bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO DRUGS
Authors: Saunders William Edwin 
Published: February 2010

In this paper is given simply what has been noted by the writer during a study of these insects extending over more than a year.Sivodrepa panicea.—This is the elliptical, reddish-brown beetle, about one-eighth of an inch long, which is found in almost every edible drug, and in some, such as aconite root and capsicum, that would be pronounced far from edible. In addition to these two drugs, I have found it in bitter almonds, sweet almonds, angelica, boneset, calumba, chamomile, chocolate, coriander, dandelion, elm bark, ergot, extract of licorice, German chamomile, orris root, prince's pine, rhubarb, squill, and sweet flag.
NOTES ON THE TINEIDÆ OF NORTH AMERICA, BY LORD WALSINGHAM
Authors: Murtfeldt Mary E. 
Published: February 2010

Through his Lordship's kindness, I have received, with much pleasure, a copy of the above named brochure. From such examination as I have been able to give it, it seems to me by far the most valuable of recent contributions to the literature of American Tineidœ, and place all students of this beautiful group of the “Micros” under special obligations to its distinguished author.The material examined in the preparation of these “Notes” consisted mainly of the loaned collections of Profs. Fernald and Riley, that of the Peabody Academy of Sciences of Salem, Mass., of Mr. Goodell, of Amherst, Mass., and a small contribution by the present writer. Each of these lots contained some of Mr. chambers' types. The only American collections of any note which were not represented were those of the Harvard Museum at Cambridge, Mass., and the Clemens' types at Philadelphia. Of the latter, however, Lord Walsingham had full notes made during his visit to this country i 1872.
ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS
Authors: Harrington W. Hague 
Published: February 2010

My office duties prevent me, unfortunately, from going afield during almost the entire month of July in each year, and perhaps a few notes on my last ramble, 29th June, may interest the inexperienced, and indicate some of the insects to be found at this time. The special aim of this ramble was to visit a grove of hickories, Carya amara, and investigate the insects occurring in these trees, but I desired also to obtain Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, especially sawflies.My outfit consisted of a flat beating-net constructed so as to be folded up snugly when not in use; a sweeping-net on a folding pocket-ring; a bottle containing coarse sawdust, with a morsel of cyanide for beetles; a wide-mouthed bottle lined with blotting paper, and having some cyanide in a cavity in the cork, for Hymenoptera, Diptera; a couple of boxes for larvæ, and last, but not least, a note-book and pencil. The day is favorable, the sun shining hotly, yet tempered by a slight breeze.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF CATOCALA ILIA, Cram
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Diameter, .06 inch. Shape spheroidal, the transverse diameter being about one fifth more than the longitudinal; striated longitudinally with 28 striæ, 15 of these reaching the shallowly punctured apex, these ridges being crossed with a network of slight elevations, the transverse and the longitudinal lines in the middle of the hollows making squares, the interior of these squares being roughened, the corner of each square a little more elevated and enlarged than the sides. Color brownish olive. Duration of this period 234 days.Young Larva.—Length .25 inch. Color pale gray, one prominent purplish black dorsal line and three less distinct lines on each side. Head purplish black, piliferous spots and hairs the same color. Venter paler than above, with a dark spot in the centre of each joint. Feet, 12. Duration of this period 6 to 7 days.
FURTHER REMARKS UPON THE VARIATION OF THE ELYTRAL MARKINGS IN CICINDELA SEX-GUTTATA
Authors: Townsend C. H. T. 
Published: February 2010

Having been away from home the greater part of the summer, I regret that I have not been able to collect some of these beautiful beetles this season, so as to further observe the interesting relation between the varieties in number, as I should like to have done. I hope, however, that some one has made observations upon them, and will favor us with an account, which would, no doubt, be very acceptable to those interested in the genus.Since contributing the first notes upon this subject, I have noticed that Say has described two varieties of C. sex-guttata in his monograph of the genus Cicindela, commencing on page 415, vol. ii., of the American Entomology, edited by LeConte. The first is.
DESCRIPTION OF LYCÆNA DÆDALUS, Behr, AND CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN ITS SYNONYMY
Authors: Edwards W. H. 
Published: February 2010

