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MOS. i No CONTENTS Montgomery Williamsonia fletcheri Williamson (Odonata: Cordulidae) from New England 1 The Britton Laboratory 4 McClure Further Notes on Aero-Plankton of Kentucky 5 Wagner A New Locality for a Rare Hairstreak (Lepidoptera :Lycaenidae) 11 Balduf New Food Records of Entomophagous Insects (Hym., Dip., Col., Orth., Hemip.) 12 Chamberlin A New Polydesmus from Missouri and Oklahoma (Diplo- poda) 15 Insect Types in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 16 Freeman Two New Species of Amblyscirtes from Texas and Arkansas (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera : Hesperiidae) 17 Current Entomological Literature 21 The Detroit Entomological Society 27 Steyskal Asterocampa celtis in Michigan 27 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Entered at the Philadelphia, Pa., Post Office as Second Class Matter Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage prescribed for in Section 1. Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January IS, 1921. 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ELWOOD MONTGOMERY, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. A collection of dragonflies made during the summer of 1935 on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and sent for determination by the collector. Dr. William Procter, in October, 1935, contained a female of Williamsonia fletcheri Williamson. This specimen was retained for further study when the collection was returned to Doctor Procter, and no record of it was included in the 1938 list of insects of the Mount Desert Region (Procter, 1938). The specimen was soon "lost" and has been found only recently. Doctor Procter has graciously presented the specimen for my collection. This specimen was collected June 6, 1935 along a carriage road of about three-quarters of a mile, between the Breakneck and Witches' Hole Pond. According to Doctor Procter, "both of these ponds are for the greater part bogs with quite a lot of sphagnum, but not what would be called true sphagnum bogs, and this carriage road between them is a favorite 'hawking' place for dragonflies." Mrs. Leonora K. Gloyd kindly compared the specimen with a paratopotype female of this species in the Williamson Collec- tion and found them to "agree quite well in every respect ex- cept the relative length of the vulvar lamina." In the Mount Desert specimen the lamina is longer than the ninth segment as in the drawing of the allotype female. Mrs. Gloyd's statement indicates that the vulvar lamina of the paratype is somewhat shorter and that there is some variation in this character, or, as she suggested, "apparently its position may change." 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 W '. fletcheri has been recorded from Quebec-Kazubazua and Lanoraie (Walker, 1934), Ontario-Mer Bleue, the type locality, and Lake Timagami (Walker, 1941), Michigan-Manistique (Gloyd, 1932) and Manitoba-Lake Winnipeg and the Sas- katchewan River (possibly the same locality). The Manitoba specimens were listed, but not described, as Dipla.r vacua by Hagen in 1867. These specimens were not mentioned by Hagen in 1878 when he described Corditlia lintncri from ma- terial collected at Center, New York, by Lintner, but they were referred to that species by him in 1890. However, these speci- mens were said to be W. fletcheri by Howe (1923) in his paper on the history and distribution of W. lintneri. Although Howe did not state definitely that he had studied the specimens, his statement that specimens from Mer Bleue were intermediate between the Manitoba and the New York specimens, would indicate that he had. In order to remove all doubt concerning the identity of this material I asked Dr. Nathan Banks about the specimens of Williamsonia in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and he has kindly furnished the following information (inlitt, Feb. 25, 1942). "We have here six specimens of Williamsonia, three of each species. The female type of lintneri, another female from Blue Hills, Mass., and a male from Stony Brook, Mass., all have the face pale, the females with vulvar lamina short, the male with nearly straight, tapering appendages. Of fletcheri we have the two females that Hagen called vacua Hagen's label "vacua" is still on the Saskatchewan specimen and a male taken near Harvard, Mass., May 19, 1939 by E. M. Davis. All three have the face dark and slightly bronzy, the females with vulvar lamina nearly one-half longer than in lintncri, reaching the tip of segment 9, and the male with superior appendages (from above) elbowed or almost at an angle at basal third." The capture of the male fletcheri near Harvard (Shirley), Mass., was described by Davis (1940) who referred the speci- men to W . lintncri, however. Howe (1923) compiled all the records of Williamsonia in literature prior to that time and listed additional records (of liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 3 lintneri). His data show the distribution of lintneri to include Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey. The only references to new records for this genus since that time, all of which are included in references cited above, appear to refer to fletcheri. Dr. Banks wrote that "since then several students have taken one or two a year in the Blue Hills." As the two species now appear to have overlapping ranges in this region such specimens and any additional that can be secured in New England should receive critical study, to furnish further information concerning their relative abundance, etc., more especially as both appear to be very rare and quite local. The 1935 collection included specimens of certain other rare or interesting species the records of which were not published although these species have since been reported from the Mount Desert region by another collector (Ahrens, 1941). These were Lanthns albistylus, 2 <$<$, July 18, L. parvnlus, 1 , June 16, and Ladona jidia, 1 $, July 2. Since this note was written and accepted for publication I have had an opportunity to examine the specimens of Williain- sonia in the museums and collections at Cambridge and Boston. Those studied included the six specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, those in the Howe Collection (including in addition to several specimens of lintneri, two paratopotypes, a male and a female, of fletcheri), and a series of about 15 speci- mens of lintneri collected in the Blue Hills by Harry K. Clench and Kenneth Christiansen and in the collection of the latter. The distinguishing characters of the two species, as determined from the examination of this material, may be stated as follows : Face and frons to base of antennae yellowish or olive brown ; yellowish or light brown bands at apical margin on dorsum of abdominal segments 1-9 ; superior appendages of male al- most straight in dorsal view ; vulvar lamina of female not reaching beyond the level of caudal margin of tergum of segment 9 lintneri Face and frons dark to black, with metallic purple or bronze re- flections ; light bands at apical margin of abdominal seg- ments occurring on first four or five segments only and usu- ally confined to intersegmental membrane ; superior ap- 4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 pendages of male quite arcuate in dorsal view ; vulvar lamina of female reaching beyond the level of caudal margin of tergum of segment 9 fletcheri LITERATURE CITED. AHRENS, CARSTEN. 1941. Dragonflies new to the Mount Desert Island Region, Maine (Odonata). Ent. News, 52: 285- 287. DAVIS, EDWARD M. 1940. Dragonfly collecting in eastern Massachusetts: 1939 (Odonata). Ent. News, 51: 61-64. GLOYD, LEONORA K. 1932. Four new dragonfly records for the United States. Ent. News, 43 : 189-190. HAGEN, HERMAN A. 1867. Revision der von Herrn Uhler Beschrieben Odonaten. Stett. Ent. Zcit., 28 (1-3) : 87-96. . 1878. Cordulia Lintneri. In, Selys, Secondes ad- ditions au Synopsis des Cordulines. Bull. Acad. Bclg. (2), 45 : 187-188. . 1890. Descriptions of Some North American Cor- dulina. Psyche, 5 : 367-373. HOWE, R. HEBER. 1923. WilUamsonia lintneri (Hagen) its history and distribution. Psyche, 30: 222-225. PROCTER, WILLIAM. 1938. Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region. Part VI. The Insect Fauna. Wistar Insti- tute, Philadelphia. 496 pp., illust. (Order Odonata, pp. 47-51). WALKER, E. M. 1934. A preliminary list of the insects of the Province of Quebec. Part IV. Odonata. Rpt. Que. Soc. Prot. Plants, 26: 3-12. . 1941. List of the Odonata of Ontario with dis- tributional and seasonal data. Tr. Roy. Can. Inst., 23 (2) : 201-265, 1 map. WILLIAMSON, E. B. 1923. A new species of Williamsonia (Odonata-Cordulinae). Can. Ent., 55: 96-98. The Britton Laboratory. The recently completed two-story brick building on the grounds of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, will be named the Britton Laboratory, in memory of Dr. Wilton Everett Britton. Dr. Britton, until his death in 1939, was for about forty years entomologist of the Experi- ment Station and state entomologist. Science, Aug. 7, 1942. liv, '43 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 5 Further Notes on Aero-Plankton of Kentucky. By H. ELLIOTT McCLURE, Orel, Nebraska. From May 3, 1934, to June 19, 1934, flying insects were col- lected twice a day, morning and evening, by means of a net at- tached to the fender of an automobile. Collections were made along a four-mile stretch of road east of Horse Cave, Kentucky. The pavement was 16 feet wide without broad shoulders which were overgrown with weeds and not mowed during the time of the collections. A few of the fields bordering the road were plowed, but the majority were unplowed and abounded with flowers, especially composites. At one point a woods of oak and maple came to within 100 yards of the route. This region of Kentucky is rolling and underlaid with limestone. There were no open streams along the route, but there were entrances to at least three caves. Most of the surface water drained or seeped into caves underlying this area. In three hollows near the road there was permanent standing water, and there were temporary pools in many others after heavy rains. At the end of each collecting trip, the net was immediately turned inside out, and the insects dumped into a pint jar of alcohol. Later they were filtered from the liquid and put into a numbered vial. Because of the difficulties involved, several groups have not been determined. I greatly appreciate the work of the following specialists for making the determinations in the groups indicated : Dr. C. P. Alexander, Amherst, Massachusetts, Tipulidae; Dr. L. G. Strom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aphididae; Dr. J. B. Stein- weden, San Francisco, Cal., Thysanoptera ; Mrs. Arni Arnason, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Syrphidae; Dr. L. L. Buchanan, Washington, D. C., Carabidae; Dr. Dayton Stone, Albany, New York; Cydnidae; Mr. Eugene Ray, Chicago, Illinois, Mordellidae; Dr. W. J. Brown, Ottawa, Canada, Scarabeidae; Dr. H. R. Bryson, Manhattan, Kansas, Elateridae; Dr. W. M. Wheeler, deceased, Formicidae; Dr. L. Haseman, Columbia. Missouri, Psychodidae; Dr. M. W. Blackman, Washington, D. C., Scolytidae; Dr. F. P. Ide, Toronto, Canada, Ephemerida; 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 Dr. H. Morrison, Washington, D. C., Coccidae; Dr. A. P. Jacot, deceased, Acarina ; Dr. J. W. Folsom, deceased, Collembola ; Dr. Grace Sandhouse, deceased, Apoidea; Dr. Orlando Park, Evanston, Illinois, Pselaphidae; Dr. J. A. Reeves, St. Peters- burg, Florida, Chrysomelidae ; Dr. H. C. Fall, deceased, Coleoptera. The length of day increased from 13.65 hours to 14.5 hours from sunrise to sunset during the seven weeks of observations. This was an increase of .85 hours, or 51 minutes. During May the daily increase in the length of day was greater than during June. On May 11 a heavy dust storm blew in from the west, making the sky hazy and visibility low for three days. There was rain during 14 of the 48 days of observations. Most of this came during the first ten days of June, eight of which had heavy rains. During the time of the evening collections tem- peratures averaged about five degrees higher than at the time of the morning collections. There was a total of 16,687 specimens collected by 100 trips over the route during the seven weeks. The average collection included 166 insects, or one insect to 63 cubic feet of air, as the net strained approximately 10,500 cubic feet of air during each drive. The average morning collection included fewer insects, 70, and the average evening collection more, 262, or one insect to 151 cubic feet and 40 cubic feet of air, respectively. There were two classes and 13 orders represented and, of these, 65 families have been identified. Of those specimens that have been identified to date, there were represented 131 genera and 196 species. Among this group there were 21 spe- cies of economic importance as listed by the Committee on Com- mon Names of the American Association of Economic Ento- mologists. These were: Anaphothrips obscunis (Mull.), 30; Frankliniclla tritici (Fitch), 95; Thrifts tabaci Lind., 5; Rlw- palosiphnm prunijoliac (Fitch), 94; Macrosiplinm pisi (Kalt.), 64; Eriosoina lanigennn (Hausman.), 2; Aphis gossypli (Glover), 5; Aphis rosca (Baker), 3; Aphis bacrki (Cowan), 1; Macrosiphum granarium (Kirby), 13; Aphis illinoiscnsis (Thomas). 2; Anthrcnus vcrbasci (Linn.), 1; Stcgobium panicenni Linn., 1; Liyynis gibbosits DeG., 3; Epitri.r parvula Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 7 Fab., 14; Epitrix juscula Crotch, 1 ; Epitrl.v ciicnnwris Harr., 1 ; Phyllotreta vittata Chev., 8; Diabrotica \2-pnnctata Fab., 1; Diabrotica vittata Fab., 1 ; Apis inellifera Linn., 4. The eco- nomic species constituted 11 per cent of the identified species, but only 2.1 per cent of the individuals. Many species were taken only occasionally, and of these 32, or 24 per cent, were taken only in the morning collections, and the remainder, 131, or 76 per cent, were taken only in the eve- nings. These 32 species included four spiders, one Collembola, two thrips, ten Coleoptera, one Diptera, and ten Hymenoptera. The spiders and Hymenoptera were apparently proportionally most active in the morning, as 75 per cent of the species of spiders were taken then, and 50 per cent of the species of Hymenoptera. There were 163 species taken once, twice, or occasionally, and 33 species taken regularly or abundantly. Four of the abundant species were most active in the morning. These were the aphid, Pemphigus lactncac (Fitch), the coccid males, Pscitdococcns sp., the ant, Tap'moma sp., and the bee, Halictus illinocnsis Robertson. Six species were taken both morning and evening: two thrips, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) and Anaphothrips obscurus (Mull.) ; one cydnid. Amnestits pitsillus Uhler; two aphids, Rhopalosiphnui prunijoliac (Fitch) and Toxoptera graminmn (Rondani) ; and one sciarid, Sciara nacta Johannsen. The remaining 23 species were taken entirely or mostly in the evenings. A drop in temperature and cool clear weather seemed to limit or decrease flight activity, as the activity of 31 of the 33 species was reduced or ceased altogether during four cool days preceding May 26. The average temperature at the time of these collections was only 13 F., less than that of the preced- ing four-day period. Only two species increased in numbers in the collections during this cool period, and these were an aphid, Macrosiphiim pisi (Kalt.), and a scarabeid, Aphod'nts stcrcorosns (Melsh.). Five species showed an apparent increase in activity with rising temperatures and increasing humidity. In most cases the activity of a species fell off after several days of continued 8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 high temperatures. The first ten days of June were wet, and four species showed a decrease during this period which might have been the result of the heavy rains. These were the an- thicid, Anthicus cervinus Laf., the lathridid, Corticaria clongata Gyll., the ant, Tapinoma sp., and a psychodid, Psychoda sp. On the basis of the species collected, in nine cases the flight activity of the family was the same as that of the most abundant species, and in three cases the flight activity of the genus was the same as that of the most abundant species in it. Ten species reached the peak of their activity between May 1 and 15, seven species between May 15 and 31, and 16 species be- tween June 1 and 19. As Table 1 indicates they followed each other in succession. TABLE 1 Showing the succession of 31 species of insects flying in the air. Figures given are relative. Figure in italics indicates four days of greatest activity. Rank Species 1 Tachistodes testaceus Dej. Amnestus pusillus Uhler . 3 Aphodius distinctus Mull. . 4 Bibloplectus ruficeps (Le- conte) 5 Heterocerus pusillus v. May 6 10 13 2 16 21 2 2 48 61) 14 2 3 1 24 18 2 2 46 22 4 5 1 22 26 30 2 6 8 June 3 7 2 1 24 30 11 12 15 8 19 6 limbatus Kies 5 6 3 5 1 4 ,} 6 Anthicus cervinus Laf. . . . 1 4 1 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 7 Pseudocleon sp 2 & 10 4 7 2 10 8 Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) 1 6 IS 6 4 5 1 5 10 6 11 9 Rhopalosiphum prunifoliae 18 13 IS 6 4 5 4 6 7 6 7 10 Psychoda sp 4 2 3 5 1 1 4 1 11 Toxoptera graminum (Rondani) 1 1 9 5 7 7 5 1 2 12 Monocrepidius bellus (Say) 1 8 4 12 25 8 12 9 1 1 1 13 Pseudococcus sp 1 24 1 1 14 Tomarus pulchellus Pec. . 1 3 1 5 2 1 15 Aphodius stercorosus Melsh 2 1 2 1 4 1 16 Macrosiphum pisi (Kalt.) 2 2 5 5 4 8 28 8 1 1 17 Pemphigus lactucae Gyll. 5 2 5 9 7 2 16 2 18 Micratopus sp 5 3 2 19 Tachys laevus Say 1 2 5 2 20 Corticaria elongata Gyll. . 1 2 1 6 17 6 3 16 2 21 Catorama confusum Fall . 2 8 1 1 22 Sciara nacta Johannsen . . 40 60 24 28 256 12 204 2340 40 48 60 23 Anaphothrips obscurus (Miill.) 4 1 1 $ 13 7 1 24 Anchicera ochracea Casey 1 2 1 4 3 t 5 2 1 1 25 Typhea fumata Linn. . . . 1 1 6 1 1 "i 1 S 2 2 1 26 Monotoma americana Aube 2 4 2 2 6 4 5 10 12 2 2 27 Melanophthalma simplex Lee 3 4 3 3 4 2 4 4 6 4 3 28 Halictus illinoensis Robert- son 3 1 2 9 29 Tapinoma sp 1 3 3 1 ./ 30 Pheidole pilifora Robertson 2 5 52 31 Ponera coarrtata pcnnsyl- vanicus Buckley .... 1 3 4 Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS There was a progressive increase in the numbers of flying in- sects encountered in May until the four days preceding the twenty-sixth. During this time there was a drop in tempera- ture and a corresponding drop in the numbers flying. There was a slight increase in numbers in the four days preceding May 22, and during this time there were increasing temperatures and decreasing humidity. In the eight days preceding June 3, with the climax on June 2, a heavy flight coincided with a period of increasing temperature and humidity. As the temperature re- mained warm and the humidity became variable, the size of the collections decreased. Following is a discussion of the species collected and identi- fied : ARANEIDA. Dictynidae, Dictyna sp., 1 ; Linyphiidae, Micro- neta sp., 3 ; Argiopidae, Araneus sp., 1 ; Thomisidae, Philodro- jnns lineotits E., 1; Misumenops sp., 1; Micryphantidae, 11. Only 18 spiders were taken during these collections, and most of these were juvenile. No statements can be made of their ballooning activity except that it was erratic at the time of the collections. ACARINA. Trombidae, 2 ; Parasitidae, Gamasiis coleoptra- torum Berlese, 5. As mites have no means of flying but float- ing or riding on insects, they would be in the air only acci- dentally. The fact that more were taken early in May, whether riding or floating, seems to indicate that they were most abun- dant then. Furthermore, none were collected in the morning. COLLEMBOLA. Entomobryidae, Folsomia quadriocidata (Tull.), 1, Lcpidocyrtus cyancus (Tull.), 1; Sminthuridae, Boiirlcticlla sp., 1. Collembola probably were taken only when gusts of wind had knocked them from plants and carried them into the air. EPHEMERIDA. Ephemeridae, Psendocleon sp., 43, Cacnis sp., 2; Baetidae, Baetis sp., 1, Ephcnicrclla sp., 5. Of the 47 Ephemerida taken, only three were collected in the morning. During the first part of May Ephemerida in the collections in- creased and decreased at a constant rate. They were not taken during the May 26 cool period, and then for about two weeks they were encountered intermittently. After June 7 no more 10 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 were caught. The genus Pseudocleon was represented by 43 females, and all but two were taken in the evening. PSOCOPTERA. Of the 133 unidentified psocids, only four were collected in the morning. The evening totals in the col- lections increased throughout May with but slight drops around the fourteenth and twenty-sixth. The peak came during the four days preceding June 3. From then they decreased rapidly to zero by June 19. THYSANOPTERA. Thripidae, Heterothrips sp., 1, Sericothrips variabilis (Beach), 1, Anaphothrips obscums (Mull.), 30, Frankliniella fused (Hinds), 6, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch), 95, Frankliniella nervosa (Uzel), 1, Pseudothrips ineqiialis (Beach), 1, Plectothrips antennatus (Hood), 1, Thrips sp., 4, Thrips tabaci Lind, 5 ; Tubulifera, 5 ; Phlaeothripidae, Haplo- thrips lencanthemi (Schr.), 1, Phloe thrips sp., 1. Only 180 thrips were taken in flight during the seven weeks of collecting, but in near-by pastures of flowers and weeds it was estimated that there were 3,000 thrips to a square yard. At any one time, apparently, very few of these were flying, especially away from the plants. They seemed to be extremely sensitive to temperature changes, and the numbers declined during the cool periods of the eighteenth and twenty-sixth of May. The morn- ing collections were greatest in May, and the evening total greatest in June. Toward the middle of June the abundance of thrips in the pastures became less, consequently the numbers taken in flight were reduced. Frankliniella tritici (Fitch). Of the 95 specimens of this species, 47 were taken in the morning and 48 in the evening. The morning collections were highest in May and ceased by May 26, with but a few individuals caught afterwards. The evening collections were low and sporadic during May and gradually increased in June. It is probably that light condi- tions brought about this change in the time of flight activity. HEMIPTERA. Enicocephalidae, Systcllodcnts biceps (Say), 7; Miridae, Addphocoris rapidus (Say), 1; Cydnidae, Ainncs- tus pitsillns Uhler, 52. The only hemipteran taken in any num- bers was Amnestus pitsillits Uhler. They were most abundant in the collections early in May, and ceased to be collected by Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 11 June 11 in the evening, and May 26 in the morning. Morning numbers were very small and of no particular importance. The eight days preceding May 30 were cool and dry, but the increas- ing temperatures and humidity of the first of June apparently brought about a little more activity from the group and a feu- more were picked up. (To be continued in February issue.) A New Locality for a Rare Hairstreak (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Strytnon outario Ontario has been found over a large area from Missouri and Arkansas to Ontario and Virginia at least on the southeast, in widely scattered localities; and is "one of the rarest and least known of our eastern butterflies." 1 I am glad, therefore, to report this hairstreak for the first time in Maryland. On June 17, 1942, while searching in company with Carroll E. Wood, Jr., and Neal W. Gilbert for Strymon titits 111 ops us near White Oak, Montgomery County, Maryland, I noticed a hairstreak flutter down into a patch of the milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. It crawled up the main stem where I caught it with my fingers and recognized it as a worn but perfect fe- male 6\ Ontario. The extensive area of light orange which characterizes the western subspecies S. O. autolycns was indi- cated by a small orange patch on the fore-wings. A careful search the next day in the vicinity, particularly in the oak forests nearby, revealed no other specimens a situation similar to that I experienced with Strymon liparops strigosa, a single specimen at Hyattsville, Maryland, and a lone Chryso- pliauns thoe at Beltsville, Maryland; localities which were studied over a period of years. The Virginia Strymon Ontario record was based on two specimens, however, both from near Difficult Run, Fairfax County, collected by Ernest Shoemaker. But like others of these elusive lycaenids, even though the place has been thoroughly scoured by collectors, it has not since been found there either. This species, then, like Erora lacta, either must be a stray from the West ; or it must have a very local occurrence in peculiar habitats unknown to collectors. WARREN HERBERT WAGNER, JR., Washington, D. C. 1 Austin H. Clark, "The Butterflies in Virginia" in Explorations and I : icld-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1934. Caption p. 35. 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 New Food Records of Entomophagous Insects (Hym., Dip., Col., Orth., Hemip.). By W. V. BALDUF, Urbana, Illinois.* The miscellaneous annotated prey and host records presented below have been obtained (1) largely incidental to other field work I have carried on in recent years, and (2) from several of my associates in biology who generously permit me to include here their observations with mine. Unless noted otherwise, these records have reference to the vicinity of Urbana, Illinois. HYMENOPTERA. 1. TELENOMUS sp., Scelionidae. A series of adults was reared July 1, 1941 from the egg masses of an undetermined tabanid fly on leaves of Typha growing at the margin of a small pond. DIPTERA. 2. PROMACHUS VERTEBRATUS (Say), Asilidae. An adult feeding on a nymphalid butterfly, Phyciodcs tharos (Dru.) in a field, West Lafayette, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1939: same, preying on an adult of the tiphiid wasp, My sine maculata (Fabr.), Trelease Woods, Aug. 21, 1941 ; E. J. Koestner, collector. 3. ASILUS NOVAESCOTIAE Macq., Asilidae. An adult prey- ing on a calliphorid fly, Bufolucilia silvariim (Mg.), Mahomet, Illinois, June 22, 1940. J. S. Slater, collector. 4. DESMOMETOPA M-NIGRUM (Zett.), Milichiidae. On Sep- tember 7, 1940, I found nine adults of this small fly running over and flying about the bodies of two dead honey bees, Apis niellifica L. In each case, the bee was dead and in the grasp of an ambush bug, Phymata pennsylvanica americana Melin, hid- ing in flowers. Small numbers of flies, presumably this species, were seen in 1939 and 1941 engaging in similar activities about dead honey bees killed by the same species of ambush bug. The publications of Frost, Knab, de Peyerimhoff and Clausen, cited below, make reference to the bionomics of several species of Desmometopa. * Contribution No. 235 from the entomological laboratories of the Uni- versity of Illinois. Specialists of the United States National Museum identified many of the insects named in this article. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 13 COLEOPTERA 5. CALOSOMA SCRUTATOR Febr., Carabidae. I found an adult devouring an adult male of the thirteen-year form of the seven- teen-year cicada, Magicicada septemdeclm (L.), in a haw tree at Monticello, Illinois, June 15, 1933: same, I noticed several adults in the same locality on May 13, 1942, on low-hanging branches of various species of roadside trees where they were probably preying on spring cankerworms. ORTHOPTERA 6. ORCHELIMUM VULGARE Harris, Tettigoniidae. On Oc- tober 17, 1938, I discovered an adult female vulgarc sitting on an Aster miiltiflorns and feeding on an adult female of the syrphid fly, Eristalis dimidiatns Wied. Because the fly was dead when found, I can not state whether it was captured alive by the hopper or had been seized and killed previously by an ambush bug. The discarded prey of Phymata commonly re- mains lying in the flowers, axils or leaves of ambush plants when these plants are not shaken by winds. If this was an in- stance of scavengerism, it closely approached predatism, for the exposed muscles of the fly were still firm and flexible. The grasshopper had consumed the head, the venter of the thorax and its contents and the last two abdominal segments and their viscera when my arrival interrupted the meal. HEMIPTERA. 7. NABIS ROSEIPENNIS Reuter, Nabidae. An adult male dangled an adult tarnished plant bug, Lygns oblincatns (Say) from the end of his stylets, October 20, 1938: same, an adult male preyed on an adult of another mi rid bug, Ilnacora stalii Reuter, at light, June 8, 1941; J. S. Slater, collector: same, a female was observed introducing her beak into a flower head of Aster miiltiflorns, as if feeding, September 22, 1939. While not an instance of predatism, the latter suggests, as do several cases of similar activity I have noticed involving Phyinata, that sucking entomophags resort to plant fluids, presumably when the preferred insect prey is not available in adequate amount. 8. ZELUS EXSANGUIS Stal, Reduviidae. An adult female simultaneously held two dead prey insects, an adult ichneu- 14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 monicl, Diplazon lactatoriits (F.) and an adult titaniid fly, pos- sibly Cliloropisca sp., June 20, 1941. 9. LYGAEUS KALMII Stal, Lygaeidae. On September 7, 1940. my attention was attracted by an adult of this common milkweed bug because it occurred on Solidago and stood astride a dead honey bee. Several times, in the course of a few minutes, the bug withdrew its stylets and again inserted them full length into the body of the bee. It is highly probable the bee had been killed by an ambush bug found close by, hence Lygacns may not be classed as predatory, but as a scavenger, perhaps seeking the predigested fluids left by the ambush bug. The bee was stuck fast by its caudal end to the upper surface of a leaf, perhaps by viscid excreta. 10. HETEROCORDYLUS MALINUS Rent., Miridae. J. H. Big- ger discovered an adult preying on a fairly large spring canker- worm, Palcacrita vcrnata Peck, at Duncans Mills, Illinois, May 29, 1940. 11. PODISUS MACULIVENTRIS (Say), Pentatomidac. Twelve separate preying records are given here as follows : an adult fe- male feeding on an adult female of the thirteen-year form of Magicicada scptcindcchn in a wild crabapple tree at Monticello, Illinois, June 15, 1933 : same, an adult female holding on her stylets a 30 mm. long larva of the phalaenid moth. Prodcnid ornithogalU Guen., on asparagus. September 25, 1935 : same, an adult male holding to the caudal end of a geometrid larva which dangled from the beak; October 15, 1938: same, an adult fe- male feeding on an adult of Lygns oblineatus, October 17, 1938: same, on July 25, 1940, I saw a three-fifths grown nymph project its proboscis and thrust its stylets into a 4 mm. long larva of the coccinellid, Hippodavnia sp., on which it then fed: same, an adult preying on an one inch long phalaenid larva closely related to HdiotJiia, September 16, 1940: same, an adult female was taken in possession of an empidid fly, Eiupis clansa Coq., September 16, 1940: same, an adult preying on an one inch long larva of a Phalaenidae sp., September 30, 1940: same., an adult female feeding on an adult of the lacewing, Cltrysopa ocitlata Say; taken at light, May 28, 1941, by J. S. Slater: same, Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 15 an adult female holding an adult of the chrysomelid beetle, Trirliabda sp., June 2, 1941 : same, an adult male sucking on an adult of the hraconid, Kogas sp. ; taken June 8, 1941, at light, by J. S. Slater: same, an adult with a half-grown larva of the chrysomelid beetle, Trirhabda adcla Blake, impaled on its stylets, June 1942; W. K. Biugman, collector. REFERENCES CLAUSEN, C. P. 1940. Entomophagous Insects, McGraw- Hill, 688 pp. FROST, C. A. 1913. Peculiar habits of small Diptera, Dcsinoinctopa latipcs Meig., Psyche, 20: 37. KNAB, F. 1915. Commensalism in Desmonietopa, Proc. Ent.Soc. Wash., 17: 117-121. PEYERIMHOFF, P. DE. 1917. Phoresie et commensalisme chez les Desmovnetopa, Bui. Ent. Soc. Fr., 1917, 215-218. A New Polydesmus from Missouri and Oklahoma (Diplopoda). By RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. The specimens upon which the new species of Polydesmus here described is based were collected by Leslie Hubricht in March and April of 1936. These specimens, with the exception of paratypes deposited in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, are retained in the author's collection. Polydesmus hubrichti new species. General color of the dorsum brown, with the legs lighter and the antennae darker. On the typical tergites the usual two series of well-defined tubercles back of the transverse sulcus, typically six tubercles in each series which extend between bases of the keels. Tuber- cles in front of sulcus not distinctly separated. Basal area of keels moderately swollen or convex, smooth. The serrations of the keels are sharply defined on anterior tergites but else- 16 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan.. '43 where are weak and on posterior segments almost obliterated; there are two lateral serrations behind that at anterior corner on the non-poriferous keels, three on the poriferous. Best distinguished by the details of the gonopods of the male which are represented by the accompanying drawings. Length, up to 17 mm. ; width, to 2.7 mm. Localities MISSOURI: St. Louis County, University City, March 29, 1936, about 12 specimens, including holotype, $ allotype and J 1 and $ paratypes. 4.3 miles northwest of Glencoe Station, March, 1936, one $. Creve Coeur Lake Park, March 8, 1936, eight J 1 and 5 specimens. OKLAHOMA: Murray County, Arbuckle Mountains, near Latimer County, 2 miles east of Go wen, April 26, 1936, three and $ specimens. 1 Polydcsmus hitbricliti sp. n. 1. Right gonopod of male, mesal view. 2. Distal view of blade of same. Insect Types in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College. The reports by Messrs. Banks and Carpenter in the Annual Report of the Director for 1941-42 give the types of recent insects catalogued as 25,953 and of fossil insects (holotypes and cotypes) as 1376 species. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 17 Two New Species of Amblyscirtes from Texas and Arkansas (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera: Hesperiidae) . By H. A. FREEMAN, White Deer, Texas. Amblyscirtes erna new species. ^. Upperside. Primaries. Brown with fulvous overscaling over the entire surface. Two or three very indistinct fulvous subapical spots, otherwise immaculate. The stigma is well de- veloped and is easily discernible because of the presence of lighter fulvous scales below and to the side of it. Secondaries. Brown with an even overscaling of fulvous scales; some short concolorous hairs toward the base. Underside. Primaries. Brown, lighter than above especially in the cell ; apex and part of the outer margin is shaded slightly darker as is also the base of the wings. The subapical spots re- appear as minute, sordid white, dots. Some specimens show two very indistinct spots near the stigma. Secondaries. Ground color light brown, evenly suffused with gray scales. Some specimens show some very faint lighter markings but the majority are immaculate. Fringes of both wings faintly checkered. Body above brown ; beneath grayish ; palpi, sordid white, intermixed with darker gray hairs ; antennae, dark brown, ringed with sordid white ; club, dark brown above, beneath sordid white. $. Similar to the J 1 except larger. Expanse : J 1 , 22-25 mm., average size 24 mm. ; $, 24-26 mm., average size 25 mm. Described from 29 specimens, 25 J 1 and 4 $. Of these 9 and 1 $ were collected by Don B. Stallings and Dr. J. R. Turner of Caldwell, Kansas, in the Palo Duro Canyon, TEXAS, during May and June, 1942. The remaining 19 $ and 3 $ were col- lected by the author at Palo Pinto, Palo Duro Canyon and Miami, all in Texas, during April, May, June, July and Au- gust, 1940 and 1942. This species is named in honor of the writer's wife who has so generously assisted in his study of the Hesperioidea. 18 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 Holotyfie, J, Palo Duro Canyon, Texas; IV-25-42 (H. A. Freeman) ; and allotype, $, Palo Duro Canyon, Texas; IV-18- 42 (H. A. Freeman) ; are in the collection of the author. Paratypes, 9 <$ and 1 $ are in the collection of Stallings and Turner, Caldwell, Kansas; 15 J 1 and 2 J will be disposed as fol- lows : 2 J* to the American Museum of Natural History, New York ; 1 $ to the United States National Museum ; 1 J* to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; 1 J 1 to the col- lection of Mr. A. C. Frederick, Albany, New York ; and 1 J 1 to the collection of Mr. Lowell Hulbirt, Glendora, California. The other 11 paratypcs will remain for the present in the collection of the author. Erna more closely resembles acnus Edwards than any other species of Ainblyscirtes. In preparing this description crna was compared with 31 specimens of acmts from Colorado ; Palo Duro Canyon and Alpine, Texas, and the following differences were noted: (1) Aenus always has three well defined subapical spots. These spots in crna are poorly defined or absent. (2) Aenus usually has a small spot in interspace Cu l and another slightly larger one in interspace Cu 2 . Erna does not have these -spots. (3) The fulvous overscaling on the upper surface of the wings of aonis is brighter than it is in erna. (4) On the under sur- face of the primaries the cell area is bright reddish-fulvous in acnus, whereas in erna this area is scarcely lighter than the rest of the wing. (5) The ground color of the under surface of the secondaries of acnus is dark with the overscaling whitish. In erna the ground color is lighter than in aenus and the overscaling is darker, being grayish. (6) Aenus usually has a discal band of whitish spots and two basal spots of the same color on the under surface of the secondaries. These are absent in crna or else very poorly defined. (7) Aenus is a slightly larger spe- cies than erna. Comparative measurements show that the males of acnus average 27 mm. and the females 28 mm. ; the males of erna average 24 mm. and the females 25 mm. Genitalic resemblance in this genus is very great; however careful microscopic examination reveals slight specific differ- ences in the valvae. In crna the tooth-like projection at the posterior extremity of the valve is short and serrate similar to Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 19 the same projection in altcrnata Grote and Robinson, whereas the general shape of the valve is similar to cassns Edwards. Amblyscirtes linda new species. <$. Upperside. Primaries. Dark brown with some fulvous overscaling toward the base and inner margin ; the number of subapical spots variable, from three well defined to no spots at all. A few specimens show two poorly defined spots in the vicinity of the stigma, one in interspace Cu t and the other in interspace Cu,,. The stigma is well developed. Secondaries. Dark brown with the basal and discal areas of the wings overscaled with fulvous scales and hairs. Underside. Primaries. Grayish-brown, lighter than above. The cell area is occupied with reddish-fulvous scales. The spots reappear and are better defined, the subapical spots are clear white and the two spots near the stigma are fulvous. Secondaries. Ground color dark brown, evenly suffused with grayish-white scales ; an irregular curved discal band of five or six grayish-white spots, two above the cell and a faintly lighter area near the base. The overscaling almost obliterates the discal band and basal spots in some of the specimens. Fringes of both wings checkered. Body, above brown ; be- neath grayish-white; palpi, grayish-white ; antennae, dark brown, ringed with gray ; club, black above, beneath grayish-white. $. Similar to the J 1 except some of them have the discal band and basal spots on the under surface of the secondaries clear snow white. Expanse : J\ 2427 mm., average size 26 mm. ; $, 24-29 mm., average size 28 mm. Described from 35 specimens, 24 J 1 and 11 $, collected by the author at Hope Hill Farm and Pinnacle Springs, Faulkner County, ARKANSAS, during June and July, 1941 and 1942. I take great pleasure in naming this species for my daughter. Holotype, <$, Hope Hill Farm, Faulkner Co., Arkansas; VII-6-42; and allotypc, $, Hope Hill Farm, Faulkner Co., Arkansas ; VI-27-42 ; are in the collection of the author. Paratypes, 23 $ and 10$, will be disposed as follows: one pan- to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Neu York ; one pair to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania; one pair to the United States National 20 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 Museum, Washington. D. C. ; one pair to the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; one pair to the collection of Stallings and Turner, Caldwell, Kansas; one J 1 to the collection of Mr. A. C. Frederick, Albany, New York ; one J 1 to the collection of Dr. G. W. Rawson, Detroit, Michigan ; one J 1 to the collec- tion of Mr. Lowell Hulbirt, Glendora, California ; and one <$ to the collection of Mr. Otto Buchholz, Roselle Park, New Jersey. The other 19 paratypes will remain for the present in the col- lection of the author. The prevailing species of Amblyscirtcs in Arkansas is vlalis (Edwards). To this species and aenus Edwards linda bears the most resemblance. In preparing this description linda was compared with approximately 250 specimens of vialis from over most of the United States and several localities in Canada and the following differences were noted: (1) Although a dark spe- cies, linda is lighter than vialis. The tendency in coloration of vialis is toward black, whereas in linda the tendency is toward brown. (2) Vialis lacks the fulvous overscaling present in a large number of the specimens of linda. (3) The stigma is more prominent in linda than it is in vialis. (4) The cell area of the under surface of the primaries of vialis is dark and does not show the fulvous overscaling present in linda. (5) On the under surface of the primaries the subapical spots begin with three white streaks on the costa of the wing, whereas in linda these are never present. (6) Vialis lacks the discal band and basal spots present in linda and the overscaling is more re- stricted, while in linda it covers all the surface of the wing. In comparing this species with aenus the following differences were noted: (1) Linda is a much darker species than aenus and the maculation is reduced. (2) The discal band and basal spots on the under surface of the males of aenus are better developed than in linda, whereas the females of linda have these markings better developed than the females of aenus. (3) The stigma is better developed in linda than it is in aenus. The genitalia somewhat resemble the genitalia of celia Skin- ner, however the posterior projection on the valve is different. liv, '43J ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 21 Current Entomological Literature COMPILED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrele- vant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. This list gives references of the current or preceding year unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex- periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of Journals given at the end of the literature. The num- ber of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining exclusively to Neo- tropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL. BAERG, W. J. Introduction to Applied Ento- mology. Second edition. Burgess Publishing Co., Minne- apolis, Minn. Pp. vii, 146, 128 figs. BANKS, N. Report on recent insects. [Ann. Rept. Director Mus. Comp. Zool.] 1941- 42: 15-18. BLANTON & HAASIS. Insect transmission of the virus causing narcissus mosaic. [47] 65 (9) : 413-419. CARPENTER, F. M. Report on fossil insects. [Ann. Rept. Director Mus. Comp. Zool.] 1941-42: 33-34. CASILLO, N. R. -Insects that catch fish. [Pennsylvania Angler, Harrisburg] 11 (11): 11. 