narrowly edged externally with the clear, pale yellow ground-colour of the wing.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G. 
Published: February 2010

Hemichroa americana, Provancher.(The alder saw-fly).Descirbed as a Dineura, but the lanceolate cell is contracted in the middle, not petiolate. The second recurrent nervure is received very near the end of the second submarginal cell, almost at the intersection of second and third submarginal cells.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF NEME-OPHILA SCUDDERI, PACK
Authors: Lyman H. H. 
Published: February 2010

Eggs laid July 9–10. Round, considerably flattened at base, honey-yellow, shining, under a microscope very slightly and irregularly pitted, of an inch in diameter.Hatched July 17–18, egg period eigth days.Young larva—Length, about one-tenth of an inch. Head brown, rather lighter below. Body, dull greenish-yellow, with lead coloured warts and long hairs of a brown colour.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—NO. VI
Authors: Van Duzee E. P. 
Published: February 2010

1. Amalopota Fitchi, n. sp.Closely allied to A. Uhleri. Smaller; elytra smoky, about twice banded with white; nervures carmine, ocelli apparently wanting. Length, 6 mm.Male: Vertex shorter and broader posteriorly than in Uhleri, hind margin very feebly emarginate, apex of the pronotum not advanced beyond the base of the lateral keels; frontal keel, viewed from the side, broader and more strongly rounded, with a more conspicuous notch at the base of the clypeus than in Uhleri.
HYBLŒA PUERA, CRAMER
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

Mr. Butler (P.Z.S., 1892, p. 133) remarks concerning the Hyblœidœ (Hyblœinœ, I would rather write) as follows:-“The position of this family is somewhat doubtful; the aspect of the species forcibly reminds one of the Tortrices, but the neutration does not altogether correspond with that of the Tortricidœ; at the same time the Hyblœidœ do not appear to be true Noctuites.”
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA OCCURRING NEAR ALLEGHENY, HERETOFORE UNDESCRIBED
Authors: Hamilton John 
Published: February 2010

Preparatory to the publication of a list of the Coleoptera of this vicinity, it has been thought proper to characterize and name the following forms:-Bembidium postfasciatum.—Coppery-bronzed, dark beneath, elytra pallid, two dark fasciæ. Head convex, impunctate, longitudinally impressed on each side between the eyes, coppery-bronzed; antennæ wit three basal joints pale, the others fuscous; thorax quadrate, base and length equal, wider at middle, base truncate, basal striæ double, hind angles rectungular, carinate, dorsal line deep, coppery-bronzed, often tinted greein in the basal impressions; elytra pallid, silvery white in life, elongate oval, broadly deeply impressed transversely behind scutellum, deeply striate, striæ dilated before middle and coarsely punctured, punctures finer towards apex, intervals convex, third bipunctate, a broad undulated dark fascia behind middle, another before apex sometimes interrupted at the suture and sides; underside dark, oftern with a greenish reflection; legs entirely pallid.
ON SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ NOT HITHERTO DESCRIBED
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Phyciodes carlota, Reak.Larva.—Head subcordate, apices slightly produced, mouth parts small; rough, tuberculate, hairy; colour black, a narrow white line above the mouth. Body robust, with short and thick conical, densely-bristly spines, arranged thus: on joint 2 one short stigmatal and one substigmatal, besides tubercles on the cervical shield; on joints 3–4, subdorsal, lateral and subventral; on 5–11, dorsal (single), suprastigmatal, substigmatal, 2 subventral; on 12, two dorsal (in line), subdorsal, superstigmatal, substigmatal and subventral (small); on joint 13, two subdorsal (in line). Cervical shield, anal plate, feet outwardly and spiracles black; body brownish red, with a dorsal and subdorsal black shaded line, most distinct in the segmental incisures.
NOTES ON SOME SCALE INSECTS OF THE SUB-FAMILY DIASPINÆ
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

The following notes are intended to throw further light on the affinities of certain little-known species, which I have lately examined:-(1.) Chionaspis major, Ckll.—Found on Heliotrope at Antigua by Mr. C. A. Barber. The ♀ resembles that of Diaspis lanatus, but may be distinguished from it without difficulty.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA, No. VIII
Authors: Van Duzee E. P. 
Published: February 2010

