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VOLUME VIII, 1897.

EDITOR :

HENRY SKINNER, M. D.
PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Associate Editor.

ADVISORY COMMITTKK :

GEO. H. HORN, M.D. EZRA T. CRESSON. CHARI.HS A. BI.AKE.

CHARLES LIEBECK. PHII.II> LAURENT. \Vn i IAM J. I r ox.

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PHILADELPHIA:

ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OK

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,

LOGAN SQUARE.

1897.

INDEX TO VOLUME VIII.

(* After generic or specific names indicates that such are new.)

GENERAL SUBJECT.

Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia, Entomological Sec-
tion of, 40, 206, 230, 254.
Acorn insects, 76.

Association of Agricultural Col-
leges and Experiment Stations,
Entomology at, 37, 57.
Chicago Entomological Society, 68.
Cigars, Derivation of word, 247.
Cleveland Nat. Hist. Society, 250.
Doings of Societies 19, 47, 66, 90,

114, 140, 181, 206, 230, 254.
Economic Entomologists, Associa-
tion of ii. 198.
Economic Entomology, 11, 37, 57,

101, 198, 221, 248.
Editorials, 10, 36, 55, 79, 100, 133,

171, 197, 220, 245-
Entomological collections:
Amsterdam, 124.
Fuller's, A. S., 172.
Halle, 5.
Milan, 4.
Munich, 5.
Oxford, 224.

Entomological Literature 15, 40,
60, 83, 1 06, 135, 156, 174, 202,
226, 251.

Feldman Collecting Social 19, 47,
66, 90, 114, 140, 181, 207, 231, 255,
Florida, April collecting in, 7.
Heat produced by weevils, 140.
Horn, Honor to Dr. G. H., 105.
Ichthyol for stings, 54. [172.

Louisiana Society of Naturalists,
Mt. Washington, Insects of, 237.
Newark Entomolog'l Soc., 20, 142.
Newspaper Entomology, 245.
Nomenclature of types, 105.

Notes and News, 12, 38, 59, 82, 104,

172, 200, 224, 250.
Obituary:

Curtis, J. L., 75.

Dawsett, A., 72.

Eppelsheim, E., 48.

Hamilton, J., 72, 73.

Horn, George H., 250.

Linell, M. L., 159.

Matthews, Rev. A., 256.

Merkel, A., 184.

Morawitz, F. F., 72.

Saunders, R. T., 184.

\Yesthoff, F., 72.

Wight, R. A., 156.
Packard, Honor to Prof. A. S , 13.
Physiological species, 234.
Postage on Nat. Hist, specimens, 55.
Prolegs in larvae, Number of, 122.
Types, 105.
Yucca substitute for cork, 20.

ARACHNIDA.

Dermodex and 'black heads', 115.
Pseudoscorpions on flies, 13, 59.
Spider capturing fish, 91.
Spider disappears, How a, 219.
Theridinni i>icons/aas* 91.
habits of, 93.

COLEOPTERA.

Acorn weevil, 76.
. lil, ilia hif>i<ni'fa(a, 256.
.linhlycl'.ila cylindriformis, 224.
Anthicus formicarius, 3.).
.-hit/iop/ii/a.v attcuualus,

tion of, 192.
A. viridis, 206.
Badistt-r >i<>tatiis, 47.
/!(i/aninns, 76.
Bar is scott>f>acftt, i s i .

INDEX.

/; t -ni/>iJiui, Habits of, 256.
/inii-liyfarsus altcrnatns, i.
Bronchelia liortaria, 47.
/,'nichns, Heat produced by, 140.
Casiionia Indoriciana, 47, i4 r -
Oiilocorus bii'it/neriis, 256.
CicinJf/,1 cons, ntanea, 231.
Cistlieiie subject^, 208.
Coccinella transversoguttata, Sem-

bling of, 49- 82 . 99-
Coptocycla clavata, iSr.
Costly bugs, 226.
Crioceris asparagi, 13.

" 12-pnnctafiix, 181, 230.
c 'i-vptorliynchiis lapathi, 13, 67.
Dendrophilus punctatulus, 230.
Dinopate ivrightii, 90.
nisonychia po/ituta, 207.
Droiiio-iy/ns striatus, 255.
l-'.lniisfoveatus, 256.
Epitri.v parvula, 181.
Flights of C., 49- 82, 99.
Henmntiis, 132.
Hippodamia lecontei, 82.
Idaho, C. of, 165.
Kansas Lachnosterna, 214.
Lema trilineata, 181.
.\fi~fasis pectinicornis, 230.
Mouth-parts of C., 196.
Mni-gtintia histrionica, 66, 47.
New Jersey, C. of, 181, 218.
Obi'iiuii nihirfiiiii, 67.
Pachyscclits piirpurens, i S r .
Pennsvlvania, C. of, 168, 232.
Pent ilia misclla, 20, 256.

it/ulit/atiis, 67.
cs liainiHoiii, 34.
/'A- soina piinctata, 230.
/'<>X<ius It'fontei, 208.
Salt inradovvs, C. of, 218.
Scaralia-ida.- of Wisconsin, 129.
Si'n/y/iis nii<tii'its, 90.
.S//t>t/r<'/>(! tniuircii, 255.
Spt'rniopliux'ns n>/>i/ii-, 173.
Ti-nclirionid, A m.-arly Mind, 154.
/'/ . /rino/a/d, i Si .

r 154-

'/'. singularis* 155.
Wisconsin, Scarabaeidae of, 129.

DIPTERA.

Buffalo gnat new to U. S., 100.
Chrysopila griffithi* 119.
Dialysis fasciventris, 118.
Flies, Pseudoscorpions on, 13, 59.
Flies walk on. ceilings, How, 207,
Hyperechia atrox, 207. [231.

Leptidae, New, 117.
Leptogaster flavipes, n. n. for L.

longipes Johns, 120.
Midas, spp., 115.
Onion maggot, 101.
Philadelphia, D. near, 231.
Platypeza spp., 254.
Psychoda elegans* 144.
olympiad 144.
pacifica* [43.

Shnn/iinn ochraceitm, 100, 172.
Swarm ofAphodiusinquinatus, 173.
Symphoromyia hirta* 120.
Syrphidae, Distribution of N. A., 190
Washington, Psychodidse of. 143.

HEMIPTERA.

Aphididae of black timber zone,

Colorado, 201.

Aphids associated with ants, 125.
California H., Two, 95.
Carchariacephalus smithii* 153.
Cicadas attracted by sound, 78.
Coccids associated with ants, 125.
Colorado, H. of, 53, 201.
Jlaccrla inflata, 95.
Harpacfor iiincriiamts* 96.
I laUitiis hnictatiis, 209.
AV;v/,'('.v ho^'iiei* 94.
Lecaniodiaspis tessellatus* 161.
San Josi' scale, 221, 255.
Simthnvt-r in city, II. on, 67.

HYMENOPTERA.

Ants, Apliids and Coccids asso-
ciated with, 125.

INDEX.

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Ants in S. Georgia, 52.

" Remarkable use of, 200.

To destoy red, 134.
Ashmcadiella* 197.
Hee moth, 187.
Bruchophagus funebris, 59.
Clypeadon* 13.
fcnx'\'cisfns, 256.
Nebraska, Perdita from, 23.
.\ifclopttnis* 22.

" slossona* 23.

Parapompilus, 32.
Perdita bnnineri* 23.
Philanthus anna,'-- 68.

solivagiis* 70.

tnimani* 70.
1'lenociiliis pari'us* 71.
Tryphoninse, Names of, 251.
Vespa crabro in New Jersey, 232.
\Vasps in air-brakes, 132.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Acorn moth, 77.

. /, i;>nyc!a spp.* of N. A., 146.

Amblyscirtes I'ia/is. 231.

.hiit~<t /roi^/iH/y/a, 228.

Arc tta spp., 114.

Argynnis aphrodite and a/cestis, 67.

Bee moth, 187.

California, L. of, 29.

Carpocapsa ponnmrlla, 104.

f 'afcca/a habi/is, 1 15.

jj i>',~ ] '~ 1 16.

Catocala, protective colors of, 220.
C/irysop/nnnis au:t'yicaiia aberr. ,

snoiL'i, 224. [224.
Cleveland, Ohio, L. of, 97.
Codling moth, oviposition of, 104.
Cressonia juglatidis, 21.
Dakota, L. of South, 27.
/)<(> i.s (-/'to/a, 236.
ndlcphila lineata, 49.
Delaware NIK (nida-, 77.
Ephestiakuehniella'vn I'enna., 217.
Epirranthis obfirmaria, \\\.
I'rcb us thfnra, 201 .

J-'rycii/cs aniynfas larva, iS2,
Etidamus tilyruSi food-plant, 14.
/iitiiicu /ti/i/a. 22^.
Ga//cria inc/lcucl/a, iS;.
I Inlcoccra ^lainhdclla, 77.
//]/><';/(/, hybernation of, 59, 133.
Idaho, L. of, 163, 211.
Manieslra cctypa, 60. [217.

Mediterranean (lour moth in 1'a ,
N't-umoegen collection, Types in,

240.

Newark, New Jersey, L. of, 21.
Ohio, L. of, 97.

aaroni, 60.

dioti, 254.

hoboniok, 121.
121.

Papilw i infra. 134.

Peach borer, 233.

/'i,-ris ochscn/iciineri, 228.

P/usia pi(rf>urigea< 60.

Stum'a Cynthia larva. 14.

Sanniiiti c.ri/iosa, 208, 233.

Smerinthus gettiinatus, 21.

South Dakota, L. of, 2~.

Sphin.v /nscitiosa, L. of, 27.

Sugaring, 21.

Syneda graphica, 141, 182.

niniiia/is, 123, 228.

s/icritfa/iii. [34.

ris sjiiithsoiiias, 181.
Thvatini rcctati^idata , : -' : 25, 99.
Utah, L. of, 163, 211.
Wyoming, I., of. 163, 211.

NEUROPTERA.

nidyniops trail

\ ), ,1-ontlies, gi/.x.ard of, 39.

in hot water. 39.
( ii//ard ( 'I drag< mill-
Letn ochrysa floridana, iS4.
Libcllitla c.vitsUi, 230.
Malltiphaga. Two ne . 185.

nit'ii,.

c >n /.v /riiiiacn/a/a.
I . unites associated \\ ith ants,

IV

INDEX.

Tetragoneura cynosura, 230.
TrichoJectes calif ormcus* (86.
" quadriceps* 185.

ORTHOPTERA.

Labia minor, 236.
Mflanoplus dijferentialis, 141.
Mimicry of Menniria biriltata, 232.
Fczottettix gtacialis, 256.

AUTHORS.

Aaron, Mrs. C. B., 187.

Ashmead, W. H., 22.

Baker, C. F., 53, 153, 172.

Banks, N., 183.

Bergroth, E., 95.

Bland,]. H. B., 256.

Boerner, C., iSr.

Brehme, H. H., 20, 21.

Britton, W. E., 173.

Bruce, D., 134, 224.

Bubna, M., 97.

Calvert, P. P., 4, 124, 230 and En-
tomological Literature.

Casey, T. L., 132.

Castle, D. M., 7, 181.

Chapman, B , 185.

Chittenden, F. H., 160.

Cockerell, T. D. A., 23, 59, 94, 161,
197, 202, 207, 234, 251.

Cross, E. W., 220.

Curtis, J. L., 91.

Dietz, O., 184.

Dunning, S. N., 68.

Dyar, H. G., 182.

Ehrmann, E. C., 168.

Ehrmann, G. A., 168.

Elrod, M. J., 39.

Fernald, C. H., 105.

Fox, W, J., 32, 71, 91, 256.

Griffith, II. G., 67, 251.

I lamilton, J., 34.

llulliiml, W. J., 201.

Hornig, H., 14, 231.

I Io\vard, L. O., 159.

Hoyer, 256. [254.

|olmson, C. \V., ii.s, 117, 207, 230,

Johnson, W. G., 58, 217.

Jones, F. M., 60, 77.

Kellogg, V. L., 75.

Kemp, S. T., 141, 254.

Kincaid, T., 143.

King, G. B., 125, 193.

Kirkland, A. H., 200.

Klages, E., 90.

Knab, F., 13, 236.

Knaus, W., 214.

Laurent, P., 7, 47, 115, 141, 182,

208, 226, 232.
Liebeck, C. , 230, 254.
Linel!, M. L., 154.
Marloff, F., 66.
McLachlan, R., 133.
Middleton, R. M., Jr., 2or.
Ottolengui, R., 25, 240.
Patton, W. H., 13, 76, 122.
Pilate, G. R., 51.
Piper, C. V., 49-
Poulton, E. B., 225.
Quaintance, A. L., i, 162.
Reinecke, O., 14.
Schaffer, C., 173.
Schmitz, T. H., 20, 48, 67, 116, 142,

182, 208, 232, 256.
Seib, S., 21.

Seiss, F. C., 67, 91, 141, 156, 255.
Skinner, H., 48, 67, 115, 121, 123,

134, 207, 228, 231, 236.
Slosson, Mrs. A. T., 237.
Smith, J. B., ir, 20, 37, 57, ici, 114,

140, 146, iSr, rg8, 208, 221, 231,

233, 248, 255.

Snyder, A. J., 99, 163, 211.
Snyder, \V. E., 129.
Strecker, H., 116.
Suchetet, A., 173.
Truman, P. C., 27.
Twogood, F. D., 29.
Walker, J. V. D., 224.
Webster, F. M., 59, 209, 246.
Wrnzel, H. W., iSi, 208, 218, 232,

2 55, 256.

Westcott, O. S., 190.
Wic-kham, H. F., 165.
Winn, A. F. , 99.
Youngs, D. B., 192.

ENT. N i:\vs. Vol. VIII.

PI. I.

BRACHYTARSUS ALTERNATUS Say [Quaintance]

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. vin. JANUARY, 1897. No. i.

CONTEXTS:

Ouaintance On the life'history of Bra-
chytarsus alternatus i

Notes and News 12

Entomological Literature 15

Calvert Notes on European entomo- Doings of Societies 19

logical collections 4 Entomological Section 22

Castle and Laurent April collecting in Ashmead Nitelopterus, a new Larrid

Georgia and Florida 7 yx-nus

Editorial 10

Cockerell Some species of Perdita

Economic Entomology n > from Nebraska 2;

ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF BRACHYTARSUS ALTERNATUS.

By A. L. QUAINTANCE, Lake City, Fla.

During a study of insects injurious to stored grain carried on
the present year, this species of Anthribid was found to be quite
abundant in certain localities in the State, feeding both in the
larval and adult stages on stored corn-cow-peas and English ]

As the early stages and food habits of this beetle have not pre-
viously been recorded, and as larvae of the genus Brachvtarsns
have been supposed to be parasitic on scale insects, it may be of
interest to note some observations that have been made on this
insect.

DESCRIPTION.

- Length .583111111.; width .366 mm.; shape elliptical ;
color clear yellowish white; smooth, showing no marking;
slightly adhesive.

Full-grown larva. Length 5 mm.; width at third segment
2 mm.; width of head at base i mm.; width of mouth .2 mm.
Body very thick and stout, subcylindrical, bein^ flattened some-
what on ventral surface; tapering, slightly cephalad and r.uul.td;
caudal end rather bluntly rounded.

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The larva is footless and quite thickly covered with hairs.
The ventral surface of each thoracic segment is somewhat swollen
and more densely hairy than elsewhere on the body, with many
of these hairs longer than the others. General color whitish, with
slight yellowish tinge. Head white, labrum and mandibles yel-
low, tips of mandibles black; the skin is much wrinkled and
folded as illustrated in figure a. Eight spiracles are plainly to
be observed; the thoracic segments show but one spiracle, which
is situated in the fold between the first and second segments. On
the lateral aspect, near the middle of each of the first seven ab-
dominal segments, is situated a spiracle just above an oblique
fold in the skin. See figure a.

Pupa. Length 5.5 mm. ; width of head just cephalad of eyes
.85 mm.; width of body across the mesothorax 2 mm. Color
white throughout except the eyes, which are brownish. Head
is bent down against the ventral surface of the prothorax; each
segment is marked with two pairs of rather prominent lines, the
lines of each pair curving in, meeting each other at the distal
extremity of the wing-cover. The distal end of each elytron
bears an outward curved, brownish colored hook ; numerous
hairs are distributed over the abdomen, dorsal part of the
thorax and the head. Under a two-thirds objective, the skin is
seen to be thickly covered with minute spine-like protuberances.

In all specimens examined the cast larval skin remains quite
firmly attached to the caudal part of the abdomen. See fig. b.

Adult. ' Robust, elytra with a series of alternate gray and
black spots. Body short and thick, densely hairy, brownish
cinereous; head plane not prominent between the eyes; antennae
moderate, pale rufous, three last joints fuscous, thorax with a
few black spots, elevated line of the posterior margin not promi-
nent, placed near and parallel to the posterior edge; elytra with
punctured striae, alternate interstitial lines, with alternate black
and gray spots; feet rufous ; thighs dusky ; tibiae with about
two dusky bands. Length three-twentieths of an inch." See
figure c.

LIFE HISTORY NOTES.

Abundant specimens were secured and brought to the labora-
tory for study. Specimens were placed in several different glass
jars and un infested corn or cow-peas were supplied them. In
two bottles containing four specimens each, were placed a few

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grains of corn. In each of the three test tubes a single female
was placed and supplied with a kernel of corn. All of these
were kept under as close observation as other work permitted.

Eggs remained for some time undiscovered, and a close watch
failed to detect the manner of oviposition, although youn-
larvae were easily to be found in seeds upon which the adults
were feeding. However, upon examining some of the excre-
ment, and particles of half digested food, elliptical shaped
bodies were to be found, which, from their color and structure,
appeared to be eggs. By the use of iodine these could be readily
separated from the starchy excreta, and were found to be some-
w.hat numerous, and usually present in the accumulations on the
bottom of the jar. Later, undoubted eggs were found loosely
placed on the bases of kernels of shelled corn. By a comparison
of these with those previously mentioned no doubt was left as to
the presence of eggs in the excreta. Their occurrence in the
excreta is possibly accidental. While oviposition was not ob-
served, it seems probable that in the case of corn in the ear, eggs
are placed down in the crevices between the kernels. In nearly
all of the instances that were observed, the larvae entered the
grain of corn by eating a very small hole through the softer por-
tion at the base. From this point of entrance it eats upwards
towards the top of the grain. By the time the top of the grain
has been reached the larva is usually about full grown. A larger
cavity is eaten, quite out to the hull above, and the pupa state is
entered. Upon the development of the adult from the pupa it
is quite soft and cf a rust-red color. It slowly changes color,
and tht skin becomes harder, until at the end of about forty-eight
hours it presents its normal appearance. Escape is made by
gnawing through the thin hull; but one larva occupies a single
kernel of corn.

An infested grain appears quite sound until about the time the
pupal stage is reached, when the cavity at the top of the grain
may be detected through the thin hull. In feeding on corn tin-
adults show no apparent preference for any particular part of the
grain. Of the seeds found infested, corn seems to be the favorite
food. The life cycle requires about six weeks for completion: in
some cases seven weeks were required.

Mr. E. A. Schwarz kindly determined thi> beetle for me.

4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

NOTES ON EUROPEAN ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

By PHILIP P. CALVERT.

XL MILAN.

The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, in a new build-
ing in the Public Gardens of that city, has for Director Prof.
Tito Vignoli; the Section of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
is in charge of Prof. Angelo Andres. Prof. Ferdinando Sordelli,
Assistant in Entomology, has kindly supplied some notes on the
collection of insects:

The Museum, founded in 1838, and whose nucleus was the
collections of Prof. Georges Jan and of Joseph De Cristofori, a
Milanese nobleman, was opened to the public for the first time
in September, 1844. Among these collections was also one of
Insects of all orders, especially rich in Coleoptera. At this epoch,
Tan and De Cristofori were in exchange with many entomologists
and their collections had acquired thereby a certain importance.
Having become the property of the city, the care demanded by
the other collections of the Museum, especially those of recent
and fossil Vertebrata, and the insufficiency of the personnel,
which one deplores even at this day, did not permit of the ex-
tension of the entomological collection, although it has been en-
riched by those of Abbe Marietti, of Galeazzi, and by a part of
that of the brothers Villa. A numerous series of Coleoptera
and a small selection of genera of the other orders were exposed
to public view. At present, since the Museum has been installed
in its new edifice, owing to lack of space, no part of the collec-
tion is accessible to the general visitor.

The insects are all preserved in boxes with glass tops, filling a
dozen cabinets ; the papered bottom of each box rests upon
sorghum pith, or more rarely upon cork. The specimens, of
which the greater part is still in quite good condition, are almost
all determined, but the progress of Entomology during the last
half century leaves much to be desired in the way of new studies
and of fresh material.

With the exception of some manuscript catalogues, very few

documents bearing on the collection exist. A catalogue of Co-

leoptcra was published in 1832 by Prof. Jan under the title

' Catalogus in IV Sectiones divisus rerum naturalium in Museo

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extantium Joseph! De Cristofori et Georgii Jan, etc. Sectio III,
fasc. i, Coleoptera."

Quite recently, after the death of Gaetano Osculati, the Mu-
seum has inherited a small collection of Coleoptera which this
traveler had made in Italy and in some countries of the Orient.
It contains, among others, a part of the Coleoptera enumerated
by him in the brochure " Note di un viaggio nella Persia e nella
Indie Orientali negli anni 1841, 1842 da G. Osculati. Coleopte-
rorum enumeratio quae ad Persiam et Indias orientales itinere a
Gajetano Osculati collecta novarum specierum descriptionibus
adjectis. Modoetia [= Monza] 1844."

XII. MUNICH.

In the building on Neuhauser-strasse, Munich, where are asso-
ciated the Konigliche Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften
und Generalkonservatorium and the Zoological Institute of the
Konigliche Bayrische Ludwig-Maximilians Universitiit, is a col-
lection of insects. Herr Hindlmayr, curator, informed the writer,
on the occasion of his visit there, that the only important speci-
mens are the types of the Coleoptera collected in Bra/il by Spix
and Martins and described by Perty, and Dr. Kriechbaumer's
types of Ichneumonidse.

XIII. HALLE.

The Zoological Institute of the Vereinigte Friedrichs-Univer-
sitiit Halle-Wittenberg contains entomological collections of much
importance. The following notes are drawn up partly from the
manuscript catalogues and partly from memoranda kindly fur-
nished by Prof. Ernst Taschenberg, Professor of Entomology,
to \vhom the writer is indebted for many courtesies during several
days passed in study there.

COLEOPTERA.

More than 2800 specimens acquired from Prof. Schaum and
forming part of Germar's collection: many types of < ierm.ir and
Schonherr, especially among the Curculionidae.

.Numerous types of Lamellicornia of Burmeister, of the genn>
Calopieron of E. Taschenberg, and Coleoptera from Columbia
and Ecuador from the last named.

Schulrath Dr. Suffrian's collection of 35,565 specimens from
all parts of the world, which, under the terms of the testament

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by which it was acquired in 1876, is preserved separately; a
manuscript catalogue in three small quarto volumes exists. Suf-
frian's own types of Chrysomelidae and Cryptocephalidae are here.

HYMENOPTERA.

Types of Chrysididae of Mocsary; of Nyssonidae, Crabronidae,
Larridae, Bembecidae, Cryptidae and Ophion of E. Taschenberg:
of Chalcididae and Formicidae of G. Mayr.

LEPIDOPTERA.

The collection of Gerichtsrath Keferstein of Erfurt, acquired
by bequest in 1886.

OTHER ORDERS.

Kolenati's types of a few species of Nycteribia (Diptera).

E. Taschenberg-' s types of Tettigonia (Rhynchota).

Orthoptera and Neuroptera of almost all families described by
Burmeister.

Mallophaga (in alcohol) described by Nitzch and Giebel.

Insects of all orders collected in Teneriffe by Dr. v. Rebeur-
Paschwitz.

It may perhaps be not inappropriate to state here that the
writer, by permission of Prof. Taschenberg, spent five days
(May 26-30, 1896) studying such of Burmeister' s types of
Odonata as are preserved here. Previous to his visit, none of
the presumed types possessed pin-labels indicating their char-
acter, but were placed above colored drawer-labels bearing the
specific name, a star and the name of the locality, all written in
what Prof. Taschenberg stated to be Burmeister's handwriting.
After careful study and comparison of these specimens with Bur-
meister's descriptions, all specimens which seemed to have prob-
ably served as types were pin-labeled as follows: "Considered
by me as Burmeister's type of his . . . [here the name of the
species]. P. P. Calvert, May, 1896." Of the ninety-eight spe-
cies of Odonata described as new by Burmeister, types of thirty-
eight are now in Halle. Types of at least some of the remaining
fifty, according to a letter from Mr. Samuel Henshaw, are now
hi the late Dr. Hagen's collection, in the Museum of Compara-
tive Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. The writer hopes to say in the
future something further on Burmeister's Odonata.

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APRIL COLLECTING IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.

By Dr. D. M. CASTLE and PHILIP LAUKI.N i.

(Continued from p. 305, vol. vii.)

We left Enterprise on the morning of the 2oth, and arrived at
our next stopping place, Jacksonville, in the afternoon. The
next day was spent in collecting on the outskirts of Jacksonville,
where we obtained some interesting material. The 22d we took
an early train for Fernandina, which is about thirty-five miles
trom Jacksonville. The collecting on the ocean front was not
of the best, so we retraced our steps to the fields that lie just
outside of the town, and here we found excellent collecting. A
late train in the evening brought us back to Jacksonville. The
23d we collected in the pine woods and along the banks of the
St. Johns River. The electric lights in Jacksonville afforded us
an opportunity to add many species which would not otherwise
have been captured. During our short stay in the neighborhood
of Jacksonville the following captures were made:

ARACHNIDA.

Pencetia viridans Htz.
Hamatalina grisea Keys.
Anyphsena fragihs n. sp. Banks.
Oxyopes salticus Htz.
Icius palmarum Htz.
Dendryphantes octavus Htz.
Phidippus miniatus Pck.
Heteropoda venatcoria Linn.

ORTHOPTERA.

Anisomorpha buprestoides Stall.

HOMOPTERA.

Smilia camelus Fab.
Ophiderma flaviguttata Godg.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Papilio ajax var. telamonides Feld.
" asterias Fab.

COLEOPTERA.

Scarites subterranetis Fab.
Pterostichus permundus Say. ?
haldeinani Lee.

Evarthrus americanus Dej.

nonnitens Lee. ?
Loxandrus agilis Dej.
Platynus crenulatus
Galerita janus Fab.
Pinacodera limbata var. fuscata
Chkenius herbaceus Chev.

erythropus Germ.

niger Rand.

tomentosus var.
Selenophorus ellipticus Dej.
Anisodactylus rusticus Dej.

agilis Dej.

Laccophilus proximus Say.
Bidessus allinis Say.
Agabus n. sp. ?
Cybister fimbriolatus Sa\'.
Hydrophilus ovatus G. and //.
nimbatus Say.
striolatus Lee.
Hydrocharis castus Say.
llerosus pugnax Lee.
Atlieta sp. ?
" sp.?
(Jnedius capuciiuis Grav.

[Lee.

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[January,

Philonthus cautus Er.
Stenus arculus Er.
Pinophilus parcns Lee.
Oxytelus insignitus Grav.
Chilocorus bivulnerus Muls.
Exochomus contristatus Mills.
tripustulata DeG.
Brachyacantha ursina var. basalis
Cardiophorus florida \_Melsh. ?

Monocepidius lividus DeG.
Melanotus insipiens Say.
Chalcophora georgiana Lee.
Chrysobothris floricola Gory.

chryscela ///.
Actenodes acornis Say.
Agrilus ruficollis Fab.
Brachys ovata Web.

" var. tessellata Fab.
aeruginosa Gory.
Atsenius strigatus Say.

cylindrus Horn.
Trox suberosus Fab.
Diplotaxis subcostata Blanch.
Polyphylla occidentalis Linn.
Cotalpa lanigera Linn.
Chalepus trachypgus Biinn.
Ligyrus gibbosus DeG.
Criocephalus nubilus Lee.
Elaphidion parallelum Newm.
Plectromerus dentipes Oliv.
Goes debilis Lee

" pulverulenta Hald.
Leptostylus aculiferus Say.
Liopus cinereus Lee. ?
Ecyrus dasycerus Say.
Eupogonius tomentosus Hald.
Hippopsis lemniscata Hald.
Chlamys plicata var. tuberculata Kl.

Bassareus lituratus var. vittatus

Suffr.

Cryptocephalns bivius Newm.

" nanus fab.

" schreibersii Suffr.

" luteolus Newm.

" binominis Newm.

Pachybrachys carbonarius Hald .

limliatus Newm.
" atomarius Melsh. ?

Diachus auratus Fab.
Myochrous denticollis Say.
Metachroma quercata Fab. ?
Colaspis brunnea Fab. \_Dcj.

" " var. costipennis

Oedionychis miniata Fab.
Haltica ignita ///.
Mantura floridana Cr.
Odontota bicolor Oliv.

rubra Web.

Chelymorpha argus Lie/if.
Bruchus exiguus Horn.
Epitragus tomentosus Lee.
Helops cisteloides Germ.
Hymenorus communis Lee.
Asclera erythrocephala Germ.
Epicauta strigosa Gyll.
Pterocolus ovatus Fab
Attelabus nigripes Lee.
Pandeletegus hilaris Hbst.
Eudiagogus pulcher Fab.
Pissodes strobi Peck.
Pachylobius picivorus Germ.
Smicronyx n. sp.
Otidocephalus myrmex Hbst.
Centrinus picumnus Hbst.
" rectirostris Lee.

cenfusus Boh.
Anthribus cornutus Say.

HYMENOPTERA.

Mutilla dubitata Beau.

On the 24th, the Doctor's vacation having expired, he took the
train for his home in the North, while his companion continued
his journey to Gulf- Hammock on the Gulf coast of Florida.
Four days were spent in collecting in the Hammock, when my
leave of absence having also expired, I started for home. The
following species were collected during my stay at Gulf- Ham mock :

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ARACHNIDA.

Phidippus miniatus Pck.
otipsus Htz.

Theridium stridrosum Htz.
Coelotes sp. ?

ODONATA.

Argia apicalis? Say.

fumipennis Ramb.
Ischnura ramburii Selys.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Agraulis vanillae Linn. \Strk.

Limenitis disippus var. floridensis
Neonympha eurytris Fab.
sosybius Fab.
Catopsilia eubule Linn.
Terias nicippe Cram.
Papilio ajax var. telamonides Feld.
thoas Linn.
asterias Fab.
palamedes Dru.
philenor Linn.
Painphila campestris Bdv.
phylaeus Dm.
brettus Bd.-Lec.
otlio .5" and A.
maculata Edzv.
fusca G. and R.
Eudamus proteus Linn.
Knyo lugubris Limi.
Choerocampa tersa Linn.
Philampelus vitis Linn.
Protoparce celeus Hbn.

cingulata Fab.
Crocota rubicundaria Hhn.

Mamestra laudabilis Gn.
Galgula subpartita Gn.

DIPTERA.

Tabanus amercanus Forst.
lineola Fab.
fuscopunctatus

COLEOPTERA.

Pasimachus subsulcatus .S'</r.
Pterostichus obsoletus Say.
Chkenius aestivus Say
( iyi inns niinutus Fab.
elevatus Lee.
Silpha iiuequalis Fab.

americana Linn.
Hololepla quadridentata Fab.
Hister carolinus Pavk.
Epierus pulicarius ~Er.
Brachypeplus glaber Lee.
Chalcopliora virginiensis Dm.
1'assalus curnutus Fab.
Phaiut-us igiK'iis MacL.
Goes clebilis Lee.

" pulverulenta Ha Id.
Donacia piscatrix Lac.
Trirhabda tomentosa Linn .
Xyctobates pennsylvanica var. bar-

bata Knock.

Tribohuni ferrugineuni Fab.
! pirauta strigosa GyU.
PachiKL-us distans Horn.
Otidocephalus niyrmex Jlbst.
Conotrachelus pusillus
Eupsalis ininuta Dm.
Rhyiicliophorus cruentatus l-'ab.
Phoenicobius chamaeropis /

During our entire stay in Georgia and Florida not a drop of
rain fell, or had any fallen for several weeks previous to our ar-
rival. The weather was excessively hot during the day, hut the
nights tor the most part were cool. To Messrs. Schwarx, Fer-
nald, Hulst, Fox, Calvert, Skinner, Seiss, Banks, Johnson and
others, our thanks are due for their kindness in determining a
large part of the material collected.

ERRATA.

In the first part of article on April collecting in Georgia and Florida,
which appeared in Dec. NKWS, the following corrections should be ma<k-.
Lebia viridipennis Dej. should be Lebia ana/is Dej.
Dibolia rincla should be Diabrotica vincta Lee.
Lema collaris Say collected at Jacksonville, not at Enterpris< .
Colydiidse nov. gen. n. sp. collected at Enterprise not at Savannah.

io [January,

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" What are those fellows running around for in that field ?"

" Why, they are naturalists."

" Oh, yes ! I see, catching gnats."

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IF

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D.. New Brunswick, N. J.

Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor. Prof John
B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, X. J.

(Continued from page 310, vol. vii.)

Proceedings of the Association of Economic Entomologists. Mr. Johnson
gave some "Entomological Notes from Maryland." He rehearsed the
laws of Maryland, relating to inserts and plant diseases, which requires
among other things, from nurserymen sending stock into the State, a
certificate signed by the entomologist of the State in which the stock was
grown, that the plants are free from insect pests and plant diseases; an
almost impossible certificate to give. The melon plant lice have been bad
in half a dozen counties, but he has found the kerosene emulsion diluted
twenty times to be a satisfactory remedy. The asparagus beetle is com-
mon everywhere, and the potato stalk beetle has done much injury. The
cabbage worm and harlequin bug have been unusually abundant and
are doing a great deal of harm. The strawberry weevils have been very
troublesome, particularly on the Sharpless. The Curculios have been
unusually injurious in peaches, and the Codling moth has been more than
usually troublesome in pears. The elm leaf beetle has been very abun-
dant, and the locust beetles has been very abundant, and the locust beetle
has defoliated many trees in southern Maryland.

Mr. F. W. Webster spoke on "The insects of the year in Ohio." The
chief troublesome insects have been the army worm and the chinch bug,
and both have been injurious, though requiring different meteorological
condition, by the usual combination of weather in 1895 and 1896. Gra^-
hoppers have done much damage to hay and other crops. The harlequin
cabbage bug is pushing northward in|Ohio at a greater rate than ten miles
a year. The egg parasite that has been found doing some good in Louis-
iana is to be introduced into Ohio. Basket worms were very numerous,
and especially destructive this year. The asparagus beetle is moving
slowly westward in Ohio. Odontota dorsalis has been particularly inju-
rious on black locust this year The beetle of Saperda Candida has been
found feeding upon apples and doing some injury in that way. Tcrnics
flavipes has attacked and injured geraniums. The San Jose scale is not
spreading in Ohio, but is being exterminated. It has occurred heretofore
on young trees only, and the farmers have been willing to adopt radical
measures in every case. The grape root-worm has not yet disappeared,
but an egg parasite is beginning to increase considerably, and tin- proba-
bilities are that this will obtain control of the species in the near future.
There is also a mite attacking the eggs. No insecticides that have been
used against the insect have been of any practical benefit. I'algns can-
aliculatus was for.nd eating out fruit buds of pears, and leaf buds of ap-
ples. Calasoma calidum was found in the larval state attacking cut-worms.
Clover has been injured by a little Hernipteron, //a/ticns bniftn(u.\.

12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

Mr. Slingerland stated that he had bred four specimens of parasites,
Trichogramma pretiosa, from a single Codling moth egsr.

Mr. Fletcher showed an apple \vith a little undetermined larva working
in the rlesh, which no one seemed to recognize positively.

Mr. Kellicott had found the harlequin cabbage bug much further north
than reported by Mr. Webster. He had also found Ichthynra defoliating
poplars.

Mr. Marlatt stated that in his experience kerosene applied pure on trees
was an excellent way of killing them.

Mr. A. D. Hopkins gave notes on "Some Observations in West Vir-
ginia." He said there were but five localities with San Jose scale, and
that it has not spread from the points at which it was introduced, princi-
pally on Idaho pears. Cut-worms seem to have been very scarce, prob-
ably on account of the number of parasites attacking them. The web-
worm has been very common and injurious. The cabbage bug has been
very troublesome, but can be controlled by using mustard as a trap crop.
Blister beetles had been found particularly troublesome on china asters.
He had found a little species of Uruchophagus feeding on clover seed.
This is interesting, because the insect was supposed to be parasitic in its
habits, but his observations were carefully made and there seems to be no
escape from the belief that the larva of this insect actually feeds upon the
clover seed and not upon some other insect larva.

Mr. L. O. Howard spoke of "Steam Spraying Machines," and de-
scribed a number that were in use at the present time, principally for
dealing with shade tree insects in cities and towns. Such machines had
not been found satisfactory in 01 chard spraying, because of the expense
involved, but they seem to have proved satisfactory in cities. One of the
best of these machines is that used by Mr. E. B. Southwick in New York
City and constructed under his direction. A considerable number of
photographs were exhibited illustrating the machines spoken of.

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PICTURE for album of American Entomological Society has been re-
ceived from Dr. E. Bergroth, of Tammerfors, Finland.

1 897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NKXVS. 13

CLYPEADON, new genus (C. ^-notains Ashm.). Female: clypeus eden-
tate, dorsal valve subquadrate, ventral valve bilobate ; otherwise as in
Aphilanthops, but the abdomen shorter. Type Apii. quadnnotatns Ashm.
Bull. Col. Biol. Assoc. i, p. 7 (1890). \V. H. PATTON.

A FEW days ago my father captured a troublesome fly, and, as he held
it, found to his surpise that three Pseudoscorpions had left it and were
crawling rapidly over his hand. Upon this more Hies were captured and
three found infested with Pseudoscorpions. Of fifty Hies captured the
following day two carried Pseudoscorpions, one had two attached to a
single leg. In each case the Pseudoscorpions hung on by a single pincer.
FREDERICK KNAB, Chicopee, Mass.

ANOTHER HONOR. Societe Entomologique de Russie. St. Petersbnurg,
Nov. 15, 1896. Sir Rendering homage to the eminent services which,
during a long series of years, you have not ceased to render to entomo-
logical science by your distinguished works on agricultural entomology,
on the Lepidoptera, the Hymenoptera, etc., the Entomological Society
of Russia, in its full session of October i, have unanimously elected you
an honorary member of the society. Having the honor. to transmit to
you the diploma, which is sent by itself, I hasten to add the expression
of my sentiments of esteem and devotion. P. de Semenow, Senator of
the Empire, President of the Society.

Professor Alpheus Packard received this letter from Russia announcing
his unanimous election to the Entomological Society of Russia. This
honor comes as a result of the work published by Professor Packard this
year in the Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States ("Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of America, North of
Mexico"). Broicn Herald

WESTWARD. On August igth I made a trip to the Cazenovia Creek,
about eight miles from Buffalo, with the intention to capture a number
of Cicindela ancocisconensis to present to the entomologists that might
come to Buffalo to attend the forty-fifth meeting of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science that met here for the fourth time,
from August 24th to 29th. I was somewhat disappointed to capture only
one specimen owing, perhaps, to the dryness which had prevailed during
this and last season. I however used my umbrella beating willows which
grow profusely near the banks of the creek. I was very much surprised
to find a number of Cry ptorhyn chits lapathi L. Our lamented friend,
Wm. Juelich, had supplied me with a fine set several years ago, which
he took near New York and in New Jersey, telling me at the time to be
on the lookout for it. This week I went out there again in company with
several visiting entomologists and found more of the Curculio, and on
close research discovered the holes in the stems of the will* >ws In >m which
the Curculios had emerged. To make proof positive, we cut oil some
of the willows and found the larva in all stages of life. This shows the
rapid spread of this pest. We also found quite a number of

14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

asparagi Linn. This Chrysomdid has never before been observed in
this locality. OTTOMAR REINECKE, Buffalo, N. Y.

VOL. Ill, No. 8, of the News gives us the interesting story of the in-
troduction of Sainia cynthia\\i\.Q Philadelphia. In collecting during the last
few years I had my attention drawn to the multitude of larvae and cocoons
of this species found in certain parts of the city. Not more than ten
minutes' walk from my residence will bring me to a grove of trees where
the Ailanthus is predominant. In this place I have taken, the last two
years, over two thousand larvae and cocoons, and this figure alone will
tell how they nave multiplied in the northwestern part of this city since
the year 1860 from the few worms of Dr. Thomas Stewardson's successful
experiment. The female seems to favor trees near the open and along
the road for depositing the eggs as most of the offspring are found there.
It seems strange that the larvae now at any stage are very little molested
by birds, of which there is a variety, whereas at the beginning the Doctor
lost quite a number this way. The larvae, which feed gregariously in the
first stages, are easily found on the underside of the leaf, but after the
second moult, with no protection, will feed and moult on the same stem,
and there can be little trouble for the sharp eye of the smallest insectiv-
orous bird to find them. When taken by hand they will not fight like
some larvae of the Sphingidae, nor discharge any fluid like the Datana;
in fact, all they do is to stick to their foothold. In October I collected
some cocoons and kept them in the room previous to sending a lot abroad
when, to my dismay, nearly all the moths emerged and I found some
mated shortly afterwards. Eggs hatched in fifteen days. The leaves of
the Ailanthus only lasting up to the second moult I tried several Winter
plants which were taken as a doubtful " free lunch" and a week after the
last proper food-plant had disappeared the worms went to the happy
hunting grounds. This lot makes the third generation this year. Ac-
cording to my observations their collecting in colonies seems habitual,
except when feeding on Liriodendron and Lindera benzoin. The moth
is an excellent dish for our screech owl (as I had the opportunity to ob-
serve) which may account for their scarcity in comparison to the number
of cocoons. Many larvae of E. tityrns have been collected on Desmodiiim
.nudiflorum, a food-plant new to me. T. nicippe has been very plentiful
this season, and has apparently a different food-plant from Cassia, owing
to the limited occurrence of this plant in our neighborhood. H. HORNIG.

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1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 15

Entomological Literature.

Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the AcacK-im i
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the .Entomology of the Americas N
and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con-
taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatoim oi
insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded.

1. ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER. Leipsic, Nov. 2, 1896 On the biology

of the social wasps of Brazil, H. von Ihering. November 23. On the

copulatory organs of the Lysiopetalida; and a Ly slope t alum from Bosnia,
Dr. C. Yerhoeff, figs.

2. LA FEUILLE DES JEUNES NATTRALISTES. Paris, Nov. i, 1896.
Mimicry in insects (cont.), C. Oberthiir.

3. LE NATURALISTE. Paris, Nov. i, 1896. Analytically illustrated
genera of French Coleoptera (cont.), C. Houlbert, figs. Monographic
essay on the Coleoptera of the genera Lucanus and Psettdotucanus, L.
Planet, fig.

4. MEMOIRIE DELLA R. ACCADE.MIA DELLA SCIENZE DELL'INSTITUTO
DI BOLOGNA (v), iv, 1894. Received Nov. 24, 1896. Report on the Hy-
menoptera collected in Mozambique by Cav. Fornasini, C. Emery, G.
Gribodo and G. Kriechbaumer.

5. BOLLETINO DEI MUSEI DI ZoOLOGIA ED .\NATOMIA COMPAKATA

DELLA R. UNIVERSITA DI TORINO. No. 254, Aug. 20, 1896. Chilopods
and Diplopods collected by Dr. E. Festa at La Guayra in Darien and at
Cuenca, Dr. F. Silvestri, figs. No. 256, Sept. 12, 1896. Two anoma-
lous Acrididae, Dr. A. Griffini, figs.

6. IL NATURALISTA SICILIANO. Palermo, Nov. i, 1896. Regional
catalogue of the Coleoptera of Sicily (cont.), E. Ragusa. Studies on the
genera Alaocyba, Torneuma and Amav.rorrhinus tconcl.), J. Croissan-
deau. On the nidification and biology of Spfie.v pa/ndosiis Rossi, T.
De Stefan i.

7. THE BRAIN OF THE BEE. A preliminary contribution to the mor-
phology of the nervous system of the Arthropoda. By F. C. Kenyon.
Reprint from Journal of Comparative Neurology, vi, 3, pp. 133-210, pis.
xiv-xxii, December, 1896.

8. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THK ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
(B), 186, pt. 2. The pigments of the Pieridas; a contribution to the study
of excretory substances which function in ornament. By F. G. Hopkins

9. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETK NATIONALS D'ACCLIMATATION DK
FRANCE. Paris, May, 1896. Applied entomology in Europe, P. Marchal.

10. ATTI DELLA SOCIETA DEI N.\Ti:K AI..STI DI MODENA, SCrie 3. xiv,

i. On a case of albinism in Periplaneta orit-nla/ix L., T. Bentivoglio.
it. ANNALI DEL MUSEO Civico DI STORIA NATI/RALE DI GENOVA,

serie 2, xvi. Travels of Leonardo Fea in Burmnh and neighboring re-
gions. Colydiida; et Monotomidce, A. Grouvelle; Langurii<hf, Erotylidae

1 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

and Endomychidas, H. S. Gorham; Monommidae, Trixagidae et Eucnem-
idae, E. Fleutiaux ; the Diplopoda, F. Silvestri. Descriptions of new
genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by Dr. Modig-
liani in Sumatra, M. Jacoby. New Termitophilae and Termites from
India, E. Wasmann. On the Odonate Aeschna riteyi, P. P. Calvert.

12. BULLETIN OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. Lancaster, Pa.,
November, 1896. Resemblance of an insect larva [Gossyparia ulmi
Geof. ] to a lichen fruit, G. E. Stone.

13. MITTHEILUNGEN AUS DEM RoEMER MUSEUM. Hildesheim, No. 7,
November, 1896. System of North American Lepidoptera, A. R. Grote.

14. THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. Washington,
November, 1896. The Tsetse fly disease in Zululand (from the London
Lancet).

15. TKAVAUX DE LA SOCIETE IMPERIALS DES NATURALISTES DE ST.
PETERSBOURG, SECTION DE ZOOLOGIE ET DE PHYSIOLOGIE, xxvi, 1896.
Contributions to the knowledge of spermatogenesis of spiders, J.
Wagner.

16. LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS. Contri-
butions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory vii, Palo Alto,
Cal., 1896. New Mallophaga, ii, from land birds, together with an ac-
count of the Mallophagous mouth-parts, V. L. Kellogg, 14 pis. (Reprint
from Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2), vi).

17. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY,
xxvii, September, 1896. On the larvae of the higher Bombyces (Agro-
tides Grote), H. G. Dyar.

IS. SlTZUNGSBERICHTK DER GESELLSCHAFT NATURFORSCHENDER

FREUNDE zu BERLIN, Oct. 20, 1896. Formation of the wings in the larva
of Tenebrio tnolitor L., R. Heymons, fig.

19. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF STATEN
ISLAND [New Brighton, N. Y.J, Nov. 14, 1896. Additions to the local
list of butterflies, W. T. Davis.

20. PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., December, 1896. Notes on the Win-
ter insect fauna of Vigo County, Indiana viii, W. S. Blatchley. Life-
history of Deilephila lineata, C. G. Soule.

21. DE NEDERLANDSCHE INSECTEN door Dr. J. Th. Oudemans. Met
36 steendrukplaten en ruim driehonderd figuren in den tekst Aflevering
i, s'Gravenhage Martinus Nijhoff, 1896. The first part (48 pp.) of a work
on the insects of Holland, treating of the systematic place of insects, the
idea of species, aberrations, races, etc., polymorphism, parthenogenesis
and allied subjects, metamorphoses, galls, and a part of the external
anatomy. Each part is to cost 90 Dutch (=37 American) cents.

22. THK AMERICAN NATURALIST. Philadelphia. December, 1896. A
new era in the study of Diptera, J. M. Alclrich. Color variation in a beetle
(from Bateson in Jour. Roy. Micr. Soc.).

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23. REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE. Paris, Nov. 21, 1896. Reproduction and
evolution of social wasps, P. Marchal.

24. BULLETINO DELLA SOCIETA ENTOMOLOGICA ITALIANA, XXVJii, I

and 2. Florence, Oct. 31, 1896. Studies on the ants of the neotropical
fauna, xvii-xxv, C. Emery, i pi. Systematic revision of the European
species of the family Culicidae (cont.), E. Ficalbi.

25. LE NATURALISTE CANADIEN. Chicoutimi (Prov Quebec), No-
vember, 1896. Popular entomology, G. Beaulieu. The Coleoptera of
Manitoba, G. Chagnon.

26. EUROPAEISCHE HoEHLENFAUNA. Eine Darstelhmg der in den
Hohlen Europas lebenden Tierwelt mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der
Hoiilenfauna Krains. Nach eigenen Untersuchungen von Prof Dr. Otto
Hamann. Mit 150 Abbildungen auf fiinf lithographischen Tafeln. Jena,
Hermann Costenoble, 1896, 296 pp., Svo. Insecta, pp. 53-160, 257-260;
Myriapoda, pp. 160-180; Arachnida, pp. 181-224.

27. EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, viii, i and 2, U. S. Department of
Agriculture. Washington, 1896. Summaries and notices of entomo-
logical articles from various experiment station records.

28. ANATOMISCHER ANZEIGER. Jena, Nov. 12, 1896. A [contribution]
to the knowledge of the dermal nervous system of the Arthropoda, E.
Holmgren, figs.

29. ICONES ORNITHOPTERORUM: A monograph of the Rhopalocerous
genus Ornithoptera, or bird-wing butterflies. By Robert H. F. Rippon.
Published by the author, 24 Jasper Road, Upper Norwood, S. E. Part
8. Received Dec. 8, iSgi>. Genera Dnirya and Schoenbergia, pis. IT,
iv, 2ia.

30. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, Nov. 15, 1896. The
antennae of Lepidoptera (cont ), J. W. Tutt.

31. ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xxii, 21. Berlin, November,
1896. Some new Cetonidse, Dr. G. Schoch. Distonutni cysts in dragon-
flies (from Blatter fur Aquarien-und Terrarien Freunde, vii, pp. 199-200,
1^96, W. Weltner).

32. SPECIES DBS HVMENOPTERES o'EuROPE ET D'ALGERIE . . . fonde"
par Ed. Andre" . . . et continue 1 sous la direction scientifique de Ernest
Andre". Supplement, pp. 705-736, and index, pp. 737-751, to vol. vi
Chrysididae. Paris, Vve Dubrosclard, Editeur, 1896.

33. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., December, 1896.
The Agrotis subgothica of Haworth again, M. Y. Slingerland, i pi.
Further additions to my 1894 list of Winnipeg butterflies, with notes tor
season of 1896, A. W. Hanham. A reply to Prof. Smith, A. R. Grote.
A Mexican Aleurodicus, T. D. A. Cockerell Notes on the phylogeny
of the Saturnians, H. G. Dyar. Description of two remarkable aliena-
tions of Colias philodice, D. Brainerd. Notes on the life-history of Cc-
rura occidenta/is, H . G. Dyar.

1 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January,

34. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, December,
^96. Survival of Acherontia atropos after being struck by an ichneumon,
Rev. T. A. Marshall. Ravages of Termites ("white ants") at Sydney,
N. S. W., R. McLachlan.

35. JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, ii, 3. Kingston, July,
iS^6. A contribution towards a list of the dragonflies of Jamaica, G. H.
Carpenter. The scorpions of Jamaica, J. E. Duerden. The Myriapods
of Jamaica, id.

36. THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. Melbourne, October, 1896. Notes
on an entomological fungus, W. H. F. Hill.

37. THE JOURNAL OF THE QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. London,
November, 1896. Note on a stridulating organ in a South African ant
(Streblognathus cethiopicus], R. T. Lewis, i pi. Notes on aquatic Hy-
menoptera and rediscovery of Presiwichia aquatica Lubbock, F. Enock.

38. ZOOLOGISCHE JAHRBUCHER, ix, 5. Jena, Nov. 15, 1896. For-
micidse collected in Paraguay by Dr. J. Bohls, C. Emery, figs.

39. BULLETIN FROM THE LABORATORIES OF NATURAL HISTORY OF
THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, iv, i. Iowa City, December, 1896.
Notes on the Hymenoptera collected by the Bahama Expedition from the
State University of Iowa, W. H. Ashmead.

40. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (new
series), xix, i. Philadelphia, 1896. An essay on the development of the
mouth parts of certain insects, J. B. Smith, 3 pis.

41. BULLETIN No. xxiii, DELAWARE COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL EXPERI-
MENT STATION. Newark, Del., 1896. The increase of the San Jose'
scale in Delaware during 1896, G. H. Powell.

42. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MORE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMER-
ICAN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. Prepared by authority of the Secretary
oi Agriculture by Samuel Henshaw. Part v. The more important
writings of Government and State entomologists and of other contribu-
tors to the literature of American economic entomology, L Z. U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Washington, 1896,
179 pp.

43. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, December, 1896. The senses of
insects, J. Arkle. On the preponderating influence of the organic over
the physical environment in determining the vertical distribution of the
Lepidoptera, W. H. Bath. The aberrations of secondary sexual charac-
ters in Papilionidae, J. Watson. Silk-producing Lepidoptera (cont.), A.
Wailly. Vanessa antiopa, H. J. Elwes. On preserving spiders, B. Piffard.
Apple trees and wingless females, A. T. Mitchell. Entomologist vs. col-
lector, G. W Smith, F. P. Bedford.

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INDEX TO THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

The number after each author's name in this index refers to the journal, as numbered
in the preceding list, in which that author's paptr is published ; * denotes that the paper
in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

THE GENERAL SUBJECT.

Oberthiir 2, Kenyon 7, Hopkins 8, Bentivoglio 10, Wasmann n, Stone
12, Oudemans 21, Beaulieu 25, Hamann 26, Holmgren 28, Hill 36, Smith
40, Arkle 43, Smith 43, Bedford 43.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Marchal 9, Anon. 14, McLachlan 34, Hill 36, Powell 41, Henshaw 42,

Mitchell 43.

MYRIAPODA.
Silvestri 5*, n, Verhoeff i, Duerden 35.

ARACHNIDA.
Wagner 15, Duerden 35, Piffard 43.

ORTHOPTERA.
Griffini 5, Bentivoglio 10.

NEUROPTERA.

Wasmann ir, Calvert n, Kellogg 16, VVeltner 31, McLachlan 34, Car-
penter 35.

HEMIPTERA.
Cockerell 33*.

COLEOPTERA.

Houlbert 3, Planet 3, Ragusa 6, Croissandeau 6, Grouvelle n, Gorham
ii, Fletiaux n, Jacoby ir, Stone 12, Heymons 18, Blatchley 20, Bateson
22, Chagnon 25, Schoch 31*.

DIPTERA.
Anon. 14, Aldrich 22, Ficalbi 24.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Hopkins 8, Grote 13, Dyar 17, Davis 19, Soule 20, Rippon 29, Tutt 30,
Slingerland 33, Hanham 33, Grote 33, Dyar 33 (two), Brainerd 33, Mar-
shall 34, Bath 43, Watson 43, Wailly 43, Elwes 43.

HYMENOPTERA.

von Ihering i, Emery, Gribodo and Kriechbaumer 4, DeStefani 6,
Kenyon 7, Marchal 23, Emery 24*, 38, Andre" 32, Lewis 37, Enock 37,
Ashmead 39*.

Doings of Societies.

PHILADELPHIA, December 8, 1896.

A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was he-Id
at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1509 S. i3th Stro t.
Members present : Messrs. Castle, Boerner, H. W. Wen/d, F.

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Hoyer, E. Wenzel, A. Hoyer, Johnson, Fox and Schmitz.
Honorary members : Drs. Henry Skinner and John B. Smith.
Visitors : Messrs. A. Klages and Lancaster Thomas. Meeting
called to order at 8.50 P.M., Vice-president Castle presiding.

Prof. Smith stated that about a year ago he had found Coc-
cinellidae, Pentilia misella very abundant at Riverton, N. J., and
that recentl}' he had been notified by the farmers of Monmouth
County, New Jersey, that fruit trees in their orchards were infested
by a small black beetle. On visiting the district from whence this
complaint came, a few days ago, he found the trees swarming
with these insects, a number of which he exhibited, feeding upon
the San Jose scale ; the speaker remarked that this was an exam-
ple of how nature takes care of itself, as wherever the trees are
infested by this scale you will be sure to find the insects in great
numbers.

Referring to the above Mr. H. W. Wenzel stated that he had
taken several of the same species on the oak at Anglesea, N. J.

Prof. Smith also exhibited a piece of Yucca whipptei of about
one foot in length and three inches in diameter, which came from
the desert of California. These trees, which bear a white flower,
grow to a height of about twenty feet and a diameter of one
foot, are quite numerous in the desert regions; the entomologists
of California cut and dry this, using it for mounting specimens
upon, for which purpose it seems very suitable it being of a pithy,
nature and quite dense, it must, however, be thoroughly dried
first, otherwise it is apt to corrode the pins.