22. 28, ill. CLAUSEN, C. P. The relation of taxonomy to biological control. [12] 35 (5): 744-748. COCKERELL. T. D. A. Samuel Hubbard Scudder. [34] 13 (3) : 147-151. portrait. ESSIG, E. O. The significance of taxonomy in the general field of economic entomology. [12] 35 (5) : 739-743. FERRIS, G. F. The needs of systematic entomology. [12] 35 (5): 732-738. Fox, I. The use of creosote in mounting fleas and other arthropods on slides. [68] 96 (2499) : 478. PRISON, T. H. The significance of economic entomology in the field of insect taxonomy. [12] 35 (5) : 749-752. GRISWOLD, G. H. Common insects of the flower garden. [24] 371, revised: 1-61. HESSE, A. J. The insect food and Hymenopterous parasites of the South African poisonous "button spider," Latrodectus indistinctus Camp. [2] 5 : 45-63, ill. HUTZEL & PETERSON. A killing and preserving fluid for immature insects. [12] 35 (5) : 788. LINSLEY, E. G. -The present status of entomological nomenclature. [12] 35 22 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 (5) : 758-761. LUTZ, ADOLPHO. Necrologia do Dr. Adolpho Lutz 1855-1940. By Dr. Arthur Neiva. [Ill] 36 (1): i- xxiii, portrait, bibliography. METCALF, C. L. Common names of insects. [12] 35 (5): 795-797. MORRIS, R. F. The use of frass in the identification of forest insect damage. [4] 74 (9): 164-167, ill. (k). MUESEBECK, C. F. W Fundamental taxonomic problems in quarantine and nursery inspection. [12] 35 (5) : 753-758. ROBERTS, T. W. Behavior of organisms. [27] 12 (4) : 339-412. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, ETC. CARLSON, F. W.- Refrigeration test of transforming codling moth larvae. [12] 35 (5) : 787. GIRAL, F. Sobre aceites de insectos. I. Taenio- poda auricornis. [35] 2 (4) : 243-250. HEADLEE, T. J. A continuation of the studies of the relative effects on insect metabolism of temperature derived from constant and varied sources. [12] 35 (5): 785-786. PARKIN. E. A. Symbiosis and siricid wood wasps. [20] 29: 268-274. RICHARDS, AN- DERSON & HANCE. A microtome sectioning technique for elec- tron microscopy illustrated with sections of striated muscle. [33] 51 (1): 148-152, ill. SWARTZ, G. E. The course of dark adaptation in the anterior ommatidia of Eristalis tenax. [42] 91: 65-78. WIGGLESWORTH, V. B. Some notes on the integument of insects in relation to the entry of contact insecti- cides. [22] 33 (3) : 205-218, ill. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIAPODA. EDDY. G. \V.- Notes on the seasonal history of the rabbit tick, Haemaphysalis leporis-palustris, in Oklahoma. [10] 44 (7): 145-149, ill. GERTSCH, W. J. New American spiders of the family Clu- bionidae. [40] 1195: 1-18, ill. GOODNIGHT, C. J. & M. L.- New Phalangodidae (Phalangida) from the United States; Phalangida from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. [40] 1188: 1-18, ill. (k) ; 1198: 1-18. ill. (*). HENDERSON & HOL- LO WAY. Influence of leaf age and feeding injury on the citrus red mite. [12] 35 (5) : 681-686. HESSE, A. J. See also the General Subject. JOYCE & EDDY. Ixodes dentatus from Iowa. [12] 35 (5): 673. KEIFER, H. H Eriophyid studies XII. [11] 31 (3): 117-129. ill. THE SMALLER ORDERS OF INSECTS. AIIRENS. C. White-tails and amber-wings [Pennsylvania Angler, Harris- burg] 11 (11): 10-11, ill. CRAWFORD, J. C. A new Hetero- thrips found on oak (Thysanoptera: Heterothripidae) ; Two Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23 new South American species of Merothrips Hood (Mero- thripidae). [10] 44 (7): 140-141; 151-154. EWING & Fox. New neotropical insects of the Apterygotan family Japygidae. [50] 92 (3151) : 291-299, ill. FRASER, F. C. A note on the wing-trichiation of the Odonata. [8] 78 (941) : 235-236, figs. GOOD, N. E. Stenistomera (Siphonaptera) : a revaluation of the genus, with the description of a new subgenus and species. [10] 44 (7): 131-139, ill. HOLLAND, G. P. Synonymy of some fleas from western North America (Siphonaptera). [4] 74 (9) : 157-158. KIRBY, H. Descovinid flagellates of Ter- mites III. The genera Foaina and Parajoenia. [67 Zool.] 45 (3): 167-246, ill. KOHLS, G. M. Siphonaptera: Ptilopsylla dunni, a new species of bat flea from Panama. [17] 28: 361- 362, ill. LEPELLEY, R. H. A method of sampling thrips populations. [22] 33 (3) : 147-148. SCOTT, D. B. Some Collembola records for the Pacific coast and a description of a new species. [55] 18 (4) : 177-186. ORTHOPTERA. ROBERTS, H. R. Two subspecies of Melanoplus differentialis and related new species from Mexico with discussion of their variations (Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacri- dinae). [1] 68: 151-156, ill. SEAMANS, F. M. Protozoan parasites of the Orthoptera, with special reference to those of Ohio. III. Protozoan parasites in the relation to the host and to host ecology. [43] 41 (6) : 457-464. SPRAGUE & RAMSEY. Further observations on Plistophora kudoi, a microsporidian of the cockroach. [17] 28: 399-406. HEMIPTERA. FUNKHOUSER, W. D. Membracidae from British Guiana. [18] 27 (17-19): 125-129. HARRIS, H. M. On the date of publication of Laporte's Essai. [55] 18 (4) : 161-162. HSIAO, TSAI-YU. A new Mirid from Oregon. [55] 18 (4) : 160-161, ill. KENAGA, E. E. A new genus in the Halobatinae (Gerridae). [103] 15 (4): 136-141, ill. (Sk*). KNOWLTON, G. F. Utah bird predators of the beet leafhopper [Eutettix tenellus]. [16] 282: 1-2. MCKENZIE, H. L. Two new species related to red scale (Coccoidea: Diaspididae). [11] 31 (3): 141-147, ill. PHILIP, C. B. Mechanical trans- mission of rabbit fibroma (Shope) by certain haematophagous bugs. [17] 28: 395-398. SHANDS & BRONSON. Brassica campestris L. and Raphanus raphanistrum L. as breeding hosts of the green peach aphid. [12] 35 (5) : 791-792. USINGER, 24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '43 R. L. Revision of the Termitaphididae. [55] 18 (4) : 155^ 159 (k). LEPIDOPTERA. BEIRNE, B. P. Notes on the morphol- ogy and taxonomy of the genitalia of the British Rhopalocera. [9] 75 (953): 211-216, ill. [Has a wider application.] CLARKE, J. F. G. Notes and new species of Microlepidoptera from Washington State. [50] 92 (3149): 267-276, ill. FORBES, W. T. M. The L. of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. No. 2. [26] 90 (2): 268-406, ill. (k*). Fox, R. M. 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[31] 150 (3807) : 463. WOODBURY, SUGDEN, & GILLETTE. Notes on migrations of the painted lady butterfly in 1941. [55] 18 (4) : 165-176, ill. DIPTERA. ALEXANDER, C. P. New or little-known Tipu- lidae. LXV. Neotropical species. [75] (11) 9 (58) : 759- 790. CURRAN, C. H. American D. [62] 80 (3) : 51-84 (k*). DEONIER & LINDQUIST. Effect of certain larvicides on the overwintering larvae of the Clear Lake gnat. [12] 35 (5) : 788-789. FLUKE, C. L. Revision of the neotropical Syrphini related to Syrphus. [40] 1201: 1-24, ill. (k*). HARDY, D. E. Studies in New World Philia (Bibionidae) ; Notes on Diptera in Snow Entomological Collection. [103] 15 (4) : 127-134, ill. .(*) ; 142-143. JAMES, M. T. A new Empis of the subgenus Pachymeria. [55] 18 (4): 163-164 (*). Additions to the Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS "Robber flies of Colorado." [103] 15 (4): 124-126, ill. (*). KALMUS, H. Anemotaxis in Drosophila. [31] 150 (3805) : 405. LEES, A. D. Homology of the campaniform organs on the wing of Drosophila melanogaster. [31] 150 (3804) : 375, ill. LINDQUIST & DEONIER. Emergence habits of the Clear Lake gnat. [103] 15 (4) : 109-120. MANGABEIRA, O., FILHO. Contribuigao ao estudo dos Flebotomus, Za, 3a. [Ill] 36 (2): 201-214, 215-224, ill. (S*). METZ, C. W. Mosaic salivary glands in Sciara. [90] 76 (767) : 623-630, ill. XEEL, J. V. The polymorph mutant of Drosophila melanogaster. [90] 76 (767) : 630-634. PHILIP, C. B Further notes on Nearctic Tabanidae. [28] 21: 55-68 (*). ROBERTS, R.- -An observation on Promachus, a large robberfly. [103] 15 (4): 134-135. SMITH & ROSENBERGER. A case of cutaneous myia- sis due to the larvae of Cordylobia anthropophaga. [Amer. Jl. Trop. Med.] 22 (4) : 459-461, ill. STONE, A. New species of Anastrepha and notes on others (Tephritidae). [91] 32 (10): 298-304, ill. COLEOPTERA. BROWN, W. J. The American species of Entomoscelis and Hippuriphila (Chrysomelidae). [4] 74 (9) : 172-176 (*). BRYANT, G. E. 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After a couple of decades of informal fraternizing, the Detroit Entomological Society has just completed its first year of formal organization with fifteen members. Any entomologist who may visit Detroit is requested to communicate with the secretary, John H. Newman, 14358 Maddelein Ave., or the chairman, George Steyskal, 23341 Puritan Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Asterocampa celtis in Michigan (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae). After returning home from a profitable day of research at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology on August 23, 1942, the writer opened his front door for fresh air and noticed an unusual butterfly perched on the outside of the screen-door. He rushed around the house with a net and secured the insect, which was identified as Asterocampa celtis (Bdv. & Lee.), a species not previously recorded from Michigan. The specimen was turned over to Sherman Moore, who checked its determination and who will deposit it in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 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The hind femora are shining black, their tibiae dark brown, without apical spur. Related to tacnia Wiedemann. 5- Length 11 mm. Head: the cheeks are shining black; the face and lower part of the front are pale brownish-yellow and broadly over the sides are white pubescent and white pilose. Antennae and arista pale brown, the latter bare. The upper portion of the front is light brown pollinose with chiefly blackish pile throughout the middle and entirely black in front of the ocelli. Viewed dorsally there are three, narrow, linear black vittae on the upper part of the front. The occiput is dark brown pollinose, black margined, the immediate eye margins narrowly yellowish pubescent. Thorax: mesonotum opaque black behind the suture and largely opaque black in front ; the anterior margin of the suture linearly, the lateral margin, the humeri and the anterior margin are, light to dark brown pollinose. The scutellum is yellow; the base is very narrowly black, the pile of the basal half of the apex is long and yellow with numerous long black hairs across the posterior half. Pile of mesonotum yellow in front of the suture and immediately behind it ; long and black on the re- mainder and upon all of the post calli except the anterior corner. The pleural pile is wholly pale; the squamae dark brown. (29) MAR 151943 30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 Abdomen: first segment black and narrowly yellow in front on either side of the middle and upon the anterior and posterior corners. The second segment is pale yellow with a large pos- terior black triangle reaching more or less broadly to the an- terior margin. Extreme posterior margin of the segment is yellow. The posterior corners of the segment are more or less black. Third segment similarly marked, the median portion of the central spot often much broader and extending widely upon the anterior margin. The lateral margin of the segment is widely black in the female and linearly black in the male. Fifth segment opaque black, yellow margined posteriorly with a cen- tral, narrow, medially interrupted, laterally expanded, shining black fascia. Legs: shining black; the apices of the femora are reddish to yellow; the front and middle tibiae are light yellow basally, growing gradually darker apically where they are almost black. The hind tibiae are dark brown and paler at the extreme base ; tarsi brownish black, the middle basi tarsi lighter. Wings: hyaline. Holotypc: Female; Curityba, Parana, BRAZIL, collector Cla- ratiano, 10, 7, 1936 in the author's collection. Xylota althaea new species. Hind femora only narrowly brownish at the base and less swollen than in metallica Wiedemann. 5. Length 8 mm. Head: the face, front and vertex shining black, the former and a central transverse fascia across the middle of the front whitish pubescent. The pile of the front is white except in front of the ocelli and occupies all but a short distance in front of the antennae. The ocellar pile is black. Post ocellar pile white. Antennae brown, the third joint black- ish above and light red below. Arista quite short, barely longer than the length of the antennae; its basal half is pale orange, then dark brown, the apex orange. Thorax: mesonotum dully shining black with a coppery re- flection; the pile is erect, short and whitish yellow with a small patch of black bristles above the base of the wing ; the post calli pile is wholly pale, the scutellum concolorous, the pile white. Abdomen: entirely black with faint bluish reflections; pile short, appressed in the posterior corners, erect in the basal liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 31 corners and black over the central posterior portions of the second and third segments, which together with the median vittae are more nearly opaque. The region of the usual spots of the second and third segments is completely shining bluish- black. Legs: whole of first and second femora light reddish-brown; basal sixth of hind femora similarly colored, diffusely merging into the blackish remainder ; the extreme apex of the hind femora is brown ; front and middle tibiae and their first two tarsal joints brownish-yellow. Hind femora light brown at the base, dark brown elsewhere, their tibiae dark brown above, light brown below. Wings: pale brown; stigmal cell darker. Holotype: Female; Spartanburg, SOUTH CAROLINA, June 5, 1917. Lejops grisescens new species. Related to relic tits Curran and Fluke. It is smaller and dis- tinguished by a blackish coloration and distinctly grey fascia. 2- Length 6 mm. Head: the cheeks, face and front are black; the face is reddish-brown about the middle and covered with yellowish-white pubescence and sparse white pile. There is some sparse golden-brown pollen on the front which is almost bare in front of the antennae. The pile of the front and vertex is black ; the extreme occipital pile yellowish. Antennae brown, the third joint light reddish, a little darker above. Arista light brown. Thorax: mesonotum light grey pollinose with three opaque black vittae. The scutellum is shining black; the margin is quite narrowly yellowish-brown. Pile of thorax everywhere pale yellowish-white. Abdomen: about two and one-half times as long as wide, black, shining upon the posterior margin of the second and third segment and subopaque upon the remainder of these segments where not covered by pale grey fascia. The whole of the first segment, a central, widely separated, transverse, sub- lunate grey fascia, its lateral ends reddish and extended to cover all the remainder of the anterior margin of the second segment only are light grey pollinose. Third segment with a similar pair of less widely separated sublimate fascia lying a little before 32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 the middle, their lateral ends not reddish but extended forward to the anterior corners. There is a small, medial, apical grey triangle on this segment. Fourth segment, similar, the apical triangle expanded to cover all the posterior margin, but nar- rowly towards the sides. Fifth shining black on the base, widely pale grey on the remainder and narrowly divided by an extension from the basal black. Legs: femora shining black, the anterior four more pollinose posteriorly, the hind pair yellowish narrowly upon the base and narrowly preapically; the others are yellowish upon the apex. The first four tibiae and their first four tarsal joints are light yellow. The hind tibiae are very dark brown, a little lighter at the narrow base and are almost yellow across the middle ; they end in a rather blunt triangular scoop. Hind tarsi brownish. Wings: pale yellowish-brown, stigma almost as wide as deep. Holotype: Female; Riverton, NEW JERSEY, June 18, 1920. Paratype: a female. August 10, 1920; F. M. Hull collector. }$J&W\Q^ i Sphaerophoria transversa new species. Related to micrura O. S., the cheeks, and the whole of the femora are yellow; the pattern of the abdominal fascia is dif- ferent; facial pile white. (^. Length 8 mm. Head: the front, face and cheeks are pale yellow except for a hemispherical brown spot above the antennae and an elongate brown spot over the facial tubercle. The pile of the front and face is black and upon the latter limited to a narrow row along the outer margin. The antennae are orange- brown, the third joint dark brown except upon the base and > ventral margin. Arista dark brown. Thorax: mesonotum metallic brassy, the humeri, the nota- pleurae from humerus to suture, the posterior part of mescn pleurae, the upper part of sternopleurae, a part of propleurae 'and the scutellum pale yellow. The mesonotal and pleural pile is yellow and the scutellar pile long and black. Abdomen: elongate, rather flattened, and dark brown marked with yellow as follows: the anterior corners and most of the lateral margins of the first segment, a central, rather slender fascia across the middle of the second segment, slightly more narrow medially, a similar wider fascia on the third segment. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 33 not narrowed in the middle, and each half of which is barely oblique. There is a still wider, slightly more oblique fascia across the fourth segment placed just before the middle of the segment; the fifth segment has four, small, obscure yellowish spots. Legs: the femora and the first four tibiae and front coxae and trochanters are wholly light yellow, their tarsi pale brown almost yellow. The hind tibiae are pale brown on the apical third and subbasally, yellow between, their tarsi darker brown. iriiujs: pale brown, the stigma light brown. Holotype: Male; Near Portland, OREGON, July, 1926 (F. M. Hull). Salpingogaster diana new species. Related to lineata Sack, in the type of coloring upon the wing ; the scutellum is brown and the pleura wholly dark brown. 5. Length 13 mm. Head: the front and vertex are brownish- black, the lower protuberant part of the front is polished ; there are two pairs of tiny eye-marginal yellow spots located in the front, a pair above, a pair below. The face is pale yellow and very broadly brown over the middle and tubercle as far as the antennae. The cheeks and the antennae are light brown. Thorax: mesonotum dark chestnut-brown, the marking ob- scure because of the age and preservation but with a pair of widely separated velvet-black vittae that appear to be confined to the anterior half of the thorax. The pleurae are entirely brown, the scutellum brown, the disc diffusely darker. Abdomen: petiolate and entirely brown, the first and second segment and extreme base of third light reddish-brown. The remainder of the abdomen is brownish-black. The second seg- ment is elongate, quite slender, almost cylindrical, a little wider posteriorly and about seven times as long as its subbasal width. Viewed dorsally the cylindrical third and fourth segment is very strongly expanded just below its immediate base. Legs: pale yellow, the anterior and middle femora brownish- yellow; the hind femora pale brown except the apex; the hind tibiae are brownish-yellow except for a pale brown annulus. Pile of hind femora black. Wings: pale yellow, the costal and subcostal cell dilute brownish-yellow, the submarginal cell and basal anterior por- 34 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 tion of the first and second basal cell yellowish or brownish- yellow. Holotype: Female; labeled BRAZIL, without further data; re- ceived some years ago in miscellaneous material from Brazil. Mesogramma sylvatica new species. Characterized by the spatulate abdomen, the slender connec- tions of the geminate spots, the wide complete fascia on the second segment etc. ; related to musicus Fa.br. J 1 . Length 7 mm. Head: front and face yellow, the latter very little produced forward ; the cheeks are blackish ; the an- tennae are light brown, darker upon the apical two-thirds of third joint. Thorax: brassy black with thick golden-brown pollen. The humeri and the entire lateral margin are yellow. Scutellum yellowish-brown, the margin lighter, the disc darker, the sparse long pile black. Abdomen: elongate, flattened, sub-spatulate, the apical seg- ments very little wider than the basal ones. The first segment is yellow with narrow, shining black posterior margin, the black attenuated laterally. Second segment light orange-brown, the basal third brown except for the anterior corners and a narrow lineal anterior margin. The posterior third of the segment is black leaving a continuous middle stripe of yellow. Third seg- ment is yellowish-brown with a pattern of black as follows : hind third of the segment in the middle, which expands to be- come a little deeper on the lateral margin, and sublaterally the black sends an anterior extension forward to within a short distance of the anterior margin; submedially the interrupted black posterior fascia sends forward paired lineal extensions that connect with prominent, almost equilateral, triangles of black whose upper angles touch the base of the segment and whose outer angles almost contact the sublateral extension ; these triangles are concave on medial and basal margins. Fourth segment with a quite similar pattern, the sublateral black ex- tensions except for small breaks reaching the anterior margin and the posterior black fascia is narrowly replaced by yellow along the central portion of the posterior margin. Fifth seg- ment with a rhomboid, median, black triangle reaching from liv, '43 | ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS base almost to apex and a pair of sublateral zig-zag vittae. Hypopygium with a large black spot. Legs: yellow. Hind femora with a subapical black annulus, hind tibiae with a subbasal one. Wings: grey hyaline, the alulae narrow and strap-shaped. . Similar to the male. Face yellow. The abdominal pat- tern is similar, the sublateral black extensions of the third and fourth segments are short and broadly disconnected from a sub- lateral black spot lying between them and the anterior margin. Sublateral vittae of the fifth broken up each into two spots. Holotype: Male; Bafios, ECUADOR, July 5, 1938; W. C. Mac- Intyre. Type in the collection of Dr. C. L. Fluke. Mesogramma sylpha new species. Abdomen slender, narrow basally; the third and fourth seg- ments with yellow crescents, median vittae and sublatero mar- ginal markings; related to M. tridcntatum. J 1 . Length 6 mm. Head: the front is blackish except nar- rowly along the sides. Face greatly produced forward, its apex truncate and extending to or beyond the apex of the third an- tennal joint. The antennae are reddish below, blackish above. Thorax: blackish upon the mesonotum with the humeri and lateral margins continuously yellowish-brown. Scutellum yel- lowish-brown, diffusely darker upon the disc. Abdomen: spatulate. The first segment is dark brown ex- cept upon the sides, the second segment chocolate-brown with a yellow pattern as follows : a narrow median yellow vitta attenu- ated anteriorly and posteriorly and narrowly separated from an oval yellow spot near the middle of the segment on either side ; each of these yellow spots is narro\vly connected with a trans- verse, lateral extension of yellow. Third segment with similar attenuated median vitta and upon the anterior two-thirds of the segment a pair of crescentic yellow spots, their concave surfaces faced medially and which anteriorly connect with an oblique subbasal and sublateral yellow fascia; posteriorly the sublateral stripe of vittae is evanescent just beyond the middle of the seg- ment. Fourth segment with similar pattern. Fifth segment with four slightly diagonal, yellowish vittae which reach and connect narrowly along the anterior margin and extend only through the anterior two-thirds of the segment. 36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 Legs: light brownish-yellow, the hind femora and tibiae with wide apical and subbasal smoky bands. Wings: nearly hyaline, the alulae wanting. J. Abdomen flattened, spatulate, wider and more oval, espe- cially upon the posterior two-thirds. In general the pattern is similar, the submedial and sublateral yellow spots of the second segment are connected more broadly and the sublateral and sub- medial spots of the third and fourth segment are broadly con- nected by a basal yellow fascia. Spots of the fifth segment are more triangular and more broadly connected basally. Alulae narrow and strap-like. Holotypc: Male; Barios, ECUADOR, May 13, 1939, 2500 meters, W. C. Maclntyre. Allotypc: female; same locality, July 9, 1938, 1800 meters, same collector. Types in the collection of Dr. Charles L. Fluke. Mesogramma ornata new species. Characterized by the yellowish-red pattern of the abdomen ; related to confusa Schiner. J 1 . Length 5 mm. Head: the face and front are yellow, the antennae orange, the cheeks blackish. Vertical pile short and black, vertical triangle brownish-yellow pollinose. Thorax: posterior half of mesopleurae, upper part of sterno- pleurae, humeri, entire lateral margins and a wide margin around the scutellum, light yellow. Mesonotum brassy brown- ish-black, bluish on the anterior margin and upon a medial vitta which is greyish or brownish pollinose and is continued to the shining brownish-black scutellum. Scutellar pile long, erect, chiefly pale with a few brownish marginal hairs. Abdomen: with nearly parallel sides; the first segment is blue-black, its anterior margin and corners yellow. Second segment sepia and opaque with a central, bilunate, narrowly divided, narrow fascia ; apical margin reddish. Third segment with central lunate spots as in confnsa Schiner; they are nar- rowly separated from the corner triangles whose medial margins curve; posterior portion of the segment widely reddish-brown, the medial, anterior center and the remaining area of the seg- ment opaque brown ; posteriorly this lateral extension of dark brown coloration extends medially inward to meet and con- Hv, '43 j ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 37 tinue upwards to the central brown spot. Fourth segment with a similar pattern, the basal triangles further apart from the submedial crescent-like spots. Fifth segment with a central, rounded, opaque brown spot and an obscure sublateral vittate spot on either side. Legs: yellow. Hind femora with wide black subapical an- nulus, their tibiae dark brown through the middle, their tarsi brown. Wings: hyaline, the alulae well developed. Holotypc: Male; Villarica, PARAGUAY, January, 1938, F. Schade collector. Type in the collection of Dr. Charles L. Fluke. Further Notes on Aero-Plankton of Kentucky. By H. ELLIOTT McCLURE, Orel, Nebraska. (Contimted from Page 11} HOMOPTERA. Cicadellidae ; Aphiclidae (see McClure, 1942) ; * Coccidae, Pscndococciis sp., 28. One hundred and sixty-four unidentified leafhoppers were captured in this series, and they proved to be most abundant in the collections at the beginning of May in both morning and evening. None were taken in the morning collections after the first week of June, but the evening numbers continued weakly after a small peak during the four days preceding June 7 . The evening collections were generally greater than those of the morning. Twenty-eight male coccids, thought to be nearly all of the genus Pseitdococcus, were taken during these collections. Only one was taken in the evening, and all were collected during the four days preceding May 22, when the temperature was rising, the humidity decreasing, and the light intensity increasing. * McClure, H. E., Spring Aphid Aero-plankton (Homoptera) . Ent. News, LIII, pp. 67-70. 38 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 COLEOPTERA. Carabidae : Agonoderus comma Fab., 2, Agon- oderus paUipes Fab., 5, Tachistodes partiarius Say, 1, Tachis- todes indistinctus Dej., 2, Tachistodes testaceus Dej., 25, Ste- nolophus conjunctus Say, 1, Stenolophus ochropczus Say, 9, Stenocellus rupestris Say, 6, Micratopus sp., 12, Tachys incurva Say, 1, Tachys oenescens Lee., 2, Tachys tripunctata Say, 1, Tachys laevus Say, 11, Tachys cornscns Lee., 2, Tachys sp., 2, Bembidion intermedium Kby., 2, Bembidion affinc Say, 3, Schizogenius lineolatus Say, 1, Clivina hnprcssifrons Lee. 2, Dyschirius haemorrhoidalis Dej., 1. Of the 88 carabids taken, only four were collected in the morning. They were abundant during the first of May, but fell off rapidly coinciding with decreasing temperature preced- ing May 14. They increased with increasing temperature to the twenty-second, and fell away again during the cool spell preceding the twenty-sixth. They were most abundant the four days preceding June 3, and disappeared after that peak. Hydrophilidae : Ccrcyon qiiisqitilhis Fab., 7, Ccrcyon hae- morrhoidalis Fab., 2. Ccrcyon pyguiaens Illig., 6, Cryptopleu- rum americanmn Horn, 1, Cymbiodyta vindicata Fall, 1, Peme- lus co status Lee., 1, Philhydnts ncbulosus Say, 1, Ochthcbius nitidus Lee., 1. Only 14 specimens of Ccrcyon were taken and three species represented. They were more or less evenly distributed throughout the collections, but were apparently most active from May 18 to June 15. Most were taken in the evening. Silphidae: Anisotoma sp., 2, Anisotoma obsoleta Melsh., 2, Cyrtusa egena Lee., 4; Scydmaenidae : undetermined, 10; Orthoperidae : Scricodcrits flavidus Dec., 2, Sericodcrus obscn- rus Lee., 2, Molamba sp., 2 ; Staphylinidae : 3,389. The morning and evening collections of staphylinids were ap- parently similar in response to the weather, but the evening population was always more than double that of the morning. The four days preceding May 22 and June 3 were the periods of greatest numbers, with low activity preceding and following them. The activity seemed to increase with increasing tern- Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 39 peratures. The numbers also apparently increased with chang- ing humidity, following more closely rising than falling hu- midity. These 3,389 specimens were in the collection of Dr. Ralph Voris at the time of his death in 1940 and have as yet been incompletely identified. Any coleopterist wishing to ex- amine these specimens is welcome to do so. Pselaphidae: Bibloplectus ruficeps (Lee.), 291, Rlrcxius insculptus Lee., 1, Brachygluta illinoisensis Brendel, 1. Al- most the entire group of Bibloplectus ruficeps was collected in the evening, as only four individuals were taken in the morning. Females made up 53 per cent and males 47 per cent of the group. The period of greatest flight was in May with a com- plete cessation of activity in the four days preceding May 26. The collections in June did not equal those in May, and dwindled toward the middle of the month. Ptiliidae, undetermined. There were 161 ptiliids taken in the study. These minute beetles did not follow the general trend of the insect activity as indicated by the numbers caught. They were at a low ebb while most of the rest of the flying forms were numerous. The two peaks came in the four days preceding May 18 and June 11. Most of them were taken in the evening, but a few were collected in the morning. Scaphidiidae : Baeocera concolor Fab., 1, Scaphisoma ter- minatus Melsh., 1 ; Histeridae : Phdister subrotundus Say, 8, Acritus sp., 6, Aeletes politus Lee., 1. There were three spe- cies and 15 specimens of histerids in the collections. Four speci- mens were taken in the morning and the remaining 11 in the evening. They did not appear until after May 10 and disap- peared by June 15. Cantharidae: Cantharis sp. 1. Mordellidae : Mordcllistena nigricans Melsh., 4, Mordcllistena liturata Melsh., 1. Anthicidae: Malpariis formicariiis Laf., 1, Sapintits pnbcscens Laf., 1, Notoxus monodon Say, 5, Noto.vus blcolor Say, 2, Anthicus cervinus Laf., 22. The five species and 33 specimens of anthicids represented were all taken in the evening, and were 40 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 not abundant enough to be taken in very large numbers. They were more active in early May. Elateridae: Monocrepidius bellus (Say), 85, Hypnoidus pectoralis Say, 2. The number of elaterids increased from the cool period preceding May 14 to a peak of activity in the four days preceding May 22. This accompanied a rise in tempera- ture. None were collected during the cool period of May 26, but they again increased in numbers with rising temperatures to June 3. Buprestidae: Anthaxia quercata Fab., 1; Heteroceridae : Heterocerus pusillus var. limbatus Kies., 33. During the col- lections 33 specimens of this species were taken, five of these in the morning. The evening activity was up during the four days preceding May 10 and then gradually declined to zero by June 7. Helodidae: Hclodes pulchella Guer., 1. Dermestidae : Anthrenus verbasci (Linn.), 1. Nitidulidae : Epuraea labilis Fr., 1, Carpophilns antigiiiis Melsh., 1. Monotomidae: Monotoma americana Aube, 57, Monotoma picipes Hbst., 2, Monotoma julvipes Melsh., 1, Bactridium striolatum Reitt., 2, Bactridium ephippigerum Guer., 2. All but two of the Monotoma americana were taken in the evening, and their activity increased in progressive peaks from a low point in the first days of May to a peak on June 11. Cucujidae: Carthartus advena Waltl., 8, Pediaciis dcpressns Herbst., 1, Laemophloeus testaceus Fab., 1, Laemophloeus pusillits Schon., 1, Silvamis imbeUis Lee., 1. Cryptophagidae : Tomarus pulchellus Lee., 13, Anchicera ochracea Casey, 22, Anchicera pusilla Payk., 5, Anchicera epliippiata Zimm., 1, Cryptophagus acutangulus Gyll., 2. The cryptophagids were represented by 42 specimens. Most of Tomarus pulchcllus Lee. were taken during May. Anchicera ochracea Casey was more abundant than T. pulcJicllns and all specimens were taken in the evening. These were more or less evenly distributed throughout the collections, with periods of activity preceding May 22 and June 7. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 41 Mycetophagidae : Typhaea fumata Linn., 22, Litargus bal- teatus Lee., 1, Litargus 6-pnnctata Say, 3. Typhaea fumata was most active in the four days preceding June 7, and at other times was present in small numbers. Colydiidae : SyncJiita fnliginosa Melsh., 2. Lathridiidae : Melanophthalma simplex Lee., 46, Melanoph- thahna distingnenda Com., 5, Melanophthalma villosa Zimm., 1, Corticaria clongata Gyll., 53, Corticaria ferruginea Marsh., 3, Corticaria serrata Payk., 1. One hundred and four latridids were taken during the studies, and only three of these in the morning. They were not numerous until after the cool period of May 26, and then two peaks during the periods of June 3 and June 15 were noted. Endomychidae : Anamorphus zvaltoni Blatch., 1. Phalacridae: Phlacrus simplex Lee., 1. Coccinellidae : Scymnus terminatus Say, 1. Tenebrionidae : Alphitophagus bifasciatus Say, 1. Melandryidae : Canifa plagiata Melsh., 1. Anobiidae : Stegobium paniceum Linn., 1, Catorama confitsum Fall, 14. One specimen of the drug store beetle, Stegobium paniceum Linn., was taken on June 7 in the evening. The spe- cies Catorama conjiisitm Fall was represented by 14 specimens, two of which were taken in the morning. They were not abun- dant in any collection except one made at midnight of June 2. Scarabeidae: Aplwdiits stercorosus Melsh., 13, Aphodius dis- tinctus Mull., 7, Aphodius lividus Oliv., 1, Aphodius granarins Linn., 4, Ataenius strigatus Say, 6, Ligyrus gibbosits DeG., 3, Onthophagns pennsylvanicus Harold, 1. During the seven weeks 35 scarabeids were taken. Only four of these were caught in the morning. The activity was greatest early in May, and they had disappeared by the first week of June. The May 26 cool spell did not reduce their activity. Chrysomelidae : Epitrix parvula Fab., 14, Epitrix jnscnla Crotch, 1, Epitrix ciicumcris Harr., 1, Blyptina spnria Lee., 1, Phyllotreta inttata Chev., 8, Diabrotica 12-pitnctata Fab., 1, Diabrotica vittata Fab., 1. Twenty-nine chrysomelids were 42 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 taken. Epitrix parvula was most active in the middle of May. Phyllotreta vittata was not taken until the first of June, and ceased flying by June 11. Scolytidae : Xyleborus pecanls Hopk., 4, Xyleborus affinis Eichh., 3, Xyleborus conjusns Eichh., 1, Pityophthorus rhois Sw., 2. Coleoptera larvae. Two larvae of the first instar and prob- ably teleophorids were taken, both in the evening. STREPSIPTERA. One male, undetermined, taken in the eve- ning on the nineteenth of June. MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. Micro-lepidoptera as well as the Ephe- merida were mutilated by this method of collecting, and no at- tempt was made to identify them. Eighty-seven were taken, none in the morning. In general, except for a peak on June 11, the number of moths was smaller and smaller at 6 P.M. as the season progressed, probably because of the movement of the sun. DIPTERA. Tipulidae: Gonomyia subcinerea O. S., 1, Gono- myia kansensis Alex., 1. Psychodidae: Psychoda sp., 22, Psychoda alternata Say, 13, Psychoda cinerea Banks, 8, Psychoda minuta Banks, 2, Pericoma sp., 2. Forty-seven psychodids were taken, and five of these in the morning. The evening activity w r as constant during most of May, with a slight peak at the twenty-sixth, and a de- pression in the period of the thirtieth. This low point was four days later than that of the other insects. Psychoda sp., prob- ably alternata Say, was represented by 11 females and two males, or 84 per cent females and 16 per cent males. Psychoda sp., probably cinerea Banks, was represented by six females and two males, a ratio of 3:1. Most of these specimens were taken in the latter part of May. Psychoda sp., probably minuta Banks, was represented by two females. A male and a female of a species of Peri com a were also collected. A fourth species of PsycJwda was represented by 21 females and one male. This species was encountered during the first half of May and the four days preceding June 3. liv, '43 1 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 43 Chironomidae. The movements of the chironomids preceded by several days those of the staphylinids. The morning collec- tions showed three peaks of abundance. The evening numbers were not only more than double that of the morning, but the greatest collections were in the four days preceding May 14, a full two weeks before the greatest staphylinid flight. The total number of chironomids taken was 3,796. Because of the diffi- culties involved, no attempt has been made to identify the species. Mycetophilidae : 14 specimens undetermined. Sciaridae : Sciara nacta Johann., 3600, undetermined 109. Over 3,700 sciarids were taken and Sciara nacta Johann. made up 97 per cent of these. There were six times as many indi- viduals taken in the evenings as in the mornings. Except for a small peak of May 22, they came forth in one sudden im- mense flight in the four days preceding June 3. The morning activity consisted of 17 per cent males and 83 per cent females. With rising temperature and humidity preceding June 3 there were great numbers of females flying, while the greatest num- ber of males came four days later. The immense evening ac- tivity consisted of three per cent males and 97 per cent females. These percentages are misleading, for the males collected hardly varied from morning to evening there being a total of 101 speci- mens taken in the morning and 99 taken in the evening. The females taken varied greatly from morning to evening. The total for the morning was 470 and for the evening, 2,930. With the increasing temperature preceding May 22 there was a burst of activity of females, followed by a rapid decline during the four cool days following. With increasing temperature and humidity preceding June 3, the female activity again increased rapidly to a climax on June 2. The number immediately sub- sided, apparently in conjunction with continued warm weather. The male peak followed the female by four days. Cecidomyiidae. The 508 cecidomyiids taken in this work seemed to show an entirely different response to the climate from that of the staphylinids and sciarids. The morning col- lections were low and with no peaks of activitv. The evening 44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 collections were high early in May and fell off rapidly to the four days preceding May 26, during which there was a sudden increase. The May 26 increase came at a time when most other forms were inactive. Syrphidae: Melanostoma mallinum Linn., 1, Mctasyrphus wiedcmanni (John.), 2, Mctasyrphus ineadii (Jones), 1. HYMENOPTERA. Ichneumonoidea. Seventy-seven ichneu- mons were taken, and of those collected in the morning, the greatest abundance was in early June. Numbers flying in the evenings increased in the middle of May. The evening activity was double that of the morning. Tiphiidae : Tiphia sp., 1. Formiciclae : Poncra coarctata pennsylvanica Buckley, 14, Pheidole pilijcra Roger, 70, Tapinoma sp., 12, Leptothorax curvispinosus Mayr., 1, Camponotus caryae Fitch, 1, Eclton schmitti Em., 1, Trachymyrtnex septentrionalis McCook, 1. During the seven weeks, 100 ants were collected, and 56 of these were taken on June 18 during a very heavy flight of Pheidole pilijcra Roger. This flight occurred about 6:15 P.M., tempera- ture 68 F., and immediately following a drenching rain. The clouds were breaking up and humidity was very high. Previous to June 15 there had been few ants encountered, but in the eight days preceding June 19 they increased, with June 18 as the peak. Apparently the collections were stopped just at the be- ginning of the early summer nuptial flights of ants. There was very little morning activity. Ponera coarctata pennsylvanica males were not taken until the four days preceding June 11, and the females until the four days preceding June 19. Flying males were more abundant than the females, being 73 per cent of the total. Pheidole pilijcra was not collected until the four days preceding June 11. Both males and females were flying together, but there was ten per cent females and 90 per cent males in the air. During the peak of activity on June 18, there were 17 males to each female flying. Tapinoma sp. was active only in the mornings, and all taken were males. Hv, '43 1 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 45 Bethylidae : Psciidoisobrachiuni inyrmicophilnin Ash., 4, Ate- leoptcrns sp., 1, Goniozus platynotae Robertson, 1. Prosopidae, Colletes brevicornis Robertson, 1. Halictidae : Halictus iUinoensis Robertson, 18, Halictus pilosus Smith, 1, Halictus sparsus Robertson, 1, Halictus ver- satns Robertson, 6, Halictus sp., 3, Aiigochloropsis cuprea Smith, 1. Only five halictids were taken in the evening. No species was abundant until after June 7. Apidae: Apis mcllijcra Linn., 4. SUMMARY. A net ten inches in diameter was attached to the right fender of an automobile and collections of flying insects were made morning and evening over a four mile stretch of road near Horse Cave, Kentucky, for the seven weeks from May 3 to June 20, 1934. Of the determinations made to date, there were 196 species, 33 of which \vere taken abundantly or regularly and the re- mainder only occasionally. Of 65 families represented, the Sciaridae, Chironomidae and Staphylinidae were the most nu- merous. Over 3,000 specimens of each of these families were collected. Besides these three, 29 other families were fre- quently encountered and are discussed. It seems apparent that there were more species and individuals flying, at the times of the collections, in the evening than in the morning. The response to the climate varied with each group, and a definite succession of forms is shown. Undescribed Species of Crane-Flies from the West- ern United States and Canada (Dipt. : Tipulidae). Part I. By CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Very intensive work on the rich Tipulid fauna of the west- ern Nearctic Region has been done in recent years. During the course of these studies, many new species of these flies have been discovered and arc being described. In the present article 46 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 I am discussing four species of Eriopterini that were included in an interesting series of these flies kindly presented to me by Dr. Henry K. Townes, who collected the specimens in Wash- ington and California. I wish to express my deepest thanks to Dr. and Mrs. Townes for the privilege of retaining these specimens in my extensive collection of Tipulidae. Erioptera (Hoplolabis) rainieria n. sp. Erioptera (Hoplolabis) rainieria is readily distinguished from its nearest described relative, E. (//.) dorothea Alex- ander, of the central and southern Rocky Mountains, by the venation and, especially, the structure of the male hypopygium. I consider both of the above flies as being members of Hoplo- labis Osten Sacken, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate members of this group from the more extensive sub- genera Psiloconopa Zetterstedt, 1340, and Ilisia Rondani, 1856. General coloration gray, the praescutum without evident stripes ; wings pale yellow, heavily patterned with dark brown ; cell 1st M 2 unarmed, strongly widened distally ; male hypo- pygium with the blackened dististyle of the male hypopygium unusually compact ; phallosome with two arms, a slender spinous rod directed laterad and a more spatulate blade directed caudad. J 1 . Length about 5.5 mm. ; wing 6.3 mm. Rostrum black, sparsely pruinose ; palpi black. Antennae relatively long, black, the pedicel a little brighter ; flagellar segments, especially the outer ones, elongate; longest verticils a little exceeding the segments. Head dark gray ; anterior vertex moderately wide. Pronotum dark brown, sparsely pruinose; extreme lateral border, together with the anterior lateral pretergites light yel- low. Mesonotum almost uniformly dark gray, the praescutum without evident stripes ; pseudosutural foveae and tuberculate pits black; central portion of scutum not brightened, each lobe with vague indications of a dusky line near its mesal portion. Pleura dark gray ; dorsopleural membrane obscure buffy yel- low, weakly infuscated at near midlength. Halteres yellow. Legs with the coxae dark plumbeous; trochanters obscure Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 47 brownish yellow ; femora obscure yellow, the tips brownish black ; tibiae obscure yellow, the bases and tips more darkened, the former somewhat more extensively so ; tarsi passing into dark brown. Wings with the ground color pale yellow, the prearcular field more whitened ; a conspicuous dark brown pattern, including spots arranged as follows: Arculus; origin of Rs ; Sc 2 ; a band along cord, extending from C to vein Cn, interrupted at vein M ; R 2 and /? 