1. Athysanus Anthracinus, n. sp.Head shorter and more rounded before than in plutonius, closely punctured. Vertex ⅓ longer on the middle than next the eye, sloping and strongly rounded to the base of the front, median carina very feeble; ocelli and two dots on the hind margin fulvous.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F. 
Published: February 2010

1. The CicindelidÆ of Ontario and Quebec.[The following is the first of a series of papers which Mr. Wickham is specially preparing for this magazine. It is intended that they should treat of all the more conspicuous families of Coleoptera and present in tabular form the genera and species that are found in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec; a descriptive list will also be given of the species, so far as known, that are to be found in the other provinces of the Dominion of Canada.
NEW CYNIPIDAE
Authors: Gillette C. P. 
Published: February 2010

R. arefactus, n. sp.The galls are dense, corky enlargements of small shoots, usually close to the stem from which the shoot arises, and the shoot is usually dead beyond the gall when the latter is mature. The galls are irregular in shape, vary from one-half to seven-eights of an inch in diameter, and are polythalamous.
FURTHER NOTES ON SCALE INSECTS (COCCIDÆ)
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

The numbering of these notes is continued from p. 132.(9.) Chionaspis ortholobis, Comst. In the middle of March Prof. Bruner sent me a Chionaspis, which he said was common on cottonwood in Nebraska, being also occasionally found on the white willow. It appeared to me to be a new species, and I was about to name it after its discoverer, but Mr. L.O. Howard, to whom I had sent specimens, delared it was ortholobis.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF DORYCEPHALUS
Authors: Osborn Herbert 
Published: February 2010

♂—Head produced and very flat, rounded in front, wings reaching tip of abdomen; colour gray-brorvn. Length, 9 mm. Length of head, 2.3 mm.Head thin foliaceous, margins very thiu, a median, thicker space, which beneath widens to base of head, forming a convex keel. Eyes touching prothorax.
FURTHER NOTES ON SCALE INSECTS (COCCIDÆ)
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

The numbering is continued from page 193.(13.) Tachardia cornuta, n. sp.—♀scales crowded on the stems of the plant, lively red-brown in colour, smooth and rather shiny, subtranslucent; elevated so as to form in outline a triangle, the base of which is greater than either side viewed from one side, but with the sides greater than the base when the scale is viewed from one end.
KENTUCKY BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Warner Hattie H. 
Published: February 2010

The following list has for its foundation a collection belonging to the Experiment Station of the Kentucky State College. The diurnal Lepidoptera have not been made the object of special collecting by the Station entomologist, and doubtless a good many species will be added in the future:-1.Papilio ajax, Linn. Common in all wooded regions throughout the State. High Bridge, Nortonville, Clay's Ferry, etc.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTH-REDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Monostegia quercus-coccineŒ, n .sp.Eggs apparently inserted by a series of thrusts of the ovipostior parallel to the midrib of the leaf. The saw cuts under the upper epidermis are confluent, forming a long blotch over 1 mm. wide and about 20 mm. log, running close to the midrib. The larvæ feed gregariously, eating the lower epidermis and parenchyma.
NOTES ON “A REVISION OF THE GENUS ŒNEIS” (CHIONOBAS); “ BY HENRY J. ELWES, F. L. S., F. Z. S.. PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND JAMES EDWARDS, F. E. S.,” TRANS. ENT. SOC., LOND., 1893, PART IV. (DEC)
Authors: Edwards W. M. H. 
Published: February 2010

Mr. Elwes has again favoured us with one of his periodical Revisions of Genera, the last of which relating to Argynnis, was reviewed by me in the Can. Ent., XXII., p. 81, 1890.It is stated that Mr. James Edwards is responsible for the matter of what are called “clasps” of the male, meaning the claspers of other authors; and these parts of the whole body of abdominal appendages are the only ones treated of, or relied on. He has also given a comparative table at the end, based partly on the facies, and partly on the claspers.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF LAPHYGMA FLAVIMACULATA, HARV., AND OTHER NOTES
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Laphygma flavimaculata, Harvey.Determined by Prof. J. B. Smith. Eggs of this species occured to me in the Hawaiian Islands at Kaawoloa, Kona, Hawaii and at Honolulu, Oahu.Egg.–Nearly spherical, flattened at base, densely striated vertically; of a flesh-coloured tint, and covered with gray down; diameter, 0.6 mm. Depostied in a large mass on a grass stem.
NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—NO. VII
Authors: Van Duzee E. P. 
Published: February 2010