Dr. Skinner supplemented that it was also coming in use among
surgeons, who use it for splints and other purposes.

Mr. Johnson exhibited a number of Diptera, among which he
mentioned a male and female of the genus Dialysis, a new species,
which Mr. Wenzel had captured at Cranberry, in the mountains
of North Carolina.

No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to
the annex at 10.30 P.M. THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary.

NEWARK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. At a meeting held
October 25th the general character of the season just passed was
discussed, and particularly the occurrence of certain of the rarer
species.

Among others, Mr. H. H. Brehme mentioned that the collect-
ing started earlier in 1896 than at any other period for nine years.
The first eggs of Sphinx luscitiosa were found May igth, earlier
than ever before; that is, eggs were found on that day; and on the
2oth 250 eggs and between 30 and 40 young larvae at least three
days' old were discovered. As the eggs are laid about ten days
before the larvae hatch, the first adult must have been flying not
later than May yth, which is unusually early for any Sphinx.
Eggs were found until June 29th, so it is certain that not all the-

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moths come out at the same time. About eleven hundred of this
species were found, and the larvae were carried through until
nearly full grown, when, being put in a cellar for a week, they
became ill and died rapidly and not more than 200 entered the
pupa state.

Smerinthus geminatus is a much earlier species, and eggs were
found May ist. Full grown larvae were ready to pupate May
3Oth ; but of 30 specimens that pupated early in June, only one
specimen hatched, the others lying over for next year. Some
larvae were found June 3Oth, and all of those produced the moths
during the current Summer. Mr. Rrehme questioned whether
this was a rule. The first eggs of 6". myops were found May 2oth,
and they soon became plentiful. The last larvae were seen Octo-
ber 1 2th. Cressonia juglandis was very abundant this year, and
much earlier than in other seasons. The first eggs were found
May 2oth. One day in August Messrs. Angelman and Brehme
found over 300 full grown larvae The last larvae were found
September 2oth.

After considerable discussion on the subject of broods and
dates, Mr. S. Seib told of an experience in involuntary sugaring,
Octobei 2ist. He had several boxes of honey comb from which
the honey had been extracted and placed them in his garden to
allow the bees to clean them out completely. In taking them in,
in the evening, he noticed that there were several Noctuids flying
about, and also that some had crawled in between the combs and
were not easily disturbed. He therefore took in box after box,
collected out the specimens in the room, and replaced them out-
side for future attractions. In this way a considerable number
of specimens were taken by far the greater proportion of them
being Leucania unipunctata. In the genus Agrotis there were
many common species and some that are as yet unknown to him.
Scopelosoma was also represented in the captures, and particularly
sidus, which was present in several pretty varieties.

November 2ist. Meeting was held at the residence of Mr. Seib
in Jersey Citv. Mr. H. H. Brehme introduced the discussions
in a short paper on southern butterflies noted in the vicinity of
Newark, June 3Oth. Papilio ajax variety marcellns. was taken
near Hemlock Falls in rather bad condition, indicating a long
flight. July roth, near Elizabeth, Eupotieta claudia was taken in
some numbers, and also a specimen of Pyrgus tessellatus. On
the same day was seen a specimen of Callidryas eubule. One
day in September, near Waverly, a specimen of Terias nicippc
was taken a very rare species in this vicinitv. Incidentally, it
was stated that a correspondent in Reno, Nevada, claims that
the common white cabbage butterfly, Pieris rape?, is driving out
the native species vernalis beckeri and occidcntalis. The sub-
ject of the distribution of species and their general modification

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was discussed at some length, Messrs. Frank, Doll, Smith, Seib
and others taking part.

This was followed by some discussions on the habits of dung
beetles, particularly the so-called tumble bugs, in the course of
which Mr. Seib read an article from a German publication detail-
ing at length some observations as to the method in which the
insects formed and disposed of the pellet they are so often seen
trundling about.

Tne Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

NITELOPTERUS. A NEW LARRID GENUS.

By WILLIAM H. ASHME.AD.

Among a small but interesting collection of parasitic Hymen-
optera sent me some time ago by Mrs. Annie T. Slosson, for
names, was a minute digger-wasp, taken by her last Winter at
Lake Worth, Florida, representing a new genus in the family
Larridae, although evidently closely allied to the European genus
Nilela Latreille.

Our species in this family have only quite recently been mono-
graphed by Mr. Wm. J. Fox, and I therefore think it best that
there should be no delay in publishing a diagnosis of this inter-
esting new genus.

Nitelopterus g. n. J\ Head transverse, with the eyes large and occu-
pying the whole side of the head, extending to base of mandibles ; maxil-
lary palpi 5-jointed ; labral palpi 3-jointed ; mandibles long lanceolate;
acute at tips, but with a deep emargination on lower side before the mid-
dle ; ocelli distinct, triangularly arranged. Thorax with a pronotum a
little longer, but narrower than the mesonotum, with a transverse con-
striction or furrow above at about two-thirds its length; mesonotum broader
than long, obtrapezoidal, without parapsidal furrows, but with a shallow,
poorly-defined, median furrow, which is more especially noticeable ante-
riorly; scutfllum with a transverse grooved line at base; metanotum as
long as the mesonotum and scutellum united, slightly narrowed towards
apex, the hind angles rounded, the short oblique posterior face trans-
versely striated, with a slight sulcus ; spiracles linear ; tibial spurs i, i, 2,
the tarsi longer than their femora. Front wings with one submarginal and
two discoidal cells, the submedian cell considerably shorter than the me-

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dian, the areolet or second submarginal cell obliterated, evidently by the
union of the two transverse cubital nervures as the only one now present
is somewhat stout ; the cubitus is indicated by a stump of a vein which is
shorter than the transverse cubitus ; marginal cell shorter than the first
submarginal cell, slightly rounded at apex, but not appendiculated, about
two and one-half times as long as wide. Abdomen oblong-oval, narrower
than the thorax, with seven distinct segments ; segments 1-3 occupying
most of the surface, the first the longest, the second and third subequal ;
segments 4-7 united, not longer than the third.

In venation and general appearance this new genus is not unlike
Nitela Latr., and will naturally, on account of the venation of
front wings, come next to it in any natural arrangement of the
genera of the Larridae ; but is readily separated by the strongly
emarginated mandibles, the slight difference in size and shape of
the marginal cell and by the cubitus in the hind wing originating
somewhat farther away from the transverse median nervure.

Nitelopterus slossonae sp. n. (j\ Length 3.5 mm. Black, more or less
clothed with a silvery pile, the head in front and thorax above bronzed ;
clypeus and face below insertion of antennae clothed with a dense, silvery
pubescence ; scape beneath, mandibles, tibiae and tarsi, ferruginous ; an-
terior and middle tibia? on upper surface more or less dusky ; apex of
tarsal joints armed with black spines; flagellum filiform, joints 1-7 sub-
equal 4 and 5 distinctly longer than i and 2, or about four times as long
as thick. Abdomen with segments i-% banded with silvery pile on apical
margins, less distinct on the following segments ; the segments i and 2
have also a more or less distinct testaceous spot at apical middle.

Hab . Lake Worth, Florida. (Mrs. Annie T. Slosson).

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SOME SPECIES OF PERDITA FROM NEBRASKA.

BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, N. M. Agr. Exp. Station.
So far as I am aware, no species of Perdita has ever been
recorded from Nebraska, so the following account of some just
received from Prof. L. Bruner will possess interest.

(i). Perdita albipennis Cresson, 1868. Sand Hills, Neb., July. Both
sexes.

(2). Perdita bruneri n. sp. West Point, Neb., August, 1887. One of
each sex, $. About 6 mm. long. Head and thorax dark olive-green,
dullish, with bright lemon-yellow markings. Face bare, vertex, cheeks
and thoracic dorsum with the usual sparse pubescence, becoming dense
and conspicuously white on lower part of cheeks and lower part of pleura.
Head ordinary, cheeks unarmed. Face below level of antenna' all yellow,
except clypeal dots, and a black streak at junction of dog-ear mark with

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clypeus. Clypeus rather high ; supraclypeal mark rectangular, nearly
square, very slightly broader than long, emarginate at top. Lateral marks
rapidly and evenly narrowing from top of dog-ear marks to a point on
orbital margin about level with the middle of the scape, forming thereat
an angle of about 45. Cheeks dark with only a yellow line extending
nearly half way up posterior orbital margin. Mandibles rufous at tips.
Scape yellow with a black patch on distal half above. Flagellum black
above, mostly dull yellowish below. Mesothorax dullish, microscopically
tessellate, median groove very distinct. Tubercles and a pair of large
spots on hind border of prothorax, connecting with them by a narrow
line, yellow. A patch on border of prothorax below tubercles also yellow.
Pleura wholly dark, metathorax distinctly bluish. Tegular hyaline with
a yellow spot. Wings hyaline, nervures and margin of stigma very pale
chrome yellow. Marginal cell somewhat obliquely truncate, poststig-
natal portion longest. Second submarginal large, narrowed one-half to
marginal. Third discoidal distinct. Legs yellow, with dark brown
markings. Femora for the most part dark brown beneath. Anterior and
middle tibiae with a dark streak behind, hind tibiae almost entirely brown,
except a yellow line down the front. Tarsi becoming whitish, claws dark.
Abdomen above dark brown, with five clean cut yellow bands, all nar-
rowly interrupted in the middle. These bands do not coalesce on lateral

margin. Venter yellow.

9. About 6 mm. long, if anything smaller than the $, the thorax
distinctly smaller, no dog-ear marks. The yellow markings apparently
somewhat reddened by cyanide in the specimen described. Clypeus
yellow with the usual dots and two heavy black bars. Supraclypeal mark
nearly twice as broad as lon^. Lateral marks receding from the clypeus
opposite the dot, curving gently upwards and outwards, then passing
along the orbital margin as a band of uniform width, abruptly truncate at
the upper level of the antennal sockets. Mandibles with slender dark
tips. Scape more slender than in <j\ Prothoracic spots reduced to short
lines or bands. Margin of stigma very pale orange contrasting with the
very pale brownish nervures. Femora dark except at apex, middle and
hind tarsi brownish. Abdomen banded as in the J\ but the bands not
so broad, and chrome instead of lemon-yellow. Venter dark brown.

In my table of Perdita (Proc. Ph. la. Acad. 1896), the
bruneri runs at once to sphczralcece , from which it differs by
the interrupted abdominal bands, the comparatively dull meso-
thorax, etc. The 9 runs down to 80 affinis 9 variety, but
differs at once from that which has cream-colored markings,
dark nervures, and no well-developed supraclypeal mark.

(3). Perdita SCXmaculata Ckll. 1895, var. punctata, Ckll., 1896. Lin-
coln, Nebr., September, one $.

(4). Perdita ignota Ckll., 1896. Lincoln, Neb., September, one 9-
The head and thorax have a decided olive-green color, but otherwise the
specimen agrees with ignota from Mesilla, N. M. The occurrence of the
species in Nebraska was wholly unexpected.

The above species are all Rocky Mountain types, representa-
tive of the upper Sonoran and Transition zones.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for December was mailed December 5, 1896.

ENT. NEWS. Vol. VIII.

PI. II.

A NEW NOCTUID Ottolengui.

(Tkyatira. scripta and rectangulata)

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATCHAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. vin. FEBRUARY, 1897. No. 2.

CONTENTS:

Ottolengui Anew Noctuid 25

Truman Lepidoptera in S. Dakota 27

Editorial 36

Economic Entomology 37

Notes and News 38

Twogood Rhopalocera of 'Riverside,

California 29 Entomological Literature 40

Fox The present status of Parapom- j Doings of Societies 46

pilus 32 Entomological Section 48

Hamilton Pinochles Hamilton! and

Anthicus formicarius 34

A NEW NOCTUID.

By R. OTTOLEXGUI.

Thyatira rectangulata nov. sp. Pattern essentially that of T. scrip/a
(America) and T. derasa (Europe), except that in the course of the t. a.
line a sharply defined right angle occurs ; hence the name. This serins
to be a specific character, as in derasa the line is practically straight,
whilst in scripta there is a slight bend at the point where the right angle
occurs in rectangulata. Other differences are as follows :

Color. The ground color is the same in all three species, lightest in
derasa, and darkest in rectangulata. The maculation in derasa is creamy
white with a deep yellowish cast through the central third of the prima-
ries. In scripta there is a pinkish hue to the white markings, and, with a
number of specimens before me, it is evident th.it there is a yellowish re-
flection through the central third of primaries, a shade which is entirely
absent in rcclan^ulata, the markings of which are bright pink. In fact,
both in color and pattern (with one exception), scripfaseems more nearly
allied to derasa, than it is to rectangulata.

Subterminal line. In scripta and derasa the s. t. line is a distinct white
band, well defined along both edges, extending uninterruptedly from a|>.-\
to cuter angle. In rectangulata the line is narrow, sharply d-.-nt.itc out-
wardly ; inwardly fading away and blending with the ground color ; it is
narrowed or broken near the angle.

Subterminal space. The subterminal space in all three species :-*

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crossed by a series of sharply curved, parallel, black lines. In scripta
four distinct lines are present, while in derasa and rectangulata the inner-
most line is entirely absent or very faintly suggested.

Types. Two males and two females. Collection of the author.

This species, which I have at length decided to be distinct, was
taken by me during my first year of collecting, and during the
Spring and Autumn of each succeeding year. For a time I had
my Brooklyn specimens labeled T. scripta, but when I visited
White Mountains and took the genuine scripta in that region, I
at once suspected that the Brooklyn form was at least a local
race. The late Mr. Neumoegen suggested to me that, being
double brooded, the broods might vary, but I disproved this by
showing him living specimens in May, and in the following August,
both being taken in Brooklyn, and exactly alike. At various
times I have had about eighty specimens taken in Brooklyn, and
the characters differing from the other species have been uniformly
present in them all. I have also seen the same form taken by
Mrs. Herring, in Plainfield, N. J., while specimens from the
Catskills, the Adirondacks and the White Mountains, as well as
from Canada, have all been typical scripta. I say "typical 1
scripta, because though Gosse's description is really no descrip-
tion at all, his figure is very distinctly the same insect as that taken
in the high altitudes and in the North. In Bulletin 44, U. S.
National Museum, Prof. Smith says : " In the Edwards collection
there is an Alaskan specimen, and in the British Museum one
from Hudson Bay territory, which indicate a new species. They
are much darker in color, and in the course of the t. a. line agree
with derasa rather than with scripta." This statement is puz-
zling. I cannot find any Alaskan specimen in the Edwards col-
lection, nor was such a specimen known to the present curator,
Mr. Beutenmuller. Aside from the typical scripta, I found a
specimen of what I now call rectangulata, but that was presented
to Mr. Edwards by rne, and was taken in Brooklyn. Whether
an Alaska label was temporarily upon the pin when Prof. Smith
saw it I cannot tell, but even in that case, though rectangulata is
' much darker in color," it by no means approaches derasa in
the course of the t. a. line. Then the British Museum specimen
adds to the mystery, for I should not look for rectangulata so far
North, though of course it may occur there, if as I suspect, it is
a true species, and not merely a local race of scripta.

I 897.]

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

Argynnis aphrodite
alcestis
bellona

Grapta progne

Vanessa milberti

Pyrameis huntera

Jununia ccenia

Apatura proserpina

Thecla litus

Chrysophanus dione

Lyctena pseudargiolus

Nathalis iole

Anthocharis olympia

Colias eriphyle
philodice

Ancyloxypha numitor

Pamphila massasoit
uncas
huron
cernes
delaware

Deilepbila chamaenerii

Philampelus achemon

Ampelophaga niyron

Protoparce celeus
Carolina

Spliinx drupiferarum
" gordius

vancouverensis

Triptogon rnodesta

Smerintlius gem hiatus

Eudryas unio
grata

Lycomorpha pholtis

Callimorpha suffusa

Arctia virgo

parthenice

Spilosoma latipennis
antigone

Eucha-tes oregonensis

Nadata gibbosa

LEPIDOPTERA IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

By P. C. TRUMAN, Volga, S. Dak.

(Continued from p. 299, vol. vii).
RARE.

Gluphisia trilineata
Telea polyphemus
Hepialus argenteomaculatus
Arsilonche albovenosa
Acronycta occidental is
lobelice
insita
brumosa
superans
connecta
hamamelis
sperata
oblinita

Harrisimemna trisignata
Microcoelia diphtheroicles
Peridroma incivis
Noctua c-nigrum
plecta
haruspica

Chorizagrotis auxiliaris
introferens

agrestis

Porosagrotis mursenula
Carneades vertical is
tessellata
Mamestra Itistralis
subjuncta
grandis
latex
adjuncta
lilacina
K)tk-lli
renigera
obscura

Hadena ui vi\ niosa
apamiformis
cariosa
leucoscelis
indirect.!
mactata
miseloides

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

[February,

Hadena fractilinea
Trachea delicata
Oligia grata
Hyppa xylinoides
Euplexia lucipara
Helotropha atra
Hydrcecia obliqua
nebris

Monodes nucicolora
Caradrina meralis
Pyrophila glabella
Tseniocampa oviduca
Pyrrhia angulata
Orthosia ferruginoides
Xanthm flavago
Xylina disposita
" bethunei
" laticinera
" pexata
' ' carbonaria
Calocampa nupera

curvimacula
Cucullia intermedia
Ogdoconta cinereola
Abrostola urentis
Plusia aerea

" biloba

Plusiodonta compressipalpis
Heliothis rhexia

dipsaceus
scutosus
Erastria albidula

concinnimacula
synochitis
muscosula
Catocala grynea
cratsegi
abbreviatella
clintonii
cerogama
adriana
stretchii
cara
" nurus

Strenoloma lunilinea
Phurys vinculum
Homopyralis discalis
Herminia morbidalis

petrealis

Renia flavipunctalis
Bleptina caradrinalis
Bomolocha deceptalis
Tetracis crocallata
Caberodes confusaria
" majoraria
" cayennaria
Endropia serrata
Sicya macularia
Eucrostis chloroleucaria
Acidalia quadriHneata
Semiothisa enotata

" dislocaria
Phasiane mellistrigata

trifasciata
" . irrorata
Thamnonoma subcessaria

flavicaria
Caterva catenaria
Boarmia crepuscularia
Eubyia cognataria
Phibalapteryx latirupta
Petrophora testata

cliversilineate
Rheumaptera unangulata
Pyrausta oxdydalis
Schoenobius clemensellus
Crambus coloradellus
interminellus
" bistriatellus
Oxyptilus periscelidactylus
Amorbia hunierosana
Dichelia sulfureana
Sericoris constellatana
Psedisca scudderiana

" dorsisignatana
Carpocapsa pomonella

1897.]

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

29,

VERY RARE.

Argynnis edwardsii
Graptaj -album
Vanessa californica
Chionobas varuna
Libythea bachmani
Lycsena isola
Meganostoma ccesonia
Papilio turnus

cresphontes

philenor

Cystineura amymone
Pamphila viator
Nisoniades brizo

juvenalis

Protoparce cingulata
Trochilium fraxini
Utethesia bella
Pheosia rimosa
Nerice bidentata
Edema albifrons
Schizura ipomeae
Tolype velleda
Hepialus argentata

But of these Grapta j-album, M. c&souia, P. cresphontes, /*.
philenor and E. odora were undoubtedly travel-worn wanderers.
And beside these I have taken nearly fifty species which are yet
unnamed, mostly for the reason that they are too rare to risk
sending to be named. The field is by no means exhausted, for
each year adds species not found here before.

Chytonix palliatricula
Noctua lubricans
Agrotis atricincta
Hadena auranticolor
Hydrcecia purpurifascia

necopina

Scopelosoma devia
Cucullia montanse
Schinia nundina
" ' arcifera
Mt-lideptria sm.-ta
Acontia aprica
Chamyris cerintha
Erastria apicooa
Melipotis nigrescens
Catocala relicta
Erebus odora
Metrocampa perlaria
Probole aliearia
Psammatodes er^miata
Pantographa limata
Orneodes hexadactyla

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RHOPALOCERA OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.

BY F. D. TWOGOOD.

In the May number of the NEWS, Mr. Albright gives a par-
tial list of the Lepidoptera taken at Santa Monica and vicinity. I
find it varies in many respects from the list taken here, especially
the butterflies. Santa Monica is on the coast and Riverside
fifty miles inland in a narrow valley with mountains on all sido.

Within a radius of five miles of Riverside, which includes a
small mountain (Rubidoux, 1800 feet above sea level and 1000
feet above Mtin Street), the river bottoms and Riverside proper

30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

which has little less than citrus fruits with an occasional alfalfa
patch, the species as given below have been taken by myself
during the last five years.

In determining specimens I am under obligations to Mr. H. C.
Fall, of Pomona; Mr. Wright, of San Bernardino, and Dr. Skin-
ner, of Philadelphia.

Danais archippus Fab. Not common ; March to November.
Food-plant milkweed.

D. berenice? Rare; several specimens seen June last, but
none taken.

Agraulis vanilla Linn. Abundant ; taken all times of the
year, common from April to January. Food-plant, passion vine.

MelitH& chalcedon Db.-Hew. Ab'undant on Rubidoux ; April
\ i ,

and May.

M rubit&Ma Hy. -Edw. Common2j$ Rubidoux ; March and
April.

M. gQtbkii Behr. Rare ; four specimens taken in the river bot-
toms th^-'latter part of April, 1895.

Phycoides mylitta Edw. One specimen taken September last.

Grapta satyrus Edw. Rare; March and April. Food-plant elm.

Vanessa antiopa Linn. Common ; taken in February, June
and November. Food-plants ; willow and elm.

V. californica Bdv. Very rare ; August in the river bottoms.

Pyrameis atalanta Linn. Rare; taken on Rubidoux February,
March and April.

P, hunter a Fab. Rare ; March to September.

P. cardid Linn. Abundant the year around.

P. carye Hbn. Common ; April to September.

Junonia ccenia Hbn. Rare ; January to October.

Limenitis lorquini Bdv. Abundant; April to October. Food-
plant, willow.

Coenonympha californica Westw. Very rare ; May and June.

Lemonias virgulti Behr. Abundant on Rubidoux, April and
May.

Calephelis ceenius.

Thecla halesns Cram. Rare; only taken on Rubidoux, March
and April.

T. melinus Hbn. Common ; June to September.

T. dry ope Edw. Rare ; April to September.

1897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 31

Thecla iroides Bdv. Rare ; several taken in a sheltered spot
on Rubidoux ; March, 1894.

T. eryphon Bdv. Rare ; one taken July 5, '95 in alfalfa field.

D. dumetorum Bdv. Abundant; March and April on Rubidoux.

Chrysophanus gorgon Bdv. Rare ; June to September.

C. helloidts Bdv. Common ; March to November.

Lyccena antiacis Bdv. Rare; taken the latter part of February
and during March.

L. acmon Db.-Hew. Abundant ; March to November, very
common durin?. May and June.

L. anna Ed\v. Rare ; few taken on Rubidoux in June.

L. pseudargiolus piasus Bdv. Common; March on Rubidoux.

L. exilis Bdv. Abundant ; June to September.

L. striata Edvv. Rare ; taken in July.

Pieris pro todice Bdv. -Lee. Common ; has been very common
up to last year; since rapes has appeared it has greatly diminished.
May and June.

P. rapes Linn. Abundant last season ; June to September.

Nathalis iole Bdv. Rare ; June and July.

Anthocaris cethura Feld. Common the latter part of April

and during May.

A. sara Bdv -Not com. ; taken in the river bottoms during
May.

A. sara reakirtii Edw. Not common ; Spring form of sara
taken in the river bottoms, March and the first of April.

Meganostoma eurydice Bdv. Rare ; taken on Rubidoux,
March and April.

Colias eurylheme Bdv. Abundant ; taken the year around.
The alba form taken occasionally.

C. hardfordii. Rare ; July and August.

Tet'ias nicippc Cram. Rare; t\vo specimens, one on Ruin
doux in Arpil '92, the other May '95.

Papilio curymcdoK Bdv. Rare; one specimen taken Aug. '95.

P. rutulus Bdv. Common in the river bottoms, F< b. to Oct.

P. zolicaon Bdv. Rare ; a few taken on top of Rubidoux tin-
latter part of February and during March.

Copczodes Candida Wright. Taken in the river bottoms March
to May. Very rare.

Pamphila nemorum Bdv. Not common ; Rubidoux, April
and May.

32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

P. agricola Bdv. Rare ; Rubidoux, May and June.

P. campestris Bdv. Abundant, March to December.

P. phylceus Dru. Common, June, July and August.

P. brettiis brettoides Edvv. Rare ; March to June.

P. sabuleti Edw. Rare; Rubidoux February and March. Two
others not named.

Pyrgus ericetorum Bdv. Rare; taken on the side of Rubidoux
during May, one female.

P. tessellata Scud. Common everywhere, March to November.

Nisoniades persius Scud. Common in the liver bottom ; June
and July.

N. tristis Bdv. Common about the mints July and August.

Pholisora catullus Fabr. Very rare ; two specimens taken in
May.

THE PRESENT STATUS OF PARAPOMPILUS Cresson

(non Smith).
By WILLIAM J. Fox.

Until within a few years considerable confusion has existed in
the assignment of our Pompilidae to their proper genera ; and
as there is yet, apparently, varying opinions regarding the nomen-
clature of certains groups, it has seemed advisable to discuss the
position of Parapompilus Cresson (non Smith), the subject of
which has been opened by a recent short article in these columns.*

In Cresson's monograph of the Pompilidae published in 1867,
that author describes and refers, with ambiguity three species of
Pompilus, P. fmaria, ? legatus and f elegans. Later, 1869,
he described from Mexico, a Ferreola lavifrons, and in 1872, we
have contiguiis, texanus and vicinus, brought to light by the
same author and referred to Parapompihis Smith, as are also
Ferreola lavifrons and Pompilus "? legatus. Pompilus ? metrics
we find under Parapompihis, in Cresson's ' 'Synopsis' ' published in
1887. In the foregoing we have what has been known as Para-
pomilus Cresson. To this list must be added my Planiceps
planatus and Ferreola sang nine a Smith.

All of these form a fairly well marked group of species charac-
terized by their flat heads, plate-like clypeus, ample wings, three

* See a note by W. Hampton Patton in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, October, 1896, p. 248.

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33

submarginal cells, basal vein interstitial, cubital vein of hind
wings originating distinctly beyond apex of submedian cell, legs
as usual (fore femora not swollen), tarsal claws strongly uniden-
tate within near base, no tarsal comb, elongate pronotum and
abdomen compressed apically.

That they are distinct from Parapompilus Smith, we see in the
ample wings and distinctly unidentate claws, and that the second
ventral segment of abdomen is not transversely impressed.

That in the dentate claws they differ from Kohl's Group 17
ot Pompilus (= Ferreola] and in the non-interstitial cubital vein
of hind wings and laterally compressed abdomen from Kohl's
Group 16 (=- Ferreola) \ and in the fact of the middle segment
being not emarginate excludes them froni Kohl's Group 15

- Hominotus Dhlb. They differ also from Hominotus by their
dentate claws. With Kohl's Group 18 (= : Pedinaspis} they
agree well.

From Planiceps Li\te., they differ in the number of marginal
cells, non-enlarged fore femora and dentate claws, the ordinary
femora and number of submarginals; they are also differentiated
from Aporus.

The conclusions we reach by these facts are : (i) The species
in question do not belong to Parapompilus Smith (= : Microp-
tcr\>.\- Lep.*); (2) they cannot be referred to Ferreola, Homi-
notus or Planiccps ; (3) that they are related to Kohl's Groups
15, 16, 17 and 18 (Hominotus, FerreoJa and Pedinaspis). and as
the description of Group 15 fits them fairly well, Parapompilus
Cresson, must henceforth stand as Pompilus (Gr. Pedinaspis
Kohl), to which belong the following American species : hrri-
frons, -vicinus, planatics, texanus, sanguineus, maricz and legatus.

Neither Parapompilus or Pompilus ( Gr. Ferreola) cccur as yet
in the United States.

In a later paper, f Herr Kohl has reached the same conclusion
regarding Parapompilus Cresson, and unites as one Group
Pedinaspis, Parapompilus Cress., and Planiceps. It is preferable,
in my opinion, to retain Planiceps as at least a Group of Pompilus.

* Kohl points out that the name was used for a genus in Lepidoptera prior to its
adoption by Lepelitier de St. Fargeau , consequently Smith's name must stand.
t Verh. zool. hot. Gesell. xxxvi, 3, 1886.

34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

PINODYTES HAMILTONI AND ANTHICUS FORMICARIUS.

By JOHN HAMILTON, M.D.

Pinodytes hamiltoni Horn. This species, which is blind, was
discovered in December, 1872, though not described till 1892,
The first example occurred about a foot under ground beneath a
large impacted boulder in a wild mountainous place ; from its
pale color and remarkable swiftness it was mistaken for a young
roach and its companions, of which there were several, were per-
mitted to escape. In June of the following year a dead specimen
was found on a woody hill-side that had been mowed over ; no
others have been taken by myself.

Rev. P. Jerome Schmitt permits me to say that altogether he
has taken six examples at six differenr*times four by sifting
layers of decaying leaves from Chestnut Ridge, one under a stone
and one under bark on a log. These all occurred during the
Winter months, but the insect was not sought for in this way
during the Summer.

Mr. H. G. Klages took six examples, two of them several
years ago, in June, and four in November of last year; these last
were found under the bark of a gum (Nj'ssa*) log with Cucujns
clavipes which discloses at that season, many of the pupa dying-
during the process. These are all that are known to me to have
occurred till a recent lucky find by Mr. Geo. H. Ehrman.

On the 2ist of November, Mr. Erhman succeeded in capturing
twelve examples under circumstances that furnished a clew to the
habits of the mature beetle. On the side of a wild mountain
ravine in a humid place on overturning a log he discovered a
large dead larva, seemingly Elaterid, in and around which he took
the number mentioned. At first sight they were thought to be
young roaches, but the mistake was discovered in time so that
the whole colony was captured.

From the foregoing it is evident that the species is gregarious
and carnivorous, apparently occurring oftener in Winter than in
Summer, and in woody, hilly, uncultivated places. Conjecturally,
from its pallid color, absence of eyes and conditions under which
found, it seems in habit either subterranean or semi-subterranean,
its presence under bark being that of a scavenger. The larva-
are probably wholly subterranean, subsisting on the dead larva-
and pupa? of the numerous insects which inhabit beneath the

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35

ground during immaturity, and when discovered will probably
prove to be eyeless.

The above narrative is gtven with the view that collectors may
look for this beetle more understandingly. It may be wide spread
and not so rare as it seems at present. The likelihood, from its
pale color and extreme activity, of being mistaken for a colony
of young roaches should be borne in mind.

Anthicus formicarius Goeze, formicoides Geoff., basilaris Say,
quisquilius Thorns., Hemantus enodis, scenicus, f rixator Casey.
It seems that Captain Casey, in his monograph of the Anthicini
(Ann. N. Y. Acad. Nat. Sci., Sept. 1895), not having seen
European examples of either floralis or the present species,
doubted the identity of the former and ignored all reference to
the latter, which course furnished material for, to him, two, per-
haps three new species.

Like as myself, in the first edition of the Coleoptera, common
to America and Europe, he committed the error of uniting basil-
laris \v\\\\Jioralis, but seems to have disregarded, or not to have
noticed the correction made by Mr. A. Fauvel ("Revue d'Ento-
mol " viii, 155), and embodied in my second edition (1. c. ).

This of course left formicarius Geoze, basilaris Say, unde-
scribed. Like many other widely distributed species this, besides
the inevitable individual differences, is subject to some slight geo-
graphical variation ; the form from Southern California is a little
paler and has slightly finer general punctuation than examples
from Canada. Examples from Europe seem to be absolutely iden-
tical with the California form, which is Captain Casey's Hem at us
enodis&s, determined by description: this does not differ in any es-
sential structure from the Atlantic coast form, which is undoubt-
edly H. scenicus Casey; // rixator Casey from the New Mexican
region differs so little by description as to be doubtfully distinct,
though a want of specimens prevents absolute positiveness.
I find, from the examination of numerous European and Ameri-
can forms, that the characters chiefly designated by Mr. Casey
to separate his species are individually intercurrent, ine<>n>tant.
and cannot safely be used for that purpose, a condition that could
scarcely have been overlooked with more plentiful material. For
some antecedent remarks on this species see ENT. NEWS, vii, 70.

American habitat, so far as personally known, Southern Cali-
fornia, Florida, Massachusetts, Canada (Ontario).

I cannot follow Captain Casey in splitting .-Inlhicus into ten
genera with meaningless barbaric names ; these so-called LU mm
are simply groups convenient for the purpose of analysis and
nearly all previously recognized by various authors. In a cata-
logue these groups may properly be noted by xxx, or as in
European, designated by numerals.

36 [February,

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IT is said there is nothing new under the sun. This is a mistake, as we
have just received some Coleoptera, to name, put up in gelatin capsules.
Each end of the capsule has a little cotton in it and the beetle is between
and can be seen and examined through this transparent material. What
next ?

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 37

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J,

Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor. Prof. John
B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J.

Abstract of the Pro seeding? of the Section on Entomology of the Associa-
tion Agric Coll. aud Exp. Stations. At the meeting of the A. A. A. C. and

E. S. held in Washington. Nov. 10-13, 1896, the Section on Entomology
presented an interesting and valuable program. Dr. Otto Lugger, of
Minnesota, occupied the chair, and in the absence of the secretary-elect,
Mr. W. G. Johnson, of Maryland, was elected temporarily to the position.

The need of better legislation against noxious insects, the manufacture
and sale of bogus insecticides, were topics that received an extended dis-
cussion at the opening session. The report of the committee appointed
to consider the matter of legislation against injurious insects was unani-
mously adopted by the Section and referred to the Executive Committee
of the main association, but was not aporoved. The following resolution
was then introduced by Mr. W. B. Alwood, of Virginia, and unanimously
adopted by the Section:

WHEREAS, in consideration of the fact of the recent alarming spread
of the San Jose" scale in the Atlantic and Middle States, and the further
fact that we believe its suppression can only be accomplished by carefully
framed laws which should be enacted in the several States, therefore be it

Resolved, ist. That the Section on Entomology of the American Asso-
ciation of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations endorses the
principle of special legislation for the suppression of this pest ;

2d. That a committee of ten be created, with Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief
of the Division of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, as
chairman, which shall carefully prepare such memoranda as they deem
best in relation to legislation dealing with the pest, and when so prepared
this matter shall be submitted to the authorities of the several States con-
cerned for such action as the Legislatures thereof may choose to take.

3d. That it is the sense of this Section that State inspection for the con-
trol and prevention of the dissemination of this pest upon nursery stock
is imperative.

The chair appointed the following committee: L. O. Howard, W. B.
Alwood, W. G. Johnson, F. A. Sirrine. J. B. Smith, J. A. l.intner, F. M.
-Webster, G G. Groff, A. D. Hopkins and G. H. Powell.

In the absence of the author, Dr. Howard read a paper by Mr. C. F.
Baker on " Notes from Auburn, Alabama." In brief, the author reviewed
the insects affecting the garden, farm crops, stored grain, and orchard
with miscellaneous notes. He said cotton and corn had been very free
from insect injury the present season, the greater part of the damage
being done by fungi. The scanty of the boll worm in corn was very
conspicuous. A small moth resembling the one becoming injurious to

38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

peach and some varieties of apple in Colorado was bred from peaches.
The author was of the opinion that this moth would appear elsewhere
soon, as infested fruit was being shipped out of Colorado in considerable
quantities.

Mr. F. A. Sirrine read a paper on " Termites ( T. flavipes) as a Force-
ing-house Pest." He said these insects were found gnawing the bark
from chrysanthemum plants just below the surface of the ground and
mining stems in a forceing-house at Floral Park, N. Y., during the month
of August, 1896. Bisulphide of carbon was used in destroying the pests,
.but many plants were also killed by the treatment. Referring to some
experiments with cocoons of Me/ittia ceto, the same author said moths
could not reach the surface when the cocoons were buried in a sandy
loam to a depth of four inches. He also stated that he had bred the
potato flee-beetle, Epitrix cucumens from larvee and pupae taken in the
ground around, what the Long Island growers call " pimply potatoes."
The author said Mr. F. C. Stewart had given this subject careful study
for the past two years, and that he was of the opinion the pimply condi-
tion of the tubers was due to these insects.

Mr. Alwood presented a paper on "The Dissemination of the San
Jose stale in Virginia." He briefly reviewed the original outbreak of
the scale in Virginia, stating that only one other point had been located
up to the time of the passage of the Virginia scale law. He said that the
inspection of nurseries and orchards had been pushed this season, and it
is now thought that most of the infected places are known. There are
three in the great valley, six in the Piedmont, and six in the tide water.
Some of these are nurseries, but it is supposed that all the infested stock
has been destroyed. Only two or three places are considered serious.
In every instance the pest was introduced upon nursery stock from New-
Jersey, Maryland, Georgia and Louisiana. The Virginia law has met
the approval of the people quite generally, and the powers given the in-
spector are found to be ample; but the lack of specified funds for clearing
up infested premises, where the owners do not realize the importance of
immediate action, is considered a bad defect.

(To be continued.)

Notes and

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PICTURE for album of American Entomological Society has been re-
ceived from Mr. Edw. A. Klages, Crafton, Pa.

1 897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. ^9

Dr. GEO. H. HORN has been seriously ill, but we are glad to state lie is
much better and out of 'daner.

DRAGONFLIES IN HOT WATER. In "The Museum" (a natural science
journal published at Albion, N. Y.) for October, 1896, Prof. M. [ Klr.nl
gives some of his experiences in the Yellowstone National Park, as the
sixth installment of a series entitled, " Among the Rockies." After de-
scribing the Fountain, Excelsior Geyser, Turquoise and Prismatic Lakes,
he says: "We had observed in the lakes and in the outlet to the craler
[of Excelsior Geyser] numerous dead dragonflies. They had met a sad
fate and had come to an untimely end by too close proximity to these hot
steam vents. Now these were what we were after, though we had as yet
taken none in the Park. There is no law against catching insects or dig-
ging plants, no we prepared for action. \Ve soon struck a warm stream
along which hundreds of beautiful large red-winged Libellula saturata were
sporting themselves, and mixed among them were many smaller blue-
colored Mesothemis simplicicollis var. collocata. All the boys took a
turn, and that ravine was well swept. The insects were frequently seen
depositing eggs in water that was hot to the touch." Then follows a de-
scription of/., satiirafa. 'The next most noticeable dragonfly to /..
saturata is Mesothemis simplicicollis var. collocata Hagen [wo/ Say]. It
was found in the Park quite abundantly, generally with L. saturata. ( )n
account of their staying in close proximity to small warm pools and run-
ning streams they are not difficult to catch. One could generally straddle
the stream and sweep from either side as they went past, or secure a
favorable position near a pool and sweep them, while a second party
would keep them on the wing. They fly low in the Park, do not take
long flights, and by their bright blue bodies are quite conspicuous, though
not as much so as L, saturata. Quite a number were captured by
throwing hats over them, though by such means failures were the rules
and captures the exception. Hundreds of these were seen in various
pools where the water was too hot for the insects. In some cases they
were cooked, and were so soft and unsightly as to be useless as speci-
mens. At first it would appear difficult t<> account for thtir presence in
these hot pools. From the fact that many males are among the dead it
cannot be from an attempt at depositing fggs in water too hot to endure.
They undoubtedly are overcome by the escaping steam, smothered and
boiled."

THE GIZZARD OF DRAGONFLIES ODONATA). Dr. F. Ris. of Mendnsio,
Tessin, Switzerland, in an article entitled, " Untersuchung iiber die '
stalt des Kaumagens bei den Libellen und ihren Larvi-n" /oologischer
Jahrbiicher. ix. )ena, 1896) describes tin- gixxard of these insci ts as the
terminal portion of the foregut, whose ectodermal cuticle is variously
thickened and armeJ. with microscopic teeth arranged in rows or on alter-
nating areas. The presence of such structures in insects sou ell provided
with cutting and biting mouth-parts is explained as necessary, owing to

40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

the fact that the food is "bolted," and therefore an accessory organ fur
its comminution is required. The orthopterous "Locustidae and Gryllidce
likewise possess a gizzard, whose presence is similarly accounted for,
while in the more slowly feeding Acrididae and Lepidopterous larvae it is
lacking. Confining his studies to the Odonata he finds that, for the larvae,
the Calopteryginfe and some Agrioninae have the most complexly armed
gizzard, the teeth being arranged in 16 longitudinal fields, reduced to 8
in Lestes, to 4 in Goinphus and Aescfuia, and to four bilaterally symmet-
rical teeth in Cordulegaster and the Libellulidae. A comparison of larva-
and images of the same species shows that a reduction likewise takes
place in the individual development, scarcely more than traces of the
teeth remaining in the images of the Anisoptera. He discusses the phy-
logeny of the various subfamilies of the Odonata, and on data, drawn in
part from his above-described results, modifies Calvert's geneologic.il
tree by placing the Cordulegasterinae as the ancestors of the Cordulime
and Libellulinae.

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Entomological Literature.

Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy <>t
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North
and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con-
taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatonn ot
insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded.

1. ANNALES DU MUSEE ROYAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE BELGIQUE.
Tome xii. Les Arachnides de Belgique par Leon Becker. Deuxieme
et Troisiemes parties. Eresidas, Epeiridae, Uloboridae, Theridionida?,
Pholcidae, Enyoidae, Agelenidae, Dictynidse, Drassidae, Scytodidae, Dys-
deridae, Avicularidae. Chernetes, Opiliones. Brussels, MDCCCXCYI,
folio, 378 pp. With an atlas (folio) of 43 colored plates.

2. ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEiGER. Leipsic, Dec. 7, 189$. Some further
remarks on the phylogeny of the orders of Myriapods, C. Verhoeff. On
the development of the Pseudoscorpions, J. Tschelkanovzev (in the Mit-

theilungen). December 28. On the mode of breathing in the Hy-

drachnidas, A. H. van Vleet, fig. Aphidological communications, N.
Cholodkovsky.

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NFWS. 4!

3. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA-
DELPHIA, 1896, pp. 547-359. The Hymenoptera collected by Dr. A.
Donaldson Smith in Northeast Africa, W. J. Fox, figs.

4. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, viii,
art. xix. New York, December, 1896. Transformations of some North
American hawk-moths, VV. Beutenmiiller.

5. THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. London,
December, 1896. On the habits of Evania desjardinsii Blanch., E. Bor-
dage (transl. from Comptes Rendu, Acad. Sci. Paris). On a viviparous
Ephemera, M. Causard (from the same). Determination of the directing
element in the jaws of insects, J. Chatin (fronvthe same).

6. THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. London, December, 1896. Ex-
planation of the plan adopted for preparing an "Index Generum et
Specierum Animalium," C. D. Sherborn.

7. BULLETIN No. 36, FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.
Jacksonville, Fla., October, 1896. Insects injurious to stored grain and
cereal products, A. L. Quaintance, figs.

8. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, Dec. 15, 1896 The
characters of the eggs of Lepidoptera, as affording a basis for classiru a-
tion, T. A. Chapman.

9. BULLETIN No 39, TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.
Austin, July, 189%. The Peach [with a section on injurious insects], R.
H. Price, figs.

10. BULLETINS OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL
EXPERIMENT STATION. Durham, N. H. No. 35, May, 1896 The cod-
ling moth and the apple maggot, C. M. Weed, figs. No. 36, June 1896.

Analysis of three common insecticides, F. W. Morse. No. 38, Au-
gust, 1896. The tent caterpillar, C. M. Weed, figs. No 39, Septem-
ber, 1896. The army worm, C. M. Weed, figs.

11. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRI-
CULTURE for 1895. [Harrisburg, Pa.J, 1896. Parti. Vegetable destruc-
tion; its causes and remedies, Prof. R. C. Schiedt. Insects of the year,

id., i pi.. Part ii. Destruction of the pitch pine forests of Pennsylvania

by the pine bark beetle, C. W Johnson, figs.

12. NINETEENTH REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST on the nox-
ious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois. Eighth Report of A.
IS. Forbes for the years 1893 and 1894. Springfield, III., 1896. Pp. 206,
66, v, 13 pis., 4 text figures. Deals with contagious fungus diseases, with
special application to the chinch bug, with the ravages of white ants in
Illinois, and with the Mediterranean flour moth, this last article by W. G.
Johnson.

13. BULLETIN OF THE ILLINOIS STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HIS-
TORY. Champaign, 111. Ill, art. xv. Synopsis of subfamilies and genera

42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

of the North American Cercopidae, with a bibliographical and synonym-
ical catalogue of the described species of North America, F. W. Coding.

IV, art. i-v, 1895. Bacteria normal to digestive organs of Hemip-

tera, S. A. Forbes. Description of two new Deltoid moths, G. H. French.
Art. vi. On the entomology of the Illinois River and adjacent waters, first
paper, C. A. Hart, 15 pis. (All the above received Dec. 29, 1896.)

14. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE, xxxix, 3.
London, November, 1896. The constitution and development of the
society of Termites: observations on their habits; with appendices on the
parasitic protozoa of Termitidae, and on the Embiidae, Prof. B. Grassi in
collaboration with Dr. A. Sandias (transl. from the Italian by W. F. H.
Blandford), 5 pis.

15. L'ECHANGE REVUE LINNEENNE. Lyons (France), November,
1896. Bibliographical and geographical catalogue of the [species of]
Macratria Newm., M. Pic.

16. REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE. Paris, Dec. 12, 1896. Mosquitoes of the
Isle of Anticosti, P. Combes.

17. OFVERSIGT AF KONGL. VETENSKAPS-AKADEMIENS FORHANDLIN-
GAR, xvii, 8. [Stockholm], 1896. Some new or imperfectly described
Physapoda, F. Trybom.

18. JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, iv, 4,
December, 1896. New species of Heterocera from tropical America, YV.
Schaus. Notes on the transformations of the higher Hymenoptera i,
A. S. Packard, figs. A new Anisota, H. G. Dyar. The life-histories of
the New York slug caterpillars iii-vi, id., 4 col. pis. Additi ns to the
list of Long Island spiders, N. Banks. A new species of Gomphus, id.
A short review of the Chrysomelas of North America, M. Linell. The
dog's head butterfly on Staten Island, W. T. Davis. Diabrotica in New
Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerell. New species of insects taken on a trip from
the Mesilla Valley to the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, id. Note
on Samia californica, A. R. Grote.

19. MlTTHEILUNGEN DER SCHWEIZERISCHEN ENTOMOLOGISCHEN G-

SELLSCHAFT, ix, 9. Schaffhausen, November, 1896. Second supplement
to ' Genera and species of my Cetonid collection,' Dr. G. Schoch. On the
fauna and habits of the ants of the primeval forest of Colombia, Dr. A.
Forel. Fauna Hymenoptera Helvetica (cont.), Dr. A. v. Schulthess
Rechberg.

20. PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., January, 1897. Antennal structure
of certain Diplosids, E. P. Felt, i pi. Notes on New England Acrididae
iii. Oedipodiiice, i, A. P. Morse. Description of the botfly of the cot-
ton-tail rabbit in New Mexico, Cutercbra lepitscnli n. sp., C. H. T.
Townsencl. Some facts in the life-history of //r/vyV.7 bcrtholdi Grote, J.

1897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 43

J. Rivers. Description of the larva of Hypopta bertholdi, H. G. Dyur.
Note on eggs of Stagomantis Carolina, S. H. Scudder. Leucania uni-
puncta, C. G. Soule.

21. THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA, including Ceylon and Burma.
moths, vol. iv. By Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart. London, Taylor and
Francis, 1896, 8vo., pp. xxviii, 594, 287 figs. Contains the Pyralidae, with
an appendix to the preceding volumes.

22. NOTES FROM THE L.EYDEN MUSEUM, xviii, i, July 15, 1896. Some
new Heterocerus from the East Indies and from America, A. Grouvelle.
A revision of the genus Clidicus, E. Wasmann. Descriptions of new
Dryopidae (Parnidae) and Helmidae, A. Grouvelle. Some new Paussus
from Java, with remarks on the myrmecophilous habits of the Paussida-,
E. Wasmann, fig., i pi.

23. TlJDSCHRIFT DER NEDERLANDSCHE DlERKUNDIGE VEREENIGING

(2), v, i. Leyden, 1896. The larval state of Hypodenna bovis, P.
Koorevaar.

24. ATTI BELLA SOCIETA TOSCANA DI SCIENZE NATURALI, X, 1896.

Contributions to the anatomy of the Gamasidae anatomy of Derma-
nyssus gallince Redi, F. Neri.

25. LE NATURALISTS CANADIEN. Chicoutimi, December, 1896 Co-
leopterological fauna of Manitoba (cont.), G. Chagnon.

26. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, xxxv,
152. Philadelphia, November, 1896. On the second abdominal segment
in a few Libellulidae, M. F. Goddard, 2 pis.

27. THE ZOOLOGICAL RECORD, . . . being Records of Zoological Lit-
erature relating chiefly to the year 1895 . . . Edire^l (for the Zoological
Society of London) by D. Sharp. London: MDCCCXCVI. Arachnida
56 pp., Myriapoda 29 pp., R. I. Pocock. Insecta, 387 pp., D. Sharp.

28. NATURGESCHICHTE DER INSECTEN DEUTSCHLANDS. Coleoptera
V, ii, i, Dr. G. Seidlitz. Berlin, 1896. Alleculidae.

29. BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA, part cxxxi. London, October,
1896. Received Jan. 5, 1897. Arachnida Araneidea, pp. 193-208, pi. xxi,
O. P. Cambridge. Coleoptera, vol. iii, pt. i, pp". 553-584, pi xxiv, G. C.
Champion. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, vol. ii, pp 425-440, pi. Ixxxix, F.
D. Godman and O. Salvin. Lepidoptera Heterocera, vol. ii, pp. 297-
320, pis. Ixv-lxvii, H. Druce. Diptera, vol. ii, pp. 313-320, F. .M. van
der Wulp.

30. PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, xix.
Washington, 1896, No. 1102. Descriptions of new Cynipidous galls and
gall-wasps in the United States National Museum, \V. H. Ashmead.-
No. 1108. Summary of the Hemiptera of Japan, presented to the United
States National Museum by Professor Mit/uri, P. R. Uliler.

44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

31. BULLETIN DE L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, DES LETTRES
ET DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BELGIQUE (3), xxxii, n. Brussels, 1896. How
flowers attract insects experimental researches ii, F. Plateau, i pi.

32. LE NATURALISTE. Paris, Dec. 15, 1896. Carpocapsa pomonana,
vulgarly the apple worm, its habits and means of destruction (concl.)
M. Decaux, fig.

33. LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. By F. Moore. Part xxvi. London : L.
Reeve & Co., 1896. Received Jan 5, 1897. Pp. 25-48, of vol. iii, pis.
99-203. Nymphalinae, groups Potamina and Euthahina.

34. BULLETIN No. 6 (new series) U S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division
of Entomology. Washington, 1896. Proceedings of the eighth annual
meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists [held at Buffalo,
N. Y., Aug. 21, 22, 1896]. The evolution of economic entomology, C.
H. Fernald. Some temperature effects on household insects, L. O.
Howard. Three years' study of an outbreak of the chinch bug in Ohio,
F. M. Webster, maps. A new insecticide [arsenate of lead], A. H.
Kirkland. Comparative tests with new and old arsenicals on foliage and
with larvae, C. L. Marlatt. On the futility of trunk and crown washing
against the elm-leaf beetle, L. O. Howard. Insecticide soaps, C. L.
Marlatt. Scale insects and their enemies in California, J. B. Smith. Notes
on some of the insects of the year in the State of New York, J. A. Lint-
ner. Entomological notes from Maryland, W. G. Johnson. Insects of
the year in Ohio, F. M. Webster. Some notes on observations in \Yest
Virginia on farm, garden and fruit insects, A. D Hopkins. Notes on
new and old scale insects, W. G. Johnson. Notes on the entomological
events of the year 1896 in Iowa, H. Osborn. Is cooperation for the con-
trol of San Jose sca4e practicable, W. B. Alwoud. The development of
the Mediterranean Hour moth, F. H. Lhittenden. The grasshopper dis-
ease in Colorado, C. P. Gillette. A simple device for the preparation of
oil emusions, H. A. Morgan, figs.

35. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY. Session 1895-
96. Edinburgh, October, iSe/6. Note on the occurrence of the larva of
the drone-fly (Eristalis tenax L.) as a temporary endoparasite in man,
J. A. Thomson.

36. HIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT. Leipsic, Dec. 15, 1896. On the
abdominal appendages of insects, Dr. R. Heymons.

37. COMPTE-RKNDU. SOCIETE PHILOMATHIQUE DE PARIS, Dec. 12,
1896. On the presence of calcospherites in the larvae of Diptera, M.
Henneguy.

38. REVUE SUISSE DE ZOOLOGIE ET ANNALES DU MUSEE D'HISTOIRE
NATUKELLE DK GENEVE, iv, 2, Dec. 28, 1,^96. Supplementary note on
the genus Hemimerus, H. deSaussure, i pi. Review of the genus 7/7
dactyl us, id.

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 45

39. MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,
XII, No. iii. Cambridge [Mass.], December. 1896. Contributions to-
wards a monograph of the Laboulbemaceae [entomogenous fungi], R.
Thaxter.

40. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Out., January, 1897.
The crinkled flannel moth (Megnlopyge crispata Pack ), M. V. Slinger-
land, i pi. Toronto Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario.
Brephos middendorfi Men.. A. \V. Hanham. On the Mexican bees of
the genus Augochlora, T. D. A. Cockerell. The Coleoptera of Canada,
xix, Chrysomelidce of Ontario and Quebec (cont), H. F. Wickham, figs.
A generic revision of the Hypogymnida; (Liparidse), H. G. Dyar. Cata-
logue of the phytophagous and parasitic Hymenoptera of Vancouver
Island, W. H. Harrington.

41. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, January, 1897. Fungi parasitic on
butterflies, J. C. Rickard, figs. The senses of insects, G. W. Smith.
Descriptive notes on two Coccidae, T D. A. Cockerell.

42. THK ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, January,
1897. On Coccus agavium Douglas, R. Newstead, figs.

43. BULLETIN No. 33 of the Office of Experiment Stations, U. S Dept.
of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Reprint from. Insects affecting
the cotton plant, L O. Howard, Ph.D., figs., i pi. Received Jan. 9, '97.

44. MlTTEILUNGEN AUS DEM NATUKHISTORISCHEN MUSEUM IN HAM-
BURG, xiii, 1896. New and little-known scorpions. Dr. K. Kraepelin, i
pi. The Collembola of the vicinity of Hamburg, Dr C. SchaerFer, 4 pis.
Phalangidae of the vicinity of Hamburg, Dr. K. Krat pelin.

45 THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
for the year 1896, pt. iv, Dec. 18, 1896. On the classification of three
subfamilies of moths of the family Pyralidse: the Epipaschiinae, Endotri-
chinse and Pyralinae, Sir G. F. Hampson. Notes on seasonal dimorphism
in South African Rhopalocera, G. A. K. Marshall. On the phylogeny
and evolution of the Lepidoptera from a pupal and oval standpoint, Dr.
T. A. Chapman. Termites in captivity in England, G. D. Haviland and
Dr. D. Sharp.

INDEX TO THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

The number after each author's name in this index refers to the journal, as numbered
in the preceding list, in which that author's paper is published ; * denotes that the paper
in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

THE GENERAL SUBJECT.

Chatin 5, Sherborn 6, Hart 13, Pocuck and Sharp 27, Plateau 31, Thom-
son 35, Heymons 36, Henneguy 37, Thaxter 39, Rickard 41, Smith 41.

46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Quaintance 7, Price 9, Weed 10 (three), Morse 10, Schiedt 11 (two),
Johnson, C. W. n, Forbes 12, 13, Johnson, W. G. 12, Combes 16, De-
caux 32, Many authors 34, Thomson 35, Cholodkovsky 2, Howard 43.

MYRIAPODA.
Verhoeff 2, Pocock 27.

ARACHNIDA.

Becker i, Tschelkanovzev 2, Banks 18*, Neri 24, Pocock 27, Cambridge
29*, van Vleet 2, Kraepelin 44* (two).

THYSANURA.
Schaeffer 44.

ORTHOPTERA.
Morse 20, Scudder 20, Gillette 34, de Saussure 38 (two).

NEUROPTERA.

Causard 5, Forbes 12, Grassi and Sandias 14, Banks 18*, Goddard 26,
Haviland and Sharp 45.

HEMIPTERA.

Forbes 12, 13, Coding 13, Trybom 17, Cockerell 18* (two), 41*, Uhler
30, Smith 34, Johnson 34, Cholodkovsky 2, Newstead 42.

COLEOPTERA.

Johnson u, Hart 13, Pic 15, Linell iS*, Schoch 19*, Grouvelle 22* (two),
Wasmann 22 (two), Chagnon 25, Seidlitz 28, Champion 29*, Wickham4o.

DIPTERA.