1 + 2 I tip of R 3 ; two discon- nected spots at outer end of cell 1st M 2 ; smaller marginal brown spots at ends of all longitudinal veins, becoming larger on vein 2nd A ; veins pale brown, darker brown in the pat- terned areas. Venation: Cell 1st M 2 unarmed, strongly wid- ened distally, shorter than in dorothea; m-cu about one-half its own length before the fork of M, more oblique than in dorothea. Abdomen, including hypopygium, brownish black. Blackened dististyle of male hypopygium unusually compact ; two branches closely appressed, the more divergent inner arm a blackened cultrate blade. Phallosome with two arms, a slender spinous rod directed laterad and a longer more spatulate blade directed caudad. Holotype: <$; Mount Rainier, WASHINGTON, altitude 5,000 feet, July 14, 1940 (H. & M. Townes). Ormosia (Ormosia) leptorhabda n. sp. Ormosia (Ormosia) leptorhabda is entirely distinct from other generally similar species, such as 0. (0.) diuergcns (Coquillett) and O. (0.) flavcola (Coquillett). The struc- ture of the male hypopygium is entirely different from these allied forms having cell M 2 of the wings open by the atrophy of in, rather than the more common condition of being open by the atrophy of the basal section of vein M 3 . General coloration brown; antennae short; wings with a strong brown tinge ; cell M 2 open by atrophy of in ; anal veins divergent; male hypopygium with the inner dististyle a slender straight rod, the apex truncated and slightly expanded; phal- losome consisting of a broad depressed-flattened plate, the 48 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 outer lateral angles produced into strong spines that are directed cephalad. J 1 . Length about 4 mm. ; wing 4.5 mm. ; antenna about 0.8 mm. Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown throughout, short ; flagellar segments relatively long, the more basal segments with very long verticils. Head gray. Pronotum light brown, the pretergites restrictedly light yel- low. Mesonotal praescutum brown, very sparsely pruinose, without pattern, the humeral region more reddish; posterior sclerites of notum brown. Pleura brownish yellow. Halteres with stem yellow, knob weakly darkened. Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellow; remainder of legs brown, the terminal tarsal segments brownish black. Wings with a strong brownish tinge, the prearcular and basal costal fields more yellow ; stigmal region a trifle darker ; veins pale brown, those in the brightened portions more yellow ; macrotrichia brown, only moderately abundant but well-distributed over the surface. Venation : R, 2 subequal to R 2 + 3 ; cell M 2 open by the atrophy of in ; cell M. A much longer than its petiole; m-cu about one-fifth its own length beyond the fork of M ; anal veins divergent. Abdomen dark brown ; hypopygium more brownish yellow. Male hypopygium with the tergite large, subtriangular in out- line, widely dilated outwardly, the caudal margin pale, trun- cated or very feebly emarginate. Outer dististyle a flattened dark lobe, the apical portion set with parallel rows of micro- scopic spines. Inner dististyle somewhat shorter, appearing as a straight slender rod, the apex slightly dilated and bluntly truncate, the lower or inner margin with a white membrane provided with several scattered small pale setae from conspicu- ous raised tubercles. Phallosome with the central portion a depressed-flattened heart-shaped blade, its apex obtusely rounded; behind this central blade a much broader, depressed- flattened plate, the caudal-lateral portions of which are pro- duced into a strong spine directed cephalad and slightly out- ward. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 49 Holotype: J 1 ; Crescent City, Del Norte Co., CALIFORNIA, August 1, 1940 (H. & M. Townes). Ormosia (Ormosia) profunda n. sp. Ormosia (Ormosia) projunda is quite different from the other members of the manicata group so far made known, in some respects tending to connect this group with others in the genus. The shape of the tergite and structure of both dististyles readily separate this fly from other related described species. Allied to manicata ; general coloration reddish brown, with three confluent darker brown stripes; antennae short, flagellar verticils very long ; anal veins divergent ; male hypopygium with lobes of tergite parallel-sided, not dilated or darkened outwardly, separated by a very deep and narrow notch; outer dististyle flattened, split by a narrow notch into two very un- equal lobes; inner dististyle a flattened blade with a triangular flange on face ; elongate blades of phallosome much shorter and stouter than in other members of the group. J 1 . Length about 4.2 mm. ; wing 4.8 mm. ; antenna about 0.9 mm. Rostrum and palpi brownish black. Antennae (<^) short, dark brown throughout ; flagellar segments cylindrical to sub- cylindrical, with unusually long verticils, those of the subbasal segments exceeding three times the length of the segment or nearly one-third the length of the entire flagellum. Head dark brownish gray. Pronotum infuscated, paler laterally; pretergites pale yellow. Mesonotal praescutum reddish brown with three confluent darker brown stripes ; posterior sclerites of notum similarly darkened. Pleura obscure yellow throughout. Halteres with stem yellow, knob weakly darkened. Legs with coxae and trochanters light yellow ; femora and tibiae pale brown, the tarsi passing into brownish black. Wings subhyaline, the stig- mal region weakly darker ; veins brown. Venation : R 2 nearly equal in length to R 2 + 3 ; cell M 2 open by atrophy of M., ; III-CH erect, gently sinuous, just before fork of M ; Anal veins di- vergent. 50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 Abdomen, including hypopygium, dark brown. Male hypo- pygium with the ninth tergite conspicuous, projecting caudad into a median plate that divides into two narrow lobes that are about parallel-sided for their entire length; tips of lobes paler, obliquely rounded, not expanded at tips as in manicata and allies; notch separating the lobes very deep and narrow, ex- tending back to about the basal third of the tergal projection. Basistyle produced beyond point of origin of dististyles into a subacute lobe. Outer dististyle paler than the inner, flattened, split by a narrow notch into two very unequal lobes, the inner one short and obtuse. Inner dististyle of irregular conforma- tion, appearing as a flattened blade, the base arcuate; face of expanded portion produced into a conspicuous triangular point or flange. Elongate blades of phallosome much shorter and stouter than in manicata, the blackened inner apophyses much as in members of the latter group. Holotype: <$\ Crescent City, Del Norte Co., CALIFORNIA, August 1, 1940 (H. & M. Townes). Molophilus (Molophilus) rainieriensis n. sp. Molophilus (Molophilus} rainieriensis suggests the Eastern M. (M.) pubipennis (Osten Sacken) and related forms but is well-distinguished by the short antennae in both sexes. From the regional members of the pubipennis subgroup having short antennae, such as M. (M.) forcipulus (Osten Sacken) and M. (M.) panlus Bergroth, it is readily told by the coloration of the body and wings. Belongs to the gracilis group, pubipennis subgroup ; general coloration yellow, the mesonotal praescutum with three con- fluent reddish stripes; antennae short in both sexes; scape and pedicel obscure yellow, flagellum black ; head yellow ; fore femora chiefly blackened, posterior femora yellow, the tips darkened ; wings with a deep yellow tinge, the veins darker yellow ; male hypopygium with the outer dististyle a long slender curved hook, the basal two-thirds nearly straight, with only three or four spinous points, all on basal portion. J 1 . Length about 3.8 mm. ; wing 4.5 mm. ; antenna about 1 mm. liv, '43 1 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 51 $. Length about 4.5 mm. ; wing 4.8 mm. Rostrum yellow ; palpi black. Antennae short in both sexes ; scape and pedicel obscure yellow, flagellum black; flagellum (^) with basal segments short and crowded, their ends trun- cated and closely applied to one another ; outer segments long- oval ; segments with relatively long verticils. Head shiny yellow. Pronotum pale yellow, the lateral pretergites yellowish white. Mesonotal praescutum almost covered by three confluent reddish stripes, the humeral and lateral borders light yellow; posterior sclerites of notum reddish, the scutellum yellow, the postnotum variegated by yellow spots. Pleura reddish yellow, indistinctly patterned with yellow areas. Halteres uniformly pale yellow. Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellow ; fore femora chiefly blackened, only the basal third brighter ; fore tibiae light brown, the tips darker; tarsi passing into brownish black; posterior legs yellow, the tips of femora, tibiae and basitarsi narrowly darkened. Wings with a deep yellow tinge ; veins darker yellow ; macrotrichia brown. Venation : R 2 almost in trans- verse alignment with r-m; petiole of cell M 3 exceeding three times the length of in-cit ; vein 2nd A long and gently sinuous, ending just before the level of m-cu. Abdomen brownish yellow, the male hypopygium deeper yellow. Hypopygium with the outer lobe of basistyle ending about on a level with the tip of the inner dististyle. Outer dististyle a long slender curved hook, the basal two-thirds nearly straight, the distal portion bent at nearly a right angle into a long black spine; basal portion of style with three or four small spinous points and scattered setae. Inner dististyle a flattened darkened plate, covered with microscopic scabrous points, the obtuse apex directed strongly mesad. Basistyle with the spinous points relatively short and stout, appearing as long cones, about 25-30 in number. Holotype: J 1 ; Mount Rainier, WASHINGTON, altitude 2,700 feet, July 8, 1940 (H. & M. Townes). Allotopotype, $, with the type. 52 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 A New Species of Calendra from Oregon. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae.) By A. F. SATTERTHWAIT, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of Agriculture. Mr. Borys Malkin, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oreg., a successful collector of corn billbugs, included in his sendings of Calendra to the writer the following new species, which is similar to C. venatus (Say) except that it lacks the typical apical fossa of the pronotum. Calendra eugenia, n. sp. Male : Front tibia broadly rounded at outer apical angle. Third joint of front tarsus about one-half wider than second, that of middle and hind tarsi about same width as second, all glabrous beneath. Elytra with the odd intervals 1, 3, and 5 slightly elevated and wider than the even intervals, punctures fine, uniseriate in 3 and 5, slightly confused in 1. Punctures very slightly coarser on even intervals. Strial punctures rather coarse, 10 or 11 in basal half of each of the first two striae. Pronotum with median vitta slender at base and apex, widest before middle ; lateral vittae well marked on basal half, with branches indistinct. Punctures largest and somewhat con- fluent in basal areas between vittae, confluent and nearly as large near apex though affecting much less area. Collar dis- tinct, complete. No apical fossa. Beak slightly compressed, three-fourths as thick at middle as it is deep at apex ; not flattened above ; lower apical angle obtuse ; curvatures of upper and lower profiles fairly regular. Interocular puncture deep, not circular, about 3 times as long as broad, with a faint impressed line nearly as long as basal width of rostrum. Pygidium with moderately coarse punctures beset with short setae on apical third, without keel or tufts. Apex broadly rounded. Depression of metasternum of first and second ster- nites well defined. Hv, '43) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 53 General color red, the head, pronotal elevations, and under parts nearly black. Coating thin, gray, largely abraded on the elevations. Measurements of male (in mm.) : Rostrum, width at middle 0.27, at apex 0.29, at base 0.58, depth at apex 0.40, length 1.95 ; pronotum, width 2.22, length 2.73 ; width of body 2.73, length of elytra 3.99, total length 8.10. Type: male, and one paratype, female, deposited in the United States National Museum through the courtesy of Mr. Malkin. Other paratypes, five male and two female, all col- lected June 26, 1941, at Eugene, OREGON, were studied and measured before the particular male and female specimens were selected for description. Female : Tibiae, tarsi, and elytra as in the male, except nearly all black. Pronotum with median vitta scarcely reaching to base, but median and lateral vittae reaching to apex, punctures of each fine to apex. Central area of median vitta impunctate. Lateral vittae with broad, short branch at middle. Punctures between median and lateral vittae coarse, confluent; between laterals and branches, less confluent. Punctures and setae of pygidium as in male, but apex narrowly rounded. Interocular puncture round, but with two rows of punctures cutting into it apically, suggesting the pattern of the male, in which the puncture appeared much longer than wide. No impressed line. Measurements of female (in mm.) : Rostrum, width at middle 0.28, at apex 0.35, at base 0.60, depth at apex 0.45, length 2.25 ; pronotum, width 2.47, length 2.81 ; width of body 2.92, length of elytra 4.00, total length 7.75. In the nine specimens, the red color on the dorsum, especially on the elytra, was conspicuous in four males and one female, much reduced in two males, and lacking in two females. Total lengths ranged from 7.0 to 9.0 mm. One male and one female are retained in the Calcndra col- lection of the Division of Cereal and Forage Insect Investiga- tions of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine at Urbana, 111., and four males and one female are returned to Mr. Malkin. 54 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 Current Entomological Literature COMPILED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrele- vant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. This list gives references of the current or preceding year unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex- periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of Journals given at the end of the literature. The num- ber of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining exclusively to Neo- tropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL ANON. The American commission of scien- tific nomenclature in entomology. [4] 74: 216. ANDRADE, EDMUNDO NAVARRO DE. Obituary. [105] 13: 182-188, port. EATON, JR., & CHANDLER. The fauna of forest-humus layers in New York. [Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. Mem.] 247: 1-26. FOSBERG, F. R. Segregation of type specimens. [68] 96: 515-516. Fox, I. The use of creosote in mounting fleas and other arthropods on slides. [68] 96: 478. MORGAN, A. H. Field book of animals in winter. Putnam's Sons, New York. Insects, p. 143-278; spiders, p. 279-285 ; ill. NORMAN, J. R- A photographic record of The Linnaean Collections. [Proc. Linn. Soc. London] 154: 50-57. PARMENTER, L. A note on insect vision. [21] 54: 136. RICKETT, H. W. What is in a generic name? [68] 97: 15-16. (Grammatical.) SMITH, P. S. On "An artist's note." [21] 54: 126-29. SMITH, R. C. Guide to the literature of the zoological sci- ences. [Burgess Pub. Co.] 128 pp. TEALE, E. W. Where do insects go in winter? [Nat. Hist. N. Y.] 51: 28-37, ill. VALENTINE, J. M. On the preparation and preservation of insects, with particular reference to coleoptera. [60] 103: (6), 16 pp. WILTSHIRE, E. P. Some reflections on geograph- ical constancy. [27] 54: 109-111. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 55 ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, ETC. ANDERSON, & OLI- VER. Effect of double matings on the fertility of a mutant Drosophila melanogaster. [129] p. 60. ANDERSON, & RICH- ARDS. An electron microscope study of some structural colors of insects. [Jour. Appl. Physics] 13: 748-758. ill. BODEN- STEIN, D. Hormones in Drosophila. [129] p. 12. CARLSON, J. G. Immediate effects of 31r x-rays on the different stages of mitosis in neuroblasts of Chortophaga. [J. Morph.] 71 : 449-461, ill. GOWEN, I. W. On the genetic basis for her- maphroditism. (Drosophila.) [129] p. 8. GOWAN, & NEL- SON. Predetermination of sex. [68] 96 : 558. GRAY, I. E. The normal changes in weight and water content during the life cycle of the wood-eating beetle, Passalus cornutus Fab. [129] p. 9. GUNN, D. L. & C. A. COSWAY. The tempera- ture and humidity relations of the cockroach. VI. Oxygen consumption. [33] 19: 124-132. JAHN, T. L. The effect of temperature on the retinal action potential. [129] p. 85. LUDWIG, D. Comparative effects of low humidities on water loss and reproductive capacity in two species of Saturnid moths. [129] p. 56. MARTIN, & HARE. The nutritional require- ments of Tenebrio molitor larvae. [92] 83 : 428-437. PFEIF- FER, I. W. Suppression of metamorphosis in the grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis. [129] p. 36. PICKFORD, G. E. Studies on the digestive enzymes of spiders. [Trans. Conn. Acad. A. & Sci.] 35: 33-72. POWERS, P. B. A. Metrical studies on spermatogonial chromosomes of Acrididae. [J. Morph.] 71: 523-575, ill. SCHMIEDER, R. G. The control of metamorphosis in Hymenoptera. [129] p. 64. TAHMISIAN, ALLEN & BODINE. Endomitosis ( ?) in grasshopper serosa cells. [129] p. 52. VILLEE, C. A. Tetraltera, a new homo- eotic mutant in Drosophila melanogaster. [129] p. 48. WAD- DINGTON, C. H. Some developmental effects of x-rays in Drosophila. [33] 19: 101-117. WOLF, E. Spacial relations of ommatidia in insects and differential sensitivity to moving visual stimuli. [129] p. 19-20. WORLEY, L. G. Amitosis in the malpighian tubules of Melanoplus differentialis. [129] p. 51. WULFF, & JAHN. Intensity-EMF relations of the 56 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '43 electroretinogram of beetles possessing a diurnal rythm. [129] p. 84. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA. AUGUSTSON, G. F. -The tropical chigoe in California. [68] 96: 558. ELISHE- WITZ, H. On the structure of the so-called "stigmata" of larval ticks. (Abstract.) [17] 28 suppl. : 25. EWING, H. E. Remarks on the taxonomy of some American chiggers (Thrombiculonae), including the descr. of a n.gen. and sps. [17] 28: 485^93. GOODNIGHT, C. J. & M. L Phalangida from Mexico. [40], No. 1211, (*). HILTON, W. A. Pycno- gonids from the Pacific. [13] 34: 93-99 (*). KURATA, T. B. A list of spiders collected in the Sault Sts. Marie region, Ontario. [48] 24: 164-65. MELLANBY, JOHNSON, HARTLEY & BROWN. Experiments on the survival and behavior of the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis. [22] 33: 267-71. PALMER, E. L. Along came a spider. [Nature Magazine] 35 (10): 529-536, ill. REDFORD, C. G. New parasitic mites (Acarina). ill. [116] 34: 295-307. ROBINSON, G. G. Fer- tility in the argasid tick, Ornithodorus moubata Warren. [116] 34: 308-314. URQUHART, F. A. The Blattaria and Orthoptera of Essex Co., Out. [Contr. R. Ontario Mus. Zool.] no. 20: 32 pp. THE SMALLER ORDERS. FERRIS, G. F. Observations on some ectoparasitic mites (Acar., Dermanyss.). [117] 7: 77-83, ill. Some N. A. rodent-infesting lice. [117] 7: 84-90, ill. (*). FULLER, H. S. Notes on Noetropical Siphonaptera tera. [105] 13: 39-44. GRANT, D. C. Observations on Myobia musculi (Arach., Acar. Cheylet.). [117] 7: 64-76, ill. MARTIN & HARE. The nutritive requirements of Tene- brio molitor larvae. [92] 83 : 428-437. MILLER, E. M. The problem of castes and caste differentiation in Prorhinotermes simplex (Hagen). 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Tingitidae. [105] 13: 76-81. FERNNAH, R. G. Notes on some West Indian Flattidae. [10] 44: 155-167 (*). HEFNER, L. W. A taxo- nomic revision of the genus Eutettix in Amer. north of Mex- ico. [45] 28: 253-294, ill. (*k). USINGER, R. L. The gen. Ilyocoris (Naucor.) [8] 78: 241-242. LEPIDOPTERA. ANON. Silk worm culture in the U. S. [Turtox News, Chicago] 20: 162. BELL, E. L. New sps. of Venezuelan Hesperidae. [46] 1 : 73-78, ill. BROWN, F. M. -Notes on Ecuadorian butterflies, V. [6] 50: 309-333. ill. (*k). BURDICK, W. N. A new race of Pleheius lupini from the Olympic Mts. of Washington (Rhopal.). [4] 74: 195- 196. The rediscovery of Eumenis strechii. [4] 74 : 204-5. Dos PASSOS & GREY. Two new N. Amer. suhsps. of Argynnis with some revisional notes. [40] No. 1214 (*). HOFFMANN. C. C. El genero Rothschildia en la Republica Mexicana [112] 13 (1) : 163-194, ill. (*). Algunas observaciones acerca de los Saturniordea de Mexico. 194-204, ill. (*). Catologo de Lepidopteros Mexiconos ITT. 213-256. 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No. 3 CONTENTS Geijskes Notes on Odonata of Surinam. III. The ge with descriptions of a new species and of the nymph Freeman New Hesperioidea, with notes on some others from the United States (Lepidoptera) 72 Note on the misuse of the word type 77 Johannsen^Adult and immature stages of Cricotopus elegans n.sp. (Dip- tera) 77 Current entomological literature Personal Dr. Sheffield A. Neave. Dr. William B. Herms 80 84 PUBLISHED MONTHLY, EXCEPT JULY AND AUGUST, BY THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRINCE AND LEMON STS., LANCASTER, PA. AND THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Subscription, per yearly volume of ten numbers: $3.00 domestic; $3.30 foreign; $3.15 Canada. Entered at the Philadelphia, Pa., Post Office as Second Class Matter. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage prescribed for in Section 1, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January IS, 1921. Application for re-entry at Lancaster, Pa., is pending. EDITORIAL STAFF PHILIP P. 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The genus Coryphaeschna, with descriptions of a new species and of the nymph of C. virens x By D. C. GEIJSKES, Landbouw-proefstation, Paramaribo, Surinam. The genus Coryphaeschna was proposed by Williamson (1903) on account of differences in the wing venation, found in the species ing ens, virens and adnexa from other species of the genus Aeschna, in which genus they were placed before. Cal- vert (1905) has arranged under this group, beside the three mentioned species, also luteipennis and perrensi, but under the generic name Aeschna, while Martin (1908) included them under Aeschna. Ris (1918) brings together under Coryphaeschna also the group castor, with the species castor, januaria and his new species coronata. Later on Kimmins (1929) describes a new species of Cory- phaeschna as longfieldac, a near relative of januaria. By this, the total number of the known species of Cory- phaeschna is increased to nine and with the new one described in this paper, the total amounts to ten. This collection of species forms not a homogenous complex, but a composition of two groups viz : the virens-group and the ca^or-group. Each of them is characterized by the wing vena- tion especially. Ris already noted, that castor probably repre- sents a different genus, but without further data at hand, we are letting it remain under Coryphaeschna. 1 I. Rimanclla arcana Needham and its nymph (Odon. Zyg.). Rcvista d. Entomologia, Vol. 11, fasc. 1-2, June 1940, Rio de Jan., pp. 173-179, 8 figs. II. Six mostly new Zygopterous nymphs from the coastland waters. Annals, Ent. Soc. America, xxxiv, no. 4, Dec. 1941, pp. 719-734, 6 figs. (61) - '" 62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 Nymphs of the species of Coryphaeschna are known only for virens and ingens, both belonging to Coryphaeschna s.str. How far those of the ca^or-group are different from these the future will show. By this heterogeneous composition of the genus, it is difficult to give its generic characters. The following peculiarities may generally define the genus in its present form : Rs forked under the middle of pterostigma or 1-3 cells before, or at the level of its proximal end. In the fork of Rs mostly two cell rows. Between Rs and Rspl approximately 7 rows of cells (4-8), Mia arising from nearly one cell to more than one cell behind the pterostigma. Proximal side of triangle in hind wing usually, but not always (januaria), less than half as long as the posterior side. M 4 mostly broken. Anal triangle in male 2-celled, rarely 45-celled (dentata). Against these characters, those of the genus Aeschna s.str. are as follows : Inner side of triangle of hind wing at least half as long as the outer side. Between Rs and Rspl at least three rows of cells in its widest part. Mia arising from just before to just behind the stigma. M 4 unbroken although more or less sinuate distally. Anal triangle in male mostly 3-celled, rarely 2-celled. The nymphal characters of Coryphaeschna s.str. are: Nymph long and slender, nientum very long, reaching to or below the metacoxae; a long sharp tooth on either side of the mental cleft ; - rear of head flat, hind angles square-cut ; no dorsal hooks, lateral spines on abdominal segments 6-9 ; superior abdominal appendage not bifid, only slightly longer than the lateral appendages and nearly as long as the inferiors. Phylogenetically Walker (1912) regarded Coryphaeschna as "a lateral offshoot from Aeschna, in which the specialization in wing characters has been carried a little farther than in the latter genus" (p. 22). In its geographical distribution, the genus is confined to the Neotropical region. The castor-group occurs in the tropics only, with the exception of januaria, which is found also in Mexico ; 2 Known also from Staurophlebla, described by Needham (1904). liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 63 the species of the vir ens-group, however, live for the most part in the subtropical region and even in the temperate zones North and South of the equator (ing ens in the U. S. and perreiisi in Argentina). The species known from Surinam are : virens Ramb., adnexa Hagen and dentata n.sp., the first two living along the coast in the north, the last one found at the southern border near Brazil. Martin (I.e.) notes also castor and perrensi from Surinam, but these records are obviously wrong. luteipennis Brazil (Rio d. J., S. Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico. ing ens Panama, Cuba, Bahamas, Florida, Georgia (?) perrensi Argentina, Corrientes (Surinam?). adnexa Brazil (Amazonia), Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, San Domingo, Puerto Rico, Trinidad. virens Brazil (Matto Grosso, Amazonia), Bolivia, Surinam, Trinidad, Cuba, Haiti. januaria Brazil, Colombia, Mexico. longfieldae Brazil (Matto Grosso). castor Brazil (Rio d. J., Esp. Santo), (Surinam?). coronata Bolivia. dentata Surinam. Key to the species A. Fork of Rs in front and hind wing at the level of the proxi- mal end or under the middle of pterostigma (vir ens- group) 1 1. Thorax green with broad brown bands along the dorsal carina, the humeral and the second lateral sutures, ab- domen brown or black for the most part 2 Thorax green, only small brown lines on the sutures ..... 3 2. Stigma in front wing 4 mm. ; male superior appendages with a deep subquadrangular incision on the inner mar- gin at three-fourths their length ; those of the female very short. Cn^-Cn., with two rows of cells in the proximal part of the field luteipennis Burmeister Stigma in front wing 6 mm. ; male superior appendages with entire margin ; female superior appendages very long iiujcns Rambur 64 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 3. Frons with a black T-spot, face blue or green 4 Frons without a black T-spot, face reddish, stigma in front wing 4.55 mm perrensi MacLachl. 4. Smaller species, face blue, hind wing 40-43 mm. ; male inferior appendage reaching to % the superiors. adnexa Hagen Larger species, face green, hind wing 48-54 mm., male inferior reaching to % the superiors . . . .virens Rambur B. Fork of Rs 1-3 cells proximal to the stigma (castor-group} _7 5. Black T-spot on frons absent or incomplete, without stem and with a brown transverse band at the anterior frons angle. Male with last three abdominal segments with paler spots 6 Black T-spot on frons present, with or without stem. Male with last three abdominal segments dark, without paler spots 7 6. Male superior appendages with an infero-basal tooth ; abd. 5458 mm., hdw. 53 mm janiiaria Hagen Male superior appendages without an infero-basal tooth ; abd. 57 mm., hdw. 53 mm. (female unknown). longficldac Kimmins 7. Black T-spot on frons with a rhomboidal stem, connected with the broad basal black line. Male superior appen- dages with an infero-basal tooth. Pterostigma in hind wing 4 mm., large species castor Brauer Black T-spot on frons quadrangular, largely situated on the apical part of frons without stem or any black connection with the narrow basal black line. Male superior ap- pendages without infero-basal tooth, hind tips slightly acute, inferior appendage reaching at least to half length of the superiors. Pterostigma in hind wing 3.5 mm. (female unknown) coronata Ris Black T-spot on frons broadly connected with the broad basal dark line. Male superior appendages without infero-basal tooth, hind tips very acute, pointed ; in- ferior appendage short, reaching to one-third length of the superiors. Pterostigma in hind wing 3.5 mm. (fe- male unknown) dcntata n. sp. Coryphaeschna dentata new species (Fig s - 1, A-F.) Total length incl. app. 72 mm. ; abd -{- app. 56 mm. ; app. sup. 6.0 mm. ; front wing 50 mm., stigma 4.25 mm. ; hind wing 49 mm., stigma 3.5 mm. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 65 A moderately large species, bluish green with the abdomen largely dark. Labrum, clypeus and frons bluish green with orange yellow margins, mouth-parts brownish at the tips, otherwise pale bluish. Angle of frons black, widely fused by a broad some- what diffuse stem with the black basal marginal area before the ocelli and the antennal bases ; the pale area on each side of the stem yellow brown. Frons beset with soft black hairs, espe- cially along the sides, front margin seen from above arcuated. Occipital triangle black, in the median line from half the length to the hind margin a yellow stripe. Rear of head black, a large pale spot each side behind the eyes in the lower half. Thorax bluish green before, to green in the hind part with black or dark brown bands along the sutures. The middorsal carina forms the middle line of a black triangle, of which the top reaches the upper suture. Antehumeral stripe blue or bluish green, smaller than the dark humeral stripe, widest in the upper half and reaching to the upper suture line ; narrowed below. Black humeral band broad, about two-fifths the width of mesodorsum, a small black stripe along the humeral suture in the upper mesepisternum. Mesipimeron and metepisternum bluish green, a much smaller dark brown line just before the stigma, running from wing base to the end of metepisternum below. Metepimeron green ; a short dark brown stripe along the second suture in the upper fourth and a dark line along the suture of the wing base. Legs black, except ventral side of first femur which is largely pale greenish; claws with a well developed tooth halfway the length. Abdominal segment 1 : basal half brown, dorsum with a black triangle, the top reaching the hind margin in the median line; a green postdorsal spot connected with the green of the sides ; lateral hind margin black. Segm. 2 : dorsum largely black with a green to yellowish middorsal line not reaching the hind margin ; dorso-lateral spot yellow, long, just before the latero- transverse carina and ending at the auricle. The dorso-apical spot small, half-moon shaped. Black of dorsum passing along and behind the auricle and obliquely running forward to near 66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 the ventral basal corner of the tergite. Auricle small, green, tip yellow, with three teeth of which the inner tooth is the largest. Sides of segm. 2 green, hind membrane black. Segm. 3-7 largely dark brown or black, dorsum black, behind the transverse carina a medio-dorsal yellow stripe and a rounded small postdorsal spot apically. Sides with a large antero-basal spot, a medio-lateral spot at the carina and a small post-lateral V D Fig. 1. Coryphacschnct dcntata n. sp. male type. A. Color pattern of thorax and abdomen ; B. black T-spot on the frons ; C. dorsal view of appendages ; D. lateral view of appendages ; E. Anal triangle, right wing ; F. ventral surface of abdominal segments 1 and 2. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 67 spot to the hind margin. On segm. 6 and 7 the post-lateral spot absent. Segm. 8-10 black. Ventral surface of segm. 3-10 brown, except on segm. 9 where it is largely black with the genital valves yellow. Appendages : superiors dark brown, inferior black, shining ; superiors long lanceolate, flat with an acute pointed hind tip, basal third petiolated, innerside over its entire length beset with long black bristles. Inferior appendage short, broad and flat, the hind tip slightly incised and with two teeth directed upward, reaching caudad to the basal third of the superiors, beset with black bristles on the underside. Sternites of segm. 1 and 2 without denticles, the end of the ventral edge of pleurite of segm. 2 bristled. The spines of the anterior lamina conical, directed caudad to just behind the an- terior hamule. Anterior hamules triangular, the tips directed cephalad ; posterior hamules small spatula-shaped, bristled at the anterior margin, the tips rounded and directed medio-caudad. Wings slightly yellow r ish-tinged ; pterostigma brown, mem- branule unicolorous gray. Fork of Rs in front wing at the level of one postnodal cell before the stigma, in hind wing 4 postnodal cells before the stigma. Fork of Rs enclosing 3^4- cell rows under the middle of stigma. Rs-Rspl very broad, from the beginning of furcation of Rs 6-7 cells broad; M 4 -MspI broad, in the middle 4-5 cells broad; between M 3 and M 4 in the apical half 2 cell rows; M 4 forked in the hind wing, anal branch dilating and farther on parallel to M 3 , with 2 cell rows between M 3 and M 4 . Triangle long, in front and hind wing with a proximal longitudinal vein (in left front wing with two such veins) and 5 cross veins, number of cells in t 9.8/7.7; cubito-anal cross veins 6.7/5.5, ht 8.7/5.7 ti with one cross vein (left fr.w. with two cross veins). Anal loop with 3 cell rows against A, in total with 10-11 cells; between anal loop and hind margin of wing 2 cell rows ; anal field in maximum 3 cell rows broad, anal triangle in left hind wing with 4, in right hind wing with 5 cells (see fig. 2, E). Number of an- tenodal cross veins (between costa and subcosta) 28.28/18.17, second thickened vein at 9.9/7.6; postnodal cross veins 68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 17.19/22.21. There is one subbasal cross vein before the first thickened vein in the right front wing. Front wing with ar- culus between ant. crossv. 