1. Idiocerus Amœmus, n. sp.Allied to I. suturalis, but smaller. Female of a uniform pale yellow colour, pronotum and scutellum tin gedwith fulvous or ferruginous, the former with a spot behind the inner angle of each eye and a median vitta, pale. Mesonotum with a black band bordering the scutellum, at least posteriorly; extreme tip of scutellum yellow. Elytra hyaline very slightly tinged with fulvous, becoming smoky toward the apex; nervures pale yellow. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent. Eyes rufous. Oviduct ferruginous.
SPRING COLLECTING IN ALBERTA
Authors: Dod F. H. Wolley 
Published: February 2010

Perhaps the following short account of a few days' spring collecting here may be of interest to readers of the Canadian Entomologist.The locality I have worked from during the two years that I have been in the country, is close to the mouth of Fish Creek, about twelve miles south of Calgary, and a mile from the right bank (south) of Bow River. I have a fellow worker about nine miles further west, near the head of Pine Creek, by name Mr. Arthur Hudson, a keen observer, and, I believe, the only entomologist besides myself who has ever collected here for a whole season, and between us we are at present almost daily increasing the list of macro-lepidoptera found around Calgary. We have already over fifty species of butterflies on the list, with three or four more doubtful species, and are confident that we shall be able to make several additions during the coming season. Of the moths, more particularly the Noctuidæ (and their name here is certainly Legion!), new comers never cease, as I think Prof. Smith can testify. When Mr. Elwes paid me a visit in July, 1893, he asked: “Treacle is not much used here, is it?” I replied that I had only been “at it” for a month, and was fairly well pleased with the result, though of course my take might have been exceptional. Were I asked the same question now, I should, without hesitation, reply: “Well, just isn't it, that's all, and from June to October, too!” During last July I not unfrequently counted from sixty to eighty moths on a treacle patch about eighteen inches long and three or four wide, comprising about fifteen or sixteen species. A sight such as that, however, certainly is exceptional. However, I have other modes of collecting to speak of now, as at this early date treacle is scarcely worth working.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F. 
Published: February 2010

XI. The Hydrophilidæ of Ontario and Quebec.These water-beetles differ from Dytiscidæ especially in having the antennæ terminated by a distinct club instead of being filiform; and while, as the name implies, they are usually found in ponds or streams, they are much more feeble swimmers than the Dytiscids, and are exponents of a more generalized type. Several genera are truly terrestrial in habit, the beetles occurring about decomposing animal matter or in manure. The larvæ somewhat resemble those of the Dytiscidæ in general appearance, but differ so far as my experience goes in having toothed mandibles instead of the single suctorial ones characteristic of the other family. Pupation takes place on land in an underground cell, or in a cavity scooped out beneath a stone or piece of wood.
PRELIMINARY STUDIES IN SIPHONAPTERA.—VI
Authors: Baker Carl F. 
Published: February 2010

Genus Hystrichopsylla, Tschb.1880. Taschenberg, Die Flohe, p. 83.This genus has but a single species:—Hystrichopsylla obtusiceps, Ritsema1826. Curtis Brit. Ent., III., No. 114 (Pulex taipæ).1831. Macquart, Ann. d. Sci. Nat., XXII., p. 405 (Pulex terrestris).1868. Ritsema, Tijds. voor Entom., 2 ser. III., p. 173 (Pulex obtusiceps).1880. Taschenberg, Die Flohe, p. 83 (Hytrichopsylla obtusiceps).This remarkable flea has a heavier covering of spines and bristles than occurs in any other species. The head combs are on the discs of the cheeks with the spines pointing backward (as in Typhlopsylla gracilis and fraterna), instead of on the lower edges, there being 10 spines on either side. The first joint of the maxillary palpi is the longest. Pronotal comb with 20 spines on either side. The comb on the first abdominal segment consists of 20 spines on either side; that on the second segment, of 12 on either side, and that on the third segment, of 7 on either side. The tarsi are slender. Colour, chestnut-brown. Length of male, 3.5mm., of female, 5–5.5mm. It has been reported as occuring on Talpa europœa and Arvicola arvalis, in various parts of Europe.
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVÆ OF CERTAIN TENTHREDINIDÆ
Authors: Dyar Harrison G. 
Published: February 2010