Hart 13, Combes 16, Cockerell 18*, Townsend 20, Koorevaar 23, van
der Wulp 29*, Thomson 35, Henneguy 37.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Beutenmiiller 4, Chapman 8, 45, Johnson 12, French 13*, Schaus iS* )
Dyar 18* (two), 20, 40, Davis 18, Grote 18, Felt 20, Rivers 20, Soule 20,
Hampson 21, Godman and Salvin 29*, Druce 29*, Decaux 32, Moore 33,
Slingerland 40, Hanham 40, Rickard 41, Hampson 45, Marshall 45.

HYMENOPTERA.

Fox 3, Bordage 5, Hart 13, Packard 18, Cockerell 18*, -'40*, Forel 19,
Schulthess-Rechberg 19, Ashmead 30*, Harrington 40.

1 897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47

Doings of Societies.

PHILADELPHIA, January 12, 1897.

A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held
at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1509 S. i.Uh Street.
Members present : Messrs. Castle, H. W. Wenzel, A. Hoyer,
E. Wenzel, Seiss, Fox, Laurent Boerner and Schmitz.

Visitor : Mr. Stanley T. Kemp. Meeting called to order at
9 p. M. , Vice- President Castle presiding. Minutes of the previous
meeting approved as read. The Secretary and Treasurer read
their annual reports, which, upon motion, were accepted and filed.

Mr. Hoyer exhibited a piece of pine wood, in which, while
sawing it through, he discovered a burrow containing a carpenter
bee, Xylocopa virginica, which, as could be seen, had just escaped
the saw's teeth ; the depth of the burrow was about seven inches.
Mr. Fox made a few remarks concerning the habits of this species.

Mr. Laurent exhibited a specimen of Bronchelia horlaria var.
dendraria from Gulf Hammock, Fla. , and stated it was a south-
ern form, and he doubted if it had ever been found in this part
of the country.

Mr. Seiss stated that Mr. Kemp had taken a specimen of Jlfur-
gantia hislrionica in Camden, N. J., a few weeks ago in hiberna-
tion ; this is a southern species and has gradually worked its way
northward ; it was reported from south Jersey about a year ago.

Mr. H W. Wenzel exhibited males and females of an inter-
esting little species of Buprestid, Xenorhipis brendeli, bred by
Mr. Edw. A. Klages, of Crafton, Pa., making special mention
of the remarkable antennae of the male.

Mr. Kemp stated that he had recently, for an experiment, lined
some of his boxes with cork-carpet in place of cork, but that he
concluded it made the boxes almost too heavy, and, that further,
he found it difficult to pin specimens owing to the hardness
thereof ; however, he thought he would mention it, as some of
the members might have intended trying it themselves. Con-
tinuing, Mr. Kemp reported the capture of several specimens of
Badister notatus on Dec. 12, 1896, in Camden, N. J.; also Cas-
nonia ludoviciana on April 4th, same place.

A communication was received from the retiring president,
Mr. James H. B. Bland, stating that business would prevent him

48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February,

from being a regular attendant at the meetings as heretofore. On
motion of Mr. Laurent, Mr. Bland w s therefore unanimously
elected an honorary member of the Social in recognition of his
many years of labor in the interest of Entomology.

The following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing
year : President, Dr. Horace G. Griffith ; Vice- President, Dr. D.
M. Castle ; Treasurer, H. W. Wenzel ; Secretary, Theo. H.
Schmitz.

Mr. Stanley T. Kemp, of Camden, N. J., was proposed for
active membership in the Social, the same to be acted upon at
the next stated meeting, in accordance with Article V of the
Constitution.

No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to
the annex at 10.30 P.M. THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary.

Tne Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

At the annual meeting held Dec. 17, 1896, the following per-
sons were elected to serve as officers for the year 1897:

Director. -G. H. HORN, M.D.
Vice- Director. C. S. WELLES.
Treasurer. E T. CRESSON.
Recorder and Conservator. -H. SKINNER, M.D.
Secretary. W. J. FOX.
Publication Committee C. W. JOHNSON, J. H. RIDINGS.

*

Mr. Herman Horning was elected an associate.

HENRY SKINNER, Recorder.

OBITUARY.

Dr. E. EPPELSHEIM, an authority Staphylinidte, in Bavaria.

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. viii. MARCH, 1897. No. 3.

CONTENTS:

Piper A remarkable seinbling habit of

Coccinella trausversoguttata 49

Pilate Collecting season in S. Georgia 51
Baker Remarks on list of the Hemip-

Notes and News 59

Entomological Literature 60

Doings of Societies 66

Entomological Section 68

tera of Colorado 53 j Dunning Notes on Philonthus 68

Editorial 55 Fox The fourth species of Plenoculus 71

Economic Entomology 57

OUR illustration represents the pretty Sphinx moth, Deilephila.
lincata, feeding on Azalea nudiflora. The larva also feeds on
Portulaca, Pyrus, Fuchsia, etc. The figures are from the unpub-
lished drawings of T. R. Peale, who commenced a work on Le-
pidoptera in 1833.

In this number we present a list of the members of the oldest
entomological society in America. Here will be found the names
of many of the most distinguished entomologists the world has
known. The history of the American Entomological Society is
largely the history of entomology in this country, and it is just
as active to-day as it has ever been in the past.

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A Remarkable Sembling Habit of Coccinella transversoguttata.

By C. V. PIPER, Pullman, Wash.

The habit of various Coccinellids of seinbling in numbers in
places where they seek shelter has often been noted, and the fact
is a familiar one to most entomologists. In no species have I
observed the habit more marked than in the commonest form in
this locality, Coccinella transversoguttata, and it is no uncommon
thing to find, in Winter, a hundred or more under a board or

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similarly sheltered. But this habit of sembling when seeking
shelter seems to be a totally different thing from the one now to
be described.

In July, 1893, while collecting on the summit of Moscow
Mountain, Idaho, altitude about 5000 feet, I was astonished to
find in the crevices of rock near the summit immense numbers
of dead ladybirds of this species. As an illustration of their
great numbers I may mention that under a flat piece of rock I
picked up one mass of their bodies over a foot square and two
inches thick. It contained, from estimates made later, the re-
mains of over ten thousand individuals. A careful search of the
vicinity failed to disclose any living ones. None of the plants in
the vicinity were infected with scales or aphides, and none ot
them to my knowledge are ever affected by these insects in suffi-
cient numbers to furnish food for the hosts that had perished there.

In October of the same year Prof. J. M. Aldrich observed, on
the same peak, living ones of the same species, and the phe-
nomenon was reported to him as occurring on nearly all the
neighboring buttes, one of which, indeed, is called Ladybird
Mountain.

Prof. Aldrich states that the beetles were so abundant that he
could gather them by the handful, but that he could detect no
reason for their sembling.

In July of the present year while collecting in the Blue Moun-
tains, Washington, I found the same ladybird on the barren
rocky summit of a peak, 5000 feet high. The insects were
crawling over the hot, bare rock, and upon being disturbed
would circle about for a few moments and again alight. So great
were their numbers that they made quite as much noise as a small
swarm of bees. Indeed, I heard them before I saw them, and
actually supposed I had disturbed a nest of yellow jackets.

The summit of this particular peak was quite barren and could
not possibly furnish food enough for the ladybirds I saw. Further-
more, careful search of the vicinity failed to detect a single aphis,
or even traces of aphis work.

That the phenomenon is not confined to mountain peaks ap-
pears from the observation of a correspondent in Kittitas County,
Washington, who reports a ladybird, in all probability the species
under consideration, as gathering in great numbers about a large
boulder near his house.

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In view of these strange facts the question naturally arises as
to the significance of the habit, and thus far no explanation has
been proposed that will stand critical examination. A common
opinion is that the insects seek the rocks for warmth and shelter.
If this is correct why do they seek only the rocks near the sum-
mits of peaks and not those lower down? Again, why should
they seek shelter on a hot July day? Finally, it would seem
that the summit of Moscow Mountain furnishes them not a shelter,
but a graveyard. It must also be remembered that search for a
shelter does not for a moment explain their sembling in such
swarms.

A second theory would explain the phenomenon as the result
of air currents carrying the insects up the peak. But if this is
true why are not other insects similarly affected ? Even granting
this it is does not explain their remaining there in perfectly calm
weather. In this connection I may state that many insects are
undoubtedly carried up mountains by currents ol air.

On Mt. Rainier I found most excellent collecting on snow-
fields and glaciers at altitudes of 7000 to 9000 feet, but it is worthy
of remark that Coccinellidae were decidedly scarce in such situa-
tions. Two or three other attempts to explain the significance
of the habit seem to me unworthy of mention and the writer
humbly confesses that he has no theory to air on the subject.
Has anyone else ?

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COLLECTING SEASON IN SOUTH GEORGIA.

By G. R. PILATE, Tifton, Ga.

A few words in regard to the best collecting season may be of
some interest to entomologists. Flowers commence early in the
season and there are more or less of them all the year. But about
the middle of May the gall-berry bushes come in bloom and last
two or three weeks. I do not know the botanical name of this
plant. It is an evergreen and grows about four to six feet high,
and bears quantities of black berries. It has a very small white
flower, but it grows in masses and is very >\\eet; the bushes gen-
erally grow in wet places. Sometimes they cover acres of ground.
Injects of all species and families swarm in immense numbers on
these flowers. In passing near the plants you are immediately
attracted by the loud hum of their wings. Hymenoptera of all

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kinds predominate. It is easy to capture large numbers of fine
specimen in a short time of Hymenoptera Coleoptera, Diptera
and other orders. Before these flowers are gone the palmetto
comes in. They are also very sweet and^ attractive to insects.
They last to the middle of June.

For Diptera the best, places at the same season are on the large
patches of pitcher plants in marshy places. Large numbers can
be taken by sweeping ; I think they breed in the decaying mass
inside of the tube-like leaves.

This is my first year in this locality. I find all kinds of plants
and vegetation entirely different from what they were in middle
Georgia. Even the common weeds are nearly all different ; this
would be a paradise for a botanist that had never been here before.
Wild flowers are not in such quantities as in California, but there
is such a variety of beautiful species.

ANTS IN SOUTH GEORGIA.

I have lived in different parts of the South, including middle
Georgia, Louisiana and Southern California. I thought I had
seen plenty of ants before, but I never have seen such numbers
as are on this farm. I do not know if they are as thick all over
this country as they are here, or not. This farm is set out to a
peach orchard, and it may be that as a good deal of the land is
never plowed on account of the trees, that the ants have more
chance to multiply. But during our dry seasons here in Spring
and Fall the surface of the earth is literally covered with them.
They seem to be nearly all of one species, a black ant about an
eighth of an inch or more in length. When mashed or touched
they emit a strong, unpleasant odor which is sickening to me ;
there is no keeping them out of the house. The floors are cov-
ered with them. As you sit in a chair and move your feet once
in a while you kill a few. This draws more, and you soon have
a black spot on the floor. You don't think about it until you
smell them ; under the rockers of a rocking-chair, you will kill
so many of an evening, that there will be two black marks just
the width and length of the rockers. They seem to be ravenous
all the time and will devour every living thing that comes in their
way. In walking along the roads I have noticed them attack
and kill insects large and small. A beetle or grasshopper will be
moving along when an ant will catch hold of a leg. The thing

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will try to get rid of the ant, when instantly a few more will take
hold. In the struggle the insect will soon be on its back, when
in a moment it will be just swarming with ants.

There is no putting out any bait or traps for insects. The ants
devour everything, as I have found to my sorrow, as I had no
luck with small bait I tried a dead chicken. In a few days the
ground for yards around it was just alive with the pests. They
were dragging away every living thing, including perfect insects
and larvae that they could get hold of. They cleaned up every-
thing. I have seen them attack little chickens that were not more
than a day or two old and gather so thick on feet and head, that
the poor little things would soon give up and be on their back. I
have to watch the specimens I have collected very close for fear
they will get at them they did eat up a box of Diptera fo me.

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REMARKS ON LIST OF THE HEMIPTERA OF COLORADO.*

By CARL F. BAKER, Auburn, Ala.

Ninyas pal/ens Stal., p. 23. This is the Geocoris pattens for
which several records are given on the same page.

Corythucafuscigera Stal, p. 57. Several species were confused
under this name, as shown by subsequent determinations by Dr.
Uhler. Whether this is the species occurring so commonly on
Cnicus, at Fort Collins, remains to be determined.

Helicoptera floridce Walk., p. 69. According to Dr. Uhler
this determination is erroneous, the species not being faridt?.

Pissonotus pallipes VanD., p. 69, and others of Van Duzee's
Delphacids mentioned on this page are manuscript species and
have not, up to the time of this writing, been published.

Pachynopsis Uhler, pp. 71-72. This genus is synonymous
with Macropsis Lewis.

Miocenes interruptus G. and 15., p. 74. The record for this
species, on page 75, was dropped under / distindiis, and is
' Fort Collins, September 26th on elm (Baker), and September
on grass (Gillette)." The latter occurrence was probably acci-
dental. This "species" is of doubtful validity.

* Bulletin No. 31 (Tech. Series No. I), of tlie Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
at Fort Collins, Colorado. Copies of this Bulletin may be obtained free on application to
the Director of the Station.

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Idiocenis snowi G. and B., p. 76. The record for this species,
on page 80, was dropped below / rn/us, and is "Colorado
Springs, August (Tucker)."

Idiocerus perplexus G. and B., p. 78. This is only a variety
of pallidus.

Paramesus jucundus Uhler, p. 84. The synonym should read
Eutettix instead of ' ' Eutettx. ' '

DeUocephalus me/sheimerzTh., p. 88. It is probable that most
of the specimens referred to under this species belong to affinis.
It is doubtful if the true melsheimeri has yet been found in Colo-
rado.

Tkamnotettix gillettei Van D., p. 98. This "species" can be
readily manufactured from T. belli by soaking specimens for
some time in alcohol.

Thamnotettix punctiscuta G. and B., p. 99, is the male of T.
infuscata.

Tkamnotettix tenella Uhler, p. 100. This becomes T. tend la
Baker. See "Psyche," vii, No. 239, Suppl. p. 24.

Thamnotettix sonorce G. and B., p. 100. This species was
founded on pale individuals of T. belli.

Cicadula lute a G. and B., p. 106, is a weak and untenable
variety .of Thamnotettix caricis.

Aphalara caltha L. , p. 114. It is probable that some of the
forms recorded under this name will be found to differ irom
European specimens of the species.

Dr. W. OTTINGER, of Exbrucke (Miinchener medicinasche Wochen-
schrift, Dec. 8, 1896; Wiener medizinische Blatter, Dec. 17, 1896) tells of
his lack of success with ammonia for insect stings, but says that he has
found ichthyol an admirable remedy. He has tried it in numerous cases
of stings of flies, gnats, bees and wasps, and has found that it quickly
and surely causes the phenomena of inflammation to subside. He at-
tributes its effect to its vaso-constrictor action. It is best applied pure in
a pretty thick layer, but it may be used in the form of an ointment.

FLORIDA insects are likely to suffer this Winter as, in addition to the
resident collectors in the State, there are some from the North and othei s
intending to visit that part of the South. Dr. John Hamilton and Mrs.
A. T. Slosson are there at present, and Dr. H. G. Griffith, President of
the Feldman Collecting Social, will sail for Florida in a few days.

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IN the NEWS for October, 1893, page 266, and again in the
number for February, 1894, page 42, we have had something to
say on the subject of postage on specimens of natural history to
foreign countries. We have there detailed the efforts made by
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to obtain lower
rates, explaining that the present regulations of the Universal
Postal Union permit such specimens to be mailed only at letter
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the charges for which are lower than those for letters. The aim
of the Academy has been to secure the adoption by the Postal
Union of a proposition offered by the U. S. Post Office Depart-
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to, samples of merchandise. This proposition was, however, re-
jected at the last International Postal Congress of Vienna.

At the International Congress of Zoology, held at Leyclen,
Holland, in September, 1895, Dr. Chas. Wardell Stiles, official
delegate of the U. S. Government, offered resolutions, which
were subsequently adopted, that the Swiss Government be re-
quested, through its delegate to the Congress of Zonlogv, to
propose to the next International Postal Congress an amendment
to the regulations thereof whereby specimens of Natural History
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rates for samples of merchandise; that an appeal should be ad-
dressed to all the delegates and members of the Congress of
Zoology to bring this amendment to the notice of their respective
governments, so that those governments should instruct their
delegates to the Postal Congress to act favorably upon the same;
that copies of these resolutions be sent by the Secretary of the
Congress of Zoology to all governments forming part of the
Universal Postal Union and which were not represented at the
Congress of Zoology.

In accordance with these resolutions, Dr. Stiles suggested to
the committee of the Academy in charge of this matter of postage
that, although it is probable that the U. S. Government will vote
in favor of this proposed amendment, seeing that it is the same
proposition which the United States had presented at Vienna, the
cause would be helped by the Academy adopting resolutions in
favor of this proposed amendment and requesting the Postmaster
General at Washington to instruct our American delegates to
vote in favor of it.

This the Academy has done, but other American scientific
bodies should join in the work, adopt similar resolutions and
send them to our Postmaster General that he may know that the
students of natural history in the United States eagerly desire
such a reduction in postage rates. The next International Postal
Congress meets at Washington on the fifth of May next. The
purpose of this article is to urge all those who read it to use such
means and influence as may be at their command to help in the
accomplishment of this end.

For the guidance of those who will aid in the manner suggested,
a translation of the original French text of the amendment re-
ferred to is as follows :

" Amendment to Article XIX (samples) 4, of the Regulations of Details
and Order.

5. Objects of natural history, dried or preserved animals and
plants, geological specimens, etc., of which the transmission has
no commercial interest, and the packing of which conforms to
the general conditions concerning packages of samples of mer-
chandise."

If this amendment be adopted by the Postal Congress, speci-
mens of Natural History can be sent to countries of the Universal
Postal Union at the rate of one cent for every two ounces.

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 57

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Edited by Prof. JOHN B, SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J.

Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor. Prof. John
B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J.

(Continued from page 38, vol. viii.)

Following this Mr. Johnson reviewed the present distribution of the
San Jose' scale in Maryland, stating that the pest had been definitely lo-
cated in twelve counties, including three nurseries. It was introduced on
nursery stock from New Jersey, Georgia, Missouri, and possibly Penn-
sylvania; the stock in the latter case having been received from a Phila-
delphia seedman. The speaker was of the opinion that the pest could
never be exterminated in Maryland on account of its firm foot-hold in
some large orchards, but that he believed it could be kept in check by
persistent and energetic fighting on the part of a thorough and harmonious
State organization of nurserymen and fruit-growers. In speaking of the
potash lye, whale oil soap, he said he was just in the midst of an exten-
sive series of experiments with this material on the scale in the large
orchards of R. S. Emery, of Chestertown, Md., and that over 2500 pounds
had already been used on the infested trees at the rate of 2}4 to 2*4 pounds
to a gallon of water. He was of the opinion that the scale could not be
exterminated in bearing orchards with the soap washes. He said pear
trees treated last year with the soda whale oil soap at the rate of 2, 2%
and 3 pounds to a gallon of water, were this Fall literally covered with
the insect. Of the two he said the lye was very much better than the
soda soap. Its action on the scale is quicker and its application is not so
troublesome from the fact that it does not thicken when cool. He said
that Mr. Emery, who was the first to use this soap against the San Jose
scale, was of the opinion that some entomologists placed too much con-
fidence in these washes for the destruction and extermination of the pest.
The author said he had under way a lot of experiments with various
combinations of kerosene emulsion and whale oil soap, the cost of the
washes ranging from four to nine cents per gallon. Referring to the
Maryland "Trees and Nursery Stock" law he said it had been a great
factor in awakening an interest in this matter among nurserymen and
fruit-growers. Although the law is imperfect in some points, it has been
carried out with much satisfaction. The inconsistent points have been
jM>-;ed over, and, with a few minor changes, the present Act will meet
the peculiar needs of the State It is intended to have the law modified
at the next session of the Legislature, and it is hoped that an Act may be
passed that will be perfectly consistent and agreeable to all parties con-
cerned.

Dr. Howard read a paper by Mr. Gerald McCarthy entitled, "Eco-
nomic Entomology in North Carolina." Briefly outlining the entomological
work of the season the author said Fhorbia bras\u'u- was very destructive

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to young cabbage along the coast region eariy this season. Tobacco de-
coction and crude carbolic acid applied to the soil around the plants gave
the best results. The cotton caterpillars, Heliothis and Aletia, the
Northern army worm, the chinch bug, and the imported elm leaf beetle
were reported from various localities. Lina scripta, the Western cotton
wood beetle, was found on Carolina poplar and cotton/wood. Gelechia
picipelis was found mining the leaves of tobacco. The bull or horse
thistle, Solatium c a rolin ense seems to be its normal host. The New York
plum scale, convex scale, gloomy scale, San Jose scale, oyster-shell bark-
louse, scurfy bark louse, Euonymus scale and Privet scale were reported
from the State. The writer stated that a law directed against insect pests
and plant diseases would be presented to the next Legislature for passage.

In the absence of the authors Dr. Howard read a paper on "Some
Results of Recent Studies of Grass Feeding Jassidae" by Herbert Osborn
and E. D. Ball. In this paper the authors refer to the previous publica-
tions of the senior author on the subject of the damage done to pastures
and lawns by the leaf-hoppers of the family Jassidae, and show that while
it lias been indicated that the loss must be enormous, the insects appear
to a great extent to be destroyed by the use of a tar pan or "hopper-
dozer." Up to the present time, however, our knowledge of the life-
histories of the species involved has been too meagre to furnish a certain
basis for remedial measures. The present paper determines the life-history
of a number of species, the range of their food-plants, especially in the
larval stages, and a study of the specific limits of a larger number of
species.

Following this Dr. Howard read a paper on "The Use of Steam Ap-
paratus For Spraying." The speaker, after a brief historical account of
the development of hand apparatus for spraying insecticides, considered
in detail some twenty machines which have been constructed since 1882,
which spray by steam-power, showing that a thoroughly efficient appa-
ratus of this kind can be constructed for from 1250 to $300. Not only
were the especially constructed machines described, but also several
make-shift apparatuses which utilized the services of ordinary watering
carts and road engines and steam fire-engines. In conclusion, he ex-
pressed the opinion that such apparatuses will seldom be constructed by
the owners of even larger orchards for their own individual use, but that
for community orchard work they are valuable, and will come more and
more into use, while the professional sprayer, an individual who is bound
to come to the front, will use steam-power machines. Perhaps the greatest
value which they possess, however, is for work on shade tree insects in
cities and towns. The time is coming when every city which takes a pride
in its shade trees will possess one or more of these machines.

Mr. A. D. Hopkins, of West Virginia, was elected chairman and Mr.
M. Y '. Slingerland, of New York, secretary for the ensuing year.

VV. G. JOHNSON,

Temp. Secretary.

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PSEUDOSCORPIONS ATTACHED TO FLIES. Apropos to the note in the
January number of the NEWS I will say that seemingly precisely the same
thing has come to me this Winter, having been found under the wing of
a house-fly. F. M. WEBSTER.

Mr. J. E. FARNUM says the country in Manika Land, S. E. Africa, is so
perfectly flat that to obtain any view of one's surroundings it is necessary
to climb either a tree or one of the curious ant-hills so common in this
country and often as high as fifteen feet.

BRUCHOPHAGUS FUNEBRIS (Howard). I have been very much inter-
ested in Prof. A. D. Hopkins' recent statement (Proc. Assoc. Econ. En-
tomologists) that this is a veritable feeder in clover seeds, and not a oara-
site of Cecidomyia, as had been supposed. Prof. E. O. Wootten collected
some Hosackia puberula Benth. (det. J. N. Rose) in the Organ Mountains,
New Mexico, and breeding in the seeds were numbers of this B.funebris.
It seemed to me at the time that they fed upon the seeds, but I was not
prepared to definitely assert that such was the case. My specimens were
identified by Mr. Howard himself. T. D. A. COCKERELL.

A CHRISTMAS-DAY MOTH HUNT. In " Papilio" iv, p. 112, the editor,
referring to the occurrence of a living 'and active Hypena baltimoralis at
Gray's Ferry, January 25th, the thermometer registering 4 below zero,
asks, "Are any of this genus known to hibernate?" Not far from this
city (Wilmington, Del.) is a large maple tree slowly dying from the rav-
ages of Prionoxystus robinicz, an unusual food-plant here. On account
of the flowing sap this tree is greatly resorted to Spring, Summer and
Autumn by numbers of tlies, bees, hornets, butterflies chiefly (,'nipttts
and P. atalanta and at night by various moths. One warm day late in
November I commenced to strip the bark from a large limb of this tree
which had broken and fallen till its tip touched the ground. Immediately
a number of moths flew out from under the bark as I loosened it and
sought resting-places high up in the tree. They were so active that 1

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could not then secure a specimen so concluded to wait for a colder day.
On Christmas day I revisited the tree, and almost the first blow of the
chisel uncovered a specimen of Hypena scabra, clinging to the wood
undrr the loose bark; more were soon found all quite helpless with the
cold, and one only gave a feeble flutter. On the same day three more
were found under loose bark on a fence-rail, and perhaps half a mile dis-
tant from the first; all became quite active on being brought into a warm
room, so there can be little doubt that this species hibernates in consider-
able numbers. I have taken this species and h'umuli at sugar very early
in the Spring along with A. ypsilon.

I have found Pamphila aaroni at Chincoteaque Island, Va., and also
in considerable numbers on the mainland of the Delaware peninsula at
Ocean City, Maryland, on Aug. 27, 1896.

Plusiapurpurigea has been bred by me on Thalictrum; imago emerged
June ri, 1896. I have also taken Maine stra ectypa on flowers at dusk in
the middle of July. Both species at Wilmington, Del. FRANK M. JONES,
Wilmingt n, Del.

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i. THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. London,
January, 1897. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station.

No. 2. On a collection of Diptera from the lowlands of the Rio

Nautla, in the State of Vera Cruz, i, C. H. T. Townsend. No. 3. The

bees of the genus Collctes found in New Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Perraud, new genus), J. Perraud. Jan. 16, 1897. On the histological

reactions and on the internal animal gall provoked in a larva of the Dipter
Cecidomyia destructor by a parasitic Hymenopter Trichacis remnlus,
Dr. P. Marchal.

3. REVUE SCIENFIFIOUE. Paris, Dec. 19, 1896. Colors of the scales
of Entimus imperialis, M. Garbasso.

4. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY,
xxvii, pp. 207-218, December, 1.^96. List of exotic Orthoptera described
by S. H. Scudder, 1868-1879, with a revision of their nomenclature, S.
H. Scudder.

5. NATURAL SCIENCE. London, January, 1897. Wasps and Weis-
mann, O. H. Latter.

6. THE ZOOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. Tokyo, December, 1896. The apple-
borer (Laverna herellera Dup. ?), M. Mat^umura, i pi.

7. SCIENCE-GOSSIP. London, December, 1896. Water-mites of Folke-
stone Warren, C. D. Soar, figs. January, 1897. Dacty/opius or mealy-
bugs, with a new species, T. D. A. Cockerell, fig.

8. BULLETIN 123, CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION. Ithaca, N. Y., December, 1896. Green fruit worms, M. V.
Siingerland, 3 pis.

9. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1896, part
iii, Oct. i, 1896. Explanation of the plan adopted for preparing an ' Index
Generum et Specierum Animalium,' C. D. Sherborn. On Walker's
American types of Lepidoptera in the Oxford University Museum, W.
Schaus. On the Theraphosida? of the Lower Amazons: being an account
of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during
the expedition of the steamship ' Faraday' up the River Amazons, K. O.
P. Cambridge, 3 pis.

10. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE VAUDOISE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES
(4), xxxi, No. 119. Lausanne, December, 1895. Received Jan. 25, 1897.
Some biological observations on the wasps, A. Forel.

11. THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY. London. January, 1897. Intoxication
of humble-bees on certain capitulate flowers, J. L. Williams.

12. ANNALEN DES K. K. NATURHISTORISCHEN HOFMUSEUMS, xi, 2.
Vienna, 1896. Received |an. 25, 1897. Third contribution to the Le-
pidopterous fauna of the Canaries, Dr. H. Rebel, i pi.

13. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE NATIONALS D'ACCLIMATATION DE
FRANCE. Paris, August, 1896. Applied entomology in Europe (cont.)
France, P. Marchal.

62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March,

14. REVUK SCIENTIFIQUE. Paris, Jan. 2, 1897. Biology of Melolontha,
X. Raspail. Jan. 22, Flies and mosquitoes as agents of contagion, J. H.

15. TRANSACTIONS OF NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, ix, pp.
208-218. Preliminary notes on the Orthoptera of Nova Scotia, H. Piers.
Separates issued November, 1896. Received Jan. 25, 1897.

16. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSO-
NIAN INSTITUTION to July, 1894. Washington, 1896. Received Feb. i,
1897. Ants' nests, Dr. A. Forel (transl. from Neujahrsblatt Naturf. Gesell.
Zurich, 1893).

17. NOVITATES ZOOLOGIC/E, iii, 4. Tring, England, Dec. 29, 1896.
New species of Drepanulidas, Thyrididas, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae and
Geometridas in the Tring Museum. W. Warren. On mechanical selection
and other problems, K. Jordan, 4 pis.

18. THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, x, 9, December, 1896. Fauna Otta-
waensis: Hymenoptera Parasitica Proctotrypidre, W. H. Harrington.

19. THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. Philadelphia, February, 1897.
Nocturnal protective coloration of mammals, birds, fishes, insects, etc.,
A. E. Verrill. A viviparous Ephemerid, M. Causard (from Ann. Mag.
Nat. Hist.).

20. FOLKESTONE NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.
Proceedings for 1896. Protective resemblance and other means of de-
fence in insects, with special reference to butterflies and moths, S. G.
Hills. Variation in the Lepidoptera and its causes, Dr. H. G. Knaggs.

21. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ENTOMOLOGY, xxxix, 3-4. The Hague, Dec.
28, 1896. List of Dutch Acari ii, iii, Dr. A. C. Oudemans. Notes on
Acari, id. Some remarks on the further division of the genus Agrotis
Led , P. C. T. Snellen, i pi. On the geographical distribution of the
genus Siphona Meig., F. M. Van der Wulp.

22 COMPTES RENDUS. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. Paris, Jan. 4, 1897.

-The Malpighian tubules of Orthoptera, L. Bordas. January u. On

the relations of Discopoma comata Berlese with Lasins mixtus Nylander,
C. Janet, figs.

23. APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. New York, February,
1897. How plants and animals spend the Winter, W. S. Blatchley.

24. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND Scf
ENCES xxxii, 9. January 1897. The genera of North American Melano-
pli, S. H. Scudder.

25. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY AND NATURAL
SCIENCE (3), vii, pt. 33. London, January, 1897. What is a spider?, Dr
J. S. Walker, i pi. On the nature of supernumerary appendages in insects,
W. Bateson. British Hydrachnidre, pt. vii, C. D. Soar, i pi.

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26. MlTTIIHILUNGEN DER SECTION FUR N.\Ti;KICUNDK DES OESTER-

KEICHISCHKN TOUKISTEN-CLUB, viii. Vienna, 1896. On life- in captivity
and suicide of scorpions, A. Steur.

27. THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE. Philadelphia, 1-Vb
ruary, 1897. The cattle-tick plague: preventive treatment, C. Curtice.

28. PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, xix, No. 1113.
Washington, 1896. Received Feb. 8, 1897. Descriptions of new specie s
of North American Coleoptera in the families Cerambycidai- and bcara
bseidse, M. L. Linell.

29. THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. Washing-
ton, January, 1897. The value of peroxide of hydrogen in the preparation
of entire insects, C. E. Hanaman.

30. ELEVENTH REPORT on the injurious and other insects of the Stair
of New York for the year 1895. By J. A. Lintner, Ph.D., State Ento-
mologist. Albany, University of the State of New York, 1896. From
the Forty-ninth Report on the New York State Museum, pp. 87-325, 25
text figures, 16 pis.

31. BULLETIN No. 5. New Series. U. S. Dep't of Agriculture, Divi.
sion of Entomology. Insects affecting domestic animals: an account of
the species of importance in North America, with mention of related
forms occurring on other animals. Prepared under the direction of the
Entomologist, by Herbert Osborn, Professor of Zoology and Entomology,
etc. Washington, 1896. A few months ago we had the pleasure of
noticing briefly another bulletin of this series, on Household Insects, re-
ferring to it as one of, if not the, most useful ever issued by the Depart-
ment. We have in the present publication one to which we can apply
terms of equal praise. In its 302 pages, 170 text figures and five plates
are described and illustrated numerous parasitic insects in a systematic
zoological order, under the headings of Diptera, Siphonaptera, Hermp-
tera, Mallophaga and Arachnida. Although remedies are mentioned in
connection with each parasite throughout the work, a separate chapter is
devoted to preventives and remedial measures in general. Following is
a list of parasites according to hosts, a bibliography and an index. Thanks
for such a valuable treatise are due to Prof. Osborn, to the late Prof.
Riley and to Dr. Howard.

32. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL- HISTORY, viii.
art. xix. New York, Dec. 16, 1896. Transformations of some North
American hawk-moths, W. Beutenmiiller.

33. ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIOUE UE BELGIOUK, xl, 12.
Brussels, Jan. 8, 1897. Note on the male of f'n-\fu'ic/iid miiuitica Lub-
bock, Hymenopter of the family Myrmanda-, V. Willem, ("igs. Exotic
Hemiptera-Heteroptera, A. L. Montandon.

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34. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., February, 1897.
Rev. Thomas W. Fyles, portrait and sketch. A parasite of hemipter-
ous eggs, T. D. A. Cockerel!. Notes on Vanessa interrogations, \\ . F.
Fiske. Larval stages of Amphion nessns Cr., \\'. Beutenmiiller. The
Coleoptera of Canada, xx. Chrysomelida? of Ontario and Quebec (cont),
H. F. Wickham, figs. On Ledra perdita A. and S., C. F. Baker. Some
new species and varieties of Lepidoptera from the western U. S., \V.
Barnes. Catalogue of the phytophagous and parasitic Hymenoptera of
Vancouver Island (cont.), VV. H. Harrington. A new species of Pro-
tandrena Ckll., S. N. Dunning.

35. POPULAR SCIENCE. New York, February, 1897. The praying
mantis, A. Ellsworth, fig.

36. PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., 1897. Imaginal discs in insects, H.
S. Pratt, figs. Diaphomera femorata, S. H. Scudder.

37. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, February,
1897. On the terminology of the scale-like organs which lie between the
roots of the wings and the scutellum of Diptera, R. H. Meade. On the
biology of Cainarota flavitarsis Meig., Dr. P. Marchal. Hints on col-
lecting Aculeate Hymenoptera, E. Saunders. An attempt to elucidate
and fix the types of Tortri.r, Tinea and Alucita, three of the Linnean
subdivisions of Phalcena L., Lord Walsingham and J. H. Durrant.

38. ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xxiii, 2. Berlin, January, 1897.
Three new Cicindelas and on Neolaphyra Bedel, Dr. W. Horn. On
some ant-guests, Dr. K. Escherich. Summary of E. Wasmann's 'Die
Myrmekophilen und Termitophilen' at the International Congress of
Zoology at Leyden, September, 1895.

39. BULLETIN FROM THE LABORATORIES OF NATURAL HISTORY OF
THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, iv, 2, January, 1897. The Coleoptera
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, H. F. Wickham.

40. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, February, 1897. On naming geo-
graphical varieties, H. J. Elwes. A catalogue of the Lepidoptera of
Ireland (cont.), VV. F. de Vismes Kane. Silk-producing Lepidoptera, A.
Wailly.

41. BERLINKR ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, xh, 2 and 3. Berlin,
December, 1896. Dipterological studies iv. Ephydridte, T. Becker 4
pis. Notice on the terms tegula, anti-tegula, squama and alula, as used
in Dipterology, C. R. Osten Sacken.

42. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, Jan. 15, 1897. Neura-
tion of the Rhopalocera, A. Quail, i pi.

43. FLOWERS AND INSECTS, xvii. By Charles Robertson. Reprint
from Botan Gazette, xxii, 2, August, 1896.

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44. SOCIETAS ENTOMOLOGICA, xi, 21. Zurich- Hottingen, Feb. i, 1897.
-Two noteworthy cases of parasitism in Endroinisversicolora, C. Fring-.

(Chalcids in Phora in versicolora).

45. U. S. DEP'T OF AGRICULTURE. Farmers' Bulletin No. 45. Some
insects injurious to stored grain. By F. H. Chittenden. Washington,
December, 1896; 24 pp , rS figs.

46. ANHANG zu DEN ABHANDLUNGEN DER KONIGL. PREUSSISCHI' \
AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN zu BERLIN VOM JAHRE 1896. Out-
lines of the development and structure of the body of Odonata and
Ephemerida, Dr. R. Heymons, 2 pis.

INDEX TO THE PRE< EI)I\G LITERATURE.

The number after each author's name in this index refers to the journal, as numbered
in the preceding list, in which that author's paper is published ; * denotes that the paper
in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

THE GENERAL SUBJECT.

Latter 5, Sherborn 9, Jordan 17, Verrill 19, Causard 19, Hills 20, Blatch-
ley 23, Bateson 25, Marchal 2, Hanaman 29, Osborn 31, Pratt 36, Escherich
38, (Wasmann 38), Elwes 40, Robertson 44, Frings 44.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Matsumura 6, Slingerland 8, Marchal 13, 37, J. H. 14, Curtice 27,
Lintner, 30, Osborn 31, Chittenden 45.

ARACHNIDA.

Michael i, Cambridge i*, 9, Perraud 2, Soar 7, 25, Oudemans 21 (two),
Janet 22, Walker 25, Steur 26, Curtice 27, Osborn 31.

THYSANURA.
Lintner 30*.

ORTHOPTERA.

Scudder 4, 36, Piers 15, Bordas 22, Scudder 24, Ellsworth 35.

NEUROPTERA.
Causard 19, Osborn 31, Wasmann 38, Heymons 46.

HEMIPTERA.
Cockerell 7, 34, Osborn 31, Montandon 33*, Baker 34.

COLEOPTERA.
Raspail 14, Linell 28*, Wickham 34, 39, W. Horn 38*.

3*

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DIPTERA.

Townsend i*, Van der Wulp 21, Marchal 2, 37, Osborn 31, Pratt 36,
Meade 37, Becker 41, Osten Sacken 41, Frings 44.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Garbasso 3, Matsumura 6, Slingerland 8, Schaus 9, Rebel 12, Warren
17*, Jordan 17, Hills 20, Knaggs 20, Snellen 21, Beutenmiiller 32, 34,
Fiske 34, Barnes 34*, Walsingham and Durrant 37, Elwes 40, Kane 40,
Wailly 40, Quail 42, Frings 44.

HYMENOPTERA.

Cockerell i*, 34*, Latter 5, Forel 10. 16, Williams n, Harrington 18,
34, Janet 22, Marchal 2, Willem 33, Dunning 34*, Saunders 37, Escherich
38, Wasmann 38, Frings 44.

Doings of Societies.

PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 1897.

A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held
at the residence of Dr. Henry Skinner, 716 N. 2Oth St. Mem-
bers present: Messrs. Seiss, Laurent, E. Wenzel, F. Hoyer,
Johnson, A. Hoyer, H. W. Wenzel, Boerner, Fox, Griffith.
Schmitz and Castle. Proposed member: Mr. S. T. Kemp.
Honorary members: Dr. Henry Skinner and John B. Smith.
Visitors: Messrs. Edvv. A. Klages and Chas. Liebeck. Meeting
called to order at 8.55 P.M., President Griffith presiding. Before
proceeding with the regular business the new president made a
brief introductory speech, which was to the point, and met with
the approval of all present.

A communication was received from the retiring president,
James H. B. Bland, acknowledging the notice of his election to
honorary membership.

A communication was read from Fred. Marloff, dated Oak
Station, Pa., Feb. 5, 1897, in which he states, referring to the
note relative to Murgantia histrionica as published in minutes
appearing in February NEWS, he thought it might possibly be
of interest to know that the same insect proved very injurious in
the season just past in the above mentioned locality, being espe-
cially abundant on cauliflower. He states that he had never
taken .it there before. Prof. Smith stated that the same insect
had been reported from several localities in New Jersey, having
proven quite injurious in some places.

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Mr. Liebeck exhibited two boxes of Bembidium, representing
108 species, 770 specimens.

Mr. Seiss thought it might be of interest to know how many
different species of Hemiptera could be captured on the sunflower,
exhibiting the appended variety of specimens taken in a yard in
the heart of the city during the Summer and Autumn of 1896 :
Corythuca marmorala. Triphleps insidiosus, Colocaris rapidus,
Lygus pratensis, Hyaliodes vitripcnnis, Garganus fusiformis,
Ilnacora stalli, Episcopus ornatus Typhlocyba rosce, Diedrocephala
coccinea, Deltocephalus nigrifrons and a species of Aphis. While
some of these did more or less damage to the plants, the most
destructive insects were Spilosorna virginica larvae and Diabrotica
\'2-punctata.

Dr. Griffith mentioned the capture, on June, 1896, at Mana-
yunk, of specimens of Cryptorhynchus lapathi Linn. ; also on
May, 1896, at Potomac Creek, Phyrdenus undatiis Lee. and
Obrium rubidum Lee. In conclusion he spoke at some length
on the importance of classification stating that there was great
need of a catalogue of Coleoptera in which all synonyms should
be given, advocating uniformity above all things.

Prof. Smith discussed the various points mentioned by Dr.
Griffith, agreeing that such a book would be a good thing.

Dr. Skinner showed the members a box containing about forty
specimens of Argynnis, exhibiting all the intergrades between
A. aphrodite and A. alcestis. He also exhibited a suppository
mould which answers admirably for moulding naptha cones for
use in collection boxes; it is made of bronze metal in the form
of a hinge, consisting of three parts, and will produce one dozen
cones at one operation.

A motion was made instructing the secretary to write to Dr.
Horn informing him of the regret expressed by the members,
owing to his illness, and wishing him a speedy and complete
recovery.

Mr. Stanley T. Kemp, of Camden, N. J., was unanimously
elected an active member of the Social.

No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to
the annex at 10. 10 P.M.

THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary.

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CHICAGO ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Pursuant to a call
issued by Mr. A. J. Snyder on behalf of several entomologists,
fourteen persons interested in the study of entomology met on
Friday evening, Jan. 22, 1897, m Parlor N, Sherman House,
Chicago, to discuss the advisability of organizing a society inde-
pendent of the Academy of Sciences, which had not displayed
much activity along the line of entomological work. It was the
sense of the meeting that the best results could be obtained by
independent action. A committe was appointed to formulate a
constitution and adjournment was had to Saturday, February 6,
at same place.

At the adjourned meeting the report of committee on consti-
tution was accepted, constitution and name adopted, and the
following officers elected, viz.: President, O. S. Westcott; Vice-
president, A. J. Snyder; Secretary, John L. Healy; Treasurer,
W. E. Longley; Curator, Dr. J. L. Hancock. Meetings will be
held semi-monthly on Saturday evenings.

JOHN L. HEALY, Secretary,

1547 Oakdale Avenue.

Thie ECritorraological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following paper was read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

NOTES ON PHILANTHUS.

By S. N. DUNNING, Hartford, Conn.

PhilantllUS anna n. sp. 9- Length of body S-io mm., of anterior wings
5-7 mm. Black, with yellow markings. Head large, broader than high,
punctures not very distinct ; eyes parallel inwardly, emarginate, olive-
green; ocelli in a triangle, equidistant from each other; face and clypeus
upwards to ocelli (except small black spot at base of each antenna), spot
behind ocelli (emarginate anteriorly and with a small extension posteriorly)
and lines back of eyes, yellow; scape mostly yellow, as is one side of four
joints of flagellum, remainder black; mandibles yellow outwardly, black
tipped; prothorax emarginate in center, yellow; mesothorax smooth, pol-
ished, with scattered rather coarse punctures; metathorax less iiu lined to
be polished, a triangular cavity on posterior lateral angles; scutellum and

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post-scutellum polished, no punctuation. The following are yellow: four
lines on mesothorax extending from prothorax almost to scutellum, ex-
cept two outer ones which are shorter and commencing in front of tegulse
and inclined inwards; scutellum small dot at each side and slightly in ad-
vance of same, post-scutellum, transverse spots behind same and two
large spots on posterior lateral angles, teguloe, tubercles, elongated spot
back of this (and sometimes a rounded spot back of elongated spot) and
a still larger triangular spot below these. Abdomen thickly, rather coarsely
punctured, a considerable growth of whitish hair below becoming quite
thick at tip, a large yellow band on first segment with touch of black above
and below not as thickly punctured as following, band on second segment
slightly emarginate on posterior side, a touch of black below, band on
third segment covering entire surface, bands on fourth, fifth and sixth seg-
ments with touch of black anteriorly, seventh segment black and emar-
ginate at tip; venter considerably marked with yellow; coxae yellow spotted,
trochanters yellow tipped, last half too two-thirds femora yellow, as are
tibia and first joint of tarsi, last joints of tarsi yellow inclined to rufous;
marginal cell about as long as first and second submarginal, second sub-
marginal receiving recurrent at its middle, third submarginal receiving
recurrent at end of first fourth. Wings inclined to dusky in outer half;
stigma and costa rust colored; submedian cell posterior wings slightly
larger than median on the externo-median nervure.

Two specimens (No. 1591 Baker), Colorado, and one, Las Cru-
ces New Mexico, " on Salix." Cockerell.

Related to P. pacificus Cr. and crabroniformis Sm., but differs
as follows:

From pacificus in "two spots behind ocelli" forming distinct
band in having spots behind and below tubercles, in marking of
abdominal bands; abdomen thickly pitted and rather coarsely so
and venter yellow.

From crabroniformis in having band on vertex, lines on meso-
thorax (four) and in last segment being black and in .punctuation
of abdomen.

P. politus Say 9 , July-August; not uncommon here.

P. dubins Cr. , July- August on Daucus carota; more com-
mon than politics.

P. pundatus Say and 9 , July-August; common.

P. pundatus Say van cockerelli n. var. . Differs from punc-
tatus in coloring being all white and wings entirely transparent
(Ckll. Nos. 1954 and 4726 " on Solidago' i

P. sanborni Cr. , July 11 at Southampton, Mass.

P. ventilabris P^ab., Algonquin, 111.; one (Dr. William A.

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Nason); Tifton, Ga., two males one female (Mr. G. R. Pilate),
June 12, 1896.

P. bilunatits Cr. This species varies considerably in size and
coloration. Two males from Southampton, Mass. , are 7 and 10
mm. long and show no yellow on first segment. Two males from
Brookings Co., S. D. (Mr. P. C. Truman) are lo-ri mm. long
and have interrupted band on first segment. Mr. Fox identified
these.

P. trumani n. sp. 9. Length of body 18 mm., anterior wings 10.5 mm.
Black, with bright yellow and white markings, a thick and long growth
of fulvous pubescence on head, thorax, first segment, abdomen above,
all of venter and legs as far as and including femora; clype,us, sides of
face, larger protruding ovate mark above base of antennae, seven basal
joints of antennae, prothorax above (this is lighter than face marking),
tegulas crescent-shaped mark below post-scutellum, two wavy spots on
first segment abdomen, larger ones not so wavy on second segment, apical
half femora and tibia and tarsi of anterior and middle legs and tip of
femora and tibia and tarsi of posterior, yellow; narrow fasciae on third,
fourth, fifth and small spots on sixth, all pale white. Head but very little
wider than thorax, finely and rather closely punctate; mandibles black,
clypeus rounded, face with a black W (similar to $ sanbornii Cress., but
not as distinct) ; eyes large, converging, sub-emarginate at base of antennae,
concave on inner margins, dark brown; ocelli in a triangle, first farther
from last two than last two are from each other; mesothorax closely punc-
tate and more finely so than head; metathorax finely but not as closely
punctate as mesothorax; a deep groove above and a deep cavity on pos-
terior side; cavity smooth, shining above, more roughly punctate than rest
of body below. Abdomen finely and closely punctate, restricted between
first and second, and second and third segments, seventh segment black
and strongly emarginate ; coxae black, trochanters yellow tipped, first
half or so of anterior and middle, and all but tip of posterior, black;
stigma and nervures fuscous. Wings cloudy in latter half, first submar-
ginal cell equals second and third combined in length, second submar-
ginal cell receiving recurrent nervure at its center, third submarginal re-
ceiving recurrent nervure just a little beyond its base; submedian cell,
posterior wings as much longer than median on externo-medial nervure
as the recurrent of third submarginal is from its base; transverso-medial
nervure with an inward curve at junction with discoidal nervure.

One specimen Summer, 1896, Brookings Co., South Dakota,
from Mr. P. C. Truman, after whom I have taken the liberty of
naming it. Related to scutellaris Cress., but differs principally
in size, pubescence and markings.

P. solivagus Say. As Say's description is not as complete as

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it might be I have allowed myself the liberty of giving a detailed
account of the species as it is found here:

C?- Length of body 13 mm., of anterior wings 8 mm. Black, with
yellow markings; clypeus, small dot above, sides efface to emargination,
large mark above base of antennae, prothorax, tegulae, small dot below,
large band slightly interrupted before and after near center first segment,
uninterrupted narrow bands on segments 2-5, knees, tibiae and tarsi, all
yellow. Head subquadrate, a little broader than high, closely and finely
punctate, cheeks and face covered with a fulvous pubescence, which also
appears on vertex; eyez emarginate, parallel up to emargination, then
inclined inwardly, olive-green; ocelli in a triangle, the foremost larger and
set in a cavity ( a groove extending from cavity runs down face almost to
base of antennae) nearer to last two than last two are to each other; cly-
peus slightly carinate at edge, truncate, sides beyond truncation curved
inwardly; mandibles black, mustache slender, fulvous: thorax with a ful-
vous pubescence above, posteriorly at sides and below; mesothorax closely
and finely punctate, metathorax a little more coarsely but closely punctate,
a central groove above and cavity on posterior side punctate throughout;
first segment abdomen more coarsely punctate than rest of body, slightly
pubescent, but slightly constricted at tip and as wide as second is at base,
remaining segments very finely and closely punctate, smooth and shining
band on posterior edge of each segment, last two segments immaculate,
tip obtuse, slightly emarginate, venter immaculate with a few hairs,
smooth. Legs black (except knees and outwards) with a few scattered
hairs; stigma and nervures fulvous; wings pale fulvous, first submarginal
cell longer than second and third combined, second submarginal receiv-
ing recurrent at end of first two-fifths, third submarginal receiving recur-
rent near base; submedian cell posterior wings longer than median on
externo-medial nervure by more than twice the difference between base
of third submarginal of anterior wings and point of receiving the recurrent.

9- Similar, length of body 16 mm. of anterior wings 9 mm., yellow
on face a little more extended, mandibles at base yellow, no yellow dot
below tegulae and black, shiny, impunctate bands on abdomen do not
appear until second or third segment.

and 9 specimens; taken Aug. 27, 1893, at Hartford,
Conn.; 9 taken Sept. 15, 1895, Hartford, Conn.

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THE FOURTH SPECIES OF PLENOCULUS.

By WILLIAM J. Fox.

Plenoculus parvus n. sp. 9- Anterior margin of clypeus subtruncate
in middle, not incised or dentate ; the flagellum strongly clavate ; first
joint longer than second, dorsulum and scutellum finely and closely
punctured ; middle segments microscopically striated, not impressed
above, posterior face more distinctly transversely striated, with a deep

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longitudinal central furrow; legs tolerably spinose, tarsal comb feebly
developed ; pygidial area with large, sparse punctures, not margined or
carinated laterally. Black ; mandibles except apex, legs except coxae
and extreme tip of abdomen, red ; scape beneath and tegulse yellowish ;
flagellum beneath testaceous ; entire insect clothed more or less with
silvery pubescence, especially the head in front and thorax on sides and
beneath ; apical margins of abdominal segments narrowly testaceous ;
wings hyaline, strongly iridescent, nervures testaceous. Length 3 mm.

Las Cruces, New Mexico (Cockerell, 5173). This is the
smallest of the species of Plenocidus, and is not closely related
to any of the others. It comes nearest to P. cockerellii, in con-
sequence of the non-emarginate or dentate clypeus.

The species of Plenoculus seem to fall into two well-marked
groups, viz., those having the clypeus strongly emarginate and
dentate (davisii, propinquus), and those in which the clypeus is
neither emarginate, nor dentate (cockerellii, parvus}.

Plenoculus propinq^l^ls varies in the coloration of abdomen.
The original types have the abdomen entirely black, whereas
recently received specimens from New Mexico and Colorado
(collected by Messrs. Cockerell and Gillette respectively) have it
suffused with reddish on basal two or three segments.

OBITUARY.

Dr. F. F. MORAWITZ, in St. Petersburg.

A. DAWSETT, Ornithologist and Entomologist, at Reading, England,
on Nov. 6, 1896.

Dr. F. WESTHOFF, Dipterist and Privatdocent of the Academy of
Miinster, on Nov. 12, 1896, aged 36 years.

We have just learned with much sorrow and regret of the death of the
well-known Coleopterist, Dr. JOHN HAMILTON, of Allegheny, Pa., who
died in Florida. Next month will give a portrait of Dr. HAMILTON and
some account of his valuable services to Entomology.

ERRATA.

Under the description of Pupa, line 5, vol. viii, p. 2, first word. The
word elytron should have beer, used instead of segment.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for February, was mailed Jan. 30, 1897.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. VIII.

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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. viii.

APRIL, 1897.

No. 4.

CONTENTS:

Dr. John Hamilton 73

Kellogg John L. Curtis 75

Patton Acorn insects 76

Jones Some Delaware Noctuidse 77

Editorial 79

Notes and News 82

Entomological Literature 83

Doings of Societies 90

Entomological Section 91

Curtis Theridium inconstans 91

Cockerel! The third Amer. Kermes... 94
Bergroth On two remarkable Hemip-

tera 95

DR. JOHN HAMILTON.

Dr. John Hamilton, the well-known physician and entomologist,
of Allegheny, Pa., died Friday, February i2th, at Pitts' Island,
Lake Worth, Fla. He had been in feeble health and went to
Florida early in January, where for a time his condition was im-
proved. He died after a short illness. Dr. Hamilton was born
in St. Clair, Columbiana County, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1827. He
graduated from Duquesne College in 1846 and at Jefferson Col-
lege, Canonsburgh, Pa., in 1847. He studied theology under
the late Prof. James R. Willson, D.D., completing a four years'
course in 1851. Later he studied medicine in the office of the
late Dr. Dickson, of this city, and in 1856 graduated from the
University Medical College, of New York. He first practiced
his profession in Greenfield, Mercer County, Pa., where he spent
six years, alter which he removed to Allegheny, where he prac-
ticed his profession until his health failed four years ago. Dr.
Hamilton was a cultivated physician and always a diligent stu-
dent. His early education in theology was continued in Bible
study and his religious life was nourished thereby. For many
years he was a member of the Allegheny Reformed Presbyterian
Church, of which he was a liberal supporter and to the \\clt.uc

74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

of which he was greatly devoted. Dr. Hamilton is survived by
Mrs Hamilton, a daughter of the late David Culbertson. He
was a brother of Dr. William R. Hamilton, George Hamilton
and Mrs. Rosanna Corlett, both of Ohio.

Dr. Hamilton was an industrious and painstaking student of
entomology and a careful collector and observer. He has made
many important contributions to the literature of Coleopterology,
to which order he was specially devoted. His papers were chiefly
contributed to the ' 'Canadian Entomologist, ' ' the "Transactions' '
of the American Entomological Society and ENTOMOLOGICAL
NE\vs;his last paper appearing in the latter journal in the February
number of the present year. His first published article was
"Remarks on Agonoderus comma, pallipes, rugicollis zndTachy-
cellus atrimedriis, " in "Can. Ent. ," xiv, 1882. There then fol-
lowed more than thirty papers in the same journal all showing
care and scientific acumen. Many of his papers were results of
collecting trips to Canada and Florida and excursions in the
vicinity of his home. As a sample of the extent of knowledge and
the field covered, the following titles may be mentioned: Entomol-
ogy at Longport, N. J., which would be a place suitable for an
Enkentric Hospital ; " Medico-Entomology ; " Stings by Polistcs
and Xylocopa ; Larva of Hypoderma in a child (NT. NEWS).
These show evidence of the observing physician as well as the
careful naturalist. But our departed colleague will be best re-
membered by his valuable papers published in the " Trans. Am.
Ent. Soc. ," the most important of which were "Catalogue of
the Coleoptera Common to North America, Northern Asia and
Europe, with the Distribution and Bibliography" (1889). Sec-
ond edition of the same (1894). " Catalogue of the Coleoptera
of Alaska, with the Synonymy and Distribution " (1894). "Cata-
logue of the Coleoptera of southwestern Pennsylvania with Notes
and Descriptions" (1895). " The Lamiinae of North America,"
in which he was associated with Chas. W. Leng as author. His
contributions to science will number upwards of seventy-five im-
portant papers. Dr. Hamilton will be sadly missed by the ento-
mological world. He left a fine collection of Coleoptera.*

* We are indebted to the Rev. D. I'.. \Villson, D.D., for the facts in regard to Dr. Hamil-
ton's lile.