2 and 3 (left side), 3 and 4 (right side), in hind wing between 2 and 3. SURINAM, Paloemeu River near Indian village Julu (Joeloe), 3. I, 1941 one male ad. (L. Schmidt) holotype, in the writer's collection. This species belong to the castor-group by the position of the fork of Rs before the stigma and by the longitudinal vein at the proximal side of t. It is a near relative of coronata Ris, from which it differs however, beside the points mentioned in the key, in the wing venation as follows : coronata dentata Number of cell rows between Rs-Rspl 5 6-7 " " " M 4 -Mspl 3* 4-5 " " " in anal loop 2 3 Internal triangle free 1-2 cross veins Anal triangle 2-celled 4-5 celled CORYPHAESCHNA VIRENS, Rambur, Nymph (hitherto unknown), reared, Fig. 2, A-F. A long slender pale light brown or black nymph. Head as long as broad, the eyes not very prominent, hind lobes flat, hind angles right-angled or nearly so, occipital border slightly excavated. Sides of hind lobes straight, diverging cephalad slightly, about half as long as the eyes. Antenna minute, seven-jointed, the first two segments swol- len, the remaining part slender, the fourth joint the shortest ; length of the segments : 0.45, 0.45, 0.74, 0.37, 0.53, 0.57, 0.53 mm. ; apical end of segm. 3 and the basal three-fourths of segm. 4 and the middle part of segm. 7 darker, otherwise pale, segm. 2 hairy. Mentum very long, reaching backward to the beginning of the hind coxae, basal two-thirds slender, length : width = 7:2; [* In a male of coronata from Satipo, Peru, 14 November, 1940, Mi-Mspl has three rows of cells on both front wings and the right hind wing, 4 rows on the left hind wing, 3 vertical rows of cells in the anal loop of both hind wings. P. P. Calvert.] liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 69 apical third considerably dilated, median border with a small cleft in the middle, on each side a long sharp-pointed tooth. Lateral lobes short, the movable hook very long, curved, with a row of short spines interiorly; terminal hook long, pointed, curved inward at an angle of about 100, inner margin of lobe and front part of terminal hook finely crenulated. Maxillae each with seven large teeth. Mandibulae with strong teeth, left mandibula with 4 apical teeth (incisors), right mandible with 5 apical teeth; more basally a highly chitinized rib (molar) on either side with one tooth (left mandible) or on one side one tooth and on the other side two teeth (right mandible). FIG. 2. Coryphaeschna virens Rambur. A. dorsal view of full grown male nymph ; B. right antenna ; C. mentum, innerside ; D. gonapophyses, female ; E. dorsal view of abdominal appendages of female ; F. idem of male. 70 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 Prothorax broad, lateral angle of middle lobe bluntly pointed ; supracoxal prominences minute, the frontal lobe smaller than the caudal lobe. Synthorax small, wingpads reaching to the beginning of abd. segm. 4. Legs relatively short ; in the darker specimens four darker bands on the femora, or three lighter bands and a basal dark band on the tibiae. Apical end of tibiae beset with short thick simple spines and trident setae, tarsus first joint with simple and some trident setae, on second and third joints trident setae only. Abdomen slender, broadest on segm. 6-8 ; a middorsal darker band (in the paler specimens diffuse) and on each side a broad darker band above the carinae ; in the darkest specimens the whole abdomen black ; lateral spines on segm. 6-9, those of segm. 6 minute. Female gonapophyses short, not reaching the end of segm. 9. Appendages long and all of nearly equal length ; tip of mid- dorsal squarely truncate, not bifid; dorso-laterals (cercoids) slender, sharp pointed, as long as middorsal; ventrals (cerci) a little longer the pointed tips slightly curved inward; male tri- angle reaching to one third the length of the middorsal appen- dage. J 1 . Total length 47 mm. ; abd. + app. 33.5 mm. ; appendages 4.2 mm.; hind femur 7.5 mm.; mentum 13 mm.; abd. widest segm. (6) 7 mm.; width of head across the eyes 8 mm.; across the hind angles 5.5 mm. $. Total length 49 mm. ; abd. + app. 33 mm. ; appendages 4.2-5 mm. ; hind femur 7 mm. ; mentum 13.5-14 mm. ; abd. widest segm. (6) 7.5-8 mm.; width of head across the eyes 8.2 mm. ; across the hind angles 5.7-6 mm. (Examined one male and one female ult nymph and one male and 8 female exuviae). The nymphs of C. virens were commonly found in swamps and ditches in the coastland and in the interior on the savanna (Paramaribo, Lelydorp, Zandery I and II, Nickerie). Six specimens have been reared, two from the 5 ult, two from the 4 ult and two from the 3 ult instar. The younger nymphs are green with a yellow middorsal stripe. Of the reared speci- Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 71 mens, the moulting dates and the number of days in the different instars are tabulated in the following : 5 ult 4 ult 3 lilt 2 ult 1 ult ima?o moult- moult- moult- moult- moult- locality collected days ing days ing days ing days ing days ing sex No. 1 Lelydorp 17.VII.1940 (6) 23.VI1 7 30. VII 8 7.VIII 17 24.VIII 26 19.IX female No. 2 Lelydorp 17.VII.1940 (11) 28.VII 10 7. VIII 17 24.VIII 26 19.IX female No. 3 Lelydorp 17. VII. 1940 (13) 30.VII 10 9. VIII 15 24.VIII 28 21.IX female No.4 Lelydorp 31.VII.1910 (5) 5.VIII 21 26.VIII 29 24.IX female No.5 Pa-amaiibo 5.II.1941 (12) 17.11 36 25.111 22 16.IV male No.6 ZanderijI 27.V.1941 (16) 12.VI 4 16.VI 10 26.VI 25 21.VII 52 ll.IX female It is noteworthy, that the number of days for the instars are very inconstant among the reared specimens. The specimens are all bred at the same place in the laboratory and constantly fed with mosquito larvae. Nymphs of Coryphacschna have been described by Kennedy (1919) and Byers (1930) for C. ing ens. This nymph differs from those of C. vircns only in the measurements. Total length of ing ens: 62-65 mm.; abd. 42.544 mm.; hind femur 6.5-8 mm.; width of abdomen 10 mm. ; mentum 14.5 mm. ; extending well below the metacoxae. Garcia Diaz (1938) has described by supposition the nymph of Coryphacschna adnexa Hagen, but this is the nymph of Gynacantha nervosa Ramb. as suggested also by himself (p. 85), known to me by breeding. Authors quoted BYERS, C. F. 1930. A contribution to the knowledge of Florida Odonata. Univ. Florida Publ., Biol. Sc. Ser., i, no. 1. CALVERT, P. P. 1905. Biologia Centrali Americana, Neu- roptera Odonata. GARCIA-DIAZ, J. 1938. An ecological survey of the fresh water insects of Puerto Rico. The Journ. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico, xxn, no. 1, pp. 43-97. KENNEDY, C. H. 1919. The Naiad of the Odonate Genus Coryphaeschna. Ent. Ncivs, xxx, pp. 105-108. KIMMINS, D. E. 1929. Coryphaeschna longfieldae sp. n. (Odonata), from Brazil and its Allies. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, Vol. 3, No. 17, pp. 489^93. MARTIN, R. 1908. Coll. Zool. d. Baron Edm. d. Selys Longchamps. Cat. syst. et descr. Fasc. XVIII, Aeschnines, pp. 1-84. NEEDHAM, J. G. 1904. New Dragon-fly nymphs in the 72 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 United States National Museum. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 1371, pp. 685-720. Ris, F. 1918. Libellen (Odonata) aus der Region der amerikanischen Kordilleren von Costarica bis Catamarca. Archiv. f. Natnrgesch., 82. Jrg. Abt. A. 9. H. WALKER, E. M. 1912. The North American Dragonflies of the genus Aeshna. Univ. of Toronto Studies, Biol. Ser. No. 11. WILLIAMSON, E. B. 1903. A proposed new genus of Odonata (Dragonflies) of the Subfamily Aeschn'mae Group Aeschna. Ent. Neivs, xiv, pp. 2-9. New Hesperioidea, with Notes on Some Others from the United States (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) . By H. A. FREEMAN, White Deer, Texas Thorybss pylades albosuffusa new form This new form differs from typical pylades (Scudder) in the following particulars : on the under surface of the secondaries there is a prominent submarginal suffusion of greyish-white scales. In pylades this is not present or else is very faintly indicated. The fringe of the secondaries is lighter than that of pylades caused by the presence of some white scales. The palpi beneath are grey and not concolorous with the under surface of the body. In pylades the palpi are concolorous with the under surface of the body. Described from 5 specimens, 2 males and 3 females, collected by Mrs. H. A. Freeman and the author at Ft. Davis (type locality) and Alpine, TEXAS, during June of 1940 and 1942. Holotype male and allotype female are in the collection of the author. Paratypes, 1 male and 2 females, will be disposed as follows : 1 male to the United States National Museum ; and 1 female to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. The other female paratype will remain for the present in the collection of the author. Although it is not always advisable to name forms of most species of butterflies, occasionally one appears that causes dif- ficulty in correctly determining the species. The writer believes Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 73 this to be the case in the above described form as some of the specimens somewhat resemble drnsins (Edwards). However, albosuffusa is a much browner insect than dntsins and the fringes are not nearly so white. ERYNNIS PERSIUS (Scudder) Typical persius can readily be determined in the north central and eastern states by the abundant hair on the base and disc of the primaries and the general smooth appearance. Dr. W. T. M. Forbes figures the genitalia of this species in "The Persius Group of Thanaos," Psyche, vol. 43, pp. 104-113, December, 1936. The tip of the lower lobe of the left valve is without teeth or else there is the slightest indication of a roughened surface. The range of persius consists of southeastern Canada, the New England states to Florida, westward to Arkansas, and northward through Kansas to Nebraska and Minnesota. ERYNNIS PERSIUS PERNIGRA (Grinnell) This is the high mountain subspecies that occurs in California and Utah. It can be recognized by the uniform, blackish-slate coloration of both wings above. There are very few grey hairs on the primaries. Genitalically pernigra differs from persiits only in the pres- ence of several teeth on the tip of the lower lobe of the left valve. ERYNNIS PERSIUS AVINOFFI (Holland) There has been some question as to the exact status of avinoffi for sometime. With this in mind the writer wrote Mr. W. R. Sweadner of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to see if it would be possible to borrow a paratype so as to make a slide of the genitalia. Mr. Sweadner kindly sent one male paratype and another male from the type series for that purpose. The genitalia revealed that avinoffi is a subspecies of persius and like pernigra it differs only in the presence of some teeth on the tip of the lower lobe of the left valve. In general appearance avinoffi differs from typical persius in the following ways: the fringe of the secondaries is somewhat lighter. The hair of the primaries is not so thick nor as long. As a whole, most examples are slightly smaller. 74 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 Avinoffi is the arctic subspecies of persius as it occurs in northern Canada and Alaska. Erynnis persius fredericki new subspecies This new subspecies differs from typical persius (Scudder) and its two other subspecies in the following particulars : the hair on both the primaries and secondaries is longer and thicker. There are more grey scales and hairs present on the primaries. The dark sagittate markings are very black, thus producing a greater contrast in the light and dark areas. The fringe of the secondaries is lighter than in persius and some of the specimens have the outer half clear white. E. p. fredericki can readily be identified by the shaggy appearance of the primaries and the lighter fringe of the secondaries. Genitalically fredericki differs from persius in the following ways : there are two to four teeth on the tip of the lower lobe of the left valve. There is a tendency for the lower lobe of the right valve to turn downward and the ventral surface of the right valve is very uneven, a tendency not noticed in most specimens of persius. The lower lobe of the right valve is also shorter than in persius. Expanse : males 26-33 mm., average size 30 mm. ; females 26-35 mm., average size 32 mm. Described from 60 specimens, 44 males and 16 females. 29 males and 8 females were collected by V. H. & A. C. Frederick near Lead, Spearfish Canyon (type locality), Icebox Canyon and Terry Peak, all in SOUTH DAKOTA, during June of 1939 and 1942 ; 13 males and 2 females were collected by H. A. Rowland at Polaris, Montana; 1 male and 5 females were col- lected by Dr. J. R. Turner at Beulah and Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado during June of 1942 ; 1 male from Lake Tahoe, Placer County, California, June 12, 1939 and 1 female Kings River, Fresno, California, September 30, 1941. The writer takes great pleasure in naming this new subspecies for Mr. A. C. Frederick of Albany, New York, who, along with his wife, collected most of the specimens. Holotype male and allotype female are in the collection of the author. Three male and 6 female paratypcs are in the collection of Stallings and Turner, Caldwell, Kansas. Forty-nine para- Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 75 types will be disposed as follows : 14 males and 2 females to the collection of Mr. A. C. Frederick, Albany, New York ; 2 males and 1 female to the American Museum of Natural History, New York ; 2 males to the United States National Museum ; 2 males to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; 2 males to the collection of Mr. Lowell Hulbirt, Glendora, California ; and one pair to the collection of Mr. Otto Buchholz, Roselle Park, New Jersey. The other 22 paratypes will remain for the pres- ent in the collection of the author. AMBLYSCIRTES SIMIUS Edwards Edwards described this butterfly as Amblyscirtes simius in 1881. x Since that time it has been placed in the genus Chac- rephon Godman & Salvin by Dr. A. W. Lindsey and in Mr. E. L. Bell's "The Hesperioidea," Bulletin of the Cheyenne Mountain Museum, vol. 1 (part 1) October 4, 1938, it was listed under the genus Yvretta Hemming along with rhesus (Edwards) and cants (Edwards). Mr. Edwards was correct when he described this species in the genus Amblyscirtes. The writer has examined five male and one female collected by Stallings and Turner, of Caldwell, Kansas, in the Palo Duro Canyon of Texas during May and June, 1942 and thirty-five males and four females collected by the writer at the same locality during May, 1942. Simins differs from members of the genus Yvretta in the following particulars : the third joint of the palpus is long and slender, whereas that structure in rhesus, earns, and citrus (Mabille) (a Mexican species) is short and rather stout. The antennal club in simius has a short reflexed apiculus. This is not present in any of the Yvretta. The re- flexed apiculus is a characteristic of the genus Amblyscirtes. The long, slender third joint of the palpus and the manner with which it is upturned likewise associate this species with other members of the genus Amblyscirtes. The middle tibiae are spined. Skinner and Williams in their study "On the Male Geni- talia of the Hesperiidae of North America, Paper 111," 2 state 1 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., ix, p. 6. - Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XLIX, 129-153, July 30, 1923. 76 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 on page 138 that the male has no stigma. Possibly this is a misprint or else an error because the males of simius do have a short, black stigma that is readily discernible. Genitalically this species is not like other members of the genus Amblyscirtes, however, the main characters are certainly nearer that genus than they are to members of the genus Yvretta. Superficially on the under surface this species shows a decided relationship with oslari (Skinner) in the arrangement of spots on both the primaries and secondaries. In habits the two are very similar. The writer has collected both species at the same time and place as they rested on light colored soil and rocks. It was difficult to tell the two apart when they had their wings folded vertically above their bodies. From the above information the writer is returning this species to the genus Amblyscirtes where it was first placed. Megathymus yuccae alabamae new subspecies This new subspecies resembles the subspecies navajo Skinner more than it does typical yuccae (Bdv. & LeC.). Typical yuccae from Florida and Georgia is deep umber-brown with the spots, base of primaries and marginal border of the sec- ondaries decidedly yellow. On the under surface of the second- aries of yuccae there is usually a single crescent like spot near the costa. Navajo is the subspecies that occurs in New Mexico, Arizona and California and is characterized by the black colora- tion of the wings, the spots of the primaries and on the second- aries of the females are white or very light yellow and the marginal border is rather broad and is grey. Navajo is also characterized by the presence of two white spots near the costa on the under surface of the secondaries, one is crescent shaped and the other more or less oval. Alabamae differs from yuccae in the following particulars: the wings are black. All the spots on the primaries except the subapical ones are light yellow. The base of the primaries shows a very few yellow scales and hairs and the marginal border of the secondaries is light yellow with some grey scales intermixed. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 77 Alabamae differs from navajo in the following particulars: the spots on the primaries are a little larger and somewhat yellower. The marginal border of the secondaries is more yel- lowish and there is a single crescent shaped spot near the costa on the under surface of the secondaries. Expanse : Holotype male 56 mm., paratype male, 50 mm. Described from two males, received from Mr. A. C. Fred- erick, Albany, New York, and collected by Mr. M. E. Smith at Anniston, ALABAMA on April 12, 1937. Holotype male and male paratype are in the collection of the author. The editor of the Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, in his December, 1942 number, calls attention "to the loose way that the word 'type' is so frequently used of late ... A large number of insects lie before me which bear the label 'type.' Not a single one of them is a 'type.' They are, in the opinion of the collector, specimens like the type, i.e. typical examples of the species and not the 'original specimen' or 'il- lustration' upon which the specific name was bestowed." Adult and Immature Stages of Cricotopus elegans n. sp. (Chironomidae, Diptera). By O. A. JOHANNSEN, Ithaca, N. Y. Specimens of an undescribed species of Cricotopus, the larvae of which were found mining in the leaves of Potamogcton, were sent to me for determination by Mr. C. O. Berg of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The species most closely resembles Cricotopus in- fitscatits (Trichocladiits rnfitscatits Malloch) and C. politns (Orthocladiiis politns Coq.) as well as the European C. obni.rns (Walk.), differing from them in the deeper color of the abdo- men and in leg or male antennal ratio, or in the structure of the terminalia of the male. The larva will find a place in my key (Aquatic Diptera, III, page 59) tracing to Spaniotonui, second paragraph of couplet 20, differing from the species in couplet 21 78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 in antennal and labral structures. The pupa will find a place in the key to Cricotopns on page 52, in the second paragraph of couplet 4, differing from species given there in having smaller respiratory organs. Cricotopus elegans n. sp. Male. Dark species with non-annulate dusky legs. Head yellow, antenna including basal segment, and mouth parts in- cluding palpi, dark brown. Thorax highly polished, yellow, the three broad mesonotal vittae, pectus, a pleural spot, scutellum, and metanotum, shining black. Halteres yellow. Tergum of abdomen dull, velvety black, hairs dark, venter and terminalia brownish. Eyes black, pubescent. Antennal ratio 1.4; ratio of fore basitarsus to its tibia 0.52 ; fore tarsi not bearded ; spur of fore tibia about as long as the diameter of the apex of the tibia ; empodium two-thirds as long as the claws ; pulvilli vestigial. Wings milky white, no microtrichia visible under 400 diam- eters magnification ; veins pale yellowish, second branch of radius ending slightly beyond middle of distance between tips of anterior and posterior branches, costa distinctly produced be- yond the tip of first branch of radius which ends well beyond the level of the tip of the anterior branch of the cubitus ; cubitus forks slightly distad of the crossvein ; anal vein ends slightly distad of the cubital fork ; squamae fringed. The hypopygium is of the normal Cricotopns type, the anal point lacking ; basistyle with prominent basal lobe resembling that figured for C. jiavipcs * but more tapering toward the apex ; apical spine of dististyle is about two-thirds as long as the diameter of the dististyle near the apex. Length of male 3 mm.; of wing, measured from the humeral crossvein, 1.5 mm. Female. Similar to the male except for sex characters and that the wing veins are darker. Antennal ratio 0.4. Length 2.5 mm. Holotype (<$} and allotype (5) in the Cornell University Collection. Paratypes: 16 in the Cornell University Collection and 6 in the collection of Mr. C. O. Berg. 1 Ent. News, LIII, p. 75, 1942. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 79 Larva. Length 5.5 to 6 mm. Near each caudo-lateral mar- gin of body segments 3 to 11 with a hair pencil as in trijaciatus and in addition with smaller pencils or single hairs at the middle laterally on all body segments except the first (thoracic) and last (abdominal) as well as with minute scattered bristles. Head brown, with margin of labial plate and the apical half of the mandible, blackish. Two nearly contiguous eye spots on each side of the head, the anterior one much smaller than the other. Antenna about a third as long as mandible, basal seg- ment more than two-thirds of total length ; ring organ located slightly below middle of basal segment ; the longer blade not reaching the apex of apical segment. Ventral side of labrum with the usual bristles, but instead of the median bifid pair there is a pair of stout curved spines. Premandibles robust, blunt pointed, not toothed. Mandibles lack transverse furrows (wrinkles) on the convex side; accessory tooth and the usual two lateral bristles present ; median brush terminating in 6 or 7 rays. Labial plate with 11 teeth, the first lateral notched on the outer side as in C. trifasciatits. 2 Prolegs, claws, and anal gills about as in the last mentioned species. Preanal bristle- bearing papillae not longer than broad with about 5 long apical bristles and one shorter one on anterior side. Pupa. Length 4 mm. Thoracic respiratory organs trans- parent, 0.09 mm. long, four times as long as broad at widest part. Tergites 2 to 6 with shagreen, with two or four small, indistinctly defined circular clear areas at posterior fourth of segments 2 to 5 ; shagreen of sixth segment restricted to a central patch; segments 1, 7 and 8 nearly bare. Anal lobes with three moderately curved yellow spines which are three- eighths as long as the segment bearing them. Adults reared from larvae collected in the Huron River, Washtenaw Co., Michigan, July 16, 1942, by Mr. C. O. Berg of Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2 Aquatic Diptera, in, Fig. 186. 80 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 Current Entomological Literature COMPILED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrele- vant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. This list gives references of the current or preceding year unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex- periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. Aor records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series C. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of Journals given at the end of the literature. The num- ber of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keyt are followed by (k); papers pertaining exclusively to Neo- tropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL ALEE, W. C. The social life of animals. [Norton & Co., N. Y.] 293 pp. BRIQUET, R., JR. Biolumines scencia. [Ceres. Vicosa, Minas G., Brazil] 3: 272-99, ill. ENGELHARDT, GEORGE P. Obituary by E. W. Teale, with port. [19] 37: 153-57. HUGGINS, M. I. Grasshopper pets in China. [Nature Mag.] 36: 76-77, ill. SCHAUS, WILLIAM. Obituary note by Heinrich and Chapin, with bibl. and port. [10] 44: 191-95. STEINHAUS, E. A. Catalogue of bacteria associated with insects and ticks. [Burgess Pub. Co.] 206 pp. TRAVAS- sos & TEUXERIRA DE FREITAS. Relatorio da sexta excursao do Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, realizacla a zona da Estrada de Ferro Noroeste do Brasil, em Nov. de 1941. [Ill] 37: 259-86. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, ETC. BIRMINGHAM, L. Boundaries of differentiation of cephalic imaginal discs in Drosophila. [42] 91 : 345-364. DEAN, R. W. Development of the female reproductive system in Rhagoletis pomonella (Trypet.). [7] 35: 397-410, ill. EPHRUSSI, B Chemistry of eye color hormones of Drosophila. [Q. Rev. Biol.] 17 : 327- 338. LIGHT, S. F. The determination of castes of social in- sects. [Q. Rev. Biol.] 17: 312-326. SMITH, S. G. Polariza- tion and progression in pairing. III. Pachytene observations in Neodiprion. [52] 20: 368-79. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 81 ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA BRYANT, E. B. Descr. of certain Amer. Phidippus (Araneae). [119] 28: 693- 707, ill. (*). GRAHAM & WACKERBARTH. Spiders go to war. [Frontiers] Feb. 1943 : 86-88. KURATA, T. B. A list of the spiders of Prince Edward County, Ontario. [51] no. 48: 107- 115. THE SMALLER ORDERS LIGHT, S. F. (See under Anatomy, Physiology.) SWEETMEN & LAUDANI. Rearing of the damsel fly, Ischnura verticalis in the laboratory. [7] 35 : 387-88. WALKER, E. M Additions to the list of Odonata of the maritime provinces. [Nova Scotia Inst. Sci.] 20: 159- 76. WERNECK, F. L. Sobre algumas esp. do gen. Gliricola ( Mallophaga ) . [ 1 1 1 ] 37 : 297-3 1 6, ill . ( S .* ) . ORTHOPTERA JAMES, M. T. Earwigs in Colorado. [19] 37: 180. URQUHART, F. A. An annotated list of the crickets and grasshoppers of Prince Edward County, Ontario. [51] no. 48: 116-119. HEMIPTERA BALDUF, W. V. Bionomics of Catorhintha mendica (Core.). [19] 37: 158-66. DRAKE, C. J. Two new Amer. sps. of the gen. Aradus. [105] 13: 151-154 (S). FUNKHOUSER, W. D. Note on Multareis planifrons (Mem- brae). [19] 37: 166. New Ceresa from Arizona (Membrac). [19] 37: 181-82, ill. GORHAM, R. P. Simple method for use in staining living aphids. [4] 74: 236. HUNGERFORD & SAILER. -New Corixid from Minnesota. [19] 37: 179-80. KNULL, D. J. The gen. Neocoelidia in the U. S. (Cicadel). [119] 28: 680-92, ill. (*). TORRE-BUENO, J. R. A bibliographical note on aquatic Hemiptera used as food in Mexico. [19] 37: 168-69. Notes on Coreidae. [19] 37: 180. Note on dis- tribution of Heteroptera. [19] 37: 183-85. USINGER, R. L. Notes on the variation and distribution of Mesovela mulsanti (Mesovel.). [19] 37: 177-78. LEPIDOPTERA BEAMER, L. H. The buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) in Ontario. [Can. Field-Nat.] 56: 113. BLANCHARD, R. A. Hibernation of the corn earworm in the Central and Northeastern part of the U. S. [3] Tech. Bui., 82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '43 838. BRAUN, A. F. A remarkable new Heliodinid (Micro- lep.). [7] 35 : 373-78. CARPENTER & LEWIS. A collection of Lepidoptera (Rhopal.) from Cayaman Islands. [Ann. Car- negie Mus.] 29: 371-96 (*). DETHIER, V. G. Notes on the life histories of five common Geometridae. [4] 74 : 225-34, ill. ELIOT, N. Instinct and traveling butterflies. [9] 75 : 236-44. FREEMAN, T. N. A n.sp. of Pseudodexentera from apple, with notes on allied sps. (Olethreut.). [4] 74: 212-15, ill. KANE, H. B. The tale of the promethea moth. [A. Knopf. N. Y.] 1942. KLOTS, A. B. A newly imported European larvernid (Microlep.). [19] 37: 173. McDuNNOUGH, J. Two unde- scribed Canadian Microlepidoptera. [4] 74: 224. McEuvARE, R. R. Domicile of the type of the heliothid moth, Melicleptria pulchripennis. [19] 37: 169. MATSCHAT, C. H. American butterflies and moths, ill. [R. Freund, N. Y.] 1942. PUTMAN, W. L. Host plants and parasites of some lepidopterous larvae [4] 74: 219-24. ROGERS, W. P. Incisalia henrici in Fall River, Mass. [19] 37: 167-68. WARREN, B. C. S. Genus Pandorian (new). A preliminary descr. (Nymphal.). [9] 75: 245^6. (European.) DIPTERA BEQUAERT, J. Pigeon-fly, Pseudolynchia cana- riensis in New England and New York (Hippobosc.). [19] 37: 185-86. FAIRCHILD, G. B. Genus Tabanus and resume of the Tabanidae of Panama. Notes of Tabanidae of Panama. [7] 35 : 441-74, ill. (*). HART, T. A. A descriptive study of the pilotaxy of a modal Culex pipiens fourth stage larva. [7] 35 : 379-86, ill. KOMP, W. H. W. Anopheles clarki, a n.sp. of Nyssorhynchus of wide distribution in S. Amer. (Culic.). [10] 44: 196-201, ill. KRAFCHICK, B. The mouthparts of black- flies with special reference to Eusimulium lascivum (Simul.). [7] 35: 426-34, ill. MANGABEIRA, O. Contribucao ao estudo dos Flebotomus, IX-XIII (Psychod.). [Ill] 37: 241-50; 251-58; 287-96; 327-31 ; 375-82, ill. MILLER, R. B. A con- tribution to the ecology of the Chironomidae of Costello Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario. [51] no. 49: 63 pp., ill. RUSSELL & RAO. On relation of mechanical obstruction and shade to liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 83 ovipositing of Anopheles culicifacies. [42] 91 : 303-329. VARGAS, L. Notas sobre la terminalia de algunos simulidos de Mexico. [56] 3: 229-49, ill. COLEOPTERA BARBER, H. S. Some synonymy in Der- mestes. [19] 37: 174-76 (*). BRIMLEY, J. F. A list of the long-horned beetles of Prince Edward County, Ontario. [51] no. 48: 120-123. DIETRICH, H. Typhloglymma puteolatum (Cosson.). [19] 37: 178. DORSEY, C. K. Musculature of the labrum, labium and pharyngeal region of adult and imma- ture coleoptera. [60] 103: no. 7, 42 pp., ill. KNULL. J. N- Tvvo new Bruprestidae. [7] 35: 390-92, ill. LA RIVERS, I.- A new Trogloderus from Nevada with a key to the known sps. (Tenebrion.). [7] 35: 435-440. PULIAN, R. The larvae of the sub-family Orphilinae and their bearing on the systematic status of the family Dermestidae. [7] 35 : 393-96, ill. REY- NOLDS, J. M. Effect of parental feeding on the rate of de- velopment and mortality of Tribolium destructor (Tenebrion.). [31] 151 : 55. RINGS, R. W. The external anatomy of Sanda- lus niger (Rhipicer.). [7] 35: 411-25, ill. SCHOOF, H. F- Genus Conotrachelus in the North Central U. S. [111. Biol. Monogr.] 29, (3), 170pp., ill. (*). HYMENOPTERA BUTLER, C. G. The honeybee. [31] 150: 759-60. COLE, A. C. Synonyms of Formica difficilis (Formic.). [7] 35 : 389. LIGHT, S. F. (See under Anatomy, Physiology.) MICKEL & KROMBEIN. Glyptometopa and re- lated genera in the Brachycistidinae, with descr. of n.gen and sps. (Tiph.). [119] 28: 648-79, ill. MUESEBECK, C. F. W.- Two n.sps. of Allotropa parasitic on the Comstock mealybug. (Platygaster., Serphoidea). [19] 37: 170-73, ill. PARKER, J. B. Notes on certain sps. of Bembicids. [10] 44: 202-8, ill. PATE, V. S. L. 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Neave, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, and editor of "Nomenclator Zoologicus," has been appointed honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London. He succeeds Dr. Julian Huxley who recently resigned. According to a note in Science, Dr. William B. Herms, pro- fessor of parasitology and head of the Division of Entomology and Parasitology of the University of California, has been called to active duty as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Sanitary Corps. He is to be instructor of tropical medicine at the Army Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. During his absence, Dr. E. O. Essig will act as head of the Division at the University of California. EXCH.ANQES This column is intended only for wants and exchanges, not for advertisements of goods for sale or services rendered. Notices not exceeding three lines free to subscribers. 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(Lepidoptera) 92 Steyskal A new species of Pholeomyia, with a key to the North Ameri- can species (Diptera) 99 Westiall Enallagma davisi, a new species from Florida (Odonata) 103 Remington and Remington The unusual capture of a melanistic Pieris napi (Lepidoptera) 109 Current Entomological Literature 110 The Linnean species and manuscripts 114 PUBLISHED MONTHLY, EXCEPT JULY AND AUGUST, BY THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRINCE AND LEMON STS., LANCASTER, PA. AND THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Subscription, per yearly volume of ten numbers: $3.00 domestic; $3.30 foreign; $3.15 Canada. Entered as second-class matter April 19, 1943, at the post office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage prescribed for in Section 1. Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January IS, 1921. EDITORIAL STAFF PHILIP P. CALVERT, Ph.D., Editor; E. T. CRESSON, JR., J. A. G. REHN, A. G. RICHARDS, JR., Ph.D., R. G. 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GLENN RICHARDS, JR., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lasiestra coloradensis new species. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. Vestiture of head composed of light-colored hairs the apical portions of which are dark. Vestiture of thorax mixed hairs and narrow scales; mottled color due to the hairs and scales having light bases, darker apices and sometimes white tips. Basal abdominal tuft colored like thorax. Tibiae, especially of metathoracic legs, heavily fringed with long, light-colored hairs. Fore wing brownish-grey, moderately infuscated. T. a. line black, excurved across cell and strongly angled in on anal vein. Claviform spot faintly indicated by black scales. Orbicular spot round, dirty white, with a darker center, and defined toward base and apex of cell by black. Reniform light, with dark center, and defined by some black scales. T. p. line light, de- fined by preceding black scales and succeding fuscous line. Subterminal line grey, defined by preceding fuscous shade with black dashes between the veins. Narrow black terminal line. Cilia checkered fuscous and light brown, with a dark line through their center. Hind wing fuscous, the basal half slightly lighter; faint discal spot, lighter postmedial line, blackish termi- nal line, and cilia mixed fuscous and light brown with a trace of a dark line through their center. Beneath both wings lighter, with dark discal spots and postmedial lines; terminal part of fore wing and apex of hind wing fuscous ; cilia as above. Expance : 26 mm. (85) 46ft 86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 Male genitalia : Essential characters shown in figure 1 . Co- rona with 20-22 spines. Right harpe with subterminal prong on costal margin. Aedoeagus with some 70-75 simple spines in a row and three large tuberculate spines. Holotype : J\ Rock Creek, vicinity of Colorado Springs, Colo- rado; July 10, 1935 (Alexander B. Klots, collector). Dr. Klots writes that the specimen was collected in the neighbor- hood of the Fountain Valley School cabin at Rock Creek, about 10 miles west of Colorado Springs; altitude 8000-8500 ft., and that this region is a mixed Pinits pondcrosa spruce fir forest that really represents Canadian zone with an abnormally high mixture of Transition zone due to aridity. Type (unique) in the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia. Ti .\ L. co/oradensis This new species closely resembles L. Icucocycla Staudinger, races of which are found in Greenland, Labrador, New Found- land, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Alberta and Alaska. In maculation and general appearance L. coloradensis is closest to L. Icncocvcla poca B. & Benj. from Alberta. From this (and the other races of Icucocycla) it differs in its browner color, the absence of clear white, and especially the dark hind wings. On the basis of maculation alone, L. coloradensis would Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 87 probably be placed as a new southern race of L. leucocycla. It is described as a distinct species because of the male genitalia, particularly the three large tuberculate spines on the vesica ; these tuberculate spines are totally lacking in the three races of L. leucocycla of which slides are available for examination (preblci Benj., hampa Sm., and moeschleri staud.). Lasiestra klotsi new species. Male antennae serrate and fasciculate. Vestiture of head, thorax and basal abdominal tuft composed of long hairs which are light-colored with darker apices and a general olivaceous appearance in mass. Tibiae heavily fringed with long hairs. For wing grey with an olivaceous cast and with dark grey or black markings. Basal line black, interrupted on radial stem. A large yellowish-olive patch filling antemedial space below cell, this patch traversed by a line of fuscous scales along the anal vein. T. a. line black, erect through cell, then excurved with inward angulation on anal vein. Claviform spot absent. Orbicular spot represented by a light yellowish-olive area in cell just beyond t. a. line. Reniform spot a yellowish-olive line preceded by dark grey and black shading and defined outwardly by a black line. T. p. line grey, defined by preceding heavy black shading, angled out on veins. At inner margin t. a. and t. p. lines joined by solid black shading below anal vein. Sub- terminal line grey defined by preceding darker grey ; incomplete, absent between veins 4 and 6 (M 3 to M 3 ) and for a short dis- tance just below vein 2 (Cu 2 ). No terminal line. Cilia dark grey checkered by a few light scales at the ends of the veins. Hind wing fuscous, darker discal spot, dark postmedial line fol- lowed by a light line near costa and inner margin ; cilia mixed and with white tips. Beneath both wings dirty white, basal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous-grey, dark discal spots, and fore wing with diffuse postmedial line, hind wing with clearer postmedial line. Expance: 32 mm. Male genitalia: Essential characters shown in figure 2. Aedoeagus with a row of about 60 simple spines and four large tuberculate spines. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 Holotype: J 1 , Hall Valley, Park Co., Colorado, altitude 11,- 000 to 12,000 ft., July 13-15, 1935 (Alexander B. Klots, collec- tor). [In the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.] L. klotsi is unmistakably distinct from all the other described North American species of Lasicstra (and Lasionycta). It can be readily recognized by the olivaceous cast and by the yellow- ish-olive orbicular and patch below the cell in the antemedial space. The best placement of L. klotsi in our present lists seems to be next L. Intcola Smith. A New Cambalid Diplopod. By RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN, University of Utah. The new species of Nannolcnc here described is based upon five type specimens taken by H. H. Keifer near Sacramento, California, on April 30, 1942. They were found under an oak log along with several individuals of another member of the Cambalidae, Titsona sima Chamberlin, a species previously known only from the vicinity of Oroville. Nannolene keiferi new species Among known species nearest to N. cincta, occurring from northern California to Washington, but a much smaller species (13 mm. in length as against 25 mm.), consisting of fewer segments. It differs in gonopods from those of cincta as indi- cated below. Body having the usual general proportions and appearance of species of Nannolcnc, but slightly constricted back of the first segment. Segmental furrows deep and rather broad. Typically light brown, with darker, blackish annuli on most of the segments : lower surface and legs yellowish. Head with a dark band between eyes, yellowish below. Ocelli forming a black triangular patch ; ocelli typically in 4 vertical or transverse series ; e.g., 8, 7, 5, 3, a total of 23. Anal valves exceeding the caudal rounded end of the last tergite. liv. '43 1 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 89 First legs of male moderately reduced, with terminal article short and distally rounded, its claw abortive. Gonopods of male in structure closest to those of N. cincta. The anterior sternite with tongue similarly broad distally but proportionally longer. The coxal piece of anterior gonopod obliquely truncate distally, with distoectal angle similarly the more produced, but less so than in cincta, the distal edge being straight instead of incurved. Number of segments, 46 to 53. Length, about 13 mm. ; diameter, .83 mm. Locality. CALIFORNIA : Sacramento district, April 30, 1942. Five specimens taken under an oak log by H. H. Keifer. Types in author's collection; paratypes in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. New Species of Syrphidae (Diptera) of the Genera Baccha and Mesogramma. By FRANK M. HULL, University of Mississippi. In this paper I present the description of six new Syrphid flies from South America and the West Indies. The types, except where designated, are in the author's collection. Baccha (Mimocalla) polista n. sp. Related to capitata Loew. Face yellow, hind femora black on ventral surface ; mesonotum with prominent yellow vittae. Male. Length 15 mm. Head: face yellow, orange in tin- middle, sides and upper part of front yellow, broadly shining black around the protuberant antennal process. Black dot on lunula. Antennae blackish, lighter below. Thorax : meso- notum dull black with two, widely separated, wide, posteriorly attenuated golden pollinose vittae, a similar short one in front of the scutellum. Lateral margin in front of the suture, a yellow vitta in front of the post calli and all of the scutellum except the black central disk yellow. Mesopleura brown on anterior half, pro,- upper sterno-, anterior metapleura, the 90 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr.. '43 squamae and fringe all yellow. Abdomen : elongate, pedicel- late. First segment dark brown except anterior corners. Sec- ond segment medium brown, the base narrowly yellowish and hyaline. Third and fourth segments black, with rather narrow, basal, yellow fascia, complete to the margins. Fifth segment linearly yellowish on the basal margin except in the middle. A pair of apical transverse spots posteriorly. Legs : yellow, the femora more orange, the hind femora orange-brown and ventrally black throughout their length with black pile ventrally and laterally and reddish brown pile dorsally. Hind tibiae yellow on basal two-fifths, brownish in the middle, orange apically. Wings : hyaline ; costal cell yellow, stigmal cell light brown, third vein and subapical cross vein with characteristic clip and flexure ; alulae large. Female. Similar to the male, the abdomen a little wider, the front black throughout the middle, widely yellow on the sides. Holotypc: male, allotype a female and four paratypes, Nova Teutonia, BRAZIL, (Fritz Plaumann), [Fluke collection]. Baccha zobeide n. sp. Related to zita Curran. The mesopleura is metallic black, the wing nearly hyaline. Male. Length 10 mm. Head: face and front yellow, the latter obscurely brown in the middle, with thick long black pile. Lunula with a black dot. Antennae orange-brown. Thorax: mesonotum metallic black with a pair of short anterior wide brownish pollinose vittae and the intervening black divided by a brownish line. Sides of mesonotum and humeri yellow, scu- tellum yellow with abundant long black pile, the disc a little browner and black ventral fringe. Pleura metallic black. Ab- domen : moderately slender, elongate, dark brown, sides of the first segment yellow, second segment with a narrow transverse widely separated spot on each side past the middle and behind it an opaque brown spot meeting above. Third segment with larger, lateral yellow spot in the middle of each side. Fourth segment with a large irregular yellow spot on each side just before the middle. Fifth wholly shining black. Legs : yellow- ish, the femora light brown, hind pair darker, yellow just past liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 91 the middle and again at apex, their tibiae brown on discal half, their basitarsi dark brown and the remaining joints pale. Wings : nearly hyaline, stigma dark brown, costal cell pale, alulae well developed. Holotype: male. Nova Teutonia, BRAZIL, (Fritz Plau- mann), [Fluke collection]. Baccha anona n. sp. Near crocata Austen, but second abdominal segment at least twice as long as wide. Female. Length 8.5 mm. Head : face and front light yellow, the latter with a linear brown line, black dot on lunula and black pile. Antennae orange, brown above, arista black. Thorax : mesonotum brassy black with a pair of moderately wide, well separated, pronounced yellow vittae over two-thirds the length of mesonotum and posteriorly with a short similar median streak ; the lateral margins widely and the humeri and scutellum are pale yellow, the latter from a side view brown on disc with a few long black hairs and three or four black fringe hairs. Pleura yellow, broadly black behind. Abdomen : spatulate, the first segment yellow, brown posteriorly, the second is dark brown with beyond the middle a transverse yellow fascia not reaching the sides. Third segment with a pair of medial, nar- rowly separated, yellow vittae beginning at base, expanding posteriorly and just beyond the middle emitting a diagonal stripe to the lateral margins. Fourth segment similar, the vittae longer and the diagonal stripe is given off from the base. Fifth segment with a pair of complete central vittae, and shorter, sublateral, subbasal vittae. Legs : entirely pale yellow, the hind femora with a dark subapical annulus. Wings : pale brown, the alulae narrow, equally developed throughout. Holotype: female. Puyo, Oriente, ECUADOR. Dec. 3-15. 