I have received from that indefatigable explorer and naturalist, Mr. W. G. Wright, of San Bernardino, several examples of Lycœna Dœdalus, ♂ ♀. Up to this date the ♂, as described by Dr. Behr, has been unknown to me personally, and by all recent list makers has been set down as a synonym of Icaroides, Bois. Its female is Aehaja, Behr., also put down as a syn. of Sœpiolus, or rather es one of the dimorphic forms of the female of that species.Mr. Wright made the ascent of one of the lofty mountains in that region, and says: “Saw nothing on the way up, except that at the camping halfway place were a few of these Lycœnœ and a Grapta. Next day, on going up to the high crest, it was a little cloudy, but not very cold (50° probably), yet not one butterfly was seen during the entire day, though I stayed on the crest, 11,550 feet, several hours.
WEEVIL VERSUS CURCULIO
Authors: Devereaux W. L. 
Published: February 2010

Curculio is an ancient Roman word, not at all used to denote a plum insect. It is slightly difficult to pronounce, and it certainly fails to inform the popular mind as clearly as the suggestive oid Anglo-Saxon word, “weevil.”Weevil, in its original and right use, designates only insects of the snout-beetle kinds, like the plum weevil, bean and pea weevils, corn or granary weevil, rice, pine, nut, water, and other weevils. Perhaps the only erroneous use of weevil made in this country was with the little yellow maggot of the wheat fly.
NOTES ON A FEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA WHICH ARE CONFUSED IN MANY COLLECTIONS, AND ON SOME INTRODUCED EUROPEAN SPECIES
Authors: Hamilton John 
Published: February 2010

In exchanging Coleoptera it is common to find many erroneous determinations of species. While these errors are for the most part individual, several are wide spread and seem to be perpetuated by tradition from the older collectious. The object of this paper principally is to direct attention to a few of the latter.1. Triplax thoracica Say, and T. flavicollis Lac. These species are often found in colonies feeding together on the same fungus, and have the same appearance. The separation of mature specimens is easy, the under side of thoracica being entirely rufous, while the metathorax and abdomen of flavicollis are black or piceous.
NOTES ON THE TORTRICIDÆ
Authors: Fernald C. H. 
Published: February 2010

At the time when my Catalogue of the Tortricidæ was published, I was inclined to believe that Cacœia transiturana Walk., and C. obsoletana Walk., were the same species, for they were taken in the same localities, and only females of the former and males of the latter species were to be found in collections.Prof. Forbes has recently sent me two examples for determination, which he bred from two lots of leaf-rollers on the strawberry, in Illinois, and from each lot he obtained males and females, all the males being obsoletana, and all the females transiturana. We may, therefore, consider the question settled by Prof. Forbes, and these two insects are only the two sexes of our species, which should be known as Cacœcia obsoletana Walk.
SOME FRAGMENTS OF INSECT STATISTICS
Authors: Bean Thos. E. 
Published: February 2010

Pupal Term of Arctia nais.♀ found June 16, 1875, laying eggs in a depression in ground recently dug. Total number of eggs obtained about 500, 16th to 19th of June.Larvæ began to appear June 24th. They were fed chiefly on Polygonum acre, and one or two species nearest allied to acre, partly on Polygonum aviculare, var. erectum, and partly on red clover.Pupation began July 23rd, and continued daily to August 8th, inclusive; a few more pupæ formed to the 16th inclusive, when pupation practically ceased, Only 5 pupations occurred later; two about 20th of August, one about 1st of October, and two in the last ten days of October.
NOTES ON PEGOMYIA BICOLOR (Wiedemann), A LEAF-MINING FLY NEW TO CANADA
Authors: Fyles Thomas W. 
Published: February 2010

Egg laid on the under side of the reaf of the Dock (Rumex obtusifolius). Newly hatched larva bites through to the upper surface of the parenchyma, and works under the epidermis, until the leaf presents a blistered appearance. sometimes three or four larvæ are found in one leaf.Full-grown larva, four-tenths of an inch long, white, semi-transparent. Segments marked with greenish yellow. Head retractile, furnished with a snout-like process, the apparent use of which is to raise the epidermis as the creature feeds. Mouth set back. Alimentary canal visible under the microscope, also two ducts terminating in spout-like organs protruding from what appears to be the upper edge of the somewhat truncated last segment of the larva. The tuberculose spiracles on the second segment very conspicuous; on the third, less so, and so on diminishing.
ADDITIONS TO CANADIAN LISTS OF COLEOPTERA
Authors: Harrington W. Hague 
Published: February 2010