Cladius (Trichiocampus) gregarius, n. sp.Allied to Cladius viminalis, Fallen. The larval habits are also identical, as seen by Dr. J. A. Lintner's account of viminalis in his Fourth Report, p. 44 (as Aulacomerus lutescens). The fly, however, is differently coloured; the larva differs but slightly, in that the lateral black spots are larger than the subdorsal ones, whereas in viminalis the reverse appears to be the case.
THE COLEOPTERA OF CANADA
Authors: Wickham H. F. 
Published: February 2010

XII. The Hydrophildæ of Ontario and Qubec (concluded).This paper can scarcely be considered in any sense an original one since it consists almost entirely of tables published in greater detail by Dr. Horn in his reviews of this portion of the Hydrophilidæ. By removing the extra-limital forms, I have been able in some cases to modify the synopses so as to make them a little easier to follow, and it is hoped that they will prove of use to many students of the Canadian fauna who may not see the more complete originars. with this prelude, which will place the credit where it properly belongs, we may proceed.
LIST OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED AT MASSETT, QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B. C
Authors: Keen J. H. 
Published: February 2010

2931. Ptenidium pullum, Makl.—Not rare. In grass tufts in winter.2951. Trichopteryx xanthocera, Matth.—Rare. Under log in Feburary.2952. Trichopteryx parallelopipeda, Matth.—Rare. In grass tufts in February.2953. Trichopteryx diffinis, Matth.—Common in November in seed pods of fox glove.
NOTES ON SOME SOUTHERN LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Dyar Harrison. G. 
Published: February 2010

Oiketicus Townsendi. Cockerell.1893—Dyar, Ent. News, IV., 321 note. (No name.)1894—Dyar, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., VIII., 205 (fig. of larvel setœ).1895—Cockerell, Bull. 15, New Mex. Agr. Ex. Sta., pl. fig. 7, 7a.1895—Cockerell, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XV., 208.
SUMMARY OF THE U. S. PHASMIDÆ
Authors: Scudder S. H. 
Published: February 2010

The following table, adapted frorn Brunner von Wattenwyl and Stal, will enable any one quickly to determine the genera in his collection of U. S. Phasmidæ. Our species are few in number and all apterous. Only one of them, Diapheromera femorata (Say), extends into Canada.A1 Tibiæ not furnished at apex beneath with a sunken areola to receive the base of the tarsi when bent upon them. (All of our genera of this division belong to the Bacunculidæ, in which the antennæ are much longer than the anterior femora and furnished with at least thirty joints, and the median segment is much shorter than the metanotum.)
NOTES ON MR. E. F. HEATH'S COLLECTION OF BUTTERFLIES
Authors: Fletcher James 
Published: February 2010

In August last, when visiting Mr. E. Firmstone Heath, of The Hermitage, near Cartwright, Man., I had an opportunity of examining his fine local collection of Lepidoptera, which consists of twelve cases of well-set and preserved butterflies and moths. Among the butterflies were some species, the occurrence of which in Southern Manitoba surprised me very much.Mr. Heath's residence is situated in a beautiful wooded valley, and on the bank of a small winding river, the Indian name of which means the “Long River which runs crookedly.” The trees on the banks of the valley, which is about a mile wide at The Hermitage, are chiefly scrub oaks (Quercus macrocarpa), ash-leaved maples, aspen and balsam poplar (white and black poplar of the settlers), Saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia), white thorn (Cratœgus coccinea), wild plum, a few American elms, choke-cherry, and various willows. The locality is undoubtedly a rich one, presenting a great variety of natural habitat for insects. The general character of the country surrounding the valley is a rolling grassy prairie, here and there broken by farms, and bluffs of white poplar.
THE PLUM-TWIG GALL-MITE: Phytoptus phlœocoptes, Nalepa
Authors: Slingerland M. V. 
Published: February 2010