1938, 1000 meters, (F. M. and H. H. Brown), [Fluke collec- tion ) . 92 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr.. '43 Notes on Some Cuculliinae (Phalaenidae, Lepidoptera). III. On the Identity of Glaea pastillicans Morrison and the Species of the Genus Chaetaglaea New Genus. By J. G. FRANCLEMONT, Ithaca, N. Y. In the early winter of 1940 Mr. Henry Engel sent me speci- mens of a moth that some collectors were considering to be Harpaglaca pastillicans (Morrison). At that time, I had not decided as to what moth this name referred. Morrison's type of Glaca pastillicans being apparently lost, inquiries not having brought its whereabouts to light. I had only the original de- scription to consider when attempting to identify this name. After a careful study of the original description of pastillicans, it became evident that this name was a synonym of Orthosia apiata Grote. The most conclusive evidence for this synonymy was the reference to the red annuli surrounding the ordinary spots. Only three species of North American "Glaeines" have this feature, namely Epiglaca apiata (Grote). Metaxaglaea innlta (Grote) and Metaxaglaea viatica (Grote). The last species cannot be considered because the ordinary lines are dentate ; only apiata and innlta have the lines more or less even ; in nl ta likewise cannot be considered because the ordinary spots are extraordinarily large, and the reniform never has a dark punctiform spot in its base. Thus only opiata remains, and this variable species ranges in color from pale olive brown to deep purple brown, and the reniform either does or does not possess a dark punctiform spot in its base. Grote's type of apiata was reddish brown, a light phase, and possessed very evident ordi- nary lines and no dark spot in the base of the reniform. Morri- son's type was of the other extreme, very dark, with obscure lines and with a dark punctiform spot in the base of the reni- form; all this ample reason for Morrison to think that he had a different species; it also differed from typical apiata in the lack of the pale shade following the median part of the subterminal liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 93 line, but agreed with typical apiata in having that subterminal line reddish. The northern locality of Morrison's type pre- cludes it being the species that Hampson called pastillicans, which is more southern. I have examined over five hundred specimens of apiata from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. These specimens showed all degrees of varia- tion, some matching Grote's type exactly and others meeting exactly the requirements of Morrison's description. From the foregoing discussion the following synonymy is at once apparent. Orthosia apiata Grote, 6th Rept. Peab. Acad. Sc., 1873, 30, 1874. Glaea pastillicans Morrison, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvn, 151, 1874. 1 New Synonymy ! Epiglaea apiata (Grote), Grote, Abhandl. Nat. Verz. Bremen, xiv, 95, 1895 (apiata herein designated type of Epiglaea !). Epiglaea pastillicans (Morrison), Grote, Abhandl. Nat. Verz. Bremen, xiv, 95, 1895. Epiglaea apiata (Grote), Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vr, 433, pi. 106, fig. 11, 1906. Epiglaea apiata (Grote), McDunnough, Checklist Lep. Can. and U. S., 85, 1938. With the above synonymy a fact, it becomes obvious that Harpaglaea Hampson, "Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vi, 429, 1906," with type designated as Glaca pastillicans Morrison = = Harpa- glaea pastillicans (Morrison) by Hampson therein, is a synonym of Epiglaea Grote, "Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iv, 181, 1878," with type designated by Grote in the "Abhandl. Nat. Verz. Bremen, xiv, 95, 1895" as OrtJwsia apiata Grote = = Epi- glaea apiata (Grote), the generic names being isogenotypic. Since the above is so, it leaves the species placed in Harpaglaea by Hampson without a generic name ; to remedy this condition the following generic name is proposed to replace Harpaglaca. 1 It is quite evident that Grote's description appeared before Morrison's because the latter author makes reference to apiata, inidta and I'iatica. all described at the same time, in his description of Glaea .svnVri/. which appears on the same page as the description of past ill ii 'tins. 94 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr.. '43 CHAETAGLAEA gen. nov. Genotype : Cliactaglaea ccrata Franc, new species. Proboscis well developed ; palpi short, porrect not exceeding the front, clothed with scales and moderately long hair, the third joint drooping; eyes moderate and round; antennal scape without lashes, antennae of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, with a triangular, knife- edge, anterior tuft, no posterior tuft ; the fore legs with the first segment of the tarsus with 4 to 6 large spines on the outer side ; abdomen distinctly flattened, fringed with lateral and anal tufts, no dorsal tufts, clothed on the dorsum with scales and hair; fore wing with the costa almost straight, the apex square. The male genitalia of the three species of this genus vary from almost symmetrical to quite asymmetrical ; this asymmetry being mostly in the sacculus. The tegumen is long and moder- ately broad ; the vinculum is long and narrow ; the valves moderately long and rather narrow in their distal half, the sacculus large and tending to be unlike on both sides, pollex present in two species, the clasper ranging from well developed to almost vestigeal. The aedoeagus is quite long and rather stout, and the vesica is armed with a single, very heavy, bulbous- based spine. This genus differs from all the "Glaeine"' genera but Pscc- traglaca by the few heavy spines on the first segment of the fore tarsus ; from Pscctraglaca it differs by its smooth and coarser vestiture and the simple antennae of the male, those of Pscctra- glaca being pectinate. The male genitalia are distinctive in the large size of the aedoeagus and the large spine of the vesica. Three species are included in the genus. Chaetaglaea cerata n. sp. Head and thorax pale fawn color ; the fore wing glistening, pale, pinkish fawn color; the basal line indiscernible; the antemedial line even, slightly curved, running obliquely out- ward from costa to inner margin, rust colored, with a narrow, pale shade on its inner side ; the postmedial line even, excurved slightly from below costa to vein M, (Vein 6), then erect to inner margin, rust colored, with a narrow, pale shade on its liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 95 outer side ; the subterminal line erect from below costa to vein R 5 (Vein 7), then sharply angled out and then running parallel to the outer margin ; terminal line a series of small black dots in the interspaces; median shade very vague, just traceable as a faint line from below reniform to inner margin ; reniform and orbicular about equal in size, the orbicular nearly circular, the reniform slightly more elliptical, both of the same color as the ground, and with pale annuli ; the veins on the disk of the wing marked by pale lines ; the fringe concolorous, edged with rusty pink; the inner margin edged with bright rust color. Hind wing pinkish fuscous, darker in the female ; the fringe pinkish. The abdomen pinkish fuscous, concolorous with the hind wings ; the caudal margin of each segment edged with pinkish fawn color ; the lateral and anal tufts bright rufous. Expanse : 46 mm. to 50 mm. The male genitalia symmetrical ; the uncus and tegumen moderate ; the vinculum long ; the valves moderately long and heavy ; the clasper stout and sharply curved ; pollex present, stronger on the left valve ; corona evanescent ; the aedoeagus long and stout, the vesica armed with a very stout spine with a subquadrate base. This species most closely resembles sericca, from which it may be distinguished by its lighter color, rust colored ante- and postmedial lines, and the lack of the black spot in the base of the reniform; from trcuutla, the third and most variable species in the genus, it may be distinguished by the presence of the rust colored lines, the lack of a tooth on the antemedial line at vein 2A (Ib) and the absence of the black dot in the reniform. It is usually lighter than this last species in color and has a far greater sheen to the wings; however, trcmula varies to such a degree, that it is not safe to use color in separating this species from it. The male genitalia differ from those of the other two species in that they are practically symmetrical, those of scricca and trcninla being asymmetrical, especially the sacculus ; the clasper is poorly developed in sericca and trciiinlu, in fact almo.->t miss- ing in the last species, while it is well developed in the new species; sericca has no pollex and trcinulci the last remnants of 96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 one; the spine in the aedoeagus of trcinnla and of scricea has a rounded bulbous base, not quadrate. Holotypc: <$, Mystic, CONNECTICUT, October 6, 1924 (Her- mann Wilhelm), [in Coll. Franclemont]. Allotypc: 5> Finleyville, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1937 (Henry Engel), [in Coll. Franclemont]. Paratypes: 4 rfj, Mystic, Connecticut, October 7-26, 1924 (Hermann Wilhelm), [3 in Coll. Engel, 1 in Coll. Francle- mont] ; 1 5, Finleyville, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1936 (Henry Engel), [in Coll. Engel] ; 1 ^, 1 $, Nantucket Island, Massa- chusetts, October 10 & 19, 1939 (C. P. Kimball), 1 J\ Nan- tucket Island, Massachusetts, October 1941 (C. P. Kimball), [in Coll, Franclemont, Brower and Kimball] ; 1 J, Chilmark, Fig. 1. Male genitalia of Chactaglaca trcinnla (Harvey), la. Aedoea- gus of C. tremula. Fig. 2. Male genitalia of Chactaglaca ccrata Franc. (Holotype). 2a. Aedoeagus of C. ccrata. Fig. 3. Male genitalia of Chactaglaca sericea (Morrison). 3a. Aedoeagus of C. scricea. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL XEWS 97 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, November 10, 1934 (Geo. D. Eustis), [in Coll. B rower]. CHAETAGLAEA SERICEA (Morrison) Glaea sericea Morrison, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvn, 151, 1874. Glaea venustula Grote, Can. Ent, vn, 84, 1875. Epiglaea venustula (Grote), Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iv, 181, 1878. Harpaglaea sericea (Morrison), Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vi, 430, pi. 106, fig. 9, 1906. Harpaglaea sericea (Morrison), McDunnough, Checklist Lep. Can. and U. S, 85, 1938. As long as he lived, Grote was doubtful as to whether his venustula was synonymous with Morrison's sericea; it seems that the Morrison type disappeared rather early. Dr. K. L. Chamberlin of the New York State Museum at Albany, New York very kindly compared specimens of the species that it has been customary to call sericea with the Grote type of venustula, which is in the above museum, and reported them the same. Like the type of pastillicans, the type of sericea is apparently lost, but the original description is quite adequate, and Hamp- son's figure of the species is good and will serve as a typical example of the moth. There can be no doubt that venustula is a synonym of sericea; the original descriptions are quite similar in context, both authors overlooked mentioning the presence of a dark spot in the base of the reniform, this spot may be rather inconspicuous, but is nevertheless present. 237 specimens of this species from New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have been examined ; these specimens showed some degree of variation in the depth of the ground color, the relative emphasis of the lines and the size of the ordinary spots. CHAETAGLAEA TREMULA (Harvey) - Glaea trcmnla Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sc., u, 276, 1874. Epiglaea trcmnla (Harvey), Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iv, 181, 1878. 2 I have tried to definitely identify Cerastis adulta Guenee, "Spec. Gen. Lep., vn (Noct. iii), 393, 1852," hut the original description is somewhat vague in places, nevertheless it leads me to believe that the Abbot figure of the moth, which I have not seen, is a species of the genus Rhynchagrotis or Abagrotis. For the time being the name may stand as a nonicn in- qitircnduni near viatica as suggested by Barnes and Benjamin in the "Contrib. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. v (3), 141, 1924." 98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 Harpaglaca trcmula (Harvey), Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vi, 430, pi. 106, fig. 10, 1906. Harpaglaca ^.pastillicans Hampson (nee Morrison), Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M,. vi, 431, text fig. 149, 1906. Harpaglaca trcmula (Harvey), McDunnough, Checklist Lep. Can. and U. S. 85, 1938. This is the most variable species in this genus ; it not only varies in the color of the ground and in the strength of the mark- ings, hut in the composition of the markings. The species reaches the maximum of variability in the southern part of its range ; a series from north-central Florida presented some very striking color forms ; I even suspected other species, but there was no variation in the genitalia of either sex, no matter how outstanding the color and pattern differences. The ground color varies from pale lilaceous gray to deep purple gray, often heavily irrorate with black, and from pale lavender brown to intense russet brown, likewise often irrorate with blackish. The ordinary lines and the annuli of the ordi- nary spots may or may not be present and well defined ; but the black spot in the base of the reniform is generally quite evident, whether the reniform is defined or not. The terminal area of the fore w r ing may be a glaucous white ; such specimens present a very striking appearance. To attempt to name all the color forms would be an endless process and would only confuse the picture ; being variations, there is every degree of intergradation between the numerous color forms. It was the custom, I think, following Hampson, to call the purplish gray forms pastillicans and the brownish forms t re in it la, treating them as separate species ; this practice cannot be continued in anyway, not even as forms, as pastillicans Morrison is a synonym of apiata Grote. Thus only the name trcmula remains, and under present condi- tions, it will be sufficient to place all the forms no matter how striking under this name. I have examined over 700 specimens of this species ; the specimens coming from New Jersey, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Arkansas; 109 genitalic slides were made of this species. The three species discussed herein may be separated super- ficially by the following key. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 99 a. The antemedial and postmedial lines always present and evenly curved, preceded and followed respectively by a very evident pale shade. b. The reniform rather elongated, with a black spot in the lower part ; the ante- and postmedial lines blackish scricea bb. The reniform more contracted, tending to be circular, with no black dot in the lower part ; ante- and post- medial lines reddish rust colored cerata aa. The antemedial line when present with a distinct tooth on vein 2A, the postmedial line slightly irregular, no evident pale shades preceding or following these lines ; the lines tend to become obsolescent in some specimens, often almost wholly missing trcmithi The following arrangement of the species may be substituted for that in McDunnough's Checklist, page 85, replacing Harpa- glaca with Chactaglaca. CHAETAGLAEA Franc, cerata Franc, sericea Morr. venustula Grt. tremula Harvey ^.pastillicans Auct. Corrections to "Notes on Some Cuculliinae (Phalaenidae, Lepidoptera) II, Ent. News, LIII. 31-35 & 63-66, 1942. 1. pages 31 and 63, the word "Citcitllinae" in the title should read Cuculliinae. 2. page 34, line 26, "licin/na" should read hcmina. 3. page 63, line 5 and page 64, line 13, the date "1883" should read J893. J. G. F. A New Species of Pholeomyia, with a Key to the North American Species (Diptera, Milichiidae). By GEORGE STEYSKAL, Detroit, Michigan. The apparently new species described below was included in a lot of flies submitted by C. S. Brimley, of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. 100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 Pholeomyia decorior new species Male. Length of body, 4.7 mm. ; of wing, 4.2 mm. Wholly black. Head : front matt black, parallel-sided, as wide as length of antennae, one-half the width of one eye ; six incurved lower orbital bristles with small interspersed hairs ; one proclinate anterior and two reclinate posterior upper orbitals ; inter- frontals very small and fine, numerous and scattered ; a pair of long and fine approximate proclinate bristly hairs close before anterior ocellus ; lunula shining piceous, about three-quarters as high as wide, with two proclinate bristles close together in the center; a pair of large parallel reclinate postverticals. one behind each posterior ocellus, and between them a pair of small closely placed proclinate divergent bristles in a line with the posterior margin of the posterior ocelli ; a pair of strong pro- clinate ocellars midway between anterior and posterior ocelli, also a few small hairs on the ocellar triangle. Third antennal joint round, the bare arista 3.5 times its length. Face concave, parallel-sided, with median keel, about 1.5 times as high as wide, epistoma reaching upwards about one-third the distance from lower edge of eyes to insertion of antennae. Cheeks linear. Posterior margin of eyes continuous, the posterior orbital cilia close to eyes. Palpi black, narrow, slightly wider near tip, almost reaching epistoma and with a few short bristles. Pro- boscis geniculate, each section nearly as long as fore tibia. Thorax : subshining with faint brownish pruinosity on dor- sum ; calypters and their fringe white ; halteres black. Two dorso-centrals, a pair of prescutellars equally as strong as posterior dorsocentrals and dividing the space between them into three equal parts; two postalars; two numerals; hairs of dorsum rather scattered, short and numerous. Three sterno- pleurals in horizontal row ; four mesopleurals ; one prothoracic bristle. Legs with long and strong hairs, a fringe of 13-15 subequal slender bristles on posteroventral angle of middle femur about 1.5 to 2 times as long as thickness of femur. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 101 Wings faintly brownish, veins brown; the costal incision two-thirds as long as greatest width of costal cell ; anterior crossvein at middle of discal cell ; posterior crossvein nearly vertical, its own length from wing margin measured on fifth vein. Abdomen : dorsum subshining with faint brownish pruinosity and very narrow silvery uninterrupted fasciae on anterior mar- gin of second, third and fourth tergites, widest on second and visible only with lateral lighting. The tergites are nearly equal in length and bear sparse coarse hairs on the posterior half only, except broadly on the sides of the second tergite; a ring of larger bristles near tip of abdomen. Hypopygium small, ventral. Holotypc: male, Orton PI., Brunswick County, NORTH CARO- LINA, May 2, 1939 (D. L. Wray), returned to Dr. Brimley^/' As shown in the key below this species is apparently related to pscudodccora and robcrtsoni, but more than either of these it resembles the description of qnadrijasciata Hendel (1932, Konowia 11: 139, Bolivia), from which species, however, it differs considerably, especially in the bristling of the head. Key to Males of North American Species of Pholcomyia 1. With 3 or 4 dorsocentral bristles 2. With 1 or 2 dorsocentral bristles 4. 2. Abdomen, except first tergite, silvery ; thoracic bristles strong, mesopleura with about 8 bristles ; calypters brown, rim blackish. (1925, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 66 (18): 1- Calif.) cxpansa Aldrich. Abdomen not at all silvery 3. 3. Sides of front nearly parallel, width of front at antennae equal to length of an antenna; abdomen concolorous with thorax or slightly more shining. (1896. Berlin, cut. Zts. 13: 50 [Cent. 8, no. 941 eastern No. Amer., Nebr., Nev.. Idaho; Tabasco [Mex.] ; Puerto Rico) . .indccora Loew. Front greatly narrowed toward antennae so that its least breadth is but little more than one-half the length of an antenna; abdomen with a dull red silky sheen. (1913, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 21 : 238 Hayti) . . tnyopa Melander. 102 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 4. Abdominal tergites, except first, silvery; calypters pale . . .5. At least two tergites not wholly silvery 6. 5. Second tergite longer than third and fourth together. (1861, Wien. ent. Monats. 5 : 43 Cuba, St. Vincent Id.. Ga., Tex.) leucogastra Loew. Tergites of uniform length. (1907, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 5 : 524 Ga.) leucogastra var. dispar Becker. 6. Second tergite with a median crescentic blackish spot on the silvery ground, third and fourth tergites wholly silvery. (1867, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 17: 903 Mex., So. Amer.) leucozona Bilimek. Second tergite largely or wholly black, third and fourth not wholly silvery 7. 7. Abdomen matt black except two large silvery lateral spots on fifth segment ; hairs on posterior margin only of inter- mediate tergites ; calypters whitish ; halteres blackish. (1907, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 5: 524 Ga., Ala.) pseudodecora Becker. Abdomen with silvery fasciae at anterior margin of some tergites (which may be difficultly visible) ; fifth tergite wholly black 8. 8. Anterior portion of third, fourth and fifth tergites with sil- very fasciae, that of fifth interrupted; length 1.5 mm. (1902, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 10: 187 Fla.) robertsoni Coquillett. Very narrow silvery fasciae on anterior margin of second, third and fourth tergites, widest on second and visible only with lateral lighting ; calypters pale ; halteres black ; length 4.7 mm. (North Carolina) . .dccorior new species. The genus Paramilichia Malloch, the sole species of which, lougiseta Becker, has been recorded from Nicaragua by Mal- loch (1913), may fall within the limits of Pholconiyla, accord- ing to Hendel (1932). LITERATURE CITED MALLOCH, J. R. 1913. A Synopsis of the Genera of Agro- myzidae, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 46: 127-154, pis. 4-6. HENDEL, F. 1932. Die Ausbeute der deutschen Chaco-Ex- pedition 1925/26. Diptera. XXX-XXXV(. Konowia. 11: 98-110; 115-145. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 103 Enallagma davisi, a New Species from Florida (Odonata). By MINTER J. WESTFALL, JR., Cornell University. In the Spring of 1941, while collecting around a lake in central Florida, three males and one female of a new Enallagma were taken. Later searches made in the same year and during the following Spring failed to disclose additional specimens. This new species is named for my good friend, Mr. Edward M. Davis, Director of the Thomas R. Baker Museum of Natural Science at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. Enallagma davisi new species. Color : blue and black. Holotypc, male : Head black, with blue markings ; antennae blackish brown ; labrum, anteclypeus, and postclypeus bright blue, except for a rather wide sutural band between the frons and postclypeus which extends over a large part of the post- clypeus ; frons blue to base of antennae ; vertex black ; post- ocular spots blue, rather large, almost circular, with a short arm projecting toward the midline; occiput black; rear of head blue. Prothorax black on dorsum, with a transverse stripe across middle and two lateral spots on the anterior lobe, two on median lobe, and a small median spot and two lateral stripes on posterior lobe, all of these markings blue. Pterothorax blue, black as follows: a wide, median, mid- dorsal line, narrowed posteriorly ; a humeral stripe separated from middorsal by a pale stripe which is slightly wider than the humeral ; a thread of black at second lateral suture and a larger elongated spot at base of third lateral suture followed by a hairstreak along it. Mesostigmal plates with large lateral blue spot separated from blue thoracic stripe by narrow black line. Legs brownish, femora and tibiae heavily streaked with black, appearing almost entirely black externally ; coxae light, with large black mark at infraepisternal margin. Wings with veins and pterostigma dark brown or black; postnodals 11 in 104 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 front wings and 9 in hind wings ; M 2 arising between 4th and 5th postnodals, almost at 5th. in one front wing, and half way between 5th and 6th in the other, in hind wings arising be- tween 3rd and 4th, almost at 4th. Abdomen with terga blue, marked with black as follows : large basal spot and two small lateral apical spots on segment 1, apical spot and marginal ring of 2, apical fourth to fifth of 3 to 5, two small dorsal spots located on segment 3 at about one-fourth and one-half the length of the segment from base, apical half of 6, all of 7 except an interrupted basal ring, and all of 10. Seg- ments 89 blue except for an irregular, lateral, apical spot on each side of 8 which extends half the length of the segment, and a very small and hardly noticeable, lateral, apical spot on each side of 9. Superior anal appendages black, with dorsal Fig. 1-2, Enallayina latcrale Morse (Lateral and dorsal views of ab- dominal appendages of male). Fig. 3-4, E. minusculum Morse. Fig. 5- 6, E. davisi new species. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 105 and ventral arms, in profile view, about one-half the length of dorsum of 10; upper branch one and one-half times the length of lower, constricted before tip and knobbed ; lower branch directed ventrally and medially, subrectangular in shape, with lower angles rounded, thicker than upper branch, although in strict profile view it may appear thinner because the lower branch is directed inward ; inferior appendages as long as superiors, light brown, tipped with black. Total length 31.5 mm.; abdomen, including appendages, 25; hind wing 17. Allotype, female: In general, similar to male. Posterior lobe of prothorax without the small median spot (but this may not be constant) ; no dorsal pits on middle prothoracic lobes; black of legs very slightly if at all reduced; black spots present on coxae. Abdominal terga with black as follows : a large basal spot and two small lateral spots on segment 1, a median dorsal stripe on 2-10, narrowed abruptly at proximal end of 3-7 to form only a narrow streak and widened at distal end of seg- ments. Sides of 8-10 pale, with the broad dorsal black stripe very noticeably reduced on the anterior half of segment 8. Superior anal appendages brown. Wings with light brown pterostigma ; postnodals 11 in each front wing, 9 in hind wing; M 2 arising between 4th and 5th postnodals, almost at 5th, in front wing, and between 3rd and 4th in hind wing, almost at 4th. .Total length 31 mm.; abdomen, including appendages. 24; hind wing 18. Paratypc No. 1. male: Differs from holotype only in minor, variable details. Postocular spots more cuniform than cir- cular; abdomen with an extra rounded dorsal spot at anterior third of segment 3 ; 5 with an extra projection of the apical spot extending anteriorly to cover at least a third of segment, and an irregular lateral streak on one side reaching from apical spot almost to middle of segment, as well as a small black spot slightly anterior to middle; apical three-fourths of 6, and all of 7 black, except for a complete basal ring on the latter ; lateral apical spots on 8 slightly narrower than in holotypc; 106 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 Mo arising in front wings between 4th and 5th postnodals, almost at 5th, and in hind wings half way between 4th and 5th. Total length 32 mm. ; abdomen, including appendages, 25.5 ; hind wing 17. Paratype No. 2, male : Postocular spots more cuneiform than circular; M. 2 arising in front wings between 4th and 5th post- nodals, almost at 5th, and between 3rd and 4th in hind wings, almost at 4th ; apical two-thirds of abdominal segment 6 black ; lateral apical spot of segment 8 slightly larger than in holotype. Total length 31.5 mm.; abdomen, including appendages, 25; hind wing 17. The specimens were collected by myself at a small grassy- edged lake about five miles north of Winter Park, Florida, just a few hundred feet west of the new Winter Park-Sanford high- way. The second paratype was taken March 25, 1941, while the other specimens were collected March 21. Though the allotype was not found in copulation with the holotype, it was taken only a few feet away from it and is so similar that it can hardly be anything other than this species. It may be worthwhile to note that the following species of Zygoptera were taken at the same lake with the types of E. dai'isi: Enallagina sitlcatiiin, E. laurcnti, E. pollntinn, E. con- chum, E. donblcdayi (a single specimen), Isclinura rainbnrii, I. kcllikotti, Lcstcs vigila.v, and Anomalagrlon liastatuni. The holotype and allotype are deposited in the Cornell Uni- versity collection, while the first paratype is in the Williamson collection and the second in that of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Dr. Calvert informs me that there is a male specimen in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- phia which is apparently of this new species. It was taken at Lake Ellis, North Carolina, May 14, 1906. He states that the pale postocular spots are smaller than those in paratype No. 2 of E. davisi which he saw, and elliptical instead of cuneiform. It is also a little smaller, abdomen, 23.5 mm. and h. w., 15.5 mm. The following table of comparisons, made by Dr. P. P. Calvert in a study of types, is quoted from a letter : liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 107 Superior appendages (profile view) Inferior appendages Coxae Stripes on legs Wing-veins and pterostigma Postnodals f.vv. Postnodals h.\v. Abdomen Hind wing E. laterale paratype [?'] -J- as long as seg- ment 10, the two branches sub- E. davisi sp. nov. paratype 5 as long as 10, upper branch 1^ times as long as equal in length. lower branch. Upper branch not constricted before its apex and therefore not knobbed. Lower branch not as thick as upper branch. Projecting dis- tinctly beyond the level of the tips of the supe- rior appendages. With no black mark 3 (some brown on 3rd coxa) . Pale brown Pale brown 10 8 20.5-22 mm. (Morse) 15-16 mm. (Morse) Upper branch constricted be- fore its apex and knobbed at tip. Lower branch thicker than upper branch. Projecting only as far as the level of the tips of superior ap- pendages. With a black mark at the infra-episternal margin. Black Dark brown or black 11 9 25 17 E. miniisculum paratype [?'] z " J as long as 10"; "lower branch project- ing a little be- yond the upper, much expanded, directed down- ward and in- ward." " Upper branch one-third as broad" (as lower). "Equal in length to the superiors." With a brown mark at the infra-episternal margin. Black Pale brown 10 9 (right), 8 (left) 20 (Morse) 14-15 nun. (Morse) 1 While the type specimens of E. latcralc and 11. iniuiiscnlinn studied in this connection by Dr. Calvert are referred to as "paratypes." it should be noted that in Morse's collection at the Museum of Comparative Zo- ology at Harvard no liolutypes of those species are designated. Dr. Nathan Banks tells me that the specimens are all cotypes. "Four terminal segments of abdomen missing. Characters taken from Morse's original description." P. P. C. :! Four undoubted specimens of /;. Infertile, two of them cotypes. -tudied by the writer show dark marks at the bases of the coxae. 108 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 In studying a series of ten males of E. minusculum, all from Centerville, Massachusetts, August 4, 1941, several things of interest were noted. E. minusculum lacks the light spot on the dorsum of the median prothoracic lobe and also the dark mark on the side of abdominal segment 8 which is characteristic of both laterale and davisi. It is evident that there is great varia- tion in the size and shape of the postocular spots, some being almost circular, while others are more nearly cuneiform or el- liptical. In checking the number of postnodal cross-veins in this same series of males, I find that in 12 of 20 hind wings there are 8, while in the other 8 wings there are 9. Of 20 front wings there are 14 with 10 and 6 with 1 1 postnodals. The female of E. laterale is unknown. Several differences have been noted between the allotype of davisi and females of niinusculum. The dorsal pits on the median lobe of the pro- thorax are absent in both species, while the light dorsal spots present on this lobe in davisi are not found in minusculum, al- though one specimen of the latter species seems to show an indication of such marks. The black of the dorsum of ab- dominal segment one extends from the base to the apex in minusculum, while in davisi there is only a basal black spot occupying about one-half of the segment. In minusculum seg- ments 8 to 10 are largely blue or brownish on the sides, the black of the dorsum having a uniform width, while in davisi the black of the dorsum of 8 is reduced on the basal half to a narrow streak. In minusculum there are 9 postnodals in the front wing, 8 in the hind ; in davisi there are 1 1 in the front and 9 in the hind. The female of davisi is also much larger than that of minusculum; the measurements are, davisi, total length 31 mm. and hind wing 18 mm., minusculum, total length 25 mm. and hind wing 15 mm. I wish to express appreciation to Mrs. Howard K. Gloyd, who compared E. davisi with all the species of EnaUagina in the Williamson collection and decided it was new, and most closely related to E. laterale Morse; to Dr. P. P. Calvert. who compared it with type material of E. laterale Morse and E. minusculum at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- phia; and to Dr. D. J. Horror and Mr. E. M. Davis for material in this genus. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 109 The Unusual Capture of a Melanistic Pieris Napi L. (Lepidoptera). By P. SHELDON REMINGTON and CHARLES L. RF.MIXGTON, Elsah, Illinois. The family Pieridae exhibits more melanism and albinism l than any other family of Lepidoptera found in North America. In the genus Colias Fabr. the writers have taken albino females of seven species: meadii Edw., curythcmc Bdv., phllodlcc Godt., interior Scud., alc.randra Edw., scnddcrii Reak., and pdidnc skinncri Barnes. Other collectors have found albinism in sev- eral other species, and names have been given a number of such specimens. Phocbis Hbn., Enrcuia Hbn., and other pierid gen- era also show albinism. On the other hand, melanism is much more rarely seen. It has been found with Colias cnrythcmc and C. philodice, and appears not infrequently as the dimorphic female form of Ascia monustc L., named philcta Fabr. As far as the writers know, no other melanistic Pieridae have been found, and a specimen in their possession seems worthy of recording. First, a statement by Holland relative to albinos and melanis- tics should be quoted: "We do not yet entirely understand what are the causes at work to produce these changes in the color, and all such aberrant specimens have interest for the scientific man. However, to name them and give them standing as sub*- specific forms is more or less objectionable, except in cases where they constantly occur." It is to be added that such worthless naming merely encumbers the nomenclature. Con- sequently, the specimen here described is not given a name, and it is strongly urged that the practice of naming melanics and other freak or aberrant specimens be discontinued. These unique, or nearly so, individuals are better studied by geneticists than named by systematists. 1 Some authors do not consider this to be true melanism and albinism. We take no stand on the question here. -Holland, W. J., The Butterfly Book, revised, p. 17, 1940. [See also articles in earlier issues of this journal; i.e., vol. 41, pp. 29S-302. 324-32S. 1930; vol. 42, pp. 80-82, 213-216, 1931; vol. 44, pp. 239-245, 1933. The Editors.] 110 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 On June 23, 1941, the junior author netted a single perfect male of Pieris naf>i L. which shows marked melanism. The unique specimen was taken in a small swamp at ahout 9,000' alt., one mile east of Eldora, Boulder Co., Colo. The writers were in some confusion as to the identity of the strange speci- men, and sent it to Mr. Cyril F. dos Passos, who kindly identi- fied it as a melanistic Pieris napi pscudonapi B. & McD., the race commonly occurring in Colorado. It is completely and evenly suffused with a smoky gray. It is of a lighter shade and lacks the brownish cast of the "melanic" Colitis philodice Godt. on Plate LXVIII, figure 13, of Holland's previously cited book. This capture is here recorded because of its unusual nature and in the hope that it may be of use to geneticists and other biologists studying melanism. Current Entomological Literature COMPILED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrele- vant to American entomology will not be noted: but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. This list gives references of the current or preceding year unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex- periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of Journals given at the end of the literature. The num- ber of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining exclusively to Neo- tropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL. CHAMPION, H. C. Entomology and nature preservation in post-war reconstruction. [8] 79: 1-4. CLARK, W. A. Dragonfly attacked by wasp. [9] 75 : 263. DARLING- TON, P. J. Carabidae of mountains and islands: Data on the evolution of isolated faunas and on atrophy of wings. [27] 13 (1): 39-61, ill. FARRAH & REED. Insect survival in drying grain. [12] 35: 923-28. HARRIS, K. L. Some applications of insect separation methods to entomology. [10] 45: 19-23. LIEBMANN, E. A method for the study of invertebrate blood Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 111 in vitro. [68] 97: 146. McCLURE, H. E. Aspection in the biotic communities of the Churchill Area, Manitoba. [27] 13 (1): 1-35, ill. MELENEY, H. E. The role of parasitolo- gists in World War II [17] 29: 1-7. PAX, Jos. C Xecro- logia. [104] 11: 382. PODTIAGUIN, B. (See under Hemip- tera.) PUTMAN, W. L. Host plants and parasites of some lepidopterous larvae. [4] 74: 219-24. RILEY, N. D. Meth- ods of study of wild populations. [109] 8: 2. SMITH & DE- BACH. Measurement of the effect of entomophagous insects on population densities of their hosts. [ 12] 35 : 845-49. WHIT- ING, P. W. The parasitic wasp Habrobracon as class material. [118] 16: 51-53, ill. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, ETC. BREHME & DE- MEREC. A survey of malpighian tube color in the eye color mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. [Growth] 6: 351-356. COOK, S. F. Nonsymbiotic* utilization of carbohydrates by the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. [23] 16:123-128. CROM- BIE, A. C. The effect of crowding upon oviposition of grain- infesting insects. [33] 19: 311-340. D'RozARio, A. M. On the development and homologies of the genitalia and their ducts in Hymenoptera. [36] 92: 363-415, ill. FLANDERS, S. E.- Abortive development in parasitic Hymenoptera, induced by the food-plant of insect host. [12] 35: 834-35. GRAYSON & TAUBER. Carotin The principal pigment responsible for var- iation in coloration of the adult grasshopper Melanoplus bivit- tatus. [Iowa Sta. Col. Jour. Sci.] 17: 191-96. HICKIN, N. E. -The food and water requirements of Ptinus tectus (Ptin.). [107] 17: 99-108. HODGE, C. W. The internal anatomy of Leptysma marginicollis (Serv.) and of Opshomala vitreipennis (Maroch) (Acridid). [57] 72: 84-124. HULLS, L. G. En- tomology in ultra-violet light. [9] 75: 250-54. JAHN & WULFF. Electrical aspects of a diurnal rythm in the eye of Dyticus fasciventris. [23] 16: 101-109. KALMUS, H. Nar- cosis and asphyxiation in some species and mutants of Droso- phila. [33] 19: 238-254. KRALL & JONES. Morphology of the digestive tract of Cynaeus angustus, a tenebrionid. | Iowa Sta. Coll. Jour. Sci.l 17: 221-26, ill. TIECS. O. W. The dorsal organ of the embryo of Campodea. [53| 84: 35-4S. 112 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '43 ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA. BRANCH, J. H.- Notes on California spiders. [38] 41 : 138-40, ill. Di STE- PHANO, H. S. Effects of silver nitrate on the pigmentation of Drosophila. [90] 77: 94-96. WHEELER, C. M. A contribu- tion to the biology of Ornithodoros hermsi. [17] 29: 3341. NEUROPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA. JOYCE & EDDY. Host and seasonal notes on the rabbit tick, Haemaphysalis leporis-palustris. [Iowa Sta. Col. Jour. Sci.] 17: 205-12. UVAROV & THOMAS. 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This name was proposed in 1833, in Boisduval and Leconte's "Histoire Generate et Iconographie des Lepidopteres et des Chenilles de I'Amerique Septentrionale." From the beginning it has been rather a mystery, for Boisduval. while publishing Leconte's description, apparently based on two or more speci- mens received from Abbot, and illustrating it by a figure copied from an Abbot plate, evidently had no personal knowledge of the butterfly itself, and suspected it was merely javonins Smith and Abbot ; while the latter name was misapplied by Leconte to inelin-ns. Later references, so far as I know have been based wholly on the original publication, until Scudder in the "Butter- flies of eastern North America" identified it as Thecla strigosa Harris ; and that identification has stood until this year. Just recently Michener and dos Passes l have revived Boisduval's idea that it was probably a bad figure of javonins S. & A. In evaluating Scudder's action we must remember that in that period races of butterflies were not generally considered worthy of a name, and his synonymizing of strigosa to liparops would by no means exclude a racial difference. Workers who have grown up with the recent code which subordinates other varietal to racial names should keep this fact in mind. Let us then consider the differences between javonins and the species of which strigosa is the northeastern race, and com- pare with the differences given between Abbot's figures of 1 Am. Mus. Nov., no. 1210, p. 2, Nov. 1942. (115) 116 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '43 favonius (in S. & A.) and of liparops (in Bdv.