My collections in this extensive family contain over ninety species, of which several are yet undetermined. The great similarity of the species in some genera and the variation in form and color of individuals in other groups render their determination difficult.Donacia pubescens Lec. This species is readily distinguished by the dense pubesence of thc upper surface, which in our other species is of metallic lustre. It was described from a specimen taken by Dr. Le Conte at Smoky Hill river, while on the W. Pac. Ry. survey between kansas and New Mexico in 1867, (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. 11, pg. 55.) It has since been recorded from Michigan and Buffalo. Four or tive specimens taken by Mr. Fletcher in a small swamp near the city, in 1878.
REMARKS ON SOME SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA, WITH SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTIONS
Authors: Hamilton John 
Published: February 2010

Many of the species of coleoptera have been described from single, or, at the most, two or three specimens; these often imperfect, immature, or with individual peculiarities. Owing to this, those who undertake to determine their insects by descriptions, even allowing a wide latitude of interpretation, are frequently in doubt and uncertainty. Where families and genera have passed through recent monographic review, the re-description of the species from better preserved or more abundant material usually obviates the difficulty, but enough still remain to give trouble.Among these, the ones here introduced seem deserving of notice, as some further description is necessary for their identification without having recourse to friendly aid.
ADDITIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA
Authors: Provancher L. 
Published: February 2010

In a lot of Hymenoptera captured in Vancouver Island, and sent me by Mr. Brodie from Toronto, I found the following new species:—Ichneumon Vancouveriensis, nov. sp.♂—Length, .62 inch. Black; face with four dots white, one on each side near the clypeus and one under each antenna. These entirely black and sub-moniliform. One dot on the alar scales with a line before and another one under, the collar, and scutellum, white. Wings slightly infuscated; the areolet pentagonal, the nervures black. Metathorax with the angles projecting, sub-spinose, the ventral area transverse, its anterior angles rounded. Legs black, the four anterior tibiæ with a white line exteriorly, the posterior with a smaller one near the base. Abdomen elongate, with the peduncle slender and punctured, entirely black. Vancouver.
ON THE RELATIONS OF FUNGI TO GALLS AND TO LARVÆ OF CECIDOMYIA LIVING IN GALLS
Authors: Thomas Friedrich 
Published: February 2010

[This paper, an excellent addition to an excellent American paper by Mr. W. Trelease (Psyche, vol. iv., p. 195), is published in the Jrmischia, vol. v., No. 1, p. 4, 1885. As it will be difficult for American students to have access to this periodicar, I have translated the substance. Dr. Thomas has seen only the record of Mr. Trelease's paper in Botan. Centralblatt, xx., p. 356, by Dr. Ludwig.—H. A. Hagen.]Larvæ of Cecidomyia living in the spore-layers of Uredineæ are also found in Thuringia, Germany. In fact the discovery of the community in the same layer of two otherwise very different parasites is at first somewhat wonderful and startling.
MONOGRAPH OF THE EMBIDINA
Authors: Hagen H. A. 
Published: February 2010

1. Oligotoma Cubana, n. sp.Olyntha? spec. larva. Hag. Synops. Neur. N. Amer., p. 7.Olyntha Cubana, larva, imago, Hag. Psoc. Embid. Synops. Verh. Wien. Z. B. Gesell. 1866, p. 221, 223 (no description).Olyntha Cubana, McLachl. Linn. Soc. Jour. Zool., vol. xiii., p. 381.Male, dry. Length of body about 8 mill.; exp. of wings about 12 mill. Head light brown, little longer than broad, narrowed behind the eyes, convex above, without any impression, rounded at the sides, cut straight near prothorax; labrum large, paler, rounded; antennæ pale brown (only 13 joints present); 1st large, cylindrical; 2nd very short, as long as broad; 3rd as long as 1st, thinner, somewhat thicker at tip; all following similar but a little shorter; antennæ and head densely clothed with very pale hairs; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, pale brown, apical joint long, conical; labial palpi small; tip of mandibles black.
ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENERA OF CARABIDÆ ALONG A RIVER SYSTEM
Authors: Townsend C. H. T. 
Published: February 2010