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JOHN L CURTIS.

By VERNON L. KELLOGG, Stanford University, Cal.

Elsewhere in this number of the NEWS there is published,
under the name of John L. Curtis, a description of a new spider
and a brief abstract of some observations on the habits of this
spider. The name of Mr. Curtis is not familiar to entomologists.
I wish that some particulars of the patient, brave life of this
promising student of entomology might be known to those whose
attention may be arrested by the unknown name.

John Curtis, of Oakland, Cal., died at twenty-five. During
the twelve years preceding his death his waking hours were
passed in a wheeled chair. A paralytic affliction deprived him of
the use of the muscles of body and legs and arms, except those
of the wrists and hands. His consolation and delight were found
in the study of natural history. After caring for and watching a
solitary spider kept in confinement for several years, he began
with earnest zeal the careful study of spiders. His friends sent
them to him in such numbers, that at times, he had sixty or
seventy species under observation. Wheeled by a companion
along hedge-rows, he observed them in their natural homes and
collected them. After three years of delighting, absorbing study,
his eyes so failed him that he was limited, during two years, to
one-half hour a day to microscopic or minute examination. In
the last two years of his lite with health failing constantly, he de-
voted himself exclusively to the observation of the new spider
described elsewhere in the NEWS. He devised ingenious methods
of housing and feeding and watering his spiders. He made ex-
haustive observations of their every habit, and recorded all in
notes and drawings. Untrained, inert, helpless, tortured, his
patient, enthusiastic devotion to his studies have enabled him to
add something to our knowledge of living things and to find for
himselt happiness in the midst ol affliction.

PICTURES for the album of the American Entomological Society, liav*.-
been received from Professors C. P. Gillette, of Fort Collins, Col., \Vm.
Osburn, of Nashville, Term , and VVm. \\. Reinick, Phila.

THE last number of the "Transactions " of American Entomological
Society (No. 4, of vol. xxiiij, contains a " Revision of the Genera and
Species of Ceutorhynchini inhabiting North America, by \Vm. G. Diet/,
M.D." See notice on rover of this number.

76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

ACORN INSECTS.

By WM. HAMPTON PATTON.

The Acorn Weevil.

The following- species of Balaninus have been bred from acorns:
uniformis, nasicus, caryce, rectus, quercus, coccinece.

From hickory-nuts have been bred : carytz, -and doubtfully
other species.

From hazel-nuts has been bred : obtusus (the nasicus of Har-
rington.

From chinquepin and chestnut have been bred : rectus and
proboscideus (caryatrypes) . [ ' 'Insect Life, ' ' iv. ]

Blanchard's Table (1884) may be abbreviated as follows :

First funicle joint longer than second.
Female beak long as body or longer.

Appendix of claws broad, rectangular obtusus.

Appendix of claws acute, narrow uniformis.

Female beak shorter than body (two-thirds or three-fourths).
Femoral tooth with outer edge oblique.

Scales beneath oval nasicus.

Scales beneath hair-like caryae.

Femoral tooth with outer edge perpendicular.

Thorax of female longer than wide rectus.

Thorax of female not longer than wide quercus.

First funicle joint shorter than second caryatrypes.

From the table is omitted Balaninus coccinea; (North Am. Ent. ,
i, 1879, fig".). A specimen found at Hartford, Conn., has the
beak short and a quadrangular fulvous area on disc of thorax.
Other specimens ovipositing on Q. coccintz have the beak much
longer than body. Yet others are dark and with short beak.

Balaninus uniformis Lee. (body uniformly pale tawny, the
beak as long as the body) I have bred from acorns of Quercus
macrocarpa. The eggs, laid within the acorns the middle of
September are short-oval, smooth and of a whitish color. The
punctures are either through the cupule into the acorn or are
through the shell of the acorn above the cupule. The usual
crescent-shaped slit is made upon the kernel within the acorn
even when the punctures appear externally to be merely small
round dots. The result of the puncture is a decayed spot nearly
a quarter of an inch in diameter containing the egg. The larvae
leave the acorns in November and remain about three inches be-

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low ground until Spring before they become pupae. I have found
as many as six full-grown larvae in one acorn of Q. rubra. As
the beetles appear in May and June it is curious what becomes
of them during the Summer. I have taken the beetle at large
August 28th.

Pairing takes place upon the acorns in September, at the time
of oviposition. It is probable that we have but one species in
America, the characters given in the table above being insufficient
to separate species. The concave first ventral distinguishes the
males.

The Tineid Acorn Moth (Holcocera glandule/la Riley).

The lavender-tinted larva muturing in early August spins in
the partially-grown acorn of Q. coccinea while the acorn is yet
covered by the cupule, the opening it prepares being eaten
through both cupule and shell ; one found August loth had
emerged through an opening close to the stem. A later brood
of the same lavender-tinted larva occurs in acorns of Q. coccinea
and Q. rubra in December, having taken the place of Balaninus
and closed the beetle's exit holes with silk. The figure in Fifth
Report U. S. Ent. Comm., may represent this brood. This
Gelechia (Lavcrna, Blastobasis or Holcocera, as it has been vari-
ously called) is double brooded, the Autumn brood being inqui-
linous as described by Prof. Riley and Miss Murtfeldt, the
Summer brood being independent. The larva has been described
as pinkish, yellowish or grayish white. It is actually of a pale
lavender tint.

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SOME DELAWARE NOCTUID/E.

(See PI. V.)

By FRANK M. JONES.

The insects figured on the accompanying plate were not chosen
for illustration, because they belonged to particularly interesting
species ; but because they presented marked contrasts in color
and ornamentation, hence, making a more thorough test of this
method of illustration. A pen-drawing was made of the insects-
scale, one and a half-inches to the inch ; and, in making the
half-tone plate, a two hundred mesh to the inch screen was used.

78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

and the figures reduced to natural size. The following notes
may be of interest :

Mamestra nimbosa. Rare, at sugar.

Cerma cora. May and June in Delaware ; August, Hamlet,
N. C., at sugar.

Zale horrida. Common at sugar, May, June, July and August,
in Delaware ; also at Hamlet, N. C. , in August.

Cirrcedia pampina. September, at sugar.

Mamestra adjuncta. Bred. Larva entered ground June 25th ;
moth emerged August 5th.

Melipolis limbolaris. Apparently rare here.

Moma fallax. Sugar and electric light. June and July in
Delaware, and at Hamlet, N. C.. in August.

Chamyris cerintha. Not uncommon, May and June.

Poaphila quadrifilaris. Locally common, Delaware and
Maryland, in May, June and July.

Agnomonia anilis. Milledgeville, Ga., August 3d and 4th.
This insect strikingly resembles the preceding species, not only
in appearance (both are velvety brown, band with white), but
also in habits of flight ; both species are usually rather difficult
to approach, flying readily by day, with a quick, dodging flight.

A GREEK fable says that one day two players on the cithara, Eunoinus
and Ariston, making a trial of their skill, one of the cords of Eunomus's
instrument breaking, a cicada flew down and perched upon it and replaced
the sound with such success that it carried off the palm of victory. It
appears that the boys of Provence, according to Perrin, captured the
cicada by holding behind the singing insect a long reed and whistling
without interruption an air. Gradually the cicada descends, walks along
the reed, and finally reaches the hand of the whistler, who has only to
close his fingers to capture the insect. This story was called out by a
recent communication by Professor Lataste, of Santiago, Chile, to the
Entomological Society of France, who describes the way in which tin-
Chilean boys capture cicadas. They clap their hands on a cord or rhythm
more or less like that of the song of the cicada, when it alights on the
boy's back, on his hat, and soon perches on his hand. Dr. Horrath tried
the experiment himself on the shores of the Adriatic on two large cicadas.
Rapidly clapping his hands at the foot of an olive tree in which a cicada
was singing, the insect, usually timid and shy, did not interrupt its song,
but went on with it, and soon leaving its perch it descended down the
trunk near the observer, and seemed so hypnotized by the clapping, that
he could almost touch it without its flying away. This shows that it is by
the sense of hearing that it notices the clappings of the hands.

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GOVERNMENT ENTOMOLOGY.

Under this title the New York Sim, of March n, 1897, has
the following editorial :

One of the latest issues of the Government Printing House, the most
industrious publishing shop in the world, comes from the Division of En-
tomology of the Department of Agriculture, and describes "Some Mis-
cellaneous Results of the Work of the Division of Entomology." These
results, of singular importance to agriculture, include the larva? cells of a
species of Megachile or leaf-cutter bee, found in "a disused bed between
the sheet and quilt." All entomologists and farmers will rejoice to learn
that "an attempt will be made to rear the adult." An Age/ems film'niceus,
or red winged starling, has been seen, in some place not mentioned,
"busily engaged in eating the larvae of the cottonwood leaf ininero.'" It
is gratifying to know that the red winged starling has got work and is doing
it as heartily as if he were a Government entomologist. The Oreodcra
g/atica, or longicorn beetle, has been boring orange trees in Jamaica. Tlu-
Siloch't'pa paiiicea, more poetically known as the drug store beetle, is in
ihe quartermaster's depot at San Francisco, " damaging boots by boring
into the leather near the straps, where an excess of paste was used."
Bisulphide of carbon is prescribed for the suffering boot. The prohibition-
ists will be glad to learn Xyleborus pnlx-M ,'i/s and .\/<ia>ihnii ina/i are
lx iring into wine casks and causing leakage in Pomona, Fla., and Nickajack,
Ga., respectively. A red mite, beautifully named angelita, little angel, but
said to be a member of the Trointndinni nut^nicnin, is on view in Arizona.
A specimen of Bittacus pi/ocornis has attracted much attention in Brook-
vine, Ind., " on account of their efficiency in catching flies. August 26,

80 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

about twenty of them were observed in the office of the principal hotel in
Brookville, catching and killing flies." The horn-fly made its first appear-
ance in Hancock County, 111., about May 2, 1895. For the especial benefit
of farmers this description of the female of Coccophagus fletcheri is here
set down in its original simplicity. [Then follows the purely technical
description ]

This is- the kind of stuff with which the fly catchers of the Division of
Entomology catch flies. It must be added that Myzus mahaleb has the
misforture to have "frontal tubercles more or less distinctly gibbous,
though never prolonged and porrected, as in Ph. hnmuli.' 1 '' Well, the
reports of the Department of Agriculture will not cease to be amply pro-
longed and porrected.

We believe that none who read this will be blind to the bril-
liancy of this solar display. But this editorial is not the only im-
portant and highly entertaining piece of information which this
same issue of the Sun for March nth contains. On page 10 we
read the advertisement of a plumber who " wants situation as
foreman, or take chaige of shop ; well up in estimating and lay-
ing out work." Our limited experience with plumbers has led
us to the belief that for estimating and laying out work they
have no equals, but the difficulty always is to get them to com-
plete work they have once laid out. We are consequently pained
to find that the Sun permits the use of its beams to a plumber
who promises to do nothing more than to " estimate and lay out
work." Of Rockland Cemetery-on-the-Hudson, we have the
pithy statement (page 7): "A rare location. Easily reached,"
whether by laudanum, or some still more speedy means, we are
not informed. The "rareness" of the location doubtless refers
to the circumstance that many reach it but once and stay there.
In a criticism (page 3) of a presentation of Wagner's "Flying
Dutchman," we are told of Madame Gadski, who took the part
of Senta, that " vocally her attempt was in a large degree success-
ful, which can hardly be deponed of any of the other members
of the company who took part last evening." For the sake of
the New Yorkers we hope that when the " Flying Dutchman '
is again produced, the Sun will have something more favorable
to " depone."

It would be manifestly unfair to quote these plumbing and
cemetery advertisements and opera criticism as giving a full and
accurate idea of the contents of the Sun for March 11, 1897.
But it is just such a method which the Sun has adopted, in its

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 8l

editorial above quoted, to give a false idea of the contents of the
Government publication on Entomology under review, and to
create a prejudice against, and a contempt for, such publications
among those who will not see them in the original. It the reader
will refer to the list of Entomological Literature given in this
number of the NEWS, he will rind (No. 37) a summary of the
contents of this bulletin over which the Sun makes merry. He
will observe that the last item in that summary is " Notes from
Correspondence." These Notes occupy three-and-a-half pages
and are printed in smaller type than the rest of the bulletin. It
is expressly stated in the preface to the bulletin that these Notes
" may seem more or less insignificant themselves, are read with
interest and profit by very many persons of different occupations,
and it has frequently happened that the first record of a fact of
much value has been made in this way." Yet it is from these
"Notes" that all the Sun's quotations are taken, with the excep-
tion of the description of Coccophagus fletcherii and the reference
to Myzus. Anyone reading the Sun's editorial would certainly
form the opinion that the Sun' s quotations represented the chief
contents of the Bulletin.

Again, the Sun s reference to " all entomologists and farmers ' :
would lead one to suppose that this bulletin was chiefly intended
for the use of these two classes. Yet the preface to the bulletin
expressly declares that it is one of a series for the publication of
information of great value to economic and systematic entomolo-
gists and of very considerable, general interest, as well as of
much practical importance, which is constantly accumulating in
the Division. The Sun, does not notice this plain statement of
the purpose of the bulletin, nor inform its readers that separate
farmers' bulletin are issued, distinctly marked as such (see No.
38 in the Ent. Literature in this NEWS). The Sun does not
raise the question whether a portion of the national funds should
or should not be devoted to entomological research and publica-
tion. It conveniently ignores the valuable papers which make
up 75 of the 87 pages of the object of its attack, ignores those
recent bulletins of the Division of Entomology on Household
Insects and on Insects affecting Domestic Animals, holds up to
ridicule the word "porrected," which we believe is infrequently
used even by entomologists, and yet "depones" something of
an operatic troupe, and by a display of cheap wit seeks to create
an ignorant prejudice which may destroy one of the most useful
scientific bureaus of the Government. Unfortunately, the SUM'S
attack will be read more widely than the defenses which may In-
made against it.

The Suns editorial is unfair and misleading. That it is so will
not greatly surprise even those whose acquaintance with that
unhappily named jz^zwpaper is but slight.

82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

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ON examining the mass of beetles sent us by Mr. C. V. Piper, which
were collected on the summit of Moscow Mountain, Idaho, and sembling
habit noted in the March number of the NEWS under the name of Coc-
diit'lla transversogutta, we find them all to be Hippodamia lecontei. ED.

INSECT LIFE IN ARIZONA. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mason, of this city, are
entertaining this week two distinguished naturalists, who have made ex-
tensive researches in the Western field. The guests are David Bruce,
the world's greatest entomologist, and Dr. Richard E. Kunze, a physician
of New York city, who has just completed a campaign of five and a half
months among the insects of Arizona, and is so greatly charmed with
Colorado that he has decided to take up his residence in this State. Dr.
Kunze talked in a most entertaining manner last evening of his trip
through Arizona, and the peculiarities of insect life in the far Southwest.

'"Arizona," said he, in the course of his remarks, "is the El Dorado of
the entomologists. The variety of insect life in Arizona has for years
made the region a favorite field for students and collectors, but every
year new species are found, and new species will be found for years to
come." Denver News

IT WAS at the breakfast table and the subject took an entomological
turn. "Did you see that advertisement in the Transcript about the chair?
asked Mater. "No," said Pater; "what was it?" "Why, there was
someone offering a couple of antique chairs, and mentioned, as a special
inducement, that one of them contained a borer." "That must have
been satirical," said Pater ; "No. it was put in in good faith," Mater re-
plied, and rising from the table, found the notice in question and read as
fol'ows :

TWO ANTIQUE CHAIRS

FOR SALE. Heirlooms in vogue in 1776.
One contains wood-borer ; gnawing plainly
heard. Address W. M. P., Boston Trans..

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Sj

"It must be a remarkably antique borer," said Pater. "It will do very
well," remarked Pater, "but I think the old bedbug story will cap it.' 1
"What was that?" asked ego, "A man had an old skillet, which had
seen much hard use for two generations. One day he broke it, and a
bedbug fell out and started at once for upstairs," "Cast in?" exclaimed
Homo; "Exactly." " I wonder," mused Mater, " if that man was any
relation to the one at the hotel ? " " What about him ? " " One day lie
put up at an old hotel, and on coming down-stairs for the first time, he
found "one" on the register endeavoring to make out the number of his
room." "I guess so," remarked Omnes.

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Entomological Literature.

Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North
and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con-
taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy of
insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded.

1. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIKTY, x.xiii,
4, October-December, 1896. Philadelphia. Received Feb. 16, 1897 .-
Revision of the genera and species of Ceutoihynchini inhabiting North
America, W. G. Dietz, 3 pis. List of members of the American Ento-
mological Society.

2. MONITORE ZOOLOGICO ITALIANO, viii, I. Florence, January, 1897.-
A. Berlese's ' Ricerche sugli organi e sulla funzione della cligestione negli
Acari,' S. Carazzi. E. Verson's 'La borsa copulatrice nei Lepidotteri,' id.

3. COMPTES RKNDUS. L'Ar . \DKMIK IJFS SCIKNCKS. Paris, Jan. 25,
1897. On the biology of the brilliant /fy/csiniis \_Dcndroclonns inicaiis'],
A. Menegaux and J. Cochon. On the pseudo larval copulation of some
plumicolous Sarcoptidae, S. [ourdain. Phenomena of autotomy observed
in the nymphs of Monandropterti inuncans Serv. and of Rhaphiderus

scabrosus Serv., E. Bordage. February 15. New observations on the

Sesamias, lepidoptera injurious to maize, sugar-cane, sorghum, etc. ; the

84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

autumno-hibernal generations of Sesamia monogrioides Lefevre, J. K.
d'Herculais. Morphology of the appendages of the anterior extremity of
the mid-gut of Orthoptera, L. Bordas. Phenomena of autotomy in the
Phasmidae of the genera Monandroptera and Rhaphiderns, E. Bordage.

4. LA FEUILLE DES JEUNES NATURALISTES. Paris, February, 1897.
Phytogeny of the Carabi, archetype of Carabus, G. de Lapouge.

5. NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE RUNDSCHAU. Braunschweig, Feb. 6,
1897. The light of the St. John beetle [Johanniskafer], H. Muraoka.
March 6, 1897. R. Heymons on the embryonic development of the Der-
maptera and Orthoptera with special respect to the formation of the germ-
layers, K.

6. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
at the Forty-fourth annual meeting held at Montreal, Canada, August,
1896. Baltimore, 1896. Poisonous honey, L. F. Kebler.

7. BULL. DE LA SOCIETE NATIONALS L'ACCLIMATATION DE FRANCE.

Paris, October, 1896. Applied entomology in Europe (concl.), Dr. P.
Marchal.

8. 24 JAHRESHERICHT DES WESTFAELISCHEN PROVINZIAL-VEREINS
FUR WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST, 1895-96. Miinster, 1896. Honey dew,
H. Reeker. Bleeding of Coccinellidae, id.

9. LE NATURALISTE. Paris, Feb. i, 1896. Eumenes pomiformis F.

and its victims, P. Chretien. February 15. A pseudoneuropterous

larva from Chili having the appearance of a Crustacean, F. Lataste.

10. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE L'OUEST
DE LA FRANCE, vi, 3. Nantes, Sept. 30, 1896, Note on Echinomyiafera
L., copulation, genital apparatus, reproduction, habits, E. Marchand, i pi.

11. THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. Melbourne, December, 1896. A
catalogue of Victorian Heterocera, pt. xxii, O. B. Lower.

12. VERHANDLUNGEN DES NATURHISTORISCHEN VEREINS DER PREUS-
-SICHEN RHEINLANDE, WESTFALENS UND DES REG.-BEZIRKS OSNABRUCK,
Hi, 2. Bonn, 1895. Received Feb. 20, 1897. A contribution to the
knowledge of the Glomeridce, C. Verhoeff, i pi.

13. BULLETIN SCIENTIFIQUE DE LA FRANCE ET DE LA BELGIQUE, xxix,
2. Paris, Jan. 27, 1897.- Researches on the internal complementary or-
gans of the genital apparatus of Orthoptera, A. Fenard, 5 pis.

14 THK TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,

1896, pnri. v. Jan. 30, 1897. President's address. The utility of specific
chatacters and physiological correction, Prof. R. Meldola.

15. THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. London,
.February, 1897. A contribution to the biology of the social wasps of
Brazil, H. von Ihering (transl. from Zool. Anz. No. 516). Contributions

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from the New Mexico Biological Station, No. iv. Diptera from the Sac-
ramento and White Mountains in southern New Mexico, i, C. H. T.
Townsend. The physiological importance of the air-spaces in flying ani-
mals, R. von Lendenfeld (transl. from Biol. Centrbl. Nov. i, 1896).

16. RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, iii, i. Sydney, Jan. 7,
1897. Additional localities for Peripatus leuckartii Siing., the late F. A.
A. Skuse.

17. NATURAL SCIENCE. London, February, 1897 Are the Arthro-
poda a natural group?, Capt. F. W. Hutton, H. M. Bernard, G. H.
Carpenter, C. Claus, H. J. Hansen, A. von Jaworowski, J. S. Kingley,
M. Laurie, R. I. Pocock, T. R. R. Stebbing. The scientific arrangement
of insect collections.

18. EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, viii, 5. U. S. Dep't of Agriculture,
Washington, 1897. Summaries of recent papers on economic entomology.

19. ARCHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, Ixii, i, 2. Berlin, November,'
1896. On the abdomen of the Scolytidae, a contribution to the compara-
tive morphology of the hind body of the Coleoptera, Dr. C. Yerhoeff,
figs., 2 pis.

20. BULLETIN 124. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station.
Ithaca, N. Y. January, 1897. The pistol-case bearer in western New
York, M. V. Slingerland, figs., i pi. 126. February, 1897. The cur-
rant-stem girdler and the raspberry-cane maggot, M. V. Slingerland, figs.

21. LE NATURALISTE CANADIEN. Chicoutimi, Quebec, January, 1897.
Coleopterological fauna of Manitoba (cont.), G. Chagnon.

22. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND ENTO-
MOLOGY, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Reprint
from Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., iii. Des Moines, 1896. A study of the genus
Clastoptera, E. C. Ball, 4 pis. Observations on the Cicadidae of Iowa, H.
Osborn. i pi. Biologic notes on certain Iowa insects, H. Osborn and C.
W. Mally, figs. Contributions to a knowledge of the Thripsida; of Iowa,
A. M. Beach. Note on a new species of Phlceothrips, with description,
H. Osborn.

23. ARCHIV FUR MIKROSCOPISCHE ANATOMIE, xlviii, 4. Bonn, Jan.
28, 1897. On the structure of the nuclei in the spinning glands of cater-
pillars, Dr. F. Meves, i pi.

24. BULLETIN DE L'ACADEMIE DKS SCIENCES, DES LETTRF.S ET DLS
BEAUX ARTS DE BELGIQUE (3) xxxiii, i. Brussels, 1897. How flowers
attract insects experimental researches, part 3, F. Plateau.

25. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNKAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH
WALES (2) x, 4. Sydney, April 29, 1896. Notes on Cicadas, W. \Y.
Froggatt. 1896, i. July 16, 1896. The entomology of the grass trees
(Xanthorrhcea}, W. W. Froggatt, i pi. Observations on Peripatus, T.

'86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

Steel. Supplement to this last part Catalogue of the described Coleop-
tera of Australia, supplement part ii, G. Masters. All received Feb. 25,
1897.

26. LE COCCINIGLIE ITALIANE VIVENTI SUGLI AGRUMI. Parte iii. 1
Diaspiti. Dr. Antonio Berlese. Firenze, 1896. From Rivista di
Patologia Vegetale iv, pp. 203-477. 200 text figs., 12 pis.

27. TRANSACTIONS OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE for 1896, i,
5. Austin, 1897. The poison of centipedes (Scolopendra nwrsitans),
\\ . W. Norman.

28. DIE BIENEN EUROPA'S (Apidae Europaeae) nach ihren Gattungen,
Arten und Varietaeten auf vergleichend morphologisch-biologischer
Grundlage bearbeitet von Hemrich Friese. Theil III Solitare Apiden.
Genus Podalirins. Berlin, R. Friedlaender and Sohn 1897. Pp. vi, 316.
61 text figs.

29. THE NEW YORK MEDICAL JOURNAL. March 6, 1897. The mos-
quito as a vehicle of malaria.

30. SVSTEMATISCHE PHYLOGENIE DER WIRBELLOSEN THIERE (Inverte-
brata). Von Ernst Haeckel (Jena). Zweiter Theil des Entwurfs einer
systematischen Phylogenie. Berlin, 1896. Yer lag von Georg Reimer.
Svo. pp. xviii, 720. Phylogeny of Tracheata, pp. 662-712.

31. ENTOMOLOGISKEMEDDELKLSER. Copenhagen, 1896. [On Danish
species of Nematus, Lophyrus and Lyda~\, H. Borries.

-t.2 BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part cxxxii. London, Deceni-

^J

ber, 1896. Arachnida-Araneidea, pp. 209-224, pi. xxii, O. P. Cambridge.
Coleoptera, ii, i, pi. xv, D. Sharp ; iii, i, pi. xxv, G. C. Champion. Hy-
menoptera, ii, pp. 393-400, P. Cameron. Lepidoptera Heterocera, ii, pp.
321-336, pi. Ixviii, H. Druce. Diptera, ii, pp. 321-344, pi. viii, F. M. Van
der Wulp. Orthoptera, pp. 201-216, pi. xi, H. de Saussure.

33. THE ZOOLOGIST. London, Feb. 15, 1897. Museum Reports I.
Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Brussels, G. Severin, rigs.
A proposed explanation as to the appearance of light and dark colored
butterflies during the day. ED. [W. L. Distant].

34. JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, xiii, i.
J anuary , 1 897. Structure of the musical rasps of tree crickets ( ( Decant/ins),
Rev. J. L. Zabriskie.

35. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., Match 1897. The
blueberry span-worm (Diastictis inceptaria Walk.) and the bumble flower-
beetle (Euphoria inda Linn.) M. Y. Slingerland, i pi. Descriptions of
some new genera and species of Canadian Proctotrypidre, \Y. H. Ash
mead. A new water bug from Canada, id. Mamestra circinncim fa
Smith, J. B. Smith. Monodontomerus'vn. Appalachia, \Y. H. Patton. The
Coleoptera of Canada xxi. Chrysomelidae (concl.), H. F. \Yickham,

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figs. On the Mexican bees of the genus Augoch/ora, C. Robertson.
New forms of Osmia from New Mexico, T. I). Cockerell. Notes on
Eupoeya and the Megalopygidae, H. G. Dyar. Further notes on Ango-
.chlora, T. I). A. Cockerel!. A new Pyralid, Mary E. Murtfeldt.

36. PSYCH K. Cambridge, Mass., March, 1897. Notes on New Eng-
land Acrididae iii. Oedipodince ii, A. P. Morse, i pi. Diptera from the
head waters of the Gila River i, C. H. T. Townsend. A southern race
of Datana perspicua Gr. and Rob. (var. mesillte),^. D. A. Cockerell.
Life-history of Syntomeda minima Gr., H. G. Dyar. [Orthoptera on Mt.
Desert Is.], S. H. Scudder. [Orthoptera of Bermuda], id.

37. BULLETIN No. 7. New Series. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Divi-
sion of Entomology. Washington. 1897. Some miscellaneous results
of the work of the Division of Entomology. Prepared under the direc-
tion of L. O. Howard, Entomologist. The Ambrosia beetles of the
United States, H. G. Hubbard, figs. Grasshopper reports for ,1895 and
1896, L. Bruner. Some insects affecting the hop-plant, L. O. Howard,
figs. The plum plant louse (Myzus mahaleb Fonsc.), T. Pergande. The
rose-leaf beetle (Nodonota puucticollis Say), F. H. Chittenden, fig. A
case of excessive parasitism, L. O. Howard. The walnut span-worm
(Boarmia plumigeraria Hulst), D. W. Coquillett, figs. Insect injury to
chestnut and pine trees in Virginia and neighboring states, F. H. Chitten-
den, figs. General notes. Notes from correspondence.

38. FARMERS' BULLETIN No. 47. U. S. Dep't of Agriculture. Wash-
ington, January, 1897. Insects affecting the cotton plant. By L. O. How-
ard, Ph.D., Entomologist. Reprinted, with revision by the author, from
Bulletin 33, Office of Experiment Stations. Figs.

39. CIRCULAR No. 18. Second Series (revision of No. 14). U. S.
Dep't of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Washington. Feb. 4,
1897. The Mexican cotton-boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boh.), L.
O. Howard, figs.

40. LE NATURALISTE CANADIEN. Chicoutimi, Quebec, February,
1897. New names of Hymenoptera, Abbe Huard. Coleopterological
fauna of Manitoba (cont.), G. Chagnon.

41. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, Feb. 15. 1897. Beetles
that destroy forests (the Scolytidre), C. Morley.

42. ANNALES DE I.A SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIOUK DE BELGIOUE, xli, j.
Brussels, Feb. 20, 1897. Descriptions of new Arachnids, E. Simon.
South American Heterocera, P. Dognin.

43. TERMESZETRAJ/.I FU/KTEK, x.\, 1-2. Budapest, Feb. i, 1897.-
Monograph of the bee genus I\uiitr<;iis Pan/.. (Palaearctic species), H.
Friese. The Ichneumonid genus I h-milclcs, with a review of the European
^p.-cies. Dr. O. Schmiecleknecht. On the feeding of / 'es/>a germanica
Fabr., |. Pungur. [These three papers are in German].

88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April,

44. SOCIETAS ENTOMOLOGICA. Zurich-Hottingen, Feb. 15, 1897.

Raising beetles in a wire gauze cage, A. Jahn. March i. A sound

producing apparatus in Parnassius apollo C. Frings.

45. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, March, 1897. The probable chem-
ical and physical nature of the pigments of Lepidoptera, excerpt from A.
G. Mayer's "The development of the wing-scales and their pigment in
butterflies and moths" (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zuol , xxix, 5, 1896). The
probable causes of ihe decadence of British Rhopalocera, W. Harcourt-
Bath. A catalogue of the Lepkloptera of Ireland (cont.), W. F. de V.
Kane.

46. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, March
1897. On the use of the term tegula in Diptera, D. Sharp. Notes on
Oligotoma insularis McLach. (Embiidae), and its immature conditions,
R. C. L. Perkins. Coleoptera in the nests of Aculeate Hymenoptera, \Y.
H. Tuck. Notes on Coccidae from the Royal Gardens, Kew, E. E. Green.

47. ENTOMOLOGISK TIDSKRIFT, xvii, 1-4. Stockholm, 1896. Report
of the Royal Agricultural Entomologist, for 1895, S. Lampa. The hair-
forming skin glands ol caterpillars, E. Holmgren, i pi. (in German).
Physapod notes, F. Trybom, figs. Collembola on snow and ice, H.
Schott, i pi. Myrmecol >gical notes, G. Adlerz. Forest insects 1886-1895,
J Meves. Many short notes on economic entomology, all in Swedish.

48. SCIENCE GOSSIP. London February, 1897. [Acarine] Parasite
of tortoise, S. Howarth, fig. Scale insects. Coccidae associated with
ants, T. D. A. Cockerell.

49. MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE ROYALE DES SCIENCKS DE LIEGE (2)
xix. Brussels, January, 1897. New Elateridae, vi, Dr. E. Candeze.

50. OTTAWA NATURALIST, January, 1897. Ottawa spiders and mites,
W. H. Harrington.

51. THE OBSERVER. Portland, Conn., July, 1896. Anatomy of the
May beetle, M. A. Willcox, figs. Directions for the practical study of the
grasshopper, id. The honey-bee and her wax, Fr. Ditnelt.

52. THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. London, Feb. 27, 1897. To clear
mealy-bug from grape-vines, D. J. H.

53. ENTOMOLOGISCHE NACHRICHTEN, xxiii, 4. Berlin, February, 1897.
[Corrections of] Dr. G. Schoch's Catalogus systematicus Cttonidarum
et Trichiidarum ad hue cognitarum. Dr. K. M. Helltr. On the Xyelmi,
tribe of the Tenthridinidae, F. \V. Konovv.

54. SPECIES DES HYMENOPTEKES D'EUROPE ET D'ALGERIE. Fonde
par Edmond Andre et continue :-ous la direction scientirique de Ernest
Andre". 576 fascicule. Paris, Yve. Dubosclard, Jan. i, 1^97. Pp. 1-64,
pis. i-iii, of Tome vii, Cynipidae, Abb J. J. Kieffer.

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INDEX TO THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

The number after each author's name in this index refers to the journal, as numbered
in the preceding list, in which that author's paper is published ; * denotes that the paper
in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

THE GENERAL SUBJECT.

Bordage 3, Jourdain 3, Meldola 14, von Lendenfeld 15, Various authors
17, Plateau 24, Froggatt 25, Haeckel 30, Severin 33, Howard 37.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Kebler 6, Marchal 7, Various authors 18, 37, Slingerland 20 (two), 35,
Editorial 29, d'Herculais 3, Howard 38, 39, Morley 41, Lampa 47, Meves
47, D. J. H. 52.

PROTRACHEATA AND MYRIAPODA.
Verhoeffi2, Skuse 16, Steel 25, Norman 27.

ARACHNIDA.

Berlese 2, Jourdain 3, Cambridge 32*, Simon 42*, Howarth 48, Harring-
ton 50.

COLLEMBOLA.
Schott 47.

ORTHOPTERA.

K 5, Fenard 13, de Saussure 32*, Bordas 3 (two), Bordage 3, Zabriskie
34, Morse 36, Scudder 36 (two), Bruner 37, Willcox 51.

NEUROPTERA.
Lataste 9, Fenard 13, Perkins 46.

HEMIPTERA.

Reeker 8, Ball 22, Osborn 22* (two), Osborn & Mally 22, Beach 22*,
Froggatt 25, Berlese 26, Ashmead 35*, Pergande 37, Green 46, Trybom
47, Cockerell 48*.

COLEOPTERA.

Uietz i*, Menegaux and Cochon 3, Lapouge 4, Muraoka 5, Reeker 8,
Verhoeff 19, Chagnon 21, 40, Masters 25, Sharp 32, Champion 32, Slinger-
land 35, Wickham 35, Hubbard 37, Chittenden 37 (two), Howard 39, Mor-
lt-y 41, Jahn 44, Tuck 46, Candeze 49*, Willcox 51, Heller 53.

DIPTERA.

Marchand 10, Townsend 15-', Editorial 29, van der \Yulp 32*, Town-
send 36*, Sharp 46.

4*

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LEPIDOPTERA.

Verson 2, Lower u, Slingerland 20, 35, Meves 23, Druce 32*, d'Her-
culais 3, Distant 33, Smith 35, Dyar 35, 36, Murtfeldt 35*, Cockerell 36*,
Howard 37, Coquillett 37, Dognin 42, Frings 44, Mayer 45, Bath 45, Kane
45, Holmgren 47.

HYMENOPTERA.

Kebler 6, Chretien 9, von Ihering 15, Friese 28, 43, Borries 31, Cameron
32*, Ashmead 35*, Patton 35, Robertson 35, Cockerell 35* (two), Howard
37*, Huard 40, Schmiedeknecht 43, Pungur 43, Tuck 46, Adlerz 47, Die-
nelt 51, Konow 53, Kieffer 54.

Doings of Societies.

PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 1897.

A stated meeting' of the Feldman Collecting Social was held
on March 9, 1897, at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1509
S. 1 3th Street. Members present : Messrs. Boerner, E. Wenzel,
H. Wenzel, Seiss, A. Hoyer, Johnson and Kemp. Honorary
members : Drs. H. Skinner and J. B. Smith. Visitors : Messrs.
E. and S. Klages. Vice-President, Dr. Castle, in the chair.

A letter from Dr. Horn acknowledging the Social's expres-
sion of regret in regard to his present illness was read.

Mr. Edw. Klages exhibited specimens of wood bored by
Scolytns muticus. The species only attacks dead wood as far as
the speaker was aware ; and this seems to be indicated by the
fact that specimens of the beetle collected had bred twice in the
same wood. Several species of Longicornia had also emerged
from the same wood. Further discussed by Messrs. Smith, H.
Wenzel and E. Klages, the latter stating that he had seen a
parasitic wasp attacking the mature Scolytus and in one in-
stance the ovipositor of the wasp had become fastened in the
beetle.

Prof. Smith remarked on the recent investigations of Mr. Hub-
bard in the Southwest. He enumerated some of the rarities ob-
tained by that gentleman, which included specimens of the almost
unique Dinopate ivrightii. Mr. Hubbard had found this species
to oviposit in the live palm tree and not in dead wood as had
been supposed.

Mr. H. Wenzel pointed out some of the characteristics of Dino-
pate wrightii and exhibited a box of some allied Bostrychidae.

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Mr. Seiss mentioned having received a large spider of the
family Lycosidse, from Brazil, which had been observed by the
collector to capture a small fish.

Dr. Skinner referred to recent literature on the transmission
of disease by insects. The common house fly and the mosquito
were transmitters of disease, malaria in particular being trans-
mitted by the mosquito.

Prof. Smith added that the mosquito becomes infested in its
larval stage with the malarial germ. It is well known that pro-
tection against mosquitoes is a safeguard against malaria in trop-
ical countries. Further discussed by Drs. Skinner and Smith.

The habits of the common flea were discussed by Messrs.
Smith, Johnson, Boerner and Skinner. Mr. H. Wenzel asked
regarding the flea infesting field-mice. Some mice nests collected
by him contained hundred of fleas which had escaped in his
house, but they did not prove troublesome as is the case with the
common flea.

Prof. Smith stated that they represented another species with
different habits for which reasons they did not attack man.

Mr. Wenzel exhibited some Californian Coccinellidae recently
received. All the introduced species which had established them-
selves in the country were represented in the lot.

No further business being presented the Social adjourned to
the annex at 10.30 P.M.

WILLIAM J. Fox, Secretary, pro tcm.

Tne Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

THERIDIUM INCONSTANS : A new spider.
By JOHN L. CURTIS.

[The following description of a new spider from the Pacific
coast I have extracted from the notes made by the late Mr. John
Curtis, of Oakland, Cal., whose enthusiasm and persistent
enabled him, despite fearful physical misfortune and suffering, to

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make an elaborate series of observations on the life-history of this
new spider. I have added to the description, which is in Mr.
Curtis' s words, a brief abstract of a few of the interesting obser-
vations included in the mass of notes now in my hands. Vernon
L. Kellogg, Stanford University, California.]

Theridium inconstans n. sp. $. Upper cephalo-thorax polished yellow
or nearly white, with central band of emerald or olive-green on side rims
of the same. The band is usually divided longitudinally into four parts
forward of the thoracic denture and three parts back of the same. Under
side like upper, with a tinge of green from the tipper band. Abdomen
egg-shaped, pointed at apex, polished and slightly pubescent. Upper
back-ground color yellow, greenish yellow or white (translucent) with a
central five-scalloped, opaque, granular band of white or yellow, and white
side bands. At the fore end of the central band is a forward-pointing
black "V," while between the central and side bands are three or four
oblique rows of three dots each, set across the space of clear back-ground.
Between each of these rows, called for convenience "regular," is a shorter
parallel row of three dots called an "inter" row. There may be six or
seven rows with corresponding inters, but the last rows do not have the
full number of dots. The first three regular rows commonly have granular
streaks with them called "bridges," spanning from the central to the side
band. Abdomen underneath yellowish white and translucent, especially
when seen sidewise, with a black epigynum and an oblique streak of pig-
ment on each side near the middle of the length. Legs yellowish or
nearly white, translucent and slightly hairy, generally with from one to
seven dark bands ; these bands, however, may be entirely absent. In
some specimens there is a small black dot in the center of the second
scallop of the central band, and others have irregular black dots and
markings along this band.

<3\ The male is like the female, but has a more slender abdomen, and
much longer legs proportionally. In addition to the genital spot he has
a pair of black spots on the under side of the posterior abdomen. These
occur sometimes on females and are often lacking on the males, but more
commonly belong to the latter. The cephalo-thoracic bands and rims are
usually olive-brown; ihe trophi are always red or red-brown, and the legs
have a brownish tinge with the same hairs and bands.

Hab. Oakland, Alameda County, and Olema, Mendocino
County, California. It is probably a Pacific coast species.

The name inconstans was chosen by Mr. Curtis because of the
numerous variations in coloration exhibited by individuals of the
species. These variations are definite and constant, so that there
are included in the species eight distinct varieties besides the spe-
cies type. These varieties breed true to their characters, and

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yet are all capable of crossing. The facts were determined by
Mr. Curtis by a series of experiments in cross mating and rearing
of young continued through two years.

This species is most commonly found in groves under the foliage
of broad-leaved plants and shrubs, usually choosing for its domi-
ciles stiff leaves with entire margins, such as those of the live-oak,
silver poplar, young cottonwood , holly and blackberry. But little
web is made. A leaf or two are bent and tied together by two
or three cables or a network of interlaced lines, the latter fulfilling
the purpose of a stay, an entangling obstruction against intruders
from below, and a trap for capturing prey.

Regarding the effect of the poison of the spiders Mr. Curtis
records observations of twenty-six instances. The longest time
from biting to death was in the case of a fly, bitten on the leg,
which lived two hours and fifteen minutes The shortest time
was four minutes. The average time of twenty-five instances
(the very long one already referred to is excepted) was about
fourteen minutes. In twelve cases only one bite was afflicted.
In the remaining cases from two to six bites were made.

Detailed observations on the mating habits were made. In
eight instances the deposition of the seminal fluid on a line and
the application of the palpi to this fluid was observed.

Mr. Curtis describes the process of cocoon making. By the
aid of mirrors arranged about a captive female he observed the
details of cocoon construction. Cocooning is begun in late
March and early April by fertile females who attained maturity
the Fall of the year before and perhaps then made a few cocoons,
afterwards passing the Winter in a more or less dormant condi-
tion. The new females and males begin maturing during March
and April. After mating they begin in May to add their cocoons
to those of the older females, and from this time on to July the
young of the proceeding year continue to come into line, swelling
the number of cocoons and bringing the season to its height in
June, July, August and September. Each female makes from
one to five cocoons at intervals of about a month ; each cocoon
contains from fifteen to one hundred eggs which usually hatch in
from thirteen to twenty-three days, some not hatching for thirty
days. Their growth after hatching is slow, at least in captivity.
Of twenty-three young raised during the Winter of 1890-91, all
except eight took over two hundred days to mature. The longest

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time was two hundred and forty- nine days, the shortest one
hundred and twenty days. With the Spring young the time is
still longer.

A very elaborate series of observations on the development
(in course of growth) of the coloration and the character and
disposition of the pigments cannot be touched on here at all. At
best, only a few details of the many recorded by the patient
student can be referred to. Accompaning the notes are many
drawings, most of them in colors, illustrating especially the studies
on coloration development. It may be that these observations
and drawings can be elsewhere published. They are distinctly

worth publication.

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THE THIRD AMERICAN KERMES.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL.

Kermes is a genus of Coccidae, found, with one exception, on
o.its. In Europe there are several species, one of which, at least,
furnished a red dye to the ancients. North America has only
two species yet described, a third is added herewith :-

Kermes boguei n. sp. 9 scale occurs on the twigs, two or three together.
Globose, slightly oval; length about 6 l /2, breadth 5^, height 5 mm., vary-
ing a little in these proportions. Surface without gibbosities, not very
shiny ; with a lens one sees that it presents innumerable chill rugosities
with intervening shiny lines. The general color is dark ; there are five
suffused, more or less broken bands of dull scarlet ; the areas between
these are whitish, but largely occupied by broken black lines or stripes.
There are also transverse blotchy bands of black, much interrupted. The
general effect produced is an irregular blotching of scarlet, black and dull
white ; the black may predominate and make a dark scale in which the
scarlet and white are not so readily noticed.

The 9, boiled in caustic soda, turns the liquid claret color. Dermis
very slightly brownish by transmitted light, almost colorless. Round
gland -orfices, and short spines in places. There are patches of very dis-
tinct tessellation.

Young larva reddish purple (after boiling),. with light yellow legs and
antennae. It is elongate, but not excessively so, being not very much
more than twice as long as broad. Antennae 6-jointed ; 3 longest, but not
quite twice as long as broad ; 6 nearly as long as 3, 2 a little broader than
long, 5 shortest. Formula 36 (21) 45. Margin with a row of spines,
averaging about as far apart as the length of one. Caudal tubercles elon-
gate, blunt, each with a spine like the marginal ones, and a very long
caudal seta. Claws slender, curved. Tarsus twice as long as tibia.
Rostral loop reaching to base of hind legs.

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Hab. On Quercus alba, growing- in the sand on the shore of
a small pond about ten miles from Stillvvater, Oklahoma, Aug.
26, 1896 (Prof. E. E. Bogue). A. eulecaninm occurred on the
same trees.

K. boguei differs from K. galliformis by its larger size, dull
roughened surface and dark color, showing red. From K. gilletei
it differs entirely in the scale, and also in its much less elongate
larva. Of the European species, it is nearest, perhaps, to A'.
variegatus, which occurs in the south of France.

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ON TWO REMARKABLE CALIFORNIAN HENIIPTERA.

By E. BERGROTH, M.D., Tammerfors, Finland.

Fam. CAPSID^.

Dacerla inflata Uhl.

In the Bulletin de la Soc. Ent. de France. 1881, p. clvii, the
late Dr. Signoret published a short description of a singular new
Californian genus of Hemiptera, naming it Dacerla and placing
it in the division Myodocharia of the family Lygaeidae. In exam-
ining Signoret' s type two years ago, I at once found that it had
nothing to do with the Myodochinae. Judging from the fades,
and without examining the under side of the unique carded speci-
men, I thought it was an aberrant genus of Pyrrhocoridae, allied
(though not very nearly) to the American genera Arrhaplic
H.-Sch., Phccax Dist. and Japetus Dist., and to the African
genus Myrmoplasta Gerot. , and upon my suggestion it was so
placed in vol. ii, of Lethierry and Severin's " Catalogue general
des Hemipteres." In the Proceedings of the California Acacl.
Sci., 1^94, Prof. Uhler described a new genus and species under
the name Myrmccopsis inflatus, considering it to be a " Capsid,
related to Pilophorus." This insect is identical with the Dacerla
mediospinosa of Signoret, but as the French author gave no de-
scription at -all of the 'species, specific name proposed by Uhler
must stand. The genus, however, although very imperfectly
described by Signoret, must bear the name Dacerla, the more so
as the name Myrmecopsis is twice pre-occupied in Hymenopter-
ology. Having now examined the under side of the body, I find
that Uhler is perfectly right in placing it in the Capsidie. It is.
indeed, related to the divisions Pilophoraria and Myrmecophyai ia

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of Reuter, and, as the first tarsal joint is longer than the second,
and the arolia are scarcely visible, it will probably be better to
place it in the former division.

Fam. REDUVIID^E.

Harpactor americanus n. sp. Head hairy, a little shining, black, a spot
between the ocelli, a lateral vitta running from the ocelli to the anterior
angles of the eyes, ante-ocular part at least at the sides, and the throat
red ; ante-ocular and post-ocular part of the same length ; rostrum red,
piceous at apex, first joint hardly longer than the ante-ocular part of the
head, second joint distinctly longer than the first ; first joint of the an-
tennae as long as the head, blackish, broadly annulated with rufous in the
middle or sometimes entirely red except apex, second joint considerably
shorter than the first, entirely fuscous or rufous with apex black (remain-
ing joints wanting). Pronotum a little longer than the head, smooth,
hairy, subnitid, anterior angles bluntly tuberculate, lateral angles rounded,
not prominent, basal margin feebly and broadly sinuate ; anterior lobe
scarcely tuberculate at the sides of the longitudinal furrow ; color of pro-
notum black, the lateral angles, the postero-lateral margin and the basal
margin of the hind lobe red, sometimes also a short red streak on the
lateral margin of the fore lobe ; in fresh specimens some narrow grayish
sericeous bands on the disc of the fore lobe Breast black, the middle
of antepectus and the acetabula red ; scutellum black ; hemelytra a little
longer than the abdomen, corium red, with the clavus sometimes blackish,
membrane shining, more or less infuscated. Abdomen entirely red in the
male, but in the female there is a quadrate black spot at the basal angles
of the abdominal segments ; spiracular seated very little before the middle
of the segments. Legs red, femora, tibiae and tarsi infuscated at apex, a
subbasal ring to the tibas and sometimes a spot or ring on the middle of
the femora fuscous. Length 1 0-10.8 mm.

This is the first American species of the genus Harpactor, as
characterized by Stal in Enum. Hem. iv, p. 13, under the name
Rcduvius. It must be noted, however, that the Siberian H. leu-
cospilus Stal is distributed to Sitka in the East. In Europe the
genus is represented by several species. H. americanus is a
Northern or mountain species, inhabiting Shasta County, and
was communicated to us many years ago by its discoverer, Mr.
James Behrens. I have in vain waited to see this conspicuous
insect described in one of the numerous writings of Prof. Uhler.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for March, was mailed Feb. 27, 1897.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. VIII.

MAY, 1897.

No. 5.

CONTENTS:

Bubna Entomology at Cleveland, O... 97

Editorial 100

Economic Entomology 101

Notes and News 104

Entomological Literature 106

Doings of Societies 114

Entomological Section 116

Strecker Catocala jair 116

Johnson Some notes and descriptions
of new Leptidae 117

OUR illustration this month represents a well-equipped ento-
mological laboratory. It shows the progress entomology has
made from a study looked upon as humbug to one now on a firm
basis and its true value recognized by all people of intelligence,
if not by the entire community. It will be seen that here are
found all the apparatus for scientific work and research. We
hope that such a laboratory may be duplicated in every State in
the Union. The particular laboratory represented is that of the
State Entomologist of New Jersey and Professor of Natural His-
tory at Rutgers College at New Brunswick.

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ENTOMOLOGY AT CLEVELAND, OHIO.

By M. BUBNA.

After reading different numbers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS,
so far issued, I find that the locality at Cleveland, O., has not as
yet been mentioned. It is not surprising because this locality
has been entomologically dead for a number of years, and since
the death of Dr. J. P. Kirtland, who was the leading naturalist
in this vicinity. Dr. Kirtland's collection became neglected, and
the insects are all destroyed. I have been collecting insects off
and on for twenty years and never met with an entomologist here,

98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

until I was informed of a few subscribers of ENT. NEWS, John
Schwemler and Prof. Beardsley. Through them I found a few
others, and now the study of entomology has been a source of
great pleasure to me. A Natural History Club is now organized
in Cleveland, and the department of entomology is receiving due
attention. In a short time we expect to be in good working
order. The following is a list of Rhopalocera collected last
Summer :

Papilio aja.v three forms ; plentiful.
chresphontes two ; rare.

philenor plentiful second and third of May and a few in July.
troilus second and third of May, ^ quite abundant, later $ .
turnus scarce this year.

" glaucus three specimens.
asterias common as usual.
Pieris rapes common.

protodice for the first time in several years ; last year in October.
Argynnis cybele common.

aphrodite common.
bellona common.
idalia three specimens in August.
Colias philodice and also var. alba.
Meg. ccesonia one large specimen.
Danais archippus common.
Terias nicippe one badly worn.
Phyciodes nycteis common.

iharos

Grapta interrogation-is var. umbrosa. ]

" fabric: '. \

progne few. \ all were abundant.

comma two forms.
Vanessa antiopa common.
Pyrarneis huntera common.

carJui none ; plentiful last year in September.
Junonia ccenia two specimens.
Limenitis ursula common.

disippus common.
Apalura celtis one ; rare ; first ever seen here.

clyton "

Neonympha eurytris common.
Libythea bachmani plentiful one day in June on blackberry blossoms

(never before caught any).
Thecla two specimens ; not identified.
Chrysophanus americana common.
fhce rare.

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Lyccena comyntas common.

pseudargiolus two forms ; common.
Ancyloxypha numitor common.
Pamphila peckius

zabulon

hobomok

Pyrgus tessellata for the first time, last and this year.
Eudamus bathylus common.

tityrns common.
Insects were rather scarce in Summer and Fall of last year.

Mr. C. V. PIPER'S article in March number of ENT. NEWS recalls to
my mind a similar experience (see ENT. NEWS, vol. v, pp. 167 and 168).
As I am not familiar with the species of Coccinellidae, I cannot say that
the species was transversoguttata, but certain it is, that the insects noted
in such great numbers on the mountain in Utah and at an elevation of
probably 9000 feet were members of the same genus. The impression
made upon my mind by what seemed to me so remarkable a flight will
not soon be effaced, and I, too, desire to know why the Coccinellidae were
there. A similar flight on the part of Cantharis nuttallii would prove
that other insects do move in the same manner. In the article above re-
ferred to I noted two similar observations concerning this insect. A
reasonable inference would seem to be that the insects were in search of
food, but were controlled by the wind and sometimes carried to destruc-
tion. ARTHUR). SNYDER.

THYATIRA RECTANGULATA Ottolengui IN CANADA. In the February
number of ENT. NEWS, p. 26, Mr. Ottolengui states that the specimens
of Thyatira that he has seen from Canada have all been the typical scrip/a.
The new species, however, also occurs here. In August, 1896, I took a
nice example of rectangulata at Little Metis (Rimouski County), Quebec,
a village on the south shore of the river St. Lawrence, about 200 miles
below Quebec, and I have also taken the species in the neighborhood of
Montreal, but in both localities it is rarer than scripta. The label " Hud-
son Bay Territory" on the British Museum specimen is very vague, but
if the species occurs along the lower St. Lawrence there is no reason why
it should not also be found in some part of the vast district which was
formerly known under this name. It is a pity that all descriptions of new
species of Lepidoptera could not be accompanied by figures like the ex-
cellent one in the February number, and I think it would be interesting
to many of the readers of the NEWS to have an article on the cost of such
cuts by some one of the leading photo-engravers.* A. F. WINN, West-
mouth, Quebec.

* Half-tone cuts cost 25 cents a square inch. ED.

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DON'TS

Now that the collecting season has opened for most of us the
NEWS will again throw out a few hints in regard to what to do
and what not to do, even if it may be open to the charge of
harping on the subject too frequently. Don't put Sphinx pins
through Lycaenidae, or Lyc&na pins through Sphingidae. Don't
seal papers containing Lepidoptera, but make them uniform and
neat, and iron each one before putting in the specimens. Don't
send insects through the mail in a single box without packing,
unless you wish them to arrive as fragmentary evidence of your
foolishness. Don't send your insects to a specialist to name and
expect him to spend a large amount of time on them and also
pay all charges of expressage or postage both ways.

A BUFFALO GNAT NEW TO THE UNITED STATES. On June 25, 1895,
Prof. A. Goss called me to see enormous numbers of buffalo gnats on
his horse, which was on the campus of the N. M. Agricultural College
(Mesilla Valley, New Mexico). I recognized at once that it was a species
I had not before seen, quite different from the common Simiilium occi-
dentals Towns, of the locality. Mr. Coquillett subsequently identified it
as Simiilium ochraceum Walker, which was until then only known from
Mexico. A few small gnats, a species of Sciara, were also on the horse.
The remarkable thing about this occurrence is that neither Prof. Townsend
nor the writer ever met with this .5". ochraceum in the Mesilla Valley, be-
fore or since, so it seems certain that we have only occasional swarms
coming from a distance. T. D. A. COCKERELL.

1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IOI

DEPARTMENT OF EGONOMIG ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J.

Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor, Prof. John
B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J.

The Onion Maggot. The question of dealing with root maggots has
always been a troublesome one for two reasons. In the first place the
creatures feed concealed, so that no sign of their presence is noticeable
until the plant is so injured that in many cases it is beyond redemption.
Secondly, applying insecticides which are sufficient to destroy the mag-
gots is extremely expensive, and at the same time a little risky to the
plants themselves. There has been a great deal of contradictory testimony
in the matter, and materials that have, according to reports, proved per-
fectly satisfactory in the hands of some have been useless when applied
by others. Mr. Slingerland has obtained excellent results with bisulphide
of carbon against the cabbage maggot, and has also found a carbolic acid
emulsion to be useful when properly applied and used in time. My own
efforts have been directed as far as possible to the discovery of some
means of cultivating or applying specific fertilizers or both, for either the
prevention of injury or the destruction of the pest.

In 1893 one of the leading onion growers in New Jersey with many acres
cultivated for the production of seed and sets in Cumberland County,
wrote me that the pest had appeared on his place for the first time. He
had grown onions on this farm for several years previously, and accord-
ing to his own story had never had the slightest trouble, had never seen
a maggot in his onions and had not lost a plant. I have every reason to
believe that this statement was correct, for the man is a close observer
and one of those who succeed in making farming pay, which, it will be
admitted, is a sign of more than average intelligence under present con-
ditions. At my suggestion fertilizers were employed, and the experience
since 1893 is here presented in the belief that sufficient time has elapsed
to make it possible to judge of its effectiveness. I will say that our cor-
respondent keeps books. It is his object to discover just exactly how
much each crop costs him and just how much profit he makes or what
losses are sustained from every piece of land under cultivation. He
therefore notes not only the cost of the materials that go into the land
and the cost of cultivation, but also any circumstances that affect the
value of the crop or add to the expense of raising. The notes, therefore,
are reliable, as being made at the time and not being merely a recollec-
tion of what was done.