-Lec.). The figures show the following differences which should be sig- nificant : The da favonius: 1, upper side with double, sharply defined tawny patch on fore wing and 2, a similar and equally large patch on hind wing, 3, anal lobe tawny (shown on female but not male figure) ; 4, under side with a single even post-medial line, defined with black on each wing, 5, hind wing with tawny area continuous and extending far toward costa. Tliccla liparops: 1, upper side of fore wing with a single, simple oval tawny patch and 2, the tawny on hind wing much less extensive and submarginal only. 3, anal lobe black (men- tioned in description, but incorrectly shown in figure of upper side, which has no anal lobe) ; 4, under side with four, wavy (according to description) white lines, not accompanied by black, and 5, hind wing with separate tawny patches on inner half and small separate spots on costal half. If we examine specimens of favonius and strigosa we find exactly these differences, except that the tawny of favonius may be limited to the hind wing, and on strigosa is absent or repre- sented by a few scattered scales on disc of fore wing and near margin of hind wing. But to confirm the original figure, the only specimen that I know of from lowland Georgia, a female in the Cornell Univ. collection from Honey Island, Okefinoke Swamp, collected by Bradley, has the large tawny patch on the fore wing, just as given in the original description and figure. The tawny on hind wing is reduced to a few scales, but this variation takes it even further from favonius in the proper direction (see figure). It also shows faintly the sub- marginal series of tawny spots on under side of fore wing so conspicuous in the Boisduval-Leconte figure. Favonms also may have tawny at this point, but it takes the form of a fine interrupted line, rather than a series of spots. Our specimen is substantially larger than the original figure, which is, I believe, of a male. While the sex-spot, mentioned in Leconte's description, is not shown clearly in the figure, the latter belongs to the series that were tampered with by Bois- liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 117 duval (see his preface) and the great black sweep in front of the tawny patch (which is foreign to any Thecla pattern) may have covered its traces. The wing form, which I suppose Boisduval would not have dared to alter, also points to a male. I have no notes on other specimens, nor of any other "strigosa" form from the Gulf Strip, but have a dim memory of having seen another specimen or two. My conclusion is that the current listing is correct, as in McDunnough's List under no. 389: liparops liparops from Georgia and /. strigosa from the North. Another lost species in the same work, which has been uni- versally misidentified, is Melitaea ismeria. This name is cur- rently given to the common and wide spread but more western M. carlota Edw., but the original figure shows a quite different butterfly, with a much more normal Melitaea pattern above and no traces of the complex marginal markings so distinctive of carlota. A more important character would appear to be the presence of three separate brown bands on basal half of hind wing below, which separates it from all Melitaeas known to me, though they can be traced, partly fused, in carlota, and also in the exceedingly rare true gorgone. The latter is of course found along the southern Atlantic coast, and was doubtless based also on an Abbot specimen. Carlota may perhaps be a race of it, though it also lacks the distinctive marginal pattern. It exists in the National Museum and perhaps elsewhere, but has not been figured or even recorded as distinct from "ismeria" (i.e. carlota} since the original description. Dr. Joseph L. Williams. Dr. Joseph L. Williams, member of the American Entomo- logical Society and associate professor at Lincoln University, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London Science. 118 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '43 A New Dorilaidae ' (Diptera). WILLIAM F. RAPP, JR., Chatham, New Jersey Dorilas hertzogi 2 n. sp. Differs from Dorilas varius (Cresson) as described by Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., 3 in having the antennae with the third joint black ; and no white spots on the first segment of the abdomen. The halteres are brownish-yellow and the abdomen is a pol- ished, uniformly black, with the exception of the first segment which is silvery. Type. Male; Glassboro, Gloucester County, NEW JERSEY, June 21, 1942 (Collection of W. F. Rapp, Jr.). One male was taken while sweeping around in a small cat-tail (Typha sp.) marsh about a mile east of Glassboro on the Fish Pond Road. In running the specimen over the table prepared by Mr. Cresson in the reference quoted above, it readily traces as far as D. varius. In the description of varius there are many char- acters in common with hertzogi. But the differences pointed out in the comparative description are decidedly too marked to pass under the same species. The following key, based on Mr. Cresson's key to couplet 9, may be used to determine the species : 9. Haltares white or brownish yellow Abdomen shining with bases of segments opaque ; tibiae and tarsi yellow maincnsis Cresson Abdomen polished, with only apex of first segment silvery laterally. Third joint of antennae yellow, 2 white spots on first segment of abdomen varius Cresson Third joint of antennae black, no white spots on first segment of abdomen hertzogi n. sp. 1 Pipunculidae of authors [Ed.]. - It gives me great pleasure to dedicate this species to Mr. P. H. Hertzog of The Peddie School, Hightstown, New Jersey, who has given me much encouragement in the study of entomology. 3 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxxvi, p. 309. Hv, '43 j ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 119 Hyaliodinae, New Subfamily of Miridae (Hemiptera). By HARRY H. KNIGHT, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. The genus Hyaliodes Renter (1876) represents a very dis- tinctive type which has heretofore reposed in the Macrolopharia of Reuter (1910), and Dicyphinae in the Catalogue of Hemip- tera by Van Duzee (1917). When the writer (1918) first published a subfamily key to Miridae it was not found practical to key out Hyaliodes in the same couplet with the Dicyphinae. The same was true as published in the "Hemiptera of Con- necticut" (1923) and again, more recently, in "The Plant Bugs, or Miridae, of Illinois (1941). All along I have felt that Hyaliodes should stand as the type of a new subfamily but have delayed action until more study could be made of related genera of the Neotropical region. Subfamily Hyaliodinae may be keyed out as was done with the type genus, Hyaliodes Reuter, in the keys referred to above. Distinctive characters for the group may be stated as follows : claws sharply bent near base, a prominent tooth on inner angle of base; arolia bristle-like, pseudarolia absent (see fig. 23, Knight, 1941). Hemelytra strongly translucent, embolium ex- panded, usually with thin sharp edge. Head projecting hori- zontally but with anterior portion before eyes sharply vertical in position. Subfamily Hyaliodinae is thus far recognized only from the Neotropical and Nearctic regions and includes the genera here listed. Hyaliodes Reuter (1876) ; five genera de- scribed by Distant (1884), namely Annona. Antias, Neocannis, Paracarnus, and Trygo; also Aitcluts Distant (1893). Among material collected in Ecuador by Dr. S. W. Frost, I find an apparently undescribed genus which is referable to the Hyaliodinae. Hyaliodocoris new genus. Allied to Annona Distant and Hyaliodes Reuter, but distin- guished by the greatly narrowed anterior portion of prothorax. the much narrowed and confluent calli. and by the sharply con- 120 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '43 stricted collum immediately behind the eyes ; basal carina fine yet distinct, collar flat, set off by a sharp, punctate stricture. Eyes large, set close to the base of head, posterior margins nearly transverse and in line with basal carina; vertex sloping forward, the frons sloping abruptly to base of tylus. First antennal segment in length not equal to width of head across eyes, length of segment II more than twice the length of segment I. Scutellum smooth, distinctly convex but not coni- cal. Hemelytra translucent, embolium moderately expanded, reflexed sharply upward at an angle of forty-five degrees, em- bolar margins nearly parallel in position. Arolia bristle-like, pseudarolia absent, claws toothed at base and sharply angled, nearly as in Hyaliodes. Genital segment more like Hyaliodes than Annona, the anal tube projecting well to the rear, not unlike the exhaust pipe of the modern automobile. Genotype: Hyaliodocoris frosti n. sp. - Hyaliodes frosti n. sp. Hemelytra translucent, clavus black but with a clear spot each side by apex of scutellum ; a transverse mark across tip of clavus, one bordering base of cuneus, and cubital vein, black. J 1 . Length 4.7 mm., width 1.6 mm. Head: width, .75 mm., vertex .30 mm. ; basal carina fine yet distinct, eyes prominent, set close to base of head, posterior margins nearly transverse and in line with basal carina, collum moderately exposed ; frons sloping sharply to base of tylus ; dark brown to black, polished. Rostrum, length 1.43 mm., reaching to middle of hind coxae, yellowish. Antennae : segment I, length .60 mm., slender, brownish black; II, 1.47 mm., cylindrical, slightly more slender than I, black, clothed with prominent pale hairs; III, 1.08 mm., slender, black ; IV, .40 mm., slender, black. Pronotum: length .86 mm., width at base 1.21 mm., narrowed apically, anterior angles scarcely distinct ; collar flat, width .43 mm., set off by a distinct punctate stricture. Disk strongly convex, impressed near basal angles, coarsely and rather closely punctate; calli narrowed, transversely confluent, convex, pol- ished, delimited behind by punctures; lateral margins scarcely Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 121 distinct, rounded over to the punctate propleura ; brownish black, collar and median area of disk yellowish, basal margin pallid. Scutellum strongly convex, impunctate, black, shining. Hemelytra translucent, minutely punctate, sparsely clothed with suberect, pallid pubescence, hairs longer on clavus ; clavus black, a clear spot each side by tip of scutellum ; clear trans- lucent, a transverse mark across tip of clavus and extending to middle of corium, anal ridge and basal area of membrane, a mark at tip of corium bordering cuneal fracture, and cubital vein in membrane, dark fuscous to black ; cuneus and membrane clear. Legs pale to yellowish, apical half of femora more dusky brown. Sternum, pleura and venter brownish black, ostiolar peritreme pallid. Holotype: <$ November 20, 1937, Banos, ECUADOR (S. W. Frost) ; author's collection. Paratypes: J 1 Nov. 17, 3 J* Nov. 19, 1937, Banos, Ecuador (S. W. Frost). Named in honor of the collector, Dr. S. W. Frost, who kindly presented the author with this and a few other species of Miridae. LITERATURE CITED. DISTANT, W. L. 1880-1893. Insects. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heterop- tera I. Biologia Centrali-Americana. London, xx + 462 pp., 39 pis. KNIGHT, HARRY H. 1918. Synoptic key to the subfamilies of Miridae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 26 (1) : 40- 44, 1 pi. 1923. The Miridae (or Capsidae) of Connecticut. In Bui. 34 : Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv., pp. 422-658, figs. 47-149. 1941. The Plant Bugs, or Miridae, of Illinois. Bui. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv., 22 (1) : pp. 1-234, 181 figs. REUTER, O. M. 1876. Capsinae ex America boreali in Museo Hol- miensi asservatae, descriptae. Ojversigt af Kongliga Svenska I'clenskaps-Akadctmcns I : orhandlinyar, 32 (9): 59-92. (1875). 1910. Neue Beitrage zur Phylogenie und Systematik der Miriclen nebst einleitenden Bemerkungen iiber die Phylogenie der Heterop- teren-Familien. Acta Soc. Sci. Fcnnicae, 37: (3), pp. 1-169. VAN DUZEE, E. P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico, etc. Calif. I'nir. Piths, l-'nt.. 2: 902 pp. 122 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '43 Three New Western Aphids ' By GEORGE F. KNOWLTON. Utah State College, Logan, Utah. The following report includes descriptions of three apparently undescribed aphids, collected in Utah and Washington, with notes on a few additional species. Kakimia utahensis n. sp. Alate vivipara: Body 1.44 mm. long and .68 wide across the abdomen; antennae dusky beyond base of III; antennal III. .43 to .44 mm. long with 32 tuberculate sensoria ; IV, .32 to .33 mm. with 10 to 12 sensoria ; V, .3 mm. with 4 secondary sen- soria ; base of VI .114, unguis (?) broken; rostral IV -|- V dusky, .13 mm. long; legs pale to dusky, distal ends of tibiae and all of tarsi darker; hind tibiae 1.12 to 1.2; hind tarsi .085 ; cornicles pale to dusky, lightly imbricated to wrinkled. .35 mm. ; cauda pale to dusky with 2 to 3 pairs of lateral hairs ; abdomen w r ith darker areas on sides, these being most conspicuous on segments I, II and III. Apterous vivipara: Size 1.34 to 1.36 mm. long and .64 to .72 wide across abdomen ; body generally pale ; width through eyes .35 ; antennae pale to dusky, darker on distal ends of IV, V and all of VI; antennal III, .41 to .46 mm. long with 7 to 11 sensoria; IV. .27 to .3; V, .25 to .27: VI, .09 to .112 plus .35 to .37 mm.; rostral IV -f- V dusky, slenderly obtuse at tip. .13 to .16 mm. ; legs pale, distal ends of tibiae dusky but paler than in alates; hind tibiae 1.2 to 1.29; hind tarsi dusky, .09 to .1; cornicles pale to slightly dusky, .25 to .33 mm. ; cauda pale to dusky, .2 to .21 mm. with 3 to 2 pairs of lateral hairs; ab- dominal sclerites of cleared specimens without deeply pigmented large dorsal areas. Collected on columbine, Aqitilcgia rnbicniida, Vernon Canyon, UTAH, June 19, 1940 (G. F. Knowlton). Type in the collec- tion of the writer. Taxonomy: Kakimia utahensis n. sp. keys to K. houghtoncn- sis (Troop) in Gillette and Palmer's key - from which it differs 1 Contribution from the Department of Entomology, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan. 2 Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 27: 160, 1934. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 123 in having longer cornicles and hind tibiae, more sensoria on antennae of alate and fewer on aptera. It resembles K. cssigi (G.-P.) from which it differs in having paler antennae, legs and cornicles, shorter antennals III and unguis. K. utaliensis differs from K. castcllciae Sampson in having dark lateral spots on sides of abdomen of alate, shorter antennal III and longer cornicles. Myzus harmstoni n. sp. Alate vivipara: Body and appendages of cleared specimens largely brownish to dnsky, with a large dorsal pigmented area on abdomen, caudad to the dusky bands which cross segments I and II ; abdomen also possesses dusky lateral areas; body 2.34 to 2.45 mm. long ; width through eyes .49 ; antennae blackish except paler base of III; antennal III, .6 to .63 mm. long, with 8 to 11 rounded sensoria in a row over most of the length of this segment ; IV, .48 to .52, without sensoria ; V, .4 to .43 ; VI, .145 to .16 plus .73 to .75 mm.; rostral IV plus V dusky, .12 mm. Hind femora dusky, paler at base; hind tibiae dusky, 1.52; hind tarsi .11. Cornicles dark, .56 to .6 mm. long, distal .13 mm. reticulated; cauda dusky, .26 mm. long, with two pairs of lateral hairs ; anal plate broad, blackish, slightly pointed. Collection: Specimens were collected on snowberry, Syinplw- ricarpos, Naches Pass, WASHINGTON, June 18, 1939 (G. F. Knowlton). Type in the collection of the writer. Taxonomy: The M. harmstoni n. sp. specimens key to My sits ccrasi (Fab.) in Mason's 3 key, from which it differs in having: Fewer sensoria on antennals III and these confined to a row, distinctly longer antennal segments, greater width across the head, longer cornicles having distinct reticulations. It resem- bles M . lythri (Schr.) in having the pigmented dorsal abdominal patch, but hanustoni differs in possessing longer antennal seg- ments, cornicles and fewer antennal sensoria on III. Mysns lythri (Schr.). On Pntnus mahalcb at Springville, Utah, June 1942 (Knowlton) ; Declo, Idaho (D. E. Fox). M. monardac (Davis). Murtaugh, Idaho, October 1930 (Fox). 3 U.S.D.A. Misc. Pub. 371, p. 4. 1940. 124 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '43 M. porosus Sand. (= Macrosiphum zoorosarum K.-S.). On rose at N aches Pass, Washington, July 18, 1939; Santaquin, Utah, June 1941 (Knowlton). Phorodon menthae (Buckton). In Utah on Mentha spicata at Hooper, July 24, 1942, with Orus tristicolor Wh. feeding on one of the specimens ; Hurricane, Logan, Ogden, Providence, St. George and Santa Clara; on Mentha penardi at Mt. Tim- panogos, July 26, 1942; also Logandale, Nevada, May 13, 1935 (Knowlton). Macrosiphum puyallupsi n. sp. Alatc vivipara: Body 3.12 mm. long and 1.32 wide across the abdomen; antennae 4.7 (-)-) mm. long, dusky; antennal III, 1.12 to 1.14 mm. long, with 82 to 88 scattered sensoria; IV, .93, without sensoria; V, .74 to .76 with 21 to 23 sensoria in a row on distal three-fourths of segment; VI, .19 plus unguis 1.43 -)- (tip broken off) ; rostrum reaching second coxae; rostral IV -f- V slenderly obtuse, .16 long: wing veins dusky; hind tibiae 2.7 ; hind tarsi .205 ; cornicles dusky, .6 to .64 mm. long with 6 to 8 rows of reticulations on distal .08; cauda dusky, .31 mm. long with 7 to 9 lateral and dorso-lateral hairs on each side ; abdomen with dusky blotches forming broken patterns across the abdominal segments. Taxonomy: Macrosiphum puyallupsi n. sp. runs to Macro- siphum tenuitarsis G.-P., in the Gillette and Palmer key, 4 from which it differs in having more sensoria on antennals III, numerous sensoria on antennal V, larger size with longer antennal segments, shorter cornicles and less pointed and shorter cauda. From M. albijrons Essig it differs in possessing sen- soria on antennal V and shorter cornicles. Collections: Taken upon bush lupine at Puyallup, WASH- INGTON, June 24, 1939, by Herald C. Bennion. Type in the collection of the writer. 4 Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 27: 170, 1934. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 125 Current Entomological Literature COMPILED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrele- vant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. This list gives references of the current or preceding year unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex- periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series C. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of Journals given at the end of the literature. The num- ber of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keyt are followed by (k); papers pertaining exclusively to Neo- tropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL ALLAN, P. B. M Substitute foodplants. [21] 55 : 1-3. BRAGDON, K. E. Lets get closer to the farmer. [39] 25 : 49-52. CABLE, R. M. A handy enclosed mount for pinned insects. [Turtox News] 21 : 49-50, ill. CURRAN & LUTZ. Insects, ticks and human disease. [Amer. Mus. N. H., Guide leaf.] 113: 38 pp., ill. DAVIDSON & WILDING. A quantita- tive faunal investigation of a cold spring community. [119] 29: 200-9, ill. EATON, T. H. Six-legged army. [Fauna, Phila.] 5: 22-25, ill. FLETCHER, T. B. Osmaterium or Os- meterium. [9] 75 : 19. FORD, H. D. Lepidoptera and human perspiration. [9] 75 : 260. MOFFETT, J. W. A limnological investigation of the dynamics of a sandy, wave-swept shoal in Douglas Lake, Mich. [Trans. Amer. Microscop. Soc.] 62: 1- 23. MUNRO, J. W. Place of research in the control of in- jurious insects. [31] 151: 157-60. AN OLD BOOKMAKER. "An artist's note." [Note on color printing processes]. [21] 55 : 3-4. PARKER, G. H. Coloration of animals and their abil- ity to change their tints. [54] 1943: 197-210, ill. PENNAK, R. W. Limnological variables in a Colorado mountain stream. [119] 186-99, ill. RAMALHO, G. R. Sobre um novo captura- dor para a coleta de pequenos insectos. [126] 7: 109-111. ill. ROUDABUSH, R. L. How to make whole mounts of small in- sects. [118] 16: 73. TEALE, E. W. Pinhead portraits [of insects]. [Frontiers, Phila.] 7: 98-99, ill. 126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '43 ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, ETC. ANDERSON & RICH- ARDS. An electron microscope study of some structural colors of insects. [Jour. Applied Physics] 13 : 748-58, ill. BODEN- STEIN, D. Factors influencing growth and metamorphosis of the salivary gland of Drosophila. [92] 84: 13-33. Hormones and tissue competence in the development of Drosophila. [92] 84: 34-58. THOMPSON, D'A. W. On growth and form. [Cambridge Univ. Press] 1116 pp., ill. (pp. 525-44, "of the bee's cell"). ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA BOSHELL & KERR.- Veinticinco esp. n. de Trombidiideos de Colombia. [58] 5 : 110-27. ill. CHAMBERLIN, R. V. On Mexican centipeds. [Bull. Univ. Utah] 33 (6) : 55 pp. (*k). TEMBE & AWATI.- External morphology and anatomy of scorpion (Buttus tamu- lus). [Jour. Univ. Bombay] XI, B: 54-76, ill. THE SMALLER ORDERS EDDY, G. W. Some fleas col- lected from the Oklahoma cottontail rabbit. [103] 16: 1-3. EWING, H. E. The fleas of No. Amer. [3] Misc. Pub., 500: 142 pp. ORTHOPTERA CANTRALL, I. J. The ecology of the Orthoptera and Dermaptera of the George Reserve, Michigan. [Misc. Pub., Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich.] 54: 182 pp., ill. HAWKER-SMITH, W. The food of the earwig. [9] 76: 63-64. KARANDIKAR, K. R. External structure of the desert locust (cont.)- [Jour. Univ. Bombay] XI, B : 1-29, ill. O'MAHONY, E. Vitality of an earwig. [8] 79: 60-61. LEPIDOPTERA CAPPS, H. W. Some American geo- metrid moths of the subfam. Ennominae, heretofore associated with or closely related to Ellopia. [50] 93: 115-51. ill. (*). CORBET, & TAMS. Notes on the nomenclature of the moths hitherto known as Ephestia kuhneilla and Endrosis lactella (Pyral. & Oecophor.). [9] 75: 15. Fox, R. M. New and rare Ithomiinae in the Carnegie Museum. [Ann. Carnegie Mus.] 29: 397-406 (S). HEMMING, F. Notes on the gen- eric nomenclature of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, II. [108] 12, B: 23-30. MARIA, H. A. Algo sobre Pieridos Colom- banos. [58] 5 : 102-9, col. pi. WILLIAMS, C. B. The migra- liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 127 tion of butterflies. [Proc. Linn. Soc. London] 154 (2) : 86. Notes on some monarch butterflies captured in Great Britain. [9] 75: 1-3. URQUHART, F. A. Fritillary butterflies. [Can. Nature] 5 : 78-79, ill. DIPTERA ALEXANDER, C. P. Records and descr. of N. Am. crane-flies. III. Tipuloidea of the Upper Gunnison Val- ley, Colorado. [119] 29: 147-179, ill. (*). CORREA, R. R.- Das formas evolutivas aquaticas do Anopheles eiseni. [126| 7 : 25-36, ill. CORREA & RAMOS. Os anofelinos da regiao meridional do Estado de S. Paulo. [126] 7: 37-60, ill. Rela- torio das investigacoes entomologicas relizados na represa da light e ao longo da E. F. Sorocabana, Ramal Mayrink-Santos. [126] 7: 313-25, ill. Do encontro do A. darlingi E do A. oswaldoi var. metcalfi, naturalmente infetados com os parasitis malaricos, na regiao sul do Estado de S. Paulo (Culicidae). [126] 7: 379-87. FONSECA, J. A. B. Consideracoes sobre o Anopheles eiseni como transmissors da malaria humana. [ 126] 7: 75-90, ill. HARDY, D. E. New Thrervidae and Asilidae in the Snow Entomological Collection. [103] 16: 24-36, cont. HULL, F. M. Some undescribed species of flies of the gen. Baccha (Syrph.). [91] 33: 72-74 (S). New sps. of syrphid flies in the National Mus. [91] 33: 39-43 (S). RAMOS, A. S. Sobre uma variedade nova de Anopheles oswaldoi. [126] 7: 61-74, ill. (S). REES, D. M. The mosquitoes of Utah. [Bull. Univ. Utah] 33: (7): 99 pp., ill. REINHARD, H. J.- New N. Amer. Muscoidea (Tachini.) [103] 16: 14-23. SCHWITZGEBEL & WILBUR. Diptera associated with ironweed, in Kansas. [103] 16: 4-13, ill. SELLERS, W. F. The Nearc- tic sps. of parasitic flies belonging to Zenillia and allied gen. [50] 93: 1-108 (*). UNTI, O. Notas ecologicas sobre ano- felinos do Vale do Paraiba. [126] 7: 13-21, 355-375. ill. (*). O pH dos colos e dos focos de Anopheles E A epidemiologia da malaria no Brasil. [126] 7: 123-158. UNTI & RAMOS. Anofelismo das alturas no Brasil Medidional. [126] 7: 91-106. WOODHILL, A. R. The oviposition responses of three sps. nf mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti, Culex fatigans and Aedes concolor. in relation to the salinity of the water. The development ot 128 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '43 A. concolor in relation to small quantities of salts in solution and to the temperature of the water. [Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales] 66 : 287-92 ; 396-400. COLEOPTERA BLACKMAN, M. W. Revision of the gen. Phloeosinus in N. Am. (Scolyt.). [50] 92: 397-474, ill. (*). BLACKWELDER, R. E. Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the fam. Staphylinidae. [Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.] 182: 658 pp., ill. (*). BLAISDELL, F. E. Contributions towards a knowledge of the insect fauna of Lower California. No. 7. Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae. [61] 24: 171-288, ill. (*). DARLINGTON, P. J. Carabidae of mountains and islands : Data on the evolution of isolated faunas and on atrophy of wings. [27] 13 (1) : 39-61, ill. KING, E. W. A taxonomic distinc- tion between Cyllene robiniae and C. caryae. [119] 29: 180- 82, ill. MUESEBECK, C. F. W. New gen. and sps. of Neo- tropical bark beetles (Scolyt.). [91] 33: 34-38. HYMENOPTERA COLE, A. C., JR. A new subsp. of Formica mold (Formic.). [119] 29: 183-84. GROSKIN, H. Scarlet tanagers 'anting'. [The Auk] 60: 55-58. JONES, J. W. Known distribution of the shining slave maker ant, Poly- ergus lucidus (Formic.). [119] 29: 185. MORLEY, B. D. W.- Observations on the nest odors of ants. [Proc. Linn. Soc. London] 154 (2) : 109-14. PICKLES, W. Further observa- tions on the mound building of ants. [8] 79: 53-55. STRET- TON, G. B. Strange behaviour of a wasp. [8] 79: 49-52. LIST OF JOURNALS CITED. 3. United States Dept. Agriculture. 8. Entom. Monthly Magazine. 9. The Entomologist. 21. Entom. Record & Jour, of Variation. 31. Nature, London. 39. Florida En- tomologist. 50. Proc. U. S. National Museum. 54. Scien- tific Monthly. 58. Revista, Acad. Colombia, Bogota. 61. Proc., Calif. Acad. Sciences. 91. Jour., Washington Acad. Sciences. 92. Biological Bulletin. 103. Jour., Kansas Ent. Society. 108. Proc., R. Entom. Soc., London, (B). 118. Ward's Nat. Sci. Bulletin. 119. 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On the locust gen. Psoloessa (Acri- didae). (68: 167-237, figs., 1942) 1.75 1102. Hebard (M.) The Dermaptera and Orthopterous fani. Blattidae, Mantidae and Phasmidae of Texas. (68: 239- 331, 2 pis., 1942) 1.55 1105. Rehn & Rehn The N. Am. locust genus Paratylotropidia (Acrididae). (68: 33-60, 2 pis., 1943) 65 Let that last year's collecting outfit serve for the present BUY AND CONTINUE BUYING UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS '43 Mycomya flavohirta Johannsen, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 93, p. 47, 1909. Johannsen, Maine Agr. Exp. Sta., Bull. no. 180, p. 182, 1910. Johnson, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, p. 81, 1925. Male: Total length 6 mm. Head black above; face and palpi yellow. Scape yellow, the distal edge of its basal segment with a ventral black streak. Flagellum yellow basally, black distally. Ocelli two. Thorax entirely yellow with no indications of mesonotal stripes. Scutellum with four marginal setae. Legs yellow. Fore basitarsus shorter than its tibia ; micro- trichia regularly arranged. No mesocoxal spurs. Wings hyaline. C ends at R s but before the wing tip ; Scj ends in C ; Sc 2 ends over the middle of small cell Rj ; cell R t about three times as long as wide ; a faint spurious vein in cell R 4 ; petiole of M shorter than M 3 ; Cu forks proximad of the base of R 5 . Microtrichia of the wing membrane irregularly arranged. Halteres yellow. Abdomen yellow ; the sixth tergite black. Terminalium yel- low ; unusually large ; tip of ninth tergite black with strong black setae. New Hampshire: Franconia, Graf ton Co., (Mrs. A. T. Slos- son), [lc? type, U.S.N.M.]. Same data, [2$, U.S.N.M.]. (Slosson, 1898; Coquillett, 1901; Johannsen, 1910; Johnson, 1925.) British Columbia: Kaslo, (H. G. Dyar), [2$, U.S.N.M.]. Washington: Swauk Creek, Kittias Co., June 28, (A. L. Melander), [1 J 1 , A.L.M.]. Neoempheria digitalis Fisher is the male of Neoempheria didyma (Loew). The synonomy and known distribution are given below. Neoempheria didyma (Loew) Sciophila bhnaculata Loew (nee von Roser), Berl. Ent. Zeit., x, p. 6, 1866. Emphcria didyma Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeit., xin, p. 136, 1869. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 151 Neoempheria didyma Johannsen, Maine Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. no. 180, p. 160. Smith, Ann. Rep. N. J. State Mus., 1909, p. 723, 1910. Neoempheria digitalis Fisher, Jour. New York Ent. Soc., XLV, p. 390, 391, 1937. I have examined specimens from: Ontario (English River, type locality); Maine; New Hampshire; Massachusetts; New York ; Pennsylvania ; Virginia ; Michigan and Wisconsin. The species has also been recorded from Vermont and New Jersey. Fig. 1. Neoempheria flavohirta (Coq.). Mesal aspect of 9th tergum half, caustic potash preparation of male terminal ium. Fig. 2. Neo- cmphcria flavohirta (Coq.). Lateral aspect of entire male terminalium, morphological dorsum on left. 152 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 The Group Behavior of 14,000 Insects to Colors By HARRY B. WEISS, Highland Park, New Jersey. During the course of experimental work, over a period of three years, involving the behavior of certain insects to light of various wave-lengths, the group behavior patterns of various species were observed and reported upon in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society.* The present paper is a report on the combined behavior of 23 species. The results of the tests made with each individual species were added together and utilized as if one large test had been made. As a matter of fact, 88 tests were actually made, using 23 different species. By combining the results of these we get a composite type of be- havior, not for all insects, but for the 23 species that were actually tested. Such a composite picture is useful in that it furnishes one with a general idea of the group behavior of a large number of insects of various species. It should be kept in mind, however, that the group behavior of individual species, although following the trend of the composite picture, frequently deviates from it. Briefly, the insects were exposed for from 15 to 30 minutes to 10 wave-length bands of light of equal physical intensities, from 3650 A to 7400 A, or from ultraviolet to infrared. The insects were placed in an introduction chamber six feet away from the color chambers. Upon leaving this chamber they- were under the influence of 10 different wave-length bands or colors emanat- ing from as many different chambers separated by as many black chambers. At the end of the exposure period all chambers were closed and counts were made. A full explanation of the design of the equipment and of the method for equalizing the physical intensities of the wave-lengths is given in the papers referred to in the footnote. A total of 14,840 insects was used in the 88 tests. These consisted of 19 species of Coleoptera, 1 species of Diptera, 2 of Hymenoptera and 1 of Hemiptera. The species involved and the numbers of each that reacted positively to the various wave- lengths or colors are shown as follows : * Weiss, Harry B., Frank A. Soraci and E. E. McCoy, Jr., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vol. XLIX, p. 1-20; p. 149-159, 1941. Vol. L., p. 1-35, 1942. Vol. LI, in press, 1943. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 153 Numbers Reacting Posi- Species Involved tively Coleoptera Macrobasis unicolor Kby 90 Celetes basalis Lee 72 Coccinella 9-notata Hbst . . 68 Disonycha quinquevittata Say 62 Blepharida rhois Forst 275 Chrysochus auratus (Fab.) 245 Lina lapponica Linn 53 Galerucella xanthomelaena Schr 74 Plagiodera vcrsicolora Laich 49 Crioceris asparagi L 56 Tetraopcs tetraophthalrnus Foer 84 Hylurgopinus rufipes (Eich.) 67 Scolytus multistriatus Marsh 300 Serica iricolor Say 146 Macrodactylus siibspinosus Fab 174 Autoscrica castanea Arrow 66 Galerucella notata (Fab.) 303 Lcptinotarsa decenilincata Say. . ... 1,178 Popillia japonica Newm 1,034 4,397 Diptera Drosophila tnclanog aster Meigen 730 Hymenoptera Macrocentrus ancylivorus Roh 32 Apis mellifica L 181 Hemiptera Leptocoris trivittatus Say 114 5,454 Of the total 14,840 insects, 10,150 belonged to the Coleoptera and the remainder, 4,690, to the Diptera, Hymenoptera and Hemiptera. In view of the fact that most of the insects were coleopterous ones, two sets of behavior figures and two be- havior curves, based on the percentages of the total number reacting positively to the various wave-length bands, are pre- sented. One set deals exclusively with 10,150 coleopterous insects and the other with the 14,840 insects of the four Orders mentioned. The following table, shows the distribution of the coleopterous insects by themselves and of the coleopterous ones plus those of the other three Orders. 154 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS u* '43 Numbers and Percentages of Insects Reacting and Not Reacting Total No. Insects 10,150 14,840 Utilized (Coleopterous) (Several Orders) Percent remaining in introduction chamber ................... 17 23 Percent in black chamber ....... 7 9 Percent in center ............. 33 31 Percent reacting positively to 10 wave-length bands .......... 43 37 Number reacting positively to 10 wave-length bands .......... 4,397 5,454 Number remaining in introduction chamber .................... 1,719 3,351 Number in black chambers ...... 651 1,445 Number remaining in centre .... 3,383 4,590 Total 10,150 14,840 Of the 10,150 coleopterous insects, 17 percent remained in the introduction chamber and exhibited no interest, either in colors or darkness. Seven percent went definitely to the black chambers. Forty-three percent reacted positively to the 10 wave-length bands or colors. Thirty-three percent were in the center of the testing equipment at the end of the tests and pre- sumably were on their way to the ten wave-length chambers. However, because they did not reach these chambers they are excluded from further consideration. It is with the 43 percent or 4,397 coleopterous insects and the 37 percent or 5,454 insects, that selected the various colors, or wave-lengths that we are particularly concerned, and the fol- lowing table shows the distribution of these insects and the particular color chambers to which they were attracted. For example, 30 percent of the coleopterous insects and 36 percent of all the insects tested went to the ultraviolet band of 3460-3900 Angstrom units, the maximum transmission of the filters taking place at a wave-length of 3650 Angstrom units. Twenty per- cent of the coleopterous insects and 18 percent of all the insects tested went to the blue-blue-green band which had a maximum transmission at 4920 Angstrom units. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 155 Distribution of Insects Reacting Positively to 10 Wave-Length Bands of Light Wave-length of maxi- mum trans- Wave-lengths and colors mission in A Percent of 4397 coleop- terous in- sects reacting positively to wave-lengths Percent of 5454 insects (several or- ders) reacting positively to wave-lengths 3460-3900 A, ultraviolet . . 3650 4120-4760 A, violet-blue . . 4360 4420-5000 A, blue 4640 30 12 7 36 11 6 4700-5280 A, blue-blue- green 4920 20 18 4940-5660 A, blue-green . . 5150 5300-5760 A, vellow-green . 5460 5550-6070 A, yellow-yel- low-green 5750 14 7 3 13 6 3 5900-6420 A, yellow-orange 6060 6120-6860 A, orange-red . . 6420 6620-7400 A, infrared . . . 7200 3 3 1 3 3 1 100 100 By plotting the percentages of response as shown on Figure 1, we get two curves, which are more or less identical and which show the composite qualitative group behavior pattern for the species under consideration. In both cases the peak re- sponse occurred at 3650 A, with a secondary peak at 4920 A. The color sensations which the particular wave-length bands give rise to in man are shown at the top of Figure 1, the ultra- violet, of course, being invisible to us. It is not implied that these curves do anything more than suggest the type of group behavior pattern that exists for the species under consideration, when they are exposed to different wave-lengths of light of equal physical intensities. Within certain limits variations in group behavior are to be expected, especially when one considers the various factors that influence group behavior to light. 156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 BLUE- YE.LLOW- BLU ULTRA- ViQLET 30 20 10 40 30 20 10 i-GRLLN YELLOW- GREEN BLUE- GREEN ORAN&L- RLD YELLOW- YELLOW- ORANGE GREEN INFRA- RED COLEOPTEROUS 5PEGES ,4397 INSECTS '. ALL S PLC V .. E.S 454 IN5LCT5 i \ "\. / r ^-.. 