The St. Joseph River runs nearly diagonally through the township of Constantine, from N. E. to S. W. A small affluent, called Fawn River, empties into it at the point where the town itself is located.The characteristic vegetation along the banks of the main river above town is beech, maple, elm, iron-wood, walnut, butternut, papaw, magnolia (or a tree very nearly allied), spice-bush, prickly-ash, sumach, witch-hazel, wild grape, ash, oak and hickory, with many quite rare and beautiful wild flowers, such as are found in rich and favorable places. But that of the affluent region is almost entirely oak and hickory (mostly oak), with hazel, sumach, a few poplars, willows, and in some places cedars, but with few wild flowers of any account. The cedars are also found upon the main river, both above and below town. This difference in vegetation is probably due to a difference in the nature of the soil, the lower and richer soil of parts of the main river producing a richer and more varied flora than the higher and poorer parts adjoining the affluent.
ENTOMOLOGY AT BRIGANTINE BEACH, N. J., IN SEPTEMBER
Authors: Hamilton John 
Published: February 2010

In the preceding volume of the Entomologist (vol. xvi., p. 186) an account is given of some of the Coleoptera found in September on Brigantine Beach, N. J.; and having been there this season from the 1st till the 18th of the same month, I propose to give a further account of some of the insects inhabiting that region.Cicindela dorsalis Say is found in great abundance on the shore between the lines of high and low tide, keeping as close to the water as it can get. If too closely pursued it frequently takes wing, alighting in the surf and coming to the shore in the foam, from which it usually escapes before it can be taken. It is sluggish in its movements, running about a yard, then stopping, and so on alternately, and flying only when pursued, and then for but short distances. More than two-thirds of the females captured want either a part of an antenna or of a hind leg, these mutilations occurring on the right side in a large majority.
PREPARATORY STAGES OF ICHTHYURA ORNATA
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

Egg.—Diameter .035 of an inch, about the same in height; blunt, conical, the base flat; smooth; white, a dull red band round each a little below the middle, which is pretty well defined on its lower edge, but the upper is irregular, sometimes a small red speck on the apex. Duration of this period 10 days.Young Larva.—Length .08 of an inch. General color grayish white, a purplish red band across each of the following joints, 2, 5, 7 and 12, with a faint row of the same along each side. Head jet black, broader than the body; joint 12 a little elevated; thoracic feet black, the others concolorous with the body; the body sparsely covered with white hairs half the length of the larva. Duration of this period from 2 to 3 days.
DESCRIPTION OF LARVA OF ARROTIS DECLARATA, Wlk
Authors: The Editor  
Published: February 2010

Several specimens of the larva of this insect were received on the 8th of July, 1884, from Mr. Acton Burrows, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Winnipeg, Manitoba. They were reported as seriously injuring vegetables and field crops in that Province.Length, one and half to one and three quarter inches.Head medium in size, yellowish brown, with a polished surface, dotted and streaked with dark brown.Form nearly cylindrical, tapering a little towards the head.
A NEW PAMPHILA
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

Pamphila myus, n. sp.Male.—Expanse .95 of an inch. Upper surface dark olivaceous brown, with a slight vinous reflection, about the same shade as cernes, which it much resembles. The primaries have the discal cell and the area in front of the cell like cernes, heavily washed with yellow of a little darker shade than that species, the same color ectending beyond the cell along the costal area three fourths the distance from the base to the outer margin (as the wings are spread); below the cell the same shade of yellow extends along the median vein the same distance, the area below this to the margin rather heavily sprinkled with yellow scales, except the space beyond the lower half of the stigma. This varies but little from the yellow of cernes. In cernes there is a quadrate sinus of the terminal dark brown of the wing dipping into the yellow beyond the cell, coming up to the cross vein. In this species the sinus is of the same width, but extends inward above the median vein, ending in a point half way to the base of the wing. The stigma is black, narrow, oblique, entire, though constricted below the middle, shorter than in cernes, does not reach the submedian below, and the upper end only reaches the second branch of the median, while in cernes it passes beyond this veinule, the lower third bent a little towards the base, in width not more than half as wide as in cernes; below the stigma an oblong patch of blackish scales that are bronzy in certain lights. Secondaries sprinkled with yellow scales, the inner half with yellowish hairs that are less olivaceous than in cernes.
HIBERNATION OF COLEOPTERA
Authors: Hamilton John 
Published: February 2010