1893. The onion sets were put in the field March 30, 1893. Maggots
discovered at work on them May 2cl. \Ve at once commenced taking
out with trowels all onions showing infestation by the withered appear-
ance of the two lower leaves on the stem being careful to remove most

102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

of the earth surrounding the infested plants. The plants and earth were
placed in buckets and at the ends of the rows deposited in barrels which
were afterward carted away and destroyed by fire. Then plowed a furrow
about two inches dead away from each side of the rows with Allen's
double wheel-hoe and applied 500 pounds kainit per acre broadcast and
cultivated the soil level again. Result: No more maggots could be found
afterward and no flies were seen among the plants as a second brood
later in the season. The crop matured without further disturbance after-
ward.

1894. Sets were planted in the field after treatment with sulphate of
copper for smut, March i2th. April iSth found evidence of the maggot,
and as I was then expecting them and watching every day for their ap-
pearance, I found them much earlier than the year before. I also found
that on a plot that had been in Winter radishes and left on the ground
over Winter, they were very much worse than elsewhere. This time no
plants were removed, but furrows were again turned from the rows; 600
pounds kainit per acre was applied broadcast and again the soil was cul-
tivated level. Results: No maggots could be found after three days and
no flies were seen during the season. The crop matured without further
damage.

1895. Sets were planted, after treatment with sulphate of copper, April
5th. April 2yth maggots were found in abundance, and kainit was applied
after the usual turning away of the soil from the rows at the rate of 500
pounds per acre, broadcast. Results: No more maggots could be found
a few days afterward, nor were flies seen in the fields. The crop matured
in good shape without further disturbance from insects.

1896. Sets were planted after the bath in sulphate of copper April 6th,
and April 24th maggots had made their appearance. I at once applied
the usual treatment of 500 pounds of kainit per acre, and in addition 100
pounds nitrate of soda. No further trouble was experienced on that plot
and the crop which was harvested on the first of July was an abundant
one.

The onions harvested in July were placed in shallow crates holding
about one bushel each, and these were piled one above another in solid
piles of some hundreds of crates in the open air, until it was time to reset
for seed purposes. The crates were loosely packed together so that air
could circulate throughout the mass and the onions became thoroughly
dry. Before setting out they were rubbed together to remove all loose
shells and dirt for inspection as to purity of color. September 3oth these
onions were set on a plot that had grown onion sets for the past fifteen
years continuously and had never been infested with the maggots to this
time. In three days from the setting of the seed onions maggots to the
number of from 10 to 15 could be counted at work upon a single speci-
men. The onions were set in furrows three feet apart and had not been
covered with soil when this discovery was made. We were better able,
therefore, to apply the remedy, and we used 500 pounds of kainit on the

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rows and then covered the onions and kainit at one and the same opera-
tion and awaited results. The balance of the field was prepared by ap-
plying the kainit in the rows before setting the onions. Results: No
further trouble or damage was experienced from the maggot on those
treated with the top dressing, and none was caused by them where the
kainit had been applied in rows before setting. We did find several
specimens on onions in this portion of the field, but they had no effect
upon the appearance of the onions. The onions set one day were badly
infested within three days, and the maggots must have either run their
course without doing damage or died from the effects of the kainit. The
plot has shown no signs of infestation from that time to this [January
5th] and is now apparently healthy and vigorous, promising for an abun-
dant seed crop in 1897.

This experience is interesting in more ways than one. It might have
been urged against the first year's work that the benefit was caused as
much by taking out the infested onions and destroying them as by the
application of the fertilizer, and the criticism would be a just one, but this
process was not repeated in other years and the kainit was entirely relied
upon. Onions are very largely cultivated in Cumberland County and
there are plenty of fields in the immediate vicinity of the one on which
the experiments were made where no measures were taken to check the
development of the onion maggots. The county grows truck very largely,
and radishes and cabbages are also badly infested by root maggots. The
Fall experience is an extremely interesting one. It is evident from the
history of the case that the eggs were laid upon the onions themselves,
while they were in the crates. Evidently there must have been great
numbers of the flies about, and the onions piled where they could get at
them without any difficulty, attracted them. Just how long the eggs were
present it would be hard to say, and so far as I am aware we have no
data as to length of time that the eggs of Anthomyiids can remain un-
hatched after being laid. It would seem that if any of the maggots had
hatched before the onions were set out, it must have been noticed when
the tubers were cleaned to examine their color and suitability for the pro-
duction of seed. The eggs must have been ready to hatch, however,
since three days thereafter onions were taken out in which the maggots
were already nearly one-quarter of an inch in length. It seems hard to
escape the conclusion that the kainit was effective in this case and the
more so, because where the onions were set in the ground to which kainit
had been first applied, there was practically no trouble from the maggots.
Of course it is impossible to say that in all localities and under all circum-
stances the same application would produce the same result, but at all
events it would be very well worth the trying. In Cumberland County,
where these onions were grown, the soil is very light; mostly sand with
an admixture of clay and loam. In times past considerable marl has
been used to better the condition of the land, but on the farm in question
commercial fertilizers have been chiefly relied upon of late years. The

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manure that is made upon the farm is used on the land; but none is
bought, and the amount received each year is comparatively small, while
tons' of commercial fertilizers are habitually used for the various crops
raised.

Oviposition by the Codling Moth. Mr. Slingerland has recently called
attention to the fact that there has been a general misapprehension as to
the egg-laying habits of the codling moth, one of the commonest of our
injurious species. The statements made many years ago have been re-
peated by all subsequent authors without very close investigation, and the
results obtained by our spraying operations have seemed to confirm the
usually accepted account. Mr. Slingerland states that Prof. Washburn,
of Oregon, had previously observed the facts; but his observations had
been overlooked. Mr. E. A. Schwarz, of Washington, recently called
my attention to the fact that in the " Bericht der Kgl. Lehranstalt fur
Obst, Wein & Gartenbau zu Geisenheim a Rh." pp. 22-25, 1894-1895,
Mr. R. Goethe describes the oviposition of Carpocapsa pomonella on all
parts of the apples. Specimens of the moth were secured July i6th,
eggs were seen July i7th; but probably this was later than usual in the
open. In his experience the larvae ate through the skin at once on all
parts of the fruit, and eat a little chamber just beneath the surface before
they make their way to the core. From the eggs laid July ijth first larvae
were obtained July 28th. These experimens were made with insects in
captivity. In the open air the first moths were found June 7th and the
first larvae were found in the apples June 25th. The note is rather a brief
one, but it indicates that it is possible that this insect may have different
localities and possibly the two broods may not act just alike in all respects.

Notes and. News.

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Prof. SMITH has just completed a monographic revision of the genus
Acronycta, and is in position to promptly name material in this genus for
the privilege of retaining such species as may be new. Address Prof.
John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

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AT Ihe annual commencement on March 24th last, the Western Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, conferred the honorary degree of
Doctor of Science upon Dr. George H. Horn. We are also glad to state
that Dr. Horn is gradually recovering from an almost complete paralysis
of the left side, with which he was stricken in December last, and is re-
gaining the use of the limbs affected.

MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Zoological Department.
I wish to obtain as many specimens as possible of the genera Chionas-
pis and Pulvinaria from all parts of the world, as two of my assistants,
Prof. R. S. Lull and Mr. R. A. Cooley, are making thorough and ex-
haustive studies of these genera for the purpose of preparing complete
monographs of them. Prof. Lull will take the genus Pulvinaria and
Mr. Cooley the genus Chionaspis. and the work will be carried on in my
laboratory under my oversight. I am under great personal obligations
to Prof. T. D. A. Cockerel!, who is one of our highest authorities on the
Coccidae of the world, for valuable hints and assistance in this matter.
If you will be kind enough to send specimens to me from your locality I
shall be very grateful, and will request my assistants to return a named
set if you so desire. If you are not sufficiently familiar with the Coccidse
to distinguish these genera, please send all Coccids unknown to you and
we will separate them. C. H. FERNALD.

EXTRACT from "Rules for Regulating Nomenclature with a view to
Secure a Strict Application of the Law of Priority in Entomological
Work" compiled by Lord Walsingham and John Hartley Durrant.

The type of a species belongs to one of the following categories :

(1) Type (described from a unique specimen or from a single specimen
selected from a series).

(2) Type (= type cf + type $ described from a single specimen of
each sex).

(3) Co-types (described from more than one specimen, no single one
beieg selected as the type. The type = the sum of the co-types).

Each of the remaining specimens of a series from which the type was
selected is called a Paratype.

A specimen subsequently named by the author after comparison with
the type is called a Metatype.

A specimen named by another than the author, after comparison with
the type, is called a Homotype.

A specimen collected in the exact locality whence the type was obtained
is called a Topotype.

Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions : ist, The number of species
to be limited to twenty-five for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans-
portation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor,
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects
for return of names. Please put date of capture and exact locality on each specimen.
Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III. Address all packages
to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

106 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

Entomological Literature.

Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North
and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con-
taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy of
insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded.

1. THE BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA by W. H. Edwards. Third
series, part xvii. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1897. Contains figures
and descriptions of various species of Chionobas, one of them {peartiez)
being new to science. The three plates in this number are superb exam-
ples of what such illustrations should be, and are of great scientific value,
especially the figures representing the various larval stages of a number
of the species treated. This number alone contributes much that is new
in regard to life-histories, especially as so little has hitherto been known
of the early stages of the species in the genus. The part completes vol-
ume three of this truly representative work, and we sincerely hope the
work will not end here. We have absolutely nothing but praise for such
a work, but have sometimes been disappointed on account of its fragmen-
tary character, probably unavoidable. Very often the species one wants
to know about is not treated, and there is great need of a work in this
country covering all the species in each genus, or at least contributions
toward it. Mr. Edwards has probably more nearly approached this re-
sult in Chionobas. If the work is continued, it seems to us the most im-
portant thing the author could do would be to give figures of his own
species not hitherto illustrated, especially in the genus Argynnis. H. S.

2. BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. By A. \V.
Kappel and W. Egmont Kirby. This is a quarto volume of 247 pages
and 30 chromo-lithographic plates containing many figures. The plates
are good illustrations of the process and are quite satisfactory and answer
well for purposes of identification. The work does not include all the
European species, but most of those inhabiting central Europe have been
dealt with, and nearly all those of the British Isles. There is an intro-
duction treating of structure, collecting and technique. The work will be
found a very useful one, especially for the beginner. H. S.

3. BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, being a popular hand-book for young stu-
dents and collectors. By J. W. Tutt; oclavo 465 pages and nine plates.

-This is an up-to-date work and contains the recent and generally-ac-
cepted schemes of classification. The general chapters on the " Egg,"
"Caterpillar," "Chrysalis" and "Imago" will give the young student
the clues he requires to follow up the more advanced branches of the
study. There are chapters on "Variation" and " Hybernation" as well
as notes on the senses of butterflies. This is one of the best new books
on an entomological subject we have lately seen, and its talented author
is to be greatly congratulated. The chapters on the practical work of,
and apparatus for, collecting, killing, setting and preserving insects are

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based not only on the author's twenty-five years' experience of active
field work, etc. We would think from the fig. of net frame, on page 89,
that it was the style used by Noah when he rounded up the insects into
the ark before the flood. We really wished this book on account of our
regard for the author, but had trouble to get it on account of the business
care (?) of the publishers. They had the cheek to send us about 100
circulars to distribute for them, and then when we sent an order for a
copy of the book they wrote back that they wished cash in advance. The
Academy and the American Entomological Society are not used to such
treatment. H. S.

4. DIE GATTUNGEN DER SPHEGIDEN. Von Franz Friedr. Kohl. [Ex-
tract from Band xi, Heft 3-4 of the Annalen des k. k. Naturhistorisches
Hofmuseums, Wien, 1896]. Perhaps no period in the past has been so
marked for the activity of entomologists as is to-day. This is especially '
true of the hymenopterists, some of whom have been turning out tomes
of prodigious size and worth. One of the very latest memoirs in this line
is the above named, a work of 283 pages, seven lithographic plates and
eighty-eight text figures, giving it such an air of completeness that one
almost feels convinced that the classification of the Sphegidae (sens lat.)
should be no longer a mooted question.

A history of the genera of fossorial wasps (Sphegidae) occupies pages-
235-245, and is in itself a valuable contribution to the study. Then fol-
lows a very comp'ete and concise synoptical table of the genera and iheir
principal groups. The descriptions are unusually full, and usually accom-
panied by one or more text figures. The genus Crabro is treated at
length and a synoptic table of the groups of species given, as is likewise
done with other genera which are divisible into groups and subgenera.
A chapter on the natural groups of the Sphegid genera completes the
text. Herr Kohl separates the family into: r, Chief groups; 2, Sub-
groups; and 3, Supergenera (Nebengruppen); " the latter either a formed
of sharply-defined genera or b of subgenera." Xine groups of genera
(Gattungsgruppe) are recognized, viz.: i, Crabro ; 2, Pison ; 3, J\fisco-
phus ; 4, Larra ; 5, Astata ; 6, Bembex ; 7, Alyson; 8, Philanthus ; 9,
Sphex; 10, Ampule x; IT, Pemphredon. The author's knowledge of the
fossorial Hymenoptera and standing as an investigator assure the above
classification acceptance among his fellow-workers.

Herr Kohl has not showed such a tendency of massing names under
one head as might have been expected from his past work. Eucerccris
is given generic rank, and we are glad to record similar action with Tra-
c/iypus, Aphilanthops, Microhcmbex and Anacrabro. Of the other
American genera Dienoplus is rightly placed as a synonym of Gorylcs.
Niteliopsis is still held to be the same as Solierella, probably because he
has never seen specimens of the former. The author is quite naturally
in doubt about Larropsis Patton, described as having the second sub-
marginal cell petiolated and of which Larrada tennicornis was selected
as the type, a species which has not a petiolated submarginal and is a
true Ancistromma. W. J. F.

108 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

5. CATALOGUE HYMENOPTERORUM, . . . , by Dr. G. C. de Dalla Torre,
vol. viii, Fossores (Sphegidae), 8vo, Leipzig, 1897, pp. 1-749. This praise-
worthy work is nearing completion. With the appearance of the present
volume but four volumes remain to be published. Vol. viii is brought
down to the Zoological Record for 1894. and the Zoologischer Anzeiger
(Jahrg. xviii), 1895. Considerable lumping of genera is evident, but as
the work is bibliographic and not systematic, this must not be taken too
seriously, inasmuch as lumping is convenient in bibliographic works, es-
pecially where some confusion exists in regard to the disposition of certain
species to their proper genera. Therefore one is not surprised to find
Brachycistis, Chyphotes, Ephuta Say (which, by the way, has priority
over Sphcerophthalma, having been proposed for the species of Mutilla,
with round eyes, in 1836) and Myrmosa placed under Mutilla. This has
consequently led to the renaming of several of our species, for instance
Brachycistis atratus Blake becomes Mutilla agama D. T., and Myrmosa
parvula Fox is to be Mutilla antisentitica how the author knew this
species to be a Jew-hater he does not state and many other changes
occur. It is our opinion that it would have been better to have not
changed any of the preoccupied names unless the author wishes to ad-
vance his system of lumping to the claims of'a systematic work, in which
case he will probably find but few adherents. It is difficult to comprehend
that Myzine caroliniana, confluens, dubiosa,frontalis, hyalina and texana
should be separated genencally from M. inferrupta, obscura and sex-
cincta, which are placed under Plesia, a name which we had supposed
was long determined as synonymous with Myzine. Two species are con-
fused under Crabro texanus on p. 631, as Entomognathus texanus Cress.
is not the same as Crabro texanus Cress.

The work is of extreme value from a bibliographic standpoint, and
notwithstanding the idiosyncrasy of classification will be found indispen-
sible to hymenopterists. W. J. F.

6. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILA-
DELPHIA, 1897, pp. 135-141. New fossorial Hymenoptera from New
Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerell and W. J. Fox.

7. THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRI-
CULTURAL COLLEGE. Boston, January, 1897. Report of the Entomolo-
gist, C. H. Fernald.

8. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST of the State Ex-
periment Station of the University of Minnesota to the Governor for the
year 1896. By Otto Lugger. Delano, 1896, x, 244 pp., 187 figs., 16 pis.
The first 43 pages deal with a number of familiar insect pests. The re-
mainder of the volume is an extensive treatise on arachnid and insect
parasites of man and domesticated animals.

9. THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. London,
March, 1897. New species of Hymenoptera from Central America, P.
-Cameron.

I897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS.

10. BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT. Leipsic, March i, 1897. The for-
mation of species and relationship among butterflies according to G. H.
T. Eimer, Dr. Grafin M. von Linden.

11. INSECTOS DE COSTA RICA pequeno coleccion arreglada por J. Fid.
Tristan, Entomologo del Museo [NacionalJ. San Jose" de Costa Rica,
1897.

12. COMPTES RENDUS. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE. Paris, March 6. 1897.
A dangerous Acarine from Mauritius, Holothyrus coccinella Gervais,
P. Megnin.

13. COMPTES RENDUS. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. Paris, March i,
1897. On the larva of Thrixion halidayanum Rond., a dipterous insect
of the tribe Tachininae, parasite of Leptynia hispanica Bol., an orthop-
terous insect of the tribe Phasmidce, larval stages and biology, J. Pantel.

March 15. On some anatomical peculiarities observed in the larva
of Thrixion halidayanum, J. Pantel. On the relations of Antennophorus
uhlmanni Haller with Lasius mixtus Nyl., C. Janet, fig.

14. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY,
xxvii, 14, March, 1897. On the color and color-patterns of moths and
butterflies, A. G. Mayer, 10 pis. Also published in Bulletin of Museum
of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, xxx, 4.

15. VERHANDLUNGEN DER K. K. ZOOLOGISCH-BOTANISCHEN GESELLS-
CHAFT IN WIEN, xlvii, i, March i, 1897. Hemipteia cryptocerata, A. L.
Montandon. Carcinocoris, a new hemipterous genus, and remarks on
the raptorial legs of insects, A. Handlirsch, figs.

16. BULLETIN DES SEANCES. SOCIETE NATIONALS D'AGRICULTURE DE
FRANCE, Ivi, 10, December, 1896. Paris. The caterpillar of Zeuzera
(zsculi causing ravages in Morocco, M. Laboulbene.

17. THE JOURNAL OF THE CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY,
xix, 2, March 24, 1897. An Odonate nymph from a thermal spring, D. S.
Kellicott, figs. Catalogue of the Odonata of Ohio, part iii, id.

IS. BOLETIM DO MUSEU PARAENSE DE HlSTORIA NATURAL E ETHNO-
GRAPHY, i. i. Para, Brazil, September, 1894. Arachnological studies
relating to Brazil. Revision of Brazilian Territelariae, Dr. E. Goeldi.-
2, April, 1895. Ant fauna of Brazil, with catalogue of the species, Dr.

A. Forel. Myriapods of Brazil, Dr. E. A. Goeldi. 3. June, 1896.-

Hosts of ants and termites of Brazil, E. Wasmann.

19. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH
WALES., xxi, Sydney. 82. Sept. 22, 1896. On the Australian divinities
(fam. Carabida?), T. G. Sloane. On the bag-shelters of lepidopterous

larvae of the genus Teara, W. W. Froggatt. 83. Dec. 22, 1896011

the Australian Bembidiides referable to the genus Tachys, with the de-
scription of a new allied genus Pyrrotachys, T. G. Sloane.

1IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

20. THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. Philadelphia, April, 1897. The
Malpighian tubes of the Orthoptera, L. Bordas (transl.). Notes on drag-
onflies, D. S. Kellicott (partial reprint from The Agric. Student, iii).

21. NATURE. London, March 25, 1897. The introduction of beneficial
insects into the Hawaiian Islands, R. C. L. Perkins.

22. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE NATIONALE D'ACCLIMATATION DE
FRANCE. Paris, November, 1896. Rearing silk-worms in Russia on
Scorzonera hispanica, O. Tikhomirova. Apiculture and sericiculture in
Hungary, S. Borzeky, P. Bezeredj.

23. MONOGRAPHIE DER ORDNUNG THYSANOPTERA VO11 Heinrich Uzel.

Mit 10 Tafeln und 9 Text-bildern. Koniggratz, 1895, 410, 481 pp. A
magnificent work on the group of Thrips insects. It is written in the
Bohemian language, but the descriptions of species and other systematic
groups are accompanied by German versions, and of the other parts Ger-
man resume's are given. The first, or systematic, part of the volume, of
281 pages, describes all the species known to the author, 138 in number,
distributed among 36 genera. Of these 138, 117 are European, many
being now first described. The second (Paleontological) part, 16 pages,
summarizes what is known of these insects in past time. The third part,
34 pages, is devoted to the anatomy, the fourth, 20 pages, to the develop-
ment. A consideration of habits and habitats forms the fifth (biological)
part of 1 8 pages. The sixth (economic) part, 20 pages, treats of the
plants affected by the Thysanoptera, the seventh (historical) part, of 62
pages, comprises a complete bibliography for the Order with abstracts of
the contents of each paper. Full indices complete the volume.

24. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Technical series, No. 5. A study in insect parasitism: A consideration
of the parasites of the white-marked tussock moth, with an account of
their habits and interrelations, and with descriptions of new species. By
L. O. Howard, entomologist, Washington, 1897.

25. ID. Circular No. 18, second series (revision of No. 14), Feb. 4,
1897. The Mexican cotton-boll weevil (Antkonomus grandis Boh.), L.

O. Howard, figs. No. 19. March 5, 1897. The clover mite (Bryobia

pratensis Carman), C. L. Marlatt, figs.

26. Report of the Entomological Department of the New Jersey Agri-
cultural College Experiment Station, by John B. Smith, Sc.D., for the
year 1896. Trenton, N. J., 1897. Pp. 431-563, 16 figs.

27. THK CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., April, 1897.
Synonymical and descriptive notes on North American Orthoptera, S.
H. Scudder. A remarkable appearance of Catocala insolabi/is, A. J.
Snyder. Description of the structural characters of the larva of Sibhn-
fusca, with notes on the four known larvae of Sibine, H. G. Dyar. De-
scription of the larva and pupa of Aulax nabali, T. W. Fyles. A new
-species of Ancyloxypha, G. H. French. The Coleoptera of Canada

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xxii. The Cerambycidse of Ontario and Quebec, H. F. Wickham, figs.
The lost Ledra, H. Osborn. New Coccidae found associated with ants,
G. B. King and T. D. A. Cockerell. Argynnis idalia in New Brunswick >
J. Fletcher. On rearing dragonflies, J. G. Needham, fig.

28. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (2), vi.
San Francisco, March r, 1897. Coleoptera of California, supplement ii,
G. H. Horn. The Oedemeridas of Boreal America, id. New Mallo-
phaga i, with special reference to a collection made from maritime birds
of the bay of Monterey, California, \ . L. Kellogg, 14 pis.; ii, from land
birds, together with an account of the Mallophagous mouth-parts, id.,
14 pis. North American Apterygogenea, H. SchcJtt, 3 pis.

29. ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE, xli, 2.
Brussels, March 24, 1897. The insects of Bernissart, A. Lameere and G.
Severin, figs.- -3. March 31. The coxal glands of Lifhobius, V. Wil-
lem, fig.

30. PSVCHE. Cambridge, Mass., April, 1897. A new hypothesis of
seasonal dimorphism in Lepidoptera i, A. G. Mayer. Notes on New
England Acrididae iii. Oedipodinae -Hi, A. P. Morse. Notes on new
Coccidae, T. D. A. Cockerell. The larval stages of Arctia anna Grote,
H. G. Dyar. Pink locustarians, McNeill on Tryxalinae, A genus of Gryl-
hdce hitherto unrecorded from the U. S., S, H. Scudder.

31. JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, v, i,
March, 1897. Life-histories of the New York slug caterpillars, vii-ix, H.
G. Dyar, 2 pis. The immature stages of Diabrotica soror, R. W. Doane.
On the larvae of certain sawflies (Tenthredinidae), H. G. Dyar. The cor-
rect title : Noropsis elegans, A. R. Grote. Descriptions of two new
Sminthurids, N. Banks. Notes on Afelitta satyriniformis, Catocala e/da,
\V. Beutenmuller. Preliminary handbook of the Coleoptera of north
eastern America, id. Some Syrphidce from Long Island, N. Banks. A
new Alenrodes found on Aquilegia, T. D. A. Cockerell. Intelligence
shown by caterpillars in placing their cocoons, \V. T. Davis. The classi-
fication of the Saturniides, A. R. Grote. Oeta floridana Neumoegen, H.
G. Dyar. Tenacity of life in adults of Cryptorhynchus fapathi, F. M.
Webster.

32. BULLETIN No. 8. New Series. U. S. Dep't of Agriculture, Divi-
sion of Entomology. Some little-known insects affecting stored vegetable
products, F. H. Chittenden. Washington, 1897.

33. THE LARV.E OF THE BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS by (the
late) Wm. Buckler, edited by Geo. T. Porrit. Vol. vii. The first portion
of the Geometrae. London: Printed for the Ray Society, MDCCCXCVII.
Pp. xv, 176. Pis. cvi-cxxvii. With a list of parasites bred from larva?
or pupae of the species included in this volume, G. C. Bignell.

34. EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, viii, 6. U. S. Dep't of Agriculture.
Washington, 1897. Summaries of papers on economic entomology.

112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May,

35. BIBLIOTHECA ZooLOGiCA, heft 2o, 3. Stuttgart, 1897. Zoological
results of the expedition to Greenland, under the direction of Dr. von
Drygalski, sent out by the Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde of Berlin, from the
collections of Dr. Vanhoffen: v. Greenland spiders, Dr. H. Lenz, figs.;
vi. Greenland mites, Dr. P. Kramer, figs.

36. CATALOGO SISTEMATICO de toda la Fauna de Filipinas conocida
hasta el presente, y a la vez el de la Coleccion Zoologica del Museo de
Pp. Dominicos del Colegio Universidad de Santo Tomas de Manila . . .
por el R. P. Fr. Casto de Elera. Vol. ii. Articulados. Manila, 1895.
Tracheata 540 pp.

37. THE ROYAL NATURAL HISTORY, edited by Richard Lydeker. Lon-
don and New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Vol. vi, 1896. Inverte-
brates. Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera, F. O. Pickard-Cambridge. Co-
leoptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera and Rhynchota, C. J. Gahan. Diptera,
Arachnida and Myriapoda, R.I. Pocock.

38. PROCEEDINGS OF THE DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCI-
ENCES, vi, 1897. Pp. 179-274. Revision of the Truxalinse of North
America, J. McNeil!, 6 pis.

39. BULLETIN 121. New Jersey Agricultural Stations, March 10, 1897.
-The harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrio/iica) and the melon

plant louse (Aphis gossypii), }. B. Smith, figs.

40. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London, April, 1897.
Notes on Coccidce from the Royal Gardens, Kew (concl.), E. E. Green,
with additions by R. Newstead. Hints on collecting aculeate Hymenop-
tera (cont.), E. Saunders. The direct photographic enlargement of en-
tomological specimens, T. A. G. Strickland, fig.

41. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, April, 1897. On the subordinate
influence of climatal conditions in deciding the morphological charac-
ters, with special reference to the Rhopalocera, W. Harcourt-Bath. The
probable causes of the decadence of British Lepidoptera, G. H. Con-
quest, T. B. Jeffreys.

42. THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY, Series A, vi, i. Lawrence,
Kan., January, 1897. Diptera Brasiliana, part iv, S. W. Willlston.

43. The spruce gall-louse ( Chermes abietis Linn.), C. H. Fernald and
A. R. Cooley, 12 pp., 2 pis. Place and date of publication not indicated.

44. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1896
[Extract from]. Insects in general and the Orthoptera of Indiana in
particular, W. S. Blatchley.

45. THE NATURALISTS' JOURNAL, vi, 57. Huddersfield, March, 1897.
[Synopsis of J British Orthoptera, Anon., i pi.

46. General Index to the seven volumes of Insect Life, 1888-1895. U.
S. Dep't of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Washington, 1897.

47. STETTINER ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITUNG, 57 Jahrgang, 1896. Con-
tribution to the knowledge of the Microlepidoptera fauna of the Danish

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West Indies ii, W. von Hedemann. Travels of E. Simon in Venezuela,
Curculionidse iii, J. Faust. Two hermaphrodites of Bufalus piniarius, }.
Griebel.

48. BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part cxxxiii, London, February,
1897. Arachnicla-Araneidea, pp. 225-232, pi. xxiii, O. P. Cambridge.
Coleoptera, vol. iii, pt. i, pp. 585-608, pi. xxvi, G. C. Champion. Lepid-
optera Heterocera, vol. ii, pp. 337-360, pis. Ixix-lxxii, H. Druce. Or-
thoptera, pp. 217-224, H. de Saussure.

INDEX TO THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

The number after each author's name in this index refers to the journal, as numbered
in the preceding list, in which that author's paper is published ; * denotes that the paper
in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

THE GENERAL SUBJECT.

Lugger 8, Tristan ii, Handlirsch 15, Howard 24, Lameere and Severin
29, deElera 36, Lydeker 37, Strickland 40, Bath 41.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Fernald 7, Lngger 8, Laboulbene 16, Perkins 21, Tikhomirova 22, Bor-
zeky 22, Bezeredj 22, Howard 25, Marlatt 25, Smith 26_, 39, Chittenden
32, Anon. 34, Fernald and Cooley 43.

MYRIAPODA.
Goeldi 1 8, Willem 29, Pocock 37.

ARACHN1DA.

Megnin 12, Janet 13, Goeldi 18, Marlatt 25, Leng 35*, Kramer 35*, Po-
cock 37, Cambridge 48*.

THYSANURA AND COLLEMBOLA.
Schott 28, Banks 31*.

ORTHOPTERA.

Pantel 13, Bordas 20, Scudder 27, 30, Morse 30, Gahan 37, McNeill 38,
Blatchley 44, Anon. 45, de Saussure 48*.

NEUROPTERA.

Kellicott 17 (two), 20, Wasmann 18, Needham 27, Kellogg 28* (two),
Lameere and Severin 29. Gahan 37.

HEMIPTERA.

Montandon 15*, Handlirsch 15, Uzel 23, Osborn 27, King and Cockerell
27*. Cockerell 30*, 31*, Gahan 37, Smith 39, Green 40, Newstead 40,
Fernald and Cooley 43.

COLEOPTERA.

Sloane 19 (two), Howard 25, Wickham 27, Horn 28* (two), Doane 31,
Beutemmiller 31, Webster 31, Chittenden 32*, Gahan 37, Faust 47, Cham-
pion 48*.

DIPTERA.

Pantel 13 (two), Banks 31, Chittenden 32, Pocock 37, Williston 42.

5*

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LEPIDOPTERA.

Edwards i, Kappel and Kirby 2, Tutt 3, von Linden 10, Mayer 14, 30,
Laboulbene 16, Froggatt 19, Howard 24, Snyder 27, Dyar 27, 30, 31 (two),
Fyles 27, French 27*, Fletcher 27, Grote 31 (two), Beutenmuller 31, Davis
31, Chittenden 32, Buckler and Porritt 33, Pickard-Catnbridge 37, Bath
41, Conquest 41, Jeffreys 41, Hedemann 47*, Griebel 47, Druce 48*.

HYMENOPTERA.

Kohl 4, Dalla Torre 5, Cockerell and Fox 6*, Cameron 9*, Janet 13,
Forel 18, Wasmann 18, Howard 24*, Dyar 31, Chittenden 32, Bignell 33,
Pickard-Cambridge 37, Saunders 40.

Doings of Societies.

PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 1897.

A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held
at the residence of Mr. Frank Haimbach, 1309 Allegheny Ave.,
on the above date. Members present: Messrs. Fox, Haimbach,
F. Hoyer, Seiss, H. W. Wenzel, Johnson, Boerner, A. Hover,
Laurent, Castle and Schmitz. Honorary members: Dr. Henry
Skinner and John B. Smith. Meeting called to order at 9.10
P.M., ex-president Laurent presiding. Minutes of the previous
meeting read and approved .

A communication was read from Dr. H. G. Griffith, president
of the Social, who is at present sojourning in the South, dated
Lake Mary, Fla., April i, 1897, in which he gives some of his
experiences in collecting.

A card was read from Dr. Horn expressing his regrets that he
could not be present at the meeting, but that he was improving
rapidly and expected to be about again shortly.

Prof. Smith exhibited males and females of Arctia vittata, A.
phalerata and A. nais. He pointed out the means for recog-
nizing these species. In nais the entire costa is narrowly
black. The two other species having it yellow almost to the
apex; vittata has the hind wings and abdomen yellow; phalerata
has the hind wings red, at least at the base, the abdomen being
also, in most cases, more red than yellow. The speaker stated
that these differences were pointed out by Mr. Dyar, and they
hold in the large series of specimens that have been examined.
Those who have bred the different forms claim that the larvae of
two species, at least, are different.

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Mr. Johnson exhibited specimens of Midas tibialis captured
by Mr. Herman Hornig; also Midas audax, both of which speci-
mens were captured near Philadelphia, and Midas fulvifrons,
collected at Avalon, N. J., July 29, 1896. The speaker further
drew attention to a series of Midax pachygaster ( 9 ) and Midax
incisus ( ) from Florida and Georgia, showing that the two
species are probably identical.

Dr. Skinner remarked that recent literature on parasites af-
fecting domestic animals spoke of Demodex folliculorum hominis
as being the cause of the disease of the human face known as
comedones or black-heads, whereas medical men and works on
dermatology say that they have nothing to do with the disease,
but only abide there incidentally. One entomological work says
' The variety occurring on man (Jiominis] producing the little
specks or black-heads so frequent on the face." Another work
says "Face-mites: black-heads (Dermodecidae). Face-mites
live in the sweat-glands at the roots of hairs and in diseased fol-
licles in the skin of the human face, chiefly about the nose, eyes
and chin, where they cause the well-known comedones or black-
heads." Comedones are retained sebaceous material assuming
the form of the follicles and having a speck of accumulated black
dirt at the end. It is very doubtful whether the parasite has
anything to do with their causation in man, and they may be
beneficial in eating up the comedones, although they are not
numerous in the face and are not easily found.

Further discussed by Drs. Smith and Skinner.

Mr. Laurent exhibited a specimen of Catocala habilis, which
he said differed from the normal form (which was shown for com-
parison) in the markings, the difference noted being the absence
of the white bands and black lines on the wings, always seen in
the normal form.

A motion being regularly made and seconded to appoint a
committee with power to act, to communicate with the Newark,
New York and Brooklyn Societies to arrange for a suitable place
of meeting for the annual fourth of July outing. The chairman
appointed Messrs. John B. Smith and H. W. Wenzel on said
committee, with the request to report at next meeting.

No further business being presented the meeting adjourned at
10.45 P - M - The members were then pleasantly entertained by
mine host Haimbach with a number of well-chosen musical selec-

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tions, both instrumental and vocal, the selections were all artisti-
cally rendered and much appreciated, Mr. Haimbach contributing
his share by acting as accompanist on the piano in a manner
for which he was deservedly complimented.

The next adjournment was to the annex, which was conducted

with the usual success.

THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary.

Xne Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

CATOCALA JAIR New spscies from Florida.

By Dr. HERMAN STRECKER.

cf 9- Expands about \y% inches. Head and thorax mixed brown and
ashen, dark lines across and edge the collar. Abdomen ochre yellow.
Primaries ground color ashen with distinct, black, transverse, anterior
and posterior lines, neither of which are toothed or serrated, but only a
little irregular, the latter beyond the middle of the wing bends inwards
towards the costa, where it ends in a small, distinct, square black spot.
The basal area reddish brown, median area has a transverse shade of
same color in which is reniform and subreniform, the first obscure the
last distinct and round. The space between the black transverse poste-
rior line and the gray submarginal is of the same dark reddish brown,
subapical dash also brown. Wings edged with a black line, fringe dark
brown. Inferiors yellow, with a broad, black, aborted, marginal band,
and a spot near anal angle; under surface is yellow with black bands as
in C. aniica.

Described from thirty examples which were taken the last
season in Florida.

Except C. messalina and C. aniica, this is the only yellow
Catocala lacking the mesial band of inferiors, its place is nearest
to C. arnica, but its appearance is most curious, looking as though
the inferiors of arnica had been attached to the superiors of some
other species. The primaries are very much broader than in
arnica and the style of marking, though the color is deeper and
brighter, is much as in C. formula Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil,
vi, plate iv, fig. 5, I give this reference so as to avoid confusion
as formula has been knocked around since under other names).

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Had I seen but one of this species never would I have ventured
to describe it as new, but having thirty examples under my eyes
all as like as a row of peas in a pod I felt no hesitation; it is one
of those that the most untutored would distinguish at a glance
from any of the other species; with it was taken numbers of C.
micronymp/ia, C. arnica, C. muliercnla and a curious variety of
C. ilia.

In the February number "Can. Ent." (vol. xxix), p. 39, the
Argynnis described by W. H. Edwards in "Trans. Am. Ent.
Soc. v, p. 204, under the name of carpenterii has again been
re-christened as charlottii. The synonymy of this insect now
stands thusly:

Argynnis leto Behr. , Cal. Acad.

carpenterii W '. H. Edwards, Proc. Am. Ent. Soc.
charlottii W. Barnes, Can. Ent.

The last name comes close to that of charlotta given by Haworth
in Lep. Brit. 1803, to a Melanotic aberrant of A. aglaija, but all
this matters little as the poor thing, despite all the accumulated
rubbish, will still remain A. cybele var. leto.

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SOME NOTES AND DESCIPTIONS OF NEW LEPTID/E.

By C. W. JOHNSON.

In studying the species of the genus Dialysis my attention was
called to the incongruity that exists in the venation of D. elon-
gata and D. rufithorax Say. It will no doubt be of interest to
show more fully the remarkable variation in the venation of the
wings referred to by Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend (Proc. Wash.
Ent. Soc. ii, 118) and by Dr. Williston (Kan. Univ. Quarterly,
iii, 263). D. elongata (fig. i) has four posterior cells, but there

is usually a slight angle to the discal
cell, and in one specimen (on one
wing) a stump that suggests the
origin or remains of the missing vein.
Fig. i. In one specimen ( ), on one wing

only, there is a cross-vein that divides the discal cell into two
unequal parts (this vein is indicated by a dotted line). In another
specimen (on one wing) the first and second branches of the fifth
longitudinal vein are not separated by a cross-vein, but united

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thus x at the outer end of the discal cell. The venation of
D. rufithorax is perhaps the most variable of any known species.
The vein that separates the fourth and fifth posterior cell is as
often incomplete (fig. 2) as it is complete (fig. 3). While in three
specimens one wing has the former and the other the latter char-
acter. Two or three specimens show another peculiar variation

Fig. 3.

(also shown in fig. 2) in having stumps of veins projecting from
the third longitudinal vein, one near the anterior branch, and two
from the branch, one near the junction the other near the tip:
there is also one on the first branch of the longitudinal vein about
half way between the discal cell and the posterior margin. The
above facts will, as has already been shown by Dr. Williston,
cause the abandonment in this case of " four posterior cells" as
a generic character.

Dialysis elongata Say.

Stygia elongata Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. iii, 41, 1823 ; Compl. Wr.

n, f. 5.

Anthrax elongata Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. i, 315, 1828.
Lomatia elongata VVied., Auss. Zw. i, 561 ; tab. ii, f. 6.
Xylophagus americanus Wied. ? Walker, List, etc., i, 128, 1848.
Dialysis dissimilis Walker, Dipt. Saund. iv, 1856.
Triptotricha dissimilis (Walk.) Osten Sacken, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1883,

295-

Agnotomyia elongata (Say), Williston, Entom. Amer. ii, 106, 1886.
Dialysis dissimitis (Walk.) VVilliston, Kans. Univ. Quart, iii, 265, 1895.
Dialysis elongata (Say) Williston, Kan. Univ. Quart, iii, 265, 1895.

From descriptions, a study of Walker's type (through the
kindness of Mr. E. E. Austen), and an examination of a large
amount of material, as the species is quite common in the vicinity
of Philadelphia, I can only arrive at the above conclusion as to
synonymy. Say described a male, while Walker's specimen,
the type of the genus, is a female.

Dialysis fasciyentris Lpew.

Triptotricha fasciventris Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1874, 380.

(5\ Length 8 mm. Head black ; face, frontal triangle and occiput
covered with a silvery white pubescence, mouth- parts and the first and
second joints of the antenna? yellowish, third joint and style brown, ocelli
reddish. Thorax black, shining, with minute yellow hair, sternum witli
silvery pubescence, humeri and the outer half of the scutellum brownish.

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Abdomen black, with prominent yellow hair; first, second and third seg-
ments with a wide posterior band of yellow, the remaining segments with
a narrow border, which is somewhat obscure on two last. Venter, first,
second, third and fourth segments yellowish, with the basal half of the
second, third and fourth more or less blackish, the last three segments
black, hypopygium reddish, base and tips of the claspers black. Legs
yellowish, tip of the anterior and middle tibia,- and the entire tarsi black,
tip of the posterior femora, the entire tibiae and the tip of the first and
the other joints of the tarsi black. Wings tinged with blackish, which is
more conspicuous beyond the discal cell, and a band that extends across
the wing at the base of the discal cell, costal cell and base of the wing
tinged with yellow; halteres blackish, base yellowish.

9- Length 9 mm. Head black, antennas entirely yellow, mouth-
parts brownish. Thorax yellow, shining, translucent, with very minute
yellow hairs; pleurae yellow, with a large, shining, brownish black spot;
scutellum yellow, translucent. Abdomen yellow, sparsely covered with
prominent yellow hair, base of the first segment narrowly margined with
black; second, third and fourth with a wide basal band of black, the
bands occupying fully one-third of the segment and a uniform width
throughout, fifth segment black, with a posterior band of yellow; sixth
and seventh segments yellow, with two longitudinal lines of black, basal
half of the ovipositor black, terminal portion yellow; venter yellow, base
of the fourth and fifth segments blackish, sixth and seventh black, with
a posterior band of yellow. Legs the same as the male, except that the
black portions have a more brownish color.

Two specimens ( $ 9 ) collected at Cranberry, Mitchell County,
North Carolina, June 10, at an altitude of 3250 feet by Mr. H.
W. Wenzel. I had looked upon D. fasciventris as the female
of D. elongatus, but through the kindness of Mr. Samuel Hen-
shaw I learn that Loew's type has five posterior cells. As the
male has never been described, and as the original description is
probably inaccessible to many I here redescribe the species.

Chrysopila griffithi n. sp. : T ? Length 5-6 mm. Face, front, vertex
and occiput grayish brown, vertical angles with minute black hairs, mouth-
parts, antenna? and arista reddish brown. Thorax brownish, witli an ob-
solete dorsal stripe of a darker shade; hairs yellowish, sparse, pleune
with blackish hairs. Abdomen brownish black, sparsely covered with
yellowish or whitish hairs. Legs yellow, femora of a more reddish color;
halteres yellow, tips black. Wings hyaline, slightly tinged with yellow,
stigma and cross-veins clouded with brown. In two specimens the lon-
gitudinal veins are also slightly clouded.

Ten specimens, Boykins, Ya., June 10: Hertford County,
North Carolina, June 9, 1895; Tifton, Ga., September 3 and 25,
October 5 and 16, 1896 (Dr. Hough).

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This species is dedicated to my friend, Dr. H. G. Griffith, who
assisted me in its capture.
Chrysopila modesta Loew, Centur. x, 14, Texas.

One specimen, Elkhart, Ind. ( R. J. Weith).
Chrysopila rotundipennis Loew, Centur. i, 19, Georgia.

Several specimens of this species were collected in Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia, July 14, 1891; Pendleton, N. C. , June 7;
Hertford County, North Carolina, June 9; Boykins, Va., June
10, 1895.

Symphoromyia hirta n. sp. ^.Length 7 mm. Head black, face black-
ish gray, with a silvery white reflection, vertical triangle black, with long-
black pile; palpi and proboscis black, palpi with long whitish pile, first
joint of the antennae black, with long black pile, second and third joints
and arista dark brown. Thorax and scutellum bluish gray with long,
black pile, dorsum of the thorax with three longitudinal black stripes,
which are attenuated posteriorly. Abdomen and venter bluish gray, with
long, brownish and yellow pile; femora and tarsi black, tibiae dark brown,
tips of the femora yellow ; halteres yellow. Wings hyaline, slightly
tinged with brown, stigma and base yellowish.

$. Length 5.5 and 7 mm. Pile throughout much shorter than in the
male. Face, front and vertex bluish gray, lighter on the face; front and
vertex with minute black hairs, first joint of the antennas brownish,
mouth-parts reddish, tips of the palpi and proboscis dark brown; ovi-
positor reddish.

Three specimens, Edge Hill, Montgomery County, Pennsyl-
vania, June 2; Philadelphia, June ri. The species resembles
closely the 6". crassicornis of Europe.

In recently going over some dipterological literature I find the
name Leptogaster longipes given to a Jamaican species (Proc.
Acad. Nat. Sci. 1894, 273) is preoccupied by Walker for an
Asiatic species (Proc. Linn. Soc. iii, 89, 44). I therefore pro-
pose in its place the name of Leptogaster clavipes.

OBITUARY.

ALOIS ROGENHOFER, Lepidopterist, in Vienna, on January 15, aged
65 years; was formerly Gustos of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum.

C. F. WIEPKEN, Ornithologist and Coleopterist, in Oldenburg, on Jan-
uary 29.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for April was mailed March 31, 1897.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. VIII.

PI. VII.

'

Pamphila zabulon ,
hobomok
pocahontas
aaroni

" zabulon ^>
(under surface)

Pamphila zabulon 9
hobomok 9
pocahontas
aaroni ,

(under surface)
hobomok

( under surface)

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. vni. JUNE, 1897. No. 6.

CONTENTS:

Patton The number of prolegs in in- Entomological Literature 135

sect larvse 122 Doings of Societies 140

Calvert Notes on European entomo- I Entomological Section 143

logical collections 124

King Aphids and coccids associating

with ants 125

Snyder Scarabidse of Dodge County,

Wisconsin 129

Casey A reply 132

Editorial 133

Notes and News 134

Kincaid The Psychodida: of Washing-
ton 143

Smith A preliminary classification of
the sp. of the genus Acronycta, etc. 146

Baker A remarkable new Acocephalid
from S. America 153

Linell A new. nearly blind genus of
Tenebrionidae 154

OUR illustration was furnished by our good friend, Mr. Frank
M. Jones, of Wilmington, Del. A previous drawing of moths
by the same gentleman was much appreciated by many of our
readers. There has been confusion for years in regard to two of
the species represented zabulon and hobomok. Dr. Strecker
was, I believe, the first author to catalogue these correctly, but
he has not been followed by subsequent writers; zabulon and
hobomok are certainly distinct species, the former having a dark
female and the latter having a tawny and also a black female
(pocahontas~). The principal differences between the dark females
of the two species are the following : zabulon 9 is smaller,
brighter in color, and the spots on the superiors above are bright
yellow and more clearly denned, the line of demarcation between
spot and the wing being much sharper than in dark 9 hobomok.
The females of zabulon show no discal dash, while in hobomok
they are quite apparent in the specimens before me. The under-
side of 9 zabulon is always much more brilliantly colored than
in the other species. I have examined all the large collections
in the country excepting one, and many of the smaller ones, and
have never seen a female zabulon of the color of the male. Pam-
phila aaroni belongs to the group arpa, palatka, etc.

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THE NUMBER OF PROLEGS IN INSECT LARVAE.

By WM. HAMPTON PATTON, Hartford, Conn.

Prolegs, normally present in Lepidopterous larvae upon ab-
dominal segments 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 are lacking in many Noctuids
upon 3 and 4; e. g. , Erastria and Drasteria. No fully-developed
prolegs are found on segments 3 and 4 of Calocainpa previous to
the third moult. The Hypenini have no prolegs on segment 3 ;
likewise Nola, the young larvae of Leucania and Catocala, and
the larvae of Helia americalis Guen. and Anomis texana Riley
(although other Helias and Aletia have the usual number). All
Geometrids, except Anisopteryx which has prolegs on abdominal
segment 5, have no prolegs on segments 3, 4 and 5.

In Argyromyges and Gracilaria the prolegs are present on
segments 3, 4 and 5, but absent on 6. Promiba has no trace of
prolegs. Aspidisca is apodous, having the thoracic feet repre-
sented by sucker-like discs, the anal prolegs represented by small
lobes each with a recurved hook. Antispila and Prodoxus have
no trace of either prolegs or legs. Prodoxus cinereus Riley re-
semble Aspidisca. In many Notodontians the anal prolegs are
converted into a pair of tentacles.

The existence of three pairs of thoracic feet I have verified in
Limacodes, although none of the Cochliopods have prolegs.
Prolegs are present in young bag- worms {CEceticus and T^hyrid-
opteryx), but are not conspicuous in the full-grown worms, being
represented by the hooks only in Thyridopteryx and Eumeta.

Phyllocnistis and Nepticula have nine pairs of hookless pro-
legs. Megalopyge (Lagoa) and Chrysopyga have seven pairs of
prolegs. The prolegs on the second and seventh abdominal seg-
ments of M. crispata have been found (contrary to Miss Murt-
feldt's statement in "Can. Ent.," viii, 202, November, 1896), to
be without hooklets, thus differing from the normal larger pro-
legs on the third to sixth segments. Micros have the hooklets
in an ellipse or circle; in macros they are reduced to an outer row.

Erioccphala calthella has eight pairs of abdominal legs jointed
like the thoracic Trichacis (Proctotrupidae) larva has ventral pro-
legs (Fyles "Can. Ent.," June '96).

Larvae of sawflies may be distinguished from those of Lepid-
optera (excepting the first stage of Lithocolletis, which has but
one ocellus cf. V. T. Chambers, "Journ. Cin. Soc. ," N. H.,

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ii, pt. 2), by having only one ocellus and, when prolegs are pres-
ent, by there being more than ten and without hooklets. Pam-
philius has no prolegs. Tenthredinidse have (22 in all) prolegs
on segments 5-11 and 13. Cimbicidae have (22) prolegs on 5-11
and 13. St. Fargeau's statement, quoted on page 9, of Norton's
" Catalogue," that the larvae of Zarcea and Abia have only 20
legs is erroneous ; for, I find Abia inflata Nort. to have 22 legs
in agreement with the other Cimbicidoe. Lophyridae have (22)
prolegs on segments 6-13. Nematidae have (20) prolegs on seg-
ments 5-10 (Cladius} or 6-n and 13. Acorduleceridae have (20)
abortive prolegs on segments 6-n and 13. Many apodous larvae
of Hymenoptera have an anal sucker.

Phryganeid larvae have a pair of anal prolegs.

Chrysopa has an anal disc used in locomotion.

Panorpa larvae have 22 conical legs, situated as in the sawflies,
besides anal legs or processes. Bittacus has two-jointed legs on
each of the nine abdominal segments. Sisyra has jointed appen-
dages on the first and seventh segments.

Hcematobia larva has transverse rows of minute fleshy filaments
at base of six ventral segments.

Simulium has a proleg on prothorax of larva. Chironomus
larvae have pairs of prolegs on the prothorax and on the last seg-
ment. The abdominal tubercles of Chironomus and Ephydra
bear hooks. Syrphus larvae have seven pairs of abdominal pro-
legs. Blepharocera larvae has six pairs of conical prolegs and six
median sucking discs ; the pupae has three pairs of suckers
beneath abdomen.

In Coleoptera prolegs occur, ventral in Entomoscelis (Fletcher),
ventral and dorsal in Asclera and Nacerdes, dorsal in Mordellis-
tena, Cerambicidae, etc. (Riley). Anal prolegs (sucking discs)
occur in Lampyridae, Coccinellidae, Chrysomelidae, etc. Phy-
tonomus has tubercles without claws on all the ventral segments
and uses them in clasping the leaf; it has also an anal sucker
which it uses in locomotion.

Mrs. A. T. SLOSSON has lately sent me a pretty and interesting species
of Thecla which she took in January of this year at Biscayne Bay, Florida
I saw at once it was new to our fauna, but is not new to science, as it was
described from Cuba by Herrich-Schaffer under the name of martialis
.(Corresp. Blatt. Regensb. 18, 164, 1864). HENRY SKINNER.

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NOTES ON EUROPEAN ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

By PHILIP P. CALVERT.

XIV. AMSTERDAM.

The centralization of facilities for study which Amsterdam
offers to the zoological student is, we believe, unequaled else-
where. The Zoological Society of that city maintains one of
the largest gardens of living animals in existence. On the grounds
is the building occupied by the Society, and containing, in the
basement, a salt and fresh -water aquarium of twenty-two perma-
nent, besides movable, tanks, and in the upper floor a zoological
museum, while in adjoining wing houses the zoological labora-
tory of the University of Amsterdam, under the direction of
Prof. Weber. The writer, having visited the Museum during
the vacation when the curator was absent, was unable to inspect
the entomological section, but in answer to a letter Dr. Johannes
C. H. de Meijere kindly furnished some notes on the collections
of insects, which are reproduced below. Dr. Coenraad Kerbert
is Director of the Museum, whose staff also includes Dr. J. Th.
Oudemans, known for his researches on the Macro-lepidoptera,
Hymenoptera, Thysanura and Collembola.

"The most important collection of insects at Amsterdam is in
the possession of the Royal Zoological Society [Koninklijk
Zoologisch Genootschap] ' Natura Artis Magistra.' It is con-
tained in two rooms, that are connected with the library, annexed
to the Zoological Garden of the Society. As by the illness and
subsequent death of the former conservator, the collection had
gone somewhat into a state of decadence, it is now being totally
reorganized. The intention is first to prepare a show collection
as well of insects in general as, more especially, of those which
inhabit the Netherlands. Of the latter the Lepidoptera are ready
for the greater part and were exhibited to the public during the
last weeks of the past year [1896].

"The collections are contained in rabbeted glass-topped,
wooden boxes. The best represented are the Lepidoptera and
Coleoptera. Notwithstanding that there are only few typical
specimens, some extensive collections are here, as, for instance,
the van Medenbach de Rooy collection (Lepidoptera), the Smit
collection (chiefly Lepidoptera) and a very fine collection of Co-

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leoptera from the Netherlands collected by Mr. E. Seipgens.
Further, the Society possesses for temporary use a great number
of indigenous Diptera, collected by Dr. de Meijere, at present
conservator of the entomological and ethnographical collections
of the Society."

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APHID8 AND COCCIDS ASSOCIATING WITH ANTS.

An Account of Their Habits ; with Bibliographical Notes.
By GEO. B KING, Lawrence, Mass.

Since the observations of Gould, Huber and others in their
time, nothing of a definite character has been given to us by
entomologists regarding the true habits of ants having aphids
and coccids associated with them in their nests. Most of the
writers on the subject took for granted what was said by the old
authors. The purpose of the present article is to attempt to show
that a large part of the published observations on the habits of
ants and coccids associating in the nests of the former is erroneous,
and to give results of personal observations and experiments
made by long and continuous study of them I supposed, like
all other naturalists apparently, from what I had read concerning
them that the ants collected the aphids and coccids for the pur-
pose of obtaining food for themselves during the Winter months ;
also that the ants went down into their burrows sufficiently far to
escape a freezing temperature, where they remained until the fol-
lowing Spring. This I believe to be the general opinion given
by all writers on this subject. My observations have been that
the ants in question do not go deep into their burrows during the
Winter, but remain where their nests become frozen, consequently
being in a torpid and inactive state until the approach of warm
weather. In this condition, of course, no food is required, which
fact precludes the acception of the hitherto adopted theory of the
association of ants and coccids. Some of the nests we will find
in which the ants are all collected together in small piles, and
this frequently before the ground becomes frozen, but too cold
for them to be active, the coverings of their nests consisting only
of a few sticks or stones for their shelter. The aphids and coc-
cids are with them in separate places under the same covering.
Some nests we may find in which the ants have deserted their

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herds and have gone down but a few inches into the soil of which
their nest is composed. Again we may find a few of the ants
remaining among the herd of aphids or coccids as the case may
be. The only purpose of the ants for collecting these insects in
the Fall of the year is to supply them with food during the Fall
and Spring months when other food is not obtainable.

We also find the eggs of aphids and coccids to be collected
and cared for by the ants. These, too, are wholly unprotected
from the frost, being set in a small orifice made by the ants under
the stones, and when the weather becomes warm enough for the
ants to become active they can easily be seen caring for them. It
is a fact that ants do collect both aphids and coccids and their
eggs in the Fall and release them in the Spring when their re-
spective food-plants are fit for them to feed upon. Notwithstand-
ing this we may find aphids and coccids at any season of the year
associated with the ants, but very few in comparison to those that
are found in Spring and Fall. That ants derive food from aphids
and coccids by sipping the excretions from the abdominal tubes,
and also that which exudes from the bodies in the form of sweat
forming a sweet waxy substance and a fungus growth which is
eagerly sought for and eaten by the ants is a well-proven fact.

