ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND -, PROCEEDINGS T< OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. VOLUME XXII, 1911. MAJOR JOHN EATTON LE CONTE, 1784-1860. PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Associate Editor. HENRY SKINNER, M. D., Editor Emeritus. ADVISORY COMMITTEE : EZRA T. CRESSON ERICH DAECKE. I- A. G. REHN. PHILIP LAURENT WILLIAM J. FOX H. W. WENZEL. PHILADELPHIA : ENTOMOLOGICAL ROOMS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, LOGAN SQUARE. 1911. The several numbers of the NEWS for 1911 were mailed at the Philadelphia Post Office as follows : January . . . Dec. 31, 1910 February . . . Jan. 30, 1911 March . . . Feb. 28, " April . . . Mar. 31, " May . . . Apr. 28, " June . . . May 31, " July June 30, " October . . . Oct. 6, " November . . Oct. 30, " The date of mailing the December, 1911, number will be announced in the issue for January, 1912. PRESS OF P. C. 8TOCKHAU8EN PHILADELPHIA INDEX TO VOLUME XXII. (Notes and articles on geographical distribution are indexed under the names of the States or countries concerned, and not under the species listed therein, except in the case of new or redescribed forms. * indicates new generic, specific or subspecific names.) GENERAL SUBJECTS. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Entomo- logical Section, 46, 138, 237, 379- Td., Entomological Lectures at 86 African Entomological Re- search Committee 181 American Association Eco- nomic Entomologists, 190, 421 American Entomological So- ciety 138, 284, 335, 479 American Society of Zoolo- gists 95 Animal Behavior, Journal of 84 Antilles, Expedition to 423 Arcadia 326 Arizona, Collecting in South- ern 339 Rat as host of earwig 469 Bermuda. Insects of 384 Birds following insects, 287, 420 Birds, Insect parasites of ..19, 75 'Books, Insects injurious to, 41. 37i. Bromeliadicolous animals. 405-411 Brooklyn Entomological So- ciety 139 Cell-studies on Insects 95 Coition between different spe- cies 272 Colorado State Biol. Survey 277 Disease and Insects, 45, 92, 181, 228, 333, 432, 467, 469, 471. Editorial Changes l Editorials, 41, 83, 130, 177, 225, 276, 325, 369, 417, 465- Entomological building for Massachusetts Agricultural College 13, 97 Entomological Literature, 39, 40, 42, 84, 86, 87, 131, 134, 177, 179, 1 80, 182, 183, 232, 279, 326, 328, 369, 371, 374, 423, 471- Entomological Society of America 187. 416, 421 Faeces and flies 228 Feldman Collecting Social, 47. 04. 188, 285. 383, 477- Fish captured by Bug 372 Fungi transported by Am- brosia beetles 470 Gall insects (see under Dip- tera and Hymenoptera). Genotypes, Determination of. 278 Georgia, List of Insects of.. 39 Guiana, Expedition to 423 Gypsy Moth, Destroying the. 225 Hamster-rat, Orthopterous parasite of 468 Honorary degrees for Ento- mologists 371 House-flies, Campaign against 373 Instruction, Entomological, in Europe, 188, in U. S., 97. International Anti-Locust Commission 327 International Entomological Congress 66 Jelly rain [of eggs] 420 Labeling specimens 465 Lake Laboratory, Ohio State University '79 Le Conte, J. E 276 11 INDEX. Le Conte, J. L., Portrait of... 277 Local Distribution, Possible Causes of 229 Mershon expedition to the Charity Islands, Lake Huron 230 Mimicry 336, 384 Myrmecophilous insects, 274, 466, 468. Newark Entomological So- ciety 139, 286 New Species, Publication of.. 325 Nomenclature question 130 Number of Eggs laid by in- sects 14 Nursery stock in Europe, In- spection of 144 Obituary : Coquillett, D. W 337 Giron 192 Leveille, E. A 192 McAllister, J. W 479 McCook, H. C 433 Meichel, J 479 Palmer, E 239 Perrin, E. A. de 192 Piaget, E 288 Plateau, F 239 Reed, E. C 192 Scudder, S. H., 288. 289, 479- Selys-Longchamps, M. F. R. de 179 Tutt, J. W 191 v. d. Weele, H. W. ... 287 Personals : Aldrich, J. M ., 180 Avebury, Lord 133 Bond, F. E 131 Bradley, J. C 373 Brown, S 131 Busck, A 4 Calvert, P. P 2 Crampton, G. C 216 Cresson, E. T., Jr 2 Daecke, E 2 Fenyes, A 227 Gates, B. N 178 Geddes, J. M 423 Gillin, T. F 131 Girault, A. A 373 Hardenberg, C. B 41 Hebard, M 47 Holland, W. J 226 Howard, L. 371 MacGillivray, A. D. .. 373 McMillan, D. K 230 Michelson, A. A 83 Moore, J. P 87 Newstead, R 371 Pilsbry, H. A 86 Porter, A. F 423 Rehn, J. A. G 47 Robinson, W 357 Schwarz, E. A 4 Scudder, S. H 224 Skinner, H. . . .2, 82, 86, 3/1 Snodgrass. R. E 178 Trimen, R 217 Wellman. C 413 Wheeler, W. M 27 Willing, T. N 41 Wright, W. G 12 Phoresie 194 Plants attacked or visited by in- sects : Agaricus 274 Agropyron glaucum . . 441, 442. 443- Alder 210 Apple 173. 174 Artemisia dractmculoidcs. 444- Ash 174 Bean 176 Birch 176 Blackberry 114 INDEX. in Blue-stem 441, 442 Bromeliads, 96, 381, 402-410 Buck bush 172 Bugle weed 173 Carynota mera 143 Citharexylum quadran- gulare 301 Coffea lib erica 305 Colorado blue-stem, 441, 442 Crataegus 467 Enchanter's nightshade, 173 Euphorbia robusta .... 462 Evening primrose .... 112 Eeverwort 176 Eiddlewood 301 Fra.rimis velutina 129 Grape 384 Grindclia sqiiarrosa . . . 440 Hickory 172, 480 Hicorea pecan 134 Hop tree 174 Hydrangea arborescens 478 Japanese Hemlock .... 386 Lafhyrus 359 Ledum groenlandicunt ..217 Lycopersicum esculen- tum 303 Lycopus europaeus .... 309 Maple 173, 176 Mentha spp 309 Mimusops Jie.vandra . . 224 Oaks (see Quercus) Oenothera biennis ... 112 Oleander 167, 168 Olive 167, 168 Orange 167, 168 Peach 383 Pecan 134 Pepper 167, 168 Peppermint 173 Persimmon 172, 176 Pitcher plant 194 Poplar 173 Plum 174, 176 Prickly ash 174 Quercus, 82, 242, 245, 477. 478. Ranunculus acris 309 Rhododendron cataw- biense 273 Rose 477 Sarracenia sledgei 194 Sassafras 172, 176 Smilacina racemosa . . . 346 Sweet gum 143 Tomato 303 Trumpet vine 286 Tsufja 386 Veronica becrnbunsn. 300 Viburnum accrifoJitim. . 477 Walnut 176 Wheat 442 Willow 176 Post card. Entomological . . . 370 Preparation of Scientific papers 360 Preservatives against Der- mestids 418 Puget Sound Marine Sta- tion 292 Rat fleas and tapeworms 469 Reviews : Banks' Manual of Phil- ippine Silk Culture.. 47? Blatchley's Coleoptera of Indiana 46 Boyce's Mosquito or Man 92 Burr's Orthopt. of West Europe 185 Doane's Insects and Disease 45 Hancock's Nature Sketches in Temper- ate America 334 IV INDEX. Harris' List of N. Amer. Cicindelidae . . 283 Horvath's Taxonomy of Family Names 431 Howard's House Fly Disease Carrier . . . 333 Kellogg's The Animals and Man 335 Kirby's Catalogue of Orthoptera 158 Ross' Reduction of Domestic Mosquitoes, 432 Smith's Report on the Insects of New Jer- sey 93, 182 Walden's Euplexoptera and Orthoptera of Connecticut 4/6 Week's Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 284 Salt and Alkaline Lakes of U. S., Investigation of 180 Sexual dimorphism. Great, 480 Silk Culture, Banks' Manual of Philippine 475 Simplified spelling 262 Sleeping Sickness Commis- sion 226 Snails, Dipterous larvae para- sitic in 326 St. Louis Entomological Club, 383 Students in Entomology, Number of 17 Tapeworms, Fleas as inter- mediate hosts of 469 Termitophilous insects 274 Theses for doctorates, Ento- mological 464 Transvaal, Entomology in ... 41 Tropical Entomology, Liver- pool chair in 84, 371 Venezuela, Bond Expedi- tion to 131 United States Dep't of Agri- culture 131 ARACHNIDA. Aranens, Use of name 418 Costa Rica, A. of 405 Courtship in Tarantulas 127 llpeira 461 Erlophyes 129 Illinois, Spider from 461 Number of eggs laid by Spider 461 Peckham collection of Spiders, 460 sericata, Epeira 461 COLEOPTERA. abruptus, Enoclerns 121 acerbus*, Enoclerus 119 Allendesalazaria 132 Ambrosia beetles transporting fungi 470 analis, Enoclerus 120 Arizona, C. of, 71, 117, 122, 271, 326. Athous 275 australis*, Pleocoma 65 Axion 71 bagoiformis, Listronotits .... 178 bcyeri, Plusiotis 326 Biologia Centrali-Americana, Curculionidae of 223 bipunctata, Cymatodera 117 bituberculata, Hydnocera .... 123 brevis, Dorcus 354 California, C. of, 64, 117, 118, 119, 227. Calotillus* 115 carolinae*, Scaphisoma 275 Carrion-feeding C 324, 336 castoris, Platypsylla 227, 288 Catalogus Coleopterorum ... 86 Clirysomela 305 Cicindela 271, 283 Colorado, C. of 72, 118 Costa Rica, C. of 405 Cymatodera 1 16, 117 damicornis, Orthopleura 134 INDEX. delicatula, Cymatodera 116 Dermestids, Preservatives against 4^ Dorcus 354 ebttrneocinctus*, Calotillus ... 115 Ellipotonia 123 Enoclerus 118 Eurycranus 124 Fiori collection 374 Hammula* , Hyperaspis later- alis 72 Florida, C. of 1 16, 189 foveolatum, Tylodcrma 112 gigantea*, Hornia 16 Georgia, C. of 275 Hornia 16, 17, 132 Hydnoccra 122, 123 Hyperaspis 72-74 Illinois, C. of 72 incompletus*, A.vion 71 Indiana, C. of 46, 74 Kansas, C. of 15 koebelei*, Psyllobora 71 laticornis, Ellipotoma 123 lengi*, Athons 275 Leonidia 16 Maine, C. of 119 inanitlia*, Cicindela 272 ine.ricana*, Plydnocera 122 Mexico, C. of, 1 1 6, 117, 119, 122, 123, 125, 326. Montana, C. of 72 Xc-vada, C. of 73, 74, 117, 120 New Jersey, C. of 239, 354, 355, 383, 384. New Mexico, C. of 122 New York, C. of 272 North Carolina, C. of 273-275 Nova Scotia, C. of 306 ocreatus, Enoclerus 118 opife.r, Enoclerus 120 Pennsylvania, C. of, 47, 48, 0,4, o r 134, 383, 384, 477, 478, 479- Phoresie .................... 194 Pleocoma ................... 64 plicata, Chlamys ............ 114 ploribunda*, Hyperaspis .... 74 Plus! otis ........... 326, 356, 479 Prionostichaeus* ............ 125 pulchellus*, Eurycranus ..... 124 Psyllobora ................. 71 rufivcntris, Enoclerus quadri- guttatus .................. 119 santa-clarae, Cicindela ....... 271 Scaphiomicrus .............. 275 Scaplrisoma ................. 275 Schilsky collection .......... 373 South Carolina, C. of ....... 226 spinolae, Enoclerus ......... 119 staphylea, Chrysomela ...... 306 snperba*, Hydnocera ....... 122 Texas, C. of ..... 120, 356, 478-9 turbata, Cymatodera ........ 1 17 Tyloderma .................. 1 1- Utah, C. of ............. 120, 178 t'irescens*, Pinacodcra ...... 275 rnlturina, Cicindela ......... 271 wellmani* , Hyperaspis ...... 7- wolcotti*, Hyperaspis ...... 73 u'oodii, Plusiotis ........ 356, 479 DIPTERA. abdoininalis*, Endaphis ...... Adclphomyia ................ americana*, Endapliis ....... . Inoplieles .................. Arizona, D. of .......... 129, Asphondylia ............ 109, California, D. of ........ 447. California, New flea from ... Cat flea .................... Cayor worm ............... Ceylon, D. of ............... Chironomid larvae parasitic in snails ................. coffeae*, Hyperdiplosis ...... 35- 95 480 301 I s " 447 --'" 467 326 305 VI INDEX. Contarinia 33 Costa Rica, D. of 4S Criorhina 3*8 Ctenocephalus 226 Ctenophthalmus 445 Culex 95 Dasyneura 210, 346 Dog flea 226 Eggs of chironomids, Jelly rain of 4 21 Endaphis 128, 224 eupatorii*, Hyperdiplosis .... no Eustalomyia 3 21 fasciatus, Ceratophyllus 469 nsherii*, Syrphus 3 T 9 flava*, Sacandaga 35 J Fleas 226, 445, 469, 471 Flies and disease ...228, 333, 467 fronto, Tabanus 133 fungicola*, Toxomyia 302 Gall midges, 10, 109, 128, 210, 224, 301, 346. heiseri*, Ctenophthalmus .... 445 hirta*, Endaphis 224 Hyperdiplosis no, 305 Idana 3 2 o infumatum, Clanoneurum . . . 480 laetus, Microdon 319 Lestodiplosis 10 Limnobia 85 lycopersici*, Contarinia 303 marginata*, Idana 320 melanocerus, Tabanus 133 Miastor larvae 227 Microdon 319 Mosquitoes fed by ants 466 New Jersey, D. of, 48, 182, 188, 285, 384- New York, D. of, 85, 227, 346, 349- 354- nigriventris*, Criorhina (Pen- thesilia) 318 oestriformis, Eristalis 299 parietina, Limnobia 85 pattersoni*, Asphondylia 301 Pennsylvania, D. of, 48, 188, 318- 322, 384, 477, 478, 480. Penthesilia 318 Peru, D. of 10, 128 peruviana*, Lestodiplosis .... 10 Phoresie 194 Pyrellia 321 v. Roeder collection and li- brary 373 Sacandaga* 349 senilis, Adelphomyia 352 serena, Pyrellia 321 serrulata, Dasyneura 210 smilacinae*, Dasyneura 346 Tabanus 133 Theobaldia 95 Toxomyia* 302 trimaculatus, Tabanus 133 Tse-tse flies 277 vincenti*, Asphondylia 109 vittipes, Eustalomyia 321 West Indies, D. of 109, 301-5 HEMIPTERA. (See Rhynchota). HYMENOPTERA. Amphibolips 198 amygdalina*, Caliroa 263 Anagrus 207, 209 Anaphes 364 Anaphoidea 215 Andricus 69, 70, 198 Anthophora, Parasites of ..17, 132 Ants 143, 405-7, 419, 4?8 Ants, Coleoptera associated with 274 Ants, Green Tree, of North Queensland 327 Ants, Mosquitoes fed by .... 466 Ants paralyzed by secretion of bug 468 INDEX. vn Apterostigma 406 fn. aspidioti*, Polynema ....358, 367 Biastes 26 Brazil, H. of 407 fn. brittanum*, Polynema 366 caepulaeformis*, Andricus .. 69 California, H. of 67-69, 357 calif arnica*, Philonix 69 Caliroa 263 chrysolepidis*. Holcaspis .... 68 clavula*, Dryophanta 67 Colorado, H. of ... .82, 210, 462-4 confertus, Sphecodes 211 consobrinus, Polynema 467 Costa Rica, H. of 405, 407 Cuba, H. of 27 cynipseus, Litus 363 diana*. Anaplioidca 215 Dicopus 347 Dryocosmus 197 Dryophanta 67, 357 durangensis*, Andricus 198 England, H. of 216, 363-8 enocki, Litus 363 Eriocamp aides 263 euchariforme, Polynema. .365, 368 favus*, Dryocosmus 197 felti* Osmia 18 Gall flies 67, 82, 197, 357 Genotypes of H 218 Georgia, H. of 467 Italitus*, Dicopus 347 I leminomada 26 lictcrus*, Sphecodes 212 Holcaspis 68, 82 incarnatus, Anagnis 207 Indiana, H. of 70, 211, 213 Utus 363 Lophyrus 95 Louisiana, H. of .... 198, 263, 265 Massachusetts, H. of 70 melitina*, Prosopis 214 Mexico, H. of 198, 358 Migration of Ants 419, Mimatomus 464 multipunctata*, Dryophanta . . 67 New Hampshire, H. of ...211-215 New Jersey, H. of 70, 95 New York, H. of 18, 211 nigra*, Amphibolips 198 .Vomadita 26 Nomadosoma* 24 Nomenclatural changes 218 North Carolina, H. of 214 Oregon, H. of 357 Osmia 18 paraplcsius*, Sphecodes 213 Pasites 24 peltatus*, Mimatomus 464 Pennsylvania, H. of .... 198, 321 Philonix- 69 Phoresie 194 pilipes, Pasites 24 pisiformis*, Andricus "0 Polynema 358, 365, 366, 467 pratensis, Anaphes 364, 368 Prosopis 213-215 pulchella*, Dryophanta 357 punctual, Anaphes 364 Quebec, H. of 349 Rhode Island, H. of 213 Saunders' collection 272 shawi*, Sphecodes 212 Sphecodes 211-213 spiritus*, Anagrus 20*1 striaticorne, Polynema ...365, 367 Syntoinaspis 82 telepora*, Prosopis 213 Tenthredinoidea, Genotypes of _M^ Texas, H. of 4" ^'nrreni*, Syntomaspis s! - \\isconsin, H. of -'i? LEPIDOPTERA. Achalants 3 Acronycta 39 Adelpha 4 '-I Vlll INDEX. Alberta, L. of 108. 231, 400 amicora*, Acronycta 312 amnemonella*, Diatraea 203 Anacrusis 125 angustella*, Diatraea 205 Archylus 265 Argynnis 108 Arizona, L. of, 3, 266, 267, 293, 312, 379, 415. A tteva 229 aurea, A tteva 229 battoides, Lycaena 259 behri, Colias 220 bellifactella*, Diatraea 205 bellus, Mastor 267 berthellus*, Diatraea 206 beutenmulleri, Catocala . . 140, 180 Brazil, L. of, 125, 202, 203, 205- 207. bredowi, Adelpha 414 Breeding L 172-176 British Columbia, L. of, 108, 399, 400. California, L. of, n, 220, 228, 259, 293, 415. calif 'arnica, Adelpha 414 Canada, L. of 316 Cannibalism in L 174 carteri, Protambulyx 41 Catalogus Lepidopterorum, 379 Catalpa sphinx 47 Catocala ...139, HO, 175, 180, 371 cethura, Euchloe 1 1 Chilo 206 chlorina*, Stenoma 126 clytie, Thecla 293 Colias 220 Colorado, L. of, 220, 259, 268, 311, 400, 413, 462. Connecticut, L,. of 370 continent*, Diatraea 202 Costa Rica, L. of 258, 405 dacotac*, Pamphila sassacus.. 412 Dakota, L. of South 412 Datana 300 Diatraea 199 dissimilis*, Stenoma 126 enoptes, Lycaena 259 Erebus 37O Eresia 412 Euchaeria 13 Euchloe ii Eurycttarus 193. faunellus*, Cr ambus 207 Florida, L. of ...41, in, 226, 439 Gas lamps for attracting moths 87 Georgia, L. of 412 glaucon, Lycaena 259 grandiosella* , Diatraea 205 grenadensis*, Diatraea sac- cliaralis 200 Guiana, L. of 202, 203, 206 Gypsy moth 225 Heterodhroa 414 Hiibner's Exotic Butterflies.. 379 Hyperchiria 144 Idaho, L. of 413 iheringi*, Anacrusis 125 Illinois, L. of 359, 399 immaculata*, Parnassius .... 108 incarnata, Hyperchiria 144 ines, Thecla 293 instruct ella*, Diatraea 201 Iowa, L. of 412 /air, Catocala 140 Judith, Catocala 140 leda, Thecla 293 lopiusa*, Papilio 439 Lycaena 238, 259, 359 lygdamus, Lycaena 359 magnifactella*, Diatraea .... 201 Manitoba, L. of, 309, 314, 315, 399, 400, 401. Massachusetts, L. of 316 Mastor 267 INDEX. IX Megathymus 300 Mesocia 266 metra*, Acronycta 311 -Mexico, L. of, 144, 201, 202, 204, 205, 293, 415, 439. Microlepidoptera, Methods of capturing and breeding . . . 141 Migrations of L 48, 371, 415 minimifacta*, Diatraea 202 Mississippi, L. of 194 Missouri in 1910, L. of, 170, 322, 3/0. montana*, Pamphilct pawnee, 413 Myriads of moths 371 navajo*, Megathymus 300 neomexicana*, Datana 300 Nephelodes 397 Nevada, L. of 259 Xew Jersey, L. of. 47, 48, 140, 141, 142, 238, 383, 384. New Mexico, L. of ..268, 300, 413 Nicaragua, L. of 200 Norape 266 North Carolina, L. of 203 Number of yearly broods of L. in New Jersey 238 odora, Erebus 370 Oregon, L. of 259, 415 oslari*, Chionobas alberta . . . 220 Pairs, Pupation in 370 PamphUa 412, 413 Panama, L. of 200 pallida*, Pamphila mystic . . . 412 pallidostricta*, Diatraea 205 Palpi, Libythea bachmani without 3/9 Papaiema 140 Papilio 438, 439 pedibarbata*, Diatraea 202 pedidocta*, Diatraea 201 Pennsylvania, L. of, 229, 371, 399, 415, 422, 477- Phoresie 196 phylace, Mastor 267 Pinning L 285 ponceana*, Papilio 438 psendoccllus*, Achalarus .... 3 quinquemacula*, Pamphila .. 413 Ramaca 266 Resemblance of L. to a caddis fly 384 i Rhode Island, L. of 399 saccharalis, Diatraea 199, 200 sakuntala*, Argynnis 108 Saskatchewan, L. of 400 scminole*, Eresia tc.raiia . . . 412 socialis, Euchaeria 13 South Carolina, L. of 203 South Dakota, L. of 412 Starlings picking Arctia co- coons 287 Stenoma 1 26 streckeri, C 'alias nastes 231 strigipenella*, Diatraea 206 tabernella*, Diatraea sac- charalis 200 Tallant collection of Lep., 41, 81 tenet, Archylus 265 Tennessee, L. of 142, 316 Texas, L. of 415 Thecla 293 Timctcs in, 226 tracyi*, Eiirycttarus 10.; tristis*, Acronycta 316 / nrpis*, Acronycta 311 Utah, L. of 259, 312, 413 utahensis*, Pamphila sylrun- oides 413 Virginia, L. of 203 icarneri, Catocala 140, 180 Washington, L. of 311 Weeks' Illustrations of Diur- nal L 284 West Indies, L. of, 200. 2O2, 203 Wisconsin, L. of 370 \\ \oming, L. of 108 seacolella* , Dalraca INDEX. MALLOPHAGA. agonns, Goniodcs 23 Bolivian birds, M. from ... 19 Californian birds, M. from . . 75 Colpocephalum sp 77 Docophorus 19, 75, 76 epiphanes*, Lipeunis 21 fissi-signatus*, Docophorus . . 19 Lipeurns 21 nionaclms*, Docophorus per- tusus 75 stictum*, Colpocephalum .... 77 NEUROPTERA (excl. Mallophaga and Odonata). Bromeliadicolous caddis- worm 411 fasciatus, Chauliodes in Phila- delphia 478 North Carolina, Panorpa of.. 274 Pennsylvania, Trichoptera of, 384 Termes, Coleop. associated with 274 ODONATA. Aciagrion ? 344 angustipennis, Calopteryx ... 148 Anisopleura 149 Bayadera 150 Biologia Centrali-Americana, Odon. of 39 Brazil, O. of 393, 395 brimleyi*, Gomphus 221 Calopteryx 148 Causes of Local Distribution of Odon 229 avillaris, Gomphus 222 cliinensis, Neurobasis 147 chirripa, Cora 51, 58 comes, Anisopleura 149 Cora larva 49, 96, 138, 153 Costa Rica, O. of, 49, 96, 380, 381, 402-410, 449-458. Cyclophylla 394 Gomphoides 79, 393 (iomphiis 221 High altitudes, O. from ..380, 381 Ictinus 395 Illinois, O. of 395 India, O. of, 147, M9, ISO, 153, 342- 344, 394, 395- indica Bayadera 150 iphigenia, Mecistogaster 457 Jamaica, O. of 151 Kentucky, O. of 148 lineatus, Onychogomphus . . . 395 Macrogomphus 396 Mecistogaster, 96, 381, 402-410, 449-460. Mexico, O. of 402, 449, 457 Migration of 419 modestus, Mecistogaster, 96, 381, 402-410, 449-460. Neurobasis 147 New Jersey, O. of 420 North Carolina, O. of ....79, 222 Nymphs, 49, 96, 138, 147, 153, 342, 392, 449- Ortholestes 152 Pennsylvania, O. of 336 Phenacolestes 479 Philoganga 153 Plant-dwelling larvae, 402-410, 449-458. Podagrion nymph 342 Pseudagrion? 344 ORTHOPTERA. abort ivits, Nemobius fascia- tus 10 Adimantus 251 Africa, O. of 480 Africa, O. of Lake region of Central 237 agraeaoidcs*, BertonieUa . . . 255 angustipennis, Melanoplus ... atlanis, Melanoplus 8 atlas*, Hormctica 248 BertonieUa* 255 B la tell a 14 INDEX, XI collare, Spharagemon 3 Columbia, O. of District of, 37, 157 Connecticut, Walden's O. of, 4?6 Costa Rica, O. of 405 esau, Arixena, on bat 469 frigida, Arphia 7 Georgia, O. of 31, 32, 155 germanica, Blatella 14 gracilicornis, Sisantum 250 Hemimerus 468 Hormetica 248 Indiana, O. of 381 Illinois, O. of 381 Isophya 252 Kirby's Catalogue of 158 Lutosa 257 maculatus, Hippiscus 7 Manitoba, O. of 5 Massachusetts, O. of 28 melanochloris*, Isophya .... 252 Musical Habits of 28, 154 neglectus, Gryllus pennsyl- vanicus 9 New England, O. of 28 New York, O. of 28 Nomenclatural changes in O.. 158 North Carolina, O. of 238, 387 Ominexecha 251 Paraguay, O. of 247 paranensis*, Lutosa 257 Parasitic 468 Paratenodera feeding on Ci- cada 478 Pennsylvania, O. of 190, 237 Resemblance of O. to Mem- bracidae 336 Si'xual dimorphism, Great . . . 480 simplex, Eritettix 238 Sisantum 250 t'ircns, Ommexecha 251 z'itticeps, Adimantus 251 Western Europe, O. of 185 Western U. S., O. of . RHYNCHOTA. Africa, R. of 416 agropyronensis*, Chaitophorus, 44- Aleyrodes 462, 463 ameiricanus, Lethocerus (Be- lostoma) 373 Arizona, R. of 269-271 arisonensis*, Dendrocoris, 269, 270 artemisiae*, Chaitophorus . . . 443 Aspidiotus 385, 386 Atarsos* 440 Atlantic States, R. of 246 Belostoma captures fish 373 Black scale 167 Brachycolus 441 British Columbia, R. of 246 buenoi*, Gerris 246 California, R. of 167 Capyella 416 Chailophorus 442, 443 Cicada, Mantis feeding on ... 4/8 Coccidae, Parasites of, 10, 224, 358 Colorado, R. of 440-444, 462 Columbia, R. of District of . . 245 Conorhitnis 238 Costa Rica, Heteroptera of . . 405 Dendrocoris 268 euphorbiarum*, Aleyrodes pruinosus 462 Euschistus 95 Gerris 246 gr'nidcliae*, Atarsos 44 Illinois, R. of 241, 245 Kansas, R. of 443 ledi*. Pseudococcus 217 Membracidae Habits of .... 143 Membracidae, Models of ... 228 Menibnu-idae. Resemblance of Orthoptera to Moulting of Membnu-idar ... i \.\ Xrw Jersey, R. of 142. t^J New York, R. of i\7 . Capyella 1 1 ^ Xll INDEX. oleae, Saissetia 167 Periodical cicada ....142, 177, 189 Phyllaphis 243, 245 Pseudococcus 217 pteridis, Mastopoda 440 Ptilocerus ochraceus, Ants paralyzed by secretion of . . 468 querci, Eriosoma 241 reticulatus*, Dendrocoris, 269, 270 Saissetia 167 Saunders' "collection 272 Taxonomy of Family Names, 431 tritici*, Brachycolus 441 tsugae*, Aspidiotus 385 SIPHONAPTERA. (Indexed under Diptera). AUTHORS. Alexander, C. P 86, 349 Allard, H. A 28, 154 Banks, N 194, 419 Barber, H. G 268 Barnes, W 265, 267 Bergroth, E 416 Beutenmuller, W 67, 197, 357 Bishop, S. C 346 Bower, H. M 359 Brehme, H. H 144, 287 Brimley, C. S 133, 3^7 Britton, W. E 373 Bueno, J. R. T 246 Burgess, A. F 422 Calvert, P. P., 40, 49, Si, 83, 130, 177, 223, 325, 335, 370, 402, 417, 420, 438, 449, 465 and Index. Caudell, A. N 159 Champion, G. C 132, 178 Clemence, V. L 3, 11, 226 Cockerell, T. D. A., 18, 82, 217, 462. Coolidge, K. R., 3, 11, 40, 226, 327, 339- Cresson, E. T., Jr., 42, 87, 134, 183, 233, 279, 328, 338, 374, 423, 471- Davis, J. J 241 Dod, F. H. W 397 Doll, J 300 Dow, R. P 139, 271 Dury, C 273 Dyar, H. G 199 Fall, H. F 64 Felt, E. P., 10, 109, 128, 227, 232, 301. Fenyes A 227 Gillette, C. P 440 Girault, A. A., 14, 112, 114, 207, 215, 347, 358, 363, 4H, 46i, 467. Greene, G. M., 48, 95, 190, 286, 384, 479- Grinnell, F., Jr 293 Grossbeck, J. A 143 Haskin, J. R 293 Hebard, M 5 Hill, M. D 421 Howard, L. 97 Ilg, C 220 Jones, J. M 193 Kearfott, W. D 125 Kellogg, V. L 19, 75 Kirkaldy, G. W 246 Knab, F 306 Lovell, J. H 211 MacGillivray, A. D i SS Marlatt, C. L 385 McCoy, G. W. 445 McDunnough, J. ...180, 265, 267 Meiners, E. P 370 Montgomery, T. H., Jr 437 Morton, K. J 411 Muttkowski, R 221, 460 Needham, J. G 145, 342, 392 Nunenmacher, F. W 71 O'Brien, R. A 327 Osborn, H 179 Paine, J. II 19, 75 INDEX. Kill Petrunkevitch, A 127 Pilate, G. R 371 Pollard, C. L 79 Porter, A. F 87 Quayle, H. J 167 Read, E. W 370 Rehn, J. A. G., 5, 42, 87, 134, 164 fn., 165 fn., 183, 187, 233, 247, 279, 291, 328, 374, 423, 471, 477- Reinick, W. R 41 Riiey, W. A 93 Rohwer, S. A 24, 218, 263 Rowley, R. R 170 Ruthven, A. G 230 Sanders, J. G 370 Schaus, W 206, 207, 438 Schroers, P. A 322 Schwarz, H 383 Scudder, S. H 277 Sherman, F., Jr 387 Skinner, H., i, 46, 47, 94, 108, in, 138, 139, 220, 225, 226, 231, 277, 283, 284, 292, 300, 334, 354, 381, 412, 414, 415, 432, 476, 480. Slosson, A. T 41 Smith, J. B 309 Stamm. J. C 423 Stiles, C. W 131, 278 Van Duzee, E. P 432 Van Dyke, E. C 220 Walton, W. R 182, 318 Washburn, F. L 422 Wellman, C 15 Wheeler, W. M. . . .406 fn., 407 fn. Wickham, H. F 17, 46 Williamson, E. B 229 Wolcott, A. B 115 Wolf, H. T 420 JANUARY, 1911. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Vol. XXII. No. 1. Major John Eatton Le Conte, 1784-1860. PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor. E. T. CRESSON, JR., Associate Editor. HENRY SKINNER, M. D., Editor Emeritus. 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CONTENTS: Editorial Changes i Coolidg;e& Clemence AnewHesperid 3 Rehn and Hebard Orthoptera found about Avveme, Manitoba 5 Felt A new Lestodiplosis Jo Coolidge- A dav with Euchloe cethura n Girault Standards of the number of eggs laid by Insects IX 14 Wellman A new American Sitarine Beetle (Col., Lvttid.) 15 Cockerell A new Bee from N. Y. State 18 and Paine Mallophaga from Bolivian Birds 19 Rohwer A new genus of Nomadine Bees 24 Allard The Musical Habits of some New England Orthoptera in Sep- tember 28 Editorial 40 Notes and News 41 Entomological Literature 42 Doings of Societies 46 Editorial Changes. (Plate I) On the thirteenth of October, nineteen hundred and ten, the Chairman of the joint Publication Committee of the Entomo- logical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- adelphia and of the American Entomological Society, having in charge ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, received the following letter : "Philadelphia, Oct. I2th, 1910. "MR. E. T. CRESSON, "Chairman Publication Committee. "DEAR MR. CRESSON : ''I hereby tender my resignation as editor of ENTOMOLOGI- CAL NEWS to take effect December fifteenth, 1910. At that time, if I am alive, I will have served twenty-one years as editor of the journal, and the NEWS may be considered to be of age and over the nursing period. I will still have a warm interest in its welfare, and will do what I can to make its future a success. I suggest that you call a meeting of your Committee in the near future for the purpose of selecting an editor and an associate editor. "Very sincerely, "HENRY SKINNER." 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll The Committees held a meeting on October twenty-seventh and, knowing that it had been Doctor Skinner's intention for many months past to lay down his editorship, accepted his resignation, and elected him Editor Emeritus. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, associate editor since January, 1893, was chosen editor and Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., associate editor. To the vacancy created in the Advisory Committee by Mr. Cresson's election as associate editor, Mr. Erich Daecke was chosen. The new editors think that they may fittingly present to their subscribers and readers at this time a portrait and brief sketch of the Editor Emeritus to whom this journal is chiefly indebted for its past life. Henry Skinner was born in Philadelphia, March 27, 1861. He studied in the college and medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his M.D. degree in 1884. He en- gaged in the practice of medicine until 1901, when he devoted his whole time to entomology, becoming in that year an as- sistant to the Curators of the Academy of Natural Sciences, in charge of the Entomological department of that institution. Previously, from December, 1889, on, as Curator of the Amer- ican Entomological Society and Custodian of the Entomolog- ical Section of the Academy, he had given only a part of his time to the care of the collections of insects. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS was begun with the number for January, 1890, with Eugene M. Aaron as editor and an Ad- visory Committee consisting of Messrs. George H. Horn, M.D., Ezra T. Cresson, Henry Skinner, M.D., and Philip P. Calvert. With the number for March, 1890, Dr. Skinner began his editorial connection with this journal which he has now loos- ened, but not severed. Volume I of the NEWS comprised 168 pages and no plates; Volume XXI, 484 pages and 14 plates, an increase for which we thank our numerous friends and supporters of the past score of years. May they continue to give us the support which they have given to our Editor Emeritus. May he enjoy many years of health and strength and the happiness of seeing his "nursling" grow and prosper ! Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 3 A. New Hesperid. By KARL R. COOLIDGE and VICTOR L. CLEMENCE. Achalarus pseudocellus, spec. nov. $, Upper surface of primaries, brownish-black, somewhat lighter along the external margin, and sparsely dusted with whitish atoms; a macular band extending from costa across end of cell and abruptly terminating about 2.5 mm. from lower angle ; this band is divided by the nervules into five spots as follows: first, quadrate; second, elon- gate; third, with the nervules, y-shaped, and projecting outwardly; fourth, quadrate; and the fifth, triangular; the formation of this band is similar to that of cellus and is quite regular, the fifth spot, however, varying considerably in size and shape; color of first spot, pure yellow; the second, orange, slightly tinted with yellow anteriorly; the others all orange; midway between this band and the apex a small procurved whitish-yellow bar; otherwise immaculate. Secondaries concolorous with primaries, immaculate. Fringes of primaries at lower angle whitish, becoming black checkered as they approach the apex, where there is usually a distinct whitish patch of fringes. Fringes of sec- ondaries checkered black and gray. Primaries beneath with spots re- produced; color as above but considerably lighter along outer margin and dusted sparsely with grayish scales; inner angle clouded with buff; in some specimens a distinct whitish point below bar of costa, and in others another similar point immediately outward of end of costal bar; one or both of these may reappear faintly on the upp^r surface. Sec- ondaries beneath brownish ; two irregular, wavy dark brown bands, heavier than the ground color; between these bands and along the outer margins the coloration is pallid ; scattered gray scales, heavier at anal angle than elsewhere. Fringes of primaries beneath as above; on secondaries the fringes are brownish, the whitish of above being greatly diminished. Antennae brown, with a white color at base of club; beneath whitish-yellow; thorax and abdomen dark brown; palpi yellowish-gray. Expanse. 1.30 to 1.50 inch. 9-- We do not discover any essential differences in the female, either as to size or ornamentation. Type Loc. Ramsey Canon, Huachtica Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona. 5.000 7.000 feet altitude. Described from 2 $ $ and 259 types in the collections of Coolid^e and Clemence, and from 67 co-types, five of these in the collection of Dr. Barnes. 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Our first specimens of pseudocellus were taken on June 7th, and from then on until July loth it was on the wing in abun- dance. Ccllus first appeared about the middle of June, but was not plentiful until July. We at once noted that there were two distinct species, and upon careful examination we found very striking characters. The white color at the base of the club in the new species is distinctive, and the undersides of the secondaries are not flecked with the prominent blue metal- lic scales of ccllns. Pseudocellus is also of a considerably smaller size, although varying somewhat. The band of the primaries above in cell us is clear yellow, but orange in pseudo- cellus. The fringes of the upper surface of the secondaries in cellus are yellow, but gray in pseudocellus. The above differences will at once serve to distinguish the two species. Moreover, Dr. William Barnes writes us that, "We have looked over our box of cellus, and find that we have about one hun- dred of the large form and thirty or forty of the smaller. Have series of each and find they are very uniform. There is no doubt but there are two species, and I think without doubt the larger one is cellus, as it agrees quite well with the figure of Boisduval and Leconte, and we can go no further as there is no description." Dr. J. McDunnough has very kindly examined and drawn the genitalia of both species, and we find them to be obviously different. We shall deal with this in a future article. He also writes that a specimen of pseudocellus in the Barnes collec- tion bears the label, "W. Va.," while all the others are from Arizona. It is rather astonishing that such a striking species should so long have escaped notice. Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and August Busck, of the Bureau of En- tomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, will leave for Panama in January to search for parasites of the citrus white fly (Aleyrodes citri) and the cotton boll weevil and allied species, and to make a study of the entomological fauna of the canal zone. Vol. XXl'i] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 5 Orthoptera found about Aweme, Manitoba. JAMES A. G. REHN AND MORGAN HEBARD. During the season of 1909 the following series of Orthoptera was taken by Mr. Norman Criddle, and is now in the collection of the junior author, with the exception of sets from the larger series, which are in the collection of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. A collection was also made by Mr. Criddle for Dr. E. M. Walker, and the records have been published in the Canadian Entomologist, Volume XLII, Nos. 8, 9, 10 and n. Dr. Walker records the following species from Aweme, which are not in our series: Labia minor (L.), Tctrix ornatus (Say) Cordillacris cincrca (Brun.), Philobostroma quadriin- uculatum (Thorn.), Encoptoloplnts parz'iis Sc., Camnula pel- lucida (Sc.), Hippiscns ncglcctus (Thorn.), Scuddcria curvi- cauda (DeG.), Idionotus brevipes Caud., Udeopsylla nigra Sc., and Oecant hits nigricornis quadripunctatus Beut. The species in our series not before recorded from Aweme are as follows: Akentetits unicolor McN., Mecostcthus lineatus (Sc.), Melanoptits fcmur-rubntm (DeG.), Mclanoplus pack- ardii Sc., Melanoplus Inridus Dodge, Melanoplus bivittatus (Say), Conocephalus saltans Sc. Of these Melanoplus luridus Dodge is recorded from Western Canada for the first time; Akentetits unicolor McN. and Melanoplus packardii Sc. are first records for Manitoba. The notes on habitat have been supplied by Mr. Criddle. Acrydium granulatum Kirby. June 3 ; 2 $ . Acrydium acadicum (Sc.) June 2, 3, 4 ; 2 $ , 5 9 . 3 in dry woodland, I in damp open woods. Acrydium hancocki (Morse). June 2, 4 ; 2 ? . i damp open woods ; i in dry woodland. Akentetus unicolor McNeill. Aug. 22 ; i ? . On dry prairie. This species has formerly 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll been recorded from but one Canadian locality, Walsh, Sas- katchewan. There is no trace of rudimentary accessory lateral carinae of the pronotum. Amphitornus coloradus (Thorn.) Aug. 22; I $ , 7 ? . Grass prairie land. Chloealtis abdominalis (Thorn.) July 29; i$ ; Aug. 3; I $ ; Sept. 15, 29; i $ , 3 $ . One specimen was taken in meadowland, the rest from the prairie. This species appears late in the season ; July 29 is the earliest date among numerous records given by Dr. Walker for the capture of an adult. The junior author also found that at Pequaming, Michigan, the species did not appear until August. Chorthippus curtipennis (Harr.) Aug. 3, 9, 18, 21, 27, 29; 16$ , 109 ; Sept. 25; 55, 7$. The series was taken in meadowlands. 3 $ and 6 $ only, have long wings ; but two specimens have the lateral lobes of the pronotum distinctly green. Gomphocerus clavatus Thorn. June 29; T$ ; July 10; i $ , i 5 ; Aug. 3, 22, 25 ; I $ , 5 5 . Four specimens were taken in damp meadowlands, the rest on the dry prairie. Stirapleura decussata Sc. June 7, 9; 3 $ , 3 3 ; July 9, 21, 29; i $ , 7 9 . The speci- mens were taken on dry sandy land and on a dry hillside. Ageneotettix deorum Sc. Syn. A. scudden (Brun.) Aug. 22 ; 4, 5 . Taken on the dry prairie. The Eremnus scudderi, recorded by Dr. Walker, is based solely on McNeill's combination of these names. The genus Eremnus, as later shown by McNeill, is invalid and must be replaced by Ageneo- tettix. Mecostethus lineatus (Sc.) Aug. 30; i $ . Meadow. This is the first definite Canadian record for this species. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 7 Mecostethus gracilis (Sc.) Aug. 9, 18, 19, 30; 7 $ . Damp meadowland. Arphia frigida (Sc.) May 1 6, i 5 ; June 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29; 2a<2 , 19 5 ; July i, 29; 3 $ , 2 9 . As in Dr. Walker's series from Saskatchewan, these specimens exhibit a great variability in the color of the wings. The great majority of the speci- mens are yellow-winged ; one specimen has wings of quite as deep a shade of red as A. psendonietana, while specimens hav- ing wings of a color intermediate between these two types number quite a few. The yellow sutural stripe of the teg- mina is present in but two specimens. Arphia pseudonietana (Thorn.) Aug. 13, 1 8, 27, 30; $$ , 3 $ . Sept. 6, 30; 2 $ , i 9 . All taken on the prairie. Hippiscus tuberculatus (Pal. de B.) May 26, i $ ; June 3, 5, 9, 10, 19, 21, 23; 95 , 5 9 . Label- led : damp meadow, near woods, dry land, open meadow in woods. Hippiscus maculatus Sc. June 2, 9, 19, 23 ; 7 $ , 5 $ . Labelled : dry prairie, dry sandy hill, dry sandy land. All the specimens before us have the disc of the wing very pale lemon yellow, with the exception of one male which has that part of the wing colored pale sal- mon pink. With the small amount of material at hand we are unable to decide the validity of the several closely allied species: Hippiscus maculatus, tigrinus, latifasciatiis and zapotccus (?). The series before us belongs assuredly to but one species ; we have used the name "maculatus" as the spec- imens agree with the description of that species, and of the species above mentioned this name has priority of date. As Dr. Walker has mentioned in his recent paper, Scudder's char- acters for this genus are almost wholly useless, and, in con- sequence, it probably contains numerous synonyms. Dissosteira Carolina (Linn.) July 30, 2 $ , i $ . All taken on a sand bank. 