3G50 43G046W WO 9150 5460^750 6060 G420 7200 A Fig. 1. Group behavior curves of insects to colors. Ecologically Interrelated Insects on a Sunflower (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea, Ichneumonoidea and Chalci- doidea; Hemiptera, Membracidae and Aphididae; Diptera, Syrphidae.) By C. BROOKE WORTH, Edward Martin Biological Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. During the late Summer and early Autumn of 1941 I found occasion to study a varied population of insects that had its basis in the presence of a large sunflower plant in a backyard of West Philadelphia. My observations extended from September 13 to November 16, during which time the levels of abundance of various ecologically interrelated insect-inhabitants of the plant underwent a series of interesting fluctuations. No attempt will be made here to contribute to the life history of any of the insect-species mentioned. This is, rather, a story of the struggle for survival waged by each species against- or in cooperation liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 157 with- each of the other species. So far as that struggle may be defined in terms of the numbers of each species present at any given time, this narrative will disclose the degrees of success or failure experienced by members of the insect-community during its last-minute stand against impending conditions of Winter. A graph, showing how numbers of ants, membracids, aphids and syrphid maggots fluctuated in abundance during the two- month period of these observations, is presented for reference during perusal of the following text. It was not found ex- pedient to include various species of hymenopterous parasites of the apids and syrphids in this text-figure. On September 13 the sunflower plant bore about one hundred membracids, Entylia carinata, on its lower leaves. These were attended rather carelessly by a smaller number of ants. Sub- sequent observation showed that at this time the population of membracids was declining: the ants' desultory care may there- fore have been occasioned by the membracids' senescence. No evidence of insect-parasitization upon the membracids was observed. During the last week of September, when aphids first appeared on the plant, the remaining membracids were all but abandoned by their ant-hosts, with the result that the rapidly disappearing hoppers spent their last few days in ecologic isola- tion from other insects, both friendly and hostile. Aphids were first noted on the sunflower plant on September 23. These were small wingless light-green forms, and in the beginning they were attended with great solicitude by the ants. Between September 23 and October 4 the ants were extremely busy setting out colonies of these tiny insects. During that period the ants reached the climax of their own abundance on the plant. The sunflower's condition at this time seemed ideal for the culture of aphids, its leaves and sepals exuding a syrupy secretion in great bounty. No sooner had the apid colonies been established than hover- flies arrived to deposit eggs on the sunflower's leaves and stem. The resulting maggots did not fare well at first, possibly be- cause the aphids were too small and too widely scattered on the plant. But during mid-October the aphids reproduced partheno- genetically until at least a thousand were present. Each leaf 158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 was now heavily populated on its lower surface, and syrphid maggots could find prey that was universally distributed. The population of maggots rose abruptly. A concomitant decline in the numbers of aphids must have been due chiefly to their mechanical reduction by the voracious syrphids. The ants in the meantime were steadily becoming less com- mon on the plant. Some still visited the aphids, a few of the later being actually carried alive down the plant's stem to the ants' burrow. But in general the ants seemed to occupy them- selves elsewhere, as if the aphid population had gotten so far out of hand that they eventually abandoned it. In reality, how- ever, this late stock-project on the part of ants afforded pro- vision for the natural feral perpetuation of aphids. Many late October ant-cows acquired wings, copulated and flew away. Thus a generation of wild aphids was assured for the following year, whether or not the ants succeeded in nurturing domestic aphids underground during the winter. The beginning of November marked 1941 's first severe frost in West Philadelphia. Ants had disappeared entirely a few days previous to this event. The few remaining aphids were killed by freezing, while the apparently hardy syrphid maggots starved to death shortly following the last aphid's demise. The above populational changes are shown graphically in the text-figure that accompanies this report. Numerical abundance is shown in terms of the percent of maximum abundance of each of the four species mentioned on various dates. It is now of interest to see how these natural and interrelated events were modified through the agency of hymenopterous parasites that harried both the aphids and their syrphid enemies. No attempt to parasitize ants was seen. The first evidence of aphid-parasitization appeared on Sep- tember 28 in the form of a small and slender species of Ichneu- mon wasp. This was a nervous insect that darted frequently into the aphid colonies, "stinging" numerous victims by thrust- ing its abdomen forward between widely-spread legs and pierc- ing the aphids with an ovipositer that was brought, through this antic, practically under the wasp's own nose ! At times the ichneumon fled upon the approach of ants. But if the ants Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 159 surprised it in the act of oviposition, the wasp became immobile and suffered itself to be "nibbled" as if it were an aphis. The ants seemed to be deceived, for they never became hostile toward the wasps. Had the former possessed human intelligence, they would have recognized the deleterious import of ichneumons among aphids. The "freezing" behavior of the wasps, how- ever, indicates that some intimation of wasp-undesirability has sometime impressed itself on the ant tribe ; otherwise there would be no resultant advantage today in ichneumon's mimicry of aphids. The extent to which such conduct has advanced among parasites will be even more strikingly detailed below in the case of a chalcid hyperparasite. An aphis' response to the onslaught of a slender ichneumon wasp was not highly specialized. It would "rear up" in reverse, waving the tip of its swollen abdomen as if in invitation to an ant's milking. Not attended in this way, it would quickly be- come passive, whereupon the wasp promptly accomplished its egg-laying purpose. On October 6 I detected the presence of a stocky chalcid wasp in the aphis colony. This species was of the same size and color as its ichneumon cousin, but its visit was of deeply different sig- nificance. The creature exhibited remarkable behavior. Not only did it "freeze" when accosted by an ant, allowing itself to be nibbled and "milked" just as if it were an aphis itself, but upon the ant's departure it assumed that guardian's peculiar demeanor by nibbling and milking aphids in its own turn. The wasp's entire behavior signified confidence in the righteousness of its mission among the aphids and ants, for it was a super- parasite, bent on destroying ichneumons ; it was therefore of benefit not only to the formicine herdmaidens but also to their flocks. Deliberation was the keynote of its antics. I have indicated already the assurance with which it patrolled the aphis colonies. Its oviposition was likewise calmly accomplished. Approaching aphis after aphis, it stroked the proposed victims gently with its fore-legs. If an aphis reared up in defense, the wasp passed on in apparent dissatisfaction. But once in a while the wasp encountered an unresponsive aphis. This may have indicated 160 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS u, '43 that the aphis was already suffering the effects of parasitization by an ichneumon larva. At any rate the chalcid now turned slowly until the tip of its abdomen touched the aphis and then "stung" it from the rear, quite opposite from the ichneumon's technique. Chalcids "stung" aphids much less frequently than did ichneumons. This seems reasonable when it is remembered that chalcids must be much more selective in their choice of prey than ichneumons. It is more difficult to find parasitized aphids than healthy ones, when the aphis colony is made up largely of normal individuals. The chalcid's deliberation probably stems from the care it must use in selecting its prey. This tactic has led it to mimic aphids in the ants' presence, just as is the custom of ichneumons. But in addition chalcids have learned to mimic ants in the ants' absence. Thus they are enabled to make detailed examinations of the aphids in order to discriminate between healthy ant-cows and ichneumon-infested ones. The ants and aphids alike seem finally to have given up most attempts to distinguish among the supernumerary creatures that attend their society. As we have seen there is still some rudi- mentary hostility toward wasps, regardless of the latter's species. Toward syrphid maggots, however, there seems to be no reac- tion whatsoever. These should be the most deadly and terrify- ing enemies of all, yet they are permitted to occupy central positions in the aphis colonies and to share the ants' protection along with the mysteriously disappearing aphids. The ants "nibble" syrphid maggots frequently, being sometimes rudely lashed by the untamed carnivores. Many an aphis may also be disturbed by a maggot's lumbering changes of position, but on the whole there is no visible attempt by ants or aphids to escape from- or to eliminate- the ravenous nuisances in their midst. Not that syrphids lead lives entirely free from trouble. On the contrary the maggots on this sunflower plant were harassed by three additional species of proportionately larger ichneumon wasps, a short account of which will now be given. I do not know if any of these wasps was hyperparasitic on either of the others : suffice it to say that all three were seen to "sting" syrphid maggots at every stage of the latter's existence. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 161 The first two species were detected on October 16. One was an iridescent creature, brilliant green except for a golden-copper dorsal abdominal surface. The second was nondescript, more slender and nervous, possessing mottlings of black, white and brown on its body, legs and wings. Both these species "stung" many young maggots. These two wasps were seen on several other occasions, the slender species being sometimes present in some number. On October 22 a third species was observed. This one was also slender, but it had a humped thorax, shining black abdomen and wholly unmarked transparent wings. It first bit a syrphid mag- got, then turned and "stung" it. During the era of the three syrphid-wasps' activities, hover- flies were abundantly present, laying their eggs promiscuously on all parts of the sunflower plant. The adult syrphids were tame, allowing me to watch them through a magnifying glass while they selected sites for their ova. The tips of their ovi- positors pulsated rapidly before each egg appeared, delicately testing each locus as if by some refined tactile or gustatory sense. A few additional insects occupied stations on the sunflower plant throughout this history, the only other species directly related to the ecologic complex being represented by a number of lady-bugs which systematically devoured a daily quota of aphids. The lady-bugs, however, came into contact with no other mem- bers of the insect-association. It may now be profitable to inquire how these several or- ganisms were economically related to one another and to their vegetable host, the sunflower plant. This may be done most readily be grouping the insects in a series whose classes pro- gressively depend less and less upon the sunflower for direct nutrition and protection. The sunflower plant itself suffered no apparent harm from the feasting of almost 1500 insects on its nutritive exudates. Whether it secreted these substances naturally or in response to repeated insect-bites I cannot say. The plant blossomed normally, however, and produced a large crop of seed which \v.i> subsequently proven to possess an average percentage of fertility. 162 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS u* '43 Insects observed to derive direct benefit from the sunflower plant included randomly-appearing leaf-hoppers, spotted beetles, hunting spiders, house and green-bottle flies, as well as the constantly attending ants. Insects of the second order were membracids, mentioned early in this report, and aphids. Both these species fed on sunflower- plant juices, but their presence was under direction of the ants and therefore not purely fortuitous. It is possible that all the species thus far mentioned were harmful or at least not bene- ficial to the plant. Insects of the third order were those attracted by the presence of aphids. These were small ichneumon wasps, syrphid flies and maggots, and lady-bugs. If it be assumed that aphids are detrimental to sunflowers, these three insects were beneficial to the plant and at odds with primary purposes of the ants. Insects of the fourth order were those attracted to the plant by the presence of ichneumon-infested aphids and of carnivorous syrphid maggots. The first of these, a chalcid wasp, worked in favor of the ants and indirectly against the interests of the sunflower plant by parasitizing ichneumon-infested aphids. The same significance attends the presence of three larger species of ichneumon wasps, for these parasitized syrphid maggots which were hostile to aphids. If one of the syrphid-parasitic wasps was in reality a hyper- parasite upon syrphid maggots that were already ichneumon- infested, a class of insects of the fifth order would have to be created to accommodate it. This conjecture was not estab- lished, however, in the above study. It should be noted that no vertebrate animal entered into the scheme of ecologic sequences here outlined. In some locality more rural than West Philadelphia an exploring Vireo or Wren might have interrupted the course of these highly-tensed events, just as an inquisitive star might tomorrow sniff at our world and quickly notify us how puerile are our own attempts to write important human history. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 163 I wish to thank Eleanor M. Paxson for preparing the graph that appears in this entomological note. O- O MIM8RACIOS n n ANTS X X APHID3 SYR.PHID NAGGOTJ OCT. (tiMONi NUMERICAL ABUNDANCE) *\ ' \ > If 20 3 Jo Jf -fa BIOLOGY THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. A GENERAL BIOLOGY TEXT FOR FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS. By MARY STUART MAC- DOUGALL and ROBERT HEGNER. x -(- 963 pages. McGraw Hill Book Co. 1943. Price $4.00. An extensive general survey text conveniently divided into sections : The Foundations of Biology, Plant Biology, Animal Biology, Organ Systems and their Functions, The Biology of Man, Biological Principles and Theories, Applied Biology, and The History of Biology. The Arthropoda are given a chapter of 57 pages with relatively de- tailed treatment of the Crayfish, Grasshopper and Honey Bee, and shorter survey of the entire group A. G. Richards, Jr. 164 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 IN RETROSPECT In 1876, the American Entomological Society became affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and its members formed the Entomological Section of that institution. At the October 24, 1899, meeting of the Section, Mr. Eugene M. Aaron moved that "this Section shall, beginning with Jan- uary 1890, publish its Proceedings, and such short notes as may be offered, at or near the first of each month, That all matters pertaining to this journal be referred to the entire Publication Committee, with full powers." This Publication Committee consisted of E. T. Cresson, Chas. A. Blake and Benj. H. Smith, representing the American Entomological Society, and Henry Skinner and Philip Laurent representing the Section. This Committee held a meeting November 28th with E. T. Cresson in the chair, and "duly considered the subject and [the members] are of the opinion that such a publication, if properly, wisely and economically managed, could be maintained and be made a useful and valuable adjunct to both the Section and Society. They would propose that at least 160 pages be published an- nually in ten numbers, monthly parts omitting the months of July and August of uniform size with the Transactions of the Society, and with the title of "Entomological News and Pro- ceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Nat- ural Sciences of Philadelphia." The subscription price to be One Dollar per copy per annum, free, however, to members and associates of the Section. The expenses of publication to be defrayed by the receipts from subscriptions, advertisements, etc., and, whatever sum the Section can appropriate from its funds, and in case of a deficit, the same be met by a contribution not to exceed $100.00 per annum from the funds in the hands of the Publication Committee of the Society. The new publica- tion to be under the management of the Joint Publication Com- mittee of the Section and Society, who shall elect an Editor and an Advisory Committee of four persons to conduct the publi- cation, subject to such rules and regulations as the Joint Com- mittee may establish, the said Committee to make a report of its proceedings to the Section at least four times each year. In liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 165 order to obtain, for the Library of the Society, certain publica- tions for which it is not desirable to exchange its Transactions, it is proposed that the Publication Committee of the Society subscribe to say 50 copies of the new publication for use in making such exchanges for the Library of the American Ento- mological Society." Eugene M. Aaron was elected Editor, E. T. Cresson, Treas- urer, Geo. H. Horn, E. T. Cresson and Henry Skinner consti- tuted the Advisory Committee. Dr. Horn moved that the Sec- tion be asked to allow Mr. Philip P. Calvert to associate with them. At a meeting of the Committee, held Monday evening, De- cember 9, 1889, it was agreed that the contract for printing 500 copies, complete, be awarded to P. C. Stockhausen, at $27.00 per number. It was further agreed to have printed 250 extra copies of numbers 1 and 2 each for use as sample copies ; and the Editor was authorized to have 2000 circulars printed, and "distribute them in one cent stamped envelopes to be addressed to those interested in Entomology." The first number appeared in the mails, January 14, 1890, and contained 16 pages. The first two pages carried the following Announcement : It has for some time been apparent to Entomologists in this country that there was unoccupied room for a journal of Entomology devoted less to the dry details of descriptive and classificatory work and more to the news and gossip which is always of interest to entomological workers. The field of descriptive entomology is already well filled by journals published in Brooklyn, N. Y., and London, Ontario; that of economic entomology by a government publication at Washington, and the bibliographic department has received special attention at Cambridge, Mass. None of these journals allude systematically to the important work always in progress in Europe and elsewhere, nor do they by any means regularly notice such work appearing here from time to time. News of this sort is of great value to the student of Entomology even if he is near one of the large libraries ; to those remote from these centres of information it can not fail to be of the utmost importance. A journal which will keep entomologists en rapport with what is being accom- plished in serials and by monographs at home and abroad, and which will also give the items of interesting news concerning explorations and ex- 166 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS u, '43 plorers, collections and collectors, will, it is believed, win its way into the good graces of the insect collecting fraternity. Such a journal is only possible where its conductors are in close communication with the litera- ture of Entomology and the sister sciences. Philadelphia, the possessor of the public libraries of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Entomological Society and the American Philosophical Society and sev- eral private libraries rich in works on special branches of Entomology, is generally conceded to occupy a position in this field unrivaled in America. With this in view the Entomological Section of the Academy of Nat- ural Sciences of Philadelphia, with the co-operation and financial aid of the American Entomological Society, have decided to publish, beginning with this number, a journal to appear about the 1st of each month, July and August excepted, under the editorial and advisory direction set forth on the cover. Besides such scientific papers as will naturally appear in a journal published under these auspices, there will be departments of "Notes and News," "Queries and Answers," "Exchange," "Doings of Societies," etc. Under the first it will be the object of its conductors to make ENTO- MOLOGICAL NEWS deserve its name in the widest sense. Under the second, so far as may be possible, insects sent for determination will be named by members of the Section and the results announced therein. The de- partment of "Exchange" will be free to all under reasonable restrictions. And, finally, it will be the aim to give a brief resume of the proceedings of the various Entomological Societies throughout the world. With liberal patronage and support from the Entomologists of America and elsewhere, it is intended that ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS shall grow into an important factor in every entomologist's work. It will be enlarged, and its scope modified or increased, as its readers may seem to demand. This issue will give but a faint idea of \vhat it is proposed shall be the scope of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Its conductors will be glad to receive from its readers, at any time, criticisms of its work and suggestions for its improvement. Scientific papers, news-notes, reports of societies, etc., are needed from all sources to make this journal just what its name implies, a compend of entomological news. EUGENE M. AARON. Thus was Entomological News born. Some account of its subsequent growth and incidents in its life will be given in another issue of this journal. E. T. Cresson, Jr. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 167 Current Entomological Literature COMPILED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF. Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North and South), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrele- vant to American entomology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. This list gives references of the current or preceding year unless otherwise noted. Continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installment. For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex- periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. NOTE: The figures within brackets [ ] refer to the journal in which the paper ap- peared, as numbered in the List of Journals given at the end of the literature. The num- ber of the volume, and in some cases, the part, heft, &c. is followed by a colon (:). References to papers containing new forms or names not so stated in titles are followed by (*); if containing keys are followed by (k); papers pertaining exclusively to Neo- tropical species, and not so indicated in the title, have the symbol (S). Papers published in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS are not listed. GENERAL ABBOTT, WALTER SIDNEY. (Obituary) by E. H. Siegler and L. J. Bottimer. [10] 45: 92. ALDEN & IFFT. Early naturalists in the Far West. [Occ. Pap., Cal. Acad. Sci.] 20: 59 pp., ill. BARNES, D. F. Influence of moth-trap- ping methods on the preparation of females in the catches. [12] 36: 119. DAVIDSON, R. L. Some observations on the rela- tionship between vegetation and insect population. [So. Afri- can Jour. Sci.] 39: 139-46. HEMMING, F. Opinions rendered by the international comm. on zool. nomenclature since the transfer of the secretary to London. [9] 76: 87-88. HERMS, W. B. Preparation for a career as a medical entomologist. [12] 36: 18-22. HUXLEY, J. Evolution, the modern syn- thesis. [Harper Bros., New York] 1942, 645 pp. INGLE, L. An apparatus for testing chemotropic responses of flying insects. [12] 36: 108-110. KOSHTOYANTS, C. S. Develop- ment of biological science in Russia. [31] 151: 408-11. LA- HILLE, FERNANDO. Obituary note by C. E. Porter. [44] 44: 266-68, ill., bibl., 1940. LIST OF ENTOMOLOGISTS in the armed forces, public health services and other fields of war effort. [12] 36: 145-155. LIZER, C. A. La instalacion de insectarios para la propagacion de enemigos de las plagas agricolas. [Cent. Ingen. Agron, B. Aires] Jornadus Agron. : 33956, 1934. MOFFETT, J. W. A limnological investigation of a sandy, wave- swept shoal in Douglas Lake, Michigan. [Trans. Amer. Mior. Soc.] 62: 1-23. PETERSON, A. Some new killing fluids for larvae of insects. [12] 36: 115. PORTER, CARLOS E. Obi- tuary note of. [104] 11: 485-86. Notas miscelaneas. Xtas breves de entomologia agricola. [44] 44: 228-30; 378-79, 168 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 1940. WRAY & BRIMLEY. The insect inquilines and victims of pitcher plants in North Carolina. [7] 36: 128-137. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, ETC. ANDREWARTHA, H. G. Diapause in the eggs of Austroicetes cruciata (Orth., Acri- didae), with particular reference to the influence of tempera- ture on the elimination of diapause. [22] 34: 1-17. CHILD, C. M. Indophenol reaction and reduction in the living ovaries of Drosophila hydei. [23] 16: 141-161. COOK, E. F. The heads of some Coleoptera. [117] 8: 7-15, ill. DAY, M. F- The homologies of the ring gland of Diptera Brachycera. [7] 36: 1-10, ill. DE MARINIS & HERSH. A further study of bar- eyed mosaics in Drosophila. [Growth] 7: 1-10. FERRIS, G. F. Some fundamental concepts in insect morphology. The basic materials of the insect cranium. [117] 8: 2-7; 8-24, ill. FLETCHER, T. B. A note on the scent-brushes in the Hepi- alidae. [21] 55: 40-41. GHILAROV, M. S. On the causes of divergent evolution in soil inhabiting click-bettle larvae. [C. R. (Doklady) Acad. Sci. URSS] n.s. 36: 251-53. HARRINGTON, C. D. The occurrence of physiological races of the pea aphid. [12] 36: 118. HORSFALL, W. R. Some responses of the ma- laria mosquito to light. [7] 36: 41-45, ill. HURLBUT, H. S. The rate of growth of Anopheles in relation to temperature. [17] 29: 107-113. KREPS & CHENIKAEVA. On the exchange of carbon dioxide in Crustacea and insects. [64] 1942 : 310-21. (Russian with English summary.) METCALF, R. L. The iso- lation of a red-fluorescent 'pigment, Lampyrine, from the Lam- pridae. [7] 36: 37-40. RAPOPORT, I. A. Genetic analysis of dependent differentiation in the embryogeny of Diptera. [64] 1942: 254-84. (Russian with English summary.) SALT & MAIL. The freezing of insects a criticism and explanation. [12] 36: 126-127. TAUBER & GRIFFITHS Multinucleate hemocytes in the roach, Blatta orientalis. [Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc.] 62: 91-93. TAYLOR & NICKERSON Features of the elec- tric responses of the bee-moth eye. [23] 16:213-222. VENA- BLES & WADDELL. The influence of leguminous plants on the abundance of tarnished plant bug. [4] 75 : 78. VINOGRAD- SKAJA, O. N. Body temperature in Anopheles maculipennis messeae. [Zool. Journal, Moscow] 21: 187-95. (Russian; English summary.) WEISS, H. B. Color perception in in- sects. [12] 36: 1-17. WEISS, SORACI & McCoY Insect be- havior to various wave lengths of light. [6] 51: 117-131, ill. ARACHNIDA AND MYRIOPODA CHICKERING, A. M. -Female alloptye of Landana spinosa. [128] 28: 316-21, ill. COOLEY Y KOHLS Ixodex mexicanus e tancitarius dos nuevas Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 169 garrapatas Mexicanas. [35] 3: 149-54. GERSCHMAN Y SCHIA- PELLI. Una esp. Paraguaya del gen. Parathalerothele. [44] 44: 105-8, 1940, (*). GOODNIGHT, C. J. & M. L. Three new phalangids from Tropical America. [40] no. 1228, 4 pp. HENDERSON & McBuRNiE. Sampling technique for determi- ning population of the citrus red mite and its predators. [3] Circ. no. 671, 11 pp., ill. KURATA, T. B. The spiders of the Lake Nipissing and Lake Temagami regions, Ontario. [Canad. Field Nat.] 57: 9-13 LIZER, C. A. Cochinillas exoticas intro- ducidas en la Rep. Argentina y danos que causan. [Jour. Agron. y Vetern.] 1937: 341-62. (Sep. of 24 pp.) MELLO- LEITAO, C. DE Aracnidos de Copiapo (Afacama) y de Casa blanca. Aranas de las Islas Juan Fernandez recogidas por el Sr. R. Wagenknecht. [44] 44: 231-35, ill.; 236-39, ill., 1940 (S*). THE SMALLER ORDERS ARLE, R. Uma n. esp. de Sminthurinus do Rio de Janerio. (Collemb.) [44] 44: 264 66, ill., 1940. BONET, F. Descripcion preliminar de los n. Acerentomidos de Mexico. [35] 3: 103-8, ill. CARPENTER, F. M. The Permian insects of Kansas. IX. Orders Neurop- tera, Raphidiodea, Caloneurodea and Protorthoptera (Prob- nisidae), with additional Protodonata and Megasecoptera. [Proc. Amer. Acad. A. & S.] 75 : 55-84 (*). CRAWFORD, J. C. A new Heterothrips on Prosopis (Thysanoptera). [10] 45: 93-94. DAMPF, A. Nuevos datos sobre la pulga Pleochaetis mundus (Siphonap.). [35] 3: 135-48, ill. GUIMARAES, L. R. Contribuicao para o conhecimento dos malofagos das aves da Argentina. [104] 11 : 423-39, ill. (*). HANSON, J. F. De- scriptions of new North American Plecoptera. II. [10] 45: 85-88. KIMMINS, D. E. A new S. American dragonfly. [75] 10 : 156-59, ill. MILLER, E. M. The soldier and nymphal forms of Kalotermes (Calcaritermes) nearcticus. [Proc. Flor- ida Acad. Sci.] 6: 5-8, ill. WESTFALL, M. J., JR. Synonymy of Libellula auripennis and L. jesseana, and the descr. of a n. sp. (Odonata). [1] 69: 17-31. ORTHOPTER A BOLIVAR Y BOLIVAR PIELTAIN Estudio de los n. Pterophylla Mexicanas. [35] 3: 87-103, ill. Fox, H. Further studies on ootheca of introduced asiatic mantids. [7] 36: 25-33. LAIRD, A. K. A study of the types of male gonads found in the Acrididae. [57] 72: 477-490. LIEBER- MANN, J. Consideraciones acerca de Fenestra Brunner y Fenestra Bruner. [44] 44: 54-56, 1940. Generos y esp. n. de Acridoideos Chilenos [104] 11 : 400-10, ill. LIZER, C. La lucha moderna contra la langosta en el pais. [Acad. Nac. 170 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 Agron. y Veter.] no. 5, 31 pp., ill. La biologia de la langosta. [Lucha Nac. Cont. Langosta] p. 61-90. PIRAN, A. A. Mis- celaneas sobre Tettigoniodeos Argentinos. [104] 11: 446-49, ill. REHN & REHN. The N. Amer. locust gen. Paratylotro- pidia (Acridid). [1] 69: 33-60. HEMIPTERA BEAMER, R. H. Notes and descr. of some sps. of Dikraneura (Aiadelbae). [103] 8: 54-73 (*). BLAN- CHARD, E. E. Descr. de un n. afidiino Argentine util para la agricultura (Aphid.). [44] 44: 45-48, ill, 1940. CHRISTEN- SEN, J. R. Lista de Membracidae encontrados en la Argentina y algunos paises limitrofes. [104] 11: 440-45. DOERING & DARBY. A contribution to the taxonomy of the gen. Orgerius in N. Am., N. of Mexico. [103] 8: 64-72 (cont.), (*). DRAKE, C. J. A n. sp. of Tenagogonus (Gerrid.). [44] 44: 108-9, 1940. New American Teleonemia (Tingit.). [44] 44: 242-43, 1940, (S). HARRIS, H. M. A note on the range of Mesovelia cryptophila (Mesoveriid). [103] 8: 53-54. LIZER, C. A. Apuntaciones Coccidologicas. II. [104] 11: 455-60. PELAEZ, D. Estudio monografico de las especies Espanolas del' gen. Apterola (Lygaed.). [35] 3: 113-34, ill. PORTER, C. E. Los Apateticus de fauna Chilena. [44] 44: 246-48, 1940. Ruiz, F. Apidologia Chilena. [44] 44: 281- 377, 1940. SHULL, A. F. Origin of diverse strains of an aphid species within a limited area. [128] 28: 425-31. WILLINER, R. P. G. J. Los Psocopteros de Mar del Plata. [104] 11: 471-80, ill. (*). LEPIDOPTERA BEAMER, L. H. The buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia Hbn) in Ontario. [Canad. Field Nat.] 56: 113. BELL, E. L. New records and sps. of Hesperiidae from Mexico. [An. Escuela Nac. Cien. Biol., Mexico] 2: 455-68, ill. BONET, F. Una emigracion en masa de mariposas. [35] 3: 109-11. BOURQUIN, F. Metamorfosis de Catocephala lauta (Saturnid). [104] 11 : 393-99, ill. BROWN, F. M. Notes on Ecuadorian butterflies. 3. The genus Lymanopoda. [7] 36: 87-102. COMSTOCK, W. P. The gen Ascia in The Antilles (Pierid). [40] no. 1229, 7 pp. (*). New records of Lepidop- tera. [6] 51: 110-132. HAYWARD, K. J. A new sp. of Pyrrhopyge (Hesp.). [44] 44: 33-34, 1940 (S). McDuN- NOUGH, J. Phalaenid notes and descriptions. [4] 75 : 59-62 (*). TALBOT, G. The specific name of the "monarch" butter- fly. [9] 76: 84. URETA, E. Lepidopteros teratologicos en Chile. [44] 44: 244-45, 1940. DIPTERA ALEXANDER, C. P. N. sp. of crane-flies from South America. X. [7] 36: 103-127. Undescribed sps. of liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 171 So. Amer. Tipulidae II. [44] 44: 258-63, 1940. New or little known Tipulidae. Neotropical sps. [75] 10:217-45. BATES, M. Mosquitoes as vectors of Dermatobia in eastern Colombia. [7] 36: 21-24. BEAMER, PENNER & HIBBARD. Some notes on the biology of the pack rat cuterebrid (C. beameri) in Kansas. [103] 16: 47-50, ill. BEQUAERT, J. Notes on Hippoboscidae. 16. Hippoboscidae from Southern Brazil. With the descrip- tion of a new species of Lynchia. [17] 29: 131-135. BORG- MEIER, T. Una. n. esp. do gen. Apodicrania (Phorid.). [44] 44: 34-36, 1940 (S). BROOKS, A. R. A review of the Cana- dian sps. of Ernestia (Tachinid). [4] 75 : 66-78 (*). CAUSEY, DEANE, DEANE & SAMPAIO. Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) sawyeri, a new anopheline mosquito from Ceara, Brazil. [7] 36: 11-20, ill. CLARKE, J. L. Studies on the flight range of mosquitoes. [12] 36: 121-122. CRESSON, E. T., JR. The sps of the tribe Ilytheini (Ephydrid. [1] 69: 1-16 (*). FRAGA, A. El gen. Esenbeckia (Tabanid). [44] 44: 152-57, ill., 1940. HARDY, D. E. Studies in Phyllomydas (Mydaid). [103] 16: 50-52 (*). HARMSTON & KNOWLTON. Species of Parasyntormon from the U. S. (Dolichop.). [4] 75: 63-64 (*). HULL, F. M. The genus Mesogramma (Syrphid). [70] 23 : 1-99, ill. (*k). LOPEZ, H. DE S. Duas n. esp. de gen. Nephochaetopteryx do R. d. Janerio (Sarcophsg). [44] 44: 186-90, ill., 1940 (*). PETERS, H. T. Studies on the biology of Anopheles walkeri Theobald. [17] 29: 117-122. PHILIP, C. B. New neotropical Tabanidae. [6] 51: 111-16. A n. gen. of Neotropical deerflies (Tabanid). [44] 44: 190-93, 1940. STUARDO, C. Contribucion al conocimiento de la biolo- gia de Hirmoneura exotica (Xemestrinid). [104] 11 : 385-92, ill. COLEOPTERA BLANCHARD, E. E. Un Nuevo exotri- stido, importante parasite del gorgojo de las hortalizas. [104] 11 : 450-54, ill. (S). BOSQ, J. M. Coccinelidos utiles para la fruticultura Tucumana. [104] 11: 461-70. BRIDWELL, J. C. -Two new American bean Bruchids. [44] 44 : 249-58, 1940, (S). BULLOCK, D. S. El "Gusano de los porotos" (Nau- pactus leucoloma) una plaga en los Estados Unidos (Cucul.) [44] 44: 38-41, ill., 1940. DANIEL, H. Acerca de dos escara- bajos Colombianos. [44] 44: 60-62, ill., 1940. GUTIERREZ, R. Contribuciones al estudio de los Scarabaeidae Chilenos. [44] 44: 93-99, 275-80, ill., 1940. JORDAN, K. A case of progressive evolution in Coleoptera which, if uncontrolled, would lead to extinction. [109] 8: 14. KNULL, J. N. Two new Chrysobothris. [7] 36: 34-36, ill. LANE, F. Nota sobre 172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 Brachychilus consobrinus (Lamiid). [44] 44: 126-30, ill., 1940. MONROS, F. La familia Sagridae en Sud. Amer. : El gen. Atalasis (Chrysomel.). [104] 11: 411-22, ill. (*). OLAVE, L. E. Buprestidos Chilenos poco conocidos. [44] 44: 119-26, ill., 1940 (*). ORELLANA, B. Revision de los Ela- teridos de Chile. [44] 44: 100-5, ill, 1940 (Continuation). PAPRZYCKI, P. Practical hints for the capture and breeding of the largest cerambycid "Macrodontia cervicornis" in the Peru- vian wild forest. [44] 44: 273-75, ill., 1940. PARSONS, C. T. -A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae. [26] 92: 121-278, ill. REES, B. E. Classification of the Dermestidae based on larval characters, with a key to the N. Amer. gen. [3] Mis. Pub, no. 511, 18 pp., ill. SAYLOR, L. W. Synoptic revision of the testa- ceipennis-group of the beetle gen. Phyllophaga (Scarab.). [91] 33: 106-10 (S*). SMITH, H. D. Laboratory rearing of Microbracon vestiticida Vier. on the bean weevil, with notes on the life history of the parasite. [12] 36: 101-104. HYMENOPTERA BEQUAERT, J. A revision of the Ves- pidae of Chile. I. Subf. Gayellinae and Zethinae. [44] 44: 214-23, ill., 1940. DREISBACH, R. R. The gen. Vespula in Michigan, with keys and distribution (Vespid). [128] 28: 323-30, ill. IRWIN, W. H. The mosquitoes of three selected areas in Cheboygan Co. Michigan. [128] 28: 279-96. JONES, J. W. 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OBITUARIES Science for April 30, 1943, announced the death, on April 15, of Dr. Richard Anthony Muttkowski, head of the department of Biology of the University of Detroit since 1925. He was 56 years old, having been born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 4, 1887. He received an A.B. from St. Lawrence College, Colorado, in 1904 and again from the University of Wisconsin in 1913, and Ph.D. from the latter institution in 1916. He was assistant in the department of invertebrate zoology of the Mil- waukee Public Museum 1906-12. Subsequent to his doctor's degree, he was successively in the zoological departments of the University of Missouri, Kansas State College, the University of Idaho and finally Detroit. He served as an instructor in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in 1919. In his years at Milwaukee, under Brues and Graenicher, he gave much attention to insects and especially Odonata, and became best known to entomologists by his Catalogue of the Odonata of North America, issued as the first Bulletin of the Museum, June 27, 1910. Excluding handbooks, it is still the latest in this field. At that time Ris's monograph of the Libel- lulinae in the Catalogue of the Zoological Collections of Edmond de Selys Longchamps was in course of publication at Brussels. Some of us wondered why Muttkowski did not wait until this monograph was finished before issuing his Catalogue. It may be worth while to put on record here his reason: ". . . the reason 174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [July, '43 that I did not wait with the catalogue till Ris' Libellulinae was published, is that notwithstanding its great scientific importance, this monograph will not be available to the average entomolo- gist, but to those only in the very largest and most important centers of scientific work. The limited circulation [of Ris's Libellulinae] (180 copies M. Severin wrote me) and the rather high price will prevent its general use. This is unfortunate, since the monograph is so valuable." (Letter of September 13, 1910.) This was before the breaking out of World War I, which seriously delayed the publication of Ris's work ; for while the first eight fascicles were issued in 1909-13, the final one (No. 16, part 2) was not distributed until March 1, 1919. To have waited for this last would have postponed the appearance of Muttkowski's Catalogue for nine years, so that his decision not to wait was justified by events which he could not have foreseen. Muttkowski's published work on Odonata, other than his Catalogue, dealt mainly with the Wisconsin fauna and a study of the genus Tetragoneitria (1911, 1915). Two of his later papers, including Odonata and other insects, were ecological : The Fauna of Lake Mendota (1918) and The Ecology of Trout Streams in Yellowstone National Park (1929). He also studied the blood of insects while at the University of Idaho (three papers in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society L923-24). We understand that his latest work was in experi- mental zoology. Philip P. Calvert. Science for June 11, 1943, announces that Wesley P[illsbury] Flint, chief entomologist of the Illinois State Natural History Survey and of the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois, died on June 3, at the age of sixty-one years. He was joint author, with C. L. Metcalf, of the favorably known texts, Destructive and Useful Insects and Fundamentals of Insect Life. He was born at South Hampton, New Hampshire, May 4, 1882, and served with the Massachusetts Gipsy Moth Com- mission before going to Illinois in 1908. Philip P. Calvert. 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Covers: first 50, $2.75; additionals at 2 cents each. Plates, printed on one side: first 50, $2.00; additionals at % cent each. Transportation charges will be extra. THE LANCASTER PRESS. INC., Lancaster, Pa. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS VOL. LIV OCTOBER, 1943 No. 8 Antennal Anomaly in Nomada vicina Cresson (Hym. : Apoidea). By HUGO G. RODECK, Univ. of Colo. Museum, Boulder, Colorado. In Cresson's catalog of his types of Hymenoptera in the Academy of Natural Sciences (p. 133) the female lectotype of Nomada vicina is described as having the "right antenna off." During an examination of the specimen (May 28, 1941) I found that the appendage was not only missing but was never present in the life of the insect. The face of this specimen is shorter and broader than is usual in the species. The left antenna is present, with its fovea lo- cated in a normal concavity of the face between the inner orbit and the median facial carina. In consequence of the shortness of the face, this fovea is somewhat lower on the face than usual, mostly at the expense of the supraclypeus. In the corresponding position on the right side of the face, however, the antennal fovea is completely absent. The surface here is much less concave than in the normal insect and is punc- tured like the rest of the face. But below and laterad of the position of the missing antenna is a deep hole, smaller than a normal antennal fovea, and apparently an upward and mediad invagination of the integument of the face. So far as can be seen it is haired and punctured normally inside, and is ferru- ginous, the red color also forming a ring around the opening on the face. This ring of color interferes with the normal dis- tribution of the red color of the lateral facemarks which are interrupted on this side of the face to leave a complete zone of black around the red rim of the invagination. (175) r 9 '43 176 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 A New Species of and Notes on Acroceridae (Diptera). 1 CURTIS W. SABROSKY, Michigan State College. An intensive study of the family Acroceridae was undertaken in order to try to determine some available material. The re- sults proved to be so revolutionary in Acrocera and Ogcodcs that a paper has been prepared dealing with those genera in considerable detail. The notes presented here are miscellaneous items which were not pertinent to the larger work. Pialeoidea gloriosa new species. Head black, the eyes and vertex rather thickly beset with long brow r n to brownish yellow hairs ; antennae entirely black, their appearance similar to Fig. 12b in Cole (1919), 2 the second seg- ment with numerous long hairs above, and the third segment elongate and clavate, but in this case the latter bears a group of five short setae at its apex. Thorax and scutellum bright golden-yellow, only the lower halves of the pleura, the pteropleura, and a stripe ventrad of each anterior spiracle, brown, the whole thickly covered with long, erect yellow hair. First abdominal segment concolorous with the thorax, and bearing the same yellow hair ; the re- mainder of the abdomen is shining, dark metallic blue-black, densely covered with short dark hairs ; the entire venter appar- ently dark brown. Legs brown, tarsi somewhat paler, the claws black and strong, twice as long as the pulvilli ; the legs are densely covered with hairs, which are very long on the coxae, only moderately long on the femora, and short and appressed on the tibiae and tarsi. Wings short for a fly of this size, barely exceeding the apex of the abdomen, with slightly browned membrane and dark brown to black veins. The venation is approximately the same as figured by Cole (1919, Fig. 14c) for Ocnaca cocrnlca, ex- 1 Journal Article No. 642 (n. s.) from the Michigan Agricultural Ex- periment Station. 2 Cole, 1919, The dipterous family Cyrtidae in North America, Trans. .liner. Ent. Soc., 45: 1-79, 15 pis. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 177 cept that the posterior branch (R 5 ) of the third vein joins with the vein immediately behind it (MJ, so that the first posterior cell is closed and petiolate. Halteres dark brown. Squamae of only moderate size, pale yellow with darker yellow margins, the upper surfaces and margins densely clothed with pale yellow hairs which are concolorous but somewhat shorter than those on the thorax. Length, 13 mm.; length of wing, 11 mm.; length of third an- tennal segment, 2 mm. Holotypc, female (apparently), Brazos County, TEXAS, Oct. 20, 1940 (R. W. Strandtmann) [Texas A. & M. College Colin.]. In am indebted to Mr. H. J. Reinhard for the loan of this inter- esting specimen. The genus Pialeoidea was erected by Westwood in 1876 for Cyrtus mag mis Walker from Georgia. The present specimen shows the same type of antennae, with the terminal setae, as described and figured by Westwood. Of the two species cited in Cole's monograph (1919, p. 21), P. magna (genotype) has the disk of the thorax bronze-black, and P. metallica Williston has a metallic green thorax and scutellum, with brown abdomen. Nor does any described species of the related genus Ocnaea have a color pattern at all like that of the present form. Speci- mens of the genus Pialeoidea must be quite rare, for Cole does not mention seeing any specimens of the above species, and I have found no records in the literature. OPSEBIUS PTERODONTINUS O. S. Besides the costal spur, the species is readily distinguished by the dense golden-yellow body hairs, contrasted with the whit- ish hairs of other eastern species. The specimens which I have seen appear to be males, and it is possible, as in Pterodontia, that the costal spur is a sexual character and the females are known under another name. Of the two other eastern species, 0. sulphurises seems to be the more likely possibility as it has the same type of wing venation (anal cell open, short third posterior cell), whereas 0. gagatinits has the anal cell closed, and a long third cell. Both differ from pfcnx/inithnis in hav- ing whitish body hairs, but sexual dimorphism in that respect is not impossible. 178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 The few records indicate a rather wide distribution in eastern United States. Unpublished data: Oakwood, 111., Sept. 18, 1928 (H. H. Ross) [111. Nat. Hist. Survey Colin.] ; Enfield, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1923, and Top of Mt. Marcy, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1942 (Henry Dietrich) [Cornell Univ. Colin.] ; Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 1, 1927 (N. K. Bigelow) [Univ. Mich., Mus. Zool., det. by George Steyskal]. Besides these, I have examined specimens from White Cap Mt., Maine, Canobie Lake, N. H., Amherst, Mass., and Tiverton, R. I., which were included in the records of Johnson (1925). 