I have found many new species of aphids and coccids in ants'
nests which are as yet undescribed, and are now being worked
up by Prof. Cockerell and F. A. Sirrine and myself. As soon as
possible after their determination I shall try and give their habits
according to my observations, and I hope to be able to give new-
facts in the matter.

Up to 1894 only nine different species of aphids are cited as
being found in ants' nests. Three of the genus Forda, one of
Paracletus, two of Tychtza, two of Phizobms, and one of Einc.
Of coccids eight different species had been so found, viz. : of the
genus Lecanopsis one, Ripersia three, Exceretopus one, Sperno-
coccns one, Orthizia one, Margarodes one ; of those that I have
found and that have been determined are Ripersia kingii Ckll.
(Can. Entmol. , vol. xxviii, p. 222-224, 1896) ; kingii is quite
frequently met with in the nests of Lasius flavius L., and Lasins
claviger Rog. Its color seems to be variable, usually of a dark
reddish shade inclining to purple when alive in the ants' nest, and
sparingly covered with white fungus or waxy substance. They
change to a violet still shading on the purple when put into alco-

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hol. This species is collected by the ants early in September,
and can be found with them until the latter part of April, but
not so late if the season is advanced, for they are then taken out
and placed upon their food-plant. I have not observed this spe-
cies feeding upon any of the roots entering the ants' nests, but
they are found placed in small clusters or herds attached to the
stone covering the ants' formicary. They seem to be in as good
condition in Spring as in the Fall of the year. Sometimes in the
Spring they may be found detached from the covering of the
nests and placed upon the surface of it, a small space being digged
out for them. In such cases I have always found them thickly
covered with a dark bluish cottony down. The size of the herds
is variable ; some may contain but five individuals, while others
may contain a hundred or more. It is also found in small num-
bers mixed with other species of coccids, and at times with aphids,
and will be farther noticed as we progress with the life-history ot
these insects.

The ants cause the aphids and coccids to excrete the desired
nourishment by walking over and about them. The ant's an-
tennae are in constant motion. Their mandibles wide open, and
can be easily seen feeding upon the excretions from the coccids,
passing from one to the other. Should the weather be pleasant
and warm when a nest of ants is disturbed which contains either
aphids or coccids, the ants will collect them as speedily as possi-
ble and hastily take them into their retreats, which extend but a
short distance below the surface of the nest. Sometimes we may
find a few coccids and aphids hibernating with the ants under the
surface, while some of the ants remain with the coccids on the
surface of the nest all Winter as before stated. I have not as yet
found the food-plant of Ripersia kingii.

Riper sia lassii Ckll. is of a somewhat smaller form, and is a
clear white species when put into alcohol, but when alive seems
to have a faint shade of flesh color and is sparingly covered with
white down. I have not found it feeding in the nests of ants.
The general habits of the ants caring for this species will also
apply to that of R. kingii in many respects. It has not been
found entirely covered with cottony down, and occurs in nests of
Lasius Jiavus L. and Lasius americanus Em., the food-plant
being unknown. The same habits will apply to Ripersia flaveola
Ckll. The latter is of a light yellow color, sparingly covered

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with white down, but not so completely as in kingii. Its color
when put into alcohol is a light lemon-color and remains so ; has
not been found feeding. Food-plant unknown.

What I have said of the habits of ant's aphids and coccids per-
tains to the species living in Massachusetts, and will no doubt
apply to those of other localities with a similar climate. I wish
at this time to thank Prof. Cockerell and Sirrine for their assist-
ance in the determination of the coccids and aphids on which I
am working ; also my esteemed friend, Ernest Andre, of France,
without whose aid I would have been unable to determine the
species of ants with which these insects have been found to be
associated.

The literature treating of ants and coccids associating is quite
scattering, and as far as I know is not extensive. Such as treat
of ants and coccids alone are : an account of Margarodes, a new
genus of insects found in the neighborhood of ants' nests by B.
A. Guilding. Trans. Linn. Soc., London, vol. xxvi, p. 115-119,
1829, 33. Kingsley's Standard Natural History, vol. ii, p. 218,
218, 1884, states that Margardodcs formicarum Guild, is found
in ants' nests in the islands of Bahama. Notes on the genus
Margaroda by Trinem Baland, Trans. Entom. Soc., Lon.,
p. 461, 1886, a description of Orthezia occidentalis Dougl., En-
tom. Month. Mag., vol. ii, p. 244-247, 1891, September, found
with a Myrmica sp., and the first to be discovered and described
as being found in the United States, none others being found un-
til those found by me and described by Prof. Cockerell. Trans.
New Zealand Institute, vol. xxiv, p. 38-39, Reperisia formicicola
is described by Maskell as being found with Tetramorum striatum
and T. nitidum. He states that this is the first instance that he
knows of coccids being found with ants. Entom. Month. Mag.,
vol. iii, p. 146, 1892, on new or little known coccids, chiefly Eng-
lish, by R. Newstead. He describes Riperisia tomlinii said to
feed on grass roots in ants' nests. Entom. Month. Mag., vol. iii,
p. 307, 1892. Coccids in ants' nest by W. W. Smith. Entom.
Month. Mag., vol. 4, p. 77-79, Riperisia tomlinii and R. subter-
ranea Newstead are described. Entom. Month. Mag., vol. iv,
p. 205-210, 1893, on the observations of coccids by R. Newstead.
Entom. Month. Mag., vol. iv, 138, 1893, on new coccids in ants'
nests. U. S. Agricultural Reports, 1893, p. 220, by C. V. Riley,
The San Jose Scale being transported by ants. Lubbock also

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speaks of coccids being kept by ants on p. 68 revised edition,
1895. Can. Ent. , vol. xxiii, p. 222-224, JSgG, three new species
of coccids described as new by Prof. Theo. D. A. Cockerel!.
The literature treating- of ants, aphides and coccids associated
together so far as I have found, Science Gossip, ist, 1865, p.
234 ; ants having coccids at the roots of Passiora prinsips as
slaves. Nature, vol. x, p. 31-32, 1874, by Herman Muller, a
Brazilian species of bee that makes use of a Hembracis larva
serving to bees the same purpose as the aphids and coccids do to
ants. Nature, vol. xvi, p. 309, 1877, by the ED. Formica flava
in possession of several kinds of insects at once, coccids, aphids
and a Coleopterous larva, all being cared for by the ants (the
ant should be called Lasius flaviiis) . Popular Science Monthly,
vol. xii, p. 116, 1877, by the ED. Formica flava keeps aphids
and coccids in its nests. American Naturalist, vol. xvii, p. 118,
by Prof. Leidy, yellow aphids and red coccids in the nests of
Lasius interjectus Mayr. at Philadelphia. In all probability these
were the Schizoneura corni Fabr. and Ripersia kingii Ckll.
Nature, vol. xlvii, p. 608, 1893. The use of ants to aphides and
coccids by Theo. D. A. Cockerell, an interesting coccid Icerya
rosce on Prosopis in Jamacia attended by ants. Nature, vol. xlviii,
p. 54, 1893, by J. G. Ramones and A. O. Walker. The use of
aphids and coccids to ants, and what becomes of aphids in Win-
ter. Nature, vol. xlviii, p. 54, 1893, by T. A. Sharp, the honey
dew not dropped voluntarily at times by the aphids. American
Naturalist, vol. xxx, p. 469, 498, relation of Alyrmecophils Lepic-
mids as to ants. Lasius umbretus Nyl.

(To be continued.)

o

SCARABID/E OF DODGE COUNTY, WISCONSIN.

By W. E. SNYDER, Beaver Dam, Wis.

Cant/ion l&vis Drury. During the past six years, at different
times, I have taken, all told, eleven of the species. A friend pre-
sented me several which he took at Fox Lake. I took one at
that place on Aug. 10, 1894. It was alive, floating on the lake
some 20 rods from shore. Have never found upward of four in
a single season, nor more than two on any one day.

Copris anaglypticus Say. Abundant all years but the past.
Diligent search the past season failed to reveal more than six in

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all. Never took but one in flight. Seldom seen, keeping well to
its burrows. Have taken four from one hole. Prefers droppings
of cattle to that of horses.

Onthophagus hecate Panz. Exceedingly abundant from early
in the Spring to late in Fall.

Atcenius. At least two species have been taken, one of which
the late Dr. Riley named as cognatus. The other is doubtless
strigatus.

Aphodius fimetarius Linn. Very abundant, though not in such
numbers as inquinatus.

Aphodius granarius Linn. Taken some seasons in consider-
able numbers.

Aphodius inquinatus Hbst. Occurs in late Fall by the millions.
Each Fall for usually four days the air will be filled by myriads
of this species. The flight the past Fall took place from Octo-
ber 1 2th to i5th. On the i6th none were observed. Mixed with
them was an occasional fimetarius. Prefer droppings of horses,
and it is wonderful how quickly after once discovering a " find '
they will have it spread out in a thin coating over a considerable-
surface.

Balboceras tumefadus Beauv. In 1893 only have I met this
variety of farctiis, when four were taken near my home on as
many dates.

Balboceras lazarus Fab. I took two specimens at Fox Lake,
on July 8th, last, both found under decaying leaves in a heavy
woods on an island. They were about two inches apart.

Odontceus filicornis Say. Among a lot of material sent Dr.
Riley on April, 1892, was a specimen he identified as this species.
It was retained by him for the National Museum.

Geotrupes splendidus Fab. Common about cow dropping
each year, though none were found the past Summer.

Geotrupes hornii. One specimen so identified by Dr. Riley,
taken in 1892. Doubtless semiopacus occurs also.
Trox suberos^ls Fab. Rare, very seldom taken.
Trox unistriatus Beauv. Common, found mostly under the
dried carcasses of chickens and other fowls.

Trox foveicollis Har. Some twenty in seven years. Strange
to say all but six of this number were taken from under dried,
carcasses of Felis domesticus and Sciurus say?.

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Trox scaber Linn. One specimen, now in National Museum,
taken in 1891.

Dichelonycha ehngata Fab. Abundant, favorite food- plant
the basswood, also abundant on common hazel.

Serica vespertina Gyll. A few taken, doubtless belonging to
this species.

Serica serices 111. Abundant, easily taken at dusk when feed-
ing on the hazel bushes.

Lack nosterna fusca Froh. Our most common Lachnosterna.
Prefers to feed on leaves of the burr oak.

Lachnosterna marginalis Lee. Four taken as follows, from
under stones lying in a pasture, three in 1892 and one on May
23, 1895.

Lachnosterna ilicis Knoch. Seven were taken in 1893 and
have found six since. All taken in early Spring fresh under stones
in same pasture as marginalis.

Lachnosterna tristis Fab. Abundant some years, again rare.
In 1890 they were abundant, feeding on the roots of the timothy,
completely ruining some fields.

Cotalpa lanigera Linn. Very rare, having secured eight in an
eight years' residence here. Most of these were presented me by
friends.

Ligyrus relictus Say. Found abundantly in manure heaps,
where the manure is well rotted. Strange have never met it out-
side of a barn-yard.

Allorhina nitida Linn. In 1891 a studentat Wayland Academy,
this city, presented me eight, which he said he took one evening
from a bush on the college campus. I have found one specimen
also.

Eiiphoria inda Linn. Abundant in Spring and Fall. Most
common in Spring along the sanded railroad track, in Fall on the
sunny sides of timber. Never observed any feeding on the juice
of corn stalks until this Fall, when in one day's corn cutting took
sixty-one and could have taken scores more.

Trichius piger Fab. Have some specimens corresponding to
those from other localities in many particulars, which I do not
hesitate to ascribe to this species.

Trichius affinis Gory. Abundant, found most commonly orb
the wild species of Rosa.

132 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

A REPLY.

To the Editor of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Sir: In regard to
the article by Dr. Hamilton (NT. NEWS, viii, p. 35) I wish
simply to reply that the statements made with so much confidence
by him concerning the three species of Hemanlus of the second
subgenus may possibly have in them some elements of truth. It
is of course possible that I may be wrong in my ideas regarding
these closely allied forms. But, a few lines further, when the
writer issues a wholesale denunciation of my generic divisions
of the Anthicini, he makes some statements which show unfamili-
arity with the subject. For instance, the divisions which I have
suggested are based upon profound structural differences in im-
portant sclerites of the pro- and mesosterna hitherto wholly un-
suspected, and these divisions are, with a single exception, not at
all similar to any of the feebly characterized sections founded by
certain European authors upon general outline of the head and
prothorax, as Dr. Hamilton would seem to wish his readers to
believe; if he had studied the matter a little more thoroughly he
could not have fallen into so grave a misconception. The only
case that I have been able to discover with a nearly complete set
oi the European species before me, where any division which I
have proposed proves identical with a section of the European
genus, is the one before us. Hemantus had, I find, previously
received two distinct names, one by Mulsant and another by Pic,
but this will be touched upon more fully at another time.

Respectfully yours,

THOS. L. CASEY.

WASPS IN THE AIR BRAKES. It would be a remarkable thing if a little
Insect should be the means of compelling the Westinghouse Air-brake
Company to remodel the exhaust port of their pressure-retaining valve,
says the Pittsburg Post, but it appears that the necessity for such a change
confronts them at present, or rather confronts the railroad companies who
use the brakes. The insect that causes all the trouble is the common
mud wasp a transient inhabitant of the West and Northwest which,
like the genus tramp, appears to have a penchant for traveling. The
wasp builds his mud-home on the exhaust port of the valve named, and
closes the vent, causing no end of trouble and expense. Superintendent
Rhodes, of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, was the first
to describe the new enemy of the air-brake, and after an exhaustive trea-
tise on the subject recommends the alteration of the shape of the valve
and form of the vent as the only means of getting rid of the difficulty.
Philadelphia Record.

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HYBERNATION OF HYPENA. With regard to this subject (Exr. NEWS,
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Prof. LAWRENCE BRUNER, of the University of Nebraska, has sailed
for Buenos Ayres on a mission of conquest. He is going to teach the
Argentinians how to fight the armies of grasshoppers that are devastating
their wheat fields. The destruction of wheat by these pests in Argentina
and Uruguay last year has been estimated at 23,000,000 bushels. If Prof.
Bruner shall put a check upon this enormous destruction he will not
achieve such fame as the great soldiers who prove most expert at what
Thackeray called "the noble art of murdering," but he will deserve more
than they.

334 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

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A DOG WORTH TWO FIELD HANDS. Bob Payne mourns the loss of his
wonderful dog, whose biography we gave in the Enterprise last year, and
whose forte was worming tobacco. This dog, it is claimed, actually re-
paired daily to the tobacco patch and carefully sought for and destroyed
the worms which prey on the plant. He is now at rest from his labors,
and Mr. Payne says he will have to hire two hands to take his place in
-the tobacco field. Forest and Stream.

THECLA SHERIDANII has occurred rather plentifully this Spring on the
barren tops of the foot-hills near Denver. The habits of this insect have
given me no clue to its food-plant; it is generally sitting on small rocks
or the ground; the only flower it seems to frequent is the small, white,
blooming Saxifraga cespitosa. It is a difficult insect to catch as it is
almost impossible to see it on the wing; it is soon faded and worn, but
when fresh is a very beautiful insect, the white line being conspicuous.
Anthocharis rosce has also appeared in some numbers. I captured Pa-
pilio indra on blossoms of wild cherry May 4th, the earliest time I have
yet seen it. DAVID BRUCE.

IN the room where I keep my collection there is a stationary washstand
with hot and cold water. This became the abiding place of a colony of
small red ants (Monomorium pharaonis). They were a great nuisance
and got into some of the drawers of my cabinet which were made years
ago, in an unsafe way, so far as museum pests are concerned. I made
several desultory attempts to get rid of them, but without success. I
made the collections safe by the use of naphthaline, as these little fellows
wont stay where it is. I had a jar of oxide of zinc ointment on the wash-
stand and the ants were very fond of it, and it was always covered by a
lot of them. I remembered the story of the Quaker on board the ship
which was attacked by pirates, one of whom was coming up the side

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<l hand-over-hand" on a rope. The Quaker could not fight, but he picked
up a hatchet and said to the boarder, " Friend, if thee wants that rope
thee may have it," and he cut it in two. The same thing occurred to
myself: I thought if the ants needed the ointment more than I did they
might have it, so I took it out of the jar and mixed with it about a quarter
teaspoonful of white arsenic (arsenious acid). I have not seen an ant in
that room since. HENRY SKINNER.

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1. NATURE. London, April 8, 1897. Acquired immunity from insect
stings, E. S. Morse, G. Macloskie. New works on classification of Le-

pidoptera, Anon., fig. April 29. On the color and color patterns of

moths and butterflies, A. R. W.

2. NATURAL SCIENCE. London, April, 1897. Are the Arthropoda a
natural group, E. R. Lankester.

3. LA FEUILLE DES JEUNES NATURALISTES. Paris, April i, 1897.
Notes on Hyptiotes anceps (Arachnida) and description by Dr. T. Thorell,

J. Castelnau, figs.

4. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE L'OUEST
DE LA FRANCE vi, 4. Nantes, Dec. 31, 1896. On a flight of Harpalns
observed last Summer, Abb J. Dominique.

5. ARCHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, Ixii, i, 3. Berlin, February, 1897.
Contributions to the knowledge of palaearctic Myriapoda iv, C. Yer-
hoeff, 5 pis.

6. SCIENCE GOSSIP. London, April, 1897. A new mealy bug (Dacty-
lopius pseudonipf?'}, T. D. A. Cockerell.

7. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE ZOOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, xxi. Paris,
1896. The state of the social wasps of Brazil, H. von Ihering. Ants,

136 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

C. Janet. Observations on Dermatobia, P. S. de Magalhaes. Observa-
tions on Polistes: primitive cell and first cell of the nest, provisions of
honey, hibernation, association of foundatrice queens, P. Marchal. Notes
and data on the Xylophilida; (Coleopfcera, Heteromera), M. Pic. New-
genus and species of the group of pilicolous Sarcoptidae (Chirodiscinae),
E. Trouessart. Preliminary notes on marine Acarina dredged from great
depths by M. Koehler in the Gulf of Gascony, id. Halacarus trouessarti,
a new species of Halacaride of the Mediterranean, D. N. Voinov.

8. THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. London,
April, 1897. Report upon the scorpions and Pedipalpi, obtained on the
Lower Amazons by Messrs. E. E. Austen and F. Pickard Cambridge
during the trip of Mr. Siemen's steamship "Faraday," R. I. Pocock.
New species of Hymenoptera from Central America, P. Cameron. Con-
tributions from the New Mexico Biological Station v. Some new Hy-
menoptera from the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerell.

9. BULLETIN DU MUSEUM B'HISTOIRE NATURELLE. Paris, 1896, 7.
Fauna of the caverns of the central plateau and of the Jura, A. Yire.

8. General considerations on the digestive apparatus of the Phasmidse,
L. Bordas.

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GERMANICAE NATURAE CURIOSORUM, Ixv. Halle, 1896. Systema Geo-
metrarum zonae temperatioris septentrionalis, viii, C. von Gumppenberg,

5 Pis.

n. BIOLOGISCHES CENTRALBLATT. Leipsic, April i, 1897. Recent
researches on the life of wasps, C. Emery.

12. ATTI E MEMORIE BELLA R. ACCADEMIA BI SCIENZE, LETTERE Er>
ARTI IN PADOVA ccxcvii, 1896. The bursa copulatrix of Lepidoptera, E.
Verson.

13. BOLLETINO DELLA SOCIETA RoMANA PER GLI STUDI ZoOLOGICI,

v, 5 and 6, 1896. A case of myiasis through a larva of Sarcopha^a car-
naria Meig., Dr. G. Alessandrini.

14. MEMORIE BELLA REALE ACCABEMIA BELLE SCIENZE BI TORINO
(2), x)vi, 1896. On some luminous phenomena presented by the scales
of certain insects [Entimus], A. Garbasso, fig., i pi.

15. ARCHIVES NEERLANDAISES BES SCIENCES EXACTES ET NATUREL-
LES, xxx, 5. Harlem, 1897. On cecidiogenesis and alternation of gene-
rations in Cynips calicis. Observations on the gall of Andricus circit/ans,
M. W. Beijerinck, 3 pis.

16. TRAVAUX BE LA SOCIETE BES NATURALISTES A L'UNIVERSITE IM-
PERIALE BE KHARKOw. xxx, 1896. Note on Afgiope lobata Pall., \\'.
Reinhard, i pi. (in Russian).

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17. BULLETIN OF MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. Royal Botanic Gar-
dens. Trinidad, July, 1896. Life-history of the parasol ant (Atta spp.),
J. H. Hart, figs. October, 1896. Wood destruction in Trinidad, id.

18. ARCHIVES DE ZOOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE ET GENERALE (3), iv, 4.
Paris, 1896. On reflex blood-letting (saignee) and the means of defense
of some insects, L. Cuenot.

19. DEUTSCHE ENTOMOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 1896, heft 2. Berlin,
January, 1897. Revision of the Meloid genus Lydus Latr., Dr. K. Es-
cherich, figs. Dichotomous revision of the genera of the Tenebrionid
division Tentyrini known to me, E. Reitter. Revision of the species of
the coleopterous genera CalyptopsisSo\., Dailognatha and Liparns, id.
(three papers). Zoological results of a journey of Dr. K. Eschench and
Dr. L. Kathariner to Central Asia Myrmecophilae, E. Wasmann. Re-
vision of the Lomechusa group, id.

20. FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCI-
ENCE. Sandusky, O., 1897. Biological effects of civilization on the in-
sect fauna of Ohio. F. M. Webster. Additions to the catalogue of the
Odonata of Ohio, D. S. Kellicott. List of Ohio Crambidas, J. S. Hine.
Butterflies found in Summit County, Ohio, E. W. Claypole.

21. THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. London, April 15, 1897. The
Coleoptera of a London granary, H. Donisthorpe. On the wing scales
and their pigment in Lepidoptera, T. A. Chapman.

22. INVESTIGATIONS ON THE SAN JOSE SCALE. Report to the New
Jersey State Board of Agriculture, Jan. 13, 1897. By Prof. John B. Smith,
State Entomologist. Trenton, N. J., 1897; 24 pp., pis. and figs.

23. MITTHEILUNGEN AUS DEM RoEMEK MUSEUM, 8. Hildesheim, Feb-
ruary, 1897. The butterfly fauna of Hildesheim, A. R. Grote, 4 pis. of
venation (in German).

24. THE BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA. By W. H. Edwards.
Third series, part xviii. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mi I'll in & Co.
Preface to the third volume, supplementary notes and general index to
all three volumes.

25. SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY (n. s.),
54. Feb. 22, 1897. On some drngonflies in the Dublin Museum of Science

and Art., G. H. Carpenter, i pi. 55. April 3, 1897. The geographical

distribution of dragonflies, G. H. Carpenter, i pi.

26. REVUE GENERALE DK BOTAMOUE, i.\, 99. Paris, March 15, 1897.
On some galls of Terebinthaceoi, H. Fockeu, 2 pis.

27. THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. Philadelphia, May, 1897. The optic-
lobes of the bee's brain in the light of recent neurological methods, F. C.
Kenyon, i pi.

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28. COMPTES RENDUS. L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. Paris, April 12,
1897. Classification of the Orthoptera on characters drawn from the di-
gestive apparatus, L. Bordas.

29. SCIENCE. New York, April 30, 1897. An essay on the classifica-
tion of insects, J. B. Smith.

30. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. London, Ont., May, 1897. Cal-
litnorpha again, H. G. Dyar, i pi. Some ants and myrmecophilous in-
sects from Toronto, G. B. King. The Coleoptera ol Canada xxiii. The
Ceramhycidse of Ontario and Quebec (cont), H. F. Wickham, figs.
Notes on Philcenus, C. F. Baker. Two new parasites from Eupceya slos-
sonics W. H. Ashmead. Notes on predaceous Heteroptera, with Prof.
Uhler's description of two species, A. H. Kirkland. Grapta interroga-
twiiis, A. J. Snyder. A new Cozlioxys from New Mexico, T. D. A.
Cockerel!.

31. THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,
1897, pt. i, April 9, 1897. A monograph of British Braconidae, pt. vii,
Rev. T. A. Marshall, i pi. New Coccidae collected in Algeria by the
Rev. A. E. Eaton, R. Newstead, i pi. Seasonal dimorphism in African
butterflies, A. G. Butler.

32. PSYCHE. Cambridge, Mass., May, 1897. A new hypothesis of
seasonal dimorphism in Lepidoptera ii, A. G. Mayer. On mounting
minute insects, particularly Micro-diptera, C. F. Baker. Notes on New
England Acrididae iii. Oedipodinae iv., A. P. Morse. Description of
some new genera in the family Cynipidae, W. H. Ashmead. Life-history
of Euchcetes eglenensis and comparison with E. col/aris, H. G. Dyar.
Our greenhouse Orthoptera, S. H. Scudder. Aulocara and Ageneotettix,
id. Some corrections in generic names in Orthoptera, J. McNeill.

33. 2ist ANNUAL REPORT of the Dept. of Geology and Natural Re-
sources of Indiana, 1896 [Extract]. A collection of Indiana cave beetles,
H. F. Wickham, figs.

34. SOCIETAS ENTOMOLOGICA. Zurich-Hottingen, April 15, 1897. An
hermaphrodite of Platisamia cecropia, C. Frings. Miscellanies from
Brazilian insect life i. Injury of trees by beetles, J. P. Schmalz.

35. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY AND NATURAL
SCIENCE. London, April, 1897. Strange adaptations to the environment
in water insects, Mrs. A. Bodington. Anatomy of Diptera, W. Jenkinson,
i. pi., R. S. Pattrick. Larva of Stratiomys chanuzleon, C. F. George,
i pi.

36. NUOVA GIORNALE BoTANico iTALiANo (n. s.), iv, 2. Florence,
1897. On some cecidicz and cecidiozoa of Santolina, Dendrobium and
Cattleya, G. Del Guercio.

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37. VlDENSKABELIGE MEDDELELSEK FKA DEN NATURHJSTORISKE Fo

RENING i KJOBENHAVN, 1896. Danish Zoocecidiae, S. Rostrup. Neu-
roptera, Pseudoneuroptera, Thysanopoda, Mallophaga, Collembola,
Suctoria, Siphunculata Groenlandica, F. Meinert. Lepidoptera Groen-
landica, A. Bang-Haas. Coleoptera, Hymenoptera Groenlandica, W.
Lundbeck.

38. EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, viii, 7. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
Washington, D. C. Summary of recent papers on economic entomology.

39. TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SO-
CIETY OF ONTARIO, 1896. Toronto, 1897. Notes on the season of 1896,
Rev. T. W. Fyles. Annual address of the President, J. Dearness, figs.
Entomology for rural schools, Prof. J. H. Panton. figs. The importance
of entomological studies to an agricultural and fruit-growing community,
Rev. T. W. Fyles, figs. Two insect pests of 1896, Prof. J. H. Panton,
map and figs. Notes on the insects of the year 1896, Rev. C. J. S. Be-
thune, figs. Insect injuries to Ontario crops in 1896, J. Fletcher, figs.
Some beetles occurring upon beech, W. H. Harrington, figs. Notes on
the season of 1896, J. A. Moffat, figs. Warning colors, protective mimicry
and protective coloration, F. M. Webster, figs. The San Jose" scale, id.,
figs. Lepidopterous pests of the meadow and the lawn, Rev. T. W.
Fyles, figs. Rare captures during the season of 1896, A. Gibson, figs.
The butterflies of the eastern provinces of Canada, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune,
figs.

40. THE ENTOMOLOGIST. London, May, 1897. Melanism and climatal
conditions, G. \V. Smith. New Hymenoptera from New Mexico, U. S.

A., T. D. A. Cockerell.

INDEX TO THE PRECEDING LITERATURE.

The number after each author's name in this index refers to the journal, as numbered
in the preceding list, in which that author's paper is published ; * denotes that the paper
in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

THE GENERAL SUBJECT.

Morse i, Macloskie i, Lankester 2, Vire 9, Garbasso 14, Beijerinck 15,
Cuenot 1 8, Wasmann 19, Webster 20, Smith 29, Baker 32, Bodington
35, Del Guercio35, Rostrup 37, Fyles 39, Dearness 39, Panton 39, Bethune
39, Moffat 39, Webster 39, Gibson 39, Smith 40.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

Alessandrini 13, Hart 17 (two), Donisthorpe 21, Smith 22, Fockeu 26,
Newstead 31, Schmalz 34, Anon. 38, Fyles 39 (three), Panton 39, Fletcher
39, Harrington 39, Webster 39.

MYRIAPODA.
Verhoeff 5.

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ARACHNIDA.

Thorell & Castelnau 3, de Magalhaes 7, Trouessart 7 (two), Voinov 7,
Pocock 8, Reinhard 16, King 30.

THYSANURA AND COLLEMBOLA.
Meinert 37*.

ORTHOPTERA.
Bordas 9, 28, Cuenot 18, Morse 32, Scudder 32 (two), McNeill 32.

NEUROPTERA.
Kellicott 20, Carpenter 25* (two), Meinert 37.

HEMIPTERA.

Cockerell 6*, Smith 22, Fockeu 26, King 30*, Kirkland 30, Uhler 30*,
Newstead 31, Meinert 37.

COLEOPTERA.

Dominique 4, Pic 7, Garbasso 14, Cuenot 18, Escherich 19, Reitter 19
(four), Wasmann 19, Donisthorpe 21, King 30, Wickham 30, 33, Schmalz
34, Lundbeck 37, Harrington 39.

DIPTERA.

Alessandrini 13, King 30, Baker 32, Jenkinson 35, Pattrick 35, George 35,
Meinert 37.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Anon, i, Gumppenberg 10, Verson 12, Hine 20, Claypole 20, Chapman
21, Grote 23, Edwards 24, Dyar 30, 32, Snyder 30, Butler 31, Mayer 32,
Frings 34, Bang-Haas 37*, Bethune 39, A. R. W. i.

HYMENOPTERA.

v. Jhering 7, Janet 7, Marchal 7, Cameron 8*, Cockerell 8*, 30*, 40*,
Emery n, Beijerinck 15, Hart 17, Kenyon 27, King 30, Ashmead 30*, 32*,
Marshall 31, Lundbeck 37.

Doings of Societies.

PHILADELPHIA, May n, 1897.

A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held at
the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, No. 1509 S. I3th Street.

Prof. Smith exhibited a bottle containing about 2000 bean
weevils, B ruckus fab<z; someone had left about two quarts of
beans at his laboratory which showed indications of being infested
with this pest. The speaker stated he first became aware of their
presence by seeing a number of them on the window-panes; upon

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closer inspection he found the beans alive with them, the whole
mass being in a state of palpitation; he further noticed that ap-
parently this commotion had caused a rise of temperature in the
vessel containing these beans as they seemed quite warm to the
touch, he therefore procured a. thermometer which he placed in
the centre of the vessel, which was a shallow wooden bowl not
over four inches deep; it registered then 70, the temperature of
the air, but steadily rose until it reached a height of 101, which
seemed one of the most remarkable things he had ever noticed.

Mr. Laurent reported Syneda graphica and Epirranthis objir-
man'a quite common at Clementon, N. J., last Sunday.

Mr. Kemp exhibited specimens of Casnonia ludoviciana, of
which he has taken large numbers in hibernation during the past
Winter, the specimens were all taken in the vicinity of Camden,
N.J.

Mr. Seiss spoke of grasshoppers, stating he had found a $
specimen of Melanoplus dijferentialis Uhl. in Philadelphia on
Aug. i, 1896, also stating that Mr. Kemp had taken a 9 of the
same species in Camden, N. J., Sept. 14, 1896; the speaker stated
, he can find no previous record of its capture in this locality.

Dr. Griffith gave an interesting account of his recent southern
trip, exhibiting the Coleoptera collected at Lake Mary, Florida,
among which was a full series of the Gopher beetles, including
two species heretofore unknown; he also explained an easy and
labor-saving method of reaching the Gopher shown him by o-ne
of the native professional Gopher hunters. The speaker also
mentioned the finding of several species of Ljtma, describing the
several species of Solanum upon which they were found.

Under new business Prof. Smith stated that, in accordance with
the views of the Newark people, he considered Jamesburg the best
selection for the annual field meeting discussed by the members
in general. In conclusion it was regularly moved by Mr. H. W.
Wenzel, seconded by Mr. Laurent, that the next meeting be held
at Jamesburg on Sunday, July 4th, and that the Feldman com-
mittee attend to the supplying of the refreshments, carried.*

Mr. H. W. Wenzel announced that he had gotten through
arranging the Feldman collection of Coleoptera of eastern Penn-
sylvania and southern New Jersey which the Social had promised
to furnish and which will be shortly presented to the Academy

* Trains leave Philadelphia at 8.25 A. M. and New York at 8.30 A. M.

142 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,.

of Natural Sciences. The collection consists of 16 boxes and
comprises 656 genera, 1326 species and 3823 specimens.

THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary,

NEWARK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Special meeting held
February 28th at the laboratory of Prof. John B. Smith, New
Brunswick, N. J., nine members present and Messrs. H. W.
Wenzel, Laurent and Fox as visitors from Philadelphia. Some
hours were devoted to an examination of the collections, appa-
ratus, etc. , and the meeting was called to order about two o' clock.

Prof. Smith explained his plan of forming a biologic collection
and his methods of preparing and preserving early stages and
samples of insect work in all conditions. He urged especially
upon the members the desirability of preserving all stages of all
the insects by them, and urged them to gather also samples of
insect architecture wherever they were obtainable. For preserving
larvae of natural shape and often in natural colors, nothing is
more satisfactory than to drop the living insect into boiling hot
water and allow to boil until fully distended, but not abnormally
bloated. It should be then put into a two per cent, solution of
formalin, which will preserve it without discoloration for a long
time. If alcohol is to be used instead of formalin it should be
put from the boiling water into fifty per cent, alchohol. After a
time it may be transferred to eighty per cent, alcohol, and this is
sufficient under ordinary conditions to preserve it perfectly.

Mr. Weidt explained how he collected the larvae of Arzama in
"cat-tails." He finds it simpler to pull aside the outer leaves
than to cut into the reeds because, at any rate toward the end
of February, more specimens were found just under the outer
leaves than were found in the stalks themselves. Several other
larvae and a number of beetles were also found in similar situations.

Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited his collection of Bembidium
which had been recently arranged in accordance with a paper
now in press in the " Trans." Am. Ent. Soc.

Prof. Smith showed the collection o{- Acronycta which he is
now monographing, and explained some of the characters used
to separate the genus into groups. He also gave an outline clas-
sification of the various orders of insects, illustrating by a diagram
the genealogy of the class. The annex was held at the residence
of Prof. Smith at New Brunswick.

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The Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS :

THE PSYCHODID/E OF WASHINGTON.

By TREVOR KINCAID, University of Washington.

So far as the writer is aware no Psychodidae have been recorded
from the Pacific coast, therefore it was with great interest that
he undertook the investigation of the representatives of the group
found in this vicinity. Careful collecting carried on during sev-
eral months disclosed the fact that our Psychodid fauna is by no
means a meagre one, since five distinct species were obtained.
Of these only three were collected in sufficient quantities for
critical comparison, and as they do not agree with any of the
published descriptions they are hereby characterized as follows:

Psychoda pacifica n. sp. Length 2.0-2.3 mm. Body brown, except
lateral margins of abdomen, which are dull white. Thorax and abdomen
thickly clothed with long gray hair, an especially prominent tuft upon the
potserior margin of thorax. Wings ovate, apex obtusely rounded, gray,
with gray hair upon the veins; fringe gray, very long upon the posterior
margin, shorter and more closely applied upon the anterior margin; length
3.0-3.5 mm. Legs brown, clothed with gray hair and scales; antenna
brown, as long as width of wing, i5-jointed, with verticillate gray hairs
upon the nodes; joints 1-3 closely united; joints 3-13 separated by slender
pedicles; joints 14-15 small and narrowly separated ; ^ genilalia con-
spicuous, with long gray hair above and below, several times as long as
the breadth of the end of the abdomen. Inferior appendages 3-jointed,
elongated, curving dorsally; first joint stout; second joint twice as Imu
as first, very slender, swollen slightly at base, tapering to an acute point;
third joint very minute, clavate. Superior processes one-half the length
of inferior, curving ventrally, 2-jointed; first joint swollen near the bas.-
second joint almost as long as first, slender, tapering to an acute point.
Ventral plate of 9 brown, with numerous gray scales and a few scattering
hairs, about as long as broad, terminating posteriorly in two blunt lobes
with a shallow emargination between ; ovipositor black, prominent,
slightly curved.

Described from several hundred specimens taken at Seattle,
Wash., during the months of March and April. Several speci-
mens were also reared from manure, but the larvae were not
obtained.

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Psychoda elegans n. sp. Length 1.6-2 mm. Thorax and dorsal surface
of abdomen brown; lateral margins of abdomen dull white; ventral sur-
face of abdomen brownish, varying to dull white. Thorax and abdomen
sparsely clothed with gray hair. Legs brown, clothed with gray hair and
scales. Wings lanceolate, acutely pointed, with gray hair upon the veins;
fringe gray, sparse, short upon anterior margin, somewhat longer on pos-
terior margin; antennae brown, one and one-half times as long as breadth
of wing, i6-jointed, with verticillate hairs upon the nodes; joints 1-3 closely
jointed, joints 3-13 separated by slender pedicels; joints 14-16 small,
narrowly separated: (^ genitalia brown, with gray hair above and below,
somewhat prominent. Inferior appendages moderately long, curving
dorsally, 3 -jointed; first joint broad at base, conical; second joint as long
or a little longer than first, swollen at base, tapering; third joint extremely
slender, cylindrical, about one-sixth as long as second joint. Superior
appendages about one half the length of inferior, 2-jointed ; first joint
stout, ovate; second joint slender, longer than first, tapering to an acute
point. Ventral plate of 9 brown, with numerous gray scales and a few
scattering hairs, about as long as broad, terminating posteriorly in two
prominent lobes with a semicircular emargination between ; ovipositor
black, prominent, strongly curved.

Described from about fifty specimens taken at Seattle, Wash.,
during the March and April.

Psychoda olympia n. sp. Length 2. mm. Body brown, densely clothed
with dark gray hair. Legs brown, clothed with dark gray hair; a number
of long white hairs scattered over the tibice; tarsi with gray scales. Wings
lanceolate, acutely pointed; length 3.5 mm.; fringe on anterior margin
black, as long as the width of a cell, with a long tuft near base, on poste-
rior margin gray, sometimes with a few black hairs, as long as the width
of three cells; small patch of black hair at tip of each vein, an irregular
band of black hair across wing towards apex, immediately internal to this
two patches of white hair which occasionally run together into a band;
small patch of white hair at base of wing; region near base with mixed
black and white hair; antennae i6-jointed, dark, clothed with verticillate
gray hairs upon the nodes, except first and second joints, which are cov-
ered with scales; first joint cylindrical; second joint round; joints 3-14
fusiform, produced into tapering pedicels; joints 15-16 small, without
pedicels; length in ? as long as width of wing with fringe, in ^ twice the
breadth of wing; <$ genitalia not conspicuous, brown, with scattering
gray hairs. Inferior appendages 2-jointed; first joint oblong, stout, united
into a broad plate ventrally, which is produced posteriorly into a small,
median, conical process; second joint slightly longer than first, obclavate,
slightly curved, apex truncated and bearing a group of long stiff bristles.
Superior appendages as long as inferior, 2-jointed; first joint oblong;
second joint a little longer than first, slender, tapering to an acute point.
Ventral plate of 9 as broad as long, terminating posteriorly in two finely

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pubescent lobes with a slight emargination between; anteriorly it is densely
clothed with gray hair; ovipositor yellowish inconspicuous, as long as
ventral plate, almost straight.

Described from two specimens taken at Olympia, Wash. , during
the months of April and July respectively, and from thirty speci-
mens taken at Seattle, Wash., during the month of April.

In P. pacifica and P. elegans the wings are folded roof-like
over the back when at rest, but in P. olympia they are spread
horizontally.

In dissecting these delicate little flies several points were ob-
served which may be of interest.

The ventral nerve cord of the abdominal region is double, the
two bands being united only at the ganglia. This ladder-like
arrangement of the nervous system probably points like the vena-
tion of the Psychodidse to a generalized condition.

The ovaries are two in number and lie on each side of the ab-
domen, each resembling a bunch of grapes. The undeveloped
eggs are oval and exhibit the usual arthropod condition of a cen-
tral yolk and peripherally distributed protoplasm. They seem
to develop considerably before being laid, as females were dis-
sected which contained eggs in a much more advanced condition;
these were oval, about .2 mm. long, nearly one-half of the egg
being occupied by a dozen or more large embryonic cells, with
prominent nuclei and nucleoli, which arched over the remaining
yolk in a dome-like manner.

The study of antennae which had been cleared and mounted
in balsam brought to light some peculiar structures which are
undoubtedly organs of special sense. In P. pacifica and P. ele-
gans there is a small circular protuberance on each side of every
node of the antennae, except those at the tip and base. From
the apex of each of these elevations three long, slender processes
spring out, two of them projecting divergingly forward to the
base of the joint in front, and the third projecting backwards to
the node of the joint behind. On examining the antenna of P.
olympia for homologous structures it was found that here the
conditions were quite different. On each side of the joints of
the antennae circular depressions were found, and springing from
the centre of each of these were two beautiful lanceolate wing-
like structures, which, from their longitudinally ribbed appear-
ance, would seem to be either enormously developed scales, or

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else formed by the fusion of a number of hairs into a flat plate.
The writer would suggest for these structures an auditory func-
tion. Those of P. olympia are admirably adapted for this pur-
pose, as on each joint the four processes are so arranged that
each would take up a vibration from a different direction while
the others would not be disturbed, which would enable the
animal to detect not only sound, but its direction.

So far as observed the Psychodids are never captured in spiders'
webs and this is explained, the writer believes, by the density and
peculiar arrangement of the hairs upon the body, and especially
upon the legs. The little flies may often be seen calmly walking
over the snares so fatal to almost the whole race of Diptera and
if they come in contact with the webs in their flight they are
never more than temporarily embarrassed.

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A PRELIMINARY CLASSIFICATION OF THE SPECIES OF THE
GENUS ACRONYCTA OF TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA.

By JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D.

For some months past I have been engaged in a monographic
revision of the genus Acronyda as represented in our fauna, and
have been assisted in this work, so far as the early stages are
concerned, by Dr. H. G. Dyar. The preliminary arrangement
is now completed, and the new species have been determined, but
it will be weeks before the mss. is in final shape for publication,
and months before it can be actually printed. Inasmuch as there
are quite a number of species represented in several collections,
to which mss. names must be attached when they are returned
to those who kindly loaned them to me, I have considered it best
to present synoptic tables of all the species, indicating those that
are new and differentiating them from their nearest allies. This
will give validity to the names attached to the specimens and will
not anticipate the full discussion of their structural and other
characters in the monograph. The preliminary division of the
genus into groups may not be entirely clear without the explana-
tory discussion, but can be made so by any one who will arrange
his species in the series and will study the sexual characters of
any one species of each group. It may be said that the order
of the species in the tables is arbitrary, for convenience in iden-

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tification, and not that to be adopted in the collection. Insolita
is the only species not before me, and is omitted for that reason;
dentata and pyralis seem improperly referred to the genus.

Synopsis of Groups.

Primaries well developed, trigonate, outer margin oblique, apices some-
what drawn out; all the markings usually normal, but tending to
break up into spots or blotches on the transverse lines, which are
often marked on the costa only; psi marks not prominent.

Group Americana.

Primaries rather abruptly widening on inner margin at base, less obviously
trigonate, outer margin arcuate, the. apices rectangular, or even
a little rounded.
Vestiturc smooth, the markings not picked out by elevated scales; the

dagger marks prominent Group Lobeliae \

Vestiture rough or squamose, the markings picked out by elevated

scales.

Psi marks evident, wing form as in lobelia . . Group Lobeliae ^

Psi marks wanting or barely indicated, primaries trigonate, apices

rectangular; broader than in lobelia? in proportion to length.

Group Persuasa.

Psi marks present or wanting, costal margin arcuate, the primaries
widening abruptly near base and subequal . Group Hamnmelis.
Primaries short, trigonate, stumpy in appearance, or long, narrow, sub-
equal or lanceolate . . . Group Auricoma.

Groups According to Genital Structure.

Lateral clasper a single, long, curved hook, arising abruptly from the

harpes . Americana.

Lateral clasper scoop shaped, with a projecting long upper angle; with

or without a finger-like process from upper margin, lohcliir \ Lobeliae.
Lateral clasper flat, with a long projecting angle and a finger-like process

from upper margin . . . Persuasa.

Lateral clasper beak like, with or without a superior process; arising

separately from harpes . . . . /obelur % Grisea

Lateral clasper hook or beak like; arising from an oblique thickening at

the middle of the harpes . . . Hamamelis.

Lateral clasper a slender claw, hook or process above, and a short, stout,

inferior process, somewhat like a short thumb and a long curved

fore-finger . . . . Auricoma.

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Group Americana.

1. All the maculation distinct; ordinary spots well defined; median lines

geminate, t. a. scalloped, t. p. denticulate; secondaries yellowish in

both sexes rubricoma.

Maculation more or less incomplete; median lines never both geminate,
t. a. line not scalloped and t. p. line not so strongly denticulate;
secondaries various 2.

2. No longitudinal basal dash, line or streak 3.

A longitudinal black basal line, not divided at tip and not joined to

the t. a. line, which is absent or marked on costa only . . 4.

Basal dash very short, not reaching to the t. a. line, which is often in-
dicated on the submedian interspace by an angulated mark . 7.

Basal dash or streak extending to the t. a. line, or to the angulated
mark indicating it ......... 8.

3. Secondaries smoky in both sexes; median lines and ordinary spots

fairly well marked; t. p. line geminate; size very large, americana.

Secondaries yellowish white in male, smoky yellow in female; prima-
ries with an ochreous tinge, best marked in male; dagger mark
opposite anal angle sharply defined and crossing the t. p. line.

kastulifera.

Secondaries grayish white in male, smoky gray in female; primaries
bluish ash-gray; dagger mark opposite anal angle is but vaguely
indicated and does not cross the t. p. line . . hesperida n. sp.

Secondaries white in male, smoky gray in female; primaries ash-gray;
dagger mark opposite anal angle well marked and usually crosses
t. p. line dactylina.

4. Primaries dark blue-gray, densely black powdered . . 5.
Primaries paler ashy gray, black powdering more sparse . 6.

5. Ordinary spots on median lines usually wanting; veins slightly darker,

giving a somewhat strigate appearance; t. p. line sometimes well
denned as a narrow pale band ...... ielina.

Ordinary spots always discernible, sometimes well marked; t. p. line
well defined and even ... . frigida n. sp.

6. Darker, the black powderings evenly distributed, veins somewhat

smoky, giving a strigate appearance; t. p. line continuous, without
blotchy marking . . pacifica n. sp.

More whitish, the black powderings irregularly massed, veins not so
marked as to give a strigate appearance; t. p. line broken, with
blotchy black markings .... . insita.

7. Chalky white, black powderings very fine; ordinary spots well marked;

t. a. line marked on costa, internal margin and in submedian inter-
space; t. p. line interrupted and blotchy; dagger mark prominent
and crosses t. p. line opposite anal angle . . . cretata n. sp.
White with a faint creamy tinge; markings as before, but less promi-
nent; powderings much less evident . . . lepocina.

* vulpina Grt.

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Grayish white, more evenly black powdered; orbicular absent; dagger
mark not distinct and does not cross t. p. line opposite anal angle.

populi.

8. T. a. line incomplete, but usually present in part . . 9.
T. a. line complete, geminate ........ 10.

9. White with a creamy tinge, primaries rather sparsely powdered; or-

bicular distinct . lepusculina.

Ashen gray, primaries quite densely powdered with coarse black scales;

no median shade line ... . Cinderella n. sp.

Ashen gray as before, but with an evident, smoky, angulated median

shade line or band . . . transversata n. sp.

10. Primaries dark bluish gray; t. a. line almost upright, its two parts

almost equally distinct and quite widely separated; size smallest
of the group ...... ... tota.

Group Lobeliae.

1. No black basal dash line or streak and no black dagger marks of any

kind 2.

A black basal dash, streak or line present in all cases; one or more
dagger marks usually present .... . 3.

2. Ground color creamy white; costal marks and t. p. line black.

innotala.

Ground color luteous, the maculation but little darker and none of it
black . . betulae.

3. The ordinary spots are more or less obviously tied or connected by a

black line or dash ......... 6.

The ordinary spots not connected by a black line or dash.

Scaly vestiture of primaries smooth, decumbent . . 4.

Scaly vestiture of primaries elevated, rough, giving the surface a

more or less velvety appearance . . . . 15.

4. Maculation strigate, all the ordinary lines and spots obscured . 9.
A more or less obvious black line or dagger mark touches or crosses

the t. p. line opposite the cell . . 5.

No trace of a dagger mark or black line opposite the cell of prima-
ries . . . . . . . . . . . .10.

5. Dorsum of the thorax discolorous, yellow, primaries creamy white

with yellow shadings, secondaries smoky ; size large . mornla.
Dorsum of thorax concolorous.

Size moderate, primaries ashen gray, no median shade line; all the
dashes distinct and the markings well defined . occidentalis.
Size small, primaries with a more or less obvious median shade line.
Ashen gray with a slight reddish tinge; opaque; the dash oppo-
site anal angle usually crossing the t. p. line . . paupercula.
Glistening or shining white, with mossy olivaceous or bluish
shadings; anal dagger usually not crossing the t. p. line.

vinnula.

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Smoky or blackish, the maculation white ; median lines very
strongly dentate . .... fragilis."

6. Primaries creamy white, a little shining, powdered with fine brown

atoms; secondaries smoky yellow . . . Ixtifica n. sp.
Primaries ash or bluish gray.

Dorsum of thorax concolorous; transverse markings normal . 7.
Dorsum of thorax discolorous, yellow; maculation strigate . 8.

7. Secondaries smoky yellowish in both sexes.

Largest of the series; expands 1.75 to 2 inches; all the black marks
and dashes prominent and contrasting, the basal dash usually
crossing the t. a. line . . . lobeliae.

Expands not to exceed 1.75 inches.

Deep ash-gray with a smoky tinge; secondaries smoky yellow in
both sexes . .... . furcifera.

Paler ash-gray, a little mottled in appearance ; secondaries white
with a faint smoky shading ... . . liasta.

Bluish ash-gray; maculation tending to become strigate; seconda-
ries pure white ....... manitoba n. sp.

8. Primaries gray with a faint ochreous suffusion; all the ordinary spots

and lines traceable; secondaries with a faint smoky tinge.

thoracica.

Primaries blue-gray without suffusions; the ordinary spots and lines
scarcely or not at all traceable; secondaries pure white.

strigulata n. sp.

9. Primaries dark ash-gray with a smoky suffusion; secondaries with a

yellowish tinge which is best marked in the male . litho-spila.

10. Internal margin of primaries darkened by a black shading from base

below the dash to the t. p line . . 14.

Primaries uniformly gray; not darker along inner margin . . ii.

n. The dagger opposite anal angle crosses the t. p. line . .12.

The dagger opposite anal angle does not cross the t. p. line . 13.

12. Very dark, even, blue-gray, the maculation obscure, except for the

dashes and t. p. line; t. a. line scarcely traceable . tritona.

Ash-gray, powdery, all the markings evident.

Darker and larger; space beyond t. p. line smoky, dagger mark
opposite anal angle very heavy; secondaries soiled whitish in
both sexes . . ... revellata n. sp.

Smaller and paler, a little marbled in appearance; dagger mark
opposite anal angle more slender; secondaries white, only a
little soiled in both sexes ...... grisea.

Very even, ash-gray, without contrasts and with all the markings
slender and neatly written ; secondaries white in the male,
smoky in the female . radclitfei.

* Microccclia fragilis

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13. A quadrate black patch on primaries between the ordinary spots.

quadrata.

No marking between the ordinary spots.

An orange shading at base below the black dash; secondaries white

in the male, soiled with gray in female . . falcula.

No orange shadings at base ; secondaries white in both sexes, a

little soiled outwardly in female . . parallels

14. Bluish gray; the dark shading along inner margin is diffuse, not de-

fined, and does not extend upward on the t. a. line.

mansueta n. sp.

Bluish white, the dark shading along inner margin is black, sharply
defined, and extends upward so as to form a tooth on the t. a.
line . . . . fimeralis.

15. A dark longitudinal shade extends through the middle of the prima-

ries ...... 1 6.

Primaries without such a dusky central shade . . . .17.

16. Smaller, smoky gray, a little suffused with luteous in the cell; not

mottled or marbled ....... connecta.

Larger, ashen gray, a transverse as well as longitudinal dark shade
giving the primaries a marbled or mottled appearance.

superans.

17. Very dark, powdery ash-gray; none of the dashes well marked; all

the lines geminate, but obscure ; secondaries smoky yellow,
darker in the female ...... brumosa.

Paler ash-gray; at least the basal dash well marked.
The dashes neatly defined; that opposite anal angle not diffuse.

spinigera.t

The dashes diffuse; that opposite anal angle thick and not sharply
defined . . . pruni.i

Group Persuasa.
Almost entirely black ; the orbicular white, round, contrasting, with a

central clot; all other maculation obscured . aiflicta.

Very dark ash-gray, mottled with black; all the maculation traceable, but

except the orbicular, not contrasting . persuasa.

Dark ashy gray, more evenly washed with smoky ; the black shadings

tending to become strigate . . . liturata n. sp.

Ground color bluish white; all the markings black, so that the primaries

appear marbled . . . marmorata n. sp.

Group Hamamelis.

Dagger mark opposite anal angle usually distinct, always traceable.
Secondaries of male white; ground color of primaries even, dark blue-
gray, ordinary spots shaded with reddish ; vestiture scarcely
roughened, even of the ornamentation . . albarufa.

Secondaries smoky in both sexes.

* = impUta Wlk. ; = subochrea. f = harveyana Grt. J = clarescens Grt.

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Yellowish gray, the reniform yellow shaded; basal dash distinct, black,
connecting with an inward angulation of the t. a. line, which is
broadly black marked and so formed as to include an ovate basal
space above the streak ovata.

Essentially with markings as before, but the basal dash is linear or
scarcely traceable and the t. a. line is not black marked: size
smaller ... . . modica.

Uniformly ash-gray, the geminate t. a. line evenly oblique and the
dagger mark opposite anal angle tending to disappear in the
male . . ... clarescens.*

No dagger mark opposite anal angle; at most a diffuse shading that sug-
gests its presence.
Expands more than 1.25 inches; ground color varies from ashen gray

to blackish smoky; the markings either distinct and contrasting
or barely traceable ..... . hamamelis.

Smaller and of a much more evenly dark ground color; does not ex-
ceed and rarely reaches 1.25 inches in expanse . . increta.

Size as before, but ground color of a pale, whitish gray . retardata.

Group Auricoiua.

1. All the ordinary maculation present, but not contrasting: no longitu-

dinal streaks, dashes or dagger marks; primaries elongate, sub-
equal ........... 2.

All the ordinary maculation present, more or less mottled and con-
trasting, tending to suffusion; primaries short and trigonate . 3.

The ordinary maculation more or less obscured, tending to become
more distinctly strigate ; wings long, trigonate, tending to or
becoming lanceolate . ...... 4.

2. Dull ashen gray with dense black powderings obscuring the macula-

tion; secondaries grayish white . . illita n. sp.

Brighter gray, primaries with sparser powderings and all the macula-
tion clear; both wings with a yellowish suffusion, most marked
in secondaries ... . . luteicoma.

3. Even, pale, powdery gray, without a black basal dash or streak, and

with no contrasting maculation . . . sperata.

Marbled black and white; the maculation contrasting . noctivaga.

Primaries gray, more or less mottled; basal black streak present.

Dark bluish gray, the maculation not prominent; secondaries soiled

white in the male, smoky gray in female . . emaculata n. sp.

Paler gray, with a slight yellowish tinge on both wings, the markings

well relieved and the primaries therefore with a mottled appearance.

Somewhat broader winged and the primaries less pointed at tip; t. a.

line in female always well marked . impressa.

Narrower winged and the primaries more pointed at tip, t. a. line in

female obscured by a dusky shading which extends from base to

the anal angle . . . . distans.

* = hicsitata Grt.

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4. The primaries so strigate as to appear blackish and the transverse

maculation obscured ........ 5.

The primaries ash-gray, not prominently strigate; transverse macula-
tion distinct; an obvious dagger mark opposite the anal angle. 6.

The primaries almost white, with black powderings, in form lanceolate
and without a dagger mark opposite the -anal angle . . 7.

5. All the maculation obscured, and only the reniform sometimes trace-

able . barnesii n. sp.

T. p. line fairly evident and lunulate; secondaries of female dusky.

perdita.
T. p. line evident and very strongly dentate; secondaries white in both

sexes . edolata.

6. A distinct black basal streak; t. a. line obscure or wanting; t. p. line

strongly denticulate . . . extricata.

No black basal streak; t. a. line usually evident; t. p. line not strongly

denticulate . . . xyliniformis.

7. Grayish white, powdery; t. p. line lunulate; a series of black terminal

dots . . oblinita.