In January, 1895, I received from a fruit grower at Industry, Pa., several plum-twigs which were badly infested with what was to me a new pest. Two of these twigs are shown, natural size, on the accompanying plate. It will be seen that a ring of small, sub-spherical excrescences encircles the base of each bud and also the bases of two short shoots. The correspondent wrote that he had 400 trees badly infested, and a majority of the plum trees in his neighborhood were affected. The Damsons seem especially subject to attack, but all varieties suffer more or less.The excrescences were then of a dark brown colour, with a slight reddish tinge. Usually a slit-like opening could be distinguished on the surface. Upon carefully cutting through one of the excrescences, I was surprised to find a cavity in the interior that was packed nearly full of very minute whitish creatures, which proved to be four-legged mites or Phytoptids. Thus, these excrescences were the galls formed by the mites, and in which they were then hibernating. There were hundreds of the mites in each gall and all of them in a dormant condition. Thus, each twig was harbouring thousands of the little creatures. The fleshy portion of the galls, between the cavity and the onter skin, is of a dark magenta colour. The galls vary in size, some of the larger ones containing two or three cavities.
THE LARVÆ OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SAW-FLIES
Authors: Dyar Harrison G. 
Published: February 2010

It appears from a reference to the literature, that the larvæ of less than 25 per cent. of the Tenthredinidæ listed as inhabiting the northeastern United States and Canada have been described. Of the Western species, scarcely half a dozen are known.It seems desirable that something should be done to increase interest in this neglected subject, and I have thought it well to prepare a synoptic table of the larvæ already known, to facilitate the recognition of specimens and better indicate those as yet undescribed, and therefore needing study.In the following table the Western species are excluded. If, by good fortune, any student of this group should arise there, he would find the field practically clear.
TWO NEW CROCOTAS FOUND IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
Authors: Ehrmann George A. 
Published: February 2010

Crocota rubricosta, n. sp.— ♀. Antennæ and eyes black; palpi and prothorax reddish-brown; head a little lighter than the prothorax; thorax dark brown, almost black; abdomen dark brown, tipped anally with red. Under side of abdomen and thorax, including the legs, light reddish brown.Primaries: Upper side obscured with dark velvety-brown, slightly tinted, or dusted, with red on the costa. Secondaries: Dark brown, almost black, with a large red elongate spot on the costa—hence the name rubricosta.Under side of primaries light brown; costa fiery red; the inner marginal area is also heavily dusted with red. Under side of secondaries fiery red, shaded along the anal margin with dark brown; the limbal space has a brown angulated bar, beginning at the discal cell and widening outwardly; discal spot dark brown, almost black; fringes dark brown. Exp., one inch and three-eighths. Hab.—Jeanette, Pa.
CANADIAN COCCIDÆ.: III. A LECANIUM, PERHAPS IDENTICAL WITH L. RUGOSUM, SIGNORET
Authors: Cockerell T. D. A. 
Published: February 2010

I have just received from Mr. James Fletcher a small bottle of scales found on plum at Queenston, Ontario. He writes concerning them: “Dead scales picked from a plum tree in the Niagara district, where it was very abundant on plums and much rarer on peach trees growing amongst the plums”Directiy I saw these scales, they struck me as something unusual, and yet I rather expected they would prove to be some form of L. persicœ. Unfortunately they were full of the mycelium of a fungus (doubtless Cordyceps), as well as in some cases containing a Chalcidid parasite, so that their specific characters were very hard to make out. The fungus, which must be a very important check to their increase, was not noticed on examination with a lens; but on boiling the sacles in liquor potassæ, they stained the liquor brown, and a microscopic examination showed the fungus quite plainly. Of course, from mere mycelium no determination could be made. I saw in one case what looked like germinating spores, but perhaps in this I was mistaken.