3 OPSEBIUS SULPHURIPES Loew. Apparently distinguished from pterodontinus by whitish body hairs, but there is a possibility that they are opposite sexes of the same species. New records: Urbana, 111., Aug. 17, 1920 [111. Nat. Hist. Survey] ; College Station, Texas, Nov. 5, 1920 (H. J. Reinhard) [Texas A. & M. College Colin.] ; besides which I have examined the three specimens recorded by John- son (1925). It is thus apparently widely distributed in eastern United States, although quite rare, for Cole (1919) records seeing only two individuals in preparation for his monograph. OPSEBIUS DILIGENS O. S. The specimens from Giant Forest, Calif. (J. C. Bradley) [Cornell Univ.], mentioned by Cole (1919, p. 47) as a species near paitcus but having a closed anal cell, have been examined and may be recorded as 0. diligens. They agree in every way with California specimens of typical diligens kindly sent me by Mr. George E. Bohart, but both specimens are in poor condition and rather discolored, the hairs matted, and the wing veins and membrane darker than usual. PTERODONTIA FLAVIPES Gray (==Pterodontia flavoscutellata Steyskal, 1941). Hardy (1942) recently published the above synonymy, and I agree from a study of the series before me. Flavoscutellata represents the male sex, in which the basal two or three abdomi- 3 Johnson, 1925, List of the Diptera or two-winged flies of New Eng- land, 326 pp. (Cyrtidae, 106-108). liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 179 nal segments are normally more extensively infuscated than in the females. Cole (1919, fig. 22) illustrated the female only, but an excellent figure of the typical abdominal color pattern of the male was given by J. L. King in an extensive paper on the life history of P. flavipcs* I find also that the sexes differ in the typical color pattern of the legs. The males have the front femora entirely deep yellow, rarely blackened narrowly at their bases, whereas in the females the front femora are more or less extensively infus- cated, varying from the basal half to all but the knees. In both sexes, the mid and hind femora are black, and all tibiae and tarsi yellow. This characteristic pattern of the legs of the males is mentioned by Westwood and Cole for P. flavipcs and by Steyskal for P. flavoscntcllata, and I find it is also true for the northwestern species, P. misclla. Some variation in color pattern should be recorded. On the dorsum of the abdomen in the males, the first segment is en- tirely black; the second is usually entirely black but may have two orange triangles along the hind margin, with their apices directed forward, their size varying from mere traces of color to large spots nearly one third the length of the segmental dor- sum; the third segment is chiefly orange yellow with a median black stripe which varies in occupying from perhaps one sev- enth to one fourth the width of the segment, touching both fore and hind margins of the segment in equal breadth except in one specimen where it narrows slightly and fails to touch the hind margin ; the fourth segment is entirely orange in some examples, but in others there is a narrow median stripe, linear to fusiform, as figured by King (1916, pi. 15, fig. 2). The abdominal color pattern of the females which I have seen agrees fairly well with Cole's figure, and seems to vary less than in the males. The fourth segment is entirely yellow and the second and third are predominantly so, each of the latter having a small black spot along the fore margin of the segment, the black produced posteriorly on the median line, though never reaching the hind margin of the segment. Two females (Mich., N. Dak.) have the second segment broadly black. 4 Annals Ent. Soc. Amer., 9: 309-321, pi. 15, fig. 2, 1916. 180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 It may also be noted here that the number of terminal setae on the antennae is subject to considerable variation, and that the usually stated number of three setae is not always true. Neither are the numbers on right and left antennae always the same, though breakage may in some cases have accounted for this. In the following list the first number is for the right antenna, the second for the left: males, 3-3, 2-3, 2-3, 4-5, 6-6, 3-3, 7-7 ; females, 2-3, 4-3, 3-2, 3-4, 4-3, 2-3. Variation in size : males, 5.5-10.5 mm. ; females, 5-9 mm. New records of distribution: <, "111." [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.] ; J, Algonquin, 111., July 26, 1895 [111. Nat. Hist. Sur- vey Colin.] ; $, Brunswick, Ga., Sept., 1881 [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.] ; $, Cheboygan Co, Mich, July 25, 1927 (L. K. Gloyd) [Univ. Mich, Mus. Zool.] ; ^, Cheboygan Co, Mich, July 11, 1941, found dead in spider web (C. W. Sabrosky) [Author's Colin.] ; 4-% times the eye-height. Lower two-thirds of the front orange yellow, upper one-third of front brown to black. Upper occiput brown with orange medially to entirely black, covered with yellowish gray pollen. Antennae orange, the first joint more brownish, the second joint more yellowish. Arista orange, the base black. Proportions of the antennal joints ap- proximately 1:3:2. Proboscis black, l%-2 times the head- height. Palpi black, with black hair, as long as the greatest width of the proboscis. Thorax black ; reddish at humeri, base of wings, and venter of the scutellum ; yellowish pollinose pleural stripe, sides of mesonotum, pair of dorsal stripes, and dorsum of the scutellum. Abdomen black, reddish at very base of 1st segment and brownish at the lateral margins of the 1st, 2nd, and 3d segments, covered with oblique light bluish pollinose markings as follows : 2nd segment confluent dorsally and nar- rowing to a stripe along lateral posterior edge, 3d segment widely separated dorsally, 4th segment all but two triangular spots dorsally and anterior corners, 5th segment dorsal distal portion, 6th segment most of dorsal surface. Coxae reddish, yellow pollinose anteriorly, brown to black posteriorly. Femora red, brown to black dorsally and yellow pollinose ventrally. Tibiae largely yellow pollinose. Tarsi blackish, yellowish ven- trally, at base, and at sides of the segments. Pulvilli yellow; llV, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 189 claws yellow with black tips. Wings dark gray, veins brown to blackish, except at base. Base of wings yellowish orange; calypters yellow. First posterior cell open (usually) or closed at the margin. Halters yellow orange. Male: Similar to the female, but black of the abdomen more extensive, and the pollen on the distal portion of the abdomen more whitish. One abnormally small male is 7 mm. long. Closest to Zodion obliqiicfasciatiim which it replaces in the southeastern states, from which it differs by the darker color in general, and the bluish instead of white pollinose markings and black rather than rufous coloration of the abdomen. Holotypc: Female, NORTH CAROLINA: Smokemont, July 20, 1923, J. C. Crawford. Allotypc: Male, North Carolina, Smoke- mont, July 20, 1923, T. B. Mitchell. [Both from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture ; deposited in the Field Museum.] Paratypes: Male, New Jersey: Riverton, C. W. Johnson, [Am. Mus.] ; three males, N. C. : Tarboro, July 30, 1924, T. B. Mitchell or W. B. Mabee (on Hclcnlitm tciuii- folinin), [N. C. Dept. Ag., one deposited in Kansas U. Coll.] ; female, N. C. : La Grange, Aug. 27, 1921, T. B. Mitchell, [N. C. Dept. Ag.] ; two males, N. C. : Willard, July 6, 1922, T. B. Mitchell (on Scnecio), [N. C. Dept. Ag., one in author's coll.] ; four males, N. C. : Raleigh, July 18-22, 1918-26, C. S. Brimley, [N. C. Dept. Ag., one in the Acad. Nat. Sci.Phila., one in Calif. Acad. Sci.] ; male, N. C. : Statesville, mid July, 1919, F. Sher- man, [N. C. Dept. Ag.] ; female, N. C. : Newton, July 25, 1921, T. B. Mitchell, [N. C. Dept. Ag., in author's coll.] ; female, N. C.: Swannanoa, July 10, 1913, C. L. Metcalf, [N. C. Dept. Ag.] ; male, N. C. : Hendersonville, July 8, 1926, J. C. Craw- ford, [N. C. Dept. Ag.] ; male, N. C. : Raleigh, July 8, 1903, P. Morse Coll., [M. C. Z.] ; male, North Carolina, Morrison, [Nat. Mus.]; female, S. C. : Florence, July 19, 1935, C. F. Rainwater, [Nat. Mus.]; female, Ga. : Atlanta, Aug. 9, 1938, P. W. Fattig, [Nat. Mus.]; male, Fla. : Monticello, Aug. 16, C. Fairchild, [M. C. Z.] ; female, Miss.: Utica, Aug., [Nat. Mus.] ; male, Miss.: West Point, Sept. 16, 1904, F. C. Bishopp, [Nat. Mus.]. 190 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 Most of the specimens correspond to the "melanistic" phase of oblique jas datum described below, but three of the males are analogous to the "rufous" phase of that species by virtue of the brownish instead of the black of the proximal abdominal seg- ments. These represent variation toward obliqitefasciatiuii. Several specimens of oblique fas datum from Illinois show varia- tion toward the new species, one in particular having rather bluish pollen and very little rufous on the abdomen. Other intermediate specimens will undoubtedly be found where the ranges of the two species meet. It was a dark specimen of cyancsccns from Alabama that caused Krober (Arch. Nat., S1A, h. 4, p. 104) to question the validity of Zodion albonotatum. ZODION OBLIQUEFASCIATUM (Macquart) Myopa obliquefasdata Macquart, Dipt. Exot., Suppl. 1, 141, 1845" [Texas.] Zodion splcndcns Jaennicke, Neue Exot. Dipt., 405, 1867. [Mexico.] Zodion leucostoma Williston, Trans. Conn. Acad. VI, 380, 1885. [Western Kansas.] This species is characterized by the rufous abdominal colora- tion with white pollinose markings. It is an extremely variable species, most of the individuals of which fall into one of three main types as follows : "Melanistic" phase: Darker individuals averaging larger in size, in which the abdomen has relatively wide black markings. "Rufous" phase: Lighter individuals averaging intermediate in size, in which the abdomen is mainly rufous with brown mark- ings, or some blackish markings on the distal segments. "Pollinose" phase : Very light individuals averaging smallest in size, in which the abdomen is usually rufous, and whose dark thoracic pattern is covered with gray or whitish pollen leaving two or three dark stripes. These are the individuals which re- semble species of the Fulvifrons Group. The distribution and frequency of the phases is as follows : Illinois (26 M, 9 R), Iowa (1 M, 1 R), South Dakota (1 M), Nebraska (1 M, 1 R), Kansas (1 M, 1 R, 1 M-R, 1 M-R-P), liy, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 191 Arkansas (1 R), Louisiana (1 R), Texas (5 M, 7 R, 1 P, 1 M-R), New Mexico (2 M, 4 R, 2 P, 1 R-P), Arizona (2 P), Colorado (1 M, 10 R, 10 P, 1 M-R, 1 M-P, 1 R-P), Utah (2 R), Nevada (4 R), California (9 R, 1 P, 1 M-R). ZODION ALBONOTATUM ToWllSeild. Zodion albonotatum Townsend, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. V, 175, 1897. [Brownsville, Texas.] This species is characterized by the presence of yellowish pollen on the distal abdominal segments, and by the absence of any rufous. The base of the abdomen may have some bluish pollen. The abdomen also lacks the oblique pattern of the mark- ings of the two previous species. Material examined : Arizona: Tucson (1$, melanistic phase); Colorado: Jim Creek, near Boulder 6,400' (2 < pollinose phase). Notes on Hubbellia marginifera (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) By JOHN W. H. REHN, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Upon receiving some additional material of the interesting and rare North American katydid, Hitbbellia marginifera (Walker), studies were started to ascertain its relationship to other forms of the group. However, it has been impossible to complete this work at present, but it is thought advisable to publish such distributional and ecological information as has been gathered, and to note certain variation observed. Four additional females of this species were collected two miles north of Myrtle Beach, Horry County, South Carolina. between July 22 and 26, 1940 by J. W. Cadbury III. The only other exact locality from which the species is known is "Camp Torreya," Township 2 N-R 7 W, Liberty County, Florida, single female was taken at this locality in 1925 by T. H. Hubbell, and was described by Hebard l as the synonymous pracstans. Uvarov 2 in 1940 pointed out the synonymy of 1 Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc., LIII, p. 3, [1927]. 2 Fla. Ent, xxm, p. 11, [1940]. 192 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 Hebard's name with the much older marginifcra of Walker, which was said to have come from Africa (Mr. Vigors' col- lection). The following description of the habitat where the additional material was collected has been obtained from the collector, and it appears to represent a different set of conditions from those observed at the "Camp Torreya" site. Two miles north of Myrtle Beach, and about 2000 feet from the ocean, is an area of dry oak barrens surrounded by large open grassy areas, this formerly pine forest which had been burned, also small open tracts with scrubby oak, a few fair sized oak trees, and some long leaf pine. Topsoil was sandy with occasional black muck patches. The specimens were collected at bait, on both oaks and pines, in the thicker portions of the woods, between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M. on moonlit nights. The temperature at this time varied between 75 and 85 F. The individuals were easily captured, making no real attempt to escape. The following table shows the size variation shown by these individuals, the type of Hebard's praestans, and, as far as is possible, by Walker's type. Length of body July 22 ..... 30.6mm. July 23 ..... 31.0 July 24 ..... 31.8 July 26 ..... 29.8 type of praestans ____ 30.5 type of marginifera. . 13 lines, expansion of wings 28 lines Posterior Greatest Length of Length of Length of width of Length of tegminal Length of anterior posterior pronotum pronotum tegmina width ovipositor femur femur 8.0 mm. 5.2 mm. 27.0 mm. 8.0 mm. 30.3 mm. 9.5 mm. 25.5 mm. 8.0 5.6 27.8 7.8 31.3 9.2 25.2 7.8 4.9 27.0 7.6 29.0 8.9 24.8 8.8 5.6 28.8 3 7.8 32.9 9.5 26.9 8.3 4.7 25.3 6.7 31.3 9.7 26.0 With the four South Carolina specimens and the type of praestans before me I have noted the following significant varia- tion ; decided variation in the shape of the posterior margin of the pronotum, some variation in the width of the vertex, and slight variation in the degree of curvature of the ovipositor. In addition certain variation has been noted in coloration, but this seems clearly due to fading in certain individuals. It is hoped that before long additional material of this species may be collected and that specimens of the unknown male sex may be found. 3 Spread specimen. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 193 Ecologic Studies of Ceratomia catalpae Larvae (Lepidoptera ; Sphingidae). By C. BROOKE WORTH, Edward Martin Biological Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Several years ago I concluded, on the basis of parasitologic investigations on the larvae of Ceratomia catalpae, that the adult female moths must lay more than 12.5 eggs apiece per annum in order to survive the toll exacted by a hymenopterous wasp, Apantelcs congregatits. The number of additional eggs required to furnish species-protection against other hazards was not estimated. 1 That these hazards are formidable is indicated, however, by the fact that on August 16, 1940, at Princeton, New Jersey, I discovered an egg mass of this species containing 369 eggs. At this rate there were 356.5 eggs consigned to almost complete destruction by forces other than ichneumonic infesta- tion. There was no way of knowing, moreover, whether this was the total complement of eggs laid by that individual moth. But despite the latter deficiency in my information, I de- termined at once to study the course of the 369 eggs, in hopes of finding what factors would contribute to each one's eventual successful or fatal history. The reader is referred to an ap- pended chart which shows how adversities of weather, accidents in ecdysis, and onslaughts of ichneumon wasps and stink bugs wrought havoc among the caterpillar population, to such an extent that only a small percentage of them was able eventually to pupate. On August 21 most of the eggs hatched. Fertility was in excess of 99%. A few caterpillars died due to their eggs being deeply buried in the egg mass ; although they were fully viable, they could not escape from the morass of hatched eggshells that surrounded them. A few other caterpillars emerged in feeble condition ; these were promptly carried off by a company of ants that, attending nearby aphids on the catalpa sapling, were alert to whatever usable provender might occur accidentally in their domain. 1 Entomological Neivs, May, 1939, pp. 137-141. 194 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 XNSTWS: FIRST seep H o THIRD FIFTH Pl/PATION PERIOD SEPT. 3O f /O OCT. Thus about 350 C. catalpae larvae ultimately began their free existence on the undersurface of a single catalpa leaf. Each one's first feeding-act was to gnaw a single round hole, 1 mm. in diameter, at its station on the leaf. Since the cater- pillars were crowded closely together, the leaf quickly became riddled with small holes. The ants attempted to attack able-bodied caterpillars, but despite their diminutive size the latter were able to ward off these enemies by lashing vigorously from side to side. The caudal spines of the larvae were proportionately much longer and more slender and pointed than is the case of caterpillars in the final instar. Possibly the appendages look that much the more threatening at this early stage and serve thereby to render increased protection to their truly defenseless bearers. A tiny ichneumon wasp appeared among the larvae a few hours after they had hatched. How this insect was apprised of its prey so quickly is truly an entomological conundrum. One wonders whether it had been watching the eggs as ex- pectantly as I ; whether it detected the presence of young cater- pillars by some special and peculiar sense of its own ; or whether liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 195 it stumbled upon the colony while making routine inspections of all the catalpa foliage in that neighborhood. In the latter case one must conclude either that coincidence operated rarely to bring the wasp to this particular station so speedily, or that such wasps are extremely numerous and widespread. While the ichneumon patrolled the larva-bearing leaf thor- oughly on the caterpillars' birthday, it did not approach any of the tiny "worms" with egg-inoculating intent. On the next morning I found that about 100 of the cater- pillars had disappeared. This, the greatest single populational catastrophe experienced by the colony, remains mysterious in its etiology. I suspect, however, that ants must have been the agents in the mass slaughter, for by this time many of those flightless insects had arrived to inspect the ranks of young cater- pillars and especially to glean remaining parturient juices from the otherwise empty ancestral egg-cluster. On this second morning an ichneumon wasp also was present, now busily parasitizing many larvae. It darted quickly into the colony, "stinging" a caterpillar in the fraction of a second, then retiring for a minute or two to a neighboring leaf. The vic- timized caterpillars lashed furiously upon being pierced by the wasp's ovipositor, but their demonstrations were always too late, so fleet were the ichneumon's deadly visits. On the third day, August 23, the caterpillars dispersed over all the leaves of their catalpa branch, the majority of them select- ing tender leaves near its tip. They were now massed in groups of 30 or 40, so that an ichneumon's attentions to cater- pillars on any one leaf gave other groups of larvae transient immunity from attack. The next few days were attended by unremittingly heavy rain, as a result of which the caterpillars were unable to feed properly. They spent most of the time resting quietly on the protected undersurfaces of their leaves. Quite a number of them died, either through starvation or by drowning in rain- drops. Several large leaves were stripped from the tree by strong winds. On one such leaf I counted 22 caterpillars. None of the derelict larvae succeeded in finding its way back to the tree, wherefore all such unfortunate ones died. 196 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 A few days after the first storm another arrived to cause further mortality among the colony due to falling leaves. The caterpillars were now undergoing their second molt and, though they had achieved greater size and strength, they were not able because of their resting condition to attempt the journey back to their tree. Therefore these, too, died. On September 2 only 75 of the original 350 C. catalpac larvae remained on the tree. A mortality of about 78.5% had visited the colony dur- ing its members' first two instars. By far the greatest single cause of death had been inclemencies of weather. But henceforth the remaining caterpillars faced their environ- ment with greater opportunities for survival. They were at- taining a significant size and appeared fully vigorous. Their depletion, moreover, now operated to the survivors' advantage by giving insurance against defoliation of the catalpa sapling. Although the natal branch was eventually stripped, other branches provided more than adequate sustenance for the larvae throughout the remainder of their feeding period. A constant though minor scourge of the caterpillars, from the second instar onward, was the carnivorous action of stink bugs. Two or three of these insects were usually present, systematically sucking the juices from caterpillar after cater- pillar. On being partially bled to death, the weakened cater- pillars let go their hold on the leaf ; there they would hang from the stink bug's hypodermic proboscis until that bloated enemy dropped the deflated caterpillar to the ground. During the third and fourth instars of the C. catalpac colony, stink bugs were practically the only cause of continued mortality. Tiny ichneumon wasps were seen "stinging" caterpillars as late as in the third instar. Ultimately, when ichneumon mag- gots burrowed outward through the caterpillars' skins, I ob- served that the period of their emergence occupied about two weeks. Presumably the parasitic larvae had a relatively con- stant time for development about 32 days. In the case of caterpillars that were "stung" during their third instar, it seemed to me that their final (fifth) instar was prolonged in order to permit the ichneumon larva's orderly development. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 197 These late-victimized larvae ceased feeding when their un- parasitized siblings descended to the ground to pupate. Re- maining plump and in good color, they clung inactively to their leaves for as long as ten days, unable to develop further, and inhibited from natural behavior by their burden of ichneumon inhabitants. The small ichneumon wasps enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the catalpa tree. I thought at first that this represented an accidental advantage conferred by ants upon ichneumons, but subsequent investigations proved otherwise. Ants origi- nally attended aphids on the catalpa sapling. Later the aphids disappeared, but ants continued to frequent all parts of the catalpa, gleaning honey-like secretions from "nectaries" at the angles of veins branching from the midrib of each leaf. The nectaries consisted of hypertrophied cellular excrescences within the areas distal to each acute angle, such sites resembling tumorous growths on the leaves' nether surfaces. My original conclusion was that ants had produced these seeping organs through chronically prolonged biting, but during the next winter I "forced" several catalpa branches in a greenhouse that was inaccessible to insect-visitation, and the resulting leaves were provided with identical nectaries. Thus the secretions upon which ichneumon wasps fed were produced without stimulation by ants were furnished, in fact, as a natural botanical phenomenon. One may therefore pos- tulate that the catalpa has found it profitable through natural selection to conserve such of its members as have afforded sustenance to the enemies of its specifically-adapted browsers, of which Ccratoniia catalpac caterpillars surely rank foremost. Ants have secondarily taken advantage of the host-tree's beneficence. Whereas catalpas are suitable for the rearing of aphids in the same manner that many plants yield, upon being pierced by insects' sharp proboscides, a nutrient sap, other plants even presenting such manna to insects as a freely-exuded offering over the general leaf-surface, the catalpa makes its contribution through the agency of specialized honey-organs or nectaries. This apparently has led to a diminution of ants' solicitude toward aphids on the catalpa, the intermediate ac- 198 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 tivities of these hostages being rendered less necessary by the tree's direct provision of comparable nutritive products. The small ichneumons were less well apprised of the catalpa sap than ants, surprising though this might seem. The wasps perused a leaf with much antennal testing of each part of the leaf's surface, coming upon a nectary only as if by accident. Having fed upon extant juices at such a site, an ichneumon continued further on its exploratory way as if unaware where the next nectary was to be found. Ants, on the other hand, made routine rounds of each leaf, preceding directly to profitable sites in regular succession. Since these insects derive even greater benefits from the catalpa than ichneumons, one is led to wonder whether another ecological settlement is not sug- gested here that direct feeding by ants on specifically-provided catalpa secretions is less detrimental to catalpa trees than the indirect and traumatic feasting of ant-attended aphids. But to proceed with the history of the caterpillars : On Sep- tember 2 a larger species of ichneumon wasp arrived to threaten the colony. It was about twice as long as the common tiny black ones and was a yellowish-tan in color. It had a promi- nent sharp ovipositor. Whereas small ichneumons "stung" their victims with light- ning-like celerity, this one had actually to mount its caterpillar and to maintain that stance while depositing its eggs. When I arrived it was just finishing its work on one larva. It was stationed at the forepart of the "worm" facing forward, its ovipositor deeply buried in one of the caterpillar's anterior ab- dominal somites. The caterpillar lashed from side to side, but the wasp did not let go its footing, and when its egg-laying was completed, it lightly took wing. It alit on a neighboring leaf and ran about quickly until it encountered a fresh victim. This caterpillar, like the last, was in the process of molting and was not at liberty to move from its silken platform. The wasp approached the caterpillar's rear end, turned around, and gave several investigative taps or thrusts with its sting. The caterpillar responded with violent thrashings from side to side. Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 199 After the caterpillar calmed down, the wasp backed into closer range and gave a sharp thrust which actually drew a small drop of green blood from the caterpillar's back. This resulted in further active demonstrations of hostility. The wasp withdrew a few millimeters and lifted its hind legs so that it was entirely out of range of the caterpillar's activities. The wasp's wings were in constant shimmering vibration, so that it was rarely possible for me to see the black markings at the midpoint of the costal edge of the fore-wings. Throughout the wasp's subsequent maneuvers, the wings were never at rest. The strategy employed seemed to be to tire the caterpillar out. Time and again the wasp's forays were vigorously repelled. But finally the wasp mounted the posterior end of its victim, and with stiletto-like action, it vehemently plunged its ovipositor full into the caterpillar's body. Now the egg must be laid, and despite frantic thrashings of the caterpillar, and much to the wasp's cost, the egg was deposited. The wasp then withdrew for a momentary rest, but in a twinkling it was again upon the caterpillar. Thus writhing, the caterpillar was tortured for about 15 min- utes, when the wasp flew to the next leaf and selected a third victim. This species of wasp continued its devastations during the following two days. I noticed that it had no fear of the cater- pillars' caudal spines, sometimes actually straddling those ap- pendages during the process of oviposition. Early on the morning of September 4 a wasp was observed easily "stinging" caterpillars that were chilled by a covering of night-distilled dew. On this day there were 60 remaining larvae. The count gradually diminished thus: 51 caterpillars on Sep- tember 11 ; 42 on September 18; and 42 on September 25. On the latter date 27 bore ichneumon cocoons on their backs. Thus only 15 remained as potentially viable members of next year's generation. This fraction represented 4.1/r of the original 369 eggs laid by the moth. And it was not certain, yet. IK>\V many of the remaining few larvae harbored ichneumon parasites within their body cavities. 200 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 At least one fact was demonstrated, however. The female moth in this instance had sacrificed more than twice 12.5 off- spring to the biological demands of Apanteles. Had the cater- pillar colony not lost so many members to conditions of bad weather, the percentage of parasitization would have been far greater than this. Another fact is certain: my figures, based years ago on the extent of parasitization of caterpillars in their last instar, failed to account for the loss of caterpillars to be "expected" by Apanteles. In other words not only must ma- ternal Ceratomia lay excessive numbers of eggs in order to assure her species' perpetuation, but fertilized Apanteles must also extend her activities in proportion to a mortality among Ceratomia larvae that necessitates an excessive rate of repro- duction of the parasitic wasps as well. The parasitizing dili- gence of Apanteles must also include those cases in which many caterpillars die of starvation due to complete defoliation of their catalpa tree. As soon as ichneumon cocoons appeared on the catalpa cater- pillars' backs, chalcid wasps arrived, actively stinging the ichneumon cocoons. Wishing not to molest the caterpillars, I made no new study of the degree of chalcid-parasitization of ichneumons, but from observations of the superparasites' thor- oughness, I concluded that they laid eggs in about half the ichneumon cocoons, exactly as in my former study. On October 2 only 33 caterpillars remained, 23 of these bear- ing ichneumon cocoons. Five caterpillars had probably de- scended to the ground to pupate. Chalcids were still active among the ichneumon cocoons. On October 9 four more normal caterpillars had disappeared for pupation and four other normal ones remained. The rest either bore cocoons of the small ichneumons or were stunted and lethargic due to internal development of the larger species of wasp. Thus only 13 caterpillars eventually pupated, rep- resenting only 3 1 /2% of the original number of eggs; and of this remainder some individuals may still have harbored large ichneumon parasites. liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 201 One wonders whether mass egg-laying of C. catalpae is as efficient as the random dispersal of eggs by members of the Saturnidac and some other groups of Lepidoptera. It would seem that catalpae colonies are particularly subject to onslaughts of hymenopterous parasites, whereas the chance visits of in- sectivorous birds must also be feared as particularly potent causes of mass mortality. Possibly the restriction of this species to a single food-plant makes it incumbent upon gravid females to lay all their eggs as soon as they encounter an appropriate leaf for doing so. Nevertheless there are other sphingids, such as the tomato moth, that are equally restricted in respect to larval fodder, but that exercise a more Saturnine lack of con- centration in their egg-laying. The eventual success of this colony, however, in bringing 13 of its members safely to the point of pupation, suggests that the colonial technique of this species may have some especial ad- vantage that has not yet been detected. It is possible, for example, that the caterpillars are unpalatable to birds, when con- centration of individuals becomes less of a menace to the species than is true of the various Saturnidac. At any rate it would appear that mortality, when high during one period of the colony's history, falls or fails to be as high during compensating periods of immunity to death ; and thus an adequate complement of caterpillars eventually reaches winter's underground sanc- tuary. I wish to thank Eleanor M. 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Entomologica Americana. 75. Annals & Magazine Nat. Hist. 84. Ecology, Brooklyn. 90. Amer. Naturalist. 91. Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 92. Biological Bulletin. 93. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 105.- Revista de Entom., R. d. Janeiro. 106. Ann. Soc. Cien. Ar- gentina. 107. Proc. R. Entom. Soc. London, (A). 111. Memorias Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. 118. Ward's Nat. Sci. Bul- letin. 119. Amer. Midland Naturalist. 121. Ciencia, Mex- ico. 126. Arquiv. Higiene Saude Paublica, R. d. Janeiro. 210 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '43 MOSQUITO ATLAS. Part I. The Nearctic Anopheles, Important Malarial Vectors of the Americas, and Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciata By Edward S. Ross and H. Radclyffe Roberts Th5s work is primarily designed to fill the need for descriptive informa- tion in a simplified and concise form, with the major emphasis placed on detailed illustrations showing the salient specific features of both the adult and larva of the species treated. 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There is a sub- quadrate, deep yellow spot in the distal end of the cell and three dots just above this of the same color. Two yellowish- white spots, one out of line, below the subapical spots, nearer the outer margin. Three, deep yellow, submarginal spots. Secondaries : Deep umber brown, with the base of the wings tinted with dark yellow. There is a deep yellow marginal bor- der that varies from 2-3 mm. in width. Under surface. Primaries : Light, warm brown, with the outer margins grey. The spots reappear and are lighter in coloration. Secondaries: Dark greyish-brown, with the outer margins and costal area grey. Below the costal margin there is a white crescentic spot and in a few cases a thin white dot. Expanse. 55-66 mm., average 60 mm. 5- Similar to the male except the spots are a little darker yellow and there is a discal row of three to four deep yellow spots on the upper surface of the secondaries. Expanse. 60- 78 mm., average 72 mm. Typical yuccae occurs from South Carolina tt> the southern tip of Florida during the months of March, April and early May. (211) 212 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., '43 MEGATHYMUS YUCCAE COLORADENSIS Riley J 1 . Upper surface. Primaries : Dark reddish-brown, with some light yellow hairs toward the base. Two light yellow spots near the costa. Three white subapical spots. Two yel- lowish-white spots below the subapical ones, out of line nearer the outer margin. Three yellow spots in nearly a straight line toward the outer margin of the wing. Secondaries : Dark reddish-brown, with some yellowish hairs at the base. There is a rather broad marginal border of light yellow. Fringe nearly white and not checkered with darker hairs. Under surface. Primaries : Warm brown, with the spots re- appearing and being somewhat lighter in color. Secondaries: Warm brown near the base, getting lighter grey toward the anal angle and outer margin. There is a costal band of greyish-white scales and just below this there are two somewhat crescentic shaped white spots. In the basal area there is a dark spot with a white pupil and another similar spot toward the outer margin. Body. Dark brown above, somewhat lighter beneath. Ex- panse. 46-52 mm., average 50 mm. $. Upper surface. Primaries : Dark brown, with a few yel- lowish hairs at the base. The spots are similar to those found in the male only slightly larger. Secondaries : Dark brown, with a few yellowish hairs at the base. There are four yellow discal spots present and a very narrow yellow marginal border. The fringe is slightly checkered. Under surface. Primaries': Brown, with the spots reappear- ing and being somewhat lighter in color. Secondaries: Warm brown, getting slightly lighter toward the outer margin caused by the presence of some scattered grey scales. There is a faintly lighter costal band of grey scales and just below this two clear white spots, one crescentic shaped and the other an irregularly shaped blotch. Toward the outer margin there is another white spot surrounded by darker scales. Body. Dark brown above, beneath somewhat lighter. Ex- panse. 50-60 mm., average 53 mm. The wing shape of coloradcnsis is considerably different from typical yuccae, being narrower. The spots are much lighter liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 213 yellow. There are two or three white spots below the costal margin on the under surface of the secondaries. The subspecies color adensis occurs in Colorado and Utah during April, May and June. MEGATHYMUS YUCCAE NAVAJO Skinner <$. Upper surface. Primaries: Black, with the usual three subapical spots, the cell spot and five marginal spots very light cream colored and in many cases white. The base of the wings are not tinted with the light color or else it is very slightly indi- cated. Secondaries: Black, with a rather broad grey marginal border varying in width from 2-3.5 mm. Under surface. Primaries: Greyish-black, with the spots a little lighter than above. Secondaries: Greyish-black, with the outer margins and costal margin grey. There are two cres- centic white spots below the costal margin. Body. Black above, greyish beneath. Expanse. 43-55 mm., average 53 mm. $. Similar to the male except the spots are larger on the primaries and slightly yellower and there is a discal row of three or four light yellow spots on the upper surface of the secondaries. Expanse. 55-60 mm., average 58 mm. Navajo is the subspecies that occurs in New Mexico, Arizona and California during March, April and May. It differs from typical yuccae and coloradcnsis by having black instead of brown wings and by having the spots much lighter in color, being nearer white than yellow. The wing shape is similar to coloradcnsis as they are narrower than in typical yuccae. MEGATHYMUS YUCCAE ALABAMAE Freeman J 1 . Upper surface. Primaries : Black, with the base of the wings slightly tinted with light yellow. The usual spots are light yellow and are fairly broad. Secondaries : Black, with a very few light yellow hairs and scales at the base of the wings. There is a light yellow marginal border with some grey scales intermixed. Under surface. Primaries : Black, with the outer margins slightly grey. The spots reappear and are somewhat lighter. 214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., '43 Secondaries : Greyish-black, with the outer margins and costal margin grey. There is a single crescentic white spot below the costal margin. Body. Black above, greyish beneath. Expanse. 50-56 mm. 5- Unknown. Alabamae is the subspecies that occurs in Alabama and parts of Georgia during April. It differs from coloradensis and navajo by having only a single crescentic white spot on the under surface of the secondaries and by having typical yuccae wing shape ; and from yuccae in having the wings black instead of brown and by having the spots light yellow instead of deep yellow. It is also somewhat smaller than typical yuccae. Megathymus yuccae stallingsi new subspecies <$. Upper surface. Primaries : Deep black, with the base of the wings tinted with bright lemon yellow scales and hairs. Three yellowish-white subapical spots, five marginal spots, two of which are out of line with the subapical ones being nearer the outer margin and are lemon yellow in color, the re- maining three marginal spots are larger and bright lemon yellow in color, extending from vein M 3 to vein 2nd. A. Fringe check- ered, lemon yellow and black. Secondaries : Deep black, with the base of the wings tinted with lemon yellow hairs and scales. There is a rather broad, bright lemon yellow, marginal border that varies in width from 1.53 mm. Fringe varies from lemon yellow to white, some show faint checkering. Under surface. Primaries : Black, with the outer margin slightly greyish. The spots reappear and are nearly the sajne color as above. Secondaries : Black over the discal and basal areas, remainder being grey. There is a broad greyish-white costal margin with two crescentic white spots below it. One male had an extra white spot near the outer margin of the wing. Body. Black above, lighter beneath. Expanse. 35-60 mm., average 55 mm. . Upper surface. Primaries : Deep black, with the base of the wings tinted with deep yellow scales and hairs. The usual spots are present and are much broader than in the males and liv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 215 their color is also of a deeper yellow. Secondaries : Deep black, with the base of the wings slightly tinted with deep yellow hairs and scales. There is a broad lemon yellow marginal border with some grey scales intermixed. There is a discal row of three large yellow spots and some specimens show a large fourth, phantom spot near the anal angle. Fringe is slightly checkered in some cases. Under surface. Primaries : Deep black, with the outer mar- gin slightly grey. The spots reappear and are about the same color as above. Secondaries : Basal and discal areas black, with the remainder of the wings greyish. There is a grey costal margin, beneath which are two white crescentic spots. There is a faint submesal black line present, and some specimens have an extra white spot near the outer margin of the wing. Body. Black above, beneath lighter. Expanse. 41-69 mm., average 65 mm. Described from 87 specimens, 60 JJ and 27 $$. 57 <$ and all 27 9? were collected in the pupal stage or on the wing by Mr. Don B. and Viola Stallings, Harry and Edith Jenista and Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Turner, of Caldwell, Kansas at the follow- ing localities during March and April, 1943 : Caldwell, Kansas ; Medford, Salt Plains, Wakita, Waynoka, Oklahoma. The fol- lowing 3 <$<$ were collected by the author : 1 <$ Vickery, Dallas County, Texas, April 12, 1938; 1 J 1 , Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, April 25, 1942 and 1