Bluish white, less powdery in appearance; t. p. line an even, continu-
ous brown shading; no black terminal dots . . lanceolaria.

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A REMARKABLE NEW ACOCEPHALID FROM S. AMERICA.

By CARL F. BAKER.

In the Herbert H. Smith collection of South American Jassidae
there are several specimens of a remarkable Acocephalid, which
I refer to the genus Carchariacephalus Montrouzier, Ann. Soc.
Ent. Fr. , 1861, p. 71. The occurrence of this genus in South
America is of extreme interest, the only other species being C.
forestieri Montrouzier, described from Lifra. The insect I de-
scribe as C. smithii differs from Carchariacephalus as originally
characterized only in a few minor points, agreeing with it in most
of the important particulars; it is the nearest relative of C. fores-
tieri among the known Acocephalini. This genus may be readily
separated from all other Acocephalid genera by the following
characters: Vertex much longer than width between eyes: face
very short below, clypeus reaching considerably above level of
eyes; head and pronotum inclined forward.

Carchariacephalus smithii n. sp. Length: 9, 5-5 mm.; <J\ 5 mm -
Black; antennae pale straw color, as are also legs, meso- and metasterna,
usually a common commissural spot at apex of clavi, and an elongate
triangular costal spot interrupted at apical third, averaging half the width

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of elytra and occupying one-half to three-fifths of costal length; venter
and blade of ovipositor yellowish or orange. Wings deep smoky. Head
slightly narrower than pronotum; face heavily shagreened; clypeus trape-
zoidal, narrowed to a truncate tip, considerably exceeded by the gense;
genie deeply creased below the eyes, not angulate outwardly; lone very
small, sublinear; front subelliptic, strongly elevated, sides rounding up,
but disc flat, even; on upper third with a sharp carina which terminates
above in the carinate margin of vertex. Vertex nearly a half longer than
width between eyes, a third longer than pronotum, with a delicate longi-
tudinal carina; anteriorly subelliptic, apex slightly obtusely angulate, an-
terior edge carinately margined ; surface nearly even, longitudinally striate,
the striae slightly converging anteriorly, back of the ocelli the striae par-
tially replaced by punctures; ocelli large, on the disc of the vertex twice
as far from the eyes as from the anterior edge. Prothorax carinate behind
eyes, propleurae transversely rugose, the other pleurae also variously
sculptured ; pronotum nearly two-thirds broader than long, anteriorly
broadly rounded and somewhat narrowed, hind margin gently concave,
surface roughly punctured, posteriorly also transversely rugose; scutel
shorter than pronotum, variously roughened, with a straight transverse
groove. Elytra without an appendix, equaling tip of ovipositor; clavus
and basal two-thirds of corium coarsely punctured; last ventral segment
of female twice as long as preceding, the hind margin slightly bisinuate.

Described from two females collected at Rio Janeiro in Sep-
tember and October, one female collected at Para in July.

I take pleasure in dedicating- this species to the veteran South
American explorer who discovered it.

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A NEW, NEARLY BLIND GENUS OF TENEBRIONID.

By MARTIN L. LINELL.

(Aid Dept. Insects, U. S. National Museum.)

TYPHLUSECHUS new gen.

Body elongate, parallel, margined on the sides, feebly convex,
glabrous and nearly smooth. Head horizontal, very large, as
long as broad, slightly convex; sides parallel, with obtuse margin,
posterior angles acute and prominent, anterior angles obliquely
truncate, anterior margin rather deeply emarginate; clypeal suture
wanting; labrum concealed ; eyes each apparently of a single
ocellus situated in an impressed puncture a little nearer to the
lateral than to the posterior margin of the head. Another im-
pressed puncture with smooth bottom behind each eye; a short,
obtuse, oblique elevation on each side above the base of the an-
tennae; mandibles short, bifid at apex; mentum large, transverse

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tridentate in front; last joint of palpi feebly dilated, subtruncate
at apex; from the insertion of the antennae extend deep, sharply
limited grooves obliquely to beneath the hind angles and con-
tinue on the thorax beneath the front angles as a rounded cavity
for the reception of the antennae; geme beneath the groove
prominent, spiniform; antenme longer than the head, id-jointed,
first joint a little thicker, somewhat longer than broad, second to
seventh compactly placed, increasing slightly in width, the second
as long as broad, a little longer than the third, eighth to tenth
more loosely articulate, forming a subserrate club, eighth and
ninth strongly transverse, tenth rounded, subtruncate at apex.
Thorax slightly longer than broad, inside the depressed margins
as broad as the head; apex truncate; side margins more strongly
explanate in front, broadly sinuate at the middle, the edge re-
flexed; angles obtuse; base obliquely truncate each side, broadly
lobed at the middle, the lobe depressed, truncate at apex, limited
by a short, obtuse, oblique elevation each side; scutellum very
small, triangular. Elytra as long as head and thorax together,
scarcely wider than thorax; base deeply emarginate ; scutellar
region depressed; humeri very prominent, embracing the base
of thorax; lateral margins undulating, narrowly depressed, with
an acute reflexed edge; epipleurae broad at base, gradually nar-
rowed behind and not reaching the apex; pygidium entirely con-
cealed; prosternum moderately broad between the coxae, strongly
dilated behind them, flat and truncate at apex; middle coxae
moderately separated, the cavities open externally; metasternum
very long and wide, somewhat convex, episterna narrow, epimera
concealed; posterior coxae small, rounded ; intercoxal pro<
very broad, squarely truncate. The first four abdominal seg-
ments decreasing rapidly in length, the third and fourth without
coriaceous margin. Legs short, femora slightly clavate; tibiae
slender, gradually broader to apex; spurs minute; tarsi short,
narrow, beneath sparsely setose, not canaliculate ; basal joints
subequal in length; last joint as long as the three preceding ones
together.

Type: T. singularis new species.

This genus seems most nearly allied to the NYCTOPORINI by
the structure of the head and coxae. The antennal grooves and
the form of the antennae themselves will, however, exclude it

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from too close association with that tribe, and it may be best
placed as a distinct tribe between the ANEPSINI and NYCTOPO-

RINI.

Typhlusechus singularis n. sp. Ferruginous, shining. Head and thorax
sparsely, moderately finely punctate ; an interrupted series of coarser
punctures along the explanate thoracic margin. Elytra each with five
very fine striae; the intervals sparsely obsoletely punctulate; a submar-
ginal row of coarse, deep punctures; epipleurse obsoletely punctulate;
prosternum strongly rugosely, its side pieces very sparsely punctate;
metasternum and base of abdomen moderately, the last segments finely
punctate. Length i.S mm.

Type No. 1391, U. S. N. M.

Two examples from Lo-> Angeles County, California, collected
by Mr. A. Koebele. It is the smallest Tenebrionid of our fauna.

GUIDE TO THE GENERA AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE NORTH AMER-
ICAN ORTHOPTERA found north of Mexico. By Samuel Hubbard Scudder;
87 pages. Cambridge: Edward \V. Wheeler, 1897.

The author states that this work is not published as a finality, but for
temporary use of students of Orthoptera in this country who have few
means for working up their collections. He contemplates a general work
on the classification of our Orthoptera, of which this is merely a prodromus.

The book contains tables of characters of the families Forficulida;, Blat-
tida;, Mantidae, Phasmidse, Acridiidae, Locustidae and Gryllidae. Also
tabulated keys to the genera of the families named; sixteen pages of
valuable bibliographical notes are added. The volume contains no check-
list or descriptions of species, which are so urgently needed, but which,
we hope, will shortly appear in a succeeding volume.

As the author states that the book'is intended mainly for students, we
were somewhat disappointed to find a total omission of plates and figures,
which we believe to be far more useful than many pages of text and in-
tricate classification. As an introduction the work has many valuable
features, and we highly recommend it to all entomologists interested in
the study of Orthoptera. C. F. S.

OBITUARY.

R. ALLAN WIGHT. There died on Dec. 22, 1896, at Paeroa, near
Auckland, New Zealand, a man who, although he had never done any
systematic work in entomology, had by his indefatigable industry in ob-
serving the habits of insects and in writing about them for the agricultural
newspapers, done a great deal of good bo'h to the agricultural interests

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of the colony of New Zealand and to the science of economic entomology
at large. He was an active correspondent of the foremost economic en-
tomologists of different parts of the world, and it is safe to say that a
more interesting and charming letter writer has seldom lived. A short
review of his life would be appropriate for any entomological journal,
and his unusually eventful career will doubtless excuse a more lengthy
notice than would be given perhaps to one of even greater scientific-
attainments.

Robert Allan Wight was 73 years of age at the time of his death. I am
not informed as to the place of his birth, but, at the age of eight, he was
living in Edinburgh, where his father was a partner in a banking house
a rich man, and one who had devoted some time to scientific pursuits.
Among his father's intimates were several scientific men of standing.
One of them was the late Dean of Westminster, Dr. Bucklancl, and
another was M. 1'Abbe de Bourdeville, Confessor to King Charles the
Tenth of France, who had taken refuge about that time in Holyrood
Palace. Young Wight's mother was dead at the time, and the boy,
thrown somewhat upon his own resources and having a strong affection
for all kinds of animal life, collected everything in the way of insects and
living animals, including fishes and reptiles. The good M. 1'Abbe" helped
him and taught him in his natural history studies, and the old man and
boy were inseparable. Finally, the Abbe presented him to King Charles,
and he took to the King upon the occasion of his presentation some
beetles. Mr. Wight states in an interesting letter written some years ago
to the late Dr. Riley (to which letter the wiiter is indebted for most of the
facts in this notice) that the beetles did not please the King as much as
he had anticipated, but he was appointed Court Entomologist, probably
the first and only appointment of this kind which ever was made. The
ladies of the Court made a great pet of the interesting child. He remem-
bered among them Madame la Duchess de Berry, who was a beautiful
woman at the time.

In 1835 his father's bank failed and they went to live in London. Young
Wight was sent to be a clerk in a bank in Yorkshire, but he disliked
money matters, and as the manager insulted him for drawing a beetle
upon one of the pages of his ledger, the youngster knocked him down
and gave him a thrashing. A legacy from his aunt had left him indepen-
dent and he began to study medicine. He fancied the anatomy, but not
the rest of the studies, and through a friend of his, the Earl of Devon,
gave him an appointment in the Ecclesiastical Commission, and he began
to study to become an Actuary. After passing his examinations he lost
his fortune by speculation on the Exchange after having made a consider-
able amount of money. Shortly after this he discovered a serious fraud
in matters connected with the Ecclesiastical Commission and invented
99 year leases for the Bishop of London's property. For this service he
was given several years leave of absence and full pay to recover his health
-which he had lost from overwork. At that time he wrote a good deal for

158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June v

the London journals chiefly on entomology and stones of animal life.
He also did some writing for Punch. His health soon became so preca-
rious that three of the best physicians in London told him he must die in
less than three months of pulmonary consumption, tubercles having been
fully formed on his lungs. On the advice of his physician he started for
Australia, and was so ill that he had to be slung up in a chair on deck.
When once on shipboard he threw his medicine overboard without having
opened the parcels and declined the advice of the ship surgeon. In a few
weeks he was nearly well. Arriving in Adelaide he spent some time in
collecting bird skins and other specimens to send home to Dean Buck-
land. He then went to Melbourne, where he bought a small farm, but
the gold fever broke out and he went to mining. He made a good deal
of money at the diggings, realized ^"12,000 profit on his farm, and started
for Otago, New Zealand. There he took up 100,000 acres of land far
back from civilization and stocked it with sheep and cattle. He had been
a good deal among the natives of Australia and knew a little of their
language and picked up a stray black in Otago who followed him like a
dog and was very useful in getting specimens and minding sheep. They
were so isolated on the ranch that they lost the days of the week and the
months of the year, but in the end he again lost his health and took his
family (I do not know where or when he was married) up to Auckland
and bought a beautiful place some twenty miles in the country. Here
the Maori War broke out and he was offered a captain's commission, in
an infantry regiment, which he declined. He afttrwards took a carbine
and sword in Col. Nixon's flying brigade, which led the van. He wa-
disabled early in the war. After the war he owned and commanded a
small coast vessel, and after his children grew up (six sons and six daugh-
ters) he moved farther away from the city to another tract of land where,
after many a stirring adventure with the Maori natives, among others
having his house burned down twice over his head, he finally succeeded
in civilizing the place, and lived therefor many years. In 1889 he lost
his property through the old mistake of endorsing a friend and moved to
the spot where, I understand, he died.

Writing in February, 1891, he says: " My good wife, thank God, is still
by my side, and my twelve children are not only alive and well, but there
are vast lots of grandchildren always climbing over me, and I have also,
what I like so well, a magnificent scenery and plenty of animals. I spend
most of my time either fighting the codling moth, or writing for journals,
and trying in that way to do a little good work, but 1 fear to a very little
purpose."

Mr. Wight's health must have failed him seriously some years back,
for, although he used to be a constant correspondent, the writer had not
heard from him since September, 1892. His contributions on the subject
of insects, mainly published in the columns ot the New Zealand Farnu-i\
were admirably adapted to his audience. They were always extremely
readable, and the advice which he gave for treating injurious insects was

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always sound. He was greatly interested in the subject of parasitic and
predatory insects, and strongly advocated the fighting of injurious species
by the aid of these natural helps. He was triumphant over the success
of the introduction of Vedalia cardinalis into California and New Zealand,
and was very courteous and hospitable towards Mr. Koebele during his
stop at New Zealand on one of the Australian missions. He had a great
admiration for American methods in economic entomology, was a close
reader of our publications and published periodical summaries of the
practical results obtained.

Peace be to his ashes. L. O. HOWARD.

WASHINGTON, March 24, 1897.

MAKTIN LARSSON LINELL, Aid in the Department of Insects of the
United States National Museum, died suddenly May 3, 1897, of heart
failure, at his home in Washington, D. C.

Mr. Linell was born at Gronby, Sweden, June 24, 1849, and was conse-
quently in his forty-eighth year. He became interested in the study of
Nature at a very early age, and in his boyhood began the collection and
classification of the fauna and flora of his native country. In the year
1870 he matriculated at the University at Lund, where he distinguished
himself by his proficiency in mathematics, biology and languages. It
was his father's intention to fit his sou for the ministry, but young Linell
abandoned his university career at the end of his third year for the railway
mail service.

In 1879 he married and came to America, obtaining employment in a
chemical laboratory at Brooklyn, N. V. Here he resumed his entomo-
logical studies, improving every spare moment in amassing a collection
of the insects of the vicinity, particularly the Coleoptera, in which he was
always especially interested. In 1884 he became a member of the Brook-
lyn Entomological Society, of which he afterwards held the office of
Curator, and at the time of his departure from that city he had earned a
reputation for accuracy in the determination of species and was regarded
as the best systematist among the entomologists of New York. In 1888
he was engaged as Aid in the Department of Insects of the U. S. National
Museum, which position he held at his demise. In the course of his nine
years' employment at the Museum he had worked over and arranged
practically the entire collection, outside of the Hymenoptera and one or
two other orders, and had begun a rearrangement of the Coleoptera, both
native and exotic, with a view to describing all species that were new.
During his residence in the Capital city, Mr. Linell held membership in
the Entomological Society of Washington, contributed to the publications
of this society and the Entomological Society of New York, and wrote
also for " Entomologica Americana," ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, and " In-
sect Life." His first work of importance was a list of Coleoptera col-
lected in East Africa, published in the " Proceedings" of the Museum for
.the year 1896, a paper containing descriptions of thirty-four new forms

l6o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June,

and four new genera. This was followed by two other papers on new
species of North American Scarabseidae and Cerambycida?. Several other
important contributions of like nature were completed, seven of which
remain to be published. A considerable proportion of Mr. Linell's official
duties at the Museum was devoted to the determination of material, for
the Museum and for correspondents, and in consequence he acquired an
intimate knowledge of the system of classification of all orders. All of
his published papers were upon the subject of the Coleoptera, but at one
time he not only contemplated the .<tudy of the Diptera, but had actually
begun synoptic and descriptive work in the Tachinidce and Hippoboscida j ,
which work was abandoned when Mr. Coquillett came to Washington to
make a special study of the order. His first manuscripts in descriptive
work in both Diptera and Coleoptera were drawn up entirely in Latin.

Personally, Mr. Linell was of an exceptionally un.- elfish disposition,
devoid of envy or jealousy of his fellow-workers, and being modest and
retiring, with little taste for social pleasures, his entire being was con-
centrated in the study of Nature and of books. He was a great reader,
even outside his chosen specialty, and was remarkable for his proficiency
in languages, which was of inestimable value in his studies and to his
brother scientists who had frequently to avail themselves of his know-
ledge. He appeared to be endowed with unlimited patience and with a
singular capacity for what to others would be deemed mere drudgery,
and it is doubtful if his equal could be found for the routine of work that
was his lot for so many years. His premature death is the more to be
regretted as he had practically only begun the publication of the results
of his life work. He was an indefatigable worker, and had his life been
spared his name would have been placed in the first rank of the system-
atists of his day. Two daughters are left to mourn his loss. [F. H. C.]

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for May was mailed April 30, 1897.

ENT. NEWS, Vol. VIII.

PI. VIII.

A NEW SPECIES OF COCCID/E, OF THE GENUS LECANIODIASPIS.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OE THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. viii. SEPTEMBER, 1897. No. 7.

CONTENTS:

Cockerell and Quaintance A ne\v sp. Editorial ,

of the Coccidze, etc 161 Notes and News 172

Snyder Utah revisited Idaho and Entomological Literature 174

Wyoming 163 Doings of Societies 181

Wickham-Recollections of old col- Entomological Section 182

lecting grounds 165 Davis Life-hist. of Erycides amyntas. 182

Ehrmann Coleopterological notes Banks A Leucochrysa from Florida... 183

from my brother's diary 168

A NEW SPECIES OF COCCID/E, OF THE GENUS
LECANIODIASPIS.

I. DESCRIPTIVE.

By T. D. A. COCKERELL, N. M. Agr. Exp. Station.

Lecaniodiaspis (Prosopophora) tessellatus n. sp. 9 -Scale nearly cir-
cular, moderately convex; long. 4^/2, lat. 4, alt. 2 mm.; above dull red-
brown, not very dark, with dull white secretion forming lines, indistinct
in middle, but at the sides forming very regular pentagons, with an oval
or elongate median patch in each, arising from the margin of the scale.
These pentagonal areas are eleven in number on each side, they are
pointed mesad, the two shortest sides being the mesad ones, and the
lateral side being formed by the margin of the scale. The lines of secre-
tion indicate, but do not complete, three dorsal rows of enclosed areas,
thus five rows in all. The enclosed areas are quite flat, not raised into
little tubercles as in some species. Ventral surface of scale orange, rufous
on the margin (boiled in caustic soda the insects stain the liquid burnt
sienna color; they are full of dark crimson embryos which stain the liquid
pink); antenna; brown, 8-jointed, cylindrical, joint 5 a little the IOIILM >t.
but not quite twice as long as broad; then 3 nearly as long, then 4 very
nearly as lonjj, then 6 very nearly as long, 3, 4 and 6 being almost equal.
Then 2 as broad as long; 7 and 8 shortest, 8 shortest of all, with nunu-r-
ous hairs. Formula 53462 (71) 8. Sometimes the antenna? are g-jointed;
4 longest, then 3, 5 to 9 all short and not far from equal; 2 almost as short
as 4, broader than long; mouth-parts large; legs absent, as usual in the

162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

genus; dermis with moderately numerous double gland-orifices, not ex-
tremely small; the orifices frequently diverging from each other, so that
the two present a more or less crescentic outline. These double glands
are arranged regularly in rows, nearly so as to make diagonal as well as
longitudinal lines. The thicker parts of the skin are burnt sienna color,
and conspicuously lineolately marbled all over. At both ends of the
insect are many large, round, or suboval glands, showing a central spot.
There is a stout bristle on each edge of the posterior cleft, with one or
two small bristles a little laterad.

II. BIOL-OGICHL.

By A. L. QUAINTANCE, Fla. Agr. Exp. Station.

On Nov. 1 8, 1896, Prof. P. H. Rolfs called my attention to
this coccid which he had discovered on a stick of hickory wood
among some recently delivered stove-wood. About one week
later I made a careful search for it in the neighborhood from
which the wood was supposed to have been taken. Fortunately,
the scale was found on the higher limbs of a large hickory tree
(Carya porcina Nutt) which had been blown down by the severe
storm of September 29. A careful search in the neighborhood
of this tree among those that had been blown down, and among
the smaller trees standing, failed to reveal the insect on any but
the one tree, and as some of the limbs from the infested portion
had been cut off it is quite probable that this was the tree from
which the infested wood had been cut.

The scale is interesting, biographically, from the effect which
it seems to produce on the infested limbs. It would appear that
the scale causes a decided stunting of the tissue in its immediate
vicinity. These stunted areas were not observed, except as asso-
ciated with the scale. But not in every case was there a stunted
area associated with the scales; see fig. i. But in such cases the
limbs infested were comparatively large and the bark thick, and
the tissue beneath would not be so seriously affected as in the
smaller and thinner barked limbs.

At this date, March 12, the young scales have just hatched.
These doubtless soon become fixed and pass their life on one
spot with the beak piercing the bark and extending into the tissue
beneath ; and this during the season that the tree is in most
growth. As a result, the area immediately around the scale be-
comes retarded in its growth, while the unaffected tissue a little
farther out keeps up its normal development, and the scale is
eventually in a pit.

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Figure 2 illustrates the condition at the end of the first year.
It will be noticed that the pits are yet quite shallow.

Figure 3 illustrates the condition of the limb at the end of
probably the second year. Dead and fragmentary scales may
be found in the deepest depressions. The effect of the scale does
not seem to die with it, but as the limb continues to grow the
cavities are deepened and the abnormal development of the sur-
rounding tissue becomes quite pronounced. Probably the pres-
ence of the beak in the tissue would be sufficient to thus stunt it,
but this is by no means certain.

o

UTAH REVISITED-IDAHO AND WYOMING.

By Prof. A. J. SNYDER.

In vol. v, of ENT. NEWS, the author gave an account of his
first trip to Utah in search of Lepidoptera. In 1895 it was his
good fortune to revisit many of the scenes there described and
to continue the trip northward through Idaho and home via the
Yellowstone National Park. In this second trip Mr. Charles
Stewart, of Evanston, was my companion.

A part of my plan was to stop in the places visited in 1893
long enough to secure a supply of certain species whose habitats
were then discovered. Chionobas clirvxus, one of the desired
species, is found on mountain peaks among the barren rocks at
elevations above 8000 feet.

On reaching Park City, Utah, we secured conveyance for our
camping outfits and ourselves to a place known as Bonanza Flats.
Here, at an elevation said to be above 9500 feet, we made camp
and prepared to spend a week. We were above some snow
banks, and from our camp could look out and up upon numerous
other banks but little above us. On our way up one Alypia
sacra men fi was taken, a species so closely resembling Alypia
octomacnlata that one could easily fail to notice that the white
spots are six instead of eight. Next morning, with the usual
collecting outfit, we started up the peak nearest our tent. Just
before reaching the backbone of the ridge all fears that we were
too early for C. chryxus were allayed, and the first capture wa.s
made. Insect mimicry is a well-known topic in entomological
works, of which Chionobas chryxus furnishes another instance.
Its ability to alight on bare rocks within reach of one's net, drop

164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

its primaries within its secondaries, and so closely resemble the
rock itself, that it often requires minutes to exactly locate and
capture it, is astonishing. If one but removes his eye for ;u:
instant from the insect he is fortunate, indeed, if he rediscover
and capture it without first causing it to take flight. It is mar-
vellous to find these fragile winged creatures in such exposed
positions.

During the greater part of the week spent here the wind blew,
greatly interfering with our work. Often the blasts were so strong
that specimens of C. chryxus were literally carried away by the
force blown from the peaks only to disappear over the edges,
drop below the wind currents and work their way back, flying
close to earth and frequently alighting again even within reach
of the net. More than 200 chryxiis were taken, and among 140
examined on reaching home three females were found. Probably
we were too early for the females, as a trip to another mountain
a week later discovered more females, but nearly all of both sexes
in worse condition. Papilio zolicaon was seen frequently, but
was never abundant. A species of Melittza (probably nubigena)
was quite common on the highest points. Two species of Mela-
porphyria, ononis and belladonna, were common at the very edge
of the snow banks, also a small moth unknown to the author.
These three species and Pyrgus c<zspitalis (the latter noticed in
1893) seem to enjoy the moisture about the melting snow. Par-
nassius smintheus was not so abundant as in 1893.

It was interesting to note how all insect life disappeared when-
ever a cloud passed over the sun. A dozen P. smintheus might
be in sight flitting lazily about, but when the shadow reached
them every one would drop into the grass as though shot but
never fail to drop into some place in which its colors could blend
with the surrounding objects so completely as to escape the col-
lector. How white and red can harmonize with the usually scant
mountain vegetation is another part of the great subject, '' pro-
tective coloration."

A notable feature of mountain life is the rapidity of plant
growth. Immediately below the snow banks black areas, where
the snow-water has retarded plant growth, are always visible, but
after this area is small and usually plants are in blossom within a
few feet of the snow, and on the blossoms one is almost certain
to find insects. Two Argynnis egleis were taken on the peaks

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and one Euptoieta claudia at an elevation but little less than
10,000 feet. An example of claudia was taken in Yellowstone
Park. Thus the collector's heart is occasionally gladdened by
meeting an old friend far from his accustomed haunts.

(To be continued.)

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RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS.

By H. F. WICKHAM.

I. THE CCEUR D'ALENE DISTRICT.

This region is reached by rail after a short ride from Spokane
Falls. Lying just inside of the western boundary of northern
Idaho, is the beautifully clear Lake Coeur d'Alene, some twenty-
five or thirty miles in length, irregular in shape and surrounded
by coniferous forests, now burnt over by at least one great fire
as shown by the charred logs which cover the ground in every
direction. The outlet is formed by the Spokane River, which
pursues a rapid and tortuous course past a few small villages and
eventually passes through Spokane Falls, where the water-power
developed is sufficient to run all the great mills that line its banks.
Along the course of the river much of the timber is small, or has
been so thinned out that it no longer has the character of a forest,
but near the lake it is still very heavy in places. A few extensive
meadows near the outlet of the lake offer another feature in the
variety of available collecting grounds.

My visit was made during the latter part of July and in early
August of the year 1889. In company with a friend, a conchol-
ogist, spent about three weeks in working the neighborhood of
Cceur d'Alene City, then the terminus of that branch of the
railroad and the point at which connections were made by steamer
for mining camps farther up the lake. It is a beautiful place for
collecting, and much of the adjacent scenery is both wild and
magnificent, though at the cime of my visit the hotel accommo-
dations were none of the best. Close by the town lies the mili-
tary post of Fort Sherman, and as a portion of the forests sur-
rounding the lake lie on the reservation there is some hope that
the>- may be preserved.

Some of the best spots can only be visited by boat, and it was
through the kindness of our host that a skiff was kept constantly
at our disposal, a most important consideration, since it was often

166 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,.

necessary to cross the lake, here perhaps four miles wide. As-
it was, we were able to visit any spot we chose.

Owing, probably, to the sandy character of the soil at some
little distance from the lake, and to the immediate proximity of
the great plains of eastern Wasnington, the fauna presents a
rather mixed appearance. Many of the insects usually considered
peculiar to the great coniferous belt occur here side by side with
such genera as Eleodes and Coniontis, which, though not really
confined to the western plains, nevertheless constitute one of their
most striking features.

Many of the Carabidae of the Cceur d'Alene district are of
great interest and rarity. Special mention might be made of the
Cychri, some species occurring here which are very seldom seen
in collections. Early in August and in late July Cychrus relictus,
regidaris and rickseckeri are to be found along the lowlands bor-
dering the river and in the valley of the little creek which forms
the outlet of Trout Lake. The last-named species looks like a
feebly developed tuberculatus. On the further side of the lake
my friend, while hunting for snails, came across a single specimen
of C, merkelii, which was at that time still undescribed. Carabus
oregonensis was quite plentiful in the woods, under logs, not less
than sixty or eighty specimens being obtained. Calosoma mo-
niliatum and C cancellatum were seen somewhat sparingly.
Notiophilus hardyi was tolerably abundant in rubbish under logs.
Of Nebria we took specimens of sahlbe rgi and hudsonica, though
neither were abundant.

Two curious Trogositidae were quite plentiful under bark or in
polyporoid fungi namely Calitys scabra and Peltis pipings-
kceldii. The former looks exactly like a bit of rough, scaly-
brown bark, the inequalities of the upper surface reproducing
this appearance to a marvelous nicety. The Peltis is smoother,
but very much depressed, and is by no means readily detected,
unless in an exposed situation. Of the Nitidulidae notice should
appear of the curious Epurcsa monogama, which lives, each
couple by itself, in fungi; Soronia guiiulata, of which only one
specimen was obtained, under bark, and Rhizophagus minutus,
which was rather common in like places.

Comparatively few captures of Elateridse were made, chiefly,
no doubt, on account of the lateness of the season. A few
Elater apicatus were found under bark, while a number of fine

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specimens of Corymbites cereipennis were obtained by rolling
logs. Dolopius lateralis and Megapenthes stigmosus were, of
course, common on flowers. It is worthy of remark that nearly,
or quite all, of these Elateridae are transcontinental in distribution.

Numerous long horns were obtained, mostly representative
of species which are to be met with over the greater portion
of the forest-clad region of the northwest. Prionns californicus
and Ergates spiculatus were to be had by rolling pine logs, under
which they hide, and in which, no doubt, the larvae feed. The
male Prionus has enormously heavy antennae, the joints " shing-
ling" on each other in a manner not often seen outside of the
genus. The sexes of Ergates spiculatus are easily distinguished
by the fact that in the male the prothorax is very broad, finely
granulate and deeply foveate above, the sides armed with fine
teeth, while in the female this part of the body is much narrower
than the elytra, more coarsely granulated than in the male and
with much larger lateral teeth. The Prioninae, to which sub-
family the above genera belong, are remarkable among the long-
horns for the prominence of secondary sexual characters, and it
is interesting to note, among our own species, such curious
modifications. Tragosoma harrisii was rare under pine logs.
Several species of Leptura were found on flowers, the two most
abundant being L. crassipes and L. crassicornis now united as
sexes of the same thing. They frequented heads of umbellifer-
ous plants on low ground close to the lake, and, judging from
the rapidity with which my supply was exhausted, must previ-
ously have been quite rare in cabinets. L. obliterata was not
uncommon. Of L. canadensis two very fine varieties occurred,
namely erythroptera, in which the elytra are entirely red, and
tenuicornis. where they are quite black.

Turning to the Chrysomelidae we find a most remarkable form
inhabiting the Cceur d'Alene district Timarcha intricata, the
only North American representative of a genus well developed
in Europe. This insect is to be obtained in moss or on low plants
under protecting logs; in appearance it resembles some Tene-
brionidae, especially a small Eleodcs, the likeness being heightened
by a peculiar rough sculpture very unlike most of our native
Chrysomelids. Its motions are slow, and from its habits it set-m>
one of those insects likely to disappear before approaching denu-
dation and cultivation of its haunts.

i68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

In the shallower portions of the lake are great beds of water-
lilies, on whose leaves Donacia; disport themselves in the sun,
safe from the hands of that collector who is provided only with
means of working from the shore. Here we found our boat a
most valuable adjunct, though even with this means of approach
the activity of the beetles made their capture a matter of difficulty.
On account of their activity it was necessary for one of us to row
while the other perched in the bow with a net ready to strike.
The individuals taken were D. proximo.. D. emarginata was
common on sedges along the shore.

The Tenebrionidae were, in the main, such as frequent or feed
upon dead wood for example, Ccelocnemis dilaticollis and Iph-
thimus serratus, which occur on decaying pine in the same man-
ner as Nyctobates infests deciduous trees in the East. However,
Eleodes nigrina and E. humeralis were not uncommon in sandy
spots, and several specimens of a Coniotis were also met with.
Scaphidema pictum is coprophagous in habit, a large colony
having been found in and under dung near the shore of the lake.
They burrowed in the loose sand, much after the fashion of
Phaleria.

Our departure was hastened by the breaking out of extensive
and destructive forest fires, the smoke of which obscured the sun
and rendered objects, situated more than a hundred yards or so,
invisible. The pall of smoke reached all the way from Portland
to Helena though not equally dense at all points and even
when we left fires were eating out the edges of some of our best
collecting grounds and threatening others which may be no longer
in existence.

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COLEOPTEROLOGICAL NOTES FROM MY BROTHER'S DIARY.

By EMIL C. EHRMANN, Pittsburg, Pa.

These notes are from my brother G. A. Ehrmann's note-book,
and were made principally at Charleroi, Washington County, Pa.
George is interested in Lepidoptera, and a younger brother,
Albert, studies Ornithology, and the folio wing notes are the
result of their captures:

April 20. Coleoptera plentiful, Cyllene picta in abundance on
newly-cut hickory logs depositing eggs.

1897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 169

April 23. Cicindela sex-guttata and Phancsus carnifex cap-
tured. Lachnostcrna have appeared to-night in numbers.

April 25. Geotrupes splendens and semiopacus, Copris Caro-
lina, anaglypticus and minntus were taken at Maple Creek.

April 26. In moving a large stone from the base of an oak,
Ouercus alba, fifty-six specimens of Helops micans were brought
to view and bottled.

April 27. Have taken Calosoma calidum and Chl&nius tomen-
tosus on the McKean farm, and found Elaphrus and Bembidium
by hundreds running over the sediment of the creek.

April 29. South of Charleroi I found Carabus vinctus and
several species of Chlcenius very common.

May 5. A fine specimen of Toxotus vittiger beat from a
hickory.

May 6 to 28. Have taken 171 specimens of Toxotus cylindri-
collis from young hickory.

May 29. Caught a fine specimen of Goes pulverulenta while
beating Betula nigra.

June 2. Several specimens of Arhopahis fulminans were cap-
tured in beating Carya porcia.

June 3. Saperda tridentata is found in numbers on the Elm
and Acer.

June 7. Osmoderma scabra and eremicola, Merinus l&vis and
some other good beetles in numbers found in a rotten log.

June 10. Found Bembidium postfasciatum for the first time,
in numbers, on the margin of Maple Creek.

June 12. Captured Cicindela sexguttata, pzirpnrea, vulgar is
and repanda up from Lock No. 4.

June 13. Onthophagus janus and Cant/ion viridis found in
the stems of fungus.

June 14. A successful day for Carabidae; in fact, a red-letter
clay for ground beetles. Diccelus avails,- elongatus, politus and
sculptilis, Apenes lucidula, Pterostichus vinctus, hamiltoni, Jw-
nesius and mcestus, Patrobus longicornis and three species of
Lebia being a few of the many species taken.

June 15. Captured a lovely specimen of Saperda puncticollis
by beating poison-vine.

June 18. In beating the Oaks DicheJonycha elongata was taken
by hundreds, also several species of Elater and Cerambycidae.

June 19. A few common species of Leptura only were taken.

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June 23. Prionus lalicollis, Orthosoma brunnea, Saperda cal-
carata and a few smaller beetles were taken to-day.

June 24. Copris Carolina is very common here, meeting with
it on every trip.

June 25. It seems that nature is all aglow, especially when an
entomological collector finds the corpse of a cow inhabited by
millions of Staphylinid^e, Silphidae and Nitidulidae.

September 6. Since my last visit to Charleroi have taken quite
a lot of Lucanus dama (all dead, yet perfect) at the roots of Oak
trees; no doubt, after mating and depositing eggs, dying there.

September 12. Golden-rod is beginning to bloom and find
Euphoria sepulchralis and Cvllene robinite on it.

September 20. Leptostylus aculifera and Catogenus rufus
were taken under the bark of Carya porcea at East Charleroi,
Westmoreland County.

October 3. A fine female of Sandalus niger to-day while dig-
ging at the roots of Quercus alba; also a few specimens of Lep-
tostylus aculifera.

October 6. Several specimens of Aphodius elongatus were
taken at the root of a Hickory.

October 17. Collecting toward Bendy ville ; took the first
Cychrus lecontei of the season.

October 18. On account of the humidity of the weather lun-
gus is abundant, and several species of Oxypoms are infesting
them; also Ips fasciatus in much variation, and Ips sanguini-
pennis and obtusa.

October 20. Although raining collecting was continued, and
a lot of Cychrus leconiei were captured, some in copula.

October 22. Collected out the Bentlyville road and found
Penthe pimelia and obliquata, and Platycerus querciis in numbers.

October 27. At the north end of Maple Creek a well-decayed
stump of Betula alba yielded 330 specimens of Ischyrus^-punctatus.

November i. Found Cucujus clavipes and Catogenus rufus
in numbers under bark of Carya porcea and Acer riibrwn.

November 14. Captured Dic&lus purpiiratus, Pterostichus
purpuratus, Cymindis americana and many other good species-
at East Charleroi.

November 17. Found a number of the elytra of l\lyas cora-
cinus and Cychrus andrewsii, but not a perfect specimen.

November 19. Under a large rotten log, imbedded about eight
inches in the ground, Pinodytes hamiltonivtas taken in numbers,
feeding upon the dead larva of Elater sp. ? Nothing remained
of the larva but the skin.

December 5. A new Platydema was taken under the bark of
an Oak.

December 6. In digging out the interior of a large, dead,
standing maple trunk, 179 specimens of Valgus squamiger and
six species of Elateridae were taken.

1897.]

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IN order to economize space, a new arrangement of the summary of
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PICTURES for the album of the American Entomological Society have
been received from T. D. A. Cockerell and his son, Mesilla, New Mex.,
and L. E. Ricksecker, Santa Rosa, Cala.

A little-known Halictm. By Charles Robertson, Carlinville, 111.
Halictus lustrans.

Panurgus lustrans Cockerell, Tr. A. E. S. xxiv, 147, 9, !897-

SIMULIUM OCHRACEUM AGAIN. On July 7, 1894, along the west slope
of the Medicine Bow Range near Cameron Pass in northern Colorado, at
an altitude of 9500 feet, I found this Buffalo gnat very abundant. They
worried our horses badly, affecting, principally, the ears, breast and
flanks, eventually causing the formation of large, thick scabs. I kept my
saddle horse free by daubing the affected parts with axle grease from the
wagon hubs. Mr. Coquillett determined the species for me during the
same year (1894). C. F. BAKER.

THE collection of Coleoptera made by the late A. S. Fuller, of Ridge-
wood, N. J., is in the market. It contains over 4300 named species ex-
clusive of varieties and a large amount of material not yet arranged.
Counting species not included in the published list and in groups not
worked up, the number of species will exceed 4500. Of most species
there are good series, and all the material is in good boxes and in good
condition. Further information as to the price, etc., may be obtained
from Prof. John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.

THE Louisiana Society of Naturalists was organized at New Orleans on
July 30th with Prof. J. H. Dillard president and Mr. E. Foster secretary.
The society starts with about forty charter members and much interest is
being shown by naturalists of the State. The objects of the society are
the encouragement and advancement of the study of natural history, the
accumulation of a library, the publication of valuable papers and the
forming of a museum. We wish the society success and long life, and we
would like to see many other such societies in the West and South.

I8Q7-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IJ3

DEAR SIR. I take the liberty to inform you of my purpose to continue
the publication of my work on hybrids by studying the subject on the
insects, fishes and reptiles.* I shall accept, with gratitude, the help of
your own observations as the communication of the interesting cases you
may have heard of. I shall be greatly obliged to you if you have also the
kindness to make me out some reviews, travels, etc., in which I am to
find the relation of facts of hybridity. Many a worthy remark would be
neglected if I were to be left to my own researches. A. SUCHETKT,
Chateau d'Antiville Par Breaute (Seine-lnferieure), France.

A SWARM OF APHODIUS INQUINATUS My friend, Mr. Wm. Trimble,
of Concordville, Delaware County, drove through a swarm of insects in
the latter part of March last. It was shortly before sunset and they were
flying from east to west across his path and across the wind. The swarm
he says was fully one-quarter mile wide, and he tried by rapid driving to
trap some in the hood of his buggy. Failing in this he alighted, and,
after a number of attempts, caught three. When he first saw them he
thought they were mosquitoes or gnats, and wondered that they ap-
peared so early in the season. He met them on the road from Cheyney's
Station, West Chester Railroad, to Markham Station, Baltimore Central
Railroad, and about three-quarters of a mile north of the latter. CHAS.

SCHAFFER.

BEETLES IN SEEDS OF HONEY LOCUST. In conducting an experiment
with forest tree seedlings under the direction of the Division of Forestry,
U. S. Dept. of Agnc., seeds of the Honey Locust, Gleditschia tricanthos,
from seven different States and Ontario were kept through the Winter
for Spring planting. Upon opening the seed packages April 25th beetles
were found among the seeds, wherefore an examination was made and
all specimens removed and counted. One-fourth of a pint of the seeds
came from each State and I report the result of the examination thinking
it may be of some interest as showing something about the distribution
of the insect. The beetle was identified as Spermophagiis robinitz Sch.
by Dr. Henry Skinner. The number after each State indicates the num-
ber of beetles found in seeds irom that State : Alabama, 7; Connecticut,
o ; Kansas, i ; Kentucky, 5 ; Nebraska, 3 ; Ohio, 14 ; Ontario, 7 ; Penn-
sylvania, 39. W. E. BKITTON, New Haven, Conn.

Identification of Insects dmagos) for Subscribers.

Specimens will be named under the following conditions : ist, The number of species
to be limited to twenty-five for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans-
portation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ;
3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an-
nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor
who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with ail insects
for return of names. Please put date of capture and exact locality on each specimen.
Before sending insects for identification, read page 41, Vol. III. Address all packages
to ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Academy Natural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

* The first volume has just been published and speaks of birds in wild state.

174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

Entomological Literature.

Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North
and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con-
taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatoim,
physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic
species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as
numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published ; * denotes that the
paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,
1897. 2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Phila-
delphia, '97. 3. The American Naturalist, Philadelphia, '97. 4. The
Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont. , '97. 5. Psyche, Cambridge,
Mass., '97. G. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, June,
'97. 7. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology,
Washington; publications of, '97. 8. The Entomologist's Monthly Maga-
zine, London, '97. 9. The Entomologist, London, '97. 1O. Nature,
London, '97. 11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Lon-
don, '97. 12. Comptes Rendus. L'Academie des Sciences, Paris, '97.
13. Comptes Rendus. Societe de Biologic, Paris, '97. 14. Proceedings
of the Zoological Society of London, '97. 15. Biologia Centrali-Amer-
icana, London, '97. 16. Bulletin de la Societe Nationale d'Acclimata-
tion de France, Paris, '97. 17. Sitzungsberichte der koniglich preus-
sischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, '96. 18. The Ottawa
Naturalist, '97. 19. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicas, xxx, 3-4,
St. Petersburg, '97. 2O. Bulletin de 1'Academie Imperiale des Sciences,
de St. Petersbourg, Ve Serie. 21. The Entomologist's Record, London,
'97. 22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic, '97. 23. 2ist Annual Report
of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, Indian-
apolis, '96. 24. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, xli, 4, May, '97.
25. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata d. R. Uni-
versita di Torino, 1897. 26. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, New
York, July, '97. 27. Atti del R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed
Arti, liv, Venice, 1896. 28. Archives d'Anatomie Microscopique, I, 2,
Paris, May 31, '97. 29. Societe" d'Histoire Naturelle d'Autun, Bulletin.
3O. Memoires de la Socie"te Zoologique de France, ix, 1896. 31. Ab-
handlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden
Gesellschaft, xxiii, 3. Frankfurt a. M. 1897. 32. Bulletin du Museum
d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1897.

General Works. The Great Rift Valley being the narrative of a
journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. ... By J. W. Gregory.
London, John Murray, 1896 (mimicry). The evolutional cycle of the
Coccidias in Arthropods, L. Leger 12, May 3. Notes on a recent zoolog-
ical expedition on the lower Amazons, E. E. Austen, 14, 1896, pt. iv,
April i, '97. Notice of the scientific works in the field of entomology

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during the year 1894, General, Apterygogenea, Rhynchota, Orthoptera,
Neuroptera, Thysanoptera, Pseudoneuroptera. Trichoptera, Lepidoptera,
Dr. R. Lucas; Arachnoidea, Hymenoptera, Dr. H. Stadelmann; Myria-
poda. Dr. C. Yerhoeff; Diptera, Aphaniptera, Dr. B. Wandolleck; Cole-
optera, H. J. Kolbe; Archiv. f. Naturgesi hichte, Ixi, 2, Berlin, April, '97.
Comparative researches on the living habits of invertebrate carrion
feeders, F. Dahl, 17, Jan. 16. Report of Kntomological branch, Ottawa
Field-Naturalists' Club, 18, April. On the excretory organs of some
insects (in Russian), S. Metalnikoff, i pi. 2O, iv, i, fan., '96. See Cole-
optera, Linell. Indiana caves and their fauna. W. S. Blatchley 2J?, pis.
Insects collected at Jackman, Maine, F. L. Harvey and O. \V. Knight,
5, June. The development of instinct, Wasmann, Verhandlungen k. k.
zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, xlvii, 3, May 17, '97. The
subterranean fauna, studies on the cavernicolous fauna of the Jura, with
some words on the fauna of the catacombs of Paris and of the subterra-
nean refuges of Naours (Somme), prehistoric researches in the Doubs
and the Jura, A. Yire, Memoires de la Socie'te' de Speleologie, No. 6,
Paris, Aug., '96. The blind fauna of the caverns of the Philippine Islands
and of the Transvaal, E. Simon, Bulletin of the same Societe, No. 8,
Oct. -Dec., '96. The protective value of action, volitional or otherwise
in protective mimicry, F. M. Webster, O. Hermaphrodite earwig, M .
Burr, 8, July. The sanguinous globules and lymphoid organs of Inver-
tebrates, L. Cuenot, i pi., 28. List of insects collected in the interior
of the Labrador peninsula, 1894, J. Fletcher, Annual Report, Geological
Survey of Canada 1895, Ottawa, '97. Instructions for collecting articulate
animals, part ii, insects, C. Brongniart, figs., 2i), ix, 1896.

Economic Entomology. Typhus and Insects, H. Coupin, La
Nature, Paris, May 8, '97. The army worm, M. Y. Slingerland, Bulletin
133, Cornell University Agric. Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. V., April,
'97. The diseases of bees, C. Conze, and Cassn/a virj,dis parasitic on
artichokes, F. Decaux, 1(>, March. Abstracts of recent publications, 7,
Experiment Station Record, viii, 8, 9, '97. On a new species of Aphiclina-
found in Crimea on the roots of the vine, S. Mokrzecky, 10. Teleiionius
sokolowi Mayr, description, habits and significance in agriculture, N.
Sokolow 19. See Coleoptera, Morley. For sericulture see Lepidoptera.
-The Colorado potato beetle in Mississippi, H. E. Weed, Bull. 41 Miss.
Agric. and Median. College Experiment Station, March, '97. The canker
worm, C. M Weed, figs., Bull. 44, New Hampshire Agric. Exper. Station,
April, '97. The chinch bug and other destructive insects, F. M. Webster,
ligs., Bull. 77, Ohio Agric. Exper. Sta., Wooster, O., Feb., '97. Sheep
scab; A few insect enemies of the orchard, C. P. Gillette, figs., Bull. 38,
Colorado State Agric. Exper. Sta., Fort Collins, April, '97. The wooly
aphis of the apple, C. L. Marlatt, figs.; The strawberry weevil, F. H.
Chittenden, figs., 7, circulars 20 and 21, March 15 and 18. Canker worms,
army worm, currant stem-girdler, fruit bark beetle, thrips, asparagus
beetle, W. E. Britton, figs. 2oth Annual Report Connecticut Agric. F.\p.

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Station, '96, pt. iii. New Haven, '97. Insect control in California, C. L.
Marlatt, tigs., and The asparagus beetles, F. H. Chittenden, tigs. 7,
Yearbook for '96. Insect powders of commerce, G. R. Durrant, Amer-
ican Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, July, '97. Pear-borer (Nephop-
tcrvx rubrizonella Rag. ), M. Matsumura, Annotationes Zoologicae Japo-
nenses, I, i and 2, Tokyo, May 25, '07. Destruction of caterpillars
of Liparis chrysorrhcza by Einpusa anliccea in the Botanical Garden,
Berlin, Herr Reh, Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift, Berlin, June 20,
'97. -Defoliation of cork trees in Tunis by Ocneria dispar, Rev. A. E.
Eaton, 8, July. Food-plants of the San Jose scale (Aspidiotus pernicio-
sus] in Ohio, exclusive of fruit-trees, F. M. Webster, 4, July. Some
common injurious plant lice, VV. G. Johnson, Bulletin 48, Maryland Agr.
Exp. Sta., College Park, Md., June, '97. On some insects injurious to
fresh or salt meats, Rebeillard and Marchal, 21), vii, 1894 (comptes
rendus). Insects injurious to the vine, C. Marchal, 29, ix, 1896 (comptes
rendus). On the parasites of the silk worm and its maladies, contribu-
tion to the study oiflacherie, grasserie andpebrine, I. Krasilshtshik, 3O.
See also Neuroptera, Martin.

Myriapoda. New Coccidiae of the digestive tube of Myriapods, L.
Leger, 12, April 26, "97. Description of a new family of Diplopods from
Mexico,* Dr. F. Silvestri, 25, No. 277, Feb. 22. Chilopods and Diplo-
pods, voyage of Dr. A. Borelli in Bolivia and the Argentine Republic, id..
25, No. 283, March 23. Myriapoda [collected by Prof. Kiikenthal in the
Moluccas], Dr. C. Attems, 4 pis., 31.

Arachnida. Ottawa Hydrachnida, H. M. A., 18, March, '97. De-
scriptions of some new species of scorpions of the genus Tifyus, with
notes upon some forms allied to T. americanus L.*, R. I. Pocock, 11,
May, '97. On the genus Eylais Latr.,* T. Koenike, figs. Abhandlun-
gen, Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen, xiv, 2, 1897. On some
new species of Acari from Bolivia, G. Canestrini, i pi., Atti Societa Ye-
neto-Trentina di Scienze naturali (2), iii, i, Padua, '97. On some new and
little-known spiders, O. P. Cambridge, i pi., 14, 1896, pt. iv, April i, '97.
[Central American] Arachnida Araneidea, pis. xxiv, xxv, O. P. Cam-
bridge, 15, pt. cxxxiv, March, '97. Revision of the Uropygi Thor.
(Thelyphonidse auct), K. Kraepelin, 2 pis. ' Abhandlungen, Naturwis-
senschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg, xv, 1897. A new lymphatic gland
in the European scorpion, A. Kowalewsky, 2O, iii, 2, Sept., '95. [In-
diana cave Arachnida*], N. Banks, 23. Antennophorus (see Hymenop-
tera, Janet). List of the Arachnids collected in the Cape Verde Islands.
Argentine Republic and Paraguay [by Dr. A. Borelli] and descriptions
of new species, E. Simon, 25, No. 270, Feb. 4. Are scorpions matri-
cides and suicides, Dr. j. Yilaro, fig., 2(>. Revision of the family Ixo-
didse, G. Neumann, figs., 3O. An interesting new Hydrachnid from the
collections of M. Geay in Venezuela, S. Thor, figs., 32. Application
of microscopic photography to the study of the plumicolous Sarcoptidu.
Favette and Trouessart, fig., 32.

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Thysanura ami Collembola. On the apparent structure of ihe
scales of Seira buskii in relation to the scales of Lepidocytins t,irz'ico/lis,
R. L. Maddox, i pi. Trans. Amer. Microscop. Soc., xviii, Buffalo, 1897.
Apterygogeneafennica, O. M. Reuter, 2 pis. Acta Societatis pro Fauna
et Flora Fennica, \i, Helsingfors, 1895 (rec'd May 27, '97). Embryo-
logical researches on Lepisma saccharine, R. Heymons, 2 pis. Zeitschrift
fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Ixii, 4, Leipsic, May 11, '97. A contribu-
tion to the embryology of the Insecta apterygota, R. Heymons, 17, Dec.
10. The ventral tube and the cephalic glands of Sminthiinis, \ . Willem
and H. Sabbe, Annales de la Socie"te Entomologique de Belgique, xli, 5,
Brussels, May 31, '97. Campodea sfapAytinusVJestwood and its caverni-
colous varieties, A. Vire, figs., 32.

Orthoptera. [Central American] Orthoptera, pp. 225-256, pis. xii,
xiii,* H. deSaussure, 1, pt. cxxxiv, March, '97. The species of the
genus Melanop/ns* S. H. Scudder, Proc. Amer. Philosophical Society,
xxxvi, 154, Philadelphia, Jan., '97 (rec'cl May 28). On the absorbtion of
iron by the digestive tube of Blatta orientalis (in Russian), S. Metalni-
koff, figs., 2O, iv, 5, May, '96. Notes on New England Acrididre iii,
Oedipodime v, vi, A. P. Morse, o, June, July. On the Malpighian tubules
of Orthoptera, L. Bordas, 11, June. Revision of the Salomonitre, Lo-
custidae of the tribe C nocephalinse, C. Brongniart, figs., Bulletin, Socie'te'
Philomathique de Paris (8), viii, 2-4, 1896. Rec'd July 4, '97. The species
of Anabrns and their distribution, S. H. Scudder, 5, July.

Neuroptera. The constitution and development of the society of
Termites: observations on their habits with appendices on the parasitic
protozoa of Termitidae, and on the Embiidae (concl.), B. Grassi and A.
Sandias, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, xl, i, London, April,
'97. Golden-eye or lace-wing fly (Chrysopa), C. M. Weed, 3, June, '97.
Libellula deplanata of Rambur, J. G. Needham, 4, June. List of the
Neuroptera collected by Mr. E. E. Austen on the Amazons, etc., during
the recent expedition of Messrs. Siemens Bros. Cable S. S. "Faraday,"
with descriptions of several new species of Odonata (Dragonflies), \V. F.
Kirby, 2 pis. 11, June. List of dragonflies taken near Buffalo, N. Y., E.
P. Van Duzee; Additions to the Odonata of New York State, P. P. Cal-
vert, (>. Preliminary studies of N. American Gomphinae, J. G. Needham,
4, July. Large dragonflies considered as useful animals destroying inju-
rious insects, R. Martin, 1(5, July.

Hemiptcra. Chermotheca Italica continens exsiccata, in situ, coc-
cidarum plantis precipue cultis, in Italia occurrentibus, obnoxiarum [\\ith
text]. Prof. Antonio Berlese e Dr. Leonardi Gustavo, R. Scuola Superiore
di Agricoltura in Portici. Fascicolo ii, 1897. Some new and little-known
Dorydini (Jassiiue),* C. F. Baker, 4, June. Contributions to the knoul-
edge of the labium of Hydrocorae, N. Leon, figs., 22, 527. A new sub-
family in thejassidae, C. F. Baker, 5, June. Contributions to Coccidology
ii, T. D. A. Cockerell, 3, July. Some new and little-known Coccidae from
Florida-i,* T. D. A. Cockerell-ii, Biological observations, A. L. Quain-

7*

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tance; Two forms of fluted scale, T. D. A. Cockerell, ">, July. A new
Aleurodes on Rubus in Florida," T. D. A. Cockerell, 6. Observations
on Coccidae, No. 16, R. Newstead, figs., 8, July. Evolution of Schizo-
nenra lanigera, J. Lignieres, 2 pis., 3O. The fossil Belostoma of the
museums of Munich and Haarlem, F. Meunier, 3 pis., 3O.

Coleoptera. (Central American) Coleoptera vol. iii, pt. i, pp. 609-
624,* G. C. Champion, and vol. vii, pp. 217-232,* H. S. Gorham, li>. pt.
cxxxiv, March, '97. A descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South
Africa, part ii, L. Peringuey, Transactions South African Philosophical
Society, vii, Capetown, '96. Materials for the study of the Feronias iii,
T. Tschitscherine, It). The Coleoptera of Canada: xxiv, Cerambycidae
of Ontario and Quebec (cont.), H. F. Wickham. figs., 4, June, Juh.
Beetles that destroy forests, C. Morley, 21, May 15. New species of
South American Eumolpidae, M. Jacoby, 9, June, July. On the insects
collected by Dr. Abbott on the Seychelles, Aldabra, Gloriosa, and Provi-
dence Islands, with descriptions of nine new species of Coleoptera, M.
L. Linell, Proceedings U. S. National Museum xix, No. 1119, 1897.
Identification tables of the European Coleoptera: Carabidse, part i, Ca-
rabini, E. Reitter, Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in
Briinn, xxxiv, 1896. A chrysalid of Enoplocerus annillatus L., Dr. E.
Goeldi, 2 pis. ; Coleopterological chases near Para, E. Gounelle, Boletim
do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia, ii, i, May, '97.
Description of new Coleoptera [Aiithicus],* M. Pic, Le Naturaliste,
Paris, June 15, '97. New genera and species of North American Curcu-
lionidae,* M. L. Linell, 6. Coleopterine, a red pigment in the elytra of
some Coleoptera, A. B. Griffiths, 112, June 21. Oviposition of Dorytonmx
squamosus, C. P. Gillette, 4, July. Contribution to the study of the first
phenomena of embryonic development in insects, particularly in the
Coleoptera, A. Lecaillon, i pi., 28. Habits and metamorphoses of in-
sects (cont.), Capt. Xambeu; Contribution to the study of the Longicorns
of Bolivia, R. P. Belon, Annales de la Societe" Linne'enne de Lyon, 1896.
New Eucnemidae, Eucnemidae of the Museum of Natural History of
Paris, E. Fletiaux, 3O. Complementary observations on the oviposition
and habits of JMelolontha vulgaris, X. Raspail, 3O.