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Spharagemon collate (Sc.) Aug. 18, 27, 30; ii $ , 10 9 ; Sept. 6, i $ ; Oct. i, 2$ . Few of this series have the collar of the pronotum marked lighter than the general color of the insect. All taken on the prairie, many in sandy situations. Spharagemon bolli Sc. July 26, i $ ; Aug. 19, i 9 . Both specimens captured on the prairie. Mestobregma kiowa Thorn. July 26, 29; 12 $ , 5 5 ; Aug. 3, 26; i $ , i 9 . All taken on dry hillsides and prairie land. Trimerotropis agrestis .McN. Aug. 22; 17 $ , 8 9 . All taken in drifting sand. Circotettix undulatus Thorn. July 25, 26; 2$ , 3 9 ; Treesbank, Manitoba. The specimens were taken on a sand beach. Melanoplus atlanis Riley. July 10, 13, 14, 15, 1 6, 24; 105,99 : Aug. 11, 14, 18; 53, 3 9 : Sep. 15, 16, 18, 25 ; 4 5 , i 9 : Oct. i ; 2 9 . All but six specimens of this series of thirty-four, have the caudal tibiae colored pale glaucous. Taken in dry fields, cultivated land, low lands and on the sandy prairie. Melanoplus dawsoni (Sc.) Aug. 3 ; r 9 : Sep. 15, 29 ; 3 $ , i 9 : Oct. i ; 3 $ , 2 9 . The series was captured on the dry prairie, on the edge of wet land and in meadowlands. All are brachypterous. Melanoplus gladstoni Sc. Aug. 15, 21, 22, 23 ; 6 5,3 9 : Sep. 15, 16, 18, 25, 29 ; 3 $ , 6 9 : Oct. i, 2, 3 ; 3 $ , 3 9 . Almost the entire series was cap- tured on the prairie. A very few specimens were taken in the dry scrub and in damp meadow lands. Melanoplus femur-rubrum (DeG.) Aug. 30 ; i 9 . In meadow. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 9 Melanoplus extremus (Walk.) July i ; i 5 . In damp meadow. In this individual the teg- mina extend to the base of the genicular arch. Melanoplus angustipennis (Dodge). July 14, 15, 19; 4' $, i$ : Aug. 15; 4$, 2 9- : Sep. 8, 16; 2 $ , 2 $ : Oct. i, 6; 8 $ , i 9 . Captured in the following locali- ties : dry field, dry edge of bush, low open bush, prairie, damp meadow, edge of wood. The low bush land seems to be the favorite habitat of this species. All the specimens in this series have red tibiae. Melanoplus packardii Sc. July 14, 15:45,9$. All taken in a dry field. Melanoplus minor (Sc.) June 22, 23 : i $ , i $ . The male was captured on dry land, the female in a damp meadow. Melanoplus luridus (Dodge). Aug. 3, 15, 30; 2 $ , i 5 : Sep. 16; i $ . Taken in low open bush, dry field and dry sandy land. Melanoplus bivittatus (Say). July 14, 15; 2$ , i $ : Aug. 19, 30; 5 $ : Oct. 1,6; 4$ . This series was captured in meadowlands and cultivated areas. Scudderia pistillata Brunn. Aug. 8, 9, ii, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27; ii $ , 5 9 . Labelled; in meadowland, in high weeds in meadow, among sandy hills, in dry bushy land; the last situation being apparently pre- ferred by this species. Conocephalus fasciatus (DeG.) Aug. 21, 22; i $ , 8 $ , i nymph. All taken in meadowland. Conocephalus saltans (Sc.) Aug. 3 ; i $ , i 5 - Taken on the prairie. Anabrus simplex Hald. July 18, 23 ; 4 $ . Captured on the prairie. Gryllus pennsylvanicus form neglectus Sc. June 21 ; 3 $ , 2 $. : Sep. 12, 13, 22, 23 ; 5 $ , 2 9 . IO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll 9 Caudal Femur. Ovipositor. June 21 9.5 mm. n June 21 9.5 mm. n Sep. 12 9.5 mm. 16.5 Sep. 23 10 mm. 17 Nemobius fasciatus form abortivus Caud. Sep. 22; 4$ : Oct. 5, 6; 3.. The series was collected in meadowlands. Length, elytra, male, 4 to 4.5 mm., female 3 to 5 mm., poste- rior femora, male 4.5 to 5 mm., female 5.2-6 mm., ovipositor, 5 to 8 mm. Two of the females have short rounded tegmina, these two' have ovipositors 5 and 7 mm. in length. A New Lestodiplosis. BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The species described below was reared by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend of Piura, Peru, from Hemichionaspis minor Mas- kell, and submitted to the author for determination through Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Entomol- ogy- Lestodiplosis peruviana n. sp. Male. Length, i mm. Antennae twice the length of the body^ rather thickly haired, yellowish, the basal nodes of the flagellate seg- ments slightly fuscous ; fourteen segments, the fifth having the two portions of the stem, each with a length about three and one-half times the diameter, the basal enlargement subglobose, with a sparse sub-basal whorl of long, stout setae and a well developed circumfilum, the loops of the latter extending nearly to the base of the distal en- largement, which latter is pyriform, has a length one-half greater than its diameter, a sparse whorl of long, stout setae and basal circumnlum with rather short loops; the distal node with loops reaching nearly to the apex of the segment; terminal segment having the basal por- tion of the stem with a length six times its diameter, the distal en- largement subcylindric with a length three times its diameter and nar- rowly rounded apically. Palpi; first segment probably quadrate, the second rectangular, with a length over twice its diameter, the third as long as the second, more slender, the fourth one-half longer than the third, more slender. Face probably yellowish. Mesonotum pre- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS II sumably light brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum and post-scutellum presumably yellowish. Abdomen sparsely haired, apparently yellowish, with a fuscous spot basally. Wings faintly spot- ted near the middle of the third vein and along the branches of the fifth ; subcosta uniting with costa near the basal third, the third vein just before the apex, the fifth at the distal fourth, its branch near the basal half. Halteres yellowish, reddish orange subapically. Coxae yellowish; femora, tibiae and tarsi a variable fuscous straw; claws slender, evenly curved, simple, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment long, slender, with a small, triangular lobe at the internal basal angle; terminal clasp segment somewhat swollen basally ; dorsal plate long, deeply and triangularly emargin- ate, the lobes rounded and sparsely setose ; ventral plate probably broadly rounded, setose. Other structures indistinct. Larva. Length, 1.5 to 2 mm.; probably yellowish orange. Head long, tapering to a narrowly rounded apex. Antennae slender, taper- ing and with a length nearly twice the diameter of the head ; breast- bone apparently wanting, ocular spot indistinct. Skin finely shagreened, the segments dorsally, each with subdorsal, sublateral and lateral setae near the anterior third, the longest having a length equal to about half the body diameter; terminal segment reduced, with a diameter about half that of the preceding segments and distally with a median, rounded process. Conical, fleshy prolegs occur on body segments 2-10. The above descriptions were drafted from balsam mounts and the color characteristics as a consequence are hardly those of the living insect. A Day with Euchloe cethura. By KARL R. COOLIDGE. Euchloe cethura, a butterfly confined to Southern Cali- fornia, is a much to be desired prize. About Pasadena we looked for it minutely, but always without success, and it seems at the present time to have disappeared. In former years, however, it was taken here in considerable numbers and is said to have been abundant at Elysian Park, between this city and Los Angeles. Learning that it occurred quite commonly in the vicinity of San Bernardino, we decided to pay a visit there in quest 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll of the little beauty, and incidentally pay our respects to Mr. William Greenwood Wright, the pioneer Lepidopterist and author of the "Butterflies of the West Coast." March 6th found Pasadena wrapped in a dense fog, and for a time we feared that our prospects were very meagre. However, after an hour's ride from Pasadena, passing through mile after mile of citrus groves, we were greeted by the sun shining forth un- hindered by fog or clouds. San Bernardino, with its snow capped mountains looming up behind it, was reached about ten, and we proceeded at once to F Street, where we were fortunate in finding Mr. Wright at home. Hearing we were fellow "bugologists" he greeted us with open arms and de- voted himself entirely to our entertainment. Several hours was spent in looking over his valuable and extensive collec- tions, with exception of his types which he has wisely placed in safe storage. Then, hitching up "the old hoss shay," we drove to Little Mountain, about two miles to the north of the city, accompanied by our host, who assured us we would be successful. After a hard scramble we reached the summit, and Mr. Wright, though he must be well along in the sixties, kept pace with us, giving one of the best illustrations of what the study of entomology accomplishes for her students, per- fect health in old age. In less than half an hour our first cethura was bagged, and before the day's hunt was over, seven more fell victims to our butterfly nets. One of the specimens taken is typical of E. cethura descrti which Mr. Wright, in his Butterflies of the West Coast, describes as a desert form of cethura. It seems, however, to be but an individual variant. Little atten- tion was paid to other species, but occasionally a specimen reached the "Happy Flying Grounds" via the unlimited Cya- nide Route. Thecla dumetorum was in its prime, flying in large numbers, and T. iroides was not uncommon. Up on the summit the little Alypia riding sii gyrated about and we could have taken a large series had we so desired. Now and then the swift Cotias eurydice whizzed by, and a stray Papilio soli- Vol. XXJi] KXTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 13 caon flew lazily about. Tlwuaos jnrenalis we found abundant, and several early Melitaea u'rightii and M. an gust a were net- ted. The everywhere P. rapac, E. sara reakirti and others were noticed. We had an additional pleasure in having the exact type localities of Melitaea zvrightii, M. an gust a and M. ccrrita pointed out to us. About three o'clock our appetites got the best of us, and in a half falling-sliding manner we returned to the buggy, where cold chicken, pie, and other related species of edibles awaited us. Needless to say, we were quite as successful with these as we had been with the butterflies. Still another pleas- ant hour remained before our train pulled out, and we found the time all too short. Mr. Wright ceremoniously labeled the day "Cerrita Day," after M. cerrita, over whose type locality we had sacrilegiously tramped. The laws of nomenclature compels us, to our regret, to change the name to "Wrightii Day," perhaps more appropriate, as cerrita was taken in com- pany with and appears to be but an extreme aberration of M. leanira wrighti Edwards. Truly, we shall look back with pleasure to "Wrightii Day" our first introduction to the dainty Euchloc ccthura, and to William Greenwood Wright, one of the few men now living who had for his contemporaries and friends such men as Wm. H. Edwards, Henry Edwards, Samuel H. Scudder, Hermann Strecker, and Dr. Behr. Euchaeria socialis The larval nest of this interesting species, closely allied to our Neophasia, is put to a curious use by the Mexicans in the Sierra Madres of Sonora. The nest, being of a tough and leathery texture, is deprived of its occu- pants and becomes metamorphosed into an excellent tobacco pouch. Many a senor, senora and dark-eyed senorita defty roll their cigaritos from species of "My Lady Nicotine" drawn from plundered larval nests of E. socialis. The Trustees of the Mass. Agric. College dedicated the new building for Entomology and Zoology Friday, Nov. n, 1910, at Amherst, Mass. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'ii Standards of the number of eggs laid by Insects IX." Being Averages Obtained by Actual Count of the Combined Eggs from Twenty (20) Depositions or Masses. BY A. ARSENE GIRAULT. 13. BLATELLA GERMANICA Linneus. No. Date 1910 No. counted per mass Successive Totals Av. per Egg Mass Max. Min. Range I Sep. 20 38 38 38. 2 40 78 39 3 40 118 39-3 4 40 158 39 5 5 4 8 206 41.2 4 8 6 38 244 40.6 7 42 286 408 * 8 44 330 41.2 9 38 368 408 10 42 410 41. ii 40 450 40.9 12 Oct. i 42 492 41. 13 36 528 40.6 H 38 566 404 15 39 605 403 16 44 649 405 I? 44 693 40.7 18 34 727 40.3 34 19 40 767 40.3 20 44 811 40.5 14 811 40.5 48 34 U Finals The egg-capsules used here were taken from living females occurring in a kitchen of a hospital at Dunning (Chicago), Illinois, September 15, 1910; they had all been rotated. When the embryos neared perfectness they were dissected out and counted. This procedure is not necessary, however, for the outline of each egg is well denned exteriorly and their num- ber is easily determined. As a rule there are an equal number of eggs in both sides of any single capsule, hence the even numbers shown in the table. Wheeler (Journal of Morphology, Boston, III, 1889, p. 292) states that oviposition occurs at all times of the year. The same author (Ib., p. 301) gives the average number of eggs * For the first eight of this series, see ENT. NEWS, 1901 , p. 305 ; 1904, pp. 2-3 ; 1905, p. 167 ; 1906, p. 6 ; 1907, p. 89 ; 1908, pp. 4, 383 ; 1909, pp. 355-357- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 15 iii a capsule (taken from 34 specimens) as being near 40 and the range from 28 to 58. "The number varies in different localities and is doubtless dependent on the food of the female insect. In several capsules obtained where amylaceous food was abundant the average was much higher than in a much greater number of capsules obtained from a place where fatty food was the only diet." In the same place on a later page (p. 302) he again states: "Taschenberg (46) claims that the female regularly lays only one capsule and dies soon after its deposition. My observa- tions on fifty females, whose wings were clipped as soon as they had formed their first capsule, have convinced me that they certainly lay two perfect capsules as a rule, and possibly more, in the course of the year." Wheeler is also certain that the young hatch without assistance from the female a fact easily observed by keeping egg-capsules isolated and protected from dryness. The young escape without difficulty from them. It follows from what has been written in this connection that the total number of eggs deposited by single females of this species will have to be determined by observation on living females kept under as natural conditions as possible. The number must average at or above 80. A New American Sitarine Beetle (Col., Lyttid.). BY CREIGHTON WELLMAN, Oakland, California. The writer recently received for determination from Pro- fessor S. J. Hunter, of the University of Kansas, a collection of Lyttidae secured last June by Mr. F. X. Williams, of the same University, in Gove County, Kansas. Among the speci- mens are a series found by Mr. Williams in bees' nests and which represent an interesting new species described in the following paper. These insects belong to the genus Hornia Riley (hitherto known to contain but a single species) which is the only genus representative of the Sitarini yet found in the western hem- l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll isphere with the exception of the Old and New Mexican genus Lconidia Ckll. (containing two species) from which Hornia may be separated by the following table : 1. (2) Antennae of 10 articles, abdomen partly membranous, claws unarmed Hornia Riley. 2. (i) Antennae of 10 articles, abdomen entirely subcorneous, claws armed with a long basal spine Leonidia Ckll. The new Hornia may be characterized as follows : Hornia gigantea n. sp. Color, head dark castaneous with irregular ferrugineous markings on the frons and vertex, thorax black clouded with castaneous, scutel- lum brownish black, elytra transparently ferrugineous the sutural mar- gins slightly infuscate, abdomen with chitinous portions colored much as head and thorax, legs black ; head broadly triangular, back and sides with black pubescence ; labrum transverse, somewhat excavated on its upper surface, apically broadly rounded, the free edge thickly fringed with short golden hairs a few of which are paler and subsetac- eous, the lateral margins slightly raised, the punctuation finer and thicker towards the center; clypcus transverse, anterior border almost straight, sides and posterior border somewhat convex, punctuation rather stronger and more irregular than that of labrum; mandibles black, robust, rather sharply truncate ; labial palpi with last article longer than the other two and fusiform, the extreme apex knobbed; maxillary palfii with first article minute, second very long, obconical, third shorter, also obconical, the last rather shorter than preceding, fusiform (slight- ly obconical) apex broadly and roundly truncate; antennae submonili- form, first article shortly subglobose, second similar but smaller, third to tenth gradually becoming more cylindrical and slenderer, last article slightly loneer, apically narrowed and truncate, the joint between the tenth and eleventh articles indistinct; eyes small; neck distinct, head and thorax not closely joined; pronohim convex, almost subglobose, narrowed in front and behind, posterior margin everted, pubescence black and most abundant at sides; scuteUum transverse, roundly tri- angular, with a few deep punctures; elytra irregularly and roundly triangular, ora somewhat raised but not prominent, surface irregular- ly rugose, with a few erect black hairs; abdomen large, as in Meloe L., membranous, nine dorsal and seven ventral chitinous plates obvi- ously visible; legs with femora robust, sparsely pubescent, tibiae more strongly pubescent ; tarsi small, claws slender. Sexual characters : $ , the punctuation of the head is sparse, fine and deep, the antennae reach to the middle of the elytra (5.5 mm. in Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 17 the type), the thorax is sparsely and finely punctured, a few coaise punctures intermixed in the center of the disk, the eyes are reniform, the scutellum small, the elytra about twice as large as in the 9 , and the front tibiae armed ; 9 , the head is more coarsely sculptured, the punctures being larger, thicker and more irregular, the antennae reach not quite to the middle of the thorax (3.5 mm. in type), the thorax is very coarsely and strongly punctured, especially on the anterior por- tion of the disk, the eyes are longly oval, the scutellum large, the elytra much smaller and more hairy than in the $, and the front tibiae unarmed. Early stages: Exuvia of third larva hairless and unarmed, nymph Calmost completely transformed), $, much as in imago but not chiti- nized. Length, $, TO mm.; width, 6.7 mm.; 9, length, 19 mm.; width, 7.2 mm. (types); extremes, 24x9.5 mm. $, 14x5.1 mm. 9. Geog. Dist., Gove Co., Kansas (2813 ft.), June, 1910, "para- site in the nests of Anthophora occidentals," 17 specimens (F. X. Williams). Types ( $ , 9 , nymph, larval skin) in the collection of the University of Kansas; cotypes: eight in the collection of the University of Kansas, six in the writer's collection. The variation in the size of the elytra, in the color and in the dimensions of the specimens is considerable. They may be told at a glance from the only other species in the genus (minutipennis Rilev) by the marked difference in facies. The following table will facilitate the more exact separation of the two species : 1. (2) Light ferrugineous, head slightly wider than pronotum, which is subparallel at sides minutipennis Riley. 2. (i) Dark castaneous, head almost a third wider than pronotum, which is markedly arcuate at sides gigantea Wellm. The species just tabulated represent the extreme of degen- eration from parasitic habits as it occurs among the Lyttidae, and Mr. \Yilliams' discovery is most important, suggesting as it does that further careful examination of bees' nests may reveal other striking additions to our coleopterous fauna. PROFESSOR H. F. WICKHAM, Professor of Entomology at the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa, wrote in November : "Although entomology is entirely elective here, I have 100 students working at it." l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll A new Bee from New York State By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. I have just received from Dr. E. P. Felt a couple of speci- mens of Osmia, collected at Karner, N. Y., June 24, 1902. Dr. Felt writes that he has reared a parasite from the species, and is anxious to know its name. It proves to be new, and may be described as follows : Osmia felti n. sp. ? . Length about 12-13 mm. ; head and thorax strongly and closely punctured, dark blue, suffused with green, especially on supraclypeal area, front, mesothorax, scutellums and metathorax ; head rather large. broad, cheeks large and swollen ; clypeus normal, very densely punc- tured, with the lower margin black, smooth and shining, straight, with- out teeth or emargination ; mandibles thick, tridentate; antennae black, scape punctured; no distinct malar space; hair of head and thorax above white, with a faint creamy tinge; a little fuscous hair about ocelli ; hair of face white, but of clypeus largely or moderately mixed with dark fuscous; lower part of cheeks with some fuscous hair: hair of thorax nowhere mixed with dark, that of pleura, metathorax etc. all white; area of metathorax wholly dull, granular, faintly rugulose at base; tegulae shining piceous; wings strongly brownish infuscated; b. n. going basad of t. m. ; legs black, not even the hind coxae metallic; middle femora swollen and obtusely angulate below ; hair of hind tarsi dark fuscous; abdomen shining, rather sparsely punctured, dark steel blue, with white hair on first segment, very short thin fuscous hair on the others, and a slight fringe of minute shining hairs (not making a visible band) on the third and following segments; sides with some white hair; ventral scnpa black; last dorsal segment with appressed pale yellowish hair. In all thin,?? this is very close to 0. densa Cresson, but densa has much long- coarse black hair on the face and front, the dark hair of the abdomen is longer and more evident, while the shining red or pale hair so evident on the middle basitarsus of densa is scarcely or not developed in felti. The type locality of 0. densa is Pike's Peak, Colorado. It ex- tends thence northwestward to Washington State. O. felti might be regarded as a geographical race or sub-species, but even so it would deserve recognition. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 19 Mallophaga from Bolivian Birds. By V. L. KELLOGG and J. H. PAIXE, Stanford University, California. The following" determinations and descriptions of new spe- cies of Mallophaga refer to a small collection of specimens from Bolivian birds in 1901 by the late Perry O. Simons. (This unfortunate collector of birds for the British Museum was murdered by Indians in the Bolivian mountains in 1902 (?) In Simons' notes the birds are listed only under Bolivian vernacular or descriptive English names, and we are unable to ascribe them with certainty to their proper species. The English names reveal at least their general sort, as duck, hum- ming bird, eagle, etc. Docophorus laticeps Giebel. Several specimens from the "white-headed oriole" (Choro, Bolivia, 3500 metres, dry season). Docophorus communis Nitzsch. Specimens from "bird" (Choro, Bolivia). Docophorus fissi-signatus n. sp. (Fig. 1.) Two females from "desert curlew" (Lagonillas, Bolivia). This species belongs to Piaget's type fisignati from the Spoon bills and Ibises and is the second of this type that we have found on curlews in this country. Description of female. Body length, 2.4 mm. ; width, 1.06 mm. Signature double. Head : Length, .66 mm. ; width, .68 mm. ; quite dark in color except for the clypeus ; signature double, somewhat lighter in color than the rest of the head except for its two posterior pro- longations ; margin and space between the portions of the signature transparent. Clypeus truncate; rounded on the angles, sides slightly diverging, suture distinct. The antennal bands extend over half the length of the clypeus. A prominent hair arises just forward of the termination of the antenn.-il band and another shorter one on the margin at the termination of this hand; also a short hair near the suture with another long one arising on the dorsal surface further forward ; a hair arising from the ventral surface extending beyond 20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'n the lateral margin near the center. On the margin just behind the clypeal suture are three rather long hairs, a short one on the base of the trabeculae and a long one on the margin near the basal segment of the antennae. Temples broadly rounded with three long hairs and three short spines; a hair and one spine arising from the prominent eye. Occiput nearly straight, very slightly sinuous ; the occipital bands are prominent and are prolonged in the antennals. Second seg- ment of antennae nearly as long as the last three; third shortest; sec- ond and third very light in color, the basal and terminal two being somewhat darker. Thorax shorter than head and nar- rower; length, .4 mm. Prothorax, a trifle less than half that length; quadrangular with a lateral marginal band which also extends along the posterior margin nearly to the center. Median portion of segment light in color. Metathorax with sides di- verging, posterior angles broadly rounded and posterior margin con- vex ; a row of pustulated hairs ex- tends around from the straight diverging sides half way to the center of the posterior margin. There are two blotches leaving a narrow un- colored line down the center ; darker marginal bands extend from the an- terior angles to the median uncolored FIG. i Docophorus fissi-signatus n. s. 9 line. Abdomen elliptical with segments of nearly equal length except the ninth, which is very small and bilobed; color pale except for the dark, sharply denned, triangular transverse blotches on the first seven segments which extend in about two-thirds of the way to the center; These segments also have pitchy lateral bands. A spiracle occurs in a clear space on segments two to seven. The eighth segment is dark in color except along the margin ; two hairs arise near the center of this segment from clear pustules. The last two segments are round- ed, the eighth with straight, almost parallel lateral sides, and a fringe of hairs on the posterior margin. There is a row of hairs across the middle of each of the preceding segments and several in each posterior angle. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 21 Nirmus fuscus Nitzsch. Several specimens from "hawk" (Cochabamba, Bolivia) ; also from "hawk" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Lipeurus temporalis Nitzsch. Several specimens from "river duck" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Lipeurus epiphanes n. sp. (Fig. 2.) Male and female from "desert curlew" (Lagonillas, Bo- livia). Description of female. Body length, 2.88 mm. ; width, .56 mm. Head : Length, .6 mm. ; width, .34 mm. ; conical. Clypeus parabolic in front, sides almost straight and parallel ; edge transparent with signature concentric to it ; suture distinct ; a rather long hair at the FIG. 2 Lipeurus epifihanes n. sp. a, female; 6, tactile hairs ( f the postero-latcral angle of the metalhorax ; c, head of male ; d, last abdominal segments of male. angle between the straight side and the parabolic front, and three long ones at the suture. Sides of head behind the clypeal suture straight, diverging to the antennae and bordered by the prominent antennal bands; these bands turn inward at the clypeal suture, fol- 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll lowing it and almost meeting at the center; three hairs, evenly spaced, on the margin between the clypeal suture and the short trabeculae and another one arising on the ventral surface extending beyond the margin at a point between the anterior two of those mentioned above. From a point near the posterior ends of the antennal bands arise two internal bands which extend obliquely inward a short distance, then curve forward and run parallel to the posterior lateral angles of the clypeal signature. A narrow dark band extends entirely around the posterior part of the head connecting the ocular bands ; temples al- most straight and slightly converging behind the eyes, rounded at the posterior angles ; occipital margin concave ; occipital bands nar- row, distinct. Eye prominent with a short hair on the dorsal sur- face and a short spine at its posterior margin ; six short hairs and spines on the temples. Antennae pale, second segment as long as the last two, third segment shortest. In the male antenna the first seg- ment is large and about as long as the following three segments to- gether ; the second segment comes next in length and the fourth is the shortest; the third has a narrow pointed appendage; there is a horseshoe-shaped blotch at the base of the first segment. Thorax trapezoidal ; prothorax quadrilateral, with sides slightly di- verging behind; coxae show through plainly; length, 16 mm.; width, 28 mm. Metathorax length, .36 mm. ; width at posterior angles, .4 mm.; sides diverging behind; posterior angles rounded; lateral mar- gins notched at a point about one-third the distance from the an- terior angles with a dark blotch, probably marking the suture be- tween the metathorax and mesothorax. There are six hairs arising from the dorsal surface in the posterior angles ; the outer one is very long and arises from a large curious papilla; the second is short, arising from a small papilla ; the other four are very long and close together in a group. (See b, Fig. 2.) The abdomen is long and rather narrow, expanding slightly to the fourth segment which is widest ; last segment bilobed, straight across the posterior margin in the male. There are narrow dark lateral bands on each segment except the last and transverse .blotches, which extend about a third the way across the body, and there are also faint lengthwise median blotches. Each lateral band extends into the segment in front and has two long appendages which curve back making a clear space in the anterior margin of the transverse blotch of the segment to which the lateral band belongs. The blotch on the last segment is median and bilobed ; the margin of this segment is transparent. There are about six hairs on each segment except the last, and several hairs in the posterior angles. In the male the pos- terior margin of the last segment is straight. The genitalia of the male are as shown in Fig. 2, d. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23 Goniodes aliceps Tasch. Four specimens from "Colloma" (San Ernesto, Bolivia), "Colloma" being merely the local name, we are able to make from it no determination of the bird, but from the kinds of its parasites we can say, almost with certainty, that it is some species of Tinamou, probably Cryf>tnrus sp. Goniodes agonus Nitzsch. Six specimens, including one male, from "Colloma" (San Ernes- to, Bolivia) collected with G. ali- ceps. The male of the curious species has not heretofore been re- corded. Our male specimen unfor- tunately has the head damaged and FIG. 3 Last abdominal segments of Goniodes agonus Nitzsch. c? the antennae lost. We figure (fig. 3) the last segments of the abdomen which differ greatly from the female. Colpocephalum osborni Kellogg. Several specimens from "red-headed bustard" (Choro, Boli- via, 3700 metres, dry season). Colpocephalum flavescens Nitzsch. Two females from <|l hawk" (Charuplaya, Bolivia, 1350 metres, dry season) : Menopon maestum Kellogg and Chapman. Three specimens from "bird" (Choro, Bolivia). Menopon sp. (juv.). One specimen from "blue finch" (Choro, Bolivia). Trinoton luridum Nitzsch. One specimen from "river duck" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Trinoton lituratum Nitzsch. Two specimens from "river duck" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Laemobothrium sp. Two specimens from "grasshopper hawk" (Charuplaya, Bolivia). Although this species differs obviously from any Laemobothrium yet described in satisfactory manner, we shall not add a new species to this genus until the existing species determinations have been thoroughly revised. The genus is at present in a simply impossible condition. Physostomum doratophorum Carriker. Several specimens from three (three species?) "humming- birds." (Choro. Bolivia.) A New Genus of Nomadine Bees. BY S. A. ROHWER, Washington, D. C. Some time ago Professor T. D. A. Cockerell requested in- formation as to the generic position of Pasites pilipes Cresson. Late in October, Mr. J. C. Crawford, Jr., examined Cresson's type, which is in Philadelphia, making sure that the speci- mens in the U. S. National Museum were the same species as the type. On examination it was found that this species rep- resents a new generic, or subgeneric, group in the family Nomadidae, differing from Pasites and the other genera in a number of points. The accompanying figures were made from camera lucida sketches : Nomadosoma new genus. Type of the genus: Pasites pilipes Cresson (Cuba). Rather small bees of Nomadine habitus ; smooth and shin- ing; mandibles simple; maxillary palpi as in figure i; labial palpi four-jointed, the two basal joints as in figure 2, the two apical joints were accidentally broken ; third antennal joint but little shorter than joints four and five; frontal carina almost wanting; scutellum flat, level with the mesonotum, somewhat depressed in the posterior middle ; anterior coxae with short tubercles, which are more distinct in the male, legs of the fe- male more hairy than in male, and more hairy than in most Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS Holarctic species of Nomada; gaster as in Nomada, except that it is more flattened in female, with the venter more than / normally pubescent, tergal segments shining very sparsely punctured; last apical segment of the male entire; fore wing as in figure 3, hind wings normal for Nomada. FIG. i. Maxillary palpi of Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson , with the articulating maxilla. The shining appearance, flat scutellum and two cubital cells distinguish this at once from its allies. In Robertson's tables (Can. Ent. Vol. 35, 1903, p. 173, etc.) Nomadosoma runs in with Plwr Robertson and Holonomada Robertson. The male FIG. 2. Two fo basal joints of labial palpi and tongue of Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson). 26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll runs to Holonomada Robertson. If the cox?e were said to be spined both sexes would run. to Ciphen Robertson. In Ashmead's tables (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. 27, 1899, p. 49, etc.) it will not run satisfactorily. In Cockerell and Atkin's table based on the trophi (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. 10, July, 1902, p. 42, etc.) Noma- dosoma runs to Nomada fucata Panzer. Pasites Jurine, Biastcs Panzer and Nomadita Mocsary be- long to the Nomadinse and have two cubital cells. Pasites and Biastes have the gaster of the female of the cylindrical Noma- dine type, the third antennal joint is much shorter than four plus five, the frontal carina is strong, the body is strongly punctured ; Pasites has the radial cell truncate and the scutel- lum bilobate ; Biastes has the scutellum rounded. Nomadita Mocsary, which is known from the male only, may have the venation as in Heminomada Cockerell, but as it is compared with Biastes perhaps has the venation as in that genus. It has, however, a strong frontal carina and the "scutellum bitubercu- latum." Heminomada Cockerell has the first transverse cubitus (not the second) wanting, and differs in many other ways from Nomadosoma. Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson). Cresson (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. 4, 1865, p. 183) de- scribed his Pasites pilipes as follows : "Chestnut-brown, polished; sides of face, clypeus, collar, tubercles, two spots on pleura, postscutellum and narrow bands on abdomen, white; hind legs of $ densely pilose; wings hyaline, costa- apical mar- gin fuscous. "Female. Chestnut-brown polished, clothed with pale pubescence; face flat, highly polished, impunctate ; sides of the face obscurely, and the clypeus, whitish; cheeks and labrum densely pubescent; anten- nae piceous, paler at base. Thorax indistinctly punctured, pleura and metathorax rather densely clothed with silvery-white pubescence; a line on the collar, tubercles, two spots on pleura, two small spots on scutellum, and the post-scutellum, white; scutellum slightly subbilo- bate; tegulce brown, the outer margins pale. Wings hyaline, faintly tinged with fuscous, slightly iridescent, the costa-apical margin broad- Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ly fuscous. Legs chestnut-brown, clothed with pale pubescence, which is long and dense on the posterior tibiae and tarsi; posterior coxas dilated and flattened, with a whitish spot at tip. Abdomen broadly ovate, convex, polished, rather densely clothed with short pale pubescence on the sides and apex; on the middle of the first, second, fourth and fifth segments above, a narrow, rather uneven, whitish fascia, that on the fourth segment interrupted on the middle ; on each extreme side of the third segment a short, narrow, whitish line ; apical segment trun- cate, densely clothed with fuscous pubescence ; beneath chestnut-brown, immaculate. Length 3^ lines; expanse of wings 6 l /2 lines. "Male. Resembles the female, except the abdomen is longer, not so broad, and pointed at tip as in males of Nomada; the posterior legs are not densely pilose as in the $ . Length 3 lines ; expanse of wings 5 l / 2 lines. "Collection. Ent. Soc. Phila. Two specimens. "This species has much the general appearance of a Noma- da, and in the $ specimen, the only difference I can see is, that the anterior wings have only two submarginal cells, instead of FIG. 3. Anterior wing of Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson). three ; but in the 9 , the form is more robust, and the hind legs are densely pilose, which is never the case in the females of Nomada." The chestnut color in the specimens in the U. S. National Museum is replaced almost entirely by black. The female came from Cuba, the male was collected by Mr. A. Busck at Baracoa, Cuba, Aug., 1902. PROFESSOR W. M. WHEELER, of the Department of Economic Ento- mology Bussey Institution, Harvard University, started on his vaca- tion November i and spent some days in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. 