The condition in which Coleoptera pass the winter is a subject on which there are in American literature but few recorded observations. That no species hibernates in the egg stage is highly probable, though in all the others it occurs—some wintering in the perfect state alone, some in the larva and the imago condition, and others as larva and pupa.Many of the species appear to make some preparation, retiring to situations that will more or less protect them from intense cold; others seem to have power to survive without any practical protection, as Lixus concavus and Megilla maculata, to be mentioned further on.
A NEW TENTHREDINID
Authors: Provancher L. 
Published: February 2010

Genus Synairema, Hartig.This genus was detached from Tenthredo by Hartig in 1837, for an insect described in 1793 by Panzer, under the name of Tenthredo rubi, found in Germany, Sweden, France, Tyrol, &c. In 1849, Bremi described a new species found in Helvetia, which he named S. alpina. It has not yet been recorded as met with in America.Synairema differs only from Tenthredo by its lanceolate cell, which is largely contracted in the middle, while in the last it is separated by a straight nervule.
NORTH AMERICAN PYRALIDÆ
Authors: Fernald C. H. 
Published: February 2010

Crambus zeellus, n. s.expanse of wings, from 18 to 24 m. m.Palpi, head and thorax, pale leaden gray. The labial palpi extend forward as far as the length of the head and thorax. The maxillary palpi are as long as the head.
SOME NOTES UPON THE SPHINGIDÆ OF THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Holland W. J. 
Published: February 2010

I am indebted to my esteemed correspondent, Prof. C. H. Fernald, for a copy of his recent Synopsis of the Sphingidæ of New England. I have been greatly pleased with it, and trust that it will meet with that general distribution among the students of our beautiful science which it deserves. In the following lines I wish to present a few observations which the perusal of Prof. Fernald's book suggests.Hemaris Tenuis, Grote.Prof. Fernald remarks of this species: “The early stages and food plants are unknown.” Presuming that the statement of the learned Professor is warranted by an exhaustive search through the literature of the subject, I shall venture to supply from my own observation what strikes me as a surprising deficiency, since Hemaris Tenuis is one of our most abundant species in Western Pennsylvania.
BROTIS VULNERARIA Hubn
Authors: Hulst Geo. D. 
Published: February 2010

In the Canadian Entomologist, this volume, p. 72, Mr. Ph. Fischer tells us of the capture of the above moth at Buffalo, N. Y., adds something of the bibliography of the species, and remarks upon its aberrant appearance and character. Permit me to add a few words to what was there said.Guenee, Phalenites, vol. ii., p. 116, 1857, describes this species of Hubner, under the generic name Sphecelodes, crediting the species to Hubner, but ignoring his genus, as was Guenee's custom. He also describes the ♀, and pl. 22, f. 9, gives a figure of it. It differs very much from the ♂, having ciliated antennæ, and lacking the triangular fleshcolored costal spot.
CATOCALA NOTES
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

C. Sappho, Strecker.—Last season five specimens of this rare species were taken near here, and it was found about ten miles further north than before. It is as constant in its markings as any species.C. Retecta, Grote.—Both the pale and the dark forms of this species were taken last year, with intergrades. I should probably have taken them this season, but I was away from home at the time they were flying. In the woods the habits of the two forms are alike.
THE HIGHEST ELEVATION FOR NEUROPTERA IN THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Hagen H. A. 
Published: February 2010

Mr. H. W. Turner, U. S. Geol. Survey, San Francisco, Cal., has sent to me Phryganid cases from Mt. Conness, Mono Co., living in water at an altitude of over 10,500 feet. They are 15 m. m. long, the front half made by irregular small bits of stones, the apical half of short bits of pine leaves, and the case being narrower; around the case are placed longer parts of pine leaves or grasses in a herring-bone fashion. A few dry larvæ and the shape and arrangement of the cases show them to belong to the family of Limnophilidæ, and to the group of Hallisus.Other cases were collected from a small lake on the north side of Mt. Dana, at an altitude of over 11,500 ft. These cases are smaller, 10 m. m. long, of little bits of mica and other stones, more cylindrical, sloping a little to the end. They seem to belong to the family of Sericostomidæ, which is at least not contradicted by some remnants of dry larvæ.