Diptera Systematic revision of the European species of Culicitke
(concl.), E. Ficalbi, Bull. Societa Entom. Italiana, xxviii, 3 and 4. Flor-
ence, April 30, '97. Foot of the House-fly, A. A. C. E. Merlin, Journal
Quekett Microscopical Club, London, April, '97. Extract in American
Monthly Microscopical Journal, Washington, June, '97. Contribution to
the knowledge of North American Syrphidae ii,* W. D. Hunter, i p!.,
4, June. On a collection of Diptera from Indiana caves,* J. M. Aldrich,
figs., 23. E. D. Cope, as an entomologist, C. R. Osten Sacken, 5, June.
Prof. Mik's genus Paracrocera (Cyrtidae), with a postscript about the
genus Allceonenriis Mik (Dolichop.), C. R. Osten Sacken, 24. On the
terms Calypteratae and Acalypteratas, Calypta and Calyptra as they have
been used in Dipterology, id., 24. Preliminary notice of a subdivision

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of the suborder Orthorrhapha Brachycera (Dipt.) on chaetotactic princi-
ples, id., 24. The genus Phyllolabis O. S. (Dipt., Tipul.); a remarkable
case of disconnected areas in geographical distribution, id., 24. The
male of Dicrania cervus Wied., Dr. E. Giglio-Tos, 25, No. 276, Feb.
1 8. Two new species of Asilids from New Mexico,* B. Brown, Kansas
University Quarterly (A) vi. 2, Lawrence, Kans., April, '97. Diptera from
the headwaters of the Gila River-ii,* C. H. T. Townsend, 5, July. Re-
marks upon methods of killing Diptera, R. H. Meade, 8, July. The
raspberry cane maggot (Phorbia rubivora Coq.),* M. V. Slingerland, 4,
July. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station, No. ii
(cont.): On a collection of Diptera from the lowlands of the Rio Nautla,
in the State of Vera Cruz,* C. H. T. Townsend, 11, July.

Lepuloptcra. Icones Ornithopterorum : a monograph of the Rho-
palocerous genus Ornithoptera, R. H. F. Rippon, published by the author,
London, Part 9 rec'd May 30, '97. [Central American] Lepidoptera
Heterocera, vol. ii, pp. 361-392, pis. Ixxiii-lxxv,* H. Druce. 15, pt.
cxxxiv, March, '97. Biology of Russian Lepidoptera-v. Coloration and
ocellate spots, their origin and development (in Russian), J. Portschinsky,
r pi., 19. Notes on Rhopalocera, with descriptions of new species and
varieties,* H. Skinner, 4, June. Brotis vulneraria again, J. A. Mofifat,
4, June. Hydriomena furcata (Hypsipetes sordidata) : its synonymy,
variation, geographical distribution and lite-history, L. B. Prout, 21,
May 15. On the geographical distribution and post-glacial derivation of
the Palaearctic and Nearctic alpine Rhopalocera faunas, W. H. Bath, 9,
June. Notes on the synonymy of Noctuid moths, A. G. Butler, 9, June.
Rapport pre"sente a la Chambre de Commerce de Lyon par la com-
mission Administrative [de la] Laboratoire d'Etudes de la Soie, Lyon,
'97 Contains: Study of the cocoon of Bombyx inori from the point of
view of the industrial qualities of the silk, J. Raulin. Remarks on the
heredity of acquired characters, G. Contagne. Circumstances which
influence the industrial qualities of the cocoon of Bomby.v ion\ J. Raulin.
Study of the industrial qualities of the same, id. Essay on classification
of silk-producing Lepidoptera, J. Dusuzeau and L. Sonthonnax, 23 pis.
Fixation of tannic and gallic acids by silk, L. Yignon. On various rearings
of domesticated and wild silk-worms made at Ecully near Lyons, J. Clerc.
On smothering cocoons and the influence of this operation on the silk,
D. Levrat. Application of X-rays to determine sexes of chrysalids within
the cocoons, J. Testenoire and D. Levrat, 2 pis. A cave-inhabiting moth,
M. E. Murtfeldt, 2:5. The larva of Lycomorpha pholns, H. G. Dyar, 5,
June. List of the pakearctic species of Macrolepidoptera in which the
phenomenon of gynanclromorphism has been observed, O. Schultz, 24.
Lepidoptera Indica. By F. Moore. Part xxvii (Euthaliina, cont.).
London, L. Reeve & Co., '97 (rec'd June 25). The development of the
wing, wing-scales and their pigments in butterflies and moths, J. W. Tutt,
I pi.; On Lepidopterous larv;e, H. G. Dyar, 21, June 15. Notes on some
species of North American Moths,* W. Beutenmiiller, fig. Bulletin,

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American Museum of Natural History, ix, art. xiv, New York, July 2,
'97. Notes on North American Sesiidae, with descriptions of new species,
and Food-habits of North American Sesiidas, id.; 1. c. articles 15 and 16.
New York, July, '97. Life-histories of the New York slug caterpillars,
x-xi, H. G. Dyar, 2 pis. Note on Mr. Grote's remark on the Saturnian,
id.; Gluphisia severa in New Jersey, id., ($. The postembryonal devel-
opment of the accessory sexual organs in the female of Bouiby.v niori,
E. Verson, 27.- On the synonymy of the butterflies of the genus Tera-
colus, G. A. K. Marshall; Revision of the West Indian Microlepidoptera,
with descriptions of new species,* Lord Walsingham, 14, '97, pt. i, June
i. The Columbine borer (Hydrazcia purpurifascia G. and R.), M. Y.
Slingerland, i pi.; The hind wings of the day butterflies, A. R. Grote;
Successful collecting at electric light, J. A. Moffat, 4, July. Lepidoptera
[collected by Prof. Kiikenthal in ihe Moluccas], Dr. A. Pagenstecher, 3
pis., 31.

Hymenoptera. Hymenoptera Parasitica-Proctotrypidae, \Y. H.
Harrington, 18, March. North American Bees, descriptions and syno-
nyms,* C. Robertson, Transactions, Academy of Science of St. Louis,
vii, 14, May 7, '97. Description of Prestivichia aquatica Lubbock, Y.
Willem, figs., i pi. Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique,
xxx, i, Paris, April 24, '97. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon
and Burma. Hymenoptera, vol. i, Wasps and Bees, Lieut.-Col. C. T.
Bingham, London, Taylor & Francis, 1897. On the bleeding of Cimbicid
larvae, N. Cholodkovsky, 19. Naked and cocoon pupae of ants, G. B.
King, 4, June. The Pompilid genus Notocyphns F. Sm. monographically
treated, R. Lucas, Entomologische Nachrichten xxiii, 5 and 6, Berlin,
March, '97. California bees and their parasites, figs.,* A. Davidson,
Proceedings Southern California Academy of Sciences i, 3, Los Angeles,
Dec., '96 Seed crests and myrmecophilous dissemination in certain
plants, C. Robertson, Botanical Gazette, Chicago, April, ,97. On the
Chalcididae of the Island of Grenada, B. W. I.,* L. O. Howard, Journal
Linnean Society. Zoology, xxvi, London, '97. On the relations of An-
tainophorus uhlmanni Haller to Lasius mix-fits Nyl., C. Janet, 11, June.
Seven new species of the genus Euglossa Latr. in the collection of the
Hungarian National Museum,* A. Mocsary Terme'szetrajzi Fuzetek, xx,
iii, Budapest, June 6, '97. Some facts about wasps and bees, Dr. R. W.
Shufeldt. figs., 26. Species des Hymenopteres d'Europe et d'Algerie
fonde" par E. Andre", 586 Fascicule: Tome Vbis, Braconidae, 3rd supple-
ment-part, 3 pis., Paris, Vve Dubosclard, April i, '97. Notes on the
transformations of the higher Hymenoptera, ii. A. S. Packard, figs., <>.--
Myrmecological studies, iii. Toinognafhns sublcfi'is Mayr. [in Swedish],
G. Adlerz, i pi., Bihang till Kongl. Svenska Yetenskaps-Akademiens
Handlingar, xxi, 4, 4. Stockholm, 1895 ; rec'd July 8, '97. The flying
bridge of ants, F. Bonatelli, 27. Further notes on sections of Ait^o-
chlora. C. Robertson, 4, July. Note on the knowledge of the Pakearctic
Mutillas, ii, E. Andre, .*?O.

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Doings of Societies.

PHILADELPHIA, June 8, 1897.

A stated meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social was held
at the residence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, 1509 S. i3th Street.
Meeting called to order at 9 P.M. Vice-president D. M. Castle
presiding.

Prof. Smith exhibited a small species of Lepidoptera, probably
Triprocris smith s onia s , captured at Anglesea, N. J., recently on
the bloom of wild cherries, which the speaker declared he had
never seen so far north; he had compared it with specimens re-
ceived from Texas, which it greatly resembles; he further stated
that Mr. Wenzel had shown him specimens of the same captured
at Anglesea the week previous, which were beaten from the oak.
Continuing, he mentioned that Crioceris i2-pimctatus was found
recently in Monmouth County, N. J., showing that it now thrives
on the Atlantic coast as well as on the Delaware River, being now
found as far north as Staten Island.

Mr. Boerner exhibited a collection of Coleoptera, among which
he mentioned the following species captured at Westville, N. J.,
May 23 : Coccidula lepida, Stenispa metallica, Donacia ru/a,
Anisostica strigata and &Todes amaroides. The first four-named
species were found living in the tussocks. He also showed three
specimens of Pterostichus ebeninus found at the Philadelphia
Neck, May 16.

Mr. H. W. Wenzel exhibited four species of Coleoptera and
their food-plant Phy salts heterosphylle Neis. previously found
by Dr. Castle at Glenolden, Delaware County, Pa. Three of the
species: Trichobaris trinotata, Coptocycla clavata and Lema tri-
lineata were found feeding upon the stem, while Epitrix parvula
were found upon the flower of this plant.

Dr. Castle mentioned finding Pachyscelns purpiireus at Glen-
olden, Pa. ; also reporting the capture of Baris scolopacea at
Masonville, N. J., June 4.

Mr. Fox stated that he had recently found an interesting book
in a second-hand bookstore entitled, "Drawings of American
Insects," by Titian R. Peale, which was shown. The drawings
were made by Mr. Peale himself, finished in water-colors, and
.show the life-history of several species of Lepidoptera.

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Mr. Laurent exhibited a series of Syneda graphica from Clem-
enton, N. J., showing considerable variation in the median band
of hind wing.

Mr. Johnson exhibited a number of rare Diptera of the family
Xylophagidae.

Dr. Skinner suggested that the Social hold out-door meetings
during July and August, upon which it was moved by Mr.
Laurent that a July meeting be held at Westville, N. J., on
Saturday the iyth inst. ; carried. Mr. Wenzel then moved that
a committee of two be appointed to secure suitable quarters for
this meeting; the chairman, thereupon, appointing Dr. Skinner
and Mr. Boerner on said committee with instructions to report
at July 4th meeting.

No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to
the annex at 10.20 P.M.

THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary.

TTne Entomological Section

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS.

The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for
publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS:

LIFE-HISTORY OF ERYCIDES AMYNTAS Fab.
By HARRISON G. DVAR.

I found these larvae at Miami, Fla., but, being unable to remain
in the place long enough to breed them, I turned them over to
Mrs. Slosson, who obtained the butterfly and determined the
species.

Egg. Cylindrical, swollen above the base, flat above and below; four-
teen sharp, narrow, plate-like ridges, each broadened at top so much that
they are contiguous, forming a crest around the deep, smooth micropyle;
light green, later reddish, the ridges white, the crest conspicuous, snowy
white; no cross lines visible under a lens, but under a half-inch objective
the ridges are very finely fluted. Diameter, .8 mm.; height, .9 mm.

Stage I. Head dull black, rounded, vertex square, slightly notched;
width, .55 mm. Body unicolorous, semi-translucent ocher-yellow, seg-
ments well marked; setre inconspicuous, short, white, with large swollen

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tips; primary seise only present, iv and v in line on the submarginal ridge,
remote; vii of two setae on the base of the leg; crotchets of abdominal feet
in an ellipse, somewhat oblique.

Stage II. Head wide, shallowly cordate, dull black, punctured; width
.9 mm. Body greenish, shaded with ocherous at each end, segments
faintly annulate posteriorly ; slightly shining, translucent ; a few yellow
dots; pile sparse, minute.

Stage III. Head broad, shallowly cordate, bilobed; black, immacu-
late, rough; width 1.5 mm.; no distinct cervical shield nor anal plate.
Body smooth, translucent, pale yellowish green, dotted with yellow; a
narrow subdorsal and lateral lines, the latter above the subventral ridge,
both yellow. Feet concolorous with the body ; pile obsolescent, pale,
hardly visible.

Stage IV. As before, the yellow dots on the body larger and thicker;
subdorsal and substigmatal lines present; a greener dorsal vascular line;
the larva looks smooth, not hairy; no cervical shield; head rough and
punctured; width 2.5 mm.

Stage V. Head cordate, bilobed, mouth small; rounded, flat before
the apex, clypeus small; width 4.3 mm. Greenish white, shagreened;
occiput behind, a line from over the eye upward and a spot on the front
aspect of the lobe near apex black; neck small, no cervical shield nor
anal plate: segments smooth centrally, densely wrinkled-annulate at the
posterior and in four or five small annulets. Feet small ; appearance,
yellow-green; skin translucent, light green, mostly by transparency; a
distinct, straight, yellow subdorsal line on joints 3-12; dense, fine, yellow
longitudinal strigae, confluent in little blotches and along the subventral
fold in an ill-defined line. Body almost naked; an abundant line pile, but
very short and obscure, white; spiracles pale.

Food plant. The larvae live in a folded leaf in the manner of Eudamus
tifyrus. They frequent the young leaves of the Jamaica dogwood (Pis-
fidia crythrina}. I am indebted to Mr. Kinzel for the name of the plant.

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A LEUCOCHRYSA FROM FLORIDA.

By NATHAN BANKS.

The genus Leucochrysa was erected by McLachlan for certain
South American Chrysopas which differed from the typical form
in having- very much longer antennae, excised labrum and broad
wings. Hitherto no species of this genus have been recognized
in the United States. It therefore gives me pleasure to present a
new species obtained in Florida by that well-known collector,
Mrs. A. T. Slosson.

184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September,

This makes four genera of Chrysopidae known to occur in our
country. They may be tabulated as below.

1. Third cubital cell equally divided . Nothochrysa.

Third cubital cell unequally divided 2.

2. Antenna? much longer than wings Leucoclirysa.

Antennae equal to, or shorter than wings 3.

3. Antentue well separated at base, basal joint slender, $ with a horn

between antennae Meleoma

Antennas closer together, basal joint stouter, $ without horn between
antennae Chrysopa.

Leucoclirysa floridana n. sp. Green; face yellowish, without markings;
front with a transverse brown line from eye to eye, angulated in the mid-
dle just above antenna?; antenna? much longer than wings, basal joints
rather close together, short, swollen on the inner side, yellowish, with
two red lines above, rest of antenna? pale greenish; prothorax green, a
red mark on each anterior side margin, a little longer than broad, nar-
rowed in front; rest of thorax green. Legs pale. Abdomen greenish, a
black dot on each side of the upturned anal plate of the rf. Wings
hyaline, veins green, a few of the transversals brown at the ends; pteros-
tigma brownish, very distinct, especially in hind wings; fore wings broad,
scarcely pointed, hind pair much narrower and more pointed at tip; third
cubital cell plainly longer than the second, only a little broader; the divi-
sory veinlet arises quite close to the cubitus; alar expanse 36 mm.

One specimen, Lake Worth, Florida.

OBITUARY.

Mr. ROBERT T. SAUNDERS, bf Barnstable, Mass., died September, 1896.
Mr. Saunders was interested in the Lepidoptera.

Mr. AUGUST MERKEL, of 310 Humboldt Street, Brooklyn, after a short,
but severe illness, died August igth. He was born July 8, 1837, in Ein-
beck, near Hanover, Germany, and, although not literally active in Ento-
mology, was one of our oldest and foremost collectors in Coleoptera a
number of oeetles bear his name, and his remembrance will be highly
regarded by all who met him as a perfect gentleman, a genial, kind-hearted
entomologist, always liberal and generous and willing to help and assist
and as a true friend. OTTOMAR DIETZ.

ERRATA.
Vol. viii, p. 68, for Philanthus anna read Philantlms ainuc.

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for June was mailed May 29, 1897.

ENT. NEWS. Vol. VIII.

PI. IX.

Trichodectes californicus

Trichodectes quadraticeps 9

ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS

AND

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION,

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA.

VOL. viii. OCTOBER, 1897. No. 8.

CONTENTS:

Chapman Two new species of Tricho- King Termes flavipes, etc 193

dectes (Mallophaga) 185 Editorial 197

Aaron The bee moth 187 Economic Entomology 198

Westcott The distribution of some N. Notes and News 200

American Syrphidse 190 Entomological Literature 202

Youngs Oviposition of Anthophilax Doings of Societies 206

attenuatus 192 '

TWO NEW SPECIES OF TRICHODECTES (MALLOPHAGA).

By BERTHA CHAPMAN, Stanford University, California.

Trichodfdcs is one of the two genera of Mallophaga found on
mammals. Gyropus, the other of these has been found only on
the guinea-pig. The species of Trichodectes, however, of which
about thirty are known, are found on various hosts. Of these
thirty species sixteen have been recorded from American hosts.
The type specimens of these two species are in the collections
of Stanford University.

Trichodectes quadraticeps n. sp. (Fig. i).

Several specimens taken from a fox, Urocyon virginianus (Palo
Alto, Gala.).

Description of Female. Body length i.i mm., width .61 mm.; broad,
pale golden brown, with dark bands and spots on head and thorax, and
pak-r transverse bands on the abdomen.

Head length .35 mm., width .44 mm ; broad, temples little wider than
forehead; front with a distinct concavity; sides of front evenly and broadly
rounding, with three short hairs each side of the median concavity, one
short hair in front of the trabecuke, which are large; antenna? short, with
three segments of about equal length, a few scattered hairs; eyes large,
with a tine hair; temples slightly rounding, several spines and hairs on
the margin; occipital margin nearly straight; general color golden brown,

186 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

antennal bands of darker brown, anterior ends bending in at the clypeal
concavity ending in broad, even blotches, the posterior ends also darker
in front of the antennas; dark ocular blotches; mandibles dark brown,
showing through the head; an even dark band on the occipital margin
and occipital bands distinct posteriorly.

Prothorax narrow, lateral margin rounding, with one pustulated hair
near the lateral margin; dark golden brown lateral blotches widely sepa-
rated anteriorly by a paler median space; these dark blotches are inter-
rupted laterally by a distinctly paler circular spot; metathorax narrow,
sides convex and strongly divergent; seven strong hairs on the first third
of the posterior margin, which is obtusely angulated each side of the
median line and its median portion is angularly concave upon the abdo-
men; general color paler than the prothorax, a darker lateral blotch which
is interrupted by a pale space in which the hairs are placed; legs weak,
with no distinct markings, a few scattered hairs.

Abdomen broad, tapering posteriorly but little; angles of the segments
not prominent, with a single short hair; few dorsal hairs, but these are
more numerous near the lateral half of the segment; last segment long,
with a narrow posterior emargination, each side of which are two strong
hairs; general color pale golden brown, slightly darker medially; trans-
verse blotches of the ventral surface showing through the dorsal surface
of segments two to seven; the appendages of segment eight are distinctly
darker brown on their tips.

Male. Body length .93 mm., width .55 mm.; head length .28 mm.,
width .38 mm. Abdomen more nearly oval than in female; last segment
not more than half as wide as the preceding segment, posterior margin
nearly straight, with acute lateral angles; genitalia slender, distinctly
showing through the body ; in general coloring and markings closely
resembling the female.

Trichodestes calif ornicus n. sp. (Fig 2).

One female taken from a pocket mouse, Perognathus sp.,
Baja California. Resembling, in general, T. retusus Witzsche,
from a weasel, and T. geomydis Osborn from a pocket gopher,
and T. nephilidis Osborn from a polecat.

Description of female. Body length 1.37 mm., width .84 mm.; short,
broad, pale yellowish white, without definite markings, except on the
front of head.

Head length .33 mm., width .5 mm.; anterior margin with a deep in-
cision; sides of the front receding rapidly to the sharply angulated tra-
beculas; four or five short hairs on the anterior margin and a group of
short hairs in front of the indistinct suture; antennae long and large,
reaching beyond the temporal margin when extending back; the seg-
ments of about equal length, some scattering hairs; eye prominent, with
a faint hair; temples rounding with six or seven marginal hairs and spines;
occipital margin nearly straight and without hairs or spines; general color

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pale golden brown ; antennal bands darker brown, narrow, marginal,
bending inward anteriorly, ending in distinct spots each side of the clypeal
incision, a circular pale spot in front of the mandibles, which are dark
brown, a dark ocular blotch; occipital blotches pale brown, yet distinct.

Prothorax long and wide ; sides slightly rounding ; posterior margin
medially convex; a strong pustulated hair in the rounding posterior angle
and two short, fine hairs near the median line; pale golden brown,
slightly darker in the posterior angle ; metathorax short, sides nearly
straight, an interrupted transverse series of fourteen long hairs arranged
in groups, two near the anterior lateral angle, three nearer the median
line, and two others each side of the median line; there are also two
short hairs near the posterior margin each side of the median line; gen-
eral color pale golden brown, with no distinct lateral blotches; legs stout,
pale, with darker semi-annulations and scattered hairs.

Abdomen broadly oval, reaching its greatest width at the third segment,
then tapering rapidly to the last segment; a transverse series of strong
hairs on each segment from one to six, being more numerous and spine
like near the lateral margin ; first two segments with short spines on the
lateral margin; last segment narrowly emarginate with four strong hairs
each side of the emargination and four strong dorsal hairs near the lateral
anterior margin; ground color paler brown than the head on thorax; first
three segments with slightly darker lateral bands.

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THE BEE MOTH.

By Mrs. C. B. AARON, Phila., Pa.

In all warm countries where the honey-bee is found we may
also expect its natural enemy, the bee-moth. When the early
English colonists in the seventeenth century brought to America
the "White man's fly" as the Indians called the bee, with it
came the deadly pest whose ravenous appetite had suggested to
Swammerdam the appropriate name of " Bee-wolf."

Beyond a certain altitude this troublesome moth is not to be
seen. De Rauschenfels was unable to find it in the mountains
of Prussia 2900 feet above the sea, although for years he watched
hives both with and without bees. In bleak and cold localities
where the summers are short and the hives exposed to the winds,
the moth is rarely seen. In the tropics there exist the most
favorable conditions for the moth's comfort. According to Han-
neman the bees in Brazil have a hard struggle, and Mr. Benton
asserts that bee culture in certain regions in India is difficult on
account of the moth.

i88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

There are two kinds of moths infesting bee-hives having similar
habits, but distinguishable in their size, Galleria mellonella, the
species under consideration, being much the larger. The generic
name Galleria was derived from the Latin word "Gallina,"
meaning ' ' fowl, ' ' and was given to the insect by Linnaeus because
the wings of the moth at rest resembled the tail of a fowl; he
also added the specific name ' ' mellonella' ' from the Latin ' ' mel ,"
or honey, supposing that the food of the caterpillar was the nectar
contained in the comb. Later discoveries by Fabricius resulted
in a correction of the name, changing it to " cereana," from
"cera," Latin for wax. The original name, however, by Lin-
naeus will remain the permanent one, although both naturalists
were wrong in their conclusions that honey or wax was the chief
diet.

It is not among healthy colonies of bees that the moth may be
considered a formidable enemy, but it is undoubtedly a pest in
unprotected brood combs. In the honey-house or store-room,
where such have been deposited, the moth if unmolested finds
the right element for her progeny. Colonies will sometimes
become weakened either by poor wintering or the loss of a queen,
and into these the prolific moth will gain an entrance, and before
long the discouraged and forlorn bees find they are "eaten out
of house and home."

In the months of April and May, toward dusk, the bee-keeper
may readily discover the ashy-brown moth dodging about the
hive's entrance; unlike most other moths in their more honorable
habits of flight she will crawl and run artfully around like a rob-
ber bee, watching for the coveted opportunity to pass the senti-
nels, who also see her. If the bees are sufficiently alert in pre-
venting her admission the moth explores the cracks and corners
about the bottom board depositing her eggs sometimes in clusters
or often singly in the dust made by plates of wax and pollen
accidentally dropped by the bees in the haste of unloading on a
busy day. These particles furnish the first few meals to the
newly-hatched worms, whose increasing appetites soon direct
them to the greater feast inside the hive.

The caterpillar, when full grown measures about an inch and
an eighth, is a dirty white with tiny dots and microscopic hairs.
Its dark brown head is furnished with powerful mandibles, re-
quired not so much in breaking wax as in burrowing through

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wood and carving out a resting place for its last stage as a worm
on the edges of frames and narrow spaces of the hive often made
harder by the coverings of propalis.

The caterpillars are social in their habits, hundreds congrega-
ting on the same comb, although each has an individual tunnel
in which to spend its prescribed time, lengthening and expanding
it according to necessity with positive " no admittance" at either
end. When disturbed or alarmed the worm moves rapidly within
its silken gallery in either direction and on account of the density
of the tube may be more easily seen when held up to the light.

The natural food of the caterpillar is neither wax or honey, as
was supposed, but the cast-off, skins of the bee larvae and the
pollen contained in the brood combs. A diet of wax alone does
not furnish sufficient nutriment to enable the worm to spin silk.
The majority of worms with which I have experimented upon a
wax diet reached the chrysalis stage most of them without any
cocoon, while some completed their transformations beneath a
shabby apology of a gauze covering adulterated with particles
of the pasteboard box containing them. Of the very few which
emerged, nearly all were undersized and imperfect. In no in-
stance of a wax-reared female have I seen the usual healthy con-
dition always to be found in a female produced among the comb
containing the animal tissues and pollen. I doubt whether a
second generation could be raised from individuals whose existence
had been due to wax alone.

The length of time from the egg to the perfect moth differs
according to the weather and the amount of food available. A
scanty supply will retard development much beyond the usual
time. The two broods in this section of country appear in May
and July. Egg-laying continues all Summer until October. All
of the worms which are overtaken by cold weather pass the
Winter in their cocoons, and are prepared to emerge during any
balmy evening in April in quest of fresh pasture.

A well-known enthusiast in bee culture, Mr. Henry K. Oliver,
after enlarging upon the mischief caused by mice, toads, ants,
spiders, wasps and gallinaceous birds, says it is but a baby bite
compared to the destruction caused by the bee-moth, and con-
cludes his remarks with the following:

' He who shall be successful in devising the means of ridding
the bee world of this destructive and merciless pest will richly

190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

deserve to be crowned ' King Bee' in perpetuity, to be entitled
to a never-fading wreath of budding honey flowers from sweetly
breathing fields all murmuring with bees, to be privileged to use
night tapers from their waxen thighs, best wax candles (two to
the pound), to have an annual offering from every bee master of
ten pounds each of very best virgin honey, and to a body guard
for protection against all foes, of thrice ten thousand workers,
all armed and equipped as Nature's laws direct. Who shall have
these honors ?"

The most eligible claimant to such fame was the inventor of
the movable frame hive, Mr. Langstroth, whose death occurred
during the present year. Every well-informed bee-keeper appre-
ciates the facility with which such a hive may be examined to
ascertain the strength of the colony or the presence of the moth-
worm and the easy transference from one hive to another.

All worm-infested combs should be* subjected to the fumes of
sulphur, then rinsed in water to remove as much of the debris as
possible and placed in the midst of a strong colony; the bees will
soon prepare them for the reception of eggs and pollen. Unoc-
cupied hives and broken brood comb should never be left exposed
in an apiary.

A parasite of the bee-moth has been described in a French
journal. It is a tiny hymenopterous insect which lays its eggs
on the worm, and the little larvae, exceedingly numerous, nourish
themselves at the worm's expense until nothing is left but the
skin of the victim, upon which the parasites spin cocoons, from
which the winged insects appear.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME N. AMERICAN SYRPHID/E.

By OLIVER S. WESTCOTT, Sc.D.

Prof. Hunter's article in the June ".Canadian Entomologist,"
with regard to North American Syrphidae, leads me to compile
a list of Syrphidae taken by myself in various parts of the country.
The memoranda may be useful to any who are engaged in ad-
vancing our knowledge of this family of a somewhat neglected
order.

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IQI

Chrysotoxum derivation Walk.,

Br. Col., July, 1890.
Paragus angustifronsLoevi, N. 111.
Paragus bicolor Fab., N. 111.
ChrysogasterpulchellaW\\\., N. 111.
Chrysogaster nitida Wied., N. 111.
Cliilosia capillata Loew, N. 111.
Melanostoma mell'mum Linn., N.

111., R. I.

Platychirus qitadralns Say, N. 111.
Syrphus arcuatus Fall., Col.
Syrpluis arcuatus v. /apponicus Zett.

Victoria, B. C., Aug., 1890.
Syrphus diver sipes Macq., B. C.,

July, 1890.
Syrphus ribesii L'mn., N. 111., Mich.,

Wis., Can.

Syrphus torvus O. S., N. 111.
Syrphus abbreviates Zett., N. 111.
Syrphus lesueurii Macq., R. I., N.

Y., Gl. House, Br. Col., July, '90.
Syrphus awericanus Wied., N. 111.,

'R. i.

Syrphus opinator O. S., N. 111., Gl.

House, Br. Col.. July, 1890; Na-

naimo, Vane. Island, Aug., 1890;

Elko, Nev., Aug., 1892.
Syrphus umbellatarum Schin., Fort

Wrangel, Alaska, Aug., 1892.
Didea fuscipes Loew, N. 111.
Allograpta obliqua Say, N. 111., N.

Y., R. I., Quebec, Mexico.
JMesograpta polita Say, N. 111.
JMesograpta parvula Loew, N. 111.,

Cala., Fla.

JMesograpta niargiuata Say, N. 111.
Mesograpta geuiinata Say, N. 111.
Sphceroplioria cylindrica Say, N.

111., Quebec, N. Y., Minn., Nova

Scotia.

Baccha babista Walk., Mex.
Volucella sa/urO. S., Nev., Aug.
Volucella hagii Jaen., Mex.
Copestylnin marginatumSay, Nev.,

Aug.
Sericomyia tni/itaris Walk., Oueb.

Sericomyia chrysotoxoides Macq.,

N. 111.
Eristalis tenax Linn., N. 111., New

Mex., New Brunswick, Cal., R. I.
1-lristalis csneus Fab., N. 111.
Eristalis hirtns Loew, New Mex.,

\'ictoria, Br. Col., 1890.
Eristalis diinidiatus Wied., N. 111.
Erislalis sa.vorum Wied., R.I.
Eristalis lafifrons Loew, Colo.,

Nova Scotia.
Eristalis brousi Will., Wyoming,

Nova Scotia.

Eristalis occidentals Will., Victo-
ria, Br. Col., Juiy, 1890; Fort

Wrangel, Aug., 1890.
Eristalis bastardi Macq., N. 111.,

Nova Scotia, Cape Breton.
Eristalis flavipes Walk., Victoria,

Br. Col., July, 1890.
Eristalis transversus Wied., N. 111.,

Mass.
Eristalis albiceps Macq., N. 111.,

Fla.
Heliophilus mexicanus Macq , Col.,

Mex.
Heliophilus latifrons Loew, N. Hi.,

Mich., Wis., Tex.
Mai lot a cinibiciformis Fall., N. Y.
Triodonta curvipes Wied., Mex.
Tropidia quadrata Say, Nova Sco-
tia, Cape Breton.
Pocota grandis Will., Nanaimo,

Vane. Is., Aug., 1890; abundant

on elder blossoms.
Xylotaflavitibia Will., Cape Breton

July, 1894.

Xylotafraudulosa Loew, Mich.
Syritta pipiens Linn., N. 111., Cal.,

Col., New Mex.
Spifoinyia quadrifasciata Say, N.

111.
Temnostoma crquale Loew, Cape

Breton.

Cei'ia signifera Loew, Term.
Milesia ornaia Fab., Indiana.

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OVIPOSITION OF ANTHOPHILAX ATTENUATUS.

By D. B. YOUNGS, Newport, N. Y.

About a year ago having some correspondence with Mr. Chas.
Liebeck, the fact was mentioned that Anthophilax attenuaius was
found ovipositing in the galleries of Ptilinus ruficornis. Mr.
Liebeck then informed me that it was strange for a Longicorn
to be found ovipositing in another beetle's galleries.

This year having corroborated the fact by further observation
I now communicate it to the NEWS, hoping it may be of some
interest to its readers. The first beetle was taken May 8, 1895,
and several more on different dates until the 28th. All of the
beetles were females, not a male being seen. In 1896 the first
beetle was noticed on the gth of May; their appearance may be
said to date from May 8th to the 2oth; those found later were
probably strays. The stub which seemed to be a favorite was a
maple nearly devoid of bark, but not much decayed. Two
specimens were taken ovipositing in beech. The beech was cut
in the Fall of 1894 and a piece split from the side of the stump.
Ptilinus ruficornis tunneled it in the Spring of 1895, and Antho-
philax attenuatus oviposited in their galleries the succeeding
Spring.

The method of oviposition as observed upon the maple, which
had many galleries and crevices, was as follows: The beetle
crawled along with an odd jerky motion and carefully examined
every hole and crevice which it crossed. The crevices were
abandoned almost immediately; the galleries were examined with
more care and evidently those selected were a year old ; the
beetles invariably oviposited with the head turned nearly or
wholly down. One of the galleries removed after the beetle had
oviposited and flown contained sixteen eggs. Nothing had been
placed in the gallery to prevent parasites from entering. The
eggs were placed one-half inch from the outside in three lots of
four each, with their ends slightly tapering, just filling the diam-
eter of the gallery. The eggs were cylindrical, rounded at both
ends, polished, and waxy white; they were gummed together
with a yellowish secretion, and were one and a half to nearly
two mm. in length.

It may be worthy of note that Tcretrius americanus was taken
from the same stub and put in an appearance within a few days
after the appearance of A. attenuatus. Whether any significance
attaches to this fact or not I am unable to say.

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Termes flavipes Kollar and its Association with Ants.

By GEORGE B. KING, Lawrence, Mass.

According" to the best authorities Termites have been placed
in the order Neuroptera, and are therefore widely separated from
that of the ants, which belong to the order Hymenoptera; never-
theless, by the ambition of quite a number of writers who would
have us believe that they were entomologists when, as a fact,
they have had but little knowledge of the insect creation have
put them down as ants. These men seem to have been the
means to educate those who have read their works to believe
that Termites were really ants of a white color, so much so
that it is quite hard for one in conversation with some men
who have read the accounts of Termites as being white ants,
to convince them of the contrary. I am also very sorry to
say that very often leading entomologists of to-day will persist
in following their example by calling them white ants. It is
most decidedly wrong and should not be done. The Termites
are in no way like an ant only as an insect, but have, however,
some of the social habits, living together in colonies similar to
ants and bees, having kings and queens, but up to this writing
there has never yet been found a true king and queen to exist in
the nest of Termes flavipes. Their colonies consist of supple-
mentary queens or egg-laying individuals provided with long
wing pads or sexually advanced female pupa with long wing pads
and their larva. The time of the year to find these forms is from
September until the ground becomes frozen, and again early in
Spring. After this time they are seldom met with, at least here
in Massachusetts. Sometimes we will find nests consisting- whollv

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of these forms, having but very few workers accompanying them .
The young larva and eggs of Termes flavipes are found at all
seasons of the year, that is, occasionally so found.

Some writers have placed the exact month for the appearance
of the winged males in swarming, and is called the Swarming
Period or Marriage Flight, which they claim takes place in Spring.
From the observations I have made it would be impossible for
me to state any particular time for these winged forms to appear,
as I find them to exist at all seasons of the year, but more plen-
tifully, however, in June and July. Neither can I state the exact
time of their laying of eggs as this is variable also. Some nests
may contain winged males, workers and soldiers; others workers

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and soldiers with a very few undeveloped laying females. Others
may have only workers and soldiers, and some may contain only
workers. Again, there is associated with Termes flavipes a clear
black form, variable in size, some with wing stumps, and others,
so far as I can see now, without being cleared, appear to have
none. I have only met with five of these forms so far; one
measured six mm. in length, another five mm., and two of these
measure four mm. The fifth form I sent to Prof. L. O. Howard,
not long since, with notes. He referred it to Prof. Schwartz,
who has been paying some attention to the Termes at Washington,
He reported back to Mr. Howard substantially as follows : That
the species sent by me was a full developed male with winged
stumps. This black form of the males of Termes flavipes is not
rare at Washington and through the Southern States, and we
have often wondered whether we have not several species mixed
up among Termes flavipes, for it seems there are swarms of sexed
Termites composed entirely of male forms (not immature ones)
and others composed of dark forms, but there have been no exact
observations as yet been made on this subject. He also adds
that so far as he knows there is no literature pertaining to this
form .

When I first observed its appearance with Termes flavipes, and
in the nest with it, I supposed it to be a species of a Staphylinid
beetle, so swift was its movements that they made them quite
deceptive. They are very swift runners and hard to capture.
Further observations will be necessary to determine whether
these are new species or not. It is my impression, however, that
they are of a different type.

During the study of the Formica of Massachusetts I have met
with and examined thousands of nests of Termes flavipes asso-
ciated and otherwise with ants. It is not an uncommon occur-
rence to find these Termites associated with a number of different
species of ants. The species that I have recorded thus far as
being so found are Lasms flavus Ltr. , L. claviger Rog., /..
americanus Em., Formica fusca L., var. subscericea .Say, F. in-
tegra NyL, F. obscuripes For., Camponotus americanus Em .

Tapinoma sissile Say, and Aphcenogastcr fulva Rog., and a num-
ber of others observed but the names not recorded. There is

no doubt that the ants in many cases collect these Termites and
bring them home to their own nests, and in some cases it may be.

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that the Termes have come voluntarily or by accident into some
of these nests. In either case when we find the ants and Termes
together, they seem to be living in perfect harmony. I am per-
fectly satisfied, also, that some of these ants make use of the
Termites in the excavation of chambers in logs and stumps, as
the Termites can do this much easier than the ants. It may also
be that the ants use some of the Termites the same as they do
the aphides and coccids lapping up the excretions from their
bodies, but I am not prepared to state this as being so as I have
not observed them in this capacity. The ants can be seen carry-
ing the Termites away to places of safety when one of their nests
are disturbed, that is, if the herd is a small one. I have often
noticed if the herd was a large one with the ants that when they
were disturbed the ants and Termites would fight with each other,
one pulling the other by their legs, antennae, or any other part
they could conveniently get hold of, but I have never yet stopped
to await the final results to see which would be the most victori-
ous. I have, however, observed several times when a Termite
would let go its hold of an ant, the ant would jump for it very
speedily, grabbing it in its mandibles like a dog after a fresh hold.
It is said that the so-called soldier Termite protects the rest of
the colony. I have yet to observe the soldier Termes flavipes to
take any part in battle, or show any signs of protection towards
the rest of the colony. What their real functions are I am un-
prepared to state at this writing. In some nests of ants I have
found a single soldier Termite, in others only one worker, some-
times two and five, etc., where other colonies may run up with a
hundred or more.

Ants not only collect the Termites for their use, but also the
eggs of the Termites. I have found two examples of this, the
first appears to be Aug. 18, 1894, in the nest of Lasius flavus L.,
the other on Nov. 2, 1896, in the nest of Lasius claviger Rog.
There were hundreds of these tiny eggs in each of the nests, and
the ants were attending them the same as they appeared to attend
the eggs of aphids and coccids. In the last nest I found some
of the small forms of Termes. In neither of these nests were
there to be found any of the adult forms of Termites.

During my researches I have found large mounds which had
contained a large and flourishing colony of Formica obscuripes
For., but now had become a large unflourishing colony of Termes

196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

flavipes containing but a very few of Formica obscuripes. Whether
the Termites had become hostile to the ants, or whether they be-
come in a crowded condition with the abundance of both species
and the ants seeking new homes is a problem yet to solve. The
Termites are a very hardy insect, and remain active in their nests
late in the Fall, when the ants are wholly inactive. They also
remain in their nests unprotected through the Winter in a torpid
condition, as do many of our ants. I have not met with but a
very small amount of literature treating upon ants and Termites
being associated together. The only literature thus far is
("Nature" vol. xix, p. 4, 1878) by Henry O. Forbes " Ter-
mites kept in Captivity by Ants. ' ' He speaks of Termes lucifugus
so kept by Formica niger (now called Lasius niger). The ob-
servation was made at Naples, and in " Popular Science Monthly"
we find the same account, in substance, by the editor. There
are several articles in varions books on General Entomology,
giving the life-history and descriptions of Termes flavipes, but
the best account with cuts of the different forms are given in
Bulletin No. 4, 1896, New Series, U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, Division of Entomology, written by C. L. Marlatt.

There may be other literature treating upon Termites inhabit-
ing ants' nests, but such as I know I give to assist others that
may be interested in the subject. This also should apply to all
of the other articles I have written on Formica, or that I may
write in the future. There is, however, some literature pertain-
ing to other genera of Termites in Europe that I have not quoted
and can be found in Wasmann's work on Myrmecophilous and
Termitophilous Arthropoden, 1894, p. 166. I have met with
but few Termitophilous insects with Termes flavipes as yet. The
only ones found by me are Philotermes pilosus Kraatz, an unde-
termined Homalota sp. and Tachyporus jocosus Say.

MOUTH-PARTS OF COLEOPTERA. F. Meinert, in a paper on the buccal
apparatus of insects in the " Oversigt" of the Royal Danish Scientific
Society, states that his researches on two forms of genera, Hydrophilns,
and Dytiscus, belonging to the Coleoptera, and consequently insects with
complete metamorphosis, seem to permit me to state that we are here
really in the presence of four metameres which develop in such a way
that the most posterior metamere with its appendages, that is the labium
with the labial palps (the primary palps) disappears during embryonic
development to be replaced by the anterior metamere, posterior by de-
velopment, with its palps (the secondary palps).

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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1897.

LATE COLLECTING.

BY the time this month's issue reaches our subscribers many
of them will have ceased their efforts, entomologically, for the
season; net and cyanide jar will be put away for future use and
collections labeled and put in order in the cabinet. We, how-'
ever, wish to mention the fact that many fine species fly late in
the Fall and we have records of good species taken in this locality
(Phila., Pa.) in September and October. Papilio cresphontes,
Eup. claudia, Jim. cccnia, Endam. proteus, Pam. ocola and accms,
Callid. eubule as well as other common species have been taken
late in the season. Good things are also found in the orders
other than Lepidoptera at this time of year, so it will pay those
who have the time, to take an occasional collecting trip, to do so
and also enjoy the glorious Autumn weather we often have.

A NEW GENUS OF BEES. Ashmeadiella, n. g. Similar to Heriades.
First recurrent nervure reaching second submarginal cell at a point dis-
tant from the origin of the first transverse-cubital more than half the
length of the latter. Stigma small or subobsolete. Wings not smoky at
apex; eyes bicolored, black and green; end of male abdomen with four
teeth. Type A. opuntiec (Heriades opiinthc Ckll., An. Mag. Nat. HIM.
1897, p. 139). Includes also A. prosopidis, A. meliloti, A. cactornin and
A. bigelovice, all described as Heriades. Mr. Ashmead's Chalicodoma
californica (which maybe Provancher's Heriades albicincluin } is probably
congeneric; so also are some of Cresson's Heriades, such as H. detilicn-
latiun, If. variolosnni ami H. osinoides (buccomsSay).T. D. A. COCK-
EKELL, Mesilla, New Mex.

198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October,

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,

Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J.

Papers for this department are solicited. They should be sent to the editor. Prof. John
B. Smith, Sc.D., New Brunswick, N. J.

Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists.

Detroit, Mich., Aug. 12-13, J 97- The Association met in Room 212,
Central High School Building, immediately following the adjournment of
Section F. Thirteen active members were present, together with many
visitors, prominent among the latter being Dr. C. A. Dohrn, Prof. E. B.
Pou 1 ton, Dr. C. P. Hart, Dr. C. S. Minot and Dr. C. VV. Stiles. The
Association was called to order by the President, and in the absence of
Secretary Marlatt a secretary pro tern was chosen. The address of the
retiring president treated of "The Present and Future of Applied Eco-
nomic Entomology in the United States," and contained, among other
very interesting features, an admirable tribute to the value of the sys-
tematist and a somewhat caustic criticism of the " species maker, " helpful
suggestions for the experiment station worker, and a very frank discussion
of the unfortunate results which attend the attempts sometimes made to
combine politics and science.

The following were elected to active membership : G. B. King, Law-
rence, Mass.; Gerald McCarthy, Raleigh, N. C.; E. P. Felt, Albany, N.
Y.; A. F. Burgess, Maiden, Mass.; VV. B. Barrows, Agricultural College,
Michigan; R. H. Pettit, Agricultural College, Michigan; \V. S. Blatchley,
Indianapolis, Ind.

The following were elected foreign members : Claude Fuller, Richard
Helm, both of Perth, West Australia. These additions increase the num-
bers of this Association to ninety-three active and thirty-one foreign
members.

Following the election of members, Dr. L. O. Howard presented "Ad-
ditional Notes on the Parasites of Orgyia leucostigma." This paper gave
the results of the rearing of a large number of primary and secondary
parasites, and contained a general discussion of the different phases of
insect parasitisms.

"Temperature Effects as affecting Received Ideas concerning the Hi-
bernation of Insects," by the same author, showed that a sudden alter-
nation between low and high temperatures was remarkably fatal to the
larvae of clothes moths, Buffalo carpet beetles, and other insects of allied
habits.

An abstract of " Notes on Certain Species of Coleoptera that attack
Useful Plants," by F. H. Chittenden, was read by secretary pro ft-m.
These notes treated chiefly of the food-plants and habits of a certain
Chrysomelids.

A letter from Miss E. A. Qrmerod called particular attention to the fact

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that the house sparrow had been very abundant and very obnoxious in
certain parts of England, and it seemed probable that some legislation or
public measures would need to be adopted to control this bird. The
arrival from Tripoli of a cargo of wheat, badly infested by the Angou-
mois m >th, was recorded and reference made to the occurrence in injurious
numbers of Xyleborns dispar at Toddington.

Prof. P. H. Rolfs presented notes on "A Fungus Disease of the San
Jose' Scale.' This disease seems to be confined to the southern part of
the United States, but is very helpful to fruit-growers there. The scale
has been almost eradicated from several orchards by this disease; labo-
ratory and field experiments now in progress promise helpful results, but
it does not seem probable that this disease will be of value in the northern
part of the United Slates, since warmth and moisture are necessary for
its development.

Mr. Barrows made a brief statement concerning the distribution of the
San Jose" scale in Michigan. The insect had been found scattered through-
out the southern counties of the State, where it had probably existed for
eight years. In discussing this paper Mr. Craig spoke of the occurrence
of the scale in southern Ontario, where there were at least seven infested
localities.

A paper from Prof. C. P. Gillette on " Insects taken at Light and Sugar,"
evoked considerable discussion, and was followed by " A Study of the
Possible Origin and Distribution of the Chinch Bug," by Prof. F. M.
Webster. The author advanced the idea that this insect had originated
in the southern part of the United States and spread by two diverging
streams up the Mississippi Valley and along the eastern Atlantic coast.
In the former region the long-winged form predominated, while the coast
form was short winged. In the discussion following this paper the gen-
eral opinion seemed to be that the length of the wings depended upon
environment rather than heredity. Mr. C. \Y. Malley recorded the cap-
ture at Ohio of a specimen having one long and one short wing, thus
throwing additional light upon the relationship between the two forms.

" Notes on the Common House Fly," by Mr. Howard, gave the nega-
tive results of a series of experiments with lime, land plaster, etc., used
to destroy the larva? of the house-fly. He emphasized the necessity of
greater cleanliness in the management of horse stables.

A paper from Mr. Gillette on " Vernacular names of Insects," was
read and referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. Howard, Fernald
and Lintner. A communication from C. P. Lounsbury, giving very in-
teresting notes on "Cape of Good Hope Insects," particularly the locusts
of that region, was then read.

Mr. H. G. Hubbard presented an account of the " Insect Fauna of the
Giant Cactus," recording the capture of a large number of insects on this
plant and giving notes on their habits.

Mr. Howard described "A Valuable Coccid" lately discovered in
Arizona and New Mexico, from which, by suitable treatment, a good

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grade of white wax could be obtained. The refuse from this operation
is of the nature and consistence of India rubber and may be of commer-
cial value.

'Notes on Insects of the Year" by Messrs. Webster and Mally, re-
cording interesting experiences with several of the common insect pests.
The negative results of a series of experiments with kainit, against the
insects attacking the roots of the grape, caused considerable disussion,
and the need for further experimentation along this line was pointed out.

A paper by A. H. Kirkland on " Preparation and Use of Arsenate of
Lead," detailed a method of preparing this insecticide at a cost of about
seven cents per pound. Work against the gypsy moth was mentioned,
and the condition of the infested region was reported as generally better
than that of last year. This undertaking, however, is still handicapped
by insufficient financial support.

" A Malodorous Carabid" by Mr. Barrows gave extensive notes on the
annoyance and discomfort caused by the almost unbearable odor of No-
111 ins pygincpus.

At the final adjournment of the session it was voted to hold the next
meeting at Boston, Mass., August 19 and 20.

Several resolutions were passed, among which were : (i) a resolution
requesting the publication of the proceedings as a bulletin of the Division
of Entomology. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, and (2) expressing familiarity
with the efforts of the State of Massachusetts to exterminate the gypsy
moth and commending the results already accomplished.

The election of officers resulted as follows : President, Herbert Osborn,
Ames, Iowa; First Vice-President, Lawrence Bruner, Lincoln, Neb.;
Second Vice-President, C. P. Gillette, Ft. Collins, Colo.; Secretary and
Treasurer, C. L Marlatt, Washington, D. C.

A. H. KIRKLAND, Secretary, pro tern.

JXotes and. News.

ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS
OF THE GLOBE.

A PICTURE for the album of the American Entomological Society has
been received from Adelbert Fenyes, M.D., Pasadema, Cala.

ON A REMARKABLE USE OF ANTS IN ASIA MINOR. "Mr. Miltiades D.
Issigonis, a Greek gentleman from Smyrna, now residing in London . . .
fell from his horse in Smyrna about six years ago and received a severe
but clean cut of an inch or rather more in length on the forehead above
the right eye. In accordance with the custom of the country he went to
a Greek barber to have the wound dressed, and the barber employed at
least ten living ants to bite the two sides together. Pressing together the
margins of the cut with the fingers of the left hand, he applied the insect

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by means of a pair of forceps held in the right hand. The mandibles of
the ant were widely open for self-defence, and as the insect was carefully
brought near to the wound, it sei/ed upon the raised surface, penetrated
the skin on both sides and remained tenaciously fixed while the operator
severed the head from the thorax, so leaving the mandibles grasping tin-
wound. The same operation was repeated until about ten ants' heads
were fixed on the wound, and left in position for three days or therabouts,
when the cut was healed and the heads removed. The ant employed is
described by Mr. Issigonis as being about three-eighths of an inch long,
very dark brown in color, and of a particularly fierce disposition. . . .
The only other observation of a similar nature hitherto recorded appears
to have been that of Mons. Emile Mocquerys [in Brazil], Ann. Soc. Ent.
France, 2 ser. tomii, p Ixvii, Bulletin Entomologique Seance du Octobre,
1844. . . . Mr. Issigonis tells me that the operation is a frequent one in
the vicinity of Smyrna, and is, to the best of his belief, practised by the
Turks themselves as well as by the other nationalities found in Asiatic
Turkey. Unfortunately, he can give no information as to whether this
treatment of cuts is followed in Greece, European Turkey, or elsewhere."
ROBERT MORTON MIDDLETON, Jr., in Journal of the Linnean Society,
Zoology, vol. xxV, pages 405-6. London, 1896.

EREBUS ODORA. I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. H. M. Allison,
of Ouray, Colo., calling attention to a specimen of Erebus odora which
he forwarded to me by mail. The letter is of interest, and I take the
liberty of presenting its contents to the notice of the readers of the NEWS.
Mr. Allison says : " On the morning of the 3d of July, after a snow storm,
several of these moths were found on the streets of Ouray. It appeared
as if they had come with the snow. On the morning of the 3d snow cov-
ered the ground to a depth of three inches, and during the celebration
of the Fourth, on Monday, we had the pleasure of snowballing each
other. Old residents say that such a thing was never heard of before,
nor do they remember ever seeing insects like the one I send you making
their appearance under such circumstances."

Sporadic appearances of Erebus odora in high latitudes have been fre-
quently noted before. Their appearance in a snow storm recalls to my
mind the appearance in Pittsburg, some fifteen years ago, in the midst
of a heavy snow storm in the Fall, of vast numbers of the cotton-worm
moth, Alctia ar^illacca, \ liih., which, while the flakes were thickly falling,
whirled about the lamps and in a clothing house were swept up, as I was
informed by the owner, to the amount of "several quarts." \V. J. HOL-
LAND.

THK Ai'iimm.K OF THE BLACK TIMBER ZONE IN COLORADO. The
Cocrid;e, as we ascend the mountains, become less numerous, and so far
as we know, do not occur at all in the Black Timber Zone (about 10,000
feet to timber line) in Colorado. If they should he found there it will
probably be in ants' nests, which have not been searched for them at this

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elevation. From the existing records one might imagine a similar absence
of Aphididae, but as a matter of fact, these insects become numerous in
this region, increasing as the Coccidae decrease. Although many Aphid-
idse have been reported from Colorado (Ckll., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 1893;
Covven Hemip. Colo. 1895), none are from 10,000 feet or above. The
following list is based on notes made in the Black Timber Zone on the
east slope of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near the Micavvber Mine;
the notes were all made in the field, on the living insects. While they
are brief, they will serve to give some idea of the aphidian fauna, until
some aphidologist can visit the district and work them up in detail:

Species i. Whitish gray; on Epi/obiinn angustifolium, August.

Sp. 2. Dark olive-bro\vn, rather white-mealy; on Zygadenus nnttallii,
August.

Sp. 3. White with a greenish tinge, rather elongated, eyes black, legs
color of body, except ends of tarsi, which are black; at the Micawber
mine, August, on Mertensia sibirica.

Sp. 4. Dull ochery whitish, with a dark dorsal line, eyes dark; at the
Micavvber Mine, August; on Thennopsis inontana.

Sp. 5. Gray, with pale yellowish legs; Micawber Mine, on Epilobium
angustifolium.

Sp. 6. Green, with dark or black legs and antennae; on Sisymbrinin
caiiescens v. alpestre.

Sp. 7. Glaucous, pale green, or pale yellowish; on Chenopodinni albniu.

Sp. 8. Dark brown, wings dark veined, with a large black stigma; on
young shoots of Populus tremuloides.

Sp. 9. Dull brownish orange, or pale pinkish orange, wings hyaline;
on Heracleum lanatuni.

Sp. 10. Apple-green, legs concolorous; on Heracleum lanatum.

Sp. 11. Very dark gray, or black, shiny, legs pale; on Ribes lacustre.

Sp. 12. Pale yellowish pink, legs dark; on Aquilegia ctzrulea \. giau-
ditlosa. T. D. A. COCKERELL, New Mex. Agr. Exp. Station.

Entomological Literature.

Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North
and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con-
taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy,
physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic
species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as
numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published ; * denotes that the
paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms.

4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Out., '97. 5 Psyche, Cam-
bridge, Mass., '97. 7. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of
Entomology, Washington; publications of, '97. S. The Entomologist's

1 897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 203

Monthly Magazine, London, '97. 11. The Annals and Magazine of
Natural History, London, '97. 12. Comptes Rendus. L' Academic des
Sciences, Paris, '97. 21. The Entomologist's Record, London, '97.
33. Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Vienna. 34. Proceedings
of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, iv, Des Moines, '97. 35. Annales,
Societe Entomologique de Belgique, xli, No. 6 July 10, No. 7 Aug. 14, '97,
Brussels. 36. Transactions, Entomological Society of London, '97, part
ii, July 2. 37. Le Naturaliste Canadien, Chicoutimi, Quebec, '97. 38.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, xvi, 1-5, Jan., i5~Mar. 31, '97. 3i>.
Memoires, Socie"te des naturalistes de la Nouvelle Russie, Odessa. 4O.
Societas Entomologica, Zurich-Hottingen, '97. H. Entomologische
Nachric