28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll The Musical Habits of Some New England Orthop- tera in September. By H. A. ALLARD, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Primarily to become better acquainted with the call notes of some New England katydids and grasshoppers, the writer spent the first three weeks of September, 1910, at Oxford, Mass. Throughout this period the days and evenings were pleasantly occupied in rambles through the fields and pastures in the beautiful Fort Hill region.* The stridulations of a num- ber of musical Orthoptera were carefully studied. Observa- tions concerning these may be of some aid to those who have become interested in the habits of musical insects. The following species, including a few unmusical ones, were observed or captured: In the fields and meadows : Orchelimum vulgar e Harris ; ConocepJialus ensiger Harris; Amblycorypha rotiindifolia Scudd. ; Scudderia texensis S. & P. ; Scudderia furcata Brun- ner ; Xiphidium fasciatuin DeG. ; Xiphidium brevipcnne Scudd. ; Gryllus pennsylvanicus Burm. ; Nemobins fasciatus (vittatus) Harris; Stenobothrns curtipcnnis Harris; Melanoplus femora- ius Burm. ; Encoptolophus sordidus Burm. In weeds, vines and shrubbery: Occanthus niveus DeG.; Oecanthus angusti- pennis Fitch; Oecanthus nigricornis Walker; Oecanthus quad- ripunctatus Beut. Beneath leaves in damp localities: Ne- mobius palustris Blatchley. In wells, beneath stone piles, etc. : Ceuthophilus maculatus Harris. In lofty trees: Cyrtophyllus perspicillatus Linn.t * About Sept. 22 the writer spent several days at Crestwood, Yon- kers, N. Y. During warm, sunny afternoons many males of Con- ocephalus triops, Linn., were stridulating in the fields and meadows. In a small area hardly larger than 25 square feet, and overgrown with grass, weeds and asters the writer captured half a dozen specimen^. The note is a keen continuous z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z. This Conocephalus is probably common throughout western and southern Connecticut, as the writer heard the same stridulation in this region on his way into New York from Providence. f. The writer is indebted to Mr. A. N. Caudell, of the U. S. Nation- al Museum, who has kindly confirmed or made all identifications of Orthoptera listed in this paper. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2Q The writer arrived at Mr. Howard's farm on Fort Hill in the afternoon of August 29, 1910. At this time the nights had become very cool, damp and autumn-like. Light frosts were expected in low grounds in some localities. As far as the eye could see across the hills, the fields were a fresh, alluring emer- ald green. Hosts of stridulating creatures were active by day and by night, producing a chorus of soothing sounds and har- monies. In the clover fields and in the weeds by the roadsides were small colonies of Orchclimum nil gar e Harris. The notes of this locust are rather soft, and are delivered in a leisurely man- ner, tsip-tsip-tsip-tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. This locust is a late sum- mer species and stridulates persistently by night as well as by day. At night, especially if the weather is chilly, its notes are not as brisk and as persistent as the day notes. Scudder says of its notes : "The night song differs from that of the day simply in its slower movement ; the pitch of both is at B flat, two octaves above middle C." I. ate in the evening and well into the night Conocephalus ensiger Harris, adds to the noisy chorus of insect sounds. This locust prefers the fresh herbage of cultivated fields, and is es- pecially to be looked for in the fields of corn. One oftentimes finds a noisy singer verched 6 or 7 feet from the ground on a corn stalk or tassel. The call notes of this Conocephalus are intermittent and fol- low each other Bather briskly, tsip-tsip-tsip-tsip. These stridu- lations are continued indefinitely, and. to the writer's ears, lack any decided harshness or buzzing characteristic of C. bnineri and others. They are rather soft and lisping, recalling to mind the staccato lisps of an Orchelimum. C. ciisigcr is the only species with which the writer has become acquainted in this regior It is a very common species in nearly all upland lo- calities. One sometimes meets with it in large colonies among the luxuriant weeds and grasses in lowlands. McNeill says of this Conocephalns: "Its song is a loud rasping zip-zip-zip repeated indefinitely." He also states that 3O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll it recalls the staccato lisps of Orchdimum vulgare. The last comparison is more accurate, since the notes of this Cono- cephalus do not impress me as at all rasping. A very common katydid at this season is the pretty Ambly- corypha rotundifolia Scndd. Its notes may be heard at all times during the day as well as during: warm nights. This Amblycorypha occurs everywhere in the grass, weeds and shrubbery of fields and pastures. It was especially abundant among the shrubby pasture growths, consisting mainly of spe- cies of Vaccinium, Gaylnssacia, Kahma angnstifolict, and the two species of Spiraea, i. e., tomcntosa and salicifolia. Its notes are soft and lisping and continue indefinitely. They may be expressed thus : Tsip-i-tsip-i-tsip-i-tsip-i-tsip. These stridu- lations recall the dainty lispings of part of the song of Am- blycorypha ithleri. The writer's observations of its stridula- tions are very similar to those of Scudder. Scudderia texensis S. & P. prefers particularly the open grass and clover fields. At Oxford, Mass., the writer has studied two distinct methods of stridulation produced at will by this Scudderia. The usual note heard from Massachusetts to Geor- gia is a soft sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh occasionally repeated. This note is produced by a rapid shuffling of the wings very briefly. At other times and much more rarely the call consists of a succes- sion of sharp, keen, distinctly rasping notes slowly delivered, /eet-zeet-zeet-zeet. These notes, which are so unlike the usual call, are usually answered at once in a similar manner by an- other individual elsewhere. One is at first tempted to assign them to some other insect. By creeping carefully toward a musician, the writer has watched this mode of stridulation close at hand. The tegmina are very slowly and deliberated opened and rasped upon each other slowly several times. These notes are really more in keeping with the incisive notes of other Scudderias. It is evi- dent that these notes are not accidental. They probably convey some definite meaning to other individuals within earshot. Scudderia texensis becomes noisy as soon as the afternoon Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 31 sun gets low, and continues to stridulate into the evening. These locusts sometimes congregate in small colonies of half a dozen or more in favored spots. It is a persistent singer, al- though its notes are delivered at rather irregular and infrequent intervals, a characteristic of most Scudderias. I have as yet noted only the usual sh-sh-sh-sh at Thompson's Mills, Georgia, where it is very common. Scnddcria fnrcata Brunner, is possibly less common in cen- tral Massachusetts than the preceding species. At least it is much less frequently heard in stridulation. Its calls are de- livered only at long and irregular intervals, and consist of a single, keen, incisive zeep, or sometimes three slowly in suc- cession, zeep-zeep-zeep. One warm, sunn}' afternoon in early September, 1910, in order to locate and capture one of these katydids which had just produced its single zeep. the writer lay down on the grass in the vicinity and waited. The insect did not repeat its note until nearly two hours later, after which the capture was easily made. This katydid stridulates during afternoons and less frequently at night. Its call is delivered only at long and ir- regular intervals, so that much patience must be exercised to locate a singer. Riley's description of the notes of Scndderia fnrcata is very exact: "It consists of a softer zeep, zeep, sometimes uttered singly but generally thrice in succession." A few times the writer has heard in this locality as late as the last week of October the single incisive zeep of some be- lated katydid. The call usually issued from the green foliage of some shrub or apple tree which had delayed shedding the leaves. It is possible that this was the call of Scndderia fnr- cata. Scndderia texensis had long since become silenced by the cold days and nights of this season. The tiny Xiphidhun fasciatnm DeG. prefers the tangles of weeds and grasses bordering the grass fields, and may often- times be found in large colonies. Its notes are extremely faint, and in manner of delivery are the exact counterpart of an Orchelimum's notes. The staccato lisps nearly always precede 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll the phrase tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. The entire song may be writ- ten thus: Tip-tip-tip-tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. The entire stridula- tion is so faint as to escape the hearing. The staccato lisps, tip-tip-tip, were so faint the writer could hear them only by the closest attention, although the wings could be seen in mo- tion at the time. At this season of the year, with the usual New England breezes stirring the herbage violently, and accompanied by the incessant chirpings of Gryllns pcnnsylvanicus and Nemobius fasciatns rittatus, the attenuated lispings of Xiphidium fascia- turn became quite inaudible. It seems as if the notes of the New England individuals are considerably fainter than those the writer has studied in Northern Georgia. Representing graphically the preceding staccato lisps by dots and the pro- longed phrases tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee by dashes, the successive notes of an individual which the writer observed in a box were thus: It is evident that from three to six staccato lisps preceded each time the phrase tseeeeeeeeeeeeeee. This method of repre- senting the notes at once shows the relative frequency of the staccato lisps and the longer phrases, as these vary greatly with different species, both Xiphidiums and Orchelimums. McNeil says of Xiphidium fasciatum : "Its song is a faint echo of that of Orchelimum vulgare. with the zip-zip omitted." He speaks also of its "faint little quaver." It is evident that McNeil had failed to catch the staccato lisps which are always present in the call notes of this tiny locust. Another tiny Xiphidium occurring in all situations in com- pany with Xiphidium fasciatum is Xiphidium brcvipenne Scudd. It is possibly less common in this locality than fascia- tum. The writer could not determine its stridulations in the field, so a number of males and females were placed in a paste- board box together with some grass. In a few minutes a num- ber were in continuous song throughout the afternoon and night. The stridulations of this Xiphidium are the least audi- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 33 ble of any locust the writer has ever observed. Although a persistent singer, the notes become inaudible only a few feet away. In the fields they are quite lost amidst the sounds of rustling foliage, the chirpings of crickets, etc. The notes of Xiplridiiim brcvipcnne are very brief and much more hurried in their delivery than those of X. fasciatum. In this respect they approach more nearly the dainty stridulations of X. nemorale Scudd. In the song of X. brevipenne usually only one or two almost inaudible staccato lisps precede one, two or even three of the brief, faint phrases, tseeeeeee-tseeeeee. The phrases tseeeee are of much longer duration in the song of X. fasciatum, and are rarely heard without the preceding stac- cato lisps which are of indefinite number. Graphically represented, the notes of an individual X. brevi- penne were as follows: . .- Gryllus pennsylvanicus Burm., at this season may be found in great numbers crawling over the grassy upland fields chirp- ing incessantly in the sunshine. Its notes in New England are always a brief intermittent musical chirp-chirp-chirp. Nemobins fasciatus (t'ittatus') DeG. occupies the grassy fields and pastures everywhere, trilling incessantly during the hours of sunshine. In some localities the trill is very brief and shrill tiiii-tiiii-tiiii. In others the trill is exceedingly high and indefinitely prolonged ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti. The prolonged tril- lers appear to be confined almost entirely to dry, grassy, up- land situations. The intermittent singers seem to prefer low, wet grounds. This distribution is rather clearly defined. 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll Piers who has carefully studied some of the Nova Scotia Orthoptera, found this Nemobius exceedingly abundant in the fields around Halifax.* His excellent description of its inter- mittent notes is as follows: "Its notes are one of the most familiar sounds of autumn and are heard both during the day and night. The stridulation is produced by lifting the wing covers about 45 degrees above the abdomen and then shuffling them together producing a sound resembling the word plee-e-e-e plee-e-e-e plee-e-e-e or cree-e-e-e. It has been suggested that these notes can be reproduced by taking a silver half dollar be- tween the fingers and striking the coin with the edge of a nickel." A very common little grasshopper in nearly all warm, sunny, grassy situations is Stcnobothrus cnrtipennis Harris. The writer found this insect particularly common in dry upland fields with a sunny southern exposure. Small colonies were always evident by their brief faint silken lispings several times repeated at irregular intervals. This little Acridian is heard only during the day. Its stridulations are produced by sawing the inner surface of both thighs simultaneously against the edges of the tegmina. Blatchley finds it more abundant in In- diana in damp grounds near tamarack swamps. Melanoplns fcmoratus Burm., and Encoptolophus sordidns Burm., are two common field insects in late summer and early autumn. The former is clumsy and apparently unmusical. The latter is a vigorous flyer and produces a lively crepitation during its flight movements over the fields. Four fragile-bodied musical tree crickets occupy almost ex- clusively the shrubbery and vines. These are all species of Oecanthus, namely, 0. mveus, O. angustipenms, O. nigricornis and O. quadripimctatus. Oecanthus niveus DeG. is usually called the fall cricket. This beautiful pearly-winged creature takes up its abode in our grape arbors, hedges, etc. Its notes are low, deep-toned. *. '''Preliminary Notes on the Orthoptera of Nova Scotia," hy Harry Piers, in Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, Vol. IX, 1895-96. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 35 and solemn in their effect upon the mind. Single singers some- times continue to stridulate by day, but the great synchronal chorus begins at evening. If the night is warm and moon- light, waves of solemn, rhythmical music soon swing backward and forward between the hedges. It is worth while to hear this grand, antiphonal serenade, for it induces a peculiar, in- describable psychic state an intermingling of sadness and re- poseful meditation. It is a "slumbrous breathing" to the mind of Thoreau. Hawthorne calls it an "audible stillness" which "if moonlight could be heard, it would sound like that." Laf- cadio Hearn in Japan may as well have heard these same sol^ emn cricket sounds when he wrote: "The pleasure-pain of autumn's beauty, the weird sweetness of the voices of the night, the magical quickening of remembrance by echoes of forest and field." This tree cricket sings until the nights be- come so cold that the intermittent c-r-e-a-k c-r-e-a-k is very slowly delivered. The notes of this cricket have been more carefully described than the notes of most other species, by Davis, McNeil, Fitch, Burroughs, Thoreau, Hawthorne and others. Scudder's description of the song of Oecanthns niretis does not well apply to the intermittent notes of this cricket. He says : "The song of the male is an exceedingly shrill and rapid continuous trill ; its 'dry rosined wings' must play upon each other with wonderful rapidity, for at its slowest, and the rapid- ity varies somewhat, there are at least sixteen beats a second ; the trill is nearly uniform and lasts for from two or three sec- onds to a minute or two."* The shrill pitch and the prolong- ed trill make it very probable that Scudder had heard the trill of 0. nigricornis or 0. quadripunctatus. McNeil aptly re- marks that Scudder's description and musical notation of ui; ens "seems to be the song of fasciatus." Oecanthns angnstipennis Fitch, is considerably less com- mon than the other species of Oecanthns at Oxford, Mass. It prefers the abundant foliage of the sweet fern, and is very *. "Some American Crickets," by S. H. Scudder, in Harper's Maga- zine, Vol. XCIII, October 1896. 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll musical on cloudy days and at night. It may sometimes be heard in low trees. This tree cricket appears to be more sus- ceptible to cold than the others, and sooner becomes silent at the approach of autumn. Its notes are a faint, intermittent phrase treeeeeee with nearly equal intervals of silence in- tervening. Davis accurately describes it as "a faint, continu- ous whir, lasting- only about five seconds, with an equal inter- val of rest." Blatchley's description is very similar. W. Faxon* describes them as "consisting of a trill of several seconds' duration succeeded by a short pause; this song suggests the spring note of the toad heard afar off." Occanthns nigricornis Walker is not as arboreal in its habits as the preceding species. It dwells among weeds, grass and golden rods nearly everywhere in fields and pastures. Its song is a steady, quavering, sustained trill. The trill of some in- dividuals is strong, deep and rich-toned, recalling the mellow trill of 0. latipennis. The pitch and volume of sound vary noticeably with different individuals of this species. This Oecanthus is a common species at Oxford, Mass., in August and September. Oecanthus quadripunctatus Beut. is also a common species, preferring the same environment of weeds and low shrubs as 0. nigricornis. The writer has been unable to find any con- stant differences which serve to distinguish the trills of these two species. That of 0. quadripunctatus is long sustained and sometimes shrill. The notes of other individuals are stronger and deeper-toned, recalling the melodious trill of O. latipennis as do those of 0. nigricornis. The stimulations of 0. qnadri- punctatus in New England have always seemed louder and lower-toned to the writer than the weaker and shriller trilling of the same species in Northern Georgia. This Oecanthus is a persistent triller throughout the days and nights. Faxon says: "Song similar to No. 3 (meaning 0. nigricornis} but clearer in tone and no doubt sufficiently distinct on close ac- *. "Habits and Notes of the New England Species of Oecanthus," by Walter Faxon, in Psyche, Vol. 9, No. 300, April 1901. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 37 quaintance." The writer has not yet been able to distinguish them this readily. Beneath the matted leaves and grass in damp spots and gullies by the roadsides, and in low, wet grounds the little Nemobius palustris Blatchley, dwells. In such situations small colonies of four or five individuals may be heard in stridulation. The striclulation of this pretty Nemobius is a faint, quavering, high pitched trill almost indistinguishable from the trill of the more southern Nemobius janus Kirby. The notes of these two species are so closely alike that the writer thought he had heard N. palustris around Washington, D. C. It proved to be the trill of N. janus, however. Its \veak trill and the habit of keeping well concealed beneath stones and leaves, together with its local and irregular distribution in any locality have no doubt caused this little cricket to be many times overlooked. In comparison with N, fasciatus vittatus, it is not an especially common species at Oxford, Mass. A naturalist, how r ever, familiar with its habits and stridulation could capture a fair supply of specimens in this region. It is a very shy cricket and can rarely be seen in stridulation. The writer has taken Ceuthophilus maculatus Harris, several times at Oxford, Mass. Once or twice it was found deep down in the crevices of a stone pile, and at other times in crannies in covered wells. It is an unmusical insect. At Oxford, Mass., the big katydid, Cyrtophyllus perspic Hia- tus L., is not especially common judging from the numbers heard in song at different localities. In some localities it is en- tirely absent, especially in the West Oxford district. Each year one or two small colonies may be heard in some big maples on Mr. Howard's farm near Fort Hill. It is an ex- ceedingly common and noisy insect in some big woods near Quinnebaug, Connecticut. This katydid stridulates almost entirely after dark, although its notes are sometimes heard during the day. There are few insect stridulations as loud, rasping and grating as those of Cyrtoplivllus perspicillatus. It is not by any means an easy 3 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll matter to locate and capture one of these insects on the topmost branches of a maple. The writer heard a few of these katy- dids on Fort Hill as late as September 20, 1910. At this season when the nights were coolest the notes of this katydid were so slowly and difficultly delivered that they had become almost painfully rasping- and grating in character. One dark, windy night the writer spent an hour or more trying to locate a male in the top of a lofty maple. By the aid of lighted matches the position of the insect was located. The insect was so benumbed with cold that it could barely rasp its tegmina upon each other. Scudder says that its stridulation "has a shocking lack of melody * * so that the air is filled by these noisy trou- badours with an indescribably confused and grating clatter." In many respects autumn is a particularly favorable season for the study of musical insects. Insects are very susceptible to changes of temperature. Many musical insects, which in midsummer stridulate almost entirely after dark, gradually cease their nocturnal stridulations as the autumn nights become colder. Day by day, as the season advances, and the chill of evening becomes more noticeable, the musical katydids and crickets usher in their chorus a little earlier each afternoon, until practically all the nocturnal singers are in full chorus shortly after midday. At Oxford, Mass., the writer entered the following notes in his journal concerning lower tempera- tures and insect stridulations. September 15, 1910, "following recent rains the nights have become very cold. They would be almost silent but for the slow, painful raspings of a few individuals of Cyrtophyllns perspicillatus and the synchronal music of Oecanthus niveits. Amblycorypha rotundifolia becomes quite silent, or at least barely audible if the nights are not too cold. Conocephalus ensiger is less sensitive to the cold and continues to stridulate persistently, even after Amblycorypha rotundifolia has been silenced by the evening chill. Insects which I heard almost entirely after dark a few weeks Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 39 ago I now hear from midday until sunset, when most species again become practically silent. If the afternoon is warm and sunny, however, the fields and pastures are filled with various insect sounds. By the roadsides, in the fields among golden rods and asters, the happy musicians disport themselves. Am- blycorypha rotundifolia, Conocephalics cnsiger, Orchelimum ndgare, Scudderia tc.vcnsis, Scudderia furcata, all are as noisy as they can make themselves. It is a simple matter now to observe and capture almost any musician, for all seem less inclined to fly after experiencing the cold nights of this season. If the weather moderates suddenly and the evenings become warm with threatening thunderstorms, the usual nocturnal awakening follows. Oecanthus nivcus suddenly starts the warm night air into an almost audible pulsation; the big Cyr- tophyllus perspicillatus rasps out a faster tune ; Conocephalus cnsiger, Ainblycorypha rotundifolia and Scudderia furcata lisp their loudest each in his own manner, until it seems as if the silent shrubs of a few nights ago had transformed their leaves into living, lisping creatures." Although the stridulations of insects become noticeably slower and fainter in cold weather, the pitch and manner of delivery characteristic of each species does not materially change. MR. J. CHESTER BRADLEY, Special Assistant Entomologist of the Georgia State Board of Entomology, Atlanta, Georgia, has undertaken the preparation of a preliminary catalog of insects of that State, and will appreciate greatly any co-operation on the part of those possessing r.ecords of Georgia specimens. DR. F. D. GODMAN has acknowledged the receipt, in London, of the first and principal set of his own Mexican and Central American Odonata, described and enumerated in the Blologia Ccntrali Ameri- cana, from Dr. P. P. Calvert. The specimens will be placed in the British Museum of Natural History. MR. R. J. TILYARD'S recently published "Monograph of the genus Synthemis" (Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 1910, Vol. XXXV, pp. 312-377, 6 plates, 2 of them colored) contains some observations on Corduline dragonflies and their affinities, of interest to students of this group in all parts of the world. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS solicit and will thank- fully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. The author's name will be given in each case, for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] TO CONTRIBUTORS. All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published according to date of reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change in form, will be given free, when they are wanted; and this should be so stated on the MS., along \yith the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged? Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1911. In another place in this number attention has been called to editorial changes in the NEWS staff and the hope has been ex- pressed that the friends^nd supporters of this journal in the past will continue their ^Rd as contributors to its pages and as subscribers to its resources. We ask not only for the systematic, life-history, anatomic and physiologic papers on insects, arach- nids and myriopods, but also for the proceedings of entomolog- ical clubs and societies and all notes, brief or longer, which, to quote the original prospectus of the NEWS, dated December I, 1889, "will keep entomologists en rapport with what is being accomplished in serials and by monographs at home and abroad, and which will also give the items of interesting news concerning explorations and explorers, collections and col- lectors." NOTICE that after January 10, 1911, the NEWS will be mailed only to those who have renewed their sub- scriptions. < SINCE the NEWS is not strictly adverse to the publication of non- scientific entomological articles, I have to record a brief contribution which may not be without interest. Most entomologists are, I pre- sume, without sympathy for the average novel, but two recent books from the pen of Gene Stratton-Porter, "Freckles"' and "A Girl of the Limberlost," may not only offer some entertainment to Lepidopterists, but the beginner may possibly gain some knowledge from them. Such statements as are made in the latter work, however, that Citheronia regalis is the rarest moth in America and "worth a dollar apiece" are unfortunate, as they may prove misleading to any who might be influenced by these two books to enter the study of entomology. KARI, R. COOUDGE. 40 Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 41 Notes and. Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. THE Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Ohio State University, lately issued an invitation to its friends to call and in- spect the collection of Butterflies and Moths recently donated by Mrs. Catherine Tallant, of Richmond, Indiana, to the Department ; a special exhibition of this collection was given on December 8th, gth and loth, 1910, in Biological Hall, of the University. THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN promises to be a magnificent foundation when entirely completed. It contains two colleges the College of Arts and Science and the College of Agriculture. Prof. T. N. Willing, the well known entomologist, is Professor of Natural History and Secretary of the College of Agriculture. The college is indebted to Prof. Willing for the use of his well-chosen museum, con- sisting of plants, insects, birds, fur bearing and other animals peculiar to Saskatchewan. The University is locked in the flourishing town of Saskatoon. PROTAMBULYX CARTERI. In Dr. William Barnes' List of North American Sphingidae, recently published in Psyche (Vol. XVII, No. 5), he refers to Protambulyx oarteri R. & J. He writes: "Rothschild and Jordan give Florida as a locality for this new species on the strength of a single $ received from the Kny-Scheerer Company." I, myself, captured this specimen and sent it to Baron Rothschild, Dr. Lagai of the Kny-Scheerer Company kindly including it in a lot of Lepidqptera he was sending at the time. After some delay and an offer from the Baron to purchase the specimen it was returned to me. It is now in my collection, having a label in the handwriting of its describer. I have several others of the same species, taken by myself at light in Miami, Florida. ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON. THE undersigned has been working upon the subject of "Insects Injurious to Books" for a number of years, and would be thankful for any information of this character that the readers may be able to give him. WM. R. REINICK, The Free Library of Philadelphia, I7th and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. WE HAVE lately received an interesting letter from Prof. C. B. Hardenberg, M.A., Government Entomologist, Transvaal Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, Africa. He has fourteen men in the Ento- mological Department, seven being employed as fruit and plant in- spectors. The entomologist is inaugurating a system of note-keeping 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll and recording like that used in the Bureau at Washington. Up to date methods for the care of specimens are also being introduced and new collections are being made as rapidly as possible. "Collecting goes on here all the year, especially in the northern parts of the country and the 'low veld' and I am papering a lot of duplicates for future use. This country is a paradise for Orthoptera, especially Locustidae and Mantidae, the latter often attaining the most absurd shapes and configurations. They are most abundantly found in the wild Acacias, or thorn bushes which dot the veld. "Taking everything into consideration it is a very interesting country entomologically. Very little life-history work or scientific investigation has been done, in fact only the surface has been skimmed here and there, and there is an exceedingly large field for an enthusiastic worker."' Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. |^^"A11 publications noted in the following list are dated 1910 unless otherwise noted. 2 Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 3 The American Naturalist. 4 The Canadian Entomologist. 7 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 9 -The Entomologist, London. 11 Annals and Magazine of Natural His- tory, London. 14 Proceedings, Zoological Society of London. 35 Annales, Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 38 Wiener En- tomologische Zeitung. 40 Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 47 The Zoologist, London. 55 Le Naturaliste, Paris. 86 Annales, Societe Entomologique de France, Paris. 89 Zoologische Jahr- bucher, Jena. 92 Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiolo- gie, Berlin. 97 Zeitschrift fur wissenchaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 123 Bulletin, Wisconsin Natural History Society, Milwaukee. 128 Proceedings, Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sidney. 141 Vol. xxil] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 43 Proceedings, Indiana Academy of Sciences, Indianapolis. 142 Report, Michigan Academy of Sciences, Lansing. 181 Guide to Nature, Sound Beach, Conn. 186 Journal of Economic Biology, London. 198 Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 218 Mikrokosmos. Zeitschrift fur die prak- tische Betatigung aller Naturfreunde, Stuttgart. 239 Annales, Biologic Lacustre, Brussels. 297 Bulletin, Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indianapolis. 298 Ofversigt, Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Forhandlingar. A. Mathematik och Naturvetenskaper, Helsingfors. 299 Mitteilungen der Natur- historischen Gesellschaft zu Hanover. 300 Ontario Natural Science Bulletin, Guelph. GENERAL SUBJECT. Blatchley, W. S. The life zones of Indiana as illustrated by the distribution of Orthoptera and Coleop- tera within the state, 141, 1908, 185-191. Brocher, F. Les phe- nomenes capillaires. Leur importance dans la biologic aquatique, 239, iv, 89-138. Observations biologiques sur quelques Dipteres et Hymenopteres dits "aquatiques," 239, iv, 170-186. Burrill, A. C. Pine-cone willow gall abundant. Grape-vine gilbert gall, 123, vii, 130-131. Doane, R. W. Insects and disease. A popular ac- count of the way in which insects may spread or cause some of our common diseases, 227 pp. 1910. Henry Holt & Co. Girault, A. A. Notes on variation in duration of similar periods of em- bryonic development; its bearing on the theory of effective tem- peratures, 123,, viii, 10-20. Smith, J. B. The insects of New Jer- sey (list). Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum for 1909. 880 pp. APTERA & NEUROPTERA. Bugnion, E. Observations rel- atives a 1'industrie des termites, 86, Ixxix, 129-144. Calvert, P. P. Zoological researches in Costa Rica. Old Penn. Weekly re- view of the University of Pennsylvania, Vol. ix, pp. 165-170. Dampf, A. Mesopsylla eructa n. g. n. sp., ein neuer Floh von der Spring- maus nebst Beitragen zur Kenntnis der gattung Palaeopsylla, 89, Suppl. 12, 609-664. Fahrenholz, H. Neue Lause. (II Die Larven von Pediculus capitis, 299 D, 1st Jahrb., 57-75, 1910. Frieden- thal, H. Haarparasiten und Haarkrankheiten des Menschen, 218, viii, 156-163. Muttkowski, R. A. New records of Wisconsin Dragonflies, 123, viii, 53-59. Tillyard, R. J. Studies in the life- histories of Australian Odonata, 128, xxxiv, 697-708, 1909. ORTHOPTERA. Schleip, W. Der Farbenwechsel von Dixip- pus morosus, 89, xxx, 45-132. Walker, E. M. The Orthoptera of Western Canada, 4,, xlii, 333-340, 351-356 (*). HEMIPTERA. Cockerell, T. D. A. A new Aleyrodes on Am- 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll brosia, 4, xlii, 370-371 (*). Herrick, G. W. Tragionia celtis n. sp. 4, xlii, 373-374. Pierantoni, U. Ueber den Ursprung und die Struktur des eiformigen Korpers von Dactylopius citri und des grunen Korpers von Aphis brassicae, 40, xxv, 61-62. Poppius, B. Neue Ceratocombiden, 298, Hi, No. 1, 1-14 (*). LEPIDOPTERA. Barnes & McDunnough. A new Thecla from Texas, 4, xlii, 365-366 (*). Coolidge, K. R. Notes on the genus Thecla, 4, xlii, 374-375. Cosens, A. Lepidopterous galls on species of Solidago, 4, xlii, 371-372. Dampf, A. Zur Kenntnis gehausetragender Lepidopterenlarven, 89, Suppl. 12, 512-608. Forbes, W. T. M. Larva of Ptochoryctis tsugensis, 4, xlii, 364. Frohawk,, F. W. The number of larval stages of Lycaena acis, 9, xliii, 305-306. Gibson, A. A list of butterflies taken at Toronto Ontario, 300, 1910, No. 6, 35-44. Kutschera, G. Die Larchentrieb- motte, 218, viii, 163-165. Mitterberger, K. Zur Kenntnis der ersten Stande von Cacoecia histrionama, 92 ( , vi, 353-354. Pierce, F. N. Value of genitalia, 9, xliii, 304. Prout, L. B. New Neotropical Geometriedae (continued), 11, vi, 232-247, 316-333, 432-440, 508-526. Reiff, W. Ueber das Zirpen der Raupen, 123, vii, 109-110. Richter, V. K. Beschreibung der Eier von Pieris rapae, Agrotis forcipula, und Mamestra reticulata, 92, vi, 352-353. Rowland-Brown, H. A note on the new classification of certain Hesperid butterflies, 9, xliii, 306-309. Russell, H. M. The pecan cigar case-bearer (Cole- ophora caryaefoliella), 7,, Bull. No. 64, pt. x. Smith, J. B. New species of Noctuidae for 1910, No. 2, 2, xxxvi, 251-266. Thierry- Mieg, P. Descriptions de lepidopteres nouveaux, 35, liv, 384-390. Descriptions de lepidopteres nouveaux, 55, xxxii, 235, 247-248. Wol- ley Dod, F. H. A new Autographa from the Alberta rockies, 4, xlii, 349-350 (*). DIPTERA. Brues, C. T. Some further remarks on the sys- tematic affinities of the Phoridae, with descriptions of new species, 123, vii, 102-108 (*). Coquillett, D. W. .Corrections to my paper on the type-species of the No. American genera of Diptera, 4, xlii, 375-378. Graenicher, S. A preliminary list of the flies of Wisconsin belonging to the families Bombyliidae, Syrphidae and Conopidae, 123, viii, 32-44. Reeves, C. D. A remedy for the Black- fly pest in certain streams of the southern peninsula of Michigan, 142, xii, 77-78. Speiser, P. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Dipteren- Gruppe Heleinae, 89, Suppl. 12, 735-754. COLEOPTERA. Blatchley, W. S. The Coleoptera or beetles of Indiana, 297, i, 1386 pp. (*). Bowe, M. Beetles and how to col- lect them (popular account), 181, iii, 289-293. Buhk, F. Stridu- lationsapparat bei Spercheus emarginatus, 92, vi, 342-346. Gebien, Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 45 H. Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 22: Tenebrionidae II, 167-354. Holste, G. Das Nervensystem von Dytiscus marginalis, Ein Beit- rag zur Morphologic des Insektenkorpers, 97, xcvi, 419-476. Kolbe, H. Ueber die Phileurinen Amerikas, 35, liv, 330-354 (*). Lameere, A. Revision des Prionides (cont.), 35, liv, 368-383. McDermott, F. A. A note on the light-emission of some American Lampyridae, 4, xlii, 357-363. Moser, J. Beitrag zur kenntnis der Cetoniden, 35, liv, 355-367. Netolitzky, F. Bemerkungen zur Systematik in der Gattung Bembidion Latr., 38, xxix, 209-228. Wolcott, A. B. The Cleridae of the public museum of the city of Milwaukee, 123, vii, 93-102 (*). Xambeu, C. Moeurs & metamorphoses des especes du genre Rhizotrogus, 55, xxxii, 233-235. HYMENOPTERA. Brues, C. T. Notes and descriptions of N. A. parasitic Hymenoptera VIII, 123, viii, 45-52 (*). A prelim- inary list of the Proctotrypoid Hymenoptera of Washington with descriptions of new species, 123, vii, 111-122 (*). Butterfield, E. P. Bees killed by wasps (note), 47, xiv, 396. Cockerell, T. D. A. Some insects from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, II., 4, xlii, 366-370 (*). Ferton, C. Notes detachees sur 1'instinct des hymenopteres melliferes, 86, Ixxix, 145-178. Lovell, J. H. The color sense of the honey-bee: can bees distinguish colors? 3, xliv, 673-692. Managan, J. Some remarks on the parasites of the large larch sawfly Nematus erichsonii, 186, v, 92-94. O'Brien, R. A. Remarks on the habits of the Green Tree-Ant of Australia (note), 14, 1910, 669-670. Schrottky, C. Neue sudamerikanische Arten der Bienengattung Anthidium, 38, xxix, 267-271. Turner, C. H. Experiments on color- vision of the honey bee, 198, xix, 257-279. INSECTS AND DISEASE: A popular account of the way in which insects may spread or cause some of our common diseases, with many original illustrations from photographs, by R. W. Doane, A. B., Assistant Pro- fessor of Entomology Leland Stanford Junior University. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1910. Price $1.50, net; by mail $1.62. The wonderful growth of the study of insect-carried disease has necessi- tated a book of this character. While the literature of the subject is very large it is scattered through many publications in this country and abroad and not very accessible to the lay student. This work epit- omizes the subject in a clear manner and affords the interested reader a general knowledge of this important subject. The illustrations are numerous and well chosen and there is a selected bibliography append- ed. It is not so many years ago when the writer of this notice made the remark that house-flies carry typhoid fever, to one of the now prominent students of the subject, who said he did not believe such a 46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'iT thing possible. The same thing happened in regard to malaria. The subject of the insect transmission of disease is not a new subject, but its great importance has only been realized in the last ten years. The time is rapidly approaching, when the necessity will arise for books on this important subject relating to one insect, for instance, the house- fly. We are glad to see the present work as we believe it will occupy a useful place. H. S. THE COLEOPTERA OR BEETLES OE INDIANA, BY W. S. BLATCHLEY. This work is characterized by the author as an illustrated descriptive catalogue of the beetles of his State, exclusive of the Rhynchophora. It represents an enormous amount of labor, which, however, seems fully justified by the results. Its chief importance lies in the fact that it is the only American work yet published which will serve to give, within a single volume, really efficient aid in identifying the Coleopter- ous fauna of a large district. It is a difficult matter to get a publisher for so extensive a treatise unless it deals with a subject much more popular than this one. Mr. Blatchley has followed, in the main, the "Classification" of Le Conte and Horn, relying for specific keys chiefly upon the papers of monographers whose works are cited in the proper places. The result, therefore, is a very orthodox production in which the beginner will find little in conflict with views already published. Following the keys, more extended descriptions of each species are given, with notes upon rarity, modes of occurrence and dates. The whole forms a book of nearly 1400 pages illustrated by 590 figures. In it are treated 3312 species. 2512 of which are known to occur in Indiana and 79 are now described as new to science. The typography is good, so are the figures which are largely original and will be a most welcome addition to the stock available for future writers. The book is just what has been needed by students of this order in the central States, and will certainly be much sought after by public and private libraries. It is handled by the Nature Publishing Co., of Indianapolis, although it was brought out by Mr. Blatchley as Bulletin I of the Indiana Department of Zooloey and Natural Re- sources, in his capacity of State Geologist. H. F. WICKHAM. Doings of Societies. ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. Meeting of November 17, 1910. Mr. H. W. Wenzel, Vice- Director, presided. Ten persons were present. Mr. Rehn made some remarks on the trip made by Mr. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 47 Morgan Hebard and himself during the past summer in, search of Orthoptera. Portions of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas were visited and extensive collections made. The object of the expedition was to extend the reconnaissance work done in previous years by the same individuals, paying particular attention to certain previously unstudied or poorly studied regions such as the Snake River desert, Idaho ; eastern Oregon ; Mt. Hood, Oregon ; the Walker Lake region, Nevada; Ventura Mts., California; the Gila desert, Arizona, and the Baboquivari Mountains and surrounding valleys, Ari- zona. The returns exceeded the great expectations and hun- dreds of field notes were made, bearing on the distribution and plant relation of many species. A number of new species are known to be included in the collection. Numerous photographs illustrating the types of country visited were exhibited. Mr. H. S. Harbeck was elected an Associate of the Section. HENRY SKINNER, M.D., Recorder. FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. A regular meeting was held October iQth, 1910, at 1523 S. 1 3th Street, Philadelphia. Thirteen members were present; Messrs. Dickerson, of New Brunswick, N. J., and Viereck and Crawford, of Washington, D. C., visitors. President Harbeck in the chair. Dr. Skinner said he had noticed the scarcity of insects, even of the common species, on his recent trip to Europe. He de- scribed the various collections in the British Museum and gave an account of the meetings of the World's Entomological Congress in Brussels. Mr. Dickerson said the Catalpa sphinx seems to be traveling in a northeasterly direction in Ne\v Jersey, he having seen specimens from Springfield. He described the parasites' at- tack on the larvae. Mr. Daecke exhibited a male Dytiscus harrisi Kirby (Col.) collected at Highspire, Pa., June 17, 1910, by W. R. Fischer, which seems to be the only Pennsylvania record ; also two 48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., 'll specimens of Calobata geoinetra Desv. (Dip.) collected by him- self at Eberlys Mill, Pa., July 12, 1910, and July 14, 1910. This latter species was first turned up in Pennsylvania by Mr. Champlain, It is a Texas species and is gradually working its way north. Mr. Daecke also said he was in the vicinity of the place where he had found Lema se.vpunctata Oliv. (Col.) on the Virginia day flower last year, and upon examining them found the same species this year. Mr. Laurent described a yard in Wildwood Crest which con- tains several flower beds and covers about half an acre. He said that on October 6th, this year, this bed contained about 5000 specimens of Danais pie. rip pus Linn. (Lep.) evidently gathering to migrate, because when he visited the same place next day none were to be found. There then followed a general discussion by all present on the common house fly. Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited and recorded the following Dip- tcra collected by himself: Phortica alboguttata Wahlberg, from Lehigh Gap, July 12, 1906, a European species which Osten Sacken's Catalog says occurs in N. A. on authority of "Loew in litt" ; Phorantha calyptrata Coq. Castle Rock, Pa., September 26, 1909, listed from District of Columbia, Virgin- ia and Kentucky; Alophora nitida Coq., Pemberton, N. J., July ii, 1909, listed from Potomac Creek, Virginia and Can- ada. Dr. Skinner said he had been elected president of the sec- tion on Nomenclature at the Entomological Congress, in which all the discussions were in English, German, French and Span- ish. He said it was the practice in many parts of Europe to label all the specimens which are under the eye at the time of description "type," but after much argument, pro and con, it was finally decided upon that a rule be passed to have only a single type. Adjourned to the annex. GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. ERRATA IN VOLUME XXI. Page 467, line six from the bottom, for foeresteri read foerstcri. Page 469, for Pterygophorns civetus read P. cinctus. Page 470, seventh line from bottom, for discordal read discoidal. SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR VOLUME III OF THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY Official Organ of the Association of Economic Entomologists Editor, E. Porter Felt. Albany, N. Y., State Entomologist, New York. Associate Editor, W. E. Britten, New Haven, Conn., State Entomologist, Conn. Business Manager, E. Dwight Sanderson, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va. ADVISORY BOARD. L. O. Howard, Chief, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept Agr. S. A. Forbes. State Entomologist, Illinois. C P. 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No. 2. CONTENTS: Calvert Studies on Costa Rican Odo- nata 49 Fall The Tenth Pleocoma (Col.) 64 Beutenmuller Descriptions of New Species of Cynipidae ( Hym.) 67 Nunenmacher Studies Amongst the Coccinellidae, No 2 (Col.) 71 Kellogg and Paine Mallophaga from Californian Birds 75 79 Pollard A Remarkable Dragonfly .... Cockerell A new Chalcidid from an Oak Gall (Hym.) 82 Editorial 83 Notes and News 84 Entomological Literature 87 Doings of Societies 94 Studies on Costa Rican Odonata. I The Larva of Cora. By PHILIP P. CALVERT, PH. D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. (With Plates II and III) In the course of our entomological researches in Costa Rica, a brief outline of which has already appeared in ENTOMOLOG- ICAL NEWS,* I collected some Odonate larvae of a form hith- erto undescribed and which, it now appears, are certainly of the genus Cora. One of these was found at Peralta, Costa Rica, March 24, 1910, in a shallow brook in the woods west of the railroad station, clinging to a submerged stone. The altitude was about 335 meters, or iioo feet. This larva died a few days later and was preserved in alcohol. A second is recorded in our diary, from Juan Vinas, April 27, 1910, as follows: "About half a mile farther [westward from the farther waterfall along the railroad from Juan Vinas station] is a third fall, or rather cascade, reached by a little trail through a bit of exceedingly thick damp woods full of wild ginger [Costus sp., Costa Rican name canagria], heliconias, * Vol. XXI, pp. 334-337, July, 1910. 49 50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll ferns and caladiums. The stream is extremely pretty and ought to be a favorite haunt of many forest-loving species, but the day was very dark with intervals of rain and we saw no adult dragonflies. After long hunting among the fallen leaves and stones of the brook, P. found a larva with extra gills along the sides of the abdomen. This we suspect may be the larva of Cora, a point still to be determined however." The diary for April 29, 1910, also at Juan Vinas, reads: "To-day was exceedingly dark and at times with very thick mist, altho' there was no heavy rain. While A. wrote in the morning, P. collected some food for some living dragon-larvae gathered here. While so doing he found another and some- what larger larva of the sort which we suspect to belong to the genus Cora. It is remarkable in having attached to each side of some of the forward abdominal segments a finger-like gill, a peculiarity possessed by no other American dragon-larva as far as known. Our chief interest in larva-raising now centres on these two individuals." Still at Juan Vinas, the diary of May 2, 1910, records: "With a lunch, rubber poncho and umbrella, the latter two for investigating the farther waterfall, I set out for that spot, examining the ditch along the [railroad] tracks which carries the water from this fall. In going and coming, I found in all three of the supposed Cora larvae in this outflow. Those found last week lacked the caudal gills which, altho' forming part of the proper' equipment of a whole suborder of dragonfly larvae, seem to be of indifferent use and value, for many larvae lose them by accident or by the bite of a brother or an enemy and yet pass their larval existence as tranquilly and accomplish their transformations as successfully as their brethren. * * * The three larvae found to-day have their caudal, as well as their lateral, abdominal gills, which latter have already been briefly mentioned. The three caudal gills are very odd-looking. They appear as if cut off straight across the tip, instead of tapering as usual, the straight edge [i c. tip] then scalloped into three points. Each gill is much inflated and, as the gills Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 51 are each [a fifth] as long as the short 'pudgy' body, the effect is to give the larva the appearance of 'tail-heavy.' When first taken into the hand these three larvae remained motionless, 'playing 'possum' as it were for a minute or two, and then took to their legs with some speed. In spite of their double equipment of gills, the Cora (?) larvae found do not frequent a different abiding place from less richly 'engilled' dragons, their fellow inhabitants being larvae of Hetaerina, Argia and common types of Libellulinae." The ditch in which these larvae were found was at this time one to two feet wide and rarely as much as eight inches deep ; it contained many small stones on the under sides of which the larvae were found. The waterfall, whose outflow it was, was perhaps thirty feet high and was in turn fed by a stream descending in occasional cascades through forest from a height of several hundred feet higher. We took or saw images of Cora chirripa at this waterfall in different months, at previous visits, and on April 30 and May 2, 1910. The altitude at which all the Cora larvae from Juan Vinas were found was about 1000 meters, or 3300 feet. On April 30, 1910, Mrs. Calvert went from Juan Yinas to our headquarters at Cartago, taking with her the Cora larvae of April 27 and 29, and placed them in our rearing jars. I followed on May 4 with the three larvae of May 2. At 6:50 P. M. of the same day occurred the great earthquake which destroyed Cartago. Its effect upon our larvae in rearing has been briefly described in the NEWS as quoted, but by the great- est good fortune the bottle containing the Cora larvae of May 2 was the single one of all our living Odonata that rolled out and escaped destruction from the fallen wall. Two of the larvae were alive and were carried in safety to our steamship at Port Limon. A second died May 7, and the third, with a supply of mosquito eggs to furnish food, started with us on the voyage to New York, but expired on May 14, three days be- fore we landed. Each larva, as soon as its death was discov- ered, was placed in alcohol, but evidently was not in a condition for histological study. This fact must be remembered in judg- 52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll ing of the shrunken condition of some parts, e. g. the tissues represented in figs. 20 and 25. There thus have been available for the present description four larvae which may be designated as follows : No. I. $. Peralta as above, total length including antennae and caudal gills 16.5 mm.; length of body excluding the parts named 11.5 mm. No. 2. $ . Juan Vinas, May 2, in fragments. No. 3. $. Juan Vifias, May 2, measurements as above, 20.5 and 17 mm. respectively. No. 4. 9 . Juan Vinas, May 2, measurements the same as those of No. 3. No. 3 has furnished dissections of internal organs. Nos. i and 4 have been kept almost intact. DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVAE. Head deeply concave posteriorly (Plate III, fig. 21) for reception of the prothorax. Compound eyes and ocelli distinct. Six pale yellow- ish spots indistinctly visible on the upper surface of the head, two in front of the median ocellus, one anterior to and one posterior to each lateral ocellus ; some of these spots wanting in some specimens. Antennae 7-jointed, but the last joint only visible under the com- pound microscope (PI. II, fig. 10) ; ratios of the lengths of the joints, in a detached antenna under a cover-glass. 21, 26, 17, n, g, 5.5, 3; joints i to 6 successively decreasing in thickness; joints i and 2 clothed with a dense pile, which is longest in larva No. i, and consists of flat- tened scales as shown in fig. 5. A similar pile is found on many other parts of the body, such as the anterior margin of the nasus, the lateral margins of the head posterior to the middle of the compound eyes, margins and ridges of the thoracic and abdominal segments, of legs and of wing-pads, a transverse ante-apical line on abdominal segments i-io for the entire width of the dorsum, much of the surfaces of the caudal gills, etc. This pile is longer and more conspicuous on larva No. i than on the other three. Joints 3-7 of the antennae have a decreasingly smaller amount of pile. Mandibles stout two-branched, external branch larger, its apex with five teeth, first two teeth, counting from the dorsal margin, less distinct from each other than are the other three, fourth tooth longest. In- ternal branch in larvae Nos. i, 3 and 4 larger on the left mandible than on the right mandible (right mandible lacking in larva No. 2) and on the left mandible its apex is truncated and with seven teeth or crena- tions, dorsal-most largest (Plate II, fig. 16). On the right mandible the apex of the internal branch is pointed and has only two teeth. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 53 Maxillae with the inner lobe attenuate at tip, which bears three short internal teeth, and three long, slender, curved, internal processes and a row of strong setae. (PL III, figs. 29, 31). Lubiitm, when fold- ed at rest, reaching back to the bases of the prothoracic legs but not as far as the hind ventral prothoracic margin ; median (mental) lobe but very slightly produced distad in the middle and with a very slight median cleft, distal margin crenulate with a very short seta between each crenulation and its neighbor; just within the crenulations a short distance on each side of the median cleft is a small pointed tooth (fig. 28, /*) on the dorsal surface; mental setae few (2-4 on each side of the median line both on dorsal and ventral surfaces) and short; lateral lobes with a long curved tapering terminal spine and three distal teeth of which the most internal (mesial) is shortest and is truncate while the other two are pointed. (PI. Ill, figs. 27, 28, 30). Prothorax with three lateral tubercles, a dorso-lateral (a) which is dorsal to an antero-lateral (b) and, posterior to (b), a postero-later- al (c). On the mesothorax the place of a of the prothorax is occupied by the spiracle, b is present while c is represented by a double tubercle. None of these tubercles are represented on the metathorax which has an indistinct spiracle on its lateral surface (PI. II, 14, msp). Front wing pads reach to the hind end of abdominal segment 6 in larva No. I, to the hind end of segment 4 in larvae Xos. 3 and 4. Hind wing-pads reach almost to the mid-length of segment 7 in larva No. i, to mid-length of segment 5 in Nos. 3 and 4. (In PI. II, fig. 14, the wing-pads have been divaricated and are not in exactly normal positions, hence the difference between the preceding sentence and the figure). Legs not of a burrow- ing type, tarsi 3-jointed with an empodium-like structure (PI. II, figs. 6. 12). Abdomen triangular in cross-section, of ten complete segments, which decrease slightly in width from I to 8; 9 and 10 distinctly narrow- er owing to their lateral margins not being produced laterad as far as on the segments preceding (PI. II, fig. 15). A curved, caudad-directed, mid-dorsal hook on segments 2-9 (larva No. i) or 1-9 (larvae Nos. 3 and 4), hooks increasing in length from segment i or 2 to segment 7 or 8, that of 9 slightly shorter than that of 8. (PI. II, fig. 14). Hind dorsal margin of segment 10 with a wide median notch whose depth is half, or less than half, the length of the segment. (PI. II, fig. 8). Segments 2-7 each with a pair of tapering, finger-like ventral gills. Rudiments of $ genitalia on the ventral side of segment 2 indistinct in larva No. i ; in larva No. 3 they consist of two distinct black lines reaching from the intersegmental groove of 1-2 to behind the hind end of the sternite of 2. Rudiments of $ gonapophyses are present on segment 9 of larvae Nos. I and 3 (PI. II, fig. 18). Rudiments of $ gonapophyses are shown in PI. II, figs. 7, 8, 14, 15. 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll The three caudal gills together are much wider than the abdomen at its widest part. Each one is petiolate at base and much enlarged in all diameters beyond the petiole. Median gill approximately equal in length to that of segments 8+9+10, much enlarged dorso-ventrally and less so laterally immediately after the petiole, thence increasing in height gradually and slightly to the apex which is triangulate in profile view, the ventral angle most obtuse, the median angle most acute, the dorsal angle projecting not as far caudad as the other two. At a little less than half length from the base there is an angular protuberance on each side at about one-fourth height of the gill from the dorsal crest, so that there are in all five angular projections on this gill. Most of the chitin of this gill is brown and opaque, or at most only translucent, and is covered with scales, but on each of the two lateral faces there is an area of colorless transparent chitin occupying the ventral two-fifths of the height and about four-fifths of the length from the base caudad (PI. II, fig. 14) lacking scales. Each lateral caudal gill is somewhat longer than the median gill, roughly triangular in cross-section, one surface being convex, the other two approximately plane. These latter two are ventral and internal (mesial) respectively, the convex surface is lateral (external) and dorsal and greater in extent than either of the other two. There are four angular protuberances : one at half-length, or a little less than half-length, of the gill on the middle of the convex dorso-external sur- face; one at three-fourths of the length of the gill on the convex sur- face close to the margin of the mesial surface; one at seven-eighths of the length of the gill on the middle of the convex surface ; and one, the most obtuse, forming the apex of the gill. The convex dorso-external surface of the gill is of brown chitin and scale-covered, the ventral and mesial surfaces chiefly of colorless, transparent chitin and lacking scales, except along the margins where each meets the dorso-external sur- face respectively. (PI. II, figs. 3, 4, 9, 14, 15). Between the bases of the three caudal gills are the rudiments of the superior appendages or 'cercoids' of the imago (PI. II, figs. 7, 8, sa) and the supra-anal (spl) and sub-anal (sbl) laminae. The rudi- ments of the 'cercoids' are simple, cylindrical or conical, with rounded apices, and vary in length, in the four larvae, from about one-third to more than one-half of the length of abdominal segment 10. The sub- anal plates reach to about mid-length of the 'cercoids' ; each one is de- pressed, its apex squarely truncate but produced apparently into a short spine at its mesial angle when viewed dorsally or ventrally; this ap- parent spine is the end view of a vertical lamina. The main abdominal traclieal trunks and their branches are shown in PI. Ill, figs. 22, 20; PI. II, figs. 9, 17, 19. The ventral gills of ab- dominal segments 2-7 receive each two tracheae from two separate Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 55 branches of the main lateral trachea and the gill tracheae divide and redivide inside each gill (PI. Ill, figs. 20, 25, 26). Owing to the opacity of the chitin, the thickness of the gills and the obstacles met in clear- ing them, I have not been able to make out more than the main branches of the tracheae supplying the caudal gills (PI. II, fig. 9). The stomach is supplied from two anterior and two posterior tracheae, one anterior and one posterior on its right side and similarly on its left side. The right and left anterior gastric tracheae lie parallel and close together on the dorsal surface of the oesophagus and crop ; each is probably a derivative from the main dorsal trunk of its own side of the body, but this was not definitely ascertained. At the anterior end of the stomach each anterior gastric trachea divides into a set of (two) dorsal and a set of (four) lateral branches as shown in PI. II, figs. 13 and 17. The fourth, or ventralmost, lateral branch apparently forms an anasto- mosis with the corresponding branch of the opposite side of the stomach. The hind-gut or intestine is likewise supplied by branches from the main dorsal tracheal trunks. The trachea which passes to the ileum also furnishes the posterior gastric trachea for the same side of the stomach. The rectal epithelium appears to form three (glandular?) dorsals and two laterals. (Fig. 19, rdrt, Idrt, rlrt, llrt). After the drawings forming figures 13, 17 and 19 were made, the alimentary canal was slit open lengthwise, stained, dehydrated, cleared and mounted in balsam. No definite indications of rectal tracheal gills were found and the rectal walls appear much less richly tracheated than those of the stomach. The rectal epithelium appears to form three (glandular?) areas. The gastric epithelium was disintegrated. No food was found in the alimentary canal. The three thoracic pairs of ganglia are clearly distinct from each other. Posteriorly are seven pairs of smaller ganglia, located as fol- lows : I in metathorax, 2 in anterior part of abdominal segment 2, 3 in hind part of segment 3, 4 at the articulation of segments 4 and 5, 5 in anterior end of segment 6, 6 in anterior end of segment 7, 7 in the middle of segment 8. The nerve cord in the male larva dissected (No. 3) passed to the right of the distinct rudiments of the genitalia pro- jecting dorsad into the cavity of segments i and 2. DISCUSSION OF THE MORE INTERESTING FEATURES OF CORA LARVA. In current classifications Cora is placed in the Caloptery- ginae or Calopterygidae ( = : Agrioninae of the catalogues of Kirby, Muttkowski, etc.). Most of the Calopterygine larvae 56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll hitherto described (Cf. Karsch, 1893, pp. 42, 48; Needham, I 93^ P- 220) have the first antennal joint very long, as long as all the other, or as several of the other, joints added together. Cora larva has the first antennal joint shorter than the second and in this respect, as in others mentioned below, shows a re- semblance to the Old World larvae described by Hagen (1880, p. Ixv) as pertaining to the legion Euphaea* of de Selys, and to a Mexican fragment doubtfully referred to Cora (1. c., p. Ixvi). The scales forming a more or less dense pile on different parts of the body of Cora larvae are structures which have met little or no notice in the literature on the Odonata. They occur in shapes varying from almost hair-like to that in which the width is at least more than half the length (Cf. PL II, figs. 4, 5, n, 3 in the order named). The central and more or less arborescently-branched portion of each scale is thicker than the often hardly discernible marginal areas. Biramous mandibles hitherto have been noted only in Euphaea larvae of all the Odonata, and that very briefly (Needham, 19030, p. 743). I am not able at present to de- termine whether the two-branched condition there is the same as that here described for the larvae of Cora or not. The re- markable features of these mandibles is the possibility of inde- pendent movement of the inner branch along the dotted line shown in PL II, fig. 16, and the difference in the form of this branch in the right and left mandibles of the same individual noted above. Heymons (1896 b, taf. II, fig. 29) has figured the mandibles in a young larva of Ephemera vulgata which are also two-branched but, in contrast to the larval mandible of Cora, the inner branch is larger than the outer. The very shallow median cleft of the median lobe of the labium was hardly to be expected in larvae so apparently primitive in other features as our Cora larvae are. In this respect also it agrees with Euphaea larvae, as far as can be * The name of the type genus of this legion, Euphaea, is now re- placed by Psendophaea Kirby. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 57 judged from Hagen's description (1880, p. xlv). If Miss But- ler's theory (1904, pp. 114, 119) of the homologies of the labium be correct, then the small, pointed teeth (PI. Ill, fig. 28 /*) near the middle of the distal margin, would represent the apices of the original laciniae. The interpretation of Bor- ner (1909, p. 113) is different and is essentially that of Ger- stacker, Heymons and others. Hagen (1880, p. Ixv) noted the existence of "une plantula entre les onglets" of Euphaea larvae and remarked (p. Ixvii) "La presence d'une plantula entre les onglets est aussi un caractere unique chez les Odonates." The empodium-like structure mentioned above for Cora and shown in PI. II, fig. 12, appears to be an homologous part. The existence of tracheal gills on abdominal segments 2-7 is the most interesting feature of Cora larvae. The only Odonata previously known to possess such structures are the larvae referred to Euphaea and Anisoplcura in the very brief description of Hagen (1880). One of these larvae was figured by Folsom in Packard (1898, p. 469). Hagen stated that there were gills on abdominal segments 1-8, Folsom found them on 2-8 only. There are, therefore, one pair less in Cora larvae. Hagen compared these gills of Euphaea and Anis- opleura to those of Sialis, but makes no mention of Ephemerid larvae in this connection. Heymons (1896 a, pp. 88-90) com- pared the abdominal gills of Ephemerid and Sialis larvae, re- garded them in both cases as derived from abdominal ap- pendages and noted the agreement in the pointed form of the gills of the early larval stages of both groups. The gills of the second to seventh abdominal segments of Cora larva fur- nish an addition to this parallel. That the lateral gills of Ephemerid larvae are homologous with the thoracic legs is not universally accepted, however. Diirken (1907, 1909) and Borner (19090) are the latest representatives of the two views which look upon the Ephemerid lateral gills as dorsal and not homologous with legs and as ventral and homologous, respec- tively. We may not compare the lateral gills of Euphaea, 58 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Am&opleura and Cora larvae with those of the Ephemerid larvae until much fuller data are at hand regarding the de- tailed structure, position, musculature and tracheation of each. The present study of Cora larvae supplies much fuller informa- tion than exists for either of the other two Odonate genera mentioned. The markedly ventral position of the gills in question in Cora is in itself some evidence against homolo- gizing these structures with those of the Ephemeridae and in favor of their own serial homology with thoracic legs. No traces of these gills are present on the exterior of the abdo- men of images of Cora preserved in alcohol immediately after capture. The caudal tracheal gills of Cora larvae are very different in shape from the similarly situated gills of all other Odonate larvae yet described, including those of Euphaca (cf. Folsom's figure, /. c.) and Aniso pleura, of which latter I possess a pho- tograph from Hagen's specimen, taken and given to me by Prof. J. G. Needham. In both of these latter two genera the caudal gills taper posteriorly to an acute apex. As related in the opening pages of this paper, the attempt to rear these larvae to transformation was unsuccessful. That they are the larvae of Cora and, so far as the Juan Vinas specimens at least are concerned, the larvae of Cora chirripa Calvert (1907, p. 348) is rendered practically certain from a comparison of the wing-rudiments of larva No. 4 with those of an imago of this species taken at the same ditch April 30, 1910. The left hind wing-pad of larva No. 4 was slit open, the wing rudiment removed from within and examined in alcohol under the compound microscope. The inner and outer surfaces of the rudiment gave the views represented in PI. Ill, figs. 23 and 24 respectively. The veins shown in these figures are bands of reddish-brown pigment granules in the rudiment itself. The left hind wing of the imago mentioned was com- pared with camera drawings of the two surfaces of the wing- rudiment of the larva. At first the identification of the larval wing veins proceeded slowly until it occurred to me that per- Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 59 haps the two surfaces of the wing rudiment might present only convex and concave veins respectively. Turning then to the imaginal wing the following lists were made proceeding in every case from the anterior toward the posterior wing margin. Convex veins: proximal half of the wing, C, Ri, Rs, M/}., A and Cu2; distal half, C, Ri, Mia, two supplementary sectors, Rs, three supplementary sectors, M/|., Cu2a, Cu2b. Concave veins: proximal half of wing, Sc, Mi, M3, Cui ; distal half. Mi, two supplementary sectors, M2, one supple- mentary sector, M3, two supplementary sectors, Cui, one sup- plementary sector between Cu2a and Cu2b. As is well known the inner surface of the wing-pad and wing-rudiment of an Odonate larva corresponds to the upper surface of the imaginal wing, and the outer surface in the larva to the under surface in the imago. On comparing the list of convex veins with the drawing of the inner surface of the wing-rudiment and the list of concave veins with that of the outer surface of the wing-rudiment, it was seen that a close correspondence existed with these exceptions : that C (costa) showed on both surfaces, as also did a thickening all along the posterior margin and to greater or less extents Sc (sub-costa), Ri (first branch of radius), Mi (first branch of media), A (anal), Cu2b and the supplementary sector between Cu2a and Ci\2b. The wing-rudiment was then cleared in cedar oil and examined in strong transmitted sunlight, when the vein-rudiments of both inner and outer surfaces could be seen from either surface by proper focussing, whereas before clear- ing only those of the surface turned up toward the lens could be discerned. All the vein-rudiments now appeared in their proper sequence giving the alternation of convex and concave veins so easily seen in an imaginal wing. Careful focussing also revealed the fact that at this stage the veins are developed only upon one surface of the wing-rudiment, either inner or outer, except in the case of the costa and of the thickening along the hind margin. The other exceptions noted above are all veins near the margins where the wing-rudiment is thinner 60 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll and where they can be seen through it. Even in these ex- ceptions the veins appear fainter and narrower on one sur- face than the other and are stronger and wider on their proper surface, e. g. Sc and Mi, concave veins, on the outer surface; Ri, A and Cu2b, convex veins, on the inner surface. Another fact shown by these comparisons and the figures is that the cross-veins only appear continuous from one longi- tudinal vein to another when the two longitudinal veins so connected are two, one of which immediately follows the other in the imaginal wing. (Cf. the cross-veins between Ri and Mi and between Mi and M2 in PI. Ill, fig. 24.) It would thus appear that each longitudinal vein develops on one surface of the wing-rudiment before it appears on the other surface. Before transformation is reached each vein has formed on both surfaces of the future wing but not neces- sarily equally on both surfaces, as may be seen from Hagen's figures (1889) from photographs of wings split into their two laminae immediately after transformation and expansion. These facts of the development of the veins on one surface of the wing-rudiment before the other have a practical value in identifying Odonate larvae by this method and do not seem to be included in Prof. Needham's (1904, p. 687) suggestions on this point. In the larva of Cora there exist the following generalized features : antennae with no hypertrophied joint, biramous man- dibles, paired ventral tracheal gills (if they be morphologically equivalent to legs), and perhaps the empodium-like part, side by side with specialized features in the form of cuticular scales, almost completely fused halves of the labium and thick- ened, shortened caudal gills. If to these generalized parts of the larva we add the generalized features of the imaginal venation pointed out or implied by Prof. Needham (19030, pp. 731, 746), we have good grounds for looking on Cora and its allies as being in many respects the most primitive of living Odonata. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 6l AUTHORS QUOTED. BORNER, C. 1909 a. Die Tracheenkiemen der Ephemeriden, Zool. Anzeig. XXXIII, Nr. 24-25. Jan. 5. IBID. 1909 b. Neue Homologien zwischen Crustaccen vnd Hexa- poden. Die Beissmandibel der Insekten und ihre phylogenetische Be- deutung. Archi- und Metapterygota. Zool. Anzeig. XXXIV, Nr. 3-4. Mar. 2. BUTLER, H. 1904. The labium of the Odonata. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. XXX. CALVERT, P. P. 1901-1909. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Neuron- tera : Odonata. DiiRKEN, B. 1907. Die Tracheenkiemenmuskulatur der Ephemeri- den unter Beriicksichtigung der Morphologic des Insektenfliigels. Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. LXXXVII. IBID. 1909. Zur Frage nach der Morphologic der Kiemen der Ephemeriden-Larven. Zool. Anzeig. XXXIV. June 29. HAGEN, H. 1880. Essai d'un Synopsis des Larves de Calopter- ygines. Comp. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. ler Mai. IBID. 1889. Spaltung eines Fliigels urn das doppelte Adernetz zu zeigen. Zool. Anzeig. Nr. 312. HEYMONS, R. 1896 a. Ueber die Lebensweise und Entwicklung von Ephemera vulgata. Sitzungsber. Gesell. naturforsch. Freunde Ber- lin. IBID. 1896 b. Grundziige der Entwickelung und des Korperbaues von Odonaten und Ephemeriden. Anhang Abhdl. Konigl. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. KARSCH, F. 1893. Die Insekten der Berglandschaft Adeli im Hinter- lande von Togo (Westafrika). Berlin. Ent. Zeit. XXXVIII. NEEDHAM, J. G. 1903 a. A Genealogic Study of Dragon-fly Wing Venation. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVI. IBID. 1903 b. Life Histories of Odonata, suborder Zygoptcn. N. York State Museum, Bulletin 68. IBID 1904. New Dragon-fly nymphs in the United States National Museum. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVII. PACKARD, A. S. 1898. A Text-book of Entomology, New York. The Macmillan Co. EXPLANATION OF PLATES II AND III. Larva of Cora. Fig. i. Left latero-ventral view of larva No. 4 9. Fig. 2. Dorsal view of larva No. 3 $ . Right caudal gill lacking. Figs, i and 2 from photographs of alcoholic specimens. X 2.6. 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Fig. 3. Small fragment of surface of left caudal trachea! gill, larva No. 3, showing two scales and four articular pits for others. X 2IO. Fig. 4. Scale from same gill as fig. 3. X 210. Fig. 5. Scale from first antennal joint shown in fig. 10. X 210. Fig. 6. First left tibia and tarsus of larva No. 4. X 8.5. Fig. 7. End view, hind end of abdomen of larva No. 2 $, caudal gills removed. X 8.5. Fig. 8. Dorsal view, hind end of abdomen of larva No. 2 $ , caudal gills removed. X 8.5. Fig. 9. Left caudal gill, ventro-mesial view, combined from draw- ings from larvae Nos. i, 2, 3, to show tracheation. The dotted line in- dicates the boundary between a central, clearer, unsealed area and an opaque, scaled margin. X 5.8. Fig. 10. Right antenna, dorsal view, larva No. 3, $ . X 16.5. Fig. ii. Scale from tibia or tarsus of fig. 6. X 210. Fig. 12. Ventral surface of distal end of tarsus. X 8.5. Fig. 13. Dorsal view of branches of left anterior gastric trachea shown in fig. 17. X about 12.5. Fig. 14. Right lateral view of metathorax and abdomen of larva No. 4, $ . X 5-5- Fig. 15. Ventral view of same. X 5.5. Fig. 16. Left mandible, mesial surface, larva No. 2, $ . X 21. The dotted line shows the line of flexure of the internal branch. Fig. 17. Left side of stomach to show tracheation, larva No. 3, <5 . X about 12.5. Fig. 18. Ninth abdominal segment to show gonapophyses, larva No. 3, $ X 5.5. Fig. 19. Left latero-dorsal view of intestine to show tracheal sup- ply, larva No. 3, $ ; Malpighian tubules omitted. X about 12.5. Fig. 20. Right gill of fifth abdominal segment, larva No. 3, $ . The gill has been left untouched, the viscera of the segment removed with the exception of the tracheae supplying the gill. To the left of chr a portion of the chitinous ventral wall of the segment is shown, to the right of chr is a portion of the tergite which has been turned out- ward (laterad) to show the structures within the segment. The por- tions of the two main tracheal trunks rdt and rlt have been turned outward to give a clearer view of the branches to the gill. Compare with the fifth abdominal segment in fig. 22. X about 23. Fig. 21. Dorsal view of head, larva No. 4, 9. The dotted lines show the outlines of pale marks. X 7.8. Fig. 22. Dorsal view of chief thoracic and abdominal viscera, larva No. 3, $ . The body has been opened along the mid-dorsal line. The ganglion has been omitted from second abdominal segment, the Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 63 wing-pads from left side, the dorsal longitudinal abdominal muscles from the right; not all of these muscles (dim} are shown even on the left side. X 7.8. Fig. 23. Inner surface of left hind wing-rudiment ( = : upper sur- face of imaginal wing) with the outline of its enveloping wing-pad, wp, larva No. 4, $ . X 12.4. Fig. 24. Outer surface of the same (= : under surface of imaginal wing). X 12.4. Fig. 25. Transverse section of right gill of sixth abdominal seg- ment of larva No. 3, $ . X 55.5. Fig. 26. Transverse section of chief tracheal trunk of same gill in section immediately following that shown in fig. 25. X 55.5. Fig. 27. Distal end of lateral lobe from fig. 30. X 28. Fig. 28. Inner (dorsal) surface of distal end of median lobe from fig. 30. X 28. Fig. 29. Distal end of left maxilla from fig. 31. X 25. Fig. 30. Ventral (outer) surface of labium, larva No. 2, $ . X 8. Fig. 31. Left maxilla and hypopharynx, ventral view, larva No. 2, 9. X 13. Abbreviations Used in the Plates. A, Anal vein (= proximal part of second sector of triangle of Selys). clir, Chitinous ridge forming lateral margin of an abdominal segment. GUI, Cu2, First and second branches of cubitus vein (= first and distal part of second sectors of triangle of de Selys). d, di, d2, Dorsal branches of lagt. dim, Dorsal longitudinal muscles. gm, Gill muscle fibres. gp, Gonapophyses. gt, Gill trachea. im, Interarticular membrane between first antennal joint and head. IX, Ninth abdominal segment. /, /I-/4, Lateral branches of lagt. lagt. Left anterior gastric trachea. / t -. Point of attachment of left caudal gill. Idt, Left dorsal trachea. Idrt, Left dorsal rectal trachea. ///, Left lateral trachea. //;/, Left lateral rectal trachea. Ipgt, Left posterior gastric trachea. Mi, M2, MS, A/4, Branches of media vein ( == principal, nodal, median and short sectors of de Selys respectively). Mia, Branch of Ml ( = ultra-nodal sector of de Selys). meg, Median caudal gill. 64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll mg, Metathoracic (+ first abdominal?) ganglion. msp, Metathoracic spiracle. wit, Malpighian tubes. oc, Oesophagus. Ri, First branch of radius vein (= median vein of de Selys). 1-4, Fourth lateral branch of right anterior gastric trachea. rcg, Point of attachment of right caudal gill. rcgt, Right caudal gill trachea. rdrt, Right dorsal rectal trachea. rdt, Right dorsal trachea. rlrt. Right lateral rectal trachea. rlt, Right lateral trachea. Ks, Radial sector (= sub-nodal sector of de Selys). so, Superior appendages of imago ('Cercoids'). Sc, Subcosta vein. sbl, Sub-anal lamina. sp, Site of future spiracle. spl, Supra-anal lamina. tab. Tendon of abductor mandibulae. tad, Tendon of adductor mandibulae. ts, Testes. t*, Tooth on median labial lobe. u, Undetermined tube. rd, Vas deferens (beginning of). wm, Wing muscle. wp, Outline of wing-pad. X, Tenth abdominal segment. The Tenth Pleocoma (Col.). BY H. F. FALL. On the 1 2th of last October, Mr. Chas. Camp, a student in the Pasadena High School, while repairing a trail in a small canon in the mountains near Sierra Madre, cut into a large beetle a few inches below the surface, the remains of which he brought to me for identification. The specimen proved to be a female Pleocoma; a most in- teresting discovery, inasmuch as no representative of the genus had ever been found in this vicinity. One hundred and fifty miles north, along the South Fork of the Kaweah River ENT. NEWS, VOL. XXII. Plate III. LARVA OF CORA (ODONATA) CALVERT. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 65 is the home of P. hoppingi; from the Cuyamaca Mts., one hun- dred miles south came the unique type of P. puncticollis, and in the Santa Monica Mts., near the coast, and not more than thirty miles distant a single wing cover of a Pleocoma has been picked up, showing the presence of the genus in that somewhat isolated range. The Sierra Madre Mts. ought then by good rights to harbor a species of this remarkable genus, but the obscure habits, and the ephemeral existence of the perfect insects has enabled them to escape detection up to this time. In the absence of the male it was not possible to identify Mr. Camp's specimen with certainty, and he was urged to keep a sharp lookout for males during or immediately follow- ing the next rain. This was done, and on the I5th of Novem- ber during a drizzling rain nineteen males were taken in about an hour at the same spot in an area not more than one hun- dred feet across. The beetles flew slowly and apparently aim- lessly, keeping as a rule a foot or two above the ground. Mr. Camp was unable to define the extent of the flight, either in time or space, but there is little doubt that both were quite lim- ited. Unfortunately no special attempt was made to locate the females, and it is doubtful if it will now be possible to secure any this season. A careful study of the males indicates rather close relation- ship with fimbriata and puncticollis, but with a sufficiently marked and constant deviation from either to warrant a dis- tinctive name. The following description and comparative notes are therefore offered: P. australis n. sp. Male. Black, shining, glabrous above, the long hairs of the marginal fringe and under surface reddish brown. Antennae and cephalic structure very nearly as in fimbriata. Prothorax slightly more than twice as wide as long in horizontal projection, sides arcuately con- vergent in front, subparallel and feebly or barely perceptibly sinuate posteriorly, the hind angles obtuse but well defined and usually slightly prominent ; disk flattened and obliquely declivous in front, the median line broadly vaguely impressed anteriorly and again more narrowly 66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll so for a short distance at base ; sides with the usual impression ; sur- face closely moderately coarsely punctate throughout. Elytra obvi- ously wider at base than the prothorax, varying from a little less to a little more than 3-10 longer than wide, sides nearly parallel, surface finely lightly punctured between the feebly defined geminate striae. Length, 241/2-28 mm.; width, 14-1554 mm. Female. Castaneous, of the usual robust form; the clypeus more narrowly but very distinctly triangularly emarginate ; surface sculpture rougher than in the male, as is usual. Habitat. Bailey Canon, San Gabriel Mts., near Sierra Ma- dre, California; elevation 2500 ft. Compared with fimbriata the present species differs most conspicuously in the more coarsely and closely punctured tho- rax and smoother elytra ; there are, however, a number of other differences which are evident on closer attention. Three males in my collection from Eldorado Co. are undoubtedly typical representatives of fimbriata; all these agree in being relatively broader than any of the new series ; the prothorax is scarcely narrower than the base of the elytra, with the sides more rounded posteriorly and with ill defined hind angles, the cephalic horn is also longer and more slender than in australis, in which it is distinctly more triangular when viewed laterally. In all my typical fimbriata the third antennal joint is shorter than the next two combined ; in australis it is equal to the next two, and in puncticollis it is said to be longer than the two fol- lowing. Puncticollis differs conspicuously in having the long hair of the under body black. THE COMMITTEE appointed to represent and look after the interests of the International Entomological Congress for the United States consists of Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. Prof. T. H. Comstock, Prof. H. C. Fall, Prof. C. P. Gillette. Dr. W. J. Holland. Prof. A. D. Hopkins, Dr. L. O. Howard, Prof. C. W. Johnson, Prof. V. L. Kellogg, Prof. Herbert Osborn, Dr. John B. Smith, Dr. Ch. W. Stiles, Dr. Creiehton Wellman. Dr. W. M. Wheeler. The committee for Canada is Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, Dr. C. G. Hewitt, Henry H. Ly- man. The Permanent Executive Committee consists of Dr. Malcolm Ilurr, Dr. Walther Horn, Dr. K. Jordan, P. Lesne, G. Severin, Henry Skinner. The Executive Committee will meet in Paris in August of this year to arrange for the Second International Congress to be held in Ox- ford, England, in 1913, Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 67 Descriptions of New Species of Cynipidae (Hym.)- By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, American Museum of Natural History, New York. Dryophanta clavula, sp. nov. Female. Head rufous, infuscated along the face and on the vertex around the ocelli,, evenly and finely reticulately punctate, sparsely hairy, eyes black. Antennae i4-jointed, first joint stout, short, second joint much smaller and stout, third to sixth joints long and slender, third longest; remaining joints short and subequal, dusky brown, some- what darker toward the tip. Thorax pitchy brown, rufous posteriorly and anteriorly at the sides, microscopically pitted, especially anteriorly, shining and with scattered decumbent, yellowish hairs. Parapsidal grooves deep and distinct, widely separated anteriorly and running obliquely backward to the scutellum, where they are close together. Median groove wanting. Anterior parallel lines broad, shining, smooth and scarcely extending to the middle of the thorax. Grooves at base of wings scarcely evident. Scutellum subopaque, dull rufous, finely and evenly rugose with an almost imperceptible basal groove. Abdo- men pitchy brown, somewhat rufous ventrally, smooth, shining ; ventral sheath yellowish with long hairs. Legs dull yellowish brown with short hairs. Wings hyaline, pubescent, veins brown, heavily marked, especially the cross-veins ; apical region with about seven small brown dots and a larger brown patch, and with three large brown clouds about the middle of the wings. Radial area closed with the veins thickened at the costa. Areolet present. Cubitus faint and extending to the first cross-vein. Length 1.5-2 mm. Gall. On the under side of the leaves of a species of white oak (probably Qucrcus douglasi). -Monothalamous. Narrow and almost parallel to about the middle, thence suddenly becoming inflated into a club with the apex pointed. At the extreme base it is slightly broader and is attached by a point to the leaf. The gall very much resembles a miniature Indian club in shape. Brown in color, and the larva lives in the inflated part of the gall in a rounded cell. Length, 5-7 mm. ; width of narrow part, I mm., of thickened part, 1.75 mm. Habitat: California (Napa and Sonoma Countries). De- scribed from twelve specimens. Type Collection U. S. National Museum. Dryophanta multipunctata sp. nov. Female. Head yellowish brown, face broadly infuscated, eyes and ocelli black, microscopically, evenly granulose and pubescent. Antennae J4-jointed, first joint stout, second joint stout and much shorter than 68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll the first; third joint very long and slender, fourth to sixth joints slen- der, subequal and shorter than the third; remaining joints gradually becoming shorter and slightly thicker toward the tip, pitchy brown black and pubescent. Thorax shining, finely and evenly pitted, with decumbent yellowish hairs, pitchy brown, somewhat rufous between the parapsidal grooves at the scutellum. Parapsidal grooves rather deep, widely separated anteriorly and converging at the scutellum, where they are moderately, widely separated. Anterior parallel lines very fine and indistinct. Lateral grooves distinct. Median groove wanting. Scutellum pitchy brown inclined to rufous, finely and evenly pitted, with yellowish hairs, basal groove not distinct. Abdomen pitchy black or dull rufous, smooth and shining dorsally, and covered with short pale hairs at the sides and venter. Legs pitchy brown or dull yellowish brown, pubescent. Wings hyaline, veins brown, cross-veins very heavy, outer portion of wings beyond the middle with many small brown spots, except in the radial area; about the middle of the wings two brown clouds situated on the veins. Areolet present. Cubitus con- tinuous to the first cross-vein. Length, 2.75-3 mm. Gall. On the under side of the leaves of a species of oak. Mono- thalamous. Gray brown, spherical, sometimes slightly flattened at the base where the gall is attached to the leaf. The gall is irregularly wrinkled and covered with a dense, short and compact wooly substance and hairs. In general appearance it resembles the gall of Philonlx lanaeglolntli. Diameter about 5 mm. Habitat Kern County, California, December 6th, 1892. Type United States National Museum. Described from two specimens and two galls. Holcaspis chrysolepidis sp. nov. Female. Head, thorax and scutellum pale yellowish brown, abdomen somewhat darker with the dorsal region infuscated ; legs slightly paler with the claws black. Antennae yellowish brown, terminal joints darker. Head very finely and evenly granulated, pubescent; ocelli and eyes black. Antennae 14- jointed. Thorax finely and evenly punctate with pale decumbent hairs. Parapsidal grooves very fine, less distinct anteriorly and almost parallel. Anterior parallel lines distinct, shining and extending to the middle of the thorax. Lateral grooves sharply defined, long and shining. Scutellum hairy, finely and evenly rugose. Abdomen shining, smooth, with a small patch of hairs at the base later- ally. Legs pubescent. Wings long, yellowish hyaline, veins yellowish and are usually closely pressed together. Width 5-10 mm. Height 4-7 mm. Gall. On the twigs of oak (Quercus chrysolepidis}. Monothalamous. Hard woody. Irregular in shape, somewhat rounded, sides flattened, Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 69 slightly oblique, ridged around the upper part of the sides, apex rounded. They occur singly and in rows of two, three, four or more, and are usually closely pressed together. Width 5-10 mm. Height 4-7 mm. Habitat Placer Co., California, November and December. Types United States National Museum. Described from nine examples. The gall of this species was figured by me in the Bulle- tin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXVI, plate VIII, figs. 8 and 9. Philonix californica sp. nov. Female. Head pitchy brown black, minutely rugose with scattered, short hairs. Antennae 13-jointed; first joint stout, cylindrical; second joint shorter, stout and rounded at the tip; third joint very long and slender; fourth, fifth and sixth joints slender and shorter than the third; remaining joints gradually becoming shorter and thicker toward the thirteenth, all pitchy brown and pubescent. Thorax pitchy brown or dull rufous, evenly rugose, somewhat wrinkled and with a few scattered hairs. Parapsidal grooves very fine and somewhat lost in the rough surface anteriorly, convergent at the scutellum. Scutellum evenly rugose like the thorax, and of the same color. Abdomen com- pressed convex at the sides and rather sharply keeled on the dorsum and venter, dark pitchy brown, smooth and shining. Legs pitchy brown, somewhat paler than the abdomen and pubescent. Wings aborted, not extending to the middle of the abdomen. Length i mm. Gall. On the upper surface of the leaves of a species of white oak. Monothalamous. Rounded, flattened disc-like, becoming slightly ele- vated toward the middle. The sides are flat and very thin, and the gall rests closely on the leaf. The larva lives in the center of the elevated part. The color is pinkish or purplish, with the apex sometimes yel- lowish. Width, 3 to 4 mm. Height, i mm. Habitat Kern Co., California, January. Type United States National Museum. Described from fiv.e females. Andricus caepulaeformis sp. nov. Female. Head large, broader than the thorax, reddish brown, evenly and finely granulose. Antennae 14-jointed; first joint very stout and inflated; second joint short, subcylindrical; third joint very long and slender; fourth joint also slender, shorter than the third, remaining joints subequal, all blackish except the basal one which is rufous. Thorax minutely granulose with a few hairs. Parapsidal grooves pres- TO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll ent, but not prominent, almost parallel. Anterior parallel lines scarcely evident. Median line running from the scutellum to about the middle of the thorax, not distinct. Pleurae with a large, smooth shining area. Scutellum rufous, rugose, foveae at base oblique and opaque. Abdomen reddish brown, posterior half piceous, smooth and shining. Legs red- dish brown, long .and slender, pubescent. Wings (immature) hyaline, veins brown. Length, 4 mm. Gall. In clusters around the twig of black oak (Qucrcus velutina). Monothalamous. Rounded with the apex pointed, and the sides longi- tudinally grooved. The rounded part is hollow and rather thin walled, and the base of the gall is imbedded in a cavity in the twig. Rose colored, hard and woody (when dry). In general appearance the gall resembles a very small seed onion. Length 5-8 mm. Width 4-5 mm. Habitat Indiana. (Mel. T. Cook). Andricus pisiformis sp. nov. Female. Head dark reddish brown, finely granulated and with short pale hairs. Antennae i3-jointed, reddish brown, terminal joints black- ish. Thorax dark pitchy brown, reddish brown along the parapsidal grooves and laterally, minutely reticulated and with many pits, from each of which arises a short, decumbent, yellowish hair. Parapsidal grooves deep and well denned. Median groove distinct, and less so anteriorly. Lateral grooves deep. Anterior parallel lines not extend- ing to the middle of the thorax. Scutellum reddish brown, rugose and with two large, deep, shining black foveae at the base. These are sep- arated by a fine ridge. Pleurae pubescent, with a rather large shining area, pitchy brown. Abdomen subglobose, inflated, pitchy brown, smooth and shining. Legs brown, punctate and pubescent. Wings hyaline, veins brown, cross-veins heavy. Areolet small. Cubitus not reaching the first cross-vein. Length 2-3.50 mm. Gall. On the terminal twigs of white oak {Quercus alba) and post oak (Quercus minor) from the middle of May to early in June. Mono- thalamous. Spherical or pea-like. Milky white or pale greenish white, speckled and marbled with green or lilac. Fleshy when fresh, hard and woody when old and dry. It is hollow inside with no separate larval chamber. It is evidently a bud gall. Diameter 3-6 mm. Habitat New Jersey (Lakehurst) ; Massachusetts (Bos- ton). The flies mature in the gall during the latter part of Sep- tember and in October, but do not emerge until the following spring. The gall is a pretty object and looks like a very small marble. The specimens on white oak from Boston were col- lected by Miss Cora H. Clarke at the Arnold Arboretum. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 71 Studies Amongst the Coccinellidae, No. 2, (Col.). By F. W. NUNENMACHER, Piedmont, California. Since my last paper on Coccinellidae* several friends and correspondents have sent me material in various genera in- cluding several species new to science, and as some of these are of considerable interest it seems worth while to publish the following descriptions at this time: Genus PSYLLOBORA Mulsant. Psyllobora koebelei n. sp. $. Color: Whitish yellow with chocolate brown markings disposed as follows : Pronotum with the five common discal spots, each elytron with one juxta-scutellar and one median basal dot, one marginal small dot placed a little before the middle, and one irregular blotch roughly quadrate in form, placed its own width from the margin and close to the suture and rather behind the middle. Mouth parts testaceous; ventral surface black except mesothoracic episterna, which are white and last four ventral segments, which are testaceous, as are the legs. Form convex, subovate; head, impunctate; pronotum very finely and sparsely punctured ; elytra moderately coarsely punctured ; ventral sur- face, sternum moderately coarsely punctured ; abdomen smooth. Length, 2.25 mm. Width, 2 mm. Type $ in my collection. Type locality Nogales, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz. vi. 02. (Koebele) This species, which feeds on the scale infesting mistletoe, comes nearest to P. luctuosa Muls., from which it can readily be told by the elytral design. The type was kindly given me by Mr. A. Koebele in whose collection there are several speci- mens. According to his observations (No. 2426), this species, when alive, has a ground color of beautiful shimmering sil- very green. Genus AXION Mulsant. Axion incompletus n. sp. $. Color: Head light ferrugineous, pronotum and elytra black, the former with the anterior angles ferrugineous and a beaded line of the same color along the entire anterior margin, each elytron with a median double coalescing spot at the callus, nearer the margin than the suture, the shape of this spot being obliquely and roundly oblong with a prolongation towards the base of the elytron; ventral surface uni- * See ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for April, 1909, p. 161 ff. 72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll formly ferrugineous except the head, which is infuscate, mesosternum, tibiae and tarsi piceous. Form as in tripustulatus DeG., head slightly nitid, almost impunctate ; maxillary palpi black, last article inflated, somewhat flattened, truncate and excavated at apex ; pronotum some- what shining, almost impunctate ; scutellum very small ; elytra with texture as in head and thorax; -ventral surface with sternum finely and thickly punctured, except the mesosternum, which is smooth and very nitid, ventral sternites finely, thickly and striately punctured except the base of the segments, which are smooth ; fifth ventral rather deeply notched ; legs with femora slightly rugose, tibiae smooth and sparsely pubescent. Type $ in my collection. Type locality Lincoln Park Beach, Chicago, 111., (Wol- cott). This form can be told at a glance from tripustulatus DeG. by the absence of the sutural spot. I owe the type to the kindness of my friend, Mr. Frederick Knab, of Washington, D. C. Genus HYPERASPIS Chevrolat. Hyperaspis lateralis, var. flammula n. var. Color, structure and ornamentation as in lateralis Muls., except that the marginal vitta of each elytron is longer and is connected with the common discal spot by an isthmus of the same color as the vitta and spot ; this isthmus rises from a point at about the posterior third of the vitta. Type $ 5 and one cotype ( 2 ) in my collection. Type locality Montana. Geo. Dist. Montana, 2 specimens ; Golden, Col. vii, 18. 09. one specimen (W. J. Gerhard). I have seen examples of this variety in several collections in the east including the Horn collection of the American Entomological Society. The $ 2 type was kindly given me by Mr. Chas. Liebeck of Philadelphia, the cotype from Col- orado by my friend Mr. A. B. Wolcott. In the latter the elytral pattern shows slight signs of a reversion towards the typical design. Hyperaspis wellmani n. sp. Color: Shining black, elytra with reddish yellow markings, disposed similarly to those of lateralis Muls., except that the marginal vittae distinctly increase in width posteriorly and do not reach as nearly the Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 73 base of the elytra as in the species mentioned, also the discal and sub- apical spots are constantly smaller and regularly circular, ventral sur- face black except that portion of the reflexed margin of the elytra occupied by the marginal vittae. Form regularly oval ; head very sparsely and minutely punctured; pronotum a little more heavily and thickly punctured; scutellum large with a few coarse punctures; elytra more thickly punctured than head, but less thickly than pronotum ; ventral surface with mesosternum smooth, episternum of mesothorax very coarsely punctured. Head of $ chrome yellow, the anterior bor- der of the pronotum narrowly, and the lateral borders heavily mar- gined with the same color, the lateral margin not quite reaching the base, anterior pair of legs and tarsi of all yellowish. $ . Entirely black except elytral markings, tarsi dark fuscous. Length. $ 2.5 mm., $ 3.1 mm. Width. $ 1.7 mm., $ 2.1 mm. Type $ $ and five cotypes, one $ and four $ $ , in my collection. Type locality Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, vi. 27. 07 (Nunenmacher). In general form and markings the specimens are remark- ably constant. I have many times bred lateralis and the larva of wellmani is strikingly different from that species. The fol- lowing table will aid in separating the adults : 1. (2) Marginal vittae broad, not increasing posteriorly, episternum of mesothorax mediumly punctured, foveae for reception of hind tibiae rather shallow, size large and form more convex than the following species lateralis 2. (i) Marginal vittae narrow, distinctly increasing posteriorly, epi- sternum of mesothorax very coarsely punctured, foveae for reception of hind tibiae deep, size smaller and less convex than preceding species wellmani Hyperaspis wolcotti n. sp. 9- Color: Head, pronotum and scutellum black, the pronotum with rather wide stramineous lateral margins, elytra piceous with stramine- ous markings arranged as follows : A wide marginal, strongly sinuous vitta extending from the humeral angle of each elytron to a point near the suturoapical angle ; for about its posterior third, this vitta does not entirely reach the margin of the elytron ; a narrow edging of the elytral ground color appearing outside of the vitta ; the apical end of the vitta is constricted near the extremity tending to form an apical spot ; a sec- ond straight juxta-sutural oblique vitta extends from the base of the elytron to about two-thirds its length, the obliquity being from near 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll the scutellum outwards and backwards ; ventral surface uniformly dark- fuscous, legs dark testaceous. Form narrowly oval, not very convex with sides subparallel ; head shining, very sparsely and minutely punc- tured; maxillary palpi dark testaceous, last article securiform, the apex strongly pointed; pronotum very shining, rather more strongly densely punctured than the head ; scutellum small with a few minute punctures ; elytra much more coarsely and thickly punctured than the pronotum ; ventral surface, sternum moderately coarsely punctured except meso- sternum, which is smoother in center; episternum of mesothorax more heavily punctured, abdominal segments with bases rather smooth but becoming more coarsely punctured and pubescent towards the sides ; legs with ridges, somewhat pubescent. Length. 9 2.25 mm., width 1.25 mm. Type 9 and two cotypes in my collection. Type locality Buffiington, Ind. (Pine Barrens) vii. 26. 10. (A. B. Wolcott). This species can be readily separated from any of the oth- er species by the elytral pattern and less convex subparallel form. The type was received from my friend, Mr. A. B. Wol- cott. Hyperaspis ploribunda n. sp. $ 9 Color : Head, pronotum and scutellum black, elytra dark fus- cous, palpi, antennae, tarsi and inflexed sides of elytra very dark testa- ceous. Form, oblong oval, depressed, somewhat widened posteriorly; head extremely finely, sparsely and shallowly punctured; pronotum finely and closely punctured ; elytra less thickly and closely punctured than pronotum, the punctuation being thickest and coarsest towards the scutellum ; the punctures are all very shallow ; ventral surface sparsely and shallowly punctured. $ smaller than $ , with sixth ventral slightly notched. Length. $ 1.5 mm., $ 1.75 mm. Width. $ i.i mm., $ 1.25 mm. Type $ 9 in my collection. Type locality Goldfield, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, vi. 29. 07. four specimens. (Nunemnacher'). When I first collected these insects I thought they were specimens of H. arcnatus Lee. I wish to express my thanks to my friend Dr. Creighton Wellman, of Oakland, for advice and criticism during the preparation of this paper. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 75 Mallophaga from Californian Birds. By V. L. KELLOGG and J. H. PAINE, Stanford University, California. The following determinations of Mallophaga and records of hosts are based on specimens taken from various birds at Monterey, California, by Mr. Jos. Clemans, Chaplain of the I5th Infantry Regiment, stationed at the Presidio. Docophorus pertusus Nitzsch, var. monachus n. var. One male from the Virginia rail, Rallns virginianus (Mon- terey, California). The type, D. pertusus, has been found on the following birds in Cali- fornia : Fulica americana, Erismatura rubida, and Colymbus nigricollis cali- fornicus. The sinuous posterior mar- gin of the first abdominal segment shown in the figure of the variety is also found in the type, though it has not been referred to heretofore. The variety differs in the greater number of hairs found on the clypeus and on the abdomen. On the clypeus of the type there are two small hairs near the trabeculae while in the vari- ety there are about eight on each side extending from the trabeculae to the expansion of the pincer-like organs. On the posterior margin of each seg- ment of the abdomen in the type are found not more than four hairs while in the variety they are numerous, sixteen occurring on the fifth segment with the number diminishing anteriorly and posteriorly. Docophorus pertusus Nitzsch. One young specimen from the American coot Fulica ameri- cana (Monterey, Cal.) Fig. i. Docophorus pertusus Nitzsch. var. monachus n. var. Female. 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Docophorus icterodes Nitzsch. Specimens from the American coot, Fulica aniericana (Monterey, California.) Docophorus platyrhynchus Nitzsch. Specimens from the western red-tailed hawk, Buteo bore- alis calurus (Monterey, Cal.) Docophorus communis Nitzsch. Specimens from the shumagin fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Monterey, Cal.) Docophorus mirus Kellogg. Specimens from Townsend warbler, Dendroica toivnsendi, (Monterey, Cal.) Docophorus singularis Kellogg and Chapman. Specimens from the varied thrush, Hesperocichla naevia naevia. (Monterey, California). Docophorus incisus Kellogg. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Polidyinbus podiceps, cidentalis, (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus fuscomarginatus Denny var. americanus Kellogg. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps (Monterey, Cal.); also (straggler?) from the varied thrush, Hesperocichla naevia naevia (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus furvus Nitzsch. Specimens from Wilson snipe, Gallinago delicata (Mont- erey, Cal.) ; also from Virginia rail, Ralhts virginianus (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus fuscus Nitzsch. Specimens from the western red-tailed hawk, Buteo bore- alis calurus (Monterey, Cal.) Nirmus foedus Kellogg and Chapman. Specimen from the black phoebe, Sayornis nigricans semi- atra (Monterey, Cal.)' also (straggler?) from the pied-bill- ed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps (Monterey, Cal.) Vol. XXl'ij ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 77 Nirmus vulgatus Kellogg. Specimens from the Shumagin fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis (Monterey, Cal.). Oncophorus minutus Nitzsch. Specimen from the American coot, Fnlica americana (Monterey, Cal.); also (straggler?) from the western blue- bird, Sialia mexicana occidentalis (Monterey, Cal.) Cncophorus bisetosus Piaget, var. californicus Kellogg and Chap- man. Specimens from the Virginia rail, Rallus virginianus (Monterey, Cal.) Lipeurus temporalis Nitzsch. Specimens from the shoveller duck, Spatula c&ypeata (Monterey, Cal.) Laemobothorium sp. Two specimens from the desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- verius deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) Until this genus is thoroughly revised we shall not attempt to make any species determination in it. Physostomum sp. One young specimen from Townsend warbler, Dendroica townsendi (Monterey, Cal.) Trinoton luridum Nitzsch. One specimen of this duck-infesting species, accredited, but certainly wrongly, to a desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- verius deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) The insect probably came from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata. Trinoton lituratum Nitzsch. One specimen from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata, (Monterey, Cal.) Colpocephalum stictum n. sp. (Fig. 2). A single male specimen from Gallinago dclicata, Wilson's snipe (Monterey, Cal.) This is an elongated species with conspicuous blotches on head, thorax and abdomen. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '11 Description of Male. Length 1.4 mm., width across abdomen .42 mm. Yellow brown in color with conspicuous dark chestnut markings. Head. Length .34 mm., width .4 mm., thus being unusually long in comparison with its width. Front slightly convex with three short spines on either side and two short hairs on the angles where the front merges into the diverging sides The prominent ocular emargination is al- most filled by the eye and the last seg- ment of the antennae. Ocular blotches dark chestnut; ocular bands indistinct except where they broad- en to form light brown blotches at their anterior ends. The ocular fringe extends around the angle on to the temples. Temples broadly rounded, occiput concave. Two oc- cipital triangles of dark chestnut col- or connected by a dark band on the occipital margin and extending for- ward. Occipital bands wanting. There are four hairs on the angle before the ocular emargination, one larger than the others ; five hairs on the temple, three long and two short- er ; also two hairs on the occiput near the center. Thorax. Length .34 mm., width 34 mm p ro thorax lenticular, the anterior margin more flattened than the posterior, which latter bears a row of about twelve hairs. Meta- thorax trapezoidal ; very dark chestnut blotches occurring in both an- terior and posterior angles, and the latter angles bearing two hairs and a spine ; also about six hairs on the posterior margin which is straight. Legs pale with a fringe of hairs on the outer edge of the tibia. Abdomen. Length .78 mm. Last segment rounded; lateral band of each segment, except the last, with two dark chestnut appendages curving inward, one at each end of the segment, becoming lighter in color in the posterior segments. Very long hairs in the posterior angles of some of the segments. A row of hairs across each segment and numerous short hairs around the posterior margin of the last seg- ment. Transverse blotches slightly darker than general ground color of insect. Genitalia inconspicuous, being only slightly chitinized. n. sp. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 79 Colpocephalum flavescens Nitzsch. Two males from the desert sparrow hawk, Falco sparver- ius dcserticohis (Monterey, Cal.) Menopon tridens Nitzsch. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps (Monterey, Cal.) Menopon tridens Xitzsch, var. pacificum Kellogg. Specimens from the pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, the common loon, Gavia linker, the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata, the American coot, Fnlica americana and (strag- gler?) the desert sparrow hawk, Falco s parvenus desertico- Ins, all from Monterey, California. Menopon sp. One specimen from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata (Monterey, California.) A Remarkable Dragonfly (Odon.). By CHARLES Louis POLLARD, Public Museum, Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, New Brighton, New York. In the account of a collecting trip in North Carolina last year, presented before the New York Entomological Society on December 21, 1909, by Mr. George P. Engelhardt and myself, reference was made to the capture of a dragonfly, Gomphoidcs ambigua Selys, as being the first record of the occurrence of this tropical American species within the Uni- ted States (see Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. v. 18, p. 130). The specimen, a male, was taken with numerous other Odonata on the shores of Greenfield Pond, near Wilmington, N. C, on August I, 1909. I am unable to recall the circum- stances of its capture, as I was engaged in general collecting at the time, and did not recognize the insect as unusual. It was sent with other species to Mr. R. P. Currie, of the Uni- ted States Department of Agriculture, who made the follow- ing comment in returning it : 8o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll "Gomphoides ambigua has been reported hitherto only from Mexico and Guatemala and is thus new to the United States. It seems strange that it should have been taken in North Carolina." When recently examining the collection of Odonata in the museum of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Charles Schaeffer was inclined to question the identification, basing his opinion on two Mexican specimens in the Brooklyn museum, which had been determined by Pro- fessor Philip P. Calvert, and which differed from the Wil- mington insect. I thereupon sent the latter to Professor Cal- vert, who courteously replied at length, giving the results of his examination. The letter is of such interest that it is quoted in detail : "The dragonfly from Wilmington, N. C, which you sent me for determination falls under Gomphoides ambigua Selys, by my key to the Mexican, Central American and West In- dian species of this genus in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, volume Neuroptera. A comparison with specimens shows, however, that the Wilmington example, while possessing the very distinct median notch in the posterior dorsal margin of the last abdominal segment of ambigua, differs from ambigua and agrees with producta Selys of the West Indies in having the somewhat dilated lateral margin of the Qth segment (viewed laterally in profile) convex throughout, instead of being convex in its anterior half and concave in its posterior half. The sheath of the penis of the Wilmington male is pro- jecting, viewed laterally, as^it is in producta but not in am- bigua. There is also a slight difference in the shape of the hind dorsal margin of the loth segment ******_ The lab- rum, being chiefly pale green with only a narrow brown bor- der on its free edge, is different from that of either ambigua or producta. "Producta being the West Indian species, is what one would expect at Wilmington. From the above data your specimen seems to be intermediate between ambigua and producta. It is not outside the range of possibility that the Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 8l Wilmington male may belong to some species described from the female only. This is a difficult matter to decide in the absence of actual specimens of those species. I am, therefore, not able to say more than that your male does not agree with the descriptions or specimens of any male Gomphoides. * * "In any event, your Wilmington specimen is the most northern record for this genus known to me, and therefore a very interesting capture." It is to be hoped that entomologists visiting the Wilming- ton region, and particularly the neighborhood of Greenfield Pond, will keep a sharp lookout for species of Gomphoides and related genera, as it is quite possible that the individual taken by me had been bred in the vicinity, and was not an accidental migrant from the West Indies.* THE Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Ohio State University has recently received as a donation a fine collection of Lepidoptera from Mrs. Catherine Tallant, of Richmond, Indiana. The collection was made by Mr. W. M. Tallant during a series of years in the nineties and up to about 190.=;. It contains mainly species occur- ring in central Ohio, especially at Columbus, but has also a number of species from different parts of the United States and also some fine examples of species occurring in South America, Japan, China, India, Ceylon and Africa. The collection contains about 10,000 specimens in most excellent condition, very beautifully mounted, and many of the species contain very full series, showing variations, etc., which will make them of special value for scientific study. They are, for the most part, carefully identified, well preserved and will be kept under the name of the "Tallant Collection" in good cases and cabinets. Taken with the other collections in Lepidoptera, the collection of Odonata left by Professor Kellicott, and those in various groups which have been accumulated by the efforts of the members of the Department, the university is now provided with an excellent collection of insects in- cluding representatives in all the different orders. The total number of specimens probably approaches close to 100,000. H. O. *[ According to Mr. Muttkowski's new catalogue of the Odonata of North America (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Mil- waukee, Vol. i, art.i) the name Gomphoides Selys must be transferred to what de Selys and others have called Progomphits Selys. For the old Gomphoides Mr. Muttkowski proposes Negomphoides. If my view, set forth in the 'Biologia,' that Gomphoides Selys, Cyclophylla Selys, and Aphylla Selys are but one genus be accepted, the name Negomphoides is superfluous as Cyclophylla has priority. P. P. CAL- VERT.] 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll A new Chalcidid from an Oak Gall (Hym.) By T. D. A. COCKERELL, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. The beautiful Chalcidid here described was bred by Mr. E. R. Warren, the well-known Mammalogist, from galls of Holcaspis on an oak (Qnercus undulata Torrey) at Trinidad, Colorado. The galls are like those of H. rnbcns, Gillette, but the single fly obtained seems different. Syntomaspis warreni n. sp. 9 . Length (exclusive of ovipositor) 4 1-3 mm. ; ovipositor 5 2-5 mm. ; wings ample, perfectly clear, venation pale fulvo-f erruginous ; head broad, peacock green, with faint crimson tints, frontal depressions behind antennae shining golden ; eyes bright terra-cotta red ; mandibles red except at apex ; sides of face very minutely rugosopunctate, sides of front becoming striatulate ; scape and ring-joint ferruginous; fla- gellum black, the joints very minutely longitudinally keeled; meso- thorax and scutellum with large thimble-like punctures, variegated with green and crimson, the posterior part of the scutellum minutely granular, with microscopical punctures, and with a marginal sulcus crossed by fine ridges ; other parts of thorax variegated with green and purple ; anterior coxae brilliant green ; hind coxae very large, crim- son-purple ; femora and tibiae bright chestnut red ; tarsi cream color, rufescent subapically, black at apex ; lower margin of hind femora minutely denticulate beyond the middle, but with no large tooth ; abdo- men brilliant magenta, with blue-purple shades, first segment with a very large flap, which is strongly notched posteriorly; second segment carinate, deeply notched in middle; third segment also deeply notched; hind tibiae with two spurs ; stigma sessile ; ovipositor chestnut-red, its sheath black. Type in U. S. National Museum. Mr. J. C. Crawford has kindly compared this insect with the material in the National Museum, and writes that it comes very close to Syntomaspis californicus Ashm., which is green- ish or golden greenish, without the purple tints. The species is one of those which might be assigned either to Torymus or Syntomaspis. *- - AT THE ANNUAL MEETiNf, of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society held December soth, in Philadelphia. Dr. Henry Skinner was re-elected Professor of Entomology for 1911. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit and will thank- fully receive items of news likely to interest its readers from any source. The author's name will be given in each case, for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] TO CONTRIBUTORS. All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our earliest convenience, and, as far as may be, will be published according to date of reception. ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumference, as to make it neces- sary to put "copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, four weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or important matter for a certain issue. Twenty-five "extras," without change In form, will be given free, when they are wanted: and this should be so stated on the MS., along with the number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1911. The versatility of insects is well shown by the inducements which they hold out to man to serve as the objects of his most varied study. From papers and references in this number of the NEWS we find them continually increasing his catalogues of animal forms, exercising his ingenuity to escape their un- welcome personal attentions to his body, serving as the mate- rial for experiments on the method and manner of inheritance or for the examination of minute details of the structure of the living cell, illustrating complicated problems of physics, disturbing his ideas of the operations of climatic influences upon life. All these branches of human intellectual activity are of the larger Entomology wherein each of us who reads these lines tries to do his part. DR. A. A. MICHELSON, of the University of Chicago, delivered the seventh lecture upon the J. C. Campbell Foundation of the Sigma Xi Society of the Ohio State University on the evening of December 2. TTis subject was "Metallic Colors in Birds and Insects." The lecture was amply illustrated by lantern and reflectoscope and was concluded by an explanation of the most probable cause as found by the lecturer as a result of his researches. Science, Dec. 23, 1910. 83 84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Notes and. Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. THE Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been able to offer Liverpool University $50,000 for the establishment of a chair in Tropi- cal entomology. At a meeting of the Council of the University it was resolved gratefully to accept the offer. Science, Jan. 6, 1911. ANNOUNCEMENT of the Journal of Animal Behavior and the Animal Behavior Monograph Series. In response to a widely felt .and urgent need for a periodical in which studies of the behavior and mental life of organisms may satisfactorily be published a journal and a mono- graph series have been planned. The Journal of Animal Behavior will accept for publication field studies of the habits, instincts, social rela- tions, etc., of animals, as well as laboratory studies of animal behavior or animal psychology. It is hoped that the organ may serve to bring into more sympathetic and mutually helpful relations the "naturalists" and the "experimentalists" of America, that it may encourage the publication of many carefully made naturalistic observations which at present are not published, and that it may present to a wide circle of nature-loving readers accurate accounts of the lives of animals. Be- ginning with January, 1911, the Journal will appear bi-monthly in numbers of approximately 75 pages. Each annual volume of six num- bers will consist of not less than 450 pages. The subscription price will be $3.00 per volume (foreign, $3.50). This low price to subscribers can be maintained only if those who are interested in the study of the behavior and psychology of animals promptly subscribe and work for the support of the Journal. The Journal is under the editorial direc- tion and management of I. Madison Bentley, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cornell University; Harvey A. Carr, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago ; Samuel J. Holmes, Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin ; Herbert S. Jennings, Henry Walters Professor of Zoology, Johns Hopkins University; Ed- ward L. Thorndike, Professor of Educational Psychology, Teachers' College of Columbia University; Margaret F. Washburn, Professor of Psychology, Vassar College; John B. Watson, Professor of Experi- mental and Comparative Psychology, Johns Hopkins University; Wil- liam M. Wheeler, Professor of Economic Entomology, Harvard Uni- versity, and Robert M. 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Manuscripts for the Monograph Series should be sent to the editor, Professor John B. Watson, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, from whom informa- tion may be obtained concerning terms of publication. Books and other matter for review in the Journal should be sent to the editor of re- views, Professor Margaret F. Washburn, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. All business communications should be addressed to the Journal of Animal Behavior, Cambridge, Mass. NOTES ON LIMNOBIA PARIETINA O. S. The splendid crane-fly, Limnobia parietina O. S., has always been regarded as some- what of a rarity. It was described by Baron Osten Sacken in 1861, from specimens taken at Trenton Falls, N. Y., "on fences, in September, numerous $ and 9 specimens." It has since been recorded from the White Mountains, New Hampshire, and more recently (1909), Prof. C W. Johnson has added a few more records: Prout's Neck, Me. ; Intervale and Hampton, N. H., and Lake Ganoga, North Mountain, Pa. I have mentioned the occurrence of the species in Fulton County, N. Y., in ENT. NEWS for June, 1910. I have the following notes to add : In early September, 1910, a friend and I were on a long fishing tramp up into Hamilton Co., N. Y. On the morning of the 2d, while passing from Silver Lake, near Arietta, to the White House on the 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll west branch of the Sacandaga River, I noticed an abundance of a large Tipulid flying about in the dense woods. They proved to be Limnobia parietina. The woods along Nine-Mile Creek were dark and gloomy, and very little sunshine penetrated to the ground below. When the parietina passed from the shadows into the bright sun- light they looked very large and conspicuous. There were hundreds of specimens about, and they were the only large crane-fly in this sort of habitat. They would fly lazily from some resting place, and usually alight on the trunk of some nearby tree, head upward. I picked seven $ 's and one 2 from such places, or seized them as they flew slowly past. It is a notable late summer species, all of the records be- ing for late August or September. CHAS. P. ALEXANDER, Ithaca, N. Y. THE COLEOPTERORUM CATALOGUE, published by W. Junk, Berlin, edited by S. Schenkling, began publication September 15, 1909. Up to January i, 1911, the following parts have appeared: i. R. Gestro, Rhysodidae ; 2. F. Borchmann, Nilionidae, Othniidae, Aegialitidae, Petriidae, Lagriidae; 3, Alleculidae; 4, M. Hagedorn, Ipidae; 5, R. Gestro, Cupedidae et Paussidae; 6, H. Wagner, Curculionidae, Apioni- nae ; 7, H. von Schonfeldt, Brenthidae; 8, van Roon, Lucanidae : 9, E. Olivier, Lampyridae ; 10, E. Olivier, Rhagophthalmiclae, Drilidae ; ii, A. Leveille, Temnochilidae ; I2 t E. Csiki, Endomychidae ; 13, Sca- phidiidae; 14, M. Pic, Hylophilidae ; 15, H. Gebien, Tenebrionidae I; 16, P. Pape, Brachyceridae ; 17, Ph. Zaitzev, Dryopidae, Cyathoceridae, Georyssidae, Heteroceridae; 18, E. Csiki, Platypsyllidae, Orthoperidae, Phaenocephalidae, Discolomidae, Sphaeriidae ; 19, M. Bernhauer et K. Schubert, Staphylinidae I ; 20, A. Schmidt, Aphodiinae ; 21, K. Ahlwarth, Gyrinidae ; 22, H. Gebien, Tenebrionidae II; 23, H. Bick- hardt, Histeridae. Part 24, S. Schenkling, Cleridae. is announced for immediate publication. All the other families are in preparation. The publisher thinks that there is little doubt that the "Catalogus" will be completed in about six years. Supplements will be published regularly after completion of the work. The literature on the biology and development of beetles, chiefly of the injurious species, will be listed with special care. THE announcements of the Free Lectures of the Ludwick Institute to be given in 1911 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- phia, contain the following references, direct or indirect to Entomology. Scientific Explorers of America and Their Discoveries. By Henry A. Pilsbry, Sc.D., Special Curator, Department of Mollusks, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Illustrated by lantern slides. Mon- days at 8 P. M. February 13 : Voyages of the XV., XVI., XVII. Cen- turies and their Geographical Discoveries. Illustrated with reproduc- tions of interesting early maps and charts, showing the progress of knowledge of western geography. February 20 and 27 : Zoological and Botanical Explorers and Writers of the XVI. and XVII. Centuries- Hernandez, Sir Hans Sloane, Bartram, etc. March 6: The Great Ex- plorers of South and Central America and their Zoological Discov- eries. March 13: Early North American Explorations. Entomology. By Henry Skinner, M.D., Conservator, Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Illustrated by Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 87 colored lantern slides. Thursdays at 8 P. M. February 16 : Lepidop- tera, Butterflies and Moths; their life histories, habits, transformations and distribution. February 23 : Economic Entomology : Insects of the Household and the Farm ; Crop and Fruit-tree Pests ; the San Jose scale, gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, tussock moth and other shade-tree pests. March 2 : The Social Insects or Hymenoptera, Bees, Wasps and Ants; their habits, architecture and communities. March 9: Insects and Disease. Parasitism. Ticks and mites in relation to Texas fever, spotted fever and relapsing fever. Horse-flies, stable-flies, punkies, blow-flies, jigger-fleas, bed-bugs. House-flies in relation to typhoid fever and tuberculosis. March 16 : Insects and Disease. Mosquitoes, their life history ; mosquitoes in relation to malaria, yellow fever and filaria. Sleeping sickness and the tsetse fly. Some tropical diseases transmitted by insects. Animal Coloration and Its Significance in Evolution. By J. Percy Moore. Illustrated by lantern slides. Thursdays at 8 P. M. March 23 : Physical and Physiological Basis of Animal Color. Color in Rela- tion to Function and Environment. Color Patterns. March 30: Non- adaptive and Adaptive Coloration. Types of Adaptive or Useful Col- oration. April 6: Concealing Coloration. April 13: Warning Colors. Mimicry, etc. Changeable Colors. Dichromatism and Related Phe- nomena. April 20 : Behavior of Color in Heredity. Conclusion. HAS anyone had any experience with gas lamps used for attracting moths? I am thinking of buying a 2,ooo-candlepower gasoline lamp to use in catching moths. A friend of mine in Chicago thinks a gas lamp will not attract moths, at least not nearly so many as an electric or kerosene lamp will do. He claims the light is too white. I am an- xious to hear from someone who has had actual experience. A. F. PORTER, Decorah, Iowa. Entomological Literature. COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR.. AND J. A. G. REHN. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- ever, 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, and are all dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new North American form. For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 2 Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 4 The Canadian Entomologist. 5 Psyche, Cambridge. Mass. 6 Journal, New York Entomological Society. 1 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 11 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London. 16 Bulletin, Societe Nationale d'Ac- 88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll climation de France, Paris. 18 Ottawa Naturalist. 22 Zoologis- cher Anzeiger, Leipzig. 24 Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 38 Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 40 Societas Entomologica, Zurich. 45 Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 47 The Zool- ogist, London. 55 Le Naturaliste, Paris. 81 Biologisches Cen- tralblatt, Erlangen. 84 Entomologische Rundschau. 92 Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, Berlin. 97 Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 102 Proceedings, Entomo- logical Society of Washington. 143 Ohio Naturalist, Columbia. 179 Journal of Economic Entomology. 180 Annals, Entomolog- ical Society of America. 183 The Glasgow Naturalist. 189 Po- mona Journal of Entomology, Claremont, Cala. 193 Entomologis- che Blatter, Nurnberg. 216 Entomologische Zeitschrift, Stuttgart. 278 Annales, Societe Zoologique Suisse et du Museum d'Histoire de Geneve, Revue S'uisse de Zoologie. 279 Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaft, Jena. 287 Proceedings, Royal Society of Victoria (new Series), Melbourne. 301 Verhandlungen und Mit- teilungen des Siebenburgischen Vereins fur Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. 302 Mitteilungen, Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins an der Universitat Wien. 303 Entomologiske Meddelel- ser, udgivne af Entomologisk Forening, Copenhagen. 304 An- nals. Carnegie Museum. 305 Deutsche Entomologische National- Bibliothek, Berlin. GENERAL SUBJECT. Bablu, E. Die wirbellose terrestrische Fauna der nivalen Region, Ein Beitrag zur Zoogeographie der Wirbellosen, 278, xviii, 761-916. Jacobson, E. Hilfsmittel beini Fang und Praparieren von Insekten, besonders in den Tropen, 305, i, 91-95. Kerr, J. G. List of species of insects described by J. C. Fabricius from specimens in Dr. Hunter's collection, 183, ii, 101-111. Przibram, H. Experimental-zoologie, 3. Phylogenese (inklusive Hereditat), 315 pp., 1910, Leipzig. Rhumbler, L. Ueber eine zweckmassige Weiterbildung der Linneschen binaren Nomenklatur, Ein vorlaufiger Vorschlag, 22, xxxvi, 453-471. Skinner, A. The use of insects and other invertebrates as food by the No. American Indians, 6, xviii, 264-267. Swinton, A. H. The vocal and instru- mental music of insects, 47, xiv, 299-306, 426-432 (continued). APTERA & NEUROPTERA. Bottger, O. Das Gehirn eines niederen Insektes (Lepisma saccharina), 279, xlvi, 801-844. Cham- berlin,, R. V. Diplopoda from the western states, 180, iii, 233-276 (*). The Chilopoda of California I., 189, ii, 363-374 (*). Crawford, D. L. American Psyllidae II (Triozinae), 189, ii, 347-362 (*). ORTHOFTERA. Bruner, L. South American Tettigidae. 304, vii, 89-143. Criddle, N. The migration of some native locusts, 18, xxiv, 164-166. Severin & Severin The effect of moisture and dry- Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 89 ness on the emergence from the egg of the walking-stick (Diaphero- mera femoratus), 179, iii, 479-481. Zacher, F. Tiergeographische, phylogenetische und biologische Bemerkungen zu Malcolm Burr's Dermapterenfauna von British Indien, Burma und Ceylon, 84, xxvii, 174-176. HEMIPTERA. Chittenden & Marsh Note on the oviposition of the tarnished plant-bug, 179, iii, 477-479. Davis, W. T. The periodical cicada on Long Island, N. Y., in 1910, 6, xviii, 259-260. Distant, W. L. Description of a new species of Cicadidae (from Central America), 189, ii, 346 (*). Essig, E. O. Aphididae of Southern California V.. 189, ii, 335-338. The citrus mealy-bug (Pseudocaccus citri), 189, ii, 289-320. A new mealy bug infesting walnut, apple, and pear trees, 189, ii, 339-345 (*). Heidemann, O. Description of a new capsid, 102, xii, 200-201 (*). New species of Leptoglossus from N. Am., 102, xii, 191-197 (*). Henrich, C. Die Blattlaus, Aphididae der Umgebung von Hermannstadt mit einen Index und Figurenerklarung, 301, lix, 1-104, 1910. Iches, L. Une punaise geante de 1' Argentine (Belostoma annulipes), 16, Ivii, 468-470. Matausch, I. Entylia Germar and its different forms, 6, xviii, 260-263. Schumacher, F. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Biologic der Asopiden, 92, vi, 376-383 (continued). Die Discocera-Arten des Konigl. Zool. Museums zu Berlin, 22, xxxvi, 471-475. Wilson, H. F. A second paper on the genera in the subfamily Callipterinae, 4, xlii, 384-388. A Key to the genera of the subfamily Aphidinae and notes on synonomy, 180, iii, 314-325. LEPIDOPTERA. Andre,, E. Elviages de Lepidopteres Seri- cigenes, 16, 1910, 500-510. Barnes & McDunnough Notes on life- history of Anisota skinneri, 4, xlii, 400-403. Coolidge, K. R. A Cali- fornia orange dog (Papilio sps), 189, ii, 333-334. Melitaea alma, and its synonymy, 4, xlii, 403-404. Dyar,, H. G. Notes on Megalopygidae, 102, xii, 161-176 (*). On Professor Smith's treatment of the forms of Graphiphora (Taeniocampa) allied to hibisci, 4, xlii, 399-400. Some moths from Claremont, Cala., with notes on certain allied species, 189, ii, 375-378 (*). Two new species of Graptolitha, 102, xii, 190 (*). Ely, C. R. New Phycitinae and Crambinae, 102, xii, 202-204 (*). Evers, J. Insekten als Wetterpropheten, 92, vi, 401. Forbes, W. T. M. The aquatic caterpillars of Lake Quinsigamond (Mass.), 5, xvii, 219-227. Furstorfer, H. Neues ueber die Geni- talorgane der Rhopalocera, 216, xxiv, 150-151 (continued). Gross- beck, J. A. New species and one new genus of Geometridae, 6, xviii, 199-207 (*). Hammar, A. G. Life history of the codling moth in northwestern Pennsylvania, 7, Bull. No. 80, pt. vi. Henniger, W. F. The Macro-Lepidoptera of Seneca County, Ohio, 143, xi, 233- 242. Luderwaldt, H. Vergiftungserscheinungen durch Verletzung 9O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll mittelst haariger oder dorniger Ranpen, 92, vi, 398-401. Lyman, H. H. Notes on certain species of Graptolitha, 4, xlii, 381-383. Martin, L. Die ersten Stande von Elymnias panthera, 305, i, 95-96. Postel, G. Nouvelles observations sur la ponte de Malacosma (Bombyx) Neustria La Livree, 55, xxxii, 278-280. Reiff, W. Argynnis cybele, forma bartschi f. nov., 5, xvii, 252-255 (*). Rus- sell, H. M. Notes on the geometrid Gypsochroa sitellata. 102, xii, 177-178. Schaus, W. New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica III, 11, vi, 561-585 (*). Smith, J. B. New species of Noctuidae for 1910. No. 2, 2, xxxvi, 251-266 (*). Stichel, H. Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der Riodinidae, 24, Iv, 9-103 (continued). Strand, E. Nevter Gattungsname in der Lepidopterologie. (Nereidania for Nereis Warren). 40, xxv, 72. Swett, L. W. Geometrid notes. A new variety of Nyctobia, 5, xvii, 255-256 (*). DIPTERA. Bepzi, M. Zur Synonymic und systematischen Stel- lung einiger Dipteren, 40, xxv, 66-67. Zwei neue sudamerikanischc Microdon-Arten, 38, xxix, 319-320. Crawford, D. L. The Mexican orange maggot (Anastrepha ludeus), 189, ii, 321-332. Haseman, L. The structure and metamorphosis of the alimentary canal of the larva of Psychoda alternata, 180, iii, 277-313. Hendel. F. Ueber die Nomenklatur der Acalyptratenogattungen nach Th. Beckers Katalog der palaarktischen Dipteren Bd. 4, 48, xxix, 307-313. John- son, C. W. Some additions to the dipteran fauna of New England, 5, xvii, 228-235. Knab, F. Coquillett's "The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera," 102, xii, 197-200. Krober, O. Abnormitaten bei Fliegen, 92, vi, 181, 244-246 (continued). Licht- wardt. B. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Nemestriniden. Theil V. Ueber Americanische Arten. Th. VI. Ueber Afrikanische Arten, 45, 1910, 589-624. Michl, E. Eine monstrose Kopfbildung bei Echino- myia fere, 302, viii, 58-61. Einiges ueber das sogenannte Ptilinum der schizophoren Dipteren, 302, viii, 85-89. Tolg, F. Billaea pec- tinata (S'irostoma latum) als Parasit von Cetoniden und Ceramby- ciden-Larven, Metamorphose und aussere Morphologic der Larve, 92, vi, 278-283, 331-336, 387-395 (continued). COLEOPTERA. Anon. Liste neuerdinags beschriebener oder gezogener Parasiten und ihrer Wirte, 40, xxv, 63-64, 68. Bick- hardt, H. Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 24; Histeridae, 137 pp. Boving, A. Nye Bidrag til Carabernes Udviklingshistorie, 303, iii, 319-376. Buhk,, F. Lebensweise und Entwicklung von Sper- cheus emarginatus, 84,, xxvii. 127-128 (continued). Chittenden, F. H. The oak primer (Elaphidion villosum), 7, Circ. No. 130, 7 pp. Frost, C. A. Ethological notes on Elaphrus cicatricosus, 5, xvii, 256-257. Hunter, W. D. The status of the cotton boll, weevil in 1909, 7, Circ. No. 122, 12 pp. Kleine, R. Biologische Beobachtun- Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 9! gen an Dendrosoter protuberans, 9, vi, 289-292, 346-349 (continued). Die Lariiden und Rhynchophoren und ihre Nahrungspflanzen, 193, vi, 261-265, 275-294, 305-339. Kerremans, C. Monographic des Buprestides. Lampetis, Tome V. 129-192. Monographic des Bupres- tides. Tome V, 193-256 (Damarsila). Lea, A. M. Australian and Tasmanian Coleoptera inhabiting or. resorting to the nests of ants, bees and termites, 287, xxiii, 116-230, xxv-xxvii. Marsh, H. O. Biologic notes on species of Diabrotica in Southern Texas, 7, Bull. No. 82, p. 67-84. Ohaus, F. Neue sudamerikanische Dynas- tiden, 45, 1910, 671-690. Schaeffer, C. New clavicorn Coleoptera, 6, xviii, 210-216 (*). Schenkling, S. Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 23. Cleridae. 174 pp. Spaney,, A. Beitrage zur Biologic un- serer einheimischen Rosskafer, 45, 1910, 625-634. Titus, E. G. On the life history of the alfalfa leaf-weevil, 179, iii, 459-470. Well- man, C. The generic and subgeneric types of Lyttidae (Meloidae S. Cantharidae), 4, xlii, 389-396. Xamben, C. Moeurs & metamor- phoses des Coleopteres de la tribu des Chrysomeliens, 55, xxxii, 164-167, 179-181, 249-250. Moeurs & metamorphoses des especes du genre Rhizotrogus, 55, xxxii, 263-264, 1910. HYMENOPTERA. Banks, N. A few new Psammocharidae, 5, xvii, 248-251 (*). Brauns, H. Biologisches ueber sudafrikanische Hymenoptera, 92, vi, 384-387 (continued). Brun, R. Zur Biologie und Psychologic von Formica rufa und anderen Ameisen, 81, xxx. 524-528 (continued). Cockerell, T. D. A. Some bees from Eldora, Colorado. Some bees from Ecuador, 5, xvii, 244-247 (*). Friese, H. Neue Bienenarten aus S'ud-Amerika, 45, 1910, 693-711. Gahan, A. B. Some synonymy and other notes on Aphidiinae, 102, xii, 179-189. Girault, A. A. Synonymic and descriptive notes on the chalcidoid family Mymaridae, 6, xviii, 233-259 (*). Hoppner, H. Zur Biologie der Rubusbewohner, 92,, vi, 161-167, 219-224 (con- tinued). Metzer, C. Studien ueber die Honigbiene (Apis mellifica) III, Die Verbindung zwischen Vorder-und mitteldarm bei der Biene, 97, xcvi, 539-571. Pierce, W. D. On some phases of para- sitism displayed by insect enemies of weevils, 179, iii, 451-458. Quayle, H. J. Scutellista cyanea, 179, iii, 446-451. Rudow, Dr. Afterraupen der Blattwespen und ihre Entwicklung, 84, xxvii, 105- 109, 119-121, 128-129, 136-137, 142-143 (continued). Schrottky, C. Der Wirt von Pedinopelte Kriechb. (Ichneumonidae), 92, vi, 402. Neue sudamerikanische Grabwespen, 40, xxv, 69-70. Neue sud- amerikanische Hymenoptera. 84, xvii, 168-169 (continued). Two new Nomadidae from S. America, 6, xviii, 208-210. Wheeler, W. M. The No. American forms of Camponotus fallax, 6, xviii. 216- 232 (*). The North American forms of Lasius umbratus, 5, xvii, 235-243 (*). 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll MOSQUITO OR MAN? THE CONQUEST OF THE TROPICAL WORLD. In spite of all the interest aroused in the past decade on the subject of the re- lation of insects to disease, authoritative discussions, which, at the same time are thoroughly interesting for the non-technical reader, are rare. There has recently appeared such a book, which holds one's interest from beginning to end, Sir Hubert Boyce's "Mosquito or Man."* By ability to present the facts in a readable, popular style, no less than by a broad first-hand knowledge of his subject, the author, who is dean of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is peculiarly qualified. It is in the field of tropical medicine that the application of the dis- coveries of the relations of insects to the transmission of disease has been most far-reaching, and Sir Rubert has fittingly given his book the sub-title "The Conquest of the Tropical World." After a brief dis- cussion of the foundation of the tropical medicine movement in Eng- land, he traces the growth of general and applied sanitation in the tropics and emphasizes that the greatest value of measures along this line has been in the fact that indirectly and incidentally they resulted in a reduction in numbers of disease-carrying insects. For instance, modern methods of obtaining water supplies have resulted in a great reduction of yellow fever throughout the West Indies in the past fifty years. But, "the significance of the relationship of the diminution of yellow fever to the introduction of pipe-borne water is due entirely to the fact that there has been of necessity a diminution of the common breeding places of the house mosquito the Stegomyia calopus the sole carrier of yellow fever." An entertaining and concise account of the discoveries which under- lie our present knowledge of insects as carriers of disease is preceded by a chapter on "Miasm, Tradition and Prejudice." As one who has taken part in many campaigns against disease Dr. Boyce has good rea- son to know the depth to which the old doctrine of the miasmatic origin of malaria and yellow fever is rooted. t The popular mind is not yet freed from the idea of "the deadly miasm, which surrounds you on all sides, which you encounter at its worst in the cool eventide or early morning," and even yet, in many regions, it is regarded as a mat- ter of course that the newcomer must fall a prey to the "acclimation fever." On account of this deep-seated belief in man, the pioneer finds it far more easy to overthrow the strongholds of the disease-carrying * Mosquito or Man? The Conquest of the Tropical World. By Sir Rubert Boyce, M.B., F.R.S. London, 1909. John Murray. $3.50. f One of our best dictionaries in its revised, 1909 edition, defines ma- laria as a fever produced by "morbific exhalations arising from swamps or effluvia from the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter." Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 93 mosquito than to overthrow this deep-seated prejudice, which begets apathy and indifference, characteristic of the tropical countries where these diseases are so prevalent. But now, in all parts of the world the campaign against insect car- riers of disease is being waged. Most instructive are the accounts often from personal experience which the author gives of the re- sults of this movement. For instance, the early history of yellow fever shows in some epidemics a mortality rate of 69 per cent. It was not from want of good food or water, or accommodation that men perish- ed. "No, they were struck down by some unseen hand, and medicine said that that hand was the miasm. Today we know it to be the mos- quito and whereas formerly, acting on the miasm theory not one life was ever saved, today, armed with the new knowledge, we visit the mias- matic countries with the same feeling of security that we do when we ppv a visit to the continent." A valuable feature is the discussion of plans of campaign against the guilty mosquito. Especially interesting to the American reader is the detailed account of the fight against yellow fever in New Orleans, in 1905, in which Dr. Boyce, as volunteer, played an important part. The hook is not limited, as its title would imply, to a consideration of the mosquito in the transmission of disease but considers also, though briefly, the part played by other insects the tsetse-fly, the rat flea, ticks, and the housefly. The hookworm, too, is briefly included in the discussion. Altogether, the volume is a fascinating one and should be read by every one who wishes to keep in touch with the advances of preven- tative medicine. He will put it down with the conviction that the author is justified in his claim that the tropical world, long retarded in its development by its reputation as "the white man's grave," is today be- ing steadily and surely conquered. "The three great insect-carried scourges of the tropics the greatest enemies that mankind has ever had to contend with, namely malaria, yellow fever and sleeping sick- ness are now fully in hand and giving way, and with their conquest disappears the awful and grinding depression which seems to have gripped our forefathers. * * * The tropical world is unfolding once again to the pioneers of commerce who now do not dread the unseen hand of death as did of old the Spanish Conquistadores of Columbus and Cortes." WM. A. RILEY, Cornell University. ANNUAL REPORT of THE NEW JERSEY STATE MTSEUM. INCLUDING A REPORT OF THE INSECTS OE NE\V JERSEY, 1009. This contains the Cura- tor's Report ; Insects, their Classification and Distribution and a Sys- temic List of the Insects of the State, Alphabetical Index to Localities, 94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., 'll Explanations of Abbreviations and Acknowledgments, Summary and Index. This is another edition of Prof. John B. Smith's well known New Jersey list of insects. Two previous lists have appeared, the first in 1890 and the second in 1900. The first list contains the names of 6098 species, the second 8537 and the present list 10385. The work is intended to aid students and collectors and also to encourage the study of entomology, particularly economic, among teachers, farmers, fruit growers and other persons who should be interested in this important subject. The success of this State list has led to similar records being kept in other States, with a view of publication, and sooner or later, we will see them in print. Work of this kind will greatly enhance our knowledge of distribution and will be useful in the study of many prob- lems connected with both economic and systematic entomology. H. S. Doings of Societies. FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. At a regular meeting held November i6th, 1910, at 1523 South Thirteenth street, Philadelphia, fifteen members were present. President Harbeck in the chair. Mr. H. A. Wenzel spoke of a collecting trip made in August to Pocono Lake, Pa., in company with Mr. Greene, of E'aston, and mentioned the interesting species collected. Among the rarer were Aphodius Icopardus Horn, A. rubripennis Horn and Dialytcs striatnlns Say, all collected in cow manure along the trails in the thick woods. The latter was also taken under the fallen needles of the pine. These three species had been pre- viously taken by himself and father at high altitude in Balsam Mountains, N. C. He went thro' five or six ant hills with no success. Found three or four species of Necrophorus on dead animals and in traps. Mr. H. W. Wenzel said that A. rubri- pennis was a mountain species and by no means common ; had previously been recorded as found only under bear dung ; also made some remarks on and displayed his collection of Geotrupes and a pupa of one, probably G. scnriopacus Tec. ; de- scribed the tunnelling of species of this genus and, when they strike an obstruction in the shape of a stone, the manner in which they dig around it. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 95 Mr. Daecke said he had found Cicindela mfiventris Dej. on the top of a mountain near Harrisburg; was surprised to find it there as it is found in just the opposite conditions in New Jersey. Mr. Harbeck said since finding at Trenton, N. J., the sawfly with "four antennae" recorded at the October, 1909, meeting, he had found another at the same place and one at Mana- hawkin ; he questioned whether they were all freaks or whether there was a genus with this characteristic.* This led to a general discussion on the subject of freaks including mammals, plants and insects. Adjourned to the annex. GEO. M. GREENE, Sec'y. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS. At the eighth annual meeting of the Eastern Branch, held at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, December 28-30, 1910, the following papers of an entomological character were read: Dr. N. M. Stevens CBryn Mawr College) Hetero- chromosomes in Mosquitos. Contrary to. the previous exper- ience of the speaker that when heterochromosomes were found in one member of a genus or family of Coleoptera, Diptera or Hemiptera. they are also to be found in other members of the same group, she found heterochromosomes clearly differ- entiated in Anopheles but not differentiated in Cule.r and Theobaldia; this non-differentiation was used as an argument against the idea that heterochromosomes are sex-determinants. Prof. T. H. Montgomery, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania), Origin and significance of Mitochondria. This granular con- stituent of cells was studied in living sperm cells of Enschistits (Hemipterqn) and was considered to be due not to an extrusion of chromatin from the nucleus but probably to a chemical in- teraction between nuclear and cytoplasmic material ; it was suggested that cells receiving much mitochondria may become somatic cells, those receiving little mitochondria may become : Mr. E. T. Cresson stated, without having seen these specimens, that they were perhaps males of Lophyrus. Ens. g6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '11 germ cells. Prof. P. P. Calvert (University of Pennsylvania), Newly Found Odonate larvae of special interest from Costa Rica. Larvae of Cora with anterior abdominal tracheal gills and of Mecistogaster modestus from water between leaf bases of arboricolous bromeliads were described and the transfor- mation of the latter species shown by a series of photographs from life. Dr. A. Petrunkevitch (Yale University) The senses, courtship and mating in tarantulas, and A case of re- generation in tarantulas, illustrated by very interesting photo- graphs and demonstrations. Prof. T. H. Morgan (Columbia University), The origin and heredity of four wing mutations in Drosophila, and The heredity of red eyes, white eyes and pink eyes in Drosophila. At the meeting of the American Society of Naturalists held in conjunction with the Eastern Branch of the Zoologists, Prof. Morgan contributed a paper also dealing with Droso- phila under the title : The application of the conception of pure lines to sex-limited inheritance and to sexual dimorphism, while Prof. J. H. Gerould (Dartmouth College) spoke on Polvmorphism and inheritance in Collas phllodice. For the meetings of the Central Branch of the American Society of Zoologists in conjunction with Section F, Zoology, A. A. A. S., held at Minneapolis, Minn., December 28, 29 and 30, IQIO, the following entomological papers were announc- ed: J. F. Abbott (Washington University), Poulton's Theory of the Origin of Mimicry in Certain Butterflies ; S. R. Wil- liams (Miami University), Comparison of the Arrangement of the Eggs in the Nests of Japy'x sp. and Scutigerella im- maculata ; S. J. Hunter (University of Kansas), On the Transition from Parthenogenesis to Gameogenesis in Aphids. IT. 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Owing to the fact that the above mentioned material in conjunction with a large series of rhodope has been made available for study, it seems advis- able to name this form. What relation it bears to rhodope in nature can't be foretold, but it is sufficiently distinct to call at- tention to it in the hope that future study will establish its true relationship. Parnassius immaculata n. sp. Male. Expands 1.25 inches. Primaries marked as in Parnassius clodius. Secondaries devoid of spots, the only marking is formed by the black scales on the inner margin and on the inner side of the dis- coidal area. Described from one specimen taken at the Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, by Mr. W. Judson Coxey, and kindly presented by him to the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. \Vhat relation this bears to clodius I am not prepared to say. Additional material and study in its habitat will be necessary to solve the problem. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS ICK} Two new Gall Midges (Dipt.). BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The two West Indian species described below were reared by Mr. W. H. Patterson, of the School of Agriculture, St. Vincent, and recently sent to the writer for determination. Asphondylia vincenti n. sp. This species was reared from the fruits of Jussiaea linifolia and /. suffrutiosa, at St. Vincent, W. I. Male. Length 1.75 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely short-haired, dark brown ; 14 sessile segments, the fifth with a length about five times its diameter; circumfili distinct, very tortuous. Palpi : first segment irregularly oval, with a length over twice its diam- eter, the second slender, nearly three times the length of the first. Mesonotum a nearly uniform slaty brown, the submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum fuscous yellowish, postscutellum darker. Abdomen sparsely haired dark brown. Wings hyaline, costa light brown, sub- costa uniting therewith just before the basal half, the third vein at the apex of the wing, the fifth just beyond the distal third, its branch just before the basal half. Legs mostly a variable fuscous yellowish, the tarsal segments being darker, except the yellow- ish brown tibiae and first four tarsal segments of the posterior legs ; simple claws rather slender, strongly curved, the pulvilli as long as the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment short, greatly swollen ; terminal clasp segment short, swollen, bidentate apically ; dorsal plate divided, the lobes narrowly oval and thickly setose apically; ventral plate small, apparently bilobed. Female. Length 2 mm. Color characters nearly as in the male. An- tennae : the fifth segment with a length about five times its diameter, the I2th with a length l /4 greater than its diameter, the I3th a little short- er, the I4th flattened, subglobose. Palpi : the first segment with a length nearly three times its diameter, the second slender, l / 2 longer ; posterior tibiae and first four tarsal segments markedly lighter than in the male. Ovipositor when extended about as long as the body, the acicula slender, acute ; dorsal pouch moderate sized, the lobes thickly setose and narrowly rounded apically. Pupa. Length 2 mm. Oval, stout, yellowish brown ; cephalic horns moderately long, stout, the inner oblique margins finely serrate ; antennal cases extending to the first abdominal segment, the wing cases to the fourth and the leg cases to the sixth. Just below the base of the an- tennae and on the venter there is a median, triangular, chitinous pro- HO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll cess, and a little behind that a bidentate, chitinous process with a mi- nute median tooth. Pupal skin thickly set with chitinous points or cor- rugations. Abdominal segments each with the dorsum ornamented with two sparse, transverse rows of stout spines, these becoming irreg- ular on the terminal segment, the apex being marked with a group of two or three divergent, sublateral spines. Larva.. Length 2 mm. Rather stout, white, distinctly segmented ; head extremely broad, only the tips of the slightly protuberant mouth- parts being fuscous; antennae short, extremely minute, the whole great- ly obscured by the large, strongly chitinized breastbone, which latter is broad, anteriorly, quadridentate, being divided by a median incision into two groups of minor teeth; shaft rather indistinctly chitinized and sup- ported by submedian, chitinous, rounded lobes ; skin coarsely shagreen- ed. Type Cecid a2i:8, N. Y. State Museum. Hyperdiplosis eupatorii n. sp. This species was reared from a green, conical gall with a length of about 4 mm. and a diameter of 1.5 mm., on the upper surface of the leaves of Enpatorium, the insects pupating within the deformity. This form is provisionally referred to Hyperdiplosis, because it agrees therewith in the triarticulate palpi, the reduced circumfili and the deeply and roundly exca- vated ventral plate. The antennal stems of the typical Hyper- diplosis are more produced and the claws more strongly bent than in this West Indian form. Male. Length i.i mm. Antennae l /2 longer than the body, thickly haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth having the basal por- tion of the stem with a length l /2 greater than its diameter, the distal part with a length 2 l / 2 times its diameter ; basal enlargement subglo- bose, a sparse subbasal whorl and a subapical circumfilum, the loops short and reaching only to the middle of the stem; the distal enlarge- ment with a length J^ greater than its diameter, a scattering whorl of setae, subbasal and subapical circumfili, the loops of each short, those of the distal filum not extending to the tip of the segment ; terminal segment having the distal enlargement subcylindric, with a length 2 l /2 times its diameter and a stout, finger-like process apical!}'. Palpi ; first segment short, irregular, the second with a length three times its width, the third nearly twice the length of the second, more slender. Mesono- tufn light brownish red, the yellowish submedian lines sparsely haired. Scutellum and postscutellum yellowish. Abdomen yellowish red, the fifth to seventh segments yellowish ; genitalia reddish. Wings hyaline. Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS III costa light brown, subcosta uniting therewith near the basal third, the third vein well beyond the apex, the fifth just before the distal fourth, its branch near the basal half. Halteres whitish transparent. Legs a nearly uniform fuscous yellowish, the simple claws slender, slightly curved, the pulvilli shorter than the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp seg- ment long, stout ; terminal clasp segment rather long, stout, irregularly curved; dorsal plate broad, broadly and roundly emarginate, the lobes irregularly rounded, sparsely setose ; ventral plate long, broad, broadly and very deeply emarginate, the lateral angles rather stout, finger-like, setose apically; style long, stout, broadly rounded distally. Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, sparsely haired, dark fuscous ; probably 14 segments, the fifth with a stem 1-3 the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a length about three times its diameter. Palpi : first segment rather stout, with a length twice its width, the second a little longer, more slender, the third l /$ longer than the second. Coloration nearly as in the male, except that the abdomen appears to be deep red. Ovipositor short, stout, when extended with a length only about 1-3 that of the abdomen ; terminal lobes narrowly elliptical, with a length three times the width, rather thickly and coarsely setose. Pupa. Length 2.75 mm. Yellowish white ; cephalic horns stout, yel- lowish brown ; thorax with a yellowish cast, thoracic horns rather stout, curved ; antennal cases extending to the first abdominal segment, wing cases to the third abdominal segment, the leg cases to the sixth ; abdomen whitish, each of the segments dorsally with a short, trans- verse row of two to five stout, chitinous spines, the posterior extremity apparently unarmed. Type Cecid a2ii6, N. Y. State Museum. TIMETES. In rearranging the American Rhopalocera in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia recently, I became interested to know whether one or two of the red species of Timetes were found in the United States. I found that we only had one au- thentic specimen from the United States and it was taken by Mrs. Slosson at Biscayne Bay, Florida. This specimen proves to be T. peleus Sulz. (petreus Cramer). The other species in our lists is eleuchea Hubn, and it is said to have been taken in Texas and Florida. It is a species found in Cuba and would be likely to be also found in Florida. It is not recorded from Mexico as far as I am aware. Peleus and eleuchea are closely related and it is likely that the two have been confused. Exact records for these insects are desirable as well as ex- act identifications so that we may determine whether we are to list both species or only one. I will be pleased to identify any material and would also be glad to have exact data of correctly determined specimens. HENRY SKINNER.. 112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll Notes on Tyloderma foveolatum (Say) (Col.). BY A. A. GIRAULT, Urbana, Illinois. On June I, 1909, at Centralia, Illinois, along a fence around a meadow on a farm there were found in a tangle of weeds an occasional clump of evening primrose (Oenothera biennis L.). every plant in which had been attacked by this common weevil. Eggs were then very abundant ; thus on a random plant sixty- seven egg-scars were counted. The eggs have the following characters : Length, 0.80 mm. ; width, 0.65 mm. Short-oval to oval ; surface cov- ered with a greyish, deciduous substance not unlike a coating of thin sugar and which is opaque and without sculpture. When this is rub- bed off, the surface of the egg is polished yellow, with no marked sculpture but slightly coriarious or like the surface of some leathers. Soft, pliable, easily crushed. Inconspicuous. General color greyish yellow; when seen in its natural position, the upper side (and also the lower) is slightly flattened. Deposited singly. When examined with transmitted light, the egg is liquid yellow or amber, opaque cen- trally ; this color persists until hatching. The pruinose coating is eas- ily removed by gently rolling the eggs between the fingers. The micro- pyle is not conspicuous. Several females were observed laying eggs ; the manner of doing this is extremely interesting. In the cases observed the males were not present. The mother weevil faces toward the top of the plant and takes a firm hold. She then proceeds to eat out of the stem of the plant a quadrate or oval cavity, making it about a half of a millimeter deep. When this is completed, she turns about, fits the end of the abdomen into the cavity and places an egg. Then assuming her former po- sition by turning about, she advances, breaks the skin of the plant w r ith her beak and peels a short strip of it down to the cavity and tucks it over the egg; this is repeated a number of times. Then she commences to peel off in the same manner longer strips from above and to one side of the cavity ; these longer strips are peeled dow 7 n as far as the bottom end of the egg cavity, bent over it and packed with the beak around the egg. Finally, she turns about, after crossing over the nidus. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 113 and commences to peel the long strips from the opposite direc- tion, pulling them up as far as the top of the cavity, bending them back over it and packing them in and around the egg as formerly. In this manner, at the end, she has the egg securely protected by a closely kneaded and interwoven network of plant tissue which becomes conspicuous by being in the center (axially) of a well-defined, denuded area and also because it is convex. The whole operation may require from forty-five to seventy-five minutes, or perhaps on the average about an hour. This method of protecting the egg is certainly ingenious. The following general notes were recorded : On June 20. 1909, females were still laying eggs. To show the compara- tively enormous number of these which a single plant may re- ceive, two random plants were examined on this date. In the case of the first, the main stem bore 204 egg-scars and three branches, 22, 13 and 28 respectively, a total of 267. The main stem of the second plant bore 97 egg-scars and its three branches, 7, 7 and 4 respectively, or a total of 115. This means in the case of the main stem that not many areas occur which are not entirely covered with the nidi. Most of those occurring on the branches faced inward or toward the main stem. June 28, a female accompanied by its mate, riding upon its back, was observed making an egg-cavity and also a similar pair was observed at the same time engaged in completing a nidus after deposition ; the males were passive in both in- stances. By this date, the adults were less common, the eggs, however, still commonly found in the plants ; the larvae were more common, perhaps, than the eggs. Two weeks later (July 15), adults were still present, engaged in oviposition, though noticeably less abundant. The majority of plants now opened for examination have their pithy in- teriors, especially near the ground, hollowed out and filled with brownish frass and debris, like moist ground cloves, those larvae which are full-grown at this time (6.25 mm.) being buried within the pith and partly concealed by the frass. Far- 114 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll ther up the stem, the hollowed-out channel gradually narrows, widening occasionally for some older larva (we may infer that first oviposition is done near the surface of the ground, later the eggs placed higher up on the stems), so that half way up the stem of the plant, merely the narrow, oblique chan- nels of the smaller larvae are usually present at this time, none of which lead directly from the nidus to the pithy center of the stem but instead are more or less diagonal and curved, sometimes irregular or tortuous. No pupae have been found as yet. The larvae were, of course, in various stages of de- velopment. On August 7, a badly infested plant taken from the field and examined contained full-grown larvae and also pupae. No adults have been noticed since the fifteenth of July. No other notes were obtained. It is easily inferred that but a single generation of this wee- vil occurs during a season, the adults emerging in the late summer and early autumn and without attempting reproduc- tion, hibernate. The next spring, they feed and mate, then con- tinue to lay eggs for about two months, and in. course of about a month and a half after the first eggs the adults may com- mence to emerge, continuing for a month or so. At Butler, 111., eggs were found on July 16, 1910. Larvae, then, were in all stages of development. Mr. E. A. Schwarz, U. S. N. M., kindly authoritatively identified the specimens. A NOTE ON CHLAMYS PLICATA FABRICIUS. This peculiar chrysomelid was abundant on wild blackberry plants at Centralia, 111., during 1909. These notes were made concerning it : Larvae present during June ; first pupa found in the larval case attached to the stem of a weed, two feet up from the ground, on June 28. The first beetle emerged from pupae kept in confinement but collected outdoors, on July 7 to 9. On July 19, 1909; 10 beetles which emerged a week and a half earlier were transferred to a breeding-cage containing fresh foliage of blackberry: although they lived for at least a month, they did not reproduce. They had been well attended to as regards food. A. A. GIRAULT, Urbana, 111. Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 115 New American Cleridae, with notes on others (Col.). By A. B. WOLCOTT, Chicago, 111. The material forming the basis of the present article was recently received from Prof. H. F. Wickham, by whom it was collected and to whom my thanks are due for having gener- ously placed in my hands for study all his unique and most valued specimens. Nearly all the species herein described as new are forms differing greatly from their nearest allies and should prove of easy recognition. CALLOTILLUS gen. nov. Body elongate, moderately convex, winged. Labrum short, transverse, truncate; eyes small, finely granulate, internally deeply emarginate ; last joint of maxillary palpi subcylindrical, of labial palpi securiform ; antennae lo-jointed, joint one mod- erately large ; joint two small, suborbicular ; joint three elon- gate, triangular, longer than joint one ; joints four to nine tri- angular, much larger than preceding joints, as broad as long; joint ten compressed, longer than the two preceding joints to- gether, obtusely rounded at apex. The species for which this genus is erected is Clerus-like in form. The structure of the antennae recalls both that of Tiliits and Monophylla. The third joint of the antennae is elongate triangular, but much narrower and more elongate than the suc- ceeding joints. The legs are slender and moderately long. The tarsi, five joints of which are visible from above, are scarcely one-half as long as the tibiae; they are feebly dilated and joints two, three and four are lamellate; the claws are bifid, the inner division slightly shorter than the outer portion and furnished with a strong tooth at base. Five segments of abdomen visible. The structure of the tarsi and the antennae bring this genus into the group Tillini, where it is best placed between Mono- phylla Spin, and Tillus Oliv. Type of the genus is the following new species: Callotillus eburneocinctus sp. nov. Rufous, subopaque; meso- and metasternum rufo-piceous; abdomen black, shining, posterior margins of ventral segments pale; antennae Il6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll pale testaceous ; elytra with a narrow, slightly recurved, elevated, median fascia pale yellowish, apical half of elytra blue black. Head including the feebly prominent eyes not wider than the thorax at apex, moderately clothed with whitish pubescence, rather finely very densely punctate. Thorax longer than broad, much narrower at base than at apex, apical margin arcuate, sides broadly rounded to behind the mid- dle, thence gradually convergent to base, less densely but a little more coarsely punctured than the head, clothed with short, recumbent, gray- ish pubescence, and in apical half with long erect black pilosity which Right antenna of Callotillus eburneocinctus n. sp. is dense each side of middle, forming a large indefinitely limited rounded spot. Elytra broader at base than the thorax at widest part, sides parallel in basal half, behind this arcuately broadened then nar- rowed to the conjointly rounded apices, humeri moderately prominent, each elytron strongly tuberculate at base midway between scutellum and humerus, the tubercles clothed with erect black pilosity, basal half of elytra rufous, clothed with sparse black pilosity, finely densely punctate, apical half blue black, densely clothed with short grey pu- bescence with some longer erect black hairs intermixed, as densely but more coarsely punctate than basal half, a narrow, slightly elevated somewhat recurved, pale yellow median fascia attains the flanks but not the suture. Body beneath and abdomen sparsely, finely punctate, clothed with sparse whitish pubescence. Legs moderately clothed with whitish hairs. Length 5 mm. One specimen. Key West, Florida. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham. Cymatodera delicatula Fall, Canad. Ent., xxxviii, 1906, p. 113. A specimen taken at Tepehuanes, Durango, Mex., I refer to this species with slight doubt. It differs in no discernible structural character from the typical form from Lower Cali- fornia. The color in the example before me is, however, so different from that of the Lower Californian form that no doubt they would be considered distinct were specimens of the species from the type locality not before me. In the Tepehuanes specimen the body beneath is pale testa- ceous, the head entirely black, the thorax as in the type, but Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 117 the elytra are black with a much narrower ante-median fascia, which is slightly interrupted at the suture ; the apices of elytra not pale. The specimen is 3.5 mm. in length. Cymatodera turbata Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xii, 1885, p. 151. This species was also taken at Tepehuanes, Mex., by Prof. Wickham. The specimen is typical in every respect with the exception of a very slight infuscate cloud at extreme apices of elytra. This species has not been recorded as occurring else- where than in Texas, if we exclude a Panama record of a spe- cies doubtfully determined as turbata. Cymatodera comans Wolc., Publ. Field Mus. Chicago, vii, 1910, p. 351, pi. 6, f. 14-16. Two male specimens of this species have been sent me by Prof. Wickham since the description was published. Both ex- amples were taken at Salton, Cal., August 20, and form an interesting record as they were found at 265 feet below sea level. A female from Peach Springs, Ariz. (Wickham), is considerably smaller than the type, being but 7.5 mm, in length. A male from Yerington, Nev. (Baumberger), is of the same size as the female from Peach Springs. The present known distribution of the species is Utah, Texas, Arizona, Cali- fornia and Nevada. Cymatodera bipunctata Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Ameri., Col. Ill, 2, 1882, p. 135, pi. vii, f. 16. A specimen of this very rare species labeled "Jalapa, Mex.," was sent me by Prof. Wickham. The species was originally described from Oaxaca, Mexico, two specimens being all that were known. The specimen at hand agrees in every way with the descrip- tion with the exception that the sutural margins from the mid- dle to apex are very narrowly bordered with black. The struc- ture of the antennae is as in inornata, but the outer joints are even less dentate. The specimen is a female, hence the termi- nal segments of the abdomen furnish no characters of im- portance. The length of the specimen is 9.5 mm. Il8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll ENOCLERUS Gahan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), v, 1910, p. 62 and 65. Clerus Schklg., Gen. Ins., Cleridae, 1903, p. 48 (nee. Fabr.). The term Enoclerus proposed by Prof. Chas. J. Gahan for the American species formerly placed in Clerus is suppressed by Sigm. Schenkling in the Coleopterorum Catalogus (W. Junk), Cleridae, 1910, p. 51, and placed as a synonym of Clerus Fabr. Prof. Gahan has, I think, plainly demonstrated that the type of the genus Clerus is the European mutillarius Fabr., a species not congeneric with the American species. Prof. Gahan used both the "first species" and "elimination" methods and both gave the same result. Se.vguttatus Fabr., which must be ac- cepted as the type of Clerus, if the classification of Mr. Schenkling be approved, was not included as one of the original species, apparently being unknown to Fabricius at the time he characterized the genus, the description of se.vguttatus appearing in an appendix to the volume. Mutillarius was the last of the species originally included in Clerus by Fabricius to be removed to another genus. Jacques du Val in 1861 made it the type of his genus Pseudoclerops. Therefore there seems to be no other course than to consider Pseudoclerops a syno- nym of Clerus Fabr., and to retain the name Enoclerus for the American species. Enoclerus ocreatus Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xii, 1885, p. 154. Specimens of this species occur in Colorado in which the antennae and tibiae are quite dark ; these specimens bear a great deal of resemblance to an immaculate humeralis Schaeff., but the elytra are slightly more depressed and the punctua- tion much less inclined to become seriate. Enoclerus humeralis Schaeff., Sci. Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Mus., I, 1905, p. 155. This species originally described from Tulare Co., Califor- nia, appears to be confined to the Pacific coast region. In the collection of Mr. F. S. Daggett there is an example from San Bernardino Mts., California, elevation 6,400 ft. My friend, Mr. F. W. Nunenmacher, has recently sent me a specimen Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 119 from Del Norte Co., northern California, and from Prof. Wickham I have received a specimen for identification which is labeled Vernon, B. C. In all these, as in the type, the red humeral markings are strongly limited and of the same form. Enoclerus quadriguttatus var. rufiventris Spin., Mon. Cler., I, 1844, p. 264, pi. xxiii, f. 3. A specimen of this variety from Mt. Katahdin, Maine, 5,000 feet, sent for examination by Prof. Wickham has the usual coloration of this variety excepting that the apical margin of the prothorax is dull testaceous and the median elytral fascia is bright orange-yellow ; a subapical fascia of the same color is less evident, being more thoroughly hidden by the dense grayish pubescence clothing this part. Enoclerus bombycinus Chevr., Col. Mex., cent. I', fasc. 1, 1833, No. 42. Three specimens from Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico, sent by Prof. Wickham, are as variable in size as the examples from eastern Mexico, but remarkably constant in coloration. Enoclerus spinolae Lee., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vi, 1853, p. 230. A specimen of this species taken by Prof. Wickham at Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico, has the post median fascia nearly complete, the interruption at the suture being very nar- row. This species has on two or more occasions been recorded as occurring in Mexico, but no definite locality has been given. Enoclerus acerbus sp. nov. Closely allied to ichnenmoneus Fabr., from which it differs as fol- lows : Form broader and depressed, head and prothorax rather coarse- ly rugose, elytra very finely confluently punctate, the general color black, a broad median fascia and the abdomen yellow. Head, pro- thorax, base of elytra and legs clothed with long erect and semi-erect greyish hairs ; these are wanting upon the disk of the prothorax where they are replaced by very short, dense black pubescence and longer black hairs. Elytra black, a broad median fascia yellow, the anterior and posterior margins of fascia sub-parallel but arcuate upon each elytron, the convexity being toward the base of elytra, a sub-apical ob- lique fascia composed of short greyish pubescence as in ichneumoneus, I2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll the black portions clothed with short velvety black pubescence, and with the fascia with sparse long black hairs. Length 10 mm. Elko, Nevada. Type in cabinet of Prof. Wickham. A smaller specimen (8.2 mm.) which is not before me at the present time is in the collection of the Illinois State Labora- tory of Natural History. This specimen is from the "Pea- body colln." and bears the locality label "Ut." and the name label analis, from which it is entirely distinct. Enoclerus opifex Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Amer., Col., iii, 2, 1882, p. 156, pi. viii, f. 3. Two specimens of this interesting addition to our fauna were taken at Alpine, Texas (4400-6000 ft.) by Prof. Wick- ham. Gorham described opife.v from Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. It is quite unlike any other species in our fauna. The color is black, shining, the elytra red, a large rounded subapical black maculation on each elytron sometimes confluent at suture, the black bordered anteriorly by a narrow pale red fascia, the extreme apex is black and with the legs is densely clothed with gray hairs. The specimens before me are 7.5-8 mm. in length. Gorham gives the length of this species as 5.5-8 mm. Enoclerus analis Lee., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1849, p. 20. This appears to be a much misunderstood species, others than the proper species usually bearing this name in collec- tions, while analis is as often placed under another name. I have even found them placed as abrnptus, a species to which they bear but little resemblance. Analis is variable in regard to the coloration of the legs and abdomen, the elytra are on the contrary quite constant, being in all specimens examined red at base and dark before the median fascia which has a form not found in any other species occurring in North America, and which is somewhat similar to that of rosmarus but more deeply and regularly concave and greatly prolonged posteriorly at the suture, reaching nearly, or quite to the sub- apical fascia; the apex is black (pale in most specimens of rosmarus'] and the black space intervening between the pale Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 121 fasciae is much wider than in rosmarus. The legs are usually black, but the color varies to the extent of all the tibiae red and in some individuals the anterior and sometimes a portion of all the femora as well as the tarsi are also red. The color of the abdomen as given in the original description and as given in the notes subjoined is contradictory, but as due to actual variation in color the statements are true ; the abdomen varying- from entirely pale red, the apical segment sanguineous red, to entirely black, usually, however, with the apical seg- ment red. The specimens at hand show that the basal seg- ments are the first to become darker, these having at times merely an infuscate cloud ; the most common form has the three apical segments red. Enoclerus abruptus Lee., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1858, p. 72. This is undoubtedly the most variable species of the genus. The typical form has the head, thorax and legs red, but forms are at hand with the same parts black ; in other specimens the head and thorax may be black, the legs red or again these conditions may be reversed. The basal maculations of the elytra are always present, but in some individuals they are but little paler than the basal portion of the elytra ; the width and form of the median fascia is very variable, and is usually but not always interrupted at the suture. The color of the pale parts varies from red to yellow. It is probable that two or more of the species now standing as valid are but varieties of this species. Enoclerus abruptus var. coccineus S'chklg. Clerus coccineus Schklg., Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1906. p. 272, pi. II, f. 7- Clerus corallinus Fall. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XXXIII, 1907, p. 240. This is one of the many forms deserving of a varietal name. Coccineus was described from northern Mexico but occurs in our fauna from Duluth, Minn., through Nebraska and Colorado to Texas and New Mexico. 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll Enoclerus palmii Schaeff., Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xi, 1904, p. 218. This recently described species seems to be not rare in col- lections. It is in my collection from Las Vegas, New Mex., and Prof. Wickham has taken it at Gallup, New Mex., and at Williams, Ariz. There is some variation in size but the markings and sculpture are constant. Hydnocera superba sp. nov. Moderately robust, cyaneous, shining; head and thorax with slight greenish tint, the latter sometimes aeneous; elytra violaceous; antennae pale testaceous at base, gradually infuscated toward apex; legs blue black. Head including the eyes wider than the prothorax, very densely but not very coarsely punctate, front impressed each side of middle, clothed with short sparse whitish pubescence, with a few long erect black hairs intermixed. Thorax broader than long, densely, rather coarsely punctate, middle of disk at base impunctate ; sides strongly constricted at apex, moderately dilated at middle and straight and par- allel at base, lateral fovese deep and distinct, pubescence greyish, short sparse and inconspicuous with a few long erect black hairs intermixed. Elytra normally covering the abdomen, feebly narrowing to apex ; humeri distinct ; surface coarsely, subcribrately punctate, the individual punctures mostly well separated, apical two-fifths more finely and densely punctate, becoming scabrous toward apex ; apices obtusely separately rounded, non-serrate, slightly dehiscent at suture ; clothed with short, recumbent greyish pubescence which is most conspicuous toward the apices and also forms an indistinct fascia at apical two- fifths, also with longer dark hairs which are erect before the fascia and semi-recumbent behind it. Body, abdomen and legs very finely and densely punctate, moderately clothed with whitish pubescence, the legs quite densely. Length 6 mm. Two specimens. Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham ; cotype in my collec- tion. Hydnocera mexicana sp. nov. Robust, aeneous, moderately shining; antennae (except club), tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous, the tarsi more or less infuscate; abdomen black with cupreous reflexions. Head, including the eyes, distinctly wider than the prothorax, rather coarsely, very densely punctate, clothed with short, whitish, recumbent pubescence and longer sparse black pilosity. Thorax wider than long, discal area sparsely, the flanks coarsely and densely punctate; sides strongly dilated before the middle, strongly constricted near apex, feebly convergent at base; lateral Vol. XXJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 123 foveae moderately distinct ; pubescence and pilosity similar to that of head but more dense. Elytra scarcely shorter than the abdomen ; flanks slightly convergent posteriorly; wider than the head; humeri distinct; disk feebly convex ; coarsely, densely punctate, an area behind the post- median fascia confluently punctate, becoming granular at the apices ; sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, whitish hairs, long erect black hairs conspicuous on basal half; a post-median transverse spot or fascia dull testaceous, clothed with long, recumbent, posteriorly directed whitish hairs, these also extending anteriorly on suture to about basal one-third, thence sinuately to the humeri, behind the fascia these hairs also evident, extending nearly half way to apices thence forming an arcuate fascia with its convexity toward the apices, the latter obtusely, separately rounded, non-serrate and dehiscent at suture. Body beneath and abdomen finely, sparsely punctate, clothed with moderately long, sparse hairs ; legs clothed with short whitish and longer erect black hairs. Length 5. 5.5 mm. This species bears a striking resemblance to the North American sub fa-s data, the size, color, general form and espe- cially the markings being very similar. The upper surface more coarsely punctate throughout, the more distinctly mark- ed elytral pattern with the post-median color fascia and non- serrate elytral apices render it impossible to consider it as other than a distinct species. Two specimens. Tepehuanes, Durango, Mexico. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham ; cotype in my collection. Hydnocera bituberculata Chevr., Rev. Mag. Zool., 1874, p. 71. A specimen of this graceful but oddly formed little species was taken at Jalapa, Mex., and sent me by Prof. Wickham. In the original description the color of elytra is given (by im- plication) as black, while in the Var. B. the prothorax and elytra are said to be blue. In the present specimen the head and prothorax are shining dark bluish green and the elytra are purplish black. The length is 4 millimeters, agreeing with the type in size. The basal tubercles of the elytra are quite con- spicuous. Ellipotoma laticornis Say. Enoplium laticornis Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., I, 1835, p. 164. Ellipotoma laticornis Wolc., Bull. Ind. Dep. Geol. Nat. Res., I. 1910, p. 859. 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll This species, which I have referred to the genus Ellipotoma Spinola, has the antenna? eight-jointed in the male, while in the female they are ten-jointed. EUipotoma (Apolopha] tri- lineata Chevr. (Rev. Mag. Zool., 1874, p. 324) is very doubt- fully distinct from laticornis. Our species is in any event bet- ter placed in Ellipotoma than in either Apolopha or Ichnca, I agree with the expressed view of Prof. Gahan that Ellipo- toma should be removed from the group Hydnocerini and be placed near Phylloboenus in the group Enopliini of the sub- family Corynetinae. Eurycranus pulchellus sp. nov. Elongate, bluish-green, shining; abdomen, femora and pronotum dark aeneous green, apical margin of the latter dark violaceous ; eyes, antennae, parts of the mouth (labrum, mandibles, palpi), tibiae and tarsi black ; prosternum and apical half of prothoracic flanks rufous ; elytra brilliant green with slight metallic lustre and very shining. Head not wider than prothorax at apex, rather finely and densely punctate ; eyes feebly convex ; front biimpressed ; clothed with short, sparse, whitish pubescence and long, moderately dense erect black pilosity ; antennae shorter than the head and thorax. Thorax distinctly wider than long, widest at basal third, base and apex sub-equal in width, subapical constriction feeble ; sides broadly rounded ; subapical trans- verse impressed line feeble; basal impressed line deep; a feeble fovea each side at middle ; disk at middle longitudinally sulcate ; surface coriaceous, rather coarsely and irregularly punctate; clothed with very sparse, recumbent whitish pubescence and long erect black pilosity. Elytra subparallel ; apices conjointly rounded ; rather strongly convex ; humeri protuberant ; a distinct post-humeral fovea ; scutellar region depressed ; coarsely, densely irregularly punctate at base, the sculpture becoming scabrous toward apex ; entire lateral margin and apical two- thirds of sutural margin bicarinate ; rather densely clothed with long, semi-recumbent, coarse, yellowish white pubescence with longer, erect black hairs intermixed. Body beneath moderately coarsely, sparsely punctate ; legs finely, densely punctate. Venter and legs moderately clothed with yellowish white pubescence. Length 6 mm. This is the second species of the genus to be made known from elsewhere than Chili, which country is the metropolis of the genus Eurycranus. Rev. Mr. Gorham (Biol. Centr.- Amer., Col. Ill, 2, p. 165) described a species from Guate- mala, to which he gave the name viridiaeneus. The present Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 125 species differs from Gorham's species by having- the prothorax broader than long (longer than wide in viridiaeneus} ; the mouth, antennae and palpi black and the legs dark (these parts red in viridiaeneus) and the sculpture of the thorax and elytra is quite different. One specimen. San Angel, D. F., Mexico. Type in collection of Prof. Wickham. PRIONOSTICHAEUS nom. nov. The above term is here proposed to replace the generic name Prionodera Wolc., (Publ. Field Mus., Chicago, VII, 1910, p. 396) which I find is a homonym of Prionodera Chevr. (Dej. Cat. Col, 2nd ed., 1834), a genus of Chrysomelidae. Three new Brazilian Micro-Lepidoptera. By W. D. KEARFOTT, Montclair, N. J. Anacrusis iheringi sp. n. Exp. $ 25-26 mm., $ 28-30 mm. Head and collar dark chocolate brown, mixed with black ; face and palpi pale clay-yellow, speckled with dark brown; antennae clay-yel- low, dark brown above ; thorax, abdomen and legs, light clay-yellow. Forewing $, pale clay-yellow, transversely finely strigulated with a darker shade, the strigulations forming faint costal dashes. On the outer half of wing, above middle is a long horizontal chocolate brown triangular streak, beginning at end of cell, its upper edge nearly reaches apex, but bends acutely downward toward middle of termen, the lower edge is broadly concave and below it is a cloud of brownish scales. This brown mark is bordered anteriorly by a broad and outwardly by a narrow silver white edging. In some specimens there is a tendency of the brown mark to become broken near its inner end. In the apex is a small white spot transversed by a narrow chocolate brown line. Cilia clay-yellow. Hindwings light clay-yellow, with a few brown flecks in apex. The 9 is generally darker than the male. The triangular mark on forewing is replaced by a dot of brown at end of cell in middle of wing and half way between this dot and apex is a silvery white round spot, enclosing on its inner side a lunate spot of chocolate brown. Be- tween these and reaching to costa the ground color is much darker, forming a quadrate costal spot. 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll The 9 forewing is strongly incised between apex and middle of ter- men and below middle is strongly concave, in the $ the upper incision is much slighter and the lower half of termen is convex. Described from one $ and two $ 's from Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Dr. R. von Ihering, of the Museo Paulista, for whom the species is named (No. 10-650). Types in my collection. Stenoma chlorina sp. n. \o C> Exp. 24-27 mm. Head sordid yellowish brown, face hoary white, palpi dark bronzy green with scattered white scales on upper side of both 2nd and 3rd joints; thorax light gray; abdomen light yellow, anal tuft ochreous; legs, ochreous, tarsi ringed with dark brown. Forewing of a shining chlorina-green, the $ in certain lights and from certain angles, a lighter, whitish shade is visible, especially be- tween upper edge of cell and costa, at end of cell and in a narrow terminal line. In the ? this white shade is permanent and parallels costa from extreme base to middle of termen ; it is interrupted at mid- dle of costa and sends a narrow curved spur to the dot at end of cell, and thence to hindmargin ; it is somewhat speckled through its length by ground color; in the 9 the terminal whitish line is much more dis- tinct. There is a dark brown, almost black, spot on the fold at two-fifths of wing length from base; at the end of cell is a more intense dot of the ground color, surrounded by whitish scales. Hindwing dull ochreous brown, cilia clear yellow. Described from six specimens from Dr. R. von Ihering, Sao Paulo, Brazil (No. 10-860) ; two in Meyrick's collection. The forewings of this species are broader than the schlac- i group, and more nearly the shape of sciaphilina Z. Stenoma dissimilis sp. n. Exp. $ 17-22 mm., $ 23-27 mm. Head white, suffused with lavender gray in front, face white ; palpi white, with an ochreous brown spot, above, at base of 2nd joint, a suf- fusion of the same shade in the middle of the terminal joint; thorax gray ; abdomen whitish yellow. Porewing, ground color, pure white; the lower half of wing bounded by fold is gray, with a pinkish-lavender suffusion, its upper edge is bordered above by four quadrate spots of a darker degree of the same shade, the dorsal margin from base to middle of this patch is dull gray; Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS between the outer end of patch and tornus are two flatly triangular indian red spots ; from the outward one arises a curved transverse line of six gray dots, paralleling the termen. Above the patch, and con- necting it to the costa, at inner sixth, is a broad fascia of light brown, containing a dark brown streak at its lower edge and inner side of the upper half. The costa is washed with pale yellow, and there are small shades of this color and gray, between costa and dorsal patch, the most prominent is a yellowish gray spot at end of cell, near costa, below it a smaller and fainter spot, and beyond the latter is a curved mark of light gray. Between the row of sub-terminal dots and termen is a curved shade of yellowish gray. Hindwing white, inwardly shading into ochreous-white. $ differs from male in the dorsal patch, which is heavily overlaid with blackish brown, especially on the outer half. The shades of ochre- ous, red and lavender are also entirely absent. Described from seven $ 's and five $ 's from Dr. R. von Ihering, Sao Paulo, Brazil (No. 10-631). This species belongs to the schlaegeri group, with narrow forewing. In the $ there is a distinct narrow dorsal fold or roll, and in this sex the scales of the basal patch are long and specialized. A pair in Dr. Edward Meyrick's collection, and I gratefully acknowledge his kindness in comparing this and preceding spe- cies with British Museum collections. COURTSHIP IN TARANTULAS. The instincts of the male tarantula change suddenly at the period of maturity. From a creature with domestic habits he develops into a vagabond. Disregarding personal danger he constructs a sperm-web into which he throws out his sperm and pumps it then into both of his palpi. In the search for the female he is entirely dependent upon his sense of touch, his sense of sight being entirely inadequate for the purpose. The courtship is therefore very short and consists in beating the female with his front legs. The danger of being hit by the fangs of the excited female is prevented by catching them with the hooks on the front legs. The coitus lasts not longer than one half minute, after which the spiders cautiously separ- ate. A few weeks later the males die apparently a natural death, ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH. 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll Endaphis Kieff. in the Americas (Dipt.). BY E. P. FELT, Albany, N. Y. The discovery of species referable to this genus from widely separated points in the New World is interesting. Last fall we received from Prof. C. H. T. Townsend, Piura, Peru, two specimens of a small midge reared by him from cotton leaves badly infested with galls containing mites. It is possible that these cotton leaves were also infested by small aphicls, though none were observed. The North American species has also been reared. The two forms are characterized below. Endaphis abdominalis n. sp. Male. Length .25 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, thick- ly haired, yellowish; 14 segments, the first antennal segment greatly produced ventrally and probably dorsally, extending to the middle of the subglobose second antennal segment, the fifth binodose, the two parts of the stem, each with a length over twice its diameter, the en- largements subglobose, each with a thick subbasal whorl of long, stout setae and a well developed subapical circumfilum, the loops of the lat- ter extending to the base of the succeeding enlargement. Palpi quadri- articulate, the first and second segments short, the third with a length about three times its diameter, the fourth as long as the third. Mesono- tum fuscous, the submedian lines yellowish. Scutellum yellowish, postscutellum fuscous. Abdomen light yellow, fuscous basally. Geni- talia yellowish. Wings hyaline, costa pale straw, subcosta uniting therewith at the basal third, the third vein distinctly before the apex, the fifth, indistinct distally, at the distal third, its branch near the basal third. Halteres yellowish transparent. Coxae and femora yellowish ; tibiae fuscous yellowish, the tarsi, especially the distal segments, dark- er. Claws long, slender, evenly curved, simple, the pulvilli narrow, nearly as long as the claws. Genitalia indistinct. Female. Length .3 mm. Antennae extending to the second abdom- inal segment, rather thickly haired, fuscous yellowish ; 14 segments, the first antennal segment produced, the dorsal tooth extending to the mid- dle of the subglobose second antennal segment, the fifth subsessile. cylindric, with a length about twice its diameter and thick subbasal and subapical whorls of long, stout setae ; terminal segment broadly oval, with a length about ^ greater than its diameter, broadly rounded api- cally. Palpi probably as in the male. Mesonotum fuscous, the sub- median lines yellowish. Scutellum yellowish, postscutellum fuscous. Abdomen yellowish, the basal three segments a variable fuscous. The Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 12() slender pulvilli nearly as long as the slender, curved, simple claws. Ovipositor short, the lobes narrowly oval, sparsely setose. Other char- acters as in the male. The colors are approximate, since the descrip- tions were drafted from balsam mounts. Received through Dr. L. O. Howard, from Prof. C. H. T. Townsend, Piura, Peru, and numbered by him 7009. Easily distinguished from E. perfidus Kieff. by its much smaller size and the presumably yellow color of the abdomen. Endaphis americana n. sp. The first North American representative of this European genus was reared September 2, 1910, from what appeared to be galls of Eriophyes jraxinijlora Felt on Fra.rinns velutina collected by Dr. R. E. Kunze, Prescott, Arizona, August I5th. There was no doubt as to the foliage having been deformed by Eriophyes, since mites were rather abundant and relatively large. There may have been a few aphids in addition. Description. Female. Length i mm. Antennae extending to the sec- ond abdominal segment, yellowish transparent, slightly fuscous; 14 segments, the first excavated and with the margins produced dorsally and ventrally, the sey 2 From any Insect or well-made microscopical mount Photographs for Half=Tones for your Monograph, for Record Books or Exhibition Transparencies EDWARD F. BIGELOW, PH.D. LABORATORY AND GALLERY ARCADIA, SOUND BEACH, CONNECTICUT Write for Terms and Particulars Send loc. for a copy of "The Quide to Nature" (popular nature magazine) THE "ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE" a journal devoted to general Entomology, started in 1864, and now edited by G. C. Champion, J. E. Collin, W. W. Fowler, R. W. Lloyd, G. T. Porritt, J. J. Walker and Lord Walsingham. It contains descriptions of new genera and species, in all Orders (British and foreign), life histories, reviews of new works, etc., and is illustrated by at least two chrotno-lithographic plates per annum. 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CONTENTS: Jones A new North American Moth of the Family Psvchidae I Lepid. ) . . 103 Banks Cases of Phoresie 194 Beutenmuller Three new Species of Cynipidae (Hvm ) 197 Dyar The American Species of Dia- traea Guilding (Lepid., Pvralidae) 199 Girault A Supposed Occurrence of Cockerell A new Coccid on Ledum (Hemip.) 217 Rohwer Additions and Correctionsto "The Genotypes of the Sawflies and Woodwasps or the Superfam- ily Tenthredinoidea tHvmen.) 218 Skinner A new Variety of Chionobas 220 Muttkowski A new Gomphus (Odon.j 221 Anagrus incarnatus Haliday in the Felt Kndaphis hirta n. sp. (Dipt.).... 224 United States ( Hym.) 207 , F.ditorial 225 Lovell New Records of Bees: Sphe- ' Notes and News 226 codes and Prosopis (Hvm.) 211 Entomological Literature 232 Girault The Occurrence of the Myma- Doings of Societies 237 rid Genus Anaphoidea Girault in ' Obituary Dr. Edward Palmer 239 England (Hymen.) 215 I Prof. Felix Plateau 239 A New North American Moth of the Family Psychidae (Lepid.). BY FRANK MORTON JONES, Wilmington, Delaware. (Plate VI.) Eurycttarus tracyi nov. sp. Male. Antennae larger and more broadly pectinated than in confed- erata, each pectination terminated with a bristly tuft ; thorax heavy, densely hairy; abdomen hairy, in dried examples barely exceeding sec- ondaries ; wings broad ; primaries short, costa full, apex so rounded that no angle is discernible ; secondaries broad, evenly rounded ; color smoky brownish gray, the primaries and thorax slightly darker than the sec- ondaries and abdomen ; wings without markings, not very opaque, in some lights with a brilliant purplish-blue reflection beneath, fainter above; expands 17-19 mm; vein 6 absent on both wings, which refers this insect (Neum. and Dyar, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. u, 118) to Euryct- tarus Hamps. ; the anal vein of primaries forks at half its length from base, the upper branch arching in a regular curve, not angled at its point of widest separation as in confederate.; vein 8 of primaries not stemmed with 9 before reaching cell, or in some examples very shortly stemmed (in confederata the stem is as long as the remaining length of 8 from stem to margin of wing) ; on secondaries the oblique vein from 8 divides the vein at about half its length from base; in confed- erate this oblique vein is about one third distant from the base ; other differences, due to the widely different wing-shape, will appear by com- parison. 193 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'n Larval Case: Length 21-27 mm., and of almost uniform diameter; thatched outside with short flat pieces of dried grass, closely applied, and overlapped or shingled longitudinally. Described from four males bred (May, 1910) from larvae and numerous cases collected at Biloxi, Mississippi. Types are deposited in the U. S. National Museum and in my own col- lection. The female is wingless and grub-like as in the related spe- cies; a single female was bred but was not secured in condi- tion for detailed description. Like confederata, this insect passes the winter as a larva, apparently always in the last lar- val stage, and feeds for a short time in early spring, suspend- ing its case to some tree, fence, or twig for final transforma- tion. Though apparently by choice a grass-feeder in swampy places, the spring-time food is often the petals of flowers, and several larvae were found devouring the tender yellow petals of pitcher plants (Sarracenia sledgei}. Though of less ex- panse, this is a much more robust insect than the well-known E. confederata G. & R. and its larval case is proportionately larger. I take pleasure in dedicating this interesting species to Prof. S. M. Tracy, whose hospitality and knowledge of the district and its flora added greatly to the pleasure and profit of my stay at Biloxi. Cases of Phoresie. BY NATHAN BANKS, East Falls Church, Va. The cases where insects are transported by other insects are comparatively few. Among the mites, there are long series of forms in which it is the rule that the mite is in some of its stages transported by insects. The well-known case of the triungulins of Meloidae, being carried by bees, is found in all text-books. But there is a considerable number of records of other insects being transported by larger insects. Some years ago Mrs. Slosson sent me some Chrysopids from Mt. Washington that had, clinging to their wings, some small flies. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 195 Since then I have been interested in listing articles on this sub- ject, and the titles, with comment, are herewith presented, rec- ognizing, of course, that the list is not complete. Meigen, J. W. Systematische Beschreibung der europaischen zwei- flugelischen Insekten VII, p. 409, 1838. Describes 'Limosina sacra, a Borborid fly found on the under surface of the sacred Scarabaeus (Ateuchus saccr). Xambeu, P. Bull. Soc. Ent, France, 1877, p. Ixix. Records finding a specimen of a Chalcidid. Podagrion pachyincnts Dalm., attached to the under wings of a Mantis rcligiosa L. ; it waits till the female makes an egg- mass, and then deposits its eggs therein. Moult on, J. T. Flies riding on a tumble-bug. Amer. Entom., vol. Ill, p. 226, 1880. Xoticed in Missouri, a small fly (possibly Limosina, from the brief description), riding on a tumble bug. Sharp, D. Proc. Ent. Soc., London, 1890, p. xxx. Exhibited a specimen of one of the bird flies, Ornithomyia avicularia, to which were attached by their mandibles several specimens of Mallophaga. Eaton, A. E. Flies riding on beetle back. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1896, p. 139. Borborid fly on back of a coprophagous beetle in England. Walker, J. J. Flies riding on beetle back. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1896, p. 161. Notes Ateuchus variola sus at Gibraltar with Borborid flies upon them. Lesne, P. Moeurs du Limosina sacra. Phenomenes de transport mutuel chez les animaux articules; origine du parasitisme chez les insectes Dipteres. Bull. Soc. Ent., France, 1896, p. 162-165. Gives account of Limosina sacra on specimens of Ateuchus laticollis; also notes that larvae of Anther ophagus (Crypto- phagid beetles), ride on bees like triungulins of Meloids. Lesne proposes the term "phorcsie" for this transportation of one insect by another. 196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll Chobaut, A. Observations sur un Diptere vivant sur les Ateuchus. Bull. Soc. Ent, France, 1896, p. 166. Confirms the observations of Lesne. Bloesch, Ch. Physapodes se sont transporter par les guepes. Feuille Jeun. Natur. (3) vol. XXV, p. 75-?6, (1896). Slosson, Mrs. A. T. Singular habit of a Cecidomyid Ent. News, 1896. p. 238. A Cecidomyiid attached to Chrysopa; suggested that the cecidomyiid is predaceous on plant lice, that are also preyed upon by the Chrysopa larvae. Cummings, H. A. Parasites of the house-fly. Science Gossip, 1899. (Amer. Mo. Micr. Journ., Oct., 1899, P- 3i8.) Notes that in Bermuda a small red ant is carried by the fly. Kertesz, K. Dipterologisches aus New Guinea. Termes. Fiizetek. XX, p. 611-613, 1897. Small flies riding on a large one. Biro, L. Commensalismus bei Fliegen.. Termes. Fiizetek. XXII, p. 200, 1899. (Also Rovartani Lapok, 1897, p. 129). Two Agromysa minutissima carried by an Ommatius minor, in New Guinea. Mik, J. Merkwiirdige Beziehung zwischen Desmometopa m.- atrum Meig. aus Europa und Agromyza minutissima V. d. Wulp. aus New Guinea. Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 146-151. Found 13 specimens of a small fly (Desmometopa (Agro- mysa) m-atrum) attached to a dead worker bee, that was still fresh. Reviews papers by Biro and Kertesz. Warner, W. V. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V. p. 308-309, 1903. Exhibited specimen of S cello (Scrphidae} clinging by jaw to the side of a grasshopper, Dichromorpha viridis. The genus Scelio is parasitic on the eggs of grasshgppers. Schulz, W. A. Dipteren als Ektoparasiten an stidamerikanischer Tag- faltern. Zool. Anzeiger, XXVIII, p. 42-43, 1904. Notes Phoridre attached to butterflies of genera Morplw and Helicopsis in Brazil. Vol. Xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 197 Fletcher, T. B. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1909, p. 168. He exhibited at meeting of Ent. Soc. Lond. 2 June, 1909, an example of Scarabaeits gangeticus taken on wing, carrying small Borborid flies. The habit of certain Borborid flies in attaching to copro- phagous beetles is evidently world wide, and undoubtedly aids them in locating suitable breeding places. The habit of cer- tain Hymenopterous egg-parasites of clinging to parents of the eggs is quite possibly confined to certain groups. The other cases are difficult of classification, and some may be accidental. Three new species of Cynipidae (Hym.). BY WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Dryocosmus favus sp. nov. Female. Head black, finely rugoso-punctate, mouth parts dull rufous. Antennae 14-jointed, first joint quite stout, second much shorter, third long, slender at base and broad at end, fourth about one-half as long as the third, fifth shorter than the fourth, sixth to last short and almost uniform in size, deep brown, terminal joints al- most black. Thorax jet black, smooth and shining, very minutely punctate anteriorly and laterally, which parts are slightly hairy. Parapsidal grooves sharply defined, with a few short hairs along the outer edges. Median groove wanting. Anterior parallel lines very short and scarcely evident. Lateral grooves wanting. Pleurae very finely rugose, with a rather large polished area. Scutellum finely rugose, with a lateral ridge which extends around the apex, foveae at base not distinct. Abdomen black, smooth and shining with a few short hairs at the base dorsally. Legs pitchy brown pubescent, coxae black. Wings hyaline, veins pitchy brown. Radial area partly open. Areolet distinct. Cubitus extending to the first cross-vein. Length, 3 to 3.50 mm. Gall. In clusters from about fifty to one hundred on the trunks of young red and scarlet oaks (Quercus rubra and coccinea), immediately above the ground, in autumn. Hard and woody (when dry) probably soft when fresh, monothalamous. Oblong, narrower at base than at apex, which is flat. In form they are somewhat like square tubes or five or six-cornered tubes, giving them the appearance of cells of a honeycomb. Hollow inside and rather thin-walled. The fly emerges 198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll from the apex of the gall. Length, 5 mm.; width of apex, 3 mm.; diameter of cluster, 28 mm. Habitat: Phillips Bluff, La.; Fleetwood, Pa. The fly was described from many specimens loaned to me by Prof. A. D. Hopkins. The species belongs to the European genus Dryocosmns Giraud not heretofore recorded from North America. The fly emerges very early in spring and the gall reaches maturity late in fall. Amphibolips nigra sp. nov. Female. Head rugose more so on the cheeks and vertex. Ocelli large and smooth. Antennae rather short and stout, i6-jointed. Thorax black, coarsely rugose with the parapsidal grooves lost in the rough surface. Anterior parallel lines and lateral grooves present, pubescent. Pleurae rugose but less so than the thorax on top. Scutellum black, coarsely rugose with two large somewhat shining foveae at the base separated by a fine ridge. Abdomen black, slightly shining, minutely punctate and covered with very short, whitish hairs. Legs black, punctate and hairy, tarsi brown. Wings dusky hyaline with a darker streak beyond the radial area, veins brown and thick, second cross- vein in a brown cloud. Areolet large, cubitus extending to the first cross-vein. Radial area open. Length, 5 mm. Habitat: Durango, Mexico. February 1-7, 1897 (Dr. Edward Palmer). Type: United States National Museum. Andricus durangensis sp. nov. Female. Head very deep reddish brown, cheek and vertex granu- lated, face more coarsely sculptured. Antennae 14-jointed, slender. Thorax coarsely granulated, very deep reddish brown, almost black. Parapsidal grooves, anterior parallel lines, median and lateral grooves present distinct, but not sharply defined owing to the rough surface of the thorax. In one example the median and parapsidal grooves are scarce!}' evident. Pleura rugose. Scutellum coarsely rugose with the foveae at base not distinct. Abdomen smooth, shining red. Legs dark reddish brown. Wings glassy hyaline, veins brown, first radial vein not reaching the costa. Areolet present. Cubitus not touching the first cross-vein. Second transverse vein curved. Length, 4 mm. Habitat: Durango, Mexico. April 3 May 6. (Dr. Edward Palmer.) Type : United States National Museum. Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 199 The American species of Diatraea Guilding (Lepid., Pyralidae). BY HARRISON G. DYAR, U. S. Nat. Mus., Washing-ton, D. C. I have referred (Proc. ent. soc. Wash., xi, 29, 1909) to the fact that Sir G. F. Hampson, in his revision of the Crambinac (Proc. Zool. soc. Lond., 1895) describes the genus Diatraea in his synoptic table as having a frontal prominence, whereas the type species, saccharalis Fabr., is really without this struc- ture. It is true that in the text the frontal prominence is not mentioned, the statement being "frons with a tuft of hairs." I was formerly inclined to regard this as an error in the diagno- sis, subject to correction, but the examination of further mater- ial has convinced me that the frontal prominence is a variable character, of less than specific value. The generic table will need correction, but the genus Diatraea may include species with or without the frontal prominence. In the same paper Hampson recognized but three American species of Diatraea. This number will have to be considerably amplified. I arrange the species at present in the following manner : i. Saccharalis group. Diatraea saccharalis Fabricius. This species is divisible into a number of well-marked geo- graphical forms. Two of them occur in the United States. The typical saccharalis reaches us by the way of the West Indies and occurs in Florida. The race crambidoides Grote comes from Mexico and occurs in the Gulf States. The fol- lowing subspecies are before me : Diatraea saccharalis saccharalis Fabricius. Phalaena saccharalis Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Ill, 2, 238, 1794. Crambus leucaniellns Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., XXVII, 161, 1863. This form is small, the wings rather narrow, but squarely tipped and not especially pointed. The front is smooth and flat, scarcely at all projecting before the eyes and without any trace of the frontal cone or tubercle. Specimens are before me from French Guiana (W. Schaus), Cuba (W. Schaus, 2OO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll E. A. Schwarz), Trinidad (F. W. Urich) and a single female from Peru. Also a female from southern Florida (H. G. Dyar). Walker's Crambus leucanicllus was described from Santo Domingo and so must belong to this form; but I have not seen any males from Santo Domingo. The two females before me (A: Busck) agree with Cuban females. Diatraea saccharalis grenadensis, new variety. A single male is before me. The front is distinctly protub- erant, but smooth, without any cone; the hind wings are white, the fore wings pale straw color and pointed at apex. The specimen looks like a little female. Grenada, British West Indies (Schaus collection). Type, No. 13610 U. S. National Museum. Diatraea saccharalis obliteratellus Zeller. In this the front is strongly roundedly protuberant and there is a minute cone towards the upper part of the front. It was described from Brazil. I have females only from Castro, Parana, Rio Janeiro and Nova Friburgo (Schaus col- lection), besides one from Sapucay, Paraguay (W. T. Foster). Diatraea saccharalis tabernella, new variety. The front is rather flat, but is drawn out above into a distinct point- ed cone, somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally. The hind wings are white in the male as well as in the female. The fore wings are straw- color, the two lines of dots present in both sexes, but rather weak in the females or partly obsolete. The wings are rather narrow, squarely shaped, the apex pointed. Canal Zone, Panama and Nicaragua. Types, male and female, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (A. Busck). Type, No. 13611, U. S. National Museum. This form may possibly be a distinct species. Diatraea saccharalis crambidoides Grote. Chilo crambidoides Grote, Can Ent, XII, 15, 1880. ? Crambus lineosellus Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., XXVII, 162, 1863. In this form the front is roundedly prominent, slightly projecting above beyond the eyes, but without cone or tubercle. The male has the hind wings dusky, those of the female are white. The wings are Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2OT narrow, outer margin oblique, apex pointed. The male is brownish ochre in color, the female straw yellow; the two rows of brown dots are distinct in both sexes. Range: Mexico, numerous localities. Gulf States and lower Mississippi Valley. Grote's crambidoides was described from Kansas, so there can hardly be any doubt of the application of the name. Walker's lineoselhis was described from Honduras, whence I have no material. If the names shall be found to refer to the same form, Walker's name would have priority. Diatraea pedidocta, new species. Similar to D. saccharalis crambidoides. The females are even nar- rower-winged, brownish ochre instead of straw yellow, while the outer row of dots runs closer to the margin and anal angle and is darker in color. The fore wings resemble those of male crambi- doides rather than those of the female. The hind wings are white. Two females, Cordoba, Mexico, January 27, February 27, 1908 (F. Knab). Type, No. 13612, U. S. National Museum. This is perhaps only a dark variety of the female of crambi- doides Grt. Diatraea instructella, new species. A large species resembling crambidoides, much larger, the mark- ings coarser, the lines of dots distinct, diffused, almost continuous, the inner line drawn in at its termination almost to the base of the wing. Discal dot distinct, black; terminal dots minute. Hind wing w^hite. The front is smooth, rounded, gently convex. One female, Popocatepetl Park, Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus). Type, No. 13613, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea magnifactella, new species. Another large species of the crambidoides type. Male brownish ochreous, the hind wing dusky, almost blackish ; lines of dots on the fore wings distinct, approximated. The wings are rather broad, square at the apices. Female pale straw yellow, the markings much less distinct than in the male. Hind wings soiled yellowish, slightly shaded with fuscous toward anal region. The front is prominent and has a small central cone, the tip of which projects through the vesti- ture. 2O2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 'll Male and female, Orizaba, Mexico, April, 1908 (R. Miiller) ; Male and two females Cuernavaca, Mexico, June and August, 1906 (W. Schaus) ; one female, Jalapa, two females, Oaxaca, Mexico< (Schaus collection). Type, No. 13614, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea minimifacta, new species. A small square-winged species. The wing is darkly shaded through the middle, obscuring the lines, which are sub-continuous and not re- solved into dots ; veins brown-lined beyond this shade, terminal black dots between the veins with white points before them relieved on the brown ground. Hind wing white. Expanse, 18 mm. The front is smooth and nearly flat. Two females, Trinidad, British West Indies (Schaus col- lection, A. Busck). Type, No. 13615, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea continens, new species. Fore wing straw yellow, the veins lined in brown, with faint lines between; two brown oblique parallel lines joining a brown cloud at apex ; terminal dots small black, discal dot brown. Hind wing white, nearly pure. Front smooth and nearly flat. One female, Castro, Parana, Brazil (Schaus collection). Type, No. 13616, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea pedibarbata, new species. Front smooth, rounded, slightly prominent; hind tarsi short, the tibiae with a large tuft of hairs. Dark brown, the lines as usual but not relieved, obscure against the dark ground. Body parts also dark, but hind wing whitish, with only a slight straw-color tinge. Expanse, 23 mm. One male, St. Laurent, Maroni River, French Guiana (W. . Schaus). Type, No. 13617, U. S. National Museum. Diatraea canella Hampson. Diatraea canella Hampson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XVI, 349, 1895. This species has a strong frontal prominence in the form of a plate with a point in the center. The general color is reddish gray without any of the straw yellow tint. The dots on the fore wing are larger and less strigose than usual in the saccharalis group ; they are nearly obso- lete in the female, which is of a nearly uniform reddish gray. Vol. XXli | ENTOMOLOGICAL \K\VS 2C>3 Specimens are before me from Grenada, Trinidad and the Guianas. Hampson gives also Brazil, but Brazilian specimens before me are separable specifically. The species feeds on sugar cane in the larval state, as proved by a bred specimen from Mr. F. W. Urich.